PR #29182 deleted the per-session JSON snapshot writer outright because
state.db is canonical and the snapshots had no in-tree consumer. Some
users have external tooling that reads `~/.hermes/sessions/session_{sid}.json`
directly, so reintroduce the writer behind a config flag that defaults
to off.
- Add `sessions.write_json_snapshots` (default False) to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- Restore `AIAgent._save_session_log` + `_clean_session_content` as
gated methods. When the flag is off the call is a fast no-op; when
on, the writer behaves as before (atomic write, truncation guard
preserved, REASONING_SCRATCHPAD → think tag normalization)
- Re-derive the target path from `agent.session_id` on each call so
`/branch` and `/compress` re-points happen automatically — no need
to restore the explicit re-point bookkeeping at call sites
- Wire the single call site in `_persist_session` (the cleanup-on-exit
hook). Did NOT restore the 7 intra-turn calls the original PR deleted
— those were redundant writes within the same turn that doubled disk
I/O without adding any persistence guarantee `_persist_session` does
not already provide
- Read the flag once at agent init via `load_config()`, cache as
`agent._session_json_enabled`
- Update `TestNoSessionJsonSnapshot` → `TestSessionJsonSnapshotOptIn`
to pin behavior: default off (no file), opt-in true (file written),
no-op method on default agents, logs_dir retained unconditionally
- Update CONTRIBUTING.md and the bundled `hermes-agent` skill to
document the flag and its default
Adds a new `migrate` top-level sub-command that delegates to
`migrate xai` for now. xAI handler:
- Default: dry-run. Lists every retired xAI model reference
found in config.yaml, with the recommended replacement and
reasoning_effort hint, and points to the official xAI
migration guide.
- --apply: rewrites config.yaml in-place (via the ruamel
round-trip apply_migration helper from hermes_cli.xai_retirement).
A timestamped backup is created automatically.
- --no-backup: skips the backup when applying (opt-in only —
the safe default keeps a copy).
Together with the doctor + chat-startup warnings already in
this stack, this gives users three escalating signals before
the May 15, 2026 retirement date: green check / warning at
chat startup / actionable migration command.
Extends hermes_cli.xai_retirement with apply_migration(config_path,
issues, backup=True), used by the upcoming `hermes migrate xai`
sub-command.
Uses ruamel.yaml round-trip mode so that comments, key order,
indentation, quoting style, and scalar types are preserved on
rewrite — config.yaml is treated as a user-edited file, not a
data dump.
Behavior:
- Each issue rewrites parent[leaf] to issue.replacement
- When issue.reasoning_effort is set (non-reasoning variants
that map to grok-4.3), a sibling reasoning_effort key is
added/updated alongside the model
- Empty issues list or missing slots are no-ops (no backup,
no rewrite)
- When changes occur, a timestamped backup
(.bak-pre-migrate-xai-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS) is written first
unless backup=False
17 unit tests cover dry-run/no-op, surgical replacement (each
slot), comment + key-order preservation, backup creation, and
idempotence (apply twice → no-op the second time).
Print a non-blocking stderr warning at the top of cmd_chat when the
active config still references xAI models scheduled for retirement
on May 15, 2026. Each line includes the config path, the recommended
replacement, and the reasoning_effort to set for non-reasoning
variants. Points to hermes doctor for full diagnostic.
Wrapped in try/except — never blocks startup. After May 15 the
upstream xAI API will return a clear error anyway; this is purely a
heads-up to give users time to migrate before that happens.
Add a new section in run_doctor that lists retired xAI model
references found in the active config and points the user at the
official xAI migration guide.
Each retired reference shows its config path (principal.model,
auxiliary.<slot>.model, delegation.model, tts.xai.model, or
plugins.image_gen.xai.model), the recommended replacement, and
whether reasoning_effort needs to be set (for non-reasoning variants
that map to grok-4.3 + reasoning_effort=none).
Findings are appended to manual_issues so the final doctor summary
reminds the user to update their config.yaml manually (no automatic
YAML rewriting in this PR — preserves comments, key order, types).
Wrapped in try/except so doctor still completes if load_config or
the retirement module raise unexpectedly.
Add hermes_cli.xai_retirement module that walks a Hermes config and
flags references to models being retired by xAI on May 15, 2026 per
the official migration guide.
Pure logic + dataclass, no I/O — testable in isolation and reusable
from a future hermes migrate xai sub-command.
Mappings (per https://docs.x.ai/developers/migration/may-15-retirement):
- grok-4 / grok-4-0709 -> grok-4.3
- grok-4-fast{,-reasoning,-non-reasoning} -> grok-4.3 (+reasoning_effort=none for non-reasoning)
- grok-4-1-fast{,-reasoning,-non-reasoning} -> grok-4.3 (+reasoning_effort=none for non-reasoning)
- grok-code-fast-1 -> grok-4.3
- grok-imagine-image-pro -> grok-imagine-image-quality
Slots scanned: principal.model, auxiliary.<any>.model (introspective),
delegation.model, tts.xai.model, plugins.image_gen.xai.model. Provider
prefix x-ai/ is normalized.
33 unit tests covering edge cases (empty/non-dict config, valid models,
ambiguous variants, all retired slots, formatter).
Add browser CDP launch candidates for Chrome, Chromium, Brave, and Edge while preserving Chrome-first selection. Retry candidate launch failures instead of giving up after the first executable.
Update /browser CLI and TUI messaging, docs, and tool descriptions from Chrome-only wording to Chromium-family browser support. Add regression coverage for Brave/Edge paths, Chrome-first precedence, fallback launches, and CDP endpoint probing.
When a worker calls ``kanban_block(reason="review-required: ...")`` to
hand a task off for human review, the dispatcher's ``recompute_ready``
was treating the resulting ``blocked`` status as eligible for
auto-promotion — exactly the same as a circuit-breaker block. On the
next tick the task flipped back to ``ready``, a fresh worker spawned,
found nothing to do (work already applied, review-required comment
already posted), exited cleanly, got recorded as ``protocol_violation``
→ ``gave_up`` → ``blocked``, and the dispatcher promoted again.
Infinite loop until manual ``hermes kanban reclaim`` + ``kanban block``.
Add ``_has_sticky_block`` which distinguishes the two block sources
using the cheapest available signal: the most recent
``"blocked"``/``"unblocked"`` event in ``task_events``.
* Worker / operator ``kanban_block`` emits ``"blocked"`` →
``_has_sticky_block`` returns True → ``recompute_ready`` skips the
task entirely. ``unblock_task`` emits ``"unblocked"`` which flips
the predicate back, so the only legitimate exit is the documented
human-in-the-loop path.
* Circuit-breaker ``_record_task_failure`` emits ``"gave_up"`` (not
``"blocked"``) → predicate stays False → original
parent-completion-recovery semantics from #40c1decb3 are preserved.
* Tasks blocked purely by direct DB manipulation also recover, since
they have no ``"blocked"`` event row at all — matches the existing
``test_recompute_ready_promotes_blocked_with_done_parents`` fixture
behaviour.
XAI_BASE_URL / HERMES_XAI_BASE_URL let users repoint the OAuth-authenticated
inference endpoint, but the env override was an unguarded credential-leak
vector: a tampered .env or hostile shell init setting
XAI_BASE_URL=https://attacker.example/v1 would silently ship the SuperGrok
OAuth bearer to a third party on every request.
Add _xai_validate_inference_base_url() that pins the host to x.ai or a
*.x.ai subdomain and rejects non-HTTPS. On rejection, fall back to the
default with a warning rather than raise — a bad env var should not
deadlock auth, but should never leak the bearer either.
Apply at all three sites that read the env override for xai-oauth:
- hermes_cli/auth.py resolve_xai_oauth_runtime_credentials (main path)
- hermes_cli/auth.py _xai_oauth_loopback_login (initial login)
- agent/auxiliary_client.py _resolve_xai_oauth_for_aux (aux client)
E2E validated against four scenarios: attacker.example, lookalike
api.x.ai.evil.com, http:// downgrade on api.x.ai, and legit custom.x.ai
subdomain (which still resolves correctly).
Discovered while comparing against the opencode-grok-auth plugin
(github.com/ysnock404/opencode-grok-auth), which highlighted the same
guard on the OpenCode side.
* perf(config): add load_config_readonly() fast path for hot agent loop
`load_config()` is called from the agent loop's per-API-call hot path via
`get_provider_request_timeout()` and `get_provider_stale_timeout()` —
both invoked once per turn from `_resolved_api_call_timeout()` in
run_agent.py.
Profiling a synthetic 20-tool-call agent run revealed:
- 21 invocations of `load_config()` cumulating 56ms (~17% of agent loop)
- 34,398 deepcopy calls totaling 37ms (config defensive deepcopy + chain)
- 8,652 `_expand_env_vars` invocations (~412 per turn)
Microbench (cache-hit, real config.yaml present):
load_config() 265us/call (125us deepcopy + 140us infra)
load_config_readonly() 138us/call (~48% faster)
`load_config_readonly()` returns the cached dict directly without the
defensive deepcopy. Documented contract: caller must not mutate. Returns
plain dict (not MappingProxyType) so downstream `isinstance(x, dict)`
guards keep working — caught during initial implementation when
MappingProxyType broke get_provider_request_timeout's guard logic.
Wired into hermes_cli/timeouts.py (the two functions called per agent
turn). load_config() is unchanged for the 263 other call sites that
mutate the result before save_config(), are not in the hot path, or
where the safety guarantee matters more than the perf.
Profile A/B (cached config, 21-turn agent loop):
BEFORE AFTER delta
get_provider_request_timeout 55ms 16ms -71%
total function calls 399k 160k -60%
deepcopy calls (in hotspots) 34,398 ~0 ~elim
Verified:
- isinstance(load_config_readonly(), dict) is True
- timeout/stale resolutions correct
- load_config() still returns isolated mutable deepcopies
- tests/hermes_cli/test_config*.py / test_timeouts.py: 102/102 pass
- tests/cli/ + tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py: 883/883 pass
* perf(redact): substring pre-screens skip non-matching regex chains
Every log record passes through `RedactingFormatter.format` which calls
`redact_sensitive_text`, which historically ran ALL 13 secret-pattern
regexes against every line — including DB connection strings, JWTs,
Discord mentions, Signal phone numbers, etc. — even for typical clean
log records like 'INFO run_agent: API call completed'.
Add cheap substring pre-checks before each regex pass. False positives
still run the regex (which then matches nothing); false negatives are
impossible because every pattern requires the gated substring to match
its leading anchor:
- `_PREFIX_RE` gated on any of 33 known credential prefix substrings
- `_ENV_ASSIGN_RE` gated on `=` in text
- `_JSON_FIELD_RE` gated on `:` and `"` in text
- `_AUTH_HEADER_RE` gated on `uthorization`/`UTHORIZATION` in text
- `_TELEGRAM_RE` gated on `:` in text
- `_PRIVATE_KEY_RE` gated on `BEGIN` and `-----`
- `_DB_CONNSTR_RE` gated on `://` in text
- `_JWT_RE` gated on `eyJ` in text
- URL userinfo/query gated on `://`
- `_redact_form_body` gated on `&` and `=`
- `_DISCORD_MENTION_RE` gated on `<@`
- `_SIGNAL_PHONE_RE` gated on `+`
Microbench (5 typical log records, 20k iterations each):
BEFORE AFTER delta
redact_sensitive_text per call 5.63us 1.79us -68%
Real-world impact: ~244 log records emitted in a 30-turn agent loop, so
the chain saves ~1ms of CPU per conversation. Bigger win is the
reduction in regex execution and GC pressure during heavy logging
sessions (verbose logging, gateway message processing).
