When systemd_restart / systemd_status / systemd_stop run under sudo,
HERMES_HOME is stripped and HOME=/root, so get_hermes_home() resolves
to /root/.hermes instead of the unit's pinned home. read_runtime_status
and get_running_pid then look at the wrong gateway_state.json — the
60s status poll never sees "running", times out, and forces another
systemctl restart that SIGTERMs the in-progress new gateway.
Read the unit's pinned HERMES_HOME from `systemctl show -p Environment`
and mirror it into os.environ before any HERMES_HOME-derived read.
Early-out when system=False (user-scope inherits naturally). Errors
swallowed so a transient systemctl failure doesn't break unrelated
CLI ops.
Closes#22035.
The generated zsh completion script used `(-h --help)` as the exclusion
group for `_arguments`, which zsh rejects with:
_arguments:comparguments: invalid argument: (-h --help){-h,--help}[...]
Exclusion groups in `_arguments` cannot contain long options. Use the
canonical `(-)` form (exclude all other options) which correctly
handles flag pairs like `-h`/`--help`.
FixesNousResearch/hermes-agent#22686
Problem
-------
`hermes doctor` ran two health checks for Anthropic: a dedicated one
with the correct `x-api-key` + `anthropic-version` headers, and a
generic Bearer-auth one driven by the pluggable `ProviderProfile` for
"anthropic". The generic check called `https://api.anthropic.com/v1/models`
with `Authorization: Bearer ...`, which Anthropic answers with HTTP 404,
producing a noisy duplicate warning even when the dedicated check passed.
Root cause
----------
`hermes_cli/doctor.py:_build_apikey_providers_list` deduplicated profiles
against a `_known_canonical` set built from the static list (Z.AI/GLM,
Kimi, DeepSeek, …). Providers with their own dedicated check above the
generic loop (Anthropic, OpenRouter, Bedrock) were not in that set, so
their profiles were appended and ran a second, broken check.
Fix
---
Add `{"anthropic", "openrouter", "bedrock"}` to the skip set, and
also skip profiles whose aliases match any of those names (e.g.
`claude`, `claude-oauth` → anthropic).
Tests
-----
tests/hermes_cli/test_doctor_dedicated_provider_skip.py:
- test_build_apikey_providers_list_skips_dedicated_check_providers:
asserts the assembled list does not contain anthropic, openrouter,
or bedrock entries.
- test_build_apikey_providers_list_includes_non_dedicated_providers:
sanity guard that legitimate providers (DeepSeek, Z.AI/GLM) survive.
Both confirmed via stash-verify (fail pre-fix with anthropic/openrouter
leaking, pass post-fix).
Fixes#22346
ALTER TABLE calls inside _migrate_add_optional_columns were guarded by a
snapshot of PRAGMA table_info taken at function entry. When the gateway
dispatcher opens the kanban DB twice per tick (once in _tick_once_for_board
and once via init_db's discard-and-reconnect path), a second connection can
run the same migration before the first one commits, causing:
sqlite3.OperationalError: duplicate column name: consecutive_failures
This crashed the dispatcher on every first tick after a gateway restart
(subsequent ticks succeeded because the columns were then present).
Fix: introduce _add_column_if_missing() which wraps ALTER TABLE in a
try/except that swallows OperationalError whose message contains
'duplicate column name'. All ALTER TABLE calls in
_migrate_add_optional_columns are routed through this helper.
Closes#21708
`hermes doctor` ran every connectivity probe sequentially and on a typical
developer laptop spent ~2s of its ~5s wall time inside boto3's EC2
instance-metadata-service lookup (169.254.169.254) — the default
AWS credential chain probes IMDS even when AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK
or AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID is the only legitimate source.
Refactor the API Connectivity section so every probe (OpenRouter,
Anthropic, ~16 static API-key providers + dynamic profiles, AWS
Bedrock) is a pure function returning a structured result, then
fan them out through a ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=8). Output
order, glyphs, colours, padding, and issue strings stay byte-for-byte
identical to the sequential implementation; results are gathered
in submission order.
Also disable IMDS for the parallel block by setting
AWS_EC2_METADATA_DISABLED=true on the parent thread before submitting
work (and restoring its prior value in a finally block). Bedrock's
real-API call gets a Config(connect_timeout=5, read_timeout=10,
retries={max_attempts:1}) so a transient regional failure can't pad
the run by 30+ seconds.
Measured impact (5-run medians, 9950X3D):
hermes doctor: 5.07 → 2.16 s (-57%)
Doctor tests: 48 passed (test_doctor.py + test_doctor_command_install.py).
The remaining ~2s of wall is import overhead + a couple of one-off
network calls outside the API Connectivity section (`fetch_models_dev`
provider catalog refresh, Nous OAuth refresh in `Auth Providers`).
Those are next-tier targets, not part of this change.
Returning users who enabled '🖱️ Computer Use (macOS)' via 'hermes tools'
saw '✓ Saved configuration' but no install — cua-driver was never on
PATH and the toolset failed at first use. Two compounding causes:
1. _toolset_needs_configuration_prompt fell through to _toolset_has_keys,
which returned True for any provider with empty env_vars. cua-driver
has no env vars, so the gate skipped _configure_toolset entirely and
_run_post_setup('cua_driver') never ran.
2. No stable CLI entry-point existed for re-running the install when
the picker no-op'd it (e.g. when toggling the toolset off+on inside
one picker session, where 'added' is empty).
Changes:
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: add _POST_SETUP_INSTALLED registry
mapping post_setup keys to installed-state predicates. The gate
now returns True when any visible provider has a registered
post_setup whose predicate fails. cua_driver is the only opt-in
for now; other post_setup hooks keep their existing behaviour.
- hermes_cli/main.py: add 'hermes computer-use install' and
'hermes computer-use status' as a stable docs target. install
reuses the same _run_post_setup('cua_driver') path that the
picker invokes; status reports whether cua-driver is on PATH.
- tools/computer_use/cua_backend.py: install hint now points users
at 'hermes computer-use install' first.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/computer-use.md: document the
new command as the primary install path.
- website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md: catalog 'hermes
computer-use' alongside 'hermes tools'.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_post_setup_gating.py: regression coverage
for the gate predicate (missing -> setup forced, installed ->
setup skipped, broken predicate -> non-blocking, unregistered
keys -> behaviour unchanged).
Fixes#22737. Reported by @f-trycua.
Native Windows, WSL, SSH sessions, and Windows Terminal all send
Ctrl+Enter as bare LF (c-j). Hermes was binding c-j as submit on
every POSIX platform, so Ctrl+Enter submitted instead of inserting
a newline on those terminals. Reported in #22379.
Add _preserve_ctrl_enter_newline() predicate that detects the
environments where Ctrl+Enter must produce a newline (sys.platform
== 'win32', SSH_CONNECTION/SSH_CLIENT/SSH_TTY env, WT_SESSION,
WSL_DISTRO_NAME, /proc/version 'microsoft' marker). Gate the
c-j-as-submit binding off in those environments and gate the
c-j-as-newline handler on. Local POSIX TTYs without those markers
(docker exec, plain ssh from a Mac) keep c-j as submit so plain
Enter still works on thin PTYs.
Add install_ctrl_enter_alias() in hermes_cli/pt_input_extras.py
mapping the three CSI-u / modifyOtherKeys variants of Ctrl+Enter
('\x1b[13;5u', '\x1b[27;5;13~', '\x1b[27;5;13u') to the
(Escape, ControlM) tuple Alt+Enter produces. This lets Kitty /
mintty / xterm-with-modifyOtherKeys users over SSH get a Ctrl+Enter
newline through the existing Alt+Enter handler.
9 new tests + extended existing test_lf_enter_binds_to_submit_handler_posix
to cover bare-local vs SSH branches.
Closes#22379.
Operator-controlled HERMES_PROFILE values were rendered as
'**${author}** (${ts}):' — markdown bold with no provenance prefix.
Worker comment bodies render directly underneath. A misleading
profile name like 'hermes-system' or 'operator' could be misread by
the next worker as a system directive above attacker-influenced
content (confused-deputy primitive gated on operator misconfig).
The LLM-controlled author-forgery surface was already closed in
#22435 (author removed from KANBAN_COMMENT_SCHEMA). This is
defense-in-depth: render with an explicit 'comment from worker
`<author>` at <ts>:' prefix so even 'hermes-system' resolves to
'comment from worker `hermes-system` at ...' — parseable as
worker-comment metadata, not a system directive. Strip backticks
from author so they can't break out of the fence.
Update test_build_worker_context_caps_comments to count by body
regex since the rendered author line now also starts with
'comment '.
Closes#22452.
Adds 'codex' to the _MCP_PRESETS registry so users can add it via
Connecting to 'codex'...
✓ Connected! Found 2 tool(s) from 'codex':
codex Run a Codex session. Accepts configuration parameters matchi...
codex-reply Continue a Codex conversation by providing the thread id and...
Enable all 2 tools? [Y/n/select]:
Cancelled. without manually specifying
the command and args.
Enables: codex mcp-server → Hermes native MCP client → Codex tools
available as first-class Hermes tools.
Problem:
After `hermes profile use NAME`, the gateway (started via systemd with
HERMES_HOME=/root/.hermes hardcoded) ignores the active profile and
always runs as the Default profile. WebUI, Telegram, and all non-CLI
platforms are affected.
Root cause:
_apply_profile_override() contained an early-return guard:
if profile_name is None and os.environ.get("HERMES_HOME"):
return # trust the inherited value
The intent was to let child processes inherit their parent's profile via
HERMES_HOME without redundantly re-reading active_profile. But
systemd also sets HERMES_HOME — to the hermes root (/root/.hermes),
not a profile directory — so the guard fired and silently skipped the
active_profile check. The user's `hermes profile use NAME` write to
~/.hermes/active_profile was never seen by the gateway process.
Fix:
Only skip the active_profile check when HERMES_HOME is already a
profile directory, identified by its immediate parent directory being
named "profiles" (e.g. ~/.hermes/profiles/coder or
/opt/data/profiles/coder). When HERMES_HOME points to a root
directory (parent name != "profiles"), continue to read active_profile.
Tests:
- test_hermes_home_at_root_with_active_profile_is_redirected: the
bug scenario — HERMES_HOME=/root/.hermes + active_profile=coder →
HERMES_HOME must be redirected to .../profiles/coder.
Stash-verified: FAILS without fix, PASSES with fix.
- test_hermes_home_already_profile_dir_is_trusted: child-process
inheritance contract unchanged — .../profiles/coder is trusted as-is.
- test_hermes_home_unset_reads_active_profile: classic path unchanged.
- test_hermes_home_unset_default_profile_no_redirect: "default" still
produces no redirect.
4/4 tests green.
Closes#22502.
Resolve git via shutil.which with POSIX and Git-for-Windows fallbacks before clone and pull so Dashboard/API installs do not misreport Git as missing.
Add regression tests for the resolver and pull subprocess invocation.
When platform_toolsets[<platform>] contains both a composite (e.g.
hermes-cli) and at least one configurable opt-in (e.g. spotify), the
has_explicit_config branch in _get_platform_tools silently dropped the
composite, leaving sessions with only the configurable + plugin tools
and no native tools (terminal, file, web, browser, memory, etc.).
Mirror the else-branch's subset inference for composites that sit
alongside the configurables, but apply _DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS only to the
implicit expansion so user-listed default-off toolsets (spotify,
discord) survive.
Enforce the parent-completion invariant at claim_task (the single
ready->running chokepoint) and re-gate unblock_task so blocked->ready
only fires when parents are done. Prevents child tasks from running
ahead of in-progress parents under the create-then-link race.
Also adds a stress test that races concurrent create+link against
hammered claim_task and asserts no child runs while any parent is undone.
Ref: kanban/boards/cookai/workspaces/t_a6acd07d/root-cause.md
Refs: t_8d6af9d6
Plugin authors had no easy way to figure out why their plugin wasn't
loading — failures were buried in agent.log at WARNING and skip reasons
(disabled, not enabled, depth cap, exclusive) were DEBUG-only and
invisible by default.
Set HERMES_PLUGINS_DEBUG=1 to attach a stderr handler at DEBUG to the
hermes_cli.plugins logger only. Surfaces:
- which directories were scanned + manifest counts per source
- per manifest: resolved key, name, kind, source, on-disk path
- skip reasons (disabled, not enabled, exclusive, depth cap, no register)
- per load: tools/hooks/slash/CLI commands the plugin registered
- full traceback on YAML parse failure (exc_info on the existing warning)
- full traceback on register() exceptions, pointing at the plugin author's line
Env var off (default) → zero new stderr output, same as before.
Touches only hermes_cli/plugins.py + a doc section in the plugin-build
guide + an entry in the env-vars reference. 3 new tests lock the
attach/idempotent/no-attach behavior.
Problem:
unlink_tasks() removes a parent→child dependency edge but does not trigger
recompute_ready(). A child whose last blocking parent is unlinked stays
stuck in 'todo' indefinitely — it only promotes to 'ready' on the next
dispatcher tick or a manual 'hermes kanban recompute'. For CLI-only users
without a dispatcher, the child is permanently stuck.
Root cause:
complete_task() and unblock_task() both call recompute_ready() after their
write transaction so downstream children are evaluated immediately.
unlink_tasks() was missing this call — removing a dependency is
semantically equivalent to completing one, so the same recompute is needed.
Fix:
Capture the rowcount result before the write_txn exits, then call
recompute_ready(conn) outside the transaction when a row was actually
deleted (so the child sees the updated task_links state).
Tests:
Added test_unlink_tasks_triggers_recompute_ready in
tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py: creates parent A (done) + parent C
(running), child B with both parents (todo), unlinks C→B, asserts B is
ready immediately. Stash-verified: FAILS without fix (child stays todo),
PASSES with fix.
62/62 tests green in tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py.
Closes#22459.
/clear, /new, /reset, and /undo now ask the user to confirm before
discarding conversation state — three-option prompt routed through the
existing tools.slash_confirm primitive.
Native yes/no buttons render on Telegram, Discord, and Slack (their
adapters already implement send_slash_confirm); other platforms get a
text-fallback prompt and reply with /approve, /always, or /cancel.
The classic prompt_toolkit CLI uses the same three-option flow via the
established _prompt_text_input pattern (see _confirm_and_reload_mcp).
TUI keeps its existing modal overlay (#12312).
Gated by new config key approvals.destructive_slash_confirm (default
true). Picking 'Always Approve' flips the gate to false so subsequent
destructive commands run silently — matches the established
mcp_reload_confirm UX.
Out of scope: /cron remove (separate domain — scheduled jobs, not
session history). Existing TUI overlay env-var (HERMES_TUI_NO_CONFIRM)
left unchanged; cosmetic unification can come later.
Closes#4069.
check_for_updates() and _resolve_repo_dir() were preferring
$HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent/ over Path(__file__).parent.parent.resolve()
when looking for a .git checkout. For profiles created with
--clone-all, $HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent/ points to a stale copy
with a frozen HEAD, causing persistent "N commits behind" banners
that never resolved.
Flip the resolution order: prefer the running code's location first,
fall back to $HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent/ only when the live checkout
doesn't have a .git (system-wide pip installs, distro packages).
The embedded-rev branch (HERMES_REVISION env var, set by nix builds)
is unaffected — it uses git ls-remote against upstream, never reads
the local checkout's HEAD.
Based on PR #21728 by @fahdad
When the source profile is the default (~/.hermes), shutil.copytree()
was copying multi-GB infrastructure alongside the ~40 MB of actual
profile data: hermes-agent/ (repo checkout + 3 GB venv), .worktrees/,
profiles/ (sibling profiles — recursive!), bin/ (installed binaries),
node_modules/ (hundreds of MB).
Add _CLONE_ALL_DEFAULT_EXCLUDE_ROOT frozenset with these five entries
and pass an ignore callback to copytree(). Exclusions are gated on
the source actually being the default profile (is_default_source) so
named-profile sources are never affected.
Also exclude at any depth: __pycache__/, *.pyc, *.pyo, *.sock, *.tmp.
Profile data (config.yaml, .env, auth.json, state.db, sessions/,
skills/, logs/) is preserved intact — clone-all means 'complete
snapshot minus infrastructure'.
Mirrors the approach already used by _default_export_ignore() and
_DEFAULT_EXPORT_EXCLUDE_ROOT (the export-side exclusion set which is
broader because it produces a portable archive, not a live clone).
Co-authored-by: MustafaKara7 <karamusti912@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: fahdad <30740087+fahdad@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes#5022
Based on PRs #5025, #5026, and #21728
Follow-up to PR #21293 (cli.py), which fixed the same anti-pattern.
`asyncio.get_event_loop()` is documented as effectively "always returns
the running loop when called from a coroutine" and emits
DeprecationWarning/RuntimeWarning in some interpreter configurations.
The Python docs explicitly recommend get_running_loop() inside coroutines.
Replaces the remaining 9 call sites that are unconditionally inside
async def bodies:
- tools/browser_cdp_tool.py — _cdp_call() (4 sites): deadline + remaining
computations inside the async websockets.connect context manager.
- hermes_cli/web_server.py — get_status, _start_device_code_flow,
submit_oauth_code (3 sites): all FastAPI async endpoints offloading
blocking httpx / PKCE work to run_in_executor.
- environments/agent_loop.py — HermesAgentLoop (1 site): tool dispatch
inside the async rollout loop.
- environments/benchmarks/terminalbench_2/terminalbench2_env.py —
rollout_and_score_eval (1 site): test verification thread offload.
All 9 sites are unconditionally inside async def bodies, so a running
loop is guaranteed and no try/except RuntimeError fallback is needed
(unlike the cli.py case in #21293, which ran from a background thread).
Behavior is identical on supported Python versions; aligns the codebase
with the post-#21293 idiom and avoids future warnings as the deprecation
hardens.
Salvaged from PR #21930 by @Zhekinmaksim onto current main (the
original branch was 109 commits behind and carried unintended
stale-branch reverts of unrelated landed changes — _tail_lines
encoding=utf-8 and the Windows PTY bridge guard). Only the 9 swaps
from the PR's intended scope are applied here.
SQLite's WAL mode requires shared-memory (mmap) coordination and fcntl
byte-range locks that don't reliably work on network filesystems. Upstream
documents this explicitly:
https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html#sometimes_queries_return_sqlite_busy_in_wal_mode
On NFS / SMB / some FUSE mounts / WSL1, 'PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL' raises
'sqlite3.OperationalError: locking protocol' (SQLITE_PROTOCOL). Before
this change, every feature backed by state.db or kanban.db broke silently:
- /resume, /title, /history, /branch returned 'Session database not
available.' with no cause
- gateway logged the init failure at DEBUG (invisible in errors.log)
- kanban dispatcher crashed every 60s, driving the known migration race
(duplicate column name: consecutive_failures, #21708 / #21374)
Changes:
- hermes_state.apply_wal_with_fallback(): shared helper that tries WAL
and falls back to DELETE on SQLITE_PROTOCOL-style errors with one
WARNING explaining why
- hermes_state.get_last_init_error() + format_session_db_unavailable():
capture the init failure cause and surface it in user-facing strings
(with an NFS/SMB pointer for 'locking protocol')
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.connect(): use the shared helper
- gateway/run.py: bump SessionDB init failure log DEBUG -> WARNING
(matches cli.py's existing correct behavior)
- cli.py (4 sites) + gateway/run.py (5 sites): replace bare
'Session database not available.' with format_session_db_unavailable()
Tests: 12 new tests in tests/test_hermes_state_wal_fallback.py + 1 new
test in tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py. Existing suites (state,
kanban, gateway, cli) remain green for all tests unrelated to pre-existing
failures on main.
Evidence: real-world user on NFSv3 mount (172.26.224.200:d2dfac12/home,
local_lock=none) reporting 'Session database not available.' on /resume;
'locking protocol' appears in 4 distinct log entries across backup,
kanban, TUI, and CLI paths in the same session.
closes#22032
Extends #19994 to the restart path. Dashboard spawns 'hermes gateway
restart' in the background; when a wedged adapter websocket pushes
drain past the 90s CLI timeout, the dashboard previously surfaced a
raw subprocess.TimeoutExpired traceback.
Mirror systemd_stop()'s TimeoutExpired catch onto both forcing-restart
sites in systemd_restart(). Adds a test that exercises the no-active-pid
branch end-to-end.
Closes#5346.
Most terminals send the same byte sequence for `Enter` and `Shift+Enter`
by default, so the application can't tell them apart — this is a terminal
protocol limitation, not something Hermes can paper over. But terminals
that implement the Kitty keyboard protocol (Kitty / foot / WezTerm /
Ghostty by default; iTerm2 / Alacritty / VS Code terminal / Warp once the
protocol is enabled) DO emit a distinct sequence for `Shift+Enter`:
- `\x1b[13;2u` — Kitty / CSI-u, modifier=2
- `\x1b[27;2;13~` — xterm modifyOtherKeys=2
Stock prompt_toolkit doesn't have the CSI-u sequence in its
`ANSI_SEQUENCES` table at all, and it maps the modifyOtherKeys variant to
plain `Keys.ControlM` (Enter) — i.e. it strips the Shift modifier, which
is the bug users actually hit on iTerm2 and friends.
This PR adds `hermes_cli/pt_input_extras.install_shift_enter_alias()`,
called once at CLI startup from `cli.py`, which inserts/overwrites those
sequences in `ANSI_SEQUENCES` so they decode to `(Keys.Escape, Keys.ControlM)`
— the same key tuple `Alt+Enter` produces. The existing Alt+Enter newline
handler (`@kb.add('escape', 'enter')` in `cli.py`) then fires unchanged,
so there is no new keybinding to register and no behavioral change for
terminals that don't emit the distinct sequences.
Files
=====
* `hermes_cli/pt_input_extras.py` — new module hosting the helper. Lives
outside `cli.py` so it's importable in tests without dragging in the
full CLI runtime (which depends on `fire`, `rich`, etc.).
* `cli.py` — calls `install_shift_enter_alias()` once at module import.
Wrapped in try/except so prompt_toolkit version drift can't break CLI
startup.
* `tests/cli/test_cli_shift_enter_newline.py` — 6 tests:
- registration of all three byte sequences
- overwrite of stock prompt_toolkit's broken modifyOtherKeys mapping
- idempotency
- parser equivalence: CSI-u Shift+Enter == Alt+Enter
- parser equivalence: modifyOtherKeys Shift+Enter == Alt+Enter
- plain Enter remains a single key (submit), distinct from the two-key
Alt+Enter / Shift+Enter tuple
* `website/docs/user-guide/cli.md` — keybinding table updated; new
"Shift+Enter compatibility" subsection with a per-terminal status table
noting macOS Terminal / stock Windows Terminal cannot distinguish the
keystroke at the protocol level.
* `website/docs/getting-started/quickstart.md`,
`website/docs/guides/tips.md` — short mention pointing readers at the
full compatibility note in `cli.md`.
Tested
======
pytest tests/cli/test_cli_shift_enter_newline.py # 6 passed
Live-tested by triggering `\x1b[13;2u` against the running Vt100Parser
(see test). Not exercised in a real terminal end-to-end because that
requires a Kitty-protocol-capable host; the test exercises the parser
path that drives the live terminal too.
After a clean SIGUSR1 drain, cmd_update passively polled for systemd's
auto-restart to fire. Our unit file sets RestartSec=60 (a crash-loop
guard), so the voluntary-restart path waited a full minute of dead air
before the gateway came back — the user saw 'draining (up to 75s)...'
and stared at it.
Change: after the drain exits with code 75, call 'reset-failed' +
'start' explicitly. Manual start bypasses RestartSec entirely
(RestartSec only governs systemd's own auto-restart logic). Takes
about as long as the gateway needs to come up (~1-3s on a warm box)
instead of ~60s.
The RestartSec=60 default stays — it's the right crash-loop guard for
actual crashes. This only short-circuits the voluntary-restart path.
Matches the pattern already used in 'hermes gateway restart'
(systemd_restart() in hermes_cli/gateway.py, PR #20949).
Tests:
- tests/hermes_cli/test_update_gateway_restart.py: new
test_update_bypasses_restartsec_after_graceful_drain asserts both
'reset-failed hermes-gateway' AND 'start hermes-gateway' (NOT
'restart') are issued after a successful graceful drain.
- All existing tests in the affected classes still pass
(TestCmdUpdateLaunchdRestart, TestCmdUpdateResetFailedBeforeRestart
are green; one pre-existing flake in the latter is unrelated).
`hermes --help` drops from ~700ms to ~180ms; `hermes version` from
~950ms to ~240ms. ~4-5x startup speedup on inspection / diagnostic
invocations.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/main.py: gate the argparse-setup `discover_plugins()` call
behind `_plugin_cli_discovery_needed()`. Eager plugin imports
(google.cloud.pubsub_v1, aiohttp, grpc, PIL) cost 500-650ms and are
pure waste when the user is running a built-in subcommand that
doesn't take plugin extensions (`--help`, `version`, `logs`,
`config`, `sessions`, etc.). New `_BUILTIN_SUBCOMMANDS` frozenset
+ `_first_positional_argv` helper handle flag-value skipping
(`-m gpt5 chat` → still fast).
- hermes_cli/main.py: `cmd_version` now reads the OpenAI SDK version
via `importlib.metadata` (~2ms) instead of `import openai` (~800ms
of pydantic type-module loading).
Agent-running paths (`hermes chat`, `hermes gateway run`) are
unaffected — the second `discover_plugins()` call later in `main()`
still runs so plugin hooks / tools wire up normally.
Tests:
- tests/hermes_cli/test_startup_plugin_gating.py: parity test guards
the `_BUILTIN_SUBCOMMANDS` set against drift (every registered
subparser must be declared; no phantom entries). Behavior tests for
flag-value skipping, `--` terminator, inline `--flag=value` form.
37 tests.
Both setup wizards (hermes setup and hermes gateway setup) gated the
service install/start/restart prompts behind 'supports_systemd or
is_macos()' and fell through to 'run in foreground' on Windows, even
though _is_service_installed() / _is_service_running() already call
gateway_windows.is_installed() and the Windows backend has a full
install/start/stop/restart contract.
Wire the Windows branch into both wizards:
- supports_service_manager now includes is_windows().
- Install offer reads 'Scheduled Task service' on Windows.
- install() on Windows starts the task inline via schtasks /Run (or
direct-spawn fallback) so the separate 'Start the service now?'
prompt is skipped.
- Start and Restart delegate to gateway_windows.start() / .restart().
hermes_cli/setup.py +30 -4
hermes_cli/gateway.py +28 -4
teknium1 hit ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'hermes_bootstrap' after
a code update, on both his Windows machine AND his Linux workstation. The
failure mode is real and affects every user who updates hermes by any path
OTHER than a fully-successful ``hermes update``.
## What happens
hermes_bootstrap.py is a top-level module registered via pyproject.toml's
``py-modules`` list (added by Brooklyn's Windows UTF-8 stdio work). It
must be registered in the venv's editable-install .pth file before Python
can find it as a bare ``import hermes_bootstrap``.
``hermes update`` handles this correctly: (1) git reset --hard, (2) clear
__pycache__, (3) uv pip install -e . (re-registers the package including
the new py-modules list), (4) restart.
BUT if any step AFTER (1) fails — network blip during pip install, PEP 668
on a system Python, venv locked, uv not in PATH, a crash mid-update — the
user is left with new code that references hermes_bootstrap and a venv
that doesn't know about it. Every hermes invocation after that crashes
with ModuleNotFoundError, including ``hermes update`` itself. No recovery
path without manual `uv pip install -e .`.
Also affects users who ``git pull`` the repo directly without running
hermes update — relatively common for developers.
## Fix
Wrap ``import hermes_bootstrap`` in a try/except ModuleNotFoundError
across all 6 entry points (hermes_cli/main, run_agent, gateway/run,
acp_adapter/entry, cli, batch_runner). On Windows, missing bootstrap
means the UTF-8 stdio setup doesn't run — degraded behavior (Unicode
chars may fail to print) but NOT a crash. POSIX is unaffected either way
since the bootstrap is a no-op there.
Once hermes is running again, the user can ``hermes update`` to fully
recover.
## Test update
tests/test_hermes_bootstrap.py::test_entry_point_imports_bootstrap
scans for the first top-level import in each entry point and asserts it
is hermes_bootstrap. Extended the check to accept a Try block whose body
is a lone Import of hermes_bootstrap — that's the recovery-friendly form
we just introduced.
Verified behavior by ``mv hermes_bootstrap.py hermes_bootstrap.py.bak``
and confirming ``python -c "import hermes_cli.main"`` succeeds. 82/82
tests pass (hermes_bootstrap + windows-native + windows-compat).
`hermes uninstall` was POSIX-only. On Windows it would leave four classes
of installer debris behind that the user had to scrub manually:
1. Scheduled Task and/or Startup-folder .cmd entry that installer.ps1
dropped for `hermes gateway install`. Left running at next logon
even after uninstall, pointing at deleted code paths.
2. User-scope PATH entries for the Hermes venv, PortableGit (cmd, bin,
usr\bin), and bundled Node, all written to HKCU\Environment\Path.
3. User-scope env vars HERMES_HOME and HERMES_GIT_BASH_PATH, same
registry key.
4. PortableGit and Node copies under %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\ (~200MB),
plus gateway-service/ scratch dir.
Fixes:
- `uninstall_gateway_service()` gets a Windows branch that calls into
`gateway_windows.stop()` + `gateway_windows.uninstall()`, which already
know how to remove both schtasks entries and Startup-folder .cmd files
and how to stop any running detached pythonw gateway.
- `remove_path_from_windows_registry(hermes_home)` reads HKCU\Environment
via winreg, strips any PATH entry whose path-prefix matches the
installer-owned markers (\hermes-agent, \git, \node, \venv under the
current HERMES_HOME), and writes the cleaned value back. Preserves
REG_EXPAND_SZ vs REG_SZ so unexpanded %VARS% in the user's PATH
survive. No PowerShell subprocess, no fragile `reg query` parsing.
- `remove_hermes_env_vars_windows()` deletes HERMES_HOME and
HERMES_GIT_BASH_PATH from the same key.
- `remove_portable_tooling_windows(hermes_home)` rmtree's
`hermes_home/git`, `hermes_home/node`, `hermes_home/gateway-service`
— they're installer artifacts, not user data, so they get removed in
BOTH "keep data" and "full uninstall" modes.
Wired these into `run_uninstall()` guarded by `_is_windows()` so
POSIX paths are untouched. Also fixed the closing "Reload your shell"
footer to point Windows users at opening a new terminal (PATH changes
don't propagate into the current PowerShell session) with the
PowerShell install one-liner instead of bash's curl-pipe.
Verified on Delta-1 (Windows 10) via preview script: correctly
identifies 4 Hermes-installed PATH entries out of 13 total to remove,
leaves Python/LM Studio/ripgrep/ffmpeg/winget entries alone.
## Two residual Windows fixes that were hanging from earlier commits.
### 1. `hermes gateway status` reported 2 PIDs per gateway — TWO bugs compounded
Diagnosed with psutil parent/child walk against live gateway PIDs:
**Bug A (the real one): `_get_parent_pid` silently failed on Windows.**
The helper shelled out to `ps -o ppid= -p <pid>`, which doesn't exist
on Windows — `FileNotFoundError` → returns `None` → the ancestor walk
terminated at `os.getpid()` alone. Consequence: the PID table scan in
`_scan_gateway_pids` couldn't filter out `hermes gateway status`'s own
launcher stub (a venv `pythonw.exe`/`python.exe` that matches the same
`-m hermes_cli.main gateway` pattern as the gateway). Every status
call saw "itself" as a second gateway.
Fix: `_get_parent_pid` now calls `psutil.Process(pid).ppid()` first
(psutil is a core dependency since 3dfb35700) and falls back to `ps`
only when `shutil.which("ps")` succeeds — matching the Windows-footgun
checker's "always guard `ps` / `wmic` / etc. with `shutil.which`" rule.
Before: `Gateway process running (PID: 21952, 46880)` — 46880 changing
on every call (the status invocation's own launcher, which died by the
time the next status call looked).
After (5 consecutive calls):
```
✓ Gateway process running (PID: 21952)
✓ Gateway process running (PID: 21952)
✓ Gateway process running (PID: 21952)
✓ Gateway process running (PID: 21952)
✓ Gateway process running (PID: 21952)
```
Ancestor walk on the fix: 14 PIDs (full chain through bash/explorer)
instead of the broken 1-PID set.
**Bug B (the cosmetic one): venv-launcher dedup.** Standard Windows
CPython venv behaviour is that `<venv>/Scripts/pythonw.exe` is a ~5 MB
launcher stub that spawns the base Python (`C:\\Program Files\\Python311
\\pythonw.exe`) with the same command line and waits. Our process
scanner sees two PIDs for every gateway: launcher + interpreter, same
cmdline. Bug A masked this by accidentally counting the status call
AS one of them; with Bug A fixed, we see both the real launcher and
real interpreter for the gateway process itself.
Fix: `_filter_venv_launcher_stubs` at the tail of `_scan_gateway_pids`
walks each matched PID's ppid via psutil. Any PID that's the PARENT
of another matched PID is a launcher stub — drop it, keep the child.
Scoped to Windows (`is_windows() and len(pids) > 1`) and no-ops when
psutil isn't importable.
Net effect: `gateway status` now reports one PID per gateway — the
interpreter — matching POSIX behaviour and user expectations.
### 2. `install.ps1`: bootstrap pip + auto-install platform SDKs
New `Install-PlatformSdks` function wired between `Invoke-SetupWizard`
and `Start-GatewayIfConfigured`. Fixes two related issues on fresh
Windows installs:
1. The tiered `uv pip install` cascade (introduced in 87fca8342)
correctly falls through when tier 1 `.[all]` fails on the RL git
deps, but the fallback tiers can silently skip SDKs from `[messaging]`
when there's a partial-resolve. Result: user sets `DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN`
in `.env`, fires up gateway, hits "discord module not installed".
2. `uv` creates venvs WITHOUT pip by default, so the user's escape
hatch (`pip install discord.py` in the venv) doesn't exist either.
The new function:
- Skips if `-NoVenv` (nothing to bootstrap into).
- Scans `~/.hermes/.env` for messaging tokens (TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN,
DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN, SLACK_BOT_TOKEN, SLACK_APP_TOKEN, WHATSAPP_ENABLED),
filtering placeholder values.
- For each token that's set, runs `python -c "import <sdk>"` to verify.
- If any import fails: runs `python -m ensurepip --upgrade` to bootstrap
pip into the venv (idempotent — no-ops if pip is already present),
then `pip install <spec>` for each missing SDK with specs mirroring
pyproject.toml's `[messaging]` extra to avoid version drift.
The `$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"` spans are not
cosmetic — PowerShell wraps native-stderr from a non-zero-exit
subprocess as a `NativeCommandError` that prints even through
`*> $null` / `2>$null`. Save + restore EAP over the import-probe
and pip-install blocks keeps the output clean.
Verified on this Windows 10 box:
- Initial state: telegram+fastapi+psutil present, discord+slack_sdk
missing (tier 1 `.[all]` had failed — `.tirith-install-failed`
marker in `%LOCALAPPDATA%\\hermes`).
- First run with discord+slack tokens in .env: detects both missing,
ensurepip (skipped — pip was already bootstrapped earlier this
session for telegram), installs `discord.py[voice]==2.7.1` +
`PyNaCl` + `davey`, installs `slack-sdk==3.41.0`. All imports
succeed on verify.
- Second run: all three SDKs report OK, function no-ops.
Pip spec strings mirror pyproject.toml's `[messaging]` extra verbatim
so a bump to the extra picks up here automatically — no drift.
### Files
- `hermes_cli/gateway.py`: `_get_parent_pid` rewritten (psutil-first);
`_filter_venv_launcher_stubs` added; `_scan_gateway_pids` dedups
launchers on Windows when it finds >1 match.
- `scripts/install.ps1`: new `Install-PlatformSdks` function (~85
lines); wired into the main flow at line 1438.
### Verification
- `venv/Scripts/python.exe scripts/check-windows-footguns.py --all`
→ `✓ No Windows footguns found (380 file(s) scanned).`
- `ast.parse` passes on gateway.py.
- `[System.Management.Automation.Language.Parser]::ParseFile` passes
on install.ps1.
- Live gateway (PID 21952, running since 12:33 today) survived 5x
stress loop of `hermes gateway status` without dying.
## Why
Hermes supports Linux, macOS, and native Windows, but the codebase grew up
POSIX-first and has accumulated patterns that silently break (or worse,
silently kill!) on Windows:
- `os.kill(pid, 0)` as a liveness probe — on Windows this maps to
CTRL_C_EVENT and broadcasts Ctrl+C to the target's entire console
process group (bpo-14484, open since 2012).
- `os.killpg` — doesn't exist on Windows at all (AttributeError).
- `os.setsid` / `os.getuid` / `os.geteuid` — same.
- `signal.SIGKILL` / `signal.SIGHUP` / `signal.SIGUSR1` — module-attr
errors at runtime on Windows.
- `open(path)` / `open(path, "r")` without explicit encoding= — inherits
the platform default, which is cp1252/mbcs on Windows (UTF-8 on POSIX),
causing mojibake round-tripping between hosts.
- `wmic` — removed from Windows 10 21H1+.
This commit does three things:
1. Makes `psutil` a core dependency and migrates critical callsites to it.
2. Adds a grep-based CI gate (`scripts/check-windows-footguns.py`) that
blocks new instances of any of the above patterns.
3. Fixes every existing instance in the codebase so the baseline is clean.
## What changed
### 1. psutil as a core dependency (pyproject.toml)
Added `psutil>=5.9.0,<8` to core deps. psutil is the canonical
cross-platform answer for "is this PID alive" and "kill this process
tree" — its `pid_exists()` uses `OpenProcess + GetExitCodeProcess` on
Windows (NOT a signal call), and its `Process.children(recursive=True)`
+ `.kill()` combo replaces `os.killpg()` portably.
### 2. `gateway/status.py::_pid_exists`
Rewrote to call `psutil.pid_exists()` first, falling back to the
hand-rolled ctypes `OpenProcess + WaitForSingleObject` dance on Windows
(and `os.kill(pid, 0)` on POSIX) only if psutil is somehow missing —
e.g. during the scaffold phase of a fresh install before pip finishes.
### 3. `os.killpg` migration to psutil (7 callsites, 5 files)
- `tools/code_execution_tool.py`
- `tools/process_registry.py`
- `tools/tts_tool.py`
- `tools/environments/local.py` (3 sites kept as-is, suppressed with
`# windows-footgun: ok` — the pgid semantics psutil can't replicate,
and the calls are already Windows-guarded at the outer branch)
- `gateway/platforms/whatsapp.py`
### 4. `scripts/check-windows-footguns.py` (NEW, 500 lines)
Grep-based checker with 11 rules covering every Windows cross-platform
footgun we've hit so far:
1. `os.kill(pid, 0)` — the silent killer
2. `os.setsid` without guard
3. `os.killpg` (recommends psutil)
4. `os.getuid` / `os.geteuid` / `os.getgid`
5. `os.fork`
6. `signal.SIGKILL`
7. `signal.SIGHUP/SIGUSR1/SIGUSR2/SIGALRM/SIGCHLD/SIGPIPE/SIGQUIT`
8. `subprocess` shebang script invocation
9. `wmic` without `shutil.which` guard
10. Hardcoded `~/Desktop` (OneDrive trap)
11. `asyncio.add_signal_handler` without try/except
12. `open()` without `encoding=` on text mode
Features:
- Triple-quoted-docstring aware (won't flag prose inside docstrings)
- Trailing-comment aware (won't flag mentions in `# os.kill(pid, 0)` comments)
- Guard-hint aware (skips lines with `hasattr(os, ...)`,
`shutil.which(...)`, `if platform.system() != 'Windows'`, etc.)
- Inline suppression with `# windows-footgun: ok — <reason>`
- `--list` to print all rules with fixes
- `--all` / `--diff <ref>` / staged-files (default) modes
- Scans 380 files in under 2 seconds
### 5. CI integration
A GitHub Actions workflow that runs the checker on every PR and push is
staged at `/tmp/hermes-stash/windows-footguns.yml` — not included in this
commit because the GH token on the push machine lacks `workflow` scope.
A maintainer with `workflow` permissions should add it as
`.github/workflows/windows-footguns.yml` in a follow-up. Content:
```yaml
name: Windows footgun check
on:
push:
branches: [main]
pull_request:
branches: [main]
jobs:
check:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: actions/setup-python@v5
with: {python-version: "3.11"}
- run: python scripts/check-windows-footguns.py --all
```
### 6. CONTRIBUTING.md — "Cross-Platform Compatibility" expansion
Expanded from 5 to 16 rules, each with message, example, and fix.
Recommends psutil as the preferred API for PID / process-tree operations.
### 7. Baseline cleanup (91 → 0 findings)
- 14 `open()` sites → added `encoding='utf-8'` (internal logs/caches) or
`encoding='utf-8-sig'` (user-editable files that Notepad may BOM)
- 23 POSIX-only callsites in systemd helpers, pty_bridge, and plugin
tool subprocess management → annotated with
`# windows-footgun: ok — <reason>`
- 7 `os.killpg` sites → migrated to psutil (see §3 above)
## Verification
```
$ python scripts/check-windows-footguns.py --all
✓ No Windows footguns found (380 file(s) scanned).
$ python -c "from gateway.status import _pid_exists; import os
> print('self:', _pid_exists(os.getpid())); print('bogus:', _pid_exists(999999))"
self: True
bogus: False
```
Proof-of-repro that `os.kill(pid, 0)` was actually killing processes
before this fix — see commit `1cbe39914` and bpo-14484. This commit
removes the last hand-rolled ctypes path from the hot liveness-check
path and defers to the best-maintained cross-platform answer.
On Windows, Python's ``os.kill(pid, 0)`` is NOT a no-op. CPython's
implementation (``Modules/posixmodule.c::os_kill_impl``) treats sig=0
as ``CTRL_C_EVENT`` because the two integer values collide at the C
layer, and routes it through ``GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent(0, pid)`` —
which sends a Ctrl+C to the ENTIRE console process group containing
the target PID, not just the PID itself. Any caller that wanted to
check "is PID X alive" via the classic POSIX ``os.kill(pid, 0)``
idiom was silently killing that process (and often unrelated
processes in the same console group) on Windows. Long-standing
Python Windows quirk; see bpo-14484 (open since 2012).
This manifested in Hermes as: every ``hermes gateway status``
invocation would read the gateway's PID from the PID file, call
``os.kill(pid, 0)`` via ``gateway.status.get_running_pid()`` as a
"liveness check", and instantly terminate the gateway it was trying
to report on. No shutdown log, no traceback, no atexit hook fire,
no exit-diag entry — just silent termination of the detached pythonw
process. "Bot answered one message then stopped typing" was the
characteristic end-user symptom because `os.kill(pid, 0)` fires
mid-response-send and kills the gateway between logs.
Reproduction (verified in this branch before the fix):
$ hermes gateway start # gateway alive, PID 37520
$ hermes gateway status # reports "No gateway process detected"
$ tasklist /FI "PID eq 37520" # INFO: No tasks are running
# — gateway terminated silently
Root-cause fix is a new ``gateway.status._pid_exists(pid)`` helper:
- On Windows: Win32 ``OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION |
SYNCHRONIZE, False, pid)`` + ``WaitForSingleObject(handle, 0)``
via ctypes. Zero signal delivery, zero console-group side effects.
Pins ctypes return types to avoid DWORD-vs-signed-int parse bugs
on WAIT_TIMEOUT (0x102). Distinguishes ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER
(PID gone) from ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (alive but another user).
- On POSIX: the canonical ``os.kill(pid, 0)`` idiom that actually is
a no-op there.
Then patch every ``os.kill(pid, 0)`` liveness-check callsite to
route through ``_pid_exists`` instead. Total 14 callsites across
11 files; every single one was a latent silent-kill on Windows:
gateway/run.py:2810 — /restart watcher (inline subprocess)
gateway/run.py:15195 — --replace wait loop
gateway/status.py:572 — acquire_gateway_runtime_lock stale check
gateway/status.py:828 — get_running_pid (THE killer for status)
gateway/platforms/whatsapp.py:111
hermes_cli/gateway.py:228, 522, 1012 — gateway-related drain loops
hermes_cli/kanban_db.py:2826 — _pid_alive was claiming to
be cross-platform but used
os.kill(pid, 0) on Windows
hermes_cli/main.py:5792 — CLI process-kill polling
hermes_cli/profiles.py:782 — profile stop wait loop
plugins/google_meet/process_manager.py:74
tools/browser_tool.py:1215, 1255 — browser daemon ownership probes
tools/mcp_tool.py:1255, 3374 — MCP stdio orphan tracking
The watcher source in gateway/run.py:2810 is a multi-line string
that gets spawned as an inline ``python -c "..."`` subprocess, so
it can't import gateway.status. The fix for that callsite inlines
the same ctypes probe directly into the watcher source.
Tested on Windows 10 with the hermes gateway + Telegram bot:
- gateway start → alive
- 5 consecutive ``hermes gateway status`` invocations → gateway
alive after every one, same PID reported each time (37520, 21952)
- gateway.log shows uninterrupted operation; no spurious shutdown
entries; cron ticker and kanban dispatcher still running on
their 60-second cadence
- bot continues answering Telegram messages throughout
Ships alongside an exit-path diagnostic wrapper in
``hermes_cli/gateway.py::run_gateway()`` that captures every way
``asyncio.run(start_gateway(...))`` can return (success, SystemExit,
KeyboardInterrupt, BaseException, atexit) with full traceback to
``logs/gateway-exit-diag.log``. This was used to prove the gateway
was being hard-killed externally (no exit event fired) and should
be kept for future Windows debugging.
Refs: https://bugs.python.org/issue14484
See also: references/windows-subprocess-sigint-storm.md in
the hermes-agent skill.
Hermes gateway now installs as a real Windows service via
`hermes gateway install`, auto-starts on user logon, and stays running
across reboots. Mirrors the launchd (macOS) / systemd (Linux) contract
so the rest of the CLI dispatcher just plugs into the same `install /
uninstall / start / stop / restart / status` entrypoints.
Primary implementation is the new `hermes_cli/gateway_windows.py`:
- `schtasks /Create /SC ONLOGON /RL LIMITED /RU <user> /NP /IT` creates
a per-user Scheduled Task running as the current user at next logon,
with no UAC prompt and no stored password. Same pattern OpenClaw uses.
- When `schtasks /Create` returns "Access is denied" or times out
(locked-down corporate boxes, 15s/30s hard + no-output cutoffs),
fall back to writing a `.cmd` file into
`%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\`, which
Windows Explorer fires at every logon. Either path produces the same
end-user experience.
- `_spawn_detached()` launches `pythonw.exe -m hermes_cli.main gateway
run --replace` directly with `DETACHED_PROCESS |
CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP | CREATE_NO_WINDOW |
CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB` + DEVNULL stdio + sidecar
`logs/gateway-stdio.log`. Going through pythonw.exe (no console)
instead of a cmd.exe shim is what lets the gateway survive the
spawning shell's exit on Windows — documented in
`references/windows-subprocess-sigint-storm.md`.
- Two separate quoting helpers for cmd.exe vs schtasks (`/TR` argument)
— they're different parsers and mixing breaks both. Same split
OpenClaw documents in src/daemon/schtasks.ts.
- `_wait_for_gateway_ready()` + `_report_gateway_start()` poll for a
live gateway process after spawn and report the PID, so install
doesn't lie about success.
Dispatcher wiring in `hermes_cli/gateway.py`:
- `_gateway_command_inner()` gets Windows branches for install /
uninstall / start / stop / restart / status + `_is_service_installed`
+ `_is_service_running`. `gateway status` output + suggested
commands now mention `hermes gateway install` instead of
`sudo hermes gateway install --system` on Windows.
Two separable Windows fixes that only matter for a working
detached gateway, bundled here because shipping them independently
leaves install broken:
(1) Spurious CTRL_C_EVENT on detached pythonw runs. When the gateway
is launched detached on Windows, something on the boot path (HTTPX /
python-telegram-bot / asyncio ProactorEventLoop subprocess plumbing)
synthesizes a Ctrl+C within ~60-90 seconds. Python 3.11 translates it
into KeyboardInterrupt inside `asyncio.run(start_gateway(...))`, the
outer `except KeyboardInterrupt: return` exits cleanly, and the
process dies with no shutdown log — "bot started typing, then
stopped" is the fingerprint because the interrupt fires mid-send.
Fix in `run_gateway()`: when `is_windows()` and stdin is not a TTY,
install `signal.signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN)` + same for SIGBREAK. Real
console runs have a TTY and skip the absorber, so user Ctrl+C still
works interactively. Same family as commit 449ad952b's browser-tool
SIGINT absorber; cross-referenced in the ref doc.
(2) `wmic process get` is the process-list path used by
`_scan_gateway_pids()` / `find_gateway_pids()`, which power status,
stop, and restart on Windows. `C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WMIC.exe` has
been deprecated since Windows 10 21H1 and is not installed on modern
Win 10/11 boxes, so `find_gateway_pids()` silently returns [] — status
sees no gateway even when one is running. Fix: `shutil.which("wmic")`
first, fall back to PowerShell's `Get-CimInstance Win32_Process`
emitting the same LIST-style `CommandLine=...` / `ProcessId=...` pairs
the downstream parser already handles. Zero behavior change on boxes
where wmic still works.
Verified end-to-end on Windows 10 (Delta-1):
- `hermes gateway install` → falls back to Startup folder (access
denied on schtasks for this user) + detached pythonw spawn, PID
reported correctly.
- Gateway connects to Telegram, answers messages, stays alive past
2min (previously died at ~85s with no shutdown log).
- `hermes gateway stop` + `uninstall` both clean up both tracks.
Refs: openclaw/openclaw src/daemon/schtasks.ts for the ONLOGON +
startup-folder-fallback pattern. skill hermes-agent
references/windows-subprocess-sigint-storm.md for the deeper
CTRL_C_EVENT / ProactorEventLoop background.
Replace hardcoded ~/.hermes/shared/ references with
get_default_hermes_root() / 'shared' so the cross-profile Nous auth
store lands in the correct location on every platform:
- Linux/macOS: ~/.hermes/shared/
- native Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\shared- Docker / custom HERMES_HOME: <root>/shared/
Updates _nous_shared_auth_dir(), the pytest seat-belt in
_nous_shared_store_path(), and the auth_add_command comment to match.
Previously Windows installs wrote to ~/.hermes/shared/ even though the
rest of the CLI uses %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes, so profiles couldn't see
each other's shared credential.
scripts/install.sh runs 'npx playwright install --with-deps chromium'
on every Linux distro after the npm-install step, which is why browser
tools Just Work on Linux. scripts/install.ps1 never did the equivalent
step, so on native Windows installs check_browser_requirements() in
tools/browser_tool.py would return False (no Chromium under
%LOCALAPPDATA%\ms-playwright) and every browser_* tool got silently
filtered out of the agent's tool schema — no error, no log entry, user
just wondered why the tools didn't exist.
Two-part fix:
1. scripts/install.ps1: after 'npm install' in InstallDir succeeds, run
'npx playwright install chromium'. Resolves npx via the same
execution-policy-aware logic already used for npm (prefer npx.cmd
next to npmExe, fall back to Get-Command). Surfaces a warning +
manual-recovery hint when the install fails, matching install.sh
behaviour for distros.
2. hermes_cli/doctor.py: after the agent-browser check, lazily import
tools.browser_tool and reuse the exact same _chromium_installed()
predicate check_browser_requirements() uses, so the doctor signal
cannot drift from the runtime gate. Skip the check when Camofox /
CDP override / a cloud provider / Lightpanda is configured (those
bypass local Chromium). On missing Chromium, the hint is
platform-correct: '--with-deps' on POSIX, plain 'install chromium'
on win32.
Verified on Windows 10:
- 'npx playwright install chromium' completes successfully, drops
Chrome Headless Shell under %LOCALAPPDATA%\ms-playwright
- check_browser_requirements() flips from False -> True
- 'hermes doctor' now prints either '✓ Playwright Chromium (browser
engine)' or '⚠ Playwright Chromium not installed' + fix command
- tests/hermes_cli/test_doctor.py: 38/38 pass
- tests/tools/test_browser_chromium_check.py: 16/16 pass
Windows Terminal intercepts Alt+Enter for its fullscreen shortcut, leaving
Windows users with no Enter-involving way to insert a newline in the Hermes
prompt. Fix it by reclaiming c-j on Windows only:
- _bind_prompt_submit_keys now binds c-j (LF) to submit only on POSIX, where
thin PTYs (docker exec, some SSH configs) deliver Enter as LF. On Windows
plain Enter is always c-m, so c-j is free.
- Windows-only prompt binding: c-j inserts a newline. Windows Terminal sends
Ctrl+Enter as LF, so the user-facing keystroke is Ctrl+Enter — no terminal
settings changes required.
- Alt+Enter binding unchanged; still works on mac/Linux/WSL.
- Test TestPromptToolkitTerminalCompatibility::test_lf_enter_binds_to_submit_handler
split into platform-aware assertions for POSIX vs win32.
- Fixed the Ctrl+J claim in hermes_cli/tips.py (was wrong before this commit
even on POSIX) to point Windows users at Ctrl+Enter.
Tradeoff: on Windows, raw Ctrl+J (without Enter) also inserts a newline,
since WT collapses Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+J to the same c-j keycode. No
conflicting Hermes binding existed for Ctrl+J, so this is a harmless side
effect.
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.
Codebase-wide fix for Python-on-Windows UTF-8 footguns, complementing
the earlier execute_code sandbox fixes (which remain load-bearing for
when the sandbox explicitly scrubs child env).
Problem: Python on Windows has two long-standing text-encoding pitfalls:
1. sys.stdout/stderr are bound to the console code page (cp1252 on
US-locale installs) — print('café') crashes with UnicodeEncodeError.
2. Subprocess children don't know to use UTF-8 unless PYTHONUTF8 and/or
PYTHONIOENCODING are set in their env — so any Python we spawn
(linters, sandbox children, delegation workers) hits the same bug.
Solution: A tiny bootstrap module (hermes_bootstrap.py) imported as the
first statement of every Hermes entry point:
- hermes_cli/main.py (hermes / hermes-agent console_script)
- run_agent.py (hermes-agent direct)
- acp_adapter/entry.py (hermes-acp)
- gateway/run.py (messaging gateway)
- batch_runner.py (parallel batch mode)
- cli.py (legacy direct-launch CLI)
On Windows, the bootstrap:
- os.environ.setdefault('PYTHONUTF8', '1') (PEP 540 UTF-8 mode)
- os.environ.setdefault('PYTHONIOENCODING', 'utf-8')
- sys.stdout/stderr/stdin.reconfigure(encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
Children inherit the env vars → they run in UTF-8 mode.
Current process's stdio is reconfigured → print('café') works now.
On POSIX (Linux/macOS), the bootstrap is a complete no-op. We don't
touch LANG, LC_*, or anything else — users who have intentionally
configured a non-UTF-8 locale aren't affected. POSIX systems are
already UTF-8 by default in 99% of modern setups, so there's nothing
to fix.
setdefault() (not overwrite) means users who explicitly set PYTHONUTF8=0
or PYTHONIOENCODING=cp1252 in their environment are respected.
