Two remaining CI failures:
1. agent-client-protocol 0.9.0 removed AuthMethod (replaced with
AuthMethodAgent/EnvVar/Terminal). Pin to <0.9 until the new API
is evaluated — our usage doesn't map 1:1 to the new types.
2. test_429_exhausts_all_retries_before_raising expected pytest.raises
but the agent now catches 429s after max retries, tries fallback,
then returns a result dict. Updated to check final_response.
The gateway's update_session() used += for token counts, but the cached
agent's session_prompt_tokens / session_completion_tokens are cumulative
totals that grow across messages. Each update_session call re-added the
running total, inflating usage stats with every message (1.7x after 3
messages, worse over longer conversations).
Fix: change += to = for in-memory entry fields, add set_token_counts()
to SessionDB that uses direct assignment instead of SQL increment, and
switch the gateway to call it.
CLI mode continues using update_token_counts() (increment) since it
tracks per-API-call deltas — that path is unchanged.
Based on analysis from PR #3222 by @zaycruz (closed).
Co-authored-by: zaycruz <zay@users.noreply.github.com>
The cached agent accumulates session_input_tokens across messages, so
run_conversation() returns cumulative totals. But update_session() used
+= (increment), double-counting on every message after the first.
- session.py: change in-memory entry updates from += to = (direct
assignment for cumulative values)
- hermes_state.py: add absolute=True flag to update_token_counts()
that uses SET column = ? instead of SET column = column + ?
- session.py: pass absolute=True to the DB call
CLI path is unchanged — it passes per-API-call deltas directly to
update_token_counts() with the default absolute=False (increment).
Reported by @zaycruz in #3222. Closes#3222.
The startup warning 'No user allowlists configured' only checked
GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS and per-platform _ALLOWED_USERS vars. It
missed SIGNAL_GROUP_ALLOWED_USERS and per-platform _ALLOW_ALL_USERS
vars (e.g. TELEGRAM_ALLOW_ALL_USERS), causing a false warning even
when users had these configured. The actual auth check in
_is_user_authorized already recognized these vars.
Cherry-picked from PR #3202 by binhnt92.
Co-authored-by: binhnt92 <binhnt.ht.92@gmail.com>
rewrite_transcript (used by /retry, /undo, /compress) was calling
append_message without reasoning, reasoning_details, or
codex_reasoning_items — permanently dropping them from SQLite.
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78.crypto@gmail.com>
When _try_activate_fallback() switches to the fallback model, it
updates the agent's model/provider/client but never touches
self.context_compressor. The compressor keeps the primary model's
context_length and threshold_tokens, so compression decisions use
wrong limits — a 200K primary → 32K fallback still uses 200K-based
thresholds, causing oversized sessions to overflow the fallback.
Update the compressor's model, credentials, context_length, and
threshold_tokens after fallback activation using get_model_context_length()
for the new model.
Cherry-picked from PR #3202 by binhnt92.
Co-authored-by: binhnt92 <binhnt.ht.92@gmail.com>
The API server adapter was creating agents without specifying
enabled_toolsets, causing ALL tools to load — including clarify,
send_message, and text_to_speech which don't work without interactive
callbacks or gateway dispatch.
Changes:
- toolsets.py: Add hermes-api-server toolset (core tools minus clarify,
send_message, text_to_speech)
- api_server.py: Resolve toolsets from config.yaml platform_toolsets
via _get_platform_tools() — same path as all other gateway platforms.
Falls back to hermes-api-server default when no override configured.
- tools_config.py: Add api_server to PLATFORMS dict so users can
customize via 'hermes tools' or platform_toolsets.api_server in
config.yaml
- 12 tests covering toolset definition, config resolution, and
user override
Reported by thatwolfieguy on Discord.
Two changes:
1. Fix /queue command: remove the _agent_running guard that rejected
/queue after the agent finished. The prompt was deferred in
_pending_input until the agent completed, then the handler checked
_agent_running (now False) and rejected it. /queue now always queues
regardless of timing.
2. Add display.busy_input_mode config (CLI-only):
- 'interrupt' (default): Enter while busy interrupts the current run
(preserves existing behavior)
- 'queue': Enter while busy queues the message for the next turn,
with a 'Queued for the next turn: ...' confirmation
Ctrl+C always interrupts regardless of this setting.
Salvaged from PR #3037 by StefanoChiodino. Key differences:
- Default is 'interrupt' (preserves existing behavior) not 'queue'
- No config version bump (unnecessary for new key in existing section)
- Simpler normalization (no alias map)
- /queue fix is simpler: just remove the guard instead of intercepting
commands during busy state
* fix(gateway): silence flush agent terminal output
quiet_mode=True only suppresses AIAgent init messages.
Tool call output still leaks to the terminal through
_safe_print → _print_fn during session reset/expiry.
Since #2670 injected live memory state into the flush prompt,
the flush agent now reliably calls memory tools — making the
output leak noticeable for the first time.
Set _print_fn to a no-op so the background flush is fully silent.
* test(gateway): add test for flush agent terminal silence + fix dotenv mock
- Add TestFlushAgentSilenced: verifies _print_fn is set to a no-op on
the flush agent so tool output never leaks to the terminal
- Fix pre-existing test failures: replace patch('run_agent.AIAgent')
with sys.modules mock to avoid importing run_agent (requires openai)
- Add autouse _mock_dotenv fixture so all tests in this file run
without the dotenv package installed
* fix(display): route KawaiiSpinner output through print_fn to fully silence flush agent
The previous fix set tmp_agent._print_fn = no-op on the flush agent but
spinner output and quiet-mode cute messages bypassed _print_fn entirely:
- KawaiiSpinner captured sys.stdout at __init__ and wrote directly to it
- quiet-mode tool results used builtin print() instead of _safe_print()
Add optional print_fn parameter to KawaiiSpinner.__init__; _write routes
through it when set. Pass self._print_fn to all spinner construction sites
in run_agent.py and change the quiet-mode cute message print to _safe_print.
The existing gateway fix (tmp_agent._print_fn = lambda) now propagates
correctly through both paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(gateway): silence hygiene and compression background agents
Two more background AIAgent instances in the gateway were created with
quiet_mode=True but without _print_fn = no-op, causing tool output to
leak to the terminal:
- _hyg_agent (in-turn hygiene memory agent)
- tmp_agent (_compress_context path)
Apply the same _print_fn no-op pattern used for the flush agent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(display): remove unused _last_flush_time from KawaiiSpinner
Attribute was set but never read; upstream already removed it.
Leftover from conflict resolution during rebase onto upstream/main.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Dilee <uzmpsk.dilekakbas@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When send() fails due to a network error (ConnectError, ReadTimeout, etc.),
the failure was silently logged and the user received no feedback — appearing
as a hang. In one reported case, a user waited 1+ hour for a response that
had already been generated but failed to deliver (#2910).
Adds _send_with_retry() to BasePlatformAdapter:
- Transient errors: retry up to 2x with exponential backoff + jitter
- On exhaustion: send delivery-failure notice so user knows to retry
- Permanent errors: fall back to plain-text version (preserves existing behavior)
- SendResult.retryable flag for platform-specific transient errors
All adapters benefit automatically via BasePlatformAdapter inheritance.
Cherry-picked from PR #3108 by Mibayy.
Co-authored-by: Mibayy <mibayy@users.noreply.github.com>
shutil.get_terminal_size() can return stale/fallback values on SSH that
differ from prompt_toolkit's actual terminal width. Fragments built for
the wrong width overflow and wrap onto a second line (wrap_lines=True
default), appearing as progressively degrading duplicates.
- Read width from get_app().output.get_size().columns when inside a
prompt_toolkit TUI, falling back to shutil outside TUI context
- Add wrap_lines=False on the status bar Window as belt-and-suspenders
guard against any future width mismatch
Closes#3130
Co-authored-by: Mibayy <Mibayy@users.noreply.github.com>
Two bugs caused the OpenClaw migration during first-time setup to be
ineffective, forcing users to reconfigure everything manually:
1. The setup wizard created config.yaml with all defaults BEFORE running
the migration, then the migrator ran with overwrite=False. Every config
setting was reported as a 'conflict' against the defaults and skipped.
Fix: use overwrite=True during setup-time migration (safe because only
defaults exist at that point). The hermes claw migrate CLI command
still defaults to overwrite=False for post-setup use.
2. After migration, the full setup wizard ran all 5 sections unconditionally,
forcing the user through model/terminal/agent/messaging/tools configuration
even when those settings were just imported.
Fix: add _get_section_config_summary() and _skip_configured_section()
helpers. After migration, each section checks if it's already configured
(API keys present, non-default values, platform tokens) and offers
'Reconfigure? [y/N]' with default No. Unconfigured sections still run
normally.
Reported by Dev Bredda on social media.
- add managed modal and gateway-backed tool integrations\n- improve CLI setup, auth, and configuration for subscriber flows\n- expand tests and docs for managed tool support
After a Telegram 502, _handle_polling_network_error calls updater.stop()
then start_polling(). If start_polling() also raises, the old code logged
a warning and returned — but the comment 'The next network error will
trigger another attempt' was wrong. The updater loop is dead after stop(),
so no further error callbacks ever fire. The gateway stays alive but
permanently deaf to messages.
Fix: when start_polling() fails in the except branch, schedule a new
_handle_polling_network_error task to continue the exponential backoff
retry chain. The task is tracked in _background_tasks (preventing GC).
Guarded by has_fatal_error to avoid spurious retries during shutdown.
Closes#3173.
Salvaged from PR #3177 by Mibayy.
The delegate_task tool accepts a toolsets parameter directly from the
LLM's function call arguments. When provided, these toolsets are passed
through _strip_blocked_tools but never intersected with the parent
agent's enabled_toolsets. A model can request toolsets the parent does
not have (e.g., web, browser, rl), granting the subagent tools that
were explicitly disabled for the parent.
Intersect LLM-requested toolsets with the parent's enabled set before
applying the blocked-tool filter, so subagents can only receive a
subset of the parent's tools.
Co-authored-by: dieutx <dangtc94@gmail.com>
* feat: config-gated /verbose command for messaging gateway
Add gateway_config_gate field to CommandDef, allowing cli_only commands
to be conditionally available in the gateway based on a config value.
- CommandDef gains gateway_config_gate: str | None — a config dotpath
that, when truthy, overrides cli_only for gateway surfaces
- /verbose uses gateway_config_gate='display.tool_progress_command'
- Default is off (cli_only behavior preserved)
- When enabled, /verbose cycles tool_progress mode (off/new/all/verbose)
in the gateway, saving to config.yaml — same cycle as the CLI
- Gateway helpers (help, telegram menus, slack mapping) dynamically
check config to include/exclude config-gated commands
- GATEWAY_KNOWN_COMMANDS always includes config-gated commands so
the gateway recognizes them and can respond appropriately
- Handles YAML 1.1 bool coercion (bare 'off' parses as False)
- 8 new tests for the config gate mechanism + gateway handler
* docs: document gateway_config_gate and /verbose messaging support
- AGENTS.md: add gateway_config_gate to CommandDef fields
- slash-commands.md: note /verbose can be enabled for messaging, update Notes
- configuration.md: add tool_progress_command to display section + usage note
- cli.md: cross-link to config docs for messaging enablement
- messaging/index.md: show tool_progress_command in config snippet
- plugins.md: add gateway_config_gate to register_command parameter table
When third-party tools (Paperclip orchestrator, etc.) spawn hermes chat
as a subprocess, their sessions pollute user session history and search.
- hermes chat --source <tag> (also HERMES_SESSION_SOURCE env var)
- exclude_sources parameter on list_sessions_rich() and search_messages()
- Sessions with source=tool hidden from sessions list/browse/search
- Third-party adapters pass --source tool to isolate agent sessions
Cherry-picked from PR #3208 by HenkDz.
Co-authored-by: Henkey <noonou7@gmail.com>
except Exception does not catch KeyboardInterrupt (inherits from
BaseException). A second Ctrl+C during exit cleanup aborts pending
writes — Honcho observations dropped, SQLite sessions left unclosed,
cron job sessions never marked ended.
Changed to except (Exception, KeyboardInterrupt) at all five sites:
- cli.py: honcho.shutdown() and end_session() in finally exit block
- run_agent.py: _flush_honcho_on_exit atexit handler
- cron/scheduler.py: end_session() and close() in job finally block
Tests exercise the actual production code paths and confirm
KeyboardInterrupt propagates without the fix.
Co-authored-by: dieutx <dangtc94@gmail.com>
Asyncio tasks created with create_task() but never stored can be
garbage collected mid-execution. Add self._background_tasks set to
hold references, with add_done_callback cleanup. Tracks:
- /background command task
- session-reset memory flush task
- session-resume memory flush task
Cancel all pending tasks in stop().
Update test fixtures that construct GatewayRunner via object.__new__()
to include the new _background_tasks attribute.
Cherry-picked from PR #3167 by memosr. The original PR also deleted
the DM topic auto-skill loading code — that deletion was excluded
from this salvage as it removes a shipped feature (#2598).
Co-authored-by: memosr.eth <96793918+memosr@users.noreply.github.com>
detect_dangerous_command() ran regex patterns against raw command strings
without normalization, allowing bypass via Unicode fullwidth chars,
ANSI escape codes, null bytes, and 8-bit C1 controls.
Adds _normalize_command_for_detection() that:
- Strips ANSI escapes using the full ECMA-48 strip_ansi() from
tools/ansi_strip (CSI, OSC, DCS, 8-bit C1, nF sequences)
- Removes null bytes
- Normalizes Unicode via NFKC (fullwidth Latin → ASCII, etc.)
Includes 12 regression tests covering fullwidth, ANSI, C1, null byte,
and combined obfuscation bypasses.
Salvaged from PR #3089 by thakoreh — improved ANSI stripping to use
existing comprehensive strip_ansi() instead of a weaker hand-rolled
regex, and added test coverage.
Co-authored-by: Hiren <hiren.thakore58@gmail.com>
Nous Portal now passes through OpenRouter model names and routes from
there. Update the static fallback model list and auxiliary client default
to use OpenRouter-format slugs (provider/model) instead of bare names.
- _PROVIDER_MODELS['nous']: full OpenRouter catalog
- _NOUS_MODEL: google/gemini-3-flash-preview (was gemini-3-flash)
- Updated 4 test assertions for the new default model name
* fix(session-db): survive CLI/gateway concurrent write contention
Closes#3139
Three layered fixes for the scenario where CLI and gateway write to
state.db concurrently, causing create_session() to fail with
'database is locked' and permanently disabling session_search on the
gateway side.
1. Increase SQLite connection timeout: 10s -> 30s
hermes_state.py: longer window for the WAL writer to finish a batch
flush before the other process gives up entirely.
2. INSERT OR IGNORE in create_session
hermes_state.py: prevents IntegrityError on duplicate session IDs
(e.g. gateway restarts while CLI session is still alive).
3. Don't null out _session_db on create_session failure (main fix)
run_agent.py: a transient lock at agent startup must not permanently
disable session_search for the lifetime of that agent instance.
_session_db now stays alive so subsequent flushes and searches work
once the lock clears.
4. New ensure_session() helper + call it during flush
hermes_state.py: INSERT OR IGNORE for a minimal session row.
run_agent.py _flush_messages_to_session_db: calls ensure_session()
before appending messages, so the FK constraint is satisfied even
when create_session() failed at startup. No-op when the row exists.
* fix(state): release lock between context queries in search_messages
The context-window queries (one per FTS5 match) were running inside
the same lock acquisition as the primary FTS5 query, holding the lock
for O(N) sequential SQLite round-trips. Move per-match context fetches
outside the outer lock block so each acquires the lock independently,
keeping critical sections short and allowing other threads to interleave.
* fix(session): prefer longer source in load_transcript to prevent legacy truncation
When a long-lived session pre-dates SQLite storage (e.g. sessions
created before the DB layer was introduced, or after a clean
deployment that reset the DB), _flush_messages_to_session_db only
writes the *new* messages from the current turn to SQLite — it skips
messages already present in conversation_history, assuming they are
already persisted.
That assumption fails for legacy JSONL-only sessions:
Turn N (first after DB migration):
load_transcript(id) → SQLite: 0 → falls back to JSONL: 994 ✓
_flush_messages_to_session_db: skip first 994, write 2 new → SQLite: 2
Turn N+1:
load_transcript(id) → SQLite: 2 → returns immediately ✗
Agent sees 2 messages of history instead of 996
The same pattern causes the reported symptom: session JSON truncated
to 4 messages (_save_session_log writes agent.messages which only has
2 history + 2 new = 4).
Fix: always load both sources and return whichever is longer. For a
fully-migrated session SQLite will always be ≥ JSONL, so there is no
regression. For a legacy session that hasn't been bootstrapped yet,
JSONL wins and the full history is restored.
Closes#3212
* test: add load_transcript source preference tests for #3212
Covers: JSONL longer returns JSONL, SQLite longer returns SQLite,
SQLite empty falls back to JSONL, both empty returns empty, equal
length prefers SQLite (richer reasoning fields).
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Co-authored-by: Mibayy <mibayy@hermes.ai>
Co-authored-by: kewe63 <kewe.3217@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Mibayy <mibayy@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(skills): reduce skills.sh resolution churn and preserve trust for wrapped identifiers
- Accept common skills.sh prefix typos (skils-sh/, skils.sh/)
- Strip skills-sh/ prefix in _resolve_trust_level() so trusted repos
stay trusted when installed through skills.sh
- Use resolved identifier (from bundle/meta) for scan_skill source
- Prefer tree search before root scan in _discover_identifier()
- Add _resolve_github_meta() consolidation for inspect flow
Cherry-picked from PR #3001 by kshitijk4poor.
* fix: restore candidate loop in SkillsShSource.fetch() for consistency
The cherry-picked PR only tried the first candidate identifier in
fetch() while inspect() (via _resolve_github_meta) tried all four.
This meant skills at repo/skills/path would be found by inspect but
missed by fetch, forcing it through the heavier _discover_identifier
flow. Restore the candidate loop so both paths behave identically.
Updated the test assertion to match.
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Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Gateway sessions had their own inline toolset resolution that only read
platform_toolsets from config, which never includes MCP server names.
MCP tools were discovered and registered but invisible to the model.
- Replace duplicated gateway toolset resolution in _run_agent() and
_run_background_task() with calls to the shared _get_platform_tools()
- Extend _get_platform_tools() to include globally enabled MCP servers
at runtime (include_default_mcp_servers=True), while config-editing
flows use include_default_mcp_servers=False to avoid persisting
implicit MCP defaults into platform_toolsets
- Add homeassistant to PLATFORMS dict (was missing, caused KeyError)
- Fix CLI entry point to use _get_platform_tools() as well, so MCP
tools are visible in CLI mode too
- Remove redundant platform_key reassignment in _run_background_task
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Previously _agent_config_signature() used only the first 8 characters of
the API key, which causes false cache hits for JWT/OAuth tokens that share
a common prefix (e.g. 'eyJhbGci'). This led to cross-account cache
collisions when switching OAuth accounts in multi-user gateway deployments.
Replace the 8-char prefix with a SHA-256 hash of the full key so the
signature is unique per credential while keeping secrets out of the
cache key.
Salvaged from PR #3117 by EmpireOperating.
Co-authored-by: EmpireOperating <EmpireOperating@users.noreply.github.com>
Salvages PR #3005 by web3blind. Cherry-picked onto current main with functional skill binding and docs added.
- DM topic creation via createForumTopic (Bot API 9.4, Feb 2026)
- Config-driven topics with thread_id persistence across restarts
- Session isolation via existing build_session_key thread_id support
- auto_skill field on MessageEvent for topic-skill bindings
- Gateway auto-loads bound skill on new sessions (same as /skill commands)
- Docs: full Private Chat Topics section in Telegram messaging guide
- 20 tests (17 original + 3 for auto_skill)
Closes#2598
Co-authored-by: web3blind <web3blind@users.noreply.github.com>
The default SOUL.md seeded for new users should match
DEFAULT_AGENT_IDENTITY — a short, neutral identity paragraph.
The elaborate voice spec (avoid lists, dialogue examples, symbol
conventions) was never intended as the default for all users.
Users who want a custom persona write their own SOUL.md.
The non-streaming API call path (_interruptible_api_call) had no
wall-clock timeout. When providers keep connections alive with SSE
keep-alive pings but never deliver a response, httpx's inactivity
timeout never fires and the call hangs indefinitely.
Subagents always used the non-streaming path because they have no
stream consumers (quiet_mode=True). This caused delegate_task to
hang for 40+ minutes in production.
The streaming path has two layers of protection:
- httpx read timeout (60s, HERMES_STREAM_READ_TIMEOUT)
- Stale stream detection (90s, HERMES_STREAM_STALE_TIMEOUT)
Both work because streaming sends chunks continuously — a 90-second
gap between chunks genuinely means the connection is broken, even for
reasoning models that take minutes to complete.
Now run_conversation() always prefers the streaming path. The streaming
method falls back to non-streaming automatically if the provider
doesn't support it. Stream delta callbacks are no-ops when no
consumers are registered, so there's no overhead for subagents.
run_conversation raised the raw exception after exhausting retries,
which crashed the background thread in cli.py (unhandled exception
in Thread). Now returns a proper error result dict with failed=True
and persists the session, matching the pattern used by other error
paths (invalid responses, empty content, etc.).
Also wraps cli.py's run_agent thread function in try/except as a
safety net against any future unhandled exceptions from
run_conversation.
Made-with: Cursor
When an agent thread hangs (truly blocked, never checks _interrupt_requested),
/stop now force-cleans _running_agents to unlock the session immediately.
Two changes:
- Early /stop intercept in the running-agent guard: bypasses normal command
dispatch to force-interrupt and unlock the session. Follows the same pattern
as the existing /new intercept.
- Sentinel /stop: force-cleans the sentinel instead of returning 'nothing to
stop yet', so /stop during slow startup actually unlocks the session.
Follow-up improvements over original PR:
- Consolidated duplicate resolve_command imports into single early resolution
- Updated _handle_stop_command to also force-clean for consistency
- Removed 10-minute hard timeout on the executor (would kill legitimate
long-running agent tasks; the /stop force-clean handles recovery)
Cherry-picked from Mibayy's PR #2498.
Co-authored-by: Mibayy <Mibayy@users.noreply.github.com>
The recursive os.walk for AGENTS.md in subdirectories was undesired.
Only load AGENTS.md from the working directory root, matching the
behavior of CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules.
Remove run_hermes_oauth_login(), refresh_hermes_oauth_token(),
read_hermes_oauth_credentials(), _save_hermes_oauth_credentials(),
_generate_pkce(), and associated constants/credential file path.
This code was added in 63e88326 but never wired into any user-facing
flow (setup wizard, hermes model, or any CLI command). Neither
clawdbot/OpenClaw nor opencode implement PKCE for Anthropic — both
use setup-token or API keys. Dead code that was never tested in
production.
Also removes the credential resolution step that checked
~/.hermes/.anthropic_oauth.json (step 3 in resolve_anthropic_token),
renumbering remaining steps.
reset_session_state() was missing two fields added after it was written:
- _user_turn_count: kept accumulating across sessions, affecting
flush_min_turns guard behavior
- context_compressor._previous_summary: old session's compression
summary leaked into new session's iterative compression
Cherry-picked from PR #2640 by dusterbloom. Closes#2635.
sessions delete and prune call input() for confirmation without
catching EOFError. When stdin isn't a TTY (piped input, CI/CD, cron),
input() throws EOFError and the command crashes.
Extract a _confirm_prompt() helper that handles EOFError and
KeyboardInterrupt, defaulting to cancel. Both call sites now use it.
Salvaged from PR #2622 by dieutx (improved from duplicated try/except
to shared helper). Closes#2565.
In gateway mode, async tools (vision_analyze, web_extract, session_search)
deadlock because _run_async() spawns a thread with asyncio.run(), creating
a new event loop, but _get_cached_client() returns an AsyncOpenAI client
bound to a different loop. httpx.AsyncClient cannot work across event loop
boundaries, causing await client.chat.completions.create() to hang forever.
Fix: include the event loop identity in the async client cache key so each
loop gets its own AsyncOpenAI instance. Also fix session_search_tool.py
which had its own broken asyncio.run()-in-thread pattern — now uses the
centralized _run_async() bridge.
The /model command is removed from both the interactive CLI and
messenger gateway (Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp). Users can
still change models via 'hermes model' CLI subcommand or by
editing config.yaml directly.
