* fix(install): fail when Node dependencies cannot install (#85297)
The POSIX installer converted root and TUI npm failures into warnings, then
printed a dependency-success message and reached the installation-complete
banner with a zero exit status. This left consumers with no usable
node_modules while reporting success.
Treat both required npm installs as fatal: log an error, restore tracked
lockfile churn, return status 1, and propagate the failure from the monolithic
and node-deps stage callers. Successful installs, Termux and missing-Node
skips, missing-manifest skips, and optional Playwright/Browser Use/Computer
Use best-effort behavior remain unchanged. The fix is limited to the POSIX
installer; the PowerShell installer is outside this issue's scope.
Focused and adjacent installer tests passed (32), with bash syntax,
py_compile, and diff checks clean. The broader installer family had 90 passes,
one unrelated pre-existing failure, and two skips; the full suite was
environment-limited by missing dependencies. CodeRabbit, iterative deep
security/compatibility reviews, and final confidence security/compatibility
reviews were clean against the final diff.
Fixes#85297
* fix(install): require npm alongside node in check_node (#77003)
A stray `node` symlink without a sibling `npm` (leftover from a node
version manager) made check_node report "Node.js found"; every later
npm install then failed and the desktop build died with an opaque
"Node.js / npm unavailable". Node now only counts as found when npm
resolves on the same PATH, with an explicit "stray node symlink?" branch
that falls through to the Hermes-managed Node (which bundles npm).
The overlapping success-log honesty half of the original PR is subsumed
by the previous commit, which makes a failed npm install fatal rather
than conditionally-logged; the behavioral tests there cover it, so this
commit keeps only the check_node PATH-gate assertions.
Fixes#77003.
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Choosing Computer Use should be a config flip, not a hunt for
'hermes computer-use install'. Three provisioning rungs:
- install.sh / install.ps1 pre-install cua-driver (best-effort,
non-fatal, time-boxed at 660s above the upstream installer's 600s
lock window; --skip-computer-use / -SkipComputerUse to opt out;
Termux and unwritable-/Applications skipped cleanly)
- PUT /api/tools/toolsets/{name} (dashboard + desktop toggle) spawns
the background 'hermes tools post-setup cua_driver' action when the
toolset is enabled while the binary is missing — previously the
toggle 'saved' but the tool never appeared in the schema because
check_computer_use_requirements() couldn't find the binary
- hermes tools interactive flow already installed via
_toolset_needs_configuration_prompt/_POST_SETUP_INSTALLED (unchanged)
Docs: computer-use.md enabling section rewritten around the new flow;
installation.md documents --skip-computer-use.
ensure_browser() (install.sh) and Install-AgentBrowser (install.ps1)
are reached only via the explicit --ensure browser / -Ensure browser
on-demand mode, itself only triggered by an actual browser-tool call's
lazy-install fallback or `hermes acp --setup-browser`. agent-browser
already resolves via npx in that same fallback before ever reaching
these scripts, so eagerly npm-installing a second, separately
version-pinned copy here was redundant and an extra credential/
supply-chain surface for a path npx already covers. Chromium
acquisition for this on-demand path is now deferred entirely to
_maybe_autoinstall_chromium's existing lazy fallback. camofox's
install and system-browser detection/configuration are unaffected.
install.ps1 also drops the now-dead -SkipChromium switch, confirmed
unused at its one call site.
The Browser Use CLI became the default browser backend, but nothing
provisioned it: users without uv/uvx (field report from DongyangHe on
macOS) silently fell back to the built-in browser tools with no notice.
- install_cli() in tools/browser_use_cli.py: uv tool install browser-use
via the managed uv (bootstrapped on demand), linked into
$HERMES_HOME/bin (UV_TOOL_BIN_DIR)
- _find_cli() now also probes $HERMES_HOME/bin for browser-use/uvx —
Hermes' managed uv is not on the user's PATH
- hermes tools post_setup actually installs (Camofox standard) instead
of printing instructions
- install.sh / install.ps1 provision the CLI at install time
(best-effort, non-fatal, honors --skip-browser)
- CLI startup shows a one-line notice (24h rate-limited) when the
default backend downgraded to the built-in tools
`hermes desktop` still failed with EBADENGINE demanding Node >=26 after
#76562, on a machine whose `apps/desktop/package.json` already said
`^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0`. #76562 fixed the manifest but not its mirror in
`package-lock.json`, and `npm ci` reads engines from the lockfile:
package.json apps/desktop -> {'node': '^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0'}
package-lock apps/desktop -> {'node': '>=26.0.0'} <- what gated
Chasing that exposed a second, pre-existing problem: the floor #76562
declared was too generous. Running the real `npm ci` against the whole
workspace on Node 22.21.1 fails on a transitive dependency —
npm error notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm:
react-router@8.3.0
npm error notsup Required: {"node":">=22.22.0"}
react-router 8.3.0 (a direct dependency of both `apps/desktop` and `web`)
declares `>=22.22.0`, which is tighter than Vite's `^20.19 || >=22.12` and
excludes all of Node 20. So `>=20.0.0` promised support the tree cannot
deliver: an install on Node 20 or early 22 passed the installer's gate and
then died inside `npm ci` on someone else's package.
All four engine declarations now state the floor the dependency tree
actually has, `>=22.22.0`: root `package.json`, `apps/desktop/package.json`,
and both of their `package-lock.json` mirrors. The installer gates move with
them (`node_satisfies_build` in install.sh, `Test-NodeVersionOk` in
install.ps1) so a too-old system Node is replaced with the managed one
*before* npm runs, and the failure a user does see names hermes-agent rather
than a transitive package. NODE_VERSION stays 22 — latest-v22.x is 22.23.2,
comfortably above the floor.
The invariant test gains the case that would have caught the mirror drift on
its own: the desktop assertion now pins the tightest floor a dependency
actually declares, and the managed-runtime check compares majors, since
install.sh fetches latest-v{major}.x rather than {major}.0.0.
Verified with real `npm ci --dry-run` over the full workspace:
- node 22.23.2 (what install.sh provisions) -> 1258 packages
- node 26.5.1 -> 1189 packages
- node 22.21.1 (below the floor) -> EBADENGINE naming
hermes-agent, i.e. our own manifest, not react-router
Fresh installs and `hermes update` both fail at the first `npm ci`:
npm error code EBADENGINE
npm error notsup Required: {"node":">=26.0.0","npm":">=12.0.0"}
npm error notsup Actual: {"node":"v24.15.0","npm":"11.12.1"}
`.npmrc` sets engine-strict=true, so `engines` is a hard gate on every
install. The floor was raised to npm >=12 — but no Node release bundles
npm 12: Node 26 ships 11.17.0, 24 ships 11.16.0, 22 ships 10.9.8. The
requirement is unsatisfiable by any stock toolchain, so the installer
provisions a Node and is immediately unable to install with it.
engines.npm becomes `<11.10.0 || >=11.17.0`. That still excludes the band
the strictness was actually for: npm 11.10-11.16 honor `min-release-age`
but ignore `min-release-age-exclude`, both set in .npmrc, so they apply the
14-day gate to packages we exempted. Verified rather than assumed — npm
11.12.1 fails `ETARGET ... vite@8.2.0 with a date before 7/18/2026` while
11.17.0 installs it.
engines.node returns to >=20.0.0 and the toolchain floor to Node 22.
