When patch_replace() cannot find old_string in a file, the error message
now includes the closest matching lines from the file with line numbers
and context. This helps the LLM self-correct without a separate read_file
call.
Implements Phase 1 of #536: enhanced patch error feedback with no
architectural changes.
- tools/fuzzy_match.py: new find_closest_lines() using SequenceMatcher
- tools/file_operations.py: attach closest-lines hint to patch errors
- tests/tools/test_fuzzy_match.py: 5 new tests for find_closest_lines
Builds on @AxDSan's PR #2109 to finish the KittenTTS wiring so the
provider behaves like every other TTS backend end to end.
- tools/tts_tool.py: `_check_kittentts_available()` helper and wire
into `check_tts_requirements()`; extend Opus-conversion list to
include kittentts (WAV → Opus for Telegram voice bubbles); point the
missing-package error at `hermes setup tts`.
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: add KittenTTS entry to the "Text-to-Speech"
toolset picker, with a `kittentts` post_setup hook that auto-installs
the wheel + soundfile via pip.
- hermes_cli/setup.py: `_install_kittentts_deps()`, new choice + install
flow in `_setup_tts_provider()`, provider_labels entry, and status row
in the `hermes setup` summary.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/tts.md: add KittenTTS to the provider
table, config example, ffmpeg note, and the zero-config voice-bubble tip.
- tests/tools/test_tts_kittentts.py: 10 unit tests covering generation,
model caching, config passthrough, ffmpeg conversion, availability
detection, and the missing-package dispatcher branch.
E2E verified against the real `kittentts` wheel:
- WAV direct output (pcm_s16le, 24kHz mono)
- MP3 conversion via ffmpeg (from WAV)
- Telegram flow (provider in Opus-conversion list) produces
`codec_name=opus`, 48kHz mono, `voice_compatible=True`, and the
`[[audio_as_voice]]` marker
- check_tts_requirements() returns True when kittentts is installed
Add support for KittenTTS - a lightweight, local TTS engine with models
ranging from 25-80MB that runs on CPU without requiring a GPU or API key.
Features:
- Support for 8 built-in voices (Jasper, Bella, Luna, etc.)
- Configurable model size (nano 25MB, micro 41MB, mini 80MB)
- Adjustable speech speed
- Model caching for performance
- Automatic WAV to Opus conversion for Telegram voice messages
Configuration example (config.yaml):
tts:
provider: kittentts
kittentts:
model: KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.8-int8
voice: Jasper
speed: 1.0
clean_text: true
Installation:
pip install https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/releases/download/0.8.1/kittentts-0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl
Full AST-based scan of all .py files to find every case where a module
or name is imported locally inside a function body but is already
available at module level. This is the second pass — the first commit
handled the known cases from the lint report; this one catches
everything else.
Files changed (19):
cli.py — 16 removals: time as _time/_t/_tmod (×10),
re / re as _re (×2), os as _os, sys,
partial os from combo import,
from model_tools import get_tool_definitions
gateway/run.py — 8 removals: MessageEvent as _ME /
MessageType as _MT (×3), os as _os2,
MessageEvent+MessageType (×2), Platform,
BasePlatformAdapter as _BaseAdapter
run_agent.py — 6 removals: get_hermes_home as _ghh,
partial (contextlib, os as _os),
cleanup_vm, cleanup_browser,
set_interrupt as _sif (×2),
partial get_toolset_for_tool
hermes_cli/main.py — 4 removals: get_hermes_home, time as _time,
logging as _log, shutil
hermes_cli/config.py — 1 removal: get_hermes_home as _ghome
hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py
— 1 removal: load_config as _load_bedrock_config
hermes_cli/setup.py — 2 removals: importlib.util (×2)
hermes_cli/nous_subscription.py
— 1 removal: from hermes_cli.config import load_config
hermes_cli/tools_config.py
— 1 removal: from hermes_cli.config import load_config, save_config
cron/scheduler.py — 3 removals: concurrent.futures, json as _json,
from hermes_cli.config import load_config
batch_runner.py — 1 removal: list_distributions as get_all_dists
(kept print_distribution_info, not at top level)
tools/send_message_tool.py
— 2 removals: import os (×2)
tools/skills_tool.py — 1 removal: logging as _logging
tools/browser_camofox.py
— 1 removal: from hermes_cli.config import load_config
tools/image_generation_tool.py
— 1 removal: import fal_client
environments/tool_context.py
— 1 removal: concurrent.futures
gateway/platforms/bluebubbles.py
— 1 removal: httpx as _httpx
gateway/platforms/whatsapp.py
— 1 removal: import asyncio
tui_gateway/server.py — 2 removals: from datetime import datetime,
import time
All alias references (_time, _t, _tmod, _re, _os, _os2, _json, _ghh,
_ghome, _sif, _ME, _MT, _BaseAdapter, _load_bedrock_config, _httpx,
_logging, _log, get_all_dists) updated to use the top-level names.
Sweep ~74 redundant local imports across 21 files where the same module
was already imported at the top level. Also includes type fixes and lint
cleanups on the same branch.
* feat(skills): inject absolute skill dir and expand ${HERMES_SKILL_DIR} templates
When a skill loads, the activation message now exposes the absolute
skill directory and substitutes ${HERMES_SKILL_DIR} /
${HERMES_SESSION_ID} tokens in the SKILL.md body, so skills with
bundled scripts can instruct the agent to run them by absolute path
without an extra skill_view round-trip.
Also adds opt-in inline-shell expansion: !`cmd` snippets in SKILL.md
are pre-executed (with the skill directory as CWD) and their stdout is
inlined into the message before the agent reads it. Off by default —
enable via skills.inline_shell in config.yaml — because any snippet
runs on the host without approval.
Changes:
- agent/skill_commands.py: template substitution, inline-shell
expansion, absolute skill-dir header, supporting-files list now
shows both relative and absolute forms.
- hermes_cli/config.py: new skills.template_vars,
skills.inline_shell, skills.inline_shell_timeout knobs.
- tests/agent/test_skill_commands.py: coverage for header, both
template tokens (present and missing session id), template_vars
disable, inline-shell default-off, enabled, CWD, and timeout.
- website/docs/developer-guide/creating-skills.md: documents the
template tokens, the absolute-path header, and the opt-in inline
shell with its security caveat.
Validation: tests/agent/ 1591 passed (includes 9 new tests).
E2E: loaded a real skill in an isolated HERMES_HOME; confirmed
${HERMES_SKILL_DIR} resolves to the absolute path, ${HERMES_SESSION_ID}
resolves to the passed task_id, !`date` runs when opt-in is set, and
stays literal when it isn't.
* feat(terminal): source ~/.bashrc (and user-listed init files) into session snapshot
bash login shells don't source ~/.bashrc, so tools that install themselves
there — nvm, asdf, pyenv, cargo, custom PATH exports — stay invisible to
the environment snapshot Hermes builds once per session. Under systemd
or any context with a minimal parent env, that surfaces as
'node: command not found' in the terminal tool even though the binary
is reachable from every interactive shell on the machine.
Changes:
- tools/environments/local.py: before the login-shell snapshot bootstrap
runs, prepend guarded 'source <file>' lines for each resolved init
file. Missing files are skipped, each source is wrapped with a
'[ -r ... ] && . ... || true' guard so a broken rc can't abort the
bootstrap.
- hermes_cli/config.py: new terminal.shell_init_files (explicit list,
supports ~ and ${VAR}) and terminal.auto_source_bashrc (default on)
knobs. When shell_init_files is set it takes precedence; when it's
empty and auto_source_bashrc is on, ~/.bashrc gets auto-sourced.
- tests/tools/test_local_shell_init.py: 10 tests covering the resolver
(auto-bashrc, missing file, explicit override, ~/${VAR} expansion,
opt-out) and the prelude builder (quoting, guarded sourcing), plus
a real-LocalEnvironment snapshot test that confirms exports in the
init file land in subsequent commands' environment.
- website/docs/reference/faq.md: documents the fix in Troubleshooting,
including the zsh-user pattern of sourcing ~/.zshrc or nvm.sh
directly via shell_init_files.
Validation: 10/10 new tests pass; tests/tools/test_local_*.py 40/40
pass; tests/agent/ 1591/1591 pass; tests/hermes_cli/test_config.py
50/50 pass. E2E in an isolated HERMES_HOME: confirmed that a fake
~/.bashrc setting a marker var and PATH addition shows up in a real
LocalEnvironment().execute() call, that auto_source_bashrc=false
suppresses it, that an explicit shell_init_files entry wins over the
auto default, and that a missing bashrc is silently skipped.
Aslaaen's fix in the original PR covered _detect_api_mode_for_url and the
two openai/xai sites in run_agent.py. This finishes the sweep: the same
substring-match false-positive class (e.g. https://api.openai.com.evil/v1,
https://proxy/api.openai.com/v1, https://api.anthropic.com.example/v1)
existed in eight more call sites, and the hostname helper was duplicated
in two modules.
- utils: add shared base_url_hostname() (single source of truth).
- hermes_cli/runtime_provider, run_agent: drop local duplicates, import
from utils. Reuse the cached AIAgent._base_url_hostname attribute
everywhere it's already populated.
- agent/auxiliary_client: switch codex-wrap auto-detect, max_completion_tokens
gate (auxiliary_max_tokens_param), and custom-endpoint max_tokens kwarg
selection to hostname equality.
- run_agent: native-anthropic check in the Claude-style model branch
and in the AIAgent init provider-auto-detect branch.
- agent/model_metadata: Anthropic /v1/models context-length lookup.
- hermes_cli/providers.determine_api_mode: anthropic / openai URL
heuristics for custom/unknown providers (the /anthropic path-suffix
convention for third-party gateways is preserved).
- tools/delegate_tool: anthropic detection for delegated subagent
runtimes.
- hermes_cli/setup, hermes_cli/tools_config: setup-wizard vision-endpoint
native-OpenAI detection (paired with deduping the repeated check into
a single is_native_openai boolean per branch).
Tests:
- tests/test_base_url_hostname.py covers the helper directly
(path-containing-host, host-suffix, trailing dot, port, case).
- tests/hermes_cli/test_determine_api_mode_hostname.py adds the same
regression class for determine_api_mode, plus a test that the
/anthropic third-party gateway convention still wins.
Also: add asslaenn5@gmail.com → Aslaaen to scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP.
Users can declare shell scripts in config.yaml under a hooks: block that
fire on plugin-hook events (pre_tool_call, post_tool_call, pre_llm_call,
subagent_stop, etc). Scripts receive JSON on stdin, can return JSON on
stdout to block tool calls or inject context pre-LLM.
Key design:
- Registers closures on existing PluginManager._hooks dict — zero changes
to invoke_hook() call sites
- subprocess.run(shell=False) via shlex.split — no shell injection
- First-use consent per (event, command) pair, persisted to allowlist JSON
- Bypass via --accept-hooks, HERMES_ACCEPT_HOOKS=1, or hooks_auto_accept
- hermes hooks list/test/revoke/doctor CLI subcommands
- Adds subagent_stop hook event fired after delegate_task children exit
- Claude Code compatible response shapes accepted
Cherry-picked from PR #13143 by @pefontana.
Cherry-picked from PR #13159 by @cdanis.
Adds native media attachment delivery to Signal via signal-cli JSON-RPC
attachments param. Signal messages with media now follow the same
early-return pattern as Telegram/Discord/Matrix — attachments are sent
only with the last chunk to avoid duplicates.
Follow-up fixes on top of the original PR:
- Moved Signal into its own early-return block above the restriction
check (matches Telegram/Discord/Matrix pattern)
- Fixed media_files being sent on every chunk in the generic loop
- Restored restriction/warning guards to simple form (Signal exits early)
- Fixed non-hermetic test writing to /tmp instead of tmp_path
Adds a _resolve_path() helper that reads TERMINAL_CWD and uses it as
the base for relative path resolution. Applied to _check_sensitive_path,
read_file_tool, _update_read_timestamp, and _check_file_staleness.
Absolute paths and non-worktree sessions (no TERMINAL_CWD) are
unaffected — falls back to os.getcwd().
Fixes#12689.
Replaces the serial for-loop in tick() with ThreadPoolExecutor so all
jobs due in a single tick run concurrently. A slow job no longer blocks
others from executing, fixing silent job skipping (issue #9086).
Thread safety:
- Session/delivery env vars migrated from os.environ to ContextVars
(gateway/session_context.py) so parallel jobs can't clobber each
other's delivery targets. Each thread gets its own copied context.
- jobs.json read-modify-write cycles (advance_next_run, mark_job_run)
protected by threading.Lock to prevent concurrent save clobber.
- send_message_tool reads delivery vars via get_session_env() for
ContextVar-aware resolution with os.environ fallback.
Configuration:
- cron.max_parallel_jobs in config.yaml (null = unbounded, 1 = serial)
- HERMES_CRON_MAX_PARALLEL env var override
Based on PR #9169 by @VenomMoth1.
Fixes#9086
Cherry-picked from PR #2545 by @Mibayy.
The setup wizard could leave stt.model: "whisper-1" in config.yaml.
When using the local faster-whisper provider, this crashed with
"Invalid model size 'whisper-1'". Voice messages were silently ignored.
