Replace O(n²) string concatenation of truncated_response_prefix in the
length-continuation retry loop with a list + ''.join(). Functionally
equivalent: same partial response on early return, same prepend on
final assembly. The legacy retry path is capped at 3 iterations, so
the practical wall-clock win is small, but the new idiom matches the
rest of the codebase and removes a needless repeated allocation.
Salvaged from PR #2717 (the run_conversation portion only — trajectory
refactor dropped because it silently rewrote </tool_response> to </think>).
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
SimpleX Chat (https://simplex.chat) is a private, decentralised messenger
with no persistent user IDs — every contact is identified by an opaque
internal ID generated at connection time. This adds it as a Hermes
gateway platform via the plugin system.
The adapter connects to a local simplex-chat daemon via WebSocket,
listens for inbound messages, and sends replies. Originally proposed in
PR #2558 as a core-modifying integration; reshaped here as a self-
contained plugin under plugins/platforms/simplex/ with no edits to any
core file. Discovery is filesystem-based (scanned by gateway.config),
and the platform identity is resolved on demand via Platform("simplex").
Plugin contract:
- check_requirements() requires SIMPLEX_WS_URL AND the websockets package
- validate_config() / is_connected() accept env or config.yaml input
- _env_enablement() seeds PlatformConfig.extra (ws_url + home_channel)
- _standalone_send() supports out-of-process cron delivery
- interactive_setup() provides a stdin wizard for hermes gateway setup
- register() wires the adapter into the registry with required_env,
install_hint, cron_deliver_env_var, allowed_users_env, and a
platform_hint for the LLM.
Lazy dependency: the websockets Python package is imported inside the
functions that need it. The plugin is importable and discoverable even
when websockets is missing — check_requirements() simply returns False
until `pip install websockets` is run. No new pyproject extras are
introduced.
Environment variables:
SIMPLEX_WS_URL WebSocket URL of the daemon (required)
SIMPLEX_ALLOWED_USERS Comma-separated allowed contact IDs
SIMPLEX_ALLOW_ALL_USERS Set true to allow all contacts
SIMPLEX_HOME_CHANNEL Default contact for cron delivery
SIMPLEX_HOME_CHANNEL_NAME Human label for the home channel
Closes#2557.
The Zed ACP Registry path (uvx --from 'hermes-agent[acp]==X' hermes-acp)
gets a Python-only install. Browser tools depend on the agent-browser npm
package + Chromium, neither of which are in the wheel. Without an
explicit bootstrap, registry users have no path to working browser tools.
Ship a bundled, idempotent bootstrap script (Linux/macOS bash + Windows
PowerShell) inside acp_adapter/bootstrap/ as wheel package-data. New
entry points:
hermes acp --setup-browser # interactive; prompts before Chromium download
hermes acp --setup-browser --yes # non-interactive
hermes-acp --setup-browser
The terminal-auth flow (hermes acp --setup) also offers the browser
bootstrap as a follow-up after model selection, so first-run registry
users get the option without knowing the flag exists.
Key design choices:
- npm install -g --prefix $NODE_PREFIX so we never need sudo. System Node
on PATH is respected; only the install target is redirected to the
user-writable Hermes-managed Node prefix.
- tools/browser_tool.py::_browser_candidate_path_dirs() already walks
$HERMES_HOME/node/bin, so installed binaries are discovered with no
agent-side code change.
- System Chrome/Chromium detection short-circuits the ~400 MB Playwright
download when a suitable browser already exists.
- Bash + PowerShell live as ONE copy each under acp_adapter/bootstrap/.
Not duplicated under scripts/. install.sh and install.ps1 keep their
inline browser blocks for the source-checkout path.
E2E validated end-to-end:
bash bootstrap_browser_tools.sh --skip-chromium
→ installs agent-browser into ~/.hermes/node/bin/
tools.browser_tool._find_agent_browser()
→ returns the installed path
check_browser_requirements()
→ returns True (browser tools register)
Tests:
- tests/acp/test_entry.py: 11 tests covering --setup-browser dispatch
(linux + windows + --yes forwarding + failure propagation), the
terminal-auth follow-up prompt path, and a package-data wheel-shipping
assertion that catches any future pyproject.toml regression.
Docs: website/docs/user-guide/features/acp.md gains a 'Browser tools
(optional)' subsection with the two-line install + what-it-does.
Cron mutation operations (run/pause/resume/remove) and 'hermes cron edit'
now accept a job name in addition to the hex ID, with case-insensitive
matching. Before this, 'hermes cron run my_job_name' died with
'Job with ID my_job_name not found' and forced the user to look up the
hex ID first.
The original PR matched by name but silently picked the first match when
two jobs shared a name. This version refuses to act on an ambiguous name
and surfaces every matching job (id, name, schedule, next_run_at) so the
caller can pick a specific ID.
- cron/jobs.py:
- get_job() stays ID-only (preserves existing call-site semantics for
web_server/api_server/curator/scheduler/test code that always passes
real IDs).
- resolve_job_ref() is the new name-or-ID resolver, used by pause/
resume/trigger/remove_job. Exact ID match wins over a name match
even if a different job's name happens to equal that ID. Ambiguous
name match raises AmbiguousJobReference with all candidate IDs.
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: dispatch site uses resolve_job_ref, surfaces
ambiguous matches as a structured error with the matching IDs.
- hermes_cli/cron.py: 'cron edit' uses resolve_job_ref so editing by
name works and ambiguous names are reported with IDs.
- tests/cron/test_jobs.py: new TestResolveJobRef covering ID match,
case-insensitive name match, ID-wins-over-name, ambiguous refusal,
and that pause/resume/trigger/remove all refuse on ambiguity.
Closes#2627
When the in-tree FAL path has no API key (and no managed gateway), the
handler used to return a bare 'FAL_KEY environment variable not set'
error. Users had no idea where to get a key, that a managed Nous
gateway exists, or that plugin-registered providers are an option.
Now `image_generate_tool` returns a structured multi-line message:
- signup link (https://fal.ai)
- managed-gateway status (if Nous tools are enabled)
- pointer to `hermes tools` / `hermes plugins list` for alternate
backends, so users on a stale `image_gen.provider` know where to look
The schema is untouched — `check_fn` still gates the tool out of the
schema when no backend is reachable at startup, consistent with every
other conditional tool. This patch fixes the call-time failure modes:
managed-gateway 5xx, plugin provider disappearing mid-session, etc.
Inspired by #2546 / @Mibayy. The PR was ~5700 commits stale against
the new plugin-aware image_gen architecture, so this is a forward port
of the actionable-error idea rather than a cherry-pick.
Closes#2543
Co-authored-by: Mibayy <mibayy@users.noreply.github.com>
ResponseStore.put() and .delete() now remove conversations rows that
reference evicted or deleted response IDs, preventing 404 errors when
a conversation name is reused after its backing response was purged.
Adds regression tests for delete, eviction, and handler-level reuse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
was_auto_reset, auto_reset_reason, and reset_had_activity were not
included in SessionEntry.to_dict() / from_dict(), so a gateway restart
between session expiry and the user's next message would silently drop
the auto-reset notification and context note.
Add the three fields to the serialization roundtrip with safe defaults
(False / None / False) so existing sessions.json files load cleanly.
Add three roundtrip tests to test_session_reset_notify.py.
#25975 (salvaging #24403) clamped decorative scrollback Panels and
streaming box rules to `max(32, min(width, 56))` as a defense against
terminal-emulator reflow when columns shrink. On any modern wide
terminal this made the response/reasoning borders look stubby — 56
cols inside a 200-col viewport.
#26137 (salvaging #25981, by @OutThisLife) landed a more fundamental
fix: prompt_toolkit's `_output_screen_diff` is monkey-patched so its
reserve-vertical-space cursor move no longer pushes chrome into
scrollback at all. With that in place, the clamp is no longer
load-bearing for the chrome-into-scrollback class of bugs — the
remaining risk is purely cosmetic reflow of *already stamped*
Panel borders during an aggressive column shrink, which we now
accept as a tradeoff for restoring proper full-width rendering.
Changes:
- `_scrollback_box_width()` returns `max(32, width)` (just the floor,
no upper cap). All 10 call sites stay valid.
- Updated `test_scrollback_box_width_caps_to_resize_safe_value` to
the new `test_scrollback_box_width_returns_viewport_width` asserting
full-width passthrough above the 32-col floor.
Floor of 32 is kept so `'─' * (w - 2)` math stays positive on tiny
terminals.
Refs #18449#19280#22976 (the original reflow class) and #25975
(the clamp this reverts).
Adds 16 unit tests covering the light/dark terminal detection path
introduced in the previous commit:
- Env override priority (HERMES_LIGHT, HERMES_TUI_LIGHT,
HERMES_TUI_THEME, HERMES_TUI_BACKGROUND, COLORFGBG)
- Detection cache stickiness
- _maybe_remap_for_light_mode() no-op in dark mode
- Known dark-mode color remap (#FFF8DC -> #1A1A1A etc)
- Case-insensitive lookup
- Unknown color passthrough
- Status-bar paired colors (#C0C0C0, #888888, #555555, #8B8682) are
intentionally NOT remapped — regression guard for the patch-11 fix,
since remapping them would produce dark-on-dark on the status bar's
navy bg
- SkinConfig.get_color() wrapper is installed and idempotent
- SkinConfig.get_color() does remap in light mode and passes through
in dark mode
We don't try to fake an OSC 11 reply — that path is exercised
end-to-end in real Terminal.app; the env-override path covers the
algorithmic logic.
The ACP Registry schema supports uvx as a first-class distribution method
alongside npx and binary. Pointing the registry directly at the existing
hermes-agent PyPI release removes:
- the @nousresearch npm scope (we don't own it)
- a separate npm publish step on every weekly release
- 90 lines of Node launcher + tests in packages/hermes-agent-acp/
The Zed registry now installs Hermes via:
uvx --from 'hermes-agent[acp]==<version>' hermes-acp
This is the same command the npm launcher was shelling out to anyway, so
end-user behavior is unchanged. Registry CI validates the PyPI URL +
version-pin exact match automatically.
Changes:
- acp_registry/agent.json: distribution.npx -> distribution.uvx
- delete packages/hermes-agent-acp/ entirely
- scripts/release.py: drop npm-launcher bump paths, keep manifest lockstep
- tests/acp/test_registry_manifest.py: assert uvx shape + version pin
- tests/scripts/test_release_acp_registry.py: rewrite for uvx-only shape
- docs (user-guide + dev-guide): drop all npm-launcher references
- delete docs/plans/acp-registry-zed-integration.md (stale, npm-shaped)
Validated against agentclientprotocol/registry agent.schema.json via
jsonschema. hermes-agent==0.13.0 is already live on PyPI.
The ACP Registry manifest (acp_registry/agent.json), the npm launcher
package.json, and the launcher's HERMES_AGENT_VERSION constant must all
match pyproject.toml exactly — tests/acp/test_registry_manifest.py
enforces this lockstep.
Without a release-script hook, the next weekly version bump fails that
test until someone hand-edits four files. Extend update_version_files()
to drive the ACP bump alongside __init__.py and pyproject.toml, and
add tests covering the lockstep and the missing-files no-op path.
Also map adam.manning@gmail.com -> am423 for the salvage commit.
The 'sessions' command has been registered in the central command
registry since #20805 (May 2025) and surfaces in /help and tab-completion,
but the classic CLI's process_command() never had an elif branch for it.
The canonical name fell through and printed 'Unknown command: sessions'.
The TUI side was wired up correctly via the SessionPicker overlay; only
the legacy CLI was missing the dispatch.
Adds _handle_sessions_command() which mirrors /resume's no-arg behavior
inline (the CLI has no overlay primitive equivalent to the TUI picker):
- /sessions and /sessions list → print the recent-sessions table
- /sessions <id_or_title> → delegates to _handle_resume_command
Includes regression tests covering the dispatcher wiring (the original
bug) plus the three handler branches.
Pre-existing diagnostics below an edit point used to surface as 'LSP
diagnostics introduced by this edit' whenever the edit deleted or
inserted lines. The delta-filter key included the diagnostic's
range, so the same logical error reported at a different line in
the post-edit snapshot looked like a brand new diagnostic.
Concrete case: deleting 14 lines in cli.py caused Pyright errors at
lines 9873, 10590, 12413, 13004 (unrelated to the edit) to be
reported as introduced by it.
Fix: build a piecewise-linear line-shift map (via difflib's
SequenceMatcher) from pre and post content, and remap baseline
diagnostics into post-edit coordinates before the set-difference.
Diagnostics in deleted regions drop out cleanly; diagnostics below
the edit shift by the right amount; diagnostics above are untouched.
The strict (range-aware) equality key stays — so a genuinely new
instance of an identical error class at a different line still
surfaces as new.
Pieces:
- agent/lsp/range_shift.py — build_line_shift, shift_diagnostic_range,
shift_baseline. Pure functions, no LSP state.
- agent/lsp/manager.py — LSPService.get_diagnostics_sync gains an
optional line_shift kwarg; baseline is shift_baseline'd before
computing the seen-set. _diag_key keeps the strict range key.
- tools/file_operations.py — write_file captures pre_content for any
LSP-handled extension (not just LINTERS_INPROC) and passes pre/post
to _maybe_lsp_diagnostics, which builds the shift map.
- New _lsp_handles_extension helper guards the pre_content read.
Trade-offs preserved:
- Genuinely new same-class errors at different lines still surface
(content-only key would have swallowed them).
- Pre-existing errors at unshifted positions still get filtered
(covered by the strict-key path with no shift).
- Best-effort: when pre_content can't be captured (file didn't
exist, permissions), the unshifted comparison still catches
most pre-existing errors; the edge case it misses is a new file
with a non-empty baseline, which is structurally impossible.
Follow-up to snav's PR #25463 contribution: flip default to on, broaden
scope so backfill fires whenever require_mention gates the bot (not just
shared-session channels).
Why:
- The mention-gate creates a session-transcript gap regardless of whether
the channel is shared or per-user. In per-user sessions, Alice's session
is still missing other participants' messages and her own pre-mention
messages — backfill fills both gaps.
- Threads naturally scope to thread-only history because discord.py's
channel.history() on a thread returns only that thread's messages.
- DMs still skip — every DM triggers the bot, so the session transcript
is already complete.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/config.py: discord.history_backfill default → true
- gateway/platforms/discord.py: drop the _is_shared gate, keep _is_dm
skip and _needed_mention gate; env var DISCORD_HISTORY_BACKFILL
default → 'true'
- cli-config.yaml.example + website docs: update defaults and prose;
add the DISCORD_HISTORY_BACKFILL / _LIMIT env var rows that were
documented in the PR description but missing from the env-var table
- tests/gateway/test_discord_free_response.py:
- flip test_discord_per_user_channel_does_not_backfill →
test_discord_per_user_channel_backfills_too (new behavior)
- add test_discord_dm_does_not_backfill (DM skip is invariant)
- give FakeThread a no-op history() so existing thread tests don't hit
a fake discord.Forbidden when backfill now fires on threads too
Tests: 160/160 in target files; 400/400 across all tests/gateway/ -k discord.
Adds optional channel-context backfill for Discord shared-channel sessions
so the agent can see recent messages it missed between its own turns
(typically when require_mention=true filters out most traffic).
Previously the agent only saw the @mention message that triggered it, which
led to disorienting replies in active multi-user channels where the
conversation context was invisible. With backfill enabled, a configurable
number of recent messages are fetched per-turn and prepended to the trigger
message as a context block, kept separate from sender-prefix logic so
attribution remains clean.
This re-opens the work from #13063 (approved by @OutThisLife on 2026-04-20,
closed when I closed the branch to address the simpolism:main head-branch
issue plus an ordering bug I caught later in live use). Filing against the
freshly-rewritten problem statement in #13054 so the design is grounded in
the failure mode rather than the implementation shape.
The implementation follows the **push-mode last-self-anchored** design from
the two options laid out in #13054. See the issue for the trade-off
discussion vs pull-mode (#13120 was an earlier closed PR using that shape).
Treating this as a reference implementation — happy to rewrite as
last-trigger anchoring or as a hybrid with #13120 if maintainers prefer.
Changes:
- gateway/platforms/discord.py:
- new `_discord_history_backfill()` / `_discord_history_backfill_limit()`
helpers (config.extra > env > default), mirroring the existing
`_discord_require_mention()` shape
- new `_fetch_channel_context()` that scans `channel.history()` backwards
from the trigger to the bot's last message (or limit), formats as
`[Recent channel messages] / [name] msg / ...`, respects DISCORD_ALLOW_BOTS,
skips system messages
- per-channel `_last_self_message_id` cache to narrow the fetch window
on hot paths (avoids full history scan when the bot has spoken recently)
- **IMPORTANT**: passes `oldest_first=False` explicitly to `channel.history()`.
discord.py 2.x silently flips the default to True when `after=` is supplied,
which would select the EARLIEST N messages after our last response instead
of the LATEST N before the trigger. In high-traffic windows this would
return stale tool traces and drop the actual final answer the user is
asking about. See regression test below. Caught in live use during a
Codex tool-trace burst on May 13 2026.
- gateway/config.py: discord_history_backfill + discord_history_backfill_limit
settings + yaml→env bridge
- gateway/platforms/base.py: channel_context field on MessageEvent
- gateway/run.py: prepend channel_context after sender-prefix so the
[sender name] tag applies to the trigger message alone, not to the backfill
- hermes_cli/config.py: defaults for new discord.history_backfill and
discord.history_backfill_limit keys
- cli-config.yaml.example: documented defaults
- tests/gateway/test_discord_free_response.py: 7 new tests covering
cold-start backfill, self-message stop boundary, other-bot filtering,
cache hot-path narrowing, stale-cache fallback, shared-channel +
per-user backfill paths, and the ordering regression test
(`test_fetch_channel_context_cache_uses_latest_window_when_after_set`)
- tests/gateway/test_config.py: yaml→env bridge tests
- tests/gateway/test_session.py: prefix-order edge cases
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md: env vars + config keys +
usage docs
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04 — empirically validated in my own multi-bot Discord
research server for the past three weeks.
Fixes#13054
Supersedes #13063 (closed)
Adds 'hermes proxy start' — a local HTTP server that lets external apps
(OpenViking, Karakeep, Open WebUI, ...) use a Hermes-managed provider
subscription as their LLM endpoint. The proxy attaches the user's real
OAuth-resolved credentials to each forwarded request, refreshing them
automatically; the client can send any bearer (it gets stripped).
Ships with one adapter — Nous Portal. The UpstreamAdapter ABC and
registry in hermes_cli/proxy/adapters/ are designed for additional
OAuth providers to plug in by name without server changes.
Commands:
hermes proxy start [--provider nous] [--host 127.0.0.1] [--port 8645]
hermes proxy status
hermes proxy providers
Allowed Portal paths: /v1/chat/completions, /v1/completions,
/v1/embeddings, /v1/models. Anything else returns 404 with a clear
error pointing at the allowed list.
aiohttp is gated like gateway/platforms/api_server.py (try-import,
clean runtime error if missing). No new core dependency.
Tests: 24 unit tests + 1 separate E2E that spawns the real subprocess
and verifies the upstream receives the right bearer with the client's
header stripped.
When the terminal shrinks, already-printed box-drawing rules (response,
reasoning, streaming TTS, background-task Panels) reflow into multiple
narrower rows — visible as duplicated horizontal separators / ghost
lines in scrollback. Similarly, prompt_toolkit redraws a fresh status
bar on SIGWINCH on top of one the terminal just reflowed, producing
double-bar artifacts on column shrink.
Two surgical changes:
1. Decorative scrollback boxes now use a new
`HermesCLI._scrollback_box_width()` helper that clamps to
`max(32, min(width, 56))`. The live TUI footer is unaffected and still
uses the full width. Covers: streaming response box (open + close),
reasoning box (open + close, both streaming and post-stream paths),
streaming-TTS box close, final-response Rich Panel, and the
background-task Rich Panel.
2. `_recover_after_resize()` now also sets a new
`_status_bar_suppressed_after_resize` flag so the dynamic status bar
and both input separator rules stay hidden until the next user input.
The flag is cleared in the process loop the moment the user submits
their next prompt, restoring chrome cleanly.
Tests:
- New `test_input_rules_hide_after_resize_until_next_input` covers the
flag's effect on rule heights.
- New `test_scrollback_box_width_caps_to_resize_safe_value` covers the
helper at floor / cap / mid-range / overflow.
- Existing resize-recovery test extended to assert the flag flips.
Refs: #18449#19280#22976
Salvage of #24403.
Co-authored-by: Szymonclawd <szymonclawd@mac.home>
When codex app-server fails outside the OAuth-classified path
(non-auth turn/start errors, plain TimeoutErrors, generic turn-ended
status, subprocess silently exits, hard deadline timeout), the user
got a bare 'Internal error' / 'turn/start failed: ...' with no
context. Diagnosing config/provider/auth-bridge issues forced a
re-run with verbose codex flags.
Add a _format_error_with_stderr helper that appends the last few
stderr lines via agent.redact.redact_sensitive_text(force=True),
and use it at every catch-all error site:
- ensure_started() failures (codex init / thread/start) now return
a TurnResult.error with should_retire=True instead of bubbling
- non-OAuth turn/start CodexAppServerError / TimeoutError
- subprocess-died branch (previously dumped raw stderr_blob[-300:]
with no redaction — a leak risk)
- turn ended with non-completed status
- hard turn-timeout deadline
OAuth-classified failures and the post-tool quiet watchdog already
produce clean hints and stay unchanged. The redactor catches sk-*,
gh*_*, Authorization: Bearer, query-string tokens, JWTs, private
keys, etc., so provider error payloads can't leak into chat output
or trajectories.
Inspired by openclaw#80718, adapted for our app-server transport.
When the stream consumer's got_done handler successfully delivers the
final response content via _send_or_edit but the subsequent edit
(e.g. cursor removal) fails, final_response_sent remains False even
though the user has already received the final answer. The gateway's
fallback send path then re-delivers the same content, causing the
user to see the response twice on Telegram.
Introduce a new _final_content_delivered flag on the stream consumer,
set by the got_done handler when the final content has reached the
user. The _run_agent suppression logic now treats this flag as an
additional signal (alongside final_response_sent and
response_previewed) that final delivery is already complete.
This preserves the existing behavior for intermediate-text-only
streams (where already_sent=True but no final content has been
delivered) — those still receive the gateway's fallback send, matching
the test expectation in test_partial_stream_output_does_not_set_already_sent.
Adds TestFinalContentDeliveredSuppression with two cases covering
both the suppression (content delivered + edit failed) and the
non-suppression (intermediate text only) branches.
`hermes config set gateway.streaming.*` writes the streaming block
nested under a `gateway:` key in config.yaml, but the config loader
only checked for a top-level `streaming:` key — silently ignoring
the nested variant.
Fall back to `yaml_cfg['gateway']['streaming']` when the top-level
key is absent, matching the pattern already used for other nested
config sections.
Closes#25676
WhatsApp pseudo-chats (Status updates / Stories, Channels / Newsletters,
broadcast lists) were being routed through the full agent pipeline. A
user's gateway.log showed the agent replying to a contact's Story
('status@broadcast') with 345 chars plus title-generation cost, which
also shows up in the contact's status feed.
Drop these JIDs at _should_process_message() before the policy gate so
they're filtered regardless of dm_policy or allowlist state. Covers:
- status@broadcast (Stories)
- *@newsletter (Channels)
- *@broadcast (broadcast lists, future-proofing)
The bridge.js already filters these on the fromMe outbound path, but
inbound events on self-chat mode skipped that check.
Tests:
- status@broadcast dropped on open policy
- broadcast filter wins over allowlisted senders
- real DMs still pass through
- helper unit cases (case-insensitive, whitespace-tolerant)
26/26 tests/gateway/test_whatsapp_group_gating.py pass; 59/59 adjacent
WhatsApp test suites pass.
The Debian/Ubuntu branch of install_node_deps() ran 'npx playwright install
--with-deps chromium' unconditionally. Playwright invokes sudo interactively
to apt-install Chromium's system libraries, which blocks the installer for
non-sudo users (systemd service accounts, unprivileged operator users) on
an unsatisfiable password prompt.
Changes:
- install.sh: gate --with-deps behind a sudo capability check on the apt
branch (matches the existing Arch/pacman branch pattern). Non-sudo users
fall back to 'npx playwright install chromium' alone and the installer
prints the exact 'sudo npx playwright install-deps chromium' command an
administrator can run separately.
- install.sh: add --skip-browser (alias --no-playwright) to skip the
Playwright step entirely for headless installs that don't need browser
automation. Mirrors the existing --no-venv / --skip-setup shape.
- installation.md: add a 'Non-Sudo / System Service User Installs' section
covering the admin/service-user split, the --skip-browser flag, and the
~/.local/bin PATH gotcha (the root cause of the 'No module named dotenv'
error users hit when running the repo source 'hermes' script with system
Python instead of the venv launcher).
- test_install_sh_browser_install.py: regression coverage for the
--skip-browser flag and the sudo-gate on the apt branch.
Reported by @ssilver in Discord.
_make_stream_chunk built delta_kwargs with only `role`, so a reasoning-only
chunk produced a SimpleNamespace without a `.content` attribute. Downstream
consumers that read `delta.content` then raised AttributeError on Gemini 2.5
Flash, where the thinking delta arrives before any content delta.
Seed `content`, `tool_calls`, `reasoning`, and `reasoning_content` as None
up front, matching the pattern already used in gemini_native_adapter.py.
Key-present arguments still override the defaults.
Fixes#24974
References: Related open PR #24984 (luyao618) applies the same 1-line fix; this PR adds a regression test that #24984 omits
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pyproject's [all] extra was slimmed down in May 2026 — ~20 optional
backends moved to tools/lazy_deps.py and only install on first use.
hermes update runs uv pip install -e .[all] which doesn't touch any of
them, so pin bumps in LAZY_DEPS (CVE response, transitive fixes) were
silently ignored on already-activated backends.
