allow you to simulate the whole official curl | bash installer,
and subsequent hermes updates.
Run development commands in a bubblewrap filesystem and network sandbox
with a local HTTPS MITM fixture server and a fake github
git-upload-pack transport.
Package the sandbox command and expose it from the nix devShell.
Stage the local installer at its canonical fake HTTPS URL and add a
persistent installation/update test path. Route root installs through
sandbox-owned filesystem locations and snapshot dirty source worktrees
into temporary fake commits so update tests can fast-forward without
changing the real checkout.
Includes a --install-ref sandbox installer mode that fetches any commit
(--from-main is a nice shorthand for local development) outside the
sealed sandbox, installs from that snapshot, and then promotes the fake
remote to the current worktree so update flows can be exercised with FF.
Notes on non-root sandboxes:
Giving a non-root sandbox a network is tricky.
slirp4netns joins the target userns and setuids to root before configuring the
netns, so the userns must map a uid 0; bwrap's --unshare-user maps exactly ONE
uid, so --uid 1000 leaves no root to become and slirp diedswith
`setns(CLONE_NEWNET): Operation not permitted`. Stage 1 builds the user+net
namespaces with `unshare` and two one-id ranges:
inner 0 -> a subuid, unused by the payload, present only so slirp can
become root
inner 1000 -> our real host uid
Mapping the payload to the *host* uid (not a second subuid) keeps everything the
sandbox writes owned by us, so `rm -rf` on a persistent sandbox still needs no
privileges. Stage 2 execs bwrap WITHOUT --unshare-user -- it only adds mount/pid
-- sidestepping bwrap's refusal to accept --uid outside a userns it created.
Costs a /etc/subuid range for the invoking user (we error with the exact line to
add) and util-linux `unshare`; `--root` needs neither.
_has_any_provider_configured() probed every api_key provider (gh subprocess
for copilot alone takes 5s; full sweep ~18s) before consulting auth.json and
config.yaml, which are instant local reads. Desktop setup.status calls
blocked past the UI's timeout, causing the connect/disconnect boot loop.
Reorder so cheap local checks run first. Same semantics, ~35x faster here.
purge_stale_tool_call_markers ran a permanent, irreversible UPDATE with
no backup — inconsistent with repair_state_db_schema's backup-by-default
convention for destructive state.db operations elsewhere in this file.
Take a full snapshot via VACUUM INTO (safe against a live connection,
unlike the raw-copy _backup_db_file used for malformed-schema repair)
before the write, timestamped beside state.db. Skipped when dry_run or
when there's nothing to change. Add --no-backup to `hermes sessions
clean-markers`, mirroring `sessions repair`.
Verified end-to-end: the CLI run against a real temp state.db produces
the backup file before printing the cleared-row count.
The load-on-read repair (_strip_stale_tool_call_markers) fixes affected
sessions in memory on every resume, but never touches the DB — long-lived
sessions re-scan and re-repair the same rows on every load, and the
contaminated bytes stay in state.db (and any backup/cache snapshot of it)
indefinitely.
Add SessionDB.purge_stale_tool_call_markers(dry_run=False): a one-time,
idempotent UPDATE that permanently blanks the content column on affected
rows. Only content is touched — tool_calls and every other column are
left untouched, so provider tool_call/tool_result pairing survives.
dry_run reads through the no-lock read path and never writes.
Wire it up as `hermes sessions clean-markers [--dry-run]`, mirroring the
existing optimize/repair subcommands. Verified end-to-end against a real
temp state.db: dry-run reports the row without writing, the real run
clears it and preserves tool_calls, and a second run is a no-op.
Re-derivation of PR #39399 onto current main: pass --prefer-offline to
the web-UI workspace install (both silent and verbose arms of
_install_web_deps) and to the update-time Node dependency refresh in
_update_node_dependencies, so npm reuses its local cache instead of
re-fetching metadata. Test expectations updated to match, mirroring the
PR's own test-update commit.
- tests/agent/test_session_activity.py asserts against
ACTIVITY_DESCRIPTION_MAX instead of the literal 120.
- The session-stall WARNING log line names its config knob
(agent.session_stall_timeout) so operators can find the setting.
- hermes_state.py: collapse the triple blank line near line 191.
- hermes_cli/status.py no longer imports the private
hermes_cli.main._relative_time: the helper moved to a public home
(hermes_cli.timefmt.relative_time); main._relative_time stays as a
thin back-compat wrapper (sessions_cmd and external patchers keep
working).
The inverse of the inbound webhook platform: hooks.outbound in
config.yaml lists HTTP targets + the plugin-hook events they subscribe
to (on_session_end, subagent_stop, post_tool_call, ...). Each firing
POSTs a JSON payload (same top-level shape as shell hooks' stdin wire)
signed GitHub-style with HMAC-SHA256 (X-Hermes-Signature-256).