Nothing in the tree needs 26: Vite 8.2.0 declares `^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0`
and Electron 40 declares `>=12.20.55`. Requiring 26 force-migrated every
working install for no dependency reason. apps/desktop drops to Vite's own
floor for the same reason; the desktop bundle builds clean on Node 22.
install.sh gained a second gate: a system Node was accepted on version
alone, so a machine with Node 24 + its bundled npm 11.16.0 (the bad band)
passed the check and then failed `npm ci`. npm_supports_npmrc() now rejects
that band and installs the managed Node instead.
CI, Docker and nix are hermetic and keep pinning Node 26 / npm 12 — they
provision their own toolchain, and both satisfy the relaxed range.
tests/test_engines_satisfiable.py encodes the invariants that would have
caught this: the npm floor must be met by an npm some shipping Node
bundles, the node floor by the runtime install.sh provisions, the desktop
floor by its own build toolchain, and the lockfile mirror must match.
Restoring the broken values fails 5 of them with the reason stated.
Verified end-to-end (real downloads, temp HERMES_HOME):
- fresh install: managed node v22.23.2 / npm 10.9.8 -> npm ci, 209 packages
- existing managed tree (v22.22.3 / npm 10.9.8) -> npm ci, 209 packages
- node 26.5.1 + bundled npm 11.17.0 -> npm ci, 208 packages
- system npm 11.12.1 (the reported case) -> EBADENGINE, recovery provisions
a managed tree and retries green
- apps/desktop `npm run build` on Node 22 -> dist built, assert passes
Hermes now pins its toolchain to Node 26 everywhere. Every path that
installs, accepts, heals, or upgrades a Node runtime moves from the old
22-default / `^20.19 || >=22.12` floor to a single rule: Node >=26.
Installers:
- scripts/install.sh — NODE_VERSION=26; node_satisfies_build() collapses
the two-branch Vite floor to `major >= 26`; user-facing messages updated.
- scripts/install.ps1 — $NodeVersion=26; Test-NodeVersionOk likewise;
winget fallback switches OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS -> OpenJS.NodeJS (26 is
Current, not LTS — the LTS manifest would reinstall a too-old Node).
- Dockerfile — node_source stage node:22-bookworm-slim -> node:26 (digest
pinned, amd64 sha256:9e6f...bf73).
- nix/ was already on nodejs_26 (lib.nix, npm-12-0-2.nix); the checks.nix
wrapper check ratchets from `>= 20` to `>= 26`.
Heal/upgrade paths:
- scripts/lib/node-bootstrap.sh — HERMES_NODE_TARGET_MAJOR default 22->26
and HERMES_NODE_MIN_VERSION default 20->26, so heal_managed_node,
_nb_install_bundled_node, and the fnm/proto/nvm/brew rungs all target 26
and stop accepting an on-PATH Node below it. Both remain env-overridable.
- hermes_constants.py — _HERMES_NODE_TARGET_MAJOR fallback 22->26, which
drives the Windows heal path's latest-v26.x download.
Version gates:
- package.json engines.node >=20 -> >=26; apps/desktop engines
`^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0` -> `>=26.0.0`.
- CI setup-node: all five workflows 22 -> 26.
- Docs describing Hermes's own toolchain updated (windows-native, docker,
acp, nix-setup, contributing). Skill docs describing third-party tools'
own requirements are untouched.
Termux still installs via `pkg install nodejs` best-effort (nodejs.org
ships no Android tarballs); that path was never version-gated.
Verified: bash -n on both shell scripts, PowerShell AST parse of
install.ps1, latest-v26.x index resolves (node-v26.5.1), and the install
test suite — 18 tests across the 5 install/runtime test files — passes.
setup_path() only wrote a 'hermes' launcher into the command-link dir,
even though pyproject.toml declares three [project.scripts]:
hermes, hermes-agent (run_agent:main), hermes-acp (acp_adapter.entry:main).
Fresh venv installs (the common case on macOS/Linux) leave
~/.local/bin/{hermes-agent,hermes-acp} empty, so external tools
expecting 'hermes-acp' as a standalone command (documented as
first-tier supported in website/docs/user-guide/features/acp.md)
fail to find it after a fully successful install.
Loop over the three console-script names, writing a shim per entry
that exec's the venv interpreter with the right checked-in
entrypoint. --no-venv keeps the old single-shim behaviour since
it does not manage the venv and only 'hermes' is guaranteed on PATH.
Fixes#74819
hermes-setup.exe bakes its build-time commit into the binary
(BUILD_PIN_COMMIT) and passes it as -Commit on every install-mode run,
including the retry the desktop's "Update didn't finish" screen kicks
off. The repository stage checked that SHA out unconditionally, so an
installer built months earlier rewound a current managed checkout to its
build commit -- 9,160 commits in the reported case -- leaving ancient
source against a current venv. npm then failed on workspaces that did not
exist yet at that commit, and every later update ran against the wrong
tree.
Skip the pin when its target is already an ancestor of HEAD. Fresh clones
have no such ancestry so reproducible/CI pinning is unchanged, and
--force-commit / -ForceCommit still rolls back on purpose.
install.sh probed pypi.org and duckduckgo.com serially with
--max-time 8 each, so a fully blocked network cost 16s before the user
saw any useful guidance. The two probes are independent; running them
as background jobs and gathering verdicts caps the worst case at one
--max-time (8s) while the good path stays instant.
Verified live: reachable URLs 0.24s (both probes concurrent);
blackholed 10.255.255.x URLs 8.02s total (was 2x8s), warning text
unchanged. bash -n clean.
install.sh duplicated the raw deep ad-hoc re-sign, so install/repair and
self-update could disagree about the app's signing identity — an update
signed with the stable identity would be clobbered back to a cdhash-only
DR by the next installer repair. Call the shared Python fixup (passing
the shell's publisher-signing decision explicitly), and branch into the
historical xattr + deep ad-hoc repair when the venv helper is missing or
fails so a broken venv never leaves the bundle unlaunchable.
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Co-authored-by: natebransc <natebransc@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: caseyanthony <caseyanthony@users.noreply.github.com>
setup_path() wrote a `hermes` launcher to ~/.local/bin but nothing for
`hermes-acp`. That console script exists only inside the venv, which is
not on the login-shell PATH.