Two changes:
1. _is_satisfied() now parses the spec and checks the installed version
against the constraint via packaging.specifiers. Previously it
returned True the moment the package name was importable, which made
ensure() a name-presence gate rather than a version-pin gate.
2. New active_features() / refresh_active_features() pair: lists every
feature with at least one of its packages currently installed, then
re-runs ensure() on each. Refresh is invoked at the end of
_cmd_update_impl, right after the [all] install completes. Cold
backends (never activated) stay quiet — no churn for them.
Output during update is one summary block:
→ Refreshing 4 active lazy backend(s)...
↑ 1 refreshed: provider.anthropic
✓ 3 already current
or
⚠ memory.honcho failed to refresh: <pip stderr>
Failures never raise out of update — backends keep their previously-
installed version and we tell the user to rerun once upstream is fixed.
security.allow_lazy_installs=false is honored: features get marked
"skipped" with the reason shown.
Tests: 18 new unit tests covering version-aware satisfaction (exact pin,
range, extras blocks, missing package, malformed spec), active feature
discovery, and refresh status reporting. All 61 lazy_deps tests pass.
Adds regression tests pinning web search into the WhatsApp and api-server
default platform-coverage toolsets. Pure test additions, no runtime change.
Salvage of the test-addition commit from #25692 by @wesleysimplicio.
(The AUTHOR_MAP fixup commit from the same PR landed separately as
529ec85c7.)
Mirrors openclaw beta.8's app-server resilience fixes so a stuck codex
subprocess can't burn the full turn deadline and so users get a
`codex login` pointer instead of raw RPC errors when their token expires.
- TurnResult.should_retire signals the caller to drop+respawn codex.
- Deadline-hit path and dead-subprocess detection set should_retire so
the next turn doesn't ride a CPU-spinning or auth-broken process.
- Post-tool watchdog (post_tool_quiet_timeout=90s): if a tool item
completes and codex goes silent past the threshold without further
output or turn/completed, fast-fail instead of waiting the full 600s.
Resets on any non-tool activity so normal think-after-tool flows are
not affected.
- <turn_aborted> and <turn_aborted/> in agent text are treated as
terminal — some codex builds tear down a turn that way without
emitting turn/completed.
- _classify_oauth_failure() inspects RPC error message + stderr tail
for invalid_grant / token refresh / 401 / etc. and rewrites
user-facing errors to 'run codex login'. Conservative: generic
failures still surface verbatim. Fires at turn/start failure,
turn/completed failure, and dead-subprocess paths.
- thread/start cross-fill: tolerate thread.id, thread.sessionId,
top-level sessionId/threadId so future codex schema drift doesn't
KeyError us at handshake.
- run_agent.py: when run_turn returns should_retire=True OR raises,
close + null self._codex_session so the next turn respawns.
Tests: +30 cases across session + integration suites.
tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py 50/50 pass
tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py 27/27 pass
Broader codex scope (transports + cli runtime/migration) 376/376 pass
The cherry-picked PR over-indented the edit_message_text block for
the mm: (model selected → switch) success path so the confirmation
edit lived inside the preceding 'except Exception as exc' branch and
only fired when the callback raised. Dedent the try/except back to
12-space indent so it runs after the callback succeeds, restoring
the original flow that removes the inline buttons and shows the
'Switched to ...' confirmation.
Add a regression test (test_model_selected_edits_message_on_success)
that asserts edit_message_text is awaited and the result text is
routed through format_message (MARKDOWN_V2 + backtick survival).
Add phuongvm to scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP.
Use MarkdownV2 formatting for Telegram callback follow-ups and interactive prompts where dynamic names or user text can break legacy Markdown parsing. Add regression coverage for reload-mcp, model picker, approval callbacks, and update prompts.
Brings Discord to parity with Telegram on the clarify tool's interactive
UX. Overrides BasePlatformAdapter.send_clarify on DiscordAdapter to attach
a button view when choices are present.
- ClarifyChoiceView: one discord.ui.Button per choice (max 24, Discord's
25-component view cap leaves one slot for Other) plus a final
'Other (type answer)' button.
- Numeric click -> tools.clarify_gateway.resolve_gateway_clarify(
clarify_id, choice_text) using the canonical choice text from the
gateway entry (falls back to the button label if the entry vanished).
- Other click -> tools.clarify_gateway.mark_awaiting_text(clarify_id) so
the gateway's text-intercept captures the next user message in this
session as the response.
- Auth via the shared _component_check_auth helper (same OR-semantics as
ExecApprovalView / SlashConfirmView / UpdatePromptView / ModelPickerView).
- Open-ended (no choices) path renders the prompt as a plain embed and
relies on the existing text-intercept resolution.
- Single-use: first valid click disables every button and updates the
embed footer with who answered and what they chose.
No changes to BasePlatformAdapter.send_clarify or the gateway's
clarify_callback wiring -- the existing scaffolding already drives all
adapters; Discord just inherits the default text fallback today and gains
buttons by virtue of this override.
Test conftest extended: _FakeEmbed gains add_field() / set_footer() stubs
so tests can construct embedded views without monkey-patching per-test.
Original PR: #19249 by @LeonSGP43. This is a reshape of the contributor's
work onto current main's clarify infrastructure (clarify_id + entry-based
resolution shared with Telegram, instead of a parallel on_answer-closure
mechanism). The button view structure and UX shape are preserved.
Tests: 14 new tests in tests/gateway/test_discord_clarify_buttons.py.
391/391 existing Discord gateway tests still pass.
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <cine.dreamer.one@gmail.com>
setup_path() writes the user-facing hermes shim with `cat >`, which
follows existing symlinks. Older installs created
`$command_link_dir/hermes` as a symlink to `$HERMES_BIN`
(`venv/bin/hermes`), so re-running install.sh stomped the pip entry
point with a bash shim that exec'd itself in an infinite loop.
`rm -f` the link target before writing so the shim lands at
`$command_link_dir/hermes` and the venv entry point is left intact.
Adds a regression test that reproduces the symlink-stomp end-to-end
(creates the symlink, drives the real shim-write block from setup_path,
asserts the venv pip script body survives and the shim is now a regular
file). Both new assertions fail on origin/main and pass with the fix.
Closes#21454.
Follow-up to Alex-wuhu's NovitaAI provider commit. Adds:
- _pricing_cache hit/write in _fetch_novita_pricing (was missing — every
pricing fetch was re-hitting the network), mirroring the
fetch_ai_gateway_pricing pattern. force_refresh now also propagates
from get_pricing_for_provider.
- TestNovitaProvider in tests/hermes_cli/test_api_key_providers.py
covering profile load, alias resolution, registry auto-registration,
model list parity between main.py and models.py, _URL_TO_PROVIDER,
_PROVIDER_PREFIXES, context_size in _CONTEXT_LENGTH_KEYS, pricing
unit conversion, and pricing cache behavior.
- AUTHOR_MAP entry for yanglongwei06@gmail.com → @Alex-yang00.
Previously ACP dangerous-command approvals mixed an invalid ACP
payload shape with partial Hermes option mapping, and the callback
plumbing was shared across worker threads. This commit uses ACP
tool-call updates, preserves Hermes once/session/always semantics,
and scopes approval callbacks to the current worker thread.
- Build permission requests with `update_tool_call` and unique
`perm-check-*` ids in `acp_adapter/permissions.py`
- Keep ACP option mapping explicit and fail closed on unknown outcomes
or request failures
- Set approval callbacks inside the ACP executor worker and read them
from thread-local state in `tools/terminal_tool.py`
- Replace duplicated ACP bridge coverage with focused tests in
`tests/acp/test_permissions.py` and add a thread-local callback test
The salvaged regression test called skin.get_spinner_list() which
doesn't exist on SkinConfig. Replace with direct dict access on
skin.spinner — same intent (verify default empty spinner is preserved
when user override is invalid).
* feat(goals): /subgoal — user-added criteria appended to active /goal
Layers a /subgoal command on top of the existing freeform Ralph judge
loop. The user can append extra criteria mid-loop; the judge factors
them into its done/continue verdict and the continuation prompt
surfaces them to the agent. No new tool, no agent self-judging — the
existing judge model just sees a richer prompt.
Forms:
/subgoal show current subgoals
/subgoal <text> append a criterion
/subgoal remove <n> drop subgoal n (1-based)
/subgoal clear wipe all subgoals
How it integrates:
- GoalState gains `subgoals: List[str]` (default []), backwards-compat
for existing state_meta rows.
- judge_goal accepts an optional subgoals kwarg; non-empty switches to
JUDGE_USER_PROMPT_WITH_SUBGOALS_TEMPLATE which lists them as
numbered criteria and asks 'is the goal AND every additional
criterion satisfied?'
- next_continuation_prompt picks CONTINUATION_PROMPT_WITH_SUBGOALS_TEMPLATE
when non-empty so the agent sees what to target.
- /subgoal is allowed mid-run on the gateway since it only touches the
state the judge reads at turn boundary — no race with the running
turn.
- Status line shows '... , N subgoals' when present.
Surface:
- hermes_cli/goals.py — field, prompt blocks, manager methods, judge weave
- hermes_cli/commands.py — /subgoal CommandDef
- cli.py — _handle_subgoal_command
- gateway/run.py — _handle_subgoal_command + mid-run dispatch
- tests/hermes_cli/test_goals.py — 15 new tests (backcompat, mutation,
persistence, prompt template selection, judge-prompt content via mock,
status-line rendering)
77 goal-related tests passing across goals + cli + gateway + tui.
* fix(goals): slash commands don't preempt the goal-continuation hook
Two findings from live-testing /subgoal:
1. Slash commands queued while the agent is running landed in
_pending_input (same queue as real user messages). The goal hook's
'is a real user message pending?' check returned True and silently
skipped — but the slash command consumes its queue slot via
process_command() which never re-fires the goal hook, so the loop
stalls indefinitely. Now the hook peeks the queue and only defers
when a non-slash payload is present.
2. The with-subgoals judge prompt was too soft — opus 4.7 said 'done,
implying all requirements met' without verifying. Tightened to
demand specific per-criterion evidence (file contents, output line,
command result) and explicitly reject phrases like 'implying it was
done.'
Live verified: /subgoal injected mid-loop now correctly forces the
judge to refuse done until the new criterion is met. Agent gets the
continuation prompt with subgoals listed, updates the script, judge
confirms done with specific evidence cited.
The cherry-picked tests from #6173 set HERMES_HOME outside Path.home()/.hermes,
which forces get_default_hermes_root() down its Docker branch and returns
HERMES_HOME directly — so _get_default_hermes_home() never resolves to the
~/.hermes directory the tests were trying to assert about.
Rewire both tests to use the real profile layout (HERMES_HOME pointing at
~/.hermes/profiles/<name>) so _get_default_hermes_home() resolves back to
~/.hermes and the default-profile fallback is actually exercised.
Surfaced by local E2E behavior-parity testing of PR vs origin/main: the
plugin-migrated dispatchers were quietly changing the error envelope
shape returned to function-calling models on unconfigured systems.
Two findings, both from per-result error wrapping bleeding into the
pre-flight configuration error path:
1. **search**: ``firecrawl.search()`` caught the
``ValueError("Web tools are not configured...")`` from
``_get_firecrawl_client()`` and returned it as
``{"success": False, "error": ...}``, losing the legacy
``{"error": "Error searching web: ..."}`` envelope that
``tool_error()`` emits on main. Models that special-case the
``error`` key still detect the failure, but the prefix is part of
the legacy contract some users rely on.
2. **crawl**: ``firecrawl.crawl()`` caught the same pre-flight
``ValueError`` and wrapped it as a per-page error inside
``results[0]``. Main short-circuits on ``check_firecrawl_api_key()``
BEFORE dispatching, so its unconfigured response is
``{"success": False, "error": "web_crawl requires Firecrawl..."}``
at the top level. The PR's per-page burying hid the failure inside
``results[]`` where models that check ``result.get("error")`` would
miss it.
Fix:
- ``plugins/web/firecrawl/provider.py``: pull
``_get_firecrawl_client()`` outside the broad ``try`` in
``search()``. Pre-flight ``ValueError`` / ``ImportError`` propagate
to the dispatcher's top-level exception handler. In-flight SDK
errors still get wrapped as ``{"success": False, ...}``.
- ``tools/web_tools.py``: mirror main's upstream availability gate in
``web_crawl_tool``. When the resolved crawl provider is
``is_available()==False``, short-circuit BEFORE dispatching with the
same top-level error shape main emits.
- ``tests/tools/test_web_providers.py``: 2 regression tests
(``TestUnconfiguredErrorEnvelopeParity``) lock in the behavior so
future plugin work can't undo this.
Verified via local subprocess-based parity test (14/14 scenarios match
origin/main shape exactly) and full 210/210 web test suite green.
The web-provider migration originally left firecrawl crawl as the only
provider-specific code remaining inline in tools/web_tools.py (~250
lines of Firecrawl-specific crawl orchestration that didn't fit the
plugin's existing surface). This commit closes that gap.
What this adds
--------------
1. plugins/web/firecrawl/provider.py: implement async ``crawl(url, **kwargs)``
- Accepts the same kwargs as the dispatcher passes to any crawl
provider (``instructions``, ``depth``, ``limit``); Firecrawl's
/crawl endpoint ignores ``instructions`` and ``depth`` so we log
and drop with a clear info message.
- Wraps the sync SDK ``crawl()`` call in asyncio.to_thread so the
gateway event loop isn't blocked on a multi-page crawl.
- Preserves the response-shape normalization across pydantic /
typed-object / dict variants that the legacy inline code did.
- Preserves per-page website-policy re-check (catches blocked
redirects after the SDK returns).
- Returns the same {"results": [...]} shape so the dispatcher's
shared LLM-summarization post-processing path works unchanged.
- Sets supports_crawl() to True so the dispatcher routes through
the plugin instead of the legacy fallthrough.
2. tools/web_tools.py: delete the entire legacy firecrawl crawl block
that used to run after "No registered provider supports crawl" —
~270 lines including:
- check_firecrawl_api_key gate + typed error
- inline SSRF + website-policy seed-URL gate (dispatcher already
does this)
- Firecrawl client setup with crawl_params
- 100+ lines of pydantic/dict/typed-object normalization
- Per-page LLM-processing loop (kept in the dispatcher's shared
post-processing path; that's where it always belonged)
- trimming + base64 image cleanup (still done in the dispatcher's
shared path)
Replaced with a single typed-error branch when no crawl-capable
provider is available: "web_crawl has no available backend. Set
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (or FIRECRAWL_API_URL for self-hosted), or set
TAVILY_API_KEY for Tavily."
Test updates
------------
- tests/tools/test_website_policy.py:
- test_web_crawl_short_circuits_blocked_url: dispatcher seed-URL
gate still runs on web_tools.check_website_access (no change to
that patch), but the firecrawl client lockdown moved to the
plugin module — patch firecrawl_provider._get_firecrawl_client
instead of web_tools._get_firecrawl_client. The dispatcher
short-circuits before the plugin runs, so the test still passes.
- test_web_crawl_blocks_redirected_final_url: patch the per-page
policy gate at plugins.web.firecrawl.provider.check_website_access
(where it now runs) AND on web_tools (where the seed-URL gate
still runs). Patch firecrawl_provider._get_firecrawl_client for
the FakeCrawlClient injection. Both checks flow through the same
fake_check function.
- tests/plugins/web/test_web_search_provider_plugins.py:
- Update parametrized capability-flag spec: firecrawl supports_crawl
is now True.
- Add test_firecrawl_crawl_returns_error_dict_when_unconfigured —
verifies inspect.iscoroutinefunction(p.crawl) is True and that
the async crawl returns a per-page error dict (not a raise) when
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY is missing.
Verified
--------
- 218/218 web tests pass (was 173, +44 plugin tests + 1 new firecrawl
crawl test from this commit = 218 with the test deduplication).
- Compile-clean (py_compile passes on both files).
- Provider capabilities matrix confirmed end-to-end:
name search extract crawl async-extract? async-crawl?
firecrawl True True True True True
tavily True True True False False
Both crawl-capable providers exercise the dispatcher's
inspect.iscoroutinefunction async-or-sync detection.
Net diff
--------
- tools/web_tools.py: -254 lines (legacy inline crawl gone)
- plugins/web/firecrawl/provider.py: +185 lines (crawl method)
- test_website_policy.py: +14/-9 lines (patch locations)
- test_web_search_provider_plugins.py: +22/-1 lines (capability flag
+ new firecrawl crawl test)
- Total: -32 net LoC; tools/web_tools.py is now 1509 lines (was 1763
before this commit, 2227 before the migration started).
Adds 44 focused tests under tests/plugins/web/ covering the surface that
the PR #25182 web-provider migration introduced. Complements the
existing tests/tools/ coverage which is dispatcher-centric; this file is
plugin-centric and tests each plugin + the registry directly.
Test classes (44 tests, ~1.1s on 4 workers)
-------------------------------------------
TestBundledPluginsRegister (16 tests)
- All seven plugins present in the registry after
_ensure_plugins_discovered()
- Per-plugin parametrized capability-flag assertions
(brave-free / ddgs / searxng: search-only;
exa / parallel / firecrawl: search + extract;
tavily: search + extract + crawl)
- Every plugin exposes name + display_name properties
- Every plugin returns a picker-compatible get_setup_schema() dict
TestIsAvailable (7 tests)
- Each premium plugin reports is_available()==False when its env var is
absent and True once set (brave-free / searxng / tavily / exa /
parallel)
- firecrawl recognizes either FIRECRAWL_API_KEY or FIRECRAWL_API_URL
as a "configured" signal
- ddgs is the always-on fallback and must not raise from is_available()
TestRegistryResolution (4 tests)
- Option B semantics validated end-to-end:
1. Explicit configured provider wins even when is_available()==False
(dispatcher surfaces typed credential errors, no silent switch)
2. Unknown/typo name falls back to first available legacy-preference
provider
3. Asking for extract via a search-only backend falls back to an
extract-capable available provider (capability-incompatible
branch in _resolve())
4. No config + no credentials → None (or ddgs if installed)
TestAsyncExtractDispatch (4 tests)
- parallel + firecrawl extract() are coroutine functions (async path
in dispatcher uses await)
- exa + tavily extract() are sync (dispatcher wraps in
asyncio.to_thread)
TestErrorResponseShapes (7 tests)
- Plugins return typed error dicts (success=False + "error" key) when
credentials are missing, never raise
- async extract() returns list of per-URL error dicts
- tavily crawl() returns {"results": [{"error": ...}]} on missing
credentials
Design notes
------------
- All tests use real imports of plugin modules — no mocking of provider
classes themselves — so they catch drift in the ABC, registry, and
glue layer simultaneously. Per the hermes-agent-dev skill's E2E
testing guidance.
- The autouse _isolate_env fixture clears every web-provider env var
before each test so is_available() reflects the test's setup.
- Resolution tests use the lower-level _resolve() directly rather than
rebuilding the HERMES_HOME config dance — same observable behavior,
no sys.modules.pop side-effects that would break the ABC isinstance
check inside ctx.register_web_search_provider().
Removes the legacy in-tree provider scaffolding that PR #25182 fully
replaced with the plugin architecture:
tools/web_providers/__init__.py (6 lines)
tools/web_providers/base.py (89 lines — old ABCs)
tools/web_providers/ARCHITECTURE.md (73 lines — old design doc)
These were the staging-ground ABCs and provider modules that the
plugin migration absorbed. All seven web providers now implement the
single :class:`agent.web_search_provider.WebSearchProvider` ABC and
live under ``plugins/web/<vendor>/``. Nothing else in the tree imports
``tools.web_providers`` — verified via grep before deletion.
Test migration (tests/tools/test_web_providers.py)
--------------------------------------------------
Rewrote ``TestWebProviderABCs`` to test the new unified ABC at
:mod:`agent.web_search_provider`:
- test_cannot_instantiate_abc_directly — abstract ``name`` + ``is_available``
- test_concrete_search_only_provider_works — exercise default
``supports_extract=False`` / ``supports_crawl=False`` flags
- test_concrete_multi_capability_provider_works — exercise all three
capabilities, async extract supported (declared sync here for
simplicity; real plugins like parallel + firecrawl use async)
- test_search_only_provider_skips_extract_and_crawl — verify
``supports_*()`` flags default to False so search-only providers
don't have to implement extract() or crawl()
The 9 other tests in the file (per-capability backend selection,
DEFAULT_CONFIG merge, dispatcher routing) test public helpers in
``tools.web_tools`` that still exist and pass unchanged.
agent/web_search_provider.py docstring updated to reflect that the
legacy ABCs no longer exist; the response-shape contract is preserved
bit-for-bit so external consumers see no behavioral change.
Net diff
--------
- tools/web_providers/ removed (-168 lines)
- tests/tools/test_web_providers.py rewritten ABC section (+78/-30 net,
same coverage, new API)
- agent/web_search_provider.py docstring (-3/+5 lines)
Verified
--------
- 173/173 targeted web tests pass
- 12/12 ABC contract tests pass with the new interface
- No remaining grep hits for ``tools.web_providers`` outside of
intentional historical references in plugin docstrings.
Two regressions discovered by running the full tests/tools/ suite after
the dispatcher cutover, both fixed in this commit:
1. web_crawl_tool incorrectly errored "search-only" for firecrawl
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The cutover treated any provider with supports_crawl()==False as a
search-only backend and returned the typed search-only error. But
firecrawl can crawl via the legacy multi-page-extract path inside
web_crawl_tool — it just doesn't expose supports_crawl on the plugin
(adding native firecrawl crawl is a clean follow-up).
Fix: only emit the search-only error when the provider supports
NEITHER crawl NOR extract (brave-free / ddgs / searxng). When the
provider supports extract but not crawl (firecrawl), fall through to
the legacy firecrawl-via-extract path below.
2. firecrawl plugin's check_website_access wasn't patchable
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The plugin imported `from tools.website_policy import check_website_access`
INSIDE the extract() function body, so monkeypatching the name on
plugins.web.firecrawl.provider had no effect — the inner import re-bound
the name on every call.
Fix: hoist the import to module level. Cheap (website_policy itself
has no heavy deps) and makes the standard
monkeypatch.setattr(firecrawl_provider, "check_website_access", ...)
pattern work.
Test updates (tests/tools/test_website_policy.py — 4 tests):
- test_web_extract_short_circuits_blocked_url
- test_web_extract_blocks_redirected_final_url
Both: patch the gate at plugins.web.firecrawl.provider (where it
runs after migration) and force the firecrawl plugin to be the
active extract provider via FIRECRAWL_API_KEY.
- test_web_crawl_short_circuits_blocked_url
- test_web_crawl_blocks_redirected_final_url
Both: unchanged — the dispatcher-level gate at tools.web_tools.py
line 1651 still uses the imported `check_website_access` name and
the firecrawl-fallthrough path is exercised as before.
Verified: 22/22 tests/tools/test_website_policy.py pass.
Cuts over web_search_tool, web_extract_tool, and web_crawl_tool in
tools/web_tools.py to dispatch through agent.web_search_registry
instead of the legacy hardcoded if-elif backend chains.
Per-tool changes:
web_search_tool (sync)
Replace 5 backend branches (parallel, exa, registry-3-providers,
tavily, firecrawl-fallthrough) with a single registry path:
1. _get_search_backend() resolves the configured name
2. _wsp_get_provider(name) for explicit-config-wins semantics
3. get_active_search_provider() fallback for typo / unknown name
4. provider.search(query, limit) — sync for all 7 providers
web_extract_tool (async)
Replace 4 backend branches (parallel-async, exa-sync, tavily-sync,
search-only-error, firecrawl-perurl-loop) with:
1. Same provider resolution as search.
2. When configured backend IS registered but doesn't support
extract (search-only providers like brave-free), surface a
typed "search-only" error matching the legacy text — tests
assert that wording.
3. inspect.iscoroutinefunction(provider.extract) detects sync vs
async: parallel + firecrawl are async; exa + tavily are sync.
Sync extracts run in asyncio.to_thread() so we don't block.
web_crawl_tool (async)
Replace tavily-specific branch + search-only-error block with:
1. _wsp_get_provider(backend) — explicit config first
2. Search-only typed error when the configured name doesn't
support crawl (matches legacy phrasing)
3. get_active_crawl_provider() fallback otherwise
4. provider.crawl(url, **kwargs) — async-or-sync dispatch as above
5. Response post-processing (LLM summarization, trimming) stays
unchanged — it's not provider-specific.
When no plugin advertises supports_crawl, falls through to the
existing Firecrawl-via-web-summarize path below (unchanged).
Test updates (2 tests in tests/tools/test_web_tools_config.py):
- test_web_search_clamps_limit_before_backend_call:
patch("tools.web_tools._parallel_search") -> patch the registry
provider returned by agent.web_search_registry.get_provider
- test_search_error_response_does_not_expose_diagnostics:
patch("tools.web_tools._get_firecrawl_client") -> same pattern
Tests unchanged (still pass):
- All TestXBackendWiring classes (test _get_backend / _is_backend_available
config-resolution, independent of dispatch)
- All TestXSearchOnlyErrors classes (test the search-only error path
via web_extract_tool / web_crawl_tool — error text preserved)
- 141 passing web tests total, 0 regressions.
Dead-code cleanup deferred to a follow-up commit so this diff stays
focused on the cutover. After this commit:
- tools.web_tools._exa_search / _exa_extract / _parallel_search /
_parallel_extract / _tavily_request / _normalize_tavily_* /
_get_firecrawl_client / _extract_web_search_results /
_extract_scrape_payload / _to_plain_object / _normalize_result_list
are no longer called by the dispatchers, but still exist.