Security regression test: 30 secret-containing inputs (sk-/ghp_/JWT/DB
connstr/Auth-Bearer/private key/URL userinfo/Discord/Signal/etc.)
verified to produce identical redacted output before/after. All 75
existing tests/agent/test_redact.py cases pass.
The `?access_token=foo&code=bar` (bare query string, no scheme) case
that 'leaks' is pre-existing behavior — the URL query redaction
requires a well-formed URL with scheme+host. Not a regression.
* perf(run_agent): cache _needs_thinking_reasoning_pad result per (provider, model, base_url)
Profile of a 31-turn synthetic agent run shows `_needs_thinking_reasoning_pad`
fires 495 times (~16 per turn) and each call ran 3 helper methods, each
hitting `base_url_host_matches` 1-4 times via `urlparse`. Total cost:
3,342 base_url_host_matches calls + 3,373 urlparse calls accounting for
~36ms of agent-loop overhead (~7% of the entire post-network work).
Provider / model / base_url don't change during a conversation except via
`switch_model` and fallback activation — both of which already overwrite
those attributes atomically. Cache the result on a tuple key; since the
key is derived from the very fields that would change, the cache
auto-invalidates on the next read after a switch. No manual invalidation
needed in switch_model / _try_activate_fallback.
Profile A/B (31-turn cached-config agent run):
BEFORE AFTER delta
_needs_thinking_reasoning_pad cum 18ms 1ms -94%
_copy_reasoning_content_for_api cum 17ms 1ms -94%
base_url_host_matches calls 3,342 372 -89%
urlparse calls 3,373 403 -88%
total function calls 296k 223k -25%
Verified:
- tests/run_agent/test_deepseek_reasoning_content_echo.py: 36/36 pass
- tests/run_agent/ (full): 1383/1383 pass + 3 skipped
When config.yaml has provider: ollama (or vllm/llamacpp/llama-cpp) with a
non-loopback base_url, auth.py's resolve_provider() correctly normalises
the alias to 'custom' at the top level, but two sites in runtime_provider.py
were still comparing the *original* string against the literal 'custom':
- _config_base_url_trustworthy_for_bare_custom() rejected non-loopback
URLs because cfg_provider_norm was 'ollama', not 'custom'.
- _resolve_openrouter_runtime() only entered the trust branch when
requested_norm == 'custom'.
Both sites now consult resolve_provider() and treat any alias that
resolves to 'custom' identically. Result: provider: ollama + LAN IP no
longer silently falls through to OpenRouter (HTTP 401), matching the
behaviour of provider: custom with the same base_url.
E2E verified across 6 cases (ollama/vllm/llamacpp/custom + LAN; ollama +
loopback; openrouter + cloud) — all route to the configured endpoint;
'frobnicate' + LAN still rejects with AuthError as before.
Also adds scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP entry for @stepanov1975
(PR #22074 — wizard config picker preservation, cherry-picked into the
preceding commit).
Resync the setup wizard's in-memory config after the shared model picker writes to disk so the wizard's final save does not overwrite auxiliary choices or other provider updates.\n\nAdds a regression test for auxiliary task choices saved by the picker.
- Add 'browse-sh' to _PER_SOURCE_LIMIT in both do_browse() and
browse_skills() with limit=500 (covers full 171-skill catalog)
- Add 'browse-sh' to --source argparse choices for both
'hermes skills browse' and 'hermes skills search'
Without these, browse-sh fell back to the default cap of 50 results
and was not filterable via --source.
Preserve Windows profile install decisions across UAC handoff, avoid visible console windows by launching via pythonw, make repeated install/start idempotent, recreate stale Scheduled Tasks, and separate start-now from login auto-start behavior. Add Windows gateway regression coverage and systemd setup tests for the shared install flow.
* fix(update): detect concurrent hermes.exe on Windows; retry + restart-defer quarantine
Closes#26670.
When 'hermes update' runs on Windows with another hermes.exe alive (most
commonly the Hermes Desktop Electron app's spawned backend) _quarantine_running_hermes_exe()
fails to rename the venv shim with [WinError 32]. uv pip install -e .
then exits 2, the git-pull fast path is silently abandoned, and the ZIP
fallback runs (and fails the same way) before eventually succeeding.
This change implements three of the five proposed fixes from the issue:
1. Concurrent-instance detection (preferred fix). _detect_concurrent_hermes_instances()
uses psutil to enumerate processes whose .exe is one of our venv shims
(hermes.exe / hermes-gateway.exe), excluding the caller's PID. When any
match exists, cmd_update prints an actionable message naming the
blocking PIDs and exits 2 BEFORE any destructive work. New --force flag
bypasses the gate.
2. Retry + restart-deferred fallback. _quarantine_running_hermes_exe()
now retries the rename up to 4 times with 100/250/500/1000 ms backoff
(covers the transient AV-scanner-handle case). If all retries fail,
it schedules the replacement via MoveFileExW with the OS deferred-rename
flag so the new shim can land at the original path and the update
completes; the old image is fully unloaded after the user's next
system restart.
3. Actionable warning text. The old 'Could not quarantine: [WinError 32]'
warning is replaced with one that names the likely culprits (Hermes
Desktop, REPLs, gateway, AV) and points to the new --force flag.
Tests:
- 13 new tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_update_concurrent_quarantine.py
covering: psutil-based enumeration, self-pid exclusion, case-insensitive
matching of .EXE, no-psutil graceful degradation, off-Windows no-op,
helpful warning formatting, retry-then-succeed, restart-deferred fallback,
cmd_update abort + exit code 2, and --force bypass.
- New autouse fixture in tests/hermes_cli/conftest.py defaults
_detect_concurrent_hermes_instances to [] so the rest of the suite
isn't tripped by the developer's own running hermes.exe. Opt-out marker
'real_concurrent_gate' registered in pyproject.toml.
- Updating docs page (website/docs/getting-started/updating.md) gains a
short section explaining the new Windows error and remediation.
* chore: refresh uv.lock to match pyproject.toml exact pins
aiohttp 3.13.4 -> 3.13.3 (matches pyproject pin: aiohttp==3.13.3)
anthropic 0.87.0 -> 0.86.0 (matches pyproject pin: anthropic==0.86.0)
hermes-agent 0.13.0 -> 0.14.0 (matches pyproject version)
CI's uv lock --check was failing on the merged state because main
drifted: pyproject.toml uses exact == pins for those two deps and the
hermes-agent version was bumped to 0.14.0 but the lockfile still had
0.13.0.
Extends the previous commit to cover the remaining additive-column index
that sits on the same migration trap:
- ``task_events.run_id`` -> ``idx_events_run`` was still in SCHEMA_SQL.
A legacy ``task_events`` table predating #17805 (no ``run_id``) would
still abort ``executescript`` before ``_migrate_add_optional_columns``
could add the column. Hoisted out of SCHEMA_SQL and made unconditional
in the migration alongside the other three indexes.
- Removed the now-redundant ``CREATE INDEX idx_tasks_idempotency`` that
was nested inside the ``if "idempotency_key" not in cols`` branch.
The unconditional create lower in the function makes it idempotent
on both fresh and legacy DBs.
- Strengthened the regression test to cover all four indexes
(``idx_tasks_session_id``, ``idx_tasks_tenant``, ``idx_tasks_idempotency``,
``idx_events_run``) and to seed a pre-#17805 ``task_events`` shape that
exercises the ``run_id`` migration path.
The result: every ``CREATE INDEX`` that depends on an additive column now
runs after the migration ensures the column exists. Verified against a
realistic pre-#16081 board fixture (tasks + task_events both legacy
shape) — origin/main reproduces ``no such column: session_id``; this
branch migrates cleanly and creates all four indexes.
Follow-up to #28455. The respawn guard's blocker_auth rule (last error
matched a quota/auth/429 pattern) was auto-blocking the task on first
occurrence. That's too aggressive: transient rate limits typically
clear in seconds to minutes, but the auto-block puts the task in
'blocked' status which requires manual unblock.
Now treats blocker_auth the same as recent_success and active_pr:
defer the spawn this tick, leave the task in 'ready', let the next
tick try again. If the auth error genuinely persists, the existing
consecutive_failures counter trips the auto-block circuit breaker
after failure_limit failures via the normal path — so a persistent
401/403/quota-exhausted still ends up blocked, just not on first hit.
Also documents the respawn_guarded event in kanban.md's events table
with the three guard reasons.
Updated test_dispatch_respawn_guard_auto_blocks_auth_error → renamed
to test_dispatch_respawn_guard_defers_auth_error_without_auto_block;
asserts task stays in 'ready' and the guard reason is recorded.
Follow-up to #28452. detect_stale_running() was calling
_record_task_failure() on every reclaim, which ticked the
consecutive_failures counter. With the default failure_limit=2,
two legitimately long-running tasks (>4 h without explicit
heartbeat) would auto-block via the spawn-failure circuit
breaker — even though no worker actually failed.
Stale reclaim is dispatcher-side absence-of-heartbeat detection,
not a worker fault. Removed the _record_task_failure() call;
the 'stale' event in task_events is still the audit surface,
but the failure counter is now reserved for spawn_failed /
timed_out / crashed (real failures).
Also documents the heartbeat requirement:
- KANBAN_GUIDANCE in agent/prompt_builder.py now states the
rule ('call kanban_heartbeat at least once an hour for tasks
running longer than 1 hour') so workers learn the contract.
- kanban.md adds the stale event row to the events table and
flags the heartbeat requirement in the worker lifecycle list.
New regression test: test_detect_stale_does_not_tick_failure_counter
locks in the new behaviour.
Catch the PR #28452 failure mode (orphan merge-conflict markers in
hermes_cli/config.py) on the user side: after git pull succeeds, compile
the files every 'hermes' invocation imports at startup. If any has a
syntax error, git reset --hard back to the pre-pull SHA so the install
stays bootable. User can retry once a fix lands upstream.
- New _capture_head_sha() + _validate_critical_files_syntax() helpers
- Wires both into _cmd_update_impl after the pull/reset succeeds
- Tests cover the helpers, the rollback flow, and a production-tree
invariant (CI fails if main itself has a syntax error in a critical
file — catches future broken commits before users hit them)
`hermes doctor` printed 'codex CLI not installed (optional — ...)' as a
generic info line at the bottom of the auth section, several rows below
'OpenAI Codex auth (not logged in)' and after MiniMax/Gemini auth checks.
Users reading sequentially mistook it for MiniMax-related advice.
