Builds on @kshitijk4poor's CLI handoff stub. The original PR's flow
deferred everything to whenever a real user happened to message the
target platform; this rewrites it so the gateway picks up handoffs
immediately and the destination chat just starts working.
State machine on sessions table replaces the boolean flag:
None -> 'pending' -> 'running' -> ('completed' | 'failed')
plus handoff_error for failure reasons. CLI request_handoff /
get_handoff_state / list_pending_handoffs / claim_handoff /
complete_handoff / fail_handoff helpers wrap the transitions.
CLI side (cli.py): /handoff <platform> validates the platform's home
channel via load_gateway_config, refuses if the agent is mid-turn,
flips the row to 'pending', and poll-blocks (60s) on terminal state.
On 'completed' it prints the /resume hint and exits the CLI like
/quit. On 'failed' or timeout it surfaces the reason and the CLI
session stays intact.
Gateway side (gateway/run.py): new _handoff_watcher background task
scans state.db every 2s, atomically claims pending rows, and runs
_process_handoff for each. _process_handoff:
1. Resolves the platform's home channel.
2. Asks the adapter for a fresh thread via the new
create_handoff_thread(parent_chat_id, name) capability so the
handed-off conversation gets its own scrollback. Adapters that
don't support threads (or fail) return None and the watcher
falls back to the home channel directly.
3. Constructs a SessionSource keyed as 'thread' when a thread was
created, 'dm' otherwise, then session_store.switch_session
re-binds the destination key to the CLI session_id. The full
role-aware transcript replays via load_transcript on the next
turn (no flat-text injection into context_prompt).
4. Forges a synthetic MessageEvent(internal=True) with the handoff
notice and dispatches through _handle_message; the agent runs
against the loaded transcript and adapter.send delivers the
reply.
5. Marks the row 'completed' on success, 'failed' (+error) on any
exception.
Adapter capability (gateway/platforms/base.py): create_handoff_thread
default returns None. Three overrides:
- Telegram (gateway/platforms/telegram.py): wraps _create_dm_topic
so DM topics (Bot API 9.4+) and forum supergroups both work.
- Discord (gateway/platforms/discord.py): parent.create_thread on
text channels with a seed-message + message.create_thread
fallback for permission edge cases. Skips DMs and other
non-thread-capable parents.
- Slack (gateway/platforms/slack.py): posts a seed message and
returns its ts as the thread anchor — Slack threads are
message-anchored.
In thread mode, build_session_key keys the destination without
user_id (thread_sessions_per_user defaults to False) so the synthetic
turn and any later real-user message in the thread share the same
session_key — seamless takeover without race.
CommandDef stays cli_only=True (handoff is initiated from the CLI;
gateway exposes /resume for the reverse direction).
Removed the original PR's _handle_message_with_agent handoff hook
(transcript-as-text injection into context_prompt) and the
send_message_tool notification — both replaced by the watcher path.
Tests rewritten around the new state machine: 13/13 pass.
E2E-validated thread + no-thread paths and the failure path against
real worktree imports with mocked adapters.
Per-tool-call push notifications on Telegram are noisy enough that
'all' is the wrong default — long agent runs spam the user's notification
shade with status messages they didn't ask to be pinged about. Final
responses, approval prompts, and slash confirmations still notify;
intermediate progress, streaming, and tool-progress messages now
deliver silently via disable_notification.
Users who want the legacy behavior can opt back in with:
display:
platforms:
telegram:
notifications: all
or HERMES_TELEGRAM_NOTIFICATIONS=all.
Add a configurable notifications mode for the Telegram platform adapter
that controls which messages trigger push notifications.
- display.platforms.telegram.notifications: "all" (default) | "important"
- HERMES_TELEGRAM_NOTIFICATIONS env var override
- In "important" mode, all sends use disable_notification=True except:
- Approvals (send_exec_approval) and slash confirmations
- Final response messages (metadata["notify"]=True)
- Zero overhead in default "all" mode
- Zero impact on non-Telegram platforms
Closes#22771
- Restore allowed_chats gate before thread_id check so ignored_threads
applies universally (even to guest mentions).
- Compute _message_mentions_bot once in _should_process_message to
eliminate redundant second entity scan when guest_mode=true and the
message does not mention the bot.
- Remove redundant _is_group_chat from _is_guest_mention (caller already
verified the message is a group chat).
- Update _telegram_allowed_chats docstring to note guest_mode exception.
- Add test coverage: bot_command entity, text_mention entity,
caption_entities, and ignored_threads + guest_mode interaction.
- Add nik1t7n to AUTHOR_MAP.
When a Telegram user replies using the native quote feature to select
only part of a prior message, _build_message_event was injecting the
ENTIRE replied-to message into reply_to_text via
message.reply_to_message.text/caption. python-telegram-bot exposes
the user-selected substring as message.quote (TextQuote.text); we now
prefer that and fall back to the full replied-to text only when no
native quote is present.
The agent-visible "[Replying to: \"...\"]" prefix can otherwise expand
the user's narrow quote into the full prior message, causing the agent
to act on unrelated actionable-looking text the user did not select
(e.g. multi-item briefings where the user quotes one bullet but the
prefix injects every bullet). Falls back cleanly when message.quote
is absent (PTB <21 or replies that don't quote a substring).
Fixes#22619
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a GFM table has a row-label column (first column with no header),
_render_table_block_for_telegram incorrectly included the row-label cell
in the bullet zip alongside the data cells, producing a spurious bullet
like '• 維度: 核心賣點' before the real data rows.
Detect the row-label column by comparing the first data row cell count
against the header count (has_row_label_col = len(first_data_row) ==
len(headers) + 1). When present, use cells[0] as the heading and
zip headers against cells[1:] only, correctly excluding the row-label
from the bullet list.
Fixes#22604
The send path uses Hermes' reply-anchor fallback for DM topic lanes
(message_thread_id + reply_to_message_id), but send_chat_action only
accepts message_thread_id — Telegram's Bot API 10.0 rejects it for
these lanes. Without this short-circuit, every typing tick (~every 2s
during agent runs) makes a doomed API call that gets logged as a
'thread not found' debug warning. Skip the call entirely when the
metadata indicates a DM topic reply-fallback lane; the user-visible
behavior is unchanged (no typing indicator either way for these
lanes), but the logs stay clean.
Identified during salvage review of #22053.
Closes the last Python-on-Windows UTF-8 exposure by making every
text-mode open() call explicit about its encoding.
Before: on Windows, bare open(path, 'r') defaults to the system
locale encoding (cp1252 on US-locale installs). That means reading
any config/yaml/markdown/json file with non-ASCII content either
crashes with UnicodeDecodeError or silently mis-decodes bytes.
After: all 89 affected call sites in production code now pass
encoding='utf-8' explicitly. Works identically on every platform
and every locale, no surprise behavior.
Mechanical sweep via:
ruff check --preview --extend-select PLW1514 --unsafe-fixes --fix --exclude 'tests,venv,.venv,node_modules,website,optional-skills, skills,tinker-atropos,plugins' .
All 89 fixes have the same shape: open(x) or open(x, mode) became
open(x, encoding='utf-8') or open(x, mode, encoding='utf-8'). Nothing
else changed. Every modified file still parses and the Windows/sandbox
test suite is still green (85 passed, 14 skipped, 0 failed across
tests/tools/test_code_execution_windows_env.py +
tests/tools/test_code_execution_modes.py + tests/tools/test_env_passthrough.py +
tests/test_hermes_bootstrap.py).
Scope notes:
- tests/ excluded: test fixtures can use locale encoding intentionally
(exercising edge cases). If we want to tighten tests later that's
a separate PR.
- plugins/ excluded: plugin-specific conventions may differ; plugin
authors own their code.