_normalize_local_model() now detects cloud-only names (whisper-1,
gpt-4o-transcribe, etc.) and maps them to the default local model
with a warning. Valid local sizes (tiny, base, small, medium, large-v3)
pass through unchanged.
- Renamed _normalize_local_command_model -> _normalize_local_model
(backward-compat wrapper preserved)
- 6 new tests including integration test
- Added lowercase AUTHOR_MAP alias for @Mibayy
Closes#2544
On macOS, Unix domain socket paths are capped at 104 bytes (sun_path).
SSH appends a 16-byte random suffix to the ControlPath when operating
in ControlMaster mode. With an IPv6 host embedded literally in the
filename and a deeply-nested macOS $TMPDIR like
/var/folders/XX/YYYYYYYYYYYY/T/, the full path reliably exceeds the
limit — every terminal/file-op tool call then fails immediately with
``unix_listener: path "…" too long for Unix domain socket``.
Swap the ``user@host:port.sock`` filename for a sha256-derived 16-char
hex digest. The digest is deterministic for a given (user, host, port)
triple, so ControlMaster reuse across reconnects is preserved, and the
full path fits comfortably under the limit even after SSH's random
suffix. Collision space is 2^64 — effectively unreachable for the
handful of concurrent connections any single Hermes process holds.
Regression tests cover: path length under realistic macOS $TMPDIR with
the IPv6 host from the issue report, determinism for reconnects, and
distinctness across different (user, host, port) triples.
Closes#11840
Follow-up to #12704. The SignalAdapter can resolve +E164 numbers to
UUIDs via listContacts, but _parse_target_ref() in the send_message
tool rejected '+' as non-digit and fell through to channel-name
resolution — which fails for contacts without a prior session entry.
Adds an E.164 branch in _parse_target_ref for phone-based platforms
(signal, sms, whatsapp) that preserves the leading '+' so downstream
adapters keep the format they expect. Non-phone platforms are
unaffected.
Reported by @qdrop17 on Discord after pulling #12704.
file_tools._get_file_ops() built a container_config dict for Docker/
Singularity/Modal/Daytona backends but omitted docker_mount_cwd_to_workspace
and docker_forward_env. Both are read by _create_environment() from
container_config, so file tools (read_file, write_file, patch, search)
silently ignored those config values when running in Docker.
Add the two missing keys to match the container_config already built by
terminal_tool.terminal_tool().
Fixes#2672.
The vision tool hardcoded temperature=0.1, ignoring the user's
config.yaml setting. This broke providers like Kimi/Moonshot that
require temperature=1 for vision models. Now reads temperature
from auxiliary.vision.temperature, falling back to 0.1.
bash parses `A && B &` with `&&` tighter than `&`, so it forks a subshell
for the compound and backgrounds the subshell. Inside the subshell, B
runs foreground, so the subshell waits for B. When B is a process that
doesn't naturally exit (`python3 -m http.server`, `yes > /dev/null`, a
long-running daemon), the subshell is stuck in `wait4` forever and leaks
as an orphan reparented to init.
Observed in production: agents running `cd X && python3 -m http.server
8000 &>/dev/null & sleep 1 && curl ...` as a "start a local server, then
verify it" one-liner. Outer bash exits cleanly; the subshell never does.
Across ~3 days of use, 8 unique stuck-terminal events and 7 leaked
bash+server pairs accumulated on the fleet, with some sessions appearing
hung from the user's perspective because the subshell's open stdout pipe
kept the terminal tool's drain thread blocked.
This is distinct from the `set +m` fix in 933fbd8f (which addressed
interactive-shell job-control waiting at exit). `set +m` doesn't help
here because `bash -c` is non-interactive and job control is already
off; the problem is the subshell's own internal wait for its foreground
B, not the outer shell's job-tracking.
The fix: walk the command shell-aware (respecting quotes, parens, brace
groups, `&>`/`>&` redirects), find `A && B &` / `A || B &` at depth 0
and rewrite the tail to `A && { B & }`. Brace groups don't fork a
subshell — they run in the current shell. `B &` inside the group is a
simple background (no subshell wait). The outer `&` is absorbed into
the group, so the compound no longer needs an explicit subshell.
`&&` error-propagation is preserved exactly: if A fails, `&&`
short-circuits and B never runs.
- Skips quoted strings, comment lines, and `(…)` subshells
- Handles `&>/dev/null`, `2>&1`, `>&2` without mistaking them for `&`
- Resets chain state at `;`, `|`, and newlines
- Tracks brace depth so already-rewritten output is idempotent
- Walks using the existing `_read_shell_token` tokenizer, matching the
pattern of `_rewrite_real_sudo_invocations`
Called once from `BaseEnvironment.execute` right after
`_prepare_command`, so it runs for every backend (local, ssh, docker,
modal, etc.) with no per-backend plumbing.
34 new tests covering rewrite cases, preservation cases, redirect
edge-cases, quoting/parens/backticks, idempotency, and empty/edge
inputs. End-to-end verified on a test VM: the exact vela-incident
command now returns in ~1.3s with no leaked bash, only the intentional
backgrounded server.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* [verified] fix(mcp-oauth): bridge httpx auth_flow bidirectional generator
HermesMCPOAuthProvider.async_auth_flow wrapped the SDK's auth_flow with
'async for item in super().async_auth_flow(request): yield item', which
discards httpx's .asend(response) values and resumes the inner generator
with None. This broke every OAuth MCP server on the first HTTP response
with 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'status_code' crashing at
mcp/client/auth/oauth2.py:505.
Replace with a manual bridge that forwards .asend() values into the
inner generator, preserving httpx's bidirectional auth_flow contract.
Add tests/tools/test_mcp_oauth_bidirectional.py with two regression
tests that drive the flow through real .asend() round-trips. These
catch the bug at the unit level; prior tests only exercised
_initialize() and disk-watching, never the full generator protocol.
Verified against BetterStack MCP:
Before: 'Connection failed (11564ms): NoneType...' after 3 retries
After: 'Connected (2416ms); Tools discovered: 83'
Regression from #11383.
* [verified] fix(mcp-oauth): seed token_expiry_time + pre-flight AS discovery on cold-load
PR #11383's consolidation fixed external-refresh reloading and 401 dedup
but left two latent bugs that surfaced on BetterStack and any other OAuth
MCP with a split-origin authorization server:
1. HermesTokenStorage persisted only a relative 'expires_in', which is
meaningless after a process restart. The MCP SDK's OAuthContext
does NOT seed token_expiry_time in _initialize, so is_token_valid()
returned True for any reloaded token regardless of age. Expired
tokens shipped to servers, and app-level auth failures (e.g.
BetterStack's 'No teams found. Please check your authentication.')
were invisible to the transport-layer 401 handler.
2. Even once preemptive refresh did fire, the SDK's _refresh_token
falls back to {server_url}/token when oauth_metadata isn't cached.
For providers whose AS is at a different origin (BetterStack:
mcp.betterstack.com for MCP, betterstack.com/oauth/token for the
token endpoint), that fallback 404s and drops into full browser
re-auth on every process restart.
Fix set:
- HermesTokenStorage.set_tokens persists an absolute wall-clock
expires_at alongside the SDK's OAuthToken JSON (time.time() + TTL
at write time).
- HermesTokenStorage.get_tokens reconstructs expires_in from
max(expires_at - now, 0), clamping expired tokens to zero TTL.
Legacy files without expires_at fall back to file-mtime as a
best-effort wall-clock proxy, self-healing on the next set_tokens.
- HermesMCPOAuthProvider._initialize calls super(), then
update_token_expiry on the reloaded tokens so token_expiry_time
reflects actual remaining TTL. If tokens are loaded but
oauth_metadata is missing, pre-flight PRM + ASM discovery runs
via httpx.AsyncClient using the MCP SDK's own URL builders and
response handlers (build_protected_resource_metadata_discovery_urls,
handle_auth_metadata_response, etc.) so the SDK sees the correct
token_endpoint before the first refresh attempt. Pre-flight is
skipped when there are no stored tokens to keep fresh-install
paths zero-cost.
Test coverage (tests/tools/test_mcp_oauth_cold_load_expiry.py):
- set_tokens persists absolute expires_at
- set_tokens skips expires_at when token has no expires_in
- get_tokens round-trips expires_at -> remaining expires_in
- expired tokens reload with expires_in=0
- legacy files without expires_at fall back to mtime proxy
- _initialize seeds token_expiry_time from stored tokens
- _initialize flags expired-on-disk tokens as is_token_valid=False
- _initialize pre-flights PRM + ASM discovery with mock transport
- _initialize skips pre-flight when no tokens are stored
Verified against BetterStack MCP:
hermes mcp test betterstack -> Connected (2508ms), 83 tools
mcp_betterstack_telemetry_list_teams_tool -> real team data, not
'No teams found. Please check your authentication.'
Reference: mcp-oauth-token-diagnosis skill, Fix A.
* chore: map hermes@noushq.ai to benbarclay in AUTHOR_MAP
Needed for CI attribution check on cherry-picked commits from PR #12025.
---------
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@noushq.ai>
Two hardening layers in the patch tool, triggered by a real silent failure
in the previous session:
(1) Post-write verification in patch_replace — after write_file succeeds,
re-read the file and confirm the bytes on disk match the intended write.
If not, return an error instead of the current success-with-diff. Catches
silent persistence failures from any cause (backend FS oddities, stdin
pipe truncation, concurrent task races, mount drift).
(2) Escape-drift guard in fuzzy_find_and_replace — when a non-exact
strategy matches and both old_string and new_string contain literal
\' or \" sequences but the matched file region does not, reject the
patch with a clear error pointing at the likely cause (tool-call
serialization adding a spurious backslash around apostrophes/quotes).
Exact matches bypass the guard, and legitimate edits that add or
preserve escape sequences in files that already have them still work.
Why: in a prior tool call, old_string was sent with \' where the file
has ' (tool-call transport drift). The fuzzy matcher's block_anchor
strategy matched anyway and produced a diff the tool reported as
successful — but the file was never modified on disk. The agent moved
on believing the edit landed when it hadn't.
Tests: added TestPatchReplacePostWriteVerification (3 cases) and
TestEscapeDriftGuard (6 cases). All pass, existing fuzzy match and
file_operations tests unaffected.
* feat: add Discord server introspection and management tool
Add a discord_server tool that gives the agent the ability to interact
with Discord servers when running on the Discord gateway. Uses Discord
REST API directly with the bot token — no dependency on the gateway
adapter's discord.py client.
The tool is only included in the hermes-discord toolset (zero cost for
users on other platforms) and gated on DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN via check_fn.
Actions (14):
- Introspection: list_guilds, server_info, list_channels, channel_info,
list_roles, member_info, search_members
- Messages: fetch_messages, list_pins, pin_message, unpin_message
- Management: create_thread, add_role, remove_role
This addresses a gap where users on Discord could not ask Hermes to
review server structure, channels, roles, or members — a task competing
agents (OpenClaw) handle out of the box.
Files changed:
- tools/discord_tool.py (new): Tool implementation + registration
- model_tools.py: Add to discovery list
- toolsets.py: Add to hermes-discord toolset only
- tests/tools/test_discord_tool.py (new): 43 tests covering all actions,
validation, error handling, registration, and toolset scoping
* feat(discord): intent-aware schema filtering + config allowlist + schema cleanup
- _detect_capabilities() hits GET /applications/@me once per process
to read GUILD_MEMBERS / MESSAGE_CONTENT privileged intent bits.
- Schema is rebuilt per-session in model_tools.get_tool_definitions:
hides search_members / member_info when GUILD_MEMBERS intent is off,
annotates fetch_messages description when MESSAGE_CONTENT is off.
- New config key discord.server_actions (comma-separated or YAML list)
lets users restrict which actions the agent can call, intersected
with intent availability. Unknown names are warned and dropped.
- Defense-in-depth: runtime handler re-checks the allowlist so a stale
cached schema cannot bypass a tightened config.
- Schema description rewritten as an action-first manifest (signature
per action) instead of per-parameter 'required for X, Y, Z' cross-refs.
~25% shorter; model can see each action's required params at a glance.
- Added bounds: limit gets minimum=1 maximum=100, auto_archive_duration
becomes an enum of the 4 valid Discord values.
- 403 enrichment: runtime 403 errors are mapped to actionable guidance
(which permission is missing and what to do about it) instead of the
raw Discord error body.
- 36 new tests: capability detection with caching and force refresh,
config allowlist parsing (string/list/invalid/unknown), intent+allowlist
intersection, dynamic schema build, runtime allowlist enforcement,
403 enrichment, and model_tools integration wiring.
The first draft of the fix called `chunk.decode("utf-8")` directly on
each 4096-byte `os.read()` result, which corrupts output whenever a
multi-byte UTF-8 character straddles a read boundary:
* `UnicodeDecodeError` fires on the valid-but-truncated byte sequence.
* The except handler clears ALL previously-decoded output and replaces
the whole buffer with `[binary output detected ...]`.