Move the hint up under the Codex auth warning so it's adjacent to the
row it actually pertains to. Behavior unchanged when the codex CLI is
installed (success path keeps its 'codex CLI ✓' row at the bottom).
Tests cover both placement and suppression cases.
Salvage of @xxxigm's 3-commit stack (#27986).
Closes#27975.
1. trajectory_compressor.py: yaml.safe_load() returns None on empty
files, crashing with TypeError on `if 'tokenizer' in data`. Fix by
adding `or {}` fallback. (HIGH — blocks startup with empty config)
2. 6 files with fcntl.flock(LOCK_UN) in finally blocks without
try/except: cron/scheduler.py, hermes_cli/auth.py,
agent/shell_hooks.py, tools/skill_usage.py,
tools/environments/file_sync.py, tools/memory_tool.py. If unlock
raises OSError, fd.close() is skipped and the lock is held forever.
The msvcrt branches already had try/except; the fcntl branches did
not. Fix by wrapping in try/except (OSError, IOError): pass.
3. agent/copilot_acp_client.py line 639: TOCTOU race — path.exists()
followed by path.read_text() with no try/except. If file is deleted
between the check and the read, FileNotFoundError propagates. Fix
by using try/except FileNotFoundError.
4. gateway/sticker_cache.py: non-atomic write via Path.write_text()
can leave truncated JSON on crash, causing JSONDecodeError on next
load. Fix by writing to tempfile + fsync + os.replace (atomic).
HERMES_TUI_RESUME is an internal env var the Python wrapper exports to hand
a session ID off to the Ink TUI. Because _launch_tui started from
os.environ.copy(), any exported/stale value in the user's shell leaked
through — so plain `hermes --tui` would try to resume a missing session
and leave the UI at 'error: session not found' with no live session.
Drop HERMES_TUI_RESUME from the env before conditionally re-setting it
from the argparse-resolved resume_session_id. Tests cover both the drop
path and the set-from-arg path.
Salvage of #28080 by @noctilust.
Salvages #28125 by @Jpalmer95. Adds:
- Drag-to-delete trash zone in the kanban dashboard
- Bulk delete endpoint with cascading delete_task cleanup
- Frontend updates (drag visual + drop handler)
- Confirmation prompt before delete
Resolved end-of-file test conflict by appending both halves.
Salvages #24533 by @roycepersonalassistant. Adds a first-class
'scheduled' Kanban status for time-delay follow-ups that aren't
waiting on human input.
- hermes kanban schedule <task_id> [reason] CLI command
- Dashboard/API transitions to/from Scheduled
- unblock_task() now releases both 'blocked' AND 'scheduled' tasks
(re-checking parent dependencies before moving to ready/todo)
- i18n + docs updates
Resolved conflicts: kept HEAD's failure-counter reset on unblock
alongside the PR's scheduled state, kept HEAD's 'running' direct-set
rejection, combined both bulk-status branches. Dropped the dist/
bundle changes (months-stale; would need rebuild from source).
Skill bundles are tiny YAML files in ~/.hermes/skill-bundles/ that
group several skills under one slash command. Invoking /<bundle-name>
from any surface (CLI, TUI, dashboard, any gateway platform) loads
every referenced skill into a single combined user message.
Use cases:
- /backend-dev → loads github-code-review + test-driven-development
+ github-pr-workflow as one bundle.
- /research → loads several research skills together.
- Team task profiles shared via dotfiles.
Behavior:
- Bundles take precedence over individual skills when slugs collide.
- Missing skills are skipped with a note, not fatal.
- No system-prompt mutation — bundles generate a fresh user message
at invocation time, the same way /<skill> does. Prompt cache stays
intact.
- Works in CLI dispatch, gateway dispatch, autocomplete (CLI + TUI),
/help display.
Schema (~/.hermes/skill-bundles/<slug>.yaml):
name: backend-dev
description: Backend feature work.
skills:
- github-code-review
- test-driven-development
instruction: |
Optional extra guidance prepended to the loaded skills.
New module: agent/skill_bundles.py — load, scan, resolve, build
invocation message, save, delete. yaml.safe_load only; broken
bundles log a warning and are skipped, never raise.
New CLI subcommand: hermes bundles {list,show,create,delete,reload}.
Implementation in hermes_cli/bundles.py; wired in hermes_cli/main.py.
'bundles' added to _BUILTIN_SUBCOMMANDS so plugin discovery skips it.
New in-session slash command: /bundles lists installed bundles in
both CLI and gateway. /<bundle-name> dispatch added to CLI (cli.py)
and gateway (gateway/run.py) before the existing /<skill-name> path.
Autocomplete: SlashCommandCompleter gained an optional
skill_bundles_provider parameter that defaults to None — the prompt
shows '▣ <description> (N skills)' for bundles vs '⚡' for skills.
Tests:
- tests/agent/test_skill_bundles.py — 33 tests covering slugify,
scan/cache freshness, resolve (including underscore→hyphen
Telegram alias), build_bundle_invocation_message (loading, missing
skills, user/bundle instruction injection, dedup), save/delete,
reload diff, list sort.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_bundles.py — 8 tests for the CLI
subcommand (create/list/show/delete/reload, --force, missing
bundle errors).
- tests/gateway/test_bundles_command.py — 4 tests for the gateway
handler and bundle resolution priority.
Live E2E: verified subprocess invocations of hermes bundles
{list,create,show,reload,delete} round-trip correctly against an
isolated HERMES_HOME.
Docs:
- website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md — new 'Skill Bundles'
section with quick example, YAML schema, management commands,
behavior notes.
- website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md — 'hermes bundles' added to
the top-level command table and given its own subcommand section.
Salvages #26496 by @aqilaziz. Adds branch_name column + CLI flag so
tasks with workspace_kind='worktree' can pin a target branch on
create. Schema migration added to _migrate_add_optional_columns.
- Task.branch_name field + DB column + migration
- create_task accepts branch_name kwarg
- hermes kanban create --branch <name> flag
- kanban show output includes 'Branch: <name>' when set
Cherry-picked the substantive commit (a7558cf27); the PR's tip was
an unrelated service-path-dirs commit. Resolved 2 INSERT-column-list
and show-output conflicts alongside main's session_id and
max_runtime_seconds additions; kept all three.
PR #28454 (salvage of #26745, workflow filter) merged with leftover
git conflict markers in hermes_cli/kanban.py at three sites:
- _task_to_dict() (session_id alongside workflow_template_id/current_step_key)
- p_list parser (--sort alongside --workflow-template-id/--step-key)
- _cmd_list (order_by alongside the new filter kwargs)
Cleans up the markers and keeps both halves at each site.
Resolves a self-introduced regression.
PR #28452 (salvage of #23790, stale detection) merged with leftover
git conflict markers in hermes_cli/config.py around the
`dispatch_stale_timeout_seconds` config block, breaking config import
and any code path that loads it. Cleans up the markers and keeps both
config blocks (worker log rotation/orchestrator + stale detection).
Resolves a self-introduced regression.
Salvages #27568 by @SerenityTn. Dashboard cron page now lists cron
jobs from all profiles, with profile-aware filter UI and storage
routing. Includes test coverage for cross-profile listing, mutation,
deletion, and validation.
Also fixes orphan conflict markers in config.py left by an earlier
salvage merge (kanban.dispatch_stale_timeout_seconds was double-nested
in HEAD/PR markers from #28452 salvage of #23790).
Salvages #27484 by @fardoche6. Adds a respawn guard that skips worker
spawn for tasks where:
- a recent run already succeeded (recent_success — within guard window)
- the previous run hit a quota/auth error (blocker_auth, also auto-blocks)
- a recent task comment includes a GitHub PR URL (active_pr)
The guard prevents repeat worker storms on the same bug/task. Includes
the contributor's review-findings fixup (regex hardening, observability,
auth coverage).
Resolved a small DispatchResult conflict alongside main's 'stale' field;
kept both. Authorship preserved via rebase merge.
Salvages #26745 by @nehaaprasaad. Exposes filtering for the existing
workflow_template_id and current_step_key columns:
- list_tasks() accepts workflow_template_id and current_step_key kwargs
- 'hermes kanban list' adds matching CLI flags
- dashboard plugin_api also exposes the filters
Resolved a small conflict in list_tasks signature alongside main's
session_id and order_by additions; combined all three into the single
filter list.
Salvages #23790 by @thewillhuang. Adds detect_stale_running() to
the dispatcher cycle. Running tasks that have been started for longer
than dispatch_stale_timeout_seconds (default 14400 = 4h) without a
heartbeat in the last hour are auto-reclaimed to ready.
- New config kanban.dispatch_stale_timeout_seconds (default 14400, 0 disables)
- New 'stale' field on DispatchResult
- detect_stale_running() in kanban_db.py with heartbeat freshness check
- Records outcome='stale' on run close + 'stale' event; ticks failure counter
- Wires config through gateway embedded dispatcher
- Updates _cmd_dispatch verbose/JSON output and daemon logging
Resolved test-file end-of-file conflict by appending both halves.
Salvages #23772 by @thewillhuang. Adds 'review' as a valid kanban task
status and extends dispatch_once to monitor the review column as a
second dispatch source (in addition to the existing ready column).
- Adds 'review' to VALID_STATUSES
- Adds claim_review_task() — atomically transitions review → running
- Adds has_spawnable_review() — health telemetry mirror
- Extends dispatch_once with a review column dispatch loop
- Review agents get 'sdlc-review' skill auto-loaded
Resolved 2 conflicts (VALID_STATUSES merge with main's 'scheduled' state,
test file additions). Adapted claim_review_task to main's
ttl_seconds: Optional[int] = None convention (matches claim_task).
Salvages #23208 by @awizemann. Tracks which chat session created a
kanban task so clients can render a per-session board without falling
back to tenant + time-window heuristics.
- Schema: tasks gains nullable session_id TEXT column with index
(additive migration in _migrate_add_optional_columns).
- ACP: server.py exposes the originating session id via HERMES_SESSION_ID
with save/restore around the agent loop.
- Tool: kanban_create reads HERMES_SESSION_ID (with explicit override).
- CLI: 'hermes kanban list --session <id>' filter; JSON output exposes
session_id.
Salvages #26791 by @Niraven. Adds 'hermes kanban swarm' to create a
durable Kanban Swarm v1 graph: a completed root/blackboard card,
parallel worker cards, a verifier gated on all workers, and a
synthesizer gated on the verifier. Stores shared swarm blackboard
updates as structured JSON comments on the root card.
Self-contained: new hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py module + CLI wiring +
unit tests.
Salvages #26897 by @loicnico96. The per-task model_override DB column
already exists on main, but it wasn't exposed in user-facing surfaces.
This adds:
- 'kanban show' prints 'model: <name>' when model_override is set
- kanban_show / kanban_list tool responses include the model_override field
Original branch was stale (PR was authored against an older field name
'model'); applied the substantive surface exposure manually using the
current 'model_override' field name.
Salvages #25745 by @LizerAIDev. Adds --sort {created,created-desc,
priority,priority-desc,status,assignee,title,updated} to 'hermes kanban
list'. Validated against VALID_SORT_ORDERS map; invalid values raise
ValueError. Default behaviour (priority DESC, created ASC) is unchanged
when --sort is omitted.