- optional-skills/ and skills/ excluded: skill scripts are user-authored
and we don't want to mass-edit them.
- website/ and tinker-atropos/ excluded: vendored / generated content.
46 files touched, 89 +/- lines (symmetric replacement). No behavior
change on POSIX or on Windows when the file is ASCII; bug fix on
Windows when the file contains non-ASCII.
The May 5 refactor in d5357f816 made _message_thread_id_for_typing()
symmetric with _message_thread_id_for_send() by mapping the General
topic (thread id "1") to None upfront for both. That's correct for
sendMessage — Telegram rejects message_thread_id=1 on sends and the
topic must be omitted — but it's wrong for sendChatAction.
Observed behavior (confirmed via before/after Telegram wire traces):
Before d5357f816: thread_id=1 → message_thread_id=1 → bubble visible in General
After d5357f816: thread_id=1 → message_thread_id=None → no visible typing
Omitting message_thread_id on sendChatAction does NOT fall back to
the General topic's view in a forum-enabled supergroup; the bubble
ends up hidden from the client's General-topic pane entirely. For
any user on a forum-group, the typing indicator stopped appearing.
Fix: drop the symmetric "1 → None" mapping from the typing resolver.
sendMessage still maps 1 → None via _message_thread_id_for_send (that
side was never broken). The asymmetry is real and required by
Telegram's API — document it in the resolver docstring.
Partial revert of d5357f816; restores the behavior from 0cf7d570e
("fix(telegram): restore typing indicator and thread routing for
forum General topic"). Does not re-introduce the retry-without-thread
fallback that 41545f7ec scoped down for DM topics — with the resolver
fixed, the first call already hits the right wire shape.
Test updated from test_send_typing_general_topic_uses_none_thread_id
(which encoded the broken contract) to
test_send_typing_preserves_general_topic_thread_id, asserting the
single correct call with message_thread_id=1. 10 other tests in the
file untouched and passing.
Mirrors the Slack `allowed_channels` feature (PR #7401) and Discord's
`allowed_channels` (PR #7044) across the remaining group-capable platforms.
All five platforms (Slack + Discord + the four added here) now follow the
same pattern: primary config via config.yaml, env-var fallback as an escape
hatch — matching the project policy that .env is for secrets only and
behavioral settings belong in config.yaml.
Also fixes a duplicate `slack` key in DEFAULT_CONFIG introduced by PR
#7401 (the later entry silently overwrote `allowed_channels`, `require_mention`,
and `free_response_channels` at dict-literal evaluation time).
Platforms added:
- Telegram: `telegram.allowed_chats` (env alias: `TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_CHATS`)
- Mattermost: `mattermost.allowed_channels` (env alias: `MATTERMOST_ALLOWED_CHANNELS`)
- Matrix: `matrix.allowed_rooms` (env alias: `MATRIX_ALLOWED_ROOMS`)
- DingTalk: `dingtalk.allowed_chats` (env alias: `DINGTALK_ALLOWED_CHATS`)
Mattermost and Matrix previously had NO config.yaml bridging for any of
their gating settings; this PR adds `load_gateway_config` bridges for them
(Mattermost gets require_mention + free_response_channels + allowed_channels;
Matrix gets allowed_rooms on top of its existing bridges for require_mention
and free_response_rooms).
Semantics identical everywhere:
- Empty = no restriction (fully backward compatible).
- Non-empty = hard whitelist: non-listed chats are silently ignored,
even when the bot is @mentioned.
- DMs bypass the check entirely.
DEFAULT_CONFIG merges the duplicate `slack` block and adds new `mattermost`
and `matrix` blocks so all gating settings surface in defaults.
Not included: Feishu (has its own per-chat `chat_rules` system that covers
this use case differently), WhatsApp (already has `group_allow_from` via
`group_policy: allowlist`), pure-DM platforms (Signal, SMS, BlueBubbles,
Yuanbao — no group concept).
Mirror _message_thread_id_for_typing() with _message_thread_id_for_send():
both now map the General forum topic (thread id "1") to None upfront.
That removes the need for the retry-without-thread fallback in send_typing()
entirely — if _message_thread_id_for_typing() returns a non-None value, it's
a real user-created topic and falling back to the root chat is never correct.
If Telegram rejects the typing action (e.g. topic deleted mid-session), we
swallow it at debug level instead of bleeding the indicator into All Messages.
Updates the General-topic typing regression test to assert the new single-call
contract.
Broadens the existing fallback (previously only fired for
Photo_invalid_dimensions) to cover every send_photo exception class:
rate limits, corrupt file markers, format edge cases. The expected
dimension case still logs at INFO (document is the right path); all
other cases log at WARNING with exc_info so they're visible in logs.
If send_document itself fails, we still fall back to the base adapter's
text-only 'Image: /path' rendering as a last resort.
Salvage of #15837 — original PR author QifengKuang proposed the broader
try/except-style fallback. Adapted to keep the existing INFO-vs-WARNING
log split for dimension errors (the expected case).
Co-authored-by: QifengKuang <k2767567815@gmail.com>
Telegram's send_photo has dimension limits (sum of width+height <= 10000px).
When sending large screenshots or tall images, the API returns
'Photo_invalid_dimensions' error.
Fix: Catch this specific error in send_image_file() and automatically
fallback to send_document() which has no dimension limits (only 50MB size).
This is similar to the existing 5MB URL fallback (commit 542faf22) but
handles local files with dimension issues instead of URL size issues.
After a transient Telegram 502, _handle_polling_network_error's
stop()+start_polling() cycle can leave PTB's Updater with `running=True`
but a wedged consumer task that never makes progress. No error_callback
fires in that state, so the reconnect ladder never advances past attempt
1, the MAX_NETWORK_RETRIES fatal-error path is never reached, and the
gateway sits silent indefinitely.
Schedule a heartbeat probe (60s after a successful reconnect) that
verifies Updater.running is still True and bot.get_me() responds within
a tight asyncio.wait_for timeout. Either failure feeds back into the
reconnect ladder so the existing escalation path fires.
No PTB-internal coupling, no Application rebuild — minimal additive
defense inside the existing reconnect abstraction.
Tests cover healthy / Updater non-running / probe timeout / probe
network error / already-fatal cases, plus an integration check that the
probe is actually scheduled after a successful start_polling().
Closes the silent-wedge case observed in the wild after a transient
Telegram 502; existing reconnect tests updated to mock bot.get_me() now
that the success path schedules a heartbeat probe.
Telegram's client does not display empty forum topics in the chat's
topic list. After createForumTopic succeeds, send a short pin message
into the new topic so it becomes immediately visible to the user.
Only fires for newly created topics (no thread_id in config yet).
Failure to send the seed is non-fatal (debug-logged, topic still works).
Ports PR #17888's send_multiple_images ABC to every gateway platform that
has a native multi-attachment API, so images arrive as a single bundled
message instead of N separate ones.
Native overrides:
- Telegram: send_media_group (10 photos per album, chunks over); animated
GIFs peeled off and routed through send_animation (albums don't support
animations)
- Discord: channel.send(files=[...]) (10 attachments per message, chunks
over); URL images downloaded into BytesIO so they render inline; forum
channels use create_thread with files=[...]
- Slack: files_upload_v2(file_uploads=[...]) (10 per call, chunks over);
respects thread_ts; records thread participation
- Mattermost: single post with file_ids list (5 per post — Mattermost cap,
chunks over)
- Email: single SMTP message with multiple MIME attachments (no chunk cap,
SMTP size governs); remote URLs remain linked in body (parity with
existing send_image)
All platforms fall back to the base per-image loop on any failure, so a
single bad image in a batch never loses the rest.
