- prevent raw MEDIA tag leakage outside the gateway pipeline
- make extract_media handle quoted/backticked paths and optional whitespace
- send Telegram media natively with explicit error/warning handling
- add regression tests for Telegram media dispatch and MEDIA parsing
The send_message tool's _send_telegram() sent MEDIA:<path> tags as
literal text instead of delivering actual files. This fixes it by
extracting MEDIA tags via BasePlatformAdapter.extract_media() and
routing files to the appropriate Telegram Bot API method by extension.
Changes:
- send_message_tool: extract MEDIA tags and send files natively as
photo/video/voice/audio/document based on file extension
- send_message_tool: add per-file error handling and missing-file logging
- send_message_tool: use cleaned text in fallback to avoid leaking tags
- base.py extract_media: handle optional space after MEDIA: colon
- base.py extract_media: strip surrounding backticks/quotes from paths
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up on salvaged PR #975.
Bridge quick_commands from config.yaml into load_gateway_config(),
normalize non-dict quick command config at runtime, and add coverage
for GatewayConfig round-trips plus config.yaml bridging. This makes the
GatewayConfig quick-command fix complete for the real user-facing config
path implicated by issue #973.
Add a /reasoning command across gateway adapters so users can
inspect or change reasoning effort without editing config by hand.
Reload reasoning settings from config.yaml before each agent run,
including background tasks, so the next message picks up the new
value consistently.
Restore gateway/run.py to current main behavior while keeping tirith startup
and pattern_keys replay, preserve yolo and non-interactive bypass semantics in
the combined guard, and add regression tests for yolo and view-full flows.
Integrate tirith as a pre-execution security scanner that detects
homograph URLs, pipe-to-interpreter patterns, terminal injection,
zero-width Unicode, and environment variable manipulation — threats
the existing 50-pattern dangerous command detector doesn't cover.
Architecture: gather-then-decide — both tirith and the dangerous
command detector run before any approval prompt, preventing gateway
force=True replay from bypassing one check when only the other was
shown to the user.
New files:
- tools/tirith_security.py: subprocess wrapper with auto-installer,
mandatory cosign provenance verification, non-blocking background
download, disk-persistent failure markers with retryable-cause
tracking (cosign_missing auto-clears when cosign appears on PATH)
- tests/tools/test_tirith_security.py: 62 tests covering exit code
mapping, fail_open, cosign verification, background install,
HERMES_HOME isolation, and failure recovery
- tests/tools/test_command_guards.py: 21 integration tests for the
combined guard orchestration
Modified files:
- tools/approval.py: add check_all_command_guards() orchestrator,
add allow_permanent parameter to prompt_dangerous_approval()
- tools/terminal_tool.py: replace _check_dangerous_command with
consolidated check_all_command_guards
- cli.py: update _approval_callback for allow_permanent kwarg,
call ensure_installed() at startup
- gateway/run.py: iterate pattern_keys list on replay approval,
call ensure_installed() at startup
- hermes_cli/config.py: add security config defaults, split
commented sections for independent fallback
- cli-config.yaml.example: document tirith security config
Tell the agent what it CANNOT do on Slack and Discord — no searching
channel history, no pinning messages, no managing channels/roles.
Prevents the agent from hallucinating capabilities it doesn't have
and promising actions it can't deliver.
Addresses user feedback: agent says 'I'll search your Slack history'
then goes silent because no Slack-specific tools exist.
* fix: Home Assistant event filtering now closed by default
Previously, when no watch_domains or watch_entities were configured,
ALL state_changed events passed through to the agent, causing users
to be flooded with notifications for every HA entity change.
Now events are dropped by default unless the user explicitly configures:
- watch_domains: list of domains to monitor (e.g. climate, light)
- watch_entities: list of specific entity IDs to monitor
- watch_all: true (new option — opt-in to receive all events)
A warning is logged at connect time if no filters are configured,
guiding users to set up their HA platform config.
All 49 gateway HA tests + 52 HA tool tests pass.
* docs: update Home Assistant integration documentation
- homeassistant.md: Fix event filtering docs to reflect closed-by-default
behavior. Add watch_all option. Replace Python dict config example with
YAML. Fix defaults table (was incorrectly showing 'all'). Add required
configuration warning admonition.
- environment-variables.md: Add HASS_TOKEN and HASS_URL to Messaging section.
- messaging/index.md: Add Home Assistant to description, architecture
diagram, platform toolsets table, and Next Steps links.
* fix(terminal): strip provider env vars from background and PTY subprocesses
Extends the env var blocklist from #1157 to also cover the two remaining
leaky paths in process_registry.py:
- spawn_local() PTY path (line 156)
- spawn_local() background Popen path (line 197)
Both were still using raw os.environ, leaking provider vars to background
processes and interactive PTY sessions. Now uses the same dynamic
_HERMES_PROVIDER_ENV_BLOCKLIST from local.py.
Explicit env_vars passed to spawn_local() still override the blocklist,
matching the existing behavior for callers that intentionally need these.
Gap identified by PR #1004 (@PeterFile).
* feat(delegate): add observability metadata to subagent results
Enrich delegate_task results with metadata from the child AIAgent:
- model: which model the child used
- exit_reason: completed | interrupted | max_iterations
- tokens.input / tokens.output: token counts
- tool_trace: per-tool-call trace with byte sizes and ok/error status
Tool trace uses tool_call_id matching to correctly pair parallel tool
calls with their results, with a fallback for messages without IDs.
Cherry-picked from PR #872 by @omerkaz, with fixes:
- Fixed parallel tool call trace pairing (was always updating last entry)
- Removed redundant 'iterations' field (identical to existing 'api_calls')
- Added test for parallel tool call trace correctness
Co-authored-by: omerkaz <omerkaz@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(stt): add free local whisper transcription via faster-whisper
Replace OpenAI-only STT with a dual-provider system mirroring the TTS
architecture (Edge TTS free / ElevenLabs paid):
STT: faster-whisper local (free, default) / OpenAI Whisper API (paid)
Changes:
- tools/transcription_tools.py: Full rewrite with provider dispatch,
config loading, local faster-whisper backend, and OpenAI API backend.