Rides the existing hook bus — notify-only callbacks registered on the
plugin manager at the same CLI/gateway/main entry points as shell
hooks. Delivery is fire-and-forget via a bounded queue + single daemon
worker thread, so a dead endpoint can never stall a tool call. Bounded
retries (5xx/conn errors once; 4xx never). secret_env preferred over
inline secret. HERMES_SAFE_MODE skips registration. hermes hooks list
shows outbound targets with signed/UNSIGNED status.
Zero new model tools, zero new subsystems.
Architecture fix for the bug class behind the Termux --version NameError
(live on main since eb4040242): version-printing kept being reimplemented
as *_fast() copies at the top of hermes_cli/main.py, each duplicating
canonical logic (project-root resolution, container detection, profile
detection). The copies drift silently — eb4040242 edited the canonical
output and referenced the PROJECT_ROOT module constant inside the fast
function, which doesn't exist yet at the fast exit point.
- hermes_cli/_startup_fast.py: THE implementations, stdlib-only. main.py's
*_fast() names become thin delegates (kept for test/back-compat), and
PROJECT_ROOT itself derives from the same helper — the constant and the
fast path can no longer disagree.
- Fast output now includes the .install_method stamp (one cheap file read)
and a 'Run hermes version for update status' pointer, so globalizing the
fast path doesn't silently drop slow-path info.
- Guard tests: (1) import-weight — subprocess-imports _startup_fast and
fails if any heavy module (config/yaml/argparse/cli/run_agent/httpx)
lands in sys.modules; (2) subprocess parity on+off Termux — the test
that would have caught eb4040242 the day it landed; (3) install-method
stamp surfacing.
hermes --version: ~3.8s cold / 0.2-0.4s warm -> 0.01-0.02s everywhere.
- _print_fast_version_info referenced the PROJECT_ROOT module constant,
which is defined AFTER the ultrafast exit point. On current main this
is a LIVE latent bug: the Termux fast path NameErrors on --version
(eb4040242 changed the print to use PROJECT_ROOT without noticing the
constant doesn't exist yet on that path). Compute the root locally.
- PR tests asserted the old 'Project:' label; main renamed it to
'Install directory:' (eb4040242). Expectations updated.
Hermes installs runtimes for itself — `uv` at `$HERMES_HOME/bin/uv`, Node
at `$HERMES_HOME/node` — and neither directory is on an arbitrary
process's PATH. Every `shutil.which("node"/"npm"/"npx"/"uv")` in Hermes's
own code therefore has two failure modes: the managed runtime is invisible,
so the caller reports "not installed" or degrades to a slower tier on a
machine that has exactly what it needed; and when a system copy also
exists, the one Hermes does not own wins.
Routed the Hermes-owned call sites through managed-aware resolvers:
- `agent/lsp/install.py`, `hermes_cli/dep_ensure.py`, `hermes_cli/main.py`
(`_make_tui_argv`), `hermes_cli/tools_config.py` (`_run_post_setup`) now
use `find_node_executable()`.
- `hermes_cli/tools_config.py::_pip_install` and `hermes_cli/setup.py`'s
vercel install use `ensure_uv()` (installing uv is in scope during setup,
and the Windows installer's `uv venv` does not seed pip, so the fallback
tier is "No module named pip"). `tools/lazy_deps.py` uses `resolve_uv()`
— a lookup, not a bootstrap, because it runs mid-turn for an optional
dependency and downloading a runtime as a side effect exceeds what the
caller asked for.
- `hermes_cli/gateway.py`: extracted `_append_node_dir_for_service()`,
shared by the systemd unit and launchd plist generators, which appends
the managed dirs before the PATH-resolved one. A service definition is
written once and survives reboots, so resolving a system Node that
happens to lead the installing shell's PATH bakes the wrong interpreter
in permanently. Managed dirs are profile-scoped, so each profile's unit
still names its own Node; the existing symlink-parent rule (don't
`.resolve()`) is preserved verbatim.
- `tools/environments/local.py`: the terminal tool's subshell PATH gains
the managed dirs, appended alongside the sane entries rather than
prepended — a tool the user deliberately put on their own PATH still
wins, and the managed one only fills a gap. This is also what makes the
bare `which("uv")` in `tools/env_probe.py` correct: that probe reports
the environment the *model* sees, and the model can only run what is on
that subshell's PATH.
`scripts/install.ps1`: the persisted User PATH update becomes
`Set-ManagedNodeFirstOnUserPath`, a move-to-front rather than an
add-if-missing. Installs made by an older install.ps1 already have the
managed dir in User PATH — at the tail, behind a system Node — and an
add-if-missing check sees it present and leaves that ordering in place
forever, so the users the bug hurt would never be repaired. Unrelated
entries keep their relative order (empty segments included; a trailing
`;` is legal and the installer's other PATH code preserves them),
duplicates collapse, and it writes only when the string actually changes.
Tests:
- `tests/test_managed_runtime_resolution.py` — AST guard that fails any
new bare `which()` for a managed runtime, with a short justified
allow-list and a companion test that fails when an allow-list entry goes
stale. Reading source is banned by AGENTS.md and this is the documented
exception: the property is "no call site anywhere spells it this way",
which no runtime seam can observe.