What this does NOT fix: bare open(path, 'w') calls in the *parent*
process still default to locale encoding because PYTHONUTF8 is only
read at interpreter init. A ruff PLW1514 sweep (separate follow-up)
will add explicit encoding='utf-8' at those ~219 call sites for
belt-and-suspenders.
Tests (17): 16 passed, 1 skipped on Windows.
- Windows: env vars set, stdio reconfigured, child inherits UTF-8 mode
- POSIX: complete no-op (verified on fake POSIX + skipped on real
POSIX since we don't have a Linux box in this session)
- Idempotence: multiple calls safe
- Graceful degradation: non-reconfigurable streams don't crash
- User opt-out: explicit PYTHONUTF8=0 is respected
- Load order: every entry point's FIRST top-level import is
hermes_bootstrap, enforced by an AST-level parametrized test
pyproject.toml: added hermes_bootstrap to py-modules so it ships with
pip installs.
Two fixes from teknium1's next install run:
1. **npm install: "npm.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is
disabled on this system."** Get-Command's default PATHEXT ordering
picked up ``npm.ps1`` (the PowerShell shim) ahead of ``npm.cmd`` (the
batch shim). Most Windows users have PowerShell's execution policy
set to Restricted or RemoteSigned, which blocks unsigned ``.ps1``
files. ``npm.cmd`` has no such restriction and works universally.
Install-NodeDeps now detects when Get-Command returned npm.ps1, looks
for a sibling npm.cmd in the same directory, and prefers it. Prints
an info line so the user sees why. Emits a warning + hint if only
npm.ps1 is available.
2. **"Launch hermes chat now? Y" crashes with "%1 is not a valid Win32
application" on Windows installs.** The setup wizard calls
``relaunch(["chat"])``; ``resolve_hermes_bin()`` returned
``sys.argv[0]`` which was ``...\\hermes_cli\\main.py`` (because hermes
was launched via ``python -m hermes_cli.main`` during setup).
On Windows, ``os.access(script.py, os.X_OK)`` returns True because
PATHEXT lists ``.py`` when the Python launcher is registered — but
``subprocess.run([script.py, ...])`` can't actually execute a ``.py``
directly. CreateProcessW needs a real PE file.
Fixed ``resolve_hermes_bin`` to reject ``.py``/``.pyc`` argv0 values
on Windows specifically. Falls through to ``shutil.which("hermes")``
(hermes.exe in the venv Scripts dir) or, as a final fallback, lets
build_relaunch_argv build ``[sys.executable, "-m", "hermes_cli.main"]``
which is bulletproof. POSIX behaviour unchanged — ``.py`` argv0 with
a shebang + chmod+x is still a valid exec target there.
3 new tests cover the Windows paths: .py argv0 + hermes.exe on PATH →
returns hermes.exe; .py argv0 + no PATH → returns None (caller uses
python -m); POSIX + executable .py → still accepted.
26 relaunch tests pass, no POSIX regressions.
Three interrelated bugs from teknium1's first interactive chat on Windows:
1. **Snapshot/cwd file paths unquoted in bash command strings.** The session
bootstrap and per-command wrapper interpolated
``self._snapshot_path`` / ``self._cwd_file`` unquoted into bash commands
like ``export -p > C:/Users/ryanc/.../hermes-snap-xxx.sh``. Git Bash's
MSYS2 layer handles ``C:/...`` paths correctly ONLY when quoted; unquoted,
the colon and forward-slash get glob-parsed and the redirect targets a
bogus path. Symptom: every terminal command emitted two
``C:/Users/.../hermes-snap-*.sh (No such file or directory)`` lines that
bled into stdout (``stderr=STDOUT`` on the local backend) and corrupted
file contents when the agent wrote to scratch paths via the terminal
tool. Fix: ``shlex.quote()`` every interpolation of ``_snapshot_path``
and ``_cwd_file`` in base.py — no-op on POSIX (the paths contain no
shell-metachars), critical on Windows.
2. **Stale PATH on first hermes launch after install.** ``install.ps1``
adds the PortableGit ``cmd`` / ``bin`` / ``usr\bin`` directories to the
Windows **User** PATH via ``SetEnvironmentVariable(..., "User")``. That
write propagates to newly *spawned* processes only — already-running
shells (including the one the user types ``hermes`` into immediately
after install) retain their old PATH. So hermes starts with a PATH that
doesn't include bash, rg, grep, ssh — and ``search_files`` reports
"rg/find not available" when the user clearly just installed them.
Fix: new ``_augment_path_with_known_tools()`` helper called from
``configure_windows_stdio()`` on startup. Prepends the Hermes-managed
Git directories + the WinGet Links directory (where ripgrep lands) to
``os.environ['PATH']`` if they exist on disk but aren't already in
PATH. Subsequent subprocess calls (including bash spawns via
``_find_bash()``) inherit the augmented PATH and find everything.
No-op on POSIX and when the directories don't exist.
3. **Root cause of "file content corruption".** #1 was the proximate cause.
Errors like ``C:/Users/.../hermes-snap-xxx.sh: No such file or directory``
were emitted on stderr by the failed redirect, captured into stdout via
``stderr=subprocess.STDOUT``, and if the agent used terminal commands
like ``cat > file`` the leaked error bytes became part of the file.
Fixing #1 eliminates this entirely.
## Tests
All 77 Windows-compat tests still pass on Linux (POSIX path is
shlex.quote('/tmp/foo.sh') → '/tmp/foo.sh' — unchanged).
## Not addressed here (would need a bigger design)
- Python file tools (``write_file``, ``read_file``) and the bash-backed
terminal tool see DIFFERENT views of ``/tmp`` on Windows. Python treats
``/tmp`` as ``C:\tmp`` (drive-relative), Git Bash's MSYS2 treats it as
a virtual mount to the PortableGit install's ``tmp\``. Would need a
translation shim in the Python tools to resolve bash-virtual paths to
their native-Windows equivalents. Workaround for users today: use
absolute native paths (``C:\Users\you\...``) instead of ``/tmp/...``
when crossing between terminal and Python file tools.
Three real bugs from teknium1's first Windows install run:
1. **MinGit has no bash.exe.** MinGit is the minimal-automation Git for Windows
distribution — it ships git.exe but deliberately strips bash and the POSIX
coreutils. Installer logged "Could not locate bash.exe" and Hermes would
fail to run any shell command. Switched to PortableGit — the full Git for
Windows minus the installer UI. PortableGit ships bash.exe at
<root>\bin\bash.exe plus sh, awk, sed, grep, curl, ssh in usr\bin\. ARM64
variant is detected separately (PortableGit-*-arm64.7z.exe). 32-bit falls
back to MinGit-32-bit with a warning (PortableGit is 64-bit only).
PortableGit ships as a 7z self-extractor (56MB vs MinGit's 38MB). We
invoke it with `-o<target> -y` to extract silently — no 7z install needed,
it's self-contained.
Updated tools/environments/local.py::_find_bash candidate order to prefer
the PortableGit layout (<root>\bin\bash.exe) with the MinGit layout
(<root>\usr\bin\bash.exe) as a fallback so existing installs keep working.
2. **os.execvp "Exec format error" on Windows.** Setup wizard's "Launch
hermes chat now? Y" called `os.execvp(["hermes", "chat"])` which on
Windows can only swap to real Win32 .exe files — chokes with OSError(8)
on .cmd batch shims and Python console-script wrappers. Added a
win32 branch in hermes_cli/relaunch.py::relaunch() that uses
subprocess.run + sys.exit — functionally identical (user sees "hermes
exited, then new hermes started") with one extra PID in play. POSIX
path is UNCHANGED — still uses os.execvp for in-place replacement.
Catches OSError in the Windows branch and surfaces a "open a new
terminal so PATH picks up, then re-run hermes" hint instead of a
cryptic traceback.
3. **npm install failures silent on Windows.** The install.ps1 was invoking
`npm install --silent 2>&1 | Out-Null` inside a try/catch. PowerShell's
try/catch does NOT trigger on non-zero process exit codes — only on
unhandled .NET exceptions — so npm failing printed a generic "npm
install failed" with zero information about WHY. The silent pipe ate
the stderr.
Rewrote Install-NodeDeps to:
- Resolve npm.cmd via Get-Command (respects PATHEXT) instead of
relying on bare `npm` name resolution.
- Use Start-Process with -PassThru to capture the actual exit code.
- Redirect stderr to a temp log and surface the first ~800 chars of
the real npm error when install fails, plus the log path for the
full text.
- Fail loudly with the right exit code instead of a misleading success.
- Bail cleanly with a helpful message when npm isn't on PATH at all.
4. **"True" printing to console after Node check.** `Test-Node` returns $true;
installer called it as a bare statement (no assignment, no cast). PowerShell
prints bare return values. Wrapped the call in `[void](Test-Node)`.
## Tests
- Added 3 new tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_relaunch.py covering the
Windows branch: subprocess is called (not execvp), child exit code
propagates, OSError surfaces a helpful message. All 23 tests pass
(20 existing + 3 new).
- 77 Windows-compat tests still pass, POSIX behaviour unchanged.
Second pass on native Windows support, driven by a systematic audit across
five areas: POSIX-only primitives (signal.SIGKILL/SIGHUP/SIGPIPE, os.WNOHANG,
os.setsid), path translation bugs (/c/Users → C:\Users), subprocess patterns
(npm.cmd batch shims, start_new_session no-op on Windows), subsystem health
(cron, gateway daemon, update flow), and module-level import guards.
Every change is platform-gated — POSIX (Linux/macOS) behaviour is preserved
bit-identical. Explicit "do no harm" test: test_posix_path_preserved_on_linux,
test_posix_noop, test_windows_detach_popen_kwargs_is_posix_equivalent_on_posix.
## New module
- hermes_cli/_subprocess_compat.py — shared helpers (resolve_node_command,
windows_detach_flags, windows_hide_flags, windows_detach_popen_kwargs).
All no-ops on non-Windows.
## CRITICAL fixes (would crash or silently break on Windows)
- tui_gateway/entry.py: SIGPIPE/SIGHUP referenced at module top level would
AttributeError on import on Windows, breaking `hermes --tui` entirely (it
spawns this module as a subprocess). Guard each signal.signal() call with
hasattr() and add SIGBREAK as Windows' SIGHUP equivalent.
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: os.waitpid(-1, os.WNOHANG) in dispatcher tick was
unguarded. os.WNOHANG doesn't exist on Windows. Gate the whole reap loop
behind `os.name != "nt"` — Windows has no zombies anyway.
- tools/code_execution_tool.py: AF_UNIX socket for execute_code RPC fails on
most Windows builds. Fall back to loopback TCP (AF_INET on 127.0.0.1:0
ephemeral port) when _IS_WINDOWS. HERMES_RPC_SOCKET env var now accepts
either a filesystem path (POSIX) or `tcp://127.0.0.1:<port>` (Windows).
Generated sandbox client parses both.
- cron/scheduler.py: `argv = ["/bin/bash", str(path)]` hardcoded. Use
shutil.which("bash") so Windows (Git Bash via MinGit) works, with a
readable error when bash is genuinely absent.
- 6 bare npm/npx spawn sites: tools_config.py x2, doctor.py, whatsapp.py
(npm install + node version probe), browser_tool.py x2. On Windows npm
is npm.cmd / npx is npx.cmd (batch shims); subprocess.Popen(["npm", ...])
fails with WinError 193. shutil.which(...) returns the absolute .cmd
path which CreateProcessW accepts because the extension routes through
cmd.exe /c. POSIX behaviour unchanged (shutil.which still returns the
same path subprocess would resolve itself).
## HIGH fixes (silent misbehaviour on Windows)
- tools/environments/local.py get_temp_dir: hardcoded /tmp returned on
Windows meant `_cwd_file = "/tmp/hermes-cwd-*.txt"`, which bash wrote
via MSYS2's virtual /tmp but native Python couldn't open. Result: cwd
tracking silently broken — `cd` in terminal tool did nothing. Windows
branch now returns `%HERMES_HOME%/cache/terminal` with forward slashes
(works in both bash and Python, guaranteed no spaces).
- tools/environments/local.py _make_run_env PATH injection: `/usr/bin not
in split(":")` heuristic mangles Windows PATH (";" separator). Gate
the injection behind `not _IS_WINDOWS`.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py launch_detached_profile_gateway_restart: outer
Popen + watcher-script Popen both used start_new_session=True, which
Windows silently ignores. Watcher stayed attached to CLI's console,
died when user closed terminal after `hermes update`, left gateway
stale. Now branches through windows_detach_popen_kwargs() helper
(CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP | DETACHED_PROCESS | CREATE_NO_WINDOW on
Windows, start_new_session=True on POSIX — identical to main).
## MEDIUM fixes
- gateway/run.py /restart and /update handlers: hardcoded bash/setsid
chain crashes on Windows when user triggers /update in-gateway. Now
has sys.platform=="win32" branch using sys.executable + a tiny
Python watcher with proper detach flags. POSIX path is unchanged.
- cli.py _git_repo_root: Git on Windows sometimes returns /c/Users/...
style paths that break subprocess.Popen(cwd=...) and Path().resolve().
Added _normalize_git_bash_path() helper that translates /c/Users,
/cygdrive/c, /mnt/c variants to native C:\Users form. POSIX no-op.
_git_repo_root() now routes every result through it.
- cli.py worktree .worktreeinclude: os.symlink on directories failed
hard on Windows (requires admin or Developer Mode). Falls back to
shutil.copytree with a warning log.
## Tests
- 29 new tests in tests/tools/test_windows_native_support.py covering:
subprocess_compat helpers, TUI entry signal guards, kanban waitpid
guard, code_execution TCP fallback source-level invariants, cron bash
resolution, npm/npx bare-spawn lint per-file, local env Windows temp
dir, PATH injection gating, git bash path normalization, symlink
fallback, gateway detached watcher flags.
- One existing test assertion adjusted in test_browser_homebrew_paths:
it compared captured Popen argv to the BARE `"npx"` literal; after the
shutil.which() change argv[0] is the absolute path. New assertion
checks the shape (two items, second is `agent-browser`) rather than
the exact first-item string. Behaviour unchanged; test was too strict.
All 56 tests pass on Linux (30 from previous commits + 26 new).
267 tests from the affected files/dirs (browser, code_exec, local_env,
process_registry, kanban_db, windows_compat) all pass — zero regressions.
tests/hermes_cli/ (3909 pass) and tests/gateway/ (5021 pass) unchanged;
all pre-existing test failures confirmed unrelated via `git stash` re-run.
## What's still deferred (LOW priority)
- Visible cmd-window flashes on short-lived console apps (~14 sites) —
cosmetic, needs a follow-up pass once we have user reports.
- agent/file_safety.py POSIX-only security deny patterns — separate
hardening task.
- tools/process_registry.py returning "/tmp" as fallback — theoretical;
reachable only when all env-var candidates fail.
Pre-existing Windows bug surfaced while reviewing the portable-MinGit
install: prompt_toolkit's Buffer.open_in_editor() falls back to POSIX
absolute paths (/usr/bin/nano, /usr/bin/vi, /usr/bin/emacs) that don't
exist on native Windows. When neither $EDITOR nor $VISUAL is set,
Ctrl+X Ctrl+E ("open prompt in editor") and /edit both silently do
nothing on Windows — the user hits the key, nothing happens, no error.
This wasn't caused by MinGit (full Git for Windows doesn't fix it either,
because the Windows Python subprocess call resolves `/usr/bin/nano` as
`C:\usr\bin\nano`, which doesn't exist even with nano installed).
Fixes:
- hermes_cli/stdio.py::configure_windows_stdio now sets EDITOR=notepad
on Windows if neither EDITOR nor VISUAL is set. notepad.exe is in
every Windows install, works as a blocking editor (subprocess.call
waits for the window to close), and writes back to the file.
- hermes_cli/config.py (hermes config edit): reorder fallback list so
Windows tries notepad first — previously nano led the list, which
required Git Bash / WSL to be in PATH.
- Users who want VSCode / Neovim / Notepad++ can still override via
$env:EDITOR — that's checked before our default kicks in. Docstring
spells out the common overrides.
The Ink TUI (`hermes --tui`) already handled Windows correctly via
ui-tui/src/lib/editor.ts falling back to notepad.exe on win32 — this
commit brings the classic prompt_toolkit CLI into parity.
3 new tests in test_windows_native_support.py verify:
- EDITOR=notepad gets set when unset on Windows
- Explicit $EDITOR is respected
- $VISUAL is respected (not overwritten by our default)
Native Windows (with Git for Windows installed) can now run the Hermes CLI
and gateway end-to-end without crashing. install.ps1 already existed and
the Git Bash terminal backend was already wired up — this PR fills the
remaining gaps discovered by auditing every Windows-unsafe primitive
(`signal.SIGKILL`, `os.kill(pid, 0)` probes, bare `fcntl`/`termios`
imports) and by comparing hermes against how Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex,
and Cline handle native Windows.
## What changed
### UTF-8 stdio (new module)
- `hermes_cli/stdio.py` — single `configure_windows_stdio()` entry point.
Flips the console code page to CP_UTF8 (65001), reconfigures
`sys.stdout`/`stderr`/`stdin` to UTF-8, sets `PYTHONIOENCODING` + `PYTHONUTF8`
for subprocesses. No-op on non-Windows. Opt out via `HERMES_DISABLE_WINDOWS_UTF8=1`.
- Called early in `cli.py::main`, `hermes_cli/main.py::main`, and
`gateway/run.py::main` so Unicode banners (box-drawing, geometric
symbols, non-Latin chat text) don't `UnicodeEncodeError` on cp1252
consoles.
### Crash sites fixed
- `hermes_cli/main.py:7970` (hermes update → stuck gateway sweep): raw
`os.kill(pid, _signal.SIGKILL)` → `gateway.status.terminate_pid(pid, force=True)`
which routes through `taskkill /T /F` on Windows.
- `hermes_cli/profiles.py::_stop_gateway_process`: same fix — also
converted SIGTERM path to `terminate_pid()` and widened OSError catch
on the intermediate `os.kill(pid, 0)` probe.
- `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py:2914, 3041`: raw `signal.SIGKILL` →
`getattr(signal, "SIGKILL", signal.SIGTERM)` fallback (matches the
pattern already used in `gateway/status.py`).
### OSError widening on `os.kill(pid, 0)` probes
Windows raises `OSError` (WinError 87) for a gone PID instead of
`ProcessLookupError`. Widened the catch at:
- `gateway/run.py:15101` (`--replace` wait-for-exit loop — without this,
the loop busy-spins the full 10s every Windows gateway start)
- `hermes_cli/gateway.py:228, 460, 940`
- `hermes_cli/profiles.py:777`
- `tools/process_registry.py::_is_host_pid_alive`
- `tools/browser_tool.py:1170, 1206`
### Dashboard PTY graceful degradation
`hermes_cli/pty_bridge.py` depends on `fcntl`/`termios`/`ptyprocess`,
none of which exist on native Windows. Previously a Windows dashboard
would crash on `import hermes_cli.web_server` because of a top-level
import. Now:
- `hermes_cli/web_server.py` wraps the pty_bridge import in
`try/except ImportError` and sets `_PTY_BRIDGE_AVAILABLE=False`.
- The `/api/pty` WebSocket handler returns a friendly "use WSL2 for
this tab" message instead of exploding.
- Every other dashboard feature (sessions, jobs, metrics, config
editor) runs natively on Windows.
### Dependency
- `pyproject.toml`: add `tzdata>=2023.3; sys_platform == 'win32'` so
Python's `zoneinfo` works on Windows (which has no IANA tzdata
shipped with the OS). Credits @sprmn24 (PR #13182).
### Docs
- README.md: removed "Native Windows is not supported"; added
PowerShell one-liner and Git-for-Windows prerequisite note.
- `website/docs/getting-started/installation.md`: new Windows section
with capability matrix (everything native except the dashboard
`/chat` PTY tab, which is WSL2-only).
- `website/docs/user-guide/windows-wsl-quickstart.md`: reframed as
"WSL2 as an alternative to native" rather than "the only way".
- `website/docs/developer-guide/contributing.md`: updated
cross-platform guidance with the `signal.SIGKILL` / `OSError`
rules we enforce now.
- `website/docs/user-guide/features/web-dashboard.md`: acknowledged
native Windows works for everything except the embedded PTY pane.
## Why this shape
Pulled from a survey of how other agent codebases handle native
Windows (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Cline):
- All four treat Git Bash as the canonical shell on Windows, same as
hermes already does in `tools/environments/local.py::_find_bash()`.
- None of them force `SetConsoleOutputCP` — but they don't have to,
Node/Rust write UTF-16 to the Win32 console API. Python does not get
that for free, so we flip CP_UTF8 via ctypes.
- None of them ship PowerShell-as-primary-shell (Claude Code exposes
PS as a secondary tool; scope creep for this PR).
- All of them use `taskkill /T /F` for force-kill on Windows, which
is exactly what `gateway.status.terminate_pid(force=True)` does.
## Non-goals (deliberate scope limits)
- No PowerShell-as-a-second-shell tool — worth designing separately.
- No terminal routing rewrite (#12317, #15461, #19800 cluster) — that's
the hardest design call and needs a separate doc.
- No wholesale `open()` → `open(..., encoding="utf-8")` sweep (Tianworld
cluster) — will do as follow-up if users hit actual breakage; most
modern code already specifies it.
## Validation
- 28 new tests in `tests/tools/test_windows_native_support.py` — all
platform-mocked, pass on Linux CI. Cover:
- `configure_windows_stdio` idempotency, opt-out, env-preservation
- `terminate_pid` taskkill routing, failure → OSError, FileNotFoundError fallback
- `getattr(signal, "SIGKILL", …)` fallback shape
- `_is_host_pid_alive` OSError widening (Windows-gone-PID behavior)
- Source-level checks that all entry points call `configure_windows_stdio`
- pty_bridge import-guard present in `web_server.py`
- README no longer says "not supported"
- 12 pre-existing tests in `tests/tools/test_windows_compat.py` still pass.
- `tests/hermes_cli/` ran fully (3909 passed, 9 failures — all confirmed
pre-existing on main by stash-test).
- `tests/gateway/` ran fully (5021 passed, 1 pre-existing failure).
- `tests/tools/test_process_registry.py` + `test_browser_*` pass.
- Manual smoke: `import hermes_cli.stdio; import gateway.run;
import hermes_cli.web_server` — all clean, `_PTY_BRIDGE_AVAILABLE=True`
on Linux (as expected).
## Files
- New: `hermes_cli/stdio.py`, `tests/tools/test_windows_native_support.py`
- Modified: `cli.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `hermes_cli/main.py`,
`hermes_cli/profiles.py`, `hermes_cli/gateway.py`,
`hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `hermes_cli/pty_bridge.py`,
`hermes_cli/web_server.py`, `tools/browser_tool.py`,
`tools/process_registry.py`, `pyproject.toml`, `README.md`, and 4
docs pages.
Credits to everyone whose prior PR work informed these fixes — see
the co-author trailers. All of the PRs listed in
`~/.hermes/plans/windows-support-prs.md` fixing `os.kill` / `signal.SIGKILL`
/ UTF-8 stdio / tzdata / README patterns found the same issues; this PR
consolidates them.
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_distribution_metadata() reads the profile's distribution.yaml without
an explicit encoding, which defaults to the platform's locale encoding
— UTF-8 on POSIX, cp1252/mbcs on Windows. Files round-tripped between
hosts get mojibake on the Windows side.
Single-line fix: add encoding='utf-8' to the open() call. Matches the
sibling _read_config_model() site at line 398, which already does this.
Surfaces once PR #21561 lands the blocking ruff-check CI job
(PLW1514 — unspecified-encoding), but the underlying bug is
pre-existing on main.
Third slice of the Microsoft Teams meeting pipeline stack, salvaged
onto current main. Adds the standalone teams_pipeline plugin that
consumes Graph change notifications from the webhook listener,
resolves meeting artifacts (transcript first, recording + STT fallback
later), persists job state in a durable store, and exposes an operator
CLI for inspection, replay, subscription management, and validation.
Design choices follow maintainer review feedback on PR #19815:
- Standalone plugin rather than bolted-on core surface
(plugins/teams_pipeline/, kind: standalone in plugin.yaml).
- Zero new model tools. The agent drives the pipeline by invoking
the operator CLI via the terminal tool, guided by the skill that
ships with a follow-up PR.
- Reuses the existing msgraph_webhook gateway platform for Graph
ingress. Pipeline runtime is wired in via bind_gateway_runtime and
gated on plugins.enabled so gateways that don't run the plugin
boot cleanly.
Additions:
- plugins/teams_pipeline/: runtime (gateway wiring + config builder),
pipeline core, durable SQLite store, subscription maintenance
helpers, Graph artifact resolution, operator CLI (list, show,
run/replay, fetch dry-run, subscriptions list, subscribe,
renew-subscription, delete-subscription, maintain-subscriptions,
token-health, validate).
- hermes_cli/main.py: second-pass plugin CLI discovery so any
standalone plugin registered via ctx.register_cli_command()
outside the memory-plugin convention path gets its subcommand
wired into argparse without touching core.
- gateway/run.py: _teams_pipeline_plugin_enabled() config gate,
_wire_teams_pipeline_runtime() binding after adapter setup, and
the two runner attributes used by the runtime.
Credit to @dlkakbs for the entire plugin implementation.
Background macOS desktop control via cua-driver MCP — does NOT steal the
user's cursor or keyboard focus, works with any tool-capable model.
Replaces the Anthropic-native `computer_20251124` approach from the
abandoned #4562 with a generic OpenAI function-calling schema plus SOM
(set-of-mark) captures so Claude, GPT, Gemini, and open models can all
drive the desktop via numbered element indices.
- `tools/computer_use/` package — swappable ComputerUseBackend ABC +
CuaDriverBackend (stdio MCP client to trycua/cua's cua-driver binary).
- Universal `computer_use` tool with one schema for all providers.
Actions: capture (som/vision/ax), click, double_click, right_click,
middle_click, drag, scroll, type, key, wait, list_apps, focus_app.
- Multimodal tool-result envelope (`_multimodal=True`, OpenAI-style
`content: [text, image_url]` parts) that flows through
handle_function_call into the tool message. Anthropic adapter converts
into native `tool_result` image blocks; OpenAI-compatible providers
get the parts list directly.
- Image eviction in convert_messages_to_anthropic: only the 3 most
recent screenshots carry real image data; older ones become text
placeholders to cap per-turn token cost.
- Context compressor image pruning: old multimodal tool results have
their image parts stripped instead of being skipped.
- Image-aware token estimation: each image counts as a flat 1500 tokens
instead of its base64 char length (~1MB would have registered as
~250K tokens before).
- COMPUTER_USE_GUIDANCE system-prompt block — injected when the toolset
is active.
- Session DB persistence strips base64 from multimodal tool messages.
- Trajectory saver normalises multimodal messages to text-only.
- `hermes tools` post-setup installs cua-driver via the upstream script
and prints permission-grant instructions.
- CLI approval callback wired so destructive computer_use actions go
through the same prompt_toolkit approval dialog as terminal commands.
- Hard safety guards at the tool level: blocked type patterns
(curl|bash, sudo rm -rf, fork bomb), blocked key combos (empty trash,
force delete, lock screen, log out).
- Skill `apple/macos-computer-use/SKILL.md` — universal (model-agnostic)
workflow guide.
- Docs: `user-guide/features/computer-use.md` plus reference catalog
entries.
44 new tests in tests/tools/test_computer_use.py covering schema
shape (universal, not Anthropic-native), dispatch routing, safety
guards, multimodal envelope, Anthropic adapter conversion, screenshot
eviction, context compressor pruning, image-aware token estimation,
run_agent helpers, and universality guarantees.
469/469 pass across tests/tools/test_computer_use.py + the affected
agent/ test suites.
- `model_tools.py` provider-gating: the tool is available to every
provider. Providers without multi-part tool message support will see
text-only tool results (graceful degradation via `text_summary`).
- Anthropic server-side `clear_tool_uses_20250919` — deferred;
client-side eviction + compressor pruning cover the same cost ceiling
without a beta header.
- macOS only. cua-driver uses private SkyLight SPIs
(SLEventPostToPid, SLPSPostEventRecordTo,
_AXObserverAddNotificationAndCheckRemote) that can break on any macOS
update. Pin with HERMES_CUA_DRIVER_VERSION.
- Requires Accessibility + Screen Recording permissions — the post-setup
prints the Settings path.
Supersedes PR #4562 (pyautogui/Quartz foreground backend, Anthropic-
native schema). Credit @0xbyt4 for the original #3816 groundwork whose
context/eviction/token design is preserved here in generic form.
* feat(profile): shareable profile distributions (pack/install/update/info)
Closes#20456.
Turns a profile into a portable, versioned artifact. Packs SOUL.md, config,
skills, cron, and an env-var manifest into a tar.gz that others can install
from a local path, URL, or git repo. Updates re-pull the distribution while
preserving user data (memories, sessions, auth.json, .env) and the user's
config.yaml overrides.
New subcommands (under hermes profile, no parallel tree):
hermes profile pack <name> [-o FILE]
hermes profile install <source> [--name N] [--alias] [--force] [-y]
hermes profile update <name> [--force-config] [-y]
hermes profile info <name>
Manifest (distribution.yaml at the profile root): name, version,
hermes_requires, author, env_requires, distribution_owned.
Security:
- Installer shows manifest + env-var requirements before mutating disk;
confirmation required unless -y.
- auth.json and .env are never packed (same exclude set as profile export).
- Cron jobs are packed but NOT auto-scheduled — user is pointed at
'hermes -p <name> cron list' to review.
- Archive extraction rejects path traversal (../ members).
- Alias creation is opt-in via --alias.
Update semantics:
- Distribution-owned paths (SOUL.md, skills/, cron/, mcp.json, manifest):
replaced from the new archive.
- config.yaml: preserved by default; --force-config to overwrite.
- User-owned paths (memories/, sessions/, auth.json, .env, state.db*,
logs/, workspace/, plans/, home/, *_cache/, local/): never touched.
Version pin:
hermes_requires accepts >=, <=, ==, !=, >, < or a bare version (treated
as >=). Install fails with a clear error when the running Hermes version
doesn't satisfy the spec.
Sources supported by 'install':
- Local .tar.gz / .tgz archive
- Local directory
- HTTP(S) URL pointing to a .tar.gz (uses httpx, already a dep)
- Git URL (github.com/user/repo, https://..., git@..., ssh://, git://)
Tests: 43 new unit tests (manifest parsing, version checks, env template,
pack/install/update round-trip, config-preservation, security).
E2E validated via real CLI invocations against an isolated HERMES_HOME
covering pack, install with confirmation, update preservation, update
--force-config, decline-preview, duplicate-install rejection, and
version-requirement rejection.
* refactor(profile-dist): git-only — drop tar.gz/HTTP transports and pack
Scope-cut on top of the original distribution PR: a profile distribution
is now exclusively a git repository (or a local directory during
development). The tar.gz / HTTP archive transports and the matching
`hermes profile pack` subcommand have been removed.
Why:
* GitHub tags, branches, and commits are already the right versioning
primitive. Tag pushes do for us what 'pack + upload' did.
* `hermes profile export` / `import` already cover local backup and
restore; they are not a distribution format and stay untouched.
* One transport means one install/update code path, one doc page,
and one mental model. The extra source types doubled the surface
for no real user win — GitHub auto-attaches release tarballs, and
`git bundle` / `git clone --mirror` cover the airgap case.
Changes:
* hermes_cli/profile_distribution.py — removed pack_profile,
_fetch_tar_archive (_http_fetch), _safe_extract, _archive_roots,
_safe_parts, _find_dist_root, tarfile/io/urlparse imports. The
new _stage_source has two arms: git URL → clone, local directory
→ use in place.
* hermes_cli/main.py — removed the 'pack' subparser and action
handler. Install help text updated to match the reduced source list.
* tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_distribution.py — rewritten around a
local-directory staging fixture. The install/update/describe suites
now build a distribution tree on disk directly and install from it,
which is what a real git clone produces after .git is stripped.
Dropped TestPack, TestFindDistRoot, and the tar-specific security
test. New tests cover _looks_like_git_url, env_example emission,
hermes_requires enforcement, and 'installer does not import
credentials if an author mistakenly leaks them in the staging tree'.
* website/docs/reference/profile-commands.md — 'Distribution commands'
section rewritten around git. Added a 'Publishing a distribution'
section. export/import stay documented as local backup/restore.
* website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md — dropped 'pack' from the
profile subcommand table.
* website/package.json — 'lint:diagrams' now passes
--exclude-code-blocks to ascii-guard. Without it, markdown tables
and box-drawing diagrams inside fenced code blocks were being
misidentified as malformed ASCII boxes, blocking the PR's
docs-site-checks CI with 8 false-positive errors.
Validation:
* Targeted suite: tests/hermes_cli/test_profile_distribution.py —
56/56 pass (down from 43 — reorganized to cover the new
local-dir paths).
* Regression: test_profiles.py + test_profile_export_credentials.py
102/102 still pass. export/import behaviour unchanged.
* Docs lint: ascii-guard lint --exclude-code-blocks docs returns
0 errors (was 8 on the PR before the flag bump).
* E2E: ran the real `hermes profile install`/`info` against a
local staging dir under an isolated HERMES_HOME — install writes
SOUL.md + skills to the target profile, info reads the manifest
back, a bogus source produces a clear error, and `hermes profile
pack` is now rejected by argparse as expected.
* feat(profile-dist): distribution-aware list/show/delete + installed_at + env preview
Polish pass on top of the git-only scope cut. Five additions, all small,
wiring into existing commands rather than adding new surface.
1. `installed_at` timestamp on the manifest
* Stamped automatically inside plan_install() on both fresh install
and update — ISO-8601 UTC, seconds resolution.
* Surfaced in `hermes profile info` as `Installed: <ts>`.
* Lets users tell "installed 6 months ago, needs update" from
"installed yesterday" without guessing from file mtimes.
2. `hermes profile list` grows a `Distribution` column
* Plain profiles: "—"
* Distribution profiles: "<name>@<version>" (e.g. `telemetry@1.2.3`)
* ProfileInfo gains three optional fields — distribution_name,
distribution_version, distribution_source — populated by a new
_read_distribution_meta() helper that swallows manifest read errors
so a broken distribution.yaml in one profile can't break `list`
for the others.
3. `hermes profile show` and `hermes profile delete` surface
distribution provenance
* show: `Distribution: name@version` + `Installed from: <source>`
plus a pointer to `hermes profile info <name>` for the full
manifest.
* delete: same lines in the pre-confirmation preview, so a user
deleting "telemetry" can see it came from
`github.com/kyle/telemetry-distribution` before they type
`telemetry` to confirm. No change to the confirmation gate itself —
deletion semantics are identical to plain profiles.
4. Install preview checks env vars against the current environment
* Replaces the "Env vars you'll need to set:" header with a simpler
"Env vars:" block.
* Each required var is labeled:
- `✓ set` — already in `os.environ` OR present as a key in the
target profile's existing .env (update case).
- `needs setting` — required but not found in either place.
- `—` — optional.
* Mirrors pip's "Requirement already satisfied" UX: no unnecessary
nagging about keys the user already has configured.
5. Docs: private distributions
* New "Private distributions" section in
website/docs/reference/profile-commands.md explaining that we
shell out to the user's `git` binary, so SSH keys / credential
helpers / GitHub CLI stored creds all work transparently. One
paragraph, two examples.
* `hermes profile info` section updated to mention `Installed:`.
Module-level hoist:
* `from datetime import datetime, timezone` was previously lazy-imported
inside plan_install(). Hoisted to module scope so tests can monkeypatch
`hermes_cli.profile_distribution.datetime` to freeze time.
Tests (+7):
* TestInstalledAtStamp.test_install_stamps_installed_at — format check
(4-digit year, 'T', +00:00 suffix).
* TestInstalledAtStamp.test_update_refreshes_installed_at — freezes
datetime.now() to 2099-01-01 and confirms update writes a new stamp.
* TestProfileInfoDistribution.test_installed_distribution_shows_in_list
— ProfileInfo.distribution_{name,version,source} populated after install.
* TestProfileInfoDistribution.test_plain_profile_has_no_distribution_fields
— plain profiles have None.
* TestProfileInfoDistribution.test_malformed_manifest_does_not_break_list
— broken distribution.yaml in one profile doesn't break list_profiles().
Validation:
* 163/163 tests pass (56 distribution + 102 profile regression +
5 new from this commit — up from 158).
* docs-lint: 0 errors.
* E2E verified: install preview shows ✓/needs-setting per env var,
`profile list` shows Distribution column, `profile show` + `delete`
preview mentions source URL, `info` shows Installed: timestamp.
* fix(profile-dist): clean errors + warn when overwriting plain profiles
Two small polish fixes found during collision sweeps of the PR:
1. ValueError from validate_profile_name now caught cleanly
* A distribution.yaml whose 'name' field can't be used as a profile
identifier (spaces, path traversal, etc.) raises ValueError from
hermes_cli.profiles.validate_profile_name, which was escaping as a
raw Python traceback from 'hermes profile install/update/info'.
* Broadened the except clause in all three handlers to catch
(DistributionError, ValueError) — users now see:
Error: Invalid profile name '../../etc/passwd'. Must match
[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]{0,63}
instead of a stack trace.
2. Install preview distinguishes plain profile overwrite from
distribution re-install
* When plan.target_dir exists and IS a distribution (has
distribution.yaml), preview still shows the mild
(profile exists — will overwrite distribution-owned files only)
* When plan.target_dir exists but is a HAND-BUILT plain profile (no
distribution.yaml), preview now shows a loud warning:
⚠ Profile exists but is NOT a distribution. Installing here will
overwrite its SOUL.md, skills/, cron/, and mcp.json.
Your memories, sessions, auth.json, and .env will be preserved,
but any hand-edits to distribution-owned files will be lost.
* Users who type 'hermes profile install foo --force' against a
profile they hand-built now see what they're signing up for. User
data is still safe (memories, sessions, auth, .env are in
USER_OWNED_EXCLUDE), but custom SOUL/skills get stomped.
Tests (+2):
* TestErrorSurfaces.test_bad_profile_name_raises_valueerror_not_traceback
* TestErrorSurfaces.test_path_traversal_name_rejected
Validation:
* 165/165 tests pass (was 163).
* E2E: bad manifest names produce 'Error: Invalid profile name ...'
with no traceback; installing over a plain profile shows the warning;
re-installing over an existing distribution shows the normal
overwrite message.
* Bad HTTPS URLs still produce 'Error: git clone failed: ...' — git
itself generates a clean enough message that no wrapper is needed.
* 'install .' works correctly from any cwd.
* fix(profiles): reject reserved names at validate time
Before: `hermes profile create hermes` / `profile install` / `profile rename`
all silently accepted reserved names like `hermes`, `test`, `tmp`, `root`,
`sudo`. The profile directory was created; only alias creation failed (via
check_alias_collision), leaving a confusingly-named profile on disk — e.g.
`~/.hermes/profiles/hermes/` sitting next to `~/.hermes/` itself.
The reserved set already exists (_RESERVED_NAMES, introduced alongside alias
collision detection). This commit moves the check up one layer to
validate_profile_name so every entry point — create, install, import,
rename, dashboard web API — shares the same gate.
The error message points the user at the cause without being cryptic:
Error: Profile name 'hermes' is reserved — it collides with either the
Hermes installation itself or a common system binary. Pick a different
name.
`default` continues to pass through (it's a special alias for ~/.hermes).
_HERMES_SUBCOMMANDS (`chat`, `model`, `gateway`, etc.) stays at
alias-collision time only — those are fine as bare profile names with
`--no-alias`.
Tests (+5): test_reserved_names_rejected parametrized over the full
_RESERVED_NAMES set, matching the existing pattern in TestValidateProfileName.
No existing test uses a reserved name as a profile identifier (greppped
create_profile("hermes|test|tmp|root|sudo") — zero hits).
Validation:
* 170/170 tests pass in the profile suites.
* E2E: `profile create hermes`, `profile install` with manifest
name=hermes, and `profile install ... --name hermes` all produce the
same clean `Error: Profile name 'hermes' is reserved ...` with rc=1
and no traceback. Normal names (`mybot`) still work.
The quick setup flow (recommended for first-time users) silently defaulted
terminal.backend to 'local' without ever presenting the choice. This meant
new users who wanted Docker, SSH, Modal, Daytona, or any other backend had
to know about 'hermes setup terminal' — which most wouldn't discover until
later.
Now the quick setup flow is:
1. Provider selection
2. API key
3. Terminal backend (local/Docker/Modal/SSH/Daytona/Vercel/Singularity)
4. Messaging platform
5. Done
The terminal backend is a foundational decision (where ALL commands run)
and belongs in the onboarding path alongside provider selection.
Weak judge models (e.g. deepseek-v4-flash) return empty strings or prose
when asked for the strict {done, reason} JSON verdict. The old code
failed-open to continue on every such turn, burning the entire turn
budget with log lines like
judge returned empty response
judge reply was not JSON: "Let me analyze whether the goal..."
and /goal clear could not stop it mid-loop without /stop.
After N=3 consecutive *parse* failures (transport/API errors don't
count — those are transient), the loop auto-pauses and prints:
⏸ Goal paused — the judge model (3 turns) isn't returning the
required JSON verdict. Route the judge to a stricter model in
~/.hermes/config.yaml:
auxiliary:
goal_judge:
provider: openrouter
model: google/gemini-3-flash-preview
Then /goal resume to continue.
The counter resets on any usable reply (both "done"/"continue" and
API errors) and persists across GoalManager reloads so cross-session
resumes carry the correct state.
Also fixes test_goal_verdict_send.py sharing a hardcoded session_id
across tests — the shared id only worked because the previous
_post_turn_goal_continuation was a never-awaited coroutine. Now that
PR #19160 made it properly awaited, the xdist test-leakage bug
surfaced. Each test gets a unique session_id via uuid suffix.
* feat(kanban): add `specify` — auxiliary LLM fleshes out triage tasks
The Triage column shipped with a placeholder 'a specifier will flesh
out the spec', but the specifier itself was never built. This wires
it up as a dedicated CLI verb.
`hermes kanban specify <id>` calls the auxiliary LLM (configured under
`auxiliary.triage_specifier`) to expand a rough one-liner into a
concrete spec — tightened title plus a body with Goal / Approach /
Acceptance criteria / Out-of-scope sections — then atomically flips
`status: triage -> todo` and recomputes ready so parent-free tasks
go straight to the dispatcher on the same tick.
Surface:
hermes kanban specify <task_id> # single task
hermes kanban specify --all [--tenant T] # sweep triage column
hermes kanban specify ... --author NAME # audit-comment author
hermes kanban specify ... --json # one JSON line per task
Design choices:
- Parent gating is preserved. specify_triage_task flips to 'todo',
then recompute_ready promotes to 'ready' only when parents are
done — same rule as a normal parent-gated todo.
- No daemon, no background watcher. Every invocation is explicit —
keeps cost predictable and doesn't fight the dispatcher loop.
- Response parse is lenient: strict JSON preferred, markdown-fence
tolerated, raw-body fallback on malformed JSON so the LLM can't
strand a task in triage.
- All failure modes (no aux client, API error, task moved out of
triage mid-call) return SpecifyOutcome(ok=False, reason=...) so
--all continues past individual failures.
Changes:
hermes_cli/kanban_db.py + specify_triage_task()
hermes_cli/kanban_specify.py NEW (~220 LOC — prompt, parse, call)
hermes_cli/kanban.py + specify subcommand + _cmd_specify
hermes_cli/config.py + auxiliary.triage_specifier task slot
website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md specify + config notes
website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md CLI reference entry
tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_specify_db.py NEW (10 tests)
tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_specify.py NEW (20 tests)
Validation: 30/30 targeted tests pass. E2E: triage task -> specify ->
ends in 'ready' with events [created, specified, promoted] and the
audit comment recorded under the configured author.
* feat(kanban): wire specifier into dashboard and gateway slash
Follow-ups to the initial PR #21435 — closes the two gaps I'd left as
post-merge: dashboard button and first-class gateway surface.
Dashboard (plugins/kanban/dashboard/)
- POST /tasks/:id/specify NEW endpoint. Thin wrapper around
kanban_specify.specify_task(). Returns the CLI outcome shape
({ok, task_id, reason, new_title}); ok=false with a human reason
is a 200, not a 4xx, so the UI can render it inline without
treating 'no aux client configured' as a crash.
- Runs sync in FastAPI's threadpool because the LLM call can take
tens of seconds on reasoning models.
- Pins HERMES_KANBAN_BOARD around the specify call so the module's
argless kb.connect() lands on the right board.
- dist/index.js: doSpecify callback threaded through the drawer →
TaskDetail → StatusActions prop chain. ✨ Specify button appears
ONLY when task.status === 'triage' (elsewhere the backend would
reject anyway — hide the button to keep the action row clean).
Busy state (Specifying…) + inline success/error banner under the
button using the response.reason text.
- dist/style.css: tiny hermes-kanban-msg-ok / -err classes using
existing --color vars so themes reskin cleanly.
Gateway slash (/kanban specify)
- Already works via the existing run_slash → build_parser →
kanban_command pipeline. No code change needed — slash commands
inherit the argparse tree automatically. Added coverage:
test_run_slash_specify_end_to_end (create --triage, specify, verify
promotion + retitle) and test_run_slash_specify_help_is_reachable.
Tests
- tests/plugins/test_kanban_dashboard_plugin.py: 3 new tests for the
REST endpoint — happy path, non-triage rejection as ok=false 200,
missing aux client as ok=false 200.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_cli.py: 2 new slash-surface tests.
Docs
- website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md: dashboard action row
description mentions ✨ Specify + all three surfaces. REST table
gains /tasks/:id/specify. Slash examples include /kanban specify.
Validation: 340/340 targeted tests pass. E2E via TestClient: create a
triage task over REST → POST /specify with mocked aux client → task
moves to 'ready' column on /board with new title and body applied.
Both implement WebSearchProvider via tools/web_providers/ — matching the
existing SearXNG pattern (PR #5c906d702). Search-only; pair with any
extract provider via web.extract_backend.
- tools/web_providers/brave_free.py — Brave Search API (free tier, 2k
queries/mo). Uses BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY as X-Subscription-Token.
- tools/web_providers/ddgs.py — DuckDuckGo via the ddgs Python package.
No API key; gated on package importability.
- tools/web_tools.py: both backends added to _get_backend() config list
and auto-detect chain (trails paid providers), _is_backend_available,
web_search_tool dispatch, web_extract_tool + web_crawl_tool search-only
refusals, check_web_api_key, and the __main__ diagnostic. Introduces
_ddgs_package_importable() helper so tests can monkeypatch a single
symbol for the ddgs availability check.
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: picker entries for both providers; ddgs
gets a post_setup handler that runs `pip install ddgs`.
- hermes_cli/config.py: BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY in OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS.
- scripts/release.py: AUTHOR_MAP entry for @Abd0r.
- tests: 14 new tests (brave-free) + 15 new tests (ddgs) covering
provider unit behavior, backend wiring, and search-only refusals.
Salvages the brave-free + ddgs portion of PR #19796. Not included: the
in-line helpers in web_tools.py (replaced with provider modules to match
the shipped architecture), the lynx-based extract path (these backends
should refuse extract with a clear error — users pair with a real
extract provider), and scripts/start-llama-server.sh (unrelated).
Co-authored-by: Abd0r <223003280+Abd0r@users.noreply.github.com>
cmd_update's auto-restart path could leave the gateway dead after a
transient failure in systemd's own auto-restart window. Reproduced
on Ubuntu 25.10 + systemd 257: after update, gateway drains and exits 75,
systemd's first respawn 60s later fails (status=200/CHDIR with
"No such file or directory" on a WorkingDirectory that demonstrably
exists), the unit ends up in RestartMaxDelaySec=300 backoff, and
cmd_update's fallback 'systemctl restart' never recovers it — leaving
users with a permanently silent gateway until they manually run
'systemctl reset-failed'.
The fix mirrors the recovery pattern 'hermes gateway restart'
(systemd_restart) got in PR #20949: always reset-failed before
restart, on both the initial fallback and the retry. Also rewrites
the final failure message to tell the user to reset-failed +
restart (not just restart, which is the step that already failed
twice).
Adds a per-task override for the consecutive-failure circuit breaker,
so individual tasks can opt out of the global ``kanban.failure_limit``
without dragging everyone else with them.
Resolution order (now three tiers):
1. per-task ``max_retries`` (new, this commit)
2. caller-supplied ``failure_limit`` — the gateway threads
``kanban.failure_limit`` from config here
3. ``DEFAULT_FAILURE_LIMIT`` (2)
Changes:
- ``tasks.max_retries INTEGER`` column + migration for existing DBs
(NULL = no override, matches pre-column behavior).
- ``Task.max_retries`` field + ``from_row`` plumbing.
- ``create_task(..., max_retries=N)`` kwarg.
- ``_record_task_failure`` reads the per-task value first and records
``limit_source`` + ``effective_limit`` on the ``gave_up`` event so
operators can see which tier won.
- CLI: ``hermes kanban create --max-retries N`` (rejects ``< 1``).
- CLI: ``hermes kanban show`` surfaces the effective threshold +
source (``(task)``, ``(config kanban.failure_limit)``, ``(default)``).
- CLI: ``_task_to_dict`` includes ``max_retries`` in ``--json`` output.
Key design choice vs. the earlier #20972 attempt:
- No new config key. The existing ``kanban.failure_limit`` (landed in
#21183) is the dispatcher-tier source — no silent break for users
who already tuned it.
- No ``!=`` sentinel for "is config set" (which would misfire when
config equals the default). The tier-winner is determined purely
by "is per-task override set" — the dispatcher always wins when
per-task is NULL, regardless of whether the caller passed the
default or a configured value.
E2E verified across four scenarios: default-only (trips at 2),
config-only (trips at caller's value), per-task-only beats default
(trips at task value), per-task beats larger config (trips at task
value). ``gave_up`` event metadata correctly records ``limit_source``
and ``effective_limit`` in all cases.
Tests:
- ``test_per_task_max_retries_overrides_dispatcher_limit`` — task=1
beats caller=10.
- ``test_per_task_max_retries_allows_more_than_default`` — task=5
does not trip at caller=default of 2.
- ``test_max_retries_none_falls_through_to_dispatcher_limit`` — None
honors caller's config value (4), records ``limit_source=dispatcher``.
Full kanban trio (db + core + cli + tools + dashboard-plugin): 342
passed, no regressions.
Supersedes: #20972 (@jelrod27) — credit in PR close comment.
Ref: #20263 (tangentially — the reporter asked about adapter API
drift, not retry caps, but the CLI discussion there is what
surfaced the original ask).
PairingStore.approve_code() didn't consult _is_locked_out(), so after
MAX_FAILED_ATTEMPTS bad approvals the lockout flag was set but a valid
code still got accepted — any pending code (legitimately issued or
attacker-obtained) could be approved during the 1-hour lockout window,
nullifying the brute-force protection.
- gateway/pairing.py: lockout check runs in approve_code() right after
_cleanup_expired, before the pending lookup. Returns None on lockout.
- tests/gateway/test_pairing.py: test_lockout_blocks_code_approval pins
the regression — reporter's exact reproducer (generate valid code,
exhaust attempts with WRONGCODE, try to approve valid code) must
return None and leave is_approved == False. Also pins recovery: once
lockout expires, the still-pending code approves normally.
- hermes_cli/pairing.py: _cmd_approve distinguishes the two None cases.
On lockout, prints 'Platform locked out... clears in N minutes. To
reset sooner, delete the _lockout:<platform> entry from
_rate_limits.json' instead of the misleading 'Code not found or
expired' message. 29/29 pairing tests pass; E2E-verified with
reporter's exact Python reproducer.
Widen the platform-plugin surface so plugins can self-configure from env
vars and opt into cron home-channel delivery without editing core files.
Closes the scope gap that forced every new platform (Google Chat, Teams,
IRC, future) to either touch gateway/config.py, cron/scheduler.py, and
hermes_cli/config.py or live without env-only setup.
Changes:
- gateway/platform_registry.py: two new optional PlatformEntry fields.
- env_enablement_fn: () -> Optional[dict]. Called during
_apply_env_overrides BEFORE the adapter is constructed. Returned
dict fields are merged into PlatformConfig.extra; the special
'home_channel' key (if present) becomes a proper HomeChannel
dataclass on the PlatformConfig.
- cron_deliver_env_var: name of the *_HOME_CHANNEL env var. When set,
the plugin platform is a valid cron deliver= target and cron reads
the env var to resolve the default chat/room ID.
- gateway/config.py: the existing plugin-platform enable pass at the
bottom of _apply_env_overrides now calls env_enablement_fn and seeds
extras/home_channel. No effect on plugins that don't set the new
field.
- cron/scheduler.py: _is_known_delivery_platform and
_resolve_home_env_var fall through to the registry when the platform
isn't in the hardcoded built-in sets. New _iter_home_target_platforms
helper iterates built-ins + plugin platforms for the deliver=origin
fallback.
- gateway/run.py: _home_target_env_var now consults the new resolver so
plugin-defined home channels work for non-cron call sites too.
- hermes_cli/config.py: new _inject_platform_plugin_env_vars() sibling
of _inject_profile_env_vars(). Scans plugins/platforms/*/plugin.yaml
at import time and contributes entries to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS so
'hermes config' UI discovers them. Supports bare-string and rich-dict
requires_env entries plus a new optional_env list for non-required
vars (home channels, allowlists).
All additions are strictly opt-in. Existing plugins (IRC, Teams,
image_gen, memory) see zero behavior change until they adopt the new
fields.
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).
The Hermes dashboard previously assumed it was served at the root of its
host (e.g. https://kanban.tilos.com/). When mounted behind a path-prefix
reverse proxy (e.g. https://mission-control.tilos.com/hermes/), the SPA
404'd because:
- index.html shipped absolute /assets/index-*.js URLs
- React Router had no basename
- The plugin loader hit /dashboard-plugins/<name>/... at the root host
- CSS in the bundle had absolute url(/fonts/...) references
This patch makes the dashboard prefix-aware at runtime, no rebuild
required. The proxy injects 'X-Forwarded-Prefix: /hermes' on every
request and the Python server:
- Rewrites href/src in served index.html to '${prefix}/assets/...'
- Injects 'window.__HERMES_BASE_PATH__="${prefix}"' for the SPA to read
- Rewrites url() refs in CSS at serve time
The SPA reads window.__HERMES_BASE_PATH__ once at boot and:
- Prefixes all /api/... fetches via api.ts
- Prefixes all /dashboard-plugins/... script/css URLs in usePlugins
- Sets <BrowserRouter basename={...}> so client-side routing works
When no X-Forwarded-Prefix header is present, behavior is unchanged
(empty prefix => serves at root, kanban.tilos.com keeps working).
Refs: MC-AUTO-13
Add tencent/hy3-preview (without :free suffix) as a paid model route
alongside the existing free variant. This allows seamless transition
when the model moves from free to paid on OpenRouter — both routes
coexist so neither side's timing causes breakage.
Changes:
- models.py: add ("tencent/hy3-preview", "") to OPENROUTER_MODELS
- model-catalog.json: add paid variant entry
- tests: add assertions for paid route presence
The :free entry can be removed in a follow-up PR once OpenRouter
confirms the free route is deprecated.
Co-authored-by: simonweng <simonweng@tencent.com>
The alibaba-coding-plan provider (DashScope coding-intl endpoint) was
defined in providers.py but missing from _PROVIDER_MODELS in models.py.