Salvages #23302 by @Bartok9. Four independent one-area fixes:
1. kanban boards delete alias now hard-deletes (not archives) — the
alias didn't carry --delete, so getattr(args, 'delete', False)
returned False. Detect boards_action=='delete' explicitly.
2. Gateway auto-title failures no longer leak as user-visible
warnings — debug-log only since they're not actionable.
3. Background process completion notification snaps truncation to
the next newline boundary, prepends a marker when content is
dropped.
4. _cprint() schedules the run_in_terminal coroutine via
asyncio.ensure_future so output isn't silently dropped from
background threads (fixes#23185 Bug A). Skips the
double-print fallback that would fire for mock paths.
Salvages #22981 by @SimbaKingjoe. Adds 'kanban.max_in_progress' config
that caps simultaneously running tasks. When the board already has N
running, dispatcher skips spawning so slow workers (local LLMs,
resource-constrained hosts) don't pile up and time out.
Threads through dispatch_once(max_in_progress=) and gateway dispatcher
config parsing with validation (warns on invalid/below-1 values).
Salvages #26431 by @LeonSGP43. Dashboard plugin_api list_diagnostics
was using exact-match (severity == filter), so '--severity warning'
hid 'error' and 'critical' diagnostics. Adds severity_at_or_above()
helper to kanban_diagnostics and uses it in the dashboard endpoint
(CLI already used SEVERITY_ORDER comparison correctly).
Salvages #27369 by @LeonJS. complete_task() now calls _cleanup_workspace()
and _cleanup_worker_tmux() after marking a task complete.
Scratch workspaces (used by swarm agents) accumulate on disk — hundreds
of MB per task, never released. Stale tmux sessions from completed
agents also persist indefinitely.
Both gates are safe:
- workspace_kind == 'scratch' gate preserves user worktree/dir workspaces
- tmux #{pane_dead} == 1 gate only kills sessions where the worker has
already exited
- best-effort: cleanup failures never block task completion
Salvages #27526 by @shunsuke-hikiyama. Adds an --initial-status flag
(running|blocked, default running) to 'kanban create', threaded through
kanban_db.create_task() and the kanban_create tool schema. 'blocked'
parks the task directly in the blocked column for R3 human-ops review,
skipping the brief running-to-blocked transition.
Dropped the unrelated 'add' alias, WIFEXITED Windows compat, and
slash-handler error formatting changes that were bundled in the
original PR — those should ship as their own focused changes if still
wanted.
Salvages #23368 by @uzunkuyruk. Oneshot workers (e.g. kanban workers
spawned via 'hermes -p <profile> chat -q ...') were not honouring the
profile's fallback_providers / fallback_model chain because oneshot.py
never read the config and never passed fallback_model= to AIAgent.
Reads cfg.get('fallback_providers') (new list format) or
cfg.get('fallback_model') (legacy single-dict) with the same
normalization cli.py applies, then forwards as fallback_model=_fb.
Salvages #27372 by @oemtalks. The dispatcher unconditionally injected
`--skills kanban-worker` into every worker spawn, but worker profiles
sometimes don't have that bundled skill in their skills dir, which is
fatal at CLI startup (`ValueError: Unknown skill(s): kanban-worker`).
Adds `_kanban_worker_skill_available(hermes_home)` and only injects the
flag when the skill resolves. The MANDATORY lifecycle still ships via
KANBAN_GUIDANCE in the system prompt, so omitting the flag is safe.
Salvages #28301 by @Ade5954. If WAL setup, PRAGMA application, or schema
init raises after sqlite3.connect() succeeds, the new connection was
leaking. Wrap the body in try/except so the connection is closed before
the exception propagates.
Prevents ValueError crash in dashboard get_board() when a task has
an ISO timestamp (e.g. "2026-05-10T15:00:00Z") instead of a unix epoch
int. Adds _to_epoch() helper that normalises both formats.
When a systemic failure (provider outage, auth expiry, OOM) crashes
multiple workers simultaneously, detect_crashed_workers increments
each task failure counter independently. The circuit breaker only
trips after N × failure_limit retries across the fleet.
Fingerprint crash errors by normalizing host-specific details (PIDs,
timestamps). When 3+ tasks crash with the same fingerprint in a
single detection cycle, immediately trip the circuit breaker
(failure_limit=1) instead of waiting for repeated failures.
Isolated crashes (unique fingerprints) retain their normal retry
budget. Protocol violations continue to trip immediately.
Includes regression tests for systemic and isolated crash paths.
When a task is manually unblocked (blocked → ready/todo), the
consecutive_failures counter and last_failure_error were left intact.
The next failure would immediately re-trip the circuit breaker because
the counter was still at or above the failure limit.
Reset both fields on unblock so the task gets a fresh retry budget.
Includes a regression test that verifies counters are zeroed.
max_runtime_seconds=0 was being silently coerced to None due to a falsy
check (if max_runtime_seconds). Zero is a valid value that causes the
dispatcher to immediately time out a task. The adjacent max_retries
parameter already used the correct 'is not None' pattern.
Fixes the inconsistency by aligning max_runtime_seconds with max_retries.
recompute_ready only scanned 'todo' tasks for promotion, ignoring
'blocked' tasks entirely. When a task was blocked (e.g. by the circuit
breaker) and its parent dependencies later completed, the task stayed
stuck in 'blocked' forever unless manually unblocked.
Now recompute_ready also scans 'blocked' tasks. When all parents are
done/archived, the blocked task is promoted to 'ready' with failure
counters reset — equivalent to an automatic unblock.
Includes a regression test for the blocked-parent-done promotion path.
Archiving or deleting a board via remove_board() leaves the path's
"schema already initialized" entry in the module-level cache. A
concurrent connect(board=<slug>) call (e.g. the dashboard event-stream
poll loop) then:
1. resolves the same kanban.db path,
2. recreates the directory + an empty sqlite file because
connect() does mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True),
3. skips the CREATE TABLE pass because the cache entry says the
schema is already in place,
4. errors on the next read with `no such table: task_events`.
Drop the cache entry before mutating the filesystem so the fresh file
gets a proper schema init on next connect(). Applies to both
archive=True (rename) and archive=False (rmtree) branches.
Fixes#23833.
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- Add model_override field to Task class and tasks schema
- Add migration for existing databases
- Spawn worker with -m model when model_override is set
Register the new ``--manual-paste`` flag on both entry points and
thread it through to the xAI loopback login:
* ``hermes auth add xai-oauth --manual-paste`` — pool-add path,
forwarded inside ``auth_commands.handle_auth_add``.
* ``hermes model --manual-paste`` — model-picker path, forwarded
by ``_model_flow_xai_oauth`` into the synthetic ``argparse.Namespace``
it passes to ``_login_xai_oauth``. The picker also now forwards
``--no-browser`` and ``--timeout`` for consistency (previously
hardcoded to defaults regardless of CLI flags).
Help text on both flags points at #26923 and names the
browser-only remote consoles (Cloud Shell, Codespaces, EC2
Instance Connect) so users searching ``hermes --help`` can find
the workaround.
xAI Grok OAuth (and Spotify) use a loopback redirect to
``http://127.0.0.1:<port>/callback`` to capture the authorization
code. That works when the browser and Hermes run on the same
machine, and the SSH tunnel recipe handles the regular remote
case. It breaks completely on **browser-only remote consoles**
(GCP Cloud Shell, GitHub Codespaces, AWS EC2 Instance Connect,
Gitpod, Replit, …) where the user has a browser but no real SSH
client to forward a port — the redirect to 127.0.0.1 on the
remote VM simply isn't reachable from the laptop, and there's
nothing the existing flow can do about it (#26923).
This commit adds the foundation for a manual-paste fallback:
* ``_is_remote_session`` now also recognises Cloud Shell,
Codespaces, Gitpod, Replit, StackBlitz (in addition to SSH),
so the existing tunnel hint at least fires in those
environments.
* ``_parse_pasted_callback`` accepts any of: a full
``http(s)://...?code=...&state=...`` URL, a bare ``?code=...``
query string, a bare ``code=...&state=...`` fragment, or a
bare opaque code value. Returns the same dict shape the HTTP
callback handler produces, so the caller's state / error
validation works unchanged (no CSRF bypass).
* ``_prompt_manual_callback_paste`` reads stdin with a clear
multi-line explanation of what's happening and what to paste.
* ``_xai_oauth_loopback_login`` gains a ``manual_paste`` kwarg
that skips the HTTP listener entirely. The redirect_uri,
PKCE verifier, state, and nonce are byte-identical to the
loopback path so xAI's token endpoint can't tell the
difference at the protocol level.
* ``_print_loopback_ssh_hint`` now also mentions
``--manual-paste`` so users without a real SSH client see a
path forward instead of a dead-end tunnel recipe.
* ``_login_xai_oauth`` threads ``args.manual_paste`` into the
loopback helper.
Salvages #19964 by @Beandon13. Adds `hermes kanban archive --rm` to
permanently remove already-archived tasks with cascading cleanup of
links, comments, events, runs, and notify-subs. Safety guard: only
archived tasks can be deleted; active/blocked/done must be archived
first.
Cherry-picked from #19964 onto current main (severe stale base, applied
manually to preserve substance only).
xAI's token endpoint returns HTTP 403 to the OAuth grant when the
account isn't on the allowlist for API access (e.g. standard
SuperGrok subscribers — see #26847). Treating it like a stale-token
400/401 made ``format_auth_error`` append "Run ``hermes model`` to
re-authenticate", which is misleading because re-login can't change
xAI's tier decision.
Split 403 off in both ``refresh_xai_oauth_pure`` and the loopback
login token exchange:
* New error code ``xai_oauth_tier_denied`` with ``relogin_required=False``
* Message explains the entitlement gate and points at the
``XAI_API_KEY`` + ``provider: xai`` fallback
* 400/401 still set ``relogin_required=True`` as before
* 5xx still set ``relogin_required=False`` as before
When the kanban auto-decomposer fans a triage task into child tasks,
recompute_ready() immediately promotes parent-free children to 'ready'
so the dispatcher picks them up. Some users want a manual workflow
where children stay in 'todo' for review before dispatch.
Add 'kanban.auto_promote_children' config key (default: true):
- false: children stay in 'todo' after decomposition
- true: existing behavior (auto-promote to 'ready')
Changes:
- kanban_db.py: decompose_triage_task() gains auto_promote param
- kanban_decompose.py: reads auto_promote_children from config
- kanban dashboard API: exposes the new setting in GET/PUT /orchestration
Closes#28016
resolve_xai_oauth_runtime_credentials() called _refresh_xai_oauth_tokens()
with no try/except. A terminal refresh failure (HTTP 400/401/403 —
invalid_grant, token revoked) propagated without clearing the dead
access_token / refresh_token from auth.json, causing every subsequent
session to retry the same doomed network request.