- The config-resolution layer (_get_backend, _is_backend_available,
_is_tool_gateway_ready, _has_direct_firecrawl_config) IS still in
use and must stay.
- The Firecrawl proxy and check_firecrawl_api_key are still imported
by integration tests and patched by unit tests — must stay (or be
re-exported from the plugin).
Deletes tools/web_providers/{brave_free,ddgs,searxng}.py — the three
providers that moved to plugins/web/ in prior commits. tools/web_tools.py
no longer imports them (registry dispatch as of d8735963f), so removing
them is purely a cleanup pass.
Also migrates the existing tests to the new import paths:
tests/tools/test_web_providers_brave_free.py
tests/tools/test_web_providers_ddgs.py
tests/tools/test_web_providers_searxng.py
Mechanical rewrites:
- `from tools.web_providers.X import YSearchProvider`
-> `from plugins.web.X.provider import YWebSearchProvider`
- `.is_configured()` -> `.is_available()` (legacy method -> new method)
- `.provider_name()` -> `.name` (legacy method -> new property)
- `from tools.web_providers.base import WebSearchProvider`
-> `from agent.web_search_provider import WebSearchProvider`
(the subclass-check asserts membership in the new plugin-facing ABC)
- `sys.modules.delitem("tools.web_providers.ddgs")` updated to point at
`plugins.web.ddgs.provider` (cache-busting for lazy ddgs imports)
The TestXBackendWiring / TestXSearchOnlyErrors classes (covering
_is_backend_available, _get_backend, check_web_api_key, and the
"search-only" error paths in web_extract/web_crawl) are untouched —
those still test web_tools.py's backend-selection logic, which continues
to recognize the names "brave-free" / "ddgs" / "searxng" even after the
modules behind them moved to plugins.
tools/web_providers/base.py is intentionally NOT deleted by this commit
— it's the parent ABC of the legacy modules and shares its name with
agent/web_search_provider.py::WebSearchProvider. Removing it surfaces the
naming collision (see PR description Finding 0); the real migration PR
deletes it in the same commit that drops the _WEB_PLUGIN_SKIPLIST
guards in hermes_cli/tools_config.py.
Test results:
bash scripts/run_tests.sh tests/tools/test_web_providers_*.py
-> 65 passed in 3.41s (all rewritten unit tests + unchanged integration tests)
bash scripts/run_tests.sh tests/tools/test_web_*.py
-> 141 passed in 4.70s (full web test set, post-deletion)
Three call-sites in the codebase each duplicated the same config-slice
+ list_authenticated_providers + post-processing pattern:
- hermes_cli/web_server.py /api/model/options
- tui_gateway/server.py model.options JSON-RPC
- tui_gateway/server.py model.save_key JSON-RPC
This consolidates them onto hermes_cli/inventory.py:
load_picker_context() -> ConfigContext
Replaces the 17-LOC config-slice (model.{default,name,provider,
base_url}, providers:, custom_providers:) every consumer did
inline.
ConfigContext.with_overrides(*, current_provider=, current_model=,
current_base_url=) -> ConfigContext
Truthy-only overlay for TUI agent-session state on top of disk
config. Empty getattr(agent, ...) attrs MUST NOT clobber disk.
build_models_payload(ctx, *, include_unconfigured, picker_hints,
canonical_order, max_models) -> dict
Single payload builder. Delegates curation to
list_authenticated_providers (does not call provider_model_ids
per row \u2014 that pulls non-agentic models). picker_hints +
canonical_order produce the TUI ModelPickerDialog shape;
defaults match the dashboard's existing /api/model/options
contract.
Two latent bugs fixed by consolidation:
1. The dashboard read cfg.get('custom_providers') directly, missing
the v12+ keyed providers: form. Now both surfaces go through
get_compatible_custom_providers().
2. The TUI's canonical-merge keyed on is_user_defined to decide order.
Section 3 of list_authenticated_providers sets is_user_defined=True
on rows from the providers: config dict even when the slug is
canonical \u2014 that silently demoted them to the picker tail.
_reorder_canonical now keys on slug membership instead.
Stats: +666 / -145 (net +521). Module 240 LOC; 18 behavior tests.
This PR replaces the rejected #23369 (which bundled the consolidation
with new scriptable CLI surfaces \u2014 hermes models list/status, hermes
providers list \u2014 and a JSON contract that have no external user
demand). Just the refactor; the CLI surface is deferred to a separate
PR gated on actual demand.
Refs #23359.
Follow-up on the salvaged feat commit:
- Keep the constructor / config / yaml-example default at 3 so existing
gateway and CLI users see no behavioural change. PR #13754 (which this
builds on) had lowered the default to 2 to chase pre-feature parity in
the system-prompt-present case, at the cost of quietly halving the
protected head for the gateway path (which strips the system prompt
before calling compress()). With the new "system prompt is implicit"
semantics, default 3 gives every caller a stable head shape.
- agent/context_engine.py: bring the ABC's protect_first_n docstring in
line with the new semantics so plugin context engines interpret the
config key the same way the built-in compressor does.
- tests: adjust the default-value test (3, not 2) and a stale comment;
per-test protect_first_n=2/3/1 values added in PR #13754 stay as-is
since those tests fix concrete head shapes.
The number of head messages preserved verbatim across context compactions
was previously hardcoded to 3 in AIAgent.__init__. Expose it as
`compression.protect_first_n` in config, matching the existing
`protect_last_n` pattern.
Motivation: users who rely on rolling compaction for long-running sessions
had the opening user/assistant exchange pinned as head forever, which
doesn't always match how they want the session framed after many
compactions. Lowering to 1 preserves the system prompt + first non-system
message; lowering to 0 preserves only the system prompt and lets the
entire first exchange age out naturally through the summary.
Semantics: `protect_first_n` counts non-system head messages protected
**in addition to** the system prompt, which is always implicitly protected
when present. Same meaning across both code paths:
protect_first_n=0 → system prompt only (or nothing if no system message)
protect_first_n=2 → system prompt + first 2 non-system messages (default)
This unifies the CLI path (which reads messages with the system prompt at
position 0) and the gateway path (where the gateway /compress handler
strips the system prompt before calling compress() — see
gateway/run.py L9150-9154 on the parent fork). Previously these two paths
disagreed:
CLI path: protect_first_n=1 → protect system prompt only
Gateway path: protect_first_n=1 → protect first USER turn forever
In practice on long-running gateway sessions the old semantics pinned
whatever stale aside happened to be the first user message, reinserting
it into every compaction summary indefinitely.
Default chosen as 2 (not 3) so that the effective protected head count
remains 3 messages in the common case — assuming a system prompt is
present, default protection becomes system + 2 non-system = 3 total,
matching the pre-feature behaviour where `protect_first_n` was hardcoded
to protect 3 messages total. Sessions without a system prompt will see a
small behaviour change (2 protected head messages instead of 3), but this
is the rare path and the new semantics make the system-prompt-present
case the well-defined one.
Changes:
- agent/context_compressor.py: redefine protect_first_n as the count of
non-system head messages protected beyond the implicit system-prompt
guarantee; both paths converge. Constructor default updated to 2.
- hermes_cli/config.py: add `compression.protect_first_n` default (2),
matching the new semantics. `show_config` label tweaked to
'Protect first: N non-system head messages' for clarity.
- run_agent.py: read protect_first_n from config; 0 is now valid (system
prompt is always implicitly protected).
- cli-config.yaml.example: document the new key and rationale.
- tests/agent/test_context_compressor.py: cover default, override, the
end-to-end `protect_first_n=0` and `protect_first_n=1` behaviour,
the no-system-prompt (gateway) path, and the new shared-semantics
regression test.
Fixes#13751
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.
By default, once Hermes participates in a Discord thread (auto-created on
@mention or replied in once) it auto-responds to every subsequent message
in that thread without requiring further @mentions. That's the right default
for one-on-one conversations and isolated channel threads.
But it's a confirmed footgun in multi-bot threads. When a user invokes one
bot per turn — addressing Codex first, then Hermes — every other bot in the
thread also fires on every message, burning credits and spamming the channel.
Author has hit this personally in active multi-bot research-team threads.
Add a new `discord.thread_require_mention` config key (env:
`DISCORD_THREAD_REQUIRE_MENTION`), default `false` to preserve existing
behavior. When `true`, the in-thread mention shortcut is disabled and
threads are gated the same way channels are. Explicit @mentions still pass
through as expected.
Mirrors the existing helper shape (config.extra > env > default) and the
existing yaml→env bridge pattern used by `require_mention`.
Changes:
- gateway/platforms/discord.py: new `_discord_thread_require_mention()`
helper; in_bot_thread shortcut now AND's with `not _discord_thread_require_mention()`
- gateway/config.py: bridge `discord.thread_require_mention` from config.yaml
to `DISCORD_THREAD_REQUIRE_MENTION` env var (mirrors the existing
`require_mention` bridge two lines above)
- hermes_cli/config.py: add `thread_require_mention: False` default to
DEFAULT_CONFIG['discord']
- tests/gateway/test_discord_free_response.py: 4 new tests covering default
behaviour (in-thread shortcut still works), enabled behaviour (mention
required in threads), enabled+mentioned (mention still passes through),
and yaml-via-config.extra path. Also clears DISCORD_* env vars in the
`adapter` fixture so process-env state from the contributor's shell
doesn't leak into per-test behaviour.
- tests/gateway/test_config.py: 2 new tests covering the yaml→env bridge
(both the apply-from-yaml and env-precedence-over-yaml paths)
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md: document the new env var
+ config key with multi-bot rationale; cross-link from `auto_thread`
section
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.
Free-response channels are intended as lightweight chat surfaces — the bot
responds to every message without requiring an @mention. But the auto-thread
gate only checked DISCORD_NO_THREAD_CHANNELS, not DISCORD_FREE_RESPONSE_CHANNELS,
so every message in a free-response channel still spawned a brand-new thread.
That turns a chat channel into a thread-spawning machine: 1 thread per message.
The user-facing docs at website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md already
describe the intended behavior ("Free-response channels also skip auto-threading
— the bot replies inline rather than spinning off a new thread per message"),
so this is a code-vs-docs gap, not a design change.
Fix: OR is_free_channel into skip_thread alongside the existing no_thread_channels
check. One-line production change.
Regression test added at tests/gateway/test_discord_free_response.py:
test_discord_free_response_channel_skips_auto_thread asserts that a message
in a free-response channel never calls _auto_create_thread. Reverting the
one-line fix causes the test to fail with 'Expected mock to not have been
awaited. Awaited 1 times.' — i.e. the test demonstrates the bug concretely.
Lets platform plugins own their YAML→env config bridge instead of forcing
core gateway/config.py to know every platform's schema.
The hook receives the full parsed config.yaml and the platform's own
sub-dict, may mutate os.environ (env > YAML precedence preserved via the
standard `not os.getenv(...)` guards), and may return a dict to merge
into PlatformConfig.extra. It runs during load_gateway_config() after
the existing generic shared-key loop and before _apply_env_overrides(),
mirroring the env_enablement_fn dispatch pattern (#21306, #21331).
Pure addition — no behavior change for existing platforms. Each of the
eight platforms with hardcoded YAML→env blocks today (discord, telegram,
whatsapp, slack, dingtalk, mattermost, matrix, feishu, ~252 LOC in
gateway/config.py) can migrate in independent follow-up PRs; the
hardcoded blocks remain functional in the meantime, and their
`not os.getenv(...)` guards make them no-ops for any env var the hook
already set.
Test coverage: 10 new tests in tests/gateway/test_platform_registry.py
covering field default, callable acceptance, env mutation, extras
merge, both signature args, exception swallowing, missing/non-dict
sections, and env > YAML precedence.
Refs #3823, #24356.
Closes#24836.
Followup to PR #24182 — caught when scanning OpenClaw for recent codex
fixes we hadn't considered. OpenClaw learned the hard way (#80815) that
migrating plugins which codex itself reports as unavailable produces
config that fails at activation time.
Our /codex-runtime codex_app_server enable path queries codex's
plugin/list and migrates everything where installed=true. We were
trusting codex's installation state and ignoring its availability
field. So a plugin that's installed=true but availability=UNAVAILABLE
(broken local install) or REQUIRES_AUTH (OAuth expired or never
completed) would get an [plugins."<n>@openai-curated"] entry in
~/.codex/config.toml — and the user's first codex turn after enabling
the runtime would fail because codex refuses to activate it.
Fix: filter on availability in _query_codex_plugins(). Only emit
plugins where availability is empty (older codex versions without the
field — preserve backward compat) or explicitly AVAILABLE.
Tests:
test_plugin_discovery_skips_unavailable_plugins — verifies 4 cases:
- good-plugin (installed=True, availability=AVAILABLE) → migrated
- broken-plugin (installed=True, availability=UNAVAILABLE) → skipped
- auth-pending (installed=True, availability=REQUIRES_AUTH) → skipped
- legacy-plugin (installed=True, no availability field) → migrated
(older codex versions; preserve backward compat)
Docs:
Added bullet to 'What's NOT migrated' list in the docs page calling
out the availability filter and why.
Other OpenClaw codex PRs I reviewed but did NOT apply (with reasoning):
- #81591 (load Codex for selectable models): we resolve runtime
per-call already, no startup-time gating to fix
- #81510 (cron compatibility): we documented cron as untested; their
fix is for OpenClaw-specific cron orchestration shape
- #81223 (rotate incompatible context-engine threads): we don't
have a Lossless context engine equivalent
- #80688 (constrain sandbox): we don't have an outer-sandbox concept
- #80616 (release on turn_aborted): we already handle status=
interrupted in turn/completed correctly
- #80278 (expose activeModel in plugin SDK): not our surface
- #80792 (default destructive_actions on): we don't expose that knob
56 codex-runtime migration tests still green (+1 new).
- test_background_review_does_not_narrow_toolset_schema: review fork must
NOT pass enabled_toolsets to AIAgent (full parent schema = matching
Anthropic cache key on the 'tools' field).
- test_background_review_installs_thread_local_whitelist: the runtime
whitelist that replaces schema-level narrowing must contain memory +
skills tools and exclude terminal / send_message / delegate_task /
web_search / execute_code.
- test_review_fork_inherits_parent_cached_system_prompt: new test for
PR #17276's first root cause — the fork's _cached_system_prompt must
equal the parent's byte-for-byte.
- test_review_fork_pins_session_start_and_session_id: defensive belt-and-
suspenders for the cached-prompt inheritance.
Inverted the original test_background_review_agent_uses_restricted_toolsets
(which asserted the schema-level narrowing) — that narrowing was the
direct cause of #25322's cache miss, and the runtime whitelist replaces
its safety claim without breaking cache parity.
Refs #25322, #15204, PR #17276.
Adds set_thread_tool_whitelist / clear_thread_tool_whitelist to
hermes_cli/plugins.py. When set on the current thread, restricts which
tools can pass through get_pre_tool_call_block_message; non-whitelisted
tools are blocked with a configurable deny message.
Mirrors the per-thread approval-callback pattern already used by
set_approval_callback (tools/terminal_tool.py:190). Used by
_spawn_background_review to deny non-memory/non-skill tools at runtime
while inheriting the parent agent's full tools schema for prefix-cache
parity (see follow-up commit).
Tests cover allow / deny / clear / cross-thread isolation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up on @pty819's t2a_v2 endpoint fix:
- Default model: speech-02 -> speech-02-hd (bare 'speech-02' is not in the
supported enum; t2a_v2 rejects it with 400). Official enum: speech-01-hd,
speech-01-turbo, speech-02-hd, speech-02-turbo, speech-2.6-hd/turbo,
speech-2.8-hd/turbo.
- Default voice: female-shaonv -> English_expressive_narrator. The
legacy speech-01-series short ID doesn't resolve cleanly on the
speech-02+ models that are now the default.
- Default base URL: api.minimaxi.com -> api.minimax.io (matches the
canonical host in the published docs; api-uw.minimax.io is the
reduced-latency alt).
- Add GroupId support via tts.minimax.group_id config or MINIMAX_GROUP_ID
env var. Some MiniMax accounts scope TTS requests by group; without it,
requests 401. Only appended when not already in the user's base_url.
Tests rewritten to cover both the default t2a_v2 path (hex-encoded audio
in JSON, nested voice_setting/audio_setting) and the legacy
text_to_speech path (raw audio bytes, flat payload). Adds coverage for
GroupId config/env wiring and error surfacing.
Also adds AUTHOR_MAP entry for pty819's GitHub-noreply email.
Slack platform-blocks native slash commands inside thread replies ("/queue
is not supported in threads. Sorry!") and there is no app-side setting to
re-enable them. As a workaround, rewrite a leading '!' to '/' for any known
gateway command before downstream processing — so '!queue', '!stop',
'!model gpt-5.4' etc. work inside Slack threads (and anywhere else).
Only the first token is checked against is_gateway_known_command(), so
casual messages like '!nice work' pass through to the agent unchanged.
Downstream pipeline (MessageType.COMMAND tagging, gateway dispatcher,
thread reply routing) is unchanged.
Adds 6 tests covering rewrite, args preservation, thread routing,
casual-message passthrough, '@bot' suffix, and plain '/' still-works.
`hermes tools` -> "All Platforms" took ~14s to render the checklist
because building the toolset labels called `get_nous_auth_status()` ~31x
transitively (`_toolset_has_keys` -> `_visible_providers` ->
`get_nous_subscription_features` -> `managed_nous_tools_enabled`).
Each call did a synchronous OAuth refresh POST to
portal.nousresearch.com (~350ms even on the failure path), so one menu
paint burned >13s of HTTP and 31 single-use Nous refresh tokens.
Secondary hot spot: every `get_env_value()` re-read and re-sanitised
the entire .env file. 116 reads with O(lines x known-keys) scanning
added ~300ms of CPU per render.
Fix is two process-level caches, both mtime-keyed so login/logout/edit
invalidate naturally:
* `hermes_cli/auth.py`: memoise `get_nous_auth_status()` for 15s keyed
on auth.json mtime. Splits `_compute_nous_auth_status()` as the
uncached impl. Adds `invalidate_nous_auth_status_cache()`.
* `hermes_cli/config.py`: memoise `load_env()` keyed on .env
(path, mtime, size). Adds `invalidate_env_cache()`, wired into
`save_env_value`, `remove_env_value`, and the sanitize-on-load
writer so writers don't return stale dicts on same-second writes.
Before/after on Teknium's box (real HERMES_HOME, no Nous login):
* "All Platforms" cold path: ~13,874ms -> ~691ms label-build
* Warm re-open within the same process: ~122ms -> ~17ms
Side benefit: stops burning a Nous refresh token on every menu paint,
which was risking the portal's reuse-detection revocation logic.
`_reconfigure_provider()` handled `image_gen_plugin_name` in both
branches (no-env-vars early return and post-env-vars) but never mirrored
the same handling for `video_gen_plugin_name`. The first-time
`_configure_provider()` path correctly routes to
`_select_plugin_video_gen_provider()`; reconfigure forgot to.
Repro:
1. Enable video_gen in `hermes tools` → Configure for All Platforms.
2. Go back into `hermes tools` → Reconfigure tool → Video Generation.
3. Pick xAI (with XAI_API_KEY already set).
4. Hit Enter at the "keep current key?" prompt.
Expected: `video_gen.provider: xai` written to config.yaml.
Actual: function returns silently; no `video_gen:` block ever written;
`video_generate` tool fails with "No video generation backend is
configured."
Fix: add the missing `video_gen_plugin_name` branch in both code paths
of `_reconfigure_provider()`, mirroring the existing
`image_gen_plugin_name` handling and the first-time configure logic.
Tests: `tests/hermes_cli/test_video_gen_picker.py` covers both branches
(env-vars-set keep-current and no-env-vars paths).
* feat(codex-runtime): scaffold optional codex app-server runtime
Foundational commit for an opt-in alternate runtime that hands OpenAI/Codex
turns to a 'codex app-server' subprocess instead of Hermes' tool dispatch.
Default behavior is unchanged.
Lands in three pieces:
1. agent/transports/codex_app_server.py — JSON-RPC 2.0 over stdio speaker
for codex's app-server protocol (codex-rs/app-server). Spawn, init
handshake, request/response, notification queue, server-initiated
request queue (for approval round-trips), interrupt-friendly blocking
reads. Tested against real codex 0.130.0 binary end-to-end during
development.
2. hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py:
- Adds 'codex_app_server' to _VALID_API_MODES.
- Adds _maybe_apply_codex_app_server_runtime() helper, called at the
end of _resolve_runtime_from_pool_entry(). Inert unless
'model.openai_runtime: codex_app_server' is set in config.yaml AND
provider in {openai, openai-codex}. Other providers cannot be
rerouted (anthropic, openrouter, etc. preserved).
3. tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_runtime.py — 24 tests
covering api_mode registration, the rewriter helper (default-off,
case-insensitive, opt-in, non-eligible providers preserved), version
parser, missing-binary handling, error class. Does NOT require codex
CLI installed.
This commit is wire-only: the api_mode is recognized but AIAgent does
not yet branch on it. Followup commits add the session adapter, event
projector, approval bridge, transcript projection (so memory/skill
review still works), plugin migration, and slash command.
Existing tests remain green:
- tests/cli/test_cli_provider_resolution.py (29 passed)
- tests/agent/test_credential_pool_routing.py (included above)
* feat(codex-runtime): add codex item projector for memory/skill review
The translator that lets Hermes' self-improvement loop keep working under the
Codex runtime: converts codex 'item/*' notifications into Hermes' standard
{role, content, tool_calls, tool_call_id} message shape that
agent/curator.py already knows how to read.
Item taxonomy (matches codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/item.rs):
- userMessage → {role: user, content}
- agentMessage → {role: assistant, content: text}
- reasoning → stashed in next assistant's 'reasoning' field
- commandExecution → assistant tool_call(name='exec_command') + tool result
- fileChange → assistant tool_call(name='apply_patch') + tool result
- mcpToolCall → assistant tool_call(name='mcp.<server>.<tool>') + tool result
- dynamicToolCall → assistant tool_call(name=<tool>) + tool result
- plan/hookPrompt/etc → opaque assistant note, no fabricated tool_calls
Invariants preserved:
- Message role alternation never violated: each tool item produces at most
one assistant + one tool message in that order, correlated by call_id.
- Streaming deltas (item/<type>/outputDelta, item/agentMessage/delta)
don't materialize messages — only item/completed does. Mirrors how
Hermes already only writes the assistant message after streaming ends.
- Tool call ids are deterministic (codex item id-based) so replays produce
identical messages and prefix caches stay valid (AGENTS.md pitfall #16).
- JSON args use sorted_keys for the same reason.
Real wire formats verified against codex 0.130.0 by capturing live
notifications from thread/shellCommand and including one as a fixture
(COMMAND_EXEC_COMPLETED).
23 new tests, all green:
- Streaming deltas don't materialize (3 paths)
- Turn/thread frame events are silent
- commandExecution: 5 tests including non-zero exit annotation +
deterministic id stability across replays
- agentMessage + reasoning attachment + reasoning consumption
- fileChange: summary without inlined content
- mcpToolCall: namespaced naming + error surfacing
- userMessage: text fragments only (drops images/etc)
- opaque items: no fabricated tool_calls
- Helpers: deterministic id stability + sorted JSON args
- Role alternation invariant across all four tool-shaped item types
This commit is a pure addition. AIAgent integration (the wire that uses the
projector) is the next commit.
* feat(codex-runtime): add session adapter + approval bridge
The third self-contained module: CodexAppServerSession owns one Codex
thread per Hermes session, drives turn/start, consumes streaming
notifications via CodexEventProjector, handles server-initiated approval
requests, and translates cancellation into turn/interrupt.
The adapter has a single public per-turn method:
result = session.run_turn(user_input='...', turn_timeout=600)
# result.final_text → assistant text for the caller
# result.projected_messages → list ready to splice into AIAgent.messages
# result.tool_iterations → tick count for _iters_since_skill nudge
# result.interrupted → True on Ctrl+C / deadline / interrupt
# result.error → error string when the turn cannot complete
# result.turn_id, thread_id → for sessions DB / resume
Behavior:
- ensure_started() spawns codex, does the initialize handshake, and
issues thread/start with cwd + permissions profile. Idempotent.
- run_turn() blocks until turn/completed, drains server-initiated
requests (approvals) before reading notifications so codex never
deadlocks waiting for us, projects every item/completed via the
projector, and increments tool_iterations for the skill nudge gate.
- request_interrupt() is thread-safe (threading.Event); the next loop
iteration issues turn/interrupt and unwinds.
- turn_timeout deadlock guard issues turn/interrupt and records an
error if the turn never completes.
- close() escalates terminate → kill via the underlying client.
Approval bridge:
Codex emits server-initiated requests for execCommandApproval and
applyPatchApproval. The adapter translates Hermes' approval choice
vocabulary onto codex's decision vocabulary:
Hermes 'once' → codex 'approved'
Hermes 'session' or 'always' → codex 'approvedForSession'
Hermes 'deny' / anything else → codex 'denied'
Routing precedence:
1. _ServerRequestRouting.auto_approve_* flags (cron / non-interactive)
2. approval_callback wired by the CLI (defers to
tools.approval.prompt_dangerous_approval())
3. Fail-closed denial when neither is wired
Unknown server-request methods are answered with JSON-RPC error -32601
so codex doesn't hang waiting for us.
Permission profile mapping mirrors AGENTS.md:
Hermes 'auto' → codex 'workspace-write'
Hermes 'approval-required' → codex 'read-only-with-approval'
Hermes 'unrestricted/yolo' → codex 'full-access'
20 new tests, all green. Combined with prior commits this PR now has
67 tests across three modules:
- test_codex_app_server_runtime.py: 24 (api_mode + transport surface)
- test_codex_event_projector.py: 23 (item taxonomy projections)
- test_codex_app_server_session.py: 20 (turn loop + approvals + interrupts)
Full tests/agent/transports/ directory: 249/249 pass — no regressions
to existing transport tests.
