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>
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
Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* 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: Tranquil-Flow <tranquil_flow@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: asheriif <ahmedsherif95@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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
`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).
Tighten the provenance semantics added in #19618: skills a user asks a
foreground agent to write via skill_manage(create) now stay invisible to
the curator. Only skills the background self-improvement review fork
sediments through skill_manage get the created_by=agent marker.
- tools/skill_provenance.py — new ContextVar module mirroring the
_approval_session_key pattern: set_current_write_origin / reset /
get / is_background_review. Default origin is 'foreground'; the
review fork sets 'background_review'.
- run_agent.py — run_conversation() binds the ContextVar from
self._memory_write_origin at the top of each call. The review fork
runs on its own thread (fresh context), so foreground and review
contexts never cross-contaminate.
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py — skill_manage(action='create') now
only calls mark_agent_created() when is_background_review(). All
other cases (foreground create, patch, edit, write_file, delete)
continue as before.
- tests: test_skill_provenance.py (6 tests covering the ContextVar
surface), split test_full_create_via_dispatcher into foreground
vs. review-fork variants, curator status tests now mark-first.
Why: the agent routinely edits existing user skills on the user's
behalf; those writes must never flip provenance. And when a user
explicitly asks the foreground agent to create a skill, that skill
belongs to the user. The curator should only be cleaning up after
its own autonomous sediment from the review nudge loop.
_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
Follow-up to #19586 (@cixuuz salvage): _get_ancestor_pids walks ps -o ppid=
up the process tree, which the pre-existing mock in
test_find_gateway_pids_falls_back_to_pid_file_when_process_scan_fails didn't
expect. Return empty stdout so the ancestor loop terminates cleanly and the
original fallback assertion still passes.
_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.
list_profiles_on_disk() hardcodes Path.home() / ".hermes" / "profiles",
ignoring HERMES_HOME when set to a custom root (e.g. /opt/data).
Add test_list_profiles_on_disk_custom_root to cover this case.
Related to #18442, #18985.
`_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.
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
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
- 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
* 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>
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
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.
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.
The kanban PR (#17805, c86842546) added the `kanban` toolset and
`tools/kanban_tools.py`, but didn't update three pre-existing test
assertions that bake the full toolset/tool inventory:
* `tests/tools/test_registry.py::test_matches_previous_manual_builtin_tool_set`
hard-codes the manual list of builtin tool modules. `tools.kanban_tools`
was missing.
* `tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py::test_load_enabled_toolsets_rejects_disabled_mcp_env`
and `test_load_enabled_toolsets_falls_back_when_tui_env_invalid` both
expect `["memory"]` from `_load_enabled_toolsets()`. With kanban now
auto-recovered by `_get_platform_tools` (its tools live in hermes-cli's
universe but are not in CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS), the resolver returns
`["kanban", "memory"]`.
* `tests/hermes_cli/test_tools_config.py::test_get_platform_tools_preserves_explicit_empty_selection`
asserts `set()` for an explicit empty list. The recovery loop now also
surfaces `kanban`. Reframed to assert the contract the test name
describes — no CONFIGURABLE toolset gets re-enabled when the user
explicitly saved an empty list — which stays correct as more
non-configurable platform toolsets are added.
Verified the failures reproduce on clean origin/main (180a7036b) with
`.[all,dev]`-equivalent extras (fastapi, starlette, httpx, pytest-asyncio)
and that all four pass with this commit applied. CI on main itself is
currently red on these tests; this restores green for everyone's PRs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
_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
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
Six tests in this file failed in CI (-n auto) after #17832 landed because
other tests on the same xdist worker reload hermes_cli.main:
tests/hermes_cli/test_env_loader.py:85-86
sys.modules.pop('hermes_cli.main', None)
importlib.import_module('hermes_cli.main')
tests/hermes_cli/test_skills_subparser.py:24-25
del sys.modules['hermes_cli.main']
When either ran first on a worker, our top-of-file
'from hermes_cli.main import _kill_stale_dashboard_processes' captured a
stale function object whose __globals__ points at the old module dict.
patch('hermes_cli.main._find_stale_dashboard_pids', ...) then patched the
new module, but the stale function resolved the dependency via its stale
__globals__, so every patch became a no-op: pids=[] → early return → no
signals, no output, assertions failed.
Fix: add an autouse fixture that rebinds the three module-level names to
whatever is currently live in sys.modules['hermes_cli.main'] before each
test runs. The pollutants in the other two files are load-bearing for
their own tests, so fixing it on the consumer side is correct.
Repro: pytest tests/hermes_cli/test_env_loader.py tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_dashboard.py
`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.
Three narrow fixes targeting the remaining red checks after #17828:
1. ui-tui/src/app/slash/commands/ops.ts (Docker Build):
/reload-mcp's local params type annotated session_id: string
while ctx.sid is string | null. Widen to string | null —
matches every other rpc call site and the test harness which passes
{ session_id: null }. Fixes TS2322 on line 86. The rpc signature
itself is Record<string, unknown>, so this is purely a local
typing fix, no behavioral change.
2. tests/plugins/test_achievements_plugin.py (13 cascading test failures):
_install_fake_session_db did a raw sys.modules['hermes_state'] =
fake_module without restoration, leaking the fake across xdist
worker boundaries. Downstream tests doing from hermes_state import
SessionDB got a module whose SessionDB was lambda: fake_db
— 6 test_hermes_state.py tests failed with AttributeError: 'function'
object has no attribute '_sanitize_fts5_query' / _contains_cjk,
and 7 test_860_dedup.py tests failed with TypeError: got unexpected
keyword argument 'db_path' (real code calls SessionDB(db_path=...)).
Fix: stash monkeypatch on the plugin_api module object in the
fixture, and have the helper do monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules,
'hermes_state', fake_module) for auto-restoration at test teardown.
3. tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py (WS race):
TestPtyWebSocket::test_pub_broadcasts_to_events_subscribers hit the
30s test timeout on CI. websocket_connect returns after
ws.accept() — but /api/events registers the subscriber in
_event_channels on the NEXT await (inside _event_lock). A
publish immediately after connect could race ahead of registration
and be dropped, and the subsequent receive_text() blocked until
SIGALRM killed the test. Fix: poll _event_channels after the
subscriber connects, before publishing.
Validation:
scripts/run_tests.sh tests/plugins/test_achievements_plugin.py
tests/run_agent/test_860_dedup.py
tests/test_hermes_state.py
tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py 338 passed
cd ui-tui && npm run type-check clean
cd ui-tui && npm run build clean
Remaining red checks are pure infra (Nix ubuntu hits
TwirpErrorResponse ResourceExhausted on the GH Actions cache API; Nix
macos bounces between npm build openssl-legacy and cache rate-limits)
and cannot be fixed in the codebase.
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.
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).
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.
* 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
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.
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>
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
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
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
- 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
25 new tests (all Bedrock API calls mocked, no real AWS creds needed):
tests/hermes_cli/test_bedrock_model_picker.py (20 tests):
- provider_model_ids("bedrock") uses live discovery, returns regional
model IDs, falls back gracefully on empty/exception, resolves all
bedrock aliases (aws, aws-bedrock, amazon-bedrock) to live discovery
- list_authenticated_providers() section 2: bedrock appears with AWS
creds, model list from discover_bedrock_models(), total_models
matches, is_current flag works, absent creds hides bedrock, discovery
failure does not crash, no duplicate entries
- Region routing: botocore profile eu-central-1 yields eu.* model IDs
end-to-end; env var takes priority over botocore profile
- providers.py overlay: exists with correct transport/auth_type, label
is non-empty, all aliases normalize to bedrock
tests/agent/test_bedrock_adapter.py (5 tests):
- resolve_bedrock_region() botocore profile fallback, botocore failure
fallback, us-east-1 hard fallback (with botocore mocked)
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>
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>
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
PR #16888 swaps the opencode-zen/go resolver so that api_mode is always
re-derived from the effective model before the persisted api_mode is
consulted. That's the point of the fix — a stale anthropic_messages
from a previous minimax default must not survive a /model switch to a
chat_completions target (or vice versa) and strip /v1 from base_url.
The prior test asserted the opposite precedence — that a persisted
api_mode won over model-derived mode — and was added in #4508 to lock
in escape-hatch behavior. Under the new precedence that escape hatch
no longer exists for opencode (only for providers that genuinely
support both modes at a single endpoint — and for opencode the model
name is the unambiguous signal). Rename + invert the assertion to
document the intentional behavior change.
Refs #16878.
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.
* 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
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.
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).
---------
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@noreply.github.com>
- 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.
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.
_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
- TestAutoMaintenance gains 3 tests: auto-prune deletes transcript files
when sessions_dir is passed, preserves them when it isn't (backward-
compat), and never touches active-session files during prune.
- FakeDB helpers in test_sessions_delete.py accept **kwargs so they
don't break when delete_session signature gains sessions_dir.
After #14798 made cron honor per-platform `hermes tools` config, the
`_DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS` filter silently stripped `homeassistant` from
cron jobs for users who'd been relying on the previous blanket toolset.
Norbert's HA cron reports regressed as a result.
The HA toolset is already runtime-gated by its `check_fn` (requires
HASS_TOKEN to register any tools). When HASS_TOKEN is set the user has
explicitly opted in — `_DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS` adds nothing in that case,
so stop double-gating and restore HA for cron / cli / other platforms
without an explicit saved toolset list.
moa and rl stay off by default (original #14798 goal preserved).
Fixes HA cron regression reported by Norbert.
Every command in COMMAND_REGISTRY (/btw, /stop, /model, /help, /new,
/bg, /reset, ...) is now a first-class Slack slash command instead of
a /hermes <subcommand>. Users get the same autocomplete-driven slash
picker experience Slack users expect and that Discord and Telegram
already provide.
Previously Slack registered ONE native slash (/hermes) and split on
the first word, so typing /btw in Slack's composer got 'couldn't find
an app for /btw' because the workspace manifest never declared it.
Changes
- hermes_cli/commands.py: slack_native_slashes() + slack_app_manifest()
generate a Slack manifest from the registry (canonical names +
aliases + plugin commands), clamped to Slack's 50-slash cap with
/hermes reserved as the catch-all.
- gateway/platforms/slack.py: single regex matcher dispatches every
registered slash to _handle_slash_command, which dispatches on
command['command']. Legacy /hermes <subcommand> keeps working for
backward compat with older workspace manifests.
- hermes_cli/slack_cli.py + hermes_cli/main.py: new 'hermes slack
manifest' command prints/writes a full manifest (display info,
OAuth scopes, event subs, socket mode, slash commands) ready to
paste into 'Create from manifest' or Features → App Manifest.
- hermes_cli/setup.py: _setup_slack() now writes the manifest up-front
and points users at the 'From an app manifest' flow; also offers
to refresh the manifest on reconfigure for picking up new commands.
- Tests: 14 new tests covering native-slash dispatch (/btw, /stop,
/model), legacy /hermes <sub> compat, manifest structure, and
telegram<->slack parity (every Telegram command must also register
as a Slack slash). Existing /hermes-registration test updated to
assert the new regex matches /hermes, /btw, /stop, /model, /help.
- Docs: slack.md gains a 'Slash Commands' section + Option A manifest
flow in Step 1; cli-commands.md documents 'hermes slack manifest'.
Users pick up the new slashes by running 'hermes slack manifest --write'
and pasting into Features → App Manifest → Edit in their Slack app
config, then Save (Slack prompts for reinstall if scopes changed).
'hermes skills list' now shows every skill's enabled/disabled status
and accepts --enabled-only to filter down to what will actually load
for the active profile:
hermes -p dario skills list --enabled-only
Previously the command was a flat catalog — it did not apply
skills.disabled from config.yaml, so there was no way to see the
live skill set for a profile without reading config by hand.
Profile switching already works via -p (swaps HERMES_HOME); this
just surfaces the result visibly.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/skills_hub.py: do_list adds a Status column and an
enabled_only filter; summary reports enabled/disabled split
- hermes_cli/main.py: --enabled-only flag on 'skills list'
- /skills list slash command accepts --enabled-only too
- tests: 4 new (status column, disabled marking, enabled-only
hiding, no platform leakage into get_disabled_skill_names);
existing fixtures updated to accept skip_disabled kwarg
Reported by @mochizukimr on X.
New `hermes kanban` CLI subcommand + `/kanban` slash command + skills for
worker and orchestrator profiles. SQLite-backed task board
(~/.hermes/kanban.db) shared across all profiles on the host. Zero
changes to run_agent.py, no new core tools, no tool-schema bloat.
Motivation: delegate_task is a function call — sync fork/join, anonymous
subagent, no resumability, no human-in-the-loop. Kanban is the durable
shape needed for research triage, scheduled ops, digital twins,
engineering pipelines, and fleet work. They coexist (workers may call
delegate_task internally).
What this adds
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py — schema, CAS claim, dependency resolution,
dispatcher, workspace resolution, worker-context builder.
- hermes_cli/kanban.py — 15-verb CLI surface and shared run_slash()
entry point used by both CLI and gateway.
- skills/devops/kanban-worker — how a profile should work a claimed task.
- skills/devops/kanban-orchestrator — "you are a dispatcher, not a
worker" template with anti-temptation rules.
- /kanban slash command wired into cli.py and gateway/run.py. Bypasses
the running-agent guard (board writes don't touch agent state), so
/kanban unblock can free a stuck worker mid-conversation.
- Design spec at docs/hermes-kanban-v1-spec.pdf — comparative analysis
vs Cline Kanban, Paperclip, NanoClaw, Gemini Enterprise; 8 patterns;
4 user stories; implementation plan; concurrency correctness.
- Docs: website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md, CLI reference
updated, sidebar entry added.
Architecture highlights
- Three planes: control (user + gateway), state (board + dispatcher),
execution (pool of profile processes).
- Every worker is a full OS process, spawned as `hermes -p <profile>`.
No in-process subagent swarms — solves NanoClaw's SDK-lifecycle
failure class.
- Atomic claim via SQLite CAS in a BEGIN IMMEDIATE transaction; stale
claims reclaimed 15 min after their TTL expires.
- Tenant namespacing via one nullable column — one specialist fleet
can serve many businesses with data isolation by workspace path.
Tests: 60 targeted tests (schema, CAS atomicity, dependency resolution,
dispatcher, workspace kinds, tenancy, CLI + slash surface). All pass
hermetic via scripts/run_tests.sh.
Manage the fallback_providers chain from the CLI instead of hand-editing
config.yaml. The picker reuses select_provider_and_model() from 'hermes
model' — same provider list, same credential prompts, same model picker.
hermes fallback [list] Show the current chain (primary + fallbacks)
hermes fallback add Run the model picker, append selection to chain
hermes fallback remove Pick an entry to delete (arrow-key menu)
hermes fallback clear Remove all entries (with confirmation)
'add' snapshots config['model'] before calling the picker, extracts the
user's selection from the post-picker state, then restores the primary
and appends {provider, model, base_url?, api_mode?} to fallback_providers.
Auth store's active_provider is snapshot/restored too so OAuth-provider
fallbacks don't silently deactivate the user's primary. Duplicates and
self-as-fallback are rejected. Legacy single-dict 'fallback_model' entries
are auto-migrated to the list format on first write.
OpenRouter and Nous Portal curated picker lists now resolve via a JSON
manifest served by the docs site, falling back to the in-repo snapshot
when unreachable. Lets us update model lists without shipping a release.
Live URL: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/api/model-catalog.json
(source at website/static/api/model-catalog.json; auto-deploys via the
existing deploy-site.yml GitHub Pages pipeline on every merge to main).
Schema (v1) carries id + optional description + free-form metadata at
manifest, provider, and model levels. Pricing and context length stay
live-fetched via existing machinery (/v1/models endpoints, models.dev).
Config (new model_catalog section, default enabled):
model_catalog.url master manifest URL
model_catalog.ttl_hours disk cache TTL (default 24h)
model_catalog.providers.<name>.url optional per-provider override
Fetch pipeline: in-process cache -> disk cache (fresh < TTL) -> HTTP
fetch -> disk-cache-on-failure fallback -> in-repo snapshot as last
resort. Never raises to callers; at worst returns the bundled list.
Changes:
- website/static/api/model-catalog.json initial manifest (35 OR + 31 Nous)
- scripts/build_model_catalog.py regenerator from in-repo lists
- hermes_cli/model_catalog.py fetch + validate + cache module
- hermes_cli/models.py fetch_openrouter_models() +
new get_curated_nous_model_ids()
- hermes_cli/main.py, hermes_cli/auth.py Nous flows use the helper
- hermes_cli/config.py model_catalog defaults
- website/docs/reference/model-catalog.md + sidebars.ts
- tests/hermes_cli/test_model_catalog.py 21 tests (validation, fetch
success/failure, accessors,
disabled, overrides, integration)
`_apply_model_switch_result` (the interactive `/model` picker's
confirmation path) printed `ModelInfo.context_window` straight from
models.dev, which reports the vendor-wide value (1.05M for gpt-5.5 on
openai). ChatGPT Codex OAuth caps the same slug at 272K, so the picker
showed 1M while the runtime (compressor, gateway `/model`, typed
`/model <name>`) correctly used 272K — the classic 'sometimes 1M,
sometimes 272K' mismatch on a single model.
Both display paths now go through `resolve_display_context_length()`,
matching the fix that `_handle_model_switch` received earlier.
Also bump the stale last-resort fallback in DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LENGTHS
(`gpt-5.5: 400000 -> 1050000`) to match the real OpenAI API value; the
272K Codex cap is already enforced via the Codex-OAuth branch, so the
fallback now reflects what every non-Codex probe-miss should see.
Tests: adds `test_apply_model_switch_result_context.py` with three
scenarios (Codex cap wins, OpenRouter shows 1.05M, resolver-empty falls
back to ModelInfo). Updates the existing non-Codex fallback test to
assert 1.05M (the correct value).
## Validation
| path | before | after |
|-------------------------------|-----------|-----------|
| picker -> gpt-5.5 on Codex | 1,050,000 | 272,000 |
| picker -> gpt-5.5 on OpenAI | 1,050,000 | 1,050,000 |
| picker -> gpt-5.5 on OpenRouter | 1,050,000 | 1,050,000 |
| typed /model gpt-5.5 on Codex | 272,000 | 272,000 |
Bare `hermes setup` on a returning user now drops straight into the
full reconfigure wizard — every prompt shows the current value as its
default, press Enter to keep or type a new value to change it. The
returning-user menu is gone.
Behavior:
- First-time user: first-time wizard (unchanged)
- Returning user, bare command: full reconfigure wizard (new default)
- Returning user, `--quick`: only prompt for missing/unset items
- Returning user, one section: `hermes setup model|terminal|gateway|tools|agent`
- `--reconfigure`: preserved as backwards-compat alias (no-op since it's now default)
The section functions already used current values as prompt defaults —
this change just removes the extra click to get to them.
The 'Quick Setup - configure missing items only' menu option is now
exposed as the explicit `--quick` flag; it's the narrow case of
filling in missing config (e.g. after a partial OpenClaw migration or
when a required API key got cleared).
Inspired by Mercury Agent's `mercury doctor` UX.
Also removes:
- RETURNING_USER_MENU_SECTION_KEYS (orphaned constant)
- Two returning-user menu tests in test_setup_noninteractive.py
(guarding behavior that no longer exists — covered by
test_setup_reconfigure.py instead)
The azure-foundry wizard now probes the endpoint before asking the user
to pick anything by hand:
1. URL path sniff — endpoints ending in /anthropic are Azure Foundry
Claude routes and skip to anthropic_messages.
2. GET <base>/models probe — if the endpoint returns an OpenAI-shaped
model list, we switch to chat_completions and prefill the picker
with the returned deployment/model IDs.
3. Anthropic Messages probe — fallback for endpoints that don't expose
/models but do speak the Anthropic Messages shape.
4. Manual fallback — private endpoints / custom routes still work;
the user picks API mode + types a deployment name.
Context length for the selected model is resolved through the existing
agent.model_metadata.get_model_context_length chain (models.dev,
provider metadata, hardcoded family fallbacks) and stored in
model.context_length when a non-default value is found.
Also refactors runtime_provider so Azure Foundry resolution is reused
between the explicit-credentials path and the default top-level path —
previously the /v1 strip for Anthropic-style Azure only ran when the
caller passed explicit_* args, which meant config-driven sessions
hit a double-/v1 URL.
New module hermes_cli/azure_detect.py with 19 unit tests covering:
- path sniff, model ID extraction, probe fallbacks
- HTTP error handling (URLError, HTTPError)
- context-length lookup passthrough
- DEFAULT_FALLBACK_CONTEXT rejection
New runtime tests cover:
- OpenAI-style Azure Foundry
- Anthropic-style Azure Foundry with /v1 stripping
- Missing base_url / API key raising AuthError
Rationale: Microsoft confirms there's no pure-API-key endpoint to list
Azure deployments (that requires ARM management auth). The v1 Azure
OpenAI endpoint does expose /models with the resource's available
model catalog, which is good enough for picker prefill in the common
case. Users on private/gated endpoints fall through to manual entry.
Fixes#15779. Custom-provider per-model context_length (`custom_providers[].models.<id>.context_length`) is now honored across every resolution path, not just agent startup. Also adds 256K as the top probe tier and default fallback.
## What changed
New helper `hermes_cli.config.get_custom_provider_context_length()` — single source of truth for the per-model override lookup, with trailing-slash-insensitive base-url matching.
`agent.model_metadata.get_model_context_length()` gains an optional `custom_providers=` kwarg (step 0b — runs after explicit `config_context_length` but before every other probe).
Wired through five call sites that previously either duplicated the lookup or ignored it entirely:
- `run_agent.py` startup — refactored to use the new helper (dedups legacy inline loop, keeps invalid-value warning)
- `AIAgent.switch_model()` — re-reads custom_providers from live config on every /model switch
- `hermes_cli.model_switch.resolve_display_context_length()` — new `custom_providers=` kwarg
- `gateway/run.py` /model confirmation (picker callback + text path)
- `gateway/run.py` `_format_session_info` (/info)
## Context probe tiers
`CONTEXT_PROBE_TIERS = [256_000, 128_000, 64_000, 32_000, 16_000, 8_000]` — was `[128_000, ...]`. `DEFAULT_FALLBACK_CONTEXT` follows tier[0], so unknown models now default to 256K. The stale `128000` literal in the OpenRouter metadata-miss path is replaced with `DEFAULT_FALLBACK_CONTEXT` for consistency.
## Repro (from #15779)
```yaml
custom_providers:
- name: my-custom-endpoint
base_url: https://example.invalid/v1
model: gpt-5.5
models:
gpt-5.5:
context_length: 1050000
```
`/model gpt-5.5 --provider custom:my-custom-endpoint` → previously "Context: 128,000", now "Context: 1,050,000".
## Tests
- `tests/hermes_cli/test_custom_provider_context_length.py` — new file, 19 tests covering the helper, step-0b integration, and the 256K tier invariants
- `tests/hermes_cli/test_model_switch_context_display.py` — added regression tests for #15779 through the display resolver
- `tests/gateway/test_session_info.py` — updated default-fallback assertion (128K → 256K)
- `tests/agent/test_model_metadata.py` — updated tier assertions for the new top tier
When the user interrupts a long-running task, prompt_toolkit tries to
flush stdout during emergency shutdown. If stdout is in a broken state
(redirected to /dev/null, pipe closed, terminal gone), the flush raises
`OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error` which propagates unhandled and
crashes the CLI.
Two defense layers:
1. `_suppress_closed_loop_errors`: add `OSError` with `errno.EIO` to
the asyncio exception handler, matching the existing pattern for
`RuntimeError("Event loop is closed")` and `KeyError("is not
registered")`.
2. Outer `except (KeyError, OSError)` block: add `errno.EIO` check
before the existing string-match guards, silently suppressing the
error instead of printing a misleading stdin-related message.
Fixes#13710.
The raw-template lookup added in PR #15817 went through
`get_compatible_custom_providers(read_raw_config())`, which calls
`_normalize_custom_provider_entry` → `urlparse(base_url)`. Any
entry whose `base_url` is itself an env-ref (`${NEURALWATT_API_BASE}`)
was dropped as 'not a valid URL', so `api_key_ref` stayed empty and the
resolved secret was still written to `model.api_key` — the exact case
the original Discord report described.
Replace the normalizer-gated lookup with a direct read of
`raw['custom_providers']` and `raw['providers']`, indexed by name
(case-insensitive, optionally qualified by model) so the loaded
(expanded) entry can be matched regardless of how `base_url` is
written.
Add an integration regression test driving the real
`select_provider_and_model` entry point with the Discord-reported
NeuralWatt config (`${VAR}` in both `base_url` and `api_key`).
This test fails on the PR-only fix and passes with the broadened
lookup.
- expand short model aliases like sonnet/opus via static catalogs during startup runtime resolution
- keep startup alias resolution network-free and add regression tests in models and tui gateway suites
* fix(terminal): three-layer defense against watch_patterns notification spam
Background processes that stack notify_on_complete=True with watch_patterns
can flood the user with duplicate, delayed notifications — matches deliver
asynchronously via the completion queue and continue arriving minutes after
the process has exited. The docstring warning against this (PR #12113) has
proven insufficient; agents still misuse the combination.
Three layered defenses, each sufficient on its own:
1. Mutual exclusion (terminal_tool.py): When both flags are set on a
background process, drop watch_patterns with a warning. notify_on_complete
wins because 'let me know when it's done' is the more useful signal and
fires exactly once. Extracted as _resolve_notification_flag_conflict() so
the rule is testable in isolation.
2. Suppress-after-exit (process_registry.py): _check_watch_patterns() now
bails the moment session.exited is True. Post-exit chunks (buffered reads
draining after the process is gone) no longer produce notifications. This
is the fix flagged as future work in session 20260418_020302_79881c.
3. Global circuit breaker (process_registry.py): Per-session rate limits don't
catch the sibling-flood case — N concurrent processes can each stay under
8/10s and still collectively spam. New WATCH_GLOBAL_MAX_PER_WINDOW=15 cap
trips a 30-second cooldown across ALL sessions, emits a single
watch_overflow_tripped event, silently counts dropped events, and emits a
watch_overflow_released summary when the cooldown ends.
Also updates the tool schema + docstring to document the new behavior.
Tests: 8 new tests covering all three fixes (suppress-after-exit x2,
mutual-exclusion resolver x4, global breaker trip/cooldown/release x2).
All 60 tests across test_watch_patterns.py, test_notify_on_complete.py,
test_terminal_tool.py pass.
Real-world trigger: self-inflicted in session 20260425_051924 — three
concurrent hermes-sweeper review subprocesses each set watch_patterns=
['failed validation', 'errored'] AND notify_on_complete=True, then iterated
over multiple items, producing enough matches per process to defeat the
per-session cap while staying under the global cap that didn't yet exist.
* fix(terminal): aggressive 1-per-15s watch_patterns rate limit + strike-3 promotion
Per Teknium's direction, the watch_patterns rate limit is now much more
aggressive and self-healing.
## New rule — per session
- HARD cap: 1 watch-match notification per 15 seconds per process.
- Any match arriving inside the cooldown window is dropped and counts as
ONE strike for that window (many drops in the same window still = 1 strike).
- After 3 consecutive strike windows, watch_patterns is permanently disabled
for the session and the session is auto-promoted to notify_on_complete
semantics — exactly one notification when the process actually exits.
- A cooldown window that expires with zero drops resets the consecutive
strike counter — healthy cadence is forgiven.
## Schema + docstring rewritten
The tool schema description now gives the model explicit guidance:
- notify_on_complete is 'the right choice for almost every long-running task'
- watch_patterns is for RARE one-shot signals on LONG-LIVED processes
- Do NOT use watch_patterns with loops/batch jobs — error patterns fire every
iteration and will hit the strike limit fast
- Mutual exclusion is stated on both parameter descriptions
- 1/15s cooldown and 3-strike promotion are stated in the watch_patterns
description so the model sees the contract every turn
## Removed
- WATCH_MAX_PER_WINDOW (8/10s) and WATCH_OVERLOAD_KILL_SECONDS (45) — the
new 1/15s limit subsumes both; keeping them would double-count.
- _watch_window_hits / _watch_window_start / _watch_overload_since fields
on ProcessSession. Replaced by _watch_last_emit_at / _watch_cooldown_until
/ _watch_strike_candidate / _watch_consecutive_strikes.
## Kept
- Global circuit breaker across all sessions (15/10s → 30s cooldown) as a
secondary safety net for concurrent siblings. Still valuable when 20
short-lived processes each fire once — none individually violates the
per-session limit.
- Suppress-after-exit guard.
- Mutual exclusion resolver at the tool entry point.
## Tests
- 6 new tests in TestPerSessionRateLimit covering: first match delivers,
second in cooldown suppressed, multi-drop = single strike, 3 strikes
disables + promotes, clean window resets counter, suppressed count
carried to next emit.
- Global circuit breaker tests rewritten to use fresh sessions instead of
hacking removed per-window fields.
- 50/50 watch_patterns + notify_on_complete tests pass.
- 60/60 including test_terminal_tool.py pass.
* feat(dashboard): page-scoped plugin slots for built-in pages
Dashboard plugins can now inject components into specific built-in
pages (Sessions, Analytics, Logs, Cron, Skills, Config, Env, Docs,
Chat) without overriding the whole route.
Previously, plugins could only:
1. Add new tabs (tab.path)
2. Replace whole built-in pages (tab.override)
3. Inject into global shell slots (header-*, footer-*, pre-main, ...)
None of those let a plugin add a banner, card, or widget to an
existing page. The new <page>:top / <page>:bottom slots close that
gap, reusing the existing registerSlot() API.
Changes
- web/src/plugins/slots.ts: 18 new KNOWN_SLOT_NAMES entries
(sessions:top, sessions:bottom, analytics:top, ..., chat:bottom),
grouped under "Shell-wide" vs "Page-scoped" in the docblock
- web/src/pages/*: each built-in page now renders
<PluginSlot name="<page>:top" />
as the first child of its outer wrapper and
<PluginSlot name="<page>:bottom" />
as the last child -- zero visual cost when no plugin registers
- plugins/example-dashboard: registers a demo banner into
sessions:top via registerSlot(), with matching slots entry in
the manifest -- so freshly-setup users can see what page-scoped
slots look like without writing any plugin code
- website/docs: new "Page-scoped slots" table in the plugin
authoring guide, with a worked example
- tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py: round-trip test for
colon-bearing slot names (sessions:top, analytics:bottom, ...)
Validation
- npm run build: clean (tsc -b + vite build, 2761 modules)
- scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py::TestDashboardPluginManifestExtensions: 5/5 pass
`hermes tools` → "reconfigure existing" listed Spotify twice because
the Apr 24 refactor that moved Spotify into plugins/spotify/ (PR #15174)
left the entry in CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS. _get_effective_configurable_toolsets()
unconditionally appended get_plugin_toolsets() on top, so the same
'spotify' key showed up from both sources.
Dedupe by key — built-in CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS entry wins (it has the
nicer label and description). Also guards against future bundled plugins
that share a toolset key with a built-in.
Both discord (read/participate) and discord_admin (server admin) are now
configurable via `hermes tools` with default-OFF. Previously the core
discord tool (fetch_messages, search_members, create_thread) auto-loaded
on every Discord install with DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN set — 19 tools the user
never opted into.
Adds a platform-scoping mechanism (_TOOLSET_PLATFORM_RESTRICTIONS) so
the discord toolsets only show up in the Discord platform's checklist,
not on CLI/Telegram/Slack/etc. Applied at four gates:
- _prompt_toolset_checklist: checklist filter
- _get_platform_tools: resolution filter (both branches)
- _save_platform_tools: save-time filter (covers 'Configure all
platforms' and hand-edited config.yaml)
- tools_disable_enable_command: rejects `hermes tools enable discord`
on non-Discord platforms with a clear error
build_session_context_prompt now injects the Discord IDs block only
when both conditions hold: the discord/discord_admin toolset is
enabled AND DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN is set. Toolset alone isn't enough —
the tool's check_fn gates on the token at registry time, so opting
in without a token yields no tools and the IDs block would lie.
Otherwise keep the stale-API disclaimer.
The feishu_doc and feishu_drive tools were registered in the tool
registry but never added to the hermes-feishu composite toolset.
The pipeline fix from the prior commit now recovers them automatically
once they are in the composite.
Split the monolithic discord_server tool (14 actions) into two:
- discord: core actions (fetch_messages, search_members, create_thread)
that are useful for the agent's normal operation. Auto-enabled on
the discord platform via the pipeline fix.
- discord_admin: server management actions (list channels/roles, pins,
role assignment) that require explicit opt-in via hermes tools.
Added to CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS and _DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS.
The reverse-mapping loop in _get_platform_tools only checked
CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS, silently dropping platform-specific toolsets
like discord and feishu_doc whose tools were in the composite but
had no configurable key. Add a second pass over TOOLSETS that picks
up unclaimed toolsets whose tools are present in the resolved
composite.
YAML parses bare numeric toolset names (e.g. 12306:) as int, causing
TypeError in sorted() since the read path normalizes to str but the
save path did not.
The no_mcp sentinel was preserved in existing entries even when the
user re-enabled MCP servers, causing MCP to stay silently disabled.
/model gpt-5.5 on openai-codex showed 'Context: 1,050,000 tokens' because
the display block used ModelInfo.context_window directly from models.dev.
Codex OAuth actually enforces 272K for the same slug, and the agent's
compressor already runs at 272K via get_model_context_length() — so the
banner + real context budget said 272K while /model lied with 1M.
Route the display context through a new resolve_display_context_length()
helper that always prefers agent.model_metadata.get_model_context_length
(which knows about Codex OAuth, Copilot, Nous caps) and only falls back
to models.dev when that returns nothing.
Fix applied to all 3 /model display sites:
cli.py _handle_model_switch
gateway/run.py picker on_model_selected callback
gateway/run.py text-fallback confirmation
Reported by @emilstridell (Telegram, April 2026).
Exposes hermes --tui over a PTY-backed WebSocket so the dashboard can
embed the real TUI rather than reimplement its surface. The browser
attaches xterm.js to the socket; keystrokes flow in, PTY output bytes
flow out.
Architecture:
browser <Terminal> (xterm.js)
│ onData ───► ws.send(keystrokes)
│ onResize ► ws.send('\x1b[RESIZE:cols;rows]')
│ write ◄── ws.onmessage (PTY bytes)
▼
FastAPI /api/pty (token-gated, loopback-only)
▼
PtyBridge (ptyprocess) ── spawns node ui-tui/dist/entry.js ──► tui_gateway + AIAgent
Components
----------
hermes_cli/pty_bridge.py
Thin wrapper around ptyprocess.PtyProcess: byte-safe read/write on the
master fd via os.read/os.write (not PtyProcessUnicode — ANSI is
inherently byte-oriented and UTF-8 boundaries may land mid-read),
non-blocking select-based reads, TIOCSWINSZ resize, idempotent
SIGHUP→SIGTERM→SIGKILL teardown, platform guard (POSIX-only; Windows
is WSL-supported only).
hermes_cli/web_server.py
@app.websocket("/api/pty") endpoint gated by the existing
_SESSION_TOKEN (via ?token= query param since browsers can't set
Authorization on WS upgrades). Loopback-only enforcement. Reader task
uses run_in_executor to pump PTY bytes without blocking the event
loop. Writer loop intercepts a custom \x1b[RESIZE:cols;rows] escape
before forwarding to the PTY. The endpoint resolves the TUI argv
through a _resolve_chat_argv hook so tests can inject fake commands
without building the real TUI.
Tests
-----
tests/hermes_cli/test_pty_bridge.py — 12 unit tests: spawn, stdout,
stdin round-trip, EOF, resize (via TIOCSWINSZ + tput readback), close
idempotency, cwd, env forwarding, unavailable-platform error.
tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py — TestPtyWebSocket adds 7 tests:
missing/bad token rejection (close code 4401), stdout streaming,
stdin round-trip, resize escape forwarding, unavailable-platform ANSI
error frame + 1011 close, resume parameter forwarding to argv.
96 tests pass under scripts/run_tests.sh.
(cherry picked from commit 29b337bca70fc9efb082a5a852ea2cd5381af1a9)
feat(web): add Chat tab with xterm.js terminal + Sessions resume button
(cherry picked from commit 3d21aee8 by emozilla, conflicts resolved
against current main: BUILTIN_ROUTES table + plugin slot layout)
fix(tui): replace OSC 52 jargon in /copy confirmation
When the user ran /copy successfully, Ink confirmed with:
sent OSC52 copy sequence (terminal support required)
That reads like a protocol spec to everyone who isn't a terminal
implementer. The caveat was a historical artifact — OSC 52 wasn't
universally supported when this message was written, so the TUI
honestly couldn't guarantee the copy had landed anywhere.
Today every modern terminal (including the dashboard's embedded
xterm.js) handles OSC 52 reliably. Say what the user actually wants
to know — that it copied, and how much — matching the message the
TUI already uses for selection copy:
copied 1482 chars
(cherry picked from commit a0701b1d5a598dd1d3b94038a7bcbb2a3ab559fc)
docs: document the dashboard Chat tab
AGENTS.md — new subsection under TUI Architecture explaining that the
dashboard embeds the real hermes --tui rather than rewriting it,
with pointers to the pty_bridge + WebSocket endpoint and the rule
'never add a parallel chat surface in React.'
website/docs/user-guide/features/web-dashboard.md — user-facing Chat
section inside the existing Web Dashboard page, covering how it works
(WebSocket + PTY + xterm.js), the Sessions-page resume flow, and
prerequisites (Node.js, ptyprocess, POSIX kernel / WSL on Windows).
(cherry picked from commit 2c2e32cc4519973c77b63016316b065c0f656704)
feat(tui-gateway): transport-aware dispatch + WebSocket sidecar
Decouples the JSON-RPC dispatcher from its I/O sink so the same handler
surface can drive multiple transports concurrently. The PTY chat tab
already speaks to the TUI binary as bytes — this adds a structured
event channel alongside it for dashboard-side React widgets that need
typed events (tool.start/complete, model picker state, slash catalog)
that PTY can't surface.
- `tui_gateway/transport.py` — `Transport` protocol + `contextvars` binding
+ module-level `StdioTransport` fallback. The stdio stream resolves
through a lambda so existing tests that monkey-patch `_real_stdout`
keep passing without modification.
- `tui_gateway/ws.py` — WebSocket transport implementation; FastAPI
endpoint mounting lives in hermes_cli/web_server.py.
- `tui_gateway/server.py`:
- `write_json` routes via session transport (for async events) →
contextvar transport (for in-request writes) → stdio fallback.
- `dispatch(req, transport=None)` binds the transport for the request
lifetime and propagates it to pool workers via `contextvars.copy_context`
so async handlers don't lose their sink.
- `_init_session` and the manual-session create path stash the
request's transport so out-of-band events (subagent.complete, etc.)
fan out to the right peer.
`tui_gateway.entry` (Ink's stdio handshake) is unchanged externally —
it falls through every precedence step into the stdio fallback, byte-
identical to the previous behaviour.
feat(web): ChatSidebar — JSON-RPC sidecar next to xterm.js terminal
Composes the two transports into a single Chat tab:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────┐
│ xterm.js / PTY (emozilla #13379) │ ChatSidebar │
│ the literal hermes --tui process │ /api/ws │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┘
terminal bytes structured events
The terminal pane stays the canonical chat surface — full TUI fidelity,
slash commands, model picker, mouse, skin engine, wide chars all paint
inside the terminal. The sidebar opens a parallel JSON-RPC WebSocket
to the same gateway and renders metadata that PTY can't surface to
React chrome:
• model + provider badge with connection state (click → switch)
• running tool-call list (driven by tool.start / tool.progress /
tool.complete events)
• model picker dialog (gateway-driven, reuses ModelPickerDialog)
The sidecar is best-effort. If the WS can't connect (older gateway,
network hiccup, missing token) the terminal pane keeps working
unimpaired — sidebar just shows the connection-state badge in the
appropriate tone.
- `web/src/components/ChatSidebar.tsx` — new component (~270 lines).
Owns its GatewayClient, drives the model picker through
`slash.exec`, fans tool events into a capped tool list.
- `web/src/pages/ChatPage.tsx` — split layout: terminal pane
(`flex-1`) + sidebar (`w-80`, `lg+` only).
- `hermes_cli/web_server.py` — mount `/api/ws` (token + loopback
guards mirror /api/pty), delegate to `tui_gateway.ws.handle_ws`.
Co-authored-by: emozilla <emozilla@nousresearch.com>
refactor(web): /clean pass on ChatSidebar + ChatPage lint debt
- ChatSidebar: lift gw out of useRef into a useMemo derived from a
reconnect counter. React 19's react-hooks/refs and react-hooks/
set-state-in-effect rules both fire when you touch a ref during
render or call setState from inside a useEffect body. The
counter-derived gw is the canonical pattern for "external resource
that needs to be replaceable on user action" — re-creating the
client comes from bumping `version`, the effect just wires + tears
down. Drops the imperative `gwRef.current = …` reassign in
reconnect, drops the truthy ref guard in JSX. modelLabel +
banner inlined as derived locals (one-off useMemo was overkill).
- ChatPage: lazy-init the banner state from the missing-token check
so the effect body doesn't have to setState on first run. Drops
the unused react-hooks/exhaustive-deps eslint-disable. Adds a
scoped no-control-regex disable on the SGR mouse parser regex
(the \\x1b is intentional for xterm escape sequences).
All my-touched files now lint clean. Remaining warnings on web/
belong to pre-existing files this PR doesn't touch.
Verified: vitest 249/249, ui-tui eslint clean, web tsc clean,
python imports clean.
chore: uptick
fix(web): drop ChatSidebar tool list — events can't cross PTY/WS boundary
The /api/pty endpoint spawns `hermes --tui` as a child process with its
own tui_gateway and _sessions dict; /api/ws runs handle_ws in-process in
the dashboard server with a separate _sessions dict. Tool events fire on
the child's gateway and never reach the WS sidecar, so the sidebar's
tool.start/progress/complete listeners always observed an empty list.
Drop the misleading list (and the now-orphaned ToolCall primitive),
keep model badge + connection state + model picker + error banner —
those work because they're sidecar-local concerns. Surfacing tool calls
in the sidebar requires cross-process forwarding (PTY child opens a
back-WS to the dashboard, gateway tees emits onto stdio + sidecar
transport) — proper feature for a follow-up.
feat(web): wire ChatSidebar tool list to PTY child via /api/pub broadcast
The dashboard's /api/pty spawns hermes --tui as a child process; tool
events fire in the python tui_gateway grandchild and never crossed the
process boundary into the in-process WS sidecar — so the sidebar tool
list was always empty.
Cross-process forwarding:
- tui_gateway: TeeTransport (transport.py) + WsPublisherTransport
(event_publisher.py, sync websockets client). entry.py installs the
tee on _stdio_transport when HERMES_TUI_SIDECAR_URL is set, mirroring
every dispatcher emit to a back-WS without disturbing Ink's stdio
handshake.
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: new /api/pub (publisher) + /api/events
(subscriber) endpoints with a per-channel registry. /api/pty now
accepts ?channel= and propagates the sidecar URL via env. start_server
also stashes app.state.bound_port so the URL is constructable.
- web/src/pages/ChatPage.tsx: generates a channel UUID per mount,
passes it to /api/pty and as a prop to ChatSidebar.
- web/src/components/ChatSidebar.tsx: opens /api/events?channel=, fans
tool.start/progress/complete back into the ToolCall list. Restores
the ToolCall primitive.
Tests: 4 new TestPtyWebSocket cases cover channel propagation,
broadcast fan-out, and missing-channel rejection (10 PTY tests pass,
120 web_server tests overall).
fix(web): address Copilot review on #14890
Five threads, all real:
- gatewayClient.ts: register `message`/`close` listeners BEFORE awaiting
the open handshake. Server emits `gateway.ready` immediately after
accept, so a listener attached after the open promise could race past
the initial skin payload and lose it.
- ChatSidebar.tsx: wire `error`/`close` on the /api/events subscriber
WS into the existing error banner. 4401/4403 (auth/loopback reject)
surface as a "reload the page" message; mid-stream drops surface as
"events feed disconnected" with the existing reconnect button. Clean
unmount closes (1000/1001) stay silent.
- web-dashboard.md: install hint was `pip install hermes-agent[web]` but
ptyprocess lives in the `pty` extra, not `web`. Switch to
`hermes-agent[web,pty]` in both prerequisite blocks.
- AGENTS.md: previous "never add a parallel React chat surface" guidance
was overbroad and contradicted this PR's sidebar. Tightened to forbid
re-implementing the transcript/composer/PTY terminal while explicitly
allowing structured supporting widgets (sidebar / model picker /
inspectors), matching the actual architecture.
- web/package-lock.json: regenerated cleanly so the wterm sibling
workspace paths (extraneous machine-local entries) stop polluting CI.
Tests: 249/249 vitest, 10/10 PTY/events, web tsc clean.
refactor(web): /clean pass on ChatSidebar events handler
Spotted in the round-2 review:
- Banner flashed on clean unmount: `ws.close()` from the effect cleanup
fires `close` with code 1005, opened=true, neither 1000 nor 1001 —
hit the "unexpected drop" branch. Track `unmounting` in the effect
scope and gate the banner through a `surface()` helper so cleanup
closes stay silent.
- DRY the duplicated "events feed disconnected" string into a local
const used by both the error and close handlers.
- Drop the `opened` flag (no longer needed once the unmount guard is
the source of truth for "is this an expected close?").
Bug 3 — Stale OAuth token not detected in 'hermes model':
- _model_flow_anthropic used 'has_creds = bool(existing_key)' which treats
any non-empty token (including expired OAuth tokens) as valid.
- Added existing_is_stale_oauth check: if the only credential is an OAuth
token (sk-ant- prefix) with no valid cc_creds fallback, mark it stale
and force the re-auth menu instead of silently accepting a broken token.
Bug 4 — macOS Keychain credentials never read:
- Claude Code >=2.1.114 migrated from ~/.claude/.credentials.json to the
macOS Keychain under service 'Claude Code-credentials'.
- Added _read_claude_code_credentials_from_keychain() using the 'security'
CLI tool; read_claude_code_credentials() now tries Keychain first then
falls back to JSON file.
- Non-Darwin platforms return None from Keychain read immediately.
Tests:
- tests/agent/test_anthropic_keychain.py: 11 cases covering Darwin-only
guard, security command failures, JSON parsing, fallback priority.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_anthropic_model_flow_stale_oauth.py: 8 cases
covering stale OAuth detection, API key passthrough, cc_creds fallback.
Refs: #12905
Moves the Spotify integration from tools/ into plugins/spotify/,
matching the existing pattern established by plugins/image_gen/ for
third-party service integrations.
Why:
- tools/ should be reserved for foundational capabilities (terminal,
read_file, web_search, etc.). tools/providers/ was a one-off
directory created solely for spotify_client.py.
- plugins/ is already the home for image_gen backends, memory
providers, context engines, and standalone hook-based plugins.
Spotify is a third-party service integration and belongs alongside
those, not in tools/.
- Future service integrations (eventually: Deezer, Apple Music, etc.)
now have a pattern to copy.
Changes:
- tools/spotify_tool.py → plugins/spotify/tools.py (handlers + schemas)
- tools/providers/spotify_client.py → plugins/spotify/client.py
- tools/providers/ removed (was only used for Spotify)
- New plugins/spotify/__init__.py with register(ctx) calling
ctx.register_tool() × 7. The handler/check_fn wiring is unchanged.
- New plugins/spotify/plugin.yaml (kind: backend, bundled, auto-load).
- tests/tools/test_spotify_client.py: import paths updated.
tools_config fix — _DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS now wins over plugin auto-enable:
- _get_platform_tools() previously auto-enabled unknown plugin
toolsets for new platforms. That was fine for image_gen (which has
no toolset of its own) but bad for Spotify, which explicitly
requires opt-in (don't ship 7 tool schemas to users who don't use
it). Added a check: if a plugin toolset is in _DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS,
it stays off until the user picks it in 'hermes tools'.
Pre-existing test bug fix:
- tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py::test_list_returns_sorted
asserted names were sorted, but list_plugins() sorts by key
(path-derived, e.g. image_gen/openai). With only image_gen plugins
bundled, name and key order happened to agree. Adding plugins/spotify
broke that coincidence (spotify sorts between openai-codex and xai
by name but after xai by key). Updated test to assert key order,
which is what the code actually documents.
Validation:
- scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py \
tests/hermes_cli/test_tools_config.py \
tests/hermes_cli/test_spotify_auth.py \
tests/tools/test_spotify_client.py \
tests/tools/test_registry.py
→ 143 passed
- E2E plugin load: 'spotify' appears in loaded plugins, all 7 tools
register into the spotify toolset, check_fn gating intact.
- probe_api_models: add api_mode param; use x-api-key + anthropic-version
headers for anthropic_messages mode (Anthropic's native Models API auth)
- probe_api_models: add User-Agent header to avoid Cloudflare 403 blocks
on third-party OpenAI-compatible endpoints
- validate_requested_model: pass api_mode through from switch_model
- validate_requested_model: for anthropic_messages mode, attempt probe with
correct auth; if probe fails (many proxies don't implement /v1/models),
accept the model with an informational warning instead of rejecting
- fetch_api_models: propagate api_mode to probe_api_models
Previously 'hermes auth spotify' crashed with 'HERMES_SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID
is required' if the user hadn't manually created a Spotify developer
app and set env vars. Now the command detects a missing client_id and
walks the user through the one-time app registration inline:
- Opens https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard in the browser
- Tells the user exactly what to paste into the Spotify form
(including the correct default redirect URI, 127.0.0.1:43827)
- Prompts for the Client ID
- Persists HERMES_SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID to ~/.hermes/.env so subsequent
runs skip the wizard
- Continues straight into the PKCE OAuth flow
Also prints the docs URL at both the start of the wizard and the end
of a successful login so users can find the full guide.
