Plugins can now subscribe to session boundary events via
ctx.register_hook('on_session_finalize', ...) and
ctx.register_hook('on_session_reset', ...).
on_session_finalize — fires during CLI exit (/quit, Ctrl-C) and
before /new or /reset, giving plugins a chance to flush or clean up.
on_session_reset — fires after a new session is created via
/new or /reset, so plugins can initialize per-session state.
Closes#5592
_deliver_result() now returns Optional[str] — None on success, error
message on failure. All failure paths (unknown platform, platform
disabled, config load error, send failure, unresolvable target)
return descriptive error strings.
mark_job_run() gains delivery_error param, tracked as
last_delivery_error on the job — separate from agent execution errors.
A job where the agent succeeded but delivery failed shows
last_status='ok' + last_delivery_error='...'.
The cronjob list tool now surfaces last_delivery_error so agents and
users can see when cron outputs aren't arriving.
Inspired by PR #5863 (oxngon) — reimplemented with proper wiring.
Tests: 3 new mark_job_run tests + 6 new _deliver_result return tests.
Salvaged fixes from community PRs:
- fix(model_switch): _read_auth_store → _load_auth_store + fix auth store
key lookup (was checking top-level dict instead of store['providers']).
OAuth providers now correctly detected in /model picker.
Cherry-picked from PR #5911 by Xule Lin (linxule).
- fix(ollama): pass num_ctx to override 2048 default context window.
Ollama defaults to 2048 context regardless of model capabilities. Now
auto-detects from /api/show metadata and injects num_ctx into every
request. Config override via model.ollama_num_ctx. Fixes#2708.
Cherry-picked from PR #5929 by kshitij (kshitijk4poor).
- fix(aux): normalize provider aliases for vision/auxiliary routing.
Adds _normalize_aux_provider() with 17 aliases (google→gemini,
claude→anthropic, glm→zai, etc). Fixes vision routing failure when
provider is set to 'google' instead of 'gemini'.
Cherry-picked from PR #5793 by e11i (Elizabeth1979).
- fix(aux): rewrite MiniMax /anthropic base URLs to /v1 for OpenAI SDK.
MiniMax's inference_base_url ends in /anthropic (Anthropic Messages API),
but auxiliary client uses OpenAI SDK which appends /chat/completions →
404 at /anthropic/chat/completions. Generic _to_openai_base_url() helper
rewrites terminal /anthropic to /v1 for OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Inspired by PR #5786 by Lempkey.
Added debug logging to silent exception blocks across all fixes.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
Currently, MCP servers are included on all platforms by default. If a
platform's toolset list does not explicitly name any MCP servers, every
globally enabled MCP server is injected. There is no way to opt a
platform out of MCP servers entirely.
This matters for the API server platform when used as an execution
backend — each spawned agent session gets the full MCP tool schema
injected into its system prompt, dramatically inflating token usage
(e.g. 57K tokens vs 9K without MCP tools) and slowing response times.
Add a "no_mcp" sentinel value for platform_toolsets. When present in a
platform's toolset list, all MCP servers are excluded for that platform.
Other platforms are unaffected.
Usage in config.yaml:
platform_toolsets:
api_server:
- terminal
- file
- web
- no_mcp # exclude all MCP servers
The sentinel is filtered out of the final toolset — it does not appear
as an actual toolset name.
* fix(cli): route error messages through ChatConsole inside patch_stdout
Cherry-pick of PR #5798 by @icn5381.
Replace self.console.print() with ChatConsole().print() for 11 error/status
messages reachable during the interactive session. Inside patch_stdout,
self.console (plain Rich Console) writes raw ANSI escapes that StdoutProxy
mangles into garbled text. ChatConsole uses prompt_toolkit's native
print_formatted_text which renders correctly.
Same class of bug as #2262 — that fix covered agent output but missed
these error paths in _ensure_runtime_credentials, _init_agent, quick
commands, skill loading, and plan mode.
* fix(model-picker): add scrolling viewport to curses provider menu
Cherry-pick of PR #5790 by @Lempkey. Fixes#5755.
_curses_prompt_choice rendered items starting unconditionally from index 0
with no scroll offset. The 'More providers' submenu has 13 entries. On
terminals shorter than ~16 rows, items past the fold were never drawn.
When UP-arrow wrapped cursor from 0 to the last item (Cancel, index 12),
the highlight rendered off-screen — appearing as if only Cancel existed.
Adds scroll_offset tracking that adjusts each frame to keep the cursor
inside the visible window.
* feat(cli): skin-aware compact banner + git state in startup banner
Combined salvage of PR #5922 by @ASRagab and PR #5877 by @xinbenlv.
Compact banner changes (from #5922):
- Read active skin colors and branding instead of hardcoding gold/NOUS HERMES
- Default skin preserves backward-compatible legacy branding
- Non-default skins use their own agent_name and colors
Git state in banner (from #5877):
- New format_banner_version_label() shows upstream/local git hashes
- Full banner title now includes git state (upstream hash, carried commits)
- Compact banner line2 shows the version label with git state
- Widen compact banner max width from 64 to 88 to fit version info
Both the full Rich banner and compact fallback are now skin-aware
and show git state.
- Add 7 unit tests for _profile_arg: default home, named profile,
hash path, nested path, invalid name, systemd integration, launchd integration
- Add stt.local.language to config.yaml (empty = auto-detect)
- Both STT code paths now read config.yaml first, env var fallback,
then default (auto-detect for faster-whisper, 'en' for CLI command)
- HERMES_LOCAL_STT_LANGUAGE env var still works as backward-compat fallback
generate_launchd_plist() and generate_systemd_unit() were missing the
--profile <name> argument in ProgramArguments/ExecStart, causing
hermes gateway start to regenerate plists that fell back to
~/.hermes/active_profile instead of the intended profile.
Fix:
- Add _profile_arg(hermes_home?) helper returning '--profile <name>'
only for ~/.hermes/profiles/<name> paths, empty string otherwise.
- Update generate_launchd_plist() to build ProgramArguments array
dynamically with --profile when applicable.
- Update generate_systemd_unit() both user and system service
branches with {profile_arg} in ExecStart.
This ensures hermes --profile <name> gateway start produces a
service definition that correctly scopes to the named profile.
Replace 10 callsites across 6 files that manually opened config.yaml,
called yaml.safe_load(), and handled missing-file/parse-error fallbacks
with the new read_raw_config() helper from hermes_cli/config.py.
Each migrated site previously had 5-8 lines of boilerplate:
config_path = get_hermes_home() / 'config.yaml'
if config_path.exists():
import yaml
with open(config_path) as f:
cfg = yaml.safe_load(f) or {}
Now reduced to:
from hermes_cli.config import read_raw_config
cfg = read_raw_config()
Migrated files:
- tools/browser_tool.py (4 sites): command_timeout, cloud_provider,
allow_private_urls, record_sessions
- tools/env_passthrough.py: terminal.env_passthrough
- tools/credential_files.py: terminal.credential_files
- tools/transcription_tools.py: stt.model
- hermes_cli/commands.py: config-gated command resolution
- hermes_cli/auth.py (2 sites): model config read + provider reset
Skipped (intentionally):
- gateway/run.py: 10+ sites with local aliases, critical path
- hermes_cli/profiles.py: profile-specific config path
- hermes_cli/doctor.py: reads raw then writes fixes back
- agent/model_metadata.py: different file (context_length_cache.yaml)
- tools/website_policy.py: custom config_path param + error types
Move _PS_CHECK_IMAGE and _PS_EXTRACT_IMAGE above both the native Windows
and WSL2 sections so both can share them. Removes the duplicate
_WIN_PS_CHECK / _WIN_PS_EXTRACT constants.
Add win32 platform branch to clipboard.py so Ctrl+V image paste
works on native Windows (PowerShell / Windows Terminal), not just
WSL2.
Uses the same .NET System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard approach as the
WSL path but calls PowerShell directly instead of powershell.exe
(the WSL cross-call path). Tries 'powershell' first (Windows
PowerShell 5.1, always available), then 'pwsh' (PowerShell 7+).
PowerShell executable is discovered once and cached for the process
lifetime.
Includes 14 new tests covering:
- Platform dispatch (save_clipboard_image + has_clipboard_image)
- Image detection via PowerShell .NET check
- Base64 PNG extraction and decode
- Edge cases: no PowerShell, empty output, invalid base64, timeout
16 callsites across 14 files were re-deriving the hermes home path
via os.environ.get('HERMES_HOME', ...) instead of using the canonical
get_hermes_home() from hermes_constants. This breaks profiles — each
profile has its own HERMES_HOME, and the inline fallback defaults to
~/.hermes regardless.
Fixed by importing and calling get_hermes_home() at each site. For
files already inside the hermes process (agent/, hermes_cli/, tools/,
gateway/, plugins/), this is always safe. Files that run outside the
process context (mcp_serve.py, mcp_oauth.py) already had correct
try/except ImportError fallbacks and were left alone.
Skipped: hermes_constants.py (IS the implementation), env_loader.py
(bootstrap), profiles.py (intentionally manipulates the env var),
standalone scripts (optional-skills/, skills/), and tests.
Comprehensive cleanup across 80 files based on automated (ruff, pyflakes, vulture)
and manual analysis of the entire codebase.
Changes by category:
Unused imports removed (~95 across 55 files):
- Removed genuinely unused imports from all major subsystems
- agent/, hermes_cli/, tools/, gateway/, plugins/, cron/
- Includes imports in try/except blocks that were truly unused
(vs availability checks which were left alone)
Unused variables removed (~25):
- Removed dead variables: connected, inner, channels, last_exc,
source, new_server_names, verify, pconfig, default_terminal,
result, pending_handled, temperature, loop
- Dropped unused argparse subparser assignments in hermes_cli/main.py
(12 instances of add_parser() where result was never used)
Dead code removed:
- run_agent.py: Removed dead ternary (None if False else None) and
surrounding unreachable branch in identity fallback
- run_agent.py: Removed write-only attribute _last_reported_tool
- hermes_cli/providers.py: Removed dead @property decorator on
module-level function (decorator has no effect outside a class)
- gateway/run.py: Removed unused MCP config load before reconnect
- gateway/platforms/slack.py: Removed dead SessionSource construction
Undefined name bugs fixed (would cause NameError at runtime):
- batch_runner.py: Added missing logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
- tools/environments/daytona.py: Added missing Dict and Path imports
Unnecessary global statements removed (14):
- tools/terminal_tool.py: 5 functions declared global for dicts
they only mutated via .pop()/[key]=value (no rebinding)
- tools/browser_tool.py: cleanup thread loop only reads flag
- tools/rl_training_tool.py: 4 functions only do dict mutations
- tools/mcp_oauth.py: only reads the global
- hermes_time.py: only reads cached values
Inefficient patterns fixed:
- startswith/endswith tuple form: 15 instances of
x.startswith('a') or x.startswith('b') consolidated to
x.startswith(('a', 'b'))
- len(x)==0 / len(x)>0: 13 instances replaced with pythonic
truthiness checks (not x / bool(x))
- in dict.keys(): 5 instances simplified to in dict
- Redefined unused name: removed duplicate _strip_mdv2 import in
send_message_tool.py
Other fixes:
- hermes_cli/doctor.py: Replaced undefined logger.debug() with pass
- hermes_cli/config.py: Consolidated chained .endswith() calls
Test results: 3934 passed, 17 failed (all pre-existing on main),
19 skipped. Zero regressions.
check_nous_free_tier() now caches its result for 180 seconds to avoid
redundant Portal API calls during a session (auxiliary client init,
model selection, login flow all call it independently).
The TTL is short enough that an account upgrade from free to paid is
reflected within 3 minutes. clear_nous_free_tier_cache() is exposed
for explicit invalidation on login/logout.
Adds 4 tests for cache hit, TTL expiry, explicit clear, and TTL bound.
- Show pricing during initial Nous Portal login (was missing from
_login_nous, only shown in the already-logged-in hermes model path)
- Filter free models for paid subscribers: non-allowlisted free models
are hidden; allowlisted models (xiaomi/mimo-v2-pro, xiaomi/mimo-v2-omni)
only appear when actually priced as free
- Detect free-tier accounts via portal api/oauth/account endpoint
(monthly_charge == 0); free-tier users see only free models as
selectable, with paid models shown dimmed and unselectable
- Use xiaomi/mimo-v2-omni as the auxiliary vision model for free-tier
Nous users so vision_analyze and browser_vision work without paid
model access (replaces the default google/gemini-3-flash-preview)
- Unavailable models rendered via print() before TerminalMenu to avoid
simple_term_menu line-width padding artifacts; upgrade URL resolved
from auth state portal_base_url (supports staging/custom portals)
- Add 21 tests covering filter_nous_free_models, is_nous_free_tier,
and partition_nous_models_by_tier
* feat: switch managed browser provider from Browserbase to Browser Use
The Nous subscription tool gateway now routes browser automation through
Browser Use instead of Browserbase. This commit:
- Adds managed Nous gateway support to BrowserUseProvider (idempotency
keys, X-BB-API-Key auth header, external_call_id persistence)
- Removes managed gateway support from BrowserbaseProvider (now
direct-only via BROWSERBASE_API_KEY/BROWSERBASE_PROJECT_ID)
- Updates browser_tool.py fallback: prefers Browser Use over Browserbase
- Updates nous_subscription.py: gateway vendor 'browser-use', auto-config
sets cloud_provider='browser-use' for new subscribers
- Updates tools_config.py: Nous Subscription entry now uses Browser Use
- Updates setup.py, cli.py, status.py, prompt_builder.py display strings
- Updates all affected tests to match new behavior
Browserbase remains fully functional for users with direct API credentials.
The change only affects the managed/subscription path.
* chore: remove redundant Browser Use hint from system prompt
* fix: upgrade Browser Use provider to v3 API
- Base URL: api/v2 -> api/v3 (v2 is legacy)
- Unified all endpoints to use native Browser Use paths:
- POST /browsers (create session, returns cdpUrl)
- PATCH /browsers/{id} with {action: stop} (close session)
- Removed managed-mode branching that used Browserbase-style
/v1/sessions paths — v3 gateway now supports /browsers directly
- Removed unused managed_mode variable in close_session
* fix(browser-use): use X-Browser-Use-API-Key header for managed mode
The managed gateway expects X-Browser-Use-API-Key, not X-BB-API-Key
(which is a Browserbase-specific header). Using the wrong header caused
a 401 AUTH_ERROR on every managed-mode browser session create.
Simplified _headers() to always use X-Browser-Use-API-Key regardless
of direct vs managed mode.
* fix(nous_subscription): browserbase explicit provider is direct-only
Since managed Nous gateway now routes through Browser Use, the
browserbase explicit provider path should not check managed_browser_available
(which resolves against the browser-use gateway). Simplified to direct-only
with managed=False.
* fix(browser-use): port missing improvements from PR #5605
- CDP URL normalization: resolve HTTP discovery URLs to websocket after
cloud provider create_session() (prevents agent-browser failures)
- Managed session payload: send timeout=5 and proxyCountryCode=us for
gateway-backed sessions (prevents billing overruns)
- Update prompt builder, browser_close schema, and module docstring to
replace remaining Browserbase references with Browser Use
- Dynamic /browser status detection via _get_cloud_provider() instead
of hardcoded env var checks (future-proof for new providers)
- Rename post_setup key from 'browserbase' to 'agent_browser'
- Update setup hint to mention Browser Use alongside Browserbase
- Add tests: CDP normalization, browserbase direct-only guard,
managed browser-use gateway, direct browserbase fallback
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Co-authored-by: rob-maron <132852777+rob-maron@users.noreply.github.com>
The filter in cmd_update() excluded is_default profiles from the
cross-profile skill sync loop. When running 'hermes update' from a
named profile (e.g. hermes -p coder update), the default profile
(~/.hermes) never received new bundled skills.
Remove the 'not p.is_default' condition so all profiles — including
default — are synced regardless of which profile runs the update.
Reported by olafgeibig.
The credential pool seeder and runtime credential resolver hardcoded
api.z.ai/api/paas/v4 for all Z.AI keys. Keys on the Coding Plan (or CN
endpoint) would hit the wrong endpoint, causing 401/429 errors on the
first request even though a working endpoint exists.
Add _resolve_zai_base_url() that:
- Respects GLM_BASE_URL env var (no probe when explicitly set)
- Probes all candidate endpoints (global, cn, coding-global, coding-cn)
via detect_zai_endpoint() to find one that returns HTTP 200
- Caches the detected endpoint in provider state (auth.json) keyed on
a SHA-256 hash of the API key so subsequent starts skip the probe
- Falls back to the default URL if all probes fail
Wire into both _seed_from_env() in the credential pool and
resolve_api_key_provider_credentials() in the runtime resolver,
matching the pattern from the kimi-coding fix (PR #5566).
Fixes the same class of bug as #5561 but for the zai provider.
When resolve_runtime_provider is called with requested='auto' and
auth.json has a stale active_provider (nous or openai-codex) whose
OAuth refresh token has been revoked, the AuthError now falls through
to the next provider in the chain (e.g. OpenRouter via env vars)
instead of propagating to the user as a blocking error.
When the user explicitly requested the OAuth provider, the error
still propagates so they know to re-authenticate.
Root cause: resolve_provider('auto') checks auth.json for an active
OAuth provider before checking env vars. get_nous_auth_status()
reports logged_in=True if any access_token exists (even expired),
so the Nous path is taken. resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() then
tries to refresh the token, fails with 'Refresh session has been
revoked', and the AuthError bubbles up to the CLI bold-red display.
Adds 3 tests: Nous fallthrough, Codex fallthrough, explicit-request
still raises.
signal-cli is not available via apt or snap. Replace the incorrect
'sudo apt install signal-cli' with the official install method:
downloading from GitHub releases (Linux) or brew (macOS).
Updated both signal.md docs and the gateway.py setup hint.
Inspired by PR #4225 (which proposed snap, also incorrect).
Three bugs causing OpenAI Codex sessions to fail silently:
1. Credential pool vs legacy store disconnect: hermes auth and hermes
model store device_code tokens in the credential pool, but
get_codex_auth_status(), resolve_codex_runtime_credentials(), and
_model_flow_openai_codex() only read from the legacy provider state.
Fresh pool tokens were invisible to the auth status checks and model
selection flow.
2. _import_codex_cli_tokens() imported expired tokens from ~/.codex/
without checking JWT expiry. Combined with _login_openai_codex()
saying 'Login successful!' for expired credentials, users got stuck
in a loop of dead tokens being recycled.
3. _login_openai_codex() accepted expired tokens from
resolve_codex_runtime_credentials() without validating expiry before
telling the user login succeeded.
Fixes:
- get_codex_auth_status() now checks credential pool first, falls back
to legacy provider state
- _model_flow_openai_codex() uses pool-aware auth status for token
retrieval when fetching model lists
- _import_codex_cli_tokens() validates JWT exp claim, rejects expired
- _login_openai_codex() verifies resolved token isn't expiring before
accepting existing credentials
- _run_codex_stream() logs response.incomplete/failed terminal events
with status and incomplete_details for diagnostics
- Codex empty output recovery: captures streamed text during streaming
and synthesizes a response when get_final_response() returns empty
output (handles chatgpt.com backend-api edge cases)
Two fixes:
1. Replace all stale 'hermes login' references with 'hermes auth' across
auth.py, auxiliary_client.py, delegate_tool.py, config.py, run_agent.py,
and documentation. The 'hermes login' command was deprecated; 'hermes auth'
now handles OAuth credential management.
2. Fix credential removal not persisting for singleton-sourced credentials
(device_code for openai-codex/nous, hermes_pkce for anthropic).
auth_remove_command already cleared env vars for env-sourced credentials,
but singleton credentials stored in the auth store were re-seeded by
_seed_from_singletons() on the next load_pool() call. Now clears the
underlying auth store entry when removing singleton-sourced credentials.
Two issues caused Matrix E2EE to silently not work in encrypted rooms:
1. When matrix-nio is installed without the [e2e] extra (no python-olm /
libolm), nio.crypto.ENCRYPTION_ENABLED is False and client.olm is
never initialized. The adapter logged warnings but returned True from
connect(), so the bot appeared online but could never decrypt messages.
Now: check_matrix_requirements() and connect() both hard-fail with a
clear error message when MATRIX_ENCRYPTION=true but E2EE deps are
missing.
2. Without a stable device_id, the bot gets a new device identity on each
restart. Other clients see it as "unknown device" and refuse to share
Megolm session keys. Now: MATRIX_DEVICE_ID env var lets users pin a
stable device identity that persists across restarts and is passed to
nio.AsyncClient constructor + restore_login().
Changes:
- gateway/platforms/matrix.py: add _check_e2ee_deps(), hard-fail in
connect() and check_matrix_requirements(), MATRIX_DEVICE_ID support
in constructor + restore_login
- gateway/config.py: plumb MATRIX_DEVICE_ID into platform extras
- hermes_cli/config.py: add MATRIX_DEVICE_ID to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS
Closes#3521
When the Codex CLI (or VS Code extension) consumes a refresh token before
Hermes can use it, Hermes previously surfaced a generic 401 error with no
actionable guidance.
- In `refresh_codex_oauth_pure`: detect `refresh_token_reused` from the
OAuth endpoint and raise an AuthError explaining the cause and the exact
steps to recover (run `codex` to refresh, then `hermes login`).
- In `run_agent.py`: when provider is `openai-codex` and HTTP 401 is
received, show Codex-specific recovery steps instead of the generic
"check your API key" message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to PR #5470. Replaces hardcoded ~/.hermes/.env references with
display_hermes_home() for correct behavior under profiles. Also updates
PluginManifest.requires_env type hint to List[Union[str, Dict[str, Any]]]
to document the rich format introduced in #5470.
* feat(tools): add Firecrawl cloud browser provider
Adds Firecrawl (https://firecrawl.dev) as a cloud browser provider
alongside Browserbase and Browser Use. All browser tools route through
Firecrawl's cloud browser via CDP when selected.
- tools/browser_providers/firecrawl.py — FirecrawlProvider
- tools/browser_tool.py — register in _PROVIDER_REGISTRY
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py — add to onboarding provider picker
- hermes_cli/setup.py — add to setup summary
- hermes_cli/config.py — add FIRECRAWL_BROWSER_TTL config
- website/docs/ — browser docs and env var reference
Based on #4490 by @developersdigest.
Co-Authored-By: Developers Digest <124798203+developersdigest@users.noreply.github.com>
* refactor: simplify FirecrawlProvider.emergency_cleanup
Use self._headers() and self._api_url() instead of duplicating
env-var reads and header construction.
* fix: recognize Firecrawl in subscription browser detection
_resolve_browser_feature_state() now handles "firecrawl" as a direct
browser provider (same pattern as "browser-use"), so hermes setup
summary correctly shows "Browser Automation (Firecrawl)" instead of
misreporting as "Local browser".
Also fixes test_config_version_unchanged assertion (11 → 12).
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Co-authored-by: Developers Digest <124798203+developersdigest@users.noreply.github.com>
Skills can now declare config.yaml settings via metadata.hermes.config
in their SKILL.md frontmatter. Values are stored under skills.config.*
namespace, prompted during hermes config migrate, shown in hermes config
show, and injected into the skill context at load time.
Also adds the llm-wiki skill (Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern) as the first
skill to use the new config interface, declaring wiki.path.
Skill config interface (new):
- agent/skill_utils.py: extract_skill_config_vars(), discover_all_skill_config_vars(),
resolve_skill_config_values(), SKILL_CONFIG_PREFIX
- agent/skill_commands.py: _inject_skill_config() injects resolved values
into skill messages as [Skill config: ...] block
- hermes_cli/config.py: get_missing_skill_config_vars(), skill config
prompting in migrate_config(), Skill Settings in show_config()
LLM Wiki skill (skills/research/llm-wiki/SKILL.md):
- Three-layer architecture (raw sources, wiki pages, schema)
- Three operations (ingest, query, lint)
- Session orientation, page thresholds, tag taxonomy, update policy,
scaling guidance, log rotation, archiving workflow
Docs: creating-skills.md, configuration.md, skills.md, skills-catalog.md
Closes#5100
When an alias like 'claude' can't be resolved on the current provider,
_resolve_alias_fallback() tries other providers. Previously it hardcoded
('openrouter', 'nous') — so '/model claude' on z.ai would resolve to
openrouter even if the user doesn't have openrouter credentials but does
have anthropic.
Now the fallback uses the user's actual authenticated providers (detected
via list_authenticated_providers which is backed by the models.dev
in-memory cache). If no authenticated providers are found, falls back to
the old ('openrouter', 'nous') for backwards compatibility.
New helper: get_authenticated_provider_slugs() returns just the slug
strings from list_authenticated_providers().
launchctl kickstart returns exit code 113 ("Could not find service") when
the plist exists but the job hasn't been bootstrapped into the runtime domain.
The existing recovery path only caught exit code 3 ("unloaded"), causing an
unhandled CalledProcessError.
Exit code 113 means the same thing practically -- the service definition needs
bootstrapping before it can be kicked. Add it to the same recovery path that
already handles exit 3, matching the existing pattern in launchd_stop().
Follow-up: add a unit test covering the 113 recovery path.
Centralize the skill → slash command registration that Telegram already had
in commands.py so Discord uses the exact same priority system, filtering,
and cap enforcement:
1. Core/built-in commands (never trimmed)
2. Plugin commands (never trimmed)
3. Skill commands (fill remaining slots, alphabetical, only tier trimmed)
Changes:
hermes_cli/commands.py:
- Rename _TG_NAME_LIMIT → _CMD_NAME_LIMIT (32 chars shared by both platforms)
- Rename _clamp_telegram_names → _clamp_command_names (generic)
- Extract _collect_gateway_skill_entries() — shared plugin + skill
collection with platform filtering, name sanitization, description
truncation, and cap enforcement
- Refactor telegram_menu_commands() to use the shared helper
- Add discord_skill_commands() that returns (name, desc, cmd_key) triples
- Preserve _sanitize_telegram_name() for Telegram-specific name cleaning
gateway/platforms/discord.py:
- Call discord_skill_commands() from _register_slash_commands()
- Create app_commands.Command per skill entry with cmd_key callback
- Respect 100-command global Discord limit
- Log warning when skills are skipped due to cap
Backward-compat aliases preserved for _TG_NAME_LIMIT and
_clamp_telegram_names.
Tests: 9 new tests (7 Discord + 2 backward-compat), 98 total pass.
Inspired by PR #5498 (sprmn24). Closes#5480.
Telegram Bot API requires command names to contain only lowercase a-z,
digits 0-9, and underscores. Skill/plugin names containing characters
like +, /, @, or . caused set_my_commands to fail with
Bot_command_invalid.
Two-layer fix:
- scan_skill_commands(): strip non-alphanumeric/non-hyphen chars from
cmd_key at source, collapse consecutive hyphens, trim edges, skip
names that sanitize to empty string
- _sanitize_telegram_name(): centralized helper used by all 3 Telegram
name generation sites (core commands, plugin commands, skill commands)
with empty-name guard at each call site
Closes#5534
OpenCode Go model names with dots (minimax-m2.7, glm-4.5, kimi-k2.5)
were being mangled to hyphens (minimax-m2-7), causing HTTP 401 errors.
Two code paths were affected:
1. model_normalize.py: opencode-go was incorrectly in DOT_TO_HYPHEN_PROVIDERS
2. run_agent.py: _anthropic_preserve_dots() did not check for opencode-go
Fix:
- Remove opencode-go from _DOT_TO_HYPHEN_PROVIDERS (dots are correct for Go)
- Add opencode-go to _anthropic_preserve_dots() provider check
- Add opencode.ai/zen/go to base_url fallback check
- Add regression tests in tests/test_model_normalize.py
Co-authored-by: jacob3712 <jacob3712@users.noreply.github.com>
When agent_key is missing from auth state (expired, not yet minted,
or mint failed silently), the fallback chain fell through to
access_token — an OAuth bearer token for the Nous portal API, not
an inference credential. The Nous inference API returns 404 because
the OAuth token is not a valid inference key.
Remove the access_token fallback so an empty agent_key correctly
triggers resolve_nous_runtime_credentials() to mint a fresh key.
Closes#5562
After restarting a service-managed gateway (systemd/launchd), the
stale-process sweep calls find_gateway_pids() which returns ALL gateway
PIDs via ps aux — including the one just spawned by the service manager.
The sweep kills it, leaving the user with a stopped gateway and a
confusing 'Restart manually' message.
Fix: add _get_service_pids() to query systemd MainPID and launchd PID
for active gateway services, then exclude those PIDs from the sweep.
Also add exclude_pids parameter to find_gateway_pids() and
kill_gateway_processes() so callers can skip known service-managed PIDs.
Adds 9 targeted tests covering:
- _get_service_pids() for systemd, launchd, empty, and zero-PID cases
- find_gateway_pids() exclude_pids filtering
- cmd_update integration: service PID not killed after restart
- cmd_update integration: manual PID killed while service PID preserved
- Rename per-LLM-call hooks from pre_llm_request/post_llm_request for clarity vs pre_llm_call
- Emit summary kwargs only (counts, usage dict from normalize_usage); keep env_var_enabled for HERMES_DUMP_REQUESTS
- Add is_truthy_value/env_var_enabled to utils; wire hermes_cli.plugins._env_enabled through it
- Update Langfuse local setup doc; add scripts/langfuse_smoketest.py and optional ~/.hermes plugin tests
Made-with: Cursor
Add validate_config_structure() that catches common config.yaml mistakes:
- custom_providers as dict instead of list (missing '-' in YAML)
- fallback_model accidentally nested inside another section
- custom_providers entries missing required fields (name, base_url)
- Missing model section when custom_providers is configured
- Root-level keys that look like misplaced custom_providers fields
Surface these diagnostics at three levels:
1. Startup: print_config_warnings() runs at CLI and gateway module load,
so users see issues before hitting cryptic errors
2. Error time: 'Unknown provider' errors in auth.py and model_switch.py
now include config diagnostics with fix suggestions
3. Doctor: 'hermes doctor' shows a Config Structure section with all
issues and fix hints
Also adds a warning log in runtime_provider.py when custom_providers
is a dict (previously returned None silently).
Motivated by a Discord user who had malformed custom_providers YAML
and got only 'Unknown Provider' with no guidance on what was wrong.
17 new tests covering all validation paths.
All 35 subprocess.run() calls in hermes_cli/gateway.py lacked timeout
parameters. If systemctl, launchctl, loginctl, wmic, or ps blocks,
hermes gateway start/stop/restart/status/install/uninstall hangs
indefinitely with no feedback.
Timeouts tiered by operation type:
- 10s: instant queries (is-active, status, list, ps, tail, journalctl)
- 30s: fast lifecycle (daemon-reload, enable, start, bootstrap, kickstart)
- 90s: graceful shutdown (stop, restart, bootout, kickstart -k) — exceeds
our TimeoutStopSec=60 to avoid premature timeout during shutdown
Special handling: _is_service_running() and launchd_status() catch
TimeoutExpired and treat it as not-running/not-loaded, consistent with
how non-zero return codes are already handled.
Inspired by PR #3732 (dlkakbs) and issue #4057 (SHL0MS).
Reimplemented on current main which has significantly changed launchctl
handling (bootout/bootstrap/kickstart vs legacy load/unload/start/stop).
The _login_nous() call site was pre-filling portal_base_url,
inference_base_url, client_id, and scope with pconfig defaults before
passing them to _nous_device_code_login(). Since pconfig defaults are
always truthy, the env var checks inside the function (HERMES_PORTAL_BASE_URL,
NOUS_PORTAL_BASE_URL, NOUS_INFERENCE_BASE_URL) could never take effect.
Fix: pass None from the call site when no CLI flag is provided, letting
the function's own priority chain handle defaults correctly:
explicit CLI flag > env var > pconfig default.
Addresses the issue reported in PR #5397 by jquesnelle.
Display live per-million-token pricing from /v1/models when listing
models for OpenRouter or Nous Portal. Prices are shown in a
column-aligned table with decimal points vertically aligned for
easy comparison.
Pricing appears in three places:
- /provider slash command (table with In/Out headers)
- hermes model picker (aligned columns in both TerminalMenu and
numbered fallback)
Implementation:
- Add fetch_models_with_pricing() in models.py with per-base_url
module-level cache (one network call per endpoint per session)
- Add _format_price_per_mtok() with fixed 2-decimal formatting
- Add format_model_pricing_table() for terminal table display
- Add get_pricing_for_provider() convenience wrapper
- Update _prompt_model_selection() to accept optional pricing dict
- Wire pricing through _model_flow_openrouter/nous in main.py
- Update test mocks for new pricing parameter
The gateway previously used a hard wall-clock asyncio.wait_for timeout
that killed agents after a fixed duration regardless of activity. This
punished legitimate long-running tasks (subagent delegation, reasoning
models, multi-step research).
Now uses an inactivity-based polling loop that checks the agent's
built-in activity tracker (get_activity_summary) every 5 seconds. The
agent can run indefinitely as long as it's actively calling tools or
receiving API responses. Only fires when the agent has been completely
idle for the configured duration.
Changes:
- Replace asyncio.wait_for with asyncio.wait poll loop checking
agent idle time via get_activity_summary()
- Add agent.gateway_timeout config.yaml key (default 1800s, 0=unlimited)
- Update stale session eviction to use agent idle time instead of
pure wall-clock (prevents evicting active long-running tasks)
- Preserve all existing diagnostic logging and user-facing context
Inspired by PR #4864 (Mibayy) and issue #4815 (BongSuCHOI).
Reimplemented on current main using existing _touch_activity()
infrastructure rather than a parallel tracker.
Nous Research Hermes 3 & 4 models lack tool-calling capabilities and
are not suitable for agent workflows. Add a warning that fires in two
places:
- /model switch (CLI + gateway) via model_switch.py warning_message
- CLI session startup banner when the configured model contains 'hermes'
Both paths suggest switching to an agentic model (Claude, GPT, Gemini,
DeepSeek, etc.).
Reject "." as a plugin name — it resolves to the plugins directory
itself, which in force-install flows causes shutil.rmtree to wipe the
entire plugins tree.
- reject "." early with a clear error message
- explicit check for target == plugins_resolved (raise instead of allow)
- switch boundary check from string-prefix to Path.relative_to()
- add regression tests for sanitizer + install flow
Co-authored-by: Dusk1e <yusufalweshdemir@gmail.com>
Add ctx.register_cli_command() to PluginContext for general plugins and
discover_plugin_cli_commands() to memory plugin system. Plugins that
provide a register_cli(subparser) function in their cli.py are
automatically discovered during argparse setup and wired into the CLI.
- Remove 95-line hardcoded honcho argparse block from main.py
- Move honcho subcommand tree into plugins/memory/honcho/cli.py
via register_cli() convention
- hermes honcho setup now redirects to hermes memory setup (unified path)
- hermes honcho (no subcommand) shows status instead of running setup
- Future plugins can register CLI commands without touching core files
- PluginManager stores CLI registrations in _cli_commands dict
- Memory plugin discovery scans cli.py for register_cli at argparse time
main.py: -102 lines of hardcoded plugin routing
Removing an env-seeded credential (e.g. from OPENROUTER_API_KEY) via
'hermes auth' previously had no lasting effect -- the entry was deleted
from auth.json but load_pool() re-created it on the next call because
the env var was still set.
Now auth_remove_command detects env-sourced entries (source starts with
'env:') and calls the new remove_env_value() to strip the var from both
.env and os.environ, preventing re-seeding.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/config.py: add remove_env_value() -- atomically removes a
line from .env and pops from os.environ
- hermes_cli/auth_commands.py: auth_remove_command clears env var when
removing an env-seeded pool entry
- 8 new tests covering remove_env_value and the full zombie-credential
lifecycle (remove -> reload -> stays gone)
Replace the two-step stop/start restart with a single
launchctl kickstart -k call. When the gateway triggers a
restart from inside its own process tree, the old stop
command kills the shell before the start half is reached.
kickstart -k lets launchd handle the kill+restart atomically.
launchctl load/unload/start/stop are deprecated on macOS since 10.10
and fail silently on modern versions. This replaces them with the
current equivalents:
- load -> bootstrap gui/<uid> <plist>
- unload -> bootout gui/<uid>/<label>
- start -> kickstart gui/<uid>/<label>
- stop -> kill SIGTERM gui/<uid>/<label>
Adds _launchd_domain() helper returning the gui/<uid> target domain.
Updates test assertions to match the new command signatures.
Fixes#4820
- Firecrawl scrape: 60s timeout via asyncio.wait_for + to_thread
(previously could hang indefinitely)
- Summarizer retries: 6 → 2 (one retry), reads timeout from
auxiliary.web_extract.timeout config (default 360s / 6min)
- Summarizer failure: falls back to truncated raw content (~5000 chars)
instead of useless error message, with guidance about config/model
- Config default: auxiliary.web_extract.timeout bumped 30 → 360s
for local model compatibility
Addresses Discord reports of agent hanging during web_extract.
Cherry-picked from PR #5136 by thakoreh.
setup_gateway() uses shutil.which('uv') at line 2126 but shutil was
never imported at module level, causing NameError during Matrix E2EE
auto-install. Adds top-level import and regression test.
- Add OLLAMA_API_KEY to credential resolution chain for ollama.com endpoints
- Update requested_provider/_explicit_api_key/_explicit_base_url after /model
switch so _ensure_runtime_credentials() doesn't revert the switch
- Pass base_url/api_key from fallback config to resolve_provider_client()
- Add DirectAlias system: user-configurable model_aliases in config.yaml
checked before catalog resolution, with reverse lookup by model ID
- Add /model tab completion showing aliases with provider metadata
Co-authored-by: LucidPaths <LucidPaths@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(gateway): live-stream /update output + forward interactive prompts
Adds real-time output streaming and interactive prompt forwarding for
the gateway /update command, so users on Telegram/Discord/etc see the
full update progress and can respond to prompts (stash restore, config
migration) without needing terminal access.
Changes:
hermes_cli/main.py:
- Add --gateway flag to 'hermes update' argparse
- Add _gateway_prompt() file-based IPC function that writes
.update_prompt.json and polls for .update_response
- Modify _restore_stashed_changes() to accept optional input_fn
parameter for gateway mode prompt forwarding
- cmd_update() uses _gateway_prompt when --gateway is set, enabling
interactive stash restore and config migration prompts
gateway/run.py:
- _handle_update_command: spawn with --gateway flag and
PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 for real-time output flushing
- Store session_key in .update_pending.json for cross-restart
session matching
- Add _update_prompt_pending dict to track sessions awaiting
update prompt responses
- Replace _watch_for_update_completion with _watch_update_progress:
streams output chunks every ~4s, detects .update_prompt.json and
forwards prompts to the user, handles completion/failure/timeout
- Add update prompt interception in _handle_message: when a prompt
is pending, the user's next message is written to .update_response
instead of being processed normally
- Preserve _send_update_notification as legacy fallback for
post-restart cases where adapter isn't available yet
File-based IPC protocol:
- .update_prompt.json: written by update process with prompt text,
default value, and unique ID
- .update_response: written by gateway with user's answer
- .update_output.txt: existing, now streamed in real-time
- .update_exit_code: existing completion marker
Tests: 16 new tests covering _gateway_prompt IPC, output streaming,
prompt detection/forwarding, message interception, and cleanup.
* feat: interactive buttons for update prompts (Telegram + Discord)
Telegram: Inline keyboard with ✓ Yes / ✗ No buttons. Clicking a button
answers the callback query, edits the message to show the choice, and
writes .update_response directly. CallbackQueryHandler registered on
the update_prompt: prefix.
Discord: UpdatePromptView (discord.ui.View) with green Yes / red No
buttons. Follows the ExecApprovalView pattern — auth check, embed color
update, disabled-after-click. Writes .update_response on click.
All platforms: /approve and /deny (and /yes, /no) now work as shorthand
for yes/no when an update prompt is pending. The text fallback message
instructs users to use these commands. Raw message interception still
works as a fallback for non-command responses.
Gateway watcher checks adapter for send_update_prompt method (class-level
check to avoid MagicMock false positives) and falls back to text prompt
with /approve instructions when unavailable.
* fix: block /update on non-messaging platforms (API, webhooks, ACP)
Add _UPDATE_ALLOWED_PLATFORMS frozenset that explicitly lists messaging
platforms where /update is permitted. API server, webhook, and ACP
platforms get a clear error directing them to run hermes update from
the terminal instead.
ACP and API server already don't reach _handle_message (separate
codepaths), and webhooks have distinct session keys that can't collide
with messaging sessions. This guard is belt-and-suspenders.
Persist structured exhaustion metadata from provider errors, use explicit reset timestamps when available, and expose label-based credential targeting in the auth CLI. This keeps long-lived Codex cooldowns from being misreported as one-hour waits and avoids forcing operators to manage entries by list position alone.
Constraint: Existing credential pool JSON needs to remain backward compatible with stored entries that only record status code and timestamp
Constraint: Runtime recovery must keep the existing retry-then-rotate semantics for 429s while enriching pool state with provider metadata
Rejected: Add a separate credential scheduler subsystem | too large for the Hermes pool architecture and unnecessary for this fix
Rejected: Only change CLI formatting | would leave runtime rotation blind to resets_at and preserve the serial-failure behavior
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Preserve structured rate-limit metadata when new providers expose reset hints; do not collapse back to status-code-only exhaustion tracking
Tested: Focused pytest slice for auth commands, credential pool recovery, and routing (272 passed); py_compile on changed Python files; hermes -w auth list/remove smoke test with temporary HERMES_HOME
Not-tested: Full repository pytest suite, broader gateway/integration flows outside the touched auth and pool paths
Plugin context from pre_llm_call hooks was injected into the system
prompt, breaking the prompt cache prefix every turn when content
changed (typical for memory plugins). Now all plugin context goes
into the current turn's user message — the system prompt stays
identical across turns, preserving cached tokens.
The system prompt is reserved for Hermes internals. Plugins
contribute context alongside the user's input.
Also adds comprehensive documentation for all 6 plugin hooks:
pre_tool_call, post_tool_call, pre_llm_call, post_llm_call,
on_session_start, on_session_end — each with full callback
signatures, parameter tables, firing conditions, and examples.
Supersedes #5138 which identified the same cache-busting bug
and proposed an uncached system suffix approach. This fix goes
further by removing system prompt injection entirely.
Co-identified-by: OutThisLife (PR #5138)
When --yolo, -w, -s, -r, -c, and --pass-session-id exist on both the parent
parser and the 'chat' subparser with explicit defaults (default=False or
default=None), argparse's subparser initialization overwrites the parent's
parsed value. So 'hermes --yolo chat' silently drops --yolo, making it appear
broken.