Still no wire into AIAgent.run_conversation(); that integration commit
is small and goes next.
* feat(codex-runtime): wire codex_app_server runtime into AIAgent
The integration commit. AIAgent.run_conversation() now early-returns to a
new helper _run_codex_app_server_turn() when self.api_mode ==
'codex_app_server', bypassing the chat_completions tool loop entirely.
Three small surgical edits to run_agent.py (~105 LOC total):
1. Line ~1204 (constructor api_mode validation set):
Add 'codex_app_server' so an explicit api_mode='codex_app_server'
passed to AIAgent() isn't silently rewritten to 'chat_completions'.
2. Line ~12048 (run_conversation, just before the while loop):
Early-return to _run_codex_app_server_turn() when self.api_mode is
'codex_app_server'. Placed AFTER all standard pre-loop setup —
logging context, session DB, surrogate sanitization, _user_turn_count
and _turns_since_memory increments, _ext_prefetch_cache, memory
manager on_turn_start — so behavior outside the model-call loop is
identical between paths. Default Hermes flow is unchanged when the
flag is off.
3. End-of-class (line ~15497):
New method _run_codex_app_server_turn(). Lazy-instantiates one
CodexAppServerSession per AIAgent (reused across turns), runs the
turn, splices projected_messages into messages, increments
_iters_since_skill by tool_iterations (since the chat_completions
loop normally does that per iteration), fires
_spawn_background_review on the same cadence as the default path.
Counter accounting:
_turns_since_memory ← already incremented at run_conversation:11817
(gated on memory store configured) — codex
helper does NOT touch it (would double-count).
_user_turn_count ← already incremented at run_conversation:11793
— codex helper does NOT touch it.
_iters_since_skill ← incremented in the chat_completions loop per
tool iteration. Codex helper increments by
turn.tool_iterations since the loop is bypassed.
User message:
ALREADY appended to messages by run_conversation pre-loop (line 11823)
before the early-return reaches us. Helper does NOT append again.
Regression test test_user_message_not_duplicated guards this.
Approval callback wiring:
Lazy-fetches tools.terminal_tool._get_approval_callback at session
spawn time, passes to CodexAppServerSession. CLI threads with
prompt_toolkit get interactive approvals; gateway/cron contexts get
the codex-side fail-closed deny.
Error path:
Codex session exceptions become a 'partial' result with completed=False
and a final_response that explicitly tells the user how to switch back:
'Codex app-server turn failed: ... Fall back to default runtime with
/codex-runtime auto.' Same return-dict shape as the chat_completions
path so all callers (gateway, CLI, batch_runner, ACP) work unchanged.
9 new integration tests in tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py:
- api_mode='codex_app_server' is accepted on AIAgent construction
- run_conversation returns the expected codex shape
(final_response, codex_thread_id, codex_turn_id, completed, partial)
- Projected messages are spliced into messages list
- _iters_since_skill ticks per tool iteration
- _user_turn_count delegated to standard flow (not double-counted)
- User message appears exactly once (regression guard)
- _spawn_background_review IS invoked (memory/skill review keeps working)
- chat.completions.create is NEVER called (loop fully bypassed)
- Session exception → partial result with /codex-runtime auto hint
- Interrupted turn → partial result with error preserved
Adjacent test runs confirm no regressions:
- tests/run_agent/test_memory_nudge_counter_hydration.py: green
- tests/run_agent/test_background_review.py: green
- tests/run_agent/test_fallback_model.py: green
- tests/agent/transports/: 249/249 green
Still missing for full feature: /codex-runtime slash command, plugin
migration helper, docs page, live e2e test gated on codex binary. Those
are the remaining followup commits.
* feat(codex-runtime): add /codex-runtime slash command (CLI + gateway)
User-facing toggle for the optional codex app-server runtime. Follows the
'Adding a Slash Command (All Platforms)' pattern from AGENTS.md exactly:
single CommandDef in the central registry → CLI handler → gateway handler
→ running-agent guard → all surfaces (autocomplete, /help, Telegram menu,
Slack subcommands) update automatically.
Surface:
/codex-runtime — show current state + codex CLI status
/codex-runtime auto — Hermes default runtime
/codex-runtime codex_app_server — codex subprocess runtime
/codex-runtime on / off — synonyms
Files changed:
hermes_cli/codex_runtime_switch.py (new):
Pure-Python state machine shared by CLI and gateway. Parse args,
read/write model.openai_runtime in the config dict, gate enabling
behind a codex --version check (don't let users opt in to a runtime
they have no binary for; print npm install hint instead).
Returns a CodexRuntimeStatus dataclass that callers render however
suits their surface.
hermes_cli/commands.py:
Single CommandDef entry, no aliases (codex-runtime is its own thing).
cli.py:
Dispatch in process_command() + _handle_codex_runtime() handler that
delegates to the shared module and renders results via _cprint.
gateway/run.py:
Dispatch in _handle_message() + _handle_codex_runtime_command() that
returns a string (gateway sends as message). On a successful change
that requires a new session, _evict_cached_agent() forces the next
inbound message to construct a fresh AIAgent with the new api_mode —
avoids prompt-cache invalidation mid-session.
gateway/run.py running-agent guard:
/codex-runtime joins /model in the early-intercept block so a runtime
flip mid-turn can't split a turn across two transports.
Tests:
tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_switch.py — 25 tests covering the
state machine: arg parsing (10 cases incl. case-insensitive and
synonyms), reading current runtime (5 cases incl. malformed configs),
writing runtime (3 cases), apply() entry point covering read-only,
no-op, codex-missing-blocked, codex-present-success, disable-no-binary-check,
and persist-failure paths (8 cases). All green.
Adjacent test suites confirm no regressions:
- tests/hermes_cli/test_commands.py + test_codex_runtime_switch.py:
167/167 green
- tests/agent/transports/: 283/283 green when combined with prior commits
Still missing: plugin migration helper, docs page, live e2e test gated on
codex binary. Followup commits.
* feat(codex-runtime): auto-migrate Hermes MCP servers to ~/.codex/config.toml
Translates the user's mcp_servers config from ~/.hermes/config.yaml into
the TOML format codex's MCP client expects. Wired into the
/codex-runtime codex_app_server enable path so users get their MCP tool
surface in the spawned subprocess automatically.
The migration runs on every enable. Failures are non-fatal — the runtime
change still proceeds and the user gets a warning so they can fix the
codex config manually.
What translates (mapping verified against codex-rs/core/src/config/edit.rs):
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.command/args/env → codex stdio transport
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.url/headers → codex streamable_http transport
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.timeout → codex tool_timeout_sec
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.connect_timeout → codex startup_timeout_sec
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.cwd → codex stdio cwd
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.enabled: false → codex enabled = false
What does NOT translate (warned + skipped per server):
Hermes-specific keys (sampling, etc.) — codex's MCP client has no
equivalent. Listed in the per-server skipped[] field of the report.
What's NOT migrated (intentional):
AGENTS.md — codex respects this file natively in its cwd. Hermes' own
AGENTS.md (project-level) is already in the worktree, so codex picks
it up without translation. No code needed.
Idempotency design:
All managed content lives between a 'managed by hermes-agent' marker
and the next non-mcp_servers section header. _strip_existing_managed_block
removes the prior managed region cleanly, preserving any user-added
codex config (model, providers.openai, sandbox profiles, etc.) above
or below.
Files added:
hermes_cli/codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py — pure-Python migration
helper. Public API: migrate(hermes_config, codex_home=None,
dry_run=False) returns MigrationReport with .migrated/.errors/
.skipped_keys_per_server. No external TOML dependency — minimal
formatter handles strings/numbers/booleans/lists/inline-tables.
tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py — 39 tests
covering:
- per-server translation (12): stdio/http/sse, cwd, timeouts,
enabled flag, command+url precedence, sampling drop, unknown keys
- TOML formatter (8): types, escaping, inline tables, error case
- existing-block stripping (4): no marker, alone, with user content
above, with user content below
- end-to-end migrate() (8): empty, dry-run, round-trip, idempotent
re-run, preserves user config, error reporting, invalid input,
summary formatting
Files changed:
hermes_cli/codex_runtime_switch.py — apply() now calls migrate() in
the codex_app_server enable branch. Migration failure logs a warning
in the result message but does NOT fail the runtime change. Disable
path (auto) explicitly skips migration.
tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_switch.py — 3 new tests:
test_enable_triggers_mcp_migration, test_disable_does_not_trigger_migration,
test_migration_failure_does_not_block_enable.
All 325 feature tests green:
- tests/agent/transports/: 249 (incl. 67 new)
- tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py: 9
- tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_switch.py: 28 (3 new)
- tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py: 39 (new)
* perf(codex-runtime): cache codex --version check within apply()
Single /codex-runtime invocation could spawn 'codex --version' up to 3
times (state report, enable gate, success message). Each spawn is ~50ms,
so the cumulative cost wasn't a crisis, but it was wasteful and turned a
trivial slash command into something noticeably laggy on slower systems.
Refactored to lazy-once via a closure over a nonlocal cache. First call
spawns; subsequent calls in the same apply() reuse the result.
Behavior unchanged — same return shape, same error handling, same install
hint when codex is missing. Just one subprocess per call instead of three.
Two regression-guard tests added:
- test_binary_check_cached_within_apply: enable path → call_count == 1
- test_binary_check_cached_on_read_only_call: state-report path → call_count == 1
Total tests for /codex-runtime now 30 (was 28); all 143 codex-runtime
tests still green.
* fix(codex-runtime): correct protocol field names found via live e2e test
Three real bugs caught only by running a turn end-to-end against codex
0.130.0 with a real ChatGPT subscription. Unit tests passed because they
asserted on our own (incorrect) wire shapes; the wire format from
codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/* is the source of truth and
my initial reading of the README was incomplete.
Bug 1: thread/start.permissions wire format
Was sending {"profileId": "workspace-write"}.
Real format per PermissionProfileSelectionParams enum (tagged union):
{"type": "profile", "id": "workspace-write"}
AND requires the experimentalApi capability declared during initialize.
AND requires a matching [permissions] table in ~/.codex/config.toml or
codex fails the request with 'default_permissions requires a [permissions]
table'.
Fix: stop overriding permissions on thread/start. Codex picks its default
profile (read-only unless user configures otherwise), which matches what
codex CLI users expect — they configure their default permission profile
in ~/.codex/config.toml the standard way. Trying to be clever about
profile selection broke every turn we tested.
Live error before fix: 'Invalid request: missing field type' on every
turn/start, even though our turn/start payload was correct — the field
codex was complaining about was inside the permissions sub-object we
shouldn't have been sending.
Bug 2: server-request method names
Was matching 'execCommandApproval' and 'applyPatchApproval'.
Real names per common.rs ServerRequest enum:
item/commandExecution/requestApproval
item/fileChange/requestApproval
item/permissions/requestApproval (new third method)
Fix: match the documented names. Added handler for
item/permissions/requestApproval that always declines — codex sometimes
asks to escalate permissions mid-turn and silent acceptance would surprise
users.
Live symptom before fix: agent.log showed
'Unknown codex server request: item/commandExecution/requestApproval'
and codex stalled because we replied with -32601 (unsupported method)
instead of an approval decision. The agent reported back 'The write
command was rejected' even though Hermes never showed the user an
approval prompt.
Bug 3: approval decision values
Was sending decision strings 'approved'/'approvedForSession'/'denied'.
Real values per CommandExecutionApprovalDecision enum (camelCase):
accept, acceptForSession, decline, cancel
(also AcceptWithExecpolicyAmendment and ApplyNetworkPolicyAmendment
variants we don't currently use).
Fix: rename _approval_choice_to_codex_decision return values; update
auto_approve_* fallbacks; update fail-closed default from 'denied' to
'decline'. Test mapping table updated to match.
Live test verified after fixes:
$ hermes (with model.openai_runtime: codex_app_server)
> Run the shell command: echo hermes-codex-livetest > .../proof.txt
then read it back
Approval prompt fired with 'Codex requests exec in <cwd>'.
User chose 'Allow once'. Codex executed the command, wrote the file,
read it back. Final response: 'Read back from proof.txt:
hermes-codex-livetest'. File contents on disk match.
agent.log confirms:
codex app-server thread started: id=019e200e profile=workspace-write
cwd=/tmp/hermes-codex-livetest/workspace
All 20 session tests still green after wire-format updates.
* fix(codex-runtime): correct apply_patch approval params + ship docs
Live e2e revealed FileChangeRequestApprovalParams doesn't carry the
changeset (just itemId, threadId, turnId, reason, grantRoot) — Codex's
'reason' field describes what the patch wants to do. Test config and
display logic updated to use it. The first 'apply_patch (0 change(s))'
display from the live test is now 'apply_patch: <reason>'.
Adds website/docs/user-guide/features/codex-app-server-runtime.md
covering enable/disable, prerequisites, approval UX, MCP migration
behavior, permission profile delegation to ~/.codex/config.toml, known
limitations, and the architecture diagram. Wired into the Automation
category in sidebars.ts.
Live e2e validation across the path matrix:
✓ thread/start handshake
✓ turn/start with text input
✓ commandExecution items + projection
✓ item/commandExecution/requestApproval → Hermes UI → response
✓ Approve once → command runs
✓ Deny → command rejected, codex falls back to read-only message
✓ Multi-turn (codex remembers prior turn's results)
✓ apply_patch via Codex's fileChange path
✓ item/fileChange/requestApproval → Hermes UI
✓ MCP server migration loads inside spawned codex (verified via
'use the filesystem MCP tool' prompt)
✓ /codex-runtime auto → codex_app_server toggle cycle
✓ Disable doesn't trigger migration
✓ Enable with codex CLI present succeeds + migrates
✓ Hermes-side interrupt path (turn/interrupt request issued cleanly
even if codex finishes before the interrupt lands)
Known live-validated limitations now documented in the docs page:
- delegate_task subagents unavailable on this runtime
- permission profile selection delegated to ~/.codex/config.toml
- apply_patch approval prompt has no inline changeset (codex protocol
doesn't expose it)
145/145 codex-runtime tests still green.
* feat(codex-runtime): native plugin migration + UX polish (quirks 2/4/5/10/11)
Major: migrate native Codex plugins (#7 in OpenClaw's PR list)
Discovers installed curated plugins via codex's plugin/list RPC and
writes [plugins."<name>@<marketplace>"] entries to ~/.codex/config.toml
so they're enabled in the spawned Codex sessions. This is the
'YouTube-video-worthy' bit Pash highlighted: when a user has
google-calendar, github, etc. installed in their Codex CLI, those
plugins activate automatically when they enable Hermes' codex runtime.
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py: new _query_codex_plugins()
helper spawns 'codex app-server' briefly and walks plugin/list. Returns
(plugins, error) — failures are non-fatal so MCP migration still works.
- render_codex_toml_section() now takes plugins + permissions args.
- migrate() defaults: discover_plugins=True, default_permission_profile=
'workspace-write'. Explicit None on either disables that side.
- _strip_existing_managed_block() now also strips [plugins.*] and
[permissions]/[permissions.*] sections inside the managed block, so
re-runs replace plugins cleanly without touching codex's own config.
Quirk fixes:
#2 Default permissions profile written on enable.
Without this, Codex's read-only default kicks in and EVERY write
triggers an approval prompt. Now writes [permissions] default =
'workspace-write' so the runtime feels normal out of the box. Set
default_permission_profile=None to opt out.
#4 apply_patch approval prompt now shows what's changing.
Codex's FileChangeRequestApprovalParams doesn't carry the changeset.
Session adapter now caches the fileChange item from item/started
notifications and looks it up by itemId when codex requests approval.
Prompt shows '1 add, 1 update: /tmp/new.py, /tmp/old.py' instead of
'apply_patch (0 change(s))'.
Side benefit: also drains pending notifications BEFORE handling a
server request, so the projector and per-turn caches are up to date
when the approval decision fires. Bounded to 8 notifications per
loop iter to avoid starving codex's response.
#5/#10 Exec approval prompt never shows empty cwd.
When codex omits cwd in CommandExecutionRequestApprovalParams, fall
back to the session's cwd. If somehow neither is available, show
'<unknown>' explicitly instead of an empty string.
Also surfaces 'reason' from the approval params when codex provides
it — gives users more context on why codex wants to run something.
#11 Banner indicates the codex_app_server runtime when active.
New 'Runtime: codex app-server (terminal/file ops/MCP run inside
codex)' line appears in the welcome banner only when the runtime is
on. Default banner is unchanged.
Tests:
- 7 new tests in test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py covering
plugin discovery (mocked), failure handling, dry-run skip, opt-out
flag, idempotent re-runs, and permissions writing.
- 3 new tests in test_codex_app_server_session.py covering the
enriched approval prompts: cwd fallback, change summary on
apply_patch, fallback when no item/started cache exists.
- All 26 session tests + 46 migration tests green; 153 total in PR.
* feat(codex-runtime): hermes-tools MCP callback + native plugin migration
The big architectural addition: when codex_app_server runtime is on,
Hermes registers its own tool surface as an MCP server in
~/.codex/config.toml so the codex subprocess can call back into Hermes
for tools codex doesn't ship with — web_search, browser_*, vision,
image_generate, skills, TTS.
Also: 'migrate native codex plugins' (Pash's YouTube-video-worthy bit) —
when the user has plugins like Linear, GitHub, Gmail, Calendar, Canva
installed via 'codex plugin', Hermes discovers them via plugin/list and
writes [plugins.<name>@openai-curated] entries so they activate
automatically.
New module: agent/transports/hermes_tools_mcp_server.py
FastMCP stdio server exposing 17 Hermes tools. Each call dispatches
through model_tools.handle_function_call() — same code path as the
Hermes default runtime. Run with:
python -m agent.transports.hermes_tools_mcp_server [--verbose]
Exposed: web_search, web_extract, browser_navigate / _click / _type /
_press / _snapshot / _scroll / _back / _get_images / _console /
_vision, vision_analyze, image_generate, skill_view, skills_list,
text_to_speech.
NOT exposed (deliberately):
- terminal/shell/read_file/write_file/patch — codex has built-ins
- delegate_task/memory/session_search/todo — _AGENT_LOOP_TOOLS in
model_tools.py:493, require running AIAgent context. Documented
as a limitation and surfaced in the slash command output.
Migration changes (hermes_cli/codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py):
- _query_codex_plugins() spawns 'codex app-server' briefly to walk
plugin/list and pull installed openai-curated plugins. Failures are
non-fatal — MCP migration still completes.
- render_codex_toml_section() now takes plugins + permissions args
AND wraps the managed block with a MIGRATION_END_MARKER comment so
the stripper can reliably find both ends, even when the block
contains top-level keys (default_permissions = ...).
- migrate() defaults: discover_plugins=True, expose_hermes_tools=True,
default_permission_profile=':workspace' (built-in codex profile name
— must be prefixed with ':'). All three opt-out via explicit args.
- _build_hermes_tools_mcp_entry() builds the codex stdio entry with
HERMES_HOME and PYTHONPATH passthrough so a worktree-launched
Hermes points the MCP subprocess at the same module layout.
Live-caught wire bugs fixed during this turn:
1. Permission profile config key is top-level , NOT a [permissions] table. The [permissions] table is
for *user-defined* profiles with structured fields. Built-in
profile names start with ':' (':workspace', ':read-only',
':danger-no-sandbox'). Was emitting
which codex rejected with 'invalid type: string "X", expected
struct PermissionProfileToml'.
2. Built-in profile is , NOT . Codex
rejected with 'unknown built-in profile'.
3. Codex's MCP layer sends for
tool-call confirmation. We weren't handling it, so codex stalled
and returned 'MCP tool call was rejected'. Now: auto-accept for
our own hermes-tools server (user already opted in by enabling
the runtime), decline for third-party servers.
Quirk fixes shipped (from the limitations list):
#2 default permissions: workspace profile written on enable. No more
approval prompt on every write.
#4 apply_patch approval shows what's changing: cache fileChange
items from item/started, look up by itemId when codex sends
item/fileChange/requestApproval. Prompt: '1 add, 1 update:
/tmp/new.py, /tmp/old.py' instead of '0 change(s)'.
#5/#10 exec approval cwd never empty: fall back to session cwd, then
'<unknown>'. Also surfaces 'reason' from codex when present.
#11 banner shows 'Runtime: codex app-server' line when active so
users understand why tool counts may not match what's reachable.
Tests:
- 5 new tests in test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py covering
plugin discovery, expose_hermes_tools entry generation, idempotent
re-runs, opt-out flag, permissions profile.
- 3 new tests in test_codex_app_server_session.py covering enriched
approval prompts (cwd fallback, fileChange summary).
- 2 new tests for mcpServer/elicitation/request handling (accept
hermes-tools, decline others).
- New test file test_hermes_tools_mcp_server.py covering module
surface, EXPOSED_TOOLS safety invariants (no shell/file_ops,
no agent-loop tools), and main() error paths.
- 166 codex-runtime tests total, all green.
Live e2e validated against codex 0.130.0 + ChatGPT subscription:
✓ /codex-runtime codex_app_server enables, migrates filesystem MCP,
registers hermes-tools, writes default_permissions = ':workspace'
✓ Banner shows 'Runtime: codex app-server' line in subsequent sessions
✓ Shell command runs without approval prompt (workspace profile works)
✓ Multi-turn — codex remembers prior turn's results
✓ apply_patch path via fileChange request approval
✓ web_search via hermes-tools MCP callback returns real Firecrawl
results: 'OpenAI Codex CLI – Getting Started' end-to-end in 13s
✓ Disable cycle clean
Docs updated: website/docs/user-guide/features/codex-app-server-runtime.md
Full re-write covering native plugin migration, the hermes-tools
callback architecture, the prerequisites change ('codex login is
separate from hermes auth login codex'), the trade-off table now
reflecting which Hermes tools work via callback, and the limitations
list updated with what's actually unavailable on this runtime.
* feat(codex-runtime): pin user-config preservation invariant for quirk #6
Quirk #6 from the limitations list — user MCP servers / overrides /
codex-only sections in ~/.codex/config.toml that live OUTSIDE the
hermes-managed block must survive re-migration verbatim.
This already worked thanks to the MIGRATION_MARKER + MIGRATION_END_MARKER
pair I added when fixing the default_permissions wire format (so the
strip can find both ends of the managed region even with top-level
keys like default_permissions). But it was an emergent property
without a test pinning it.
Now explicitly tested:
- User MCP server above the managed block survives migration
- User MCP server below the managed block survives migration
- Both above + below survive a second re-migration
- User content (model, providers, sandbox, otel, etc.) outside our
region is left untouched
Docs added a section "Editing ~/.codex/config.toml safely" explaining
the marker contract — so users know they can add their own MCP
servers, override permissions, configure codex-only options, etc.
without fear of Hermes overwriting their work.
167 codex-runtime tests, all green.
* docs(codex-runtime): clarify the actual tool surface — shell covers terminal/read/write/find
Previous docs and PR description undersold what codex's built-in
toolset actually provides. apply_patch alone made it sound like the
runtime could only edit files in patch format — implying you'd lose
terminal use, read_file, write_file, search/find. That was wrong.
Codex's 'shell' tool runs arbitrary shell commands inside the sandbox,
which covers everything you'd do in bash: cat/head/tail (read), echo>
or heredocs (write), find/rg/grep (search), ls/cd (navigate), build/
test/git/etc. apply_patch is for structured multi-file edits on top
of that. update_plan is its in-runtime todo. view_image loads images.
And codex has its own web_search built in (in addition to the
Firecrawl-backed one Hermes exposes via MCP callback).
Docs now have a 'What tools the model actually has' section right
after Why, breaking the surface into three clearly-labeled buckets:
1. Codex's built-in toolset (always on) — shell, apply_patch,
update_plan, view_image, web_search; covers everything terminal-
adjacent.
2. Native Codex plugins (auto-migrated from your codex plugin
install) — Linear, GitHub, Gmail, Calendar, Outlook, Canva, etc.
3. Hermes tool callback (MCP server in ~/.codex/config.toml) —
web_search/web_extract via Firecrawl, browser_*, vision_analyze,
image_generate, skill_view/skills_list, text_to_speech.
Plus a 'What's NOT available' callout listing the four agent-loop tools
(delegate_task, memory, session_search, todo) that need running
AIAgent context and can't reach the codex runtime.
Trade-offs table broken out: shell, apply_patch, update_plan,
view_image, sandbox each get their own row with a one-line description
so users can see at a glance what's available natively.
Architecture diagram updated to list the codex built-ins by name
instead of 'apply_patch + shell + sandbox'.
No code changes — purely docs clarification. 167 codex-runtime tests
still green.
* fix(codex-runtime): _spawn_background_review signature + review fork api_mode downgrade
Two real bugs in the self-improvement loop integration that the previous
test mocked away.
Bug 1: wrong call signature
The codex helper was calling self._spawn_background_review() with no
args after every turn. That function actually requires:
messages_snapshot=list (positional or keyword)
review_memory=bool (at least one trigger must be True)
review_skills=bool
So the call would have raised TypeError at runtime — except the only
test that exercised this path mocked _spawn_background_review entirely
and just asserted spawn.called, so the wrong-arg shape never surfaced.
Bug 2: review fork inherits codex_app_server api_mode
The review fork is constructed with:
api_mode = _parent_runtime.get('api_mode')
So when the parent is codex_app_server, the review fork ALSO runs as
codex_app_server. But the review fork's whole job is to call agent-loop
tools (memory, skill_manage) which require Hermes' own dispatch — they
short-circuit with 'must be handled by the agent loop' on the codex
runtime. So the review fork would have run, decided to save something,
called memory or skill_manage, and silently no-op'd.