ACP hosts resolve the agent by command name against that PATH, so an
otherwise healthy install looks absent to them. Buzz Desktop ships a
Hermes preset that spawns `hermes-acp` and reports the runtime as
unavailable; Zed and JetBrains configs that name the bare command have
the same problem.
Write a hermes-acp launcher next to the hermes one, dispatching to the
acp subcommand. Same PYTHONPATH/PYTHONHOME clearing, and the same rm -f
before cat > so an older symlink into the venv cannot be followed and
stomp the console script (#21454). Uninstall removes both launchers.
tests/test_install_sh_acp_launcher.py drives the block out of install.sh
rather than asserting on a copy, covering the venv and non-venv branches
plus the symlink-stomp case. Reverting the install.sh change turns all
three red.
Signed-off-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
Two fixes from live testing (Teknium):
1. Desktop installs now ship the wake/voice stacks up front.
install.sh + install.ps1 desktop stages run 'uv pip install
-e .[wake,voice]' (best-effort, lazy-install remains the fallback)
before building the app, so the first ear-click arms instantly
instead of sitting through a multi-minute onnxruntime download.
CLI-only installs keep the lazy path — [all] curation unchanged.
2. The vanished ear: the STT/TTS gate made wake.status call
check_tts_requirements(), whose edge path runs _import_edge_tts →
lazy_deps.ensure — a synchronous PIP INSTALL inside a status poll.
On a venv without edge-tts that blew the desktop's 30s RPC timeout,
armWakeWord caught the error, the atom never learned enabled=true,
and the ear unmounted. _tts_ready is now a pure probe: deps missing
+ lazy installs allowed counts as ready (installs at first speak)
WITHOUT touching pip; check_tts_requirements only runs once deps
are present. Regression test asserts the probe never calls it while
deps are missing.
install.ps1 wrote the marker on Windows and the Rust installer now writes it,
but install.sh -- the path every Mac and Linux CLI install takes -- never did.
A machine set up with install.sh therefore looked uninstalled to the desktop
app, which re-ran first-run bootstrap on every launch.
Stamp the same schema-v1 payload install.ps1 writes, from both the staged
`complete` stage and monolithic main(). An unresolvable HEAD skips the marker
rather than writing one the desktop validator rejects: absent reads as a clean
"bootstrap needed", malformed reads as a confusing half-state.
Removes Homebrew and PyPI wheel/sdist as Hermes distribution paths while
preserving the supported source, Docker, and Nix workflows.
Changes:
- Removes the Homebrew formula, PyPI publish workflow, sdist manifest
(MANIFEST.in), and wheel/sdist release-attachment logic from scripts/release.py.
- Keeps setuptools metadata and entry points required by editable installs
and Docker/Nix builds, but adds a setup.py guard that rejects wheel/sdist
builds outside a sealed Nix derivation (HERMES_NIX_BUILD=1).
- Removes pip/Homebrew install detection, PyPI update checks, the pip
self-update path, the deprecation-banner state, the postinstall subcommand,
wheel data-directory fallbacks in agent/i18n.py and hermes_constants.py,
and the ACP Registry manifest/version-lockstep release logic.
- Adds /nix/store/ path detection so `nix run` / `nix profile install`
installs (which don't set HERMES_MANAGED) are correctly identified as
"nix" rather than falling through to "git"/"unknown".
- Retired install-method values ("pip", "homebrew") in existing
.install_method stamps (both code-scoped and home-scoped) are ignored by
the allowlist reader and fall through to "unknown" instead of resurrecting
a retired enum value.
- Updates Nix packaging to ship bare runtime data (locales, optional-mcps)
through store symlinks and wrapper env vars instead of wheel data-files.
- Removes the ACP Registry manifest/icon and their version-lockstep tests.
- Deletes or rewrites packaging, pip-update, Homebrew, and ACP Registry
tests; adds parametrized coverage for the packaging build guard covering
BOTH sdist and wheel paths (the guards live in separate cmdclass entries
— a passing sdist test proves nothing about the wheel path).
- Updates installation/platform documentation and related user-facing copy.
- Adjusts the supply-chain scan so deleted install-hook files do not trigger
a finding, while additions or modifications still require the existing
ci-reviewed label gate.
Supported installation paths (unchanged):
- git installer (install.sh)
- Docker
- Nix/NixOS
- editable development installs (uv sync, uv pip install -e ., pip install -e .)
Bootstrap and desktop updates run install.ps1/install.sh, which aborted
with exit 128 when the managed checkout had diverged from origin/main.
Mirror the hermes update recovery path: reset to origin/$BRANCH instead
of failing the repository stage.
The desktop install step ran npm ci / npm run pack with no wall-clock cap, and
the sibling browser-tools / TUI / agent-browser dependency installs had the same
gap. The Electron binary (~150MB) is fetched from GitHub during the pack; on a
throttled or region-blocked link that download can *stall* rather than fail —
npm never errors and never exits, so the installer sits on "Build desktop app"
(step 9/11) indefinitely with only harmless 'npm warn deprecated' lines visible.
The existing self-heal escalation (cache purge -> dist restore -> npmmirror
fallback) only fires when pack returns non-zero, so a stall bypassed it.
- run_with_timeout (generalized from run_browser_install_with_timeout): GNU
timeout --foreground -k 10 (Ctrl+C-aware, #35166) / gtimeout for external
commands, else a pure-shell process-group watchdog so stock macOS (neither
binary present) is protected. Shell functions (_desktop_pack) always take the
pure-shell path — the timeout binary can't exec a function. Integer-normalized
budget + a boundary recheck so a command finishing in the final poll second
isn't mislabeled 124. The internal wait is guarded so set -e can't abort
mid-function before the real exit code is computed.
- Wrap the desktop npm ci/install (sharing ONE budget via a computed deadline so
a stall can't cost 2x DESKTOP_BUILD_TIMEOUT) + all three _desktop_pack attempts
(DESKTOP_BUILD_TIMEOUT, default 900s), and the browser-tools / TUI / agent-
browser registry installs (NODE_DEPS_TIMEOUT, default 600s).
A stall now converts to a bounded non-zero exit that feeds the existing mirror
self-heal instead of hanging the whole install.
Follow-up on #54032 for #35166:
- Gate the PLAYWRIGHT_HOST_PLATFORM_OVERRIDE retry on the host being an apt
release newer than Playwright recognizes (Ubuntu >24.04 / Debian >13) via
playwright_host_unrecognized(), instead of retrying on ANY install failure.
A network/disk/permission failure on a supported host now surfaces unchanged
rather than getting a mismatched-glibc build forced onto it.
- detect_os() now captures DISTRO_VERSION from os-release.
- Fold in the interruptibility fix (was PR #35304, self-closed): wrap the
download in 'timeout --foreground -k 10' (probed, with plain-timeout
fallback) so a terminal Ctrl+C reaches the child and a wedged download is
force-killed after the deadline.