Fix: use default=argparse.SUPPRESS on all duplicated arguments in the chat
subparser. SUPPRESS means 'don't set this attribute if the user didn't
explicitly provide it', so the parent parser's value survives through.
Affected flags: --yolo, --worktree/-w, --skills/-s, --pass-session-id,
--resume/-r, --continue/-c.
Adds 15 regression tests covering flag-before-subcommand, flag-after-subcommand,
no-subcommand, and env var propagation scenarios.
Bring Matrix feature parity with Discord by adding mention gating and
auto-threading. Both default to true, matching Discord behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add an optional 'script' parameter to cron jobs that references a Python
script. The script runs before each agent turn, and its stdout is injected
into the prompt as context. This enables stateful monitoring — the script
handles data collection and change detection, the LLM analyzes and reports.
- cron/jobs.py: add script field to create_job(), stored in job dict
- cron/scheduler.py: add _run_job_script() executor with timeout handling,
inject script output/errors into _build_job_prompt()
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: add script to tool schema, create/update handlers,
_format_job display
- hermes_cli/cron.py: add --script to create/edit, display in list/edit output
- hermes_cli/main.py: add --script argparse for cron create/edit subcommands
- tests/cron/test_cron_script.py: 20 tests covering job CRUD, script
execution, path resolution, error handling, prompt injection, tool API
Script paths can be absolute or relative (resolved against ~/.hermes/scripts/).
Scripts run with a 120s timeout. Failures are injected as error context so
the LLM can report the problem. Empty string clears an attached script.
Add docker_env option to terminal config — a dict of key-value pairs that
get set inside Docker containers via -e flags at both container creation
(docker run) and per-command execution (docker exec) time.
This complements docker_forward_env (which reads values dynamically from
the host process environment). docker_env is useful when Hermes runs as a
systemd service without access to the user's shell environment — e.g.
setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK or GNUPGHOME to known stable paths for SSH/GPG
agent socket forwarding.
Precedence: docker_env provides baseline values; docker_forward_env
overrides for the same key.
Config example:
terminal:
docker_env:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK: /run/user/1000/ssh-agent.sock
GNUPGHOME: /root/.gnupg
docker_volumes:
- /run/user/1000/ssh-agent.sock:/run/user/1000/ssh-agent.sock
- /run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent
* feat: add /branch (/fork) command for session branching
Inspired by Claude Code's /branch command. Creates a copy of the current
session's conversation history in a new session, allowing the user to
explore a different approach without losing the original.
Works like 'git checkout -b' for conversations:
- /branch — auto-generates a title from the parent session
- /branch my-idea — uses a custom title
- /fork — alias for /branch
Implementation:
- CLI: _handle_branch_command() in cli.py
- Gateway: _handle_branch_command() in gateway/run.py
- CommandDef with 'fork' alias in commands.py
- Uses existing parent_session_id field in session DB
- Uses get_next_title_in_lineage() for auto-numbered branches
- 14 tests covering session creation, history copy, parent links,
title generation, edge cases, and agent sync
* fix: clear ghost status-bar lines on terminal resize
When the terminal shrinks (e.g. un-maximize), the emulator reflows
previously full-width rows (status bar, input rules) into multiple
narrower rows. prompt_toolkit's _on_resize only cursor_up()s by the
stored layout height, missing the extra rows from reflow — leaving
ghost duplicates of the status bar visible.
Fix: monkey-patch Application._on_resize to detect width shrinks,
calculate the extra rows created by reflow, and inflate the renderer's
cursor_pos.y so the erase moves up far enough to clear ghosts.
The Anthropic SDK appends /v1/messages to the base_url, so OpenCode's
base URL https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1 produced a double /v1 path
(https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1/v1/messages), causing 404s for MiniMax
models. Strip trailing /v1 when api_mode is anthropic_messages.
Also adds MiMo-V2-Pro, MiMo-V2-Omni, and MiniMax-M2.5 to the OpenCode
Go model lists per their updated docs.
Fixes#4890
gateway stop and restart previously called kill_gateway_processes() which
scans ps aux and kills ALL gateway processes across all profiles. Starting
a profile gateway would nuke the main one (and vice versa).
Now:
- hermes gateway stop → only kills the current profile's gateway (PID file)
- hermes -p work gateway stop → only kills the 'work' profile's gateway
- hermes gateway stop --all → kills every gateway process (old behavior)
- hermes gateway restart → profile-scoped for manual fallback path
- hermes update → discovers and restarts ALL profile gateways (systemctl
list-units hermes-gateway*) since the code update is shared
Added stop_profile_gateway() which uses the HERMES_HOME-scoped PID file
instead of global process scanning.
Three fixes for memory+profile isolation bugs:
1. memory_tool.py: Replace module-level MEMORY_DIR constant with
get_memory_dir() function that calls get_hermes_home() dynamically.
The old constant was cached at import time and could go stale if
HERMES_HOME changed after import. Internal MemoryStore methods now
call get_memory_dir() directly. MEMORY_DIR kept as backward-compat
alias.
2. profiles.py: profile create --clone now copies MEMORY.md and USER.md
from the source profile. These curated memory files are part of the
agent's identity (same as SOUL.md) and should carry over on clone.
3. holographic plugin: initialize() now expands $HERMES_HOME and
${HERMES_HOME} in the db_path config value, so users can write
'db_path: $HERMES_HOME/memory_store.db' and it resolves to the
active profile directory, not the default home.
Tests updated to mock get_memory_dir() alongside the legacy MEMORY_DIR.
Three interconnected bugs caused `hermes skills config` per-platform
settings to be silently ignored:
1. telegram_menu_commands() never filtered disabled skills — all skills
consumed menu slots regardless of platform config, hitting Telegram's
100 command cap. Now loads disabled skills for 'telegram' and excludes
them from the menu.
2. Gateway skill dispatch executed disabled skills because
get_skill_commands() (process-global cache) only filters by the global
disabled list at scan time. Added per-platform check before execution,
returning an actionable 'skill is disabled' message.
3. get_disabled_skill_names() only checked HERMES_PLATFORM env var, but
the gateway sets HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM instead. Added
HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM as fallback, plus an explicit platform=
parameter for callers that know their platform (menu builder, gateway
dispatch). Also added platform to prompt_builder's skills cache key
so multi-platform gateways get correct per-platform skill prompts.
Reported by SteveSkedasticity (CLAW community).
When config.yaml has 'mcp_servers:' with no value, YAML parses it as
None. dict.get('mcp_servers', {}) only returns the default when the key
is absent, not when it's explicitly None. Use 'or {}' pattern to handle
both cases, matching the other two assignment sites in the same file.
Follow-up for salvaged PR #2352:
- Replace hardcoded Path(os.getenv('HERMES_HOME', ...)) with
get_hermes_home() from hermes_constants (2 places)
- Consolidate redundant git_cmd_base into the existing git_cmd
variable, constructed once before fork detection
- Update autostash tests for the unmerged index check added
in the previous commit
- Detect if origin points to a fork (not NousResearch/hermes-agent)
- Show warning when updating from a fork: origin URL
- After pulling from origin/main on a fork:
- Prompt to add upstream remote if not present
- Respect ~/.hermes/.skip_upstream_prompt to avoid repeated prompts
- Compare origin/main with upstream/main
- If origin has commits not on upstream, skip (don't trample user's work)
- If upstream is ahead, pull from upstream and try to sync fork
- Use --force-with-lease for safe fork syncing
Non-main branches are unaffected - they just pull from origin/{branch}.
Co-authored-by: Avery <avery@hermes-agent.ai>
* fix(gateway): race condition, photo media loss, and flood control in Telegram
Three bugs causing intermittent silent drops, partial responses, and
flood control delays on the Telegram platform:
1. Race condition in handle_message() — _active_sessions was set inside
the background task, not before create_task(). Two rapid messages
could both pass the guard and spawn duplicate processing tasks.
Fix: set _active_sessions synchronously before spawning the task
(grammY sequentialize / aiogram EventIsolation pattern).
2. Photo media loss on dequeue — when a photo (no caption) was queued
during active processing and later dequeued, only .text was
extracted. Empty text → message silently dropped.
Fix: _build_media_placeholder() creates text context for media-only
events so they survive the dequeue path.
3. Progress message edits triggered Telegram flood control — rapid tool
calls edited the progress message every 0.3s, hitting Telegram's
rate limit (23s+ waits). This blocked progress updates and could
cause stream consumer timeouts.
Fix: throttle edits to 1.5s minimum interval, detect flood control
errors and gracefully degrade to new messages. edit_message() now
returns failure for flood waits >5s instead of blocking.
* fix(gateway): downgrade empty/None response log from WARNING to DEBUG
This warning fires on every successful streamed response (streaming
delivers the text, handler returns None via already_sent=True) and
on every queued message during active processing. Both are expected
behavior, not error conditions. Downgrade to DEBUG to reduce log noise.
* fix(gateway): prevent stuck sessions with agent timeout and staleness eviction
Three changes to prevent sessions from getting permanently locked:
1. Agent execution timeout (HERMES_AGENT_TIMEOUT, default 10min):
Wraps run_in_executor with asyncio.wait_for so a hung API call or
runaway tool can't lock a session indefinitely. On timeout, the
agent is interrupted and the user gets an actionable error message.
2. Staleness eviction for _running_agents:
Tracks start timestamps for each session entry. When a new message
arrives and the entry is older than timeout + 1min grace, it's
evicted as a leaked lock. Safety net for any cleanup path that
fails to remove the entry.
3. Cron job timeout (HERMES_CRON_TIMEOUT, default 10min):
Wraps run_conversation in a ThreadPoolExecutor with timeout so a
hung cron job doesn't block the ticker thread (and all subsequent
cron jobs) indefinitely.
Follows grammY runner's per-update timeout pattern and aiogram's
asyncio.wait_for approach for handler deadlines.
* fix(gateway): STT config resolution, stream consumer flood control fallback
Three targeted fixes from user-reported issues:
1. STT config resolution (transcription_tools.py):
_has_openai_audio_backend() and _resolve_openai_audio_client_config()
now check stt.openai.api_key/base_url in config.yaml FIRST, before
falling back to env vars. Fixes voice transcription breaking when
using a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint via config.yaml.
2. Stream consumer flood control fallback (stream_consumer.py):
When an edit fails mid-stream (e.g., Telegram flood control returns
failure for waits >5s), reset _already_sent to False so the normal
final send path delivers the complete response. Previously, a
truncated partial was left as the final message.
3. Telegram edit_message comment alignment (telegram.py):
Clarify that long flood waits return failure so streaming can fall
back to a normal final send.
* refactor: simplify and harden PR fixes after review
- Fix cron ThreadPoolExecutor blocking on timeout: use shutdown(wait=False,
cancel_futures=True) instead of context manager that waits indefinitely
- Extract _dequeue_pending_text() to deduplicate media-placeholder logic
in interrupt and normal-completion dequeue paths
- Remove hasattr guards for _running_agents_ts: add class-level default
so partial test construction works without scattered defensive checks
- Move `import concurrent.futures` to top of cron/scheduler.py
- Progress throttle: sleep remaining interval instead of busy-looping
0.1s (~15 wakeups per 1.5s window → 1 wakeup)
- Deduplicate _load_stt_config() in transcription_tools.py:
_has_openai_audio_backend() now delegates to _resolve_openai_audio_client_config()
* fix: move class-level attribute after docstring, clarify throttle comment
Follow-up nits for salvaged PR #4577:
- Move _running_agents_ts class attribute below the docstring so
GatewayRunner.__doc__ is preserved.
- Add clarifying comment explaining the throttle continue behavior
(batches queued messages during the throttle interval).
* fix(update): handle conflicted git index during hermes update
When the git index has unmerged entries (e.g. from an interrupted
merge or rebase), git stash fails with 'needs merge / could not
write index'. Detect this with git ls-files --unmerged and clear
the conflict state with git reset before attempting the stash.
Working-tree changes are preserved.
Reported by @LLMJunky — package-lock.json conflict from a prior
merge left the index dirty, blocking hermes update entirely.
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Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
launchd_restart() already prints stop/start confirmation via its
internal helpers — the extra 'Gateway restarted via launchd' line
was redundant. Update test assertion to match.
Previously, `hermes gateway install --system` hard-refused to create a
service running as root, even when explicitly requested via
`--run-as-user root`. This forced LXC/container users (where root is
the only user) to either create throwaway users or comment out the check
in source.
Changes:
- Auto-detected root (no explicit --run-as-user) still raises, but with
a message explaining how to override
- Explicit `--run-as-user root` now allowed with a warning about
security implications
- Interactive setup wizard prompt accepts 'root' as a valid username
(warning comes from _system_service_identity downstream)
- Added tests for all three paths: auto-detected root rejection,
explicit root allowance, and normal non-root passthrough
* feat(memory): add pluggable memory provider interface with profile isolation
Introduces a pluggable MemoryProvider ABC so external memory backends can
integrate with Hermes without modifying core files. Each backend becomes a
plugin implementing a standard interface, orchestrated by MemoryManager.
Key architecture:
- agent/memory_provider.py — ABC with core + optional lifecycle hooks
- agent/memory_manager.py — single integration point in the agent loop
- agent/builtin_memory_provider.py — wraps existing MEMORY.md/USER.md
Profile isolation fixes applied to all 6 shipped plugins:
- Cognitive Memory: use get_hermes_home() instead of raw env var
- Hindsight Memory: check $HERMES_HOME/hindsight/config.json first,
fall back to legacy ~/.hindsight/ for backward compat
- Hermes Memory Store: replace hardcoded ~/.hermes paths with
get_hermes_home() for config loading and DB path defaults
- Mem0 Memory: use get_hermes_home() instead of raw env var
- RetainDB Memory: auto-derive profile-scoped project name from
hermes_home path (hermes-<profile>), explicit env var overrides
- OpenViking Memory: read-only, no local state, isolation via .env
MemoryManager.initialize_all() now injects hermes_home into kwargs so
every provider can resolve profile-scoped storage without importing
get_hermes_home() themselves.
Plugin system: adds register_memory_provider() to PluginContext and
get_plugin_memory_providers() accessor.
Based on PR #3825. 46 tests (37 unit + 5 E2E + 4 plugin registration).
* refactor(memory): drop cognitive plugin, rewrite OpenViking as full provider
Remove cognitive-memory plugin (#727) — core mechanics are broken:
decay runs 24x too fast (hourly not daily), prefetch uses row ID as
timestamp, search limited by importance not similarity.
Rewrite openviking-memory plugin from a read-only search wrapper into
a full bidirectional memory provider using the complete OpenViking
session lifecycle API:
- sync_turn: records user/assistant messages to OpenViking session
(threaded, non-blocking)
- on_session_end: commits session to trigger automatic memory extraction
into 6 categories (profile, preferences, entities, events, cases,
patterns)
- prefetch: background semantic search via find() endpoint
- on_memory_write: mirrors built-in memory writes to the session
- is_available: checks env var only, no network calls (ABC compliance)
Tools expanded from 3 to 5:
- viking_search: semantic search with mode/scope/limit
- viking_read: tiered content (abstract ~100tok / overview ~2k / full)
- viking_browse: filesystem-style navigation (list/tree/stat)
- viking_remember: explicit memory storage via session
- viking_add_resource: ingest URLs/docs into knowledge base
Uses direct HTTP via httpx (no openviking SDK dependency needed).
Response truncation on viking_read to prevent context flooding.
* fix(memory): harden Mem0 plugin — thread safety, non-blocking sync, circuit breaker
- Remove redundant mem0_context tool (identical to mem0_search with
rerank=true, top_k=5 — wastes a tool slot and confuses the model)
- Thread sync_turn so it's non-blocking — Mem0's server-side LLM
extraction can take 5-10s, was stalling the agent after every turn
- Add threading.Lock around _get_client() for thread-safe lazy init
(prefetch and sync threads could race on first client creation)
- Add circuit breaker: after 5 consecutive API failures, pause calls
for 120s instead of hammering a down server every turn. Auto-resets
after cooldown. Logs a warning when tripped.
- Track success/failure in prefetch, sync_turn, and all tool calls
- Wait for previous sync to finish before starting a new one (prevents
unbounded thread accumulation on rapid turns)
- Clean up shutdown to join both prefetch and sync threads
* fix(memory): enforce single external memory provider limit
MemoryManager now rejects a second non-builtin provider with a warning.
Built-in memory (MEMORY.md/USER.md) is always accepted. Only ONE
external plugin provider is allowed at a time. This prevents tool
schema bloat (some providers add 3-5 tools each) and conflicting
memory backends.
The warning message directs users to configure memory.provider in
config.yaml to select which provider to activate.
Updated all 47 tests to use builtin + one external pattern instead
of multiple externals. Added test_second_external_rejected to verify
the enforcement.
* feat(memory): add ByteRover memory provider plugin
Implements the ByteRover integration (from PR #3499 by hieuntg81) as a
MemoryProvider plugin instead of direct run_agent.py modifications.
ByteRover provides persistent memory via the brv CLI — a hierarchical
knowledge tree with tiered retrieval (fuzzy text then LLM-driven search).
Local-first with optional cloud sync.
Plugin capabilities:
- prefetch: background brv query for relevant context
- sync_turn: curate conversation turns (threaded, non-blocking)
- on_memory_write: mirror built-in memory writes to brv
- on_pre_compress: extract insights before context compression
Tools (3):
- brv_query: search the knowledge tree
- brv_curate: store facts/decisions/patterns
- brv_status: check CLI version and context tree state
Profile isolation: working directory at $HERMES_HOME/byterover/ (scoped
per profile). Binary resolution cached with thread-safe double-checked
locking. All write operations threaded to avoid blocking the agent
(curate can take 120s with LLM processing).
* fix(memory): thread remaining sync_turns, fix holographic, add config key
Plugin fixes:
- Hindsight: thread sync_turn (was blocking up to 30s via _run_in_thread)
- RetainDB: thread sync_turn (was blocking on HTTP POST)
- Both: shutdown now joins sync threads alongside prefetch threads
Holographic retrieval fixes:
- reason(): removed dead intersection_key computation (bundled but never
used in scoring). Now reuses pre-computed entity_residuals directly,
moved role_content encoding outside the inner loop.
- contradict(): added _MAX_CONTRADICT_FACTS=500 scaling guard. Above
500 facts, only checks the most recently updated ones to avoid O(n^2)
explosion (~125K comparisons at 500 is acceptable).
Config:
- Added memory.provider key to DEFAULT_CONFIG ("" = builtin only).
No version bump needed (deep_merge handles new keys automatically).
* feat(memory): extract Honcho as a MemoryProvider plugin
Creates plugins/honcho-memory/ as a thin adapter over the existing
honcho_integration/ package. All 4 Honcho tools (profile, search,
context, conclude) move from the normal tool registry to the
MemoryProvider interface.
The plugin delegates all work to HonchoSessionManager — no Honcho
logic is reimplemented. It uses the existing config chain:
$HERMES_HOME/honcho.json -> ~/.honcho/config.json -> env vars.
Lifecycle hooks:
- initialize: creates HonchoSessionManager via existing client factory
- prefetch: background dialectic query
- sync_turn: records messages + flushes to API (threaded)
- on_memory_write: mirrors user profile writes as conclusions
- on_session_end: flushes all pending messages
This is a prerequisite for the MemoryManager wiring in run_agent.py.
Once wired, Honcho goes through the same provider interface as all
other memory plugins, and the scattered Honcho code in run_agent.py
can be consolidated into the single MemoryManager integration point.
* feat(memory): wire MemoryManager into run_agent.py
Adds 8 integration points for the external memory provider plugin,
all purely additive (zero existing code modified):
1. Init (~L1130): Create MemoryManager, find matching plugin provider
from memory.provider config, initialize with session context
2. Tool injection (~L1160): Append provider tool schemas to self.tools
and self.valid_tool_names after memory_manager init
3. System prompt (~L2705): Add external provider's system_prompt_block
alongside existing MEMORY.md/USER.md blocks
4. Tool routing (~L5362): Route provider tool calls through
memory_manager.handle_tool_call() before the catchall handler
5. Memory write bridge (~L5353): Notify external provider via
on_memory_write() when the built-in memory tool writes
6. Pre-compress (~L5233): Call on_pre_compress() before context
compression discards messages
7. Prefetch (~L6421): Inject provider prefetch results into the
current-turn user message (same pattern as Honcho turn context)
8. Turn sync + session end (~L8161, ~L8172): sync_all() after each
completed turn, queue_prefetch_all() for next turn, on_session_end()
+ shutdown_all() at conversation end
All hooks are wrapped in try/except — a failing provider never breaks
the agent. The existing memory system, Honcho integration, and all
other code paths are completely untouched.
Full suite: 7222 passed, 4 pre-existing failures.
* refactor(memory): remove legacy Honcho integration from core
Extracts all Honcho-specific code from run_agent.py, model_tools.py,
toolsets.py, and gateway/run.py. Honcho is now exclusively available
as a memory provider plugin (plugins/honcho-memory/).
Removed from run_agent.py (-457 lines):
- Honcho init block (session manager creation, activation, config)
- 8 Honcho methods: _honcho_should_activate, _strip_honcho_tools,
_activate_honcho, _register_honcho_exit_hook, _queue_honcho_prefetch,
_honcho_prefetch, _honcho_save_user_observation, _honcho_sync
- _inject_honcho_turn_context module-level function
- Honcho system prompt block (tool descriptions, CLI commands)
- Honcho context injection in api_messages building
- Honcho params from __init__ (honcho_session_key, honcho_manager,
honcho_config)
- HONCHO_TOOL_NAMES constant
- All honcho-specific tool dispatch forwarding
Removed from other files:
- model_tools.py: honcho_tools import, honcho params from handle_function_call
- toolsets.py: honcho toolset definition, honcho tools from core tools list
- gateway/run.py: honcho params from AIAgent constructor calls
Removed tests (-339 lines):
- 9 Honcho-specific test methods from test_run_agent.py
- TestHonchoAtexitFlush class from test_exit_cleanup_interrupt.py
Restored two regex constants (_SURROGATE_RE, _BUDGET_WARNING_RE) that
were accidentally removed during the honcho function extraction.
The honcho_integration/ package is kept intact — the plugin delegates
to it. tools/honcho_tools.py registry entries are now dead code (import
commented out in model_tools.py) but the file is preserved for reference.
Full suite: 7207 passed, 4 pre-existing failures. Zero regressions.
* refactor(memory): restructure plugins, add CLI, clean gateway, migration notice
Plugin restructure:
- Move all memory plugins from plugins/<name>-memory/ to plugins/memory/<name>/
(byterover, hindsight, holographic, honcho, mem0, openviking, retaindb)
- New plugins/memory/__init__.py discovery module that scans the directory
directly, loading providers by name without the general plugin system
- run_agent.py uses load_memory_provider() instead of get_plugin_memory_providers()
CLI wiring:
- hermes memory setup — interactive curses picker + config wizard
- hermes memory status — show active provider, config, availability
- hermes memory off — disable external provider (built-in only)
- hermes honcho — now shows migration notice pointing to hermes memory setup
Gateway cleanup:
- Remove _get_or_create_gateway_honcho (already removed in prev commit)
- Remove _shutdown_gateway_honcho and _shutdown_all_gateway_honcho methods
- Remove all calls to shutdown methods (4 call sites)
- Remove _honcho_managers/_honcho_configs dict references
Dead code removal:
- Delete tools/honcho_tools.py (279 lines, import was already commented out)
- Delete tests/gateway/test_honcho_lifecycle.py (131 lines, tested removed methods)
- Remove if False placeholder from run_agent.py
Migration:
- Honcho migration notice on startup: detects existing honcho.json or
~/.honcho/config.json, prints guidance to run hermes memory setup.
Only fires when memory.provider is not set and not in quiet mode.
Full suite: 7203 passed, 4 pre-existing failures. Zero regressions.
* feat(memory): standardize plugin config + add per-plugin documentation
Config architecture:
- Add save_config(values, hermes_home) to MemoryProvider ABC
- Honcho: writes to $HERMES_HOME/honcho.json (SDK native)
- Mem0: writes to $HERMES_HOME/mem0.json
- Hindsight: writes to $HERMES_HOME/hindsight/config.json
- Holographic: writes to config.yaml under plugins.hermes-memory-store
- OpenViking/RetainDB/ByteRover: env-var only (default no-op)
Setup wizard (hermes memory setup):
- Now calls provider.save_config() for non-secret config
- Secrets still go to .env via env vars
- Only memory.provider activation key goes to config.yaml
Documentation:
- README.md for each of the 7 providers in plugins/memory/<name>/
- Requirements, setup (wizard + manual), config reference, tools table
- Consistent format across all providers
The contract for new memory plugins:
- get_config_schema() declares all fields (REQUIRED)
- save_config() writes native config (REQUIRED if not env-var-only)
- Secrets use env_var field in schema, written to .env by wizard
- README.md in the plugin directory
* docs: add memory providers user guide + developer guide
New pages:
- user-guide/features/memory-providers.md — comprehensive guide covering
all 7 shipped providers (Honcho, OpenViking, Mem0, Hindsight,
Holographic, RetainDB, ByteRover). Each with setup, config, tools,
cost, and unique features. Includes comparison table and profile
isolation notes.
- developer-guide/memory-provider-plugin.md — how to build a new memory
provider plugin. Covers ABC, required methods, config schema,
save_config, threading contract, profile isolation, testing.
Updated pages:
- user-guide/features/memory.md — replaced Honcho section with link to
new Memory Providers page
- user-guide/features/honcho.md — replaced with migration redirect to
the new Memory Providers page
- sidebars.ts — added both new pages to navigation
* fix(memory): auto-migrate Honcho users to memory provider plugin
When honcho.json or ~/.honcho/config.json exists but memory.provider
is not set, automatically set memory.provider: honcho in config.yaml
and activate the plugin. The plugin reads the same config files, so
all data and credentials are preserved. Zero user action needed.
Persists the migration to config.yaml so it only fires once. Prints
a one-line confirmation in non-quiet mode.
* fix(memory): only auto-migrate Honcho when enabled + credentialed
Check HonchoClientConfig.enabled AND (api_key OR base_url) before
auto-migrating — not just file existence. Prevents false activation
for users who disabled Honcho, stopped using it (config lingers),
or have ~/.honcho/ from a different tool.
* feat(memory): auto-install pip dependencies during hermes memory setup
Reads pip_dependencies from plugin.yaml, checks which are missing,
installs them via pip before config walkthrough. Also shows install
guidance for external_dependencies (e.g. brv CLI for ByteRover).
Updated all 7 plugin.yaml files with pip_dependencies:
- honcho: honcho-ai
- mem0: mem0ai
- openviking: httpx
- hindsight: hindsight-client
- holographic: (none)
- retaindb: requests
- byterover: (external_dependencies for brv CLI)
* fix: remove remaining Honcho crash risks from cli.py and gateway
cli.py: removed Honcho session re-mapping block (would crash importing
deleted tools/honcho_tools.py), Honcho flush on compress, Honcho
session display on startup, Honcho shutdown on exit, honcho_session_key
AIAgent param.
gateway/run.py: removed honcho_session_key params from helper methods,
sync_honcho param, _honcho.shutdown() block.
tests: fixed test_cron_session_with_honcho_key_skipped (was passing
removed honcho_key param to _flush_memories_for_session).
* fix: include plugins/ in pyproject.toml package list
Without this, plugins/memory/ wouldn't be included in non-editable
installs. Hermes always runs from the repo checkout so this is belt-
and-suspenders, but prevents breakage if the install method changes.
* fix(memory): correct pip-to-import name mapping for dep checks
The heuristic dep.replace('-', '_') fails for packages where the pip
name differs from the import name: honcho-ai→honcho, mem0ai→mem0,
hindsight-client→hindsight_client. Added explicit mapping table so
hermes memory setup doesn't try to reinstall already-installed packages.
* chore: remove dead code from old plugin memory registration path
- hermes_cli/plugins.py: removed register_memory_provider(),
_memory_providers list, get_plugin_memory_providers() — memory
providers now use plugins/memory/ discovery, not the general plugin system
- hermes_cli/main.py: stripped 74 lines of dead honcho argparse
subparsers (setup, status, sessions, map, peer, mode, tokens,
identity, migrate) — kept only the migration redirect
- agent/memory_provider.py: updated docstring to reflect new
registration path
- tests: replaced TestPluginMemoryProviderRegistration with
TestPluginMemoryDiscovery that tests the actual plugins/memory/
discovery system. Added 3 new tests (discover, load, nonexistent).
* chore: delete dead honcho_integration/cli.py and its tests
cli.py (794 lines) was the old 'hermes honcho' command handler — nobody
calls it since cmd_honcho was replaced with a migration redirect.
Deleted tests that imported from removed code:
- tests/honcho_integration/test_cli.py (tested _resolve_api_key)
- tests/honcho_integration/test_config_isolation.py (tested CLI config paths)
- tests/tools/test_honcho_tools.py (tested the deleted tools/honcho_tools.py)
Remaining honcho_integration/ files (actively used by the plugin):
- client.py (445 lines) — config loading, SDK client creation
- session.py (991 lines) — session management, queries, flush
* refactor: move honcho_integration/ into the honcho plugin
Moves client.py (445 lines) and session.py (991 lines) from the
top-level honcho_integration/ package into plugins/memory/honcho/.
No Honcho code remains in the main codebase.
- plugins/memory/honcho/client.py — config loading, SDK client creation
- plugins/memory/honcho/session.py — session management, queries, flush
- Updated all imports: run_agent.py (auto-migration), hermes_cli/doctor.py,
plugin __init__.py, session.py cross-import, all tests
- Removed honcho_integration/ package and pyproject.toml entry
- Renamed tests/honcho_integration/ → tests/honcho_plugin/
* docs: update architecture + gateway-internals for memory provider system
- architecture.md: replaced honcho_integration/ with plugins/memory/
- gateway-internals.md: replaced Honcho-specific session routing and
flush lifecycle docs with generic memory provider interface docs
* fix: update stale mock path for resolve_active_host after honcho plugin migration
* fix(memory): address review feedback — P0 lifecycle, ABC contract, honcho CLI restore
Review feedback from Honcho devs (erosika):
P0 — Provider lifecycle:
- Remove on_session_end() + shutdown_all() from run_conversation() tail
(was killing providers after every turn in multi-turn sessions)
- Add shutdown_memory_provider() method on AIAgent for callers
- Wire shutdown into CLI atexit, reset_conversation, gateway stop/expiry
Bug fixes:
- Remove sync_honcho=False kwarg from /btw callsites (TypeError crash)
- Fix doctor.py references to dead 'hermes honcho setup' command
- Cache prefetch_all() before tool loop (was re-calling every iteration)
ABC contract hardening (all backwards-compatible):
- Add session_id kwarg to prefetch/sync_turn/queue_prefetch
- Make on_pre_compress() return str (provider insights in compression)
- Add **kwargs to on_turn_start() for runtime context
- Add on_delegation() hook for parent-side subagent observation
- Document agent_context/agent_identity/agent_workspace kwargs on
initialize() (prevents cron corruption, enables profile scoping)
- Fix docstring: single external provider, not multiple
Honcho CLI restoration:
- Add plugins/memory/honcho/cli.py (from main's honcho_integration/cli.py
with imports adapted to plugin path)
- Restore full hermes honcho command with all subcommands (status, peer,
mode, tokens, identity, enable/disable, sync, peers, --target-profile)
- Restore auto-clone on profile creation + sync on hermes update
- hermes honcho setup now redirects to hermes memory setup
* fix(memory): wire on_delegation, skip_memory for cron/flush, fix ByteRover return type
- Wire on_delegation() in delegate_tool.py — parent's memory provider
is notified with task+result after each subagent completes
- Add skip_memory=True to cron scheduler (prevents cron system prompts
from corrupting user representations — closes#4052)
- Add skip_memory=True to gateway flush agent (throwaway agent shouldn't
activate memory provider)
- Fix ByteRover on_pre_compress() return type: None -> str
* fix(honcho): port profile isolation fixes from PR #4632
Ports 5 bug fixes found during profile testing (erosika's PR #4632):
1. 3-tier config resolution — resolve_config_path() now checks
$HERMES_HOME/honcho.json → ~/.hermes/honcho.json → ~/.honcho/config.json
(non-default profiles couldn't find shared host blocks)
2. Thread host=_host_key() through from_global_config() in cmd_setup,
cmd_status, cmd_identity (--target-profile was being ignored)
3. Use bare profile name as aiPeer (not host key with dots) — Honcho's
peer ID pattern is ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$, dots are invalid
4. Wrap add_peers() in try/except — was fatal on new AI peers, killed
all message uploads for the session
5. Gate Honcho clone behind --clone/--clone-all on profile create
(bare create should be blank-slate)
Also: sanitize assistant_peer_id via _sanitize_id()
* fix(tests): add module cleanup fixture to test_cli_provider_resolution
test_cli_provider_resolution._import_cli() wipes tools.*, cli, and
run_agent from sys.modules to force fresh imports, but had no cleanup.
This poisoned all subsequent tests on the same xdist worker — mocks
targeting tools.file_tools, tools.send_message_tool, etc. patched the
NEW module object while already-imported functions still referenced
the OLD one. Caused ~25 cascade failures: send_message KeyError,
process_registry FileNotFoundError, file_read_guards timeouts,
read_loop_detection file-not-found, mcp_oauth None port, and
provider_parity/codex_execution stale tool lists.
Fix: autouse fixture saves all affected modules before each test and
restores them after, matching the pattern in
test_managed_browserbase_and_modal.py.
Cherry-picked from PR #4363 by @bennyhodl with follow-up fixes:
- Skip 'No home channel' prompt for webhook platform (webhooks deliver
to configured targets, not a home channel)
- Disable tool progress for webhooks (no message editing support)
- Add webhook to PLATFORMS in tools_config.py and skills_config.py
- Add hermes-webhook toolset to toolsets.py + hermes-gateway includes
- Removed overly aggressive <50 char content filter that blocked
legitimate short responses (tool progress already handled at source)
Co-authored-by: bennyhodl <bennyhodl@users.noreply.github.com>
OpenCode Zen and Go are mixed-API-surface providers — different models
behind them use different API surfaces (GPT on Zen uses codex_responses,
Claude on Zen uses anthropic_messages, MiniMax on Go uses
anthropic_messages, GLM/Kimi on Go use chat_completions).
Changes:
- Add normalize_opencode_model_id() and opencode_model_api_mode() to
models.py for model ID normalization and API surface routing
- Add _provider_supports_explicit_api_mode() to runtime_provider.py
to prevent stale api_mode from leaking across provider switches
- Wire opencode routing into all three api_mode resolution paths:
pool entry, api_key provider, and explicit runtime
- Add api_mode field to ModelSwitchResult for propagation through the
switch pipeline
- Consolidate _PROVIDER_MODELS from main.py into models.py (single
source of truth, eliminates duplicate dict)
- Add opencode normalization to setup wizard and model picker flows
- Add opencode block to _normalize_model_for_provider in CLI
- Add opencode-zen/go fallback model lists to setup.py
Tests: 160 targeted tests pass (26 new tests covering normalization,
api_mode routing per provider/model, persistence, and setup wizard
normalization).
Based on PR #3017 by SaM13997.
Co-authored-by: SaM13997 <139419381+SaM13997@users.noreply.github.com>
- hermes honcho sync: scan all profiles, create missing host blocks
- hermes update: automatically syncs Honcho config to all profiles
after skill sync (existing users get profile mapping on next update)
- sync_honcho_profiles_quiet() for silent use from update path
- hermes honcho --target-profile <name> <command>: target another
profile's Honcho config without switching profiles. Works with all
subcommands (status, peer, mode, tokens, enable, disable, etc.)
- hermes honcho status now shows user peer card and AI peer
representation when connected (fetched live from Honcho API)
- Eagerly create AI and user peers in Honcho when a profile is created
(not deferred to first message). Uses idempotent peer() SDK call.
- hermes honcho enable: turn on Honcho for active profile, clone
settings from default if first time, create peer immediately
- hermes honcho disable: turn off Honcho for active profile
- _ensure_peer_exists() helper for idempotent peer creation
When a profile is created and Honcho is already configured on the
default host, automatically creates a host block for the new profile
with inherited settings (memory mode, recall mode, write frequency,
peer name, etc.) and auto-derived workspace/aiPeer.
Zero-friction path: hermes profile create coder -> Honcho config
cloned as hermes.coder with all settings inherited.
- hermes honcho status: shows active profile name + host key
- hermes honcho status --all: compact table of all profiles with mode,
recall, write frequency per host block
- hermes honcho peers: cross-profile peer identity table (user peer,
AI peer, linked hosts)
- All write commands (peer, mode, tokens) print [host_key] label when
operating on a non-default profile
Setup wizard now shows existing allowed_users when reconfiguring a
platform and preserves them if the user presses Enter. Previously the
wizard would display a misleading "No allowlist set" warning even when
the .env still held the original IDs.
Also downgrades the "provider X has no API key configured" log from
WARNING to DEBUG in resolve_provider_client — callers already handle
the None return with their own contextual messages. This eliminates
noisy startup warnings for providers in the fallback chain that the
user never configured (e.g. minimax).
hermes update only cleared .update_check for the active HERMES_HOME,
leaving other profiles showing stale 'N commits behind' in their banner.
Now _invalidate_update_cache() iterates over ~/.hermes/ (default) plus
every directory under ~/.hermes/profiles/ to clear all caches. The git
repo is shared across profiles so a single update brings them all current.
Reported by SteveSkedasticity on Discord.
_load_installable_optional_extras() was returning ALL extras from
pyproject.toml except 'all', which included 'rl' and 'yc-bench' —
extras not referenced by [all] that install heavy research deps
(atroposlib, tinker, wandb) from git repos. Changed to parse the
[all] group's references and only retry those 18 extras.
Also moved tomllib import to function-level since it only runs
during the rare fallback path.
- Add missing `from agent.credential_pool import load_pool` import to
auxiliary_client.py (introduced by the credential pool feature in main)
- Thread `args` through `select_provider_and_model(args=None)` so TLS
options from `cmd_model` reach `_model_flow_nous`
- Mock `_require_tty` in test_cmd_model_forwards_nous_login_tls_options
so it can run in non-interactive test environments
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No model, base_url, or provider is assumed when the user hasn't
configured one. Previously the defaults dict in cli.py, AIAgent
constructor args, and several fallback paths all hardcoded
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 + openrouter.ai/api/v1 — silently routing
unconfigured users to OpenRouter, which 404s for anyone using a
different provider.
Now empty defaults force the setup wizard to run, and existing users
who already completed setup are unaffected (their config.yaml has
the model they chose).
Files changed:
- cli.py: defaults dict, _DEFAULT_CONFIG_MODEL
- run_agent.py: AIAgent.__init__ defaults, main() defaults
- hermes_cli/config.py: DEFAULT_CONFIG
- hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py: is_fallback sentinel
- acp_adapter/session.py: default_model
- tests: updated to reflect empty defaults
* fix: force-close TCP sockets on client cleanup, detect and recover dead connections
When a provider drops connections mid-stream (e.g. OpenRouter outage),
httpx's graceful close leaves sockets in CLOSE-WAIT indefinitely. These
zombie connections accumulate and can prevent recovery without restarting.
Changes:
- _force_close_tcp_sockets: walks the httpx connection pool and issues
socket.shutdown(SHUT_RDWR) + close() to force TCP RST on every socket
when a client is closed, preventing CLOSE-WAIT accumulation
- _cleanup_dead_connections: probes the primary client's pool for dead
sockets (recv MSG_PEEK), rebuilds the client if any are found
- Pre-turn health check at the start of each run_conversation call that
auto-recovers with a user-facing status message
- Primary client rebuild after stale stream detection to purge pool
- User-facing messages on streaming connection failures:
"Connection to provider dropped — Reconnecting (attempt 2/3)"
"Connection failed after 3 attempts — try again in a moment"
Made-with: Cursor
* fix: pool entry missing base_url for openrouter, clean error messages
- _resolve_runtime_from_pool_entry: add OPENROUTER_BASE_URL fallback
when pool entry has no runtime_base_url (pool entries from auth.json
credential_pool often omit base_url)
- Replace Rich console.print for auth errors with plain print() to
prevent ANSI escape code mangling through prompt_toolkit's stdout patch
- Force-close TCP sockets on client cleanup to prevent CLOSE-WAIT
accumulation after provider outages
- Pre-turn dead connection detection with auto-recovery and user message
- Primary client rebuild after stale stream detection
- User-facing status messages on streaming connection failures/retries
Made-with: Cursor
* fix(gateway): persist memory flush state to prevent redundant re-flushes on restart
The _session_expiry_watcher tracked flushed sessions in an in-memory set
(_pre_flushed_sessions) that was lost on gateway restart. Expired sessions
remained in sessions.json and were re-discovered every restart, causing
redundant AIAgent runs that burned API credits and blocked the event loop.
Fix: Add a memory_flushed boolean field to SessionEntry, persisted in
sessions.json. The watcher sets it after a successful flush. On restart,
the flag survives and the watcher skips already-flushed sessions.
- Add memory_flushed field to SessionEntry with to_dict/from_dict support
- Old sessions.json entries without the field default to False (backward compat)
- Remove the ephemeral _pre_flushed_sessions set from SessionStore
- Update tests: save/load roundtrip, legacy entry compat, auto-reset behavior
The original PR excluded auth.json from _DEFAULT_EXPORT_EXCLUDE_ROOT and
filtered both auth.json and .env from named profile exports, but missed
adding .env to the default profile exclusion set. Default exports would
still leak .env containing API keys.
Added .env to _DEFAULT_EXPORT_EXCLUDE_ROOT, added test coverage, and
updated the existing test that incorrectly asserted .env presence.
- stderr handler now uses RedactingFormatter to match file handlers
- restart path uses verbose=0 (int) instead of verbose=False (bool)
- test mock updated with new run_gateway(verbose, quiet, replace) signature
By default 'hermes gateway run' now prints WARNING+ to stderr so
connection errors and startup failures are visible in the terminal
without having to tail ~/.hermes/logs/gateway.log.
- gateway/run.py: start_gateway() accepts verbosity: Optional[int]=0.
When not None, attaches a StreamHandler to stderr with level mapped
from the count (0=WARNING, 1=INFO, 2+=DEBUG). Root logger level is
also lowered when DEBUG is requested so records are not swallowed.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: run_gateway() gains verbose: int and
quiet: bool params. -q translates to verbosity=None (no stderr
handler). Wired through gateway_command().
- hermes_cli/main.py: -v changed from store_true to action=count so
-v/-vv/-vvv each increment the level. -q/--quiet added as a new flag.
