Neither adapter called _mark_connected() after successful connect(),
so _running stayed False, runtime status never showed 'connected',
and /status reported them as offline even while actively processing
messages.
Add _mark_connected() calls matching the pattern used by Telegram
and DingTalk adapters.
check_dingtalk_requirements() used 'and' to check for missing env vars:
if not CLIENT_ID and not CLIENT_SECRET: return False
This only returns False when BOTH are missing. If only one is set
(e.g. CLIENT_ID without CLIENT_SECRET), the check passes and
connect() fails later with a cryptic error.
Fix: Change 'and' to 'or' so it returns False when EITHER is missing.
Add support for Mattermost (self-hosted Slack alternative) and Matrix
(federated messaging protocol) as messaging platforms.
Mattermost adapter:
- REST API v4 client for posts, files, channels, typing indicators
- WebSocket listener for real-time 'posted' events with reconnect backoff
- Thread support via root_id
- File upload/download with auth-aware caching
- Dedup cache (5min TTL, 2000 entries)
- Full self-hosted instance support
Matrix adapter:
- matrix-nio AsyncClient with sync loop
- Dual auth: access token or user_id + password
- Optional E2EE via matrix-nio[e2e] (libolm)
- Thread support via m.thread (MSC3440)
- Reply support via m.in_reply_to with fallback stripping
- Media upload/download via mxc:// URLs (authenticated v1.11+ endpoint)
- Auto-join on room invite
- DM detection via m.direct account data with sync fallback
- Markdown to HTML conversion
Fixes applied over original PR #1225 by @cyb0rgk1tty:
- Mattermost: add timeout to file downloads, wrap API helpers in
try/except for network errors, download incoming files immediately
with auth headers instead of passing auth-required URLs
- Matrix: use authenticated media endpoint (/_matrix/client/v1/media/),
robust m.direct cache with sync fallback, prefer aiohttp over httpx
Install Matrix support: pip install 'hermes-agent[matrix]'
Mattermost needs no extra deps (uses aiohttp).
Salvaged from PR #1225 by @cyb0rgk1tty with fixes.
Add DingTalk as a messaging platform using the dingtalk-stream SDK
for real-time message reception via Stream Mode (no webhook needed).
Replies are sent via session webhook using markdown format.
Features:
- Stream Mode connection (long-lived WebSocket, no public URL needed)
- Text and rich text message support
- DM and group chat support
- Message deduplication with 5-minute window
- Auto-reconnection with exponential backoff
- Session webhook caching for reply routing
Configuration:
export DINGTALK_CLIENT_ID=your-app-key
export DINGTALK_CLIENT_SECRET=your-app-secret
# or in config.yaml:
platforms:
dingtalk:
enabled: true
extra:
client_id: your-app-key
client_secret: your-app-secret
Files:
- gateway/platforms/dingtalk.py (340 lines) — adapter implementation
- gateway/config.py — add DINGTALK to Platform enum
- gateway/run.py — add DingTalk to _create_adapter
- hermes_cli/config.py — add env vars to _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py — add dingtalk to PLATFORMS
- tests/gateway/test_dingtalk.py — 21 tests
When a user sends a long message, Telegram clients split it into
multiple updates that arrive within milliseconds of each other.
Previously each chunk was dispatched independently — the first would
start the agent, and subsequent chunks would interrupt or queue as
separate turns, causing the agent to only see part of the message.
Add text message batching to TelegramAdapter following the same pattern
as the existing photo burst batching:
- _enqueue_text_event() buffers text by session key, concatenating
chunks that arrive in rapid succession
- _flush_text_batch() dispatches the combined message after a 0.6s
quiet period (configurable via HERMES_TELEGRAM_TEXT_BATCH_DELAY_SECONDS)
- Timer resets on each new chunk, so all parts of a split arrive
before the batch is dispatched
Reported by NulledVector on Discord.
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)
Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.
- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement
Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.
* fix(approval): show full command in dangerous command approval (#1553)
Previously the command was truncated to 80 chars in CLI (with a
[v]iew full option), 500 chars in Discord embeds, and missing entirely
in Telegram/Slack approval messages. Now the full command is always
displayed everywhere:
- CLI: removed 80-char truncation and [v]iew full menu option
- Gateway (TG/Slack): approval_required message includes full command
in a code block
- Discord: embed shows full command up to 4096-char limit
- Windows: skip SIGALRM-based test timeout (Unix-only)
- Updated tests: replaced view-flow tests with direct approval tests
Cherry-picked from PR #1566 by crazywriter1.
* fix(cli): flush stdout during agent loop to prevent macOS display freeze (#1624)
The interrupt polling loop in chat() waited on the queue without
invalidating the prompt_toolkit renderer. On macOS, the StdoutProxy
buffer only flushed on input events, causing the CLI to appear frozen
during tool execution until the user typed a key.
Fix: call _invalidate() on each queue timeout (every ~100ms, throttled
to 150ms) to force the renderer to flush buffered agent output.
* fix(claw): warn when API keys are skipped during OpenClaw migration (#1580)
When --migrate-secrets is not passed (the default), API keys like
OPENROUTER_API_KEY are silently skipped with no warning. Users don't
realize their keys weren't migrated until the agent fails to connect.
Add a post-migration warning with actionable instructions: either
re-run with --migrate-secrets or add the key manually via
hermes config set.
Cherry-picked from PR #1593 by ygd58.
* fix(security): block sandbox backend creds from subprocess env (#1264)
Add Modal and Daytona sandbox credentials to the subprocess env
blocklist so they're not leaked to agent terminal sessions via
printenv/env.
Cherry-picked from PR #1571 by ygd58.
* fix(gateway): cap interrupt recursion depth to prevent resource exhaustion (#816)
When a user sends multiple messages while the agent keeps failing,
_run_agent() calls itself recursively with no depth limit. This can
exhaust stack/memory if the agent is in a failure loop.
Add _MAX_INTERRUPT_DEPTH = 3. When exceeded, the pending message is
logged and the current result is returned instead of recursing deeper.
The log handler duplication bug described in #816 was already fixed
separately (AIAgent.__init__ deduplicates handlers).
* fix(gateway): /model shows active fallback model instead of config default (#1615)
When the agent falls back to a different model (e.g. due to rate
limiting), /model still showed the config default. Now tracks the
effective model/provider after each agent run and displays it.
Cleared when the primary model succeeds again or the user explicitly
switches via /model.
Cherry-picked from PR #1616 by MaxKerkula. Added hasattr guard for
test compatibility.
* feat(gateway): inject reply-to message context for out-of-session replies (#1594)
When a user replies to a Telegram message, check if the quoted text
exists in the current session transcript. If missing (from cron jobs,
background tasks, or old sessions), prepend [Replying to: "..."] to
the message so the agent has context about what's being referenced.
- Add reply_to_text field to MessageEvent (base.py)
- Populate from Telegram's reply_to_message (text or caption)
- Inject context in _handle_message when not found in history
Based on PR #1596 by anpicasso (cherry-picked reply-to feature only,
excluded unrelated /server command and background delegation changes).
* fix: recognize Claude Code OAuth credentials in startup gate (#1455)
The _has_any_provider_configured() startup check didn't look for
Claude Code OAuth credentials (~/.claude/.credentials.json). Users
with only Claude Code auth got the setup wizard instead of starting.
Cherry-picked from PR #1455 by kshitijk4poor.
* perf: use ripgrep for file search (200x faster than find)
search_files(target='files') now uses rg --files -g instead of find.
Ripgrep respects .gitignore, excludes hidden dirs by default, and has
parallel directory traversal — ~200x faster on wide trees (0.14s vs 34s
benchmarked on 164-repo tree).
Falls back to find when rg is unavailable, preserving hidden-dir
exclusion and BSD find compatibility.
Salvaged from PR #1464 by @light-merlin-dark (Merlin) — adapted to
preserve hidden-dir exclusion added since the original PR.
* refactor(tts): replace NeuTTS optional skill with built-in provider + setup flow
Remove the optional skill (redundant now that NeuTTS is a built-in TTS
provider). Replace neutts_cli dependency with a standalone synthesis
helper (tools/neutts_synth.py) that calls the neutts Python API directly
in a subprocess.
Add TTS provider selection to hermes setup:
- 'hermes setup' now prompts for TTS provider after model selection
- 'hermes setup tts' available as standalone section
- Selecting NeuTTS checks for deps and offers to install:
espeak-ng (system) + neutts[all] (pip)
- ElevenLabs/OpenAI selections prompt for API keys
- Tool status display shows NeuTTS install state
Changes:
- Remove optional-skills/mlops/models/neutts/ (skill + CLI scaffold)
- Add tools/neutts_synth.py (standalone synthesis subprocess helper)
- Move jo.wav/jo.txt to tools/neutts_samples/ (bundled default voice)
- Refactor _generate_neutts() — uses neutts API via subprocess, no
neutts_cli dependency, config-driven ref_audio/ref_text/model/device
- Add TTS setup to hermes_cli/setup.py (SETUP_SECTIONS, tool status)
- Update config.py defaults (ref_audio, ref_text, model, device)
* fix(docker): add explicit env allowlist for container credentials (#1436)
Docker terminal sessions are secret-dark by default. This adds
terminal.docker_forward_env as an explicit allowlist for env vars
that may be forwarded into Docker containers.
