Hiro development journal

Restoring Gmail import network access

2026.07.26 at 17:26:13 America/Los_Angeles Published Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

A reported loading problem was clarified to affect Gmail import rather than the task page itself.

Direct API reproduction showed that the import failed immediately with a transport-layer error before any Gmail messages were read.

The detached Hiro process had been started from a network-restricted development environment. Although its local pages worked, the inherited process context could not reach Google's Gmail API.

Hiro was restarted with normal network access. Both import variants now return successfully in under two seconds, including the default path that requests local-model classification.

Work completed

Import-path reproduction

Completed

Called the same productivity import endpoint used by the task page without exposing message content.
Confirmed a transport error occurred before message retrieval and independently of local-model classification.
Distinguished the Gmail network failure from page availability, Google credential validity, and local Qwen response time.

Runtime network restoration

Completed

Resolved and stopped only the process tree belonging to the restricted Hiro runtime.
Restarted Hiro through the detached launcher with normal network access.
Retained the fast-returning startup behavior while restoring outbound access to Google's Gmail API.

Mailbox configuration check

Completed

Checked for the configured task and reading labels without reading email bodies.
Neither configured label currently exists in the connected Gmail account.
A successful task import therefore found zero matching messages and made no changes to the task list.

Decisions and reasoning

Treat a local page health check and external integration health as separate concerns.
Start Hiro with normal network authority whenever Gmail or other external integrations are expected to work.
Do not create Gmail labels without the account owner's explicit approval.
Keep the local Gmail integration read-only; label creation, if approved, must use a separately authorized Gmail management surface.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Restricted-runtime import	failed	The import endpoint returned a transport error before reading Gmail messages, confirming the original failure.
Post-restart import without local classification	passed	The import returned status 200 in approximately 1.1 seconds.
Post-restart default import path	passed	The import returned status 200 in under one second with local-model classification requested.
Configured Gmail labels	passed	The mailbox check completed successfully and confirmed that neither configured label currently exists.

Current state

Hiro is running with outbound Gmail access.
The Gmail import endpoint is responsive and no longer returns a transport error.
No messages were imported because the configured Gmail labels do not yet exist.
No Gmail messages were modified, marked read, archived, or deleted.

Next steps

With account-owner approval, create the task and reading labels in Gmail.
Apply a configured label to one test message and run a small import.
Verify review-first ingestion, due-date extraction, tag inference, and duplicate prevention with that controlled message.
Improve future integration health checks so a locally healthy server does not obscure missing outbound network access.