Adds the Curator — an auxiliary-model background task that periodically
reviews AGENT-CREATED skills and keeps the collection tidy: tracks usage,
transitions unused skills through active → stale → archived, and spawns
a forked AIAgent to consolidate overlaps and patch drift.
Default: enabled, inactivity-triggered (no cron daemon). Runs on CLI
startup and gateway boot when the last run is older than interval_hours
(default 24) AND the agent has been idle for min_idle_hours (default 2).
Invariants (all load-bearing):
- Never touches bundled or hub-installed skills (.bundled_manifest +
.hub/lock.json double-filter)
- Never auto-deletes — archive only. Archives are recoverable
via `hermes curator restore <skill>`
- Pinned skills bypass all auto-transitions
- Uses the aux client; never touches the main session's prompt cache
New files:
- tools/skill_usage.py — sidecar .usage.json telemetry, atomic writes,
provenance filter
- agent/curator.py — orchestrator: config, idle gating, state-machine
transitions (pure, no LLM), forked-agent review prompt
- hermes_cli/curator.py — `hermes curator {status,run,pause,resume,
pin,unpin,restore}` subcommand
- tests/tools/test_skill_usage.py — 29 tests
- tests/agent/test_curator.py — 25 tests
Modified files (surgical patches):
- tools/skills_tool.py — bump view_count on successful skill_view
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py — bump patch_count on skill_manage
patch/edit/write_file/remove_file; forget record on delete
- hermes_cli/config.py — add curator: section to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- hermes_cli/commands.py — add /curator CommandDef with subcommands
- hermes_cli/main.py — register `hermes curator` subparser via
register_cli() from hermes_cli.curator
- cli.py — /curator slash-command dispatch + startup hook
- gateway/run.py — gateway-boot hook (mirrors CLI)
Validation:
- 54 new tests across skill_usage + curator, all passing in 3s
- 346 tests across all touched files' neighbors green
- 2783 tests across hermes_cli/ + gateway/test_run_progress_topics.py green
- CLI smoke: `hermes curator status/pause/resume` work end-to-end
Companion to PR #16026 (class-first skill review prompt) — together
they form a loop: the review prompt stops near-duplicate skill creation
at the source, and the curator prunes/consolidates what still accumulates.
Refs #7816.
Mechanical cleanup across 43 files — removes 46 unused imports
(F401) and 14 unused local variables (F841) detected by
`ruff check --select F401,F841`. Net: -49 lines.
Also fixes a latent NameError in rl_cli.py where `get_hermes_home()`
was called at module line 32 before its import at line 65 — the
module never imported successfully on main. The ruff audit surfaced
this because it correctly saw the symbol as imported-but-unused
(the call happened before the import ran); the fix moves the import
to the top of the file alongside other stdlib imports.
One `# noqa: F401` kept in hermes_cli/status.py for `subprocess`:
tests monkeypatch `hermes_cli.status.subprocess` as a regression
guard that systemctl isn't called on Termux, so the name must
exist at module scope even though the module body doesn't reference
it. Docstring explains the reason.
Also fixes an invalid `# noqa:` directive in
gateway/platforms/discord.py:308 that lacked a rule code.
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@users.noreply.github.com>
Registers tencent-tokenhub (https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1) as a
new API-key provider with model tencent/hy3-preview (256K context).
- PROVIDER_REGISTRY entry + TOKENHUB_API_KEY / TOKENHUB_BASE_URL env vars
- Aliases: tencent, tokenhub, tencent-cloud, tencentmaas
- openai_chat transport with is_tokenhub branch for top-level
reasoning_effort (Hy3 is a reasoning model)
- tencent/hy3-preview:free added to OpenRouter curated list
- 60+ tests (provider registry, aliases, runtime resolution,
credentials, model catalog, URL mapping, context length)
- Docs: integrations/providers.md, environment-variables.md,
model-catalog.json
Author: simonweng <simonweng@tencent.com>
Salvaged from PR #16860 onto current main (resolved conflicts with
#16935 Azure Anthropic env-var hint tests and the --provider choices=
list removal in chat_parser).
* feat(claw-migrate): harden OpenClaw import with plan-first apply, redaction, and pre-migration backup
Adopts four design patterns from OpenClaw's reciprocal migrate-hermes
importer so both migration paths have the same safety posture.
- **Refuse-on-conflict apply.** 'hermes claw migrate' now refuses to
execute when the plan has any conflict items, unless --overwrite is
set. Previously the user could say 'yes, proceed' and end up with a
silent partial migration that skipped every conflicting item.
- **Engine-level secret redaction.** The report.json and summary.md
written to disk (and --json stdout) run through a redactor that
matches OpenClaw's key-name markers and value-shape patterns
(sk-*, ghp_*, xox*-, AIza*, Bearer *). Prevents accidental API key
leakage in bug reports and support channels.
- **Pre-migration tarball snapshot.** Apply creates one timestamped
restore-point archive of ~/.hermes/ at ~/.hermes/migration/pre-migration-backups/
before any mutation, excluding regenerable directories
(sessions, logs, cache). Opt out with --no-backup.
- **Blocked-by-earlier-conflict sequencing.** If a config.yaml write
hits conflict/error mid-apply, subsequent config-mutating options
are marked skipped with reason 'blocked by earlier apply conflict'
rather than attempting partial writes.
- **Structured warnings[] and next_steps[] on the report** — actionable
guidance surfaces in both JSON output and summary.md.
- **--json output mode** — emits the redacted report on stdout for CI.
Also flips --preset full to NOT auto-enable --migrate-secrets. Users
now have to opt in to secret import explicitly, mirroring OpenClaw's
two-phase posture.
Status/kind/action constants are defined (STATUS_MIGRATED etc) with
values that match the existing strings the script emits, so the
report schema is backward-compatible. ItemResult gains a 'sensitive'
bool field that redaction and consumers can key off.
Validation: 26 new unit tests + 1 updated test in tests/skills/
test_openclaw_migration_hardening.py and test_claw.py cover redaction
(key markers, value patterns, recursion, on-disk), warnings/next_steps,
blocked-by-earlier sequencing, --json mode, and the preset-flip.
Manual E2E against a fake $HERMES_HOME with real-shaped secrets
confirmed: (1) secrets never appear in stdout or on disk,
(2) _cmd_migrate refuses apply when plan has conflicts,
(3) --overwrite proceeds past the guard and the backup tarball is
created, (4) --no-backup skips the archive.
Related docs: website/docs/guides/migrate-from-openclaw.md and
website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md updated to reflect the
preset-flip and new --no-backup flag.
* refactor(claw-migrate): reuse hermes backup system for pre-migration snapshot
Drops the inline tarball in hermes_cli/claw.py in favor of
hermes_cli.backup.create_pre_migration_backup(), which shares an
implementation with create_pre_update_backup via a new
_write_full_zip_backup helper. Benefits:
- Consistent exclusion rules with hermes backup (_EXCLUDED_DIRS,
_EXCLUDED_SUFFIXES, _EXCLUDED_NAMES — single source of truth).
- SQLite safe-copy via _safe_copy_db (state.db restores cleanly).
- Zip format restorable with 'hermes import <archive>'.
- Lives under ~/.hermes/backups/pre-migration-*.zip alongside
pre-update-*.zip — one place for all snapshot archives.
- Auto-prune rotation with separate keep counters (pre-migration
keeps 5, pre-update keeps 5, they don't touch each other's files).
7 new tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_backup.py lock the contract:
directory location, shared exclusion rules, _validate_backup_zip
acceptance (i.e. restorable with 'hermes import'), non-recursive
into prior backups, rotation, missing-home handling, and the
invariant that pre-migration rotation never touches pre-update
backups.
Help text and docs updated — the restore hint now says
'hermes import <name>' instead of 'tar -xzf <archive> -C ~/'.
* chore(claw-migrate): use backup._format_size and drop duplicate output line
Minor polish using another existing primitive from hermes_cli.backup:
- Show backup archive size with _format_size (e.g. '(245 B)' or '(2.4 MB)')
matching the format hermes backup already uses.
- Drop the duplicate 'Pre-migration backup saved' line after Migration
Results — the earlier 'Pre-migration backup: <path> (<size>)' line
already surfaces the path before apply runs.
---------
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@users.noreply.github.com>
Three related issues prevented user-defined providers in `providers:` and
`model_aliases:` from being reachable through standard CLI flags. Requests
silently routed to the configured `model.base_url` instead of the user-
intended endpoint.
* hermes_cli/model_switch.py — root cause of the silent misrouting:
`_ensure_direct_aliases()` rebound `DIRECT_ALIASES` to a freshly-loaded
dict, leaving every `from hermes_cli.model_switch import DIRECT_ALIASES`
caller stuck on the stale empty original. Switched to `.update()` so
module attribute references stay valid.
* hermes_cli/main.py — chat subcommand `--provider` had `choices=[...]`
hardcoded to built-in providers, rejecting valid keys from user
`providers:` config. Dropped the choices list; runtime resolution
validates correctly downstream.
* hermes_cli/oneshot.py — `-m <alias>` only resolved the model name; the
alias's base_url was never propagated. Now consults `DIRECT_ALIASES`
before falling through to `detect_provider_for_model`, and threads the
alias's base_url to `resolve_runtime_provider(explicit_base_url=...)`.
* hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py — `_resolve_named_custom_runtime` now
honors `(provider="custom", explicit_base_url=...)` so a base_url
propagated from a direct-alias resolution actually builds a runtime
instead of falling through to provider-registry handlers that don't
know about ad-hoc local endpoints.
Verified: `hermes chat --provider <user-key> -m <model> -q "..."` and
`hermes -m <user-alias> -z "..."` both route to the user-intended
endpoint, observable via the target server's request log.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
model_tools.py ran discover_mcp_tools() as a module-level side effect.
discover_mcp_tools() uses a blocking 120s wait internally (via
_run_on_mcp_loop -> future.result(timeout=120)).
The gateway lazy-imports run_agent -> model_tools on the first user
message, which happens inside the asyncio event loop thread. A slow or
unreachable MCP server therefore froze Discord shard heartbeats and
Telegram polling for up to 120s on the first message after gateway
start.
Fix: remove the module-level call. Every entry point now runs
discovery explicitly at its own startup, using the context-appropriate
blocking/non-blocking pattern:
- gateway/run.py: loop.run_in_executor(None, discover_mcp_tools)
before platforms start accepting traffic
- hermes_cli/main.py: inline (no event loop at CLI startup)
- tui_gateway/entry.py: inline (sync stdin loop, no event loop)
- acp_adapter/entry.py: inline before asyncio.run()
Closes#16856.
Replace the Linux/macOS pgrep regex ("hermes.*dashboard") with a ps
scan + the same explicit patterns list already used on the Windows
branch and in hermes_cli.gateway._scan_gateway_pids:
hermes dashboard
hermes_cli.main dashboard
hermes_cli/main.py dashboard
The old greedy regex would match any cmdline containing both words —
e.g. a chat session whose argv mentions "dashboard" or an unrelated
grafana/dashboard-server process. Added regression tests for both.
Follow-up tightening on #16881.
The dashboard is a long-lived server process users start and forget.
When hermes update replaces files on disk, the running process holds
the old Python backend in memory while the JS bundle gets updated,
producing a silent frontend/backend mismatch (e.g. v0.11.0 changed
the session token header -- old backends reject every API call).
Scan for running dashboard processes after a successful update (both
git and ZIP paths) and print a warning with their PIDs and restart
instructions. Mirrors the existing pattern for gateway processes.
Fixes#16872
- moveCursor(extend=true) now collapses to the bare cursor when the
computed offset equals the existing anchor instead of leaving a
zero-length sel. Without this, Shift+Left at col 0 / Shift+Home at
start would silently hide the hardware cursor (selected truthy)
without rendering any highlight.