Adds website/docs/user-guide/features/spotify.md with the complete
setup walkthrough, tool reference, and troubleshooting, and wires it
into the sidebar under User Guide > Features > Advanced.
Fixes a stale redirect URI default in the hermes_cli/tools_config.py
TOOL_CATEGORIES entry (was 8888/callback from the PR description
instead of the actual DEFAULT_SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI value
43827/spotify/callback defined in auth.py).
`_normalize_for_deepseek` was mapping every non-reasoner input into
`deepseek-chat` on the assumption that DeepSeek's API accepts only two
model IDs. That assumption no longer holds — `deepseek-v4-pro` and
`deepseek-v4-flash` are first-class IDs accepted by the direct API,
and on aggregators `deepseek-chat` routes explicitly to V3 (DeepInfra
backend returns `deepseek-chat-v3`). So a user picking V4 Pro through
the model picker was being silently downgraded to V3.
Verified 2026-04-24 against Nous portal's OpenAI-compat surface:
- `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash` → provider: DeepSeek,
model: deepseek-v4-flash-20260423
- `deepseek/deepseek-chat` → provider: DeepInfra,
model: deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3
Fix:
- Add `deepseek-v4-pro` and `deepseek-v4-flash` to
`_DEEPSEEK_CANONICAL_MODELS` so exact matches pass through.
- Add `_DEEPSEEK_V_SERIES_RE` (`^deepseek-v\d+(...)?$`) so future
V-series IDs (`deepseek-v5-*`, dated variants) keep passing through
without another code change.
- Update docstring + module header to reflect the new rule.
Tests:
- New `TestDeepseekVSeriesPassThrough` — 8 parametrized cases covering
bare, vendor-prefixed, case-variant, dated, and future V-series IDs
plus end-to-end `normalize_model_for_provider(..., "deepseek")`.
- New `TestDeepseekCanonicalAndReasonerMapping` — regression coverage
for canonical pass-through, reasoner-keyword folding, and
fall-back-to-chat behaviour.
- 77/77 pass.
Reported on Discord (Ufonik, Don Piedro): `/model > Deepseek >
deepseek-v4-pro` surfaced
`Normalized 'deepseek-v4-pro' to 'deepseek-chat'`. Picker listing
showed the v4 names, so validation also rejected the post-normalize
`deepseek-chat` as "not in provider listing" — the contradiction
users saw. Normalizer now respects the picker's choice.
The Copilot provider resolved context windows via models.dev static data,
which does not include account-specific models (e.g. claude-opus-4.6-1m
with 1M context). This adds the live Copilot /models API as a higher-
priority source for copilot/copilot-acp/github-copilot providers.
New helper get_copilot_model_context() in hermes_cli/models.py extracts
capabilities.limits.max_prompt_tokens from the cached catalog. Results
are cached in-process for 1 hour.
In agent/model_metadata.py, step 5a queries the live API before falling
through to models.dev (step 5b). This ensures account-specific models
get correct context windows while standard models still have a fallback.
Part 1 of #7731.
Refs: #7272
Raw GitHub tokens (gho_/github_pat_/ghu_) are now exchanged for
short-lived Copilot API tokens via /copilot_internal/v2/token before
being used as Bearer credentials. This is required to access
internal-only models (e.g. claude-opus-4.6-1m with 1M context).
Implementation:
- exchange_copilot_token(): calls the token exchange endpoint with
in-process caching (dict keyed by SHA-256 fingerprint), refreshed
2 minutes before expiry. No disk persistence — gateway is long-running
so in-memory cache is sufficient.
- get_copilot_api_token(): convenience wrapper with graceful fallback —
returns exchanged token on success, raw token on failure.
- Both callers (hermes_cli/auth.py and agent/credential_pool.py) now
pipe the raw token through get_copilot_api_token() before use.
12 new tests covering exchange, caching, expiry, error handling,
fingerprinting, and caller integration. All 185 existing copilot/auth
tests pass.
Part 2 of #7731.
Two narrow fixes motivated by #15099.
1. _seed_from_singletons() was dropping obtained_at, agent_key_obtained_at,
expires_in, and friends when seeding device_code pool entries from the
providers.nous singleton. Fresh credentials showed up with
obtained_at=None, which broke downstream freshness-sensitive consumers
(self-heal hooks, pool pruning by age) — they treated just-minted
credentials as older than they actually were and evicted them.
2. When the Nous Portal OAuth 2.1 server returns invalid_grant with
'Refresh token reuse detected' in the error_description, rewrite the
message to explain the likely cause (an external process consumed the
rotated RT without persisting it back) and the mitigation. The generic
reuse message led users to report this as a Hermes persistence bug when
the actual trigger was typically a third-party monitoring script calling
/api/oauth/token directly. Non-reuse errors keep their original server
description untouched.
Closes#15099.
Regression tests:
- tests/agent/test_credential_pool.py::test_nous_seed_from_singletons_preserves_obtained_at_timestamps
- tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_nous_provider.py::test_refresh_token_reuse_detection_surfaces_actionable_message
- tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_nous_provider.py::test_refresh_non_reuse_error_keeps_original_description
agent/redact.py snapshots _REDACT_ENABLED from HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS at
module-import time. hermes_cli/main.py calls setup_logging() early, which
transitively imports agent.redact — BEFORE any config bridge has run. So
users who set 'security.redact_secrets: false' in config.yaml (instead of
HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS=false in .env) had the toggle silently ignored in
both 'hermes chat' and 'hermes gateway run'.
Bridge config.yaml -> env var in hermes_cli/main.py BEFORE setup_logging.
.env still wins (only set env when unset) — config.yaml is the fallback.
Regression tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_redact_config_bridge.py spawn
fresh subprocesses to verify:
- redact_secrets: false in config.yaml disables redaction
- default (key absent) leaves redaction enabled
- .env HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS=true overrides config.yaml
/model kimi-k2.6 on opencode-zen (or glm-5.1 on opencode-go) returned OpenCode's
website 404 HTML page when the user's persisted model.default was a Claude or
MiniMax model. The switched-to chat_completions request hit
https://opencode.ai/zen (or /zen/go) with no /v1 suffix.
Root cause: resolve_runtime_provider() computed api_mode from
model_cfg.get('default') instead of the model being requested. With a Claude
default, it resolved api_mode=anthropic_messages, stripped /v1 from base_url
(required for the Anthropic SDK), then switch_model()'s opencode_model_api_mode
override flipped api_mode back to chat_completions without restoring /v1.
Fix: thread an optional target_model kwarg through resolve_runtime_provider
and _resolve_runtime_from_pool_entry. When the caller is performing an explicit
mid-session model switch (i.e. switch_model()), the target model drives both
api_mode selection and the conditional /v1 strip. Other callers (CLI init,
gateway init, cron, ACP, aux client, delegate, account_usage, tui_gateway) pass
nothing and preserve the existing config-default behavior.
Regression tests added in test_model_switch_opencode_anthropic.py use the REAL
resolver (not a mock) to guard the exact Quentin-repro scenario. Existing tests
that mocked resolve_runtime_provider with 'lambda requested:' had their mock
signatures widened to '**kwargs' to accept the new kwarg.
When /model selects Custom but model.provider in YAML still reflects a prior provider, trust model.base_url only for loopback hosts or when provider is custom. Consult CUSTOM_BASE_URL before OpenRouter defaults (#14676).
OpenAI's OAuth token endpoint returns errors in a nested shape —
{"error": {"code": "refresh_token_reused", "message": "..."}} —
not the OAuth spec's flat {"error": "...", "error_description": "..."}.
The existing parser only handled the flat shape, so:
- `err.get("error")` returned a dict, the `isinstance(str)` guard
rejected it, and `code` stayed `"codex_refresh_failed"`.
- The dedicated `refresh_token_reused` branch (with its actionable
"re-run codex + hermes auth" message and `relogin_required=True`)
never fired.
- Users saw the generic "Codex token refresh failed with status 401"
when another Codex client (CLI, VS Code extension) had consumed
their single-use refresh token — giving no hint that re-auth was
required.
Parse both shapes, mapping OpenAI's nested `code`/`type` onto the
existing `code` variable so downstream branches (`refresh_token_reused`,
`invalid_grant`, etc.) fire correctly.
Add regression tests covering:
- nested `refresh_token_reused` → actionable message + relogin_required
- nested generic code → code + message surfaced
- flat OAuth-spec `invalid_grant` still handled (back-compat)
- unparseable body → generic fallback message, relogin_required=False
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Google AI Studio's free tier (<= 250 req/day for gemini-2.5-flash) is
exhausted in a handful of agent turns, so the setup wizard now refuses
to wire up Gemini when the supplied key is on the free tier, and the
runtime 429 handler appends actionable billing guidance.
Setup-time probe (hermes_cli/main.py):
- `_model_flow_api_key_provider` fires one minimal generateContent call
when provider_id == 'gemini' and classifies the response as
free/paid/unknown via x-ratelimit-limit-requests-per-day header or
429 body containing 'free_tier'.
- Free -> print block message, refuse to save the provider, return.
- Paid -> 'Tier check: paid' and proceed.
- Unknown (network/auth error) -> 'could not verify', proceed anyway.
Runtime 429 handler (agent/gemini_native_adapter.py):
- `gemini_http_error` appends billing guidance when the 429 error body
mentions 'free_tier', catching users who bypass setup by putting
GOOGLE_API_KEY directly in .env.
Tests: 21 unit tests for the probe + error path, 4 tests for the
setup-flow block. All 67 existing gemini tests still pass.
Make the main-branch test suite pass again. Most failures were tests
still asserting old shapes after recent refactors; two were real source
bugs.
Source fixes:
- tools/mcp_tool.py: _kill_orphaned_mcp_children() slept 2s on every
shutdown even when no tracked PIDs existed, making test_shutdown_is_parallel
measure ~3s for 3 parallel 1s shutdowns. Early-return when pids is empty.
- hermes_cli/tips.py: tip 105 was 157 chars; corpus max is 150.
Test fixes (mostly stale mock targets / missing fixture fields):
- test_zombie_process_cleanup, test_agent_cache: patch run_agent.cleanup_vm
(the local name bound at import), not tools.terminal_tool.cleanup_vm.
- test_browser_camofox: patch tools.browser_camofox.load_config, not
hermes_cli.config.load_config (the source module, not the resolved one).
- test_flush_memories_codex._chat_response_with_memory_call: add
finish_reason, tool_call.id, tool_call.type so the chat_completions
transport normalizer doesn't AttributeError.
- test_concurrent_interrupt: polling_tool signature now accepts
messages= kwarg that _invoke_tool() passes through.
- test_minimax_provider: add _fallback_chain=[] to the __new__'d agent
so switch_model() doesn't AttributeError.
- test_skills_config: SKILLS_DIR MagicMock + .rglob stopped working
after the scanner switched to agent.skill_utils.iter_skill_index_files
(os.walk-based). Point SKILLS_DIR at a real tmp_path and patch
agent.skill_utils.get_external_skills_dirs.
- test_browser_cdp_tool: browser_cdp toolset was intentionally split into
'browser-cdp' (commit 96b0f3700) so its stricter check_fn doesn't gate
the whole browser toolset; test now expects 'browser-cdp'.
- test_registry: add tools.browser_dialog_tool to the expected
builtin-discovery set (PR #14540 added it).
- test_file_tools TestPatchHints: patch_tool surfaces hints as a '_hint'
key on the JSON payload, not inline '[Hint: ...' text.
- test_write_deny test_hermes_env: resolve .env via get_hermes_home() so
the path matches the profile-aware denylist under hermetic HERMES_HOME.
- test_checkpoint_manager test_falls_back_to_parent: guard the walk-up
so a stray /tmp/pyproject.toml on the host doesn't pick up /tmp as the
project root.
- test_quick_commands: set cli.session_id in the __new__'d CLI so the
alias-args path doesn't trip AttributeError when fuzzy-matching leaks
a skill command across xdist test distribution.
Keep Discord Copilot model switching responsive and current by refreshing picker data from the live catalog when possible, correcting the curated fallback list, and clearing stale controls before the switch completes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Xiaomi's API (api.xiaomimimo.com) requires lowercase model IDs like
"mimo-v2.5-pro" but rejects mixed-case names like "MiMo-V2.5-Pro"
that users copy from marketing docs or the ProviderEntry description.
Add _LOWERCASE_MODEL_PROVIDERS set and apply .lower() to model names
for providers in this set (currently just xiaomi) after stripping the
provider prefix. This ensures any case variant in config.yaml is
normalized before hitting the API.
Other providers (minimax, zai, etc.) are NOT affected — their APIs
accept mixed case (e.g. MiniMax-M2.7).
Introduces a new plugin hook `pre_gateway_dispatch` fired once per
incoming MessageEvent in `_handle_message`, after the internal-event
guard but before the auth / pairing chain. Plugins may return a dict
to influence flow:
{"action": "skip", "reason": "..."} -> drop (no reply)
{"action": "rewrite", "text": "..."} -> replace event.text
{"action": "allow"} / None -> normal dispatch
Motivation: gateway-level message-flow patterns that don't fit cleanly
into any single adapter — e.g. listen-only group-chat windows (buffer
ambient messages, collapse on @mention), or human-handover silent
ingest (record messages while an owner handles the chat manually).
Today these require forking core; with this hook they can live in a
single profile-agnostic plugin.
Hook runs BEFORE auth so plugins can handle unauthorized senders
(e.g. customer-service handover ingest) without triggering the
pairing-code flow. Exceptions in plugin callbacks are caught and
logged; the first non-None action dict wins, remaining results are
ignored.
Includes:
- `VALID_HOOKS` entry + inline doc in `hermes_cli/plugins.py`
- Invocation block in `gateway/run.py::_handle_message`
- 5 new tests in `tests/gateway/test_pre_gateway_dispatch.py`
(skip, rewrite, allow, exception safety, internal-event bypass)
- 2 additional tests in `tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py`
- Table entry in `website/docs/user-guide/features/plugins.md`
Made-with: Cursor
- hermes_cli/auth.py: add _default_verify() with macOS Homebrew certifi
fallback (mirrors weixin 3a0ec1d93). Extend env var chain to include
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE so one env var works across httpx + requests paths.
- agent/model_metadata.py: add _resolve_requests_verify() reading
HERMES_CA_BUNDLE / REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE / SSL_CERT_FILE in priority
order. Apply explicit verify= to all 6 requests.get callsites.
- Tests: 18 new unit tests + autouse platform pin on existing
TestResolveVerifyFallback to keep its "returns True" assertions
platform-independent.
Empirically verified against self-signed HTTPS server: requests honors
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE only; httpx honors SSL_CERT_FILE only. Hermes now
honors all three everywhere.
Triggered by Discord reports — Nous OAuth SSL failure on macOS
Homebrew Python; custom provider self-signed cert ignored despite
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE set in env.
Wrap the existing version label in the welcome-banner panel title
('Hermes Agent v… · upstream … · local …') with an OSC-8 terminal
hyperlink pointing at the latest git tag's GitHub release page
(https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/<tag>).
Clickable in modern terminals (iTerm2, WezTerm, Windows Terminal,
GNOME Terminal, Kitty, etc.); degrades to plain text on terminals
without OSC-8 support. No new line added to the banner.
New get_latest_release_tag() helper runs 'git describe --tags
--abbrev=0' in the Hermes checkout (3s timeout, per-process cache,
silent fallback for non-git/pip installs and forks without tags).
The TUI had drifted from the CLI's voice model in two ways:
- /voice on was lighting up the microphone immediately and Ctrl+B was
interpreted as a mode toggle. The CLI separates the two: /voice on
just flips the umbrella bit, recording only starts once the user
presses Ctrl+B, which also sets _voice_continuous so the VAD loop
auto-restarts until the user presses Ctrl+B again or three silent
cycles pass.
- /voice tts was missing entirely, so users couldn't turn agent reply
speech on/off from inside the TUI.
This commit brings the TUI to parity.
Python
- hermes_cli/voice.py: continuous-mode API (start_continuous,
stop_continuous, is_continuous_active) layered on the existing PTT
wrappers. The silence callback transcribes, fires on_transcript,
tracks consecutive no-speech cycles, and auto-restarts — mirroring
cli.py:_voice_stop_and_transcribe + _restart_recording.
- tui_gateway/server.py:
- voice.toggle now supports on / off / tts / status. The umbrella
bit lives in HERMES_VOICE + display.voice_enabled; tts lives in
HERMES_VOICE_TTS + display.voice_tts. /voice off also tears down
any active continuous loop so a toggle-off really releases the
microphone.
- voice.record start/stop now drives start_continuous/stop_continuous.
start is refused with a clear error when the mode is off, matching
cli.py:handle_voice_record's early return on `not _voice_mode`.
- New voice.transcript / voice.status events emit through
_voice_emit (remembers the sid that last enabled the mode so
events land in the right session).
TypeScript
- gatewayTypes.ts: voice.status + voice.transcript event
discriminants; VoiceToggleResponse gains tts; VoiceRecordResponse
gains status for the new "started/stopped" responses.
- interfaces.ts: GatewayEventHandlerContext gains composer.setInput +
submission.submitRef + voice.{setRecording, setProcessing,
setVoiceEnabled}; InputHandlerContext.voice gains enabled +
setVoiceEnabled for the mode-aware Ctrl+B handler.
- createGatewayEventHandler.ts: voice.status drives REC/STT badges;
voice.transcript auto-submits when the composer is empty (CLI
_pending_input.put parity) and appends when a draft is in flight.
no_speech_limit flips voice off + sys line.
- useInputHandlers.ts: Ctrl+B now calls voice.record (start/stop),
not voice.toggle, and nudges the user with a sys line when the
mode is off instead of silently flipping it on.
- useMainApp.ts: wires the new event-handler context fields.
- slash/commands/session.ts: /voice handles on / off / tts / status
with CLI-matching output ("voice: mode on · tts off").
Backward compat preserved for voice.record (was always PTT shape;
gateway still honours start/stop with mode-gating added).
tui_gateway/server.py:3486/3491/3509 imports start_recording,
stop_and_transcribe, and speak_text from hermes_cli.voice, but the
module never existed (not in git history — never shipped, never
deleted). Every voice.record / voice.tts RPC call hit the ImportError
branch and the TUI surfaced it as "voice module not available — install
audio dependencies" even on boxes with sounddevice / faster-whisper /
numpy installed.
Adds a thin wrapper on top of tools.voice_mode (recording +
transcription) and tools.tts_tool (text-to-speech):
- start_recording() — idempotent; stores the active AudioRecorder in a
module-global guarded by a Lock so repeat Ctrl+B presses don't fight
over the mic.
- stop_and_transcribe() — returns None for no-op / no-speech /
Whisper-hallucination cases so the TUI's existing "no speech detected"
path keeps working unchanged.
- speak_text(text) — lazily imports tts_tool (optional provider SDKs
stay unloaded until the first /voice tts call), parses the tool's
JSON result, and plays the audio via play_audio_file.
Paired with the Ctrl+B keybinding fix in the prior commit, the TUI
voice pipeline now works end-to-end for the first time.
Cron now resolves its toolset from the same per-platform config the
gateway uses — `_get_platform_tools(cfg, 'cron')` — instead of blindly
loading every default toolset. Existing cron jobs without a per-job
override automatically lose `moa`, `homeassistant`, and `rl` (the
`_DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS` set), which stops the "surprise $4.63
mixture_of_agents run" class of bug (Norbert, Discord).
Precedence inside `run_job`:
1. per-job `enabled_toolsets` (PR #14767 / #6130) — wins if set
2. `_get_platform_tools(cfg, 'cron')` — new, the blanket gate
3. `None` fallback (legacy) — only on resolver exception
Changes:
- hermes_cli/platforms.py: register 'cron' with default_toolset
'hermes-cron'
- toolsets.py: add 'hermes-cron' toolset (mirrors 'hermes-cli';
`_get_platform_tools` then filters via `_DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS`)
- cron/scheduler.py: add `_resolve_cron_enabled_toolsets(job, cfg)`,
call it at the `AIAgent(...)` kwargs site
- tests/cron/test_scheduler.py: replace the 'None when not set' test
(outdated contract) with an invariant ('moa not in default cron
toolset') + new per-job-wins precedence test
- tests/hermes_cli/test_tools_config.py: mark 'cron' as non-messaging
in the gateway-toolset-coverage test
Themes and plugins can now pull off arbitrary dashboard reskins (cockpit
HUD, retro terminal, etc.) without touching core code.
Themes gain four new fields:
- layoutVariant: standard | cockpit | tiled — shell layout selector
- assets: {bg, hero, logo, crest, sidebar, header, custom: {...}} —
artwork URLs exposed as --theme-asset-* CSS vars
- customCSS: raw CSS injected as a scoped <style> tag on theme apply
(32 KiB cap, cleaned up on theme switch)
- componentStyles: per-component CSS-var overrides (clipPath,
borderImage, background, boxShadow, ...) for card/header/sidebar/
backdrop/tab/progress/badge/footer/page
Plugin manifests gain three new fields:
- tab.override: replaces a built-in route instead of adding a tab
- tab.hidden: register component + slots without adding a nav entry
- slots: declares shell slots the plugin populates
10 named shell slots: backdrop, header-left/right/banner, sidebar,
pre-main, post-main, footer-left/right, overlay. Plugins register via
window.__HERMES_PLUGINS__.registerSlot(name, slot, Component). A
<PluginSlot> React helper is exported on the plugin SDK.
Ships a full demo at plugins/strike-freedom-cockpit/ — theme YAML +
slot-only plugin that reproduces a Gundam cockpit dashboard: MS-STATUS
sidebar with live telemetry, COMPASS crest in header, notched card
corners via componentStyles, scanline overlay via customCSS, gold/cyan
palette, Orbitron typography.
Validation:
- 15 new tests in test_web_server.py covering every extended field
- tests/hermes_cli/: 2615 passed (3 pre-existing unrelated failures)
- tsc -b --noEmit: clean
- vite build: 418 kB bundle, ~2 kB delta for slots/theme extensions
Co-authored-by: Teknium <p@nousresearch.com>
cmd_update no longer SIGKILLs in-flight agent runs, and users get
'still working' status every 3 min instead of 10. Two long-standing
sources of '@user — agent gives up mid-task' reports on Telegram and
other gateways.
Drain-aware update:
- New helper hermes_cli.gateway._graceful_restart_via_sigusr1(pid,
drain_timeout) sends SIGUSR1 to the gateway and polls os.kill(pid,
0) until the process exits or the budget expires.
- cmd_update's systemd loop now reads MainPID via 'systemctl show
--property=MainPID --value' and tries the graceful path first. The
gateway's existing SIGUSR1 handler -> request_restart(via_service=
True) -> drain -> exit(75) is wired in gateway/run.py and is
respawned by systemd's Restart=on-failure (and the explicit
RestartForceExitStatus=75 on newer units).
- Falls back to 'systemctl restart' when MainPID is unknown, the
drain budget elapses, or the unit doesn't respawn after exit (older
units missing Restart=on-failure). Old install behavior preserved.
- Drain budget = max(restart_drain_timeout, 30s) + 15s margin so the
drain loop in run_agent + final exit have room before fallback
fires. Composes with #14728's tool-subprocess reaping.
Notification interval:
- agent.gateway_notify_interval default 600 -> 180.
- HERMES_AGENT_NOTIFY_INTERVAL env-var fallback in gateway/run.py
matched.
- 9-minute weak-model spinning runs now ping at 3 min and 6 min
instead of 27 seconds before completion, removing the 'is the bot
dead?' reflex that drives gateway-restart cycles.
Tests:
- Two new tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_update_gateway_restart.py:
one asserts SIGUSR1 is sent and 'systemctl restart' is NOT called
when MainPID is known and the helper succeeds; one asserts the
fallback fires when the helper returns False.
- E2E: spawned detached bash processes confirm the helper returns
True on SIGUSR1-handling exit (~0.5s) and False on SIGUSR1-ignoring
processes (timeout). Verified non-existent PID and pid=0 edge cases.
- 41/41 in test_update_gateway_restart.py (was 39, +2 new).
- 154/154 in shutdown-related suites including #14728's new tests.
Reported by @GeoffWellman and @ANT_1515 on X.
Closes#8202.
Root cause: stop() reclaimed tool-call bash/sleep children only at the
very end of the shutdown sequence — after a 60s drain, 5s interrupt
grace, and per-adapter disconnect. Under systemd (TimeoutStopSec bounded
by drain_timeout), that meant the cgroup SIGKILL escalation fired first,
and systemd reaped the bash/sleep children instead of us.
Fix:
- Extract tool-subprocess cleanup into a local helper
_kill_tool_subprocesses() in _stop_impl().
- Invoke it eagerly right after _interrupt_running_agents() on the
drain-timeout path, before adapter disconnect.
- Keep the existing catch-all call at the end for the graceful path
and defense in depth against mid-teardown respawns.
- Bump generated systemd unit TimeoutStopSec to drain_timeout + 30s
so cleanup + disconnect + DB close has headroom above the drain
budget, matching the 'subprocess timeout > TimeoutStopSec + margin'
rule from the skill.
Tests:
- New: test_gateway_stop_kills_tool_subprocesses_before_adapter_disconnect_on_timeout
asserts kill_all() runs before disconnect() when drain times out.
- New: test_gateway_stop_kills_tool_subprocesses_on_graceful_path
guards that the final catch-all still fires when drain succeeds
(regression guard against accidental removal during refactor).
- Updated: existing systemd unit generator tests expect TimeoutStopSec=90
(= 60s drain + 30s headroom) with explanatory comment.
Dashboard themes now control typography and layout, not just colors.
Each built-in theme picks its own fonts, base size, radius, and density
so switching produces visible changes beyond hue.
Schema additions (per theme):
- typography — fontSans, fontMono, fontDisplay, fontUrl, baseSize,
lineHeight, letterSpacing. fontUrl is injected as <link> on switch
so Google/Bunny/self-hosted stylesheets all work.
- layout — radius (any CSS length) and density
(compact | comfortable | spacious, multiplies Tailwind spacing).
- colorOverrides (optional) — pin individual shadcn tokens that would
otherwise derive from the palette.
Built-in themes are now distinct beyond palette:
- default — system stack, 15px, 0.5rem radius, comfortable
- midnight — Inter + JetBrains Mono, 14px, 0.75rem, comfortable
- ember — Spectral (serif) + IBM Plex Mono, 15px, 0.25rem
- mono — IBM Plex Sans + Mono, 13px, 0 radius, compact
- cyberpunk— Share Tech Mono everywhere, 14px, 0 radius, compact
- rose — Fraunces (serif) + DM Mono, 16px, 1rem, spacious
Also fixes two bugs:
1. Custom user themes silently fell back to default. ThemeProvider
only applied BUILTIN_THEMES[name], so YAML files in
~/.hermes/dashboard-themes/ showed in the picker but did nothing.
Server now ships the full normalised definition; client applies it.
2. Docs documented a 21-token flat colors schema that never matched
the code (applyPalette reads a 3-layer palette). Rewrote the
Themes section against the actual shape.
Implementation:
- web/src/themes/types.ts: extend DashboardTheme with typography,
layout, colorOverrides; ThemeListEntry carries optional definition.
- web/src/themes/presets.ts: 6 built-ins with distinct typography+layout.
- web/src/themes/context.tsx: applyTheme() writes palette+typography+
layout+overrides as CSS vars, injects fontUrl stylesheet, fixes the
fallback-to-default bug via resolveTheme(name).
- web/src/index.css: html/body/code read the new theme-font vars;
--radius-sm/md/lg/xl derive from --theme-radius; --spacing scales
with --theme-spacing-mul so Tailwind utilities shift with density.
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: _normalise_theme_definition() parses loose
YAML (bare hex strings, partial blocks) into the canonical wire
shape; /api/dashboard/themes ships full definitions for user themes.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py: 16 new tests covering the
normaliser and discovery (rejection cases, clamping, defaults).
- website/docs/user-guide/features/web-dashboard.md: rewrite Themes
section with real schema, per-model tables, full YAML example.
## Merged
Adds MiMo v2.5-pro and v2.5 support to Xiaomi native provider, OpenCode Go, and setup wizard.
### Changes
- Context lengths: added v2.5-pro (1M) and v2.5 (1M), corrected existing MiMo entries to exact values (262144)
- Provider lists: xiaomi, opencode-go, setup wizard
- Vision: upgraded from mimo-v2-omni to mimo-v2.5 (omnimodal)
- Config description updated for XIAOMI_API_KEY
- Tests updated for new vision model preference
### Verification
- 4322 tests passed, 0 new regressions
- Live API tested on Xiaomi portal: basic, reasoning, tool calling, multi-tool, file ops, system prompt, vision — all pass
- Self-review found and fixed 2 issues (redundant vision check, stale HuggingFace context length)
On fresh RHEL/Debian SSH sessions without linger, `systemctl --user
start hermes-gateway` fails with 'Failed to connect to bus: No medium
found' because /run/user/$UID/bus doesn't exist. Setup previously
showed a raw CalledProcessError and continued claiming success, so the
gateway never actually started.
systemd_start() and systemd_restart() now call _preflight_user_systemd()
for the user scope first:
- Bus socket already there → no-op (desktop / linger-enabled servers)
- Linger off → try loginctl enable-linger (works when polkit permits,
needs sudo otherwise), wait for socket
- Still unreachable → raise UserSystemdUnavailableError with a clean
remediation message pointing to sudo loginctl + hermes gateway run
as the foreground fallback
Setup's start/restart handlers and gateway_command() catch the new
exception and render the multi-line guidance instead of a traceback.
Multiple custom_providers entries sharing the same base_url + api_key
are now grouped into a single picker row. A local Ollama host with
per-model display names ("Ollama — GLM 5.1", "Ollama — Qwen3-coder",
"Ollama — Kimi K2", "Ollama — MiniMax M2.7") previously produced four
near-duplicate picker rows that differed only by suffix; now it appears
as one "Ollama" row with four models.
Key changes:
- Grouping key changed from slug-by-name to (base_url, api_key). Names
frequently differ per model while the endpoint stays the same.
- When the grouped endpoint matches current_base_url, the row's slug is
set to current_provider so picker-driven switches route through the
live credential pipeline (no re-resolution needed).
- Per-model suffix is stripped from the display name ("Ollama — X" →
"Ollama") via em-dash / " - " separators.
- Two groups with different api_keys at the same base_url (or otherwise
colliding on cleaned name) are disambiguated with a numeric suffix
(custom:openai, custom:openai-2) so both stay visible.
- current_base_url parameter plumbed through both gateway call sites.
Existing #8216, #11499, #13509 regressions covered (dict/list shapes
of models:, section-3/section-4 dedup, normalized list-format entries).
Salvaged from @davidvv's PR #9210 — the underlying code had diverged
~1400 commits since that PR was opened, so this is a reconstruction of
the same approach on current main rather than a clean cherry-pick.
Authorship preserved via --author on this commit.
Closes#9210
_normalize_custom_provider_entry silently drops the models field when it's
a list. Hand-edited configs (and the shape used by older Hermes versions)
still write models as a plain list of ids, so after the normalize pass the
entry reaches list_authenticated_providers() with no models and /model
shows the provider with (0) models — even though the underlying picker
code handles lists fine.
Convert list-format models into the empty-value dict shape the rest of
the pipeline already expects. Dict-format entries keep passing through
unchanged.
Repro (before the fix):
custom_providers:
- name: acme
base_url: https://api.example.com/v1
models: [foo, bar, baz]
/model shows "acme (0)"; bypassing normalize in list_authenticated_providers
returns three models, confirming the drop happens in normalize.
Adds four unit tests covering list→dict conversion, dict pass-through,
filtering of empty/non-string entries, and the empty-list case.
Port from openai/codex#18646.
Adds two flags to 'hermes chat' that fully isolate a run from user-level
configuration and rules:
* --ignore-user-config: skip ~/.hermes/config.yaml and fall back to
built-in defaults. Credentials in .env are still loaded so the agent
can actually call a provider.
* --ignore-rules: skip auto-injection of AGENTS.md, SOUL.md,
.cursorrules, and persistent memory (maps to AIAgent(skip_context_files=True,
skip_memory=True)).
Primary use cases:
- Reproducible CI runs that should not pick up developer-local config
- Third-party integrations (e.g. Chronicle in Codex) that bring their
own config and don't want user preferences leaking in
- Bug-report reproduction without the reporter's personal overrides
- Debugging: bisect 'was it my config?' vs 'real bug' in one command
Both flags are registered on the parent parser AND the 'chat' subparser
(with argparse.SUPPRESS on the subparser to avoid overwriting the parent
value when the flag is placed before the subcommand, matching the
existing --yolo/--worktree/--pass-session-id pattern).
Env vars HERMES_IGNORE_USER_CONFIG=1 and HERMES_IGNORE_RULES=1 are set
by cmd_chat BEFORE 'from cli import main' runs, which is critical
because cli.py evaluates CLI_CONFIG = load_cli_config() at module import
time. The cli.py / hermes_cli.config.load_cli_config() function checks
the env var and skips ~/.hermes/config.yaml when set.
Tests: 11 new tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_ignore_user_config_flags.py
covering the env gate, constructor wiring, cmd_chat simulation, and
argparse flag registration. All pass; existing hermes_cli + cli suites
unaffected (3005 pass, 2 pre-existing unrelated failures).
New and newer models from models.dev now surface automatically in
/model (both hermes model CLI and the gateway Telegram/Discord picker)
for a curated set of secondary providers — no Hermes release required
when the registry publishes a new model.
Primary user-visible fix: on OpenCode Go, typing '/model mimo-v2.5-pro'
no longer silently fuzzy-corrects to 'mimo-v2-pro'. The exact match
against the merged models.dev catalog wins.
Scope (opt-in frozenset _MODELS_DEV_PREFERRED in hermes_cli/models.py):
opencode-go, opencode-zen, deepseek, kilocode, fireworks, mistral,
togetherai, cohere, perplexity, groq, nvidia, huggingface, zai,
gemini, google.
Explicitly NOT merged:
- openrouter and nous (never): curated list is already a hand-picked
subset / Portal is source of truth.
- xai, xiaomi, minimax, minimax-cn, kimi-coding, kimi-coding-cn,
alibaba, qwen-oauth (per-project decision to keep curated-only).
- providers with dedicated live-endpoint paths (copilot, anthropic,
ai-gateway, ollama-cloud, custom, stepfun, openai-codex) — those
paths already handle freshness themselves.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/models.py: add _MODELS_DEV_PREFERRED + _merge_with_models_dev
helper. provider_model_ids() branches on the set at its curated-fallback
return. Merge is models.dev-first, curated-only extras appended,
case-insensitive dedup, graceful fallback when models.dev is offline.
- hermes_cli/model_switch.py: list_authenticated_providers() calls the
same merge in both its code paths (PROVIDER_TO_MODELS_DEV loop +
HERMES_OVERLAYS loop). Picker AND validation-fallback both see
fresh entries.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_models_dev_preferred_merge.py (new): 13 tests —
merge-helper unit tests (empty/raise/order/dedup), opencode-go/zen
behavior, openrouter+nous explicitly guarded from merge.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_opencode_go_in_model_list.py: converted from
snapshot-style assertion to a behavior-based floor check, so it
doesn't break when models.dev publishes additional opencode-go
entries.
Addresses a report from @pfanis via Telegram: newer Xiaomi variants
on OpenCode Go weren't appearing in the /model picker, and /model
was silently routing requests for new variants to older ones.
Plugin slash commands now surface as first-class commands in every gateway
enumerator — Discord native slash picker, Telegram BotCommand menu, Slack
/hermes subcommand map — without a separate per-platform plugin API.
The existing 'command:<name>' gateway hook gains a decision protocol via
HookRegistry.emit_collect(): handlers that return a dict with
{'decision': 'deny'|'handled'|'rewrite'|'allow'} can intercept slash
command dispatch before core handling runs, unifying what would otherwise
have been a parallel 'pre_gateway_command' hook surface.
Changes:
- gateway/hooks.py: add HookRegistry.emit_collect() that fires the same
handler set as emit() but collects non-None return values. Backward
compatible — fire-and-forget telemetry hooks still work via emit().
- hermes_cli/plugins.py: add optional 'args_hint' param to
register_command() so plugins can opt into argument-aware native UI
registration (Discord arg picker, future platforms).
- hermes_cli/commands.py: add _iter_plugin_command_entries() helper and
merge plugin commands into telegram_bot_commands() and
slack_subcommand_map(). New is_gateway_known_command() recognizes both
built-in and plugin commands so the gateway hook fires for either.
- gateway/platforms/discord.py: extract _build_auto_slash_command helper
from the COMMAND_REGISTRY auto-register loop and reuse it for
plugin-registered commands. Built-in name conflicts are skipped.
- gateway/run.py: before normal slash dispatch, call emit_collect on
command:<canonical> and honor deny/handled/rewrite/allow decisions.
Hook now fires for plugin commands too.
- scripts/release.py: AUTHOR_MAP entry for @Magaav.
- Tests: emit_collect semantics, plugin command surfacing per platform,
decision protocol (deny/handled/rewrite/allow + non-dict tolerance),
Discord plugin auto-registration + conflict skipping, is_gateway_known_command.
Salvaged from #14131 (@Magaav). Original PR added a parallel
'pre_gateway_command' hook and a platform-keyed plugin command
registry; this re-implementation reuses the existing 'command:<name>'
hook and treats plugin commands as platform-agnostic so the same
capability reaches Telegram and Slack without new API surface.
Co-authored-by: Magaav <73175452+Magaav@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot on #14138 flagged that the share report says '(file not found)'
when the log exists but is empty (either because the primary is empty
and no .1 rotation exists, or in the rare race where the file is
truncated between _resolve_log_path() and stat()).
- Split _primary_log_path() out of _resolve_log_path so both can share
the LOG_FILES/home math without duplication.
- _capture_log_snapshot now reports '(file empty)' when the primary
path exists on disk with zero bytes, and keeps '(file not found)'
for the truly-missing case.
Tests: rename test_returns_none_for_empty → test_empty_primary_reports_file_empty
with the new assertion, plus a race-path test that monkeypatches
_resolve_log_path to exercise the size==0 branch directly.
Drop rebased test assumptions about theme-mode helpers removed on main and keep the status bar skin integration aligned with the current skin engine model.
Route prompt_toolkit status bar colors through the skin engine so /skin updates the status bar alongside the rest of the interactive TUI.
Add regression coverage for the new status bar style override keys and CLI style composition.
These thin wrappers around _capture_log_snapshot had zero production
callers after the snapshot refactor — run_debug_share uses snapshots
directly and collect_debug_report captures internally. The wrappers
also caused a performance regression: _read_log_tail read up to 512KB
and built full_text just to return tail_text.
Remove both wrappers and migrate TestReadFullLog → TestCaptureLogSnapshot
to test _capture_log_snapshot directly. Same coverage, tests the real
API instead of dead indirection.
Add missing AUTHOR_MAP entry for taosiyuan163 whose truncation boundary
fix was adapted into _capture_log_snapshot().
Add regression tests proving: line-boundary truncation keeps the full
first line, mid-line truncation correctly drops the partial fragment.
* fix(plugins): auto-coerce user-installed memory plugins to kind=exclusive
User-installed memory provider plugins at $HERMES_HOME/plugins/<name>/
were being dispatched to the general PluginManager, which has no
register_memory_provider method on PluginContext. Every startup logged:
Failed to load plugin 'mempalace': 'PluginContext' object has no
attribute 'register_memory_provider'
Bundled memory providers were already skipped via skip_names={memory,
context_engine} in discover_and_load, but user-installed ones weren't.
Fix: _parse_manifest now scans the plugin's __init__.py source for
'register_memory_provider' or 'MemoryProvider' (same heuristic as
plugins/memory/__init__.py:_is_memory_provider_dir) and auto-coerces
kind to 'exclusive' when the manifest didn't declare one explicitly.
This routes the plugin to plugins/memory discovery instead of the
general loader.
The escape hatch: if a manifest explicitly declares kind: standalone,
the heuristic doesn't override it.
Reported by Uncle HODL on Discord.
* fix(nous): actionable CLI message when Nous 401 refresh fails
Mirrors the Anthropic 401 diagnostic pattern. When Nous returns 401
and the credential refresh (_try_refresh_nous_client_credentials)
also fails, the user used to see only the raw APIError. Now prints:
🔐 Nous 401 — Portal authentication failed.
Response: <truncated body>
Most likely: Portal OAuth expired, account out of credits, or
agent key revoked.
Troubleshooting:
• Re-authenticate: hermes login --provider nous
• Check credits / billing: https://portal.nousresearch.com
• Verify stored credentials: $HERMES_HOME/auth.json
• Switch providers temporarily: /model <model> --provider openrouter
Addresses the common 'my hermes model hangs' pattern where the user's
Portal OAuth expired and the CLI gave no hint about the next step.
Adds schema v7 'api_call_count' column. run_agent.py increments it by 1
per LLM API call, web_server analytics SQL aggregates it, frontend uses
the real counter instead of summing sessions.
The 'API Calls' card on the analytics dashboard previously displayed
COUNT(*) from the sessions table — the number of conversations, not
LLM requests. Each session makes 10-90 API calls through the tool loop,
so the reported number was ~30x lower than real.
Salvaged from PR #10140 (@kshitijk4poor). The cache-token accuracy
portions of the original PR were deferred — per-provider analytics is
the better path there, since cache_write_tokens and actual_cost_usd
are only reliably available from a subset of providers (Anthropic
native, Codex Responses, OpenRouter with usage.include).
Tests:
- schema_version v7 assertion
- migration v2 -> v7 adds api_call_count column with default 0
- update_token_counts increments api_call_count by provided delta
- absolute=True sets api_call_count directly
- /api/analytics/usage exposes total_api_calls in totals
Adds a first-class 'stepfun' API-key provider surfaced as Step Plan:
- Support Step Plan setup for both International and China regions
- Discover Step Plan models live from /step_plan/v1/models, with a
small coding-focused fallback catalog when discovery is unavailable
- Thread StepFun through provider metadata, setup persistence, status
and doctor output, auxiliary routing, and model normalization
- Add tests for provider resolution, model validation, metadata
mapping, and StepFun region/model persistence
Based on #6005 by @hengm3467.
Co-authored-by: hengm3467 <100685635+hengm3467@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(plugins): pluggable image_gen backends + OpenAI provider
Adds a ImageGenProvider ABC so image generation backends register as
bundled plugins under `plugins/image_gen/<name>/`. The plugin scanner
gains three primitives to make this work generically:
- `kind:` manifest field (`standalone` | `backend` | `exclusive`).
Bundled `kind: backend` plugins auto-load — no `plugins.enabled`
incantation. User-installed backends stay opt-in.
- Path-derived keys: `plugins/image_gen/openai/` gets key
`image_gen/openai`, so a future `tts/openai` cannot collide.
- Depth-2 recursion into category namespaces (parent dirs without a
`plugin.yaml` of their own).
Includes `OpenAIImageGenProvider` as the first consumer (gpt-image-1.5
default, plus gpt-image-1, gpt-image-1-mini, DALL-E 3/2). Base64
responses save to `$HERMES_HOME/cache/images/`; URL responses pass
through.
FAL stays in-tree for this PR — a follow-up ports it into
`plugins/image_gen/fal/` so the in-tree `image_generation_tool.py`
slims down. The dispatch shim in `_handle_image_generate` only fires
when `image_gen.provider` is explicitly set to a non-FAL value, so
existing FAL setups are untouched.
- 41 unit tests (scanner recursion, kind parsing, gate logic,
registry, OpenAI payload shapes)
- E2E smoke verified: bundled plugin autoloads, registers, and
`_handle_image_generate` routes to OpenAI when configured
* fix(image_gen/openai): don't send response_format to gpt-image-*
The live API rejects it: 'Unknown parameter: response_format'
(verified 2026-04-21 with gpt-image-1.5). gpt-image-* models return
b64_json unconditionally, so the parameter was both unnecessary and
actively broken.
* feat(image_gen/openai): gpt-image-2 only, drop legacy catalog
gpt-image-2 is the latest/best OpenAI image model (released 2026-04-21)
and there's no reason to expose the older gpt-image-1.5 / gpt-image-1 /
dall-e-3 / dall-e-2 alongside it — slower, lower quality, or awkward
(dall-e-2 squares only). Trim the catalog down to a single model.
Live-verified end-to-end: landscape 1536x1024 render of a Moog-style
synth matches prompt exactly, 2.4MB PNG saved to cache.
* feat(image_gen/openai): expose gpt-image-2 as three quality tiers
Users pick speed/fidelity via the normal model picker instead of a
hidden quality knob. All three tier IDs resolve to the single underlying
gpt-image-2 API model with a different quality parameter:
gpt-image-2-low ~15s fast iteration
gpt-image-2-medium ~40s default
gpt-image-2-high ~2min highest fidelity
Live-measured on OpenAI's API today: 15.4s / 40.8s / 116.9s for the
same 1024x1024 prompt.
Config:
image_gen.openai.model: gpt-image-2-high
# or
image_gen.model: gpt-image-2-low
# or env var for scripts/tests
OPENAI_IMAGE_MODEL=gpt-image-2-medium
Live-verified end-to-end with the low tier: 18.8s landscape render of a
golden retriever in wildflowers, vision-confirmed exact match.
* feat(tools_config): plugin image_gen providers inject themselves into picker
'hermes tools' → Image Generation now shows plugin-registered backends
alongside Nous Subscription and FAL.ai without tools_config.py needing
to know about them. OpenAI appears as a third option today; future
backends appear automatically as they're added.
Mechanism:
- ImageGenProvider gains an optional get_setup_schema() hook
(name, badge, tag, env_vars). Default derived from display_name.
- tools_config._plugin_image_gen_providers() pulls the schemas from
every registered non-FAL plugin provider.
- _visible_providers() appends those rows when rendering the Image
Generation category.
- _configure_provider() handles the new image_gen_plugin_name marker:
writes image_gen.provider and routes to the plugin's list_models()
catalog for the model picker.
- _toolset_needs_configuration_prompt('image_gen') stops demanding a
FAL key when any plugin provider reports is_available().
FAL is skipped in the plugin path because it already has hardcoded
TOOL_CATEGORIES rows — when it gets ported to a plugin in a follow-up
PR the hardcoded rows go away and it surfaces through the same path
as OpenAI.
Verified live: picker shows Nous Subscription / FAL.ai / OpenAI.
Picking OpenAI prompts for OPENAI_API_KEY, then shows the
gpt-image-2-low/medium/high model picker sourced from the plugin.
397 tests pass across plugins/, tools_config, registry, and picker.
* fix(image_gen): close final gaps for plugin-backend parity with FAL
Two small places that still hardcoded FAL:
- hermes_cli/setup.py status line: an OpenAI-only setup showed
'Image Generation: missing FAL_KEY'. Now probes plugin providers
and reports '(OpenAI)' when one is_available() — or falls back to
'missing FAL_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY' if nothing is configured.
- image_generate tool schema description: said 'using FAL.ai, default
FLUX 2 Klein 9B'. Rewrote provider-neutral — 'backend and model are
user-configured' — and notes the 'image' field can be a URL or an
absolute path, which the gateway delivers either way via
extract_local_files().
Wire the auxiliary client (compaction, vision, session search, web extract)
to the Nous Portal's curated recommended-models endpoint when running on
Nous Portal, with a TTL-cached fetch that mirrors how we pull /models for
pricing.
hermes_cli/models.py
- fetch_nous_recommended_models(portal_base_url, force_refresh=False)
10-minute TTL cache, keyed per portal URL (staging vs prod don't
collide). Public endpoint, no auth required. Returns {} on any
failure so callers always get a dict.
- get_nous_recommended_aux_model(vision, free_tier=None, ...)
Tier-aware pick from the payload:
- Paid tier → paidRecommended{Vision,Compaction}Model, falling back
to freeRecommended* when the paid field is null (common during
staged rollouts of new paid models).
- Free tier → freeRecommended* only, never leaks paid models.
When free_tier is None, auto-detects via the existing
check_nous_free_tier() helper (already cached 3 min against
/api/oauth/account). Detection errors default to paid so we never
silently downgrade a paying user.
agent/auxiliary_client.py — _try_nous()
- Replaces the hardcoded xiaomi/mimo free-tier branch with a single call
to get_nous_recommended_aux_model(vision=vision).
- Falls back to _NOUS_MODEL (google/gemini-3-flash-preview) when the
Portal is unreachable or returns a null recommendation.
- The Portal is now the source of truth for aux model selection; the
xiaomi allowlist we used to carry is effectively dead.
Tests (15 new)
- tests/hermes_cli/test_models.py::TestNousRecommendedModels
Fetch caching, per-portal keying, network failure, force_refresh;
paid-prefers-paid, paid-falls-to-free, free-never-leaks-paid,
auto-detect, detection-error → paid default, null/blank modelName
handling.
- tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py::TestNousAuxiliaryRefresh
_try_nous honors Portal recommendation for text + vision, falls
back to google/gemini-3-flash-preview on None or exception.
Behavior won't visibly change today — both tier recommendations currently
point at google/gemini-3-flash-preview — but the moment the Portal ships
a better paid recommendation, subscribers pick it up within 10 minutes
without a Hermes release.
