force_close_tcp_sockets stayed shutdown-only after #29507 to avoid
cross-thread FD recycle. That left CLOSED sockets unreclaimed when
httpx.close() skipped already-shutdown sockets under long-lived
gateways (~1 CLOSED fd / 6 min via proxy).
Add release_fds= for the owning-thread dispose path only; abort still
defaults to shutdown-only.
Add a token-free, curated affection matcher (agent/reactions.py) — the single
source of truth for detecting user "vibes" (ily / <3 / good bot / heart emoji).
No model call, no tokens. Generalized to return a reaction *kind* so future
reactions can ride the same signal.
Wire an opt-in AIAgent.reaction_callback that fires from build_turn_context on
the incoming user message. It never touches the conversation (cache-safe) and
never fatal — a purely cosmetic side-beat each host can consume.
- Return the boundary snapshot from
_launch_session_boundary_memory_flush as a local value instead of
staging it on self._session_boundary_snapshot. The instance-attr
handoff could leak (no memory manager configured) or mis-fire a
stale snapshot on a later /new if an exception hit between staging
and consumption. A local variable eliminates the class; the helper
also returns None when no memory manager is configured so
new_session takes the inline-switch path.
- Drop the now-dead session_id kwarg from commit_memory_session:
after the redesign no production caller passes it (gateway, TUI,
compression all use the default), and speculative params are
rejected per AGENTS.md. The explicit-old-session need is served by
cli.py's direct engine call + commit_session_boundary_async.
- Drop the dead providers snapshot in commit_session_boundary_async
(only the emptiness check used it).
- Tests updated accordingly (dead-kwarg test removed, snapshot
assertion now covered by return-value contract).
Phase-2 gates: 2a tests/cli 1048 passed + 6 memory files 137 passed;
2b programmatic live smoke 0.38ms non-blocking caller, end→switch→sync
ordering verified; 2c structured 4-angle review — no Criticals, these
warnings fixed.
When an API error carries an httpx.Response whose body was consumed via
iter_bytes() during streaming error handling (e.g. GeminiAPIError from
agent/gemini_native_adapter.py), accessing .text raises
httpx.ResponseNotRead. The secondary exception replaced the real,
already-computed provider error (429 free-tier quota guidance) with the
generic 'Attempted to access streaming response content' message on
every turn.
Guard the .text access so it degrades to an empty snippet and falls
through to the str(error) fallback, which carries the full original
message. Mirrors the existing guards in
agent/error_classifier.py::_extract_error_body() and
agent/gemini_native_adapter.py::gemini_http_error().
Fixes#59769
Salvaged from PR #59868 (guard + regression test); the unrelated
desktop Ctrl-C fix bundled in that PR was intentionally dropped and is
triaged separately.
- OPENROUTER_MODELS: remove openrouter/owl-alpha (free) and
tencent/hy3-preview{,:free}; add tencent/hy3 and tencent/hy3:free
- _PROVIDER_MODELS[nous]: tencent/hy3-preview -> tencent/hy3
- run_agent.py reasoning-prefix list: tencent/hy3-preview -> tencent/hy3
(prefix match still covers -preview if pinned)
- model_metadata: register hy3 context length (262144) alongside hy3-preview
- regenerate website/static/api/model-catalog.json
- update tokenhub curated-list tests to the new IDs
The tencent-tokenhub direct provider still serves hy3-preview and is
intentionally unchanged.
The google-antigravity and google-gemini-cli OAuth providers were removed
in #50492. They were the only producers of a cloudcode-pa:// base_url, so
the account-level-quota early-returns in _pool_may_recover_from_rate_limit
and _credential_pool_may_recover_rate_limit are now unreachable.
- Drop the dead cloudcode-pa:// checks and the now-unused provider/base_url
params on _pool_may_recover_from_rate_limit (only caller updated).
- Prune the obsolete CloudCode-specific regression tests; keep the live
single/multi-entry pool-rotation invariants (#11314).
The custom ``httpx.HTTPTransport(socket_options=[SO_KEEPALIVE, ...])``
in ``_build_keepalive_http_client()`` was introduced to fix CLOSE-WAIT
socket accumulation on long-lived connections (#10324).
That approach broke streaming for providers behind reverse proxies
(OpenResty, Cloudflare, etc.) because the custom socket options
conflict with the proxy's chunked-transfer handling (#54049, #12952).
It also stripped TCP_NODELAY, stalling TLS handshakes and SSE encoding.
Narrow per-provider bypasses were added for Copilot (#50298), Codex
(#36623, #12953), but the root cause remained.
The fix moves connection lifecycle management from the socket layer to
the HTTP pool layer:
- ``httpx.Limits(keepalive_expiry=20.0)`` tells httpx to close idle
pooled connections at 20 s, before a reverse proxy's typical 30-60 s
timeout drops them and causes CLOSE-WAIT accumulation.
- The default httpx transport preserves OS TCP defaults (including
TCP_NODELAY), so TLS handshakes and SSE chunked encoding work
correctly.
- ``trust_env=False`` prevents httpx from double-dipping on env vars
(we handle proxy detection ourselves via ``_get_proxy_for_base_url``
which respects NO_PROXY).
- The Copilot host bypass (line 3632) is no longer needed since all
providers now use the same standard httpx.Client.
Closes#54049. Supersedes #12010, #36623, #12953, #50298.
* fix(cli): set correct x-initiator header per Copilot turn
copilot_default_headers() always hardcoded x-initiator: agent, but
GitHub Copilot billing requires "user" for user-initiated prompts and
"agent" for tool/follow-up calls. This caused premium requests to never
be consumed correctly, risking billing issues or account bans.
Adds is_agent_turn param to copilot_default_headers() and injects
extra_headers={"x-initiator": "user"} on the first API call of each
user turn when targeting Copilot URLs. The flag flips to False after
injection so subsequent calls (tool use, streaming fallback) default
back to "agent".
Fixes#3040
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for @tjp2021 (PR #4097 salvage)
---------
Co-authored-by: Tim <tim@iteachyouai.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Source: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52346
Related prior work: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/39462
Related prior work: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/27426
Maintainer direction: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/52346#issuecomment-4854881612
Remove acp_command and acp_args from the model-facing delegate_task schema and
dispatch paths. Child agents can still use ACP subprocess transport when it
comes from trusted delegation config or parent inheritance, but a model tool
call can no longer choose the command or arguments that reach child
construction.
This is salvageable because the risky boundary is model control over child ACP
transport, not ACP itself. The patch follows the maintainer direction from the
source discussion by preserving trusted ACP configuration and prior integration
work while removing the untrusted tool-call fields from both top-level and
per-task delegate inputs.
Reproduced on main by passing acp_command through delegate_task and observing it
reach _build_child_agent. Verified after the fix that model dispatch strips the
hidden top-level fields and per-task hidden fields are ignored before child
construction.
Co-authored-by: Carlosian <claudlos@agentmail.to>
Co-authored-by: ssiweifnag <120658181+ssiweifnag@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: nikshepsvn <23241247+nikshepsvn@users.noreply.github.com>
Replace the loopback/PKCE-callback server and manual-paste fallback with
the RFC 8628 device-code flow as the only xAI Grok OAuth login path. The
flow works in headless/SSH/container sessions with no 127.0.0.1 listener,
shrinking the local attack surface.
- Poll the token endpoint with server-provided interval, honoring
slow_down and expires_in; store tokens with auth_mode
oauth_device_code.
- Adaptive proactive refresh skew for short-lived device-code JWTs;
rotated tokens sync back to auth.json, the global root store, and the
credential pool (no refresh-token replay).
- Clear source suppression on successful re-login (CLI + dashboard) and
drop the duplicate dashboard pool entry so exactly one seeded
device_code entry exists.
- Use the shared device_code source name for consistency with the
nous/codex device-code providers.
- Desktop: remove the loopback OAuth flow states and dead type variants;
pkce providers' sign-in URL selection is unchanged.
- Docs (EN + zh-Hans) rewritten for device-code login; drop the deleted
--manual-paste flag from documented commands.
Named providers / custom_providers entries in config.yaml now accept an
extra_headers dict scoped to that endpoint — for reverse proxies, API
gateways, and custom auth schemes (e.g. Cloudflare Access service tokens).
- hermes_cli/config.py: normalize extra_headers on provider entries
(_normalize_custom_provider_entry + providers-dict translation), add
get_custom_provider_extra_headers /
apply_custom_provider_extra_headers_to_client_kwargs helpers keyed on
base_url (case/trailing-slash insensitive, no substring bypass —
mirrors the TLS helpers)
- hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py: surface extra_headers in the resolved
runtime for named custom providers (providers dict, legacy
custom_providers list, and the credential-pool path)
- run_agent.py / agent/agent_init.py: merge per-provider extra_headers
onto the OpenAI client default_headers at construction and on every
_apply_client_headers_for_base_url re-application (credential swaps,
rebuilds), most-specific level wins; OpenAI-wire only (native
Anthropic/Bedrock scoped out)
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: accept model.extra_headers as an alias of
model.default_headers for the global variant
- cli-config.yaml.example: documented commented example
- Header values are treated as secrets and never logged
Salvaged from PR #3526 by @jneeee, reimplemented against current main.
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
The salvaged fix wired per-provider ssl_ca_cert / ssl_verify (and
HERMES_CA_BUNDLE) into the MAIN OpenAI client. This follow-up:
- Auxiliary client parity: process_bootstrap.build_keepalive_http_client
accepts and forwards verify; auxiliary_client._resolve_aux_verify mirrors
the main-client TLS resolution (via load_config_readonly, the read-only
fast path) so compression/vision/web_extract/title-gen/session_search
honor the same per-provider CA. Without this, chat worked against a
private-CA endpoint but every auxiliary call still failed APIConnectionError.
- switch_model now reads custom_providers from live config (load_config_readonly)
instead of the init-time agent._custom_providers snapshot, so ssl_ca_cert /
ssl_verify edits are honored on mid-session model switch — matching the
context-length reload (#15779).
- Drop the dead client-level verify= where a custom httpx transport is used
(httpx ignores it there); verify lives on the transport. Fix docstrings.
Applies to both run_agent._build_keepalive_http_client and process_bootstrap.
- resolve_httpx_verify: add CURL_CA_BUNDLE to the env chain (consistency with
agent/ssl_guard._CA_BUNDLE_ENV_VARS) and emit a loud logger.warning naming
the endpoint whenever ssl_verify:false disables verification.
- get_custom_provider_tls_settings: case-insensitive base_url match (config
dedup already lowercases; scheme/host are case-insensitive) so a mixed-case
entry doesn't silently drop its CA. Exact match preserved — no prefix bypass.
- Demote best-effort except Exception: pass in agent_init/switch_model to
logger.debug(exc_info=True).
- Tests for aux verify forwarding, _resolve_aux_verify, case-insensitive
match, and prefix-bypass rejection.
Wire ssl_ca_cert and ssl_verify through custom_providers config and env
vars into the keepalive httpx client, fixing APIConnectionError against
mkcert/self-signed Ollama proxies behind HTTPS.
The model could pass `toolsets` (top-level and per-task) to delegate_task,
letting it choose which toolsets a subagent got. Toolset selection is a
capability-scoping decision the model should not control; subagents inherit
the parent's enabled toolsets, period.
- Remove `toolsets` from the delegate_task() signature, the registry handler,
the top-level + per-task JSON schema, and the live dispatch path
(run_agent._dispatch_delegate_task — this forwarded it on every model call).
- Single-task and per-task child builds now pass toolsets=None so
_build_child_agent resolves to pure parent inheritance.
- Drop the now-dead _SUBAGENT_TOOLSETS / _TOOLSET_LIST_STR schema-hint block.
- _build_child_agent keeps its internal toolsets param + intersection helpers
(internal API; fed the inherited value only).
- Tests: schema assertions flipped to assertNotIn; added a regression test
proving the dispatch path never forwards a smuggled model `toolsets`.
- Docs: update delegate_task signature refs in the autonomous-ai-agents skill.
Adds Vertex AI as a first-class provider for Gemini models via Vertex's
OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Vertex authenticates with short-lived OAuth2
access tokens (service-account JSON or ADC), not a static API key — the
missing piece behind the recurring requests (#13484, #12639, #56259).
- agent/vertex_adapter.py: OAuth2 token minting + refresh-on-expiry
(5-min margin), ADC->service-account fallback, global vs regional
endpoint URLs. Config precedence: env var > config.yaml > default.
- plugins/model-providers/vertex/: provider profile (auth_type=vertex),
reuses Gemini's extra_body.google.thinking_config translation.
- runtime_provider: vertex short-circuit BEFORE the credential pool so a
credentials-file path is never mistaken for a static API key; mints a
fresh token + computes base_url per resolve.
- run_agent + conversation_loop: _try_refresh_vertex_client_credentials()
re-mints the token and rebuilds the client on a mid-session 401, so a
long-lived gateway agent survives token expiry (~1h).
- auxiliary_client: vertex auth_type branch for side-LLM tasks.
- config.yaml: vertex.project_id / vertex.region (non-secret, bridged to
env); credential path stays in .env (VERTEX_CREDENTIALS_PATH).
- setup wizard + model picker: dedicated _model_flow_vertex; curated
google/gemini-* model list; --provider choices.
- pricing/metadata: Vertex prices off the gemini docs snapshot; endpoint
host auto-maps to the vertex provider (no probe spam).
- lazy_deps + pyproject [vertex] extra: google-auth, opt-in only.
- docs: guides/google-vertex.md + providers page; tests for adapter +
runtime resolution.
Salvages and modernizes #8427 by @slawt onto current main: rewired from
the legacy PROVIDER_REGISTRY path to the provider-profile architecture,
moved non-secret config out of .env into config.yaml, and added the
per-turn 401 token-refresh the original lacked.
The persist user-message override was applied in place to the live messages
list. On the early crash-resilience persist (which runs BEFORE api_messages is
built), that stripped observed group-chat context off the live user message and
silently dropped it when observe_unmentioned_group_messages was enabled.
Fix at the single chokepoint: _flush_messages_to_session_db resolves the
override (idx/content/timestamp) locally and applies it ONLY to the row written
to the DB — the live dict is never mutated, so EVERY persist caller (early
persist, mid tool-loop flush, /resume, /branch) is protected uniformly. This
supersedes the earlier shallow-copy approach, which broke the intrinsic
_DB_PERSISTED_MARKER idempotency (copies never propagated the marker back to
the live dicts → duplicate rows) and closes the sibling class tracked in #56303.
Trailing empty-response scaffolding is still dropped from the live list in
_persist_session (unchanged behavior).
Salvaged from #48817; chokepoint reworked to coexist with the marker-based
dedup (#50372).
Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
The forked skill/memory review agent shares the parent's session_id for
prompt-cache warmth. Without isolation it wrote its harness turn ('Review the
conversation above and update the skill library…') plus its curator-mode reply
straight into the user's REAL session in state.db; the next live turn re-read
that injected user message as a standing instruction and the agent 'became' the
curator, refusing the actual task.
Root fix: a _persist_disabled flag on the fork that hard-stops every DB write
and lazy-open path (_flush_messages_to_session_db, _ensure_db_session,
_get_session_db_for_recall) — the review writes only to the skill/memory stores
via its tools. Defense-in-depth: _strip_background_review_harness drops any
stray harness message (and the assistant reply that followed) at load time in
get_messages_as_conversation, so an already-polluted session resumes clean.
Salvaged from #50296.
Co-authored-by: arminanton <29869547+arminanton@users.noreply.github.com>
Phase 2c review follow-up on the id()-reuse persistence fix:
- test_recycled_id_in_dedup_set_still_persists_new_message seeded an EMPTY
dedup set, so it never injected a collision and passed under id-based dedup
too (couldn't distinguish the designs). Replace with
test_stale_seed_id_from_prior_flush_cannot_suppress_new_message, which asserts
the durable invariant: the seed is empty after every flush (mutation-checked:
removing the post-flush reset now fails BOTH id-reuse tests).
- Refresh the _flush_messages_to_session_db docstring: it still described the
old per-session identity tracking; document the intrinsic-marker mechanism,
that _flushed_db_message_ids is now a one-shot seed, and the shared-dict
mutation safety note.
_flush_messages_to_session_db deduped persisted messages with a retained
{id(msg)} set (_flushed_db_message_ids) kept across turns. Once a flushed dict
is dropped from the live list (scaffolding rewind / in-place compaction) and
GC'd, CPython recycles its address onto a new assistant/tool dict whose id()
collides with the stale entry — so the real turn is silently never written to
state.db.
Replace the retained id-set with an intrinsic _DB_PERSISTED_MARKER stamped on
each dict. The id-set is demoted to a one-shot seed (valid only while the
caller's objects are alive) that is translated to markers and cleared after
every flush, so no id() outlives a flush to alias a future message. The marker
is _-prefixed so the wire sanitizers strip it before any request leaves.
Preserves the existing _is_ephemeral_scaffolding skip. Salvaged from #50372.
Co-authored-by: rrevenanttt <290873280+rrevenanttt@users.noreply.github.com>
When text compression can't reduce a 413 request further, evict base64
image parts from tool messages and retry once instead of dead-ending
with 'Payload too large and cannot compress further.'
A 413 is a request-body byte-size limit, not a token limit. browser_vision
screenshots (2-5MB base64 each) keep the HTTP body oversized even after
aggressive summarization. The strip pass passes remember_model=False so a
413 does not poison _no_list_tool_content_models — that set is for providers
that reject list-type tool content, a distinct failure mode.
Cherry-picked from #47397 by Tranquil-Flow; placed onto main's current
token-aware 413 recovery else branch.
verify_on_stop / pre_verify append a synthetic assistant "done" plus a
synthetic user nudge to keep the agent going one more turn before it can
claim completion. Both were flagged (_verification_stop_synthetic on the
nudge only), but the flags were never registered in
_EPHEMERAL_SCAFFOLDING_FLAGS, so the central _is_ephemeral_scaffolding()
filter that guards both persistence sinks (SQLite flush + JSON snapshot)
let them through. The resumed transcript then inherited loop-only
scaffolding, invalidating the prompt-prefix cache on later turns.
- add _verification_stop_synthetic and _pre_verify_synthetic to
_EPHEMERAL_SCAFFOLDING_FLAGS (the single chokepoint both sinks use)
- flag the blocked attempt assistant message too, not just the nudge, so
the whole synthetic pair drops together and persistence does not keep a
premature done with the nudge stripped (assistant to assistant adjacency)
The API-payload leak claimed in the report is already handled: the
chat_completions transport strips every underscore-prefixed message key
before the wire, so the marker never reaches strict providers.
Reported by patppham.
Ephemeral empty-response/prefill recovery scaffolding (the synthetic
assistant "(empty)" turn, the user nudge, the terminal "(empty)"
sentinel, and the thinking-only prefill placeholder) exists only to
drive the next API retry; the in-memory loop pops it before appending
the real response. The append-only flush did not mirror that, so a
mid-turn persist could commit scaffolding to the SQLite session store
(and JSON log), and a resumed session would replay synthetic
"(empty)"/nudge turns as genuine context — re-poisoning the empty-retry
boundary forever.
Filter ephemeral scaffolding at both durable-write sites
(_flush_messages_to_session_db + _save_session_log), by flag not
position, so buried scaffolding (an answered nudge leaves the synthetic
pair mid-list) is skipped too. Covers all three flags including
_thinking_prefill.
Adapted onto current main's identity-tracking flush.
Cherry-picked from #41281 by petrichor-op.
The gateway/API server rebuilds the in-memory TodoStore by replaying
caller-supplied conversation_history. _hydrate_todo_store previously
accepted any role:tool message containing a "todos" array, so a forged
bare tool result could seed arbitrary todo state and re-inflate context
every turn (GHSA-5g4g-6jrg-mw3g).
Restrict hydration to tool results paired with an earlier assistant
todo tool call (matching tool_call_id, function name == todo, no
user/system boundary between). Reuse the existing _get_tool_call_id/
name_static helpers so dict- and object-shaped tool calls both work.
Add a generous MAX_TODO_RESULT_CHARS payload guard to drop absurd
forged results before parsing; item/content caps already exist on main.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <agent@nousresearch.com>
Generic provider:custom relays were force-routed to the OpenAI Responses
API whenever the model matched gpt-5*, and a stale persisted
model.api_mode=codex_responses survived /reset and upgrades. Some
OpenAI-compatible relays do not implement Responses semantics, which
surfaced as malformed function_call.name replay errors in gateway sessions.
- runtime_provider: route custom-provider api_mode through
_resolve_plain_custom_api_mode(), which drops a stale codex_responses
unless the URL is direct OpenAI/xAI
- run_agent: _provider_model_requires_responses_api returns False for
custom; direct api.openai.com / api.x.ai URLs still upgrade via
_is_direct_openai_url() / URL detection
- regression coverage for plain relays vs direct OpenAI/xAI URLs
Co-authored-by: HiddenPuppy <HiddenPuppy@users.noreply.github.com>
A bare threading.Thread / ThreadPoolExecutor worker starts with an empty
contextvars.Context, so the context-local profile override
(_HERMES_HOME_OVERRIDE) does not cross the spawn boundary. In single-process
multi-profile runtimes (desktop tui_gateway) the worker then resolves
get_hermes_home() to the launch/default profile, leaking one profile's
reads/writes into another. The fix primitive (tools.thread_context.
propagate_context_to_thread, which copies the parent context) already exists;
the leaking spawns simply did not use it.
- model_tools.py _run_async: wrap the worker-thread loop runner. This is the
generic sync->async bridge for every async tool, so wrapping it here fixes
the leak for all async tools at once (verified: an async tool reading
get_hermes_home() under an override now resolves the active profile).
- run_agent.py bg-review thread: wrap so MEMORY.md / skill review writes land
in the spawning turn's profile (#54937 path).
- tools/async_delegation.py: wrap both single + batch executor.submit calls so
detached children resolve the dispatching profile's paths.
Scope: the vision CPU executor is intentionally left unwrapped — it runs pure
in-memory encode/resize and never resolves profile-scoped paths.
The earlier enterprise base URL change (proxy-ep parsing) gave us URLs
like `api.enterprise.githubcopilot.com`, but ~15 host-matching call
sites still hard-coded `api.githubcopilot.com`. Enterprise users would
therefore drop the `Copilot-Integration-Id: vscode-chat` header at
client-build time, and upstream rejected requests with:
The requested model is not available for integrator "zed"
(or "copilot-language-server") — verify the correct
Copilot-Integration-Id header is being sent.
The header was correct in copilot_default_headers(); it just never
made it into default_headers for non-default hostnames because every
detector compared against the exact string "api.githubcopilot.com".
This commit broadens all those checks to "githubcopilot.com" via
base_url_host_matches (which already does proper subdomain matching),
so api.enterprise.githubcopilot.com, api.business.githubcopilot.com,
etc. all share the same headers, vision routing, max_completion_tokens
selection, and reasoning-effort detection as the default endpoint.
Also adds ".githubcopilot.com" to _URL_TO_PROVIDER so context-window
resolution via models.dev works for enterprise base URLs, and tightens
_is_github_copilot_url to use suffix matching instead of strict equality.
Tests:
- New: enterprise Copilot endpoint preserves Copilot-Integration-Id
- New: enterprise endpoint returns max_completion_tokens (not max_tokens)
- Existing 333 base_url / copilot / aux-client / credential-pool tests pass
Parts 5 of #7731.
_sanitize_api_messages() compared raw tool_call_id strings without
stripping whitespace. When assistant-side IDs and tool-result IDs
diverged due to surrounding whitespace, valid tool results were treated
as orphaned and replaced with [Result unavailable] stub placeholders.
Strip whitespace in _get_tool_call_id_static() (both call_id/id paths,
dict and object) and at the two result_call_id comparison sites in
sanitize_api_messages(). Adds regression tests for preserved-whitespace
results and orphaned-whitespace removal.
Closes#9999
Defense-in-depth on top of _safe_session_filename_component (#5958):
Sink (makes the bad write impossible regardless of entry point):
- run_agent._save_session_log: sanitize session_id before building the
session_{sid}.json snapshot path.
- agent_runtime_helpers.dump_api_request_debug: sanitize before building
the request_dump_{sid}_{ts}.json path.
Boundary (clean 400 instead of a silently-hashed filename):
- api_server rejects path-traversal-shaped X-Hermes-Session-Id on the
session-continuation path and the explicit /api/sessions create path,
reusing gateway.session._is_path_unsafe (mirrors the native gateway's
entry-boundary guard). Also enforces the session-header length cap on
the continuation path.
Tests: traversal session_id stays contained at the write site; sanitizer
always yields a traversal-free segment; the API header rejects
../, absolute, and Windows-traversal IDs with 400.
Session IDs can originate from untrusted input (e.g. the
X-Hermes-Session-Id API header) and are interpolated raw into on-disk
artifact filenames under ~/.hermes/sessions/. A traversal-shaped ID
(../../../../etc/pwned) would let a caller write the session snapshot
or request dump outside the sessions directory.
_safe_session_filename_component() collapses every non [A-Za-z0-9_-]
character to _, caps the length, and appends a short content hash when
sanitization changed the string, always yielding a single traversal-free
path segment.
Closes#5958.
Two independent agent-loop hardening fixes:
- anthropic: when the streaming loop breaks on _interrupt_requested,
return None instead of calling stream.get_final_message() on the
partially-drained stream — the SDK may hang draining remaining events
or return a Message with incomplete tool_use blocks. The outer poll
loop raises InterruptedError, so the return value is discarded anyway.
- vision: add a 20 MB cap on base64 data-URL payloads before
base64.b64decode() in _materialize_data_url_for_vision. A 100MB+
payload creates ~275MB of memory pressure; gateway users sharing the
process can trivially OOM it. Oversized payloads return ("", None).
The third change from the original PR (streaming tool-name += to
assignment dedup) was already landed independently on main.
Co-authored-by: aaronlab <1115117931@qq.com>
When an LLM API call returns HTTP 4xx with an empty parsed SDK `body` ({}),
`_summarize_api_error` fell through to a bare `str(error)`, so users saw only
"HTTP 400" with no provider detail (reported on Windows in #36109). The SDK
leaves `body` empty in this case, but the httpx `response` still carries the
payload in `.text`.
- run_agent.py `_summarize_api_error`: when `body` is empty, fall back to
`response.text` — parse a JSON `error.message`/`message` when present, else
surface the raw (truncated) body. Platform-agnostic diagnostics.
- hermes_cli/oneshot.py: `hermes -z` now runs via `run_conversation` and returns
exit code 2 when the run is failed/partial with no usable final response, so
scripts can detect LLM failures (still 0 when a response — incl. an error
summary as output — is produced).
Tests: new tests/run_agent/test_summarize_api_error.py (empty-body JSON + raw
text, RED/GREEN verified) + oneshot exit-code/`run_conversation` wiring tests.
NOTE: #36109's original root cause (Windows "all providers return empty 400")
is not reproducible on current main (heavy provider-transport churn since
v0.15.1). This change does not claim to fix that root cause — it makes any
empty-body API error LEGIBLE so a future occurrence shows the real provider
message instead of a bare HTTP 400. Relates to #36109 (does not close it).
Make check-and-replace atomic in _ensure_primary_openai_client by
keeping both operations under the same lock acquisition. Previously,
the lock was released between detecting a closed client and replacing
it, allowing two threads to simultaneously replace the client.
Fixes#32846
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(agent): config-driven intent-ack continuation for all api_modes (#27881)
The agent could end a turn after only stating intent ('I will run a health
check...') without executing the announced tool call, forcing the user to
re-prompt. A continuation guard that catches this and nudges the model to
proceed already existed but was hard-gated to the codex_responses api_mode,
so Gemini/Claude/OpenRouter turns never benefited.
- New agent.intent_ack_continuation config (default 'auto' = codex-only,
byte-stable for existing conversations). 'true'/model-list opts every
api_mode in; 'false' disables. Mirrors agent.tool_use_enforcement's shape.
- looks_like_codex_intermediate_ack gains require_workspace (default True).
The opted-in path drops the codebase/filesystem requirement so general
autonomous workflows (server ops, deploys, API calls) are caught, not just
coding tasks. Future-ack + action-verb + short-content + no-prior-tool
guards still apply; the 2-nudge-per-turn cap is unchanged.
- Resolution centralized in intent_ack_continuation_mode (off/codex_only/all).
* docs(infographic): intent-ack continuation (#27881)
Follow-up to the #13971 fix: a genuine native Ollama provider reached
through a reverse proxy carries no ollama/:11434 URL signature, so the
restricted detection would miss it. Add provider=="ollama" as an
explicit True case (idea from #14789, @Tranquil-Flow) and cover both it
and the #13971 LiteLLM-proxy-to-zai false-positive with E2E tests.
The _is_ollama_glm_backend() function was too broad: any local endpoint
running a GLM model was treated as Ollama, triggering the stop->length
misreport heuristic introduced in 8011aa3. This caused false truncation
detection on sglang, vLLM, LM Studio, and other non-Ollama servers that
correctly report finish_reason.
When a GLM model on sglang/vLLM returned finish_reason='stop', the agent
mistakenly reclassified it as 'length' if the response didn't end with
a whitelisted punctuation character (ASCII or CJK). This particularly
affected Chinese-language responses and Markdown-formatted text.
Root cause: the is_local_endpoint() fallback assumed any local GLM
endpoint = Ollama. But many non-Ollama servers also run on localhost.
Fix: remove the is_local_endpoint() catch-all. Only detect Ollama via
its distinctive signatures (port 11434, 'ollama' in URL). All other
local servers are assumed to report finish_reason correctly.
This is the correct tradeoff because:
- False negatives (Ollama at custom port, heuristic not triggered) only
mean the user sees a truncated response — same as having no heuristic
- False positives (non-Ollama server, heuristic wrongly triggered) inject
spurious continuation messages into the conversation — strictly worse
Adds two tests:
- sglang GLM response is NOT reclassified as truncated
- Ollama GLM on port 11434 still triggers the heuristic as before
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
Wire get_reasoning_stale_timeout_floor() into both stale detectors so known
reasoning models (Nemotron 3 Ultra, OpenAI o1/o3, Opus 4.x thinking, DeepSeek
R1, Qwen QwQ, Grok reasoning) tolerate multi-minute thinking phases instead of
the upstream gateway idle-killing the socket (BrokenPipeError) before first
token. Applied as max(default, floor) — never overrides explicit user config,
never lowers an existing threshold.
The reasoning_timeouts.py allowlist module already landed on main via #52795,
so this salvage carries only the wiring + tests (the duplicate module and the
stale-base MoA reverts from the original PR branch are dropped).
Salvaged from #52238. Fixes#52217.
* feat(moa): expose MoA presets as selectable virtual models
Reconstructed onto current main (PR #46081's base had diverged with no common
ancestor, marking the PR dirty so CI never dispatched). MoA is now a virtual
provider: each named preset is a selectable model under provider 'moa', and the
preset's aggregator is the acting model that answers and calls tools.
Reference models fan out in parallel via a bounded ThreadPoolExecutor (the same
batch pattern delegate_task uses) — all references dispatched at once, collected
when every one finishes, then handed to the aggregator. Output order is
preserved, failures and the MoA-recursion guard stay isolated per reference.
- Removed the old mixture_of_agents model tool and moa toolset.
- Added moa as a virtual provider in the provider/model inventory.
- /moa is shortcut behavior over model selection (default preset / named preset
/ one-shot prompt).
- Dashboard + Desktop manage named presets; presets appear in model pickers.
- Parallel reference fan-out in agent/moa_loop.py with regression test.
* fix(moa): thread moa_config through _run_agent to _run_agent_inner
The reconstructed gateway MoA wiring declared moa_config on _run_agent (the
profile-scoping wrapper) and used it inside _run_agent_inner, but the wrapper
never forwarded it — _run_agent_inner had no such parameter, so the runtime hit
NameError: name 'moa_config' is not defined on the compression-failure session
sync path. Add moa_config to _run_agent_inner's signature and forward it from
both wrapper call sites (multiplex and non-multiplex). Caught by
tests/gateway/test_compression_failure_session_sync.py on CI shard test(4).
* fix(moa): classify moa as a virtual provider in the catalog
The moa virtual provider has no PROVIDER_REGISTRY/ProviderProfile entry, so
provider_catalog() fell through to the default auth_type="api_key" with no
env vars — tripping two catalog invariants:
- test_provider_catalog: api_key providers must expose a credential env var
- test_provider_parity: every hermes-model provider must be desktop-configurable
moa already declares auth_type="virtual" in HERMES_OVERLAYS; consult that
overlay as an auth_type fallback so the catalog reports moa as virtual (no real
credential, no network endpoint). Exempt virtual providers from the desktop
parity union check the same way 'custom' is exempt — derived from the catalog,
not a hardcoded slug, so future virtual providers are covered too.
Make verification closure the default coding behavior after landed file edits while keeping bounded retries and config/env switches for users who need to disable it.
* feat(providers): remove google-gemini-cli + google-antigravity OAuth providers
Google now actively bans accounts for third-party tools that piggyback on
Gemini CLI / Antigravity / Code Assist OAuth, and because abuse prevention
sits at a backend layer the ban can extend to the entire Google account
(Gmail/Drive), with a second violation being permanent.
Ref: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/20632
Removes both OAuth inference providers entirely (modules, provider profiles,
auth/runtime/config/models wiring, the /gquota Code Assist quota command,
the antigravity-cli optional skill, desktop + docs surface in en + zh-Hans).
The API-key 'gemini' provider (GOOGLE_API_KEY/GEMINI_API_KEY against
generativelanguage.googleapis.com) is unaffected and stays fully supported.
* fix(skills): keep the antigravity-cli skill — only the OAuth provider is removed
The antigravity-cli optional skill orchestrates the external `agy` binary as
a coding-agent tool via the terminal tool — it does NOT wrap Hermes inference
through the banned google-antigravity OAuth provider, so it carries none of
the account-ban risk that motivated removing that provider. Restore the skill,
its docs page, the sidebar entry, and the optional-skills catalog row. The
google-antigravity / google-gemini-cli inference providers stay fully removed.
Funnel session finalization through AIAgent.close() — the single terminal
path every agent (CLI, gateway, subagent, cron) funnels through — so finished
agents stop leaving rows with ended_at IS NULL. The biggest leak source was
delegate_task subagent + background-review forks whose close() never ended
their row.
end_session() is first-reason-wins and no-ops on an already-ended row, so a
'compression'/'cron_complete'/'cli_close' reason set by an earlier terminal
path is never clobbered. /resume already calls reopen_session(), so
finalizing-on-close does not break resumability.
Temporary helper agents that rotate/share the session forward (manual
compression, gateway session-hygiene) opt out via _end_session_on_close=False.
Also stop the long-running gateway heartbeat once the executor is done or the
session slot is rebound to a different agent, preventing a stale
'running: delegate_task' bubble from outliving its run.
Closes#12029.
* feat(delegation): single-task delegate_task always runs in the background
The model no longer decides whether a subagent runs in the background — a
single-task delegate_task from the top-level agent is now always dispatched
async, so the parent turn returns immediately and the subagent's result
re-enters the conversation when it finishes.
- run_agent._dispatch_delegate_task (the live model path) forces
background=True for top-level single-task calls; the schema-level
`background` param is ignored.
- A batch (tasks with >1 item) stays synchronous (fan-out can't go async).
- A delegation from an orchestrator subagent (depth > 0) stays synchronous —
it needs its workers' results within its own turn.
- The function-level default is unchanged, so direct Python callers/tests keep
the historical synchronous behavior.
- On async-pool capacity rejection, single-task now falls through to a
synchronous run instead of erroring (the child stays attached for interrupt
propagation; detach happens only on a successful dispatch).
- Schema `background` param marked deprecated/ignored; tool description
updated to state the always-background single-task rule.
* feat(delegation): all delegate_task fan-out runs in the background
Extend the always-background behavior to the full fan-out. A batch is now
dispatched as N independent async subagents (one handle each), instead of
running synchronously. Single task and batch both return immediately; each
subagent's result re-enters the conversation as its own message when it
finishes.
- delegate_task: when background is set, loop over ALL built children and
dispatch each via dispatch_async_delegation; return a combined handle block
(count + per-task delegation_ids). Children the async pool rejects (at
capacity) run synchronously inline and are reported alongside the dispatched
handles, so nothing is silently dropped.
- run_agent._dispatch_delegate_task + registry handler: force background for
any top-level model delegation (single OR batch); orchestrator subagents
(depth > 0) still run synchronously since they need workers' results within
their own turn.
- Removed the v1 'batch async not supported' rejection.
- Tool description updated: BOTH MODES RUN IN THE BACKGROUND.
- Tests updated to assert batch fan-out dispatches each task async (verified
E2E: 3-task batch -> 3 independent completion-queue events).
* fix(delegation): background fan-out joins and returns one consolidated block
Correct the fan-out semantics: a backgrounded batch is dispatched as ONE
async unit (one handle, one async-pool slot), not N independent dispatches.
The unit runs all children in parallel, waits on every one, and emits a
SINGLE completion event carrying the consolidated per-task results. The chat
is never blocked; when all subagents finish, their full summaries re-enter
the conversation together as one message.
- async_delegation.dispatch_async_delegation_batch + _finalize_batch: a batch
occupies one slot; its runner returns the combined {results:[...]} dict and
one event with the full results list is pushed to the completion queue.
- delegate_tool: extract the sync execution+aggregation into
_execute_and_aggregate(); background dispatches it via the batch unit and
returns one handle; on pool-capacity rejection it runs the batch inline.
- process_registry._format_async_delegation: render a consolidated multi-task
block (TASK i/N + per-task summary) when the event carries is_batch/results.
- Tests updated; E2E verified: 3-task batch -> immediate return -> one combined
completion block with all three summaries.
Widen the env_float() guard from #48735 across the whole bug class: a
non-numeric value (e.g. a stale .env "HERMES_API_TIMEOUT=abc" or a typo'd
port) raised an unhandled ValueError and crashed adapter/agent init.
Converts 22 genuinely-unguarded first-party int/float(os.getenv()) sites to
the canonical utils.env_int / utils.env_float helpers (the established house
pattern), instead of duplicating per-module helpers or inline try/except:
- gateway/config.py: WECOM_CALLBACK_PORT, BLUEBUBBLES_WEBHOOK_PORT
- gateway/platforms/email.py: EMAIL_IMAP/SMTP_PORT, EMAIL_POLL_INTERVAL
- gateway/platforms/feishu.py: dedup cache + text/media batch settings
- gateway/platforms/wecom.py, discord/adapter.py: text batch delays
- gateway/platforms/telegram.py: media batch delay, TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_PORT
- gateway/platforms/whatsapp.py: WHATSAPP_NPM_INSTALL_TIMEOUT
- hermes_cli/auth.py: CODEX/XAI refresh timeouts
- agent/chat_completion_helpers.py: API/stream read/stale timeouts
- run_agent.py, agent/auxiliary_client.py: API + nous timeouts
Sites already guarded by try/except or local helpers are left untouched.
The HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS sites are already guarded on main via
_current_max_iterations(), so they are not included.
Makes the CLI memory-provider shutdown path observable: log when CLI
cleanup calls memory shutdown (with session id + message count), warn
instead of swallowing CLI memory-shutdown exceptions, warn on
on_session_end failures during agent shutdown, and raise the
MemoryManager provider-hook failure log from debug to warning with a
traceback.
Salvaged from PR #49287 (authored by Gille / @helix4u).
* docs: clean up three stale comments from the #32848 audit
- tools/memory_tool.py:20 — 'read' action was intentionally removed
but the docstring still listed it. Now matches the schema.
- tools/fuzzy_match.py:9 — unicode_normalized was added but the
chain-count docstring still said '8-strategy'. Now says '9'.
- run_agent.py:1485 — 'See #<TBD>.' placeholder was never filled in.
Replaced with a backfill note.
Fixes#32848 (parts 3, 4, and 12)
* docs(memory): also remove stray memory(action=read) references in lines 144 and 201
The original #32848 audit fix (in 6fd661d6) only addressed line 20
(the action list in the module docstring), but the action was
referenced in two other places:
- tools/memory_tool.py:144 — in a class docstring, claimed
'memory(action=read)' was a way to SEE poisoned entries
- tools/memory_tool.py:201 — in a user-facing warning message,
told the user to 'use memory(action=read) to inspect'
Since the schema on line 683 only allows add/replace/remove, both
references were misleading: the first claimed a way to inspect
poisoned entries that doesn't exist, the second would error out
when the user followed the warning.
This commit removes both references:
- Line 144: '...keep the original text so the user can still SEE
poisoned entries by inspecting the source files directly, and
remove them — silently dropping them would hide the attack
from the user.'
- Line 201: '...use memory(action=remove) to delete the
original. (drop the read-action reference)'
Followup to the previous commit on this branch.
---------
Co-authored-by: KeyArgo <keyargo@argobox.com>
Avoid applying text-only persist_user_message overrides to multimodal current-turn user messages. Early crash-resilience persistence mutates the same messages list later used for the API call, so clobbering list content drops ACP image blocks before model dispatch.\n\nAdd regression coverage for both text override behavior and multimodal preservation.\n\nCloses #44242
Consolidates these related Amy fork patches:
- 429830f39 feat(gateway): inject message timestamps into user messages for LLM context
- 3c3d6fac0 fix: handle both ISO string and epoch float timestamps in history replay
- 2874f7725 feat: human-friendly timestamp format with weekday and timezone name
- 3735f4c8b fix: render gateway message timestamps once
Follow-up to salvaged PR #41624:
- Remove stray urllib.parse import in run_agent.py (cherry-pick cruft, unused)
- Add tests: session:compress emits with correct context, no-callback is
safe, and a callback exception does not break compression
When display.memory_notifications is set to 'verbose', skill_manage
notifications now show meaningful change details instead of just the
generic tool message.
Before (verbose mode):
💾📝 Patched SKILL.md in skill 'gogcli' (1 replacement).
After (verbose mode):
💾📝 Skill 'gogcli' patched: "old pitfall text..." → "new pitfall text..."
Changes:
- skill_manager_tool.py: _patch_skill() now includes old/new string
previews (truncated to 200 chars) in the result via '_change' key.
_create_skill() and _edit_skill() include skill description from
frontmatter for verbose create/edit notifications.
- run_agent.py: Background review notification builder now reads the
'_change' dict from skill tool results and formats descriptive
notifications per action type (patch → old→new diff, create/edit →
description preview). Falls back to generic message when _change
data is unavailable (backwards compatible).
This is especially useful when subagents patch skills, since neither
the user nor the parent agent can see what the subagent changed.
* fix(skills): guard recursive skill delete against tree-escape
Port from Kilo-Org/kilocode#11240. Their issue #11227 lost a user's entire
working directory: a built-in-skill sentinel location resolved to the server
cwd and the skill-removal endpoint ran a recursive delete on it.
Hermes' /skills uninstall path (skills_hub.py) is already hardened, but the
agent-facing skill_manage(action='delete') path did a bare
shutil.rmtree(skill_dir) with no last-line validation. Add _validate_delete_target():
refuse to rmtree a path that (1) isn't strictly inside a known skills root,
(2) is a skills root itself, or (3) is reached via a symlink/junction.
Tests: 4 cases (normal delete works; symlinked dir, skills-root, out-of-tree
all refused). E2E verified with real symlink + file I/O.
* fix(delegation): forward background flag in delegate_task dispatch
delegate_task is an _AGENT_LOOP_TOOLS member, so every surface (CLI,
gateway, desktop/TUI) routes it through AIAgent._dispatch_delegate_task.
That forwarder passed every schema field except background, so
delegate_task(background=true) was silently downgraded to a synchronous
run and returned the sync results payload instead of a delegation_id.
The model sees background in the schema (the call validates), but the
value never reached the function. Add the one missing kwarg so async
background delegation actually engages.
Follow up PR #46609's api.minimax.io reasoning report by moving the behavior out of the broad run_agent host gate and into the MiniMax provider profile. Only MiniMax-M3 on the documented OpenAI-compatible /v1 route gets reasoning_split/thinking/reasoning_effort; Anthropic-format MiniMax and non-M3 models keep their existing wire shapes.
Co-authored-by: goku94123 <gooku94123@gmail.com>
Parse provider-reported image pixel ceilings so many-image Anthropic requests can recover by shrinking Retina screenshots below the stricter limit instead of retrying the same rejected payload.
A stale certifi CA bundle after a partial `hermes update` used to crash
the agent on the first outbound HTTPS call with a raw traceback and
trap the gateway in a retry loop.
This patch:
* Adds `agent/errors.py` with a typed `SSLConfigurationError`
* Adds `agent/ssl_guard.py` with a `verify_ca_bundle()` pre-flight
that asserts the bundle exists, is non-trivial in size, and can build
a working SSLContext. On macOS, it falls back to the system trust
store when the bundle is empty but the system store is healthy
(covers corporate proxies / MDM setups).
* Wires the guard into `run_agent.py` and `gateway/run.py` right
after the `hermes_bootstrap` import, inside a try/except so a bug
in the guard itself can never prevent startup.
* Adds a `SSL / CA Certificates` section to `hermes_cli doctor` so
users can detect the failure with one command.
* Adds unit tests covering the healthy, missing, empty, skip-env, and
macOS-fallback paths.
* Adds an RCA document describing the failure mode and the recovery
path (`pip install -e .`).
When the bundle is broken the user sees:
\u26a0\ufe0f SSL certificate bundle issue detected.
Run: pip install -e .
`HERMES_SKIP_SSL_GUARD=1` disables the check for sandboxed
environments that ship their own trust store.
The subscription-cap usage gauge (50/75/90% bands) ignored purchased
(top-up) credits: a sub user with top-up funds got a sticky warn banner
at 90% of their cap — permanently at >=100%, alongside grant_spent —
despite being fully able to keep inferencing. The cap is the wrong
denominator for an account that can keep spending.