- `scripts/ci/test_install_ps1_path_migration.ps1` — behavioral, not a
source regex: it lifts the real `Set-ManagedNodeFirstOnUserPath` out of
install.ps1's AST and rewrites only the two registry calls into an
in-memory store, so the shipped split/dedupe/prepend/change-detection
logic executes for real. Not in the default lane (Linux runners have no
PowerShell host); runs under `pwsh`. 13/13 assertions pass.
The npm 12 requirement (f88ed6c717) strands every system-Node install:
no shipping Node bundles npm >=12, engine-strict makes EBADENGINE fatal,
and the recovery in npm_engine.py refuses to touch a system npm — so
'hermes update' leaves the install in a mixed state (updated code, stale
Node deps, no TUI/web/desktop rebuild) with only a manual-fix hint.
Instead of modifying the user's toolchain (still never done), the
EBADENGINE recovery now provisions Hermes' own managed Node tree under
$HERMES_HOME/node — the same pinned-nodejs.org path install.sh and
install.ps1 use — upgrades THAT npm into the required range, and hands
the caller the managed npm for its single retry.
- hermes_constants.bootstrap_hermes_managed_node(): cross-platform
provisioning (POSIX via node-bootstrap.sh _nb_install_bundled_node,
Windows via the existing portable-zip download); reuses a healthy tree.
- node-bootstrap.sh: HERMES_NODE_SKIP_LINKS=1 skips the ~/.local/bin
node/npm/npx symlinks so the private tree never shadows the user's
own toolchain on PATH.
- maybe_repair_npm_engine() now returns the npm path to retry with
(managed-in-place upgrade or freshly provisioned runtime); both call
sites retry with the returned path and put the managed tree first on
PATH so npm lifecycle scripts resolve the managed node.
- Node-only mismatches on a foreign npm are now also recoverable (the
managed tree ships a supported Node); on a managed npm they still
correctly decline.
E2E (real download, temp HERMES_HOME): provisioned node v22.23.2,
upgraded bundled npm 10.9.4 -> 12.0.2, system npm byte-identical after,
no ~/.local/bin links re-pointed, healthy-tree reuse in 0.05s.
The Desktop client writes the SSH session token under $HOME/.hermes/desktop-ssh
(a literal ~/.hermes/desktop-ssh in apps/desktop/electron/remote-lifecycle.ts,
expanded against the account's $HOME), independent of HERMES_HOME and the active
profile. But _read_ssh_session_token_file validated it against
get_hermes_home()/desktop-ssh, which a non-default sticky profile re-homes to
<root>/profiles/<name>/desktop-ssh (and any custom HERMES_HOME points elsewhere).
relative_to() then rejects every token as "not under the desktop-ssh directory",
so SSH remote mode is broken under any non-default profile.
Anchor to Path.home()/.hermes/desktop-ssh so the validator matches the exact
directory the client writes to, across default, profile, and Docker layouts.
Adds profile / custom-root acceptance tests and a profile-local rejection test.
Fixes#69551.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A task could already pin a model and provider, but not how hard the worker
thinks: reasoning effort came from the assigned profile's config and nothing
per-task could reach it. Pairing a small model with high effort, or a big one
with thinking off, meant editing the worker profile itself.
Adds a tasks.reasoning_effort column (migrated, NULL = inherit the profile)
with set_reasoning_effort(), a create_task kwarg, and a --reasoning spawn flag.
Kept deliberately independent of model_override: a task may run the profile's
own model at a different depth, and clearing a model override no longer resets
the depth the operator chose. "none" is a value (thinking off), not a clear.
--reasoning is new on the CLI too — the level was only reachable through the
/reasoning slash command, so the dispatcher had no flag to pass. It overrides
agent.reasoning_effort for one run and is never persisted.
CI slice 8/8 red:
test_verify_core_dependencies.py::test_uses_virtual_env_from_environment
AssertionError: assert None == PosixPath('.../newvenv/Scripts/python.exe')
The Phase 2 reviewer flagged this exact risk (W4) and I under-weighted it as
"latent, not broken". It was neither — it was already failing.
The suite exercises Windows-only paths on Linux CI by patching predicates
(`hermes_cli.main._is_windows`, `is_windows`, `platform.system`). Routing
those call sites through a helper that reads `sys.platform` unconditionally
meant the patches no longer reached the path derivation: the test built
`Scripts/python.exe` while the code looked for `bin/python`.
venv_bin_dir/venv_python_path now take an optional `windows=` verdict,
defaulting to the host. Every converted site passes its own predicate, so
the patched-predicate coverage is restored — the dedup keeps the layout in
one place without hijacking the platform decision.
Verified by causation: dropping `windows=` reproduces the CI failure exactly;
restoring it goes green. Added two regression tests, including one asserting
a patched `_is_windows` still reaches the derivation.
Closes#76104, closes#76105.