Behaviour summary:
hermes gateway run -> WARNING+ on stderr (default)
hermes gateway run -q -> silent
hermes gateway run -v -> INFO+
hermes gateway run -vv -> DEBUG
When `sudo hermes gateway install --system --run-as-user <user>` generates
the systemd unit, get_hermes_home() resolves to /root/.hermes because
Path.home() returns root's home under sudo. The unit correctly sets
HOME= and User= via _system_service_identity(), but HERMES_HOME was
computed independently and pointed to root's config directory.
Add _hermes_home_for_target_user() which remaps the current HERMES_HOME
to the equivalent path under the target user's home. This handles:
- Default ~/.hermes → target user's ~/.hermes
- Profiles (e.g. ~/.hermes/profiles/coder) → preserves relative structure
- Custom paths (e.g. /opt/hermes) → kept as-is
Supersedes #3861 which only handled the default case and left profiles
broken (also flagged by Copilot review).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PR #4419 was based on pre-credential-pools main where _config_version was 10.
The squash merge downgraded it from 11 (set by #2647) back to 10.
Also fixes the test assertion.
Adds two Camofox features:
1. Persistent browser sessions: new `browser.camofox.managed_persistence`
config option. When enabled, Hermes sends a deterministic profile-scoped
userId to Camofox so the server maps it to a persistent browser profile
directory. Cookies, logins, and browser state survive across restarts.
Default remains ephemeral (random userId per session).
2. VNC URL discovery: Camofox /health endpoint returns vncPort when running
in headed mode. Hermes constructs the VNC URL and includes it in navigate
responses so the agent can share it with users.
Also fixes camofox_vision bug where call_llm response object was passed
directly to json.dumps instead of extracting .choices[0].message.content.
Changes from original PR:
- Removed browser_evaluate tool (separate feature, needs own PR)
- Removed snapshot truncation limit change (unrelated)
- Config.yaml only for managed_persistence (no env var, no version bump)
- Rewrote tests to use config mock instead of env var
- Reverted package-lock.json churn
Co-authored-by: analista <psikonetik@gmail.com.com>
Show inline diffs in the CLI transcript when write_file, patch, or
skill_manage modifies files. Captures a filesystem snapshot before the
tool runs, computes a unified diff after, and renders it with ANSI
coloring in the activity feed.
Adds tool_start_callback and tool_complete_callback hooks to AIAgent
for pre/post tool execution notifications.
Also fixes _extract_parallel_scope_path to normalize relative paths
to absolute, preventing the parallel overlap detection from missing
conflicts when the same file is referenced with different path styles.
Gated by display.inline_diffs config option (default: true).
Based on PR #3774 by @kshitijk4poor.
- Add _DEFAULT_EXPORT_EXCLUDE_ROOT constant with 25+ entries to exclude
from default profile exports: repo checkout (hermes-agent), worktrees,
databases (state.db), caches, runtime state, logs, binaries
- Add _default_export_ignore() with root-level and universal exclusions
(__pycache__, *.sock, *.tmp at any depth)
- Remove redundant shutil/tempfile imports from contributor's if-block
- Block import_profile() from accepting 'default' as target name with
clear guidance to use --name
- Add 7 tests covering: archive creation, inclusion of profile data,
exclusion of infrastructure, nested __pycache__ exclusion, import
rejection without --name, import rejection with --name default,
full export-import roundtrip with a different name
Addresses review feedback on PR #4370.
The camofox-browser image defaults to port 3000 internally, not 9377.
Without -e CAMOFOX_PORT=9377, the -p 9377:9377 mapping silently fails
because nothing listens on 9377 inside the container.
E2E verified: -p 9377:9377 alone → connection reset,
-p 9377:9377 -e CAMOFOX_PORT=9377 → healthy and functional.
load_cli_config() had a priority inversion: a stale root-level
'provider' key in config.yaml would OVERRIDE the canonical
'model.provider' set by 'hermes model'. The gateway reads
model.provider directly from YAML and worked correctly, but
'hermes chat -q' and the interactive CLI went through the merge
logic and picked up the stale root-level key.
Fix: root-level provider/base_url are now only used as a fallback
when model.provider/model.base_url is not set (never as an override).
Also added _normalize_root_model_keys() to config.py load_config()
and save_config() — migrates root-level provider/base_url into the
model section and removes the root-level keys permanently.
Reported by (≧▽≦) in Discord: opencode-go provider persisted as a
root-level key and overrode the correct model.provider=openrouter,
causing 401 errors.
* feat(file_tools): harden read_file with size guard, dedup, and device blocking
Three improvements to read_file_tool to reduce wasted context tokens and
prevent process hangs:
1. Character-count guard: reads that produce more than 100K characters
(≈25-35K tokens across tokenisers) are rejected with an error that
tells the model to use offset+limit for a smaller range. The
effective cap is min(file_size, 100K) so small files that happen to
have long lines aren't over-penalised. Large truncated files also
get a hint nudging toward targeted reads.
2. File-read deduplication: when the same (path, offset, limit) is read
a second time and the file hasn't been modified (mtime unchanged),
return a lightweight stub instead of re-sending the full content.
Writes and patches naturally change mtime, so post-edit reads always
return fresh content. The dedup cache is cleared on context
compression — after compression the original read content is
summarised away, so the model needs the full content again.
3. Device path blocking: paths like /dev/zero, /dev/random, /dev/stdin
etc. are rejected before any I/O to prevent process hangs from
infinite-output or blocking-input devices.
Tests: 17 new tests covering all three features plus the dedup-reset-
on-compression integration. All 52 file-read tests pass (35 existing +
17 new). Full tool suite (2124 tests) passes with 0 failures.
* feat: make file_read_max_chars configurable, add docs
Add file_read_max_chars to DEFAULT_CONFIG (default 100K). read_file_tool
reads this on first call and caches for the process lifetime. Users on
large-context models can raise it; users on small local models can lower it.
Also adds a 'File Read Safety' section to the configuration docs
explaining the char limit, dedup behavior, and example values.
Fixes a zip-slip path traversal vulnerability in hermes profile import.
shutil.unpack_archive() on untrusted tar members allows entries like
../../escape.txt to write files outside ~/.hermes/profiles/.
- Add _normalize_profile_archive_parts() to reject absolute paths
(POSIX and Windows), traversal (..), empty paths, backslash tricks
- Add _safe_extract_profile_archive() for manual per-member extraction
that only allows regular files and directories (rejects symlinks)
- Replace shutil.unpack_archive() with the safe extraction path
- Add regression tests for traversal and absolute-path attacks
Co-authored-by: Gutslabs <gutslabsxyz@gmail.com>
Exposes the existing max_turns parameter (cli.py main()) as a CLI flag
so programmatic callers (Paperclip adapter, scripts) can control the
agent's tool-calling iteration limit without editing config.yaml.
Priority chain unchanged: CLI flag > config agent.max_turns > env
HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS > default 90.
The _has_any_provider_configured() guard only checked env vars, .env file,
and auth.json — missing config.yaml model.provider/base_url/api_key entirely.
Users who configured a provider through setup (saving to config.yaml) but had
empty API key placeholders in .env from the install template were permanently
blocked by the 'not configured' message.
Changes:
- _has_any_provider_configured() now checks config.yaml model section for
explicit provider, base_url, or api_key — covers custom endpoints and
providers that store credentials in config rather than env vars
- .env.example: comment out all empty API key placeholders so they don't
pollute the environment when copied to .env by the installer
- .env.example: mark LLM_MODEL as deprecated (config.yaml is source of truth)
- 4 new tests for the config.yaml detection path
Reported by OkadoOP on Discord.
`hermes config set KEY ""` and `hermes config set KEY 0` were rejected
because the guard used `not value` which is truthy for empty strings,
zero, and False. Changed to `value is None` so only truly missing
arguments are rejected.
Closes#4277
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Custom endpoint setup (_model_flow_custom) now probes the server first
and presents detected models instead of asking users to type blind:
- Single model: auto-confirms with Y/n prompt
- Multiple models: numbered list picker, or type a name
- No models / probe failed: falls back to manual input
Context length prompt also moved after model selection so the user sees
the verified endpoint before being asked for details.
All recent fixes preserved: config dict sync (#4172), api_key
persistence (#4182), no save_env_value for URLs (#4165).
Inspired by PR #4194 by sudoingX — re-implemented against current main.
Co-authored-by: Xpress AI (Dip KD) <200180104+sudoingX@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(auth): add same-provider credential pools and rotation UX
Add same-provider credential pooling so Hermes can rotate across
multiple credentials for a single provider, recover from exhausted
credentials without jumping providers immediately, and configure
that behavior directly in hermes setup.
- agent/credential_pool.py: persisted per-provider credential pools
- hermes auth add/list/remove/reset CLI commands
- 429/402/401 recovery with pool rotation in run_agent.py
- Setup wizard integration for pool strategy configuration
- Auto-seeding from env vars and existing OAuth state
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Salvaged from PR #2647
* fix(tests): prevent pool auto-seeding from host env in credential pool tests
Tests for non-pool Anthropic paths and auth remove were failing when
host env vars (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY) or file-backed OAuth credentials
were present. The pool auto-seeding picked these up, causing unexpected
pool entries in tests.
- Mock _select_pool_entry in auxiliary_client OAuth flag tests
- Clear Anthropic env vars and mock _seed_from_singletons in auth remove test
* feat(auth): add thread safety, least_used strategy, and request counting
- Add threading.Lock to CredentialPool for gateway thread safety
(concurrent requests from multiple gateway sessions could race on
pool state mutations without this)
- Add 'least_used' rotation strategy that selects the credential
with the lowest request_count, distributing load more evenly
- Add request_count field to PooledCredential for usage tracking
- Add mark_used() method to increment per-credential request counts
- Wrap select(), mark_exhausted_and_rotate(), and try_refresh_current()
with lock acquisition
- Add tests: least_used selection, mark_used counting, concurrent
thread safety (4 threads × 20 selects with no corruption)
* feat(auth): add interactive mode for bare 'hermes auth' command
When 'hermes auth' is called without a subcommand, it now launches an
interactive wizard that:
1. Shows full credential pool status across all providers
2. Offers a menu: add, remove, reset cooldowns, set strategy
3. For OAuth-capable providers (anthropic, nous, openai-codex), the
add flow explicitly asks 'API key or OAuth login?' — making it
clear that both auth types are supported for the same provider
4. Strategy picker shows all 4 options (fill_first, round_robin,
least_used, random) with the current selection marked
5. Remove flow shows entries with indices for easy selection
The subcommand paths (hermes auth add/list/remove/reset) still work
exactly as before for scripted/non-interactive use.
* fix(tests): update runtime_provider tests for config.yaml source of truth (#4165)
Tests were using OPENAI_BASE_URL env var which is no longer consulted
after #4165. Updated to use model config (provider, base_url, api_key)
which is the new single source of truth for custom endpoint URLs.
* feat(auth): support custom endpoint credential pools keyed by provider name
Custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints all share provider='custom', making
the provider-keyed pool useless. Now pools for custom endpoints are
keyed by 'custom:<normalized_name>' where the name comes from the
custom_providers config list (auto-generated from URL hostname).
- Pool key format: 'custom:together.ai', 'custom:local-(localhost:8080)'
- load_pool('custom:name') seeds from custom_providers api_key AND
model.api_key when base_url matches
- hermes auth add/list now shows custom endpoints alongside registry
providers
- _resolve_openrouter_runtime and _resolve_named_custom_runtime check
pool before falling back to single config key
- 6 new tests covering custom pool keying, seeding, and listing
* docs: add Excalidraw diagram of full credential pool flow
Comprehensive architecture diagram showing:
- Credential sources (env vars, auth.json OAuth, config.yaml, CLI)
- Pool storage and auto-seeding
- Runtime resolution paths (registry, custom, OpenRouter)
- Error recovery (429 retry-then-rotate, 402 immediate, 401 refresh)
- CLI management commands and strategy configuration
Open at: https://excalidraw.com/#json=2Ycqhqpi6f12E_3ITyiwh,c7u9jSt5BwrmiVzHGbm87g
* fix(tests): update setup wizard pool tests for unified select_provider_and_model flow
The setup wizard now delegates to select_provider_and_model() instead
of using its own prompt_choice-based provider picker. Tests needed:
- Mock select_provider_and_model as no-op (provider pre-written to config)
- Call _stub_tts BEFORE custom prompt_choice mock (it overwrites it)
- Pre-write model.provider to config so the pool step is reached
* docs: add comprehensive credential pool documentation
- New page: website/docs/user-guide/features/credential-pools.md
Full guide covering quick start, CLI commands, rotation strategies,
error recovery, custom endpoint pools, auto-discovery, thread safety,
architecture, and storage format.
- Updated fallback-providers.md to reference credential pools as the
first layer of resilience (same-provider rotation before cross-provider)
- Added hermes auth to CLI commands reference with usage examples
- Added credential_pool_strategies to configuration guide
* chore: remove excalidraw diagram from repo (external link only)
* refactor: simplify credential pool code — extract helpers, collapse extras, dedup patterns
- _load_config_safe(): replace 4 identical try/except/import blocks
- _iter_custom_providers(): shared generator for custom provider iteration
- PooledCredential.extra dict: collapse 11 round-trip-only fields
(token_type, scope, client_id, portal_base_url, obtained_at,
expires_in, agent_key_id, agent_key_expires_in, agent_key_reused,
agent_key_obtained_at, tls) into a single extra dict with
__getattr__ for backward-compatible access
- _available_entries(): shared exhaustion-check between select and peek
- Dedup anthropic OAuth seeding (hermes_pkce + claude_code identical)
- SimpleNamespace replaces class _Args boilerplate in auth_commands
- _try_resolve_from_custom_pool(): shared pool-check in runtime_provider
Net -17 lines. All 383 targeted tests pass.
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Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Telegram Bot API requires command names to be 1-32 characters. Plugin
and skill names that exceed this limit now get truncated. If truncation
creates a collision (with core commands, other plugins, or other skills),
the name is shortened to 31 chars and a digit 0-9 is appended.
Adds _clamp_telegram_names() helper used for both plugin and skill
entries in telegram_menu_commands(). Core CommandDef commands are tracked
as reserved names so truncated plugin/skill names never shadow them.
Addresses the fix from PR #4191 (sroecker) with collision-safe truncation.
Tests: 9 new tests covering truncation, digit suffixes, exhaustion, dedup.
* fix(tools): skip SSRF check in local browser mode
The SSRF protection added in #3041 blocks all private/internal
addresses unconditionally in browser_navigate(). This prevents
legitimate local development use cases (localhost testing, LAN
device access) when using the local Chromium backend.
The SSRF check is only meaningful for cloud browsers (Browserbase,
BrowserUse) where the agent could reach internal resources on a
remote machine. In local mode, the user already has full terminal
and network access, so the check adds no security value.
This change makes the SSRF check conditional on _get_cloud_provider(),
keeping full protection in cloud mode while allowing private addresses
in local mode.
* fix(tools): make SSRF check configurable via browser.allow_private_urls
Replace unconditional SSRF check with a configurable setting.
Default (False) keeps existing security behavior. Setting to True
allows navigating to private/internal IPs for local dev and LAN use cases.
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Co-authored-by: Nils (Norya) <nils@begou.dev>
If a user has Claude Code installed but never configured Hermes, the
first-run guard found those external credentials and skipped the setup
wizard. Users got silently routed to someone else's inference without
being asked.
Now _has_any_provider_configured() checks whether Hermes itself has been
explicitly configured (model in config differs from hardcoded default)
before counting Claude Code credentials. Fresh installs trigger the
wizard regardless of what external tools are on the machine.
Salvaged from PR #4194 by sudoingX — wizard trigger fix only.
Model auto-detect change under separate review.
Co-authored-by: Xpress AI (Dip KD) <200180104+sudoingX@users.noreply.github.com>
Add MiniMax-M2.7 and M2.7-highspeed to _PROVIDER_MODELS for minimax
and minimax-cn providers in main.py so hermes model shows them.
Update opencode-go bare ID from m2.5 to m2.7 in models.py.
Salvaged from PR #4197 by octo-patch.
Custom cloud endpoints (Together.ai, RunPod, Groq, etc.) lost their
API key after #4165 removed OPENAI_API_KEY .env saves. The key was
only saved to the custom_providers list which is unreachable at
runtime for plain 'custom' provider resolution.
Save model.api_key to config.yaml alongside model.provider and
model.base_url in all three custom endpoint code paths:
- _model_flow_custom (new endpoint with model name)
- _model_flow_custom (new endpoint without model name)
- _model_flow_named_custom (switching to a saved endpoint)
The runtime resolver already reads model.api_key (runtime_provider.py
line 224-228), so the key is picked up automatically. Each custom
endpoint carries its own key in config — no shared OPENAI_API_KEY
env var needed.
Adds a 'reactions' key under the discord config section (default: true).
When set to false, the bot no longer adds 👀/✅/❌ reactions to messages
during processing. The config maps to DISCORD_REACTIONS env var following
the same pattern as require_mention and auto_thread.
Files changed:
- hermes_cli/config.py: Add reactions default to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- gateway/config.py: Map discord.reactions to DISCORD_REACTIONS env var
- gateway/platforms/discord.py: Gate on_processing_start/complete hooks
- tests/gateway/test_discord_reactions.py: 3 new tests for config gate
setup_model_provider() had 800+ lines of duplicated provider handling
that reimplemented the same credential prompting, OAuth flows, and model
selection that hermes model already provides via the _model_flow_*
functions. Every new provider had to be added in both places, and the
two implementations diverged in config persistence (setup.py did raw
YAML writes, _set_model_provider, and _update_config_for_provider
depending on the provider — main.py used its own load/save cycle).
This caused the #4172 bug: _model_flow_custom saved config to disk but
the wizard's final save_config(config) overwrote it with stale values.
Fix: extract the core of cmd_model() into select_provider_and_model()
and have setup_model_provider() call it. After the call, re-sync the
wizard's config dict from disk. Deletes ~800 lines of duplicated
provider handling from setup.py.
Also fixes cmd_model() double-AuthError crash on fresh installs with
no API keys configured.
_model_flow_custom() saved model.provider and model.base_url to disk
via its own load_config/save_config cycle, but never updated the
setup wizard's in-memory config dict. The wizard's final
save_config(config) then overwrote the custom settings with the
stale default string model value.
Fix: after saving to disk, also mutate the caller's config dict so
the wizard's final save preserves model.provider='custom' and the
base_url. Both the model_name and no-model_name branches are
covered.
Added regression tests that simulate the full wizard flow including
the final save_config(config) call — the step that was previously
untested.
OPENAI_BASE_URL was written to .env AND config.yaml, creating a dual-source
confusion. Users (especially Docker) would see the URL in .env and assume
that's where all config lives, then wonder why LLM_MODEL in .env didn't work.
Changes:
- Remove all 27 save_env_value("OPENAI_BASE_URL", ...) calls across main.py,
setup.py, and tools_config.py
- Remove OPENAI_BASE_URL env var reading from runtime_provider.py, cli.py,
models.py, and gateway/run.py
- Remove LLM_MODEL/HERMES_MODEL env var reading from gateway/run.py and
auxiliary_client.py — config.yaml model.default is authoritative
- Vision base URL now saved to config.yaml auxiliary.vision.base_url
(both setup wizard and tools_config paths)
- Tests updated to set config values instead of env vars
Convention enforced: .env is for SECRETS only (API keys). All other
configuration (model names, base URLs, provider selection) lives
exclusively in config.yaml.
Adds /btw <question> — ask a quick follow-up using the current
session context without interrupting the main conversation.
- Snapshots conversation history, answers with a no-tools agent
- Response is not persisted to session history or DB
- Runs in a background thread (CLI) / async task (gateway)
- Per-session guard prevents concurrent /btw in gateway
Implementation:
- model_tools.py: enabled_toolsets=[] now correctly means "no tools"
(was falsy, fell through to default "all tools")
- run_agent.py: persist_session=False gates _persist_session()
- cli.py: _handle_btw_command (background thread, Rich panel output)
- gateway/run.py: _handle_btw_command + _run_btw_task (async task)
- hermes_cli/commands.py: CommandDef for "btw"
Inspired by PR #3504 by areu01or00, reimplemented cleanly on current
main with the enabled_toolsets=[] fix and without the __btw_no_tools__
hack.
Salvaged from PR #4024 by @Sertug17. Fixes#4017.
- Replace systemd-run --user --scope with setsid for portable session detach
- Add system-level service detection to cmd_update gateway restart
- Falls back to start_new_session=True on systems without setsid (macOS, minimal containers)
* fix(alibaba): use standard DashScope international endpoint
The Alibaba Cloud provider was hardcoded to the coding-intl endpoint
(https://coding-intl.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1) which only accepts
Alibaba Coding Plan API keys.
Standard DashScope API keys fail with invalid_api_key error against
this endpoint. Changed to the international compatible-mode endpoint
(https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1) which works
with standard DashScope keys.
Users with Coding Plan keys or China-region keys can still override
via DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL or config.yaml base_url.
Fixes#3912
* fix: update test to match new DashScope default endpoint
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Co-authored-by: kagura-agent <kagura.chen28@gmail.com>
Remove [:8] truncation from hermes cron list output. Job IDs are 12
hex chars — truncating to 8 makes them unusable for cron run/pause/remove
which require the full ID.
Co-authored-by: vitobotta <vitobotta@users.noreply.github.com>
After migrating from OpenClaw, leftover workspace directories contain
state files (todo.json, sessions, logs) that confuse the agent — it
discovers them and reads/writes to stale locations instead of the
Hermes state directory, causing issues like cron jobs reading a
different todo list than interactive sessions.
Changes:
- hermes claw migrate now offers to archive the source directory after
successful migration (rename to .pre-migration, not delete)
- New `hermes claw cleanup` subcommand for users who already migrated
and need to archive leftover OpenClaw directories
- Migration notes updated with explicit cleanup guidance
- 42 tests covering all new functionality
Reported by SteveSkedasticity — multiple todo.json files across
~/.hermes/, ~/.openclaw/workspace/, and ~/.openclaw/workspace-assistant/
caused cron jobs to read from wrong locations.
Add should_use_color() function to hermes_cli/colors.py that checks
NO_COLOR (https://no-color.org/) and TERM=dumb before emitting ANSI
escapes. The existing color() helper now uses this function instead
of a bare isatty() check.
This is the foundation — cli.py and banner.py still have inline ANSI
constants that bypass this module (tracked in #4071).
Closes#4066
Co-authored-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(gateway): honor default for invalid bool-like config values
* refactor: simplify web backend priority detection
Replace cascading boolean conditions with a priority-ordered loop.
Same behavior (verified against all 16 env var combinations),
half the lines, trivially extensible for new backends.
* fix(tools): show browser and TTS in reconfigure menu
_toolset_has_keys() returned False for toolsets with no-key providers
(Local Browser, Edge TTS) because it only checked providers with
env_vars. Users couldn't find these tools in the reconfigure list
and had no obvious way to switch browser/TTS backends.
Now treats providers with empty env_vars as always-configured, so
toolsets with free/local options always appear in the reconfigure menu.
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Co-authored-by: aydnOktay <xaydinoktay@gmail.com>
Adds /profile to COMMAND_REGISTRY (Info category) with handlers in
both CLI and gateway. Shows the active profile name and home directory.
Works on all platforms — CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, etc.
Detects profile by checking if HERMES_HOME is under ~/.hermes/profiles/.
Shows 'default' when running without a profile.
Camofox-browser is a self-hosted Node.js server wrapping Camoufox
(Firefox fork with C++ fingerprint spoofing). When CAMOFOX_URL is set,
all 11 browser tools route through the Camofox REST API instead of
the agent-browser CLI.
Maps 1:1 to the existing browser tool interface:
- Navigate, snapshot, click, type, scroll, back, press, close
- Get images, vision (screenshot + LLM analysis)
- Console (returns empty with note — camofox limitation)
Setup: npm start in camofox-browser dir, or docker run -p 9377:9377
Then: CAMOFOX_URL=http://localhost:9377 in ~/.hermes/.env
Advantages over Browserbase (cloud):
- Free (no per-session API costs)
- Local (zero network latency for browser ops)
- Anti-detection at C++ level (bypasses Cloudflare/Google bot detection)
- Works offline, Docker-ready
Files:
- tools/browser_camofox.py: Full REST backend (~400 lines)
- tools/browser_tool.py: Routing at each tool function
- hermes_cli/config.py: CAMOFOX_URL env var entry
- tests/tools/test_browser_camofox.py: 20 tests
The menu now has explicit priority tiers:
1. Core CommandDef commands (always included, never bumped)
2. Plugin slash commands (take precedence over skills)
3. Built-in skill commands (fill remaining slots alphabetically)
Only skills get trimmed when the 100-command cap is hit. Adding new
core commands or plugin commands automatically pushes skills out,
not the other way around.
* fix: truncate skill descriptions to 100 chars in Telegram menu
* fix: 40-char desc cap + 100 command limit for Telegram menu
setMyCommands has an undocumented total payload size limit.
50 commands with 256-char descriptions failed, 50 with 100-char
worked, and 100 with 40-char descriptions also works (~5300 total
chars). Truncate skill descriptions to 40 chars in the menu picker
and set cap back to 100. Full descriptions available via /commands.
Add timeout parameters to 4 subprocess.run() calls that could hang
indefinitely if the child process blocks (e.g., unresponsive docker
daemon, systemctl waiting for D-Bus):
- doctor.py: docker info (timeout=10), ssh check (timeout=15)
- status.py: systemctl is-active (timeout=5), launchctl list (timeout=5)
Each call site now catches subprocess.TimeoutExpired and treats it as
a failure, consistent with how non-zero return codes are already handled.
Add AST-based regression test that verifies every subprocess.run() call
in CLI modules specifies a timeout keyword argument.
Co-authored-by: dieutx <dangtc94@gmail.com>
Adds a /yolo command that toggles HERMES_YOLO_MODE at runtime, skipping
all dangerous command approval prompts for the current session. Works in
both CLI and gateway (Telegram, Discord, etc.).
- /yolo -> ON: all commands auto-approved, no confirmation prompts
- /yolo -> OFF: normal approval flow restored
The --yolo CLI flag already existed for launch-time opt-in. This adds
the ability to toggle mid-session without restarting.
Session-scoped — resets when the process ends. Uses the existing
HERMES_YOLO_MODE env var that check_all_command_guards() already
respects.
Skills are synced to ~/.hermes/skills/ (SKILLS_DIR), not the repo's
skills/ directory. The previous filter compared against the repo path
so no skills matched. Now checks SKILLS_DIR and excludes .hub/
subdirectory (user-installed hub skills).
* feat(gateway): skill-aware slash commands, paginated /commands, Telegram 100-cap
Map active skills to Telegram's slash command menu so users can
discover and invoke skills directly. Three changes:
1. Telegram menu now includes active skill commands alongside built-in
commands, capped at 100 entries (Telegram Bot API limit). Overflow
commands remain callable but hidden from the picker. Logged at
startup when cap is hit.
2. New /commands [page] gateway command for paginated browsing of all
commands + skills. /help now shows first 10 skill commands and
points to /commands for the full list.
3. When a user types a slash command that matches a disabled or
uninstalled skill, they get actionable guidance:
- Disabled: 'Enable it with: hermes skills config'
- Optional (not installed): 'Install with: hermes skills install official/<path>'
Built on ideas from PR #3921 by @kshitijk4poor.
* chore: move 21 niche skills to optional-skills
Move specialized/niche skills from built-in (skills/) to optional
(optional-skills/) to reduce the default skill count. Users can
install them with: hermes skills install official/<category>/<name>
Moved skills (21):
- mlops: accelerate, chroma, faiss, flash-attention,
hermes-atropos-environments, huggingface-tokenizers, instructor,
lambda-labs, llava, nemo-curator, pinecone, pytorch-lightning,
qdrant, saelens, simpo, slime, tensorrt-llm, torchtitan
- research: domain-intel, duckduckgo-search
- devops: inference-sh cli
Built-in skills: 96 → 75
Optional skills: 22 → 43
* fix: only include repo built-in skills in Telegram menu, not user-installed
User-installed skills (from hub or manually added) stay accessible via
/skills and by typing the command directly, but don't get registered
in the Telegram slash command picker. Only skills whose SKILL.md is
under the repo's skills/ directory are included in the menu.
This keeps the Telegram menu focused on the curated built-in set while
user-installed skills remain discoverable through /skills and /commands.
* feat(telegram): add webhook mode as alternative to polling
When TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL is set, the adapter starts an HTTP webhook
server (via python-telegram-bot's start_webhook()) instead of long
polling. This enables cloud platforms like Fly.io and Railway to
auto-wake suspended machines on inbound HTTP traffic.
Polling remains the default — no behavior change unless the env var
is set.
Env vars:
TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL Public HTTPS URL for Telegram to push to
TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_PORT Local listen port (default 8443)
TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET Secret token for update verification
Cherry-picked and adapted from PR #2022 by SHL0MS. Preserved all
current main enhancements (network error recovery, polling conflict
detection, DM topics setup).
Co-authored-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: send_document call in background task delivery + vision download timeout
Two fixes salvaged from PR #2269 by amethystani:
1. gateway/run.py: adapter.send_file() → adapter.send_document()
send_file() doesn't exist on BasePlatformAdapter. Background task
media files were silently never delivered (AttributeError swallowed
by except Exception: pass).
2. tools/vision_tools.py: configurable image download timeout via
HERMES_VISION_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT env var (default 30s), plus guard
against raise None when max_retries=0.
The third fix in #2269 (opencode-go auth config) was already resolved
on main.
Co-authored-by: amethystani <amethystani@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: amethystani <amethystani@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(approvals): make dangerous command approval timeout configurable
Read `approvals.timeout` from config.yaml (default 60s) instead of
hardcoding 60 seconds in both the fallback CLI prompt and the TUI
prompt_toolkit callback.
Follows the same pattern as `clarify.timeout` which is already
configurable via CLI_CONFIG.
Closes#3765
* fix: add timeout default to approvals section in DEFAULT_CONFIG
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Co-authored-by: acsezen <asezen@icloud.com>
Setup previously only printed a manual install hint for matrix-nio,
causing the gateway to crash with 'matrix-nio not installed' after
configuring Matrix. Now auto-installs matrix-nio (or matrix-nio[e2e]
when E2EE is enabled) using the same uv-first/pip-fallback pattern
as Daytona and Modal backends.
Also adds hermes-agent[matrix] to the [all] extra in pyproject.toml
and a regression test to keep it there.
Co-authored-by: Gutslabs <Gutslabs@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: cutepawss <cutepawss@users.noreply.github.com>
All three Nous Portal model selection paths (hermes model, first-time
login, setup wizard) were hitting the live /models endpoint and showing
every model available — potentially hundreds. Now uses the curated
_PROVIDER_MODELS['nous'] list (25 agentic models matching OpenRouter
defaults) with 'Enter custom model name' for anything else.
Fixed in:
- hermes_cli/main.py: _model_flow_nous()
- hermes_cli/auth.py: _login_nous() model selection
- hermes_cli/setup.py: post-login model selection
Adds WeCom as a gateway platform adapter using the AI Bot WebSocket
gateway for real-time bidirectional communication. No public endpoint
or new pip dependencies needed (uses existing aiohttp + httpx).
Features:
- WebSocket persistent connection with auto-reconnect (exponential backoff)
- DM and group messaging with configurable access policies
- Media upload/download with AES decryption for encrypted attachments
- Markdown rendering, quote context preservation
- Proactive + passive reply message modes
- Chunked media upload pipeline (512KB chunks)
Cherry-picked from PR #1898 by EvilRan with:
- Moved to current main (PR was 300 commits behind)
- Skipped base.py regressions (reply_to additions are good but belong
in a separate PR since they affect all platforms)
- Fixed test assertions to match current base class send() signature
(reply_to=None kwarg now explicit)
- All 16 integration points added surgically to current main
- No new pip dependencies (aiohttp + httpx already installed)
Fixes#1898
Co-authored-by: EvilRan <EvilRan@users.noreply.github.com>
Previously, when no API keys or provider credentials were found, Hermes
silently defaulted to OpenRouter + Claude Opus. This caused confusion
when users configured local servers (LM Studio, Ollama, etc.) with a
typo or unrecognized provider name — the system would silently route to
OpenRouter instead of telling them something was wrong.
Changes:
- resolve_provider() now raises AuthError when no credentials are found
instead of returning 'openrouter' as a silent fallback
- Added local server aliases: lmstudio, ollama, vllm, llamacpp → custom
- Removed hardcoded 'anthropic/claude-opus-4.6' fallback from gateway
and cron scheduler (they read from config.yaml instead)
- Updated cli-config.yaml.example with complete provider documentation
including all supported providers, aliases, and local server setup
The model picker for API-key providers (MiniMax, z.ai, etc.) probes
the live /models endpoint when the curated list has fewer than 8
models. When the live endpoint returns fewer models than the curated
list (e.g. MiniMax's Anthropic-compatible endpoint doesn't list M2.7),
the incomplete live list was used instead.
Now falls back to the curated list when live returns fewer models,
ensuring new models like MiniMax-M2.7 always appear in the picker.
PR #3726 fixed stale codex_responses persisting when switching providers
by hardcoding api_mode=chat_completions in 5 model flows. This broke
MiniMax, MiniMax-CN, and Alibaba which use /anthropic endpoints that
need anthropic_messages — the hardcoded value overrides the URL-based
auto-detection in runtime_provider.py.
Fix: pop api_mode from config in the 3 URL-dependent flows (custom
endpoint, Kimi, api_key_provider) instead of hardcoding. The runtime
resolver already correctly auto-detects api_mode from the base_url
suffix (/anthropic -> anthropic_messages, else chat_completions).
OpenRouter and Copilot ACP flows keep the explicit value since their
api_mode is always known.
Reported by stefan171.
Adds Feishu (ByteDance's enterprise messaging platform) as a gateway
platform adapter with full feature parity: WebSocket + webhook transports,
message batching, dedup, rate limiting, rich post/card content parsing,
media handling (images/audio/files/video), group @mention gating,
reaction routing, and interactive card button support.
Cherry-picked from PR #1793 by penwyp with:
- Moved to current main (PR was 458 commits behind)
- Fixed _send_with_retry shadowing BasePlatformAdapter method (renamed to
_feishu_send_with_retry to avoid signature mismatch crash)
- Fixed import structure: aiohttp/websockets imported independently of
lark_oapi so they remain available when SDK is missing
- Fixed get_hermes_home import (hermes_constants, not hermes_cli.config)
- Added skip decorators for tests requiring lark_oapi SDK
- All 16 integration points added surgically to current main
New dependency: lark-oapi>=1.5.3,<2 (optional, pip install hermes-agent[feishu])
Fixes#1788
Co-authored-by: penwyp <penwyp@users.noreply.github.com>
Tool call previews (paths, commands, queries) were hardcoded to truncate
at 35-40 chars across CLI spinners, completion lines, and gateway progress
messages. Users could not see full file paths in tool output.
New config option: display.tool_preview_length (default 0 = no limit).
Set a positive number to truncate at that length.
Changes:
- display.py: module-level _tool_preview_max_len with getter/setter;
build_tool_preview() and get_cute_tool_message() _trunc/_path respect it
- cli.py: reads config at startup, spinner widget respects config
- gateway/run.py: reads config per-message, progress callback respects config
- run_agent.py: removed redundant 30-char quiet-mode spinner truncation
- config.py: added display.tool_preview_length to DEFAULT_CONFIG
Reported by kriskaminski
Tools from check_fn-gated toolsets (honcho, homeassistant) showed as
red (disabled) in the startup banner even when properly configured.
This happened because check_fn runs lazily after session context is
set, but the banner renders before agent init.
Now distinguishes three states:
- red: truly unavailable (missing env var, no API key)
- yellow: lazy-initialized (check_fn pending, will activate on use)
- normal: available and ready
Only the banner fix was salvaged from the original PR; unrelated
bundled changes (context_compressor, STT config, auth default_model,
SessionResetPolicy) were discarded.
Co-authored-by: Jah-yee <Jah-yee@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds a config option to suppress the header/footer text that wraps
cron job responses when delivered to messaging platforms.
Set cron.wrap_response: false in config.yaml for clean output without
the 'Cronjob Response: <name>' header and 'The agent cannot see this
message' footer. Default is true (preserves current behavior).
Third report of gateway crashing with:
ImportError: cannot import name 'get_hermes_home' from 'hermes_constants'
Root cause: stale .pyc bytecode files survive code updates. When Python
loads a cached .pyc that references names from the old source, the import
fails and the gateway won't start.
Two bugs fixed:
1. Git update path: no cache clearing at all after git pull
2. ZIP update path: __pycache__ was explicitly in the preserve set
Added _clear_bytecode_cache() helper that removes all __pycache__ dirs
under PROJECT_ROOT (skipping venv/node_modules/.git/.worktrees). Called
in both git and ZIP update paths, before pip install.
Extends the single fallback_model mechanism into an ordered chain.
When the primary model fails, Hermes tries each fallback provider in
sequence until one succeeds or the chain is exhausted.
Config format (new):
fallback_providers:
- provider: openrouter
model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4
- provider: openai
model: gpt-4o
Legacy single-dict fallback_model format still works unchanged.
Key fix vs original PR: the call sites in the retry loop now use
_fallback_index < len(_fallback_chain) instead of the old one-shot
_fallback_activated guard, so the chain actually advances through
all configured providers.
Changes:
- run_agent.py: _fallback_chain list + _fallback_index replaces
one-shot _fallback_model; _try_activate_fallback() advances
through chain; failed provider resolution skips to next entry;
call sites updated to allow chain advancement
- cli.py: reads fallback_providers with legacy fallback_model compat
- gateway/run.py: same
- hermes_cli/config.py: fallback_providers: [] in DEFAULT_CONFIG
- tests: 12 new chain tests + 6 existing test fixtures updated
Co-authored-by: uzaylisak <uzaylisak@users.noreply.github.com>
hermes mcp serve starts a stdio MCP server that lets any MCP client
(Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) interact with Hermes conversations.
Matches OpenClaw's 9-tool channel bridge surface:
Tools exposed:
- conversations_list: list active sessions across all platforms
- conversation_get: details on one conversation
- messages_read: read message history
- attachments_fetch: extract non-text content from messages
- events_poll: poll for new events since a cursor
- events_wait: long-poll / block until next event (near-real-time)
- messages_send: send to any platform via send_message_tool
- channels_list: browse available messaging targets
- permissions_list_open: list pending approval requests
- permissions_respond: allow/deny approvals
Architecture:
- EventBridge: background thread polls SessionDB for new messages,
maintains in-memory event queue with waiter support
- Reads sessions.json + SessionDB directly (no gateway dep for reads)
- Reuses send_message_tool for sending (same platform adapters)
- FastMCP server with stdio transport
- Zero new dependencies (uses existing mcp>=1.2.0 optional dep)
Files:
- mcp_serve.py: MCP server + EventBridge (~600 lines)
- hermes_cli/main.py: added serve sub-parser to hermes mcp
- hermes_cli/mcp_config.py: route serve action to run_mcp_server
- tests/test_mcp_serve.py: 53 tests
- docs: updated MCP page + CLI commands reference
* Add new Gemini 3.1 model entries to models.py
* fix: also add Gemini 3.1 models to nous provider list
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Co-authored-by: Andrei Ignat <andrei@ignat.se>
* feat: show estimated tool token context in hermes tools checklist
Adds a live token estimate indicator to the bottom of the interactive
tool configuration checklist (hermes tools / hermes setup). As users
toggle toolsets on/off, the total estimated context cost updates in
real time.
Implementation:
- tools/registry.py: Add get_schema() for check_fn-free schema access
- hermes_cli/curses_ui.py: Add optional status_fn callback to
curses_checklist — renders at bottom-right of terminal, stays fixed
while items scroll
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: Add _estimate_tool_tokens() using
tiktoken (cl100k_base, already installed) to count tokens in the
JSON-serialised OpenAI-format tool schemas. Results are cached
per-process. The status function deduplicates overlapping tools
(e.g. browser includes web_search) for accurate totals.
- 12 new tests covering estimation, caching, graceful degradation
when tiktoken is unavailable, status_fn wiring, deduplication,
and the numbered fallback display
* fix: use effective toolsets (includes plugins) for token estimation index mapping
The status_fn closure built ts_keys from CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS but the
checklist uses _get_effective_configurable_toolsets() which appends plugin
toolsets. With plugins present, the indices would mismatch, causing
IndexError when selecting a plugin toolset.
When a user runs 'hermes update', the Python process caches old modules
in sys.modules. After git pull updates files on disk, lazy imports of
newly-updated modules fail because they try to import display_hermes_home
from the cached (old) hermes_constants which doesn't have the function.
This specifically broke the gateway auto-restart in cmd_update — importing
hermes_cli/gateway.py triggered the top-level 'from hermes_constants
import display_hermes_home' against the cached old module. The ImportError
was silently caught, so the gateway was never restarted after update.
Users with a running gateway then hit the ImportError on their next
Telegram/Discord message when the stale gateway process lazily loaded
run_agent.py (new version) which also had the top-level import.
Fixes:
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: lazy import at call site (line 940)
- run_agent.py: lazy import at call site (line 6927)
- tools/terminal_tool.py: lazy imports at 3 call sites
- tools/tts_tool.py: static schema string (no module-level call)
- hermes_cli/auth.py: lazy import at call site (line 2024)
- hermes_cli/main.py: reload hermes_constants after git pull in cmd_update
Also fixes 4 pre-existing test failures in test_parse_env_var caused by
NameError on display_hermes_home in terminal_tool.py.
When switching providers via 'hermes model', the previous provider's
api_mode persisted in config.yaml. Switching from Copilot
(codex_responses) to a chat_completions provider like Z.AI would send
requests to the wrong endpoint (404).
Set api_mode = chat_completions in the 4 provider flows that were
missing it: OpenRouter, custom endpoint, Kimi, and api_key_provider.
Co-authored-by: Nour Eddine Hamaidi <HenkDz@users.noreply.github.com>
Add skills.external_dirs config option — a list of additional directories
to scan for skills alongside ~/.hermes/skills/. External dirs are read-only:
skill creation/editing always writes to the local dir. Local skills take
precedence when names collide.
This lets users share skills across tools/agents without copying them into
Hermes's own directory (e.g. ~/.agents/skills, /shared/team-skills).
Changes:
- agent/skill_utils.py: add get_external_skills_dirs() and get_all_skills_dirs()
- agent/prompt_builder.py: scan external dirs in build_skills_system_prompt()
- tools/skills_tool.py: _find_all_skills() and skill_view() search external dirs;
security check recognizes configured external dirs as trusted
- agent/skill_commands.py: /skill slash commands discover external skills
- hermes_cli/config.py: add skills.external_dirs to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- cli-config.yaml.example: document the option
- tests/agent/test_external_skills.py: 11 tests covering discovery, precedence,
deduplication, and skill_view for external skills
Requested by community member primco.