- Add behavioral tests that source the helpers and assert the retry fires only
on Ubuntu 26.04 / Debian 14, not on supported hosts, non-apt distros,
native-success, operator-pinned override, or unsupported arch.
On apt releases newer than the bundled Playwright recognizes (Ubuntu 26.04,
Debian 14, and future distros), 'npx playwright install --with-deps chromium'
hangs uninterruptibly at 'Installing Playwright Chromium with system
dependencies' because Playwright's resolver maps the host to a platform with
no download build (#35166).
Wrap every installer Playwright call in run_playwright_install(), which tries
the native install first and, only if it fails or times out, retries once with
PLAYWRIGHT_HOST_PLATFORM_OVERRIDE pinned to the newest known build
(ubuntu24.04-<arch>). This is the escape hatch Playwright's maintainers bless
for unrecognized platforms (microsoft/playwright#33434).
Try-native-first (not a hardcoded distro/version table) is deliberate:
- Self-correcting — when Playwright already supports the host (e.g. Ubuntu
26.04 on Playwright >=1.61) the first attempt succeeds and the override is
never applied, so we never force a mismatched-glibc build onto a release
Playwright handles correctly (microsoft/playwright#35114).
- Zero-maintenance — new distro releases work the moment Playwright adds them.
- Covers Debian 14+ and future releases, not just Ubuntu 26.04.
An operator-set PLAYWRIGHT_HOST_PLATFORM_OVERRIDE is always respected (applied
to the first attempt; retry skipped). Non-x64/arm64 arches have no fallback
build and skip the retry.
Refs #35166
The desktop bootstrap (and curl/PowerShell/docker installs) seeded
~/.hermes/SOUL.md with a comment-only scaffold that contained no persona
text. That shadowed the runtime default (_ensure_default_soul_md ->
DEFAULT_SOUL_MD), since seeding is guarded by 'if SOUL.md doesn't exist'.
Result: every fresh installer install got the empty template instead of
the documented Hermes persona; desktop just made it visible in onboarding.
- install.sh / install.ps1 / docker/SOUL.md now write DEFAULT_SOUL_MD.
- _ensure_default_soul_md() upgrades a SOUL.md still matching the known
legacy scaffold in place; customized files (any deviation, incl. a
persona appended below the comment) are never touched.
- Detection normalizes CRLF/BOM so Windows-installer drift still matches.
The installer scanned PATH/well-known locations for a Chrome/Chromium binary
and, when found, skipped the bundled Playwright Chromium download and wrote that
path into ~/.hermes/.env as AGENT_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_PATH. On Snap-based systems
`command -v chromium` resolves to /snap/bin/chromium, whose sandbox blocks
agent-browser's control socket under /tmp -- so every browser_navigate hung
until the 60s timeout fired ("opening web page failed").
Drop the system-browser fallback entirely (per maintainer direction):
find_system_browser()/Find-SystemBrowser now honor ONLY an explicit, user-set
AGENT_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_PATH override -- no PATH scan, no well-known-path scan.
A /snap/* path is rejected even when set explicitly, since its confinement is
the bug. Applied to both install.sh (Linux/macOS) and install.ps1 (Windows).
Crucially, also auto-repair already-affected installs: the bad snap path
persists in .env and is read directly by the runtime, and the installer skips
re-config when AGENT_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_PATH is already set ("already
configured"), so a plain reinstall/update never recovered an existing user. New
strip_snap_browser_override() removes a snap-pointing AGENT_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_PATH
(and its auto-written comment) from .env on every install/update, run from both
browser-setup paths (install_node_deps and ensure_browser), so updating is
enough to recover. A deliberately-set non-snap override is left untouched.
docker/stage2-hook.sh is intentionally untouched: it discovers the bundled
Playwright Chromium, not a system browser.
The install method (docker/git/pip/...) describes the *running binary*, but
detect_install_method() read it from $HERMES_HOME/.install_method — a shared
DATA directory. The Docker docs deliberately bind-mount $HERMES_HOME
(~/.hermes:/opt/data) so config/sessions/memory persist and can be shared with
a host-side Desktop/CLI install.
When a containerized gateway and a host install share one $HERMES_HOME, the
home-scoped stamp is a single slot describing two installs: the published image
stamps 'docker' on every boot, the host install then reads 'docker' and the
in-app updater refuses to run 'hermes update' ("doesn't apply inside the Docker
container"). Reinstalling the Desktop app from the DMG doesn't help because the
contaminated stamp is re-read every time.
Fix (option 1 — code-scoped stamp):
- detect_install_method() reads <install tree>/.install_method first (next to
the running code, immune to the shared data dir). It falls back to the legacy
$HERMES_HOME stamp for back-compat, but IGNORES a 'docker' home stamp when
not actually containerized — so already-poisoned shared homes self-heal.
- stamp_install_method() writes the code-scoped stamp.
- install.sh stamps $INSTALL_DIR instead of $HERMES_HOME.
- Dockerfile bakes 'docker' into /opt/hermes/.install_method at build time
(inside the immutable block); stage2-hook.sh no longer writes the home stamp
and proactively removes a stale 'docker' one to heal existing shared homes.
Genuine containers still resolve to 'docker' (baked stamp, or legacy home stamp
honored when containerized). Unstamped installs in generic containers still fall
through to git/pip (preserves the #34397 fix).
* fix(desktop): resolve electronDist dynamically + self-heal blocked installs
Supersedes the static-path approach (#48081) and the install-step self-heal
(#48082) with a fix that removes the whole failure class instead of chasing each
symptom. Three distinct faults converged into the June desktop-build outage; this
closes all three.
Root cause (the part #48081 left open — "Gap B"):
build.electronDist was a static relative path in apps/desktop/package.json, but
npm workspace hoisting is NOT deterministic — depending on the npm version and
what else is installed, npm nests the workspace-only electron devDep under
apps/desktop/node_modules/electron OR hoists it to the repo root. A static path
matches only one layout, so a clean install intermittently fails with "The
specified electronDist does not exist". #48081 re-pointed the path at the
nested layout (correct today) but electron-builder reads electronDist
STATICALLY, so any future hoist change silently breaks it again — only caught
by a CI invariant, never self-corrected.
Fix:
- scripts/run-electron-builder.cjs: resolve electron the way Node's runtime does
— require.resolve("electron/package.json") walks node_modules from the desktop
project upward and finds electron wherever npm actually put it. The path can
never drift out of sync with the install layout again, on any OS/npm version.
* dist present -> pass -c.electronDist=<abs>/dist so electron-builder reuses
the unpacked runtime (keeps the #38673 fast path that dodges the 26.8.x
missing-binary re-unpack bug).