Removed:
- CommandDef entry from COMMAND_REGISTRY
- CLI process_command() handler and model autocomplete logic
- Gateway _handle_model_command() and dispatch
- SlashCommandCompleter model_completer_provider parameter
- Two-stage Tab completion and ghost text for /model
- All /model-specific tests
Unaffected:
- /provider command (read-only, shows current model + providers)
- ACP adapter _cmd_model (separate system for VS Code/Zed/JetBrains)
- model_switch.py module (used by ACP)
- 'hermes model' CLI subcommand
Author: Teknium
- Registry now warns when a tool name is overwritten by a different
toolset (silent dict overwrite was the previous behavior)
- MCP tool registration checks for collisions with non-MCP (built-in)
tools before registering. If an MCP tool's prefixed name matches an
existing built-in, the MCP tool is skipped and a warning is logged.
MCP-to-MCP collisions are allowed (last server wins).
- Both regular MCP tools and utility tools (resources/prompts) are
guarded.
- Adds 5 tests covering: registry overwrite warning, same-toolset
re-registration silence, built-in collision skip, normal registration,
and MCP-to-MCP collision pass-through.
Reported by k_sze (KONG) — MiniMax MCP server's web_search tool could
theoretically shadow Hermes's built-in web_search if prefixing failed.
Covers the case where a SKILL.md has `metadata:` (null) or
`metadata.hermes:` (null), which caused an AttributeError
before the fix in d218cf91.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(security): add SSRF protection to browser_navigate
browser_navigate() only checked the website blocklist policy but did
not call is_safe_url() to block private/internal addresses. This
allowed the agent to navigate to localhost, cloud metadata endpoints
(169.254.169.254), and private network IPs via the browser.
web_tools and vision_tools already had this check. Added the same
is_safe_url() pre-flight validation before the blocklist check in
browser_navigate().
* fix: move SSRF import to module level, fix policy test mock
Move is_safe_url import to module level so it can be monkeypatched
in tests. Update test_browser_navigate_returns_policy_block to mock
_is_safe_url so the SSRF check passes and the policy check is reached.
* fix(security): harden browser SSRF protection
Follow-up to cherry-picked PR #3041:
1. Fail-closed fallback: if url_safety module can't import, block all
URLs instead of allowing all. Security guards should never fail-open.
2. Post-redirect SSRF check: after navigation, verify the final URL
isn't a private/internal address. If a public URL redirected to
169.254.169.254 or localhost, navigate to about:blank and return
an error — prevents the model from reading internal content via
subsequent browser_snapshot calls.
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Co-authored-by: 0xbyt4 <35742124+0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
When a background task (/bg command) prints its output while the main agent
is processing with the thinking spinner visible, the status bar could render
on the same row as the spinner, causing visual overlap.
This fix adds an explicit app.invalidate() call with a brief pause before
printing background task output, ensuring the TUI layout is in a consistent
state before the output is written.
Changes:
- Add TUI refresh before success output in _handle_background_command
- Add TUI refresh before error output in the exception handler
- Add tests for the refresh behavior
Closes#2718
Co-authored-by: Bartok9 <bartokmagic@proton.me>
After streaming retries are exhausted on transient errors, fall back to
non-streaming instead of propagating the error. Also fall back for any
other pre-delivery stream error (not just 'streaming not supported').
Added user-facing message when streaming is not supported by a model/
provider, directing users to set display.streaming: false in config.yaml
to avoid the fallback delay.
Cherry-picked from PR #3008 by kshitijk4poor. Added UX message for
streaming-not-supported detection.
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: nix flake, uv2nix build, dev shell and home manager
* fixed nix run, updated docs for setup
* feat(nix): NixOS module with persistent container mode, managed guards, checks
- Replace homeModules.nix with nixosModules.nix (two deployment modes)
- Mode A (native): hardened systemd service with ProtectSystem=strict
- Mode B (container): persistent Ubuntu container with /nix/store bind-mount,
identity-hash-based recreation, GC root protection, symlink-based updates
- Add HERMES_MANAGED guards blocking CLI config mutation (config set, setup,
gateway install/uninstall) when running under NixOS module
- Add nix/checks.nix with build-time verification (binary, CLI, managed guard)
- Remove container.nix (no Nix-built OCI image; pulls ubuntu:24.04 at runtime)
- Simplify packages.nix (drop fetchFromGitHub submodules, PYTHONPATH wrappers)
- Rewrite docs/nixos-setup.md with full options reference, container
architecture, secrets management, and troubleshooting guide
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Update config.py
* feat(nix): add CI workflow and enhanced build checks
- GitHub Actions workflow for nix flake check + build on linux/macOS
- Entry point sync check to catch pyproject.toml drift
- Expanded managed-guard check to cover config edit
- Wrap hermes-acp binary in Nix package
- Fix Path type mismatch in is_managed()
* Update MCP server package name; bundled skills support
* fix reading .env. instead have container user a common mounted .env file
* feat(nix): container entrypoint with privilege drop and sudo provisioning
Container was running as non-root via --user, which broke apt/pip installs
and caused crashes when $HOME didn't exist. Replace --user with a Nix-built
entrypoint script that provisions the hermes user, sudo (NOPASSWD), and
/home/hermes inside the container on first boot, then drops privileges via
setpriv. Writable layer persists so setup only runs once.
Also expands MCP server options to support HTTP transport and sampling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix group and user creation in container mode
* feat(nix): persistent /home/hermes and MESSAGING_CWD in container mode
Container mode now bind-mounts ${stateDir}/home to /home/hermes so the
agent's home directory survives container recreation. Previously it lived
in the writable layer and was lost on image/volume/options changes.
Also passes MESSAGING_CWD to the container so the agent finds its
workspace and documents, matching native mode behavior.
Other changes:
- Extract containerDataDir/containerHomeDir bindings (no more magic strings)
- Fix entrypoint chown to run unconditionally (volume mounts always exist)
- Add schema field to container identity hash for auto-recreation
- Add idempotency test (Scenario G) to config-roundtrip check
* docs: add Nix & NixOS setup guide to docs site
Add comprehensive Nix documentation to the Docusaurus site at
website/docs/getting-started/nix-setup.md, covering nix run/profile
install, NixOS module (native + container modes), declarative settings,
secrets management, MCP servers, managed mode, container architecture,
dev shell, flake checks, and full options reference.
- Register nix-setup in sidebar after installation page
- Add Nix callout tip to installation.md linking to new guide
- Add canonical version pointer in docs/nixos-setup.md
* docs: remove docs/nixos-setup.md, consolidate into website docs
Backfill missing details (restart/restartSec in full example,
gateway.pid, 0750 permissions, docker inspect commands) into
the canonical website/docs/getting-started/nix-setup.md and
delete the old standalone file.
* fix(nix): add compression.protect_last_n and target_ratio to config-keys.json
New keys were added to DEFAULT_CONFIG on main, causing the
config-drift check to fail in CI.
* fix(nix): skip checks on aarch64-darwin (onnxruntime wheel missing)
The full Python venv includes onnxruntime (via faster-whisper/STT)
which lacks a compatible uv2nix wheel on aarch64-darwin. Gate all
checks behind stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux. The package and devShell
still evaluate on macOS.
* fix(nix): skip flake check and build on macOS CI
onnxruntime (transitive dep via faster-whisper) lacks a compatible
uv2nix wheel on aarch64-darwin. Run full checks and build on Linux
only; macOS CI verifies the flake evaluates without building.
* fix(nix): preserve container writable layer across nixos-rebuild
The container identity hash included the entrypoint's Nix store path,
which changes on every nixpkgs update (due to runtimeShell/stdenv
input-addressing). This caused false-positive identity mismatches,
triggering container recreation and losing the persistent writable layer.
- Use stable symlink (current-entrypoint) like current-package already does
- Remove entrypoint from identity hash (only image/volumes/options matter)
- Add GC root for entrypoint so nix-collect-garbage doesn't break it
- Remove global HERMES_HOME env var from addToSystemPackages (conflicted
with interactive CLI use, service already sets its own)
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three improvements to reasoning/thinking display in the CLI:
1. Buffer tiny reasoning chunks: providers like DeepSeek stream reasoning
one word at a time, producing a separate [thinking] line per token.
Add a buffer that coalesces chunks and flushes at natural boundaries
(newlines, sentence endings, terminal width).
2. Fix duplicate reasoning display: centralize callback selection into
_current_reasoning_callback() — one place instead of 4 scattered
inline ternaries. Prevents both the streaming box AND the preview
callback from firing simultaneously.
3. Fix post-response reasoning box guard: change the check from
'not self._stream_started' to 'not self._reasoning_stream_started'
so the final reasoning box is only suppressed when reasoning was
actually streamed live, not when any text was streamed.
Cherry-picked from PR #2781 by juanfradb.
- Add 'prompt exceeds max length' to context overflow detection for
Z.AI/GLM 400 errors
- Extract inline reasoning blocks from assistant content as fallback
when no structured reasoning fields are present
- Guard inline extraction so structured API reasoning takes priority
- Update test for reasoning-only response salvage behavior
Cherry-picked from PR #2993 by kshitijk4poor. Added priority guard
to fix test_structured_reasoning_takes_priority failure.
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Cron was the only execution path that never called end_session(),
leaving ended_at = NULL permanently. This made cron sessions invisible
to hermes prune --older-than and indistinguishable from active sessions.
Captures session_id in a local variable before agent construction so
it's available in the finally block even if AIAgent() fails, then calls
end_session(session_id, 'cron_complete') before close().
Cherry-picked from PR #2979 by ygd58. Fixed bug: original PR called
end_session() with zero arguments (TypeError — method requires
session_id and end_reason).
Fixes#2972.
Co-authored-by: ygd58 <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(skills): use Git Trees API to prevent silent subdirectory loss during install
Refactors _download_directory() to use the Git Trees API (single call
for the entire repo tree) as the primary path, falling back to the
recursive Contents API when the tree endpoint is unavailable or
truncated. Prevents silent subdirectory loss caused by per-directory
rate limiting or transient failures.
Cherry-picked from PR #2981 by tugrulguner.
Fixes#2940.
* fix: simplify tree API — use branch name directly as tree-ish
Eliminates an extra git/ref/heads API call by passing the branch name
directly to git/trees/{branch}?recursive=1, matching the pattern
already used by _find_skill_in_repo_tree.
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Co-authored-by: tugrulguner <tugrulguner@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(run_agent): ensure _fire_first_delta() is called for tool generation events
Added calls to _fire_first_delta() in the AIAgent class to improve the handling of tool generation events, ensuring timely notifications during the processing of function calls and tool usage.
* fix(run_agent): improve timeout handling for chat completions
Enhanced the timeout configuration for chat completions in the AIAgent class by introducing customizable connection, read, and write timeouts using environment variables. This ensures more robust handling of API requests during streaming operations.
* fix(run_agent): reduce default stream read timeout for chat completions
Updated the default stream read timeout from 120 seconds to 60 seconds in the AIAgent class, enhancing the timeout configuration for chat completions. This change aims to improve responsiveness during streaming operations.
* fix(run_agent): enhance streaming error handling and retry logic
Improved the error handling and retry mechanism for streaming requests in the AIAgent class. Introduced a configurable maximum number of stream retries and refined the handling of transient network errors, allowing for retries with fresh connections. Non-transient errors now trigger a fallback to non-streaming only when appropriate, ensuring better resilience during API interactions.
* fix(api_server): streaming breaks when agent makes tool calls
The agent fires stream_delta_callback(None) to signal the CLI display
to close its response box before tool execution begins. The API server's
_on_delta callback was forwarding this None directly into the SSE queue,
where the SSE writer treats it as end-of-stream and terminates the HTTP
response prematurely.
After tool calls complete, the agent streams the final answer through
the same callback, but the SSE response was already closed — so Open
WebUI (and similar frontends) never received the actual answer.
Fix: filter out None in _on_delta so the SSE stream stays open. The SSE
loop already detects completion via agent_task.done(), which handles
stream termination correctly without needing the None sentinel.
Reported by Rohit Paul on X.
feat: persist reasoning across gateway session turns (schema v6)
Tested against OpenAI Codex (direct), Anthropic (direct + OAI-compat), and OpenRouter → 6 backends. All reasoning field types (reasoning, reasoning_details, codex_reasoning_items) round-trip through the DB correctly.
* fix(run_agent): ensure _fire_first_delta() is called for tool generation events
Added calls to _fire_first_delta() in the AIAgent class to improve the handling of tool generation events, ensuring timely notifications during the processing of function calls and tool usage.
* fix(run_agent): improve timeout handling for chat completions
Enhanced the timeout configuration for chat completions in the AIAgent class by introducing customizable connection, read, and write timeouts using environment variables. This ensures more robust handling of API requests during streaming operations.
* fix(run_agent): reduce default stream read timeout for chat completions
Updated the default stream read timeout from 120 seconds to 60 seconds in the AIAgent class, enhancing the timeout configuration for chat completions. This change aims to improve responsiveness during streaming operations.
* fix(run_agent): enhance streaming error handling and retry logic
Improved the error handling and retry mechanism for streaming requests in the AIAgent class. Introduced a configurable maximum number of stream retries and refined the handling of transient network errors, allowing for retries with fresh connections. Non-transient errors now trigger a fallback to non-streaming only when appropriate, ensuring better resilience during API interactions.
* fix: skills-sh install fails for deeply nested repo structures
Skills in repos with deep directory nesting (e.g.
cli-tool/components/skills/development/senior-backend/) could not be
installed because the candidate path generation and shallow root-dir
scan never reached them.
Added GitHubSource._find_skill_in_repo_tree() which uses the GitHub
Trees API to recursively search the entire repo tree in a single API
call. This is used as a final fallback in
SkillsShSource._discover_identifier() when the standard candidate
paths and shallow scan both fail.
Fixes installation of skills from repos like davila7/claude-code-templates
where skills are nested 4+ levels deep.
Reported by user Samuraixheart.
Add reply_to_mode setting (off/first/all) to control whether Telegram
replies quote/thread to the user's original message.
- 'off': Never thread replies (no quote bubble)
- 'first': Only first chunk threads to user's message (default, preserves existing behavior)
- 'all': All chunks in multi-part replies thread to user's message
Configurable via:
- reply_to_mode in platform config (gateway config YAML)
- TELEGRAM_REPLY_TO_MODE env var
Based on PR #855 by raulvidis.
* feat(migration): comprehensive OpenClaw -> Hermes migration v2
Extends the existing migration script from ~15% to ~95% coverage of
OpenClaw's configuration surface. Adds 17 new migration modules:
Direct migrations (written to config.yaml/.env):
- MCP servers: full server definitions with transport, tools, sampling
- Agent defaults: reasoning_effort, compression, human_delay, timezone
- Session config: reset triggers (daily/idle) -> session_reset
- Full model providers: custom_providers with base_url/api_mode
- Deep channel config: Matrix, Mattermost, IRC, Discord deep settings
- Browser config: timeout settings
- Tools config: exec timeout -> terminal.timeout
- Approvals: mode mapping (smart/manual/auto -> Hermes equivalents)
Archived for manual review (no direct Hermes equivalent):
- Plugins config + installed extensions
- Cron jobs (with note to use 'hermes cron')
- Hooks/webhooks config
- Multi-agent list + routing bindings
- Gateway config (port, auth, TLS)
- Memory backend config (QMD, vector search)
- Skills registry per-entry config
- UI/identity settings
- Logging/diagnostics preferences
Also adds:
- MIGRATION_NOTES.md generation with PM2 reassurance message
- _set_env_var helper for consistent env file management
- Updated presets to include all new options
- Comprehensive mock test passing (12 migrated, 12 archived)
* feat(migration): add terminal recap with visual summary
Replaces raw JSON dump with a formatted box showing migrated/archived/
skipped/conflict/error counts, detailed item lists with labels, PM2
reassurance message, and actionable next steps. JSON output available
via MIGRATION_JSON_OUTPUT=1 env var.
* fix(test): allowlist python_os_environ as known false-positive in skills guard test
MIGRATION_JSON_OUTPUT env var is a legitimate CLI feature flag that enables
JSON output mode, not an env dump. Add it alongside agent_config_mod as an
accepted finding in test_skill_installs_cleanly_under_skills_guard.
* fix(test): add hermes_config_mod to known false-positives in skills guard test
The scanner flags two print statements that tell the user to *review*
~/.hermes/config.yaml in the post-migration summary. The script never
writes to that file — those are informational strings, not config mutations.
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Co-authored-by: Hermes <hermes@nousresearch.ai>
- threshold: 0.80 → 0.50 (compress at 50%, not 80%)
- target_ratio: 0.40 → 0.20, now relative to threshold not total context
(20% of 50% = 10% of context as tail budget)
- summary ceiling: 32K → 12K (Gemini can't output more than ~12K)
- Updated DEFAULT_CONFIG, config display, example config, and tests
The summary_target_tokens parameter was accepted in the constructor,
stored on the instance, and never used — the summary budget was always
computed from hardcoded module constants (_SUMMARY_RATIO=0.20,
_MAX_SUMMARY_TOKENS=8000). This caused two compounding problems:
1. The config value was silently ignored, giving users no control
over post-compression size.
2. Fixed budgets (20K tail, 8K summary cap) didn't scale with
context window size. Switching from a 1M-context model to a
200K model would trigger compression that nuked 350K tokens
of conversation history down to ~30K.
Changes:
- Replace summary_target_tokens with summary_target_ratio (default 0.40)
which sets the post-compression target as a fraction of context_length.
Tail token budget and summary cap now scale proportionally:
MiniMax 200K → ~80K post-compression
GPT-5 1M → ~400K post-compression
- Change threshold_percent default: 0.50 → 0.80 (don't fire until
80% of context is consumed)
- Change protect_last_n default: 4 → 20 (preserve ~10 full turns)
- Summary token cap scales to 5% of context (was fixed 8K), capped
at 32K ceiling
- Read target_ratio and protect_last_n from config.yaml compression
section (both are now configurable)
- Remove hardcoded summary_target_tokens=500 from run_agent.py
- Add 5 new tests for ratio scaling, clamping, and new defaults
Move OpenRouter to position 1 in the setup wizard's provider list
to match hermes model ordering. Update default selection index and
fix test expectations for the new ordering.
Setup order: OpenRouter → Nous Portal → Codex → Custom → ...
* feat: env var passthrough for skills and user config
Skills that declare required_environment_variables now have those vars
passed through to sandboxed execution environments (execute_code and
terminal). Previously, execute_code stripped all vars containing KEY,
TOKEN, SECRET, etc. and the terminal blocklist removed Hermes
infrastructure vars — both blocked skill-declared env vars.
Two passthrough sources:
1. Skill-scoped (automatic): when a skill is loaded via skill_view and
declares required_environment_variables, vars that are present in
the environment are registered in a session-scoped passthrough set.
2. Config-based (manual): terminal.env_passthrough in config.yaml lets
users explicitly allowlist vars for non-skill use cases.
Changes:
- New module: tools/env_passthrough.py — shared passthrough registry
- hermes_cli/config.py: add terminal.env_passthrough to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- tools/skills_tool.py: register available skill env vars on load
- tools/code_execution_tool.py: check passthrough before filtering
- tools/environments/local.py: check passthrough in _sanitize_subprocess_env
and _make_run_env
- 19 new tests covering all layers
* docs: add environment variable passthrough documentation
Document the env var passthrough feature across four docs pages:
- security.md: new 'Environment Variable Passthrough' section with
full explanation, comparison table, and security considerations
- code-execution.md: update security section, add passthrough subsection,
fix comparison table
- creating-skills.md: add tip about automatic sandbox passthrough
- skills.md: add note about passthrough after secure setup docs
Live-tested: launched interactive CLI, loaded a skill with
required_environment_variables, verified TEST_SKILL_SECRET_KEY was
accessible inside execute_code sandbox (value: passthrough-test-value-42).
Complete cleanup after dropping the mini-swe-agent submodule (PR #2804):
- Remove MSWEA_SILENT_STARTUP and MSWEA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR env var
settings from cli.py, run_agent.py, hermes_cli/main.py, doctor.py
- Remove mini-swe-agent health check from hermes doctor
- Remove 'minisweagent' from logger suppression lists
- Remove litellm/typer/platformdirs from requirements.txt
- Remove mini-swe-agent install steps from install.ps1 (Windows)
- Remove mini-swe-agent install steps from website docs
- Update all stale comments/docstrings referencing mini-swe-agent
in terminal_tool.py, tools/__init__.py, code_execution_tool.py,
environments/README.md, environments/agent_loop.py
- Remove mini_swe_runner from pyproject.toml py-modules
(still exists as standalone script for RL training use)
- Shrink test_minisweagent_path.py to empty stub
The orphaned mini-swe-agent/ directory on disk needs manual removal:
rm -rf mini-swe-agent/
Drop the mini-swe-agent git submodule. All terminal backends now use
hermes-agent's own environment implementations directly.
Docker backend:
- Inline the `docker run -d` container startup (was 15 lines in
minisweagent's DockerEnvironment). Our wrapper already handled
execute(), cleanup(), security hardening, volumes, and resource limits.
Modal backend:
- Import swe-rex's ModalDeployment directly instead of going through
minisweagent's 90-line passthrough wrapper.
- Bake the _AsyncWorker pattern (from environments/patches.py) directly
into ModalEnvironment for Atropos compatibility without monkey-patching.
Cleanup:
- Remove minisweagent_path.py (submodule path resolution helper)
- Remove submodule init/install from install.sh and setup-hermes.sh
- Remove mini-swe-agent from .gitmodules
- environments/patches.py is now a no-op (kept for backward compat)
- terminal_tool.py no longer does sys.path hacking for minisweagent
- mini_swe_runner.py guards imports (optional, for RL training only)
- Update all affected tests to mock the new direct subprocess calls
- Update README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
No functionality change — all Docker, Modal, local, SSH, Singularity,
and Daytona backends behave identically. 6093 tests pass.
Fixes#2492.
`generate_systemd_unit()` and `get_python_path()` hardcoded `venv`
as the virtualenv directory name. When the virtualenv is `.venv`
(which `setup-hermes.sh` and `.gitignore` both reference), the
generated systemd unit had incorrect VIRTUAL_ENV and PATH variables.
Introduce `_detect_venv_dir()` which:
1. Checks `sys.prefix` vs `sys.base_prefix` to detect the active venv
2. Falls back to probing `.venv` then `venv` under PROJECT_ROOT
Both `get_python_path()` and `generate_systemd_unit()` now use
this detection instead of hardcoded paths.
Co-authored-by: Hermes <hermes@nousresearch.ai>
* feat(model): persist base_url on /model switch, auto-detect for bare /model custom
Phase 2+3 of the /model command overhaul:
Phase 2 — Persist base_url on model switch:
- CLI: save model.base_url when switching to a non-OpenRouter endpoint;
clear it when switching away from custom to prevent stale URLs
leaking into the new provider's resolution
- Gateway: same logic using direct YAML write
Phase 3 — Better feedback and edge cases:
- Bare '/model custom' now auto-detects the model from the endpoint
using _auto_detect_local_model() and saves all three config values
(model, provider, base_url) atomically
- Shows endpoint URL in success messages when switching to/from
custom providers (both CLI and gateway)
- Clear error messages when no custom endpoint is configured
- Updated test assertions for the additional save_config_value call
Fixes#2562 (Phase 2+3)
* feat(model): support custom:name:model triple syntax for named custom providers
Phase 5 of the /model command overhaul.
Extends parse_model_input() to handle the triple syntax:
/model custom:local-server:qwen → provider='custom:local-server', model='qwen'
/model custom:my-model → provider='custom', model='my-model' (unchanged)
The 'custom:local-server' provider string is already supported by
_get_named_custom_provider() in runtime_provider.py, which matches
it against the custom_providers list in config.yaml. This just wires
the parsing so users can do it from the /model slash command.
Added 4 tests covering single, triple, whitespace, and empty model cases.
resolve_provider('custom') was silently returning 'openrouter', causing
users who set provider: custom in config.yaml to unknowingly route
through OpenRouter instead of their local/custom endpoint. The display
showed 'via openrouter' even when the user explicitly chose custom.
Changes:
- auth.py: Split the conditional so 'custom' returns 'custom' as-is
- runtime_provider.py: _resolve_named_custom_runtime now returns
provider='custom' instead of 'openrouter'
- runtime_provider.py: _resolve_openrouter_runtime returns
provider='custom' when that was explicitly requested
- Add 'no-key-required' placeholder for keyless local servers
- Update existing test + add 5 new tests covering the fix
Fixes#2562
On macOS with Homebrew (Apple Silicon), Node.js and agent-browser
binaries live under /opt/homebrew/bin/ which is not included in the
_SANE_PATH fallback used by browser_tool.py and environments/local.py.