Prep for profiles: user-facing messages now use display_hermes_home() so
diagnostic output shows the correct path for each profile.
New helper: display_hermes_home() in hermes_constants.py
12 files swept, ~30 user-facing string replacements.
Includes dynamic TTS schema description.
Adds MATTERMOST_REQUIRE_MENTION and MATTERMOST_FREE_RESPONSE_CHANNELS
env vars, matching Discord's existing mention gating pattern.
- MATTERMOST_REQUIRE_MENTION=false: respond to all channel messages
- MATTERMOST_FREE_RESPONSE_CHANNELS=id1,id2: specific channels where
bot responds without @mention even when require_mention is true
- DMs always respond regardless of mention settings
- @mention is now stripped from message text (clean agent input)
7 new tests for mention gating, free-response channels, DM bypass,
and mention stripping. Updated existing test for mention stripping.
Docs: updated mattermost.md with Mention Behavior section,
environment-variables.md with new vars, config.py with metadata.
Self-hosted Honcho on localhost doesn't require authentication, but
both the activation gates and the SDK client required an API key.
Combined fix from three contributor PRs:
- Relax all 8 activation gates to accept (api_key OR base_url) as
valid credentials (#3482 by @cameronbergh)
- Use 'local' placeholder for the SDK client when base_url points to
localhost/127.0.0.1/::1 (#3570 by @ygd58)
Files changed: run_agent.py (2 gates), cli.py (1 gate),
gateway/run.py (1 gate), honcho_integration/cli.py (2 gates),
hermes_cli/doctor.py (2 gates), honcho_integration/client.py (SDK).
Co-authored-by: cameronbergh <cameronbergh@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: ygd58 <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: devorun <devorun@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds Exa (https://exa.ai) as a fourth web backend alongside Parallel,
Firecrawl, and Tavily. Follows the exact same integration pattern:
- Backend selection: config web.backend=exa or auto-detect from EXA_API_KEY
- Search: _exa_search() with highlights for result descriptions
- Extract: _exa_extract() with full text content extraction
- Lazy singleton client with x-exa-integration header
- Wired into web_search_tool and web_extract_tool dispatchers
- check_web_api_key() and requires_env updated
- CLI: hermes setup summary, hermes tools config, hermes config show
- config.py: EXA_API_KEY in OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS with metadata
- pyproject.toml: exa-py>=2.9.0,<3 in dependencies
Salvaged from PR #1850.
Co-authored-by: louiswalsh <louiswalsh@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(sessions): support stdout when output path is '-' in session export
* fix: style cleanup + extend stdout support to snapshot export
Follow-up for salvaged PR #3617:
- Fix import sys; on one line (style consistency)
- Update help text to mention - for stdout
- Apply same stdout support to hermes skills snapshot export
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Co-authored-by: ygd58 <buraysandro9@gmail.com>
Users intuitively write model: { model: my-model } instead of
model: { default: my-model } and it silently falls back to the
hardcoded default. Now both spellings work across all three config
consumers: runtime_provider, CLI, and gateway.
Co-authored-by: ygd58 <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
Some environments lose pip inside the venv. Before invoking pip install,
check pip --version and bootstrap with ensurepip if missing. Applied to
both update code paths (_update_via_zip and cmd_update).
Salvaged from PR #3359.
Co-authored-by: Git-on-my-level <Git-on-my-level@users.noreply.github.com>
When the plist is deleted (manual cleanup, failed upgrade),
hermes gateway start now regenerates it automatically instead of
failing. Also simplifies the returncode==3 error path since the
plist is guaranteed to exist at that point.
Co-authored-by: Bartok9 <Bartok9@users.noreply.github.com>
Local/custom OpenAI-compatible providers (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM) that
don't require auth were hitting empty api_key rejections from the OpenAI
SDK, especially when used as smart model routing targets.
Uses the same 'no-key-required' placeholder already used in
_resolve_openrouter_runtime() for the identical scenario.
Salvaged from PR #3543.
Co-authored-by: scottlowry <scottlowry@users.noreply.github.com>
Add per-task timeout settings under auxiliary.{task}.timeout in config.yaml
instead of hardcoded values. Users with slow local models (Ollama, llama.cpp)
can now increase timeouts for compression, vision, session search, etc.
Defaults:
- auxiliary.compression.timeout: 120s (was hardcoded 45s)
- auxiliary.vision.timeout: 30s (unchanged)
- all other aux tasks: 30s (was hardcoded 30s)
- title_generator: 30s (was hardcoded 15s)
call_llm/async_call_llm now auto-resolve timeout from config when not
explicitly passed. Callers can still override with an explicit timeout arg.
Based on PR #3406 by alanfwilliams. Converted from env vars to config.yaml
per project conventions.
Co-authored-by: alanfwilliams <alanfwilliams@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds 'hermes webhook' CLI subcommand and a skill — zero new model tools.
CLI commands (require webhook platform to be enabled):
hermes webhook subscribe <name> [--events, --prompt, --deliver, ...]
hermes webhook list
hermes webhook remove <name>
hermes webhook test <name>
All commands gate on webhook platform being enabled in config. If not
configured, prints setup instructions (gateway setup wizard, manual
config.yaml, or env vars).
The agent uses these via terminal tool, guided by the webhook-subscriptions
skill which documents setup, common patterns (GitHub, Stripe, CI/CD,
monitoring), prompt template syntax, security, and troubleshooting.
Adapter enhancement: webhook.py hot-reloads dynamic subscriptions from
~/.hermes/webhook_subscriptions.json on each incoming request (mtime-gated).
Static config.yaml routes always take precedence.
Docs: updated webhooks.md with Dynamic Subscriptions section, added
hermes webhook to cli-commands.md reference.
No new model tools. No toolset changes.
24 new tests for CLI CRUD, persistence, enabled-gate, and adapter
dynamic route loading.
Two fixes for /skills install and /skills uninstall slash commands:
1. input() hangs indefinitely inside prompt_toolkit's TUI event loop,
soft-locking the CLI. The user typing the slash command is already
implicit consent, so confirmation is now always skipped.
2. Cache invalidation was unconditional — installing or uninstalling a
skill mid-session silently broke the prompt cache, increasing costs.
The slash handler now defers cache invalidation by default (skill
takes effect next session). Pass --now to invalidate immediately,
with a message explaining the cost tradeoff. The CLI argparse path
(hermes skills install) is unaffected and still invalidates.
Fixes#3474
Salvaged from PR #3496 by dlkakbs.
hermes update hangs on input() when run from cron, scripts, or piped
contexts. Check both stdin and stdout isatty(), catch EOFError as a
fallback, and print guidance to run 'hermes config migrate' later.
Co-authored-by: phippsbot-byte <phippsbot-byte@users.noreply.github.com>
Salvage of PR #2173 (hanai) and PR #3432 (timknip).
Injects PATH, VIRTUAL_ENV, and HERMES_HOME into the macOS launchd plist so gateway subprocesses find user-installed tools (node, ffmpeg, etc.). Matches systemd unit parity with venv/bin, node_modules/.bin, and resolved node dir in PATH. Includes 7 new tests and docs updates across 4 pages.
Co-Authored-By: Han <ihanai1991@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: timknip <timknip@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fixing mattermost configuration parsing bugs
* fix: add homeassistant to skills_config + platform consistency tests
Follow-up for cherry-picked #3512:
- Add homeassistant to skills_config.py PLATFORMS (was in tools_config
but missing from skills_config)
- Add 3 consistency tests that verify all platforms in tools_config have
matching toolset definitions, gateway includes, and skills_config entries
— prevents this class of bug from recurring
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Co-authored-by: DaneelV3 <dannel@v3rtical.tech>
* feat: GPT tool-use steering + strip budget warnings from history
Two changes to improve tool reliability, especially for OpenAI GPT models:
1. GPT tool-use enforcement prompt: Adds GPT_TOOL_USE_GUIDANCE to the
system prompt when the model name contains 'gpt' and tools are loaded.
This addresses a known behavioral pattern where GPT models describe
intended actions ('I will run the tests') instead of actually making
tool calls. Inspired by similar steering in OpenCode (beast.txt) and
Cline (GPT-5.1 variant).
2. Budget warning history stripping: Budget pressure warnings injected by
_get_budget_warning() into tool results are now stripped when
conversation history is replayed via run_conversation(). Previously,
these turn-scoped signals persisted across turns, causing models to
avoid tool calls in all subsequent messages after any turn that hit
the 70-90% iteration threshold.
* fix: replace hardcoded ~/.hermes paths with get_hermes_home() for profile support
Prep for the upcoming profiles feature — each profile is a separate
HERMES_HOME directory, so all paths must respect the env var.
Fixes:
- gateway/platforms/matrix.py: Matrix E2EE store was hardcoded to
~/.hermes/matrix/store, ignoring HERMES_HOME. Now uses
get_hermes_home() so each profile gets its own Matrix state.
- gateway/platforms/telegram.py: Two locations reading config.yaml via
Path.home()/.hermes instead of get_hermes_home(). DM topic thread_id
persistence and hot-reload would read the wrong config in a profile.
- tools/file_tools.py: Security path for hub index blocking was
hardcoded to ~/.hermes, would miss the actual profile's hub cache.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: Service naming now uses the profile name
(hermes-gateway-coder) instead of a cryptic hash suffix. Extracted
_profile_suffix() helper shared by systemd and launchd.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: Launchd plist path and Label now scoped per
profile (ai.hermes.gateway-coder.plist). Previously all profiles
would collide on the same plist file on macOS.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: Launchd plist now includes HERMES_HOME in
EnvironmentVariables — was missing entirely, making custom
HERMES_HOME broken on macOS launchd (pre-existing bug).
- All launchctl commands in gateway.py, main.py, status.py updated
to use get_launchd_label() instead of hardcoded string.
Test fixes: DM topic tests now set HERMES_HOME env var alongside
Path.home() mock. Launchd test uses get_launchd_label() for expected
commands.
The TOOL_USE_ENFORCEMENT_GUIDANCE injection (added in #3528) was
hardcoded to only match gpt/codex model names. This makes it a
config option so users can turn it on for any model family.
New config key: agent.tool_use_enforcement
- "auto" (default): matches gpt/codex (existing behavior)
- true: inject for all models
- false: never inject
- list of strings: custom model-name substrings to match
e.g. ["gpt", "codex", "deepseek", "qwen"]
No version bump needed — deep merge provides the default
automatically for existing installs.
12 new tests covering all config modes.
dict.get(key, default) only returns default when key is ABSENT.
When YAML has 'key:' with no value, it parses as None — .get()
returns None, then .strip() crashes with AttributeError.
Use (x or '') pattern to handle both missing and null cases.
Salvaged from PR #3217.
Co-authored-by: erosika <erosika@users.noreply.github.com>
The minimax-specific auto-correction in runtime_provider.py was
preventing users from overriding to the OpenAI-compatible endpoint
via MINIMAX_BASE_URL. Users in certain regions get nginx 404 on
api.minimax.io/anthropic and need to switch to api.minimax.chat/v1.
The generic URL-suffix detection already handles /anthropic →
anthropic_messages, so the minimax-specific code was redundant for
the default path and harmful for the override path.
Now: default /anthropic URL works via generic detection, user
override to /v1 gets chat_completions mode naturally.
Closes#3546 (different approach — respects user overrides instead
of changing the default endpoint).
Drop the swe-rex dependency for Modal terminal backend and use the
Modal SDK directly (Sandbox.create + Sandbox.exec). This fixes:
- AsyncUsageWarning from synchronous App.lookup() in async context
- DeprecationError from unencrypted_ports / .url on unencrypted tunnels
(deprecated 2026-03-05)
The new implementation:
- Uses modal.App.lookup.aio() for async-safe app creation
- Uses Sandbox.create.aio() with 'sleep infinity' entrypoint
- Uses Sandbox.exec.aio() for direct command execution (no HTTP server
or tunnel needed)
- Keeps all existing features: persistent filesystem snapshots,
configurable resources (CPU/memory/disk), sudo support, interrupt
handling, _AsyncWorker for event loop safety
Consistent with the Docker backend precedent (PR #2804) where we
removed mini-swe-agent in favor of direct docker run.
Files changed:
- tools/environments/modal.py - core rewrite
- tools/terminal_tool.py - health check: modal instead of swerex
- hermes_cli/setup.py - install modal instead of swe-rex[modal]
- pyproject.toml - modal extra: modal>=1.0.0 instead of swe-rex[modal]
- scripts/kill_modal.sh - grep for hermes-agent instead of swe-rex
- tests/ - updated for new implementation
- environments/README.md - updated patches section
- website/docs - updated install command
The plugin system defined six lifecycle hooks but only pre_tool_call and
post_tool_call were invoked. This activates the remaining four so that
external plugins (e.g. memory systems) can hook into the conversation
loop without touching core code.
Hook semantics:
- on_session_start: fires once when a new session is created
- pre_llm_call: fires once per turn before the tool-calling loop;
plugins can return {"context": "..."} to inject into the ephemeral
system prompt (not cached, not persisted)
- post_llm_call: fires once per turn after the loop completes, with
user_message and assistant_response for sync/storage
- on_session_end: fires at the end of every run_conversation call
invoke_hook() now returns a list of non-None callback return values,
enabling pre_llm_call context injection while remaining backward
compatible (existing hooks that return None are unaffected).
Salvaged from PR #2823.
Co-authored-by: Nicolò Boschi <boschi1997@gmail.com>
Add ~/.local/bin, ~/.cargo/bin, ~/go/bin, ~/.npm-global/bin to the
systemd unit PATH so tools installed via uv/pipx/cargo/go are
discoverable by MCP servers and terminal commands.
Uses a _build_user_local_paths() helper that checks exists() before
adding, and correctly resolves home dir for both user and system
service types.
Co-authored-by: Kal Sze <ksze@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: harden `hermes update` against diverged history, non-main branches, and gateway edge cases
The self-update command (`hermes update` / gateway `/update`) could fail
or silently corrupt state in several scenarios:
1. **Diverged history** — `git pull --ff-only` aborts with a cryptic
subprocess error when upstream has force-pushed or rebased. Now falls
back to `git reset --hard origin/main` since local changes are already
stashed.
2. **User on a feature branch / detached HEAD** — the old code would
either clobber the feature branch HEAD to point at origin/main, or
silently pull against a non-existent remote branch. Now auto-checkouts
main before pulling, with a clear warning.
3. **Fetch failures** — network or auth errors produced raw subprocess
tracebacks. Now shows user-friendly messages ("Network error",
"Authentication failed") with actionable hints.
4. **reset --hard failure** — if the fallback reset itself fails (disk
full, permissions), the old code would still attempt stash restore on
a broken working tree. Now skips restore and tells the user their
changes are safe in stash.
5. **Gateway /update stash conflicts** — non-interactive mode (Telegram
`/update`) called sys.exit(1) when stash restore had conflicts, making
the entire update report as failed even though the code update itself
succeeded. Now treats stash conflicts as non-fatal in non-interactive
mode (returns False instead of exiting).
* fix: restore stash and branch on 'already up to date' early return
The PR moved stash creation before the commit-count check (needed for
the branch-switching feature), but the 'already up to date' early return
didn't restore the stash or switch back to the original branch — leaving
the user stranded on main with changes trapped in a stash.
Now the early-return path restores the stash and checks out the original
branch when applicable.
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Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
- Change default inference_base_url from dashscope-intl Anthropic-compat
endpoint to coding-intl OpenAI-compat /v1 endpoint. The old Anthropic
endpoint 404'd when used with the OpenAI SDK (which appends
/chat/completions to a /apps/anthropic base URL).
- Update curated model list: remove models unavailable on coding-intl
(qwen3-max, qwen-plus-latest, qwen3.5-flash, qwen-vl-max), add
third-party models available on the platform (glm-5, glm-4.7,
kimi-k2.5, MiniMax-M2.5).
- URL-based api_mode auto-detection still works: overriding
DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL to an /apps/anthropic endpoint automatically
switches to anthropic_messages mode.
- Update provider description and env var descriptions to reflect the
coding-intl multi-provider platform.
- Update tests to match new default URL and test the anthropic override
path instead.
Matrix platform was missing from the PLATFORMS config, causing a
KeyError in _get_platform_tools() when handling Matrix messages.
Every other platform (telegram, discord, slack, etc.) was present
but matrix was overlooked.
Co-authored-by: williamtwomey <williamtwomey@users.noreply.github.com>
hermes tools and _get_platform_tools() call get_plugin_toolsets() /
_get_plugin_toolset_keys() without first ensuring plugins have been
discovered. discover_plugins() only runs as a side effect of importing
model_tools.py, which hermes tools never does. This means:
- hermes tools TUI never shows plugin toolsets (invisible to users)
- _get_platform_tools() in standalone processes misses plugin toolsets
Fix: call discover_plugins() (idempotent) in both
_get_plugin_toolset_keys() and _get_effective_configurable_toolsets()
before accessing plugin state. In the gateway/CLI where model_tools.py
is already imported, the call is a no-op (discover_and_load checks
_discovered flag).
Show only agentic models that map to OpenRouter defaults:
Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B ↔ qwen/qwen3.5-plus
Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B ↔ qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 ↔ deepseek/deepseek-chat
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5 ↔ moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 ↔ minimax/minimax-m2.5
zai-org/GLM-5 ↔ z-ai/glm-5
XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2-Flash ↔ xiaomi/mimo-v2-pro
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking ↔ moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking
Users can still pick any HF model via Enter custom model name.
Salvage of PR #1747 (original PR #1171 by @davanstrien) onto current main.
Registers Hugging Face Inference Providers (router.huggingface.co/v1) as a named provider:
- hermes chat --provider huggingface (or --provider hf)
- 18 curated open models via hermes model picker
- HF_TOKEN in ~/.hermes/.env
- OpenAI-compatible endpoint with automatic failover (Groq, Together, SambaNova, etc.)
Files: auth.py, models.py, main.py, setup.py, config.py, model_metadata.py, .env.example, 5 docs pages, 17 new tests.
Co-authored-by: Daniel van Strien <davanstrien@gmail.com>
The API server adapter was creating agents without specifying
enabled_toolsets, causing ALL tools to load — including clarify,
send_message, and text_to_speech which don't work without interactive
callbacks or gateway dispatch.
Changes:
- toolsets.py: Add hermes-api-server toolset (core tools minus clarify,
send_message, text_to_speech)
- api_server.py: Resolve toolsets from config.yaml platform_toolsets
via _get_platform_tools() — same path as all other gateway platforms.
Falls back to hermes-api-server default when no override configured.
- tools_config.py: Add api_server to PLATFORMS dict so users can
customize via 'hermes tools' or platform_toolsets.api_server in
config.yaml
- 12 tests covering toolset definition, config resolution, and
user override
Reported by thatwolfieguy on Discord.
Two changes:
1. Fix /queue command: remove the _agent_running guard that rejected
/queue after the agent finished. The prompt was deferred in
_pending_input until the agent completed, then the handler checked
_agent_running (now False) and rejected it. /queue now always queues
regardless of timing.
2. Add display.busy_input_mode config (CLI-only):
- 'interrupt' (default): Enter while busy interrupts the current run
(preserves existing behavior)
- 'queue': Enter while busy queues the message for the next turn,
with a 'Queued for the next turn: ...' confirmation
Ctrl+C always interrupts regardless of this setting.
Salvaged from PR #3037 by StefanoChiodino. Key differences:
- Default is 'interrupt' (preserves existing behavior) not 'queue'
- No config version bump (unnecessary for new key in existing section)
- Simpler normalization (no alias map)
- /queue fix is simpler: just remove the guard instead of intercepting
commands during busy state
Two bugs caused the OpenClaw migration during first-time setup to be
ineffective, forcing users to reconfigure everything manually:
1. The setup wizard created config.yaml with all defaults BEFORE running
the migration, then the migrator ran with overwrite=False. Every config
setting was reported as a 'conflict' against the defaults and skipped.
Fix: use overwrite=True during setup-time migration (safe because only
defaults exist at that point). The hermes claw migrate CLI command
still defaults to overwrite=False for post-setup use.
2. After migration, the full setup wizard ran all 5 sections unconditionally,
forcing the user through model/terminal/agent/messaging/tools configuration
even when those settings were just imported.
Fix: add _get_section_config_summary() and _skip_configured_section()
helpers. After migration, each section checks if it's already configured
(API keys present, non-default values, platform tokens) and offers
'Reconfigure? [y/N]' with default No. Unconfigured sections still run
normally.
Reported by Dev Bredda on social media.
- add managed modal and gateway-backed tool integrations\n- improve CLI setup, auth, and configuration for subscriber flows\n- expand tests and docs for managed tool support
* feat: config-gated /verbose command for messaging gateway
Add gateway_config_gate field to CommandDef, allowing cli_only commands
to be conditionally available in the gateway based on a config value.
- CommandDef gains gateway_config_gate: str | None — a config dotpath
that, when truthy, overrides cli_only for gateway surfaces
- /verbose uses gateway_config_gate='display.tool_progress_command'
- Default is off (cli_only behavior preserved)
- When enabled, /verbose cycles tool_progress mode (off/new/all/verbose)
in the gateway, saving to config.yaml — same cycle as the CLI
- Gateway helpers (help, telegram menus, slack mapping) dynamically
check config to include/exclude config-gated commands
- GATEWAY_KNOWN_COMMANDS always includes config-gated commands so
the gateway recognizes them and can respond appropriately
- Handles YAML 1.1 bool coercion (bare 'off' parses as False)
- 8 new tests for the config gate mechanism + gateway handler
* docs: document gateway_config_gate and /verbose messaging support
- AGENTS.md: add gateway_config_gate to CommandDef fields
- slash-commands.md: note /verbose can be enabled for messaging, update Notes
- configuration.md: add tool_progress_command to display section + usage note
- cli.md: cross-link to config docs for messaging enablement
- messaging/index.md: show tool_progress_command in config snippet
- plugins.md: add gateway_config_gate to register_command parameter table
When third-party tools (Paperclip orchestrator, etc.) spawn hermes chat
as a subprocess, their sessions pollute user session history and search.
- hermes chat --source <tag> (also HERMES_SESSION_SOURCE env var)
- exclude_sources parameter on list_sessions_rich() and search_messages()
- Sessions with source=tool hidden from sessions list/browse/search
- Third-party adapters pass --source tool to isolate agent sessions
Cherry-picked from PR #3208 by HenkDz.
Co-authored-by: Henkey <noonou7@gmail.com>
Nous Portal now passes through OpenRouter model names and routes from
there. Update the static fallback model list and auxiliary client default
to use OpenRouter-format slugs (provider/model) instead of bare names.
- _PROVIDER_MODELS['nous']: full OpenRouter catalog
- _NOUS_MODEL: google/gemini-3-flash-preview (was gemini-3-flash)
- Updated 4 test assertions for the new default model name
Validate each ZIP member's resolved path against the extraction directory
before extracting. A crafted ZIP with paths like ../../etc/passwd would
previously write outside the target directory.
Fixes#3075
Co-authored-by: Hiren <hiren.thakore58@gmail.com>
* fix(skills): reduce skills.sh resolution churn and preserve trust for wrapped identifiers
- Accept common skills.sh prefix typos (skils-sh/, skils.sh/)
- Strip skills-sh/ prefix in _resolve_trust_level() so trusted repos
stay trusted when installed through skills.sh
- Use resolved identifier (from bundle/meta) for scan_skill source
- Prefer tree search before root scan in _discover_identifier()
- Add _resolve_github_meta() consolidation for inspect flow
Cherry-picked from PR #3001 by kshitijk4poor.
* fix: restore candidate loop in SkillsShSource.fetch() for consistency
The cherry-picked PR only tried the first candidate identifier in
fetch() while inspect() (via _resolve_github_meta) tried all four.
This meant skills at repo/skills/path would be found by inspect but
missed by fetch, forcing it through the heavier _discover_identifier
flow. Restore the candidate loop so both paths behave identically.
Updated the test assertion to match.
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Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Gateway sessions had their own inline toolset resolution that only read
platform_toolsets from config, which never includes MCP server names.
MCP tools were discovered and registered but invisible to the model.
- Replace duplicated gateway toolset resolution in _run_agent() and
_run_background_task() with calls to the shared _get_platform_tools()
- Extend _get_platform_tools() to include globally enabled MCP servers
at runtime (include_default_mcp_servers=True), while config-editing
flows use include_default_mcp_servers=False to avoid persisting
implicit MCP defaults into platform_toolsets
- Add homeassistant to PLATFORMS dict (was missing, caused KeyError)
- Fix CLI entry point to use _get_platform_tools() as well, so MCP
tools are visible in CLI mode too
- Remove redundant platform_key reassignment in _run_background_task
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
The default SOUL.md seeded for new users should match
DEFAULT_AGENT_IDENTITY — a short, neutral identity paragraph.
The elaborate voice spec (avoid lists, dialogue examples, symbol
conventions) was never intended as the default for all users.
Users who want a custom persona write their own SOUL.md.
Three categories of cleanup, all zero-behavioral-change:
1. F-strings without placeholders (154 fixes across 29 files)
- Converted f'...' to '...' where no {expression} was present
- Heaviest files: run_agent.py (24), cli.py (20), honcho_integration/cli.py (34)
2. Simplify defensive patterns in run_agent.py
- Added explicit self._is_anthropic_oauth = False in __init__ (before
the api_mode branch that conditionally sets it)
- Replaced 7x getattr(self, '_is_anthropic_oauth', False) with direct
self._is_anthropic_oauth (attribute always initialized now)
- Added _is_openrouter_url() and _is_anthropic_url() helper methods
- Replaced 3 inline 'openrouter' in self._base_url_lower checks
3. Remove dead code in small files
- hermes_cli/claw.py: removed unused 'total' computation
- tools/fuzzy_match.py: removed unused strip_indent() function and
pattern_stripped variable
Full test suite: 6184 passed, 0 failures
E2E PTY: banner clean, tool calls work, zero garbled ANSI
sessions delete and prune call input() for confirmation without
catching EOFError. When stdin isn't a TTY (piped input, CI/CD, cron),
input() throws EOFError and the command crashes.
Extract a _confirm_prompt() helper that handles EOFError and
KeyboardInterrupt, defaulting to cancel. Both call sites now use it.
Salvaged from PR #2622 by dieutx (improved from duplicated try/except
to shared helper). Closes#2565.
The update commands called bare 'pip' as fallback when uv wasn't found.
On modern Debian/Ubuntu enforcing PEP 668, this resolves to system pip
which refuses to install in an externally-managed environment.
Use sys.executable -m pip to ensure the venv's pip is used. Fixed in
both cmd_update and _update_via_zip (the PR only caught one instance).
Salvaged from PR #2655 by devorun. Fixes#2648.
Cherry-picked from PR #2542 by ReqX. Adds glm-5-turbo to the direct
zai provider curated model list so /model zai:glm-5-turbo validates
correctly. The model was already in _OPENROUTER_UPSTREAM_MODELS but
missing from the direct provider list.
cmd_update calls input() unconditionally during config migration.
In headless environments (Telegram gateway, systemd), there's no TTY,
so input() throws EOFError and the update crashes.
Guard with sys.stdin.isatty(), default to skipping the migration
prompt when non-interactive.
Salvaged from PR #2850 by devorun. Closes#2848.
The /model command is removed from both the interactive CLI and
messenger gateway (Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp). Users can
still change models via 'hermes model' CLI subcommand or by
editing config.yaml directly.
Removed:
- CommandDef entry from COMMAND_REGISTRY
- CLI process_command() handler and model autocomplete logic
- Gateway _handle_model_command() and dispatch
- SlashCommandCompleter model_completer_provider parameter
- Two-stage Tab completion and ghost text for /model
- All /model-specific tests
Unaffected:
- /provider command (read-only, shows current model + providers)
- ACP adapter _cmd_model (separate system for VS Code/Zed/JetBrains)
- model_switch.py module (used by ACP)
- 'hermes model' CLI subcommand
Author: Teknium
Centralizes two widely-duplicated patterns into hermes_constants.py:
1. get_hermes_home() — Path resolution for ~/.hermes (HERMES_HOME env var)
- Was copy-pasted inline across 30+ files as:
Path(os.getenv("HERMES_HOME", Path.home() / ".hermes"))
- Now defined once in hermes_constants.py (zero-dependency module)
- hermes_cli/config.py re-exports it for backward compatibility
- Removed local wrapper functions in honcho_integration/client.py,
tools/website_policy.py, tools/tirith_security.py, hermes_cli/uninstall.py
2. parse_reasoning_effort() — Reasoning effort string validation
- Was copy-pasted in cli.py, gateway/run.py, cron/scheduler.py
- Same validation logic: check against (xhigh, high, medium, low, minimal, none)
- Now defined once in hermes_constants.py, called from all 3 locations
- Warning log for unknown values kept at call sites (context-specific)
31 files changed, net +31 lines (125 insertions, 94 deletions)
Full test suite: 6179 passed, 0 failed
* feat: nix flake, uv2nix build, dev shell and home manager
* fixed nix run, updated docs for setup
* feat(nix): NixOS module with persistent container mode, managed guards, checks
- Replace homeModules.nix with nixosModules.nix (two deployment modes)
- Mode A (native): hardened systemd service with ProtectSystem=strict
- Mode B (container): persistent Ubuntu container with /nix/store bind-mount,
identity-hash-based recreation, GC root protection, symlink-based updates
- Add HERMES_MANAGED guards blocking CLI config mutation (config set, setup,
gateway install/uninstall) when running under NixOS module
- Add nix/checks.nix with build-time verification (binary, CLI, managed guard)
- Remove container.nix (no Nix-built OCI image; pulls ubuntu:24.04 at runtime)
- Simplify packages.nix (drop fetchFromGitHub submodules, PYTHONPATH wrappers)
- Rewrite docs/nixos-setup.md with full options reference, container
architecture, secrets management, and troubleshooting guide
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Update config.py
* feat(nix): add CI workflow and enhanced build checks
- GitHub Actions workflow for nix flake check + build on linux/macOS
- Entry point sync check to catch pyproject.toml drift
- Expanded managed-guard check to cover config edit
- Wrap hermes-acp binary in Nix package
- Fix Path type mismatch in is_managed()
* Update MCP server package name; bundled skills support
* fix reading .env. instead have container user a common mounted .env file
* feat(nix): container entrypoint with privilege drop and sudo provisioning
Container was running as non-root via --user, which broke apt/pip installs
and caused crashes when $HOME didn't exist. Replace --user with a Nix-built
entrypoint script that provisions the hermes user, sudo (NOPASSWD), and
/home/hermes inside the container on first boot, then drops privileges via
setpriv. Writable layer persists so setup only runs once.
Also expands MCP server options to support HTTP transport and sampling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix group and user creation in container mode
* feat(nix): persistent /home/hermes and MESSAGING_CWD in container mode
Container mode now bind-mounts ${stateDir}/home to /home/hermes so the
agent's home directory survives container recreation. Previously it lived
in the writable layer and was lost on image/volume/options changes.
Also passes MESSAGING_CWD to the container so the agent finds its
workspace and documents, matching native mode behavior.
Other changes:
- Extract containerDataDir/containerHomeDir bindings (no more magic strings)
- Fix entrypoint chown to run unconditionally (volume mounts always exist)
- Add schema field to container identity hash for auto-recreation
- Add idempotency test (Scenario G) to config-roundtrip check
* docs: add Nix & NixOS setup guide to docs site
Add comprehensive Nix documentation to the Docusaurus site at
website/docs/getting-started/nix-setup.md, covering nix run/profile
install, NixOS module (native + container modes), declarative settings,
secrets management, MCP servers, managed mode, container architecture,
dev shell, flake checks, and full options reference.
- Register nix-setup in sidebar after installation page
- Add Nix callout tip to installation.md linking to new guide
- Add canonical version pointer in docs/nixos-setup.md
* docs: remove docs/nixos-setup.md, consolidate into website docs
Backfill missing details (restart/restartSec in full example,
gateway.pid, 0750 permissions, docker inspect commands) into
the canonical website/docs/getting-started/nix-setup.md and
delete the old standalone file.
* fix(nix): add compression.protect_last_n and target_ratio to config-keys.json
New keys were added to DEFAULT_CONFIG on main, causing the
config-drift check to fail in CI.
* fix(nix): skip checks on aarch64-darwin (onnxruntime wheel missing)
The full Python venv includes onnxruntime (via faster-whisper/STT)
which lacks a compatible uv2nix wheel on aarch64-darwin. Gate all
checks behind stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux. The package and devShell
still evaluate on macOS.
* fix(nix): skip flake check and build on macOS CI
onnxruntime (transitive dep via faster-whisper) lacks a compatible
uv2nix wheel on aarch64-darwin. Run full checks and build on Linux
only; macOS CI verifies the flake evaluates without building.
* fix(nix): preserve container writable layer across nixos-rebuild
The container identity hash included the entrypoint's Nix store path,
which changes on every nixpkgs update (due to runtimeShell/stdenv
input-addressing). This caused false-positive identity mismatches,
triggering container recreation and losing the persistent writable layer.
- Use stable symlink (current-entrypoint) like current-package already does
- Remove entrypoint from identity hash (only image/volumes/options matter)
- Add GC root for entrypoint so nix-collect-garbage doesn't break it
- Remove global HERMES_HOME env var from addToSystemPackages (conflicted
with interactive CLI use, service already sets its own)
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each subagent now gets its own IterationBudget instead of sharing the
parent's. The per-subagent cap is controlled by delegation.max_iterations
in config.yaml (default 50). Total iterations across parent + subagents
can exceed the parent's max_iterations, but the user retains control via
the config setting.
Previously, subagents shared the parent's budget, so three parallel
subagents configured for max_iterations=50 racing against a parent that
already used 60 of 90 would each only get ~10 iterations.
Inspired by PR #2928 (Bartok9) which identified the issue (#2873).
- threshold: 0.80 → 0.50 (compress at 50%, not 80%)
- target_ratio: 0.40 → 0.20, now relative to threshold not total context
(20% of 50% = 10% of context as tail budget)
- summary ceiling: 32K → 12K (Gemini can't output more than ~12K)
- Updated DEFAULT_CONFIG, config display, example config, and tests
PR #2554 made these configurable via config.yaml but didn't add them
to DEFAULT_CONFIG or the config display. Users couldn't discover the
new knobs without reading the source.
- threshold: 0.80 (compress at 80% context usage)
- target_ratio: 0.40 (preserve 40% of context as recent tail)
- protect_last_n: 20 (keep last 20 messages uncompressed)
- Updated hermes config display to show all three fields
Move OpenRouter to position 1 in the setup wizard's provider list
to match hermes model ordering. Update default selection index and
fix test expectations for the new ordering.
Setup order: OpenRouter → Nous Portal → Codex → Custom → ...
* feat: env var passthrough for skills and user config
Skills that declare required_environment_variables now have those vars
passed through to sandboxed execution environments (execute_code and
terminal). Previously, execute_code stripped all vars containing KEY,
TOKEN, SECRET, etc. and the terminal blocklist removed Hermes
infrastructure vars — both blocked skill-declared env vars.
Two passthrough sources:
1. Skill-scoped (automatic): when a skill is loaded via skill_view and
declares required_environment_variables, vars that are present in
the environment are registered in a session-scoped passthrough set.
2. Config-based (manual): terminal.env_passthrough in config.yaml lets
users explicitly allowlist vars for non-skill use cases.
Changes:
- New module: tools/env_passthrough.py — shared passthrough registry
- hermes_cli/config.py: add terminal.env_passthrough to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- tools/skills_tool.py: register available skill env vars on load
- tools/code_execution_tool.py: check passthrough before filtering
- tools/environments/local.py: check passthrough in _sanitize_subprocess_env
and _make_run_env
- 19 new tests covering all layers
* docs: add environment variable passthrough documentation
Document the env var passthrough feature across four docs pages:
- security.md: new 'Environment Variable Passthrough' section with
full explanation, comparison table, and security considerations
- code-execution.md: update security section, add passthrough subsection,
fix comparison table
- creating-skills.md: add tip about automatic sandbox passthrough
- skills.md: add note about passthrough after secure setup docs
Live-tested: launched interactive CLI, loaded a skill with
required_environment_variables, verified TEST_SKILL_SECRET_KEY was
accessible inside execute_code sandbox (value: passthrough-test-value-42).
Complete cleanup after dropping the mini-swe-agent submodule (PR #2804):
- Remove MSWEA_SILENT_STARTUP and MSWEA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR env var
settings from cli.py, run_agent.py, hermes_cli/main.py, doctor.py
- Remove mini-swe-agent health check from hermes doctor
- Remove 'minisweagent' from logger suppression lists
- Remove litellm/typer/platformdirs from requirements.txt
- Remove mini-swe-agent install steps from install.ps1 (Windows)
- Remove mini-swe-agent install steps from website docs
- Update all stale comments/docstrings referencing mini-swe-agent
in terminal_tool.py, tools/__init__.py, code_execution_tool.py,
environments/README.md, environments/agent_loop.py
- Remove mini_swe_runner from pyproject.toml py-modules
(still exists as standalone script for RL training use)
- Shrink test_minisweagent_path.py to empty stub
The orphaned mini-swe-agent/ directory on disk needs manual removal:
rm -rf mini-swe-agent/
browser_vision and other browser commands had a hardcoded 30-second
subprocess timeout that couldn't be overridden. Users with slower
machines (local Chromium without GPU) would hit timeouts on screenshot
capture even when setting browser.command_timeout in config.yaml,
because nothing read that value.
Changes:
- Add browser.command_timeout to DEFAULT_CONFIG (default: 30s)
- Add _get_command_timeout() helper that reads config, falls back to 30s
- _run_browser_command() now defaults to config value instead of constant
- browser_vision screenshot no longer hardcodes timeout=30
- browser_navigate uses max(config_timeout, 60) as floor for navigation
Reported by Gamer1988.
Phase 4 of the /model command overhaul.
Both the CLI (cli.py) and gateway (gateway/run.py) /model handlers
had ~50 lines of duplicated core logic: parsing, provider detection,
credential resolution, and model validation. This extracts that
pipeline into hermes_cli/model_switch.py.
New module exports:
- ModelSwitchResult: dataclass with all fields both handlers need
- CustomAutoResult: dataclass for bare '/model custom' results
- switch_model(): core pipeline — parse → detect → resolve → validate
- switch_to_custom_provider(): resolve endpoint + auto-detect model
The shared functions are pure (no I/O side effects). Each caller
handles its own platform-specific concerns:
- CLI: sets self.model/provider/etc, calls save_config_value(), prints
- Gateway: writes config.yaml directly, sets env vars, returns markdown
Net result: -244 lines from handlers, +234 lines in shared module.
The handlers are now ~80 lines each (down from ~150+) and can't drift
apart on core logic.
Fixes#2492.
`generate_systemd_unit()` and `get_python_path()` hardcoded `venv`
as the virtualenv directory name. When the virtualenv is `.venv`
(which `setup-hermes.sh` and `.gitignore` both reference), the
generated systemd unit had incorrect VIRTUAL_ENV and PATH variables.
Introduce `_detect_venv_dir()` which:
1. Checks `sys.prefix` vs `sys.base_prefix` to detect the active venv
2. Falls back to probing `.venv` then `venv` under PROJECT_ROOT
Both `get_python_path()` and `generate_systemd_unit()` now use
this detection instead of hardcoded paths.
Co-authored-by: Hermes <hermes@nousresearch.ai>
* feat(model): persist base_url on /model switch, auto-detect for bare /model custom
Phase 2+3 of the /model command overhaul:
Phase 2 — Persist base_url on model switch:
- CLI: save model.base_url when switching to a non-OpenRouter endpoint;
clear it when switching away from custom to prevent stale URLs
leaking into the new provider's resolution
- Gateway: same logic using direct YAML write
Phase 3 — Better feedback and edge cases:
- Bare '/model custom' now auto-detects the model from the endpoint
using _auto_detect_local_model() and saves all three config values
(model, provider, base_url) atomically
- Shows endpoint URL in success messages when switching to/from
custom providers (both CLI and gateway)
- Clear error messages when no custom endpoint is configured
- Updated test assertions for the additional save_config_value call
Fixes#2562 (Phase 2+3)
* feat(model): support custom:name:model triple syntax for named custom providers
Phase 5 of the /model command overhaul.
Extends parse_model_input() to handle the triple syntax:
/model custom:local-server:qwen → provider='custom:local-server', model='qwen'
/model custom:my-model → provider='custom', model='my-model' (unchanged)
The 'custom:local-server' provider string is already supported by
_get_named_custom_provider() in runtime_provider.py, which matches
it against the custom_providers list in config.yaml. This just wires
the parsing so users can do it from the /model slash command.
Added 4 tests covering single, triple, whitespace, and empty model cases.
resolve_provider('custom') was silently returning 'openrouter', causing
users who set provider: custom in config.yaml to unknowingly route
through OpenRouter instead of their local/custom endpoint. The display
showed 'via openrouter' even when the user explicitly chose custom.
Changes:
- auth.py: Split the conditional so 'custom' returns 'custom' as-is
- runtime_provider.py: _resolve_named_custom_runtime now returns
provider='custom' instead of 'openrouter'
- runtime_provider.py: _resolve_openrouter_runtime returns
provider='custom' when that was explicitly requested
- Add 'no-key-required' placeholder for keyless local servers
- Update existing test + add 5 new tests covering the fix
Fixes#2562
* feat(config): support ${ENV_VAR} substitution in config.yaml
* fix: extend env var expansion to CLI and gateway config loaders
The original PR (#2680) only wired _expand_env_vars into load_config(),
which is used by 'hermes tools' and 'hermes setup'. The two primary
config paths were missed:
- load_cli_config() in cli.py (interactive CLI)
- Module-level _cfg in gateway/run.py (gateway — bridges api_keys to env vars)
Also:
- Remove redundant 'import re' (already imported at module level)
- Add missing blank lines between top-level functions (PEP 8)
- Add tests for load_cli_config() expansion
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Co-authored-by: teyrebaz33 <hakanerten02@hotmail.com>
Cherry-picked from PR #2576 by ereid7, plus read-side fix from 173a5c62.
Both fixes were originally landed in 173a5c62 but were inadvertently
reverted by commit 34be3f8b (a squash-merge that bundled unrelated
tools_config.py changes).
Save side (_save_platform_tools): exclude platform default toolset
names (hermes-cli, hermes-telegram) from preserved entries so they
don't silently re-enable everything.
Read side (_get_platform_tools): when the saved list contains explicit
configurable keys, use direct membership instead of subset inference.