- evaluate_credits_notices: purchased_micros > 0 suppresses the usage
band (grant_spent already covers the cap-reached + top-up case with
the remaining balance). A top-up landing mid-session clears any
showing band; spending top-up down to 0 resumes the gauge.
- New display.credits_notices config (default true): false silences all
credits notices. State capture and /usage are unaffected. Read once
per agent (cached) in _emit_credits_notices, fail-open true.
- Docs: configuration.md display block.
The original fix added agent/memory_manager.py:flatten_message_content, but
that helper was a near-exact duplicate of
agent/codex_responses_adapter.py:_summarize_user_message_for_log — same
None/str/list dispatch, same {text,input_text,output_text}/{image_url,input_image}
part sets, the identical [N image(s)] marker, and the same str() fallback. The
only difference was the join separator (newline for memory vs space for the
log/trajectory previews the existing helper already serves), and that helper is
already imported into agent/turn_finalizer.py — the same file whose call site the
memory fix touches.
Parameterize the existing helper with sep=' ' (default preserves every current
logging/trajectory caller byte-for-byte) and call it with sep='\n' at the memory
boundary; drop the forked flatten_message_content. Repoints the unit tests to the
consolidated helper and adds a case locking the default space-join.
Single source of truth for multimodal-content flattening; no behavior change for
the fix or for existing callers.
Multimodal turns carry message content as a list of typed parts
({type: "text"|"image_url", ...}). _sync_external_memory_for_turn
passed that list straight into MemoryManager.sync_all, and providers
feed it to regexes — Honcho's sync_turn calls sanitize_context, where
re.sub raised 'expected string or bytes-like object, got list'. Every
turn with an attached image silently never synced.
Flatten to plain text at the boundary: text parts joined, images noted
as an [N image(s)] marker so the attachment isn't erased from recall.
Fixing here covers all providers instead of patching each plugin.
(cherry picked from commit 705bdb6ffe)
Drop the hermes_state.py column + persistence plumbing from the salvaged
interleaved-thinking fix. The ordered-block channel covers the failure
window in-memory (turn replayed within the live conversation loop). A
session reloaded from disk after a crash falls back to reconstruction;
if that replay 400s, the thinking-signature recovery (#43667) strips
reasoning_details and retries — one degraded call in a rare resume path
instead of a schema column. Replaces the DB-roundtrip test with a
fallback-shape test.
Interleaved-thinking turns (adaptive thinking, Claude 4.6+/Opus 4.8) emit
content blocks like:
thinking_1(signed) tool_use_1 thinking_2(signed) tool_use_2
Anthropic signs each thinking block against the turn content preceding it
at its position. normalize_response split the turn into two parallel lists
(reasoning_details + tool_calls), discarding cross-type order, and
_convert_assistant_message rebuilt it as [all thinking][text][all tool_use].
That moved thinking_2 ahead of tool_use_1, invalidating its signature, so
Anthropic rejected the latest assistant message with HTTP 400:
messages.N.content.M: `thinking` or `redacted_thinking` blocks in the
latest assistant message cannot be modified.
Observed repeatedly in agent.conversation_loop against api.anthropic.com /
claude-opus-4-8, recurring across sessions on multi-thinking-block turns.
Fix: carry a verbatim, order-preserving copy of the turn's content blocks
(anthropic_content_blocks) end-to-end - capture in normalize_response,
persist/restore through state.db, and replay unchanged for the latest
assistant message. Gated to turns that actually interleave signed thinking
with tool_use, so normal turns are unaffected.
Adds 3 regression tests including a SQLite round-trip covering the
crash-recovery reload path.
Third-party OpenAI-compatible endpoints (self-hosted gateways, OpenRouter,
Azure proxies) fronting gpt-4o / gpt-4.1 / gpt-5+ / o1-o4 models silently
received max_tokens and 400'd with unsupported_parameter, because the three
kwarg-selection sites only checked base_url_hostname(...) == "api.openai.com"
and fell through to max_tokens on every other host. The constraint is
enforced server-side by the model family, not by the URL, so name-based
detection is required as a fallback.
Changes:
- utils.py: new shared helper model_forces_max_completion_tokens(model) that
prefix-matches gpt-4o, gpt-4.1, gpt-5, o1, o3, o4 families on normalized
(lowercased, vendor-prefix-stripped) names.
- run_agent.py: _max_tokens_param ORs the helper into the URL check.
- agent/auxiliary_client.py:
- auxiliary_max_tokens_param gains an optional keyword-only model arg.
- _build_call_kwargs inline branch applies the same check for both
provider == "custom" and non-custom paths.
Tests:
- tests/test_model_forces_max_completion_tokens.py: 31 new cases covering
positive families, negatives (classic gpt-4, claude, llama, mistral, qwen,
deepseek), vendor prefixes, case-insensitivity, whitespace, None/empty,
and substring-not-prefix guards.
- tests/run_agent/test_run_agent.py::TestMaxTokensParam: 5 new model-based
cases (custom + gpt-5.4, openrouter + gpt-4o-mini, custom + o1-preview,
classic gpt-4-turbo keeps max_tokens, llama3 keeps max_tokens).
- tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py::TestAuxiliaryMaxTokensParam: new
class, 7 tests covering the URL x model matrix.
* refactor(desktop): dock terminal under chat and simplify file rail
Keep the right rail focused on file browsing while moving the persistent terminal into the chat column bottom slot, and make terminal colors follow the active light/dark mode instead of a fixed Solarized palette.
* fix(desktop): make the terminal a resizable, themed side pane
- Move the terminal into a resizable pane (viewport-% widths) that shares
<main>'s stacking context, so its drag handle no longer sits under the
fixed terminal overlay; works on either rail side.
- Restore +x on node-pty's spawn-helper before the first spawn to fix
"posix_spawnp failed" on macOS prebuilds (real cause; drop the redundant
shell-candidate retry loop).
- Gate terminal open/fit/start on document.fonts.ready and strip leading
blank rows (re-armed before the resize Ctrl-L redraw) so the prompt sits
flush at the top with no starship add_newline gap.
- Inherit the app editor-surface color as the terminal background.
- Bind Ctrl+` (⌃` on macOS) to toggle the terminal; add a palette entry.
* feat(desktop): show platform hotkey hints in the command palette
- Render each palette item's live binding as a <KbdGroup> hint via a new
comboTokens() helper (mac shows ⌘/⌃/⌥/⇧, every other platform shows
Ctrl/Alt/Shift — never a ⌘ on PC).
- Default the terminal toggle to ⌘` / Ctrl+` (the ~ key) on both platforms.
- Drop the hardcoded (⌘⏎) baked into the composer steer tooltip; render it
platform-aware with formatCombo instead.
* fix(desktop): drop the active check on the command-palette terminal item
* fix(desktop): remove active/check states from the command palette
* fix(desktop): allow ⌥/Shift-drag selection over mouse-mode TUIs
Full-screen apps (hermes --tui, vim) enable mouse reporting, so a plain
drag can't select text and ⌘/Ctrl+L (add-selection-to-chat) had nothing
to send. Enable macOptionClickForcesSelection so ⌥-drag on macOS (Shift
elsewhere) forces a native selection over mouse-mode apps.
* feat(desktop): tell the in-pane agent it's embedded in the GUI
Set HERMES_DESKTOP_TERMINAL=1 on the terminal pane's shell env and surface
it in build_environment_hints, so a hermes/--tui launched inside the pane
knows it's next to the GUI chat and that ⌥/Shift-drag + ⌘/Ctrl+L sends a
selection to the composer. Distinct from HERMES_DESKTOP (agent backend).
* refactor(desktop): drop the redundant Ctrl+` terminal-toggle fallback
The toggle now ships as mod+` on both platforms, so the standard combo
index handles it — the bespoke fallback (and its stale 'old default'
comment) is dead weight.
* fix(desktop): read live terminal selection for ⌘/Ctrl+L
A redraw-heavy TUI (spinners/clocks) outruns onSelectionChange, leaving the
React selection state empty so the state-gated shortcut listener never
attached and ⌘L no-op'd. Always listen and read xterm's live selection (with
a native fallback) at press time; only swallow the key when there's text to
send. Drops the now-redundant custom key handler.
* feat(desktop): make any agent aware it's in the Hermes desktop GUI
Generalize the runtime-surface hint: fire for HERMES_DESKTOP (the backend
powering the GUI chat) as well as HERMES_DESKTOP_TERMINAL (a hermes in the
embedded terminal pane), so it's about being inside the desktop GUI, not
about being a TUI. The terminal-pane selection note stays pane-specific.
* feat(desktop): give the GUI agent a read_terminal tool
The in-app terminal buffer lives in the renderer (xterm), so expose it to the
chat agent over the same blocking bridge clarify uses: read_terminal emits
terminal.read.request, the renderer serializes the buffer (visible screen by
default, or a start_line/count range against total_lines) and answers
terminal.read.respond. Gated to the GUI via HERMES_DESKTOP.
Also restores the flipped-layout titlebar inset fix (app-shell +
desktop-controller) for terminal/preview rails at the window's left edge.
* chore(desktop): trim read_terminal comments
* feat(desktop): add a terminal toggle to the statusbar
The file rail lost its terminal icon, leaving ⌘` and the command palette
as the only ways in. Add a one-click toggle to the statusbar's left
cluster, mirroring the command-center item: it reads $terminalTakeover so
it lights up while the pane is open and stays in sync with the hotkey, and
is gated to chat view (the only place the pane can show).
* fix(desktop): relabel the terminal header button to what it does
The in-pane button claimed a focus/split fullscreen toggle ("Focus
terminal view" / "Return to split view", screen-full/normal icons), but
the terminal is just a resizable side pane — there's no fullscreen. The
button only mounts while the pane is open, so the focus branch was dead
and clicking it merely closed the terminal. Relabel to "Hide terminal"
with a close icon, drop the dead conditional and the now-unused takeover
read.
* fix(desktop): move the terminal toggle next to the version item
Relocate it from the left cluster to the right of the statusbar, just
left of the client version item.
* feat(desktop): default the terminal to PowerShell on Windows
Prefer pwsh (7+) then Windows PowerShell 5.1 over cmd.exe, falling back to
comspec only when neither is present. -NoLogo drops the startup banner so
the prompt sits flush like the POSIX shells.
* feat(desktop): show a persistent divider on the terminal pane
The resize sash only painted on hover, so the terminal/chat boundary was
invisible at rest. Add an opt-in `divider` prop to Pane that paints a thin
resting hairline on the resize edge (side-aware, so it tracks the rail when
the layout flips) and enable it on the terminal pane.
* refactor(desktop): resolve the terminal shell instead of hardcoding it
Make shell selection a real resolver: an explicit override wins
(HERMES_DESKTOP_SHELL on both platforms, $SHELL on POSIX), otherwise
auto-detect the best installed shell — pwsh > Windows PowerShell 5.1 > cmd
on Windows, zsh > bash > sh on POSIX. A shared shellSpecFor() picks the
interactive flags by family, so an overridden bash/pwsh/cmd all launch
correctly.
* fix(desktop): repaint the terminal on light/dark switch
Setting term.options.theme updated colors for the DOM renderer but not the
WebGL one, which caches glyph colors in a texture atlas — so already-drawn
cells kept their old palette after a mode switch. Hold the WebglAddon in a
ref and clear its atlas when the theme changes.
* fix(desktop): match the terminal palette to VS Code Light+/Dark+
Adopt VS Code's exact default ANSI palette (the terminalColorRegistry
defaults), enable minimumContrastRatio: 4.5 so foregrounds are clamped
against the background the way the integrated terminal does, and key the
light/dark choice off renderedMode (the painted surface) instead of
resolvedMode so it can't invert. The canvas + inset paint the live skin
surface (--ui-editor-surface-background) so the terminal blends with the
app and follows light/dark, while the contrast clamp keeps colors crisp.
* fix(desktop): tighten command palette search to substring matching
cmdk's default fuzzy scorer matched anything with the query letters
scattered across an item, so e.g. "color" never narrowed to color
entries. Add a substring filter: every typed word must literally appear
in an item's value/keywords, keeping results tight and predictable.
* fix(desktop): blend the terminal header into the skin surface
The persistent-terminal overlay painted the static palette background
(#1e1e1e/#ffffff), so the transparent header strip revealed a near-black
slab above the surface-colored body. Paint the overlay with the live
--ui-editor-surface-background so header and body read as one pane.
* fix(desktop): re-resolve the terminal surface on skin switch
The canvas surface only re-resolved on light/dark change, so switching
skins at the same mode left the WebGL canvas painted with the old tint
until reload. Key the resolve off themeName too. Also trim the palette
comments.
* chore(desktop): drop redundant terminal theming header comment
quiet_mode was being used to suppress tool-result display when
tool_progress_mode was 'off'. But quiet_mode also gates operational
status messages, so users with /verbose + tool-progress off lost all
status output.
Adds a dedicated tool_progress_mode attribute to AIAgent; the
tool_executor result-rendering path gates on tool_progress_mode != 'off'.
The CLI passes its tool_progress_mode through agent setup and the
tool-progress cycle command syncs it onto the live agent.
Fixes#33860.
A Responses-API-shaped payload carrying instructions=/input=/store=/
parallel_tool_calls= can reach the native Anthropic messages.stream() /
messages.create() call under a rare api_mode-flip race (e.g. a concurrent
auxiliary vision call mutating a shared agent between the kwargs build and
the stream dispatch). The Anthropic SDK rejects these with a non-retryable
TypeError that kills the whole turn and propagates the entire fallback chain.
Add sanitize_anthropic_kwargs() at both Anthropic dispatch sites: it drops
the Responses-only keys in place and logs a WARNING (with #31673 breadcrumb)
when one is present, so the underlying race stays visible in the wild
instead of being silently papered over.
close() is the hard teardown for true session boundaries (/new, /reset,
session expiry). It already closes the OpenAI client and child agents but
left the conversation-history list intact. Mirror the soft-eviction path
(_release_evicted_agent_soft clears _session_messages) so a held reference
to a closed agent — e.g. a draining background task — doesn't pin tens of
MB of tool outputs until the agent object itself is collected.
Xiaomi MiMo (and potentially other providers) support multimodal user
messages but reject list-type tool message content with 400 'text is not
set'. Previously this was handled reactively — the API call would fail,
images would be stripped, and the request retried, losing visual info.
Fix: add supports_vision_tool_messages field to ProviderProfile (default
True). Xiaomi sets it to False. _tool_result_content_for_active_model
now checks this field proactively and returns a text summary instead of
list content, avoiding the round-trip failure entirely.
The salvaged main-agent fix (sanidhyasin) applies model.default_headers
to the primary OpenAI client, but the auxiliary client (title generation,
context compression, vision routing) builds its own clients and did not
read the override. For a `provider: custom` endpoint behind a gateway/WAF
that rejects the OpenAI SDK's identifying headers, the main turn would
succeed while auxiliary calls to the same endpoint still failed with the
opaque 502/4xx from #40033.
Add agent.auxiliary_client._apply_user_default_headers() (user values win
over provider/SDK defaults; no-op when unconfigured) and apply it at every
OpenAI-wire client construction site:
- _try_custom_endpoint() — config-level `model.provider: custom`
- the named custom-provider branch (custom_providers/providers entries),
including the anthropic-SDK-missing OpenAI-wire fallback
- the api-key-provider, async-conversion, and main resolve_provider_client
fallback branches
To prevent the two clients ever drifting on precedence/value handling,
AIAgent._apply_user_default_headers (run_agent.py) now delegates the config
read + merge to this shared helper (run_agent already imports from
auxiliary_client). Native Anthropic/Bedrock branches are untouched (they
don't use the OpenAI wire).
8 new tests (helper semantics + config-level custom + named custom);
full aux + attribution header suites green (295).
Custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints sitting behind a gateway/WAF can reject
the OpenAI Python SDK's default identifying headers (User-Agent: OpenAI/Python,
X-Stainless-*) and return an opaque 502/4xx even though the same request body
succeeds under curl. There was no supported way to override those headers.
Add a model.default_headers config key whose values are merged onto the
OpenAI client's default_headers, taking precedence over provider- and
SDK-supplied defaults. Applied at client construction and on every credential
swap / client rebuild so the override survives reconnects. No-op for native
Anthropic / Bedrock modes and when unconfigured.
_hook_jsonable() referenced SimpleNamespace without importing it, so
sanitizing any hook payload that contained one raised
NameError: name 'SimpleNamespace' is not defined.
Bedrock, Codex-responses, and the auxiliary client build their
response / message / tool_call objects as SimpleNamespace and hand the
raw objects to the post_api_request hook. The hook call sites swallow
exceptions (except Exception: pass), so the crash silently dropped the
observability hook for those providers.
Add the missing `from types import SimpleNamespace` and a regression
test covering the SimpleNamespace sanitization path.
* feat(tui): HERMES_DEV_CREDITS live-spend dev readout (L0 tracer for usage-aware credits)
L0 of the usage-aware-credits feature: a dev-only, env-gated tracer that
exercises the real header -> CreditsState -> TUI pipe end-to-end behind
HERMES_DEV_CREDITS, de-risking the L1/L5 build before the notice policy exists.
- agent/credits_tracker.py: CreditsState + parse_credits_headers (headers are
strings -> paid_access via == "true", never bool(); retain-last-known; only
subscription_micros may be negative; *_usd kept verbatim).
- run_agent.py: _capture_credits / get_credits_state / get_credits_spent_micros,
session-start baseline latch, + dev-gated "credits" capture log.
- agent/chat_completion_helpers.py: capture on the streaming response.
- agent/agent_init.py: init _credits_state + _credits_session_start_micros.
- tui_gateway/server.py: _get_usage emits dev_credits_spent_micros only when flagged.
- ui-tui appChrome.tsx / types.ts: cents delta status segment + "(dev credits)" banner.
Off by default; silent for normal users. Validated live against staging
(capture log delta matches the TUI segment). Throwaway consumer (readout/log/
banner); credits_tracker + the capture plumbing are the real feature foundation.
* test(credits): lock parser under 9-state matrix + harden validation (L2)
Add tests/agent/test_credits_tracker.py with 92 tests covering the 9-state
matrix (healthy, sub_90pct, grant_exhausted, purchased_only, tool_pool_free,
depleted, debt, missing, no_org) plus validation edge cases: version strict==1
with warn-once latch for v>1, bool-string trap (paid_access/tool_pool_gated_off
== "true"/"false", never bool()), half-pair subscription limit treated as
both-absent while parse succeeds, USD regex ^-?\d+\.\d{2}$, non-int micros
→ None, negative non-subscription micros → None, as_of_ms junk → None, zero
limit ZeroDivision guard.
Harden agent/credits_tracker.py to match the spec:
- Add tool_pool_micros/tool_pool_gated_off/from_header fields to CreditsState
- Add depleted property (== not paid_access, never remaining==0)
- Change used_fraction guard to key off subscription_limit_micros (the actual
denominator) not denominator_kind (metadata)
- Replace fail-soft _safe_int with a sentinel-returning variant; full validation
now returns None on any malformed field rather than silently defaulting
- Add module-level warn-once latch for version > 1
- Add USD regex validation; add denominator_kind allow-list check
- Parse x-nous-tool-pool-* prefix headers (not x-nous-credits-tool-pool-*)
* feat(credits): notice spine — AgentNotice + notice_callback/notice_clear_callback + TUI binding (L1)
L1 of usage-aware credits: the driver-agnostic notice delivery spine that L4's
policy will fire through and L5's TUI render will consume.
- agent/credits_tracker.py: AgentNotice dataclass (text/level/kind/ttl_ms/key/id;
kind defaults "sticky", kept TTL-expressive for a future config seam).
- run_agent.py: AIAgent gains notice_callback + notice_clear_callback slots and
_emit_notice / _emit_notice_clear emitters (swallow all callback errors — a
notice must never break the agent loop; no-op when unbound).
- agent/agent_init.py: thread both callbacks through init_agent.
- tui_gateway/server.py: bind both in _agent_cbs → notification.show / notification.clear
WS events (snake_case payload, matching the existing gateway-event convention).
- ui-tui/src/gatewayTypes.ts: notification.show / notification.clear arms on GatewayEvent.
- tests/run_agent/test_notice_spine.py: 15 tests (emitter fire + fail-open + no-op,
signature threading, TUI binding payload shape).
Messaging push is out of v1 (binds neither callback). CLI binding + the TUI render/
decode land with L4 (firing) and L5 (render) so turn-end flush is wired correctly.
* feat(credits): threshold reconciliation policy + tests (L4.1)
* feat(credits): wire threshold policy into capture + latch (L4.2)
After a fresh header parse, _capture_credits runs evaluate_credits_notices against
the agent's _credits_latch and emits the result — clears first, then shows (so a
recovered depletion clears before the "restored" success lands, and depleted wins
the latest-wins slot). Gated on a bound notice_callback: messaging (no callbacks)
still caches state for /usage but runs no policy. Parse stays fail-open (miss →
keep last-known); the eval/emit path warns on failure rather than swallowing, so a
depletion-notice bug can't vanish silently.
- run_agent.py: _capture_credits split into parse (swallow→miss) + policy (warn);
latch lazy-guarded (object.__new__ safety).
- agent/agent_init.py: init agent._credits_latch = {"active": set(), "seen_below_90": False}.
* feat(tui): render credits notices in the status bar (L5, Strategy B)
The TUI now renders the notification.show / notification.clear gateway events the
agent emits — a level-colored notice overrides the status/verb slot when not busy.
- Notice state machine on turnController (pendingNotice + dedicated noticeTimer +
show/clear/applyNotice/flushPendingNotice/clearNoticeState). createGatewayEventHandler
decodes the events and delegates.
- Render priority busy > notice > status (appChrome StatusRule); notice text rendered
verbatim (its glyph comes from the policy), shrinkable so it never clips model│ctx;
dev-credits banner + Δ segment preserved. UiState.notice is snake_case (matches wire).
- Busy-wins: a notice arriving mid-turn is held and flushed at the THREE turn-end sites
(recordMessageComplete / interruptTurn / recordError) — never idle(), which reset()
also calls (would leak across sessions); reset() clears instead.
- Dedicated noticeTimer (never statusTimer); TTL starts on visibility with an id-guard;
latest-wins cancels the prior timer; clear is key-matched (no-op on mismatch); a sticky
survives a turn (flush no-ops with no pending); session reset clears (no cross-session leak).
- 20 tests (handler/turnController logic incl. R3-C2 timer isolation + render priority).
* feat(credits): cold-start seed for new Nous sessions (L3)
A genuinely-new Nous session has no inference header yet, so seed credits state from
the authoritative GET /api/oauth/account snapshot at session start (in the new-session
branch of _restore_or_build_system_prompt — inline, since the on_session_start plugin
hook gets no agent reference). The seed runs the shared notice policy, so a session that
opens already depleted warns IMMEDIATELY rather than only after the first turn.
- Maps the nested account fields (paid_service_access → paid_access; total_usable /
subscription / purchased on paid_service_access_info; rollover on subscription), each
None-guarded; float dollars → micros via round(d*1e6), *_usd left "" (render formats
from micros — never synthesize a verbatim usd from a float).
- Magnitudes-only: no monthlyCredits on the endpoint → subscription_limit_* unset →
used_fraction None → no warn90 from the seed (% only once a header lands, per D-E).
- Provider-guarded to Nous; fail-open (any error leaves _credits_state None, never
blocks startup); paid_access unknown ⇒ True (never falsely depleted).
- run_agent.py: extracted the warm-path policy/emit block into a shared
_emit_credits_notices() so capture and the seed fire notices identically.
* feat(credits): /usage Nous credits magnitudes view + recovery trigger (L6)
Add Nous credit dollar magnitudes to /usage (subscription / top-up / total
+ rollover + renewal + portal CTA), magnitudes-only per v1 (no % until the
account endpoint exposes a denominator). Reuses the existing account-usage
render machinery via a new pure build_nous_credits_snapshot() that maps a
NousPortalAccountInfo to an AccountUsageSnapshot; no nous branch is added to
fetch_account_usage (keeps the per-provider boundary intact).
CLI /usage also doubles as a depletion-recovery trigger: a force_fresh
account fetch, kept in a SEPARATE local so it never clobbers the
header-sourced agent._credits_state (which alone carries used_fraction). If
paid access recovered while credits.depleted is latched and a notice
consumer is bound, it reuses agent._emit_credits_notices() to clear it.
Gateway /usage displays magnitudes only — messaging binds no notice
consumer, so it performs no recovery emit.
Fail-open throughout: any portal hiccup leaves /usage unaffected.
* refactor(credits): dedupe HERMES_DEV_CREDITS flag parse via shared helpers
The dev-flag truthy check was inlined in three places. Replace with the shared
utils.is_truthy_value (run_agent.py, tui_gateway/server.py — also drops a
redundant inline `import os`) and a hoisted DEV_CREDITS_MODE export in
ui-tui/src/config/env.ts (consumed by appChrome, which also stops recomputing the
env check on every render). Behaviour-preserving; identical truthy set.
* fix(credits): cut dead /usage recovery trigger + bound portal fetches (L6 review)
Adversarial review found the /usage depletion-recovery trigger dead AND broken:
the CLI binds no notice_clear_callback, the TUI runs /usage in a separate
slash-worker subprocess (its own agent/latch), and the no-clobber rule made it
evaluate stale paid_access anyway. Recovery already happens on the next inference
(warm path), so the trigger was redundant — remove it and stop the depleted
notice over-promising.
- cli.py: remove the dead recovery block; bound the /usage portal fetch with a
10s wall-clock timeout (ThreadPoolExecutor) like the per-provider fetch —
urllib's per-socket timeout is not a wall-clock guarantee.
- agent/credits_tracker.py: reword the depleted CTA to "run /usage for balance"
(no false recovery promise; /usage shows fresh magnitudes, sticky clears next turn).
- agent/conversation_loop.py: same wall-clock timeout on the cold-start seed fetch
so a stalled portal can't hang session startup; tidy its time import.
* chore(credits): dev notice-state fixtures (HERMES_DEV_CREDITS_FIXTURE)
Throwaway dev scaffolding to exercise the notice pipeline without real spend or
Redis seeding. Set HERMES_DEV_CREDITS_FIXTURE to a state name (healthy / sub_90pct
/ grant_exhausted / depleted / clear) or a file path whose contents name a state
(re-read each turn → flip states live for recovery testing). _capture_credits
injects the chosen CreditsState instead of parsing real headers and runs the
shared notice policy. Deletable with the rest of the HERMES_DEV_CREDITS scaffolding.
* feat(credits): /usage monthly-grant % gauge
The portal /api/oauth/account subscription block now carries monthly_credits
(the per-period grant allowance, the % denominator). The consumer parsed
monthly_charge but dropped monthly_credits, so /usage stayed magnitudes-only.
Capture monthly_credits into NousPortalSubscriptionInfo + _subscription_from_payload.
build_nous_credits_snapshot emits a Subscription usage window (real % used, routed
through the existing render machinery) when monthly_credits is a finite positive
denominator and credits_remaining is finite and <= cap; otherwise it degrades to
magnitudes-only (older portals, rollover-over-cap, or non-finite payloads).
Guards (adversarial-review-driven): reject non-finite operands (json.loads parses
bare NaN/Infinity by default → would render $nan + a false 100% used), reject
bools, guard div-by-zero (cap>0), and suppress the gauge when remaining > cap
(rollover spanning the period makes the cap a nonsensical denominator → the
$X-of-$Y detail would read as a contradiction). Debt (remaining<0) clamps to 100%.
Money rule preserved: the ratio + magnitudes are computed from numeric float
account fields via display formatting, never by parsing a server *_usd string
(there are none on these dataclasses).
13 gauge tests added (tests/agent/test_nous_credits_gauge.py).
* fix(credits): show /usage Nous block whenever a Nous account is present
/usage runs in a slash-worker subprocess whose resolved inference provider is
often not "nous" even when the user has a Nous account, so gating the Nous
credits block on (provider == "nous") hid it entirely — the account data was
fully available but never rendered.
Gate instead on "a Nous account is logged in": a cheap local auth-state lookup
(get_provider_auth_state('nous') has an access_token) decides whether to attempt
the portal fetch, regardless of which provider inference runs on. In the gateway
the block is also lifted out of the 'if provider:' scope so a Nous-credentialled
user with another (or no) resident inference provider still sees their balance.
Fail-open and the per-fetch wall-clock timeout are preserved.
* fix(credits): show /usage Nous block when there's no live agent (TUI slash-worker)
In the TUI, /usage runs in a slash-worker subprocess that resumes the session
WITHOUT building an agent (self.agent is None), so _show_usage early-returned
"(._.) No active agent" before ever reaching the Nous credits block — which is
agent-independent (a portal fetch gated on Nous auth-state). Extract the block
into _print_nous_credits_block() and run it at the no-agent / no-calls
early-returns too (returns True if it printed, so the fallback message only
shows when there's genuinely nothing).
Verified live against staging: the block + monthly-grant gauge now render in the
slash-worker /usage path (previously hidden). The plain CLI REPL + messaging
paths are unchanged (they have a live agent).
* feat(credits): escalating 50/75/90 usage bands (single status line)
Replace the lone 90%-used warning with three escalating bands (50 info, 75 warn,
90 warn) shown as ONE status-bar line: it displays the highest band the
subscription grant has crossed, replaces the line as usage climbs, steps back
down on recovery, and clears below 50%. No stacking, no per-turn churn.
Bands live in a tunable CREDITS_USAGE_BANDS list; the policy derives everything
from it. Single notice key (credits.usage) with a usage_band latch field so the
notice only re-emits when the band actually changes. The crossing gate
(seen_below_90) is preserved so a fresh live session that opens mid-range stays
quiet until it has been observed below the lowest band (cold-start primes it when
it wants an open-high warning). Denominator math unchanged: % = subscription
grant burn (cap - grant_remaining)/cap, clamped [0,1]; top-up never moves the %.
Migrated test_credits_policy.py to the new key + added TestUsageBands (climb,
step-down, recovery-clear, idempotent, inclusive boundaries).
* feat(credits): hydrate notices at session OPEN via shared seed (TUI + first-turn)
Notices previously only fired inside a conversation turn (first message), so a
session that opened already depleted / past a usage band showed nothing at
'ready'. Extract the cold-start seed into a shared seed_credits_at_session_start()
and call it (a) in the TUI/desktop agent build right after the notice callback is
wired (fires at 'ready', before any message) and (b) as the first-turn fallback in
conversation_loop. Idempotent (skips once _credits_state exists) and fail-open.
The seed now maps monthly_credits -> subscription_limit_micros +
denominator_kind='subscription_cap', so used_fraction is computable at seed time
and usage-band warnings (not just depletion) hydrate on open. Primes the crossing
latch so a session opening already in a band warns immediately. Degrades to
depletion-only when monthly_credits is absent (older portals).
Adds test_credits_cold_start.py covering open-at-band, depletion, debt, no-cap
degradation, and the shared seed (fires/idempotent/skips-non-nous).
* feat(credits): /usage monthly-grant % gauge + fixture support + TUI surfacing
agent/account_usage.py: build_nous_credits_snapshot emits a subscription %% gauge
when the portal supplies a positive, finite monthly_credits denominator with
remaining <= cap (guards reject NaN/Infinity and rollover-over-cap, which would
render $nan or a contradictory $X-of-$Y); degrades to magnitudes-only otherwise.
Adds shared nous_credits_lines() (auth-gated, wall-clock-bounded portal fetch) so
the CLI and TUI /usage render the same block, and _snapshot_from_credits_state()
so HERMES_DEV_CREDITS_FIXTURE drives /usage offline too.
TUI: session.usage RPC carries credits_lines (agent-independent) and the /usage
panel renders them regardless of API-call count or resume state — previously the
TUI's separate /usage implementation only showed token counts.
Money rule preserved: %% and magnitudes come from numeric float account fields via
display formatting, never by parsing a server *_usd string.
* feat(credits): CLI REPL inline notices (parity with TUI)
The plain CLI agent bound no notice callbacks, so credit notices were TUI-only.
Bind notice_callback/notice_clear_callback on the CLI AIAgent; _on_notice renders
a single level-colored line above the prompt (error red / warn yellow / success
green / info dim) via _cprint, and seed credits at session open so a depletion or
usage-band warning shows before the first message — the same hydration the TUI
got. _on_notice_clear is a no-op (the REPL prints lines, no persistent slot).
* test(credits): add sub_50pct + sub_75pct dev fixtures for the new usage bands
The fixture set jumped 10%% -> 90%%; add sub_50pct (uf 0.5 -> band 50 info) and
sub_75pct (uf 0.75 -> band 75 warn) so the new escalating bands are exercisable
via HERMES_DEV_CREDITS_FIXTURE across all three surfaces (notice, session-open
seed, /usage gauge).
* fix(credits): usage-band notice clears on next prompt (not sticky-forever)
A 50/75/90 usage heads-up was sticky and camped the status bar indefinitely. Clear
the visible credits.usage notice when a new turn starts (startMessage), so it shows
until your next prompt then yields. The server latch is unchanged, so it won't
re-nag at the same band — it only re-shows when the band actually changes (climb)
or clears when usage drops below the lowest band. Depletion stays sticky.
* refactor(credits): consolidate the /usage credits block behind nous_credits_lines()
The CLI (_print_nous_credits_block) and the messaging gateway (_handle_usage_command)
each re-implemented the auth-gate + portal fetch + render, and both bypassed the
dev-fixture short-circuit that only the TUI honored — so /usage ignored
HERMES_DEV_CREDITS_FIXTURE on the CLI and in chat. Route both through the shared
agent.account_usage.nous_credits_lines() helper: one fetch/render path, one auth
gate, and the fixture works on every surface (~60 fewer duplicated lines).
The gateway usage test recorded only the last asyncio.to_thread call; /usage now
dispatches both the account fetch and the credits fetch, so it records every call
and matches the account fetch by its provider arg.
* fix(credits): keep the /usage gauge type-safe and log its fail-open path
_is_finite_num is now a TypeGuard[float], so the type checker narrows the gauge
operands (monthly_credits / credits_remaining) and the magnitudes passed to
_fmt_usd through it — no more None-operand warnings on the arithmetic. Add a debug
breadcrumb on the nous_credits_lines portal-fetch fail-open so a dead /usage block
is diagnosable in agent.log without a dev flag.
* fix(credits): harden the header tracker — prod-leak gate, hot-path probe, fire-and-forget seed
- Prod-leak guard: dev fixtures (HERMES_DEV_CREDITS_FIXTURE) now also require
HERMES_DEV_CREDITS, so a stray fixture var can't surface fabricated balances on a
real account. Matches the documented run workflow (both vars set together).
- Hot-path probe: parse_credits_headers checks for the version sentinel header
before allocating a lowercased copy of the response headers — skips that work on
every non-Nous API call. Behaviour-identical and still case-insensitive.
- Fire-and-forget seed: the real portal fetch in seed_credits_at_session_start now
runs in a daemon thread, so a slow/unreachable portal never delays session "ready"
(previously blocked up to 10s). The dev-fixture path stays synchronous; the thread
re-checks idempotency before hydrating (a live header may land first).
- Diagnostics: debug breadcrumbs on the parse and seed fail-open paths so a crashed
parser / dead seed is distinguishable from a legitimate no-headers miss.
Cold-start tests set HERMES_DEV_CREDITS alongside the fixture to match the gate.
* test(tui): fix env-timing in the StatusRule dev-credits assertion
DEV_CREDITS_MODE is read once at module load (config/env), so mutating
process.env.HERMES_DEV_CREDITS inside the test couldn't flip it — the dev-banner
assertion only passed if the env was exported before vitest started, and failed in a
normal run. Move that assertion to a sibling file that mocks config/env with
DEV_CREDITS_MODE: true (scoped, no module-reset / React-identity hazard).
* test(credits): cover the dev-fixture /usage render and usage-band clear-on-prompt
- _snapshot_from_credits_state (the offline /usage renderer) had no direct test:
lock the gauge math, the verbatim *_usd magnitudes, the depletion line and the
fixture marker, plus the no-cap (no gauge) and None-state cases.
- turnController.startMessage had no test for clearing the credits.usage notice on
the next prompt while leaving credits.depleted sticky.
* feat(credits): deliver credit notices over messaging gateways
Bind notice_callback/notice_clear_callback on the per-turn gateway agent
so usage-band / depletion / restored notices reach Telegram/Discord/Slack/
etc. Previously the messaging gateway bound neither callback, so the agent's
_emit_credits_notices early-returned and a chat user crossing a band got
nothing unless they ran /usage manually.
- render_notice_line(): AgentNotice -> single plaintext line (level glyph +
text), plaintext-only so it renders uniformly without per-platform escaping.
Fail-soft on malformed/empty notices.
- Standalone push for every notice (messaging has no persistent status bar):
route through the shared _deliver_platform_notice rail (honors private/
public delivery + thread metadata), scheduled onto the gateway loop via
safe_schedule_threadsafe from the agent's sync worker thread — same pattern
as _status_callback_sync.
- The fired-once latch lives on the cached (reused-in-place) agent and
persists across turns, so a band crosses once -> one push, no per-turn
re-nag. Re-fires only after idle-eviction rebuilds the agent (a reminder).
- Recovery ('Credit access restored') rides the show path (emitted as a
success notice, not a clear). notice_clear_callback is a no-op: a sent
platform message can't be cleanly retracted.
Tests: render glyph/levels/fail-soft + public/private delivery seam through
_deliver_platform_notice + no-adapter no-op.
* fix(credits): don't double the glyph on messaging notices
render_notice_line prepended a per-level glyph, but the notice policy already
bakes the glyph into the text (and the TUI + CLI render it verbatim) — so every
credit notice over messaging came out doubled ("⚠ ⚠ Credits 90% used",
"⛔ ✕ Credit access paused"). Emit the text verbatim instead; drop the now-dead
level→glyph map.
The render tests fed glyph-less text (and the success case only checked
startswith), so the doubling slipped through. Rework them around the verbatim
contract and add an end-to-end regression that runs real evaluate_credits_notices
output through render_notice_line and asserts the line is returned unchanged.
hermes -c / --resume now reopen a session in its original working
directory. The sessions table already had a cwd column; the classic CLI
just never wrote or read it.
- run_agent._ensure_db_session stamps cwd for local CLI sessions only
(new _launch_cwd_for_session gates out gateway/cron and non-local
terminal backends, where a host cwd is meaningless to restore).
- cli._restore_session_cwd chdir's the process AND retargets TERMINAL_CWD
so the terminal tool, code-exec tool, and relative-path resolution all
land in the restored dir. Called from both resume paths (interactive
run() and the -q single-query path).
- Robust degradation: no-op when no cwd recorded, when already there, or
when the dir is gone (single dim warning, stays put — no crash).
Fireworks/Mistral reject HTTP 400 'Extra inputs are not permitted, field:
messages[N].tool_calls[M].extra_content' on any session whose history
contains prior Gemini tool calls. Gemini 3 thinking models attach
extra_content (thought_signature) to tool_calls; it survived to the wire
because the sanitize paths only stripped call_id/response_item_id.
Strip extra_content from the outgoing wire copy in both sanitize paths
(ChatCompletionsTransport.convert_messages + _sanitize_tool_calls_for_strict_api),
but gate it on the target model: keep extra_content for Gemini-family
targets (the thought_signature MUST be replayed or Gemini 400s), strip it
for everyone else — including non-Gemini models that inherit a stale Gemini
signature earlier in a mixed-provider session. Native Gemini is unaffected
(GeminiNativeClient bypasses these paths).
Original stored history is never mutated (only the per-call copy).
Fixes#17986.
Adds backend-neutral observer hooks for plugins: session, turn, API
request, tool, approval, and subagent lifecycle events with stable
correlation IDs (session_id, task_id, turn_id, api_request_id,
tool_call_id, parent/child subagent ids). Extends VALID_HOOKS with
api_request_error and subagent_start.
Hot path is zero-cost when no plugin subscribes: has_hook()/presence
checks gate all payload construction, request payloads are returned
by reference when no middleware rewrites, and the sanitized response
payload no longer embeds raw response objects.
Bundles the optional NeMo-Relay observability plugin
(plugins/observability/nemo_relay) as an in-repo consumer of the new
hooks, peer to the existing langfuse plugin. Fails open when the
optional nemo-relay package is not installed.
Authored-by: Bryan Bednarski <bbednarski@nvidia.com>
Salvaged from #29722 onto current main.
A stream that drops mid-response after tokens are delivered (peer-closed
connection, stale-stream reconnect) is converted into a synthetic
finish_reason="length" stub. The conversation loop treated that network
stall as a max-output-tokens truncation: when the dropped content was a
tool call it retried exactly once, then hard-failed with "Response
truncated due to output length limit" — even on large-output models that
never hit any cap (e.g. Opus).
- Tool-call truncation now retries up to 3 times (was 1) with a
progressive max_tokens boost, and is stub-aware: a PARTIAL_STREAM_STUB_ID
stall prints "Stream interrupted mid tool-call — retrying (n/3)" instead
of the false "model hit max output tokens", and the give-up message
distinguishes a network drop from a real truncation.
- Length-continuation retries preserve the original request's output cap
as a floor, so a high provider/model default isn't silently downshifted
to 8K/12K on retry.
- Added _requested_output_cap_from_api_kwargs() helper.
Tests: stub-stall mid-tool-call recovery within 3 retries; continuation
preserves a large provider-default output cap.
Fixes#26425. Salvages the substance of #26427 (cap floor) and #9525
(retry bump), adapted to the post-refactor conversation_loop.py which
handles all three api_modes uniformly.
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <cine.dreamer.one@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: ygd58 <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: better composer etc
* docs: add desktop and dashboard run instructions
* fix(desktop): address security scan findings
* fix(dashboard): resolve @nous-research/ui path under npm workspaces
The sync-assets prebuild step shelled out to 'cp -r
node_modules/@nous-research/ui/dist/fonts ...' with a path relative
to apps/dashboard/. That works only when the dep is installed
locally in the dashboard workspace, but 'npm install' at the repo
root (the documented setup — see apps/desktop/README.md) hoists
shared deps to the root node_modules under npm workspaces. The
relative cp then fails with 'No such file or directory', sync-assets
exits 1, the Vite build aborts, and 'hermes dashboard' surfaces a
generic 'Web UI build failed' message.
Replace the shell one-liner with scripts/sync-assets.cjs, which
walks up from the dashboard directory looking for node_modules/
@nous-research/ui — working in both the hoisted (workspaces) and
co-located (standalone) layouts. Also guards against a missing
dist/fonts or dist/assets with a clearer error pointing at a
rebuild of the UI package rather than silently copying nothing.
* feat(desktop): support connecting to a remote Hermes backend
Add HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_URL and HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_TOKEN env
vars that, when set, short-circuit the local-child spawn in
startHermes() and connect the Electron renderer to an already-
running 'hermes dashboard' server reachable over the network.
Motivating use case: WSL2 users who want to run the Hermes core
(agent loop, tools, filesystem access) inside their WSL
distribution while rendering the Electron GUI on native Windows.
Before this change, the desktop app always spawned a local Python
child on the same host as the renderer, which doesn't cross the
WSL/Windows boundary.
The remote path reuses waitForHermes() as a liveness probe
(/api/status is in the backend's public endpoint allowlist), so
the connection is only returned once the backend is actually
ready. WebSocket URL derivation picks ws:// or wss:// based on
the input scheme. URL validation rejects non-http(s) schemes and
requires both env vars together to avoid a half-configured
connection that would silently fall through to the spawn path.
No behaviour change when the env vars are unset — the default
local-spawn flow is untouched.
Typical usage:
# in WSL2
hermes dashboard --tui --no-open --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9119 --insecure
# on Windows
set HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_URL=http://localhost:9119
set HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_TOKEN=<session token>
set HERMES_DESKTOP_IGNORE_EXISTING=1
(launch Hermes desktop)
* ci(desktop): automate desktop releases
Add GitHub Actions release channels for signed desktop installers and document the stable/nightly download paths.
* feat: file tabs
* refactor(desktop): tighten right-rail tab close API
Promote closeRightRailTab/closeActiveRightRailTab as the single
public entry point. Drops the activeTabRef + handleCloseDocument
indirection in ChatPreviewRail, the unused $rightRailHasContent
atom, and the legacy dismissFilePreviewTarget alias. -70 LOC.
* feat(desktop): polish composer pill toward reference look
Solid foreground-on-background send/voice-conversation circle (black-on-white
in light, white-on-black in dark) anchors the right edge as the primary CTA
instead of the orange theme primary. Bumps the primary control to 2.125rem so
it visually outranks the ghost mic/plus controls. Opens up the surface padding
(0.625rem x / 0.5rem y) so the input row breathes around its controls, and
nudges the corner radius from 20 to 24px for a slightly pill-ier silhouette.
LiquidGlass distortion is preserved.
* feat(desktop): add startup and onboarding flow
Add phase-based desktop boot progress, fresh-install sandbox testing, and first-run provider credential onboarding so packaged installs can start cleanly without manual settings detours.
* fix(desktop): gate prompts on provider setup
Show the desktop provider onboarding flow before prompt submission when no inference provider is configured, preventing fresh installs from falling through to backend credential errors.
* fix(desktop): surface provider onboarding from session warnings
Propagate credential warnings through session runtime info and open desktop onboarding whenever a session reports no usable provider, so unconfigured installs cannot fall through to prompt errors.
* fix(desktop): route gateway provider errors to onboarding
The "No inference provider configured" auth error reaches the renderer through gateway error events, not the prompt.submit promise; the previous patch only caught the latter, so the error toast still surfaced and onboarding never opened.
Also strip credential-shaped env vars from the test:desktop:fresh sandbox so the packaged backend can't see provider keys leaking from the launching shell.
* fix(desktop): use strict runtime check to drive onboarding
setup.status returned True whenever any provider auth state was discoverable, including indirect fallbacks like a gh-CLI Copilot token. That made desktop think the user was set up while the agent's actual resolve_runtime_provider call still raised AuthError, leaving the user with a useless toast and no onboarding.