- _tui_need_npm_install also catches UnicodeDecodeError so a corrupted
/ non-UTF8 lockfile falls back to the mtime path the docstring
promises instead of crashing.
Made-with: Cursor
* feat(tui): auto copy-on-select for transcript text
Drag in the transcript already highlighted but you had to press Cmd+C to
land it on the clipboard, and the highlight cleared on copy — most users
never realised selection existed. Now drag-release fires copySelectionNoClear
so the text is on the clipboard immediately while the highlight stays put,
matching iTerm2's "Copy to pasteboard on selection" default. Esc clears.
Behaviour:
- Single click in the input still positions the cursor (TextInput onClick).
- Single click in the transcript still does nothing destructive.
- Double / triple click select word / line, then drag extends.
- /copyselect [on|off|toggle] (alias /cos) flips the setting at runtime,
HERMES_TUI_DISABLE_COPY_ON_SELECT=1 disables at startup, persists via
display.tui_copy_on_select in config.yaml.
Help overlay now lists drag-select, multi-click, and click-to-position
so the gestures are discoverable.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): support prompt text selection gestures
Add mouse drag selection and Shift+Arrow/Home/End extension inside the TUI composer so prompt text behaves like a normal editable field while keeping click-to-position and right-click paste intact.
Made-with: Cursor
* Revert "feat(tui): auto copy-on-select for transcript text"
This reverts commit 6701288fe07a53af873e1ef53855a9618d733327.
* fix(tui): allow composer selection from prompt whitespace
Give the composer a one-cell mouse capture pad before the editable text. The prompt glyph/gutter still does not become selectable, but dragging from the edge now anchors at input offset 0 so users do not need to hit the first character precisely.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): clear selections from blank composer space
Clicking blank space in the transcript or composer now clears active TUI/input selections like a normal text surface. TextInput clicks stop bubbling so cursor placement and selection gestures keep their local behavior.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): delegate prompt gutter drags to composer text
The prompt gutter is now an input gesture region, not selectable content. Dragging from the whitespace or prompt area anchors the composer selection at offset 0, while selection highlight/copy remains limited to actual input text.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): move composer cursor to end on selection clear
External clear actions now collapse the composer selection to the end of the input, matching normal text-field behavior after dismissing a selection.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): capture composer padding before prompt
Add an explicit mouse capture cell over the left padding before the prompt glyph. Drags starting there now delegate to the composer input at offset 0 instead of starting terminal-level selection over the prompt chrome.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): avoid npm install on lockfile mtime churn
Compare package-lock.json against npm's hidden node_modules lock by content instead of mtimes. Git checkouts and npm lock rewrites can make the root lockfile newer even when installed dependencies already match, causing hermes --tui to print Installing TUI dependencies on every launch.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): include prompt leading cell in gesture region
Use the prompt box's real layout region to cover the leading whitespace cell before the glyph. The cell now participates in mouse hit testing and delegates to composer selection instead of starting terminal-level selection.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): widen prompt-side gesture capture band
Capture a wider left-side band around the composer prompt row so drags starting in terminal gutter/padding cells are consumed and delegated to input selection, instead of triggering terminal-level selection chrome.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): make pre-prompt spacer non-selectable content
Replace the sticky-prompt fallback `Text(' ')` with an empty spacer box so the visual gap remains but no literal space character is rendered/copyable before the composer prompt.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): capture pre-prompt spacer without shifting prompt layout
Revert the widened negative-margin prompt capture band and instead capture drags on the dedicated spacer row above the prompt. This keeps prompt/text alignment stable while still delegating whitespace-start drags to composer selection.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): align prompt with status bar and capture full input row
Drop the leading prompt column from 3 to 2 so the input first character lines up with the status bar text. Wrap the prompt+input row in a single mouse-capture box and stop event propagation from TextInput's own handlers so any drag in that row delegates to composer selection without leaking to terminal-level selection.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): anchor hardware cursor during composer selection
When a composer selection covers a row exactly the column width, the rendered text fills the row and the terminal auto-wraps the hardware cursor to col 0 of the next row, leaving a ghost block beneath the prompt. Park the cursor at the start of the input box during selection so it can't escape the input region.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): hide hardware cursor during composer selection
Stop fighting auto-wrap by hiding the hardware cursor outright while the
composer has an active selection. This prevents both the ghost block under
the prompt (cursor wrapping past the last cell) and the parked-cursor block
on the first selected character. The cursor restores as soon as the
selection clears or focus changes.
Made-with: Cursor
* chore(tui): /clean — drop dead capture-pad path, dedupe gutter handlers
- TextInput: remove unused leftCaptureColumns prop and capture-pad math, drop
unused mouseApi.startAt, fold mouse offset into a single offsetAt helper,
share a MouseEventLite type across the four handlers.
- appLayout: hoist a GutterMouseEvent type and an endInputDrag callback so the
spacer/prompt/input rows share one shape.
- _tui_need_npm_install: lift the runtime-only key set to a module constant,
collapse nested isinstance checks, and document the mtime fallback.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): address copilot review on PR #16732
- Split InputSelection.clear() into clear() (cursor-preserving) and
collapseToEnd() (clear + jump to end). Cmd+C copy paths keep using
clear() so the cursor stays put; the blank-area click in useMainApp
switches to collapseToEnd() to match the requested UX.
- Spacer-row drags now force row=0 when forwarding into the input,
since the spacer's vertical origin doesn't align with the input box
and Ink mouse-capture keeps dispatching motion to the original
target. Prompt+input row drag keeps localRow because origins match.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): give TextInput Box an explicit width
After the /clean pass dropped the unused capture-pad math, the wrapping
Box also lost its explicit width and started sizing to its rendered
content. Clicks past the last character missed TextInput and fell
through to the parent prompt-row Box, which collapsed the cursor to
offset 0. Pin the Box back to `columns` so the input owns its full
column span regardless of value length.
Made-with: Cursor
* feat(tui): double-click select-all + hide cursor on terminal blur
- Track click time/offset in TextInput so a quick second click on the
same offset triggers select-all. Ink's screen-level multi-click is
bypassed once our onMouseDown captures, so the gesture has to be
detected locally.
- Extend the cursor-hide effect to also fire when the terminal loses
focus, so the hollow-rect ghost most terminals draw at the parked
cursor position disappears too.
Made-with: Cursor
* chore(tui): /clean — extract isMultiClickAt helper
Pull the click-recurrence math out of TextInput's onMouseDown into a
small isMultiClickAt(offset) helper so the handler reads as the gesture
list it actually is (multi-click → select-all, otherwise start).
Drop the redundant length>0 guard now that selectAll() already noops on
an empty value.
Made-with: Cursor
* docs(tui): explain _tui_need_npm_install content-vs-mtime comparison
Expand the docstring so future readers understand why we parse the
lockfiles instead of comparing mtimes, what the optional/peer skip
covers, how stale hidden-lock entries are handled, and when we fall
back to mtime.
- create HERMES_TUI_ACTIVE_SESSION_FILE with mkstemp instead of a predictable tmp path and always cleanup in finally
- add assertions that launch wiring uses a randomized session file path and removes it on exit
- use a grouped last_active join in search_sessions to avoid per-row correlated max lookups
- always close SessionDB in _resolve_last_session via finally and add regression coverage for search failure cleanup
- order session listing by computed last_active in SessionDB so callers get MRU rows directly
- keep _resolve_last_session as a single-row lookup and add regression coverage for >20 session sampling
The zip backup could add minutes to every 'hermes update' on large
HERMES_HOME directories. Flip the default to off and add a --backup
flag for one-off opt-in runs.
- updates.pre_update_backup default: True -> False
- hermes update: new --backup flag (opposite of existing --no-backup)
- Silent no-op when disabled (no message spam on every update)
- Existing --no-backup still works and wins over --backup
- Users who explicitly set pre_update_backup: true keep the old behavior
- Tests updated to cover default-off, --backup opt-in, and config-enabled paths
Every 'hermes update' now runs a full backup of ~/.hermes/ first, so
users can always roll back to the exact state they had before the
update if anything goes wrong (corrupted sessions.db, broken skills,
config migrations that don't round-trip, etc.).
Changes:
- hermes_cli/backup.py: new create_pre_update_backup() helper. Writes
to <HERMES_HOME>/backups/pre-update-<stamp>.zip using the same
exclusion rules and SQLite safe-copy as 'hermes backup'. Auto-rotates
(keep last N, pre-update-*.zip only — hand-dropped zips in backups/
are untouched). Adds 'backups' to _EXCLUDED_DIRS so subsequent backups
don't nest prior ones.
- hermes_cli/main.py: _run_pre_update_backup() wired into
_cmd_update_impl before any git operation. Prints save path, restore
command, and how to disable. Swallows failures so a broken backup
never blocks the update itself. New --no-backup flag on 'hermes
update' for one-off override.
- hermes_cli/config.py: new 'updates' section in DEFAULT_CONFIG with
pre_update_backup (default true) and backup_keep (default 5).
Auto-surfaces in the dashboard config UI.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_backup.py: +11 tests covering backup location,
content parity with 'hermes backup', no-recursion, rotation, manual
file preservation, config gate, --no-backup flag, flag-wins-over-config.
Quick state snapshot now includes pairing JSONs (generic + legacy +
Feishu comment pairing), and `hermes update` takes a pre-update
snapshot labeled `pre-update` before pulling.
Pairing data lives outside state.db in platform-specific JSONs under
~/.hermes/pairing/, ~/.hermes/platforms/pairing/, and
~/.hermes/feishu_comment_pairing.json. The update command already
couldn't touch $HERMES_HOME, but #15733 reports lost pairing after
an update — this gives users something to restore from via
`/snapshot list` / `/snapshot restore <id>` if anything clobbers
the approved-user lists.
- Extend _QUICK_STATE_FILES with pairing paths (files + dirs)
- Snapshot walks directories recursively and records each file in the
manifest individually so restore logic is unchanged
- _cmd_update_impl calls create_quick_snapshot(label='pre-update')
after 'Found N new commits' and before 'Pulling updates'
- Snapshot failures are logged at debug and never block the update
Refs #15733.
When 'hermes model' runs against a providers: (keyed-schema) entry that
relies only on key_env, the picker resolves the env var for the live
/models request and then wrote a synthesized 'api_key: ${KEY_ENV}' back
to the providers.<key> entry. That's redundant — the runtime already
resolves from key_env directly — and it clutters configs that
intentionally keep credentials out of config.yaml.
Only persist provider_entry['api_key'] when the user originally had an
inline value (literal secret or ${VAR} template). Entries that declared
only key_env stay clean on save.
Fixes#15803.
* feat(skills): install skills from a direct HTTP(S) URL
Adds UrlSource adapter so `hermes skills install <url-to-SKILL.md>` and
`/skills install <url>` work as first-class operations — no more
improvising with curl + patch + cp.
- Claims identifiers that start with http(s):// and end in .md
- Skips /.well-known/skills/ URLs (WellKnownSkillSource handles those)
- Skill name from YAML frontmatter, URL-slug fallback
- Single-file SKILL.md only (v1 scope — multi-file skills need a manifest)
- Trust level 'community'; full security scan still runs
- Lock file stores the URL as identifier so `hermes skills update`
re-fetches from the same URL cleanly
Scope matches real user need from @versun's docx feedback where
`https://sharethis.chat/SKILL.md` had no first-class install path.
* feat(skills): interactive name/category for URL installs + --name override
Follow-up to the UrlSource adapter. The previous commit fell back to weak
heuristics when frontmatter had no ``name:`` and could produce garbage names
like ``SKILL`` or ``unnamed-skill``. Now:
tools/skills_hub.py
- ``UrlSource._is_valid_skill_name()`` — strict identifier check
(``^[a-z][a-z0-9_-]*$``), rejects sentinel values (``SKILL``, ``README``,
``INDEX``, ``unnamed-skill``, empty, non-strings).