This caused /model to show "0 models" for this provider even though
credentials were configured and the provider was functional.
Add the curated model list so the provider picker displays available
models correctly.
- Add hermes dashboard examples to the CLI help epilogue so users can
discover the web UI command from 'hermes --help' output
- Add an independent 'Test dashboard subcommand' CI step that verifies
'hermes dashboard --help' works in the Docker image, with its own
mkdir/chown setup to remain independent of the prior smoke test step
- Prevents regressions like #9153 where the dashboard subcommand was
present in source but missing from the published Docker image
Closes#9153
Per repo policy, ~/.hermes/.env is for secrets only. Guild IDs are
behavioral configuration, not secrets. Replacing the
DISCORD_DM_ROLE_AUTH_GUILD env var from the original fix with
discord.dm_role_auth_guild in config.yaml.
- New module-level _read_dm_role_auth_guild() helper reads
hermes_cli.config.read_raw_config()['discord']['dm_role_auth_guild'].
Fails closed on any parse error (safe default = DM role-auth off).
- DEFAULT_CONFIG['discord'] gains dm_role_auth_guild: '' with a comment
documenting the opt-in.
- Tests patch hermes_cli.config.read_raw_config directly (via the
_set_dm_role_auth_guild helper) instead of setenv/delenv. 12 tests
in test_discord_roles_dm_scope pass; no env var involvement.
- Docstring + module docstring + comments updated to reference
discord.dm_role_auth_guild.
- E2E verified with real imports across 6 scenarios: unset, int,
string, garbage, zero, and (crucially) env-var-only-no-config all
return None except the valid int/string cases. Env var has zero
effect — policy compliance confirmed.
Lists the skills sitting in ~/.hermes/skills/.archive/ so users have
something to pass to `hermes curator restore`. `curator status` already
shows counts; this fills the name-discovery gap.
Archive layout is flat (`archive_skill` writes to `.archive/<skill>/`),
so the directory name IS the skill name — no frontmatter parsing
needed. Timestamped collision directories (`<skill>-<ts>`) are listed
literally; user can still pass them to `restore`.
Reshape of @EvilDrag0n's #20651, simplified: drop the frontmatter
rglob + preamble/trailer output + duplicate subcommand registration.
Co-authored-by: EvilDrag0n <lxl694522264@gmail.com>
Enables plugins to transform LLM output text after generation,
useful for vocabulary/personality transformation without burning
inference tokens.
Follows same pattern as transform_tool_result and transform_terminal_output:
- First non-empty string result wins
- Fail-open: exceptions logged as warnings, agent continues
- Signature: (response_text, session_id, model, platform)
Add a new `hermes gateway list` subcommand that shows the running
status of gateways across all profiles in a single view:
Gateways:
✓ default (current) — PID 155469
✓ wx1 — PID 166893
✗ dev — not running
Also includes `_print_other_profiles_gateway_status()` which appends
an "Other profiles" section to `hermes gateway status` output when
other profile gateways are running.
Both use existing `list_profiles()` and `find_profile_gateway_processes()`
— no new dependencies.
Closes#19127
Related: #19113, #4402, #4587
When multiple custom_providers share the same base_url but have different API keys,
get_custom_provider_pool_key() always returned the first match, causing wrong-key
unauthorized errors. Add provider_name parameter to prefer exact name matches
over base_url-only matching, with fallback for backward compatibility.
Fixes#19083
When a kanban worker subprocess exits rc=0 but its task is still in
status='running', the agent almost certainly answered the task
conversationally without calling kanban_complete or kanban_block. The
dispatcher used to classify this as a generic crash and respawn, which
loops forever on small local models (gemma4-e2b q4 etc.) that keep
returning clean but unproductive output.
Dispatcher changes:
- The waitpid reap loop at the top of dispatch_once now records each
reaped child's raw exit status in a bounded module registry
(_recent_worker_exits, TTL 600s, size cap 4096).
- _classify_worker_exit distinguishes clean_exit / nonzero_exit /
signaled / unknown using os.WIFEXITED / WIFSIGNALED.
- detect_crashed_workers consults the classification when a worker
is found dead. clean_exit → protocol_violation event + immediate
circuit-breaker trip (failure_limit=1). Everything else keeps the
existing crashed-event + counter behavior.
- DispatchResult.auto_blocked now includes protocol-violation trips.
Gateway fix (Bug A in #20894):
- gateway.run._notify_active_sessions_of_shutdown snapshots
self.adapters with list(...) before iterating. adapter.send() can
hit a fatal-error path that pops the adapter from the dict, which
was raising 'RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration'
during shutdown.
Regression tests:
- test_detect_crashed_workers_protocol_violation_auto_blocks verifies
rc=0 + still-running → status=blocked on first occurrence with
protocol_violation + gave_up events and NO crashed event.
- test_detect_crashed_workers_nonzero_exit_uses_default_limit verifies
non-zero exits keep the existing 2-strike behavior.
Closes#20894.
custom_providers entries (section 4 of list_authenticated_providers) only
read the static models: dict from config.yaml, ignoring the live /v1/models
endpoint. This means gateways like Bifrost that expose hundreds of models
only show the handful explicitly listed in config.
Add live discovery via fetch_api_models() for custom_providers entries
that have api_key + base_url, matching the existing behavior for user
providers: entries (section 3). When the endpoint is reachable and
returns models, the live list replaces the static subset.
Fixes: /model picker showing only 9 models from a Bifrost gateway that
actually exposes 581.
The --command flag of `hermes mcp add` shared its argparse dest with the
top-level subparser (`dest="command"` in `hermes_cli/_parser.py`). When
the flag was omitted, argparse still wrote `args.command = None`,
clobbering the top-level value of `"mcp"`. The dispatcher then saw
`args.command is None` and fell through to interactive chat, so
`hermes mcp add ...` silently launched chat instead of registering the
server. `cmd_mcp_add` was never reached.
Use `dest="mcp_command"` on the flag and read it from `cmd_mcp_add`.
The user-facing CLI flag `--command` is unchanged; only the in-memory
namespace attribute moves. Also updates the `_make_args` helper in
`tests/hermes_cli/test_mcp_config.py` to populate the new dest, and
adds `tests/hermes_cli/test_mcp_add_command_dest.py` with a parser-
level regression test.
Closes#19785.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`_save_auth_store`, `_save_qwen_cli_tokens`, and `_write_shared_nous_state`
all created the temp file via `Path.open('w')` / `Path.write_text` and only
tightened permissions to 0o600 afterward. Between create and chmod the file
existed at the process umask (commonly 0o644 = world-readable on multi-user
hosts), briefly exposing OAuth access/refresh tokens for Nous, Codex,
Copilot, Claude, Qwen, Gemini, and every other native OAuth provider that
flows through auth.json.
Switch all three to `os.open(O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0o600)` + `os.fdopen`
+ `fsync` so the file is atomic at 0o600 on creation. Tighten each parent
directory (`~/.hermes/`, Qwen auth dir, Nous shared auth dir) to 0o700 so
siblings can't traverse to the creds. `_save_auth_store` also gains a
per-process random temp suffix to match `agent/google_oauth.py` (#19673)
and `tools/mcp_oauth.py` (#21148).
Adds `tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_toctou_file_modes.py` asserting final
file mode 0o600 and parent dir mode 0o700 across all three writers, plus
an explicit `os.open(flags, mode)` check on the main auth.json writer
that would fail if anyone reintroduces the `Path.open('w')` pattern.
POSIX-only (mode bits skipped on Windows).
Flip the default for HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS from off to on so the redactor
already wired into send_message_tool, logs, and tool output actually runs
on a fresh install.
- agent/redact.py: env-var default "" → "true"
- hermes_cli/config.py: DEFAULT_CONFIG security.redact_secrets True;
two config-template comments rewritten
- gateway/run.py + cli.py: startup log / banner warning when the user
has explicitly opted out, so the downgrade is visible in agent.log
and at CLI banner time
- docs/reference/environment-variables.md: description reconciled
- tests: flipped the default-pin, restructured the force=True
regression test to explicit-false instead of unset
Users who need raw credential values (redactor development) can still
opt out via security.redact_secrets: false in config.yaml or
HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS=false in .env.
Closes#17691.
Addresses #20785 (short-term output-pipeline recommendation).
Widen PR #20314's fix to the other timeout-polling sites in the codebase
that share the same wall-clock-jump bug class. All of these measure elapsed
timeout duration, not civil time, so they belong on time.monotonic().
- hermes_cli/auth.py: auth-store file-lock timeout, Spotify OAuth callback
wait, Nous portal device-auth token poll.
- hermes_cli/copilot_auth.py: Copilot OAuth device-flow token poll.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: gateway systemd restart wait.
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: dashboard Codex device-auth user_code wait,
dashboard Nous device-auth token poll. (sess["expires_at"] stays on
time.time() — it's a persisted absolute timestamp, not a local
deadline-polling variable.)
- agent/copilot_acp_client.py: Copilot ACP JSON-RPC request timeout.
Extract the shared flock/msvcrt boilerplate from _auth_store_lock and
_nous_shared_store_lock into a single _file_lock(lock_path, holder,
timeout, message) helper. Each caller keeps its own threading.local
holder so reentrancy state stays per-lock.
Also document the lock-ordering invariant on both wrappers:
_auth_store_lock is OUTER, _nous_shared_store_lock is INNER for all
runtime refresh paths. The one exception is _try_import_shared_nous_state,
which holds the shared lock alone across the full HTTP refresh+mint
cycle to prevent concurrent sibling imports from racing on the single-
use shared refresh token; that helper must not be called with the auth
lock already held.
The gateway-embedded dispatcher (default since `kanban.dispatch_in_gateway
= true`) is the parent of every spawned kanban worker. `_default_spawn`
calls `subprocess.Popen(..., start_new_session=True)` and returns the
pid — `start_new_session` detaches the controlling tty but does not
reparent to init, so the gateway keeps each worker as a child until it
`wait()`s for them.
Nothing in the dispatch loop ever calls `waitpid`. Result: every
completed worker becomes a `<defunct>` zombie that lingers until the
gateway exits. We hit ~430 zombies on a single hermes-agent container
after ~40 days of steady kanban traffic, approaching process-table
exhaustion on the host.
Fix: add a non-blocking reap loop at the top of `dispatch_once`, so
every dispatcher tick (default 60s) drains zombies that accumulated
since the last tick. WNOHANG keeps the call non-blocking; ChildProcessError
means no children to reap.
Why here, not a SIGCHLD handler:
- signal.signal requires the main thread; gateway threading model makes
that placement non-trivial.
- Bounded staleness: at default interval=60s the maximum live zombie
count is one tick's worth of worker completions.
- No interaction with detect_crashed_workers: that function only inspects
rows where status='running', and rows reach 'done' (and stop being
inspected) before their workers exit.
Adds `hermes profile create <name> --no-skills` to create a profile with
zero bundled skills. Writes a `.no-bundled-skills` marker file in the
profile root so `hermes update`'s all-profile skill sync loop also skips
the profile — without the marker, every update would re-seed skills and
the user would have to delete them again.
Use case (from @hiut1u): orchestrator profiles and narrow-task profiles
don't need 100+ bundled skills polluting their system prompt.
- create_profile() gains a `no_skills` param, mutually exclusive with
`--clone` / `--clone-all` (cloning explicitly copies skills).
- seed_profile_skills() no-ops on opted-out profiles and returns
`{skipped_opt_out: True}` so callers can report cleanly.
- Web API (POST /api/profiles) accepts `no_skills: bool`.
- Delete `.no-bundled-skills` to opt back in — next `hermes update`
re-seeds normally.
6 new tests in TestNoSkillsOptOut cover marker write, mutual exclusion
with clone, seed_profile_skills opt-out, fresh profile unaffected, and
delete-marker-re-enables-seeding.
The setup wizard dropped non-root users at a bare shell prompt when
trying to start a system-scope gateway service. Previously
_require_root_for_system_service called sys.exit(1), which the
wizard's `except Exception` guards cannot catch (SystemExit is a
BaseException). Users with a pre-existing /etc/systemd/system unit
(e.g. from an earlier `sudo hermes setup` run) hit this whenever
they re-ran `hermes setup` as a regular user.
- Convert _require_root_for_system_service to raise a typed
SystemScopeRequiresRootError (RuntimeError subclass) instead of
sys.exit(1). The direct CLI path (`hermes gateway install|start|stop|
restart|uninstall` without sudo) still exits 1 cleanly via a new
catch at the top of gateway_command, matching the existing
UserSystemdUnavailableError pattern.
- Add _system_scope_wizard_would_need_root() pre-check and
_print_system_scope_remediation() helper. Both setup wizards
(hermes_cli/setup.py and hermes_cli/gateway.py::gateway_setup) now
detect the dead-end before prompting and print actionable guidance:
either `sudo systemctl start <service>` this time, or uninstall the
system unit and install a per-user one.
- Defense-in-depth: all 5 wizard prompt sites also catch
SystemScopeRequiresRootError and fall back to the remediation
helper if the pre-check is bypassed (race, etc.).
Tests: 12 new tests in TestSystemScopeRequiresRootError,
TestSystemScopeWizardPreCheck, TestSystemScopeRemediationOutput, and
TestGatewayCommandCatchesSystemScopeError covering the exception
contract, pre-check matrix (root vs non-root, system-only vs
user-present vs none vs explicit system=True), remediation output
for each action, and the direct-CLI exit-1 path.
* fix(tui): restore classic CLI voice push-to-talk parity
(cherry picked from commit 93b9ae301bb89f5b5e01b4b9f8ac91ffa74fbd9d)
* fix(tui): harden voice push-to-talk stop flow
Address review feedback from PR #16189 by stopping the active recorder before background transcription, documenting single-shot voice capture, and covering the TUI gateway flags with regression tests.
* fix(tui): preserve silent voice strike tracking
Keep single-shot voice recording's no-speech counter alive across starts so the TUI can still emit the three-strikes auto-disable event, and bind the auto-restart state at module scope for type checking.
* fix(tui): clean up voice stop failure path
Address follow-up review by naming the TUI flow as single-shot push-to-talk and cancelling the recorder when forced stop cannot produce a WAV.
* fix(tui): report busy voice capture starts
Return explicit start state from the voice wrapper so the TUI gateway does not report recording while forced-stop transcription is still cleaning up.
* fix(tui): handle busy voice record responses
Apply the gateway busy status immediately in the TUI and route forced-stop voice events to the session that sent the stop request.
* fix(tui): clear voice recording on null response
Treat a null voice.record RPC result as a failed optimistic start so the REC badge cannot stick after gateway-side errors.
* fix(tui): count silent manual voice stops
Preserve single-shot voice no-speech strikes through forced stop transcription so empty push-to-talk captures still trigger the three-strikes guard.
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Co-authored-by: Montbra <montbra@gmail.com>
Profile processes (kanban workers, cron subprocesses, delegated subagents)
read the profile's auth.json only. If a provider was authenticated at the
global root but not inside the profile, the profile's credential_pool
comes back empty and the process fails with 'No LLM provider configured'
— even though the credentials are sitting in ~/.hermes/auth.json. #18594
propagated HERMES_HOME correctly, which is what surfaced this: workers
now land in the right profile, and the profile turns out to shadow global
with no fallback.
Semantics (read-only, per-provider shadowing):
* Profile has any entries for provider X → use profile only (global ignored).
* Profile has zero entries for provider X → fall back to global.
* Writes (write_credential_pool, _save_auth_store) still target the profile.
* Classic mode (HERMES_HOME == global root) skips the fallback entirely —
_global_auth_file_path() returns None.
Also mirrors the fallback in get_provider_auth_state so OAuth singletons
(nous, minimax-oauth, openai-codex, spotify) inherit cleanly — the Nous
shared-token store (PR #19712) remains the authoritative path for Nous
OAuth rotation, this just makes the read side consistent with it.
Seat belt: _load_global_auth_store() refuses to read the real user's
~/.hermes/auth.json under PYTEST_CURRENT_TEST even when HERMES_HOME points
to a profile-shaped path. Guard uses $HOME (stable across fixtures) rather
than Path.home() (which fixtures often monkeypatch to a tmp root).
Reported by @SeedsForbidden on Twitter as the credential_pool shadowing
follow-up to the #18594 fix.
- Expand migration comment to name the primary failure mode (missing
column OperationalError from #20842) ahead of the secondary SQLite
schema-reparse concern; also document the stale-cols-snapshot invariant
- Add clarifying comments on from_row() legacy fallback branches noting
they are belt-and-suspenders dead code post-migration
- Add task_events comment in existing test explaining why the table is
required by the migrator
- Add test_legacy_migration_no_legacy_columns_at_all: Scenario A —
explicitly asserts the exact #20842 crash no longer occurs and that
consecutive_failures defaults to 0 on a DB that never had spawn_failures
- Add test_legacy_migration_both_columns_already_present: Scenario D —
asserts the migration is a no-op when both columns already exist,
preserving the existing counter value
Adds SearXNG as a free, self-hosted web search provider. SearXNG is a
privacy-respecting metasearch engine that requires no API key — just a
running instance and SEARXNG_URL pointing at it.
## What this adds
- `tools/web_providers/searxng.py` — `SearXNGSearchProvider` implementing
`WebSearchProvider` (search only; no extract capability)
- `_is_backend_available("searxng")` — gates on SEARXNG_URL
- `_get_backend()` — accepts "searxng" as a configured value; adds it to
auto-detect candidates (lower priority than paid services)
- `web_search_tool` — dispatches to SearXNG when it is the active backend
- `check_web_api_key()` — includes SearXNG in availability check
- `OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS["SEARXNG_URL"]` — registered with tools=["web_search"]
- `tools_config.py` — SearXNG appears in the `hermes tools` provider picker
- `nous_subscription.py` — `direct_searxng` detection, web_active / web_available
- `setup.py` — SEARXNG_URL listed in the missing-credential hint
- 23 tests covering: is_configured, happy-path search, score sorting, limit,
HTTP/request errors, _is_backend_available, _get_backend, check_web_api_key
## Config
```yaml
# Use SearXNG for search, any paid provider for extract
web:
search_backend: "searxng"
extract_backend: "firecrawl"
# Or: SearXNG as the sole backend (web_extract will use the next available)
web:
backend: "searxng"
```
SearXNG is search-only — it does not implement WebExtractProvider. Users
who only configure SEARXNG_URL get web_search available; web_extract falls
back to the next available extract provider (or is unavailable if none).
Closes#19198 (Phase 2 Task 4 — SearXNG provider)
Ref: #11562 (original SearXNG PR)
Introduce the foundation for independently selecting web search and
extract backends — enabling future combinations like SearXNG for
search + Firecrawl for extract.
Architecture:
- tools/web_providers/base.py: WebSearchProvider and WebExtractProvider
ABCs with normalized result contracts (mirrors CloudBrowserProvider)
- tools/web_tools.py: _get_search_backend() and _get_extract_backend()
read per-capability config keys, fall through to shared web.backend
- hermes_cli/config.py: web.search_backend and web.extract_backend in
DEFAULT_CONFIG (empty = inherit from web.backend)
Behavioral change:
- web_search_tool() now dispatches via _get_search_backend()
- web_extract_tool() now dispatches via _get_extract_backend()
- When per-capability keys are empty (default), behavior is identical
to before — _get_search_backend() falls through to _get_backend()
This is purely structural — no new backends are added. SearXNG and
other search-only/extract-only providers can now be added as simple
drop-in modules in follow-up PRs.
12 new tests, 49 existing tests pass with zero regressions.
Ref: #19198
Same Hermes Teal palette as the default theme, but with baseSize 18px,
lineHeight 1.65, and spacious density so the whole dashboard scales up.
Gives users a one-click bigger-text preset and a copyable reference for
authoring custom YAML themes with their own typography settings.
OpenCode Go and OpenCode Zen are flat-namespace model resellers — their
/v1/models returns bare IDs (deepseek-v4-flash, minimax-m2.7), and the
inference API rejects vendor-prefixed names with HTTP 401 'Model not
supported'. Two bugs fixed:
1. `switch_model` in hermes_cli/model_switch.py was silently switching the
user off opencode-go to native deepseek when they typed
`/model deepseek-v4-flash`. Step d found the model in opencode-go's live
catalog, but step e (detect_provider_for_model) still ran and matched
the bare name against deepseek's static catalog. Fix: track whether
the live catalog resolved it; skip step e when it did.
2. `normalize_model_for_provider` in hermes_cli/model_normalize.py only
stripped the exact `opencode-zen/` prefix, leaving arbitrary vendor
prefixes like `minimax/minimax-m2.7` (commonly copied from aggregator
slugs into fallback_model configs) intact — causing HTTP 401s when
the fallback chain activated. Fix: opencode-go/opencode-zen strip ANY
leading vendor prefix because their APIs are flat-namespace.
Tests: 11 new cases in tests/hermes_cli/test_opencode_go_flat_namespace.py
covering both normalization (prefix stripping, regression guards for
opencode-zen Claude hyphenation and openrouter vendor-prepending) and
switch_model (bare-name resolution on opencode-go's live catalog must
not trigger cross-provider hijack).
Reported by @Ufonik via Discord; Kimi K2.6 always worked because moonshotai
has no overlapping entry in a native provider's static catalog. Deepseek
and minimax failed because their v4/v2.7 names existed in the native
deepseek/minimax catalogs.
* feat(skills/linear): add Documents support + Python helper script
The bundled Linear skill (PR #1230) covered issues, projects, teams, and
workflow states via curl. It had no coverage for Linear's Documents API,
so fetching an RFC/doc from a linear.app URL required hand-writing
GraphQL against an underdocumented schema.
Adds:
- Documents section in SKILL.md explaining slugId extraction from URLs,
the contentState (markdown) vs contentState (ProseMirror) split, and
four canonical curl examples (fetch by slugId, fetch by UUID, list
recent, title-search).
- scripts/linear_api.py — stdlib-only Python CLI wrapping the most
common operations (whoami, list-teams, list/get/search/create/update
issues, add-comment, update-status, list/get/search documents, raw
GraphQL passthrough). Zero deps, reads LINEAR_API_KEY from env.
Auth header quirk (personal key takes bare $LINEAR_API_KEY, no Bearer
prefix) is already documented in the skill.
Found during RFC review: the existing skill's lack of document support
forced falling back to the browser (which hit Linear's login wall).
Also fixes a schema gotcha — the Document field is `contentState`, not
`contentData` (which returns 400).
Tested end-to-end against the production API:
python3 linear_api.py whoami
python3 linear_api.py get-document 38359beef67c
Both return expected payloads.
* fix(skills/linear): point LINEAR_API_KEY setup to the correct page
The org-level Settings > API page (/settings/api) only shows OAuth apps
and workspace-member keys. Personal API keys live under Account,
Security, access (/settings/account/security). Update both the setup
link in config.py (shown during hermes setup) and the setup step in
SKILL.md so users land on the page that can create a personal key.
* docs(providers): add model-provider-plugin authoring guide + fix stale refs
New docs:
- website/docs/developer-guide/model-provider-plugin.md — full authoring
guide (directory layout, minimal example, ProviderProfile fields,
overridable hooks, user overrides, api_mode selection, auth types,
testing, pip distribution)
- Wired into website/sidebars.ts under 'Extending'
- Cross-references added in:
- guides/build-a-hermes-plugin.md (tip block)
- developer-guide/adding-providers.md
- developer-guide/provider-runtime.md
User guide:
- user-guide/features/plugins.md: Plugin types table grows from 3 to 4
with 'Model providers' row
Stale comment cleanup (providers/*.py → plugins/model-providers/<name>/):
- hermes_cli/main.py:_is_profile_api_key_provider docstring
- hermes_cli/doctor.py:_build_apikey_providers_list docstring
- hermes_cli/auth.py: PROVIDER_REGISTRY + alias auto-extension comments
- hermes_cli/models.py: CANONICAL_PROVIDERS auto-extension comment
AGENTS.md:
- Project-structure tree: added plugins/model-providers/ row
- New section: 'Model-provider plugins' explaining discovery, override
semantics, PluginManager integration, kind auto-coerce heuristic
Verified: docusaurus build succeeds, new page renders, all 3 cross-links
resolve. 347/347 targeted tests pass (tests/providers/,
tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_runtime_provider_resolution.py,
tests/run_agent/test_provider_parity.py).
* docs(plugins): add 'pluggable interfaces at a glance' maps to plugins.md + build-a-hermes-plugin
Devs landing on either the user-guide plugin page or the build-a-plugin
guide now get an upfront table of every distinct pluggable surface with
a link to the right authoring doc. Previously they'd have to read the
full general-plugin guide to discover that model providers / platforms
/ memory / context engines are separate systems.
user-guide/features/plugins.md:
- New 'Pluggable interfaces — where to go for each' section below the
existing 4-kinds table
- 10 rows covering every register_* surface (tool, hook, slash command,
CLI subcommand, skill, model provider, platform, memory, context
engine, image-gen)
- Explicit note: TTS/STT are NOT plugin-extensible yet — documented
with a pointer to the current config.yaml 'command providers' pattern
and a note that register_tts_provider()/register_stt_provider() may
come later
guides/build-a-hermes-plugin.md:
- New :::info 'Not sure which guide you need?' map at the top so devs
see all pluggable interfaces before investing in this 737-line
general-plugin walkthrough
- Existing bottom :::tip expanded to include platform adapters alongside
model/memory/context plugins
Verified:
- All 8 cross-doc links in the new plugins.md table resolve in a
docusaurus build (SUCCESS, no new broken links)
- TTS link corrected (features/voice → features/tts; latter exists)
- Pre-existing broken links/anchors (cron-script-only, llms.txt,
adding-platform-adapters#step-by-step-checklist) are unchanged
* docs(plugins): correct TTS/STT pluggability \u2014 they ARE plugins (command-providers)
Previous commit incorrectly said TTS/STT 'aren't plugin-extensible'. They
are, via the config-driven command-provider pattern \u2014 any CLI that reads
text and writes audio (or vice versa for STT) is automatically a plugin
with zero Python. The tts.md docs cover this extensively and I missed it.
plugins.md:
- TTS row: 'Config-driven (not a Python plugin)', points at
tts.md#custom-command-providers
- STT row: points at tts.md#voice-message-transcription-stt (STT docs
live in tts.md despite the filename)
- Expanded note: TTS/STT use config-driven shell-command templates as
their plugin surface (full tts.providers.<name> registry for TTS;
HERMES_LOCAL_STT_COMMAND escape hatch for STT)
- Any CLI that reads/writes files is automatically a plugin \u2014 no Python
register_* API needed
- Future register_tts_provider()/register_stt_provider() hooks mentioned
as nice-to-have for SDK/streaming cases, not as the primary story
build-a-hermes-plugin.md:
- Same map update: TTS/STT rows explicit, footer note corrected
Verified:
- tts.md anchors (custom-command-providers, voice-message-transcription-stt)
exist and resolve in docusaurus build (SUCCESS, no new broken links)
* docs(plugins): expand pluggable interfaces table with MCP / event hooks / shell hooks / skill taps
Broadened the scope beyond Python register_* hooks. Hermes has MULTIPLE
plugin-style extension surfaces; they're now all in one table instead of
being scattered across feature docs.
Added rows for:
- **MCP servers** — config.yaml mcp_servers.<name> auto-registers external
tools from any MCP server. Huge extensibility surface, previously not
linked from the plugin map.
- **Gateway event hooks** — drop HOOK.yaml + handler.py into
~/.hermes/hooks/<name>/ to fire on gateway:startup, session:*, agent:*,
command:* events. Separate from Python plugin hooks.
- **Shell hooks** — hooks: block in config.yaml runs shell commands on
events (notifications, auditing, etc.).
- **Skill sources (taps)** — hermes skills tap add <repo> to pull in new
skill registries beyond the built-in sources.
Both docs updated:
- user-guide/features/plugins.md: table column renamed to 'How' (mixes
Python API + config-driven + drop-in-dir surfaces accurately)
- guides/build-a-hermes-plugin.md: :::info map at top mirrors the new
surfaces with a forward-link to the consolidated table
Note block rewritten: instead of singling out TTS/STT as the 'different
style' exception, now honestly describes that Hermes deliberately
supports three plugin styles — Python APIs, config-driven commands, and
drop-in manifest directories — and devs should pick the one that fits
their integration.
Not included (considered and rejected):
- Transport layer (register_transport) — internal, not user-facing
- Tool-call parsers — internal, VLLM phase-2 thing
- Cloud browser providers — hardcoded registry, not drop-in yet
- Terminal backends — hardcoded if/elif, not drop-in yet
- Skill sources (the ABC) — hardcoded list, only taps are user-extensible
Verified:
- All 5 new anchors resolve (gateway-event-hooks, shell-hooks, skills-hub,
custom-command-providers, voice-message-transcription-stt)
- Docusaurus build SUCCESS, zero new broken links
- Same 3 pre-existing broken links on main (cron-script-only, llms.txt,
adding-platform-adapters#step-by-step-checklist)
* docs(plugins): cover every pluggable surface in both the overview and how-to
Both plugins.md and build-a-hermes-plugin.md now cover every extension
surface end-to-end \u2014 general plugin APIs, specialized plugin types,
config-driven surfaces \u2014 with concrete authoring patterns for each.
plugins.md:
- 'What plugins can do' table grows from 9 rows (general ctx.register_*
only) to 14 rows covering register_platform, register_image_gen_provider,
register_context_engine, MemoryProvider subclass, register_provider
(model). Each row links to its full authoring guide.
- New 'Plugin sub-categories' section under Plugin Discovery explains
how plugins/platforms/, plugins/image_gen/, plugins/memory/,
plugins/context_engine/, plugins/model-providers/ are routed to
different loaders \u2014 PluginManager vs the per-category own-loader
systems.
- Explicit mention of user-override semantics at
~/.hermes/plugins/model-providers/ and ~/.hermes/plugins/memory/.
build-a-hermes-plugin.md:
- New '## Specialized plugin types' section (5 sub-sections):
- Model provider plugins \u2014 ProviderProfile + plugin.yaml example,
auto-wiring summary, link to full guide
- Platform plugins \u2014 BasePlatformAdapter + register_platform() skeleton
- Memory provider plugins \u2014 MemoryProvider subclass example
- Context engine plugins \u2014 ContextEngine subclass example
- Image-generation backends \u2014 ImageGenProvider + kind: backend example
- New '## Non-Python extension surfaces' section (5 sub-sections):
- MCP servers \u2014 config.yaml mcp_servers.<name> example
- Gateway event hooks \u2014 HOOK.yaml + handler.py example
- Shell hooks \u2014 hooks: block in config.yaml example
- Skill sources (taps) \u2014 hermes skills tap add example
- TTS / STT command templates \u2014 tts.providers.<name> with type: command
- Distribute via pip / NixOS promoted from ### to ## (they were orphaned
after the reorganization)
Each specialized / non-Python section has a concrete, copy-pasteable
example plus a 'Full guide:' link to the authoritative doc. Devs arriving
at the build-a-hermes-plugin guide now see every extension surface at
their disposal, not just the general tool/hook/slash-command surface.
Verified:
- Docusaurus build SUCCESS, zero new broken links
- All new cross-links (developer-guide/model-provider-plugin,
adding-platform-adapters, memory-provider-plugin, context-engine-plugin,
user-guide/features/mcp, skills#skills-hub, hooks#gateway-event-hooks,
hooks#shell-hooks, tts#custom-command-providers,
tts#voice-message-transcription-stt) resolve
- Same 3 pre-existing broken links on main (cron-script-only, llms.txt,
adding-platform-adapters#step-by-step-checklist)
* docs(plugins): fix opt-in inconsistency — not every plugin is gated
The 'Every plugin is disabled by default' statement was wrong. Several
plugin categories intentionally bypass plugins.enabled:
- Bundled platform plugins (IRC, Teams) auto-load so shipped gateway
channels are available out of the box. Activation per channel is via
gateway.platforms.<name>.enabled.
- Bundled backends (plugins/image_gen/*) auto-load so the default
backend 'just works'. Selection via <category>.provider config.
- Memory providers are all discovered; one is active via memory.provider.
- Context engines are all discovered; one is active via context.engine.
- Model providers: all 33 discovered at first get_provider_profile();
user picks via --provider / config.
The plugins.enabled allow-list specifically gates:
- Standalone plugins (general tools/hooks/slash commands)
- User-installed backends
- User-installed platforms (third-party gateway adapters)
- Pip entry-point backends
Which matches the actual code in hermes_cli/plugins.py:737 where the
bundled+backend/platform check bypasses the allow-list.
Rewrote '## Plugins are opt-in' to:
- Retitle to 'Plugins are opt-in (with a few exceptions)'
- Narrow opening claim to 'General plugins and user-installed backends
are disabled by default'
- Added 'What the allow-list does NOT gate' subsection with a full
table of which bypass the gate and how they're activated instead
- Fixed migration section wording (bundled platform/backend plugins
never needed grandfathering)
Verified: docusaurus build SUCCESS, zero new broken links.
Replaces the per-directory shadow-repo design with a single shared shadow
git store at ~/.hermes/checkpoints/store/. Object DB is now deduplicated
across every working directory the agent has ever touched; a dozen
worktrees of the same project cost near-zero in additional disk.
Why
---
Pre-v2 design had three compounding problems that let ~/.hermes/checkpoints/
grow to multi-GB on active machines:
1. Each working directory got its own full shadow git repo — no object
dedup across projects or across worktrees of the same project.
2. _prune() was a documented no-op: max_snapshots only limited the
/rollback listing. Loose objects accumulated forever.
3. Defaults: enabled=True, auto_prune=False — users paid the disk cost
without ever asking for /rollback.
Field report on a single workstation: 847 MB across 47 shadow repos,
mostly redundant clones of the hermes-agent source tree.
Changes
-------
- tools/checkpoint_manager.py: full rewrite. Single bare store, per-project
refs (refs/hermes/<hash>), per-project indexes (store/indexes/<hash>),
per-project metadata (store/projects/<hash>.json with workdir +
created_at + last_touch). On first v2 init, any pre-v2 per-directory
shadow repos are auto-migrated into legacy-<timestamp>/ so the new
store starts clean. _prune() now actually rewrites the per-project ref
to the last max_snapshots commits and runs git gc --prune=now. New
_enforce_size_cap() drops oldest commits round-robin across projects
when the store exceeds max_total_size_mb. _drop_oversize_from_index()
filters any single file larger than max_file_size_mb out of the snapshot.
- hermes_cli/checkpoints.py: new 'hermes checkpoints' CLI
(status / list / prune / clear / clear-legacy) for managing the store
outside a session.
- hermes_cli/config.py: flipped defaults — enabled=False, max_snapshots=20,
auto_prune=True. Added max_total_size_mb=500, max_file_size_mb=10.
Tightened DEFAULT_EXCLUDES (added target/, *.so/*.dylib/*.dll,
*.mp4/*.mov, *.zip/*.tar.gz, .worktrees/, .mypy_cache/, etc.).
- run_agent.py / cli.py / gateway/run.py: thread the new kwargs through
AIAgent and the startup auto_prune hooks.
- Tests rewritten to match v2 storage while keeping backwards-compat
coverage for the pre-v2 prune path (per-directory shadow repos under
base/ are still swept correctly for anyone mid-migration).
- Docs updated: user-guide/checkpoints-and-rollback.md explains the
shared store, new defaults, migration, and the new CLI;
reference/cli-commands.md documents 'hermes checkpoints'.
E2E validated
-------------
- Legacy migration: pre-v2 shadow repos auto-archived into legacy-<ts>/.
- Object dedup: two projects with an identical shared.py blob resolve to
7 total objects in the store (v1 would have stored the blob twice).
- max_snapshots=3 actually enforced: after 6 commits, list shows 3.
- Orphan prune: deleting a project's workdir + 'hermes checkpoints prune
--retention-days 0' removes its ref, index, and metadata; GC reclaims
the objects.
- max_file_size_mb=1 excludes a 2 MB weights.bin while keeping the
tracked source code files.
- hermes checkpoints {status,prune,clear,clear-legacy} all work from the
CLI without an agent running.
Breaking / migration
--------------------
No in-place data migration — legacy per-directory shadow repos are moved
into legacy-<timestamp>/ on first run. Old /rollback history is still
accessible by inspecting the archive with git; run
'hermes checkpoints clear-legacy' to reclaim the space when ready. Users
relying on /rollback must now set checkpoints.enabled=true (or pass
--checkpoints) explicitly.
On Termux/Android aarch64 (and other platforms without prebuilt wheels
for some optional extras), 'pip install -e .[all]' compiles C/Rust
extensions from source. This can run for several minutes with zero
network activity and — with --quiet — zero stdout. Users report
'hermes update hangs at Updating Python dependencies', Ctrl+C it, then
re-run and see 'up to date' (because git pull already succeeded and the
pip step was still working when they interrupted).
Pip's default output is proportional to actual work (one line per
Collecting / Building wheel for X / Installing), so removing --quiet
costs nothing on fast hardware and prevents the false-hang interrupt
loop on slow hardware.
Reported via Discord on Termux/Android. Supersedes #20466 which
misdiagnosed the hang as PYTHONPATH shadowing (install.sh doesn't run
during 'hermes update', and terminal() doesn't inherit PYTHONPATH).
Add Lightpanda as an optional browser engine for local mode.
Lightpanda is a headless browser built from scratch in Zig -- faster
navigation than Chrome with significantly less memory.
One config line to enable:
browser:
engine: lightpanda
New functions in browser_tool.py:
- _get_browser_engine() -- config/env reader with validation + caching
- _should_inject_engine() -- only inject in local non-cloud mode
- _needs_lightpanda_fallback() -- detect empty/failed LP results
- _chrome_fallback_screenshot() -- temporary Chrome session for screenshots
- Engine injection in _run_browser_command (--engine flag)
- browser_vision pre-routes screenshots to Chrome when engine=lightpanda
Config:
- browser.engine in DEFAULT_CONFIG (auto/lightpanda/chrome)
- AGENT_BROWSER_ENGINE in OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS
- /browser status shows engine info in local mode
Rebased from PR #7144 onto current main. All existing code preserved --
pure additions only (+520/-2).
25 new tests + 81 total browser tests pass (0 failures).
Endpoint validated over 6 conversational turns with tool calls (9 API
calls, 3 tool calls, 0 failures) and an 8-request burst (8/8 ok,
0 rate limits). Latency ~5-10s/call — slower than grok-4.20 but
expected for a reasoning model.
- hermes_cli/models.py: add to OPENROUTER_MODELS and _PROVIDER_MODELS['nous']
- website/static/api/model-catalog.json: regenerated
Endpoint re-tested over 6 conversational turns (9 API calls, 3 tool calls)
and an 8-request burst — no rate limits, no errors, ~2-3s latency. The
historical rate-limit issues that caused its removal are gone.
- hermes_cli/models.py: add to OPENROUTER_MODELS and _PROVIDER_MODELS['nous']
- website/static/api/model-catalog.json: regenerated via build_model_catalog.py
- hermes_cli/config.py: add tr to supported languages comment
- locales/en.yaml: add tr to locale file list comment
- tests/agent/test_i18n.py: add Turkish alias tests + explicit lang test
- website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md: add tr to supported values
The kanban-worker skill (built into the gateway dispatcher's spawn
prompt) instructs every worker to hand off via
``kanban_complete(summary=..., metadata=...)``. That writes the summary
onto the closing ``task_runs`` row, NOT onto ``tasks.result`` — the
latter is left NULL unless the caller passes ``result=`` explicitly.
Result: a glance at the dashboard or ``hermes kanban show <id>`` shows
a blank "Result:" section even when the worker did real work, which
on 2026-05-05 caused a Mac false-alarm ("Hermes did nothing") on a
task that had a 10-line completion summary on its run.
This patch surfaces the latest non-null run summary as
``latest_summary`` so the worker's actual handoff lands in front of
operators.
* New helpers ``kanban_db.latest_summary(conn, task_id)`` and
``kanban_db.latest_summaries(conn, task_ids)``. The batch variant
uses a single window-function SELECT so the dashboard board endpoint
doesn't pay an N+1 cost on multi-hundred-task boards.
* CLI ``hermes kanban show <id>`` prints a "Latest summary:" block
when ``tasks.result`` is empty but a run has produced a summary
(the existing "Result:" section still wins when populated, so the
back-compat path for hand-edited results is untouched). JSON output
gains a top-level ``latest_summary`` field.
* Dashboard ``/board`` and ``/tasks/{id}`` now include a
``latest_summary`` field on every task. Cards on /board carry a
200-character preview (cheap to render, plenty for "what did this
worker do?" at a glance); the drawer/detail endpoint returns the
full summary.
* Five new tests cover: empty-runs case, post-complete surface,
newest-of-multiple selection, empty-string skip, batch with
missing tasks + empty input.
Smoke-tested locally against the live profile DB on the three
acceptance-criterion targets (t_f08fef91 cron-hygiene-audit,
t_007b7f1c EMA-analysis, t_05746fa4 self-assessment) — all three now
return their populated summaries via both ``latest_summary`` and
``latest_summaries``.
Test plan: 255/255 kanban tests pass + 91/91 dashboard plugin tests
pass. No regression on tasks where ``tasks.result`` is explicitly
populated (the existing "Result:" branch is preserved).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Widens _verify_created_cards to also accept ids that are children of the
completing task in task_links. Previously we only accepted cards where
created_by matched the completing task's assignee, which was too strict
for legitimate orchestrator flows: a specifier creates a card (so
created_by=specifier, not worker), then a worker picks it up and passes
parents=[current_task] to kanban_create. The explicit link proves the
relationship and should be trusted.
Salvaged from #20022 @LeonSGP43 (full PR superseded by #20232 +
this patch; the linked-children relaxation was the portable
improvement).
The dispatcher's circuit breaker only protected against spawn-side
failures (profile missing, workspace mount error, exec failure).
Workers that successfully spawned but then timed out or crashed
re-queued to ``ready`` with no counter increment, so the next tick
re-spawned them — loops forever until someone noticed. Reported
externally on Twitter (Forbidden Seeds) and confirmed by walking the
kernel: ``enforce_max_runtime`` flipped the task back to ready, emitted
a ``timed_out`` event, and never touched ``spawn_failures``; same for
``detect_crashed_workers``.
Fix: unify the counter across all non-success outcomes.
Schema
------
* ``tasks.spawn_failures`` → ``tasks.consecutive_failures``
* ``tasks.last_spawn_error`` → ``tasks.last_failure_error``
* Migration renames the columns in-place on existing DBs (``ALTER
TABLE RENAME COLUMN`` — SQLite >= 3.25) so historical counter
values are preserved. Row mappers fall through to the legacy names
if both column renames and a migration somehow got out of sync.
Counter lifecycle
-----------------
New helper ``_record_task_failure(conn, task_id, error, *, outcome,
release_claim, end_run, event_payload_extra)`` is the single point
every non-success outcome funnels through:
* ``spawn_failed`` → ``_record_spawn_failure`` (kept as alias)
calls it with ``release_claim=True, end_run=True`` — transitions
running→ready, clears claim, closes run.
* ``timed_out`` → ``enforce_max_runtime`` already does the status
transition + run close + event emission, then calls
``_record_task_failure`` with ``release_claim=False, end_run=False``
just to bump the counter (and trip the breaker if needed).
* ``crashed`` → ``detect_crashed_workers`` same pattern, but the
counter increment runs after the main write_txn closes (SQLite
doesn't nest write transactions).
If the counter hits the breaker threshold (``DEFAULT_FAILURE_LIMIT=5``,
same as before), the task transitions to ``blocked`` with a ``gave_up``
event on top of whatever outcome-specific event was already emitted.
Reset semantics changed: the counter now clears only on successful
``complete_task`` (and operator ``reclaim_task`` — an explicit "I've
looked at this, try again with a fresh budget"). Previously
``_clear_spawn_failures`` ran on every successful spawn, which would
have wiped the counter before a timeout could accumulate past threshold
— exactly the loop this fix prevents.
Diagnostics
-----------
* ``_rule_repeated_spawn_failures`` → ``_rule_repeated_failures``. Now
fires regardless of which outcome is at fault. Classifies the most
recent failure (spawn_failed / timed_out / crashed) from the run
history so the title ("Agent timeout x3", "Agent crash x4", "Agent
spawn x5") and suggested action (``doctor`` for spawn, ``log`` for
timeout/crash) stay outcome-specific without N duplicate rules.
* ``_rule_repeated_crashes`` kept as a narrower early-warning at
threshold 2 (vs 3 for the unified rule), but now suppresses itself
when the unified rule would also fire — avoids double-flagging.
* Diagnostic ``data`` payload now carries
``{consecutive_failures, most_recent_outcome, last_error}`` instead
of spawn-specific keys.
CLI
---
* ``Task.consecutive_failures`` / ``Task.last_failure_error`` are the
public fields now. Existing callers that referenced the old names
get migrated (tests updated in this commit).
* Backward-compat: ``DEFAULT_SPAWN_FAILURE_LIMIT``,
``_clear_spawn_failures``, ``_record_spawn_failure`` stay as aliases.
Tests
-----
* 6 new kernel tests: timeout increments counter, 3 consecutive
timeouts trip the breaker (was the reported gap), crash increments
counter, reclaim clears counter, completion clears counter, spawn
success does NOT clear counter.
* Diagnostic tests: updated ``repeated_spawn_failures`` cases to use
the new kind name and add a timeout-loop test.
* Dashboard API test: spawn_failures column update → consecutive_failures.
389/389 kanban-suite tests pass.
Live verification
-----------------
Seeded 4 tasks in an isolated HERMES_HOME: 3 timeouts, 4 crashes,
2-spawn-failed + 2-timed-out, and a task that had prior failures but
completed successfully. Board correctly shows "!! 3 tasks need
attention" (the successful one has no badge because the counter
reset). Drawer for the timeout-loop task renders "Agent timeout x3"
with most_recent_outcome=timed_out and the "Check logs" suggested
action (not the spawn-flavoured "Verify profile"). The successful
task has zero diagnostics.
Closes the Forbidden-Seeds-reported gap.
AGENTS.md is the AI-assistant entry doc, so its counts get used as ground
truth. Several values had drifted, and the same drift had spread to a few
user-facing surfaces. Fixing all of them in one commit so the count claims
agree and clearly distinguish gateway-core from plugin-shipped platforms.
AGENTS.md:
- run_agent.py "~12k LOC" → "~14k LOC as of 2026-05-03" (actual 14,097)
- cli.py "~11k LOC" → "~12k LOC as of 2026-05-03" (actual 12,043)
- tools/environments/ list now lists all 7 user-selectable terminal backends
in canonical order, matching tools/terminal_tool.py:2214-2215
- gateway/platforms/ list adds yuanbao and wecom_callback; the 19 names
match the user-facing list at website/docs/integrations/index.md
- plugins/ tree now mentions plugins/platforms/ (irc, teams)
- tests/ snapshot "~15k tests across ~700 files as of Apr 2026" →
"~19k tests across ~890 files as of 2026-05-03"
User-facing count claims:
- hermes_cli/tips.py:195 — "19 platforms" → "21 messaging platforms" with
IRC and Microsoft Teams added to the named list
- website/docs/index.md:49 — "6 terminal backends" → "7 terminal backends:
..., Vercel Sandbox" (also corrected by PR #19044; same edit content)
- website/docs/index.md:50 — "15+ platforms from one gateway" → "21+ messaging
platforms (19 in the gateway, plus IRC and Microsoft Teams via plugins)"
- website/docs/integrations/index.md:83-85 — "15+ messaging platforms" → "19+",
added yuanbao to the linked list. The surrounding text scopes it to "configured
through the same gateway subsystem", so plugin platforms (IRC, Teams) are
intentionally not in this list
- website/scripts/generate-llms-txt.py:205 — "15+ platforms" → "21+ messaging
platforms — 19 native to the gateway plus IRC and Microsoft Teams via plugins"
LOC and date stamps follow the existing AGENTS.md "as of <date>" convention
(line 56 already used this pattern). Source of truth for the gateway count is
gateway/config.py:130-148 (PlatformID enum); plugin platforms live in
plugins/platforms/.
Out of scope:
- RELEASE_v0.9.0.md historical "16 platforms" claim (immutable history)
- userStories.json verbatim user quotes
- Programmatic count generation from gateway/config.py + plugin manifests
is a worthwhile build-system change but separate from these content fixes
* fix(tui): close slash parity gaps with CLI
Route unsupported /skills subcommands through slash.exec, support /new <name>
titles, and handle /redraw natively so TUI behavior matches classic CLI. Also
filter gateway-only commands out of the TUI catalog while keeping /status
discoverable.
* fix(tui): run remaining CLI parity paths natively
Forward chat launch flags into the TUI runtime and handle live-session status
and skill reloads in the gateway process so TUI state no longer depends on the
slash worker's stale CLI instance.
* fix(tui): block stale snapshot restores
Prevent snapshot restore from running through the isolated slash worker because
it mutates disk state without refreshing the live TUI agent.
* chore: uptick
* fix(tui): guard async session title updates
Handle failures from the fire-and-forget session.title RPC so title-setting errors do not surface as unhandled promise rejections while preserving session-scoped messaging.
Every provider profile is now a self-contained plugin under
plugins/model-providers/<name>/, mirroring the plugins/platforms/
pattern established for IRC and Teams. The ProviderProfile ABC
stays in providers/; the per-provider profile data moves out.
- plugins/model-providers/<name>/__init__.py calls register_provider()
- plugins/model-providers/<name>/plugin.yaml declares kind: model-provider
- providers/__init__.py._discover_providers() lazily scans bundled plugins
then $HERMES_HOME/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ (user override path)
- User plugins with the same name override bundled ones (last-writer-wins
in register_provider)
- Legacy providers/<name>.py layout still supported for back-compat with
out-of-tree editable installs
- Hermes PluginManager: new kind=model-provider; skipped like memory
plugins (providers/ discovery owns them); standalone plugins with
register_provider+ProviderProfile in their __init__.py auto-coerce to
this kind (same heuristic as memory providers)
- skip_names extended to include 'model-providers' so the general
PluginManager doesn't double-scan the category
- 4 new tests in tests/providers/test_plugin_discovery.py covering
bundled discovery, user override, and general-loader isolation
- Docs updated: website/docs/developer-guide/adding-providers.md,
provider-runtime.md, providers/README.md, plugins/model-providers/README.md
No API break: auth.py / config.py / doctor.py / models.py / runtime_provider.py /
model_metadata.py / auxiliary_client.py / chat_completions.py / run_agent.py
all still consume providers via get_provider_profile() / list_providers() —
they just now see plugin-discovered entries instead of pkgutil-iterated ones.
Third parties can now drop a single directory into
~/.hermes/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ to add or override an inference
provider without touching the repo.
Introduces providers/ package — single source of truth for every
inference provider. Adding a simple api-key provider now requires one
providers/<name>.py file with zero edits anywhere else.
What this PR ships:
- providers/ package (ProviderProfile ABC + 33 profiles across 4 api_modes)
- ProviderProfile declarative fields: name, api_mode, aliases, display_name,
env_vars, base_url, models_url, auth_type, fallback_models, hostname,
default_headers, fixed_temperature, default_max_tokens, default_aux_model
- 4 overridable hooks: prepare_messages, build_extra_body,
build_api_kwargs_extras, fetch_models
- chat_completions.build_kwargs: profile path via _build_kwargs_from_profile,
legacy flag path retained for lmstudio/tencent-tokenhub (which have
session-aware reasoning probing that doesn't map cleanly to hooks yet)
- run_agent.py: profile path for all registered providers; legacy path
variable scoping fixed (all flags defined before branching)
- Auto-wires: auth.PROVIDER_REGISTRY, models.CANONICAL_PROVIDERS,
doctor health checks, config.OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS, model_metadata._URL_TO_PROVIDER
- GeminiProfile: thinking_config translation (native + openai-compat nested)
- New tests/providers/ (79 tests covering profile declarations, transport
parity, hook overrides, e2e kwargs assembly)
Deltas vs original PR (salvaged onto current main):
- Added profiles: alibaba-coding-plan, azure-foundry, minimax-oauth
(were added to main since original PR)
- Skipped profiles: lmstudio, tencent-tokenhub stay on legacy path (their
reasoning_effort probing has no clean hook equivalent yet)
- Removed lmstudio alias from custom profile (it's a separate provider now)
- Skipped openrouter/custom from PROVIDER_REGISTRY auto-extension
(resolve_provider special-cases them; adding breaks runtime resolution)
- runtime_provider: profile.api_mode only as fallback when URL detection
finds nothing (was breaking minimax /v1 override)
- Preserved main's legacy-path improvements: deepseek reasoning_content
preserve, gemini Gemma skip, OpenRouter response caching, Anthropic 1M
beta recovery, etc.
- Kept agent/copilot_acp_client.py in place (rejected PR's relocation —
main has 7 fixes landed since; relocation would revert them)
- _API_KEY_PROVIDER_AUX_MODELS alias kept for backward compat with existing
test imports
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Closes#14418
* feat(kanban): generic diagnostics engine for task distress signals
Replaces the hallucination-specific ``warnings`` / ``RecoverySection``
surface (shipped in PR #20232) with a reusable diagnostic-rule engine
that covers five distress kinds in v1 and can be extended without
touching UI code. The "something's wrong with this task" signal is
no longer limited to phantom card ids.
Closes the follow-up from #20232 discussion.
New module
----------
``hermes_cli/kanban_diagnostics.py`` — stateless, no-side-effect rule
engine. Each rule is a pure function of
``(task, events, runs, now, config) -> list[Diagnostic]``. Registry
is a simple list; adding a new distress kind is one function + one
import, no UI or API changes required.
v1 rule set
-----------
* ``hallucinated_cards`` (error) — folds the existing
``completion_blocked_hallucination`` event into the new surface.
* ``prose_phantom_refs`` (warning) — folds
``suspected_hallucinated_references``.
* ``repeated_spawn_failures`` (error → critical at 2x threshold) —
fires when ``tasks.spawn_failures >= 3``; suggests
``hermes -p <profile> doctor`` / ``auth``.
* ``repeated_crashes`` (error → critical) — fires after N consecutive
``crashed`` run outcomes with no successful completion between;
suggests ``hermes kanban log <id>``.
* ``stuck_in_blocked`` (warning) — fires after 24h in ``blocked``
state with no comments / unblock attempts; suggests commenting.
Every diagnostic carries structured ``actions`` (reclaim, reassign,
unblock, cli_hint, comment, open_docs) that render consistently in
both CLI and dashboard. Suggested actions are highlighted; generic
recovery actions (reclaim / reassign) are available on every kind as
fallbacks.
Diagnostics auto-clear when the underlying failure resolves — a
clean ``completed``/``edited`` event drops hallucination diagnostics,
a successful run drops crash diagnostics, a comment drops
stuck-blocked diagnostics. Audit events persist; the badge goes away.
API
---
``plugin_api.py``:
* ``/board`` now attaches ``diagnostics`` (full list) and
``warnings`` (compact summary with ``highest_severity``) per task.
* ``/tasks/{id}`` attaches diagnostics so the drawer's Diagnostics
section auto-opens on flagged tasks.
* NEW ``/diagnostics`` endpoint — fleet-wide listing, filterable by
severity, sorted critical-first.
CLI
---
* NEW ``hermes kanban diagnostics [--severity X] [--task id]
[--json]`` — fleet view or single-task view, matches dashboard rule
output so CLI users see the same picture.
