The goals page never mentions Kanban and the kanban page references /goal
only inside the goal-mode-cards section, so users assume /goal hands work
to the board (see #26116 - /goal is single-session continuation only).
Adds a decision section to goals.md and the inverse note to kanban.md.
The reset keywords have existed in both CLI and gateway handlers since
June but were undocumented — users couldn't find how to cancel a
personality overlay. Adds a 'Resetting to the default' section to the
personality feature page and mentions the reset in the CLI guide,
slash-command reference (both tables), and messaging command table.
restore_primary_runtime retries the primary every turn once the 60s
transient cooldown clears. For subscription-window limits (Claude
Pro/Max 5h windows, Codex weekly caps) the reset is hours or days away,
so every retry is a guaranteed failure costing two provider switches
and two prompt-cache invalidations per turn.
Add CredentialPool.next_available_at() (earliest reset across exhausted
entries; None when available now or no reset info) and gate the restore
on it: skip while the primary's pool says nobody can serve, restore on
the first turn after the reset elapses. Fail-open: any gate error or
missing reset info falls through to the existing per-turn retry, so
recovery can never be later than today. Cross-provider fallbacks
consult the PRIMARY's pool (not the attached fallback pool), reusing
the loaded pool for the existing rebind to keep auth reads at one per
restore.
The runtime footer (`/footer`) shows what model ran and how full the context
is, but not how long the turn took. On a messaging platform there is no
progress bar and no shell timer — a turn that took 4 seconds and one that took
four minutes produce visually identical replies. Users comparing models,
providers, or reasoning levels have no at-a-glance signal for the one
dimension they most often care about, and "was that slow or did I imagine it?"
is unanswerable after the fact.
Adds a `latency` field to the existing footer machinery, rendering the
wall-clock duration of the agent run: `<1s`, `22s`, `1m05s`.
`gateway/run.py` measures with `time.monotonic()` immediately around the
`self._run_agent(...)` await in `_handle_message_with_agent` — the same
function that already builds the footer, so the value is the user-perceived
turn duration (monotonic, so it is immune to wall-clock/NTP adjustment).
`latency` is deliberately NOT in `_DEFAULT_FIELDS`. It is opt-in via
`display.runtime_footer.fields`. Every existing footer — and every footer a
user has today without touching config — renders byte-identically.
This is enforced by tests, not just asserted:
- `test_latency_not_in_default_fields` pins the default tuple.
- `test_resolve_footer_config_default_fields_exclude_latency` pins what
config resolution produces for an untouched config.
- `test_default_footer_renders_byte_identically` pins five exact output
strings for default-config renders **while supplying `turn_seconds`** —
proving that even when the caller measures timing, a default-configured
footer does not show it.
- `test_default_build_footer_line_ignores_turn_seconds` asserts
`build_footer_line(...) == build_footer_line(..., turn_seconds=125.0)`
under default fields.
Adding `latency` to `_DEFAULT_FIELDS` fails 11 of these tests.
No new config surface (reuses `display.runtime_footer.fields`), no new env
vars, no new core tool, no new model-facing schema. One new module-private
helper (`_format_latency`), one new keyword argument threaded through the two
existing footer functions, and 3 lines in `gateway/run.py`.
`turn_seconds` defaults to `None` and the field is skipped when it is `None`
or negative, so any call site that does not measure timing keeps working
unchanged.
`tests/gateway/test_runtime_footer.py` (+185): `_format_latency` boundary
table (sub-second, rounding at 59.4/59.6, the `m{:02d}s` zero-pad, 60m), the
render/skip/opt-in matrix, field-order placement, `build_footer_line`
threading, and the byte-stability block above.
RED-proved by mutation — each of these breaks tests:
- `latency` added to `_DEFAULT_FIELDS` → 11 failures
- dropping the `turn_seconds is not None and >= 0` guard → 2 failures
- `{sec:02d}` → `{sec}` → 6 failures
- `build_footer_line` not threading `turn_seconds` → 1 failure
51 passed in `tests/gateway/test_runtime_footer.py`; 54 passed across the
footer blast radius. `ruff check` clean.
Live-run findings from a real fact-checking task (ankylosing spondylitis
genetics, 7 authoritative sources) against the new mode:
- Verbatim check rejected a legitimate quote because web_extract returns
markdown: the MedlinePlus sentence is "including _[ERAP1](https://...)_,
_[IL1A](...)_" on the wire but plain prose to a reader. The agent was
forced onto a weaker evidence fragment — the opposite of the point.
Matching now canonicalizes inline links to their label and drops
emphasis/code markers and backslash escapes on both sides, so quoting
the sentence a reader sees works. Paraphrases are still rejected.
- Escaped asterisks (HLA-B\*27) no longer have to be reproduced in the
quote, so extractor artifacts stop leaking into rendered evidence.
- New `render --replace-in <draft>`: rewrites a draft's Sources block in
place, idempotently. Previously the only path was hand-slicing the
file, which also tripped over the emitted heading being `## Sources`
while the prose said "Sources:".
- verify stats: report the provenance total that the percentage is
actually computed from (cited + [unverified], counted once), and print
the line as `info:` instead of `warn:` when nothing is wrong. The old
line printed 17 cited / 2 unverified next to 72%, which does not
reconcile — a sentence can be both.
- SKILL.md documents the emitted heading, --replace-in, and exactly what
counts as a prose sentence for --min-coverage.
7 new tests (47 total) using the real MedlinePlus/Frontiers markup;
6 sabotage runs, all red.
Extends the citation ledger with evidence-backed fact-checking:
- New `quote` subcommand attaches verbatim supporting quotes to a
source; the quote is rejected unless it appears verbatim
(whitespace/case-insensitive) in the fetched page text, so a
paraphrase or misremembered figure cannot masquerade as evidence.
- `verify --evidence` fails a draft whose cited sources carry no
attached quote.
- `render --style evidence` prints each source's quotes beneath its
URL, showing the claim -> source -> exact-text chain.
- `[unverified]` marker declares model-knowledge claims; counts toward
--min-coverage so provenance is declared for every sentence without
forcing fake citations.
- SKILL.md: new Fact-Checking Mode section + pitfalls; version 1.1.0.
- 10 new tests (40 total), all proven live by sabotage runs.
Covers the fact-checking/evidence-transparency half of #28289.
- website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md (en) and the zh-Hans
translation gain a 'Session Stall Watchdog' section: default 300,
0=disabled, notify-only semantics (never kills the turn — contrast
gateway_timeout), one notification per stall episode, and the exact
stall message text so it is greppable.
- cli-config.yaml.example: the two in-agent compression timeout keys
(compression.context_timeout_seconds /
compression.context_total_ceiling_seconds) are shown as commented
lines next to session_stall_timeout's example for discoverability.
The post-begin_commit() waiter previously called unbounded future.result(),
so the advertised compression.context_total_ceiling_seconds was silently
unenforced for commit-phase hangs. The commit still must complete (abandoning
an in-flight SessionDB mutation would diverge live messages from durable
state), but the wait is now bounded in increments against the remaining
ceiling: on ceiling breach the overrun is logged (WARNING escalating to
ERROR), surfaced once through the user-visible warning channel via the new
on_commit_overrun callback (wired to _emit_warning in run_agent.py), and the
host keeps waiting in bounded slices until the commit finishes.