- ``_resolve_skill_name()`` returns ``Optional[str]`` — ``None`` when
nothing valid is resolvable. Also ignores unsafe frontmatter names
(``../evil``) and falls through to URL slug instead of returning None
immediately, so a URL with a bad frontmatter but a good path still
works.
- ``fetch()``/``inspect()`` carry an ``awaiting_name=True`` marker in
metadata/extra when resolution fails, letting ``do_install`` decide
whether to prompt, apply an override, or error out.
hermes_cli/skills_hub.py
- ``do_install`` gains a ``name_override`` parameter.
- On URL-sourced bundles with ``awaiting_name=True``:
1. If ``name_override`` is valid → use it.
2. If ``name_override`` is invalid → refuse with a clear error.
3. Else if ``skip_confirm=True`` (non-interactive: slash / TUI /
gateway / scripts) → refuse with an actionable retry hint pointing
at ``--name <your-name>`` on both CLI and slash forms.
4. Else (interactive TTY) → prompt for the name.
- Interactive TTY also prompts for a category when none is given for a
URL-sourced install, hinting existing category buckets so users can
reuse ``productivity``, ``devops``, etc. Empty input → flat install.
- ``_existing_categories()`` scans ``~/.hermes/skills/`` for subdirs that
look like category buckets (contain nested SKILL.md files); skips
top-level skills and hidden dirs.
- ``_prompt_for_skill_name()`` / ``_prompt_for_category()`` helpers
(EOF/Ctrl-C-safe, match the existing ``Confirm [y/N]`` prompt style).
hermes_cli/main.py
- ``hermes skills install`` argparse gains ``--name <name>``.
hermes_cli/skills_hub.py (slash)
- ``/skills install <url> --name <x>`` parsing added.
Tests
- tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py: updated ``UrlSource`` tests to assert
the new ``awaiting_name`` metadata; added 4 new tests for
``_is_valid_skill_name`` rejection sets and the awaiting-name marker.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_skills_hub.py: 8 new tests covering --name
override accept/reject, non-interactive error, interactive name prompt,
interactive category prompt, cancel-aborts-install, and
``_existing_categories`` scan behavior (buckets vs flat skills).
- E2E verified all four paths (no-name/no-override → error;
--name override → install; frontmatter name → install;
invalid --name → rejection).
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Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@noreply.github.com>
- remove the temporary -c MRU logic and companion test from this branch so PR #15926 stays focused on TUI perf work
- keep the resume-ordering change isolated in the dedicated follow-up PR
CPU profiling showed the built TUI loading React development modules unless NODE_ENV was set. Default CLI and dashboard TUI children to production while preserving explicit user overrides.
`npm install --silent` (used by `_build_web_ui` and `_update_node_dependencies`)
silently rewrites package-lock.json on npm ≥ 10 (strips "peer": true etc.),
leaving the working tree dirty after every `hermes update`. The next update
then detects the dirty lockfile and stashes it — producing a trail of
hermes-update-autostash entries for web/package-lock.json, ui-tui/package-lock.json,
and root package-lock.json.
Switch to `npm ci` (strict, lockfile-preserving) via a new
`_run_npm_install_deterministic` helper that falls back to `npm install`
when the lockfile is missing or out of sync (WIP forks).
Verified locally: all three lockfiles stay byte-identical after the real
_build_web_ui / _update_node_dependencies run twice back-to-back. Fallback
path tested with a deliberately out-of-sync lockfile and a no-lockfile case.
Four independent session-UX bugs reported by an external user (#16294).
/save wrote hermes_conversation_<ts>.json to CWD — invisible to
'hermes sessions browse' and easy to lose. Snapshots now write under
~/.hermes/sessions/saved/ and the command prints the absolute path plus
a 'hermes --resume <id>' hint for the live DB-indexed session.
'hermes sessions browse' default --limit raised from 50 to 500. With the
old ceiling, users with moderately long histories saw only the most
recent 50 rows and assumed older sessions had been lost.
TUI session.list (`/resume` picker) switched from a hardcoded allow-list
of 13 gateway source names to a deny-list of just { 'tool' }. Sessions
tagged acp / webhook / user-defined HERMES_SESSION_SOURCE values and
any newly-added platform now surface. Default limit 20 → 200.
ollama-cloud provider setup passes force_refresh=True to
fetch_ollama_cloud_models() so a user entering their API key sees the
fresh catalog (e.g. deepseek v4 flash, kimi k2.6) immediately instead
of waiting up to an hour for the disk cache TTL to expire.
Closes#16294.
_web_ui_build_needed() in PR #14914 checked web_dir/"dist" as the
sentinel, but vite.config.ts sets outDir: "../hermes_cli/web_dist" so
the build output lands in hermes_cli/web_dist/, never in web/dist/.
The sentinel was therefore always missing → _web_ui_build_needed always
returned True → npm install + Vite build ran on every startup → OOM on
low-memory VPS persisted unchanged.
Fix: derive dist_dir as web_dir.parent / "hermes_cli" / "web_dist" so
the sentinel points to the actual build output directory.
Fixes#14898
`delete_session()` and `prune_sessions()` only removed SQLite records,
leaving .json/.jsonl transcript files on disk forever. Over time this
causes unbounded disk growth (~27MB/day observed).
Changes:
- Add `_remove_session_files()` static helper that cleans up
`{session_id}.json`, `.jsonl`, and `request_dump_{session_id}_*.json`
- `delete_session()` accepts optional `sessions_dir` param and removes
files for the deleted session and its children
- `prune_sessions()` accepts optional `sessions_dir` param and removes
files for all pruned sessions after the DB transaction
- Wire up CLI `hermes sessions delete` and `hermes sessions prune` to
pass `sessions_dir`
- File cleanup is best-effort (OSError silenced) so DB operations are
never blocked by filesystem issues
- Fully backward-compatible: `sessions_dir=None` (default) preserves
existing behavior
* fix(install): add /usr/local/bin PATH guard for RHEL root non-login shells
The FHS-layout branch assumed /usr/local/bin is on PATH for every
standard shell. That holds for login shells (via /etc/profile's
pathmunge) but breaks on RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Alma 8+ root in non-login
interactive shells (su, sudo -s, tmux panes, some web terminals) —
/etc/bashrc does not add /usr/local/bin and /root/.bash_profile
doesn't either. Result: hermes command links to /usr/local/bin/hermes
but the user has to type the absolute path each time.
Probe a fresh 'bash -i -c' (non-login interactive, matching the user
scenario) after symlinking. If hermes isn't resolvable, append an
idempotent PATH guard to /root/.bashrc and /root/.bash_profile, same
grep pattern already used by the ~/.local/bin branch below. No change
on distros where /usr/local/bin is already inherited.
* fix(update): repair RHEL root PATH on hermes update
Existing RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Alma root installs won't be repaired by the
install.sh fix alone because 'hermes update' is an in-place git pull, not
a rerun of install.sh. Port the same probe + idempotent .bashrc write
into cmd_update so affected users get fixed automatically on next update.
_ensure_fhs_path_guard() runs after 'Update complete!':
- Linux + root + FHS-layout install (command at /usr/local/bin/hermes) only
- Probe: env -i bash -i -c 'command -v hermes' — fresh non-login interactive
shell, same scenario the user reports
- On failure, append PATH guard to /root/.bashrc and /root/.bash_profile,
skipping if any uncommented PATH line already mentions /usr/local/bin
- Silent no-op on macOS, non-root, legacy layout, or shells that already
resolve hermes
Every command in COMMAND_REGISTRY (/btw, /stop, /model, /help, /new,
/bg, /reset, ...) is now a first-class Slack slash command instead of
a /hermes <subcommand>. Users get the same autocomplete-driven slash
picker experience Slack users expect and that Discord and Telegram
already provide.
Previously Slack registered ONE native slash (/hermes) and split on
the first word, so typing /btw in Slack's composer got 'couldn't find
an app for /btw' because the workspace manifest never declared it.
Changes
- hermes_cli/commands.py: slack_native_slashes() + slack_app_manifest()
generate a Slack manifest from the registry (canonical names +
aliases + plugin commands), clamped to Slack's 50-slash cap with
/hermes reserved as the catch-all.
- gateway/platforms/slack.py: single regex matcher dispatches every
registered slash to _handle_slash_command, which dispatches on
command['command']. Legacy /hermes <subcommand> keeps working for
backward compat with older workspace manifests.
- hermes_cli/slack_cli.py + hermes_cli/main.py: new 'hermes slack
manifest' command prints/writes a full manifest (display info,
OAuth scopes, event subs, socket mode, slash commands) ready to
paste into 'Create from manifest' or Features → App Manifest.
- hermes_cli/setup.py: _setup_slack() now writes the manifest up-front
and points users at the 'From an app manifest' flow; also offers
to refresh the manifest on reconfigure for picking up new commands.
- Tests: 14 new tests covering native-slash dispatch (/btw, /stop,
/model), legacy /hermes <sub> compat, manifest structure, and
telegram<->slack parity (every Telegram command must also register
as a Slack slash). Existing /hermes-registration test updated to
assert the new regex matches /hermes, /btw, /stop, /model, /help.
- Docs: slack.md gains a 'Slash Commands' section + Option A manifest
flow in Step 1; cli-commands.md documents 'hermes slack manifest'.
Users pick up the new slashes by running 'hermes slack manifest --write'
and pasting into Features → App Manifest → Edit in their Slack app
config, then Save (Slack prompts for reinstall if scopes changed).
'hermes skills list' now shows every skill's enabled/disabled status
and accepts --enabled-only to filter down to what will actually load
for the active profile:
hermes -p dario skills list --enabled-only
Previously the command was a flat catalog — it did not apply
skills.disabled from config.yaml, so there was no way to see the
live skill set for a profile without reading config by hand.
Profile switching already works via -p (swaps HERMES_HOME); this
just surfaces the result visibly.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/skills_hub.py: do_list adds a Status column and an
enabled_only filter; summary reports enabled/disabled split
- hermes_cli/main.py: --enabled-only flag on 'skills list'
- /skills list slash command accepts --enabled-only too
- tests: 4 new (status column, disabled marking, enabled-only
hiding, no platform leakage into get_disabled_skill_names);
existing fixtures updated to accept skip_disabled kwarg
Reported by @mochizukimr on X.
New `hermes kanban` CLI subcommand + `/kanban` slash command + skills for
worker and orchestrator profiles. SQLite-backed task board
(~/.hermes/kanban.db) shared across all profiles on the host. Zero
changes to run_agent.py, no new core tools, no tool-schema bloat.
Motivation: delegate_task is a function call — sync fork/join, anonymous
subagent, no resumability, no human-in-the-loop. Kanban is the durable
shape needed for research triage, scheduled ops, digital twins,
engineering pipelines, and fleet work. They coexist (workers may call
delegate_task internally).
What this adds
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py — schema, CAS claim, dependency resolution,
dispatcher, workspace resolution, worker-context builder.
- hermes_cli/kanban.py — 15-verb CLI surface and shared run_slash()
entry point used by both CLI and gateway.
- skills/devops/kanban-worker — how a profile should work a claimed task.
- skills/devops/kanban-orchestrator — "you are a dispatcher, not a
worker" template with anti-temptation rules.
- /kanban slash command wired into cli.py and gateway/run.py. Bypasses
the running-agent guard (board writes don't touch agent state), so
/kanban unblock can free a stuck worker mid-conversation.
- Design spec at docs/hermes-kanban-v1-spec.pdf — comparative analysis
vs Cline Kanban, Paperclip, NanoClaw, Gemini Enterprise; 8 patterns;
4 user stories; implementation plan; concurrency correctness.
- Docs: website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md, CLI reference
updated, sidebar entry added.
Architecture highlights
- Three planes: control (user + gateway), state (board + dispatcher),
execution (pool of profile processes).
- Every worker is a full OS process, spawned as `hermes -p <profile>`.