* ``hermes kanban show <id>`` now renders a Diagnostics section near
the top with severity markers + suggested actions.
Dashboard
---------
* Card badge is severity-coloured (⚠ amber warning, !! orange error,
!!! red critical) using ``warnings.highest_severity``.
* Attention strip above the toolbar counts EVERY task with active
diagnostics (not just hallucinations), severity-coloured, lists
affected tasks with Open buttons when expanded.
* Drawer's old ``RecoverySection`` replaced with generic
``DiagnosticsSection`` rendering a card per active diagnostic:
title + detail + structured data (task-id chips when payload keys
look like id lists) + action buttons. Reassign profile picker is
inline per-diagnostic. Clipboard fallback uses ``.catch()`` for
environments where writeText rejects.
* Three-rung severity palette; amber for warning, orange for error,
red for critical. Uses CSS variables so theming is straightforward.
Tests
-----
* NEW ``tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_diagnostics.py`` — 14 unit tests
covering each rule's positive/negative/threshold paths, severity
sorting, broken-rule isolation, and sqlite3.Row integration.
* Dashboard plugin tests extended: ``/diagnostics`` endpoint (empty,
populated, severity-filtered), ``/board`` exposes both diagnostic
list and compact summary with ``highest_severity``.
* Existing hallucination-specific test (``test_board_surfaces_
warnings_field_for_hallucinated_completions``) updated to reflect
the new contract: warning summary keys by diagnostic kind
(``hallucinated_cards``) not event kind.
379 kanban-suite tests pass (+16 net from this PR).
Live verification
-----------------
Seeded all 5 diagnostic kinds + one clean + one plain-running task
(7 total) into an isolated HERMES_HOME, spun up the dashboard, and
verified:
* Attention strip: shows ``!! 5 tasks need attention`` in the
error-severity orange; Show expands to a list of 5 rows ordered
critical > error > warning.
* Card badges: error tasks render ``!!`` orange, warning tasks
render ``⚠`` amber, clean and plain-running tasks render no badge.
* Each of the 5 rules opens a correctly-coloured, correctly-styled
diagnostic card in the drawer with its specific suggested action.
* Live reassign from a diagnostic card flipped
``broken-ml-worker → alice`` and the drawer refreshed with the
new assignee + the same diagnostic still firing (correct:
spawn_failures counter hasn't reset yet).
* CLI ``hermes kanban diagnostics`` prints all 5 in severity order;
``--severity error`` narrows to 3; ``kanban show <id>`` includes
the Diagnostics block at the top with suggested action hint.
Migration note
--------------
The old ``warnings`` shape (``{count, kinds, latest_at}``) is
preserved on the API but ``kinds`` now keys by diagnostic kind
(``hallucinated_cards``) instead of event kind
(``completion_blocked_hallucination``). ``highest_severity`` is a
new required field. The dashboard was the only consumer and has
been updated in the same commit; external API consumers of the
``warnings`` field will need to update their kind-match logic.
* feat(kanban/diagnostics): lead titles with the actual error text
The generic 'Worker crashed N runs in a row' / 'Worker failed to spawn
N times' titles buried the actual cause in the data section. Operators
had to open logs or expand the diagnostic to see WHY the worker is
stuck — rate-limit vs insufficient quota vs bad auth vs context
overflow vs network blip all looked identical at a glance.
New titles:
Agent crashed 3x: openai: 429 Too Many Requests - rate limit reached
Agent crashed 3x: anthropic: 402 insufficient_quota - credit balance
Agent crashed 3x: provider auth error: 401 Unauthorized
Agent spawn failed 4x: insufficient_quota: You exceeded your current
Detail keeps the full error snippet (capped at 500 chars + ellipsis
for tracebacks). Title takes the first line capped at 160 chars.
Fallback title if no error recorded stays honest ('no error recorded').
Tests: 4 new cases covering 429/billing/spawn/truncation. 383 total
pass (+4).
Live-verified on dashboard with 6 seeded scenarios
(rate-limit, billing, auth, context, network, spawn-billing) —
each card title leads with the actionable error text.
The Telegram/Discord /model pickers currently call
list_authenticated_providers(), which returns every provider whose
credentials resolve locally and every model in its curated snapshot.
Two failure modes fall out:
- OpenRouter rows can include IDs the live catalog no longer carries.
- Provider rows can surface with zero callable models (e.g. a slug
whose credential pool entry exists but has nothing behind it).
list_picker_providers() wraps the base function and post-processes the
result so the interactive picker only shows models the user can
actually select:
- OpenRouter's models come from fetch_openrouter_models() (live-catalog
filtered against the curated OPENROUTER_MODELS snapshot).
- Rows with an empty models list are dropped, except custom endpoints
(is_user_defined=True with an api_url) where the user may enter
model ids manually.
- All other fields pass through unchanged.
The gateway /model handler switches to the new helper for the
interactive picker payload only. Typed /model <name> and the text
fallback list stay on list_authenticated_providers() so nothing is
hidden from power users or platforms without a picker.
Covered by nine focused unit tests in
tests/hermes_cli/test_list_picker_providers.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Workers completing a kanban task can now claim the ids of cards they
created via an optional ``created_cards`` field on ``kanban_complete``.
The kernel verifies each id exists and was created by the completing
worker's profile; any phantom id blocks the completion with a
``HallucinatedCardsError`` and records a
``completion_blocked_hallucination`` event on the task so the rejected
attempt is auditable. Successful completions also get a non-blocking
prose-scan pass over their ``summary`` + ``result`` that emits a
``suspected_hallucinated_references`` event for any ``t_<hex>``
reference that doesn't resolve.
Closes#20017.
Recovery UX (kernel + CLI + dashboard)
--------------------------------------
A structural gate alone isn't enough — operators also need to see and
act on stuck workers, especially when a profile's model is the root
cause. This PR ships the full loop:
* ``kanban_db.reclaim_task(task_id)`` — operator-driven reclaim that
releases an active worker claim immediately (unlike
``release_stale_claims`` which only acts after claim_expires has
passed). Emits a ``reclaimed`` event with ``manual: True`` payload.
* ``kanban_db.reassign_task(task_id, profile, reclaim_first=...)`` —
switch a task to a different profile, optionally reclaiming a stuck
running worker in the same call.
* ``hermes kanban reclaim <id> [--reason ...]`` and
``hermes kanban reassign <id> <profile> [--reclaim] [--reason ...]``
CLI subcommands wired through to the same helpers.
* ``POST /api/plugins/kanban/tasks/{id}/reclaim`` and
``POST /api/plugins/kanban/tasks/{id}/reassign`` endpoints on the
dashboard plugin.
Dashboard surfacing
-------------------
* ⚠ **warning badge** on cards with active hallucination events.
* **attention strip** at the top of the board listing all flagged
tasks; dismissible per session.
* **events callout** in the task drawer — hallucination events render
with a red left border, amber icon, and phantom ids as styled chips.
* **recovery section** in the task drawer with three actions: Reclaim,
Reassign (with profile picker + reclaim-first checkbox), and a
copy-to-clipboard hint for ``hermes -p <profile> model`` since
profile config lives on disk and can't be edited from the browser.
Auto-opens when the task has warnings, collapsed otherwise.
Keyed by task id so state doesn't leak between drawers.
Active-vs-stale rule: warnings clear when a clean ``completed`` or
``edited`` event supersedes the hallucination, so recovery is never
permanently stigmatising — the audit events persist for debugging but
the badge goes away once the worker succeeds.
Skill updates
-------------
* ``skills/devops/kanban-worker/SKILL.md`` documents the
``created_cards`` contract with good/bad examples.
* ``skills/devops/kanban-orchestrator/SKILL.md`` gains a "Recovering
stuck workers" section with the three actions and when to use each.
Tests
-----
* Kernel gate: verified-cards manifest, phantom rejection + audit
event, cross-worker rejection, prose scan positive + negative.
* Recovery helpers: reclaim on running task, reclaim on non-running
returns False, reassign refuses running without reclaim_first,
reassign with reclaim_first succeeds on running.
* API endpoints: warnings field present on /board and /tasks/:id,
warnings cleared after clean completion, reclaim 200 + 409 paths,
reassign 200 + 409 + reclaim_first paths.
* CLI smoke: reclaim + reassign subcommands.
Live-verified end-to-end on a dashboard with seeded scenarios:
attention strip renders, badges land on the right cards, drawer
callout shows phantom chips, Reclaim on a running task flips status to
ready + emits manual reclaimed event + refreshes the drawer,
Reassign swaps the assignee and triggers board refresh.
359/359 kanban-suite tests pass
(test_kanban_{db,cli,boards,core_functionality} + dashboard + tools).
* revert(gateway): remove stale-code self-check and auto-restart
Removes the _detect_stale_code / _trigger_stale_code_restart mechanism
introduced in #17648 and iterated in #19740. On every incoming message
the gateway compared the boot-time git HEAD SHA to the current SHA on
disk, and if they differed it would reply with
Gateway code was updated in the background --
restarting this gateway so your next message runs
on the new code. Please retry in a moment.
and then kick off a graceful restart. This is unwanted behaviour:
users who run a long-lived gateway and do their own ad-hoc git
operations on the checkout end up with their chat interrupted and
the current message dropped every time HEAD moves, with no way to
opt out.
If an operator really needs the old protection against stale
sys.modules after "hermes update", the SIGKILL-survivor sweep in
hermes update (hermes_cli/main.py, also tagged #17648) already
handles the supervisor-respawn case on its own.
Removed:
gateway/run.py:
- _STALE_CODE_SENTINELS, _GIT_SHA_CACHE_TTL_SECS
- _read_git_head_sha(), _compute_repo_mtime() module helpers
- class-level _boot_wall_time / _boot_repo_mtime / _boot_git_sha /
_stale_code_restart_triggered defaults
- __init__ boot-snapshot block (_boot_*, _cached_current_sha*,
_repo_root_for_staleness, _stale_code_notified)
- _current_git_sha_cached(), _detect_stale_code(),
_trigger_stale_code_restart() methods
- stale-code check + user-facing restart notice at the top of
_handle_message()
tests/gateway/test_stale_code_self_check.py (deleted, 412 lines)
No new logic added. Zero remaining references to any removed
symbol. Gateway test suite passes the same 4589 tests it passed
before; the 3 pre-existing unrelated failures (discord free-channel,
feishu bot admission, teams typing) are unchanged by this commit.
* feat(i18n): add display.language for static message translation (zh/ja/de/es)
Adds a thin-slice i18n layer covering the highest-impact static user-facing
messages: the CLI dangerous-command approval prompt and a handful of gateway
slash-command replies (restart-drain, goal cleared, approval expired, config
read/save errors).
Out of scope (stays English): agent responses, log lines, tool outputs,
slash-command descriptions, error tracebacks.
Infrastructure:
- agent/i18n.py: catalog loader, t() helper, language resolution
(HERMES_LANGUAGE env var > display.language config > en)
- locales/{en,zh,ja,de,es}.yaml: ~19 translated strings per language
- display.language in DEFAULT_CONFIG (hermes_cli/config.py)
Tests:
- tests/agent/test_i18n.py: 21 tests covering catalog parity, placeholder
parity across locales, fallback behavior, env-var override, alias
normalization, missing-key graceful degradation.
Docs:
- website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md: display.language entry plus a
short section explaining scope so users don't expect agent responses to
translate via this knob.
Strip bracketed-paste control sequences from setup prompt input so pasted API keys work on Linux and WSL terminals, and add regression tests for normal/password prompts.
Closes#16491
hermes config set model.aliases.xxx commands write to the model.aliases
nested key, but _load_direct_aliases() only read from the top-level
model_aliases key. This meant aliases set via hermes config set were
invisible to the /model command, and unrecognised inputs fell through
to the DeepSeek normaliser which mapped everything to deepseek-chat.
Add a second pass in _load_direct_aliases() that reads model.aliases
and converts string-value entries (provider/model format) into
DirectAlias objects. The provider is parsed from the slash prefix;
if no slash, the current default provider from config is used.
Also prevent simple aliases from overriding explicit model_aliases
dict entries when both exist.
* fix(curator): protect hub skills by frontmatter name
* test(skill_usage): add mark_agent_created to regression test
The cherry-picked test predates #19618/#19621 which rewrote
list_agent_created_skill_names() to require an explicit
created_by: 'agent' provenance marker. Without mark_agent_created(),
my-skill is excluded from the list and the positive assertion fails.
* feat(curator): add archive and prune subcommands
Adds 'hermes curator archive <skill>' and 'hermes curator prune
[--days N] [--yes] [--dry-run]' alongside the existing status, run,
pause, resume, pin, unpin, restore, backup, rollback verbs.
These are the two genuinely new user-facing verbs requested in #19384.
The other verbs proposed there ('stats' and 'restore') already exist
as 'curator status' and 'curator restore', so no duplicate surface is
added — all skill lifecycle commands live under the single 'hermes
curator' namespace.
- archive: manual archive of an agent-created skill. Refuses pinned
skills with a hint pointing at 'hermes curator unpin'.
- prune: bulk-archive unpinned skills idle for >= N days (default 90).
Falls back to created_at when last_activity_at is null so never-used
skills can still be pruned. --dry-run previews, --yes skips prompt.
Adapted from @elmatadorgh's PR #19454 which placed the same verbs
under 'hermes skills' with a separate hermes_cli/skills_config.py
handler and rich table for stats. The 'stats' and 'restore' parts of
that PR duplicated existing surface, so only archive and prune are
kept, rewritten to match hermes_cli/curator.py's existing plain-text
handler style. Tests rewritten from scratch against the new handlers.
Closes#19384
Co-authored-by: elmatadorgh <coktinbaran5@gmail.com>
---------
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <cine.dreamer.one@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: elmatadorgh <coktinbaran5@gmail.com>
Without an explicit pin, in-process kanban tools and shelled-out
`hermes kanban …` subprocesses resolve the active board on different
paths: the env var when set, otherwise the global `<root>/kanban/current`
file. When a concurrent session toggles the current-board pointer
mid-turn, the same chat ends up routing tool calls to board A while its
shell calls hit board B, surfacing as phantom "no such task" errors.
Pin the resolved board into env once at `cmd_chat` boot when
HERMES_KANBAN_BOARD isn't already set. Mirrors what the dispatcher does
for spawned workers (kanban_db.py:2622-2623). Idempotent and a no-op
when the env is already pinned by the caller.
Closes#20074
After PR #20105 (dispatcher skips ready tasks whose assignee fails
``profile_exists()`` to prevent the orion-cc/orion-research crash
loop), the gateway and CLI emit a spurious "kanban dispatcher stuck:
ready queue non-empty for N consecutive ticks but 0 workers spawned"
warning every 5 minutes on multi-lane setups where the queue is
steadily full of human-pulled work assigned to terminal lanes.
The warn is intended to catch real failure modes (broken PATH,
missing venv, credential loss for a real Hermes profile). On a
multi-lane host it fires forever even though everything is healthy:
the dispatcher correctly chose not to spawn, and there is nothing
for the operator to fix.
Changes:
* ``DispatchResult`` gains a ``skipped_nonspawnable`` field
(separate from ``skipped_unassigned``) so callers can distinguish
"task missing an owner — operator should route it" from "task
owned by a control-plane lane — terminal will pull it".
* ``dispatch_once`` routes the ``not profile_exists(assignee)`` skip
into the new bucket (was lumped into ``skipped_unassigned``).
* New helper ``has_spawnable_ready(conn)`` returns True iff at least
one ready+assigned+unclaimed task in the DB has an assignee that
maps to a real Hermes profile. Falls back to legacy "any
ready+assigned" when ``profile_exists`` is unimportable so degraded
installs still surface the original warn.
* The gateway dispatcher (``gateway/run.py``) and the CLI standalone
daemon (``hermes_cli/kanban.py``) both swap their cheap
``ready_nonempty`` probe to use ``has_spawnable_ready``. Stuck-warn
now fires only when there is genuine spawnable work the dispatcher
failed to start.
* CLI dispatch output prints ``Skipped (non-spawnable assignee —
terminal lane, OK)`` for visibility without alarm.
Tests:
* New ``has_spawnable_ready`` cases (empty queue, terminal-lane
only, mixed real+terminal).
* New ``test_dispatch_skips_nonspawnable_into_separate_bucket``
verifies the bucketing change.
* Updated ``test_dispatch_skips_unassigned`` to assert no
cross-leak.
* Added ``all_assignees_spawnable`` fixture in
``tests/hermes_cli/conftest.py`` and threaded it through dispatcher
tests that use synthetic assignees ("alice", "bob"). PR #20105
(the parent commit) silently broke 8 such tests by routing those
assignees into ``skipped_nonspawnable`` instead of spawning; this
PR repairs them as part of the same code area.
Verified locally: 246/246 kanban-suite tests pass.
Stacks on top of fix/kanban-dispatcher-skip-missing-profile-2026-05-05
(PR #20105). Reviewer: this PR is meant to merge AFTER #20105.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The kanban dispatcher's `_default_spawn` invokes
``hermes -p <task.assignee> chat -q ...``. When ``assignee``
names a control-plane lane (e.g. an interactive Claude Code
terminal like ``orion-cc`` / ``orion-research``) instead of a
real Hermes profile, the subprocess fails on startup with
"Profile 'X' does not exist", gets reaped as a zombie, the
TTL/crash detector marks the task back to ``ready``, and the
next tick re-spawns the same crashing worker. Result: a
permanent crash loop emitting ``spawned=2 crashed=2 every tick``
in the gateway log and burning CPU forever.
Reproduce on a fresh Hermes-agent install:
# 1. Create a kanban task whose assignee names a non-profile.
hermes kanban create --assignee orion-cc --status ready \
--title "Review PR #N" --body "..."
# 2. Start the gateway with the embedded dispatcher.
hermes gateway run
# gateway.log lines every minute:
# kanban dispatcher: tick spawned=1 reclaimed=0 crashed=1 ...
# 3. ps -ef | grep '[h]ermes.*defunct' shows zombies.
Fix
---
``dispatch_once()`` now pre-checks ``hermes_cli.profiles.
profile_exists(assignee)`` before claiming. If False, the row
is added to ``skipped_unassigned`` (it's effectively
"unassigned-to-an-executable-profile") and the dispatcher
moves on without claiming, spawning, or counting a crash.
The check is opt-in safe: if the import fails (e.g. test
isolation, profile module restructured), ``profile_exists``
falls back to ``None`` and the original behaviour is preserved
unchanged.
This addresses the explicit hint in the kanban task body
(``t_2bab06e3``):
"Should ready-state tasks auto-spawn at all, or only on
explicit orion-cc claim? If spurious, gate the auto-spawn
behind a config flag (e.g. only assignee=hermes or
assignee=auto)."
Profile-existence is a tighter gate than a config flag — it
self-documents (the user already knows whether they have an
``orion-cc`` profile), and it doesn't require Mac to maintain
an allowlist as new lane names appear. New lanes that ARE
real profiles (created via ``hermes profile create``) auto-
qualify the moment the profile dir is created.
Validated live
--------------
On Orion's hermes-agent install, two ``orion-research``-
assigned tasks (Bug A and Bug C investigations) had been
crash-looping since 2026-05-05 06:58 local. After applying
the patch + restarting the gateway:
- Stale ``running`` claims released to ``ready`` cleanly.
- New gateway emitted ``kanban dispatcher: embedded`` and
has ticked silently for 2+ minutes — no spawned=,
crashed=, or stuck= log lines (all spawn skips are quiet).
- Tasks remain ``ready`` with ``claim_lock=None``,
``worker_pid=None``, ``spawn_failures=0``.
- Dashboard + telegram + freqtrade unaffected.
Confidence: high (live verified on Orion).
Scope-risk: narrow (additive guard inside one function).
Not-tested: behaviour when a profile is renamed mid-tick —
current code re-imports ``profile_exists`` per row so a
freshly created profile auto-qualifies on the next tick.
Machine: orion-terminal
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
hermes setup / hermes model used to silently skip the key prompt when
any value was present in .env — even a malformed paste — leaving users
with a stuck '✓' and no way to recover without hand-editing .env.
Replace the silent acknowledgement at all three API-key provider flows
(Kimi, Stepfun, generic) with a single [K]eep / [R]eplace / [C]lear
menu via a shared `_prompt_api_key` helper.
- K / Enter / Ctrl-C / unknown input → keep (never destroys the key)
- R → getpass for new key; empty input cancels and preserves existing
- C → clears the env var, tells user to rerun hermes setup, aborts flow
LM Studio's no-auth-placeholder substitution stays on first-time entry
only; on Replace an empty input means 'cancel', not 'overwrite with
dummy key'.
11 unit tests cover all branches incl. garbage-input-keeps-key, Ctrl-C
at the choice prompt, Replace-cancel preserving the old key, Clear
wiping only the target env var, and lmstudio placeholder semantics.
Fixes#16394
Reshapes #18355 — original PR pasted the menu inline at 3 sites with
no tests; this consolidates to one helper (+88/-66) with coverage.
Co-authored-by: Feranmi10 <89228157+Feranmi10@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(tui): respect voice.record_key config instead of hardcoded Ctrl+B
Classic CLI loaded ``voice.record_key`` from config.yaml and bound the
prompt-toolkit handler dynamically (``cli.py`` paths). The new TUI hard-
coded ``Ctrl+B`` everywhere — ``isVoiceToggleKey`` (input handler),
``/voice status`` ("Record key: Ctrl+B"), and ``/voice on`` ("Ctrl+B to
start/stop recording"). A user who set ``voice.record_key: ctrl+o``
(or any other key) saw the documented config silently ignored — only
Ctrl+B worked, the displayed shortcut lied about it.
Wire the configured key end to end through the existing channels:
* **Backend** (``tui_gateway/server.py``): ``voice.toggle`` action=status
AND action=on/off responses now include ``record_key``, sourced from
``config.get('voice', {}).get('record_key', 'ctrl+b')``.
* **Backend types** (``ui-tui/src/gatewayTypes.ts``): ``ConfigFullResponse``
now exposes ``config.voice.record_key`` and ``VoiceToggleResponse``
carries ``record_key`` so the TUI can both bind and display it.
* **Frontend parser/formatter** (``ui-tui/src/lib/platform.ts``):
``parseVoiceRecordKey()`` accepts ``ctrl+b`` / ``alt+r`` / ``cmd+space``
and the common aliases (``option``, ``cmd``, ``win``, …); falls back to
the documented Ctrl+B for empty / multi-character / malformed input so
a typo never silently disables the shortcut. ``formatVoiceRecordKey()``
renders for status text. ``isVoiceToggleKey`` now takes a parsed
``ParsedVoiceRecordKey`` argument; the hardcoded ``ch === 'b'`` is
gone. Default arg keeps existing call sites back-compat.
* **Hydration** (``ui-tui/src/app/useConfigSync.ts``,
``useMainApp.ts``): startup ``config.get full`` already runs; extract
``cfg.voice.record_key`` from it, parse, push into a new
``voiceRecordKey`` state, and forward to the input handler ctx
(``InputHandlerContext.voice.recordKey``). Mtime-poll path also
re-applies the parsed key so a hand-edit of config.yaml takes effect
the next tick — matches existing behaviour for display options.
* **Input handler** (``ui-tui/src/app/useInputHandlers.ts``):
``isVoiceToggleKey(key, ch, voice.recordKey)`` so the configured
binding fires.
* **Slash command** (``ui-tui/src/app/slash/commands/session.ts``):
``/voice status`` and ``/voice on`` use ``formatVoiceRecordKey`` on
the response's ``record_key`` instead of the hardcoded label.
Tests:
* ``parseVoiceRecordKey`` covers ctrl/alt/cmd/super aliases, multi-char
rejection, and empty fallback.
* ``formatVoiceRecordKey`` covers the doc examples (``Ctrl+B``,
``Ctrl+O``, ``Alt+R``, ``Cmd+B``).
* ``isVoiceToggleKey`` regression: ``ctrl+o`` configured → only ``o``
matches, not ``b``; ``alt+r`` matches both alt-bit and meta-bit
encodings (terminal protocol parity); omitted-arg call still binds
Ctrl+B for back-compat.
Full TUI suite (555 tests) passes; ``tsc --noEmit`` clean.
Fixes#18994
Co-authored-by: asheriif <ahmedsherif95@gmail.com>
* fix(tui): support named-key tokens in voice.record_key (space, enter, …)
Reviewer caught that the round-1 parser in #18994 rejected every
multi-character token, so a config value like ``ctrl+space`` (which the
CLI happily binds via prompt_toolkit's ``c-space`` rewrite in
``cli.py``) silently fell back to the documented Ctrl+B default —
re-introducing the same false-shortcut bug the PR was meant to fix,
just at a different surface.
Add explicit named-key support that mirrors what the CLI accepts:
* ``space`` (alias: ``spc``) → matches ``ch === ' '``
* ``enter`` (alias: ``return``, ``ret``) → matches ``key.return``
* ``tab`` → matches ``key.tab``
* ``escape`` (alias: ``esc``) → matches ``key.escape``
* ``backspace`` (alias: ``bs``) → matches ``key.backspace``
* ``delete`` (alias: ``del``) → matches ``key.delete``
``ParsedVoiceRecordKey`` gains an optional ``named`` field; ``ch``
holds either a single char (back-compat) or the canonical named token,
and the runtime matcher dispatches on ``named`` before checking the
modifier shape. Aliases collapse to one canonical name so
``ctrl+esc`` and ``ctrl+escape`` behave identically.
Unrecognised multi-character tokens (e.g. ``ctrl+spcae`` typo, or
unsupported keys like ``ctrl+f5``) still fall back to the Ctrl+B
default rather than silently disabling the binding — keeps the "typo
never silently kills the shortcut" guarantee.
Tests:
* ``parseVoiceRecordKey`` parametrised over every named token + each
alias variant.
* New ``isVoiceToggleKey`` cases for space (ch-based match), enter
(``key.return``), tab, escape, backspace, delete, including
modifier-mismatch negatives.
* ``formatVoiceRecordKey`` renders named keys in title case
(``Ctrl+Space``, ``Ctrl+Enter``).
* Existing fall-back-to-Ctrl+B contract preserved for empty input
AND unrecognised multi-char tokens.
Full TUI suite: 559/559 pass; ``tsc --noEmit`` clean.
Refs #18994 (round-1 review feedback)
Co-authored-by: asheriif <ahmedsherif95@gmail.com>
* test(tui): assert voice.toggle returns configured record_key
Salvage the backend regression from #19339 — asserts ``voice.toggle``
action=on AND action=status responses carry the configured
``voice.record_key`` end-to-end through ``_load_cfg()``. Keeps the
CLI→TUI parity contract visible in the Python test suite alongside
the existing frontend parser/matcher/formatter coverage from #19028.
* fix(tui): address Copilot review on #19835 voice.record_key wiring
Five tightenings on the parser + matcher + hydration surface, all
caught by the Copilot review on the PR — each one turns a silent
false-fire or display/binding skew into a deterministic behaviour.
* **isVoiceToggleKey ctrl branch was too permissive for named keys.**
The doc-default macOS Cmd+B muscle-memory fallback
(``isActionMod(key)`` on top of ``key.ctrl``) fired for every
configured key, so bare Esc — which hermes-ink reports with
``key.meta`` on some macOS terminals — triggered ``ctrl+escape``,
and Alt+Space / Alt+Tab triggered ``ctrl+space`` / ``ctrl+tab``.
Gate the fallback to the literal ``ctrl+b`` binding so any custom
chord requires the real Ctrl bit.
* **Alt branch guarded against Ctrl/Cmd co-press.** Without this,
Ctrl+Alt+<letter> and Cmd+Alt+<letter> also fired ``alt+<letter>``.
* **Dropped the ``meta`` modifier variant and its alias.** In
hermes-ink ``key.meta`` is Alt on xterm-style terminals and Cmd on
legacy macOS ones, so a literal ``meta+b`` config displayed as
``Cmd+B`` while matching Alt+B — exactly the kind of false
shortcut the PR was meant to remove. ``cmd`` / ``command`` now
collapse onto ``super`` (kitty-style ``key.super``, with a macOS
``key.meta`` fallback) and render as ``Cmd+B``. Unknown modifier
tokens fall back to the documented Ctrl+B default rather than
silently coercing to Ctrl.
* **Slash-command display/binding skew.** ``/voice status`` and
``/voice on`` rendered from the fresh gateway ``record_key``
response, but ``useInputHandlers()`` still bound the old key
until the next 5s mtime poll. Thread ``setVoiceRecordKey``
through ``SlashHandlerContext.voice`` and push the parsed spec
into frontend state on every response so text and binding stay
consistent.
* **Test coverage for the two paths Copilot flagged.** Added
vitest coverage for (a) the three-case ``/voice`` slash output
in ``createSlashHandler.test.ts`` and (b) the
``applyDisplay → voice.record_key`` hydration + omit-setter
back-compat paths in ``useConfigSync.test.ts``. Plus regression
cases for every false-fire scenario above.
Suite: 575/575 green, tsc --noEmit clean.
* fix(tui): address Copilot round-2 review on #19835
Three tightenings on the surface introduced in the round-1 fix:
* **``/voice tts`` reset custom bindings to Ctrl+B.** The ``tts`` branch
of ``voice.toggle`` omitted ``record_key`` from its response, so the
frontend's ``r.record_key ?? 'ctrl+b'`` coerced a user's custom
binding back to the default on every TTS toggle. Two-sided fix:
the backend now includes ``record_key`` on the ``tts`` branch (parity
with ``status``/``on``/``off``), and the slash handler only pushes
frontend state when the response actually carries ``record_key`` —
belt-and-suspenders against any future branch forgetting to include
it.
* **``super+b`` / ``win+b`` / ``cmd+b`` displayed "Cmd+B" on Linux and
Windows.** ``formatVoiceRecordKey`` rendered ``mod === 'super'`` as
``Cmd`` universally, which told non-mac users the wrong modifier to
press even though ``isVoiceToggleKey`` matched the right event bits.
Gate the label to ``isMac`` so non-mac renders ``Super+B``.
* **``control+b`` / ``ctrl + b`` lost the macOS Cmd+B fallback.**
``_isDefaultVoiceKey`` keyed off ``parsed.raw`` — so
semantically-equal aliases of the documented default dropped into
the strict branch even though they bind Ctrl+B. Compare on the
parsed spec (mod + ch + named) instead.
Coverage added: Linux ``Super+B`` rendering (and macOS ``Cmd+B``),
``control+b`` / ``ctrl + b`` accepting the Cmd+B fallback on darwin,
``/voice tts`` without ``record_key`` not clobbering cached binding,
and a backend regression asserting every ``voice.toggle`` branch
carries the configured key.
Suite: 579/579 TUI vitest green, 2/2 backend voice tests green,
tsc --noEmit clean.
* fix(tui): address Copilot round-3 review on #19835
Three classes of robustness issue caught on the second pass — all
revolve around malformed YAML tipping ``parseVoiceRecordKey`` or
``_voice_record_key`` into a crash instead of the documented
fallback.
* **Parser crashed on non-string YAML scalars.** ``config.get full``
returns raw ``yaml.safe_load`` output, so ``voice.record_key: 1``
or ``voice.record_key: true`` in a hand-edited config would hit
``.trim()`` on a number/bool and throw, breaking startup and
every mtime re-apply. Accept ``unknown`` at the signature, guard
with ``typeof raw !== 'string'``, and fall back to the default.
* **Backend blew up on non-dict ``voice:``.** Same YAML hazard on
the gateway side: ``voice: true`` / ``voice: cmd+b`` left
``_load_cfg().get("voice")`` as a bool/str, so ``.get("record_key")``
raised AttributeError and took every ``voice.toggle`` branch down
with it. Centralised the lookup in a single
``_voice_record_key()`` helper that ``isinstance``-guards both
``voice`` and ``record_key`` and falls back to ``ctrl+b``.
* **Multi-modifier chords silently dropped extras.** The previous
validator only checked the first modifier token, so ``ctrl+alt+r``
silently parsed as ``ctrl+r`` and ``cmd+ctrl+b`` as ``super+b`` —
a typo bound a different shortcut than the user configured.
Reject multi-modifier spellings outright; the classic CLI only
supports single-modifier bindings via prompt_toolkit's ``c-x`` /
``a-x`` rewrite, so this matches CLI parity.
Coverage added:
* ``parseVoiceRecordKey`` fallback on ``1`` / ``true`` / ``null`` /
``undefined`` / ``{}``.
* ``parseVoiceRecordKey`` fallback on ``ctrl+alt+r`` /
``cmd+ctrl+b`` / ``alt+ctrl+space``.
* ``test_voice_toggle_handles_non_dict_voice_cfg`` exercises
every non-dict ``voice:`` shape (bool, str, None, int, list) and
asserts each falls back to ``record_key: 'ctrl+b'``.
Suite: 581/581 TUI vitest green, 3/3 backend voice tests green,
tsc --noEmit clean.
* fix(tui): address Copilot round-4 review on #19835
Four final corners of the voice.record_key surface:
* **Bare-char configs silently coerced to ``ctrl+<key>``.** A config
like ``voice.record_key: o`` / ``space`` / ``escape`` fell through
to the default ``mod = 'ctrl'`` and silently bound Ctrl+O, while
the classic CLI's prompt_toolkit would bind the raw key (no
rewrite) — so the two runtimes silently disagreed on what "o"
means. Require an explicit modifier; bare-char configs fall back
to the documented Ctrl+B default.
* **Reserved ctrl+<letter> bindings would never fire.**
``useInputHandlers()`` intercepts ``ctrl+c`` (interrupt),
``ctrl+d`` (quit), and ``ctrl+l`` (clear screen) before the voice
check runs, so those configs would be advertised in /voice
status but the advertised shortcut never actually triggers
push-to-talk. Added ``_RESERVED_CTRL_CHARS`` at parse time so
the user gets the documented default instead of a dead shortcut.
(``alt+c``, ``cmd+l``, etc. are not intercepted and stay usable.)
* **``_load_cfg()`` root itself may be a non-dict.**
``_voice_record_key()`` isinstance-guarded the ``voice`` subkey
but not the root — a malformed config.yaml that collapsed to a
scalar/list at the top level (``config.yaml: true`` or ``[]``)
would still raise on ``.get("voice")``. Added the top-level
guard too so every malformed shape falls back to ``ctrl+b``.
* **Stale header comment on ``isVoiceToggleKey``.** The doc-comment
still claimed "On macOS we additionally accept the platform
action modifier (Cmd) for the configured letter" even though the
implementation gates the Cmd fallback to the documented default
only. Rewrote to match.
Coverage added:
* ``parseVoiceRecordKey`` fallback on bare chars (``o``, ``b``,
``space``, ``escape``).
* ``parseVoiceRecordKey`` fallback on ``ctrl+c`` / ``ctrl+d`` /
``ctrl+l``; positive case for ``alt+c`` / ``cmd+l`` still usable.
* Backend ``test_voice_toggle_handles_non_dict_voice_cfg`` now
exercises 5 non-dict shapes at the YAML root too.
Suite: 583/583 TUI vitest green, 3/3 backend voice tests green,
tsc --noEmit clean.
* fix(tui): address Copilot round-5 review on #19835
Three follow-ups on the voice matcher's modifier + shift discipline:
* **``super`` branch falsely fired on Alt+<key> / bare Esc on macOS.**
``isVoiceToggleKey`` accepted ``isMac && key.meta`` as a Cmd
fallback for the ``super`` modifier — but hermes-ink sets
``key.meta`` for plain Alt/Option AND for bare Escape on some
macOS terminals. A ``cmd+b`` config silently fired on Alt+B;
``cmd+space`` on Alt+Space; ``cmd+escape`` on bare Esc. Drop the
fallback and require the literal ``key.super`` bit. Legacy-
terminal users who need Cmd should upgrade to a kitty-protocol
terminal or bind ``alt+X`` explicitly.
* **Shift bit was never checked.** The parser rejects multi-
modifier configs like ``ctrl+shift+tab``, but the runtime
matcher didn't check ``key.shift`` — so ``ctrl+tab`` also fired
on Ctrl+Shift+Tab and ``alt+enter`` on Alt+Shift+Enter.
Early-return on ``key.shift === true`` so the runtime only fires
the exact chord the user configured.
* **Test leaked ``HERMES_VOICE=1`` into later tests.**
``voice.toggle`` action=on writes to ``os.environ`` directly
(CLI parity, runtime-only flag); ``test_voice_toggle_returns_
configured_record_key`` dispatched action=on without letting
monkeypatch take ownership of the var first. Any later test
that read voice mode in the same Python process could inherit a
stale enabled state. Added ``monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_VOICE",
"0")`` up front so monkeypatch restores the original value at
teardown.
Coverage added:
* ``cmd+b`` / ``cmd+space`` / ``cmd+escape`` do NOT fire on
``key.meta``-only events on darwin.
* ``ctrl+tab`` / ``alt+enter`` / ``ctrl+o`` reject matches when
``key.shift`` is held; sanity cases without Shift still fire.
Suite: 585/585 TUI vitest green, 3/3 backend voice tests green,
tsc --noEmit clean.
* fix(tui): address Copilot round-6 review on #19835
Three classes of modifier-discipline tightening + one config-surface
honesty fix:
* **Default ``ctrl+b`` Cmd fallback leaked Alt+B.** The default's
macOS Cmd+B muscle-memory path used ``isActionMod(key)``, which
returns ``key.meta || key.super`` on darwin. hermes-ink also
reports plain Alt as ``key.meta``, so Alt+B silently fired the
default binding. Replaced with strict ``isMac && key.super ===
true`` — kitty-style Cmd+B still works, Alt+B correctly
rejected. Legacy-terminal mac users (Terminal.app without
CSI-u) now get raw Ctrl+B only; the documented default still
works everywhere.
* **ctrl / super branches accepted extra modifier bits.** The
parser rejects multi-modifier configs like ``ctrl+alt+o``, but
the runtime matcher was permissive — ``ctrl+o`` fired on
Ctrl+Alt+O / Ctrl+Cmd+O, and ``super+b`` fired on Cmd+Alt+B /
Ctrl+Cmd+B. Added strict ``!key.alt && !key.meta && key.super
!== true`` on ctrl, and ``!key.ctrl && !key.alt && !key.meta``
on super, so the runtime only fires the exact chord the parser
would let you configure.
* **Dropped ``cmd`` / ``command`` aliases.** They parsed to
``super`` and rendered as ``Cmd+X``, but legacy macOS terminals
report Cmd as ``key.meta`` (same signal as Alt), so a
``cmd+o`` config was advertised as working but never actually
fired on Terminal.app-without-CSI-u. That recreated the
"displayed shortcut does not work" problem this PR was meant to
remove. Users who want the platform action modifier spell it
``super`` / ``win`` — that matches the unambiguous ``key.super``
bit, and kitty-style macOS terminals render it as ``Cmd+X`` via
platform-aware formatter.
Coverage updated:
* Default ctrl+b no longer fires on Alt+B via ``key.meta`` leak;
raw Ctrl+B and kitty-style Cmd+B still fire.
* ``ctrl+o`` rejects Ctrl+Alt+O / Ctrl+Cmd+O / Ctrl+Meta+O chords.
* ``super+b`` rejects Cmd+Alt+B / Cmd+Meta+B / Ctrl+Cmd+B chords.
* ``cmd+b`` / ``command+b`` / ``meta+b`` all fall back to the
documented default at parse time (joined the ambiguous-mac-mod
rejection class).
* Round-2 expectations that asserted ``cmd+b`` parsed as super
and accepted ``key.meta`` on darwin updated to reflect the new
stricter contract.
Suite: 588/588 TUI vitest green, 3/3 backend voice tests green,
tsc --noEmit clean.
* fix(tui): address Copilot follow-up on wire typing + escape precedence
Two follow-ups from the latest Copilot pass:
* **Config wire typing honesty (`gatewayTypes.ts`)**
`config.get full` forwards raw `yaml.safe_load()` output, so
`voice.record_key` can be any scalar/container when hand-edited.
Typing it as `string` suggests a normalized contract that the
backend does not guarantee and makes unsafe callers more likely.
Change `ConfigVoiceConfig.record_key` to `unknown` with an
explicit comment that callers must normalize at runtime.
* **Escape-based voice bindings were swallowed before voice check**
`useInputHandlers()` handled `key.escape` for queue-edit cancel and
selection clear before `isVoiceToggleKey(...)`, so configured
`ctrl+escape` / `alt+escape` / `super+escape` chords were advertised
but never toggled recording in those UI states.
Add an early escape+voice check before generic Esc handlers so
escape-based voice bindings win when configured, while plain Esc
behavior remains unchanged.
Also updated PR #19835 description text to remove stale cmd/command
alias claims and match the current parser contract.
* fix(tui): pass configured voice shortcut through TextInput layer
Thread the live parsed voiceRecordKey into TextInput so configured voice.record_key chords bubble to useInputHandlers instead of being consumed as editor input. This removes the last hardcoded Ctrl+B pass-through in the composer path while preserving existing global control chord behavior.
* fix(tui): require explicit alt bit for escape-based alt chords
Hermes-ink reports bare Escape as meta=true+escape=true on some terminals, so a configured alt+escape binding was firing on bare Esc. Require an explicit key.alt bit when the configured named key is escape so plain Esc stays plain Esc; kitty-style alt+escape still fires.
* fix(tui): harden voice.record + TextInput paste + super-mod reserved list
Three round-7 Copilot follow-ups on #19835:
- voice.record start handler used _load_cfg().get('voice', {}).get(...) without
shape checks, so malformed YAML (bool/scalar/list) returned 5025 instead of
using VAD defaults. Centralized _voice_cfg_dict() helper and type-guarded
silence_threshold/silence_duration with numeric fallbacks.
- TextInput pass-through check moved above paste/copy handling so configured
voice chords (ctrl+v / alt+v / cmd+v) beat the composer's paste/copy
defaults.
- parser now also rejects super+{c,d,l,v} — on macOS those are
copy/exit/clear/paste and would be advertised in /voice status but never
actually toggle recording.
* Potential fix for pull request finding
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* fix(tui): round-8 Copilot review — allow ctrl+x, gate super reservations to macOS, preserve voice key on transient RPC failure
Three round-8 Copilot follow-ups on #19835:
- Revert ctrl+x addition to _RESERVED_CTRL_CHARS (landed via Copilot Autofix
commit 731ec86): ctrl+x is only claimed during queue-edit
(queueEditIdx !== null), so voice works the rest of the session and
matches CLI ctrl+<letter> parity.
- Gate super+{c,d,l,v} reservation to isMac. Linux/Windows TUI globals key
off Ctrl, so kitty/CSI-u super+<letter> configs don't collide on non-mac
and should stay usable.
- applyDisplay() now skips setVoiceRecordKey when cfg is null so one
transient quietRpc() failure after a config edit doesn't clobber the
cached binding back to Ctrl+B until the next successful poll.
New coverage:
- parseVoiceRecordKey preserves ctrl+x on linux
- super+{c,d,l,v} rejected on darwin, allowed on linux
- applyDisplay(null, ...) leaves voiceRecordKey untouched
* fix(cli,tui): normalize voice.record_key aliases across CLI + TUI for parity
Round-9 Copilot review on #19835: TUI accepted control+/option+/opt+/super+/win+ aliases but the classic CLI only rewrote literal ctrl+/alt+ before handing to prompt_toolkit, so a TUI-valid config silently bound a different (or no) shortcut in the CLI.
- Added normalize_voice_record_key_for_prompt_toolkit() in hermes_cli/voice.py with a single alias table (ctrl/control/alt/option/opt → c-/a-).
- Wired it into all three cli.py sites (_enable_voice_mode hint, _show_voice_status display, and the prompt_toolkit binding in _register_voice_handler).
- /voice status display now renders control+x as Ctrl+X and option+x as Alt+X (canonical casing) to match TUI formatVoiceRecordKey.
- super/win/windows are intentionally left unchanged: prompt_toolkit has no super modifier, so the CLI will reject them loudly at startup rather than silently binding Ctrl+B. Documented this split at both the TUI _MOD_ALIASES comment and the CLI normalizer docstring.
- Added tests covering ctrl/control/alt/option/opt mapping, case-insensitivity, non-string fallback, empty-string fallback, and super/win pass-through.
* fix(cli): port TUI parser contract into CLI voice.record_key normalizer
Round-10 Copilot review on #19835.
hermes_cli/voice.py's normalize_voice_record_key_for_prompt_toolkit() previously did blind substring replacement with no trim/validate step, so the CLI diverged from the TUI parser on:
- whitespace ('ctrl + b' -> 'c- b' instead of 'c-b')
- typoed named keys ('ctrl+spcae' passed through as 'c-spcae' and prompt_toolkit would reject at startup)
- bare-char configs ('o' should fall back, not pass through as 'o')
- multi-modifier chords ('ctrl+alt+r')
- reserved ctrl chars ('ctrl+c/d/l')
- unknown modifiers ('meta+b' / 'shift+b')
- named-key aliases ('return'/'esc'/'bs'/'del' not collapsed to prompt_toolkit canonicals)
Port the TUI parser contract into Python (_VOICE_MOD_ALIASES, _VOICE_NAMED_KEYS, _VOICE_RESERVED_CTRL_CHARS) so one config value binds the same shortcut in both runtimes.
Also added format_voice_record_key_for_status() shared between the PTT hint and /voice status display. Non-string scalars (voice.record_key: true / 1) now surface as 'Ctrl+B' instead of the raw scalar — /voice status no longer advertises a shortcut that can never bind.
Tests: 29/29 in test_voice_wrapper.py, including 11 new regressions covering whitespace, named-key aliases, typos, bare-char, multi-modifier, reserved ctrl, unknown mods, non-string fallback, and formatter contract.
* fix(cli): shape-safe voice config read + graceful super/win fallback
Round-11 Copilot review on #19835.
Two remaining cross-runtime gaps:
1. load_config().get('voice', {}) still assumed voice was a dict, so a hand-edited voice: true / voice: cmd+b at the top level raised AttributeError before the voice UI could start. Added voice_record_key_from_config(cfg) to hermes_cli/voice.py that isinstance-guards both the root and the voice subkey. All three cli.py read sites (_enable_voice_mode hint, _show_voice_status, PTT binding) now use it.
2. The CLI normalizer previously passed super+/win+/windows+ through unrewritten so prompt_toolkit would reject them loudly at startup — but that crash was a worse UX than a silent fallback. Normalizer now returns c-b for those spellings, and the PTT binding site logs a warning so users see why their TUI-only shortcut isn't binding in the CLI.
Coverage: 34/34 in tests/hermes_cli/test_voice_wrapper.py (5 new cases for voice_record_key_from_config + malformed-root + malformed-voice + extractor/normalizer composition).
* fix(cli): self-audit cleanup — remaining voice-config shape safety + doc drift
Self-review of the voice.record_key change set turned up four remaining items Copilot would very likely flag next round:
1. cli.py _voice_start_continuous still read load_config().get('voice', {}).get('silence_threshold') without an isinstance guard, so a hand-edited voice: true / voice: cmd+b (non-dict) raised AttributeError on VAD recording start. Shape-safe coerce the voice dict and numeric-guard silence_threshold/silence_duration.
2. cli.py _enable_voice_mode's auto_tts check had the same bug — fixed with the same isinstance guard.
3. hermes_cli/voice.py module comment on _VOICE_MOD_ALIASES still said super/win/windows 'pass through unchanged and prompt_toolkit's add() call loudly rejects them at startup'. Round 11 changed the normalizer to silently fall back to c-b with a warning at the binding site; updated the comment to match.
4. ui-tui/src/lib/platform.ts header comment had the same stale 'CLI will loudly reject them at startup' claim; updated to 'falls back to the documented default and logs a warning'.
No behavior change on the code paths already covered by test_voice_wrapper.py; the two cli.py fixes are defensive against malformed YAML that previous rounds already hardened in tui_gateway/server.py but missed in the classic CLI.
* fix(cli,tui): round-12 Copilot review — alt-collide on mac, bool-in-int guards, voice UI hardcodes, mtime-reload test
Five round-12 Copilot review items on #19835:
1. platform.ts: hermes-ink reports Alt as key.meta on many terminals; isActionMod on darwin accepts key.meta as the action modifier. So alt+c/d/l get claimed by isCopyShortcut / isAction('d')/'l') before the voice check. Reject those configs at parse time on macOS only (non-mac keeps them usable).
2. cli.py: four remaining hardcoded 'Ctrl+B' sites in voice-facing UI (_get_voice_status_fragments status bar, _voice_start_recording hints, _get_placeholder composer text) were still lying about non-default configs. Added self._voice_record_key_label() shared helper and wired it into all three sites.
3. server.py + cli.py: bool is a subclass of int, so isinstance(silence_threshold, (int, float)) accepted True/False from malformed YAML and forwarded 1/0 to the VAD engine. Exclude bool explicitly so boolean typos fall back to the documented 200 / 3.0 defaults.
4. useConfigSync.ts: extracted the config.get-full fetch+apply body into a shared hydrateFullConfig() helper. Both the initial hydration and mtime-reload paths now use it, so the polling/RPC wiring is exercised by direct unit tests (4 new cases: fresh apply, reapply on new value, transient RPC failure preserves cache, back-compat without voice setter).
5. Added alt+{c,d,l} rejection regressions on darwin + allow on linux, and bool-leak regressions for both silence_threshold and silence_duration in tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py.
Suite: 602/602 TUI vitest, 38/38 backend voice tests, typecheck + lints clean.
* fix(cli): cache voice record-key label at binding time + status-bar coverage
Round-13 Copilot review on #19835.
_voice_record_key_label() was reading live config on every render, which caused two problems:
1. prompt_toolkit registers the push-to-talk binding once at session start (@kb.add(_voice_key)); the binding does NOT re-read config. Editing voice.record_key mid-session would switch the status-bar / placeholder / recording-hint label to the new shortcut while the actual keybinding stayed on the startup chord — reintroducing the display/binding drift this whole PR is fighting.
2. Hot render path: during recording the UI is invalidated every 150ms, so re-loading + deep-merging config on every call added avoidable UI overhead.
Fix: cache the label at the same site that registers the prompt_toolkit binding via new set_voice_record_key_cache(raw_key). _voice_record_key_label() now just returns the cached value (falls back to 'Ctrl+B' before startup). Status/placeholder/hint are always in sync with the live binding; no config reload per render.
Also added 4 regression cases to tests/cli/test_cli_status_bar.py: configured ctrl+<letter> renders in both wide and compact status bars, configured named key (ctrl+space) renders in the recording hint, pre-startup absent cache falls back to Ctrl+B, and malformed configs (bool True) fall through the formatter to Ctrl+B.
Suite: 60/60 test_cli_status_bar + test_voice_wrapper, typecheck + lints clean.
* fix(cli): route /voice on + /voice status through startup-pinned label; mac alt+cdl parity
Round-14 Copilot review on #19835. All three comments legit:
1. _enable_voice_mode still formatted label from live load_config() — mid-session config edit would make /voice on announce the new shortcut while the prompt_toolkit binding stayed the startup chord. Use self._voice_record_key_label() (cached at binding time, round-13) so /voice on cannot drift from the live binding.
2. _show_voice_status had the same bug — /voice status reported live config instead of the pinned startup binding. Fixed the same way.
3. CLI normalizer accepted alt+c/alt+d/alt+l even though the TUI parser rejects them on macOS (Copilot round-12 — hermes-ink reports Alt as key.meta, isActionMod on darwin accepts it, collides with isCopyShortcut / isAction). Added _VOICE_RESERVED_ALT_CHARS_MAC = {c,d,l} gated to sys.platform == 'darwin' so a shared config like option+c falls back to c-b on both runtimes on macOS; non-mac still binds a-c.
Coverage: 4 new tests in test_voice_wrapper.py covering mac alt+cdl rejection, linux alt+cdl allowed, option/opt alias forms, and mac-specific exclusions for other alt letters. 62/62 in voice wrapper + status bar suites.
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Co-authored-by: asheriif <ahmedsherif95@gmail.com>
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models.dev appends :cloud and -cloud suffixes to Ollama Cloud model IDs
(e.g. kimi-k2.6:cloud, qwen3-coder:480b-cloud) that the live Ollama Cloud
API does not use. Without normalisation, these suffixed IDs bypass the
dedup check and appear alongside the correct clean IDs, causing 400/404
errors when users select them in /model or hermes model.
Add _strip_ollama_cloud_suffix() and apply it to mdev entries before the
dedup merge in fetch_ollama_cloud_models() so all model IDs stored in the
disk cache use the canonical form the API accepts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`hermes update` iterated only non-active profiles when seeding bundled
skills. `seed_profile_skills()` uses a subprocess with an explicit
HERMES_HOME so it correctly targets any profile path; the `p.name !=
active` filter was the only thing preventing the active profile from
being included, leaving it silently on stale skill content after every
update.
Drop the filter and update the header line from "other profiles" to
"all profiles". The active profile is now seeded on the same path as
every other profile. The earlier `sync_skills()` call (module-level
HERMES_HOME) remains for backward compatibility; the subprocess-based
loop is reliable regardless of which HERMES_HOME the CLI was invoked
with.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
hermes doctor showed 'No GITHUB_TOKEN (60 req/hr)' warning even when
users had authenticated via gh auth login. Now falls back to
gh auth status --json authenticated when GITHUB_TOKEN and GH_TOKEN
are both unset.
Fixes#16115
* feat(cron): add no_agent mode for script-only cron jobs (watchdog pattern)
Adds a no_agent=True option to the cronjob system. When enabled, the
scheduler runs the attached script on schedule and delivers its stdout
directly to the job's target — no LLM, no agent loop, no token spend.
This is the classic bash-watchdog pattern (memory alert every 5 min,
disk alert every 15 min, CI ping) reimplemented as a first-class Hermes
primitive instead of a systemd timer + curl + bot token triplet living
outside the system.
## What
hermes cron create "every 5m" \
--no-agent \
--script memory-watchdog.sh \
--deliver telegram \
--name memory-watchdog
Agent tool:
cronjob(action='create',
schedule='every 5m',
script='memory-watchdog.sh',
no_agent=True,
deliver='telegram')
Semantics:
- Script stdout (trimmed) → delivered verbatim as the message
- Empty stdout → silent tick (no delivery; watchdog pattern)
- wakeAgent=false gate → silent tick (same gate LLM jobs use)
- Non-zero exit/timeout → delivered as an error alert
(broken watchdogs shouldn't fail silently)
- No LLM ever invoked; no tokens spent; no provider fallback applied
## Implementation
cron/jobs.py
* create_job gains no_agent: bool = False
* prompt becomes Optional (no_agent jobs don't need one)
* Validation: no_agent=True requires a script at create time
* Field roundtrips via load_jobs / save_jobs / update_job
cron/scheduler.py
* run_job: new short-circuit branch at the top that runs the script,
wraps its output into the (success, doc, final_response, error)
tuple downstream delivery already expects, and returns before any
AIAgent import or construction
* _run_job_script: picks interpreter by extension — .sh/.bash run
under /bin/bash, anything else under sys.executable (Python).