Documented guarantee (config comment + docs, en/zh): summary phase bounded
by the ceiling; commit phase logged + surfaced if it exceeds it — never
silently hung, never abandoned mid-commit.
Test updated to assert the surfacing fires (previously accepted a silent
over-ceiling wait); adds coverage that a raising overrun callback cannot
break the commit wait.
Once begin_commit() wins, SessionDB mutation cannot be fence-cancelled;
document that context_total_ceiling_seconds covers the summary phase only
and pin the hang-wait contract in tests.
Three mechanisms to detect and notify when gateway sessions stall silently:
1. Mid-turn activity heartbeats stamped to SessionDB so hermes sessions list
and hermes status show progress during long turns without new message rows.
2. Stall watchdog: when a busy session has pending inbound and the shared
activity clock is idle past agent.session_stall_timeout (default 300),
log a WARNING and notify the user once to try /new. Notify-only; does
not kill the turn.
3. Compaction timeout: fenceless compress_context callers get a progress-aware
host budget (compression.context_timeout_seconds default 120 idle,
compression.context_total_ceiling_seconds default 600 ceiling). On timeout,
cancel via commit fence, skip compaction without dropping messages, and
continue the turn.
Closes#72016 (slices 1-3; slice 4 cumulative SSE stream-retry deadline
remains a follow-up).
Cherry-picked from PR #72424 by @fangliquanflq.
- New website/docs/user-guide/messaging/a2a.md: when/where to use A2A
(cross-machine, specialist peers, being callable) vs delegation/kanban
for same-machine multi-agent; enable, outbound tools, inbound surface,
security model, env reference, quick test, troubleshooting. Registered
in sidebars.ts and the messaging index.
- README/DESIGN/plugin.yaml/protocol.py prose updated to name the A2A
v1.0 canonical discovery path /.well-known/agent-card.json (the code
already served both; only the docs lagged).
Builds on the adapter list_channels() hook (cherry-picked from #43545 by
@Guoen0):
- plugins/platforms/simplex: implement list_channels() — enumerates
contacts (/contacts) and groups (/groups) over the live daemon
WebSocket into the channel directory. Returns None when the WS is
down so the directory falls back to session discovery instead of
wiping known targets.
- hermes send --list: merge configured-but-undiscovered platforms into
the listing. Previously a platform configured only via env (e.g. a
fresh SimpleX setup used for outbound sends) was silently omitted,
leaving users guessing at platform names.
- format_directory_for_display(): accept an explicit platforms view and
render empty platforms with a targeting hint instead of hiding them.
- docs: simplex hermes-send section.
Reported by Fedpostoffice on Discord (simplex missing from
hermes send --list; guessed platform names simplex-chat/simplex-relay).
- delivery_id is now generated once per firing and used for both the
X-Hermes-Delivery header and the signed body's delivery_id field —
previously they were two different uuid4s, breaking receiver-side
dedupe as documented.
- 3xx responses are no longer followed: urllib's default redirect
handler converts a redirected POST into a body-less GET, silently
dropping the signed payload. Redirects now log a misconfiguration
warning and count as delivery failure (no retry).
- Docs: receiver-side replay-protection guidance (dedupe on
delivery_id, timestamp freshness window) + redirect semantics.
- Tests: 5xx retry count, redirect-not-followed (sabotage-verified),
header/body delivery_id equality.
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.
Answers and written deliverables that rest on retrieved information now get
inline numbered citations plus a mechanically-rendered Sources list, with a
persistent ledger that makes a hallucinated citation detectable.
- skills/research/grounded-citations/scripts/sources.py: stdlib citation
ledger (add/ingest/list/render/verify) at
$HERMES_HOME/cache/citations/ledger.json, profile-aware, O_EXCL-locked so
parallel subagents sharing a ledger can't collide on ids
- SKILL.md: cite-while-drafting procedure, register-at-retrieval rule,
pitfalls, verification gate
- references/citation-formats.md: per-target placement (markdown, LaTeX/PDF,
docx, pptx, xlsx, wiki, BibTeX handoff to research-paper-writing)
- references/grounding-rationale.md: why numbered ids (ALCE 2305.14627,
WebGPT 2112.09332, Perplexity marker conventions), and how this relates to
the in-process registry in PR #44833
- tests/skills/test_grounded_citations_skill.py: 30 tests
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.
Follow-ups from sweeper review of #43763:
- tests/docker/test_tini_compat_shim.py asserts the dispatcher
ENTRYPOINT (with /init delegation check) instead of a bare /init
- tests/docker/test_smoke.py gains a docker run --init regression
for the non-PID-1 fallback (#38349)
- website/docs/user-guide/docker.md and the s6 supervision skill
document the dispatcher and its wrapped-runtime fallback
Google API and authentication packages permit vulnerable httplib2 and pyasn1
transitives, while the Workspace and Google Chat runtime installers previously
treated any importable version as sufficient. Existing environments could
therefore remain vulnerable after the project dependency pins were repaired.
Carry the fixed versions through the Google and Vertex extras, lazy feature
requirements, lockfile, and both runtime installers. Route the documented
Google Chat installation path through its maintained secure requirements
instead of an unconstrained direct pip command.
Detect stale distributions, install only unsatisfied requirements, and verify
the result before continuing. Behavioral tests cover those repair invariants
without freezing manifests, lockfiles, or complete package sets.
Related #72108
Extracted from #72840
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
Follows PR #75592: the notifier is no longer gated on
kanban.dispatch_in_gateway. Every gateway delivers events for
subscriptions owned by the profiles whose adapters it hosts; legacy
unstamped subscriptions go only through the confirmed dispatcher
lock owner. Adds a 'Multi-profile setups' subsection to the kanban
Gateway notifications docs (en + zh-Hans).
Finishes the input stash started in the preceding commit from PR #4771.
That PR shipped only the panel renderer: its `@kb.add('c-s')` handler and
stash-state initialization were lost in a rebase, so the panel predicate
read undefined `_stash_panel_open` / `_stash_list` and the feature was
unreachable. This adds the missing half and the tests the PR never had.
Resolves the review feedback on #4771:
- Rebuilt the stash on current main's keybinding setup. The `c-s` key was
unbound repo-wide, so there is no conflict.
- Extracted the state machine into `hermes_cli/prompt_stash.py` as pure
functions (no prompt_toolkit import) so it is directly unit testable —
the PR was cli.py-only with zero tests.
- Dropped the PR's unrelated changes: delegation `supervisor_model` /
`execution_model` config aliases, and stale reverts of the banner
builder, worktree pruning, logging setup, and MCP toolset validation
that its 14k-commit-old base dragged along.
- Fixed the 📌 double-width measurement for real. Three commits in the PR
("subtract 1 from len()", "use bare len()", "subtract 1 again") were
chasing this by tweaking `len()`; all horizontal math now goes through
`_status_bar_display_width` (prompt_toolkit `get_cwidth`), which also
keeps CJK previews inside the border. Narrow terminals fall back to
compact header/footer labels instead of overflowing — caught by a
parametrized width test, not by eyeballing.
Gesture (the contributor's design, kept):
- Composer has content → push onto the stash, clear the input.
- Composer empty, one stashed → pop it straight back.