#76104 — `_atomic_replace_dir` (#49145) made each individual directory swap
safe, but `_update_via_zip` replaced ~70 top-level entries in a loop with no
atomicity across iterations. `agent/` lands at os.listdir index 13 and
`tools/` at 66, so an interruption between them left the new
`agent/context_compressor.py` (module-level `from tools.todo_tool import
TODO_INJECTION_HEADER`) beside a stale `tools/todo_tool.py` — every file
valid Python, the tree unbootable. That is the mechanism behind the
ImportError fixed in #76091, and the "partial update" field report in #63717.
Split into stage-all-then-swap-all:
- `_stage_replacement` copies each dir to a sibling staging path, touching
nothing live, so a failure during the long copy phase is a no-op.
- `_commit_staged_replacements` performs the renames and, if any fails,
restores every entry already swapped — the tree lands wholly new or
wholly old, never mixed.
This shrinks the failure window from a full tree copy to N renames and makes
what remains recoverable. Added an up-front free-space check, since staging
needs a second copy of the tree; a clear error beats running out mid-swap.
#76105 — venv interpreter resolution was open-coded in 7 places across 4
files using 3 different Windows predicates. #76091 added the seventh because
the correct behaviour lived 2400 lines away. Hoisted `venv_bin_dir()` /
`venv_python_path()` into hermes_constants (import-safe, no new imports) and
routed every site through them; `managed_uv._venv_python` now delegates so
its 6 callers are untouched.
`_atomic_replace_dir` is retained — it is re-exported from main.py and has
its own #49145 regression test; removing it is out of scope here.
Tests: 10 new (rollback-on-mid-swap-failure is mutation-verified — it fails
when the rollback loop is removed), plus a guard that fails if a new call
site hand-rolls Scripts/bin again. E2E-verified against the real staging +
commit helpers with a live tree.
A Windows user reported every startup dying with `ImportError: cannot
import name 'TODO_INJECTION_HEADER' from 'tools.todo_tool'`. The symbol
exists on main; their tree had the new `agent/context_compressor.py`
(which imports it at module level) alongside a pre-update
`tools/todo_tool.py`.
The post-update guard missed it. `_validate_critical_files_syntax` only
py_compiles files, and every file in a skewed tree parses fine — it is
the combination that is broken. The guard reported success and the
update completed over an install that could not start.
The ZIP-update path (Windows-only, used when git file I/O is broken)
is where the skew comes from: its copy loop replaces top-level entries
one at a time in `os.listdir` order, so `agent/` lands at index 13 and
`tools/` at index 66. Any failure between them leaves exactly this
mismatch — and that path had no post-copy validation or rollback at all.
- Add `_validate_critical_modules_import`: imports the four startup
modules in a subprocess (~0.4s) so cross-module breakage is caught.
Non-import errors (config/env) are ignored; a probe that cannot spawn
is non-fatal so we never block an update on our own tooling.
- Run it after the syntax guard on the git path, reusing the existing
auto-rollback.
- Run it on the ZIP path after dependency install (so a genuinely-new
requirement is not misreported as a partial copy), and make the ZIP
failure message state the install may be half-updated.
- Add `partial_update_hint()` and print it under "Failed to initialize
agent", so users see "re-run hermes update" instead of a bare
ImportError. Stays silent for ModuleNotFoundError and third-party
imports, which need different remediation.
Verified by simulating the exact skew: the syntax guard returns ok=True
while the import guard returns the user's error verbatim.
The pause stops every gateway its discovery maps, but the venv-holder
guard sees the process table as it is now: a gateway respawned by its
supervisor (Scheduled Task, login watchdog) inside the pause-to-guard
window, or one started through a spawn path discovery does not map,
still holds venv .pyds - and the guard dead-ended the update on exactly
the kind of process the pause machinery exists to stop.
When every remaining holder classifies as a pausable gateway - using the
same _is_pausable_gateway matcher the Desktop preflight uses, so the two
views cannot drift - stop them and re-scan once. Any non-gateway holder
(REPL, stray script, Desktop backend) keeps the hard refusal exactly as
before, and a survivor after the stop still aborts.
On Windows a gateway started through the venv shim is a two-process chain:
venv\Scripts\python.exe (launcher — keeps venv .pyd files mapped)
└─ uv\python\...\python.exe (worker — writes the gateway PID file)
`_pause_windows_gateways_for_update()` builds its pause set from
`find_gateway_pids()`, which reads the PID file and therefore only ever
sees the *worker*. The venv-holder guard immediately downstream
(`_detect_venv_python_processes()`) matches on the venv path prefix, so it
only ever sees the *launcher*.
The two sets are disjoint. A gateway the updater had just gracefully
drained still left its launcher alive, the guard reported that launcher as
a venv holder, and the update aborted — every time. On the Desktop path
this surfaces as the dead-end dialog:
[updates] venv-blocked: 2 process(es) hold the install
PID ... python.exe ...\venv\Scripts\python.exe -m hermes_cli.main gateway run --replace
Note the reported holder is a gateway the updater believes it stopped.
The Desktop path is affected because `hermes-setup.exe` runs
`hermes update --yes --gateway --force`, and `--force` deliberately does
NOT bypass the venv guard (that needs `--force-venv`), so the abort is
correct behaviour reacting to an incomplete pause.