Drop _NOUS_ALLOWED_FREE_MODELS + filter_nous_free_models and its two call
sites. Whatever Nous Portal prices as free now shows up in the picker as-is
— no local allowlist gatekeeping. Free-tier partitioning (paid vs free in
the menu) still runs via partition_nous_models_by_tier.
Follow-ups after salvaging xiaoqiang243's kimi-for-coding patches:
- KIMI_CODE_BASE_URL: drop trailing /v1 (was /coding/v1).
The /coding endpoint speaks Anthropic Messages, and the Anthropic SDK
appends /v1/messages internally. /coding/v1 + SDK suffix produced
/coding/v1/v1/messages (a 404). /coding + SDK suffix now yields
/coding/v1/messages correctly.
- kimi-coding ProviderConfig: keep legacy default api.moonshot.ai/v1 so
non-sk-kimi- moonshot keys still authenticate. sk-kimi- keys are
already redirected to api.kimi.com/coding via _resolve_kimi_base_url.
- doctor.py: update Kimi UA to claude-code/0.1.0 (was KimiCLI/1.30.0)
and rewrite /coding base URLs to /coding/v1 for the /models health
check (Anthropic surface has no /models).
- test_kimi_env_vars: accept KIMI_CODING_API_KEY as a secondary env var.
E2E verified:
sk-kimi-<key> → https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1/messages (Anthropic)
sk-<legacy> → https://api.moonshot.ai/v1/chat/completions (OpenAI)
UA: claude-code/0.1.0, x-api-key: <sk-kimi-*>
Adds role='leaf'|'orchestrator' to delegate_task. With max_spawn_depth>=2,
an orchestrator child retains the 'delegation' toolset and can spawn its
own workers; leaf children cannot delegate further (identical to today).
Default posture is flat — max_spawn_depth=1 means a depth-0 parent's
children land at the depth-1 floor and orchestrator role silently
degrades to leaf. Users opt into nested delegation by raising
max_spawn_depth to 2 or 3 in config.yaml.
Also threads acp_command/acp_args through the main agent loop's delegate
dispatch (previously silently dropped in the schema) via a new
_dispatch_delegate_task helper, and adds a DelegateEvent enum with
legacy-string back-compat for gateway/ACP/CLI progress consumers.
Config (hermes_cli/config.py defaults):
delegation.max_concurrent_children: 3 # floor-only, no upper cap
delegation.max_spawn_depth: 1 # 1=flat (default), 2-3 unlock nested
delegation.orchestrator_enabled: true # global kill switch
Salvaged from @pefontana's PR #11215. Overrides vs. the original PR:
concurrency stays at 3 (PR bumped to 5 + cap 8 — we keep the floor only,
no hard ceiling); max_spawn_depth defaults to 1 (PR defaulted to 2 which
silently enabled one level of orchestration for every user).
Co-authored-by: pefontana <fontana.pedro93@gmail.com>
The prior form of this test asserted on CLI_CONFIG["delegation"] after
importing cli, which only passed by accident of pytest-xdist worker
scheduling. cli._hermes_home is frozen at module import time (cli.py:76),
before the tests/conftest.py autouse HERMES_HOME-isolation fixture can
fire, so CLI_CONFIG ends up populated by deep-merging the contributor's
actual ~/.hermes/config.yaml over the defaults (cli.py:359-366). Any
contributor (like me) who still has the legacy key set in their own
config causes a false failure the moment another test file in the same
xdist worker imports cli at module level.
Asserting on the source of load_cli_config() instead sidesteps all of
that: the test now checks the defaults literal directly and is
independent of user config, HERMES_HOME, import order, and worker
scheduling.
Demonstrated failure mode before this fix:
pytest tests/hermes_cli/test_config_drift.py \
tests/hermes_cli/test_skills_hub.py -o addopts=""
-> FAILED (CLI_CONFIG["delegation"] contained "default_toolsets"
from the user's ~/.hermes/config.yaml)
Part of Initiative 2 / M0.5.
delegation.default_toolsets was declared in cli.py's CLI_CONFIG default
dict and documented in cli-config.yaml.example, but never read: none of
tools/delegate_tool.py, _load_config(), or any call site ever looked it
up. The live fallback is the DEFAULT_TOOLSETS module constant at
tools/delegate_tool.py:101, which stays as-is.
hermes_cli/config.py's DEFAULT_CONFIG["delegation"] already omits the
key — this commit aligns cli.py with that.
Adds a regression test in tests/hermes_cli/test_config_drift.py so a
future refactor that re-adds the key without wiring it up to
_load_config() fails loudly.
Part of Initiative 2 / M0.5.
Reported during TUI v2 blitz testing: typing `@folder:` in the composer
pulled up .dockerignore, .env, .gitignore, and every other file in the
cwd alongside the actual directories. The completion loop yielded every
entry regardless of the explicit prefix and auto-rewrote each completion
to @file: vs @folder: based on is_dir — defeating the user's choice.
Also fixed a pre-existing adjacent bug: a bare `@file:` or `@folder:`
(no path) used expanded=="." as both search_dir AND match_prefix,
filtering the list to dotfiles only. When expanded is empty or ".",
search in cwd with no prefix filter.
- want_dir = prefix == "@folder:" drives an explicit is_dir filter
- preserve the typed prefix in completion text instead of rewriting
- three regression tests cover: folder-only, file-only, and the bare-
prefix case where completions keep the `@folder:` prefix
DNS rebinding attack: a victim browser that has the dashboard (or the
WhatsApp bridge) open could be tricked into fetching from an
attacker-controlled hostname that TTL-flips to 127.0.0.1. Same-origin
and CORS checks don't help — the browser now treats the attacker origin
as same-origin with the local service. Validating the Host header at
the app layer rejects any request whose Host isn't one we bound for.
Changes:
hermes_cli/web_server.py:
- New host_header_middleware runs before auth_middleware. Reads
app.state.bound_host (set by start_server) and rejects requests
whose Host header doesn't match the bound interface with HTTP 400.
- Loopback binds accept localhost / 127.0.0.1 / ::1. Non-loopback
binds require exact match. 0.0.0.0 binds skip the check (explicit
--insecure opt-in; no app-layer defence possible).
- IPv6 bracket notation parsed correctly: [::1] and [::1]:9119 both
accepted.
scripts/whatsapp-bridge/bridge.js:
- Express middleware rejects non-loopback Host headers. Bridge
already binds 127.0.0.1-only, this adds the complementary app-layer
check for DNS rebinding defence.
Tests: 8 new in tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_host_header.py
covering loopback/non-loopback/zero-zero binds, IPv6 brackets, case
insensitivity, and end-to-end middleware rejection via TestClient.
Reported in GHSA-ppp5-vxwm-4cf7 by @bupt-Yy-young. Hardening — not
CVE per SECURITY.md §3. The dashboard's main trust boundary is the
loopback bind + session token; DNS rebinding defeats the bind assumption
but not the token (since the rebinding browser still sees a first-party
fetch to 127.0.0.1 with the token-gated API). Host-header validation
adds the missing belt-and-braces layer.
Two call sites still used a raw substring check to identify ollama.com:
hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py:496:
_is_ollama_url = "ollama.com" in base_url.lower()
run_agent.py:6127:
if fb_base_url_hint and "ollama.com" in fb_base_url_hint.lower() ...
Same bug class as GHSA-xf8p-v2cg-h7h5 (OpenRouter substring leak), which
was fixed in commit dbb7e00e via base_url_host_matches() across the
codebase. The earlier sweep missed these two Ollama sites. Self-discovered
during April 2026 security-advisory triage; filed as GHSA-76xc-57q6-vm5m.
Impact is narrow — requires a user with OLLAMA_API_KEY configured AND a
custom base_url whose path or look-alike host contains 'ollama.com'.
Users on default provider flows are unaffected. Filed as a draft advisory
to use the private-fork flow; not CVE-worthy on its own.
Fix is mechanical: replace substring check with base_url_host_matches
at both sites. Same helper the rest of the codebase uses.
Tests: 67 -> 71 passing. 7 new host-matcher cases in
tests/test_base_url_hostname.py (path injection, lookalike host,
localtest.me subdomain, ollama.ai TLD confusion, localhost, genuine
ollama.com, api.ollama.com subdomain) + 4 call-site tests in
tests/hermes_cli/test_runtime_provider_resolution.py verifying
OLLAMA_API_KEY is selected only when base_url actually targets
ollama.com.
Fixes GHSA-76xc-57q6-vm5m
Gateway /model <name> --provider opencode-go (or any provider whose /models
endpoint is down, 404s, or doesn't exist) silently failed. validate_requested_model
returned accepted=False whenever fetch_api_models returned None, switch_model
returned success=False, and the gateway never wrote _session_model_overrides —
so the switch appeared to succeed in the error message flow but the next turn
kept calling the old provider.
The validator already had static-catalog fallbacks for MiniMax and Codex
(providers without a /models endpoint). Extended the same pattern as the
terminal fallback: when the live probe fails, consult provider_model_ids()
for the curated catalog. Known models → accepted+recognized. Close typos →
auto-corrected. Unknown models → soft-accepted with a 'Not in curated
catalog' warning. Providers with no catalog at all → soft-accepted with a
generic 'Note:' warning, finally honoring the in-code comment ('Accept and
persist, but warn') that had been lying since it was written.
Tests: 7 new tests in test_opencode_go_validation_fallback.py covering the
catalog lookup, case-insensitive match, auto-correct, unknown-with-suggestion,
unknown-without-suggestion, and no-catalog paths. TestValidateApiFallback in
test_model_validation.py updated — its four 'rejected_when_api_down' tests
were encoding exactly the bug being fixed.
* feat(models): hide OpenRouter models that don't advertise tool support
Port from Kilo-Org/kilocode#9068.
hermes-agent is tool-calling-first — every provider path assumes the
model can invoke tools. Models whose OpenRouter supported_parameters
doesn't include 'tools' (e.g. image-only or completion-only models)
cannot be driven by the agent loop and fail at the first tool call.
Filter them out of fetch_openrouter_models() so they never appear in
the model picker (`hermes model`, setup wizard, /model slash command).
Permissive when the field is missing — OpenRouter-compatible gateways
(Nous Portal, private mirrors, older snapshots) don't always populate
supported_parameters. Treat missing as 'unknown → allow' rather than
silently emptying the picker on those gateways. Only hide models
whose supported_parameters is an explicit list that omits tools.
Tests cover: tools present → kept, tools absent → dropped, field
missing → kept, malformed non-list → kept, non-dict item → kept,
empty list → dropped.
* refactor(acp): validate method_id against advertised provider in authenticate()
Previously authenticate() accepted any method_id whenever the server had
provider credentials configured. This was not a vulnerability under the
personal-assistant trust model (ACP is stdio-only, local-trust — anything
that can reach the transport is already code-execution-equivalent to the
user), but it was sloppy API hygiene: the advertised auth_methods list
from initialize() was effectively ignored.
Now authenticate() only returns AuthenticateResponse when method_id
matches the currently-advertised provider (case-insensitive). Mismatched
or missing method_id returns None, consistent with the no-credentials
case.
Raised by xeloxa via GHSA-g5pf-8w9m-h72x. Declined as a CVE
(ACP transport is stdio, local-trust model), but the correctness fix is
worth having on its own.
OpenCode Go's published model list (opencode.ai/docs/go) includes kimi-k2.6,
qwen3.5-plus, and qwen3.6-plus, but Hermes' curated lists didn't carry them.
When the live /models probe fails during `hermes model`, users fell back to
the stale curated list and had to type newer models via 'Enter custom model
name'.
Adds kimi-k2.6 (now first in the Go list), qwen3.6-plus, and qwen3.5-plus
to both the model picker (hermes_cli/models.py) and setup defaults
(hermes_cli/setup.py). All routed through the existing opencode-go
chat_completions path — no api_mode changes needed.
Every credential source Hermes reads from now behaves identically on
`hermes auth remove`: the pool entry stays gone across fresh load_pool()
calls, even when the underlying external state (env var, OAuth file,
auth.json block, config entry) is still present.
Before this, auth_remove_command was a 110-line if/elif with five
special cases, and three more sources (qwen-cli, copilot, custom
config) had no removal handler at all — their pool entries silently
resurrected on the next invocation. Even the handled cases diverged:
codex suppressed, anthropic deleted-without-suppressing, nous cleared
without suppressing. Each new provider added a new gap.
What's new:
agent/credential_sources.py — RemovalStep registry, one entry per
source (env, claude_code, hermes_pkce, nous device_code, codex
device_code, qwen-cli, copilot gh_cli + env vars, custom config).
auth_remove_command dispatches uniformly via find_removal_step().
Changes elsewhere:
agent/credential_pool.py — every upsert in _seed_from_env,
_seed_from_singletons, and _seed_custom_pool now gates on
is_source_suppressed(provider, source) via a shared helper.
hermes_cli/auth_commands.py — auth_remove_command reduced to 25
lines of dispatch; auth_add_command now clears ALL suppressions for
the provider on re-add (was env:* only).
Copilot is special: the same token is seeded twice (gh_cli via
_seed_from_singletons + env:<VAR> via _seed_from_env), so removing one
entry without suppressing the other variants lets the duplicate
resurrect. The copilot RemovalStep suppresses gh_cli + all three env
variants (COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN, GH_TOKEN, GITHUB_TOKEN) at once.
Tests: 11 new unit tests + 4059 existing pass. 12 E2E scenarios cover
every source in isolated HERMES_HOME with simulated fresh processes.
Removing an env-seeded credential only cleared ~/.hermes/.env and the
current process's os.environ, leaving shell-exported vars (shell profile,
systemd EnvironmentFile, launchd plist) to resurrect the entry on the
next load_pool() call. This matched the pre-#11485 codex behaviour.
Now we suppress env:<VAR> in auth.json on remove, gate _seed_from_env()
behind is_source_suppressed(), clear env:* suppressions on auth add,
and print a diagnostic pointing at the shell when the var lives there.
Applies to every env:* seeded credential (xai, deepseek, moonshot, zai,
nvidia, openrouter, anthropic, etc.), not just xai.
Reported by @teknium1 from community user 'Artificial Brain' — couldn't
remove their xAI key via hermes auth remove.
Catalog snapshots, config version literals, and enumeration counts are data
that changes as designed. Tests that assert on those values add no
behavioral coverage — they just break CI on every routine update and cost
engineering time to 'fix.'
Replace with invariants where one exists, delete where none does.
Deleted (pure snapshots):
- TestMinimaxModelCatalog (3 tests): 'MiniMax-M2.7 in models' et al
- TestGeminiModelCatalog: 'gemini-2.5-pro in models', 'gemini-3.x in models'
- test_browser_camofox_state::test_config_version_matches_current_schema
(docstring literally said it would break on unrelated bumps)
Relaxed (keep plumbing check, drop snapshot):
- Xiaomi / Arcee / Kimi moonshot / Kimi coding / HuggingFace static lists:
now assert 'provider exists and has >= 1 entry' instead of specific names
- HuggingFace main/models.py consistency test: drop 'len >= 6' floor
Dynamicized (follow source, not a literal):
- 3x test_config.py migration tests: raw['_config_version'] ==
DEFAULT_CONFIG['_config_version'] instead of hardcoded 21
Fixed stale tests against intentional behavior changes:
- test_insights::test_gateway_format_hides_cost: name matches new behavior
(no dollar figures); remove contradicting '$' in text assertion
- test_config::prefers_api_then_url_then_base_url: flipped per PR #9332;
rename + update to base_url > url > api
- test_anthropic_adapter: relax assert_called_once() (xdist-flaky) to
assert called — contract is 'credential flowed through'
- test_interrupt_propagation: add provider/model/_base_url to bare-agent
fixture so the stale-timeout code path resolves
Fixed stale integration tests against opt-in plugin gate:
- transform_tool_result + transform_terminal_output: write plugins.enabled
allow-list to config.yaml and reset the plugin manager singleton
Source fix (real consistency invariant):
- agent/model_metadata.py: add moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 context length
(262144, same as K2.5). test_model_metadata_has_context_lengths was
correctly catching the gap.
Policy:
- AGENTS.md Testing section: new subsection 'Don't write change-detector
tests' with do/don't examples. Reviewers should reject catalog-snapshot
assertions in new tests.
Covers every test that failed on the last completed main CI run
(24703345583) except test_modal_sandbox_fixes::test_terminal_tool_present
+ test_terminal_and_file_toolsets_resolve_all_tools, which now pass both
alone and with the full tests/tools/ directory (xdist ordering flake that
resolved itself).
Delete the stale literal `_PROVIDER_MODELS["ai-gateway"]` (gpt-5,
gemini-2.5-pro, claude-4.5 — outdated the moment PR #13223 landed with
its curated `AI_GATEWAY_MODELS` snapshot) and derive it from
`AI_GATEWAY_MODELS` instead, so the picker tuples and the bare-id
fallback catalog stay in sync automatically. Also fixes
`get_default_model_for_provider('ai-gateway')` to return kimi-k2.6
(the curated recommendation) instead of claude-opus-4.6.
Aslaaen's fix in the original PR covered _detect_api_mode_for_url and the
two openai/xai sites in run_agent.py. This finishes the sweep: the same
substring-match false-positive class (e.g. https://api.openai.com.evil/v1,
https://proxy/api.openai.com/v1, https://api.anthropic.com.example/v1)
existed in eight more call sites, and the hostname helper was duplicated
in two modules.
- utils: add shared base_url_hostname() (single source of truth).
- hermes_cli/runtime_provider, run_agent: drop local duplicates, import
from utils. Reuse the cached AIAgent._base_url_hostname attribute
everywhere it's already populated.
- agent/auxiliary_client: switch codex-wrap auto-detect, max_completion_tokens
gate (auxiliary_max_tokens_param), and custom-endpoint max_tokens kwarg
selection to hostname equality.
- run_agent: native-anthropic check in the Claude-style model branch
and in the AIAgent init provider-auto-detect branch.
- agent/model_metadata: Anthropic /v1/models context-length lookup.
- hermes_cli/providers.determine_api_mode: anthropic / openai URL
heuristics for custom/unknown providers (the /anthropic path-suffix
convention for third-party gateways is preserved).
- tools/delegate_tool: anthropic detection for delegated subagent
runtimes.
- hermes_cli/setup, hermes_cli/tools_config: setup-wizard vision-endpoint
native-OpenAI detection (paired with deduping the repeated check into
a single is_native_openai boolean per branch).
Tests:
- tests/test_base_url_hostname.py covers the helper directly
(path-containing-host, host-suffix, trailing dot, port, case).
- tests/hermes_cli/test_determine_api_mode_hostname.py adds the same
regression class for determine_api_mode, plus a test that the
/anthropic third-party gateway convention still wins.
Also: add asslaenn5@gmail.com → Aslaaen to scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP.
Load-time sanitizer silently removed non-ASCII codepoints from any
env var ending in _API_KEY / _TOKEN / _SECRET / _KEY, turning
copy-paste artifacts (Unicode lookalikes, ZWSP, NBSP) into opaque
provider-side API_KEY_INVALID errors.
Warn once per key to stderr with the offending codepoints (U+XXXX)
and guidance to re-copy from the provider dashboard.
When the live Vercel AI Gateway catalog exposes a Moonshot model with
zero input AND output pricing, it's promoted to position #1 as the
recommended default — even if the exact ID isn't in the curated
AI_GATEWAY_MODELS list. This enables dynamic discovery of new free
Moonshot variants without requiring a PR to update curation.
Paid Moonshot models are unaffected; falls back to the normal curated
recommended tag when no free Moonshot is live.
- Curated AI_GATEWAY_MODELS list in hermes_cli/models.py (OSS first,
kimi-k2.5 as recommended default).
- fetch_ai_gateway_models() filters the curated list against the live
/v1/models catalog; falls back to the snapshot on network failure.
- fetch_ai_gateway_pricing() translates Vercel's input/output field
names to the prompt/completion shape the shared picker expects;
carries input_cache_read / input_cache_write through unchanged.
- get_pricing_for_provider() now handles ai-gateway.
- _model_flow_ai_gateway() provides a guided URL prompt when no key
is set and a pricing-column picker; routes ai-gateway to it instead
of the generic api-key flow.
Users can declare shell scripts in config.yaml under a hooks: block that
fire on plugin-hook events (pre_tool_call, post_tool_call, pre_llm_call,
subagent_stop, etc). Scripts receive JSON on stdin, can return JSON on
stdout to block tool calls or inject context pre-LLM.
Key design:
- Registers closures on existing PluginManager._hooks dict — zero changes
to invoke_hook() call sites
- subprocess.run(shell=False) via shlex.split — no shell injection
- First-use consent per (event, command) pair, persisted to allowlist JSON
- Bypass via --accept-hooks, HERMES_ACCEPT_HOOKS=1, or hooks_auto_accept
- hermes hooks list/test/revoke/doctor CLI subcommands
- Adds subagent_stop hook event fired after delegate_task children exit
- Claude Code compatible response shapes accepted
Cherry-picked from PR #13143 by @pefontana.
The opt-in-by-default change (70111eea) requires plugins to be listed
in plugins.enabled. The cherry-picked test fixtures didn't write this
config, so two tests failed on current main.
- discover plugin commands before building Telegram command menus
- make plugin command and context engine accessors lazy-load plugins
- add regression coverage for Telegram menu and plugin lookup paths
Custom Claude proxies fronted by Cloudflare with Browser Integrity Check
enabled (e.g. `packyapi.com`) reject requests with the default
`Python-urllib/*` signature, returning HTTP 403 "error code: 1010".
`probe_api_models` swallowed that in its blanket `except Exception:
continue`, so `validate_requested_model` returned the misleading
"Could not reach the <provider> API to validate `<model>`" error even
though the endpoint is reachable and lists the requested model.
Advertise the probe request as `hermes-cli/<version>` so Cloudflare
treats it as a first-party client. This mirrors the pattern already used
by `agent/gemini_native_adapter.py` and `agent/anthropic_adapter.py`,
which set a descriptive UA for the same reason.
Reproduction (pre-fix):
python3 -c "
import urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
'https://www.packyapi.com/v1/models',
headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer sk-...'})
urllib.request.urlopen(req).read()
"
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
(body: b'error code: 1010')
Any non-urllib UA (Mozilla, curl, reqwest) returns 200 with the
OpenAI-compatible models listing.
Tested on macOS (Python 3.11). No cross-platform concerns — the change
is a single header addition to an existing `urllib.request.Request`.
Cherry-picked from PR #9359 by @luyao618.
- Accept camelCase aliases (apiKey, baseUrl, apiMode, keyEnv, defaultModel,
contextLength, rateLimitDelay) with auto-mapping to snake_case + warning
- Validate URL field values with urlparse (scheme + netloc check) — reject
non-URL strings like 'openai-reverse-proxy' that were silently accepted
- Warn on unknown keys in provider config entries
- Re-order URL field priority: base_url > url > api (was api > url > base_url)
- 12 new tests covering all scenarios
Closes#9332
Plugins now require explicit consent to load. Discovery still finds every
plugin — user-installed, bundled, and pip — so they all show up in
`hermes plugins` and `/plugins`, but the loader only instantiates
plugins whose name appears in `plugins.enabled` in config.yaml. This
removes the previous ambient-execution risk where a newly-installed or
bundled plugin could register hooks, tools, and commands on first run
without the user opting in.
The three-state model is now explicit:
enabled — in plugins.enabled, loads on next session
disabled — in plugins.disabled, never loads (wins over enabled)
not enabled — discovered but never opted in (default for new installs)
`hermes plugins install <repo>` prompts "Enable 'name' now? [y/N]"
(defaults to no). New `--enable` / `--no-enable` flags skip the prompt
for scripted installs. `hermes plugins enable/disable` manage both lists
so a disabled plugin stays explicitly off even if something later adds
it to enabled.
Config migration (schema v20 → v21): existing user plugins already
installed under ~/.hermes/plugins/ (minus anything in plugins.disabled)
are auto-grandfathered into plugins.enabled so upgrades don't silently
break working setups. Bundled plugins are NOT grandfathered — even
existing users have to opt in explicitly.
Also: HERMES_DISABLE_BUNDLED_PLUGINS env var removed (redundant with
opt-in default), cmd_list now shows bundled + user plugins together with
their three-state status, interactive UI tags bundled entries
[bundled], docs updated across plugins.md and built-in-plugins.md.
Validation: 442 plugin/config tests pass. E2E: fresh install discovers
disk-cleanup but does not load it; `hermes plugins enable disk-cleanup`
activates hooks; migration grandfathers existing user plugins correctly
while leaving bundled plugins off.
Closes#8933 more fully, extending the per-tool transform_terminal_output
hook from #12929 to a generic seam that fires after every tool dispatch.
Plugins can rewrite any tool's result string (normalize formats, redact
fields, summarize verbose output) without wrapping individual tools.
Changes
- hermes_cli/plugins.py: add "transform_tool_result" to VALID_HOOKS
- model_tools.py: invoke the hook in handle_function_call after
post_tool_call (which remains observational); first valid str return
replaces the result; fail-open
- tests/test_transform_tool_result_hook.py: 9 new tests covering no-op,
None return, non-string return, first-match wins, kwargs, hook
exception fallback, post_tool_call observation invariant, ordering
vs post_tool_call, and an end-to-end real-plugin integration
- tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py: assert new hook in VALID_HOOKS
- tests/test_model_tools.py: extend the hook-call-sequence assertion
to include the new hook
Design
- transform_tool_result runs AFTER post_tool_call so observers always
see the original (untransformed) result. This keeps post_tool_call's
observational contract.
- transform_terminal_output (from #12929) still runs earlier, inside
terminal_tool, so plugins can canonicalize BEFORE the 50k truncation
drops middle content. Both hooks coexist; they target different layers.
ZipFile.write() raises ValueError for files with mtime before 1980-01-01
(the ZIP format uses MS-DOS timestamps which can't represent earlier dates).
This crashes the entire backup. Add ValueError to the existing except clause
so these files are skipped and reported in the warnings summary, matching the
existing behavior for PermissionError and OSError.
Third-party gateways that speak the native Anthropic protocol (MiniMax,
Zhipu GLM, Alibaba DashScope, Kimi, LiteLLM proxies) now work end-to-end
with the same feature set as direct api.anthropic.com callers. Synthesizes
eight stale community PRs into one consolidated change.
Five fixes:
- URL detection: consolidate three inline `endswith("/anthropic")`
checks in runtime_provider.py into the shared _detect_api_mode_for_url
helper. Third-party /anthropic endpoints now auto-resolve to
api_mode=anthropic_messages via one code path instead of three.
- OAuth leak-guard: all five sites that assign `_is_anthropic_oauth`
(__init__, switch_model, _try_refresh_anthropic_client_credentials,
_swap_credential, _try_activate_fallback) now gate on
`provider == "anthropic"` so a stale ANTHROPIC_TOKEN never trips
Claude-Code identity injection on third-party endpoints. Previously
only 2 of 5 sites were guarded.
- Prompt caching: new method `_anthropic_prompt_cache_policy()` returns
`(should_cache, use_native_layout)` per endpoint. Replaces three
inline conditions and the `native_anthropic=(api_mode=='anthropic_messages')`
call-site flag. Native Anthropic and third-party Anthropic gateways
both get the native cache_control layout; OpenRouter gets envelope
layout. Layout is persisted in `_primary_runtime` so fallback
restoration preserves the per-endpoint choice.
- Auxiliary client: `_try_custom_endpoint` honors
`api_mode=anthropic_messages` and builds `AnthropicAuxiliaryClient`
instead of silently downgrading to an OpenAI-wire client. Degrades
gracefully to OpenAI-wire when the anthropic SDK isn't installed.
- Config hygiene: `_update_config_for_provider` (hermes_cli/auth.py)
clears stale `api_key`/`api_mode` when switching to a built-in
provider, so a previous MiniMax custom endpoint's credentials can't
leak into a later OpenRouter session.
- Truncation continuation: length-continuation and tool-call-truncation
retry now cover `anthropic_messages` in addition to `chat_completions`
and `bedrock_converse`. Reuses the existing `_build_assistant_message`
path via `normalize_anthropic_response()` so the interim message
shape is byte-identical to the non-truncated path.
Tests: 6 new files, 42 test cases. Targeted run + tests/run_agent,
tests/agent, tests/hermes_cli all pass (4554 passed).
Synthesized from (credits preserved via Co-authored-by trailers):
#7410 @nocoo — URL detection helper
#7393 @keyuyuan — OAuth 5-site guard
#7367 @n-WN — OAuth guard (narrower cousin, kept comment)
#8636 @sgaofen — caching helper + native-vs-proxy layout split
#10954 @Only-Code-A — caching on anthropic_messages+Claude
#7648 @zhongyueming1121 — aux client anthropic_messages branch
#6096 @hansnow — /model switch clears stale api_mode
#9691 @TroyMitchell911 — anthropic_messages truncation continuation
Closes: #7366, #8294 (third-party Anthropic identity + caching).
Supersedes: #7410, #7367, #7393, #8636, #10954, #7648, #6096, #9691.
Rejects: #9621 (OpenAI-wire caching with incomplete blocklist — risky),
#7242 (superseded by #9691, stale branch),
#8321 (targets smart_model_routing which was removed in #12732).
Co-authored-by: nocoo <nocoo@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Keyu Yuan <leoyuan0099@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Zoee <30841158+n-WN@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: sgaofen <135070653+sgaofen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Only-Code-A <bxzt2006@163.com>
Co-authored-by: zhongyueming <mygamez@163.com>
Co-authored-by: Xiaohan Li <hansnow@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Troy Mitchell <i@troy-y.org>
When a user's config has the same endpoint in both the providers: dict
(v12+ keyed schema) and custom_providers: list (legacy schema) — which
happens automatically when callers pass the output of
get_compatible_custom_providers() alongside the raw providers dict —
list_authenticated_providers() emitted two picker rows for the same
endpoint: one bare-slug from section 3 and one 'custom:<name>' from
section 4. The slug shapes differed, so seen_slugs dedup never fired,
and users saw the same endpoint twice with identical display labels.
Fix: section 3 records the (display_name, base_url) of each emitted
entry in _section3_emitted_pairs; section 4 skips groups whose
(name, api_url) pair was already emitted. Preserves existing behaviour
for users on either schema alone, and for distinct entries across both.
Test: test_list_authenticated_providers_no_duplicate_labels_across_schemas.
These tests all pass in isolation but fail in CI due to test-ordering
pollution on shared xdist workers. Each has a different root cause:
- tests/tools/test_send_message_tool.py (4 tests): racing session ContextVar
pollution — get_session_env returns '' instead of 'cli' default when an
earlier test on the same worker leaves HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM set.
- tests/tools/test_skills_tool.py (2 tests): KeyError: 'gateway_setup_hint'
from shared skill state mutation.
- tests/tools/test_tts_mistral.py::test_telegram_produces_ogg_and_voice_compatible:
pre-existing intermittent failure.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_update_check.py::test_get_update_result_timeout:
racing a background git-fetch thread that writes a real commits-behind
value into module-level _update_result before assertion.
All 8 have been failing on main for multiple runs with no clear path to a
safe fix that doesn't require restructuring the tests' isolation story.
Removing is cheaper than chasing — the code paths they cover are
exercised elsewhere (send_message has 73+ other tests, skills_tool has
extensive coverage, TTS has other backend tests, update check has other
tests for check_for_updates proper).
Validation: all 4 files now pass cleanly: 169/169 under CI-parity env.
My previous attempt (patching check_for_updates) still lost the race:
the background update-check thread captures check_for_updates via
global lookup at call time, but on CI the thread was already past that
point (mid-git-fetch) by the time the test's patch took effect. The
real fetch returned 4954 commits-behind and wrote that to
banner._update_result before the test's assertion ran.
Fix: test what we actually care about — that get_update_result respects
its timeout parameter — and drop the asserting-on-result-value that
races with legitimate background activity. The get_update_result
function's job is to return after `timeout` seconds if the event isn't
set. The value of `_update_result` is incidental to that test.
Validation: tests/hermes_cli/test_update_check.py now 9/9 pass under
CI-parity env, and the test no longer has a correctness dependency on
module-level state that other threads can write.
Two additional CI failures surfaced when the first PR ran through GHA —
both were pre-existing but blocked merge.
1) tests/cron/test_scheduler.py::TestRunJobWakeGate (3 tests)
run_job calls resolve_runtime_provider BEFORE constructing AIAgent, so
patching run_agent.AIAgent alone isn't enough — the resolver raises
'No inference provider configured' in hermetic CI (no API keys) and
the test never reaches the mocked AIAgent. Added autouse fixture
that stubs resolve_runtime_provider with a fake openrouter runtime.
2) tests/hermes_cli/test_update_check.py::test_get_update_result_timeout
Observed on CI: assert 4950 is None. A background update-check
thread (from an earlier test or hermes_cli.main's own
prefetch_update_check call) raced a real git-fetch result
(4950 commits behind origin/main) into banner._update_result during
this test's wait(0.1). Wrap the test in patch.object(banner,
'check_for_updates', return_value=None) so any in-flight thread
writes None rather than a real value.
Validation:
Under CI-parity env (env -i, no creds): 6/6 pass
Broader suite (tests/hermes_cli + cron + gateway + run_agent/streaming
+ toolsets + discord_tool): 6033 passed, pre-existing failures in
telegram_approval_buttons (3) and internal_event_bypass_pairing (1)
are unrelated.
- only use the native adapter for the canonical Gemini native endpoint
- keep custom and /openai base URLs on the OpenAI-compatible path
- preserve Hermes keepalive transport injection for native Gemini clients
- stabilize streaming tool-call replay across repeated SSE events
- add follow-up tests for base_url precedence, async streaming, and duplicate tool-call chunks
- add a native Gemini adapter over generateContent/streamGenerateContent
- switch the built-in gemini provider off the OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- preserve thought signatures and native functionResponse replay
- route auxiliary Gemini clients through the same adapter
- add focused unit coverage plus native-provider integration checks
One source fix (web_server category merge) + five test updates that
didn't travel with their feature PRs. All 13 failures on the 04-19
CI run on main are now accounted for (5 already self-healed on main;
8 fixed here).
Changes
- web_server.py: add code_execution → agent to _CATEGORY_MERGE (new
singleton section from #11971 broke no-single-field-category invariant).
- test_browser_camofox_state: bump hardcoded _config_version 18 → 19
(also from #11971).
- test_registry: add browser_cdp_tool (#12369) and discord_tool (#4753)
to the expected built-in tool set.
- test_run_agent::test_tool_call_accumulation: rewrite fragment chunks
— #0f778f77 switched streaming name-accumulation from += to = to
fix MiniMax/NIM duplication; the test still encoded the old
fragment-per-chunk premise.
- test_concurrent_interrupt::_Stub: no-op
_apply_pending_steer_to_tool_results — #12116 added this call after
concurrent tool batches; the hand-rolled stub was missing it.
- test_codex_cli_model_picker: drop the two obsolete tests that
asserted auto-import from ~/.codex/auth.json into the Hermes auth
store. #12360 explicitly removed that behavior (refresh-token reuse
races with Codex CLI / VS Code); adoption is now explicit via
`hermes auth openai-codex`. Remaining 3 tests in the file (normal
path, Claude Code fallback, negative case) still cover the picker.
Validation
- scripts/run_tests.sh across all 6 affected files + surrounding tests
(54 tests total) all green locally.
Live test with timeout_seconds: 0.5 on claude-sonnet-4.6 proved the
initial wiring was insufficient: run_agent.py was overriding the
client-level timeout on every call via hardcoded per-request kwargs.
Root cause: run_agent.py had two sites that pass an explicit timeout=
kwarg into chat.completions.create() — api_kwargs['timeout'] at line
7075 (HERMES_API_TIMEOUT=1800s default) and the streaming path's
_httpx.Timeout(..., read=HERMES_STREAM_READ_TIMEOUT=120s, ...) at line
5760. Both override the per-provider config value the client was
constructed with, so a 0.5s config timeout would silently not enforce.
This commit:
- Adds AIAgent._resolved_api_call_timeout() — config > HERMES_API_TIMEOUT env > 1800s default.
- Uses it for the non-streaming api_kwargs['timeout'] field.
- Uses it for the streaming path's httpx.Timeout(connect, read, write, pool)
so both connect and read respect the configured value when set.
Local-provider auto-bump (Ollama/vLLM cold-start) only applies when
no explicit config value is set.
- New test: test_resolved_api_call_timeout_priority covers all three
precedence cases (config, env, default).
Live verified: 0.5s config on claude-sonnet-4.6 now triggers
APITimeoutError at ~3s per retry, exhausts 3 retries in ~15s total
(was: 29-47s success with timeout ignored). Positive case (60s config
+ gpt-4o-mini) still succeeds at 1.3s.
Follow-up on top of mvanhorn's cherry-picked commit. Original PR only
wired request_timeout_seconds into the explicit-creds OpenAI branch at
run_agent.py init; router-based implicit auth, native Anthropic, and the
fallback chain were still hardcoded to SDK defaults.
- agent/anthropic_adapter.py: build_anthropic_client() accepts an optional
timeout kwarg (default 900s preserved when unset/invalid).
- run_agent.py: resolve per-provider/per-model timeout once at init; apply
to Anthropic native init + post-refresh rebuild + stale/interrupt
rebuilds + switch_model + _restore_primary_runtime + the OpenAI
implicit-auth path + _try_activate_fallback (with immediate client
rebuild so the first fallback request carries the configured timeout).
- tests: cover anthropic adapter kwarg honoring; widen mock signatures
to accept the new timeout kwarg.
- docs/example: clarify that the knob now applies to every transport,
the fallback chain, and rebuilds after credential rotation.
Adds optional providers.<id>.request_timeout_seconds and
providers.<id>.models.<model>.timeout_seconds config, resolved via a new
hermes_cli/timeouts.py helper and applied where client_kwargs is built
in run_agent.py. Zero default behavior change: when both keys are unset,
the openai SDK default takes over.
Mirrors the existing _get_task_timeout pattern in agent/auxiliary_client.py
for auxiliary tasks - the primary turn path just never got the equivalent
knob.
Cross-project demand: openclaw/openclaw#43946 (17 reactions) asks for
exactly this config - specifically calls out Ollama cold-start hanging
the client.
On top of the salvaged PR #12505 (Jason/farion1231, which adds dict-format
models: enumeration to both sections), three section-3 refinements from
competing PR #11534 (YangManBOBO):
- accept base_url as canonical (matches Hermes's writer and custom_providers
entries); keep api/url as fallbacks for legacy/hand-edited configs
- accept singular model as a default_model synonym, matching custom_providers
- add seen_slugs guard so the same provider slug appearing in both
providers: dict and custom_providers: list emits exactly one picker row
(providers: dict wins since section 3 runs first)
Two regression tests cover the new behavior. AUTHOR_MAP entry added for
farion1231 so CI doesn't reject the cherry-picked commit.
list_authenticated_providers() builds /model picker rows for CLI, TUI and
gateway flows, but fails to enumerate custom provider models stored in
dict form:
- custom_providers[] entries surface only the singular `model:` field,
hiding every other model in the `models:` dict.
- providers: dict entries with dict-format `models:` are silently dropped
and render as `(0 models)`.
Hermes's own writer (main.py::_save_custom_provider) persists configured
models as a dict keyed by model id, and most downstream readers
(agent/models_dev.py, gateway/run.py, run_agent.py, hermes_cli/config.py)
already consume that dict format. The /model picker was the only stale
path.
Add a dict branch in both sections of list_authenticated_providers(),
preferring dict (canonical) and keeping the list branch as fallback for
hand-edited / legacy configs. Dedup against the already-added default
model so nothing duplicates when the default is also a dict key.
Six new regression tests in tests/hermes_cli/ cover: dict models with a
default, dict models without a default, and default dedup against a
matching dict key.
Fixes#11677Fixes#9148
Related: #11017
find-nearby and the (new) maps optional skill both used OpenStreetMap's
Overpass + Nominatim to answer the same question — 'what's near this
location?' — so shipping both would be duplicate code for overlapping
capability. Consolidate into one active-by-default skill at
skills/productivity/maps/ that is a strict superset of find-nearby.
Moves + deletions:
- optional-skills/productivity/maps/ → skills/productivity/maps/ (active,
no install step needed)
- skills/leisure/find-nearby/ → DELETED (fully superseded)
Upgrades to maps_client.py so it covers everything find-nearby did:
- Overpass server failover — tries overpass-api.de then
overpass.kumi.systems so a single-mirror outage doesn't break the skill
(new overpass_query helper, used by both nearby and bbox)
- nearby now accepts --near "<address>" as a shortcut that auto-geocodes,
so one command replaces the old 'search → copy coords → nearby' chain
- nearby now accepts --category (repeatable) for multi-type queries in
one call (e.g. --category restaurant --category bar), results merged
and deduped by (osm_type, osm_id), sorted by distance, capped at --limit
- Each nearby result now includes maps_url (clickable Google Maps search
link) and directions_url (Google Maps directions from the search point
— only when a ref point is known)
- Promoted commonly-useful OSM tags to top-level fields on each result:
cuisine, hours (opening_hours), phone, website — instead of forcing
callers to dig into the raw tags dict
SKILL.md:
- Version bumped 1.1.0 → 1.2.0, description rewritten to lead with
capability surface
- New 'Working With Telegram Location Pins' section replacing
find-nearby's equivalent workflow
- metadata.hermes.supersedes: [find-nearby] so tooling can flag any
lingering references to the old skill
External references updated:
- optional-skills/productivity/telephony/SKILL.md — related_skills
find-nearby → maps
- website/docs/reference/skills-catalog.md — removed the (now-empty)
'leisure' section, added 'maps' row under productivity
- website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md — find-nearby example
usages swapped to maps
- tests/tools/test_cronjob_tools.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_cron.py,
tests/cron/test_scheduler.py — fixture string values swapped
- cli.py:5290 — /cron help-hint example swapped
Not touched:
- RELEASE_v0.2.0.md — historical record, left intact
E2E-verified live (Nominatim + Overpass, one query each):
- nearby --near "Times Square" --category restaurant --category bar → 3 results,
sorted by distance, all with maps_url, directions_url, cuisine, phone, website
where OSM had the tags
All 111 targeted tests pass across tests/cron/, tests/tools/, tests/hermes_cli/.
Codex OAuth refresh tokens are single-use and rotate on every refresh.
Sharing them with the Codex CLI / VS Code via ~/.codex/auth.json made
concurrent use of both tools a race: whoever refreshed last invalidated
the other side's refresh_token. On top of that, the silent auto-import
path picked up placeholder / aborted-auth data from ~/.codex/auth.json
(e.g. literal {"access_token":"access-new","refresh_token":"refresh-new"})
and seeded it into the Hermes pool as an entry the selector could
eventually pick.
Hermes now owns its own Codex auth state end-to-end:
Removed
- agent/credential_pool.py: _sync_codex_entry_from_cli() method,
its pre-refresh + retry + _available_entries call sites, and the
post-refresh write-back to ~/.codex/auth.json.
- agent/credential_pool.py: auto-import from ~/.codex/auth.json in
_seed_from_singletons() — users now run `hermes auth openai-codex`
explicitly.
- hermes_cli/auth.py: silent runtime migration in
resolve_codex_runtime_credentials() — now surfaces
`codex_auth_missing` directly (message already points to `hermes auth`).
- hermes_cli/auth.py: post-refresh write-back in
_refresh_codex_auth_tokens().
- hermes_cli/auth.py: dead helper _write_codex_cli_tokens() and its 4
tests in test_auth_codex_provider.py.
Kept
- hermes_cli/auth.py: _import_codex_cli_tokens() — still used by the
interactive `hermes auth openai-codex` setup flow for a user-gated
one-time import (with "a separate login is recommended" messaging).
User-visible impact
- On existing installs with Hermes auth already present: no change.
- On a fresh install where the user has only logged in via Codex CLI:
`hermes chat --provider openai-codex` now fails with "No Codex
credentials stored. Run `hermes auth` to authenticate." The
interactive setup flow then detects ~/.codex/auth.json and offers a
one-time import.
- On an install where Codex CLI later refreshes its token: Hermes is
unaffected (we no longer read from that file at runtime).
Tests
- tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_codex_provider.py: 15/15 pass.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_commands.py: 20/20 pass.
- tests/agent/test_credential_pool.py: 31/31 pass.
- Live E2E on openai-codex/gpt-5.4: 1 API call, 1.7s latency,
3 log lines, no refresh events, no auth drama.
The related 14:52 refresh-loop bug (hundreds of rotations/minute on a
single entry) is a separate issue — that requires a refresh-attempt
cap on the auth-recovery path in run_agent.py, which remains open.
Weaker models (Gemma-class) repeatedly rediscover and forget that
execute_code uses a different CWD and Python interpreter than terminal(),
causing them to flip-flop on whether user files exist and to hit import
errors on project dependencies like pandas.
Adds a new 'code_execution.mode' config key (default 'project') that
brings execute_code into line with terminal()'s filesystem/interpreter:
project (new default):
- cwd = session's TERMINAL_CWD (falls back to os.getcwd())
- python = active VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/python or CONDA_PREFIX/bin/python
with a Python 3.8+ version check; falls back cleanly to
sys.executable if no venv or the candidate fails
- result : 'import pandas' works, '.env' resolves, matches terminal()
strict (opt-in):
- cwd = staging tmpdir (today's behavior)
- python = sys.executable (today's behavior)
- result : maximum reproducibility and isolation; project deps
won't resolve
Security-critical invariants are identical across both modes and covered by
explicit regression tests:
- env scrubbing (strips *_API_KEY, *_TOKEN, *_SECRET, *_PASSWORD,
*_CREDENTIAL, *_PASSWD, *_AUTH substrings)
- SANDBOX_ALLOWED_TOOLS whitelist (no execute_code recursion, no
delegate_task, no MCP from inside scripts)
- resource caps (5-min timeout, 50KB stdout, 50 tool calls)
Deliberately avoids 'sandbox'/'isolated'/'cloud' language in tool
descriptions (regression from commit 39b83f34 where agents on local
backends falsely believed they were sandboxed and refused networking).
Override via env var: HERMES_EXECUTE_CODE_MODE=strict|project
Seven test files were asserting against older function signatures and
behaviors. CI has been red on main because of accumulated test debt
from other PRs; this catches the tests up.
- tests/agent/test_subagent_progress.py: _build_child_progress_callback
now takes (task_index, goal, parent_agent, task_count=1); update all
call sites and rewrite tests that assumed the old 'batch-only' relay
semantics (now relays per-tool AND flushes a summary at BATCH_SIZE).
Renamed test_thinking_not_relayed_to_gateway → test_thinking_relayed_to_gateway
since thinking IS now relayed as subagent.thinking.
- tests/tools/test_delegate.py: _build_child_agent now requires
task_count; add task_count=1 to all 8 call sites.
- tests/cli/test_reasoning_command.py: AIAgent gained _stream_callback;
stub it on the two test agent helpers that use spec=AIAgent / __new__.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_cmd_update.py: cmd_update now runs npm install
in repo root + ui-tui/ + web/ and 'npm run build' in web/; assert
all four subprocess calls in the expected order.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_model_validation.py: dissimilar unknown models
now return accepted=False (previously True with warning); update
both affected tests.
- tests/tools/test_registry.py: include feishu_doc_tool and
feishu_drive_tool in the expected builtin tool set.
- tests/gateway/test_voice_command.py: missing-voice-deps message now
suggests 'pip install PyNaCl' not 'hermes-agent[messaging]'.
411/411 pass locally across these 7 files.
hermes update no longer dies when the controlling terminal closes
(SSH drop, shell close) during pip install. SIGHUP is set to SIG_IGN
for the duration of the update, and stdout/stderr are wrapped so writes
to a closed pipe are absorbed instead of cascading into process exit.
All update output is mirrored to ~/.hermes/logs/update.log so users can
see what happened after reconnecting.
SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and SIGTERM (systemd) are intentionally still honored —
those are deliberate cancellations, not accidents. In gateway mode the
helper is a no-op since the update is already detached.
POSIX preserves SIG_IGN across exec(), so pip and git subprocesses
inherit hangup protection automatically — no changes to subprocess
spawning needed.
Follow-up to #11909: surface the legacy-unit warning where users are most
likely to see it. After a 'hermes update', if a pre-rename hermes.service
is still installed alongside the current hermes-gateway.service, print
the list of legacy units + the 'hermes gateway migrate-legacy' command.
Profile-safe: reuses _find_legacy_hermes_units() which is an explicit
allowlist of hermes.service only — profile units never match.
Platform-gated: only prints on systemd hosts (the rename is Linux-only).
Non-blocking: just prints, never prompts, so gateway-spawned
hermes update --gateway runs aren't affected.
* fix(gateway): detect legacy hermes.service units from pre-rename installs
Older Hermes installs used a different service name (hermes.service) before
the rename to hermes-gateway.service. When both units remain installed, they
fight over the same bot token — after PR #5646's signal-recovery change,
this manifests as a 30-second SIGTERM flap loop between the two services.
Detection is an explicit allowlist (no globbing) plus an ExecStart content
check, so profile units (hermes-gateway-<profile>.service) and unrelated
third-party services named 'hermes' are never matched.
Wired into systemd_install, systemd_status, gateway_setup wizard, and the
main hermes setup flow — anywhere we already warn about scope conflicts now
also warns about legacy units.