- Composer empty, 2+ stashed → open the browse panel (↑↓ / Enter / D / Esc).
- Panel open → Ctrl+S closes it.
Pushing onto a stack rather than a single slot is what makes repeated
Ctrl+S safe: a second stash never silently overwrites the first, and with
2+ parked the panel asks rather than guessing which to restore. A `📌 N`
status-bar badge and a composer placeholder advertise the parked draft so
it cannot be silently forgotten.
Deliberate departures from the PR:
- No auto-restore after the agent responds, and no `display.stash_auto_restore`
config key. The PR itself had already defaulted this to false as
"avoids surprising the user"; a keystroke the user pressed should not
cause text to reappear on its own, so the dead default is dropped
rather than carried as config surface.
- Nothing is persisted to disk. Drafts routinely contain pasted
credentials and NDA material, so the stash is session-scoped and
in-memory only. Any future persistence must route through
`get_hermes_home()`.
- Suppressed while a modal prompt owns the composer (sudo / secret /
approval / clarify / slash-confirm / model picker) so Ctrl+S can never
stash a password.
- Restoring images extends `_attached_images` instead of replacing it, so
an attachment added since the stash was taken is not silently dropped.
- `buf.reset()` on stash (not `text = ""`) clears completion state,
selection, and undo stack with the text.
Tests: 95 new tests across two files — 66 on the state machine (empty
buffer is a no-op, exact round-trips including newlines/tabs/CJK/fences,
no-clobber ordering, cap eviction, indicator states, panel cursor
clamping and deletion, the full resolve_ctrl_s decision table) and 29 on
the cli.py wiring (per-instance stash, keybinding registration guard,
layout slot, panel bounded at 8 widths, status-bar indicator lifecycle).
The keybinding-registration test asserts the `c-s` handler exists in
source specifically so the rebase loss that broke #4771 cannot recur.
Verified: 153 passed, 0 failed across the two new files plus
tests/cli/test_cli_init.py and tests/cli/test_cli_extension_hooks.py.
ruff check clean; check-windows-footguns clean.
Docs: Ctrl+S added to the CLI keybindings table.
Co-authored-by: CK iRonin.IT <cyprian@ironin.pl>
Buzz Desktop v0.5.1 now renders Hermes' ACP model menu in agent runtime
settings. Add a short note under the Buzz Desktop host section explaining
where the list comes from (the shared authenticated-provider inventory),
the provider:model / custom:<name>:<model> ID shapes, and that a pick is
session-scoped rather than a Hermes-wide default change.
Replaces the half-duplex per-playback barge monitors with ONE listener
that runs for the entire agent turn in continuous voice mode: armed at
utterance-submit, disarmed when the turn is fully done (response + TTS
finished). Fixes Teknium's live report that voice interruption never
works: (a) not while the LLM is generating, (b) not while TTS plays.
Root causes:
- HALF-DUPLEX GAP: the barge monitor only spawned when TTS playback
STARTED (cli.py streaming/whole-file paths, gateway _tts_stream_begin).
During LLM generation there was NO microphone listener at all.
- PLAYBACK DEAFNESS: the monitor calibrated its VAD noise floor WHILE the
speaker was blasting TTS (speaker bleed baked into the floor), then
multiplied it by 8x with a 1s strictly-consecutive block requirement —
normal speech could rarely reach the trigger, and the 2s grace
swallowed early interjections.
New model — tools/voice_mode.full_duplex_listen():
- Pre-playback calibration: quiet-room noise floor established at turn
start and HELD through playback (never recalibrated against bleed).
- Phase-aware trigger: generation = floor x voice.barge_in_threshold_multiplier
(new config, default 3.0, justified by synthetic-frame tests);
playback = additionally clamped to a 1500-RMS minimum so bleed alone
can't trip; 4000-RMS ceiling keeps speech always reachable.
- Windowed-majority detection (>=80% of a 300ms window) instead of the
strictly-consecutive counter that reset on intra-word energy dips.
- Grace on playback ONSET only (voice.barge_in_grace_seconds, default
down 2.0 -> 0.5) — suppresses the onset transient, not the mic.
- Debug diagnostics at every decision point (calibrated floor, per-window
RMS above 50% of trigger, trip/no-trip, grace suppressions) — always
logger.debug, mirrored to stderr under HERMES_VOICE_DEBUG=1.
Phase behavior (CLI cli.py + tui_gateway/server.py, same model):
- generation: speech interrupts the in-flight turn via the SAME seam the
typed/Ctrl+C interrupt uses (agent.interrupt()), cuts any pending TTS
pipeline so the stale reply never plays, and submits the captured
interjection (pre-roll capture, first syllable kept) as the next turn.
- playback: cuts TTS (streaming pipeline stop + fallback speak stop
events + file player) and submits the capture.
- stop phrase honored in BOTH phases: mid-generation 'stop' interrupts
the turn AND ends the voice chat (stop everything).
- one listener instance spans generation -> playback (no re-arm race);
double-arm refused (CLI _voice_fd_active / gateway _fd_listener_active).
Gateway specifics: _arm_full_duplex_listener() at _run_prompt_submit turn
start and inside _tts_stream_begin; _speak_text_with_barge registers its
(stop, done) pair in _fd_speak_pipelines so fallback speaks are cut and
tracked; _tts_stream_barge_in_monitor kept as a shim that arms the new
listener. Desktop renderer owns its own mic path (voice-barge-in.ts) and
is unaffected; if desktop backend-mic mode is used it inherits via the
gateway.
Tests: full_duplex_listen synthetic-RMS suite (speech-over-bleed trips,
bleed alone doesn't, quiet floor held through playback, grace window,
multiplier math 3x vs 8x, windowed-majority dips), CLI listener phase
tests (generation interrupt seam, playback cut, lifecycle spans phases,
double-arm, config forwarding, stop-phrase-mid-generation), gateway
generation-phase interrupt + stop-phrase tests. Generation-interrupt
test sabotage-verified.
Fixes#67278. Since config v12 (see #8776), custom_providers: list is
legacy — the migration converts it to the providers: dict and the
resolver reads the dict first (runtime_provider.py). Docs still taught
the legacy list as primary.
- integrations/providers.md: all 8 YAML examples converted to
providers: dict (field mapping code-verified: api, default_model,
transport), one consolidated legacy-format note
- configuring-models.md, configuration.md, credential-pools.md,
migrate-from-openclaw.md, provider-runtime.md, faq.md: examples and
prose flipped to dict-first; legacy list noted as still-read
- adding-providers.md untouched (sole mention is a literal test
filename)
Follow-ups on top of @DonutsDelivery's salvaged reaper commit (#64141):
- create_from_config() now parses lsp.idle_timeout (invalid values fall
back to DEFAULT_IDLE_TIMEOUT) — previously the constructor knob was
unreachable from config.yaml (config exposure adapted from #36892 by
@0xbWy and #68091 by @9miya20)
- canonical default declared in hermes_cli DEFAULT_CONFIG so config
discovery surfaces the knob (per sweeper review note on #64980)
- reaper loop survives transient sweep errors instead of dying and
silently re-opening the leak (gap flagged in #68091 review)
- eventlog.log_reaped(): one INFO line per sweep + clears the
log_active announce cache so respawns re-announce at INFO
- docs: replace the stale 'no idle-timeout reaper' paragraph with the
new lifecycle description + config reference
- tests: reuse-refresh protection (the regression teknium's sweeper
requested on #64141), reaper-survives-error, config propagation,
invalid-value fallback, DEFAULT_CONFIG/manager-constant sync
Local faster-whisper called model.transcribe with bare {'beam_size': 5}:
no VAD, cross-window conditioning on, no confidence filtering. Pure
silence produced hallucinated tokens (E2E: 5s anullsrc WAV -> 'You',
no_speech_prob=0.705) and noisy clips could produce runs of junk, often
in other languages.
