Phase 2 of the provider router migration — route the main agent's
client construction and fallback activation through
resolve_provider_client() instead of duplicated ad-hoc logic.
run_agent.py:
- __init__: When no explicit api_key/base_url, use
resolve_provider_client(provider, raw_codex=True) for client
construction. Explicit creds (from CLI/gateway runtime provider)
still construct directly.
- _try_activate_fallback: Replace _resolve_fallback_credentials and
its duplicated _FALLBACK_API_KEY_PROVIDERS / _FALLBACK_OAUTH_PROVIDERS
dicts with a single resolve_provider_client() call. The router
handles all provider types (API-key, OAuth, Codex) centrally.
- Remove _resolve_fallback_credentials method and both fallback dicts.
agent/auxiliary_client.py:
- Add raw_codex parameter to resolve_provider_client(). When True,
returns the raw OpenAI client for Codex providers instead of wrapping
in CodexAuxiliaryClient. The main agent needs this for direct
responses.stream() access.
3251 passed, 2 pre-existing unrelated failures.
Update 14 test files to use the new call_llm/async_call_llm mock
patterns instead of the old get_text_auxiliary_client/
get_vision_auxiliary_client tuple returns.
- vision_tools tests: mock async_call_llm instead of _aux_async_client
- browser tests: mock call_llm instead of _aux_vision_client
- flush_memories tests: mock call_llm instead of get_text_auxiliary_client
- session_search tests: mock async_call_llm with RuntimeError
- mcp_tool tests: fix whitelist model config, use side_effect for
multi-response tests
- auxiliary_config_bridge: update for model=None (resolved in router)
3251 passed, 2 pre-existing unrelated failures.
Add centralized call_llm() and async_call_llm() functions that own the
full LLM request lifecycle:
1. Resolve provider + model from task config or explicit args
2. Get or create a cached client for that provider
3. Format request args (max_tokens handling, provider extra_body)
4. Make the API call with max_tokens/max_completion_tokens retry
5. Return the response
Config: expanded auxiliary section with provider:model slots for all
tasks (compression, vision, web_extract, session_search, skills_hub,
mcp, flush_memories). Config version bumped to 7.
Migrated all auxiliary consumers:
- context_compressor.py: uses call_llm(task='compression')
- vision_tools.py: uses async_call_llm(task='vision')
- web_tools.py: uses async_call_llm(task='web_extract')
- session_search_tool.py: uses async_call_llm(task='session_search')
- browser_tool.py: uses call_llm(task='vision'/'web_extract')
- mcp_tool.py: uses call_llm(task='mcp')
- skills_guard.py: uses call_llm(provider='openrouter')
- run_agent.py flush_memories: uses call_llm(task='flush_memories')
Tests updated for context_compressor and MCP tool. Some test mocks
still need updating (15 remaining failures from mock pattern changes,
2 pre-existing).
Prevent stale Honcho tool exposure in context/local modes, restore reliable async write retry behavior, and ensure SOUL.md migration uploads target the AI peer instead of the user peer. Also align Honcho CLI key checks with host-scoped apiKey resolution and lock the fixes with regression tests.
Made-with: Cursor
When a new user runs 'hermes setup' for the first time and ~/.openclaw/
exists, the wizard now asks if they want to import their OpenClaw data
before API/tool configuration begins.
If accepted, the existing migration script from optional-skills/ is
loaded dynamically and run with the 'full' preset — importing settings,
memories, skills, API keys, and platform configs. Config is reloaded
afterward so imported values (like API keys) are available for the
remaining setup steps.
The migration is only offered on first-time setup (not returning users)
and handles errors gracefully without blocking setup completion.
Closes#829
Matches Hermes' native session naming (title if set, otherwise
session-scoped). Not a breaking change -- no memory data is lost,
old sessions remain in Honcho.
When hermes-agent runs as a systemd service, Docker container, or
headless daemon, the stdout pipe can become unavailable (idle timeout,
buffer exhaustion, socket reset). Any print() call then raises
OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error, crashing run_conversation()
and causing cron jobs to fail.
Rather than wrapping individual print() calls (68 in run_conversation
alone), this adds a transparent _SafeWriter wrapper installed once at
the start of run_conversation(). It delegates all writes to the real
stdout and silently catches OSError. Zero overhead on the happy path,
comprehensive coverage of all print calls including future ones.