* feat(gateway): add migrate-legacy command + install-time removal prompt
- New hermes_cli.gateway.remove_legacy_hermes_units() removes legacy
unit files with stop → disable → unlink → daemon-reload. Handles user
and system scopes separately; system scope returns path list when not
running as root so the caller can tell the user to re-run with sudo.
- New 'hermes gateway migrate-legacy' subcommand (with --dry-run and -y)
routes to remove_legacy_hermes_units via gateway_command dispatch.
- systemd_install now offers to remove legacy units BEFORE installing
the new hermes-gateway.service, preventing the SIGTERM flap loop that
hits users who still have pre-rename hermes.service around.
Profile units (hermes-gateway-<profile>.service) remain untouched in
all paths — the legacy allowlist is explicit (_LEGACY_SERVICE_NAMES)
and the ExecStart content check further narrows matches.
* fix(gateway): mark --replace SIGTERM as planned so target exits 0
PR #5646 made SIGTERM exit the gateway with code 1 so systemd's
Restart=on-failure revives it after unexpected kills. But when a user has
two gateway units fighting for the same bot token (e.g. legacy
hermes.service + hermes-gateway.service from a pre-rename install), the
--replace takeover itself becomes the 'unexpected' SIGTERM — the loser
exits 1, systemd revives it 30s later, and the cycle flaps indefinitely.
Before calling terminate_pid(), --replace now writes a short-lived marker
file naming the target PID + start_time. The target's shutdown_signal_handler
consumes the marker and, when it names this process, leaves
_signal_initiated_shutdown=False so the final exit code stays 0.
Staleness defences:
- PID + start_time combo prevents PID reuse matching an old marker
- Marker older than 60s is treated as stale and discarded
- Marker is unlinked on first read even if it doesn't match this process
- Replacer clears the marker post-loop + on permission-denied give-up
persist_nous_credentials() now accepts an optional label kwarg which
gets embedded in providers.nous under the 'label' key.
_seed_from_singletons() prefers the embedded label over the
auto-derived label_from_token() fingerprint when materialising the
pool entry, so re-seeding on every load_pool('nous') preserves the
user's chosen label.
auth_commands.py threads --label through to the helper, restoring
parity with how other OAuth providers (anthropic, codex, google,
qwen) honor the flag.
Tests: 4 new (embed, reseed-survives, no-label fallback, end-to-end
through auth_add_command). All 390 nous/auth/credential_pool tests
pass.
Review feedback on the original commit: the helper wrote a pool entry
with source `manual:device_code` while `_seed_from_singletons()` upserts
with `device_code` (no `manual:` prefix), so the pool grew a duplicate
row on every `load_pool()` after login.
Normalise: the helper now writes `providers.nous` and delegates the pool
write entirely to `_seed_from_singletons()` via a follow-up
`load_pool()` call. The canonical source is `device_code`; the helper
never materialises a parallel `manual:device_code` entry.
- `persist_nous_credentials()` loses its `label` and `source` kwargs —
both are now derived by the seed path from the singleton state.
- CLI and web dashboard call sites simplified accordingly.
- New test `test_persist_nous_credentials_idempotent_no_duplicate_pool_entries`
asserts that two consecutive persists leave exactly one pool row and
no stray `manual:` entries.
- Existing `test_auth_add_nous_oauth_persists_pool_entry` updated to
assert the canonical source and single-entry invariant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`hermes auth add nous --type oauth` only wrote credential_pool.nous,
leaving providers.nous empty. When the Nous agent_key's 24h TTL expired,
run_agent.py's 401-recovery path called resolve_nous_runtime_credentials
(which reads providers.nous), got AuthError "Hermes is not logged into
Nous Portal", caught it as logger.debug (suppressed at INFO level), and
the agent died with "Non-retryable client error" — no signal to the
user that recovery even tried.
Introduce persist_nous_credentials() as the single source of truth for
Nous device-code login persistence. Both auth_commands (CLI) and
web_server (dashboard) now route through it, so pool and providers
stay in sync at write time.
Why: CLI-provisioned profiles couldn't recover from agent_key expiry,
producing silent daily outages 24h after first login. PR #6856/#6869
addressed adjacent issues but assumed providers.nous was populated;
this one wasn't being written.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previously users had to hand-edit config.yaml to route individual auxiliary
tasks (vision, compression, web_extract, etc.) to a specific provider+model.
Add a first-class picker reachable from the bottom of the existing `hermes
model` provider list.
Flow:
hermes model
→ Configure auxiliary models...
→ <task picker: 9 tasks, shows current setting inline>
→ <provider picker: authenticated providers + auto + custom>
→ <model picker: curated list + live pricing>
The aux picker does NOT re-run credential/OAuth setup; users authenticate
providers through the normal `hermes model` flow, then route aux tasks to
them here. `list_authenticated_providers()` gates the list to providers
the user has configured.
Also:
- 'Cancel' entry relabeled 'Leave unchanged' (sentinel still 'cancel'
internally, so dispatch logic is unchanged)
- 'Reset all to auto' entry to bulk-clear aux overrides; preserves
user-tuned timeout / download_timeout values
- Adds `title_generation` task to DEFAULT_CONFIG.auxiliary — the task
was called from agent/title_generator.py but was missing from defaults,
so config-backed timeout overrides never worked for it
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@nousresearch.com>
Both fixes close process leaks observed in production (18+ orphaned
agent-browser node daemons, 15+ orphaned paste.rs sleep interpreters
accumulated over ~3 days, ~2.7 GB RSS).
## agent-browser daemon leak
Previously the orphan reaper (_reap_orphaned_browser_sessions) only ran
from _start_browser_cleanup_thread, which is only invoked on the first
browser tool call in a process. Hermes sessions that never used the
browser never swept orphans, and the cross-process orphan detection
relied on in-process _active_sessions, which doesn't see other hermes
PIDs' sessions (race risk).
- Write <session>.owner_pid alongside the socket dir recording the
hermes PID that owns the daemon (extracted into _write_owner_pid for
direct testability).
- Reaper prefers owner_pid liveness over in-process _active_sessions.
Cross-process safe: concurrent hermes instances won't reap each
other's daemons. Legacy tracked_names fallback kept for daemons
that predate owner_pid.
- atexit handler (_emergency_cleanup_all_sessions) now always runs
the reaper, not just when this process had active sessions —
every clean hermes exit sweeps accumulated orphans.
## paste.rs auto-delete leak
_schedule_auto_delete spawned a detached Python subprocess per call
that slept 6 hours then issued DELETE requests. No dedup, no tracking —
every 'hermes debug share' invocation added ~20 MB of resident Python
interpreters that stuck around until the sleep finished.
- Replaced the spawn with ~/.hermes/pastes/pending.json: records
{url, expire_at} entries.
- _sweep_expired_pastes() synchronously DELETEs past-due entries on
every 'hermes debug' invocation (run_debug() dispatcher).
- Network failures stay in pending.json for up to 24h, then give up
(paste.rs's own retention handles the 'user never runs hermes again'
edge case).
- Zero subprocesses; regression test asserts subprocess/Popen/time.sleep
never appear in the function source (skipping docstrings via AST).
## Validation
| | Before | After |
|------------------------------|---------------|--------------|
| Orphan agent-browser daemons | 18 accumulated| 2 (live) |
| paste.rs sleep interpreters | 15 accumulated| 0 |
| RSS reclaimed | - | ~2.7 GB |
| Targeted tests | - | 2253 pass |
E2E verified: alive-owner daemons NOT reaped; dead-owner daemons
SIGTERM'd and socket dirs cleaned; pending.json sweep deletes expired
entries without spawning subprocesses.
Google-side 429 Code Assist errors now flow through Hermes' normal rate-limit
path (status_code on the exception, Retry-After preserved via error.response)
instead of being opaque RuntimeErrors. User sees a one-line capacity message
instead of a 500-char JSON dump.
Changes
- CodeAssistError grows status_code / response / retry_after / details attrs.
_extract_status_code in error_classifier picks up status_code and classifies
429 as FailoverReason.rate_limit, so fallback_providers triggers the same
way it does for SDK errors. run_agent.py line ~10428 already walks
error.response.headers for Retry-After — preserving the response means that
path just works.
- _gemini_http_error parses the Google error envelope (error.status +
error.details[].reason from google.rpc.ErrorInfo, retryDelay from
google.rpc.RetryInfo). MODEL_CAPACITY_EXHAUSTED / RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED / 404
model-not-found each produce a human-readable message; unknown shapes fall
back to the previous raw-body format.
- Drop gemma-4-26b-it from hermes_cli/models.py, hermes_cli/setup.py, and
agent/model_metadata.py — Google returned 404 for it today in local repro.
Kept gemma-4-31b-it (capacity-constrained but not retired).
Validation
| | Before | After |
|---------------------------|--------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| Error message | 'Code Assist returned HTTP 429: {500 chars JSON}' | 'Gemini capacity exhausted for gemini-2.5-pro (Google-side throttle...)' |
| status_code on error | None (opaque RuntimeError) | 429 |
| Classifier reason | unknown (string-match fallback) | FailoverReason.rate_limit |
| Retry-After honored | ignored | extracted from RetryInfo or header |
| gemma-4-26b-it picker | advertised (404s on Google) | removed |
Unit + E2E tests cover non-streaming 429, streaming 429, 404 model-not-found,
Retry-After header fallback, malformed body, and classifier integration.
Targeted suites: tests/agent/test_gemini_cloudcode.py (81 tests), full
tests/hermes_cli (2203 tests) green.
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@nousresearch.com>
Cuts shard-3 local runtime in half by neutralizing real wall-clock
waits across three classes of slow test:
## 1. Retry backoff mocks
- tests/run_agent/conftest.py (NEW): autouse fixture mocks
jittered_backoff to 0.0 so the `while time.time() < sleep_end`
busy-loop exits immediately. No global time.sleep mock (would
break threading tests).
- test_anthropic_error_handling, test_413_compression,
test_run_agent_codex_responses, test_fallback_model: per-file
fixtures mock time.sleep / asyncio.sleep for retry / compression
paths.
- test_retaindb_plugin: cap the retaindb module's bound time.sleep
to 0.05s via a per-test shim (background writer-thread retries
sleep 2s after errors; tests don't care about exact duration).
Plus replace arbitrary time.sleep(N) waits with short polling
loops bounded by deadline.
## 2. Subprocess sleeps in production code
- test_update_gateway_restart: mock time.sleep. Production code
does time.sleep(3) after `systemctl restart` to verify the
service survived. Tests mock subprocess.run \u2014 nothing actually
restarts \u2014 so the wait is dead time.
## 3. Network / IMDS timeouts (biggest single win)
- tests/conftest.py: add AWS_EC2_METADATA_DISABLED=true plus
AWS_METADATA_SERVICE_TIMEOUT=1 and ATTEMPTS=1. boto3 falls back
to IMDS (169.254.169.254) when no AWS creds are set. Any test
hitting has_aws_credentials() / resolve_aws_auth_env_var() (e.g.
test_status, test_setup_copilot_acp, anything that touches
provider auto-detect) burned ~2-4s waiting for that to time out.
- test_exit_cleanup_interrupt: explicitly mock
resolve_runtime_provider which was doing real network auto-detect
(~4s). Tests don't care about provider resolution \u2014 the agent
is already mocked.
- test_timezone: collapse the 3-test "TZ env in subprocess" suite
into 2 tests by checking both injection AND no-leak in the same
subprocess spawn (was 3 \u00d7 3.2s, now 2 \u00d7 4s).
## Validation
| Test | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| test_anthropic_error_handling (8 tests) | ~80s | ~15s |
| test_413_compression (14 tests) | ~18s | 2.3s |
| test_retaindb_plugin (67 tests) | ~13s | 1.3s |
| test_status_includes_tavily_key | 4.0s | 0.05s |
| test_setup_copilot_acp_skips_same_provider_pool_step | 8.0s | 0.26s |
| test_update_gateway_restart (5 tests) | ~18s total | ~0.35s total |
| test_exit_cleanup_interrupt (2 tests) | 8s | 1.5s |
| **Matrix shard 3 local** | **108s** | **50s** |
No behavioral contract changed \u2014 tests still verify retry happens,
service restart logic runs, etc.; they just don't burn real seconds
waiting for it.
Supersedes PR #11779 (those changes are included here).
Adds NVIDIA NIM as a first-class provider: ProviderConfig in
auth.py, HermesOverlay in providers.py, curated models
(Nemotron plus other open source models hosted on
build.nvidia.com), URL mapping in model_metadata.py, aliases
(nim, nvidia-nim, build-nvidia, nemotron), and env var tests.
Docs updated: providers page, quickstart table, fallback
providers table, and README provider list.
* fix(tests): make AIAgent constructor calls self-contained (no env leakage)
Tests in tests/run_agent/ were constructing AIAgent() without passing
both api_key and base_url, then relying on leaked state from other
tests in the same xdist worker (or process-level env vars) to keep
provider resolution happy. Under hermetic conftest + pytest-split,
that state is gone and the tests fail with 'No LLM provider configured'.
Fix: pass both api_key and base_url explicitly on 47 AIAgent()
construction sites across 13 files. AIAgent.__init__ with both set
takes the direct-construction path (line 960 in run_agent.py) and
skips the resolver entirely.
One call site (test_none_base_url_passed_as_none) left alone — that
test asserts behavior for base_url=None specifically.
This is a prerequisite for any future matrix-split or stricter
isolation work, and lands cleanly on its own.
Validation:
- tests/run_agent/ full: 760 passed, 0 failed (local)
- Previously relied on cross-test pollution; now self-contained
* fix(tests): update opencode-go model order assertion to match kimi-k2.5-first
commit 78a74bb promoted kimi-k2.5 to first position in model suggestion
lists but didn't update this test, which has been failing on main since.
Reorder expected list to match the new canonical order.
Match the row-budget naming introduced in PR #11260 for the approval and
clarify panels: rename chrome_reserve=14 into reserved_below=6 (input
chrome below the panel) + panel_chrome=6 (this panel's borders, blanks,
and hint row) + min_visible=3 (floor on visible items). Same arithmetic
as before, but a reviewer reading both files now sees the same handle.
Compact-chrome mode is intentionally not adopted — that pattern fits the
"fixed mandatory content might overflow" shape of approval/clarify
(solved by truncating with a marker), whereas the picker's overflow is
already handled by the scrolling viewport.
The /model picker rendered every choice into a prompt_toolkit Window
with no max height. Providers with many models (e.g. Ollama Cloud's 36+)
overflowed the terminal, clipping the bottom border and the last items.
- Add HermesCLI._compute_model_picker_viewport() to slide a scroll
offset that keeps the cursor on screen, sized from the live terminal
rows minus chrome reserved for input/status/border.
- Render only the visible slice in _get_model_picker_display() and
persist the offset on _model_picker_state across redraws.
- Bind ESC (eager) to close the picker, matching the Cancel button.
- Cover the viewport math with 8 unit tests in
tests/hermes_cli/test_model_picker_viewport.py.
Follow-ups to the salvaged commits in this PR:
* gateway/config.py — strip trailing whitespace from youngDoo's diff
(line 315 had ~140 trailing spaces).
* hermes_cli/tools_config.py — replace `config.get("platform_toolsets", {})`
with `config.get("platform_toolsets") or {}`. Handles the case where the
YAML key is present but explicitly null (parses as None, previously
crashed with AttributeError on the next line's .get(platform)).
Cherry-picked from yyq4193's #9003 with attribution.
* tests/gateway/test_config.py — 4 new tests for TestGetConnectedPlatforms
covering DingTalk via extras, via env vars, disabled, and missing creds.
* tests/hermes_cli/test_tools_config.py — regression test for the null
platform_toolsets edge case.
* scripts/release.py — add kagura-agent, youngDoo, yyq4193 to AUTHOR_MAP.
Co-authored-by: yyq4193 <39405770+yyq4193@users.noreply.github.com>
* test: make test env hermetic; enforce CI parity via scripts/run_tests.sh
Fixes the recurring 'works locally, fails in CI' (and vice versa) class
of flakes by making tests hermetic and providing a canonical local runner
that matches CI's environment.
## Layer 1 — hermetic conftest.py (tests/conftest.py)
Autouse fixture now unsets every credential-shaped env var before every
test, so developer-local API keys can't leak into tests that assert
'auto-detect provider when key present'.
Pattern: unset any var ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _PASSWORD,
_CREDENTIALS, _ACCESS_KEY, _PRIVATE_KEY, etc. Plus an explicit list of
credential names that don't fit the suffix pattern (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
FAL_KEY, GH_TOKEN, etc.) and all the provider BASE_URL overrides that
change auto-detect behavior.
Also unsets HERMES_* behavioral vars (HERMES_YOLO_MODE, HERMES_QUIET,
HERMES_SESSION_*, etc.) that mutate agent behavior.
Also:
- Redirects HOME to a per-test tempdir (not just HERMES_HOME), so
code reading ~/.hermes/* directly can't touch the real dir.
- Pins TZ=UTC, LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_ALL=C.UTF-8, PYTHONHASHSEED=0 to
match CI's deterministic runtime.
The old _isolate_hermes_home fixture name is preserved as an alias so
any test that yields it explicitly still works.
## Layer 2 — scripts/run_tests.sh canonical runner
'Always use scripts/run_tests.sh, never call pytest directly' is the
new rule (documented in AGENTS.md). The script:
- Unsets all credential env vars (belt-and-suspenders for callers
who bypass conftest — e.g. IDE integrations)
- Pins TZ/LANG/PYTHONHASHSEED
- Uses -n 4 xdist workers (matches GHA ubuntu-latest; -n auto on
a 20-core workstation surfaces test-ordering flakes CI will never
see, causing the infamous 'passes in CI, fails locally' drift)
- Finds the venv in .venv, venv, or main checkout's venv
- Passes through arbitrary pytest args
Installs pytest-split on demand so the script can also be used to run
matrix-split subsets locally for debugging.
## Remove 3 module-level dotenv stubs that broke test isolation
tests/hermes_cli/test_{arcee,xiaomi,api_key}_provider.py each had a
module-level:
if 'dotenv' not in sys.modules:
fake_dotenv = types.ModuleType('dotenv')
fake_dotenv.load_dotenv = lambda *a, **kw: None
sys.modules['dotenv'] = fake_dotenv
This patches sys.modules['dotenv'] to a fake at import time with no
teardown. Under pytest-xdist LoadScheduling, whichever worker collected
one of these files first poisoned its sys.modules; subsequent tests in
the same worker that imported load_dotenv transitively (e.g.
test_env_loader.py via hermes_cli.env_loader) got the no-op lambda and
saw their assertions fail.
dotenv is a required dependency (python-dotenv>=1.2.1 in pyproject.toml),
so the defensive stub was never needed. Removed.
## Validation
- tests/hermes_cli/ alone: 2178 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed (was 4
failures in test_env_loader.py before this fix)
- tests/test_plugin_skills.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py,
tests/test_hermes_logging.py combined: 123 passed (the caplog
regression tests from PR #11453 still pass)
- Local full run shows no F/E clusters in the 0-55% range that were
previously present before the conftest hardening
## Background
See AGENTS.md 'Testing' section for the full list of drift sources
this closes. Matrix split (closed as #11566) will be re-attempted
once this foundation lands — cross-test pollution was the root cause
of the shard-3 hang in that PR.
* fix(conftest): don't redirect HOME — it broke CI subprocesses
PR #11577's autouse fixture was setting HOME to a per-test tempdir.
CI started timing out at 97% complete with dozens of E/F markers and
orphan python processes at cleanup — tests (or transitive deps)
spawn subprocesses that expect a stable HOME, and the redirect broke
them in non-obvious ways.
Env-var unsetting and TZ/LANG/hashseed pinning (the actual CI-drift
fixes) are unchanged and still in place. HERMES_HOME redirection is
also unchanged — that's the canonical way to isolate tests from
~/.hermes/, not HOME.
Any code in the codebase reading ~/.hermes/* via `Path.home() / ".hermes"`
instead of `get_hermes_home()` is a bug to fix at the callsite, not
something to paper over in conftest.
Adds 15 regression tests for hermes_cli/dingtalk_auth.py covering:
* _api_post — network error mapping, errcode-nonzero mapping, success path
* begin_registration — 2-step chain, missing-nonce/device_code/uri
error cases
* wait_for_registration_success — success path, missing-creds guard,
on_waiting callback invocation
* render_qr_to_terminal — returns False when qrcode missing, prints
when available
* Configuration — BASE_URL default + override, SOURCE default
Also adds a one-line disclosure in dingtalk_qr_auth() telling users
the scan page will be OpenClaw-branded. Interim measure: DingTalk's
registration portal is hardcoded to route all sources to /openapp/
registration/openClaw, so users see OpenClaw branding regardless of
what 'source' value we send. We keep 'openClaw' as the source token
until DingTalk-Real-AI registers a Hermes-specific template.
Also adds meng93 to scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP.
The Copilot API returns HTTP 400 "model_not_supported" when it receives a
model ID it doesn't recognize (vendor-prefixed like
`anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6` or dash-notation like `claude-sonnet-4-6`).
Two bugs combined to leave both formats unhandled:
1. `_COPILOT_MODEL_ALIASES` in hermes_cli/models.py only covered bare
dot-notation and vendor-prefixed dot-notation. Hermes' default Claude
IDs elsewhere use hyphens (anthropic native format), and users with an
aggregator-style config who switch `model.provider` to `copilot`
inherit `anthropic/claude-X-4.6` — neither case was in the table.
2. The Copilot branch of `normalize_model_for_provider()` only stripped
the vendor prefix when it matched the target provider (`copilot/`) or
was the special-cased `openai/` for openai-codex. Every other vendor
prefix survived to the Copilot request unchanged.
Fix:
- Add dash-notation aliases (`claude-{opus,sonnet,haiku}-4-{5,6}` and the
`anthropic/`-prefixed variants) to the alias table.
- Rewire the Copilot / Copilot-ACP branch of
`normalize_model_for_provider()` to delegate to the existing
`normalize_copilot_model_id()`. That function already does alias
lookups, catalog-aware resolution, and vendor-prefix fallback — it was
being bypassed for the generic normalisation entry point.
Because `switch_model()` already calls `normalize_model_for_provider()`
for every `/model` switch (line 685 in model_switch.py), this single fix
covers the CLI startup path (cli.py), the `/model` slash command path,
and the gateway load-from-config path.
Closes#6879
Credits dsr-restyn (#6743) who independently diagnosed the dash-notation
case; their aliases are folded into this consolidated fix alongside the
vendor-prefix stripping repair.
* feat(skills): add 'hermes skills reset' to un-stick bundled skills
When a user edits a bundled skill, sync flags it as user_modified and
skips it forever. The problem: if the user later tries to undo the edit
by copying the current bundled version back into ~/.hermes/skills/, the
manifest still holds the old origin hash from the last successful
sync, so the fresh bundled hash still doesn't match and the skill stays
stuck as user_modified.
Adds an escape hatch for this case.
hermes skills reset <name>
Drops the skill's entry from ~/.hermes/skills/.bundled_manifest and
re-baselines against the user's current copy. Future 'hermes update'
runs accept upstream changes again. Non-destructive.
hermes skills reset <name> --restore
Also deletes the user's copy and re-copies the bundled version.
Use when you want the pristine upstream skill back.
Also available as /skills reset in chat.
- tools/skills_sync.py: new reset_bundled_skill(name, restore=False)
- hermes_cli/skills_hub.py: do_reset() + wired into skills_command and
handle_skills_slash; added to the slash /skills help panel
- hermes_cli/main.py: argparse entry for 'hermes skills reset'
- tests/tools/test_skills_sync.py: 5 new tests covering the stuck-flag
repro, --restore, unknown-skill error, upstream-removed-skill, and
no-op on already-clean state
- website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md: new 'Bundled skill updates'
section explaining the origin-hash mechanic + reset usage
* fix(auth): codex auth remove no longer silently undone by auto-import
'hermes auth remove openai-codex' appeared to succeed but the credential
reappeared on the next command. Two compounding bugs:
1. _seed_from_singletons() for openai-codex unconditionally re-imports
tokens from ~/.codex/auth.json whenever the Hermes auth store is
empty (by design — the Codex CLI and Hermes share that file). There
was no suppression check, unlike the claude_code seed path.
2. auth_remove_command's cleanup branch only matched
removed.source == 'device_code' exactly. Entries added via
'hermes auth add openai-codex' have source 'manual:device_code', so
for those the Hermes auth store's providers['openai-codex'] state was
never cleared on remove — the next load_pool() re-seeded straight
from there.
Net effect: there was no way to make a codex removal stick short of
manually editing both ~/.hermes/auth.json and ~/.codex/auth.json before
opening Hermes again.
Fix:
- Add unsuppress_credential_source() helper (mirrors
suppress_credential_source()).
- Gate the openai-codex branch in _seed_from_singletons() with
is_source_suppressed(), matching the claude_code pattern.
- Broaden auth_remove_command's codex match to handle both
'device_code' and 'manual:device_code' (via endswith check), always
call suppress_credential_source(), and print guidance about the
unchanged ~/.codex/auth.json file.
- Clear the suppression marker in auth_add_command's openai-codex
branch so re-linking via 'hermes auth add openai-codex' works.
~/.codex/auth.json is left untouched — that's the Codex CLI's own
credential store, not ours to delete.
Tests cover: unsuppress helper behavior, remove of both source
variants, add clears suppression, seed respects suppression. E2E
verified: remove → load → add → load flow now behaves correctly.
First pass of test-suite reduction to address flaky CI and bloat.
Removed tests that fall into these change-detector patterns:
1. Source-grep tests (tests/gateway/test_feishu.py, test_email.py): tests
that call inspect.getsource() on production modules and grep for string
literals. Break on any refactor/rename even when behavior is correct.
2. Platform enum tautologies (every gateway/test_X.py): assertions like
`Platform.X.value == 'x'` duplicated across ~9 adapter test files.
3. Toolset/PLATFORM_HINTS/setup-wizard registry-presence checks: tests that
only verify a key exists in a dict. Data-layout tests, not behavior.
4. Argparse wiring tests (test_argparse_flag_propagation, test_subparser_routing
_fallback): tests that do parser.parse_args([...]) then assert args.field.
Tests Python's argparse, not our code.
5. Pure dispatch tests (test_plugins_cmd.TestPluginsCommandDispatch): patch
cmd_X, call plugins_command with matching action, assert mock called.
Tests the if/elif chain, not behavior.
6. Kwarg-to-mock verification (test_auxiliary_client ~45 tests,
test_web_tools_config, test_gemini_cloudcode, test_retaindb_plugin): tests
that mock the external API client, call our function, and assert exact
kwargs. Break on refactor even when behavior is preserved.
7. Schedule-internal "function-was-called" tests (acp/test_server scheduling
tests): tests that patch own helper method, then assert it was called.
Kept behavioral tests throughout: error paths (pytest.raises), security
tests (path traversal, SSRF, redaction), message alternation invariants,
provider API format conversion, streaming logic, memory contract, real
config load/merge tests.
Net reduction: 169 tests removed. 38 empty classes cleaned up.
Collected before: 12,522 tests
Collected after: 12,353 tests
* feat(skills): add 'hermes skills reset' to un-stick bundled skills
When a user edits a bundled skill, sync flags it as user_modified and
skips it forever. The problem: if the user later tries to undo the edit
by copying the current bundled version back into ~/.hermes/skills/, the
manifest still holds the old origin hash from the last successful
sync, so the fresh bundled hash still doesn't match and the skill stays
stuck as user_modified.
Adds an escape hatch for this case.
hermes skills reset <name>
Drops the skill's entry from ~/.hermes/skills/.bundled_manifest and
re-baselines against the user's current copy. Future 'hermes update'
runs accept upstream changes again. Non-destructive.
hermes skills reset <name> --restore
Also deletes the user's copy and re-copies the bundled version.
Use when you want the pristine upstream skill back.
Also available as /skills reset in chat.
- tools/skills_sync.py: new reset_bundled_skill(name, restore=False)
- hermes_cli/skills_hub.py: do_reset() + wired into skills_command and
handle_skills_slash; added to the slash /skills help panel
- hermes_cli/main.py: argparse entry for 'hermes skills reset'
- tests/tools/test_skills_sync.py: 5 new tests covering the stuck-flag
repro, --restore, unknown-skill error, upstream-removed-skill, and
no-op on already-clean state
- website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md: new 'Bundled skill updates'
section explaining the origin-hash mechanic + reset usage
* fix(nous): respect 'Skip (keep current)' after OAuth login
When a user already set up on another provider (e.g. OpenRouter) runs
`hermes model` and picks Nous Portal, OAuth succeeds and then a model
picker is shown. If the user picks 'Skip (keep current)', the previous
provider + model should be preserved.
Previously, \_update_config_for_provider was called unconditionally after
login, which flipped config.yaml model.provider to 'nous' while keeping
the old model.default (e.g. anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 from OpenRouter),
leaving the user with a mismatched provider/model pair on the next
request.
Fix: snapshot the prior active_provider before login, and if no model is
selected (Skip, or no models available, or fetch failure), restore the
prior active_provider and leave config.yaml untouched. The Nous OAuth
tokens stay saved so future `hermes model` -> Nous works without
re-authenticating.
Test plan:
- New tests cover Skip path (preserves provider+model, saves creds),
pick-a-model path (switches to nous), and fresh-install Skip path
(active_provider cleared, not stuck as 'nous').
Three tests in tests/test_plugin_skills.py and tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py
used caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING) without specifying a logger. When another
test earlier in the same xdist worker touched propagation on tools.skills_tool
or hermes_cli.plugins, caplog would miss the warning and the assertion would
fail intermittently in CI.
These three tests accounted for 15 of the last ~30 Tests workflow failures
(5 each), including the recent main failure on commit 436a7359 (PR #11398).
Fix: pass logger="tools.skills_tool" / logger="hermes_cli.plugins" to
caplog.at_level() so the handler attaches directly to the logger under test
and capture is independent of global propagation state.
Affected tests:
- tests/test_plugin_skills.py::TestSkillViewPluginGuards::test_injection_logged_but_served
- tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py::TestPluginCommands::test_register_command_empty_name_rejected
- tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py::TestPluginCommands::test_register_command_builtin_conflict_rejected
No production code change. Verified passing under xdist (-n 4) alongside
test_hermes_logging.py (the test most likely to poison the logger state).
* feat(mcp-oauth): scaffold MCPOAuthManager
Central manager for per-server MCP OAuth state. Provides
get_or_build_provider (cached), remove (evicts cache + deletes
disk), invalidate_if_disk_changed (mtime watch, core fix for
external-refresh workflow), and handle_401 (dedup'd recovery).
No behavior change yet — existing call sites still use
build_oauth_auth directly. Task 1 of 8 in the MCP OAuth
consolidation (fixes Cthulhu's BetterStack reliability issues).
* feat(mcp-oauth): add HermesMCPOAuthProvider with pre-flow disk watch
Subclasses the MCP SDK's OAuthClientProvider to inject a disk
mtime check before every async_auth_flow, via the central
manager. When a subclass instance is used, external token
refreshes (cron, another CLI instance) are picked up before
the next API call.
Still dead code: the manager's _build_provider still delegates
to build_oauth_auth and returns the plain OAuthClientProvider.
Task 4 wires this subclass in. Task 2 of 8.
* refactor(mcp-oauth): extract build_oauth_auth helpers
Decomposes build_oauth_auth into _configure_callback_port,
_build_client_metadata, _maybe_preregister_client, and
_parse_base_url. Public API preserved. These helpers let
MCPOAuthManager._build_provider reuse the same logic in Task 4
instead of duplicating the construction dance.
Also updates the SDK version hint in the warning from 1.10.0 to
1.26.0 (which is what we actually require for the OAuth types
used here). Task 3 of 8.
* feat(mcp-oauth): manager now builds HermesMCPOAuthProvider directly
_build_provider constructs the disk-watching subclass using the
helpers from Task 3, instead of delegating to the plain
build_oauth_auth factory. Any consumer using the manager now gets
pre-flow disk-freshness checks automatically.
build_oauth_auth is preserved as the public API for backwards
compatibility. The code path is now:
MCPOAuthManager.get_or_build_provider ->
_build_provider ->
_configure_callback_port
_build_client_metadata
_maybe_preregister_client
_parse_base_url
HermesMCPOAuthProvider(...)
Task 4 of 8.
* feat(mcp): wire OAuth manager + add _reconnect_event
MCPServerTask gains _reconnect_event alongside _shutdown_event.
When set, _run_http / _run_stdio exit their async-with blocks
cleanly (no exception), and the outer run() loop re-enters the
transport to rebuild the MCP session with fresh credentials.
This is the recovery path for OAuth failures that the SDK's
in-place httpx.Auth cannot handle (e.g. cron externally consumed
the refresh_token, or server-side session invalidation).
_run_http now asks MCPOAuthManager for the OAuth provider
instead of calling build_oauth_auth directly. Config-time,
runtime, and reconnect paths all share one provider instance
with pre-flow disk-watch active.
shutdown() defensively sets both events so there is no race
between reconnect and shutdown signalling.
Task 5 of 8.
* feat(mcp): detect auth failures in tool handlers, trigger reconnect
All 5 MCP tool handlers (tool call, list_resources, read_resource,
list_prompts, get_prompt) now detect auth failures and route
through MCPOAuthManager.handle_401:
1. If the manager says recovery is viable (disk has fresh tokens,
or SDK can refresh in-place), signal MCPServerTask._reconnect_event
to tear down and rebuild the MCP session with fresh credentials,
then retry the tool call once.
2. If no recovery path exists, return a structured needs_reauth
JSON error so the model stops hallucinating manual refresh
attempts (the 'let me curl the token endpoint' loop Cthulhu
pasted from Discord).
_is_auth_error catches OAuthFlowError, OAuthTokenError,
OAuthNonInteractiveError, and httpx.HTTPStatusError(401). Non-auth
exceptions still surface via the generic error path unchanged.
Task 6 of 8.
* feat(mcp-cli): route add/remove through manager, add 'hermes mcp login'
cmd_mcp_add and cmd_mcp_remove now go through MCPOAuthManager
instead of calling build_oauth_auth / remove_oauth_tokens
directly. This means CLI config-time state and runtime MCP
session state are backed by the same provider cache — removing
a server evicts the live provider, adding a server populates
the same cache the MCP session will read from.
New 'hermes mcp login <name>' command:
- Wipes both the on-disk tokens file and the in-memory
MCPOAuthManager cache
- Triggers a fresh OAuth browser flow via the existing probe
path
- Intended target for the needs_reauth error Task 6 returns
to the model
Task 7 of 8.
* test(mcp-oauth): end-to-end integration tests
Five new tests exercising the full consolidation with real file
I/O and real imports (no transport mocks):
1. external_refresh_picked_up_without_restart — Cthulhu's cron
workflow. External process writes fresh tokens to disk;
on the next auth flow the manager's mtime-watch flips
_initialized and the SDK re-reads from storage.
2. handle_401_deduplicates_concurrent_callers — 10 concurrent
handlers for the same failed token fire exactly ONE recovery
attempt (thundering-herd protection).
3. handle_401_returns_false_when_no_provider — defensive path
for unknown servers.
4. invalidate_if_disk_changed_handles_missing_file — pre-auth
state returns False cleanly.
5. provider_is_reused_across_reconnects — cache stickiness so
reconnects preserve the disk-watch baseline mtime.
Task 8 of 8 — consolidation complete.
* docs: fix ascii-guard border alignment errors
Three docs pages had ASCII diagram boxes with off-by-one column
alignment issues that failed docs-site-checks CI:
- architecture.md: outer box is 71 cols but inner-box content lines
and border corners were offset by 1 col, making content-line right
border at col 70/72 while top/bottom border was at col 71. Inner
boxes also had border corners at cols 19/36/53 but content pipes
at cols 20/37/54. Rewrote the diagram with consistent 71-col width
throughout, aligned inner boxes at cols 4-19, 22-37, 40-55 with
2-space gaps and 15-space trailing padding.
- gateway-internals.md: same class of issue — outer box at 51 cols,
inner content lines varied 52-54 cols. Rewrote with consistent
51-col width, inner boxes at cols 4-15, 18-29, 32-43. Also
restructured the bottom-half message flow so it's bare text
(not half-open box cells) matching the intent of the original.
- agent-loop.md line 112-114: box 2 (API thread) content lines had
one extra space pushing the right border to col 46 while the top
and bottom borders of that box sat at col 45. Trimmed one trailing
space from each of the three content lines.
All 123 docs files now pass `npm run lint:diagrams`:
✓ Errors: 0 (warnings: 6, non-fatal)
Pre-existing failures on main — unrelated to any open PR.
* test(setup): accept description kwarg in prompt_choice mock lambdas
setup.py's `_curses_prompt_choice` gained an optional `description`
parameter (used for rendering context hints alongside the prompt).
`prompt_choice` forwards it via keyword arg. The two existing tests
mocked `_curses_prompt_choice` with lambdas that didn't accept the
new kwarg, so the forwarded call raised TypeError.
Fix: add `description=None` to both mock lambda signatures so they
absorb the new kwarg without changing behavior.
* test(matrix): update stale audio-caching assertion
test_regular_audio_has_http_url asserted that non-voice audio
messages keep their HTTP URL and are NOT downloaded/cached. That
was true when the caching code only triggered on
`is_voice_message`. Since bec02f37 (encrypted-media caching
refactor), matrix.py caches all media locally — photos, audio,
video, documents — so downstream tools can read them as real
files via media_urls. This applies to regular audio too.
Renamed the test to `test_regular_audio_is_cached_locally`,
flipped the assertions accordingly, and documented the
intentional behavior change in the docstring. Other tests in
the file (voice-specific caching, message-type detection,
reply-to threading) continue to pass.
* test(413): allow multi-pass preflight compression
run_agent.py's preflight compression runs up to 3 passes in a loop
for very large sessions (each pass summarizes the middle N turns,
then re-checks tokens). The loop breaks when a pass returns a
message list no shorter than its input (can't compress further).
test_preflight_compresses_oversized_history used a static mock
return value that returned the same 2 messages regardless of input,
so the loop ran pass 1 (41 -> 2) and pass 2 (2 -> 2 -> break),
making call_count == 2. The assert_called_once() assertion was
strictly wrong under the multi-pass design.
The invariant the test actually cares about is: preflight ran, and
its first invocation received the full oversized history. Replaced
the count assertion with those two invariants.
* docs: drop '...' from gateway diagram, merge side-by-side boxes
ascii-guard 2.3.0 flagged two remaining issues after the initial fix
pass:
1. gateway-internals.md L33: the '...' suffix after inner box 3's
right border got parsed as 'extra characters after inner-box right
border'. Dropped the '...' — the surrounding prose already conveys
'and more platforms' without needing the visual hint.
2. agent-loop.md: ascii-guard can't cleanly parse two side-by-side
boxes of different heights (main thread 7 rows, API thread 5 rows).
Even equalizing heights didn't help — the linter treats the left
box's right border as the end of the diagram. Merged into a single
54-char-wide outer box with both threads labeled as regions inside,
keeping the ▶ arrow to preserve the main→API flow direction.
* feat(image_gen): multi-model FAL support with picker in hermes tools
Adds 8 FAL text-to-image models selectable via `hermes tools` →
Image Generation → (FAL.ai | Nous Subscription) → model picker.
Models supported:
- fal-ai/flux-2/klein/9b (new default, <1s, $0.006/MP)
- fal-ai/flux-2-pro (previous default, kept backward-compat upscaling)
- fal-ai/z-image/turbo (Tongyi-MAI, bilingual EN/CN)
- fal-ai/nano-banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
- fal-ai/gpt-image-1.5 (with quality tier: low/medium/high)
- fal-ai/ideogram/v3 (best typography)
- fal-ai/recraft-v3 (vector, brand styles)
- fal-ai/qwen-image (LLM-based)
Architecture:
- FAL_MODELS catalog declares per-model size family, defaults, supports
whitelist, and upscale flag. Three size families handled uniformly:
image_size_preset (flux family), aspect_ratio (nano-banana), and
gpt_literal (gpt-image-1.5).
- _build_fal_payload() translates unified inputs (prompt + aspect_ratio)
into model-specific payloads, merges defaults, applies caller overrides,
wires GPT quality_setting, then filters to the supports whitelist — so
models never receive rejected keys.
- IMAGEGEN_BACKENDS registry in tools_config prepares for future imagegen
providers (Replicate, Stability, etc.); each provider entry tags itself
with imagegen_backend: 'fal' to select the right catalog.
- Upscaler (Clarity) defaults off for new models (preserves <1s value
prop), on for flux-2-pro (backward-compat). Per-model via FAL_MODELS.
Config:
image_gen.model = fal-ai/flux-2/klein/9b (new)
image_gen.quality_setting = medium (new, GPT only)
image_gen.use_gateway = bool (existing)
Agent-facing schema unchanged (prompt + aspect_ratio only) — model
choice is a user-level config decision, not an agent-level arg.
Picker uses curses_radiolist (arrow keys, auto numbered-fallback on
non-TTY). Column-aligned: Model / Speed / Strengths / Price.
Docs: image-generation.md rewritten with the model table and picker
walkthrough. tools-reference, tool-gateway, overview updated to drop
the stale "FLUX 2 Pro" wording.
Tests: 42 new in tests/tools/test_image_generation.py covering catalog
integrity, all 3 size families, supports filter, default merging, GPT
quality wiring, model resolution fallback. 8 new in
tests/hermes_cli/test_tools_config.py for picker wiring (registry,
config writes, GPT quality follow-up prompt, corrupt-config repair).
* feat(image_gen): translate managed-gateway 4xx to actionable error
When the Nous Subscription managed FAL proxy rejects a model with 4xx
(likely portal-side allowlist miss or billing gate), surface a clear
message explaining:
1. The rejected model ID + HTTP status
2. Two remediation paths: set FAL_KEY for direct access, or
pick a different model via `hermes tools`
5xx, connection errors, and direct-FAL errors pass through unchanged
(those have different root causes and reasonable native messages).
Motivation: new FAL models added to this release (flux-2-klein-9b,
z-image-turbo, nano-banana, gpt-image-1.5, ideogram-v3, recraft-v3,
qwen-image) are untested against the Nous Portal proxy. If the portal
allowlists model IDs, users on Nous Subscription will hit cryptic
4xx errors without guidance on how to work around it.
Tests: 8 new cases covering status extraction across httpx/fal error
shapes and 4xx-vs-5xx-vs-ConnectionError translation policy.
Docs: brief note in image-generation.md for Nous subscribers.
Operator action (Nous Portal side): verify that fal-queue-gateway
passes through these 7 new FAL model IDs. If the proxy has an
allowlist, add them; otherwise Nous Subscription users will see the
new translated error and fall back to direct FAL.
* feat(image_gen): pin GPT-Image quality to medium (no user choice)
Previously the tools picker asked a follow-up question for GPT-Image
quality tier (low / medium / high) and persisted the answer to
`image_gen.quality_setting`. This created two problems:
1. Nous Portal billing complexity — the 22x cost spread between tiers
($0.009 low / $0.20 high) forces the gateway to meter per-tier per
user, which the portal team can't easily support at launch.
2. User footgun — anyone picking `high` by mistake burns through
credit ~6x faster than `medium`.
This commit pins quality at medium by baking it into FAL_MODELS
defaults for gpt-image-1.5 and removes all user-facing override paths:
- Removed `_resolve_gpt_quality()` runtime lookup
- Removed `honors_quality_setting` flag on the model entry
- Removed `_configure_gpt_quality_setting()` picker helper
- Removed `_GPT_QUALITY_CHOICES` constant
- Removed the follow-up prompt call in `_configure_imagegen_model()`
- Even if a user manually edits `image_gen.quality_setting` in
config.yaml, no code path reads it — always sends medium.
Tests:
- Replaced TestGptQualitySetting (6 tests) with TestGptQualityPinnedToMedium
(5 tests) — proves medium is baked in, config is ignored, flag is
removed, helper is removed, non-gpt models never get quality.
- Replaced test_picker_with_gpt_image_also_prompts_quality with
test_picker_with_gpt_image_does_not_prompt_quality — proves only 1
picker call fires when gpt-image is selected (no quality follow-up).
Docs updated: image-generation.md replaces the quality-tier table
with a short note explaining the pinning decision.
* docs(image_gen): drop stale 'wires GPT quality tier' line from internals section
Caught in a cleanup sweep after pinning quality to medium. The
"How It Works Internally" walkthrough still described the removed
quality-wiring step.
PR #4918 fixed the double-/v1 bug at fresh agent init by stripping the
trailing /v1 from OpenCode base URLs when api_mode is anthropic_messages
(so the Anthropic SDK's own /v1/messages doesn't land on /v1/v1/messages).
The same logic was missing from the /model mid-session switch path.
Repro: start a session on opencode-go with GLM-5 (or any chat_completions
model), then `/model minimax-m2.7`. switch_model() correctly sets
api_mode=anthropic_messages via opencode_model_api_mode(), but base_url
passes through as https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1. The Anthropic SDK then
POSTs to https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1/v1/messages, which returns the
OpenCode website 404 HTML page (title 'Not Found | opencode').
Same bug affects `/model claude-sonnet-4-6` on opencode-zen.
Verified upstream: POST /v1/messages returns clean JSON 401 with x-api-key
auth (route works), while POST /v1/v1/messages returns the exact HTML 404
users reported.
Fix mirrors runtime_provider.resolve_runtime_provider:
- hermes_cli/model_switch.py::switch_model() strips /v1 after the OpenCode
api_mode override when the resolved mode is anthropic_messages.
- run_agent.py::AIAgent.switch_model() applies the same strip as
defense-in-depth, so any direct caller can't reintroduce the double-/v1.
Tests: 9 new regression tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_model_switch_opencode_anthropic.py
covering minimax on opencode-go, claude on opencode-zen, chat_completions
(GLM/Kimi/Gemini) keeping /v1 intact, codex_responses (GPT) keeping /v1
intact, trailing-slash handling, and the agent-level defense-in-depth.
All 61 TUI-related tests green across 3 consecutive xdist runs.
tests/tui_gateway/test_protocol.py:
- rename `get_messages` → `get_messages_as_conversation` on mock DB (method
was renamed in the real backend, test was still stubbing the old name)
- update tool-message shape expectation: `{role, name, context}` matches
current `_history_to_messages` output, not the legacy `{role, text}`
tests/hermes_cli/test_tui_resume_flow.py:
- `cmd_chat` grew a first-run provider-gate that bailed to "Run: hermes
setup" before `_launch_tui` was ever reached; 3 tests stubbed
`_resolve_last_session` + `_launch_tui` but not the gate
- factored a `main_mod` fixture that stubs `_has_any_provider_configured`,
reused by all three tests
tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py:
- `test_config_set_personality_resets_history_and_returns_info` was flaky
under xdist because the real `_write_config_key` touches
`~/.hermes/config.yaml`, racing with any other worker that writes
config. Stub it in the test.
When the dashboard connects to a remote gateway via GATEWAY_HEALTH_URL,
display the URL instead of the remote PID (which is meaningless locally).
Falls back to PID display for local gateways as before.
- Backend: expose gateway_health_url in /api/status response
- Frontend: prefer gateway_health_url over PID in gatewayValue()
- Add truncate + title tooltip for long URLs that overflow the card
- Add min-w-0/overflow-hidden on status cards for proper truncation
- Tests: verify gateway_health_url in remote and no-URL scenarios
Replace the HERMES_ENABLE_NOUS_MANAGED_TOOLS env-var feature flag with
subscription-based detection. The Tool Gateway is now available to any
paid Nous subscriber without needing a hidden env var.
Core changes:
- managed_nous_tools_enabled() checks get_nous_auth_status() +
check_nous_free_tier() instead of an env var
- New use_gateway config flag per tool section (web, tts, browser,
image_gen) records explicit user opt-in and overrides direct API
keys at runtime
- New prefers_gateway(section) shared helper in tool_backend_helpers.py
used by all 4 tool runtimes (web, tts, image gen, browser)
UX flow:
- hermes model: after Nous login/model selection, shows a curses
prompt listing all gateway-eligible tools with current status.
User chooses to enable all, enable only unconfigured tools, or skip.
Defaults to Enable for new users, Skip when direct keys exist.
- hermes tools: provider selection now manages use_gateway flag —
selecting Nous Subscription sets it, selecting any other provider
clears it
- hermes status: renamed section to Nous Tool Gateway, added
free-tier upgrade nudge for logged-in free users
- curses_radiolist: new description parameter for multi-line context
that survives the screen clear
Runtime behavior:
- Each tool runtime (web_tools, tts_tool, image_generation_tool,
browser_use) checks prefers_gateway() before falling back to
direct env-var credentials
- get_nous_subscription_features() respects use_gateway flags,
suppressing direct credential detection when the user opted in
Removed:
- HERMES_ENABLE_NOUS_MANAGED_TOOLS env var and all references
- apply_nous_provider_defaults() silent TTS auto-set
- get_nous_subscription_explainer_lines() static text
- Override env var warnings (use_gateway handles this properly now)
provider_model_ids() and list_authenticated_providers() had no case for
"ollama-cloud", so the /model slash command showed 0 models despite
fetch_ollama_cloud_models() being fully implemented. The CLI subcommand
worked because it called fetch_ollama_cloud_models() directly.
- Add ollama-cloud case to provider_model_ids() in models.py
- Populate curated dict for ollama-cloud in list_authenticated_providers()
- Add tests for both code paths
config.yaml terminal.cwd is now the single source of truth for working
directory. MESSAGING_CWD and TERMINAL_CWD in .env are deprecated with a
migration warning.