Empirically: 10000 '日' chars (30001 bytes) through the wrapper loses
all 10000 characters on the first draft; the baseline TextIOWrapper
drain (which uses `encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'` on Popen)
preserves them all. This regression affects any command emitting
non-ASCII output larger than one chunk — CJK/Arabic/emoji in
`npm install`, `pip install`, `docker logs`, `kubectl logs`, etc.
Fix: swap to `codecs.getincrementaldecoder('utf-8')(errors='replace')`,
which buffers partial multi-byte sequences across chunks and substitutes
U+FFFD for genuinely invalid bytes. Flush on drain exit via
`decoder.decode(b'', final=True)` to emit any trailing replacement
character for a dangling partial sequence.
Adds two regression tests:
* test_utf8_multibyte_across_read_boundary — 10000 U+65E5 chars,
verifies count round-trips and no fallback fires.
* test_invalid_utf8_uses_replacement_not_fallback — deliberate
\xff\xfe between valid ASCII, verifies surrounding text survives.
When a user's command backgrounds a child (`cmd &`, `setsid cmd & disown`,
etc.), the backgrounded grandchild inherits the write-end of our stdout
pipe via fork(). The old `for line in proc.stdout` drain never EOF'd
until the grandchild closed the pipe — so for a uvicorn server, the
terminal tool hung indefinitely (users reported the whole session
deadlocking when asking the agent to restart a backend).
Fix: switch _drain() to select()-based non-blocking reads and stop
draining shortly after bash exits even if the pipe hasn't EOF'd. Any
output the grandchild writes after that point goes to an orphaned pipe,
which is exactly what the user asked for when they said '&'.
Adds regression tests covering the issue's exact repro and 5 related
patterns (plain bg, setsid+disown, streaming output, high volume,
timeout, UTF-8).
Agents can now send arbitrary CDP commands to the browser. The tool is
gated on a reachable CDP endpoint at session start — it only appears in
the toolset when BROWSER_CDP_URL is set (from '/browser connect') or
'browser.cdp_url' is configured in config.yaml. Backends that don't
currently expose CDP to the Python side (Camofox, default local
agent-browser, cloud providers whose per-session cdp_url is not yet
surfaced) do not see the tool at all.
Tool schema description links to the CDP method reference at
https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/ so the agent can
web_extract specific method docs on demand.
Stateless per call. Browser-level methods (Target.*, Browser.*,
Storage.*) omit target_id. Page-level methods attach to the target
with flatten=true and dispatch the method on the returned sessionId.
Clean errors when the endpoint becomes unreachable mid-session or
the URL isn't a WebSocket.
Tests: 19 unit (mock CDP server + gate checks) + E2E against real
headless Chrome (Target.getTargets, Browser.getVersion,
Runtime.evaluate with target_id, Page.navigate + re-eval, bogus
method, bogus target_id, missing endpoint) + E2E of the check_fn
gate (tool hidden without CDP URL, visible with it, hidden again
after unset).
Add approvals.cron_mode config option that controls how cron jobs handle
dangerous commands. Previously, cron jobs silently auto-approved all
dangerous commands because there was no user present to approve them.
Now the behavior is configurable:
- deny (default): block dangerous commands and return a message telling
the agent to find an alternative approach. The agent loop continues —
it just can't use that specific command.
- approve: auto-approve all dangerous commands (previous behavior).
When a command is blocked, the agent receives the same response format as
a user denial in the CLI — exit_code=-1, status=blocked, with a message
explaining why and pointing to the config option. This keeps the agent
loop running and encourages it to adapt.
Implementation:
- config.py: add approvals.cron_mode to DEFAULT_CONFIG
- scheduler.py: set HERMES_CRON_SESSION=1 env var before agent runs
- approval.py: both check_command_approval() and check_all_command_guards()
now check for cron sessions and apply the configured mode
- 21 new tests covering config parsing, deny/approve behavior, and
interaction with other bypass mechanisms (yolo, containers)
Stacking both features on the same event produces duplicate, delayed
notifications — delivery is async and continues firing after the process
exits, so matches on end-of-run markers (SUMMARY, DONE, PASS) arrive
after the agent has already polled/waited and moved on.
Updates both the terminal tool JSON schema description and the
terminal_tool() function docstring to make the split explicit:
- watch_patterns: mid-process signals only (errors, readiness markers,
intermediate steps you want to react to before the process exits)
- notify_on_complete: end-of-run completion signal
No behavioural change.
Weaker models (Gemma-class) repeatedly rediscover and forget that
execute_code uses a different CWD and Python interpreter than terminal(),
causing them to flip-flop on whether user files exist and to hit import
errors on project dependencies like pandas.
Adds a new 'code_execution.mode' config key (default 'project') that
brings execute_code into line with terminal()'s filesystem/interpreter:
project (new default):
- cwd = session's TERMINAL_CWD (falls back to os.getcwd())
- python = active VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/python or CONDA_PREFIX/bin/python
with a Python 3.8+ version check; falls back cleanly to
sys.executable if no venv or the candidate fails
- result : 'import pandas' works, '.env' resolves, matches terminal()
strict (opt-in):
- cwd = staging tmpdir (today's behavior)
- python = sys.executable (today's behavior)
- result : maximum reproducibility and isolation; project deps
won't resolve
Security-critical invariants are identical across both modes and covered by
explicit regression tests:
- env scrubbing (strips *_API_KEY, *_TOKEN, *_SECRET, *_PASSWORD,
*_CREDENTIAL, *_PASSWD, *_AUTH substrings)
- SANDBOX_ALLOWED_TOOLS whitelist (no execute_code recursion, no
delegate_task, no MCP from inside scripts)
- resource caps (5-min timeout, 50KB stdout, 50 tool calls)
Deliberately avoids 'sandbox'/'isolated'/'cloud' language in tool
descriptions (regression from commit 39b83f34 where agents on local
backends falsely believed they were sandboxed and refused networking).
Override via env var: HERMES_EXECUTE_CODE_MODE=strict|project
Weaker models (Gemma-class) repeatedly rediscover and forget that execute_code's
working directory differs from terminal()/read_file()'s, leading to
os.path.exists('.env') returning False even though the file exists in the
session's CWD. They then bounce between 'the file exists' and 'the file is
missing' across tool calls.
Adds a 'Working directory' note to the execute_code schema description
pointing agents at absolute paths (os.path.expanduser) or terminal()/read_file()
for inspecting user files.
Carefully avoids the 'sandbox'/'isolated'/'cloud' language that commit
39b83f34 removed (it caused agents on local backends to refuse networking
tasks and save false sandbox beliefs to persistent memory). Purely factual
CWD guidance — no restriction implications.
Error messages that tell users to install optional extras now use
{sys.executable} -m pip install ... instead of a bare 'pip install
hermes-agent[extra]' string. Under the curl installer, bare 'pip'
resolves to system pip, which either fails with PEP 668
externally-managed-environment or installs into the wrong Python.
Affects: hermes dashboard, hermes web server startup, mcp_serve,
hermes doctor Bedrock check, CLI voice mode, voice_mode tool runtime
error, Discord voice-channel join failure message.
* fix(interrupt): propagate to concurrent-tool workers + opt-in debug trace
interrupt() previously only flagged the agent's _execution_thread_id.
Tools running inside _execute_tool_calls_concurrent execute on
ThreadPoolExecutor worker threads whose tids are distinct from the
agent's, so is_interrupted() inside those tools returned False no matter
how many times the gateway called .interrupt() — hung ssh / curl / long
make-builds ran to their own timeout.
Changes:
- run_agent.py: track concurrent-tool worker tids in a per-agent set,
fan interrupt()/clear_interrupt() out to them, and handle the
register-after-interrupt race at _run_tool entry. getattr fallback
for the tracker so test stubs built via object.__new__ keep working.
- tools/environments/base.py: opt-in _wait_for_process trace (ENTER,
per-30s HEARTBEAT with interrupt+activity-cb state, INTERRUPT
DETECTED, TIMEOUT, EXIT) behind HERMES_DEBUG_INTERRUPT=1.
- tools/interrupt.py: opt-in set_interrupt() trace (caller tid, target
tid, set snapshot) behind the same env flag.
- tests: new regression test runs a polling tool on a concurrent worker
and asserts is_interrupted() flips to True within ~1s of interrupt().
Second new test guards clear_interrupt() clearing tracked worker bits.
Validation: tests/run_agent/ all 762 pass; tests/tools/ interrupt+env
subset 216 pass.
* fix(interrupt-debug): bypass quiet_mode logger filter so trace reaches agent.log
AIAgent.__init__ sets logging.getLogger('tools').setLevel(ERROR) when
quiet_mode=True (the CLI default). This would silently swallow every
INFO-level trace line from the HERMES_DEBUG_INTERRUPT=1 instrumentation
added in the parent commit — confirmed by running hermes chat -q with
the flag and finding zero trace lines in agent.log even though
_wait_for_process was clearly executing (subprocess pid existed).
Fix: when HERMES_DEBUG_INTERRUPT=1, each traced module explicitly sets
its own logger level to INFO at import time, overriding the 'tools'
parent-level filter. Scoped to the opt-in case only, so production
(quiet_mode default) logs stay quiet as designed.
Validation: hermes chat -q with HERMES_DEBUG_INTERRUPT=1 now writes
'_wait_for_process ENTER/EXIT' lines to agent.log as expected.
* fix(cli): SIGTERM/SIGHUP no longer orphans tool subprocesses
Tool subprocesses spawned by the local environment backend use
os.setsid so they run in their own process group. Before this fix,
SIGTERM/SIGHUP to the hermes CLI killed the main thread via
KeyboardInterrupt but the worker thread running _wait_for_process
never got a chance to call _kill_process — Python exited, the child
was reparented to init (PPID=1), and the subprocess ran to its
natural end (confirmed live: sleep 300 survived 4+ min after SIGTERM
to the agent until manual cleanup).
Changes:
- cli.py _signal_handler (interactive) + _signal_handler_q (-q mode):
route SIGTERM/SIGHUP through agent.interrupt() so the worker's poll
loop sees the per-thread interrupt flag and calls _kill_process
(os.killpg) on the subprocess group. HERMES_SIGTERM_GRACE (default
1.5s) gives the worker time to complete its SIGTERM+SIGKILL
escalation before KeyboardInterrupt unwinds main.
- tools/environments/base.py _wait_for_process: wrap the poll loop in
try/except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit) so the cleanup fires
even on paths the signal handlers don't cover (direct sys.exit,
unhandled KI from nested code, etc.). Emits EXCEPTION_EXIT trace
line when HERMES_DEBUG_INTERRUPT=1.
- New regression test: injects KeyboardInterrupt into a running
_wait_for_process via PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc, verifies the
subprocess process group is dead within 3s of the exception and
that KeyboardInterrupt re-raises cleanly afterward.
Validation:
| Before | After |
|---------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|
| sleep 300 survives 4+ min as PPID=1 orphan after SIGTERM | dies within 2 s |
| No INTERRUPT DETECTED in trace | INTERRUPT DETECTED fires + killing process group |
| tests/tools/test_local_interrupt_cleanup | 1/1 pass |
| tests/run_agent/test_concurrent_interrupt | 4/4 pass |
Extend forum support from PR #10145:
- REST path (_send_discord): forum thread creation now uploads media
files as multipart attachments on the starter message in a single
call. Previously media files were silently dropped on the forum
path.
- Websocket media paths (_send_file_attachment, send_voice, send_image,
send_animation — covers send_image_file, send_video, send_document
transitively): forum channels now go through a new _forum_post_file
helper that creates a thread with the file as starter content,
instead of failing via channel.send(file=...) which forums reject.
- _send_to_forum chunk follow-up failures are collected into
raw_response['warnings'] so partial-send outcomes surface.
- Process-local probe cache (_DISCORD_CHANNEL_TYPE_PROBE_CACHE) avoids
GET /channels/{id} on every uncached send after the first.
- Dedup of TestSendDiscordMedia that the PR merge-resolution left
behind.
- Docs: Forum Channels section under website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md.
Tests: 117 passed (22 new for forum+media, probe cache, warnings).
ShellFileOperations captured the terminal env's cwd at __init__ time and
used that stale value for every subsequent _exec() call. When the user
ran `cd` via the terminal tool, `env.cwd` updated but `ops.cwd` did not.
Relative paths passed to patch_replace / read_file / write_file / search
then targeted the ORIGINAL directory instead of the current one.
Observed symptom in agent sessions:
terminal: cd .worktrees/my-branch
patch hermes_cli/main.py <old> <new>
→ returns {"success": true} with a plausible unified diff
→ but `git diff` in the worktree shows nothing
→ the patch landed in the main repo's checkout of main.py instead
The diff looked legitimate because patch_replace computes it from the
IN-MEMORY content vs new_content, not by re-reading the file. The
write itself DID succeed — it just wrote to the wrong directory's copy
of the same-named file.
Fix: _exec() now resolves cwd from live sources in this order:
1. Explicit `cwd` arg (if provided by the caller)
2. Live `self.env.cwd` (tracks `cd` commands run via terminal)
3. Init-time `self.cwd` (fallback when env has no cwd attribute)
Includes a 5-test regression suite covering:
- cd followed by relative read follows live cwd
- the exact reported bug: patch_replace with relative path after cd
- explicit cwd= arg still wins over env.cwd
- env without cwd attribute falls back to init-time cwd
- patch_replace success reflects real file state (safety rail)
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@nousresearch.com>
Follow-up polish on top of the cherry-picked #11023 commit.