Values resolve from the current shell first, then fall back to
~/.hermes/.env. Only variables the user explicitly lists are
forwarded — nothing is auto-exposed.
Cherry-picked from PR #1449 by @teknium1, conflict-resolved onto
current main.
Fixes#1436
Supersedes #1439
* fix: email send_typing metadata param + ☤ Hermes staff symbol
- email.py: add missing metadata parameter to send_typing() to match
BasePlatformAdapter signature (PR #1431 by @ItsChoudhry)
- README.md: ⚕ → ☤ — the caduceus is Hermes's staff, not the
medical Staff of Asclepius (PR #1420 by @rianczerwinski)
---------
Co-authored-by: buray <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: crazywriter1 <53251494+crazywriter1@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Max K <MaxKerkula@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Angello Picasso <angello.picasso@devsu.com>
Co-authored-by: kshitij <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)
Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.
- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement
Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.
* fix(approval): show full command in dangerous command approval (#1553)
Previously the command was truncated to 80 chars in CLI (with a
[v]iew full option), 500 chars in Discord embeds, and missing entirely
in Telegram/Slack approval messages. Now the full command is always
displayed everywhere:
- CLI: removed 80-char truncation and [v]iew full menu option
- Gateway (TG/Slack): approval_required message includes full command
in a code block
- Discord: embed shows full command up to 4096-char limit
- Windows: skip SIGALRM-based test timeout (Unix-only)
- Updated tests: replaced view-flow tests with direct approval tests
Cherry-picked from PR #1566 by crazywriter1.
* fix(cli): flush stdout during agent loop to prevent macOS display freeze (#1624)
The interrupt polling loop in chat() waited on the queue without
invalidating the prompt_toolkit renderer. On macOS, the StdoutProxy
buffer only flushed on input events, causing the CLI to appear frozen
during tool execution until the user typed a key.
Fix: call _invalidate() on each queue timeout (every ~100ms, throttled
to 150ms) to force the renderer to flush buffered agent output.
* fix(claw): warn when API keys are skipped during OpenClaw migration (#1580)
When --migrate-secrets is not passed (the default), API keys like
OPENROUTER_API_KEY are silently skipped with no warning. Users don't
realize their keys weren't migrated until the agent fails to connect.
Add a post-migration warning with actionable instructions: either
re-run with --migrate-secrets or add the key manually via
hermes config set.
Cherry-picked from PR #1593 by ygd58.
* fix(security): block sandbox backend creds from subprocess env (#1264)
Add Modal and Daytona sandbox credentials to the subprocess env
blocklist so they're not leaked to agent terminal sessions via
printenv/env.
Cherry-picked from PR #1571 by ygd58.
* fix(gateway): cap interrupt recursion depth to prevent resource exhaustion (#816)
When a user sends multiple messages while the agent keeps failing,
_run_agent() calls itself recursively with no depth limit. This can
exhaust stack/memory if the agent is in a failure loop.
Add _MAX_INTERRUPT_DEPTH = 3. When exceeded, the pending message is
logged and the current result is returned instead of recursing deeper.
The log handler duplication bug described in #816 was already fixed
separately (AIAgent.__init__ deduplicates handlers).
* fix(gateway): /model shows active fallback model instead of config default (#1615)
When the agent falls back to a different model (e.g. due to rate
limiting), /model still showed the config default. Now tracks the
effective model/provider after each agent run and displays it.
Cleared when the primary model succeeds again or the user explicitly
switches via /model.
Cherry-picked from PR #1616 by MaxKerkula. Added hasattr guard for
test compatibility.
* feat(gateway): inject reply-to message context for out-of-session replies (#1594)
When a user replies to a Telegram message, check if the quoted text
exists in the current session transcript. If missing (from cron jobs,
background tasks, or old sessions), prepend [Replying to: "..."] to
the message so the agent has context about what's being referenced.
- Add reply_to_text field to MessageEvent (base.py)
- Populate from Telegram's reply_to_message (text or caption)
- Inject context in _handle_message when not found in history
Based on PR #1596 by anpicasso (cherry-picked reply-to feature only,
excluded unrelated /server command and background delegation changes).
---------
Co-authored-by: buray <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: crazywriter1 <53251494+crazywriter1@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Max K <MaxKerkula@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Angello Picasso <angello.picasso@devsu.com>
_bot_participated_threads was an in-memory set — lost on every restart.
After restart, the bot forgot which threads it was active in, requiring
fresh @mentions and potentially creating duplicate threads instead of
continuing existing conversations.
Changes:
- Persist thread IDs to ~/.hermes/discord_threads.json
- Load on adapter init, save on every new thread participation
- _track_thread() replaces direct .add() calls for atomic persist
- Cap at 500 tracked threads to prevent unbounded growth
- /thread slash command also tracks participation
- 7 new tests covering persistence, restart survival, corruption
recovery, cap enforcement
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)
Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.
- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement
Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.
* fix(approval): show full command in dangerous command approval (#1553)
Previously the command was truncated to 80 chars in CLI (with a
[v]iew full option), 500 chars in Discord embeds, and missing entirely
in Telegram/Slack approval messages. Now the full command is always
displayed everywhere:
- CLI: removed 80-char truncation and [v]iew full menu option
- Gateway (TG/Slack): approval_required message includes full command
in a code block
- Discord: embed shows full command up to 4096-char limit
- Windows: skip SIGALRM-based test timeout (Unix-only)
- Updated tests: replaced view-flow tests with direct approval tests
Cherry-picked from PR #1566 by crazywriter1.
---------
Co-authored-by: buray <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: crazywriter1 <53251494+crazywriter1@users.noreply.github.com>
_send_response_parts() calls send_image(metadata=_thread_metadata) but
the base class signature didn't accept metadata, crashing platforms that
don't override send_image. send_animation already had the param but
wasn't forwarding it.
Credit: @0xbyt4 (PR #1077)
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)
Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.
- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement
Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.
---------
Co-authored-by: buray <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(gateway): strip MEDIA: and [[audio_as_voice]] tags from message body
Closes#1561
* fix: remove redundant re import, use existing import
---------
Co-authored-by: mettin4 <coktinmetin@gmail.com>
Small models (7B-14B) can't reliably use MEDIA: or IMAGE: syntax. This
adds extract_local_files() to BasePlatformAdapter that regex-detects
bare local file paths ending in image/video extensions, validates them
with os.path.isfile(), and delivers them as native platform attachments.
Hardened over the original PR:
- Code-block exclusion: paths inside fenced blocks and inline code are
skipped so code samples are never mutilated
- URL rejection: negative lookbehind prevents matching path segments
inside HTTP URLs
- Relative path rejection: ./foo.png no longer matches
- Tilde path cleanup: raw ~/... form is removed from response text
- Deduplication by expanded path
- Added .webm to _VIDEO_EXTS
- Fallback to send_document for unrecognized media extensions
Based on PR #1636 by sudoingX.
Co-authored-by: sudoingX <sudoingX@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: Anthropic OAuth compatibility — Claude Code identity fingerprinting
Anthropic routes OAuth/subscription requests based on Claude Code's
identity markers. Without them, requests get intermittent 500 errors
(~25% failure rate observed). This matches what pi-ai (clawdbot) and
OpenCode both implement for OAuth compatibility.
Changes (OAuth tokens only — API key users unaffected):
1. Headers: user-agent 'claude-cli/2.1.2 (external, cli)' + x-app 'cli'
2. System prompt: prepend 'You are Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI'
3. System prompt sanitization: replace Hermes/Nous references
4. Tool names: prefix with 'mcp_' (Claude Code convention for non-native tools)
5. Tool name stripping: remove 'mcp_' prefix from response tool calls
Before: 9/12 OK, 1 hard fail, 4 needed retries (~25% error rate)
After: 16/16 OK, 0 failures, 0 retries (0% error rate)
* fix: three gateway issues from user error logs
1. send_animation missing metadata kwarg (base.py)
- Base class send_animation lacked the metadata parameter that the
call site in base.py line 917 passes. Telegram's override accepted
it, but any platform without an override (Discord, Slack, etc.)
hit TypeError. Added metadata to base class signature.
2. MarkdownV2 split-inside-inline-code (base.py truncate_message)
- truncate_message could split at a space inside an inline code span
(e.g. `function(arg1, arg2)`), leaving an unpaired backtick and
unescaped parentheses in the chunk. Telegram rejects with
'character ( is reserved'. Added inline code awareness to the
split-point finder — detects odd backtick counts and moves the
split before the code span.