When Hermes runs with a filtered PATH (e.g. as a systemd service),
these binaries are invisible, causing 'env: node: No such file or
directory' errors when using browser tools.
Changes:
- Add /opt/homebrew/bin and /opt/homebrew/sbin to _SANE_PATH in both
browser_tool.py and environments/local.py
- Add _discover_homebrew_node_dirs() to find versioned Node installs
(e.g. brew install node@24) that aren't linked into /opt/homebrew/bin
- Extend _find_agent_browser() to search Homebrew and Hermes-managed
dirs when agent-browser isn't on the current PATH
- Include discovered Homebrew node dirs in subprocess PATH when
launching agent-browser
- Add 11 new tests covering all Homebrew path discovery logic
The gateway memory flush agent reviews old conversation history on session
reset/expiry and writes to memory. It had no awareness of memory changes
made after that conversation ended (by the live agent, cron jobs, or other
sessions), causing silent overwrites of newer entries.
Two fixes:
1. Skip memory flush entirely for cron sessions (session IDs starting with
'cron_'). Cron sessions are headless with no meaningful user conversation
to extract memories from.
2. Inject the current live memory state (MEMORY.md + USER.md) directly into
the flush prompt. The flush agent can now see what's already saved and
make informed decisions — only adding genuinely new information rather
than blindly overwriting entries that may have been updated since the
conversation ended.
Addresses the root cause identified in #2670: the flush agent was making
memory decisions blind to the current state of memory, causing stale
context to overwrite newer entries on gateway restarts and session resets.
Co-authored-by: devorun <devorun@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: dlkakbs <dlkakbs@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(config): support ${ENV_VAR} substitution in config.yaml
* fix: extend env var expansion to CLI and gateway config loaders
The original PR (#2680) only wired _expand_env_vars into load_config(),
which is used by 'hermes tools' and 'hermes setup'. The two primary
config paths were missed:
- load_cli_config() in cli.py (interactive CLI)
- Module-level _cfg in gateway/run.py (gateway — bridges api_keys to env vars)
Also:
- Remove redundant 'import re' (already imported at module level)
- Add missing blank lines between top-level functions (PEP 8)
- Add tests for load_cli_config() expansion
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Co-authored-by: teyrebaz33 <hakanerten02@hotmail.com>
* fix(security): add SSRF protection to vision_tools and web_tools
Both vision_analyze and web_extract/web_crawl accept arbitrary URLs
without checking if they target private/internal network addresses.
A prompt-injected or malicious skill could use this to access cloud
metadata endpoints (169.254.169.254), localhost services, or private
network hosts.
Adds a shared url_safety.is_safe_url() that resolves hostnames and
blocks private, loopback, link-local, and reserved IP ranges. Also
blocks known internal hostnames (metadata.google.internal).
Integrated at the URL validation layer in vision_tools and before
each website_policy check in web_tools (extract, crawl).
* test(vision): update localhost test to reflect SSRF protection
The existing test_valid_url_with_port asserted localhost URLs pass
validation. With SSRF protection, localhost is now correctly blocked.
Update the test to verify the block, and add a separate test for
valid URLs with ports using a public hostname.
* fix(security): harden SSRF protection — fail-closed, CGNAT, multicast, redirect guard
Follow-up hardening on top of dieutx's SSRF protection (PR #2630):
- Change fail-open to fail-closed: DNS errors and unexpected exceptions
now block the request instead of allowing it (OWASP best practice)
- Block CGNAT range (100.64.0.0/10): Python's ipaddress.is_private
does NOT cover this range (returns False for both is_private and
is_global). Used by Tailscale/WireGuard and carrier infrastructure.
- Add is_multicast and is_unspecified checks: multicast (224.0.0.0/4)
and unspecified (0.0.0.0) addresses were not caught by the original
four-check chain
- Add redirect guard for vision_tools: httpx event hook re-validates
each redirect target against SSRF checks, preventing the classic
redirect-based SSRF bypass (302 to internal IP)
- Move SSRF filtering before backend dispatch in web_extract: now
covers Parallel and Tavily backends, not just Firecrawl
- Extract _is_blocked_ip() helper for cleaner IP range checking
- Add 24 new tests (CGNAT, multicast, IPv4-mapped IPv6, fail-closed
behavior, parametrized blocked/allowed IP lists)
- Fix existing tests to mock DNS resolution for test hostnames
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Root cause: terminal_tool, execute_code, and process_registry returned raw
subprocess output with ANSI escape sequences intact. The model saw these
in tool results and copied them into file writes.
Previous fix (PR #2532) stripped ANSI at the write point in file_tools.py,
but this was a band-aid — regex on file content risks corrupting legitimate
content, and doesn't prevent ANSI from wasting tokens in the model context.
Source-level fix:
- New tools/ansi_strip.py with comprehensive ECMA-48 regex covering CSI
(incl. private-mode, colon-separated, intermediate bytes), OSC (both
terminators), DCS/SOS/PM/APC strings, Fp/Fe/Fs/nF escapes, 8-bit C1
- terminal_tool.py: strip output before returning to model
- code_execution_tool.py: strip stdout/stderr before returning
- process_registry.py: strip output in poll/read_log/wait
- file_tools.py: remove _strip_ansi band-aid (no longer needed)
Verified: `ls --color=always` output returned as clean text to model,
file written from that output contains zero ESC bytes.
Cherry-picked from PR #2576 by ereid7, plus read-side fix from 173a5c62.
Both fixes were originally landed in 173a5c62 but were inadvertently
reverted by commit 34be3f8b (a squash-merge that bundled unrelated
tools_config.py changes).
Save side (_save_platform_tools): exclude platform default toolset
names (hermes-cli, hermes-telegram) from preserved entries so they
don't silently re-enable everything.
Read side (_get_platform_tools): when the saved list contains explicit
configurable keys, use direct membership instead of subset inference.
The subset approach is broken when composite toolsets like hermes-cli
resolve to ALL tools.
Cherry-picked from PR #2575 by ticketclosed-wontfix.
Filters out Discord system messages (thread renames, pins, member joins,
boosts) that were being treated as regular user messages.
Follow-up fix: also allow MessageType.reply (value 19) — the original
filter only allowed MessageType.default, which would silently drop all
reply-based interactions.
Added pytest.importorskip for discord dependency in tests.
An agent session killed the systemd-managed gateway (PID 1605) and restarted
it with '&disown', taking it outside systemd's Restart= management. When the
orphaned process later received SIGTERM, nothing restarted it.
Add dangerous command patterns to detect:
- 'gateway run' with & (background), disown, nohup, or setsid
- These should use 'systemctl --user restart hermes-gateway' instead
Also applied directly to main repo and fixed the systemd service:
- Changed Restart=on-failure to Restart=always (clean SIGTERM = exit 0 = not
a 'failure', so on-failure never triggered)
- RestartSec=10 for reasonable restart delay
Previously 'Activated skills: xxx' was printed above the banner in
show_banner(). Now it prints directly after the 'Welcome to Hermes
Agent!' line in run(), which is a more natural placement.
Path('~/.hermes/image.png').is_file() returns False because Path
doesn't expand tilde. This caused the tool to fall through to URL
validation, which also failed, producing a confusing error:
'Invalid image source. Provide an HTTP/HTTPS URL or a valid local
file path.'
Fix: use os.path.expanduser() before constructing the Path object.
Added two tests for tilde expansion (success and nonexistent file).
When a messaging platform fails to connect at startup (e.g. transient DNS
failure) or disconnects at runtime with a retryable error, the gateway now
queues it for background reconnection instead of giving up permanently.
- New _platform_reconnect_watcher background task runs alongside the
existing session expiry watcher
- Exponential backoff: 30s, 60s, 120s, 240s, 300s cap
- Max 20 retry attempts before giving up on a platform
- Non-retryable errors (bad auth token, etc.) are not retried
- Runtime disconnections via _handle_adapter_fatal_error now queue
retryable failures instead of triggering gateway shutdown
- On successful reconnect, adapter is wired up and channel directory
is rebuilt automatically
Fixes the case where a DNS blip during gateway startup caused Telegram
and Discord to be permanently unavailable until manual restart.
The previous commit capped the 1.4x at 95% of context, but the multiplier
itself is unnecessary and confusing:
85% threshold × 1.4 = 119% of context → never fires
95% warn × 1.4 = 133% of context → never warns
The 85% hygiene threshold already provides ample headroom over the agent's
own 50% compressor. Even if rough estimates overestimate by 50%, hygiene
would fire at ~57% actual usage — safe and harmless.
Remove the multiplier entirely. Both actual and estimated token paths
now use the same 85% / 95% thresholds. Update tests and comments.
Three bugs in gateway session hygiene pre-compression caused 'Session too
large' errors for ~200K context models like GLM-5-turbo on z.ai:
1. Gateway hygiene called get_model_context_length(model) without passing
config_context_length, provider, or base_url — so user overrides like
model.context_length: 180000 were ignored, and provider-aware detection
(models.dev, z.ai endpoint) couldn't fire. The agent's own compressor
correctly passed all three (run_agent.py line 1038).
2. The 1.4x safety factor on rough token estimates pushed the compression
threshold above the model's actual context limit:
200K * 0.85 * 1.4 = 238K > 200K (model limit)
So hygiene never compressed, sessions grew past the limit, and the API
rejected the request.
3. Same issue for the warn threshold: 200K * 0.95 * 1.4 = 266K.
Fix:
- Read model.context_length, provider, and base_url from config.yaml
(same as run_agent.py does) and pass them to get_model_context_length()
- Resolve provider/base_url from runtime when not in config
- Cap the 1.4x-adjusted compress threshold at 95% of context_length
- Cap the 1.4x-adjusted warn threshold at context_length
Affects: z.ai GLM-5/GLM-5-turbo, any ~200K or smaller context model
where the 1.4x factor would push 85% above 100%.
Ref: Discord report from Ddox — glm-5-turbo on z.ai coding plan
* fix(mcp-oauth): port mismatch, path traversal, and shared state in OAuth flow
Three bugs in the new MCP OAuth 2.1 PKCE implementation:
1. CRITICAL: OAuth redirect port mismatch — build_oauth_auth() calls
_find_free_port() to register the redirect_uri, but _wait_for_callback()
calls _find_free_port() again getting a DIFFERENT port. Browser redirects
to port A, server listens on port B — callback never arrives, 120s timeout.
Fix: share the port via module-level _oauth_port variable.
2. MEDIUM: Path traversal via unsanitized server_name — HermesTokenStorage
uses server_name directly in filenames. A name like "../../.ssh/config"
writes token files outside ~/.hermes/mcp-tokens/.
Fix: sanitize server_name with the same regex pattern used elsewhere.
3. MEDIUM: Class-level auth_code/state on _CallbackHandler causes data
races if concurrent OAuth flows run. Second callback overwrites first.
Fix: factory function _make_callback_handler() returns a handler class
with a closure-scoped result dict, isolating each flow.
* test: add tests for MCP OAuth path traversal, handler isolation, and port sharing
7 new tests covering:
- Path traversal blocked (../../.ssh/config stays in mcp-tokens/)
- Dots/slashes sanitized and resolved within base dir
- Normal server names preserved
- Special characters sanitized (@, :, /)
- Concurrent handler result dicts are independent
- Handler writes to its own result dict, not class-level
- build_oauth_auth stores port in module-level _oauth_port
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When a session expires (daily schedule or idle timeout) and is
automatically reset, send a notification to the user explaining
what happened:
◐ Session automatically reset (inactive for 24h).
Conversation history cleared.
Use /resume to browse and restore a previous session.
Adjust reset timing in config.yaml under session_reset.
Notifications are suppressed when:
- The expired session had no activity (no tokens used)
- The platform is excluded (api_server, webhook by default)
- notify: false in config
Changes:
- session.py: _should_reset() returns reason string ('idle'/'daily')
instead of bool; SessionEntry gains auto_reset_reason and
reset_had_activity fields; old entry's total_tokens checked
- config.py: SessionResetPolicy gains notify (bool, default: true)
and notify_exclude_platforms (default: api_server, webhook)
- run.py: sends notification via adapter.send() before processing
the user's message, with activity + platform checks
- 13 new tests
Config (config.yaml):
session_reset:
notify: true
notify_exclude_platforms: [api_server, webhook]
- Download and cache .pdf, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx attachments locally
instead of passing expiring CDN URLs to the agent
- Inject .txt and .md content (≤100 KB) into event.text so the agent
sees file content without needing to fetch the URL
- Add 20 MB size guard and SUPPORTED_DOCUMENT_TYPES allowlist
- Fix: unsupported types (.zip etc.) no longer get MessageType.DOCUMENT
- Add 9 unit tests in test_discord_document_handling.py
Mirrors the Slack implementation from PR #784. Discord CDN URLs are
publicly accessible so no auth header is needed (unlike Slack).
Co-authored-by: Dilee <uzmpsk.dilekakbas@gmail.com>
- test_plugins.py: remove tests for unimplemented plugin command API
(get_plugin_command_handler, register_command never existed)
- test_redact.py: add autouse fixture to clear HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS
env var leaked by cli.py import in other tests
- test_signal.py: same HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS fix for phone redaction
- test_mattermost.py: add @bot_user_id to test messages after the
mention-only filter was added in #2443
- test_context_token_tracking.py: mock resolve_provider_client for
openai-codex provider that requires real OAuth credentials
Full suite: 5893 passed, 0 failed.
* fix: respect DashScope v1 runtime mode for alibaba
Remove the hardcoded Alibaba branch from resolve_runtime_provider()
that forced api_mode='anthropic_messages' regardless of the base URL.
Alibaba now goes through the generic API-key provider path, which
auto-detects the protocol from the URL:
- /apps/anthropic → anthropic_messages (via endswith check)
- /v1 → chat_completions (default)
This fixes Alibaba setup with OpenAI-compatible DashScope endpoints
(e.g. coding-intl.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1) that were broken because
runtime always forced Anthropic mode even when setup saved a /v1 URL.
Based on PR #2024 by @kshitijk4poor.
* docs(skill): add split, merge, search examples to ocr-and-documents skill
Adds pymupdf examples for PDF splitting, merging, and text search
to the existing ocr-and-documents skill. No new dependencies — pymupdf
already covers all three operations natively.
* fix: replace all production print() calls with logger in rl_training_tool
Replace all bare print() calls in production code paths with proper logger calls.
- Add `import logging` and module-level `logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)`
- Replace print() in _start_training_run() with logger.info()
- Replace print() in _stop_training_run() with logger.info()
- Replace print(Warning/Note) calls with logger.warning() and logger.info()
Using the logging framework allows log level filtering, proper formatting,
and log routing instead of always printing to stdout.
* fix(gateway): process /queue'd messages after agent completion
/queue stored messages in adapter._pending_messages but never consumed
them after normal (non-interrupted) completion. The consumption path
at line 5219 only checked pending messages when result.get('interrupted')
was True — since /queue deliberately doesn't interrupt, queued messages
were silently dropped.
Now checks adapter._pending_messages after both interrupted AND normal
completion. For queued messages (non-interrupt), the first response is
delivered before recursing to process the queued follow-up. Skips the
direct send when streaming already delivered the response.
Reported by GhostMode on Discord.
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Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: memosr.eth <96793918+memosr@users.noreply.github.com>
The /v1/responses endpoint used an in-memory OrderedDict that lost
all conversation state on gateway restart. Replace with SQLite-backed
storage at ~/.hermes/response_store.db.
- Responses and conversation name mappings survive restarts
- Same LRU eviction behavior (configurable max_size)
- WAL mode for concurrent read performance
- Falls back to in-memory SQLite if disk path unavailable
- Conversation name→response_id mapping moved into the store
Reverts the sanitizer addition from PR #2466 (originally #2129).
We already have _empty_content_retries handling for reasoning-only
responses. The trailing strip risks silently eating valid messages
and is redundant with existing empty-content handling.
Add hermes mcp add/remove/list/test/configure CLI for managing MCP
server connections interactively. Discovery-first 'add' flow connects,
discovers tools, and lets users select which to enable via curses checklist.
Add OAuth 2.1 PKCE authentication for MCP HTTP servers (RFC 7636).
Supports browser-based and manual (headless) authorization, token
caching with 0600 permissions, automatic refresh. Zero external deps.
Add ${ENV_VAR} interpolation in MCP server config values, resolved
from os.environ + ~/.hermes/.env at load time.
Core OAuth module from PR #2021 by @imnotdev25. CLI and mcp_tool
wiring rewritten against current main. Closes#497, #690.
Cherry-picked from PR #2017 by @simpolism. Fixes#2011.
Discord slash commands in threads were missing thread_id in the
SessionSource, causing them to route to the parent channel session.
Commands like /usage and /reset returned wrong data or affected the
wrong session.
Detects discord.Thread channels in _build_slash_event and sets
chat_type='thread' with thread_id. Two tests added.
Remove the hardcoded Alibaba branch from resolve_runtime_provider()
that forced api_mode='anthropic_messages' regardless of the base URL.
Alibaba now goes through the generic API-key provider path, which
auto-detects the protocol from the URL:
- /apps/anthropic → anthropic_messages (via endswith check)
- /v1 → chat_completions (default)
This fixes Alibaba setup with OpenAI-compatible DashScope endpoints
(e.g. coding-intl.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1) that were broken because
runtime always forced Anthropic mode even when setup saved a /v1 URL.
Based on PR #2024 by @kshitijk4poor.
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Parse thread_id from explicit deliver target (e.g. telegram:-1003724596514:17)
and forward it to _send_to_platform and mirror_to_session.
Previously _resolve_delivery_target() always set thread_id=None when
parsing the platform:chat_id format, breaking cron job delivery to
specific Telegram topics.
Added tests:
- test_explicit_telegram_topic_target_with_thread_id
- test_explicit_telegram_chat_id_without_thread_id
Also updated CRONJOB_SCHEMA deliver description to document the
platform:chat_id:thread_id format.
Co-authored-by: Alex Ferrari <alex@thealexferrari.com>
Five improvements to the /api/jobs endpoints:
1. Startup availability check — cron module imported once at class load,
endpoints return 501 if unavailable (not 500 per-request import error)
2. Input limits — name ≤ 200 chars, prompt ≤ 5000 chars, repeat must be
positive int
3. Update field whitelist — only name/schedule/prompt/deliver/skills/
repeat/enabled pass through to cron.jobs.update_job, preventing
arbitrary key injection
4. Deduplicated validation — _check_job_id and _check_jobs_available
helpers replace repeated boilerplate
5. 32 new tests covering all endpoints, validation, auth, and
cron-unavailable cases
Replace hardcoded 120-second grace period with a dynamic window that
scales with the job's scheduling frequency (half the period, clamped
to [120s, 2h]). Daily jobs now catch up if missed by up to 2 hours
instead of being silently skipped after just 2 minutes.
Changes the policy for agent-created skills with critical security
findings from 'block' (silently rejected) to 'ask' (allowed with
warning logged). The agent created the skill, so blocking it entirely
is too aggressive — let it through but log the findings.
- Policy: agent-created dangerous changed from block to ask
- should_allow_install returns None for 'ask' (vs True/False)
- format_scan_report shows 'NEEDS CONFIRMATION' for ask
- skill_manager_tool.py caller handles None (allows with warning)
- force=True still overrides as before
Based on PR #2271 by redhelix (closed — 3200 lines of unrelated
Mission Control code excluded).
Python 3.12 changed PosixPath.__new__ to ignore the redirected path
argument, breaking the FakePath subclass pattern. Use monkeypatch on
Path.exists instead.
Based on PR #2261 by @dieutx, fixed NameError (bare Path not imported).
Fixes#2234
The placeholder '(No response generated)' was overwriting the actual
final_response, causing it to be delivered to Discord even when the
agent completed work silently via tools.
Changes:
- Separate logged_response for output template display
- Keep final_response clean (empty when agent has no text)
- Delivery logic now correctly skips when final_response is empty
Test added to verify empty response stays empty for delivery.
Co-authored-by: Bartok9 <bartokmagic@proton.me>
Two bugs in the auxiliary provider auto-detection chain:
1. Expired Codex JWT blocks the auto chain: _read_codex_access_token()
returned any stored token without checking expiry, preventing fallback
to working providers. Now decodes JWT exp claim and returns None for
expired tokens.
2. Auxiliary Anthropic client missing OAuth identity transforms:
_AnthropicCompletionsAdapter always called build_anthropic_kwargs with
is_oauth=False, causing 400 errors for OAuth tokens. Now detects OAuth
tokens via _is_oauth_token() and propagates the flag through the
adapter chain.
Cherry-picked from PR #2378 by 0xbyt4. Fixed test_api_key_no_oauth_flag
to mock resolve_anthropic_token directly (env var alone was insufficient).
redact_sensitive_text() now returns early for None and coerces other
non-string values to str before applying regex-based redaction,
preventing TypeErrors in logging/tool-output paths.
Cherry-picked from PR #2369 by aydnOktay.
On the native Anthropic Messages API path, convert_messages_to_anthropic()
moves top-level cache_control on role:tool messages inside the tool_result
block. On OpenRouter (chat_completions), no such conversion happens — the
unexpected top-level field causes a silent hang on the second tool call.
Add native_anthropic parameter to _apply_cache_marker() and
apply_anthropic_cache_control(). When False (OpenRouter), role:tool messages
are skipped entirely. When True (native Anthropic), existing behaviour is
preserved.
Fixes#2362
When 'hermes update' stashes local changes and the restore hits
conflicts, the previous behavior silently ran 'git reset --hard HEAD'
to clean up. This could surprise users who didn't realize their
working tree was being nuked.
Now the conflict handler:
- Lists the specific conflicted files
- Reassures the user their stash is preserved
- Asks before resetting (interactive mode)
- Auto-resets in non-interactive mode (prompt_user=False)
- If declined, leaves the working tree as-is with guidance
* fix: prevent Anthropic token fallback leaking to third-party anthropic_messages providers
When provider is minimax/alibaba/etc and MINIMAX_API_KEY is not set,
the code fell back to resolve_anthropic_token() sending Anthropic OAuth
credentials to third-party endpoints, causing 401 errors.
Now only provider=="anthropic" triggers the fallback. Generalizes the
Alibaba-specific guard from #1739 to all non-Anthropic providers.
* fix: set provider='anthropic' in credential refresh tests
Follow-up for cherry-picked PR #2383 — existing tests didn't set
agent.provider, which the new guard requires to allow Anthropic
token refresh.
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The gateway created a fresh AIAgent per message, rebuilding the system
prompt (including memory, skills, context files) every turn. This broke
prompt prefix caching — providers like Anthropic charge ~10x more for
uncached prefixes.
Now caches AIAgent instances per session_key with a config signature.
The cached agent is reused across messages in the same session,
preserving the frozen system prompt and tool schemas. Cache is
invalidated when:
- Config changes (model, provider, toolsets, reasoning, ephemeral
prompt) — detected via signature mismatch
- /new, /reset, /clear — explicit session reset
- /model — global model change clears all cached agents
- /reasoning — global reasoning change clears all cached agents
Per-message state (callbacks, stream consumers, progress queues) is
set on the agent instance before each run_conversation() call.
This matches CLI behavior where a single AIAgent lives across all turns
in a session, with _cached_system_prompt built once and reused.
When `hermes update` stashes local changes and the subsequent
`git stash apply` fails or leaves unmerged files, the conflict markers
(<<<<<<< etc.) were left in the working tree, making Hermes unrunnable
until manually cleaned up.
Now the update command runs `git reset --hard HEAD` to restore a clean
working tree before exiting, and also detects unmerged files even when
git stash apply reports success.
Closes#2348
Add @file:path, @folder:dir, @diff, @staged, @git:N, and @url:
references that expand inline before the message reaches the LLM.
Supports line ranges (@file:main.py:10-50), token budget enforcement
(soft warn at 25%, hard block at 50%), and path sandboxing for gateway.
Core module from PR #2090 by @kshitijk4poor. CLI and gateway wiring
rewritten against current main. Fixed asyncio.run() crash when called
from inside a running event loop (gateway).
Closes#682.
Fixes#1803. send_image_file, send_document, and send_video were missing
message_thread_id forwarding, causing them to fail in Telegram forum/supergroups
where thread_id is required. send_voice already handled this correctly. Adds
metadata parameter + message_thread_id to all three methods, and adds tests
covering the thread_id forwarding path.