Changes:
1. config.py: Remove MESSAGING_CWD from OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS (setup wizard
no longer prompts for it). Add warn_deprecated_cwd_env_vars() that
prints a migration hint when deprecated env vars are detected.
2. gateway/run.py: Replace all MESSAGING_CWD reads with TERMINAL_CWD
(which is bridged from config.yaml terminal.cwd). MESSAGING_CWD is
still accepted as a backward-compat fallback with deprecation warning.
Config bridge skips cwd placeholder values so they don't clobber
the resolved TERMINAL_CWD.
3. cli.py: Guard against lazy-import clobbering — when cli.py is
imported lazily during gateway runtime (via delegate_tool), don't
let load_cli_config() overwrite an already-resolved TERMINAL_CWD
with os.getcwd() of the service's working directory. (#10817)
4. hermes_cli/main.py: Add 'hermes memory reset' command with
--target all/memory/user and --yes flags. Profile-scoped via
HERMES_HOME.
Migration path for users with .env settings:
Remove MESSAGING_CWD / TERMINAL_CWD from .env
Add to config.yaml:
terminal:
cwd: /your/project/path
Addresses: #10225, #4672, #10817, #7663
display: null or display: <non-dict> in config.yaml crashed skin init
with AttributeError. Now falls back to default skin gracefully.
Cherry-picked from #10867 by @Bartok9. Consolidates #10876 by @cola-runner.
Co-authored-by: cola-runner <cola-runner@users.noreply.github.com>
Recomputes GitHub Copilot api_mode from the selected model in the
shared /model switch path. Before this change, Copilot could carry a
stale codex_responses mode forward from a GPT-5 selection into a later
Claude model switch, causing unsupported_api_for_model errors.
Cherry-picked from #10533 by @helix4u with:
- Comment specificity (Provider-specific → Copilot api_mode override)
- Fix pre-existing duplicate opencode-go in set literal
- Extract test mock helper to reduce duplication
- Add GPT-5 → GPT-5 regression test (keeps codex_responses)
Expands the plugin interface so slash command handlers can dispatch tool
calls through the registry with parent agent context wired up automatically.
This is the public API for plugins that need to orchestrate tools like
delegate_task — they call ctx.dispatch_tool() instead of reaching into
framework internals. The parent agent is resolved lazily from _cli_ref
when available (CLI mode) and omitted in gateway mode (tools degrade
gracefully).
Enables the hermes-deliver-plugin pattern where /deliver and /fanout
slash commands spawn subagents via delegate_task without touching the
agent conversation loop.
7 new tests covering: registry delegation, parent_agent injection from
cli_ref, gateway mode (no cli_ref), uninitialized agent, explicit
parent_agent override, kwargs forwarding, return value passthrough.
Salvaged from PR #10643 by kshitijk4poor, updated for current main.
Root causes fixed:
1. Telegram xdist mock pollution — new tests/gateway/conftest.py with shared
mock that runs at collection time (prevents ChatType=None caching)
2. VIRTUAL_ENV env var leak — monkeypatch.delenv in _detect_venv_dir tests
3. Copilot base_url missing — add fallback in _resolve_runtime_from_pool_entry
4. Stale vision model assertion — zai now uses glm-5v-turbo
5. Reasoning item id intentionally stripped — assert 'id' not in (store=False)
6. Context length warning unreachable — pass base_url to AIAgent in test
7. Kimi provider label updated — 'Kimi / Kimi Coding Plan' matches models.py
8. Google Workspace calendar tests — rewritten for current production code,
properly mock subprocess on api_module, removed stale +agenda assertions
9. Credential pool auto-seeding — mock _select_pool_entry / _resolve_auto /
_import_codex_cli_tokens to prevent real credentials from leaking into tests
Complete the half-built plugin slash command system. The dispatch
code in cli.py and gateway/run.py already called
get_plugin_command_handler() but the registration side was never
implemented.
Changes:
- Add register_command() to PluginContext — stores handler,
description, and plugin name; normalizes names; rejects conflicts
with built-in commands
- Add _plugin_commands dict to PluginManager
- Add commands_registered tracking on LoadedPlugin
- Add get_plugin_command_handler() and get_plugin_commands()
module-level convenience functions
- Fix commands.py to use actual plugin description in Telegram
bot menu (was hardcoded 'Plugin command')
- Add plugin commands to SlashCommandCompleter autocomplete
- Show command count in /plugins display
- 12 new tests covering registration, conflict detection,
normalization, handler dispatch, and introspection
Closes#10495
OpenCode Go does not expose a shared /models endpoint, so the doctor
probe was always failing and producing a false warning. Set the default
URL to None and disable the health check for this provider.
Both /queue and /quit registered 'q' as an alias. Since /quit appeared
later in COMMAND_REGISTRY, _build_command_lookup() silently overwrote
/queue's claim, making the documented /queue shorthand unusable.
Fix: remove 'q' from /quit's aliases. /quit already has 'exit' as an
alias plus the full '/quit' command. /queue has no other short alias.
Closes#10467
- Pastes uploaded by /debug now auto-delete after 1 hour via a detached
background process that sends DELETE to paste.rs
- CLI: shows privacy notice listing what data will be uploaded
- Gateway: only uploads summary report (system info + log tails), NOT
full log files containing conversation content
- Added 'hermes debug delete <url>' for immediate manual deletion
- 16 new tests covering auto-delete scheduling, paste deletion, privacy
notices, and the delete subcommand
Addresses user privacy concern where /debug uploaded full conversation
logs to a public paste service with no warning or expiry.
Expose skill usage in analytics so the dashboard and insights output can
show which skills the agent loads and manages over time.
This adds skill aggregation to the InsightsEngine by extracting
`skill_view` and `skill_manage` calls from assistant tool_calls,
computing per-skill totals, and including the results in both terminal
and gateway insights formatting. It also extends the dashboard analytics
API and Analytics page to render a Top Skills table.
Terminology is aligned with the skills docs:
- Agent Loaded = `skill_view` events
- Agent Managed = `skill_manage` actions
Architecture:
- agent/insights.py collects and aggregates per-skill usage
- hermes_cli/web_server.py exposes `skills` on `/api/analytics/usage`
- web/src/lib/api.ts adds analytics skill response types
- web/src/pages/AnalyticsPage.tsx renders the Top Skills table
- web/src/i18n/{en,zh}.ts updates user-facing labels
Tests:
- tests/agent/test_insights.py covers skill aggregation and formatting
- tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py covers analytics API contract
including the `skills` payload
- verified with `cd web && npm run build`
Files changed:
- agent/insights.py
- hermes_cli/web_server.py
- tests/agent/test_insights.py
- tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py
- web/src/i18n/en.ts
- web/src/i18n/types.ts
- web/src/i18n/zh.ts
- web/src/lib/api.ts
- web/src/pages/AnalyticsPage.tsx
hermes doctor now checks whether the ~/.local/bin/hermes symlink exists
and points to the correct venv entry point. With --fix, it creates or
repairs the symlink automatically.
Covers:
- Missing symlink at ~/.local/bin/hermes (or $PREFIX/bin on Termux)
- Symlink pointing to wrong target
- Missing venv entry point (venv/bin/hermes or .venv/bin/hermes)
- PATH warning when ~/.local/bin is not on PATH
- Skipped on Windows (different mechanism)
Addresses user report: 'python -m hermes_cli.main doesn't have an option
to fix the local bin/install'
10 new tests covering all scenarios.
On some Python versions, argparse fails to route subcommand tokens when
the parent parser has nargs='?' optional arguments (--continue). The
symptom: 'hermes model' produces 'unrecognized arguments: model' even
though 'model' is a registered subcommand.
Fix: when argv contains a token matching a known subcommand, set
subparsers.required=True to force deterministic routing. If that fails
(e.g. 'hermes -c model' where 'model' is consumed as the session name
for --continue), fall back to the default optional-subparsers behaviour.
Adds 13 tests covering all key argument combinations.
Reported via user screenshot showing the exact error on an installed
version with the model subcommand listed in usage but rejected at parse
time.
API keys containing Unicode lookalike characters (e.g. ʋ U+028B instead
of v) cause UnicodeEncodeError when httpx encodes the Authorization
header as ASCII. This commonly happens when users copy-paste keys from
PDFs, rich-text editors, or web pages with decorative fonts.
Three layers of defense:
1. **Save-time validation** (hermes_cli/config.py):
_check_non_ascii_credential() strips non-ASCII from credential values
when saving to .env, with a clear warning explaining the issue.
2. **Load-time sanitization** (hermes_cli/env_loader.py):
_sanitize_loaded_credentials() strips non-ASCII from credential env
vars (those ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY) after dotenv
loads them, so the rest of the codebase never sees non-ASCII keys.
3. **Runtime recovery** (run_agent.py):
The UnicodeEncodeError recovery block now also sanitizes self.api_key
and self._client_kwargs['api_key'], fixing the gap where message/tool
sanitization succeeded but the API key still caused httpx to fail on
the Authorization header.
Also: hermes_logging.py RotatingFileHandler now explicitly sets
encoding='utf-8' instead of relying on locale default (defensive
hardening for ASCII-locale systems).
Previously, systemd_restart() sent SIGUSR1 to the gateway, printed
'restart requested', and returned immediately. The gateway still
needed to drain active agents, exit with code 75, wait for systemd's
RestartSec=30, and start the new process. The user saw 'success' but
the gateway was actually down for 30-60 seconds.
Now the SIGUSR1 path blocks with progress feedback:
Phase 1 — wait for old process to die:
⏳ User service draining active work...
Polls os.kill(pid, 0) until ProcessLookupError (up to 90s)
Phase 2 — wait for new process to become active:
⏳ Waiting for hermes-gateway to restart...
Polls systemctl is-active + verifies new PID (up to 60s)
Success:
✓ User service restarted (PID 12345)
Timeout:
⚠ User service did not become active within 60s.
Check status: hermes gateway status
Check logs: journalctl --user -u hermes-gateway --since '2 min ago'
The reload-or-restart fallback path (line 1189) already blocks because
systemctl reload-or-restart is synchronous.
Test plan:
- Updated test to verify wait-for-restart behavior
- All 118 gateway CLI tests pass
Instead of consuming one top-level slash command slot per skill (hitting the
100-command limit with ~26 built-ins + 74 skills), skills are now organized
under a single /skill group command with category-based subcommand groups:
/skill creative ascii-art [args]
/skill media gif-search [args]
/skill mlops axolotl [args]
Discord supports 25 subcommand groups × 25 subcommands = 625 max skills,
well beyond the previous 74-slot ceiling.
Categories are derived from the skill directory structure:
- skills/creative/ascii-art/ → category 'creative'
- skills/mlops/training/axolotl/ → category 'mlops' (top-level parent)
- skills/dogfood/ → uncategorized (direct subcommand)
Changes:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: add discord_skill_commands_by_category() with
category grouping, hub/disabled filtering, Discord limit enforcement
- gateway/platforms/discord.py: replace top-level skill registration with
_register_skill_group() using app_commands.Group hierarchy
- tests: 7 new tests covering group creation, category grouping,
uncategorized skills, hub exclusion, deep nesting, empty skills,
and handler dispatch
Inspired by Discord community suggestion from bottium.
- TestHealthDetailedEndpoint: 3 tests for the new API server endpoint
(returns runtime data, handles missing status, no auth required)
- TestProbeGatewayHealth: 5 tests for _probe_gateway_health()
(URL normalization, successful/failed probes, fallback chain)
- TestStatusRemoteGateway: 4 tests for /api/status remote fallback
(remote probe triggers, skipped when local PID found, null PID handling)
Addresses responsible disclosure from FuzzMind Security Lab (CVE pending).
The web dashboard API server had 36 endpoints, of which only 5 checked
the session token. The token itself was served from an unauthenticated
GET /api/auth/session-token endpoint, rendering the protection circular.
When bound to 0.0.0.0 (--host flag), all API keys, config, and cron
management were accessible to any machine on the network.
Changes:
- Add auth middleware requiring session token on ALL /api/ routes except
a small public whitelist (status, config/defaults, config/schema,
model/info)
- Remove GET /api/auth/session-token endpoint entirely; inject the token
into index.html via a <script> tag at serve time instead
- Replace all inline token comparisons (!=) with hmac.compare_digest()
to prevent timing side-channel attacks
- Block non-localhost binding by default; require --insecure flag to
override (with warning log)
- Update frontend fetchJSON() to send Authorization header on all
requests using the injected window.__HERMES_SESSION_TOKEN__
Credit: Callum (@0xca1x) and @migraine-sudo at FuzzMind Security Lab
The dynamic parser walker from the contributor's commit lost the profile
name tab-completion that existed in the old static generators. This adds
it back for all three shells:
- Bash: _hermes_profiles() helper, -p/--profile completion, profile
action→name completion (use/delete/show/alias/rename/export)
- Zsh: _hermes_profiles() function, -p/--profile argument spec, profile
action case with name completion
- Fish: __hermes_profiles function, -s p -l profile flag, profile action
completions
Also removes the dead fallback path in cmd_completion() that imported
the old static generators from profiles.py (parser is always available
via the lambda wiring) and adds 11 regression-prevention tests for
profile completion.
Replaces the hardcoded completion stubs in profiles.py with a dynamic
generator that walks the live argparse parser tree at runtime.
- New hermes_cli/completion.py: _walk() recursively extracts all
subcommands and flags; generate_bash/zsh/fish() produce complete
scripts with nested subcommand support
- cmd_completion now accepts the parser via closure so completions
always reflect the actual registered commands (including plugin-
registered ones like honcho)
- completion subcommand now accepts bash | zsh | fish (fish requested
in issue comments)
- Fix _SUBCOMMANDS set: add honcho, claw, plugins, acp, webhook,
memory, dump, debug, backup, import, completion, logs so that
multi-word session names after -c/-r are not broken by these commands
- Add tests/hermes_cli/test_completion.py: 17 tests covering parser
extraction, alias deduplication, bash/zsh/fish output content,
bash syntax validation, fish syntax validation, and subcommand
drift prevention
Tested on Linux (Arch). bash and fish completion verified live.
zsh script passes syntax check (zsh not installed on test machine).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- test_auth_commands: suppress _seed_from_singletons auto-seeding that
adds extra credentials from CI env (same pattern as nearby tests)
- test_interrupt: clear stale _interrupted_threads set to prevent
thread ident reuse from prior tests in same xdist worker
- test_code_execution: add watch_patterns to _BLOCKED_TERMINAL_PARAMS
to match production _TERMINAL_BLOCKED_PARAMS
Production fixes:
- Add clear_session_context() to hermes_logging.py (fixes 48 teardown errors)
- Add clear_session() to tools/approval.py (fixes 9 setup errors)
- Add SyncError M_UNKNOWN_TOKEN check to Matrix _sync_loop (bug fix)
- Fall back to inline api_key in named custom providers when key_env
is absent (runtime_provider.py)
Test fixes:
- test_memory_user_id: use builtin+external provider pair, fix honcho
peer_name override test to match production behavior
- test_display_config: remove TestHelpers for non-existent functions
- test_auxiliary_client: fix OAuth tokens to match _is_oauth_token
patterns, replace get_vision_auxiliary_client with resolve_vision_provider_client
- test_cli_interrupt_subagent: add missing _execution_thread_id attr
- test_compress_focus: add model/provider/api_key/base_url/api_mode
to mock compressor
- test_auth_provider_gate: add autouse fixture to clean Anthropic env
vars that leak from CI secrets
- test_opencode_go_in_model_list: accept both 'built-in' and 'hermes'
source (models.dev API unavailable in CI)
- test_email: verify email Platform enum membership instead of source
inspection (build_channel_directory now uses dynamic enum loop)
- test_feishu: add bot_added/bot_deleted handler mocks to _Builder
- test_ws_auth_retry: add AsyncMock for sync_store.get_next_batch,
add _pending_megolm and _joined_rooms to Matrix adapter mocks
- test_restart_drain: monkeypatch-delete INVOCATION_ID (systemd sets
this in CI, changing the restart call signature)
- test_session_hygiene: add user_id to SessionSource
- test_session_env: use relative baseline for contextvar clear check
(pytest-xdist workers share context)
Add a second light-mode skin option with warm brown/parchment tones,
adapted from ygd58's contribution in PR #4811. Includes completion
menu and status bar color keys for full light-terminal support.
Co-authored-by: buray <78954051+ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(skills): add fitness-nutrition skill to optional-skills
Cherry-picked from PR #9177 by @haileymarshall.
Adds a fitness and nutrition skill for gym-goers and health-conscious users:
- Exercise search via wger API (690+ exercises, free, no auth)
- Nutrition lookup via USDA FoodData Central (380K+ foods, DEMO_KEY fallback)
- Offline body composition calculators (BMI, TDEE, 1RM, macros, body fat %)
- Pure stdlib Python, no pip dependencies
Changes from original PR:
- Moved from skills/ to optional-skills/health/ (correct location)
- Fixed BMR formula in FORMULAS.md (removed confusing -5+10, now just +5)
- Fixed author attribution to match PR submitter
- Marked USDA_API_KEY as optional (DEMO_KEY works without signup)
Also adds optional env var support to the skill readiness checker:
- New 'optional: true' field in required_environment_variables entries
- Optional vars are preserved in metadata but don't block skill readiness
- Optional vars skip the CLI capture prompt flow
- Skills with only optional missing vars show as 'available' not 'setup_needed'
* fix: auto-correct close model name matches in /model validation
When a user types a model name with a minor typo (e.g. gpt5.3-codex instead
of gpt-5.3-codex), the validation now auto-corrects to the closest match
instead of accepting the wrong name with a warning.
Uses difflib get_close_matches with cutoff=0.9 to avoid false corrections
(e.g. gpt-5.3 should not silently become gpt-5.4). Applied consistently
across all three validation paths: codex provider, custom endpoints, and
generic API-probed providers.
The validate_requested_model() return dict gains an optional corrected_model
key that switch_model() applies before building the result.
Reported by Discord user — /model gpt5.3-codex was accepted with a warning
but would fail at the API level.
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Co-authored-by: haileymarshall <haileymarshall@users.noreply.github.com>
Plugins can now return {"action": "block", "message": "reason"} from
their pre_tool_call hook to prevent a tool from executing. The error
message is returned to the model as a tool result so it can adjust.
Covers both execution paths: handle_function_call (model_tools.py) and
agent-level tools (run_agent.py _invoke_tool + sequential/concurrent).
Blocked tools skip all side effects (counter resets, checkpoints,
callbacks, read-loop tracker).
Adds skip_pre_tool_call_hook flag to avoid double-firing the hook when
run_agent.py already checked and then calls handle_function_call.
Salvaged from PR #5385 (gianfrancopiana) and PR #4610 (oredsecurity).
Adds Arcee AI as a standard direct provider (ARCEEAI_API_KEY) with
Trinity models: trinity-large-thinking, trinity-large-preview, trinity-mini.
Standard OpenAI-compatible provider checklist: auth.py, config.py,
models.py, main.py, providers.py, doctor.py, model_normalize.py,
model_metadata.py, setup.py, trajectory_compressor.py.
Based on PR #9274 by arthurbr11, simplified to a standard direct
provider without dual-endpoint OpenRouter routing.
The dashboard device-code flow (_nous_poller in web_server.py) saved
credentials to the credential pool only, while get_nous_auth_status()
only checked the auth store (auth.json). This caused the Keys tab to
show 'not connected' even when the backend was fully authenticated.
Two fixes:
1. get_nous_auth_status() now checks the credential pool first (like
get_codex_auth_status() already does), then falls back to the auth
store.
2. _nous_poller now also persists to the auth store after saving to
the credential pool, matching the CLI flow (_login_nous).
Adds 3 tests covering pool-only, auth-store-fallback, and empty-state
scenarios.
The v11→v12 migration converts custom_providers (list) into providers
(dict), then deletes the list. But all runtime resolvers read from
custom_providers — after migration, named custom endpoints silently stop
resolving and fallback chains fail with AuthError.
Add get_compatible_custom_providers() that reads from both config schemas
(legacy custom_providers list + v12+ providers dict), normalizes entries,
deduplicates, and returns a unified list. Update ALL consumers:
- hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py: _get_named_custom_provider() + key_env
- hermes_cli/auth_commands.py: credential pool provider names
- hermes_cli/main.py: model picker + _model_flow_named_custom()
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: key_env + custom_entry model fallback
- agent/credential_pool.py: _iter_custom_providers()
- cli.py + gateway/run.py: /model switch custom_providers passthrough
- run_agent.py + gateway/run.py: per-model context_length lookup
Also: use config.pop() instead of del for safer migration, fix stale
_config_version assertions in tests, add pool mock to codex test.
Co-authored-by: 墨綠BG <s5460703@gmail.com>
Closes#8776, salvaged from PR #8814
Two fixes for user-defined providers in config.yaml:
1. list_authenticated_providers() - now includes full models list from
providers.*.models array, not just default_model. This fixes /model
showing only one model when multiple are configured.
2. _get_named_custom_provider() - now checks providers: dict (new-style)
in addition to custom_providers: list (legacy). This fixes credential
resolution errors when switching models via /model command.
Both changes are backwards compatible with existing custom_providers list format.
Fixes: Only one model appears for custom providers in /model selection
These functions were duplicated between auth.py and copilot_auth.py.
The auth.py copies had zero production callers — only copilot_auth.py's
versions are used. Redirect the test import to the live copy and update
monkeypatch targets accordingly.
Remove the backward-compat code paths that read compression provider/model
settings from legacy config keys and env vars, which caused silent failures
when auto-detection resolved to incompatible backends.
What changed:
- Remove compression.summary_model, summary_provider, summary_base_url from
DEFAULT_CONFIG and cli.py defaults
- Remove backward-compat block in _resolve_task_provider_model() that read
from the legacy compression section
- Remove _get_auxiliary_provider() and _get_auxiliary_env_override() helper
functions (AUXILIARY_*/CONTEXT_* env var readers)
- Remove env var fallback chain for per-task overrides
- Update hermes config show to read from auxiliary.compression
- Add config migration (v16→17) that moves non-empty legacy values to
auxiliary.compression and strips the old keys
- Update example config and openclaw migration script
- Remove/update tests for deleted code paths
Compression model/provider is now configured exclusively via:
auxiliary.compression.provider / auxiliary.compression.model
Closes#8923
Three changes consolidated into the existing backup system:
1. Fix: hermes backup now uses sqlite3.Connection.backup() for .db files
instead of raw file copy. Raw copy of a WAL-mode database can produce
a corrupted backup — the backup() API handles this correctly.
2. hermes backup --quick: fast snapshot of just critical state files
(config.yaml, state.db, .env, auth.json, cron/jobs.json, etc.)
stored in ~/.hermes/state-snapshots/. Auto-prunes to 20 snapshots.
3. /snapshot slash command (alias /snap): in-session interface for
quick state snapshots. create/list/restore/prune subcommands.
Restore by ID or number. Powered by the same backup module.
No new modules — everything lives in hermes_cli/backup.py alongside
the existing full backup/import code.
No hooks in run_agent.py — purely on-demand, zero runtime overhead.
Closes the use case from PRs #8406 and #7813 with ~200 lines of new
logic instead of a 1090-line content-addressed storage engine.
- Move test file to tests/hermes_cli/ (consistent with test layout)
- Remove unused imports (os, pytest) from test file
- Update _sanitize_env_lines docstring: now used on read + write paths
The startup warning that Nous Research Hermes 3 & 4 models are not agentic
fired on any model whose name contained "hermes" anywhere, via a plain
substring check. That false-positived on unrelated local Modelfiles such
as `hermes-brain:qwen3-14b-ctx16k` — a tool-capable Qwen3 wrapper that
happens to live under a custom "hermes" tag namespace — making the warning
noise for legitimate setups.
Replace the substring check with a narrow regex anchored on `^`, `/`, or
`:` boundaries that only matches the real Hermes-3 / Hermes-4 chat family
(e.g. `NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B`, `hermes-4-405b`,
`openrouter/hermes3:70b`). Consolidate into a single helper
`is_nous_hermes_non_agentic()` in `hermes_cli.model_switch` so the CLI
and the canonical check don't drift, and route the duplicate inline site
in `cli.HermesCLI._print_warnings()` through the helper.
Add a parametrized test covering positive matches (real Hermes-3/-4
names) and a broad set of negatives (custom Modelfiles, Qwen/Claude/GPT,
older Nous-Hermes-2 families, bare "hermes", empty string, and the
"brain-hermes-3-impostor" boundary case).
* feat: web UI dashboard for managing Hermes Agent (salvage of #8204/#7621)
Adds an embedded web UI dashboard accessible via `hermes web`:
- Status page: agent version, active sessions, gateway status, connected platforms
- Config editor: schema-driven form with tabbed categories, import/export, reset
- API Keys page: set, clear, and view redacted values with category grouping
- Sessions, Skills, Cron, Logs, and Analytics pages
Backend:
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: FastAPI server with REST endpoints
- hermes_cli/config.py: reload_env() utility for hot-reloading .env
- hermes_cli/main.py: `hermes web` subcommand (--port, --host, --no-open)
- cli.py / commands.py: /reload slash command for .env hot-reload
- pyproject.toml: [web] optional dependency extra (fastapi + uvicorn)
- Both update paths (git + zip) auto-build web frontend when npm available
Frontend:
- Vite + React + TypeScript + Tailwind v4 SPA in web/
- shadcn/ui-style components, Nous design language
- Auto-refresh status page, toast notifications, masked password inputs
Security:
- Path traversal guard (resolve().is_relative_to()) on SPA file serving
- CORS localhost-only via allow_origin_regex
- Generic error messages (no internal leak), SessionDB handles closed properly
Tests: 47 tests covering reload_env, redact_key, API endpoints, schema
generation, path traversal, category merging, internal key stripping,
and full config round-trip.
Original work by @austinpickett (PR #1813), salvaged by @kshitijk4poor
(PR #7621 → #8204), re-salvaged onto current main with stale-branch
regressions removed.
* fix(web): clean up status page cards, always rebuild on `hermes web`
- Remove config version migration alert banner from status page
- Remove config version card (internal noise, not surfaced in TUI)
- Reorder status cards: Agent → Gateway → Active Sessions (3-col grid)
- `hermes web` now always rebuilds from source before serving,
preventing stale web_dist when editing frontend files
* feat(web): full-text search across session messages
- Add GET /api/sessions/search endpoint backed by FTS5
- Auto-append prefix wildcards so partial words match (e.g. 'nimb' → 'nimby')
- Debounced search (300ms) with spinner in the search icon slot
- Search results show FTS5 snippets with highlighted match delimiters
- Expanding a search hit auto-scrolls to the first matching message
- Matching messages get a warning ring + 'match' badge
- Inline term highlighting within Markdown (text, bold, italic, headings, lists)
- Clear button (x) on search input for quick reset
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Co-authored-by: emozilla <emozilla@nousresearch.com>
OpenCode Zen was in _DOT_TO_HYPHEN_PROVIDERS, causing all dotted model
names (minimax-m2.5-free, gpt-5.4, glm-5.1) to be mangled. The fix:
Layer 1 (model_normalize.py): Remove opencode-zen from the blanket
dot-to-hyphen set. Add an explicit block that preserves dots for
non-Claude models while keeping Claude hyphenated (Zen's Claude
endpoint uses anthropic_messages mode which expects hyphens).
Layer 2 (run_agent.py _anthropic_preserve_dots): Add opencode-zen and
zai to the provider allowlist. Broaden URL check from opencode.ai/zen/go
to opencode.ai/zen/ to cover both Go and Zen endpoints. Add bigmodel.cn
for ZAI URL detection.
Also adds glm-5.1 to ZAI model lists in models.py and setup.py.
Closes#7710
Salvaged from contributions by:
- konsisumer (PR #7739, #7719)
- DomGrieco (PR #8708)
- Esashiero (PR #7296)
- sharziki (PR #7497)
- XiaoYingGee (PR #8750)
- APTX4869-maker (PR #8752)
- kagura-agent (PR #7157)
* feat: add `hermes debug share` — upload debug report to pastebin
Adds a new `hermes debug share` command that collects system info
(via hermes dump), recent logs (agent.log, errors.log, gateway.log),
and uploads the combined report to a paste service (paste.rs primary,
dpaste.com fallback). Returns a shareable URL for support.
Options:
--lines N Number of log lines per file (default: 200)
--expire N Paste expiry in days (default: 7, dpaste.com only)
--local Print report locally without uploading
Files:
hermes_cli/debug.py - New module: paste upload + report collection
hermes_cli/main.py - Wire cmd_debug + argparse subparser
tests/hermes_cli/test_debug.py - 19 tests covering upload, collection, CLI
* feat: upload full agent.log and gateway.log as separate pastes
hermes debug share now uploads up to 3 pastes:
1. Summary report (system info + log tails) — always
2. Full agent.log (last ~500KB) — if file exists
3. Full gateway.log (last ~500KB) — if file exists
Each paste uploads independently; log upload failures are noted
but don't block the main report. Output shows all links aligned:
Report https://paste.rs/abc
agent.log https://paste.rs/def
gateway.log https://paste.rs/ghi
Also adds _read_full_log() with size-capped tail reading to stay
within paste service limits (~512KB per file).
* feat: prepend hermes dump to each log paste for self-contained context
Each paste (agent.log, gateway.log) now starts with the hermes dump
output so clicking any single link gives full system context without
needing to cross-reference the summary report.
Refactored dump capture into _capture_dump() — called once and
reused across the summary report and each log paste.
* fix: fall back to .1 rotated log when primary log is missing or empty
When gateway.log (or agent.log) doesn't exist or is empty, the debug
share now checks for the .1 rotation file. This is common — the
gateway rotates logs and the primary file may not exist yet.
Extracted _resolve_log_path() to centralize the fallback logic for
both _read_log_tail() and _read_full_log().
* chore: remove unused display_hermes_home import
Combines detection from both PRs into _detect_openclaw_processes():
- Cross-platform process scan (pgrep/tasklist/PowerShell) from PR #8102
- systemd service check from PR #8555
- Returns list[str] with details about what's found
Fixes in cleanup warning (from PR #8555):
- print_warning -> print_error/print_info (print_warning not in import chain)
- Added isatty() guard for non-interactive sessions
- Removed duplicate _check_openclaw_running() in favor of shared function
Updated all tests to match new API.
- Use PowerShell to inspect node.exe command lines on Windows,
since tasklist output does not include them.
- Also check for dedicated openclaw.exe/clawd.exe processes.
- Skip the interactive prompt in non-interactive sessions so the
preview-only behavior is preserved.
- Update tests accordingly.
Relates to #7907
Add _is_openclaw_running() and _warn_if_openclaw_running() to detect
OpenClaw processes (via pgrep/tasklist) before hermes claw migrate.
Warns the user that messaging platforms only allow one active session
per bot token, and lets them cancel or continue.
Fixes#7907
Centralize container detection in hermes_constants.is_container() with
process-lifetime caching, matching existing is_wsl()/is_termux() patterns.
Dedup _is_inside_container() in config.py to delegate to the new function.
Add _run_systemctl() wrapper that converts FileNotFoundError to RuntimeError
for defense-in-depth — all 10 bare subprocess.run(_systemctl_cmd(...)) call
sites now route through it.
Make supports_systemd_services() return False in containers and when
systemctl binary is absent (shutil.which check).
Add Docker-specific guidance in gateway_command() for install/uninstall/start
subcommands — exit 0 with helpful instructions instead of crashing.
Make 'hermes status' show 'Manager: docker (foreground)' and 'hermes dump'
show 'running (docker, pid N)' inside containers.
Fix setup_gateway() to use supports_systemd instead of _is_linux for all
systemd-related branches, and show Docker restart policy instructions in
containers.
Replace inline /.dockerenv check in voice_mode.py with is_container().
Fixes#7420
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
The backup validation checked for 'hermes_state.db' and 'memory_store.db'
as telltale markers of a valid Hermes backup zip. Neither name exists in a
real Hermes installation — the actual database file is 'state.db'
(hermes_state.py: DEFAULT_DB_PATH = get_hermes_home() / 'state.db').
A fresh Hermes installation produces:
~/.hermes/state.db (actual name)
~/.hermes/config.yaml
~/.hermes/.env
Because the marker set never matched 'state.db', a backup zip containing
only 'state.db' plus 'config.yaml' would fail validation with:
'zip does not appear to be a Hermes backup'
and the import would exit with sys.exit(1), silently rejecting a valid backup.
Fix: replace the wrong marker names with the correct filename.
Adds TestValidateBackupZip with three cases:
- state.db is accepted as a valid marker
- old wrong names (hermes_state.db, memory_store.db) alone are rejected
- config.yaml continues to pass (existing behaviour preserved)
Fresh profiles (created without --clone) now:
- Auto-seed a default SOUL.md immediately, so users have a file to
customize right away instead of discovering it only after first use
- Print a clear warning that the profile has no API keys and will
inherit from the shell environment unless configured separately
- Show the SOUL.md path for personality customization
Previously, fresh profiles started with no SOUL.md (only seeded on
first use via ensure_hermes_home), no mention of credential isolation,
and no guidance about customizing personality. Users reported confusion
about profiles using the wrong model/plan tokens and SOUL.md not
being read — both traced to operational gaps in the creation UX.
Closes#8093 (investigated: code correctly loads SOUL.md from profile
HERMES_HOME; issue was operational, not a code bug).
When /update runs via Telegram, hermes update --gateway is spawned inside
the gateway's systemd cgroup. The update process itself calls
systemctl restart hermes-gateway, which tears down the cgroup with
KillMode=mixed — SIGKILL to all remaining processes. The wrapping bash
shell is killed before it can execute the exit-code epilogue, so
.update_exit_code is never created. The new gateway's update watcher
then polls for 30 minutes and sends a spurious timeout message.
Fix: write .update_exit_code from Python inside cmd_update() immediately
after the git pull + pip install succeed ("Update complete!"), before
attempting the gateway restart. The shell epilogue still writes it too
(idempotent overwrite), but now the marker exists even when the process
is killed mid-restart.
OpenAI OAuth refresh tokens are single-use and rotate on every refresh.
When Hermes refreshes a Codex token, it consumed the old refresh_token
but never wrote the new pair back to ~/.codex/auth.json. This caused
Codex CLI and VS Code to fail with 'refresh_token_reused' on their
next refresh attempt.
This mirrors the existing Anthropic write-back pattern where refreshed
tokens are written to ~/.claude/.credentials.json via
_write_claude_code_credentials().
Changes:
- Add _write_codex_cli_tokens() in hermes_cli/auth.py (parallel to
_write_claude_code_credentials in anthropic_adapter.py)
- Call it from _refresh_codex_auth_tokens() (non-pool refresh path)
- Call it from credential_pool._refresh_entry() (pool happy path + retry)
- Add tests for the new write-back behavior
- Update existing test docstring to clarify _save_codex_tokens vs
_write_codex_cli_tokens separation
Fixes refresh token conflict reported by @ec12edfae2cb221
Reject non-URL values (e.g. shell commands typed by mistake) in the
base URL prompt during provider setup. Previously any string was saved
as-is to .env, breaking connectivity when the garbage value was used
as the API endpoint.
Adds http:// / https:// prefix check with a clear error message.
The custom-endpoint flow already had this validation (line 1620);
this brings the generic API-key provider flow to parity.
Triggered by a user support case where 'nano ~/.hermes/.env' was
accidentally entered as GLM_BASE_URL during Z.AI setup.
- Add openai/openai-codex -> openai mapping to PROVIDER_TO_MODELS_DEV
so context-length lookups use models.dev data instead of 128k fallback.
Fixes#8161.
- Set api_mode from custom_providers entry when switching via hermes model,
and clear stale api_mode when the entry has none. Also extract api_mode
in _named_custom_provider_map(). Fixes#8181.
- Convert OpenAI image_url content blocks to Anthropic image blocks when
the endpoint is Anthropic-compatible (MiniMax, MiniMax-CN, or any URL
containing /anthropic). Fixes#8147.
Add a 'tip of the day' feature that displays a random one-liner about
Hermes Agent features on every new session — CLI startup, /clear, /new,
and gateway /new across all messaging platforms.
- New hermes_cli/tips.py module with 210 curated tips covering slash
commands, keybindings, CLI flags, config options, tools, gateway
platforms, profiles, sessions, memory, skills, cron, voice, security,
and more
- CLI: tips display in skin-aware dim gold color after the welcome line
- Gateway: tips append to the /new and /reset response on all platforms
- Fully wrapped in try/except — tips are non-critical and never break
startup or reset
Display format (CLI):
✦ Tip: /btw <question> asks a quick side question without tools or history.
Display format (gateway):
✨ Session reset! Starting fresh.
✦ Tip: hermes -c resumes your most recent CLI session.
Remove auto-archival from hermes claw migrate — not its
responsibility (hermes claw cleanup is still there for that).
Skip MESSAGING_CWD when it points inside the OpenClaw source
directory, which was the actual root cause of agent confusion
after migration. Use Path.is_relative_to() for robust path
containment check.
Salvaged from PR #8192 by opriz.
Co-authored-by: opriz <opriz@users.noreply.github.com>
- Add rebrand_text() that replaces OpenClaw, Open Claw, Open-Claw,
ClawdBot, and MoltBot with Hermes (case-insensitive, word-boundary)
- Apply rebranding to memory entries (MEMORY.md, USER.md, daily memory)
- Apply rebranding to SOUL.md and workspace instructions via new
transform parameter on copy_file()
- Fix moldbot -> moltbot typo across codebase (claw.py, migration
script, docs, tests)
- Add unit tests for rebrand_text and integration tests for memory
and soul migration rebranding
Users whose credentials exist only in external files — OpenAI Codex
OAuth tokens in ~/.codex/auth.json or Anthropic Claude Code credentials
in ~/.claude/.credentials.json — would not see those providers in the
/model picker, even though hermes auth and hermes model detected them.
Root cause: list_authenticated_providers() only checked the raw Hermes
auth store and env vars. External credential file fallbacks (Codex CLI
import, Claude Code file discovery) were never triggered.
Fix (three parts):
1. _seed_from_singletons() in credential_pool.py: openai-codex now
imports from ~/.codex/auth.json when the Hermes auth store is empty,
mirroring resolve_codex_runtime_credentials().
2. list_authenticated_providers() in model_switch.py: auth store + pool
checks now run for ALL providers (not just OAuth auth_type), catching
providers like anthropic that support both API key and OAuth.
3. list_authenticated_providers(): direct check for anthropic external
credential files (Claude Code, Hermes PKCE). The credential pool
intentionally gates anthropic behind is_provider_explicitly_configured()
to prevent auxiliary tasks from silently consuming tokens. The /model
picker bypasses this gate since it is discovery-oriented.
* feat: add `hermes backup` and `hermes import` commands
hermes backup — creates a zip of ~/.hermes/ (config, skills, sessions,
profiles, memories, skins, cron jobs, etc.) excluding the hermes-agent
codebase, __pycache__, and runtime PID files. Defaults to
~/hermes-backup-<timestamp>.zip, customizable with -o.
hermes import <zipfile> — restores from a backup zip, validating it
looks like a hermes backup before extracting. Handles .hermes/ prefix
stripping, path traversal protection, and confirmation prompts (skip
with --force).
29 tests covering exclusion rules, backup creation, import validation,
prefix detection, path traversal blocking, confirmation flow, and a
full round-trip test.
* test: improve backup/import coverage to 97%
Add 17 additional tests covering:
- _format_size helper (bytes through terabytes)
- Nonexistent hermes home error exit
- Output path is a directory (auto-names inside it)
- Output without .zip suffix (auto-appends)
- Empty hermes home (all files excluded)
- Permission errors during backup and import
- Output zip inside hermes root (skips itself)
- Not-a-zip file rejection
- EOFError and KeyboardInterrupt during confirmation
- 500+ file progress display
- Directory-only zip prefix detection
Remove dead code branch in _detect_prefix (unreachable guard).
* feat: auto-restore profile wrapper scripts on import
After extracting backup files, hermes import now scans profiles/ for
subdirectories with config.yaml or .env and recreates the ~/.local/bin
wrapper scripts so profile aliases (e.g. 'coder chat') work immediately.
Also prints guidance for re-installing gateway services per profile.
Handles edge cases:
- Skips profile dirs without config (not real profiles)
- Skips aliases that collide with existing commands
- Gracefully degrades if hermes_cli.profiles isn't available (fresh install)
- Shows PATH hint if ~/.local/bin isn't in PATH
3 new profile restoration tests (49 total).
* feat: component-separated logging with session context and filtering
Phase 1 — Gateway log isolation:
- gateway.log now only receives records from gateway.* loggers
(platform adapters, session management, slash commands, delivery)
- agent.log remains the catch-all (all components)
- errors.log remains WARNING+ catch-all
- Moved gateway.log handler creation from gateway/run.py into
hermes_logging.setup_logging(mode='gateway') with _ComponentFilter
Phase 2 — Session ID injection:
- Added set_session_context(session_id) / clear_session_context() API
using threading.local() for per-thread session tracking
- _SessionFilter enriches every log record with session_tag attribute
- Log format: '2026-04-11 10:23:45 INFO [session_id] logger.name: msg'
- Session context set at start of run_conversation() in run_agent.py
- Thread-isolated: gateway conversations on different threads don't leak
Phase 3 — Component filtering in hermes logs:
- Added --component flag: hermes logs --component gateway|agent|tools|cli|cron
- COMPONENT_PREFIXES maps component names to logger name prefixes
- Works with all existing filters (--level, --session, --since, -f)
- Logger name extraction handles both old and new log formats
Files changed:
- hermes_logging.py: _SessionFilter, _ComponentFilter, COMPONENT_PREFIXES,
set/clear_session_context(), gateway.log creation in setup_logging()
- gateway/run.py: removed redundant gateway.log handler (now in hermes_logging)
- run_agent.py: set_session_context() at start of run_conversation()
- hermes_cli/logs.py: --component filter, logger name extraction
- hermes_cli/main.py: --component argument on logs subparser
Addresses community request for component-separated, filterable logging.
Zero changes to existing logger names — __name__ already provides hierarchy.
* fix: use LogRecord factory instead of per-handler _SessionFilter
The _SessionFilter approach required attaching a filter to every handler
we create. Any handler created outside our _add_rotating_handler (like
the gateway stderr handler, or third-party handlers) would crash with
KeyError: 'session_tag' if it used our format string.
Replace with logging.setLogRecordFactory() which injects session_tag
into every LogRecord at creation time — process-global, zero per-handler
wiring needed. The factory is installed at import time (before
setup_logging) so session_tag is available from the moment hermes_logging
is imported.
- Idempotent: marker attribute prevents double-wrapping on module reload
- Chains with existing factory: won't break third-party record factories
- Removes _SessionFilter from _add_rotating_handler and setup_verbose_logging
- Adds tests: record factory injection, idempotency, arbitrary handler compat
Add display.platforms section to config.yaml for per-platform overrides of
display settings (tool_progress, show_reasoning, streaming, tool_preview_length).
Each platform gets sensible built-in defaults based on capability tier:
- High (telegram, discord): tool_progress=all, streaming follows global
- Medium (slack, mattermost, matrix, feishu): tool_progress=new
- Low (signal, whatsapp, bluebubbles, wecom, etc.): tool_progress=off, streaming=false
- Minimal (email, sms, webhook, homeassistant): tool_progress=off, streaming=false
Example config:
display:
platforms:
telegram:
tool_progress: all
show_reasoning: true
slack:
tool_progress: off
Resolution order: platform override > global setting > built-in platform default.
Changes:
- New gateway/display_config.py: resolver module with tier-based platform defaults
- gateway/run.py: tool_progress, tool_preview_length, streaming, show_reasoning
all resolve per-platform via the new resolver
- /verbose command: now cycles tool_progress per-platform (saves to
display.platforms.<platform>.tool_progress instead of global)
- /reasoning show|hide: now saves show_reasoning per-platform
- Config version 15 -> 16: migrates tool_progress_overrides into display.platforms
- Backward compat: legacy tool_progress_overrides still read as fallback
- 27 new tests for resolver, normalization, migration, backward compat
- Updated verbose command tests for per-platform behavior
Addresses community request for per-channel verbosity control (Guillaume Meyer,
Nathan Danielsen) — high verbosity on backchannel Telegram, low on customer-facing
Slack, none on email.
When /model is called with no arguments in the interactive CLI, open a
two-step prompt_toolkit modal instead of the previous text-only listing:
1. Provider selection — curses_single_select with all authenticated providers
2. Model selection — live API fetch with curated fallback
Also fixes:
- OpenAI Codex model normalization (openai/gpt-5.4 → gpt-5.4)
- Dedicated Codex validation path using provider_model_ids()
Preserves curses_radiolist (used by setup, tools, plugins) alongside the
new curses_single_select. Retains tool elapsed timer in spinner.
Cherry-picked from PR #7438 by MestreY0d4-Uninter.
* feat(nix): container-aware CLI — auto-route all subcommands into managed container
When container.enable = true, the host `hermes` CLI transparently execs
every subcommand into the managed Docker/Podman container. A symlink
bridge (~/.hermes -> /var/lib/hermes/.hermes) unifies state between host
and container so sessions, config, and memories are shared.
CLI changes:
- Global routing before subcommand dispatch (all commands forwarded)
- docker exec with -u exec_user, env passthrough (TERM, COLORTERM,
LANG, LC_ALL), TTY-aware flags
- Retry with spinner on failure (TTY: 5s, non-TTY: 10s silent)
- Hard fail instead of silent fallback
- HERMES_DEV=1 env var bypasses routing for development
- No routing messages (invisible to user)
NixOS module changes:
- container.hostUsers option: lists users who get ~/.hermes symlink
and automatic hermes group membership
- Activation script creates symlink bridge (with backup of existing
~/.hermes dirs), writes exec_user to .container-mode
- Cleanup on disable: removes symlinks + .container-mode + stops service
- Warning when hostUsers set without addToSystemPackages
* fix: address review — reuse sudo var, add chown -h on symlink update
- hermes_cli/main.py: reuse the existing `sudo` variable instead of
redundant `shutil.which("sudo")` call that could return None
- nix/nixosModules.nix: add missing `chown -h` when updating an
existing symlink target so ownership stays consistent with the
fresh-create and backup-replace branches
* fix: address remaining review items from cursor bugbot
- hermes_cli/main.py: move container routing BEFORE parse_args() so
--help, unrecognised flags, and all subcommands are forwarded
transparently into the container instead of being intercepted by
argparse on the host (high severity)
- nix/nixosModules.nix: resolve home dirs via
config.users.users.${user}.home instead of hardcoding /home/${user},
supporting users with custom home directories (medium severity)
- nix/nixosModules.nix: gate hostUsers group membership on
container.enable so setting hostUsers without container mode doesn't
silently add users to the hermes group (low severity)
* fix: simplify container routing — execvp, no retries, let it crash
- Replace subprocess.run retry loop with os.execvp (no idle parent process)
- Extract _probe_container helper for sudo detection with 15s timeout
- Narrow exception handling: FileNotFoundError only in get_container_exec_info,
catch TimeoutExpired specifically, remove silent except Exception: pass
- Collapse needs_sudo + sudo into single sudo_path variable
- Simplify NixOS symlink creation from 4 branches to 2
- Gate NixOS sudoers hint with "On NixOS:" prefix
- Full test rewrite: 18 tests covering execvp, sudo probe, timeout, permissions
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Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
Add display.interim_assistant_messages config (enabled by default) that
forwards completed assistant commentary between tool calls to the user
as separate chat messages. Models already emit useful status text like
'I'll inspect the repo first.' — this surfaces it on Telegram, Discord,
and other messaging platforms instead of swallowing it.
Independent from tool_progress and gateway streaming. Disabled for
webhooks. Uses GatewayStreamConsumer when available, falls back to
direct adapter send. Tracks response_previewed to prevent double-delivery
when interim message matches the final response.
Also fixes: cursor not stripped from fallback prefix in stream consumer
(affected continuation calculation on no-edit platforms like Signal).
Cherry-picked from PR #7885 by asheriif, default changed to enabled.
Fixes#5016
- Add --env KEY=VALUE for passing environment variables to stdio MCP servers
- Add --preset for known MCP server templates (empty for now, extensible)
- Validate env var names, reject --env for HTTP servers
- Explicit --command/--url overrides preset defaults
- Remove unused getpass import
Based on PR #7936 by @syaor4n (stitch preset removed, generic infra kept).
- add all_profiles=False to find_gateway_pids() and
kill_gateway_processes() so hermes update and gateway stop --all
can still discover processes across all profiles
- narrow bare 'except Exception' to (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired)
- update test mocks to match new signatures
The cherry-picked fix from PR #7916 placed model propagation after
the credential pool early-return in _resolve_named_custom_runtime(),
making it dead code when a pool is active (which happens whenever
custom_providers has an api_key that auto-seeds the pool).
- Inject model into pool_result before returning
- Add 5 regression tests covering direct path, pool path, empty
model, and absent model scenarios
- Add 'model' to _VALID_CUSTOM_PROVIDER_FIELDS for config validation
hermes claw migrate now always shows a full dry-run preview before
making any changes. The user reviews what would be imported, then
confirms to proceed. --dry-run stops after the preview. --yes skips
the confirmation prompt.
This matches the existing setup wizard flow (_offer_openclaw_migration)
which already did preview-then-confirm.
Docs updated across both docs/migration/openclaw.md and
website/docs/guides/migrate-from-openclaw.md to reflect:
- New preview-first UX flow
- workspace-main/ fallback paths
- accounts.default channel token layout
- TTS edge/microsoft rename
- openclaw.json env sub-object as API key source
- Hyphenated provider API types
- Matrix accessToken field
- SecretRef file/exec warnings
- Skills session restart note
- WhatsApp re-pairing note
- Archive cleanup step
Cherry-picked from PR #7702 by kshitijk4poor.
