Merge pull request #17190 from NousResearch/bb/tui-cold-start-profiling

perf(tui): cut visible cold start ~57% with lazy agent init

tools/code_execution_tool.py

@@ -1309,10 +1309,20 @@ def _kill_process_group(proc, escalate: bool = False):
 
 
 def _load_config() -> dict:
-    """Load code_execution config from CLI_CONFIG if available."""
+    """Load code_execution config without importing the interactive CLI.
+
+    This helper is called while building the module-level execute_code schema
+    during tool discovery.  Importing ``cli`` here pulls prompt_toolkit/Rich and
+    a large chunk of the classic REPL onto every agent startup path, including
+    ``hermes --tui`` where it is never used.  Read the lightweight raw config
+    instead; the config layer already caches by (mtime, size), and an absent
+    key cleanly falls back to DEFAULT_EXECUTION_MODE.
+    """
     try:
-        from cli import CLI_CONFIG
-        return CLI_CONFIG.get("code_execution", {})
+        from hermes_cli.config import read_raw_config
+
+        cfg = read_raw_config().get("code_execution", {})
+        return cfg if isinstance(cfg, dict) else {}
     except Exception:
         return {}