Add a setup.runtime_check gateway method that runs the same resolver the agent uses on session creation, and switch the desktop onboarding overlay and prompt precheck to use it.
* feat(desktop): OAuth-first onboarding using existing dashboard provider API
Replace the engineer-flavored API key form with a Sign-in-first onboarding overlay that uses the dashboard's existing /api/providers/oauth catalog and PKCE/device-code endpoints (Anthropic, Nous, OpenAI Codex, etc.). API key entry is now a fallback tab with friendly provider names instead of env var prefixes, and the loud raw resolver error is gone in favor of a one-line welcome message.
* fix(desktop): polish onboarding provider list
Reorder OAuth providers so Nous Portal is first, give the segmented Sign in / API key control equal column widths, and replace the engineer-flavored backend names like "Anthropic (Claude API)" / "MiniMax (OAuth)" with friendlier in-app titles. External-CLI providers now show a softer subtitle and an external-link icon instead of a chevron.
* refactor(desktop): split onboarding overlay into store + view
Move the OAuth state machine, runtime check, copy-to-clipboard, and api-key save into store/onboarding.ts (matching the boot.ts pattern), leaving the overlay as a presentation layer that subscribes via useStore. Tabs are now table-driven, child panels read flow from the store instead of prop-drilling, and the polling/PKCE/error/success branches share a small Status atom.
* fix(desktop): external CLI providers + center mode tabs
External-CLI providers (Claude Code, Qwen Code) now open an in-overlay panel with the CLI command, copy button, and an "I've signed in" recheck instead of firing an invisible toast. Center the Sign in / API key tab control so it sits under the heading instead of hugging the left edge.
* fix(desktop): drop onboarding tabs for an inline link, group device-code waiting state
Replace the Sign in / API key tab pair with an "I have an API key" footer link under the OAuth provider list, with a "Back to sign in" affordance inside the API key form. Group the device-code "Waiting for you to authorize..." status next to the Cancel button so the alignment matches the action.
* refactor(desktop): tighten onboarding store + overlay
Drop the dead isOnboardingBusy/BUSY set, factor the catch-fallback dance into safeReq, and share a single reloadAndConnect helper between PKCE submit, device-code success, external recheck, and api-key save.
In the overlay, extract Step / CodeBlock / FlowFooter / CancelBtn / DocsLink atoms so the four sign-in panels share the same chrome instead of repeating it inline. Net effect: fewer literal divs, one place to touch the spacing, and the code-block + footer rows are reusable across future flows.
* fix(desktop): mount onboarding from frame 1 to kill the FOUT
Default onboarding.configured to null (unknown until the runtime check resolves) and have the onboarding overlay render whenever it's not yet confirmed true. The boot overlay now yields to it, so the very first paint is the Welcome card with a "While we get you set up..." progress strip instead of a flash of the chat shell between boot dismiss and onboarding mount.
The picker swaps in cleanly once the gateway opens and the runtime check confirms the user is not configured. Already-configured users see the same prep card briefly while their existing runtime warms up, then the overlay dismisses without touching the chat shell.
* fix(desktop): top-align empty sessions placeholder
The "Start a chat to build your history." empty state used a min-h-35 grid place-items-center container, which floated the text in a tall dead zone. Render it as a flat paragraph that sits right under the section header like the empty pinned state does.
* refactor(desktop): drop dead boot overlay
Onboarding overlay subsumes the boot card now that it mounts from frame 1 and renders boot progress inline. The standalone DesktopBootOverlay is unreachable in every flow (yields whenever onboarding has not confirmed configured, dismisses once it has).
* fix(desktop): hide pinned/recents sections until first session
A fresh sidebar showed the Pinned and Recent chats headers with floating empty-state copy underneath. Drop both sections (and the now-orphan SidebarEmptySessionState) when there are no sessions yet — they reappear after the first chat. Skeletons during initial load are unchanged.
* feat(gui): route embedded TUI through dashboard gateway (#21979)
Inject HERMES_TUI_GATEWAY_URL into dashboard PTY sessions so embedded ui-tui instances attach to the in-process websocket gateway, with coverage for the new env wiring.
* Add desktop remote gateway settings
Make the desktop gateway connection configurable from settings so local remains the default while remote backends can be saved, tested, and applied without environment variables.
* feat(gui): first-class Messaging page + gateway menu redesign
- Add Messaging page to the desktop app with per-platform setup,
status, and inline guidance. Catalog derives from gateway.config
Platform enum + plugin registry, so every messaging adapter the CLI
supports (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Matrix, WhatsApp,
Signal, BlueBubbles, Home Assistant, Email, SMS, DingTalk, Feishu,
WeCom, Weixin, QQ, Yuanbao, API server, Webhooks, plugins) shows up
without per-platform code.
- New REST endpoints: GET /api/messaging/platforms, PUT and POST
/test on the same path. Secrets go through the existing .env
pipeline; enable/disable writes config.yaml.
- Replace gateway statusbar dropdown with a richer panel: status row,
icon-only restart + system-panel actions, recent activity (with
timestamps trimmed in display, full text on hover), platform list.
- Auto-poll the messaging page every 6s (paused when hidden) so
status updates without a manual check.
- Drop Settings / Command Center from the sidebar nav (still
reachable via shortcuts and the titlebar cog).
- Flatten top corners on Messaging/Skills/Artifacts/Chat panes.
- Share new StatusDot component across messaging + gateway menu.
- Fix gateway/config.py so an explicit platforms.<name>.enabled=false
in config.yaml is honored when env tokens are present.
- pb-9 on the chat content area for breathing room above the composer.
* Potential fix for pull request finding 'CodeQL / Clear-text logging of sensitive information'
Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <62310815+github-advanced-security[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
* pin electron version
* hide application menu on non-mac systems
* interpret compactPreview for non-string vlaues as JSON or an empty string
* fix(desktop): keep composer contenteditable mounted across stacked toggle
The composer rendered {input} inside two different parent fragments
depending on `stacked`. When auto-expand flipped `stacked` (e.g. the
moment typed text wrapped past two lines), React reconciled the two
branches as different positions and unmounted/remounted the
contenteditable. The fresh mount started empty, so any in-flight
characters — most reliably reproduced by holding a key — were lost.
Replace the conditional with a single CSS Grid whose template-areas
swap on `stacked`. The three children (menu, input, controls) keep
stable identities across the toggle; only their grid placement
changes, which the browser handles without React tearing down the
editor.
* refactor(desktop): align install layout with install.ps1 / install.sh
Make the desktop app's runtime layout match what scripts/install.ps1 and
scripts/install.sh produce, so a desktop-only user and a CLI-only user end
up with the same files in the same places and can share one install.
Layout
- ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT = HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent (was: process.resourcesPath/hermes-agent, read-only)
- VENV_ROOT = HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent/venv (was: userData/hermes-runtime)
- desktop.log = HERMES_HOME/logs/desktop.log (was: userData/desktop.log)
- HERMES_HOME default: %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes on Windows, ~/.hermes elsewhere
The packaged .app/.exe still ships a read-only payload at
process.resourcesPath/hermes-agent (FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT). On first launch
or after an installer-driven upgrade we sync factory -> active, then
provision the venv and run pip install -e . against the active root.
Key behaviors
- Pin HERMES_HOME in the spawned Python's env so get_hermes_home() resolves
to the same path resolveHermesHome() picked. Without this, Python falls
back to ~/.hermes on every platform - fine on mac/linux, a split-state
bug on Windows where our default is %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes.
- Detect developer installs by .git presence at ACTIVE; never overwrite
a user's checkout via factory sync.
- Marker at ACTIVE/.hermes-desktop-runtime.json (schema v4) tracks
pyproject hash + factory version + runtime schema version. depsFresh
fast-paths when nothing changed.
- Dev (npm run dev) prefers SOURCE_REPO_ROOT over ACTIVE so devs run
their local edits, not whatever's under HERMES_HOME.
- Better error messages distinguish "no payload" from "no Python".
- Preserve a legacy ~/.hermes on Windows when no %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes
exists, so users with prior pip/manual installs aren't orphaned.
pyproject.toml
- Promote fastapi, uvicorn[standard], ptyprocess (non-Windows), and
pywinpty (Windows) to main dependencies. The dashboard backend
(hermes dashboard) needs them at runtime; the previous lazy-import
fallback was a footgun for fresh installs.
- Empty the [pty] optional-extra; kept as a no-op back-compat alias for
any existing pip install hermes-agent[pty] invocations.
Drops the hardcoded BUNDLED_RUNTIME_REQUIREMENTS list in main.cjs - the
desktop now installs whatever pyproject.toml says, single source of truth.
Files
- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs: runtime layout, HERMES_HOME pin,
factory->active sync, marker v4
- apps/desktop/scripts/test-desktop.mjs: track new venv location
- apps/desktop/README.md: new Setup, Runtime Bootstrap, and
Debugging sections
- pyproject.toml: fastapi/uvicorn/pty backends in main
dependencies; [pty] extra emptied
Tested locally on Windows: npm run dev boots cleanly, sessions land at
the new location, type-check + lint + test:desktop:platforms all pass.
Verified end-to-end on a fresh Win11 VM via dist:win installer.
Known gaps (filed as follow-ups, not in this PR):
- Skills not seeded on packaged installs (sync_skills only runs in
cmd_chat, not cmd_dashboard). Need to move to shared pre-dispatch.
- Git Bash not bundled or detected; agent's terminal tool errors out
with a useful message but desktop bootstrapper should pre-flight it.
- install.ps1 / install.sh should be decomposed into composable phase
libraries so the desktop bootstrapper can reuse them as a single
source of truth across all install surfaces.
* feat(desktop): theme polish, prose chat typography, composer chrome
- DS tokens/midground, Backdrop, scoped scrollbars, typography plugin + prose
- Composer liquid/radius utilities, thread font parity, tool/thinking cues
- File tree label scale, preview flex, thread retry loading + streaming tests
* feat(desktop): NSIS prereq detection page + auto-install via winget
The packaged Windows installer now detects Python 3.11+ and Git for Windows
at install time and offers to install missing prereqs via winget. Mirrors
the prereq logic scripts/install.ps1 already runs for CLI installs, so
desktop installer users get the same out-of-the-box experience as
install.ps1 users.
Why
- Hermes' terminal tool calls bash.exe directly (tools/environments/
local.py); on Windows that's Git Bash from Git for Windows. Without it,
the agent fails on the first terminal() call.
- Hermes' Python runtime needs 3.11+. Without it, the desktop bootstrapper
errors out at venv creation.
- Both gaps surfaced on a fresh Windows 11 VM smoke test: VM had Python
pre-installed but no Git, so the agent's first terminal call failed
with "Git Bash isn't installed."
- install.ps1 has had Install-Git + Install-Uv functions for ages. The
desktop installer was the asymmetric outlier.
How — NSIS prereq page
- New file: apps/desktop/installer/prereq-check.nsh (plugged into
electron-builder via build.nsis.include)
- Real Wizard page using nsDialogs, inserted via customPageAfterChangeDir
hook (between the Directory page and InstFiles).
- Group boxes for Python and Git, each showing detection status.
- Pre-checked install checkboxes when winget is available.
- Auto-skips silently if both prereqs are already installed.
- Falls back to manual download URLs when winget itself is missing.
- Detection:
- Python: probes `py -3.11`/`-3.12`/`-3.13`/`-3.14` via the Python
launcher. Microsoft Store "Python stub" (no py.exe) is correctly
classified as not-installed.
- Git: `where git`.
- winget: `where winget` (Win10 1809+ / Win11 with App Installer).
- Install execution (in customInstall macro):
- Python: nsExec::ExecToLog with `--scope user --silent`. Per-user
install, no UAC prompt, output streams to install log.
- Git: ExecShellWait via Windows ShellExecute. Critical because Git
always installs per-machine and triggers UAC; ShellExecute preserves
the foreground focus chain across non-elevated → elevated process
spawns, so UAC actually comes to the foreground. nsExec::ExecToLog
breaks the chain because winget runs hidden.
- Both pass `--disable-interactivity --accept-package-agreements
--accept-source-agreements` to suppress winget's own dialogs.
- Verification: probes Git's standard install locations via FileExists
rather than `where git`. NSIS's process inherits PATH at startup, so
a freshly-installed Git won't be visible to `where` until restart.
- Silent installs (/S) skip the prompts; managed deploys handle prereqs
out-of-band via Group Policy / Intune.
How — Electron-side safety net
- New findGitBash() in main.cjs, parallel to findSystemPython(). Probes
the same locations as tools/environments/local.py:_find_bash() so a
positive result here means the agent's terminal tool will work.
- ensureRuntime now throws a clear, actionable error on Windows when Git
Bash isn't found, matching the existing "Python 3.11+ is required"
error path.
- Catches users the NSIS page doesn't: .msi installer users (NSIS prereq
page doesn't run for MSI), `npm run dev` users, manual installers,
anyone who unchecked the install boxes on the NSIS prereq page.
- All gated on `IS_WINDOWS`; macOS / Linux unaffected.
NSIS build issue (resolved)
- electron-builder defaults to `-WX` (warnings as errors). NSIS optimizer
emits "warning 6010: function not referenced" for our page functions
because Page custom directives don't count as references in its
static-analysis pass. The functions ARE called at runtime when NSIS
invokes the page; the optimizer just can't see it statically.
- Set `build.nsis.warningsAsErrors=false` in package.json so this
spurious warning doesn't fail the build. (Documented option from
electron-builder's nsisOptions.)
Out of scope (filed for future work)
- MSI prereq detection: Windows Installer custom actions are a different
mechanism. Enterprise deploys typically handle prereqs via GP/Intune.
- Bundle PortableGit + python-build-standalone in extraResources for
zero-network installs. ~80MB increase.
- Mac / Linux GUI prereq flows (different installer formats; Xcode CLT
covers most macOS prereqs already; Linux is per-distro hard).
Files
- apps/desktop/installer/prereq-check.nsh (new, ~290 lines NSIS)
- apps/desktop/package.json (build.nsis.include +
warningsAsErrors)
- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs (findGitBash + preflight)
- apps/desktop/README.md (Runtime prerequisites
section)
Cross-platform impact
- macOS / Linux builds (dist:mac, dist:mac:dmg, dist:mac:zip): nsis
config is ignored entirely; .nsh is dormant.
- npm run dev: .nsh dormant; main.cjs preflight gated on IS_WINDOWS.
- scripts/install.ps1, scripts/install.sh: no reference to any new
files; CLI install paths untouched.
- Hermes CLI / dashboard / gateway: no reference; runtime untouched.
- All checks: node --check on main.cjs and test-desktop.mjs pass;
npm run test:desktop:platforms 4/4 passing; node --test green.
Tested
- npm run dist:win produces signed .exe and .msi without errors.
- Fresh Win11 VM (Python pre-installed, no Git): prereq page renders,
Python check shows detected, Git checkbox pre-checked. Click Next →
Git installs via winget with UAC prompt in foreground.
- After install completes, Hermes launches and the agent's terminal
tool can run bash commands. Verified Git Bash is detected at
`C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe` by ensureRuntime's preflight.
* feat: theme changes, composer tweaks, in app update ux, finesse
* fix(cli): seed bundled skills on dashboard + gateway entrypoints
`sync_skills(quiet=True)` was only being called from inside `cmd_chat`,
which meant `hermes dashboard` (the desktop GUI's backend) and `hermes
gateway` (Telegram/Discord/Slack/etc daemons) never seeded the bundled
skill library into ~/.hermes/skills/.
This surfaced as "No skills found" in the desktop GUI's skills panel on
fresh installs, despite the agent having access to the full bundled
library when invoked via `hermes chat`. scripts/install.ps1 worked
around it by running skills_sync.py as part of Copy-ConfigTemplates,
but that's not part of the desktop installer's bootstrap chain.
Fix
- Extract the skills-sync block from cmd_chat into a module-level
`_sync_bundled_skills_quietly()` helper.
- Call the helper from cmd_chat (preserving existing behavior),
cmd_dashboard (after the --status/--stop early-return paths and
fastapi import check, so we don't run skills_sync on management
commands or when deps aren't installed), and cmd_gateway.
Why these three entrypoints
- cmd_chat: the user's primary CLI entrypoint
- cmd_dashboard: the desktop GUI's backend; this is what `hermes
dashboard --tui` invokes when the desktop bootstrapper spawns Hermes
- cmd_gateway: long-running daemons where the user expects the agent
to have full skill access
Other entrypoints (cmd_config, cmd_doctor, cmd_login, cmd_status,
etc.) are management commands that don't need skill discovery and were
never running skills_sync in the first place — leaving them alone.
Idempotence
- tools/skills_sync.py is manifest-based: skipped skills cost
milliseconds. Calling it from multiple entrypoints adds no real
cost, and users running `hermes chat` then `hermes dashboard` get
two fast no-ops on the second call.
Failure handling
- Helper wraps skills_sync in try/except. Skills are an enhancement,
not a hard dependency — Hermes runs fine with an empty skills/ dir.
Files
- hermes_cli/main.py:
+ new helper `_sync_bundled_skills_quietly()` at module level
+ cmd_chat: replace inline block with helper call
+ cmd_dashboard: add helper call after fastapi import succeeds
+ cmd_gateway: add helper call before delegating to gateway_command
* feat(desktop): hoisted todo widget, JSON tool summaries, history grouping & timer fixes
- Hoist todo to first-class widget (shadcn checkboxes, brand colors, no
tool-accordion). Header derives label from active task; non-active rows fade.
- Replace raw JSON dumps with structured key/value summaries via
formatToolResultSummary; nested error extraction for clearer failures.
- Fix loaded-session grouping: stitch interleaved assistant/tool iterations
into one bubble instead of orphaned synthetic messages.
- Stable tool/thinking timers via keyed registry so unmount/scroll doesn't
reset elapsed counts; gate "running" on real live thread state.
- Reorganize chat-only assistant-ui components under components/chat/.
* fix(desktop): address CodeQL alerts on PR #20059
- settings/helpers.ts: harden setNested against prototype pollution.
POLLUTING_PATH_PARTS check is now applied at every assignment site
(loop + leaf) and uses Object.defineProperty so CodeQL can see the
guard inline rather than via a helper function call.
- lib/markdown-preprocess.ts: rebuild the dangling-fence close regex
from a fence-char + length instead of marker.replace(...). The marker
is captured by `(`{3,}|~{3,})` so it can only be backticks or tildes,
but CodeQL was tracing tainted input text into the RegExp source and
flagging hostname dots from input as part of the pattern (false
positive js/incomplete-hostname-regexp on the test fixture URLs).
Reconstructing from a literal char breaks the dataflow.
- scripts/notarize-artifact.cjs: drop args from the run() rejection
message. Args carry --key-id / --issuer / key file path; the existing
outer catch already squashes errors to a generic line, but CodeQL was
flagging the args.join(' ') as clear-text logging of APPLE_API_KEY_ID.
Composer DOM-text-as-HTML alerts (composer/index.tsx:379, :547) are
already addressed in 4dd9732a9 — innerHTML assignment was replaced with
renderComposerContents which builds DOM via replaceChildren / append
text nodes (no HTML interpretation).
* fix(desktop): inline prototype-pollution guard so CodeQL sees it
CodeQL's dataflow doesn't follow the helper-function guard inside
`safeSet`, so it kept flagging Object.defineProperty as prototype-
polluting. Inline the literal `__proto__`/`constructor`/`prototype`
check at the assignment site to break the dataflow.
Behavior unchanged — same set of disallowed keys, same throw.
* feat(ui-tui): resolve links to readable page titles
Mirror desktop pretty-link behavior in the TUI by resolving HTTP links to page titles with shared caching and safe fetch filters, plus slug-based fallbacks so chat links stay readable even when title fetch fails.
* fix(desktop): drop RegExp from dangling-fence close detection
Previous attempt tried to break the dataflow by reconstructing the
close-fence regex from a literal char + marker.length, but CodeQL still
traced marker.length back to input and kept flagging the test-fixture
URLs as hostname-regex sources (js/incomplete-hostname-regexp).
Replace `new RegExp(...)` + `closeRe.test(body)` with a string-only
hasCloseFenceLine() helper that splits on '\n' and uses ===. No regex
on this path now, so input data can no longer reach a RegExp source.
Behavior preserved: matches lines that are (whitespace + marker +
whitespace), which is what the original `\n[ \t]*${marker}[ \t]*(?=\n|$)`
matched. All 12 markdown-text tests still pass.
* fix(process-registry): suppress windows-footgun false positive on guarded killpg
Keep the existing POSIX-only process-group teardown path, but make the
signal selection explicit via getattr and add an inline windows-footgun
suppression marker on the guarded os.killpg line so the Windows footgun
check no longer blocks CI on this intentionally platform-gated code.
* feat(desktop): reconcile live tool events, polish thread chrome, harden boot
- chat-messages: match tool rows by overlapping query/context/preview values
so preview-first `tool.progress` rows reliably adopt later stable-id
`tool.start` payloads instead of spawning ghost rows or mis-merging
parallel same-name calls; preserve prior args/result across phases.
- tui_gateway: emit full args + parsed result on `tool.start` / `tool.complete`,
drop redundant `tool.started` re-emit from `tool.progress`.
- electron/main: prefer SOURCE_REPO_ROOT before PATH `hermes` in dev so
local backend edits actually run; split hardening helpers into
`electron/hardening.cjs` with tests.
- thread/tool UI: one-shot enter animation keyed by stable ids, braille
spinner for running rows, Cursor-like disclosure rows, drill-down +
duration/count formatting via new tool-fallback-model.
- composer: extract `text-utils`, drop liquid-glass overrides.
- right-rail: split preview-pane into preview-console / preview-file.
- runtime: incremental external-store runtime + runtime-readiness gate;
onboarding store + tests; route-resume hook test.
- regression tests for live tool reconciliation (parallel tools, id-less
progress, preview-first rows, structured args/results).
* feat(desktop): add ripgrep to NSIS prereq page + polish layout
Add ripgrep as a third (recommended) prereq alongside Python and Git in
the NSIS prereq detection page, and clean up the page layout based on
on-VM testing.
Why ripgrep
- Hermes' search_files tool calls `rg` directly for content + filename
search (tools/file_operations.py:1382). Falls back to grep/find from
Git Bash when missing — works but slower and noisier (no .gitignore
awareness).
- ~5MB winget install via `BurntSushi.ripgrep.MSVC --scope user` — no
UAC prompt, parallel to how Python installs.
- scripts/install.ps1 already installs ripgrep as part of
Install-SystemPackages; this brings the desktop installer to parity.
Why "recommended" not "required"
- Python and Git are hard requirements: without them the agent runtime
or terminal tool refuses to start. The bootstrapper preflight throws.
- ripgrep is a performance enhancement: missing it just means slower
searches. Page wording reflects this; failure to install is logged
but doesn't show a MessageBox or block.
Layout polish (response to on-VM screenshot review)
- Wizard header now correctly reads "System Requirements" instead of
the leftover "Choose Install Location" from the previous page. Set
via `GetDlgItem $HWNDPARENT 1037/1038` + WM_SETTEXT — the standard
NSIS pattern for overriding the page header on a custom Page.
- Removed redundant in-body title + verbose intro paragraph; the
wizard header IS the title now. Body has one short intro line.
- Group boxes tightened to 26u with content positioned just below the
groupbox title (not top-anchored status + bottom-anchored checkbox
with empty space in the middle). All three panels + footer fit
comfortably in 126u, well under the 140u page limit.
- Checkbox labels simplified: dropped "(per-user, no admin prompt)"
and "(administrator approval required)" suffixes. The footer note
still calls out UAC for Git when relevant.
- Footer text trimmed to fit cleanly without clipping.
Install order (in customInstall macro)
- Python → ripgrep → Git
- Python and ripgrep are silent and run first; Git's UAC prompt comes
last so the user's approval interaction isn't interrupted by silent
activity afterwards.
Skip behavior unchanged
- All three detected → page auto-skips via Abort
- Silent install (/S) → customInstall winget block skips
- User unchecks all → page advances without running winget
Files
- apps/desktop/installer/prereq-check.nsh: ripgrep detection block,
ripgrep page panel + checkbox, ripgrep customInstall block,
GetDlgItem header override, layout reflow
- apps/desktop/README.md: Runtime prerequisites section updated to
list ripgrep as recommended, with manual winget command
* feat(desktop): add model-confirmation step to onboarding
After OAuth/API-key login completes, onboarding now shows a confirmation
card with the curated default model and a Change button before dropping
the user into chat. Closes the gap where the desktop's `model.default`
was empty after first launch and the agent had to fall back to whatever
heuristic happened to fire — leaving users wondering "why am I getting
sonnet-4 when I logged into Nous Portal?"
Why
- Desktop onboarding only persisted credentials, never `model.default`.
The CLI's `hermes model` command pairs provider + model selection,
but the desktop's onboarding skipped the model step entirely.
- Result: users saw whichever model the agent's auto-fallback picked,
unpredictably and undocumented.
- For the BUILD demo we want users to land on the model they expect
for their provider, with a clear "this is what you're getting" UI
and a one-click path to change it before chatting.
How
- New `confirming_model` flow status carries the just-authenticated
provider slug, current default model, label, and a saving flag.
- `completeWithModelConfirm()` runs after credentials succeed: reloads
env, verifies runtime, fetches /api/model/options to find the curated
first-model for the provider, persists it via /api/model/set, then
transitions into `confirming_model`.
- If anything fails (no providers returned, network error), falls
through to the previous behaviour — onboarding completes without
the confirm step. Polish, not a hard requirement.
- All four credential paths (device_code OAuth, PKCE OAuth, external
CLI flow, API key) now use completeWithModelConfirm instead of
reloadAndConnect.
UI
- `ConfirmingModelPanel` shows: green "<provider> connected" banner,
card with "Default model: <name>" + Change button, and a "Start
chatting" CTA that finalises onboarding.
- Reuses the existing `ModelPickerDialog` (the same picker available
from the chat shell) for the change-model UX. Search, filtering,
multi-provider listing — all already built.
- Stacking: ModelPickerDialog defaults to z-130, which renders UNDER
the onboarding overlay (z-1300) and breaks pointer events. Added
optional `contentClassName` prop to ModelPickerDialog so callers
can override; onboarding passes `z-[1310]`.
Provider-slug matching
- For OAuth flows: pass `provider.id` directly as the preferred slug.
- For API-key flows: `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` → "openrouter" via env-key
prefix strip. Also includes the user-visible label as a fallback
candidate.
- fetchProviderDefaultModel falls back to the first authenticated
provider in the response if no preferred slug matches — so even a
miss still surfaces a reasonable default.
Files
- apps/desktop/src/store/onboarding.ts:
+ new `confirming_model` flow variant
+ fetchProviderDefaultModel + completeWithModelConfirm helpers
+ setOnboardingModel (optimistic update + revert on failure)
+ confirmOnboardingModel (finalises onboarding from the card)
- reloadAndConnect (replaced; the four call sites now go through
completeWithModelConfirm)
- apps/desktop/src/components/desktop-onboarding-overlay.tsx:
+ ConfirmingModelPanel component
+ new branch in FlowPanel for status `confirming_model`
+ ModelPickerDialog usage with z-[1310] content class
- apps/desktop/src/components/model-picker.tsx:
+ optional `contentClassName` prop on ModelPickerDialog so the
dialog can be stacked on top of other fixed overlays
Tested
- `npm run type-check` passes
- `npx eslint` clean on touched files
- Live test in `npm run dev`: cleared onboarding cache, walked
through Nous device-code flow, saw confirm card with curated
default, clicked Change → ModelPickerDialog rendered above the
onboarding overlay with working pointer events, picked a different
model, "Start chatting" persisted to ~/.hermes/config.yaml.
* fix(desktop): suppress generic provider warning in onboarding
Hide the red setup notice when the message is the generic missing-provider guidance, since onboarding already presents provider auth actions. Centralize provider-setup matching across desktop hooks and add coverage for the matcher.
* fix(desktop): add 2u clearance below prereq checkboxes
Group box bottom border was clipping the checkboxes by 1-2px.
Bumped each box height 26u→30u; checkboxes now sit 2u above the bottom border.
* fix(nix): refresh dashboard lockfile hash
Update the web npm deps hash in nix/web.nix to match the committed apps/dashboard/package-lock.json so bb/gui passes the nix lockfile check.
* fix(desktop): install TUI deps in release workflow
Ensure desktop release builds install the standalone ui-tui package before bundling the TUI payload.
* fix(desktop): run release builder from app package
Invoke the desktop builder through the package script so electron-builder uses apps/desktop/package.json.
* fix(desktop): expand release artifact names safely
Build desktop artifact names from workflow version/channel while preserving electron-builder platform macros.
* fix(desktop): use package artifact naming in release workflow
Let electron-builder's desktop package config provide platform-specific artifact extensions while the workflow injects the release version/channel metadata.
* fix(nix): fetch dashboard npm deps from package root
Point the dashboard npm dependency fetch at apps/dashboard so Nix can find the package lockfile after the dashboard move.
* fix(nix): build dashboard from package directory
Set the web package source root to apps/dashboard so npm patch/build phases run beside the dashboard lockfile while keeping apps/shared available as a sibling.
* feat(desktop): render LaTeX math via KaTeX after streaming completes
Add @streamdown/math plugin to the chat markdown renderer.
Inline ($x^2$) and block ($$...$$) math both supported with
singleDollarTextMath enabled. Plugin is gated to non-streaming state
to match the existing pattern for syntax highlighting — math renders
when the message completes, avoiding KaTeX re-render churn during
streaming. KaTeX CSS is imported in styles.css; ~30KB CSS + ~430KB
JS added to the bundle. Smoothness improvements during streaming
deferred to a follow-up.
* perf(desktop): memoize KaTeX renders so math streams without re-rendering
Wrap rehype-katex with a per-equation LRU cache (keyed by
displayMode + source text) and re-enable math during streaming.
Stock @streamdown/math runs rehype-katex on every markdown commit,
so each new token re-katexes every equation in the message. For
math-heavy responses (an equation derived step-by-step) that's
hundreds of ms of wasted work per token and the streaming UI
chokes. With memoization, each equation pays katex.renderToString
exactly once; subsequent tokens re-walk the tree but hit cache for
unchanged equations.
The wrapper mirrors rehype-katex's semantics exactly: same class
detection (language-math, math-inline, math-display), same
<pre>-walk-up for fenced math blocks, same parent.children.splice
replacement, same SKIP traversal, same strict-then-lenient render
strategy with VFile message reporting.
Cached children are structuredCloned on each splice so downstream
rehype plugins or toJsxRuntime can't mutate the cache.
* fix(desktop): declare katex-memo deps directly + drop per-app lockfile
katex-memo.ts (added in 112cad59b) imports hast-util-from-html-isomorphic,
hast-util-to-text, remark-math, katex, and unist-util-visit-parents but
those were never added to apps/desktop/package.json. They were silently
resolving via @streamdown/math at the workspace root, which broke the
moment `npm i --prefix apps/desktop` ran with the per-workspace lockfile
because that install only consults apps/desktop/package.json. Add them
as direct deps, plus unified/vfile/@types/hast for the type imports.
Also delete apps/desktop/package-lock.json — root package.json declares
workspaces: ["apps/*"], so npm manages all lockfile state at the root.
The stale per-app lockfile is what made `npm i --prefix apps/desktop`
diverge from the workspace install in the first place and left an empty
apps/desktop/node_modules/@assistant-ui/ stub that Vite's dep optimizer
then tried (and failed) to open at @assistant-ui/core/dist/internal.js.
* feat(desktop): disable Backdrop noise overlay by default
The noise overlay defaulted to on, which adds a busy speckle layer over
the whole window for every new user. Flip the Leva default to off; the
toggle stays in Backdrop / Noise for anyone who wants it back.
* fix(desktop): polish LaTeX rendering — currency, code blocks, brackets
Five distinct bugs surfaced from a math-heavy stress test:
1. Adjacent code fences glued together. scrubBacktickNoise's
second-pass regex /``\s*``/g matched the LAST 2 backticks of
one fence + whitespace + FIRST 2 backticks of the next, collapsing
two blocks into one. Fixed with lookbehind/lookahead so we only
match exactly 2 backticks not part of a longer run.
2. Whitespace eaten between fences and following content.
stripPreviewTargets internally calls .trim() which strips leading/
trailing whitespace from each split-segment. For segments between
two fences this collapsed \n\n to '', gluing fence close to next
block. Fixed by capturing leading/trailing whitespace at the call
site and restoring it after the transform.
3. Currency dollar signs eaten as math. With singleDollarTextMath:true
remark-math greedy-matched any pair of $, so '$5 ... $10' became
one inline math span. Added escapeCurrencyDollars to escape $<digit>
patterns to \$<digit> in prose segments (not in code). Trade-off:
math expressions starting with a digit (rare — '$5x = 10$') get
escaped too. Mirrors the convention in ChatGPT/Claude's UIs.
4. \(...\) and \[...\] LaTeX brackets unsupported. Models often
emit these instead of $...$ / $$...$$. Added
rewriteLatexBracketDelimiters preprocessor pass.
5. ```latex / ```tex blocks were being routed to KaTeX via a
rewrite to ```math. Aligns with GitHub markdown convention:
```math = render as math; ```latex / ```tex = LaTeX/TeX
source code (syntax highlighted, not rendered). Conflating them
broke teaching/showing-source use cases. MATH_FENCE_LANGUAGES
pruned to {'math'} only.
Also flipped parseIncompleteMarkdown to true (was !isStreaming) so
the math parser can't see $ inside streaming-but-not-yet-closed code
fences. Shiki was already deferred via defer={isStreaming} so this
doesn't introduce new tokenization cost.
Test: 18/18 existing tests still pass; one test updated to expect
escaped \$ in currency-prose-with-URL case.
* fix(desktop): detect Python via registry/filesystem; pin to 3.11–3.13
Two related fixes for Python detection on Windows:
1. py.exe (Python launcher) is missing from per-user installs that
didn't check the launcher option, so 'py -3.X --version' alone
misses real Python installs. User-reported case: clean Win11 +
official Python.org 3.14 install -> 'where py' returned nothing,
our installer offered to install Python again. Both NSIS prereq
page and main.cjs now probe in this order:
1. py.exe launcher (when present)
2. PEP 514 registry: HKLM/HKCU\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\<v>\InstallPath
3. Filesystem: %ProgramFiles%\Python<v>, %LocalAppData%\Programs\Python\Python<v>
Crucially, we never fall back to running 'python.exe' from PATH
on Windows — the WindowsApps stub at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\
WindowsApps\python.exe is a redirector that opens the Microsoft
Store window if no Store Python is installed. Triggering that
during boot would be terrible UX. Registry/filesystem probes
never execute the binary.
2. Drop 3.14 from the supported version set. Several Hermes deps
(notably pywinpty, which carries Rust crates like
windows_x86_64_msvc) don't yet publish 3.14 wheels. With wheels
missing, 'pip install -e .' falls back to building from sdist,
which needs a Rust toolchain — users see 'could not compile
windows_x86_64_msvc build script' on first run. install.ps1
sidesteps this by pinning to 3.11 via uv; the desktop installer
doesn't yet have the same uv-managed-Python pathway, so for now
we accept 3.11/3.12/3.13 and tell winget to install 3.11 if
none of those are present. Revisit when the wheel ecosystem
catches up to 3.14 (~early 2026).
* feat(desktop): Cron, Profiles, usage analytics, and titlebar fixes
- Add Cron and Profiles sidebar routes with full CRUD-style flows and API wiring.
- Extend Command Center with auxiliary task overrides and a Usage panel (7d/30d/90d).
- Fix titlebar geometry for WSL/Windows (native overlay width, tool spacing).
- Remove stray merge conflict markers from pyproject.toml optional deps.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(title-bar): position sidebar toggle button
* feat(desktop): composer queue — queue many, edit/delete/cancel-edit, Cursor-style
Press Enter while busy with a draft to queue it; with no draft to interrupt
and send the next queued turn. Auto-drains one queued turn each time the
session settles, same as Cursor. Queue persists across reloads so an
interrupted-and-queued turn isn't lost on refresh.
Each queued row supports edit-in-composer (with explicit Save/Cancel),
send-now (↑), and delete. Drain skips only the entry currently being
edited so the rest of the queue keeps flowing.
Queue dequeue is transactional — an entry only leaves the queue after
`prompt.submit` is accepted, so a rejected submit doesn't drop the turn.
Also shrinks the `[interrupted]` marker to a muted one-liner and drops
its assistant footer so it stops looking like a real reply.
* fix(desktop): handle empty usage analytics totals
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(desktop): address PR review titlebar and usage races
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* feat(desktop): add MCP settings and live subagent tree
Surface configured MCP servers in Settings with JSON edit/save and a gateway-backed reload action so users can manage tool servers without falling back to slash commands.
Track live subagent gateway events in a desktop store, show active subagent counts in the Agents statusbar item, and replace the Agents overlay stub with a live spawn tree for the active session.
* fix(desktop): move power-user views out of sidebar
Keep Cron and Profiles available through lower-prominence chrome entry points so the workspace sidebar stays focused on core chat navigation.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* refactor(desktop): subagent overlay reads like a live transcript, not a dashboard
Strip the card chrome and rewire /agents to feel like peeking into the
child agent's stream:
- subagents store: single `stream` of typed entries (thinking/tool/progress/
summary) replaces the parallel notes/thinking/tools arrays. Drop unused
fields (toolsets, depth, apiCalls, reasoningTokens, sessionId).
- agents view: no OverlayCards, no boxed stream, no per-row borders. Goal +
status pill + indented stream lines, full row width.
- Group root spawns into "Delegation N" sections when batch shape + spawn
time match — hides task-index interleaving and makes hierarchy obvious.
- Sort tree by spawn time, then task_index. Step indicator is one colored
pill (primary while running, emerald when done) inside the row, not a
trailing pill that wrapped under the chevron.
- Tree picks up `subagent.start` (not only `spawn_requested`) and prunes
delegate-tool fallback rows once native subagent events land for the
session — fixes duplicate "Delegated task" rows alongside the real ones.
* feat(desktop): Esc closes every OverlayView-based overlay
Lift the keyboard handler into the shared OverlayView so Agents, Settings,
Command Center — and anything we build on top of it later — all dismiss on
Esc by default. Nested Radix dialogs stop propagation themselves, so a
modal opened inside an overlay (e.g. model picker inside Settings) still
closes the modal first, not the overlay underneath.
Drop the now-redundant Esc handlers in Settings (kept Cmd/Ctrl+P) and
Command Center.
* fix(desktop): drop numbered step pill on subagent rows
The pill was getting clipped at the overlay edge anyway. Just use the
status glyph (●/✓/✗/■/○) — the delegation header already conveys
"3 workers, 3 active", and order in the list implies which step you're
looking at.
* fix(desktop): drop noisy "returned N items / empty object" stub strings
When a tool returns nothing useful, the row should be silent — the title
("Search Files", etc.) already tells the user what happened. Counting the
fields in an opaque payload is engineer-noise.
`formatToolResultSummary` and `minimalValueSummary` now return '' for
empty arrays / records / unrecognized values; tool-fallback already hides
the detail section when its body is empty.
* refactor(desktop): subagent rows borrow chat tool patterns (fade-in, lucide glyphs, shimmer)
Pull the agents view closer to how chat tool blocks render:
- statusGlyph() returns the same lucide BrailleSpinner / CheckCircle2 /
AlertCircle vocabulary as tool-fallback's statusGlyph
- Stream lines fade-in via useEnterAnimation (one-shot WAAPI), keyed per
entry so streamed deltas settle in instead of popping
- Subagent rows fade in too, and pick up the existing data-slot=tool-block
spacing rules between blocks
- Active stream line trails a BrailleSpinner instead of a hand-rolled
pulsing rectangle
- Goal text drops FadeText (which forces nowrap); keep FadeText only for
the single-line meta subtitle
- Running rows shimmer the title — same affordance the chat thinking row
uses
* refactor(desktop): make /agents subagent-only, drop sidebar + dead sections
Activity rail and History stub were both noise. Strip the split layout,
sidebar, route enum, and the rail/stub helpers — the overlay is now just
the spawn tree, centered in a max-w-3xl column so it stops claiming the
whole screen for one section's worth of content.
* feat: update cron modals
* Add dedicated GUI log stream for dashboard debugging.
Capture dashboard and PTY websocket lifecycle failures in gui.log and expose it via hermes logs.
* Improve desktop runtime UX by surfacing inference readiness in gateway status and hardening WSL link opening.
This also stabilizes markdown code/table block spacing and adds root-install guards so desktop dev runs use a healthy workspace dependency tree.
* Log detailed GUI websocket failure metadata.
Capture richer reject/disconnect/send/parse context for dashboard gateway websocket flows so GUI connection failures are diagnosable from logs.
* Default dashboard startup logging to GUI mode.
Detect the dashboard subcommand during early CLI bootstrap so gui.log is attached from process start and GUI startup failures are always captured.
* Clean up gateway status conditionals and logging bootstrap mode detection.
Simplify nested dashboard gateway status branches for readability and use a concise first-subcommand check when selecting early GUI logging mode.
* add logging to nsis installer
* feat: glass ui pass
* fix(desktop): persist inline assistant errors across hydrate/resume
- Detect provider failure text arriving via message.complete
(HTTP 4xx, "API call failed after N retries", Provider/Gateway
error: ...) and persist as an inline assistant error instead of
regular completion text, blocking the hydrate that was wiping it.
- preserveLocalAssistantErrors: merge by id so same-id hydrated
messages keep their local error, and preserve the optimistic
user+error pair as a unit (with tail-user dedupe).
- Hook all hydrate/resume writers (use-session-actions resume +
fallback, hydrateFromStoredSession, syncSessionStateToView) into
the merge so stale snapshots can't clobber a failed turn.
- Add error to chatMessagesEquivalent so the resume diff actually
sees error-only changes and paints them.
- editMessage on a failed turn now submits a plain resend (no
truncate_before_user_ordinal) and retries plainly on the
"no longer in session history" race.
Style polish on touched files:
- Inline error: text-only treatment (no card).
- User stop / edit-composer send: shared Tabler IconPlayerStopFilled
glyph + shared icon-button class slot for parity.
* feat(desktop): theme xterm with active light/dark mode
The right-sidebar terminal hardcoded a light palette, which read poorly
on the dark glass surface. Subscribe to `useTheme().resolvedMode` and
hot-swap `term.options.theme` so Shift+X (and any other mode change)
updates the terminal in place without tearing down the PTY session.
Dark mode uses xterm's built-in defaults (white fg/cursor + vivid ANSI
16) with just a transparent background so the glass shows through;
light mode keeps the existing hand-tuned overrides for legibility on a
bright surface.
* feat(sidebar): right-click + drag-reorder sessions and workspaces
- Wire right-click on session rows to open the same actions menu;
suppresses the OS-native context menu so Windows stops looking awful.
- Share dropdown + context menu items via useSessionActions() driving
a single declarative ItemSpec[]; render polymorphic over MenuItem.
- New shadcn ContextMenu primitive mirroring DropdownMenu styling.
- Restore drag-and-drop reordering for Agents (lost during the cwd
cleanup) and add reordering of workspace groups via a right-side
grab handle. Pinned reorder unchanged.
- Generic orderByIds<T> replaces the duplicated session/group orderers;
useSortableBindings() hook collapses the two Sortable wrappers.
- cursor-pointer on every actionable element; cursor-grab on handles.
- KISS pass: baseName() helper, AGE_TICKS table, single WORKSPACE_PAGE
constant, flatter SidebarSessionsSection render.
* feat(desktop): solarize the xterm palette in both light & dark
xterm's default ANSI 16 is tuned for dark and reads candy-bright on the
light glass surface (vivid cyans/greens). Ship the canonical Solarized
palette (Schoonover) for both modes — same 16 accents either way, only
fg/cursor swap between `base00/01` (light) and `base0/1` (dark), so a
prompt's colors look uniform across a Shift+X toggle.
Background stays transparent in both modes — Solarized's cream/slate
backgrounds would fight the glass.
* feat(desktop): virtualize chat thread + sidebar via TanStack Virtual
Replaces `use-stick-to-bottom` and per-row session rendering with
`@tanstack/react-virtual`, matching what Cursor uses.
Chat thread (`thread-virtualizer.tsx`):
- Natural-flow virtualization (padding spacers, not absolute items) so
`position: sticky` on the human bubble still resolves cleanly against
the scroller.
- Custom at-bottom anchor: pins when armed, disarms on user-driven
upward scroll, re-arms at bottom, jumps on session switch +
`thread.runStart`.
- Loading indicator and `--thread-last-message-clearance` move to a
real `[data-slot=aui_composer-clearance]` node; drops the brittle
`:nth-last-child(1 of …)` rule that can't fire reliably under
virtualization.
Sidebar (`virtual-session-list.tsx`):
- Flat agents list virtualizes at >=25 rows; pinned and
workspace-grouped paths stay direct-render.
- `SortableContext` keeps all IDs; only the window mounts; dnd-kit's
`setNodeRef` is merged with `virtualizer.measureElement` so rows
participate in both DnD hit-testing and TanStack measurement.
Drops `use-stick-to-bottom`. Streaming test gets a global
`offsetWidth/offsetHeight` stub so the virtualizer's viewport sizing
works in jsdom; the scroll-up-doesn't-pull-back invariant still passes.
* feat: more ui qa
* fix(desktop): trim sidebar terminal startup spacer
Drop zsh's initial spacer row before writing the first terminal prompt so new sidebar terminal sessions do not open with a selectable blank line.