No in-process subagent swarms — solves NanoClaw's SDK-lifecycle
failure class.
- Atomic claim via SQLite CAS in a BEGIN IMMEDIATE transaction; stale
claims reclaimed 15 min after their TTL expires.
- Tenant namespacing via one nullable column — one specialist fleet
can serve many businesses with data isolation by workspace path.
Tests: 60 targeted tests (schema, CAS atomicity, dependency resolution,
dispatcher, workspace kinds, tenancy, CLI + slash surface). All pass
hermetic via scripts/run_tests.sh.
Manage the fallback_providers chain from the CLI instead of hand-editing
config.yaml. The picker reuses select_provider_and_model() from 'hermes
model' — same provider list, same credential prompts, same model picker.
hermes fallback [list] Show the current chain (primary + fallbacks)
hermes fallback add Run the model picker, append selection to chain
hermes fallback remove Pick an entry to delete (arrow-key menu)
hermes fallback clear Remove all entries (with confirmation)
'add' snapshots config['model'] before calling the picker, extracts the
user's selection from the post-picker state, then restores the primary
and appends {provider, model, base_url?, api_mode?} to fallback_providers.
Auth store's active_provider is snapshot/restored too so OAuth-provider
fallbacks don't silently deactivate the user's primary. Duplicates and
self-as-fallback are rejected. Legacy single-dict 'fallback_model' entries
are auto-migrated to the list format on first write.
OpenRouter and Nous Portal curated picker lists now resolve via a JSON
manifest served by the docs site, falling back to the in-repo snapshot
when unreachable. Lets us update model lists without shipping a release.
Live URL: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/api/model-catalog.json
(source at website/static/api/model-catalog.json; auto-deploys via the
existing deploy-site.yml GitHub Pages pipeline on every merge to main).
Schema (v1) carries id + optional description + free-form metadata at
manifest, provider, and model levels. Pricing and context length stay
live-fetched via existing machinery (/v1/models endpoints, models.dev).
Config (new model_catalog section, default enabled):
model_catalog.url master manifest URL
model_catalog.ttl_hours disk cache TTL (default 24h)
model_catalog.providers.<name>.url optional per-provider override
Fetch pipeline: in-process cache -> disk cache (fresh < TTL) -> HTTP
fetch -> disk-cache-on-failure fallback -> in-repo snapshot as last
resort. Never raises to callers; at worst returns the bundled list.
Changes:
- website/static/api/model-catalog.json initial manifest (35 OR + 31 Nous)
- scripts/build_model_catalog.py regenerator from in-repo lists
- hermes_cli/model_catalog.py fetch + validate + cache module
- hermes_cli/models.py fetch_openrouter_models() +
new get_curated_nous_model_ids()
- hermes_cli/main.py, hermes_cli/auth.py Nous flows use the helper
- hermes_cli/config.py model_catalog defaults
- website/docs/reference/model-catalog.md + sidebars.ts
- tests/hermes_cli/test_model_catalog.py 21 tests (validation, fetch
success/failure, accessors,
disabled, overrides, integration)
Bare `hermes setup` on a returning user now drops straight into the
full reconfigure wizard — every prompt shows the current value as its
default, press Enter to keep or type a new value to change it. The
returning-user menu is gone.
Behavior:
- First-time user: first-time wizard (unchanged)
- Returning user, bare command: full reconfigure wizard (new default)
- Returning user, `--quick`: only prompt for missing/unset items
- Returning user, one section: `hermes setup model|terminal|gateway|tools|agent`
- `--reconfigure`: preserved as backwards-compat alias (no-op since it's now default)
The section functions already used current values as prompt defaults —
this change just removes the extra click to get to them.
The 'Quick Setup - configure missing items only' menu option is now
exposed as the explicit `--quick` flag; it's the narrow case of
filling in missing config (e.g. after a partial OpenClaw migration or
when a required API key got cleared).
Inspired by Mercury Agent's `mercury doctor` UX.
Also removes:
- RETURNING_USER_MENU_SECTION_KEYS (orphaned constant)
- Two returning-user menu tests in test_setup_noninteractive.py
(guarding behavior that no longer exists — covered by
test_setup_reconfigure.py instead)
The azure-foundry wizard now probes the endpoint before asking the user
to pick anything by hand:
1. URL path sniff — endpoints ending in /anthropic are Azure Foundry
Claude routes and skip to anthropic_messages.
2. GET <base>/models probe — if the endpoint returns an OpenAI-shaped
model list, we switch to chat_completions and prefill the picker
with the returned deployment/model IDs.
3. Anthropic Messages probe — fallback for endpoints that don't expose
/models but do speak the Anthropic Messages shape.
4. Manual fallback — private endpoints / custom routes still work;
the user picks API mode + types a deployment name.
Context length for the selected model is resolved through the existing
agent.model_metadata.get_model_context_length chain (models.dev,
provider metadata, hardcoded family fallbacks) and stored in
model.context_length when a non-default value is found.
Also refactors runtime_provider so Azure Foundry resolution is reused
between the explicit-credentials path and the default top-level path —
previously the /v1 strip for Anthropic-style Azure only ran when the
caller passed explicit_* args, which meant config-driven sessions
hit a double-/v1 URL.
New module hermes_cli/azure_detect.py with 19 unit tests covering:
- path sniff, model ID extraction, probe fallbacks
- HTTP error handling (URLError, HTTPError)
- context-length lookup passthrough
- DEFAULT_FALLBACK_CONTEXT rejection
New runtime tests cover:
- OpenAI-style Azure Foundry
- Anthropic-style Azure Foundry with /v1 stripping
- Missing base_url / API key raising AuthError
Rationale: Microsoft confirms there's no pure-API-key endpoint to list
Azure deployments (that requires ARM management auth). The v1 Azure
OpenAI endpoint does expose /models with the resource's available
model catalog, which is good enough for picker prefill in the common
case. Users on private/gated endpoints fall through to manual entry.
Add support for Azure Foundry as a new inference provider. Azure Foundry
endpoints can use either OpenAI-style (/v1/chat/completions) or
Anthropic-style (/v1/messages) API formats.
Changes:
- Add azure-foundry to PROVIDER_REGISTRY (auth.py)
- Add azure-foundry overlay in HERMES_OVERLAYS (providers.py)
- Add empty model list for azure-foundry (models.py)
- Add _model_flow_azure_foundry() interactive setup (main.py)
- Add azure-foundry runtime resolution with api_mode support (runtime_provider.py)
- Add AZURE_FOUNDRY_API_KEY and AZURE_FOUNDRY_BASE_URL env vars (config.py)
Usage:
hermes model -> More providers -> Azure Foundry
The setup wizard prompts for:
- Endpoint URL
- API format (OpenAI or Anthropic-style)
- API key
- Model name
Configuration is saved to config.yaml (model.provider, model.base_url,
model.api_mode, model.default) and ~/.hermes/.env (AZURE_FOUNDRY_API_KEY).
The raw-template lookup added in PR #15817 went through
`get_compatible_custom_providers(read_raw_config())`, which calls
`_normalize_custom_provider_entry` → `urlparse(base_url)`. Any
entry whose `base_url` is itself an env-ref (`${NEURALWATT_API_BASE}`)
was dropped as 'not a valid URL', so `api_key_ref` stayed empty and the
resolved secret was still written to `model.api_key` — the exact case
the original Discord report described.
Replace the normalizer-gated lookup with a direct read of
`raw['custom_providers']` and `raw['providers']`, indexed by name
(case-insensitive, optionally qualified by model) so the loaded
(expanded) entry can be matched regardless of how `base_url` is
written.
Add an integration regression test driving the real
`select_provider_and_model` entry point with the Discord-reported
NeuralWatt config (`${VAR}` in both `base_url` and `api_key`).
This test fails on the PR-only fix and passes with the broadened
lookup.
The post-graceful-drain is-active poll used a fixed 10s timeout, but
systemd's hermes-gateway.service has RestartSec=30 — so systemd won't
respawn the unit for 30s after exit-75, and our poll gives up during
the cooldown. Result: every 'hermes update' printed
⚠ hermes-gateway drained but didn't relaunch — forcing restart
followed by a redundant 'systemctl restart' that kicked the newly-
respawning gateway again (and re-started WhatsApp / Discord a second
time in the process).
Fix: read RestartUSec from the unit via 'systemctl show' and set the
poll budget to max(10s, RestartSec + 10s slack). Units without
RestartSec set (or value=infinity) fall back to the original 10s.
Observed timeline from journalctl before fix:
08:56:22.262 old PID exits 75
08:56:32.707 systemd logs Stopped -> Started (10.4s gap, > 10s budget)
After fix the poll covers 40s — comfortably inside RestartSec + slack.
Validation:
- RestartUSec parser tested against '30s', '100ms', '1min 30s',
'infinity', '', 'garbage', '500us', '2min' — all correct.
- Against the live hermes-gateway.service: parses to 30.0s.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_update_gateway_restart.py: 41/41 pass.
Makes hermes -z usable by sweeper without mutating user config.
- Top-level -m/--model and --provider flags that apply to -z/--oneshot
(mirrors hermes chat's plumbing).
- HERMES_INFERENCE_MODEL env var as the parallel to HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER
for CI / scripted invocations.
- resolve_runtime_provider() gets the requested provider; when --model is
given without --provider, detect_provider_for_model() auto-selects the
provider that serves it (same semantic as /model in an interactive session).
- --provider without --model errors out with exit 2 — carrying a config
model across to a different provider is usually wrong, and silently
picking the provider's catalog default hides the mismatch.
Config defaults still used when both flags are omitted (existing behavior).
Validation (all live against OpenRouter):
-z 'x' ....................... uses config default (opus-4.7)
-z 'x' --model haiku-4.5 ..... haiku-4.5 via auto-detected openrouter
-z 'x' --model ... --provider pair as given
HERMES_INFERENCE_MODEL=... -z haiku-4.5 via env var
-z 'x' --provider anthropic .. exits 2 with error to stderr
* feat: add `hermes -z <prompt>` one-shot mode
Top-level flag that runs a single prompt and prints ONLY the final
response text to stdout. No banner, no spinner, no tool previews, no
session_id line — stdout is machine-readable, stderr is silent.
Tools, memory, rules, and AGENTS.md in the CWD are loaded as normal.
Approvals are auto-bypassed (sets HERMES_YOLO_MODE=1 for the call).
Bypasses cli.py entirely — goes straight to AIAgent.chat().
* feat(oneshot): handle interactive-callback gaps explicitly
Document (and where needed, patch) the interactive surfaces that have
no user to answer in oneshot mode:
- clarify — inject a callback that tells the agent to pick the
best default and continue (previously returned a
generic 'not available in this execution context'
error that wastes a tool call)
- sudo password — terminal_tool already gates on HERMES_INTERACTIVE
(we don't set it); sudo fails gracefully
- shell hooks — HERMES_ACCEPT_HOOKS=1 auto-approves; also falls
back to deny on non-tty stdin
- dangerous cmd — HERMES_YOLO_MODE=1 short-circuits before input()
- secret capture— tool returns gracefully when no callback wired
Live-tested: agent asked clarify(['red','blue']) and got 'red' back,
replied with only 'red'.
The AIAgent.flush_memories pre-compression save, the gateway
_flush_memories_for_session, and everything feeding them are
obsolete now that the background memory/skill review handles
persistent memory extraction.
Problems with flush_memories:
- Pre-dates the background review loop. It was the only memory-save
path when introduced; the background review now fires every 10 user
turns on CLI and gateway alike, which is far more frequent than
compression or session reset ever triggered flush.
- Blocking and synchronous. Pre-compression flush ran on the live agent
before compression, blocking the user-visible response.
- Cache-breaking. Flush built a temporary conversation prefix
(system prompt + memory-only tool list) that diverged from the live
conversation's cached prefix, invalidating prompt caching. The
gateway variant spawned a fresh AIAgent with its own clean prompt
for each finalized session — still cache-breaking, just in a
different process.