3. tirith auto-install without cosign (tirith_security.py)
- Previously required cosign on PATH for auto-install, blocking
install entirely with a warning if missing. Now proceeds with
SHA-256 checksum verification only when cosign is unavailable.
Cosign is still used for full supply chain verification when
present. If cosign IS present but verification explicitly fails,
install is still aborted (tampered release).
* refactor: centralize slash command registry
Replace 7+ scattered command definition sites with a single
CommandDef registry in hermes_cli/commands.py. All downstream
consumers now derive from this registry:
- CLI process_command() resolves aliases via resolve_command()
- Gateway _known_commands uses GATEWAY_KNOWN_COMMANDS frozenset
- Gateway help text generated by gateway_help_lines()
- Telegram BotCommands generated by telegram_bot_commands()
- Slack subcommand map generated by slack_subcommand_map()
Adding a command or alias is now a one-line change to
COMMAND_REGISTRY instead of touching 6+ files.
Bugfixes included:
- Telegram now registers /rollback, /background (were missing)
- Slack now has /voice, /update, /reload-mcp (were missing)
- Gateway duplicate 'reasoning' dispatch (dead code) removed
- Gateway help text can no longer drift from CLI help
Backwards-compatible: COMMANDS and COMMANDS_BY_CATEGORY dicts are
rebuilt from the registry, so existing imports work unchanged.
* docs: update developer docs for centralized command registry
Update AGENTS.md with full 'Slash Command Registry' and 'Adding a
Slash Command' sections covering CommandDef fields, registry helpers,
and the one-line alias workflow.
Also update:
- CONTRIBUTING.md: commands.py description
- website/docs/reference/slash-commands.md: reference central registry
- docs/plans/centralize-command-registry.md: mark COMPLETED
- plans/checkpoint-rollback.md: reference new pattern
- hermes-agent-dev skill: architecture table
* chore: remove stale plan docs
* feat: add optional smart model routing
Add a conservative cheap-vs-strong routing option that can send very short/simple turns to a cheaper model across providers while keeping the primary model for complex work. Wire it through CLI, gateway, and cron, and document the config.yaml workflow.
* fix(gateway): remove recursive ExecStop from systemd units, extend TimeoutStopSec to 60s
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
---------
Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
* feat(skills): add blender-mcp optional skill for 3D modeling
Control a running Blender instance from Hermes via socket connection
to the blender-mcp addon (port 9876). Supports creating 3D objects,
materials, animations, and running arbitrary bpy code.
Placed in optional-skills/ since it requires Blender 4.3+ desktop
with a third-party addon manually started each session.
* feat(acp): support slash commands in ACP adapter (#1532)
Adds /help, /model, /tools, /context, /reset, /compact, /version
to the ACP adapter (VS Code, Zed, JetBrains). Commands are handled
directly in the server without instantiating the TUI — each command
queries agent/session state and returns plain text.
Unrecognized /commands fall through to the LLM as normal messages.
/model uses detect_provider_for_model() for auto-detection when
switching models, matching the CLI and gateway behavior.
Fixes#1402
* fix(logging): improve error logging in session search tool (#1533)
* fix(gateway): restart on retryable startup failures (#1517)
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
Adds a config.yaml-driven option to skip email attachments in the
gateway email adapter. Useful for malware protection and bandwidth
savings.
Configure in config.yaml:
platforms:
email:
skip_attachments: true
Based on PR #1521 by @an420eth, changed from env var to config.yaml
(via PlatformConfig.extra) to match the project's config-first pattern.
* docs: document skip_attachments option for email adapter
* fix(telegram): retry on transient TLS failures during connect and send
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around initialize() to
handle transient TLS resets during gateway startup. Also catches
TimedOut and OSError in addition to NetworkError.
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around send_message() for
NetworkError during message delivery, wrapping the existing Markdown
fallback logic.
Both imports are guarded with try/except ImportError for test
environments where telegram is mocked.
Based on PR #1527 by cmd8. Closes#1526.
* feat: permissive block_anchor thresholds and unicode normalization (#1539)
Salvaged from PR #1528 by an420eth. Closes#517.
Improves _strategy_block_anchor in fuzzy_match.py:
- Add unicode normalization (smart quotes, em/en-dashes, ellipsis,
non-breaking spaces → ASCII) so LLM-produced unicode artifacts
don't break anchor line matching
- Lower thresholds: 0.10 for unique matches (was 0.70), 0.30 for
multiple candidates — if first/last lines match exactly, the
block is almost certainly correct
- Use original (non-normalized) content for offset calculation to
preserve correct character positions
Tested: 3 new scenarios fixed (em-dash anchors, non-breaking space
anchors, very-low-similarity unique matches), zero regressions on
all 9 existing fuzzy match tests.
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): add file path autocomplete in the input prompt (#1545)
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
* feat(privacy): redact PII from LLM context when privacy.redact_pii is enabled
Add privacy.redact_pii config option (boolean, default false). When
enabled, the gateway redacts personally identifiable information from
the system prompt before sending it to the LLM provider:
- Phone numbers (user IDs on WhatsApp/Signal) → hashed to user_<sha256>
- User IDs → hashed to user_<sha256>
- Chat IDs → numeric portion hashed, platform prefix preserved
- Home channel IDs → hashed
- Names/usernames → NOT affected (user-chosen, publicly visible)
Hashes are deterministic (same user → same hash) so the model can
still distinguish users in group chats. Routing and delivery use
the original values internally — redaction only affects LLM context.
Inspired by OpenClaw PR #47959.
* fix(privacy): skip PII redaction on Discord/Slack (mentions need real IDs)
Discord uses <@user_id> for mentions and Slack uses <@U12345> — the LLM
needs the real ID to tag users. Redaction now only applies to WhatsApp,
Signal, and Telegram where IDs are pure routing metadata.
Add 4 platform-specific tests covering Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack.
* feat: smart approvals + /stop command (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
* feat: first-class plugin architecture + hide status bar cost by default (#1544)
The persistent status bar now shows context %, token counts, and
duration but NOT $ cost by default. Cost display is opt-in via:
display:
show_cost: true
in config.yaml, or: hermes config set display.show_cost true
The /usage command still shows full cost breakdown since the user
explicitly asked for it — this only affects the always-visible bar.
Status bar without cost:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ 15m
Status bar with show_cost: true:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ $0.06 │ 15m
* feat: improve memory prioritization + aggressive skill updates (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: improve memory prioritization — user preferences over procedural knowledge
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's memory prompt improvements (openai/codex#14493)
which focus memory writes on user preferences and recurring patterns
rather than procedural task details.
Key insight: 'Optimize for reducing future user steering — the most
valuable memory prevents the user from having to repeat themselves.'
Changes:
- MEMORY_GUIDANCE (prompt_builder.py): added prioritization hierarchy
and the core principle about reducing user steering
- MEMORY_SCHEMA (memory_tool.py): reordered WHEN TO SAVE list to put
corrections first, added explicit PRIORITY guidance
- Memory nudge (run_agent.py): now asks specifically about preferences,
corrections, and workflow patterns instead of generic 'anything'
- Memory flush (run_agent.py): now instructs to prioritize user
preferences and corrections over task-specific details
* feat: more aggressive skill creation and update prompting
Press harder on skill updates — the agent should proactively patch
skills when it encounters issues during use, not wait to be asked.
Changes:
- SKILLS_GUIDANCE: 'consider saving' → 'save'; added explicit instruction
to patch skills immediately when found outdated/wrong
- Skills header: added instruction to update loaded skills before finishing
if they had missing steps or wrong commands
- Skill nudge: more assertive ('save the approach' not 'consider saving'),
now also prompts for updating existing skills used in the task
- Skill nudge interval: lowered default from 15 to 10 iterations
- skill_manage schema: added 'patch it immediately' to update triggers
* feat: first-class plugin architecture (#1555)
Plugin system for extending Hermes with custom tools, hooks, and
integrations — no source code changes required.
Core system (hermes_cli/plugins.py):
- Plugin discovery from ~/.hermes/plugins/, .hermes/plugins/, and
pip entry_points (hermes_agent.plugins group)
- PluginContext with register_tool() and register_hook()
- 6 lifecycle hooks: pre/post tool_call, pre/post llm_call,
on_session_start/end
- Namespace package handling for relative imports in plugins
- Graceful error isolation — broken plugins never crash the agent
Integration (model_tools.py):
- Plugin discovery runs after built-in + MCP tools
- Plugin tools bypass toolset filter via get_plugin_tool_names()
- Pre/post tool call hooks fire in handle_function_call()
CLI:
- /plugins command shows loaded plugins, tool counts, status
- Added to COMMANDS dict for autocomplete
Docs:
- Getting started guide (build-a-hermes-plugin.md) — full tutorial
building a calculator plugin step by step
- Reference page (features/plugins.md) — quick overview + tables
- Covers: file structure, schemas, handlers, hooks, data files,
bundled skills, env var gating, pip distribution, common mistakes
Tests: 16 tests covering discovery, loading, hooks, tool visibility.