* chore: uptick
* feat(desktop): thin installer + first-launch install.ps1 bootstrap
Converges the Windows packaged desktop installer onto a single canonical
install topology: drop the Electron shell only (~80MB instead of ~500MB),
clone Hermes Agent at a build-time-pinned commit on first launch via
install.ps1's stage protocol, and treat the resulting git checkout at
%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\hermes-agent\ as the canonical install location
(same path the CLI installer uses). Future updates flow through the
existing applyUpdates() git-pull path.
Replaces the previous fat-installer architecture where the .exe bundled
a pre-staged hermes-agent source tree under resources/hermes-agent/ that
was then sync'd into ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT at launch -- a complicated
factory-vs-active dance with several footguns (FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT
mismatch on path resolve, isGitCheckout guard regressions, pyproject
hash drift detection inside the sync loop).
Architecture overview
---------------------
Build time
apps/desktop/scripts/write-build-stamp.cjs writes
apps/desktop/build/install-stamp.json with {commit, branch, builtAt,
dirty}. Honours $GITHUB_SHA / $GITHUB_REF_NAME in CI, falls back to
`git rev-parse HEAD` locally.
apps/desktop/scripts/stage-native-deps.cjs copies the runtime subset
of @homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch from the workspace-root
node_modules into apps/desktop/build/native-deps/. Workspace dedup
hoists this dep to the root, out of reach of electron-builder's
`files:`-restricted collector; staging gives us a deterministic
path to extraResources.
electron-builder ships both into resources/install-stamp.json and
resources/native-deps/ respectively.
Boot resolver (electron/main.cjs)
Resolver order:
1. HERMES_DESKTOP_HERMES_ROOT override
2. SOURCE_REPO_ROOT (dev mode)
3. ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT git checkout WITH .hermes-bootstrap-complete
marker -- the post-install fast path
4. `hermes` on PATH (CLI-installed user adding the desktop)
5. pip-installed hermes_cli via system Python
6. bootstrap-needed sentinel -> hand off to runBootstrap
Deletes the entire FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT / RUNTIME_MARKER /
syncTreeExcludingVenv machinery (-200 lines). The isGitCheckout
guard that bit us in the install.ps1 PR is gone.
First-launch bootstrap (electron/bootstrap-runner.cjs)
1. Resolve install.ps1: prefer SOURCE_REPO_ROOT/scripts (dev), else
download from GitHub raw at INSTALL_STAMP.commit (cached at
HERMES_HOME\bootstrap-cache\install-<sha>.ps1).
2. Fetch the stage manifest via install.ps1 -Manifest -Commit X
-Branch Y.
3. Iterate stages: install.ps1 -Stage <name> -NonInteractive -Json
-Commit X -Branch Y per stage.
4. On all stages green: write the .hermes-bootstrap-complete
marker with {schemaVersion, pinnedCommit, pinnedBranch,
completedAt, desktopVersion}.
Per-run log to HERMES_HOME\logs\bootstrap-<ts>.log. Cancellation
via AbortSignal. Manifest cache so retries don't re-download.
Install overlay (src/components/desktop-install-overlay.tsx)
Mounted alongside the existing onboarding overlay; flexbox card
with header (static) + middle (scrollable) + footer (failure-only,
static). Subscribes to hermes:bootstrap:event IPC + resyncs from
hermes:bootstrap:get on mount/reload. Renders:
- 14-stage checklist with per-stage state icons
- Overall progress bar + current-stage spotlight
- Auto-expanded installer-output panel on failure
- "Copy output" button (full ring buffer + error to clipboard)
- "Reload and retry" wired through hermes:bootstrap:reset to
clear main.cjs's latched failure
Synthetic empty-manifest event from main.cjs flips the overlay to
'active' immediately so the slow install.ps1 download doesn't
leave the user staring at the generic Preparing splash.
Failure latching (main.cjs)
bootstrapFailure module-scope variable holds the rejection after
install.ps1 fails. startHermes() throws the latched error
immediately when set, bypassing the entire ensureRuntime +
runBootstrap chain. Without this, the renderer's ensureGatewayOpen
retries would re-run install.ps1 in a 5-10 min hot loop while the
user was still reading the failure overlay. Cleared via
hermes:bootstrap:reset on user-driven retry.
Unsupported-platform overlay (1F)
macOS / Linux packaged builds (no install.sh stage protocol yet)
emit an unsupported-platform event with a copy-pasteable install
command + docs URL. Dedicated overlay branch with "Copy command"
+ "I've run it -- retry" buttons.
install.ps1 additions (Phase 1F.3 + 1F.5)
-----------------------------------------
New -Commit and -Tag string params. Precedence Commit > Tag >
Branch. Honoured by all three code paths (update / fresh clone /
ZIP fallback), with archive URL selection that handles each
ref-type variant. Detached-HEAD checkouts intentionally -- they're
pins, not branches the user pulls into.
EAP=Continue wrap around the new pin-step git invocations. `git
fetch origin <commit>` writes the routine 'From <url>' info line to
stderr; under the script's global EAP=Stop that terminates the
script even though fetch+checkout succeed. Matches the established
pattern in Install-Uv, Test-Python, _Run-NpmInstall.
Backend fix (hermes_cli/web_server.py)
--------------------------------------
CORS allow_origin_regex now accepts Origin: 'null'. Packaged
Electron loads index.html via file://; Chromium sets the WebSocket
upgrade Origin header to the opaque origin 'null', which the old
regex rejected with HTTP 403 before gateway_ws() ever ran. This
failure mode was masked in the older FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT
architecture because the resolver often found an existing hermes
on PATH with different binding behavior.
Security maintained: localhost-only bind keeps cross-machine pages
out; per-process session token still gates every authenticated
/api/ endpoint regardless of Origin.
Desktop QoL
-----------
DevTools is now enabled in packaged builds (F12 / Cmd+Opt+I).
Field-debugging trade-off: tiny attack surface increase versus
a much better support story when CSP / WS / theme issues surface.
NSIS prereq-check page deleted (-767 lines). The standard
Welcome -> License -> Directory -> InstallFiles -> Finish wizard
now installs without custom Python/Git/ripgrep detection -- those
prereqs are install.ps1's job at first launch.
Test infrastructure (Phase 1G)
------------------------------
apps/desktop/scripts/test-desktop.mjs rewritten as a cross-platform
bundle validator (was darwin-only and asserted on dead factory-
payload paths):
NEGATIVE: hermes_cli/main.py is NOT shipped (regression guard)
POSITIVE: install-stamp.json carries a real commit + branch
POSITIVE: node-pty native deps shipped under resources/native-deps
POSITIVE: renderer dist/index.html reachable (asar or unpacked)
New nsis mode and npm run test:desktop:nsis script.
Validated end-to-end on clean Win10 VM
--------------------------------------
Confirmed: NSIS installer drops Electron shell, app launches,
install overlay shows progress, install.ps1 clones the pinned
commit, 14 stages run to completion, marker written, backend
spawns, WebSocket connects, onboarding overlay asks for API key,
main UI loads, integrated terminal works.
Failures handled: bootstrap stays failed (no hot-loop retry),
"Copy output" gives actionable transcript, "Reload and retry"
explicitly re-runs install.ps1.
What's deferred
---------------
- MSIX wrapping (Phase 2): same Electron .exe under MSIX manifest
with runFullTrust, signed and submitted to Microsoft Store.
- install.sh stage protocol parity (Phase 2): once shipped, the
unsupported-platform overlay becomes drive-it-yourself and
macOS/Linux packaged installers gain feature parity with Windows.
* feat(desktop): persistent terminal pane + fullscreen takeover
Adds a VSCode-style "focus terminal" toggle to the right sidebar's Terminal
tab that takes over the chat pane area without unmounting the shell. The
xterm host is mounted once at the layout root and CSS-overlayed onto
whichever <TerminalSlot /> is currently active, so the PTY session,
scrollback, selection, focus, and WebGL renderer survive every toggle.
Also:
- WebGL renderer (matching dashboard ChatPage) so Hermes' TUI skins paint
faithfully instead of muting through xterm's default DOM renderer
- File drag/drop from the project tree or OS into xterm — paths are
shell-quoted (zsh/bash/pwsh/cmd) and written straight into the PTY
- Solarized dark canvas with brights promoted to real accent variants
(Schoonover's UI-gray brights washed out every TUI accent)
- Strip NO_COLOR/FORCE_COLOR/COLORFGBG/TERM=dumb leaking from non-tty
parents (CI runners, Cursor's agent shell) so the embedded shell gets
truecolor regardless of how Electron was launched
- rAF-debounced ResizeObserver — running fit.fit() synchronously during
sibling pane transitions crashed the WebGL texture-atlas rebuild
* fix(install.ps1): strip UTF-8 BOM regression that broke 'irm | iex'
The canonical install flow
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/.../scripts/install.ps1 | iex
fails on PowerShell 5.1 with a cascade of 'The assignment expression
is not valid' errors at every param() default value:
[string]$Branch = 'main',
~~~~~~
The assignment expression is not valid. The input to an assignment
operator must be an object that is able to accept assignments...
Root cause: scripts/install.ps1 carries a UTF-8 BOM (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF)
as its first three bytes. 'irm' returns the response body as a string;
on PS 5.1 the BOM survives into that string as a leading \ufeff
character. 'iex' then evaluates the string and PS's parser chokes
on the invisible character before param() -- error recovery proceeds
into the body but every assignment is reported as broken.
This was the exact failure mode the install.ps1 hardening pass (PR
#27224) deliberately fixed by stripping the BOM and ensuring the
file body is pure ASCII. Commit 4279da4db ('fix(windows): make
PowerShell installer parse in 5.1') re-introduced the BOM later,
unintentionally undoing the irm|iex compatibility fix; the merge
that brought it into bb/gui carried it forward.
Fix: strip the three BOM bytes. File body is verified pure ASCII
(any-byte > 127 returns false), so PS 5.1 with no BOM falls back to
Windows-1252 decoding which is identical to ASCII for our content.
Both install paths now work:
- 'irm ... | iex' (canonical CLI)
- 'powershell -File install.ps1' (programmatic / desktop bootstrap)
* install.ps1: detect ARM64 Windows reliably for Node and Git stages
Add a Get-WindowsArch helper that reads Win32_Processor.Architecture
via CIM (invariant to PowerShell host bitness) with PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432
fallback. Use it in:
- Install-Git: previously only triggered the arm64 PortableGit asset
when invoked from a native-ARM64 PowerShell host. WoW64 / emulated
x64 hosts (the default powershell.exe on Windows-on-ARM) saw
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64 and fell through to the x64 PortableGit
build, leaving ARM64 users on emulated Git for Windows.
- Test-Node: previously hardcoded the Node download to win-x64 on any
64-bit OS, so ARM64 users always got x64 Node under Prism emulation
even though Node ships an arm64 build for Windows. The winget
fallback now also passes --architecture arm64 on ARM64.
Python remains x86_64 by design: uv intentionally prefers
windows-x86_64 cpython on ARM64 hosts for ecosystem (wheel)
compatibility (see astral-sh/uv#19015).
* install.ps1: harden Install-SystemPackages against winget msstore failures
The previous winget invocation discarded stdout/stderr and trusted no
signal at all -- not the exit code (winget exits 0 even when it bails
"please specify --source"), not output (sent to Out-Null), not the
catch handler (winget returning 0 means no exception fires). The only
trust signal was a post-install Get-Command rg / Get-Command ffmpeg
check, which would also miss the package because %LOCALAPPDATA%\
Microsoft\WinGet\Links (where winget puts command aliases) is added to
PATH by AppExecutionAlias machinery only in fresh shells. End result on
machines where the msstore source has a cert problem (0x8a15005e --
common on Windows-on-ARM and some corporate networks): silent failure,
no log, no breadcrumb, and the user is told the install succeeded.
Specifically:
- Pin --source winget on every winget install call. Defeats the broken-
msstore-source path. We ship nothing from msstore so this is safe and
forward-compatible.
- Add --exact --id for a tighter package match.
- Capture each winget invocation's combined stdout/stderr + exit code to
%TEMP%\hermes-winget-<pkg>-<n>.log instead of Out-Null. On the happy
path the log is deleted after the post-install check confirms the
binary is on PATH; on failure the log is kept and its path is named in
a Write-Warn so the user has something to grep.
- Refresh PATH to include %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links in
addition to the User/Machine env-var hives, so Get-Command sees newly-
installed winget aliases in the same process.
- No behavior change on the happy path. Same Write-Info/Success/Warn
cadence, same fallback order (winget -> choco -> scoop -> manual),
same $script:HasRipgrep / $script:HasFfmpeg outputs.
Verified end-to-end on a real Snapdragon ARM64 Windows host: ripgrep
uninstalled, stage re-run, [OK] ripgrep installed in 1.4s, ok:true.
* desktop: swap node-pty fork for upstream microsoft/node-pty 1.1.0
The previous dependency, @homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch@0.13.1,
publishes no win32-arm64 prebuilds on its v0.13.x line, and its v0.14.x
betas (which do add an arm64 Windows build) ship no electron-vXXX-win32-
arm64 prebuilds at all -- so packaged Electron 40 builds (NMV 143) would
fail at runtime even on a successful npm install. Net effect: the
desktop's integrated terminal was unbuildable on Windows-on-ARM, in
both dev (npm install fails: 404 fetching the node-vXXX-win32-arm64
prebuilt) and packaged builds (no Electron-ABI prebuilt exists).
The homebridge fork was originally created because upstream node-pty
shipped no prebuilds at all. That hasn't been true since node-pty@1.0
(April 2024), which:
- bundles prebuilts for mac (arm64+x64) and Windows (arm64+x64) directly
inside the npm tarball -- no GitHub-Releases fetch, no missing-binary
failure mode
- uses N-API (node-addon-api) for ABI stability across Node and Electron
major versions, so the same pty.node binary loads under Node 22 (dev)
and Electron 40+ (packaged) without per-ABI rebuilds
- is what VS Code, Hyper, and Theia actually ship
API surface is identical (spawn / onData / onExit / write / resize /
kill) -- no call-site changes needed.
Specifically:
- apps/desktop/package.json: replace the @homebridge fork with
node-pty@1.1.0 (exact pin). Widen `asarUnpack` from `["**/*.node"]`
to also unpack `**/prebuilds/**`, because node-pty ships runtime-
execed helpers alongside its .node files (darwin spawn-helper has no
extension and would not be matched by `**/*.node`; conpty.dll,
OpenConsole.exe, winpty.dll, winpty-agent.exe on Windows are also
exec'd at runtime and cannot live inside asar).
- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs: update both require() strings to
match the new package name and the new staged path under
resources/native-deps/node-pty/.
- apps/desktop/scripts/stage-native-deps.cjs: point at node_modules/
node-pty. node-pty's prebuilts live under prebuilds/<plat>-<arch>/
(not build/Release/), so update the include glob to copy that dir.
Per-arch staging keeps the resource bundle small (target arch comes
from npm_config_arch when electron-builder cross-builds, else
process.arch). Explicitly enumerate file types in the prebuilds glob
so the ~25 MB of .pdb debug symbols that prebuild-install bundles
for Windows crash analysis don't bloat the installer (29 MB -> 2.6 MB
staged on win32-arm64). Re-assert +x on the darwin spawn-helper
defensively, since a stripped mode bit would manifest as a silent
ENOENT at first pty.spawn().
- apps/desktop/scripts/test-desktop.mjs: update expectedNativeDepPaths()
and its assertion site to look at prebuilds/<plat>-<arch>/ instead of
build/Release/. Add an explicit spawn-helper-exists check on darwin
so a regression in the asarUnpack glob would fail loudly in CI rather
than at first PTY spawn.
Trade-off: Linux end-users lose prebuilts and fall back to building
node-pty from source on `npm install`. Acceptable because Hermes
ships no Linux desktop builds (desktop-release.yml matrix is mac + win
only, package.json declares no `linux` target), and Linux developers
hacking on the desktop already need a C++ toolchain for the rest of
the stack.
Verified on Windows 11 ARM64 (Snapdragon):
npm install -> exit 0
node -e "require('node-pty').spawn(...)" round-trip -> OK
stage-native-deps -> 27 files, 2.6 MB
load from staged tree (simulates packaged fallback) -> ConPTY
round-trip OK
* desktop+gateway: harden Slack socket recovery and Windows restart dedupe (#28873)
* desktop+gateway: harden Slack socket recovery and Windows restart dedupe
Fix Slack Socket Mode reliability by adding a watchdog/reconnect path so silent socket task drops no longer leave the adapter stuck. Harden Windows gateway lifecycle by avoiding desktop-binary path collisions, making gateway PID scans case/extension tolerant, and reusing in-flight restart actions to prevent duplicate gateway spawns.
* test(slack): add Socket Mode watchdog/reconnect behavioural coverage
Drive the new Slack Socket Mode self-healing logic through a fake AsyncSocketModeHandler so we can simulate the P0 silent-hang failure mode (task exit, transport disconnected, intentional shutdown, concurrent reconnect attempts) without touching real Slack.
* fix(slack,desktop): address Copilot review on watchdog races and path normalization
- connect(): explicitly cancel + await the prior socket watchdog before flipping _running, so an old monitor cannot exit between teardown and respawn (Copilot #1)
- _socket_watchdog_loop: wrap the body in try/except + add a done-callback that respawns on unexpected crash, so a transient bug cannot permanently disable self-healing (Copilot #2)
- normalizeExecutablePathForCompare: use the resolved path for realpathSync so non-string inputs cannot leak through (Copilot #3)
- Add tests for crash-recovery and atomic watchdog replacement across reconnects
* fix(slack): tighten connect() error path and clarify watchdog test intent
Address Copilot review round 2.
- connect(): wrap _start_socket_mode_handler/_ensure_socket_watchdog in a focused try/except so any failure rolls back partially-started handler/task state and leaves _running=False, ensuring the platform lock is always released by the outer finally
- Defer _running=True until after the handler is actually started so the watchdog observes a live socket task immediately and never spins against a half-built adapter
- Rename test_watchdog_self_restarts_after_unexpected_crash to test_watchdog_cancellation_does_not_respawn (matches what it actually asserts) and add test_watchdog_unexpected_exit_respawns_via_done_callback that drives a real RuntimeError through _on_socket_watchdog_done and verifies a fresh task replaces the crashed one
* fix(web_server): serialize action spawn check+store under a threading lock
Address Copilot review round 3.
FastAPI runs sync handlers on its threadpool, so two near-simultaneous /api/gateway/restart (or /api/hermes/update) requests could both observe "no live process" in _spawn_hermes_action's poll-based dedupe and double-spawn. Add a module-level _ACTION_SPAWN_LOCK around the entire check + Popen + _ACTION_PROCS store sequence so the dedupe is atomic across threads.
* fix: address Copilot review round 4
- slack.disconnect(): mirror connect()'s defensive cleanup — catch the broad Exception path on watchdog await so handler shutdown and lock release still run if the watchdog raised before cancellation took effect
- web_server._spawn_hermes_action: wrap subprocess.Popen in try/except so a missing executable / permission error closes the log file handle, writes a failure marker, and re-raises instead of leaking a file descriptor
- gateway._scan_gateway_pids: drop the over-broad "hermes.exe --profile" / "hermes.exe -p" patterns that would match any Hermes CLI subcommand using a profile flag (e.g. `hermes.exe --profile foo dashboard`); rely on the "hermes.exe gateway" + "hermes-gateway.exe" tokens instead
- tests: tighten _fake_create_task to assert coroutine input and return a real asyncio.Task that stays pending until pytest teardown, and update the three callsites whose mocked AsyncSocketModeHandler.start_async returned a non-coroutine value
* fix(slack): reset multi-workspace state on reconnect
Address Copilot review round 5.
connect() is reentrant (gateway restart, in-process reconnect), but it was leaving _bot_user_id / _team_clients / _team_bot_user_ids populated from the previous session. A reconnect that rotated the primary token or dropped a workspace would silently keep the stale bot user id and stale workspace client maps, leading to dispatch against gone workspaces.
Clear these three pieces of state right after _stop_socket_mode_handler() and before the auth_test loop, then let the loop repopulate from the current tokens. Add test_reconnect_refreshes_multi_workspace_state to lock it in.
* nix: package apps/desktop as .#desktop (#28964)
Adds nix/desktop.nix building the Electron renderer with buildNpmPackage
and wrapping nixpkgs' electron binary. Reuses .#default by setting
HERMES_DESKTOP_HERMES to its hermes binary, so the desktop's resolver
picks up the fully-wired nix hermes (venv, bundled skills/plugins,
runtime PATH) without reimplementing agent resolution.
- nix/desktop.nix: renderer + electron wrapper
- nix/hermes-agent.nix: finalAttrs form, exposes hermesDesktop in passthru
- nix/packages.nix: exposes .#desktop + adds to fix-lockfiles
- apps/desktop/package-lock.json: standalone hermetic lockfile
nix build .#desktop && nix run .#desktop both clean.
* fix(desktop): probe steps 4 & 5 of resolveHermesBackend before trusting
A user-reported failure on Windows-on-ARM: a pre-installed Python 3.13
on PATH makes findSystemPython() succeed, so resolveHermesBackend
returns a backend pointing at it -- but hermes_cli isn't in that
interpreter's site-packages. The spawn dies with ModuleNotFoundError
and the user sees a dead GUI instead of the first-launch installer.
Same shape can hit step 4 (existing `hermes` on PATH) when a stale
shim survives a partial uninstall.
Add cheap exit-code probes -- `python -c "import hermes_cli"` for
step 5, `<hermes> --version` for step 4 -- and fall through to step 6
(bootstrap-needed) on failure. install.ps1 then runs as if on a clean
box and the venv gets built.
Probes live in a standalone electron/backend-probes.cjs module so they
can be unit-tested with node --test, same pattern as bootstrap-platform.cjs
and hardening.cjs. New test file wired into test:desktop:platforms.
* test(desktop): allow `node-pty` bare-require in packaged entrypoints
Pre-existing failure on bb/gui since c858484b4 swapped the node-pty
fork for upstream microsoft/node-pty 1.1.0. main.cjs intentionally
bare-requires node-pty (it's hoisted by workspace dedup in dev, and
staged to resources/native-deps via scripts/stage-native-deps.cjs +
extraResources for packaged builds, with a try/catch fallback at
line ~38). The allowlist hadn't been updated to match -- same shape
as `electron`, which was already allowed.
* chore(deps): refresh root lockfile for dashboard @nous-research/ui 0.14.0
apps/dashboard/package.json was bumped to @nous-research/ui 0.14.0 (+
flag-icons ^7.5.0, motion ^12.38.0) but the root package-lock.json was
never refreshed. Running `npm install` from the repo root now
materialises 0.14.0's transitive closure (launder, bumps for
@nanostores/react, nanostores, sanitize-html, tailwind-merge).
No code changes; purely a lockfile catch-up so fresh checkouts on bb/gui
get a working dashboard install.
* chore(desktop): bump version to 0.0.1
First non-placeholder version so electron-builder's artifactName template
produces `Hermes-0.0.1-win-x64.exe` instead of the obviously-unreleased
`Hermes-0.0.0-...`. No release process yet; this just stops the artifact
filename from telling users "you got a debug build."
Bumped in three slots that all carry the desktop app's version:
- apps/desktop/package.json (source of truth)
- apps/desktop/package-lock.json (per-app lockfile, kept for CI parity)
- root package-lock.json's apps/desktop workspace entry
Identity-of-build for first-launch bootstrap continues to come from
build/install-stamp.json (commit SHA + builtAt), unchanged.
* fix: fs icon color
* perf(desktop): cut per-keystroke layout + listener churn in chat composer
Empirical work via CDP harnesses under apps/desktop/scripts/ (see
profile-typing-lag.md):
jsListeners growth (per round of 200 chars + GC):
before: +35 (verified leak — listeners stuck after 1st trigger popover use)
after: +0
Four narrow edits in src/app/chat/composer/index.tsx:
1. Drop the per-keystroke `editorRef.current.scrollHeight` read used to
decide composer expansion. Replace with `draft.length > 60` heuristic;
the existing ResizeObserver still catches edge cases. `scrollHeight`
is a forced-layout call and was firing on every char until the first
wrap.
2. Bucket measured composer height to 8px before writing
`--composer-measured-height` / `--composer-surface-measured-height`
on `documentElement`. Without this, the editor grows ~1px per char,
setProperty fires every keystroke, computed style is invalidated tree-
wide.
3. Remove the dead `$composerDraft` two-way sync. Nothing outside the
composer subscribed to that atom (verified via grep). Two useEffects
on `[draft]` were pushing draft→atom and atom→aui per keystroke for
no consumer. Also drop the per-keystroke
`reconcileComposerTerminalSelections` call; it was pruning stale
labels for `terminalContextBlocksFromDraft`, but that helper already
ignores labels not in the current submitted text, so pruning per
keystroke was just bookkeeping.
4. `refreshTrigger` fast-bails when the draft contains neither `@` nor
`/`. Previously `textBeforeCaret(editor)` ran on every input/keyup
regardless; `range.toString()` inside is O(n) over draft length.
Synthetic typing latency p50/p90/p99 is similar before vs after on a
freshly-loaded session (Blink can already handle ~30cps typing into a
contentEditable on its own); the real win is the listener leak being
gone and the global computed-style invalidations dropping ~8× when the
composer is sitting at a fixed height row.
The `Enter → stall` follow-up (see profile-typing-lag.md §"Submit /
TTFT stall") is unmeasured here — needs a throwaway session because
the harness fires a real prompt. Not blocking this commit.
* perf(desktop): cut FadeText forced layouts during streaming
The slowest user-felt path is typing into the composer while the
assistant is streaming. Profile (scripts/profile-under-stream.mjs):
FadeText measureOverflow self time: 35.8 ms → 18.1 ms (-50%)
total active CPU during 7s window: ~150 ms → ~50 ms
Two changes in src/components/ui/fade-text.tsx:
1. Drop the `useEffect([children])` that re-ran `measureOverflow`
(reads scrollWidth + clientWidth — forced layout) on every parent
re-render. `useResizeObserver` already fires the same callback on
mount and whenever the host span's box size changes; that covers
the only case where overflow state can legitimately change. The
previous explicit useEffect was a forced-layout flush on every
parent render, which during streaming meant every token tick.
2. Wrap the component in `memo` with a custom comparator that
short-circuits the entire render when scalar string `children` and
the className/fadeWidth/style props are unchanged. The hot path
was tool-fallback's title chips being re-rendered by parent
streaming updates even though their text was stable; memo+
comparator skips that.
Also adds two harness scripts under apps/desktop/scripts/:
- latency-under-stream.mjs (key→paint latency while a turn streams)
- profile-under-stream.mjs (CPU profile while a turn streams)
Updates profile-typing-lag.md with the streaming numbers and confirms
the Enter→paint submit path is already fast (≤320ms on the populated
session; the 2s "stall after Enter" the user noticed once was a
one-time cold-start, not reproducible at the UI layer).
I'd guess the felt jank in real use is fast-burst typing during a
long-form streaming reply (code blocks + markdown lists multiply the
per-token render cost). The CPU savings here scale linearly with
token volume.
* chore(desktop): drop diag scratch scripts no longer needed
* docs(desktop): correct leak-typing numbers on a real session
Re-ran the leak harness on a populated session (Phaser thread) for both
unpatched and patched builds. The original 'listener leak' was transient
warm-up cost, not a steady-state leak — both versions show 0 listener
growth/round in steady state.
The load-bearing number is forced layouts per character:
unpatched (HEAD~2): 7.02 layouts/char
patched (HEAD): 2.35 layouts/char (3× fewer)
The patches reduce per-char forced-layout work to Blink's natural floor.
Document node count and heap are flat in both builds.
* perf(desktop): fix "Enter jumps up" on long threads
User reported: after pressing Enter on a long thread, the view jumps up
— the just-submitted message disappears below the fold. Confirmed via
apps/desktop/scripts/measure-jump.mjs:
before: distFromBottom 0 → 49.5px, sticks there permanently
after: distFromBottom 0 → ~0 (worst case 4px for one frame)
Root cause in useThreadScrollAnchor (thread-virtualizer.tsx):
1. The sticky-bottom logic disarmed on any scroll event where
`scrollTop < lastTopRef.current`. That check can't distinguish a
user scrolling up from a programmatic `pinToBottom` write that
the browser clamped short of bottom (because content also grew in
the same frame, so `scrollTop = scrollHeight` lands at
`scrollHeight - clientHeight` for the OLD scrollHeight, which is
now below the NEW scrollHeight). Result: sticky-bottom disarmed
permanently on the user's first submit.
2. There was no synchronous pin tied to React's commit phase. By the
time the ResizeObserver fired and re-pinned, the user had already
seen ~50ms of "message below the fold" — visually that reads as the
view jumping up.
Fix:
- `programmaticScrollPendingRef` counter tracks scroll events we
expect to be ours (one per `pinToBottom` write). The scroll handler
skips the disarm check when consuming a pending tick, keeps the
arm bit true, and re-pins synchronously if the browser clamped us
short of bottom. A depth cap (8) breaks runaway loops in
pathological streaming-burst layouts.
- `useLayoutEffect` on `groupCount` increase pins BEFORE the browser
paints, eliminating the visible ~50ms window between optimistic
user-message insert and the RO/scroll-event chain firing.
Verified on the long Cloud Shadows thread (7-8 turns, ~11k px tall):
all three repro runs now hold within 0–4 px of bottom across the
post-Enter transition. Submit latency unchanged (paint 77–107 ms),
streaming-typing latency unchanged.
Also adds three debug harnesses:
- measure-jump.mjs — sample thread scroll across Enter
- probe-thread.mjs — dump current thread / scroll state
- diag-jump.mjs — intercept scrollTop + RO + mutations across Enter
* perf(desktop): rate-limit thread auto-pin during streaming
Follow-up to the Enter-jump fix. The first version did a synchronous
re-pin loop inside the on-scroll handler when the browser clamped our
`scrollTop = scrollHeight` write short of the new bottom; that gave a
tight 4 px visible jump on Enter, but during streaming the
ResizeObserver fires many times per second as content grows, and each
RO callback re-entered the pin loop. CPU profile showed
`Virtualizer.getMaxScrollOffset` climbing to 22 ms self over a typing-
during-streaming window — the sync re-pin path was paying tanstack-
virtual's recompute cost ~3× per token.
Re-architect:
- RO callback coalesces to one pin per animation frame. Streaming-rate
RO bursts now cost the same as a single per-frame pin.
- The on-scroll programmatic-counter guard remains (it's what prevents
the false-disarm bug when the browser clamps a write). It no longer
does sync re-pins; the next RO/rAF will catch up.
- The useLayoutEffect on groupCount (the path that fires on user
submit / new turn arrival) ALSO schedules one rAF pin in addition to
the synchronous pin. This catches the case where React mounts the
new message in a second commit (after our layout effect ran), which
grows scrollHeight again. Two pins instead of a tight loop, paid only
once per turn change.
Net effect on the Cloud Shadows long thread:
enter-jump transient: 12–20 px for 1 frame (was 49 px permanent)
CPU during stream+type: `getMaxScrollOffset` dropped out of top-5
self-time list
typing-during-stream: p50 ~10 ms paint, p99 ~20 ms (1 frame),
occasional 40 ms+ outliers during burst
token arrivals
Also adds scripts/profile-long-stream.mjs: 20-second streaming profile
with per-500ms FPS histogram + content-length tracking, so we can see
whether streaming render cost grows with message length (it doesn't —
sustained 60 fps).
* perf(desktop): use textContent for trigger precondition
Replace composerPlainText() call inside refreshTrigger's no-trigger
fast-bail with a textContent check. textContent is a browser-native
flat traversal; composerPlainText walks recursively with chip-aware
logic. We only need to know if @ or / appears; either way the trigger
char will be in textContent because chips contain @ in their refText.
Profile shows composerPlainText was ~18ms self over a 12s typing-during-
stream window, called from refreshTrigger on every keystroke. Most of
that was the precondition check (the trigger detection path is the
slow path but only runs when a trigger char is present).
* Revert "perf(desktop): use textContent for trigger precondition"
This reverts commit a6a78ff08a.
* Revert "perf(desktop): cut FadeText forced layouts during streaming"
This reverts commit 88e7d7537c.
* Revert "perf(desktop): cut per-keystroke layout + listener churn in chat composer"
This reverts commit bff1b3261d.
* Revert "Revert "perf(desktop): cut per-keystroke layout + listener churn in chat composer""
This reverts commit b7b378e3a4.
* Revert "Revert "perf(desktop): use textContent for trigger precondition""
This reverts commit 0739588f48.
* chore(desktop): synthetic-stream perf harness + scripts
Drops the React `<Profiler>` approach (no-op because Vite is currently
serving the production React build) in favor of an externally-observable
measurement stack: rAF frame intervals, `PerformanceObserver({entryTypes:
['longtask']})`, and a `MutationObserver` on the live streaming message.
Adds a synthetic stream driver — `window.__PERF_DRIVE__.stream({...})` —
that pushes tokens through the live `$messages` atom at a controlled rate,
so the assistant-ui runtime, incremental repository, and Streamdown
markdown pipeline see the same workload they'd see during a real LLM
stream, without the LLM cost.
The driver lives in `src/app/chat/perf-probe.tsx`; `main.tsx` side-imports
it under `import.meta.env.MODE !== 'production'` so it tree-shakes out of
prod builds. (Using `MODE` rather than `DEV` because our Vite setup
currently reports `DEV=false` even under `vite dev` — see the dev-build
note in `profile-typing-lag.md`.)
Scripts:
- measure-synthetic-stream.mjs drive synthetic + record frame/longtask/mutation
- profile-synth-stream.mjs CPU profile + top self-time during synthetic
- measure-real-stream.mjs same harness, real LLM stream
- profile-real-stream.mjs CPU profile bracketing the real stream window
- eval.mjs / reload.mjs small CDP helpers
A real-LLM measurement on Cloud Shadows (gpt-4o-mini, 39 s window) showed
12 longtasks in the same 75-127 ms range the synthetic predicted, so the
synthetic is a faithful proxy.
* perf(desktop): memo FadeText so it skips re-renders when text unchanged
FadeText is used 110+ times inside `tool-fallback.tsx` on a tool-heavy
thread. During streaming each parent re-render previously triggered the
component's `useEffect([children])`, which forced a `scrollWidth` layout
read even when the title text was unchanged. The `useResizeObserver` was
already covering the genuine resize case, so that effect was strictly
redundant work.
Drops the effect and wraps the component in `React.memo` with a custom
comparator that field-compares `className`, `fadeWidth`, and `style`,
plus identity-compares `children` (scalar fast-path; correct for JSX
nodes too since a new node should force a re-render).
Verified via temporary render counter on the 34 MB
`session_20260514_215353_fe0ac8` thread (110 FadeText instances): a
2 s synthetic stream went from ~11k FadeText render calls to 122 —
roughly one render per truly-new instance instead of one per parent
commit per instance.
Doesn't move the longtask needle on its own (Streamdown's markdown
re-parse dwarfs it) but eliminates a steady CPU floor and a class of
forced layouts during streaming. Profile-typing-lag.md documents the
full investigation, including the remaining Streamdown cost as the
real source of the perceived "5 fps moment" hitches.
* perf(desktop): memoize MarkdownText plugins to stop churning Streamdown
The inline `plugins={{ math: mathPlugin, ...(isStreaming ? {} : { code }) }}`
on `<StreamdownTextPrimitive>` constructed a new object literal on every
parent render. That broke `<Streamdown>`'s outer memo and forced its
internal `rehypePlugins` / `remarkPlugins` array useMemos to rebuild,
which propagates a new identity into every `<Block>` and defeats Block's
memoization for stable historical blocks.
After memoizing on `[isStreaming]` (the only real dimension of variance),
CPU profile during a 5 s synthetic stream on the 34 MB session shows
`parser` self-time dropping out of the top 10, `compile` cut roughly in
half, and `bn$1` / `m$1` (micromark internals) leaving the top entries.
Doesn't move the visible longtask count on its own — Streamdown's
per-Block parse cost still dominates whenever the last block's content
changes — but it removes a class of unnecessary re-parses for historical
blocks during streaming. See `scripts/profile-typing-lag.md` for the
full investigation.
* perf(desktop): floor assistant-text flush gap to 33ms for predictable batching
`scheduleDeltaFlush` previously coalesced via `requestAnimationFrame`
only. The "at most one flush per frame" guarantee that gives you is fine
for fast streams (>~80 tok/sec) where multiple tokens arrive within a
single frame, but breaks down at typical LLM token rates (30-80 tok/sec)
where each token arrives slower than the rAF cadence and triggers its
own React commit + Streamdown markdown re-parse.
Track `lastFlushAt` and require at least 33 ms between two flushes.
React 18+ auto-batching probabilistically already collapsed some of
these, but the floor makes it deterministic.
A/B on the 34 MB session, 300 tokens at 50 tok/sec (markdown chunks):
| | avgFps | p99 frame | LTs / 5 s | max LT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| no floor (current rAF) | 54.0 | 38 ms | 2.0 | 145 ms |
| 33 ms floor (this PR) | 54.3 | 41 ms | 1.7 | 110 ms |
`inter-mutation` p50 also tightens from 22-28 ms to a clean 33 ms,
which is the expected signature of a deterministic floor. Doesn't fully
solve the user's perceived hitches — Streamdown's per-Block parse cost
when the last block grows past ~2 k chars is still the elephant — but
it consistently shaves the worst-case longtask and makes the streaming
cadence visibly steadier.
Also threads a matching `flushMinMs` option through the synthetic
stream driver in `perf-probe.tsx` + `scripts/measure-synthetic-stream.mjs`
so the harness can A/B both regimes without spending LLM credits.
See `scripts/profile-typing-lag.md` for the full investigation.
* perf(desktop): useDeferredValue for streaming markdown so parses don't block input
Streamdown's per-Block parse cost grows with the live tail's length and
is unavoidable inside the block-memo pattern (industry standard, see
findings doc). The fix is to stop having that work block the main thread.
`<DeferStreamingText>` is a 12-line wrapper that reads message-part state
via `useMessagePartText`, runs it through `useDeferredValue`, and
re-publishes via assistant-ui's `<TextMessagePartProvider>`. The inner
`<StreamdownTextPrimitive>` reads the deferred value through the normal
`useMessagePartText` hook — no fork, no internal-path imports, fully on
assistant-ui's public API. React's concurrent scheduler then:
- abandons in-flight deferred renders when a newer token arrives, so
intermediate states get skipped under fast streams
- deprioritises the markdown render when the main thread has urgent
work (typing, scroll), so input stays responsive even while a
100ms parse is queued
Streamdown already uses `useTransition` for its block-array setState;
this lifts the deferral up to the consumer boundary so it covers the
whole pipeline (preprocess → split → repair → parse → render).
A/B on the 34 MB session, 300 tokens at 50 tok/sec, markdown chunks
(four trials each, with the 33ms flush throttle on for both):
| | avgFps | p99 frame | LTs/5s | max LT | typing-while-stream p95 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pre | 54.3 | 41 ms | 1.7 | 110 ms | ~17 ms |
| post | 58.5 | 31 ms | 2.0 | 117 ms | 14-18 ms |
Longtask count + max LT unchanged — useDeferredValue doesn't reduce
CPU, only its priority. The avgFps lift and p99 frame drop are the
proof that the existing CPU is no longer blocking 60 fps cadence. One
clean run logged MUTATIONS=0 — React skipped every intermediate text
state and only committed the final one (textbook deferred-value
behaviour).
The actually-reduce-CPU path is replacing the parser with a state
machine like Flowdown — left for a future PR; see
`apps/desktop/scripts/profile-typing-lag.md` for the full investigation.
* feat(desktop): add hermes gui launcher
* feat(desktop): launch packaged gui builds by default
* bump gui version to 0.0.2
* fix(dashboard): allow file:// origin on loopback WS + diagnostic logging
Upstream commit 2e66eefbc ("fix(dashboard): validate WebSocket Host
and Origin") added a WebSocket Host/Origin guard to block DNS
rebinding against the dashboard. The guard rejects any Origin whose
scheme is not http/https or whose netloc is empty — which includes
Electron's renderer Origin: file:// when the desktop app loads its
bundle from disk in production mode.
That makes the bb/gui Electron desktop unable to open the gateway
WebSocket against the embedded backend on Windows / macOS prod
builds. The renderer reports "Desktop boot failed" and the backend
logs:
WARNING hermes_cli.web_server: gateway-ws reject
peer=127.0.0.1:NNNN reason=non_loopback_or_bad_origin
bound_host=127.0.0.1 close_code=4403
DNS-rebinding requires a DNS-resolvable hostname; file:// has no
host component and therefore cannot be the attack vector this guard
exists to block. When bound to a loopback interface (127.0.0.1 /
::1 / localhost), accept file:// origins so desktop wrappers can
attach. Non-loopback binds (operator opted into network exposure)
keep rejecting file:// — the loose policy doesn't apply.
Also adds per-reason diagnostic logging in
_ws_host_origin_is_allowed, so future ws-guard rejections name the
specific clause that fired (bad_host / bad_origin_scheme /
origin_host_mismatch) instead of the opaque
"non_loopback_or_bad_origin" surfaced at the call site.
Verified against tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_host_header.py
(all 11 upstream tests still pass) and hand-tested by opening the
bb/gui Electron desktop dev build against the patched backend.
* fix(tui_gateway): restore _content_display_text helper
Bb/gui had dropped the helper but the orchestrator code merged from main
still calls it (_inflight_text, _message_preview). Re-add the definition
verbatim from main so session.create / _start_inflight_turn don't crash
with NameError on first prompt submit.
* fix(tui-gateway): restore _content_display_text helper lost in main merge
The May 27 merge of origin/main into bb/gui re-introduced two callers of
_content_display_text (in _inflight_text and _history_to_messages) but
dropped the helper definition itself, leaving an unresolved reference.
NameError fires on every user message via _start_inflight_turn ->
_inflight_text, taking down both the TUI and the desktop (which share
this gateway backend) the moment input is dispatched.
Restores the helper verbatim from main (commit 36c99af37) -- pure
structured-content text extractor, no other dependencies.
* fix(telegram): import Set for _dm_topic_chat_ids annotation
self._dm_topic_chat_ids: Set[str] = {...} at line 460 references Set
but only Dict, List, Optional, Any are imported from typing. The file
has no 'from __future__ import annotations', so the annotation is
evaluated at runtime and raises NameError on TelegramAdapter
construction.
* fix(setup): drop shadowing inner importlib.util re-imports
_print_setup_summary and _setup_tts_provider each had 'import
importlib.util' inside a try: block nested deeper in the function
body. Python flips importlib to function-local for the whole scope,
so earlier references in the same function (the neutts branches at
lines 493 / 1109) hit UnboundLocalError before the late import can
run.
The top-of-module 'import importlib.util' at line 14 already covers
both call sites, so dropping the redundant inner imports restores
the intended behavior.
* feat(install.ps1): add -IncludeDesktop switch + Stage-Desktop
The new Hermes-Setup.exe (Tauri bootstrap installer) passes -IncludeDesktop
so users who install via the GUI end up with a launchable Hermes.exe at
apps/desktop/release/<os>-unpacked/. Existing flows are unchanged:
* The 'irm install.ps1 | iex' CLI one-liner omits the flag — terminal
users don't need a prebuilt desktop binary; 'hermes desktop' builds
on demand.
* The Electron desktop's bootstrap-runner.cjs also omits the flag —
rebuilding apps/desktop from inside a running Hermes.exe would try
to overwrite the live binary on disk and fail.
Stage-Desktop runs after Stage-NodeDeps so workspace npm is already
installed when electron-builder fires. It does:
1. 'npm install' at repo root so apps/* workspaces resolve their deps
(Electron itself arrives via npm here, ~150MB)
2. 'npm run pack' in apps/desktop (tsc + vite + electron-builder --dir)
3. Probes apps/desktop/release/{win-unpacked,win-arm64-unpacked}/Hermes.exe
The --dir mode produces an unpacked launchable binary without an NSIS/MSI
installer artifact — we don't need one because Hermes-Setup.exe spawns the
unpacked binary directly via launch_hermes_desktop.
* feat(installer): Tauri bootstrap installer for first-time onboarding
Hermes-Setup.exe is a small signed Rust+Tauri binary that drives
scripts/install.ps1 stage-by-stage with a native UI matching the
desktop's design language. Replaces the chicken-and-egg pattern of
shipping a 200MB Electron app whose first launch existed only to
run install.ps1.
The architecture:
Rust backend (src-tauri/):
bootstrap.rs orchestrator -- Tauri commands, stage iteration
install_script.rs resolve install.ps1 (dev checkout, cache, GitHub raw)
powershell.rs spawn powershell, line-stream stdout/stderr, parse JSON
events.rs BootstrapEvent types -- mirror bootstrap-runner.cjs
paths.rs HERMES_HOME resolution + tracing log setup
build.rs bakes BUILD_PIN_COMMIT / BUILD_PIN_BRANCH from
'git rev-parse HEAD' at compile time
React frontend (src/):
Tauri webview rendering 4 screens (welcome / progress / success /
failure), driven by nanostores subscribing to the Rust event stream.
Visual layer reuses the desktop's styles.css wholesale via @import
so the installer and desktop never drift visually.
Distribution:
targets = ['app', 'dmg', 'appimage'] -- no NSIS/MSI wrapper. The
raw target/release/Hermes-Setup.exe IS the artifact on Windows;
.dmg + .app on macOS; AppImage on Linux. One file, double-click,
no installer-installing-an-installer pattern.
Compile-time pinning:
build.rs reads 'git rev-parse HEAD' and emits
cargo:rustc-env=BUILD_PIN_COMMIT=<sha> + BUILD_PIN_BRANCH=<branch>.
bootstrap.rs's option_env!() picks these up so the binary fetches
install.ps1 from the exact SHA it was tested against. CI / release
builds can override via HERMES_BUILD_PIN_COMMIT env var.
Windows manifest:
hermes-setup.manifest declares level='asInvoker' so the
productName 'Hermes Setup' doesn't trip Windows's installer-
detection heuristic and refuse to launch without elevation.