Fix: after the graceful drain, walk one hop up from each mapped gateway
PID and force-kill parents that live under the project venv.
Deliberately additive, not a substitution:
- The planned-stop marker and the graceful drain still target the worker
(the PID that wrote the PID file), so clean shutdown is unchanged and
updates don't get pushed onto the hard-kill path.
- `terminate_pid(force=True)` is `taskkill /T` (tree kill), so killing a
launcher that outlived its worker also reaps stragglers.
- `_resume_windows_gateways_after_update()` needs no change: the mapped
respawn argv is rebuilt from the profile name
(`_gateway_run_args_for_profile`), never from the killed PID, and the
restart watcher's `_pid_exists()` wait still terminates because the
tree kill takes the whole chain down.
- Only the venv-side parent is returned. Unrelated ancestors (a Scheduled
Task's `cmd.exe`, an operator's shell) are ignored, and the caller's own
process chain is excluded so a CLI `hermes update` never nominates
itself.
Tests assert the invariant the two PID-resolution paths must satisfy —
the pause's kill set must cover the guard's abort set — rather than
snapshotting PIDs. Verified to fail without the fix:
AssertionError: pause stopped [] but the venv guard aborts on [400]
— disjoint sets abort the update
The repo's .npmrc sets engine-strict=true and package.json pins
engines.npm, so an npm outside that range aborts every npm ci /
npm install we run inside the checkout:
npm error code EBADENGINE
npm error notsup Required: {"npm":"<11.10.0 || >=12.0.0"}
npm error notsup Actual: {"npm":"11.10.0"}
Our callers made that worse: _run_npm_install_deterministic sees
`npm ci` fail and falls through to `npm install`, which fails
identically, so the user got a buried EBADENGINE and no remedy.
React to the failure instead of predicting it. npm states the
required range in its own error, so there is no need for a version
probe on the happy path or a semver range matcher — the recovery
reads the constraint out of the output it just produced, upgrades,
and retries once.
Scope is deliberately narrow. Hermes only upgrades an npm inside its
own managed Node tree ($HERMES_HOME/node), installing with --prefix
so bin/npm keeps resolving to the upgraded lib/node_modules/npm; a
managed install writes prefix=~/.local into node/etc/npmrc, so
without the override the "upgrade" would land elsewhere while the
managed npm stayed stale. A system / nvm / brew / Nix npm belongs to
the user, so that case prints the exact command and lets the original
failure stand.
The upgrade runs from a temp cwd with npm_config_min_release_age=0,
otherwise the checkout's own min-release-age gate would refuse the
npm release we need.
_run_npm_install_deterministic's capture_output=False callers (the
desktop install) streamed npm output and returned stderr=None, which
would leave the recovery nothing to read — stderr is now teed, so
live output is unchanged and the text stays inspectable.
Verified end to end against real npm binaries on copies of a managed
tree: managed npm 11.10.0 -> EBADENGINE -> upgraded to 12.0.2 ->
retry exits 0; a foreign npm 11.10.0 hard-fails with the manual
command and is left untouched.
Use providers keys as the canonical custom-provider identity while accepting legacy bare keys, display-name slugs, bare custom fallback, and doubled custom prefixes across resolution, pickers, doctor, and runtime reverse lookup.
Co-authored-by: Bakhtier Sizhaev <bakhtiersizhaev@users.noreply.github.com>
Guard the .lazy-refresh-incomplete marker writer (update_cmd), launch-time
recovery (main.py), and _early_recovery repair paths behind a two-condition
check: running under pytest AND the target is this live checkout. Sandboxed
tmp_path tests still exercise the real code paths.
Salvaged from PR #72002 by @fcavalcantirj. Fixes#72000.
Co-authored-by: fcavalcantirj <felipe.cavalcanti.rj@gmail.com>
Three surfaces start updates against one checkout: a terminal
"hermes update", the dashboard's Update button (which spawns that same
command detached), and the desktop's, which hands off to the Tauri
updater. Only the Tauri updater published the in-progress marker, and
only Electron read it -- to gate backend startup, not to stop a second
updater. So a dashboard-spawned update and an installer-driven git
checkout could mutate the same tree concurrently, rewriting source under
a live interpreter.
Claim the same marker from cmd_update rather than adding a second
mechanism: same path, same pid+started_at payload the Rust and Electron
readers already parse. A marker only counts as live when its pid is alive
and it is inside the shared age ceiling, so a crashed updater self-heals
instead of wedging every future update. Release only removes a marker we
still own, leaving a handoff partner's claim intact.
Refusing exits 2, matching the existing concurrent-instance contract the
Tauri updater already recognizes.
Resolves the PR's conflict with main (2252 commits). Two conflicts, both
"each side added an independent block in the same place" — kept both:
- gateway/run.py — the housekeeping loop. This branch adds the Skill Sync
pulls inside the CURATOR_EVERY branch (12-space indent); main adds a
stale-session auto-archive as a sibling `if` at loop level (8-space).
Different scopes, so the naive union would have mis-nested the archive
block into the curator branch; kept each at its own indent level.