Fixes#845
Co-authored-by: J0hnLawMississippi <J0hnLawMississippi@users.noreply.github.com>
- Forum parent channel IDs now match free-response list (add a forum
channel ID and all its threads respond without mention)
- Better thread chat names: 'Guild / forum / thread' for forum threads
- Add discord.require_mention and discord.free_response_channels to
config.yaml (bridged to env vars, env vars still override)
- Keep require_mention defaulting to true (safe for shared servers)
Cherry-picked from PR #867 by insecurejezza with default fix and
config.yaml integration.
Co-authored-by: insecurejezza <insecurejezza@users.noreply.github.com>
Address merge-blocking review feedback by removing unsafe signal handler overrides, wiring next-turn Honcho prefetch, restoring per-directory session defaults, and exposing all Honcho tools to the model surface. Also harden prefetch cache access with public thread-safe accessors and remove duplicate browser cleanup code.
Made-with: Cursor
Three new tests for the naive timestamp fix (PR #807):
- test_ensure_aware_naive_preserves_absolute_time: verifies UTC equivalent
is preserved when interpreting naive datetimes as system-local time
- test_ensure_aware_normalizes_aware_to_hermes_tz: verifies already-aware
datetimes are normalized to Hermes tz without shifting the instant
- test_ensure_aware_due_job_not_skipped_when_system_ahead: end-to-end
regression test for the original bug scenario
_discover_one() caught all exceptions and returned [], making
asyncio.gather(return_exceptions=True) redundant. The
isinstance(result, Exception) branch in _discover_all() was dead
code, so failed_count was always 0. This caused:
- No summary printed when all servers fail (silent failure)
- ok_servers always equaling total_servers (misleading count)
- Unused variables transport_desc and transport_type
Fix: let exceptions propagate to gather() so failed_count increments
correctly. Move per-server failure logging to _discover_all(). Remove
dead variables.
Two fixes for context overflow handling:
1. Proactive compression after tool execution: The compression check now
estimates the next prompt size using real token counts from the last API
response (prompt_tokens + completion_tokens) plus a conservative estimate
of newly appended tool results (chars // 3 for JSON-heavy content).
Previously, should_compress() only checked last_prompt_tokens which
didn't account for tool results — so a 130k prompt + 100k chars of tool
output would pass the 140k threshold check but fail the 200k API limit.
2. Safety net: Added 'prompt is too long' to context-length error detection
phrases. Anthropic returns 'prompt is too long: N tokens > M maximum'
on HTTP 400, which wasn't matched by existing phrases. This ensures
compression fires even if the proactive check underestimates.
Fixes#813
- test_agent_loop_tool_calling.py: import atroposlib at module level
to trigger skip (environments.agent_loop is now importable without
atroposlib due to __init__.py graceful fallback)
- test_modal_sandbox_fixes.py: skip TestToolResolution tests when
minisweagent not installed
- environments/__init__.py: try/except on atroposlib imports so
submodules like tool_call_parsers remain importable standalone
- test_agent_loop.py, test_tool_call_parsers.py,
test_managed_server_tool_support.py: skip at module level when
atroposlib is missing
Guard all test files that import from environments/ or atroposlib
with try/except + pytest.skip(allow_module_level=True) so they
gracefully skip instead of crashing when deps aren't available.
Tests hit a real vLLM server (Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507) via
ManagedServer Phase 2. Auto-skip if server isn't running.
Tests verify:
- Single tool call through full agent loop
- Multi-tool calls across turns
- ManagedServer produces SequenceNodes with tokens/logprobs
- Direct response without tools
- Thinking model produces <think> blocks
Also adds fallback parser in agent_loop.py: when ManagedServer's
ToolCallTranslator can't parse (vLLM not installed), hermes-agent's
standalone parsers extract <tool_call> tags from raw content.
Real LLM calls via OpenRouter using stepfun/step-3.5-flash:free (zero cost).
Falls back to paid models if free model is unavailable.
Tests: single tool call, multi-tool single turn, multi-turn chains,
unknown tool rejection, max_turns limit, direct response (no tools),
tool error handling, AgentResult structure, conversation history.
The weaker assertion (r.exc_info is not None) passes even when
exc_info is (None, None, None). Check r.exc_info[0] is not None
to verify actual exception info is present.
The _aux_async_client mock was already applied on main.