- feishu_comment_rules.py: replace import-time "~/.hermes" expanduser fallback
with get_hermes_home() from hermes_constants (canonical, profile-safe).
- tools/feishu_doc_tool.py, tools/feishu_drive_tool.py: drop the
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(asyncio.to_thread(...)) dance.
Tool handlers run synchronously in a worker thread with no running loop, so
the RuntimeError branch was always the one that executed. Calls client.request
directly now. Unused asyncio import removed.
- tests/gateway/test_feishu.py: add register_p2_customized_event to the mock
EventDispatcher builder so the existing adapter test matches the new handler
registration for drive.notice.comment_add_v1.
- scripts/release.py: map liujinkun@bytedance.com -> liujinkun2025 for
contributor attribution on release notes.
- Full comment handler: parse drive.notice.comment_add_v1 events, build
timeline, run agent, deliver reply with chunking support.
- 5 tools: feishu_doc_read, feishu_drive_list_comments,
feishu_drive_list_comment_replies, feishu_drive_reply_comment,
feishu_drive_add_comment.
- 3-tier access control rules (exact doc > wildcard "*" > top-level >
defaults) with per-field fallback. Config via
~/.hermes/feishu_comment_rules.json, mtime-cached hot-reload.
- Self-reply filter using generalized self_open_id (supports future
user-identity subscriptions). Receiver check: only process events
where the bot is the @mentioned target.
- Smart timeline selection, long text chunking, semantic text extraction,
session sharing per document, wiki link resolution.
Change-Id: I31e82fd6355173dbcc400b8934b6d9799e3137b9
Both fixes close process leaks observed in production (18+ orphaned
agent-browser node daemons, 15+ orphaned paste.rs sleep interpreters
accumulated over ~3 days, ~2.7 GB RSS).
## agent-browser daemon leak
Previously the orphan reaper (_reap_orphaned_browser_sessions) only ran
from _start_browser_cleanup_thread, which is only invoked on the first
browser tool call in a process. Hermes sessions that never used the
browser never swept orphans, and the cross-process orphan detection
relied on in-process _active_sessions, which doesn't see other hermes
PIDs' sessions (race risk).
- Write <session>.owner_pid alongside the socket dir recording the
hermes PID that owns the daemon (extracted into _write_owner_pid for
direct testability).
- Reaper prefers owner_pid liveness over in-process _active_sessions.
Cross-process safe: concurrent hermes instances won't reap each
other's daemons. Legacy tracked_names fallback kept for daemons
that predate owner_pid.
- atexit handler (_emergency_cleanup_all_sessions) now always runs
the reaper, not just when this process had active sessions —
every clean hermes exit sweeps accumulated orphans.
## paste.rs auto-delete leak
_schedule_auto_delete spawned a detached Python subprocess per call
that slept 6 hours then issued DELETE requests. No dedup, no tracking —
every 'hermes debug share' invocation added ~20 MB of resident Python
interpreters that stuck around until the sleep finished.
- Replaced the spawn with ~/.hermes/pastes/pending.json: records
{url, expire_at} entries.
- _sweep_expired_pastes() synchronously DELETEs past-due entries on
every 'hermes debug' invocation (run_debug() dispatcher).
- Network failures stay in pending.json for up to 24h, then give up
(paste.rs's own retention handles the 'user never runs hermes again'
edge case).
- Zero subprocesses; regression test asserts subprocess/Popen/time.sleep
never appear in the function source (skipping docstrings via AST).
## Validation
| | Before | After |
|------------------------------|---------------|--------------|
| Orphan agent-browser daemons | 18 accumulated| 2 (live) |
| paste.rs sleep interpreters | 15 accumulated| 0 |
| RSS reclaimed | - | ~2.7 GB |
| Targeted tests | - | 2253 pass |
E2E verified: alive-owner daemons NOT reaped; dead-owner daemons
SIGTERM'd and socket dirs cleaned; pending.json sweep deletes expired
entries without spawning subprocesses.
Two accretion-over-time leaks that compound over long CLI / gateway
lifetimes. Both were flagged in the memory-leak audit.
## file_tools._read_tracker
_read_tracker[task_id] holds three sub-containers that grew unbounded:
read_history set of (path, offset, limit) tuples — 1 per unique read
dedup dict of (path, offset, limit) → mtime — same growth pattern
read_timestamps dict of resolved_path → mtime — 1 per unique path
A CLI session uses one stable task_id for its lifetime, so these were
uncapped. A 10k-read session accumulated ~1.5MB of tracker state that
the tool no longer needed (only the most recent reads are relevant for
dedup, consecutive-loop detection, and write/patch external-edit
warnings).
Fix: _cap_read_tracker_data() enforces hard caps on each container
after every add. Defaults: read_history=500, dedup=1000,
read_timestamps=1000. Eviction is insertion-order (Python 3.7+ dict
guarantee) for the dicts; arbitrary for the set (which only feeds
diagnostic summaries).
## process_registry._completion_consumed
Module-level set that recorded every session_id ever polled / waited /
logged. No pruning. Each entry is ~20 bytes, so the absolute leak is
small, but on a gateway processing thousands of background commands
per day the set grows until process exit.
Fix: _prune_if_needed() now discards _completion_consumed entries
alongside the session dict evictions it already performs (both the
TTL-based prune and the LRU-over-cap prune). Adds a final
belt-and-suspenders pass that drops any dangling entries whose
session_id no longer appears in _running or _finished.
Tests: tests/tools/test_accretion_caps.py — 9 cases
* Each container bound respected, oldest evicted
* No-op when under cap (no unnecessary work)
* Handles missing sub-containers without crashing
* Live read_file_tool path enforces caps end-to-end
* _completion_consumed pruned on TTL expiry
* _completion_consumed pruned on LRU eviction
* Dangling entries (no backing session) cleared
Broader suite: 3486 tests/tools + tests/cli pass. The single flake
(test_alias_command_passes_args) reproduces on unchanged main — known
cross-test pollution under suite-order load.
- gateway/platforms/weixin.py:
- Split aiohttp.ClientSession into _poll_session and _send_session
- Add _LIVE_ADAPTERS registry so send_weixin_direct() reuses the connected gateway adapter instead of creating a competing session
- Fixes silent message loss when gateway is running (iLink token contention)
- cron/scheduler.py:
- Support comma-separated deliver values (e.g. 'feishu,weixin') for multi-target delivery
- Delay pconfig/enabled check until standalone fallback so live adapters work even when platform is not in gateway config
- tools/send_message_tool.py:
- Synthesize PlatformConfig from WEIXIN_* env vars when gateway config lacks a weixin entry
- Fall back to WEIXIN_HOME_CHANNEL env var for home channel resolution
- tests/gateway/test_weixin.py:
- Update mocks to include _send_session
The send_message tool's direct-REST QQBot path used "QQBotAccessToken {token}"
which QQ's API rejects with 401. The correct format is "QQBot {token}" — the
gateway adapter at gateway/platforms/qqbot.py uses this format in all 5 header
sites (lines 341, 551, 579, 1068, 1467); this was the one outlier.
Credit to @Quon for surfacing this in #10257 (that PR had unrelated issues in
its media-upload logic and was closed; this salvages the genuine 1-line fix).
When a user edits a bundled skill, sync flags it as user_modified and
skips it forever. The problem: if the user later tries to undo the edit
by copying the current bundled version back into ~/.hermes/skills/, the
manifest still holds the old origin hash from the last successful
sync, so the fresh bundled hash still doesn't match and the skill stays
stuck as user_modified.
Adds an escape hatch for this case.
hermes skills reset <name>
Drops the skill's entry from ~/.hermes/skills/.bundled_manifest and
re-baselines against the user's current copy. Future 'hermes update'
runs accept upstream changes again. Non-destructive.
hermes skills reset <name> --restore
Also deletes the user's copy and re-copies the bundled version.
Use when you want the pristine upstream skill back.
Also available as /skills reset in chat.
- tools/skills_sync.py: new reset_bundled_skill(name, restore=False)
- hermes_cli/skills_hub.py: do_reset() + wired into skills_command and
handle_skills_slash; added to the slash /skills help panel
- hermes_cli/main.py: argparse entry for 'hermes skills reset'
- tests/tools/test_skills_sync.py: 5 new tests covering the stuck-flag
repro, --restore, unknown-skill error, upstream-removed-skill, and
no-op on already-clean state
- website/docs/user-guide/features/skills.md: new 'Bundled skill updates'
section explaining the origin-hash mechanic + reset usage
* feat(image_gen): upgrade Recraft V3 → V4 Pro, Nano Banana → Pro
Upstream asked for these two upgrades ASAP — the old entries show
stale models when newer, higher-quality versions are available on FAL.
Recraft V3 → Recraft V4 Pro
ID: fal-ai/recraft-v3 → fal-ai/recraft/v4/pro/text-to-image
Price: $0.04/image → $0.25/image (6x — V4 Pro is premium tier)
Schema: V4 dropped the required `style` enum entirely; defaults
handle taste now. Added `colors` and `background_color`
to supports for brand-palette control. `seed` is not
supported by V4 per the API docs.
Nano Banana → Nano Banana Pro
ID: fal-ai/nano-banana → fal-ai/nano-banana-pro
Price: $0.08/image → $0.15/image (1K); $0.30 at 4K
Schema: Aspect ratio family unchanged. Added `resolution`
(1K/2K/4K, default 1K for billing predictability),
`enable_web_search` (real-time info grounding, +$0.015),
and `limit_generations` (force exactly 1 image).
Architecture: Gemini 2.5 Flash → Gemini 3 Pro Image. Quality
and reasoning depth improved; slower (~6s → ~8s).
Migration: users who had the old IDs in `image_gen.model` will
fall through the existing 'unknown model → default' warning path
in `_resolve_fal_model()` and get the Klein 9B default on the next
run. Re-run `hermes tools` → Image Generation to pick the new
version. No silent cost-upgrade aliasing — the 2-6x price jump
on these tiers warrants explicit user re-selection.
Portal note: both new model IDs need to be allowlisted on the
Nous fal-queue-gateway alongside the previous 7 additions, or
users on Nous Subscription will see the 'managed gateway rejected
model' error we added previously (which is clear and
self-remediating, just noisy).
* docs: wrap '<1s' in backticks to unblock MDX compilation
Docusaurus's MDX parser treats unquoted '<' as the start of JSX, and
'<1s' fails because '1' isn't a valid tag-name start character. This
was broken on main since PR #11265 (never noticed because
docs-site-checks was failing on OTHER issues at the time and we
admin-merged through it).
Wrapping in backticks also gives the cell monospace styling which
reads more cleanly alongside the inline-code model ID in the same row.
The other '<1s' occurrence (line 52) is inside a fenced code block
and is already safe — code fences bypass MDX parsing.
* feat(mcp-oauth): scaffold MCPOAuthManager
Central manager for per-server MCP OAuth state. Provides
get_or_build_provider (cached), remove (evicts cache + deletes
disk), invalidate_if_disk_changed (mtime watch, core fix for
external-refresh workflow), and handle_401 (dedup'd recovery).
No behavior change yet — existing call sites still use
build_oauth_auth directly. Task 1 of 8 in the MCP OAuth
consolidation (fixes Cthulhu's BetterStack reliability issues).
* feat(mcp-oauth): add HermesMCPOAuthProvider with pre-flow disk watch
Subclasses the MCP SDK's OAuthClientProvider to inject a disk
mtime check before every async_auth_flow, via the central
manager. When a subclass instance is used, external token
refreshes (cron, another CLI instance) are picked up before
the next API call.
Still dead code: the manager's _build_provider still delegates
to build_oauth_auth and returns the plain OAuthClientProvider.
Task 4 wires this subclass in. Task 2 of 8.
* refactor(mcp-oauth): extract build_oauth_auth helpers
Decomposes build_oauth_auth into _configure_callback_port,
_build_client_metadata, _maybe_preregister_client, and
_parse_base_url. Public API preserved. These helpers let
MCPOAuthManager._build_provider reuse the same logic in Task 4
instead of duplicating the construction dance.
Also updates the SDK version hint in the warning from 1.10.0 to
1.26.0 (which is what we actually require for the OAuth types
used here). Task 3 of 8.
* feat(mcp-oauth): manager now builds HermesMCPOAuthProvider directly
_build_provider constructs the disk-watching subclass using the
helpers from Task 3, instead of delegating to the plain
build_oauth_auth factory. Any consumer using the manager now gets
pre-flow disk-freshness checks automatically.
build_oauth_auth is preserved as the public API for backwards
compatibility. The code path is now:
MCPOAuthManager.get_or_build_provider ->
_build_provider ->
_configure_callback_port
_build_client_metadata
_maybe_preregister_client
_parse_base_url
HermesMCPOAuthProvider(...)
Task 4 of 8.
* feat(mcp): wire OAuth manager + add _reconnect_event
MCPServerTask gains _reconnect_event alongside _shutdown_event.