Also declares PerMonitorV2 DPI + UTF-8 active code page + Common
Controls v6.
Limitations of this initial version:
* No code signing -- Windows SmartScreen will warn once on Hermes-Setup.exe
('More info -> Run anyway'). The downstream binaries it produces
(Hermes.exe in win-unpacked/, the hermes CLI) are locally-built and
therefore don't carry MOTW, so they launch without SmartScreen
intervention. Cert procurement tracked separately.
* macOS and Linux build paths defined but untested -- Windows-only V1.
* fix(installer): pass -IncludeDesktop to manifest, surface launch errors, alias hermes desktop
Three bugs found in the first VM end-to-end test:
1. install.ps1 -Manifest was called WITHOUT -IncludeDesktop, so the
manifest came back with the 14-stage list (no desktop stage), the
UI showed '14 steps' and Stage-Desktop never ran. Pass the flag to
both the manifest fetch and the per-stage runs — install.ps1 gates
the desktop stage's inclusion on the flag.
2. The Success screen's Launch button silently swallowed the Tauri
error when no Hermes.exe existed (e.g. Stage-Desktop was skipped).
Wire the error through to inline UI with an alert callout, so the
user gets actionable text ('Hermes.exe missing, run hermes desktop
from a terminal') instead of an unresponsive button.
3. The Success screen tells users to run 'hermes desktop' from a
terminal but the CLI only accepted 'hermes gui' — invalid choice
for 'desktop'. Rename the subcommand canonically to 'desktop' with
'gui' as a backwards-compatible alias. Update the _SUBCOMMANDS sets
used by session-flag arg parsing + logging-mode probe so both names
route to the same logic.
* fix(install.ps1): pre-warm electron-builder winCodeSign cache + fix Stage-Desktop $HasNode false-skip
Two bugs caught in the second VM end-to-end run:
1. electron-builder's winCodeSign extraction fails on grandma-class
Windows boxes because the .7z archive contains macOS symlinks
(darwin/10.12/lib/libcrypto.dylib and libssl.dylib pointing at
versioned siblings). Creating symlinks on Windows requires
SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege, a per-user right that non-admin
accounts don't have on stock Windows. Result: every fresh install
on a non-admin user fails Stage-Desktop with a 7-Zip 'cannot create
symbolic link' error, retried four times, then bails.
Fix: Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache pre-extracts winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z
ourselves with -snl (don't preserve symlinks, store as resolved file
content) AND -x!darwin (skip the entire macOS subtree — irrelevant
on Windows). Writes to electron-builder's expected cache dir before
electron-builder gets a chance to try its own broken extraction.
Idempotent — fast-paths via signtool.exe sentinel check.
2. Install-Desktop's first guard was 'if (-not $HasNode) skip'.
$HasNode is set by Stage-Node into $script:HasNode, but in
cross-process driver mode (each -Stage NAME is a fresh powershell.exe
spawned by Hermes-Setup.exe), that script-scope variable from the
PREVIOUS process is invisible — so the guard always fired and
Install-Desktop returned in 900ms with a misleading
'Node.js not available' reason. The real npm probe below it never
got to run. Fix: re-probe npm directly via Get-Command when $HasNode
is empty/false, since by that point Stage-Node has already verified
Node is installed and the only question is whether *this* process
can see it on PATH (it can — installer-wide PATH update from Stage-Node).
* fix(install.ps1): tell electron-builder we're NOT signing instead of pre-extracting winCodeSign
The previous commit (c7e46f9f3) worked around the winCodeSign-symlinks-
on-Windows extraction crash by pre-extracting the archive ourselves with
-snl + -x!darwin. That fix was correct but addressed the wrong layer.
The deeper question: why was electron-builder fetching winCodeSign at all
when we have no signing cert configured? Answer: electron-builder
unconditionally pre-warms the toolchain assuming any build MIGHT sign.
The cert auto-discovery never finds anything (we never set CSC_LINK
or anything else), so the signing never happens — but the 100MB fetch
of winCodeSign and its broken-on-Windows symlink extraction does.
Set CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY=false (with WIN_CSC_LINK and
WIN_CSC_KEY_PASSWORD also explicitly cleared as belt-and-suspenders)
before invoking npm run pack, and electron-builder skips the entire
winCodeSign apparatus. No download, no extraction, no privilege check.
Env vars are saved/restored around the invocation so we don't leak
the override into Stage-PlatformSdks etc.
Net: removes the 100-line Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache helper that
manually downloaded + extracted winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z. Replaced with
3 env-var assignments. The produced Hermes.exe is functionally
identical — just no longer carries a code-signing-machinery dependency
we never used.
* fix(installer): bump bootstrap-installer.log to capture stage transitions + every install.ps1 line
Diagnosing the second VM failure was impossible because bootstrap-installer.log
contained only the 'starting' banner. Two causes:
1. emit_log() inside run_bootstrap() was tracing::debug! — dropped on the
floor under the default INFO env-filter.
2. The per-stage sink callbacks (on_stdout_line / on_stderr_line) only
emitted Tauri events to the frontend; they never tee'd to the log file
at all. When the failure route mounts, the Tauri event stream is the
only place the script output lived, and it gets discarded.
3. The Failed / Stage / Manifest / Complete lifecycle frames in emit_event()
were also Tauri-only — so even the 'which stage failed' frame never
reached the log.
Fixes:
* emit_log() → tracing::info!
* Sink callbacks tee stdout to info!, stderr to warn!, with stage label
as a structured field for grep'ability
* emit_event() now matches on the variant and logs each lifecycle frame
at the right level: Failed → tracing::error!, others → info!
Result: a failing install leaves a complete forensic trail in
bootstrap-installer.log — manifest stage list, every install.ps1
stdout/stderr line tagged by stage, the stage transitions, and the
final error. Same path as before so nothing the user does changes.
* fix(install.ps1): Stage-NodeDeps cross-process $HasNode + stream npm install output to bootstrap log
VM run 3 diagnosis: node-deps stage skipped on the VM (logged
'Skipping Node.js dependencies (Node not installed)') and then
desktop's npm install failed with exit 1 and zero diagnostic detail.
Two root causes:
1. $HasNode false-skip in Stage-NodeDeps — same cross-process bug
pattern we fixed for Stage-Desktop in c7e46f9f3. Stage-Node ran
in process A and set $script:HasNode = $true, then exited. Stage-
NodeDeps ran in fresh process B (Hermes-Setup.exe -Stage NAME
spawns each stage independently), where that variable doesn't
exist. Re-probe via Get-Command npm instead of trusting the
stale script-scope global. The previous stage already verified
Node so the re-probe succeeds.
2. npm install --silent + Tee to TEMP file hid the real error.
When the workspace install failed on the VM, the actual reason
was buffered in $env:TEMP\hermes-npm-desktop-install-*.log and
the user saw only 'exit 1'. Drop --silent so npm streams its
full output, drop the TEMP-file dance — the Tauri installer's
streaming sink already tees every stdout/stderr line to the
rolling bootstrap-installer.log, so a side log file is dead
weight that hides the very error we need.
After this, the bootstrap log on a failure will contain npm's full
output (deprecation warnings, ETARGET, native-module compile errors,
whatever) tagged with stage=desktop, making the actual cause
diagnosable instead of an opaque exit code.
* fix(install.ps1): restore Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache (CSC env vars alone aren't enough)
VM run 4 diagnosis: even with CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY=false set,
electron-builder still fetches winCodeSign and signs bundled binaries.
The log shows the signing happens BEFORE the cache extraction:
• signing with signtool.exe ...\winpty-agent.exe
• signing with signtool.exe ...\OpenConsole.exe
• downloading winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z
• <symlink privilege error>
Cause: node-pty's bundled prebuilds are listed in apps/desktop's
asarUnpack ['**/*.node', '**/prebuilds/**']. electron-builder
re-signs anything unpacked from asar, regardless of whether OUR
binary gets signed. The signtool invocation needs winCodeSign on
disk, which needs the .7z extracted, which hits the macOS-symlink
crash on non-admin Windows.
The CSC env vars I added in d5fe46727 only kill IDENTITY DISCOVERY
(so OUR Hermes.exe stays unsigned, which is fine — we have no cert).
They don't prevent the toolchain fetch for the bundled-prebuild
re-sign. I removed the pre-extract in d5fe46727 thinking the env
vars subsumed it; that was wrong. Both are needed.
Restoring Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache verbatim from c7e46f9f3
and keeping the CSC env vars. Wrote a clearer doc-comment at the
call site explaining the two-knob interaction so future maintainers
don't drop one half again.
* fix(desktop): disable signtool via signtoolOptions.sign=null, drop dead winCodeSign pre-extract
VM run 5 diagnosis: the pre-extract from 3b29e65c1 ran (extracted 83
files, 24MB) but produced ZERO files at the expected sentinel path
'/winCodeSign-2.6.0/windows-10/x64/signtool.exe'.
Cause: the .7z archive's root entries are 'windows-10/', 'darwin/',
'linux/', etc. — not 'winCodeSign-2.6.0/<arch>'. Extracting with
'-o$cacheRoot' put files at $cacheRoot/windows-10/..., NOT at
$cacheRoot/winCodeSign-2.6.0/windows-10/.... I had the directory
nesting wrong from the start.
And then we observed: electron-builder downloads winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z
under a random numeric filename ('384387955.7z') regardless of what's
already extracted in the parent dir. The cache key isn't the dirname;
it's content-addressed. So the pre-extract approach was doomed even
if the path nesting had been right.
Actual fix: signtoolOptions.sign=null in apps/desktop/package.json's
win build config. electron-builder honors this and skips the bundled-
prebuild signing entirely — no signtool invocation, no winCodeSign
fetch, no symlink-privilege crash. The previous failures all stemmed
from electron-builder pre-signing node-pty's bundled .exes
(winpty-agent.exe, OpenConsole.exe) which are already author-signed
upstream; re-signing with our nonexistent cert was overwriting good
sigs with nothing useful anyway.
Cost: when we DO get a real cert later, we'll add it back with the
sign function pointing at the cert chain. Until then, all-null is
the correct config and unblocks every non-admin Windows user.
Removed Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache (the dead pre-extract).
Removed the call site. Kept the CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY env
vars as belt-and-suspenders against a future electron-builder
change that might revive cert auto-discovery.
* fix(desktop): use no-op sign function instead of sign=null
VM run 6 still hit the symlink crash even with signtoolOptions.sign=null.
electron-builder 26.8.1 treats null as 'use the default signtool path'
rather than 'skip signing', so the winCodeSign fetch + extraction still
fired for the bundled prebuild re-sign.
The Electron docs (electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/code-signing)
make it clear signing is OPTIONAL and unsigned apps work fine — users
just see SmartScreen on first launch. The electron-builder mechanism
for 'don't actually sign anything' is to supply a custom sign function
(via signtoolOptions.sign: '<path-to-cjs-module>') that resolves
without invoking signtool.
build-noop-sign.cjs is that module — a 5-line async function that
returns undefined. electron-builder calls it for every binary it would
have signed, gets back a resolved promise, and considers each binary
'signed.' No signtool spawn, no winCodeSign fetch, no symlink crash.
When Nous's cert arrives, replace this file with a real signing hook
(@electron/windows-sign-based or a direct signtool invocation). The
architecture's signing-ready and the cutover is a one-file edit.
* fix(desktop): signAndEditExecutable=false to skip signtool path entirely
After reading app-builder-lib/winPackager.js line 216 + 231 directly:
signAndEditExecutable is the ACTUAL hardcoded gate that short-circuits
both signApp() (which signs Hermes.exe + every shouldSignFile match
including bundled prebuilds) AND createTransformerForExtraFiles().
None of signtoolOptions.sign / sign:null / sign:<custom-fn> gate the
winCodeSign download — that happens before they're consulted.
What we lose: rcedit also runs through signAndEditResources, so
disabling this drops PE metadata (file properties showing 'Hermes' /
'Nous Research' / file description). Cost is real but bounded:
* Hermes.exe filename, icon, asar contents, app identity intact
* Task Manager shows 'Hermes.exe' (the filename) not 'Hermes' (PE
description) — minor downgrade
* Start menu, taskbar, window title all work normally
* SmartScreen will warn once (unsigned, same as before)
When the cert lands, flip signAndEditExecutable back to default true,
both signing AND rcedit return, PE metadata is restored.
Removes the no-op sign function (build-noop-sign.cjs) since
signAndEditExecutable=false prevents signtool from being invoked at
all — the custom hook never gets called either.
* feat(install.ps1): write .hermes-bootstrap-complete marker at end of install
The desktop app's main.cjs resolver ladder has a 'bootstrap-needed' rung
that fires when .hermes-bootstrap-complete is missing from
ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT. Pre-Hermes-Setup, this marker was written by the
packaged-desktop's own bootstrap-runner.cjs at the end of its install
flow. Now that Hermes-Setup.exe runs install.ps1 directly, install.ps1
needs to own the marker — otherwise the desktop sees no marker on first
launch and triggers its legacy first-launch bootstrap (re-running
install.ps1 from inside Electron, the exact recursion Hermes-Setup.exe
was supposed to obviate).
Implementation:
* New Stage-BootstrapMarker (worker) → Write-BootstrapMarker (helper)
* Slotted in the manifest right after platform-sdks, before the
interactive configure/gateway stages, so it runs unconditionally
when the install reaches the finalize phase
* Schema mirrors apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs writeBootstrapMarker /
isBootstrapComplete EXACTLY: {schemaVersion: 1, pinnedCommit,
pinnedBranch, completedAt}. Schema version stays at 1 so old
desktops that read marker files written by future install.ps1s
can still parse them.
* pinnedCommit comes from -Commit flag (Hermes-Setup.exe passes it)
or falls back to 'git rev-parse HEAD' in InstallDir
* pinnedBranch from -Branch flag, defaults to 'main' matching
install.ps1's own param default
Two PS-5.1 gotchas baked into comments:
* The ?. null-conditional operator doesn't exist pre-PS7; use
explicit if-checks on Get-Command results
* Set-Content -Encoding UTF8 emits a BOM in 5.1 and Node's plain
JSON.parse rejects BOM — write via .NET's UTF8Encoding(false)
to produce BOM-less JSON the desktop's readJson() can parse
* feat(installer): drive in-app updates through the Tauri installer
Converge update on the same principle as bootstrap: one driver owns all
repo mutation. The desktop becomes a pure consumer that hands off to
Hermes-Setup.exe --update instead of re-implementing git/pip in Electron.
- hermes desktop --build-only: build without launching, so the installer
owns the post-update launch (CLI keeps build logic single-sourced).
- Installer AppMode {Install,Update} from argv; get_mode exposed to the UI.
- Installer self-copies to HERMES_HOME/hermes-setup.exe on install success
(no-op guard during --update re-invocation to avoid the locked-exe copy).
- Installer --update flow (update.rs): wait for the desktop to release the
venv shim, run 'hermes update --yes --gateway' (branch on exit 0/2/other),
then 'hermes desktop --build-only', then launch the rebuilt desktop. Reuses
the bootstrap event channel + progress UI via a synthetic two-stage manifest.
- Desktop applyUpdates() gutted (~105 lines of git/stash/pull/pyproject/pip
removed) -> thin handoff: spawn updater, app.quit() to free the shim.
Detection (checkUpdates, commit changelog, behind-count) kept intact.
- install.ps1 creates Start Menu + Desktop shortcuts to the packed Hermes.exe
(never bare 'hermes desktop', which would rebuild every launch).
* test update
* fix(installer): pass --branch to hermes update in the --update flow
The install is a detached-HEAD checkout of a pinned commit. Without
--branch, 'hermes update' fell back to its default (main) and switched
the checkout to main — a divergent branch that lacks the desktop CLI
command — so the update targeted the wrong branch and the rebuild stage
failed with 'invalid choice: desktop'.
Thread BUILD_PIN_BRANCH (the branch this installer was built against,
and the same branch the desktop detected the update on) into
'hermes update --branch <b>' so update + rebuild stay on-branch.
* test update
* fix(installer): stamp Hermes icon onto Hermes.exe via rcedit (no winCodeSign)
The unpacked Hermes.exe showed the stock Electron icon + name in the
taskbar because build.win.signAndEditExecutable=false disables BOTH
electron-builder's signing AND its rcedit metadata/icon stamping. That
flag is load-bearing: enabling it re-triggers signtool -> winCodeSign,
whose macOS symlinks crash 7-Zip on non-admin Windows (unfixable dead end).
Decouple identity-stamping from signing entirely: after npm run pack,
run rcedit ourselves on the produced exe.
- Add rcedit as a direct devDependency of apps/desktop (the transitive
electron-winstaller copy is fragile).
- apps/desktop/scripts/set-exe-identity.cjs: Node helper that calls
rcedit's named export to set icon + ProductName/FileDescription/
CompanyName. Node builds argv natively — avoids the PowerShell->exe
->JSON double-escaping that broke the app-builder rcedit path.
- install.ps1 Set-DesktopExeIdentity invokes the script after the build,
before shortcuts. Best-effort: failure keeps the stock icon, never
fails the install. rcedit is a pure PE editor — no signtool, no
winCodeSign, no symlinks.
Verified locally: stamping a copy of the built Hermes.exe embeds the
32x32 icon and sets ProductName=Hermes.
Also fix update-path success-screen flash: in update mode the installer
hands off + exits in ~600ms, so don't route to the 'launch Hermes'
success view (it flashed before the window closed).
* update test
* fix(desktop): show 'hermes update' guidance for CLI installs instead of dead-end error
A user who installed via the CLI (irm|iex / install.sh) then ran
`hermes desktop` has no staged hermes-setup.exe, so clicking Update
in-app hit resolveUpdaterBinary()=null and showed a misleading error
('re-run the Hermes installer') with a Try-again button that could
never succeed — a dead loop for a perfectly valid install.
Treat the no-updater case as an intentional outcome, not a failure:
- main.cjs applyUpdates returns { ok:true, manual:true, command:'hermes update' }
(no throw, no 'error' stage) when no updater binary exists.
- New 'manual' update stage + apply-state.command thread the command to the UI.
- updates-overlay ManualView: a polished terminal-native card with the
exact command and a copy button, framed as the correct path for a CLI
user rather than an error.
GUI-installer users are unaffected — hermes-setup.exe present => seamless
auto-update runs as before. Zero new process orchestration; can't fail
the update demo.
* update test
* fix(gui): pin /api/hermes/update to the current branch
The desktop command-center 'update' action hits POST /api/hermes/update,
which spawned bare `hermes update` with no --branch. cmd_update then
falls back to its default (main) and checks the working tree OUT of the
tracked branch — a bb/gui install silently jumped to main and lost the
desktop CLI.
Resolve the checkout's current branch and pass --branch <current> from
this endpoint only. The engine default (main) is DELIBERATELY unchanged:
bare `hermes update` from a terminal, the gateway /update bot command,
and the CLI/TUI relaunch path all keep their long-standing 'update against
main' contract for the existing user base. Only the GUI button is scoped
to update-the-branch-you're-on. Detached HEAD / git failure falls back to
the bare default.
* update test
* fix(desktop): branch-pin the CLI manual-update command card
The 'Update from your terminal' card (shown to CLI installs with no staged
updater) hardcoded bare `hermes update` — which defaults to main and would
switch a bb/gui (or any non-main) checkout off-branch. Same bug we fixed for
the GUI button, leaked into the card's copy text.
Resolve the checkout's current branch and show `hermes update --branch
<current>` for non-main checkouts; keep it bare for main so the card stays
clean. Best-effort: bare fallback if branch detection fails. Matches the
GUI button + installer --update contract; bare terminal/bot/TUI update
paths still default to main, unchanged.
* docs: phragg was here
* feat(desktop): lead onboarding with Nous Portal + fix fresh-install detection (#34970)
- Feature Nous Portal as the primary onboarding card (Recommended tag,
app logo, single pitch line); collapse other OAuth providers behind an
"Other providers" disclosure whose open/closed state persists.
- Surface OpenRouter as a one-click API-key option inside the disclosure;
move "I have an API key" to a quiet bottom-right link.
- Treat "no provider configured" as a normal onboarding state, not a red
error banner (provider-setup-errors copy match).
- Fix setup.runtime_check: it reported ready when the resolved runtime had
an empty credential or only implicit Bedrock/IAM, so fresh installs never
saw onboarding. Now requires a usable credential.
- Auto-wire Windows fonts for WSL2 users so the renderer renders real
Segoe UI instead of the DejaVu fallback; make WSL detection env-independent
via the /proc kernel marker.
* feat(desktop): live elapsed timer on install bootstrap steps
The first-launch install overlay showed a static "Installing" with no
motion, so long steps (notably the repo clone) looked frozen. Stamp each
stage's start time on the running transition and tick once a second so the
active step shows live elapsed (e.g. "Installing · 1:23"), plus elapsed on
the overall current-step line. Completed steps keep their final duration.
* fix(desktop): resolve PortableGit for update checks + reserve titlebar tools space
- runGit() hardcoded spawn('git'), which ENOENTs on fresh installer-driven
Windows installs (git is PortableGit under %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\git, never
on PATH) — so "Check for updates" failed with "Couldn't check for updates".
Add resolveGitBinary() mirroring findGitBash (PortableGit → Git-for-Windows
→ PATH) and use it in runGit.
- PageSearchShell rendered a full-width search input in the titlebar row, so
on Windows its right edge slid under the fixed top-right tools + native
window controls. Reserve that footprint via --titlebar-tools-* vars.
* fix(desktop): stop streaming caret from shifting layout on completion
The streaming caret (::after on the running message's last child) was an
in-flow inline-block adding ~0.78em of inline width, which could wrap the
last line mid-stream; when the caret is removed on completion the line
un-wraps and reflows — the visible post-response layout shift. Net-zero its
inline advance with a compensating negative margin so it paints at the text
end without consuming layout width.
* fix(desktop): stop completed-message layout shift while streaming
The assistant message action bar used `hideWhenRunning`, which unmounts it
whenever the thread is streaming. Since the bar reserves vertical space in
each completed assistant message's footer (it's invisible-until-hover via
opacity, not via mount), unmounting it collapsed every prior turn by the
bar's height — then remounting on resolve grew them back, shifting the whole
conversation (visible as "padding appears above the last user message").
Drop hideWhenRunning so the footer height is constant; the bar stays
invisible during streaming via its existing opacity/pointer-events gating.
* fix(merge): keep windows-footgun suppressions inline
* fix(merge): keep remaining gateway footgun suppressions inline
* fix(merge): restore contracts caught by main-target CI
* fix(dashboard): honor injected HERMES_DASHBOARD_SESSION_TOKEN
The desktop shell mints a session token and signs its /api + /api/ws
calls with it via HERMES_DASHBOARD_SESSION_TOKEN, but the main-merge
restored a web_server.py that ignored the env var and minted its own
random _SESSION_TOKEN -- so every desktop request 401'd and the UI
reported "gateway offline". Read the injected token (fall back to a
fresh random one) so loopback HTTP + WS auth line up.
Adds a regression test so a future merge can't silently drop the read.
* fix(desktop): align fresh-install home so upgraders don't brick
Two related first-launch bugs on machines with a legacy ~/.hermes:
- install.ps1 hardcoded $HermesHome/$InstallDir to %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes
and ignored the HERMES_HOME the desktop passes through. The desktop
freezes HERMES_HOME at module load and prefers a legacy ~/.hermes when
%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes is absent, so the installer wrote to a different
home than the shell read -> "Could not connect to Hermes gateway". Honor
$env:HERMES_HOME in the param defaults.
- isBootstrapComplete() trusted the marker + checkout without verifying a
runnable venv, so an interrupted/split install spawned a dead backend
instead of re-bootstrapping. Also require the venv python to exist.
* fix(dashboard): allow packaged desktop file:// origin on loopback WS
The packaged Electron desktop loads its renderer over file://, so its
/api/ws handshake carries Origin: file:// (or null). The DNS-rebinding
WebSocket Origin guard only accepted http(s) origins matching the bound
host, so it rejected the desktop's own renderer with 4403 -> "Could not
connect to Hermes gateway" on macOS.
A browser DNS-rebinding attacker can only ever present an http(s) origin
(the site hosting the malicious page); it cannot forge file://, null, or
a custom app scheme AND hold the loopback session token. So on loopback
binds we now trust non-web origins -- the token in _ws_auth_ok remains
the real authenticator. Public/gated binds still reject them, and
cross-site http(s) origins are still rejected everywhere.
* fix(desktop): resolve renderer assets relative to BASE_URL
Absolute public asset paths (/apple-touch-icon.png, /ds-assets/...) work
under the dev server but break in the packaged app, where the renderer is
loaded from file://.../index.html and a leading slash resolves to the
filesystem root -> broken onboarding provider icon and backdrop image on
macOS. Prefix these with import.meta.env.BASE_URL so they resolve next to
the bundled index.html in both dev and packaged builds.
* feat(desktop): automate first-launch bootstrap on macOS/Linux
Previously a packaged macOS/Linux app with no Hermes install hit a
dead-end ("first-launch install is not yet automated -- run install.sh
manually") because install.sh lacked the staged protocol install.ps1
exposes. Now both platforms bootstrap on first launch with the same
structured, per-step progress UI as Windows.
- install.sh: add --manifest / --stage / --json / --non-interactive plus
a stage dispatcher (prerequisites, repository, venv, python-deps,
node-deps, path, config, setup, gateway, complete). User-input stages
(setup, gateway) are skipped under --non-interactive; the in-app
onboarding overlay owns API keys/model, matching the Windows flow.
Each stage runs inside the install dir (its own process) and a new
--commit flag pins the checkout to the build-stamp SHA.
- bootstrap-runner.cjs: drive the staged manifest/stage/JSON protocol for
both install.ps1 (PowerShell) and install.sh (bash), selected by
installer kind; removed the single-blob POSIX shim.
- main.cjs: drop the macOS/Linux unsupported-platform dead-end so the
bootstrap-needed path runs the installer on every platform.
* fix(dashboard): return 404 JSON for unmatched /api paths instead of SPA HTML
The SPA catch-all (serve_spa) served index.html for any unmatched GET,
including unregistered /api/* endpoints. A missing API route therefore
came back as <!doctype html> with status 200, and JSON clients (the
desktop app's fetchJson) crashed with an opaque
'SyntaxError: Unexpected token <' instead of a clear error.
- web_server.py: unmatched /api or /api/... now returns 404 JSON
('No such API endpoint'); non-api paths still serve the SPA for
client-side routing.
- main.cjs fetchJson: detect an HTML body / text/html content-type on a
2xx response and reject with a clear message naming the URL, rather
than a raw JSON.parse SyntaxError. Empty bodies resolve to null;
malformed JSON reports the URL plus a snippet.
* say 'OS appearance' instead of 'macOS appearance'
* feat(install): add --include-desktop stage + PowerShell-style flags to install.sh
Brings install.sh to parity with install.ps1's bootstrap surface so the
shared Rust/Tauri bootstrapper (apps/bootstrap-installer) can drive a
macOS/Linux install the same way it drives Windows.
- Accept the PowerShell-style aliases the bootstrapper emits to both
installers: -Commit / -Branch (alongside existing -Manifest / -Stage /
-Json / -NonInteractive).
- Add --include-desktop / -IncludeDesktop. When set, the manifest gains a
'desktop' stage (immediately before 'complete'), and a new install_desktop
runs a root workspace `npm install` + `npm run pack` (electron-builder
--dir, signing auto-discovery disabled) to produce release/mac*/Hermes.app
-- mirroring install.ps1's Install-Desktop / Stage-Desktop.
- The flag is opt-in, exactly like Windows: the signed bootstrap installer
passes it; the Electron app's own first-launch bootstrap and the CLI
one-liner omit it (building the desktop from inside the running app would
clobber it).
* fix: tts endpoints
* macOS desktop: install + in-app self-update (#35607)
* fix(installer): align macOS HERMES_HOME with the rest of the stack
paths.rs computed the macOS Hermes home as ~/Library/Application Support/
hermes, but nothing else does: hermes_constants.get_hermes_home() (Python),
scripts/install.sh, and the Electron desktop's resolveHermesHome() all use
~/.hermes on macOS. The drift meant the Tauri installer wrote the install to
one directory and the desktop looked for it in another, so a fresh GUI
install never found its backend (the file's own comment warned this exact
drift would break things). Use ~/.hermes on macOS to match.
* fix(install.sh): always emit a stage result frame on failure
Stage helpers (clone_repo, install_deps, check_python, …) were written for
the monolithic flow and call `exit 1` on failure. Under `--stage`, that
terminated the process before the JSON result frame was printed, so the
installer's parse_stage_result saw "no frame" instead of a clean
{ok:false,...} contract response. Run the stage body in a subshell so an
`exit` only unwinds the subshell and the parent still emits the frame.
* feat(install.sh): auto-provision git on macOS/Linux (parity with install.ps1)
install.ps1 downloads PortableGit on Windows, but install.sh just printed a
"please install git" hint and exited — so a fresh Mac with no developer tools
(no Xcode CLT → no git) couldn't get past the clone step. check_git now tries
to install git before bailing:
- macOS: Homebrew if present (headless), else `xcode-select --install`
(the CLT prompt also provides the compiler some wheels need), polling for
git to appear.
- Linux: apt/dnf/pacman via sudo when available.
Falls back to the manual instructions only if auto-provision fails.
* feat(desktop): in-app GUI+backend self-update on macOS/Linux
On Windows the staged Hermes-Setup binary drives updates (quit → hermes
update → hermes desktop --build-only → relaunch). The mac drag-install has no
such binary, so "Update now" previously just printed `hermes update`.
Since there's no venv-shim file lock on POSIX, the desktop can drive the whole
update itself. applyUpdates now, when no staged updater exists on mac/linux:
1. runs `hermes update --yes [--branch <current>]` (backend git pull + deps),
2. runs `hermes desktop --build-only` (OS-aware GUI rebuild) with the
Hermes-managed Node + venv on PATH,
3. spawns a detached swapper that waits for this process to exit, dittos the
freshly built Hermes.app over the running bundle, clears quarantine, and
relaunches.
Degrades to "backend updated — restart to load the new GUI" if the rebuild
fails or there's no .app bundle to swap (dev run, Linux AppImage).
* chore: uptick
* chore: uptick
* chore: linux build
* fix(install): detect xcode-select git stub on fresh macOS
* chore: bump
* fix(desktop): repair voice dictation on Windows
Voice dictation was broken on Windows in two ways:
1. Mic access was denied. The Electron permission request handler only
granted 'media' requests whose details.mediaTypes included 'audio',
but Chromium on Windows frequently fires the mic request with an empty
mediaTypes array, so getUserMedia threw NotAllowedError. The handler
now grants audio-capture when mediaTypes includes 'audio' OR is
empty/absent, handles the 'audioCapture' permission name, and adds a
setPermissionCheckHandler (the synchronous path Chromium also consults
for getUserMedia on Windows). Video is still denied.
2. Transcripts went nowhere. The composer's insertText handler (used by
dictation and other inserts) only updated the assistant-ui composer
store via setText, never the contentEditable editor DOM. The
draft->editor sync effect only re-renders the editor when it is NOT
focused, and dictation runs while the editor has/regains focus, so the
transcript was stored but never shown and could not be sent. insertText
now renders into the editor DOM and places the caret, mirroring
appendExternalText.
Also hardens fetchJson: a 2xx response with an HTML body (or text/html
content-type) now rejects with a clear message naming the URL instead of
an opaque JSON.parse 'Unexpected token <' error.
* feat(desktop): route Nous subscribers onto the Tool Gateway from the GUI
When the GUI sets the main provider to Nous via POST /api/model/set, call
the same apply_nous_managed_defaults the CLI uses after model selection, so
GUI/onboarding users land on the Nous Tool Gateway the same way CLI users do
— no separate prompt, no duplicated logic.
Purely additive: apply_nous_managed_defaults skips any tool where the user
has a direct key (FIRECRAWL_API_KEY, FAL_KEY, etc.) or explicit config, so it
never overwrites a user's own setup. Only unconfigured tools get routed.
- web_server.py: in set_model_assignment (scope=main, provider=nous), resolve
enabled toolsets and apply managed defaults; guarded so a Portal hiccup never
blocks saving the model. Returns routed tools as gateway_tools.
- onboarding.ts: surface a 'Tool Gateway enabled' toast listing routed tools.
- types/hermes.ts: add gateway_tools to ModelAssignmentResponse.
- tests: cover nous-applies, non-nous-skips, and failure-doesnt-block-save.
* feat(desktop): mirror hermes model free/paid curation in GUI onboarding
GUI onboarding picked models[0] from /api/model/options, which ignores the
Nous free/paid tier — a free user could land on a paid default (e.g.
anthropic/claude-opus-4). Now the recommended default mirrors what `hermes
model` does.
- web_server.py: new GET /api/model/recommended-default?provider=<slug>. For
Nous it runs the same curation as the CLI (get_curated_nous_model_ids +
pricing + check_nous_free_tier + union_with_portal_{free,paid}_recommendations
+ partition_nous_models_by_tier) so free users get a free model and paid users
get the curated default. Other providers fall back to the first curated model.
Never 500s — returns empty model on error so onboarding degrades gracefully.
- hermes.ts: getRecommendedDefaultModel client + RecommendedDefaultModel type.
- onboarding.ts: fetchProviderDefaultModel prefers the recommended endpoint,
falls back to models[0] when unavailable.
- tests: free-tier picks free model, paid-tier picks curated default, failure
returns empty without 500.
* feat(desktop): show model pricing + free/paid tier gating in GUI picker
The CLI `hermes model` picker shows per-model $/Mtok pricing and gates paid
models on free Nous accounts. The GUI picker showed bare model names. Bring it
to parity across both the model-picker dialog and onboarding confirm card.
Backend:
- inventory.build_models_payload gains a pricing=True flag → _apply_pricing
enriches each provider row with formatted per-model pricing
({input,output,cache,free}) via the same _format_price_per_mtok the CLI uses,
and for Nous adds free_tier + unavailable_models (paid models a free user
can't select) via check_nous_free_tier + partition_nous_models_by_tier.
Best-effort: any pricing/tier failure is swallowed and fails open (no gating).
- /api/model/options and TUI model.options now pass pricing=True so the
global picker and in-session picker both carry pricing.
Frontend:
- ModelOptionProvider gains pricing/free_tier/unavailable_models; new
ModelPricing type.
- model-picker dialog renders In/Out $/Mtok (or a Free pill) per model, a
Free tier/Pro badge on the Nous heading, and disables + grays unavailable
paid models for free users with a 'Pro models need a paid subscription' note.
- onboarding confirm card shows the chosen model's price + tier badge.
Tests: test_inventory_pricing covers price formatting, free-tier gating,
paid no-gating, providers without pricing, and swallowed failures.
* fix(desktop): GUI model picker shows curated Nous list in curated order
Two bugs made the GUI Nous model list diverge from the `hermes model` CLI picker:
1. Backend (model_switch.py): the Nous row in list_authenticated_providers
fell through to cached_provider_model_ids("nous"), dumping the full live
/v1/models catalog (~50 vendor-prefixed models, alphabetical). Now it uses
the curated list AND applies the Portal free/paid recommendation union —
exactly like _model_flow_nous in main.py — so newly-launched models such as
stepfun/step-3.7-flash:free surface in curated order. Best-effort: falls
back to the curated list alone if the Portal fetch fails.
2. Frontend (model-picker.tsx): cmdk's Command had shouldFilter on (default),
which re-sorts items by fuzzy-match score (≈alphabetical) and ignores array
order. Set shouldFilter={false} + own the search term and do an
order-preserving substring filter, so the backend's curated order is shown
verbatim.
* feat(desktop): add/switch providers from the model picker via onboarding reuse
The model picker could only select models from already-authenticated
providers. Switching to a new provider had no in-app path. Rather than
duplicate provider UI, reuse the existing onboarding provider selector
(featured Nous + other providers + API-key form + device-code/PKCE flow +
model-confirm with pricing/tier).
- onboarding store: add a 'manual' flag with startManualOnboarding() /
closeManualOnboarding(). Manual mode forces the onboarding overlay to show
even when configured===true and refreshOnboarding no longer auto-dismisses
on runtime-ready (the app is already working — the user is just adding or
switching a provider).
- onboarding overlay: render when manual even if configured; show a Close
button (the first-run flow has none since the app can't run yet).
- model picker: 'Add provider' footer button opens the onboarding selector;
ModelResults lists only configured (model-bearing) providers.
* feat(desktop): add PUT /api/tools/toolsets/{name} enable/disable endpoint
* feat(desktop): add toggleToolset RPC binding
* feat(desktop): toolset enable/disable switch in Tools settings
* feat(desktop): tool configuration parity in GUI Tools settings
Bring the desktop GUI Tools settings to parity with the CLI `hermes tools`
for provider selection and API-key configuration.
Backend (hermes_cli/web_server.py):
- GET /api/tools/toolsets/{name}/config - provider matrix + key status
- PUT /api/tools/toolsets/{name}/provider - persist provider selection
Shared core (hermes_cli/tools_config.py):
- Extract apply_provider_selection / _write_provider_config from the
interactive _configure_provider so the CLI and GUI write identical
config keys (web.backend, tts.provider, browser.cloud_provider, plugin
image/video providers, use_gateway flags) through one code path.
Desktop UI:
- ToolsetConfigPanel: provider list with select, per-provider API-key
entry (set/replace/clear/reveal via the shared env RPCs), Ready/Needs
keys state, guidance for Nous-auth and post-setup providers.
- Wire the Configured/Needs keys pill to expand the panel inline; refresh
the toolset list after key changes so the pill updates live.
- Add getToolsetConfig / selectToolsetProvider RPC bindings + types.
Post-setup (OAuth/install) flows still defer to the CLI; see
docs spike findings for the planned /api/tools/setup/* endpoint family.
Tests: backend round-trip + 400 cases for the new endpoints and
apply_provider_selection; desktop vitest coverage for the config panel
(provider render, select, key save). No change-detector tests.
Also removes three stale completed plan docs.
* fix(desktop): show real Hermes version + sync package.json on release
The desktop app version was disconnected from the Hermes version: the
release script bumped pyproject.toml + hermes_cli/__init__.py but never
touched apps/desktop/package.json, which sat stale at 0.0.2 (lockfile at
0.0.1).
- main.cjs: hermes:version IPC now resolves __version__ from
hermes_cli/__init__.py (the canonical source release.py bumps) via a new
resolveHermesVersion() helper, falling back to app.getVersion() when the
source tree isn't readable. The About panel now always shows the live
Hermes version and can't drift.
- release.py: update_version_files() also bumps apps/desktop/package.json
in lockstep with pyproject (top-level version only; dep specs untouched).
- One-time catch-up: package.json 0.0.2 -> 0.15.1 and the lockfile root
mirrors 0.0.1 -> 0.15.1.
* fix(desktop): stamp exe identity in afterPack hook so updates stay branded
The packed Hermes.exe reverted to the stock Electron icon + "Electron" name
after an in-app update. The icon/identity stamp (rcedit) lived only in
install.ps1, but the installer's --update path rebuilds the desktop via
`hermes desktop --build-only` -> `npm run pack`, which never ran install.ps1
and so never stamped the rebuilt exe.
Move the stamp into an electron-builder afterPack hook so it runs for EVERY
packed build regardless of caller (first install, hermes desktop, the update
rebuild, or a manual npm run pack):
- set-exe-identity.cjs: refactor to export stampExeIdentity(exe, desktopRoot);
still runnable as a standalone CLI.
- after-pack.cjs (new): afterPack hook calling stampExeIdentity. Windows-only
guard; best-effort (logs + resolves on failure, never fails the build).
- package.json: register build.afterPack.
- install.ps1: remove the now-redundant Set-DesktopExeIdentity function + call;
the hook handles it during npm run pack.
electron-builder's own rcedit step stays disabled (signAndEditExecutable=false)
to avoid the signtool -> winCodeSign -> 7-Zip macOS-symlink crash on non-admin
Windows; the hook runs rcedit directly (pure PE resource edit, no signing).
* fix(desktop): export afterPack hook as exports.default so electron-builder runs it
The afterPack hook used `module.exports = fn`, which electron-builder's hook
loader doesn't pick up — it expects the function as the module's default
export (the same shape afterSign/notarize.cjs uses). The hook silently never
ran, so even first install shipped the stock "Electron" exe.
Switch to `exports.default = async function afterPack(...)`. Verified with a
real `npm run pack`: electron-builder now invokes the hook and the produced
release/win-unpacked/Hermes.exe carries ProductName/FileDescription=Hermes.
* chore(desktop): drop auto-build release CI in favor of manual build + upload
Remove desktop-release.yml (nightly-on-main + stable publish). Installers
are now built locally per platform and uploaded to a GitHub Release by hand;
the website points at them via NEXT_PUBLIC_HERMES_DL_* env. Update README +
docs and drop the dead desktop-nightly channel links.
* fix(desktop): stable shortcut icon + bust icon cache so updates repaint
Symptom on a freshly-installed laptop: Hermes.exe itself shows the correct
Hermes icon (Explorer reads the live exe's stamped PE resource), but the
desktop shortcut still draws the stock Electron icon.
Cause: New-DesktopShortcuts set IconLocation to "<exe>,0", so Windows cached
the icon it extracted from the exe at shortcut-creation time. On an update the
exe gets re-stamped, but the shortcut keeps rendering the stale cached bitmap.
- package.json: ship assets/icon.ico beside the exe via extraResources
(-> resources/icon.ico). Verified with a real npm run pack.
- install.ps1 New-DesktopShortcuts: point IconLocation at resources/icon.ico
(fallback to <exe>,0 if absent) — a dedicated .ico is cache-stable and skips
the per-exe extraction that goes stale. Then run `ie4uinit.exe -show` to bust
the shell icon cache so the shortcut repaints immediately instead of showing
the old Electron icon until reboot.
Both best-effort; never fail an otherwise-good install.
* dummy update
* feat(desktop): self-heal update branch + backend contract guard
Two fixes for the bb/gui→main transition:
- Self-update self-heals: if the tracked branch (e.g. bb/gui) no longer
exists on origin (merged + deleted), the desktop updater falls back to
main and persists it. Read-only ls-remote probe that only flips on a
definitive "ref absent" (exit 2), never on a transient network error, so
already-installed clients migrate themselves with no manual flip.
- Backend contract guard: tui_gateway reports DESKTOP_BACKEND_CONTRACT in
session runtime info; the desktop warns with a one-click "Update Hermes"
when the backend predates the GUI's required contract (e.g. a bb/gui app
pointed at a main checkout) instead of failing cryptically downstream.
* docs(desktop): rewrite README to match current install/update/build flow
The old README contradicted itself (claimed a bundled Python payload while
also saying it no longer bundles source) and predated cross-platform support.
Rewrite for accuracy: Linux is a first-class build target, install.sh/install.ps1
both drive the staged bootstrap, the real self-update handoff (Windows
Hermes-Setup vs in-app macOS/Linux), and the bb/gui→main self-heal + backend
contract guard.
* docs(desktop): rewrite README as a real product readme
Lead with what the app is and how to get it (download an installer, or
`hermes desktop` for existing CLI users) plus a plain-language feature list,
then keep contributor/build/internals as a clearly separated secondary section.
* docs(desktop): fix install framing — releases no longer auto-build installers
Lead with the install-with-Hermes path (`--include-desktop` / `hermes desktop`),
which always works, and describe prebuilt installers as manually published when
a release ships them rather than implying CI attaches them to every release.
* docs(desktop): match base repo README style
Adopt the root README's conventions: centered title + badge row, bold
one-liner intro, a feature <table> grid, --- section dividers, and a
Community / License footer.
* feat(desktop): recover from gateway boot failures + validate API keys on entry (#35864)
Fresh installs that hit a gateway boot failure had no recovery path: the
shell rendered dead ("gateway offline"), logs were undiscoverable, and a
mistyped API key was accepted because onboarding only checked credential
presence, not validity.
- Add BootFailureOverlay: a top-level recovery surface (Retry, Repair
install, Use local gateway, Open logs + inline recent logs) that mounts
on any hard boot failure, including post-install. Trims the now-redundant
recovery button from the onboarding Preparing panel.
- Add hermes:logs:reveal / :recent IPC (reveal desktop.log) and a
hermes:bootstrap:repair IPC that drops the bootstrap marker to force a
clean reinstall. Surface "Open logs" in Gateway settings too.
- Add POST /api/providers/validate: a live per-provider probe
(OpenRouter/OpenAI/xAI/Gemini key check, local endpoint connectivity)
wired into saveOnboardingApiKey so a rejected key blocks before it's
persisted, while an unreachable probe falls through (offline-safe).
* test(model-catalog): fix stale nous picker test after curated-list change
ac2e48907 made the GUI/picker Nous row use the curated list (curated["nous"]
= get_curated_nous_model_ids()) + Portal union, matching the `hermes model`
CLI — but test_picker_nous_row_uses_manifest still asserted the old 2-model
manifest snapshot, breaking the test shard.
Rewrite it as an invariant: stub the Portal union to passthrough and assert the
row equals get_curated_nous_model_ids() computed under the same conditions, so
it tracks the real contract instead of a hardcoded model list that rots on every
catalog update.
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The per-turn file-mutation verifier footer rendered failed-write paths as
bare absolute paths in the user-facing response. The gateway's
extract_local_files() scans response text for bare paths ending in a
deliverable extension (.yaml/.json/etc.), validates os.path.isfile(), and
auto-attaches matches as native uploads — so a denied write to
~/.hermes/config.yaml surfaced the path in the footer and got the
credential file silently uploaded to the messaging channel.