* feat: add /bg as alias for /background slash command
Adds /bg alias across CLI, gateway, and Slack platform adapter.
Updates help text, autocomplete, known_commands set, and dispatch
logic. Includes tests for the new alias.
* docs: add plan for centralized slash command registry
Scopes a refactor to replace 7+ scattered command definition sites
with a single CommandDef registry in hermes_cli/commands.py. Includes
derived helper functions for gateway help text, Telegram BotCommands,
Slack subcommand maps, and alias resolution.
Documents current drift (Telegram missing /rollback + /background,
Slack missing /voice + /update, gateway dead code) that the refactor
fixes for free.
---------
Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78a@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Oktay Aydin <113846926+aydnOktay@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JP Lew <polydegen@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
Adds a config.yaml-driven option to skip email attachments in the
gateway email adapter. Useful for malware protection and bandwidth
savings.
Configure in config.yaml:
platforms:
email:
skip_attachments: true
Based on PR #1521 by @an420eth, changed from env var to config.yaml
(via PlatformConfig.extra) to match the project's config-first pattern.
* docs: document skip_attachments option for email adapter
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around initialize() to
handle transient TLS resets during gateway startup. Also catches
TimedOut and OSError in addition to NetworkError.
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around send_message() for
NetworkError during message delivery, wrapping the existing Markdown
fallback logic.
Both imports are guarded with try/except ImportError for test
environments where telegram is mocked.
Based on PR #1527 by cmd8. Closes#1526.
default group and channel sessions to per-user isolation, allow opting back into shared room sessions via config.yaml, and document Discord gateway routing and session behavior.
Two changes to align Discord behavior with Slack:
1. Auto-thread on @mention (default: true)
- When someone @mentions the bot in a server channel, a thread is
automatically created from their message and the response goes there.
- Each thread gets its own isolated session (like Slack).
- Configurable via discord.auto_thread in config.yaml (default: true)
or DISCORD_AUTO_THREAD env var (env takes precedence).
- DMs and existing threads are unaffected.
2. Skip @mention in bot-participated threads
- Once the bot has responded in a thread (auto-created or manually
entered), subsequent messages in that thread no longer require
@mention. Users can just type normally.
- Tracked via in-memory set (_bot_participated_threads). After a
gateway restart, users need to @mention once to re-establish.
- Threads the bot hasn't participated in still require @mention.
Config change:
discord:
auto_thread: true # new, added to DEFAULT_CONFIG
Tests: 7 new tests covering auto-thread default, disable, bot thread
participation tracking, and mention skip logic. All 903 gateway tests pass.
After bot leave/rejoin, Discord doesn't resend SPEAKING events for
users already in the channel. This left SSRC unmapped and all audio
was silently dropped by DAVE decrypt.
Fixes:
- Skip DAVE for unknown SSRCs instead of dropping (passthrough)
- Handle "UnencryptedWhenPassthroughDisabled" DAVE errors gracefully
- Auto-infer user_id from sole allowed member in voice channel
- Pass allowed_user_ids to VoiceReceiver for secure inference
Discord drops the UDP voice route after ~60s of silence - no packets
arrive even when users start speaking again. Send an Opus silence
frame every 15s to keep the UDP session alive.
play_tts was returning success without playing anything when bot was
in a voice channel. Now it calls play_in_voice_channel directly.
Simplified skip_double dedup: base adapter handles voice input TTS
via play_tts (which now works for VC), runner skips to avoid double.
Track adapter background message-processing tasks, cancel them during gateway shutdown, and interrupt running agents before disconnecting adapters. This prevents old gateway instances from continuing in-flight work after stop/replace, which was contributing to the restart-time task continuation/flicker behavior reported in #1414. Adds regression coverage for adapter task cancellation and shutdown interrupts.
Salvaged from PR #1115 onto current main by reusing the shared
Discord file-attachment helper for local video and document sends,
including file_name support for documents and regression coverage.
The disconnect() method was unconditionally calling updater.stop() and
app.stop(), causing errors when:
- The updater was not running (RuntimeError: This Updater is not running!)
- The app was None (AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute)
Changes:
- Check if updater exists and is running before stopping
- Check if app is running before stopping
- Only log warnings for actual errors, not expected shutdown states
Fixes spurious warnings during gateway shutdown.
Cancel any queued media-group flush tasks during Telegram adapter disconnect
and clear the buffered events map so shutdown can't leave a pending album
flush behind. Add a regression test covering disconnect before the debounce
window expires.
Telegram albums arrive as multiple updates with a shared media_group_id.
Previously each image triggered a separate MessageEvent, causing the agent
to interrupt itself when describing the first image.
- Add 0.8s debounce window for media group items
- Merge attachments into single MessageEvent
- Add regression test for photo album buffering
Prevent gateway.platforms.discord from crashing at import time when discord.py is unavailable. Python 3.11 eagerly evaluates annotations, so using discord.Interaction and similar annotations caused an AttributeError after the optional import fallback set discord=None. Add postponed annotation evaluation and a regression test covering import without discord installed.
- Use imap.uid() for search and fetch instead of imap.search/fetch.
Sequence numbers shift when messages are deleted, causing the adapter
to skip new messages or reprocess old ones. UIDs are stable.
- Pass ssl.create_default_context() to starttls() so the server
certificate is actually verified. Without it smtplib uses
ssl._create_stdlib_context() which skips verification.
1. Anthropic + ElevenLabs TTS silence: forward full response to TTS
callback for non-streaming providers (choices first, then native
content blocks fallback).
2. Subprocess timeout kill: play_audio_file now kills the process on
TimeoutExpired instead of leaving zombie processes.
3. Discord disconnect cleanup: leave all voice channels before closing
the client to prevent leaked state.
4. Audio stream leak: close InputStream if stream.start() fails.
5. Race condition: read/write _on_silence_stop under lock in audio
callback thread.
6. _vprint force=True: show API error, retry, and truncation messages
even during streaming TTS.
7. _refresh_level lock: read _voice_recording under _voice_lock.
1. Gate _streaming_api_call to chat_completions mode only — Anthropic and
Codex fall back to _interruptible_api_call. Preserve Anthropic base_url
across all client rebuild paths (interrupt, fallback, 401 refresh).
2. Discord VC synthetic events now use chat_type="channel" instead of
defaulting to "dm" — prevents session bleed into DM context.
Authorization runs before echoing transcript. Sanitize @everyone/@here
in voice transcripts.
3. CLI voice prefix ("[Voice input...]") is now API-call-local only —
stripped from returned history so it never persists to session DB or
resumed sessions.
4. /voice off now disables base adapter auto-TTS via _auto_tts_disabled_chats
set — voice input no longer triggers TTS when voice mode is off.
Remove web UI gateway (web.py, tests, docs, toolset, env vars, Platform.WEB
enum) per maintainer request — Nous is building their own official chat UI.
Fix 1: Replace sd.wait() with polling pattern in play_audio_file() to prevent
indefinite hang when audio device stalls (consistent with play_beep()).
Fix 2: Use importlib.util.find_spec() for faster_whisper/openai availability
checks instead of module-level imports that trigger heavy native library
loading (CUDA/cuDNN) at import time.
Fix 3: Remove inspect.signature() hack in _send_voice_reply() — add **kwargs
to Telegram send_voice() so all adapters accept metadata uniformly.
Fix 4: Make session loading resilient to removed platform enum values — skip
entries with unknown platforms instead of crashing the entire gateway.
- web.py: pass stt_model from config like discord.py and run.py do
- run.py: match new error messages (No STT provider / not set)
- _transcribe_local: add missing "provider": "local" to return dict
- Change RTP packet logging from INFO to DEBUG level to reduce noise
(SPEAKING events remain at INFO as they are important lifecycle events)
- Use per-session chat_id (web_{session_id}) instead of shared "web"
to isolate conversation context between simultaneous web users
When bound to 127.0.0.1, only show localhost URL instead of listing
unreachable network interfaces. Add hint about WEB_UI_HOST=0.0.0.0
for phone/tablet access. Add VPN/multi-interface and token exposure
tests (11 new tests).
Only print the access token when auto-generated (user needs it to
log in). When set via WEB_UI_TOKEN env var, just confirm it is set
without exposing the value in console output.
- Use hmac.compare_digest for timing-safe token comparison (3 endpoints)
- Default bind to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0
- Sanitize upload filenames with Path.name to prevent path traversal
- Add DOMPurify to sanitize marked.parse() output against XSS
- Replace add_static with authenticated media handler
- Hide token in group chats for /remote-control command
- Use ctypes.util.find_library for Opus instead of hardcoded paths
- Add force=True to 5 interrupt _vprint calls for visibility
- Log Opus decode errors and voice restart failures instead of swallowing
Duplicated YAML config parsing for stt.model existed in gateway/run.py
and gateway/platforms/discord.py. Moved to a single helper in
transcription_tools.py and added 5 tests covering all edge cases.