Matrix, WhatsApp, and single-attachment platforms (BlueBubbles, Feishu,
WeCom, WeChat, DingTalk) continue to use the base default loop — their
server APIs only accept one attachment per message anyway.
Tests: adds tests/gateway/test_send_multiple_images.py with 19 targeted
tests covering base default loop, chunking, animation peel-off, fallback
paths, and empty-batch no-ops across all five new overrides.
Co-authored-by: Maxence Groine <maxence@groine.fr>
Extracted from PR #17211 (@versun) so it can land independently of the
local_command TTS provider redesign.
- Add should_send_media_as_audio(platform, ext, is_voice) in
gateway/platforms/base.py; single source of truth for audio routing.
- Add .flac to recognized audio extensions (MEDIA regex, weixin audio
set, send_message audio set).
- Telegram send_voice() now falls back to send_document for formats
Telegram's Bot API can't play natively (.wav, .flac, ...) instead of
raising; MP3/M4A still go to sendAudio, Opus/OGG still go to sendVoice.
- Route _send_telegram() in send_message_tool through a narrower
_TELEGRAM_SEND_AUDIO_EXTS = {.mp3, .m4a} set.
- cron.scheduler._send_media_via_adapter now delegates the audio
decision to should_send_media_as_audio so it matches the gateway.
- Update the cron live-adapter ogg test to flag [[audio_as_voice]] so
it still routes to sendVoice under the new Telegram-specific policy.
- Tests: unit coverage for should_send_media_as_audio across platforms,
end-to-end MEDIA routing via _process_message_background and
GatewayRunner._deliver_media_from_response, TelegramAdapter.send_voice
fallback for FLAC/WAV.
Co-authored-by: Versun <me+github7604@versun.org>
feat(gateway): refine Platform._missing_ and platform-connected dispatch
Restricts plugin-name acceptance to bundled plugin scan + registry
(no arbitrary string -> enum-pollution), pulls per-platform connectivity
checks into a _PLATFORM_CONNECTED_CHECKERS lambda map with a clean
_is_platform_connected method, and adds tests covering the checker map,
plugin platform interface, and IRC setup wizard.
Reloading MCP servers rebuilds the tool set for the active session, which
invalidates the provider prompt cache (tool schemas are baked into the
system prompt). The next message re-sends full input tokens — can be
expensive on long-context or high-reasoning models.
To surface that cost, /reload-mcp now routes through a new slash-confirm
primitive with three options: Approve Once / Always Approve / Cancel.
'Always Approve' persists approvals.mcp_reload_confirm: false so future
reloads run silently.
Coverage:
* Classic CLI (cli.py) — interactive numbered prompt.
* TUI (tui_gateway + Ink ops.ts) — text warning on first call; `now` /
`always` args skip the gate; `always` also persists the opt-out.
* Messenger gateway — button UI on Telegram (inline keyboard), Discord
(discord.ui.View), Slack (Block Kit actions); text fallback on every
other platform via /approve /always /cancel replies intercepted in
gateway/run.py _handle_message.
* Config key: approvals.mcp_reload_confirm (default true).
* Auto-reload paths (CLI file watcher, TUI config-sync mtime poll) pass
confirm=true so they do NOT prompt.
Implementation:
* tools/slash_confirm.py — module-level pending-state store used by all
adapters and by the CLI prompt. Thread-safe register/resolve/clear.
* gateway/platforms/base.py — send_slash_confirm hook (default 'Not
supported' → text fallback).
* gateway/run.py — _request_slash_confirm helper + text intercept in
_handle_message (yields to in-progress tool-exec approvals so
dangerous-command /approve still unblocks the tool thread first).
Tests:
* tests/tools/test_slash_confirm.py — primitive lifecycle + async
resolution + double-click atomicity (16 tests).
* tests/hermes_cli/test_mcp_reload_confirm_gate.py — default-config
shape + deep-merge preserves user opt-out (5 tests).
Targeted runs (hermetic): 89 passed (slash-confirm, config gate,
existing agent cache, existing telegram approval buttons).
Network errors through proxies (e.g. sing-box) can leave httpx
connections in a half-closed state occupying pool slots. After enough
reconnect cycles the 256-connection default fills up entirely, causing
Pool timeout: All connections in the connection pool are occupied.
Fix: cycle only the getUpdates request object (_request[0]) via
shut-down + re-initialize before restarting polling. This drains stale
connections without touching the general request (_request[1]) that
concurrent send_message / edit_message calls rely on.
The drain is applied to both _handle_polling_network_error and
_handle_polling_conflict reconnect paths via a shared
_drain_polling_connections() helper. Failures in the drain are
swallowed so reconnect always proceeds.
Based on #16466 by @Mirac1eSky.
Extract the islink/realpath guard from the 16743 fix into a single
atomic_replace() helper in utils.py, then migrate every os.replace()
call site in the codebase to use it.
The original PR #16777 correctly identified and fixed the bug, but
only patched 9 of ~24 call sites. The same bug class (managed
deployments that symlink state files silently losing the link on
every write) still existed at auth.json, sessions file, gateway
config, env_loader, webhook subscriptions, debug store, model
catalog, pairing, google OAuth, nous rate guard, and more.
Rather than add another 10+ copies of the same three-line guard,
consolidate into atomic_replace(tmp, target) which:
- resolves symlinks via os.path.realpath before os.replace
- returns the resolved real path so callers can re-apply permissions
- is a drop-in replacement for os.replace at the use sites
Changes:
- utils.py: new atomic_replace() helper + atomic_json_write /
atomic_yaml_write now call it instead of inlining the guard
- 16 files: all os.replace() call sites migrated to atomic_replace()
- agent/{google_oauth, nous_rate_guard, shell_hooks}.py
- cron/jobs.py
- gateway/{pairing, session, platforms/telegram}.py
- hermes_cli/{auth, config, debug, env_loader, model_catalog, webhook}.py
- tools/{memory_tool, skill_manager_tool, skills_sync}.py
Tests: tests/test_atomic_replace_symlinks.py pins the invariant for
atomic_replace + atomic_json_write + atomic_yaml_write, covers plain
files, first-time creates, broken symlinks, and permission preservation.
Refs #16743
Builds on #16777 by @vominh1919.
Telegram groups emit a single bot_command entity covering the whole
/cmd@botname span with no accompanying mention entity, so the existing
mention gate in _message_mentions_bot dropped slash commands sent via
the bot-menu autocomplete whenever require_mention is enabled.
Recognise bot_command entities whose @botname suffix matches the bot
username (case-insensitive) as a direct mention, and keep rejecting
commands addressed at other bots. Fixes#15415.
Ports openclaw/openclaw#72038 to hermes-agent.
Telegram's `editMessageText` preserves the original message timestamp,
so a long-running streamed reply (reasoning models that take 60+ seconds
to finish) would keep the first-token timestamp even after completion.
Users can't tell how long a task actually took.
When a preview message has been visible for >= 60s (configurable via
`streaming.fresh_final_after_seconds`), finalize by sending a fresh
message instead of editing in place, then best-effort delete the stale
preview. Short previews still edit in place (the existing fast path).
Implementation notes adapted from OpenClaw's TypeScript original:
- `StreamConsumerConfig` gains `fresh_final_after_seconds` (default 0 =
legacy edit-in-place). Gateway-level `StreamingConfig` defaults to 60.
- `GatewayStreamConsumer` tracks `_message_created_ts` at first-send and
checks it in `_send_or_edit` on `finalize=True`. New helpers
`_should_send_fresh_final` + `_try_fresh_final`.
- `BasePlatformAdapter` gains optional `delete_message(chat_id, message_id)`
returning False by default. `TelegramAdapter` implements it via
`_bot.delete_message`.
- `gateway/run.py` only enables fresh-final for `Platform.TELEGRAM`;
other platforms ignore the setting (they don't have the stale-edit
timestamp problem or edit-then-read works cheaply).