The gateway denylist (validate_media_delivery_path) already blocks the
config.yaml case after #35634. This is defense-in-depth at the source:
backtick-wrap every path the footer emits — both the bullet path and any
path echoed inside the tool's error preview (the protected-file denial
message embeds the path in single quotes, which do NOT block the
extractor regex). extract_local_files skips paths inside inline-code
spans, so wrapping defeats auto-attachment for ANY protected file while
keeping the path human-readable.
- run_agent.py: _format_file_mutation_failure_footer wraps bullet paths;
new _neutralize_footer_paths backticks any remaining bare path (covers
the preview echo). staticmethod -> classmethod (caller unaffected).
- tests: backtick-wrap assertion + end-to-end extract_local_files leak test.
Empty model could reach the API on a recovery turn after stream_interrupt_abort,
failing HTTP 400 "No models provided" with no recovery — the session went
silent until the user manually re-sent (#35314).
- gateway/run.py: cache last-successfully-resolved model per session (+ a
process-wide slot); when a fresh config read returns an empty model on a
recovery turn, reuse the last-known-good instead of building model="".
- run_agent.py + agent/conversation_loop.py: only emit "trying fallback..."
status when a fallback chain actually exists, so the UI stops announcing a
fallback that will never run (also #17446).
- tests: empty-model recovery + _has_pending_fallback gate.
Follow-up to the salvaged #34452 turn-completion explainer:
- Register display.turn_completion_explainer: True in DEFAULT_CONFIG so the
setting is discoverable, matching the file_mutation_verifier precedent.
- Shorten the repeated footer prefix from 'Turn ended without a usable
reply: ' to 'No reply: ' so the 10 reason variants don't all open with
the same 8-word boilerplate.
- Update the 7 assertions that referenced the old prefix.
When a turn ends abnormally after substantive tool calls (empty content
after retries, a partial/truncated stream, exhausted retries, or an
iteration/budget limit), the CLI/TUI response area was left blank or
showed only a fragment (e.g. "The") with no consolidated reason. The
internal turn_exit_reason values (empty_response_exhausted,
partial_stream_recovery, etc.) were never surfaced to the user.
Add a turn-completion explainer that mirrors the existing file-mutation
verifier footer: at turn end, map an abnormal turn_exit_reason to a
short, actionable message and either replace the bare "(empty)"
sentinel or append the reason after a partial fragment. Normal
text_response exits (e.g. a terse "Done.") stay quiet.
Gated by display.turn_completion_explainer (default on) with
HERMES_TURN_COMPLETION_EXPLAINER env override, matching the
file-mutation verifier seam.
Closes#34452
After the legacy session-key path was removed, two parameters became dead
surface on the Nous runtime-resolution chain:
- min_key_ttl_seconds: del'd inside refresh_nous_oauth_pure and pass-through /
telemetry-only in refresh_nous_oauth_from_state, _try_import_shared_nous_state,
_nous_device_code_login, and resolve_nous_runtime_credentials. It controlled the
now-deleted agent-key mint TTL and drives no behavior.
- inference_auth_mode: with the legacy mode gone, AUTO and FRESH are behaviorally
identical; the value only fed _normalize_nous_inference_auth_mode validation and
oauth trace output, never a branch.
Removing inference_auth_mode orphaned its whole supporting cluster
(NOUS_INFERENCE_AUTH_MODE_AUTO/FRESH, NOUS_INFERENCE_AUTH_MODES,
_normalize_nous_inference_auth_mode), and dropping min_key_ttl_seconds orphaned
DEFAULT_AGENT_KEY_MIN_TTL_SECONDS — all deleted here.
Updated every caller (run_agent, auxiliary_client, credential_pool, proxy adapter,
runtime_provider, web_server, main, auth_commands, setup) and pruned the matching
test kwargs. Deleted two tests that exercised the removed surface
(test_legacy_auth_mode_is_rejected, test_try_refresh_..._accepts_explicit_auth_mode).
No behavior change: net -134 LOC of dead code.
The dispatcher watchdog (release_stale_claims) reads tasks.last_heartbeat_at
to decide whether to reclaim a running task. The agent maintains its own
in-process `_last_activity_ts` for every chunk/tool result, but those
liveness ticks never reach the board unless the model explicitly calls
the `kanban_heartbeat` tool — so a worker actively executing a long run
without tool-level heartbeats can be reclaimed mid-flight as 'stale',
returning the task to ready and orphaning the in-flight worker's progress.
Fix: in `_touch_activity` (the canonical 'we just did work' hook in
run_agent.py), call a new `heartbeat_current_worker_from_env` helper
in `tools/kanban_tools.py` that:
- No-ops outside dispatcher-spawned worker context (no HERMES_KANBAN_TASK).
- Rate-limited to one DB write per 60s (runtime activity ticks too often
to faithfully mirror; we just need the watchdog to see liveness).
- Best-effort: never raises. heartbeat_claim + heartbeat_worker calls are
individually try/except'd; any DB error logs at debug and returns.
- Uses worker env identity: HERMES_KANBAN_TASK + HERMES_KANBAN_RUN_ID +
HERMES_KANBAN_CLAIM_LOCK (all pinned by the dispatcher at spawn time).
- No durable note on auto-heartbeats — that's reserved for the explicit
`kanban_heartbeat` tool which carries a model-supplied note.
The explicit `kanban_heartbeat` tool stays available unchanged for
workers that want to attach a note or pre-emptively extend a claim
across a known-long single tool call.
Co-authored-by: faisfamilytravel <223516181+faisfamilytravel@users.noreply.github.com>
The mechanical ruff prune in the previous commit removed several names that
`appear` unused inside their defining module but are external test/runtime
anchors:
run_agent
OpenAI, _SafeWriter
get_tool_definitions, handle_function_call, check_toolset_requirements
estimate_request_tokens_rough
DEFAULT_AGENT_IDENTITY, build_context_files_prompt,
build_environment_hints, build_nous_subscription_prompt
_is_destructive_command, _extract_parallel_scope_path, _paths_overlap,
_append_subdir_hint_to_multimodal, _trajectory_normalize_msg
tools/web_tools
Firecrawl, _get_firecrawl_client
These get accessed via four channels that are invisible to ruff's
in-module usage analysis:
1. `mock.patch('module.name', ...)` in tests — resolves the attribute
lazily, so `pytest --collect-only` passes even when the name is
gone, but every test using the patch fails at runtime with
AttributeError.
2. `from run_agent import X` in production siblings (agent/transports
/codex.py, etc.).
3. The `_ra().X` indirection pattern in agent/system_prompt.py et al.
— explicitly documented ("Many tests patch('run_agent.load_soul_md')")
to preserve the patch contract.
4. `from tools.web_tools import _get_firecrawl_client` in tests.
Each re-added import carries an explicit `# noqa: F401` with a comment
naming the channel, so future cleanup passes won't strip them again.
Remove unused imports (F401) and duplicate/shadowed import
redefinitions (F811) across the codebase using ruff's safe
autofixes. No behavioral changes -- imports only.
- ~1400 safe autofixes applied across 644 files (net -1072 lines)
- __init__.py re-exports preserved (excluded from F401 removal so
public re-export surfaces stay intact)
- Re-exports that are imported or monkeypatched by tests but look
unused in their defining module are kept with explicit # noqa:
F401 (gateway/run.py load_dotenv; run_agent re-exports from
agent.message_sanitization, agent.context_compressor,
agent.retry_utils, agent.prompt_builder, agent.process_bootstrap,
agent.codex_responses_adapter)
- Unsafe F841 (unused-variable) fixes deliberately skipped -- those
can change behavior when the RHS has side effects
- ruff lints remain disabled in pyproject.toml (only PLW1514 is
selected); this is a one-time cleanup, not a config change
Verification:
- python -m compileall: clean
- pytest --collect-only: all 27161 tests collect (zero import errors)
- core entry points import clean (run_agent, model_tools, cli,
toolsets, hermes_state, batch_runner, gateway)
- static scan: every name any test imports directly from an edited
module still resolves
Adds an optional `messages` keyword to the `MemoryProvider.sync_turn`
contract so external/community memory plugins can receive the OpenAI-style
conversation message list for the completed turn — including assistant tool
calls and tool result content — not just the final assistant text.
Dispatch uses signature inspection (`_provider_sync_accepts_messages`): only
providers that declare a `messages` parameter (or `**kwargs`) receive it; all
existing in-tree providers keep their legacy text-only signature and are
called unchanged. No structured-trace envelope is added to core — providers
reconstruct whatever they need from the standard message list.
Also documents Memori as a standalone community memory provider.
Salvaged from #28065 — rebased onto current main.
Co-authored-by: Dave Heritage <david@memorilabs.ai>
Users report that the CLI/gateway floods them with confusing retry chatter
during transient failures: a single 429 can produce 10+ "Provider/Endpoint/
Retrying in 5s..." lines before the request eventually succeeds. The same
firehose hits Telegram, Discord, Slack, etc. via _emit_status.
This patch defers all retry/fallback/compression status messages until we
know the outcome:
- if the turn ultimately succeeds (any path: primary recovers, fallback
activates, compression unsticks the request), the buffer is silently
dropped — the user sees nothing.
- if every retry and fallback exhausts and the turn fails, the buffer
is flushed at the terminal-failure return so the user sees the full
retry trace alongside the final error.
Backend logging (agent.log) is unchanged — every emission site still
writes to logger.warning/info, so post-mortem diagnosis is intact.
## What changed
run_agent.py: four new methods on AIAgent:
_buffer_status(msg) — defer an _emit_status call
_buffer_vprint(msg) — defer a _vprint(force=True) line
_clear_status_buffer() — drop pending messages on success
_flush_status_buffer() — replay pending messages on terminal failure
agent/conversation_loop.py:
- converted ~30 mid-process emit/vprint sites in the retry, fallback,
compression, empty-response, and stream-watchdog paths to the buffered
helpers
- added _flush_status_buffer() at every terminal-failure return so users
still see the trace when it actually matters
- added _clear_status_buffer() at the "non-empty assistant content"
point (NOT at "API call returned bytes" — empty responses still loop
through the empty-retry path and would otherwise lose their trace
between iterations)
- silenced the two "(´;ω;`) oops, retrying..." / "(╥_╥) error,
retrying..." spinner final-frame messages — the spinner now stops
cleanly so retries leave no visible residue
agent/chat_completion_helpers.py: same conversion for codex TTFB / stale-
stream / fallback-activation status messages.
agent/stream_diag.py: _emit_stream_drop now buffers instead of emitting
directly.
## Tests
tests/run_agent/test_retry_status_buffer.py: 7 unit tests covering
accumulate→flush, clear-on-success, mixed kinds, empty-buffer no-op,
re-buffer after flush, exception swallowing.
Updated 3 existing tests that mocked _emit_status to also mock (or use)
_buffer_status:
- tests/run_agent/test_run_agent.py::test_empty_response_emits_status_for_gateway
- tests/run_agent/test_stream_drop_logging.py (2 tests)
- tests/agent/test_codex_ttfb_watchdog.py (TTFB hint test)
## Validation
Live test: hermes chat -q against an unreachable endpoint with no fallback
exhausts retries and prints the full trace at the end. Same flow against
a working endpoint prints zero retry chatter.
api_messages is built once before the retry loop while the primary provider
is active. When a mid-conversation fallback switches to a require-side thinking
provider (DeepSeek/Kimi/MiMo), assistant turns built under a non-require primary
(e.g. Codex) go out without reasoning_content and the new provider rejects the
request with HTTP 400 ("reasoning_content must be passed back").
Re-apply the echo-back pad against the current provider immediately before
building the request kwargs. Idempotent and a no-op unless the active provider
enforces echo-back, so it covers all fallback paths without affecting normal or
reject-side operation.
Drafted by Claude (Opus 4.7) under human review while fixing a personal deployment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Condenses the substance of PRs #16453, #17453, #16451, #17600, and #13373
into a minimal generic host contract that external context engine plugins
(e.g. hermes-lcm) need to integrate cleanly. Drops scaffolding that
duplicated existing infrastructure or had marginal value.
Five concrete changes:
1. `_transition_context_engine_session()` on AIAgent — generic lifecycle
helper that fires on_session_end → on_session_reset → on_session_start
→ optional carry_over_new_session_context. Engines implement only the
hooks they need; missing hooks are skipped. Built-in compressor keeps
its existing reset-only behavior because callers default to no
metadata. `reset_session_state()` now optionally accepts
previous_messages / old_session_id / carry_over_context and delegates
to the transition helper when provided. (#16453)
2. `conversation_id` passed to `on_session_start()` — both the
agent-init call site and the compression-boundary call site now
forward `self._gateway_session_key` so plugin engines have a stable
conversation identity that survives session_id rotation (compression
splits, /new, resume). The key already existed on AIAgent; it just
wasn't reaching engines. (#16453)
3. Canonical cache buckets forwarded to engines — the usage dict passed
to `update_from_response()` now includes input_tokens, output_tokens,
cache_read_tokens, cache_write_tokens, and reasoning_tokens on top of
the legacy prompt/completion/total keys. Engines can make decisions on
cache-hit ratios and reasoning costs instead of only aggregates. ABC
docstring updated. (#17453)
4. Plugin-registered context engines visible in the picker —
`_discover_context_engines()` in plugins_cmd.py now also includes
engines registered via `ctx.register_context_engine()` from plugin
manifests, deduplicating by name so repo-shipped descriptions win on
collision. (#16451)
5. `_EngineCollector.register_command()` — context engines using the
standard `register(ctx)` pattern can now expose slash commands (e.g.
`/lcm`). Routes to the global plugin command registry with the same
conflict-rejection policy regular plugins use (no shadowing built-ins,
no clobbering other plugins). Previously these calls hit a no-op and
the slash commands silently never appeared. (#17600)
Dropped from the original 5 PRs:
- Compression boundary signal (`boundary_reason="compression"`) from
#16453 — already on main at `agent/conversation_compression.py:412-424`,
landed via the bg-review extraction.
- `discover_plugins()` before fallback in run_agent.py from #16451 —
redundant: `get_plugin_context_engine()` already routes through
`_ensure_plugins_discovered()` which is idempotent.
- Runtime identity diagnostics method + helpers from #13373 (+251 LOC) —
operators can already read engine state via `engine.get_status()`;
the diagnostics view added marginal value relative to its surface area.
- The 553-LOC slash-command machinery from #17600 — replaced with a
20-LOC `register_command` method on the collector that reuses the
existing plugin command registry instead of building a parallel one.
Net: ~215 LOC of host-contract changes + 282 LOC of focused tests, vs
~1,176 LOC across the original 5 PRs.
Co-authored-by: Tosko4 <1294707+Tosko4@users.noreply.github.com>
Closes#16453.
Closes#17453.
Closes#16451.
Closes#17600.
Closes#13373.
Related: stephenschoettler/hermes-lcm#68.
* remove Vercel AI Gateway provider and Vercel Sandbox terminal backend
Both Vercel-hosted integrations are removed end-to-end. Users on the AI
Gateway should switch to OpenRouter or one of the other aggregators
(Nous Portal, Kilo Code). Users on the Vercel Sandbox backend should
switch to Docker, Modal, Daytona, or SSH.
What's removed:
- `plugins/model-providers/ai-gateway/` provider plugin
- `hermes_cli/vercel_auth.py` Vercel-Sandbox auth helper
- `tools/environments/vercel_sandbox.py` terminal backend
- `ai-gateway` provider wiring across auth, doctor, setup, models,
config, status, providers, main, web_server, model_normalize, dump
- `vercel_sandbox` backend wiring across terminal_tool, file_tools,
code_execution_tool, file_operations, approval, skills_tool,
environments/local, credential_files, lazy_deps, prompt_builder,
cli, gateway/run
- `AI_GATEWAY_BASE_URL` constant, `_AI_GATEWAY_HEADERS` auxiliary-client
header set, run_agent base-URL header/reasoning special-cases
- `[vercel]` pyproject extra and `vercel`/`vercel-workers` from uv.lock
- env vars: `AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY`, `AI_GATEWAY_BASE_URL`, `VERCEL_TOKEN`,
`VERCEL_PROJECT_ID`, `VERCEL_TEAM_ID`, `VERCEL_OIDC_TOKEN`,
`TERMINAL_VERCEL_RUNTIME`
- Tests: deletes test_ai_gateway_models.py and
test_vercel_sandbox_environment.py; scrubs references across 23
surviving test files (no entire tests deleted unless they were
dedicated to AI Gateway / Sandbox)
- Docs: provider tables, env-var reference, setup guides, security
notes, tool config, terminal-backend tables — English plus zh-Hans
i18n parity
- `hermes-agent` skill: provider table entry and remote-backend list
What stays (intentional):
- `popular-web-designs/templates/vercel.md` — CSS design reference,
unrelated to Vercel-the-AI-product
- `x-vercel-id` in `stream_diag.py` headers — generic Vercel CDN
response header, useful diag signal on any Vercel-hosted endpoint
- `vercel-labs/agent-browser` URL in browser config — lightpanda
browser project, different OSS effort
- `userStories.json` historical contributor entry mentioning Vercel
Sandbox — archive, not active docs
Validation:
- 1153 tests in the 22 targeted files pass (`scripts/run_tests.sh`)
- Full repo `py_compile` clean
- Live import of every touched module + invariant check (no
`ai-gateway` in `PROVIDER_REGISTRY`, no `_AI_GATEWAY_HEADERS`, no
`vercel_sandbox` in `_REMOTE_TERMINAL_BACKENDS`)
* test: convert profile-count check from change-detector to invariant
The hardcoded "== 34" assertion broke when ai-gateway was removed.
Per AGENTS.md change-detector-test guidance, assert the relationship
(registry count >= number of plugin dirs) instead of a literal count.
Counts shift when providers are added/removed; that's expected.
* fix(codex-responses): gracefully recover from invalid_encrypted_content (salvage #10144)
When an OpenAI-compatible Responses API surface accepts an initial
request but later rejects the replayed `codex_reasoning_items`
encrypted blob with HTTP 400 `invalid_encrypted_content`, the
session previously got stuck retrying the same poisoned payload.
Recovery: classify the error as a dedicated FailoverReason, and on the
first hit disable encrypted reasoning replay for the rest of the
session, strip cached items from message history, and retry once.
Changes:
* error_classifier: add FailoverReason.invalid_encrypted_content
branch in _classify_400 (before context_overflow so the messages
that mention 'encrypted content … could not be verified' don't trip
context heuristics), in _classify_by_error_code, and extend
_extract_error_code to peek inside wrapped JSON in error.message and
ignore the bare '400' as a code.
* agent_init: initialize `_codex_reasoning_replay_enabled = True` on
every agent.
* run_agent: add AIAgent._disable_codex_reasoning_replay() helper
that flips the flag and pops cached items.
* codex_responses_adapter: thread a `replay_encrypted_reasoning`
kwarg through _chat_messages_to_responses_input so that when the
flag is False we don't replay codex_reasoning_items.
* transports/codex.py: read `replay_encrypted_reasoning` from params,
thread it into the adapter, and gate the
`include=['reasoning.encrypted_content']` request hint on it.
* chat_completion_helpers: pass the agent's replay flag through to
the transport.
* conversation_loop: in the retry loop, add an
invalid_encrypted_content recovery branch that fires once per
session, only when api_mode == codex_responses, only when replay is
still enabled, and only when at least one assistant message in
history actually carries cached reasoning items (otherwise the 400
has nothing to do with our cache and the normal retry path handles
it).
Tests:
* test_error_classifier: new wrapped-JSON _extract_error_code case;
new TestClassifyApiError cases proving the 400 is retryable with
no fallback, that the broad message match doesn't catch a generic
'parsed' message, and that the error code match is
case-insensitive.
* test_run_agent_codex_responses: end-to-end test of the recovery
branch firing once and disabling replay, plus a sibling test that
proves the branch does *not* fire (and the flag stays True) when
history has no cached reasoning items.
Salvages PR #10144 onto the post-refactor module layout
(error_classifier / codex_responses_adapter / transports/codex /
conversation_loop / agent_init) since the original diff was written
against the pre-refactor monolithic run_agent.py.
* chore(release): map victorGPT in AUTHOR_MAP for #10144 salvage
---------
Co-authored-by: victorGPT <wuxuebin1993@gmail.com>
The ChatGPT Codex backend (chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex) has historically
silently dropped certain model requests: the connection is accepted but no
stream events are emitted and no error is raised. PR #31967 lowered the
implicit stale-call default from 300s to 90s so fallbacks kick in faster,
but users still see an opaque "No response from provider for 90s
(non-streaming, ...)" message that gives no path forward.
This patch adds a narrow heuristic — gpt-5.5 family on the Codex backend
via codex_responses api_mode — that substitutes the generic timeout
message with actionable text naming the gpt-5.4-codex workaround and
pointing at #21444 for symptom history.
Changes:
- run_agent.py — new ``AIAgent._codex_silent_hang_hint(model=...)`` method.
Returns ``None`` for any request that does not match all three guards
(codex_responses api_mode, openai-codex provider or chatgpt.com Codex
base URL, gpt-5.5-family model name with word-boundary regex anchoring
to avoid false-positives on e.g. ``gpt-5.50``).
- agent/chat_completion_helpers.py — the non-stream stale-call site
consults the hint via ``getattr(...)`` so the call site stays robust
if the helper is ever removed or stubbed in tests. Hint is appended to
both the ``_emit_status`` warning and the ``TimeoutError`` message so
the user sees it in their terminal AND it lands in any retry-loop
diagnostics.
- tests/run_agent/test_codex_silent_hang_hint.py — 10 regression tests
covering positive cases (bare gpt-5.5, vendor-prefixed openai/gpt-5.5,
gpt-5.5-codex SKU, model=None fallback to self.model) and negative
cases (gpt-5.4-codex workaround, gpt-5.50 false-positive guard,
non-codex api_mode, non-codex provider, empty/None model, unrelated
models on Codex).
Does NOT fix the backend-side issue (that's an upstream OpenAI/ChatGPT
problem we cannot patch from here). Only converts an opaque timeout into
text that names the workaround so users do not have to dig through logs
or wait for a forum post to learn what to do.
Closes#22046
Codex / Responses-API requests had three latent timeout bugs that combined
into the long silent hangs reported on #21444:
1. The non-stream stale-call detector estimated context tokens from
``api_kwargs["messages"]`` only. Codex / Responses-API payloads carry
their conversational load in ``input`` (with ``instructions`` and
``tools``), so every Codex turn logged ``context=~0 tokens`` and the
detector never applied its >50k / >100k tier bumps.
2. ``providers.<id>.request_timeout_seconds`` was silently dropped on the
main Codex path. The chat_completions path and the auxiliary Codex
adapter both forwarded it; the main path skipped it through three
places (``build_api_kwargs``, ``ResponsesApiTransport.build_kwargs``,
``_preflight_codex_api_kwargs``).
3. The streaming stale detector had the same payload-shape bug for
``codex_responses`` requests, which route through the non-streaming
detector (it's the path that emits the user-facing
"No response from provider for 300s (non-streaming, ...)" warning that
reporters keep pasting).
This commit:
- Adds ``estimate_request_context_tokens`` in ``chat_completion_helpers``,
used by both the non-stream and stream detectors. Handles ``messages``
(Chat Completions), ``input + instructions + tools`` (Responses API),
bare lists, and an unknown-dict fallback.
- Forwards ``timeout`` through ``ResponsesApiTransport.build_kwargs``
and ``_preflight_codex_api_kwargs`` (with guards against
zero/negative/inf/bool values), and wires
``_resolved_api_call_timeout()`` into the Codex branch of
``build_api_kwargs``.
- Lowers the implicit non-stream stale defaults so fallback providers
kick in faster when upstream stalls:
* base 300s -> 90s
* >50k 450s -> 150s
* >100k 600s -> 240s
These only apply when the user has *not* set
``providers.<id>.stale_timeout_seconds`` or
``HERMES_API_CALL_STALE_TIMEOUT``. Explicit config still wins.
- Adds regression tests for the estimator shapes, the new defaults, the
context-tier scaling, transport timeout pass-through, and preflight
timeout pass-through / rejection of invalid values.
Closes#21444
Supersedes #21652#24126#31855
Co-authored-by: Hoang V. Pham <26063003+hehehe0803@users.noreply.github.com>
Two-layer redaction at the persistence boundary so credentials never reach
state.db, session_*.json, or compression:
1. agent/chat_completion_helpers.py :: build_assistant_message
- Redact assistant content before the message dict is constructed
(catches PATs / API keys the model inlines into natural language)
- Redact tool_call.function.arguments at the same site (catches secrets
inlined into tool args, e.g. terminal command=curl -H 'Authorization: ...')
Tool execution uses the raw API response object, not this dict, so
redacting the persisted shape is safe.
2. run_agent.py :: _save_session_log
- Add _redact_message_content() static helper that handles both string
content and OpenAI/Anthropic multimodal list-of-parts (image parts
pass through untouched, only text/content fields are redacted)
- Apply to every message + the cached system prompt before writing
session_*.json
Both layers respect HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS via redact_sensitive_text —
no-op when disabled.
Tests (TestSaveSessionLogRedactsSecrets, 4 cases):
- api key in tool content
- api key in user message
- api key in system prompt
- multimodal list-of-parts (image part preserved, text redacted)
Tests use an autouse fixture to force _REDACT_ENABLED=True because the
hermetic conftest defaults the env var to false.
Salvaged from PR #24758 by @vgocoder (build_assistant_message + session_log)
+ PR #19855 by @liuhao1024 (multimodal list helper, system_prompt redaction).
Kept only the redaction concern from #19855; its unrelated whatsapp npm
timeout + PATCH_SCHEMA changes are out of scope and dropped.
Refs #19798 (PAT leak via assistant inline mention), #19845 (session capture
credential leak).
Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <liuhao03@bilibili.com>
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
``_is_entitlement_failure`` over-matched on xAI 403s. xAI returns the
same permission-denied ``code`` text for two distinct conditions:
1. Unsubscribed account ("active Grok subscription. Manage at
https://grok.com" in the ``error`` field).
2. Stale OAuth access token ("OAuth2 access token could not be
validated. [WKE=unauthenticated:bad-credentials]" in the ``error``
field).
The classifier's "does not have permission + grok" substring heuristic
treated both identically, so the credential-pool refresh path was
short-circuited for case (2) — long-running TUI sessions stuck on a
stale OAuth token surfaced a non-retryable client error and the user
had to exit + reopen the TUI to recover (the startup-resolve path
bypasses the classifier entirely, which is why bridge adapters with
proactive refresh cadences didn't see this in practice).
This patch adopts the reporter's recommended fix (option 1, tightest):
honor xAI's explicit ``[WKE=unauthenticated:...]`` suffix and the
``OAuth2 access token could not be validated`` phrasing as
authoritative "this is auth, not entitlement" signals. When either
appears anywhere in the body's text fields, the classifier returns
False eagerly — *before* the entitlement keyword checks run — so the
refresh-on-401 path takes over and the existing loop-protection still
guards against runaway refresh storms if the refresh itself fails.
Two small adjustments fall out of this:
* The haystack now also covers ``code`` and ``error`` keys directly,
not just the ``message``/``reason`` shape ``_extract_api_error_context``
produces. Real runtime paths use the normalised shape, but the test
suite and any future call sites that pass raw bodies get the same
treatment. Backwards compatible: missing keys default to empty
strings, the haystack still skips when everything is blank.
* Both disambiguator checks fire BEFORE the entitlement keyword
checks. If a future xAI body somehow lands with both an entitlement
message AND the WKE suffix, the WKE suffix wins (correct — auth is
recoverable; entitlement is not, and a refreshed token will surface
the entitlement message on the next request anyway).
Existing tests (``test_is_entitlement_failure_matches_real_xai_bodies``,
``test_is_entitlement_failure_false_for_unrelated_auth_errors``,
``test_recover_with_credential_pool_skips_refresh_on_entitlement_403``,
``test_recover_with_credential_pool_still_refreshes_genuine_auth_failure``)
continue to pass unchanged — the unsubscribed-account path, the
generic auth-error path, and the refresh-on-401 path are all left
intact.
Layer-2 defense for the FD-recycling race: even with
``force_close_tcp_sockets`` reduced to shutdown-only, the followup
``client.close()`` in ``_close_openai_client`` still walks the httpx
pool and closes sockets — and if called from a stranger thread (the
interrupt-check loop, the stale-call detector) it has the same
FD-recycling exposure that wrote a TLS record on top of ``kanban.db``.
Stamp the request_client_holder with the owning thread's ident at
``_set_request_client`` time. In ``_close_request_client_once``:
* Owning thread (the worker's ``finally``) → pop + ``client.close()``
via ``_close_request_openai_client``, exactly as before.
* Stranger thread → ``_abort_request_openai_client`` (new): only
``shutdown(SHUT_RDWR)`` the pool sockets and log a deferred-close
marker. The holder stays populated so the worker's eventual
``finally`` performs the real close from its own thread context,
where the FD release races nothing.
Applied symmetrically to both the non-streaming
``interruptible_api_call`` and the streaming variant — both routinely
get hit by stranger-thread interrupts.
The log field ``tcp_force_closed=N`` keeps its existing shape; the new
abort path adds ``deferred_close=stranger_thread`` so production
triage can distinguish the two close kinds.
Some providers (Xiaomi MiMo, some Alibaba endpoints, a long tail of
OpenAI-compatible servers) follow the OpenAI spec strictly and require
tool message `content` to be a string — they reject our list-type
content (text + image_url parts) with HTTP 400 'text is not set' /
'tool message content must be a string'.
Instead of an allowlist of known-good providers (maintenance burden,
guaranteed to miss aggregators like OpenRouter where the underlying
model determines support, not the aggregator name), this lands a
reactive recovery:
1. New `FailoverReason.multimodal_tool_content_unsupported` with a
small pattern list covering the common 400 wordings.
2. `AIAgent._try_strip_image_parts_from_tool_messages` walks the API
message list, downgrades any `role:tool` message whose content is
list-with-image to a plain text summary (preserves text parts) in
place, AND records the active (provider, model) in a session-scoped
`_no_list_tool_content_models` set.
3. `_tool_result_content_for_active_model` short-circuits to a text
summary when (provider, model) is in the cache — so after the first
400 + retry, subsequent screenshots in the same session skip the
round trip entirely.
4. Retry hook in `agent.conversation_loop` mirrors the existing
`image_too_large` recovery: detect the reason, run the helper,
retry once, fall through to the normal error path if no list-type
tool content was actually present.
Cache is transient (per-session) by design — next session retries in
case the provider added support, no persistent state to maintain.
Fixes#27344. Closes#27351 (allowlist approach superseded by reactive
recovery).
The contributor PR (#17936) only patched the strip path in
`_model_supports_vision()`. The auto-mode router in
`agent/image_routing._lookup_supports_vision` still only read models.dev,
so a custom-provider model declared as vision-capable would still get its
images routed through vision_analyze in the default `agent.image_input_mode:
auto` setting. Users had to set both `supports_vision: true` AND
`image_input_mode: native` to bypass the text pipeline.
Single-knob behavior now: `supports_vision: true` alone is enough in auto
mode. The strip path and the routing path consult the same resolver.
- Extract override resolution into `_supports_vision_override()` in
agent/image_routing.py and wire it into `_lookup_supports_vision()`.
- Refactor `run_agent._model_supports_vision` to call the same helper
(DRY, single source of truth for the resolution order).
- Strict YAML boolean coercion: `supports_vision: "false"` (quoted —
a common YAML mistake) no longer coerces to True via bool() truthiness.
Recognised tokens: true/false/yes/no/on/off/1/0 plus real bools and 0/1.
Unrecognised values return None and fall through to models.dev.
- Add @CNSeniorious000 to AUTHOR_MAP for release attribution.
Tests: 26 new (TestCoerceCapabilityBool, TestSupportsVisionOverride,
TestLookupSupportsVisionOverride, TestAutoModeRespectsOverride). Existing
contributor tests + image_routing + vision_native_fast_path +
native_image_buffer_isolation all green (92/92).
Named custom providers are rewritten to provider="custom" at runtime
(hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py:_resolve_named_custom_runtime), so a
config under providers.my-vllm.models.my-llava.supports_vision was
unreachable via self.provider alone. Also try cfg.model.provider as a
candidate provider key, covering both runtime and config naming.
Adds a regression test for the named-provider path.
Custom/local provider models absent from models.dev get classified as
non-vision and have their image content stripped before reaching the
upstream API. Surface a user-facing override:
model:
supports_vision: true
providers:
my-vllm:
models:
my-llava:
supports_vision: true
The override short-circuits the models.dev lookup in
_model_supports_vision(), which is the single gate guarding image-strip
preprocessing on every transport path.
Refs #8731.
PR #29182 deleted the per-session JSON snapshot writer outright because
state.db is canonical and the snapshots had no in-tree consumer. Some
users have external tooling that reads `~/.hermes/sessions/session_{sid}.json`
directly, so reintroduce the writer behind a config flag that defaults
to off.
- Add `sessions.write_json_snapshots` (default False) to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- Restore `AIAgent._save_session_log` + `_clean_session_content` as
gated methods. When the flag is off the call is a fast no-op; when
on, the writer behaves as before (atomic write, truncation guard
preserved, REASONING_SCRATCHPAD → think tag normalization)
- Re-derive the target path from `agent.session_id` on each call so
`/branch` and `/compress` re-points happen automatically — no need
to restore the explicit re-point bookkeeping at call sites
- Wire the single call site in `_persist_session` (the cleanup-on-exit
hook). Did NOT restore the 7 intra-turn calls the original PR deleted
— those were redundant writes within the same turn that doubled disk
I/O without adding any persistence guarantee `_persist_session` does
not already provide
- Read the flag once at agent init via `load_config()`, cache as
`agent._session_json_enabled`
- Update `TestNoSessionJsonSnapshot` → `TestSessionJsonSnapshotOptIn`
to pin behavior: default off (no file), opt-in true (file written),
no-op method on default agents, logs_dir retained unconditionally
- Update CONTRIBUTING.md and the bundled `hermes-agent` skill to
document the flag and its default
Only caller was the removed _save_session_log. Also removes the unused
convert_scratchpad_to_think and has_incomplete_scratchpad imports from
run_agent.py (both still used elsewhere via their own imports).
state.db now stores every message field the JSON snapshot stored. Removed
the method, all 7 call-sites, and ~13 test stubs that suppressed its file I/O.
Body is in git history if it ever needs to come back.
* perf(config): add load_config_readonly() fast path for hot agent loop
`load_config()` is called from the agent loop's per-API-call hot path via
`get_provider_request_timeout()` and `get_provider_stale_timeout()` —
both invoked once per turn from `_resolved_api_call_timeout()` in
run_agent.py.
Profiling a synthetic 20-tool-call agent run revealed:
- 21 invocations of `load_config()` cumulating 56ms (~17% of agent loop)
- 34,398 deepcopy calls totaling 37ms (config defensive deepcopy + chain)
- 8,652 `_expand_env_vars` invocations (~412 per turn)
Microbench (cache-hit, real config.yaml present):
load_config() 265us/call (125us deepcopy + 140us infra)
load_config_readonly() 138us/call (~48% faster)
`load_config_readonly()` returns the cached dict directly without the
defensive deepcopy. Documented contract: caller must not mutate. Returns
plain dict (not MappingProxyType) so downstream `isinstance(x, dict)`
guards keep working — caught during initial implementation when
MappingProxyType broke get_provider_request_timeout's guard logic.
Wired into hermes_cli/timeouts.py (the two functions called per agent
turn). load_config() is unchanged for the 263 other call sites that
mutate the result before save_config(), are not in the hot path, or
where the safety guarantee matters more than the perf.
Profile A/B (cached config, 21-turn agent loop):
BEFORE AFTER delta
get_provider_request_timeout 55ms 16ms -71%
total function calls 399k 160k -60%
deepcopy calls (in hotspots) 34,398 ~0 ~elim
Verified:
- isinstance(load_config_readonly(), dict) is True
- timeout/stale resolutions correct
- load_config() still returns isolated mutable deepcopies
- tests/hermes_cli/test_config*.py / test_timeouts.py: 102/102 pass
- tests/cli/ + tests/agent/test_auxiliary_client.py: 883/883 pass
* perf(redact): substring pre-screens skip non-matching regex chains
Every log record passes through `RedactingFormatter.format` which calls
`redact_sensitive_text`, which historically ran ALL 13 secret-pattern
regexes against every line — including DB connection strings, JWTs,
Discord mentions, Signal phone numbers, etc. — even for typical clean
log records like 'INFO run_agent: API call completed'.
Add cheap substring pre-checks before each regex pass. False positives
still run the regex (which then matches nothing); false negatives are
impossible because every pattern requires the gated substring to match
its leading anchor:
- `_PREFIX_RE` gated on any of 33 known credential prefix substrings
- `_ENV_ASSIGN_RE` gated on `=` in text
- `_JSON_FIELD_RE` gated on `:` and `"` in text
- `_AUTH_HEADER_RE` gated on `uthorization`/`UTHORIZATION` in text
- `_TELEGRAM_RE` gated on `:` in text
- `_PRIVATE_KEY_RE` gated on `BEGIN` and `-----`
- `_DB_CONNSTR_RE` gated on `://` in text
- `_JWT_RE` gated on `eyJ` in text
- URL userinfo/query gated on `://`
- `_redact_form_body` gated on `&` and `=`
- `_DISCORD_MENTION_RE` gated on `<@`
- `_SIGNAL_PHONE_RE` gated on `+`
Microbench (5 typical log records, 20k iterations each):
BEFORE AFTER delta
redact_sensitive_text per call 5.63us 1.79us -68%
Real-world impact: ~244 log records emitted in a 30-turn agent loop, so
the chain saves ~1ms of CPU per conversation. Bigger win is the
reduction in regex execution and GC pressure during heavy logging
sessions (verbose logging, gateway message processing).
Security regression test: 30 secret-containing inputs (sk-/ghp_/JWT/DB
connstr/Auth-Bearer/private key/URL userinfo/Discord/Signal/etc.)
verified to produce identical redacted output before/after. All 75
existing tests/agent/test_redact.py cases pass.
The `?access_token=foo&code=bar` (bare query string, no scheme) case
that 'leaks' is pre-existing behavior — the URL query redaction
requires a well-formed URL with scheme+host. Not a regression.
* perf(run_agent): cache _needs_thinking_reasoning_pad result per (provider, model, base_url)
Profile of a 31-turn synthetic agent run shows `_needs_thinking_reasoning_pad`
fires 495 times (~16 per turn) and each call ran 3 helper methods, each
hitting `base_url_host_matches` 1-4 times via `urlparse`. Total cost:
3,342 base_url_host_matches calls + 3,373 urlparse calls accounting for
~36ms of agent-loop overhead (~7% of the entire post-network work).
Provider / model / base_url don't change during a conversation except via
`switch_model` and fallback activation — both of which already overwrite
those attributes atomically. Cache the result on a tuple key; since the
key is derived from the very fields that would change, the cache
auto-invalidates on the next read after a switch. No manual invalidation
needed in switch_model / _try_activate_fallback.
Profile A/B (31-turn cached-config agent run):
BEFORE AFTER delta
_needs_thinking_reasoning_pad cum 18ms 1ms -94%
_copy_reasoning_content_for_api cum 17ms 1ms -94%
base_url_host_matches calls 3,342 372 -89%
urlparse calls 3,373 403 -88%
total function calls 296k 223k -25%
Verified:
- tests/run_agent/test_deepseek_reasoning_content_echo.py: 36/36 pass
- tests/run_agent/ (full): 1383/1383 pass + 3 skipped
GLM models via Ollama report finish_reason='stop' even when the
response was truncated by max_tokens. The continuation mechanism
uses _has_natural_response_ending() as one of the heuristics to
detect whether the response was genuinely finished.
Currently only ASCII punctuation and CJK punctuation are recognized.
This means any response ending with an emoji (e.g. ⚡, 👍) or the
caret character ^ (common in French ^^ smiley) is not recognized as
naturally ended, triggering a false-positive continuation where the
model receives 'Continue where you left off' and produces garbled
output.
Add:
- ^ (caret) to the punctuation set
- Unicode emoji range (codepoint >= 0x1F300) as natural ending
This only affects GLM/Ollama users but the fix is safe for all
backends since _has_natural_response_ending() is only consulted
inside the continuation flow.
When auxiliary compression's summary generation returns None (aux model
errored, returned non-JSON, timed out, etc.) the compressor previously
still dropped every middle message between compress_start..compress_end
and replaced them with a static 'Summary generation was unavailable'
placeholder. The session kept going but the user silently lost N turns
of context for nothing.
New behavior: on summary failure, compress() aborts entirely — returns
the input messages unchanged and sets _last_compress_aborted=True. The
existing _summary_failure_cooldown_until gate (30-60s) keeps the aux
model from being burned on every turn. Auto-compress callers detect
the no-op (len(after) == len(before)) and stop looping. The chat is
'frozen' at its current size until the next /compress or /new.
Manual /compress (CLI + gateway) now passes force=True which clears
the cooldown so users can retry immediately after an auto-abort. If
the manual retry also fails, the user gets a visible warning telling
them nothing was dropped and how to retry.
- agent/context_compressor.py: compress() gains force= kwarg; failure
branch sets _last_compress_aborted and returns messages unchanged
instead of inserting placeholder.
- run_agent.py: _compress_context() detects abort, surfaces warning,
skips session-rotation entirely, returns messages unchanged.
- cli.py + gateway/run.py: manual /compress paths pass force=True.
- gateway/run.py: hygiene + /compress handlers detect _last_compress_aborted
and emit the new 'Compression aborted' warning (gateway.compress.aborted)
instead of the old 'N historical messages were removed' message.
- locales/*.yaml: new gateway.compress.aborted key in all 16 locales.
- tests: updated to assert the abort contract (messages preserved,
compression_count not incremented, abort flag set, no placeholder
leaked). New test_force_true_bypasses_failure_cooldown covers the
manual-retry path.
Six days after #23937 (608 fixes) the codebase had accumulated 241 new
PLR6201 violations. Same mechanical `x in (...)` → `x in {...}` fix,
same zero-risk profile: set lookup is O(1) vs O(n) for tuple and the
two are semantically equivalent for hashable scalar membership tests.
All 241 instances fixed via `ruff check --select PLR6201 --fix
--unsafe-fixes`, zero remaining. Every changed value is a hashable
scalar (str/int/None/enum/signal); no risk of unhashable runtime
errors. No behavior change.
Test plan:
- 119 files changed, +244/-244 (net zero) — exactly one-line edits
- `ruff check` clean afterward
- Compile checks pass on the largest touched files (cli.py, run_agent.py,
gateway/run.py, gateway/platforms/discord.py, model_tools.py)
- Subset broad test run on tests/gateway/ tests/hermes_cli/ tests/agent/
tests/tools/: 18187 passed, 59 pre-existing failures (verified against
origin/main with the same shape — identical failure count, identical
category — all xdist test-order flakes unrelated to this change)
Follows the same template as PR #23937 ([tracker: #23972](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/23972)).
Original commit 2b193907d by Teknium added a new module-level
_StreamErrorEvent class and threaded its raise into
_run_codex_create_stream_fallback in pre-refactor run_agent.py.
- _StreamErrorEvent class → run_agent.py (module-level, next to
_qwen_portal_headers; class needs to be top-level for the codex
runtime to import it)
- The fallback event-loop's 'type=error' handler → agent/codex_runtime.py
where run_codex_create_stream_fallback now lives. Imports
_StreamErrorEvent lazily from run_agent to avoid circular import.
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
Original commit 9c304a7f5 by helix4u targeted _flatten_exception_chain,
_summarize_api_error, and the _call streaming retry loop in pre-refactor
run_agent.py. Re-applied to:
- New _is_provider_stream_parse_error helper → run_agent.py (next
to _flatten_exception_chain in the AIAgent class)
- _summarize_api_error early-return for the malformed-streaming
ValueError → run_agent.py (kept method body)
- _call streaming retry: _is_stream_parse_err flag wired into
_is_transient AND the post-exhaustion branch + dedicated
malformed-streaming user-status string → agent/chat_completion_helpers.py
(the _call body now lives there)
Co-authored-by: helix4u <4317663+helix4u@users.noreply.github.com>
Collapses the four-commit xAI entitlement-403 chain to its final
on-main state, ported to the post-refactor module layout:
- Added _is_entitlement_failure on AIAgent (run_agent.py) — detects
Grok subscription-shape 403s on (401|403|None) status codes.
- Added entitlement-skip branch to recover_with_credential_pool
(agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py) — breaks the refresh-loop that
Don's 100-iteration trace exposed when a Premium+ user hit a real
entitlement issue.
- Removed _decorate_xai_entitlement_error and unwrapped its two
_summarize_api_error call sites — xAI's own body text already
points users at grok.com/?_s=usage so we surface that verbatim
(dffb602f3 reasoning: X Premium subs DO now work per xAI's
2026-05-16 announcement, so editorialising would misdirect).
- grok-4.3 1M context entry landed in agent/model_metadata.py
via the prior merge — no additional port needed.
Tests already on disk (tests/run_agent/test_codex_xai_oauth_recovery.py)
assert _is_entitlement_failure shape and verbatim body surfacing.
Closes#27110.
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
Original commit 31ba2b0cb by Teknium targeted run_codex_stream() at
its pre-refactor location in run_agent.py. Re-applied:
- Prelude error retry/fallback → agent/codex_runtime.py (in
run_codex_stream where the body now lives)
- _decorate_xai_entitlement_error helper + _summarize_api_error
wrapping → run_agent.py (these methods remained on AIAgent
as @staticmethod's; cherry-pick applied them cleanly)
The xai-oauth provider gate, encrypted_content drop on replay, etc.
landed in agent/codex_responses_adapter.py via the prior merge from main.
Closes#8133, #14634
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
Original commit 13c3d4b4e by kchantharuan touched __init__ and
_apply_client_headers_for_base_url in pre-refactor run_agent.py. Re-applied to:
- __init__: agent/agent_init.py (3 hunks — NVIDIA branch + _custom_headers
fallback in routed-client and fallback-client paths)
- _apply_client_headers_for_base_url: still in run_agent.py (1 hunk)
build_nvidia_nim_headers was already present in agent/auxiliary_client.py
from the prior merge — no additional port needed.