Code fixes:
- STT model, Groq base URL, and OpenAI STT base URL are now
configurable via env vars (STT_GROQ_MODEL, STT_OPENAI_MODEL,
GROQ_BASE_URL, STT_OPENAI_BASE_URL) instead of hardcoded
- Gateway and Discord VC now read stt.model from config.yaml
(previously only CLI did this — gateway always used defaults)
Doc fixes:
- voice-mode.md: move Web UI troubleshooting to web.md (was duplicated)
- voice-mode.md: simplify "How It Works" for end users (remove NaCl,
DAVE, RTP internals)
- voice-mode.md: clarify STT priority (OpenAI used first if both keys
set, Groq recommended for free tier)
- voice-mode.md: document new STT env overrides in config reference
- web.md: remove duplicate Quick Start / Step 1-3 sections
- web.md: add mobile HTTPS mic workarounds (moved from voice-mode.md)
- web.md: clarify STT fallback order
1. VoiceReceiver.stop() now acquires _lock before clearing shared state
to prevent race with _on_packet on the socket reader thread
2. _packet_debug_count moved from class-level to instance-level to avoid
cross-instance race condition in multi-guild setups
3. play_in_voice_channel uses asyncio.get_running_loop() instead of
deprecated asyncio.get_event_loop()
4. _send_voice_reply uses uuid for filenames instead of time-based names
that can collide when two replies happen in the same second
5. Voice timeout now notifies runner via _on_voice_disconnect callback
so runner cleans up _voice_mode state (prevents orphaned TTS replies)
6. play_in_voice_channel adds PLAYBACK_TIMEOUT (120s) to prevent
infinite blocking when FFmpeg callback is never called
7. _send_voice_reply moves temp file cleanup to finally block so files
are always cleaned up even when send_voice/play raises
8. Base adapter auto-TTS wraps play_tts in try/finally with os.remove
to clean up generated audio files after playback
18 new tests (120 total voice tests)
- Add lock protection around VoiceReceiver buffer writes in _on_packet
to prevent race condition with check_silence on different threads
- Wire _voice_input_callback BEFORE join_voice_channel to avoid
losing voice input during the join window
- Add try/except around leave_voice_channel to ensure state cleanup
(voice_mode, callback) even if leave raises an exception
- Guard against empty text after markdown stripping in base.py auto-TTS
- Add 11 tests proving each bug and verifying the fix
Mobile browsers require HTTPS for navigator.mediaDevices API.
Instead of hiding the mic button (confusing UX), show it as dimmed
and display an informative message when tapped explaining the HTTPS
requirement.
Override play_tts in DiscordAdapter to no-op when connected to a voice
channel for the same guild. The gateway runner already plays TTS audio
in the VC via play_in_voice_channel, so the base adapter's fallback
to send_voice (file attachment) was causing double audio output.
play_tts base class forwards metadata via **kwargs to send_voice,
but Discord and Slack adapters did not accept extra keyword arguments,
causing TypeError and silent message handling failure.
Also fix test_web_defaults to patch correct env var (WEB_UI_TOKEN).
- Voice mode: press mic once to enter, press again to exit
- VAD (Voice Activity Detection) auto-stops recording after 1.5s silence
- Continuous loop: speak → transcribe → agent responds → TTS plays → auto-listen
- Voice mode UI: input bar hides, large mic button centered
- Auto-restart listening when TTS playback finishes
- Fallback: restart listening on text response if no TTS arrives
- Auto-TTS: voice messages get spoken response (audio first, then text)
- STT: Groq Whisper fallback when VOICE_TOOLS_OPENAI_KEY not set
- Futuristic UI: glassmorphism, centered container, purple theme, glow effects
- Voice bubble: custom waveform player with seek and progress
- Invisible TTS playback via play_tts() method (no audio file in chat)
- Add hermes-web toolset with full tool access
- Register Platform.WEB in toolset/config maps
- Update docs for voice conversation feature
Detect all network interfaces instead of relying on UDP trick which
returns VPN IP. Prefers 192.168.x.x/10.x.x.x over VPN ranges.
Shows all available IPs in console output.
New platform adapter that serves a full-featured chat interface via HTTP.
Enables access from any device on the network (phone, tablet, desktop).
Features:
- aiohttp server with WebSocket real-time messaging
- Token-based authentication
- Markdown rendering (marked.js) + code highlighting (highlight.js)
- Voice recording via MediaRecorder API + STT transcription
- Image, voice, and document display
- Typing indicator + message editing (streaming support)
- Mobile responsive dark theme
- Auto-reconnect on disconnect
- Media file cleanup (24h TTL)
Config: WEB_UI_ENABLED=true, WEB_UI_PORT=8765, WEB_UI_TOKEN=<token>
No new dependencies — uses aiohttp already in [messaging] extra.
Phase 2 of voice channel support: bot listens to users speaking in VC,
transcribes speech via Groq Whisper, and processes through the agent pipeline.
- Add VoiceReceiver class for RTP packet capture, NaCl/DAVE decryption, Opus decode
- Add silence detection and per-user PCM buffering
- Wire voice input callback from adapter to GatewayRunner
- Fix adapter dict key: use Platform.DISCORD enum instead of string
- Fix guild_id extraction for synthetic voice events via SimpleNamespace raw_message
- Pause/resume receiver during TTS playback to prevent echo
- Send Discord voice messages with flags=8192 and waveform metadata
so they render as native voice bubbles instead of file attachments
- Use .mp3 output path for TTS so edge-tts opus conversion works
correctly (edge always outputs mp3, convert was skipped for .ogg)
- Use actual file_path from TTS result after potential opus conversion
- Register /voice as Discord slash command with mode choices
- Fix _send_voice_reply to handle adapters that don't accept metadata
parameter (Discord) by inspecting the method signature at runtime
- /voice on: reply with voice when user sends voice messages
- /voice tts: reply with voice to all messages
- /voice off: disable, text-only replies
- /voice status: show current mode
- Per-chat state persisted to gateway_voice_mode.json
- Dedup: skips auto-reply if agent already called text_to_speech tool
- drop_pending_updates=True to ignore stale Telegram messages on restart
- 25 tests covering command handler, reply logic, and edge cases
- prevent raw MEDIA tag leakage outside the gateway pipeline
- make extract_media handle quoted/backticked paths and optional whitespace
- send Telegram media natively with explicit error/warning handling
- add regression tests for Telegram media dispatch and MEDIA parsing
The send_message tool's _send_telegram() sent MEDIA:<path> tags as
literal text instead of delivering actual files. This fixes it by
extracting MEDIA tags via BasePlatformAdapter.extract_media() and
routing files to the appropriate Telegram Bot API method by extension.
Changes:
- send_message_tool: extract MEDIA tags and send files natively as
photo/video/voice/audio/document based on file extension
- send_message_tool: add per-file error handling and missing-file logging
- send_message_tool: use cleaned text in fallback to avoid leaking tags
- base.py extract_media: handle optional space after MEDIA: colon
- base.py extract_media: strip surrounding backticks/quotes from paths
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a /reasoning command across gateway adapters so users can
inspect or change reasoning effort without editing config by hand.
Reload reasoning settings from config.yaml before each agent run,
including background tasks, so the next message picks up the new
value consistently.
Users sometimes paste Discord IDs with prefixes like 'user:123456',
'<@123456>', or '<@!123456>' from Discord's UI or third-party tools.
This caused auth failures since the allowlist contained 'user:123' but
the actual user_id from messages was just '123'.
Fixes:
- Added _clean_discord_id() helper in discord.py to strip common prefixes
- Applied sanitization at runtime when parsing DISCORD_ALLOWED_USERS env var
- Applied sanitization in hermes setup and hermes gateway setup input flows
- Handles user:, <@>, and <@!> prefix formats
- Add /thread slash command that creates a Discord thread and starts a
new Hermes session in it. The starter message (if provided) becomes
the first user input in the new session.
- Add discord.auto_thread config option (DISCORD_AUTO_THREAD env var):
when enabled, every message in a text channel automatically creates
a thread, allowing parallel isolated sessions.
- Fix Discord media method signatures to accept metadata kwarg
(send_voice, send_image_file, send_image) — prevents TypeError
when the base adapter passes platform metadata.
- Fix test mock isolation: add app_commands and ForumChannel to
discord mocks so tests pass in full-suite runs.
Based on PRs #866 and #1109 by insecurejezza, modified per review:
removed /channel command (unsafe), added auto_thread feature,
made /thread dispatch new sessions.
Co-authored-by: insecurejezza <insecurejezza@users.noreply.github.com>
Previously, when no watch_domains or watch_entities were configured,
ALL state_changed events passed through to the agent, causing users
to be flooded with notifications for every HA entity change.