Auto-downloads model (~150MB for 'base') on first voice message.
Singleton model instance reused across calls.
- pyproject.toml: Add faster-whisper>=1.0.0 as core dependency
- hermes_cli/config.py: Expand stt config to match TTS pattern with
provider selection and per-provider model settings
- agent/context_compressor.py: Fix .strip() crash when LLM returns
non-string content (dict from llama.cpp, None). Fixes#1100 partially.
- tests/: 23 new tests for STT providers + 2 for compressor fix
- docs/: Updated Voice & TTS page with STT provider table, model sizes,
config examples, and fallback behavior
Fallback behavior:
- Local not installed → OpenAI API (if key set)
- OpenAI key not set → local whisper (if installed)
- Neither → graceful error message to user
Co-authored-by: Jah-yee <Jah-yee@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: handle YAML null values in session reset policy + configurable API timeout
Two fixes from PR #888 by @Jah-yee:
1. SessionResetPolicy.from_dict() — data.get('at_hour', 4) returns None
when the YAML key exists with a null value. Now explicitly checks for
None and falls back to defaults. Zero remains a valid value.
2. API timeout — hardcoded 900s is now configurable via HERMES_API_TIMEOUT
env var. Useful for slow local models (llama.cpp) that need longer.
Co-authored-by: Jah-yee <Jah-yee@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: omerkaz <omerkaz@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jah-yee <Jah-yee@users.noreply.github.com>
Users sometimes paste Discord IDs with prefixes like 'user:123456',
'<@123456>', or '<@!123456>' from Discord's UI or third-party tools.
This caused auth failures since the allowlist contained 'user:123' but
the actual user_id from messages was just '123'.
Fixes:
- Added _clean_discord_id() helper in discord.py to strip common prefixes
- Applied sanitization at runtime when parsing DISCORD_ALLOWED_USERS env var
- Applied sanitization in hermes setup and hermes gateway setup input flows
- Handles user:, <@>, and <@!> prefix formats
- Add /thread slash command that creates a Discord thread and starts a
new Hermes session in it. The starter message (if provided) becomes
the first user input in the new session.
- Add discord.auto_thread config option (DISCORD_AUTO_THREAD env var):
when enabled, every message in a text channel automatically creates
a thread, allowing parallel isolated sessions.
- Fix Discord media method signatures to accept metadata kwarg
(send_voice, send_image_file, send_image) — prevents TypeError
when the base adapter passes platform metadata.
- Fix test mock isolation: add app_commands and ForumChannel to
discord mocks so tests pass in full-suite runs.
Based on PRs #866 and #1109 by insecurejezza, modified per review:
removed /channel command (unsafe), added auto_thread feature,
made /thread dispatch new sessions.
Co-authored-by: insecurejezza <insecurejezza@users.noreply.github.com>
Previously, when no watch_domains or watch_entities were configured,
ALL state_changed events passed through to the agent, causing users
to be flooded with notifications for every HA entity change.
Now events are dropped by default unless the user explicitly configures:
- watch_domains: list of domains to monitor (e.g. climate, light)
- watch_entities: list of specific entity IDs to monitor
- watch_all: true (new option — opt-in to receive all events)
A warning is logged at connect time if no filters are configured,
guiding users to set up their HA platform config.
All 49 gateway HA tests + 52 HA tool tests pass.
Session hygiene was firing at the same threshold (50%) as the agent's
own context compressor, causing premature compression on every turn
in long gateway sessions (especially Telegram).
Hygiene is a safety net for pathologically large sessions that would
cause API failures — it should NOT be doing normal compression work.
The agent's own compressor handles that during its tool loop with
accurate real token counts from the API.
Changes:
- Default hygiene threshold: 0.50 → 0.85 (fires only when truly large)
- Hygiene threshold is now independent of compression.threshold config
(that setting controls the agent's compressor, not the pre-agent safety net)
- Removed env var override for hygiene threshold (CONTEXT_COMPRESSION_THRESHOLD
still controls the agent's own compressor)
Critical bug: when the agent's context compressor fires during a tool
loop (_compress_context), it creates a new session_id and writes the
compressed messages there. But the gateway's session_entry still pointed
to the old session_id. On the next message, load_transcript() loaded
the stale pre-compression transcript, causing:
- Context bloat returning every turn
- Repeated compression cycles
- Loss of carefully compressed context
Fix: after run_conversation() returns, check if the agent's session_id
changed (compression split) and sync it back to the session store entry.
Also pass the effective session_id in the result dict so _handle_message
writes transcript entries to the correct session.
This affects ALL gateway adapters, not just webhook.
The old message referenced 'hermes setup' which doesn't handle
skill-specific env vars. Updated to direct users to load the skill
in the local CLI (which triggers the secure prompt) or add the key
to ~/.hermes/.env manually.
When a skill declares required_environment_variables in its YAML
frontmatter, missing env vars trigger a secure TUI prompt (identical
to the sudo password widget) when the skill is loaded. Secrets flow
directly to ~/.hermes/.env, never entering LLM context.
Key changes:
- New required_environment_variables frontmatter field for skills
- Secure TUI widget (masked input, 120s timeout)
- Gateway safety: messaging platforms show local setup guidance
- Legacy prerequisites.env_vars normalized into new format
- Remote backend handling: conservative setup_needed=True
- Env var name validation, file permissions hardened to 0o600
- Redact patterns extended for secret-related JSON fields
- 12 existing skills updated with prerequisites declarations
- ~48 new tests covering skip, timeout, gateway, remote backends
- Dynamic panel widget sizing (fixes hardcoded width from original PR)
Cherry-picked from PR #723 by kshitijk4poor, rebased onto current main
with conflict resolution.
Fixes#688
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Fallback paths in send_image_file, send_video, and send_document called
super() without metadata, causing replies to appear outside the thread
when file upload fails. Use self.send() with metadata instead to preserve
thread_ts context.