- Fallback to normal edit on any fresh-send failure — no user-visible
regression if Telegram rate-limits a send or the message is gone.
Tests: 15 new cases in tests/gateway/test_stream_consumer_fresh_final.py
covering short/long previews, config plumbing, delete-support absent,
send-failure fallback, __no_edit__ sentinel safety, and StreamingConfig
round-trip.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <agent@nousresearch.com>
When TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL was set but TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET was not,
python-telegram-bot received secret_token=None and the webhook endpoint
accepted any HTTP POST. Anyone who could reach the listener could inject
forged updates — spoofed user IDs, spoofed chat IDs, attacker-controlled
message text — and trigger handlers as if Telegram delivered them.
The fix refuses to start the adapter in webhook mode without the secret.
Polling mode (default, no webhook URL) is unaffected — polling is
authenticated by the bot token directly.
BREAKING CHANGE for webhook-mode deployments that never set
TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET. The error message explains remediation:
export TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET="$(openssl rand -hex 32)"
and instructs registering it with Telegram via setWebhook's secret_token
parameter. Release notes must call this out.
Reported in GHSA-3vpc-7q5r-276h by @bupt-Yy-young. Hardening — not CVE
per SECURITY.md §3 "Public Exposure: Deploying the gateway to the
public internet without external authentication or network protection"
covers the historical default, but shipping a fail-open webhook as the
default was the wrong choice and the guard aligns us with the SECURITY.md
threat model.
When require_mention is enabled, slash commands no longer bypass
mention checks. Bare /command without @mention is filtered in groups,
while /command@botname (bot menu) and @botname /command still pass.
Commands still pass unconditionally when require_mention is disabled,
preserving backward compatibility.
Closes#6033
Sweep ~74 redundant local imports across 21 files where the same module
was already imported at the top level. Also includes type fixes and lint
cleanups on the same branch.
The link regex in format_message used [^)]+ for the URL portion, which
stopped at the first ) character. URLs with nested parentheses (e.g.
Wikipedia links like Python_(programming_language)) were improperly parsed.
Use a better regex, which is the same the Slack adapter uses.
When createForumTopic fails with 'not a forum' in a private chat,
the error now tells the user exactly what to do: enable Topics in
the DM chat settings from the Telegram app.
Also adds a Prerequisites callout to the docs explaining this
client-side requirement before the config section.
Replaces the word-boundary regex scan with pure MessageEntity-based
detection. Telegram's server emits MENTION entities for real @username
mentions and TEXT_MENTION entities for @FirstName mentions; the text-
scanning fallback was both redundant (entities are always present for
real mentions) and broken (matched raw substrings like email addresses,
URLs, code-block contents, and forwarded literal text).
Entity-only detection:
- Closes bug #12545 ("foo@hermes_bot.example" false positive).
- Also fixes edge cases the regex fix would still miss: @handles inside
URLs and code blocks, where Telegram does not emit mention entities.
Tests rewritten to exercise realistic Telegram payloads (real mentions
carry entities; substring false positives don't).
stream_consumer._send_or_edit unconditionally passes finalize= to
adapter.edit_message(), but only DingTalk's override accepted the
kwarg. Streaming on Telegram/Discord/Slack/Matrix/Mattermost/Feishu/
WhatsApp raised TypeError the first time a segment break or final
edit fired.
The REQUIRES_EDIT_FINALIZE capability flag only gates the redundant
final edit (and the identical-text short-circuit), not the kwarg
itself — so adapters that opt out of finalize still receive the
keyword argument and must accept it.
Add *, finalize: bool = False to the 7 non-DingTalk signatures; the
body ignores the arg since those platforms treat edits as stateless
(consistent with the base class contract in base.py).
Add a parametrized signature check over every concrete adapter class
so a future override cannot silently drop the kwarg — existing tests
use MagicMock which swallows any kwarg and cannot catch this.
Fixes#12579
Follow-up on top of the helix4u #6392 cherry-pick:
- reuse one helper for actionable Docker-local file-not-found errors
across document/image/video/audio local-media send paths
- include /outputs/... alongside /output/... in the container-local
path hint
- soften the gateway startup warning so it does not imply custom
host-visible mounts are broken; the warning now targets the specific
risky pattern of emitting container-local MEDIA paths without an
explicit export mount
- add focused regressions for /outputs/... and non-document media hint
coverage
This keeps the salvage aligned with the actual MEDIA delivery problem on
current main while reducing false-positive operator messaging.
When `message.from_user` is None — which can happen for forwarded messages,
anonymous admin mode in groups, or certain Telegram client edge cases —
`_build_message_event` set `source.user_id` to None. This caused:
1. `_is_user_authorized()` to early-return False (`if not user_id: return False`)
2. The access check never compared against `TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS` even when
the user actually was in the allowlist
3. The pairing flow fired and generated a code for `user_id=None`
4. The pairing approval saved an entry under the literal string key "null"
5. The user was effectively locked out because their real user_id never
matched the "null" key on subsequent messages
For DMs (`chat_type == "dm"`), Telegram guarantees `chat.id == user.id` —
they are the same numeric ID for private chats. Falling back to `chat.id`
when `from_user` is None for DMs restores the expected access-control
behavior without weakening it (group/channel chats correctly stay None).
Also adds a parallel `user_name` fallback to `chat.full_name` so the
display name still works in the same edge case.
When a Telegram /restart fires and PTB's graceful-shutdown `get_updates`
ACK call times out ("When polling for updates is restarted, updates may
be received twice" in gateway.log), the new gateway receives the same
/restart again and restarts a second time — a self-perpetuating loop.
Record the triggering update_id in `.restart_last_processed.json` when
handling /restart. On the next process, reject a /restart whose
update_id <= the recorded one as a stale redelivery. 5-minute staleness
guard so an orphaned marker can't block a legitimately new /restart.
- gateway/platforms/base.py: add `platform_update_id` to MessageEvent
- gateway/platforms/telegram.py: propagate `update.update_id` through
_build_message_event for text/command/location/media handlers
- gateway/run.py: write dedup marker in _handle_restart_command;
_is_stale_restart_redelivery checks it before processing /restart
- tests/gateway/test_restart_redelivery_dedup.py: 9 new tests covering
fresh restart, redelivery, staleness window, cross-platform,
malformed-marker resilience, and no-update_id (CLI) bypass
Only active for Telegram today (the one platform with monotonic
cross-session update ordering); other platforms return False from
_is_stale_restart_redelivery and proceed normally.
Telegram's MarkdownV2 has no table syntax — pipes get backslash-escaped
and tables render as noisy unaligned text. format_message now detects
GFM-style pipe tables (header row + delimiter row + optional body) and
wraps them in ``` fences before the existing MarkdownV2 conversion runs.
Telegram renders fenced code blocks as monospace preformatted text with
columns intact.
Tables already inside an existing code block are left alone. Plain
prose with pipes, lone '---' horizontal rules, and non-table content
are unaffected.
Closes the recurring community request to stop having to ask the agent
to re-render tables as code blocks manually.
Switch from fragile Markdown V1 to HTML parse mode with html.escape()
for exec approval messages. Add fallback to text-based approval when
the formatted send fails.
Cherry-picked from #10999 by @danieldoderlein.
Bump connect retry attempts from 3 to 8 and cap exponential backoff at
15 seconds. Old budget: 3 attempts, 1+2+4=7s total — insufficient for
cold boot on slow networks or embedded devices. New budget: 8 attempts,
1+2+4+8+15+15+15=~60s total.
Inspired by PR #5770 by @Bartok9 (re-implemented against current main
since original was 913 commits stale with conflicts).