- Redundant. Background review runs in the live conversation's
session context, gets the same content, writes to the same memory
store, and doesn't break the cache. Everything flush_memories
claimed to preserve is already covered.
What this removes:
- AIAgent.flush_memories() method (~248 LOC in run_agent.py)
- Pre-compression flush call in _compress_context
- flush_memories call sites in cli.py (/new + exit)
- GatewayRunner._flush_memories_for_session + _async_flush_memories
(and the 3 call sites: session expiry watcher, /new, /resume)
- 'flush_memories' entry from DEFAULT_CONFIG auxiliary tasks,
hermes tools UI task list, auxiliary_client docstrings
- _memory_flush_min_turns config + init
- #15631's headroom-deduction math in
_check_compression_model_feasibility (headroom was only needed
because flush dragged the full main-agent system prompt along;
the compression summariser sends a single user-role prompt so
new_threshold = aux_context is safe again)
- The dedicated test files and assertions that exercised
flush-specific paths
What this renames (with read-time backcompat on sessions.json):
- SessionEntry.memory_flushed -> SessionEntry.expiry_finalized.
The session-expiry watcher still uses the flag to avoid re-running
finalize/eviction on the same expired session; the new name
reflects what it now actually gates. from_dict() reads
'expiry_finalized' first, falls back to the legacy 'memory_flushed'
key so existing sessions.json files upgrade seamlessly.
Supersedes #15631 and #15638.
Tested: 383 targeted tests pass across run_agent/, agent/, cli/,
and gateway/ session-boundary suites. No behavior regressions —
background memory review continues to handle persistent memory
extraction on both CLI and gateway.
The auto-restart path in `hermes update` verifies systemd unit health with
`time.sleep(3)` + a single `systemctl is-active` call. The unit's
Stopped -> Started transition after a graceful SIGUSR1 exit (or a hard
restart) is not always complete inside that 3s window, so the verify
races and reports 'drained but didn't relaunch' even though systemd is
about to bring the unit back up a fraction of a second later. Users
then see a spurious warning, a redundant fallback `systemctl restart`
fires, and adapters (Discord, WhatsApp) get restarted twice.
Replace the three sleep+oneshot sites with a small `_wait_for_service_active()`
closure that polls `is-active` every 0.5s for up to 10s. Behaviour
is unchanged when the unit is healthy or truly dead — only the race
window around a clean restart is now handled correctly.
Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_update_gateway_restart.py (41/41).
Bug 3 — Stale OAuth token not detected in 'hermes model':
- _model_flow_anthropic used 'has_creds = bool(existing_key)' which treats
any non-empty token (including expired OAuth tokens) as valid.
- Added existing_is_stale_oauth check: if the only credential is an OAuth
token (sk-ant- prefix) with no valid cc_creds fallback, mark it stale
and force the re-auth menu instead of silently accepting a broken token.
Bug 4 — macOS Keychain credentials never read:
- Claude Code >=2.1.114 migrated from ~/.claude/.credentials.json to the
macOS Keychain under service 'Claude Code-credentials'.
- Added _read_claude_code_credentials_from_keychain() using the 'security'
CLI tool; read_claude_code_credentials() now tries Keychain first then
falls back to JSON file.
- Non-Darwin platforms return None from Keychain read immediately.
Tests:
- tests/agent/test_anthropic_keychain.py: 11 cases covering Darwin-only
guard, security command failures, JSON parsing, fallback priority.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_anthropic_model_flow_stale_oauth.py: 8 cases
covering stale OAuth detection, API key passthrough, cc_creds fallback.
Refs: #12905
- probe_api_models: add api_mode param; use x-api-key + anthropic-version
headers for anthropic_messages mode (Anthropic's native Models API auth)
- probe_api_models: add User-Agent header to avoid Cloudflare 403 blocks
on third-party OpenAI-compatible endpoints
- validate_requested_model: pass api_mode through from switch_model
- validate_requested_model: for anthropic_messages mode, attempt probe with
correct auth; if probe fails (many proxies don't implement /v1/models),
accept the model with an informational warning instead of rejecting
- fetch_api_models: propagate api_mode to probe_api_models
Cron jobs can now specify a per-job working directory. When set, the job
runs as if launched from that directory: AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md /
.cursorrules from that dir are injected into the system prompt, and the
terminal / file / code-exec tools use it as their cwd (via TERMINAL_CWD).
When unset, old behaviour is preserved (no project context files, tools
use the scheduler's cwd).
Requested by @bluthcy.
## Mechanism
- cron/jobs.py: create_job / update_job accept 'workdir'; validated to
be an absolute existing directory at create/update time.
- cron/scheduler.py run_job: if job.workdir is set, point TERMINAL_CWD
at it and flip skip_context_files to False before building the agent.
Restored in finally on every exit path.
- cron/scheduler.py tick: workdir jobs run sequentially (outside the
thread pool) because TERMINAL_CWD is process-global. Workdir-less jobs
still run in the parallel pool unchanged.
- tools/cronjob_tools.py + hermes_cli/cron.py + hermes_cli/main.py:
expose 'workdir' via the cronjob tool and 'hermes cron create/edit
--workdir ...'. Empty string on edit clears the field.
## Validation
- tests/cron/test_cron_workdir.py (21 tests): normalize, create, update,
JSON round-trip via cronjob tool, tick partition (workdir jobs run on
the main thread, not the pool), run_job env toggle + restore in finally.
- Full targeted suite (tests/cron/, test_cronjob_tools.py, test_cron.py,
test_config_cwd_bridge.py, test_worktree.py): 314/314 passed.
- Live smoke: hermes cron create --workdir $(pwd) works; relative path
rejected; list shows 'Workdir:'; edit --workdir '' clears.
agent/redact.py snapshots _REDACT_ENABLED from HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS at
module-import time. hermes_cli/main.py calls setup_logging() early, which
transitively imports agent.redact — BEFORE any config bridge has run. So
users who set 'security.redact_secrets: false' in config.yaml (instead of
HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS=false in .env) had the toggle silently ignored in
both 'hermes chat' and 'hermes gateway run'.
Bridge config.yaml -> env var in hermes_cli/main.py BEFORE setup_logging.
.env still wins (only set env when unset) — config.yaml is the fallback.
Regression tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_redact_config_bridge.py spawn
fresh subprocesses to verify:
- redact_secrets: false in config.yaml disables redaction
- default (key absent) leaves redaction enabled
- .env HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS=true overrides config.yaml
Google AI Studio's free tier (<= 250 req/day for gemini-2.5-flash) is
exhausted in a handful of agent turns, so the setup wizard now refuses
to wire up Gemini when the supplied key is on the free tier, and the
runtime 429 handler appends actionable billing guidance.
Setup-time probe (hermes_cli/main.py):
- `_model_flow_api_key_provider` fires one minimal generateContent call
when provider_id == 'gemini' and classifies the response as
free/paid/unknown via x-ratelimit-limit-requests-per-day header or
429 body containing 'free_tier'.
- Free -> print block message, refuse to save the provider, return.
- Paid -> 'Tier check: paid' and proceed.
- Unknown (network/auth error) -> 'could not verify', proceed anyway.
Runtime 429 handler (agent/gemini_native_adapter.py):
- `gemini_http_error` appends billing guidance when the 429 error body
mentions 'free_tier', catching users who bypass setup by putting
GOOGLE_API_KEY directly in .env.
Tests: 21 unit tests for the probe + error path, 4 tests for the
setup-flow block. All 67 existing gemini tests still pass.
cmd_update no longer SIGKILLs in-flight agent runs, and users get
'still working' status every 3 min instead of 10. Two long-standing
sources of '@user — agent gives up mid-task' reports on Telegram and
other gateways.
Drain-aware update:
- New helper hermes_cli.gateway._graceful_restart_via_sigusr1(pid,
drain_timeout) sends SIGUSR1 to the gateway and polls os.kill(pid,
0) until the process exits or the budget expires.
- cmd_update's systemd loop now reads MainPID via 'systemctl show
--property=MainPID --value' and tries the graceful path first. The
gateway's existing SIGUSR1 handler -> request_restart(via_service=
True) -> drain -> exit(75) is wired in gateway/run.py and is
respawned by systemd's Restart=on-failure (and the explicit
RestartForceExitStatus=75 on newer units).
- Falls back to 'systemctl restart' when MainPID is unknown, the
drain budget elapses, or the unit doesn't respawn after exit (older
units missing Restart=on-failure). Old install behavior preserved.
- Drain budget = max(restart_drain_timeout, 30s) + 15s margin so the
drain loop in run_agent + final exit have room before fallback
fires. Composes with #14728's tool-subprocess reaping.
Notification interval:
- agent.gateway_notify_interval default 600 -> 180.
- HERMES_AGENT_NOTIFY_INTERVAL env-var fallback in gateway/run.py
matched.
- 9-minute weak-model spinning runs now ping at 3 min and 6 min
instead of 27 seconds before completion, removing the 'is the bot
dead?' reflex that drives gateway-restart cycles.
Tests:
- Two new tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_update_gateway_restart.py:
one asserts SIGUSR1 is sent and 'systemctl restart' is NOT called
when MainPID is known and the helper succeeds; one asserts the
fallback fires when the helper returns False.
- E2E: spawned detached bash processes confirm the helper returns
True on SIGUSR1-handling exit (~0.5s) and False on SIGUSR1-ignoring
processes (timeout). Verified non-existent PID and pid=0 edge cases.
- 41/41 in test_update_gateway_restart.py (was 39, +2 new).
- 154/154 in shutdown-related suites including #14728's new tests.
Reported by @GeoffWellman and @ANT_1515 on X.
Three bugs fixed in model alias resolution:
1. resolve_alias() returned the FIRST catalog match with no version
preference. '/model mimo' picked mimo-v2-omni (index 0 in dict)
instead of mimo-v2.5-pro. Now collects all prefix matches, sorts
by version descending with pro/max ranked above bare names, and
returns the highest.
2. models.dev registry missing newly added models (e.g. v2.5 for
native xiaomi). resolve_alias() now merges static _PROVIDER_MODELS
entries into the catalog so models resolve immediately without
waiting for models.dev to sync.
3. hermes model picker showed only models.dev results (3 xiaomi models),
hiding curated entries (5 total). The picker now merges curated
models into the models.dev list so all models appear.
Also fixes a trailing-dot float parsing edge case in _model_sort_key
where '5.4.' failed float() and multi-dot versions like '5.4.1'
weren't parsed correctly.
Port from openai/codex#18646.
Adds two flags to 'hermes chat' that fully isolate a run from user-level
configuration and rules:
* --ignore-user-config: skip ~/.hermes/config.yaml and fall back to
built-in defaults. Credentials in .env are still loaded so the agent
can actually call a provider.
* --ignore-rules: skip auto-injection of AGENTS.md, SOUL.md,
.cursorrules, and persistent memory (maps to AIAgent(skip_context_files=True,
skip_memory=True)).
Primary use cases:
- Reproducible CI runs that should not pick up developer-local config
- Third-party integrations (e.g. Chronicle in Codex) that bring their
own config and don't want user preferences leaking in
- Bug-report reproduction without the reporter's personal overrides
- Debugging: bisect 'was it my config?' vs 'real bug' in one command
Both flags are registered on the parent parser AND the 'chat' subparser
(with argparse.SUPPRESS on the subparser to avoid overwriting the parent
value when the flag is placed before the subcommand, matching the
existing --yolo/--worktree/--pass-session-id pattern).
Env vars HERMES_IGNORE_USER_CONFIG=1 and HERMES_IGNORE_RULES=1 are set
by cmd_chat BEFORE 'from cli import main' runs, which is critical
because cli.py evaluates CLI_CONFIG = load_cli_config() at module import
time. The cli.py / hermes_cli.config.load_cli_config() function checks
the env var and skips ~/.hermes/config.yaml when set.