When set, _run_http / _run_stdio exit their async-with blocks
cleanly (no exception), and the outer run() loop re-enters the
transport to rebuild the MCP session with fresh credentials.
This is the recovery path for OAuth failures that the SDK's
in-place httpx.Auth cannot handle (e.g. cron externally consumed
the refresh_token, or server-side session invalidation).
_run_http now asks MCPOAuthManager for the OAuth provider
instead of calling build_oauth_auth directly. Config-time,
runtime, and reconnect paths all share one provider instance
with pre-flow disk-watch active.
shutdown() defensively sets both events so there is no race
between reconnect and shutdown signalling.
Task 5 of 8.
* feat(mcp): detect auth failures in tool handlers, trigger reconnect
All 5 MCP tool handlers (tool call, list_resources, read_resource,
list_prompts, get_prompt) now detect auth failures and route
through MCPOAuthManager.handle_401:
1. If the manager says recovery is viable (disk has fresh tokens,
or SDK can refresh in-place), signal MCPServerTask._reconnect_event
to tear down and rebuild the MCP session with fresh credentials,
then retry the tool call once.
2. If no recovery path exists, return a structured needs_reauth
JSON error so the model stops hallucinating manual refresh
attempts (the 'let me curl the token endpoint' loop Cthulhu
pasted from Discord).
_is_auth_error catches OAuthFlowError, OAuthTokenError,
OAuthNonInteractiveError, and httpx.HTTPStatusError(401). Non-auth
exceptions still surface via the generic error path unchanged.
Task 6 of 8.
* feat(mcp-cli): route add/remove through manager, add 'hermes mcp login'
cmd_mcp_add and cmd_mcp_remove now go through MCPOAuthManager
instead of calling build_oauth_auth / remove_oauth_tokens
directly. This means CLI config-time state and runtime MCP
session state are backed by the same provider cache — removing
a server evicts the live provider, adding a server populates
the same cache the MCP session will read from.
New 'hermes mcp login <name>' command:
- Wipes both the on-disk tokens file and the in-memory
MCPOAuthManager cache
- Triggers a fresh OAuth browser flow via the existing probe
path
- Intended target for the needs_reauth error Task 6 returns
to the model
Task 7 of 8.
* test(mcp-oauth): end-to-end integration tests
Five new tests exercising the full consolidation with real file
I/O and real imports (no transport mocks):
1. external_refresh_picked_up_without_restart — Cthulhu's cron
workflow. External process writes fresh tokens to disk;
on the next auth flow the manager's mtime-watch flips
_initialized and the SDK re-reads from storage.
2. handle_401_deduplicates_concurrent_callers — 10 concurrent
handlers for the same failed token fire exactly ONE recovery
attempt (thundering-herd protection).
3. handle_401_returns_false_when_no_provider — defensive path
for unknown servers.
4. invalidate_if_disk_changed_handles_missing_file — pre-auth
state returns False cleanly.
5. provider_is_reused_across_reconnects — cache stickiness so
reconnects preserve the disk-watch baseline mtime.
Task 8 of 8 — consolidation complete.
* feat(image_gen): multi-model FAL support with picker in hermes tools
Adds 8 FAL text-to-image models selectable via `hermes tools` →
Image Generation → (FAL.ai | Nous Subscription) → model picker.
Models supported:
- fal-ai/flux-2/klein/9b (new default, <1s, $0.006/MP)
- fal-ai/flux-2-pro (previous default, kept backward-compat upscaling)
- fal-ai/z-image/turbo (Tongyi-MAI, bilingual EN/CN)
- fal-ai/nano-banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
- fal-ai/gpt-image-1.5 (with quality tier: low/medium/high)
- fal-ai/ideogram/v3 (best typography)
- fal-ai/recraft-v3 (vector, brand styles)
- fal-ai/qwen-image (LLM-based)
Architecture:
- FAL_MODELS catalog declares per-model size family, defaults, supports
whitelist, and upscale flag. Three size families handled uniformly:
image_size_preset (flux family), aspect_ratio (nano-banana), and
gpt_literal (gpt-image-1.5).
- _build_fal_payload() translates unified inputs (prompt + aspect_ratio)
into model-specific payloads, merges defaults, applies caller overrides,
wires GPT quality_setting, then filters to the supports whitelist — so
models never receive rejected keys.
- IMAGEGEN_BACKENDS registry in tools_config prepares for future imagegen
providers (Replicate, Stability, etc.); each provider entry tags itself
with imagegen_backend: 'fal' to select the right catalog.
- Upscaler (Clarity) defaults off for new models (preserves <1s value
prop), on for flux-2-pro (backward-compat). Per-model via FAL_MODELS.
Config:
image_gen.model = fal-ai/flux-2/klein/9b (new)
image_gen.quality_setting = medium (new, GPT only)
image_gen.use_gateway = bool (existing)
Agent-facing schema unchanged (prompt + aspect_ratio only) — model
choice is a user-level config decision, not an agent-level arg.
Picker uses curses_radiolist (arrow keys, auto numbered-fallback on
non-TTY). Column-aligned: Model / Speed / Strengths / Price.
Docs: image-generation.md rewritten with the model table and picker
walkthrough. tools-reference, tool-gateway, overview updated to drop
the stale "FLUX 2 Pro" wording.
Tests: 42 new in tests/tools/test_image_generation.py covering catalog
integrity, all 3 size families, supports filter, default merging, GPT
quality wiring, model resolution fallback. 8 new in
tests/hermes_cli/test_tools_config.py for picker wiring (registry,
config writes, GPT quality follow-up prompt, corrupt-config repair).
* feat(image_gen): translate managed-gateway 4xx to actionable error
When the Nous Subscription managed FAL proxy rejects a model with 4xx
(likely portal-side allowlist miss or billing gate), surface a clear
message explaining:
1. The rejected model ID + HTTP status
2. Two remediation paths: set FAL_KEY for direct access, or
pick a different model via `hermes tools`
5xx, connection errors, and direct-FAL errors pass through unchanged
(those have different root causes and reasonable native messages).
Motivation: new FAL models added to this release (flux-2-klein-9b,
z-image-turbo, nano-banana, gpt-image-1.5, ideogram-v3, recraft-v3,
qwen-image) are untested against the Nous Portal proxy. If the portal
allowlists model IDs, users on Nous Subscription will hit cryptic
4xx errors without guidance on how to work around it.
Tests: 8 new cases covering status extraction across httpx/fal error
shapes and 4xx-vs-5xx-vs-ConnectionError translation policy.
Docs: brief note in image-generation.md for Nous subscribers.
Operator action (Nous Portal side): verify that fal-queue-gateway
passes through these 7 new FAL model IDs. If the proxy has an
allowlist, add them; otherwise Nous Subscription users will see the
new translated error and fall back to direct FAL.
* feat(image_gen): pin GPT-Image quality to medium (no user choice)
Previously the tools picker asked a follow-up question for GPT-Image
quality tier (low / medium / high) and persisted the answer to
`image_gen.quality_setting`. This created two problems:
1. Nous Portal billing complexity — the 22x cost spread between tiers
($0.009 low / $0.20 high) forces the gateway to meter per-tier per
user, which the portal team can't easily support at launch.
2. User footgun — anyone picking `high` by mistake burns through
credit ~6x faster than `medium`.
This commit pins quality at medium by baking it into FAL_MODELS
defaults for gpt-image-1.5 and removes all user-facing override paths:
- Removed `_resolve_gpt_quality()` runtime lookup
- Removed `honors_quality_setting` flag on the model entry
- Removed `_configure_gpt_quality_setting()` picker helper
- Removed `_GPT_QUALITY_CHOICES` constant
- Removed the follow-up prompt call in `_configure_imagegen_model()`
- Even if a user manually edits `image_gen.quality_setting` in
config.yaml, no code path reads it — always sends medium.
Tests:
- Replaced TestGptQualitySetting (6 tests) with TestGptQualityPinnedToMedium
(5 tests) — proves medium is baked in, config is ignored, flag is
removed, helper is removed, non-gpt models never get quality.
- Replaced test_picker_with_gpt_image_also_prompts_quality with
test_picker_with_gpt_image_does_not_prompt_quality — proves only 1
picker call fires when gpt-image is selected (no quality follow-up).
Docs updated: image-generation.md replaces the quality-tier table
with a short note explaining the pinning decision.
* docs(image_gen): drop stale 'wires GPT quality tier' line from internals section
Caught in a cleanup sweep after pinning quality to medium. The
"How It Works Internally" walkthrough still described the removed
quality-wiring step.
Follow-ups on top of kshitijk4poor's cherry-picked salvage of PR #8018:
tools/environments/daytona.py
- PID-suffix /tmp/.hermes_sync.<pid>.tar so concurrent sync_back calls
against the same sandbox don't collide on the remote temp path
- Move sync_back() inside the cleanup lock and after the _sandbox-None
guard, with its own try/except. Previously a no-op cleanup (sandbox
already cleared) still fired sync_back → 3-attempt retry storm against
a nil sandbox (~6s of sleep). Now short-circuits cleanly.
tools/environments/file_sync.py
- Add _SYNC_BACK_MAX_BYTES (2 GiB) defensive cap: refuse to extract a
tar larger than the limit. Protects against runaway sandboxes
producing arbitrary-size archives.
- Add 'nothing previously pushed' guard at the top of sync_back(). If
_pushed_hashes and _synced_files are both empty, the FileSyncManager
was never initialized from the host side — there is nothing coherent
to sync back. Skips the retry/backoff machinery on uninitialized
managers and eliminates test-suite slowdown from pre-existing cleanup
tests that don't mock the sync layer.
tests/tools/test_file_sync_back.py
- Update _make_manager helper to seed a _pushed_hashes entry by default
so sync_back() exercises its real path. A seed_pushed_state=False
opt-out is available for noop-path tests.
- Add TestSyncBackSizeCap with positive and negative coverage of the
new cap.
tests/tools/test_sync_back_backends.py
- Update Daytona bulk download test to assert the PID-suffixed path
pattern instead of the fixed /tmp/.hermes_sync.tar.
Salvage of PR #8018 by @alt-glitch onto current main.
On sandbox teardown, FileSyncManager now downloads the remote .hermes/
directory, diffs against SHA-256 hashes of what was originally pushed,
and applies only changed files back to the host.
Core (tools/environments/file_sync.py):
- sync_back(): orchestrates download -> unpack -> diff -> apply with:
- Retry with exponential backoff (3 attempts, 2s/4s/8s)
- SIGINT trap + defer (prevents partial writes on Ctrl-C)
- fcntl.flock serialization (concurrent gateway sandboxes)
- Last-write-wins conflict resolution with warning
- New remote files pulled back via _infer_host_path prefix matching
Backends:
- SSH: _ssh_bulk_download — tar cf - piped over SSH
- Modal: _modal_bulk_download — exec tar cf - -> proc.stdout.read
- Daytona: _daytona_bulk_download — exec tar cf -> SDK download_file
- All three call sync_back() at the top of cleanup()
Fixes applied during salvage (vs original PR #8018):
| # | Issue | Fix |
|---|-------|-----|
| C1 | import fcntl unconditional — crashes Windows | try/except with fallback; _sync_back_locked skips locking when fcntl=None |
| W1 | assert for runtime guard (stripped by -O) | Replaced with proper if/raise RuntimeError |
| W2 | O(n*m) from _get_files_fn() called per file | Cache mapping once at start of _sync_back_impl, pass to resolve/infer |
| W3 | Dead BulkDownloadFn imports in 3 backends | Removed unused imports |
| W4 | Modal hardcodes root/.hermes, no explanation | Added docstring comment explaining Modal always runs as root |
| S1 | SHA-256 computed for new files where pushed_hash=None | Skip hashing when pushed_hash is None (comparison always False) |
| S2 | Daytona /tmp/.hermes_sync.tar never cleaned up | Added rm -f after download (best-effort) |
Tests: 49 passing (17 new: _infer_host_path edge cases, SIGINT
main/worker thread, Windows fcntl=None fallback, Daytona tar cleanup).
Based on #8018 by @alt-glitch.
Users with 'commit.gpgsign = true' in their global git config got a
pinentry popup (or a failed commit) every time the agent took a
background filesystem snapshot — every write_file, patch, or diff
mid-session. With GPG_TTY unset, pinentry-qt/gtk would spawn a GUI
window, constantly interrupting the session.
The shadow repo is internal Hermes infrastructure. It must not
inherit user-level git settings (signing, hooks, aliases, credential
helpers, etc.) under any circumstance.
Fix is layered:
1. _git_env() sets GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=os.devnull,
GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM=os.devnull, and GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1. Shadow
git commands no longer see ~/.gitconfig or /etc/gitconfig at all
(uses os.devnull for Windows compat).
2. _init_shadow_repo() explicitly writes commit.gpgsign=false and
tag.gpgSign=false into the shadow's own config, so the repo is
correct even if inspected or run against directly without the
env vars, and for older git versions (<2.32) that predate
GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL.
3. _take() passes --no-gpg-sign inline on the commit call. This
covers existing shadow repos created before this fix — they will
never re-run _init_shadow_repo (it is gated on HEAD not existing),
so they would miss layer 2. Layer 1 still protects them, but the
inline flag guarantees correctness at the commit call itself.