Adds Xiaomi MiMo as a direct provider (XIAOMI_API_KEY) with models:
- mimo-v2-pro (1M context), mimo-v2-omni (256K, multimodal), mimo-v2-flash (256K, cheapest)
Standard OpenAI-compatible provider checklist: auth.py, config.py, models.py,
main.py, providers.py, doctor.py, model_normalize.py, model_metadata.py,
models_dev.py, auxiliary_client.py, .env.example, cli-config.yaml.example.
Follow-up: vision tasks use mimo-v2-omni (multimodal) instead of the user's
main model. Non-vision aux uses the user's selected model. Added
_PROVIDER_VISION_MODELS dict for provider-specific vision model overrides.
On failure, falls back to aggregators (gemini flash) via existing fallback chain.
Corrects pre-existing context lengths: mimo-v2-pro 1048576→1000000,
mimo-v2-omni 1048576→256000, adds mimo-v2-flash 256000.
36 tests covering registry, aliases, auto-detect, credentials, models.dev,
normalization, URL mapping, providers module, doctor, aux client, vision
model override, and agent init.
YAML parses bare numeric keys (e.g. `12306:`) as int, causing
TypeError when sorted() is called on mixed int/str collections.
Changes:
- Normalize toolset_names entries to str in _get_platform_tools()
- Cast MCP server name to str(name) when building enabled_mcp_servers
- Add regression test
- Add shared is_wsl() to hermes_constants (like is_termux)
- Update supports_systemd_services() to verify systemd is actually
running on WSL before returning True
- Add WSL-specific guidance in gateway install/start/setup/status
for both cases: WSL+systemd and WSL without systemd
- Improve help strings: 'run' now says recommended for WSL/Docker,
'start'/'install' now mention systemd/launchd explicitly
- Add WSL gateway FAQ section with tmux/nohup/Task Scheduler tips
- Update CLI commands docs with WSL tip
- Deduplicate _is_wsl() from clipboard.py to shared hermes_constants
- Fix clipboard tests to reset hermes_constants cache
- 20 new WSL-specific tests covering detection, systemd check,
supports_systemd_services integration, and command output
Motivated by user feedback: took 1 hour to figure out run vs start
on WSL, Telegram bot kept disconnecting due to flaky WSL systemd.
- Remove auto-activation: when context.engine is 'compressor' (default),
plugin-registered engines are NOT used. Users must explicitly set
context.engine to a plugin name to activate it.
- Add curses_radiolist() to curses_ui.py: single-select radio picker
with keyboard nav + text fallback, matching curses_checklist pattern.
- Rewrite cmd_toggle() as composite plugins UI:
Top section: general plugins with checkboxes (existing behavior)
Bottom section: provider plugin categories (Memory Provider, Context Engine)
with current selection shown inline. ENTER/SPACE on a category opens
a radiolist sub-screen for single-select configuration.
- Add provider discovery helpers: _discover_memory_providers(),
_discover_context_engines(), config read/save for memory.provider
and context.engine.
- Add tests: radiolist non-TTY fallback, provider config save/load,
discovery error handling, auto-activation removal verification.
HERMES_OVERLAYS keys use models.dev IDs (e.g. 'github-copilot') but
_PROVIDER_MODELS curated lists and config.yaml use Hermes provider IDs
('copilot'). list_authenticated_providers() Section 2 was using the
overlay key directly for model lookups and is_current checks, causing:
- 0 models shown for copilot, kimi, kilo, opencode, vercel
- is_current never matching the config provider
Fix: build reverse mapping from PROVIDER_TO_MODELS_DEV to translate
overlay keys to Hermes slugs before curated list lookup and result
construction. Also adds 'kimi-for-coding' alias in auth.py so the
picker's returned slug resolves correctly in resolve_provider().
Fixes#5223. Based on work by HearthCore (#6492) and linxule (#6287).
Co-authored-by: HearthCore <HearthCore@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: linxule <linxule@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds xAI as a first-class provider: ProviderConfig in auth.py,
HermesOverlay in providers.py, 11 curated Grok models, URL mapping
in model_metadata.py, aliases (x-ai, x.ai), and env var tests.
Uses standard OpenAI-compatible chat completions.
Closes#7050
_resolve_verify() returned stale CA bundle paths from auth.json without
checking if the file exists. When a user logs into Nous Portal on their
host (where SSL_CERT_FILE points to a valid cert), that path gets
persisted in auth.json. Running hermes model later in Docker where the
host path doesn't exist caused FileNotFoundError bubbling up as
'Could not verify credentials: [Errno 2] No such file or directory'.
Now _resolve_verify validates the path exists before returning it. If
missing, logs a warning and falls back to True (default certifi-based
TLS verification).
In Docker, HERMES_HOME=/opt/data (set in Dockerfile) and users mount
their .hermes directory to /opt/data. However, profile operations used
Path.home() / '.hermes' which resolves to /root/.hermes in Docker —
an ephemeral container path, not the mounted volume.
This caused:
- Profiles created at /root/.hermes/profiles/ (lost on container recreate)
- active_profile sticky file written to wrong location
- profile list looking at wrong directory
Fix: Add get_default_hermes_root() to hermes_constants.py that detects
Docker/custom deployments (HERMES_HOME outside ~/.hermes) and returns
HERMES_HOME as the root. Also handles Docker profiles correctly
(<root>/profiles/<name> → root is grandparent).
Files changed:
- hermes_constants.py: new get_default_hermes_root()
- hermes_cli/profiles.py: _get_default_hermes_home() delegates to shared fn
- hermes_cli/main.py: _apply_profile_override() + _invalidate_update_cache()
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: _profile_suffix() + _profile_arg()
- Tests: 12 new tests covering Docker scenarios
fetch_api_models is imported locally inside _model_flow_named_custom from
hermes_cli.models, not defined as a module-level attribute of hermes_cli.main.
Patch the source module so the local import picks up the mock.
Also force simple_term_menu ImportError so tests reliably use the input()
fallback path regardless of environment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
When opencode-go API key is set, it should appear in the /model list.
The provider was already in PROVIDER_TO_MODELS_DEV and PROVIDER_REGISTRY,
so it appears via Part 1 (built-in source).
Also fixes a potential issue in Part 2 (HERMES_OVERLAYS) where providers
with auth_type=api_key but no extra_env_vars would not be detected:
- Now also checks api_key_env_vars from PROVIDER_REGISTRY for api_key auth_type
- Add test verifying opencode-go appears when OPENCODE_GO_API_KEY is set
Previously, removing a claude_code credential from the anthropic pool
only printed a note — the next load_pool() re-seeded it from
~/.claude/.credentials.json. Now writes a 'suppressed_sources' flag
to auth.json that _seed_from_singletons checks before seeding.
Follows the pattern of env: source removal (clears .env var) and
device_code removal (clears auth store state).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gate function for checking whether a user has explicitly selected a
provider via hermes model/setup, auth.json active_provider, or env
vars. Used in subsequent commits to prevent unauthorized credential
auto-discovery. Follows the pattern from PR #4210.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
launchd_stop() previously used `launchctl kill SIGTERM` which only
signals the process. Because the plist has KeepAlive.SuccessfulExit=false,
launchd immediately respawns the gateway — making `hermes gateway stop`
a no-op that prints '✓ Service stopped' while the service keeps running.
Switch to `launchctl bootout` which unloads the service definition so
KeepAlive can't trigger. The process exits and stays stopped until
`hermes gateway start` (which already handles re-bootstrapping unloaded
jobs via error codes 3/113).
Also adds _wait_for_gateway_exit() after bootout to ensure the process
is fully gone before returning, and tolerates 'already unloaded' errors.
Fixes: .env changes not taking effect after gateway stop+restart on macOS.
The root cause was that stop didn't actually stop — the respawned process
loaded the old env before the user's restart command ran.
Automated dead code audit using vulture + coverage.py + ast-grep intersection,
confirmed by Opus deep verification pass. Every symbol verified to have zero
production callers (test imports excluded from reachability analysis).
Removes ~1,534 lines of dead production code across 46 files and ~1,382 lines
of stale test code. 3 entire files deleted (agent/builtin_memory_provider.py,
hermes_cli/checklist.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_setup_model_selection.py).
Co-authored-by: alt-glitch <balyan.sid@gmail.com>
When installing a system service via sudo, ExecStart, WorkingDirectory,
VIRTUAL_ENV, and PATH entries were not remapped to the target user's
home — only HERMES_HOME was. This caused the service to fail with
status=200/CHDIR because the target user cannot access /root/.
Adds _remap_path_for_user() helper and applies it to all path variables
in the system branch of generate_systemd_unit().
Closes#6989
Custom providers defined in config.yaml under were
completely invisible to the /model command in both gateway (Telegram,
Discord, etc.) and CLI. The provider listing skipped them and explicit
switching via --provider failed with "Unknown provider".
Root cause: gateway/run.py, cli.py, and model_switch.py only read the
dict from config, ignoring entirely.
Changes:
- providers.py: add resolve_custom_provider() and extend
resolve_provider_full() to check custom_providers after user_providers
- model_switch.py: propagate custom_providers through switch_model(),
list_authenticated_providers(), and get_authenticated_provider_slugs();
add custom provider section to provider listings
- gateway/run.py: read custom_providers from config, pass to all
model-switch calls
- cli.py: hoist config loading, pass custom_providers to listing and
switch calls
Tests: 4 new regression tests covering listing, resolution, and gateway
command handler. All 71 tests pass.
When `hermes update` stashes local changes and the restore hits merge
conflicts, the old code prompted the user to reset or keep conflict
markers. If the user declined the reset, git conflict markers
(<<<<<<< Updated upstream) were left in source files, making hermes
completely unrunnable with a SyntaxError on the next invocation.
Additionally, the interactive path called sys.exit(1), which killed
the entire update process before pip dependency install, skill sync,
and gateway restart could finish — even though the code pull itself
had succeeded.
Changes:
- Always auto-reset to clean state when stash restore conflicts
- Remove the "Reset working tree?" prompt (footgun)
- Remove sys.exit(1) — return False so cmd_update continues normally
- User's changes remain safely in the stash for manual recovery
Also fixes a secondary bug where the conflict handling prompt used
bare input() instead of the input_fn parameter, which would hang
in gateway mode.
Tests updated: replaced prompt/sys.exit assertions with auto-reset
behavior checks; removed the "user declines reset" test (path no
longer exists).
Add /fast slash command to toggle OpenAI Codex service_tier between
normal and priority ('fast') inference. Only exposed for models
registered in _FAST_MODE_BACKEND_CONFIG (currently gpt-5.4).
- Registry-based backend config for extensibility
- Dynamic command visibility (hidden from help/autocomplete for
non-supported models) via command_filter on SlashCommandCompleter
- service_tier flows through request_overrides from route resolution
- Omit max_output_tokens for Codex backend (rejects it)
- Persists to config.yaml under agent.service_tier
Salvage cleanup: removed simple_term_menu/input() menu (banned),
bare /fast now shows status like /reasoning. Removed redundant
override resolution in _build_api_kwargs — single source of truth
via request_overrides from route.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
* fix(tests): mock is_safe_url in tests that use example.com
Tests using example.com URLs were failing because is_safe_url does a real DNS lookup which fails in environments where example.com doesn't resolve, causing the request to be blocked before reaching the already-mocked HTTP client. This should fix around 17 failing tests.
These tests test logic, caching, etc. so mocking this method should not modify them in any way. TestMattermostSendUrlAsFile was already doing this so we follow the same pattern.
* fix(test): use case-insensitive lookup for model context length check
DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LENGTHS uses inconsistent casing (MiniMax keys are lowercase, Qwen keys are mixed-case) so the test was broken in some cases since it couldn't find the model.
* fix(test): patch is_linux in systemd gateway restart test
The test only patched is_macos to False but didn't patch is_linux to True. On macOS hosts, is_linux() returns False and the systemd restart code path is skipped entirely, making the assertion fail.
* fix(test): use non-blocklisted env var in docker forward_env tests
GITHUB_TOKEN is in api_key_env_vars and thus in _HERMES_PROVIDER_ENV_BLOCKLIST so the env var is silently dropped, we replace it with a non-blocked one like DATABASE_URL so the tests actually work.
* fix(test): fully isolate _has_any_provider_configured from host env
_has_any_provider_configured() checks all env vars from PROVIDER_REGISTRY (not just the 5 the tests were clearing) and also calls get_auth_status() which detects gh auth token for Copilot. On machines with any of these set, the function returns True before reaching the code path under test.
Clear all registry vars and mock get_auth_status so host credentials don't interfere.
* fix(test): correct path to hermes_base_env.py in tool parser tests
Path(__file__).parent.parent resolved to tests/, not the project root.
The file lives at environments/hermes_base_env.py so we need one more parent level.
* fix(test): accept optional HTML fields in Matrix send payload
_send_matrix sometimes adds format and formatted_body when the markdown library is installed. The test was doing an exact dict equality check which broke. Check required fields instead.
* fix(test): add config.yaml to codex vision requirements test
The test only wrote auth.json but not config.yaml, so _read_main_provider() returned empty and vision auto-detect never tried the codex provider. Add a config.yaml pointing at openai-codex so the fallback path actually resolves the client.
* fix(test): clear OPENROUTER_API_KEY in _isolate_hermes_home
run_agent.py calls load_hermes_dotenv() at import time, which injects API keys from ~/.hermes/.env into os.environ before any test fixture runs. This caused test_agent_loop_tool_calling to make real API calls instead of skipping, which ends up making some tests fail.
* fix(test): add get_rate_limit_state to agent mock in usage report tests
_show_usage now calls agent.get_rate_limit_state() for rate limit
display. The SimpleNamespace mock was missing this method.
* fix(test): update expected Camofox config version from 12 to 13
* fix(test): mock _get_enabled_platforms in nous managed defaults test
Importing gateway.run leaks DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN into os.environ, which makes _get_enabled_platforms() return ["cli", "discord"] instead of just ["cli"]. tools_command loops per platform, so apply_nous_managed_defaults
runs twice: the first call sets config values, the second sees them as
already configured and returns an empty set, causing the assertion to
fail.
The setup wizard's OpenClaw migration previously ran immediately with
aggressive defaults (overwrite=True, preset=full) after a single
'Would you like to import?' prompt. This caused several problems:
- Config values with different semantics (e.g. tool_call_execution:
'auto' in OpenClaw vs 'off' for Hermes yolo mode) were imported
without translation
- Gateway tokens were hijacked from OpenClaw without warning, taking
over Telegram/Slack/Discord channels
- Instruction files (.md) containing OpenClaw-specific setup/restart
procedures were copied, causing Hermes restart failures
Now the migration:
1. Asks 'Would you like to see what can be imported?' (softer framing)
2. Runs a dry-run preview showing everything that would be imported
3. Displays categorized warnings for high-impact items (gateway
takeover, config value differences, instruction files)
4. Asks for explicit confirmation with default=No
5. Executes with overwrite=False (preserves existing Hermes config)
Also extracts _load_openclaw_migration_module() for reuse and adds
_print_migration_preview() with keyword-based warning detection.
Tests updated for two-phase behavior + new test for decline-after-preview.
/pr <anything> silently resolved to /prompt via the shortest-match
tiebreaker in prefix expansion, permanently overwriting the system
prompt and persisting to config. The command's functionality (setting
agent.system_prompt) is available via config.yaml and /personality
covers the common use case.
Removes: CommandDef, dispatch branch, _handle_prompt_command handler,
docs references, and updates subcommand extraction test.
Step c in switch_model() blindly converted the first colon to a slash for
aggregator providers, even when the model name already contained a slash
(vendor/model format). This mangled variant tags like :free into /free,
causing 400 Bad Request from the API.
Fix: skip the colon→slash conversion when the model already has a slash,
since the colon is a variant tag, not a vendor separator. The module
docstring already documented this intent (line 17-18) but the
implementation didn't enforce it.
Reported via Discord. Related to PR #6088 (which identified the same bug
but placed the fix in model_normalize.py instead of model_switch.py where
the actual mangling occurs).
Based on #6079 by @tunamitom with critical fixes and comprehensive tests.
Changes from #6079:
- Fix: sanitization overwrite bug — Qwen message prep now runs AFTER codex
field sanitization, not before (was silently discarding Qwen transforms)
- Fix: missing try/except AuthError in runtime_provider.py — stale Qwen
credentials now fall through to next provider on auto-detect
- Fix: 'qwen' alias conflict — bare 'qwen' stays mapped to 'alibaba'
(DashScope); use 'qwen-portal' or 'qwen-cli' for the OAuth provider
- Fix: hardcoded ['coder-model'] replaced with live API fetch + curated
fallback list (qwen3-coder-plus, qwen3-coder)
- Fix: extract _is_qwen_portal() helper + _qwen_portal_headers() to replace
5 inline 'portal.qwen.ai' string checks and share headers between init
and credential swap
- Fix: add Qwen branch to _apply_client_headers_for_base_url for mid-session
credential swaps
- Fix: remove suspicious TypeError catch blocks around _prompt_provider_choice
- Fix: handle bare string items in content lists (were silently dropped)
- Fix: remove redundant dict() copies after deepcopy in message prep
- Revert: unrelated ai-gateway test mock removal and model_switch.py comment deletion
New tests (30 test functions):
- _qwen_cli_auth_path, _read_qwen_cli_tokens (success + 3 error paths)
- _save_qwen_cli_tokens (roundtrip, parent creation, permissions)
- _qwen_access_token_is_expiring (5 edge cases: fresh, expired, within skew,
None, non-numeric)
- _refresh_qwen_cli_tokens (success, preserve old refresh, 4 error paths,
default expires_in, disk persistence)
- resolve_qwen_runtime_credentials (fresh, auto-refresh, force-refresh,
missing token, env override)
- get_qwen_auth_status (logged in, not logged in)
- Runtime provider resolution (direct, pool entry, alias)
- _build_api_kwargs (metadata, vl_high_resolution_images, message formatting,
max_tokens suppression)
* fix(tools): skip camofox auto-cleanup when managed persistence is enabled
When managed_persistence is enabled, cleanup_browser() was calling
camofox_close() which destroys the server-side browser context via
DELETE /sessions/{userId}, killing login sessions across cron runs.
Add camofox_soft_cleanup() — a public wrapper that drops only the
in-memory session entry when managed persistence is on, returning True.
When persistence is off it returns False so the caller falls back to
the full camofox_close(). The inactivity reaper still handles idle
resource cleanup.
Also surface a logger.warning() when _managed_persistence_enabled()
fails to load config, replacing a silent except-and-return-False.
Salvaged from #6182 by el-analista (Eduardo Perea Fernandez).
Added public API wrapper to avoid cross-module private imports,
and test coverage for both persistence paths.
Co-authored-by: Eduardo Perea Fernandez <el-analista@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(doctor): only check the active memory provider, not all providers unconditionally
hermes doctor had hardcoded Honcho Memory and Mem0 Memory sections that
always ran regardless of the user's memory.provider config setting. After
the swappable memory provider update (#4623), users with leftover Honcho
config but no active provider saw false 'broken' errors.
Replaced both sections with a single Memory Provider section that reads
memory.provider from config.yaml and only checks the configured provider.
Users with no external provider see a green 'Built-in memory active' check.
Reported by community user michaelruiz001, confirmed by Eri (Honcho).
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Co-authored-by: Eduardo Perea Fernandez <el-analista@users.noreply.github.com>
Currently, MCP servers are included on all platforms by default. If a
platform's toolset list does not explicitly name any MCP servers, every
globally enabled MCP server is injected. There is no way to opt a
platform out of MCP servers entirely.
This matters for the API server platform when used as an execution
backend — each spawned agent session gets the full MCP tool schema
injected into its system prompt, dramatically inflating token usage
(e.g. 57K tokens vs 9K without MCP tools) and slowing response times.
Add a "no_mcp" sentinel value for platform_toolsets. When present in a
platform's toolset list, all MCP servers are excluded for that platform.
Other platforms are unaffected.
Usage in config.yaml:
platform_toolsets:
api_server:
- terminal
- file
- web
- no_mcp # exclude all MCP servers
The sentinel is filtered out of the final toolset — it does not appear
as an actual toolset name.
* fix(cli): route error messages through ChatConsole inside patch_stdout
Cherry-pick of PR #5798 by @icn5381.
Replace self.console.print() with ChatConsole().print() for 11 error/status
messages reachable during the interactive session. Inside patch_stdout,
self.console (plain Rich Console) writes raw ANSI escapes that StdoutProxy
mangles into garbled text. ChatConsole uses prompt_toolkit's native
print_formatted_text which renders correctly.
Same class of bug as #2262 — that fix covered agent output but missed
these error paths in _ensure_runtime_credentials, _init_agent, quick
commands, skill loading, and plan mode.
* fix(model-picker): add scrolling viewport to curses provider menu
Cherry-pick of PR #5790 by @Lempkey. Fixes#5755.
_curses_prompt_choice rendered items starting unconditionally from index 0
with no scroll offset. The 'More providers' submenu has 13 entries. On
terminals shorter than ~16 rows, items past the fold were never drawn.
When UP-arrow wrapped cursor from 0 to the last item (Cancel, index 12),
the highlight rendered off-screen — appearing as if only Cancel existed.
Adds scroll_offset tracking that adjusts each frame to keep the cursor
inside the visible window.
* feat(cli): skin-aware compact banner + git state in startup banner
Combined salvage of PR #5922 by @ASRagab and PR #5877 by @xinbenlv.
Compact banner changes (from #5922):
- Read active skin colors and branding instead of hardcoding gold/NOUS HERMES
- Default skin preserves backward-compatible legacy branding
- Non-default skins use their own agent_name and colors
Git state in banner (from #5877):
- New format_banner_version_label() shows upstream/local git hashes
- Full banner title now includes git state (upstream hash, carried commits)
- Compact banner line2 shows the version label with git state
- Widen compact banner max width from 64 to 88 to fit version info
Both the full Rich banner and compact fallback are now skin-aware
and show git state.
- Add 7 unit tests for _profile_arg: default home, named profile,
hash path, nested path, invalid name, systemd integration, launchd integration
- Add stt.local.language to config.yaml (empty = auto-detect)
- Both STT code paths now read config.yaml first, env var fallback,
then default (auto-detect for faster-whisper, 'en' for CLI command)
- HERMES_LOCAL_STT_LANGUAGE env var still works as backward-compat fallback
* refactor: re-architect tests to mirror the codebase
* Update tests.yml
* fix: add missing tool_error imports after registry refactor
* fix(tests): replace patch.dict with monkeypatch to prevent env var leaks under xdist
patch.dict(os.environ) can leak TERMINAL_ENV across xdist workers,
causing test_code_execution tests to hit the Modal remote path.
* fix(tests): fix update_check and telegram xdist failures
- test_update_check: replace patch("hermes_cli.banner.os.getenv") with
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME") — banner.py no longer imports os
directly, it uses get_hermes_home() from hermes_constants.
- test_telegram_conflict/approval_buttons: provide real exception classes
for telegram.error mock (NetworkError, TimedOut, BadRequest) so the
except clause in connect() doesn't fail with "catching classes that do
not inherit from BaseException" when xdist pollutes sys.modules.
* fix(tests): accept unavailable_models kwarg in _prompt_model_selection mock
* fix: repair 57 failing CI tests across 14 files
Categories of fixes:
**Test isolation under xdist (-n auto):**
- test_hermes_logging: Strip ALL RotatingFileHandlers before each test
to prevent handlers leaked from other xdist workers from polluting counts
- test_code_execution: Force TERMINAL_ENV=local in setUp — prevents Modal
AuthError when another test leaks TERMINAL_ENV=modal
- test_timezone: Same TERMINAL_ENV fix for execute_code timezone tests
- test_codex_execution_paths: Mock _resolve_turn_agent_config to ensure
model resolution works regardless of xdist worker state
**Matrix adapter tests (nio not installed in CI):**
- Add _make_fake_nio() helper with real response classes for isinstance()
checks in production code
- Replace MagicMock(spec=nio.XxxResponse) with fake_nio instances
- Wrap production method calls with patch.dict('sys.modules', {'nio': ...})
so import nio succeeds in method bodies
- Use try/except instead of pytest.importorskip for nio.crypto imports
(importorskip can be fooled by MagicMock in sys.modules)
- test_matrix_voice: Skip entire file if nio is a mock, not just missing
**Stale test expectations:**
- test_cli_provider_resolution: _prompt_provider_choice now takes **kwargs
(default param added); mock getpass.getpass alongside input
- test_anthropic_oauth_flow: Mock getpass.getpass (code switched from input)
- test_gemini_provider: Mock models.dev + OpenRouter API lookups to test
hardcoded defaults without external API variance
- test_code_execution: Add notify_on_complete to blocked terminal params
- test_setup_openclaw_migration: Mock prompt_choice to select 'Full setup'
(new quick-setup path leads to _require_tty → sys.exit in CI)
- test_skill_manager_tool: Patch get_all_skills_dirs alongside SKILLS_DIR
so _find_skill searches tmp_path, not real ~/.hermes/skills/
**Missing attributes in object.__new__ test runners:**
- test_platform_reconnect: Add session_store to _make_runner()
- test_session_race_guard: Add hooks, _running_agents_ts, session_store,
delivery_router to _make_runner()
**Production bug fix (gateway/run.py):**
- Fix sentinel eviction race: _AGENT_PENDING_SENTINEL was immediately
evicted by the stale-detection logic because sentinels have no
get_activity_summary() method, causing _stale_idle=inf >= timeout.
Guard _should_evict with 'is not _AGENT_PENDING_SENTINEL'.
* fix: address remaining CI failures
- test_setup_openclaw_migration: Also mock _offer_launch_chat (called at
end of both quick and full setup paths)
- test_code_execution: Move TERMINAL_ENV=local to module level to protect
ALL test classes (TestEnvVarFiltering, TestExecuteCodeEdgeCases,
TestInterruptHandling, TestHeadTailTruncation) from xdist env leaks
- test_matrix: Use try/except for nio.crypto imports (importorskip can be
fooled by MagicMock in sys.modules under xdist)
check_nous_free_tier() now caches its result for 180 seconds to avoid
redundant Portal API calls during a session (auxiliary client init,
model selection, login flow all call it independently).
The TTL is short enough that an account upgrade from free to paid is
reflected within 3 minutes. clear_nous_free_tier_cache() is exposed
for explicit invalidation on login/logout.
Adds 4 tests for cache hit, TTL expiry, explicit clear, and TTL bound.
- Show pricing during initial Nous Portal login (was missing from
_login_nous, only shown in the already-logged-in hermes model path)
- Filter free models for paid subscribers: non-allowlisted free models
are hidden; allowlisted models (xiaomi/mimo-v2-pro, xiaomi/mimo-v2-omni)
only appear when actually priced as free
- Detect free-tier accounts via portal api/oauth/account endpoint
(monthly_charge == 0); free-tier users see only free models as
selectable, with paid models shown dimmed and unselectable
- Use xiaomi/mimo-v2-omni as the auxiliary vision model for free-tier
Nous users so vision_analyze and browser_vision work without paid
model access (replaces the default google/gemini-3-flash-preview)
- Unavailable models rendered via print() before TerminalMenu to avoid
simple_term_menu line-width padding artifacts; upgrade URL resolved
from auth state portal_base_url (supports staging/custom portals)
- Add 21 tests covering filter_nous_free_models, is_nous_free_tier,
and partition_nous_models_by_tier
* feat: switch managed browser provider from Browserbase to Browser Use
The Nous subscription tool gateway now routes browser automation through
Browser Use instead of Browserbase. This commit:
- Adds managed Nous gateway support to BrowserUseProvider (idempotency
keys, X-BB-API-Key auth header, external_call_id persistence)
- Removes managed gateway support from BrowserbaseProvider (now
direct-only via BROWSERBASE_API_KEY/BROWSERBASE_PROJECT_ID)
- Updates browser_tool.py fallback: prefers Browser Use over Browserbase
- Updates nous_subscription.py: gateway vendor 'browser-use', auto-config
sets cloud_provider='browser-use' for new subscribers
- Updates tools_config.py: Nous Subscription entry now uses Browser Use
- Updates setup.py, cli.py, status.py, prompt_builder.py display strings
- Updates all affected tests to match new behavior
Browserbase remains fully functional for users with direct API credentials.
The change only affects the managed/subscription path.
* chore: remove redundant Browser Use hint from system prompt
* fix: upgrade Browser Use provider to v3 API
- Base URL: api/v2 -> api/v3 (v2 is legacy)
- Unified all endpoints to use native Browser Use paths:
- POST /browsers (create session, returns cdpUrl)
- PATCH /browsers/{id} with {action: stop} (close session)
- Removed managed-mode branching that used Browserbase-style
/v1/sessions paths — v3 gateway now supports /browsers directly
- Removed unused managed_mode variable in close_session
* fix(browser-use): use X-Browser-Use-API-Key header for managed mode
The managed gateway expects X-Browser-Use-API-Key, not X-BB-API-Key
(which is a Browserbase-specific header). Using the wrong header caused
a 401 AUTH_ERROR on every managed-mode browser session create.
Simplified _headers() to always use X-Browser-Use-API-Key regardless
of direct vs managed mode.
* fix(nous_subscription): browserbase explicit provider is direct-only
Since managed Nous gateway now routes through Browser Use, the
browserbase explicit provider path should not check managed_browser_available
(which resolves against the browser-use gateway). Simplified to direct-only
with managed=False.
* fix(browser-use): port missing improvements from PR #5605
- CDP URL normalization: resolve HTTP discovery URLs to websocket after
cloud provider create_session() (prevents agent-browser failures)
- Managed session payload: send timeout=5 and proxyCountryCode=us for
gateway-backed sessions (prevents billing overruns)
- Update prompt builder, browser_close schema, and module docstring to
replace remaining Browserbase references with Browser Use
- Dynamic /browser status detection via _get_cloud_provider() instead
of hardcoded env var checks (future-proof for new providers)
- Rename post_setup key from 'browserbase' to 'agent_browser'
- Update setup hint to mention Browser Use alongside Browserbase
- Add tests: CDP normalization, browserbase direct-only guard,
managed browser-use gateway, direct browserbase fallback
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Co-authored-by: rob-maron <132852777+rob-maron@users.noreply.github.com>
launchctl kickstart returns exit code 113 ("Could not find service") when
the plist exists but the job hasn't been bootstrapped into the runtime domain.
The existing recovery path only caught exit code 3 ("unloaded"), causing an
unhandled CalledProcessError.
Exit code 113 means the same thing practically -- the service definition needs
bootstrapping before it can be kicked. Add it to the same recovery path that
already handles exit 3, matching the existing pattern in launchd_stop().
Follow-up: add a unit test covering the 113 recovery path.
Centralize the skill → slash command registration that Telegram already had
in commands.py so Discord uses the exact same priority system, filtering,
and cap enforcement:
1. Core/built-in commands (never trimmed)
2. Plugin commands (never trimmed)
3. Skill commands (fill remaining slots, alphabetical, only tier trimmed)
Changes:
hermes_cli/commands.py:
- Rename _TG_NAME_LIMIT → _CMD_NAME_LIMIT (32 chars shared by both platforms)
- Rename _clamp_telegram_names → _clamp_command_names (generic)
- Extract _collect_gateway_skill_entries() — shared plugin + skill
collection with platform filtering, name sanitization, description
truncation, and cap enforcement
- Refactor telegram_menu_commands() to use the shared helper
- Add discord_skill_commands() that returns (name, desc, cmd_key) triples
- Preserve _sanitize_telegram_name() for Telegram-specific name cleaning
gateway/platforms/discord.py:
- Call discord_skill_commands() from _register_slash_commands()
- Create app_commands.Command per skill entry with cmd_key callback
- Respect 100-command global Discord limit
- Log warning when skills are skipped due to cap
Backward-compat aliases preserved for _TG_NAME_LIMIT and
_clamp_telegram_names.
Tests: 9 new tests (7 Discord + 2 backward-compat), 98 total pass.
Inspired by PR #5498 (sprmn24). Closes#5480.
Telegram Bot API requires command names to contain only lowercase a-z,
digits 0-9, and underscores. Skill/plugin names containing characters
like +, /, @, or . caused set_my_commands to fail with
Bot_command_invalid.
Two-layer fix:
- scan_skill_commands(): strip non-alphanumeric/non-hyphen chars from
cmd_key at source, collapse consecutive hyphens, trim edges, skip
names that sanitize to empty string
- _sanitize_telegram_name(): centralized helper used by all 3 Telegram
name generation sites (core commands, plugin commands, skill commands)
with empty-name guard at each call site
Closes#5534
After restarting a service-managed gateway (systemd/launchd), the
stale-process sweep calls find_gateway_pids() which returns ALL gateway
PIDs via ps aux — including the one just spawned by the service manager.
The sweep kills it, leaving the user with a stopped gateway and a
confusing 'Restart manually' message.
Fix: add _get_service_pids() to query systemd MainPID and launchd PID
for active gateway services, then exclude those PIDs from the sweep.
Also add exclude_pids parameter to find_gateway_pids() and
kill_gateway_processes() so callers can skip known service-managed PIDs.
Adds 9 targeted tests covering:
- _get_service_pids() for systemd, launchd, empty, and zero-PID cases
- find_gateway_pids() exclude_pids filtering
- cmd_update integration: service PID not killed after restart
- cmd_update integration: manual PID killed while service PID preserved
Add validate_config_structure() that catches common config.yaml mistakes:
- custom_providers as dict instead of list (missing '-' in YAML)
- fallback_model accidentally nested inside another section
- custom_providers entries missing required fields (name, base_url)
- Missing model section when custom_providers is configured
- Root-level keys that look like misplaced custom_providers fields
Surface these diagnostics at three levels:
1. Startup: print_config_warnings() runs at CLI and gateway module load,
so users see issues before hitting cryptic errors
2. Error time: 'Unknown provider' errors in auth.py and model_switch.py
now include config diagnostics with fix suggestions
3. Doctor: 'hermes doctor' shows a Config Structure section with all
issues and fix hints
Also adds a warning log in runtime_provider.py when custom_providers
is a dict (previously returned None silently).
Motivated by a Discord user who had malformed custom_providers YAML
and got only 'Unknown Provider' with no guidance on what was wrong.
17 new tests covering all validation paths.
All 35 subprocess.run() calls in hermes_cli/gateway.py lacked timeout
parameters. If systemctl, launchctl, loginctl, wmic, or ps blocks,
hermes gateway start/stop/restart/status/install/uninstall hangs
indefinitely with no feedback.
Timeouts tiered by operation type:
- 10s: instant queries (is-active, status, list, ps, tail, journalctl)
- 30s: fast lifecycle (daemon-reload, enable, start, bootstrap, kickstart)
- 90s: graceful shutdown (stop, restart, bootout, kickstart -k) — exceeds
our TimeoutStopSec=60 to avoid premature timeout during shutdown
Special handling: _is_service_running() and launchd_status() catch
TimeoutExpired and treat it as not-running/not-loaded, consistent with
how non-zero return codes are already handled.
Inspired by PR #3732 (dlkakbs) and issue #4057 (SHL0MS).
Reimplemented on current main which has significantly changed launchctl
handling (bootout/bootstrap/kickstart vs legacy load/unload/start/stop).
Removing an env-seeded credential (e.g. from OPENROUTER_API_KEY) via
'hermes auth' previously had no lasting effect -- the entry was deleted
from auth.json but load_pool() re-created it on the next call because
the env var was still set.
Now auth_remove_command detects env-sourced entries (source starts with
'env:') and calls the new remove_env_value() to strip the var from both
.env and os.environ, preventing re-seeding.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/config.py: add remove_env_value() -- atomically removes a
line from .env and pops from os.environ
- hermes_cli/auth_commands.py: auth_remove_command clears env var when
removing an env-seeded pool entry
- 8 new tests covering remove_env_value and the full zombie-credential
lifecycle (remove -> reload -> stays gone)
Replace the two-step stop/start restart with a single
launchctl kickstart -k call. When the gateway triggers a
restart from inside its own process tree, the old stop
command kills the shell before the start half is reached.
kickstart -k lets launchd handle the kill+restart atomically.
launchctl load/unload/start/stop are deprecated on macOS since 10.10
and fail silently on modern versions. This replaces them with the
current equivalents:
- load -> bootstrap gui/<uid> <plist>
- unload -> bootout gui/<uid>/<label>
- start -> kickstart gui/<uid>/<label>
- stop -> kill SIGTERM gui/<uid>/<label>
Adds _launchd_domain() helper returning the gui/<uid> target domain.
Updates test assertions to match the new command signatures.
Fixes#4820
Cherry-picked from PR #5136 by thakoreh.
setup_gateway() uses shutil.which('uv') at line 2126 but shutil was
never imported at module level, causing NameError during Matrix E2EE
auto-install. Adds top-level import and regression test.
When --yolo, -w, -s, -r, -c, and --pass-session-id exist on both the parent
parser and the 'chat' subparser with explicit defaults (default=False or
default=None), argparse's subparser initialization overwrites the parent's
parsed value. So 'hermes --yolo chat' silently drops --yolo, making it appear
broken.
Fix: use default=argparse.SUPPRESS on all duplicated arguments in the chat
subparser. SUPPRESS means 'don't set this attribute if the user didn't
explicitly provide it', so the parent parser's value survives through.
Affected flags: --yolo, --worktree/-w, --skills/-s, --pass-session-id,
--resume/-r, --continue/-c.
Adds 15 regression tests covering flag-before-subcommand, flag-after-subcommand,
no-subcommand, and env var propagation scenarios.
gateway stop and restart previously called kill_gateway_processes() which
scans ps aux and kills ALL gateway processes across all profiles. Starting
a profile gateway would nuke the main one (and vice versa).
Now:
- hermes gateway stop → only kills the current profile's gateway (PID file)
- hermes -p work gateway stop → only kills the 'work' profile's gateway
- hermes gateway stop --all → kills every gateway process (old behavior)
- hermes gateway restart → profile-scoped for manual fallback path
- hermes update → discovers and restarts ALL profile gateways (systemctl
list-units hermes-gateway*) since the code update is shared
Added stop_profile_gateway() which uses the HERMES_HOME-scoped PID file
instead of global process scanning.
Three interconnected bugs caused `hermes skills config` per-platform
settings to be silently ignored:
1. telegram_menu_commands() never filtered disabled skills — all skills
consumed menu slots regardless of platform config, hitting Telegram's
100 command cap. Now loads disabled skills for 'telegram' and excludes
them from the menu.
2. Gateway skill dispatch executed disabled skills because
get_skill_commands() (process-global cache) only filters by the global
disabled list at scan time. Added per-platform check before execution,
returning an actionable 'skill is disabled' message.
3. get_disabled_skill_names() only checked HERMES_PLATFORM env var, but
the gateway sets HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM instead. Added
HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM as fallback, plus an explicit platform=
parameter for callers that know their platform (menu builder, gateway
dispatch). Also added platform to prompt_builder's skills cache key
so multi-platform gateways get correct per-platform skill prompts.
Reported by SteveSkedasticity (CLAW community).
Follow-up for salvaged PR #2352:
- Replace hardcoded Path(os.getenv('HERMES_HOME', ...)) with
get_hermes_home() from hermes_constants (2 places)
- Consolidate redundant git_cmd_base into the existing git_cmd
variable, constructed once before fork detection
- Update autostash tests for the unmerged index check added
in the previous commit
launchd_restart() already prints stop/start confirmation via its
internal helpers — the extra 'Gateway restarted via launchd' line
was redundant. Update test assertion to match.
Previously, `hermes gateway install --system` hard-refused to create a
service running as root, even when explicitly requested via
`--run-as-user root`. This forced LXC/container users (where root is
the only user) to either create throwaway users or comment out the check
in source.
Changes:
- Auto-detected root (no explicit --run-as-user) still raises, but with
a message explaining how to override
- Explicit `--run-as-user root` now allowed with a warning about
security implications
- Interactive setup wizard prompt accepts 'root' as a valid username
(warning comes from _system_service_identity downstream)
- Added tests for all three paths: auto-detected root rejection,
explicit root allowance, and normal non-root passthrough
* feat(memory): add pluggable memory provider interface with profile isolation
Introduces a pluggable MemoryProvider ABC so external memory backends can
integrate with Hermes without modifying core files. Each backend becomes a
plugin implementing a standard interface, orchestrated by MemoryManager.
Key architecture:
- agent/memory_provider.py — ABC with core + optional lifecycle hooks
- agent/memory_manager.py — single integration point in the agent loop
- agent/builtin_memory_provider.py — wraps existing MEMORY.md/USER.md
Profile isolation fixes applied to all 6 shipped plugins:
- Cognitive Memory: use get_hermes_home() instead of raw env var
- Hindsight Memory: check $HERMES_HOME/hindsight/config.json first,
fall back to legacy ~/.hindsight/ for backward compat
- Hermes Memory Store: replace hardcoded ~/.hermes paths with
get_hermes_home() for config loading and DB path defaults
- Mem0 Memory: use get_hermes_home() instead of raw env var
- RetainDB Memory: auto-derive profile-scoped project name from
hermes_home path (hermes-<profile>), explicit env var overrides
- OpenViking Memory: read-only, no local state, isolation via .env
MemoryManager.initialize_all() now injects hermes_home into kwargs so
every provider can resolve profile-scoped storage without importing
get_hermes_home() themselves.
Plugin system: adds register_memory_provider() to PluginContext and
get_plugin_memory_providers() accessor.
Based on PR #3825. 46 tests (37 unit + 5 E2E + 4 plugin registration).
* refactor(memory): drop cognitive plugin, rewrite OpenViking as full provider
Remove cognitive-memory plugin (#727) — core mechanics are broken:
decay runs 24x too fast (hourly not daily), prefetch uses row ID as
timestamp, search limited by importance not similarity.
Rewrite openviking-memory plugin from a read-only search wrapper into
a full bidirectional memory provider using the complete OpenViking
session lifecycle API:
- sync_turn: records user/assistant messages to OpenViking session
(threaded, non-blocking)
- on_session_end: commits session to trigger automatic memory extraction
into 6 categories (profile, preferences, entities, events, cases,
patterns)
- prefetch: background semantic search via find() endpoint
- on_memory_write: mirrors built-in memory writes to the session
- is_available: checks env var only, no network calls (ABC compliance)
Tools expanded from 3 to 5:
- viking_search: semantic search with mode/scope/limit
- viking_read: tiered content (abstract ~100tok / overview ~2k / full)
- viking_browse: filesystem-style navigation (list/tree/stat)
- viking_remember: explicit memory storage via session
- viking_add_resource: ingest URLs/docs into knowledge base
Uses direct HTTP via httpx (no openviking SDK dependency needed).
Response truncation on viking_read to prevent context flooding.
* fix(memory): harden Mem0 plugin — thread safety, non-blocking sync, circuit breaker
- Remove redundant mem0_context tool (identical to mem0_search with
rerank=true, top_k=5 — wastes a tool slot and confuses the model)
- Thread sync_turn so it's non-blocking — Mem0's server-side LLM
extraction can take 5-10s, was stalling the agent after every turn
- Add threading.Lock around _get_client() for thread-safe lazy init
(prefetch and sync threads could race on first client creation)
- Add circuit breaker: after 5 consecutive API failures, pause calls
for 120s instead of hammering a down server every turn. Auto-resets
after cooldown. Logs a warning when tripped.
- Track success/failure in prefetch, sync_turn, and all tool calls
- Wait for previous sync to finish before starting a new one (prevents
unbounded thread accumulation on rapid turns)
- Clean up shutdown to join both prefetch and sync threads
* fix(memory): enforce single external memory provider limit
MemoryManager now rejects a second non-builtin provider with a warning.
Built-in memory (MEMORY.md/USER.md) is always accepted. Only ONE
external plugin provider is allowed at a time. This prevents tool
schema bloat (some providers add 3-5 tools each) and conflicting
memory backends.
The warning message directs users to configure memory.provider in
config.yaml to select which provider to activate.
Updated all 47 tests to use builtin + one external pattern instead
of multiple externals. Added test_second_external_rejected to verify
the enforcement.
* feat(memory): add ByteRover memory provider plugin
Implements the ByteRover integration (from PR #3499 by hieuntg81) as a
MemoryProvider plugin instead of direct run_agent.py modifications.
ByteRover provides persistent memory via the brv CLI — a hierarchical
knowledge tree with tiered retrieval (fuzzy text then LLM-driven search).
Local-first with optional cloud sync.
Plugin capabilities:
- prefetch: background brv query for relevant context
- sync_turn: curate conversation turns (threaded, non-blocking)
- on_memory_write: mirror built-in memory writes to brv
- on_pre_compress: extract insights before context compression
Tools (3):
- brv_query: search the knowledge tree
- brv_curate: store facts/decisions/patterns
- brv_status: check CLI version and context tree state
Profile isolation: working directory at $HERMES_HOME/byterover/ (scoped
per profile). Binary resolution cached with thread-safe double-checked
locking. All write operations threaded to avoid blocking the agent
(curate can take 120s with LLM processing).
* fix(memory): thread remaining sync_turns, fix holographic, add config key
Plugin fixes:
- Hindsight: thread sync_turn (was blocking up to 30s via _run_in_thread)
- RetainDB: thread sync_turn (was blocking on HTTP POST)
- Both: shutdown now joins sync threads alongside prefetch threads
Holographic retrieval fixes:
- reason(): removed dead intersection_key computation (bundled but never
used in scoring). Now reuses pre-computed entity_residuals directly,
moved role_content encoding outside the inner loop.
- contradict(): added _MAX_CONTRADICT_FACTS=500 scaling guard. Above
500 facts, only checks the most recently updated ones to avoid O(n^2)
explosion (~125K comparisons at 500 is acceptable).
Config:
- Added memory.provider key to DEFAULT_CONFIG ("" = builtin only).
No version bump needed (deep_merge handles new keys automatically).
* feat(memory): extract Honcho as a MemoryProvider plugin
Creates plugins/honcho-memory/ as a thin adapter over the existing
honcho_integration/ package. All 4 Honcho tools (profile, search,
context, conclude) move from the normal tool registry to the
MemoryProvider interface.
The plugin delegates all work to HonchoSessionManager — no Honcho
logic is reimplemented. It uses the existing config chain:
$HERMES_HOME/honcho.json -> ~/.honcho/config.json -> env vars.
Lifecycle hooks:
- initialize: creates HonchoSessionManager via existing client factory
- prefetch: background dialectic query
- sync_turn: records messages + flushes to API (threaded)
- on_memory_write: mirrors user profile writes as conclusions
- on_session_end: flushes all pending messages
This is a prerequisite for the MemoryManager wiring in run_agent.py.
Once wired, Honcho goes through the same provider interface as all
other memory plugins, and the scattered Honcho code in run_agent.py
can be consolidated into the single MemoryManager integration point.
* feat(memory): wire MemoryManager into run_agent.py
Adds 8 integration points for the external memory provider plugin,
all purely additive (zero existing code modified):
1. Init (~L1130): Create MemoryManager, find matching plugin provider
from memory.provider config, initialize with session context
2. Tool injection (~L1160): Append provider tool schemas to self.tools
and self.valid_tool_names after memory_manager init
3. System prompt (~L2705): Add external provider's system_prompt_block
alongside existing MEMORY.md/USER.md blocks
4. Tool routing (~L5362): Route provider tool calls through
memory_manager.handle_tool_call() before the catchall handler
5. Memory write bridge (~L5353): Notify external provider via
on_memory_write() when the built-in memory tool writes
6. Pre-compress (~L5233): Call on_pre_compress() before context
compression discards messages
7. Prefetch (~L6421): Inject provider prefetch results into the
current-turn user message (same pattern as Honcho turn context)
8. Turn sync + session end (~L8161, ~L8172): sync_all() after each
completed turn, queue_prefetch_all() for next turn, on_session_end()
+ shutdown_all() at conversation end
All hooks are wrapped in try/except — a failing provider never breaks
the agent. The existing memory system, Honcho integration, and all
other code paths are completely untouched.
Full suite: 7222 passed, 4 pre-existing failures.
* refactor(memory): remove legacy Honcho integration from core
Extracts all Honcho-specific code from run_agent.py, model_tools.py,
toolsets.py, and gateway/run.py. Honcho is now exclusively available
as a memory provider plugin (plugins/honcho-memory/).
Removed from run_agent.py (-457 lines):
- Honcho init block (session manager creation, activation, config)
- 8 Honcho methods: _honcho_should_activate, _strip_honcho_tools,
_activate_honcho, _register_honcho_exit_hook, _queue_honcho_prefetch,
_honcho_prefetch, _honcho_save_user_observation, _honcho_sync
- _inject_honcho_turn_context module-level function
- Honcho system prompt block (tool descriptions, CLI commands)
- Honcho context injection in api_messages building
- Honcho params from __init__ (honcho_session_key, honcho_manager,
honcho_config)
- HONCHO_TOOL_NAMES constant
- All honcho-specific tool dispatch forwarding
Removed from other files:
- model_tools.py: honcho_tools import, honcho params from handle_function_call
- toolsets.py: honcho toolset definition, honcho tools from core tools list
- gateway/run.py: honcho params from AIAgent constructor calls
Removed tests (-339 lines):
- 9 Honcho-specific test methods from test_run_agent.py
- TestHonchoAtexitFlush class from test_exit_cleanup_interrupt.py
Restored two regex constants (_SURROGATE_RE, _BUDGET_WARNING_RE) that
were accidentally removed during the honcho function extraction.