- Increase MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH from 3,900 to 39,000 (Slack API allows 40k)
- Implement real typing indicator using assistant.threads.setStatus API
- Shows 'BotName is thinking...' next to the bot name in threads
- Auto-clears when the bot sends a reply
- Requires assistant:write or chat:write scope
- Falls back silently if scope unavailable (reactions still work)
- 4 new tests for typing indicator
Three bugs fixed in the Slack adapter:
1. Tool progress messages leaked to main channel instead of thread.
Root cause: metadata key mismatch — gateway uses 'thread_id' but
Slack adapter checked for 'thread_ts'. Added _resolve_thread_ts()
helper that checks both keys with correct precedence.
2. Bot responses could escape threads for replies.
Root cause: reply_to was set to the child message's ts, but Slack
API needs the parent message's ts for thread_ts. Now metadata
thread_id (always the parent ts) takes priority over reply_to.
3. All Slack DMs shared one session key ('agent:main:slack:dm'),
so a long-running task blocked all other DM conversations.
Fix: DMs with thread_id now get per-thread session keys. Top-level
DMs still share one session for conversation continuity.
Additional fix: All Slack media methods (send_image, send_voice,
send_video, send_document, send_image_file) now accept metadata
parameter for thread routing. Previously they only accepted reply_to,
which caused media to silently fail to post in threads.
Session key behavior after this change:
- Slack channel @mention: creates thread, thread = session
- Slack thread reply: stays in thread, same session
- Slack DM (top-level): one continuous session
- Slack DM (threaded): per-thread session
- Other platforms: unchanged
Root cause: two issues combined to create visual spam on Telegram/Discord:
1. build_tool_preview() preserved newlines from tool arguments. A preview
like 'import os\nprint("...")' rendered as 2+ visual lines per
progress entry on messaging platforms. This affected execute_code most
(code always has newlines), but could also hit terminal, memory,
send_message, session_search, and process tools.
2. No deduplication of identical progress messages. When models iterate
with execute_code using the same boilerplate code (common pattern),
each call produced an identical progress line. 9 calls x 2 visual
lines = 18 lines of identical spam in one message bubble.
Fixes:
- Added _oneline() helper to collapse all whitespace (newlines, tabs) to
single spaces. Applied to ALL code paths in build_tool_preview() —
both the generic path and every early-return path that touches user
content (memory, session_search, send_message, process).
- Added dedup in gateway progress_callback: consecutive identical messages
are collapsed with a repeat counter, e.g. 'execute_code: ... (x9)'
instead of 9 identical lines. The send_progress_messages async loop
handles dedup tuples by updating the last progress_line in-place.
* fix: ClawHub skill install — use /download ZIP endpoint
The ClawHub API v1 version endpoint only returns file metadata
(path, size, sha256, contentType) without inline content or download
URLs. Our code was looking for inline content in the metadata, which
never existed, causing all ClawHub installs to fail with:
'no inline/raw file content was available'
Fix: Use the /api/v1/download endpoint (same as the official clawhub
CLI) to download skills as ZIP bundles and extract files in-memory.
Changes:
- Add _download_zip() method that downloads and extracts ZIP bundles
- Retry on 429 rate limiting with Retry-After header support
- Path sanitization and binary file filtering for security
- Keep _extract_files() as a fallback for inline/raw content
- Also fix nested file lookup (version_data.version.files)
* chore: lower default compression threshold from 85% to 50%
Triggers context compression earlier — at 50% of the model's context
window instead of 85%. Updated in all four places where the default
is defined: context_compressor.py, cli.py, run_agent.py, config.py,
and gateway/run.py.
* fix: use session_key instead of chat_id for adapter interrupt lookups
monitor_for_interrupt() in _run_agent was using source.chat_id to query
the adapter's has_pending_interrupt() and get_pending_message() methods.
But the adapter stores interrupt events under build_session_key(source),
which produces a different string (e.g. 'agent:main:telegram:dm' vs '123456').
This key mismatch meant the interrupt was never detected through the
adapter path, which is the only active interrupt path for all adapter-based
platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, etc.). The gateway-level interrupt
path (in dispatch_message) is unreachable because the adapter intercepts
the 2nd message in handle_message() before it reaches dispatch_message().
Result: sending a new message while subagents were running had no effect —
the interrupt was silently lost.
Fix: replace all source.chat_id references in the interrupt-related code
within _run_agent() with the session_key parameter, which matches the
adapter's storage keys.
Also adds regression tests verifying session_key vs chat_id consistency.
* debug: add file-based logging to CLI interrupt path
Temporary instrumentation to diagnose why message-based interrupts
don't seem to work during subagent execution. Logs to
~/.hermes/interrupt_debug.log (immune to redirect_stdout).
Two log points:
1. When Enter handler puts message into _interrupt_queue
2. When chat() reads it and calls agent.interrupt()
This will reveal whether the message reaches the queue and
whether the interrupt is actually fired.
When a dangerous command is detected and the user is prompted for
approval, long commands are truncated (80 chars in fallback, 70 chars
in the TUI). Users had no way to see the full command before deciding.
This adds a 'View full command' option across all approval interfaces:
- CLI fallback (tools/approval.py): [v]iew option in the prompt menu.
Shows the full command and re-prompts for approval decision.
- CLI TUI (cli.py): 'Show full command' choice in the arrow-key
selection panel. Expands the command display in-place and removes
the view option after use.
- CLI callbacks (callbacks.py): 'view' choice added to the list when
the command exceeds 70 characters.
- Gateway (gateway/run.py): 'full', 'show', 'view' responses reveal
the complete command while keeping the approval pending.
Includes 7 new tests covering view-then-approve, view-then-deny,
short command fallthrough, and double-view behavior.
Closes community feedback about the 80-char cap on dangerous commands.