* dist absent -> omit electronDist; electron-builder fetches Electron itself
via @electron/get honoring electronVersion + ELECTRON_MIRROR.
package.json: builder script now runs the wrapper; the static build.electronDist
is removed (the resolver owns it).
- main.py / install.sh / install.ps1: on a dependency-install failure where the
electron package staged but its dist is missing (electron's install.js
process.exit(1) on a blocked/throttled binary download — #47266/#47917/#48021),
repopulate the dist via electron's downloader (canonical, then npmmirror.com)
and CONTINUE to the build instead of aborting. npm runs postinstall LAST, so
the only casualty is electron/dist; bailing here is what made the pack-time
mirror self-heal unreachable on a blocked network. Hard-fail only when electron
never staged at all (a genuine dependency error).
- The pack-time mirror fallback now retries the build even when the pre-fetch
can't populate the dist: the wrapper lets electron-builder download Electron
itself via the mirror, so the retry is no longer a no-op (it was, when
electronDist was a static path).
The exact 40.10.2 pin (already on main) keeps the third mode — the native
@electron-internal/extract-zip win32 binding that 40.10.3/40.10.4 ship without a
published prebuild — from recurring.
Tests:
- test_desktop_electron_pin.py: replace the static-path-matches-lockfile
invariant with contracts that there is no hardcoded electronDist to drift, the
builder script routes through the resolver, and the resolver uses Node module
resolution + injects -c.electronDist.
- test_gui_command.py: install-failure self-heal continues to build; genuine
(electron-never-staged) install failure still hard-fails; pack retries under
the mirror even when the pre-fetch is blocked.
Salvages/supersedes the overlapping community work in #48003 (sitkarev),
#48012 (omegazheng), #48033 (james47kjv), and #48082.
Co-authored-by: sitkarev <59806492+sitkarev@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: omegazheng <zheng@omegasys.eu>
Co-authored-by: james47kjv <220877172+james47kjv@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(desktop): narrow Electron self-heal to real missing-dist failures
Follow-up on #48091 to remove the remaining misdiagnosis risk from the
installer/build fallback path (#46785 concern): only take the Electron
repair/retry path when Electron's package files are staged and dist is actually
missing/corrupt.
- main.py: add _electron_pkg_staged_missing_dist() and use it to gate install
failure recovery; fail fast for unrelated npm install errors.
- main.py/install.sh/install.ps1: run cache purge + retry only when dist is
missing; do not retry unrelated tsc/vite/build failures under an
Electron-specific narrative.
- install.sh/install.ps1: tighten install-stage self-heal guard to require both
package.json + install.js and missing dist.
- tests: add coverage that install failure hard-fails when Electron dist already
exists, and update retry test to reflect the tightened recovery condition.
Validation:
- Python tests: 64 passed
- install.sh-related tests included in the run
- Real mac build on this machine:
- npm ci at repo root: success
- cd apps/desktop && npm run pack: success
- electron-builder packaged darwin arm64 and used custom unpacked Electron dist
* refactor(desktop): trim electron self-heal helpers and comments
Deduplicate mirror-retry into _try_redownload_electron_dist / shell
counterparts; shorten wrapper and install-script commentary without
changing recovery semantics.
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Co-authored-by: sitkarev <59806492+sitkarev@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: omegazheng <zheng@omegasys.eu>
Co-authored-by: james47kjv <220877172+james47kjv@users.noreply.github.com>
After the June lockfile regeneration (#46652) floated electron and reshuffled
npm workspace hoisting, the desktop pack fails with "The specified electronDist
does not exist". apps/desktop/package.json pointed electronDist at the repo
root (../../node_modules/electron/dist) while npm now installs electron nested
under apps/desktop/node_modules/electron. The two contradict, so a clean
install can never package the app (Windows + macOS).
- electronDist -> node_modules/electron/dist (resolved relative to apps/desktop,
i.e. the workspace-local install npm actually produces).
- hermes_cli/main.py, scripts/install.sh, scripts/install.ps1: add a runtime
electron-dir resolver that prefers apps/desktop/node_modules/electron and
falls back to the root hoist, so dist checks + the mirror re-download work
under either npm layout.
- patch-electron-builder-mac-binary.cjs: try the workspace-local Electron.app
before the root hoist in the macOS binary-restore fallback (sibling site no
PR touched).
- test: assert build.electronDist resolves to where the lockfile installs
electron, so a future hoist change (root <-> nested) can't silently break it.
Salvages the overlapping work in #48003 (sitkarev), #48012 (omegazheng), and
#48033 (james47kjv).
Co-authored-by: sitkarev <59806492+sitkarev@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: omegazheng <zheng@omegasys.eu>
Co-authored-by: james47kjv <220877172+james47kjv@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(desktop): re-download Electron binary via mirror when pack fails (#47266)
Since #38673 pinned build.electronDist to node_modules/electron/dist,
electron-builder reads the Electron binary straight from there and never
downloads it during `npm run pack`. That dist tree is only produced by the
electron package's postinstall (install.js) during `npm ci`. When that
download is blocked or throttled (GitHub's release host is unreachable in
some regions), the dist is missing and the build dies with:
The specified electronDist does not exist: .../node_modules/electron/dist
The existing ELECTRON_MIRROR fallback in all three desktop-build paths
(scripts/install.ps1, scripts/install.sh, and `hermes desktop` in
hermes_cli/main.py) re-ran `npm run pack` with ELECTRON_MIRROR set — but
pack never downloads Electron anymore, so the mirror was never used and the
retry re-read the same missing dist. The fallback was effectively dead.
Drive the mirror through electron's own downloader instead:
- Add a dist-presence check + a downloader helper (Test-ElectronDist /
Restore-ElectronDist, _electron_dist_ok / _restore_electron_dist,
_electron_dist_ok / _redownload_electron_dist) that wipes a partial dist
+ the path.txt version marker (electron's install.js short-circuits on it)
and re-runs `node install.js`, optionally via a mirror.
- On the first retry, repopulate a missing dist from the canonical source;
on the mirror retry, re-fetch through npmmirror.com, then pack.
- Gate the re-download on the dist check so an unrelated build failure
(tsc/vite) doesn't trigger a pointless ~200 MB refetch, and skip the final
pack when the binary still can't be fetched instead of failing the same way.
* test(desktop): cover Electron dist re-download mirror fallback (#47266)
Add behavior coverage for the electronDist re-download fix:
- _electron_dist_ok across linux/win32/darwin, including the partial-dist
case (dir present but binary missing) that makes the pinned electronDist
fail.
- _redownload_electron_dist: no-op when the binary is present, bail when
install.js is absent, wipe a stale dist + path.txt marker and run
electron's downloader with ELECTRON_MIRROR injected, and report failure
when the download still produces no binary.
- `hermes desktop`: the mirror fallback now drives electron's own downloader
before re-running pack, and skips the final pack entirely when the binary
can't be fetched.