Based on PR #1749 by @erosika (reimplemented on current main).
Extracts three protected methods from run() so wrapper CLIs can extend
the TUI without overriding the entire method:
- _get_extra_tui_widgets(): inject widgets between spacer and status bar
- _register_extra_tui_keybindings(kb, input_area): add keybindings
- _build_tui_layout_children(**widgets): full control over ordering
Default implementations reproduce existing layout exactly. The inline
HSplit in run() now delegates to _build_tui_layout_children().
5 tests covering defaults, widget insertion position, and keybinding
registration.
When using Alibaba (DashScope) with an anthropic-compatible endpoint,
model names like qwen3.5-plus were being normalized to qwen3-5-plus.
Alibaba's API expects the dot. Added preserve_dots parameter to
normalize_model_name() and build_anthropic_kwargs().
Also fixed 401 auth: when provider is alibaba or base_url contains
dashscope/aliyuncs, use only the resolved API key (DASHSCOPE_API_KEY).
Never fall back to resolve_anthropic_token(), and skip Anthropic
credential refresh for DashScope endpoints.
Cherry-picked from PR #1748 by crazywriter1. Fixes#1739.
- Add resolve_config_path(): checks $HERMES_HOME/honcho.json first,
falls back to ~/.honcho/config.json. Enables isolated Hermes instances
with independent Honcho credentials and settings.
- Update CLI and doctor to use resolved path instead of hardcoded global.
- Change default session_strategy from per-session to per-directory.
Part 1 of #1962 by @erosika.
Bare strings like "image", "audio", "document" were appended to
media_types, but downstream run.py checks mtype.startswith("image/")
and mtype.startswith("audio/"), which never matched. This caused all
Mattermost file attachments to be silently dropped from vision/STT
processing. Use the actual MIME type from file_info instead.
When streaming is enabled, the base adapter receives None from
_handle_message (already_sent=True) and cannot run auto-TTS for
voice input. The runner was unconditionally skipping voice input
TTS assuming the base adapter would handle it.
Now the runner takes over TTS responsibility when streaming has
already delivered the text response, so voice channel playback
works with both streaming on and off.
Streaming off behavior is unchanged (default already_sent=False
preserves the original code path exactly).
Co-authored-by: 0xbyt4 <35742124+0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
Cron deliveries were mirrored into the target gateway session as
assistant-role messages, causing consecutive assistant messages that
violate message alternation (issue #2221).
Instead of fixing the role, remove the mirror injection entirely.
Cron outputs already live in their own cron session and don't belong
in the interactive conversation history.
Delivered messages are now wrapped with a header (task name) and a
footer noting the agent cannot see or respond to the message, so
users have clear context about what they're reading.
Closes#2221
A single Telegram 409 Conflict from getUpdates permanently killed
Telegram polling with no recovery possible (retryable=False on
first occurrence). This is too aggressive for production use with
process supervisors.
Transient 409s are expected during:
- --replace handoffs where the old long-poll session lingers on
Telegram servers for a few seconds after SIGTERM
- systemd Restart=on-failure respawns that overlap with the dying
instance cleanup
Now _handle_polling_conflict() retries up to 3 times with a
10-second delay between attempts. The 30-second total retry window
lets stale server-side sessions expire. If all retries fail, the
error is still marked as permanently fatal — preserving the original
protection against genuine dual-instance conflicts.
Tests updated: split the single conflict test into two — one verifying
retry on transient conflict, one verifying fatal after exhausted
retries.
Closes#2296
Previously, all project context files (AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, .hermes.md)
were loaded and concatenated into the system prompt. This bloated the prompt
with potentially redundant or conflicting instructions.
Now only ONE project context type is loaded, using priority order:
1. .hermes.md / HERMES.md (walk to git root)
2. AGENTS.md / agents.md (recursive directory walk)
3. CLAUDE.md / claude.md (cwd only, NEW)
4. .cursorrules / .cursor/rules/*.mdc (cwd only)
SOUL.md from HERMES_HOME remains independent and always loads.
Also adds CLAUDE.md as a recognized context file format, matching the
convention popularized by Claude Code.
Refactored the monolithic function into four focused helpers:
_load_hermes_md, _load_agents_md, _load_claude_md, _load_cursorrules.
Tests: replaced 1 coexistence test with 10 new tests covering priority
ordering, CLAUDE.md loading, case sensitivity, injection blocking.
Cherry-picked from PR #2201 by @Gutslabs.
session_search resolved hits to parent/root sessions but only excluded
the exact current_session_id. If the active session was a child
continuation (compression/delegation), its parent could still appear
as a 'past' conversation result.
Fix: resolve current_session_id to its lineage root before filtering,
so the entire active lineage (parent and children) is excluded.
Remove the [Files already read — do NOT re-read these] user message
that was injected into the conversation after context compression.
This message used role='user' for system-generated content, creating
a fake user turn that confused models about conversation state and
could contribute to task-redo behavior.
The file_tools.py read tracker (warn on 3rd consecutive read, block
on 4th+) already handles re-read prevention inline without injecting
synthetic messages.
Closes#2224.
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Replace asyncio.run() with thread-local persistent event loops for
worker threads (e.g., delegate_task's ThreadPoolExecutor). asyncio.run()
creates and closes a fresh loop on every call, leaving cached
httpx/AsyncOpenAI clients bound to a dead loop — causing 'Event loop is
closed' errors during GC when parallel subagents clean up connections.
The fix mirrors the main thread's _get_tool_loop() pattern but uses
threading.local() so each worker thread gets its own long-lived loop,
avoiding both cross-thread contention and the create-destroy lifecycle.
Added 4 regression tests covering worker loop persistence, reuse,
per-thread isolation, and separation from the main thread's loop.
- Convert ~~text~~ to ~text~ (MarkdownV2 strikethrough)
- Protect ||text|| from pipe escaping (MarkdownV2 spoiler)
- Preserve > at line start as blockquote instead of escaping it
- Update _strip_mdv2() to strip ~strikethrough~ and ||spoiler|| markers
- Add tests covering new formatting paths and edge cases
Cherry-picked from PR #2146 by @crazywriter1. Fixes#2104.
asyncio.run() creates and closes a fresh event loop each call. Cached
httpx/AsyncOpenAI clients bound to the dead loop crash on GC with
'Event loop is closed'. This hit vision_analyze on first use in CLI.
Two-layer fix:
- model_tools._run_async(): replace asyncio.run() with persistent
loop via _get_tool_loop() + run_until_complete()
- auxiliary_client._get_cached_client(): track which loop created
each async client, discard stale entries if loop is closed
6 regression tests covering loop lifecycle, reuse, and full vision
dispatch chain.
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Two fixes for Telegram/gateway-specific bugs:
1. Anthropic adapter: strip orphaned tool_result blocks (mirror of
existing tool_use stripping). Context compression or session
truncation can remove an assistant message containing a tool_use
while leaving the subsequent tool_result intact. Anthropic rejects
these with a 400: 'unexpected tool_use_id found in tool_result
blocks'. The adapter now collects all tool_use IDs and filters out
any tool_result blocks referencing IDs not in that set.
2. Gateway: /reset and /new now bypass the running-agent guard (like
/status already does). Previously, sending /reset while an agent
was running caused the raw text to be queued and later fed back as
a user message with the same broken history — replaying the
corrupted session instead of resetting it. Now the running agent is
interrupted, pending messages are cleared, and the reset command
dispatches immediately.
Tests updated: existing tests now include proper tool_use→tool_result
pairs; two new tests cover orphaned tool_result stripping.
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* feat: context pressure warnings for CLI and gateway
User-facing notifications as context approaches the compaction threshold.
Warnings fire at 60% and 85% of the way to compaction — relative to
the configured compression threshold, not the raw context window.
CLI: Formatted line with a progress bar showing distance to compaction.
Cyan at 60% (approaching), bold yellow at 85% (imminent).
◐ context ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ 60% to compaction 100k threshold (50%) · approaching compaction
⚠ context ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱ 85% to compaction 100k threshold (50%) · compaction imminent
Gateway: Plain-text notification sent to the user's chat via the new
status_callback mechanism (asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe bridge,
same pattern as step_callback).
Does NOT inject into the message stream. The LLM never sees these
warnings. Flags reset after each compaction cycle.
Files changed:
- agent/display.py — format_context_pressure(), format_context_pressure_gateway()
- run_agent.py — status_callback param, _context_50/70_warned flags,
_emit_context_pressure(), flag reset in _compress_context()
- gateway/run.py — _status_callback_sync bridge, wired to AIAgent
- tests/test_context_pressure.py — 23 tests
* Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into hermes/hermes-7ea545bf
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Replace the fragile hardcoded context length system with a multi-source
resolution chain that correctly identifies context windows per provider.
Key changes:
- New agent/models_dev.py: Fetches and caches the models.dev registry
(3800+ models across 100+ providers with per-provider context windows).
In-memory cache (1hr TTL) + disk cache for cold starts.
- Rewritten get_model_context_length() resolution chain:
0. Config override (model.context_length)
1. Custom providers per-model context_length
2. Persistent disk cache
3. Endpoint /models (local servers)
4. Anthropic /v1/models API (max_input_tokens, API-key only)
5. OpenRouter live API (existing, unchanged)
6. Nous suffix-match via OpenRouter (dot/dash normalization)
7. models.dev registry lookup (provider-aware)
8. Thin hardcoded defaults (broad family patterns)
9. 128K fallback (was 2M)
- Provider-aware context: same model now correctly resolves to different
context windows per provider (e.g. claude-opus-4.6: 1M on Anthropic,
128K on GitHub Copilot). Provider name flows through ContextCompressor.
- DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LENGTHS shrunk from 80+ entries to ~16 broad patterns.
models.dev replaces the per-model hardcoding.
- CONTEXT_PROBE_TIERS changed from [2M, 1M, 512K, 200K, 128K, 64K, 32K]
to [128K, 64K, 32K, 16K, 8K]. Unknown models no longer start at 2M.
- hermes model: prompts for context_length when configuring custom
endpoints. Supports shorthand (32k, 128K). Saved to custom_providers
per-model config.
- custom_providers schema extended with optional models dict for
per-model context_length (backward compatible).
- Nous Portal: suffix-matches bare IDs (claude-opus-4-6) against
OpenRouter's prefixed IDs (anthropic/claude-opus-4.6) with dot/dash
normalization. Handles all 15 current Nous models.
- Anthropic direct: queries /v1/models for max_input_tokens. Only works
with regular API keys (sk-ant-api*), not OAuth tokens. Falls through
to models.dev for OAuth users.
Tests: 5574 passed (18 new tests for models_dev + updated probe tiers)
Docs: Updated configuration.md context length section, AGENTS.md
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* fix: preserve Ollama model:tag colons in context length detection
The colon-split logic in get_model_context_length() and
_query_local_context_length() assumed any colon meant provider:model
format (e.g. "local:my-model"). But Ollama uses model:tag format
(e.g. "qwen3.5:27b"), so the split turned "qwen3.5:27b" into just
"27b" — which matches nothing, causing a fallback to the 2M token
probe tier.
Now only recognised provider prefixes (local, openrouter, anthropic,
etc.) are stripped. Ollama model:tag names pass through intact.
* fix: update claude-opus-4-6 and claude-sonnet-4-6 context length from 200K to 1M
Both models support 1,000,000 token context windows. The hardcoded defaults
were set before Anthropic expanded the context for the 4.6 generation.
Verified via models.dev and OpenRouter API data.
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Cherry-picked from PR #2120 by @unclebumpy.
- from_env() now reads HONCHO_BASE_URL and enables Honcho when base_url
is set, even without an API key
- from_global_config() reads baseUrl from config root with
HONCHO_BASE_URL env var as fallback
- get_honcho_client() guard relaxed to allow base_url without api_key
for no-auth local instances
- Added HONCHO_BASE_URL to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS registry
Result: Setting HONCHO_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8000 in ~/.hermes/.env
now correctly routes the Honcho client to a local instance.
When the user is on a custom provider (provider=custom, localhost, or
127.0.0.1 endpoint), /model <name> no longer tries to auto-detect a
provider switch. The model name changes on the current endpoint as-is.
To switch away from a custom endpoint, users must use explicit
provider:model syntax (e.g. /model openai-codex:gpt-5.2-codex).
A helpful tip is printed when changing models on a custom endpoint.
This prevents the confusing case where someone on LM Studio types
/model gpt-5.2-codex, the auto-detection tries to switch providers,
fails or partially succeeds, and requests still go to the old endpoint.
Also fixes the missing prompt_toolkit.auto_suggest mock stub in
test_cli_init.py (same issue already fixed in test_cli_new_session.py).
Follow-up to PR #2101 (InB4DevOps). Adds three missing context compressor
resets in reset_session_state():
- compression_count (displayed in status bar)
- last_total_tokens
- _context_probed (stale context-error flag)
Also fixes the test_cli_new_session.py prompt_toolkit mock (missing
auto_suggest stub) and adds a regression test for #2099 that verifies
all token counters and compressor state are zeroed on /new.
The colon-split logic in get_model_context_length() and
_query_local_context_length() assumed any colon meant provider:model
format (e.g. "local:my-model"). But Ollama uses model:tag format
(e.g. "qwen3.5:27b"), so the split turned "qwen3.5:27b" into just
"27b" — which matches nothing, causing a fallback to the 2M token
probe tier.
Now only recognised provider prefixes (local, openrouter, anthropic,
etc.) are stripped. Ollama model:tag names pass through intact.
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Place a sentinel in _running_agents immediately after the "already
running" guard check passes — before any await. Without this, the
numerous await points between the guard (line 1324) and agent
registration (track_agent at line 4790) create a window where a
second message for the same session can bypass the guard and start
a duplicate agent, corrupting the transcript.
The await gap includes: hook emissions, vision enrichment (external
API call), audio transcription (external API call), session hygiene
compression, and the run_in_executor call itself. For messages with
media attachments the window can be several seconds wide.
The sentinel is wrapped in try/finally so it is always cleaned up —
even if the handler raises or takes an early-return path. When the
real AIAgent is created, track_agent() overwrites the sentinel with
the actual instance (preserving interrupt support).
Also handles the edge case where a message arrives while the sentinel
is set but no real agent exists yet: the message is queued via the
adapter's pending-message mechanism instead of attempting to call
interrupt() on the sentinel object.
MiniMax's default base URL was /v1 which caused runtime_provider to
default to chat_completions mode (OpenAI-style Authorization: Bearer
header). MiniMax rejects this with a 401 because they require the
Anthropic-style x-api-key header.
Changes:
- auth.py: Change default inference_base_url for minimax and minimax-cn
from /v1 to /anthropic
- runtime_provider.py: Auto-correct stale /v1 URLs from existing .env
files to /anthropic, and always default minimax/minimax-cn providers
to anthropic_messages mode
- Update tests to reflect new defaults, add tests for stale URL
auto-correction and explicit api_mode override
Based on PR #2100 by @devorun. Fixes#2094.
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When LM Studio has a model loaded with a custom context size (e.g.,
122K), prefer that over the model's max_context_length (e.g., 1M).
This makes the TUI status bar show the actual runtime context window.
Instead of defaulting to 2M for unknown local models, query the server
API for the real context length. Supports Ollama (/api/show), vLLM
(max_model_len), and LM Studio (/v1/models). Results are cached to
avoid repeated queries.
* fix(codex): treat reasoning-only responses as incomplete, not stop
When a Codex Responses API response contains only reasoning items
(encrypted thinking state) with no message text or tool calls, the
_normalize_codex_response method was setting finish_reason='stop'.
This sent the response into the empty-content retry loop, which
burned 3 retries and then failed — exactly the pattern Nester
reported in Discord.
Two fixes:
1. _normalize_codex_response: reasoning-only responses (reasoning_items_raw
non-empty but no final_text) now get finish_reason='incomplete', routing
them to the Codex continuation path instead of the retry loop.
2. Incomplete handling: also checks for codex_reasoning_items when deciding
whether to preserve an interim message, so encrypted reasoning state is
not silently dropped when there is no visible reasoning text.
Adds 4 regression tests covering:
- Unit: reasoning-only → incomplete, reasoning+content → stop
- E2E: reasoning-only → continuation → final answer succeeds
- E2E: encrypted reasoning items preserved in interim messages
* fix(codex): ensure reasoning items have required following item in API input
Follow-up to the reasoning-only response fix. Three additional issues
found by tracing the full replay path:
1. _chat_messages_to_responses_input: when a reasoning-only interim
message was converted to Responses API input, the reasoning items
were emitted as the last items with no following item. The Responses
API requires a following item after each reasoning item (otherwise:
'missing_following_item' error, as seen in OpenHands #11406). Now
emits an empty assistant message as the required following item when
content is empty but reasoning items were added.
2. Duplicate detection: two consecutive reasoning-only incomplete
messages with identical empty content/reasoning but different
encrypted codex_reasoning_items were incorrectly treated as
duplicates, silently dropping the second response's reasoning state.
Now includes codex_reasoning_items in the duplicate comparison.
3. Added tests for both the API input conversion path and the duplicate
detection edge case.
Research context: verified against OpenCode (uses Vercel AI SDK, no
retry loop so avoids the issue), Clawdbot (drops orphaned reasoning
blocks entirely), and OpenHands (hit the missing_following_item error).
Our approach preserves reasoning continuity while satisfying the API
constraint.
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* fix: persist ACP sessions to disk so they survive process restarts
The ACP adapter stored sessions entirely in-memory. When the editor
restarted the ACP subprocess (idle timeout, crash, system sleep/wake,
editor restart), all sessions were lost. The editor's load_session /
resume_session calls would fail to find the session, forcing a new
empty session and losing all conversation history.
Changes:
- SessionManager now persists each session as a JSON file under
~/.hermes/acp_sessions/<session_id>.json
- get_session() transparently restores from disk when not in memory
- update_cwd(), fork_session(), list_sessions() all check disk
- server.py calls save_session() after prompt completion, /reset,
/compact, and model switches
- cleanup() and remove_session() delete disk files too
- Sessions have a 7-day TTL; expired sessions are pruned on startup
- Atomic writes via tempfile + os.replace to prevent corruption
- 11 new tests covering persistence, disk restoration, and TTL expiry
* refactor: use SessionDB instead of JSON files for ACP session persistence
Replace the standalone JSON file persistence layer with SessionDB
(~/.hermes/state.db) integration. ACP sessions now:
- Share the same DB as CLI and gateway sessions
- Are searchable via session_search (FTS5)
- Get token tracking, cost tracking, and session titles for free
- Follow existing session pruning policies
Key changes:
- _get_db() lazily creates a SessionDB, resolving HERMES_HOME
dynamically (not at import time) for test compatibility
- _persist() creates session record + replaces messages in DB
- _restore() loads from DB with source='acp' filter
- cwd stored in model_config JSON field (no schema migration)
- Model values coerced to str to handle mock agents in tests
- Removed: json files, sessions_dir, ttl_days, _expire logic
- Tests updated: DB-backed persistence, FTS search, tool_call
round-tripping, source filtering
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Authored by Lovre Pešut (rovle). Migrates from deprecated find_one(labels=...)
to get(sandbox_name) with deterministic naming (hermes-{task_id}), plus legacy
fallback via list(labels=...) for pre-migration sandboxes.
When a cron job references a skill that is no longer installed,
_build_job_prompt() now logs a warning and injects a user-visible notice
into the prompt instead of raising RuntimeError. The job continues with
any remaining valid skills and the user prompt.
Adds 4 regression tests for missing skill handling.
find_one is being deprecated. Primary lookup now uses get() with a
deterministic sandbox name (hermes-{task_id}). A legacy fallback via
list(labels=...) ensures sandboxes created before this migration are
still resumable.
Authored by dusterbloom. Closes#1911.
Pre-computes SQL query strings at class definition time in insights.py,
adds identifier quoting for ALTER TABLE DDL in hermes_state.py, and adds
4 regression tests verifying query construction safety.
The merge at e7844e9c re-introduced a line in _build_child_agent() that
references _saved_tool_names — a variable only defined in _run_single_child().
This caused NameError on every delegate_task call, completely breaking
subagent delegation.
Moves the child._delegate_saved_tool_names assignment to _run_single_child()
where _saved_tool_names is actually defined, keeping the save/restore in the
same scope as the try/finally block.
Adds two regression tests from PR #2038 (YanSte).
Also fixes the same issue reported in PR #2048 (Gutslabs).
Co-authored-by: Yannick Stephan <yannick.stephan@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Guts <gutslabs@users.noreply.github.com>
Closes#1911
- insights.py: Pre-compute SELECT queries as class constants instead of
f-string interpolation at runtime. _SESSION_COLS is now evaluated once
at class definition time.
- hermes_state.py: Add identifier quoting and whitelist validation for
ALTER TABLE column names in schema migrations.
- Add 4 tests verifying no injection vectors in SQL query construction.
* fix: detect context length for custom model endpoints via fuzzy matching + config override
Custom model endpoints (non-OpenRouter, non-known-provider) were silently
falling back to 2M tokens when the model name didn't exactly match what the
endpoint's /v1/models reported. This happened because:
1. Endpoint metadata lookup used exact match only — model name mismatches
(e.g. 'qwen3.5:9b' vs 'Qwen3.5-9B-Q4_K_M.gguf') caused a miss
2. Single-model servers (common for local inference) required exact name
match even though only one model was loaded
3. No user escape hatch to manually set context length
Changes:
- Add fuzzy matching for endpoint model metadata: single-model servers
use the only available model regardless of name; multi-model servers
try substring matching in both directions
- Add model.context_length config override (highest priority) so users
can explicitly set their model's context length in config.yaml
- Log an informative message when falling back to 2M probe, telling
users about the config override option
- Thread config_context_length through ContextCompressor and AIAgent init
Tests: 6 new tests covering fuzzy match, single-model fallback, config
override (including zero/None edge cases).
* fix: auto-detect local model name and context length for local servers
Cherry-picked from PR #2043 by sudoingX.
- Auto-detect model name from local server's /v1/models when only one
model is loaded (no manual model name config needed)
- Add n_ctx_train and n_ctx to context length detection keys for llama.cpp
- Query llama.cpp /props endpoint for actual allocated context (not just
training context from GGUF metadata)
- Strip .gguf suffix from display in banner and status bar
- _auto_detect_local_model() in runtime_provider.py for CLI init
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* fix: revert accidental summary_target_tokens change + add docs for context_length config
- Revert summary_target_tokens from 2500 back to 500 (accidental change
during patching)
- Add 'Context Length Detection' section to Custom & Self-Hosted docs
explaining model.context_length config override
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The gateway approval system previously intercepted bare 'yes'/'no' text
from the user's next message to approve/deny dangerous commands. This was
fragile and dangerous — if the agent asked a clarify question and the user
said 'yes' to answer it, the gateway would execute the pending dangerous
command instead. (Fixes#1888)
Changes:
- Remove bare text matching ('yes', 'y', 'approve', 'ok', etc.) from
_handle_message approval check
- Add /approve and /deny as gateway-only slash commands in the command
registry
- /approve supports scoping: /approve (one-time), /approve session,
/approve always (permanent)
- Add 5-minute timeout for stale approvals
- Gateway appends structured instructions to the agent response when a
dangerous command is pending, telling the user exactly how to respond
- 9 tests covering approve, deny, timeout, scoping, and verification
that bare 'yes' no longer triggers execution
Credit to @solo386 and @FlyByNight69420 for identifying and reporting
this security issue in PR #1971 and issue #1888.
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Three bugs prevented providers like MiniMax from using their
Anthropic-compatible endpoints (e.g. api.minimax.io/anthropic):
1. _VALID_API_MODES was missing 'anthropic_messages', so explicit
api_mode config was silently rejected and defaulted to
chat_completions.
2. API-key provider resolution hardcoded api_mode to 'chat_completions'
without checking model config or detecting Anthropic-compatible URLs.
3. run_agent.py auto-detection only recognized api.anthropic.com, not
third-party endpoints using the /anthropic URL convention.
Fixes:
- Add 'anthropic_messages' to _VALID_API_MODES
- API-key providers now check model config api_mode and auto-detect
URLs ending in /anthropic
- run_agent.py and fallback logic detect /anthropic URL convention
- 5 new tests covering all scenarios
Users can now either:
- Set MINIMAX_BASE_URL=https://api.minimax.io/anthropic (auto-detected)
- Set api_mode: anthropic_messages in model config (explicit)
- Use custom_providers with api_mode: anthropic_messages
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When provider: custom is set in config.yaml with base_url and api_key,
those values are now used instead of falling back to OPENAI_BASE_URL and
OPENAI_API_KEY env vars. Also reads the 'api' field as an alternative to
'api_key' for config compatibility.