* fix: /reasoning command output ordering, display, and inline think extraction
Three issues with the /reasoning command:
1. Output interleaving: The command echo used print() while feedback
used _cprint(), causing them to render out-of-order under
prompt_toolkit's patch_stdout. Changed echo to use _cprint() so
all output renders through the same path in correct order.
2. Reasoning display not working: /reasoning show toggled a flag
but reasoning never appeared for models that embed thinking in
inline <think> blocks rather than structured API fields. Added
fallback extraction in _build_assistant_message to capture
<think> block content as reasoning when no structured reasoning
fields (reasoning, reasoning_content, reasoning_details) are
present. This feeds into both the reasoning callback (during
tool loops) and the post-response reasoning box display.
3. Feedback clarity: Added checkmarks to confirm actions, persisted
show/hide to config (was session-only before), and aligned the
status display for readability.
Tests: 7 new tests for inline think block extraction (41 total).
* feat: add /reasoning command to gateway (Telegram/Discord/etc)
The /reasoning command only existed in the CLI — messaging platforms
had no way to view or change reasoning settings. This adds:
1. /reasoning command handler in the gateway:
- No args: shows current effort level and display state
- /reasoning <level>: sets reasoning effort (none/low/medium/high/xhigh)
- /reasoning show|hide: toggles reasoning display in responses
- All changes saved to config.yaml immediately
2. Reasoning display in gateway responses:
- When show_reasoning is enabled, prepends a 'Reasoning' block
with the model's last_reasoning content before the response
- Collapses long reasoning (>15 lines) to keep messages readable
- Uses last_reasoning from run_conversation result dict
3. Plumbing:
- Added _show_reasoning attribute loaded from config at startup
- Propagated last_reasoning through _run_agent return dict
- Added /reasoning to help text and known_commands set
- Uses getattr for _show_reasoning to handle test stubs
- gateway/run.py: Take main's _resolve_gateway_model() helper
- hermes_cli/setup.py: Re-apply nous-api removal after merge brought
it back. Fix provider_idx offset (Custom is now index 3, not 4).
- tests/hermes_cli/test_setup.py: Fix custom setup test index (3→4)
Model selection now comes exclusively from config.yaml (set via
'hermes model' or 'hermes setup'). The LLM_MODEL env var is no longer
read or written anywhere in production code.
Why: env vars are per-process/per-user and would conflict in
multi-agent or multi-tenant setups. Config.yaml is file-based and
can be scoped per-user or eventually per-session.
Changes:
- cli.py: Read model from CLI_CONFIG only, not LLM_MODEL/OPENAI_MODEL
- hermes_cli/auth.py: _save_model_choice() no longer writes LLM_MODEL
to .env
- hermes_cli/setup.py: Remove 12 save_env_value('LLM_MODEL', ...)
calls from all provider setup flows
- gateway/run.py: Remove LLM_MODEL fallback (HERMES_MODEL still works
for gateway process runtime)
- cron/scheduler.py: Same
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: Remove LLM_MODEL from custom endpoint
model detection
- Forum parent channel IDs now match free-response list (add a forum
channel ID and all its threads respond without mention)
- Better thread chat names: 'Guild / forum / thread' for forum threads
- Add discord.require_mention and discord.free_response_channels to
config.yaml (bridged to env vars, env vars still override)
- Keep require_mention defaulting to true (safe for shared servers)
Cherry-picked from PR #867 by insecurejezza with default fix and
config.yaml integration.
Co-authored-by: insecurejezza <insecurejezza@users.noreply.github.com>
Replace two inline copies of the env/config model resolution pattern
(in _run_agent_sync and _run_agent) with the _resolve_gateway_model()
helper introduced in PR #830.
Left untouched:
- Session hygiene block: different default (sonnet vs opus) + reads
compression config from the same YAML load
- /model command: also reads provider from same config block
Memory flush, /compress, and session hygiene create AIAgent without
model=, falling back to the hardcoded default "anthropic/claude-opus-4.6".
This fails with a 400 error when the active provider is openai-codex
(Codex only accepts its own model names like gpt-5.1-codex-mini).
Add _resolve_gateway_model() that mirrors the env/config resolution
already used by _run_agent_sync, and wire it into all three temporary
agent creation sites.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Post-merge fixes for the email gateway (PR #797):
1. Add Platform.EMAIL to all 4 platform-to-toolset/config mapping
dicts in gateway/run.py. Without this, email sessions silently
fell back to the Telegram toolset because these dicts were added
after the PR branched off main.
2. Add email (and signal) to hermes_cli/tools_config.py and
hermes_cli/skills_config.py PLATFORMS dicts so they appear in
'hermes tools' and 'hermes skills' CLI commands.
3. Add full email setup documentation:
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/email.md — setup guide with
Gmail/Outlook instructions, configuration, troubleshooting,
security advice, and env var reference
- Update messaging/index.md — add email to architecture diagram,
platform toolset table, security examples, and next steps
Allow users to interact with Hermes by sending and receiving emails.
Uses IMAP polling for incoming messages and SMTP for replies with
proper threading (In-Reply-To, References headers).
Integrates with all 14 gateway extension points: config, adapter
factory, authorization, send_message tool, cron delivery, toolsets,
prompt hints, channel directory, setup wizard, status display, and
env example.
65 tests covering config, parsing, dispatch, threading, IMAP fetch,
SMTP send, attachments, and all integration points.
Replaces all ad-hoc print() calls in the Slack gateway adapter with
proper logging.getLogger(__name__) calls, matching the pattern already
used by every other platform adapter (telegram, discord, whatsapp,
signal, homeassistant).
Changes:
- Add import logging + module-level logger
- Use logger.error for failures, logger.warning for non-critical
fallbacks, logger.info for status, logger.debug for routine ops
- Add exc_info=True for full stack traces on all error/warning paths
- Use %s format strings (lazy evaluation) instead of f-strings
- Wrap disconnect() in try/except for safety
- Add structured context (file paths, channel IDs, URLs) to log messages
- Convert document handling prints added after the original PR
Cherry-picked from PR #778 by aydnOktay, rebased onto current main
with conflict resolution and extended to cover document/video methods
added since the PR was created.