Tests: 11 new tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_ignore_user_config_flags.py
covering the env gate, constructor wiring, cmd_chat simulation, and
argparse flag registration. All pass; existing hermes_cli + cli suites
unaffected (3005 pass, 2 pre-existing unrelated failures).
Adds a first-class 'stepfun' API-key provider surfaced as Step Plan:
- Support Step Plan setup for both International and China regions
- Discover Step Plan models live from /step_plan/v1/models, with a
small coding-focused fallback catalog when discovery is unavailable
- Thread StepFun through provider metadata, setup persistence, status
and doctor output, auxiliary routing, and model normalization
- Add tests for provider resolution, model validation, metadata
mapping, and StepFun region/model persistence
Based on #6005 by @hengm3467.
Co-authored-by: hengm3467 <100685635+hengm3467@users.noreply.github.com>
Drop _NOUS_ALLOWED_FREE_MODELS + filter_nous_free_models and its two call
sites. Whatever Nous Portal prices as free now shows up in the picker as-is
— no local allowlist gatekeeping. Free-tier partitioning (paid vs free in
the menu) still runs via partition_nous_models_by_tier.
Follow-up to the redundant-imports sweep. _install_hangup_protection
used to import get_hermes_home locally; the sweep hoisted it to the
module-level binding already present at line 164.
test_non_fatal_if_log_setup_fails monkeypatches
hermes_cli.config.get_hermes_home to raise, which only works when the
function late-binds its lookup. The hoisted version captures the
reference at import time and bypasses the monkeypatch.
Restore the local import (with a distinct local alias) so the test
seam works and the stdio-untouched-on-setup-failure invariant is
actually exercised.
Full AST-based scan of all .py files to find every case where a module
or name is imported locally inside a function body but is already
available at module level. This is the second pass — the first commit
handled the known cases from the lint report; this one catches
everything else.
Files changed (19):
cli.py — 16 removals: time as _time/_t/_tmod (×10),
re / re as _re (×2), os as _os, sys,
partial os from combo import,
from model_tools import get_tool_definitions
gateway/run.py — 8 removals: MessageEvent as _ME /
MessageType as _MT (×3), os as _os2,
MessageEvent+MessageType (×2), Platform,
BasePlatformAdapter as _BaseAdapter
run_agent.py — 6 removals: get_hermes_home as _ghh,
partial (contextlib, os as _os),
cleanup_vm, cleanup_browser,
set_interrupt as _sif (×2),
partial get_toolset_for_tool
hermes_cli/main.py — 4 removals: get_hermes_home, time as _time,
logging as _log, shutil
hermes_cli/config.py — 1 removal: get_hermes_home as _ghome
hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py
— 1 removal: load_config as _load_bedrock_config
hermes_cli/setup.py — 2 removals: importlib.util (×2)
hermes_cli/nous_subscription.py
— 1 removal: from hermes_cli.config import load_config
hermes_cli/tools_config.py
— 1 removal: from hermes_cli.config import load_config, save_config
cron/scheduler.py — 3 removals: concurrent.futures, json as _json,
from hermes_cli.config import load_config
batch_runner.py — 1 removal: list_distributions as get_all_dists
(kept print_distribution_info, not at top level)
tools/send_message_tool.py
— 2 removals: import os (×2)
tools/skills_tool.py — 1 removal: logging as _logging
tools/browser_camofox.py
— 1 removal: from hermes_cli.config import load_config
tools/image_generation_tool.py
— 1 removal: import fal_client
environments/tool_context.py
— 1 removal: concurrent.futures
gateway/platforms/bluebubbles.py
— 1 removal: httpx as _httpx
gateway/platforms/whatsapp.py
— 1 removal: import asyncio
tui_gateway/server.py — 2 removals: from datetime import datetime,
import time
All alias references (_time, _t, _tmod, _re, _os, _os2, _json, _ghh,
_ghome, _sif, _ME, _MT, _BaseAdapter, _load_bedrock_config, _httpx,
_logging, _log, get_all_dists) updated to use the top-level names.
Sweep ~74 redundant local imports across 21 files where the same module
was already imported at the top level. Also includes type fixes and lint
cleanups on the same branch.
The re-pair branch had a redundant 'import shutil' inside cmd_whatsapp,
which made shutil a function-local throughout the whole scope. The
earlier 'shutil.which("npm")' call at the dependency-install step then
crashed with UnboundLocalError before control ever reached the local
import.
shutil is already imported at module level (line 48), so the local
import was dead code anyway. Drop it.
The WhatsApp bridge depends on @whiskeysockets/baileys pulled directly
from a GitHub commit tarball, which on slower connections or when
GitHub is sluggish routinely exceeds 120s. The hardcoded timeout
surfaced as a raw TimeoutExpired traceback during 'hermes whatsapp'
setup.
Switch to the same pattern used by the TUI npm install at line
~945: no timeout, --no-fund/--no-audit/--progress=false to keep
output clean, stderr captured and tailed on failure. Also resolve
npm via shutil.which so missing Node.js gives a clean error instead
of FileNotFoundError, and handle Ctrl+C cleanly.
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@nousresearch.com>
Vercel provides a d?to= redirect URL that routes users through their
team picker to the AI Gateway API keys management page. Using this
specific URL lands users directly on the "Create key" page instead of
the generic AI Gateway dashboard.
- Curated AI_GATEWAY_MODELS list in hermes_cli/models.py (OSS first,
kimi-k2.5 as recommended default).
- fetch_ai_gateway_models() filters the curated list against the live
/v1/models catalog; falls back to the snapshot on network failure.
- fetch_ai_gateway_pricing() translates Vercel's input/output field
names to the prompt/completion shape the shared picker expects;
carries input_cache_read / input_cache_write through unchanged.
- get_pricing_for_provider() now handles ai-gateway.
- _model_flow_ai_gateway() provides a guided URL prompt when no key
is set and a pricing-column picker; routes ai-gateway to it instead
of the generic api-key flow.
Users can declare shell scripts in config.yaml under a hooks: block that
fire on plugin-hook events (pre_tool_call, post_tool_call, pre_llm_call,
subagent_stop, etc). Scripts receive JSON on stdin, can return JSON on
stdout to block tool calls or inject context pre-LLM.
Key design:
- Registers closures on existing PluginManager._hooks dict — zero changes
to invoke_hook() call sites
- subprocess.run(shell=False) via shlex.split — no shell injection
- First-use consent per (event, command) pair, persisted to allowlist JSON
- Bypass via --accept-hooks, HERMES_ACCEPT_HOOKS=1, or hooks_auto_accept
- hermes hooks list/test/revoke/doctor CLI subcommands
- Adds subagent_stop hook event fired after delegate_task children exit
- Claude Code compatible response shapes accepted
Cherry-picked from PR #13143 by @pefontana.
Six small fixes, all valid review feedback:
- gatewayClient: onTimeout is now a class-field arrow so setTimeout gets a
stable reference — no per-request bind allocation (the whole point of
the original refactor).
- memory: growth rate was lifetime average of rss/uptime, which reports
phantom growth for stable processes. Now computed as delta since a
module-load baseline (STARTED_AT). Sanity-checked: 0.00 MB/hr at
steady-state, non-zero after an allocation.
- hermes_cli: NODE_OPTIONS merge is now token-aware — respects a
user-supplied --max-old-space-size (don't downgrade a deliberate 16GB
setting) and avoids duplicating --expose-gc.
- useVirtualHistory: if items shrink past the frozen range's start
mid-freeze (/clear, compaction), drop the freeze and fall through to
the normal range calc instead of collapsing to an empty mount.
- circularBuffer: throw on non-positive capacity instead of silently
producing NaN indices.
- debug slash help: /heapdump mentions HERMES_HEAPDUMP_DIR override
instead of hardcoding the default path.
Validation: tsc clean, eslint clean, vitest 102/102, growth-rate smoke
test confirms baseline=0 → post-alloc>0.
Long TUI sessions were crashing Node via V8 fatal-OOM once transcripts +
reasoning blobs crossed the default 1.5–4GB heap cap. This adds defense
in depth: a bigger heap, leak-proofing the RPC hot path, bounded
diagnostic buffers, automatic heap dumps at high-water marks, and
graceful signal / uncaught handlers.
## Changes
### Heap budget
- hermes_cli/main.py: `_launch_tui` now injects `NODE_OPTIONS=
--max-old-space-size=8192 --expose-gc` (appended — does not clobber
user-supplied NODE_OPTIONS). Covers both `node dist/entry.js` and
`tsx src/entry.tsx` launch paths.
- ui-tui/src/entry.tsx: shebang rewritten to
`#!/usr/bin/env -S node --max-old-space-size=8192 --expose-gc` as a
fallback when the binary is invoked directly.
### GatewayClient (ui-tui/src/gatewayClient.ts)
- `setMaxListeners(0)` — silences spurious warnings from React hook
subscribers.
- `logs` and `bufferedEvents` replaced with fixed-capacity
CircularBuffer — O(1) push, no splice(0, …) copies under load.
- RPC timeout refactor: `setTimeout(this.onTimeout.bind(this), …, id)`
replaces the inline arrow closure that captured `method`/`params`/
`resolve`/`reject` for the full 120 s request timeout. Each Pending
record now stores its own timeout handle, `.unref()`'d so stuck
timers never keep the event loop alive, and `rejectPending()` clears
them (previously leaked the timer itself).
### Memory diagnostics (new)
- ui-tui/src/lib/memory.ts: `performHeapDump()` +
`captureMemoryDiagnostics()`. Writes heap snapshot + JSON diag
sidecar to `~/.hermes/heapdumps/` (override via
`HERMES_HEAPDUMP_DIR`). Diagnostics are written first so we still get
useful data if the snapshot crashes on very large heaps.
Captures: detached V8 contexts (closure-leak signal), active
handles/requests (`process._getActiveHandles/_getActiveRequests`),
Linux `/proc/self/fd` count + `/proc/self/smaps_rollup`, heap growth
rate (MB/hr), and auto-classifies likely leak sources.
- ui-tui/src/lib/memoryMonitor.ts: 10 s interval polling heapUsed. At
1.5 GB writes an auto heap dump (trigger=`auto-high`); at 2.5 GB
writes a final dump and exits 137 before V8 fatal-OOMs so the user
can restart cleanly. Handle is `.unref()`'d so it never holds the
process open.
### Graceful exit (new)
- ui-tui/src/lib/gracefulExit.ts: SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGHUP run registered
cleanups through a 4 s failsafe `setTimeout` that hard-exits if
cleanup hangs.
`uncaughtException` / `unhandledRejection` are logged to stderr
instead of crashing — a transient TUI render error should not kill
an in-flight agent turn.
### Slash commands (new)
- ui-tui/src/app/slash/commands/debug.ts:
- `/heapdump` — manual snapshot + diagnostics.
- `/mem` — live heap / rss / external / array-buffer / uptime panel.
- Registered in `ui-tui/src/app/slash/registry.ts`.
### Utility (new)
- ui-tui/src/lib/circularBuffer.ts: small fixed-capacity ring buffer
with `push` / `tail(n)` / `drain()` / `clear()`. Replaces the ad-hoc
`array.splice(0, len - MAX)` pattern.
## Validation
- tsc `--noEmit` clean
- `vitest run`: 15 files, 102 tests passing
- eslint clean on all touched/new files
- build produces executable `dist/entry.js` with preserved shebang
- smoke-tested: `HERMES_HEAPDUMP_DIR=… performHeapDump('manual')`
writes both a valid `.heapsnapshot` and a `.diagnostics.json`
containing detached-contexts, active-handles, smaps_rollup.