The subset approach is broken when composite toolsets like hermes-cli
resolve to ALL tools.
Based on PR #2454 by @kshitijk4poor (reimplemented lean — 127 lines
vs original 715).
Type @ in the CLI input to get autocomplete suggestions for context
references:
- Static: @diff, @staged, @file:, @folder:, @git:, @url:
- @file:path and @folder:path browse the filesystem
- Bare @ or @partial shows matching files/folders from cwd
Dropped from original: .hermesignore walking, custom shell tokenizer,
PathToken dataclass, fuzzy matching, token estimates. Kept: all
user-facing functionality.
Reads auxiliary.vision.timeout from config.yaml (default: 30s) and
passes it to async_call_llm. Useful for slow local vision models
that need more than 30 seconds.
Setting is in config.yaml (not .env) since it's not a secret:
auxiliary:
vision:
timeout: 120
Based on PR #2306.
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: respect DashScope v1 runtime mode for alibaba
Remove the hardcoded Alibaba branch from resolve_runtime_provider()
that forced api_mode='anthropic_messages' regardless of the base URL.
Alibaba now goes through the generic API-key provider path, which
auto-detects the protocol from the URL:
- /apps/anthropic → anthropic_messages (via endswith check)
- /v1 → chat_completions (default)
This fixes Alibaba setup with OpenAI-compatible DashScope endpoints
(e.g. coding-intl.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1) that were broken because
runtime always forced Anthropic mode even when setup saved a /v1 URL.
Based on PR #2024 by @kshitijk4poor.
* docs(skill): add split, merge, search examples to ocr-and-documents skill
Adds pymupdf examples for PDF splitting, merging, and text search
to the existing ocr-and-documents skill. No new dependencies — pymupdf
already covers all three operations natively.
* fix: replace all production print() calls with logger in rl_training_tool
Replace all bare print() calls in production code paths with proper logger calls.
- Add `import logging` and module-level `logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)`
- Replace print() in _start_training_run() with logger.info()
- Replace print() in _stop_training_run() with logger.info()
- Replace print(Warning/Note) calls with logger.warning() and logger.info()
Using the logging framework allows log level filtering, proper formatting,
and log routing instead of always printing to stdout.
* fix(gateway): process /queue'd messages after agent completion
/queue stored messages in adapter._pending_messages but never consumed
them after normal (non-interrupted) completion. The consumption path
at line 5219 only checked pending messages when result.get('interrupted')
was True — since /queue deliberately doesn't interrupt, queued messages
were silently dropped.
Now checks adapter._pending_messages after both interrupted AND normal
completion. For queued messages (non-interrupt), the first response is
delivered before recursing to process the queued follow-up. Skips the
direct send when streaming already delivered the response.
Reported by GhostMode on Discord.
* chore: add minimax/minimax-m2.7 to OpenRouter and MiniMax model catalogs
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Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: memosr.eth <96793918+memosr@users.noreply.github.com>
Reverts the sanitizer addition from PR #2466 (originally #2129).
We already have _empty_content_retries handling for reasoning-only
responses. The trailing strip risks silently eating valid messages
and is redundant with existing empty-content handling.
Add hermes mcp add/remove/list/test/configure CLI for managing MCP
server connections interactively. Discovery-first 'add' flow connects,
discovers tools, and lets users select which to enable via curses checklist.
Add OAuth 2.1 PKCE authentication for MCP HTTP servers (RFC 7636).
Supports browser-based and manual (headless) authorization, token
caching with 0600 permissions, automatic refresh. Zero external deps.
Add ${ENV_VAR} interpolation in MCP server config values, resolved
from os.environ + ~/.hermes/.env at load time.
Core OAuth module from PR #2021 by @imnotdev25. CLI and mcp_tool
wiring rewritten against current main. Closes#497, #690.
* docs: add Gemini OAuth provider implementation plan
Planning doc for a standard-route Gemini provider using Google OAuth
(Authorization Code + PKCE) with the OpenAI-compatible endpoint at
generativelanguage.googleapis.com. Covers OAuth flow, token lifecycle,
file list, and estimated scope (~700 lines).
Replaces the Node.js bridge approach from PR #2042.
* chore: update OpenRouter model list
- Add xiaomi/mimo-v2-pro
- Add nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b (paid, higher rate limits)
- Remove openrouter/hunter-alpha and openrouter/healer-alpha (discontinued)
Closes#2453
The DEFAULT_CONFIG was hardcoding google/gemini-3-flash-preview as the
summary_model for context compression. This caused unexpected OpenRouter
charges for users who configured a different provider/model, because the
compression task would silently fall back to gemini via OpenRouter even
when the user's main model was on a different provider.
Fix: change summary_model default to empty string. When empty,
call_llm() resolves the model through the standard auto-detection chain
(auxiliary.compression config -> env vars -> main provider), which
correctly uses the user's configured provider and model.
Users who want a dedicated cheap model for compression can still
explicitly set compression.summary_model in their config.yaml.
Remove the hardcoded Alibaba branch from resolve_runtime_provider()
that forced api_mode='anthropic_messages' regardless of the base URL.
Alibaba now goes through the generic API-key provider path, which
auto-detects the protocol from the URL:
- /apps/anthropic → anthropic_messages (via endswith check)
- /v1 → chat_completions (default)
This fixes Alibaba setup with OpenAI-compatible DashScope endpoints
(e.g. coding-intl.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1) that were broken because
runtime always forced Anthropic mode even when setup saved a /v1 URL.
Based on PR #2024 by @kshitijk4poor.
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Cherry-picked from PR #2122 by @AtlasMeridia.
1. do_inspect bytes crash: bundle.files returns bytes for official
skills, .split() expected str. Added decode guard.
2. GitHub redirects: three httpx.get calls missing follow_redirects=True,
causing silent 301 failures on renamed orgs.
3. Skill discovery fallback: scan repo root directories when standard
paths (skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/) miss.
4. tap list KeyError: t['repo'] crashes for local taps. Use safe .get().
auth_type was "***" instead of "api_key" and api_key_env_vars was
("OPEN...",) instead of ("OPENCODE_GO_API_KEY",). This was introduced
in 35d948b6 when a secret redaction tool masked these values during
the Kilo Code provider commit. OpenCode Go provider was completely
broken as a result.
When 'hermes update' stashes local changes and the restore hits
conflicts, the previous behavior silently ran 'git reset --hard HEAD'
to clean up. This could surprise users who didn't realize their
working tree was being nuked.
Now the conflict handler:
- Lists the specific conflicted files
- Reassures the user their stash is preserved
- Asks before resetting (interactive mode)
- Auto-resets in non-interactive mode (prompt_user=False)
- If declined, leaves the working tree as-is with guidance
When `hermes update` stashes local changes and the subsequent
`git stash apply` fails or leaves unmerged files, the conflict markers
(<<<<<<< etc.) were left in the working tree, making Hermes unrunnable
until manually cleaned up.
Now the update command runs `git reset --hard HEAD` to restore a clean
working tree before exiting, and also detects unmerged files even when
git stash apply reports success.
Closes#2348
Only honor config.model.base_url for Anthropic resolution when
config.model.provider is actually "anthropic". This prevents a Codex
(or other provider) base_url from leaking into Anthropic runtime and
auxiliary client paths, which would send requests to the wrong
endpoint.
Closes#2384
Add has_usable_secret() to reject empty, short (<4 char), and common
placeholder API key values (changeme, your_api_key, placeholder, etc.)
throughout the auth/runtime resolution chain.
Update list_available_providers() to use provider-specific auth status
via get_auth_status() instead of resolve_runtime_provider(), preventing
cross-provider key fallback from making providers appear available when
they aren't actually configured.
Preserve keyless custom endpoint support by checking via base URL.
Cherry-picked from PR #2121 by aashizpoudel.
- Add resolve_config_path(): checks $HERMES_HOME/honcho.json first,
falls back to ~/.honcho/config.json. Enables isolated Hermes instances
with independent Honcho credentials and settings.
- Update CLI and doctor to use resolved path instead of hardcoded global.
- Change default session_strategy from per-session to per-directory.
Part 1 of #1962 by @erosika.
Cherry-picked from PR #2319 by @itenev.
When the gateway fails to connect (e.g. PrivilegedIntentsRequired,
missing token), systemd's default RestartSec=10 with no start rate
limit causes rapid reconnect storms flooding logs and triggering
platform-side rate limits.
- StartLimitIntervalSec=600 + StartLimitBurst=5 in [Unit] (max 5
restarts per 10 min)
- RestartSec: 10 → 30
- Applied to both templates in gateway.py and scripts/hermes-gateway
Same bug as opencode-zen/go — alibaba fell through to the OpenRouter
model list instead of using _setup_provider_model_selection() which
probes the provider's own /models endpoint.
All user-selectable providers now have correct model selection routing.
After selecting OpenCode Zen or Go as provider in hermes setup, the
model selection page showed OpenRouter models because these providers
weren't in the list that routes to _setup_provider_model_selection().
They fell through to the else branch which shows the OpenRouter catalog.
Users ended up with an OpenCode API key but an OpenRouter model name,
causing 'Provider resolver returned an empty API key' on first use.
Fix: add opencode-zen and opencode-go to the provider list that uses
_setup_provider_model_selection() for live /models detection.
Fresh installs without pull.rebase configured hit a git error when
running hermes update because git doesn't know how to reconcile
divergent branches. --ff-only is the right strategy: it works for the
normal case (local branch is behind remote) and fails cleanly if the
user somehow has local commits, rather than silently rebasing them.
The top-level 'toolsets' key in config.yaml was never read at runtime.
Tool selection uses platform_toolsets (per-platform) or the --toolsets
CLI flag. The key existed in load_cli_config() defaults and the example
config as 'toolsets: [all]', misleading users into thinking it
controlled tool availability.
- Remove from load_cli_config() hardcoded defaults
- Remove from hermes config show output
- Replace in cli-config.yaml.example with deprecation note pointing
to platform_toolsets and hermes tools
Two bugs in the save/load roundtrip for platform_toolsets:
1. _save_platform_tools preserved composite toolset entries (hermes-cli,
hermes-telegram, etc.) because they weren't in configurable_keys.
These composites include ALL _HERMES_CORE_TOOLS, so having hermes-cli
in the saved list alongside individual keys negated any disables —
the subset check always found the disabled toolset's tools via the
composite entry.
Fix: also filter out known TOOLSETS keys from preserved entries. Only
truly unknown entries (MCP server names, custom entries) are kept.
2. _get_platform_tools used reverse subset inference to determine which
configurable toolsets were enabled. This is inherently broken when
tools appear in multiple toolsets (e.g. HA tools in both the
homeassistant toolset and _HERMES_CORE_TOOLS).
Fix: when the saved list contains explicit configurable keys (meaning
the user has configured this platform), use direct membership instead
of subset inference. The fallback path still handles legacy configs
that only have a composite entry like hermes-cli.
- Changed the ANSI escape code for gold color in cli.py and banner.py to use true-color format (#FFD700) for better visual consistency.
- Enhanced the _on_tool_progress method in HermesCLI to update the TUI spinner with tool execution status, improving user feedback during operations.
These changes improve the visual representation and user experience in the command-line interface.
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Adds /queue <prompt> (alias /q) that queues a message for the next
turn while the agent is busy, without interrupting the current run.
- CLI: /queue <prompt> puts it in _pending_input for the next turn
- Gateway: /queue <prompt> creates a pending MessageEvent on the
adapter, picked up after the current agent run finishes
- Enter still interrupts as usual (no behavior change)
- /queue with no prompt shows usage
- /queue when agent is idle tells user to just type normally
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Replace the fragile hardcoded context length system with a multi-source
resolution chain that correctly identifies context windows per provider.
Key changes:
- New agent/models_dev.py: Fetches and caches the models.dev registry
(3800+ models across 100+ providers with per-provider context windows).
In-memory cache (1hr TTL) + disk cache for cold starts.
- Rewritten get_model_context_length() resolution chain:
0. Config override (model.context_length)
1. Custom providers per-model context_length
2. Persistent disk cache
3. Endpoint /models (local servers)
4. Anthropic /v1/models API (max_input_tokens, API-key only)
5. OpenRouter live API (existing, unchanged)
6. Nous suffix-match via OpenRouter (dot/dash normalization)
7. models.dev registry lookup (provider-aware)
8. Thin hardcoded defaults (broad family patterns)
9. 128K fallback (was 2M)
- Provider-aware context: same model now correctly resolves to different
context windows per provider (e.g. claude-opus-4.6: 1M on Anthropic,
128K on GitHub Copilot). Provider name flows through ContextCompressor.
- DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LENGTHS shrunk from 80+ entries to ~16 broad patterns.
models.dev replaces the per-model hardcoding.
- CONTEXT_PROBE_TIERS changed from [2M, 1M, 512K, 200K, 128K, 64K, 32K]
to [128K, 64K, 32K, 16K, 8K]. Unknown models no longer start at 2M.
- hermes model: prompts for context_length when configuring custom
endpoints. Supports shorthand (32k, 128K). Saved to custom_providers
per-model config.
- custom_providers schema extended with optional models dict for
per-model context_length (backward compatible).
- Nous Portal: suffix-matches bare IDs (claude-opus-4-6) against
OpenRouter's prefixed IDs (anthropic/claude-opus-4.6) with dot/dash
normalization. Handles all 15 current Nous models.
- Anthropic direct: queries /v1/models for max_input_tokens. Only works
with regular API keys (sk-ant-api*), not OAuth tokens. Falls through
to models.dev for OAuth users.
Tests: 5574 passed (18 new tests for models_dev + updated probe tiers)
Docs: Updated configuration.md context length section, AGENTS.md
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Based on PR #1859 by @magi-morph (too stale to cherry-pick, reimplemented).
GPT-5.x models reject tool calls + reasoning_effort on
/v1/chat/completions with a 400 error directing to /v1/responses.
This auto-detects api.openai.com in the base URL and switches to
codex_responses mode in three places:
- AIAgent.__init__: upgrades chat_completions → codex_responses
- _try_activate_fallback(): same routing for fallback model
- runtime_provider.py: _detect_api_mode_for_url() for both custom
provider and openrouter runtime resolution paths
Also extracts _is_direct_openai_url() helper to replace the inline
check in _max_tokens_param().
Cherry-picked from PR #2120 by @unclebumpy.
- from_env() now reads HONCHO_BASE_URL and enables Honcho when base_url
is set, even without an API key
- from_global_config() reads baseUrl from config root with
HONCHO_BASE_URL env var as fallback
- get_honcho_client() guard relaxed to allow base_url without api_key
for no-auth local instances
- Added HONCHO_BASE_URL to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS registry
Result: Setting HONCHO_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8000 in ~/.hermes/.env
now correctly routes the Honcho client to a local instance.
Show complete session IDs in 'hermes sessions list' instead of
truncating to 20 characters. Widens title column from 20→30 chars
and adjusts header widths accordingly.
Fixes#2068. Based on PR #2085 by @Nebula037 with a correction
to preserve the no-titles layout (the original PR accidentally
replaced the Preview/Src header with a duplicate Title/Preview header).
MiniMax's default base URL was /v1 which caused runtime_provider to
default to chat_completions mode (OpenAI-style Authorization: Bearer
header). MiniMax rejects this with a 401 because they require the
Anthropic-style x-api-key header.
Changes:
- auth.py: Change default inference_base_url for minimax and minimax-cn
from /v1 to /anthropic
- runtime_provider.py: Auto-correct stale /v1 URLs from existing .env
files to /anthropic, and always default minimax/minimax-cn providers
to anthropic_messages mode
- Update tests to reflect new defaults, add tests for stale URL
auto-correction and explicit api_mode override
Based on PR #2100 by @devorun. Fixes#2094.
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
Two issues with /model preventing proper provider switching:
1. Bare provider names not detected: typing '/model nous' treated 'nous'
as a model name instead of triggering a provider switch. Fixed by adding
step 0 in detect_provider_for_model() that checks if the input matches
a known provider name/alias (excluding 'custom'/'openrouter' which need
explicit model names) and returns that provider's default model.
2. Custom endpoint details hidden: /model (no args) showed '[custom]' with
just a usage hint but no endpoint URL or model name. Now displays the
configured base_url for custom providers in both CLI and gateway.
Note: config base_url and OPENAI_BASE_URL are intentionally NOT cleared on
provider switch — dedicated provider paths (nous, anthropic, codex) have
their own credential resolution that ignores these, and clearing them would
destroy the user's custom endpoint config, preventing switching back.
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
* fix: detect context length for custom model endpoints via fuzzy matching + config override
Custom model endpoints (non-OpenRouter, non-known-provider) were silently
falling back to 2M tokens when the model name didn't exactly match what the
endpoint's /v1/models reported. This happened because:
1. Endpoint metadata lookup used exact match only — model name mismatches
(e.g. 'qwen3.5:9b' vs 'Qwen3.5-9B-Q4_K_M.gguf') caused a miss
2. Single-model servers (common for local inference) required exact name
match even though only one model was loaded
3. No user escape hatch to manually set context length
Changes:
- Add fuzzy matching for endpoint model metadata: single-model servers
use the only available model regardless of name; multi-model servers
try substring matching in both directions
- Add model.context_length config override (highest priority) so users
can explicitly set their model's context length in config.yaml
- Log an informative message when falling back to 2M probe, telling
users about the config override option
- Thread config_context_length through ContextCompressor and AIAgent init
Tests: 6 new tests covering fuzzy match, single-model fallback, config
override (including zero/None edge cases).
* fix: auto-detect local model name and context length for local servers
Cherry-picked from PR #2043 by sudoingX.
- Auto-detect model name from local server's /v1/models when only one
model is loaded (no manual model name config needed)
- Add n_ctx_train and n_ctx to context length detection keys for llama.cpp
- Query llama.cpp /props endpoint for actual allocated context (not just
training context from GGUF metadata)
- Strip .gguf suffix from display in banner and status bar
- _auto_detect_local_model() in runtime_provider.py for CLI init
Co-authored-by: sudo <sudoingx@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: revert accidental summary_target_tokens change + add docs for context_length config
- Revert summary_target_tokens from 2500 back to 500 (accidental change
during patching)
- Add 'Context Length Detection' section to Custom & Self-Hosted docs
explaining model.context_length config override
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The gateway approval system previously intercepted bare 'yes'/'no' text
from the user's next message to approve/deny dangerous commands. This was
fragile and dangerous — if the agent asked a clarify question and the user
said 'yes' to answer it, the gateway would execute the pending dangerous
command instead. (Fixes#1888)
Changes:
- Remove bare text matching ('yes', 'y', 'approve', 'ok', etc.) from
_handle_message approval check
- Add /approve and /deny as gateway-only slash commands in the command
registry
- /approve supports scoping: /approve (one-time), /approve session,
/approve always (permanent)
- Add 5-minute timeout for stale approvals
- Gateway appends structured instructions to the agent response when a
dangerous command is pending, telling the user exactly how to respond
- 9 tests covering approve, deny, timeout, scoping, and verification
that bare 'yes' no longer triggers execution
Credit to @solo386 and @FlyByNight69420 for identifying and reporting
this security issue in PR #1971 and issue #1888.
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
After #1675 removed ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL env var support, the Anthropic
provider base URL was hardcoded to https://api.anthropic.com. Now reads
model.base_url from config.yaml as an override, falling back to the
default when not set. Also applies to the auxiliary client.
Cherry-picked from PR #1949 by @rivercrab26.
Co-authored-by: rivercrab26 <rivercrab26@users.noreply.github.com>
Three bugs prevented providers like MiniMax from using their
Anthropic-compatible endpoints (e.g. api.minimax.io/anthropic):
1. _VALID_API_MODES was missing 'anthropic_messages', so explicit
api_mode config was silently rejected and defaulted to
chat_completions.
2. API-key provider resolution hardcoded api_mode to 'chat_completions'
without checking model config or detecting Anthropic-compatible URLs.
3. run_agent.py auto-detection only recognized api.anthropic.com, not
third-party endpoints using the /anthropic URL convention.
Fixes:
- Add 'anthropic_messages' to _VALID_API_MODES
- API-key providers now check model config api_mode and auto-detect
URLs ending in /anthropic
- run_agent.py and fallback logic detect /anthropic URL convention
- 5 new tests covering all scenarios
Users can now either:
- Set MINIMAX_BASE_URL=https://api.minimax.io/anthropic (auto-detected)
- Set api_mode: anthropic_messages in model config (explicit)
- Use custom_providers with api_mode: anthropic_messages
Co-authored-by: Test <test@test.com>
When provider: custom is set in config.yaml with base_url and api_key,
those values are now used instead of falling back to OPENAI_BASE_URL and
OPENAI_API_KEY env vars. Also reads the 'api' field as an alternative to
'api_key' for config compatibility.
Cherry-picked from PR #1762 by crazywriter1.
Co-authored-by: crazywriter1 <53251494+crazywriter1@users.noreply.github.com>
The previous copilot_model_api_mode() checked the catalog's
supported_endpoints first and picked /chat/completions when a model
supported both endpoints. This is wrong — GPT-5+ models should use
the Responses API even when the catalog lists both.
Replicate opencode's shouldUseCopilotResponsesApi() logic:
- GPT-5+ models (gpt-5.4, gpt-5.3-codex, etc.) → Responses API
- gpt-5-mini → Chat Completions (explicit exception)
- Everything else (gpt-4o, claude, gemini, etc.) → Chat Completions
- Model ID pattern is the primary signal, catalog is secondary
The catalog fallback now only matters for non-GPT-5 models that might
exclusively support /v1/messages (e.g. Claude via Copilot).
Models are auto-detected from the live catalog at
api.githubcopilot.com/models — no hardcoded list required for
supported models, only a static fallback for when the API is
unreachable.
Adds /statusbar (alias /sb) to show/hide the bottom status bar that
displays model name, context usage, and session duration.
Uses ConditionalContainer so the bar takes zero space when hidden
rather than leaving a blank line.
- Add anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
- Move gpt-5.4-pro and gpt-5.4-nano to bottom
- Fix minimax/minimax-m2.7 → minimax-m2.5 (m2.7 not on OpenRouter)
- Tag hunter-alpha and healer-alpha as free
- Place hunter/healer-alpha right below gpt-5.4-mini
Builds on PR #1879's Copilot integration with critical auth improvements
modeled after opencode's implementation:
- Add hermes_cli/copilot_auth.py with:
- OAuth device code flow (copilot_device_code_login) using the same
client_id (Ov23li8tweQw6odWQebz) as opencode and Copilot CLI
- Token type validation: reject classic PATs (ghp_*) with a clear
error message explaining supported token types
- Proper env var priority: COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN > GH_TOKEN > GITHUB_TOKEN
(matching Copilot CLI documentation)
- copilot_request_headers() with Openai-Intent, x-initiator, and
Copilot-Vision-Request headers (matching opencode)
- Update auth.py:
- PROVIDER_REGISTRY copilot entry uses correct env var order
- _resolve_api_key_provider_secret delegates to copilot_auth for
the copilot provider with proper token validation
- Update models.py:
- copilot_default_headers() now includes Openai-Intent and x-initiator
- Update main.py:
- _model_flow_copilot offers OAuth device code login when no token
is found, with manual token entry as fallback
- Shows supported vs unsupported token types
- 22 new tests covering token validation, env var priority, header
generation, and integration with existing auth infrastructure
- Strip '_tools' suffix from internal toolset identifiers in the banner
(e.g. 'web_tools' -> 'web', 'homeassistant_tools' -> 'homeassistant')
- Stop appending '_tools' to unavailable toolset names
- Replace 6 hardcoded hex colors (#B8860B, #FFBF00, #FFF8DC) in toolset
rows, overflow line, and MCP server rows with the skin variables
(dim, accent, text) already resolved at the top of the function
Inspired by PR #1871 by @kshitijk4poor.
Adds 4 tests.
* fix: banner skill count now respects disabled skills and platform filtering
The banner's get_available_skills() was doing a raw rglob scan of
~/.hermes/skills/ without checking:
- Whether skills are disabled (skills.disabled config)
- Whether skills match the current platform (platforms: frontmatter)
This caused the banner to show inflated skill counts (e.g. '100 skills'
when many are disabled) and list macOS-only skills on Linux.
Fix: delegate to _find_all_skills() from tools/skills_tool which already
handles both platform gating and disabled-skill filtering.
* fix: system prompt and slash commands now respect disabled skills
Two more places where disabled skills were still surfaced:
1. build_skills_system_prompt() in prompt_builder.py — disabled skills
appeared in the <available_skills> system prompt section, causing
the agent to suggest/load them despite being disabled.
2. scan_skill_commands() in skill_commands.py — disabled skills still
registered as /skill-name slash commands in CLI help and could be
invoked.
Both now load _get_disabled_skill_names() and filter accordingly.
* fix: skill_view blocks disabled skills
skill_view() checked platform compatibility but not disabled state,
so the agent could still load and read disabled skills directly.
Now returns a clear error when a disabled skill is requested, telling
the user to enable it via hermes skills or inspect the files manually.
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Recognize hermes_cli/main.py gateway command lines in gateway
process detection and PID validation so --replace reliably finds
existing gateway instances.
Adds a regression test covering script-style cmdline detection.
Closes#1830
Add _wait_for_gateway_exit() that polls get_running_pid() to confirm
the old gateway process has actually exited before starting a new one.
If the process doesn't exit within 5s, sends SIGKILL to the specific
PID. Uses the saved PID from gateway.pid (not launchd labels) so it
works correctly with multiple gateway instances under separate
HERMES_HOME directories.
Applied to both launchd_restart() and the manual restart path (replaces
the blind time.sleep(2)).
Inspired by PR #1881 by @AzothZephyr (race condition diagnosis).
Adds 4 tests.
MiniMax: Add M2.7 and M2.7-highspeed as new defaults across provider
model lists, auxiliary client, metadata, setup wizard, RL training tool,
fallback tests, and docs. Retain M2.5/M2.1 as alternatives.
OpenRouter: Add grok-4.20-beta, nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free,
trinity-large-preview:free, glm-5-turbo, and hunter-alpha to the
model catalog.
MiniMax changes based on PR #1882 by @octo-patch (applied manually
due to stale conflicts in refactored pricing module).
Add first-class GitHub Copilot and Copilot ACP provider support across
model selection, runtime provider resolution, CLI sessions, delegated
subagents, cron jobs, and the Telegram gateway.
This also normalizes Copilot model catalogs and API modes, introduces a
Copilot ACP OpenAI-compatible shim, and fixes service-mode auth by
resolving Homebrew-installed gh binaries under launchd.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
The /browser command handler existed in cli.py but was never added to
COMMAND_REGISTRY after the centralized command registry refactor. This
meant:
- /browser didn't appear in /help
- No tab-completion or subcommand suggestions
- Dispatch used _base_word fallback instead of canonical resolution
Added CommandDef with connect/disconnect/status subcommands and
switched dispatch to use canonical instead of _base_word.
* feat: OpenAI-compatible API server platform adapter
Salvaged from PR #956, updated for current main.
Adds an HTTP API server as a gateway platform adapter that exposes
hermes-agent via the OpenAI Chat Completions and Responses APIs.
Any OpenAI-compatible frontend (Open WebUI, LobeChat, LibreChat,
AnythingLLM, NextChat, ChatBox, etc.) can connect by pointing at
http://localhost:8642/v1.
Endpoints:
- POST /v1/chat/completions — stateless Chat Completions API
- POST /v1/responses — stateful Responses API with chaining
- GET /v1/responses/{id} — retrieve stored response
- DELETE /v1/responses/{id} — delete stored response
- GET /v1/models — list hermes-agent as available model
- GET /health — health check
Features:
- Real SSE streaming via stream_delta_callback (uses main's streaming)
- In-memory LRU response store for Responses API conversation chaining
- Named conversations via 'conversation' parameter
- Bearer token auth (optional, via API_SERVER_KEY)
- CORS support for browser-based frontends
- System prompt layering (frontend system messages on top of core)
- Real token usage tracking in responses
Integration points:
- Platform.API_SERVER in gateway/config.py
- _create_adapter() branch in gateway/run.py
- API_SERVER_* env vars in hermes_cli/config.py
- Env var overrides in gateway/config.py _apply_env_overrides()
Changes vs original PR #956:
- Removed streaming infrastructure (already on main via stream_consumer.py)
- Removed Telegram reply_to_mode (separate feature, not included)
- Updated _resolve_model() -> _resolve_gateway_model()
- Updated stream_callback -> stream_delta_callback
- Updated connect()/disconnect() to use _mark_connected()/_mark_disconnected()
- Adapted to current Platform enum (includes MATTERMOST, MATRIX, DINGTALK)
Tests: 72 new tests, all passing
Docs: API server guide, Open WebUI integration guide, env var reference
* feat(whatsapp): make reply prefix configurable via config.yaml
Reworked from PR #1764 (ifrederico) to use config.yaml instead of .env.
The WhatsApp bridge prepends a header to every outgoing message.
This was hardcoded to '⚕ *Hermes Agent*'. Users can now customize
or disable it via config.yaml:
whatsapp:
reply_prefix: '' # disable header
reply_prefix: '🤖 *My Bot*\n───\n' # custom prefix
How it works:
- load_gateway_config() reads whatsapp.reply_prefix from config.yaml
and stores it in PlatformConfig.extra['reply_prefix']
- WhatsAppAdapter reads it from config.extra at init
- When spawning bridge.js, the adapter passes it as
WHATSAPP_REPLY_PREFIX in the subprocess environment
- bridge.js handles undefined (default), empty (no header),
or custom values with \\n escape support
- Self-chat echo suppression uses the configured prefix
Also fixes _config_version: was 9 but ENV_VARS_BY_VERSION had a
key 10 (TAVILY_API_KEY), so existing users at v9 would never be
prompted for Tavily. Bumped to 10 to close the gap. Added a
regression test to prevent this from happening again.
Credit: ifrederico (PR #1764) for the bridge.js implementation
and the config version gap discovery.
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The OpenCode Zen and OpenCode Go setup sections used prompt_text()
which is undefined. All other providers correctly use the local
prompt() function defined in setup.py. Fixes crash during
'hermes setup' when selecting either OpenCode provider.
- Add summary_base_url config option to compression block for custom
OpenAI-compatible endpoints (e.g. zai, DeepSeek, Ollama)
- Remove compression env var bridges from cli.py and gateway/run.py
(CONTEXT_COMPRESSION_* env vars no longer set from config)
- Switch run_agent.py to read compression config directly from
config.yaml instead of env vars
- Fix backwards-compat block in _resolve_task_provider_model to also
fire when auxiliary.compression.provider is 'auto' (DEFAULT_CONFIG
sets this, which was silently preventing the compression section's
summary_* keys from being read)
- Add test for summary_base_url config-to-client flow
- Update docs to show compression as config.yaml-only
Closes#1591
Based on PR #1702 by @uzaylisak
Four small fixes:
1. model_tools.py: Tool import failures logged at WARNING instead of
DEBUG. If a tool module fails to import (syntax error, missing dep),
the user now sees a warning instead of the tool silently vanishing.
2. hermes_cli/config.py: Remove duplicate 'import sys' (lines 19, 21).
3. agent/model_metadata.py: Remove 6 duplicate entries in
DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LENGTHS dict. Python keeps the last value, so no
functional change, but removes maintenance confusion.
4. hermes_state.py: Add missing self._lock to the LIKE query in
resolve_session_id(). The exact-match path used get_session()
(which locks internally), but the prefix fallback queried _conn
without the lock.
Salvage of PR #1707 by @kshitijk4poor (cherry-picked with authorship preserved).
Adds Tavily as a third web backend alongside Firecrawl and Parallel, using the Tavily REST API via httpx.
- Backend selection via hermes tools → saved as web.backend in config.yaml
- All three tools supported: search, extract, crawl
- TAVILY_API_KEY in config registry, doctor, status, setup wizard
- 15 new Tavily tests + 9 backend selection tests + 5 config tests
- Backward compatible
Closes#1707
* feat(web): add Parallel as alternative web search/extract backend
Adds Parallel (parallel.ai) as a drop-in alternative to Firecrawl for
web_search and web_extract tools using the official parallel-web SDK.
- Backend selection via WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND env var (auto/parallel/firecrawl)
- Auto mode prefers Firecrawl when both keys present; Parallel when sole backend
- web_crawl remains Firecrawl-only with clear error when unavailable
- Lazy SDK imports, interrupt support, singleton clients
- 16 new unit tests for backend selection and client config
Co-authored-by: s-jag <s-jag@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: add PARALLEL_API_KEY to config registry and fix web_crawl policy tests
Follow-up for Parallel backend integration:
- Add PARALLEL_API_KEY to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS (hermes doctor, env blocklist)
- Add to set_config_value api_keys list (hermes config set)
- Add to doctor keys display
- Fix 2 web_crawl policy tests that didn't set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY
(needed now that web_crawl has a Firecrawl availability guard)
* refactor: explicit backend selection via hermes tools, not auto-detect
Replace the auto-detect backend selection with explicit user choice:
- hermes tools saves WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND to .env when user picks a provider
- _get_backend() reads the explicit choice first
- Fallback only for manual/legacy config (uses whichever key is present)
- _is_provider_active() shows [active] for the selected web backend
- Updated tests, docs, and .env.example to remove 'auto' mode language
* refactor: use config.yaml for web backend, not env var
Match the TTS/browser pattern — web.backend is stored in config.yaml
(set by hermes tools), not as a WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND env var.
- _load_web_config() reads web: section from config.yaml
- _get_backend() reads web.backend from config, falls back to key detection
- _configure_provider() saves to config dict (saved to config.yaml)
- _is_provider_active() reads from config dict
- Removed WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND from .env.example, set_config_value, docs
- Updated all tests to mock _load_web_config instead of env vars
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The function uses subprocess.run() and subprocess.CalledProcessError but
never imported the module. This caused a NameError crash during setup
when users selected NeuTTS as their TTS provider.
Fixes#1698
Add the ability to selectively enable/disable individual MCP server
tools through the interactive 'hermes tools' TUI.
Changes:
- tools/mcp_tool.py: Add probe_mcp_server_tools() — lightweight function
that temporarily connects to configured MCP servers, discovers their
tools (names + descriptions), and disconnects. No registry side effects.
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: Add 'Configure MCP tools' option to the
interactive menu. When selected:
1. Probes all enabled MCP servers for their available tools
2. Shows a per-server curses checklist with tool descriptions
3. Pre-selects tools based on existing include/exclude config
4. Writes changes back as tools.exclude entries in config.yaml
5. Reports which servers failed to connect
The existing CLI commands (hermes tools enable/disable server:tool)
continue to work unchanged. This adds the interactive TUI counterpart
so users can browse and toggle MCP tools visually.
Tests: 22 new tests covering probe function edge cases and interactive
flow (pre-selection, exclude/include modes, description truncation,
multi-server handling, error paths).
fetch_nous_models() uses keyword-only parameters (the * separator in
its signature), but models.py called it with positional args and in
the wrong order (api_key first, base_url second). This always raised
TypeError, silently caught by except Exception: pass.
Result: Nous provider model list was completely broken — /model
autocomplete and provider_model_ids('nous') always fell back to the
static model catalog instead of fetching live models.
Adds both platforms to the config system so hermes setup, hermes doctor,
and hermes config properly discover and manage their env vars.
- MATTERMOST_URL, MATTERMOST_TOKEN, MATTERMOST_ALLOWED_USERS
- MATRIX_HOMESERVER, MATRIX_ACCESS_TOKEN, MATRIX_USER_ID, MATRIX_ALLOWED_USERS
- Extra env keys for .env sanitizer: MATTERMOST_HOME_CHANNEL,
MATTERMOST_REPLY_MODE, MATRIX_PASSWORD, MATRIX_ENCRYPTION, MATRIX_HOME_ROOM
Add support for Mattermost (self-hosted Slack alternative) and Matrix
(federated messaging protocol) as messaging platforms.
Mattermost adapter:
- REST API v4 client for posts, files, channels, typing indicators
- WebSocket listener for real-time 'posted' events with reconnect backoff
- Thread support via root_id
- File upload/download with auth-aware caching
- Dedup cache (5min TTL, 2000 entries)
- Full self-hosted instance support
Matrix adapter:
- matrix-nio AsyncClient with sync loop
- Dual auth: access token or user_id + password
- Optional E2EE via matrix-nio[e2e] (libolm)
- Thread support via m.thread (MSC3440)
- Reply support via m.in_reply_to with fallback stripping
- Media upload/download via mxc:// URLs (authenticated v1.11+ endpoint)
- Auto-join on room invite
- DM detection via m.direct account data with sync fallback
- Markdown to HTML conversion
Fixes applied over original PR #1225 by @cyb0rgk1tty:
- Mattermost: add timeout to file downloads, wrap API helpers in
try/except for network errors, download incoming files immediately
with auth headers instead of passing auth-required URLs
- Matrix: use authenticated media endpoint (/_matrix/client/v1/media/),
robust m.direct cache with sync fallback, prefer aiohttp over httpx
Install Matrix support: pip install 'hermes-agent[matrix]'
Mattermost needs no extra deps (uses aiohttp).
Salvaged from PR #1225 by @cyb0rgk1tty with fixes.
* feat(gateway): add DingTalk platform adapter
Add DingTalk as a messaging platform using the dingtalk-stream SDK
for real-time message reception via Stream Mode (no webhook needed).
Replies are sent via session webhook using markdown format.
Features:
- Stream Mode connection (long-lived WebSocket, no public URL needed)
- Text and rich text message support
- DM and group chat support
- Message deduplication with 5-minute window
- Auto-reconnection with exponential backoff
- Session webhook caching for reply routing
Configuration:
export DINGTALK_CLIENT_ID=your-app-key
export DINGTALK_CLIENT_SECRET=your-app-secret
# or in config.yaml:
platforms:
dingtalk:
enabled: true
extra:
client_id: your-app-key
client_secret: your-app-secret
Files:
- gateway/platforms/dingtalk.py (340 lines) — adapter implementation
- gateway/config.py — add DINGTALK to Platform enum
- gateway/run.py — add DingTalk to _create_adapter
- hermes_cli/config.py — add env vars to _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py — add dingtalk to PLATFORMS
- tests/gateway/test_dingtalk.py — 21 tests
* docs: add Alibaba Cloud and DingTalk to setup wizard and docs
Wire Alibaba Cloud (DashScope) into hermes setup and hermes model
provider selection flows. Add DingTalk env vars to documentation.
Changes:
- setup.py: Add Alibaba Cloud as provider choice (index 11) with
DASHSCOPE_API_KEY prompt and model studio link
- main.py: Add alibaba to provider_labels, providers list, and
model flow dispatch
- environment-variables.md: Add DASHSCOPE_API_KEY, DINGTALK_CLIENT_ID,
DINGTALK_CLIENT_SECRET, and alibaba to HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER
- Default enabled: false (zero overhead when not configured)
- Fast path: cached disabled state skips all work immediately
- TTL cache (30s) for parsed policy — avoids re-reading config.yaml
on every URL check
- Missing shared files warn + skip instead of crashing all web tools
- Lazy yaml import — missing PyYAML doesn't break browser toolset
- Guarded browser_tool import — fail-open lambda fallback
- check_website_access never raises for default path (fail-open with
warning log); only raises with explicit config_path (test mode)
- Simplified enforcement code in web_tools/browser_tool — no more
try/except wrappers since errors are handled internally
Add DingTalk as a messaging platform using the dingtalk-stream SDK
for real-time message reception via Stream Mode (no webhook needed).
Replies are sent via session webhook using markdown format.
Features:
- Stream Mode connection (long-lived WebSocket, no public URL needed)
- Text and rich text message support
- DM and group chat support
- Message deduplication with 5-minute window
- Auto-reconnection with exponential backoff
- Session webhook caching for reply routing
Configuration:
export DINGTALK_CLIENT_ID=your-app-key
export DINGTALK_CLIENT_SECRET=your-app-secret
# or in config.yaml:
platforms:
dingtalk:
enabled: true
extra:
client_id: your-app-key
client_secret: your-app-secret
Files:
- gateway/platforms/dingtalk.py (340 lines) — adapter implementation
- gateway/config.py — add DINGTALK to Platform enum
- gateway/run.py — add DingTalk to _create_adapter
- hermes_cli/config.py — add env vars to _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py — add dingtalk to PLATFORMS
- tests/gateway/test_dingtalk.py — 21 tests
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL collides with Claude Code and other Anthropic
tooling. Remove it from the Anthropic provider — base URL overrides
should go through config.yaml model.base_url instead.
The Alibaba/DashScope provider has its own dedicated base URL and
API key env vars which don't collide with anything.
Add display.theme_mode setting (auto/light/dark) that makes the CLI
readable on light terminal backgrounds.
- Auto-detect terminal background via COLORFGBG, OSC 11, and macOS
appearance (fallback chain in hermes_cli/colors.py)
- Add colors_light overrides to all 7 built-in skins with dark/readable
colors for light backgrounds
- SkinConfig.get_color() now returns light overrides when theme is light
- get_prompt_toolkit_style_overrides() uses light bg colors for
completion menus in light mode
- init_skin_from_config() reads display.theme_mode from config
- 7 new tests covering theme mode resolution, detection fallbacks,
and light-mode skin overrides
Salvaged from PR #1187 by @peteromallet. Core design preserved;
adapted to current main (kept all existing helpers, tool_emojis,
convenience functions that were added after the PR branched).
Co-authored-by: Peter O'Mallet <peteromallet@users.noreply.github.com>
Add Alibaba Cloud (DashScope) as a first-class inference provider
using the Anthropic-compatible endpoint. This gives access to Qwen
models (qwen3.5-plus, qwen3-max, qwen3-coder-plus, etc.) through
the same api_mode as native Anthropic.
Also add ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL env var support so users can point the
Anthropic provider at any compatible endpoint.
Changes:
- auth.py: Add alibaba ProviderConfig + ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL on anthropic
- models.py: Add alibaba to catalog, labels, aliases (dashscope/aliyun/qwen), provider order
- runtime_provider.py: Add alibaba resolution (anthropic_messages api_mode) + ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL
- model_metadata.py: Add Qwen model context lengths (128K)
- config.py: Add DASHSCOPE_API_KEY, DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL, ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL env vars
Usage:
hermes --provider alibaba --model qwen3.5-plus
# or via aliases:
hermes --provider qwen --model qwen3-max
Add Kilo Gateway (kilo.ai) as an API-key provider with OpenAI-compatible
endpoint at https://api.kilo.ai/api/gateway. Supports 500+ models from
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, MiniMax via a single API key.