Cherry-picked from PR #1762 by crazywriter1.
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_align_boundary_backward only checked messages[idx-1] to decide if
the compress-end boundary splits a tool_call/result group. When an
assistant issues 3+ parallel tool calls, their results span multiple
consecutive messages. If the boundary fell in the middle of that group,
the parent assistant was summarized away and orphaned tool results were
silently deleted by _sanitize_tool_pairs.
Now walks backward through all consecutive tool results to find the
parent assistant, then pulls the boundary before the entire group.
6 regression tests added in tests/test_compression_boundary.py.
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Add unauthorized_dm_behavior config (pair|ignore) with global default
and per-platform override. WhatsApp can silently drop unknown DMs
instead of sending pairing codes.
Adapted config bridging to work with gw_data dict (pre-construction)
rather than config object. Dropped implementation plan document.
Co-authored-by: Frederico Ribeiro <fr@tecompanytea.com>
The previous copilot_model_api_mode() checked the catalog's
supported_endpoints first and picked /chat/completions when a model
supported both endpoints. This is wrong — GPT-5+ models should use
the Responses API even when the catalog lists both.
Replicate opencode's shouldUseCopilotResponsesApi() logic:
- GPT-5+ models (gpt-5.4, gpt-5.3-codex, etc.) → Responses API
- gpt-5-mini → Chat Completions (explicit exception)
- Everything else (gpt-4o, claude, gemini, etc.) → Chat Completions
- Model ID pattern is the primary signal, catalog is secondary
The catalog fallback now only matters for non-GPT-5 models that might
exclusively support /v1/messages (e.g. Claude via Copilot).
Models are auto-detected from the live catalog at
api.githubcopilot.com/models — no hardcoded list required for
supported models, only a static fallback for when the API is
unreachable.
Builds on PR #1879's Copilot integration with critical auth improvements
modeled after opencode's implementation:
- Add hermes_cli/copilot_auth.py with:
- OAuth device code flow (copilot_device_code_login) using the same
client_id (Ov23li8tweQw6odWQebz) as opencode and Copilot CLI
- Token type validation: reject classic PATs (ghp_*) with a clear
error message explaining supported token types
- Proper env var priority: COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN > GH_TOKEN > GITHUB_TOKEN
(matching Copilot CLI documentation)
- copilot_request_headers() with Openai-Intent, x-initiator, and
Copilot-Vision-Request headers (matching opencode)
- Update auth.py:
- PROVIDER_REGISTRY copilot entry uses correct env var order
- _resolve_api_key_provider_secret delegates to copilot_auth for
the copilot provider with proper token validation
- Update models.py:
- copilot_default_headers() now includes Openai-Intent and x-initiator
- Update main.py:
- _model_flow_copilot offers OAuth device code login when no token
is found, with manual token entry as fallback
- Shows supported vs unsupported token types
- 22 new tests covering token validation, env var priority, header
generation, and integration with existing auth infrastructure
* Improve tool batching independence checks
* fix: address review feedback on path-aware batching
- Log malformed/non-dict tool arguments at debug level before
falling back to sequential, instead of silently swallowing
the error into an empty dict
- Guard empty paths in _paths_overlap (unreachable in practice
due to upstream filtering, but makes the invariant explicit)
- Add tests: malformed JSON args, non-dict args, _paths_overlap
unit tests including empty path edge cases
- web_crawl is not a registered tool (only web_search/web_extract
are); no addition needed to _PARALLEL_SAFE_TOOLS
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- Strip '_tools' suffix from internal toolset identifiers in the banner
(e.g. 'web_tools' -> 'web', 'homeassistant_tools' -> 'homeassistant')
- Stop appending '_tools' to unavailable toolset names
- Replace 6 hardcoded hex colors (#B8860B, #FFBF00, #FFF8DC) in toolset
rows, overflow line, and MCP server rows with the skin variables
(dim, accent, text) already resolved at the top of the function
Inspired by PR #1871 by @kshitijk4poor.
Adds 4 tests.
* fix: banner skill count now respects disabled skills and platform filtering
The banner's get_available_skills() was doing a raw rglob scan of
~/.hermes/skills/ without checking:
- Whether skills are disabled (skills.disabled config)
- Whether skills match the current platform (platforms: frontmatter)
This caused the banner to show inflated skill counts (e.g. '100 skills'
when many are disabled) and list macOS-only skills on Linux.
Fix: delegate to _find_all_skills() from tools/skills_tool which already
handles both platform gating and disabled-skill filtering.
* fix: system prompt and slash commands now respect disabled skills
Two more places where disabled skills were still surfaced:
1. build_skills_system_prompt() in prompt_builder.py — disabled skills
appeared in the <available_skills> system prompt section, causing
the agent to suggest/load them despite being disabled.
2. scan_skill_commands() in skill_commands.py — disabled skills still
registered as /skill-name slash commands in CLI help and could be
invoked.
Both now load _get_disabled_skill_names() and filter accordingly.
* fix: skill_view blocks disabled skills
skill_view() checked platform compatibility but not disabled state,
so the agent could still load and read disabled skills directly.
Now returns a clear error when a disabled skill is requested, telling
the user to enable it via hermes skills or inspect the files manually.
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Recognize hermes_cli/main.py gateway command lines in gateway
process detection and PID validation so --replace reliably finds
existing gateway instances.
Adds a regression test covering script-style cmdline detection.
Closes#1830
Each configured MCP server now registers as its own toolset in TOOLSETS
(e.g. TOOLSETS['github'] = {tools: ['mcp_github_list_files', ...]}),
making raw server names resolvable in platform_toolsets overrides.
Previously MCP tools were only injected into hermes-* umbrella toolsets,
so gateway sessions using raw toolset names like ['terminal', 'github']
in platform_toolsets couldn't resolve MCP tools.
Skips server names that collide with built-in toolsets. Also handles
idempotent reloads (syncs toolsets even when no new servers connect).
Inspired by PR #1876 by @kshitijk4poor.
Adds 2 tests (standalone toolset creation + built-in collision guard).
* perf: cache base_url.lower() via property, consolidate triple load_config(), hoist set constant
run_agent.py:
- Add base_url property that auto-caches _base_url_lower on every
assignment, eliminating 12+ redundant .lower() calls per API cycle
across __init__, _build_api_kwargs, _supports_reasoning_extra_body,
and the main conversation loop
- Consolidate three separate load_config() disk reads in __init__
(memory, skills, compression) into a single call, reusing the
result dict for all three config sections
model_tools.py:
- Hoist _READ_SEARCH_TOOLS set to module level (was rebuilt inside
handle_function_call on every tool invocation)
* Use endpoint metadata for custom model context and pricing
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Add _wait_for_gateway_exit() that polls get_running_pid() to confirm
the old gateway process has actually exited before starting a new one.
If the process doesn't exit within 5s, sends SIGKILL to the specific
PID. Uses the saved PID from gateway.pid (not launchd labels) so it
works correctly with multiple gateway instances under separate
HERMES_HOME directories.
Applied to both launchd_restart() and the manual restart path (replaces
the blind time.sleep(2)).
Inspired by PR #1881 by @AzothZephyr (race condition diagnosis).
Adds 4 tests.
When config.yaml had a non-default model (e.g. gpt-5.3-codex) and the
provider was openai-codex, _normalize_model_for_provider() would replace
it with the latest available codex model because _model_is_default only
checked the CLI argument, not the config value.
Now _model_is_default is False when config.yaml has a model that differs
from the global fallback (anthropic/claude-opus-4.6), so the user's
explicit config choice is preserved.
Fixes#1887
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
MiniMax: Add M2.7 and M2.7-highspeed as new defaults across provider
model lists, auxiliary client, metadata, setup wizard, RL training tool,
fallback tests, and docs. Retain M2.5/M2.1 as alternatives.
OpenRouter: Add grok-4.20-beta, nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free,
trinity-large-preview:free, glm-5-turbo, and hunter-alpha to the
model catalog.
MiniMax changes based on PR #1882 by @octo-patch (applied manually
due to stale conflicts in refactored pricing module).
When config.yaml had a non-default model (e.g. gpt-5.3-codex) and the
provider was openai-codex, _normalize_model_for_provider() would replace
it with the latest available codex model because _model_is_default only
checked the CLI argument, not the config value.
Now _model_is_default is False when config.yaml has a model that differs
from the global fallback (anthropic/claude-opus-4.6), so the user's
explicit config choice is preserved.
Fixes#1887
* fix: include ACP sessions in default search sources
* fix: remove hardcoded source allowlist from session search
The default source_filter was a hardcoded list that silently excluded
any platform not explicitly listed. Instead of maintaining an ever-growing
allowlist, remove it entirely so all sources are searched by default.
Callers can still pass source_filter explicitly to narrow results.
Follow-up to cherry-picked PR #1817.
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Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
- Update _is_anthropic_oauth in _try_refresh_anthropic_client_credentials()
when token type changes during credential refresh
- Set _is_anthropic_oauth in _try_activate_fallback() Anthropic path
- Move _turns_since_memory and _iters_since_skill init to __init__ so
nudge counters accumulate across run_conversation() calls in CLI mode
- Remove unreachable retry_count >= max_retries block after raise
Adds 7 regression tests. Salvaged from PR #1797 by @0xbyt4.
Add first-class GitHub Copilot and Copilot ACP provider support across
model selection, runtime provider resolution, CLI sessions, delegated
subagents, cron jobs, and the Telegram gateway.
This also normalizes Copilot model catalogs and API modes, introduces a
Copilot ACP OpenAI-compatible shim, and fixes service-mode auth by
resolving Homebrew-installed gh binaries under launchd.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Agent-created skills were using the same policy as community hub
installs, blocking any skill with medium/high severity findings
(e.g. docker pull, pip install, git clone). This meant the agent
couldn't create skills that reference Docker or other common tools.
Changed agent-created policy from (allow, block, block) to
(allow, allow, block) — matching the trusted policy. Caution-level
findings (medium/high severity) are now allowed through, while
dangerous findings (critical severity like exfiltration, prompt
injection, reverse shells) remain blocked.
Added 4 tests covering the agent-created policy: safe allowed,
caution allowed, dangerous blocked, force override.
Every cron job prompt now includes guidance that the agent can respond
with [SILENT] when it has nothing new or noteworthy to report. The
scheduler checks for this marker and skips delivery, while still saving
output to disk for audit. Failed jobs always deliver regardless.
This replaces the notify parameter approach from PR #1807 with a simpler
always-on design — the model is smart enough to decide when there's
nothing worth reporting without needing a per-job flag.
* feat: OpenAI-compatible API server platform adapter
Salvaged from PR #956, updated for current main.
Adds an HTTP API server as a gateway platform adapter that exposes
hermes-agent via the OpenAI Chat Completions and Responses APIs.
Any OpenAI-compatible frontend (Open WebUI, LobeChat, LibreChat,
AnythingLLM, NextChat, ChatBox, etc.) can connect by pointing at
http://localhost:8642/v1.
Endpoints:
- POST /v1/chat/completions — stateless Chat Completions API
- POST /v1/responses — stateful Responses API with chaining
- GET /v1/responses/{id} — retrieve stored response
- DELETE /v1/responses/{id} — delete stored response
- GET /v1/models — list hermes-agent as available model
- GET /health — health check
Features:
- Real SSE streaming via stream_delta_callback (uses main's streaming)
- In-memory LRU response store for Responses API conversation chaining
- Named conversations via 'conversation' parameter
- Bearer token auth (optional, via API_SERVER_KEY)
- CORS support for browser-based frontends
- System prompt layering (frontend system messages on top of core)
- Real token usage tracking in responses
Integration points:
- Platform.API_SERVER in gateway/config.py
- _create_adapter() branch in gateway/run.py
- API_SERVER_* env vars in hermes_cli/config.py
- Env var overrides in gateway/config.py _apply_env_overrides()
Changes vs original PR #956:
- Removed streaming infrastructure (already on main via stream_consumer.py)
- Removed Telegram reply_to_mode (separate feature, not included)
- Updated _resolve_model() -> _resolve_gateway_model()
- Updated stream_callback -> stream_delta_callback
- Updated connect()/disconnect() to use _mark_connected()/_mark_disconnected()
- Adapted to current Platform enum (includes MATTERMOST, MATRIX, DINGTALK)
Tests: 72 new tests, all passing
Docs: API server guide, Open WebUI integration guide, env var reference
* feat(whatsapp): make reply prefix configurable via config.yaml
Reworked from PR #1764 (ifrederico) to use config.yaml instead of .env.
The WhatsApp bridge prepends a header to every outgoing message.
This was hardcoded to '⚕ *Hermes Agent*'. Users can now customize
or disable it via config.yaml:
whatsapp:
reply_prefix: '' # disable header
reply_prefix: '🤖 *My Bot*\n───\n' # custom prefix
How it works:
- load_gateway_config() reads whatsapp.reply_prefix from config.yaml
and stores it in PlatformConfig.extra['reply_prefix']
- WhatsAppAdapter reads it from config.extra at init
- When spawning bridge.js, the adapter passes it as
WHATSAPP_REPLY_PREFIX in the subprocess environment
- bridge.js handles undefined (default), empty (no header),
or custom values with \\n escape support
- Self-chat echo suppression uses the configured prefix
Also fixes _config_version: was 9 but ENV_VARS_BY_VERSION had a
key 10 (TAVILY_API_KEY), so existing users at v9 would never be
prompted for Tavily. Bumped to 10 to close the gap. Added a
regression test to prevent this from happening again.
Credit: ifrederico (PR #1764) for the bridge.js implementation
and the config version gap discovery.
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Save and restore the process-global _last_resolved_tool_names in
_run_single_child() so the parent's execute_code sandbox generates
correct tool imports after delegation completes.
The global was already mostly mitigated (run_agent.py passes
enabled_tools via self.valid_tool_names), but the global itself
remained corrupted — a footgun for any code that reads it directly.
Co-authored-by: shane9coy <shane9coy@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(session): skip corrupt lines in load_transcript instead of crashing
Wrap json.loads() in load_transcript() with try/except JSONDecodeError
so that partial JSONL lines (from mid-write crashes like OOM/SIGKILL)
are skipped with a warning instead of crashing the entire transcript
load. The rest of the history loads fine.
Adds a logger.warning with the session ID and truncated corrupt line
content for debugging visibility.
Salvaged from PR #1193 by alireza78a.
Closes#1193
* fix(stt): respect explicit provider config instead of env-var fallback
Rework _get_provider() to separate explicit config from auto-detect.
When stt.provider is explicitly set in config.yaml, that choice is
authoritative — no silent cross-provider fallback based on which env
vars happen to be set. When no provider is configured, auto-detect
still tries: local > groq > openai.
This fixes the reported scenario where provider: local + a placeholder
OPENAI_API_KEY caused the system to silently select OpenAI and fail
with a 401.
Closes#1774
_sanitize_fts5_query() was stripping ALL double quotes (including
properly paired ones), breaking user-provided quoted phrases like
"exact phrase". Hyphenated terms like chat-send also silently
expanded to chat AND send, returning unexpected or zero results.
Fix:
1. Extract balanced quoted phrases into placeholders before
stripping FTS5-special characters, then restore them.
2. Wrap unquoted hyphenated terms (word-word) in double quotes so
FTS5 matches them as exact phrases instead of splitting on
the hyphen.
3. Unmatched quotes are still stripped as before.
Based on issue report by @bailob (#1770) and PR #1773 by @Jah-yee
(whose branch contained unrelated changes and couldn't be merged
directly).
Closes#1770Closes#1773
Co-authored-by: Jah-yee <Jah-yee@users.noreply.github.com>
compress() checks both the head and tail neighbors when choosing the
summary message role. When only the tail collides, the role is flipped.
When BOTH roles would create consecutive same-role messages (e.g.
head=assistant, tail=user), the summary is merged into the first tail
message instead of inserting a standalone message that breaks role
alternation and causes API 400 errors.
The previous code handled head-side collision but left the tail-side
uncovered — long conversations would crash mid-reply with no useful
error, forcing the user to /reset and lose session history.
Based on PR #1186 by @alireza78a, with improved double-collision
handling (merge into tail instead of unconditional 'user' fallback).
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78.crypto@gmail.com>
Wrap json.loads() in load_transcript() with try/except JSONDecodeError
so that partial JSONL lines (from mid-write crashes like OOM/SIGKILL)
are skipped with a warning instead of crashing the entire transcript
load. The rest of the history loads fine.
Adds a logger.warning with the session ID and truncated corrupt line
content for debugging visibility.
Salvaged from PR #1193 by alireza78a.
Closes#1193
- Add summary_base_url config option to compression block for custom
OpenAI-compatible endpoints (e.g. zai, DeepSeek, Ollama)
- Remove compression env var bridges from cli.py and gateway/run.py
(CONTEXT_COMPRESSION_* env vars no longer set from config)
- Switch run_agent.py to read compression config directly from
config.yaml instead of env vars
- Fix backwards-compat block in _resolve_task_provider_model to also
fire when auxiliary.compression.provider is 'auto' (DEFAULT_CONFIG
sets this, which was silently preventing the compression section's
summary_* keys from being read)
- Add test for summary_base_url config-to-client flow
- Update docs to show compression as config.yaml-only
Closes#1591
Based on PR #1702 by @uzaylisak
Salvage of PR #1707 by @kshitijk4poor (cherry-picked with authorship preserved).
Adds Tavily as a third web backend alongside Firecrawl and Parallel, using the Tavily REST API via httpx.
- Backend selection via hermes tools → saved as web.backend in config.yaml
- All three tools supported: search, extract, crawl
- TAVILY_API_KEY in config registry, doctor, status, setup wizard
- 15 new Tavily tests + 9 backend selection tests + 5 config tests
- Backward compatible
Closes#1707
Salvage of PR #1321 by @alireza78a (cherry-picked concept, reimplemented
against current main).
Phase 1 — Pre-call message sanitization:
_sanitize_api_messages() now runs unconditionally before every LLM call.
Previously gated on context_compressor being present, so sessions loaded
from disk or running without compression could accumulate dangling
tool_call/tool_result pairs causing API errors.
Phase 2a — Delegate task cap:
_cap_delegate_task_calls() truncates excess delegate_task calls per turn
to MAX_CONCURRENT_CHILDREN. The existing cap in delegate_tool.py only
limits the task array within a single call; this catches multiple
separate delegate_task tool_calls in one turn.
Phase 2b — Tool call deduplication:
_deduplicate_tool_calls() drops duplicate (tool_name, arguments) pairs
within a single turn when models stutter.
All three are static methods on AIAgent, independently testable.
29 tests covering happy paths and edge cases.
Adds .hermes.md / HERMES.md discovery for per-project agent configuration.
When the agent starts, it walks from cwd to the git root looking for
.hermes.md (preferred) or HERMES.md, strips any YAML frontmatter, and
injects the markdown body into the system prompt as project context.
- Nearest-first discovery (subdirectory configs shadow parent)
- Stops at git root boundary (no leaking into parent repos)
- YAML frontmatter stripped (structured config deferred to Phase 2)
- Same injection scanning and 20K truncation as other context files
- 22 comprehensive tests
Original implementation by ch3ronsa. Cherry-picked and adapted for current main.
Closes#681 (Phase 1)
After the first user→assistant exchange, Hermes now generates a short
descriptive session title via the auxiliary LLM (compression task config).
Title generation runs in a background thread so it never delays the
user-facing response.
Key behaviors:
- Fires only on the first 1-2 exchanges (checks user message count)
- Skips if a title already exists (user-set titles are never overwritten)
- Uses call_llm with compression task config (cheapest/fastest model)
- Truncates long messages to keep the title generation request small
- Cleans up LLM output: strips quotes, 'Title:' prefixes, enforces 80 char max
- Works in both CLI and gateway (Telegram/Discord/etc.)
Also updates /title (no args) to show the session ID alongside the title
in both CLI and gateway.
Implements #1426
* feat(web): add Parallel as alternative web search/extract backend
Adds Parallel (parallel.ai) as a drop-in alternative to Firecrawl for
web_search and web_extract tools using the official parallel-web SDK.
- Backend selection via WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND env var (auto/parallel/firecrawl)
- Auto mode prefers Firecrawl when both keys present; Parallel when sole backend
- web_crawl remains Firecrawl-only with clear error when unavailable
- Lazy SDK imports, interrupt support, singleton clients
- 16 new unit tests for backend selection and client config
Co-authored-by: s-jag <s-jag@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: add PARALLEL_API_KEY to config registry and fix web_crawl policy tests
Follow-up for Parallel backend integration:
- Add PARALLEL_API_KEY to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS (hermes doctor, env blocklist)
- Add to set_config_value api_keys list (hermes config set)
- Add to doctor keys display
- Fix 2 web_crawl policy tests that didn't set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY
(needed now that web_crawl has a Firecrawl availability guard)
* refactor: explicit backend selection via hermes tools, not auto-detect
Replace the auto-detect backend selection with explicit user choice:
- hermes tools saves WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND to .env when user picks a provider
- _get_backend() reads the explicit choice first
- Fallback only for manual/legacy config (uses whichever key is present)
- _is_provider_active() shows [active] for the selected web backend
- Updated tests, docs, and .env.example to remove 'auto' mode language
* refactor: use config.yaml for web backend, not env var
Match the TTS/browser pattern — web.backend is stored in config.yaml
(set by hermes tools), not as a WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND env var.
- _load_web_config() reads web: section from config.yaml
- _get_backend() reads web.backend from config, falls back to key detection
- _configure_provider() saves to config dict (saved to config.yaml)
- _is_provider_active() reads from config dict
- Removed WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND from .env.example, set_config_value, docs
- Updated all tests to mock _load_web_config instead of env vars
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When container_persistent=false, the inner mini-swe-agent cleanup only
runs 'docker stop' in the background, leaving containers in Exited state.
Now cleanup() also runs 'docker rm -f' to fully remove the container.
Also fixes pre-existing test failures in model_metadata (gpt-4.1 1M context),
setup tests (TTS provider step), and adds MockInnerDocker.cleanup().
Original fix by crazywriter1. Cherry-picked and adapted for current main.
Fixes#1679
Salvaged from PR #1708 by @kartikkabadi. Cherry-picked with authorship preserved.
Fixes pre-existing test failures from setup TTS prompt flow changes and environment-sensitive assumptions.
Co-authored-by: Kartik <user2@RentKars-MacBook-Air.local>
* feat: interactive MCP tool configuration in hermes tools
Add the ability to selectively enable/disable individual MCP server
tools through the interactive 'hermes tools' TUI.
Changes:
- tools/mcp_tool.py: Add probe_mcp_server_tools() — lightweight function
that temporarily connects to configured MCP servers, discovers their
tools (names + descriptions), and disconnects. No registry side effects.
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: Add 'Configure MCP tools' option to the
interactive menu. When selected:
1. Probes all enabled MCP servers for their available tools
2. Shows a per-server curses checklist with tool descriptions
3. Pre-selects tools based on existing include/exclude config
4. Writes changes back as tools.exclude entries in config.yaml
5. Reports which servers failed to connect
The existing CLI commands (hermes tools enable/disable server:tool)
continue to work unchanged. This adds the interactive TUI counterpart
so users can browse and toggle MCP tools visually.
Tests: 22 new tests covering probe function edge cases and interactive
flow (pre-selection, exclude/include modes, description truncation,
multi-server handling, error paths).
* feat(telegram): auto-detect HTML tags and use parse_mode=HTML in send_message
When _send_telegram detects HTML tags in the message body, it now sends
with parse_mode='HTML' instead of converting to MarkdownV2. This allows
cron jobs and agents to send rich HTML-formatted Telegram messages with
bold, italic, code blocks, etc. that render correctly.
Detection uses the same regex from PR #1568 by @ashaney:
re.search(r'<[a-zA-Z/][^>]*>', message)
Plain-text and markdown messages continue through the existing
MarkdownV2 pipeline. The HTML fallback path also catches HTML parse
errors and falls back to plain text, matching the existing MarkdownV2
error handling.
Inspired by: github.com/ashaney — PR #1568
Salvaged from PR #1573 by @eren-karakus0. Cherry-picked with authorship preserved.
Fixes#1143 — background process notifications resume after gateway restart.
Co-authored-by: Muhammet Eren Karakuş <erenkar950@gmail.com>
Add the ability to selectively enable/disable individual MCP server
tools through the interactive 'hermes tools' TUI.