## Env knobs
- `HERMES_HEAPDUMP_DIR` — override snapshot output dir
- `HERMES_HEAPDUMP_ON_START=1` — dump once at boot
- existing `NODE_OPTIONS` is respected and appended, not replaced
Add kimi-k2.6 as the top model in kimi-coding, kimi-coding-cn, and
moonshot static provider lists (models.py, setup.py, main.py).
kimi-k2.5 retained alongside it.
Plugins now require explicit consent to load. Discovery still finds every
plugin — user-installed, bundled, and pip — so they all show up in
`hermes plugins` and `/plugins`, but the loader only instantiates
plugins whose name appears in `plugins.enabled` in config.yaml. This
removes the previous ambient-execution risk where a newly-installed or
bundled plugin could register hooks, tools, and commands on first run
without the user opting in.
The three-state model is now explicit:
enabled — in plugins.enabled, loads on next session
disabled — in plugins.disabled, never loads (wins over enabled)
not enabled — discovered but never opted in (default for new installs)
`hermes plugins install <repo>` prompts "Enable 'name' now? [y/N]"
(defaults to no). New `--enable` / `--no-enable` flags skip the prompt
for scripted installs. `hermes plugins enable/disable` manage both lists
so a disabled plugin stays explicitly off even if something later adds
it to enabled.
Config migration (schema v20 → v21): existing user plugins already
installed under ~/.hermes/plugins/ (minus anything in plugins.disabled)
are auto-grandfathered into plugins.enabled so upgrades don't silently
break working setups. Bundled plugins are NOT grandfathered — even
existing users have to opt in explicitly.
Also: HERMES_DISABLE_BUNDLED_PLUGINS env var removed (redundant with
opt-in default), cmd_list now shows bundled + user plugins together with
their three-state status, interactive UI tags bundled entries
[bundled], docs updated across plugins.md and built-in-plugins.md.
Validation: 442 plugin/config tests pass. E2E: fresh install discovers
disk-cleanup but does not load it; `hermes plugins enable disk-cleanup`
activates hooks; migration grandfathers existing user plugins correctly
while leaving bundled plugins off.
After a conversation gets compressed, run_agent's _compress_context ends
the parent session and creates a continuation child with the same logical
conversation. Every list affordance in the codebase (list_sessions_rich
with its default include_children=False, plus the CLI/TUI/gateway/ACP
surfaces on top of it) hid those children, and resume-by-ID on the old
root landed on a dead parent with no messages.
Fix: lineage-aware projection on the read path.
- hermes_state.py::get_compression_tip(session_id) — walk the chain
forward using parent.end_reason='compression' AND
child.started_at >= parent.ended_at. The timing guard separates
compression continuations from delegate subagents (which were created
while the parent was still live) without needing a schema migration.
- hermes_state.py::list_sessions_rich — new project_compression_tips
flag (default True). For each compressed root in the result, replace
surfaced fields (id, ended_at, end_reason, message_count,
tool_call_count, title, last_active, preview, model, system_prompt)
with the tip's values. Preserve the root's started_at so chronological
ordering stays stable. Projected rows carry _lineage_root_id for
downstream consumers. Pass False to get raw roots (admin/debug).
- hermes_cli/main.py::_resolve_session_by_name_or_id — project forward
after ID/title resolution, so users who remember an old root ID (from
notes, or from exit summaries produced before the sibling Bug 1 fix)
land on the live tip.
All downstream callers of list_sessions_rich benefit automatically:
- cli.py _list_recent_sessions (/resume, show_history affordance)
- hermes_cli/main.py sessions list / sessions browse
- tui_gateway session.list picker
- gateway/run.py /resume titled session listing
- tools/session_search_tool.py
- acp_adapter/session.py
Tests: 7 new in TestCompressionChainProjection covering full-chain walks,
delegate-child exclusion, tip surfacing with lineage tracking, raw-root
mode, chronological ordering, and broken-chain graceful fallback.
Verified live: ran a real _compress_context on a live Gemini-backed
session, confirmed the DB split, then verified
- db.list_sessions_rich surfaces tip with _lineage_root_id set
- hermes sessions list shows the tip, not the ended parent
- _resolve_session_by_name_or_id(old_root_id) -> tip_id
- _resolve_last_session -> tip_id
Addresses #10373.
The google-gemini-cli (Cloud Code Assist) and gemini (native API) model
pickers only offered gemini-2.5-*, so users picking Gemini 3 had to type
a custom model name — usually wrong (e.g. "gemini-3.1-pro"), producing
a 404 from cloudcode-pa.googleapis.com.
Replace the 2.5-* entries with the actual Code Assist / Gemini API
preview IDs: gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gemini-3-pro-preview,
gemini-3-flash-preview (and gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview on native).
Update the hardcoded fallback in hermes_cli/main.py to match.
Copilot's menu retains gemini-2.5-pro — that catalog is Microsoft's.
External services can now push plain-text notifications to a user's chat
via the webhook adapter without invoking the agent. Set deliver_only=true
on a route and the rendered prompt template becomes the literal message
body — dispatched directly to the configured target (Telegram, Discord,
Slack, GitHub PR comment, etc.).
Reuses all existing webhook infrastructure: HMAC-SHA256 signature
validation, per-route rate limiting, idempotency cache, body-size limits,
template rendering with dot-notation, home-channel fallback. No new HTTP
server, no new auth scheme, no new port.
Use cases: Supabase/Firebase webhooks → user notifications, monitoring
alert forwarding, inter-agent pings, background job completion alerts.
Changes:
- gateway/platforms/webhook.py: new _direct_deliver() helper + early
dispatch branch in _handle_webhook when deliver_only=true. Startup
validation rejects deliver_only with deliver=log.
- hermes_cli/main.py + hermes_cli/webhook.go: --deliver-only flag on
subscribe; list/show output marks direct-delivery routes.
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/webhooks.md: new Direct Delivery
Mode section with config example, CLI example, response codes.
- skills/devops/webhook-subscriptions/SKILL.md: document --deliver-only
with use cases (bumped to v1.1.0).
- tests/gateway/test_webhook_deliver_only.py: 14 new tests covering
agent bypass, template rendering, status codes, HMAC still enforced,
idempotency still applies, rate limit still applies, startup
validation, and direct-deliver dispatch.
Validation: 78 webhook tests pass (64 existing + 14 new). E2E verified
with real aiohttp server + real urllib POST — agent not invoked, target
adapter.send() called with rendered template, duplicate delivery_id
suppressed.
Closes the gap identified in PR #12117 (thanks to @H1an1 / Antenna team)
without adding a second HTTP ingress server.
Anthropic migrated their developer console from console.anthropic.com
to platform.claude.com. Two user-facing display URLs were still pointing
to the old domain:
- hermes_cli/main.py — API key prompt in the Anthropic model flow
- run_agent.py — 401 troubleshooting output
The OAuth token refresh endpoint was already migrated in PR #3246
(with fallback).
Spotted by @LucidPaths in PR #3237.
(Salvage of #3758 — dropped the setup.py hunk since that section was
refactored away and no longer contains the stale URL.)
The web dashboard (Vite/React frontend) is now built as a separate Nix
derivation and baked into the Hermes package. The build output is
installed to a standard location and exposed via the `HERMES_WEB_DIST`
environment variable, allowing the dashboard command to use pre-built
assets when available (e.g., in packaged releases) instead of rebuilding
on every invocation.
* Add setuptools build dep for legacy alibabacloud packages and updated
stale npm-deps hash
* Add HERMES_NODE env var to pin Node.js version
The TUI requires Node.js 20+ for regex `/v` flag support (used by
string-width). Instead of relying on PATH lookup, explicitly set
HERMES_NODE to the bundled Node 22 in the Nix wrapper, and add a
fallback check in the Python code to use HERMES_NODE if available.
Also upgrade container provisioning to Node 22 via NodeSource (Ubuntu
24.04 ships Node 18 which is EOL) and add a Nix check to verify the
wrapper and Node version at build time.
hermes update no longer dies when the controlling terminal closes
(SSH drop, shell close) during pip install. SIGHUP is set to SIG_IGN
for the duration of the update, and stdout/stderr are wrapped so writes
to a closed pipe are absorbed instead of cascading into process exit.
All update output is mirrored to ~/.hermes/logs/update.log so users can
see what happened after reconnecting.
SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and SIGTERM (systemd) are intentionally still honored —
those are deliberate cancellations, not accidents. In gateway mode the
helper is a no-op since the update is already detached.
POSIX preserves SIG_IGN across exec(), so pip and git subprocesses
inherit hangup protection automatically — no changes to subprocess
spawning needed.
Error messages that tell users to install optional extras now use
{sys.executable} -m pip install ... instead of a bare 'pip install
hermes-agent[extra]' string. Under the curl installer, bare 'pip'
resolves to system pip, which either fails with PEP 668
externally-managed-environment or installs into the wrong Python.
Affects: hermes dashboard, hermes web server startup, mcp_serve,
hermes doctor Bedrock check, CLI voice mode, voice_mode tool runtime
error, Discord voice-channel join failure message.
Follow-up to #11909: surface the legacy-unit warning where users are most
likely to see it. After a 'hermes update', if a pre-rename hermes.service
is still installed alongside the current hermes-gateway.service, print
the list of legacy units + the 'hermes gateway migrate-legacy' command.
Profile-safe: reuses _find_legacy_hermes_units() which is an explicit
allowlist of hermes.service only — profile units never match.
Platform-gated: only prints on systemd hosts (the rename is Linux-only).
Non-blocking: just prints, never prompts, so gateway-spawned
hermes update --gateway runs aren't affected.
* fix(gateway): detect legacy hermes.service units from pre-rename installs
Older Hermes installs used a different service name (hermes.service) before
the rename to hermes-gateway.service. When both units remain installed, they
fight over the same bot token — after PR #5646's signal-recovery change,
this manifests as a 30-second SIGTERM flap loop between the two services.
Detection is an explicit allowlist (no globbing) plus an ExecStart content
check, so profile units (hermes-gateway-<profile>.service) and unrelated
third-party services named 'hermes' are never matched.
Wired into systemd_install, systemd_status, gateway_setup wizard, and the
main hermes setup flow — anywhere we already warn about scope conflicts now
also warns about legacy units.
* feat(gateway): add migrate-legacy command + install-time removal prompt
- New hermes_cli.gateway.remove_legacy_hermes_units() removes legacy
unit files with stop → disable → unlink → daemon-reload. Handles user
and system scopes separately; system scope returns path list when not
running as root so the caller can tell the user to re-run with sudo.
- New 'hermes gateway migrate-legacy' subcommand (with --dry-run and -y)
routes to remove_legacy_hermes_units via gateway_command dispatch.
- systemd_install now offers to remove legacy units BEFORE installing
the new hermes-gateway.service, preventing the SIGTERM flap loop that
hits users who still have pre-rename hermes.service around.
Profile units (hermes-gateway-<profile>.service) remain untouched in
all paths — the legacy allowlist is explicit (_LEGACY_SERVICE_NAMES)
and the ExecStart content check further narrows matches.
* fix(gateway): mark --replace SIGTERM as planned so target exits 0
PR #5646 made SIGTERM exit the gateway with code 1 so systemd's
Restart=on-failure revives it after unexpected kills. But when a user has
two gateway units fighting for the same bot token (e.g. legacy
hermes.service + hermes-gateway.service from a pre-rename install), the
--replace takeover itself becomes the 'unexpected' SIGTERM — the loser
exits 1, systemd revives it 30s later, and the cycle flaps indefinitely.
Before calling terminate_pid(), --replace now writes a short-lived marker
file naming the target PID + start_time. The target's shutdown_signal_handler
consumes the marker and, when it names this process, leaves
_signal_initiated_shutdown=False so the final exit code stays 0.