- Register kilocode in PROVIDER_REGISTRY with aliases (kilo, kilo-code,
kilo-gateway) and KILOCODE_API_KEY / KILOCODE_BASE_URL env vars
- Add to model catalog, CLI provider menu, setup wizard, doctor checks
- Add google/gemini-3-flash-preview as default aux model
- 12 new tests covering registration, aliases, credential resolution,
runtime config
- Documentation updates (env vars, config, fallback providers)
- Fix setup test index shift from provider insertion
Inspired by PR #1473 by @amanning3390.
Co-authored-by: amanning3390 <amanning3390@users.noreply.github.com>
Docker terminal sessions are secret-dark by default. This adds
terminal.docker_forward_env as an explicit allowlist for env vars
that may be forwarded into Docker containers.
Values resolve from the current shell first, then fall back to
~/.hermes/.env. Only variables the user explicitly lists are
forwarded — nothing is auto-exposed.
Cherry-picked from PR #1449 by @teknium1, conflict-resolved onto
current main.
Fixes#1436
Supersedes #1439
Remove the optional skill (redundant now that NeuTTS is a built-in TTS
provider). Replace neutts_cli dependency with a standalone synthesis
helper (tools/neutts_synth.py) that calls the neutts Python API directly
in a subprocess.
Add TTS provider selection to hermes setup:
- 'hermes setup' now prompts for TTS provider after model selection
- 'hermes setup tts' available as standalone section
- Selecting NeuTTS checks for deps and offers to install:
espeak-ng (system) + neutts[all] (pip)
- ElevenLabs/OpenAI selections prompt for API keys
- Tool status display shows NeuTTS install state
Changes:
- Remove optional-skills/mlops/models/neutts/ (skill + CLI scaffold)
- Add tools/neutts_synth.py (standalone synthesis subprocess helper)
- Move jo.wav/jo.txt to tools/neutts_samples/ (bundled default voice)
- Refactor _generate_neutts() — uses neutts API via subprocess, no
neutts_cli dependency, config-driven ref_audio/ref_text/model/device
- Add TTS setup to hermes_cli/setup.py (SETUP_SECTIONS, tool status)
- Update config.py defaults (ref_audio, ref_text, model, device)
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)
Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.
- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement
Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.
* fix(approval): show full command in dangerous command approval (#1553)
Previously the command was truncated to 80 chars in CLI (with a
[v]iew full option), 500 chars in Discord embeds, and missing entirely
in Telegram/Slack approval messages. Now the full command is always
displayed everywhere:
- CLI: removed 80-char truncation and [v]iew full menu option
- Gateway (TG/Slack): approval_required message includes full command
in a code block
- Discord: embed shows full command up to 4096-char limit
- Windows: skip SIGALRM-based test timeout (Unix-only)
- Updated tests: replaced view-flow tests with direct approval tests
Cherry-picked from PR #1566 by crazywriter1.
* fix(cli): flush stdout during agent loop to prevent macOS display freeze (#1624)
The interrupt polling loop in chat() waited on the queue without
invalidating the prompt_toolkit renderer. On macOS, the StdoutProxy
buffer only flushed on input events, causing the CLI to appear frozen
during tool execution until the user typed a key.
Fix: call _invalidate() on each queue timeout (every ~100ms, throttled
to 150ms) to force the renderer to flush buffered agent output.
* fix(claw): warn when API keys are skipped during OpenClaw migration (#1580)
When --migrate-secrets is not passed (the default), API keys like
OPENROUTER_API_KEY are silently skipped with no warning. Users don't
realize their keys weren't migrated until the agent fails to connect.
Add a post-migration warning with actionable instructions: either
re-run with --migrate-secrets or add the key manually via
hermes config set.
Cherry-picked from PR #1593 by ygd58.
* fix(security): block sandbox backend creds from subprocess env (#1264)
Add Modal and Daytona sandbox credentials to the subprocess env
blocklist so they're not leaked to agent terminal sessions via
printenv/env.
Cherry-picked from PR #1571 by ygd58.
* fix(gateway): cap interrupt recursion depth to prevent resource exhaustion (#816)
When a user sends multiple messages while the agent keeps failing,
_run_agent() calls itself recursively with no depth limit. This can
exhaust stack/memory if the agent is in a failure loop.
Add _MAX_INTERRUPT_DEPTH = 3. When exceeded, the pending message is
logged and the current result is returned instead of recursing deeper.
The log handler duplication bug described in #816 was already fixed
separately (AIAgent.__init__ deduplicates handlers).
* fix(gateway): /model shows active fallback model instead of config default (#1615)
When the agent falls back to a different model (e.g. due to rate
limiting), /model still showed the config default. Now tracks the
effective model/provider after each agent run and displays it.
Cleared when the primary model succeeds again or the user explicitly
switches via /model.
Cherry-picked from PR #1616 by MaxKerkula. Added hasattr guard for
test compatibility.
* feat(gateway): inject reply-to message context for out-of-session replies (#1594)
When a user replies to a Telegram message, check if the quoted text
exists in the current session transcript. If missing (from cron jobs,
background tasks, or old sessions), prepend [Replying to: "..."] to
the message so the agent has context about what's being referenced.
- Add reply_to_text field to MessageEvent (base.py)
- Populate from Telegram's reply_to_message (text or caption)
- Inject context in _handle_message when not found in history
Based on PR #1596 by anpicasso (cherry-picked reply-to feature only,
excluded unrelated /server command and background delegation changes).
* fix: recognize Claude Code OAuth credentials in startup gate (#1455)
The _has_any_provider_configured() startup check didn't look for
Claude Code OAuth credentials (~/.claude/.credentials.json). Users
with only Claude Code auth got the setup wizard instead of starting.
Cherry-picked from PR #1455 by kshitijk4poor.
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Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: crazywriter1 <53251494+crazywriter1@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Max K <MaxKerkula@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Angello Picasso <angello.picasso@devsu.com>
Co-authored-by: kshitij <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(security): harden terminal safety and sandbox file writes
Two security improvements:
1. Dangerous command detection: expand shell -c pattern to catch
combined flags (bash -lc, bash -ic, ksh -c) that were previously
undetected. Pattern changed from matching only 'bash -c' to
matching any shell invocation with -c anywhere in the flags.
2. File write sandboxing: add HERMES_WRITE_SAFE_ROOT env var that
constrains all write_file/patch operations to a configured directory
tree. Opt-in — when unset, behavior is unchanged. Useful for
gateway/messaging deployments that should only touch a workspace.
Based on PR #1085 by ismoilh.
* fix: correct "POSIDEON" typo to "POSEIDON" in banner ASCII art
The poseidon skin's banner_logo had the E and I letters swapped,
spelling "POSIDEON-AGENT" instead of "POSEIDON-AGENT".
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Co-authored-by: unmodeled-tyler <unmodeled.tyler@proton.me>
* feat(skills): add bundled neutts optional skill
Add NeuTTS optional skill with CLI scaffold, bootstrap helper, and
sample voice profile. Also fixes skills_hub.py to handle binary
assets (WAV files) during skill installation.
Changes:
- optional-skills/mlops/models/neutts/ — skill + CLI scaffold
- tools/skills_hub.py — binary asset support (read_bytes, write_bytes)
- tests/tools/test_skills_hub.py — regression tests for binary assets
* feat(tts): add NeuTTS as local TTS provider backend
Add NeuTTS as a fourth TTS provider option alongside Edge, ElevenLabs,
and OpenAI. NeuTTS runs fully on-device via neutts_cli — no API key
needed.
Provider behavior:
- Explicit: set tts.provider to 'neutts' in config.yaml
- Fallback: when Edge TTS is unavailable and neutts_cli is installed,
automatically falls back to NeuTTS instead of failing
- check_tts_requirements() now includes NeuTTS in availability checks
NeuTTS outputs WAV natively. For Telegram voice bubbles, ffmpeg
converts to Opus (same pattern as Edge TTS).
Changes:
- tools/tts_tool.py — _generate_neutts(), _check_neutts_available(),
provider dispatch, fallback logic, Opus conversion
- hermes_cli/config.py — tts.neutts config defaults
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Co-authored-by: unmodeled-tyler <unmodeled.tyler@proton.me>
Remove HERMES_API_MODE env var. api_mode is now configured where the
endpoint is defined:
- model.api_mode in config.yaml (for the active model config)
- custom_providers[].api_mode (for named custom providers)
Replace _get_configured_api_mode() with _parse_api_mode() which just
validates a value against the whitelist without reading env vars.
Both paths (model config and named custom providers) now read api_mode
from their respective config entries rather than a global override.
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)
When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message. This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error. Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.
Three-layer fix:
1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
compression instead of aborting.
2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
the session from growing on each failure.
3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
generic 'try again' that will fail identically.
* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads
Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):
1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
(index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.
2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).
Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.
* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)
Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.
- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement
Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.
* fix(approval): show full command in dangerous command approval (#1553)
Previously the command was truncated to 80 chars in CLI (with a
[v]iew full option), 500 chars in Discord embeds, and missing entirely
in Telegram/Slack approval messages. Now the full command is always
displayed everywhere:
- CLI: removed 80-char truncation and [v]iew full menu option
- Gateway (TG/Slack): approval_required message includes full command
in a code block
- Discord: embed shows full command up to 4096-char limit
- Windows: skip SIGALRM-based test timeout (Unix-only)
- Updated tests: replaced view-flow tests with direct approval tests
Cherry-picked from PR #1566 by crazywriter1.
* fix(cli): flush stdout during agent loop to prevent macOS display freeze (#1624)
The interrupt polling loop in chat() waited on the queue without
invalidating the prompt_toolkit renderer. On macOS, the StdoutProxy
buffer only flushed on input events, causing the CLI to appear frozen
during tool execution until the user typed a key.
Fix: call _invalidate() on each queue timeout (every ~100ms, throttled
to 150ms) to force the renderer to flush buffered agent output.
* fix(claw): warn when API keys are skipped during OpenClaw migration (#1580)
When --migrate-secrets is not passed (the default), API keys like
OPENROUTER_API_KEY are silently skipped with no warning. Users don't
realize their keys weren't migrated until the agent fails to connect.
Add a post-migration warning with actionable instructions: either
re-run with --migrate-secrets or add the key manually via
hermes config set.
Cherry-picked from PR #1593 by ygd58.
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Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: crazywriter1 <53251494+crazywriter1@users.noreply.github.com>
Add in-session tool management via /tools disable/enable/list, plus
hermes tools list/disable/enable CLI subcommands. Supports both
built-in toolsets (web, memory) and MCP tools (github:create_issue).
To preserve prompt caching, /tools disable/enable in a chat session
saves the change to config and resets the session cleanly — the user
is asked to confirm before the reset happens.
Also improves prefix matching: /qui now dispatches to /quit instead
of showing ambiguous when longer skill commands like /quint-pipeline
are installed.
Based on PR #1520 by @YanSte.
Co-authored-by: Yannick Stephan <YanSte@users.noreply.github.com>
Add HERMES_API_MODE env var and model.api_mode config field to let
custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints opt into codex_responses mode
without requiring the OpenAI Codex OAuth provider path.
- _get_configured_api_mode() reads HERMES_API_MODE env (precedence)
then model.api_mode from config.yaml; validates against whitelist
- Applied in both _resolve_openrouter_runtime() and
_resolve_named_custom_runtime() (original PR only covered openrouter)
- Fix _dump_api_request_debug() to show /responses URL when in
codex_responses mode instead of always showing /chat/completions
- Tests for config override, env override, invalid values, named
custom providers, and debug dump URL for both API modes
Inspired by PR #1041 by @mxyhi.
Co-authored-by: mxyhi <mxyhi@users.noreply.github.com>
Add support for OpenCode Zen (pay-as-you-go, 35+ curated models) and
OpenCode Go ($10/month subscription, open models) as first-class providers.
Both are OpenAI-compatible endpoints resolved via the generic api_key
provider flow — no custom adapter needed.
Files changed:
- hermes_cli/auth.py — ProviderConfig entries + aliases
- hermes_cli/config.py — OPENCODE_ZEN/GO API key env vars
- hermes_cli/models.py — model catalogs, labels, aliases, provider order
- hermes_cli/main.py — provider labels, menu entries, model flow dispatch
- hermes_cli/setup.py — setup wizard branches (idx 10, 11)
- agent/model_metadata.py — context lengths for all OpenCode models
- agent/auxiliary_client.py — default aux models
- .env.example — documentation
Co-authored-by: DevAgarwal2 <DevAgarwal2@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes hanging when using /skills install or /skills uninstall from the
TUI — bare input() calls hang inside prompt_toolkit's event loop.
Changes:
- Add skip_confirm parameter to do_install() and do_uninstall()
- Separate --yes/-y (confirmation bypass) from --force (scan override)
in both argparse and slash command handlers
- Update usage hint for /skills uninstall to show [--yes]
The original PR (#1595) accidentally deleted the install_from_quarantine()
call, which would have broken all installs. That bug is not present here.
Based on PR #1595 by 333Alden333.
Co-authored-by: 333Alden333 <333Alden333@users.noreply.github.com>
Add 'custom' to the provider order so custom OpenAI-compatible
endpoints appear in /model list. Probes the endpoint's /models API
to dynamically discover available models.
Changes:
- Add 'custom' to _PROVIDER_ORDER in list_available_providers()
- Add _get_custom_base_url() helper to read model.base_url from config
- Add custom branch in provider_model_ids() using fetch_api_models()
- Custom endpoint detection via base_url presence for has_creds check
Based on PR #1612 by @aashizpoudel.
Co-authored-by: Aashish Poudel <aashizpoudel@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): two-stage /model autocomplete with ghost text suggestions
- SlashCommandCompleter: Tab-complete providers first (anthropic:, openrouter:, etc.)
then models within the selected provider
- SlashCommandAutoSuggest: inline ghost text for slash commands, subcommands,
and /model provider:model two-stage suggestions
- Custom Tab key binding: accepts provider completion and immediately
re-triggers completions to show that provider's models
- COMMANDS_BY_CATEGORY: structured format with explicit subcommands for
tab completion and ghost text (prompt, reasoning, voice, skills, cron, browser)
- SUBCOMMANDS dict auto-extracted from command definitions
- Model/provider info cached 60s for responsive completions
* fix: repair test regression and restore gold color from PR #1622
- Fix test_unknown_command_still_shows_error: patch _cprint instead of
console.print to match the _cprint switch in process_command()
- Restore gold color on 'Type /help' hint using _DIM + _GOLD constants
instead of bare \033[2m (was losing the #B8860B gold)
- Use _GOLD constant for ambiguous command message for consistency
- Add clarifying comment on SUBCOMMANDS regex fallback
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- Bump _config_version 8 → 9
- Move stale ANTHROPIC_TOKEN clearing into 'if current_ver < 9' block
so it only runs once during the upgrade, not on every migrate_config()
- ANTHROPIC_TOKEN is still a valid auth path (OAuth flow), so we don't
want to clear it repeatedly — only during the one-time migration from
old setups that left it stale
- Add test_skips_on_version_9_or_later to verify one-time behavior
- All tests set config version 8 to trigger migration
- Remove *** placeholder detection from _sanitize_env_lines (was based on
confusing terminal redaction with literal file content)
- Add migrate_config() logic to clear stale ANTHROPIC_TOKEN when better
credentials exist (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or Claude Code auto-discovery)
- Old ANTHROPIC_TOKEN values shadow Claude Code credential fallthrough,
breaking auth for users who updated without re-running setup
- Preserves ANTHROPIC_TOKEN when it's the only auth method available
- 3 new migration tests, updated existing tests
Fixes two corruption patterns that break API keys during updates:
1. Concatenated KEY=VALUE pairs on a single line due to missing newlines
(e.g. ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-...OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://...). Uses a
known-keys set to safely detect and split concatenated entries without
false-splitting values that contain uppercase text.
2. Stale KEY=*** placeholder entries left by incomplete setup runs that
never get updated and shadow real credentials.
Changes:
- Add _sanitize_env_lines() that splits concatenated known keys and drops
*** placeholders
- Add sanitize_env_file() public API for explicit repair
- Call sanitization in save_env_value() on every read (self-healing)
- Call sanitize_env_file() at the start of migrate_config() so existing
corrupted files are repaired on update
- 12 new tests covering splits, placeholders, edge cases, and integration
Introduce a cloud browser provider abstraction so users can switch
between Local Browser, Browserbase, and Browser Use (or future providers)
via hermes tools / hermes setup.
Cloud browser providers are behind an ABC (tools/browser_providers/base.py)
so adding a new provider is a single-file addition with no changes to
browser_tool.py internals.
Changes:
- tools/browser_providers/ package with ABC, Browserbase extraction,
and Browser Use provider
- browser_tool.py refactored to use _PROVIDER_REGISTRY + _get_cloud_provider()
(cached) instead of hardcoded _is_local_mode() / _create_browserbase_session()
- tools_config.py: generic _is_provider_active() / _detect_active_provider_index()
replace TTS-only logic; Browser Use added as third browser option
- config.py: BROWSER_USE_API_KEY added to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS + show_config + allowlist
- subprocess pipe hang fix: agent-browser daemon inherits pipe fds,
communicate() blocks. Replaced with Popen + temp files.
Original PR: #1208
Co-authored-by: ShawnPana <shawnpana@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: add Vercel AI Gateway as a first-class provider
Adds AI Gateway (ai-gateway.vercel.sh) as a new inference provider
with AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY authentication, live model discovery, and
reasoning support via extra_body.reasoning.
Based on PR #1492 by jerilynzheng.
* feat: add AI Gateway to setup wizard, doctor, and fallback providers
* test: add AI Gateway to api_key_providers test suite
* feat: add AI Gateway to hermes model CLI and model metadata
Wire AI Gateway into the interactive model selection menu and add
context lengths for AI Gateway model IDs in model_metadata.py.
* feat: use claude-haiku-4.5 as AI Gateway auxiliary model
* revert: use gemini-3-flash as AI Gateway auxiliary model
* fix: move AI Gateway below established providers in selection order
---------
Co-authored-by: jerilynzheng <jerilynzheng@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jerilynzheng <zheng.jerilyn@gmail.com>
* refactor: centralize slash command registry
Replace 7+ scattered command definition sites with a single
CommandDef registry in hermes_cli/commands.py. All downstream
consumers now derive from this registry:
- CLI process_command() resolves aliases via resolve_command()
- Gateway _known_commands uses GATEWAY_KNOWN_COMMANDS frozenset
- Gateway help text generated by gateway_help_lines()
- Telegram BotCommands generated by telegram_bot_commands()
- Slack subcommand map generated by slack_subcommand_map()
Adding a command or alias is now a one-line change to
COMMAND_REGISTRY instead of touching 6+ files.
Bugfixes included:
- Telegram now registers /rollback, /background (were missing)
- Slack now has /voice, /update, /reload-mcp (were missing)
- Gateway duplicate 'reasoning' dispatch (dead code) removed
- Gateway help text can no longer drift from CLI help
Backwards-compatible: COMMANDS and COMMANDS_BY_CATEGORY dicts are
rebuilt from the registry, so existing imports work unchanged.
* docs: update developer docs for centralized command registry
Update AGENTS.md with full 'Slash Command Registry' and 'Adding a
Slash Command' sections covering CommandDef fields, registry helpers,
and the one-line alias workflow.
Also update:
- CONTRIBUTING.md: commands.py description
- website/docs/reference/slash-commands.md: reference central registry
- docs/plans/centralize-command-registry.md: mark COMPLETED
- plans/checkpoint-rollback.md: reference new pattern
- hermes-agent-dev skill: architecture table
* chore: remove stale plan docs
Repair stale launchd/systemd definitions during install and
teach launchd start to reload unloaded jobs before retrying.
Stop masking service restart failures by falling back to a
foreground gateway when a configured service manager is still
broken.
Refs: #1613
* fix: Anthropic OAuth compatibility — Claude Code identity fingerprinting
Anthropic routes OAuth/subscription requests based on Claude Code's
identity markers. Without them, requests get intermittent 500 errors
(~25% failure rate observed). This matches what pi-ai (clawdbot) and
OpenCode both implement for OAuth compatibility.
Changes (OAuth tokens only — API key users unaffected):
1. Headers: user-agent 'claude-cli/2.1.2 (external, cli)' + x-app 'cli'
2. System prompt: prepend 'You are Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI'
3. System prompt sanitization: replace Hermes/Nous references
4. Tool names: prefix with 'mcp_' (Claude Code convention for non-native tools)
5. Tool name stripping: remove 'mcp_' prefix from response tool calls
Before: 9/12 OK, 1 hard fail, 4 needed retries (~25% error rate)
After: 16/16 OK, 0 failures, 0 retries (0% error rate)
* fix: auto-detect DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS for systemctl --user on headless servers
On SSH sessions to headless servers, DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR may not be set even when the user's systemd instance
is running via linger. This causes 'systemctl --user' to fail with
'Failed to connect to bus: No medium found', breaking gateway
restart/start/stop as a service and falling back to foreground mode.
Add _ensure_user_systemd_env() that detects the standard D-Bus socket
at /run/user/<UID>/bus and sets the env vars before any systemctl --user
call. Called from _systemctl_cmd() so all existing call sites benefit
automatically with zero changes.
Fixes: gateway restart falling back to foreground on headless servers
* fix: show linger guidance when gateway restart fails during update and gateway restart
When systemctl --user restart fails during 'hermes update' or
'hermes gateway restart', check linger status and tell the user
exactly what to run (sudo -S -p '' loginctl enable-linger) instead of
silently falling back to foreground mode.
Also applies _ensure_user_systemd_env() to the raw systemctl calls
in cmd_update so they work properly on SSH sessions where D-Bus
env vars are missing.
* feat: add optional smart model routing
Add a conservative cheap-vs-strong routing option that can send very short/simple turns to a cheaper model across providers while keeping the primary model for complex work. Wire it through CLI, gateway, and cron, and document the config.yaml workflow.
* fix(gateway): remove recursive ExecStop from systemd units, extend TimeoutStopSec to 60s
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
---------
Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
* feat(skills): add blender-mcp optional skill for 3D modeling
Control a running Blender instance from Hermes via socket connection
to the blender-mcp addon (port 9876). Supports creating 3D objects,
materials, animations, and running arbitrary bpy code.
Placed in optional-skills/ since it requires Blender 4.3+ desktop
with a third-party addon manually started each session.
* feat(acp): support slash commands in ACP adapter (#1532)
Adds /help, /model, /tools, /context, /reset, /compact, /version
to the ACP adapter (VS Code, Zed, JetBrains). Commands are handled
directly in the server without instantiating the TUI — each command
queries agent/session state and returns plain text.
Unrecognized /commands fall through to the LLM as normal messages.
/model uses detect_provider_for_model() for auto-detection when
switching models, matching the CLI and gateway behavior.
Fixes#1402
* fix(logging): improve error logging in session search tool (#1533)
* fix(gateway): restart on retryable startup failures (#1517)
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
Adds a config.yaml-driven option to skip email attachments in the
gateway email adapter. Useful for malware protection and bandwidth
savings.
Configure in config.yaml:
platforms:
email:
skip_attachments: true
Based on PR #1521 by @an420eth, changed from env var to config.yaml
(via PlatformConfig.extra) to match the project's config-first pattern.
* docs: document skip_attachments option for email adapter
* fix(telegram): retry on transient TLS failures during connect and send
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around initialize() to
handle transient TLS resets during gateway startup. Also catches
TimedOut and OSError in addition to NetworkError.
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around send_message() for
NetworkError during message delivery, wrapping the existing Markdown
fallback logic.
Both imports are guarded with try/except ImportError for test
environments where telegram is mocked.
Based on PR #1527 by cmd8. Closes#1526.
* feat: permissive block_anchor thresholds and unicode normalization (#1539)
Salvaged from PR #1528 by an420eth. Closes#517.
Improves _strategy_block_anchor in fuzzy_match.py:
- Add unicode normalization (smart quotes, em/en-dashes, ellipsis,
non-breaking spaces → ASCII) so LLM-produced unicode artifacts
don't break anchor line matching
- Lower thresholds: 0.10 for unique matches (was 0.70), 0.30 for
multiple candidates — if first/last lines match exactly, the
block is almost certainly correct
- Use original (non-normalized) content for offset calculation to
preserve correct character positions
Tested: 3 new scenarios fixed (em-dash anchors, non-breaking space
anchors, very-low-similarity unique matches), zero regressions on
all 9 existing fuzzy match tests.
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): add file path autocomplete in the input prompt (#1545)
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
* feat(privacy): redact PII from LLM context when privacy.redact_pii is enabled
Add privacy.redact_pii config option (boolean, default false). When
enabled, the gateway redacts personally identifiable information from
the system prompt before sending it to the LLM provider:
- Phone numbers (user IDs on WhatsApp/Signal) → hashed to user_<sha256>
- User IDs → hashed to user_<sha256>
- Chat IDs → numeric portion hashed, platform prefix preserved
- Home channel IDs → hashed
- Names/usernames → NOT affected (user-chosen, publicly visible)
Hashes are deterministic (same user → same hash) so the model can
still distinguish users in group chats. Routing and delivery use
the original values internally — redaction only affects LLM context.
Inspired by OpenClaw PR #47959.
* fix(privacy): skip PII redaction on Discord/Slack (mentions need real IDs)
Discord uses <@user_id> for mentions and Slack uses <@U12345> — the LLM
needs the real ID to tag users. Redaction now only applies to WhatsApp,
Signal, and Telegram where IDs are pure routing metadata.
Add 4 platform-specific tests covering Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack.
* feat: smart approvals + /stop command (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
* feat: first-class plugin architecture + hide status bar cost by default (#1544)
The persistent status bar now shows context %, token counts, and
duration but NOT $ cost by default. Cost display is opt-in via:
display:
show_cost: true
in config.yaml, or: hermes config set display.show_cost true
The /usage command still shows full cost breakdown since the user
explicitly asked for it — this only affects the always-visible bar.
Status bar without cost:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ 15m
Status bar with show_cost: true:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ $0.06 │ 15m
* feat: improve memory prioritization + aggressive skill updates (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: improve memory prioritization — user preferences over procedural knowledge
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's memory prompt improvements (openai/codex#14493)
which focus memory writes on user preferences and recurring patterns
rather than procedural task details.
Key insight: 'Optimize for reducing future user steering — the most
valuable memory prevents the user from having to repeat themselves.'
Changes:
- MEMORY_GUIDANCE (prompt_builder.py): added prioritization hierarchy
and the core principle about reducing user steering
- MEMORY_SCHEMA (memory_tool.py): reordered WHEN TO SAVE list to put
corrections first, added explicit PRIORITY guidance
- Memory nudge (run_agent.py): now asks specifically about preferences,
corrections, and workflow patterns instead of generic 'anything'
- Memory flush (run_agent.py): now instructs to prioritize user
preferences and corrections over task-specific details
* feat: more aggressive skill creation and update prompting
Press harder on skill updates — the agent should proactively patch
skills when it encounters issues during use, not wait to be asked.
Changes:
- SKILLS_GUIDANCE: 'consider saving' → 'save'; added explicit instruction
to patch skills immediately when found outdated/wrong
- Skills header: added instruction to update loaded skills before finishing
if they had missing steps or wrong commands
- Skill nudge: more assertive ('save the approach' not 'consider saving'),
now also prompts for updating existing skills used in the task
- Skill nudge interval: lowered default from 15 to 10 iterations
- skill_manage schema: added 'patch it immediately' to update triggers
* feat: first-class plugin architecture (#1555)
Plugin system for extending Hermes with custom tools, hooks, and
integrations — no source code changes required.
Core system (hermes_cli/plugins.py):
- Plugin discovery from ~/.hermes/plugins/, .hermes/plugins/, and
pip entry_points (hermes_agent.plugins group)
- PluginContext with register_tool() and register_hook()
- 6 lifecycle hooks: pre/post tool_call, pre/post llm_call,
on_session_start/end
- Namespace package handling for relative imports in plugins
- Graceful error isolation — broken plugins never crash the agent
Integration (model_tools.py):
- Plugin discovery runs after built-in + MCP tools
- Plugin tools bypass toolset filter via get_plugin_tool_names()
- Pre/post tool call hooks fire in handle_function_call()
CLI:
- /plugins command shows loaded plugins, tool counts, status
- Added to COMMANDS dict for autocomplete
Docs:
- Getting started guide (build-a-hermes-plugin.md) — full tutorial
building a calculator plugin step by step
- Reference page (features/plugins.md) — quick overview + tables
- Covers: file structure, schemas, handlers, hooks, data files,
bundled skills, env var gating, pip distribution, common mistakes
Tests: 16 tests covering discovery, loading, hooks, tool visibility.
* feat: add /bg as alias for /background slash command
Adds /bg alias across CLI, gateway, and Slack platform adapter.
Updates help text, autocomplete, known_commands set, and dispatch
logic. Includes tests for the new alias.
* docs: add plan for centralized slash command registry
Scopes a refactor to replace 7+ scattered command definition sites
with a single CommandDef registry in hermes_cli/commands.py. Includes
derived helper functions for gateway help text, Telegram BotCommands,
Slack subcommand maps, and alias resolution.
Documents current drift (Telegram missing /rollback + /background,
Slack missing /voice + /update, gateway dead code) that the refactor
fixes for free.
---------
Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78a@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Oktay Aydin <113846926+aydnOktay@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JP Lew <polydegen@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: add optional smart model routing
Add a conservative cheap-vs-strong routing option that can send very short/simple turns to a cheaper model across providers while keeping the primary model for complex work. Wire it through CLI, gateway, and cron, and document the config.yaml workflow.
* fix(gateway): remove recursive ExecStop from systemd units, extend TimeoutStopSec to 60s
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
---------
Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
* feat(skills): add blender-mcp optional skill for 3D modeling
Control a running Blender instance from Hermes via socket connection
to the blender-mcp addon (port 9876). Supports creating 3D objects,
materials, animations, and running arbitrary bpy code.
Placed in optional-skills/ since it requires Blender 4.3+ desktop
with a third-party addon manually started each session.
* feat(acp): support slash commands in ACP adapter (#1532)
Adds /help, /model, /tools, /context, /reset, /compact, /version
to the ACP adapter (VS Code, Zed, JetBrains). Commands are handled
directly in the server without instantiating the TUI — each command
queries agent/session state and returns plain text.
Unrecognized /commands fall through to the LLM as normal messages.
/model uses detect_provider_for_model() for auto-detection when
switching models, matching the CLI and gateway behavior.
Fixes#1402
* fix(logging): improve error logging in session search tool (#1533)
* fix(gateway): restart on retryable startup failures (#1517)
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
* feat(email): add skip_attachments option via config.yaml
Adds a config.yaml-driven option to skip email attachments in the
gateway email adapter. Useful for malware protection and bandwidth
savings.
Configure in config.yaml:
platforms:
email:
skip_attachments: true
Based on PR #1521 by @an420eth, changed from env var to config.yaml
(via PlatformConfig.extra) to match the project's config-first pattern.
* docs: document skip_attachments option for email adapter
* fix(telegram): retry on transient TLS failures during connect and send
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around initialize() to
handle transient TLS resets during gateway startup. Also catches
TimedOut and OSError in addition to NetworkError.
Add exponential-backoff retry (3 attempts) around send_message() for
NetworkError during message delivery, wrapping the existing Markdown
fallback logic.
Both imports are guarded with try/except ImportError for test
environments where telegram is mocked.
Based on PR #1527 by cmd8. Closes#1526.
* feat: permissive block_anchor thresholds and unicode normalization (#1539)
Salvaged from PR #1528 by an420eth. Closes#517.
Improves _strategy_block_anchor in fuzzy_match.py:
- Add unicode normalization (smart quotes, em/en-dashes, ellipsis,
non-breaking spaces → ASCII) so LLM-produced unicode artifacts
don't break anchor line matching
- Lower thresholds: 0.10 for unique matches (was 0.70), 0.30 for
multiple candidates — if first/last lines match exactly, the
block is almost certainly correct
- Use original (non-normalized) content for offset calculation to
preserve correct character positions
Tested: 3 new scenarios fixed (em-dash anchors, non-breaking space
anchors, very-low-similarity unique matches), zero regressions on
all 9 existing fuzzy match tests.
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(cli): add file path autocomplete in the input prompt (#1545)
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
* feat(privacy): redact PII from LLM context when privacy.redact_pii is enabled
Add privacy.redact_pii config option (boolean, default false). When
enabled, the gateway redacts personally identifiable information from
the system prompt before sending it to the LLM provider:
- Phone numbers (user IDs on WhatsApp/Signal) → hashed to user_<sha256>
- User IDs → hashed to user_<sha256>
- Chat IDs → numeric portion hashed, platform prefix preserved
- Home channel IDs → hashed
- Names/usernames → NOT affected (user-chosen, publicly visible)
Hashes are deterministic (same user → same hash) so the model can
still distinguish users in group chats. Routing and delivery use
the original values internally — redaction only affects LLM context.
Inspired by OpenClaw PR #47959.
* fix(privacy): skip PII redaction on Discord/Slack (mentions need real IDs)
Discord uses <@user_id> for mentions and Slack uses <@U12345> — the LLM
needs the real ID to tag users. Redaction now only applies to WhatsApp,
Signal, and Telegram where IDs are pure routing metadata.
Add 4 platform-specific tests covering Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack.
* feat: smart approvals + /stop command (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
* feat: first-class plugin architecture + hide status bar cost by default (#1544)
The persistent status bar now shows context %, token counts, and
duration but NOT $ cost by default. Cost display is opt-in via:
display:
show_cost: true
in config.yaml, or: hermes config set display.show_cost true
The /usage command still shows full cost breakdown since the user
explicitly asked for it — this only affects the always-visible bar.
Status bar without cost:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ 15m
Status bar with show_cost: true:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ $0.06 │ 15m
* feat: improve memory prioritization + aggressive skill updates (inspired by OpenAI Codex)
* feat: improve memory prioritization — user preferences over procedural knowledge
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's memory prompt improvements (openai/codex#14493)
which focus memory writes on user preferences and recurring patterns
rather than procedural task details.
Key insight: 'Optimize for reducing future user steering — the most
valuable memory prevents the user from having to repeat themselves.'
Changes:
- MEMORY_GUIDANCE (prompt_builder.py): added prioritization hierarchy
and the core principle about reducing user steering
- MEMORY_SCHEMA (memory_tool.py): reordered WHEN TO SAVE list to put
corrections first, added explicit PRIORITY guidance
- Memory nudge (run_agent.py): now asks specifically about preferences,
corrections, and workflow patterns instead of generic 'anything'
- Memory flush (run_agent.py): now instructs to prioritize user
preferences and corrections over task-specific details
* feat: more aggressive skill creation and update prompting
Press harder on skill updates — the agent should proactively patch
skills when it encounters issues during use, not wait to be asked.
Changes:
- SKILLS_GUIDANCE: 'consider saving' → 'save'; added explicit instruction
to patch skills immediately when found outdated/wrong
- Skills header: added instruction to update loaded skills before finishing
if they had missing steps or wrong commands
- Skill nudge: more assertive ('save the approach' not 'consider saving'),
now also prompts for updating existing skills used in the task
- Skill nudge interval: lowered default from 15 to 10 iterations
- skill_manage schema: added 'patch it immediately' to update triggers
* feat: first-class plugin architecture (#1555)
Plugin system for extending Hermes with custom tools, hooks, and
integrations — no source code changes required.
Core system (hermes_cli/plugins.py):
- Plugin discovery from ~/.hermes/plugins/, .hermes/plugins/, and
pip entry_points (hermes_agent.plugins group)
- PluginContext with register_tool() and register_hook()
- 6 lifecycle hooks: pre/post tool_call, pre/post llm_call,
on_session_start/end
- Namespace package handling for relative imports in plugins
- Graceful error isolation — broken plugins never crash the agent
Integration (model_tools.py):
- Plugin discovery runs after built-in + MCP tools
- Plugin tools bypass toolset filter via get_plugin_tool_names()
- Pre/post tool call hooks fire in handle_function_call()
CLI:
- /plugins command shows loaded plugins, tool counts, status
- Added to COMMANDS dict for autocomplete
Docs:
- Getting started guide (build-a-hermes-plugin.md) — full tutorial
building a calculator plugin step by step
- Reference page (features/plugins.md) — quick overview + tables
- Covers: file structure, schemas, handlers, hooks, data files,
bundled skills, env var gating, pip distribution, common mistakes
Tests: 16 tests covering discovery, loading, hooks, tool visibility.
* fix: hermes update causes dual gateways on macOS (launchd)
Three bugs worked together to create the dual-gateway problem:
1. cmd_update only checked systemd for gateway restart, completely
ignoring launchd on macOS. After killing the PID it would print
'Restart it with: hermes gateway run' even when launchd was about
to auto-respawn the process.
2. launchd's KeepAlive.SuccessfulExit=false respawns the gateway
after SIGTERM (non-zero exit), so the user's manual restart
created a second instance.
3. The launchd plist lacked --replace (systemd had it), so the
respawned gateway didn't kill stale instances on startup.
Fixes:
- Add --replace to launchd ProgramArguments (matches systemd)
- Add launchd detection to cmd_update's auto-restart logic
- Print 'auto-restart via launchd' instead of manual restart hint
* fix: add launchd plist auto-refresh + explicit restart in cmd_update
Two integration issues with the initial fix:
1. Existing macOS users with old plist (no --replace) would never
get the fix until manual uninstall/reinstall. Added
refresh_launchd_plist_if_needed() — mirrors the existing
refresh_systemd_unit_if_needed(). Called from launchd_start(),
launchd_restart(), and cmd_update.
2. cmd_update relied on KeepAlive respawn after SIGTERM rather than
explicit launchctl stop/start. This caused races: launchd would
respawn the old process before the PID file was cleaned up.
Now does explicit stop+start (matching how systemd gets an
explicit systemctl restart), with plist refresh first so the
new --replace flag is picked up.
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Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78a@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Oktay Aydin <113846926+aydnOktay@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JP Lew <polydegen@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: an420eth <an420eth@users.noreply.github.com>
Streaming is now off by default for both CLI and gateway. Users opt in:
CLI (config.yaml):
display:
streaming: true
Gateway (config.yaml):
streaming:
enabled: true
This lets early adopters test streaming while existing users see zero
change. Once we have enough field validation, we flip the default to
true in a subsequent release.
The persistent status bar now shows context %, token counts, and
duration but NOT $ cost by default. Cost display is opt-in via:
display:
show_cost: true
in config.yaml, or: hermes config set display.show_cost true
The /usage command still shows full cost breakdown since the user
explicitly asked for it — this only affects the always-visible bar.
Status bar without cost:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ 15m
Status bar with show_cost: true:
⚕ claude-sonnet-4 │ 12K/200K │ 6% │ $0.06 │ 15m
Add /browser slash command for connecting browser tools to the user's
live Chrome instance via Chrome DevTools Protocol:
/browser connect — connect to Chrome on localhost:9222
/browser connect ws://host:port — custom CDP endpoint
/browser disconnect — revert to default (headless/Browserbase)
/browser status — show current browser mode + connectivity
When connected:
- All browser tools (navigate, snapshot, click, etc.) control the
user's real Chrome — logged-in sessions, cookies, open tabs
- Platform-specific Chrome launch instructions are shown
- Port connectivity is tested immediately
- A context message is injected so the model knows it's controlling
a live browser and should be mindful of user's open tabs
Implementation:
- BROWSER_CDP_URL env var drives the backend selection in browser_tool.py
- New _create_cdp_session() creates sessions using the CDP override
- _get_cdp_override() checked before local/Browserbase selection
- Existing agent-browser --cdp flag handles the actual CDP connection
Inspired by OpenClaw's browser profile system.
* feat: smart approvals — LLM-based risk assessment for dangerous commands
Adds a 'smart' approval mode that uses the auxiliary LLM to assess
whether a flagged command is genuinely dangerous or a false positive,
auto-approving low-risk commands without prompting the user.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Smart Approvals guardian subagent
(openai/codex#13860).
Config (config.yaml):
approvals:
mode: manual # manual (default), smart, off
Modes:
- manual — current behavior, always prompt the user
- smart — aux LLM evaluates risk: APPROVE (auto-allow), DENY (block),
or ESCALATE (fall through to manual prompt)
- off — skip all approval prompts (equivalent to --yolo)
When smart mode auto-approves, the pattern gets session-level approval
so subsequent uses of the same pattern don't trigger another LLM call.
When it denies, the command is blocked without user prompt. When
uncertain, it escalates to the normal manual approval flow.
The LLM prompt is carefully scoped: it sees only the command text and
the flagged reason, assesses actual risk vs false positive, and returns
a single-word verdict.
* feat: make smart approval model configurable via config.yaml
Adds auxiliary.approval section to config.yaml with the same
provider/model/base_url/api_key pattern as other aux tasks (vision,
web_extract, compression, etc.).
Config:
auxiliary:
approval:
provider: auto
model: '' # fast/cheap model recommended
base_url: ''
api_key: ''
Bridged to env vars in both CLI and gateway paths so the aux client
picks them up automatically.
* feat: add /stop command to kill all background processes
Adds a /stop slash command that kills all running background processes
at once. Currently users have to process(list) then process(kill) for
each one individually.
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's separation of interrupt (Ctrl+C stops current
turn) from /stop (cleans up background processes). See openai/codex#14602.
Ctrl+C continues to only interrupt the active agent turn — background
dev servers, watchers, etc. are preserved. /stop is the explicit way
to clean them all up.
When typing a path-like token (./ ../ ~/ / or containing /),
the CLI now shows filesystem completions in the dropdown menu.
Directories show a trailing slash and 'dir' label; files show
their size. Completions are case-insensitive and capped at 30
entries.
Triggered by tokens like:
edit ./src/ma → shows ./src/main.py, ./src/manifest.json, ...
check ~/doc → shows ~/docs/, ~/documents/, ...
read /etc/hos → shows /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ...
open tools/reg → shows tools/registry.py
Slash command autocomplete (/help, /model, etc.) is unaffected —
it still triggers when the input starts with /.
Inspired by OpenCode PR #145 (file path completion menu).
Implementation:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: _extract_path_word() detects path-like
tokens, _path_completions() yields filesystem Completions with
size labels, get_completions() routes to paths vs slash commands
- tests/hermes_cli/test_path_completion.py: 26 tests covering
path extraction, prefix filtering, directory markers, home
expansion, case-insensitivity, integration with slash commands
Add privacy.redact_pii config option (boolean, default false). When
enabled, the gateway redacts personally identifiable information from
the system prompt before sending it to the LLM provider:
- Phone numbers (user IDs on WhatsApp/Signal) → hashed to user_<sha256>
- User IDs → hashed to user_<sha256>
- Chat IDs → numeric portion hashed, platform prefix preserved
- Home channel IDs → hashed
- Names/usernames → NOT affected (user-chosen, publicly visible)
Hashes are deterministic (same user → same hash) so the model can
still distinguish users in group chats. Routing and delivery use
the original values internally — redaction only affects LLM context.