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py — the _edit_skill result dict. This branch
appends the org auto-propose note; main appends
_add_description_prompt_preview(). Independent, order-insensitive.
No behaviour dropped from either side.
Verified: 3552 passed / 0 failed across 63 suites (scope regenerated to
include main's new maybe_auto_archive / _add_description_prompt_preview
consumers) via scripts/run_tests.sh. `hermes sync` and `hermes sync status`
still work against a live token, resolving the production plane default.
The Pyright Optional-parameter warnings in skill_manager_tool.py are
pre-existing on main (`content: str = None` etc.), not introduced here.
Counted with an open()/read_text audit hook on a real 'hermes --version'
run: config.yaml was parsed 3x before load_config() even ran — once by
env_loader._load_secrets_config, once by main.py's early redact/ipv4
bridge (bespoke yaml.load), once by hermes_logging._read_logging_config.
Each raw parse is 1-3 ms with libyaml plus an open/stat — pure
duplication since all three want the same raw dict.
All three now route through read_raw_config()'s existing (mtime_ns,
size)-keyed shared cache:
- env_loader._load_secrets_config: uses the shared reader when reading
the process HERMES_HOME (the cache key's home); other homes (profile
seeding) keep the isolated direct parse. Parse-error isolation is
preserved — the shared reader also swallows errors and returns {}.
- main.py early bridge: drops the bespoke yaml.load for read_raw_config
(managed-scope overlay unchanged).
- hermes_logging._read_logging_config: prefers the shared reader,
falls back to the direct fast_safe_load parse when hermes_cli.config
isn't importable.
Measured: config.yaml opens per 'hermes --version' 3 -> 1.
348 targeted tests green (env_loader + secret sources + applied-homes +
bitwarden + hermes_logging + config).
Four fixes on the updater path:
1. uv self update freshness gate + timeout (managed_uv.py): the network
self-update ran on EVERY hermes update — including the 'Already up to
date!' fast path — with NO timeout (unbounded hang risk offline). Now
skipped when it succeeded within 7 days (stamp file under
HERMES_HOME/cache), capped at 60s, force= override available. The
CVE-driven vulnerable-runtime repair probe is NEVER gated — it still
runs on every invocation.
2. Drop the second network fetch from the pull step (main.py): the update
flow fetched origin/<branch>, counted commits, then ran
'git pull --ff-only origin <branch>' — a SECOND fetch of the same ref
(~0.5-1.5s). Now merges the already-fetched tracking ref via
'git merge --ff-only origin/<branch>'; the diverged-history reset
fallback is unchanged.
3. Probe the upstream remote locally before fetching it (_cmd_update_check):
non-fork installs have no 'upstream' remote, and --check burned a
failed network attempt (~0.3-1s) on every run before falling back to
origin. 'git remote get-url upstream' (~1ms local) now gates the fetch.
4. Desktop rebuild check reads the content-hash stamp in-process before
spawning 'hermes desktop --build-only' (a full CLI re-import, ~1-3s)
just to learn nothing changed. Stamp errors fall through to the
subprocess path unchanged.
Savings on a no-op 'hermes update': ~2-6s (uv self-update 0.5-3s +
second fetch 0.5-1.5s + desktop spawn 1-3s when applicable).
187 targeted updater tests green incl. 5 new stamp-gate tests.
The import-agent subcommand (24c3c27ba8) shipped with its parser builder
and handler logic but build_import_agent_parser() was never called from
main.py, making the documented and unit-tested command uninvocable.
Register it alongside the other subcommand builders.
Hardened-runtime restrictions are enforced even for ad-hoc signatures,
so signing with --options runtime without the allow-jit entitlements
would leave Electron/V8 crashing on launch — strictly worse than the
legacy plain ad-hoc sign. Raise instead, so the fixup falls back to the
legacy path and the bundle always stays launchable.
Local/self-updated macOS builds were finished with a plain
'codesign --force --deep --sign -', leaving a cdhash-only Designated
Requirement and stripping electron-builder's entitlements. Every rebuild
changes the cdhash, so TCC treats the new bundle as different code and
forgets Full Disk Access, Desktop/Downloads/Documents, Accessibility,
Automation, and microphone grants — users re-approve everything after
every update.
Rework the relaunch fixup to sign inside-out (standalone Mach-O
binaries, nested frameworks/helpers, then the main bundle), preserving
the repo's entitlement plists, and pin an identifier-based Designated
Requirement when signing ad-hoc so TCC has a stable identity to persist.
Opt-in desktop.macos_signing_identity names a persistent keychain cert
(self-signed Code Signing cert works — no Apple Developer account) for a
certificate-anchored DR, the strongest form. An intact Developer ID
signature is detected and never clobbered, callers can pass the
publisher-signing decision explicitly so a later dotenv load can't flip
it, and the legacy deep ad-hoc sign remains the last-resort fallback.
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The client called its gate "the DEV-PHASE gate (tool_gateway_admin)", which
reads as though Skill Sync is gated on an unrelated service's admin right.