Co-authored-by: aydnOktay <xaydinoktay@gmail.com>
The MEDIA routing in _process_message_background passes
metadata=_thread_metadata to send_video, send_document, and
send_image_file — but none accepted it, causing TypeError silently
caught by the except handler. Files just failed to send.
Fix: add **kwargs to all four base class media methods and their
Telegram overrides.
Isolate Telegram forum topic sessions — each topic gets its own independent session key, history, and interrupt tracking. Progress, hygiene, and cron messages all route to the correct topic.
Authored by teyrebaz33. Closes#643.
- /personality none/default/neutral clears system prompt overlay
- Dict format personalities with description, tone, style fields
- Works in both CLI and gateway
- 18 tests
Add /background <prompt> to the gateway, allowing users on Telegram,
Discord, Slack, etc. to fire off a prompt in a separate agent session.
The result is delivered back to the same chat when done, without
modifying the active conversation history.
Implementation:
- _handle_background_command: validates input, spawns asyncio task
- _run_background_task: creates AIAgent in executor thread, delivers
result (text, images, media files) back via the platform adapter
- Inherits model, toolsets, provider routing from gateway config
- Error handling with user-visible failure messages
Also adds /background to hermes_cli/commands.py registry so it
appears in /help and autocomplete.
Tests: 15 new tests covering usage, task creation, uniqueness,
multi-platform, error paths, and help/autocomplete integration.
Authored by aydnOktay. Replaces print() statements with structured
logging calls (error/warning/info/debug) throughout the Telegram
adapter. Adds exc_info=True for stack traces on failures.
Authored by aydnOktay. Replaces bare print statements with structured
logger calls (error/warning/info) and adds exc_info=True for stack
traces on failure paths.
Adds configurable bot message filtering via DISCORD_ALLOW_BOTS env var:
- 'none' (default): ignore all bot messages
- 'mentions': accept bots only when they @mention us
- 'all': accept all bot messages
Includes 8 tests.
Authored by teyrebaz33. Adds config-driven quick commands that execute
shell commands without invoking the LLM — zero token usage, works from
Telegram/Discord/Slack/etc. Closes#744.
Follow-up to 58dbd81 — ensures smooth transition for existing users:
- Backward compat: old session files without last_prompt_tokens
default to 0 via data.get('last_prompt_tokens', 0)
- /compress, /undo, /retry: reset last_prompt_tokens to 0 after
rewriting transcripts (stale token counts would under-report)
- Auto-compression hygiene: reset last_prompt_tokens after rewriting
- update_session: use None sentinel (not 0) as default so callers
can explicitly reset to 0 while normal calls don't clobber
- 6 new tests covering: default value, serialization roundtrip,
old-format migration, set/reset/no-change semantics
- /reset: new SessionEntry naturally gets last_prompt_tokens=0
2942 tests pass.
Root cause of aggressive gateway compression vs CLI:
- CLI: single AIAgent persists across conversation, uses real API-reported
prompt_tokens for compression decisions — accurate
- Gateway: each message creates fresh AIAgent, token count discarded after,
next message pre-check falls back to rough str(msg)//4 estimate which
overestimates 30-50% on tool-heavy conversations
Fix:
- Add last_prompt_tokens field to SessionEntry — stores the actual
API-reported prompt token count from the most recent agent turn
- After run_conversation(), extract context_compressor.last_prompt_tokens
and persist it via update_session()
- Gateway pre-check now uses stored actual tokens when available (exact
same accuracy as CLI), falling back to rough estimate with 1.4x safety
factor only for the first message of a session
This makes gateway compression behave identically to CLI compression
for all turns after the first. Reported by TigerHix.
The gateway's session hygiene pre-check uses a rough char-based token
estimate (total_chars / 4) to decide whether to compress before the
agent starts. This significantly overestimates for tool-heavy and
code-heavy conversations because:
1. str(msg) on dicts includes Python repr overhead (keys, brackets, etc.)
2. Code/JSON tokenizes at 5-7+ chars/token, not the assumed 4
This caused users with 200k context to see compression trigger at
~100-113k actual tokens instead of the expected 170k (85% threshold).
Reported by TigerHix on Twitter.
Fix: apply a 1.4x safety factor to the gateway pre-check threshold.
This pre-check is only meant to catch pathologically large transcripts
— the agent's own compression uses actual API-reported token counts
for precise threshold management.
Three separate code paths all wrote to the same SQLite state.db with
no deduplication, inflating session transcripts by 3-4x:
1. _log_msg_to_db() — wrote each message individually after append
2. _flush_messages_to_session_db() — re-wrote ALL new messages at
every _persist_session() call (~18 exit points), with no tracking
of what was already written
3. gateway append_to_transcript() — wrote everything a third time
after the agent returned
Since load_transcript() prefers SQLite over JSONL, the inflated data
was loaded on every session resume, causing proportional token waste.
Fix:
- Remove _log_msg_to_db() and all 16 call sites (redundant with flush)
- Add _last_flushed_db_idx tracking in _flush_messages_to_session_db()
so repeated _persist_session() calls only write truly new messages
- Reset flush cursor on compression (new session ID)
- Add skip_db parameter to SessionStore.append_to_transcript() so the
gateway skips SQLite writes when the agent already persisted them
- Gateway now passes skip_db=True for agent-managed messages, still
writes to JSONL as backup
Verified: a 12-message CLI session with tool calls produces exactly
12 SQLite rows with zero duplicates (previously would be 36-48).
Tests: 9 new tests covering flush deduplication, skip_db behavior,
compression reset, and initialization. Full suite passes (2869 tests).
Signal's send() used 'text' instead of 'content' and 'reply_to_message_id'
instead of 'reply_to', mismatching BasePlatformAdapter.send(). Callers in
gateway/run.py use keyword args matching the base interface, so Signal's
send() was missing its required 'text' positional arg.