Fixed in run_agent.py:_spawn_background_review() — when the parent
api_mode is 'codex_app_server', the review fork is downgraded to
'codex_responses' (same OAuth credentials, same openai-codex provider,
but talks to OpenAI's Responses API directly so Hermes owns the loop).
Also rewrote the codex helper's review wiring to match the
chat_completions path:
- Computes _should_review_memory in the pre-loop block (was already
being computed; now passed through to the helper as an arg).
- Computes _should_review_skills AFTER the codex turn returns +
counters tick (line ~15432 pattern in chat_completions).
- Calls _spawn_background_review(messages_snapshot=, review_memory=,
review_skills=) only when at least one trigger fires.
- Adds the external memory provider sync (_sync_external_memory_for_turn)
that the chat_completions path runs after every turn.
Tests:
Replaced the broken test_background_review_invoked (which only
asserted spawn.called) with three sharper tests:
- test_background_review_NOT_invoked_below_threshold:
single turn at default thresholds → no review fires (would have
caught the original 'every turn calls spawn with no args' bug)
- test_background_review_skill_trigger_fires_above_threshold:
10 tool_iterations at threshold=10 → review fires with
messages_snapshot=list, review_skills=True, counter resets
- test_background_review_signature_never_breaks: regression guard
asserting positional args are always empty and kwargs include
messages_snapshot
New TestReviewForkApiModeDowngrade class:
- test_codex_app_server_parent_downgrades_review_fork: drives the
real _spawn_background_review function (no mock at that level),
asserts the review_agent gets api_mode='codex_responses' when
the parent was codex_app_server.
Live-validated against real run_conversation:
- Counter ticked from 0 to 5 after a 5-tool-iteration turn
- _spawn_background_review fired exactly once with kwargs-only signature
- review_skills=True, review_memory=False
- messages_snapshot was 12 entries (5 assistant tool_calls + 5 tool
results + 1 final assistant + initial system/user)
- Counter reset to 0 after fire
170 codex-runtime tests, all green.
Docs: added a Self-improvement loop section to the codex runtime page
explaining both how the trigger logic stays equivalent and that the
review fork is auto-downgraded to codex_responses for the agent-loop
tools. Also clarified that apply_patch and update_plan ARE codex's
built-in tools (the previous version made it sound like they were
separate from 'codex's stuff' — they're not, all five tools listed
in 'What tools the model actually has' section 1 are codex built-ins).
* feat(codex-runtime): expose kanban tools through Hermes MCP callback
Kanban workers spawn as separate hermes chat -q subprocesses that read
the user's config.yaml. If model.openai_runtime: codex_app_server is set
globally (which is the whole point of opt-in), every dispatched worker
ALSO comes up on the codex runtime.
That mostly works — codex's built-in shell + apply_patch + update_plan
do the actual task work fine — but it had one critical break: the
worker handoff tools (kanban_complete, kanban_block, kanban_comment,
kanban_heartbeat) are Hermes-registered tools, not codex built-ins.
On the codex runtime, codex builds its own tool list and these never
reach the model, so the worker would do the work but not be able to
report back, hanging until the dispatcher's timeout escalates it as
zombie.
Fix: add all 9 kanban tools to the EXPOSED_TOOLS list in the Hermes
MCP callback. They dispatch statelessly through handle_function_call()
just like web_search and the others — they read HERMES_KANBAN_TASK
from env (set by the dispatcher), gate correctly (worker tools require
the env var, orchestrator tools require it unset), and write to
~/.hermes/kanban.db.
Why kanban tools work via stateless dispatch when delegate_task/memory/
session_search/todo don't: those four are listed in _AGENT_LOOP_TOOLS
(model_tools.py:493) and short-circuit in handle_function_call() with
'must be handled by the agent loop' — they need to mutate AIAgent's
mid-loop state. Kanban tools have no such requirement; they're pure
side-effect functions against the kanban.db plus state_meta.
Tools exposed:
Worker handoff (require HERMES_KANBAN_TASK):
kanban_complete, kanban_block, kanban_comment, kanban_heartbeat
Read-only board queries:
kanban_show, kanban_list
Orchestrator (require HERMES_KANBAN_TASK unset):
kanban_create, kanban_unblock, kanban_link
Tests:
- test_kanban_worker_tools_exposed: complete/block/comment/heartbeat
in EXPOSED_TOOLS (regression guard for the would-hang-worker bug)
- test_kanban_orchestrator_tools_exposed: create/show/list/unblock/link
Docs:
- New 'Workflow features' section in the docs page covering /goal,
kanban, and cron behavior on this runtime
- /goal: works fully via run_conversation feedback; only caveat is
approval-prompt noise on long writes-heavy goals (mitigated by
the default :workspace permission profile)
- Kanban: enumerated which tools are reachable via the callback and
why the env var propagates correctly through the codex subprocess
to the MCP server subprocess
- Cron: documented as 'not specifically tested' — same rules as the
CLI apply since cron runs through AIAgent.run_conversation
- Trade-offs table gained rows for /goal, kanban worker, kanban
orchestrator
172/172 codex-runtime tests green (+2 from kanban tests).
* docs(codex-runtime): wire /codex-runtime into slash-commands ref + flag aux token cost
Three docs gaps caught during a final audit:
1. /codex-runtime was only in the feature docs page, not in the
slash-commands reference. Added rows to both the CLI section and
the Messaging section so users discover it where they'd look for
slash command syntax.
2. CODEX_HOME and HERMES_KANBAN_TASK weren't in environment-variables.md.
CODEX_HOME lets users redirect Codex CLI's config dir (the migration
honors it). HERMES_KANBAN_TASK is set by the kanban dispatcher and
propagates to the codex subprocess + the hermes-tools MCP subprocess
so kanban worker tools gate correctly — documented as 'don't set
manually' since it's an internal handoff.
3. Aux client behavior on this runtime. When openai_runtime=
codex_app_server is on with the openai-codex provider, every aux
task (title generation, context compression, vision auto-detect,
session search summarization, the background self-improvement review
fork) flows through the user's ChatGPT subscription by default.
This is true for the existing codex_responses path too, but it's
more visible / important here because users explicitly opted in for
subscription billing. Added a 'Auxiliary tasks and ChatGPT
subscription token cost' section to the docs page with a YAML
example showing how to override specific aux tasks to a cheaper
model (typically google/gemini-3-flash-preview via OpenRouter).
Also documents how the self-improvement review fork gets
auto-downgraded from codex_app_server to codex_responses by the
fix earlier in this PR.
No code changes — pure docs. 172 codex-runtime tests still green.
* docs+test(codex-runtime): pin HOME passthrough, document multi-profile + CODEX_HOME
OpenClaw hit a real footgun in openclaw/openclaw#81562: when spawning
codex app-server they were synthesizing a per-agent HOME alongside
CODEX_HOME. That made every subprocess codex's shell tool launches
(gh, git, aws, npm, gcloud, ...) see a fake $HOME and miss the user's
real config files. They had to back it out in PR #81562 — keep
CODEX_HOME isolation, leave HOME alone.
Audit confirms Hermes' codex spawn doesn't have this problem. We do
os.environ.copy() and only overlay CODEX_HOME (when provided) and
RUST_LOG. HOME passes through unchanged. But it was an emergent
property without a test pinning it, so adding a regression guard:
test_spawn_env_preserves_HOME — confirms parent HOME survives intact
in the subprocess env
test_spawn_env_sets_CODEX_HOME_when_provided — confirms codex_home
arg still isolates
codex state correctly
Docs additions:
'HOME environment variable passthrough' section — calls out the
contract explicitly: CODEX_HOME isolates codex's own state, HOME
stays user-real so gh/git/aws/npm/etc. find their normal config.
Cites openclaw#81562 as the cautionary tale.
'Multi-profile / multi-tenant setups' section — addresses the
related concern: profiles share ~/.codex/ by default. For users who
want per-profile codex isolation (separate auth, separate plugins),
documents the manual CODEX_HOME=<profile-scoped-dir> approach.
Explains why we DON'T auto-scope CODEX_HOME per profile: doing so
would silently invalidate existing codex login state for anyone
upgrading to this PR with tokens already at ~/.codex/auth.json.
Opt-in is safer than surprising users.
174 codex-runtime tests (+2 from HOME guards), all green.
* fix(codex-runtime): TOML control-char escapes + atomic config.toml write
Two footguns caught in a final audit pass before merge.
Bug 1: TOML control characters not escaped
The _format_toml_value() helper escaped backslashes and double quotes
but passed literal control characters (\n, \t, \r, \f, \b) through
unchanged. TOML basic strings don't allow literal control characters
— a path or env var containing a newline would produce invalid TOML
that codex refuses to load.
Realistic exposure: pathological cases like a HERMES_HOME with a
trailing newline (env var concatenation accident), or a PYTHONPATH
with a tab from a multi-line shell heredoc.
Fix: escape all five TOML basic-string control sequences (\b \t \n
\f \r) in addition to \\ and \" that we already did. Order
matters — backslash must come first or the other escapes get
re-escaped.
Bug 2: config.toml write wasn't atomic
If the python process crashed between target.mkdir() and the
write_text() finishing, a half-written config.toml could be left
behind. On NFS / Windows / some FUSE mounts this is a real concern;
on ext4/APFS small writes are usually atomic in practice but not
guaranteed.
Fix: write to a tempfile.mkstemp() temp file in the same directory,
then Path.replace() (atomic same-dir rename on POSIX, ReplaceFile on
Windows). On rename failure, clean up the temp file so repeated
failed migrations don't pile up .config.toml.* files.
Tests:
- test_string_with_newline_escaped — \n in value → \n in output
- test_string_with_tab_escaped — \t in value → \t in output
- test_string_with_other_controls_escaped — \r, \f, \b
- test_windows_path_escaped_correctly — backslash doubling
- test_atomic_write_no_temp_leak_on_success — no .config.toml.*
left over after a successful write
- test_atomic_write_cleanup_on_rename_failure — temp file removed
when Path.replace raises (simulated disk full)
180 codex-runtime tests, all green (+6 from this commit).
Footguns audited but NOT fixed (with rationale):
- Concurrent migrations race. Two Hermes processes hitting
/codex-runtime codex_app_server within seconds of each other could
cause one writer to lose entries. Low probability (you'd have to
enable from two surfaces simultaneously) and low impact (just re-run
migration). Adding fcntl/msvcrt locking is more code than it's
worth here. The atomic rename above means each individual write is
consistent — only the merge step is racy.
- Codex protocol version drift. We pin MIN_CODEX_VERSION=0.125 and
check at runtime but don't reject too-new versions. Right call —
the protocol has been stable through 0.125 → 0.130. If OpenAI
breaks it later we'd see the error in test_codex_app_server_runtime
on CI before users hit it.
* feat(video_gen): unified video_generate tool with pluggable provider backends
One core video_generate tool, every backend a plugin. Mirrors the
image_gen + memory_provider + context_engine architecture: ABC, registry,
plugin-context registration hook, and per-plugin model catalogs surfaced
through hermes tools.
Surface (one schema, every backend):
- operation: generate / edit / extend
- modalities: text-to-video (prompt only), image-to-video (prompt +
image_url), video edit (prompt + video_url), video extend (video_url)
- reference_image_urls, duration, aspect_ratio, resolution,
negative_prompt, audio, seed, model override
- Providers ignore unknown kwargs and declare what they support via
VideoGenProvider.capabilities() — backend-specific quirks stay in the
backend, the agent learns one tool
Backends shipped:
- plugins/video_gen/xai/ — Grok-Imagine, full generate/edit/extend +
image-to-video + reference images (salvaged from PR #10600 by
@Jaaneek, reshaped into the plugin interface)
- plugins/video_gen/fal/ — Veo 3.1 (t2v + i2v), Kling O3 i2v,
Pixverse v6 i2v with model-aware payload building that drops keys a
model doesn't declare
Wiring:
- agent/video_gen_provider.py — VideoGenProvider ABC, normalize_operation,
success_response / error_response, save_b64_video / save_bytes_video,
$HERMES_HOME/cache/videos/
- agent/video_gen_registry.py — thread-safe register/get/list +
get_active_provider() reading video_gen.provider from config.yaml
- hermes_cli/plugins.py — PluginContext.register_video_gen_provider()
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py — Video Generation category in
hermes tools, plugin-only providers list, model picker per plugin,
config write to video_gen.{provider,model}
- toolsets.py — new video_gen toolset
- tests: 31 new tests covering ABC, registry, tool dispatch, both plugins
- docs: developer-guide/video-gen-provider-plugin.md (parallel to the
image-gen guide), sidebar + toolsets-reference + plugin guides updated
Supersedes: #25035 (FAL), #17972 (FAL), #14543 (xAI), #13847 (HappyHorse),
#10458 (provider categories), #10786 (xAI media+search bundle), #2984
(FAL duplicate), #19086 (Google Veo standalone — easy port to plugin
interface).
Co-authored-by: Jaaneek <Jaaneek@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(video_gen): dynamic schema reflects active backend's capabilities
Address the 'capability variance' question — instead of one tool with a
static schema that lies about what every backend supports, the
video_generate tool now rebuilds its description at get_definitions()
time based on the configured video_gen.provider and video_gen.model.
The agent sees backend-specific guidance up-front:
- 'fal-ai/veo3.1/image-to-video': 'image-to-video only — image_url is
REQUIRED; text-only prompts will be rejected'
- 'fal-ai/veo3.1' (t2v): no image_url restriction shown
- xAI grok-imagine-video: 'operations: generate, edit, extend; up to 7
reference_image_urls'
- Backends without edit/extend: 'not supported on this backend — surface
that they need to switch backends via hermes tools'
This is the same pattern PR #22694 used for delegate_task self-capping —
documented in the dynamic-tool-schemas skill. Cache invalidation is
free: get_tool_definitions() already memoizes on config.yaml mtime, so a
mid-session backend swap rebuilds the schema automatically.
Tested:
- Empirical FAL OpenAPI schema check confirms image-to-video models
require image_url (FAL returns HTTP 422 otherwise) — client-side
rejection in FALVideoGenProvider.generate() now prevents the wasted
round-trip
- Live E2E: fal-ai/veo3.1/image-to-video + prompt-only → clean
missing_image_url error; fal-ai/veo3.1 + prompt-only → dispatches
- 6 new tests cover the builder (no config / image-only / full-surface /
text-only / unknown provider / registry wiring), all passing
- 37/37 in the slice, 134/134 in the broader regression set
* test(video_gen/xai): full surface integration tests + cleaner schema
Verified end-to-end that the xAI plugin handles every documented mode
from PR #10600's surface: text-to-video, image-to-video,
reference-images-to-video, video edit, video extend (with and without
prompt). All five modes route to the correct xAI endpoint
(/videos/generations, /videos/edits, /videos/extensions) with the right
payload shape (image / reference_images / video keys), and all five
client-side rejections fire before the network: edit-without-prompt,
extend-without-video_url, image+refs conflict, >7 references, and
duration/aspect_ratio clamping.
15 new integration tests grouped into four classes (endpoint routing,
modalities, validation, clamping). httpx is stubbed via a small fake
AsyncClient that records POSTs so the tests assert the actual payload
the plugin would send to xAI — not just the success/error envelope.
Also cleaned up a description redundancy: when a model's operations
match the backend's overall set, we no longer print the duplicate
'operations supported by this model' line. xAI's description now reads:
Active backend: xAI . model: grok-imagine-video
- operations supported by this backend: edit, extend, generate
- modalities supported by this backend: image, reference_images, text
- aspect_ratio choices: 16:9, 1:1, 2:3, 3:2, 3:4, 4:3, 9:16
- resolution choices: 480p, 720p
- duration range: 1-15s
- reference_image_urls: up to 7 images
Co-authored-by: Jaaneek <Jaaneek@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(video_gen): collapse surface to t2v + i2v, family-based auto-routing
Two design changes per Teknium:
1) Drop edit/extend from the tool surface entirely. Only text-to-video
and image-to-video remain. The agent sees a clean tool with two
modalities; backend-specific quirks like xAI's edit/extend endpoints
stay out of the unified schema.
2) FAL: pick a model FAMILY once, the plugin routes between the
family's text-to-video and image-to-video endpoints based on whether
image_url was passed. Users no longer pick 'fal-ai/veo3.1' AND
'fal-ai/veo3.1/image-to-video' as separate options — they pick
'veo3.1', and the plugin handles the rest.
Catalog rewritten as families:
veo3.1 fal-ai/veo3.1 / fal-ai/veo3.1/image-to-video
pixverse-v6 fal-ai/pixverse/v6/text-to-video / fal-ai/pixverse/v6/image-to-video
kling-o3-standard fal-ai/kling-video/o3/standard/text-to-video / fal-ai/kling-video/o3/standard/image-to-video
xAI uses a single endpoint (/videos/generations) for both modes,
routed by the presence of the 'image' field in the payload — no
edit/extend exposure.
Schema changes:
- VIDEO_GENERATE_SCHEMA: drop operation, drop video_url. Final params:
prompt (required), image_url, reference_image_urls, duration,
aspect_ratio, resolution, negative_prompt, audio, seed, model.
- VideoGenProvider ABC: drop normalize_operation, VALID_OPERATIONS,
DEFAULT_OPERATION. capabilities() drops 'operations' key.
- success_response: add 'modality' field ('text' | 'image') so the
agent and logs can see which endpoint was actually hit.
Dynamic schema builder simplified — no operations bullet, no
'switch backends if you need edit/extend' guidance. When the active
backend supports both modalities (the common case), description reads:
Active backend: FAL . model: pixverse-v6
- supports both text-to-video (omit image_url) and image-to-video
(pass image_url) - routes automatically
- aspect_ratio choices: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
- resolution choices: 360p, 540p, 720p, 1080p
- duration range: 1-15s
- audio: pass audio=true to enable native audio (pricing tier)
- negative_prompt: supported
Tests: 51 in the video_gen slice, 216 across the broader image+video
sweep, all passing. New FAL routing tests prove pixverse-v6 + no image
hits text-to-video endpoint, pixverse-v6 + image_url hits
image-to-video endpoint, same for veo3.1 and kling-o3-standard.
Docs updated: developer-guide page rewrites the 'model families' pattern
as a first-class section so external plugin authors know the convention.
toolsets-reference and toolsets.py descriptions match the new surface.
Co-authored-by: Jaaneek <Jaaneek@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(video_gen/fal): expand catalog to 6 families, cheap + premium tiers
Catalog now covers everything Teknium specced from FAL:
Cheap tier:
ltx-2.3 fal-ai/ltx-2.3-22b/text-to-video / image-to-video
pixverse-v6 fal-ai/pixverse/v6/text-to-video / image-to-video
Premium tier:
veo3.1 fal-ai/veo3.1 / fal-ai/veo3.1/image-to-video
seedance-2.0 bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video / image-to-video
kling-v3-4k fal-ai/kling-video/v3/4k/text-to-video / image-to-video
happy-horse fal-ai/happy-horse/text-to-video / image-to-video
DEFAULT_MODEL moved from veo3.1 (premium) to pixverse-v6 (cheap, sane
defaults, both modalities) — better first-run UX for users who haven't
explicitly picked a model.
New family-entry knob: image_param_key. Kling v3 4K's image-to-video
endpoint expects start_image_url instead of image_url; declaring
image_param_key='start_image_url' on the family lets _build_payload
remap correctly. Other families default to plain image_url.
Per-family capability flags reflect each model's docs:
- LTX 2.3 + Happy Horse: minimal payloads (no duration/aspect/resolution
enum exposed by FAL — let endpoint apply defaults)
- Seedance: 6 aspect ratios incl 21:9, durations 4-15, audio supported,
negative prompts NOT supported per docs
- Kling v3 4K: 16:9/9:16/1:1, 3-15s, audio + negative
- Veo 3.1: unchanged, 16:9/9:16, 4/6/8s
Tests: +5 covering the new families (full catalog, Kling 4K
start_image_url remap, Seedance routing, LTX payload minimality, Happy
Horse minimality). 56/56 in the slice green.
Note: I did NOT add the FAL-hosted xAI Grok-Imagine variant. Hermes
already has a direct xAI plugin that talks to xAI's own API; routing
the same model through FAL's wrapper would duplicate the surface
without adding capabilities. Users on FAL who want Grok-Imagine should
use the xAI plugin directly; flag if you want both routes available.
* test(video_gen): tool-surface routing matrix — every model x modality
End-to-end matrix test driven through _handle_video_generate() — the
actual function the agent's video_generate tool call lands in. Writes
config.yaml, invokes the registered handler with a raw args dict, then
asserts the outbound HTTP/SDK call hit the right endpoint with the right
payload shape.
Parametrized over FAL_FAMILIES.keys() so the matrix auto-discovers new
families as they're added (add a family to FAL_FAMILIES and you get
both modalities tested for free).
Coverage:
- All 6 FAL families x {text-only, text+image} = 12 cases
- xAI x {text-only, text+image} = 2 cases
- tool-level model= arg overrides config = 2 cases
For each case, verifies:
- result['success'] is True
- result['modality'] matches input shape ('text' if no image_url, 'image' otherwise)
- outbound endpoint URL matches the family's text_endpoint or image_endpoint
- text-only payloads carry no image-shaped keys
- text+image payloads carry the family's image key (image_url for most,
start_image_url for kling-v3-4k, wrapped 'image' object for xAI)
All 16 cases passing. Confirms the tool surface routes every
(provider, model, modality) combination correctly with zero leakage.
* feat(video_gen): keep video_gen out of first-run setup, surface in status
Two changes:
1. video_gen joins _DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS, so it is NOT pre-selected in
the first-run toolset checklist. Video gen is niche, paid, and slow —
most users don't want it nagging them during initial setup. Anyone
who wants it opts in via 'hermes tools' -> Video Generation, which
already routes to the provider+model picker.
2. The 'hermes setup' status panel learns about video_gen — but only
shows the row when a plugin reports available. Users without
FAL_KEY/XAI_API_KEY see nothing about video gen; users with one of
those keys see 'Video Generation (FAL) ✓' as confirmation it's wired.
Verified live:
- Fresh install (no creds): zero video_gen mentions in wizard.
- With FAL_KEY: status row appears with active backend name.
- 160/160 in the setup + tools_config + video_gen test slice.
Rationale: image_gen is on by default because it's a featured creative
tool used in casual chat (telegrams, etc). Video gen is heavier — long
wait, paid per-second pricing. Default-off matches user intent better.
---------
Co-authored-by: Jaaneek <Jaaneek@users.noreply.github.com>
Replace tenant-specific example text in the transcript offset regression with generic follow-up turns so the upstream test documents the bug without customer-specific wording.
Keep the outer history_offset when _run_agent drains queued follow-ups recursively so transcript persistence includes every queued turn in the chain instead of only the last one.
Recover from SIGWINCH without clearing the physical screen or scrollback
buffer. The startup banner and tool summary are printed before
prompt_toolkit owns the live chrome, so they live in normal terminal
scrollback. Calling erase_screen() + \x1b[3J] on every resize removed
that UI permanently — _replay_output_history cannot reconstruct it
because the banner was never added to _OUTPUT_HISTORY.
Instead, just reset prompt_toolkit's renderer cache and invalidate so
the next incremental redraw starts from a clean slate, then let the
original on_resize handler recalculate layout for the new terminal
size. This matches the behaviour of bash/zsh/fish on SIGWINCH.
FixesNousResearch/hermes-agent#22999
skill_view ran the direct-path strategy across every skill dir before
the recursive strategy, so a top-level skill in an external dir could
silently shadow a same-named nested local skill. /skills correctly
listed the local version (deduped local-first by _find_all_skills) but
skill_view loaded the external one — confusing, and a real bug class
for users with skills.external_dirs registered alongside categorized
local skills.
Pick a louder fix than @polkn's PR #6136 proposed: collect every match
across all dirs (direct path, recursive by parent dir name, legacy
flat <name>.md), and if there's more than one, refuse with an error
that surfaces every matching path plus a hint to load by the
categorized form. Local-first precedence would have replaced silent
external-shadowing with silent same-name collisions between two
externals, or made an externally-shadowed-by-local skill unreachable
by bare name with no signal. Refusing forces the user to disambiguate
once and never wonder which skill ran.
Recovery: pass the full categorized path
("foundations/runtime/explore-codebase" instead of
"explore-codebase"), or rename one of the colliding skills.
Co-authored-by: pol <pol.kuijken@gmail.com>
Removes the 'Launch hermes chat now? (Y/n)' prompt at the end of
hermes setup. The summary already prints 'Ready to go! → hermes'
so the auto-launch was redundant, and on macOS 26+ it could crash
in prompt_toolkit when setup was invoked from the curl install
script with stdin redirected from /dev/tty (#5884, #6128).
After setup, users run 'hermes' themselves like every other CLI
tool. Same pattern applies to the Windows installer.
Closes#6128 (narrower env-var-guarded fix superseded by removing
the prompt outright).
Adds an explicit API compatibility mode prompt to the `hermes model -> custom`
flow so Codex-compatible third-party endpoints (and any other non-default
backend whose URL doesn't match the existing heuristics in
`_detect_api_mode_for_url`) can be selected explicitly instead of silently
falling back to chat_completions.
Choices: Auto-detect / chat_completions / codex_responses / anthropic_messages.
Persists `api_mode` to:
- `model.api_mode` (active session config)
- the matching `custom_providers[*]` entry (so re-activating the named
provider next time replays the same transport)
Salvaged from PR #6125 onto current main: kept the new prompt and the
`_save_custom_provider(api_mode=...)` plumbing; the named-custom flow
already extracts and applies `api_mode` from the saved entry on current
main so those changes are preserved as-is. Test fixtures updated for the
new prompt and the existing display-name prompt.