Three-layer class fix, one shared owner for every local-whisper call
site (build_local_transcribe_kwargs):
1. Silero VAD filter (bundled with faster-whisper) on by default —
silence never reaches the model. stt.local.vad: false restores the
raw behavior for music/ambient transcription.
stt.local.vad_min_silence_ms tunes chunk splitting (default 500).
2. condition_on_previous_text=False — one hallucinated token can no
longer seed a self-reinforcing run; negligible cost for
voice-note-length audio.
3. Segment confidence gate (_join_confident_segments): drop a segment
only when no_speech_prob > 0.6 AND avg_logprob < -1.0 (openai-whisper's
own heuristic shape; both must hit so quiet-but-real speech survives).
Config: stt.local.no_speech_prob_threshold / logprob_threshold.
The WHISPER_HALLUCINATIONS blocklist in voice_mode.py stays as
last-resort defense but should now almost never fire.
E2E (real faster-whisper 'base', CPU int8):
silence.wav before 'You' -> after ''
noise.wav before '' -> after ''
speech.wav before/after 'Hello World, this is a test of the
transcription system.' (unchanged)
Docs (EN + zh-Hans), DEFAULT_CONFIG, cli-config.yaml.example updated;
19 unit tests (kwargs contract, off-switch, confidence gate incl.
quiet-speech survival, _transcribe_local wiring), sabotage-verified.
Saying OR typing a configured stop phrase (voice.stop_phrases, default
"stop") now ends the voice chat everywhere, not just classic CLI PTT:
- hermes_cli/voice.py: new explicit on_stop_phrase callback through
start_continuous/stop_continuous. The force-transcribe path previously
DISCARDED the stop phrase silently — with auto_restart=False the client
re-arms the next capture, so the conversation never ended. Both halt
paths now fire on_stop_phrase (fallback: on_silent_limit for legacy
callers) as user intent, distinct from the no-speech timeout.
- tui_gateway/server.py: voice.record wires on_stop_phrase and emits
voice.transcript {stop_phrase: true} after flipping HERMES_VOICE(_TTS)
off and stopping streaming TTS — same teardown as /voice off. The TTS
barge-in monitor stop-checks its transcript too. prompt.submit consumes
a TYPED bare stop phrase at the server-side choke point when voice mode
is on (returns {voice_stopped: true}, no turn starts).
- ui-tui: voice.transcript {stop_phrase} ends voice mode with a clear
'voice chat ended' notice (distinct from the no-speech-limit message);
submitPrompt releases the busy latch on a consumed voice_stopped reply.
- cli.py: _typed_voice_stop in process_loop — typing a bare stop phrase
while voice mode/continuous is active ends voice mode instead of
sending 'stop' to the agent; typed 'stop' outside voice mode is
unchanged. Voice transcripts skip the check (already stop-checked).
- desktop: interceptsTypedVoiceStop — the composer's onSubmit ends the
live voice conversation (same path as clicking end on the pill) when a
bare stop command is typed with no attachments; renderer-owned loop, so
handled client-side like the existing spoken isVoiceStopCommand.
- tools/voice_mode.py: transcribe_recording never lets the Whisper
hallucination filter swallow a configured stop phrase (e.g. 'bye'
configured as a stop phrase is both a hallucination-blocklist entry and
a stop phrase — stop-phrase check now wins).
Tests: continuous-loop signal (sabotage-verified), force-transcribe stop
signal + legacy fallback, hallucination-filter ordering, typed-stop CLI
unit tests (voice on/off/longer text), prompt.submit typed-stop gateway
tests, TUI vitest for stop_phrase event handling, desktop vitest for the
typed-stop interceptor.
The Skills Hub 'Marketplace' tab showed a single useless entry: Anthropic
changed .claude-plugin/marketplace.json to bundle-shaped plugins whose
source is './', so all plugins collapsed to one identifier pointing at the
repo root, and the second marketplace repo (aiskillstore/marketplace) is
gone (404). Everything in anthropics/skills is already surfaced by the
GitHub tap as the Anthropic tab, making this source fully redundant.
Removes ClaudeMarketplaceSource and all wiring: source router, index
builder (crawl + floors + sort order + rate-limit messaging), extract
labels/install/URL mapping, hub UI tab, web server labels, CLI limits,
docs (en + zh), the legacy index-cache snapshot, and test fixtures.
Stale skills-index entries with source 'claude-marketplace' still install
fine: HermesIndexSource fetches via resolved GitHub paths generically.
LINE plugin.yaml plus line/wecom-callback/msgraph-webhook/
whatsapp-cloud/teams user-guide pages still documented the old
IPv4-only 0.0.0.0 defaults; update to the dual-stack unset default.
Telegram webhook env docs live in the adapter docstring (updated with
the code change); its plugin.yaml has no webhook host entry.
Adds gpt-transcribe (OpenAI's new file-transcription model, $0.0045/min)
to the OpenAI STT provider:
- OPENAI_MODELS set: gpt-transcribe is recognized so provider
auto-correction keeps it on OpenAI and rejects it on Groq
- Language hint wiring: gpt-transcribe replaces the singular
'language' field with a 'languages' list; the API rejects the legacy
field, so the hint is sent via extra_body {languages: [..]}
- Config comment (DEFAULT_CONFIG), cli-config.yaml.example, desktop
settings enum, and docs (en + zh-Hans) updated
- Tests: model pass-through, languages-list hint shape, legacy singular
hint preserved for gpt-4o-transcribe, Groq auto-correction
gpt-live-transcribe (realtime WebSocket, $0.017/min) is NOT wired here:
the file-based STT pipeline has no realtime session path; it belongs in
a future realtime/voice-mode integration.
The multiplexed listener now rejects the default API_SERVER_KEY on
/p/<profile>/ prefixes (fail-closed per-profile keys). Add the
multi-profile routing section with an explicit breaking-change callout
for the next release notes.
Consolidates the native-transport half of PR #73636 by @ScaleLeanChris
onto the merged adapter: persistent NIP-42-authenticated Nostr WebSocket
subscription as the default inbound path (transport=auto|websocket|poll),
kind-44100 membership events for live DM discovery, since-timestamp
resume on reconnect with bounded exponential backoff, and automatic
fallback to CLI polling when the WS can't be established. Events route
through the same _handle_event() pipeline as the poll loop, so de-dupe,
mention gating, p-tag DM latching, and allow-lists behave identically on
both transports. Outbound stays on the CLI (one-shot sends never race a
WS auth handshake — his design).
E2E verified against a real in-process websockets relay: NIP-42
challenge -> signed kind-22242 AUTH (event id re-derived server-side) ->
REQ subscription -> EVENT dispatch -> clean disconnect.