Changes:
- tools/mcp_tool.py: Add probe_mcp_server_tools() — lightweight function
that temporarily connects to configured MCP servers, discovers their
tools (names + descriptions), and disconnects. No registry side effects.
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: Add 'Configure MCP tools' option to the
interactive menu. When selected:
1. Probes all enabled MCP servers for their available tools
2. Shows a per-server curses checklist with tool descriptions
3. Pre-selects tools based on existing include/exclude config
4. Writes changes back as tools.exclude entries in config.yaml
5. Reports which servers failed to connect
The existing CLI commands (hermes tools enable/disable server:tool)
continue to work unchanged. This adds the interactive TUI counterpart
so users can browse and toggle MCP tools visually.
Tests: 22 new tests covering probe function edge cases and interactive
flow (pre-selection, exclude/include modes, description truncation,
multi-server handling, error paths).
- Default enabled: false (zero overhead when not configured)
- Fast path: cached disabled state skips all work immediately
- TTL cache (30s) for parsed policy — avoids re-reading config.yaml
on every URL check
- Missing shared files warn + skip instead of crashing all web tools
- Lazy yaml import — missing PyYAML doesn't break browser toolset
- Guarded browser_tool import — fail-open lambda fallback
- check_website_access never raises for default path (fail-open with
warning log); only raises with explicit config_path (test mode)
- Simplified enforcement code in web_tools/browser_tool — no more
try/except wrappers since errors are handled internally
Add DingTalk as a messaging platform using the dingtalk-stream SDK
for real-time message reception via Stream Mode (no webhook needed).
Replies are sent via session webhook using markdown format.
Features:
- Stream Mode connection (long-lived WebSocket, no public URL needed)
- Text and rich text message support
- DM and group chat support
- Message deduplication with 5-minute window
- Auto-reconnection with exponential backoff
- Session webhook caching for reply routing
Configuration:
export DINGTALK_CLIENT_ID=your-app-key
export DINGTALK_CLIENT_SECRET=your-app-secret
# or in config.yaml:
platforms:
dingtalk:
enabled: true
extra:
client_id: your-app-key
client_secret: your-app-secret
Files:
- gateway/platforms/dingtalk.py (340 lines) — adapter implementation
- gateway/config.py — add DINGTALK to Platform enum
- gateway/run.py — add DingTalk to _create_adapter
- hermes_cli/config.py — add env vars to _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py — add dingtalk to PLATFORMS
- tests/gateway/test_dingtalk.py — 21 tests
Add inference.sh CLI (infsh) as a tool integration, giving agents
access to 150+ AI apps through a single CLI — image gen (FLUX, Reve,
Seedream), video (Veo, Wan, Seedance), LLMs, search (Tavily, Exa),
3D, avatar/lipsync, and more. One API key manages all services.
Tools:
- infsh: run any infsh CLI command (app list, app run, etc.)
- infsh_install: install the CLI if not present
Registered as an 'inference' toolset (opt-in, not in core tools).
Includes comprehensive skill docs with examples for all app categories.
Changes from original PR:
- NOT added to _HERMES_CORE_TOOLS (available via --toolsets inference)
- Added 12 tests covering tool registration, command execution,
error handling, timeout, JSON parsing, and install flow
Inspired by PR #1021 by @okaris.
Co-authored-by: okaris <okaris@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: thread safety for concurrent subagent delegation
Four thread-safety fixes that prevent crashes and data races when
running multiple subagents concurrently via delegate_task:
1. Remove redirect_stdout/stderr from delegate_tool — mutating global
sys.stdout races with the spinner thread when multiple children start
concurrently, causing segfaults. Children already run with
quiet_mode=True so the redirect was redundant.
2. Split _run_single_child into _build_child_agent (main thread) +
_run_single_child (worker thread). AIAgent construction creates
httpx/SSL clients which are not thread-safe to initialize
concurrently.
3. Add threading.Lock to SessionDB — subagents share the parent's
SessionDB and call create_session/append_message from worker threads
with no synchronization.
4. Add _active_children_lock to AIAgent — interrupt() iterates
_active_children while worker threads append/remove children.
5. Add _client_cache_lock to auxiliary_client — multiple subagent
threads may resolve clients concurrently via call_llm().
Based on PR #1471 by peteromallet.
* feat: Honcho base_url override via config.yaml + quick command alias type
Two features salvaged from PR #1576:
1. Honcho base_url override: allows pointing Hermes at a remote
self-hosted Honcho deployment via config.yaml:
honcho:
base_url: "http://192.168.x.x:8000"
When set, this overrides the Honcho SDK's environment mapping
(production/local), enabling LAN/VPN Honcho deployments without
requiring the server to live on localhost. Uses config.yaml instead
of env var (HONCHO_URL) per project convention.
2. Quick command alias type: adds a new 'alias' quick command type
that rewrites to another slash command before normal dispatch:
quick_commands:
sc:
type: alias
target: /context
Supports both CLI and gateway. Arguments are forwarded to the
target command.
Based on PR #1576 by redhelix.
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Co-authored-by: redhelix <redhelix@users.noreply.github.com>
Add display.theme_mode setting (auto/light/dark) that makes the CLI
readable on light terminal backgrounds.
- Auto-detect terminal background via COLORFGBG, OSC 11, and macOS
appearance (fallback chain in hermes_cli/colors.py)
- Add colors_light overrides to all 7 built-in skins with dark/readable
colors for light backgrounds
- SkinConfig.get_color() now returns light overrides when theme is light
- get_prompt_toolkit_style_overrides() uses light bg colors for
completion menus in light mode
- init_skin_from_config() reads display.theme_mode from config
- 7 new tests covering theme mode resolution, detection fallbacks,
and light-mode skin overrides
Salvaged from PR #1187 by @peteromallet. Core design preserved;
adapted to current main (kept all existing helpers, tool_emojis,
convenience functions that were added after the PR branched).
Co-authored-by: Peter O'Mallet <peteromallet@users.noreply.github.com>
When a user sends a long message, Telegram clients split it into
multiple updates that arrive within milliseconds of each other.
Previously each chunk was dispatched independently — the first would
start the agent, and subsequent chunks would interrupt or queue as
separate turns, causing the agent to only see part of the message.
Add text message batching to TelegramAdapter following the same pattern
as the existing photo burst batching:
- _enqueue_text_event() buffers text by session key, concatenating
chunks that arrive in rapid succession
- _flush_text_batch() dispatches the combined message after a 0.6s
quiet period (configurable via HERMES_TELEGRAM_TEXT_BATCH_DELAY_SECONDS)
- Timer resets on each new chunk, so all parts of a split arrive
before the batch is dispatched
Reported by NulledVector on Discord.
Add Kilo Gateway (kilo.ai) as an API-key provider with OpenAI-compatible
endpoint at https://api.kilo.ai/api/gateway. Supports 500+ models from
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, MiniMax via a single API key.
- Register kilocode in PROVIDER_REGISTRY with aliases (kilo, kilo-code,
kilo-gateway) and KILOCODE_API_KEY / KILOCODE_BASE_URL env vars
- Add to model catalog, CLI provider menu, setup wizard, doctor checks
- Add google/gemini-3-flash-preview as default aux model
- 12 new tests covering registration, aliases, credential resolution,
runtime config
- Documentation updates (env vars, config, fallback providers)
- Fix setup test index shift from provider insertion
Inspired by PR #1473 by @amanning3390.
Co-authored-by: amanning3390 <amanning3390@users.noreply.github.com>
Docker terminal sessions are secret-dark by default. This adds
terminal.docker_forward_env as an explicit allowlist for env vars
that may be forwarded into Docker containers.
Values resolve from the current shell first, then fall back to
~/.hermes/.env. Only variables the user explicitly lists are
forwarded — nothing is auto-exposed.
Cherry-picked from PR #1449 by @teknium1, conflict-resolved onto
current main.
Fixes#1436
Supersedes #1439
_bot_participated_threads was an in-memory set — lost on every restart.
After restart, the bot forgot which threads it was active in, requiring
fresh @mentions and potentially creating duplicate threads instead of
continuing existing conversations.
Changes:
- Persist thread IDs to ~/.hermes/discord_threads.json
- Load on adapter init, save on every new thread participation
- _track_thread() replaces direct .add() calls for atomic persist
- Cap at 500 tracked threads to prevent unbounded growth
- /thread slash command also tracks participation
- 7 new tests covering persistence, restart survival, corruption
recovery, cap enforcement
* fix(security): harden terminal safety and sandbox file writes
Two security improvements:
1. Dangerous command detection: expand shell -c pattern to catch
combined flags (bash -lc, bash -ic, ksh -c) that were previously
undetected. Pattern changed from matching only 'bash -c' to
matching any shell invocation with -c anywhere in the flags.
2. File write sandboxing: add HERMES_WRITE_SAFE_ROOT env var that
constrains all write_file/patch operations to a configured directory
tree. Opt-in — when unset, behavior is unchanged. Useful for
gateway/messaging deployments that should only touch a workspace.
Based on PR #1085 by ismoilh.
* fix: correct "POSIDEON" typo to "POSEIDON" in banner ASCII art
The poseidon skin's banner_logo had the E and I letters swapped,
spelling "POSIDEON-AGENT" instead of "POSEIDON-AGENT".
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Co-authored-by: unmodeled-tyler <unmodeled.tyler@proton.me>
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)
Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.
- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement
Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.
* fix(approval): show full command in dangerous command approval (#1553)
Previously the command was truncated to 80 chars in CLI (with a
[v]iew full option), 500 chars in Discord embeds, and missing entirely
in Telegram/Slack approval messages. Now the full command is always
displayed everywhere:
- CLI: removed 80-char truncation and [v]iew full menu option
- Gateway (TG/Slack): approval_required message includes full command
in a code block
- Discord: embed shows full command up to 4096-char limit
- Windows: skip SIGALRM-based test timeout (Unix-only)
- Updated tests: replaced view-flow tests with direct approval tests
Cherry-picked from PR #1566 by crazywriter1.
* fix(cli): flush stdout during agent loop to prevent macOS display freeze (#1624)
The interrupt polling loop in chat() waited on the queue without
invalidating the prompt_toolkit renderer. On macOS, the StdoutProxy
buffer only flushed on input events, causing the CLI to appear frozen
during tool execution until the user typed a key.
Fix: call _invalidate() on each queue timeout (every ~100ms, throttled
to 150ms) to force the renderer to flush buffered agent output.
* fix(claw): warn when API keys are skipped during OpenClaw migration (#1580)
When --migrate-secrets is not passed (the default), API keys like
OPENROUTER_API_KEY are silently skipped with no warning. Users don't
realize their keys weren't migrated until the agent fails to connect.
Add a post-migration warning with actionable instructions: either
re-run with --migrate-secrets or add the key manually via
hermes config set.
Cherry-picked from PR #1593 by ygd58.
* fix(security): block sandbox backend creds from subprocess env (#1264)
Add Modal and Daytona sandbox credentials to the subprocess env
blocklist so they're not leaked to agent terminal sessions via
printenv/env.
Cherry-picked from PR #1571 by ygd58.
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Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: crazywriter1 <53251494+crazywriter1@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(skills): add bundled neutts optional skill
Add NeuTTS optional skill with CLI scaffold, bootstrap helper, and
sample voice profile. Also fixes skills_hub.py to handle binary
assets (WAV files) during skill installation.
Changes:
- optional-skills/mlops/models/neutts/ — skill + CLI scaffold
- tools/skills_hub.py — binary asset support (read_bytes, write_bytes)
- tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py — regression tests for binary assets
* feat(tts): add NeuTTS as local TTS provider backend
Add NeuTTS as a fourth TTS provider option alongside Edge, ElevenLabs,
and OpenAI. NeuTTS runs fully on-device via neutts_cli — no API key
needed.
Provider behavior:
- Explicit: set tts.provider to 'neutts' in config.yaml
- Fallback: when Edge TTS is unavailable and neutts_cli is installed,
automatically falls back to NeuTTS instead of failing
- check_tts_requirements() now includes NeuTTS in availability checks
NeuTTS outputs WAV natively. For Telegram voice bubbles, ffmpeg
converts to Opus (same pattern as Edge TTS).
Changes:
- tools/tts_tool.py — _generate_neutts(), _check_neutts_available(),
provider dispatch, fallback logic, Opus conversion
- hermes_cli/config.py — tts.neutts config defaults
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Remove HERMES_API_MODE env var. api_mode is now configured where the
endpoint is defined:
- model.api_mode in config.yaml (for the active model config)
- custom_providers[].api_mode (for named custom providers)
Replace _get_configured_api_mode() with _parse_api_mode() which just
validates a value against the whitelist without reading env vars.
Both paths (model config and named custom providers) now read api_mode
from their respective config entries rather than a global override.
Add in-session tool management via /tools disable/enable/list, plus
hermes tools list/disable/enable CLI subcommands. Supports both
built-in toolsets (web, memory) and MCP tools (github:create_issue).
To preserve prompt caching, /tools disable/enable in a chat session
saves the change to config and resets the session cleanly — the user
is asked to confirm before the reset happens.
Also improves prefix matching: /qui now dispatches to /quit instead
of showing ambiguous when longer skill commands like /quint-pipeline
are installed.
Based on PR #1520 by @YanSte.
Co-authored-by: Yannick Stephan <YanSte@users.noreply.github.com>
Add HERMES_API_MODE env var and model.api_mode config field to let
custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints opt into codex_responses mode
without requiring the OpenAI Codex OAuth provider path.
- _get_configured_api_mode() reads HERMES_API_MODE env (precedence)
then model.api_mode from config.yaml; validates against whitelist
- Applied in both _resolve_openrouter_runtime() and
_resolve_named_custom_runtime() (original PR only covered openrouter)
- Fix _dump_api_request_debug() to show /responses URL when in
codex_responses mode instead of always showing /chat/completions
- Tests for config override, env override, invalid values, named
custom providers, and debug dump URL for both API modes
Inspired by PR #1041 by @mxyhi.
Co-authored-by: mxyhi <mxyhi@users.noreply.github.com>
browser_console was registered in the tool registry but missing from
all toolset definitions (TOOLSETS, _HERMES_CORE_TOOLS, _LEGACY_TOOLSET_MAP),
so the agent could never discover or use it.
Added to all 4 locations + 4 wiring tests.
Cherry-picked from PR #1084 by @0xbyt4 (authorship preserved in tests).
The primary injection vector in #1558 was search_files discovering
catalog cache files in .hub/index-cache/ via find or grep, which
don't skip hidden directories like ripgrep does by default.
Three-layer fix:
1. _search_files (find): add -not -path '*/.*' to exclude hidden
directories, matching ripgrep's default behavior.
2. _search_with_grep: add --exclude-dir='.*' to skip hidden
directories in the grep fallback path.
3. _write_index_cache: write a .ignore file to .hub/ so ripgrep
also skips it even when invoked with --hidden (belt-and-suspenders).
This makes all three search backends (rg, grep, find) consistently
exclude hidden directories, preventing the agent from discovering
and reading unvetted community content in hub cache files.
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)
Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.
- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement
Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.
* fix(approval): show full command in dangerous command approval (#1553)
Previously the command was truncated to 80 chars in CLI (with a
[v]iew full option), 500 chars in Discord embeds, and missing entirely
in Telegram/Slack approval messages. Now the full command is always
displayed everywhere:
- CLI: removed 80-char truncation and [v]iew full menu option
- Gateway (TG/Slack): approval_required message includes full command
in a code block
- Discord: embed shows full command up to 4096-char limit
- Windows: skip SIGALRM-based test timeout (Unix-only)
- Updated tests: replaced view-flow tests with direct approval tests
Cherry-picked from PR #1566 by crazywriter1.
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Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: crazywriter1 <53251494+crazywriter1@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes hanging when using /skills install or /skills uninstall from the
TUI — bare input() calls hang inside prompt_toolkit's event loop.
Changes:
- Add skip_confirm parameter to do_install() and do_uninstall()
- Separate --yes/-y (confirmation bypass) from --force (scan override)
in both argparse and slash command handlers
- Update usage hint for /skills uninstall to show [--yes]
The original PR (#1595) accidentally deleted the install_from_quarantine()
call, which would have broken all installs. That bug is not present here.
Based on PR #1595 by 333Alden333.
Co-authored-by: 333Alden333 <333Alden333@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)
Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.
- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement
Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.
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Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
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Small models (7B-14B) can't reliably use MEDIA: or IMAGE: syntax. This
adds extract_local_files() to BasePlatformAdapter that regex-detects
bare local file paths ending in image/video extensions, validates them
with os.path.isfile(), and delivers them as native platform attachments.
Hardened over the original PR:
- Code-block exclusion: paths inside fenced blocks and inline code are
skipped so code samples are never mutilated
- URL rejection: negative lookbehind prevents matching path segments
inside HTTP URLs
- Relative path rejection: ./foo.png no longer matches
- Tilde path cleanup: raw ~/... form is removed from response text
- Deduplication by expanded path
- Added .webm to _VIDEO_EXTS
- Fallback to send_document for unrecognized media extensions
Based on PR #1636 by sudoingX.
Co-authored-by: sudoingX <sudoingX@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): two-stage /model autocomplete with ghost text suggestions
- SlashCommandCompleter: Tab-complete providers first (anthropic:, openrouter:, etc.)
then models within the selected provider
- SlashCommandAutoSuggest: inline ghost text for slash commands, subcommands,
and /model provider:model two-stage suggestions
- Custom Tab key binding: accepts provider completion and immediately
re-triggers completions to show that provider's models
- COMMANDS_BY_CATEGORY: structured format with explicit subcommands for
tab completion and ghost text (prompt, reasoning, voice, skills, cron, browser)
- SUBCOMMANDS dict auto-extracted from command definitions
- Model/provider info cached 60s for responsive completions
* fix: repair test regression and restore gold color from PR #1622
- Fix test_unknown_command_still_shows_error: patch _cprint instead of
console.print to match the _cprint switch in process_command()
- Restore gold color on 'Type /help' hint using _DIM + _GOLD constants
instead of bare \033[2m (was losing the #B8860B gold)
- Use _GOLD constant for ambiguous command message for consistency
- Add clarifying comment on SUBCOMMANDS regex fallback
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The MarkdownV2 formatting change imports telegram.constants.ParseMode,
which the test mock didn't provide. Add ParseMode to the mock so
existing tests continue working.
* fix(tools): remove unnecessary crontab requirement from cronjob tool
The hermes cron system is internal — it uses a JSON-based scheduler
ticked by the gateway (cron/scheduler.py), not system crontab.
The check for shutil.which('crontab') was preventing the cronjob tool
from being available in environments without crontab installed (e.g.
minimal Ubuntu containers).
Changes:
- Remove shutil.which('crontab') check from check_cronjob_requirements()
- Remove unused shutil import
- Update docstring to clarify internal scheduler is used
- Update tests to reflect new behavior and add coverage for all
session modes (interactive, gateway, exec_ask)
Fixes#1589
* test: add HERMES_EXEC_ASK coverage for cronjob requirements
Adds missing test for the exec_ask session mode, complementing
the cherry-picked fix from PR #1633.
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Verifies that write_runtime_status() overwrites pid and start_time
from a previous process rather than preserving them via setdefault().
Covers the fix from PR #1632.
- Bump _config_version 8 → 9
- Move stale ANTHROPIC_TOKEN clearing into 'if current_ver < 9' block
so it only runs once during the upgrade, not on every migrate_config()
- ANTHROPIC_TOKEN is still a valid auth path (OAuth flow), so we don't
want to clear it repeatedly — only during the one-time migration from
old setups that left it stale
- Add test_skips_on_version_9_or_later to verify one-time behavior
- All tests set config version 8 to trigger migration
- Remove *** placeholder detection from _sanitize_env_lines (was based on
confusing terminal redaction with literal file content)
- Add migrate_config() logic to clear stale ANTHROPIC_TOKEN when better
credentials exist (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or Claude Code auto-discovery)
- Old ANTHROPIC_TOKEN values shadow Claude Code credential fallthrough,
breaking auth for users who updated without re-running setup
- Preserves ANTHROPIC_TOKEN when it's the only auth method available
- 3 new migration tests, updated existing tests
Fixes two corruption patterns that break API keys during updates:
1. Concatenated KEY=VALUE pairs on a single line due to missing newlines
(e.g. ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-...OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://...). Uses a
known-keys set to safely detect and split concatenated entries without
false-splitting values that contain uppercase text.
2. Stale KEY=*** placeholder entries left by incomplete setup runs that
never get updated and shadow real credentials.
Changes:
- Add _sanitize_env_lines() that splits concatenated known keys and drops
*** placeholders
- Add sanitize_env_file() public API for explicit repair
- Call sanitization in save_env_value() on every read (self-healing)
- Call sanitize_env_file() at the start of migrate_config() so existing
corrupted files are repaired on update
- 12 new tests covering splits, placeholders, edge cases, and integration
* feat: add Vercel AI Gateway as a first-class provider
Adds AI Gateway (ai-gateway.vercel.sh) as a new inference provider
with AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY authentication, live model discovery, and
reasoning support via extra_body.reasoning.
Based on PR #1492 by jerilynzheng.
* feat: add AI Gateway to setup wizard, doctor, and fallback providers
* test: add AI Gateway to api_key_providers test suite
* feat: add AI Gateway to hermes model CLI and model metadata
Wire AI Gateway into the interactive model selection menu and add
context lengths for AI Gateway model IDs in model_metadata.py.
* feat: use claude-haiku-4.5 as AI Gateway auxiliary model
* revert: use gemini-3-flash as AI Gateway auxiliary model
* fix: move AI Gateway below established providers in selection order
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Co-authored-by: jerilynzheng <zheng.jerilyn@gmail.com>
When the gateway restarts after being down past a scheduled run time,
recurring jobs (cron/interval) were firing immediately because their
next_run_at was in the past. Now jobs more than 2 minutes late are
fast-forwarded to the next future occurrence instead.
- get_due_jobs() checks staleness for cron/interval jobs
- Stale jobs get next_run_at recomputed and saved
- Jobs within 2 minutes of their schedule still fire normally
- One-shot (once) jobs are unaffected — they fire if missed
Fixes the 'cron jobs run on every gateway restart' issue.
* fix: Anthropic OAuth compatibility — Claude Code identity fingerprinting
Anthropic routes OAuth/subscription requests based on Claude Code's
identity markers. Without them, requests get intermittent 500 errors
(~25% failure rate observed). This matches what pi-ai (clawdbot) and
OpenCode both implement for OAuth compatibility.
Changes (OAuth tokens only — API key users unaffected):
1. Headers: user-agent 'claude-cli/2.1.2 (external, cli)' + x-app 'cli'
2. System prompt: prepend 'You are Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI'
3. System prompt sanitization: replace Hermes/Nous references
4. Tool names: prefix with 'mcp_' (Claude Code convention for non-native tools)
5. Tool name stripping: remove 'mcp_' prefix from response tool calls
Before: 9/12 OK, 1 hard fail, 4 needed retries (~25% error rate)
After: 16/16 OK, 0 failures, 0 retries (0% error rate)
* fix: three gateway issues from user error logs
1. send_animation missing metadata kwarg (base.py)
- Base class send_animation lacked the metadata parameter that the
call site in base.py line 917 passes. Telegram's override accepted
it, but any platform without an override (Discord, Slack, etc.)
hit TypeError. Added metadata to base class signature.
2. MarkdownV2 split-inside-inline-code (base.py truncate_message)
- truncate_message could split at a space inside an inline code span
(e.g. `function(arg1, arg2)`), leaving an unpaired backtick and
unescaped parentheses in the chunk. Telegram rejects with
'character ( is reserved'. Added inline code awareness to the
split-point finder — detects odd backtick counts and moves the
split before the code span.
3. tirith auto-install without cosign (tirith_security.py)
- Previously required cosign on PATH for auto-install, blocking
install entirely with a warning if missing. Now proceeds with
SHA-256 checksum verification only when cosign is unavailable.
Cosign is still used for full supply chain verification when
present. If cosign IS present but verification explicitly fails,
install is still aborted (tampered release).
* refactor: centralize slash command registry
Replace 7+ scattered command definition sites with a single
CommandDef registry in hermes_cli/commands.py. All downstream
consumers now derive from this registry:
- CLI process_command() resolves aliases via resolve_command()
- Gateway _known_commands uses GATEWAY_KNOWN_COMMANDS frozenset
- Gateway help text generated by gateway_help_lines()
- Telegram BotCommands generated by telegram_bot_commands()
- Slack subcommand map generated by slack_subcommand_map()
Adding a command or alias is now a one-line change to
COMMAND_REGISTRY instead of touching 6+ files.