Replaces the old mirror test that asserted the (now-fixed) dead behavior of
re-running `npm run pack` with ELECTRON_MIRROR set — pack never downloads
Electron under the pinned electronDist, so that retry could never help.
The initial fix only wrote the prefix npmrc on a fresh Node install, so
pre-existing bundled-Node installs (Node already present) were not repaired
by re-running the installer — install_node/ensure_node skip when Node is
already up to date.
Extract the redirect into an idempotent helper
(configure_managed_node_npm_prefix / _nb_configure_npm_prefix) that no-ops
when there's no Hermes-managed npm, and call it unconditionally from
check_node (install.sh) and at the top of ensure_node (node-bootstrap.sh).
Re-running the install command now repairs an affected install in place,
not just brand-new ones.
When the installer falls back to a bundled Node under $HERMES_HOME/node,
npm's default global prefix is that Node dir, so `npm install -g <pkg>`
drops the package binary in $HERMES_HOME/node/bin. Only node/npm/npx are
symlinked into the command link dir (~/.local/bin, /usr/local/bin, or
$PREFIX/bin) — so user-installed global package binaries are NOT on PATH
and can't be run, even though `npm i -g` reports success. They also get
wiped on every Node upgrade (the dir is rm -rf'd and re-extracted).
Redirect the bundled Node's npm global prefix to the command link dir's
parent, so global bins land in the link dir (already on PATH, alongside
node/npm/npx) and survive Node upgrades. Scoped to the bundled Node via
its prefix-local global npmrc ($HERMES_HOME/node/etc/npmrc), so the user's
other Node installs and their ~/.npmrc are untouched. Hermes's own global
installs (agent-browser) pass an explicit --prefix and are unaffected.
When an existing install at $INSTALL_DIR has an unmerged index (files in a
"needs merge" state left by a previously interrupted update), the update path
ran `git stash` then `git checkout <branch>`. On a conflicted index `git stash`
aborts with "could not write index" and `git checkout` then aborts with "you
need to resolve your current index first" — surfacing to desktop/bootstrap
users as `git checkout main failed (exit 1)` and failing the whole install at
the repository stage.
Mirror the `hermes update` Python path (#4735): detect unmerged entries with
`git ls-files --unmerged` and clear the conflict state with `git reset` before
stashing. Working-tree changes are still captured by the subsequent stash, so
nothing is discarded; only the index-level conflict markers are dropped, which
lets the checkout proceed.
Fixed in both installers (install.sh and install.ps1) so the Windows GUI
installer and the POSIX one share the same recovery behavior.
* fix(install): self-heal a stuck Electron download on the desktop build
The desktop build downloads Electron (~114MB) from GitHub. A corrupt cached
zip, or a blocked/throttled GitHub release host (the repeating "retrying" log),
hard-failed the install — and install.sh had no recovery at all while
install.ps1 / `hermes desktop` only purged the cache.
All three build paths now escalate on a failed `npm run pack`:
GitHub → purge corrupt electron-*.zip + stale *-unpacked and retry → one retry
via a public Electron mirror (npmmirror.com). @electron/get SHASUM-verifies the
download, and a user-pinned ELECTRON_MIRROR is always respected (never
overridden). Adds a bash clear_electron_build_cache()/_desktop_pack() to mirror
the existing PowerShell/Python helpers.
* test(install): cover the Electron mirror fallback
Verify `hermes desktop` falls back to a mirror when the cache purge finds
nothing, and that a user-pinned ELECTRON_MIRROR is respected (no extra attempt,
not overridden).
* docs(desktop): troubleshoot a stuck Electron download
Document the automatic cache-purge + mirror fallback, how to pin your own
ELECTRON_MIRROR, and how to clear a corrupt cached zip by hand.
* docs(install): correct the Electron mirror trust framing
The mirror-fallback comments and the desktop troubleshooting doc implied
`@electron/get`'s SHASUM check makes the npmmirror.com download safe against
tampering. It doesn't: the SHASUMS256.txt is fetched from the same mirror, so
the check guards against a corrupt/partial download, not a compromised mirror.
Reframe all four surfaces (install.sh, install.ps1, `hermes desktop`, and the
docs) to state the trust trade-off honestly — npmmirror.com is the de-facto
Electron community mirror, we only fall back to it after the canonical GitHub
download fails, and a user-pinned ELECTRON_MIRROR is never overridden. No
behavior change.
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A bare `git fetch origin` (and `git fetch upstream`) pulls every ref. The
repo carries thousands of auto-generated branches, so on any
non-single-branch checkout the installer's update path and `hermes update`
spend minutes downloading the full branch list — long enough to stall the
desktop installer or trip the follow-up `git pull --ff-only`.
Scope every update-path fetch to the branch we actually compare/merge
against:
- scripts/install.sh: collapse the remote to single-branch and fetch only
$BRANCH on the "existing install, updating" path.
- hermes_cli/main.py: fetch the resolved branch in the apply path, the
--check path (upstream + origin), and the fork upstream-sync.
Tracking-ref updates still happen via git's opportunistic refspec, so the
later origin/<branch> rev-parse/rev-list checks are unaffected.
Tests assert the apply-path fetch is branch-scoped and never bare.
Review feedback (#40998): `rm -rf` / `Remove-Item -Recurse -Force` on the
install dir is destructive -- a user might still want whatever is there.
Rename the broken checkout to a timestamped `<dir>.broken-<ts>` backup and
re-clone fresh, so nothing is ever deleted. Transient cleanup of a clone
attempt that fails within the same run is left as-is.
An interrupted previous clone leaves the install dir's .git present but with
no initial commit. rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree and git status both still
succeed there, so the installer entered the update path and ran `git stash`,
which aborts with "You do not have the initial commit yet" and failed the
desktop install at the "Cloning Hermes repository" stage.
- install.ps1: add a `git rev-parse --verify HEAD` probe to the repo-validity
check so a commit-less checkout is treated as broken and re-cloned fresh.
- install.sh: mirror it at the top of clone_repo() — drop a partial checkout
with no resolvable HEAD so the fresh-clone path handles it (POSIX parity).
Fixes#40998
When apps/desktop's `npm ci`/`npm install` fails, install_desktop printed a
single "Desktop workspace npm install failed" line and aborted, leaving the
user with a wall of raw npm output. A common trigger is a root-owned ~/.npm
cache left by an earlier `sudo npm`/`sudo npx`: the non-root install then
cannot write the shared cache, and npm reports it as EEXIST / "File exists"
while the real errno is EACCES (-13) -- so it reads like an installer bug.
Add a targeted remediation hint on that failure path pointing at:
sudo chown -R "$(id -un)" ~/.npm && npm cache verify
followed by the manual rebuild command. The stage stays a hard failure by
design (a silent skip yields a "complete" install with no app); only the
failure output changes.