Shell support unlocks the bash-watchdog pattern without wrapping
scripts in Python. Extension is explicit; we deliberately do NOT
trust the file's own shebang. Path-containment guard (scripts dir)
unchanged.
tools/cronjob_tools.py
* Schema: new no_agent boolean property with clear trigger guidance
* cronjob() accepts no_agent and validates mode-specific shape:
- no_agent=True requires script; prompt/skills optional
- no_agent=False keeps the existing 'prompt or skill required' rule
* update path rejects flipping no_agent=True on a job without a script
* _format_job surfaces no_agent in list output
* Handler lambda forwards no_agent from tool args
hermes_cli/main.py, hermes_cli/cron.py
* 'hermes cron create --no-agent' and edit's --no-agent / --agent
pair for toggling at CLI parity with the agent tool
* Existing --script help text updated to describe both modes
* List / create / edit output now shows 'Mode: no-agent (...)' when set
## Tests
tests/cron/test_cron_no_agent.py — 18 tests covering:
* create_job: no_agent shape, validation, field persistence
* update_job: flag roundtrip across reload
* cronjob tool: schema validation, update toggling, mode-specific
requirements, prompt-relaxation rule
* run_job short-circuit:
- success path delivers stdout verbatim
- empty stdout → SILENT_MARKER (no delivery downstream)
- wakeAgent=false gate → silent
- script failure → error alert
- run_job does NOT import AIAgent (verified via mock)
* _run_job_script:
- .sh executes via bash (no shebang required)
- .bash executes via bash
- .py still runs via sys.executable (regression)
- path-traversal still blocked (security regression)
All 18 new tests pass. 341/342 pre-existing cron tests still pass; the
one failure (test_script_empty_output_noted) was already broken on main
and is unrelated to this change.
## Docs
website/docs/guides/cron-script-only.md — new dedicated guide covering
the watchdog pattern, interpreter rules, delivery mapping, worked
examples (memory / disk alerts), and the comparison table vs hermes send,
regular LLM cron jobs, and OS-level cron.
website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md — new 'No-agent mode' section
in the cron feature reference, cross-linked to the guide.
website/docs/guides/automate-with-cron.md — new tip box pointing users
to no-agent mode when they don't need LLM reasoning.
## Compatibility
- Existing jobs: unchanged. no_agent defaults to False, existing code
paths untouched until the flag is set.
- Schema additive only; older jobs.json without the field load fine
via .get() with False default.
- New CLI flags are opt-in and don't alter existing flag behavior.
* fix(cron): lazy-import AIAgent + SessionDB so no_agent ticks pay zero
The unconditional `from run_agent import AIAgent` + SessionDB() init at
the top of run_job() meant every no_agent tick still paid the full agent
module load cost (~300ms + transitive imports + DB open) even though it
never touched any of that machinery.
Move both to live under the default (LLM) path, after the no_agent
short-circuit has returned. Now a no_agent tick's sys.modules stays
clean — verified end-to-end:
assert 'run_agent' not in sys.modules # before
run_job(no_agent_job)
assert 'run_agent' not in sys.modules # after
The existing mock-based unit test (test_run_job_no_agent_never_invokes_aiagent)
kept passing because patch() replaces the class AFTER import; the leak
was only visible via real subprocess-style verification. End-to-end
demo confirmed: agent calls cronjob(no_agent=True) → script runs →
stdout delivered → no LLM machinery loaded.
* docs(cron): tighten no_agent tool schema — defaults, silent semantics, pick rule
Previous description buried the important bits in one long sentence.
Agents could plausibly miss three things an LLM-facing schema should
make unmissable:
1. What the default is — now first sentence + JSON Schema `default: false`
2. What 'silent run' actually means for the user — now spelled out:
'nothing is sent to the user and they won't see anything happened'
3. When to pick True vs False — now a concrete decision rule with
examples on both sides (watchdogs/metrics/pollers → True;
summarize/draft/pick/rephrase → False)
Also adds explicit 'prompt and skills are ignored when True' since the
agent could otherwise still pass them out of habit.
No behavior change — schema text only.
Four production-readiness additions to topic mode:
1. /topic off — clean disable path. Flips telegram_dm_topic_mode.enabled
to 0 and clears telegram_dm_topic_bindings for this chat. Previously
users had to edit state.db with sqlite3 to turn the feature off.
Idempotent: calling /topic off when the chat was never enabled
returns a friendly no-op message.
2. /topic help — inline usage printed in the DM so users don't have to
visit docs to discover /topic off, /topic <session-id>, etc.
3. Authorization gate. /topic mutates SQLite side tables and flips the
root DM into a lobby, so the action must be authorized. Now calls
self._is_user_authorized(source); unauthorized DMs get a refusal
instead of activation. Defense in depth on top of the gateway's
existing pre-route auth.
4. BotFather screenshot debounce. A user repeatedly running /topic
while Threads Settings is still disabled would previously re-upload
the same screenshot every time. Now rate-limited to one send per
5 minutes per chat. /topic off resets the counter so re-enabling
starts fresh.
Command-def args hint updated: /topic [off|help|session-id].
Docs:
- New /topic subcommands table at the top of the multi-session section
- Disable instructions updated to recommend /topic off first, with the
raw SQL fallback kept for bulk cleanup
- Under-the-hood list extended with the capability-hint debounce and
the authorization gate
Tests (6 new):
- /topic help returns usage and doesn't create topic tables
- /topic off disables mode AND clears bindings
- /topic off is idempotent when never enabled
- Unauthorized users get refusal, no tables created
- Capability-hint debounce is per-chat
- /topic off resets both lobby and capability debounce counters
All 402 targeted tests pass. Full gateway sweep: 4809/4810
(pre-existing test_teams::test_send_typing unrelated).
Per https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/fast-mode:
"Fast mode is currently supported on Opus 4.6 only. Sending speed: fast
with an unsupported model returns an error."
Pre-fix, _is_anthropic_fast_model() returned True for any claude-* model,
so /fast on Opus 4.7 (or Sonnet/Haiku) would persist agent.service_tier=fast
in config.yaml and the adapter would inject extra_body["speed"] = "fast"
on every subsequent request. Opus 4.7 returns:
HTTP 400: 'claude-opus-4-7' does not support the `speed` parameter.
This wedged sessions across model upgrades (a user who ran /fast on Opus 4.6
and later switched the default model to 4.7 hit a hard 400 on every turn
until they manually edited config.yaml).
Changes:
- _is_anthropic_fast_model: gate on "opus-4-6" / "opus-4.6" only
- anthropic_adapter: add _supports_fast_mode predicate as defensive guard
so stale request_overrides on an unsupported model are dropped silently
instead of 400'ing
- Tests: flip the assertions that mirrored the bug (Sonnet/Haiku/Opus 4.7
asserting fast-mode support) to match the documented API contract
Closes#16082.
`hermes status` silently omitted four widely-used LLM providers
(Google/Gemini, DeepSeek, xAI/Grok, NVIDIA NIM) from the API Keys
and API-Key Providers sections. Add them, along with tuple-valued
env var support (first found wins) so Google can accept either
GOOGLE_API_KEY or GEMINI_API_KEY.
Also deduplicates the "NVIDIA" and "NVIDIA NIM" rows that were
both pointing at NVIDIA_API_KEY.
Salvage of #16159 (core behavior preserved + NVIDIA dedup fixup
on top of the tuple-support refactor).
Co-authored-by: briandevans <252620095+briandevans@users.noreply.github.com>
`updates.backup_keep: 0` (or any negative value) wiped the freshly-
created pre-update zip:
_prune_pre_update_backups(backup_dir, keep=0):
backups = sorted(..., reverse=True) # newest first, includes
# the zip we just wrote
for p in backups[0:]: # = all of them
p.unlink()
The wrapper in `main.py` then printed `Saved: <path>` for a file that
no longer existed (the size lookup is wrapped in `try/except OSError`
which silently degrades to "0 B"), leaving operators believing they had
a recovery point when they had none.
This is a real footgun because some config systems treat 0 as "keep
unlimited"; here it does the opposite — every backup is destroyed
right after creation.
Fix: clamp `keep` to a minimum of 1 inside `_prune_pre_update_backups`
since that helper is only invoked immediately after a fresh backup
is written. Operators who genuinely want no backups should set
`updates.pre_update_backup: false` (which gates creation entirely)
rather than relying on `backup_keep: 0`.
Also extends the `backup_keep` config docstring to spell out the floor
and point at `pre_update_backup: false` as the off-switch.
## Tests
Three regression tests added in `TestPreUpdateBackup`:
- `test_keep_zero_does_not_delete_freshly_created_backup` —
asserts the file persists after `keep=0`
- `test_keep_negative_does_not_delete_freshly_created_backup` —
same for negative values
- `test_keep_zero_still_prunes_older_backups` — proves the floor
only protects the new backup; older ones are still rotated out
Verified the new tests fail on origin/main (without the floor) and
pass with it; full `tests/hermes_cli/test_backup.py` suite green
(84 tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mirrors the Codex auto-import UX. On successful Nous login (either
`hermes auth add nous --type oauth` or `hermes login nous`), tokens are
mirrored to `$HERMES_SHARED_AUTH_DIR/nous_auth.json` (default
`~/.hermes/shared/nous_auth.json`, outside any named profile's
HERMES_HOME). On next login in a new profile, the flow offers to import
those credentials ("Import these credentials? [Y/n]") and rehydrates via
a forced refresh+mint instead of running the full device-code flow.
Runtime refresh in any profile syncs the rotated refresh_token back to
the shared store so sibling profiles don't hit stale-token fallback
after rotation.
The volatile 24h agent_key is NOT persisted to the shared store —
only the long-lived OAuth tokens are cross-profile useful.
- `HERMES_SHARED_AUTH_DIR` env var for tests + custom layouts
- Pytest seat belt mirrors the existing `_auth_file_path` guard so
forgetting to redirect the store in a test fails loudly
- File mode 0600 where platform supports it
- Runtime credential resolution is unchanged — shared store is only
consulted during the login flow, so profile isolation at runtime is
preserved
- Stale refresh_token + portal-down cases gracefully fall back to
device-code
Addresses a user report from Mike Nguyen: running
`hermes --profile <name> auth add nous --type oauth` for every new
profile is unnecessary friction now that Codex has a shared-import
flow via `~/.codex/auth.json`.
Instead of an unhelpful CalledProcessError traceback when running
`hermes gateway start/stop/restart` without first installing the service,
check for the unit file and exit with an actionable install hint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to @changchun989's cherry-pick: reverts the validate-via-
normalize change so validate_profile_name remains a strict regex check
on the input AS-GIVEN. Callers that accept mixed-case user input
(dashboard UI, CLI args, import flows) call normalize_profile_name()
first, then validate the result. This keeps validate honest about
what the on-disk directory name must look like — e.g. ' jules '
(trailing whitespace) is now rejected instead of silently trimmed
and accepted.
- validate_profile_name: strict lowercase/regex check again, 'UPPER'
back in the invalid-names parametrize
- 8 call sites in profiles.py (create_profile, delete_profile,
set_active_profile, export_profile, import_profile, rename_profile,
resolve_profile_env, plus the clone_from branch): swap the
normalize-then-validate order
- scripts/release.py: add changchun989@proton.me -> changchun989 to
AUTHOR_MAP so CI doesn't block on the unmapped contributor email
All kanban + profile tests pass (268 across test_profiles.py +
test_kanban_db.py + test_kanban_core_functionality.py, plus 73 in
test_kanban_tools.py + test_kanban_dashboard_plugin.py).
Closes#18498.
- Add normalize_profile_name() for lowercase canonical IDs and Default alias
- Use canonical names in create/delete/rename/export/import/set_active paths
- Canonicalize Kanban assignee on create/assign, list filter, and worker spawn
- Tests for mixed-case assignees and profile resolution (fixes#18498)
`hermes import` was creating secret files with the process umask
(typically 0644) instead of 0600. zipfile.open() does not honor the
Unix mode bits stored in zip member external_attr; the restore loop
used open(target, "wb") which always falls back to umask.
Threat: silent privilege downgrade after a routine restore on
multi-user systems (shared dev boxes, CI runners, jump hosts) — any
local user could read API keys and OAuth tokens from ~/.hermes/.
Fix mirrors the convention already used at file creation
(hermes_cli/auth.py: stat.S_IRUSR | stat.S_IWUSR for auth.json).
The quick-snapshot restore path (restore_quick_snapshot) is
unaffected — it uses shutil.copy2 which preserves perms via
copystat().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds first-class board support to kanban so users can separate unrelated
streams of work (projects, repos, domains) into isolated queues. Single-
project users stay on the 'default' board and see no UI change.
Isolation model
---------------
- Each board is a directory at `~/.hermes/kanban/boards/<slug>/` with
its own `kanban.db`, `workspaces/`, and `logs/`. The 'default' board
keeps its legacy path (`~/.hermes/kanban.db`) for back-compat — fresh
installs and pre-boards users get zero migration.
- Workers spawned by the dispatcher have `HERMES_KANBAN_BOARD` pinned in
their env alongside the existing `HERMES_KANBAN_DB` /
`HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACES_ROOT` pins, so workers physically cannot see
other boards' tasks.
- The gateway's single dispatcher loop now sweeps every board per tick;
per-tick cost is a few extra filesystem stats.
- CAS concurrency guarantees are preserved per-board (each board is its
own SQLite DB, same WAL+IMMEDIATE machinery as before).
CLI
---
hermes kanban boards list|create|switch|show|rename|rm
hermes kanban --board <slug> <any-subcommand>
Board resolution order: `--board` flag → `HERMES_KANBAN_BOARD` env →
`~/.hermes/kanban/current` file → `default`. Slug validation is strict:
lowercase alphanumerics + hyphens + underscores, 1-64 chars, starts with
alphanumeric. Uppercase is auto-downcased; slashes / dots / `..` /
control chars are rejected so boards can't name their way out of the
boards/ directory.
Passive discoverability: when more than one board exists, `hermes kanban
list` prints a one-line header ("Board: foo (2 other boards …)") so
users who stumble across multi-project never have to hunt for the
feature. Invisible for single-board installs.
Dashboard
---------
- New `BoardSwitcher` component at the top of the Kanban tab: dropdown
with all boards + task counts, `+ New board` button, `Archive`
button (non-default only). Hidden entirely when only `default` exists
and is empty — single-project users never see it.
- New `NewBoardDialog` modal: slug / display name / description / icon
+ "switch to this board after creating" checkbox.
- Selected board persists to `localStorage` so browser users don't
shift the CLI's active board out from under a terminal they left open.
- New `?board=<slug>` query param on every existing endpoint plus a
new `/boards` CRUD surface (`GET /boards`, `POST /boards`,
`PATCH /boards/<slug>`, `DELETE /boards/<slug>`,
`POST /boards/<slug>/switch`).
- Events WebSocket is pinned to a board at connection time; switching
opens a fresh WS against the new board.
Also fixes a pre-existing bug in the plugin's tenant / assignee
filters: the SDK's `Select` uses `onValueChange(value)`, not
native `onChange(event)`, so those filters silently didn't work.
New `selectChangeHandler` helper wires both signatures.
Tests
-----
49 new tests in `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_boards.py` covering:
slug validation (valid / invalid / auto-downcase), path resolution
(default = legacy path, named = `boards/<slug>/`, env var override),
current-board resolution chain (env > file > default), board CRUD +
archive / hard-delete, per-board connection isolation (tasks don't
leak), worker spawn env injection (`HERMES_KANBAN_BOARD`,
`HERMES_KANBAN_DB`, `HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACES_ROOT` all point at the
right board), and end-to-end CLI surface.
Regression surface: all 264 pre-existing kanban tests continue to pass.
Live-tested via the dashboard: created 3 boards (default,
hermes-agent, atm10-server), created tasks on each via both CLI
(`--board <slug> create`) and dashboard (inline create on the Ready
column), confirmed zero cross-board leakage, confirmed `BoardSwitcher`
+ `NewBoardDialog` work end-to-end in the browser.
The resilient restart settings from PR #18639 only took effect when
the gateway was started via `hermes gateway start` or `hermes gateway
restart` — both of which call refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed() which
writes the new unit and runs daemon-reload.
However, when the gateway self-restarts via exit-code-75 (stale-code
detection after `hermes update`, or the /restart command), systemd
respawns the process directly without going through any CLI function.
The unit file on disk stays stale, and systemd keeps using the old
cached settings (StartLimitBurst=5, RestartSec=30) until someone
manually runs `hermes gateway restart`.
This meant that after PR #18639 was deployed, users who never ran
`hermes gateway restart` manually were still vulnerable to the
permanent-death-on-network-outage bug.
Fix: call refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed() at the top of run_gateway()
(the foreground entry point that systemd's ExecStart invokes). This
ensures that on every boot — whether triggered by systemd restart,
exit-75 respawn, or manual foreground run — the unit definition and
daemon state are current. The call is best-effort (exceptions caught)
and a no-op when the unit is already current (one stat + string compare).
Allow users to start a fresh session and immediately set its title by
passing a name to /new (or /reset):
/new Refactor auth module
Changes:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: add args_hint='[name]' to /new command
- cli.py: parse title argument in process_command(), pass to new_session()
- cli.py: new_session() accepts title=None, sets title via SessionDB
- gateway/run.py: _handle_reset_command() parses title, sets on new entry
- gateway/session.py: reset_session() accepts optional display_name
- tests: add test_new_session_with_title, test_reset_command_with_title,
test_new_command_in_help_output
All 36 affected tests pass.
When agent-browser is globally installed via 'npm install -g agent-browser'
but not present in the local node_modules, doctor falsely warns that it's
not installed. Add shutil.which('agent-browser') as a fallback check after
the local path check.
Closes#15951
The auth check in list_authenticated_providers used mere key presence in
credential_pool to conclude a provider is authenticated. An empty entry
(pool_store key with no actual credentials) caused providers like
ollama-cloud to appear as authenticated in the model picker even when no
OLLAMA_API_KEY was set.
The user's picker then offered nemotron-3-super under Ollama Cloud;
selecting it routed every subsequent turn to https://ollama.com/v1, which
rejected the requests with HTTP 400.
Fix: drop the pool_store key-existence check from both section 2
(HERMES_OVERLAYS) and section 2b (CANONICAL_PROVIDERS). The following
load_pool().has_credentials() call already handles the legitimate pooled-
credential case; checking for an empty key just ahead of it was redundant
and actively harmful.
`_apply_profile_override()` scans `sys.argv` for `-p / --profile` at
module import time. When `hermes_cli.main` is imported inside pytest
with `-p no:xdist` on the command line, it picks up `'no:xdist'` as a
profile name candidate, then passes it to `resolve_profile_env()` which
raises `ValueError` (invalid format), and the function calls
`sys.exit(1)` — aborting test collection with an INTERNALERROR before
any test runs.
The same conflict affects any tool or wrapper that uses `-p` for its
own flag and then imports `hermes_cli.main`.
Fix: add a format guard immediately after step 1 (explicit flag scan).
If `consume == 2` (the value came from `-p <value>`, not
`--profile=value`) and the candidate doesn't match the canonical
profile-name pattern `[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]{0,63}` (mirrored from
`hermes_cli.profiles._PROFILE_ID_RE`), discard it and continue as if
no `-p` flag was found. The `active_profile` file-based fallback
(step 2) only reads a file written by hermes itself, so it always
produces valid names and needs no guard.
Regression guard: with the guard reverted, importing
`hermes_cli.main` with `sys.argv = ['pytest', '-p', 'no:xdist', ...]`
raises `SystemExit(1)`. With the guard in place, the import succeeds
and `sys.argv` is left intact for pytest. Legitimate `-p coder` still
flows through to `resolve_profile_env()` unchanged.
Rebased onto current `origin/main` (`e5dad4ac5`) — the prior branch
base (`4fade39c9`) was 824 commits behind and the PR was DIRTY /
CONFLICTING. The 1.5 HERMES_HOME-set early-return block has since
landed between the original insertion point and step 2; the new guard
is positioned correctly before the early return so a bogus `-p` value
no longer prevents the early return from kicking in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
MiniMax China (api.minimaxi.com) does not expose a /v1/models endpoint.
The doctor command was probing it and reporting HTTP 404 as a warning,
even though the API works correctly for chat completions.
Set supports_health_check=False for MiniMax CN so doctor shows
"(key configured)" instead of the false 404 warning.
Refs #12768, #13757
Guard the save_env_value('AUXILIARY_VISION_MODEL', ...) call with
'if _selected_vision_model:' so blank input at the non-OpenAI vision
model prompt doesn't nuke existing values in .env.
save_env_value has no internal guard against empty strings — it
faithfully writes whatever it receives, including empty values that
shadow the previously-configured model.
Salvage of #15504 (core hunk). Contributor's test was dropped because
it collided with subsequent test refactors; the fix stands on its own.
Co-authored-by: alt-glitch <balyan.sid@gmail.com>
Preserve explicit caller overrides, but backfill a sensible default
TERM=xterm-256color when missing or blank in the spawn env. CI often
runs without TERM in the parent process, which makes terminal probes
like 'tput cols' fail before winsize reads.
Salvage of #15278's core code fix only — the test changes conflict
with subsequent test refactors on main that now exercise TIOCGWINSZ
directly instead of via 'tput'.
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <154585401+LeonSGP43@users.noreply.github.com>
Commands that open pickers (/model, /skin, /personality) previously
received a trailing space in their completions to keep the dropdown
visible in the classic CLI. However, the TUI's submit handler applies
the completion when Enter is pressed and the result differs from the
input — so '/model' + space became '/model ' and the command was never
executed.
Picker commands now omit the trailing space for exact matches, allowing
Enter to submit and open the picker. Non-picker commands (/help, etc.)
are unaffected.
_reconfigure_provider() updates cloud_provider/backend/tts.provider when
switching tool providers via "hermes setup tools → Reconfigure", but did
not update the matching use_gateway flag. _configure_provider() (the
initial-setup path) sets use_gateway on all three tool categories. The
omission in _reconfigure_provider leaves a stale value in config.yaml:
switching from a Nous-managed provider (use_gateway=True) to a self-hosted
one keeps use_gateway=True, continuing to route requests through the Nous
gateway; switching the other way leaves use_gateway unset so the managed
feature does not activate.
Fix: mirror _configure_provider's use_gateway = bool(managed_feature)
assignment in the tts, browser, and web blocks of _reconfigure_provider.
Symmetric across all three tool categories. No behavior change for any
provider that does not set tts_provider, browser_provider, or web_backend.
Fixes#15229
Create a timestamped backup (~/.hermes/config.yaml.bak.YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS)
before the setup wizard runs any configuration sections. After setup
completes, show the backup path and a restore command.
This protects user-customized values (compression thresholds, provider
routing, PII redaction, auxiliary model configs) from being silently
overwritten by setup defaults.
Addresses #3522
Two related fixes for custom_providers model switching:
1. validate_requested_model() now recognizes custom:<name> slugs
(e.g. custom:volcengine) as custom endpoints, not generic providers.
Previously only the bare 'custom' slug matched the relaxed validation
branch, causing model validation to fail with 'not found in provider
listing' for all named custom providers.
2. switch_model() now consults the custom_providers list when deciding
whether to override a validation rejection. If the requested model
matches the entry's 'model' field or any key in its 'models' dict,
the switch is accepted even when the remote /v1/models endpoint does
not list it.
Both changes are covered by existing tests (86 passed).
_scan_gateway_pids() uses ps-based pattern matching to find running
gateways. When invoked from the CLI (e.g. `hermes gateway status`),
the calling process itself matches gateway patterns, causing false
positives — the CLI is mistakenly counted as a running gateway.
Add _get_ancestor_pids() that walks the process tree from the current
PID up to init (PID 1). Merge this set into exclude_pids at the top
of _scan_gateway_pids() so the entire ancestor chain is filtered out.
This complements the existing os.getpid() exclusion in
_append_unique_pid() by also covering parent/grandparent processes
(e.g. when hermes is invoked via a wrapper script or shell).
Closes#13242
_setup_slack() was the only platform setup function that did not prompt
for a home channel. All four sibling setups (_setup_telegram,
_setup_discord, _setup_mattermost, _setup_bluebubbles) close with an
identical home-channel block, and setup_gateway() already checks for
SLACK_HOME_CHANNEL presence at the end of the wizard — but the value
was never collected, leaving cron delivery and cross-platform
notifications silently broken for Slack after a fresh hermes setup run.
Add the standard home-channel prompt at the end of _setup_slack(),
symmetric with the Discord implementation. Add two unit tests that
verify the prompt is saved when provided and skipped when left blank.
When multiple gateway profiles are running (e.g. default and wx1),
`hermes gateway status` can be misleading — stopping one profile's
gateway and checking status may still show the other profile's process
without indicating which profile it belongs to.
Add `_print_other_profiles_gateway_status()` which displays running
gateways from other profiles at the bottom of the status output:
Other profiles:
✓ wx1 — PID 166893
This uses the existing `find_profile_gateway_processes()` and
`get_active_profile_name()` — no new dependencies.
Closes#19113
Related: #4402, #4587
Path.home() / ".hermes" / "profiles" breaks custom-root deployments
(e.g. HERMES_HOME=/opt/data). Switch to get_default_hermes_root() so
profile discovery is consistent with kanban_db_path() and
workspaces_root() fixed in #18985.
Fixes#19017.
Related to #18442, #18985.
The old CWD heuristic was fooled by:
1. TERMINAL_CWD persisted to .env by `hermes config set terminal.cwd`
2. Inherited TERMINAL_CWD from parent hermes processes
3. Only resolved when config had a placeholder value (not explicit paths)
Fix:
- load_cli_config() unconditionally uses os.getcwd() for local backend
- TERMINAL_CWD always force-exported in CLI mode (overrides stale values)
- Gateway sets _HERMES_GATEWAY=1 marker so lazy cli.py imports don't clobber
- Remove terminal.cwd from config-set .env sync map (prevents re-poisoning)
- Clarify setup wizard label as 'Gateway working directory'
Closes#19214
Adds an optional dashboard side-process to the container entrypoint,
toggled by `HERMES_DASHBOARD=1` (also accepts `true` / `yes`). When set,
the entrypoint backgrounds `hermes dashboard` before `exec`-ing the main
command so the user's chosen foreground process (gateway, chat, `sleep
infinity`, …) remains PID-of-interest for the container runtime.
docker run -d \
-v ~/.hermes:/opt/data \
-p 8642:8642 -p 9119:9119 \
-e HERMES_DASHBOARD=1 \
nousresearch/hermes-agent gateway run
Defaults chosen for the container case:
- Host: 0.0.0.0 (reachable through published port; can override to
127.0.0.1 via HERMES_DASHBOARD_HOST for sidecar/reverse-proxy setups)
- Port: 9119 (matches `hermes dashboard`)
- Auto-adds `--insecure` when binding to non-localhost, matching the
dashboard's own safety gate for exposing API keys
- HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI is read by `hermes dashboard` directly — no
entrypoint plumbing needed
Dashboard output is prefixed with `[dashboard]` via `stdbuf`+`sed -u` so
it's easy to separate from gateway logs in `docker logs`. No supervision:
if the dashboard crashes it stays down until the container restarts
(documented in the `:::note` panel).
Other changes bundled in:
- Deprecate GATEWAY_HEALTH_URL / GATEWAY_HEALTH_TIMEOUT env vars in
hermes_cli/web_server.py with a DEPRECATED block comment and a
`.. deprecated::` note on _probe_gateway_health. The feature still
works for this release; it'll be removed alongside the move to a
first-class dashboard config key.
- Rewrite the "Running the dashboard" doc section around the new
single-container pattern. Drops the previously-documented
dashboard-as-its-own-container setup — that pattern relied on the
deprecated env vars for cross-container gateway-liveness detection,
and without them the dashboard would permanently report the gateway
as "not running".
- Collapse the two-service Compose example (gateway + dashboard
container) into a single service with HERMES_DASHBOARD=1. Removes
the now-unnecessary bridge network and `depends_on`.
- Drop the ":::warning" caveat about "Running a dashboard container
alongside the gateway is safe" — that case no longer exists.
`_tui_need_npm_install()` compares the canonical `package-lock.json` against
the hidden `node_modules/.package-lock.json` to decide whether `npm install`
needs to re-run. npm 9 drops the `"peer": true` field from the hidden lock
on dev-deps that are *also* declared as peers (the canonical lock preserves
the dual annotation). That made the check flag 16 packages (`@babel/core`,
`@types/node`, `@types/react`, `@typescript-eslint/*`, `react`, `vite`,
`tsx`, `typescript`, …) as mismatched on every launch, triggering a runtime
`npm install`.
Inside the Docker image, that runtime install then fails with EACCES because
`/opt/hermes/ui-tui/node_modules/` is root-owned from build time, so
`docker run … hermes-agent --tui` prints:
Installing TUI dependencies…
npm install failed.
…and exits 1, with no preview. The empty preview is a second bug: the
launcher captured only stderr, but npm 9 writes EACCES to stdout, which
was DEVNULL'd.
Fixes:
- Add `"peer"` to `_NPM_LOCK_RUNTIME_KEYS` so the comparison ignores the
non-deterministic field, alongside the existing `"ideallyInert"`.
- Capture stdout as well as stderr in the install subprocess so future
failures surface a useful preview instead of a bare "failed." line.
Regression tests:
- `test_no_install_when_only_peer_annotation_differs` — the exact scenario
- `test_install_when_version_differs_even_with_peer_drop` — guards against
the peer-drop tolerance masking a real version skew
On-host impact: the same false-positive was firing on every `hermes --tui`
invocation from a normal checkout, silently running a no-op `npm install`
each time (it converged because the host's `node_modules/` is writable).
Startup time on the TUI should drop noticeably.
On Windows, services and terminals default to cp1252 encoding. The CLI
uses box-drawing characters (┌│├└─) in banners, doctor output, and
status displays. When print() tries to encode these under cp1252, an
unhandled UnicodeEncodeError crashes the gateway on startup.
This fix adds early UTF-8 enforcement in hermes_cli/__init__.py:
- Sets PYTHONUTF8=1 and PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
- Re-opens stdout/stderr with UTF-8 encoding if not already UTF-8
Runs at import time so it protects all CLI subcommands. No effect on
Unix (gated on sys.platform == "win32"). Backwards-compatible: on
systems already using UTF-8, the function is a no-op.
Fixes#10956
The MiniMax OAuth API endpoints have moved from api.minimax.io to
account.minimax.io and the old paths now respond with HTTP 307.
httpx defaults to follow_redirects=False (unlike requests), so the
device-code and token-refresh flows fail with "Temporary Redirect".
Adds follow_redirects=True to the two httpx.Client instances in
hermes_cli/auth.py used by the MiniMax OAuth flow. This is forward-
compatible -- if endpoints move again, the redirect chain is
followed automatically.
Repro before patch:
curl -i -X POST https://api.minimax.io/oauth/code # -> 307
curl -i -X POST https://api.minimax.io/oauth/token # -> 307
Verified end-to-end against a real MiniMax Plus account on macOS;
the existing tests/test_minimax_oauth.py suite (15 tests) still
passes.
Layers defense-in-depth on top of the shared-root anchoring (base commit).
Changes in hermes_cli/kanban_db.py:
- kanban_db_path() now honours HERMES_KANBAN_DB first, then falls through
to kanban_home()/kanban.db.
- workspaces_root() now honours HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACES_ROOT first, then
falls through to kanban_home()/kanban/workspaces.
- All three overrides (HERMES_KANBAN_HOME, HERMES_KANBAN_DB,
HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACES_ROOT) now call .expanduser() for consistency.
- _default_spawn() injects HERMES_KANBAN_DB and
HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACES_ROOT into the worker subprocess env. Even
when the worker's get_default_hermes_root() resolution somehow
disagrees with the dispatcher's (symlinks, unusual Docker layouts),
the two processes still open the same SQLite file.
Module docstring updated to describe all three overrides and the
dispatcher env-injection contract.
Tests (tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py, TestSharedBoardPaths):
- test_hermes_kanban_db_pin_beats_kanban_home
- test_hermes_kanban_workspaces_root_pin_beats_kanban_home
- test_empty_per_path_overrides_fall_through
- test_dispatcher_spawn_injects_kanban_db_and_workspaces_root
(monkeypatches subprocess.Popen, asserts both env vars reach the
child even after HERMES_HOME is rewritten by `hermes -p <profile>`.)
Docs: website/docs/reference/environment-variables.md gets entries
for the three kanban env vars.
This fusion is built on the cleanest of the seven competing PRs that
targeted issue #18442:
* Base commit (from PR #19350 by @GodsBoy): add `kanban_home()` helper
anchored at `get_default_hermes_root()`, reroute all 5 kanban path
sites through it (including the 3 sibling log-dir sites that the
other six PRs missed), 8-test regression class.
* Dispatcher env-var injection approach drawn from PRs #18300
(@quocanh261997) and #19100 (@cg2aigc).
* Per-path env overrides drawn from PR #19100 (@cg2aigc).
* get_default_hermes_root() resolution direction first proposed in
PR #18503 (@beibi9966) and PR #18985 (@Gosuj).
Closes the duplicate/competing PRs: #18300, #18503, #18670, #18985,
#19037, #19056, #19100. Fixes#18442 and #19348.
Co-authored-by: quocanh261997 <17986614+quocanh261997@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: cg2aigc <232694053+cg2aigc@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: beibi9966 <beibei1988@proton.me>
Co-authored-by: Gosuj <123411271+Gosuj@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <154585401+LeonSGP43@users.noreply.github.com>
The Kanban board is documented as shared across all Hermes profiles, but
`kanban_db_path()` and `workspaces_root()` resolved through `get_hermes_home()`,
which returns the active profile's HERMES_HOME. When the dispatcher spawned a
worker with `hermes -p <profile> --skills kanban-worker chat -q "work kanban
task <id>"`, the worker rewrote HERMES_HOME to the profile subdirectory before
kanban_db.py imported, opening a profile-local `kanban.db` that did not contain
the dispatcher's task. `kanban_show` and `kanban_complete` failed; the
dispatcher's row stayed `running` and was retried/crashed. The same defect
applied to `_default_spawn`'s log directory and `worker_log_path`, so
`hermes kanban tail` did not see the worker's output.
Add `kanban_home()` in `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py` that resolves through
`HERMES_KANBAN_HOME` (explicit override) then `get_default_hermes_root()`,
which already understands the `<root>/profiles/<name>` and Docker / custom
HERMES_HOME shapes. Reroute `kanban_db_path`, `workspaces_root`, the
`_default_spawn` log directory, `gc_worker_logs`, and `worker_log_path`
through it. Profile-specific config, `.env`, memory, and sessions stay
isolated as before; only the kanban surface is shared.
Add a `TestSharedBoardPaths` regression class to `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py`
covering: default install, profile-worker convergence, Docker custom HERMES_HOME,
Docker profile layout, explicit `HERMES_KANBAN_HOME` override, and a real
SQLite round-trip across dispatcher and worker HERMES_HOME perspectives.
The dispatcher/worker convergence tests fail on origin/main and pass after
the fix.
Update the `kanban.md` user-guide page and the misleading docstrings in
`kanban_db.py` to describe the shared-root behavior.
Fixes#19348
CLI/TUI sessions on the local backend now unconditionally use
os.getcwd() as the working directory. The terminal.cwd config value is
only consumed by gateway/cron/delegation modes (where there's no shell
to cd from).
Previously, 'hermes setup' would write an absolute path (e.g. $HOME)
into terminal.cwd which then pinned the CLI to that directory regardless
of where the user launched hermes from. This was a silent foot-gun —
the user's 'cd' was being ignored.
Changes:
1. cli.py: Restructured CWD resolution — if TERMINAL_CWD is not already
set by the gateway, and the backend is local, always use os.getcwd().
Config terminal.cwd is irrelevant for interactive CLI/TUI sessions.
2. setup.py: Moved the cwd prompt from setup_terminal_backend() to
setup_gateway(). It now only appears when configuring messaging
platforms and is labeled 'Gateway working directory'.
3. Tests: Rewrote test_cwd_env_respect.py to validate the new behavior:
explicit config paths are ignored for CLI, gateway pre-set values are
preserved, non-local backends keep their config paths.
4. Docs: Updated configuration.md, profiles.md, and
environment-variables.md to clarify that terminal.cwd only affects
gateway/cron mode on local backend.
Closes#19214
Apply agent.redact.redact_sensitive_text with force=True to log content
captured by _capture_log_snapshot before it reaches upload_to_pastebin.
On-disk logs are untouched. Compatible with the off-by-default local
redaction policy from #16794: this is upload-time-only and applies
regardless of security.redact_secrets because the public paste service
is the leak surface. A visible banner is prepended to each uploaded log
paste so reviewers know redaction was applied. --no-redact preserves
deliberate unredacted sharing for maintainer-coordinated cases.
The bug-report, setup-help, and feature-request issue templates direct
users to run hermes debug share and paste the resulting public URLs.
With redaction off by default per #16794, those uploads have been
carrying credentials onto paste.rs and dpaste.com.
force=True is non-negotiable: without it, redact_sensitive_text
short-circuits at agent/redact.py:322 when the env var is unset, so the
fix would silently be a no-op for its target audience. A regression
test pins this down.
Fixes#19316
* feat: add video_analyze tool for native video understanding
Adds a video_analyze tool that sends video files to multimodal LLMs
(e.g. Gemini) for analysis via the OpenRouter-compatible video_url
content type. Mirrors vision_analyze in structure, error handling,
and registration pattern.
Key design:
- Base64 encodes entire video (no frame extraction, no ffmpeg dep)
- Uses 'video_url' content block type (OpenRouter standard)
- Supports mp4, webm, mov, avi, mkv, mpeg formats
- 50 MB hard cap, 20 MB warning threshold
- 180s minimum timeout (videos take longer than images)
- AUXILIARY_VIDEO_MODEL env override, falls back to AUXILIARY_VISION_MODEL
- Same SSRF protection, retry logic, and cleanup as vision_analyze
Default disabled: registered in 'video' toolset (not in _HERMES_CORE_TOOLS).
Users opt in via: hermes tools enable video, or enabled_toolsets=['video'].
* feat(video): add models.dev capability pre-check + CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS entry
- Pre-checks model video capability via models.dev modalities.input
before expensive base64 encoding. Fails early with helpful message
suggesting video-capable alternatives (gemini, mimo-v2.5-pro).
- Passes optimistically if model unknown or lookup fails.
- Adds ModelInfo.supports_video_input() helper.
- Adds 'video' to CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS and _DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS
so 'hermes tools enable video' works from CLI.
- 8 new tests for the capability check (37 total).
* refactor(video): remove models.dev capability pre-check
Removes _check_video_model_capability and ModelInfo.supports_video_input.
The vision_analyze tool doesn't pre-check image capability either — both
tools rely on the same pattern: send request, handle API errors gracefully
with categorized user-facing messages. The pre-check was inconsistent
(only worked for some providers/models) so drop it for parity.
* cleanup: compress comments, fix fragile timeout coupling
- Replace _VISION_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT * 2 with hardcoded 60s (no silent
breakage if vision timeout changes independently)
- Strip verbose comments and redundant log lines throughout
- No behavioral changes
- TestClampCommandNamesTriples: unit tests for 3-tuple support in
_clamp_command_names (short names, long names, collisions, multiple
entries, backward compat with 2-tuples)
- TestDiscordSkillCmdKeyDispatch: integration test through the full
discord_skill_commands pipeline verifying long skill names retain
their original cmd_key after clamping
- Add contributor CharlieKerfoot to AUTHOR_MAP
Enable OpenRouter's response caching feature (beta) via X-OpenRouter-Cache
headers. When enabled, identical API requests return cached responses for
free (zero billing), reducing both latency and cost.
Configuration via config.yaml:
openrouter:
response_cache: true # default: on
response_cache_ttl: 300 # 1-86400 seconds
Changes:
- Add openrouter config section to DEFAULT_CONFIG (response_cache + TTL)
- Add build_or_headers() in auxiliary_client.py that builds attribution
headers plus optional cache headers based on config
- Replace inline _OR_HEADERS dicts with build_or_headers() at all 5 sites:
run_agent.py __init__, _apply_client_headers_for_base_url(), and
auxiliary_client.py _try_openrouter() + _to_async_client()
- Add _check_openrouter_cache_status() method to AIAgent that reads
X-OpenRouter-Cache-Status from streaming response headers and logs
HIT/MISS status
- Document in cli-config.yaml.example
- Add 28 tests (22 unit + 6 integration)
Ref: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/response-caching
Point users to xAI's custom voices feature — clone your voice in the
console, paste the voice_id into tts.xai.voice_id. No code changes
needed; the existing TTS pipeline already handles arbitrary voice IDs.
- config.py: link to xAI custom voices docs in voice_id comment
- setup.py: prompt accepts custom voice IDs during xAI TTS setup
- tts.md: short section linking to xAI console and docs
* fix(gateway): config.yaml wins over .env for agent/display/timezone settings
Regression from the silent config→env bridge. The bridge at module import
time is correct for max_turns (unconditional overwrite), but every other
agent.*, display.*, timezone, and security bridge key was guarded by
'if X not in os.environ' — so a stale .env entry from an old 'hermes setup'
run would shadow the user's current config.yaml indefinitely.
Symptom: agent.max_turns: 500 in config.yaml, HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS=60
in .env from an old setup, and the gateway silently capped at 60
iterations per turn. Gateway logs confirmed api_calls never exceeded 60.
Three changes:
1. gateway/run.py: drop the 'not in os.environ' guards for all agent.*,
display.*, timezone, and security.* bridge keys. config.yaml is now
authoritative for these settings — same semantics already in place
for max_turns, terminal.*, and auxiliary.*. Also surface the bridge
failure (previously 'except Exception: pass') to stderr so operators
see bridge errors instead of silently falling back to .env.
2. gateway/run.py: INFO-log the resolved max_iterations at gateway
start so operators can verify the config→env bridge did the right
thing instead of chasing a phantom budget ceiling.
3. hermes_cli/setup.py: stop writing HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS to .env in
the setup wizard. config.yaml is the single source of truth. Also
clean up any stale .env entry left behind by pre-fix setups.
Regression tests in tests/gateway/test_config_env_bridge_authority.py
guard each config→env key against the 'stale .env shadows config' bug.
* fix(gateway): shutdown + restart hygiene (drain timeout, false-fatal, success log)
Three issues observed in production gateway.log during a rapid restart
chain on 2026-05-02, all fixed here.
1. _send_restart_notification logged unconditional success
adapter.send() catches provider errors (e.g. Telegram 'Chat not found')
and returns SendResult(success=False); it never raises. The caller
ignored the return value and always logged 'Sent restart notification
to <chat>' at INFO, producing a misleading success line directly
below the 'Failed to send Telegram message' traceback on every boot.
Now inspects result.success and logs WARNING with the error otherwise.
2. WhatsApp bridge SIGTERM on shutdown classified as fatal error
_check_managed_bridge_exit() saw the bridge's returncode -15 (our own
SIGTERM from disconnect()) and fired the full fatal-error path,
producing 'ERROR ... WhatsApp bridge process exited unexpectedly' plus
'Fatal whatsapp adapter error (whatsapp_bridge_exited)' on every
planned shutdown, immediately before the normal '✓ whatsapp
disconnected'. Adds a _shutting_down flag that disconnect() sets
before the terminate, and _check_managed_bridge_exit() returns None
for returncode in {0, -2, -15} while shutting down. OOM-kill (137)
and other non-signal exits still hit the fatal path.
3. restart_drain_timeout default 60s → 180s
On 2026-05-02 01:43:27 a user /restart fired while three agents were
mid-API-call (82s, 112s, 154s into their turns). The 60s drain budget
expired and all three were force-interrupted. 180s covers realistic
in-flight agent turns; users on very-long-reasoning models can still
raise it further via agent.restart_drain_timeout in config.yaml.
Existing explicit user values are preserved by deep-merge.
Tests
- tests/gateway/test_restart_notification.py: two new tests assert INFO
is only logged on SendResult(success=True) and WARNING with the error
string is logged on SendResult(success=False).
- tests/gateway/test_whatsapp_connect.py: parametrized test for
returncode in {0, -2, -15} proves shutdown-time exits are suppressed;
separate test proves returncode 137 (SIGKILL/OOM) still surfaces as
fatal even when _shutting_down is set.
- _check_managed_bridge_exit() reads _shutting_down via getattr-with-
default so existing _make_adapter() test helpers that bypass __init__
(pitfall #17 in AGENTS.md) keep working unmodified.
Discord's per-command name limit is 32 chars. When two skill slugs
share the same first 32 chars (or a skill slug clamps onto a reserved
gateway command name), only the first seen wins — the second is
dropped from the /skill autocomplete. The old behavior incremented a
``hidden`` counter silently, so skill authors had no way to discover
the drop short of noticing their skill was missing from the picker.
Not an actively-biting bug today (no collisions on the default catalog
as of 2026-05), but a landmine the moment someone ships a skill with a
long name. The earlier series in #18745 / #18753 / #18754 dropped the
other silent data-loss paths in the Discord /skill collector; this one
lights up the last remaining one.
Fix: promote ``_names_used`` from a set to a dict keyed by the clamped
name, mapping to the source cmd_key (or a ``"<reserved>"`` sentinel
for names inherited via ``reserved_names``). On collision, log a
WARNING naming both sides — the winner, the loser, the clamped name,
and what to rename.
Two phrasings:
* skill-vs-skill — "both clamp to X on Discord's 32-char command-name
limit; only the winner appears in /skill. Rename one skill's
frontmatter ``name:`` to differ in its first 32 chars."
* skill-vs-reserved — "collides with a reserved gateway command name;
the skill will not appear in /skill. Rename the skill's frontmatter
``name:``."
Tests: three cases in
``tests/hermes_cli/test_discord_skill_clamp_warning.py`` —
skill-vs-skill collision (warning names both cmd_keys + clamped prefix),
skill-vs-reserved collision (warning uses the distinct phrasing), and a
no-collision negative (zero warnings emitted).
``discord_skill_commands_by_category`` was lagging the flat
``discord_skill_commands`` collector on two counts. Both were actively
dropping skills from Discord's ``/skill`` autocomplete dropdown.
1. External-dir skills were filtered out. #18741 widened the flat
collector to accept ``SKILLS_DIR + skills.external_dirs`` but left
this sibling collector — the one ``_register_skill_group`` actually
uses on Discord — still matching ``SKILLS_DIR`` only. External
skills were visible in ``hermes skills list`` and the agent's
``/skill-name`` dispatch but silently absent from Discord's
``/skill`` picker. Widen the accepted roots to match, and derive
categories from whichever root the skill lives under so
``<ext>/mlops/foo/SKILL.md`` still lands in the ``mlops`` group.
2. 25-group × 25-subcommand caps were still applied. PR #11580
refactored ``/skill`` to a flat autocomplete (whose options Discord
fetches dynamically — no per-command payload concern) and its
docstring promises "no hidden skills." The collector kept the old
nested-layout caps anyway, silently dropping anything past the 25th
alphabetical category. On installs with 29 category dirs today (real
example: tail categories ``social-media``, ``software-development``,
``yuanbao`` going missing) this was biting immediately. Remove the
caps; ``hidden`` now reports only 32-char name-clamp collisions
against reserved names.
Tests: guard both behaviors. ``test_no_legacy_25x25_cap`` builds 30
categories × 30 skills each and asserts all 900 are returned.
``test_external_dirs_skills_included`` monkeypatches
``get_external_skills_dirs`` and asserts an external-dir skill makes
it into the result grouped under its own top-level directory.
Path.read_text() uses the system locale by default. On Windows CN/JP/KR
locales (GBK/CP932/CP949), reading a UTF-8 .env raises UnicodeDecodeError
as soon as it contains any non-ASCII byte (e.g. an em dash).
Pin encoding="utf-8" on every .env read in hermes_cli to match how the
rest of the codebase (load_dotenv at doctor.py:26) already decodes it.
Adds a regression test that monkeypatches Path.read_text to simulate a
GBK locale and asserts 'hermes doctor' no longer raises.
Refs #18637
Skills configured through `skills.external_dirs` in config.yaml were
visible via `hermes skills list`, `get_skill_commands()`, and the
agent's `/skill-name` dispatch, but silently excluded from the
Telegram and Discord slash-command menus. The filter in
`_collect_gateway_skill_entries` only accepted skills whose
`skill_md_path` started with `SKILLS_DIR`, so anything under an
external directory fell through.
Widen the accepted-prefix set to include all configured external
dirs alongside the local skills dir. Every prefix is now
slash-terminated so `/my-skills` cannot also admit
`/my-skills-extra`. Also guard against empty `skill_md_path`
values so they can't accidentally match.
Fixes#8110
Salvages #8790 by luyao618.
Co-authored-by: Yao <34041715+luyao618@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(curator): authoritative absorbed_into declarations on skill delete
Closes#18671. The classification pipeline that feeds cron-ref rewriting
used to infer consolidation vs pruning from two brittle signals: the
curator model's post-hoc YAML summary block, and a substring heuristic
scanning other tool calls for the removed skill's name. Both miss in
real consolidations — the model forgets the YAML under reasoning
pressure, and the heuristic misses when the umbrella's patch content
describes the absorbed behavior abstractly instead of naming the old
slug. When both miss, the skill falls through to 'no-evidence fallback'
pruned, and #18253's cron rewriter drops the cron ref entirely instead
of mapping it to the umbrella. Same observable symptom as pre-#18253:
'Skill(s) not found and skipped' at the next cron run.
The fix makes the model declare intent at the moment of deletion.
skill_manage(action='delete') now accepts absorbed_into:
- absorbed_into='<umbrella>' -> consolidated, target must exist on disk
- absorbed_into='' -> explicit prune, no forwarding target
- missing -> legacy path, falls through to heuristic/YAML
The curator reconciler reads these declarations off llm_meta.tool_calls
BEFORE either the YAML block or the substring heuristic. Declaration
wins. Fallback logic stays intact for backward compat with any caller
(human or older curator conversation) that doesn't populate the arg.
Changes
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py: add absorbed_into param to skill_manage
+ _delete_skill. Validate target exists when non-empty. Reject
absorbed_into=<self>. Wire through dispatcher + registry + schema.
- agent/curator.py: new _extract_absorbed_into_declarations() walks
tool calls for skill_manage(delete) with the arg. _reconcile_classification
accepts absorbed_declarations= and treats them as authoritative. Curator
prompt updated to require the arg on every delete.
- Tests: 7 new skill_manager tests covering the tool contract (valid
target, empty string, nonexistent target, self-reference, whitespace,
backward compat, dispatcher plumbing). 11 new curator tests covering
the extractor + authoritative reconciler path + mixed-legacy-and-
declared runs.
Validation
- 307/307 targeted tests pass (curator + cron + skill_manager suites).
- E2E #18671 repro: 3 narrow skills, 1 umbrella, cron job referencing
all 3. Model emits NO YAML block. Heuristic misses (patch prose
doesn't name old slugs). Delete calls carry absorbed_into. Result:
both PR skills correctly classified 'consolidated' + cron rewritten
['pr-review-format', 'pr-review-checklist', 'stale-junk'] ->
['hermes-agent-dev']; stale-junk pruned via absorbed_into=''.
- E2E backward-compat: delete without absorbed_into, model emits YAML
-> routed via existing 'model' source, cron still rewritten correctly.
* feat(curator): capture + restore cron skill links across snapshot/rollback
Before this, rolling back a curator run restored the skills tree but cron
jobs still pointed at the umbrella skills the curator had rewritten them
to. The user would see their old narrow skills back on disk but their
cron jobs still configured with the merged umbrella — not actually 'back
to how it was'.
Snapshot side: snapshot_skills() now captures ~/.hermes/cron/jobs.json
alongside the skills tarball, as cron-jobs.json. The manifest gets a new
'cron_jobs' block with {backed_up, jobs_count} so rollback (and the CLI
confirm dialog) can surface what's in the snapshot. If jobs.json is
missing/unreadable/malformed, snapshot proceeds without cron data — the
skills backup is the core guarantee; cron is additive.
Rollback side: after the skills extract succeeds, the new
_restore_cron_skill_links() reconciles the backed-up jobs into the live
jobs.json SURGICALLY. Only 'skills' and 'skill' fields are restored, and
only on jobs matched by id. Everything else about a cron job — schedule,
last_run_at, next_run_at, enabled, prompt, workdir, hooks — is live
state the user or scheduler has modified since the snapshot; overwriting
it would regress unrelated activity.
Reconciliation rules:
- Job in backup AND live, skills differ → skills restored.
- Job in backup AND live, skills match → no-op.
- Job in backup, NOT in live → skipped (user deleted it
after snapshot; their choice
is later than the snapshot).
- Job in live, NOT in backup → untouched (user created it
after snapshot).
- Snapshot missing cron-jobs.json at all → rollback still succeeds,
reports 'not captured'
(older pre-feature snapshots
keep working).
Writes go through cron.jobs.save_jobs under the same _jobs_file_lock the
scheduler uses, so rollback doesn't race tick().
Also:
- hermes_cli/curator.py: rollback confirm dialog now shows
'cron jobs: N (will be restored for skill-link fields only)' when the
snapshot has cron data, or 'not in snapshot (<reason>)' otherwise.
- rollback()'s message string includes a 'cron links: ...' clause
summarizing the reconciliation outcome.
Tests
- 9 new cases: snapshot-with-cron, snapshot-without-cron, malformed-json
captured-as-raw, full rollback-restores-skills-and-cron, rollback
touches only skill fields, rollback skips user-deleted jobs, rollback
leaves user-created jobs untouched, rollback still works with
pre-feature snapshot that has no cron-jobs.json, standalone unit test
on _restore_cron_skill_links exercising the full report shape.
Validation
- 484/484 targeted tests pass (curator + cron + skill_manager suites).
- E2E: real snapshot_skills, real cron rewrite, real rollback. Before:
['pr-review-format', 'pr-review-checklist', 'pr-triage-salvage'].
After curator: ['hermes-agent-dev']. After rollback: ['pr-review-format',
'pr-review-checklist', 'pr-triage-salvage']. Non-skill fields (id,
name, prompt) preserved across the round trip.
The old defaults (StartLimitIntervalSec=600, StartLimitBurst=5,
RestartSec=30) meant any network outage over ~5 minutes would
permanently kill the gateway until manual intervention.
Changes:
- StartLimitIntervalSec=0 (never give up)
- Restart=always (not just on-failure)
- RestartSec=60 with RestartMaxDelaySec=300, RestartSteps=5
(exponential backoff: 60 → 120 → 180 → 240 → 300s cap)
- After=network-online.target + Wants= (both units now wait for
actual connectivity, not just network.target)
Power outage → internet down → internet back = auto-recovery.
When the dashboard is bound to 0.0.0.0 with --insecure (e.g. behind
Tailscale Serve), WebSocket endpoints (/api/pty, /api/ws, /api/pub,
/api/events) rejected connections from non-loopback client IPs with
code 4403 — causing 'events feed disconnected' in the UI.
Extract the repeated loopback check into _ws_client_is_allowed() which
respects the public bind flag. Session token auth still guards all
endpoints regardless of bind mode.
Slack has built-in slash commands (e.g. /status, /me, /join) that apps
cannot register. When running `hermes slack manifest --write`, the
generated manifest included /status, causing Slack to reject the entire
manifest with a reserved-command error.
Add _SLACK_RESERVED_COMMANDS frozenset of all known Slack built-ins and
skip them in slack_native_slashes(). Affected commands remain reachable
via /hermes <command>.
Tests updated:
- New test_excludes_slack_reserved_commands validates no leaks
- test_includes_canonical_commands no longer asserts /status
- test_telegram_parity accounts for expected Slack-only exclusions
Long-running gateway processes that survive 'hermes update' keep
pre-update modules cached in sys.modules. When new tool files on
disk then try to 'from hermes_cli.config import cfg_get' (added in
PR #17304), the import resolves against the stale module object
and raises ImportError — hitting users on Matrix, Telegram, Feishu,
and other platforms.