Existing checkpoints, rollback, list, diff, and restore all continue
to work — history is untouched. Users who had the bug stop getting
pinentry popups; users who didn't see no observable change.
Tests: 5 new regression tests in TestGpgAndGlobalConfigIsolation,
including a full E2E repro with fake HOME, global gpgsign=true, and
a deliberately broken GPG binary — checkpoint succeeds regardless.
The blocking gateway approval wait at tools/approval.py called
`entry.event.wait(timeout=...)` which never touched the agent's
activity tracker. When a user was slow to respond to a /approve prompt
(or the gateway_timeout config was set higher than the default 300s),
the agent thread sat silent long enough for the gateway's inactivity
watchdog (agent.gateway_timeout, default 1800s) to kill it — even
though the agent was doing exactly the right thing and the user was
the one causing the delay.
The fix polls the event in 1s slices and calls touch_activity_if_due
between slices, mirroring the _wait_for_process() pattern in
tools/environments/base.py that covers the subprocess-waiting side of
the same problem. At the default 10s heartbeat cadence, a 300s
approval wait now pings activity ~30 times, well under the 1800s
idle threshold.
Observed in community user logs: 12 repeated 'Agent idle 1800s,
last_activity=executing tool: terminal' events across April 12-14.
Companion to PR #10501 which covered streaming / concurrent-tool /
Modal-backend gaps but did not touch approval.py.
Test: tests/tools/test_approval_heartbeat.py — verifies (1) heartbeats
fire during the wait, (2) user responses are still near-instant, and
(3) the approval path stays functional when the heartbeat helper
can't be imported.
Adds Google Gemini TTS as the seventh voice provider, with 30 prebuilt
voices (Zephyr, Puck, Kore, Enceladus, Gacrux, etc.) and natural-language
prompt control. Integrates through the existing provider chain:
- tools/tts_tool.py: new _generate_gemini_tts() calls the
generativelanguage REST endpoint with responseModalities=[AUDIO],
wraps the returned 24kHz mono 16-bit PCM (L16) in a WAV RIFF header,
then ffmpeg-converts to MP3 or Opus depending on output extension.
For .ogg output, libopus is forced explicitly so Telegram voice
bubbles get Opus (ffmpeg defaults to Vorbis for .ogg).
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: exposes 'Google Gemini TTS' as a provider
option in the curses-based 'hermes tools' UI.
- hermes_cli/setup.py: adds gemini to the setup wizard picker, tool
status display, and API key prompt branch (accepts existing
GEMINI_API_KEY or GOOGLE_API_KEY, falls back to Edge if neither set).
- tests/tools/test_tts_gemini.py: 15 unit tests covering WAV header
wrap correctness, env var fallback (GEMINI/GOOGLE), voice/model
overrides, snake_case vs camelCase inlineData handling, HTTP error
surfacing, and empty-audio edge cases.
- docs: TTS features page updated to list seven providers with the new
gemini config block and ffmpeg notes.
Live-tested against api key against gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts: .wav,
.mp3, and Telegram-compatible .ogg (Opus codec) all produce valid
playable audio.
Replace the HERMES_ENABLE_NOUS_MANAGED_TOOLS env-var feature flag with
subscription-based detection. The Tool Gateway is now available to any
paid Nous subscriber without needing a hidden env var.
Core changes:
- managed_nous_tools_enabled() checks get_nous_auth_status() +
check_nous_free_tier() instead of an env var
- New use_gateway config flag per tool section (web, tts, browser,
image_gen) records explicit user opt-in and overrides direct API
keys at runtime
- New prefers_gateway(section) shared helper in tool_backend_helpers.py
used by all 4 tool runtimes (web, tts, image gen, browser)
UX flow:
- hermes model: after Nous login/model selection, shows a curses
prompt listing all gateway-eligible tools with current status.
User chooses to enable all, enable only unconfigured tools, or skip.
Defaults to Enable for new users, Skip when direct keys exist.
- hermes tools: provider selection now manages use_gateway flag —
selecting Nous Subscription sets it, selecting any other provider
clears it
- hermes status: renamed section to Nous Tool Gateway, added
free-tier upgrade nudge for logged-in free users
- curses_radiolist: new description parameter for multi-line context
that survives the screen clear
Runtime behavior:
- Each tool runtime (web_tools, tts_tool, image_generation_tool,
browser_use) checks prefers_gateway() before falling back to
direct env-var credentials
- get_nous_subscription_features() respects use_gateway flags,
suppressing direct credential detection when the user opted in
Removed:
- HERMES_ENABLE_NOUS_MANAGED_TOOLS env var and all references
- apply_nous_provider_defaults() silent TTS auto-set
- get_nous_subscription_explainer_lines() static text
- Override env var warnings (use_gateway handles this properly now)
The completion-line printing block (idx = entry['task_index'] etc.)
was outside the 'for future in done:' loop but referenced 'entry'
which is only assigned inside that loop. When concurrent.futures.wait()
returns with an empty 'done' set (timeout expired, no futures finished),
the loop body never executes and 'entry' is unbound.
Moved the completion-line printing and spinner-update code inside
the for loop so each completed future gets its own status line,
and empty poll cycles simply loop back without accessing 'entry'.
- Extract duplicated activity-callback polling into shared
touch_activity_if_due() helper in tools/environments/base.py
- Use helper from both base.py _wait_for_process and
code_execution_tool.py local polling loop (DRY)
- Add test assertion that timeout output field contains the
timeout message and emoji (#10807)
- Add stream_consumer test for tool-boundary fallback scenario
where continuation is empty but final_text differs from
visible prefix (#10807)
When execute_code times out, the result JSON had status="timeout" and an
error field, but the output field was empty. Many models treat empty
output as "nothing happened" and produce an empty/minimal response. The
gateway stream consumer then considers the response "already sent" (from
pre-tool streaming) and silently drops it — leaving the user staring at
silence.
Three changes:
1. Include the timeout message in the output field (both local and remote
paths) so the model always has visible content to relay to the user.
2. Add periodic activity callbacks to the local execution polling loop so
the gateway's inactivity monitor knows execute_code is alive during
long runs.
3. Fix stream_consumer._send_fallback_final to not silently drop content
when the continuation appears empty but the final text differs from
what was previously streamed (e.g. after a tool boundary reset).
Wraps provider.create_session() in _get_session_info() with try/except
to catch cloud provider runtime failures (timeouts, auth errors, rate
limits, invalid responses). Falls back to _create_local_session() so
browser automation continues working when cloud APIs are down.
Marks fallback sessions with fallback_from_cloud, fallback_reason, and
fallback_provider metadata for observability. If both cloud and local
fail, raises RuntimeError with chained context from both errors.
Closes#10883
Co-authored-by: konsisumer <konsisumer@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: stop /model from silently rerouting direct providers to OpenRouter (#10300)
detect_provider_for_model() silently remapped models to OpenRouter when
the direct provider's credentials weren't found via env vars. Three bugs:
1. Credential check only looked at env vars from PROVIDER_REGISTRY,
missing credential pool entries, auth store, and OAuth tokens
2. When env var check failed, silently returned ('openrouter', slug)
instead of the direct provider the model actually belongs to
3. Users with valid credentials via non-env-var mechanisms (pool,
OAuth, Claude Code tokens) got silently rerouted
Fix:
- Expand credential check to also query credential pool and auth store
- Always return the direct provider match regardless of credential
status -- let client init handle missing creds with a clear error
rather than silently routing through the wrong provider
Same philosophy as the provider-required fix: don't guess, don't
silently reroute, error clearly when something is missing.
Closes#10300
* fix: word-wrap spinner, interruptable agent join, and delegate_task interrupt
Three fixes:
1. Spinner widget clips long tool commands — prompt_toolkit Window had
height=1 and wrap_lines=False. Now uses wrap_lines=True with dynamic
height from text length / terminal width. Long commands wrap naturally.
2. agent_thread.join() blocked forever after interrupt — if the agent
thread took time to clean up, the process_loop thread froze. Now polls
with 0.2s timeout on the interrupt path, checking _should_exit so
double Ctrl+C breaks out immediately.
3. Root cause of 5-hour CLI hang: delegate_task() used as_completed()
with no interrupt check. When subagent children got stuck, the parent
blocked forever inside the ThreadPoolExecutor. Now polls with
wait(timeout=0.5) and checks parent_agent._interrupt_requested each
iteration. Stuck children are reported as interrupted, and the parent
returns immediately.
Fixes 12 CI test failures:
1. test_cli_new_session (4): _FakeAgent missing commit_memory_session
attribute added in the memory provider refactoring. Added MagicMock.
2. test_run_progress_topics (1): already_sent detection only checked
stream consumer flags, missing the response_previewed path from
interim_assistant_callback. Restructured guard to check both paths.
3. test_timezone (1): HERMES_TIMEZONE leaked into child processes via
_SAFE_ENV_PREFIXES matching HERMES_*. The code correctly converts
it to TZ but didn't remove the original. Added child_env.pop().
4. test_session_env (1): contextvars baseline captured from a different
context couldn't be restored after clear. Changed assertion to verify
the test's value was removed rather than comparing to a fragile baseline.
5. test_discord_slash_commands (5): already fixed on current main.
When an MCP server returns errors consistently (crashed, disconnected,
auth expired), the model sees each error and retries the tool call.
With no circuit breaker, this burned through all 90 iterations — each
one a full LLM API call plus failed MCP call — producing 15-45 minutes
of zero useful output while the gateway inactivity timeout never fired
(because the agent WAS active, just uselessly).
Fix: track consecutive error counts per MCP server. After 3 consecutive
failures (connection errors, MCP-level errors, or transport exceptions),
the handler short-circuits with a message telling the model to stop
retrying and use alternative approaches. The counter resets to 0 on
any successful call.
Closes#10447
Wrap the TelegramAdapter import in _send_to_platform() with a try/except
ImportError guard, matching the existing Feishu pattern in the same function.
When python-telegram-bot is not installed, the import no longer crashes the
cron scheduler. Instead, MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH falls back to a hardcoded 4096.
The _send_telegram() function already had its own ImportError guard for the
telegram package; this fixes the remaining bare import of TelegramAdapter
in the platform-routing function.
Text-only Matrix sends should continue using the lightweight _send_matrix()
HTTP helper (~100ms). Only route through the heavy MatrixAdapter (full sync +
E2EE setup) when media files are present. Adds test verifying text-only
messages don't take the adapter path.
Matrix media delivery was silently dropped by send_message because Matrix
wasn't wired into the native adapter-backed media path. Only Telegram,
Discord, and Weixin had native media support.
Adds _send_matrix_via_adapter() which creates a MatrixAdapter instance,
connects, sends text + media via the adapter's native upload methods
(send_document, send_image_file, send_video, send_voice), then disconnects.
Also fixes a stale URL-encoding assertion in test_send_message_missing_platforms
that broke after PR #10151 added quote() to room IDs.
Cherry-picked from PR #10486 by helix4u.
bash -lic with a PTY enables job control (set -m), which waits for all
background jobs before the shell exits. A command like
`python3 -m http.server &>/dev/null &` hangs forever because the shell
never completes.
Prefix `set +m;` to disable job control while keeping -i for .bashrc
sourcing and PTY for interactive tools.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
_load_skill_payload() reconstructed skill_dir as SKILLS_DIR / relative_path,
which is wrong for external skills from skills.external_dirs — they live
outside SKILLS_DIR entirely. Scripts and linked files failed to load.
Fix: skill_view() now includes the absolute skill_dir in its result dict.
_load_skill_payload() uses that directly when available, falling back to
the SKILLS_DIR-relative reconstruction only for legacy responses.
Closes#10313
Add "HERMES_" to _SAFE_ENV_PREFIXES in code_execution_tool.py so HERMES_HOME and other Hermes env vars pass through to execute_code subprocesses. Fixes vision_analyze and other tools that rely on get_hermes_home() failing in Docker environments with non-default HERMES_HOME.
Authored by @shin4.
* fix: show correct env var name in provider API key error (#9506)
The error message for missing provider API keys dynamically built
the env var name as PROVIDER_API_KEY (e.g. ALIBABA_API_KEY), but
some providers use different names (alibaba uses DASHSCOPE_API_KEY).
Users following the error message set the wrong variable.
Fix: look up the actual env var from PROVIDER_REGISTRY before
building the error. Falls back to the dynamic name if the registry
lookup fails.
Closes#9506
* fix: five HERMES_HOME profile-isolation leaks (#5947)
Bug A: Thread session_title from session_db to memory provider init kwargs
so honcho can derive chat-scoped session keys instead of falling back to
cwd-based naming that merges all gateway users into one session.
Bug B: Replace 14 hardcoded ~/.hermes/skills/ paths across 10 skill files
with HERMES_HOME-aware alternatives (${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes} in
shell, os.environ.get('HERMES_HOME', ...) in Python).
Bug C: install.sh now respects HERMES_HOME env var and adds --hermes-home
flag. Previously --dir only set INSTALL_DIR while HERMES_HOME was always
hardcoded to $HOME/.hermes.
Bug D: Remove hardcoded ~/.hermes/honcho.json fallback in resolve_config_path().