* Revert "fix(update): require managed marker before destructive clean"
This reverts commit c8e80cd0bf.
* Revert "fix(update): stop stash/restore from clobbering desktop source on managed clones (#38542)"
This reverts commit 8a19884bf3.
* chore(install): keep npm ci desktop-build fix after stash revert
The destructive-clean reverts (#38542/#39568) pulled the desktop
workspace install back to bare `npm install`. The npm ci -> npm install
fallback is orthogonal build-correctness (avoids the Windows
workspace-hoisting flake where install reports up-to-date against a
stale marker while node_modules is empty, breaking tsc -b). Preserve it.
* feat(update): settable stash-or-discard for non-interactive local changes
Adds updates.non_interactive_local_changes (stash | discard, default
stash). Governs ONLY non-interactive updates (desktop/chat app, gateway,
--yes) — interactive terminal updates always stash-and-ask, unchanged.
- config.py: new key under existing updates section; _config_version 26->27.
- main.py: _cmd_update_impl detects non-interactive (gateway/--yes/no-TTY),
reads the setting; new _discard_stashed_changes() drops the stash
(stash-and-drop, never reset --hard/clean -fd, so ignored paths survive).
Post-pull restore site branches on it; the bail-out and up-to-date
restores always preserve work.
- web_server.py + apps/desktop settings: exposes it as a stash/discard
select (Advanced section, In-App Update Local Changes).
- docs + tests (discard drops, stash restores, interactive ignores setting,
missing section defaults to stash).
* fix(install.ps1): stash/restore instead of reset --hard on Windows update
The PR reverted the destructive update path to stash/restore everywhere
except scripts/install.ps1, whose managed-clone update path still ran
`git reset --hard HEAD` before checkout — silently destroying agent-edited
tracked source on Windows (the same #38542 data-loss class the PR fixes).
- Replace `git reset --hard HEAD` with stash-before-checkout +
restore-after-checkout, mirroring install.sh. Untracked files are
included so agent-created dirs (e.g. tinker-atropos/) survive.
- Keep `core.autocrlf false` (it prevents the phantom CRLF dirt that made
the stash necessary; it's also load-bearing for a clean restore).
- Wrap all three checkout modes (Commit/Tag/Branch); Branch case now uses
`git pull --ff-only` so local commits are never clobbered.
- Only prompt to restore when a real console is attached (UserInteractive
+ non-redirected stdin/stdout + ConsoleHost); the desktop Update button
and bootstrap have no usable console, so they default to restore and
never hang on Read-Host.
- On restore conflict or a failed update, the stash is preserved with
recovery instructions — work is never silently dropped.
Validated on Windows (PowerShell 5.1, git 2.54): AST parse clean;
E2E non-conflicting restore applies+drops cleanly with ignored paths
(node_modules) untouched; conflicting restore preserves the stash.
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Co-authored-by: alt-glitch <balyan.sid@gmail.com>
Root installs on Linux (FHS layout, #15608) put the `hermes` command in
`/usr/local/bin` (on PATH) but symlinked the bundled node/npm/npx into
`~/.local/bin`, which isn't on PATH for a stock root shell. `node`/`npm`
were 'command not found' and `hermes dashboard` failed with 'npm is not
available' because its build-on-demand fallback couldn't find npm.
Fix: `install_node()` now symlinks into `get_command_link_dir()` — the same
helper the `hermes` command link already uses — so node/npm/npx land
wherever the command does (`/usr/local/bin` on FHS root, `~/.local/bin`
otherwise, `$PREFIX/bin` on Termux). Non-root and Termux installs are
unchanged.
Also fixes:
- `scripts/lib/node-bootstrap.sh`: adds `_nb_get_link_dir()` mirroring
the same root/Termux/user logic for the standalone bootstrap path
(used by `hermes update`, TUI node bootstrap, etc.)
- `hermes_cli/uninstall.py`: `remove_node_symlinks()` now checks all
candidate directories (`~/.local/bin`, `/usr/local/bin`, `$PREFIX/bin`)
so root FHS uninstalls don't leave orphan symlinks
Regression from #15608, which created the FHS path for the command but
left `install_node` pointed at the legacy user-local dir.
uv selects the project Python from requires-python and from the UV_PYTHON
env var, both of which override an already-created venv on the next
'uv sync'. With no upper bound on requires-python, an inherited
UV_PYTHON=3.14 (or a fresh distro whose newest interpreter uv auto-picks)
silently recreated the installer's 3.11 venv at 3.14, where Rust-backed
transitives (pydantic-core) have no cp314 wheel and fall back to a maturin
source build that fails. This bit a Windows/WSL user with UV_PYTHON set in
their shell and a fresh WSL-arch box where uv auto-picked 3.14.
Two layers:
- pyproject: requires-python '>=3.11' -> '>=3.11,<3.14' (+ uv lock regen).
uv now refuses a 3.14 interpreter with a clear error instead of attempting
the maturin build. Backstop independent of the installer.
- install.sh / install.ps1: pin UV_PYTHON to the venv interpreter after
creating it (in both the venv step and the deps step, since bootstrap runs
those stages as separate processes). An inherited UV_PYTHON can no longer
hijack the sync/pip tiers, so the install just works regardless of shell env.
Verified E2E: hostile UV_PYTHON=3.14 + uv venv --python 3.11 + uv sync now
installs into 3.11 with pydantic-core's 3.11 wheel; without the re-pin the
capped requires-python produces a legible incompatibility error rather than a
cryptic build failure.
The stash/restore cycle in the update path was observed to clobber
freshly-pulled source files (apps/desktop/ deletion -> Vite
'[UNRESOLVED_ENTRY] Cannot resolve entry module index.html'). On a
managed clone the user never edits the source tree, so any 'dirty' state
is pure git artifact (CRLF renormalization, npm lockfile churn, files
left behind when a directory was deleted upstream such as
apps/bootstrap-installer/). Stashing that and re-applying it after a pull
is fragile and unnecessary.
- hermes update (hermes_cli/main.py): on a non-fork (managed) clone,
discard working-tree dirt via reset --hard HEAD + clean -fd instead of
stash/apply. Forks keep the stash machinery so intentional edits
survive. Also pin core.autocrlf=false on Windows so the dirt is never
created (mirrors install.ps1 #38239).
- install.sh: replace the update-path stash/restore dance with a hard
reset to origin/<branch>; the installer is a managed-only entry point.
- install.sh + install.ps1 desktop stage: prefer 'npm ci' (wipes and
reinstalls node_modules from the lockfile) over bare 'npm install',
which can report 'up to date' against a stale marker while node_modules
is empty -- leaving tsc unresolved so 'npm run pack' fails.
Tests: managed clone cleans instead of stashing; fork still stashes;
existing stash tests force the stash path explicitly.