Bugfixes included:
- Telegram now registers /rollback, /background (were missing)
- Slack now has /voice, /update, /reload-mcp (were missing)
- Gateway duplicate 'reasoning' dispatch (dead code) removed
- Gateway help text can no longer drift from CLI help
Backwards-compatible: COMMANDS and COMMANDS_BY_CATEGORY dicts are
rebuilt from the registry, so existing imports work unchanged.
* docs: update developer docs for centralized command registry
Update AGENTS.md with full 'Slash Command Registry' and 'Adding a
Slash Command' sections covering CommandDef fields, registry helpers,
and the one-line alias workflow.
Also update:
- CONTRIBUTING.md: commands.py description
- website/docs/reference/slash-commands.md: reference central registry
- docs/plans/centralize-command-registry.md: mark COMPLETED
- plans/checkpoint-rollback.md: reference new pattern
- hermes-agent-dev skill: architecture table
* chore: remove stale plan docs
Two tests lacked filesystem isolation causing them to pick up real
~/.claude/.credentials.json tokens on machines with Claude Code installed.
- test_prefers_oauth_token_over_api_key: add tmp_path, mock Path.home,
clear CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN env
- test_falls_back_to_token: same isolation
Also commit run_agent.py generic-400 retry fix.
Repair stale launchd/systemd definitions during install and
teach launchd start to reload unloaded jobs before retrying.
Stop masking service restart failures by falling back to a
foreground gateway when a configured service manager is still
broken.
Refs: #1613
Anthropic prompt caching splits input into cache_read_input_tokens,
cache_creation_input_tokens, and non-cached input_tokens. The context
counter only read input_tokens (non-cached portion), showing ~3 tokens
instead of the real ~18K total. Now includes cached portions for
Anthropic native provider only — other providers (OpenAI, OpenRouter,
Codex) already include cached tokens in their prompt_tokens field.
Before: 3/200K | 0%
After: 17.7K/200K | 9%
* fix: Anthropic OAuth compatibility — Claude Code identity fingerprinting
Anthropic routes OAuth/subscription requests based on Claude Code's
identity markers. Without them, requests get intermittent 500 errors
(~25% failure rate observed). This matches what pi-ai (clawdbot) and
OpenCode both implement for OAuth compatibility.
Changes (OAuth tokens only — API key users unaffected):
1. Headers: user-agent 'claude-cli/2.1.2 (external, cli)' + x-app 'cli'
2. System prompt: prepend 'You are Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI'
3. System prompt sanitization: replace Hermes/Nous references
4. Tool names: prefix with 'mcp_' (Claude Code convention for non-native tools)
5. Tool name stripping: remove 'mcp_' prefix from response tool calls
Before: 9/12 OK, 1 hard fail, 4 needed retries (~25% error rate)
After: 16/16 OK, 0 failures, 0 retries (0% error rate)
* fix: auto-detect DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS for systemctl --user on headless servers
On SSH sessions to headless servers, DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR may not be set even when the user's systemd instance
is running via linger. This causes 'systemctl --user' to fail with
'Failed to connect to bus: No medium found', breaking gateway
restart/start/stop as a service and falling back to foreground mode.
Add _ensure_user_systemd_env() that detects the standard D-Bus socket
at /run/user/<UID>/bus and sets the env vars before any systemctl --user
call. Called from _systemctl_cmd() so all existing call sites benefit
automatically with zero changes.
Fixes: gateway restart falling back to foreground on headless servers
* fix: show linger guidance when gateway restart fails during update and gateway restart
When systemctl --user restart fails during 'hermes update' or
'hermes gateway restart', check linger status and tell the user
exactly what to run (sudo -S -p '' loginctl enable-linger) instead of
silently falling back to foreground mode.
Also applies _ensure_user_systemd_env() to the raw systemctl calls
in cmd_update so they work properly on SSH sessions where D-Bus
env vars are missing.
* feat: add optional smart model routing
Add a conservative cheap-vs-strong routing option that can send very short/simple turns to a cheaper model across providers while keeping the primary model for complex work. Wire it through CLI, gateway, and cron, and document the config.yaml workflow.
* fix(gateway): remove recursive ExecStop from systemd units, extend TimeoutStopSec to 60s
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
---------
Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
* feat(skills): add blender-mcp optional skill for 3D modeling
Control a running Blender instance from Hermes via socket connection
to the blender-mcp addon (port 9876). Supports creating 3D objects,
materials, animations, and running arbitrary bpy code.
Placed in optional-skills/ since it requires Blender 4.3+ desktop
with a third-party addon manually started each session.
* feat(acp): support slash commands in ACP adapter (#1532)
Adds /help, /model, /tools, /context, /reset, /compact, /version
to the ACP adapter (VS Code, Zed, JetBrains). Commands are handled
directly in the server without instantiating the TUI — each command
queries agent/session state and returns plain text.
Unrecognized /commands fall through to the LLM as normal messages.
/model uses detect_provider_for_model() for auto-detection when
switching models, matching the CLI and gateway behavior.
Fixes#1402
* fix(logging): improve error logging in session search tool (#1533)
* fix(gateway): restart on retryable startup failures (#1517)
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
Adds a config.yaml-driven option to skip email attachments in the
gateway email adapter. Useful for malware protection and bandwidth
savings.
Configure in config.yaml:
platforms:
email:
skip_attachments: true
Based on PR #1521 by @an420eth, changed from env var to config.yaml
(via PlatformConfig.extra) to match the project's config-first pattern.
* docs: document skip_attachments option for email adapter
* fix(telegram): retry on transient TLS failures during connect and send
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around initialize() to
handle transient TLS resets during gateway startup. Also catches
TimedOut and OSError in addition to NetworkError.
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around send_message() for
NetworkError during message delivery, wrapping the existing Markdown
fallback logic.
Both imports are guarded with try/except ImportError for test
environments where telegram is mocked.
Based on PR #1527 by cmd8. Closes#1526.
* feat: permissive block_anchor thresholds and unicode normalization (#1539)
Salvaged from PR #1528 by an420eth. Closes#517.
Improves _strategy_block_anchor in fuzzy_match.py:
- Add unicode normalization (smart quotes, em/en-dashes, ellipsis,
non-breaking spaces → ASCII) so LLM-produced unicode artifacts
don't break anchor line matching
- Lower thresholds: 0.10 for unique matches (was 0.70), 0.30 for
multiple candidates — if first/last lines match exactly, the
block is almost certainly correct
- Use original (non-normalized) content for offset calculation to
preserve correct character positions
Tested: 3 new scenarios fixed (em-dash anchors, non-breaking space
anchors, very-low-similarity unique matches), zero regressions on
all 9 existing fuzzy match tests.
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): add file path autocomplete in the input prompt (#1545)
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
* feat(privacy): redact PII from LLM context when privacy.redact_pii is enabled
Add privacy.redact_pii config option (boolean, default false). When
enabled, the gateway redacts personally identifiable information from
the system prompt before sending it to the LLM provider:
- Phone numbers (user IDs on WhatsApp/Signal) → hashed to user_<sha256>
- User IDs → hashed to user_<sha256>
- Chat IDs → numeric portion hashed, platform prefix preserved
- Home channel IDs → hashed
- Names/usernames → NOT affected (user-chosen, publicly visible)
Hashes are deterministic (same user → same hash) so the model can
still distinguish users in group chats. Routing and delivery use
the original values internally — redaction only affects LLM context.
Inspired by OpenClaw PR #47959.
* fix(privacy): skip PII redaction on Discord/Slack (mentions need real IDs)
Discord uses <@user_id> for mentions and Slack uses <@U12345> — the LLM
needs the real ID to tag users. Redaction now only applies to WhatsApp,
Signal, and Telegram where IDs are pure routing metadata.
Add 4 platform-specific tests covering Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack.
* feat: smart approvals + /stop command (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
* feat: first-class plugin architecture + hide status bar cost by default (#1544)
The persistent status bar now shows context %, token counts, and
duration but NOT $ cost by default. Cost display is opt-in via:
display:
show_cost: true
in config.yaml, or: hermes config set display.show_cost true
The /usage command still shows full cost breakdown since the user
explicitly asked for it — this only affects the always-visible bar.
Status bar without cost:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ 15m
Status bar with show_cost: true:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ $0.06 │ 15m
* feat: improve memory prioritization + aggressive skill updates (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: improve memory prioritization — user preferences over procedural knowledge
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's memory prompt improvements (openai/codex#14493)
which focus memory writes on user preferences and recurring patterns
rather than procedural task details.
Key insight: 'Optimize for reducing future user steering — the most
valuable memory prevents the user from having to repeat themselves.'
Changes:
- MEMORY_GUIDANCE (prompt_builder.py): added prioritization hierarchy
and the core principle about reducing user steering
- MEMORY_SCHEMA (memory_tool.py): reordered WHEN TO SAVE list to put
corrections first, added explicit PRIORITY guidance
- Memory nudge (run_agent.py): now asks specifically about preferences,
corrections, and workflow patterns instead of generic 'anything'
- Memory flush (run_agent.py): now instructs to prioritize user
preferences and corrections over task-specific details
* feat: more aggressive skill creation and update prompting
Press harder on skill updates — the agent should proactively patch
skills when it encounters issues during use, not wait to be asked.
Changes:
- SKILLS_GUIDANCE: 'consider saving' → 'save'; added explicit instruction
to patch skills immediately when found outdated/wrong
- Skills header: added instruction to update loaded skills before finishing
if they had missing steps or wrong commands
- Skill nudge: more assertive ('save the approach' not 'consider saving'),
now also prompts for updating existing skills used in the task
- Skill nudge interval: lowered default from 15 to 10 iterations
- skill_manage schema: added 'patch it immediately' to update triggers
* feat: first-class plugin architecture (#1555)
Plugin system for extending Hermes with custom tools, hooks, and
integrations — no source code changes required.
Core system (hermes_cli/plugins.py):
- Plugin discovery from ~/.hermes/plugins/, .hermes/plugins/, and
pip entry_points (hermes_agent.plugins group)
- PluginContext with register_tool() and register_hook()
- 6 lifecycle hooks: pre/post tool_call, pre/post llm_call,
on_session_start/end
- Namespace package handling for relative imports in plugins
- Graceful error isolation — broken plugins never crash the agent
Integration (model_tools.py):
- Plugin discovery runs after built-in + MCP tools
- Plugin tools bypass toolset filter via get_plugin_tool_names()
- Pre/post tool call hooks fire in handle_function_call()
CLI:
- /plugins command shows loaded plugins, tool counts, status
- Added to COMMANDS dict for autocomplete
Docs:
- Getting started guide (build-a-hermes-plugin.md) — full tutorial
building a calculator plugin step by step
- Reference page (features/plugins.md) — quick overview + tables
- Covers: file structure, schemas, handlers, hooks, data files,
bundled skills, env var gating, pip distribution, common mistakes
Tests: 16 tests covering discovery, loading, hooks, tool visibility.
* feat: add /bg as alias for /background slash command
Adds /bg alias across CLI, gateway, and Slack platform adapter.
Updates help text, autocomplete, known_commands set, and dispatch
logic. Includes tests for the new alias.
* docs: add plan for centralized slash command registry
Scopes a refactor to replace 7+ scattered command definition sites
with a single CommandDef registry in hermes_cli/commands.py. Includes
derived helper functions for gateway help text, Telegram BotCommands,
Slack subcommand maps, and alias resolution.
Documents current drift (Telegram missing /rollback + /background,
Slack missing /voice + /update, gateway dead code) that the refactor
fixes for free.
---------
Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78a@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Oktay Aydin <113846926+aydnOktay@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JP Lew <polydegen@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
- 429 rate limit and 529 overloaded were incorrectly treated as
non-retryable client errors, causing immediate failure instead of
exponential backoff retry. Users hitting Anthropic rate limits got
silent failures or no response at all.
- Generic "Sorry, I encountered an unexpected error" now includes
error type, details, and status-specific hints (auth, rate limit,
overloaded).
- Failed agent with final_response=None now surfaces the actual
error message instead of returning an empty response.
* feat: add optional smart model routing
Add a conservative cheap-vs-strong routing option that can send very short/simple turns to a cheaper model across providers while keeping the primary model for complex work. Wire it through CLI, gateway, and cron, and document the config.yaml workflow.
* fix(gateway): remove recursive ExecStop from systemd units, extend TimeoutStopSec to 60s
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
---------
Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
* feat(skills): add blender-mcp optional skill for 3D modeling
Control a running Blender instance from Hermes via socket connection
to the blender-mcp addon (port 9876). Supports creating 3D objects,
materials, animations, and running arbitrary bpy code.
Placed in optional-skills/ since it requires Blender 4.3+ desktop
with a third-party addon manually started each session.
* feat(acp): support slash commands in ACP adapter (#1532)
Adds /help, /model, /tools, /context, /reset, /compact, /version
to the ACP adapter (VS Code, Zed, JetBrains). Commands are handled
directly in the server without instantiating the TUI — each command
queries agent/session state and returns plain text.
Unrecognized /commands fall through to the LLM as normal messages.
/model uses detect_provider_for_model() for auto-detection when
switching models, matching the CLI and gateway behavior.
Fixes#1402
* fix(logging): improve error logging in session search tool (#1533)
* fix(gateway): restart on retryable startup failures (#1517)
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
Adds a config.yaml-driven option to skip email attachments in the
gateway email adapter. Useful for malware protection and bandwidth
savings.
Configure in config.yaml:
platforms:
email:
skip_attachments: true
Based on PR #1521 by @an420eth, changed from env var to config.yaml
(via PlatformConfig.extra) to match the project's config-first pattern.
* docs: document skip_attachments option for email adapter
* fix(telegram): retry on transient TLS failures during connect and send
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around initialize() to
handle transient TLS resets during gateway startup. Also catches
TimedOut and OSError in addition to NetworkError.
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around send_message() for
NetworkError during message delivery, wrapping the existing Markdown
fallback logic.
Both imports are guarded with try/except ImportError for test
environments where telegram is mocked.
Based on PR #1527 by cmd8. Closes#1526.
* feat: permissive block_anchor thresholds and unicode normalization (#1539)
Salvaged from PR #1528 by an420eth. Closes#517.
Improves _strategy_block_anchor in fuzzy_match.py:
- Add unicode normalization (smart quotes, em/en-dashes, ellipsis,
non-breaking spaces → ASCII) so LLM-produced unicode artifacts
don't break anchor line matching
- Lower thresholds: 0.10 for unique matches (was 0.70), 0.30 for
multiple candidates — if first/last lines match exactly, the
block is almost certainly correct
- Use original (non-normalized) content for offset calculation to
preserve correct character positions
Tested: 3 new scenarios fixed (em-dash anchors, non-breaking space
anchors, very-low-similarity unique matches), zero regressions on
all 9 existing fuzzy match tests.
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): add file path autocomplete in the input prompt (#1545)
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
* feat(privacy): redact PII from LLM context when privacy.redact_pii is enabled
Add privacy.redact_pii config option (boolean, default false). When
enabled, the gateway redacts personally identifiable information from
the system prompt before sending it to the LLM provider:
- Phone numbers (user IDs on WhatsApp/Signal) → hashed to user_<sha256>
- User IDs → hashed to user_<sha256>
- Chat IDs → numeric portion hashed, platform prefix preserved
- Home channel IDs → hashed
- Names/usernames → NOT affected (user-chosen, publicly visible)
Hashes are deterministic (same user → same hash) so the model can
still distinguish users in group chats. Routing and delivery use
the original values internally — redaction only affects LLM context.
Inspired by OpenClaw PR #47959.
* fix(privacy): skip PII redaction on Discord/Slack (mentions need real IDs)
Discord uses <@user_id> for mentions and Slack uses <@U12345> — the LLM
needs the real ID to tag users. Redaction now only applies to WhatsApp,
Signal, and Telegram where IDs are pure routing metadata.
Add 4 platform-specific tests covering Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack.
* feat: smart approvals + /stop command (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
* feat: first-class plugin architecture + hide status bar cost by default (#1544)
The persistent status bar now shows context %, token counts, and
duration but NOT $ cost by default. Cost display is opt-in via:
display:
show_cost: true
in config.yaml, or: hermes config set display.show_cost true
The /usage command still shows full cost breakdown since the user
explicitly asked for it — this only affects the always-visible bar.
Status bar without cost:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ 15m
Status bar with show_cost: true:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ $0.06 │ 15m
* feat: improve memory prioritization + aggressive skill updates (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: improve memory prioritization — user preferences over procedural knowledge
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's memory prompt improvements (openai/codex#14493)
which focus memory writes on user preferences and recurring patterns
rather than procedural task details.
Key insight: 'Optimize for reducing future user steering — the most
valuable memory prevents the user from having to repeat themselves.'
Changes:
- MEMORY_GUIDANCE (prompt_builder.py): added prioritization hierarchy
and the core principle about reducing user steering
- MEMORY_SCHEMA (memory_tool.py): reordered WHEN TO SAVE list to put
corrections first, added explicit PRIORITY guidance
- Memory nudge (run_agent.py): now asks specifically about preferences,
corrections, and workflow patterns instead of generic 'anything'
- Memory flush (run_agent.py): now instructs to prioritize user
preferences and corrections over task-specific details
* feat: more aggressive skill creation and update prompting
Press harder on skill updates — the agent should proactively patch
skills when it encounters issues during use, not wait to be asked.
Changes:
- SKILLS_GUIDANCE: 'consider saving' → 'save'; added explicit instruction
to patch skills immediately when found outdated/wrong
- Skills header: added instruction to update loaded skills before finishing
if they had missing steps or wrong commands
- Skill nudge: more assertive ('save the approach' not 'consider saving'),
now also prompts for updating existing skills used in the task
- Skill nudge interval: lowered default from 15 to 10 iterations
- skill_manage schema: added 'patch it immediately' to update triggers
* feat: first-class plugin architecture (#1555)
Plugin system for extending Hermes with custom tools, hooks, and
integrations — no source code changes required.
Core system (hermes_cli/plugins.py):
- Plugin discovery from ~/.hermes/plugins/, .hermes/plugins/, and
pip entry_points (hermes_agent.plugins group)
- PluginContext with register_tool() and register_hook()
- 6 lifecycle hooks: pre/post tool_call, pre/post llm_call,
on_session_start/end
- Namespace package handling for relative imports in plugins
- Graceful error isolation — broken plugins never crash the agent
Integration (model_tools.py):
- Plugin discovery runs after built-in + MCP tools
- Plugin tools bypass toolset filter via get_plugin_tool_names()
- Pre/post tool call hooks fire in handle_function_call()
CLI:
- /plugins command shows loaded plugins, tool counts, status
- Added to COMMANDS dict for autocomplete
Docs:
- Getting started guide (build-a-hermes-plugin.md) — full tutorial
building a calculator plugin step by step
- Reference page (features/plugins.md) — quick overview + tables
- Covers: file structure, schemas, handlers, hooks, data files,
bundled skills, env var gating, pip distribution, common mistakes
Tests: 16 tests covering discovery, loading, hooks, tool visibility.
* fix: hermes update causes dual gateways on macOS (launchd)
Three bugs worked together to create the dual-gateway problem:
1. cmd_update only checked systemd for gateway restart, completely
ignoring launchd on macOS. After killing the PID it would print
'Restart it with: hermes gateway run' even when launchd was about
to auto-respawn the process.
2. launchd's KeepAlive.SuccessfulExit=false respawns the gateway
after SIGTERM (non-zero exit), so the user's manual restart
created a second instance.
3. The launchd plist lacked --replace (systemd had it), so the
respawned gateway didn't kill stale instances on startup.
Fixes:
- Add --replace to launchd ProgramArguments (matches systemd)
- Add launchd detection to cmd_update's auto-restart logic
- Print 'auto-restart via launchd' instead of manual restart hint
* fix: add launchd plist auto-refresh + explicit restart in cmd_update
Two integration issues with the initial fix:
1. Existing macOS users with old plist (no --replace) would never
get the fix until manual uninstall/reinstall. Added
refresh_launchd_plist_if_needed() — mirrors the existing
refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed(). Called from launchd_start(),
launchd_restart(), and cmd_update.
2. cmd_update relied on KeepAlive respawn after SIGTERM rather than
explicit launchctl stop/start. This caused races: launchd would
respawn the old process before the PID file was cleaned up.
Now does explicit stop+start (matching how systemd gets an
explicit systemctl restart), with plist refresh first so the
new --replace flag is picked up.
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Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78a@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Oktay Aydin <113846926+aydnOktay@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JP Lew <polydegen@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
pytest.raises(match=...) is case-sensitive by default. The error
message starts with "Neither" (capital N) but the regex used lowercase
"neither", causing CI failures on Linux.
When neither apptainer nor singularity is installed, the Singularity
backend silently defaults to "singularity" and fails with a cryptic
FileNotFoundError inside _start_instance(). Add a preflight check
that resolves the executable and verifies it responds, raising a
clear RuntimeError with install instructions on failure.
Closes#1511
The persistent status bar now shows context %, token counts, and
duration but NOT $ cost by default. Cost display is opt-in via:
display:
show_cost: true
in config.yaml, or: hermes config set display.show_cost true
The /usage command still shows full cost breakdown since the user
explicitly asked for it — this only affects the always-visible bar.
Status bar without cost:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ 15m
Status bar with show_cost: true:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ $0.06 │ 15m
Add /browser slash command for connecting browser tools to the user's
live Chrome instance via Chrome DevTools Protocol:
/browser connect — connect to Chrome on localhost:9222
/browser connect ws://host:port — custom CDP endpoint
/browser disconnect — revert to default (headless/Browserbase)
/browser status — show current browser mode + connectivity
When connected:
- All browser tools (navigate, snapshot, click, etc.) control the
user's real Chrome — logged-in sessions, cookies, open tabs
- Platform-specific Chrome launch instructions are shown
- Port connectivity is tested immediately
- A context message is injected so the model knows it's controlling
a live browser and should be mindful of user's open tabs
Implementation:
- BROWSER_CDP_URL env var drives the backend selection in browser_tool.py
- New _create_cdp_session() creates sessions using the CDP override
- _get_cdp_override() checked before local/Browserbase selection
- Existing agent-browser --cdp flag handles the actual CDP connection
Inspired by OpenClaw's browser profile system.
Thorough code review found 5 issues across run_agent.py, cli.py, and gateway/:
1. CRITICAL — Gateway stream consumer task never started: stream_consumer_holder
was checked BEFORE run_sync populated it. Fixed with async polling pattern
(same as track_agent).
2. MEDIUM-HIGH — Streaming fallback after partial delivery caused double-response:
if streaming failed after some tokens were delivered, the fallback would
re-deliver the full response. Now tracks deltas_were_sent and only falls
back when no tokens reached consumers yet.
3. MEDIUM — Codex mode lost on_first_delta spinner callback: _run_codex_stream
now accepts on_first_delta parameter, fires it on first text delta. Passed
through from _interruptible_streaming_api_call via _codex_on_first_delta
instance attribute.
4. MEDIUM — CLI close-tag after-text bypassed tag filtering: text after a
reasoning close tag was sent directly to _emit_stream_text, skipping
open-tag detection. Now routes through _stream_delta for full filtering.
5. LOW — Removed 140 lines of dead code: old _streaming_api_call method
(superseded by _interruptible_streaming_api_call). Updated 13 tests in
test_run_agent.py and test_openai_client_lifecycle.py to use the new
method name and signature.
4573 tests passing.
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
Previously the fallback only triggered on specific error keywords like
'streaming is not supported'. Many third-party providers have partial
or broken streaming — rejecting stream=True, crashing on stream_options,
dropping connections mid-stream, returning malformed chunks, etc.
Now: any exception during the streaming API call triggers an automatic
fallback to the standard non-streaming request path. The error is logged
at INFO level for diagnostics but never surfaces to the user. If the
fallback also fails, THAT error propagates normally.
This ensures streaming is additive — it improves UX when it works but
never breaks providers that don't support it.
Tests: 2 new (any-error fallback, double-failure propagation), 15 total.
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
Discord uses <@user_id> for mentions and Slack uses <@U12345> — the LLM
needs the real ID to tag users. Redaction now only applies to WhatsApp,
Signal, and Telegram where IDs are pure routing metadata.
Add 4 platform-specific tests covering Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack.