It isn't. NAS populates that claim from Permissions.ADMIN_ACCESS — the global
portal admin permission that guards /admin/* — so the gate is "is this user a
Nous admin?". The claim is simply named for its first consumer, the tool
gateway.
Renamed on this side to say what it means, while keeping the wire string
(other services read it):
- DEV_GATE_CLAIM -> NOUS_ADMIN_CLAIM (value unchanged: "tool_gateway_admin",
with a comment recording why the wire name differs).
- identity/status key dev_gate_ok -> nous_admin, across the client, the CLI
consumers, and the tests.
- The module docstring now states where the claim comes from, that the wire
name is misleading, and that this gate is pre-launch containment rather
than the shipping entitlement — admin status conflates "may administer
Nous" with "has Skill Sync enabled" and has no middle setting for a beta
cohort. Choosing the real entitlement is left as a separate decision.
Naming only — no behaviour change, and no change to which accounts can sync.
The user-facing messages stay deliberately vague ("not enabled for your
account yet") rather than telling users they need portal admin.
Verified: 2346 passed / 0 failed across 56 suites via scripts/run_tests.sh;
`hermes sync status` against a live token reports "nous_admin": true. Zero
stale dev_gate_ok / DEV_GATE_CLAIM references remain.
Encapsulates the feature behind one command for launch, and adopts the
official product name.
One command:
- `propose` moves from `hermes skills propose` to `hermes sync propose`, so
the whole feature is one command to learn and one to document. Its handler
moves from cmd_skills to cmd_sync accordingly.
- The `hermes sync` parser now documents both halves plainly: personal sync
across your devices, and sharing with your organisation. Added an examples
epilog; rewrote the verb help in user language ("Include a skill in your
sync" rather than "Opt a skill into sync").
- Every user-facing string that pointed at `hermes skills propose` now points
at `hermes sync propose` (8 sites, including the agent-visible guidance
returned by skill_manage and the org provenance header).
This also clears the way for #39343, which adds its own top-level `sync` for
git-repo profile backup — that feature nests under `skills`, this one owns
`sync`.
Naming:
- HSP / "Hermes Sync Protocol" is gone from prose, docstrings, and comments.
The feature is "Skill Sync".
- Public identifiers renamed: HSPClient -> SyncClient, HSPError -> SyncError,
HSPConflict -> SyncConflict, hsp_address -> wire_address, HSP_VERSION ->
WIRE_VERSION.
- The WIRE names are deliberately NOT renamed: the `hsp_version` capability
field and the `x-hsp-object-type` response header are set by the deployed
gateway-gateway sync plane (verified in src/sync/syncRouter.ts), so
renaming them client-side would break sync against a live server. A comment
at the version constant records why they differ from the product name.
- The version-mismatch error is now actionable ("this server speaks sync
version X, but this Hermes speaks Y — update Hermes to sync with it")
instead of leaking the protocol acronym.
Also fixes a wiring gap found on the way: the gateway housekeeping tick
pulled personal skills but never org skills — the same defect already fixed
for the CLI. Org pull now runs there too, gated on real org membership.
Tests: the jargon guard now also fails on a bare "HSP". The two tests that
asserted the old cross-command structure are replaced by three asserting the
new one (propose IS under sync, propose is NOT under skills, sync usage
lists it). 2294 passed / 0 failed across all 51 suites that import the
changed modules, via scripts/run_tests.sh.
Verified by running the real CLI: `hermes sync --help` lists all eight verbs,
`hermes skills --help` no longer mentions propose, `hermes sync propose
--help` parses, and `hermes sync status` still reports live org state.
Existing installs predate the install.sh hermes-acp launcher, and hermes
update never re-runs setup_path, so ACP hosts (Zed, JetBrains, Buzz)
still resolve Hermes as unavailable until a reinstall. _ensure_acp_launcher()
writes the launcher next to an existing hermes command in ~/.local/bin or
/usr/local/bin during hermes update — delegating to the sibling launcher so
it is correct for every install layout. Never follows symlinks (#21454),
skips unwritable dirs, no-op on Windows (venv Scripts is already on PATH).
Docs: add a Buzz Desktop section to the ACP page (en + zh-Hans).
Closes#54678
`hermes photon ...` could fail with argparse `invalid choice: 'photon'`
even when the bundled Photon platform plugin is present. Photon registers
its top-level CLI command from the platform adapter module via
`ctx.register_cli_command(name="photon", ...)`, but bundled platform
plugins are cheap-registered as *deferred* entries to avoid importing every
gateway SDK during normal startup.
On the unknown-top-level-command slow path, `discover_plugins()` records the
deferred loader but never imports the matching platform module, so the CLI
registration side effect doesn't run and `photon` stays absent from
`_cli_commands` — argparse then rejects it.
Fix: after `discover_plugins()` on that slow path, resolve only the deferred
platform whose name matches the first positional token (via
`platform_registry.get(name)`) before reading `_cli_commands`. This imports
exactly the targeted platform, leaving normal startup cheap (a bare `hermes`
or flags-only invocation has no positional token and touches nothing). The
resolution is best-effort: registry/import failures are logged at debug and
never crash startup.