Fixes: 'SignalAdapter.send() missing 1 required positional argument: text'
_keep_typing() was called with metadata= for thread-aware typing
indicators, but neither it nor the base send_typing() accepted
that parameter. Most adapter overrides (Slack, Discord, Telegram,
WhatsApp, HA) already accept metadata=None, but the base class
and Signal adapter did not.
- Add metadata=None to BasePlatformAdapter.send_typing()
- Add metadata=None to BasePlatformAdapter._keep_typing(), pass through
- Add metadata=None to SignalAdapter.send_typing()
Fixes TypeError in _process_message_background for Signal.
The Signal adapter was passing image_paths, audio_path, and document_paths
to MessageEvent.__init__(), but those fields don't exist on the dataclass.
MessageEvent uses media_urls (List[str]) and media_types (List[str]).
Changes:
- Replace separate image_paths/audio_path/document_paths with unified
media_urls and media_types lists (matching Discord, Slack, etc.)
- Add _ext_to_mime() helper to map file extensions to MIME types
- Use Signal's contentType from attachment metadata when available,
falling back to extension-based mapping
- Update message type detection to check media_types prefixes
Fixes TypeError: MessageEvent.__init__() got an unexpected keyword
argument 'image_paths'
Part 2 of thread_id forum topic fix: add metadata param to
send_voice, send_image, send_animation, send_typing in Telegram
adapter and pass message_thread_id to all Bot API calls. Update
send_typing signature in Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, HomeAssistant
for compatibility.
Based on the fix proposed by @Bitstreamono in PR #656.
Replies in Telegram forum topics (supergroups with topics) now land in
the correct topic thread instead of 'General'.
- base.py: build thread_id metadata from event.source, pass to all
send/media calls; add metadata param to send_typing, send_image,
send_animation, send_voice, send_video, send_document, send_image_file,
_keep_typing
- telegram.py: extract thread_id from metadata and pass as
message_thread_id to all Bot API calls (send_photo, send_voice,
send_audio, send_animation, send_chat_action)
- run.py: pass thread_id metadata to progress/streaming send calls
- discord/slack/whatsapp/homeassistant: update send_typing signature
Based on the fix proposed by @Bitstreamono in PR #656.
Authored by alireza78a.
Replaces open('w') + json.dump with tempfile.mkstemp + os.replace atomic
write pattern, matching the existing pattern in cron/jobs.py. Prevents
silent session loss if the process crashes or gets OOM-killed mid-write.
Resolved conflict: kept encoding='utf-8' from HEAD in the new fdopen call.
Add display.background_process_notifications config option to control
how chatty the gateway process watcher is when using
terminal(background=true, check_interval=...) from messaging platforms.
Modes:
- all: running-output updates + final message (default, current behavior)
- result: only the final completion message
- error: only the final message when exit code != 0
- off: no watcher messages at all
Also supports HERMES_BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATIONS env var override.
Includes 12 tests (5 config loading + 7 watcher behavior).
Inspired by @PeterFile's PR #593. Closes#592.
Automatic filesystem snapshots before destructive file operations,
with user-facing rollback. Inspired by PR #559 (by @alireza78a).
Architecture:
- Shadow git repos at ~/.hermes/checkpoints/{hash}/ via GIT_DIR
- CheckpointManager: take/list/restore, turn-scoped dedup, pruning
- Transparent — the LLM never sees it, no tool schema, no tokens
- Once per turn — only first write_file/patch triggers a snapshot
Integration:
- Config: checkpoints.enabled + checkpoints.max_snapshots
- CLI flag: hermes --checkpoints
- Trigger: run_agent.py _execute_tool_calls() before write_file/patch
- /rollback slash command in CLI + gateway (list, restore by number)
- Pre-rollback snapshot auto-created on restore (undo the undo)
Safety:
- Never blocks file operations — all errors silently logged
- Skips root dir, home dir, dirs >50K files
- Disables gracefully when git not installed
- Shadow repo completely isolated from project git
Tests: 35 new tests, all passing (2798 total suite)
Docs: feature page, config reference, CLI commands reference
Authored by 0xbyt4. Fixes #N/A (no linked issue).
- Sanitize user input before FTS5 MATCH to prevent OperationalError on
special characters (C++, unbalanced quotes, dangling operators, etc.)
- Close SessionDB connection in mirror._append_to_sqlite() via finally block
- Added tests for both fixes
Platform.SIGNAL was missing from default_toolset_map and platform_config_key
in gateway/run.py, causing Signal to silently fall back to hermes-telegram
toolset (same bug as HomeAssistant, fixed in PR #538).
Also updates:
- tests/test_toolsets.py: include hermes-signal and hermes-homeassistant in
the platform core-tools consistency check
- cli-config.yaml.example: document signal and homeassistant platform keys
Authored by Himess. Three independent fixes:
- cron/jobs.py: respect HERMES_HOME env var (consistent with scheduler.py)
- gateway/run.py: add Platform.HOMEASSISTANT to toolset mappings
- tools/environments/daytona.py: use time.monotonic() for timeout deadline
Authored by shitcoinsherpa. Adds encoding='utf-8' to all text-mode
open() calls in gateway/run.py, gateway/config.py, hermes_cli/config.py,
hermes_cli/main.py, and hermes_cli/status.py. Prevents encoding errors
on Windows where the default locale is not UTF-8.
Also fixed 4 additional open() calls in gateway/run.py that were added
after the PR branch was created.
The gateway's config.yaml → env var bridge was missing docker_volumes,
so Docker volume mounts configured in config.yaml were ignored for
gateway sessions (Telegram, Discord, etc.) while working in CLI.
Also fixes list serialization: str() produces Python repr with single
quotes which json.loads() in terminal_tool.py can't parse. Now uses
json.dumps() for list values.
Based on PR #431 by @manuelschipper (applied manually due to stale branch).
Implement send_document() and send_video() overrides in TelegramAdapter
so the agent can deliver files (PDFs, CSVs, docs, etc.) and videos as
native Telegram attachments instead of just printing the file path as
text.