Add a try/except around the refresh call that mirrors the existing
credential_pool.py quarantine: when _is_terminal_xai_oauth_refresh_error
identifies a non-retryable failure, clear the dead token fields from
auth.json and write a last_auth_error diagnostic marker so future calls
fail fast with a clear relogin_required error instead of hitting the
network.
active_provider is preserved (set_active=False) so multi-provider users
whose chosen provider is not xai-oauth are unaffected.
Tests: two new cases in test_auth_xai_oauth_provider.py cover terminal
quarantine and transient pass-through.
Plugin discovery exceptions in gateway startup (gateway/run.py) and
CLI startup (hermes_cli/main.py) are caught and logged at DEBUG
level, making them invisible at the default INFO log level.
If any plugin import fails — syntax error, missing dependency, import
cycle — operators get zero indication unless they bump the log level
to DEBUG. This makes broken plugins appear enabled but silently
non-functional.
Change both locations to logger.warning() so failures are visible at
production log levels.
Closes#28137
* feat: add /update slash command to CLI and TUI
* test(cli): add Python tests for /update slash command
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* fix(cli): address Copilot review for /update slash command
Route classic CLI /update through prompt_toolkit modal confirmation and
defer relaunch to the main-thread cleanup path after app.exit(). Tighten
Y/n semantics, add Python wrapper and catalog coverage tests, and assert
/update stays visible in the TUI command catalog.
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* fix(cli): address review feedback on /update command
- Replace raw input() with _prompt_text_input_modal in _handle_update_command
to avoid EOF/hang/keystroke-leak races with prompt_toolkit's stdin ownership
- Fix confirmation logic: only proceed on recognized affirmative aliases
(y/yes/1/ok); cancel on everything else including empty string, typos,
and unrecognized input — matches all other [Y/n] prompts in the codebase
- Route relaunch through main-thread shutdown path: set _pending_relaunch
and return False from process_command so process_loop triggers app.exit();
run() then calls relaunch() after prompt_toolkit has restored terminal modes
and after cleanup — safe on both POSIX (execvp) and Windows (subprocess+exit)
- Fix misleading docstring in test_update_command.py: the Vitest only covers
the TypeScript slash handler that emits code 42, not the Python wrapper
branch that acts on it
- Rewrite tests to use SimpleNamespace pattern (like test_destructive_slash_confirm)
so _prompt_text_input_modal can be stubbed directly
- Add Python test for _launch_tui exit-code-42 → relaunch branch in main.py
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* fix(cli): polish test fixtures for /update command
- Remove unused _prompt_text_input from SimpleNamespace stub
- Use pytest.fail sentinel in managed-install guard test to catch unexpected modal invocations
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* chore: re-trigger CI after Copilot review fixes
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resolve_minimax_oauth_runtime_credentials called _refresh_minimax_oauth_state
without a try/except, so a terminal failure (invalid_grant,
refresh_token_reused, invalid_refresh_token) raised AuthError but left
the dead refresh_token in auth.json. Every subsequent API call retried
the same token via a network round-trip, failing identically each time.
Fix: wrap the refresh call and, when exc.relogin_required is True and a
refresh_token is present, clear the dead OAuth fields (access_token,
refresh_token, expires_*) and write a last_auth_error quarantine marker
to auth.json before re-raising. The next call sees no access_token and
fails fast with 'not_logged_in' — no network retry — and the user is
prompted to re-authenticate.
Mirrors the existing quarantine pattern for Nous (_quarantine_nous_oauth_state),
xAI-OAuth (#28116), and Codex-OAuth (#28118). Persist failure is
best-effort (logged at DEBUG, error still re-raised).
Salvaged from #28003 by @EloquentBrush0x — contributor's branch was
severely stale (would have reverted ~5000 LOC across azure/kanban/i18n
subsystems); fix re-applied surgically with their pattern preserved and
added two regression tests (terminal-quarantines + transient-does-not-quarantine).
When a Codex OAuth refresh token is permanently invalidated (HTTP 400/401/403,
token revoked or reused), _mark_exhausted was called but auth.json was left with
the dead credentials. On the next session, _seed_from_singletons re-read
auth.json and re-seeded the pool with the same revoked token, triggering the
same terminal failure in a loop.
Add _is_terminal_codex_oauth_refresh_error to auth.py and a matching quarantine
block in _refresh_entry: when a terminal error is detected and auth.json holds
no newer tokens, clear access_token/refresh_token from auth.json and remove all
device_code-sourced pool entries from memory. Mirrors the Nous quarantine added
in c90556262 and the xAI quarantine in #28116.
Also add a pre-refresh sync from auth.json before calling refresh_codex_oauth_pure,
matching the xAI and Nous patterns, to avoid refresh_token_reused races when
multiple Hermes processes share the same auth.json singleton.
Salvaged from #27911 by @EloquentBrush0x — contributor's branch was severely
stale (would have reverted ~5000 LOC across azure/kanban/i18n subsystems);
fix re-applied surgically on current main with their predicate and tests preserved.
PR #28102 made the summary-failure abort path the unconditional default,
changing established behavior. Gate it behind config.yaml flag
`compression.abort_on_summary_failure` (default False = historical
fallback-placeholder behavior).
- hermes_cli/config.py: new `compression.abort_on_summary_failure` key,
default False, documented inline.
- agent/agent_init.py: read the flag from compression config and pass to
ContextCompressor.
- agent/context_compressor.py: `__init__` accepts `abort_on_summary_failure`
(default False). `compress()` failure branch gates the abort on the
flag; when False, falls through to the restored legacy fallback path
(static "summary unavailable" placeholder + drop middle window).
- tests: restore original fallback expectations as default; add new
TestAbortOnSummaryFailure class for the opt-in mode.
Gateway/CLI plumbing (force=True on /compress, hygiene/handler abort
detection, locale `gateway.compress.aborted` key) from PR #28102 stays
intact — those paths only fire when `_last_compress_aborted` is True,
which now only happens when the flag is enabled.
When refresh_xai_oauth_pure raises a terminal error (HTTP 400/401/403,
i.e. revoked or reused refresh token), _refresh_entry's existing race-
recovery path re-syncs from auth.json and returns if another process has
already rotated the tokens. If auth.json still holds the same stale
token pair, the function fell through to _mark_exhausted — leaving the
dead credentials in auth.json. On the next Hermes startup _seed_from_singletons
re-seeded the pool from those stale tokens, causing the same failure loop
on every session.
Fix: after the auth.json re-sync check in the xAI-oauth error handler,
detect terminal errors with the new _is_terminal_xai_oauth_refresh_error
helper and apply a quarantine:
- Clear access_token and refresh_token from providers["xai-oauth"]["tokens"]
in auth.json so they are not re-seeded.
- Write a last_auth_error entry for hermes doctor / auth status diagnostics.
- Remove all loopback_pkce entries from the in-memory pool so the current
session stops retrying with the dead credentials.
Mirrors the identical quarantine already in place for Nous OAuth
(c90556262).
Closes the parity gap introduced when c90556262 added Nous-only terminal
error handling without a corresponding xAI-oauth path.
When xAI's auth backend fails to redirect (e.g. the German "We couldn't reach
your app" fallback shown in #27385), users sometimes navigate manually to the
bare loopback callback URL — `http://127.0.0.1:<port>/callback` with no query
string. The handler used to return 200 "xAI authorization received" for any
GET that hit the expected path, because `parse_qs("")` yields no `code` and no
`error`, leaving `result` untouched while the success page was still served.
The CLI's wait loop, of course, still saw no code and timed out with
`AuthError: xAI authorization timed out waiting for the local callback.`
The user is left looking at a browser tab that claims success and a terminal
that says failure — exactly the contradiction in #27385.
This change makes the empty-callback case return 400 with an explicit
"not received" page and a hint to retry `hermes auth add xai-oauth`. The
wait-loop semantics are unchanged: `result["code"]` and `result["error"]`
both stay None, so the CLI still raises a real timeout rather than treating
the bare hit as a successful callback.
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decompose_triage_task inlines SQL INSERTs for atomicity and intentionally
bypasses link_tasks() — which calls _would_cycle() per edge. If the LLM
emits a cyclic parent graph (e.g. A.parents=[1], B.parents=[0]) the DB
write succeeds but every involved child deadlocks in 'todo' forever:
recompute_ready() requires all parents to be done, which is impossible
when A waits for B and B waits for A.
Add a Kahn topological sort over the sibling parent indices in the
pre-validation block, before any DB writes. Mirrors the cycle-safety
guarantee that link_tasks() provides for manually linked tasks.
* feat(dep_ensure): complete Windows bootstrap — dep_ensure + install.ps1 + detection
dep_ensure.py gains Windows awareness: PowerShell invocation, platform-
specific browser detection, (path, shell) tuple returns.
install.ps1 gains -Ensure/-PostInstall modes using npm -g --prefix
(aligned with install.sh) and agent-browser install for Chromium.
browser_tool.py gains node/ in candidate dirs for Windows .cmd shims.
Both install scripts bundled in pip wheel.
Tracking: #27826
* fix(install.ps1): add --ignore-scripts to npm install for camofox
@askjo/camofox-browser has a dependency (impit) whose postinstall
script runs `npx only-allow pnpm`, which fails under npm. Adding
--ignore-scripts avoids the spurious failure without affecting
functionality.
Tracking: #27826
* fix: remove duplicate install scripts from git
CI already copies scripts/install.{sh,ps1} into hermes_cli/scripts/
during wheel build. No need to commit copies — .gitignore keeps them
out, _find_install_script() falls back to scripts/ for git-clone users.
Tracking: #27826
* fix: address review — remove env_extra, fix ps1 error handling
- Remove unused env_extra parameter from ensure_dependency()
- Invoke-EnsureMode node case now uses Test-Node consistently
- Install-AgentBrowser uses throw instead of exit 1
* feat(config): add install-method stamping + Docker detection
Dockerfile stamps "docker", install.sh stamps "git", and cmd_postinstall
stamps "pip" into ~/.hermes/.install_method. detect_install_method() reads
the stamp first, then falls back to managed-system / container / .git
heuristics. Adds Docker upgrade guidance.
Tracking: #27826
* fix(stamp): move Docker stamp to entrypoint, install.sh stamp after print_success
The Dockerfile stamp was overwritten by the VOLUME overlay at container
start. Moving it to entrypoint.sh ensures it persists. The install.sh
stamp now writes after print_success so it only lands on full success.
The agent can now produce a chart, PDF, spreadsheet, or any other supported
file type and have it land in Slack / Discord / Telegram / WhatsApp / etc.
as a native attachment, just by mentioning the absolute path in its
response. Same primitive works for kanban-worker completions: workers
attach artifacts via kanban_complete(artifacts=[...]) and the gateway
notifier uploads them alongside the completion message.
Changes:
- gateway/platforms/base.py: extract_local_files now covers PDFs, docx,
spreadsheets (xlsx/csv/json/yaml), presentations (pptx), archives
(zip/tar/gz), audio (mp3/wav/...), and html — not just images and video.
Image/video extensions still embed inline; everything else routes to
send_document via the existing dispatch partition in gateway/run.py.