Co-authored-by: littlewwwhite <1095245867@qq.com>
- memory_setup.py: use shlex.split() for plugin dep checks instead of shell=True
- transcription_tools.py: avoid shell=True for auto-detected whisper commands
(user-provided templates via env var still use shell=True for compatibility)
- cli.py: add comment clarifying intentional shell=True for user quick_commands
- Add test verifying auto-detected template is shlex-safe
Addresses CONTRIBUTING.md Priority #3 (Security hardening — shell injection).
These two functions in hermes_cli/profiles.py have no callers — the live
`hermes completion {bash,zsh}` command uses hermes_cli/completion.py's
generate_bash() / generate_zsh() instead. Multiple PRs (incl. #6141) tried
to fix the trailing-`_hermes "$@"` zsh bug here, only to discover the
patch never reached users. Delete the dead code so future contributors
patch the right file.
The actual user-facing fix lives in the preceding cherry-picked commits
to hermes_cli/completion.py.
* feat(nous): unified client=hermes-client-v<version> tag on every Portal request
Every Hermes request to Nous Portal now carries the same
client=hermes-client-v<__version__> tag (e.g. client=hermes-client-v0.13.0
on this release), sourced live from hermes_cli.__version__. The release
script's regex bump auto-aligns it on every release.
Centralized in agent/portal_tags.py and wired into all four call sites:
- NousProfile.build_extra_body (main agent loop, every chat completion)
- auxiliary_client.NOUS_EXTRA_BODY + _build_call_kwargs (aux client)
- run_agent.py compression-summary fallback path
- tools/web_tools.py web_extract fallback
Replaces the client=aux marker added in #24194 with the unified version
tag. Tests assert against the helper output (invariant) rather than the
literal string, so they don't need updating on every release.
* feat(nous): cover /goal judge and kanban specify aux paths
Two aux-using surfaces bypassed call_llm by invoking
client.chat.completions.create() directly without extra_body, so they
were missing the unified Portal client tag:
- hermes_cli/goals.py — /goal standing-goal judge
- hermes_cli/kanban_specify.py — kanban triage specifier
Both now pass extra_body=get_auxiliary_extra_body() or None so they
inherit the version tag when the aux client points at Nous Portal, and
emit nothing otherwise (no tag leak to OpenRouter/Anthropic auxes).
The long-lived prefix-cache layout split the system prompt into stable/
context/volatile blocks and re-derived them on every API call. The
volatile tier (timestamp + memory snapshot + USER profile) ticks per
turn, so the system message bytes mutated mid-conversation and broke
upstream prompt caches (OpenRouter, Nous Portal, Anthropic).
Diagnosed via live wire-format diffing: an 8-turn conversation showed
OLD layout flipping system block[1] sha mid-session at the minute
boundary, dropping cached_tokens to 0 on that turn (cumulative
66.6% vs 83.3% for the single-block layout). Hermes invariant:
history (system + all but the last 1-2 messages) must be static.
Fix: drop the long-lived layout entirely. Single layout everywhere —
system_and_3 with one cached system string built once on first turn,
replayed verbatim on every subsequent turn. Loses cross-session 1h
prefix caching for Claude (the feature that motivated the split), but
within-session caching now actually works on every provider.
Removed:
- run_agent.py: _use_long_lived_prefix_cache flag, _long_lived_cache_ttl,
_supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache method, the long-lived branch in
run_conversation, mark_tools_for_long_lived_cache call site
- agent/prompt_caching.py: apply_anthropic_cache_control_long_lived,
mark_tools_for_long_lived_cache, _mark_system_stable_block helper
- hermes_cli/config.py: prompt_caching.long_lived_prefix and
prompt_caching.long_lived_ttl config keys
- tests/agent/test_prompt_caching_live.py (entire file)
- tests/agent/test_prompt_caching.py: TestMarkToolsForLongLivedCache,
TestApplyAnthropicCacheControlLongLived
- tests/run_agent/test_anthropic_prompt_cache_policy.py:
TestSupportsLongLivedAnthropicCache
Targeted tests: 62/62 pass.
The test_restart_command_while_busy_requests_drain_without_interrupt test
was asserting against a hardcoded emoji string that was valid before the
i18n migration. After gateway/run.py switched to t("gateway.draining",
count=N), the test sees the translated output (or the raw key when the
locale catalog isn't resolved in xdist workers).
Fix by asserting against t("gateway.draining", count=1) — this produces
the correct expected value regardless of whether the locale file is
available in the test environment.
PR #24151 routed Portal Qwen (qwen3.6-plus) through the prefix_and_2
long-lived cache layout, attaching {"type":"ephemeral","ttl":"1h"}
markers to the tools[-1] entry and the stable system-prefix block.
That layout works for Portal Claude because Anthropic / OpenRouter on
Anthropic routes honour 1h TTL — but Portal Qwen ultimately proxies to
Alibaba DashScope, which documents a single "ephemeral" TTL of 5
minutes on its Context Cache. The ttl="1h" qualifier is silently
dropped upstream, so the two highest-value breakpoints (tools array +
system prefix) never land. Only the rolling-window 5m markers on the
last 2 messages cache, which matches the observed ~25% read rate.
Fix: keep Portal Qwen on cache_control via _anthropic_prompt_cache_policy
returning (True, False), but drop it from _supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache
so it rides the standard system_and_3 5m layout (system + last 3 messages,
all at 5m). Same 4 breakpoints, all in a TTL the upstream actually honours.
Refs: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/context-cachehttps://openrouter.ai/docs/features/prompt-caching (Alibaba Qwen
section: "TTL: 5 minutes")
- _supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache: Portal scope narrowed back to Claude
- tests: flip the two qwen long-lived expectations to False, retitle
non_claude_non_qwen_rejected -> non_claude_rejected
Three follow-ups to PR #24168 found during live E2E testing on TS/bash files:
1. typescript-language-server now installs the typescript SDK (tsserver)
alongside it. Without that sibling install, initialize() failed with
"Could not find a valid TypeScript installation" and the server was
marked broken — no diagnostics ever reached the agent. New extra_pkgs
field on INSTALL_RECIPES makes that explicit and reusable for future
peer-dep cases.
2. _check_lint now treats "linter command exists on PATH but cannot
actually run" as skipped instead of error. The motivating case is
npx tsc when typescript is not in node_modules — npx prints its
"This is not the tsc command you are looking for" banner and exits
non-zero, which previously blocked the LSP semantic tier (gated on
success or skipped). Pattern-matched per base command (npx,
rustfmt, go) so genuine lint errors still flow through normally.
3. hermes lsp status now surfaces a Backend warnings section when
bash-language-server is installed but shellcheck is missing. The
server itself spawns fine but bash-language-server delegates
diagnostics to shellcheck — without it on PATH the integration
looks alive but never reports any problems. Same warning is
logged once at server spawn time.
Validation:
- 12 new tests in tests/agent/lsp/test_install_and_lint_fixes.py:
* recipe carries typescript SDK
* _install_npm passes both pkg + extras to npm CLI
* backwards compat: recipes without extras still work
* _backend_warnings quiet when bash absent / both present
* _backend_warnings fires when bash installed without shellcheck
* status output includes the Backend warnings section
* _looks_like_linter_unusable catches the npx tsc banner
* real TS type errors not misclassified as unusable
* unfamiliar linters fall through normally
* _check_lint returns skipped on npx tsc unusable
* _check_lint returns error on real tsc type errors
- Full lsp + file_operations test suite: 245/245 pass
- Live E2E:
* try_install("typescript-language-server") installs both packages
into node_modules
* write_file(bad.ts, ...) returns lint=skipped + lsp_diagnostics
with two real TS errors (was lint=error, no lsp_diagnostics)
* hermes lsp status renders the shellcheck warning when bash is
installed but shellcheck is not on PATH
When the user runs /stop or a session is interrupted mid-flight, the
👀 in-progress reaction lingered on the user's message indefinitely.
Without another agent run to swap it for 👍/👎, the eyes stayed there
forever — visually misleading (looks like the agent is still working).
Fix: on ProcessingOutcome.CANCELLED, call set_message_reaction with
reaction=None to clear all reactions on the message. Documented Bot API
semantics (equivalent to Bot API 10.0's deleteMessageReaction, but works
on PTB 22.6 already without the version bump).
Test changes:
- Renamed test_on_processing_complete_cancelled_keeps_existing_reaction
→ test_on_processing_complete_cancelled_clears_reaction; updated
assertion to expect set_message_reaction(reaction=None).
- Added test_on_processing_complete_cancelled_skipped_when_disabled
(TELEGRAM_REACTIONS=false short-circuits).
- Added test_clear_reactions_handles_api_error_gracefully and
test_clear_reactions_returns_false_without_bot to cover the new
_clear_reactions helper.
Built-in commands with required args (e.g. /queue, /steer, /background)
were excluded from Telegram setMyCommands output, making them invisible
in the autocomplete menu. However, their handlers already return usage
text when invoked without arguments, so hiding them hurts discoverability.
This commit removes the _requires_argument filter for built-in commands
(COMMAND_REGISTRY) while keeping it for plugin-registered slash commands,
which may not provide a no-arg usage fallback.
Closes#24312
The clarify tool returned 'not available in this execution context' for
every gateway-mode agent because gateway/run.py never passed
clarify_callback into the AIAgent constructor. Schema actively encouraged
calling it; users never saw the question.
Changes:
- tools/clarify_gateway.py — new event-based primitive mirroring
tools/approval.py: register/wait_for_response/resolve_gateway_clarify
with per-session FIFO, threading.Event blocking with 1s heartbeat
slices (so the inactivity watchdog keeps ticking), and
clear_session for boundary cleanup.
- gateway/platforms/base.py — abstract send_clarify with a numbered-text
fallback so every adapter (Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix,
etc.) gets a working clarify out of the box. Plus an active-session
bypass: when the agent is blocked on a text-awaiting clarify, the next
non-command message routes inline to the runner's intercept instead
of being queued + triggering an interrupt. Same shape as the /approve
deadlock fix from PR #4926.
- gateway/platforms/telegram.py — concrete send_clarify renders one
inline button per choice plus '✏️ Other (type answer)'. cl: callback
handler resolves numeric choices immediately, flips to text-capture
mode for Other, with the same authorization guards as exec/slash
approvals.
- gateway/run.py — clarify_callback wired at the cached-agent per-turn
callback assignment site (only the user-facing agent path; cron and
hygiene-compress agents have no human attached). Bridges sync→async
via run_coroutine_threadsafe, blocks with the configured timeout, and
returns a '[user did not respond within Xm]' sentinel on timeout so
the agent adapts rather than pinning the running-agent guard. Text-
intercept added to _handle_message before slash-confirm intercept
(skipping slash commands). clear_session called in the run's finally
to cancel any orphan entries.
- hermes_cli/config.py — agent.clarify_timeout default 600s.
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/telegram.md — Interactive Prompts
section.
Tests:
- tests/tools/test_clarify_gateway.py (14 tests) — full primitive
coverage: button resolve, open-ended auto-await, Other flip, timeout
None, unknown-id idempotency, clear_session cancellation, FIFO
ordering, register/unregister notify, config default.
- tests/gateway/test_telegram_clarify_buttons.py (12 tests) — render
paths (multi-choice/open-ended/long-label/HTML-escape/not-connected),
callback dispatch (numeric resolve/Other flip/already-resolved/
unauthorized/invalid-token), and base-adapter text fallback.
Out of scope: bot-to-bot, guest mode, checklists, poll media, live
photos. Closes#24191.
PR #24500 introduced stale-lock detection that calls
`_looks_like_gateway_process` to confirm a running PID is not an
unrelated process that reused the slot. On Windows neither `/proc`
nor `ps` is available, so `_read_process_cmdline` always returns
`None` and `_looks_like_gateway_process` always returns `False` —
causing every valid Windows gateway lock to be marked stale and
immediately evicted.
Fix: after `_looks_like_gateway_process` returns `False`, call
`_read_process_cmdline` directly. If the result is non-`None` the
live cmdline was readable and confirms the PID is foreign → stale.
If it is `None` (cmdline unreadable, e.g. Windows without ps), fall
back to `_record_looks_like_gateway` which validates the stored
`argv` the gateway wrote into the lock file at startup. Both
oracles must say "not a gateway" before the lock is evicted — the
same two-oracle pattern already used in `get_running_pid` (line 941).
Adds a regression test that simulates a Windows host where
`_looks_like_gateway_process` returns `False` for every PID and
`_read_process_cmdline` returns `None`, confirming the lock is kept
when the record's argv identifies it as a gateway process.
deepseek-v4-pro has been routable since v0.12 but was missing from
the _OFFICIAL_DOCS_PRICING table. Sessions using this model showed
as "unknown cost" in hermes insights instead of a dollar estimate.
Add pricing entry using published list prices:
- input: \$1.74/M tokens
- output: \$3.48/M tokens
- cache_read: \$0.0145/M tokens
Uses standard list rates (not the 75% promo) so estimates remain
accurate after promo expires 2026-05-31.
Closes#24218
* feat(lsp): semantic diagnostics from real language servers in write_file/patch
Wire ~26 language servers (pyright, gopls, rust-analyzer, typescript-language-server,
clangd, bash-language-server, ...) into the post-write lint check used by write_file
and patch. The model now sees type errors, undefined names, missing imports, and
project-wide semantic issues introduced by its edits, not just syntax errors.
LSP is gated on git workspace detection: when the agent's cwd or the file being
edited is inside a git worktree, LSP runs against that workspace; otherwise the
existing in-process syntax checks are the only tier. This keeps users on
user-home cwds (Telegram/Discord gateway chats) from spawning daemons.
The post-write check is layered: in-process syntax check first (microseconds),
then LSP semantic diagnostics second when syntax is clean. Diagnostics are
delta-filtered against a baseline captured at write start, so the agent only
sees errors its edit introduced. A flaky/missing language server can never
break a write -- every LSP failure path falls back silently to the syntax-only
result.
New module agent/lsp/ split into:
- protocol.py: Content-Length JSON-RPC framer + envelope helpers
- client.py: async LSPClient (spawn, initialize, didOpen/didChange,
ContentModified retry, push/pull diagnostic stores)
- workspace.py: git worktree walk-up + per-server NearestRoot resolver
- servers.py: registry of 26 language servers (extension match,
root resolver, spawn builder per language)
- install.py: auto-install dispatch (npm install --prefix, go install
with GOBIN, pip install --target) into HERMES_HOME/lsp/bin/
- manager.py: LSPService (per-(server_id, root) client registry, lazy
spawn, broken-set, in-flight dedupe, sync facade for tools layer)
- reporter.py: <diagnostics> block formatter (severity-1-only, 20-per-file)
- cli.py: hermes lsp {status,list,install,install-all,restart,which}
Wired into tools/file_operations.py:
- write_file/patch_replace now call _snapshot_lsp_baseline before write
- _check_lint_delta gains a third tier: LSP semantic diagnostics when
syntax is clean
- All LSP code paths swallow exceptions; write_file's contract unchanged
Config: 'lsp' section in DEFAULT_CONFIG with enabled (default true),
wait_mode, wait_timeout, install_strategy (default 'auto'), and per-server
overrides (disabled, command, env, initialization_options).
Tests: tests/agent/lsp/ -- 49 tests covering protocol framing (encode and
read_message round-trip, EOF/truncation/missing Content-Length), workspace
gate (git walk-up, exclude markers, fallback to file location), reporter
(severity filter, max-per-file cap, truncation), service-level delta filter,
and an in-process mock LSP server that exercises the full client lifecycle
including didChange version bumps, dedup, crash recovery, and idempotent
teardown.
Live E2E verified end-to-end through ShellFileOperations: pyright
auto-installed via npm into HERMES_HOME, baseline captured, type error
introduced, single delta diagnostic surfaced with correct line/column/code/
source, then patch fix removes the diagnostic from the output.
Docs: new website/docs/user-guide/features/lsp.md page covering supported
languages, configuration knobs, performance characteristics, and
troubleshooting; cli-commands.md updated with the 'hermes lsp' reference;
sidebar updated.
* feat(lsp): structured logging, backend gate, defensive walk caps
Cherry-picks the substantive ideas from #24155 (different scope, same
problem space) onto our PR.
agent/lsp/eventlog.py (new): dedicated structured logger
``hermes.lint.lsp`` with steady-state silence. Module-level dedup sets
keep a 1000-write session at exactly ONE INFO line ("active for
<root>") at the default INFO threshold; clean writes log at DEBUG so
they never reach agent.log under normal config. State transitions
(server starts, no project root for a file, server unavailable) fire
at INFO/WARNING once per (server_id, key); novel events (timeouts,
unexpected errors) fire WARNING per call. Grep recipe: ``rg 'lsp\\['``.
agent/lsp/manager.py: wire the eventlog into _get_or_spawn and
get_diagnostics_sync so users can answer "did LSP fire on this edit?"
with a single grep, plus surface "binary not on PATH" warnings once
instead of silently retrying every write.
tools/file_operations.py: backend-type gate. ``_lsp_local_only()``
returns False for non-local backends (Docker / Modal / SSH /
Daytona); ``_snapshot_lsp_baseline`` and ``_maybe_lsp_diagnostics``
now skip entirely on remote envs. The host-side language server
can't see files inside a sandbox, so this prevents pretending to
lint a file the host process can't open.
agent/lsp/protocol.py: 8 KiB cap on the header block in
``read_message``. A pathological server that streams headers
without ever emitting CRLF-CRLF would have looped forever consuming
bytes; now raises ``LSPProtocolError`` instead.
agent/lsp/workspace.py: 64-step cap on ``find_git_worktree`` and
``nearest_root`` upward walks, plus try/except containment around
``Path(...).resolve()`` and child ``.exists()`` calls. Defensive
against pathological inputs (symlink loops, encoding errors,
permission failures mid-walk) — the lint hook is hot-path code and
must never raise.
Tests:
- tests/agent/lsp/test_eventlog.py: 18 tests covering steady-state
silence (clean writes stay DEBUG), state-transition INFO-once
semantics (active for, no project root), action-required
WARNING-once (server unavailable), per-call WARNING (timeouts,
spawn failures), and the "1000 clean writes => 1 INFO" contract.
- tests/agent/lsp/test_backend_gate.py: 5 tests verifying
_lsp_local_only / snapshot_baseline / maybe_lsp_diagnostics skip
the LSP layer for non-local backends and route correctly for
LocalEnvironment.
- tests/agent/lsp/test_protocol.py: new test_read_message_rejects_runaway_header
exercising the 8 KiB cap.
Validation:
- 73/73 LSP tests pass (49 original + 18 eventlog + 5 backend-gate + 1 framer cap)
- 198/198 pass when run alongside existing file_operations tests
- Live E2E re-run with pyright still surfaces "ERROR [2:12] Type
... reportReturnType (Pyright)" through the full path, then patch
fix removes it on the next call.
* feat(lsp): atexit cleanup + separate lsp_diagnostics JSON field
Two improvements salvaged from #24414's plugin-form alternative,
keeping our core-integrated design:
1. atexit cleanup of spawned language servers
----------------------------------------------------------------
``agent/lsp/__init__.get_service`` now registers an ``atexit``
handler on first creation that tears down the LSPService on
Python exit. Without this, every ``hermes chat`` exit was
leaking pyright/gopls/etc. processes for a few seconds while
their stdout buffers drained -- they got reaped by the kernel
eventually but a watchful ``ps aux`` would catch them.
The handler runs once per process (gated by
``_atexit_registered``); idempotent ``shutdown_service``
ensures double-fire is a no-op. Errors during shutdown are
swallowed at debug level since by the time atexit fires the
user has already seen the agent's final response.
2. Separate ``lsp_diagnostics`` field on WriteResult / PatchResult
----------------------------------------------------------------
Previously the LSP layer folded its diagnostic block into the
``lint.output`` string, conflating the syntax-check tier with
the semantic tier. The agent (and any downstream parsers) now
read syntax errors and semantic errors as independent signals:
{
"bytes_written": 42,
"lint": {"status": "ok", "output": ""},
"lsp_diagnostics": "<diagnostics file=...>\nERROR [2:12] ..."
}
``_check_lint_delta`` returns to its original two-tier shape
(syntax check + delta filter); ``write_file`` and
``patch_replace`` independently fetch LSP diagnostics via
``_maybe_lsp_diagnostics`` and pass them into the new field.
``patch_replace`` propagates the inner write_file's
``lsp_diagnostics`` so the outer PatchResult carries the patch's
delta correctly.
Tests: 19 new
- tests/agent/lsp/test_lifecycle.py (8 tests): atexit registration
fires once and only once across N get_service calls; the
registered callable is our internal shutdown wrapper;
shutdown_service is idempotent and safe when never started;
exceptions during shutdown are swallowed; inactive service is
cached so we don't rebuild on every check.
- tests/agent/lsp/test_diagnostics_field.py (11 tests): WriteResult
/ PatchResult dataclass shape, to_dict include/omit semantics,
channel separation (lint and lsp_diagnostics carry independent
signals), write_file populates the field via
_maybe_lsp_diagnostics only when the syntax tier is clean,
patch_replace propagates the field forward from its internal
write_file.
Validation:
- 92/92 LSP tests pass (73 prior + 8 lifecycle + 11 diagnostics field)
- 217/217 pass with file_operations + LSP combined
- Live E2E reverified: clean writes -> both fields empty/none; type
error introduced -> lint clean (parses), lsp_diagnostics carries
the pyright reportReturnType block; patch fix -> both fields
clean again.
* fix(lsp): broken-set short-circuit so a wedged server isn't paid every write
Discovered while auditing failure paths: a language server binary that
hangs (sleep forever, no LSP traffic on stdin/stdout) caused EVERY
subsequent write to re-pay the 8s snapshot_baseline timeout. Five
writes = ~64s of dead time.
The bug: ``_get_or_spawn`` adds the (server_id, root) pair to
``_broken`` inside its inner exception handler, but when the OUTER
``_loop.run`` timeout fires, it cancels the inner task before that
handler runs. The pair never makes it to broken-set, so the next
write re-enters the spawn path and re-pays the timeout.
Fix:
- New ``_mark_broken_for_file`` helper at the service layer marks
the (server_id, workspace_root) pair broken from the OUTSIDE when
the outer timeout fires. Called from the except branches in
``snapshot_baseline``, ``get_diagnostics_sync`` (asyncio.TimeoutError
+ generic Exception). Also kills any orphan client process that
survived the cancelled future, fire-and-forget with a 1s ceiling.
- ``enabled_for`` now consults the broken-set BEFORE returning True.
Files in already-broken (server_id, root) pairs short-circuit to
False, so the file_operations layer skips the LSP path entirely
with no spawn cost. Until the service is restarted (``hermes lsp
restart``) or the process exits.
- A single eventlog WARNING is emitted on first mark-broken so the
user knows which server gave up. Subsequent edits in the same
project stay silent.
Tests: 7 new in tests/agent/lsp/test_broken_set.py — covers the
key shape (server_id, per_server_root), enabled_for short-circuit,
sibling-file skip in same project, project isolation (broken in
A doesn't affect B), graceful no-op for missing-server / no-workspace,
and an end-to-end test that snapshots after a failure and verifies
the next ``enabled_for`` returns False.
Validation:
- Live retest of the wedged-binary scenario: 5 sequential writes,
first 8.88s (the one snapshot timeout), subsequent four ~0.84s
(no LSP cost). Down from 5x12.85s = 64s before this fix.
- 99/99 LSP tests pass (92 prior + 7 broken-set)
- 224/224 pass with file_operations + LSP combined
- Happy path E2E reverified — clean write, type error introduced,
patch fix all behave correctly with the new broken-set logic.
Note: the FIRST write to a wedged binary still pays 8s (the
snapshot_baseline timeout). We could shorten that, but pyright/
tsserver normally take 2-3s and slow CI rust-analyzer can need
5+ seconds, so 8s is the conservative ceiling. Subsequent writes
are instant.
Daytona ships breaking SDK changes on June 10, 2026 — `list()` returns
an iterator and the `page=` offset parameter is removed. We pin
daytona==0.155.0 so we're past the May 24 hard-cutoff, but the
legacy-sandbox resume path in DaytonaEnvironment still passes `page=1`
and reads `.items` off the result.
Switch to `next(iter(results), None)` against a single-result
`list(labels=..., limit=1)` call. Update tests to use `iter([...])`
and drop the `page=1` kwarg from list() assertions.
Allow integrations to share a visible Camofox identity with Hermes and recover existing tabs without carrying local patches.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(install): use `--extra all` not `--all-extras`; drop lazy-covered extras from [all]
Two coupled fixes for the Windows install hang where uv sync built
python-olm from sdist and failed on missing make.
# Root cause: --all-extras vs --extra all (credit: ethernet)
`uv sync --all-extras` installs every key in [project.optional-
dependencies], bypassing the curated [all] extra entirely. So even
when [all] excluded [matrix], [rl], [yc-bench], etc., the installer
pulled them anyway because they were still defined as extras. On
Windows that meant python-olm (no wheel, needs make to build from
sdist) and the install died there.
The right flag is `--extra all` — install just the [all] extra's
contents, respecting curation. Empirically verified via dry-run:
--all-extras: pulls python-olm, mautrix, ctranslate2, onnxruntime,
atroposlib, tinker, wandb, modal, daytona, vercel,
python-telegram-bot, discord.py, slack-bolt,
dingtalk-stream, lark-oapi, anthropic, boto3,
edge-tts, elevenlabs, exa-py, fal-client, faster-
whisper, firecrawl-py, honcho-ai, parallel-web
--extra all: pulls none of those — just [all]'s curated set
Dockerfile already uses `--extra all` (with comment explaining the
gotcha) — knowledge existed; the gap was install.sh / install.ps1 /
setup-hermes.sh.