Add privacy.redact_pii config option (boolean, default false). When
enabled, the gateway redacts personally identifiable information from
the system prompt before sending it to the LLM provider:
- Phone numbers (user IDs on WhatsApp/Signal) → hashed to user_<sha256>
- User IDs → hashed to user_<sha256>
- Chat IDs → numeric portion hashed, platform prefix preserved
- Home channel IDs → hashed
- Names/usernames → NOT affected (user-chosen, publicly visible)
Hashes are deterministic (same user → same hash) so the model can
still distinguish users in group chats. Routing and delivery use
the original values internally — redaction only affects LLM context.
Inspired by OpenClaw PR #47959.
Make the new Docker cwd-mount tests pass in CI environments that do not have the minisweagent package installed by injecting a fake module instead of monkeypatching an import path that may not exist.
Keep Docker sandboxes isolated by default. Add an explicit terminal.docker_mount_cwd_to_workspace opt-in, thread it through terminal/file environment creation, and document the security tradeoff and config.yaml workflow clearly.
Fixes#1445 — When using Docker backend, the user's current working
directory is now automatically bind-mounted to /workspace inside the
container. This allows users to run `cd my-project && hermes` and have
their project files accessible to the agent without manual volume config.
Changes:
- Add host_cwd and auto_mount_cwd parameters to DockerEnvironment
- Capture original host CWD in _get_env_config() before container fallback
- Pass host_cwd through _create_environment() to Docker backend
- Add TERMINAL_DOCKER_NO_AUTO_MOUNT env var to disable if needed
- Skip auto-mount when /workspace is already explicitly mounted
- Add tests for auto-mount behavior
- Add documentation for the new feature
The auto-mount is skipped when:
1. TERMINAL_DOCKER_NO_AUTO_MOUNT=true is set
2. User configured docker_volumes with :/workspace
3. persistent_filesystem=true (persistent sandbox mode)
This makes the Docker backend behave more intuitively — the agent
operates on the user's actual project directory by default.
Adds /help, /model, /tools, /context, /reset, /compact, /version
to the ACP adapter (VS Code, Zed, JetBrains). Commands are handled
directly in the server without instantiating the TUI — each command
queries agent/session state and returns plain text.
Unrecognized /commands fall through to the LLM as normal messages.
/model uses detect_provider_for_model() for auto-detection when
switching models, matching the CLI and gateway behavior.
Fixes#1402
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
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Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Fixes#1445 — When using Docker backend, the user's current working
directory is now automatically bind-mounted to /workspace inside the
container. This allows users to run `cd my-project && hermes` and have
their project files accessible to the agent without manual volume config.
Changes:
- Add host_cwd and auto_mount_cwd parameters to DockerEnvironment
- Capture original host CWD in _get_env_config() before container fallback
- Pass host_cwd through _create_environment() to Docker backend
- Add TERMINAL_DOCKER_NO_AUTO_MOUNT env var to disable if needed
- Skip auto-mount when /workspace is already explicitly mounted
- Add tests for auto-mount behavior
- Add documentation for the new feature
The auto-mount is skipped when:
1. TERMINAL_DOCKER_NO_AUTO_MOUNT=true is set
2. User configured docker_volumes with :/workspace
3. persistent_filesystem=true (persistent sandbox mode)
This makes the Docker backend behave more intuitively — the agent
operates on the user's actual project directory by default.
Salvaged from PR #1104 by kshitijk4poor. Closes#683.
Adds a persistent status bar to the CLI showing model name, context
window usage with visual bar, estimated cost, and session duration.
Responsive layout degrades gracefully for narrow terminals.
Changes:
- agent/usage_pricing.py: shared pricing table, cost estimation with
Decimal arithmetic, duration/token formatting helpers
- agent/insights.py: refactored to reuse usage_pricing (eliminates
duplicate pricing table and formatting logic)
- cli.py: status bar with FormattedTextControl fragments, color-coded
context thresholds (green/yellow/orange/red), enhanced /usage with
cost breakdown, 1Hz idle refresh for status bar updates
- tests/test_cli_status_bar.py: status bar snapshot, width collapsing,
usage report with/without pricing, zero-priced model handling
- tests/test_insights.py: verify zero-priced providers show as unknown
Salvage fixes:
- Resolved conflict with voice status bar (both coexist in layout)
- Import _format_context_length from hermes_cli.banner (moved since PR)
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Multiple Hermes installations on the same machine now get unique
systemd service names:
- Default ~/.hermes → hermes-gateway (backward compatible)
- Custom HERMES_HOME → hermes-gateway-<8-char-hash>
Changes:
- Add get_service_name() in hermes_cli/gateway.py that derives a
deterministic service name from HERMES_HOME via SHA256
- Replace all hardcoded 'hermes-gateway' systemd references with
get_service_name() across gateway.py, main.py, status.py, uninstall.py
- Add HERMES_HOME env var to both user and system systemd unit templates
so the gateway process uses the correct installation
- Update tests to use get_service_name() in assertions
When typing /model deepseek-chat while on a different provider, the
model name now auto-resolves to the correct provider instead of
silently staying on the wrong one and causing API errors.
Detection priority:
1. Direct provider with credentials (e.g. DEEPSEEK_API_KEY set)
2. OpenRouter catalog match with proper slug remapping
3. Direct provider without creds (clear error beats silent failure)
Also adds DeepSeek as a first-class API-key provider — just set
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY and /model deepseek-chat routes directly.
Bare model names get remapped to proper OpenRouter slugs:
/model gpt-5.4 → openai/gpt-5.4
/model claude-opus-4.6 → anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Salvages the concept from PR #1177 by @virtaava with credential
awareness and OpenRouter slug mapping added.
Co-authored-by: virtaava <virtaava@users.noreply.github.com>
Salvaged from PR #1470 by adavyas.
Core fix: Honcho tool calls in a multi-session gateway could route to
the wrong session because honcho_tools.py relied on process-global
state. Now threads session context through the call chain:
AIAgent._invoke_tool() → handle_function_call() → registry.dispatch()
→ handler **kw → _resolve_session_context()
Changes:
- Add _resolve_session_context() to prefer per-call context over globals
- Plumb honcho_manager + honcho_session_key through handle_function_call
- Add sync_honcho=False to run_conversation() for synthetic flush turns
- Pass honcho_session_key through gateway memory flush lifecycle
- Harden gateway PID detection when /proc cmdline is unreadable
- Make interrupt test scripts import-safe for pytest-xdist
- Wrap BibTeX examples in Jekyll raw blocks for docs build
- Fix thread-order-dependent assertion in client lifecycle test
- Expand Honcho docs: session isolation, lifecycle, routing internals
Dropped from original PR:
- Indentation change in _create_request_openai_client that would move
client creation inside the lock (causes unnecessary contention)
Co-authored-by: adavyas <adavyas@users.noreply.github.com>
default group and channel sessions to per-user isolation, allow opting back into shared room sessions via config.yaml, and document Discord gateway routing and session behavior.
Include participant identifiers in non-DM session keys when available so group and channel conversations no longer share one transcript across every active user in the chat.
Add _ensure_ssl_certs() that discovers CA certificate bundles before any
HTTP library is imported. Resolution order:
1. Python's ssl.get_default_verify_paths()
2. certifi (if installed)
3. Common distro/macOS paths
Only sets SSL_CERT_FILE if not already present in the environment.
Wrapped in a function (called immediately) to avoid polluting module
namespace.
Based on PR #1151 by sylvesterroos.
Restore local STT command fallback for voice transcription, detect whisper and ffmpeg in common local install paths, and avoid bogus no-provider messaging when only a backend-specific key is missing.
Complete the YAML null handling for all three SessionResetPolicy fields.
at_hour and idle_minutes already had null coalescing; mode was still
using data.get('mode', 'both') which returns None when the key exists
with an explicit null value.
Add regression test covering all-null input.
Based on PR #1120 by stablegenius49.
* fix(agent): skip reasoning extra_body for models that don't support it
Sending reasoning config to models like MiniMax or Nvidia via OpenRouter
causes a 400 BadRequestError. Previously, reasoning extra_body was sent
to all OpenRouter and Nous models unconditionally.
Fix: only send reasoning extra_body when the model slug starts with a
known reasoning-capable prefix (deepseek/, anthropic/, openai/, x-ai/,
google/gemini-2, qwen/qwen3) or when using Nous Portal directly.
Applies to both the main API call path (_build_api_kwargs) and the
conversation summary path.
Fixes#1083
* test(agent): cover reasoning extra_body gating
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- Add 'emoji' field to ToolEntry and 'get_emoji()' to ToolRegistry
- Add emoji= to all 50+ registry.register() calls across tool files
- Add get_tool_emoji() helper in agent/display.py with 3-tier resolution:
skin override → registry default → hardcoded fallback
- Replace hardcoded emoji maps in run_agent.py, delegate_tool.py, and
gateway/run.py with centralized get_tool_emoji() calls
- Add 'tool_emojis' field to SkinConfig so skins can override per-tool
emojis (e.g. ares skin could use swords instead of wrenches)
- Add 11 tests (5 registry emoji, 6 display/skin integration)
- Update AGENTS.md skin docs table
Based on the approach from PR #1061 by ForgingAlex (emoji centralization
in registry). This salvage fixes several issues from the original:
- Does NOT split the cronjob tool (which would crash on missing schemas)
- Does NOT change image_generate toolset/requires_env/is_async
- Does NOT delete existing tests
- Completes the centralization (gateway/run.py was missed)
- Hooks into the skin system for full customizability
SSH persistent shell now defaults to true — non-local backends benefit
most from state persistence across execute() calls. Local backend
remains opt-in via TERMINAL_LOCAL_PERSISTENT env var.
New config.yaml option: terminal.persistent_shell (default: true)
Controls the default for non-local backends. Users can disable with:
hermes config set terminal.persistent_shell false
Precedence: per-backend env var > TERMINAL_PERSISTENT_SHELL > default.
Wired through cli.py, gateway/run.py, and hermes_cli/config.py so the
config.yaml value reaches terminal_tool via env var bridge.
Fixes#1036
After adding an MCP server to config.yaml, users had to restart Hermes
before the new tools became visible — even though /reload-mcp existed.
Add _check_config_mcp_changes() called from process_loop every 5s:
- stat() config.yaml for mtime changes (fast path, no YAML parse)
- On mtime change, parse and compare mcp_servers section
- If mcp_servers changed, auto-trigger _reload_mcp() and notify user
- Skip check while agent is running to avoid interrupting tool calls
- Throttled to CONFIG_WATCH_INTERVAL=5s to avoid busy-polling
/reload-mcp still works for manual force-reload.
Tests: 6 new tests in TestMCPConfigWatch, all passed
Co-authored-by: teyrebaz33 <hakanerten02@hotmail.com>
Restore the existing vLLM integration test module that was accidentally replaced during development and add a focused agent-loop regression test for dict tool-call arguments from OpenAI-compatible local backends.
Normalize tool call arguments when OpenAI-compatible backends return parsed dict/list payloads instead of JSON strings. This prevents the .strip() crash during tool-call validation for llama.cpp and similar servers, while preserving existing empty-string and invalid-JSON handling. Adds a focused regression test for dict arguments in the agent loop.
Two changes to align Discord behavior with Slack:
1. Auto-thread on @mention (default: true)
- When someone @mentions the bot in a server channel, a thread is
automatically created from their message and the response goes there.
- Each thread gets its own isolated session (like Slack).
- Configurable via discord.auto_thread in config.yaml (default: true)
or DISCORD_AUTO_THREAD env var (env takes precedence).
- DMs and existing threads are unaffected.
2. Skip @mention in bot-participated threads
- Once the bot has responded in a thread (auto-created or manually
entered), subsequent messages in that thread no longer require
@mention. Users can just type normally.
- Tracked via in-memory set (_bot_participated_threads). After a
gateway restart, users need to @mention once to re-establish.
- Threads the bot hasn't participated in still require @mention.
Config change:
discord:
auto_thread: true # new, added to DEFAULT_CONFIG
Tests: 7 new tests covering auto-thread default, disable, bot thread
participation tracking, and mention skip logic. All 903 gateway tests pass.
When a cronjob is created from within a Telegram or Slack thread,
deliver=origin was posting to the parent channel instead of the thread.
Root cause: the gateway never set HERMES_SESSION_THREAD_ID in the
session environment, so cronjob_tools.py could not capture thread_id
into the job's origin metadata — even though the scheduler already
reads origin.get('thread_id').
Fix:
- gateway/run.py: set HERMES_SESSION_THREAD_ID when thread_id is
present on the session context, and clear it in _clear_session_env
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: read HERMES_SESSION_THREAD_ID into origin
Closes#1219
Hermes startup entrypoints now load ~/.hermes/.env and project fallback env files with user config taking precedence over stale shell-exported values. This makes model/provider/base URL changes in .env actually take effect after restarting Hermes. Adds a shared env loader plus regression coverage, and reproduces the original bug case where OPENAI_BASE_URL and HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER remained stuck on old shell values before import.
Add an explicit messaging-extra install hint to the missing PyNaCl/davey error path, cover it with a voice-channel join regression test, and skip the low-level NaCl packet tests when PyNaCl is not installed locally.
Tests cover the actual code paths changed in voice fixes:
_on_packet DAVE passthrough (8 tests):
- Known SSRC + DAVE decrypt success → buffered
- Unknown SSRC + DAVE → skip DAVE, passthrough to Opus
- DAVE "Unencrypted" error → passthrough, not dropped
- DAVE other error → packet dropped
- No DAVE session → direct decode
- Bot's own SSRC → ignored (echo prevention)
- Multiple SSRCs → separate buffers
SSRC auto-mapping (6 tests):
- Single allowed user → auto-mapped
- Multiple allowed users → no auto-map
- No allowlist → sole non-bot member inferred
- Unallowed user → rejected
- Only bot in channel → no map
- Auto-map persists across checks
Buffer lifecycle (4 tests):
- Known SSRC completed utterance
- Short buffer ignored
- Recent audio waits
- Stale unknown buffer discarded
TTS playback (10 tests):
- play_tts calls play_in_voice_channel in VC
- play_tts falls through when not in VC
- play_tts wrong channel no match
- Voice input dedup (runner skips)
- Text + voice_mode combinations
- Error/empty response skipped
- Agent TTS tool dedup
UDP keepalive (2 tests):
- Interval within bounds
- Silence frame actually sent via send_packet
play_tts was returning success without playing anything when bot was
in a voice channel. Now it calls play_in_voice_channel directly.
Simplified skip_double dedup: base adapter handles voice input TTS
via play_tts (which now works for VC), runner skips to avoid double.
Track adapter background message-processing tasks, cancel them during gateway shutdown, and interrupt running agents before disconnecting adapters. This prevents old gateway instances from continuing in-flight work after stop/replace, which was contributing to the restart-time task continuation/flicker behavior reported in #1414. Adds regression coverage for adapter task cancellation and shutdown interrupts.
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Add regression coverage for non-album Telegram photo burst batching, photo follow-ups that should queue without interrupting active runs, and the gateway priority-interrupt path for photo events.
_save_platform_tools() overwrote the entire platform_toolsets list with
only the toolsets known to CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS. This silently dropped
any MCP server toolsets that users had added manually to config.yaml.
Fix: collect any existing toolset keys that are not in CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS
and append them back after the wizard's selections are written. This ensures
MCP toolsets survive a hermes tools save.
Fixes#1247
Extend subprocess env sanitization beyond provider credentials by blocking Hermes-managed tool, messaging, and related gateway runtime vars. Reuse a shared sanitizer in LocalEnvironment and ProcessRegistry so background and PTY processes honor the same blocklist and _HERMES_FORCE_ escape hatch. Add regression coverage for local env execution and process_registry spawning.
Update interrupt-key expectations for namespaced DM session keys and add a regression test that different DM chat IDs produce distinct gateway sessions.
- add regression coverage for BaseException cleanup in atomic_json_write
- add dedicated atomic_yaml_write tests, including interrupt cleanup
- document why BaseException is intentional in both helpers
Salvaged from PR #1292 onto current main. Preserve per-job model,
provider, and base_url overrides in cron execution, persist them in
job records, expose them through the cronjob tool create/update paths,
and add regression coverage. Deliberately does not persist per-job
api_key values.
Store the pending OAuth state and code verifier between --auth-url and --auth-code so the manual headless flow can reuse Flow.fetch_token() without disabling PKCE.
- add stt.enabled to the default user config
- make transcription_tools respect the disabled flag globally
- surface disabled state cleanly in voice mode diagnostics
- add regression coverage for disabled STT provider selection
- bridge stt.enabled from config.yaml into gateway runtime config
- preserve the flag in GatewayConfig serialization
- skip gateway voice transcription when STT is disabled
- add regression tests for config loading and disabled transcription flow
pattern_key was derived by splitting the regex on \b and taking [1],
so patterns starting with the same word (e.g. find -exec rm and
find -delete) produced the same key "find". Approving one silently
approved the other. Using the unique description string as the key
eliminates all collisions.
The fork bomb regex used `()` (empty capture group) and unescaped `{}`
instead of literal `\(\)` and `\{\}`. This meant the classic fork bomb
`:(){ :|:& };:` was never detected. Also added `\s*` between `:` and
`&` and between `;` and trailing `:` to catch whitespace variants.
When the Responses API returns tool call arguments as a dict,
str(dict) produces Python repr with single quotes (e.g. {'key': 'val'})
which is invalid JSON. Downstream json.loads() fails silently and the
tool gets called with empty arguments, losing all parameters.
Affects both function_call and custom_tool_call item types in
_normalize_codex_response().
Salvaged from PR #1115 onto current main by reusing the shared
Discord file-attachment helper for local video and document sends,
including file_name support for documents and regression coverage.
Use per-request OpenAI clients inside _interruptible_api_call so interrupts and transport failures do not poison later retries. Also add closed-client detection/recreation for the shared client and regression tests covering retry and concurrency behavior.
Use Path.relative_to-based containment checks for the salvaged .worktreeinclude guard, remove the replayed test logic from the cherry-picked PR, and add real integration regressions for file, directory, and symlink escapes.
Resolve .worktreeinclude entries and validate that both the source path
stays within the repository root and the destination path stays within
the worktree directory before copying files or creating symlinks.
A malicious .worktreeinclude in a cloned repository could previously
reference paths like "../../etc/passwd" to copy or symlink arbitrary
files from outside the repo into the worktree.
CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
- Add background thread mechanism (prefetch_update_check/get_update_result)
so git fetch runs in parallel with skill sync and agent init
- Fix repo path fallback in check_for_updates() for dev installs
- Remove duplicate build_welcome_banner (~180 lines) and
_format_context_length from cli.py — the banner.py version is
now the single source of truth
- Port skin banner_hero/banner_logo support and terminal width check
from cli.py's version into banner.py
- Add update status output to hermes version command
- Add unit tests for update check, prefetch, and version string
Add regression coverage for gateway and CLI /retry behavior so retried messages replace the original user turn instead of accumulating duplicate user entries in history.
Add base_url/api_key overrides for auxiliary tasks and delegation so users can
route those flows straight to a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint without
having to rely on provider=main or named custom providers.
Also clear gateway session env vars in test isolation so the full suite stays
deterministic when run from a messaging-backed agent session.
Moonshot (legacy key) users were shown kimi-for-coding and
kimi-k2-thinking-turbo which only work on the Coding Plan endpoint
(api.kimi.com/coding/v1). Add a separate "moonshot" model list that
excludes plan-specific models.
Resolve cron auto-delivery targets after reloading .env so bare-platform deliveries pick up home-channel settings before the agent run. Add a regression test for the dotenv-backed home-channel path and clean up scheduler tests that were leaking un-awaited send coroutines.
Allow cron runs to keep using send_message for additional destinations, but
skip same-target sends when the scheduler will already auto-deliver the final
response there. Add prompt/tool guidance, docs, and regression coverage for
origin/home-channel resolution and thread-aware comparisons.
Salvaged PR #1052 onto current main with the contributor commit preserved plus a small follow-up for current-main conflict resolution and safe command quoting.
The fake_popen mock used iter([]) for proc.stdout which doesn't
support .close(). Use MagicMock with __iter__ instead, since
_drain_stdout now calls proc.stdout.close() in its finally block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cancel any queued media-group flush tasks during Telegram adapter disconnect
and clear the buffered events map so shutdown can't leave a pending album
flush behind. Add a regression test covering disconnect before the debounce
window expires.
`hermes update` crashed with CalledProcessError when run on a local-only
branch (e.g. fix/stoicneko) because `git rev-list HEAD..origin/{branch}`
fails when origin/{branch} doesn't exist. Now verifies the remote branch
exists first and falls back to origin/main.
When shutil.which('hermes') returns None, _resolve_hermes_bin() now tries
sys.executable -m hermes_cli.main as a fallback. This handles setups where
Hermes is launched via a venv or module invocation and the hermes symlink is
not on PATH for the gateway process.
Fixes#1049
Telegram albums arrive as multiple updates with a shared media_group_id.
Previously each image triggered a separate MessageEvent, causing the agent
to interrupt itself when describing the first image.
- Add 0.8s debounce window for media group items
- Merge attachments into single MessageEvent
- Add regression test for photo album buffering
Move the dangerous-command header onto its own line inside the approval box
so the panel border no longer cuts through it, and restore the long-command
expand path in the active prompt_toolkit approval callback. The CLI already
had a merged 'view full command' feature in fallback/gateway paths, but the
live TUI callback was still using an older choice set and never exposed it.
Add regression tests for long-command view state, in-place expansion, and
panel rendering.
Fixes#1005
Without linger, user-level systemd services stop when the SSH session
ends — even though systemctl --user status shows active (running).
Changes to systemd_install():
- Try loginctl enable-linger automatically (succeeds when the process
has the required privileges)
- If loginctl fails (no privileges), print a clear, copy-pasteable
warning with the exact command the user must run
New helper: _ensure_linger_enabled()
- Fast path: checks /var/lib/systemd/linger/<user> (no subprocess)
- Auto-enable: loginctl enable-linger <user>
- Fallback: actionable warning with sudo command + restart instructions
Tests: 4 new tests in TestEnsureLingerEnabled, 205 passed total
Remove diary-style memory framing from the system prompt and memory tool
schema, explicitly steer task/session logs to session_search, and clarify
that session_search is for cross-session recall after checking the current
conversation first. Add regression tests for the updated guidance text.
Unify browser session teardown so manual close, inactivity cleanup, and emergency shutdown all follow the same cleanup path instead of partially duplicating logic.
This changes browser_close() to delegate to cleanup_browser(), which means recording shutdown, Browserbase release, activity bookkeeping cleanup, and local socket-directory removal now happen consistently. It also updates emergency cleanup to route through cleanup_all_browsers() and explicitly clear in-memory tracking state after teardown so stale active-session, last-activity, and recording entries are not left behind on exit.
The screenshot fallback path has also been fixed. _extract_screenshot_path_from_text() now matches real absolute PNG paths, including quoted output, so browser_vision() can recover screenshots when agent-browser emits human-readable text instead of JSON.
Regression coverage was added in tests/tools/test_browser_cleanup.py for screenshot path extraction, cleanup_browser() state removal, browser_close() delegation, and emergency cleanup state clearing.
Verified with:
- python -m pytest tests/tools/test_browser_cleanup.py -q
- python -m pytest tests/tools/test_browser_console.py tests/gateway/test_send_image_file.py -q
Keep the argparse CLI aligned with the slash command so --yes and -y
behave the same as --force for hermes skills install.
Add a parser-level regression test.
Salvaged from PR #1007 by stablegenius49.
- let INSTALL_POLICY decide dangerous verdict handling for builtin skills
- allow --force to override blocked dangerous decisions for trusted and community sources
- accept --yes / -y as aliases for --force in /skills install
- update regression tests to match the intended policy precedence
Follow up on salvaged PR #1012.
Prevents raw custom-provider names from intercepting built-in provider ids,
and keeps the regression coverage focused on current-main behavior.
Normalize summary-model content before stripping so empty or non-string
responses do not trigger retry/fallback paths. Adds sync and async
regression tests for None content.
Salvages the two still-relevant fixes from PR #993 onto current main:
- use a 3-tuple LOCAL delivery key so explicit/local-origin targets are not duplicated
- shut down the previous agent-loop ThreadPoolExecutor when resizing the global pool
Adds regression tests for both behaviors.
Add regression coverage for the new provider-aware vision setup flow and make the default OpenAI choice write AUXILIARY_VISION_MODEL so auxiliary vision requests don't fall back to the main model slug.