Non-default profiles no longer silently inherit the default profile's honcho
config. Falls through to ~/.honcho/config.json (global) instead.
Bug E: Guard _edit_skill, _patch_skill, _delete_skill, _write_file, and
_remove_file against writing to skills found in external_dirs. Skills
outside the local SKILLS_DIR are now read-only from the agent's perspective.
Closes#5947
_install_tirith() uses shutil.move() to place the binary from tmpdir
to ~/.hermes/bin/. When these are on different filesystems (common in
Docker, NFS), shutil.move() falls back to copy2 + unlink, but copy2's
metadata step can raise PermissionError. This exception propagated
past the fail_open guard, crashing the terminal tool entirely.
Additionally, a failed install could leave a non-executable tirith
binary at the destination, causing a retry loop on every subsequent
terminal command.
Fix:
- Catch OSError from shutil.move() and fall back to shutil.copy()
(skips metadata/xattr copying that causes PermissionError)
- If even copy fails, clean up the partial dest file to prevent
the non-executable retry loop
- Return (None, 'cross_device_copy_failed') so the failure routes
through the existing install-failure caching and fail_open logic
Closes#10127
When a user runs /browser connect to attach browser tools to their real
Chrome instance via CDP, the BROWSER_CDP_URL env var is set. However,
every browser tool function checks _is_camofox_mode() first, which
short-circuits to the Camofox backend before _get_session_info() ever
checks for the CDP override.
Fix: is_camofox_mode() now returns False when BROWSER_CDP_URL is set,
so the explicit CDP connection takes priority. This is the correct
behavior — /browser connect is an intentional user override.
Reported by SkyLinx on Discord.
Models (especially open-source like qwen3.5-plus) may send non-int values
for the limit parameter — None (JSON null), string, or even a type object.
This caused TypeError: '<=' not supported between instances of 'int' and
'type' when the value reached min()/comparison operations.
Changes:
- Add defensive int coercion at session_search() entry with fallback to 3
- Clamp limit to [1, 5] range (was only capped at 5, not floored)
- Add tests for None, type object, string, negative, and zero limit values
Reported by community user ludoSifu via Discord.
Python's json.dumps() defaults to ensure_ascii=True, escaping non-ASCII
characters to \uXXXX sequences. For CJK characters this inflates
token count 3-4x — a single Chinese character like '中' becomes
'\u4e2d' (6 chars vs 3 bytes, ~6 tokens vs ~1 token).
Since MCP tool results feed directly into the model's conversation
context, this silently multiplied API costs for Chinese, Japanese,
and Korean users.
Fix: add ensure_ascii=False to all 20 json.dumps calls in mcp_tool.py.
Raw UTF-8 is valid JSON per RFC 8259 and all downstream consumers
(LLM APIs, display) handle it correctly.
Closes#10234
Multiple gaps in activity tracking could cause the gateway's inactivity
timeout to fire while the agent is actively working:
1. Streaming wait loop had no periodic heartbeat — the outer thread only
touched activity when the stale-stream detector fired (180-300s), and
for local providers (Ollama) the stale timeout was infinity, meaning
zero heartbeats. Now touches activity every 30s.
2. Concurrent tool execution never set the activity callback on worker
threads (threading.local invisible across threads) and never set
_current_tool. Workers now set the callback, and the concurrent wait
uses a polling loop with 30s heartbeats.
3. Modal backend's execute() override had its own polling loop without
any activity callback. Now matches _wait_for_process cadence (10s).
- Populate watcher_* routing fields for watch-only processes (not just
notify_on_complete), so watch-pattern events carry direct metadata
instead of relying solely on session_key parsing fallback
- Extract _parse_session_key() helper to dedupe session key parsing
at two call sites in gateway/run.py
- Add negative test proving cross-thread leakage doesn't happen
- Add edge-case tests for _build_process_event_source returning None
(empty evt, invalid platform, short session_key)
- Add unit tests for _parse_session_key helper
Tool schema descriptions and tool return values contained hardcoded
~/.hermes paths that the model sees and uses. When HERMES_HOME is set
to a custom path (Docker containers, profiles), the agent would still
reference ~/.hermes — looking at the wrong directory.
Fixes 6 locations across 5 files:
- tools/tts_tool.py: output_path schema description
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: script path schema description
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py: skill_manage schema description
- tools/skills_tool.py: two tool return messages
- agent/skill_commands.py: skill config injection text
All now use display_hermes_home() which resolves to the actual
HERMES_HOME path (e.g. /opt/data for Docker, ~/.hermes/profiles/X
for profiles, ~/.hermes for default).
Reported by: Sandeep Narahari (PrithviDevs)
- Fix file handle closed before POST: nest session.post() inside
the 'with open()' block so aiohttp can read the file during upload
- Update warning text to include weixin (also supports media delivery)
- Add 8 unit tests covering: text+media, media-only, missing files,
upload failures, multiple files, and _send_to_platform routing
Previously send_message only supported media delivery for Telegram.
Discord users received a warning that media was omitted.
- Add media_files parameter to _send_discord()
- Upload media via Discord multipart/form-data API (files[0] field)
- Handle Discord in _send_to_platform() same way as Telegram block
- Remove Discord from generic chunk loop (now handled above)
- Update error/warning strings to mention telegram and discord
* fix(gateway): suppress duplicate replies on interrupt and streaming flood control
Three fixes for the duplicate reply bug affecting all gateway platforms:
1. base.py: Suppress stale response when the session was interrupted by a
new message that hasn't been consumed yet. Checks both interrupt_event
and _pending_messages to avoid false positives. (#8221, #2483)
2. run.py (return path): Remove response_previewed guard from already_sent
check. Stream consumer's already_sent alone is authoritative — if
content was delivered via streaming, the duplicate send must be
suppressed regardless of the agent's response_previewed flag. (#8375)
3. run.py (queued-message path): Same fix — already_sent without
response_previewed now correctly marks the first response as already
streamed, preventing re-send before processing the queued message.
The response_previewed field is still produced by the agent (run_agent.py)
but is no longer required as a gate for duplicate suppression. The stream
consumer's already_sent flag is the delivery-level truth about what the
user actually saw.
Concepts from PR #8380 (konsisumer). Closes#8375, #8221, #2483.
* fix(cron): include job_id in delivery and guide models on removal workflow
Users reported cron reminders keep firing after asking the agent to stop.
Root cause: the conversational agent didn't know the job_id (not in delivery)
and models don't reliably do the list→remove two-step without guidance.
1. Include job_id in the cron delivery wrapper so users and agents can
reference it when requesting removal.
2. Replace confusing footer ('The agent cannot see this message') with
actionable guidance ('To stop or manage this job, send me a new
message').
3. Add explicit list→remove guidance in the cronjob tool schema so models
know to list first and never guess job IDs.
Matrix room IDs contain ! and : which must be percent-encoded in URI
path segments per the Matrix C-S spec. Without encoding, some
homeservers reject the PUT request.
Also adds 'matrix:!roomid:server.org' and 'matrix:@user:server.org'
to the tool schema examples so models know the correct target format.
`_parse_target_ref` has explicit-reference branches for Telegram, Feishu,
and numeric IDs, but none for Matrix. As a result, callers of
`send_message(target="matrix:!roomid:server")` or
`send_message(target="matrix:@user:server")` fall through to
`(None, None, False)` and the tool errors out with a resolution failure —
even though a raw Matrix room ID or MXID is the most unambiguous possible
target.
Three-line fix: recognize `!…` as a room ID and `@…` as a user MXID when
platform is `matrix`, and return them as explicit targets. Alias-based
targets (`#…`) continue to go through the normal resolve path.
- find_docker() now checks HERMES_DOCKER_BINARY env var first, then
docker on PATH, then podman on PATH, then macOS known locations
- Entrypoint respects HERMES_HOME env var (was hardcoded to /opt/data)
- Entrypoint uses groupmod -o to tolerate non-unique GIDs (fixes macOS
GID 20 conflict with Debian's dialout group)
- Entrypoint makes chown best-effort so rootless Podman continues
instead of failing with 'Operation not permitted'
- 5 new tests covering env var override, podman fallback, precedence
Based on work by alanjds (PR #3996) and malaiwah (PR #8115).
Closes#4084.
The original tree-wide ast.walk() would match registry.register() calls
inside functions too. Restrict to top-level ast.Expr statements so helper
modules that call registry.register() inside a function are never picked
up as tool modules.
Refactor browser tool PATH construction to include Termux directories
(/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin, /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/sbin)
so agent-browser and npx are discoverable on Android/Termux.
Extracts _browser_candidate_path_dirs() and _merge_browser_path() helpers
to centralize PATH construction shared between _find_agent_browser() and
_run_browser_command(), replacing duplicated inline logic.
Also fixes os.pathsep usage (was hardcoded ':') for cross-platform correctness.
Cherry-picked from PR #9846.
Add dangerous command patterns that require approval when the agent
tries to run gateway lifecycle commands via the terminal tool:
- hermes gateway stop/restart — kills all running agents mid-work
- hermes update — pulls code and restarts the gateway
- systemctl restart/stop (with optional flags like --user)
These patterns fire the approval prompt so the user must explicitly
approve before the agent can kill its own gateway process. In YOLO
mode, the commands run without approval (by design — YOLO means the
user accepts all risks).
Also fixes the existing systemctl pattern to handle flags between
the command and action (e.g. 'systemctl --user restart' was previously
undetected because the regex expected the action immediately after
'systemctl').
Root cause: issue #6666 reported agents running 'hermes gateway
restart' via terminal, killing the gateway process mid-agent-loop.
The user sees the agent suddenly stop responding with no explanation.
Combined with the SIGTERM auto-recovery from PR #9875, the gateway
now both prevents accidental self-destruction AND recovers if it
happens anyway.
Test plan:
- Updated test_systemctl_restart_not_flagged → test_systemctl_restart_flagged
- All 119 approval tests pass
- E2E verified: hermes gateway restart, hermes update, systemctl
--user restart all detected; hermes gateway status, systemctl
status remain safe
Add ctx.register_skill() API so plugins can ship SKILL.md files under
a 'plugin:skill' namespace, preventing name collisions with built-in
Hermes skills. skill_view() detects the ':' separator and routes to
the plugin registry while bare names continue through the existing
flat-tree scan unchanged.
Key additions:
- agent/skill_utils: parse_qualified_name(), is_valid_namespace()
- hermes_cli/plugins: PluginContext.register_skill(), PluginManager
skill registry (find/list/remove)
- tools/skills_tool: qualified name dispatch in skill_view(),
_serve_plugin_skill() with full guards (disabled, platform,
injection scan), bundle context banner with sibling listing,
stale registry self-heal
- Hoisted _INJECTION_PATTERNS to module level (dedup)
- Updated skill_view schema description
Based on PR #9334 by N0nb0at. Lean P1 salvage — omits autogen shim
(P2) for a simpler first merge.
Closes#8422
- Fix _camofox_eval() endpoint: /tabs/{id}/eval → /tabs/{id}/evaluate
(correct Camofox REST API path)
- Add required userId field to JS eval request body (all other Camofox
endpoints already include it)
- Update npm package from @askjo/camoufox-browser ^1.0.0 to
@askjo/camofox-browser ^1.5.2 (upstream package was renamed)
- Update tools_config.py post-setup to reference new package directory
and npx command
- Bump Node engine requirement from >=18 to >=20 (required by
camoufox-js dependency in camofox-browser v1.5.2)
- Regenerate package-lock.json
Fixes issues reported in PRs #9472, #8267, #7208 (stale).
Match cron/scheduler.py pattern — only attempt msvcrt import when
fcntl is unavailable. Pre-declare msvcrt = None at module level so
_file_lock() references don't NameError on Linux.