Sites fixed: scripts/install.sh L1118, scripts/install.ps1 L809,
setup-hermes.sh L245.
# Companion fix: drop lazy-covered extras from [all]
`tools/lazy_deps.py` already covers anthropic, bedrock, exa,
firecrawl, parallel-web, fal, edge-tts, elevenlabs, modal, daytona,
vercel, all messaging platforms (telegram/discord/slack/matrix/
dingtalk/feishu), honcho, and faster-whisper. They were ALSO in
[all], which defeats the whole point of lazy-install — fresh
installs eager-pulled them and inherited whatever was broken
upstream (the matrix → python-olm → no Windows wheel chain being
the proximate symptom).
[all] now contains only what genuinely can't be lazy-installed:
cron, cli, dev, pty, mcp, homeassistant, sms, acp, google, web,
youtube. Same trim applied to [termux-all]. New regression test
asserts the contract: every extra in LAZY_DEPS must NOT also appear
in [all].
# Companion fix: surface uv progress + errors
setup-hermes.sh's hash-verified path swallowed uv's stderr to a
tempfile, identical to the install.sh bug fixed in PR #24504. Same
fix applied: stream stderr through directly so users see live
progress instead of staring at a frozen prompt.
# Files
- pyproject.toml: trim [all] and [termux-all] to non-lazy extras only.
- scripts/install.sh: --all-extras → --extra all; trim _ALL_EXTRAS /
_PYPI_EXTRAS to match.
- scripts/install.ps1: --all-extras → --extra all; trim $allExtras /
$pypiExtras to match.
- setup-hermes.sh: --all-extras → --extra all; stream stderr.
- tests/test_project_metadata.py: invert matrix-in-[all] assertion;
add lazy-coverage contract test.
- uv.lock: regenerated.
# Validation
5/5 metadata tests pass. 37/37 in update_autostash + tool_token_
estimation. `uv lock --check` passes. Empirical dry-run confirms
`--extra all` excludes python-olm + RL chain on the new lockfile.
* fix(install): parse [all] from pyproject.toml instead of mirroring it
ethernet's review point: the previous patch left two hand-mirrored
copies of [all]'s contents (in install.sh's $_ALL_EXTRAS and
install.ps1's $allExtras). That guarantees future drift the next
time pyproject.toml's [all] changes.
Now both scripts parse pyproject.toml at install time using stdlib
tomllib (Python 3.11+, which the bootstrap step already requires).
Single source of truth. The only purpose of the parsed list is to
build the 'Tier 2: [all] minus broken extras' fallback spec — so we
parse, filter against $brokenExtras, and rebuild the .[a,b,c] spec.
Also: removed redundant fallback tiers.
Before: Tier 1 [all]
Tier 2 [all] minus broken
Tier 3 PyPI-only extras (no git deps)
Tier 4 [web,mcp,cron,cli,messaging,dev]
Tier 5 .
After: Tier 1 [all]
Tier 2 [all] minus broken
Tier 3 .
Tier 3 (PyPI-only) and Tier 4 (dashboard+core) used to dodge the [rl]
git+sdist deps and the [matrix] python-olm build. Both are no longer
in [all] post-2026-05-12 lazy-install migration, so the carve-out
tiers had no remaining content. Tier 4 also referenced [messaging],
which is now lazy-installed — the hardcoded fallback was actually
inconsistent with the new policy.
Defensive fallback: if tomllib parse fails (corrupted pyproject,
unexpected schema), Tier 2 collapses to '.[all]' (same as Tier 1) so
the broken-extras path becomes a no-op rather than crashing.
* fix(gateway): hide Matrix from setup picker on Windows
Matrix is the one messaging platform that has no working install path
on Windows: [matrix] -> mautrix[encryption] -> python-olm, which has
Linux-only wheels and needs make + libolm to build from sdist. The
[all] cleanup in this PR keeps mautrix out of fresh installs, but a
user who picked Matrix in 'hermes setup gateway' would still walk
into the same sdist build failure when the wizard tried to install
the extra.
Hide the option at the picker so users never get the chance to try.
The gate lives in _all_platforms() — single source of truth for the
setup wizard, the curses gateway-config menu, and any future picker.
Adapter loading at runtime is intentionally NOT gated: users who
already have MATRIX_* env vars set (e.g. config copied from a Linux
install) keep working if they somehow have python-olm available.
This is the lowest-friction fix — picker visibility only.
Tests cover linux/darwin/win32 and verify other platforms aren't
collateral damage.
Post-#21561 the liveness probe in acquire_scoped_lock() routes through
gateway.status._pid_exists (psutil-first, safe on Windows), not
os.kill(pid, 0). The two new macOS regression tests were patching
status.os.kill, which had no effect — the unmocked psutil call returned
False for PID 99999, marking the lock stale before the new code branch
ran. The 'replaces' test passed only because acquired=True was already
the expected outcome; the 'keeps' test failed in CI.
Switch both tests to monkeypatch status._pid_exists directly, matching
the existing test_acquire_scoped_lock_rejects_live_other_process pattern,
so they actually exercise the new start_time=None + cmdline-based
staleness branch.
On macOS (and Windows), /proc is unavailable so _get_process_start_time()
always returns None. When a gateway creates a scoped lock record with
start_time=None and then exits, macOS can reuse that PID for an unrelated
process. On restart, acquire_scoped_lock() sees:
1. os.kill(pid, 0) succeeds (PID is alive — but it's bluetoothuserd, not
the gateway)
2. existing.start_time is None and current_start is None, so the
start_time comparison is inconclusive
3. The lock is treated as active, blocking gateway startup with:
"Telegram bot token already in use (PID 873). Stop the other gateway
first."
Root cause: _read_process_cmdline() only reads /proc/<pid>/cmdline, which
doesn't exist on macOS. It always returns None, making
_looks_like_gateway_process() always return False, so the cmdline fallback
path in acquire_scoped_lock() was unreachable on macOS.
Fix (two parts):
1. _read_process_cmdline(): Add a ps(1) fallback for platforms without
/proc. When /proc/<pid>/cmdline doesn't exist, we now run
"ps -p <pid> -o command=" to retrieve the process command line. The
/proc path is tried first (preserving Linux performance); ps is only
invoked as a fallback.
2. acquire_scoped_lock(): When both the lock record's start_time and the
live process's start_time are None (the macOS case), fall back to
checking whether the live PID still looks like a Hermes gateway process
via _looks_like_gateway_process(). If it doesn't, the lock is stale.
Closes#16376
Detect when write_file / patch calls fail during a turn and are never
superseded by a successful write to the same path. When the final
text response is delivered, append an advisory footer listing the
files that did NOT change — so models that over-claim 'patched 5 files'
after 4 silent failures can't hide the lie.
Catches the failure mode reported in Ben Eng's llm-wiki session:
grok-4.1-fast issued batches of parallel patches, half failed with
'Could not find old_string', and the agent summarised the turn
claiming every file was edited. The user had to manually run
'git status' each turn to catch it.
The verifier is a pure post-hoc check on tool results — no new LLM
calls, no synthetic messages injected into history (prompt cache
preserved), no changes to tool argument dispatch. Per-turn state is
keyed by path; a later successful write to the same path clears the
failure entry so single-file retry recovery is not flagged.
Wired into both _execute_tool_calls_concurrent and
_execute_tool_calls_sequential, so batched parallel patches and one-at-
a-time edits are both covered. Footer emission happens after the
agent loop exits, before transform_llm_output / post_llm_call plugin
hooks run, so plugins still see (and can modify) the augmented text.
Config: display.file_mutation_verifier (bool, default true) +
HERMES_FILE_MUTATION_VERIFIER env override.
31 unit tests in tests/run_agent/test_file_mutation_verifier.py cover
target extraction (write_file, patch-replace, patch-v4a single and
multi-file), error-preview extraction (JSON .error field and plain
string), per-turn state transitions (first-error-wins on repeated
failure, success supersedes failure), footer rendering (truncation
at 10 entries, user-actionable hint), and env/config precedence.
Companion docs updated: user-guide/configuration.md +
reference/environment-variables.md.
* feat(security): supply-chain advisory checker + lazy-install framework + tiered install fallback
Three coordinated mitigations for the Mini Shai-Hulud worm hitting
mistralai 2.4.6 on PyPI (2026-05-12) and for the next single-package
compromise that follows.
# What this PR makes true
1. Users with the poisoned mistralai 2.4.6 in their venv get a loud
detection banner with copy-pasteable remediation steps the moment
they run hermes (and on every gateway startup).
2. One quarantined / yanked PyPI package can no longer silently demote
a fresh install to 'core only' — the installer keeps every other
extra and tells the user which tier landed.
3. Future opt-in backends (Mistral, ElevenLabs, Honcho, etc.) can
lazy-install on first use under a strict allowlist, instead of
eagerly pulling everything at install time.
# Detection: hermes_cli/security_advisories.py
- ADVISORIES catalog (one entry currently: shai-hulud-2026-05 for
mistralai==2.4.6). Adding the next one is a single dataclass.
- detect_compromised() uses importlib.metadata.version() — no pip
dependency, works in uv venvs that lack pip.
- Banner cache (~/.hermes/cache/advisory_banner_seen) rate-limits
the startup banner to once per 24h per advisory.
- Acks persisted to security.acked_advisories in config.yaml; never
re-banner after ack.
- Wired into:
* hermes doctor — runs first, prints full remediation block
* hermes doctor --ack <id> — dismisses an advisory
* cli.py interactive run() and single-query branches — short
stderr banner pointing at hermes doctor
* gateway/run.py startup — operator-visible warning in gateway.log
# Lazy-install framework: tools/lazy_deps.py
- LAZY_DEPS allowlist maps namespaced feature keys (tts.elevenlabs,
memory.honcho, provider.bedrock, etc.) to pip specs.
- ensure(feature) installs missing deps in the active venv via the
uv → pip → ensurepip ladder (matches tools_config._pip_install).
- Strict spec safety regex rejects URLs, file paths, shell metas,
pip flag injection, control chars — only PyPI-by-name accepted.
- Gated on security.allow_lazy_installs (default true) plus the
HERMES_DISABLE_LAZY_INSTALLS env var for restricted/audited envs.
- Migrated three backends as proof of pattern:
* tools/tts_tool.py — _import_elevenlabs() calls ensure first
* plugins/memory/honcho/client.py — get_honcho_client lazy-installs
* tts.mistral / stt.mistral entries pre-registered for when PyPI
restores mistralai
# Installer fallback tiers
scripts/install.sh, scripts/install.ps1, setup-hermes.sh:
- Centralised _BROKEN_EXTRAS list (currently: mistral). Edit one
array when a transitive breaks; users keep every other extra.
- New 'all minus known-broken' tier between [all] and the existing
PyPI-only-extras tier. Only kicks in when [all] fails resolve.
- All three tiers explicit: every fallback announces which tier
landed and prints a re-run hint when not on Tier 1.
- install.ps1 and install.sh both regenerate their tier specs from
the same _BROKEN_EXTRAS array so updates stay in sync.
Side effect: install.ps1 Tier 2 spec previously hardcoded 'mistral'
in its extra list — bug fixed by the refactor (mistral is filtered
out).
# Config
hermes_cli/config.py — DEFAULT_CONFIG.security gains:
- acked_advisories: [] (advisory IDs the user has dismissed)
- allow_lazy_installs: True (security gate for ensure())
No config version bump needed — both keys nest under existing
security: block, and load_config's deep-merge picks up DEFAULT_CONFIG
defaults for users with older configs.
# Tests
tests/hermes_cli/test_security_advisories.py — 23 tests covering:
- detect_compromised matches/non-matches, wildcard frozenset
- ack persistence, idempotence, blank rejection, config-failure path
- banner cache rate limiting + 24h re-banner + ack-stops-banner
- short_banner_lines / full_remediation_text / render_doctor_section /
gateway_log_message
- shipped catalog well-formedness invariant
tests/tools/test_lazy_deps.py — 40 tests covering:
- spec safety: 11 safe parametrized + 18 unsafe parametrized
- allowlist: unknown-feature rejection, namespace.name shape,
every shipped spec passes the safety regex
- security gating: config flag, env var, default, fail-open
- ensure() happy/sad paths: already-satisfied, install success,
pip stderr surfaced on failure, install-succeeds-but-still-missing
- is_available, feature_install_command
Combined: 63 new tests, all passing under scripts/run_tests.sh.
# Validation
- scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_security_advisories.py
tests/tools/test_lazy_deps.py → 63/63 passing
- scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_doctor.py
tests/hermes_cli/test_doctor_command_install.py
tests/tools/test_tts_mistral.py tests/tools/test_transcription_tools.py
tests/tools/test_transcription_dotenv_fallback.py → 165/165 passing
- scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/ tests/tools/ →
9191 passed, 8 pre-existing failures (verified on origin/main
before this change)
- bash -n on install.sh and setup-hermes.sh → OK
- py_compile on all modified .py files → OK
- End-to-end smoke test of detect_compromised + render_doctor_section
+ gateway_log_message with mocked installed version → produces
copy-pasteable remediation output
# Community
Full advisory + remediation steps:
website/docs/community/security-advisories/shai-hulud-mistralai-2026-05.md
Short-form post drafts (Discord, GitHub pinned issue, README banner):
scripts/community-announcement-shai-hulud.md
Refs: PR #24205 (mistral disabled), Socket Security advisory
<https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-worm-pypi>
* build(deps): pin every direct dep to ==X.Y.Z (no ranges)
Companion to the supply-chain advisory work: replace every >=/</~= range
in pyproject.toml's [project.dependencies] and [project.optional-dependencies]
with an exact ==X.Y.Z pin sourced from uv.lock.
Why: ranges allow PyPI to ship a fresh version of any direct dep at any
time without a code review on our side. With ranges, the malicious
mistralai 2.4.6 release would have been pulled by every fresh
'pip install -e .[all]' for the hours between upload and PyPI's
quarantine — exactly the install window we got hit on. Exact pins close
that window: the only way a new package version reaches a user is via
an intentional update on our end.
What the user-facing change is: nothing, behavior-wise. Every package
resolves to the same version it was already resolving to via uv.lock —
the pins just remove the resolver's freedom to pick a different one.
Cost: any user installing Hermes alongside another package that requires
a newer pin gets a resolver conflict. Acceptable for our isolated-venv
install path; documented in the new comment block.
Build-system requires line (setuptools>=61.0) is intentionally left
as a range — pinning the build backend would block fresh pip from
bootstrapping the build on architectures where that exact wheel isn't
available.
mistral extra (mistralai==2.3.0) is pinned but stays out of [all]
(per PR #24205). 'uv lock' regeneration will fail until PyPI restores
mistralai; lockfile regeneration is gated behind that, NOT on every PR.
LAZY_DEPS in tools/lazy_deps.py also moved to exact pins so the lazy-
install pathway can never resolve a different version than the one
declared in pyproject.toml.
Validation:
- Cross-checked all 77 pinned direct deps in pyproject.toml against
uv.lock — every pin matches the resolved version exactly.
- Cross-checked all LAZY_DEPS specs against uv.lock — same.
- 'uv pip install -e .[all] --dry-run' resolves 205 packages cleanly.
- tests/tools/test_lazy_deps.py + tests/hermes_cli/test_security_advisories.py
→ 63/63 passing (every shipped spec passes the safety regex).
- Doctor + TTS + transcription targeted suite → 146/146 passing.
* build(deps): hash-verify transitives via uv.lock; remove unresolvable [mistral] extra
You asked: 'what about the dependencies the dependencies rely on?' —
correctly noting that exact-pinning direct deps in pyproject.toml does
NOT cover the transitive graph. `pip install` and `uv pip install` both
re-resolve transitives fresh from PyPI at install time, so a compromised
transitive (e.g. `httpcore` if it got worm-poisoned tomorrow) would
still hit our users even with every direct dep exact-pinned.
# What this commit fixes
1. **Both real installer scripts now prefer `uv sync --locked` as Tier 0.**
uv.lock records SHA256 hashes for every transitive — a compromised
package with a different hash gets REJECTED. Falls through to the
existing `uv pip install` cascade if the lockfile is missing or
stale, with a loud warning that the fallback path does NOT
hash-verify transitives. Previously only `setup-hermes.sh` (the dev
path) used the lockfile; `scripts/install.sh` and `scripts/install.ps1`
(the paths fresh users actually run) skipped it.
2. **Removed the `[mistral]` extra entirely.** The `mistralai` PyPI
project is fully quarantined right now — every version returns 404,
so any pin we wrote was unresolvable, which broke `uv lock --check`
in CI. Restoration is documented in pyproject.toml as a 5-step
checklist (verify, re-add extra, re-enable in 4 modules, regenerate
lock, optionally re-add to [all]).
3. **Regenerated uv.lock.** 262 packages, mistralai/eval-type-backport/
jsonpath-python pruned. `uv lock --check` now passes.
# Defense-in-depth view
| Layer | Where | Protects against |
|----------------------------|-------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| Exact pins in pyproject | direct deps | new mistralai 2.4.6-style direct compromise |
| uv.lock + `--locked` install | transitive graph | transitive worm injection |
| Tier-0 hash-verified path | install.sh / .ps1 | actually USE the lockfile in fresh installs |
| `uv lock --check` CI gate | every PR | drift between pyproject and lockfile |
| `hermes_cli/security_advisories.py` | runtime | cleanup for users who already got hit |
The exact pinning + hash verification together close the supply-chain
gap. Without the lockfile path, exact pins alone are theater.
# Validation
- `uv lock --check` → passes (262 packages resolved, no drift).
- `bash -n` on install.sh + setup-hermes.sh → OK.
- 209/209 tests passing across new + adjacent test files
(test_lazy_deps.py, test_security_advisories.py, test_doctor.py,
test_tts_mistral.py, test_transcription_tools.py).
- TOML parse OK.
* chore: remove community announcement drafts (PR body covers it)
* build(deps): lazy-install every opt-in backend (anthropic, search, terminal, platforms, dashboard)
Extends the lazy-install framework to cover everything that's not used by
every hermes session. Base install drops from ~60 packages to 45.
Moved out of core dependencies = []:
- anthropic (only when provider=anthropic native, not via aggregators)
- exa-py, firecrawl-py, parallel-web (search backends; only when picked)
- fal-client (image gen; only when picked)
- edge-tts (default TTS but still optional)
New extras in pyproject.toml: [anthropic] [exa] [firecrawl] [parallel-web]
[fal] [edge-tts]. All added to [all].
New LAZY_DEPS entries: provider.anthropic, search.{exa,firecrawl,parallel},
tts.edge, image.fal, memory.hindsight, platform.{telegram,discord,matrix},
terminal.{modal,daytona,vercel}, tool.dashboard.
Each import site now calls ensure() before importing the SDK. Where the
module had a top-level try/except (telegram, discord, fastapi), the
graceful-fallback pattern was extended to lazy-install on first
check_*_requirements() call and re-bind module globals.
Updated test_windows_native_support.py tzdata check from snapshot
(>=2023.3 literal) to invariant (any version + win32 marker).
Validation:
- Base install: 45 packages (was ~60); 6 newly-extracted packages absent
- uv lock --check: passes (262 packages, no drift)
- 209/209 lazy_deps + advisory + doctor + tts/transcription tests passing
- py_compile clean on all 12 modified modules
The `mistralai` PyPI package was quarantined on 2026-05-12 after a
malicious 2.4.6 release. Every fresh resolve (AUR makepkg, Docker build,
CI run, install.sh first-run) currently fails on
`mistralai>=2.3.0,<3` because PyPI returns zero candidates.
Existing users running `hermes update` mostly didn't notice — `hermes
update` falls back from `.[all]` to per-extra retries and silently
skips mistral with a warning that scrolls past. But fresh installs
hard-fail or lose every other extra.
Changes:
- pyproject.toml: drop `hermes-agent[mistral]` from `[all]` and
`[termux-all]`. The `mistral` extra itself is preserved so users
can opt back in once PyPI un-quarantines.
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: hide Mistral Voxtral TTS from the
`hermes tools` provider picker until restored.
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: drop "mistral" from dashboard STT options.
- tools/transcription_tools.py: explicit `provider: mistral` returns
"none" with a clear status message; auto-detect skips mistral.
- tools/tts_tool.py: dispatcher returns a clear "temporarily disabled"
error before any SDK import attempt (avoids cached-stale-package
surprises).
- tests/tools/: update three test files to assert the new disabled
behavior. Each test docstring records why and points at the rollback
trigger (PyPI un-quarantines mistralai).
Restore plan: revert this commit once the package is available on PyPI
again. The behavior change is intentional and documented in code
comments + test docstrings to make the rollback trivial.
Validation:
- scripts/run_tests.sh tests/tools/ -k 'mistral or stt or tts' →
425/425 passing.
Refs: https://pypi.org/simple/mistralai/ (currently
"pypi:project-status: quarantined").
Handle MiniMax OAuth expiry values consistently across CLI and dashboard
flows, fix CLI status/add behavior, and force pooled OAuth runtime
requests through Anthropic Messages.
- web_server._minimax_poller: parse expired_in via the shared resolver
so unix-ms absolute timestamps stop landing as TTL seconds and crashing
with 'year 583911 is out of range' when a user connects MiniMax OAuth
from the dashboard.
- auth._minimax_oauth_login / _refresh_minimax_oauth_state: same fix on
the CLI login + refresh paths.
- auth.get_auth_status: dispatch minimax-oauth to its dedicated status
function instead of falling through.
- auth_commands.auth_add_command: 'hermes auth add minimax-oauth' now
starts the device-code login flow and persists a pool entry with the
access + refresh tokens, instead of requiring credentials to already
exist.
- runtime_provider._resolve_runtime_from_pool_entry: pin pooled
minimax-oauth credentials to anthropic_messages so a stale
model.api_mode: chat_completions can't send requests to
/anthropic/chat/completions and trigger MiniMax nginx 404s.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Qwen models on Nous Portal (e.g. qwen3.6-plus) now get the same envelope-layout
cache_control markers and long-lived (1h cross-session) cache treatment as
Portal Claude. Portal proxies to OpenRouter with identical wire-format and
cache_control semantics, but the prior policy left Portal Qwen falling through
to the alibaba-family branch (which only matches provider=opencode/alibaba),
serving 0% cache hits and re-billing the full prompt every turn.
Scope is narrow: Portal Claude OR Portal Qwen. Other models on Portal keep
their existing behavior.
- _anthropic_prompt_cache_policy: add (is_nous_portal and qwen) -> (True, False)
- _supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache: drop Claude-only gate for Portal so
Qwen also gets the validated 1h cross-session layout
- tests cover both functions, both bare and vendored qwen slug forms, and
the rejection of non-Claude non-Qwen Portal traffic
Free-tier users were seeing 'No free models currently available.' in the
`hermes model` and post-login pickers even though qwen/qwen3.6-plus is
free on the Portal right now. Three independent breakages compounded:
1. The docs-hosted catalog manifest at website/static/api/model-catalog.json
was not regenerated when _PROVIDER_MODELS['nous'] was updated, so users
fetching the manifest got a list that didn't include qwen/qwen3.6-plus.
2. _resolve_nous_pricing_credentials() returned ('', '') on any auth blip,
collapsing get_pricing_for_provider('nous') to {} and making every
curated model fall through the free-tier filter as 'paid'.
3. Even with healthy pricing, the picker only ever showed models from the
in-repo curated list intersected with live pricing — a Portal-flagged
free model not yet in the curated list could never appear.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/models.py: new union_with_portal_free_recommendations() that
augments the curated list with Portal freeRecommendedModels entries
(with synthetic free pricing so partition keeps them). The Portal's
/api/nous/recommended-models endpoint is now the source of truth for
free-tier surfacing — old Hermes builds will see new free models
without a CLI release.
- hermes_cli/models.py: _resolve_nous_pricing_credentials() falls back to
the public inference base URL when runtime cred resolution fails.
The /v1/models endpoint exposes pricing without auth, so silently
returning {} just because a refresh token expired was wrong.
- hermes_cli/auth.py + hermes_cli/main.py: both free-tier picker call
sites call union_with_portal_free_recommendations() before partition.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_models.py: 7 tests covering union behaviour
(prepend, dedup, end-to-end with stale pricing, empty/missing/error
payloads, invalid entries).
- tests/hermes_cli/test_model_catalog.py: drift guard
TestManifestMatchesInRepoLists fails CI when _PROVIDER_MODELS['nous']
or OPENROUTER_MODELS is edited without re-running
scripts/build_model_catalog.py. Verified empirically that removing a
manifest entry triggers an assertion with an actionable error message.
Validation:
- 133/133 targeted tests pass (test_models, test_model_catalog,
test_auth_nous_provider).
- Live E2E against the real Portal:
- Stale curated list ['claude-opus','claude-sonnet','gpt-5.4'] (no
qwen) → after union: ['qwen/qwen3.6-plus', ...] →
partition(free_tier=True): selectable=['qwen/qwen3.6-plus'].
- Simulated expired refresh token → anon fetch returns 403 pricing
entries including qwen/qwen3.6-plus -> {prompt:0, completion:0}.
- ruff: clean.
cua-driver was only installed once on toolset enable: `_run_post_setup` early-returns when the binary is already on PATH, so upstream fixes (e.g. v0.1.6 Safari window-focus fix) never reached existing users without manual reinstall.
Two refresh points now:
- `hermes update` re-runs the upstream installer at the end of the update if cua-driver is on PATH (macOS-only, no-op otherwise). Ties driver freshness to the user-controlled update cadence — no startup latency, no per-launch GitHub API call.
- `hermes computer-use install --upgrade` for manual force-refresh.
The upstream `install.sh` always pulls the latest release, so re-running is the canonical upgrade path. No version-comparison logic needed.
`hermes computer-use status` now shows the installed version, and points at `--upgrade` for refreshing.