Co-authored-by: OutThisLife <nickolasgustafsson@gmail.com>
Allow users to interact with Hermes by sending and receiving emails.
Uses IMAP polling for incoming messages and SMTP for replies with
proper threading (In-Reply-To, References headers).
Integrates with all 14 gateway extension points: config, adapter
factory, authorization, send_message tool, cron delivery, toolsets,
prompt hints, channel directory, setup wizard, status display, and
env example.
65 tests covering config, parsing, dispatch, threading, IMAP fetch,
SMTP send, attachments, and all integration points.
Adds delegation.model and delegation.provider config fields so subagents
can run on a completely different provider:model pair than the parent agent.
When delegation.provider is set, the system resolves the full credential
bundle (base_url, api_key, api_mode) via resolve_runtime_provider() —
the same path used by CLI/gateway startup. This means all configured
providers work out of the box: openrouter, nous, zai, kimi-coding,
minimax, minimax-cn.
Key design decisions:
- Provider resolution uses hermes_cli.runtime_provider (single source of
truth for credential resolution across CLI, gateway, cron, and now
delegation)
- When only delegation.model is set (no provider), the model name changes
but parent credentials are inherited (for switching models within the
same provider like OpenRouter)
- When delegation.provider is set, full credentials are resolved
independently — enabling cross-provider delegation (e.g. parent on
Nous Portal, subagents on OpenRouter)
- Clear error messages if provider resolution fails (missing API key,
unknown provider name)
- _load_config() now falls back to hermes_cli.config.load_config() for
gateway/cron contexts where CLI_CONFIG is unavailable
Based on PR #791 by 0xbyt4 (closes#609), reworked to use proper
provider credential resolution instead of passing provider as metadata.
Co-authored-by: 0xbyt4 <0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
Combined implementation of reasoning management:
- /reasoning Show current effort level and display state
- /reasoning <level> Set reasoning effort (none, low, medium, high, xhigh)
- /reasoning show|on Show model thinking/reasoning in output
- /reasoning hide|off Hide model thinking/reasoning from output
Effort level changes persist to config and force agent re-init.
Display toggle updates the agent callback dynamically without re-init.
When display is enabled:
- Intermediate reasoning shown as dim [thinking] lines during tool loops
- Final reasoning shown in a bordered box above the response
- Long reasoning collapsed (5 lines intermediate, 10 lines final)
Also adds:
- reasoning_callback parameter to AIAgent
- last_reasoning in run_conversation result dict
- show_reasoning config option (display section, default: false)
- Display section in /config output
- 34 tests covering both features
Combines functionality from PR #789 and PR #790.
Co-authored-by: Aum Desai <Aum08Desai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: 0xbyt4 <35742124+0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds defensive guard against empty/None/missing choices in SamplingHandler.__call__
before accessing response.choices[0]. Returns proper ErrorData instead of crashing
with IndexError/TypeError on content filtering, provider errors, or rate limits.
Authored by 0xbyt4.
Co-authored-by: 0xbyt4 <0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds tool_choice, parallel_tool_calls, and prompt_cache_key to the
Codex Responses API request kwargs — matching what the official Codex
CLI sends.
- tool_choice: 'auto' — enables the model to proactively call tools.
Without this, the model may default to not using tools, which explains
reports of the agent claiming it lacks shell access (#747).
- parallel_tool_calls: True — allows the model to issue multiple tool
calls in a single turn for efficiency.
- prompt_cache_key: session_id — enables server-side prompt caching
across turns in the same session, reducing latency and cost.
Refs #747
Isolate Telegram forum topic sessions — each topic gets its own independent session key, history, and interrupt tracking. Progress, hygiene, and cron messages all route to the correct topic.
Four cleanups to code merged today:
1. New hermes_cli/curses_ui.py — shared curses_checklist() used by both
hermes tools and hermes skills. Eliminates ~140 lines of near-identical
curses code (scrolling, key handling, color setup, numbered fallback).
2. Fix _find_all_skills() perf — was calling load_config() per skill
(~100+ YAML parses). Now loads disabled set once via
_get_disabled_skill_names() and does a set lookup.
3. Eliminate _list_all_skills_unfiltered() duplication — _find_all_skills()
now accepts skip_disabled=True for the config UI, removing 30 lines
of copy-pasted discovery logic from skills_config.py.