- tools/kanban_tools.py + hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: kanban_complete gains
an explicit ``artifacts`` parameter. The handler stashes it in
metadata.artifacts (for downstream workers) and the kernel promotes
it onto the completed-event payload so the notifier can find it
without a second SQL round-trip.
- gateway/run.py: _kanban_notifier_watcher now calls a new helper
_deliver_kanban_artifacts after sending the completion text. The
helper reads payload.artifacts (preferred), falls back to scanning
the payload summary and task.result with extract_local_files, then
partitions images / videos / documents and uploads each via
send_multiple_images / send_video / send_document.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/deliverable-mode.md + sidebars.ts:
user-facing docs page covering the extension list, the kanban
artifacts pattern, and the MCP-for-connector-breadth recommendation.
Tests:
- tests/gateway/test_extract_local_files.py: 7 new test cases
(documents, spreadsheets, presentations, audio, archives, html,
chart-pdf canonical case). 44 passing, 0 regressions.
- tests/tools/test_kanban_tools.py: 4 new cases covering the artifacts
arg shape (list / string / merge with existing metadata / type
rejection). 17 passing.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_notify.py: 2 new cases covering full
notifier → artifact-upload path and missing-file silent-skip. 12
passing.
- E2E (real files, real kanban kernel, real BasePlatformAdapter):
worker calls kanban_complete(artifacts=[png,pdf,csv]) → metadata +
event payload land → notifier helper partitions correctly →
send_multiple_images called once with the PNG, send_document called
twice with PDF + CSV.
What's NOT in this PR (deferred to follow-ups):
- Ad-hoc "research this for two hours, ping the thread when done"
slash command — covered today by kanban subscriptions; a dedicated
slash command can ride a follow-up PR if needed.
- Setup-wizard prompt for recommended MCP servers (Notion, GitHub,
Linear, etc.) — docs page lists them; UI is a separate change.
Plan and rationale captured in ~/.hermes/docs/perplexity-computer-parity.pdf
(local doc, not shipped).
Adds a 'triage_aux_unavailable' diagnostic for tasks stuck in triage when
neither the active aux helper slot nor the main-model auto fallback is usable.
Auto-decompose aware:
- kanban.auto_decompose=True (default): primary is auxiliary.kanban_decomposer,
triage_specifier is the fanout=false fallback.
- kanban.auto_decompose=False: primary is auxiliary.triage_specifier (manual
'hermes kanban specify' path).
Default aux slots use 'provider: auto' which falls back to the main model, so
this rule only fires when both the explicit slot config AND the main-model
auto fallback are absent. Quiet by default; informative when there is a real
config gap.
Also adds kd.config_from_runtime_config() that carries kanban + auxiliary +
model keys through to diagnostics, and updates CLI/dashboard call sites to
use it. config_from_kanban_config() is preserved for back-compat.
Reworks the original PR #25640 idea (@qWaitCrypto) to align with the new
auto-decompose dispatcher path landed in #27572. The original PR pointed only
at auxiliary.triage_specifier, which is now the fallback rather than the
primary helper.
Co-authored-by: qWaitCrypto <axmaiqiu@gmail.com>
`hermes_cli/doctor.py` had two recurring patterns:
1. **15 section headers** of the form `print() ; print(color("◆ Name", Colors.CYAN, Colors.BOLD))`
bracketed by 3-line `# =====` / `# Check: X` / `# =====` comment banners.
2. **Paired `check_fail(...) ; issues.append(...)`** for every diagnostic that emits both a
user-visible failure and an auto-fix instruction.
Add two helpers and collapse the patterns:
def _section(title):
print()
print(color(f"◆ {title}", Colors.CYAN, Colors.BOLD))
def _fail_and_issue(text, detail, fix, issues):
check_fail(text, detail)
issues.append(fix)
Replacements:
- 15 `# =====/# X/# =====` banner triples + section header pairs compressed to `_section(...)`
- All 18 `check_fail + issues.append` pairs collapsed to `_fail_and_issue(...)` (single-line
where the call fits under 120 chars, multi-line where it doesn't)
- Net -5 LOC (`+128 / -133`)
The LOC delta is modest after wrapping long calls onto multi-line form for readability — the
real win is uniform call shape and removal of two parallel-pattern footguns. There is now
exactly one way to emit a diagnostic that pairs a user-visible failure with a fix instruction.
Behavior is byte-identical. `_section` produces the same blank line + bold-cyan output the
inline two prints did, and `_fail_and_issue` does the same `check_fail + issues.append`
sequence in the same order. Verified empirically by diffing live `run_doctor()` stdout from
this branch against `origin/main` — `diff -q` reports zero differences.
Test plan:
- All 69 tests across test_doctor.py, test_doctor_command_install.py, and
test_doctor_dedicated_provider_skip.py pass
- `ruff check hermes_cli/doctor.py` clean
- Live `run_doctor()` output byte-identical to origin/main
Refs #23972 (Phase 2 tracker — dedup-only refactor in line with the "net-LOC-negative"
discipline).
* feat(session_search): single-shape tool with discovery, scroll, browse — no LLM
Replaces the LLM-summarized session_search with a single-shape tool that
returns actual messages from the DB. Three calling shapes inferred from
args (no mode parameter):
1. Discovery — pass query. FTS5 + anchored ±5 window + bookends per hit,
all in one call. ~20ms on a real DB instead of ~90s for the previous
three aux-LLM calls.
2. Scroll — pass session_id + around_message_id. Returns a window
centered on the anchor. To paginate, re-anchor on the first/last id
of the returned window. Boundary message appears in both windows
as the orientation marker. ~1ms per scroll call.
3. Browse — no args. Recent sessions chronologically.
Bookend_start (first 3 user+assistant msgs) and bookend_end (last 3) give
the agent goal + resolution on every discovery hit, so a single tool call
reconstructs a long session's arc without loading the whole transcript.
The aux-LLM summary path is gone: it cost ~$0.30/call, took ~30s, and
laundered FTS5 hits through a model that could confabulate when the right
session wasn't in the hit list. The merged shape returns byte-for-byte
content from SQLite.
History:
- PR #20238 (JabberELF) seeded the fast/summary dual-mode split.
- PR #26419 (yoniebans) expanded to fast/guided/summary with bookends,
multi-anchor drill-down, default-mode config, and a teaching skill.
This PR collapses that toolkit into one shape with explicit scroll
support, drops the summary path, drops the mode parameter, drops the
config knob, drops the skill. JabberELF's seed work is acknowledged via
the AUTHOR_MAP entry.
Validation:
- 38/38 tool tests pass (tests/tools/test_session_search.py)
- 12/12 get_messages_around tests pass (tests/hermes_state/)
- 11/11 get_anchored_view tests pass (tests/hermes_state/)
- Full tests/tools/ run: 5168 passing, 2 failures pre-exist on main
(test ordering in test_delegate.py, unrelated)
- E2E against live state DB: discovery 20ms, scroll 1ms, browse 280ms;
pagination forward+backward works with boundary-message orientation;
error paths return clean tool_error responses
Co-authored-by: JabberELF <abcdjmm970703@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: yoniebans <jonny@nousresearch.com>
* chore(session_search): prune dead LLM-summary config and docs
Companion to the single-shape rewrite. The auxiliary.session_search config
block, max_concurrency / extra_body tunables, and matching docs sections
all referenced the removed LLM summarization path. Removing them so users
don't try to tune knobs that nothing reads.
- hermes_cli/config.py: drop dead auxiliary.session_search block from
DEFAULT_CONFIG. Leftover keys in user config.yaml are harmless and
ignored.
- hermes_cli/tips.py: drop two tips referencing the removed
max_concurrency / extra_body knobs.
- website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md: drop 'Session Search Tuning'
section and the auxiliary.session_search block from the example.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/fallback-providers.md: drop session_search
rows from the auxiliary-tasks tables and the dedicated tuning subsection.
- website/docs/reference/tools-reference.md: rewrite the session_search
entry to describe the new three-shape behaviour.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: update the file-tree description.
- tests/tools/test_llm_content_none_guard.py: remove TestSessionSearchContentNone
class and test_session_search_tool_guarded — both guard against an
unguarded .content.strip() call site in _summarize_session() that no
longer exists.
Validation: 97/97 targeted tests still pass (hermes_state + session_search +
llm_content_none_guard). Config tests 55/55.
---------
Co-authored-by: JabberELF <abcdjmm970703@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: yoniebans <jonny@nousresearch.com>
Quarantine Nous OAuth state when refresh fails with terminal invalid_grant/invalid_token errors. Clear local and shared refresh material across runtime, managed access-token, proxy, and credential-pool paths so Hermes stops retrying revoked refresh sessions.
* feat(kanban): orchestrator-driven auto-decomposition on triage
Closes the core gap in the kanban system: dropping a one-liner into Triage
now decomposes it into a graph of child tasks routed to specialist
profiles by description, matching teknium's original vision ("main
orchestrator splits/creates actual tasks, doles them out to each agent").
The build
---------
- hermes_cli/profiles.py: new `description` + `description_auto` fields
on ProfileInfo, persisted in <profile_dir>/profile.yaml. Helpers
read_profile_meta / write_profile_meta. `create_profile` accepts
optional description.
- hermes_cli/profile_describer.py: new module — auto-generate a 1-2
sentence description from a profile's skills + model + name via the
auxiliary LLM (`auxiliary.profile_describer`).
- hermes_cli/main.py: new `hermes profile create --description ...`
flag; new `hermes profile describe [name] [--text ... | --auto |
--all --auto]` subcommand.
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: new `decompose_triage_task` atomic helper —
creates N child tasks, links the root as a child of every leaf
(root waits for the whole graph), flips root `triage -> todo` with
orchestrator assignee, records an audit comment + `decomposed` event
in a single write_txn.
- hermes_cli/kanban_decompose.py: new module — calls the auxiliary LLM
(`auxiliary.kanban_decomposer`) with the profile roster + descriptions
to produce a JSON task graph, then invokes the DB helper. Rewrites
unknown assignees to the configured `kanban.default_assignee` (or
the active default profile) so a task NEVER lands with assignee=None.
Falls back to specify-style single-task promotion when the LLM
returns `fanout: false`.
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: new `hermes kanban decompose [task_id | --all]`
CLI verb.
- hermes_cli/config.py: new DEFAULT_CONFIG keys —
kanban.orchestrator_profile, kanban.default_assignee,
kanban.auto_decompose (default True), kanban.auto_decompose_per_tick
(default 3), auxiliary.kanban_decomposer, auxiliary.profile_describer.
- gateway/run.py: kanban dispatcher watcher now runs auto-decompose
before each `_tick_once`, capped by `auto_decompose_per_tick` so a
bulk-load of triage tasks doesn't burst-spend the aux LLM.
- plugins/kanban/dashboard/plugin_api.py: new endpoints —
GET /profiles (list roster + descriptions),
PATCH /profiles/<name> (set description, user-authored),
POST /profiles/<name>/describe-auto (LLM-generate),
POST /tasks/<id>/decompose (run decomposer),
GET/PUT /orchestration (orchestrator/default-assignee/auto-decompose
pickers, with resolved fallbacks echoed back).