In Telegram forum-enabled groups, the General topic does not include
message_thread_id in incoming messages (it is None). This caused:
1. Messages in General losing thread context — replies went to wrong place
2. Typing indicator failing because thread_id=1 was rejected by Telegram
Fix: synthesize thread_id="1" for forum groups when message_thread_id
is None, then handle it correctly per operation:
- send: omit message_thread_id (Telegram rejects thread_id=1 for sends)
- typing: pass thread_id=1, retry without it on "thread not found"
Also centralizes thread_id extraction into _metadata_thread_id() across
all send methods (send, send_voice, send_image, send_document, send_video,
send_animation, send_photo), replacing ~10 duplicate patterns.
Salvaged from PR #7892 by @corazzione.
Closes#7877, closes#7519.
Pass platform_env_var="TELEGRAM_PROXY" to resolve_proxy_url() in both
telegram.py (main connect) and telegram_network.py (fallback transport),
so a Telegram-specific proxy takes priority over the generic HTTPS_PROXY.
Also bridge telegram.proxy_url from config.yaml to the TELEGRAM_PROXY
env var (env var takes precedence if both are set), add OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS
entry, docs, and tests.
Composite salvage of four community PRs:
- Core approach (both call sites): #9414 by @leeyang1990
- config.yaml bridging + docs: #6530 by @WhiteWorld
- Naming convention: #9074 by @brantzh6
- Earlier proxy work: #7786 by @ten-ltw
Closes#9414, closes#9074, closes#7786, closes#6530
Co-authored-by: WhiteWorld <WhiteWorld@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: brantzh6 <brantzh6@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: ten-ltw <ten-ltw@users.noreply.github.com>
The command preview and description were wrapped in Markdown v1 inline
code (backticks) without escaping, causing Telegram API parse errors
when the command itself contained backticks or asterisks.
Fixes: 'Can't parse entities: can't find end of the entity'
Extract resolve_channel_prompt() shared helper into
gateway/platforms/base.py. Refactor Discord to use it.
Wire channel_prompts into Telegram (groups + forum topics),
Slack (channels), and Mattermost (channels).
Config bridging now applies to all platforms (not just Discord).
Added channel_prompts defaults to telegram/slack/mattermost
config sections.
Docs added to all four platform pages with platform-specific
examples (topic inheritance for Telegram, channel IDs for Slack,
etc.).
When HTTPS_PROXY / HTTP_PROXY / ALL_PROXY env vars are set (or macOS system proxy
is detected), pass the proxy URL explicitly via HTTPXRequest(proxy=proxy_url) instead
of relying on httpx's trust_env mechanism, which is unreliable for HTTP CONNECT
proxies (e.g. Clash / ClashMac in fake-ip mode).
Uses the shared resolve_proxy_url() from base.py (handles env vars + macOS system
proxy detection) instead of duplicating env var reading inline. Consolidates the
proxy_configured boolean into a single proxy_url = resolve_proxy_url() call that
serves as both the gate for skipping fallback-IP transport and the value passed
to HTTPXRequest.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
Salvaged from PR #8931 by MaybeRichard.
Port from nearai/ironclaw#2304: Telegram's 4096 character limit is
measured in UTF-16 code units, not Unicode codepoints. Characters
outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (emoji like 😀, CJK Extension B,
musical symbols) are surrogate pairs: 1 Python char but 2 UTF-16 units.
Previously, truncate_message() used Python's len() which counts
codepoints. This could produce chunks exceeding Telegram's actual limit
when messages contain many astral-plane characters.
Changes:
- Add utf16_len() helper and _prefix_within_utf16_limit() for
UTF-16-aware string measurement and truncation
- Add _custom_unit_to_cp() binary-search helper that maps a custom-unit
budget to the largest safe codepoint slice position
- Update truncate_message() to accept optional len_fn parameter
- Telegram adapter now passes len_fn=utf16_len when splitting messages
- Fix fallback truncation in Telegram error handler to use
_prefix_within_utf16_limit instead of codepoint slicing
- Update send_message_tool.py to use utf16_len for Telegram platform
- Add comprehensive tests: utf16_len, _prefix_within_utf16_limit,
truncate_message with len_fn (emoji splitting, content preservation,
code block handling)
- Update mock lambdas in reply_mode tests to accept **kw for len_fn
When 'hermes claw migrate' copies Telegram/Discord/Slack bot tokens from
OpenClaw while the Hermes gateway is already polling with those same tokens,
the platforms conflict (e.g. Telegram 409). Add a pre-flight check that reads
gateway_state.json via get_running_pid() + read_runtime_status(), warns the
user, and lets them cancel or continue.
Also improve the Telegram polling conflict error message to mention OpenClaw
as a common cause and give the 'hermes start' restart command.
Refs #7907
Telegram's Bot API only allows a specific set of emoji for bot reactions
(the ReactionEmoji enum). ✅ (U+2705) and ❌ (U+274C) are not in that
set, causing on_processing_complete reactions to silently fail with
REACTION_INVALID (caught at debug log level).
Replace with 👍 (U+1F44D) / 👎 (U+1F44E) which are always available in
Telegram's allowed reaction list. The 👀 (eyes) reaction used by
on_processing_start was already valid.
Based on the fix by @ppdng in PR #6685.
Fixes#6068
When extra.base_url is set in the Telegram platform config, use it as
the base URL for all Telegram API requests instead of api.telegram.org.
This allows agents to route Telegram traffic through the credential
proxy, which injects the real bot token — the VM never sees it.
Also supports extra.base_file_url for file downloads (defaults to
base_url if not set separately).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- configure Telegram HTTPXRequest pool/timeouts with env-overridable defaults\n- use separate request/get_updates request objects to reduce pool contention\n- skip fallback-IP transport when proxy is configured (or explicitly disabled)\n\nThis mitigates recurrent pool-timeout failures during polling reconnect/bootstrap (delete_webhook).
Cherry-picked from PR #6891 by SHL0MS.
When a chunk is near the 4096-char split point, wait 2.0s instead of 0.6s
since a continuation is almost certain.
Approval button clicks (Block Kit actions in Slack, CallbackQuery in
Telegram) bypass the normal message authorization flow in gateway/run.py.
Any workspace/group member who can see the approval message could click
Approve to authorize dangerous commands.
Read SLACK_ALLOWED_USERS / TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS env vars directly in
the approval handlers. When an allowlist is configured and the clicking
user is not in it, the click is silently ignored (Slack) or answered
with an error (Telegram). Wildcard '*' permits all users. When no
allowlist is configured, behavior is unchanged (open access).
Based on the idea from PR #6735 by maymuneth, reimplemented to use the
existing env-var-based authorization system rather than a nonexistent
_allowed_user_ids adapter attribute.
Telegram's set_message_reaction replaces all reactions in one call,
so _remove_reaction was never called (unlike Discord's additive model).
Default reactions to disabled — users opt in via telegram.reactions: true.
Mirror the Discord reaction pattern for Telegram:
- 👀 (eyes) when message processing begins
- ✅ (check) on successful completion
- ❌ (cross) on failure
Controlled via TELEGRAM_REACTIONS env var or telegram.reactions
in config.yaml (enabled by default, like Discord).
Uses python-telegram-bot's Bot.set_message_reaction() API.
Failures are caught and logged at debug level so they never
break message processing.
Move _merge_caption helper from TelegramAdapter to BasePlatformAdapter
so all adapters inherit it. Fix the same substring-containment bug in:
- gateway/platforms/base.py (photo burst merging)
- gateway/run.py (priority photo follow-up merging)
- gateway/platforms/feishu.py (media batch merging)
The original fix only covered telegram.py. The same bug existed in base.py
and run.py (pure substring check) and feishu.py (list membership without
whitespace normalization).