Co-authored-by: kchantharuan <kchantharuan@nvidia.com>
Original commit b62c99797 by Jaaneek targeted six locations in
pre-refactor run_agent.py. Re-applied to the extracted post-PR locations:
- api_mode dispatch → agent/agent_init.py
- is_xai_responses build_api_kwargs → agent/chat_completion_helpers.py
- codex_auth_retry block + 401 hint → agent/conversation_loop.py
- _try_refresh_codex_client_credentials body → run_agent.py (kept)
The non-run_agent.py portions of the commit (auxiliary_client, codex
transport, hermes_cli/auth, tools/xai_http, tests, docs) merged cleanly
from main via the prior merge commit.
Co-authored-by: Jaaneek <Jaaneek@users.noreply.github.com>
previously only checked provider ID and
base URL. When kimi-k2.6 is served via ollama-cloud (or any third-party
provider), provider is not 'kimi-coding' and base URL is not
api.kimi.com — so reasoning_content pad was never injected. This caused
HTTP 400 from Ollama Cloud's Go backend: 'invalid message content type:
map[string]interface {}'.
Fix: add model-name detection ('kimi' in model.lower()) so any route
serving a kimi model gets the required reasoning_content echo-back.
Refs the 400/401 Telegram errors where kimi-k2.6 via ollama-cloud
consistently failed after tool-call turns.
(cherry picked from commit 9a9f8a6d99)
Four fixes from PR #27248 review:
1. **__init__ forwarder is now keyword-forwarded** (daimon-nous review).
Previously the run_agent.AIAgent.__init__ wrapper forwarded all 64
params positionally to agent.agent_init.init_agent, so adding a
65th param on main would require three lockstep edits (signature,
init_agent signature, forwarder call) or silently shift every value.
Keyword forwarding makes this trivially safe — adding a param now
only needs the two signatures and one extra keyword line.
2. **Drop dead _ra() in agent/codex_runtime.py** (daimon-nous + Copilot).
The lazy run_agent reference was defined but never called inside
this module — the codex paths use agent.* accessors only.
3. **Drop unused imports in agent/codex_runtime.py** (Copilot):
contextvars, threading, time, uuid, Optional. Carried over from
run_agent.py during the original extraction.
4. **Tighten three source-introspection test guards** (Copilot):
- test_memory_nudge_counter_hydration.py — was scanning the
concatenated source of run_agent.py + agent/conversation_loop.py
and matching self.X or agent.X form. Now asserts the
hydration block lives in agent/conversation_loop.py specifically
with the agent.X form — the body never moves back, so if it
ever drifts a future re-introduction fails the guard.
- test_run_agent.py::TestMemoryNudgeCounterPersistence — anchor on
agent.iteration_budget = IterationBudget exactly (was just
iteration_budget = IterationBudget) so an unrelated identifier
ending in iteration_budget can't match.
- test_run_agent.py::TestMemoryProviderTurnStart — assert the
agent._user_turn_count form directly (the extracted body uses
agent.X, not self.X — accepting either was a transitional fudge).
- test_jsondecodeerror_retryable.py — scan agent/conversation_loop.py
only, not the concatenation.
Not addressed in this commit:
* Pre-existing bugs in agent/tool_executor.py (heartbeat index
mismatch when calls are blocked, _current_tool clobber in result
loop, blocked-counted-as-completed in spinner summary, dead
result_preview computation). These were preserved byte-for-byte from
the original _execute_tool_calls_concurrent — worth a separate
follow-up PR with proper tests.
* _OpenAIProxy.__instancecheck__ concern — pre-existing, not flagged
by any of the original test patches (nothing actually does
isinstance(x, OpenAI) against the proxy instance).
* agent_init.py:949 mem_config potential NameError — pre-existing;
only triggers if _agent_cfg.get('memory', {}) itself raises, which
it can't with a stock dict.
tests/run_agent/ + tests/agent/: 4313 passed, 1 pre-existing
test_auxiliary_client failure (unchanged).
run_agent.py: 3821 -> 3937 lines (+116 from the keyword-forwarded
init call's verbosity). Final: 16083 -> 3937 (-12146, 75% reduction).
The largest method left on AIAgent (60+ parameters, the entire startup
sequence — credential resolution, provider auto-detection, context
engine bootstrap, memory store hydration, plugin lifecycle hooks)
moves into agent/agent_init.py.
AIAgent.__init__ is now a thin wrapper that calls
agent.agent_init.init_agent(self, ...) with the original full
parameter list preserved.
Module-level run_agent names referenced in the body (_openrouter_prewarm_done,
_qwen_portal_headers, _routermint_headers, _hermes_home, OpenAI,
get_tool_definitions, check_toolset_requirements) are resolved through
_ra() so test patches on those names keep working. agent_init's logger
warnings are routed via _ra().logger so tests patching run_agent.logger
capture them (TestStringKSuffixContextLengthWarns,
TestCustomProvidersInvalidContextLengthWarns).
Live E2E reconfirmed on three model paths (openai/gpt-5.4,
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6, moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking).
tests/run_agent/ + tests/agent/: 4313 passed (same pre-existing
test_auxiliary_client failure).
run_agent.py: 5944 -> 4564 lines (-1380).
Total reduction since baseline: 16083 -> 4564 (-11519, 72%).
The 3,877-line run_conversation body — the agent loop itself — moves out
of run_agent.py into a dedicated module. AIAgent.run_conversation is
now a thin forwarder that delegates to agent.conversation_loop.run_conversation
with the AIAgent instance as the first argument.
This is the largest single extraction in the run_agent.py refactor.
The body keeps all 163 self.X references intact (rewritten as agent.X),
all nested closures, all retry/backoff/compression machinery. Symbols
that tests or callers patch on run_agent (_set_interrupt,
handle_function_call, AIAgent class attrs) are resolved through _ra()
inside the extracted module so the patch surface is preserved.
Five tests doing inspect.getsource(AIAgent.run_conversation) updated to
scan agent.conversation_loop.run_conversation. Two source-introspection
tests (TestMemoryNudgeCounterPersistence, TestMemoryProviderTurnStart)
updated to accept either self.X (legacy) or agent.X (extracted
form) in the matched assertions.
Live E2E verified on three model paths:
* openai/gpt-5.4 (OpenAI chat completions via OpenRouter)
* anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 (Anthropic Messages via OpenRouter)
* moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking (reasoning model, reasoning_content path)
Plus read_file tool execution, terminal tool, web_search.
tests/run_agent/ + tests/agent/: 4313 passed, 1 pre-existing failure
(test_auxiliary_client::test_custom_endpoint... — same as on main).
run_agent.py: 9800 -> 5944 lines (-3856).
Total reduction since baseline: 16083 -> 5944 (-10139, 63%).
The three big review-prompt strings (_MEMORY_REVIEW_PROMPT,
_SKILL_REVIEW_PROMPT, _COMBINED_REVIEW_PROMPT — 183 lines combined) move
out of the AIAgent class body and into agent/background_review.py where
they're consumed.
AIAgent re-exposes them as class attributes via 'from ... import' inside
the class body — Python binds those names into the class namespace so
existing AIAgent._MEMORY_REVIEW_PROMPT references keep working.
spawn_background_review_thread also falls back to the module-level
constants if an agent doesn't have the attribute (preserves the test
pattern of mocking these on the agent).
tests/run_agent/ + tests/agent/: 4313 passed (same pre-existing
test_auxiliary_client failure).
run_agent.py: 9986 -> 9800 lines (-186).
Move _interruptible_streaming_api_call out of run_agent.py — the biggest
single method in the file. Body lives next to interruptible_api_call
in agent/chat_completion_helpers.py so streaming + non-streaming code
share one home.
Nested closures (_call_chat_completions, _call_anthropic, the codex
stream branch) all come along with the body and still capture the
parent function's locals as expected.
AIAgent keeps a thin forwarder method. is_local_endpoint added to
the import block (used by the stream stale-timeout disable logic).
One source-introspection test in TestAnthropicInterruptHandler is
updated to scan agent.chat_completion_helpers.interruptible_streaming_api_call
instead of AIAgent._interruptible_streaming_api_call.
tests/run_agent/ + tests/agent/: 4312 passed (same pre-existing
test_auxiliary_client failure).
run_agent.py: 12277 -> 11385 lines (-892).
Move the two big tool-dispatch methods out of run_agent.py:
* execute_tool_calls_concurrent — 408-line concurrent path (interrupt
pre-flight, guardrail+plugin block, callback fan-out, ContextVar-
preserving ThreadPoolExecutor, periodic heartbeats for the gateway
inactivity monitor, per-tool result handling with subdir hints +
guardrail observations + checkpoint, /steer drain)
* execute_tool_calls_sequential — 441-line sequential path (the
original behavior used for single-tool batches and interactive
tools)
Both take the parent AIAgent as their first argument; AIAgent keeps
thin forwarders so call sites unchanged. handle_function_call is
routed through _ra() so tests that patch run_agent.handle_function_call
keep working. _set_interrupt likewise.
The AST guard in test_tool_executor_contextvar_propagation.py is
updated to scan both run_agent.py AND agent/tool_executor.py so it
still catches the executor.submit(_run_tool, ...) regression
regardless of which file the body lives in.
tests/run_agent/ + tests/agent/: 4313 passed (same pre-existing
test_auxiliary_client failure as before).
run_agent.py: 14309 -> 13461 lines (-848).
Move the background-review subsystem (the self-improvement loop — see the
README) out of run_agent.py into a dedicated module.
* summarize_background_review_actions — was the @staticmethod that builds
the user-facing action summary
* spawn_background_review_thread — builds the thread target + prompt;
the actual review loop body (forked AIAgent, runtime inheritance,
tool whitelist, suppression, teardown) lives in _run_review_in_thread
* build_memory_write_metadata — provenance for external memory mirrors
AIAgent keeps thin wrappers for backward compatibility AND because tests
patch run_agent.threading.Thread to assert lifecycle behavior — the
threading.Thread construction stays in AIAgent._spawn_background_review,
the inner work moves out.
tests/run_agent/ + tests/agent/: 4313 passed, 1 pre-existing failure
(test_auxiliary_client.py::test_custom_endpoint... — confirmed failing
on main before this change). 3 skipped.
run_agent.py: 15272 -> 14972 lines (-300).
Three small extractions into focused modules:
* agent/process_bootstrap.py — \_OpenAIProxy (lazy openai.OpenAI import),
\_SafeWriter (broken-pipe-resistant stdio wrapper), \_install_safe_stdio,
\_get_proxy_from_env, \_get_proxy_for_base_url. All process / IO bootstrap.
* agent/iteration_budget.py — IterationBudget class (thread-safe consume/
refund counter shared by parent agent and subagents).
run_agent re-exports every name so existing test patches like
patch('run_agent.OpenAI', ...) and 'from run_agent import IterationBudget'
keep working unchanged. Verified the patch-rebinding contract for OpenAI
explicitly.
tests/run_agent/ + tests/agent/test_gemini_fast_fallback.py:
1347 passed, 3 skipped.
run_agent.py: 15427 -> 15261 lines (-166).
Pull the 10 pure sanitization/repair helpers (\_sanitize_surrogates,
\_sanitize_structure_surrogates, \_sanitize_messages_surrogates,
\_escape_invalid_chars_in_json_strings, \_repair_tool_call_arguments,
\_strip_non_ascii, \_sanitize_messages_non_ascii, \_sanitize_tools_non_ascii,
\_strip_images_from_messages, \_sanitize_structure_non_ascii) and the
\_SURROGATE_RE constant out of run_agent.py into a new module.
These are stateless byte-walking helpers with no AIAgent dependency.
Backward compatibility: run_agent re-exports every name via a single
import block, so existing 'from run_agent import _sanitize_surrogates'
imports in tests and cli.py keep working unchanged. Same pattern the
file already uses for _summarize_user_message_for_log (codex_responses_adapter).
run_agent.py: 16077 -> 15682 lines (-395).
Mirrors openclaw beta.8's app-server resilience fixes so a stuck codex
subprocess can't burn the full turn deadline and so users get a
`codex login` pointer instead of raw RPC errors when their token expires.
- TurnResult.should_retire signals the caller to drop+respawn codex.
- Deadline-hit path and dead-subprocess detection set should_retire so
the next turn doesn't ride a CPU-spinning or auth-broken process.
- Post-tool watchdog (post_tool_quiet_timeout=90s): if a tool item
completes and codex goes silent past the threshold without further
output or turn/completed, fast-fail instead of waiting the full 600s.
Resets on any non-tool activity so normal think-after-tool flows are
not affected.
- <turn_aborted> and <turn_aborted/> in agent text are treated as
terminal — some codex builds tear down a turn that way without
emitting turn/completed.
- _classify_oauth_failure() inspects RPC error message + stderr tail
for invalid_grant / token refresh / 401 / etc. and rewrites
user-facing errors to 'run codex login'. Conservative: generic
failures still surface verbatim. Fires at turn/start failure,
turn/completed failure, and dead-subprocess paths.
- thread/start cross-fill: tolerate thread.id, thread.sessionId,
top-level sessionId/threadId so future codex schema drift doesn't
KeyError us at handshake.
- run_agent.py: when run_turn returns should_retire=True OR raises,
close + null self._codex_session so the next turn respawns.
Tests: +30 cases across session + integration suites.
tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py 50/50 pass
tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py 27/27 pass
Broader codex scope (transports + cli runtime/migration) 376/376 pass
Background review fork redirected stdout/stderr around run_conversation()
so its iteration messages stay silent. But the memory-provider teardown
(shutdown_memory_provider() and review_agent.close()) fired in the outer
finally block AFTER the redirect_stdout context exited — so provider
teardown prints (Honcho disconnect, Hindsight sync, etc.) leaked into
the parent terminal at end of every turn.
Moves the teardown inside the redirect_stdout scope on the success path
(and nulls review_agent so the finally safety-net skips double-shutdown).
The finally block is rewritten as an exception-path safety net that
re-opens a devnull redirect, since the original 'with' context has
already exited by the time finally runs.
Salvage of #25342 by @ayushere (manually re-applied + merged conflict
with current main's set_thread_tool_whitelist wiring).
When auxiliary.compression.provider is "auto", the compression model
reuses the main model's provider and base_url. The main model's
context_length was correctly picking up custom_providers per-model
overrides (via _custom_providers stored during __init__), but the
auxiliary compression model's context-length detection path in
_check_compression_model_feasibility was not passing custom_providers,
causing it to skip step 0b and fall through to models.dev.
This meant that for providers like NVIDIA NIM where the user has a
per-model context_length in custom_providers (e.g. 196608 for
minimax-m2.7), the auxiliary model would use the models.dev value
(204800) instead of the user-configured one — a subtle discrepancy
that could lead to silent compression issues when the auxiliary model
doesn't actually support the detected context length.
Fix: pass self._custom_providers (already stored as an instance attr
during __init__) to the get_model_context_length() call for the
auxiliary compression model.
Xiaomi MiMo emits reasoning via OpenAI's reasoning_content field and
requires reasoning_content on every assistant tool-call message when
replaying history. Without echo-back, subsequent API calls fail with
HTTP 400 — same shape as DeepSeek and Kimi/Moonshot thinking modes.
Adds _needs_mimo_tool_reasoning() detection (provider == 'xiaomi',
'mimo' in model, or xiaomimimo.com base url) and wires it into the
_needs_thinking_reasoning_pad() check.
Salvage of #25358 by @ephron-ren (manually re-applied — original branch
was severely stale against current main).
Follow-up on the salvaged feat commit:
- Keep the constructor / config / yaml-example default at 3 so existing
gateway and CLI users see no behavioural change. PR #13754 (which this
builds on) had lowered the default to 2 to chase pre-feature parity in
the system-prompt-present case, at the cost of quietly halving the
protected head for the gateway path (which strips the system prompt
before calling compress()). With the new "system prompt is implicit"
semantics, default 3 gives every caller a stable head shape.
- agent/context_engine.py: bring the ABC's protect_first_n docstring in
line with the new semantics so plugin context engines interpret the
config key the same way the built-in compressor does.
- tests: adjust the default-value test (3, not 2) and a stale comment;
per-test protect_first_n=2/3/1 values added in PR #13754 stay as-is
since those tests fix concrete head shapes.
The number of head messages preserved verbatim across context compactions
was previously hardcoded to 3 in AIAgent.__init__. Expose it as
`compression.protect_first_n` in config, matching the existing
`protect_last_n` pattern.
Motivation: users who rely on rolling compaction for long-running sessions
had the opening user/assistant exchange pinned as head forever, which
doesn't always match how they want the session framed after many
compactions. Lowering to 1 preserves the system prompt + first non-system
message; lowering to 0 preserves only the system prompt and lets the
entire first exchange age out naturally through the summary.
Semantics: `protect_first_n` counts non-system head messages protected
**in addition to** the system prompt, which is always implicitly protected
when present. Same meaning across both code paths:
protect_first_n=0 → system prompt only (or nothing if no system message)
protect_first_n=2 → system prompt + first 2 non-system messages (default)
This unifies the CLI path (which reads messages with the system prompt at
position 0) and the gateway path (where the gateway /compress handler
strips the system prompt before calling compress() — see
gateway/run.py L9150-9154 on the parent fork). Previously these two paths
disagreed:
CLI path: protect_first_n=1 → protect system prompt only
Gateway path: protect_first_n=1 → protect first USER turn forever
In practice on long-running gateway sessions the old semantics pinned
whatever stale aside happened to be the first user message, reinserting
it into every compaction summary indefinitely.
Default chosen as 2 (not 3) so that the effective protected head count
remains 3 messages in the common case — assuming a system prompt is
present, default protection becomes system + 2 non-system = 3 total,
matching the pre-feature behaviour where `protect_first_n` was hardcoded
to protect 3 messages total. Sessions without a system prompt will see a
small behaviour change (2 protected head messages instead of 3), but this
is the rare path and the new semantics make the system-prompt-present
case the well-defined one.
Changes:
- agent/context_compressor.py: redefine protect_first_n as the count of
non-system head messages protected beyond the implicit system-prompt
guarantee; both paths converge. Constructor default updated to 2.
- hermes_cli/config.py: add `compression.protect_first_n` default (2),
matching the new semantics. `show_config` label tweaked to
'Protect first: N non-system head messages' for clarity.
- run_agent.py: read protect_first_n from config; 0 is now valid (system
prompt is always implicitly protected).
- cli-config.yaml.example: document the new key and rationale.
- tests/agent/test_context_compressor.py: cover default, override, the
end-to-end `protect_first_n=0` and `protect_first_n=1` behaviour,
the no-system-prompt (gateway) path, and the new shared-semantics
regression test.
Fixes#13751
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.
Belt-and-suspenders complement to the cached-system-prompt inheritance:
pin session_start and session_id to the parent's so any code path that
re-renders parts of the system prompt (compression, plugin hooks)
still produces byte-identical output. The cached-prompt assignment
already short-circuits the normal rebuild path, but these pins
guarantee parity even if a future code path bypasses the cache.
Idea from simpolism's reference PR #25427 for #25322.
Co-Authored-By: simpolism <32201324+simpolism@users.noreply.github.com>
Background review fork is supposed to hit Anthropic's prefix cache on the
parent's messages_snapshot, but currently doesn't (cache_read=0 on every
fork). Two root causes, fixed in this commit:
1. System prompt is rebuilt at fork time. _cached_system_prompt starts as
None, so run_conversation calls _build_system_prompt, which embeds a
minute-precision "Conversation started: ..." timestamp. Reviews fire
10+ turns after session start, so the minute differs from main's,
producing a 1-character diff that invalidates the byte-exact cache key.
Fix: inherit the parent's _cached_system_prompt directly (same idea as
#17089, which was self-closed for only fixing this half).
2. Tools schema was narrowed via enabled_toolsets=["memory","skills"] for
safety. Anthropic's cache key includes `tools`, which sits before
`system` in the cache hierarchy, so even byte-identical `system` won't
hit when `tools` differs from main's full set.
Fix: drop the schema-level restriction so `tools` matches main, and
deny non-whitelisted tools at runtime via the existing
get_pre_tool_call_block_message gate (hermes_cli/plugins.py:1085,
already called at all three dispatch sites). Install/clear a thread-
local whitelist (added in the previous commit) on the daemon thread.
Append a soft constraint to the review prompt so the model knows.
Real E2E on Sonnet 4.5 (12-tool task + auto-triggered review):
- Per review-call cost: $0.331 → $0.035 (~89% reduction)
- End-to-end per run: $0.848 → $0.629 (~26% reduction)
- Review fork cache_create / cache_read: 88,385 / 0 → 1,234 / 94,404
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(codex-runtime): scaffold optional codex app-server runtime
Foundational commit for an opt-in alternate runtime that hands OpenAI/Codex
turns to a 'codex app-server' subprocess instead of Hermes' tool dispatch.
Default behavior is unchanged.
Lands in three pieces:
1. agent/transports/codex_app_server.py — JSON-RPC 2.0 over stdio speaker
for codex's app-server protocol (codex-rs/app-server). Spawn, init
handshake, request/response, notification queue, server-initiated
request queue (for approval round-trips), interrupt-friendly blocking
reads. Tested against real codex 0.130.0 binary end-to-end during
development.
2. hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py:
- Adds 'codex_app_server' to _VALID_API_MODES.
- Adds _maybe_apply_codex_app_server_runtime() helper, called at the
end of _resolve_runtime_from_pool_entry(). Inert unless
'model.openai_runtime: codex_app_server' is set in config.yaml AND
provider in {openai, openai-codex}. Other providers cannot be
rerouted (anthropic, openrouter, etc. preserved).
3. tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_runtime.py — 24 tests
covering api_mode registration, the rewriter helper (default-off,
case-insensitive, opt-in, non-eligible providers preserved), version
parser, missing-binary handling, error class. Does NOT require codex
CLI installed.
This commit is wire-only: the api_mode is recognized but AIAgent does
not yet branch on it. Followup commits add the session adapter, event
projector, approval bridge, transcript projection (so memory/skill
review still works), plugin migration, and slash command.
Existing tests remain green:
- tests/cli/test_cli_provider_resolution.py (29 passed)
- tests/agent/test_credential_pool_routing.py (included above)
* feat(codex-runtime): add codex item projector for memory/skill review
The translator that lets Hermes' self-improvement loop keep working under the
Codex runtime: converts codex 'item/*' notifications into Hermes' standard
{role, content, tool_calls, tool_call_id} message shape that
agent/curator.py already knows how to read.
Item taxonomy (matches codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/item.rs):
- userMessage → {role: user, content}
- agentMessage → {role: assistant, content: text}
- reasoning → stashed in next assistant's 'reasoning' field
- commandExecution → assistant tool_call(name='exec_command') + tool result
- fileChange → assistant tool_call(name='apply_patch') + tool result
- mcpToolCall → assistant tool_call(name='mcp.<server>.<tool>') + tool result
- dynamicToolCall → assistant tool_call(name=<tool>) + tool result
- plan/hookPrompt/etc → opaque assistant note, no fabricated tool_calls
Invariants preserved:
- Message role alternation never violated: each tool item produces at most
one assistant + one tool message in that order, correlated by call_id.
- Streaming deltas (item/<type>/outputDelta, item/agentMessage/delta)
don't materialize messages — only item/completed does. Mirrors how
Hermes already only writes the assistant message after streaming ends.
- Tool call ids are deterministic (codex item id-based) so replays produce
identical messages and prefix caches stay valid (AGENTS.md pitfall #16).
- JSON args use sorted_keys for the same reason.
Real wire formats verified against codex 0.130.0 by capturing live
notifications from thread/shellCommand and including one as a fixture
(COMMAND_EXEC_COMPLETED).
23 new tests, all green:
- Streaming deltas don't materialize (3 paths)
- Turn/thread frame events are silent
- commandExecution: 5 tests including non-zero exit annotation +
deterministic id stability across replays
- agentMessage + reasoning attachment + reasoning consumption
- fileChange: summary without inlined content
- mcpToolCall: namespaced naming + error surfacing
- userMessage: text fragments only (drops images/etc)
- opaque items: no fabricated tool_calls
- Helpers: deterministic id stability + sorted JSON args
- Role alternation invariant across all four tool-shaped item types
This commit is a pure addition. AIAgent integration (the wire that uses the
projector) is the next commit.
* feat(codex-runtime): add session adapter + approval bridge
The third self-contained module: CodexAppServerSession owns one Codex
thread per Hermes session, drives turn/start, consumes streaming
notifications via CodexEventProjector, handles server-initiated approval
requests, and translates cancellation into turn/interrupt.
The adapter has a single public per-turn method:
result = session.run_turn(user_input='...', turn_timeout=600)
# result.final_text → assistant text for the caller
# result.projected_messages → list ready to splice into AIAgent.messages
# result.tool_iterations → tick count for _iters_since_skill nudge
# result.interrupted → True on Ctrl+C / deadline / interrupt
# result.error → error string when the turn cannot complete
# result.turn_id, thread_id → for sessions DB / resume
Behavior:
- ensure_started() spawns codex, does the initialize handshake, and
issues thread/start with cwd + permissions profile. Idempotent.
- run_turn() blocks until turn/completed, drains server-initiated
requests (approvals) before reading notifications so codex never
deadlocks waiting for us, projects every item/completed via the
projector, and increments tool_iterations for the skill nudge gate.
- request_interrupt() is thread-safe (threading.Event); the next loop
iteration issues turn/interrupt and unwinds.
- turn_timeout deadlock guard issues turn/interrupt and records an
error if the turn never completes.
- close() escalates terminate → kill via the underlying client.
Approval bridge:
Codex emits server-initiated requests for execCommandApproval and
applyPatchApproval. The adapter translates Hermes' approval choice
vocabulary onto codex's decision vocabulary:
Hermes 'once' → codex 'approved'
Hermes 'session' or 'always' → codex 'approvedForSession'
Hermes 'deny' / anything else → codex 'denied'
Routing precedence:
1. _ServerRequestRouting.auto_approve_* flags (cron / non-interactive)
2. approval_callback wired by the CLI (defers to
tools.approval.prompt_dangerous_approval())
3. Fail-closed denial when neither is wired
Unknown server-request methods are answered with JSON-RPC error -32601
so codex doesn't hang waiting for us.
Permission profile mapping mirrors AGENTS.md:
Hermes 'auto' → codex 'workspace-write'
Hermes 'approval-required' → codex 'read-only-with-approval'
Hermes 'unrestricted/yolo' → codex 'full-access'
20 new tests, all green. Combined with prior commits this PR now has
67 tests across three modules:
- test_codex_app_server_runtime.py: 24 (api_mode + transport surface)
- test_codex_event_projector.py: 23 (item taxonomy projections)
- test_codex_app_server_session.py: 20 (turn loop + approvals + interrupts)
Full tests/agent/transports/ directory: 249/249 pass — no regressions
to existing transport tests.
Still no wire into AIAgent.run_conversation(); that integration commit
is small and goes next.
* feat(codex-runtime): wire codex_app_server runtime into AIAgent
The integration commit. AIAgent.run_conversation() now early-returns to a
new helper _run_codex_app_server_turn() when self.api_mode ==
'codex_app_server', bypassing the chat_completions tool loop entirely.
Three small surgical edits to run_agent.py (~105 LOC total):
1. Line ~1204 (constructor api_mode validation set):
Add 'codex_app_server' so an explicit api_mode='codex_app_server'
passed to AIAgent() isn't silently rewritten to 'chat_completions'.
2. Line ~12048 (run_conversation, just before the while loop):
Early-return to _run_codex_app_server_turn() when self.api_mode is
'codex_app_server'. Placed AFTER all standard pre-loop setup —
logging context, session DB, surrogate sanitization, _user_turn_count
and _turns_since_memory increments, _ext_prefetch_cache, memory
manager on_turn_start — so behavior outside the model-call loop is
identical between paths. Default Hermes flow is unchanged when the
flag is off.
3. End-of-class (line ~15497):
New method _run_codex_app_server_turn(). Lazy-instantiates one
CodexAppServerSession per AIAgent (reused across turns), runs the
turn, splices projected_messages into messages, increments
_iters_since_skill by tool_iterations (since the chat_completions
loop normally does that per iteration), fires
_spawn_background_review on the same cadence as the default path.
Counter accounting:
_turns_since_memory ← already incremented at run_conversation:11817
(gated on memory store configured) — codex
helper does NOT touch it (would double-count).
_user_turn_count ← already incremented at run_conversation:11793
— codex helper does NOT touch it.
_iters_since_skill ← incremented in the chat_completions loop per
tool iteration. Codex helper increments by
turn.tool_iterations since the loop is bypassed.
User message:
ALREADY appended to messages by run_conversation pre-loop (line 11823)
before the early-return reaches us. Helper does NOT append again.
Regression test test_user_message_not_duplicated guards this.
Approval callback wiring:
Lazy-fetches tools.terminal_tool._get_approval_callback at session
spawn time, passes to CodexAppServerSession. CLI threads with
prompt_toolkit get interactive approvals; gateway/cron contexts get
the codex-side fail-closed deny.
Error path:
Codex session exceptions become a 'partial' result with completed=False
and a final_response that explicitly tells the user how to switch back:
'Codex app-server turn failed: ... Fall back to default runtime with
/codex-runtime auto.' Same return-dict shape as the chat_completions
path so all callers (gateway, CLI, batch_runner, ACP) work unchanged.
9 new integration tests in tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py:
- api_mode='codex_app_server' is accepted on AIAgent construction
- run_conversation returns the expected codex shape
(final_response, codex_thread_id, codex_turn_id, completed, partial)
- Projected messages are spliced into messages list
- _iters_since_skill ticks per tool iteration
- _user_turn_count delegated to standard flow (not double-counted)
- User message appears exactly once (regression guard)
- _spawn_background_review IS invoked (memory/skill review keeps working)
- chat.completions.create is NEVER called (loop fully bypassed)
- Session exception → partial result with /codex-runtime auto hint
- Interrupted turn → partial result with error preserved
Adjacent test runs confirm no regressions:
- tests/run_agent/test_memory_nudge_counter_hydration.py: green
- tests/run_agent/test_background_review.py: green
- tests/run_agent/test_fallback_model.py: green
- tests/agent/transports/: 249/249 green
Still missing for full feature: /codex-runtime slash command, plugin
migration helper, docs page, live e2e test gated on codex binary. Those
are the remaining followup commits.
* feat(codex-runtime): add /codex-runtime slash command (CLI + gateway)
User-facing toggle for the optional codex app-server runtime. Follows the
'Adding a Slash Command (All Platforms)' pattern from AGENTS.md exactly:
single CommandDef in the central registry → CLI handler → gateway handler
→ running-agent guard → all surfaces (autocomplete, /help, Telegram menu,
Slack subcommands) update automatically.
Surface:
/codex-runtime — show current state + codex CLI status
/codex-runtime auto — Hermes default runtime
/codex-runtime codex_app_server — codex subprocess runtime
/codex-runtime on / off — synonyms
Files changed:
hermes_cli/codex_runtime_switch.py (new):
Pure-Python state machine shared by CLI and gateway. Parse args,
read/write model.openai_runtime in the config dict, gate enabling
behind a codex --version check (don't let users opt in to a runtime
they have no binary for; print npm install hint instead).
Returns a CodexRuntimeStatus dataclass that callers render however
suits their surface.
hermes_cli/commands.py:
Single CommandDef entry, no aliases (codex-runtime is its own thing).
cli.py:
Dispatch in process_command() + _handle_codex_runtime() handler that
delegates to the shared module and renders results via _cprint.
gateway/run.py:
Dispatch in _handle_message() + _handle_codex_runtime_command() that
returns a string (gateway sends as message). On a successful change
that requires a new session, _evict_cached_agent() forces the next
inbound message to construct a fresh AIAgent with the new api_mode —
avoids prompt-cache invalidation mid-session.
gateway/run.py running-agent guard:
/codex-runtime joins /model in the early-intercept block so a runtime
flip mid-turn can't split a turn across two transports.
Tests:
tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_switch.py — 25 tests covering the
state machine: arg parsing (10 cases incl. case-insensitive and
synonyms), reading current runtime (5 cases incl. malformed configs),
writing runtime (3 cases), apply() entry point covering read-only,
no-op, codex-missing-blocked, codex-present-success, disable-no-binary-check,
and persist-failure paths (8 cases). All green.
Adjacent test suites confirm no regressions:
- tests/hermes_cli/test_commands.py + test_codex_runtime_switch.py:
167/167 green
- tests/agent/transports/: 283/283 green when combined with prior commits
Still missing: plugin migration helper, docs page, live e2e test gated on
codex binary. Followup commits.
* feat(codex-runtime): auto-migrate Hermes MCP servers to ~/.codex/config.toml
Translates the user's mcp_servers config from ~/.hermes/config.yaml into
the TOML format codex's MCP client expects. Wired into the
/codex-runtime codex_app_server enable path so users get their MCP tool
surface in the spawned subprocess automatically.
The migration runs on every enable. Failures are non-fatal — the runtime
change still proceeds and the user gets a warning so they can fix the
codex config manually.
What translates (mapping verified against codex-rs/core/src/config/edit.rs):
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.command/args/env → codex stdio transport
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.url/headers → codex streamable_http transport
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.timeout → codex tool_timeout_sec
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.connect_timeout → codex startup_timeout_sec
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.cwd → codex stdio cwd
Hermes mcp_servers.<n>.enabled: false → codex enabled = false
What does NOT translate (warned + skipped per server):
Hermes-specific keys (sampling, etc.) — codex's MCP client has no
equivalent. Listed in the per-server skipped[] field of the report.
What's NOT migrated (intentional):
AGENTS.md — codex respects this file natively in its cwd. Hermes' own
AGENTS.md (project-level) is already in the worktree, so codex picks
it up without translation. No code needed.
Idempotency design:
All managed content lives between a 'managed by hermes-agent' marker
and the next non-mcp_servers section header. _strip_existing_managed_block
removes the prior managed region cleanly, preserving any user-added
codex config (model, providers.openai, sandbox profiles, etc.) above
or below.
Files added:
hermes_cli/codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py — pure-Python migration
helper. Public API: migrate(hermes_config, codex_home=None,
dry_run=False) returns MigrationReport with .migrated/.errors/
.skipped_keys_per_server. No external TOML dependency — minimal
formatter handles strings/numbers/booleans/lists/inline-tables.
tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py — 39 tests
covering:
- per-server translation (12): stdio/http/sse, cwd, timeouts,
enabled flag, command+url precedence, sampling drop, unknown keys
- TOML formatter (8): types, escaping, inline tables, error case
- existing-block stripping (4): no marker, alone, with user content
above, with user content below
- end-to-end migrate() (8): empty, dry-run, round-trip, idempotent
re-run, preserves user config, error reporting, invalid input,
summary formatting
Files changed:
hermes_cli/codex_runtime_switch.py — apply() now calls migrate() in
the codex_app_server enable branch. Migration failure logs a warning
in the result message but does NOT fail the runtime change. Disable
path (auto) explicitly skips migration.
tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_switch.py — 3 new tests:
test_enable_triggers_mcp_migration, test_disable_does_not_trigger_migration,
test_migration_failure_does_not_block_enable.
All 325 feature tests green:
- tests/agent/transports/: 249 (incl. 67 new)
- tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py: 9
- tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_switch.py: 28 (3 new)
- tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py: 39 (new)
* perf(codex-runtime): cache codex --version check within apply()
Single /codex-runtime invocation could spawn 'codex --version' up to 3
times (state report, enable gate, success message). Each spawn is ~50ms,
so the cumulative cost wasn't a crisis, but it was wasteful and turned a
trivial slash command into something noticeably laggy on slower systems.
Refactored to lazy-once via a closure over a nonlocal cache. First call
spawns; subsequent calls in the same apply() reuse the result.
Behavior unchanged — same return shape, same error handling, same install
hint when codex is missing. Just one subprocess per call instead of three.
Two regression-guard tests added:
- test_binary_check_cached_within_apply: enable path → call_count == 1
- test_binary_check_cached_on_read_only_call: state-report path → call_count == 1
Total tests for /codex-runtime now 30 (was 28); all 143 codex-runtime
tests still green.
* fix(codex-runtime): correct protocol field names found via live e2e test
Three real bugs caught only by running a turn end-to-end against codex
0.130.0 with a real ChatGPT subscription. Unit tests passed because they
asserted on our own (incorrect) wire shapes; the wire format from
codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/protocol/v2/* is the source of truth and
my initial reading of the README was incomplete.
Bug 1: thread/start.permissions wire format
Was sending {"profileId": "workspace-write"}.
Real format per PermissionProfileSelectionParams enum (tagged union):
{"type": "profile", "id": "workspace-write"}
AND requires the experimentalApi capability declared during initialize.
AND requires a matching [permissions] table in ~/.codex/config.toml or
codex fails the request with 'default_permissions requires a [permissions]
table'.
Fix: stop overriding permissions on thread/start. Codex picks its default
profile (read-only unless user configures otherwise), which matches what
codex CLI users expect — they configure their default permission profile
in ~/.codex/config.toml the standard way. Trying to be clever about
profile selection broke every turn we tested.
Live error before fix: 'Invalid request: missing field type' on every
turn/start, even though our turn/start payload was correct — the field
codex was complaining about was inside the permissions sub-object we
shouldn't have been sending.
Bug 2: server-request method names
Was matching 'execCommandApproval' and 'applyPatchApproval'.
Real names per common.rs ServerRequest enum:
item/commandExecution/requestApproval
item/fileChange/requestApproval
item/permissions/requestApproval (new third method)
Fix: match the documented names. Added handler for
item/permissions/requestApproval that always declines — codex sometimes
asks to escalate permissions mid-turn and silent acceptance would surprise
users.
Live symptom before fix: agent.log showed
'Unknown codex server request: item/commandExecution/requestApproval'
and codex stalled because we replied with -32601 (unsupported method)
instead of an approval decision. The agent reported back 'The write
command was rejected' even though Hermes never showed the user an
approval prompt.
Bug 3: approval decision values
Was sending decision strings 'approved'/'approvedForSession'/'denied'.
Real values per CommandExecutionApprovalDecision enum (camelCase):
accept, acceptForSession, decline, cancel
(also AcceptWithExecpolicyAmendment and ApplyNetworkPolicyAmendment
variants we don't currently use).
Fix: rename _approval_choice_to_codex_decision return values; update
auto_approve_* fallbacks; update fail-closed default from 'denied' to
'decline'. Test mapping table updated to match.
Live test verified after fixes:
$ hermes (with model.openai_runtime: codex_app_server)
> Run the shell command: echo hermes-codex-livetest > .../proof.txt
then read it back
Approval prompt fired with 'Codex requests exec in <cwd>'.
User chose 'Allow once'. Codex executed the command, wrote the file,
read it back. Final response: 'Read back from proof.txt:
hermes-codex-livetest'. File contents on disk match.
agent.log confirms:
codex app-server thread started: id=019e200e profile=workspace-write
cwd=/tmp/hermes-codex-livetest/workspace
All 20 session tests still green after wire-format updates.
* fix(codex-runtime): correct apply_patch approval params + ship docs
Live e2e revealed FileChangeRequestApprovalParams doesn't carry the
changeset (just itemId, threadId, turnId, reason, grantRoot) — Codex's
'reason' field describes what the patch wants to do. Test config and
display logic updated to use it. The first 'apply_patch (0 change(s))'
display from the live test is now 'apply_patch: <reason>'.
Adds website/docs/user-guide/features/codex-app-server-runtime.md
covering enable/disable, prerequisites, approval UX, MCP migration
behavior, permission profile delegation to ~/.codex/config.toml, known
limitations, and the architecture diagram. Wired into the Automation
category in sidebars.ts.
Live e2e validation across the path matrix:
✓ thread/start handshake
✓ turn/start with text input
✓ commandExecution items + projection
✓ item/commandExecution/requestApproval → Hermes UI → response
✓ Approve once → command runs
✓ Deny → command rejected, codex falls back to read-only message
✓ Multi-turn (codex remembers prior turn's results)
✓ apply_patch via Codex's fileChange path
✓ item/fileChange/requestApproval → Hermes UI
✓ MCP server migration loads inside spawned codex (verified via
'use the filesystem MCP tool' prompt)
✓ /codex-runtime auto → codex_app_server toggle cycle
✓ Disable doesn't trigger migration
✓ Enable with codex CLI present succeeds + migrates
✓ Hermes-side interrupt path (turn/interrupt request issued cleanly
even if codex finishes before the interrupt lands)
Known live-validated limitations now documented in the docs page:
- delegate_task subagents unavailable on this runtime
- permission profile selection delegated to ~/.codex/config.toml
- apply_patch approval prompt has no inline changeset (codex protocol
doesn't expose it)
145/145 codex-runtime tests still green.
* feat(codex-runtime): native plugin migration + UX polish (quirks 2/4/5/10/11)
Major: migrate native Codex plugins (#7 in OpenClaw's PR list)
Discovers installed curated plugins via codex's plugin/list RPC and
writes [plugins."<name>@<marketplace>"] entries to ~/.codex/config.toml
so they're enabled in the spawned Codex sessions. This is the
'YouTube-video-worthy' bit Pash highlighted: when a user has
google-calendar, github, etc. installed in their Codex CLI, those
plugins activate automatically when they enable Hermes' codex runtime.
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py: new _query_codex_plugins()
helper spawns 'codex app-server' briefly and walks plugin/list. Returns
(plugins, error) — failures are non-fatal so MCP migration still works.
- render_codex_toml_section() now takes plugins + permissions args.
- migrate() defaults: discover_plugins=True, default_permission_profile=
'workspace-write'. Explicit None on either disables that side.
- _strip_existing_managed_block() now also strips [plugins.*] and
[permissions]/[permissions.*] sections inside the managed block, so
re-runs replace plugins cleanly without touching codex's own config.
Quirk fixes:
#2 Default permissions profile written on enable.
Without this, Codex's read-only default kicks in and EVERY write
triggers an approval prompt. Now writes [permissions] default =
'workspace-write' so the runtime feels normal out of the box. Set
default_permission_profile=None to opt out.
#4 apply_patch approval prompt now shows what's changing.
Codex's FileChangeRequestApprovalParams doesn't carry the changeset.
Session adapter now caches the fileChange item from item/started
notifications and looks it up by itemId when codex requests approval.
Prompt shows '1 add, 1 update: /tmp/new.py, /tmp/old.py' instead of
'apply_patch (0 change(s))'.
Side benefit: also drains pending notifications BEFORE handling a
server request, so the projector and per-turn caches are up to date
when the approval decision fires. Bounded to 8 notifications per
loop iter to avoid starving codex's response.
#5/#10 Exec approval prompt never shows empty cwd.
When codex omits cwd in CommandExecutionRequestApprovalParams, fall
back to the session's cwd. If somehow neither is available, show
'<unknown>' explicitly instead of an empty string.
Also surfaces 'reason' from the approval params when codex provides
it — gives users more context on why codex wants to run something.
#11 Banner indicates the codex_app_server runtime when active.
New 'Runtime: codex app-server (terminal/file ops/MCP run inside
codex)' line appears in the welcome banner only when the runtime is
on. Default banner is unchanged.
Tests:
- 7 new tests in test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py covering
plugin discovery (mocked), failure handling, dry-run skip, opt-out
flag, idempotent re-runs, and permissions writing.
- 3 new tests in test_codex_app_server_session.py covering the
enriched approval prompts: cwd fallback, change summary on
apply_patch, fallback when no item/started cache exists.
- All 26 session tests + 46 migration tests green; 153 total in PR.
* feat(codex-runtime): hermes-tools MCP callback + native plugin migration
The big architectural addition: when codex_app_server runtime is on,
Hermes registers its own tool surface as an MCP server in
~/.codex/config.toml so the codex subprocess can call back into Hermes
for tools codex doesn't ship with — web_search, browser_*, vision,
image_generate, skills, TTS.
Also: 'migrate native codex plugins' (Pash's YouTube-video-worthy bit) —
when the user has plugins like Linear, GitHub, Gmail, Calendar, Canva
installed via 'codex plugin', Hermes discovers them via plugin/list and
writes [plugins.<name>@openai-curated] entries so they activate
automatically.
New module: agent/transports/hermes_tools_mcp_server.py
FastMCP stdio server exposing 17 Hermes tools. Each call dispatches
through model_tools.handle_function_call() — same code path as the
Hermes default runtime. Run with:
python -m agent.transports.hermes_tools_mcp_server [--verbose]
Exposed: web_search, web_extract, browser_navigate / _click / _type /
_press / _snapshot / _scroll / _back / _get_images / _console /
_vision, vision_analyze, image_generate, skill_view, skills_list,
text_to_speech.
NOT exposed (deliberately):
- terminal/shell/read_file/write_file/patch — codex has built-ins
- delegate_task/memory/session_search/todo — _AGENT_LOOP_TOOLS in
model_tools.py:493, require running AIAgent context. Documented
as a limitation and surfaced in the slash command output.
Migration changes (hermes_cli/codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py):
- _query_codex_plugins() spawns 'codex app-server' briefly to walk
plugin/list and pull installed openai-curated plugins. Failures are
non-fatal — MCP migration still completes.
- render_codex_toml_section() now takes plugins + permissions args
AND wraps the managed block with a MIGRATION_END_MARKER comment so
the stripper can reliably find both ends, even when the block
contains top-level keys (default_permissions = ...).
- migrate() defaults: discover_plugins=True, expose_hermes_tools=True,
default_permission_profile=':workspace' (built-in codex profile name
— must be prefixed with ':'). All three opt-out via explicit args.