Inspired by OpenClaw PR #47959.
Keep Docker sandboxes isolated by default. Add an explicit terminal.docker_mount_cwd_to_workspace opt-in, thread it through terminal/file environment creation, and document the security tradeoff and config.yaml workflow clearly.
* fix(gateway): avoid recursive ExecStop in user systemd unit
* fix: extend ExecStop removal and TimeoutStopSec=60 to system unit
The cherry-picked PR #1448 fix only covered the user systemd unit.
The system unit had the same TimeoutStopSec=15 and could benefit
from the same 60s timeout for clean shutdown. Also adds a regression
test for the system unit.
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Co-authored-by: Ninja <ninja@local>
Checkpoint & rollback upgrades:
1. Enabled by default — checkpoints are now on for all new sessions.
Zero cost when no file-mutating tools fire. Disable with
checkpoints.enabled: false in config.yaml.
2. Diff preview — /rollback diff <N> shows a git diff between the
checkpoint and current working tree before committing to a restore.
3. File-level restore — /rollback <N> <file> restores a single file
from a checkpoint instead of the entire directory.
4. Conversation undo on rollback — when restoring files, the last
chat turn is automatically undone so the agent's context matches
the restored filesystem state.
5. Terminal command checkpoints — destructive terminal commands (rm,
mv, sed -i, truncate, git reset/clean, output redirects) now
trigger automatic checkpoints before execution. Previously only
write_file and patch were covered.
6. Change summary in listing — /rollback now shows file count and
+insertions/-deletions for each checkpoint.
7. Fixed dead code — removed duplicate _run_git call in
list_checkpoints with nonsensical --all if False condition.
8. Updated help text — /rollback with no args now shows available
subcommands (diff, file-level restore).
Multiple Hermes installations on the same machine now get unique
systemd service names:
- Default ~/.hermes → hermes-gateway (backward compatible)
- Custom HERMES_HOME → hermes-gateway-<8-char-hash>
Changes:
- Add get_service_name() in hermes_cli/gateway.py that derives a
deterministic service name from HERMES_HOME via SHA256
- Replace all hardcoded 'hermes-gateway' systemd references with
get_service_name() across gateway.py, main.py, status.py, uninstall.py
- Add HERMES_HOME env var to both user and system systemd unit templates
so the gateway process uses the correct installation
- Update tests to use get_service_name() in assertions
cmd_update only ran 'systemctl --user restart hermes-gateway', which
left manually-started gateway processes alive, causing duplicates.
Now uses get_running_pid() from gateway/status.py (scoped to
HERMES_HOME) to find and SIGTERM this installation's gateway before
restarting. Safe with multiple Hermes installations since each
HERMES_HOME has its own PID file.
If no systemd service exists, informs the user to restart manually.
Based on PR #1131 by teknium1. Dropped the cli.py Rich from_ansi
changes (already on main).
When typing /model deepseek-chat while on a different provider, the
model name now auto-resolves to the correct provider instead of
silently staying on the wrong one and causing API errors.
Detection priority:
1. Direct provider with credentials (e.g. DEEPSEEK_API_KEY set)
2. OpenRouter catalog match with proper slug remapping
3. Direct provider without creds (clear error beats silent failure)
Also adds DeepSeek as a first-class API-key provider — just set
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY and /model deepseek-chat routes directly.
Bare model names get remapped to proper OpenRouter slugs:
/model gpt-5.4 → openai/gpt-5.4
/model claude-opus-4.6 → anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Salvages the concept from PR #1177 by @virtaava with credential
awareness and OpenRouter slug mapping added.
Co-authored-by: virtaava <virtaava@users.noreply.github.com>
_update_config_for_provider() was called immediately after provider
selection for zai, kimi-coding, minimax, minimax-cn, and anthropic —
before model selection happened. Since the gateway re-reads config.yaml
per-message, this created a race where the gateway would pick up the
new provider but still use the old (incompatible) model name.
Capture selected_base_url in each provider block, then call
_update_config_for_provider() once, after model selection completes,
right before save_config(). The in-memory _set_model_provider() calls
stay in place so the config object remains consistent during setup.
Closes#1182
- Add 'emoji' field to ToolEntry and 'get_emoji()' to ToolRegistry
- Add emoji= to all 50+ registry.register() calls across tool files
- Add get_tool_emoji() helper in agent/display.py with 3-tier resolution:
skin override → registry default → hardcoded fallback
- Replace hardcoded emoji maps in run_agent.py, delegate_tool.py, and
gateway/run.py with centralized get_tool_emoji() calls
- Add 'tool_emojis' field to SkinConfig so skins can override per-tool
emojis (e.g. ares skin could use swords instead of wrenches)
- Add 11 tests (5 registry emoji, 6 display/skin integration)
- Update AGENTS.md skin docs table
Based on the approach from PR #1061 by ForgingAlex (emoji centralization
in registry). This salvage fixes several issues from the original:
- Does NOT split the cronjob tool (which would crash on missing schemas)
- Does NOT change image_generate toolset/requires_env/is_async
- Does NOT delete existing tests
- Completes the centralization (gateway/run.py was missed)
- Hooks into the skin system for full customizability
SSH persistent shell now defaults to true — non-local backends benefit
most from state persistence across execute() calls. Local backend
remains opt-in via TERMINAL_LOCAL_PERSISTENT env var.
New config.yaml option: terminal.persistent_shell (default: true)
Controls the default for non-local backends. Users can disable with:
hermes config set terminal.persistent_shell false
Precedence: per-backend env var > TERMINAL_PERSISTENT_SHELL > default.
Wired through cli.py, gateway/run.py, and hermes_cli/config.py so the
config.yaml value reaches terminal_tool via env var bridge.
Two changes to align Discord behavior with Slack:
1. Auto-thread on @mention (default: true)
- When someone @mentions the bot in a server channel, a thread is
automatically created from their message and the response goes there.
- Each thread gets its own isolated session (like Slack).
- Configurable via discord.auto_thread in config.yaml (default: true)
or DISCORD_AUTO_THREAD env var (env takes precedence).
- DMs and existing threads are unaffected.
2. Skip @mention in bot-participated threads
- Once the bot has responded in a thread (auto-created or manually
entered), subsequent messages in that thread no longer require
@mention. Users can just type normally.
- Tracked via in-memory set (_bot_participated_threads). After a
gateway restart, users need to @mention once to re-establish.
- Threads the bot hasn't participated in still require @mention.
Config change:
discord:
auto_thread: true # new, added to DEFAULT_CONFIG
Tests: 7 new tests covering auto-thread default, disable, bot thread
participation tracking, and mention skip logic. All 903 gateway tests pass.
Hermes startup entrypoints now load ~/.hermes/.env and project fallback env files with user config taking precedence over stale shell-exported values. This makes model/provider/base URL changes in .env actually take effect after restarting Hermes. Adds a shared env loader plus regression coverage, and reproduces the original bug case where OPENAI_BASE_URL and HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER remained stuck on old shell values before import.
Resolve session IDs by exact match or unique prefix for sessions delete/export/rename so IDs copied from Preview Last Active Src ID
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_save_platform_tools() overwrote the entire platform_toolsets list with
only the toolsets known to CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS. This silently dropped
any MCP server toolsets that users had added manually to config.yaml.
Fix: collect any existing toolset keys that are not in CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS
and append them back after the wizard's selections are written. This ensures
MCP toolsets survive a hermes tools save.
Fixes#1247
- add stt.enabled to the default user config
- make transcription_tools respect the disabled flag globally
- surface disabled state cleanly in voice mode diagnostics
- add regression coverage for disabled STT provider selection
- mark private-channel scopes/events as optional
- note reinstall requirement after scope/event changes
- correct Slack allowlist messaging to match gateway behavior
- Add background thread mechanism (prefetch_update_check/get_update_result)
so git fetch runs in parallel with skill sync and agent init
- Fix repo path fallback in check_for_updates() for dev installs
- Remove duplicate build_welcome_banner (~180 lines) and
_format_context_length from cli.py — the banner.py version is
now the single source of truth
- Port skin banner_hero/banner_logo support and terminal width check
from cli.py's version into banner.py
- Add update status output to hermes version command
- Add unit tests for update check, prefetch, and version string
Add base_url/api_key overrides for auxiliary tasks and delegation so users can
route those flows straight to a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint without
having to rely on provider=main or named custom providers.
Also clear gateway session env vars in test isolation so the full suite stays
deterministic when run from a messaging-backed agent session.
Moonshot (legacy key) users were shown kimi-for-coding and
kimi-k2-thinking-turbo which only work on the Coding Plan endpoint
(api.kimi.com/coding/v1). Add a separate "moonshot" model list that
excludes plan-specific models.
`hermes update` crashed with CalledProcessError when run on a local-only
branch (e.g. fix/stoicneko) because `git rev-list HEAD..origin/{branch}`
fails when origin/{branch} doesn't exist. Now verifies the remote branch
exists first and falls back to origin/main.
Fixes#1005
Without linger, user-level systemd services stop when the SSH session
ends — even though systemctl --user status shows active (running).
Changes to systemd_install():
- Try loginctl enable-linger automatically (succeeds when the process
has the required privileges)
- If loginctl fails (no privileges), print a clear, copy-pasteable
warning with the exact command the user must run
New helper: _ensure_linger_enabled()
- Fast path: checks /var/lib/systemd/linger/<user> (no subprocess)
- Auto-enable: loginctl enable-linger <user>
- Fallback: actionable warning with sudo command + restart instructions
Tests: 4 new tests in TestEnsureLingerEnabled, 205 passed total
Keep the argparse CLI aligned with the slash command so --yes and -y
behave the same as --force for hermes skills install.
Add a parser-level regression test.
Salvaged from PR #1007 by stablegenius49.
- let INSTALL_POLICY decide dangerous verdict handling for builtin skills
- allow --force to override blocked dangerous decisions for trusted and community sources
- accept --yes / -y as aliases for --force in /skills install
- update regression tests to match the intended policy precedence
Follow up on salvaged PR #1012.
Prevents raw custom-provider names from intercepting built-in provider ids,
and keeps the regression coverage focused on current-main behavior.
Add regression coverage for the new provider-aware vision setup flow and make the default OpenAI choice write AUXILIARY_VISION_MODEL so auxiliary vision requests don't fall back to the main model slug.
The old flow blindly asked for an OpenRouter API key after ANY non-OR
provider selection, even for Nous Portal and Codex which already
support vision natively. This was confusing and annoying.
New behavior:
- OpenRouter: skip — vision uses Gemini via their OR key
- Nous Portal OAuth: skip — vision uses Gemini via Nous
- OpenAI Codex: skip — gpt-5.3-codex supports vision
- Custom endpoint (api.openai.com): show OpenAI vision model picker
(gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1, etc.), saves AUXILIARY_VISION_MODEL
- Custom (other) / z.ai / kimi / minimax / nous-api:
- First checks if existing OR/Nous creds already cover vision
- If not, offers friendly choice: OpenRouter / OpenAI / Skip
- No more 'enter OpenRouter key' thrown in your face
Also fixes the setup summary to check actual vision availability
across all providers instead of hardcoding 'requires OPENROUTER_API_KEY'.
MoA still correctly requires OpenRouter (calls multiple frontier models).
Update the unknown-subcommand config help output to use placeholder syntax too,
and extend the placeholder regression tests to cover show_config() and that
fallback help path.
Round out the skills hub integration with:
- richer skills.sh metadata and security surfacing during inspect/install
- generic check/update flows for hub-installed skills
- support for well-known Agent Skills endpoints via /.well-known/skills/index.json
Also persist upstream bundle metadata in the lock file and add
regression coverage plus live-compatible path handling for both
skills.sh aliases and well-known endpoints.
Seed ~/.hermes/SOUL.md when missing, load SOUL only from HERMES_HOME, and inject raw SOUL content without wrapper text. If the file exists but is empty, nothing is added to the system prompt.
- store gateway PID metadata and validate the live process before trusting gateway.pid
- auto-refresh outdated systemd user units before start/restart so installs pick up --replace fixes
- sweep stray manual gateway processes after service stops
- add regression tests for PID validation and service drift recovery
Harden the skills.sh hub adapter by parsing skill detail pages when
search slugs do not map cleanly onto GitHub skill folder names.
This adds detail-page resolution for alias-style skills, improves
inspect metadata from the page itself, and covers the behavior with
regression tests plus live smoke validation for json-render-react.
Add a skills.sh-backed source adapter for the Hermes Skills Hub.
The new adapter uses skills.sh search results for discovery, falls back to
featured homepage links for browse-style queries, and resolves installs /
inspects through the underlying GitHub repo using common Agent Skills
layout conventions. Also expose skills-sh in CLI source filters and add
regression coverage for search, alias resolution, and source routing.
* fix(gateway): surface missing linger in status and doctor
Warn when a systemd user gateway service has linger disabled so users can
spot the common 'gateway sleeps after logout' deployment issue from both
hermes doctor and hermes gateway status.
* fix(gateway): check linger status after install
After installing the systemd user service, report whether linger is
already enabled instead of always printing the generic hint. This makes
post-install guidance match the user's actual deployment state.
Add a restore prompt for interactive updates, keep the stash when the user declines, and print a post-restore warning that local changes were reapplied on top of updated code.
- Add multi-provider STT support (OpenAI > Groq fallback) in transcription_tools
- Auto-correct model selection when provider doesn't support the configured model
- Change voice record key from Ctrl+Space to Ctrl+R (macOS compatibility)
- Fix duplicate transcript echo in voice pipeline
- Add GROQ_API_KEY to .env.example
Salvaged from PR #932 by Wayne onto current main.
Apply skin-aware prompt symbols and live prompt_toolkit color refresh,
replace lingering hardcoded accent output with active-skin colors, keep
ANSI-safe response rendering, preserve secret-capture and approval-prompt
state handling, and add integration coverage for prompt state and style
refresh behavior.
hermes setup hung indefinitely on headless SSH sessions, Docker
containers, and CI/CD environments because the interactive provider
selection menu could not receive input.
Two-layer fix:
1. sys.stdin.isatty() check — auto-detects non-interactive environments
2. --non-interactive flag support — already in CLI parser, now honored
In both cases the wizard exits immediately with helpful guidance
pointing users to 'hermes config set' commands.
Closes#905
Integrate tirith as a pre-execution security scanner that detects
homograph URLs, pipe-to-interpreter patterns, terminal injection,
zero-width Unicode, and environment variable manipulation — threats
the existing 50-pattern dangerous command detector doesn't cover.
Architecture: gather-then-decide — both tirith and the dangerous
command detector run before any approval prompt, preventing gateway
force=True replay from bypassing one check when only the other was
shown to the user.
New files:
- tools/tirith_security.py: subprocess wrapper with auto-installer,
mandatory cosign provenance verification, non-blocking background
download, disk-persistent failure markers with retryable-cause
tracking (cosign_missing auto-clears when cosign appears on PATH)
- tests/tools/test_tirith_security.py: 62 tests covering exit code
mapping, fail_open, cosign verification, background install,
HERMES_HOME isolation, and failure recovery
- tests/tools/test_command_guards.py: 21 integration tests for the
combined guard orchestration
Modified files:
- tools/approval.py: add check_all_command_guards() orchestrator,
add allow_permanent parameter to prompt_dangerous_approval()
- tools/terminal_tool.py: replace _check_dangerous_command with
consolidated check_all_command_guards
- cli.py: update _approval_callback for allow_permanent kwarg,
call ensure_installed() at startup
- gateway/run.py: iterate pattern_keys list on replay approval,
call ensure_installed() at startup
- hermes_cli/config.py: add security config defaults, split
commented sections for independent fallback
- cli-config.yaml.example: document tirith security config
Restore the ACP editor-integration implementation that was present on the
original PR branch but did not actually land in main.
Includes:
- acp_adapter/ server, session manager, event bridge, auth, permissions,
and tool helpers
- hermes acp subcommand and hermes-acp entry point
- hermes-acp curated toolset
- ACP registry manifest, setup guide, and ACP test suite
- jupyter-live-kernel data science skill from the original branch
Also updates the revived ACP code for current main by:
- resolving runtime providers through the modern shared provider router
- binding ACP sessions to per-session cwd task overrides
- tracking duplicate same-name tool calls with FIFO IDs
- restoring terminal approval callbacks after prompts
- normalizing supporting docs/skill metadata
Validated with tests/acp and the full pytest suite (-n0).
- Introduced _approval_lock to ensure that approval prompts are handled sequentially, preventing state clobbering from parallel delegation subtasks.
- Updated approval_callback and HermesCLI methods to utilize the lock for managing approval state and deadlines.
- Added tests for the config bridging logic to ensure correct environment variable mapping from config.yaml.
Create a new session DB row when starting fresh from the CLI, reset the
agent DB flush cursor and todo state, and update session timing/session ID
bookkeeping so follow-up logging stays correct.
Also update slash-command descriptions and add regression tests for /new,
/reset, and /clear.
Supersedes PR #899.
Closes#641.
* fix: Home Assistant event filtering now closed by default
Previously, when no watch_domains or watch_entities were configured,
ALL state_changed events passed through to the agent, causing users
to be flooded with notifications for every HA entity change.
Now events are dropped by default unless the user explicitly configures:
- watch_domains: list of domains to monitor (e.g. climate, light)
- watch_entities: list of specific entity IDs to monitor
- watch_all: true (new option — opt-in to receive all events)
A warning is logged at connect time if no filters are configured,
guiding users to set up their HA platform config.
All 49 gateway HA tests + 52 HA tool tests pass.
* docs: update Home Assistant integration documentation
- homeassistant.md: Fix event filtering docs to reflect closed-by-default
behavior. Add watch_all option. Replace Python dict config example with
YAML. Fix defaults table (was incorrectly showing 'all'). Add required
configuration warning admonition.
- environment-variables.md: Add HASS_TOKEN and HASS_URL to Messaging section.
- messaging/index.md: Add Home Assistant to description, architecture
diagram, platform toolsets table, and Next Steps links.
* fix(terminal): strip provider env vars from background and PTY subprocesses
Extends the env var blocklist from #1157 to also cover the two remaining
leaky paths in process_registry.py:
- spawn_local() PTY path (line 156)
- spawn_local() background Popen path (line 197)
Both were still using raw os.environ, leaking provider vars to background
processes and interactive PTY sessions. Now uses the same dynamic
_HERMES_PROVIDER_ENV_BLOCKLIST from local.py.
Explicit env_vars passed to spawn_local() still override the blocklist,
matching the existing behavior for callers that intentionally need these.
Gap identified by PR #1004 (@PeterFile).
* feat(delegate): add observability metadata to subagent results
Enrich delegate_task results with metadata from the child AIAgent:
- model: which model the child used
- exit_reason: completed | interrupted | max_iterations
- tokens.input / tokens.output: token counts
- tool_trace: per-tool-call trace with byte sizes and ok/error status
Tool trace uses tool_call_id matching to correctly pair parallel tool
calls with their results, with a fallback for messages without IDs.
Cherry-picked from PR #872 by @omerkaz, with fixes:
- Fixed parallel tool call trace pairing (was always updating last entry)
- Removed redundant 'iterations' field (identical to existing 'api_calls')
- Added test for parallel tool call trace correctness
Co-authored-by: omerkaz <omerkaz@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(stt): add free local whisper transcription via faster-whisper
Replace OpenAI-only STT with a dual-provider system mirroring the TTS
architecture (Edge TTS free / ElevenLabs paid):
STT: faster-whisper local (free, default) / OpenAI Whisper API (paid)
Changes:
- tools/transcription_tools.py: Full rewrite with provider dispatch,
config loading, local faster-whisper backend, and OpenAI API backend.
Auto-downloads model (~150MB for 'base') on first voice message.
Singleton model instance reused across calls.
- pyproject.toml: Add faster-whisper>=1.0.0 as core dependency
- hermes_cli/config.py: Expand stt config to match TTS pattern with
provider selection and per-provider model settings
- agent/context_compressor.py: Fix .strip() crash when LLM returns
non-string content (dict from llama.cpp, None). Fixes#1100 partially.
- tests/: 23 new tests for STT providers + 2 for compressor fix
- docs/: Updated Voice & TTS page with STT provider table, model sizes,
config examples, and fallback behavior
Fallback behavior:
- Local not installed → OpenAI API (if key set)
- OpenAI key not set → local whisper (if installed)
- Neither → graceful error message to user
Co-authored-by: Jah-yee <Jah-yee@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: omerkaz <omerkaz@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jah-yee <Jah-yee@users.noreply.github.com>
Users sometimes paste Discord IDs with prefixes like 'user:123456',
'<@123456>', or '<@!123456>' from Discord's UI or third-party tools.
This caused auth failures since the allowlist contained 'user:123' but
the actual user_id from messages was just '123'.
Fixes:
- Added _clean_discord_id() helper in discord.py to strip common prefixes
- Applied sanitization at runtime when parsing DISCORD_ALLOWED_USERS env var
- Applied sanitization in hermes setup and hermes gateway setup input flows
- Handles user:, <@>, and <@!> prefix formats
When _update_config_for_provider() writes the new provider and base_url
to config.yaml, the gateway (which re-reads config per-message) can pick
up the change before model selection completes. This causes the old model
name (e.g. 'anthropic/claude-opus-4.6') to be sent to the new provider's
API (e.g. MiniMax), which fails.
Changes:
- _update_config_for_provider() now accepts an optional default_model
parameter. When provided and the current model.default is empty or
uses OpenRouter format (contains '/'), it sets a safe default model
for the new provider.
- All setup.py callers for direct-API providers (zai, kimi, minimax,
minimax-cn, anthropic) now pass a provider-appropriate default model.
- _setup_provider_model_selection() now validates the 'Keep current'
choice: if the current model uses OpenRouter format and wouldn't work
with the new provider, it warns and switches to the provider's first
default model instead of silently keeping the incompatible name.
Reported by a user on Home Assistant whose gateway started sending
'anthropic/claude-opus-4.6' to MiniMax's API after running hermes setup.
Set HERMES_INTERACTIVE=1 via setdefault in run_doctor() so CLI-gated
tool checks (like cronjob) see the same context as the interactive CLI.
Cherry-picked from PR #895 by @stablegenius49.
Fixes#878
Co-authored-by: stablegenius49 <stablegenius49@users.noreply.github.com>
When a skill declares required_environment_variables in its YAML
frontmatter, missing env vars trigger a secure TUI prompt (identical
to the sudo password widget) when the skill is loaded. Secrets flow
directly to ~/.hermes/.env, never entering LLM context.
Key changes:
- New required_environment_variables frontmatter field for skills
- Secure TUI widget (masked input, 120s timeout)
- Gateway safety: messaging platforms show local setup guidance
- Legacy prerequisites.env_vars normalized into new format
- Remote backend handling: conservative setup_needed=True
- Env var name validation, file permissions hardened to 0o600
- Redact patterns extended for secret-related JSON fields
- 12 existing skills updated with prerequisites declarations
- ~48 new tests covering skip, timeout, gateway, remote backends
- Dynamic panel widget sizing (fixes hardcoded width from original PR)
Cherry-picked from PR #723 by kshitijk4poor, rebased onto current main
with conflict resolution.
Fixes#688
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes Anthropic OAuth/subscription authentication end-to-end:
Auth failures (401 errors):
- Add missing 'claude-code-20250219' beta header for OAuth tokens. Both
clawdbot and OpenCode include this alongside 'oauth-2025-04-20' — without
it, Anthropic's API rejects OAuth tokens with 401 authentication errors.
- Fix _fetch_anthropic_models() to use canonical beta headers from
_COMMON_BETAS + _OAUTH_ONLY_BETAS instead of hardcoding.
Token refresh:
- Add _refresh_oauth_token() — when Claude Code credentials from
~/.claude/.credentials.json are expired but have a refresh token,
automatically POST to console.anthropic.com/v1/oauth/token to get
a new access token. Uses the same client_id as Claude Code / OpenCode.
- Add _write_claude_code_credentials() — writes refreshed tokens back
to ~/.claude/.credentials.json, preserving other fields.
- resolve_anthropic_token() now auto-refreshes expired tokens before
returning None.
Config contamination:
- Anthropic's _model_flow_anthropic() no longer saves base_url to config.
Since resolve_runtime_provider() always hardcodes Anthropic's URL, the
stale base_url was contaminating other providers when users switched
without re-running 'hermes model' (e.g., Codex hitting api.anthropic.com).
- _update_config_for_provider() now pops base_url when passed empty string.
- Same fix in setup.py.
Flow/UX (hermes model command):
- CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN env var now checked in credential detection
- Reauthentication option when existing credentials found
- run_oauth_setup_token() runs 'claude setup-token' as interactive
subprocess, then auto-detects saved credentials
- Clean has_creds/needs_auth flow in both main.py and setup.py
Tests (14 new):
- Beta header assertions for claude-code-20250219
- Token refresh: successful refresh with credential writeback, failed
refresh returns None, no refresh token returns None
- Credential writeback: new file creation, preserving existing fields
- Auto-refresh integration in resolve_anthropic_token()
- CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN fallback, credential file auto-discovery
- run_oauth_setup_token() (5 scenarios)
Doctor-only override so honcho shows as available when configured,
even outside a live agent session. Runtime tool gate unchanged.
Cherry-picked from PR #962 by PeterFile, rebased onto current main
(post-#736 merge) with conflict resolution.
Fixes#961
Co-authored-by: PeterFile <PeterFile@users.noreply.github.com>
Remove 50 lines of unreachable duplicate model selection logic in
setup_model_provider() for zai/kimi-coding/minimax/minimax-cn providers.
The code referenced undefined `is_coding_plan` variable, crashing setup.
_setup_provider_model_selection() already handles these providers correctly
via _DEFAULT_PROVIDER_MODELS dict.
Fixes from comprehensive code review and cross-referencing with
clawdbot/OpenCode implementations:
CRITICAL:
- Add one-shot guard (anthropic_auth_retry_attempted) to prevent
infinite 401 retry loops when credentials keep changing
- Fix _is_oauth_token(): managed keys from ~/.claude.json are NOT
regular API keys (don't start with sk-ant-api). Inverted the logic:
only sk-ant-api* is treated as API key auth, everything else uses
Bearer auth + oauth beta headers
HIGH:
- Wrap json.loads(args) in try/except in message conversion — malformed
tool_call arguments no longer crash the entire conversation
- Raise AuthError in runtime_provider when no Anthropic token found
(was silently passing empty string, causing confusing API errors)
- Remove broken _try_anthropic() from auxiliary vision chain — the
centralized router creates an OpenAI client for api_key providers
which doesn't work with Anthropic's Messages API
MEDIUM:
- Handle empty assistant message content — Anthropic rejects empty
content blocks, now inserts '(empty)' placeholder
- Fix setup.py existing_key logic — set to 'KEEP' sentinel instead
of None to prevent falling through to the auth choice prompt
- Add debug logging to _fetch_anthropic_models on failure
Tests: 43 adapter tests (2 new for token detection), 3197 total passed
- Add _fetch_anthropic_models() to hermes_cli/models.py — hits the
Anthropic /v1/models endpoint to get the live model catalog. Handles
both API key and OAuth token auth headers.
- Wire it into provider_model_ids() so both 'hermes model' and
'hermes setup model' show the live list instead of a stale static one.
- Update static _PROVIDER_MODELS fallback with full current catalog:
opus-4-6, sonnet-4-6, opus-4-5, sonnet-4-5, opus-4, sonnet-4, haiku-4-5
- Update model_metadata.py with context lengths for all current models.
- Fix thinking parameter for 4.5+ models: use type='adaptive' instead
of type='enabled' (Anthropic deprecated 'enabled' for newer models,
warns at runtime). Detects model version from the model name string.
Verified live:
hermes model → Anthropic → auto-detected creds → shows 7 live models
hermes chat --provider anthropic --model claude-opus-4-6 → works
Both 'hermes model' and 'hermes setup model' now present a clear
two-option auth flow when no credentials are found:
1. Claude Pro/Max subscription (setup-token)
- Step-by-step instructions to run 'claude setup-token'
- User pastes the resulting sk-ant-oat01-... token
2. Anthropic API key (pay-per-token)
- Link to console.anthropic.com/settings/keys
- User pastes sk-ant-api03-... key
Also handles:
- Auto-detection of existing Claude Code creds (~/.claude/.credentials.json)
- Existing credentials shown with option to update
- Consistent UX between 'hermes model' and 'hermes setup model'
* fix: stop rejecting unlisted models + auto-detect from /models endpoint
validate_requested_model() now accepts models not in the provider's API
listing with a warning instead of blocking. Removes hardcoded catalog
fallback for validation — if API is unreachable, accepts with a warning.
Model selection flows (setup + /model command) now probe the provider's
/models endpoint to get the real available models. Falls back to
hardcoded defaults with a clear warning when auto-detection fails:
'Could not auto-detect models — use Custom model if yours isn't listed.'
Z.AI setup no longer excludes GLM-5 on coding plans.
* fix: use hermes-agent.nousresearch.com as HTTP-Referer for OpenRouter
OpenRouter scrapes the favicon/logo from the HTTP-Referer URL for app
rankings. We were sending the GitHub repo URL, which gives us a generic
GitHub logo. Changed to the proper website URL so our actual branding
shows up in rankings.
Changed in run_agent.py (main agent client) and auxiliary_client.py
(vision/summarization clients).
Feedback fixes:
1. Revert _convert_vision_content — vision is handled by the vision_analyze
tool, not by converting image blocks inline in conversation messages.
Removed the function and its tests.
2. Add Anthropic to 'hermes model' (cmd_model in main.py):
- Added to provider_labels dict
- Added to providers selection list
- Added _model_flow_anthropic() with Claude Code credential auto-detection,
API key prompting, and model selection from catalog.
3. Wire up Anthropic as a vision-capable auxiliary provider:
- Added _try_anthropic() to auxiliary_client.py using claude-sonnet-4
as the vision model (Claude natively supports multimodal)
- Added to the get_vision_auxiliary_client() auto-detection chain
(after OpenRouter/Nous, before Codex/custom)
Cache tracking note: the Anthropic cache metrics branch in run_agent.py
(cache_read_input_tokens / cache_creation_input_tokens) is in the correct
place — it's response-level parsing, same location as the existing
OpenRouter cache tracking. auxiliary_client.py has no cache tracking.
* fix: use session_key instead of chat_id for adapter interrupt lookups
monitor_for_interrupt() in _run_agent was using source.chat_id to query
the adapter's has_pending_interrupt() and get_pending_message() methods.
But the adapter stores interrupt events under build_session_key(source),
which produces a different string (e.g. 'agent:main:telegram:dm' vs '123456').
This key mismatch meant the interrupt was never detected through the
adapter path, which is the only active interrupt path for all adapter-based
platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, etc.). The gateway-level interrupt
path (in dispatch_message) is unreachable because the adapter intercepts
the 2nd message in handle_message() before it reaches dispatch_message().
Result: sending a new message while subagents were running had no effect —
the interrupt was silently lost.
Fix: replace all source.chat_id references in the interrupt-related code
within _run_agent() with the session_key parameter, which matches the
adapter's storage keys.
Also adds regression tests verifying session_key vs chat_id consistency.
* debug: add file-based logging to CLI interrupt path
Temporary instrumentation to diagnose why message-based interrupts
don't seem to work during subagent execution. Logs to
~/.hermes/interrupt_debug.log (immune to redirect_stdout).
Two log points:
1. When Enter handler puts message into _interrupt_queue
2. When chat() reads it and calls agent.interrupt()
This will reveal whether the message reaches the queue and
whether the interrupt is actually fired.
* fix: accept unlisted models with warning instead of rejecting
validate_requested_model() previously hard-rejected any model not found
in the provider's API listing. This was too aggressive — users on higher
plan tiers (e.g. Z.AI Pro/Max) may have access to models not shown in
the public listing (like glm-5 on coding endpoints).
Changes:
- validate_requested_model: accept unlisted models with a warning note
instead of blocking. The model is saved to config and used immediately.
- Z.AI setup: always offer glm-5 in the model list regardless of whether
a coding endpoint was detected. Pro/Max plans support it.
- Z.AI setup detection message: softened from 'GLM-5 is not available'
to 'GLM-5 may still be available depending on your plan tier'
* fix: ClawHub skill install — use /download ZIP endpoint
The ClawHub API v1 version endpoint only returns file metadata
(path, size, sha256, contentType) without inline content or download
URLs. Our code was looking for inline content in the metadata, which
never existed, causing all ClawHub installs to fail with:
'no inline/raw file content was available'
Fix: Use the /api/v1/download endpoint (same as the official clawhub
CLI) to download skills as ZIP bundles and extract files in-memory.
Changes:
- Add _download_zip() method that downloads and extracts ZIP bundles
- Retry on 429 rate limiting with Retry-After header support
- Path sanitization and binary file filtering for security
- Keep _extract_files() as a fallback for inline/raw content
- Also fix nested file lookup (version_data.version.files)
* chore: lower default compression threshold from 85% to 50%
Triggers context compression earlier — at 50% of the model's context
window instead of 85%. Updated in all four places where the default
is defined: context_compressor.py, cli.py, run_agent.py, config.py,
and gateway/run.py.
Follow-up to PR #862 (local skills classification by arceus77-7):
- Remove unnecessary isinstance guard on _read_manifest() return value —
it always returns Dict[str, str], so set() on it suffices.
- Extract repeated hub-dir monkeypatching into a shared pytest fixture (hub_env).
- Add three_source_env fixture for source-classification tests.
- Add _read_manifest monkeypatch to test_do_list_initializes_hub_dir
(was fragile — relied on empty skills list masking the real manifest).
- Add test coverage for --source hub and --source builtin filters.
- Extract _capture() helper to reduce console/StringIO boilerplate.
5 tests, all green.
When a dangerous command is detected and the user is prompted for
approval, long commands are truncated (80 chars in fallback, 70 chars
in the TUI). Users had no way to see the full command before deciding.
This adds a 'View full command' option across all approval interfaces:
- CLI fallback (tools/approval.py): [v]iew option in the prompt menu.
Shows the full command and re-prompts for approval decision.
- CLI TUI (cli.py): 'Show full command' choice in the arrow-key
selection panel. Expands the command display in-place and removes
the view option after use.
- CLI callbacks (callbacks.py): 'view' choice added to the list when
the command exceeds 70 characters.
- Gateway (gateway/run.py): 'full', 'show', 'view' responses reveal
the complete command while keeping the approval pending.
Includes 7 new tests covering view-then-approve, view-then-deny,
short command fallthrough, and double-view behavior.
Closes community feedback about the 80-char cap on dangerous commands.
* fix: /reasoning command output ordering, display, and inline think extraction
Three issues with the /reasoning command:
1. Output interleaving: The command echo used print() while feedback
used _cprint(), causing them to render out-of-order under
prompt_toolkit's patch_stdout. Changed echo to use _cprint() so
all output renders through the same path in correct order.
2. Reasoning display not working: /reasoning show toggled a flag
but reasoning never appeared for models that embed thinking in
inline <think> blocks rather than structured API fields. Added
fallback extraction in _build_assistant_message to capture
<think> block content as reasoning when no structured reasoning
fields (reasoning, reasoning_content, reasoning_details) are
present. This feeds into both the reasoning callback (during
tool loops) and the post-response reasoning box display.
3. Feedback clarity: Added checkmarks to confirm actions, persisted
show/hide to config (was session-only before), and aligned the
status display for readability.
Tests: 7 new tests for inline think block extraction (41 total).
* feat: add /reasoning command to gateway (Telegram/Discord/etc)
The /reasoning command only existed in the CLI — messaging platforms
had no way to view or change reasoning settings. This adds:
1. /reasoning command handler in the gateway:
- No args: shows current effort level and display state
- /reasoning <level>: sets reasoning effort (none/low/medium/high/xhigh)
- /reasoning show|hide: toggles reasoning display in responses
- All changes saved to config.yaml immediately
2. Reasoning display in gateway responses:
- When show_reasoning is enabled, prepends a 'Reasoning' block
with the model's last_reasoning content before the response
- Collapses long reasoning (>15 lines) to keep messages readable
- Uses last_reasoning from run_conversation result dict
3. Plumbing:
- Added _show_reasoning attribute loaded from config at startup
- Propagated last_reasoning through _run_agent return dict
- Added /reasoning to help text and known_commands set
- Uses getattr for _show_reasoning to handle test stubs
* fix: improve Kimi model selection — auto-detect endpoint, add missing models
Kimi Coding Plan setup:
- New dedicated _model_flow_kimi() replaces the generic API-key flow
for kimi-coding. Removes the confusing 'Base URL' prompt entirely —
the endpoint is auto-detected from the API key prefix:
sk-kimi-* → api.kimi.com/coding/v1 (Kimi Coding Plan)
other → api.moonshot.ai/v1 (legacy Moonshot)
- Shows appropriate models for each endpoint:
Coding Plan: kimi-for-coding, kimi-k2.5, kimi-k2-thinking, kimi-k2-thinking-turbo
Moonshot: full model catalog
- Clears any stale KIMI_BASE_URL override so runtime auto-detection
via _resolve_kimi_base_url() works correctly.
Model catalog updates:
- Added kimi-for-coding (primary Coding Plan model) and kimi-k2-thinking-turbo
to models.py, main.py _PROVIDER_MODELS, and model_metadata.py context windows.
- Updated User-Agent from KimiCLI/1.0 to KimiCLI/1.3 (Kimi's coding
endpoint whitelists known coding agents via User-Agent sniffing).
Adds --pass-session-id CLI flag. When set, the agent's system prompt
includes the session ID:
Conversation started: Sunday, March 08, 2026 06:32 PM
Session ID: 20260308_183200_abc123
Usage:
hermes --pass-session-id
hermes chat --pass-session-id
Implementation threads the flag as a proper parameter through the full
chain (main.py → cli.py → run_agent.py) rather than using an env var,
avoiding collisions in multi-agent/multitenant setups.
Based on PR #726 by dmahan93, reworked to use instance parameter
instead of HERMES_PASS_SESSION_ID environment variable.
Co-authored-by: dmahan93 <dmahan93@users.noreply.github.com>
curated_models_for_provider() now tries the live API first (via
provider_model_ids) before falling back to static _PROVIDER_MODELS.
This means /model and /provider slash commands show the actual
available models, not a stale hardcoded list.
Also added live Nous Portal model fetching via fetch_nous_models()
in provider_model_ids(), alongside the existing Codex live fetch.
- Update __version__ to 0.2.0 (was 0.1.0)
- Update pyproject.toml to match
- Add RELEASE_v0.2.0.md with comprehensive changelog covering:
- All 231 merged PRs
- 120 resolved issues
- 74+ contributors credited
- Organized by feature area with PR links
- Fix version mismatch: __init__.py had 'v1.0.0', pyproject.toml had '0.1.0'
Now both use '0.1.0' (no v prefix — added in display code only)
- Add __release_date__ for CalVer date tracking alongside SemVer version
- Fix double-v bug in cmd_version (was printing 'vv1.0.0')
- Update banner title to show 'Hermes Agent v0.1.0 (2026.3.12)' format
- Update cli.py banner to match new format
- Add scripts/release.py: full release automation tool
- Generates categorized changelogs from git history
- Maps git authors to GitHub @mentions (70+ contributors)
- Supports dry-run preview and --publish mode
- Creates annotated CalVer git tags + GitHub Releases
- Bumps semver in source files automatically
- Usage: python scripts/release.py --bump minor --publish
- Add .release_notes.md to .gitignore
Versioning scheme: CalVer tags (v2026.3.12) + SemVer display (v0.1.0)
4 test files spawn real processes or make live API calls that hang
indefinitely in batch/CI runs. Skip them with pytestmark:
- tests/tools/test_code_execution.py (subprocess spawns)
- tests/tools/test_file_tools_live.py (live LocalEnvironment)
- tests/test_413_compression.py (blocks on process)
- tests/test_agent_loop_tool_calling.py (live OpenRouter API calls)
Also added global 30s signal.alarm timeout in conftest.py as a safety
net, and removed stale nous-api test that hung on OAuth browser login.
Suite now runs in ~55s with no hangs.
- gateway/run.py: Take main's _resolve_gateway_model() helper
- hermes_cli/setup.py: Re-apply nous-api removal after merge brought
it back. Fix provider_idx offset (Custom is now index 3, not 4).
- tests/hermes_cli/test_setup.py: Fix custom setup test index (3→4)
- Custom endpoints can serve any model, so skip validation for
provider='custom' in validate_requested_model(). Previously it
would reject any model name since there's no static catalog or
live API to check against.
- Show clear setup instructions when switching to custom endpoint
without OPENAI_BASE_URL/OPENAI_API_KEY configured.
- Added curated model lists for Nous Portal and OpenAI Codex to
_PROVIDER_MODELS so /model shows their available models.
Both /model and /provider now show the same unified display:
Current: anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 via OpenRouter
Authenticated providers & models:
[openrouter] ← active
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 ← current
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
...
[nous]
claude-opus-4-6
gemini-3-flash
...
[openai-codex]
gpt-5.2-codex
gpt-5.1-codex-mini
...
Not configured: Z.AI / GLM, Kimi / Moonshot, ...
Switch model: /model <model-name>
Switch provider: /model <provider>:<model-name>
Example: /model nous:claude-opus-4-6
Users can see all authenticated providers and their models at a glance,
making it easy to switch mid-conversation.
Also added curated model lists for Nous Portal and OpenAI Codex to
hermes_cli/models.py.
Model selection now comes exclusively from config.yaml (set via
'hermes model' or 'hermes setup'). The LLM_MODEL env var is no longer
read or written anywhere in production code.
Why: env vars are per-process/per-user and would conflict in
multi-agent or multi-tenant setups. Config.yaml is file-based and
can be scoped per-user or eventually per-session.
Changes:
- cli.py: Read model from CLI_CONFIG only, not LLM_MODEL/OPENAI_MODEL
- hermes_cli/auth.py: _save_model_choice() no longer writes LLM_MODEL
to .env
- hermes_cli/setup.py: Remove 12 save_env_value('LLM_MODEL', ...)
calls from all provider setup flows
- gateway/run.py: Remove LLM_MODEL fallback (HERMES_MODEL still works
for gateway process runtime)
- cron/scheduler.py: Same
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: Remove LLM_MODEL from custom endpoint
model detection
Add centralized call_llm() and async_call_llm() functions that own the
full LLM request lifecycle:
1. Resolve provider + model from task config or explicit args
2. Get or create a cached client for that provider
3. Format request args (max_tokens handling, provider extra_body)
4. Make the API call with max_tokens/max_completion_tokens retry
5. Return the response
Config: expanded auxiliary section with provider:model slots for all
tasks (compression, vision, web_extract, session_search, skills_hub,
mcp, flush_memories). Config version bumped to 7.