The base adapter already routes MEDIA:<path> tags by extension — audio
goes to send_voice(), images to send_image_file(), and everything else
falls through to send_document(). But TelegramAdapter didn't override
send_document() or send_video(), so those fell back to plain text.
Now when the agent includes MEDIA:/path/to/report.pdf in its response,
users get a proper downloadable file attachment in Telegram.
Features:
- send_document: sends files via bot.send_document with display name,
caption (truncated to 1024), and reply_to support
- send_video: sends videos via bot.send_video with inline playback
- Both fall back to base class text if the Telegram API call fails
- 10 new tests covering success, custom filename, file-not-found,
not-connected, caption truncation, API error fallback, and reply_to
Requested by @TigerHixTang on Twitter.
- Register no-op app_mention event handler to suppress Bolt 404 errors.
The 'message' handler already processes @mentions in channels, so
app_mention is acknowledged without duplicate processing.
- Add send_document() for native file attachments (PDFs, CSVs, etc.)
via files_upload_v2, matching the pattern from Telegram PR #779.
- Add send_video() for native video uploads via files_upload_v2.
- Handle incoming document attachments from users: download, cache,
and inject text content for .txt/.md files (capped at 100KB),
following the same pattern as the Telegram adapter.
- Add _download_slack_file_bytes() helper for raw byte downloads.
- Add 24 new tests covering all new functionality.
Fixes the unhandled app_mention events reported in gateway logs.
Closes#643
Changes:
- /personality none|default|neutral — clears system prompt overlay
- Custom personalities in config.yaml support dict format with:
name, description, system_prompt, tone, style directives
- Backwards compatible — existing string format still works
- CLI + gateway both updated
- 18 tests covering none/default/neutral, dict format, string format,
list display, save to config
time.sleep(1) inside async def connect() blocks the entire event
loop for 1 second. Replaced with await asyncio.sleep(1) to yield
control back to the event loop while waiting for the killed port
process to release.
Adds a 'find-nearby' skill for discovering nearby places using
OpenStreetMap (Overpass + Nominatim). No API keys needed. Works with:
- Coordinates (from Telegram location pins)
- Addresses, cities, zip codes, landmarks (auto-geocoded)
- Multiple place types (restaurant, cafe, bar, pharmacy, etc.)
Returns names, distances, cuisine, hours, addresses, and Google Maps
links (pin + directions). 184-line stdlib-only script.
Also adds Telegram location message handling:
- New MessageType.LOCATION in gateway base
- Telegram adapter handles LOCATION and VENUE messages
- Injects lat/lon coordinates into conversation context
- Prompts agent to ask what the user wants nearby
Inspired by PR #422 (reimplemented with simpler script and broader
skill scope — addresses/cities/zips, not just Telegram coordinates).
Three issues caused the gateway to display 'openrouter' instead of
'Custom endpoint' when users configured a custom OAI-compatible endpoint:
1. hermes setup: custom endpoint path saved OPENAI_BASE_URL and
OPENAI_API_KEY to .env but never wrote model.provider to config.yaml.
All other providers (Codex, z.ai, Kimi, etc.) call
_update_config_for_provider() which sets this — custom was the only
path that skipped it. Now writes model.provider='custom' and
model.base_url to config.yaml.
2. hermes model: custom endpoint set model.provider='auto' in config.yaml.
The CLI display had a hack to detect OPENAI_BASE_URL and override to
'custom', but the gateway didn't. Now sets model.provider='custom'
directly.
3. gateway /model and /provider commands: defaulted to 'openrouter' and
read config.yaml — which had no provider set. Added OPENAI_BASE_URL
detection fallback (same pattern the CLI uses) as a defensive catch
for existing users who set up before this fix.
Add configurable bot message filtering via DISCORD_ALLOW_BOTS env var:
- 'none' (default): Ignore all other bot messages — matches previous
behavior where only our own bot was filtered, but now ALL bots are
filtered by default for cleaner channels
- 'mentions': Accept bot messages only when they @mention our bot —
useful for bot-to-bot workflows triggered by mentions
- 'all': Accept all bot messages — for setups where bots need to
interact freely
Previously, we only ignored our own bot's messages, allowing all other
bots through. This could cause noisy loops in channels with multiple bots.
8 new tests covering all filter modes and edge cases.
Inspired by openclaw v2026.3.7 Discord allowBots: 'mentions' config.
New config option:
security:
redact_secrets: false # default: true
When set to false, API keys, tokens, and passwords are shown in
full in read_file, search_files, and terminal output. Useful for
debugging auth issues where you need to verify the actual key value.
Bridged to both CLI and gateway via HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS env var.
The check is in redact_sensitive_text() itself, so all call sites
(terminal, file tools, log formatter) respect it.
Authored by @ch3ronsa. Fixes UnicodeEncodeError/UnicodeDecodeError on
Windows with non-UTF-8 system locales (e.g. Turkish cp1254).
Adds encoding='utf-8' to 10 open() calls across gateway/session.py,
gateway/channel_directory.py, and gateway/mirror.py.
The gateway had a SEPARATE compression system ('session hygiene')
with hardcoded thresholds (100k tokens / 200 messages) that were
completely disconnected from the model's context length and the
user's compression config in config.yaml. This caused premature
auto-compression on Telegram/Discord — triggering at ~60k tokens
(from the 200-message threshold) or inconsistent token counts.
Changes:
- Gateway hygiene now reads model name from config.yaml and uses
get_model_context_length() to derive the actual context limit
- Compression threshold comes from compression.threshold in
config.yaml (default 0.85), same as the agent's ContextCompressor
- Removed the message-count-based trigger (was redundant and caused
false positives in tool-heavy sessions)
- Removed the undocumented session_hygiene config section — the
standard compression.* config now controls everything
- Env var overrides (CONTEXT_COMPRESSION_THRESHOLD,
CONTEXT_COMPRESSION_ENABLED) are respected
- Warn threshold is now 95% of model context (was hardcoded 200k)
- Updated tests to verify model-aware thresholds, scaling across
models, and that message count alone no longer triggers compression
For claude-opus-4.6 (200k context) at 85% threshold: gateway
hygiene now triggers at 170k tokens instead of the old 100k.