Captions in photo bursts and media group albums were silently dropped when
a shorter caption happened to be a substring of an existing one (e.g.
"Meeting" lost inside "Meeting agenda"). Extract a shared _merge_caption
static helper that splits on "\n\n" and uses exact match with whitespace
normalisation, then use it in both _enqueue_photo_event and
_queue_media_group_event.
Adds 13 unit tests covering the fixed bug scenarios.
Cherry-picked from PR #2671 by Dilee.
Slack:
- Add Block Kit interactive buttons for command approval (Allow Once,
Allow Session, Always Allow, Deny) via send_exec_approval()
- Register @app.action handlers for each approval button
- Add _fetch_thread_context() — fetches thread history via
conversations.replies when bot is first @mentioned mid-thread
- Fix _has_active_session_for_thread() to use build_session_key()
instead of manual key construction (fixes session key mismatch bug
where thread_sessions_per_user flag was ignored, ref PR #5833)
Telegram:
- Add InlineKeyboard approval buttons via send_exec_approval()
- Add ea:* callback handling in _handle_callback_query()
- Uses monotonic counter + _approval_state dict to map button clicks
back to session keys (avoids 64-byte callback_data limit)
Both platforms now auto-detected by the gateway runner's
_approval_notify_sync() — any adapter with send_exec_approval() on
its class gets button-based approval instead of text fallback.
Inspired by community PRs #3898 (LevSky22), #2953 (ygd58), #5833
(heathley). Implemented fresh on current main.
Tests: 24 new tests covering button rendering, action handling,
thread context fetching, session key fix, double-click prevention.
Comprehensive cleanup across 80 files based on automated (ruff, pyflakes, vulture)
and manual analysis of the entire codebase.
Changes by category:
Unused imports removed (~95 across 55 files):
- Removed genuinely unused imports from all major subsystems
- agent/, hermes_cli/, tools/, gateway/, plugins/, cron/
- Includes imports in try/except blocks that were truly unused
(vs availability checks which were left alone)
Unused variables removed (~25):
- Removed dead variables: connected, inner, channels, last_exc,
source, new_server_names, verify, pconfig, default_terminal,
result, pending_handled, temperature, loop
- Dropped unused argparse subparser assignments in hermes_cli/main.py
(12 instances of add_parser() where result was never used)
Dead code removed:
- run_agent.py: Removed dead ternary (None if False else None) and
surrounding unreachable branch in identity fallback
- run_agent.py: Removed write-only attribute _last_reported_tool
- hermes_cli/providers.py: Removed dead @property decorator on
module-level function (decorator has no effect outside a class)
- gateway/run.py: Removed unused MCP config load before reconnect
- gateway/platforms/slack.py: Removed dead SessionSource construction
Undefined name bugs fixed (would cause NameError at runtime):
- batch_runner.py: Added missing logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
- tools/environments/daytona.py: Added missing Dict and Path imports
Unnecessary global statements removed (14):
- tools/terminal_tool.py: 5 functions declared global for dicts
they only mutated via .pop()/[key]=value (no rebinding)
- tools/browser_tool.py: cleanup thread loop only reads flag
- tools/rl_training_tool.py: 4 functions only do dict mutations
- tools/mcp_oauth.py: only reads the global
- hermes_time.py: only reads cached values
Inefficient patterns fixed:
- startswith/endswith tuple form: 15 instances of
x.startswith('a') or x.startswith('b') consolidated to
x.startswith(('a', 'b'))
- len(x)==0 / len(x)>0: 13 instances replaced with pythonic
truthiness checks (not x / bool(x))
- in dict.keys(): 5 instances simplified to in dict
- Redefined unused name: removed duplicate _strip_mdv2 import in
send_message_tool.py
Other fixes:
- hermes_cli/doctor.py: Replaced undefined logger.debug() with pass
- hermes_cli/config.py: Consolidated chained .endswith() calls
Test results: 3934 passed, 17 failed (all pre-existing on main),
19 skipped. Zero regressions.
- Raise max_models from 8 to 50 so all curated models come through
- Add _build_model_keyboard() helper with 8-per-page pagination
- Next ▶ / ◀ Prev buttons with page counter (e.g. 2/4)
- mg:<page> callback data for page navigation
- Catch-all query.answer() for noop buttons
/model with no args now shows an interactive UI on Telegram and Discord
instead of a text list:
Telegram: Inline keyboard buttons — two-step drill-down.
Step 1: Provider buttons with model counts (e.g. 'OpenRouter (15)')
Step 2: Model buttons within the selected provider
Edits the same message in-place as the user navigates.
Back/Cancel buttons for navigation.
Discord: Embed + Select dropdown menus via discord.ui.View.
Step 1: Provider dropdown with model counts
Step 2: Model dropdown within the selected provider
Back/Cancel buttons. Auth-gated to allowed users.
Platforms without picker support (Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.)
fall back to the existing text list.
/model <name> continues to work as a direct text switch on all
platforms — the interactive picker is only for bare /model.
Implementation:
- TelegramAdapter.send_model_picker() + _handle_model_picker_callback()
with compact callback_data (mp:/mm:/mb/mx, all within 64-byte limit)
- DiscordAdapter.send_model_picker() + ModelPickerView (discord.ui.View)
with Select menus (up to 25 options per dropdown)
- GatewayRunner._handle_model_command() detects adapter capability via
getattr(type(adapter), 'send_model_picker', None) (safe with mocks)
and sends picker with async callback closure for the switch logic
- Callback performs full switch: switch_model(), cached agent update,
session override, pending model note — same as /model <name>
Threads (Telegram forum topics, Discord threads, Slack threads) now default
to shared sessions where all participants see the same conversation. This is
the expected UX for threaded conversations where multiple users @mention the
bot and interact collaboratively.
Changes:
- build_session_key(): when thread_id is present, user_id is no longer
appended to the session key (threads are shared by default)
- New config: thread_sessions_per_user (default: false) — opt-in to restore
per-user isolation in threads if needed
- Sender attribution: messages in shared threads are prefixed with
[sender name] so the agent can tell participants apart
- System prompt: shared threads show 'Multi-user thread' note instead of
a per-turn User line (avoids busting prompt cache)
- Wired through all callers: gateway/run.py, base.py, telegram.py, feishu.py
- Regular group messages (no thread) remain per-user isolated (unchanged)
- DM threads are unaffected (they have their own keying logic)
Closes community request from demontut_ re: thread-based shared sessions.
Telegram polling can inherit a stale webhook registration when a deployment
switches transport modes, which leaves getUpdates idle even though the gateway
starts cleanly. Outbound send also treats Telegram retry_after responses as
terminal errors, so brief flood control can drop tool progress and replies.
Constraint: Keep the PR narrowly scoped to upstream/main Telegram adapter behavior
Rejected: Port OpenClaw's broader polling supervisor and offset persistence | too broad for an isolated fix PR
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Polling mode should clear webhook state before starting getUpdates, and send-path retry logic must distinguish flood control from timeouts
Tested: uv run --extra dev pytest tests/gateway/test_telegram_* -q
Not-tested: Live Telegram webhook-to-polling migration and real Bot API 429 behavior
* feat(gateway): live-stream /update output + forward interactive prompts
Adds real-time output streaming and interactive prompt forwarding for
the gateway /update command, so users on Telegram/Discord/etc see the
full update progress and can respond to prompts (stash restore, config
migration) without needing terminal access.