Now events are dropped by default unless the user explicitly configures:
- watch_domains: list of domains to monitor (e.g. climate, light)
- watch_entities: list of specific entity IDs to monitor
- watch_all: true (new option — opt-in to receive all events)
A warning is logged at connect time if no filters are configured,
guiding users to set up their HA platform config.
All 49 gateway HA tests + 52 HA tool tests pass.
The old message referenced 'hermes setup' which doesn't handle
skill-specific env vars. Updated to direct users to load the skill
in the local CLI (which triggers the secure prompt) or add the key
to ~/.hermes/.env manually.
When a skill declares required_environment_variables in its YAML
frontmatter, missing env vars trigger a secure TUI prompt (identical
to the sudo password widget) when the skill is loaded. Secrets flow
directly to ~/.hermes/.env, never entering LLM context.
Key changes:
- New required_environment_variables frontmatter field for skills
- Secure TUI widget (masked input, 120s timeout)
- Gateway safety: messaging platforms show local setup guidance
- Legacy prerequisites.env_vars normalized into new format
- Remote backend handling: conservative setup_needed=True
- Env var name validation, file permissions hardened to 0o600
- Redact patterns extended for secret-related JSON fields
- 12 existing skills updated with prerequisites declarations
- ~48 new tests covering skip, timeout, gateway, remote backends
- Dynamic panel widget sizing (fixes hardcoded width from original PR)
Cherry-picked from PR #723 by kshitijk4poor, rebased onto current main
with conflict resolution.
Fixes#688
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Fallback paths in send_image_file, send_video, and send_document called
super() without metadata, causing replies to appear outside the thread
when file upload fails. Use self.send() with metadata instead to preserve
thread_ts context.
- Increase MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH from 3,900 to 39,000 (Slack API allows 40k)
- Implement real typing indicator using assistant.threads.setStatus API
- Shows 'BotName is thinking...' next to the bot name in threads
- Auto-clears when the bot sends a reply
- Requires assistant:write or chat:write scope
- Falls back silently if scope unavailable (reactions still work)
- 4 new tests for typing indicator
Three bugs fixed in the Slack adapter:
1. Tool progress messages leaked to main channel instead of thread.
Root cause: metadata key mismatch — gateway uses 'thread_id' but
Slack adapter checked for 'thread_ts'. Added _resolve_thread_ts()
helper that checks both keys with correct precedence.
2. Bot responses could escape threads for replies.
Root cause: reply_to was set to the child message's ts, but Slack
API needs the parent message's ts for thread_ts. Now metadata
thread_id (always the parent ts) takes priority over reply_to.
3. All Slack DMs shared one session key ('agent:main:slack:dm'),
so a long-running task blocked all other DM conversations.
Fix: DMs with thread_id now get per-thread session keys. Top-level
DMs still share one session for conversation continuity.
Additional fix: All Slack media methods (send_image, send_voice,
send_video, send_document, send_image_file) now accept metadata
parameter for thread routing. Previously they only accepted reply_to,
which caused media to silently fail to post in threads.
Session key behavior after this change:
- Slack channel @mention: creates thread, thread = session
- Slack thread reply: stays in thread, same session
- Slack DM (top-level): one continuous session
- Slack DM (threaded): per-thread session
- Other platforms: unchanged
- 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>
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.
Replaces all ad-hoc print() calls in the Slack gateway adapter with
proper logging.getLogger(__name__) calls, matching the pattern already
used by every other platform adapter (telegram, discord, whatsapp,
signal, homeassistant).
Changes:
- Add import logging + module-level logger
- Use logger.error for failures, logger.warning for non-critical
fallbacks, logger.info for status, logger.debug for routine ops
- Add exc_info=True for full stack traces on all error/warning paths
- Use %s format strings (lazy evaluation) instead of f-strings
- Wrap disconnect() in try/except for safety
- Add structured context (file paths, channel IDs, URLs) to log messages
- Convert document handling prints added after the original PR
Cherry-picked from PR #778 by aydnOktay, rebased onto current main
with conflict resolution and extended to cover document/video methods
added since the PR was created.
Co-authored-by: aydnOktay <xaydinoktay@gmail.com>
The MEDIA routing in _process_message_background passes
metadata=_thread_metadata to send_video, send_document, and
send_image_file — but none accepted it, causing TypeError silently
caught by the except handler. Files just failed to send.
Fix: add **kwargs to all four base class media methods and their
Telegram overrides.
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.
Authored by aydnOktay. Replaces print() statements with structured
logging calls (error/warning/info/debug) throughout the Telegram
adapter. Adds exc_info=True for stack traces on failures.
Authored by aydnOktay. Replaces bare print statements with structured
logger calls (error/warning/info) and adds exc_info=True for stack
traces on failure paths.
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.
Signal's send() used 'text' instead of 'content' and 'reply_to_message_id'
instead of 'reply_to', mismatching BasePlatformAdapter.send(). Callers in
gateway/run.py use keyword args matching the base interface, so Signal's
send() was missing its required 'text' positional arg.
Fixes: 'SignalAdapter.send() missing 1 required positional argument: text'
_keep_typing() was called with metadata= for thread-aware typing
indicators, but neither it nor the base send_typing() accepted
that parameter. Most adapter overrides (Slack, Discord, Telegram,
WhatsApp, HA) already accept metadata=None, but the base class
and Signal adapter did not.
- Add metadata=None to BasePlatformAdapter.send_typing()
- Add metadata=None to BasePlatformAdapter._keep_typing(), pass through
- Add metadata=None to SignalAdapter.send_typing()
Fixes TypeError in _process_message_background for Signal.
The Signal adapter was passing image_paths, audio_path, and document_paths
to MessageEvent.__init__(), but those fields don't exist on the dataclass.
MessageEvent uses media_urls (List[str]) and media_types (List[str]).
Changes:
- Replace separate image_paths/audio_path/document_paths with unified
media_urls and media_types lists (matching Discord, Slack, etc.)
- Add _ext_to_mime() helper to map file extensions to MIME types
- Use Signal's contentType from attachment metadata when available,
falling back to extension-based mapping
- Update message type detection to check media_types prefixes
Fixes TypeError: MessageEvent.__init__() got an unexpected keyword
argument 'image_paths'
Part 2 of thread_id forum topic fix: add metadata param to
send_voice, send_image, send_animation, send_typing in Telegram
adapter and pass message_thread_id to all Bot API calls. Update
send_typing signature in Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, HomeAssistant
for compatibility.
Based on the fix proposed by @Bitstreamono in PR #656.
Replies in Telegram forum topics (supergroups with topics) now land in
the correct topic thread instead of 'General'.
- base.py: build thread_id metadata from event.source, pass to all
send/media calls; add metadata param to send_typing, send_image,
send_animation, send_voice, send_video, send_document, send_image_file,
_keep_typing
- telegram.py: extract thread_id from metadata and pass as
message_thread_id to all Bot API calls (send_photo, send_voice,
send_audio, send_animation, send_chat_action)
- run.py: pass thread_id metadata to progress/streaming send calls
- discord/slack/whatsapp/homeassistant: update send_typing signature
Based on the fix proposed by @Bitstreamono in PR #656.
Implement send_document() and send_video() overrides in TelegramAdapter
so the agent can deliver files (PDFs, CSVs, docs, etc.) and videos as
native Telegram attachments instead of just printing the file path as
text.
The base adapter already routes MEDIA:<path> tags by extension — audio
goes to send_voice(), images to send_image_file(), and everything else
falls through to send_document(). But TelegramAdapter didn't override
send_document() or send_video(), so those fell back to plain text.
Now when the agent includes MEDIA:/path/to/report.pdf in its response,
users get a proper downloadable file attachment in Telegram.
Features:
- send_document: sends files via bot.send_document with display name,
caption (truncated to 1024), and reply_to support
- send_video: sends videos via bot.send_video with inline playback
- Both fall back to base class text if the Telegram API call fails
- 10 new tests covering success, custom filename, file-not-found,
not-connected, caption truncation, API error fallback, and reply_to
Requested by @TigerHixTang on Twitter.
- Register no-op app_mention event handler to suppress Bolt 404 errors.
The 'message' handler already processes @mentions in channels, so
app_mention is acknowledged without duplicate processing.
- Add send_document() for native file attachments (PDFs, CSVs, etc.)
via files_upload_v2, matching the pattern from Telegram PR #779.
- Add send_video() for native video uploads via files_upload_v2.
- Handle incoming document attachments from users: download, cache,
and inject text content for .txt/.md files (capped at 100KB),
following the same pattern as the Telegram adapter.
- Add _download_slack_file_bytes() helper for raw byte downloads.
- Add 24 new tests covering all new functionality.
Fixes the unhandled app_mention events reported in gateway logs.
time.sleep(1) inside async def connect() blocks the entire event
loop for 1 second. Replaced with await asyncio.sleep(1) to yield
control back to the event loop while waiting for the killed port
process to release.