- plugins/kanban/dashboard/dist/index.js: new OrchestrationPanel
collapsible — dropdowns for orchestrator profile and default
assignee, auto-decompose toggle, per-profile description editor with
Save and Auto-generate buttons. New ⚗ Decompose button next to
✨ Specify on triage-column task drawers.
Behavior
--------
- A task in Triage gets fanned out into a small DAG of child tasks.
Children with no internal parents flip to `ready` immediately
(parallel dispatch). Children with sibling parents wait. The root
stays alive as a parent of every child — when the whole graph
finishes, it promotes to `ready` and the orchestrator profile wakes
back up to judge completion (the "adds more tasks until done" part
of the original vision).
- `kanban.orchestrator_profile` unset -> falls back to the default
profile (whichever `hermes` launches with no -p flag).
- `kanban.default_assignee` unset -> same fallback. Tasks NEVER end
up unassigned.
- `kanban.auto_decompose=true` (default) runs the decomposer
automatically on dispatcher ticks; manual `hermes kanban decompose`
is always available.
Tests
-----
- tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_decompose_db.py — 7 tests for the
atomic DB helper (status transitions, dep graph, audit trail,
validation errors).
- tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_decompose.py — 6 tests for the
decomposer module (fanout, no-fanout fallback, unknown-assignee
rewrite, malformed-JSON resilience, no-aux-client path).
- tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_describer.py — 10 tests for
profile.yaml r/w + the LLM auto-describer (yaml corrupt tolerance,
user-vs-auto description protection, --overwrite, fallback parsing).
E2E
---
- CLI end-to-end: created profiles with descriptions, dropped a triage
task, mocked the aux LLM with a 3-task graph -> verified all three
children were created with the right assignees, the dependency
edges matched the LLM's graph, root flipped to todo gated by every
child, audit comment + `decomposed` event recorded.
- Dashboard end-to-end: started the dashboard against an isolated
HERMES_HOME, verified all four new endpoints via curl (profile
listing, PATCH for description, PUT for orchestration settings,
POST for decompose). Opened the UI in the browser, confirmed the
OrchestrationPanel renders with all three pickers + the per-profile
description editor, typed a description, clicked Save, verified
~/.hermes/profile.yaml was written. Clicked Decompose on the triage
card and confirmed the inline error message surfaced as designed
("no auxiliary client configured").
* feat(kanban): surface decompose mode (Auto/Manual) as a one-click pill
The auto/manual toggle already existed as kanban.auto_decompose (default
true), but it was buried inside the collapsed Orchestration settings
panel — users couldn't tell at a glance which mode they were in. This
hoists it to a pill at the top of the kanban page so the state is always
visible and one click flips it.
UX
- New "⚗ Decompose: AUTO|MANUAL" pill in the kanban header. Emerald
styling when Auto is on (the default), muted/gray when Manual.
- Pill is visible both in the collapsed AND expanded Orchestration
settings views so context is preserved when the user opens the panel.
- Tooltip explains both states + what clicking does.
- Renamed the in-panel "Auto-decompose on triage / Enabled" checkbox
to "Decompose mode / Auto (default) | Manual" for language parity
with the pill.
Behavior preserved
- Default remains Auto (kanban.auto_decompose=true).
- Manual mode restores pre-PR behavior: triage tasks stay in triage
until the user clicks ⚗ Decompose on each card (or runs
`hermes kanban decompose <id>`).
Implementation
- plugins/kanban/dashboard/dist/index.js: load /orchestration on mount
(not just on expand) so the collapsed pill reflects real state.
Render mode pill in both collapsed and expanded headers. Reuses the
existing PUT /api/plugins/kanban/orchestration endpoint — no new
backend, no new tests required.
E2E verified
- Pill renders as "⚗ Decompose: AUTO" on page load (default).
- One click flips to "⚗ Decompose: MANUAL" with muted styling.
- config.yaml on disk shows auto_decompose: false after the flip.
- Second click round-trips back to Auto; config.yaml flips to true.
* feat(kanban): rename mode pill to "Orchestration: Auto/Manual"
Per Teknium feedback — "Decompose" was too implementation-specific.
"Orchestration" is the user-facing concept (the whole pitch is the
orchestrator profile routing work), and the pill is the front door to it.
- Pill text: "Orchestration: Auto" / "Orchestration: Manual" (title case,
no ⚗ prefix, no SHOUTY-CAPS for the mode value)
- In-panel checkbox label: "Orchestration mode" (was "Decompose mode")
- Tooltips updated to match
- No behavior change
* docs(kanban): document decompose, profile descriptions, orchestration mode
Brings the docs site up to parity with the PR. English build verified
locally (npx docusaurus build --locale en) — clean, no new broken links
or anchors. Pre-existing broken-link warnings (rl-training, llms.txt,
step-by-step-checklist, fallback-model) untouched.
- website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md
+ `hermes kanban decompose` action row in the action table, with
pointer to the Auto vs Manual orchestration section.
- website/docs/reference/profile-commands.md
+ `--description "<text>"` flag on `hermes profile create`.
+ Full `hermes profile describe` section: read, --text, --auto,
--overwrite, --all flags with examples.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md (the big one)
+ Triage column intro rewritten around the Auto-decompose default
behavior, with pointer to the new Auto vs Manual section.
+ Status action row updated to mention both ⚗ Decompose and
✨ Specify on triage cards.
+ New "Auto vs Manual orchestration" section explaining the two
modes, how to flip them (pill, config), how routing-by-description
works, the no-None-assignee guarantee, plus a config knob table
(auto_decompose, auto_decompose_per_tick, orchestrator_profile,
default_assignee) and the two new auxiliary slots
(kanban_decomposer, profile_describer).
+ REST surface table gains 6 new endpoint rows: /tasks/:id/decompose,
/profiles (GET), /profiles/:name (PATCH), /profiles/:name/describe-auto,
/orchestration (GET + PUT).
- website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban-tutorial.md
+ Triage column blurb updated for Auto by default + Manual via the
pill, with cross-link to the Auto vs Manual orchestration section.
- website/docs/user-guide/profiles.md
+ Blank-profile flow now mentions --description and points to the
kanban routing model for context.
- website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md
+ `kanban_decomposer` and `profile_describer` added to the
`hermes model -> Configure auxiliary models` menu listing.
xAI's OAuth implementation at ``auth.x.ai`` validates the PKCE
``code_challenge`` at the **token** endpoint, not just at the
authorize step. When Hermes sends the standards-compliant token
POST with ``code_verifier`` alone — exactly what RFC 7636 §4.5
prescribes — xAI rejects the exchange with ``code_challenge is
required`` and the user is stuck with no working OAuth login.
The fix:
* Extract the token POST into ``_xai_oauth_exchange_code_for_tokens``
so the wire format is unit-testable in isolation.
* Send the original ``code_challenge`` and ``code_challenge_method``
in the form body alongside ``code_verifier``. Strict RFC-compliant
servers ignore the extras at the token endpoint, and xAI's
permissive implementation accepts the exchange. This is the
standard "defensive echo" workaround used by every OAuth client
that targets a server with this quirk.
* Refuse to fire the POST when ``code_verifier`` is empty — leaking
the authorization code to a server that can't redeem it is worse
than failing locally with an actionable error. The new error
code is ``xai_pkce_verifier_missing`` and the message points at
this issue for context.
* Surface the HTTP status code prominently in the 4xx error message
(``xAI token exchange failed (HTTP 400). Response: …``) so users
and maintainers can tell a 400 (bad request / PKCE problem) from
a 403 (tier denied, see #26847) at a glance instead of parsing
the JSON body by eye.
Closes#26990
`_ws_client_is_allowed()` enforces a loopback-only client check on every
dashboard WebSocket upgrade (`/api/ws`, `/api/events`, `/api/pty`,
`/api/pub`):
def _ws_client_is_allowed(ws):
if _is_public_bind():
return True
client_host = ws.client.host if ws.client else ""
if not client_host:
return True
return client_host in _LOOPBACK_HOSTS
The intent is: when bound to 127.0.0.1, only accept WS upgrades from
loopback peers. Public bind (--insecure) trades that for token-only.
However, `uvicorn.run(app, host=host, port=port, log_level="warning")`
omits `proxy_headers`. In modern uvicorn (>= 0.20) `proxy_headers`
defaults to True and `forwarded_allow_ips` defaults to "127.0.0.1".
With those defaults, any reverse proxy connecting from loopback (nginx,
in-cluster proxy, Cloudflare Tunnel sidecar in HTTP mode, K8s
ingress-nginx) causes uvicorn to rewrite `ws.client.host` from the
request's `X-Forwarded-For` header. So the gate sees the original
client's IP (a public address) instead of the loopback peer, returns
False, and closes every browser WS with code=4403 (surfaces as HTTP
403 to the proxy).
Passing `proxy_headers=False` keeps the loopback gate's view of
`ws.client.host` at the immediate transport peer (the proxy on
127.0.0.1), which is exactly what the gate is designed to check.
The bug is invisible in dev (no proxy → no XFF → ws.client.host stays
loopback). It surfaces in proxied production: dashboard chat tab opens,
events feed banner shows "disconnected — tool calls may not appear",
all WS endpoints return 403. Reproduces with:
curl -i -H "Connection: Upgrade" -H "Upgrade: websocket" \
-H "Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13" -H "Sec-WebSocket-Key: ..." \
-H "X-Forwarded-For: 1.2.3.4" \
"http://127.0.0.1:9119/api/ws?token=\$TOKEN"
# Before: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
# After: HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols
Without the XFF header, both behave the same (101) — confirming the
single-variable trigger.
Discovered while diagnosing why the Hermes dashboard at
mandy.loadmagic.ai (behind nginx + Cloudflare Tunnel + CF Access)
refused all browser WS upgrades despite Access app config matching a
known-working sibling deployment (Simone, which doesn't have nginx in
the path).
`hermes doctor` displayed OAuth status for Nous, Codex, Gemini, and MiniMax
but silently omitted xAI OAuth, even though `get_xai_oauth_auth_status()`
exists and the same information is already surfaced in `hermes status`.
Add xAI OAuth as a *separate* try/except block so an import failure cannot
silence the already-printed provider rows above it — consistent with the
per-provider isolation introduced in the doctor fallback fix.
Tests:
- 9 new tests in TestDoctorXaiOAuthStatus covering: logged-in ok, not-logged-in
warn, error line present/absent, import failure isolation, runtime exception
and None-return safety.
- 9 existing run_doctor helpers updated to mock get_xai_oauth_auth_status for
deterministic output.
hermes status listed Nous Portal, OpenAI Codex, Qwen OAuth, and MiniMax
OAuth in the Auth Providers section but omitted xAI OAuth entirely.
Users who authenticated via `hermes auth add xai-oauth` had no way to
verify their session state from the status output.
Add xAI OAuth display using the same field shape as OpenAI Codex:
auth_store (Auth file:), last_refresh (Refreshed:), and error when
not logged in. The import is isolated in its own try/except so an
import failure cannot affect the already-printed rows above it.