Two defenses:
1. Gateway self-check (gateway/run.py). On __init__, snapshot the
newest mtime across sentinel source files (hermes_cli/config.py,
run_agent.py, gateway/run.py, etc.). On every inbound message,
re-read those mtimes; if any is newer than boot time + 2s slack,
request a graceful restart via the normal drain path and return
a one-line ack to the user. Idempotent, works regardless of how
the update happened (hermes update, manual git pull, installer).
2. Post-restart survivor sweep ('hermes update'). After the existing
restart loop, sleep 3s, rescan for gateway PIDs we already tried
to kill, and SIGKILL any survivors. The detached profile watchers
and systemd then relaunch with fresh code instead of waiting out
the 120s watcher timeout.
Closes#17648.
* fix(curator): defer first run and add --dry-run preview (#18373)
Curator was meant to run 7 days after install, not on the very first
gateway tick. On a fresh install (no .curator_state), should_run_now()
returned True immediately because last_run_at was None — so the gateway
cron ticker fired Curator against a fresh skill library moments after
'hermes update'. Combined with the binary 'agent-created' provenance
model (anything not bundled and not hub-installed), this consolidated
hand-authored user workflow skills without consent.
Changes:
- should_run_now(): first observation seeds last_run_at='now' and returns
False. The next real pass fires one full interval_hours later (7 days
by default), matching the original design intent.
- hermes curator run --dry-run: produces the same review report without
applying automatic transitions OR permitting the LLM to call
skill_manage / terminal mv. A DRY-RUN banner is prepended to the
prompt and the caller skips apply_automatic_transitions. State is
NOT advanced so a preview doesn't defer the next scheduled real pass.
- hermes update: prints a one-liner on fresh installs pointing at
--dry-run, pause, and the docs. Silent on steady state.
- Docs: curator.md and cli-commands.md explain the deferred first-run
behavior and warn that hand-written SKILL.md files share the
'agent-created' bucket, with guidance to pin or preview before the
first pass.
Tests:
- test_first_run_defers replaces the old 'first run always eligible'
assertion — same fixture, inverted expectation.
- test_maybe_run_curator_defers_on_fresh_install covers the gateway tick
path end-to-end.
- Three new dry-run tests cover state-advance suppression, prompt
banner injection, and apply_automatic_transitions skipping.
Fixes#18373.
* feat(curator): pre-run backup + rollback (#18373)
Every real curator pass now snapshots ~/.hermes/skills/ into
~/.hermes/skills/.curator_backups/<utc-iso>/skills.tar.gz before calling
apply_automatic_transitions or the LLM review. If a run consolidates or
archives something the user didn't want touched, 'hermes curator
rollback' restores the tree in one command. Dry-run is skipped — no
mutation means no snapshot needed.
Changes:
- agent/curator_backup.py (new): tar.gz snapshot + safe rollback. The
snapshot excludes .curator_backups/ (would recurse) and .hub/ (managed
by the skills hub). Extract refuses absolute paths and .. components,
and uses tarfile's filter='data' on Python 3.12+. Rollback takes a
pre-rollback safety snapshot FIRST, stages the current tree into
.rollback-staging-<ts>/ so the extract lands in an empty dir, and
cleans the staging dir on success. A failed extract restores the
staged contents.
- agent/curator.py: run_curator_review() calls curator_backup.
snapshot_skills(reason='pre-curator-run') before apply_automatic_
transitions. Best-effort — a failed snapshot logs at debug and the
run continues (a transient disk issue shouldn't silently disable
curator forever).
- hermes_cli/curator.py: new 'hermes curator backup' and 'hermes curator
rollback' subcommands. rollback supports --list, --id <ts>, -y.
- hermes_cli/config.py: curator.backup.{enabled, keep} config block
with sane defaults (enabled=true, keep=5).
- Docs: curator.md gets a 'Backups and rollback' section; cli-commands
.md table gets the new rows.
Tests (new file tests/agent/test_curator_backup.py, 16 cases):
- snapshot creates tarball + manifest with correct counts
- snapshot excludes .curator_backups/ (recursion guard) and .hub/
- snapshot disabled via config returns None without creating anything
- snapshot uniquifies ids within the same second (-01 suffix)
- prune honors keep count, newest-first
- list_backups + _resolve_backup cover newest-default and unknown-id
- rollback restores a deleted skill with content intact
- rollback is itself undoable — safety snapshot shows up in list_backups
- rollback with no snapshots returns an error
- rollback refuses tarballs with absolute paths or .. components
- real curator runs take a 'pre-curator-run' snapshot; dry-runs do not
All curator tests: 210 passing locally.
Prevents ghost sessions from accumulating in state.db when the TUI/web
dashboard is opened and closed without sending a message.
Changes:
- run_agent.py: Add _ensure_db_session() gate method, called at
run_conversation() entry. Remove eager create_session() from __init__.
Handle compression rotation flag correctly.
- tui_gateway/server.py: Remove eager db.create_session() in
_start_agent_build(). Add post-first-message pending_title re-apply.
- hermes_state.py: Extract _insert_session_row() shared helper (DRY).
Add prune_empty_ghost_sessions() for one-time migration.
- cli.py: One-time ghost session prune on startup. Fix _pending_title
to call _ensure_db_session() before set_session_title().
- hermes_cli/main.py: Guard TUI exit summary on message_count > 0.
- tests: Update test_860_dedup to call _ensure_db_session() before
direct _flush_messages_to_session_db() calls.
Closes: ghost session clutter in hermes sessions list and web dashboard.
Four callsites hardcoded Path.home() / '.hermes' with no HERMES_HOME
check, breaking Docker deployments and profile isolation (hermes -p):
- plugins/hermes-achievements/dashboard/plugin_api.py:
state_path(), snapshot_path(), checkpoint_path() bare-literal paths
- scripts/profile-tui.py:
DEFAULT_STATE_DB and DEFAULT_LOG defaults ignored HERMES_HOME
- hermes_cli/slack_cli.py:
except-Exception fallback for slack-manifest.json dump
- optional-skills/migration/openclaw-migration/scripts/openclaw_to_hermes.py:
--target argparse default
Use get_hermes_home() (with an ImportError shim for the standalone
scripts) or 'os.environ.get("HERMES_HOME") or str(Path.home()/".hermes")'
where importing hermes_constants is impractical.
E2E-verified: with HERMES_HOME=/tmp/x all three achievements paths and
both profile-tui defaults route under /tmp/x.
Salvaged from #18068 (original scope was broader mechanical cleanup
claiming 23 callsites were buggy; most were already respecting
HERMES_HOME via os.environ.get(key, default) — only these 4 had no env
check at all). Credit: @web-dev0521.
Add a standing-goal slash command that keeps Hermes working toward a
user-stated objective across turns until it is achieved, paused, or
the turn budget runs out. Our take on the Ralph loop — cf. Codex CLI
0.128.0's /goal.
After each turn, a lightweight auxiliary-model judge call asks 'is
this goal satisfied by the assistant's last response?'. If not, and
we're under the turn budget (default 20), Hermes feeds a continuation
prompt back into the same session as a normal user message. Any real
user message preempts the continuation loop automatically.
Judge failures fail OPEN (continue) so a flaky judge never wedges
progress — the turn budget is the real backstop.
### Commands
- `/goal <text>` — set a standing goal (kicks off the first turn)
- `/goal` or `/goal status` — show current state
- `/goal pause` — pause the continuation loop
- `/goal resume` — resume (resets turn counter)
- `/goal clear` — drop the goal
Works on both CLI and gateway platforms via the central CommandDef
registry.
### Design invariants preserved
- **Prompt cache**: continuation prompts are regular user-role
messages appended to history. No system-prompt mutation, no toolset
swap.
- **Role alternation**: continuation is a user turn, never injected
mid-tool-loop.
- **Session persistence**: goal state lives in SessionDB.state_meta
keyed by `goal:<session_id>`, so `/resume` picks it up.
- **Mid-run safety**: on the gateway, `/goal status|pause|clear` are
allowed mid-run (control-plane only); setting a new goal requires
`/stop` first so we don't race a second continuation prompt against
the current turn.
### Files
- `hermes_cli/goals.py` (new, 380 lines) — GoalManager + judge + state
- `hermes_cli/commands.py` — CommandDef entry
- `hermes_cli/config.py` — `goals.max_turns` default
- `hermes_cli/web_server.py` — dashboard category merge
- `cli.py` — /goal handler + post-turn continuation hook in
process_loop
- `gateway/run.py` — /goal handler + post-turn continuation hook
wrapping _handle_message_with_agent
- `tests/hermes_cli/test_goals.py` (new, 26 tests) — judge parsing,
fail-open semantics, lifecycle, persistence, budget exhaustion
- `website/docs/reference/slash-commands.md` — docs entry
hermes update had two interactive [Y/n] prompts with no bypass:
1. Config migration (after new env/config options are added)
2. Autostash restore (when uncommitted work was stashed before pull)
hermes uninstall already has --yes/-y; mirrors that.
Under --yes:
- Config-migrate prompt → auto-yes, migrate_config(interactive=False)
so new config fields are applied but API-key prompts are skipped
(user runs 'hermes config migrate' later for those). Matches
gateway-mode semantics.
- Stash-restore prompt → auto-yes, git stash apply runs automatically.
Closes the 'can I hermes update -y, No ! Fix' gap reported by @murelux.
Adds opt-in auto-deletion for slash-command reply messages like
"New session started!", "Restarting gateway…", "Stopped.", and
YOLO toggles. After the TTL elapses the gateway calls the adapter's
delete_message; on platforms without a delete API (everything except
Telegram today) the TTL is silently ignored and the message stays.
Requested on Twitter by @charlesmcdowell — tool-call bubbles are useful
real-time, but system notices clutter the thread once the agent finishes.
Implementation:
- EphemeralReply(str) sentinel in gateway/platforms/base.py. Subclasses
str so existing 'X' in response / response.startswith(...) checks in
tests and call sites keep working unchanged; isinstance() still
distinguishes it for the send path.
- _process_message_background and both busy-session bypass paths
(in base.py) call _unwrap_ephemeral() on the handler return, send
the unwrapped text, and schedule a detached delete task when the
TTL > 0 AND the adapter class overrides delete_message.
- display.ephemeral_system_ttl (default 0 = disabled) in DEFAULT_CONFIG.
Handler can pass ttl_seconds explicitly to override.
- Wrapped the highest-noise return sites: /new, /reset, /stop,
/yolo on/off, /restart success + "already in progress". Draining
notices and /help output left as plain strings — those are
informational and users want to read them.
Backward-compat: default TTL 0 → no scheduling, no behavior change
for existing users. Platforms without delete_message silently no-op.
`hermes update` ran the config migration (11 → 17) successfully then
crashed at `agent/skill_utils.py:340` during the post-migration
skill-config prompt. User @FlockonUS reported this on Twitter.
Root cause: `get_missing_skill_config_vars` in hermes_cli/config.py
only guarded the import of `discover_all_skill_config_vars`, not the
call. Any runtime exception inside the skill scan (malformed SKILL.md,
unreadable external skill dir, etc.) propagated up through
`migrate_config` and aborted `hermes update` after the version bump.
Wrap the call in try/except so skill-config prompting — which is a
post-migration nicety — can never block the migration itself.
Refactor tool resolution logic in model_tools.py to ensure that
disabled_toolsets are always subtracted at the end, preventing
composite toolsets (e.g. 'browser') from implicitly enabling tools
that should be hidden.
- Added 'disabled_toolsets' to DEFAULT_CONFIG in hermes_cli/config.py
- Updated HermesCLI in cli.py to load and propagate disabled toolsets to AIAgent
- Implemented robust two-phase resolution (additive then subtractive) in model_tools.py
When a user defines `custom_providers: [{name: kimi, ...}]` and references
`provider: kimi` from fallback_model or the main config, the built-in alias
rewriting (`kimi` → `kimi-coding`) was hijacking the request before the
named-custom lookup ran. `_get_named_custom_provider` also refused to
return a match when the raw name resolved to any built-in (including aliases),
so the custom endpoint was unreachable.
Fix at both layers of the resolution chain so every caller benefits, not
just `_try_activate_fallback`:
- hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py: narrow `_get_named_custom_provider`'s
built-in-wins guard to canonical provider names only. An alias like
`kimi` that resolves to a different canonical (`kimi-coding`) no longer
blocks the custom lookup; a canonical name like `nous` still does.
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: in `resolve_provider_client`, try the named-
custom lookup with the original (pre-alias-normalization) name before the
alias-normalized one, so aliased requests reach the user's custom entry.
Also honour `explicit_base_url` and `explicit_api_key` in the API-key
provider branch so callers that pass explicit hints (e.g. fallback
activation) can override the registered defaults.
Tests added for:
- custom `kimi` shadowing built-in alias (regression for #15743)
- custom `nous` NOT shadowing canonical built-in (behaviour preserved)
- bare `kimi` without any custom entry still routing to built-in
- explicit base_url/api_key override on the API-key provider branch
Original PR #17827 by @Feranmi10 identified the same bug class and
implemented a narrower fix in `_try_activate_fallback`; this reshapes the
fix to live in the shared resolution layer so all callers benefit.
Fixes#15743
Co-authored-by: Feranmi10 <89228157+Feranmi10@users.noreply.github.com>
The PR wired in a detached watcher that respawns manual profile gateways
after they exit. Pair that with a SIGUSR1 graceful drain (same path
systemd/launchd use) so in-flight agent runs finish instead of getting
SIGTERM'd. Fall back to SIGTERM if SIGUSR1 isn't wired or the gateway
doesn't exit within the drain budget — the watcher sees the exit and
relaunches either way.
Tested end-to-end against an orphaned gateway: graceful drain exits in
0.5s and the watcher fires the relaunch command.
Follow-up to #17963. The threaded branch of resolve_plugin_command_result
previously called Event.wait() with no timeout — a hung async plugin
handler would wedge the terminal indefinitely. Cap the wait at 30s and
raise TimeoutError instead. Added a regression test covering the hung
handler path.
Closes#16082
The `hermes status` command listed provider API keys under the
◆ API Keys section but NVIDIA_API_KEY was absent. Users configured
with NVIDIA NIM had no way to verify their key was set from status
output. Add it alongside the other inference provider keys.
The switch_model override logic incorrectly iterated over user_providers
as if it were a list of dicts, but it's actually a dict mapping
provider_slug -> config. This meant private models defined in a provider's
`models:` section (e.g. nahcrof-dedicated with discover_models: false)
were never accepted when the API /models list didn't include them.
Fix: iterate over user_providers.items(), match by slug, and handle both
dict and list forms of the models config.
It was sitting at position 4 of the `hermes model` list, ahead of Anthropic,
OpenAI, Xiaomi, and other first-class API providers. Move it to the end of
CANONICAL_PROVIDERS and drop the "(200+ models, $5 free credit, no markup)"
parenthetical so the entry just reads "Vercel AI Gateway".
- New config key: dashboard.hidden_plugins (list of plugin names)
- GET /api/dashboard/plugins now filters out hidden plugins from sidebar
- POST /api/dashboard/plugins/{name}/visibility toggles visibility
- Hub response includes user_hidden boolean per plugin row
- Eye/EyeOff toggle on plugin cards with dashboard manifests
- i18n: 'Show in sidebar' / 'Hide from sidebar' (en/zh)
- Add _validate_plugin_name() guard on all {name} path param endpoints
(rejects /, \, .. before reaching plugin logic)
- Strip after_install_path from install response (no internal paths to client)
- Update nix/tui.nix lockfile hash to match committed package-lock.json
- New PluginsPage.tsx: full plugin management UI (list, enable/disable,
install from git, remove, git pull updates, provider picker)
- Backend: dashboard_set_agent_plugin_enabled now also toggles the
plugin's toolset in platform_toolsets so enabling actually makes
tools visible in agent sessions
- Backend: /api/dashboard/plugins/hub returns auth_required + auth_command
per plugin (checks tool registry check_fn)
- Frontend: auth_required shown as Badge + CommandBlock with copy-able
auth command
- Fix: Select overflow in providers card (min-w-0 grid cells, removed
truncate/overflow-hidden that clipped dropdown)
- Refactor: _install_plugin_core extracted for non-interactive reuse,
PluginOperationError for structured error handling
- i18n: en/zh/types updated with all new plugin page strings
the esbuild pipeline (scripts/build.mjs) already bundles ink into a
single self-contained dist/entry.js.
remove the Dockerfile steps that manually copied packages/hermes-ink
into node_modules/@hermes/ink and ran a nested
npm install there.
- Dockerfile: simplify TUI build step to just 'npm run build'
- hermes_cli/main.py: _tui_build_needed now checks dist/entry.js
staleness against source files before falling back to the old
ink-bundle.js logic
- tests: update TUI npm install tests and drop the Dockerfile contract
test for the removed ink materialization step
Replace the tsc + babel pipeline with a single esbuild invocation that
produces a self-contained dist/entry.js. The nix TUI derivation no
longer copies node_modules — only dist/ + package.json ship, shrinking
the output from hundreds of MB to ~2.9 MB.
- ui-tui/scripts/build.mjs: new esbuild bundler. Aliases @hermes/ink
to source (esbuild's __esm helper doesn't await nested async init,
which breaks lazy-assigned exports like 'render' when re-exporting
through a prebuilt submodule). Stubs react-devtools-core (dev-only).
Injects a createRequire shim for transitive CJS deps. Strips the
shebang from src/entry.tsx because Nix patchShebangs mangles
'/usr/bin/env -S node --max-old-space-size=8192 --expose-gc' — it
drops the 'node' token. The Python launcher always invokes node
explicitly, so the shebang is redundant.
- nix/tui.nix: installPhase no longer copies node_modules or the
@hermes/ink packages dir.
- nix/checks.nix: drop the 'node_modules present' assertion.
- hermes_cli/main.py: _tui_need_npm_install short-circuits when
dist/entry.js exists and no package-lock.json is present. That is
the prebuilt-bundle layout (nix / packaged release) and there is
nothing to install. Without this, the launcher tried to npm install
in a non-existent site-packages/ui-tui path.
Alongside the existing 'least recently used' section, surface two more
rankings so users can see which of their agent-created skills actually
get exercised:
- 'most used (top 5)' — sorted by use_count descending. Hidden when every
skill has use_count=0 (noise suppression on fresh installs).
- 'least used (top 5)' — sorted by use_count ascending. Always shown
when the catalog is non-empty.
use_count started tracking real agent skill activation in PR #17932
(bump_use wired into skill_view tool + slash invocation + --skill
preload), so these rankings are now meaningful.
Tests: 3 new in tests/hermes_cli/test_curator_status.py — happy path
with mixed use_counts, zero-use suppression of the most-used section,
and the no-skills clean-empty case.
Treat skill views and edits as activity when curator reports and applies lifecycle transitions, so recently loaded or patched skills are not displayed or transitioned as never used.\n\nAdds regression tests for activity derivation, automatic transitions, and CLI status output.
Three fixes bundled for curator reliability on existing installs and
broken/partial installs:
1. run_agent.py: defer `import fire` into the __main__ block. `fire` is
only used by `fire.Fire(main)` when running run_agent.py directly as
a CLI — it is NOT needed for library usage. Importing it at module
top made `from run_agent import AIAgent` from a daemon thread (e.g.
the curator's forked review agent) crash with ModuleNotFoundError
on broken/partial installs where `fire` isn't present.
2. hermes_cli/config.py: add version 22 → 23 migration that writes the
`curator` + `auxiliary.curator` sections to config.yaml with their
defaults, only filling keys the user hasn't overridden. Existing
configs from before PR #16049 / the April 2026 `auxiliary.curator`
unification had neither section on disk, so users couldn't see or
edit the settings in their config.yaml (runtime deep-merge papered
over it at read time, but the file never reflected reality).
3. hermes_cli/config.py: `ensure_hermes_home()` now pre-creates
`~/.hermes/logs/curator/` alongside cron/sessions/logs/memories on
every CLI launch. Managed-mode (NixOS) variant mkdir's it
defensively after the activation-script existence checks, since the
activation script may not know about this subpath.
4. agent/curator.py: `_reports_root()` mkdir's the dir at call time as
belt-and-suspenders for entry paths that bypass both
ensure_hermes_home() and the v23 migration (gateway-only installs,
bare library use).
E2E validated in isolated HERMES_HOME: fresh install gets full defaults
seeded; partial-override config keeps user's `enabled: false` and
custom `interval_hours` while filling the missing keys; re-running the
migration is a no-op.
_set_nested unconditionally replaced any non-dict value with an empty
dict when walking the dotted path, which silently destroyed list-typed
config nodes the moment someone set a value with a numeric index
(e.g. 'hermes config set custom_providers.0.api_key NEW'). Any sibling
entries and any fields inside the targeted entry that the user didn't
write were lost.
Fix:
- _set_nested now detects list nodes and navigates by numeric index,
and preserves both dicts AND lists at intermediate positions (scalars
are still replaced so bare-scalar -> nested overrides keep working).
- set_config_value drops its duplicated navigation logic and calls
_set_nested instead -- single source of truth for the rules.
Regression tests (tests/hermes_cli/test_set_config_value.py):
- test_indexed_set_preserves_sibling_list_entries -- exact #17876 repro
- test_indexed_set_preserves_non_targeted_fields -- inner-dict fields survive
- test_deeper_nesting_through_list -- dict -> list -> dict -> scalar path
35/35 existing + new tests pass.
E2E-verified with the issue's repro against a real on-disk config.yaml --
list stays a list, entry 0 updated, entry 1 intact.
Closes#17876
When hermes model picker switches to a custom_providers entry, the slug
assignment can write the literal string 'custom' to model.provider if a
prior failed switch already left that value in config.yaml.
Two fixes:
1. model_switch.py: filter out bare 'custom' in slug assignment, always
resolve to canonical custom:<name> form
2. providers.py: resolve_custom_provider() self-heals bare 'custom' by
falling back to the first valid custom_providers entry
Closes#17478
When a user sets model.context_length in config.yaml, the value was only
used for Hermes' internal compression decisions (context_compressor) but
NOT for Ollama's num_ctx parameter. Ollama auto-detects context from GGUF
metadata (often 256K+) and allocates that much VRAM regardless of the
user's config — causing OOM on smaller GPUs like the P100 (16GB).
Root cause: two separate context values existed independently:
- context_compressor.context_length = config value (e.g. 65536) ✓
- _ollama_num_ctx = GGUF metadata value (e.g. 256000) ✗ ignored config
Changes:
1. Cap Ollama num_ctx to config context_length (run_agent.py)
When model.context_length is explicitly set and no explicit
ollama_num_ctx override exists, cap the auto-detected GGUF value
to the user's context_length. This is the core fix — it prevents
Ollama from allocating more VRAM than the user budgeted.
2. Pass config_context_length through all secondary call sites
Several paths called get_model_context_length() without the config
override, falling through to the 256K default fallback:
- cli.py: @-reference expansion and /model switch display
- gateway/run.py: @-reference expansion and /model switch display
- tui_gateway/server.py: @-reference expansion
- hermes_cli/model_switch.py: resolve_display_context_length()
3. Normalize root-level context_length in config (hermes_cli/config.py)
_normalize_root_model_keys() now migrates root-level context_length
into the model section, matching existing behavior for provider and
base_url. Users who wrote `context_length: 65536` at the YAML root
instead of under `model:` had it silently ignored.
4. Fix misleading comments (agent/model_metadata.py)
DEFAULT_FALLBACK_CONTEXT is 256K (CONTEXT_PROBE_TIERS[0]), not 128K
as two comments stated.
Tests: 3 new tests for root-level context_length normalization.
All existing context_length tests pass (96 tests).
Merge resolved conflicts in web/src/{i18n/{en,zh,types}.ts,lib/api.ts}
by keeping both this branch's `profiles` additions and upstream's new
`models` page additions.
Copilot review feedback:
- Implement POST /api/profiles/{name}/open-terminal endpoint (already
present); align Windows branch to `cmd.exe /c start "" <cmd>` so it
matches the new test and spawns a fresh window instead of /k reusing
the parent console.
- Move backslash escaping out of the macOS AppleScript f-string
expression (Python <3.12 disallows backslashes inside f-string
expression parts).
- Patch `_get_wrapper_dir` via monkeypatch in
test_profiles_create_creates_wrapper_alias_when_safe so the test no
longer writes to the real `~/.local/bin`.
- Extend test_dashboard_browser_safe_imports to scan `.ts` files in
addition to `.tsx`.
- Switch upstream's new ModelsPage.tsx away from the `@nous-research/ui`
root barrel onto per-component subpaths to satisfy the stricter scan.
- Fix NouiTypography `leading-1.4` -> `leading-[1.4]` so Tailwind
actually emits the line-height for the `sm` variant.
- Guard ProfilesPage.openSoulEditor against out-of-order responses by
tracking the latest requested profile via a ref.
- Replace ProfilesPage's hand-rolled setup command with a fetch to
`/api/profiles/{name}/setup-command` so the copied command always
matches what the backend would actually run (handles wrapper-alias
collisions and reserved names correctly).
- Wire SOUL.md textarea label `htmlFor` -> textarea `id` so screen
readers and clicking the label work as expected.
The v11→v12 migrate_config step writes the API mode for every entry
under the new transport: field (per the v12+ schema in
_normalize_custom_provider_entry). _get_named_custom_provider
read the legacy api_mode: spelling only, so for every migrated
config the lookup returned None for the api mode.
Downstream, _resolve_named_custom_runtime then falls back through
custom_provider.get("api_mode") or _detect_api_mode_for_url(base_url)
or "chat_completions". For loopback URLs (proxies, local servers)
or unknown hostnames, the URL detector returns None and the resolver
silently downgrades the configured codex_responses /
anthropic_messages transport to chat_completions. Requests
get sent to /v1/chat/completions instead of /v1/responses or
/v1/messages and the provider 404s — or worse, returns a usable
chat_completions response while skipping the model's reasoning /
caching surface.
Fix: read both field names — entry.get("api_mode") or
entry.get("transport") — at the two match-by-key + match-by-name
branches in _get_named_custom_provider. The runtime normaliser
_normalize_custom_provider_entry already accepts both spellings;
this lifts the same compat into the direct-dict reader so v12+
configs work without going through the shim.
Adds three regression tests under
tests/hermes_cli/test_user_providers_model_switch.py:
- transport field is read on the match-by-key branch
- legacy api_mode spelling still works for hand-edited configs
- transport is read on the match-by-display-name branch
Piper (OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl) is a fast, local neural TTS engine from the
Home Assistant project that supports 44 languages with zero API keys.
Adds it as a native built-in provider alongside edge/neutts/kittentts,
installable via 'hermes tools' with one keystroke.
What ships:
- New 'piper' built-in provider in tools/tts_tool.py
- Lazy import via _import_piper()
- Module-level voice cache keyed on (model_path, use_cuda) so switching
voices doesn't invalidate older cached voices
- _resolve_piper_voice_path() accepts either an absolute .onnx path or a
voice name (auto-downloaded on first use via 'python -m
piper.download_voices --download-dir <cache>')
- Voice cache at ~/.hermes/cache/piper-voices/ (profile-aware via
get_hermes_dir)
- Optional SynthesisConfig knobs: length_scale, noise_scale,
noise_w_scale, volume, normalize_audio, use_cuda — passed through
only when configured, so older piper-tts versions aren't broken
- WAV output then ffmpeg conversion path (same as neutts/kittentts) so
Telegram voice bubbles work when ffmpeg is present
- Piper added to BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS so a user's
tts.providers.piper.command cannot shadow the native provider
(regression test included)
- 'hermes tools' wizard entry
- Piper appears under Voice and TTS as local free, with
'pip install piper-tts' auto-install via post_setup handler
- Prints voice-catalog URL and default-voice info after install
- config.yaml defaults
- tts.piper.voice defaults to en_US-lessac-medium
- Commented advanced knobs for discoverability
- Docs
- New 'Piper (local, 44 languages)' section in features/tts.md
explaining install path, voice switching, pre-downloaded voices,
and advanced knobs
- Piper listed in the ten-provider table and ffmpeg table
- Custom-command-providers section updated to drop the Piper example
(now native) and add a piper-custom example for users with their own
trained .onnx models
- overview.md bumps provider count to ten
- Tests (tests/tools/test_tts_piper.py, 16 tests)
- Registration (BUILTIN_TTS_PROVIDERS, PROVIDER_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH)
- _resolve_piper_voice_path across every branch: direct .onnx path,
cached voice name, fresh download with correct CLI args, download
failure, successful-exit-but-missing-files, empty voice to default
- _generate_piper_tts: loads voice once, reuses cache, voice-name
download wiring, advanced knobs flow through SynthesisConfig
- text_to_speech_tool end-to-end dispatch and missing-package error
- check_tts_requirements: piper availability toggles the return value
- Regression guard: piper cannot be shadowed by a command provider
with the same name
- Pre-existing test_tts_mistral test broadened to mock the new
piper/kittentts/command-provider checks (otherwise it false-passes
when piper is installed in the test venv)
E2E verification (live):
Actual pip install piper-tts, config piper + en_US-lessac-low,
text_to_speech_tool call, voice auto-downloaded from HuggingFace,
WAV synthesized, ffmpeg-converted to Ogg/Opus. Second call hits the
cache (~60ms). Cache dir populated with .onnx and .onnx.json.
This caught a real bug during development: the first pass used '-d' as
the download-dir flag; the actual piper.download_voices CLI wants
'--download-dir'. Fixed before PR opened.
Voscko reported curator.auxiliary.provider/model was advertised in the
docs but ignored — the review fork read only model.provider/default. The
narrow fix would wire the one-off key through, but that leaves curator
as a parallel system: not in `hermes model` → auxiliary picker, not in
the dashboard Models tab, missing per-task base_url/api_key/timeout/
extra_body.
Unify curator with the rest of the aux task system so `hermes model`
and the dashboard configure it like every other aux task.
Four sources of truth updated:
- hermes_cli/config.py — add 'curator' slot to DEFAULT_CONFIG.auxiliary
(timeout=600 since reviews run long), drop the one-off curator.auxiliary
block from DEFAULT_CONFIG.curator.
- hermes_cli/main.py — add ('curator', 'Curator', 'skill-usage review pass')
to _AUX_TASKS so the CLI picker offers it.
- hermes_cli/web_server.py — add 'curator' to _AUX_TASK_SLOTS so the
dashboard REST endpoint accepts it.
- web/src/pages/ModelsPage.tsx — add Curator entry so the dashboard
Models tab renders the task.
agent/curator.py _resolve_review_model() now reads auxiliary.curator
first (canonical), falls back to legacy curator.auxiliary (with an info
log asking users to migrate), then falls back to the main chat model.
Pre-unification users keep working.
Docs updated: docs/user-guide/features/curator.md now points at
`hermes model` → auxiliary → Curator and the dashboard Models tab.
Tests: 6 unit tests on _resolve_review_model (auto default, canonical
slot honored, partial override fallback, legacy fallback with
deprecation log assertion, new-wins-over-legacy, empty-config safety)
plus a cross-registry test that curator is wired into all four sources
of truth. test_aux_tasks_keys_all_exist_in_default_config already
covers the DEFAULT_CONFIG ↔ _AUX_TASKS invariant.
Reported by Voscko on Discord.
Seed the tips corpus with the knobs users can turn to reduce token
spend: hermes tools / hermes skills config to trim surface area,
/reasoning low|minimal to dial thinking depth down from the medium
default, and hermes models to route auxiliary tasks (vision, compression,
title gen, session_search) to cheaper backends while the main chat model
stays intact.
Requested by @micheltamanda under Teknium's tip-of-the-day tweet.
`hermes dashboard` is a long-lived foreground server that users often
start and forget about, sometimes in a shell they've since closed. We
didn't have a way to stop it — users had to find the PID manually.
Adds two lifecycle flags that reuse the same detection + termination
path the post-`hermes update` cleanup (PR #17832) uses:
hermes dashboard --status
List running hermes dashboard processes with PID + cmdline.
Exit 0, informational.
hermes dashboard --stop
Terminate all running dashboards (3s grace then force-kill survivors).
Exit 0 if none remain, 1 if any couldn't be stopped.
Windows uses `taskkill /F` as before.
Both flags short-circuit before any fastapi/uvicorn import so they work
even on installations where the dashboard extras aren't installed —
useful when you're cleaning up after uninstalling.
The kill helper gained an optional `reason=...` param so the output
reads "(requested via --stop)" instead of the post-update-specific
"running backend no longer matches the updated frontend" wording.
E2E: `hermes dashboard --status` with nothing running prints the
empty message; with a fake `hermes dashboard ...` cmdline spawned via
`exec -a`, `--status` lists it, `--stop` terminates it (exit -15),
and a follow-up `--status` returns empty.
`hermes update` previously just printed a warning when it detected a
running `hermes dashboard` process from the previous version, telling
the user to kill and restart it themselves. In practice dashboards get
started and forgotten, so the warning was routinely ignored and users
ended up with a silent frontend/backend mismatch (new JS bundle served
against the old in-memory Python backend, e.g. new auth headers the old
code doesn't recognise → every API call 401s).
The dashboard has no service manager, no PID file, and we don't record
the original launch args (--host, --port, --insecure, --tui, --no-open)
so we can't auto-restart it. But we CAN stop it, which is what the
user wants — the failure mode when the stale process is left alive is
worse than the dashboard just being down.
- POSIX: SIGTERM, poll for ~3s, SIGKILL any survivors.
- Windows: `taskkill /PID <pid> /F`.
- Print each PID's outcome plus a one-line restart hint.
- Detection logic is unchanged (same ps / wmic scan, same guards
against the `pgrep -f` greedy-match trap from #16872 and the
#17049 wmic UnicodeDecodeError fix).
Also split the old monolithic `_warn_stale_dashboard_processes` into
`_find_stale_dashboard_pids` (scan) + `_kill_stale_dashboard_processes`
(kill), keeping the old name as an alias so any external callers still
work.
E2E verified: spawned a fake `hermes dashboard` cmdline via
`exec -a 'hermes dashboard …' sleep 300`, ran
`_kill_stale_dashboard_processes()`, confirmed SIGTERM exit (-15)
and that a post-scan returns an empty PID list.
_get_platform_tools() correctly fell back to f"hermes-{platform}" for
unknown (plugin) platforms when building toolset_names, but then
unconditionally used PLATFORMS[platform] again for platform_tool_universe,
causing KeyError for any plugin-registered platform like Teams.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dashboard Models page was analytics-only — no way to pick a model as main
for new sessions or override an auxiliary task slot without hand-editing
config.yaml or running a /model slash command inside a chat.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: three REST endpoints (GET /api/model/options,
GET /api/model/auxiliary, POST /api/model/set). Reuses
list_authenticated_providers() from model_switch.py so the REST path
surfaces the same curated model lists as the TUI-gateway model.options
JSON-RPC. POST /api/model/set writes model.provider + model.default for
scope=main, and auxiliary.<task>.{provider,model} for scope=auxiliary
(with task="" meaning 'all 8 slots' and task="__reset__" resetting them
to auto).
- web/src/components/ModelPickerDialog.tsx: accepts an optional loader +
onApply pair so it works without an open chat PTY. ChatSidebar's
gw-WebSocket path still works unchanged (back-compat).
- web/src/pages/ModelsPage.tsx: Model Settings panel at the top showing
main model + collapsible list of 8 auxiliary tasks with per-row Change
buttons and Reset all to auto. Every existing model card gets a
'Use as' dropdown for one-click assignment to main or any aux slot.
Cards badged 'main' or 'aux · <task>' when currently assigned.
- website/docs/user-guide/configuring-models.md: new docs page walking
through both UI paths, aux task override patterns, troubleshooting,
plus REST/CLI alternatives.
- Screenshots under website/static/img/docs/dashboard-models/.
Applies to new sessions only — running sessions keep their model (use
/model slash command to hot-swap a live session). No prompt-cache
invalidation on existing sessions.
Dashboard plugin API routes (web_server._mount_plugin_api_routes) and
gateway event hooks (gateway.hooks.HookRegistry.discover_and_load) both
loaded Python files via importlib.util.spec_from_file_location +
exec_module without registering the resulting module in sys.modules.
That breaks any plugin or hook handler that uses `from __future__ import
annotations` together with a Pydantic BaseModel / dataclass / anything
that introspects `__module__`: at first request Pydantic tries to
resolve string-form type hints against the defining module's namespace,
can't find it by name, and raises:
PydanticUserError: TypeAdapter[...] is not fully defined;
you should define ... and all referenced types,
then call `.rebuild()` on the instance.
This is what broke the kanban dashboard's 'triage' button — POST
/api/plugins/kanban/tasks validated against CreateTaskBody (a Pydantic
model in a file using `from __future__ import annotations`) and
returned 500 on every click.
The fix, applied symmetrically to both loaders:
1. Compute module_name once.
2. Register the module in sys.modules BEFORE exec_module.
3. On exec_module failure, pop the half-initialized stub so subsequent
reloads don't pick up broken state.
GETs were unaffected because they don't build a body TypeAdapter, which
is why this only surfaced when users started POSTing.
Keep context-1m-2025-08-07 in OAuth requests by default so 1M-capable
subscriptions retain full context. When Anthropic rejects a request with
400 'long context beta is not yet available for this subscription',
disable the beta for the rest of the session, rebuild the client, and
retry once.
Addresses #17680 (thanks @JayGwod for the clean reproduction) without
forcing every OAuth user off the 1M context window.
Changes:
- agent/error_classifier.py: new FailoverReason.oauth_long_context_beta_forbidden;
pattern matches 400 + 'long context beta' + 'not yet available'. Narrow
enough that the existing 429 tier-gate pattern keeps its own reason.
- agent/anthropic_adapter.py: _common_betas_for_base_url,
build_anthropic_client, build_anthropic_kwargs gain drop_context_1m_beta
kwarg. Default=False (1M stays). OAuth OAUTH_ONLY_BETAS unchanged.
- agent/transports/anthropic.py: build_kwargs forwards the flag.
- run_agent.py: self._oauth_1m_beta_disabled flag, retry-once guard,
recovery branch next to the image-shrink path. _rebuild_anthropic_client
honors the flag. The main build_kwargs call site threads it through for
fast-mode extra_headers.
- hermes_cli/doctor.py, hermes_cli/models.py: sibling OAuth /v1/models
probes get the same reactive retry — previously they'd falsely report
the Anthropic API as unreachable for affected subscriptions.
Tests: 2190 tests/agent/ + 94 adjacent integration tests pass. New unit
tests cover the classifier pattern (including the collision guard against
the 429 tier-gate) and the drop_context_1m_beta adapter behavior (default
keeps 1M, flag strips only 1M while preserving every other beta).
Platform plugins shipped in-repo under plugins/platforms/ should be
available out of the box — users shouldn't have to add 'irc-platform'
to plugins.enabled before they can pick IRC from the gateway setup menu.
Adds a new ``kind: platform`` plugin type that mirrors the existing
``kind: backend`` auto-load semantics:
- Bundled (shipped in the hermes-agent repo): auto-load unconditionally.
- User-installed (~/.hermes/plugins/): still opt-in via plugins.enabled
so untrusted code doesn't silently run.
Changes:
* hermes_cli/plugins.py: add 'platform' to _VALID_PLUGIN_KINDS, document
the new kind in the PluginManifest docstring, extend the bundled auto-
load rule from 'backend only' to 'backend or platform'.
* plugins/platforms/irc/plugin.yaml: declare kind: platform.
* hermes_cli/gateway.py: remove the now-redundant
_load_bundled_platform_plugins_for_enumeration() helper and the
_enable_plugin_for_platform() helper. The setup menu's _all_platforms()
just calls discover_plugins() and reads the registry — bundled
platforms are already loaded at that point. Drops the 'needs_enable'
flag and the 'plugin disabled — select to enable' status string.
* hermes_cli/setup.py: relax the "gateway is configured" detector used
during OpenClaw migration. Switching to _platform_status() in an
earlier commit tightened the check to require an exact "configured"
match, dropping platforms whose status is "enabled, not paired",
"partially configured", "configured + E2EE", etc. Now any non-"not
configured" status counts — the user has already started setup there
and we shouldn't force the section to rerun.
* tests/hermes_cli/test_setup_irc.py: drop the TestIRCPluginDisabledFlow
class and test_configure_platform_enables_disabled_plugin_first — the
no-longer-existent flow they were testing.
* tests/hermes_cli/test_setup_openclaw_migration.py: patch both
setup.get_env_value and gateway.get_env_value in the 4 gateway-section
tests that reach _platform_status() through the unified setup flow;
switch WHATSAPP_ENABLED to the literal "true" in the registry-parity
test so WhatsApp's value-shape validator matches.
Verified via fresh-install smoke (empty plugins.enabled, no env vars):
IRC plugin loads, Platform('irc') resolves, _all_platforms() lists IRC
with status 'not configured'. 160 targeted tests pass.
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.
Merge the two gateway setup paths (hermes setup gateway + hermes gateway
setup) to use a single _unified_platforms() list that merges built-in
_PLATFORMS with dynamically registered plugin entries from
platform_registry.
- Add setup_fn field to PlatformEntry for plugin setup flows
- _unified_platforms() merges built-ins with registry entries by key
- setup_gateway() now uses unified list instead of hardcoded
_GATEWAY_PLATFORMS tuple list
- gateway_setup() uses same unified list, plugin entries appear
alongside built-ins with no [plugin] suffix
- _platform_status() handles plugin platforms via registry check_fn
- Plugin platforms with setup_fn get called directly; plugins without
get a generic env-var display fallback
IRC and other plugin platforms now appear automatically in the setup
menu when registered via platform_registry.register().
feat(gateway): surface disabled platform plugins in setup and auto-enable on select
Platform plugins under plugins/platforms/* (IRC, etc.) were gated behind
plugins.enabled, so `hermes gateway setup` wouldn't list them until the
user ran `hermes plugins enable <name>` first. Now the setup menu always
surfaces them as "plugin disabled — select to enable", and picking one
adds it to plugins.enabled before running its setup flow.
Along the way, unify the two gateway setup flows so `hermes setup gateway`
and `hermes gateway setup` both read from the same platform list (built-in
_PLATFORMS + platform_registry entries), dispatch through a single
_configure_platform() helper, and share _platform_status(). Deletes the
dead bespoke wrappers in setup.py (_setup_whatsapp, _setup_weixin,
_setup_email, etc.) that duplicated logic now covered by the registry
path or _setup_standard_platform.
Also:
- PlatformEntry gains a plugin_name field so the registry knows which
plugin owns each entry (required for auto-enable).
- PluginContext.register_platform auto-stamps plugin_name from the
manifest so plugins don't have to pass it explicitly.
- PluginManager now scans plugins/platforms/* as its own category root,
one level below the bundled plugin scan.
- Fix IRC plugin discovery: rename PLUGIN.yaml → plugin.yaml (the
scanner is case-sensitive) and add the missing __init__.py that
_load_directory_module requires.
Plugin platforms now get full toolset support without any entries in
toolsets.py.
tools_config._get_platform_tools(): Falls back to 'hermes-<name>'
when the platform isn't in the static PLATFORMS dict. No more
KeyError for plugin platforms.
toolsets.resolve_toolset(): Auto-generates a toolset for plugin
platforms (hermes-<name>) containing _HERMES_CORE_TOOLS plus any
tools the plugin registered into a matching toolset name. This means
a plugin can call ctx.register_tool(toolset='irc', ...) and those
tools will be included in the hermes-irc toolset automatically.
webhook.py: Registry-aware cross-platform delivery.
run_agent.py: Platform hints from plugin registry.
IRC adapter: Token lock + platform hint.
Removed dead token-empty-warning extension.
Updated docs.
Extends the platform plugin interface from Phase 1 to cover every
touchpoint where built-in platforms have hardcoded behavior.
- allowed_users_env / allow_all_env: per-platform auth env vars
- max_message_length: smart-chunking for send_message tool
- pii_safe: session PII redaction flag
- emoji: CLI/gateway display
- allow_update_command: /update access control
send_message tool (tools/send_message_tool.py):
- Replaced hardcoded platform_map dict with Platform() call
- Added _send_via_adapter() for plugin platforms — routes through
live gateway adapter when available
- Registry-aware max message length for smart chunking
Cron delivery (cron/scheduler.py):
- Replaced hardcoded 15-entry platform_map with Platform() call
- Plugin platforms now work as cron delivery targets
User authorization (gateway/run.py _is_user_authorized):
- Registry fallback: checks PlatformEntry.allowed_users_env and
allow_all_env when platform not in hardcoded maps
- Plugin platforms get per-platform auth support
_UPDATE_ALLOWED_PLATFORMS: checks registry allow_update_command flag
Channel directory: includes plugin platforms in session enumeration
Orphaned config warning: descriptive message when plugin platform is
in config but no plugin registered it
Gateway weakref: _gateway_runner_ref for cross-module adapter access
hermes status: shows plugin platforms with (plugin) tag
hermes gateway setup: plugin platforms appear in menu with setup hints
hermes_cli/platforms.py: get_all_platforms() merges with registry,
platform_label() falls back to registry for plugin names
- 8 new tests (extended fields, cron resolution, platforms merge)
- Updated 3 tests for new Platform() based resolution
- 2829 passed, 24 pre-existing failures, zero new failures
Adds a platform adapter plugin interface so anyone can create new gateway
platforms (IRC, Viber, Line, etc.) as drop-in plugins without modifying
core gateway code.
- PlatformEntry dataclass: name, label, adapter_factory, check_fn,
validate_config, required_env, install_hint, source
- PlatformRegistry singleton with register/unregister/create_adapter
- _create_adapter() in gateway/run.py checks registry first, falls
through to existing if/elif chain for built-in platforms
- Platform._missing_() accepts unknown string values, creating cached
pseudo-members so Platform('irc') is Platform('irc') holds true
- GatewayConfig.from_dict() now parses plugin platform names from
config.yaml without rejecting them
- get_connected_platforms() delegates to registry for unknown platforms
- PluginContext.register_platform() for plugin authors
- Mirrors the existing register_tool() / register_hook() pattern
- Full async IRC adapter using stdlib asyncio (zero external deps)
- Connects via TLS, handles PING/PONG, nick collision, NickServ auth
- Channel messages require addressing (nick: msg), DMs always dispatch
- Markdown stripping for IRC-clean output, message splitting for
512-byte line limit
- Config via config.yaml extra dict or IRC_* env vars
- Platform enum dynamic members (identity stability, case normalization)
- PlatformRegistry (register, unregister, create, validation, factory)
- GatewayConfig integration (from_dict parsing, get_connected_platforms)
- IRC adapter (init, send, protocol parsing, markdown, requirements)
No existing platform adapters were migrated — the if/elif chain is
untouched. This is Phase 1: prove the interface with a real plugin.
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).
Adds a public reload path for the in-process skill caches so newly
installed (or removed) skills become visible mid-session without a
gateway restart. Mirrors the shape of /reload-mcp.
Three surfaces:
* /reload-skills slash command — CLI (cli.py) and gateway (gateway/run.py),
with /reload_skills alias for Telegram autocomplete and an explicit
Discord registration.
* skills_reload agent tool (tools/skills_tool.py) — lets agents/subagents
pick up freshly-installed skills via tool call.
* agent.skill_commands.reload_skills() — shared helper that clears
_skill_commands, _SKILLS_PROMPT_CACHE (in-process LRU), and the
on-disk .skills_prompt_snapshot.json, then returns an added/removed
diff plus the new total count.
Tested:
* tests/agent/test_skill_commands_reload.py (9 cases)
* tests/cli/test_cli_reload_skills.py (3 cases)
* tests/gateway/test_reload_skills_command.py (4 cases)
Use case: NemoClaw / OpenShell-style sandboxed orchestrators that drop
skills into ~/.hermes/skills mid-session, plus agentic flows where the
agent itself installs a skill via the shell tool and needs it bound
without a gateway restart. The Python helper
clear_skills_system_prompt_cache(clear_snapshot=True) already exists
internally — this PR just exposes it via slash command and tool.
- SQL: add `model != ''` to both queries in /api/analytics/models so
sessions with empty-string model (pre-existing data integrity,
confirmed in production DB: ~107 sessions) no longer render as
blank-header cards.
- ModelsPage: drop the arbitrary slashIdx < 20 length gate in
shortModelName / modelProvider. The gate was fragile for longer
vendor prefixes (e.g. `deepseek-ai/...`). Strip on the first /
unconditionally. Rename modelProvider -> modelVendor to avoid
confusion with the billing provider column.
- scripts/release.py: add AUTHOR_MAP entry for yatesjalex.
- New /models page in left nav (after Analytics)
- New /api/analytics/models endpoint with per-model token/cost/session
breakdown, cache read/reasoning tokens, tool calls, avg tokens/session,
and capabilities from models.dev (vision/tools/reasoning/context window)
- Model cards with stacked token distribution bar, capability badges,
provider badges, cost info, and relative time
- Summary stats bar (models used, total tokens, est. cost, sessions)
- Period selector (7d/30d/90d) with refresh
- i18n support (en + zh)
Pull the top-level + chat parser construction out of main() into
hermes_cli/_parser.py so relaunch.py can introspect parser._actions to
discover which flags exist and whether they take values, instead of
maintaining a parallel hand-rolled (flag, takes_value) tuple list.
- _parser.py: build_top_level_parser() returns (parser, subparsers,
chat_parser); side-effect-free import.
- main.py: ~290 lines of inline parser construction collapsed to a
helper call. Other subparsers stay inline (dispatch is bound to
module-level cmd_* functions).
- _parser._inherited_flag(parser, ...): wraps parser.add_argument and
sets action.inherit_on_relaunch = True. Used in place of
parser.add_argument for the 25 flags (top-level + chat) that need to
carry over.
- _parser.PRE_ARGPARSE_INHERITED_FLAGS: holds --profile/-p, which
isn't on argparse (consumed earlier by main._apply_profile_override).
- relaunch.py: drops _CRITICAL_DESTS and _PRE_ARGPARSE_FLAGS; the table
builder now filters by getattr(action, 'inherit_on_relaunch', False).
- test_ignore_user_config_flags.py: brittle inspect.getsource grep
replaced with proper parser introspection.
- test_relaunch.py: introspection sanity tests added.
Salvaged from PR #17549; added top-level -t/--toolsets flag to
_parser.py so #17623 (fix(tui): honor launch toolsets) behavior is
preserved on current main.
Co-authored-by: ethernet <arilotter@gmail.com>
Extract all os.execvp('hermes', ...) calls into a utility so flags like
--tui, --dev, --profile, --model, --provider, et al. survive session
resume and post-setup relaunch.
- resolve_hermes_bin: prefers sys.argv[0] when callable, then PATH,
then falls back to '${sys.executable} -m hermes_cli.main' (fixes nix
run relaunches)
- build_relaunch_argv: allowlists critical flags so they carry over
- cmd_sessions browse now calls relaunch(['--resume', <id>])
- _apply_profile_override skips redundant work when HERMES_HOME is
already set (child inherits parent profile)
- setup.py replaces _resolve_hermes_chat_argv with relaunch_chat()
- added comprehensive tests for flag extraction and binary resolution
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI Tests workflow has been red on main for 40+ consecutive runs. This
commit recovers every failure visible in run 25130722163 (most recent
completed run prior to this PR).
Root causes, by group:
Test-mock drift after product landed (fix: update mocks)
- test_mcp_structured_content / test_mcp_dynamic_discovery (6 tests):
product added _rpc_lock (#02ae15222) and _schedule_tools_refresh
(#1350d12b0) without updating sibling test files. Install a real
asyncio.Lock inside the fake run-loop and patch at _schedule_tools_refresh.
- test_session.py: renamed normalize_whatsapp_identifier → canonical_
whatsapp_identifier upstream; keep a local alias so the legacy tests
keep working.
- test_run_progress_topics Slack DM test: PR #8006 made Slack default
tool_progress=off; explicitly set it to 'all' in the test fixture so
the progress-callback path still runs. Also read tool_progress_callback
at call time rather than freezing it in FakeAgent.__init__ — production
assigns it AFTER construction.
- test_tui_gateway_server session-create/close race: session.create now
defers _start_agent_build behind a 50ms timer — wait for the build
thread to enter _make_agent before closing, otherwise the orphan-
cleanup path never runs.
- test_protocol session.resume: product get_messages_as_conversation now
takes include_ancestors kwarg; accept **_kwargs in the test stub.
- test_copilot_acp_client redaction: redactor is OFF by default (snapshots
HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS at import); patch agent.redact._REDACT_ENABLED=True
for the duration of the test.
- test_minimax_provider: after #17171, dots in non-Anthropic model names
stay dots even with preserve_dots=False. Assert the new invariant
rather than the old 'broken for MiniMax' behavior.
- test_update_autostash: updater now scans `ps -A` for dashboard PIDs;
the test's catch-all subprocess.run stub needed stdout/stderr fields.
- test_accretion_caps: read_timestamps dict is populated lazily when
os.path.getmtime succeeds. Use .get("read_timestamps", {}) to tolerate
CI filesystems where the stat races file creation.
Change-detector tests (fix: rewrite as structural invariants)
- test_credential_sources_registry_has_expected_steps: was a frozen set
comparison that broke when minimax-oauth was added. Rewrite as an
invariant check (every step has description, no dupes, core steps
present) per AGENTS.md 'don't write change-detector tests'.
xdist ordering / test pollution (fix: reset state, use module-local patches)
- test_setup vercel: sibling test saved VERCEL_PROJECT_ID='project' to
os.environ via save_env_value() and never cleared it. monkeypatch.delenv
the VERCEL_* vars in the link-file test.
- test_clipboard TestIsWsl: GitHub Actions is on Azure VMs whose real
/proc/version often contains 'microsoft'. Patching builtins.open with
mock_open didn't reliably intercept hermes_constants.is_wsl's call in
xdist workers that had already cached _wsl_detected=True from an
earlier test. Patch hermes_constants.open directly and add
teardown_method to reset the cache after each test.
Pytest-asyncio cancellation hangs (fix: bound product await with timeout)
- test_session_split_brain_11016 (3 params) + test_gateway_shutdown
cancel-inflight: under pytest-asyncio 1.3.0, 'await task' and
'asyncio.gather(cancelled_tasks)' can stall for 30s when the cancelled
task's finally block awaits typing-task cleanup. Bound both with
asyncio.wait_for(..., timeout=5.0) and asyncio.shield — the stragglers
are released from adapter tracking and allowed to finish unwinding in
the background. This is also a legitimate hardening: a wedged finally
shouldn't stall the caller's dispatch or a gateway shutdown.
Orphan UI config (fix: merge tiny tab into messaging category)
- test_web_server test_no_single_field_categories: the telegram.reactions
config field lived in its own 'telegram' schema category with no
siblings. Fold it under 'discord' via _CATEGORY_MERGE so the dashboard
doesn't render an orphan single-field tab.
Local verification: 38/38 originally-failing tests pass; 4044/4044
gateway tests pass; 684/684 targeted subset (all 16 touched test files)
passes.
check_for_updates() looked at __file__.parent.parent for a .git dir to
diff against origin/main. A nix-built hermes lives in /nix/store with
no .git there, so the check fell through to whatever editable-install
dev checkout last populated ~/.hermes/.update_check, producing stale
"X commits behind" warnings right after a fresh `nix run --refresh`.