Changes:
hermes_cli/main.py:
- Add --gateway flag to 'hermes update' argparse
- Add _gateway_prompt() file-based IPC function that writes
.update_prompt.json and polls for .update_response
- Modify _restore_stashed_changes() to accept optional input_fn
parameter for gateway mode prompt forwarding
- cmd_update() uses _gateway_prompt when --gateway is set, enabling
interactive stash restore and config migration prompts
gateway/run.py:
- _handle_update_command: spawn with --gateway flag and
PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 for real-time output flushing
- Store session_key in .update_pending.json for cross-restart
session matching
- Add _update_prompt_pending dict to track sessions awaiting
update prompt responses
- Replace _watch_for_update_completion with _watch_update_progress:
streams output chunks every ~4s, detects .update_prompt.json and
forwards prompts to the user, handles completion/failure/timeout
- Add update prompt interception in _handle_message: when a prompt
is pending, the user's next message is written to .update_response
instead of being processed normally
- Preserve _send_update_notification as legacy fallback for
post-restart cases where adapter isn't available yet
File-based IPC protocol:
- .update_prompt.json: written by update process with prompt text,
default value, and unique ID
- .update_response: written by gateway with user's answer
- .update_output.txt: existing, now streamed in real-time
- .update_exit_code: existing completion marker
Tests: 16 new tests covering _gateway_prompt IPC, output streaming,
prompt detection/forwarding, message interception, and cleanup.
* feat: interactive buttons for update prompts (Telegram + Discord)
Telegram: Inline keyboard with ✓ Yes / ✗ No buttons. Clicking a button
answers the callback query, edits the message to show the choice, and
writes .update_response directly. CallbackQueryHandler registered on
the update_prompt: prefix.
Discord: UpdatePromptView (discord.ui.View) with green Yes / red No
buttons. Follows the ExecApprovalView pattern — auth check, embed color
update, disabled-after-click. Writes .update_response on click.
All platforms: /approve and /deny (and /yes, /no) now work as shorthand
for yes/no when an update prompt is pending. The text fallback message
instructs users to use these commands. Raw message interception still
works as a fallback for non-command responses.
Gateway watcher checks adapter for send_update_prompt method (class-level
check to avoid MagicMock false positives) and falls back to text prompt
with /approve instructions when unavailable.
* fix: block /update on non-messaging platforms (API, webhooks, ACP)
Add _UPDATE_ALLOWED_PLATFORMS frozenset that explicitly lists messaging
platforms where /update is permitted. API server, webhook, and ACP
platforms get a clear error directing them to run hermes update from
the terminal instead.
ACP and API server already don't reach _handle_message (separate
codepaths), and webhooks have distinct session keys that can't collide
with messaging sessions. This guard is belt-and-suspenders.
TimedOut is a subclass of NetworkError in python-telegram-bot. The
inner retry loop in send() and the outer _send_with_retry() in base.py
both treated it as a transient connection error and retried — but
send_message is not idempotent. When the request reaches Telegram but
the HTTP response times out, the message is already delivered. Retrying
sends duplicates. Worst case: up to 9 copies (inner 3x × outer 3x).
Inner loop (telegram.py):
- Import TimedOut separately, isinstance-check before generic
NetworkError retry (same pattern as BadRequest carve-out from #3390)
- Re-raise immediately — no retry
- Mark as retryable=False in outer exception handler
Outer loop (base.py):
- Remove 'timeout', 'timed out', 'readtimeout', 'writetimeout' from
_RETRYABLE_ERROR_PATTERNS (read/write timeouts are delivery-ambiguous)
- Add 'connecttimeout' (safe — connection never established)
- Keep 'network' (other platforms still need it)
- Add _is_timeout_error() + early return to prevent plain-text fallback
on timeout errors (would also cause duplicate delivery)
Connection errors (ConnectionReset, ConnectError, etc.) are still
retried — these fail before the request reaches the server.
Credit: tmdgusya (PR #3899), barun1997 (PR #3904) for identifying the
bug and proposing fixes.
Closes#3899, closes#3904.
Reads config.extra['group_topics'] to bind skills to specific thread_ids
in supergroup/forum chats. Mirrors the dm_topics skill injection pattern
but for group chat_type. Enables per-topic skill auto-loading in Falcon HQ.
Config format:
platforms.telegram.extra.group_topics:
- chat_id: -1003853746818
topics:
- name: FalconConnect
thread_id: 5
skill: falconconnect-architecture
Three targeted fixes from user-reported issues:
1. STT config resolution (transcription_tools.py):
_has_openai_audio_backend() and _resolve_openai_audio_client_config()
now check stt.openai.api_key/base_url in config.yaml FIRST, before
falling back to env vars. Fixes voice transcription breaking when
using a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint via config.yaml.
2. Stream consumer flood control fallback (stream_consumer.py):
When an edit fails mid-stream (e.g., Telegram flood control returns
failure for waits >5s), reset _already_sent to False so the normal
final send path delivers the complete response. Previously, a
truncated partial was left as the final message.
3. Telegram edit_message comment alignment (telegram.py):
Clarify that long flood waits return failure so streaming can fall
back to a normal final send.
Three bugs causing intermittent silent drops, partial responses, and
flood control delays on the Telegram platform:
1. Race condition in handle_message() — _active_sessions was set inside
the background task, not before create_task(). Two rapid messages
could both pass the guard and spawn duplicate processing tasks.
Fix: set _active_sessions synchronously before spawning the task
(grammY sequentialize / aiogram EventIsolation pattern).
2. Photo media loss on dequeue — when a photo (no caption) was queued
during active processing and later dequeued, only .text was
extracted. Empty text → message silently dropped.
Fix: _build_media_placeholder() creates text context for media-only
events so they survive the dequeue path.
3. Progress message edits triggered Telegram flood control — rapid tool
calls edited the progress message every 0.3s, hitting Telegram's
rate limit (23s+ waits). This blocked progress updates and could
cause stream consumer timeouts.
Fix: throttle edits to 1.5s minimum interval, detect flood control
errors and gracefully degrade to new messages. edit_message() now
returns failure for flood waits >5s instead of blocking.
Telegram API returns HTTP 400 when sent whitespace-only or empty
text. Add a guard at the top of send() to silently succeed on
blank content instead of crashing.
Equivalent to OpenClaw #56620.
* fix: truncate skill descriptions to 100 chars in Telegram menu
* fix: 40-char desc cap + 100 command limit for Telegram menu
setMyCommands has an undocumented total payload size limit.
50 commands with 256-char descriptions failed, 50 with 100-char
worked, and 100 with 40-char descriptions also works (~5300 total
chars). Truncate skill descriptions to 40 chars in the menu picker
and set cap back to 100. Full descriptions available via /commands.
* fix: use SKILLS_DIR not repo path for Telegram menu skill filter
Skills are synced to ~/.hermes/skills/ (SKILLS_DIR), not the repo's
skills/ directory. The previous filter compared against the repo path
so no skills matched. Now checks SKILLS_DIR and excludes .hub/
subdirectory (user-installed hub skills).
* fix: cap Telegram menu at 50 commands — API rejects above ~60
Telegram's setMyCommands returns BOT_COMMANDS_TOO_MUCH when
registering close to 100 commands despite docs claiming 100 is the
limit. Metadata overhead causes rejection above ~60. Cap at 50 for
reliability — remaining commands accessible via /commands.
* feat(gateway): skill-aware slash commands, paginated /commands, Telegram 100-cap
Map active skills to Telegram's slash command menu so users can
discover and invoke skills directly. Three changes:
1. Telegram menu now includes active skill commands alongside built-in
commands, capped at 100 entries (Telegram Bot API limit). Overflow
commands remain callable but hidden from the picker. Logged at
startup when cap is hit.
2. New /commands [page] gateway command for paginated browsing of all
commands + skills. /help now shows first 10 skill commands and
points to /commands for the full list.
3. When a user types a slash command that matches a disabled or
uninstalled skill, they get actionable guidance:
- Disabled: 'Enable it with: hermes skills config'
- Optional (not installed): 'Install with: hermes skills install official/<path>'
Built on ideas from PR #3921 by @kshitijk4poor.