The "Build desktop app" install step failed with an opaque "exit code 1"
on machines with an old Node, and nothing in the logs explained it.
Reproduced: on Node 20.5.1, `npm run pack`'s `vite build` crashes with
You are using Node.js 20.5.1. Vite requires Node.js version 20.19+ or 22.12+.
SyntaxError: The requested module 'node:util' does not provide an
export named 'styleText'
Vite 8 (rolldown) imports node:util.styleText, which doesn't exist before
Node 20.12, so the build dies before producing the app. The installer's
check_node / Test-Node accepted ANY pre-existing Node with no version
floor, so a too-old system Node was used for the build instead of the
bundled Node 22.
Add a version floor (^20.19 || >=22.12) to check_node (install.sh) and
Test-Node (install.ps1): a too-old system Node is replaced with the
Hermes-managed Node 22 LTS, and the desktop stage re-resolves Node so the
build always runs on a satisfying version. Declare the same range in
apps/desktop/package.json engines.
Verified: build succeeds on Node 22, fails on 20.5.1 with the error above;
the floor logic matches Vite's range across boundary versions (20.18/20.19,
21.x, 22.11/22.12).
Electron's chrome-sandbox helper must be root:root 4755 on Linux or the
sandboxed renderer aborts before the desktop app starts. The existing
installer only searched for macOS .app bundles, so a successful Linux
build was reported as missing.
Changes:
- Add _desktop_linux_sandbox_fixup() to hermes_cli/main.py, called
before launching a packaged desktop app on Linux.
- Use lstat() + S_ISREG check to reject symlinks — chown/chmod on a
symlink target would set SUID on an arbitrary path.
- Update install.sh to recognize Linux unpacked artifacts and configure
chrome-sandbox with proper error handling (the original PR silently
ignored chown/chmod failures).
- Add regression tests: normal fixup flow, symlink rejection, and
already-configured skip path.
Closes#37529 (rebased, merge conflicts resolved, copilot review
feedback addressed).
Replace the multi-path UV resolution chain (PATH probing, conda guards,
5-location trust ordering, temp-dir fallback installs) with a single
managed uv binary at $HERMES_HOME/bin/uv. Every code path that needs
uv resolves it from that one location; if missing, ensure_uv()
bootstraps it via the official standalone installer.
Key changes:
- New hermes_cli/managed_uv.py: managed_uv_path(), resolve_uv(),
ensure_uv() (returns (path, freshly_bootstrapped) tuple),
update_managed_uv(), rebuild_venv(), installer internals.
- hermes_cli/main.py: replace all shutil.which('uv') with ensure_uv(),
add venv rebuild on first-time managed uv bootstrap, update_managed_uv
before dep install on all 3 update paths.
- scripts/install.sh: install_uv() always installs to
$HERMES_HOME/bin/uv; delete ensure_fts5, _python_has_fts5,
_reinstall_python_with_fts5, _warn_no_fts5 (61 lines).
Managed uv always installs current Python with FTS5.
- scripts/install.ps1: Install-Uv always installs to
$HermesHome\bin\uv.exe; Resolve-UvCmd checks managed location first.
- hermes_state.py: simplified FTS5 warning now suggests 'hermes update'
as the fix instead of blaming install method.
- tests: 15 tests in test_managed_uv.py, autouse _patch_managed_uv
fixture in test_cmd_update.py.
Closes#37605, Closes#37622
* feat(install): --no-skills flag for blank-slate default profile
Add an install-time --no-skills flag so the default ~/.hermes profile can
be created with zero bundled skills, matching what
`hermes profile create --no-skills` already does for named profiles.
The flag writes $HERMES_HOME/.no-bundled-skills and skips the install-time
seed. sync_skills() now honors that marker with an early return
(skipped_opt_out=True), so neither the installer, a later `hermes update`,
nor a direct sync re-injects bundled skills into a profile that opted out.
Previously the marker was only checked by seed_profile_skills() (named
profiles); the default profile had no opt-out and `hermes update` would
re-seed it every time.
Tests: TestNoBundledSkillsOptOut covers marker-present (no-op) and
marker-absent (normal seed) paths.
* feat(skills): hermes skills opt-out / opt-in for existing profiles
Adds an interactive counterpart to the install-time --no-skills flag so
an already-installed profile (default or named) can toggle the
.no-bundled-skills marker without reinstalling.
- `hermes skills opt-out` writes the marker (stop future seeding). Safe
by default: nothing on disk is touched.
- `hermes skills opt-out --remove` ALSO deletes already-present bundled
skills, but ONLY ones that are manifest-tracked AND byte-identical to
their origin hash. User-edited bundled skills, hub-installed skills, and
hand-written skills are never removed. Previews + confirms before
deleting (--yes to skip).
- `hermes skills opt-in [--sync]` removes the marker and optionally
re-seeds immediately.
Core logic lives in tools/skills_sync.py (set_bundled_skills_opt_out,
is_bundled_skills_opt_out, remove_pristine_bundled_skills) reusing the
existing manifest origin-hash machinery for the safety check.
Tests: TestOptOutToggleAndRemove covers marker toggle idempotency and
proves user-modified + non-bundled skills survive --remove.
* docs: blank-slate skills — install --no-skills + opt-out/opt-in
- features/skills.md: new 'Starting with a blank slate' section covering
the install flag, profile-create flag, and runtime opt-out/opt-in, with
a safe-by-default note.
- reference/cli-commands.md: document the new skills opt-out / opt-in
subcommands + examples.
- reference/profile-commands.md: fix the marker filename (was .no-skills,
actually .no-bundled-skills) and cross-link the runtime commands.
Validated with a full docusaurus build (exit 0); the three edited pages
compile clean with no new warnings.
On macOS the desktop app is built locally and ad-hoc signed (no Developer ID
on the user's machine). An ad-hoc bundle has no stable Designated Requirement,
so when the self-updater rebuilds it in place with a fresh build (new cdhash)
— plus the com.apple.quarantine flag inherited from the downloaded installer
process chain — Gatekeeper/LaunchServices treats the changed code as tampering
and macOS reports "Hermes is damaged and can't be opened," and the app fails to
relaunch. First launch works (fresh registration); the in-place update relaunch
is what breaks.
Fix: after building the desktop app locally, strip quarantine xattrs and
re-apply a clean deep ad-hoc signature (omitting the hardened-runtime flag,
which an ad-hoc build can't satisfy). Applied in both build entry points:
- hermes_cli/main.py cmd_gui (the `hermes desktop --build-only` path the
updater drives) — so the fix ships via `hermes update` (git), no installer
re-download needed.
- scripts/install.sh install_desktop (first install) for parity.
Both are no-ops on non-macOS and when a real signing identity (CSC_LINK /
APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY) is configured, so signed/notarized builds are untouched.
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