diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bf908680078..9520d496107 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ dependencies = [
   # (which is a silent killer on Windows — see CONTRIBUTING.md) and
   # `os.killpg` (which doesn't exist on Windows).
   "psutil==7.2.2",
+  # Browser CDP supervisor + browser_dialog import this directly. Keep core
+  # so browser tool discovery doesn't fail on lean installs.
+  "websockets==15.0.1",
   # .gitignore-aware file matching for desktop build stamp.
   "pathspec==1.1.1",
   "fastapi>=0.104.0,<1",
@@ -132,7 +135,7 @@ edge-tts = ["edge-tts==7.2.7"]
 modal = ["modal==1.3.4"]
 daytona = ["daytona==0.155.0"]
 hindsight = ["hindsight-client==0.6.1"]
-dev = ["debugpy==1.8.20", "pytest==9.0.2", "pytest-asyncio==1.3.0", "mcp==1.26.0", "starlette==1.0.1", "ty==0.0.21", "ruff==0.15.10", "setuptools==82.0.1"]  # starlette: CVE-2026-48710
+dev = ["debugpy==1.8.20", "pytest==9.0.2", "pytest-asyncio==1.3.0", "mcp==1.26.0", "starlette==1.0.1", "ty==0.0.21", "ruff==0.15.10", "setuptools==81.0.0"]  # starlette: CVE-2026-48710; setuptools: latest <82 (torch >=2.11 caps setuptools<82)
 messaging = ["python-telegram-bot[webhooks]==22.6", "discord.py[voice]==2.7.1", "aiohttp==3.13.4", "brotlicffi==1.2.0.1", "slack-bolt==1.27.0", "slack-sdk==3.40.1", "qrcode==7.4.2"]  # aiohttp: CVE-2026-34513/34518/34519/34520/34525
 cron = []  # croniter is now a core dependency; this extra kept for back-compat
 slack = ["slack-bolt==1.27.0", "slack-sdk==3.40.1", "aiohttp==3.13.4"]
diff --git a/scripts/release.py b/scripts/release.py
index a7461b2179b..5058e406cd3 100755
--- a/scripts/release.py
+++ b/scripts/release.py
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ ACP_REGISTRY_MANIFEST = REPO_ROOT / "acp_registry" / "agent.json"
 
 # Auto-extracted from noreply emails + manual overrides
 AUTHOR_MAP = {
+    "yehaotian@xuanshudeMac-mini.local": "ArcanePivot",
+    "dbeyer7@gmail.com": "benegessarit",
     "kenmege@yahoo.com": "Kenmege",
     "tianying.x@eukarya.io": "xtymac",
     "dkobi16@gmail.com": "Diyoncrz18",
diff --git a/tools/browser_cdp_tool.py b/tools/browser_cdp_tool.py
index e13264767d9..da20e301174 100644
--- a/tools/browser_cdp_tool.py
+++ b/tools/browser_cdp_tool.py
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 CDP_DOCS_URL = "https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/"
 
-# ``websockets`` is a transitive dependency of hermes-agent (via fal_client
-# and firecrawl-py) and is already imported by gateway/platforms/feishu.py.
-# Wrap the import so a clean error surfaces if the package is ever absent.
+# ``websockets`` is a direct hermes-agent dependency because the browser CDP
+# supervisor and browser_dialog tool import it during tool discovery. Wrap the
+# import so a clean error surfaces if an environment is stale or incomplete.
 try:
     import websockets
     from websockets.exceptions import WebSocketException
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 804a1628c0b..86949511683 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -1419,6 +1419,7 @@ dependencies = [
     { name = "tzdata", marker = "sys_platform == 'win32'" },
     { name = "urllib3" },
     { name = "uvicorn", extra = ["standard"] },
+    { name = "websockets" },
 ]
 
 [package.optional-dependencies]
@@ -1676,7 +1677,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "rich", specifier = "==14.3.3" },
     { name = "ruamel-yaml", specifier = "==0.18.17" },
     { name = "ruff", marker = "extra == 'dev'", specifier = "==0.15.10" },
-    { name = "setuptools", marker = "extra == 'dev'", specifier = "==82.0.1" },
+    { name = "setuptools", marker = "extra == 'dev'", specifier = "==81.0.0" },
     { name = "simple-term-menu", marker = "extra == 'cli'", specifier = "==1.6.6" },
     { name = "slack-bolt", marker = "extra == 'messaging'", specifier = "==1.27.0" },
     { name = "slack-bolt", marker = "extra == 'slack'", specifier = "==1.27.0" },
@@ -1693,6 +1694,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "urllib3", specifier = ">=2.7.0,<3" },
     { name = "uvicorn", extras = ["standard"], specifier = ">=0.24.0,<1" },
     { name = "uvicorn", extras = ["standard"], marker = "extra == 'web'", specifier = "==0.41.0" },
+    { name = "websockets", specifier = "==15.0.1" },
     { name = "youtube-transcript-api", marker = "extra == 'youtube'", specifier = "==1.2.4" },
 ]
 provides-extras = ["anthropic", "exa", "firecrawl", "parallel-web", "fal", "edge-tts", "modal", "daytona", "hindsight", "dev", "messaging", "cron", "slack", "matrix", "wecom", "cli", "tts-premium", "voice", "pty", "honcho", "vision", "mcp", "nemo-relay", "homeassistant", "sms", "computer-use", "acp", "mistral", "bedrock", "azure-identity", "termux", "termux-all", "dingtalk", "feishu", "google", "youtube", "web", "all"]
@@ -3571,11 +3573,11 @@ wheels = [
 
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+version = "81.0.0"
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+    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e1/e3/c164c88b2e5ce7b24d667b9bd83589cf4f3520d97cad01534cd3c4f55fdb/setuptools-81.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:fdd925d5c5d9f62e4b74b30d6dd7828ce236fd6ed998a08d81de62ce5a6310d6", size = 1062021, upload-time = "2026-02-06T21:10:37.175Z" },
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