- _build_hermes_tools_mcp_entry() builds the codex stdio entry with
HERMES_HOME and PYTHONPATH passthrough so a worktree-launched
Hermes points the MCP subprocess at the same module layout.
Live-caught wire bugs fixed during this turn:
1. Permission profile config key is top-level , NOT a [permissions] table. The [permissions] table is
for *user-defined* profiles with structured fields. Built-in
profile names start with ':' (':workspace', ':read-only',
':danger-no-sandbox'). Was emitting
which codex rejected with 'invalid type: string "X", expected
struct PermissionProfileToml'.
2. Built-in profile is , NOT . Codex
rejected with 'unknown built-in profile'.
3. Codex's MCP layer sends for
tool-call confirmation. We weren't handling it, so codex stalled
and returned 'MCP tool call was rejected'. Now: auto-accept for
our own hermes-tools server (user already opted in by enabling
the runtime), decline for third-party servers.
Quirk fixes shipped (from the limitations list):
#2 default permissions: workspace profile written on enable. No more
approval prompt on every write.
#4 apply_patch approval shows what's changing: cache fileChange
items from item/started, look up by itemId when codex sends
item/fileChange/requestApproval. Prompt: '1 add, 1 update:
/tmp/new.py, /tmp/old.py' instead of '0 change(s)'.
#5/#10 exec approval cwd never empty: fall back to session cwd, then
'<unknown>'. Also surfaces 'reason' from codex when present.
#11 banner shows 'Runtime: codex app-server' line when active so
users understand why tool counts may not match what's reachable.
Tests:
- 5 new tests in test_codex_runtime_plugin_migration.py covering
plugin discovery, expose_hermes_tools entry generation, idempotent
re-runs, opt-out flag, permissions profile.
- 3 new tests in test_codex_app_server_session.py covering enriched
approval prompts (cwd fallback, fileChange summary).
- 2 new tests for mcpServer/elicitation/request handling (accept
hermes-tools, decline others).
- New test file test_hermes_tools_mcp_server.py covering module
surface, EXPOSED_TOOLS safety invariants (no shell/file_ops,
no agent-loop tools), and main() error paths.
- 166 codex-runtime tests total, all green.
Live e2e validated against codex 0.130.0 + ChatGPT subscription:
✓ /codex-runtime codex_app_server enables, migrates filesystem MCP,
registers hermes-tools, writes default_permissions = ':workspace'
✓ Banner shows 'Runtime: codex app-server' line in subsequent sessions
✓ Shell command runs without approval prompt (workspace profile works)
✓ Multi-turn — codex remembers prior turn's results
✓ apply_patch path via fileChange request approval
✓ web_search via hermes-tools MCP callback returns real Firecrawl
results: 'OpenAI Codex CLI – Getting Started' end-to-end in 13s
✓ Disable cycle clean
Docs updated: website/docs/user-guide/features/codex-app-server-runtime.md
Full re-write covering native plugin migration, the hermes-tools
callback architecture, the prerequisites change ('codex login is
separate from hermes auth login codex'), the trade-off table now
reflecting which Hermes tools work via callback, and the limitations
list updated with what's actually unavailable on this runtime.
* feat(codex-runtime): pin user-config preservation invariant for quirk #6
Quirk #6 from the limitations list — user MCP servers / overrides /
codex-only sections in ~/.codex/config.toml that live OUTSIDE the
hermes-managed block must survive re-migration verbatim.
This already worked thanks to the MIGRATION_MARKER + MIGRATION_END_MARKER
pair I added when fixing the default_permissions wire format (so the
strip can find both ends of the managed region even with top-level
keys like default_permissions). But it was an emergent property
without a test pinning it.
Now explicitly tested:
- User MCP server above the managed block survives migration
- User MCP server below the managed block survives migration
- Both above + below survive a second re-migration
- User content (model, providers, sandbox, otel, etc.) outside our
region is left untouched
Docs added a section "Editing ~/.codex/config.toml safely" explaining
the marker contract — so users know they can add their own MCP
servers, override permissions, configure codex-only options, etc.
without fear of Hermes overwriting their work.
167 codex-runtime tests, all green.
* docs(codex-runtime): clarify the actual tool surface — shell covers terminal/read/write/find
Previous docs and PR description undersold what codex's built-in
toolset actually provides. apply_patch alone made it sound like the
runtime could only edit files in patch format — implying you'd lose
terminal use, read_file, write_file, search/find. That was wrong.
Codex's 'shell' tool runs arbitrary shell commands inside the sandbox,
which covers everything you'd do in bash: cat/head/tail (read), echo>
or heredocs (write), find/rg/grep (search), ls/cd (navigate), build/
test/git/etc. apply_patch is for structured multi-file edits on top
of that. update_plan is its in-runtime todo. view_image loads images.
And codex has its own web_search built in (in addition to the
Firecrawl-backed one Hermes exposes via MCP callback).
Docs now have a 'What tools the model actually has' section right
after Why, breaking the surface into three clearly-labeled buckets:
1. Codex's built-in toolset (always on) — shell, apply_patch,
update_plan, view_image, web_search; covers everything terminal-
adjacent.
2. Native Codex plugins (auto-migrated from your codex plugin
install) — Linear, GitHub, Gmail, Calendar, Outlook, Canva, etc.
3. Hermes tool callback (MCP server in ~/.codex/config.toml) —
web_search/web_extract via Firecrawl, browser_*, vision_analyze,
image_generate, skill_view/skills_list, text_to_speech.
Plus a 'What's NOT available' callout listing the four agent-loop tools
(delegate_task, memory, session_search, todo) that need running
AIAgent context and can't reach the codex runtime.
Trade-offs table broken out: shell, apply_patch, update_plan,
view_image, sandbox each get their own row with a one-line description
so users can see at a glance what's available natively.
Architecture diagram updated to list the codex built-ins by name
instead of 'apply_patch + shell + sandbox'.
No code changes — purely docs clarification. 167 codex-runtime tests
still green.
* fix(codex-runtime): _spawn_background_review signature + review fork api_mode downgrade
Two real bugs in the self-improvement loop integration that the previous
test mocked away.
Bug 1: wrong call signature
The codex helper was calling self._spawn_background_review() with no
args after every turn. That function actually requires:
messages_snapshot=list (positional or keyword)
review_memory=bool (at least one trigger must be True)
review_skills=bool
So the call would have raised TypeError at runtime — except the only
test that exercised this path mocked _spawn_background_review entirely
and just asserted spawn.called, so the wrong-arg shape never surfaced.
Bug 2: review fork inherits codex_app_server api_mode
The review fork is constructed with:
api_mode = _parent_runtime.get('api_mode')
So when the parent is codex_app_server, the review fork ALSO runs as
codex_app_server. But the review fork's whole job is to call agent-loop
tools (memory, skill_manage) which require Hermes' own dispatch — they
short-circuit with 'must be handled by the agent loop' on the codex
runtime. So the review fork would have run, decided to save something,
called memory or skill_manage, and silently no-op'd.
Fixed in run_agent.py:_spawn_background_review() — when the parent
api_mode is 'codex_app_server', the review fork is downgraded to
'codex_responses' (same OAuth credentials, same openai-codex provider,
but talks to OpenAI's Responses API directly so Hermes owns the loop).
Also rewrote the codex helper's review wiring to match the
chat_completions path:
- Computes _should_review_memory in the pre-loop block (was already
being computed; now passed through to the helper as an arg).
- Computes _should_review_skills AFTER the codex turn returns +
counters tick (line ~15432 pattern in chat_completions).
- Calls _spawn_background_review(messages_snapshot=, review_memory=,
review_skills=) only when at least one trigger fires.
- Adds the external memory provider sync (_sync_external_memory_for_turn)
that the chat_completions path runs after every turn.
Tests:
Replaced the broken test_background_review_invoked (which only
asserted spawn.called) with three sharper tests:
- test_background_review_NOT_invoked_below_threshold:
single turn at default thresholds → no review fires (would have
caught the original 'every turn calls spawn with no args' bug)
- test_background_review_skill_trigger_fires_above_threshold:
10 tool_iterations at threshold=10 → review fires with
messages_snapshot=list, review_skills=True, counter resets
- test_background_review_signature_never_breaks: regression guard
asserting positional args are always empty and kwargs include
messages_snapshot
New TestReviewForkApiModeDowngrade class:
- test_codex_app_server_parent_downgrades_review_fork: drives the
real _spawn_background_review function (no mock at that level),
asserts the review_agent gets api_mode='codex_responses' when
the parent was codex_app_server.
Live-validated against real run_conversation:
- Counter ticked from 0 to 5 after a 5-tool-iteration turn
- _spawn_background_review fired exactly once with kwargs-only signature
- review_skills=True, review_memory=False
- messages_snapshot was 12 entries (5 assistant tool_calls + 5 tool
results + 1 final assistant + initial system/user)
- Counter reset to 0 after fire
170 codex-runtime tests, all green.
Docs: added a Self-improvement loop section to the codex runtime page
explaining both how the trigger logic stays equivalent and that the
review fork is auto-downgraded to codex_responses for the agent-loop
tools. Also clarified that apply_patch and update_plan ARE codex's
built-in tools (the previous version made it sound like they were
separate from 'codex's stuff' — they're not, all five tools listed
in 'What tools the model actually has' section 1 are codex built-ins).
* feat(codex-runtime): expose kanban tools through Hermes MCP callback
Kanban workers spawn as separate hermes chat -q subprocesses that read
the user's config.yaml. If model.openai_runtime: codex_app_server is set
globally (which is the whole point of opt-in), every dispatched worker
ALSO comes up on the codex runtime.
That mostly works — codex's built-in shell + apply_patch + update_plan
do the actual task work fine — but it had one critical break: the
worker handoff tools (kanban_complete, kanban_block, kanban_comment,
kanban_heartbeat) are Hermes-registered tools, not codex built-ins.
On the codex runtime, codex builds its own tool list and these never
reach the model, so the worker would do the work but not be able to
report back, hanging until the dispatcher's timeout escalates it as
zombie.
Fix: add all 9 kanban tools to the EXPOSED_TOOLS list in the Hermes
MCP callback. They dispatch statelessly through handle_function_call()
just like web_search and the others — they read HERMES_KANBAN_TASK
from env (set by the dispatcher), gate correctly (worker tools require
the env var, orchestrator tools require it unset), and write to
~/.hermes/kanban.db.
Why kanban tools work via stateless dispatch when delegate_task/memory/
session_search/todo don't: those four are listed in _AGENT_LOOP_TOOLS
(model_tools.py:493) and short-circuit in handle_function_call() with
'must be handled by the agent loop' — they need to mutate AIAgent's
mid-loop state. Kanban tools have no such requirement; they're pure
side-effect functions against the kanban.db plus state_meta.
Tools exposed:
Worker handoff (require HERMES_KANBAN_TASK):
kanban_complete, kanban_block, kanban_comment, kanban_heartbeat
Read-only board queries:
kanban_show, kanban_list
Orchestrator (require HERMES_KANBAN_TASK unset):
kanban_create, kanban_unblock, kanban_link
Tests:
- test_kanban_worker_tools_exposed: complete/block/comment/heartbeat
in EXPOSED_TOOLS (regression guard for the would-hang-worker bug)
- test_kanban_orchestrator_tools_exposed: create/show/list/unblock/link
Docs:
- New 'Workflow features' section in the docs page covering /goal,
kanban, and cron behavior on this runtime
- /goal: works fully via run_conversation feedback; only caveat is
approval-prompt noise on long writes-heavy goals (mitigated by
the default :workspace permission profile)
- Kanban: enumerated which tools are reachable via the callback and
why the env var propagates correctly through the codex subprocess
to the MCP server subprocess
- Cron: documented as 'not specifically tested' — same rules as the
CLI apply since cron runs through AIAgent.run_conversation
- Trade-offs table gained rows for /goal, kanban worker, kanban
orchestrator
172/172 codex-runtime tests green (+2 from kanban tests).
* docs(codex-runtime): wire /codex-runtime into slash-commands ref + flag aux token cost
Three docs gaps caught during a final audit:
1. /codex-runtime was only in the feature docs page, not in the
slash-commands reference. Added rows to both the CLI section and
the Messaging section so users discover it where they'd look for
slash command syntax.
2. CODEX_HOME and HERMES_KANBAN_TASK weren't in environment-variables.md.
CODEX_HOME lets users redirect Codex CLI's config dir (the migration
honors it). HERMES_KANBAN_TASK is set by the kanban dispatcher and
propagates to the codex subprocess + the hermes-tools MCP subprocess
so kanban worker tools gate correctly — documented as 'don't set
manually' since it's an internal handoff.
3. Aux client behavior on this runtime. When openai_runtime=
codex_app_server is on with the openai-codex provider, every aux
task (title generation, context compression, vision auto-detect,
session search summarization, the background self-improvement review
fork) flows through the user's ChatGPT subscription by default.
This is true for the existing codex_responses path too, but it's
more visible / important here because users explicitly opted in for
subscription billing. Added a 'Auxiliary tasks and ChatGPT
subscription token cost' section to the docs page with a YAML
example showing how to override specific aux tasks to a cheaper
model (typically google/gemini-3-flash-preview via OpenRouter).
Also documents how the self-improvement review fork gets
auto-downgraded from codex_app_server to codex_responses by the
fix earlier in this PR.
No code changes — pure docs. 172 codex-runtime tests still green.
* docs+test(codex-runtime): pin HOME passthrough, document multi-profile + CODEX_HOME
OpenClaw hit a real footgun in openclaw/openclaw#81562: when spawning
codex app-server they were synthesizing a per-agent HOME alongside
CODEX_HOME. That made every subprocess codex's shell tool launches
(gh, git, aws, npm, gcloud, ...) see a fake $HOME and miss the user's
real config files. They had to back it out in PR #81562 — keep
CODEX_HOME isolation, leave HOME alone.
Audit confirms Hermes' codex spawn doesn't have this problem. We do
os.environ.copy() and only overlay CODEX_HOME (when provided) and
RUST_LOG. HOME passes through unchanged. But it was an emergent
property without a test pinning it, so adding a regression guard:
test_spawn_env_preserves_HOME — confirms parent HOME survives intact
in the subprocess env
test_spawn_env_sets_CODEX_HOME_when_provided — confirms codex_home
arg still isolates
codex state correctly
Docs additions:
'HOME environment variable passthrough' section — calls out the
contract explicitly: CODEX_HOME isolates codex's own state, HOME
stays user-real so gh/git/aws/npm/etc. find their normal config.
Cites openclaw#81562 as the cautionary tale.
'Multi-profile / multi-tenant setups' section — addresses the
related concern: profiles share ~/.codex/ by default. For users who
want per-profile codex isolation (separate auth, separate plugins),
documents the manual CODEX_HOME=<profile-scoped-dir> approach.
Explains why we DON'T auto-scope CODEX_HOME per profile: doing so
would silently invalidate existing codex login state for anyone
upgrading to this PR with tokens already at ~/.codex/auth.json.
Opt-in is safer than surprising users.
174 codex-runtime tests (+2 from HOME guards), all green.
* fix(codex-runtime): TOML control-char escapes + atomic config.toml write
Two footguns caught in a final audit pass before merge.
Bug 1: TOML control characters not escaped
The _format_toml_value() helper escaped backslashes and double quotes
but passed literal control characters (\n, \t, \r, \f, \b) through
unchanged. TOML basic strings don't allow literal control characters
— a path or env var containing a newline would produce invalid TOML
that codex refuses to load.
Realistic exposure: pathological cases like a HERMES_HOME with a
trailing newline (env var concatenation accident), or a PYTHONPATH
with a tab from a multi-line shell heredoc.
Fix: escape all five TOML basic-string control sequences (\b \t \n
\f \r) in addition to \\ and \" that we already did. Order
matters — backslash must come first or the other escapes get
re-escaped.
Bug 2: config.toml write wasn't atomic
If the python process crashed between target.mkdir() and the
write_text() finishing, a half-written config.toml could be left
behind. On NFS / Windows / some FUSE mounts this is a real concern;
on ext4/APFS small writes are usually atomic in practice but not
guaranteed.
Fix: write to a tempfile.mkstemp() temp file in the same directory,
then Path.replace() (atomic same-dir rename on POSIX, ReplaceFile on
Windows). On rename failure, clean up the temp file so repeated
failed migrations don't pile up .config.toml.* files.
Tests:
- test_string_with_newline_escaped — \n in value → \n in output
- test_string_with_tab_escaped — \t in value → \t in output
- test_string_with_other_controls_escaped — \r, \f, \b
- test_windows_path_escaped_correctly — backslash doubling
- test_atomic_write_no_temp_leak_on_success — no .config.toml.*
left over after a successful write
- test_atomic_write_cleanup_on_rename_failure — temp file removed
when Path.replace raises (simulated disk full)
180 codex-runtime tests, all green (+6 from this commit).
Footguns audited but NOT fixed (with rationale):
- Concurrent migrations race. Two Hermes processes hitting
/codex-runtime codex_app_server within seconds of each other could
cause one writer to lose entries. Low probability (you'd have to
enable from two surfaces simultaneously) and low impact (just re-run
migration). Adding fcntl/msvcrt locking is more code than it's
worth here. The atomic rename above means each individual write is
consistent — only the merge step is racy.
- Codex protocol version drift. We pin MIN_CODEX_VERSION=0.125 and
check at runtime but don't reject too-new versions. Right call —
the protocol has been stable through 0.125 → 0.130. If OpenAI
breaks it later we'd see the error in test_codex_app_server_runtime
on CI before users hit it.
Drops the duplicate _FILE_MUTATING_TOOLS frozenset in run_agent.py and
imports the canonical FILE_MUTATING_TOOL_NAMES from
agent/tool_result_classification.py (aliased as _FILE_MUTATING_TOOLS to
avoid renaming the existing call sites). Prevents future drift if
another file-mutating tool is added — only one set needs updating.
No behavior change: same frozenset({'write_file', 'patch'}), and the
117 PR-scoped tests still pass.
* feat(nous): unified client=hermes-client-v<version> tag on every Portal request
Every Hermes request to Nous Portal now carries the same
client=hermes-client-v<__version__> tag (e.g. client=hermes-client-v0.13.0
on this release), sourced live from hermes_cli.__version__. The release
script's regex bump auto-aligns it on every release.
Centralized in agent/portal_tags.py and wired into all four call sites:
- NousProfile.build_extra_body (main agent loop, every chat completion)
- auxiliary_client.NOUS_EXTRA_BODY + _build_call_kwargs (aux client)
- run_agent.py compression-summary fallback path
- tools/web_tools.py web_extract fallback
Replaces the client=aux marker added in #24194 with the unified version
tag. Tests assert against the helper output (invariant) rather than the
literal string, so they don't need updating on every release.
* feat(nous): cover /goal judge and kanban specify aux paths
Two aux-using surfaces bypassed call_llm by invoking
client.chat.completions.create() directly without extra_body, so they
were missing the unified Portal client tag:
- hermes_cli/goals.py — /goal standing-goal judge
- hermes_cli/kanban_specify.py — kanban triage specifier
Both now pass extra_body=get_auxiliary_extra_body() or None so they
inherit the version tag when the aux client points at Nous Portal, and
emit nothing otherwise (no tag leak to OpenRouter/Anthropic auxes).
The long-lived prefix-cache layout split the system prompt into stable/
context/volatile blocks and re-derived them on every API call. The
volatile tier (timestamp + memory snapshot + USER profile) ticks per
turn, so the system message bytes mutated mid-conversation and broke
upstream prompt caches (OpenRouter, Nous Portal, Anthropic).
Diagnosed via live wire-format diffing: an 8-turn conversation showed
OLD layout flipping system block[1] sha mid-session at the minute
boundary, dropping cached_tokens to 0 on that turn (cumulative
66.6% vs 83.3% for the single-block layout). Hermes invariant:
history (system + all but the last 1-2 messages) must be static.
Fix: drop the long-lived layout entirely. Single layout everywhere —
system_and_3 with one cached system string built once on first turn,
replayed verbatim on every subsequent turn. Loses cross-session 1h
prefix caching for Claude (the feature that motivated the split), but
within-session caching now actually works on every provider.
Removed:
- run_agent.py: _use_long_lived_prefix_cache flag, _long_lived_cache_ttl,
_supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache method, the long-lived branch in
run_conversation, mark_tools_for_long_lived_cache call site
- agent/prompt_caching.py: apply_anthropic_cache_control_long_lived,
mark_tools_for_long_lived_cache, _mark_system_stable_block helper
- hermes_cli/config.py: prompt_caching.long_lived_prefix and
prompt_caching.long_lived_ttl config keys
- tests/agent/test_prompt_caching_live.py (entire file)
- tests/agent/test_prompt_caching.py: TestMarkToolsForLongLivedCache,
TestApplyAnthropicCacheControlLongLived
- tests/run_agent/test_anthropic_prompt_cache_policy.py:
TestSupportsLongLivedAnthropicCache
Targeted tests: 62/62 pass.
When switching models via /model, AIAgent._config_context_length was
never cleared, so the new model inherited the previous model's context
window instead of auto-detecting the correct one via
get_model_context_length().
Clear _config_context_length to None before the runtime field swap so
the full resolution chain (custom_providers per-model, endpoint probe,
models.dev, etc.) is re-evaluated for the newly selected model.
Closes#21509
PR #24151 routed Portal Qwen (qwen3.6-plus) through the prefix_and_2
long-lived cache layout, attaching {"type":"ephemeral","ttl":"1h"}
markers to the tools[-1] entry and the stable system-prefix block.
That layout works for Portal Claude because Anthropic / OpenRouter on
Anthropic routes honour 1h TTL — but Portal Qwen ultimately proxies to
Alibaba DashScope, which documents a single "ephemeral" TTL of 5
minutes on its Context Cache. The ttl="1h" qualifier is silently
dropped upstream, so the two highest-value breakpoints (tools array +
system prefix) never land. Only the rolling-window 5m markers on the
last 2 messages cache, which matches the observed ~25% read rate.
Fix: keep Portal Qwen on cache_control via _anthropic_prompt_cache_policy
returning (True, False), but drop it from _supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache
so it rides the standard system_and_3 5m layout (system + last 3 messages,
all at 5m). Same 4 breakpoints, all in a TTL the upstream actually honours.
Refs: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/context-cachehttps://openrouter.ai/docs/features/prompt-caching (Alibaba Qwen
section: "TTL: 5 minutes")
- _supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache: Portal scope narrowed back to Claude
- tests: flip the two qwen long-lived expectations to False, retitle
non_claude_non_qwen_rejected -> non_claude_rejected
Detect when write_file / patch calls fail during a turn and are never
superseded by a successful write to the same path. When the final
text response is delivered, append an advisory footer listing the
files that did NOT change — so models that over-claim 'patched 5 files'
after 4 silent failures can't hide the lie.
Catches the failure mode reported in Ben Eng's llm-wiki session:
grok-4.1-fast issued batches of parallel patches, half failed with
'Could not find old_string', and the agent summarised the turn
claiming every file was edited. The user had to manually run
'git status' each turn to catch it.
The verifier is a pure post-hoc check on tool results — no new LLM
calls, no synthetic messages injected into history (prompt cache
preserved), no changes to tool argument dispatch. Per-turn state is
keyed by path; a later successful write to the same path clears the
failure entry so single-file retry recovery is not flagged.
Wired into both _execute_tool_calls_concurrent and
_execute_tool_calls_sequential, so batched parallel patches and one-at-
a-time edits are both covered. Footer emission happens after the
agent loop exits, before transform_llm_output / post_llm_call plugin
hooks run, so plugins still see (and can modify) the augmented text.
Config: display.file_mutation_verifier (bool, default true) +
HERMES_FILE_MUTATION_VERIFIER env override.
31 unit tests in tests/run_agent/test_file_mutation_verifier.py cover
target extraction (write_file, patch-replace, patch-v4a single and
multi-file), error-preview extraction (JSON .error field and plain
string), per-turn state transitions (first-error-wins on repeated
failure, success supersedes failure), footer rendering (truncation
at 10 entries, user-actionable hint), and env/config precedence.
Companion docs updated: user-guide/configuration.md +
reference/environment-variables.md.
Qwen models on Nous Portal (e.g. qwen3.6-plus) now get the same envelope-layout
cache_control markers and long-lived (1h cross-session) cache treatment as
Portal Claude. Portal proxies to OpenRouter with identical wire-format and
cache_control semantics, but the prior policy left Portal Qwen falling through
to the alibaba-family branch (which only matches provider=opencode/alibaba),
serving 0% cache hits and re-billing the full prompt every turn.
Scope is narrow: Portal Claude OR Portal Qwen. Other models on Portal keep
their existing behavior.
- _anthropic_prompt_cache_policy: add (is_nous_portal and qwen) -> (True, False)
- _supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache: drop Claude-only gate for Portal so
Qwen also gets the validated 1h cross-session layout
- tests cover both functions, both bare and vendored qwen slug forms, and
the rejection of non-Claude non-Qwen Portal traffic
Set HERMES_SESSION_ID using the existing session_context.py ContextVar
system for concurrency safety (multiple gateway sessions in one process
won't cross-talk). Also writes os.environ as fallback for CLI mode.
Touchpoints:
- gateway/session_context.py: Add _SESSION_ID ContextVar + _VAR_MAP entry
- run_agent.py: Set both ContextVar and os.environ at init and on
context-compression rotation
- tools/environments/local.py: Bridge ContextVars into subprocess env
in _make_run_env() (ContextVars don't propagate to child processes)
- tests/run_agent/test_session_id_env.py: 3 tests covering env, provided
ID, and ContextVar paths
execute_code subprocess already passes HERMES_* prefixed vars through
_scrub_child_env (line 82: _SAFE_ENV_PREFIXES includes 'HERMES_').
Primary use case: webhook-triggered agents that need to include a
`--resume <session_id>` takeover command in their output.
Cuts input cost for first-turn Claude requests by ~85-90% on subsequent
sessions within an hour. Tools array (~13k tokens for default toolset) +
stable system prefix (~5-8k tokens) get a 1h cache_control marker; the
volatile suffix (memory, USER profile, timestamp, session id) sits in a
separate non-cached block at the end so it doesn't poison the cross-session
prefix when it changes.
Provider gate: Claude on native Anthropic (incl. OAuth subscription),
OpenRouter, and Nous Portal (which proxies to OpenRouter). All other
providers keep today's system_and_3 layout unchanged.
Layout (4 cache_control breakpoints, Anthropic max):
1. tools[-1] -> 1h (cross-session)
2. system content[0] -> 1h (cross-session, stable prefix)
3. messages[-2] -> 5m (within-session rolling)
4. messages[-1] -> 5m (within-session rolling)
Within-session rolling shrinks from 3 messages to 2 to free the breakpoint
budget. On Claude with realistic tool loadouts the long-lived tier carries
the bulk of cross-session value anyway.
System prompt is now always assembled cache-friendly: stable identity /
guidance / skills / platform hints first, then session-stable context
files (AGENTS.md, .cursorrules), then per-call volatile content. Old
single-string callers see the same logical content (same join order),
just reordered so volatile lives at the end.
Config knobs (defaults shown):
prompt_caching:
cache_ttl: "5m" # rolling-window TTL (unchanged)
long_lived_prefix: true # opt-out switch
long_lived_ttl: "1h" # cross-session prefix TTL
Live E2E (tests/agent/test_prompt_caching_live.py, gated on
OPENROUTER_API_KEY) on anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 with default toolset:
Call 1 (cold): cache_write=13,415 cache_read=0
Call 2 (NEW agent + msg): cache_write=391 cache_read=13,025
Cross-session reuse: 97.09%
Implementation:
* agent/prompt_caching.py: new apply_anthropic_cache_control_long_lived()
+ mark_tools_for_long_lived_cache(); existing apply_anthropic_cache_control()
preserved verbatim for the fallback path.
* agent/anthropic_adapter.py: convert_tools_to_anthropic() now forwards
cache_control onto each Anthropic-format tool dict.
* run_agent.py: _build_system_prompt_parts() returns the 3-tier dict;
_build_system_prompt() joins them (backward compatible).
_supports_long_lived_anthropic_cache() policy added next to the existing
_anthropic_prompt_cache_policy() (which now also recognises Nous Portal
Claude — pre-existing gap fixed in passing).
_build_api_kwargs() resolves tools_for_api once and propagates the
marker through all four build paths (anthropic_messages, bedrock,
codex_responses, profile/legacy chat completions).
Long-lived flag plumbed into the runtime snapshot/restore + model-switch
+ fallback-promotion paths.
Tests:
* tests/agent/test_prompt_caching.py: +8 tests (TestMarkToolsForLongLivedCache,
TestApplyAnthropicCacheControlLongLived).
* tests/run_agent/test_anthropic_prompt_cache_policy.py: +9 tests
(TestSupportsLongLivedAnthropicCache matrix across 8 endpoint classes
+ a fallback-target case).
* tests/agent/test_prompt_caching_live.py: new live E2E (skipif when
OPENROUTER_API_KEY is unset; runs outside the hermetic suite).
* Targeted suites: 327/327 pass (caching/adapter/policy/builder).
* tests/agent/ + tests/run_agent/: 3992 pass, 17 skip, 1 pre-existing
flake (test_async_httpx_del_neuter::test_same_key_replaces_stale_loop_entry,
verified failing on pristine origin/main).
Replace with for all literal-tuple
membership tests. Set lookup is O(1) vs O(n) for tuple — consistent
micro-optimization across the codebase.
608 instances fixed via `ruff --fix --unsafe-fixes`, 0 remaining.
133 files, +626/-626 (net zero).
When the user's main provider is openai-codex on the ChatGPT-account
backend (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex), sending a native image
attachment encodes it as data:image/...base64,... in the input_image
field. The OpenAI Responses API on the public endpoint accepts that, but
the ChatGPT-account variant rejects it with HTTP 400:
Invalid 'input[N].content[K].image_url'. Expected a valid URL, but got
a value with an invalid format.
Hermes' image-rejection phrase list didn't include this wording, so the
error escaped the strip-and-retry branch and fell through to the generic
recovery path: model fallback → context-too-large → compression cascade
→ auxiliary OpenRouter 402 spam (issue #23570).
Add a NARROW phrase keyed on the field-path apostrophe used by the Codex
Responses error format: "image_url'. expected". This matches the actual
error format without false-tripping on generic 'Expected a valid URL'
errors from unrelated tools (webhooks, redirect_uri, etc.). Once matched,
the existing branch strips images from history, sets _vision_supported=
False for the session, and retries text-only.
Refs #23570 (1 of 3 image-replay improvements; persistence rewrite to
store image PATHS instead of inlined base64 is a separate follow-up)
* Revert "fix(goals): force judge to use tool calls instead of JSON-text replies (#23547)"
This reverts commit a63a2b7c78.
* Revert "fix(goals): forward standing /goal state on auto-compression session rotation (#23530)"
This reverts commit 4a080b1d5a.
* Revert "feat(goals): /goal checklist + /subgoal user controls (#23456)"
This reverts commit 404640a2b7.
When a kanban worker subprocess hits the iteration budget, the agent
loop strips tools and asks the model for a summary. The model cannot
call kanban_block itself at that point, so the process exits rc=0
without calling kanban_complete or kanban_block — a protocol violation
that the dispatcher detects as a fatal error, giving up after 1 failure
and stranding downstream tasks.
Fix: after _handle_max_iterations() returns, check HERMES_KANBAN_TASK
and call kanban_block with a reason describing the exhaustion. The
dispatcher then sees a clean block transition instead of a protocol
violation, and the task can be retried or escalated by a human.
Fixes [Bug] kanban-worker exits cleanly (rc=0) on iteration-budget
exhaustion without calling kanban_complete or kanban_block #23216
Salvages the three substantive low-severity fixes from Gutslabs' #1974
"misc bug fixes" bundle. The other 8 claims in that PR were either
already fixed on main with superior implementations (state lock,
firecrawl lazy import, fcntl/msvcrt guard, path normalization, schema
migrations) or did not survive review.
- run_agent: `_materialize_data_url_for_vision` uses
`NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)`; if `base64.b64decode` raises on a
corrupt data URL the temp file would persist forever. Wrap the
write in try/except and `os.unlink` the temp on failure.
- gateway/session: `append_to_transcript` JSONL write had no error
handling, so disk-full / read-only-fs / permission errors crashed the
message handler. The SQLite write above is the primary store, so
swallow OSError on the JSONL fallback with a debug log.
- gateway/status: `_read_pid_record` reads `pid_path.read_text()` after
an `exists()` check; if the PID file is deleted between the two
calls (concurrent gateway restart) we hit an unhandled OSError.
Catch it and return None.
Adds a regression test for the tempfile cleanup; the other two paths
are defensive try/excepts on infrequent OSError that don't warrant
dedicated tests.
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
When run_agent's _compress_context fires mid-turn it ends the parent
session in SessionDB and creates a new continuation session with a
fresh session_id. The /goal state is keyed on session_id in
state_meta ("goal:<sid>"), so without forwarding the goal silently
disappears: _get_goal_manager() rebinds for the new session_id,
load_goal() returns None, mgr.is_active() is False, and the
continuation loop dies with no user-visible signal.
Fix: in the same SessionDB transaction block that creates the
continuation session, copy state_meta[goal:<old>] →
state_meta[goal:<new>] when present. No-op when the user has no
active goal. Logged at INFO so a stuck loop is debuggable.
Tests cover the round-trip via SessionDB and the no-op path.
Affects all three run-conversation surfaces (CLI, gateway, TUI
gateway) because _compress_context is the single rotation site.
Closes#6051.
Reported failure mode: agent migrated to WSL2, browser launch failed
because Playwright wasn't installed yet. Background reviewer captured
the failure as a durable skill (`browser-tool-launch-issue`) and the
agent kept refusing the browser tool for weeks after Playwright was
installed and verified working. Negative claims also propagated into
unrelated skills ("browser tools do not work", "cannot use Y from
execute_code").
Root cause: `_SKILL_REVIEW_PROMPT` and `_COMBINED_REVIEW_PROMPT` both
lean hard on "be active, save things, a pass that does nothing is a
missed learning opportunity." Neither distinguished durable knowledge
from transient environment state. The reviewer was doing what it was
told.
Fix at the write site — both prompts now carry a "Do NOT capture"
section calling out:
• Environment-dependent failures (missing binaries, fresh-install
errors, post-migration path mismatches, 'command not found',
unconfigured credentials, uninstalled packages)
• Negative claims about tools or features ("X does not work")
that harden into self-cited refusals
• Session-specific transient errors that resolved before the
conversation ended
• One-off task narratives ("summarize today's market", "analyze
this PR") — also addresses the #12812 / #4538 family
Plus a positive-reframing line: when a tool fails because of setup
state, capture the FIX (install command, config step, env var)
under an existing setup/troubleshooting skill — never "this tool
doesn't work" as a standalone constraint.
Targeted tests: 24/24 passing in tests/run_agent/test_review_prompt_class_first.py
(2 new + all existing review-prompt assertions). Substring-based
checks so future prompt edits don't false-fail.
The previous PR (#22993) gave us a structured WARNING per stream drop
but the only diagnostic was 'error_type=APIError error=Network
connection lost.' — same nothing the user started with. To actually
diagnose why subagents drop streams disproportionately we need to know
WHERE the drop happened.
Adds three breadcrumbs to the agent.log WARNING:
1. Inner exception chain. openai SDK wraps httpx errors as
APIConnectionError / APIError so the catch site only sees the
wrapper. _flatten_exception_chain walks __cause__/__context__ up to
4 levels deep and renders 'Outer(msg) <- Inner(msg)' so we can
tell ConnectError vs RemoteProtocolError vs ReadError vs
ProxyError without enabling verbose mode.
2. Upstream HTTP headers. Snapshots cf-ray, x-openrouter-provider,
x-openrouter-model, x-openrouter-id, x-request-id, server, via,
etc. from stream.response immediately after open (so they survive
even when the stream dies before the first chunk). These answer
'is one CF edge / one downstream provider responsible, or random?'
3. Per-attempt counters. bytes streamed, chunk count, elapsed time on
the dying attempt, and time-to-first-byte. Distinguishes 'couldn't
connect at all' (0s, 0 bytes) from 'died after 30s mid-stream'
(very different root causes — first is auth/routing, second is
upstream idle-kill or proxy timeout).
Plumbing:
- _stream_diag_init / _stream_diag_capture_response live on AIAgent
and produce a per-attempt dict held on request_client_holder['diag']
for closure access from the retry block.
- _call_chat_completions and _call_anthropic both initialize the diag
and increment counters per chunk/event (best-effort, never raises in
the streaming hot path).
- _log_stream_retry / _emit_stream_drop accept an optional diag and
render the new fields. Final-exhaustion log goes through the same
helper so it gets the same diagnostic dump.
- UI status line gains a brief 'after Xs' suffix when timing is
available — distinguishes 'connect failed' from 'died mid-stream'
at a glance without grepping logs.
Sample WARNING after this change:
Stream drop mid tool-call on attempt 2/3 — retrying.
subagent_id=sa-2-cafef00d depth=1 provider=openrouter
base_url=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
error_type=APIError error=Connection error.
chain=APIError(Connection error.) <- RemoteProtocolError(peer
closed connection without sending complete message body)
http_status=200 bytes=12400 chunks=47 elapsed=12.00s ttfb=0.83s
upstream=[cf-ray=8f1a2b3c4d5e6f7g-LAX
x-openrouter-provider=Anthropic
x-openrouter-id=gen-abc123 server=cloudflare]
Tests: 10 covering diag init, header capture (whitelist enforced for
PII), exception-chain walking + depth cap, log content with full diag,
log content without diag (placeholders), UI elapsed-suffix on/off.
Subagent stream drops were spamming the parent terminal with two lines
per blip ('Connection dropped...' + 'Reconnected...') while leaving zero
breadcrumb in agent.log to debug them.
Two underlying bugs, fixed together:
1. quiet_mode raised the run_agent/tools/etc. loggers to ERROR, which
filters records before root-logger file handlers see them. The comment
claimed 'File handlers still capture everything' — that was wrong.
Removed in both run_agent.py and cli.py; console quietness already
comes from hermes_logging not installing a console StreamHandler in
non-verbose mode.
2. The stream-retry blocks emitted two _emit_status calls per drop
('⚠️ Connection dropped... Reconnecting...' + '🔄 Reconnected —
resuming…') with no provider name, so multi-provider sessions had to
dig through agent.log to attribute a drop. Replaced both call sites
with a single _emit_stream_drop helper that emits ONE line naming the
provider and error class, and always writes a structured WARNING to
agent.log with subagent_id, depth, provider, base_url, error_type.
Net UX change: 6 lines per triple-subagent drop → 3 lines, each
naming the provider. agent.log now has a structured breadcrumb per
retry that didn't exist before.
Tests: 6 new tests in tests/run_agent/test_stream_drop_logging.py
covering the logger-level guard, structured WARNING content, single
status line per drop (no Reconnected follow-up), and provider naming.
When the active main model has native vision and the provider supports
multimodal tool results (Anthropic, OpenAI Chat, Codex Responses, Gemini
3, OpenRouter, Nous), vision_analyze loads the image bytes and returns
them to the model as a multimodal tool-result envelope. The model then
sees the pixels directly on its next turn instead of receiving a lossy
text description from an auxiliary LLM.
Falls back to the legacy aux-LLM text path for non-vision models and
unverified providers.
Mirrors the architecture used in OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and
Cline. All four converge on the same pattern: tool results carry image
content blocks for vision-capable provider/model combinations.
Changes
- tools/vision_tools.py: _vision_analyze_native fast path + provider
capability table (_supports_media_in_tool_results). Schema description
updated to reflect new behaviour.
- agent/codex_responses_adapter.py: function_call_output.output now
accepts the array form for multimodal tool results (was string-only).
Preflight validates input_text/input_image parts.
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: _RUNTIME_MAIN_PROVIDER/_MODEL globals so
tools see the live CLI/gateway override, not the stale config.yaml
default. set_runtime_main()/clear_runtime_main() helpers.
- run_agent.py: AIAgent.run_conversation calls set_runtime_main at turn
start so vision_analyze's fast-path check sees the actual runtime.
- tests/conftest.py: clear runtime-main override between tests.
Tests
- tests/tools/test_vision_native_fast_path.py: provider capability
table, envelope shape, fast-path gating (vision-capable model uses
fast path; non-vision model falls through to aux).
- tests/run_agent/test_codex_multimodal_tool_result.py: list tool
content becomes function_call_output.output array; preflight
preserves arrays and drops unknown part types.
Live verified
- Opus 4.6 + Sonnet 4.6 on OpenRouter: model calls vision_analyze on a
typed filepath, gets pixels back, reads exact text from images that
no aux description could capture (font color irony, multi-line
fruit-count list, etc.).
PR replaces the closed prior efforts (#16506 shipped the inbound user-
attached path; this PR closes the gap for tool-discovered images).
Fallback chain entries with 'api_key_env: ENV_VAR_NAME' weren't being
resolved by either the init-time fallback path (line ~1660) or the
runtime _try_activate_fallback path (line ~8045). Only literal
'api_key' was honored; the snake_case 'api_key_env' alias documented
elsewhere in the config was silently dropped, so a 'provider: custom'
fallback with base_url + api_key_env worked as primary but failed as
fallback with 'no endpoint credentials found' / 401.
Adds 'or fb.get("api_key_env")' to the existing 'key_env' lookup in
both call sites, with empty-string-to-None coercion so unset env vars
don't poison the resolver.
Salvage of #22665's fallback portion. The original PR also bundled
gateway-degrade-on-no-adapters changes (those land via the carve-out
in #22853 which is the same code) and run_agent.py memory-nudge
counter hydration (issue #22357 territory, not mentioned in the
title). Drops both bundled pieces; keeps just the api_key_env fix.
Closes#5392.
Pick openrouter/pareto-code as your model and OpenRouter auto-routes each
request to the cheapest model meeting your coding-quality bar (ranked by
Artificial Analysis). The new openrouter.min_coding_score config key (0.0-1.0,
default 0.65) tunes the floor.
- hermes_cli/models.py: add openrouter/pareto-code to OPENROUTER_MODELS so
it shows up in the picker with a description
- hermes_cli/config.py: add openrouter.min_coding_score (default 0.65 — lands
on a mid-tier coder on the current Pareto frontier)
- plugins/model-providers/openrouter: emit extra_body.plugins =
[{id: pareto-router, min_coding_score: X}] when model is openrouter/pareto-code
AND the score is a valid float in [0.0, 1.0]
- agent/transports/chat_completions.py: same emission on the legacy flag
path (when no provider profile is loaded)
- run_agent.py: openrouter_min_coding_score kwarg + storage; plumbed into
both build_kwargs() invocations and the context-summary extra_body path
- cli.py: read openrouter.min_coding_score once at init, validate float in
[0,1], pass to AIAgent constructions (CLI + background-task paths)
- cron/scheduler.py, batch_runner.py, tools/delegate_tool.py,
tui_gateway/server.py: propagate the kwarg (mirrors providers_order
plumbing — subagents inherit, cron/batch read from config)
- tests: profile-level + transport-level coverage of the model gating,
unset/empty/out-of-range handling, and the legacy flag path
- docs: new 'OpenRouter Pareto Code Router' section in providers.md
Verified end-to-end against api.openrouter.ai: at score=0.65 we land on a
mid-tier coder, at omission we get the strongest. Score is silently dropped
on any model other than openrouter/pareto-code, so it's safe to leave set.
DeepSeek V4 Pro returns thinking content as typed blocks inside the
content array rather than as a top-level reasoning_content field:
[{"type": "thinking", "thinking": "..."}, {"type": "output", ...}]
_extract_reasoning only handled content as a plain string, so the
thinking text was silently dropped. On the next turn the session was
replayed without the thinking block, causing:
HTTP 400: The content[].thinking in the thinking mode must be
passed back to the API.
Fix: when content is a list and no structured reasoning field was
found, scan for items with type=='thinking' and accumulate their
'thinking' (or 'text') value into reasoning_parts. Structured fields
(reasoning, reasoning_content, reasoning_details) still take priority
so existing provider behaviour is unchanged.
Closes#21944
_try_activate_fallback() walked the chain by index without comparing
the candidate entry against the currently-failing backend. So a
misconfigured chain that listed the same provider+model as the primary,
or two custom_providers entries pointing at the same shim URL, would
loop the same failure 3x for the same backend.
After the fix, advance() skips:
- entries where (provider, model) match the current agent's
- entries with a base_url + model matching the current backend
(catches two custom_providers names pointing at the same shim)
Recursing through self._try_activate_fallback() continues to the next
chain entry; if everything matches, returns False and the caller
moves on without retrying the same broken path.
3 regression tests covering same-provider-same-model skip, same-base_url-
same-model skip, and the all-self-matching-returns-False exhaustion path.
Closes#22548 (the Hermes-side portion). The 120s timeout itself in
the downstream claude-cli shim is a deployment concern documented in
that issue's wherewolf87 comment.
Gateway creates a fresh AIAgent per inbound message in several common
scenarios: cache miss, idle eviction (1h TTL), config-signature
mismatch, process restart. A freshly-built AIAgent has
_turns_since_memory=0 and _user_turn_count=0, so the
memory.nudge_interval trigger ('_turns_since_memory >=
_memory_nudge_interval') can never be reached when these reconstructions
happen on roughly the cadence of the interval. A user can chat for hours
on Telegram without ever seeing a self-improvement review fire.
Reconstruct the counters from conversation_history at the top of
run_conversation(), right after the existing _hydrate_todo_store call.
Idempotent guard ('if self._user_turn_count == 0') means a cached agent
that already accumulated counters keeps them; only freshly-built agents
hydrate. Modulo arithmetic preserves the original 1-in-N cadence rather
than firing a review immediately on resume.
7 regression tests pinning the contract (mid-cycle history, modulo wrap,
idempotency, zero-interval skip, role==user filtering, production-code
anchor).
Closes#22357.