Co-authored-by: ScaleLeanChris <chris@scalelean.com>
The sidecar auth token is generated at spawn (secrets.token_hex) and
existed only in the gateway process memory + sidecar child env, so
_standalone_send from cron subprocesses, hermes send, or the dashboard
structurally could not authenticate (#69960).
The adapter now writes <hermes-home>/runtime/photon-sidecar.json
({port, token, pid}, 0600, atomic tempfile+os.replace) once the sidecar
passes its /healthz readiness check, and deletes it in _stop_sidecar,
on every startup-failure path, and at disconnect so a stale record
never outlives a dead sidecar. _standalone_send falls back to the
record when PHOTON_SIDECAR_TOKEN is unset, validating the recorded pid
is alive first; a stale record yields a clear 'gateway appears to be
down' error. Docs note the gateway-must-be-running requirement and the
Photon-side shared-line initiation policy (#51897).
Command providers legitimately reference their own API keys in shell
templates (curl one-liners). The #70342 scrub removes ALL provider keys,
which would break such setups. Add a per-provider env_passthrough list
(TTS + STT) that copies named variables back from the parent env, plus
docs and tests. Scrub stays the default; passthrough is explicit opt-in.
HERMES_LOCAL_STT_COMMAND rendered quoted placeholders into a
user-configured template and passed the result to shell=True. Shell
metacharacters in the template therefore remained executable syntax even
though the placeholder values themselves were quoted.
Tokenize the rendered template and invoke it as an argv list while
preserving the existing timeout, closed stdin, and Windows creation flags.
Lock the invocation contract with metacharacter regression coverage and
document explicit shell wrapping for trusted templates that need it.
Salvages #32694
Co-authored-by: Ernest Hysa <takis312@hotmail.com>
Command-type TTS providers validated output_format against a hardcoded
{mp3,wav,ogg,flac} set; any other value was silently coerced back to mp3,
which then mismatched the output path the post-run check expects. This
blocked common ffmpeg-producible containers/codecs — notably m4a (AAC),
the portable choice for WeChat/iOS/mobile voice files — with no
config-only path (only a local source patch, lost on every update).
Widen COMMAND_TTS_OUTPUT_FORMATS to add m4a, aac, amr, opus. This only
permits a command provider to declare these; the user's command still
produces the file (e.g. via ffmpeg). No built-in provider behavior
changes and no new required config.
Update the two tests that pinned the old set, and add a positive case
covering the new formats. Document the supported output_format values.
Expands the 'Recommended display settings' section into a comprehensive
'Recommended default settings' block covering display, access control,
polling, and mention behavior. Each setting includes an inline annotation
and rationale bullet. Matches Telegram/email default behavior (no
intermediate tool output, mention-gated channels, private-by-default
access).
Refs #68871
Plugin-path adapter (zero core changes) connecting Hermes to a Buzz
community relay via the buzz CLI binary (JSON in/out, arg-list exec,
key passed via env only). Inbound uses a poll loop with per-channel
high-water marks seeded from newest (no history replay), event-id
de-dupe, self-echo suppression by pubkey, and mention gating in
channels (DMs always dispatch). Registers env_enablement, cron
home-channel delivery, and an out-of-process standalone sender,
mirroring the IRC plugin.
Verified against a live relay: connect -> send -> poll -> MessageEvent
round-trip, self-echo suppressed, clean disconnect.
Known limitation: polled inbound (default 4s); a websocket transport
(buzz-ws-client) is a future optimization.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up on the salvaged #69915 commits:
- verified env vars against block/buzz crates/buzz-acp/src/config.rs
(BUZZ_RELAY_URL, BUZZ_PRIVATE_KEY, BUZZ_API_TOKEN, BUZZ_ACP_AGENT_COMMAND/
ARGS, BUZZ_ACP_RELAY_OBSERVER, BUZZ_ACP_AGENT_OWNER) and kind 24200
observer frames against docs/nips/NIP-AO.md
- dropped unverifiable claims: docs/hermes-agent-acp.md link (404 upstream),
relay-directory profile publication / External-agents card walkthrough,
'bot role' membership phrasing
- replaced key provisioning with the actual buzz-admin generate-key /
add-member flow from the buzz-acp README
- retitled the section 'Buzz channels (relay bridge)' and cross-linked it
with the Buzz Desktop managed-runtime section both ways; permission
paragraph now points at the owner-only warning instead of duplicating it
- zh-Hans translation of the new section + retitle to ACP 宿主集成
* Revert "fix(credits): remove the 'Grant spent · $X top-up left' notice"
This reverts commit 5dc6a14c14.
* fix(credits): reintroduce grant_spent behind an in-session crossing gate
The removed notice nagged because its condition is a steady state for
accounts living on top-up, the latch is per-session, and the cold-start seed
runs the policy at every session open — every session re-announced
'Grant spent · $X top-up left'. Reintroduce it gated so only a session that
WATCHES the grant run out announces:
- seen_grant_unspent crossing gate, mirroring seen_below_90: opens when the
session observes the grant meaningfully unspent (>= GRANT_UNSPENT_MIN_MICROS,
1 cent — portal-seeded states derive micros from float dollars and can carry
sub-cent residue where headers report exactly spent). Seeds never prime it.
- The gate guards only the show branch and is consumed by the announcement —
one announcement per crossing. Header flicker (used_fraction None and back)
clears the sticky line but cannot re-announce; a renewal re-opens the gate.
- new_credits_latch() centralizes the latch shape (agent build, lazy re-init,
and the policy test helper all build through it).
- Tests: steady-state-open stays silent (seed + policy seams), live crossing
announces once, flicker/renewal/residual cases locked; the rendering test
primes the gate and asserts its leg count so a gate regression cannot
silently shrink coverage.
Closes#55908. The CLI voice-mode beep amplitude is hardcoded at 0.3 inside
tools.voice_mode:play_beep(), which makes the record start/stop cues too
quiet on low-volume systems and headphones. Users couldn't adjust it
without editing source.
Move the literal into a configurable voice.beep_volume setting (clamped to
0.0-1.0, default 0.3 to preserve prior behaviour). The new
_get_beep_volume() helper reads via the same load_config() pattern used by
cli.py's _voice_beeps_enabled() and hermes_cli/voice.py's _beeps_enabled(),
keeps bools / out-of-range / non-numeric / NaN values safely on the default,
and falls back silently if config can't load so the audio cue never breaks
the voice loop on a degenerate config.yaml.
Covered by tests/tools/test_voice_mode.py:
- TestGetBeepVolume (12 cases: missing key, custom value, boundary 0.0/1.0,
out-of-range clamp, type coercion, bool guard, NaN guard, exception
guard, dict-typed voice section)
- TestPlayBeepVolumeWiring (guards against re-introducing a hardcoded 0.3
literal in play_beep)
Docs: website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md mentions the new key.
Other locale translations (zh-Hans etc.) intentionally untouched —
handled by the regular i18n sync pipeline as a separate change.
No change in default behaviour: existing users hear exactly the same beep.