Migrated all auxiliary consumers:
- context_compressor.py: uses call_llm(task='compression')
- vision_tools.py: uses async_call_llm(task='vision')
- web_tools.py: uses async_call_llm(task='web_extract')
- session_search_tool.py: uses async_call_llm(task='session_search')
- browser_tool.py: uses call_llm(task='vision'/'web_extract')
- mcp_tool.py: uses call_llm(task='mcp')
- skills_guard.py: uses call_llm(provider='openrouter')
- run_agent.py flush_memories: uses call_llm(task='flush_memories')
Tests updated for context_compressor and MCP tool. Some test mocks
still need updating (15 remaining failures from mock pattern changes,
2 pre-existing).
When a new user runs 'hermes setup' for the first time and ~/.openclaw/
exists, the wizard now asks if they want to import their OpenClaw data
before API/tool configuration begins.
If accepted, the existing migration script from optional-skills/ is
loaded dynamically and run with the 'full' preset — importing settings,
memories, skills, API keys, and platform configs. Config is reloaded
afterward so imported values (like API keys) are available for the
remaining setup steps.
The migration is only offered on first-time setup (not returning users)
and handles errors gracefully without blocking setup completion.
Closes#829
- Forum parent channel IDs now match free-response list (add a forum
channel ID and all its threads respond without mention)
- Better thread chat names: 'Guild / forum / thread' for forum threads
- Add discord.require_mention and discord.free_response_channels to
config.yaml (bridged to env vars, env vars still override)
- Keep require_mention defaulting to true (safe for shared servers)
Cherry-picked from PR #867 by insecurejezza with default fix and
config.yaml integration.
Co-authored-by: insecurejezza <insecurejezza@users.noreply.github.com>
save_env_value() used bare open('w') which truncates .env immediately.
A crash or OOM kill between truncation and completed write silently
wipes every credential in the file.
Write now goes to a temp file first, then os.replace() swaps it
atomically. Either the old .env exists or the new one does — never
a truncated half-write. Same pattern used in cron/jobs.py.
Cherry-picked from PR #842 by alireza78a, rebased onto current main
with conflict resolution (_secure_file refactor).
Co-authored-by: alireza78a <alireza78a@users.noreply.github.com>
MiniMax APIs (global and China) don't support /v1/models, causing
hermes doctor to always show HTTP 404 even with valid API keys.
Skip the HTTP check for these providers and show '(key configured)'
when the API key is present.
Cherry-picked from PR #822 by Bartok9, rebased onto current main.
Fixes#811
Co-authored-by: Bartok9 <259807879+Bartok9@users.noreply.github.com>
The old flow blindly asked for an OpenRouter API key after ANY non-OR
provider selection, even for Nous Portal and Codex which already
support vision natively. This was confusing and annoying.
New behavior:
- OpenRouter: skip — vision uses Gemini via their OR key
- Nous Portal OAuth: skip — vision uses Gemini via Nous
- OpenAI Codex: skip — gpt-5.3-codex supports vision
- Custom endpoint (api.openai.com): show OpenAI vision model picker
(gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1, etc.), saves AUXILIARY_VISION_MODEL
- Custom (other) / z.ai / kimi / minimax / nous-api:
- First checks if existing OR/Nous creds already cover vision
- If not, offers friendly choice: OpenRouter / OpenAI / Skip
- No more 'enter OpenRouter key' thrown in your face
Also fixes the setup summary to check actual vision availability
across all providers instead of hardcoding 'requires OPENROUTER_API_KEY'.
MoA still correctly requires OpenRouter (calls multiple frontier models).
Post-merge fixes for the email gateway (PR #797):
1. Add Platform.EMAIL to all 4 platform-to-toolset/config mapping
dicts in gateway/run.py. Without this, email sessions silently
fell back to the Telegram toolset because these dicts were added
after the PR branched off main.
2. Add email (and signal) to hermes_cli/tools_config.py and
hermes_cli/skills_config.py PLATFORMS dicts so they appear in
'hermes tools' and 'hermes skills' CLI commands.
3. Add full email setup documentation:
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/email.md — setup guide with
Gmail/Outlook instructions, configuration, troubleshooting,
security advice, and env var reference
- Update messaging/index.md — add email to architecture diagram,
platform toolset table, security examples, and next steps
Allow users to interact with Hermes by sending and receiving emails.
Uses IMAP polling for incoming messages and SMTP for replies with
proper threading (In-Reply-To, References headers).
Integrates with all 14 gateway extension points: config, adapter
factory, authorization, send_message tool, cron delivery, toolsets,
prompt hints, channel directory, setup wizard, status display, and
env example.
65 tests covering config, parsing, dispatch, threading, IMAP fetch,
SMTP send, attachments, and all integration points.
Adds delegation.model and delegation.provider config fields so subagents
can run on a completely different provider:model pair than the parent agent.
When delegation.provider is set, the system resolves the full credential
bundle (base_url, api_key, api_mode) via resolve_runtime_provider() —
the same path used by CLI/gateway startup. This means all configured
providers work out of the box: openrouter, nous, zai, kimi-coding,
minimax, minimax-cn.
Key design decisions:
- Provider resolution uses hermes_cli.runtime_provider (single source of
truth for credential resolution across CLI, gateway, cron, and now
delegation)
- When only delegation.model is set (no provider), the model name changes
but parent credentials are inherited (for switching models within the
same provider like OpenRouter)
- When delegation.provider is set, full credentials are resolved
independently — enabling cross-provider delegation (e.g. parent on
Nous Portal, subagents on OpenRouter)
- Clear error messages if provider resolution fails (missing API key,
unknown provider name)
- _load_config() now falls back to hermes_cli.config.load_config() for
gateway/cron contexts where CLI_CONFIG is unavailable
Based on PR #791 by 0xbyt4 (closes#609), reworked to use proper
provider credential resolution instead of passing provider as metadata.
Co-authored-by: 0xbyt4 <0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
Combined implementation of reasoning management:
- /reasoning Show current effort level and display state
- /reasoning <level> Set reasoning effort (none, low, medium, high, xhigh)
- /reasoning show|on Show model thinking/reasoning in output
- /reasoning hide|off Hide model thinking/reasoning from output
Effort level changes persist to config and force agent re-init.
Display toggle updates the agent callback dynamically without re-init.
When display is enabled:
- Intermediate reasoning shown as dim [thinking] lines during tool loops
- Final reasoning shown in a bordered box above the response
- Long reasoning collapsed (5 lines intermediate, 10 lines final)
Also adds:
- reasoning_callback parameter to AIAgent
- last_reasoning in run_conversation result dict
- show_reasoning config option (display section, default: false)
- Display section in /config output
- 34 tests covering both features
Combines functionality from PR #789 and PR #790.
Co-authored-by: Aum Desai <Aum08Desai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: 0xbyt4 <35742124+0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
Four cleanups to code merged today:
1. New hermes_cli/curses_ui.py — shared curses_checklist() used by both
hermes tools and hermes skills. Eliminates ~140 lines of near-identical
curses code (scrolling, key handling, color setup, numbered fallback).
2. Fix _find_all_skills() perf — was calling load_config() per skill
(~100+ YAML parses). Now loads disabled set once via
_get_disabled_skill_names() and does a set lookup.
3. Eliminate _list_all_skills_unfiltered() duplication — _find_all_skills()
now accepts skip_disabled=True for the config UI, removing 30 lines
of copy-pasted discovery logic from skills_config.py.
4. Fix fragile label round-trip in skills_command — was building label
strings, passing to checklist, then mapping labels back to skill names
(collision-prone). Now works with indices directly, like tools_config.
When wl-paste produces empty output, the destination file was left as
a 0-byte orphan. Added dest.unlink() before returning False, matching
the existing cleanup pattern in the exception handler.
Authored by 0xbyt4.
Co-authored-by: 0xbyt4 <0xbyt4@users.noreply.github.com>
Authored by teyrebaz33. Closes#643.
- /personality none/default/neutral clears system prompt overlay
- Dict format personalities with description, tone, style fields
- Works in both CLI and gateway
- 18 tests
Add /background <prompt> to the gateway, allowing users on Telegram,
Discord, Slack, etc. to fire off a prompt in a separate agent session.
The result is delivered back to the same chat when done, without
modifying the active conversation history.
Implementation:
- _handle_background_command: validates input, spawns asyncio task
- _run_background_task: creates AIAgent in executor thread, delivers
result (text, images, media files) back via the platform adapter
- Inherits model, toolsets, provider routing from gateway config
- Error handling with user-visible failure messages
Also adds /background to hermes_cli/commands.py registry so it
appears in /help and autocomplete.
Tests: 15 new tests covering usage, task creation, uniqueness,
multi-platform, error paths, and help/autocomplete integration.
Fixes#898 — Python 3.11 changed argparse to raise an exception on
duplicate subparser names (CPython #94331). The 'skills' name was
registered twice: once for Skills Hub and once for skills config.
Changes:
- Remove duplicate 'skills' subparser registration
- Add 'config' as a sub-action under the existing 'hermes skills' command
- Route 'hermes skills config' to skills_config module
- Add regression test to catch future duplicates
Migration: 'hermes skills' (config) is now 'hermes skills config'
- Use Optional[List[str]] instead of List[str] | None (consistency)
- Add header, per-platform counts, and checkmark list format
- Matches the visual style of the interactive configurator
Authored by teyrebaz33. Adds config-driven quick commands that execute
shell commands without invoking the LLM — zero token usage, works from
Telegram/Discord/Slack/etc. Closes#744.
Post-merge follow-up to PR #752 — adds 10 commands that were added
since the PR was submitted:
Session: /title, /compress, /rollback
Configuration: /provider, /verbose, /skin
Tools & Skills: /reload-mcp (+ full /skills description)
Info: /usage, /insights, /paste
Also preserved existing color formatting (_cprint, _GOLD, _BOLD, _DIM)
and skill commands section from main.
- Organize COMMANDS into COMMANDS_BY_CATEGORY dict
- Group commands: Session, Configuration, Tools & Skills, Info, Exit
- Add visual category headers with spacing
- Maintain backwards compat via flat COMMANDS dict
- Better visual hierarchy and scannability
Before:
/help - Show this help message
/tools - List available tools
... (dense list)
After:
── Session ──
/new Start a new conversation
/reset Reset conversation only
...
── Configuration ──
/config Show current configuration
...
Closes#640
fetch_nous_models() returned models in whatever order the API gave
them, which put sonnet near the top. Add a priority sort so users
see the best models first: opus > pro > other > sonnet.
Authored by dmahan93. Adds HERMES_YOLO_MODE env var and --yolo CLI flag
to auto-approve all dangerous command prompts.
Post-merge: renamed --fuck-it-ship-it to --yolo for brevity,
resolved conflict with --checkpoints flag.
Adds -Q/--quiet to `hermes chat` for use by external orchestrators
(Paperclip, scripts, CI). When combined with -q, suppresses:
- Banner and ASCII art
- Spinner animations
- Tool preview lines (┊ prefix)
Only outputs:
- The agent's final response text
- A parseable 'session_id: <id>' line for session resumption
Usage: hermes chat -q 'Do something' -Q
Used by: Paperclip adapter (@nousresearch/paperclip-adapter-hermes)
Two related bugs prevented users from reliably switching providers:
1. OPENAI_BASE_URL poisoning OpenRouter resolution: When a user with a
custom endpoint ran /model openrouter:model, _resolve_openrouter_runtime
picked up OPENAI_BASE_URL instead of the OpenRouter URL, causing model
validation to probe the wrong API and reject valid models.
Fix: skip OPENAI_BASE_URL when requested_provider is explicitly
'openrouter'.
2. Provider never saved to config: _save_model_choice() could save
config.model as a plain string. All five _model_flow_* functions then
checked isinstance(model, dict) before writing the provider — which
silently failed on strings. With no provider in config, auto-detection
would pick up stale credentials (e.g. Codex desktop app) instead of
the user's explicit choice.
Fix: _save_model_choice() now always saves as dict format. All flow
functions also normalize string->dict as a safety net before writing
provider.
Adds 4 regression tests. 2873 tests pass.
Add support for using Nous Portal via a direct API key, mirroring
how OpenRouter and other API-key providers work. This gives users a
simpler alternative to the OAuth device-code flow when they already
have a Nous API key.
Changes:
- Add 'nous-api' to PROVIDER_REGISTRY as an api_key provider
pointing to https://inference-api.nousresearch.com/v1
- Add NOUS_API_KEY and NOUS_BASE_URL to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS
- Add NOUS_API_BASE_URL / NOUS_API_CHAT_URL to hermes_constants
- Add 'Nous Portal API key' as first option in setup wizard
- Add provider aliases (nous_api, nousapi, nous-portal-api)
- Add test for nous-api runtime provider resolution
Closes#644
_fetch_models_from_api checked for "hide" while _read_cache_models
checked for "hidden", causing models hidden by the API to still
appear when loaded from cache. Both now accept either value.
Each themed skin (ares, poseidon, sisyphus, charizard) now has custom
banner_hero art that replaces the default Hermes caduceus. The hero art
uses braille-dot patterns themed to each skin:
- Ares: shield/spear emblem in crimson/bronze
- Poseidon: trident with wave patterns in blue/seafoam
- Sisyphus: boulder on slope in grayscale
- Charizard: dragon silhouette in orange/ember
Also fixes triple-quote string termination that caused a syntax error
in the previous commit.
Adds 3 new built-in skins (poseidon, sisyphus, charizard) with full
customization — colors, spinner faces/verbs/wings, branding text, and
custom ASCII art banner logos. Total: 7 built-in skins.
Also adds banner_logo and banner_hero fields to SkinConfig, allowing
any skin to replace the HERMES-AGENT ASCII art logo and the caduceus
hero art with custom artwork. The CLI now renders the skin's logo when
available, falling back to the default Hermes logo.
Skins with custom logos: ares, poseidon, sisyphus, charizard
Skins using default logo: default, mono, slate
- AGENTS.md: add Skin/Theme System section with architecture, skinnable
elements table, built-in skins list, adding built-in/user skins guide,
YAML example; add skin_engine.py to project structure; mention skin
engine in CLI Architecture section
- CONTRIBUTING.md: add skin_engine.py to project structure; add 'Adding
a Skin/Theme' section with YAML schema, activation instructions
- cli-config.yaml.example: add full skin config documentation with
schema reference, built-in skins list, all color/spinner/branding keys
- docs/skins/example-skin.yaml: complete annotated skin template with
all available fields and inline documentation
- hermes_cli/skin_engine.py: expand module docstring to full schema
reference with all fields documented, usage examples, built-in skins
list
Automatic filesystem snapshots before destructive file operations,
with user-facing rollback. Inspired by PR #559 (by @alireza78a).
Architecture:
- Shadow git repos at ~/.hermes/checkpoints/{hash}/ via GIT_DIR
- CheckpointManager: take/list/restore, turn-scoped dedup, pruning
- Transparent — the LLM never sees it, no tool schema, no tokens
- Once per turn — only first write_file/patch triggers a snapshot
Integration:
- Config: checkpoints.enabled + checkpoints.max_snapshots
- CLI flag: hermes --checkpoints
- Trigger: run_agent.py _execute_tool_calls() before write_file/patch
- /rollback slash command in CLI + gateway (list, restore by number)
- Pre-rollback snapshot auto-created on restore (undo the undo)
Safety:
- Never blocks file operations — all errors silently logged
- Skips root dir, home dir, dirs >50K files
- Disables gracefully when git not installed
- Shadow repo completely isolated from project git
Tests: 35 new tests, all passing (2798 total suite)
Docs: feature page, config reference, CLI commands reference
When a user runs `hermes -w -c Pokemon Agent Dev` without quoting the
session name, argparse would fail with:
error: argument command: invalid choice: 'Agent'
This is because argparse parses `-c Pokemon` (consuming one token via
nargs='?'), then sees 'Agent' and tries to match it as a subcommand.
Fix: add _coalesce_session_name_args() that pre-processes sys.argv before
argparse, joining consecutive non-flag, non-subcommand tokens after -c or
-r into a single argument. This makes both quoted and unquoted multi-word
session names work transparently.
Includes 17 tests covering all edge cases: multi-word names, single-word,
bare flags, flag ordering, subcommand boundaries, and passthrough.
Authored by shitcoinsherpa. Adds encoding='utf-8' to all text-mode
open() calls in gateway/run.py, gateway/config.py, hermes_cli/config.py,
hermes_cli/main.py, and hermes_cli/status.py. Prevents encoding errors
on Windows where the default locale is not UTF-8.
Also fixed 4 additional open() calls in gateway/run.py that were added
after the PR branch was created.
Complements PR #453 by 0xbyt4. Adds isinstance(dict) guard in
run_agent.py to catch cases where json.loads returns non-dict
(e.g. null, list, string) before they reach downstream code.
Also adds 15 tests for build_tool_preview covering None args,
empty dicts, known/unknown tools, fallback keys, truncation,
and all special-cased tools (process, todo, memory, session_search).
Authored by PercyDikec. Fixes#445.
Changes 'hide' to 'hidden' in _fetch_models_from_api to match
_read_cache_models and the actual API response format.
The Docker backend already supports user-configured volume mounts via
docker_volumes, but it was undocumented — missing from DEFAULT_CONFIG,
cli.py defaults, and configuration docs.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/config.py: Add docker_volumes to DEFAULT_CONFIG with
inline documentation and examples
- cli.py: Add docker_volumes to load_cli_config defaults
- configuration.md: Full Docker Volume Mounts section with YAML
examples, use cases (providing files, receiving outputs, shared
workspaces), and env var alternative
The 'hermes gateway setup' instructions for Slack were missing:
- The 'Subscribe to Events' step entirely (message.im, message.channels,
app_mention, message.groups)
- Several required scopes (app_mentions:read, groups:history, users:read,
files:write)
- Warning about bot only working in DMs without message.channels
- Step to invite the bot to channels
The 'hermes setup' flow (setup.py) and the website docs (slack.md)
already had the correct information — only gateway.py was outdated.
Reported by JordanB on Slack.
The #1 support issue with Slack is 'bot works in DMs but not channels'.
This is almost always caused by missing event subscriptions (message.channels,
message.groups) or missing OAuth scopes (channels:history, groups:history).
Changes:
- slack.md: Move channels:history and groups:history from optional to required
scopes. Move message.channels and message.groups to required events. Add new
'How the Bot Responds' section explaining DM vs channel behavior. Add Step 8
for inviting bot to channels. Expand troubleshooting table with specific
'works in DMs not channels' entry. Add quick checklist for channel debugging.
- setup.py: Expand Slack setup wizard with all required scopes, event
subscriptions, and a warning that without message.channels/message.groups
the bot only works in DMs. Add link to full docs. Improve Member ID
discovery instructions.
- config.py: Update SLACK_BOT_TOKEN and SLACK_APP_TOKEN descriptions to list
required scopes and event subscriptions inline.
Closes#643
Changes:
- /personality none|default|neutral — clears system prompt overlay
- Custom personalities in config.yaml support dict format with:
name, description, system_prompt, tone, style directives
- Backwards compatible — existing string format still works
- CLI + gateway both updated
- 18 tests covering none/default/neutral, dict format, string format,
list display, save to config
Selecting a saved custom provider now switches instantly without
probing /models — the model name is stored in the config entry
as a complete profile (name + url + key + model).
Changes:
- custom_providers entries now include 'model' field
- Selecting a saved provider with a model just activates it
- Only probes /models if no model is saved (first-time setup)
- Menu shows saved model name: 'Local (localhost:8000) — llama-70b'
- Dedup on re-entry: still activates the model, just doesn't add
a duplicate config entry (updates model name if changed)
When a user adds a custom endpoint via 'hermes model' → 'Custom
endpoint', it now automatically saves to custom_providers in
config.yaml so it persists and appears in the provider menu on
subsequent runs. Deduplicates by base_url.
Auto-generated names based on URL:
http://localhost:8000/v1 → 'Local (localhost:8000)'
https://xyz.runpod.ai/v1 → 'RunPod (xyz.runpod.ai)'
https://api.example.com/v1 → 'Api.example.com'
Also adds 'Remove a saved custom provider' option to the menu
(only shown when custom providers exist) with a selection UI
to pick which one to remove.
Users can also manually edit custom_providers in config.yaml
for full control over names and settings.
Users with multiple local servers or custom endpoints can now define
them all in config.yaml and switch between them from the model
selection menu:
custom_providers:
- name: 'Local Llama 70B'
base_url: 'http://localhost:8000/v1'
api_key: 'not-needed'
- name: 'RunPod vLLM'
base_url: 'https://xyz.runpod.ai/v1'
api_key: 'rp_xxxxx'
These appear in `hermes model` provider selection alongside the
built-in providers. When selected, the endpoint's /models API is
probed to show available models in a selection menu.
Previously only a single 'Custom endpoint' option existed, requiring
manual URL entry each time you wanted to switch between local servers.
Requested by @ZiarnoBobu on Twitter.
When switching FROM Codex/Nous/custom TO OpenRouter via 'hermes setup',
the old provider stayed active because setup only saved the API key but
never updated config.yaml or auth.json. This caused resolve_provider()
to keep returning the old provider (e.g. openai-codex) even after the
user selected OpenRouter.
Fix: the OpenRouter path in setup now deactivates any OAuth provider
in auth.json and writes model.provider='openrouter' to config.yaml,
matching what all other provider paths already do.
Three issues caused the gateway to display 'openrouter' instead of
'Custom endpoint' when users configured a custom OAI-compatible endpoint:
1. hermes setup: custom endpoint path saved OPENAI_BASE_URL and
OPENAI_API_KEY to .env but never wrote model.provider to config.yaml.
All other providers (Codex, z.ai, Kimi, etc.) call
_update_config_for_provider() which sets this — custom was the only
path that skipped it. Now writes model.provider='custom' and
model.base_url to config.yaml.
2. hermes model: custom endpoint set model.provider='auto' in config.yaml.
The CLI display had a hack to detect OPENAI_BASE_URL and override to
'custom', but the gateway didn't. Now sets model.provider='custom'
directly.
3. gateway /model and /provider commands: defaulted to 'openrouter' and
read config.yaml — which had no provider set. Added OPENAI_BASE_URL
detection fallback (same pattern the CLI uses) as a defensive catch
for existing users who set up before this fix.
Enforce owner-only permissions on files and directories that contain
secrets or sensitive data:
- cron/jobs.py: jobs.json (0600), cron dirs (0700), job output files (0600)
- hermes_cli/config.py: config.yaml (0600), .env (0600), ~/.hermes/* dirs (0700)
- cli.py: config.yaml via save_config_value (0600)
All chmod calls use try/except for Windows compatibility.
Includes _secure_file() and _secure_dir() helpers with graceful fallback.
8 new tests verify permissions on all file types.
Inspired by openclaw v2026.3.7 file permission enforcement.
Moved redact_secrets out of DEFAULT_CONFIG (it's on by default when
unset) and into the commented sections at the bottom of config.yaml,
alongside fallback_model. Users can see the option and uncomment to
disable.
New config option:
security:
redact_secrets: false # default: true
When set to false, API keys, tokens, and passwords are shown in
full in read_file, search_files, and terminal output. Useful for
debugging auth issues where you need to verify the actual key value.
Bridged to both CLI and gateway via HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS env var.
The check is in redact_sensitive_text() itself, so all call sites
(terminal, file tools, log formatter) respect it.
The wizard and tools_command each loaded their own config dict. When
tools_command saved platform_toolsets (with MoA/HA disabled), the
wizard's final save_config() overwrote it with its own dict that lacked
platform_toolsets entirely — resetting everything to defaults.
Fix: pass the wizard's config dict into tools_command so they share the
same object. Now platform_toolsets survives the wizard's final save.
Three fixes:
1. Web search provider menu now says 'Select Search Provider' and notes
that a free DuckDuckGo search skill is included if Firecrawl isn't
desired. Supports custom setup_title/setup_note per TOOL_CATEGORIES.
2. All multi-provider menus (web, browser, TTS) now include a
'Skip — keep defaults / configure later' option so users can move on.
3. First-install flow now walks through ALL tools with provider options
(browser, TTS, web, image_gen, etc.), not just ones missing API keys.
Previously, tools with a free provider (browser/Local, TTS/Edge) were
silently skipped — users never got to choose between Local vs
Browserbase or Edge vs ElevenLabs.
On fresh installs, the multi-level curses menu flow (platform menu →
checklist → loop back → Done) was unreliable — users could end up
skipping API key configuration entirely.
Now the setup wizard passes first_install=True to tools_command(), which:
- Skips the platform selection menu entirely
- Goes straight to the tool checklist
- Prompts for API keys on ALL selected tools that need them
- Linear flow, no loop — impossible to accidentally skip
Returning users (hermes tools / hermes setup tools) get the existing
platform menu loop as before.
New users shouldn't have these pre-checked in the tool configurator:
- MoA requires OpenRouter API key and is a niche feature
- Home Assistant requires HASS_TOKEN and most users don't have one
- RL Training requires Tinker + WandB keys
They're still available in the checklist to enable, just not pre-selected.
Existing users with saved platform_toolsets are unaffected.
Two issues fixed:
1. (Critical) hermes setup tools / hermes tools: On first-time setup,
the tool checklist showed all tools as pre-selected (from the default
hermes-cli toolset), but after confirming the selection, NO API key
prompts appeared. This is because the code only prompted for 'newly
added' tools (added = new_enabled - current_enabled), but since all
tools were already in the default set, 'added' was always empty.
Fix: Detect first-time configuration (no platform_toolsets entry in
config) and check ALL enabled tools for missing API keys, not just
newly added ones. Returning users still only get prompted for newly
added tools (preserving skip behavior).
2. install.sh: When run via curl|bash on WSL2/Ubuntu, ripgrep and ffmpeg
install was silently skipped with a confusing 'Non-interactive mode'
message. The script already uses /dev/tty for the setup wizard, but
the system package section didn't.
Fix: Try reading from /dev/tty when available (same pattern as the
build-tools section and setup wizard). Only truly skip when no
terminal is available at all (Docker build, CI).
Split fallback provider handling into two clean registries:
_FALLBACK_API_KEY_PROVIDERS — env-var-based (openrouter, zai, kimi, minimax)
_FALLBACK_OAUTH_PROVIDERS — OAuth-based (openai-codex, nous)
New _resolve_fallback_credentials() method handles all three cases
(OAuth, API key, custom endpoint) and returns a uniform (key, url, mode)
tuple. _try_activate_fallback() is now just validation + client build.
Adds Nous Portal as a fallback provider — uses the same OAuth flow
as the primary provider (hermes login), returns chat_completions mode.
OAuth providers get credential refresh for free: the existing 401
retry handlers (_try_refresh_codex/nous_client_credentials) check
self.provider, which is set correctly after fallback activation.
4 new tests (nous activation, nous no-login, codex retained).
27 total fallback tests passing, 2548 full suite.
Codex OAuth uses a different auth flow (OAuth tokens, not env vars)
and a different API mode (codex_responses, not chat_completions).
The fallback now handles this specially:
- Resolves credentials via resolve_codex_runtime_credentials()
- Sets api_mode to codex_responses
- Fails gracefully if no Codex OAuth session exists
Also added to the commented-out config.yaml example.
2 new tests (codex activation + graceful failure).
Adds a simple config option to play the terminal bell (\a) when the
agent finishes a response. Useful for long-running tasks — switch to
another window and your terminal will ding when done.
Works over SSH since the bell character propagates through the
connection. Most terminal emulators can be configured to flash the
taskbar, play a sound, or show a visual indicator on bell.
Config (default: off):
display:
bell_on_complete: true
Closes#318
New browser capabilities and a built-in skill for agent-driven web QA.
## New tool: browser_console
Returns console messages (log/warn/error/info) AND uncaught JavaScript
exceptions in a single call. Uses agent-browser's 'console' and 'errors'
commands through the existing session plumbing. Supports --clear to reset
buffers. Verified working in both local and Browserbase cloud modes.
## Enhanced tool: browser_vision(annotate=True)
New boolean parameter on browser_vision. When true, agent-browser overlays
numbered [N] labels on interactive elements — each [N] maps to ref @eN.
Annotation data (element name, role, bounding box) returned alongside the
vision analysis. Useful for QA reports and spatial reasoning.
## Config: browser.record_sessions
Auto-record browser sessions as WebM video files when enabled:
- Starts recording on first browser_navigate
- Stops and saves on browser_close
- Saves to ~/.hermes/browser_recordings/
- Works in both local and cloud modes (verified)
- Disabled by default
## Built-in skill: dogfood
Systematic exploratory QA testing for web applications. Teaches the agent
a 5-phase workflow:
1. Plan — accept URL, create output dirs, set scope
2. Explore — systematic crawl with annotated screenshots
3. Collect Evidence — screenshots, console errors, JS exceptions
4. Categorize — severity (Critical/High/Medium/Low) and category
(Functional/Visual/Accessibility/Console/UX/Content)
5. Report — structured markdown with per-issue evidence
Includes:
- skills/dogfood/SKILL.md — full workflow instructions
- skills/dogfood/references/issue-taxonomy.md — severity/category defs
- skills/dogfood/templates/dogfood-report-template.md — report template
## Tests
21 new tests covering:
- browser_console message/error parsing, clear flag, empty/failed states
- browser_console schema registration
- browser_vision annotate schema and flag passing
- record_sessions config defaults and recording lifecycle
- Dogfood skill file existence and content validation
Addresses #315.
Remove fallback_model from DEFAULT_CONFIG (empty strings were useless
noise). Instead, save_config() appends a commented-out section at the
bottom of config.yaml showing the available providers and example usage.
When the user actually configures fallback_model, it appears as normal
YAML and the comment block is omitted.
Remove hallucinated providers (openai, deepseek, together, groq,
fireworks, mistral, gemini, nous) from the fallback provider map.
These don't exist in hermes-agent's provider system.
The real supported providers for fallback are:
openrouter (OPENROUTER_API_KEY)
zai (ZAI_API_KEY)
kimi-coding (KIMI_API_KEY)
minimax (MINIMAX_API_KEY)
minimax-cn (MINIMAX_CN_API_KEY)
For any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint, users can use the
base_url + api_key_env overrides in the config.
Also adds Kimi User-Agent header for kimi fallback (matching
the main provider system).
The config comment now shows the complete list of built-in providers
that the fallback system supports, each with the env var it reads
for the API key. Also clarifies that custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints
work via base_url + api_key_env.
When the primary model/provider fails after retries (rate limit, overload,
auth errors, connection failures), Hermes automatically switches to a
configured fallback model for the remainder of the session.
Config (in ~/.hermes/config.yaml):
fallback_model:
provider: openrouter
model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4
Supports all major providers: OpenRouter, OpenAI, Nous, DeepSeek, Together,
Groq, Fireworks, Mistral, Gemini — plus custom endpoints via base_url and
api_key_env overrides.
Design principles:
- Dead simple: one fallback model, not a chain
- One-shot: switches once, doesn't ping-pong back
- Zero new dependencies: uses existing OpenAI client
- Minimal code: ~100 lines in run_agent.py, ~5 lines in cli.py/gateway
- Three trigger points: max retries exhausted, non-retryable client errors,
and invalid response exhaustion
Does NOT trigger on context overflow or payload-too-large errors (those
are handled by the existing compression system).
Addresses #737.
25 new tests, 2492 total passing.
Complete Signal adapter using signal-cli daemon HTTP API.
Based on PR #268 by ibhagwan, rebuilt on current main with bug fixes.
Architecture:
- SSE streaming for inbound messages with exponential backoff (2s→60s)
- JSON-RPC 2.0 for outbound (send, typing, attachments, contacts)
- Health monitor detects stale SSE connections (120s threshold)
- Phone number redaction in all logs and global redact.py
Features:
- DM and group message support with separate access policies
- DM policies: pairing (default), allowlist, open
- Group policies: disabled (default), allowlist, open
- Attachment download with magic-byte type detection
- Typing indicators (8s refresh interval)
- 100MB attachment size limit, 8000 char message limit
- E.164 phone + UUID allowlist support
Integration:
- Platform.SIGNAL enum in gateway/config.py
- Signal in _is_user_authorized() allowlist maps (gateway/run.py)
- Adapter factory in _create_adapter() (gateway/run.py)
- user_id_alt/chat_id_alt fields in SessionSource for UUIDs
- send_message tool support via httpx JSON-RPC (not aiohttp)
- Interactive setup wizard in 'hermes gateway setup'
- Connectivity testing during setup (pings /api/v1/check)
- signal-cli detection and install guidance
Bug fixes from PR #268:
- Timestamp reads from envelope_data (not outer wrapper)
- Uses httpx consistently (not aiohttp in send_message tool)
- SIGNAL_DEBUG scoped to signal logger (not root)
- extract_images regex NOT modified (preserves group numbering)
- pairing.py NOT modified (no cross-platform side effects)
- No dual authorization (adapter defers to run.py for user auth)
- Wildcard uses set membership ('*' in set, not list equality)
- .zip default for PK magic bytes (not .docx)
No new Python dependencies — uses httpx (already core).
External requirement: signal-cli daemon (user-installed).
Tests: 30 new tests covering config, init, helpers, session source,
phone redaction, authorization, and send_message integration.
Co-authored-by: ibhagwan <ibhagwan@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds a simple config option to play the terminal bell (\a) when the
agent finishes a response. Useful for long-running tasks — switch to
another window and your terminal will ding when done.
Works over SSH since the bell character propagates through the
connection. Most terminal emulators can be configured to flash the
taskbar, play a sound, or show a visual indicator on bell.
Config (default: off):
display:
bell_on_complete: true
Closes#318
The Codex model normalization was rejecting any model without 'codex'
in its name, forcing a fallback to gpt-5.3-codex. This blocked models
like gpt-5.4 that the Codex API actually supports.
The fix simplifies _normalize_model_for_provider() to two operations:
1. Strip provider prefixes (API needs bare slugs)
2. Replace the *untouched default* model with a Codex-compatible one
If the user explicitly chose a model — any model — we trust them and
let the API be the judge. No allowlists, no slug checks.
Also removes the 'codex not in slug' filter from _read_cache_models()
so the local cache preserves all API-available models.
Inspired by OpenClaw's approach which explicitly lists non-codex models
(gpt-5.4, gpt-5.2) as valid Codex models.
- Added support for auxiliary model overrides in the configuration, allowing users to specify providers and models for vision and web extraction tasks.
- Updated the CLI configuration example to include new auxiliary model settings.
- Enhanced the environment variable mapping in the CLI to accommodate auxiliary model configurations.
- Improved the resolution logic for auxiliary clients to support task-specific provider overrides.
- Updated relevant documentation and comments for clarity on the new features and their usage.
When resuming a session via --continue or --resume, show a compact recap
of the previous conversation inside a Rich panel before the input prompt.
This gives users immediate visual context about what was discussed.
Changes:
- Add _preload_resumed_session() to load session history early (in run(),
before banner) so _init_agent() doesn't need a separate DB round-trip
- Add _display_resumed_history() that renders a formatted recap panel:
* User messages shown with gold bullet (truncated at 300 chars)
* Assistant responses shown with green diamond (truncated at 200 chars / 3 lines)
* Tool calls collapsed to count + tool names
* System messages and tool results hidden
* <REASONING_SCRATCHPAD> blocks stripped from display
* Pure-reasoning messages (no visible output) skipped entirely
* Capped at last 10 exchanges with 'N earlier messages' indicator
* Dim/muted styling distinguishes recap from active conversation
- Add display.resume_display config option: 'full' (default) or 'minimal'
- Store resume_display as instance variable (like compact) for testability
- 27 new tests covering all display scenarios, config, and edge cases
Closes#719
NOUS_API_KEY is unused — vision tools use OPENROUTER_API_KEY or Nous
Portal OAuth (auth.json), and MoA tools use OPENROUTER_API_KEY.
Removed from:
- hermes_cli/config.py: api_keys allowlist for config set routing
- .env.example: example env file entry and comment
- tests/hermes_cli/test_set_config_value.py: parametrize test data
- tests/integration/test_web_tools.py: updated comments and log
messages to reference 'auxiliary LLM provider' instead of NOUS_API_KEY
No HECATE references found in codebase (already cleaned up).
Add `hermes sessions browse` — a curses-based interactive session picker
with live type-to-search filtering, arrow key navigation, and seamless
session resume via Enter.
Features:
- Arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select and resume, Esc/q to quit
- Type characters to live-filter sessions by title, preview, source, or ID
- Backspace to edit filter, first Esc clears filter, second Esc exits
- Adaptive column layout (title/preview, last active, source, ID)
- Scrolling support for long session lists
- --source flag to filter by platform (cli, telegram, discord, etc.)
- --limit flag to control how many sessions to load (default: 50)
- Windows fallback: numbered list with input prompt
- After selection, seamlessly execs into `hermes --resume <id>`
Design decisions:
- Separate subcommand (not a flag on -c) — preserves `hermes -c` as-is
for instant most-recent-session resume
- Uses curses (not simple_term_menu) per Known Pitfalls to avoid the
arrow-key ghost-duplication rendering bug in tmux/iTerm
- Follows existing curses pattern from hermes_cli/tools_config.py
Also fixes: removed redundant `import os` inside cmd_sessions stats
block that shadowed the module-level import (would cause UnboundLocalError
if browse action was taken in the same function).
Tests: 33 new tests covering curses picker, fallback mode, filtering,
navigation, edge cases, and argument parser registration.
Source code (hermes_cli/clipboard.py):
- _convert_to_png() lost the file when both Pillow and ImageMagick were
unavailable: path.rename(tmp) moved the file to .bmp, then subprocess.run
raised FileNotFoundError, but the file was never renamed back. The final
fallback 'return path.exists()' returned False.
- Fix: restore the original file in both except handlers by renaming tmp
back to path when the original is missing.
Test (tests/tools/test_clipboard.py):
- test_file_still_usable_when_no_converter expected 'from PIL import Image'
to raise an Exception, but Pillow is installed so pytest.raises fired
'DID NOT RAISE'. The test also never called _convert_to_png().
- Fix: properly mock PIL unavailability via patch.dict(sys.modules),
actually call _convert_to_png(), and assert the correct result.
Adds a fun alias for skipping all dangerous command approval prompts.
When passed, sets HERMES_YOLO_MODE=1 which causes check_dangerous_command()
to auto-approve everything.
Available on both top-level and chat subcommand:
hermes --fuck-it-ship-it
hermes chat --fuck-it-ship-it
Includes 5 tests covering normal blocking, yolo bypass, all patterns,
and edge cases (empty string env var).
- website/docs/user-guide/sessions.md: New 'Session Naming' section
with /title usage, title rules, auto-lineage, gateway support.
Updated 'Resume by Name' section, 'Rename a Session' subsection,
updated sessions list output format, updated DB schema description.
- website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md: Added -c "name" and
--resume by title to Core Commands, sessions rename to Sessions
table, /title to slash commands.
- website/docs/user-guide/cli.md: Added -c "name" and --resume by
title to resume options.
- AGENTS.md: Added -c, --resume, sessions list/rename to CLI commands
table. Added hermes_state.py to project structure.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: Updated hermes_state.py and session persistence
descriptions to mention titles.
- hermes_cli/main.py: Fixed sessions help string to include 'rename'.
The setup wizard imported `get_codex_models` which does not exist;
the actual function is `get_codex_model_ids`. This caused a runtime
ImportError when selecting the openai-codex provider during setup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Call ensure_hub_dirs() at the start of hermes skills list so the\nSkills Hub directory structure is created before reading hub\nmetadata.\n\nAdd a regression test covering the empty-home path where\ndoctor recommends running the list command.\n\nRefs: #703
/provider command (CLI + gateway):
Shows all providers with auth status (✓/✗), aliases, and active marker.
Users can now discover what provider names work with provider:model syntax.
Gateway bugs fixed:
- Config was saved even when validation.persist=False (told user 'session
only' but actually persisted the unvalidated model)
- HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER env var not set on provider switch, causing
the switch to be silently overridden if that env var was already set
parse_model_input hardened:
- Colon only treated as provider delimiter if left side is a recognized
provider name or alias. 'anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet:beta' now passes
through as a model name instead of trying provider='anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet'.
- HTTP URLs, random colons no longer misinterpreted.
56 tests passing across model validation, CLI commands, and integration.
'auto' doesn't always mean openrouter — it could be nous, zai,
kimi-coding, etc. depending on configured credentials. Reverted the
hardcoded mapping and now both CLI and gateway call
resolve_provider() to detect the actual active provider when 'auto'
is set. Falls back to openrouter only if resolution fails.
Added a system to track environment variables introduced in each config version, allowing migration prompts to only mention new variables since the user's last version. Updated the interactive configuration process to offer users the option to set these new optional keys during migration.
- normalize_provider('auto') now returns 'openrouter' (the default)
so /model shows the curated model list instead of nothing
- CLI /model display uses normalize_provider before looking up labels
- Gateway /model handler now uses the same validation logic as CLI:
live API probe, provider:model syntax, curated model list display
Add provider:model syntax to /model command for runtime provider switching:
/model zai:glm-5 → switch to Z.AI provider with glm-5
/model nous:hermes-3 → switch to Nous Portal with hermes-3
/model openrouter:anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 → explicit OpenRouter
When switching providers, credentials are resolved via resolve_runtime_provider
and validated before committing. Both model and provider are saved to config.
Provider aliases work (glm: → zai, kimi: → kimi-coding, etc.).
Enhanced /model (no args) display now shows:
- Current model and provider
- Curated model list for the current provider with ← marker
- Usage examples including provider:model syntax
39 tests covering parse_model_input, curated_models_for_provider,
provider switching (success + credential failure), and display output.
Not all providers require 'provider/model' format. Removing the rigid
format check lets the live API probe handle all validation uniformly.
If someone types 'gpt-5.4' on OpenRouter, the probe won't find it and
will suggest 'openai/gpt-5.4' — better UX than a format rejection.
Replace the static catalog-based model validation with a live API probe.
The /model command now hits the provider's /models endpoint to check if
the requested model actually exists:
- Model found in API → accepted + saved to config
- Model NOT found in API → rejected with 'Error: not a valid model'
and fuzzy-match suggestions from the live model list
- API unreachable → graceful fallback to hardcoded catalog (session-only
for unrecognized models)
- Format errors (empty, spaces, missing '/') still caught instantly
without a network call
The API probe takes ~0.2s for OpenRouter (346 models) and works with any
OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, vLLM, custom, etc.).
32 tests covering all paths: format checks, API found, API not found,
API unreachable fallback, CLI integration.