The honcho_integration/ package is kept intact — the plugin delegates
to it. tools/honcho_tools.py registry entries are now dead code (import
commented out in model_tools.py) but the file is preserved for reference.
Full suite: 7207 passed, 4 pre-existing failures. Zero regressions.
* refactor(memory): restructure plugins, add CLI, clean gateway, migration notice
Plugin restructure:
- Move all memory plugins from plugins/<name>-memory/ to plugins/memory/<name>/
(byterover, hindsight, holographic, honcho, mem0, openviking, retaindb)
- New plugins/memory/__init__.py discovery module that scans the directory
directly, loading providers by name without the general plugin system
- run_agent.py uses load_memory_provider() instead of get_plugin_memory_providers()
CLI wiring:
- hermes memory setup — interactive curses picker + config wizard
- hermes memory status — show active provider, config, availability
- hermes memory off — disable external provider (built-in only)
- hermes honcho — now shows migration notice pointing to hermes memory setup
Gateway cleanup:
- Remove _get_or_create_gateway_honcho (already removed in prev commit)
- Remove _shutdown_gateway_honcho and _shutdown_all_gateway_honcho methods
- Remove all calls to shutdown methods (4 call sites)
- Remove _honcho_managers/_honcho_configs dict references
Dead code removal:
- Delete tools/honcho_tools.py (279 lines, import was already commented out)
- Delete tests/gateway/test_honcho_lifecycle.py (131 lines, tested removed methods)
- Remove if False placeholder from run_agent.py
Migration:
- Honcho migration notice on startup: detects existing honcho.json or
~/.honcho/config.json, prints guidance to run hermes memory setup.
Only fires when memory.provider is not set and not in quiet mode.
Full suite: 7203 passed, 4 pre-existing failures. Zero regressions.
* feat(memory): standardize plugin config + add per-plugin documentation
Config architecture:
- Add save_config(values, hermes_home) to MemoryProvider ABC
- Honcho: writes to $HERMES_HOME/honcho.json (SDK native)
- Mem0: writes to $HERMES_HOME/mem0.json
- Hindsight: writes to $HERMES_HOME/hindsight/config.json
- Holographic: writes to config.yaml under plugins.hermes-memory-store
- OpenViking/RetainDB/ByteRover: env-var only (default no-op)
Setup wizard (hermes memory setup):
- Now calls provider.save_config() for non-secret config
- Secrets still go to .env via env vars
- Only memory.provider activation key goes to config.yaml
Documentation:
- README.md for each of the 7 providers in plugins/memory/<name>/
- Requirements, setup (wizard + manual), config reference, tools table
- Consistent format across all providers
The contract for new memory plugins:
- get_config_schema() declares all fields (REQUIRED)
- save_config() writes native config (REQUIRED if not env-var-only)
- Secrets use env_var field in schema, written to .env by wizard
- README.md in the plugin directory
* docs: add memory providers user guide + developer guide
New pages:
- user-guide/features/memory-providers.md — comprehensive guide covering
all 7 shipped providers (Honcho, OpenViking, Mem0, Hindsight,
Holographic, RetainDB, ByteRover). Each with setup, config, tools,
cost, and unique features. Includes comparison table and profile
isolation notes.
- developer-guide/memory-provider-plugin.md — how to build a new memory
provider plugin. Covers ABC, required methods, config schema,
save_config, threading contract, profile isolation, testing.
Updated pages:
- user-guide/features/memory.md — replaced Honcho section with link to
new Memory Providers page
- user-guide/features/honcho.md — replaced with migration redirect to
the new Memory Providers page
- sidebars.ts — added both new pages to navigation
* fix(memory): auto-migrate Honcho users to memory provider plugin
When honcho.json or ~/.honcho/config.json exists but memory.provider
is not set, automatically set memory.provider: honcho in config.yaml
and activate the plugin. The plugin reads the same config files, so
all data and credentials are preserved. Zero user action needed.
Persists the migration to config.yaml so it only fires once. Prints
a one-line confirmation in non-quiet mode.
* fix(memory): only auto-migrate Honcho when enabled + credentialed
Check HonchoClientConfig.enabled AND (api_key OR base_url) before
auto-migrating — not just file existence. Prevents false activation
for users who disabled Honcho, stopped using it (config lingers),
or have ~/.honcho/ from a different tool.
* feat(memory): auto-install pip dependencies during hermes memory setup
Reads pip_dependencies from plugin.yaml, checks which are missing,
installs them via pip before config walkthrough. Also shows install
guidance for external_dependencies (e.g. brv CLI for ByteRover).
Updated all 7 plugin.yaml files with pip_dependencies:
- honcho: honcho-ai
- mem0: mem0ai
- openviking: httpx
- hindsight: hindsight-client
- holographic: (none)
- retaindb: requests
- byterover: (external_dependencies for brv CLI)
* fix: remove remaining Honcho crash risks from cli.py and gateway
cli.py: removed Honcho session re-mapping block (would crash importing
deleted tools/honcho_tools.py), Honcho flush on compress, Honcho
session display on startup, Honcho shutdown on exit, honcho_session_key
AIAgent param.
gateway/run.py: removed honcho_session_key params from helper methods,
sync_honcho param, _honcho.shutdown() block.
tests: fixed test_cron_session_with_honcho_key_skipped (was passing
removed honcho_key param to _flush_memories_for_session).
* fix: include plugins/ in pyproject.toml package list
Without this, plugins/memory/ wouldn't be included in non-editable
installs. Hermes always runs from the repo checkout so this is belt-
and-suspenders, but prevents breakage if the install method changes.
* fix(memory): correct pip-to-import name mapping for dep checks
The heuristic dep.replace('-', '_') fails for packages where the pip
name differs from the import name: honcho-ai→honcho, mem0ai→mem0,
hindsight-client→hindsight_client. Added explicit mapping table so
hermes memory setup doesn't try to reinstall already-installed packages.
* chore: remove dead code from old plugin memory registration path
- hermes_cli/plugins.py: removed register_memory_provider(),
_memory_providers list, get_plugin_memory_providers() — memory
providers now use plugins/memory/ discovery, not the general plugin system
- hermes_cli/main.py: stripped 74 lines of dead honcho argparse
subparsers (setup, status, sessions, map, peer, mode, tokens,
identity, migrate) — kept only the migration redirect
- agent/memory_provider.py: updated docstring to reflect new
registration path
- tests: replaced TestPluginMemoryProviderRegistration with
TestPluginMemoryDiscovery that tests the actual plugins/memory/
discovery system. Added 3 new tests (discover, load, nonexistent).
* chore: delete dead honcho_integration/cli.py and its tests
cli.py (794 lines) was the old 'hermes honcho' command handler — nobody
calls it since cmd_honcho was replaced with a migration redirect.
Deleted tests that imported from removed code:
- tests/honcho_integration/test_cli.py (tested _resolve_api_key)
- tests/honcho_integration/test_config_isolation.py (tested CLI config paths)
- tests/tools/test_honcho_tools.py (tested the deleted tools/honcho_tools.py)
Remaining honcho_integration/ files (actively used by the plugin):
- client.py (445 lines) — config loading, SDK client creation
- session.py (991 lines) — session management, queries, flush
* refactor: move honcho_integration/ into the honcho plugin
Moves client.py (445 lines) and session.py (991 lines) from the
top-level honcho_integration/ package into plugins/memory/honcho/.
No Honcho code remains in the main codebase.
- plugins/memory/honcho/client.py — config loading, SDK client creation
- plugins/memory/honcho/session.py — session management, queries, flush
- Updated all imports: run_agent.py (auto-migration), hermes_cli/doctor.py,
plugin __init__.py, session.py cross-import, all tests
- Removed honcho_integration/ package and pyproject.toml entry
- Renamed tests/honcho_integration/ → tests/honcho_plugin/
* docs: update architecture + gateway-internals for memory provider system
- architecture.md: replaced honcho_integration/ with plugins/memory/
- gateway-internals.md: replaced Honcho-specific session routing and
flush lifecycle docs with generic memory provider interface docs
* fix: update stale mock path for resolve_active_host after honcho plugin migration
* fix(memory): address review feedback — P0 lifecycle, ABC contract, honcho CLI restore
Review feedback from Honcho devs (erosika):
P0 — Provider lifecycle:
- Remove on_session_end() + shutdown_all() from run_conversation() tail
(was killing providers after every turn in multi-turn sessions)
- Add shutdown_memory_provider() method on AIAgent for callers
- Wire shutdown into CLI atexit, reset_conversation, gateway stop/expiry
Bug fixes:
- Remove sync_honcho=False kwarg from /btw callsites (TypeError crash)
- Fix doctor.py references to dead 'hermes honcho setup' command
- Cache prefetch_all() before tool loop (was re-calling every iteration)
ABC contract hardening (all backwards-compatible):
- Add session_id kwarg to prefetch/sync_turn/queue_prefetch
- Make on_pre_compress() return str (provider insights in compression)
- Add **kwargs to on_turn_start() for runtime context
- Add on_delegation() hook for parent-side subagent observation
- Document agent_context/agent_identity/agent_workspace kwargs on
initialize() (prevents cron corruption, enables profile scoping)
- Fix docstring: single external provider, not multiple
Honcho CLI restoration:
- Add plugins/memory/honcho/cli.py (from main's honcho_integration/cli.py
with imports adapted to plugin path)
- Restore full hermes honcho command with all subcommands (status, peer,
mode, tokens, identity, enable/disable, sync, peers, --target-profile)
- Restore auto-clone on profile creation + sync on hermes update
- hermes honcho setup now redirects to hermes memory setup
* fix(memory): wire on_delegation, skip_memory for cron/flush, fix ByteRover return type
- Wire on_delegation() in delegate_tool.py — parent's memory provider
is notified with task+result after each subagent completes
- Add skip_memory=True to cron scheduler (prevents cron system prompts
from corrupting user representations — closes#4052)
- Add skip_memory=True to gateway flush agent (throwaway agent shouldn't
activate memory provider)
- Fix ByteRover on_pre_compress() return type: None -> str
* fix(honcho): port profile isolation fixes from PR #4632
Ports 5 bug fixes found during profile testing (erosika's PR #4632):
1. 3-tier config resolution — resolve_config_path() now checks
$HERMES_HOME/honcho.json → ~/.hermes/honcho.json → ~/.honcho/config.json
(non-default profiles couldn't find shared host blocks)
2. Thread host=_host_key() through from_global_config() in cmd_setup,
cmd_status, cmd_identity (--target-profile was being ignored)
3. Use bare profile name as aiPeer (not host key with dots) — Honcho's
peer ID pattern is ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$, dots are invalid
4. Wrap add_peers() in try/except — was fatal on new AI peers, killed
all message uploads for the session
5. Gate Honcho clone behind --clone/--clone-all on profile create
(bare create should be blank-slate)
Also: sanitize assistant_peer_id via _sanitize_id()
* fix(tests): add module cleanup fixture to test_cli_provider_resolution
test_cli_provider_resolution._import_cli() wipes tools.*, cli, and
run_agent from sys.modules to force fresh imports, but had no cleanup.
This poisoned all subsequent tests on the same xdist worker — mocks
targeting tools.file_tools, tools.send_message_tool, etc. patched the
NEW module object while already-imported functions still referenced
the OLD one. Caused ~25 cascade failures: send_message KeyError,
process_registry FileNotFoundError, file_read_guards timeouts,
read_loop_detection file-not-found, mcp_oauth None port, and
provider_parity/codex_execution stale tool lists.
Fix: autouse fixture saves all affected modules before each test and
restores them after, matching the pattern in
test_managed_browserbase_and_modal.py.
OpenCode Zen and Go are mixed-API-surface providers — different models
behind them use different API surfaces (GPT on Zen uses codex_responses,
Claude on Zen uses anthropic_messages, MiniMax on Go uses
anthropic_messages, GLM/Kimi on Go use chat_completions).
Changes:
- Add normalize_opencode_model_id() and opencode_model_api_mode() to
models.py for model ID normalization and API surface routing
- Add _provider_supports_explicit_api_mode() to runtime_provider.py
to prevent stale api_mode from leaking across provider switches
- Wire opencode routing into all three api_mode resolution paths:
pool entry, api_key provider, and explicit runtime
- Add api_mode field to ModelSwitchResult for propagation through the
switch pipeline
- Consolidate _PROVIDER_MODELS from main.py into models.py (single
source of truth, eliminates duplicate dict)
- Add opencode normalization to setup wizard and model picker flows
- Add opencode block to _normalize_model_for_provider in CLI
- Add opencode-zen/go fallback model lists to setup.py
Tests: 160 targeted tests pass (26 new tests covering normalization,
api_mode routing per provider/model, persistence, and setup wizard
normalization).
Based on PR #3017 by SaM13997.
Co-authored-by: SaM13997 <139419381+SaM13997@users.noreply.github.com>
hermes update only cleared .update_check for the active HERMES_HOME,
leaving other profiles showing stale 'N commits behind' in their banner.
Now _invalidate_update_cache() iterates over ~/.hermes/ (default) plus
every directory under ~/.hermes/profiles/ to clear all caches. The git
repo is shared across profiles so a single update brings them all current.
Reported by SteveSkedasticity on Discord.
The original PR excluded auth.json from _DEFAULT_EXPORT_EXCLUDE_ROOT and
filtered both auth.json and .env from named profile exports, but missed
adding .env to the default profile exclusion set. Default exports would
still leak .env containing API keys.
Added .env to _DEFAULT_EXPORT_EXCLUDE_ROOT, added test coverage, and
updated the existing test that incorrectly asserted .env presence.
- stderr handler now uses RedactingFormatter to match file handlers
- restart path uses verbose=0 (int) instead of verbose=False (bool)
- test mock updated with new run_gateway(verbose, quiet, replace) signature
When `sudo hermes gateway install --system --run-as-user <user>` generates
the systemd unit, get_hermes_home() resolves to /root/.hermes because
Path.home() returns root's home under sudo. The unit correctly sets
HOME= and User= via _system_service_identity(), but HERMES_HOME was
computed independently and pointed to root's config directory.
Add _hermes_home_for_target_user() which remaps the current HERMES_HOME
to the equivalent path under the target user's home. This handles:
- Default ~/.hermes → target user's ~/.hermes
- Profiles (e.g. ~/.hermes/profiles/coder) → preserves relative structure
- Custom paths (e.g. /opt/hermes) → kept as-is
Supersedes #3861 which only handled the default case and left profiles
broken (also flagged by Copilot review).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add _DEFAULT_EXPORT_EXCLUDE_ROOT constant with 25+ entries to exclude
from default profile exports: repo checkout (hermes-agent), worktrees,
databases (state.db), caches, runtime state, logs, binaries
- Add _default_export_ignore() with root-level and universal exclusions
(__pycache__, *.sock, *.tmp at any depth)
- Remove redundant shutil/tempfile imports from contributor's if-block
- Block import_profile() from accepting 'default' as target name with
clear guidance to use --name
- Add 7 tests covering: archive creation, inclusion of profile data,
exclusion of infrastructure, nested __pycache__ exclusion, import
rejection without --name, import rejection with --name default,
full export-import roundtrip with a different name
Addresses review feedback on PR #4370.
Fixes a zip-slip path traversal vulnerability in hermes profile import.
shutil.unpack_archive() on untrusted tar members allows entries like
../../escape.txt to write files outside ~/.hermes/profiles/.
- Add _normalize_profile_archive_parts() to reject absolute paths
(POSIX and Windows), traversal (..), empty paths, backslash tricks
- Add _safe_extract_profile_archive() for manual per-member extraction
that only allows regular files and directories (rejects symlinks)
- Replace shutil.unpack_archive() with the safe extraction path
- Add regression tests for traversal and absolute-path attacks
Co-authored-by: Gutslabs <gutslabsxyz@gmail.com>
`hermes config set KEY ""` and `hermes config set KEY 0` were rejected
because the guard used `not value` which is truthy for empty strings,
zero, and False. Changed to `value is None` so only truly missing
arguments are rejected.
Closes#4277
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(auth): add same-provider credential pools and rotation UX
Add same-provider credential pooling so Hermes can rotate across
multiple credentials for a single provider, recover from exhausted
credentials without jumping providers immediately, and configure
that behavior directly in hermes setup.
- agent/credential_pool.py: persisted per-provider credential pools
- hermes auth add/list/remove/reset CLI commands
- 429/402/401 recovery with pool rotation in run_agent.py
- Setup wizard integration for pool strategy configuration
- Auto-seeding from env vars and existing OAuth state
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Salvaged from PR #2647
* fix(tests): prevent pool auto-seeding from host env in credential pool tests
Tests for non-pool Anthropic paths and auth remove were failing when
host env vars (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY) or file-backed OAuth credentials
were present. The pool auto-seeding picked these up, causing unexpected
pool entries in tests.
- Mock _select_pool_entry in auxiliary_client OAuth flag tests
- Clear Anthropic env vars and mock _seed_from_singletons in auth remove test
* feat(auth): add thread safety, least_used strategy, and request counting
- Add threading.Lock to CredentialPool for gateway thread safety
(concurrent requests from multiple gateway sessions could race on
pool state mutations without this)
- Add 'least_used' rotation strategy that selects the credential
with the lowest request_count, distributing load more evenly
- Add request_count field to PooledCredential for usage tracking
- Add mark_used() method to increment per-credential request counts
- Wrap select(), mark_exhausted_and_rotate(), and try_refresh_current()
with lock acquisition
- Add tests: least_used selection, mark_used counting, concurrent
thread safety (4 threads × 20 selects with no corruption)
* feat(auth): add interactive mode for bare 'hermes auth' command
When 'hermes auth' is called without a subcommand, it now launches an
interactive wizard that:
1. Shows full credential pool status across all providers
2. Offers a menu: add, remove, reset cooldowns, set strategy
3. For OAuth-capable providers (anthropic, nous, openai-codex), the
add flow explicitly asks 'API key or OAuth login?' — making it
clear that both auth types are supported for the same provider
4. Strategy picker shows all 4 options (fill_first, round_robin,
least_used, random) with the current selection marked
5. Remove flow shows entries with indices for easy selection
The subcommand paths (hermes auth add/list/remove/reset) still work
exactly as before for scripted/non-interactive use.
* fix(tests): update runtime_provider tests for config.yaml source of truth (#4165)
Tests were using OPENAI_BASE_URL env var which is no longer consulted
after #4165. Updated to use model config (provider, base_url, api_key)
which is the new single source of truth for custom endpoint URLs.
* feat(auth): support custom endpoint credential pools keyed by provider name
Custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints all share provider='custom', making
the provider-keyed pool useless. Now pools for custom endpoints are
keyed by 'custom:<normalized_name>' where the name comes from the
custom_providers config list (auto-generated from URL hostname).
- Pool key format: 'custom:together.ai', 'custom:local-(localhost:8080)'
- load_pool('custom:name') seeds from custom_providers api_key AND
model.api_key when base_url matches
- hermes auth add/list now shows custom endpoints alongside registry
providers
- _resolve_openrouter_runtime and _resolve_named_custom_runtime check
pool before falling back to single config key
- 6 new tests covering custom pool keying, seeding, and listing
* docs: add Excalidraw diagram of full credential pool flow
Comprehensive architecture diagram showing:
- Credential sources (env vars, auth.json OAuth, config.yaml, CLI)
- Pool storage and auto-seeding
- Runtime resolution paths (registry, custom, OpenRouter)
- Error recovery (429 retry-then-rotate, 402 immediate, 401 refresh)
- CLI management commands and strategy configuration
Open at: https://excalidraw.com/#json=2Ycqhqpi6f12E_3ITyiwh,c7u9jSt5BwrmiVzHGbm87g
* fix(tests): update setup wizard pool tests for unified select_provider_and_model flow
The setup wizard now delegates to select_provider_and_model() instead
of using its own prompt_choice-based provider picker. Tests needed:
- Mock select_provider_and_model as no-op (provider pre-written to config)
- Call _stub_tts BEFORE custom prompt_choice mock (it overwrites it)
- Pre-write model.provider to config so the pool step is reached
* docs: add comprehensive credential pool documentation
- New page: website/docs/user-guide/features/credential-pools.md
Full guide covering quick start, CLI commands, rotation strategies,
error recovery, custom endpoint pools, auto-discovery, thread safety,
architecture, and storage format.
- Updated fallback-providers.md to reference credential pools as the
first layer of resilience (same-provider rotation before cross-provider)
- Added hermes auth to CLI commands reference with usage examples
- Added credential_pool_strategies to configuration guide
* chore: remove excalidraw diagram from repo (external link only)
* refactor: simplify credential pool code — extract helpers, collapse extras, dedup patterns
- _load_config_safe(): replace 4 identical try/except/import blocks
- _iter_custom_providers(): shared generator for custom provider iteration
- PooledCredential.extra dict: collapse 11 round-trip-only fields
(token_type, scope, client_id, portal_base_url, obtained_at,
expires_in, agent_key_id, agent_key_expires_in, agent_key_reused,
agent_key_obtained_at, tls) into a single extra dict with
__getattr__ for backward-compatible access
- _available_entries(): shared exhaustion-check between select and peek
- Dedup anthropic OAuth seeding (hermes_pkce + claude_code identical)
- SimpleNamespace replaces class _Args boilerplate in auth_commands
- _try_resolve_from_custom_pool(): shared pool-check in runtime_provider
Net -17 lines. All 383 targeted tests pass.
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Telegram Bot API requires command names to be 1-32 characters. Plugin
and skill names that exceed this limit now get truncated. If truncation
creates a collision (with core commands, other plugins, or other skills),
the name is shortened to 31 chars and a digit 0-9 is appended.
Adds _clamp_telegram_names() helper used for both plugin and skill
entries in telegram_menu_commands(). Core CommandDef commands are tracked
as reserved names so truncated plugin/skill names never shadow them.
Addresses the fix from PR #4191 (sroecker) with collision-safe truncation.
Tests: 9 new tests covering truncation, digit suffixes, exhaustion, dedup.
setup_model_provider() had 800+ lines of duplicated provider handling
that reimplemented the same credential prompting, OAuth flows, and model
selection that hermes model already provides via the _model_flow_*
functions. Every new provider had to be added in both places, and the
two implementations diverged in config persistence (setup.py did raw
YAML writes, _set_model_provider, and _update_config_for_provider
depending on the provider — main.py used its own load/save cycle).
This caused the #4172 bug: _model_flow_custom saved config to disk but
the wizard's final save_config(config) overwrote it with stale values.
Fix: extract the core of cmd_model() into select_provider_and_model()
and have setup_model_provider() call it. After the call, re-sync the
wizard's config dict from disk. Deletes ~800 lines of duplicated
provider handling from setup.py.
Also fixes cmd_model() double-AuthError crash on fresh installs with
no API keys configured.
_model_flow_custom() saved model.provider and model.base_url to disk
via its own load_config/save_config cycle, but never updated the
setup wizard's in-memory config dict. The wizard's final
save_config(config) then overwrote the custom settings with the
stale default string model value.
Fix: after saving to disk, also mutate the caller's config dict so
the wizard's final save preserves model.provider='custom' and the
base_url. Both the model_name and no-model_name branches are
covered.
Added regression tests that simulate the full wizard flow including
the final save_config(config) call — the step that was previously
untested.
OPENAI_BASE_URL was written to .env AND config.yaml, creating a dual-source
confusion. Users (especially Docker) would see the URL in .env and assume
that's where all config lives, then wonder why LLM_MODEL in .env didn't work.
Changes:
- Remove all 27 save_env_value("OPENAI_BASE_URL", ...) calls across main.py,
setup.py, and tools_config.py
- Remove OPENAI_BASE_URL env var reading from runtime_provider.py, cli.py,
models.py, and gateway/run.py
- Remove LLM_MODEL/HERMES_MODEL env var reading from gateway/run.py and
auxiliary_client.py — config.yaml model.default is authoritative
- Vision base URL now saved to config.yaml auxiliary.vision.base_url
(both setup wizard and tools_config paths)
- Tests updated to set config values instead of env vars
Convention enforced: .env is for SECRETS only (API keys). All other
configuration (model names, base URLs, provider selection) lives
exclusively in config.yaml.
Salvaged from PR #4024 by @Sertug17. Fixes#4017.
- Replace systemd-run --user --scope with setsid for portable session detach
- Add system-level service detection to cmd_update gateway restart
- Falls back to start_new_session=True on systems without setsid (macOS, minimal containers)
After migrating from OpenClaw, leftover workspace directories contain
state files (todo.json, sessions, logs) that confuse the agent — it
discovers them and reads/writes to stale locations instead of the
Hermes state directory, causing issues like cron jobs reading a
different todo list than interactive sessions.
Changes:
- hermes claw migrate now offers to archive the source directory after
successful migration (rename to .pre-migration, not delete)
- New `hermes claw cleanup` subcommand for users who already migrated
and need to archive leftover OpenClaw directories
- Migration notes updated with explicit cleanup guidance
- 42 tests covering all new functionality
Reported by SteveSkedasticity — multiple todo.json files across
~/.hermes/, ~/.openclaw/workspace/, and ~/.openclaw/workspace-assistant/
caused cron jobs to read from wrong locations.
Add timeout parameters to 4 subprocess.run() calls that could hang
indefinitely if the child process blocks (e.g., unresponsive docker
daemon, systemctl waiting for D-Bus):
- doctor.py: docker info (timeout=10), ssh check (timeout=15)
- status.py: systemctl is-active (timeout=5), launchctl list (timeout=5)
Each call site now catches subprocess.TimeoutExpired and treats it as
a failure, consistent with how non-zero return codes are already handled.
Add AST-based regression test that verifies every subprocess.run() call
in CLI modules specifies a timeout keyword argument.
Co-authored-by: dieutx <dangtc94@gmail.com>
The ./hermes convenience script still used the legacy Fire-based
cli.main wrapper, which doesn't support subcommands (gateway, cron,
doctor, etc.). The installed 'hermes' command already uses
hermes_cli.main:main (argparse) — this aligns the launcher.
Salvaged from PR #2009 by gito369.
test_hooks.py (7 failures): Built-in boot-md hook was always loaded
by _register_builtin_hooks(), adding +1 to every expected hook count.
Mock out built-in registration in TestDiscoverAndLoad so tests isolate
user-hook discovery logic.
test_tool_token_estimation.py (2 failures): tiktoken is not in
core/[all] dependencies. The estimation function gracefully returns {}
when tiktoken is missing, but tests expected non-empty results. Added
skipif markers for tests that need tiktoken.
test_plugins_cmd.py (1 failure): bare 'hermes plugins' now dispatches
to cmd_toggle() (interactive curses UI) instead of cmd_list(). Updated
test to match the new behavior.
* feat: show estimated tool token context in hermes tools checklist
Adds a live token estimate indicator to the bottom of the interactive
tool configuration checklist (hermes tools / hermes setup). As users
toggle toolsets on/off, the total estimated context cost updates in
real time.
Implementation:
- tools/registry.py: Add get_schema() for check_fn-free schema access
- hermes_cli/curses_ui.py: Add optional status_fn callback to
curses_checklist — renders at bottom-right of terminal, stays fixed
while items scroll
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: Add _estimate_tool_tokens() using
tiktoken (cl100k_base, already installed) to count tokens in the
JSON-serialised OpenAI-format tool schemas. Results are cached
per-process. The status function deduplicates overlapping tools
(e.g. browser includes web_search) for accurate totals.
- 12 new tests covering estimation, caching, graceful degradation
when tiktoken is unavailable, status_fn wiring, deduplication,
and the numbered fallback display
* fix: use effective toolsets (includes plugins) for token estimation index mapping
The status_fn closure built ts_keys from CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS but the
checklist uses _get_effective_configurable_toolsets() which appends plugin
toolsets. With plugins present, the indices would mismatch, causing
IndexError when selecting a plugin toolset.
When the plist is deleted (manual cleanup, failed upgrade),
hermes gateway start now regenerates it automatically instead of
failing. Also simplifies the returncode==3 error path since the
plist is guaranteed to exist at that point.
Co-authored-by: Bartok9 <Bartok9@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds 'hermes webhook' CLI subcommand and a skill — zero new model tools.
CLI commands (require webhook platform to be enabled):
hermes webhook subscribe <name> [--events, --prompt, --deliver, ...]
hermes webhook list
hermes webhook remove <name>
hermes webhook test <name>
All commands gate on webhook platform being enabled in config. If not
configured, prints setup instructions (gateway setup wizard, manual
config.yaml, or env vars).
The agent uses these via terminal tool, guided by the webhook-subscriptions
skill which documents setup, common patterns (GitHub, Stripe, CI/CD,
monitoring), prompt template syntax, security, and troubleshooting.
Adapter enhancement: webhook.py hot-reloads dynamic subscriptions from
~/.hermes/webhook_subscriptions.json on each incoming request (mtime-gated).
Static config.yaml routes always take precedence.
Docs: updated webhooks.md with Dynamic Subscriptions section, added
hermes webhook to cli-commands.md reference.
No new model tools. No toolset changes.
24 new tests for CLI CRUD, persistence, enabled-gate, and adapter
dynamic route loading.
Two fixes for /skills install and /skills uninstall slash commands:
1. input() hangs indefinitely inside prompt_toolkit's TUI event loop,
soft-locking the CLI. The user typing the slash command is already
implicit consent, so confirmation is now always skipped.
2. Cache invalidation was unconditional — installing or uninstalling a
skill mid-session silently broke the prompt cache, increasing costs.
The slash handler now defers cache invalidation by default (skill
takes effect next session). Pass --now to invalidate immediately,
with a message explaining the cost tradeoff. The CLI argparse path
(hermes skills install) is unaffected and still invalidates.
Fixes#3474
Salvaged from PR #3496 by dlkakbs.
hermes update hangs on input() when run from cron, scripts, or piped
contexts. Check both stdin and stdout isatty(), catch EOFError as a
fallback, and print guidance to run 'hermes config migrate' later.
Co-authored-by: phippsbot-byte <phippsbot-byte@users.noreply.github.com>
Salvage of PR #2173 (hanai) and PR #3432 (timknip).
Injects PATH, VIRTUAL_ENV, and HERMES_HOME into the macOS launchd plist so gateway subprocesses find user-installed tools (node, ffmpeg, etc.). Matches systemd unit parity with venv/bin, node_modules/.bin, and resolved node dir in PATH. Includes 7 new tests and docs updates across 4 pages.
Co-Authored-By: Han <ihanai1991@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: timknip <timknip@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fixing mattermost configuration parsing bugs
* fix: add homeassistant to skills_config + platform consistency tests
Follow-up for cherry-picked #3512:
- Add homeassistant to skills_config.py PLATFORMS (was in tools_config
but missing from skills_config)
- Add 3 consistency tests that verify all platforms in tools_config have
matching toolset definitions, gateway includes, and skills_config entries
— prevents this class of bug from recurring
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Co-authored-by: DaneelV3 <dannel@v3rtical.tech>
* feat: GPT tool-use steering + strip budget warnings from history
Two changes to improve tool reliability, especially for OpenAI GPT models:
1. GPT tool-use enforcement prompt: Adds GPT_TOOL_USE_GUIDANCE to the
system prompt when the model name contains 'gpt' and tools are loaded.
This addresses a known behavioral pattern where GPT models describe
intended actions ('I will run the tests') instead of actually making
tool calls. Inspired by similar steering in OpenCode (beast.txt) and
Cline (GPT-5.1 variant).
2. Budget warning history stripping: Budget pressure warnings injected by
_get_budget_warning() into tool results are now stripped when
conversation history is replayed via run_conversation(). Previously,
these turn-scoped signals persisted across turns, causing models to
avoid tool calls in all subsequent messages after any turn that hit
the 70-90% iteration threshold.
* fix: replace hardcoded ~/.hermes paths with get_hermes_home() for profile support
Prep for the upcoming profiles feature — each profile is a separate
HERMES_HOME directory, so all paths must respect the env var.
Fixes:
- gateway/platforms/matrix.py: Matrix E2EE store was hardcoded to
~/.hermes/matrix/store, ignoring HERMES_HOME. Now uses
get_hermes_home() so each profile gets its own Matrix state.
- gateway/platforms/telegram.py: Two locations reading config.yaml via
Path.home()/.hermes instead of get_hermes_home(). DM topic thread_id
persistence and hot-reload would read the wrong config in a profile.
- tools/file_tools.py: Security path for hub index blocking was
hardcoded to ~/.hermes, would miss the actual profile's hub cache.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: Service naming now uses the profile name
(hermes-gateway-coder) instead of a cryptic hash suffix. Extracted
_profile_suffix() helper shared by systemd and launchd.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: Launchd plist path and Label now scoped per
profile (ai.hermes.gateway-coder.plist). Previously all profiles
would collide on the same plist file on macOS.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: Launchd plist now includes HERMES_HOME in
EnvironmentVariables — was missing entirely, making custom
HERMES_HOME broken on macOS launchd (pre-existing bug).
- All launchctl commands in gateway.py, main.py, status.py updated
to use get_launchd_label() instead of hardcoded string.
Test fixes: DM topic tests now set HERMES_HOME env var alongside
Path.home() mock. Launchd test uses get_launchd_label() for expected
commands.
Add ~/.local/bin, ~/.cargo/bin, ~/go/bin, ~/.npm-global/bin to the
systemd unit PATH so tools installed via uv/pipx/cargo/go are
discoverable by MCP servers and terminal commands.
Uses a _build_user_local_paths() helper that checks exists() before
adding, and correctly resolves home dir for both user and system
service types.
Co-authored-by: Kal Sze <ksze@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: harden `hermes update` against diverged history, non-main branches, and gateway edge cases
The self-update command (`hermes update` / gateway `/update`) could fail
or silently corrupt state in several scenarios:
1. **Diverged history** — `git pull --ff-only` aborts with a cryptic
subprocess error when upstream has force-pushed or rebased. Now falls
back to `git reset --hard origin/main` since local changes are already
stashed.
2. **User on a feature branch / detached HEAD** — the old code would
either clobber the feature branch HEAD to point at origin/main, or
silently pull against a non-existent remote branch. Now auto-checkouts
main before pulling, with a clear warning.
3. **Fetch failures** — network or auth errors produced raw subprocess
tracebacks. Now shows user-friendly messages ("Network error",
"Authentication failed") with actionable hints.
4. **reset --hard failure** — if the fallback reset itself fails (disk
full, permissions), the old code would still attempt stash restore on
a broken working tree. Now skips restore and tells the user their
changes are safe in stash.
5. **Gateway /update stash conflicts** — non-interactive mode (Telegram
`/update`) called sys.exit(1) when stash restore had conflicts, making
the entire update report as failed even though the code update itself
succeeded. Now treats stash conflicts as non-fatal in non-interactive
mode (returns False instead of exiting).
* fix: restore stash and branch on 'already up to date' early return
The PR moved stash creation before the commit-count check (needed for
the branch-switching feature), but the 'already up to date' early return
didn't restore the stash or switch back to the original branch — leaving
the user stranded on main with changes trapped in a stash.
Now the early-return path restores the stash and checks out the original
branch when applicable.
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Two bugs caused the OpenClaw migration during first-time setup to be
ineffective, forcing users to reconfigure everything manually:
1. The setup wizard created config.yaml with all defaults BEFORE running
the migration, then the migrator ran with overwrite=False. Every config
setting was reported as a 'conflict' against the defaults and skipped.
Fix: use overwrite=True during setup-time migration (safe because only
defaults exist at that point). The hermes claw migrate CLI command
still defaults to overwrite=False for post-setup use.
2. After migration, the full setup wizard ran all 5 sections unconditionally,
forcing the user through model/terminal/agent/messaging/tools configuration
even when those settings were just imported.
Fix: add _get_section_config_summary() and _skip_configured_section()
helpers. After migration, each section checks if it's already configured
(API keys present, non-default values, platform tokens) and offers
'Reconfigure? [y/N]' with default No. Unconfigured sections still run
normally.
Reported by Dev Bredda on social media.
- add managed modal and gateway-backed tool integrations\n- improve CLI setup, auth, and configuration for subscriber flows\n- expand tests and docs for managed tool support
* feat: config-gated /verbose command for messaging gateway
Add gateway_config_gate field to CommandDef, allowing cli_only commands
to be conditionally available in the gateway based on a config value.
- CommandDef gains gateway_config_gate: str | None — a config dotpath
that, when truthy, overrides cli_only for gateway surfaces
- /verbose uses gateway_config_gate='display.tool_progress_command'
- Default is off (cli_only behavior preserved)
- When enabled, /verbose cycles tool_progress mode (off/new/all/verbose)
in the gateway, saving to config.yaml — same cycle as the CLI
- Gateway helpers (help, telegram menus, slack mapping) dynamically
check config to include/exclude config-gated commands
- GATEWAY_KNOWN_COMMANDS always includes config-gated commands so
the gateway recognizes them and can respond appropriately
- Handles YAML 1.1 bool coercion (bare 'off' parses as False)
- 8 new tests for the config gate mechanism + gateway handler
* docs: document gateway_config_gate and /verbose messaging support
- AGENTS.md: add gateway_config_gate to CommandDef fields
- slash-commands.md: note /verbose can be enabled for messaging, update Notes
- configuration.md: add tool_progress_command to display section + usage note
- cli.md: cross-link to config docs for messaging enablement
- messaging/index.md: show tool_progress_command in config snippet
- plugins.md: add gateway_config_gate to register_command parameter table
* fix(skills): reduce skills.sh resolution churn and preserve trust for wrapped identifiers
- Accept common skills.sh prefix typos (skils-sh/, skils.sh/)
- Strip skills-sh/ prefix in _resolve_trust_level() so trusted repos
stay trusted when installed through skills.sh
- Use resolved identifier (from bundle/meta) for scan_skill source
- Prefer tree search before root scan in _discover_identifier()
- Add _resolve_github_meta() consolidation for inspect flow
Cherry-picked from PR #3001 by kshitijk4poor.
* fix: restore candidate loop in SkillsShSource.fetch() for consistency
The cherry-picked PR only tried the first candidate identifier in
fetch() while inspect() (via _resolve_github_meta) tried all four.
This meant skills at repo/skills/path would be found by inspect but
missed by fetch, forcing it through the heavier _discover_identifier
flow. Restore the candidate loop so both paths behave identically.
Updated the test assertion to match.
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Gateway sessions had their own inline toolset resolution that only read
platform_toolsets from config, which never includes MCP server names.
MCP tools were discovered and registered but invisible to the model.
- Replace duplicated gateway toolset resolution in _run_agent() and
_run_background_task() with calls to the shared _get_platform_tools()
- Extend _get_platform_tools() to include globally enabled MCP servers
at runtime (include_default_mcp_servers=True), while config-editing
flows use include_default_mcp_servers=False to avoid persisting
implicit MCP defaults into platform_toolsets
- Add homeassistant to PLATFORMS dict (was missing, caused KeyError)
- Fix CLI entry point to use _get_platform_tools() as well, so MCP
tools are visible in CLI mode too
- Remove redundant platform_key reassignment in _run_background_task
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
sessions delete and prune call input() for confirmation without
catching EOFError. When stdin isn't a TTY (piped input, CI/CD, cron),
input() throws EOFError and the command crashes.
Extract a _confirm_prompt() helper that handles EOFError and
KeyboardInterrupt, defaulting to cancel. Both call sites now use it.
Salvaged from PR #2622 by dieutx (improved from duplicated try/except
to shared helper). Closes#2565.
The /model command is removed from both the interactive CLI and
messenger gateway (Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp). Users can
still change models via 'hermes model' CLI subcommand or by
editing config.yaml directly.
Removed:
- CommandDef entry from COMMAND_REGISTRY
- CLI process_command() handler and model autocomplete logic
- Gateway _handle_model_command() and dispatch
- SlashCommandCompleter model_completer_provider parameter
- Two-stage Tab completion and ghost text for /model
- All /model-specific tests
Unaffected:
- /provider command (read-only, shows current model + providers)
- ACP adapter _cmd_model (separate system for VS Code/Zed/JetBrains)
- model_switch.py module (used by ACP)
- 'hermes model' CLI subcommand
Author: Teknium
Move OpenRouter to position 1 in the setup wizard's provider list
to match hermes model ordering. Update default selection index and
fix test expectations for the new ordering.
Setup order: OpenRouter → Nous Portal → Codex → Custom → ...
Fixes#2492.
`generate_systemd_unit()` and `get_python_path()` hardcoded `venv`
as the virtualenv directory name. When the virtualenv is `.venv`
(which `setup-hermes.sh` and `.gitignore` both reference), the
generated systemd unit had incorrect VIRTUAL_ENV and PATH variables.
Introduce `_detect_venv_dir()` which:
1. Checks `sys.prefix` vs `sys.base_prefix` to detect the active venv
2. Falls back to probing `.venv` then `venv` under PROJECT_ROOT
Both `get_python_path()` and `generate_systemd_unit()` now use
this detection instead of hardcoded paths.
Co-authored-by: Hermes <hermes@nousresearch.ai>
* feat(model): persist base_url on /model switch, auto-detect for bare /model custom
Phase 2+3 of the /model command overhaul:
Phase 2 — Persist base_url on model switch:
- CLI: save model.base_url when switching to a non-OpenRouter endpoint;
clear it when switching away from custom to prevent stale URLs
leaking into the new provider's resolution
- Gateway: same logic using direct YAML write
Phase 3 — Better feedback and edge cases:
- Bare '/model custom' now auto-detects the model from the endpoint
using _auto_detect_local_model() and saves all three config values
(model, provider, base_url) atomically
- Shows endpoint URL in success messages when switching to/from
custom providers (both CLI and gateway)
- Clear error messages when no custom endpoint is configured
- Updated test assertions for the additional save_config_value call
Fixes#2562 (Phase 2+3)
* feat(model): support custom:name:model triple syntax for named custom providers
Phase 5 of the /model command overhaul.
Extends parse_model_input() to handle the triple syntax:
/model custom:local-server:qwen → provider='custom:local-server', model='qwen'
/model custom:my-model → provider='custom', model='my-model' (unchanged)
The 'custom:local-server' provider string is already supported by
_get_named_custom_provider() in runtime_provider.py, which matches
it against the custom_providers list in config.yaml. This just wires
the parsing so users can do it from the /model slash command.
Added 4 tests covering single, triple, whitespace, and empty model cases.
Cherry-picked from PR #2576 by ereid7, plus read-side fix from 173a5c62.
Both fixes were originally landed in 173a5c62 but were inadvertently
reverted by commit 34be3f8b (a squash-merge that bundled unrelated
tools_config.py changes).
Save side (_save_platform_tools): exclude platform default toolset
names (hermes-cli, hermes-telegram) from preserved entries so they
don't silently re-enable everything.
Read side (_get_platform_tools): when the saved list contains explicit
configurable keys, use direct membership instead of subset inference.
The subset approach is broken when composite toolsets like hermes-cli
resolve to ALL tools.
Add hermes mcp add/remove/list/test/configure CLI for managing MCP
server connections interactively. Discovery-first 'add' flow connects,
discovers tools, and lets users select which to enable via curses checklist.
Add OAuth 2.1 PKCE authentication for MCP HTTP servers (RFC 7636).
Supports browser-based and manual (headless) authorization, token
caching with 0600 permissions, automatic refresh. Zero external deps.
Add ${ENV_VAR} interpolation in MCP server config values, resolved
from os.environ + ~/.hermes/.env at load time.
Core OAuth module from PR #2021 by @imnotdev25. CLI and mcp_tool
wiring rewritten against current main. Closes#497, #690.
Python 3.12 changed PosixPath.__new__ to ignore the redirected path
argument, breaking the FakePath subclass pattern. Use monkeypatch on
Path.exists instead.
Based on PR #2261 by @dieutx, fixed NameError (bare Path not imported).
When 'hermes update' stashes local changes and the restore hits
conflicts, the previous behavior silently ran 'git reset --hard HEAD'
to clean up. This could surprise users who didn't realize their
working tree was being nuked.
Now the conflict handler:
- Lists the specific conflicted files
- Reassures the user their stash is preserved
- Asks before resetting (interactive mode)
- Auto-resets in non-interactive mode (prompt_user=False)
- If declined, leaves the working tree as-is with guidance
When `hermes update` stashes local changes and the subsequent
`git stash apply` fails or leaves unmerged files, the conflict markers
(<<<<<<< etc.) were left in the working tree, making Hermes unrunnable
until manually cleaned up.
Now the update command runs `git reset --hard HEAD` to restore a clean
working tree before exiting, and also detects unmerged files even when
git stash apply reports success.
Closes#2348
Replace the fragile hardcoded context length system with a multi-source
resolution chain that correctly identifies context windows per provider.
Key changes:
- New agent/models_dev.py: Fetches and caches the models.dev registry
(3800+ models across 100+ providers with per-provider context windows).
In-memory cache (1hr TTL) + disk cache for cold starts.
- Rewritten get_model_context_length() resolution chain:
0. Config override (model.context_length)
1. Custom providers per-model context_length
2. Persistent disk cache
3. Endpoint /models (local servers)
4. Anthropic /v1/models API (max_input_tokens, API-key only)
5. OpenRouter live API (existing, unchanged)
6. Nous suffix-match via OpenRouter (dot/dash normalization)
7. models.dev registry lookup (provider-aware)
8. Thin hardcoded defaults (broad family patterns)
9. 128K fallback (was 2M)
- Provider-aware context: same model now correctly resolves to different
context windows per provider (e.g. claude-opus-4.6: 1M on Anthropic,
128K on GitHub Copilot). Provider name flows through ContextCompressor.
- DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LENGTHS shrunk from 80+ entries to ~16 broad patterns.
models.dev replaces the per-model hardcoding.
- CONTEXT_PROBE_TIERS changed from [2M, 1M, 512K, 200K, 128K, 64K, 32K]
to [128K, 64K, 32K, 16K, 8K]. Unknown models no longer start at 2M.
- hermes model: prompts for context_length when configuring custom
endpoints. Supports shorthand (32k, 128K). Saved to custom_providers
per-model config.
- custom_providers schema extended with optional models dict for
per-model context_length (backward compatible).
- Nous Portal: suffix-matches bare IDs (claude-opus-4-6) against
OpenRouter's prefixed IDs (anthropic/claude-opus-4.6) with dot/dash
normalization. Handles all 15 current Nous models.
- Anthropic direct: queries /v1/models for max_input_tokens. Only works
with regular API keys (sk-ant-api*), not OAuth tokens. Falls through
to models.dev for OAuth users.
Tests: 5574 passed (18 new tests for models_dev + updated probe tiers)
Docs: Updated configuration.md context length section, AGENTS.md
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
The previous copilot_model_api_mode() checked the catalog's
supported_endpoints first and picked /chat/completions when a model
supported both endpoints. This is wrong — GPT-5+ models should use
the Responses API even when the catalog lists both.
Replicate opencode's shouldUseCopilotResponsesApi() logic:
- GPT-5+ models (gpt-5.4, gpt-5.3-codex, etc.) → Responses API
- gpt-5-mini → Chat Completions (explicit exception)
- Everything else (gpt-4o, claude, gemini, etc.) → Chat Completions
- Model ID pattern is the primary signal, catalog is secondary
The catalog fallback now only matters for non-GPT-5 models that might
exclusively support /v1/messages (e.g. Claude via Copilot).
Models are auto-detected from the live catalog at
api.githubcopilot.com/models — no hardcoded list required for
supported models, only a static fallback for when the API is
unreachable.
Builds on PR #1879's Copilot integration with critical auth improvements
modeled after opencode's implementation:
- Add hermes_cli/copilot_auth.py with:
- OAuth device code flow (copilot_device_code_login) using the same
client_id (Ov23li8tweQw6odWQebz) as opencode and Copilot CLI
- Token type validation: reject classic PATs (ghp_*) with a clear
error message explaining supported token types
- Proper env var priority: COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN > GH_TOKEN > GITHUB_TOKEN
(matching Copilot CLI documentation)
- copilot_request_headers() with Openai-Intent, x-initiator, and
Copilot-Vision-Request headers (matching opencode)
- Update auth.py:
- PROVIDER_REGISTRY copilot entry uses correct env var order
- _resolve_api_key_provider_secret delegates to copilot_auth for
the copilot provider with proper token validation
- Update models.py:
- copilot_default_headers() now includes Openai-Intent and x-initiator
- Update main.py:
- _model_flow_copilot offers OAuth device code login when no token
is found, with manual token entry as fallback
- Shows supported vs unsupported token types
- 22 new tests covering token validation, env var priority, header
generation, and integration with existing auth infrastructure
- Strip '_tools' suffix from internal toolset identifiers in the banner
(e.g. 'web_tools' -> 'web', 'homeassistant_tools' -> 'homeassistant')
- Stop appending '_tools' to unavailable toolset names
- Replace 6 hardcoded hex colors (#B8860B, #FFBF00, #FFF8DC) in toolset
rows, overflow line, and MCP server rows with the skin variables
(dim, accent, text) already resolved at the top of the function
Inspired by PR #1871 by @kshitijk4poor.
Adds 4 tests.
* fix: banner skill count now respects disabled skills and platform filtering
The banner's get_available_skills() was doing a raw rglob scan of
~/.hermes/skills/ without checking:
- Whether skills are disabled (skills.disabled config)
- Whether skills match the current platform (platforms: frontmatter)
This caused the banner to show inflated skill counts (e.g. '100 skills'
when many are disabled) and list macOS-only skills on Linux.
Fix: delegate to _find_all_skills() from tools/skills_tool which already
handles both platform gating and disabled-skill filtering.
