fix: limit concurrent Modal sandbox creations to avoid deadlocks

- Add max_concurrent_tasks config (default 8) with semaphore in TB2 eval
- Pass cwd: /app via register_task_env_overrides for TB2 tasks
- Add /home/ to host path prefixes as safety net for container backends

When all 86 TerminalBench2 tasks fire simultaneously, each creates a Modal sandbox
via asyncio.run() inside a thread pool worker. Modal's blocking calls deadlock
when too many are created at once. The semaphore ensures max 8 concurrent creations.

Co-Authored-By: hermes-agent[bot] <hermes-agent[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

tools/environments/modal.py

@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ class ModalEnvironment(BaseEnvironment):
 
     def cleanup(self):
         """Snapshot the filesystem (if persistent) then stop the sandbox."""
+        # Check if _inner was ever set (init may have failed)
+        if not hasattr(self, '_inner') or self._inner is None:
+            return
+
         if self._persistent:
             try:
                 sandbox = getattr(self._inner, 'deployment', None)

tools/terminal_tool.py

@@ -424,7 +424,8 @@ def _get_env_config() -> Dict[str, Any]:
     # SSH is excluded since /home/ paths are valid on remote machines.
     cwd = os.getenv("TERMINAL_CWD", default_cwd)
     if env_type in ("modal", "docker", "singularity", "daytona") and cwd:
-        host_prefixes = ("/Users/", "C:\\", "C:/")
+        # Host paths that won't exist inside containers
+        host_prefixes = ("/Users/", "/home/", "C:\\", "C:/")
         if any(cwd.startswith(p) for p in host_prefixes) and cwd != default_cwd:
             logger.info("Ignoring TERMINAL_CWD=%r for %s backend "
                         "(host path won't exist in sandbox). Using %r instead.",