Embed the locked flake rev into the wrapper as HERMES_REVISION (only
on
clean builds — dirty refs don't represent any upstream commit). When
set, banner.py compares it to upstream main via `git ls-remote`
instead
of inspecting a local checkout, and the cache key includes the rev so
nix updates invalidate immediately. Without local history we can't
count commits, so the message is a plain "update available" with no
suggested command — nix users may install via `nix run`, profile,
system flake, or home-manager, and we don't know which.
Also bump web/package-lock.json npmDepsHash via `nix run
.#fix-lockfiles`.
* fix(tui): honor launch toolsets
Carry chat --toolsets through the TUI launcher so TUI sessions use the same per-session tool scope as the classic CLI.
* fix(tui): parse top-level toolsets flag
Allow top-level hermes --tui --toolsets to reach the implicit chat session, matching chat subcommand behavior.
* fix(tui): validate launch toolsets
Filter invalid HERMES_TUI_TOOLSETS entries and fall back to configured CLI toolsets when the override contains no valid toolsets.
* fix(tui): avoid config load for builtin toolsets
Honor built-in HERMES_TUI_TOOLSETS values before loading config and treat all/* as the all-toolsets sentinel.
* fix(cli): honor toolsets in oneshot mode
Forward top-level --toolsets into oneshot agent construction so the flag is not silently ignored outside the TUI path.
* fix(cli): validate oneshot toolsets
Reject invalid-only oneshot toolset overrides before output redirection and clarify TUI fallback warnings.
* fix(cli): preserve all-toolsets sentinel
Map explicit all/* oneshot toolset overrides to the all-toolsets sentinel and replace locals() checks in TUI toolset loading.
* fix(cli): warn on extra all-toolset entries
Warn when all/* toolset overrides include additional ignored entries so typos are still visible.
* fix(tui): honor plugin toolset overrides
Discover plugin toolsets before rejecting unresolved explicit toolset overrides and read raw config for MCP name validation.
* fix(tui): reuse toolset argument normalizer
Share top-level TUI toolset argument parsing with the oneshot path to avoid duplicate normalization logic.
* fix(cli): reject disabled mcp toolsets
Validate explicit toolset overrides against enabled MCP servers only and clarify top-level toolset flag help.
* fix(cli): distinguish disabled mcp from unknown toolsets
Report disabled MCP servers separately from unknown toolset entries and stub plugin discovery in invalid-name tests for determinism.
shutil.copytree from default ~/.hermes duplicated ~/.hermes/profiles into
the new profile, causing nested profiles/.../profiles/... and huge disk use.
Match export behavior (_DEFAULT_EXPORT_EXCLUDE_ROOT) by ignoring the sibling
profiles tree at the source root.
Made-with: Cursor
Close integration gaps discovered by auditing qwen-oauth's file coverage.
These are surfaces the original salvage missed — they all existed on
main and were added in the 747 commits since PR #15203 was opened.
Coverage added:
- agent/credential_pool.py: seed pool from auth.json providers.minimax-oauth
so `hermes auth list` reflects logged-in state and
`hermes auth remove minimax-oauth <N>` works through the standard flow.
- agent/credential_sources.py: register RemovalStep for minimax-oauth
with suppression-aware `_clear_auth_store_provider`.
- agent/models_dev.py: PROVIDER_TO_MODELS_DEV mapping (-> 'minimax' family).
- hermes_cli/providers.py: HermesOverlay entry (anthropic_messages transport,
oauth_external auth_type, api.minimax.io/anthropic base).
- hermes_cli/model_normalize.py: add to _MATCHING_PREFIX_STRIP_PROVIDERS so
`minimax-oauth/MiniMax-M2.7` in config.yaml gets correctly repaired.
- hermes_cli/status.py: render MiniMax OAuth block in `hermes doctor`
(logged-in / region / expires_at / error).
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: register in OAUTH_PROVIDER_REGISTRY + dispatch
branch in _resolve_provider_status so the dashboard auth page shows it.
- website/docs/integrations/providers.md: full 'MiniMax (OAuth)' section.
- website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md: --provider enum.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/fallback-providers.md: fallback table row.
- scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP: amanning3390 mapping (CI gate).
Wire MiniMax-M2.7 and MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed into the model catalog,
CLI model picker, and agent auxiliary/metadata subsystems.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/models.py:
- Add 'minimax-oauth' to _PROVIDER_MODELS with MiniMax-M2.7 and
MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed
- Add ProviderEntry('minimax-oauth', 'MiniMax (OAuth)', ...) to
CANONICAL_PROVIDERS near existing minimax entries
- Add aliases: minimax-portal, minimax-global, minimax_oauth in
_PROVIDER_ALIASES
- hermes_cli/main.py:
- Add 'minimax-oauth' to provider_labels dict
- Insert 'minimax-oauth' into providers list in
select_provider_and_model() near the other minimax entries
- Add 'minimax-oauth' to --provider argparse choices
- Add _model_flow_minimax_oauth() function: ensures login via
_login_minimax_oauth(), resolves runtime credentials, prompts for
model selection, saves model choice and config
- Add dispatch elif branch for selected_provider == 'minimax-oauth'
- agent/auxiliary_client.py:
- Add 'minimax-oauth': 'MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed' to
_API_KEY_PROVIDER_AUX_MODELS
- Add 'minimax-oauth' to _ANTHROPIC_COMPAT_PROVIDERS set
- agent/model_metadata.py:
- Add 'minimax-oauth' to _PROVIDER_PREFIXES frozenset
- MiniMax-M2.7 context length (200_000) already covered by the
existing 'minimax' substring match in DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LENGTHS
When a user authenticates a built-in provider via env var (e.g. DASHSCOPE_API_KEY
triggers the built-in 'alibaba' row) AND defines a custom_providers entry
pointing at the same endpoint, the picker previously emitted two rows for one
endpoint. The built-in row already carries the canonical slug, curated model
list, and correct auth wiring, so the shadow custom entry is redundant.
Adds a _builtin_endpoints set populated as sections 1/2/2b emit rows. Each
entry is the provider's effective base URL (env override via base_url_env_var
wins over the static inference_base_url, so DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL-overridden
endpoints dedup correctly). Section 4 skips any grouped custom entry whose
base_url matches.
Intentionally does NOT repurpose model_catalog.enabled as a 'hide built-ins'
flag. That config controls the remote curated-manifest fetch (documented on
the model-catalog reference page) and overloading it would silently change
behavior for users who disable it for network/privacy reasons.
Three new tests:
- shadow dedup fires when endpoint matches static inference_base_url
- dedup does NOT hide custom entries on genuinely distinct endpoints
- dedup honors the base_url_env_var override path
Adds Vercel Sandbox as a supported Hermes terminal backend alongside
existing providers (Local, Docker, Modal, SSH, Daytona, Singularity).
Uses the Vercel Python SDK to create/manage cloud microVMs, supports
snapshot-based filesystem persistence keyed by task_id, and integrates
with the existing BaseEnvironment shell contract and FileSyncManager
for credential/skill syncing.
Based on #17127 by @scotttrinh, cherry-picked onto current main.
Pass encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore' and guard against result.stdout
being None so _scan_gateway_pids() no longer crashes with
UnicodeDecodeError + AttributeError on Windows systems whose default
code page is not UTF-8 (e.g. cp936 on zh-CN). The parser only matches
the ASCII prefixes CommandLine= and ProcessId=, so dropping undecodable
bytes is safe.
Closes#17049.
Two fix-ups for #17123:
1. Reword the inline comment in `_warn_stale_dashboard_processes` to
accurately describe the failure mode (locale-dependent decoder, not a
"default UTF-8 decoder") and identify `errors="ignore"` as the
load-bearing protection. Per Copilot's review.
2. Switch `TestWindowsWmicEncoding` from `patch("hermes_cli.main.sys")`
to `monkeypatch.setattr(sys, "platform", "win32")` — the codebase's
canonical pattern (e.g. `tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_ssl_macos.py`).
The MagicMock-replacement approach passed locally on Python 3.12 but
the platform-equality check failed under CI's xdist+Python 3.11,
leaving both new tests red despite the fix being present.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`hermes update` calls `_warn_stale_dashboard_processes()` to warn about
dashboard processes still running the pre-update Python backend. On
Windows, that scan shells out to `wmic process get ProcessId,CommandLine
/FORMAT:LIST` with `text=True` and no explicit encoding.
`wmic` emits text in the system code page (e.g. cp936 on zh-CN locales),
not UTF-8. Without an explicit `encoding=`, Python's default UTF-8
decoder crashes the subprocess reader thread with
`UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 ...`. In
Python 3.11 that crash is silently absorbed: `subprocess.run()` returns
a `CompletedProcess` with `result.stdout = None`, the next line calls
`result.stdout.split("\n")`, and `hermes update` aborts with the
exact `AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'`
trace reported in #17049.
Fix: pass `encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore"` so undecodable bytes
cannot take down the reader thread (the parsing only matches the ASCII
prefixes `CommandLine=` and `ProcessId=`, so dropping non-UTF-8 bytes
is safe), and short-circuit when `result.stdout is None` as a defensive
guard for environments where the reader thread still fails for other
reasons.
This is the same root cause as #17074 (which patches
`hermes_cli/gateway._scan_gateway_pids` for the `hermes setup` path).
That PR does not touch `_warn_stale_dashboard_processes`, so
`hermes update` remains broken on the same locales until this lands.
Regression test in `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_dashboard.py`:
- `test_wmic_invoked_with_utf8_ignore_errors` asserts the explicit
encoding/errors kwargs reach `subprocess.run`.
- `test_wmic_returns_none_stdout_does_not_crash` simulates the
reader-thread-crashed `result.stdout=None` aftermath and asserts the
function returns silently instead of raising AttributeError.
Both new tests fail against clean origin/main (7d4648461) reproducing
the original AttributeError; both pass with this patch. The remaining
3 failures in `tests/hermes_cli/test_cmd_update.py` and
`test_update_autostash.py` are pre-existing baselines on origin/main —
they reproduce identically without this change and are unrelated to
the wmic scan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
QR-login connects an iLink bot identity (...@im.bot), not a scriptable
personal WeChat account. iLink typically does not deliver ordinary WeChat
group events to these bots, so WEIXIN_GROUP_POLICY / WEIXIN_GROUP_ALLOWED_USERS
often have no effect regardless of value.
- Setup wizard: print iLink-bot caveat before the group-policy prompt; relabel
the allowlist input as 'group chat IDs (not member user IDs)'; note that
'open' / 'allowlist' only take effect if iLink delivers group events.
- Adapter: log a WARNING at connect() when WEIXIN_GROUP_POLICY is non-disabled
so the limitation is surfaced in gateway logs, not just docs.
- Docs: add a top-of-page warning callout to weixin.md explaining the iLink
bot identity, narrow the 'DM and group messaging' feature line to DM-only
with a group caveat, tighten the Group Policy section and troubleshooting
row, and clarify WEIXIN_GROUP_ALLOWED_USERS as group IDs (not user IDs)
in weixin.md and environment-variables.md.
Closes#17094
Completes the cfg_get migration started in PR #17304. Covers the
remaining hermes_cli/ and plugins/ config-access sites that the first
PR intentionally left opportunistic.
Migrated (33 sites across 14 files):
hermes_cli/setup.py 13 sites (terminal.*, agent.*, display.*, compression.*, tts.*)
hermes_cli/tools_config.py 7 sites (tts.*, browser.*, web.*, platform_toolsets.*)
hermes_cli/plugins_cmd.py 3 sites (plugins.*, memory.*, context.*)
plugins/memory/honcho/cli.py 3 sites (hosts.*)
hermes_cli/web_server.py 1 site (dashboard.*)
hermes_cli/skills_config.py 1 site (platform_disabled)
hermes_cli/plugins.py 1 site (plugins.disabled)
hermes_cli/status.py 1 site (terminal.backend)
hermes_cli/mcp_config.py 1 site (mcp_servers.*)
hermes_cli/webhook.py 1 site (platforms.webhook)
plugins/memory/__init__.py 1 site (memory.provider)
plugins/memory/hindsight/ 1 site (banks.hermes)
plugins/memory/holographic/ 1 site (plugins.hermes-memory-store)
run_agent.py 1 site (auxiliary.compression)
The helper supports non-literal keys too, so e.g.
cfg.get('hosts', {}).get(HOST, {})
becomes
cfg_get(cfg, 'hosts', HOST, default={})
Migration bugs caught and fixed during this PR:
1. An AST-based batch rewrite naïvely captured the first word token in
a chain, which corrupted 'self._config.get(...).get(...)' into
'self.cfg_get(_config, ...)' (dropping 'self.', creating a broken
method call). Plugins/memory/hindsight caught it via its test suite.
Fixed manually to 'cfg_get(self._config, ...)'.
2. Import-extension heuristic rewrote multi-line parenthesized imports
('from X import (\n A,\n B,\n)') as
'from X import cfg_get, (' — syntactically broken. Fixed by inserting
cfg_get as the first name inside the parentheses.
Combined with PR #17304, the cfg_get migration now covers:
PR #17304 (first batch): 20 sites in tools/ + gateway/
PR #17317 (this one): 33 sites in hermes_cli/ + plugins/ + run_agent.py
Total: 53 sites migrated. Remaining ~8 sites are either:
- Function-call chains (e.g. '_load_stt_config().get(...).get(...)')
that would need double-evaluation or a local binding to migrate
cleanly — intentionally deferred.
- JSON response-navigation (e.g. 'response_data.get('data',{}).get('web'))
which is unrelated to config access and shouldn't use cfg_get.
Verified:
- 412/412 tests/plugins/ pass (including the hindsight test that caught
the self.X regex bug before commit)
- 3181/3189 tests/hermes_cli/ pass (8 pre-existing failures on main,
verified by git-stash comparison)
- Live 'hermes status' and 'hermes config' render correctly (exercise
the migrated terminal.backend, tts.provider, browser.cloud_provider,
compression.threshold, display.tool_progress sites)
- Live 'hermes chat': 1 turn + /quit, zero errors in 11-line log window
No semantic changes — cfg_get was already proven to be a 1:1 match for
the original .get("X",{}).get("Y",default) pattern in PR #17304.
Every curator pass now emits a dated report directory under
`~/.hermes/logs/curator/{YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS}/` with two files:
- `run.json` — machine-readable full record (before/after snapshot,
state transitions, all tool calls, model/provider, timing, full LLM
final response untruncated, error if any)
- `REPORT.md` — human-readable markdown: model + duration header,
auto-transition counts, LLM consolidation stats, archived-this-run
list, new-skills-this-run list, state transitions, the full LLM
final summary, and a recovery footer pointing at the archive + the
`hermes curator restore` command
Reports live under `logs/curator/`, not inside `skills/` — they're
operational telemetry, not user-authored skill data, and belong
alongside `agent.log` / `gateway.log`.
Internals:
- `_run_llm_review()` now returns a dict (final, summary, model,
provider, tool_calls, error) instead of a bare truncated string so
the reporter has full fidelity
- Report writer is fully best-effort — any failure logs at DEBUG and
never breaks the curator itself. Same-second rerun gets a numeric
suffix so reports can't clobber each other
- Report path stamped into `.curator_state` as `last_report_path`
- `hermes curator status` surfaces a "last report:" line so users
can immediately open the latest run
Tests (all green):
- 7 new tests in tests/agent/test_curator_reports.py covering: report
location (logs not skills), both files written, run.json shape and
diff accuracy, markdown structure, error path still writes, state
transitions captured, same-second runs get unique dirs
- Existing test_run_review_synchronous_invokes_llm_stub updated to
stub the new dict-returning _run_llm_review signature
Live E2E: ran a synchronous pass against a 1-skill test collection
with a stubbed LLM; report written correctly, state stamped with
last_report_path, markdown human-readable, run.json machine-parseable.
The "cfg.get('X', {}).get('Y', default)" pattern appears 50+ times
across tools/, gateway/, and plugins/. Each call site manually handles
the same three gotchas:
1. Missing intermediate key → empty dict → chain works
2. Non-dict value at intermediate position → AttributeError
(uncaught in most sites, so a misconfigured YAML crashes the tool)
3. cfg is None → AttributeError
Introduces cfg_get(cfg, *keys, default=None) in hermes_cli/config.py
as the canonical helper. Handles all three uniformly, returns default
only when the final key is *absent* (matches dict.get semantics —
explicit None values are preserved, falsy values like 0 / False / ''
are preserved).
Named cfg_get rather than cfg_path to avoid shadowing the existing
'cfg_path = _hermes_home / "config.yaml"' local variable that appears
in gateway/run.py, cron/scheduler.py, hermes_cli/main.py, etc.
Migrated 20 call sites as the first-batch proof-of-value:
gateway/run.py 10 sites (agent/display subtrees)
tools/browser_tool.py 3 sites
tools/vision_tools.py 2 sites
tools/browser_camofox.py 1 site
tools/approval.py 1 site
tools/skills_tool.py 1 site
tools/skill_manager_tool.py 1 site
tools/credential_files.py 1 site
tools/env_passthrough.py 1 site
The remaining ~30 sites across plugins/ and smaller tool files can be
migrated opportunistically — the helper is now available and the
pattern is established.
Fixed a latent bug along the way: tools/vision_tools.py had its
cfg_get usage at line 560 inside a function that locally re-imports
'from hermes_cli.config import load_config', but the AST-based
migration script wrote the top-level cfg_get import to a different
function scope, leaving line 560's cfg_get as a NameError silently
swallowed by the surrounding try/except. Test
test_vision_uses_configured_temperature_and_timeout caught it. Fixed
by including cfg_get in the function-local import.
Verified:
- 7880/7893 tests/tools/ + tests/gateway/ + tests/hermes_cli/test_config
tests pass; all 13 failures pre-existing on main (MCP, delegate,
session_split_brain — verified earlier in the sweep).
- All 20 migrated sites AST-verified to have cfg_get in scope (either
module-level or function-local).
- Live 'hermes chat' smoke: 2 turns + /model switch + tool calls +
/quit, zero errors. Agent correctly counted 20 cfg_get hits across
8 tool files — matching the migration.
Semantic parity verified against the original pattern across 8 edge
cases (missing keys, None values, falsy values, empty strings, string
instead of dict, None cfg, nested levels).
Add opt-in terminal.docker_run_as_host_user config flag that passes
--user $(id -u):$(id -g) to the Docker backend so files written into
bind-mounted directories (/workspace, /root, docker_volumes entries) are
owned by the host user instead of root.
When enabled on POSIX platforms, also drops SETUID/SETGID caps since the
container no longer needs gosu/su to switch users. Falls back cleanly on
platforms without os.getuid (e.g. native Windows Docker) with a warning.
Wired through all three config.yaml -> TERMINAL_* env-var bridges:
- cli.py env_mappings (CLI + TUI startup)
- gateway/run.py _terminal_env_map (gateway / messaging platforms)
- hermes_cli/config.py _config_to_env_sync (`hermes config set`)
Also fixes docker_mount_cwd_to_workspace silently failing in gateway
mode -- it was missing from gateway/run.py's _terminal_env_map.
Adds tests/tools/test_terminal_config_env_sync.py to guard against
future drift between the three bridges (same bug class shipped twice
in one month).
Bundled Hermes image won't work with this flag since its entrypoint
expects to start as root for the usermod/gosu hermes flow; works with
the default nikolaik/python-nodejs image and plain Debian/Ubuntu.
Copy profile dashboard changes onto a fresh branch under the vincez-hms-coder account.
Includes:
- Profiles dashboard route and sidebar entry
- Profile lifecycle REST endpoints
- SOUL.md read/write support
- i18n labels and helper text updates
- Targeted profile API tests
Test plan:
- pytest tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py -k profile -q
- cd web && npm run build
Weekly is closer to how skill churn actually works — most agent-created
skills don't change multiple times per day, so a daily review is pure
cost without benefit. Bumping the default to 7 days reduces aux-model
spend while still catching drift and staleness on the timescales that
matter (30d stale, 90d archive).
Changes:
- DEFAULT_INTERVAL_HOURS: 24 -> 168 (7 days)
- config.yaml default: interval_hours: 24 -> 24 * 7
- CLI status line renders as '7d' when interval is a whole-day multiple
- Test `test_old_run_eligible` decoupled from the exact default: it now
uses 2 * get_interval_hours() so future tweaks don't break it
Previous invariants only gated the primary entry points
(apply_automatic_transitions, archive_skill, CLI pin). Several paths
were unprotected:
- bump_view / bump_use / bump_patch / set_state / set_pinned wrote
usage records unconditionally, which is confusing noise in
.usage.json even though the review list filtered them out
- restore_skill did not check whether a bundled skill now shadows
the archived name
- CLI unpin was asymmetric with CLI pin — it had no gate
Fixes:
- _mutate() (the shared counter / state writer) now drops silently
when the skill is not agent-created. .usage.json never gains a
record for a bundled or hub-installed skill.
- restore_skill() refuses to restore under a name that is now
bundled or hub-installed (would shadow upstream).
- CLI unpin gate matches CLI pin.
New tests:
- 5 provenance-guard tests on skill_usage (one per mutator)
- 1 end-to-end test that hammers every mutator at a bundled skill
and a hub skill, asserts both are untouched on disk, and asserts
the sidecar stays clean
- 2 CLI tests proving pin/unpin refuse bundled skills symmetrically
64/64 tests passing (29 skill_usage + 27 curator + 8 new guards).
Adds the Curator — an auxiliary-model background task that periodically
reviews AGENT-CREATED skills and keeps the collection tidy: tracks usage,
transitions unused skills through active → stale → archived, and spawns
a forked AIAgent to consolidate overlaps and patch drift.
Default: enabled, inactivity-triggered (no cron daemon). Runs on CLI
startup and gateway boot when the last run is older than interval_hours
(default 24) AND the agent has been idle for min_idle_hours (default 2).
Invariants (all load-bearing):
- Never touches bundled or hub-installed skills (.bundled_manifest +
.hub/lock.json double-filter)
- Never auto-deletes — archive only. Archives are recoverable
via `hermes curator restore <skill>`
- Pinned skills bypass all auto-transitions
- Uses the aux client; never touches the main session's prompt cache
New files:
- tools/skill_usage.py — sidecar .usage.json telemetry, atomic writes,
provenance filter
- agent/curator.py — orchestrator: config, idle gating, state-machine
transitions (pure, no LLM), forked-agent review prompt
- hermes_cli/curator.py — `hermes curator {status,run,pause,resume,
pin,unpin,restore}` subcommand
- tests/tools/test_skill_usage.py — 29 tests
- tests/agent/test_curator.py — 25 tests
Modified files (surgical patches):
- tools/skills_tool.py — bump view_count on successful skill_view
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py — bump patch_count on skill_manage
patch/edit/write_file/remove_file; forget record on delete
- hermes_cli/config.py — add curator: section to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- hermes_cli/commands.py — add /curator CommandDef with subcommands
- hermes_cli/main.py — register `hermes curator` subparser via
register_cli() from hermes_cli.curator
- cli.py — /curator slash-command dispatch + startup hook
- gateway/run.py — gateway-boot hook (mirrors CLI)
Validation:
- 54 new tests across skill_usage + curator, all passing in 3s
- 346 tests across all touched files' neighbors green
- 2783 tests across hermes_cli/ + gateway/test_run_progress_topics.py green
- CLI smoke: `hermes curator status/pause/resume` work end-to-end
Companion to PR #16026 (class-first skill review prompt) — together
they form a loop: the review prompt stops near-duplicate skill creation
at the source, and the curator prunes/consolidates what still accumulates.
Refs #7816.
The known-key splitter in `_sanitize_env_lines` used substring matching
to find concatenated KEY=VALUE pairs. When a registered key was a suffix
of another (LM_API_KEY is a suffix of GLM_API_KEY), the shorter key's
needle would match inside the longer one, causing the sanitizer to
rewrite `GLM_API_KEY=...` as `G\nLM_API_KEY=...` and silently break
Z.AI/GLM auth (and similarly `GLM_BASE_URL` -> `G\nLM_BASE_URL`).
Drop matches whose needle range is fully contained within a longer
overlapping match. Two regression tests cover the suffix-collision case
and confirm a real concatenation that happens to start with the longer
key still splits where it should.
Fixes#17138
Classic CLI exposes ``/reload`` (re-reads ~/.hermes/.env into
``os.environ`` via ``hermes_cli.config.reload_env``) so newly added API
keys take effect without restarting the session. The TUI was missing
the parity command, so users had to Ctrl+C out and ``hermes --tui``
again whenever they added or rotated a credential.
Three small wires:
* New ``reload.env`` JSON-RPC method in ``tui_gateway/server.py`` that
delegates to ``hermes_cli.config.reload_env`` and returns the count
of vars updated.
* New ``/reload`` slash command in ``ui-tui/src/app/slash/commands/ops.ts``
matching the existing ``/reload-mcp`` pattern (native RPC, no slash
worker).
* Drop ``cli_only=True`` from the ``reload`` ``CommandDef`` in
``hermes_cli/commands.py`` so help/menus surface it in the TUI too.
``reload_env`` itself is environment-agnostic.
Same caveat as classic CLI: the *currently constructed* agent's
credential pool / provider routing does not auto-rebuild. Users who
want a brand-new credential resolution should follow with ``/new``.
Tests:
* New ``test_reload_env_rpc_calls_hermes_cli_reload_env`` confirms
RPC delegates and reports the count.
* New ``test_reload_env_rpc_surfaces_errors`` confirms exceptions are
rendered as JSON-RPC errors.
* ``createSlashHandler.test.ts`` slash-parity matrix extended with
``['/reload', 'reload.env', {}]`` so we can't regress the routing.
Validation:
scripts/run_tests.sh tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py — 92/92.
scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_commands.py — 128/128.
cd ui-tui && npm run type-check — clean; npm test --run — 390/390.
Fixes from Copilot's two passes on PR #17238:
* Validate parsed URL once: reject missing host, invalid port, and
unsupported scheme up front so malformed inputs (e.g. http://:9222
or http://localhost:abc) don't fall through to a generic 5031.
* Tighten _is_default_local_cdp to require a discovery-style path so
ws://127.0.0.1:9222/devtools/browser/<id> is not collapsed to bare
http://127.0.0.1:9222 (which would lose the path and break the
connect).
* Move browser.manage into _LONG_HANDLERS so the up-to-10s
launch-and-retry loop runs on the RPC pool instead of blocking the
main dispatcher.
* try_launch_chrome_debug uses Windows-appropriate detach kwargs
(creationflags=DETACHED_PROCESS|CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP) instead
of POSIX-only start_new_session=True.
* manual_chrome_debug_command uses subprocess.list2cmdline on
Windows so the printed instruction is cmd.exe-compatible.
* Mirror host/port validation in cli.py /browser connect so the
classic CLI never persists an invalid BROWSER_CDP_URL.
Split browser.manage into a small dispatcher with named connect/disconnect
helpers, fold _http_ok / _probe_urls / _normalize_cdp_url out of the nested
probe loop, collapse the failure-message scaffolding, and DRY the chrome
candidate path tables. Behaviour and event shape unchanged.
Detect an actual Chrome/Chromium executable before printing a manual CDP launch command, including common WSL-mounted Windows browser paths, so /browser connect does not suggest google-chrome when it is unavailable.
Share Chrome CDP launch helpers between the classic CLI and TUI so default /browser connect uses loopback consistently, retries local Chrome launch, and reports a copyable manual-start command instead of claiming a dead connection.
Three modules independently implemented the same "preserve head+tail of
a secret, mask the middle" logic with slightly different behaviors that
had started to drift:
hermes_cli/config.py redact_key — 12-char floor, 4+4, DIM '(not set)'
hermes_cli/status.py redact_key — 12-char floor, 4+4, plain '(not set)' ← drift
hermes_cli/dump.py _redact — 12-char floor, 4+4, empty string
The visible bug: 'hermes status' displayed the '(not set)' placeholder
in plain text while 'hermes config' showed it in dim text. Same concept,
inconsistent UI.
Introduces mask_secret() in agent/redact.py as the canonical helper,
with head/tail/floor/placeholder/empty kwargs. The three call sites
become one-line wrappers that differ only in the 'empty' handling:
config.redact_key → mask_secret(k, empty=color('(not set)', Colors.DIM))
status.redact_key → mask_secret(k, empty=color('(not set)', Colors.DIM))
dump._redact → mask_secret(v) # empty → ''
agent.redact._mask_token (log redactor, different policy: 18-char floor,
6+4 visible, '***' on empty) also ports to mask_secret but retains its
own empty-case handling to preserve the historical '***' return.
Net: the three display-time redactors now agree on formatting, the
canonical helper lives in one place, and future tweaks (e.g. adding
bullet-point masking, changing the head/tail widths) happen once.
Verified:
- 3/3 tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py::TestRedactKey pass
- 89/89 agent/tests/test_redact.py + tests/tools/test_browser_secret_exfil.py
+ tests/hermes_cli/test_redact_config_bridge.py pass
- Live 'hermes status', 'hermes config', 'hermes dump' all render the
same way they did before (verified against actual env with real
keys: OpenRouter, Firecrawl, Browserbase, FAL, Tinker all show
'prefix...suffix'; Kimi shows '***' at <12 chars; unset shows
'(not set)' uniformly).
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Validate configured providers against both Hermes runtime provider ids and
catalog-normalized provider ids. This keeps providers like ai-gateway from
being rejected after catalog resolution maps them to models.dev ids.
Keep credential checks and vendor-slug warnings anchored to the runtime id
so doctor reports actionable provider names in follow-up diagnostics.
This PR groups the TUI fixes that restore macOS Terminal usability and clean up the theme/composer regressions:
- copy transcript selections on macOS drag-release so Terminal.app users can copy while mouse tracking is enabled
- copy composer selections on macOS drag-release; composer selection is internal to TextInput and does not use the global Ink selection bus
- keep IDE Cmd+C forwarding setup macOS-only, and make keybinding conflict checks respect simple when-clause overlap/negation
- force truecolor before chalk initializes (unless NO_COLOR / FORCE_COLOR / HERMES_TUI_TRUECOLOR opt-outs apply) so the default banner keeps its gold/amber/bronze gradient in Terminal.app
- move TUI surfaces onto semantic theme tokens and preserve skin prompt symbols as bare tokens with renderer-owned spacing
- render focused placeholders as dim hint text in TTY mode instead of inverse/selected-looking synthetic cursor text
* feat(tui): pluggable busy-indicator styles (kaomoji/emoji/unicode/ascii)
The status-bar `FaceTicker` rotated through wide-and-variable kaomoji
glyphs (`(｡•́︿•̀｡)`, `( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)`, …) every 2.5s. Real display widths range
from ~5 to ~16 columns, so the rest of the bar (cwd, ctx %, voice,
bg counter) shifted on every cycle. Padding the verb alone (#17116)
helped but didn't address the dominant jitter source — the glyph
itself.
Add four indicator styles, configurable + hot-swappable:
* `kaomoji` (default — preserves the existing vibe; verb is now
pad-stable so the only width churn left is the kaomoji itself).
* `emoji` — single 2-col emoji frame (`⚕ 🌀🤔✨🍵🔮`).
* `unicode` — `unicode-animations` braille spinner (1-col, smooth).
* `ascii` — `| / - \` (1-col, max compat).
Wires:
* `display.tui_status_indicator` in `DEFAULT_CONFIG` (default
`kaomoji`).
* New JSON-RPC `config.set/get indicator` keys, narrow allow-list.
* `applyDisplay` reads the field and patches `UiState.indicatorStyle`,
so the existing `mtime` poll picks up `~/.hermes/config.yaml` edits
within ~5s without a TUI restart.
* `/indicator [style]` slash command (alias `/indicator-style`,
subcommand completion `kaomoji|emoji|unicode|ascii`). Bare form
shows the current style; setter fires `config.set` and
optimistically `patchUiState({ indicatorStyle })` so the live TUI
swaps immediately, matching the `/skin` UX.
* `CommandDef("indicator", ..., subcommands=...)` so classic CLI
autocomplete + TUI `complete.slash` both surface it.
* `FaceTicker` decouples spinner cadence from verb cadence — the
glyph runs at the spinner's authored interval (or `FACE_TICK_MS`
for kaomoji), the verb stays on the original 2.5s cycle, and both
re-arm cleanly when style changes.
Tests:
* `normalizeIndicatorStyle` rejects unknown / non-string input.
* `applyDisplay → tui_status_indicator` covers fan-out + fallback.
* `/indicator <style>` hot-swaps `UiState.indicatorStyle` after a
successful `config.set`.
* `/indicator sparkle` rejects with the usage hint and never hits
the gateway.
* Slash-parity matrix gets `'/indicator'` → `config.get`.
Validation:
cd ui-tui && npm run type-check — clean; npm test --run — 398/398.
scripts/run_tests.sh tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py
tests/hermes_cli/test_commands.py — 220/220.
* chore(tui): drop /indicator-style alias to declutter autocomplete
* fix(tui): drop verb-width pad — /indicator handles glyph jitter directly
* fix(tui): unicode indicator style hides the verb (cleanest option)
* refactor(tui): single source of truth for INDICATOR_STYLES; cleaner error format
Round 1 Copilot review on PR #17150:
- Exported `INDICATOR_STYLES` const tuple from `interfaces.ts`;
`IndicatorStyle` union type is derived from it. `useConfigSync`
builds its validation Set from the tuple, and `session.ts` uses it
for both the usage hint and the runtime allow-list — adding/removing
a style now touches one line.
- Backend `config.set indicator` error message: switched
`sorted(allowed)` list repr to `pick one of ascii|emoji|kaomoji|unicode`
(matches the TUI usage hint), and reports the normalized `raw`
instead of the original `value`. Backend allowed tuple now has a
comment pointing back at `INDICATOR_STYLES` so the two stay aligned.
Note: kept the verb portion unpadded per design intent — fixed-width
padding was the exact UX the `/indicator` command was added to remove.
Stable width comes from the glyph; verbs cycling is part of the kawaii
aesthetic. Reply on the verb thread will explain.
* fix(tui): drop type collapse + gate verb timer + DEFAULT_INDICATOR_STYLE
Round 2 Copilot review on PR #17150:
- `tui_status_indicator?: 'ascii' | ... | string` collapses to `string`
in TS — consumers got no narrowing. Documented as plain `string` with
a comment about runtime validation via `normalizeIndicatorStyle`.
- `FaceTicker` always started a 2.5s verb interval, even for the
`unicode` style which hides the verb entirely. Now gated on
`showVerb` from `renderIndicator` — `unicode` stays calm.
Pre-emptive self-review (avoid round 3):
- Three call sites duplicated the literal `'kaomoji'` default
(uiStore, normalizeIndicatorStyle, slash command). Added
`DEFAULT_INDICATOR_STYLE` to interfaces.ts and threaded it through
so changing the default touches one line.
* fix(tui-gateway): normalize config.get indicator output to match TUI render
Round 4 Copilot review on PR #17150: `config.get` for `indicator`
returned the raw `display.tui_status_indicator` value without
validation, so a hand-edited config.yaml with stray casing or an
unknown style would leave `/indicator` printing one thing while
the TUI rendered the kaomoji default (frontend's
`normalizeIndicatorStyle` does this normalization on receive).
Lifted the allow-list to module scope as `_INDICATOR_STYLES` /
`_INDICATOR_DEFAULT`, reused by both `config.set` and `config.get`.
Comment notes the alignment with `INDICATOR_STYLES` /
`DEFAULT_INDICATOR_STYLE` in interfaces.ts so adding/removing a
style is a one-line change on each end.
Tests cover: known value verbatim, casing/whitespace normalize,
unknown→default, unset→default.
* fix(tui-gateway): preserve falsy-input diagnostics in config.set indicator error
Round 5 Copilot review on PR #17150: `raw = str(value or "").strip().lower()`
collapsed any falsy non-string (`0`, `False`, `[]`) to empty string,
so the error message read `unknown indicator: ` with nothing after —
losing the original input.
Switched to `("" if value is None else str(value)).strip().lower()`
so only `None` (the genuine 'no value' case) becomes blank. Used
`{raw!r}` in the error so the diagnostic is unambiguous (`'0'` vs `0`).
Tests:
- known-value happy path (`'EMOJI'` → `'emoji'`)
- falsy non-string inputs (`0` / `False` / `[]`) surface meaningfully
- `None` keeps the blank-repr error
* feat(tui): opt-in auto-resume of the most recent session
`hermes --tui` always forges a fresh session at startup unless the user
sets `HERMES_TUI_RESUME=<id>`. Disconnects, terminal-window crashes,
and accidental Ctrl+D therefore lose every piece of in-flight context
even though `state.db` still has the full history a `/resume` away.
Add an opt-in path that mirrors classic CLI's `hermes -c` muscle
memory: when `display.tui_auto_resume_recent: true` is set in
`~/.hermes/config.yaml`, the TUI looks up the most recent human-facing
session and resumes it instead of starting fresh. Default off so
existing users aren't surprised; explicit `HERMES_TUI_RESUME` always
wins.
Wires:
* New `session.most_recent` JSON-RPC in `tui_gateway/server.py` that
returns the first non-`tool` row from `list_sessions_rich`, or
`{"session_id": null}` when none. Uses the same deny-list as
`session.list` so sub-agent rows can't sneak in.
* `createGatewayEventHandler.handleReady` re-ordered: explicit
`STARTUP_RESUME_ID` first (unchanged), then conditional auto-resume
via `config.get full → display.tui_auto_resume_recent`, then the
legacy `newSession()` fallback. Failures of either RPC fall back
to `newSession()` so the path is always finite.
* Default `display.tui_auto_resume_recent: False` added to
`DEFAULT_CONFIG` in `hermes_cli/config.py` (no `_config_version`
bump per AGENTS.md — deep-merge handles the additive key).
Tests:
* 4 new vitest cases in `createGatewayEventHandler.test.ts` cover
every gate-and-fallback combination (env wins, config off, config
on with hit, config on with miss).
* 3 new pytest cases for `session.most_recent` (denied row skip,
tool-only → null, db-unavailable → null).
Validation:
scripts/run_tests.sh tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py — 93/93.
cd ui-tui && npm run type-check — clean; npm test --run — 393/393.
* review(copilot): fold session.most_recent errors into null + extend ConfigDisplayConfig
* review(copilot): cover RPC-rejection fallbacks in auto-resume tests
- Remove dead _lmstudio_loaded_context attribute from run_agent.py (set
but never read — the loaded context is pushed to context_compressor.update_model
which is the actual consumer)
- Cache empty reasoning options with 60s TTL to avoid per-turn HTTP probe
for non-reasoning LM Studio models. Non-empty results cached permanently.
- Extract _lmstudio_server_root(), _lmstudio_request_headers(), and
_lmstudio_fetch_raw_models() shared helpers in models.py — eliminates
URL-strip + auth-header + HTTP-call duplication across probe_lmstudio_models,
ensure_lmstudio_model_loaded, and lmstudio_model_reasoning_options
- Revert runtime_provider.py base_url precedence change: preserve the
established contract (saved config.base_url > env var > default) for all
api_key providers
- Remove unnecessary config version bump 22→23
- Fix TUI test: relax target_model assertion to avoid module-cache flake
- AUTHOR_MAP: added rugved@lmstudio.ai → rugvedS07
BOOT.md was merged in PR #3733 before the feature was ready — the
built-in hook spawned a bare AIAgent() with no model/runtime kwargs,
which immediately 401s on any provider with a custom endpoint. Three
separate community PRs (#5240, #12514, #14992) tried to paper over it.
Remove the BOOT.md hook entirely and its user-facing docs/tips. Keep
the gateway/builtin_hooks/ package and the HookRegistry._register_builtin_hooks()
hook-point intact as the extension surface for future always-on
gateway hooks.
Closes#5239.
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load_config() and read_raw_config() now cache their result keyed on
the config file's (mtime_ns, size). On cache hit they return a deepcopy
of the cached value, skipping yaml.safe_load + deep-merge + normalize +
env-var expansion entirely. save_config() + migrate_config() write via
atomic_yaml_write which produces a fresh inode, so stat() sees a new
mtime_ns and the next load repopulates automatically — no explicit
invalidation hook needed.
Measured per-call cost:
load_config() cold: 13.3 ms
load_config() cached: 0.23 ms (57x faster)
read_raw_config() cached: 0.13 ms
A single gateway turn hits the config 5-15 times (session context,
auxiliary client resolution, memory config, plugin hooks, approval
lookups, per-tool settings). That's 65-200 ms/turn of pure YAML
re-parsing on main. After this change: 1-3 ms/turn.
Also migrates gateway/run.py's 6 direct yaml.safe_load(config.yaml)
call sites through _load_gateway_config, which now shares the
read_raw_config cache when _hermes_home agrees with the canonical
config path. The direct-read fallback is retained for tests that
monkeypatch gateway_run._hermes_home without touching HERMES_HOME.
Safety:
- load_config() returns a deepcopy on every call; the 67+ call sites
that mutate the result (cfg["model"]["default"] = ..., etc.) can't
corrupt the cache.
- save_config() / atomic_yaml_write bump mtime, naturally invalidating
the cache for the next reader.
- Cache is keyed on str(config_path), so HERMES_HOME profile switches
don't collide.
Verified:
- 112 config tests pass (test_config, test_config_env_expansion,
test_config_env_refs, test_config_drift, test_config_validation,
test_aux_config).
- 87 gateway tests pass (test_verbose_command, test_session_info,
test_compress_focus, test_runtime_footer, test_resume_command,
test_reasoning_command, test_approve_deny_commands,
test_run_progress_interrupt).
- Live hermes chat smoke — 2 turns + /model switch + tool calls,
zero errors in agent.log.
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Previously, check_browser_requirements() only checked for the agent-browser
CLI, not the Chromium binary it drives. When the CLI was present but
Chromium wasn't (common in Docker images predating the playwright install
step), the browser tool was advertised to the agent, every call hung for
the full command timeout (~30s each, ~220s for a chained navigate), and
the agent eventually gave up with no useful error — users saw 'browser
not working' with empty errors.log.
Changes:
- tools/browser_tool.py: add _chromium_installed() checking
PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH + default Playwright cache paths for
chromium-* / chromium_headless_shell-* dirs; wire into
check_browser_requirements() for local mode (cloud providers
unaffected). _run_browser_command fails fast with an actionable
Docker vs. host message instead of hanging. _running_in_docker()
checks /.dockerenv and /proc/1/cgroup.
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: post_setup for 'Local Browser' now runs
'agent-browser install --with-deps' after npm install to actually
download Chromium. In Docker, points user at the updated image pull
instead of trying to install into a read-only layer. Cloud-provider
post_setup (browserbase) skips Chromium install entirely.
- tests/tools/test_browser_chromium_check.py: new tests covering
search roots, install detection, requirements branches (local/cloud/
camofox), and the fast-fail guard in docker/non-docker contexts.
- tests/tools/test_browser_homebrew_paths.py: 5 existing subprocess-path
tests now mock _chromium_installed=True since they exercise the
post-guard subprocess path.
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The telegram.reactions key was already wired up (gateway/config.py bridges
it to TELEGRAM_REACTIONS at startup) but was undocumented and missing from
DEFAULT_CONFIG, so users had no way to discover it. Add it with the
existing off-by-default behavior preserved.
No behavior change — runtime default stays False.
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Append a compact 'model · 68% · ~/projects/hermes' footer to the FINAL
message of each turn, disabled by default (display.runtime_footer.enabled).
Answers the Telegram-side parity ask: runtime context that the CLI status
bar already shows is now available in messaging replies when enabled.
Wiring:
- gateway/runtime_footer.py: resolve_footer_config + format_runtime_footer +
build_footer_line. Pure-function renderer; per-platform overrides under
display.platforms.<platform>.runtime_footer.
- gateway/run.py: appends footer to response right after reasoning prepend
so it lands only on the final message (never tool progress or streaming
chunks). When streaming already delivered the body (already_sent), the
footer is sent as a small trailing message instead.
- agent_result now exposes context_length alongside last_prompt_tokens so
the footer can compute the pct; both gateway return paths updated.
- /footer [on|off|status] slash command, wired in CLI (cli.py) and gateway
(gateway/run.py both running-agent bypass and main dispatch). Global
toggle only; per-platform overrides via config.yaml.
Graceful degradation:
- Missing context_length (unknown model) → pct field silently dropped
(no '?%' artifact).
- Empty final_response → no footer appended.
- Unknown field names in config → silently ignored.
Tests: 25-case unit suite (tests/gateway/test_runtime_footer.py) plus E2E
harness covering streaming vs non-streaming branches, per-platform override,
and the exact argument contract gateway/run.py uses.
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Mechanical cleanup across 43 files — removes 46 unused imports
(F401) and 14 unused local variables (F841) detected by
`ruff check --select F401,F841`. Net: -49 lines.
Also fixes a latent NameError in rl_cli.py where `get_hermes_home()`
was called at module line 32 before its import at line 65 — the
module never imported successfully on main. The ruff audit surfaced
this because it correctly saw the symbol as imported-but-unused
(the call happened before the import ran); the fix moves the import
to the top of the file alongside other stdlib imports.
One `# noqa: F401` kept in hermes_cli/status.py for `subprocess`:
tests monkeypatch `hermes_cli.status.subprocess` as a regression
guard that systemctl isn't called on Termux, so the name must
exist at module scope even though the module body doesn't reference
it. Docstring explains the reason.
Also fixes an invalid `# noqa:` directive in
gateway/platforms/discord.py:308 that lacked a rule code.
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The gateway session-hygiene pre-compression safety valve had a hardcoded
400-message threshold. On long-lived sessions with short turns this was
either too high (users with aggressive compression preferences) or too
low (users with very large context models who want to keep more history
in-flight).
Add compression.hygiene_hard_message_limit (default 400) so it can be
tuned without forking the gateway.
Reported by @OP (Apr 26 feedback bundle).
## Changes
- hermes_cli/config.py: new DEFAULT_CONFIG key with 400 default
- gateway/run.py: read compression.hygiene_hard_message_limit at
hygiene-time, fall back to 400 if missing/invalid
- tests/gateway/test_session_hygiene.py: two tests — override fires at
the configured limit, default does not fire below 400
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When openai-codex tokens expire or the ChatGPT account hits a 429
window, the pool entry gets marked STATUS_EXHAUSTED with
last_error_reset_at many hours in the future. If the user then runs
`hermes model` / `hermes auth openai-codex` to reauth, fresh tokens
land in ~/.hermes/auth.json but the pool entry stayed frozen behind
its reset_at — every request kept failing with 'credential pool: no
available entries (all exhausted or empty)' until the original window
elapsed.
_available_entries() already had auth.json/credentials-file resync
branches for anthropic/claude_code and nous/device_code; openai-codex
was missing. Added _sync_codex_entry_from_auth_store() mirroring the
nous version (reads state["tokens"][{access,refresh}_token] +
state["last_refresh"]) and wired it into the exhausted-entry resync
loop.
Also softens the 'codex CLI not found' doctor warning — native
device-code OAuth does not require the Codex binary, only
importing existing Codex CLI tokens does. Downgraded to an info line.
Reported on Discord by p1aceho1der: Codex stalled indefinitely after
a rate-limit reset, reauth didn't help, and doctor falsely warned
that the codex CLI was required.
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Follow-up to PR #16802 (BeliefanX). The original fix read
`agent_history[-1].get("timestamp")` for the tool-tail freshness gate,
but `gateway/run.py` strips the `timestamp` field off all tool/tool_call
rows when building `agent_history` from the raw transcript (see
`clean_msg = {k: v for k, v in msg.items() if k != "timestamp"}`). At
runtime the tool-tail branch always saw `None` and silently took the
legacy-fresh path — the stale-guard never fired for the tool-tail case
it was supposed to cover.
Changes:
- Read the freshness signal from the RAW `history` list (via new
`_last_transcript_timestamp()` helper) BEFORE the strip. Both the
resume_pending branch and the tool-tail branch use this single signal,
replacing the two divergent ones.
- Default window bumped 15 min → 1 hour via new
`_AUTO_CONTINUE_FRESHNESS_SECS_DEFAULT`. The 15-minute default was
shorter than the default `gateway_timeout` of 30 min, so a legitimate
long-running turn interrupted near its timeout boundary and resumed
shortly after would have been misclassified as stale.
- Configurable via `config.yaml` `agent.gateway_auto_continue_freshness`
(bridged to `HERMES_AUTO_CONTINUE_FRESHNESS` at gateway startup — same
pattern as `gateway_timeout`). Set to 0 to disable the gate.
- `_coerce_gateway_timestamp` now explicitly rejects bool (which is a
subclass of int and would otherwise coerce to 0.0/1.0).
- Tests rewritten to exercise the real production data shape: raw
`history` → `_build_agent_history` strip → freshness decision. A
regression guard (`test_stale_tool_tail_with_production_data_shape`)
asserts `agent_history` tool rows carry NO timestamp, protecting
against someone "fixing" the original bug by re-adding the stripped
field (which would break the OpenAI tool-result message contract).
Add BeliefanX to scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP.
E2E verified: config.yaml → env var bridge → helper returns configured
value; default 1h window; malformed/empty env var falls back to default;
ISO-Z timestamps parse; ms-epoch coerced; bool rejected.
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.
os.replace(tmp, path) replaces the symlink itself with a regular file,
breaking users who symlink config.yaml, SOUL.md, or .env from ~/.hermes/
to a dotfiles repo or managed profile package.
Fix: resolve symlinks via os.path.realpath() before os.replace(), so the
real file is overwritten in-place while the symlink survives.
Fixed in 7 files covering all os.replace call sites:
- utils.py (atomic_json_write, atomic_yaml_write — fixes save_config)
- hermes_cli/config.py (env sanitizer, save_env_value, remove_env_value)
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py (_atomic_write_text — SOUL.md writes)
- tools/memory_tool.py (memory file writes)
- tools/skills_sync.py (manifest writes)
- cron/jobs.py (job state + output file writes)
- agent/shell_hooks.py (hook file writes)
FixesNousResearch/hermes-agent#16743
provider_model_ids("bedrock") fell through to a static _PROVIDER_MODELS
table containing only hardcoded us.* model IDs. Users configured for
non-US AWS regions (eu-central-1, ap-northeast-1, etc.) saw wrong or no
models in /model and autocomplete.
Root causes fixed:
1. models.py: provider_model_ids() now calls discover_bedrock_models()
keyed by the resolved region before falling back to the static table.
A new bedrock_model_ids_or_none() helper in bedrock_adapter.py
consolidates the discover -> extract IDs -> fallback pattern used by
all three call sites.
2. providers.py: registers bedrock in HERMES_OVERLAYS with
transport=bedrock_converse and auth_type=aws_sdk so
get_provider("bedrock") and resolve_provider_full("bedrock") work.
3. model_switch.py: list_authenticated_providers() sections 2 and 3
detect AWS credentials via has_aws_credentials() for aws_sdk
overlays and use live discovery for the model list.
4. bedrock_adapter.py: resolve_bedrock_region() reads the configured
region from botocore.session before falling back to us-east-1,
covering users who set their region in ~/.aws/config via a named
profile rather than env vars.
5. tui_gateway/server.py: passes provider= to get_model_context_length()
so context window lookups work correctly for the Bedrock provider.
Registers tencent-tokenhub (https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1) as a
new API-key provider with model tencent/hy3-preview (256K context).
- PROVIDER_REGISTRY entry + TOKENHUB_API_KEY / TOKENHUB_BASE_URL env vars
- Aliases: tencent, tokenhub, tencent-cloud, tencentmaas
- openai_chat transport with is_tokenhub branch for top-level
reasoning_effort (Hy3 is a reasoning model)
- tencent/hy3-preview:free added to OpenRouter curated list
- 60+ tests (provider registry, aliases, runtime resolution,
credentials, model catalog, URL mapping, context length)
- Docs: integrations/providers.md, environment-variables.md,
model-catalog.json
Author: simonweng <simonweng@tencent.com>
Salvaged from PR #16860 onto current main (resolved conflicts with
#16935 Azure Anthropic env-var hint tests and the --provider choices=
list removal in chat_parser).
Three related fixes around custom env-var-name hints for provider entries.
1. Azure Anthropic path: previously hardcoded to look up AZURE_ANTHROPIC_KEY
then ANTHROPIC_API_KEY with no way to override. If a user wrote
model:
provider: anthropic
base_url: https://my-resource.services.ai.azure.com/anthropic
key_env: MY_CUSTOM_KEY
the key_env hint was silently ignored and the resolver raised
'No Azure Anthropic API key found' even when MY_CUSTOM_KEY was set
in the environment. The runtime now checks, in order:
(1) os.getenv(model_cfg.key_env)
(2) os.getenv(model_cfg.api_key_env) # docs alias
(3) model_cfg.api_key # inline value
(4) AZURE_ANTHROPIC_KEY # historical default
(5) ANTHROPIC_API_KEY # historical default
Error message updated to mention key_env as an option.
2. Provider entry normalizer (_normalize_custom_provider_entry): accept
'api_key_env' as a snake_case alias for 'key_env', and 'apiKeyEnv' as a
camelCase alias. Adds both to the _KNOWN_KEYS set so the 'unknown
config keys ignored' warning doesn't fire on valid configs.
3. _VALID_CUSTOM_PROVIDER_FIELDS: add 'key_env'. That set documents
supported custom_providers entry fields; it was drifting from reality
since key_env has been read at runtime in auxiliary_client.py,
runtime_provider.py, and main.py for a while.
Docs: website/docs/guides/azure-foundry.md now uses the canonical key_env
field and notes that api_key_env / keyEnv / apiKeyEnv are accepted as
aliases.
Validation: 12 new tests in test_runtime_provider_resolution.py covering
all 5 Azure Anthropic resolution paths + 4 normalizer-alias tests. Pass
rate across related suites (165 + 46 tests): 100%.
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(claw-migrate): harden OpenClaw import with plan-first apply, redaction, and pre-migration backup
Adopts four design patterns from OpenClaw's reciprocal migrate-hermes
importer so both migration paths have the same safety posture.
- **Refuse-on-conflict apply.** 'hermes claw migrate' now refuses to
execute when the plan has any conflict items, unless --overwrite is
set. Previously the user could say 'yes, proceed' and end up with a
silent partial migration that skipped every conflicting item.
- **Engine-level secret redaction.** The report.json and summary.md
written to disk (and --json stdout) run through a redactor that
matches OpenClaw's key-name markers and value-shape patterns
(sk-*, ghp_*, xox*-, AIza*, Bearer *). Prevents accidental API key
leakage in bug reports and support channels.
- **Pre-migration tarball snapshot.** Apply creates one timestamped
restore-point archive of ~/.hermes/ at ~/.hermes/migration/pre-migration-backups/
before any mutation, excluding regenerable directories
(sessions, logs, cache). Opt out with --no-backup.
- **Blocked-by-earlier-conflict sequencing.** If a config.yaml write
hits conflict/error mid-apply, subsequent config-mutating options
are marked skipped with reason 'blocked by earlier apply conflict'
rather than attempting partial writes.
- **Structured warnings[] and next_steps[] on the report** — actionable
guidance surfaces in both JSON output and summary.md.
- **--json output mode** — emits the redacted report on stdout for CI.
Also flips --preset full to NOT auto-enable --migrate-secrets. Users
now have to opt in to secret import explicitly, mirroring OpenClaw's
two-phase posture.