Staleness defences:
- PID + start_time combo prevents PID reuse matching an old marker
- Marker older than 60s is treated as stale and discarded
- Marker is unlinked on first read even if it doesn't match this process
- Replacer clears the marker post-loop + on permission-denied give-up
Before: aggregator users (OpenRouter / Nous Portal) running 'auto'
routing for auxiliary tasks — compression, vision, web extraction,
session search, etc. — got routed to a cheap provider-side default
model (Gemini Flash). Non-aggregator users already got their main
model. Behavior was inconsistent and surprising — users picked
Claude / GPT / their preferred model, but side tasks ran on
Gemini Flash.
After: 'auto' means "use my main chat model" for every user,
regardless of provider type. Only when the main provider has no
working client does the fallback chain run (OpenRouter → Nous →
custom → Codex → API-key providers). Explicit per-task overrides
in config.yaml (auxiliary.<task>.provider / .model) still win —
they are a hard constraint, not subject to the auto policy.
Vision auto-detection follows the same policy: try main provider +
main model first (with _PROVIDER_VISION_MODELS overrides preserved
for providers like xiaomi and zai that ship a dedicated multimodal
model distinct from their chat model). Aggregator strict vision
backends are fallbacks, not the primary path.
Changes:
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: _resolve_auto() drops the
`_AGGREGATOR_PROVIDERS` guard. resolve_vision_provider_client()
auto branch unifies aggregator and exotic-provider paths —
everyone goes through resolve_provider_client() with main_model.
Dead _AGGREGATOR_PROVIDERS constant removed (was only used by
the guard we just removed).
- hermes_cli/main.py: aux config menu copy updated to reflect
the new semantics ("'auto' means 'use my main model'").
- tests/agent/test_auxiliary_main_first.py: 12 regression tests
covering OpenRouter/Nous/DeepSeek main paths, runtime-override
wins, explicit-config wins, vision override preservation for
exotic providers, and fallback-chain activation when the main
provider has no working client.
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@nousresearch.com>
Previously users had to hand-edit config.yaml to route individual auxiliary
tasks (vision, compression, web_extract, etc.) to a specific provider+model.
Add a first-class picker reachable from the bottom of the existing `hermes
model` provider list.
Flow:
hermes model
→ Configure auxiliary models...
→ <task picker: 9 tasks, shows current setting inline>
→ <provider picker: authenticated providers + auto + custom>
→ <model picker: curated list + live pricing>
The aux picker does NOT re-run credential/OAuth setup; users authenticate
providers through the normal `hermes model` flow, then route aux tasks to
them here. `list_authenticated_providers()` gates the list to providers
the user has configured.
Also:
- 'Cancel' entry relabeled 'Leave unchanged' (sentinel still 'cancel'
internally, so dispatch logic is unchanged)
- 'Reset all to auto' entry to bulk-clear aux overrides; preserves
user-tuned timeout / download_timeout values
- Adds `title_generation` task to DEFAULT_CONFIG.auxiliary — the task
was called from agent/title_generator.py but was missing from defaults,
so config-backed timeout overrides never worked for it
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@nousresearch.com>
Follow-up on the native NVIDIA NIM provider salvage. The original PR wired
PROVIDER_REGISTRY + HERMES_OVERLAYS correctly but missed several touchpoints
required for full parity with other OpenAI-compatible providers (xai,
huggingface, deepseek, zai).
Gaps closed:
- hermes_cli/main.py:
- Add 'nvidia' to the _model_flow_api_key_provider dispatch tuple so
selecting 'NVIDIA NIM' in `hermes model` actually runs the api-key
provider flow (previously fell through silently).
- Add 'nvidia' to `hermes chat --provider` argparse choices so the
documented test command (`hermes chat --provider nvidia --model ...`)
parses successfully.
- hermes_cli/config.py: Register NVIDIA_API_KEY and NVIDIA_BASE_URL in
OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS so setup wizard can prompt for them and they're
auto-added to the subprocess env blocklist.
- hermes_cli/doctor.py: Add NVIDIA NIM row to `_apikey_providers` so
`hermes doctor` probes https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/models.
- hermes_cli/dump.py: Add NVIDIA_API_KEY → 'nvidia' mapping for
`hermes dump` credential masking.
- tests/tools/test_local_env_blocklist.py: Extend registry_vars fixture
with NVIDIA_API_KEY to verify it's blocked from leaking into subprocesses.
- agent/model_metadata.py: Add 'nemotron' → 131072 context-length entry
so all Nemotron variants get 128K context via substring match (rather
than falling back to MINIMUM_CONTEXT_LENGTH).
- hermes_cli/models.py: Fix hallucinated model ID
'nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-8b-a4b' → 'nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b'
(verified against live integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/models catalog).
Expand curated list from 5 to 9 agentic models mapping to OpenRouter
defaults per provider-guide convention: add qwen3.5-397b-a17b,
deepseek-v3.2, llama-3.3-nemotron-super-49b-v1.5, gpt-oss-120b.
- cli-config.yaml.example: Document 'nvidia' provider option.
- scripts/release.py: Map asurla@nvidia.com → anniesurla in AUTHOR_MAP
for CI attribution.
E2E verified: `hermes chat --provider nvidia ...` now reaches NVIDIA's
endpoint (returns 401 with bogus key instead of argparse error);
`hermes doctor` detects NVIDIA NIM when NVIDIA_API_KEY is set.
Move moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 to position #1 in every model picker list:
- OPENROUTER_MODELS (with 'recommended' tag)
- _PROVIDER_MODELS: nous, kimi-coding, opencode-zen, opencode-go, alibaba, huggingface
- _model_flow_kimi() Coding Plan model list in main.py
kimi-coding-cn and moonshot lists already had kimi-k2.5 first.
When a user edits a bundled skill, sync flags it as user_modified and
skips it forever. The problem: if the user later tries to undo the edit
by copying the current bundled version back into ~/.hermes/skills/, the
manifest still holds the old origin hash from the last successful
sync, so the fresh bundled hash still doesn't match and the skill stays
stuck as user_modified.
Adds an escape hatch for this case.
hermes skills reset <name>
Drops the skill's entry from ~/.hermes/skills/.bundled_manifest and
re-baselines against the user's current copy. Future 'hermes update'
runs accept upstream changes again. Non-destructive.
hermes skills reset <name> --restore
Also deletes the user's copy and re-copies the bundled version.
Use when you want the pristine upstream skill back.
Also available as /skills reset in chat.
- tools/skills_sync.py: new reset_bundled_skill(name, restore=False)
- hermes_cli/skills_hub.py: do_reset() + wired into skills_command and
handle_skills_slash; added to the slash /skills help panel
- hermes_cli/main.py: argparse entry for 'hermes skills reset'
- tests/tools/test_skills_sync.py: 5 new tests covering the stuck-flag
repro, --restore, unknown-skill error, upstream-removed-skill, and
no-op on already-clean state
- website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md: new 'Bundled skill updates'
section explaining the origin-hash mechanic + reset usage
* feat(mcp-oauth): scaffold MCPOAuthManager
Central manager for per-server MCP OAuth state. Provides
get_or_build_provider (cached), remove (evicts cache + deletes
disk), invalidate_if_disk_changed (mtime watch, core fix for
external-refresh workflow), and handle_401 (dedup'd recovery).
No behavior change yet — existing call sites still use
build_oauth_auth directly. Task 1 of 8 in the MCP OAuth
consolidation (fixes Cthulhu's BetterStack reliability issues).
* feat(mcp-oauth): add HermesMCPOAuthProvider with pre-flow disk watch
Subclasses the MCP SDK's OAuthClientProvider to inject a disk
mtime check before every async_auth_flow, via the central
manager. When a subclass instance is used, external token
refreshes (cron, another CLI instance) are picked up before
the next API call.
Still dead code: the manager's _build_provider still delegates
to build_oauth_auth and returns the plain OAuthClientProvider.
Task 4 wires this subclass in. Task 2 of 8.
* refactor(mcp-oauth): extract build_oauth_auth helpers
Decomposes build_oauth_auth into _configure_callback_port,
_build_client_metadata, _maybe_preregister_client, and
_parse_base_url. Public API preserved. These helpers let
MCPOAuthManager._build_provider reuse the same logic in Task 4
instead of duplicating the construction dance.
Also updates the SDK version hint in the warning from 1.10.0 to
1.26.0 (which is what we actually require for the OAuth types
used here). Task 3 of 8.
* feat(mcp-oauth): manager now builds HermesMCPOAuthProvider directly
_build_provider constructs the disk-watching subclass using the
helpers from Task 3, instead of delegating to the plain
build_oauth_auth factory. Any consumer using the manager now gets
pre-flow disk-freshness checks automatically.
build_oauth_auth is preserved as the public API for backwards
compatibility. The code path is now:
MCPOAuthManager.get_or_build_provider ->
_build_provider ->
_configure_callback_port
_build_client_metadata
_maybe_preregister_client
_parse_base_url
HermesMCPOAuthProvider(...)
Task 4 of 8.
* feat(mcp): wire OAuth manager + add _reconnect_event
MCPServerTask gains _reconnect_event alongside _shutdown_event.
When set, _run_http / _run_stdio exit their async-with blocks
cleanly (no exception), and the outer run() loop re-enters the
transport to rebuild the MCP session with fresh credentials.
This is the recovery path for OAuth failures that the SDK's
in-place httpx.Auth cannot handle (e.g. cron externally consumed
the refresh_token, or server-side session invalidation).
_run_http now asks MCPOAuthManager for the OAuth provider
instead of calling build_oauth_auth directly. Config-time,
runtime, and reconnect paths all share one provider instance
with pre-flow disk-watch active.
shutdown() defensively sets both events so there is no race
between reconnect and shutdown signalling.
Task 5 of 8.
* feat(mcp): detect auth failures in tool handlers, trigger reconnect
All 5 MCP tool handlers (tool call, list_resources, read_resource,
list_prompts, get_prompt) now detect auth failures and route
through MCPOAuthManager.handle_401:
1. If the manager says recovery is viable (disk has fresh tokens,
or SDK can refresh in-place), signal MCPServerTask._reconnect_event
to tear down and rebuild the MCP session with fresh credentials,
then retry the tool call once.
2. If no recovery path exists, return a structured needs_reauth
JSON error so the model stops hallucinating manual refresh
attempts (the 'let me curl the token endpoint' loop Cthulhu
pasted from Discord).
_is_auth_error catches OAuthFlowError, OAuthTokenError,
OAuthNonInteractiveError, and httpx.HTTPStatusError(401). Non-auth
exceptions still surface via the generic error path unchanged.
Task 6 of 8.
* feat(mcp-cli): route add/remove through manager, add 'hermes mcp login'
cmd_mcp_add and cmd_mcp_remove now go through MCPOAuthManager
instead of calling build_oauth_auth / remove_oauth_tokens
directly. This means CLI config-time state and runtime MCP
session state are backed by the same provider cache — removing
a server evicts the live provider, adding a server populates
the same cache the MCP session will read from.
New 'hermes mcp login <name>' command:
- Wipes both the on-disk tokens file and the in-memory
MCPOAuthManager cache
- Triggers a fresh OAuth browser flow via the existing probe
path
- Intended target for the needs_reauth error Task 6 returns
to the model
Task 7 of 8.
* test(mcp-oauth): end-to-end integration tests
Five new tests exercising the full consolidation with real file
I/O and real imports (no transport mocks):
1. external_refresh_picked_up_without_restart — Cthulhu's cron
workflow. External process writes fresh tokens to disk;
on the next auth flow the manager's mtime-watch flips
_initialized and the SDK re-reads from storage.
2. handle_401_deduplicates_concurrent_callers — 10 concurrent
handlers for the same failed token fire exactly ONE recovery
attempt (thundering-herd protection).
3. handle_401_returns_false_when_no_provider — defensive path
for unknown servers.
4. invalidate_if_disk_changed_handles_missing_file — pre-auth
state returns False cleanly.
5. provider_is_reused_across_reconnects — cache stickiness so
reconnects preserve the disk-watch baseline mtime.
Task 8 of 8 — consolidation complete.