Address review feedback on #31693:
- Regression tests assert extra_body == {"lang_code": ...} is forwarded
when tts.openai.language is configured, and omitted when unset/empty
- Document tts.openai.language as intended for OpenAI-compatible
endpoints that support lang_code (e.g. Kokoro-FastAPI)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The `text_to_speech` tool schema accepted only `text` and `output_path`,
so style direction (tone, emotion, pacing, whispering) could never reach
the OpenAI backend — even though `gpt-4o-mini-tts` (Hermes's OpenAI
provider default) treats `instructions` as its primary voice-design
control.
This plumbs an optional `instructions` argument through the tool schema,
the handler lambda, and `text_to_speech_tool()` into
`_generate_openai_tts`, where it is forwarded to
`client.audio.speech.create()` only when truthy. Empty/None values still
omit the key entirely, preserving behavior on `tts-1`/`tts-1-hd` and
strict OpenAI-compatible servers.
The same passthrough unblocks self-hosted OpenAI-compatible voice-design
servers (Qwen3-TTS-VoiceDesign on oMLX, etc.) that are already wired in
via `tts.openai.base_url` — the established convention per #9004 and the
TTS config docs — without inventing a new provider backend.
Tests: `tests/tools/test_tts_instructions.py` covers backend passthrough,
tool-level threading, schema declaration, and the empty-string/absent
omission cases. `tests/tools/test_tts_max_text_length.py` fake_openai
signature widened to accept the new kwarg.
Refs NousResearch/hermes-agent#14196
The Buzz Desktop section covered discovery only. The combination that
actually needs stating: the hermes-acp toolset carries terminal and
execute_code, and buzz-acp answers session/request_permission itself with
allow_once instead of surfacing it. A Hermes agent in Buzz runs shell
commands on the host unattended.
Buzz defaults every agent to owner-only and that default holds through to
the spawned process env, so nobody reaches the open state by accident.
But Anyone is one dropdown change away with no warning shown, and it
hands channel-wide shell access to the host.
Also record that the two obvious mitigations do not work: approvals.mode
manual raises the request but Buzz auto-approves it anyway, and
platform_toolsets.acp does not narrow the ACP toolset. Both verified by
running rm -rf through the ACP path under each setting.
Amend the Approvals section too — it promised prompts route back to the
editor, which is only true for hosts that choose to surface them.
en + zh-Hans.
Signed-off-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
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).
Per-job cron inference pins are now user-owned: the agent-facing cronjob
tool schema no longer exposes model/provider/base_url, and the registered
handler ignores them even if a model hallucinates the old parameters.
Users set pins via the dashboard, hermes cron create/edit --model/--provider,
or jobs.json directly — and once set, a pin sticks until the user changes it.
Existing agent-era pins are grandfathered untouched.
New cron.model / cron.model_provider config keys give the cron fleet its
own default model, independent of the chat model. Fire-time resolution:
per-job pin > cron.model > HERMES_MODEL > model.default. An axis covered
by the explicit cron-fleet default is deliberate routing, not drift, so
the #44585 fail-closed guard skips it — switching your chat model with
/model or hermes model no longer breaks unpinned cron fleets.
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: drop model param from agent schema + handler;
remove now-dead _resolve_model_override
- cron/scheduler.py: cron.model/model_provider resolution + per-axis
drift-guard skip
- cron/jobs.py: snapshot resolution mirrors the new precedence
- hermes_cli/subcommands/cron.py + hermes_cli/cron.py: --model/--provider
on hermes cron create/edit
- hermes_cli/config.py: cron.model / cron.model_provider defaults
- docs: cron.md model-resolution tip rewritten
The grant_spent notice fired for every subscription user with top-up
funds the moment their cap was reached and camped in the CLI/TUI status
bar and desktop toasts with no action to take — the account keeps
working off top-up. Remove it everywhere:
- agent/credits_tracker.py: drop grant_cond + the emit/clear block;
the dev fixture state now (correctly) produces no notice
- TUI: keep the turn-start clear of credits.grant_spent as back-compat
for older backends that still emit the key
- Desktop: drop the demo step and stale comment references
- Docs/config comments: remove grant-spent from credits_notices text
- Tests updated: policy/cold-start now assert the key never fires
Usage bands, depleted, and restored notices are unchanged; /usage still
reports the full balance breakdown.
An open chat window took a session-cap slot at session.create/resume time.
Every desktop tile paint and every background reconnect-resume opens one, so
on a websocket-flappy host they accumulated: five parked desktop tabs filled a
5-slot cap and locked the messaging gateway (which shares the cap) out for
fourteen minutes while running no agents at all.
A slot held that way is invisible everywhere. An unprompted draft has no DB row
and the sidebar filters it out with min_messages=1, so the only way to diagnose
it was reading runtime/active_sessions.json by hand.
Claim on the first turn instead, mirroring the lazy contract
_ensure_session_db_row already uses for the row itself. Capacity now means an
agent can run rather than that a window exists, and anything holding a slot is
something the user can see.
Also reclaim leases whose session skipped teardown. _prune_dead only fires when
the owning pid dies, and a dashboard/serve backend runs for days, so a leaked
lease was held until restart. The owning process reconciles against the leases
it still holds, which is exact and needs no heartbeat write on the turn path.
Saying 'stop' in a voice chat did nothing — the transcript was just
submitted to the agent as a normal turn, so the conversation never ended.
The only way out was the mouse/hotkey. That's not how a hands-free voice
assistant should work.
useVoiceConversation now checks each finished utterance against a spoken
stop-command matcher BEFORE submitting: 'stop', 'stop listening', 'never
mind', 'goodbye', 'cancel', 'that's all', etc., optionally addressed
('hey hermes, stop'). A match ends the conversation (flips enabled=false,
which drives the existing end() teardown — mic close, playback stop, wake
re-arm) instead of sending a turn.
Deliberately conservative: only a WHOLE-utterance stop phrase matches, so
substantive requests that merely contain 'stop' ('stop the docker
container', 'how do I stop a process') still go through.
- apps/desktop/src/lib/voice-stop-word.ts: isVoiceStopCommand() matcher
- use-voice-conversation.ts: onStopWord option + intercept before submit
- use-composer-voice.ts: wire onStopWord -> end the conversation
- 6 matcher tests (bare/multi-word/addressed stop; substantive requests
with 'stop' pass through; bare address words don't match)
- docs: note the spoken-stop behavior
'hey hor' triggered the wake word: the default sensitivity was 0.5, which
for openWakeWord IS the raw per-frame score threshold — openWakeWord's own
permissive baseline that near-misses clear. Raised the default to 0.6 so
phonetic near-misses fall short while real 'hey hermes' (typically 0.9+)
still fires easily.
Also fixed a real cross-engine inconsistency found while checking: the
sensitivity knob is documented 'higher = stricter' and behaves that way
for openWakeWord (threshold = sensitivity) and sherpa (0.05 + 0.4*s), but
Porcupine's own 'sensitivities' param runs the opposite way (higher = MORE
false alarms, per Picovoice). Turning sensitivity up made Porcupine looser
— backwards. Now inverted (1 - sensitivity) so 'higher = stricter' holds
for every engine.
- tools/wake_word.py: default 0.6; _sensitivity fallback uses _DEFAULTS;
Porcupine sensitivity inverted with rationale
- hermes_cli/config.py + docs: default + consistent-direction note
- tests: Porcupine inversion, default>=0.6 regression, fallback-to-default
openWakeWord scores one ~80ms frame at a time and the detector fired the
instant a SINGLE frame crossed threshold — so a stray phoneme in background
conversation could trigger the wake word unintentionally (reported in
testing). A real utterance of the phrase holds a high score across several
consecutive frames; an ambient blip spikes just one.