Comprehensive 16-point checklist covering every integration point
needed when adding a new messaging platform to the gateway. Built
from the Signal integration experience where 7 integration points
were initially missed.
Covers: adapter, config enum, factory, auth maps, session source,
prompt hints, toolsets, cron delivery, send_message tool, cronjob
tool schema, channel directory, status display, setup wizard,
redaction, documentation, and tests.
When the primary model/provider fails after retries (rate limit, overload,
auth errors, connection failures), Hermes automatically switches to a
configured fallback model for the remainder of the session.
Config (in ~/.hermes/config.yaml):
fallback_model:
provider: openrouter
model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4
Supports all major providers: OpenRouter, OpenAI, Nous, DeepSeek, Together,
Groq, Fireworks, Mistral, Gemini — plus custom endpoints via base_url and
api_key_env overrides.
Design principles:
- Dead simple: one fallback model, not a chain
- One-shot: switches once, doesn't ping-pong back
- Zero new dependencies: uses existing OpenAI client
- Minimal code: ~100 lines in run_agent.py, ~5 lines in cli.py/gateway
- Three trigger points: max retries exhausted, non-retryable client errors,
and invalid response exhaustion
Does NOT trigger on context overflow or payload-too-large errors (those
are handled by the existing compression system).
Addresses #737.
25 new tests, 2492 total passing.
Complete Signal adapter using signal-cli daemon HTTP API.
Based on PR #268 by ibhagwan, rebuilt on current main with bug fixes.
Architecture:
- SSE streaming for inbound messages with exponential backoff (2s→60s)
- JSON-RPC 2.0 for outbound (send, typing, attachments, contacts)
- Health monitor detects stale SSE connections (120s threshold)
- Phone number redaction in all logs and global redact.py
Features:
- DM and group message support with separate access policies
- DM policies: pairing (default), allowlist, open
- Group policies: disabled (default), allowlist, open
- Attachment download with magic-byte type detection
- Typing indicators (8s refresh interval)
- 100MB attachment size limit, 8000 char message limit
- E.164 phone + UUID allowlist support
Integration:
- Platform.SIGNAL enum in gateway/config.py
- Signal in _is_user_authorized() allowlist maps (gateway/run.py)
- Adapter factory in _create_adapter() (gateway/run.py)
- user_id_alt/chat_id_alt fields in SessionSource for UUIDs
- send_message tool support via httpx JSON-RPC (not aiohttp)
- Interactive setup wizard in 'hermes gateway setup'
- Connectivity testing during setup (pings /api/v1/check)
- signal-cli detection and install guidance
Bug fixes from PR #268:
- Timestamp reads from envelope_data (not outer wrapper)
- Uses httpx consistently (not aiohttp in send_message tool)
- SIGNAL_DEBUG scoped to signal logger (not root)
- extract_images regex NOT modified (preserves group numbering)
- pairing.py NOT modified (no cross-platform side effects)
- No dual authorization (adapter defers to run.py for user auth)
- Wildcard uses set membership ('*' in set, not list equality)
- .zip default for PK magic bytes (not .docx)
No new Python dependencies — uses httpx (already core).
External requirement: signal-cli daemon (user-installed).
Tests: 30 new tests covering config, init, helpers, session source,
phone redaction, authorization, and send_message integration.
Co-authored-by: ibhagwan <ibhagwan@users.noreply.github.com>
Improvements on top of PR #606 (auxiliary model configuration):
1. Gateway bridge: Added auxiliary.* and compression.summary_provider
config bridging to gateway/run.py so config.yaml settings work from
messaging platforms (not just CLI). Matches the pattern in cli.py.
2. Vision auto-fallback safety: In auto mode, vision now only tries
OpenRouter + Nous Portal (known multimodal-capable providers).
Custom endpoints, Codex, and API-key providers are skipped to avoid
confusing errors from providers that don't support vision input.
Explicit provider override (AUXILIARY_VISION_PROVIDER=main) still
allows using any provider.
3. Comprehensive tests (46 new):
- _get_auxiliary_provider env var resolution (8 tests)
- _resolve_forced_provider with all provider types (8 tests)
- Per-task provider routing integration (4 tests)
- Vision auto-fallback safety (7 tests)
- Config bridging logic (11 tests)
- Gateway/CLI bridge parity (2 tests)
- Vision model override via env var (2 tests)
- DEFAULT_CONFIG shape validation (4 tests)
4. Docs: Added auxiliary_client.py to AGENTS.md project structure.
Updated module docstring with separate text/vision resolution chains.
Tests: 2429 passed (was 2383).
Telegram: add /insights, /update, /reload_mcp (underscore variant since
Telegram BotCommand names don't allow hyphens).
Discord: add /insights (with days parameter), /reload-mcp.
Also add reload_mcp as an alias for reload-mcp in the gateway command
dispatcher so Telegram's underscore form works, and add resume/provider
to the _known_commands set for hook emission.
Add /title, /resume, /compress, /provider, /usage to Telegram's
set_my_commands so they appear in the / autocomplete menu.
Add /title, /resume, /compress, /provider, /usage, /help as Discord
slash commands so they appear in Discord's native command picker.
These commands were functional via text but not registered with the
platform-native command menus, so users couldn't discover them.
Messaging users can now switch back to previously-named sessions:
- /resume My Project — resolves the title (with auto-lineage) and
restores that session's conversation history
- /resume (no args) — lists recent titled sessions to choose from
Adds SessionStore.switch_session() which ends the current session and
points the session entry at the target session ID so the old transcript
is loaded on the next message. Running agents are cleared on switch.
Completes the session naming feature from PR #720 for gateway users.
8 new tests covering: name resolution, lineage auto-latest, already-on-
session check, nonexistent names, agent cleanup, no-DB fallback, and
listing titled sessions.