4. Fix fragile label round-trip in skills_command — was building label
strings, passing to checklist, then mapping labels back to skill names
(collision-prone). Now works with indices directly, like tools_config.
Authored by teyrebaz33. Closes#643.
- /personality none/default/neutral clears system prompt overlay
- Dict format personalities with description, tone, style fields
- Works in both CLI and gateway
- 18 tests
Add /background <prompt> to the gateway, allowing users on Telegram,
Discord, Slack, etc. to fire off a prompt in a separate agent session.
The result is delivered back to the same chat when done, without
modifying the active conversation history.
Implementation:
- _handle_background_command: validates input, spawns asyncio task
- _run_background_task: creates AIAgent in executor thread, delivers
result (text, images, media files) back via the platform adapter
- Inherits model, toolsets, provider routing from gateway config
- Error handling with user-visible failure messages
Also adds /background to hermes_cli/commands.py registry so it
appears in /help and autocomplete.
Tests: 15 new tests covering usage, task creation, uniqueness,
multi-platform, error paths, and help/autocomplete integration.
Fixes#898 — Python 3.11 changed argparse to raise an exception on
duplicate subparser names (CPython #94331). The 'skills' name was
registered twice: once for Skills Hub and once for skills config.
Changes:
- Remove duplicate 'skills' subparser registration
- Add 'config' as a sub-action under the existing 'hermes skills' command
- Route 'hermes skills config' to skills_config module
- Add regression test to catch future duplicates
Migration: 'hermes skills' (config) is now 'hermes skills config'
Two-tier warning system that nudges the LLM as it approaches
max_iterations, injected into the last tool result JSON rather
than as a separate system message:
- Caution (70%): {"_budget_warning": "[BUDGET: 42/60...]"}
- Warning (90%): {"_budget_warning": "[BUDGET WARNING: 54/60...]"}
For JSON tool results, adds a _budget_warning field to the existing
dict. For plain text results, appends the warning as text.
Key properties:
- No system messages injected mid-conversation
- No changes to message structure
- Prompt cache stays valid
- Configurable thresholds (0.7 / 0.9)
- Can be disabled: _budget_pressure_enabled = False
Inspired by PR #421 (@Bartok9) and issue #414.
8 tests covering thresholds, edge cases, JSON and text injection.
Replaces head-only stdout capture with a two-buffer approach (40% head,
60% tail rolling window) so scripts that print() their final results
at the end never lose them. Adds truncation notice between sections.
Cherry-picked from PR #755, conflict resolved (test file additions).
3 new tests for short output, head+tail preservation, and notice format.
Adds configurable bot message filtering via DISCORD_ALLOW_BOTS env var:
- 'none' (default): ignore all bot messages
- 'mentions': accept bots only when they @mention us
- 'all': accept all bot messages
Includes 8 tests.
Authored by teyrebaz33. Adds config-driven quick commands that execute
shell commands without invoking the LLM — zero token usage, works from
Telegram/Discord/Slack/etc. Closes#744.
Follow-up to 58dbd81 — ensures smooth transition for existing users:
- Backward compat: old session files without last_prompt_tokens
default to 0 via data.get('last_prompt_tokens', 0)
- /compress, /undo, /retry: reset last_prompt_tokens to 0 after
rewriting transcripts (stale token counts would under-report)
- Auto-compression hygiene: reset last_prompt_tokens after rewriting
- update_session: use None sentinel (not 0) as default so callers
can explicitly reset to 0 while normal calls don't clobber
- 6 new tests covering: default value, serialization roundtrip,
old-format migration, set/reset/no-change semantics
- /reset: new SessionEntry naturally gets last_prompt_tokens=0
2942 tests pass.
Adds two tests for _handle_retry_command: verifies /retry returns the
agent response (not None), and verifies graceful handling when no
previous message exists.
Cherry-picked from PR #731 by teyrebaz33. Regression coverage for
the fix merged in PR #441.
Co-authored-by: teyrebaz33 <teyrebaz33@users.noreply.github.com>
Authored by dmahan93. Adds HERMES_YOLO_MODE env var and --yolo CLI flag
to auto-approve all dangerous command prompts.
Post-merge: renamed --fuck-it-ship-it to --yolo for brevity,
resolved conflict with --checkpoints flag.