* chore: move 21 niche skills to optional-skills
Move specialized/niche skills from built-in (skills/) to optional
(optional-skills/) to reduce the default skill count. Users can
install them with: hermes skills install official/<category>/<name>
Moved skills (21):
- mlops: accelerate, chroma, faiss, flash-attention,
hermes-atropos-environments, huggingface-tokenizers, instructor,
lambda-labs, llava, nemo-curator, pinecone, pytorch-lightning,
qdrant, saelens, simpo, slime, tensorrt-llm, torchtitan
- research: domain-intel, duckduckgo-search
- devops: inference-sh cli
Built-in skills: 96 → 75
Optional skills: 22 → 43
* fix: only include repo built-in skills in Telegram menu, not user-installed
User-installed skills (from hub or manually added) stay accessible via
/skills and by typing the command directly, but don't get registered
in the Telegram slash command picker. Only skills whose SKILL.md is
under the repo's skills/ directory are included in the menu.
This keeps the Telegram menu focused on the curated built-in set while
user-installed skills remain discoverable through /skills and /commands.
When TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL is set, the adapter starts an HTTP webhook
server (via python-telegram-bot's start_webhook()) instead of long
polling. This enables cloud platforms like Fly.io and Railway to
auto-wake suspended machines on inbound HTTP traffic.
Polling remains the default — no behavior change unless the env var
is set.
Env vars:
TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL Public HTTPS URL for Telegram to push to
TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_PORT Local listen port (default 8443)
TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET Secret token for update verification
Cherry-picked and adapted from PR #2022 by SHL0MS. Preserved all
current main enhancements (network error recovery, polling conflict
detection, DM topics setup).
Co-authored-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds Discord-style mention gating for Telegram groups:
- telegram.require_mention: gate group messages (default: false)
- telegram.mention_patterns: regex wake-word triggers
- telegram.free_response_chats: bypass gating for specific chats
When require_mention is enabled, group messages are accepted only for:
- slash commands
- replies to the bot
- @botusername mentions
- regex wake-word pattern matches
DMs remain unrestricted. @mention text is stripped before passing to
the agent. Invalid regex patterns are ignored with a warning.
Config bridges follow the existing Discord pattern (yaml → env vars).
Cherry-picked and adapted from PR #1977 by mcleay. Fixed ChatType
comparison to work without python-telegram-bot installed (uses string
matching instead of enum, consistent with other entity_type checks).
Co-authored-by: mcleay <mcleay@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: add gpt-5.4-mini to Codex fallback catalog
* fix(telegram): gracefully handle deleted reply targets
When a user deletes their message while Hermes is processing, Telegram
returns BadRequest 'Message to be replied not found'. Previously this
was an unhandled permanent error causing silent delivery failure.
Now clears reply_to_id and retries so the response is still delivered,
matching the existing 'thread not found' recovery pattern.
Inspired by PR #3231 by @heathley. Fixes#3229.
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Co-authored-by: Clippy <clippy@grads.flow>
Co-authored-by: Nigel Gibbs <heathley@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: GPT tool-use steering + strip budget warnings from history
Two changes to improve tool reliability, especially for OpenAI GPT models:
1. GPT tool-use enforcement prompt: Adds GPT_TOOL_USE_GUIDANCE to the
system prompt when the model name contains 'gpt' and tools are loaded.
This addresses a known behavioral pattern where GPT models describe
intended actions ('I will run the tests') instead of actually making
tool calls. Inspired by similar steering in OpenCode (beast.txt) and
Cline (GPT-5.1 variant).
2. Budget warning history stripping: Budget pressure warnings injected by
_get_budget_warning() into tool results are now stripped when
conversation history is replayed via run_conversation(). Previously,
these turn-scoped signals persisted across turns, causing models to
avoid tool calls in all subsequent messages after any turn that hit
the 70-90% iteration threshold.
* fix: replace hardcoded ~/.hermes paths with get_hermes_home() for profile support
Prep for the upcoming profiles feature — each profile is a separate
HERMES_HOME directory, so all paths must respect the env var.
Fixes:
- gateway/platforms/matrix.py: Matrix E2EE store was hardcoded to
~/.hermes/matrix/store, ignoring HERMES_HOME. Now uses
get_hermes_home() so each profile gets its own Matrix state.
- gateway/platforms/telegram.py: Two locations reading config.yaml via
Path.home()/.hermes instead of get_hermes_home(). DM topic thread_id
persistence and hot-reload would read the wrong config in a profile.
- tools/file_tools.py: Security path for hub index blocking was
hardcoded to ~/.hermes, would miss the actual profile's hub cache.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: Service naming now uses the profile name
(hermes-gateway-coder) instead of a cryptic hash suffix. Extracted
_profile_suffix() helper shared by systemd and launchd.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: Launchd plist path and Label now scoped per
profile (ai.hermes.gateway-coder.plist). Previously all profiles
would collide on the same plist file on macOS.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: Launchd plist now includes HERMES_HOME in
EnvironmentVariables — was missing entirely, making custom
HERMES_HOME broken on macOS launchd (pre-existing bug).
- All launchctl commands in gateway.py, main.py, status.py updated
to use get_launchd_label() instead of hardcoded string.
Test fixes: DM topic tests now set HERMES_HOME env var alongside
Path.home() mock. Launchd test uses get_launchd_label() for expected
commands.
python-telegram-bot's BadRequest inherits from NetworkError, so the
send() retry loop was catching 'Message thread not found' as a transient
network error and retrying 3 times before silently failing. This killed
all tool progress messages, streaming responses, and typing indicators
when the incoming message carried an invalid message_thread_id.
Now detect BadRequest inside the NetworkError handler:
- 'thread not found' + thread_id set → clear thread_id and retry once
(message still reaches the chat, just without topic threading)
- Other BadRequest errors → raise immediately (permanent, don't retry)
- True NetworkError → retry as before (transient)
252 silent failures in gateway.log traced to this on 2026-03-26.
5 new tests for thread fallback, non-thread BadRequest, no-thread sends,
network retry, and multi-chunk fallback.
* feat(telegram): auto-discover fallback IPs via DoH when api.telegram.org is unreachable
On some networks (university, corporate), api.telegram.org resolves to a
valid Telegram IP that is unreachable due to routing/firewall rules. A
different IP in the same Telegram-owned 149.154.160.0/20 block works fine.
This adds automatic fallback IP discovery at connect time:
1. Query Google and Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS for api.telegram.org A records
2. Exclude the system-DNS IP (the unreachable one), use the rest as fallbacks
3. If DoH is also blocked, fall back to a seed list (149.154.167.220)
4. TelegramFallbackTransport tries primary first, sticks to whichever works
No configuration needed — works automatically. TELEGRAM_FALLBACK_IPS env var
still available as manual override. Zero impact on healthy networks (primary
path succeeds on first attempt, fallback never exercised).
No new dependencies (uses httpx already in deps + stdlib socket).
* fix: share transport instance and downgrade seed fallback log to info
- Use single TelegramFallbackTransport shared between request and
get_updates_request so sticky IP is shared across polling and API calls
- Keep separate HTTPXRequest instances (different timeout settings)
- Downgrade "using seed fallback IPs" from warning to info to avoid
noisy logs on healthy networks
* fix: add telegram.request mock and discovery fixture to remaining test files
The original PR missed test_dm_topics.py and
test_telegram_network_reconnect.py — both need the telegram.request
mock module. The reconnect test also needs _no_auto_discovery since
_handle_polling_network_error calls connect() which now invokes
discover_fallback_ips().
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Co-authored-by: Mohan Qiao <Gavin-Qiao@users.noreply.github.com>
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.
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>