_OpenWakeWordEngine now requires N consecutive over-threshold frames
(wake_word.confirmation_frames, default 3) before firing. The streak resets
on any sub-threshold frame and on engine reset() (pause/resume), so a
pre-pause frame can't count toward a post-resume fire. confirmation_frames=1
restores the old single-frame behavior; clamped 1..10.
Only openWakeWord is affected — sherpa (streaming transducer) and porcupine
decode the whole phrase internally and already reject single-frame spikes.
- tools/wake_word.py: _confirmation_frames() accessor, streak logic in
process()/reset(), config default
- hermes_cli/config.py: wake_word.confirmation_frames documented default
- tests: 5 new (spike rejected, sustained fires once, =1 legacy behavior,
reset clears streak, config clamp) — 58 wake tests green
- docs: 'Reducing false triggers on ambient speech' section
openWakeWord's ONNX backend returns near-zero scores on Apple Silicon
(dscripka/openWakeWord#336), so "Hey Hermes" never crossed the 0.5
threshold: the listener armed, the microphone worked, and nothing fired.
Bisecting the pipeline puts the fault in exactly one stage — feeding the
same audio through both backends, the melspectrogram front-end is
bit-identical (maxdiff 0.00000) and the wake classifier agrees on
identical features, while the shared embedding model diverges by 45.44.
Cross-feeding confirms it: tflite features scored through the *onnx*
classifier give 0.9948 vs 0.000009 for onnx features. A telling
secondary symptom is that scores fall as input gets louder (0.5x ->
0.00031, 8x -> 0.000066), which is garbage inference rather than a weak
detection.
Selecting tflite in config alone does not fix it. openWakeWord hardcodes
`import tflite_runtime.interpreter` but declares tflite-runtime for
`platform_system == "Linux"` only; on macOS the equivalent wheel is
ai-edge-litert, so that import always fails and model.py silently
downgrades back to onnx. The result is a detector that reports itself
listening and can never fire.
- default the backend per platform (tflite on macOS ARM64, onnx
elsewhere) instead of hardcoding onnx, and pick the matching bundled
model artifact
- bridge tflite_runtime -> ai_edge_litert through sys.modules, in-process,
with no writes to site-packages
- refuse the silent onnx downgrade on macOS ARM64 and report the missing
runtime through check_wake_word_requirements() so the GUI surfaces an
actionable hint rather than arming a dead ear
- lazy-install ai-edge-litert via its own feature key, because lazy-dep
specs cannot carry PEP 508 markers (_spec_is_safe rejects ";")
An explicit `inference_framework` in config still wins, so anyone pinning
a backend keeps it.
Verified on macOS 26.5.2 / M-series: "hey hermes" scores 0.0005 on onnx
and 0.9423 on tflite from the same clip, with cross-phrase controls at
0.0003. Live over-the-air through the real microphone fires 4/4
utterances (peak 0.9532).
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.
The wake loop is wake → record → STT → agent → TTS. Arming without
either end configured gives a mic that hears you and then does nothing
perceivable — a useless experience. check_wake_word_requirements now
probes both (same probes /voice uses: stt.enabled + provider != none;
check_tts_requirements) and refuses with a pointer to `hermes tools`
naming exactly which half is missing. The desktop ear hides (available:
false already hides the button), /wake on prints the hint on CLI/TUI.
wake.start also validates requirements BEFORE persisting
wake_word.enabled, so a refused gesture can't leave config claiming on
while nothing can ever arm.
Tests: per-half and both-missing hint assertions; existing requirements
tests pinned via _voice_loop_ready so they don't depend on the test
venv's installed voice stack. E2E: stt.enabled=false in a real config
-> unavailable with the speech-to-text hint.
Internal testing (macOS): clicking the ear froze the button for ~30s,
then it went blue but 'hey hermes' never fired even though STT worked.
Two distinct bugs:
1. Frozen-then-timeout button: first-use wake.start lazy-installs the
detection engine (onnxruntime is a large wheel), which blows the
desktop's default 30s WS request timeout — the RPC 'failed' client-
side while the backend kept installing and armed later on its own.
wake.start now gets a 180s budget and the pending state says
'arming — first use may take a minute while the engine installs'
instead of a silent disabled button.
2. Armed but deaf: macOS grants mic permission per PROCESS. The
renderer having mic access (STT working) does not grant the Python
backend anything — CoreAudio hands an unentitled process a 'working'
stream that delivers zeros forever, so the listener looks healthy
and can never hear the phrase. The detector now tracks frame peaks:
10s of consecutive near-zero frames sets audio_silent, logged with
the exact macOS Settings path, cleared automatically when audio
appears. Surfaced everywhere: wake.status (audio_silent + hint),
desktop ear tooltip (kept visible while listening), /wake status on
TUI (⚠ line) and classic CLI, plus a docs troubleshooting section.
Tests: detector silent-flag set/recover cycle (fake silent/loud
streams), desktop tooltip keeps the dead-mic hint while listening.
44 wake Python tests, 22 desktop + 14 TUI vitest green.
Clicking the desktop ear button or running /wake on|off now writes
wake_word.enabled to config.yaml (live, saved for future sessions), so the
feature no longer requires hand-editing config before the UI toggle works.
- wake.start accepts persist:true (explicit gesture): flips
wake_word.enabled on in config before arming; response reports
enabled_persisted. Passive auto-arm paths (desktop gateway-ready,
TUI reconnect) never pass it, so a mic can't become persistently
enabled without a deliberate user action.
- wake.stop accepts persist:true: writes wake_word.enabled: false so
auto-arm stays off next session; reports disabled_persisted.
- Split the refusal reason: 'disabled' (feature off in config — a
persisted gesture turns it on) vs 'disabled_for_surface' (explicit
wake_word.surface scoping, which persist does NOT override).
- Classic CLI /wake on|off and bare-toggle persist the flag too
(skips the write when config already matches).
- Desktop tooltip now maps refusal codes to friendly text (mirrors
the TUI's START_REASON_TEXT) instead of showing raw codes like
disabled_for_surface.
- Docs: quick-start notes the toggle persists; ear-button mention.
One sherpa listener now enrolls every wake-enabled profile's phrase
(defaulting to "hey <profile name>") and reports WHICH phrase fired.
wake.detected gains a profile field; the desktop live-switches to the
matching profile (same path as the profile rail), opens a fresh session
there, and starts hands-free voice. The single-profile CLI/TUI print the
hermes -p switch command for foreign-profile phrases instead of
answering as the wrong profile. Opt out per listener with
wake_word.profile_routing: false.
New "sherpa" wake_word provider: the configured phrase is BPE-tokenized
at runtime against a small streaming zipformer KWS model (~13 MB English,
one-time download cached under HERMES_HOME), so ANY typed phrase works
with zero training — including per-profile phrases like "hey coder".
wake.sherpa lazy-dep group + [wake] extra grow sherpa-onnx/sentencepiece;
requirements probe routes per provider; sensitivity maps onto sherpa
keywords_threshold. E2E-verified on real audio (target phrase fires,
foreign phrase stays silent, reset drops buffered state).