On macOS, Docker Desktop installs the CLI to /usr/local/bin/docker, but
when Hermes runs as a gateway service (launchd) or in other non-login
contexts, /usr/local/bin is often not in PATH. This causes the Docker
requirements check to fail with 'No such file or directory: docker' even
though docker works fine from the user's terminal.
Add find_docker() helper that uses shutil.which() first, then probes
common Docker Desktop install paths on macOS (/usr/local/bin,
/opt/homebrew/bin, Docker.app bundle). The resolved path is cached and
passed to mini-swe-agent via its 'executable' parameter.
- tools/environments/docker.py: add find_docker(), use it in
_storage_opt_supported() and pass to _Docker(executable=...)
- tools/terminal_tool.py: use find_docker() in requirements check
- tests/tools/test_docker_find.py: 4 tests (PATH, fallback, not found, cache)
2877 tests pass.
Shows an immediate status message and braille spinner for slow slash
commands (/skills search|browse|inspect|install, /reload-mcp). Makes
input read-only while the command runs so the CLI doesn't appear frozen.
Cherry-picked from PR #714 by vilkasdev, rebased onto current main
with conflict resolution and bug fix (get_hint_text duplicate return).
Fixes#636
Co-authored-by: vilkasdev <vilkasdev@users.noreply.github.com>
Two related bugs prevented users from reliably switching providers:
1. OPENAI_BASE_URL poisoning OpenRouter resolution: When a user with a
custom endpoint ran /model openrouter:model, _resolve_openrouter_runtime
picked up OPENAI_BASE_URL instead of the OpenRouter URL, causing model
validation to probe the wrong API and reject valid models.
Fix: skip OPENAI_BASE_URL when requested_provider is explicitly
'openrouter'.
2. Provider never saved to config: _save_model_choice() could save
config.model as a plain string. All five _model_flow_* functions then
checked isinstance(model, dict) before writing the provider — which
silently failed on strings. With no provider in config, auto-detection
would pick up stale credentials (e.g. Codex desktop app) instead of
the user's explicit choice.
Fix: _save_model_choice() now always saves as dict format. All flow
functions also normalize string->dict as a safety net before writing
provider.
Adds 4 regression tests. 2873 tests pass.
Follow-up to PR #716 (0xbyt4):
- Log the third remaining silent except-pass in scheduler (prefill
messages JSON parse failure)
- Fix test mock: run → run_conversation (matches actual agent API)
- Remove unused imports (asyncio, AsyncMock)
- Add test for prefill_messages parse failure logging
The 4 early-return paths in _spawn_training_run (API exit, trainer
exit, env not found, env exit) were doing manual process.terminate()
or returning without cleanup, leaking open log file handles. Now all
paths call _stop_training_run() which handles both process termination
and file handle closure.
Also adds 12 tests for _stop_training_run covering file handle
cleanup, process termination, status transitions, and edge cases.
Inspired by PR #715 (0xbyt4) which identified the early-return issue.
Core file handle fix was already on main via e28dc13 (memosr.eth).
Follow-up to PR #705 (merged from 0xbyt4). Addresses several issues:
1. CONSECUTIVE-ONLY TRACKING: Redesigned the read/search tracker to only
warn/block on truly consecutive identical calls. Any other tool call
in between (write, patch, terminal, etc.) resets the counter via
notify_other_tool_call(), called from handle_function_call() in
model_tools.py. This prevents false blocks in read→edit→verify flows.
2. THRESHOLD ADJUSTMENT: Warn on 3rd consecutive (was 2nd), block on
4th+ consecutive (was 3rd+). Gives the model more room before
intervening.
3. TUPLE UNPACKING BUG: Fixed get_read_files_summary() which crashed on
search keys (5-tuple) when trying to unpack as 3-tuple. Now uses a
separate read_history set that only tracks file reads.
4. WEB_EXTRACT DOCSTRING: Reverted incorrect removal of 'title' from
web_extract return docs in code_execution_tool.py — the field IS
returned by web_tools.py.
5. TESTS: Rewrote test_read_loop_detection.py (35 tests) to cover
consecutive-only behavior, notify_other_tool_call, interleaved
read/search, and summary-unaffected-by-searches.