Fixes#22832.
## Root cause
`hermes_cli/web_server.py:start_oauth_login` dispatched OAuth flows by
the catalog's `flow` field rather than provider id:
if catalog_entry["flow"] == "pkce":
return _start_anthropic_pkce()
The catalog had two `flow: "pkce"` entries — `anthropic` and
`minimax-oauth` — so clicking "Login" on MiniMax in the dashboard's
Keys tab unconditionally launched the Anthropic/Claude PKCE flow.
## Fix
Three changes in `hermes_cli/web_server.py`:
1. Catalog entry for `minimax-oauth` changed from `flow: "pkce"` to
`flow: "device_code"`. From a UX perspective MiniMax is a
verification-URI + user-code flow (open URL, enter code, backend
polls) — same shape as Nous's device-code flow. The PKCE bit
(verifier + challenge from `_minimax_pkce_pair`) is a security
extension that doesn't change the operator experience; the existing
dashboard modal already renders `device_code` correctly for this UX.
2. New MiniMax branch in `_start_device_code_flow`, mirroring the
existing Nous branch but calling MiniMax-specific helpers
(`_minimax_request_user_code`, `_minimax_pkce_pair`). Stashes
verifier + state in the session for the poller to consume. Handles
the overloaded `expired_in` field (could be unix-ms timestamp OR
seconds-from-now duration) the same way `_minimax_poll_token` does.
3. New `_minimax_poller` background thread mirroring `_nous_poller`.
Calls `_minimax_poll_token` → on success builds the same
`auth_state` dict the CLI flow (`_minimax_oauth_login`) builds, and
persists via `_minimax_save_auth_state` so the dashboard path leaves
the system in the same state as `hermes auth add minimax-oauth`.
Plus a dispatcher tightening to prevent regression: the `pkce` branch
now requires `provider_id == "anthropic"`, so any future PKCE provider
added without a proper start function gets a clean
`400 Unsupported flow` rather than silently launching Anthropic OAuth.
## Test
New `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_oauth_dispatch.py`:
- Regression test asserting MiniMax start does NOT return claude.ai
- Sanity test that Anthropic PKCE still works after the dispatcher
tightening
- Forward-looking test: a hypothetical pkce-flagged provider without
an explicit branch is rejected cleanly rather than misrouted
## Limitations
- The dashboard MiniMax path defaults to `region="global"`. CN-region
operators can still use the CLI flow which supports `--region cn`.
Adding a region toggle to the dashboard UI is a follow-up.
Follow-up to #23863 (CJK table alignment). The realigner was
correctly padding pipes to identical column offsets, but when a
table's natural width exceeds terminal cells it produced lines that
the terminal soft-wrapped mid-cell, destroying column alignment
visually even though the bytes were perfectly padded. Reported as
'columns are not aligned' on tables containing one long row alongside
several short rows.
Approach mirrors Claude Code's MarkdownTable.tsx narrow-terminal
fallback: when realign_markdown_tables is given an available_width
budget and the rebuilt horizontal table exceeds it, render each body
row as 'Header: value' lines separated by a thin ─ rule. Word-wraps
oversize values at the budget with a 2-space continuation indent.
- agent/markdown_tables.py: realign_markdown_tables(text, available_width=None);
threshold check at the top of _render_block flips into a new
_render_vertical fallback. Includes _wrap_to_width with hard-break
for tokens longer than the budget.
- cli.py: helper _terminal_width_for_streaming() returns
shutil.get_terminal_size().columns minus _STREAM_PAD and a 2-cell
safety margin; passed to all three realign call sites
(_render_final_assistant_content for strip+render Panel paths, and
the streaming flushers in _emit_stream_text / _flush_stream).
- tests/agent/test_markdown_tables.py: 4 new tests covering the
overflow-vertical fallback for ASCII + CJK content, the
'fits → keep horizontal' case, and the long-cell wrap with indent.
Live-verified: with COLUMNS=100, the user's reported 'long row in
ASCII table' case now renders as vertical key-value rows that all fit
the panel; the 6-column CJK comparison table still renders as an
aligned horizontal table because it fits inside 100 cols.
The old mtime-tracking staleness machinery (_tui_build_needed,
_hermes_ink_bundle_stale, _find_bundled_tui) tried to avoid rebuilding
by comparing source timestamps to dist/entry.js. This was fragile and
added ~100 lines of code. Replace with three clear paths:
1. HERMES_TUI_DIR set (prebuilt/nix): just node dist/entry.js, no build
2. --dev mode: tsx src/entry.tsx, no build, hot reload
3. Normal: always npm run build (esbuild is ~1s, correctness > caching)
Also error when HERMES_TUI_DIR is set with --dev (footgun: prebuilt
bundle has no source code to hot-reload).
Set HERMES_SESSION_ID using the existing session_context.py ContextVar
system for concurrency safety (multiple gateway sessions in one process
won't cross-talk). Also writes os.environ as fallback for CLI mode.
Touchpoints:
- gateway/session_context.py: Add _SESSION_ID ContextVar + _VAR_MAP entry
- run_agent.py: Set both ContextVar and os.environ at init and on
context-compression rotation
- tools/environments/local.py: Bridge ContextVars into subprocess env
in _make_run_env() (ContextVars don't propagate to child processes)
- tests/run_agent/test_session_id_env.py: 3 tests covering env, provided
ID, and ContextVar paths
execute_code subprocess already passes HERMES_* prefixed vars through
_scrub_child_env (line 82: _SAFE_ENV_PREFIXES includes 'HERMES_').
Primary use case: webhook-triggered agents that need to include a
`--resume <session_id>` takeover command in their output.
Cuts input cost for first-turn Claude requests by ~85-90% on subsequent
sessions within an hour. Tools array (~13k tokens for default toolset) +
stable system prefix (~5-8k tokens) get a 1h cache_control marker; the
volatile suffix (memory, USER profile, timestamp, session id) sits in a
separate non-cached block at the end so it doesn't poison the cross-session
prefix when it changes.
Provider gate: Claude on native Anthropic (incl. OAuth subscription),
OpenRouter, and Nous Portal (which proxies to OpenRouter). All other
providers keep today's system_and_3 layout unchanged.
Layout (4 cache_control breakpoints, Anthropic max):
1. tools[-1] -> 1h (cross-session)
2. system content[0] -> 1h (cross-session, stable prefix)
3. messages[-2] -> 5m (within-session rolling)
4. messages[-1] -> 5m (within-session rolling)
Within-session rolling shrinks from 3 messages to 2 to free the breakpoint
budget. On Claude with realistic tool loadouts the long-lived tier carries
the bulk of cross-session value anyway.
System prompt is now always assembled cache-friendly: stable identity /
guidance / skills / platform hints first, then session-stable context
files (AGENTS.md, .cursorrules), then per-call volatile content. Old
single-string callers see the same logical content (same join order),
just reordered so volatile lives at the end.
Config knobs (defaults shown):
prompt_caching:
cache_ttl: "5m" # rolling-window TTL (unchanged)
long_lived_prefix: true # opt-out switch
long_lived_ttl: "1h" # cross-session prefix TTL
Live E2E (tests/agent/test_prompt_caching_live.py, gated on
OPENROUTER_API_KEY) on anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 with default toolset:
Call 1 (cold): cache_write=13,415 cache_read=0
Call 2 (NEW agent + msg): cache_write=391 cache_read=13,025
Cross-session reuse: 97.09%
Implementation:
* agent/prompt_caching.py: new apply_anthropic_cache_control_long_lived()
+ mark_tools_for_long_lived_cache(); existing apply_anthropic_cache_control()
preserved verbatim for the fallback path.
* agent/anthropic_adapter.py: convert_tools_to_anthropic() now forwards
cache_control onto each Anthropic-format tool dict.
* run_agent.py: _build_system_prompt_parts() returns the 3-tier dict;
_build_system_prompt() joins them (backward compatible).
_supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache() policy added next to the existing
_anthropic_prompt_cache_policy() (which now also recognises Nous Portal
Claude — pre-existing gap fixed in passing).
_build_api_kwargs() resolves tools_for_api once and propagates the
marker through all four build paths (anthropic_messages, bedrock,
codex_responses, profile/legacy chat completions).
Long-lived flag plumbed into the runtime snapshot/restore + model-switch
+ fallback-promotion paths.
Tests:
* tests/agent/test_prompt_caching.py: +8 tests (TestMarkToolsForLongLivedCache,
TestApplyAnthropicCacheControlLongLived).
* tests/run_agent/test_anthropic_prompt_cache_policy.py: +9 tests
(TestSupportsLongLivedAnthropicCache matrix across 8 endpoint classes
+ a fallback-target case).
* tests/agent/test_prompt_caching_live.py: new live E2E (skipif when
OPENROUTER_API_KEY is unset; runs outside the hermetic suite).
* Targeted suites: 327/327 pass (caching/adapter/policy/builder).
* tests/agent/ + tests/run_agent/: 3992 pass, 17 skip, 1 pre-existing
flake (test_async_httpx_del_neuter::test_same_key_replaces_stale_loop_entry,
verified failing on pristine origin/main).
#23482 fixed cache poisoning in the sync path: when a Codex auxiliary
timeout closes the underlying OpenAI client, _evict_cached_client_instance
walks CodexAuxiliaryClient wrappers via their _real_client attribute and
drops the cache entry so the next aux call rebuilds.
The cache key includes async_mode (see _client_cache_key), so the sync and
async clients for the same provider live in two distinct entries pointing
at the same underlying transport. The fix walked the sync wrapper's
_real_client correctly but the async wrappers
(AsyncCodexAuxiliaryClient, AsyncAnthropicAuxiliaryClient,
AsyncGeminiNativeClient) never exposed _real_client at all, so the async
entry survived eviction and kept handing out the poisoned client.
Effect on async aux callers: one timeout now poisons every subsequent
async aux call (compression, vision, session_search, title_generation)
with 'Connection error' until gateway restart -- even while the sync
route recovered as designed in #23482.
Mirror the sync wrapper's _real_client onto each async wrapper so the
existing eviction helper finds them. Three changes, one per wrapper:
- AsyncCodexAuxiliaryClient: self._real_client = sync_wrapper._real_client
(the underlying OpenAI client)
- AsyncAnthropicAuxiliaryClient: same shape
- AsyncGeminiNativeClient: self._real_client = sync_client (Gemini's
native facade is itself the leaf; no OpenAI client beneath it)
Update _evict_cached_client_instance docstring to reflect that it now
covers both sync and async wrappers via the same attribute walk.
Test: TestAuxiliaryClientPoisonedCacheEviction.test_evict_cached_client_instance_walks_async_wrapper
seeds both sync and async cache entries pointing at the same leaf and
asserts both are dropped on a single eviction call. Verified the test
fails without the wrapper changes ("async cache entry survived
eviction -- wrapper is missing _real_client") and passes with them.
Refs #23482, #23432
CJK and emoji glyphs render as two terminal cells but JS String#length
and the model's own padding count them as one, so any markdown table
with Chinese / Japanese / Korean cells drifts right per row when a
real terminal renders it. Both surfaces fix this with a display-cell
width measurement (wcswidth on the Python side, stringWidth on the
TUI side).
Changes:
- agent/markdown_tables.py: new helper. realign_markdown_tables(text)
detects markdown table blocks (header + |---| divider) and
rewrites the row padding using wcwidth.wcswidth so every pipe and
dash lines up across rows. No-op on text without tables.
- cli.py: hook the helper into _render_final_assistant_content for
strip / render modes (raw passes through untouched), and into the
streaming line emitter so live token-by-token rendering also
produces aligned tables. A small two-buffer state machine in
_emit_stream_text holds table rows until the block ends, then
flushes them through the realigner so all rows pad to a single
per-column width.
- ui-tui/src/components/markdown.tsx: renderTable now uses
stringWidth (Bun.stringWidth fast path + East-Asian-width-aware
fallback, already memoised in @hermes/ink) instead of UTF-16
String#length for both column-width measurement and per-cell
padding. Drops the comment that documented the bug as a deliberate
limitation.
Validation:
- New tests/agent/test_markdown_tables.py (11): every rebuilt block
shares pipe column offsets across rows for pure CJK, mixed
CJK+emoji, ragged-row, and multi-table inputs.
- Updated tests/cli/test_cli_markdown_rendering.py: the existing
strip-mode test asserted exact whitespace; rewritten to assert the
alignment contract (cell content survives + every rendered row
shares pipe offsets).
- New ui-tui markdown.test.ts case (1): rendered column-2 start
offset is identical for the header + every body row, including
the CJK row that drifted before the fix.
- Live: hermes chat -q with the user-reported screenshot prompt now
produces a perfectly aligned table on the wire (header, divider,
4 body rows including '通义千问', all pipes at identical columns).
The /model picker for Nous Portal users was returning the in-repo
_PROVIDER_MODELS["nous"] snapshot — which only updates on Hermes
releases — instead of the remote manifest published at
https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/api/model-catalog.json.
OpenRouter already pulled from the manifest via fetch_openrouter_models;
"nous" was the only curated provider where the existing manifest
plumbing (get_curated_nous_model_ids → get_curated_nous_models) was
defined but not wired into the picker pipeline. Switch the curated
build in list_authenticated_providers to use it, with the same
graceful fallback to the in-repo snapshot when the manifest is
unreachable.
Test: tests/hermes_cli/test_model_catalog.py exercises the picker with
a patched manifest and asserts the manifest's nous list reaches
list_picker_providers. Falls-back-to-static path was already covered
by test_curated_nous_ids_falls_back_to_hardcoded_on_empty_catalog.
Follow-up to PR #23824. Adds two correctness fixes on top of the
contributor's salvaged commit:
1. Stale-dist fallback no longer gated on `fatal=False`. `cmd_dashboard`
passes `fatal=True` and is the primary scenario this fallback is for
(issue #23817 — Windows Scheduled Task at logon). The previous gate
meant the fallback never fired in the case it was designed for.
2. `--skip-build` now verifies the dist actually exists before starting
the server. Without this, a misconfigured pre-build would launch the
dashboard pointing at a missing dist and silently serve 404s. We now
exit 1 with a clear "pre-build first: cd web && npm run build"
message, and on success print which dist directory is being used.
Verified end-to-end on Linux:
- build fails + stale dist (fatal=True) -> fallback fires
- build fails + no dist (fatal=True) -> exit 1 with stderr surfaced
- build fails + stale dist (fatal=False) -> fallback fires
- --skip-build + missing dist -> exit 1 with clear guidance
- --skip-build + valid dist -> 'Skipping web UI build...'
On Windows systems using a Chinese GBK locale, `hermes update` could misreport the Web UI build as failed even when `npm run build` actually succeeded. The failure was caused by Python decoding captured npm output with the process locale inside a background subprocess reader thread. When npm emitted bytes such as `0x85`, decoding under GBK raised `UnicodeDecodeError`, and Hermes then surfaced a misleading "Web UI build failed" warning.
This change makes the npm install/npm ci path and the Web UI build step decode captured output explicitly as UTF-8 with `errors="replace"`. That keeps unexpected bytes from crashing output collection, preserves successful builds, and prevents false negatives during update on Windows.
The patch also adds regression tests that verify these subprocess calls always use explicit UTF-8 decoding with replacement semantics.
When the user's main provider is openai-codex on the ChatGPT-account
backend (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex), sending a native image
attachment encodes it as data:image/...base64,... in the input_image
field. The OpenAI Responses API on the public endpoint accepts that, but
the ChatGPT-account variant rejects it with HTTP 400:
Invalid 'input[N].content[K].image_url'. Expected a valid URL, but got
a value with an invalid format.
Hermes' image-rejection phrase list didn't include this wording, so the
error escaped the strip-and-retry branch and fell through to the generic
recovery path: model fallback → context-too-large → compression cascade
→ auxiliary OpenRouter 402 spam (issue #23570).
Add a NARROW phrase keyed on the field-path apostrophe used by the Codex
Responses error format: "image_url'. expected". This matches the actual
error format without false-tripping on generic 'Expected a valid URL'
errors from unrelated tools (webhooks, redirect_uri, etc.). Once matched,
the existing branch strips images from history, sets _vision_supported=
False for the session, and retries text-only.
Refs #23570 (1 of 3 image-replay improvements; persistence rewrite to
store image PATHS instead of inlined base64 is a separate follow-up)
* Revert "fix(goals): force judge to use tool calls instead of JSON-text replies (#23547)"
This reverts commit a63a2b7c78.
* Revert "fix(goals): forward standing /goal state on auto-compression session rotation (#23530)"
This reverts commit 4a080b1d5a.
* Revert "feat(goals): /goal checklist + /subgoal user controls (#23456)"
This reverts commit 404640a2b7.
Adds the only #17873 category not covered by the in-flight PRs #17962
(briandevans, reverse shell + download-execute) and #7993 (SHL0MS,
credential reads + curl/wget exfiltration): sudo invocations that an
LLM-driven agent can drive without TTY interaction.
The agent has no TTY, so the sudo forms that succeed without human
involvement are those reading the password from stdin (`-S` / `--stdin`)
or via an askpass helper (`-A` / `--askpass`). The shell-launch (`-s`)
and list-privileges (`-a`) flags are also gated since they are
privilege-relevant invocations the agent can chain after acquiring the
password (e.g. read SUDO_PASSWORD from .env -> sudo -S -s -> root shell).
Plain `sudo cmd` (no flag) is TTY-bound and excluded.
Two patterns:
1. Direct flag: `\bsudo\b[^;|&\n]*?\s+(?:-s\b|--stdin\b|-a\b|--askpass\b)`
The lazy `[^;|&\n]*?` consumes flag-arguments without spanning
command separators, so `sudo -u root -S whoami` matches (a textbook
offensive form that a strict `(?:\s+-[^\s]+)*` "leading flags only"
pattern would have missed because `root` is a flag-value not a flag).
2. Combined short flags: `\bsudo\b[^;|&\n]*?\s+-[a-z]*[sa][a-z]*\b`
Catches packed forms like `sudo -nS id` where multiple flags share
a single `-X` token.
`_normalize_command_for_detection` lowercases input before pattern
matching (tools/approval.py:340), so case variants of S/s and A/a
collapse — both letter-pairs are gated since each is a privilege-
relevant invocation.
Tests: 21 new cases in TestDetectSudoStdin (12 positive covering all
flag-order permutations including herestring source and printf-piped
forms; 9 negative including TTY-bound `sudo whoami`, interactive
`sudo -i`, env-var reference `$SUDO_USER`, doc lookup `man sudo`,
package install, and the `pseudosudo` word-boundary edge case).
Empirical coverage: 11/11 attacks matched, 0/10 false positives.
Refs: #17873 category 4. Adjacent: #17962 (reverse shell + download-
execute), #7993 (credential reads + curl/wget exfiltration).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes#9590: Block explicit sudo -S (stdin password mode) commands
when the SUDO_PASSWORD environment variable is not configured.
The attack vector: the LLM constructs 'echo guessedpass | sudo -S cmd'
to brute-force sudo passwords, iterates based on sudo's error output
('Sorry, try again'). The existing _transform_sudo_command only
injects -S when SUDO_PASSWORD exists; without it, the LLM's explicit
sudo -S must be treated as a guessing attempt.
Changes:
- Add _check_sudo_stdin_guard() in approval.py: detects sudo -S when
SUDO_PASSWORD is absent, anchored to command-start positions
(^ ; && || | etc.) to avoid false positives on literal text
- Integrate into check_all_command_guards() above yolo/mode=off so
the block is unconditional (like the hardline floor)
- Add 6 tests covering: detection, allow-list, SUDO_PASSWORD bypass,
integration with check_all_command_guards, yolo non-bypass,
container backend bypass
Adds a TestCheckSendMessage class with 7 focused tests pinning the
four passing conditions and the failure modes:
- HERMES_KANBAN_TASK grants access (the new branch)
- HERMES_KANBAN_TASK short-circuits before consulting
session_context or gateway.status (so workers don't depend on
those import paths being healthy)
- HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM=telegram grants access
- HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM=local falls through to gateway check
- is_gateway_running()=True grants access
- All signals absent → False
- gateway.status ImportError is swallowed → False
Pinning the short-circuit (test #2) is the load-bearing one — it
documents the contract that worker-side availability cannot regress
to depending on gateway-side state lookups.
When a kanban worker subprocess hits the iteration budget, the agent
loop strips tools and asks the model for a summary. The model cannot
call kanban_block itself at that point, so the process exits rc=0
without calling kanban_complete or kanban_block — a protocol violation
that the dispatcher detects as a fatal error, giving up after 1 failure
and stranding downstream tasks.
Fix: after _handle_max_iterations() returns, check HERMES_KANBAN_TASK
and call kanban_block with a reason describing the exhaustion. The
dispatcher then sees a clean block transition instead of a protocol
violation, and the task can be retried or escalated by a human.
Fixes [Bug] kanban-worker exits cleanly (rc=0) on iteration-budget
exhaustion without calling kanban_complete or kanban_block #23216
When an auxiliary provider returns HTTP 402 (credit / payment), every
subsequent compression / title-gen / session-search / vision call still
re-tried it as the FIRST entry in the chain — burning ~1 RTT to hit 402
again, then falling back. On a long Discord/LCM session that meant dozens
of doomed 402s per minute (issue #23570).
Add a per-process unhealthy-provider cache with a 10 min TTL. When any
caller observes a payment error against a provider, the label is marked
unhealthy and skipped by:
* _resolve_auto Step-1 (main provider use-as-aux path)
* _resolve_auto Step-2 (aggregator/fallback chain)
* _try_payment_fallback (used by call_llm/acall_llm on first 402)
Skip-logs are throttled to once per minute per label so a bursty session
doesn't spam agent.log. Entries auto-expire so a topped-up account
recovers without manual intervention. The cache is in-process only by
design — multi-profile users with different keys per profile must each
hit the 402 once.
Refs #23570
When the Discord typing API call fails (rate limit, network error, 403),
_typing_loop returns early but the stale task remains in _typing_tasks.
Subsequent send_typing calls see the stale entry and skip, leaving no
typing indicator for the rest of the agent invocation.
Add finally block to _typing_loop to always remove the task from
_typing_tasks on exit, whether from cancellation, error, or normal
completion. This allows send_typing to create a fresh task.
3 new tests in test_discord_send.py:
- Task removed after API error
- Typing restartable after failure
- stop_typing cleans up
A YAML parse error in ~/.hermes/config.yaml caused load_config() to print
one line to stdout (Warning: Failed to load config: ...) and silently fall
back to DEFAULT_CONFIG, dropping every user override (auxiliary providers,
fallback chain, model settings). Users only noticed when downstream
behavior misbehaved — see issue #23570 where a tab-indent error in the
auxiliary section caused aux fallback to use OpenRouter (depleted) instead
of the configured Codex/MiniMax chain.
Now: log at WARNING (so 'hermes logs' surfaces it), write a prominent line
to stderr, dedup on (path, mtime_ns, size) so concurrent loads don't spam,
and re-warn after the user edits the file. Both call sites (raw read +
merged load) route through the same helper.
Refs #23570
Salvages the three substantive low-severity fixes from Gutslabs' #1974
"misc bug fixes" bundle. The other 8 claims in that PR were either
already fixed on main with superior implementations (state lock,
firecrawl lazy import, fcntl/msvcrt guard, path normalization, schema
migrations) or did not survive review.
- run_agent: `_materialize_data_url_for_vision` uses
`NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)`; if `base64.b64decode` raises on a
corrupt data URL the temp file would persist forever. Wrap the
write in try/except and `os.unlink` the temp on failure.
- gateway/session: `append_to_transcript` JSONL write had no error
handling, so disk-full / read-only-fs / permission errors crashed the
message handler. The SQLite write above is the primary store, so
swallow OSError on the JSONL fallback with a debug log.
- gateway/status: `_read_pid_record` reads `pid_path.read_text()` after
an `exists()` check; if the PID file is deleted between the two
calls (concurrent gateway restart) we hit an unhandled OSError.
Catch it and return None.
Adds a regression test for the tempfile cleanup; the other two paths
are defensive try/excepts on infrequent OSError that don't warrant
dedicated tests.
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
- Implement tests for normalizing perpetual markets and DEXs.
- Validate JSON output for main commands including markets, candles, and review.
- Ensure environment variable resolution and dotenv file reading are covered.
- Test export functionality for market data with expected output structure.
agent.redact._REDACT_ENABLED is snapshotted at import time from
HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS env. Under xdist a prior test in the same worker
can flip it, so test_exec_command_output_is_redacted was order-dependent.
Pin it via monkeypatch like test_terminal_output_transform_still_runs_strip_and_redact does.
1. Quick command exec ran in the gateway process's full environment
without env sanitization or output redaction. A quick command like
"env" or "printenv" would leak all API keys, OAuth tokens, and
bot credentials to the messaging user.
Fix: apply _sanitize_subprocess_env() before exec and
redact_sensitive_text() on output before returning.
2. GatewayRunner._pending_messages was written on every interrupt
(lines 1331-1334) but never read or consumed anywhere. The actual
interrupt delivery uses adapter._pending_messages (a separate dict).
Removed the write-only accumulation to prevent unbounded growth.
Two new tests:
- tests/gateway/test_telegram_format.py
test_message_too_long_splits_into_continuations_not_silent_truncation:
asserts edit_message returns success=True with continuation_message_ids
populated and message_id pointing at the last continuation when
content exceeds MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH (#19537). Replaces the original
fail-on-overflow assertion with the split-and-deliver contract.
- tests/gateway/test_stream_consumer.py
TestEditOverflowSplitAndDeliver.test_consumer_advances_message_id_on_split_and_deliver:
asserts the consumer side updates _message_id to the latest
continuation, clears _last_sent_text, and fires on_new_message when
the adapter reports a split-and-deliver result.