Added 3 tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_startup_plugin_gating.py: resolves the
matching platform, ignores empty/None command, and swallows registry errors.
Fails without the fix (symbol absent).
The read-only org mirror broke the learning loop precisely where it matters
most. The system prompt tells every agent to patch a skill the moment it
finds a gap, and shared skills are the ones the most people use — but every
write to _org/ was refused, and the curator was excluded from them outright.
So org skills froze while personal skills kept improving, and the offered
alternative ("fork it into a personal skill, then propose the fork") is not
something an agent does mid-task. The refusal WAS the feature; improvements
were simply lost, and manual forks would have fragmented the shared set.
Edit in place:
- skill_manage patch/edit/write_file now work on org skills. Only delete is
still refused (the mirror is a view of org HEAD — a local delete returns on
the next pull; removing a shared skill is an admin action).
- Org skills are curation-eligible again, so the curator can improve the
highest-leverage skills in the system instead of skipping them.
- The load-time provenance header now says edits are allowed and kept,
instead of instructing the agent not to edit.
Local edits are never overwritten:
- pull_org_skills previously rmtree'd each skill dir and re-materialized it,
silently destroying local work on the next session start. It now records a
content fingerprint per skill (.org-baseline.json) when it writes one, and
SKIPS any skill whose local content diverges from that baseline.
- When upstream ALSO changed such a skill, it is reported in the pull
result's "conflicted" list and left untouched for the user to resolve
deliberately (propose the local version, or delete it and re-pull to take
theirs). A missing baseline is treated as unmodified so pre-existing
mirrors do not raise phantom conflicts.
- Fingerprints are content-based (path + bytes, sorted), so a touch/mtime
change is not mistaken for an edit.
Sharing back:
- Default: the edit stays local and the tool result tells the user to run
"hermes skills propose <skill>".
- Opt-in sync.org_auto_propose / HERMES_SYNC_ORG_AUTO_PROPOSE submits each
edit immediately. Defaults OFF — pushing every agent edit to a whole
organisation is not a safe default. A failed submission never fails the
edit; the change is saved and can be proposed later.
- "hermes sync status" lists org skills with unshared local edits;
"hermes sync pull" reports conflicts it declined to overwrite.
Tests: 25 in the namespace suite (was 15). The two that asserted the old
read-only behaviour now assert the opposite. New coverage for edit-applied,
share-back guidance, delete-still-refused, curation-allowed, edit detection,
missing-baseline tolerance, mtime-insensitivity, and the auto-propose
default. 428 passed / 0 failed via scripts/run_tests.sh.
Verified through the REAL pull path against a mock plane: pull v1 -> edit in
place -> upstream ships v2 -> pull leaves the local edit intact, reports the
conflict, and surfaces it in status.
`hermes sync` gave no hint that org sharing exists, so there was no path
from 'I want to share this with my team' to `hermes skills propose` — sync
looked like the only sharing surface while being personal-only (it always
CAS-es refs/user/<owner>/HEAD).
- Bare `hermes sync` usage and the `--help` epilog now state that these
commands are personal-only and name `hermes skills propose <skill>` as
the org path, noting the approval step and that org skills arrive
automatically and are read-only locally.
- Scrubbed the remaining internal jargon from the sync module docstring
(M1-D, DEV-PHASE, HSP/1) missed by the earlier pass, which only covered
help= strings.
Tests: 2 new guards asserting both surfaces reference the org command.
373 passed / 0 failed via scripts/run_tests.sh. Both outputs verified by
running the actual commands.
The stale-.pyc bug class (#6207, #60242, live WhatsApp report: gateway
ImportError 'cannot import name parse_model_flags_detailed' after /update)
has one shared shape: the checkout's .py files change while __pycache__
retains bytecode from the previous revision, and a later process trusts
the stale .pyc.
Update-time clears can never fully close this class: 'hermes update'
always executes the PRE-pull updater code, so hardening added to it takes
effect one update late — and a manual 'git pull' never runs the updater
at all.
Class fix:
- Launch-time guard in main(): compare the checkout fingerprint (cheap
file reads via _read_git_revision_fingerprint, no git subprocess)
against a .bytecode-fingerprint stamp; sweep __pycache__ once when they
diverge. Covers manual pulls, old updaters, ZIP restores — every entry
point (CLI, gateway service, desktop backend) passes through main().
- Record the stamp at all three update-time clear sites (git path pre-
install, git path post-install, ZIP path) so a normal update never
triggers a redundant launch sweep.
- Sibling site: 'hermes plugins update' + dashboard plugin update now
clear __pycache__ under the plugin dir after git pull (plugin trees
live outside the repo guard).
E2E validated: reproduced the stale-pyc shadowing (same-size same-mtime
source swap → old symbol wins in a fresh process), confirmed the launch
sweep restores the new symbol, no-ops when the checkout is unchanged,
and re-sweeps on the next pull. Sabotage-tested: reverting the sweep
fails 4 of the new tests.
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