Three separate code paths all wrote to the same SQLite state.db with
no deduplication, inflating session transcripts by 3-4x:
1. _log_msg_to_db() — wrote each message individually after append
2. _flush_messages_to_session_db() — re-wrote ALL new messages at
every _persist_session() call (~18 exit points), with no tracking
of what was already written
3. gateway append_to_transcript() — wrote everything a third time
after the agent returned
Since load_transcript() prefers SQLite over JSONL, the inflated data
was loaded on every session resume, causing proportional token waste.
Fix:
- Remove _log_msg_to_db() and all 16 call sites (redundant with flush)
- Add _last_flushed_db_idx tracking in _flush_messages_to_session_db()
so repeated _persist_session() calls only write truly new messages
- Reset flush cursor on compression (new session ID)
- Add skip_db parameter to SessionStore.append_to_transcript() so the
gateway skips SQLite writes when the agent already persisted them
- Gateway now passes skip_db=True for agent-managed messages, still
writes to JSONL as backup
Verified: a 12-message CLI session with tool calls produces exactly
12 SQLite rows with zero duplicates (previously would be 36-48).
Tests: 9 new tests covering flush deduplication, skip_db behavior,
compression reset, and initialization. Full suite passes (2869 tests).
- Add agent/embeddings.py with Embedder protocol, FastEmbedEmbedder, OpenAIEmbedder
- Factory function get_embedder() reads provider from config.yaml embeddings section
- Lazy initialization — no startup impact, model loaded on first embed call
- cosine_similarity() and cosine_similarity_matrix() utility functions included
- Add fastembed as optional dependency in pyproject.toml
- 30 unit tests, all passing
Closes#675
Completes the fix started in 8318a51 — handle_function_call() accepted
enabled_tools but run_agent.py never passed it. Now both call sites in
_execute_tool_calls() pass self.valid_tool_names, so each agent session
uses its own tool list instead of the process-global
_last_resolved_tool_names (which subagents can overwrite).
Also simplifies the redundant ternary in code_execution_tool.py:
sandbox_tools is already computed correctly (intersection with session
tools, or full SANDBOX_ALLOWED_TOOLS as fallback), so the conditional
was dead logic.
Inspired by PR #663 (JasonOA888). Closes#662.
Tests: 2857 passed.
Add support for using Nous Portal via a direct API key, mirroring
how OpenRouter and other API-key providers work. This gives users a
simpler alternative to the OAuth device-code flow when they already
have a Nous API key.
Changes:
- Add 'nous-api' to PROVIDER_REGISTRY as an api_key provider
pointing to https://inference-api.nousresearch.com/v1
- Add NOUS_API_KEY and NOUS_BASE_URL to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS
- Add NOUS_API_BASE_URL / NOUS_API_CHAT_URL to hermes_constants
- Add 'Nous Portal API key' as first option in setup wizard
- Add provider aliases (nous_api, nousapi, nous-portal-api)
- Add test for nous-api runtime provider resolution
Closes#644
Move all new tests (schema, env filtering, edge cases, interrupt) into
the existing test_code_execution.py instead of a separate file.
Delete the now-redundant test_code_execution_schema.py.
build_execute_code_schema(set()) produced "from hermes_tools import , ..."
in the code property description — invalid Python syntax shown to the model.
This triggers when a user enables only the code_execution toolset without
any of the sandbox-allowed tools (e.g. `hermes tools code_execution`),
because SANDBOX_ALLOWED_TOOLS & {"execute_code"} = empty set.
Also adds 29 unit tests covering build_execute_code_schema, environment
variable filtering, execute_code edge cases, and interrupt handling.
Authored by tripledoublev.
After context compression on 413/400 errors, the inner retry loop was
reusing the stale pre-compression api_messages payload. Fix breaks out
of the inner retry loop so the outer loop rebuilds api_messages from
the now-compressed messages list. Adds regression test verifying the
second request actually contains the compressed payload.
Add display.background_process_notifications config option to control
how chatty the gateway process watcher is when using
terminal(background=true, check_interval=...) from messaging platforms.
Modes:
- all: running-output updates + final message (default, current behavior)
- result: only the final completion message
- error: only the final message when exit code != 0
- off: no watcher messages at all
Also supports HERMES_BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATIONS env var override.
Includes 12 tests (5 config loading + 7 watcher behavior).
Inspired by @PeterFile's PR #593. Closes#592.
Automatic filesystem snapshots before destructive file operations,
with user-facing rollback. Inspired by PR #559 (by @alireza78a).