Adds a 'find-nearby' skill for discovering nearby places using
OpenStreetMap (Overpass + Nominatim). No API keys needed. Works with:
- Coordinates (from Telegram location pins)
- Addresses, cities, zip codes, landmarks (auto-geocoded)
- Multiple place types (restaurant, cafe, bar, pharmacy, etc.)
Returns names, distances, cuisine, hours, addresses, and Google Maps
links (pin + directions). 184-line stdlib-only script.
Also adds Telegram location message handling:
- New MessageType.LOCATION in gateway base
- Telegram adapter handles LOCATION and VENUE messages
- Injects lat/lon coordinates into conversation context
- Prompts agent to ask what the user wants nearby
Inspired by PR #422 (reimplemented with simpler script and broader
skill scope — addresses/cities/zips, not just Telegram coordinates).
Add configurable bot message filtering via DISCORD_ALLOW_BOTS env var:
- 'none' (default): Ignore all other bot messages — matches previous
behavior where only our own bot was filtered, but now ALL bots are
filtered by default for cleaner channels
- 'mentions': Accept bot messages only when they @mention our bot —
useful for bot-to-bot workflows triggered by mentions
- 'all': Accept all bot messages — for setups where bots need to
interact freely
Previously, we only ignored our own bot's messages, allowing all other
bots through. This could cause noisy loops in channels with multiple bots.
8 new tests covering all filter modes and edge cases.
Inspired by openclaw v2026.3.7 Discord allowBots: 'mentions' config.
Comprehensive 16-point checklist covering every integration point
needed when adding a new messaging platform to the gateway. Built
from the Signal integration experience where 7 integration points
were initially missed.
Covers: adapter, config enum, factory, auth maps, session source,
prompt hints, toolsets, cron delivery, send_message tool, cronjob
tool schema, channel directory, status display, setup wizard,
redaction, documentation, and tests.
Complete Signal adapter using signal-cli daemon HTTP API.
Based on PR #268 by ibhagwan, rebuilt on current main with bug fixes.
Architecture:
- SSE streaming for inbound messages with exponential backoff (2s→60s)
- JSON-RPC 2.0 for outbound (send, typing, attachments, contacts)
- Health monitor detects stale SSE connections (120s threshold)
- Phone number redaction in all logs and global redact.py
Features:
- DM and group message support with separate access policies
- DM policies: pairing (default), allowlist, open
- Group policies: disabled (default), allowlist, open
- Attachment download with magic-byte type detection
- Typing indicators (8s refresh interval)
- 100MB attachment size limit, 8000 char message limit
- E.164 phone + UUID allowlist support
Integration:
- Platform.SIGNAL enum in gateway/config.py
- Signal in _is_user_authorized() allowlist maps (gateway/run.py)
- Adapter factory in _create_adapter() (gateway/run.py)
- user_id_alt/chat_id_alt fields in SessionSource for UUIDs
- send_message tool support via httpx JSON-RPC (not aiohttp)
- Interactive setup wizard in 'hermes gateway setup'
- Connectivity testing during setup (pings /api/v1/check)
- signal-cli detection and install guidance
Bug fixes from PR #268:
- Timestamp reads from envelope_data (not outer wrapper)
- Uses httpx consistently (not aiohttp in send_message tool)
- SIGNAL_DEBUG scoped to signal logger (not root)
- extract_images regex NOT modified (preserves group numbering)
- pairing.py NOT modified (no cross-platform side effects)
- No dual authorization (adapter defers to run.py for user auth)
- Wildcard uses set membership ('*' in set, not list equality)
- .zip default for PK magic bytes (not .docx)
No new Python dependencies — uses httpx (already core).
External requirement: signal-cli daemon (user-installed).
Tests: 30 new tests covering config, init, helpers, session source,
phone redaction, authorization, and send_message integration.
Co-authored-by: ibhagwan <ibhagwan@users.noreply.github.com>
Telegram: add /insights, /update, /reload_mcp (underscore variant since
Telegram BotCommand names don't allow hyphens).
Discord: add /insights (with days parameter), /reload-mcp.
Also add reload_mcp as an alias for reload-mcp in the gateway command
dispatcher so Telegram's underscore form works, and add resume/provider
to the _known_commands set for hook emission.
Add /title, /resume, /compress, /provider, /usage to Telegram's
set_my_commands so they appear in the / autocomplete menu.
Add /title, /resume, /compress, /provider, /usage, /help as Discord
slash commands so they appear in Discord's native command picker.
These commands were functional via text but not registered with the
platform-native command menus, so users couldn't discover them.
browser_vision now saves screenshots persistently to ~/.hermes/browser_screenshots/
and returns the screenshot_path in its JSON response. The model can include
MEDIA:<path> in its response to share screenshots as native photos.
Changes:
- browser_tool.py: Save screenshots persistently, return screenshot_path,
auto-cleanup files older than 24 hours, mkdir moved inside try/except
- telegram.py: Add send_image_file() — sends local images via bot.send_photo()
- discord.py: Add send_image_file() — sends local images via discord.File
- slack.py: Add send_image_file() — sends local images via files_upload_v2()
(WhatsApp already had send_image_file — no changes needed)
- prompt_builder.py: Updated Telegram hint to list image extensions,
added Discord and Slack MEDIA: platform hints
- browser.md: Document screenshot sharing and 24h cleanup
- send_file_integration_map.md: Updated to reflect send_image_file is now
implemented on Telegram/Discord/Slack
- test_send_image_file.py: 19 tests covering MEDIA: .png extraction,
send_image_file on all platforms, and screenshot cleanup
Partially addresses #466 (Phase 0: platform adapter gaps for send_image_file).
Telegram's send_photo via URL has a ~5MB limit. Upscaled images from
fal.ai's Clarity Upscaler often exceed this, causing 'Wrong type of
web page content' or 'Failed to get http url content' errors.
Fix: Add download-and-upload fallback in Telegram's send_image().
When URL-based send_photo fails, download the image via httpx and
re-upload as bytes (supports up to 10MB file uploads).
Also: convert print() to logger.warning/error in image sending path
for proper log visibility (print goes to socket, invisible in logs).
When MarkdownV2 parsing fails, _strip_mdv2() removes escape backslashes
and bold markers (*text*) but missed italic markers (_text_). Users saw
raw underscores around italic text in the plaintext fallback.
- Add regex to strip _text_ italic markers in _strip_mdv2()
- Use word boundary lookaround to preserve snake_case identifiers
- Add tests for _strip_mdv2 covering italic, bold, snake_case, and edge cases
When Telegram's MarkdownV2 parser rejects a message, the send() fallback
was sending the already-escaped text as plain text. This caused users to
see raw backslashes before every special character (periods, dashes,
parentheses, etc.) — e.g. 'sentence\.' or '\-\-auto\-approve'.
Changes:
- Add _strip_mdv2() to reverse MarkdownV2 escaping for clean plaintext
- Use stripped text in the send() fallback path instead of raw escaped chunk
- Add logging when the MDV2 fallback is triggered for diagnostics
- Add logger to telegram.py (was missing)
The edit_message() fallback already correctly used the original content;
this brings send() in line with that behavior.
Authored by Farukest. Fixes#432. Extracts _kill_port_process() helper
that uses netstat+taskkill on Windows and fuser on Linux. Previously,
fuser calls were inline with bare except-pass, so on Windows orphaned
bridge processes were never cleaned up — causing 'address already in use'
errors on reconnect. Includes 5 tests covering both platforms, port
matching edge cases, and exception suppression.
Authored by satelerd. Adds native WhatsApp media sending for images, videos,
and documents via MEDIA: tags. Also includes conflict resolution with edit_message
feature, Telegram hint fix (only advertise supported media types), and import cleanup.
fuser command does not exist on Windows, causing orphaned bridge processes
to never be cleaned up. On crash recovery, the port stays occupied and the
next connect() fails with address-already-in-use.
Add _kill_port_process() helper that uses netstat+taskkill on Windows and
fuser on Linux/macOS. Replace both call sites in connect() and disconnect().
Building on PR #288's edit_message() abstraction:
- Telegram: edit_message_text() with MarkdownV2 + plain text fallback
- Discord: channel.fetch_message() + msg.edit() with length capping
- Slack: chat_update() via slack_bolt client
Also fixes the fallback regression in send_progress_messages() where
platforms that don't support editing would receive duplicated accumulated
tool lines. Now uses a can_edit flag — after the first failed edit, falls
back to sending individual lines (matching pre-PR behavior).
Instead of sending a separate WhatsApp message for each tool call during
agent execution (N+1 messages), the first tool sends a new message and
subsequent tools edit it to append their line. Result: 1 growing progress
message + 1 final response = 2 messages instead of N+1.