* fix: system prompt and slash commands now respect disabled skills
Two more places where disabled skills were still surfaced:
1. build_skills_system_prompt() in prompt_builder.py — disabled skills
appeared in the <available_skills> system prompt section, causing
the agent to suggest/load them despite being disabled.
2. scan_skill_commands() in skill_commands.py — disabled skills still
registered as /skill-name slash commands in CLI help and could be
invoked.
Both now load _get_disabled_skill_names() and filter accordingly.
* fix: skill_view blocks disabled skills
skill_view() checked platform compatibility but not disabled state,
so the agent could still load and read disabled skills directly.
Now returns a clear error when a disabled skill is requested, telling
the user to enable it via hermes skills or inspect the files manually.
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Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Add _wait_for_gateway_exit() that polls get_running_pid() to confirm
the old gateway process has actually exited before starting a new one.
If the process doesn't exit within 5s, sends SIGKILL to the specific
PID. Uses the saved PID from gateway.pid (not launchd labels) so it
works correctly with multiple gateway instances under separate
HERMES_HOME directories.
Applied to both launchd_restart() and the manual restart path (replaces
the blind time.sleep(2)).
Inspired by PR #1881 by @AzothZephyr (race condition diagnosis).
Adds 4 tests.
Add first-class GitHub Copilot and Copilot ACP provider support across
model selection, runtime provider resolution, CLI sessions, delegated
subagents, cron jobs, and the Telegram gateway.
This also normalizes Copilot model catalogs and API modes, introduces a
Copilot ACP OpenAI-compatible shim, and fixes service-mode auth by
resolving Homebrew-installed gh binaries under launchd.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Salvage of PR #1707 by @kshitijk4poor (cherry-picked with authorship preserved).
Adds Tavily as a third web backend alongside Firecrawl and Parallel, using the Tavily REST API via httpx.
- Backend selection via hermes tools → saved as web.backend in config.yaml
- All three tools supported: search, extract, crawl
- TAVILY_API_KEY in config registry, doctor, status, setup wizard
- 15 new Tavily tests + 9 backend selection tests + 5 config tests
- Backward compatible
Closes#1707
Salvaged from PR #1708 by @kartikkabadi. Cherry-picked with authorship preserved.
Fixes pre-existing test failures from setup TTS prompt flow changes and environment-sensitive assumptions.
Co-authored-by: Kartik <user2@RentKars-MacBook-Air.local>
Add the ability to selectively enable/disable individual MCP server
tools through the interactive 'hermes tools' TUI.
Changes:
- tools/mcp_tool.py: Add probe_mcp_server_tools() — lightweight function
that temporarily connects to configured MCP servers, discovers their
tools (names + descriptions), and disconnects. No registry side effects.
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: Add 'Configure MCP tools' option to the
interactive menu. When selected:
1. Probes all enabled MCP servers for their available tools
2. Shows a per-server curses checklist with tool descriptions
3. Pre-selects tools based on existing include/exclude config
4. Writes changes back as tools.exclude entries in config.yaml
5. Reports which servers failed to connect
The existing CLI commands (hermes tools enable/disable server:tool)
continue to work unchanged. This adds the interactive TUI counterpart
so users can browse and toggle MCP tools visually.
Tests: 22 new tests covering probe function edge cases and interactive
flow (pre-selection, exclude/include modes, description truncation,
multi-server handling, error paths).
Add display.theme_mode setting (auto/light/dark) that makes the CLI
readable on light terminal backgrounds.
- Auto-detect terminal background via COLORFGBG, OSC 11, and macOS
appearance (fallback chain in hermes_cli/colors.py)
- Add colors_light overrides to all 7 built-in skins with dark/readable
colors for light backgrounds
- SkinConfig.get_color() now returns light overrides when theme is light
- get_prompt_toolkit_style_overrides() uses light bg colors for
completion menus in light mode
- init_skin_from_config() reads display.theme_mode from config
- 7 new tests covering theme mode resolution, detection fallbacks,
and light-mode skin overrides
Salvaged from PR #1187 by @peteromallet. Core design preserved;
adapted to current main (kept all existing helpers, tool_emojis,
convenience functions that were added after the PR branched).
Co-authored-by: Peter O'Mallet <peteromallet@users.noreply.github.com>
Add Kilo Gateway (kilo.ai) as an API-key provider with OpenAI-compatible
endpoint at https://api.kilo.ai/api/gateway. Supports 500+ models from
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, MiniMax via a single API key.
- Register kilocode in PROVIDER_REGISTRY with aliases (kilo, kilo-code,
kilo-gateway) and KILOCODE_API_KEY / KILOCODE_BASE_URL env vars
- Add to model catalog, CLI provider menu, setup wizard, doctor checks
- Add google/gemini-3-flash-preview as default aux model
- 12 new tests covering registration, aliases, credential resolution,
runtime config
- Documentation updates (env vars, config, fallback providers)
- Fix setup test index shift from provider insertion
Inspired by PR #1473 by @amanning3390.
Co-authored-by: amanning3390 <amanning3390@users.noreply.github.com>
Add in-session tool management via /tools disable/enable/list, plus
hermes tools list/disable/enable CLI subcommands. Supports both
built-in toolsets (web, memory) and MCP tools (github:create_issue).
To preserve prompt caching, /tools disable/enable in a chat session
saves the change to config and resets the session cleanly — the user
is asked to confirm before the reset happens.
Also improves prefix matching: /qui now dispatches to /quit instead
of showing ambiguous when longer skill commands like /quint-pipeline
are installed.
Based on PR #1520 by @YanSte.
Co-authored-by: Yannick Stephan <YanSte@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes hanging when using /skills install or /skills uninstall from the
TUI — bare input() calls hang inside prompt_toolkit's event loop.
Changes:
- Add skip_confirm parameter to do_install() and do_uninstall()
- Separate --yes/-y (confirmation bypass) from --force (scan override)
in both argparse and slash command handlers
- Update usage hint for /skills uninstall to show [--yes]
The original PR (#1595) accidentally deleted the install_from_quarantine()
call, which would have broken all installs. That bug is not present here.
Based on PR #1595 by 333Alden333.
Co-authored-by: 333Alden333 <333Alden333@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): two-stage /model autocomplete with ghost text suggestions
- SlashCommandCompleter: Tab-complete providers first (anthropic:, openrouter:, etc.)
then models within the selected provider
- SlashCommandAutoSuggest: inline ghost text for slash commands, subcommands,
and /model provider:model two-stage suggestions
- Custom Tab key binding: accepts provider completion and immediately
re-triggers completions to show that provider's models
- COMMANDS_BY_CATEGORY: structured format with explicit subcommands for
tab completion and ghost text (prompt, reasoning, voice, skills, cron, browser)
- SUBCOMMANDS dict auto-extracted from command definitions
- Model/provider info cached 60s for responsive completions
* fix: repair test regression and restore gold color from PR #1622
- Fix test_unknown_command_still_shows_error: patch _cprint instead of
console.print to match the _cprint switch in process_command()
- Restore gold color on 'Type /help' hint using _DIM + _GOLD constants
instead of bare \033[2m (was losing the #B8860B gold)
- Use _GOLD constant for ambiguous command message for consistency
- Add clarifying comment on SUBCOMMANDS regex fallback
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Co-authored-by: Lars van der Zande <lmvanderzande@gmail.com>
- Bump _config_version 8 → 9
- Move stale ANTHROPIC_TOKEN clearing into 'if current_ver < 9' block
so it only runs once during the upgrade, not on every migrate_config()
- ANTHROPIC_TOKEN is still a valid auth path (OAuth flow), so we don't
want to clear it repeatedly — only during the one-time migration from
old setups that left it stale
- Add test_skips_on_version_9_or_later to verify one-time behavior
- All tests set config version 8 to trigger migration
- Remove *** placeholder detection from _sanitize_env_lines (was based on
confusing terminal redaction with literal file content)
- Add migrate_config() logic to clear stale ANTHROPIC_TOKEN when better
credentials exist (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or Claude Code auto-discovery)
- Old ANTHROPIC_TOKEN values shadow Claude Code credential fallthrough,
breaking auth for users who updated without re-running setup
- Preserves ANTHROPIC_TOKEN when it's the only auth method available
- 3 new migration tests, updated existing tests
Fixes two corruption patterns that break API keys during updates:
1. Concatenated KEY=VALUE pairs on a single line due to missing newlines
(e.g. ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-...OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://...). Uses a
known-keys set to safely detect and split concatenated entries without
false-splitting values that contain uppercase text.
2. Stale KEY=*** placeholder entries left by incomplete setup runs that
never get updated and shadow real credentials.
Changes:
- Add _sanitize_env_lines() that splits concatenated known keys and drops
*** placeholders
- Add sanitize_env_file() public API for explicit repair
- Call sanitization in save_env_value() on every read (self-healing)
- Call sanitize_env_file() at the start of migrate_config() so existing
corrupted files are repaired on update
- 12 new tests covering splits, placeholders, edge cases, and integration
* refactor: centralize slash command registry
Replace 7+ scattered command definition sites with a single
CommandDef registry in hermes_cli/commands.py. All downstream
consumers now derive from this registry:
- CLI process_command() resolves aliases via resolve_command()
- Gateway _known_commands uses GATEWAY_KNOWN_COMMANDS frozenset
- Gateway help text generated by gateway_help_lines()
- Telegram BotCommands generated by telegram_bot_commands()
- Slack subcommand map generated by slack_subcommand_map()
Adding a command or alias is now a one-line change to
COMMAND_REGISTRY instead of touching 6+ files.
Bugfixes included:
- Telegram now registers /rollback, /background (were missing)
- Slack now has /voice, /update, /reload-mcp (were missing)
- Gateway duplicate 'reasoning' dispatch (dead code) removed
- Gateway help text can no longer drift from CLI help
Backwards-compatible: COMMANDS and COMMANDS_BY_CATEGORY dicts are
rebuilt from the registry, so existing imports work unchanged.
* docs: update developer docs for centralized command registry
Update AGENTS.md with full 'Slash Command Registry' and 'Adding a
Slash Command' sections covering CommandDef fields, registry helpers,
and the one-line alias workflow.
Also update:
- CONTRIBUTING.md: commands.py description
- website/docs/reference/slash-commands.md: reference central registry
- docs/plans/centralize-command-registry.md: mark COMPLETED
- plans/checkpoint-rollback.md: reference new pattern
- hermes-agent-dev skill: architecture table
* chore: remove stale plan docs
Repair stale launchd/systemd definitions during install and
teach launchd start to reload unloaded jobs before retrying.
Stop masking service restart failures by falling back to a
foreground gateway when a configured service manager is still
broken.
Refs: #1613
* fix: Anthropic OAuth compatibility — Claude Code identity fingerprinting
Anthropic routes OAuth/subscription requests based on Claude Code's
identity markers. Without them, requests get intermittent 500 errors
(~25% failure rate observed). This matches what pi-ai (clawdbot) and
OpenCode both implement for OAuth compatibility.
Changes (OAuth tokens only — API key users unaffected):
1. Headers: user-agent 'claude-cli/2.1.2 (external, cli)' + x-app 'cli'
2. System prompt: prepend 'You are Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI'
3. System prompt sanitization: replace Hermes/Nous references
4. Tool names: prefix with 'mcp_' (Claude Code convention for non-native tools)
5. Tool name stripping: remove 'mcp_' prefix from response tool calls
Before: 9/12 OK, 1 hard fail, 4 needed retries (~25% error rate)
After: 16/16 OK, 0 failures, 0 retries (0% error rate)
* fix: auto-detect DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS for systemctl --user on headless servers
On SSH sessions to headless servers, DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR may not be set even when the user's systemd instance
is running via linger. This causes 'systemctl --user' to fail with
'Failed to connect to bus: No medium found', breaking gateway
restart/start/stop as a service and falling back to foreground mode.
Add _ensure_user_systemd_env() that detects the standard D-Bus socket
at /run/user/<UID>/bus and sets the env vars before any systemctl --user
call. Called from _systemctl_cmd() so all existing call sites benefit
automatically with zero changes.
Fixes: gateway restart falling back to foreground on headless servers
* fix: show linger guidance when gateway restart fails during update and gateway restart
When systemctl --user restart fails during 'hermes update' or
'hermes gateway restart', check linger status and tell the user
exactly what to run (sudo -S -p '' loginctl enable-linger) instead of
silently falling back to foreground mode.
Also applies _ensure_user_systemd_env() to the raw systemctl calls
in cmd_update so they work properly on SSH sessions where D-Bus
env vars are missing.
* feat: add optional smart model routing
Add a conservative cheap-vs-strong routing option that can send very short/simple turns to a cheaper model across providers while keeping the primary model for complex work. Wire it through CLI, gateway, and cron, and document the config.yaml workflow.
* fix(gateway): remove recursive ExecStop from systemd units, extend TimeoutStopSec to 60s
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
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Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
* feat(skills): add blender-mcp optional skill for 3D modeling
Control a running Blender instance from Hermes via socket connection
to the blender-mcp addon (port 9876). Supports creating 3D objects,
materials, animations, and running arbitrary bpy code.
Placed in optional-skills/ since it requires Blender 4.3+ desktop
with a third-party addon manually started each session.
* feat(acp): support slash commands in ACP adapter (#1532)
Adds /help, /model, /tools, /context, /reset, /compact, /version
to the ACP adapter (VS Code, Zed, JetBrains). Commands are handled
directly in the server without instantiating the TUI — each command
queries agent/session state and returns plain text.
Unrecognized /commands fall through to the LLM as normal messages.
/model uses detect_provider_for_model() for auto-detection when
switching models, matching the CLI and gateway behavior.
Fixes#1402
* fix(logging): improve error logging in session search tool (#1533)
* fix(gateway): restart on retryable startup failures (#1517)
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
Adds a config.yaml-driven option to skip email attachments in the
gateway email adapter. Useful for malware protection and bandwidth
savings.
Configure in config.yaml:
platforms:
email:
skip_attachments: true
Based on PR #1521 by @an420eth, changed from env var to config.yaml
(via PlatformConfig.extra) to match the project's config-first pattern.
* docs: document skip_attachments option for email adapter
* fix(telegram): retry on transient TLS failures during connect and send
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around initialize() to
handle transient TLS resets during gateway startup. Also catches
TimedOut and OSError in addition to NetworkError.
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around send_message() for
NetworkError during message delivery, wrapping the existing Markdown
fallback logic.
Both imports are guarded with try/except ImportError for test
environments where telegram is mocked.
Based on PR #1527 by cmd8. Closes#1526.
* feat: permissive block_anchor thresholds and unicode normalization (#1539)
Salvaged from PR #1528 by an420eth. Closes#517.
Improves _strategy_block_anchor in fuzzy_match.py:
- Add unicode normalization (smart quotes, em/en-dashes, ellipsis,
non-breaking spaces → ASCII) so LLM-produced unicode artifacts
don't break anchor line matching
- Lower thresholds: 0.10 for unique matches (was 0.70), 0.30 for
multiple candidates — if first/last lines match exactly, the
block is almost certainly correct
- Use original (non-normalized) content for offset calculation to
preserve correct character positions
Tested: 3 new scenarios fixed (em-dash anchors, non-breaking space
anchors, very-low-similarity unique matches), zero regressions on
all 9 existing fuzzy match tests.
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): add file path autocomplete in the input prompt (#1545)
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
* feat(privacy): redact PII from LLM context when privacy.redact_pii is enabled
Add privacy.redact_pii config option (boolean, default false). When
enabled, the gateway redacts personally identifiable information from
the system prompt before sending it to the LLM provider:
- Phone numbers (user IDs on WhatsApp/Signal) → hashed to user_<sha256>
- User IDs → hashed to user_<sha256>
- Chat IDs → numeric portion hashed, platform prefix preserved
- Home channel IDs → hashed
- Names/usernames → NOT affected (user-chosen, publicly visible)
Hashes are deterministic (same user → same hash) so the model can
still distinguish users in group chats. Routing and delivery use
the original values internally — redaction only affects LLM context.
Inspired by OpenClaw PR #47959.
* fix(privacy): skip PII redaction on Discord/Slack (mentions need real IDs)
Discord uses <@user_id> for mentions and Slack uses <@U12345> — the LLM
needs the real ID to tag users. Redaction now only applies to WhatsApp,
Signal, and Telegram where IDs are pure routing metadata.
Add 4 platform-specific tests covering Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack.
* feat: smart approvals + /stop command (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
* feat: first-class plugin architecture + hide status bar cost by default (#1544)
The persistent status bar now shows context %, token counts, and
duration but NOT $ cost by default. Cost display is opt-in via:
display:
show_cost: true
in config.yaml, or: hermes config set display.show_cost true
The /usage command still shows full cost breakdown since the user
explicitly asked for it — this only affects the always-visible bar.
Status bar without cost:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ 15m
Status bar with show_cost: true:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ $0.06 │ 15m
* feat: improve memory prioritization + aggressive skill updates (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: improve memory prioritization — user preferences over procedural knowledge
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's memory prompt improvements (openai/codex#14493)
which focus memory writes on user preferences and recurring patterns
rather than procedural task details.
Key insight: 'Optimize for reducing future user steering — the most
valuable memory prevents the user from having to repeat themselves.'
Changes:
- MEMORY_GUIDANCE (prompt_builder.py): added prioritization hierarchy
and the core principle about reducing user steering
- MEMORY_SCHEMA (memory_tool.py): reordered WHEN TO SAVE list to put
corrections first, added explicit PRIORITY guidance
- Memory nudge (run_agent.py): now asks specifically about preferences,
corrections, and workflow patterns instead of generic 'anything'
- Memory flush (run_agent.py): now instructs to prioritize user
preferences and corrections over task-specific details
* feat: more aggressive skill creation and update prompting
Press harder on skill updates — the agent should proactively patch
skills when it encounters issues during use, not wait to be asked.
Changes:
- SKILLS_GUIDANCE: 'consider saving' → 'save'; added explicit instruction
to patch skills immediately when found outdated/wrong
- Skills header: added instruction to update loaded skills before finishing
if they had missing steps or wrong commands
- Skill nudge: more assertive ('save the approach' not 'consider saving'),
now also prompts for updating existing skills used in the task
- Skill nudge interval: lowered default from 15 to 10 iterations
- skill_manage schema: added 'patch it immediately' to update triggers
* feat: first-class plugin architecture (#1555)
Plugin system for extending Hermes with custom tools, hooks, and
integrations — no source code changes required.
Core system (hermes_cli/plugins.py):
- Plugin discovery from ~/.hermes/plugins/, .hermes/plugins/, and
pip entry_points (hermes_agent.plugins group)
- PluginContext with register_tool() and register_hook()
- 6 lifecycle hooks: pre/post tool_call, pre/post llm_call,
on_session_start/end
- Namespace package handling for relative imports in plugins
- Graceful error isolation — broken plugins never crash the agent
Integration (model_tools.py):
- Plugin discovery runs after built-in + MCP tools
- Plugin tools bypass toolset filter via get_plugin_tool_names()
- Pre/post tool call hooks fire in handle_function_call()
CLI:
- /plugins command shows loaded plugins, tool counts, status
- Added to COMMANDS dict for autocomplete
Docs:
- Getting started guide (build-a-hermes-plugin.md) — full tutorial
building a calculator plugin step by step
- Reference page (features/plugins.md) — quick overview + tables
- Covers: file structure, schemas, handlers, hooks, data files,
bundled skills, env var gating, pip distribution, common mistakes
Tests: 16 tests covering discovery, loading, hooks, tool visibility.
* feat: add /bg as alias for /background slash command
Adds /bg alias across CLI, gateway, and Slack platform adapter.
Updates help text, autocomplete, known_commands set, and dispatch
logic. Includes tests for the new alias.
* docs: add plan for centralized slash command registry
Scopes a refactor to replace 7+ scattered command definition sites
with a single CommandDef registry in hermes_cli/commands.py. Includes
derived helper functions for gateway help text, Telegram BotCommands,
Slack subcommand maps, and alias resolution.
Documents current drift (Telegram missing /rollback + /background,
Slack missing /voice + /update, gateway dead code) that the refactor
fixes for free.
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Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78a@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Oktay Aydin <113846926+aydnOktay@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JP Lew <polydegen@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: add optional smart model routing
Add a conservative cheap-vs-strong routing option that can send very short/simple turns to a cheaper model across providers while keeping the primary model for complex work. Wire it through CLI, gateway, and cron, and document the config.yaml workflow.
* fix(gateway): remove recursive ExecStop from systemd units, extend TimeoutStopSec to 60s
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
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Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
* feat(skills): add blender-mcp optional skill for 3D modeling
Control a running Blender instance from Hermes via socket connection
to the blender-mcp addon (port 9876). Supports creating 3D objects,
materials, animations, and running arbitrary bpy code.
Placed in optional-skills/ since it requires Blender 4.3+ desktop
with a third-party addon manually started each session.
* feat(acp): support slash commands in ACP adapter (#1532)
Adds /help, /model, /tools, /context, /reset, /compact, /version
to the ACP adapter (VS Code, Zed, JetBrains). Commands are handled
directly in the server without instantiating the TUI — each command
queries agent/session state and returns plain text.
Unrecognized /commands fall through to the LLM as normal messages.
/model uses detect_provider_for_model() for auto-detection when
switching models, matching the CLI and gateway behavior.
Fixes#1402
* fix(logging): improve error logging in session search tool (#1533)
* fix(gateway): restart on retryable startup failures (#1517)
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
Adds a config.yaml-driven option to skip email attachments in the
gateway email adapter. Useful for malware protection and bandwidth
savings.
Configure in config.yaml:
platforms:
email:
skip_attachments: true
Based on PR #1521 by @an420eth, changed from env var to config.yaml
(via PlatformConfig.extra) to match the project's config-first pattern.
* docs: document skip_attachments option for email adapter
* fix(telegram): retry on transient TLS failures during connect and send
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around initialize() to
handle transient TLS resets during gateway startup. Also catches
TimedOut and OSError in addition to NetworkError.
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around send_message() for
NetworkError during message delivery, wrapping the existing Markdown
fallback logic.
Both imports are guarded with try/except ImportError for test
environments where telegram is mocked.
Based on PR #1527 by cmd8. Closes#1526.
* feat: permissive block_anchor thresholds and unicode normalization (#1539)
Salvaged from PR #1528 by an420eth. Closes#517.
Improves _strategy_block_anchor in fuzzy_match.py:
- Add unicode normalization (smart quotes, em/en-dashes, ellipsis,
non-breaking spaces → ASCII) so LLM-produced unicode artifacts
don't break anchor line matching
- Lower thresholds: 0.10 for unique matches (was 0.70), 0.30 for
multiple candidates — if first/last lines match exactly, the
block is almost certainly correct
- Use original (non-normalized) content for offset calculation to
preserve correct character positions
Tested: 3 new scenarios fixed (em-dash anchors, non-breaking space
anchors, very-low-similarity unique matches), zero regressions on
all 9 existing fuzzy match tests.
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): add file path autocomplete in the input prompt (#1545)
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
* feat(privacy): redact PII from LLM context when privacy.redact_pii is enabled
Add privacy.redact_pii config option (boolean, default false). When
enabled, the gateway redacts personally identifiable information from
the system prompt before sending it to the LLM provider:
- Phone numbers (user IDs on WhatsApp/Signal) → hashed to user_<sha256>
- User IDs → hashed to user_<sha256>
- Chat IDs → numeric portion hashed, platform prefix preserved
- Home channel IDs → hashed
- Names/usernames → NOT affected (user-chosen, publicly visible)
Hashes are deterministic (same user → same hash) so the model can
still distinguish users in group chats. Routing and delivery use
the original values internally — redaction only affects LLM context.
Inspired by OpenClaw PR #47959.
* fix(privacy): skip PII redaction on Discord/Slack (mentions need real IDs)
Discord uses <@user_id> for mentions and Slack uses <@U12345> — the LLM
needs the real ID to tag users. Redaction now only applies to WhatsApp,
Signal, and Telegram where IDs are pure routing metadata.
Add 4 platform-specific tests covering Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack.
* feat: smart approvals + /stop command (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
* feat: first-class plugin architecture + hide status bar cost by default (#1544)
The persistent status bar now shows context %, token counts, and
duration but NOT $ cost by default. Cost display is opt-in via:
display:
show_cost: true
in config.yaml, or: hermes config set display.show_cost true
The /usage command still shows full cost breakdown since the user
explicitly asked for it — this only affects the always-visible bar.
Status bar without cost:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ 15m
Status bar with show_cost: true:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ $0.06 │ 15m
* feat: improve memory prioritization + aggressive skill updates (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: improve memory prioritization — user preferences over procedural knowledge
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's memory prompt improvements (openai/codex#14493)
which focus memory writes on user preferences and recurring patterns
rather than procedural task details.
Key insight: 'Optimize for reducing future user steering — the most
valuable memory prevents the user from having to repeat themselves.'
Changes:
- MEMORY_GUIDANCE (prompt_builder.py): added prioritization hierarchy
and the core principle about reducing user steering
- MEMORY_SCHEMA (memory_tool.py): reordered WHEN TO SAVE list to put
corrections first, added explicit PRIORITY guidance
- Memory nudge (run_agent.py): now asks specifically about preferences,
corrections, and workflow patterns instead of generic 'anything'
- Memory flush (run_agent.py): now instructs to prioritize user
preferences and corrections over task-specific details
* feat: more aggressive skill creation and update prompting
Press harder on skill updates — the agent should proactively patch
skills when it encounters issues during use, not wait to be asked.
Changes:
- SKILLS_GUIDANCE: 'consider saving' → 'save'; added explicit instruction
to patch skills immediately when found outdated/wrong
- Skills header: added instruction to update loaded skills before finishing
if they had missing steps or wrong commands
- Skill nudge: more assertive ('save the approach' not 'consider saving'),
now also prompts for updating existing skills used in the task
- Skill nudge interval: lowered default from 15 to 10 iterations
- skill_manage schema: added 'patch it immediately' to update triggers
* feat: first-class plugin architecture (#1555)
Plugin system for extending Hermes with custom tools, hooks, and
integrations — no source code changes required.
Core system (hermes_cli/plugins.py):
- Plugin discovery from ~/.hermes/plugins/, .hermes/plugins/, and
pip entry_points (hermes_agent.plugins group)
- PluginContext with register_tool() and register_hook()
- 6 lifecycle hooks: pre/post tool_call, pre/post llm_call,
on_session_start/end
- Namespace package handling for relative imports in plugins
- Graceful error isolation — broken plugins never crash the agent
Integration (model_tools.py):
- Plugin discovery runs after built-in + MCP tools
- Plugin tools bypass toolset filter via get_plugin_tool_names()
- Pre/post tool call hooks fire in handle_function_call()
CLI:
- /plugins command shows loaded plugins, tool counts, status
- Added to COMMANDS dict for autocomplete
Docs:
- Getting started guide (build-a-hermes-plugin.md) — full tutorial
building a calculator plugin step by step
- Reference page (features/plugins.md) — quick overview + tables
- Covers: file structure, schemas, handlers, hooks, data files,
bundled skills, env var gating, pip distribution, common mistakes
Tests: 16 tests covering discovery, loading, hooks, tool visibility.
* fix: hermes update causes dual gateways on macOS (launchd)
Three bugs worked together to create the dual-gateway problem:
1. cmd_update only checked systemd for gateway restart, completely
ignoring launchd on macOS. After killing the PID it would print
'Restart it with: hermes gateway run' even when launchd was about
to auto-respawn the process.
2. launchd's KeepAlive.SuccessfulExit=false respawns the gateway
after SIGTERM (non-zero exit), so the user's manual restart
created a second instance.
3. The launchd plist lacked --replace (systemd had it), so the
respawned gateway didn't kill stale instances on startup.
Fixes:
- Add --replace to launchd ProgramArguments (matches systemd)
- Add launchd detection to cmd_update's auto-restart logic
- Print 'auto-restart via launchd' instead of manual restart hint
* fix: add launchd plist auto-refresh + explicit restart in cmd_update
Two integration issues with the initial fix:
1. Existing macOS users with old plist (no --replace) would never
get the fix until manual uninstall/reinstall. Added
refresh_launchd_plist_if_needed() — mirrors the existing
refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed(). Called from launchd_start(),
launchd_restart(), and cmd_update.
2. cmd_update relied on KeepAlive respawn after SIGTERM rather than
explicit launchctl stop/start. This caused races: launchd would
respawn the old process before the PID file was cleaned up.
Now does explicit stop+start (matching how systemd gets an
explicit systemctl restart), with plist refresh first so the
new --replace flag is picked up.
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Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78a@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Oktay Aydin <113846926+aydnOktay@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JP Lew <polydegen@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
Add /browser slash command for connecting browser tools to the user's
live Chrome instance via Chrome DevTools Protocol:
/browser connect — connect to Chrome on localhost:9222
/browser connect ws://host:port — custom CDP endpoint
/browser disconnect — revert to default (headless/Browserbase)
/browser status — show current browser mode + connectivity
When connected:
- All browser tools (navigate, snapshot, click, etc.) control the
user's real Chrome — logged-in sessions, cookies, open tabs
- Platform-specific Chrome launch instructions are shown
- Port connectivity is tested immediately
- A context message is injected so the model knows it's controlling
a live browser and should be mindful of user's open tabs
Implementation:
- BROWSER_CDP_URL env var drives the backend selection in browser_tool.py
- New _create_cdp_session() creates sessions using the CDP override
- _get_cdp_override() checked before local/Browserbase selection
- Existing agent-browser --cdp flag handles the actual CDP connection
Inspired by OpenClaw's browser profile system.
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
Keep Docker sandboxes isolated by default. Add an explicit terminal.docker_mount_cwd_to_workspace opt-in, thread it through terminal/file environment creation, and document the security tradeoff and config.yaml workflow clearly.
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
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Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Multiple Hermes installations on the same machine now get unique
systemd service names:
- Default ~/.hermes → hermes-gateway (backward compatible)
- Custom HERMES_HOME → hermes-gateway-<8-char-hash>
Changes:
- Add get_service_name() in hermes_cli/gateway.py that derives a
deterministic service name from HERMES_HOME via SHA256
- Replace all hardcoded 'hermes-gateway' systemd references with
get_service_name() across gateway.py, main.py, status.py, uninstall.py
- Add HERMES_HOME env var to both user and system systemd unit templates
so the gateway process uses the correct installation
- Update tests to use get_service_name() in assertions
When typing /model deepseek-chat while on a different provider, the
model name now auto-resolves to the correct provider instead of
silently staying on the wrong one and causing API errors.
Detection priority:
1. Direct provider with credentials (e.g. DEEPSEEK_API_KEY set)
2. OpenRouter catalog match with proper slug remapping
3. Direct provider without creds (clear error beats silent failure)
Also adds DeepSeek as a first-class API-key provider — just set
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY and /model deepseek-chat routes directly.
Bare model names get remapped to proper OpenRouter slugs:
/model gpt-5.4 → openai/gpt-5.4
/model claude-opus-4.6 → anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Salvages the concept from PR #1177 by @virtaava with credential
awareness and OpenRouter slug mapping added.
Co-authored-by: virtaava <virtaava@users.noreply.github.com>
Hermes startup entrypoints now load ~/.hermes/.env and project fallback env files with user config taking precedence over stale shell-exported values. This makes model/provider/base URL changes in .env actually take effect after restarting Hermes. Adds a shared env loader plus regression coverage, and reproduces the original bug case where OPENAI_BASE_URL and HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER remained stuck on old shell values before import.
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_save_platform_tools() overwrote the entire platform_toolsets list with
only the toolsets known to CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS. This silently dropped
any MCP server toolsets that users had added manually to config.yaml.
Fix: collect any existing toolset keys that are not in CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS
and append them back after the wizard's selections are written. This ensures
MCP toolsets survive a hermes tools save.
Fixes#1247
- Add background thread mechanism (prefetch_update_check/get_update_result)
so git fetch runs in parallel with skill sync and agent init
- Fix repo path fallback in check_for_updates() for dev installs
- Remove duplicate build_welcome_banner (~180 lines) and
_format_context_length from cli.py — the banner.py version is
now the single source of truth
- Port skin banner_hero/banner_logo support and terminal width check
from cli.py's version into banner.py
- Add update status output to hermes version command
- Add unit tests for update check, prefetch, and version string
`hermes update` crashed with CalledProcessError when run on a local-only
branch (e.g. fix/stoicneko) because `git rev-list HEAD..origin/{branch}`
fails when origin/{branch} doesn't exist. Now verifies the remote branch
exists first and falls back to origin/main.
Fixes#1005
Without linger, user-level systemd services stop when the SSH session
ends — even though systemctl --user status shows active (running).
Changes to systemd_install():
- Try loginctl enable-linger automatically (succeeds when the process
has the required privileges)
- If loginctl fails (no privileges), print a clear, copy-pasteable
warning with the exact command the user must run
New helper: _ensure_linger_enabled()
- Fast path: checks /var/lib/systemd/linger/<user> (no subprocess)
- Auto-enable: loginctl enable-linger <user>
- Fallback: actionable warning with sudo command + restart instructions
Tests: 4 new tests in TestEnsureLingerEnabled, 205 passed total
Keep the argparse CLI aligned with the slash command so --yes and -y
behave the same as --force for hermes skills install.
Add a parser-level regression test.
Salvaged from PR #1007 by stablegenius49.
- let INSTALL_POLICY decide dangerous verdict handling for builtin skills
- allow --force to override blocked dangerous decisions for trusted and community sources
- accept --yes / -y as aliases for --force in /skills install
- update regression tests to match the intended policy precedence
Add regression coverage for the new provider-aware vision setup flow and make the default OpenAI choice write AUXILIARY_VISION_MODEL so auxiliary vision requests don't fall back to the main model slug.
Update the unknown-subcommand config help output to use placeholder syntax too,
and extend the placeholder regression tests to cover show_config() and that
fallback help path.
Round out the skills hub integration with:
- richer skills.sh metadata and security surfacing during inspect/install
- generic check/update flows for hub-installed skills
- support for well-known Agent Skills endpoints via /.well-known/skills/index.json
Also persist upstream bundle metadata in the lock file and add
regression coverage plus live-compatible path handling for both
skills.sh aliases and well-known endpoints.
Seed ~/.hermes/SOUL.md when missing, load SOUL only from HERMES_HOME, and inject raw SOUL content without wrapper text. If the file exists but is empty, nothing is added to the system prompt.
- store gateway PID metadata and validate the live process before trusting gateway.pid
- auto-refresh outdated systemd user units before start/restart so installs pick up --replace fixes
- sweep stray manual gateway processes after service stops
- add regression tests for PID validation and service drift recovery
* fix(gateway): surface missing linger in status and doctor
Warn when a systemd user gateway service has linger disabled so users can
spot the common 'gateway sleeps after logout' deployment issue from both
hermes doctor and hermes gateway status.
* fix(gateway): check linger status after install
After installing the systemd user service, report whether linger is
already enabled instead of always printing the generic hint. This makes
post-install guidance match the user's actual deployment state.
Add a restore prompt for interactive updates, keep the stash when the user declines, and print a post-restore warning that local changes were reapplied on top of updated code.
Salvaged from PR #932 by Wayne onto current main.
Apply skin-aware prompt symbols and live prompt_toolkit color refresh,
replace lingering hardcoded accent output with active-skin colors, keep
ANSI-safe response rendering, preserve secret-capture and approval-prompt
state handling, and add integration coverage for prompt state and style
refresh behavior.
hermes setup hung indefinitely on headless SSH sessions, Docker
containers, and CI/CD environments because the interactive provider
selection menu could not receive input.
Two-layer fix:
1. sys.stdin.isatty() check — auto-detects non-interactive environments
2. --non-interactive flag support — already in CLI parser, now honored
In both cases the wizard exits immediately with helpful guidance
pointing users to 'hermes config set' commands.
Closes#905
Set HERMES_INTERACTIVE=1 via setdefault in run_doctor() so CLI-gated
tool checks (like cronjob) see the same context as the interactive CLI.
Cherry-picked from PR #895 by @stablegenius49.
Fixes#878
Co-authored-by: stablegenius49 <stablegenius49@users.noreply.github.com>
When a skill declares required_environment_variables in its YAML
frontmatter, missing env vars trigger a secure TUI prompt (identical
to the sudo password widget) when the skill is loaded. Secrets flow
directly to ~/.hermes/.env, never entering LLM context.
Key changes:
- New required_environment_variables frontmatter field for skills
- Secure TUI widget (masked input, 120s timeout)
- Gateway safety: messaging platforms show local setup guidance
- Legacy prerequisites.env_vars normalized into new format
- Remote backend handling: conservative setup_needed=True
- Env var name validation, file permissions hardened to 0o600
- Redact patterns extended for secret-related JSON fields
- 12 existing skills updated with prerequisites declarations
- ~48 new tests covering skip, timeout, gateway, remote backends
- Dynamic panel widget sizing (fixes hardcoded width from original PR)
Cherry-picked from PR #723 by kshitijk4poor, rebased onto current main
with conflict resolution.
Fixes#688
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Doctor-only override so honcho shows as available when configured,
even outside a live agent session. Runtime tool gate unchanged.
Cherry-picked from PR #962 by PeterFile, rebased onto current main
(post-#736 merge) with conflict resolution.
Fixes#961
Co-authored-by: PeterFile <PeterFile@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: use session_key instead of chat_id for adapter interrupt lookups
monitor_for_interrupt() in _run_agent was using source.chat_id to query
the adapter's has_pending_interrupt() and get_pending_message() methods.
But the adapter stores interrupt events under build_session_key(source),
which produces a different string (e.g. 'agent:main:telegram:dm' vs '123456').
This key mismatch meant the interrupt was never detected through the
adapter path, which is the only active interrupt path for all adapter-based
platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, etc.). The gateway-level interrupt
path (in dispatch_message) is unreachable because the adapter intercepts
the 2nd message in handle_message() before it reaches dispatch_message().
Result: sending a new message while subagents were running had no effect —
the interrupt was silently lost.
Fix: replace all source.chat_id references in the interrupt-related code
within _run_agent() with the session_key parameter, which matches the
adapter's storage keys.
Also adds regression tests verifying session_key vs chat_id consistency.
* debug: add file-based logging to CLI interrupt path
Temporary instrumentation to diagnose why message-based interrupts
don't seem to work during subagent execution. Logs to
~/.hermes/interrupt_debug.log (immune to redirect_stdout).
Two log points:
1. When Enter handler puts message into _interrupt_queue
2. When chat() reads it and calls agent.interrupt()
This will reveal whether the message reaches the queue and
whether the interrupt is actually fired.
* fix: accept unlisted models with warning instead of rejecting
validate_requested_model() previously hard-rejected any model not found
in the provider's API listing. This was too aggressive — users on higher
plan tiers (e.g. Z.AI Pro/Max) may have access to models not shown in
the public listing (like glm-5 on coding endpoints).
Changes:
- validate_requested_model: accept unlisted models with a warning note
instead of blocking. The model is saved to config and used immediately.
- Z.AI setup: always offer glm-5 in the model list regardless of whether
a coding endpoint was detected. Pro/Max plans support it.
- Z.AI setup detection message: softened from 'GLM-5 is not available'
to 'GLM-5 may still be available depending on your plan tier'
Follow-up to PR #862 (local skills classification by arceus77-7):
- Remove unnecessary isinstance guard on _read_manifest() return value —
it always returns Dict[str, str], so set() on it suffices.
- Extract repeated hub-dir monkeypatching into a shared pytest fixture (hub_env).
- Add three_source_env fixture for source-classification tests.
- Add _read_manifest monkeypatch to test_do_list_initializes_hub_dir
(was fragile — relied on empty skills list masking the real manifest).
- Add test coverage for --source hub and --source builtin filters.
- Extract _capture() helper to reduce console/StringIO boilerplate.
5 tests, all green.
- Remove test_nous_api_setup_preserves_model_provider_metadata (nous-api
provider no longer exists, test selected Nous OAuth which hangs waiting
for browser login)
- Fix test_nous_oauth_setup prompt_choice index: 1→0 (Nous Portal is
now first option after nous-api removal)
- gateway/run.py: Take main's _resolve_gateway_model() helper
- hermes_cli/setup.py: Re-apply nous-api removal after merge brought
it back. Fix provider_idx offset (Custom is now index 3, not 4).
- tests/hermes_cli/test_setup.py: Fix custom setup test index (3→4)
When a new user runs 'hermes setup' for the first time and ~/.openclaw/
exists, the wizard now asks if they want to import their OpenClaw data
before API/tool configuration begins.
If accepted, the existing migration script from optional-skills/ is
loaded dynamically and run with the 'full' preset — importing settings,
memories, skills, API keys, and platform configs. Config is reloaded
afterward so imported values (like API keys) are available for the
remaining setup steps.
The migration is only offered on first-time setup (not returning users)
and handles errors gracefully without blocking setup completion.
Closes#829
Combined implementation of reasoning management:
- /reasoning Show current effort level and display state
- /reasoning <level> Set reasoning effort (none, low, medium, high, xhigh)
- /reasoning show|on Show model thinking/reasoning in output
- /reasoning hide|off Hide model thinking/reasoning from output
Effort level changes persist to config and force agent re-init.
Display toggle updates the agent callback dynamically without re-init.
When display is enabled:
- Intermediate reasoning shown as dim [thinking] lines during tool loops
- Final reasoning shown in a bordered box above the response
- Long reasoning collapsed (5 lines intermediate, 10 lines final)
Also adds:
- reasoning_callback parameter to AIAgent
- last_reasoning in run_conversation result dict
- show_reasoning config option (display section, default: false)
- Display section in /config output
- 34 tests covering both features
Combines functionality from PR #789 and PR #790.
Co-authored-by: Aum Desai <Aum08Desai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: 0xbyt4 <35742124+0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
Four cleanups to code merged today:
1. New hermes_cli/curses_ui.py — shared curses_checklist() used by both
hermes tools and hermes skills. Eliminates ~140 lines of near-identical
curses code (scrolling, key handling, color setup, numbered fallback).
2. Fix _find_all_skills() perf — was calling load_config() per skill
(~100+ YAML parses). Now loads disabled set once via
_get_disabled_skill_names() and does a set lookup.
3. Eliminate _list_all_skills_unfiltered() duplication — _find_all_skills()
now accepts skip_disabled=True for the config UI, removing 30 lines
of copy-pasted discovery logic from skills_config.py.
4. Fix fragile label round-trip in skills_command — was building label
strings, passing to checklist, then mapping labels back to skill names
(collision-prone). Now works with indices directly, like tools_config.
Add /background <prompt> to the gateway, allowing users on Telegram,
Discord, Slack, etc. to fire off a prompt in a separate agent session.
The result is delivered back to the same chat when done, without
modifying the active conversation history.
Implementation:
- _handle_background_command: validates input, spawns asyncio task
- _run_background_task: creates AIAgent in executor thread, delivers
result (text, images, media files) back via the platform adapter
- Inherits model, toolsets, provider routing from gateway config
- Error handling with user-visible failure messages
Also adds /background to hermes_cli/commands.py registry so it
appears in /help and autocomplete.
Tests: 15 new tests covering usage, task creation, uniqueness,
multi-platform, error paths, and help/autocomplete integration.
Fixes#898 — Python 3.11 changed argparse to raise an exception on
duplicate subparser names (CPython #94331). The 'skills' name was
registered twice: once for Skills Hub and once for skills config.
Changes:
- Remove duplicate 'skills' subparser registration
- Add 'config' as a sub-action under the existing 'hermes skills' command
- Route 'hermes skills config' to skills_config module
- Add regression test to catch future duplicates
Migration: 'hermes skills' (config) is now 'hermes skills config'
When a user runs `hermes -w -c Pokemon Agent Dev` without quoting the
session name, argparse would fail with:
error: argument command: invalid choice: 'Agent'
This is because argparse parses `-c Pokemon` (consuming one token via
nargs='?'), then sees 'Agent' and tries to match it as a subcommand.
Fix: add _coalesce_session_name_args() that pre-processes sys.argv before
argparse, joining consecutive non-flag, non-subcommand tokens after -c or
-r into a single argument. This makes both quoted and unquoted multi-word
session names work transparently.
Includes 17 tests covering all edge cases: multi-word names, single-word,
bare flags, flag ordering, subcommand boundaries, and passthrough.
NOUS_API_KEY is unused — vision tools use OPENROUTER_API_KEY or Nous
Portal OAuth (auth.json), and MoA tools use OPENROUTER_API_KEY.
Removed from:
- hermes_cli/config.py: api_keys allowlist for config set routing
- .env.example: example env file entry and comment
- tests/hermes_cli/test_set_config_value.py: parametrize test data
- tests/integration/test_web_tools.py: updated comments and log
messages to reference 'auxiliary LLM provider' instead of NOUS_API_KEY
No HECATE references found in codebase (already cleaned up).
Add `hermes sessions browse` — a curses-based interactive session picker
with live type-to-search filtering, arrow key navigation, and seamless
session resume via Enter.
Features:
- Arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select and resume, Esc/q to quit
- Type characters to live-filter sessions by title, preview, source, or ID
- Backspace to edit filter, first Esc clears filter, second Esc exits
- Adaptive column layout (title/preview, last active, source, ID)
- Scrolling support for long session lists
- --source flag to filter by platform (cli, telegram, discord, etc.)
- --limit flag to control how many sessions to load (default: 50)
- Windows fallback: numbered list with input prompt
- After selection, seamlessly execs into `hermes --resume <id>`
Design decisions:
- Separate subcommand (not a flag on -c) — preserves `hermes -c` as-is
for instant most-recent-session resume
- Uses curses (not simple_term_menu) per Known Pitfalls to avoid the
arrow-key ghost-duplication rendering bug in tmux/iTerm
- Follows existing curses pattern from hermes_cli/tools_config.py
Also fixes: removed redundant `import os` inside cmd_sessions stats
block that shadowed the module-level import (would cause UnboundLocalError
if browse action was taken in the same function).
Tests: 33 new tests covering curses picker, fallback mode, filtering,
navigation, edge cases, and argument parser registration.
Call ensure_hub_dirs() at the start of hermes skills list so the\nSkills Hub directory structure is created before reading hub\nmetadata.\n\nAdd a regression test covering the empty-home path where\ndoctor recommends running the list command.\n\nRefs: #703
/provider command (CLI + gateway):
Shows all providers with auth status (✓/✗), aliases, and active marker.
Users can now discover what provider names work with provider:model syntax.
Gateway bugs fixed:
- Config was saved even when validation.persist=False (told user 'session
only' but actually persisted the unvalidated model)
- HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER env var not set on provider switch, causing
the switch to be silently overridden if that env var was already set
parse_model_input hardened:
- Colon only treated as provider delimiter if left side is a recognized
provider name or alias. 'anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet:beta' now passes
through as a model name instead of trying provider='anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet'.
- HTTP URLs, random colons no longer misinterpreted.
56 tests passing across model validation, CLI commands, and integration.
Add provider:model syntax to /model command for runtime provider switching:
/model zai:glm-5 → switch to Z.AI provider with glm-5
/model nous:hermes-3 → switch to Nous Portal with hermes-3
/model openrouter:anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 → explicit OpenRouter
When switching providers, credentials are resolved via resolve_runtime_provider
and validated before committing. Both model and provider are saved to config.
Provider aliases work (glm: → zai, kimi: → kimi-coding, etc.).
Enhanced /model (no args) display now shows:
- Current model and provider
- Curated model list for the current provider with ← marker
- Usage examples including provider:model syntax
39 tests covering parse_model_input, curated_models_for_provider,
provider switching (success + credential failure), and display output.
Not all providers require 'provider/model' format. Removing the rigid
format check lets the live API probe handle all validation uniformly.
If someone types 'gpt-5.4' on OpenRouter, the probe won't find it and
will suggest 'openai/gpt-5.4' — better UX than a format rejection.
Replace the static catalog-based model validation with a live API probe.
The /model command now hits the provider's /models endpoint to check if
the requested model actually exists:
- Model found in API → accepted + saved to config
- Model NOT found in API → rejected with 'Error: not a valid model'
and fuzzy-match suggestions from the live model list
- API unreachable → graceful fallback to hardcoded catalog (session-only
for unrecognized models)
- Format errors (empty, spaces, missing '/') still caught instantly
without a network call
The API probe takes ~0.2s for OpenRouter (346 models) and works with any
OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, vLLM, custom, etc.).
32 tests covering all paths: format checks, API found, API not found,
API unreachable fallback, CLI integration.
- Wrap validate_requested_model in try/except so /model doesn't crash
if validation itself fails (falls back to old accept+save behavior)
- Remove unnecessary sys.path.insert from both test files
- Expand test_model_validation.py: 4 → 23 tests covering normalize_provider,
provider_model_ids, empty/whitespace/spaces rejection, OpenRouter format
validation, custom endpoints, nous provider, provider aliases, unknown
providers, fuzzy suggestions
- Expand test_cli_model_command.py: 2 → 5 tests adding known-model save,
validation crash fallback, and /model with no argument
Verifies explicit allowlist keys, catch-all _API_KEY/_TOKEN patterns,
case insensitivity, TERMINAL_SSH prefix, and config.yaml routing for
non-secret keys. Covers the fix from PR #469.
- Renamed test method for clarity and added comprehensive tests for `SessionSource` including handling of numeric `chat_id`, missing optional fields, and invalid platforms.
- Introduced tests for session source descriptions based on chat types and names, ensuring accurate representation in prompts.
- Improved file tools tests by validating schema structures, ensuring no duplicate model IDs, and enhancing error handling in file operations.
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