Tests cover:
- logged in: check mark, auth_store, last_refresh, error suppressed
- not logged in: login command hint, error shown, error absent = no line
- resilience: import failure, status function raises, returns None
- isolation: xAI import failure does not break Nous/MiniMax display
Shared try/except import block meant that if any one status function was
missing, all providers lost their OAuth fallback suppression. Split into
per-provider try/except so each branch is independently safe.
Add end-to-end test for xAI: bad XAI_API_KEY with healthy OAuth does not
surface a blocking issue in run_doctor output. Add tests for None return,
import failure isolation (xAI missing does not break Gemini), and move
test_returns_false_for_unknown_provider out of the xAI-specific class.
_has_healthy_oauth_fallback_for_apikey_provider() covers Gemini and
MiniMax (added by #26853) but omits xAI. The xAI provider profile
(plugins/model-providers/xai/__init__.py) has auth_type="api_key" and
env_vars=("XAI_API_KEY",), so it enters the generic API-key
connectivity loop. When XAI_API_KEY fails a 401 probe but xAI OAuth
is healthy, the failure is promoted to the blocking summary even though
xAI works fine via OAuth — the same false-positive #26853 fixed for
Gemini and MiniMax.
Fix: import get_xai_oauth_auth_status alongside the existing two
helpers and add the "xai" branch. get_xai_oauth_auth_status() already
exists in hermes_cli/auth.py and returns {"logged_in": True} when a
valid OAuth token is present.
Symmetric with the Gemini and MiniMax branches introduced in #26853.
No behavior change for providers without an OAuth path.
Drops the three hardcoded browser-provider rows (Browserbase, Browser Use,
Firecrawl) from TOOL_CATEGORIES['browser']['providers'] and replaces them
with runtime injection from agent.browser_registry — mirroring the
_plugin_web_search_providers() pattern PR #25182 established for the
Web Search and Extract category.
Adds _plugin_browser_providers() helper in hermes_cli/tools_config.py
that walks list_providers() and builds a TOOL_CATEGORIES-shape dict per
provider via get_setup_schema(). The new visible_providers() hook calls
it for cat['name'] == 'Browser Automation'.
The three remaining hardcoded rows are non-provider UX setup-flow rows:
- 'Nous Subscription (Browser Use cloud)' — managed Browser Use billed
via Nous subscription; uses the browser-use plugin as the underlying
backend but has distinct setup UX (requires_nous_auth gates it).
- 'Local Browser' — headless Chromium, no CloudBrowserProvider.
- 'Camofox' — anti-detection local Firefox; _is_camofox_mode()
short-circuits the cloud-provider dispatch path entirely.
Verified the picker output matches pre-migration order/content:
Local Browser, Camofox, Browser Use, Browserbase, Firecrawl
(with 'Nous Subscription' surfaced only when the user is Nous-authed,
unchanged from main).
Foundation commit for the browser-provider plugin migration (#25214).
Mirrors the architecture established by PR #25182 (web providers):
- agent/browser_provider.py — BrowserProvider ABC. Preserves the legacy
CloudBrowserProvider lifecycle contract bit-for-bit (create_session,
close_session, emergency_cleanup, session metadata shape) so the
dispatcher in tools/browser_tool.py becomes a pure registry lookup.
Renames is_configured() → is_available() for parity with WebSearchProvider.
- agent/browser_registry.py — selection registry with the same
three-rule resolution as web_search_registry:
1. Explicit config wins (returns even if is_available() == False so
the dispatcher surfaces a precise credentials error)
2. Single-eligible shortcut
3. Legacy preference walk: browser-use → browserbase, filtered by
availability. Firecrawl is intentionally NOT in the legacy walk
(matches pre-migration behaviour — Firecrawl was only reachable
via explicit browser.cloud_provider: firecrawl).
- hermes_cli/plugins.py — adds ctx.register_browser_provider() facade,
one-liner mirror of register_web_search_provider().
No plugins registered yet; no dispatcher cutover yet. The next commits
move browserbase/browser-use/firecrawl into plugins/browser/<vendor>/
and switch tools/browser_tool.py over to the registry.
The SSH connectivity check in `run_doctor` only passed the host to ssh,
using the current OS user and default port 22. When the target requires a
different user (TERMINAL_SSH_USER), non-standard port (TERMINAL_SSH_PORT),
or a specific identity file (TERMINAL_SSH_KEY), the check always failed
with "Permission denied" — even though the agent itself connects fine.
Fix: read all four TERMINAL_SSH_* env vars and build the ssh command with
-p, -i, and user@host as appropriate, matching how the terminal tool
actually establishes the connection.
Six days after #23937 (608 fixes) the codebase had accumulated 241 new
PLR6201 violations. Same mechanical `x in (...)` → `x in {...}` fix,
same zero-risk profile: set lookup is O(1) vs O(n) for tuple and the
two are semantically equivalent for hashable scalar membership tests.
All 241 instances fixed via `ruff check --select PLR6201 --fix
--unsafe-fixes`, zero remaining. Every changed value is a hashable
scalar (str/int/None/enum/signal); no risk of unhashable runtime
errors. No behavior change.
Test plan:
- 119 files changed, +244/-244 (net zero) — exactly one-line edits
- `ruff check` clean afterward
- Compile checks pass on the largest touched files (cli.py, run_agent.py,
gateway/run.py, gateway/platforms/discord.py, model_tools.py)
- Subset broad test run on tests/gateway/ tests/hermes_cli/ tests/agent/
tests/tools/: 18187 passed, 59 pre-existing failures (verified against
origin/main with the same shape — identical failure count, identical
category — all xdist test-order flakes unrelated to this change)
Follows the same template as PR #23937 ([tracker: #23972](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/23972)).
_configure_provider() calls _run_post_setup() after collecting env vars
(line 2286). _reconfigure_provider() did not — providers with both
env_vars and post_setup (Browserbase, Browser Use, Firecrawl, Camofox)
skipped the installation step on reconfiguration.
Fix: mirror the _configure_provider() call. post_setup hooks are
idempotent (check before installing), so no behaviour change for users
who already have the dependencies installed.
The x_search toolset is gated on xAI credentials (SuperGrok OAuth or
XAI_API_KEY), but it was staying off-by-default even for users who had
already configured those credentials — they had to also click through
`hermes tools` → X (Twitter) Search to flip it on. The HASS_TOKEN →
homeassistant rule already handles the parallel case cleanly; x_search
needs the same treatment.
Why a separate code path from HASS_TOKEN: `ha_*` tools live inside
the `hermes-cli` composite, so the subset-inference loop picks them
up and the HASS branch just unmasks default_off. `x_search` is its
own one-tool toolset NOT in the composite, so the subset loop never
adds it — it has to be injected directly.
* Add `_xai_credentials_present()` — side-effect-free check for stored
xAI OAuth tokens or XAI_API_KEY (dotenv or env). No network.
* In `_get_platform_tools()` else branch (no explicit user config),
inject `x_search` and carve a parallel hole in default_off.
* Auto-enable does NOT fire when the user has saved an explicit toolset
list via `hermes tools` — that list stays authoritative.
* `agent.disabled_toolsets: [x_search]` still wins (global override).
Tests: 4 new in test_tools_config.py covering OAuth path, API-key path,
no-creds path, and explicit-config-respect. All pass alongside existing
70/70 in that file.
The goal judge only receives the goal text and the agent's last
response. It has no concept of the current time, making it
impossible to evaluate time-sensitive goals like 'keep working
until 5pm'.
This commit adds 'Current time' to both JUDGE_USER_PROMPT_TEMPLATE
and JUDGE_USER_PROMPT_WITH_SUBGOALS_TEMPLATE, computed from
datetime.now().astimezone() at judge call time.
The Telegram/Discord model picker skipped live model discovery for
custom providers (llama.cpp, Ollama) unless an api_key was configured.
Local providers typically don't require auth on the /models endpoint.
The CLI always probes /models, so this brings the gateway picker into
parity.
Change: `if api_url and api_key:` -> `if api_url:`
Add creationflags=CREATE_NO_WINDOW to every Windows Popen call
across the terminal, process registry, code execution, and kanban
worker subsystems. Prevents visible CMD windows from flashing on
the user's desktop during agent operation.
Also adds the _IS_WINDOWS module constant to kanban_db.py where
it was missing, for consistency with the other patched files.
5 Popen sites across 4 files:
- tools/environments/local.py (terminal foreground spawn)
- tools/process_registry.py (background process spawn)
- tools/code_execution_tool.py (sandbox + interpreter probe)
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py (kanban worker spawn)
The _normalize_custom_provider_entry() function was dropping the
discover_models field from custom_provider entries because:
1. It was not listed in _KNOWN_KEYS, so it was logged as an
unknown key and ignored.
2. The function builds the normalized dict by explicitly copying
known fields, so even if the warning was suppressed, the value
was not carried through.
This caused downstream model_switch.py to default discover_models
to True, triggering /models HTTP probes on unreachable endpoints.
With 4 unreachable internal endpoints at ~6s timeout each, the
/api/model/options endpoint took ~24s instead of <1s.
hermes_cli/gateway.py:3702 referenced logger.debug() but 'logger' was
never defined in the module, causing a NameError at runtime if the
try/except around discover_plugins() caught an exception.
Added import logging and logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
at module level to resolve the undefined name.
Consume multi-byte non-CSI ESC sequences during ANSI sanitization and handle UnicodeDecodeError for `hermes send --file` so review findings are resolved without regressions.
Avoid Terminal.app paint corruption by disabling fast-echo in that terminal, sanitizing non-SGR control sequences before ANSI rendering, and defaulting Apple Terminal back to the safer 256-color path unless truecolor is explicitly requested.
The Discord adapter silently dropped any attachment whose extension wasn't
in the SUPPORTED_DOCUMENT_TYPES allowlist (PDF, text family, zip, office).
Users uploading .wav / .bin / other unrecognized formats saw nothing in
their conversation — the file got logged as 'Unsupported document type'
and discarded before the agent ever saw it.
Add discord.allow_any_attachment (default false) to bypass the allowlist.
When on:
- Any file is downloaded, cached under ~/.hermes/cache/documents/, and
surfaced as a DOCUMENT-typed event with application/octet-stream MIME
- gateway/run.py already emits a context note with the cached path,
auto-translated via to_agent_visible_cache_path() for Docker/Modal
sandboxed terminals
- File body is NOT inlined — only the path — so binary uploads don't
blow up the context window
- Allowlisted text formats (.txt/.md/.log) keep their 100 KiB inline
behavior unchanged
Also adds discord.max_attachment_bytes (default 32 MiB matches the
historical hardcoded cap; 0 = unlimited) since users opting into arbitrary
types may want to raise the cap. The whole attachment is held in memory
while being cached, so unlimited carries a real memory cost.
Env overrides: DISCORD_ALLOW_ANY_ATTACHMENT, DISCORD_MAX_ATTACHMENT_BYTES.
Discord-only by deliberate scope. Telegram has hard 20 MB API limits and
Slack has its own caps — extending the same flag there is a separate
follow-up if/when requested.