Architecture:
- Shadow git repos at ~/.hermes/checkpoints/{hash}/ via GIT_DIR
- CheckpointManager: take/list/restore, turn-scoped dedup, pruning
- Transparent — the LLM never sees it, no tool schema, no tokens
- Once per turn — only first write_file/patch triggers a snapshot
Integration:
- Config: checkpoints.enabled + checkpoints.max_snapshots
- CLI flag: hermes --checkpoints
- Trigger: run_agent.py _execute_tool_calls() before write_file/patch
- /rollback slash command in CLI + gateway (list, restore by number)
- Pre-rollback snapshot auto-created on restore (undo the undo)
Safety:
- Never blocks file operations — all errors silently logged
- Skips root dir, home dir, dirs >50K files
- Disables gracefully when git not installed
- Shadow repo completely isolated from project git
Tests: 35 new tests, all passing (2798 total suite)
Docs: feature page, config reference, CLI commands reference
Authored by unmodeled-tyler. Adds openclaw-migration skill to optional-skills/
with migration script, SKILL.md, and 7 tests. Also improves clarify/approval
panel rendering with dynamic width calculation.
Authored by 0xbyt4. Fixes #N/A (no linked issue).
- Sanitize user input before FTS5 MATCH to prevent OperationalError on
special characters (C++, unbalanced quotes, dangling operators, etc.)
- Close SessionDB connection in mirror._append_to_sqlite() via finally block
- Added tests for both fixes
Platform.SIGNAL was missing from default_toolset_map and platform_config_key
in gateway/run.py, causing Signal to silently fall back to hermes-telegram
toolset (same bug as HomeAssistant, fixed in PR #538).
Also updates:
- tests/test_toolsets.py: include hermes-signal and hermes-homeassistant in
the platform core-tools consistency check
- cli-config.yaml.example: document signal and homeassistant platform keys
When a user runs `hermes -w -c Pokemon Agent Dev` without quoting the
session name, argparse would fail with:
error: argument command: invalid choice: 'Agent'
This is because argparse parses `-c Pokemon` (consuming one token via
nargs='?'), then sees 'Agent' and tries to match it as a subcommand.
Fix: add _coalesce_session_name_args() that pre-processes sys.argv before
argparse, joining consecutive non-flag, non-subcommand tokens after -c or
-r into a single argument. This makes both quoted and unquoted multi-word
session names work transparently.
Includes 17 tests covering all edge cases: multi-word names, single-word,
bare flags, flag ordering, subcommand boundaries, and passthrough.
Complements PR #453 by 0xbyt4. Adds isinstance(dict) guard in
run_agent.py to catch cases where json.loads returns non-dict
(e.g. null, list, string) before they reach downstream code.
Also adds 15 tests for build_tool_preview covering None args,
empty dicts, known/unknown tools, fallback keys, truncation,
and all special-cased tools (process, todo, memory, session_search).
Validate that the username portion of ~username paths contains only
valid characters (alphanumeric, dot, hyphen, underscore) before passing
to shell echo for expansion. Previously, paths like '~; rm -rf /'
would be passed unquoted to self._exec(f'echo {path}'), allowing
arbitrary command execution.
The approach validates the username rather than using shlex.quote(),
which would prevent tilde expansion from working at all since
echo '~user' outputs the literal string instead of expanding it.
Added tests for injection blocking and valid ~username/path expansion.
Credit to @alireza78a for reporting (PR #442, issue #442).
SamplingHandler.__call__ accessed response.choices[0] without checking
if the list was non-empty. LLM APIs can return empty choices on content
filtering, provider errors, or rate limits, causing an unhandled
IndexError that propagates to the MCP SDK and may crash the connection.
Add a defensive guard that returns a proper ErrorData when choices is
empty, None, or missing. Includes three test cases covering all
variants.
Vision auto-mode previously only tried OpenRouter, Nous, and Codex
for multimodal — deliberately skipping custom endpoints with the
assumption they 'may not handle vision input.' This caused silent
failures for users running local multimodal models (Qwen-VL, LLaVA,
Pixtral, etc.) without any cloud API keys.
Now custom endpoints are tried as a last resort in auto mode. If the
model doesn't support vision, the API call fails gracefully — but
users with local vision models no longer need to manually set
auxiliary.vision.provider: main in config.yaml.
Reported by @Spadav and @kotyKD.