Changes:
- bridge.js: Add POST /edit endpoint using Baileys message editing
- base.py: Add optional edit_message() to BasePlatformAdapter (no-op
default, so platforms without editing support work unchanged)
- whatsapp.py: Implement edit_message() calling bridge /edit
- run.py: Rewrite send_progress_messages() to accumulate tool lines and
edit the progress message. Falls back to sending a new message if
edit fails (graceful degradation).
Before (5 tools = 6 messages):
⚕ Hermes Agent ─── 🔍 web_search... "query"
⚕ Hermes Agent ─── 📄 web_extract... "url"
⚕ Hermes Agent ─── 💻 terminal... "pip install"
⚕ Hermes Agent ─── ✍️ write_file... "app.py"
⚕ Hermes Agent ─── 💻 terminal... "python app.py"
⚕ Hermes Agent ─── Done! The server is running...
After (5 tools = 2 messages):
⚕ Hermes Agent ───
🔍 web_search... "query"
📄 web_extract... "url"
💻 terminal... "pip install"
✍️ write_file... "app.py"
💻 terminal... "python app.py"
⚕ Hermes Agent ─── Done! The server is running...
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a /update command to Telegram, Discord, and other gateway platforms
that runs `hermes update` to pull the latest code, update dependencies,
sync skills, and restart the gateway.
Implementation:
- Spawns `hermes update` in a separate systemd scope (systemd-run --user
--scope) so the process survives the gateway restart that hermes update
triggers at the end. Falls back to nohup if systemd-run is unavailable.
- Writes a marker file (.update_pending.json) with the originating
platform and chat_id before spawning the update.
- On gateway startup, _send_update_notification() checks for the marker,
reads the captured update output, sends the results back to the user,
and cleans up.
Also:
- Registers /update as a Discord slash command
- Updates README.md, docs/messaging.md, docs/slash-commands.md
- Adds 18 tests covering handler, notification, and edge cases
Authored by FarukEst. Fixes#392.
1. Initialize data={} before health-check loop to prevent NameError when
resp.json() raises after http_ready is set to True.
2. Extract _close_bridge_log() helper and call on all return False paths
to prevent file descriptor leaks on failed connection attempts.
Refactors disconnect() to reuse the same helper.
Authored by 0xbyt4.
The italic regex [^*]+ matched across newlines, corrupting bullet lists
using * markers (e.g. '* Item one\n* Item two' became italic garbage).
Fixed by adding \n to the negated character class: [^*\n]+.
Authored by 0xbyt4.
Two fixes:
- extract_images(): only remove extracted image tags, not all markdown image
tags. Previously  was silently dropped when real images
were also present.
- truncate_message(): walk chunk_body not full_chunk when tracking code block
state, so the reopened fence prefix doesn't toggle in_code off and leave
continuation chunks with unclosed code blocks.
The gateway health check broke out of the polling loop as soon as
the bridge HTTP server returned 200, regardless of the actual
WhatsApp connection status. This meant 'Bridge ready (status:
disconnected)' was printed and the gateway moved on, even when
WhatsApp never connected.
Additionally, bridge stdout/stderr were piped to DEVNULL, so if the
session had expired and the bridge needed a QR re-scan, the user had
no way to see that. The 'Scan QR code if prompted (check bridge
output)' message was misleading since there was no output to check.
Changes:
- Health check now has two phases: wait for HTTP (15s), then wait
for status:connected (15s more). Total 30s budget.
- Bridge output routes to ~/.hermes/whatsapp/bridge.log instead of
DEVNULL — QR codes, errors, reconnection msgs are preserved.
- Clear warnings with actionable steps if connection fails after 30s
(check bridge.log, re-pair with hermes whatsapp).
- Removed misleading 'Scan QR code' message.
- Log file handle properly cleaned up on disconnect.
Fixes#365
Improvements to the HA integration merged from PR #184:
- Add ha_list_services tool: discovers available services (actions) per
domain with descriptions and parameter fields. Tells the model what
it can do with each device type (e.g. light.turn_on accepts brightness,
color_name, transition). Closes the gap where the model had to guess
available actions.
- Add HA to hermes tools config: users can enable/disable the homeassistant
toolset and configure HASS_TOKEN + HASS_URL through 'hermes tools' setup
flow instead of manually editing .env.
- Fix should-fix items from code review:
- Remove sys.path.insert hack from gateway adapter
- Replace all print() calls with proper logger (info/warning/error)
- Move env var reads from import-time to handler-time via _get_config()
- Add dedicated REST session reuse in gateway send()
- Update ha_call_service description to reference ha_list_services for
action discovery.
- Update tests for new ha_list_services tool in toolset resolution.
The ImportError fallback set ContextTypes = Any, but then
ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE was used as a type annotation at class
definition time — Any doesn't have .DEFAULT_TYPE, causing AttributeError.
Fix: create a _MockContextTypes class with DEFAULT_TYPE = Any.
Also stub CommandHandler, TelegramMessageHandler, filters, ParseMode,
and ChatType to prevent potential NameErrors.
Fixes#304.
Updated the README and messaging documentation to clarify the two modes for WhatsApp integration: 'bot' mode (recommended) and 'self-chat' mode. Improved setup instructions to guide users through the configuration process, including allowlist management and dependency installation. Adjusted CLI commands to reflect these changes and ensure a smoother user experience. Additionally, modified the WhatsApp bridge to support the new mode functionality.
Add a /send-media endpoint to the WhatsApp bridge and corresponding
adapter methods so the agent can send files as native WhatsApp
attachments instead of plain-text URLs/paths.
- bridge.js: new POST /send-media endpoint using Baileys' native
image/video/document/audio message types with MIME detection
- base.py: add send_video(), send_document(), send_image_file()
with text fallbacks; route MEDIA: tags by file extension instead
of always treating them as voice messages
- whatsapp.py: implement all media methods via a shared
_send_media_to_bridge() helper; override send_image() to download
URLs to local cache and send as native photos
- prompt_builder.py: update WhatsApp and Telegram platform hints so
the agent knows it can use MEDIA:/path tags to send native media
Fixes#163
- Add chat_topic field to SessionSource dataclass
- Update to_dict/from_dict for serialization support
- Add chat_topic parameter to build_source helper
- Extract channel.topic in Discord adapter for messages and slash commands
- Display Channel Topic in system prompt when available
- Normalize empty topics to None
os.setsid, os.killpg, and os.getpgid do not exist on Windows and raise
AttributeError on import or first call. This breaks the terminal tool,
code execution sandbox, process registry, and WhatsApp bridge on Windows.
Added _IS_WINDOWS platform guard in all four affected files, following
the pattern documented in CONTRIBUTING.md. On Windows, preexec_fn is
set to None and process termination falls back to proc.terminate() /
proc.kill() instead of process group signals.
Files changed:
- tools/environments/local.py (3 call sites)
- tools/process_registry.py (2 call sites)
- tools/code_execution_tool.py (3 call sites)
- gateway/platforms/whatsapp.py (3 call sites)
The italic regex \*([^*]+)\* used [^*] which matches newlines, causing
bullet lists with * markers to be incorrectly converted to italic text.
Changed to [^*\n]+ to prevent cross-line matching.
Adds 43 tests for _escape_mdv2 and format_message covering code blocks,
bold/italic, headers, links, mixed formatting, and the regression case.
- extract_images: only remove extracted image tags from content, preserve
non-image markdown links (e.g. PDFs) that were previously silently lost
- truncate_message: walk only chunk_body (not prepended prefix) so the
reopened code fence does not toggle in_code off, leaving continuation
chunks with unclosed code blocks
- Add 49 unit tests covering MessageEvent command parsing, extract_images,
extract_media, truncate_message code block handling, and _get_human_delay
- Auto-authorize HA events in gateway (system-generated, not user messages)
- Guard _read_events against None/closed WebSocket after failed reconnect
- Use UUID for send() message_id instead of polluting WS sequence counter
- entity_id parameter now takes precedence over data["entity_id"]
- Add ha_list_entities, ha_get_state, ha_call_service tools via REST API
- Add WebSocket gateway adapter for real-time state_changed event monitoring
- Support domain/entity filtering, cooldown, and auto-reconnect with backoff
- Use REST API for outbound notifications to avoid WS race condition
- Gate tool availability on HASS_TOKEN env var
- Add 82 unit tests covering real logic (filtering, payload building, event pipeline)
- Sanitize filenames in cache_document_from_bytes to prevent path traversal (strip directory components, null bytes, resolve check)
- Reject documents with None file_size instead of silently allowing download
- Cap text file injection at 100 KB to prevent oversized prompt payloads
- Sanitize display_name in run.py context notes to block prompt injection via filenames
- Add 35 unit tests covering document cache utilities and Telegram document handling
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Download, cache, and enrich document files sent via Telegram. Supports
.pdf, .md, .txt, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx with size validation, unsupported
type rejection, text content injection for .md/.txt, and hourly cache
cleanup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