From #53378: ships hey_hermes.onnx/.tflite (openWakeWord pipeline,
Apache-2.0) under tools/wakewords/, resolves the default (and hey_hermes
aliases) to the bundled file, ensures openWakeWord base feature models
are fetched for custom paths too, and updates config defaults + docs
from hey_jarvis to hey hermes.
Regenerate uv.lock for the [wake] extra (openwakeword, pvporcupine,
onnxruntime) so uv lock --check passes. Replace angle-bracket URLs in
wake-word.md with markdown links — MDX treats <https://...> as JSX.
Makes the wake word a tri-surface feature with one configurable owner.
- wake_word.surface ("auto" | "cli" | "tui" | "gui") + shared
wake_surface_enabled() gate consulted by every surface, so exactly one
place owns the listener and the new session it opens.
- tui_gateway: wake.start/stop/pause/resume/status RPCs + a wake.detected
event, sharing one server-side detector for both TUI and desktop. The
detector yields the mic to voice.record (pause on capture start, resume
on terminal) and to the desktop's browser mic (wake.pause/resume).
- TUI (Ink): arm wake.start on gateway.ready; on wake.detected open a
fresh session and start voice capture.
- Desktop (Electron): arm wake.start on connect; on wake.detected open a
fresh session.
- CLI now gates on wake_surface_enabled("cli"); /wake status shows surface.
- Tests for the surface gate; docs cover the surface knob + cross-surface.
Adds an opt-in, on-device hotword listener for the CLI. With
wake_word.enabled (or /wake on), Hermes listens in the background for a
wake phrase; on detection it starts a fresh session, captures one
utterance through the existing voice pipeline, and answers — the
"Hey Siri" pattern.
- tools/wake_word.py: provider-pluggable detector (openWakeWord, free
local default; Porcupine, premium) over the shared 16 kHz sounddevice
capture path. Background daemon thread with pause/resume so it yields
the mic during a voice turn.
- CLI wiring: startup listener (off-thread), on-wake flow, an idle
watchdog that resumes the detector after each turn, cleanup hook, and
a /wake [on|off|status] command.
- config.yaml wake_word section; PORCUPINE_ACCESS_KEY as an optional
secret. Engines lazy-install via the [wake] extra.
- Hands a transcript to the input queue exactly like voice mode, so no
system-prompt/cache mutation. No new core model tool.
- Tests (mocked, no live audio/network) + feature docs.
- Change await self._send_read_receipt to asyncio.create_task to avoid
blocking message dispatch on slow bridge responses (matches BlueBubbles
pattern). Up to 5s per-message latency eliminated.
- Update tests: assert_called_once_with instead of assert_awaited_once_with
since the receipt is now scheduled, not directly awaited.
- Add send_read_receipts documentation to whatsapp.md following the
BlueBubbles docs pattern.
When an operator changes the global model/provider config, warn that
unpinned cron jobs with stored snapshots will fail-closed on their next
run. Adds a cron.model_drift_guard config opt-out (default true) for
fleets that should deliberately track changing global defaults.
Addresses #59031. Original PR #59177 by @doncazper.
Figma's mcp.figma.com register endpoint is a client_name allowlist
(Claude Code / Codex succeed; Hermes Agent 403s) and returns a client
secret while advertising auth_method=none, then requires the secret on
token exchange. Auto-set client_name + client_secret_post for Figma
hosts, pass oauth cfg through login/add paths, force interactive OAuth
for hermes mcp login from non-TTY desktop shells, and ship a catalog
entry. Proven: hermes mcp login figma → 26 tools.
Saying EXACTLY a configured stop phrase (default: 'stop') and nothing
else now ends the voice conversation instead of being sent to the agent
as a prompt. Match is deliberately strict — whole utterance,
case-insensitive, surrounding punctuation stripped — so 'stop doing
that and try X' still reaches the agent.
- tools/voice_mode.py: is_voice_stop_phrase() + voice.stop_phrases
config loader (default ['stop'], [] disables, malformed config falls
back safely).
- hermes_cli/voice.py: shared continuous loop (TUI + desktop) halts on
a stop phrase exactly like the silent-cycle limit (fires
on_silent_limit so every UI turns voice off); stop_continuous
force-transcribe path swallows the phrase without counting a silent
cycle.
- cli.py: classic CLI push-to-talk/continuous path and barge-in
utterance path disable voice mode on a stop phrase.
- Config default voice.stop_phrases: ['stop']; docs updated.
Tests: tests/tools/test_voice_stop_phrase.py (27 tests,
sabotage-verified: loop test fails when detection is disabled);
voice suites green (110 + 44 passed).
Whisper auto-detection frequently misidentifies short/accented clips,
which users experience as voice notes transcribed in the wrong language
(Teknium + CTO both hit this). The unified resolver from #73067 made a
global hint possible; this makes it the DEFAULT so stock installs stop
guessing. Non-English users set stt.language once; '' restores
auto-detect for multilingual use.
Deep-merge gives existing configs the new default automatically (no
_config_version bump needed); any explicit per-provider or global
language setting still wins.
Class-level fix for the 'STT transcribes the wrong language' issue family
(#55551, #50181 and siblings). Previously language handling was per-provider
chaos: local honoured stt.local.language, Groq/OpenAI/Mistral/DeepInfra sent
no language hint at all, xAI silently forced 'en', ElevenLabs used its own
language_code key, and there was no global setting.
- New _resolve_stt_language() helper: stt.<provider>.language >
stt.language (new global key) > HERMES_LOCAL_STT_LANGUAGE > auto-detect.
- Threaded through ALL providers: local, local_command, groq, openai,
mistral, xai, elevenlabs, deepinfra (shared OpenAI handler), command
providers, and plugin dispatch.
- xAI no longer forces English when nothing is configured (auto-detect).
- Mistral Voxtral now receives a language hint when configured.
- stt.groq.model is now honoured from config (previously env-only).
- DEFAULT_CONFIG gains stt.language, stt.groq, stt.xai, stt.mistral.language.
- Tests: tests/tools/test_stt_language_resolution.py (11 tests, sabotage-
verified) + full transcription suite green (236 passed).
Builds on cherry-picked contributor work from #19786 (@zombopanda),
#23161 (@materemias), #50684 (@BlackishGreen33).
- Normalize stt.groq.language: cast to str, strip, treat
empty/whitespace as unset (parity with xAI's str().strip()).
- Clarify "blank = auto-detect" inline comments in 4 docs/configs to
reflect the env-var fallback (HERMES_LOCAL_STT_LANGUAGE).
- Document that HERMES_LOCAL_STT_LANGUAGE also drives the local
faster-whisper provider, not just the CLI fallback.
- Add unit tests covering: omitted language when unset, config-supplied
language, env fallback, config-over-env precedence, whitespace
normalized to unset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Read stt.groq.language from config.yaml (with HERMES_LOCAL_STT_LANGUAGE
env fallback) and forward it to the Groq Whisper API to skip
auto-detection on known-language audio. Omit when unset so Groq
auto-detects, preserving today's behavior. Bonus: swap xAI's hardcoded
env literal for the LOCAL_STT_LANGUAGE_ENV constant for consistency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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