Status/kind/action constants are defined (STATUS_MIGRATED etc) with
values that match the existing strings the script emits, so the
report schema is backward-compatible. ItemResult gains a 'sensitive'
bool field that redaction and consumers can key off.
Validation: 26 new unit tests + 1 updated test in tests/skills/
test_openclaw_migration_hardening.py and test_claw.py cover redaction
(key markers, value patterns, recursion, on-disk), warnings/next_steps,
blocked-by-earlier sequencing, --json mode, and the preset-flip.
Manual E2E against a fake $HERMES_HOME with real-shaped secrets
confirmed: (1) secrets never appear in stdout or on disk,
(2) _cmd_migrate refuses apply when plan has conflicts,
(3) --overwrite proceeds past the guard and the backup tarball is
created, (4) --no-backup skips the archive.
Related docs: website/docs/guides/migrate-from-openclaw.md and
website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md updated to reflect the
preset-flip and new --no-backup flag.
* refactor(claw-migrate): reuse hermes backup system for pre-migration snapshot
Drops the inline tarball in hermes_cli/claw.py in favor of
hermes_cli.backup.create_pre_migration_backup(), which shares an
implementation with create_pre_update_backup via a new
_write_full_zip_backup helper. Benefits:
- Consistent exclusion rules with hermes backup (_EXCLUDED_DIRS,
_EXCLUDED_SUFFIXES, _EXCLUDED_NAMES — single source of truth).
- SQLite safe-copy via _safe_copy_db (state.db restores cleanly).
- Zip format restorable with 'hermes import <archive>'.
- Lives under ~/.hermes/backups/pre-migration-*.zip alongside
pre-update-*.zip — one place for all snapshot archives.
- Auto-prune rotation with separate keep counters (pre-migration
keeps 5, pre-update keeps 5, they don't touch each other's files).
7 new tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_backup.py lock the contract:
directory location, shared exclusion rules, _validate_backup_zip
acceptance (i.e. restorable with 'hermes import'), non-recursive
into prior backups, rotation, missing-home handling, and the
invariant that pre-migration rotation never touches pre-update
backups.
Help text and docs updated — the restore hint now says
'hermes import <name>' instead of 'tar -xzf <archive> -C ~/'.
* chore(claw-migrate): use backup._format_size and drop duplicate output line
Minor polish using another existing primitive from hermes_cli.backup:
- Show backup archive size with _format_size (e.g. '(245 B)' or '(2.4 MB)')
matching the format hermes backup already uses.
- Drop the duplicate 'Pre-migration backup saved' line after Migration
Results — the earlier 'Pre-migration backup: <path> (<size>)' line
already surfaces the path before apply runs.
---------
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@users.noreply.github.com>
Follow-up to the static list refresh: replace the hardcoded xAI entries
with _xai_curated_models(), mirroring the _codex_curated_models()
pattern from PR #7844. The helper reads $HERMES_HOME/models_dev_cache.json
at import time (no network call) and falls back to a small static list
when the cache is missing or malformed.
Why: _PROVIDER_MODELS["xai"] has drifted once already (issue #16699) and
will drift again next time xAI renames a model. Hermes already maintains
the models.dev cache and uses it for context-length lookups; pointing
_PROVIDER_MODELS at the same source means the /model picker self-heals on
the next cache refresh instead of requiring a PR.
Behavior:
- With cache populated (normal user): shows every current xAI model ID,
picks up renames automatically on next refresh.
- Without cache (fresh install, offline): falls back to a static snapshot
of the 9 current flagship IDs.
- Malformed cache / unexpected shape: same static fallback, no crash.
Import time verified <20ms — disk read only, no HTTP.
Addresses the structural piece of #16699 ("consider a single
_provider_models(provider) resolver") for xAI. Other per-provider lists
can adopt the same pattern as drift is observed.
_PROVIDER_MODELS["xai"] was pointing at model IDs the xAI direct API
no longer accepts:
- grok-4.20-reasoning
- grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Replaced with the actual current xAI catalog IDs from models.dev
($HERMES_HOME/models_dev_cache.json, mirror of https://models.dev/api.json):
grok-4.20-0309-reasoning
grok-4.20-0309-non-reasoning
grok-4.20-multi-agent-0309
grok-4-1-fast
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
grok-4-fast
grok-4-fast-non-reasoning
grok-4
grok-code-fast-1
The xAI-direct API (https://api.x.ai/v1) serves the dated IDs shown
above; the bare aliases (grok-4.20, grok-4.1-fast, etc.) are
OpenRouter/Vercel-gateway normalizations and are not accepted on
xAI-direct. Those gateways remain unaffected.
Fixes#16699
Three related issues prevented user-defined providers in `providers:` and
`model_aliases:` from being reachable through standard CLI flags. Requests
silently routed to the configured `model.base_url` instead of the user-
intended endpoint.
* hermes_cli/model_switch.py — root cause of the silent misrouting:
`_ensure_direct_aliases()` rebound `DIRECT_ALIASES` to a freshly-loaded
dict, leaving every `from hermes_cli.model_switch import DIRECT_ALIASES`
caller stuck on the stale empty original. Switched to `.update()` so
module attribute references stay valid.
* hermes_cli/main.py — chat subcommand `--provider` had `choices=[...]`
hardcoded to built-in providers, rejecting valid keys from user
`providers:` config. Dropped the choices list; runtime resolution
validates correctly downstream.
* hermes_cli/oneshot.py — `-m <alias>` only resolved the model name; the
alias's base_url was never propagated. Now consults `DIRECT_ALIASES`
before falling through to `detect_provider_for_model`, and threads the
alias's base_url to `resolve_runtime_provider(explicit_base_url=...)`.
* hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py — `_resolve_named_custom_runtime` now
honors `(provider="custom", explicit_base_url=...)` so a base_url
propagated from a direct-alias resolution actually builds a runtime
instead of falling through to provider-registry handlers that don't
know about ad-hoc local endpoints.
Verified: `hermes chat --provider <user-key> -m <model> -q "..."` and
`hermes -m <user-alias> -z "..."` both route to the user-intended
endpoint, observable via the target server's request log.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Background macOS desktop control via cua-driver MCP — does NOT steal the
user's cursor or keyboard focus, works with any tool-capable model.
Replaces the Anthropic-native `computer_20251124` approach from the
abandoned #4562 with a generic OpenAI function-calling schema plus SOM
(set-of-mark) captures so Claude, GPT, Gemini, and open models can all
drive the desktop via numbered element indices.
- `tools/computer_use/` package — swappable ComputerUseBackend ABC +
CuaDriverBackend (stdio MCP client to trycua/cua's cua-driver binary).
- Universal `computer_use` tool with one schema for all providers.
Actions: capture (som/vision/ax), click, double_click, right_click,
middle_click, drag, scroll, type, key, wait, list_apps, focus_app.
- Multimodal tool-result envelope (`_multimodal=True`, OpenAI-style
`content: [text, image_url]` parts) that flows through
handle_function_call into the tool message. Anthropic adapter converts
into native `tool_result` image blocks; OpenAI-compatible providers
get the parts list directly.
- Image eviction in convert_messages_to_anthropic: only the 3 most
recent screenshots carry real image data; older ones become text
placeholders to cap per-turn token cost.
- Context compressor image pruning: old multimodal tool results have
their image parts stripped instead of being skipped.
- Image-aware token estimation: each image counts as a flat 1500 tokens
instead of its base64 char length (~1MB would have registered as
~250K tokens before).
- COMPUTER_USE_GUIDANCE system-prompt block — injected when the toolset
is active.
- Session DB persistence strips base64 from multimodal tool messages.
- Trajectory saver normalises multimodal messages to text-only.
- `hermes tools` post-setup installs cua-driver via the upstream script
and prints permission-grant instructions.
- CLI approval callback wired so destructive computer_use actions go
through the same prompt_toolkit approval dialog as terminal commands.
- Hard safety guards at the tool level: blocked type patterns
(curl|bash, sudo rm -rf, fork bomb), blocked key combos (empty trash,
force delete, lock screen, log out).
- Skill `apple/macos-computer-use/SKILL.md` — universal (model-agnostic)
workflow guide.
- Docs: `user-guide/features/computer-use.md` plus reference catalog
entries.
44 new tests in tests/tools/test_computer_use.py covering schema
shape (universal, not Anthropic-native), dispatch routing, safety
guards, multimodal envelope, Anthropic adapter conversion, screenshot
eviction, context compressor pruning, image-aware token estimation,
run_agent helpers, and universality guarantees.
469/469 pass across tests/tools/test_computer_use.py + the affected
agent/ test suites.
- `model_tools.py` provider-gating: the tool is available to every
provider. Providers without multi-part tool message support will see
text-only tool results (graceful degradation via `text_summary`).
- Anthropic server-side `clear_tool_uses_20250919` — deferred;
client-side eviction + compressor pruning cover the same cost ceiling
without a beta header.
- macOS only. cua-driver uses private SkyLight SPIs
(SLEventPostToPid, SLPSPostEventRecordTo,
_AXObserverAddNotificationAndCheckRemote) that can break on any macOS
update. Pin with HERMES_CUA_DRIVER_VERSION.
- Requires Accessibility + Screen Recording permissions — the post-setup
prints the Settings path.
Supersedes PR #4562 (pyautogui/Quartz foreground backend, Anthropic-
native schema). Credit @0xbyt4 for the original #3816 groundwork whose
context/eviction/token design is preserved here in generic form.
Opt-in Langfuse tracing for Hermes conversations — LLM calls, tool
usage, usage/cost breakdown per span. Hooks into pre/post_api_request,
pre/post_llm_call, pre/post_tool_call. SDK is optional; missing SDK or
credentials renders the plugin inert.
Salvaged from PR #16845 by @kshitijk4poor, who wrote the plugin
(~875 LOC, 6 hooks, Langfuse usage-details/cost-details normalization,
read_file payload summarization).
Salvage scope (why this isn't PR #16845 as-authored):
- Lives at plugins/observability/langfuse/ (standalone kind, opt-in via
plugins.enabled) instead of a new parallel optional-plugins/
directory. Standalone bundled plugins are already opt-in — only their
plugin.yaml is scanned at startup; the Python module is not imported
unless the user enables it. The premise of optional-plugins/ (avoid
import cost for users who don't want it) is already solved by the
existing plugin system.
- Dropped the triple activation gate (plugins.enabled +
plugins.langfuse.enabled + HERMES_LANGFUSE_ENABLED). The Hermes plugin
system's own enable/disable is authoritative; runtime credentials
gate whether the hook actually traces.
- Rewrote _is_enabled() → cached _get_langfuse() with an _INIT_FAILED
sentinel. The original called hermes_cli.config.load_config() from
every hook invocation (full yaml parse + deep merge + env expansion
on every pre/post_tool_call, potentially 100+ times per turn). The
cached version reads env once and returns the cached client or None
on every subsequent call with zero further work.
- hermes tools → Langfuse Observability post-setup adds
observability/langfuse to plugins.enabled directly (via
_save_enabled_set) instead of going through an install-copy flow.
Enable:
hermes tools # interactive
hermes plugins enable observability/langfuse # manual
Required env (set by `hermes tools` or in ~/.hermes/.env):
HERMES_LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY
HERMES_LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY
HERMES_LANGFUSE_BASE_URL # optional
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@gmail.com>
Runtime already supports list-form fallback_model (run_agent.py:1459
iterates fallback_chain; fallback_cmd.py migrates legacy single-dict
configs to list format). The config validator and save_config comment
gate still assumed single-dict form and flagged list-form configs as
errors. Fix both:
- validate_config_structure: when fallback_model is a list, validate
each entry has provider+model; keep the existing single-dict path.
- save_config: suppress the "add fallback_model" comment when any list
entry is well-formed.
Adds 4 list-form validator tests.
Both keys are documented in cli-config.yaml.example and read at runtime by
hermes_cli/timeouts.py (get_provider_request_timeout and get_provider_stale_timeout),
but the provider-entry validator in config.py flagged them as unknown, producing
noisy warnings on every CLI invocation for users who followed the documented config.
Fixes#16779
Previously, agent.disabled_toolsets in config.yaml only worked for CLI
mode (run_agent.py --disabled_toolsets). The gateway always passed
enabled_toolsets to AIAgent, and get_tool_definitions() ignored
disabled_toolsets when enabled_toolsets was set.
Fix: _get_platform_tools() now reads agent.disabled_toolsets from config
and excludes those toolsets from the returned set. This runs last so it
overrides everything above.
Added 3 tests covering cross-platform suppression, explicit platform
config override, and empty/missing config no-op behavior.
Address Copilot review on #16868:
1. Tighten pool iteration. ``validate_copilot_token`` only rejects empty
strings and classic PATs (``ghp_*``); a malformed/unsupported ``gho_*``
token at ``credential_pool.copilot[0]`` would pass the gate and short-
circuit the loop, hiding a later valid entry. Switch to calling
``exchange_copilot_token`` directly: only entries that actually exchange
into a live Copilot API token are returned. Bad/expired entries fall
through to the next, and an exhausted pool returns ``""`` so the picker
falls back to the curated list (existing behaviour).
2. Reword the docstring + test module docstring to describe the pool seed
path accurately — ``hermes auth add copilot`` adds an api-key-typed
credential whose ``access_token`` field stores the pasted token, and
``_seed_from_env`` mirrors ``COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN`` from
``~/.hermes/.env`` into the pool. The previous wording implied
``auth add copilot`` itself ran the device-code flow, which it does
not (the device-code flow lives in ``hermes model``).
Two new tests cover the iteration change:
- ``test_skips_pool_entry_that_fails_to_exchange`` — pool[0] raises,
pool[1] succeeds, picker uses pool[1].
- ``test_all_pool_entries_fail_exchange_returns_empty`` — every entry
raises, return ``""``.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Users whose only Copilot credential is the OAuth `access_token` saved by
`hermes auth add copilot` (device-code flow) saw the `/model` picker drop
back to a stale hardcoded list. Reason: `_resolve_copilot_catalog_api_key`
only consulted env vars (`COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN` / `GH_TOKEN` /
`GITHUB_TOKEN`) and the `gh auth token` CLI fallback, never the credential
pool that Hermes's own login flow writes into `auth.json`. With no token,
the live catalog fetch silently 401s and the picker hides current models
(claude-opus-4.7, claude-sonnet-4.6, gpt-5.5, grok-code-fast-1) — even
though `/model <id>` works fine because runtime inference reads the pool
through a different code path.
Mirror the Codex catalog resolver pattern: env-var first (unchanged), then
walk `read_credential_pool("copilot")` for the first entry with a
supported `access_token` (`gho_*` / `github_pat_*` / `ghu_*`). Run it
through `get_copilot_api_token()` so the catalog request uses the same
exchanged token the runtime path uses. Classic PATs (`ghp_*`) are still
rejected up-front via `validate_copilot_token` since the Copilot API
doesn't accept them.
Strictly additive: env still wins, and a missing/locked auth.json (or any
exception during pool read) still returns "" so the caller falls through
to the curated catalog.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
model_tools.py ran discover_mcp_tools() as a module-level side effect.
discover_mcp_tools() uses a blocking 120s wait internally (via
_run_on_mcp_loop -> future.result(timeout=120)).
The gateway lazy-imports run_agent -> model_tools on the first user
message, which happens inside the asyncio event loop thread. A slow or
unreachable MCP server therefore froze Discord shard heartbeats and
Telegram polling for up to 120s on the first message after gateway
start.
Fix: remove the module-level call. Every entry point now runs
discovery explicitly at its own startup, using the context-appropriate
blocking/non-blocking pattern:
- gateway/run.py: loop.run_in_executor(None, discover_mcp_tools)
before platforms start accepting traffic
- hermes_cli/main.py: inline (no event loop at CLI startup)
- tui_gateway/entry.py: inline (sync stdin loop, no event loop)
- acp_adapter/entry.py: inline before asyncio.run()
Closes#16856.
_handle_set_home_command wrote FEISHU_HOME_CHANNEL / DISCORD_HOME_CHANNEL /
etc. as top-level keys into config.yaml, but load_gateway_config() only
reads home channels from env vars. After every gateway restart the home
channel was lost — on every platform, not just Feishu.
Fix: switch /sethome to save_env_value(), which atomically writes to
~/.hermes/.env and updates the current process env in one shot. The
handler builds the env key from platform_name.upper(), so one line
change repairs /sethome for every platform that has a HOME_CHANNEL
env var.
Also widen _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS in hermes_cli/config.py so HOME_CHANNEL and
HOME_CHANNEL_NAME for every platform are treated as managed env vars:
SIGNAL, SLACK, SMS, DINGTALK, BLUEBUBBLES, FEISHU, WECOM, YUANBAO, plus
the missing *_NAME variants for DISCORD/TELEGRAM/MATTERMOST.
Closes#16806
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <screenmachine@gmail.com>
Replace the Linux/macOS pgrep regex ("hermes.*dashboard") with a ps
scan + the same explicit patterns list already used on the Windows
branch and in hermes_cli.gateway._scan_gateway_pids:
hermes dashboard
hermes_cli.main dashboard
hermes_cli/main.py dashboard
The old greedy regex would match any cmdline containing both words —
e.g. a chat session whose argv mentions "dashboard" or an unrelated
grafana/dashboard-server process. Added regression tests for both.
Follow-up tightening on #16881.
The dashboard is a long-lived server process users start and forget.
When hermes update replaces files on disk, the running process holds
the old Python backend in memory while the JS bundle gets updated,
producing a silent frontend/backend mismatch (e.g. v0.11.0 changed
the session token header -- old backends reject every API call).
Scan for running dashboard processes after a successful update (both
git and ZIP paths) and print a warning with their PIDs and restart
instructions. Mirrors the existing pattern for gateway processes.
Fixes#16872
opencode-zen and opencode-go each serve both anthropic_messages
(e.g. minimax-m2.7) and chat_completions (e.g. deepseek-v4-flash)
models behind a single base_url. The api_mode resolver in
hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py honoured the persisted
model_cfg.api_mode (set by the previous default model) before checking
the opencode model registry, so /model deepseek-v4-flash from a session
whose default was minimax-m2.7 inherited 'anthropic_messages', stripped
'/v1' from base_url (the Anthropic SDK adds its own /v1/messages), and
404'd.
Promote the opencode detection branch above the configured_mode check
in both api_mode resolution paths:
- _resolve_runtime_from_pool_entry (pool-backed providers)
- _resolve_api_key_runtime (api-key providers, fallback path)
Both branches now call opencode_model_api_mode(provider, effective_model)
unconditionally for opencode-zen/go before considering any persisted
api_mode, so the mode always reflects the model the user just switched
to.
Existing tests pass (12/12 in tests/hermes_cli/test_model_switch_opencode_anthropic.py).
Fixes#16878
Switch _PRIORITY_PROCESSING_MODELS and _ANTHROPIC_FAST_MODE_MODELS from
hardcoded frozensets to prefix-based matching. Any gpt-*, o1*, o3*, o4*
(OpenAI) and any claude-* (Anthropic) now exposes /fast.
Fixes the case where gpt-5.5 and other post-catalog models silently
skipped Priority Processing because they weren't in the frozenset.
Future OpenAI/Anthropic releases will work without a catalog bump.
Safety:
- Codex-series (*codex*) still excluded — they route through the Codex
Responses API which doesn't take service_tier.
- Anthropic adapter already gates speed=fast on native endpoints only
(_is_third_party_anthropic_endpoint), so claude-sonnet-4.6 on
OpenRouter/Bedrock/opencode-zen won't leak the unknown beta.
- service_tier=priority is silently dropped by non-OpenAI proxies, so
false positives are harmless.
Flips security.redact_secrets from true to false in DEFAULT_CONFIG, and
the HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS env-var fallback in agent/redact.py now
requires explicit opt-in ("1"/"true"/"yes"/"on") to enable.
New installs and users without a security.redact_secrets key get pass-
through tool output. Existing users whose config.yaml explicitly sets
redact_secrets: true keep redaction on — the config-yaml -> env-var
bridges in hermes_cli/main.py and gateway/run.py still honor their
setting.
Also updates the inline config comments, website docs, and the
hermes-agent skill so /hermes config set security.redact_secrets true
is now the documented way to turn it on.
Plugins can now observe dangerous-command approval events in real time,
on both the CLI-interactive path and the async gateway path. This is the
missing hook surface external tools need to build approval notifiers
(macOS menu-bar allow/deny, Slack alerts, audit logs, etc.) without
forking Hermes or running a parallel gateway adapter.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/plugins.py: add two entries to VALID_HOOKS
- tools/approval.py: fire both hooks from check_all_command_guards --
around prompt_dangerous_approval (CLI surface) and around the
notify_cb + blocking event.wait loop (gateway surface)
- website/docs/user-guide/features/hooks.md: document both hooks with
a macOS-notification example
- tests/tools/test_approval_plugin_hooks.py: 5 tests covering CLI once,
CLI deny, plugin-crash resilience, gateway approve, gateway timeout
Hooks are observer-only: return values are ignored, so plugins cannot
veto or pre-answer an approval (use pre_tool_call for that). A crashing
plugin cannot break the approval flow -- invoke_hook swallows per-
callback errors, and the wrapper logs and swallows dispatch-layer
errors too.
Surface kwarg distinguishes "cli" from "gateway"; post hook reports
choice as one of once/session/always/deny/timeout.
- moveCursor(extend=true) now collapses to the bare cursor when the
computed offset equals the existing anchor instead of leaving a
zero-length sel. Without this, Shift+Left at col 0 / Shift+Home at
start would silently hide the hardware cursor (selected truthy)
without rendering any highlight.
- _tui_need_npm_install also catches UnicodeDecodeError so a corrupted
/ non-UTF8 lockfile falls back to the mtime path the docstring
promises instead of crashing.
Made-with: Cursor
* feat(tui): auto copy-on-select for transcript text
Drag in the transcript already highlighted but you had to press Cmd+C to
land it on the clipboard, and the highlight cleared on copy — most users
never realised selection existed. Now drag-release fires copySelectionNoClear
so the text is on the clipboard immediately while the highlight stays put,
matching iTerm2's "Copy to pasteboard on selection" default. Esc clears.
Behaviour:
- Single click in the input still positions the cursor (TextInput onClick).
- Single click in the transcript still does nothing destructive.
- Double / triple click select word / line, then drag extends.
- /copyselect [on|off|toggle] (alias /cos) flips the setting at runtime,
HERMES_TUI_DISABLE_COPY_ON_SELECT=1 disables at startup, persists via
display.tui_copy_on_select in config.yaml.
Help overlay now lists drag-select, multi-click, and click-to-position
so the gestures are discoverable.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): support prompt text selection gestures
Add mouse drag selection and Shift+Arrow/Home/End extension inside the TUI composer so prompt text behaves like a normal editable field while keeping click-to-position and right-click paste intact.
Made-with: Cursor
* Revert "feat(tui): auto copy-on-select for transcript text"
This reverts commit 6701288fe07a53af873e1ef53855a9618d733327.
* fix(tui): allow composer selection from prompt whitespace
Give the composer a one-cell mouse capture pad before the editable text. The prompt glyph/gutter still does not become selectable, but dragging from the edge now anchors at input offset 0 so users do not need to hit the first character precisely.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): clear selections from blank composer space
Clicking blank space in the transcript or composer now clears active TUI/input selections like a normal text surface. TextInput clicks stop bubbling so cursor placement and selection gestures keep their local behavior.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): delegate prompt gutter drags to composer text
The prompt gutter is now an input gesture region, not selectable content. Dragging from the whitespace or prompt area anchors the composer selection at offset 0, while selection highlight/copy remains limited to actual input text.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): move composer cursor to end on selection clear
External clear actions now collapse the composer selection to the end of the input, matching normal text-field behavior after dismissing a selection.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): capture composer padding before prompt
Add an explicit mouse capture cell over the left padding before the prompt glyph. Drags starting there now delegate to the composer input at offset 0 instead of starting terminal-level selection over the prompt chrome.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): avoid npm install on lockfile mtime churn
Compare package-lock.json against npm's hidden node_modules lock by content instead of mtimes. Git checkouts and npm lock rewrites can make the root lockfile newer even when installed dependencies already match, causing hermes --tui to print Installing TUI dependencies on every launch.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): include prompt leading cell in gesture region
Use the prompt box's real layout region to cover the leading whitespace cell before the glyph. The cell now participates in mouse hit testing and delegates to composer selection instead of starting terminal-level selection.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): widen prompt-side gesture capture band
Capture a wider left-side band around the composer prompt row so drags starting in terminal gutter/padding cells are consumed and delegated to input selection, instead of triggering terminal-level selection chrome.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): make pre-prompt spacer non-selectable content
Replace the sticky-prompt fallback `Text(' ')` with an empty spacer box so the visual gap remains but no literal space character is rendered/copyable before the composer prompt.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): capture pre-prompt spacer without shifting prompt layout
Revert the widened negative-margin prompt capture band and instead capture drags on the dedicated spacer row above the prompt. This keeps prompt/text alignment stable while still delegating whitespace-start drags to composer selection.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): align prompt with status bar and capture full input row
Drop the leading prompt column from 3 to 2 so the input first character lines up with the status bar text. Wrap the prompt+input row in a single mouse-capture box and stop event propagation from TextInput's own handlers so any drag in that row delegates to composer selection without leaking to terminal-level selection.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): anchor hardware cursor during composer selection
When a composer selection covers a row exactly the column width, the rendered text fills the row and the terminal auto-wraps the hardware cursor to col 0 of the next row, leaving a ghost block beneath the prompt. Park the cursor at the start of the input box during selection so it can't escape the input region.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): hide hardware cursor during composer selection
Stop fighting auto-wrap by hiding the hardware cursor outright while the
composer has an active selection. This prevents both the ghost block under
the prompt (cursor wrapping past the last cell) and the parked-cursor block
on the first selected character. The cursor restores as soon as the
selection clears or focus changes.
Made-with: Cursor
* chore(tui): /clean — drop dead capture-pad path, dedupe gutter handlers
- TextInput: remove unused leftCaptureColumns prop and capture-pad math, drop
unused mouseApi.startAt, fold mouse offset into a single offsetAt helper,
share a MouseEventLite type across the four handlers.
- appLayout: hoist a GutterMouseEvent type and an endInputDrag callback so the
spacer/prompt/input rows share one shape.
- _tui_need_npm_install: lift the runtime-only key set to a module constant,
collapse nested isinstance checks, and document the mtime fallback.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): address copilot review on PR #16732
- Split InputSelection.clear() into clear() (cursor-preserving) and
collapseToEnd() (clear + jump to end). Cmd+C copy paths keep using
clear() so the cursor stays put; the blank-area click in useMainApp
switches to collapseToEnd() to match the requested UX.
- Spacer-row drags now force row=0 when forwarding into the input,
since the spacer's vertical origin doesn't align with the input box
and Ink mouse-capture keeps dispatching motion to the original
target. Prompt+input row drag keeps localRow because origins match.
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(tui): give TextInput Box an explicit width
After the /clean pass dropped the unused capture-pad math, the wrapping
Box also lost its explicit width and started sizing to its rendered
content. Clicks past the last character missed TextInput and fell
through to the parent prompt-row Box, which collapsed the cursor to
offset 0. Pin the Box back to `columns` so the input owns its full
column span regardless of value length.
Made-with: Cursor
* feat(tui): double-click select-all + hide cursor on terminal blur
- Track click time/offset in TextInput so a quick second click on the
same offset triggers select-all. Ink's screen-level multi-click is
bypassed once our onMouseDown captures, so the gesture has to be
detected locally.
- Extend the cursor-hide effect to also fire when the terminal loses
focus, so the hollow-rect ghost most terminals draw at the parked
cursor position disappears too.
Made-with: Cursor
* chore(tui): /clean — extract isMultiClickAt helper
Pull the click-recurrence math out of TextInput's onMouseDown into a
small isMultiClickAt(offset) helper so the handler reads as the gesture
list it actually is (multi-click → select-all, otherwise start).
Drop the redundant length>0 guard now that selectAll() already noops on
an empty value.
Made-with: Cursor
* docs(tui): explain _tui_need_npm_install content-vs-mtime comparison
Expand the docstring so future readers understand why we parse the
lockfiles instead of comparing mtimes, what the optional/peer skip
covers, how stale hidden-lock entries are handled, and when we fall
back to mtime.
- config.py: remove dead ENV_VARS_BY_VERSION[17] entry (current _config_version
is 22, so all users are past version 17 and would never be prompted for
GMI_API_KEY on upgrade — consistent with how arcee was added)
- auxiliary_client.py: use google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview as GMI aux
model instead of anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 (matches cheap fast-model pattern
used by all other providers: zai→glm-4.5-flash, kimi→kimi-k2-turbo-preview,
stepfun→step-3.5-flash, kilocode→google/gemini-3-flash-preview)
- test_gmi_provider.py: fix malformed write_text() call in doctor test
(was: write_text("GMI_API_KEY=*** encoding="utf-8") → missing closing quote,
wrote literal string 'GMI_API_KEY=*** encoding=' to .env file)
- test_gmi_provider.py + test_auxiliary_client.py: update aux model assertions
to match new cheaper default
- docs/integrations/providers.md: add 'gmi' to inline 'Supported providers'
fallback list (was only in the table, not the inline list at line ~1181)
- docs/reference/cli-commands.md: add 'gmi' to --provider choices list
- create HERMES_TUI_ACTIVE_SESSION_FILE with mkstemp instead of a predictable tmp path and always cleanup in finally
- add assertions that launch wiring uses a randomized session file path and removes it on exit
- use a grouped last_active join in search_sessions to avoid per-row correlated max lookups
- always close SessionDB in _resolve_last_session via finally and add regression coverage for search failure cleanup
- order session listing by computed last_active in SessionDB so callers get MRU rows directly
- keep _resolve_last_session as a single-row lookup and add regression coverage for >20 session sampling
The backup takes a consistent snapshot of each .db via sqlite3.backup(),
so shipping the live .db-wal / .db-shm / .db-journal alongside pairs the
fresh snapshot with stale sidecar state and produces a torn restore on
first open. Sidecars are transient and SQLite regenerates them on next
connection anyway.
This also trims multi-MB of junk from every zip — state.db-wal alone was
~9 MB here, doubled by the fact the WAL is the live write-ahead log, not
data.
Session-local trajectory cache — keyed by session hash, regenerated
per-session, won't port to another machine anyway. On a large install
this was multiple GB of pure noise in every zip.
Also adds a regression test for the pre-existing backups/ exclusion
so the two machine-local dirs share coverage.
The zip backup could add minutes to every 'hermes update' on large
HERMES_HOME directories. Flip the default to off and add a --backup
flag for one-off opt-in runs.
- updates.pre_update_backup default: True -> False
- hermes update: new --backup flag (opposite of existing --no-backup)
- Silent no-op when disabled (no message spam on every update)
- Existing --no-backup still works and wins over --backup
- Users who explicitly set pre_update_backup: true keep the old behavior
- Tests updated to cover default-off, --backup opt-in, and config-enabled paths
* feat(image-input): native multimodal routing based on model vision capability
Attach user-sent images as OpenAI-style content parts on the user turn when
the active model supports native vision, so vision-capable models see real
pixels instead of a lossy text description from vision_analyze.
Routing decision (agent/image_routing.py::decide_image_input_mode):
agent.image_input_mode = auto | native | text (default: auto)
In auto mode:
- If auxiliary.vision.provider/model is explicitly configured, keep the
text pipeline (user paid for a dedicated vision backend).
- Else if models.dev reports supports_vision=True for the active
provider/model, attach natively.
- Else fall back to text (current behaviour).
Call sites updated: gateway/run.py (all messaging platforms), tui_gateway
(dashboard/Ink), cli.py (interactive /attach + drag-drop).
run_agent.py changes:
- _prepare_anthropic_messages_for_api now passes image parts through
unchanged when the model supports vision — the Anthropic adapter
translates them to native image blocks. Previous behaviour
(vision_analyze → text) only runs for non-vision Anthropic models.
- New _prepare_messages_for_non_vision_model mirrors the same contract
for chat.completions and codex_responses paths, so non-vision models
on any provider get text-fallback instead of failing at the provider.
- New _model_supports_vision() helper reads models.dev caps.
vision_analyze description rewritten: positions it as a tool for images
NOT already visible in the conversation (URLs, tool output, deeper
inspection). Prevents the model from redundantly calling it on images
already attached natively.
Config default: agent.image_input_mode = auto.
Tests: 35 new (test_image_routing.py + test_vision_aware_preprocessing.py),
all existing tests that reference _prepare_anthropic_messages_for_api
still pass (198 targeted + new tests green).
* feat(image-input): size-cap + resize oversized images, charge image tokens in compressor
Two follow-ups that make the native image routing safer for long / heavy
sessions:
1) Oversize handling in build_native_content_parts:
- 20 MB ceiling per image (matches vision_tools._MAX_BASE64_BYTES,
the most restrictive provider — Gemini inline data).
- Delegates to vision_tools._resize_image_for_vision (Pillow-based,
already battle-tested) to downscale to 5 MB first-try.
- If Pillow is missing or resize still overshoots, the image is
dropped and reported back in skipped[]; caller falls back to text
enrichment for that image.
2) Image-token accounting in context_compressor:
- New _IMAGE_TOKEN_ESTIMATE = 1600 (matches Claude Code's constant;
within the realistic range for Anthropic/GPT-4o/Gemini billing).
- _content_length_for_budget() helper: sums text-part lengths and
charges _IMAGE_CHAR_EQUIVALENT (1600 * 4 chars) per image/image_url/
input_image part. Base64 payload inside image_url is NOT counted
as chars — dimensions don't matter, only image-presence.
- Both tail-cut sites (_prune_old_tool_results L527 and
_find_tail_cut_by_tokens L1126) now call the helper so multi-image
conversations don't slip past compression budget.
Tests: 9 new in test_image_routing.py (oversize triggers resize,
resize-fails-returns-None, oversize-skipped-reported), 11 new in
test_compressor_image_tokens.py (flat charge per image, multiple images,
Responses-API / Anthropic-native / OpenAI-chat shapes, no-inflation on
raw base64, bounds-check on the constant, integration test that an
image-heavy tail actually gets trimmed).
* fix(image-input): replace blanket 20MB ceiling with empirically-verified per-provider limits
The previous commit imposed a hardcoded 20 MB base64 ceiling on all
providers, triggering auto-resize on anything larger. This was wrong in
both directions:
* Too loose for Anthropic — actual limit is 5 MB (returns HTTP 400
'image exceeds 5 MB maximum' above that).
* Too strict for OpenAI / Codex / OpenRouter — accept 49 MB+ without
complaint (empirically verified April 2026 with progressive PNG
sizes).
New behaviour:
* _PROVIDER_BASE64_CEILING table: only anthropic and bedrock have a
ceiling (5 MB, since bedrock-on-Claude shares Anthropic's decoder).
* Providers NOT in the table get no ceiling — images attach at native
size and we trust the provider to return its own error if it
disagrees. A provider-specific 400 message is clearer than us
guessing wrong and silently degrading image quality.
* build_native_content_parts() gains a keyword-only provider arg;
gateway/CLI/TUI pass the active provider so Anthropic users get
auto-resize protection while OpenAI users don't pay it.
* Resize target dropped from 5 MB to 4 MB to slide safely under
Anthropic's boundary with header overhead.
Empirical measurements (direct API, no Hermes in the loop):
image b64 anthropic openrouter/gpt5.5 codex-oauth/gpt5.5
0.19 MB ✓ ✓ ✓
12.37 MB ✗ 400 5MB ✓ ✓
23.85 MB ✗ 400 5MB ✓ ✓
49.46 MB ✗ 413 ✓ ✓
Tests: rewrote TestOversizeHandling (5 tests): no-ceiling pass-through,
Anthropic resize fires, Anthropic skip on resize-fail, build_native_parts
routes ceiling by provider, unknown provider gets no ceiling. All 52
targeted tests pass.
* refactor(image-input): attempt native, shrink-and-retry on provider reject
Replace proactive per-provider size ceilings with a reactive shrink path
on the provider's actual rejection. All providers now attempt native
full-size attachment first; if the provider returns an image-too-large
error, the agent silently shrinks and retries once.
Why the previous design was wrong: hardcoding provider ceilings
(anthropic=5MB, others=unlimited) meant OpenAI users on a 10MB image
paid no tax, but Anthropic users lost quality on anything >5MB even
though the empirical behaviour at provider-reject time is the same
(shrink + retry). Baking the table into the routing layer also
requires updating Hermes every time a provider's limit changes.
Reactive design:
- image_routing.py: _file_to_data_url encodes native size, no ceiling.
build_native_content_parts drops its provider kwarg.
- error_classifier.py: new FailoverReason.image_too_large + pattern
match ("image exceeds", "image too large", etc.) checked BEFORE
context_overflow so Anthropic's 5MB rejection lands in the right
bucket.
- run_agent.py: new _try_shrink_image_parts_in_messages walks api
messages in-place, re-encodes oversized data: URL image parts
through vision_tools._resize_image_for_vision to fit under 4MB,
handles both chat.completions (dict image_url) and Responses
(string image_url) shapes, ignores http URLs (provider-fetched).
New image_shrink_retry_attempted flag in the retry loop fires the
shrink exactly once per turn after credential-pool recovery but
before auth retries.
E2E verified live against Anthropic claude-sonnet-4-6:
- 17.9MB PNG (23.9MB b64) attached at native size
- Anthropic returns 400 "image exceeds 5 MB maximum"
- Agent logs '📐 Image(s) exceeded provider size limit — shrank and
retrying...'
- Retry succeeds, correct response delivered in 6.8s total.
Tests: 12 new (8 shrink-helper shapes + 4 classifier signals),
replaces 5 proactive-ceiling tests with 3 simpler 'native attach works'
tests. 181 targeted tests pass. test_enum_members_exist in
test_error_classifier.py updated for the new enum value.
Every 'hermes update' now runs a full backup of ~/.hermes/ first, so
users can always roll back to the exact state they had before the
update if anything goes wrong (corrupted sessions.db, broken skills,
config migrations that don't round-trip, etc.).
Changes:
- hermes_cli/backup.py: new create_pre_update_backup() helper. Writes
to <HERMES_HOME>/backups/pre-update-<stamp>.zip using the same
exclusion rules and SQLite safe-copy as 'hermes backup'. Auto-rotates
(keep last N, pre-update-*.zip only — hand-dropped zips in backups/
are untouched). Adds 'backups' to _EXCLUDED_DIRS so subsequent backups
don't nest prior ones.
- hermes_cli/main.py: _run_pre_update_backup() wired into
_cmd_update_impl before any git operation. Prints save path, restore
command, and how to disable. Swallows failures so a broken backup
never blocks the update itself. New --no-backup flag on 'hermes
update' for one-off override.
- hermes_cli/config.py: new 'updates' section in DEFAULT_CONFIG with
pre_update_backup (default true) and backup_keep (default 5).
Auto-surfaces in the dashboard config UI.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_backup.py: +11 tests covering backup location,
content parity with 'hermes backup', no-recursion, rotation, manual
file preservation, config gate, --no-backup flag, flag-wins-over-config.
The CLI renders through prompt_toolkit in non-full-screen mode, so every
repaint uses the renderer's tracked _cursor_pos.y to cursor_up() + erase
before drawing the new frame. Any time that tracked position drifts from
terminal reality, redraws stack on top of stale content instead of
overwriting it. Four user-visible bugs share this root cause.
Fixes:
- #5474 (SIGWINCH ghosts): the resize wrapper previously only handled
column-shrink reflow. Generalize it to force a full screen-clear
(erase_screen + cursor_goto(0,0)) and renderer.reset() on every resize
— covers widen, row-shrink, and multiplexer SIGWINCH-less redraws.
- #8688 (cmux/tmux tab switch): no SIGWINCH fires on focus regain, so
prompt_toolkit has no signal to recover. Add a _force_full_redraw()
helper, bound to Ctrl+L (standard bash/zsh/vim convention) and exposed
as /redraw. Users can manually clear drift without restarting Hermes.
- #14692 (DSR response leaks — ^[[53;1R): resize storms make
prompt_toolkit's CSI 6n queries race past the input parser; the
terminal's reply ends up as literal input text. Add a sibling of the
bracketed-paste sanitizer that strips \x1b[<row>;<col>R and the
caret-escape visible form from paste text, buffer text-filter, and
the input-processing loop.
The idle-redraw removal (#12641) is in the preceding commit from
@foxion37 — keeping them as separate commits preserves attribution.
Previously 'hermes debug share' uploads only got DELETEd when the user
ran 'hermes debug share' again — opportunistic-sweep-on-invoke was the
only cleanup path. A user who uploaded once and never ran debug again
left pastes up until paste.rs's retention kicked in (which, empirically,
never actually expires them).
Hook _sweep_expired_pastes into the gateway cron ticker at the same
hourly cadence as the image/document cache cleanups. The opportunistic
sweep in 'hermes debug share' stays as a fallback for CLI-only users
who never start the gateway.
Quick state snapshot now includes pairing JSONs (generic + legacy +
Feishu comment pairing), and `hermes update` takes a pre-update
snapshot labeled `pre-update` before pulling.
Pairing data lives outside state.db in platform-specific JSONs under
~/.hermes/pairing/, ~/.hermes/platforms/pairing/, and
~/.hermes/feishu_comment_pairing.json. The update command already
couldn't touch $HERMES_HOME, but #15733 reports lost pairing after
an update — this gives users something to restore from via
`/snapshot list` / `/snapshot restore <id>` if anything clobbers
the approved-user lists.
- Extend _QUICK_STATE_FILES with pairing paths (files + dirs)
- Snapshot walks directories recursively and records each file in the
manifest individually so restore logic is unchanged
- _cmd_update_impl calls create_quick_snapshot(label='pre-update')
after 'Found N new commits' and before 'Pulling updates'
- Snapshot failures are logged at debug and never block the update
Refs #15733.
When 'hermes model' runs against a providers: (keyed-schema) entry that
relies only on key_env, the picker resolves the env var for the live
/models request and then wrote a synthesized 'api_key: ${KEY_ENV}' back
to the providers.<key> entry. That's redundant — the runtime already
resolves from key_env directly — and it clutters configs that
intentionally keep credentials out of config.yaml.
Only persist provider_entry['api_key'] when the user originally had an
inline value (literal secret or ${VAR} template). Entries that declared
only key_env stay clean on save.
Fixes#15803.
Azure Foundry deploys GPT-5.x, codex-*, and o1/o3/o4 reasoning models as
Responses-API-only. Calling /chat/completions against these deployments
returns 400 'The requested operation is unsupported.', which broke any
user who ran 'hermes model' on Azure, picked a gpt-5/codex deployment,
and kept the default api_mode: chat_completions. Verified in a user
debug bundle on 2026-04-26: gpt-5.3-codex failed on synopsisse.openai.azure.com
with that exact payload while gpt-4o-pure on the same endpoint worked.
Adds azure_foundry_model_api_mode(model_name) that returns
codex_responses when the model name starts with gpt-5, codex, o1, o3,
or o4 — otherwise None so chat_completions / anthropic_messages stay
untouched for gpt-4o, Llama, Claude-via-Anthropic, etc.
Resolver (both the direct Azure Foundry path and the pool-entry path)
consults it and upgrades api_mode unless the user explicitly picked
anthropic_messages. target_model (from /model mid-session switch)
takes precedence over the persisted default so switching from gpt-4o
to gpt-5.3-codex routes correctly before the next request.
Docs: correct the azure-foundry guide which previously claimed Azure
keeps gpt-5.x on chat completions — that was only true for early Azure
OpenAI, not Azure Foundry codex/o-series deployments.
Tests: 14 unit tests for azure_foundry_model_api_mode + 6 integration
tests in TestAzureFoundryResolution covering Bob's exact scenario,
target_model override, anthropic_messages guard, and o3-mini.
* feat(skills): install skills from a direct HTTP(S) URL
Adds UrlSource adapter so `hermes skills install <url-to-SKILL.md>` and
`/skills install <url>` work as first-class operations — no more
improvising with curl + patch + cp.
- Claims identifiers that start with http(s):// and end in .md
- Skips /.well-known/skills/ URLs (WellKnownSkillSource handles those)
- Skill name from YAML frontmatter, URL-slug fallback
- Single-file SKILL.md only (v1 scope — multi-file skills need a manifest)
- Trust level 'community'; full security scan still runs
- Lock file stores the URL as identifier so `hermes skills update`
re-fetches from the same URL cleanly
Scope matches real user need from @versun's docx feedback where
`https://sharethis.chat/SKILL.md` had no first-class install path.
* feat(skills): interactive name/category for URL installs + --name override
Follow-up to the UrlSource adapter. The previous commit fell back to weak
heuristics when frontmatter had no ``name:`` and could produce garbage names
like ``SKILL`` or ``unnamed-skill``. Now:
tools/skills_hub.py
- ``UrlSource._is_valid_skill_name()`` — strict identifier check
(``^[a-z][a-z0-9_-]*$``), rejects sentinel values (``SKILL``, ``README``,
``INDEX``, ``unnamed-skill``, empty, non-strings).
- ``_resolve_skill_name()`` returns ``Optional[str]`` — ``None`` when
nothing valid is resolvable. Also ignores unsafe frontmatter names
(``../evil``) and falls through to URL slug instead of returning None
immediately, so a URL with a bad frontmatter but a good path still
works.
- ``fetch()``/``inspect()`` carry an ``awaiting_name=True`` marker in
metadata/extra when resolution fails, letting ``do_install`` decide
whether to prompt, apply an override, or error out.
hermes_cli/skills_hub.py
- ``do_install`` gains a ``name_override`` parameter.
- On URL-sourced bundles with ``awaiting_name=True``:
1. If ``name_override`` is valid → use it.
2. If ``name_override`` is invalid → refuse with a clear error.
3. Else if ``skip_confirm=True`` (non-interactive: slash / TUI /
gateway / scripts) → refuse with an actionable retry hint pointing
at ``--name <your-name>`` on both CLI and slash forms.
4. Else (interactive TTY) → prompt for the name.
- Interactive TTY also prompts for a category when none is given for a
URL-sourced install, hinting existing category buckets so users can
reuse ``productivity``, ``devops``, etc. Empty input → flat install.
- ``_existing_categories()`` scans ``~/.hermes/skills/`` for subdirs that
look like category buckets (contain nested SKILL.md files); skips
top-level skills and hidden dirs.
- ``_prompt_for_skill_name()`` / ``_prompt_for_category()`` helpers
(EOF/Ctrl-C-safe, match the existing ``Confirm [y/N]`` prompt style).
hermes_cli/main.py
- ``hermes skills install`` argparse gains ``--name <name>``.
hermes_cli/skills_hub.py (slash)
- ``/skills install <url> --name <x>`` parsing added.
Tests
- tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py: updated ``UrlSource`` tests to assert
the new ``awaiting_name`` metadata; added 4 new tests for
``_is_valid_skill_name`` rejection sets and the awaiting-name marker.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_skills_hub.py: 8 new tests covering --name
override accept/reject, non-interactive error, interactive name prompt,
interactive category prompt, cancel-aborts-install, and
``_existing_categories`` scan behavior (buckets vs flat skills).
- E2E verified all four paths (no-name/no-override → error;
--name override → install; frontmatter name → install;
invalid --name → rejection).
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Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@noreply.github.com>
Both get_provider_request_timeout() and get_provider_stale_timeout()
wrapped the load_config import in try/except ImportError but left the
actual load_config() call unprotected. A corrupt config file, YAML
parse error, or permission failure would raise instead of returning
None safely.
Move load_config() inside the try block so any exception returns None.
- remove the temporary -c MRU logic and companion test from this branch so PR #15926 stays focused on TUI perf work
- keep the resume-ordering change isolated in the dedicated follow-up PR
CPU profiling showed the built TUI loading React development modules unless NODE_ENV was set. Default CLI and dashboard TUI children to production while preserving explicit user overrides.
Every working dir hermes ever touches gets its own shadow git repo under
~/.hermes/checkpoints/{sha256(abs_dir)[:16]}/. The per-repo _prune is a
no-op (comment in CheckpointManager._prune says so), so abandoned repos
from deleted/moved projects or one-off tmp dirs pile up forever. Field
reports put the typical offender at 1000+ repos / ~12 GB on active
contributor machines.
Adds an opt-in startup sweep that mirrors the sessions.auto_prune
pattern from #13861 / #16286:
- tools/checkpoint_manager.py: new prune_checkpoints() and
maybe_auto_prune_checkpoints() helpers. Deletes shadow repos that
are orphan (HERMES_WORKDIR marker points to a path that no longer
exists) or stale (newest in-repo mtime older than retention_days).
Idempotent via a CHECKPOINT_BASE/.last_prune marker file so it only
runs once per min_interval_hours regardless of how many hermes
processes start up.
- hermes_cli/config.py: new checkpoints.auto_prune /
retention_days / delete_orphans / min_interval_hours knobs.
Default auto_prune: false so users who rely on /rollback against
long-ago sessions never lose data silently.
- cli.py / gateway/run.py: startup hooks gated on checkpoints.auto_prune,
called right next to the existing state.db maintenance block.
- Docs updated with the new config knobs.
- 11 regression tests: orphan/stale deletion, precedence, byte-freed
tracking, non-shadow dir skip, interval gating, corrupt marker
recovery.
Refs #3015 (session-file disk growth was fixed in #16286; this covers
the checkpoint side noted out-of-scope there).
Follow-up to #15960 — the provider-active detection in tools_config.py
also read use_gateway with raw truthiness (is False, not dict.get), so
quoted 'false' caused the FAL-direct row to show wrong active status in
the hermes tools picker. Route both sites through is_truthy_value().
`npm install --silent` (used by `_build_web_ui` and `_update_node_dependencies`)
silently rewrites package-lock.json on npm ≥ 10 (strips "peer": true etc.),
leaving the working tree dirty after every `hermes update`. The next update
then detects the dirty lockfile and stashes it — producing a trail of
hermes-update-autostash entries for web/package-lock.json, ui-tui/package-lock.json,
and root package-lock.json.
Switch to `npm ci` (strict, lockfile-preserving) via a new
`_run_npm_install_deterministic` helper that falls back to `npm install`
when the lockfile is missing or out of sync (WIP forks).
Verified locally: all three lockfiles stay byte-identical after the real
_build_web_ui / _update_node_dependencies run twice back-to-back. Fallback
path tested with a deliberately out-of-sync lockfile and a no-lockfile case.
Four independent session-UX bugs reported by an external user (#16294).
/save wrote hermes_conversation_<ts>.json to CWD — invisible to
'hermes sessions browse' and easy to lose. Snapshots now write under
~/.hermes/sessions/saved/ and the command prints the absolute path plus
a 'hermes --resume <id>' hint for the live DB-indexed session.
'hermes sessions browse' default --limit raised from 50 to 500. With the
old ceiling, users with moderately long histories saw only the most
recent 50 rows and assumed older sessions had been lost.
TUI session.list (`/resume` picker) switched from a hardcoded allow-list
of 13 gateway source names to a deny-list of just { 'tool' }. Sessions
tagged acp / webhook / user-defined HERMES_SESSION_SOURCE values and
any newly-added platform now surface. Default limit 20 → 200.
ollama-cloud provider setup passes force_refresh=True to
fetch_ollama_cloud_models() so a user entering their API key sees the
fresh catalog (e.g. deepseek v4 flash, kimi k2.6) immediately instead
of waiting up to an hour for the disk cache TTL to expire.
Closes#16294.
Adds NOTION_API_KEY, LINEAR_API_KEY, TENOR_API_KEY, and AIRTABLE_API_KEY
to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS so:
- They persist to ~/.hermes/.env via save_env_value like every other
key Hermes knows about, instead of being ad-hoc variables the user
has to hand-edit the dotfile for.
- load_env() / reload_env() populate os.environ from .env on every
startup — the user sets the key once, skills keep working across
restarts without losing access.
- hermes setup / hermes config show surface them as known optional
vars with the correct signup URL (linear.app/settings/api,
airtable.com/create/tokens, etc.).
These four entries use category="skill" (new) rather than "tool".
tools/environments/local.py auto-adds every category=tool/messaging
entry to _HERMES_PROVIDER_ENV_BLOCKLIST, which stops env passthrough
from leaking provider credentials into the execute_code sandbox
(GHSA-rhgp-j443-p4rf). Skill API keys are the opposite case — the
point is for the agent's subprocess to see them so curl can read
Authorization headers — so they must be outside the blocklist. The
new category is inert for that check.
All four entries are advanced=True: they show up in 'hermes config'
and 'hermes status' displays, but do not nag users who have never
touched those skills during setup checklists.
E2E verified: save_env_value → reload_env → os.environ populated →
skill_view reports setup_needed=False → env_passthrough registers
the key for subprocess inheritance.
_web_ui_build_needed() in PR #14914 checked web_dir/"dist" as the
sentinel, but vite.config.ts sets outDir: "../hermes_cli/web_dist" so
the build output lands in hermes_cli/web_dist/, never in web/dist/.
The sentinel was therefore always missing → _web_ui_build_needed always
returned True → npm install + Vite build ran on every startup → OOM on
low-memory VPS persisted unchanged.
Fix: derive dist_dir as web_dir.parent / "hermes_cli" / "web_dist" so
the sentinel points to the actual build output directory.
Fixes#14898
`delete_session()` and `prune_sessions()` only removed SQLite records,
leaving .json/.jsonl transcript files on disk forever. Over time this
causes unbounded disk growth (~27MB/day observed).
Changes:
- Add `_remove_session_files()` static helper that cleans up
`{session_id}.json`, `.jsonl`, and `request_dump_{session_id}_*.json`
- `delete_session()` accepts optional `sessions_dir` param and removes
files for the deleted session and its children
- `prune_sessions()` accepts optional `sessions_dir` param and removes
files for all pruned sessions after the DB transaction
- Wire up CLI `hermes sessions delete` and `hermes sessions prune` to
pass `sessions_dir`
- File cleanup is best-effort (OSError silenced) so DB operations are
never blocked by filesystem issues
- Fully backward-compatible: `sessions_dir=None` (default) preserves
existing behavior
Enter while the agent is busy can now inject the typed text via /steer —
arriving at the agent after the next tool call — instead of interrupting
(current default) or queueing for the next turn.
Changes:
- cli.py: keybinding honors busy_input_mode='steer' by calling
agent.steer(text) on the UI thread (thread-safe), with automatic
fallback to 'queue' when the agent is missing, steer() is unavailable,
images are attached, or steer() rejects the payload. /busy accepts
'steer' as a fourth argument alongside queue/interrupt/status.
- gateway/run.py: busy-message handler and the PRIORITY running-agent
path both route through running_agent.steer() when the mode is 'steer',
with the same fallback-to-queue safety net. Ack wording tells users
their message was steered into the current run. Restart-drain queueing
now also activates for 'steer' so messages aren't lost across restarts.
- agent/onboarding.py: first-touch hint has a steer branch for both
CLI and gateway.
- hermes_cli/commands.py: /busy args_hint updated to include steer,
and 'steer' is registered as a subcommand (completions).
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: dashboard select widget offers steer.
- hermes_cli/config.py, cli-config.yaml.example, hermes_cli/tips.py:
inline docs updated.
- website/docs/user-guide/cli.md + messaging/index.md: documented.
- Tests: steer set/status path for /busy; onboarding hints;
_load_busy_input_mode accepts steer; busy-session ack exercises
steer success + two fallback-to-queue branches.
Requested on X by @CodingAcct.
Default is unchanged (interrupt).