Production fixes:
- Add clear_session_context() to hermes_logging.py (fixes 48 teardown errors)
- Add clear_session() to tools/approval.py (fixes 9 setup errors)
- Add SyncError M_UNKNOWN_TOKEN check to Matrix _sync_loop (bug fix)
- Fall back to inline api_key in named custom providers when key_env
is absent (runtime_provider.py)
Test fixes:
- test_memory_user_id: use builtin+external provider pair, fix honcho
peer_name override test to match production behavior
- test_display_config: remove TestHelpers for non-existent functions
- test_auxiliary_client: fix OAuth tokens to match _is_oauth_token
patterns, replace get_vision_auxiliary_client with resolve_vision_provider_client
- test_cli_interrupt_subagent: add missing _execution_thread_id attr
- test_compress_focus: add model/provider/api_key/base_url/api_mode
to mock compressor
- test_auth_provider_gate: add autouse fixture to clean Anthropic env
vars that leak from CI secrets
- test_opencode_go_in_model_list: accept both 'built-in' and 'hermes'
source (models.dev API unavailable in CI)
- test_email: verify email Platform enum membership instead of source
inspection (build_channel_directory now uses dynamic enum loop)
- test_feishu: add bot_added/bot_deleted handler mocks to _Builder
- test_ws_auth_retry: add AsyncMock for sync_store.get_next_batch,
add _pending_megolm and _joined_rooms to Matrix adapter mocks
- test_restart_drain: monkeypatch-delete INVOCATION_ID (systemd sets
this in CI, changing the restart call signature)
- test_session_hygiene: add user_id to SessionSource
- test_session_env: use relative baseline for contextvar clear check
(pytest-xdist workers share context)
Improvements from our earlier #8269 salvage work applied to #7616:
- Platform token lock: acquire_scoped_lock/release_scoped_lock prevents
two profiles from double-connecting the same QQ bot simultaneously
- Send retry with exponential backoff (3 attempts, 1s/2s/4s) with
permanent vs transient error classification (matches Telegram pattern)
- Proper long-message splitting via truncate_message() instead of
hard-truncating at MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH (preserves code blocks, adds 1/N)
- REST-based one-shot send in send_message_tool — uses QQ Bot REST API
directly with httpx instead of creating a full WebSocket adapter per
message (fixes the connect→send race condition)
- Use shared strip_markdown() from helpers.py instead of 15 lines of
inline regex with import-inside-method (DRY, same as BlueBubbles/SMS)
- format_message() now wired into send() pipeline
- Rename platform from 'qq' to 'qqbot' across all integration points
(Platform enum, toolset, config keys, import paths, file rename qq.py → qqbot.py)
- Add PLATFORM_HINTS for QQBot in prompt_builder (QQ supports markdown)
- Set SUPPORTS_MESSAGE_EDITING = False to skip streaming on QQ
(prevents duplicate messages from non-editable partial + final sends)
- Add _send_qqbot() standalone send function for cron/send_message tool
- Add interactive _setup_qq() wizard in hermes_cli/setup.py
- Restore missing _setup_signal/email/sms/dingtalk/feishu/wecom/wecom_callback
functions that were lost during the original merge
Three improvements to file search based on user feedback:
1. Fuzzy @ completions (commands.py):
- Bare @query now does project-wide fuzzy file search instead of
prefix-only directory listing
- Uses rg --files with 5-second cache for responsive completions
- Scoring: exact name (100) > prefix (80) > substring (60) >
path contains (40) > subsequence with boundary bonus (35/25)
- Bare @ with no query shows recently modified files first
2. Mtime-sorted file search (file_operations.py):
- _search_files_rg now uses --sortr=modified (rg 13+) to surface
recently edited files first
- Falls back to unsorted on older rg versions
3. Improved file-not-found suggestions (file_operations.py):
- Replaced crude character-set overlap with ranked scoring:
same basename (90) > prefix (70) > substring (60) >
reverse substring (40) > same extension (30)
- search_files path-not-found now suggests similar directories
from the parent
Cherry-picked from PR #9177 by @haileymarshall.
Adds a fitness and nutrition skill for gym-goers and health-conscious users:
- Exercise search via wger API (690+ exercises, free, no auth)
- Nutrition lookup via USDA FoodData Central (380K+ foods, DEMO_KEY fallback)
- Offline body composition calculators (BMI, TDEE, 1RM, macros, body fat %)
- Pure stdlib Python, no pip dependencies
Changes from original PR:
- Moved from skills/ to optional-skills/health/ (correct location)
- Fixed BMR formula in FORMULAS.md (removed confusing -5+10, now just +5)
- Fixed author attribution to match PR submitter
- Marked USDA_API_KEY as optional (DEMO_KEY works without signup)
Also adds optional env var support to the skill readiness checker:
- New 'optional: true' field in required_environment_variables entries
- Optional vars are preserved in metadata but don't block skill readiness
- Optional vars skip the CLI capture prompt flow
- Skills with only optional missing vars show as 'available' not 'setup_needed'
Port two improvements inspired by Kilo-Org/kilocode analysis:
1. Error classifier: add context overflow patterns for vLLM, Ollama,
and llama.cpp/llama-server. These local inference servers return
different error formats than cloud providers (e.g., 'exceeds the
max_model_len', 'context length exceeded', 'slot context'). Without
these patterns, context overflow errors from local servers are
misclassified as format errors, causing infinite retries instead
of triggering compression.
2. MCP initial connection retry: previously, if the very first
connection attempt to an MCP server failed (e.g., transient DNS
blip at startup), the server was permanently marked as failed with
no retry. Post-connect reconnection had 5 retries with exponential
backoff, but initial connection had zero. Now initial connections
retry up to 3 times with backoff before giving up, matching the
resilience of post-connect reconnection.
(Inspired by Kilo Code's MCP server disappearing fix in v1.3.3)
Tests: 6 new error classifier tests, 4 new MCP retry tests, 1
updated existing test. All 276 affected tests pass.
On macOS, /etc is a symlink to /private/etc, so os.path.realpath()
resolves /etc/hosts to /private/etc/hosts. The sensitive path check
only matched /etc/ prefixes against the resolved path, allowing
writes to system files on macOS.
- Add /private/etc/ and /private/var/ to _SENSITIVE_PATH_PREFIXES
- Check both realpath-resolved and normpath-normalized paths
- Add regression tests for macOS symlink bypass
Closes#8734
Co-authored-by: ElhamDevelopmentStudio (PR #8829)
Three-tier match strategy for _truncate_around_matches():
1. Full-phrase search (exact query string positions)
2. Proximity co-occurrence (all terms within 200 chars)
3. Individual terms (fallback, preserves existing behavior)
Sliding window picks the start offset covering the most matches.
Moved inline import re to module level.
Co-authored-by: Al Sayed Hoota <78100282+AlsayedHoota@users.noreply.github.com>
The terminal and execute_code tool schemas unconditionally mentioned
'cloud sandboxes' in their descriptions sent to the model. This caused
agents running on local backends to believe they were in a sandboxed
environment, refusing networking tasks and other operations. Worse,
agents sometimes saved this false belief to persistent memory, making
it persist across sessions.
Reported by multiple users (XLion, 林泽).
Port from nearai/ironclaw#2304: Telegram's 4096 character limit is
measured in UTF-16 code units, not Unicode codepoints. Characters
outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (emoji like 😀, CJK Extension B,
musical symbols) are surrogate pairs: 1 Python char but 2 UTF-16 units.
Previously, truncate_message() used Python's len() which counts
codepoints. This could produce chunks exceeding Telegram's actual limit
when messages contain many astral-plane characters.
Changes:
- Add utf16_len() helper and _prefix_within_utf16_limit() for
UTF-16-aware string measurement and truncation
- Add _custom_unit_to_cp() binary-search helper that maps a custom-unit
budget to the largest safe codepoint slice position
- Update truncate_message() to accept optional len_fn parameter
- Telegram adapter now passes len_fn=utf16_len when splitting messages
- Fix fallback truncation in Telegram error handler to use
_prefix_within_utf16_limit instead of codepoint slicing
- Update send_message_tool.py to use utf16_len for Telegram platform
- Add comprehensive tests: utf16_len, _prefix_within_utf16_limit,
truncate_message with len_fn (emoji splitting, content preservation,
code block handling)
- Update mock lambdas in reply_mode tests to accept **kw for len_fn
Add a CI-built skills index served from the docs site. The index is
crawled daily by GitHub Actions, resolves all GitHub paths upfront, and
is cached locally by the client. When the index is available:
- Search uses the cached index (0 GitHub API calls, was 23+)
- Install uses resolved paths from index (6 API calls for file
downloads only, was 31-45 for discovery + downloads)
Total: 68 → 6 GitHub API calls for a typical search + install flow.
Unauthenticated users (60 req/hr) can now search and install without
hitting rate limits.
Components:
- scripts/build_skills_index.py: Crawl all sources (skills.sh, GitHub
taps, official, clawhub, lobehub), batch-resolve GitHub paths via
tree API, output JSON index
- tools/skills_hub.py: HermesIndexSource class — search/fetch/inspect
backed by the index, with lazy GitHubSource for file downloads
- parallel_search_sources() skips external API sources when index is
available (0 GitHub calls for search)
- .github/workflows/skills-index.yml: twice-daily CI build + deploy
- .github/workflows/deploy-site.yml: also builds index during docs deploy
Graceful degradation: when the index is unavailable (first run, network
down, stale), all methods return empty/None and downstream sources
handle the request via direct API as before.
Skills.sh installs hit the GitHub API 45 times per install because the
same repo tree was fetched 6 times redundantly. Combined with search
(23 API calls), this totals 68 — exceeding the unauthenticated rate
limit of 60 req/hr, causing 'Could not fetch' errors for users without
a GITHUB_TOKEN.
Changes:
- Add _get_repo_tree() cache to GitHubSource — repo info + recursive
tree fetched once per repo per source instance, eliminating 10
redundant API calls (6 tree + 4 candidate 404s)
- _download_directory_via_tree returns {} (not None) when cached tree
shows path doesn't exist, skipping unnecessary Contents API fallback
- _check_rate_limit_response() detects exhausted quota and sets
is_rate_limited flag
- do_install() shows actionable hint when rate limited: set
GITHUB_TOKEN or install gh CLI
Before: 45 API calls per install (68 total with search)
After: 31 API calls per install (54 total with search — under 60/hr)
Reported by community user from Vietnam (no GitHub auth configured).
Centralize container detection in hermes_constants.is_container() with
process-lifetime caching, matching existing is_wsl()/is_termux() patterns.
Dedup _is_inside_container() in config.py to delegate to the new function.
Add _run_systemctl() wrapper that converts FileNotFoundError to RuntimeError
for defense-in-depth — all 10 bare subprocess.run(_systemctl_cmd(...)) call
sites now route through it.
Make supports_systemd_services() return False in containers and when
systemctl binary is absent (shutil.which check).
Add Docker-specific guidance in gateway_command() for install/uninstall/start
subcommands — exit 0 with helpful instructions instead of crashing.
Make 'hermes status' show 'Manager: docker (foreground)' and 'hermes dump'
show 'running (docker, pid N)' inside containers.
Fix setup_gateway() to use supports_systemd instead of _is_linux for all
systemd-related branches, and show Docker restart policy instructions in
containers.
Replace inline /.dockerenv check in voice_mode.py with is_container().
Fixes#7420
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: list all available toolsets in delegate_task schema description
The delegate_task tool's toolsets parameter description only mentioned
'terminal', 'file', and 'web' as examples. Models (especially smaller
ones like Gemma) would substitute 'web' for 'browser' because they
didn't know 'browser' was a valid option.
Now dynamically builds the toolset list from the TOOLSETS dict at import
time, excluding blocked, composite, and platform-specific toolsets.
Auto-updates when new toolsets are added.
Reported by jeffutter on Discord.
* chore: exclude moa and rl from delegate_task toolset list
When the agent calls process(action='wait') or process(action='poll')
and gets the exited status, the completion_queue notification is
redundant — the agent already has the output from the tool return.
Previously, the drain loops in CLI and gateway would still inject
the [SYSTEM: Background process completed] message, causing the
agent to receive the same information twice.
Fix: track session IDs in _completion_consumed set when wait/poll/log
returns an exited process. Drain loops in cli.py and gateway watcher
skip completion events for consumed sessions. Watch pattern events
are never suppressed (they have independent semantics).
Adds 4 tests covering wait/poll/log marking and running-process
negative case.
Rewrite the cronjob tool's 'deliver' parameter description to strongly
guide models toward omitting the parameter (which auto-detects origin
including thread/topic). The previous description listed all platform
names equally, inviting models to construct explicit targets like
'telegram:<chat_id>' which silently drops the thread_id.
New description:
- Leads with 'Omit this parameter' as the recommended path
- Explicitly warns that platform:chat_id without :thread_id loses topics
- Removes the long flat list of platform names that invited construction
Also adds diagnostic logging at two key points:
- _origin_from_env(): logs when thread_id is captured during job creation
- _deliver_result(): warns when origin has thread_id but delivery target
lost it; logs at debug when delivering to a specific thread
Helps diagnose user-reported issue where cron responses from Telegram
topics are delivered to the main chat instead of the originating topic.
* perf(ssh,modal): bulk file sync via tar pipe and tar/base64 archive
SSH: symlink-staging + tar -ch piped over SSH in a single TCP stream.
Eliminates per-file scp round-trips. Handles timeout (kills both
processes), SSH Popen failure (kills tar), and tar create failure.
Modal: in-memory gzipped tar archive, base64-encoded, decoded+extracted
in one exec call. Checks exit code and raises on failure.
Both backends use shared helpers extracted into file_sync.py:
- quoted_mkdir_command() — mirrors existing quoted_rm_command()
- unique_parent_dirs() — deduplicates parent dirs from file pairs
Migrates _ensure_remote_dirs to use the new helpers.
28 new tests (21 SSH + 7 Modal), all passing.
Closes#7465Closes#7467
* fix(modal): pipe stdin to avoid ARG_MAX, clean up review findings
- Modal bulk upload: stream base64 payload through proc.stdin in 1MB
chunks instead of embedding in command string (Modal SDK enforces
64KB ARG_MAX_BYTES — typical payloads are ~4.3MB)
- Modal single-file upload: same stdin fix, add exit code checking
- Remove what-narrating comments in ssh.py and modal.py (keep WHY
comments: symlink staging rationale, SIGPIPE, deadlock avoidance)
- Remove unnecessary `sandbox = self._sandbox` alias in modal bulk
- Daytona: use shared helpers (unique_parent_dirs, quoted_mkdir_command)
instead of inlined duplicates
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Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>