fix: declare undeclared soft deps in extras and remove silent import guards

Previously mutagen, aiohttp-socks, tiktoken, Pillow, psutil, datasets,
neutts, and soundfile were used behind try/except ImportError with silent
fallbacks, masking broken functionality at runtime.  Declare each in its
natural extra (messaging, cli, mcp, rl, new tts-local) so they get
installed, and remove the guards so missing deps crash loudly.

gateway/platforms/base.py

@@ -183,18 +183,10 @@ def proxy_kwargs_for_bot(proxy_url: str | None) -> dict:
     if not proxy_url:
         return {}
     if proxy_url.lower().startswith("socks"):
-        try:
         from aiohttp_socks import ProxyConnector
 
         connector = ProxyConnector.from_url(proxy_url, rdns=True)
         return {"connector": connector}
-        except ImportError:
-            logger.warning(
-                "aiohttp_socks not installed — SOCKS proxy %s ignored. "
-                "Run: pip install aiohttp-socks",
-                proxy_url,
-            )
-            return {}
     return {"proxy": proxy_url}
 
 
@@ -216,18 +208,10 @@ def proxy_kwargs_for_aiohttp(proxy_url: str | None) -> tuple[dict, dict]:
     if not proxy_url:
         return {}, {}
     if proxy_url.lower().startswith("socks"):
-        try:
         from aiohttp_socks import ProxyConnector
 
         connector = ProxyConnector.from_url(proxy_url, rdns=True)
         return {"connector": connector}, {}
-        except ImportError:
-            logger.warning(
-                "aiohttp_socks not installed — SOCKS proxy %s ignored. "
-                "Run: pip install aiohttp-socks",
-                proxy_url,
-            )
-            return {}, {}
     return {}, {"proxy": proxy_url}
 
 

gateway/platforms/discord.py

@@ -1194,9 +1194,10 @@ class DiscordAdapter(BasePlatformAdapter):
             try:
                 import base64
 
+                from mutagen.oggopus import OggOpus
+
                 duration_secs = 5.0
                 try:
-                    from mutagen.oggopus import OggOpus
                     info = OggOpus(audio_path)
                     duration_secs = info.info.length
                 except Exception:

hermes_cli/clipboard.py

@@ -395,14 +395,11 @@ def _wayland_save(dest: Path) -> bool:
 
 def _convert_to_png(path: Path) -> bool:
     """Convert an image file to PNG in-place (requires Pillow or ImageMagick)."""
-    # Try Pillow first (likely installed in the venv)
-    try:
     from PIL import Image
+    try:
         img = Image.open(path)
         img.save(path, "PNG")
         return True
-    except ImportError:
-        pass
     except Exception as e:
         logger.debug("Pillow BMP→PNG conversion failed: %s", e)
 

hermes_cli/tools_config.py

@@ -710,19 +710,14 @@ def _estimate_tool_tokens() -> Dict[str, int]:
     OpenAI-format tool schema.  Triggers tool discovery on first call,
     then caches the result for the rest of the process.
 
-    Returns an empty dict when tiktoken or the registry is unavailable.
+    Returns an empty dict when the registry is unavailable.
     """
     global _tool_token_cache
     if _tool_token_cache is not None:
         return _tool_token_cache
 
-    try:
     import tiktoken
     enc = tiktoken.get_encoding("cl100k_base")
-    except Exception:
-        logger.debug("tiktoken unavailable; skipping tool token estimation")
-        _tool_token_cache = {}
-        return _tool_token_cache
 
     try:
         # Trigger full tool discovery (imports all tool modules).

pyproject.toml

@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ dependencies = [
 modal = ["modal>=1.0.0,<2"]
 daytona = ["daytona>=0.148.0,<1"]
 dev = ["debugpy>=1.8.0,<2", "pytest>=9.0.2,<10", "pytest-asyncio>=1.3.0,<2", "pytest-xdist>=3.0,<4", "mcp>=1.2.0,<2"]
-messaging = ["python-telegram-bot[webhooks]>=22.6,<23", "discord.py[voice]>=2.7.1,<3", "aiohttp>=3.13.3,<4", "slack-bolt>=1.18.0,<2", "slack-sdk>=3.27.0,<4", "qrcode>=7.0,<8"]
+messaging = ["python-telegram-bot[webhooks]>=22.6,<23", "discord.py[voice]>=2.7.1,<3", "aiohttp>=3.13.3,<4", "slack-bolt>=1.18.0,<2", "slack-sdk>=3.27.0,<4", "qrcode>=7.0,<8", "mutagen>=1.45,<2", "aiohttp-socks>=0.9,<1"]
 cron = ["croniter>=6.0.0,<7"]
 slack = ["slack-bolt>=1.18.0,<2", "slack-sdk>=3.27.0,<4"]
 matrix = ["mautrix[encryption]>=0.20,<1", "Markdown>=3.6,<4", "aiosqlite>=0.20", "asyncpg>=0.29"]
-cli = ["simple-term-menu>=1.0,<2"]
+cli = ["simple-term-menu>=1.0,<2", "tiktoken>=0.7,<1", "Pillow>=10,<12"]
 tts-premium = ["elevenlabs>=1.0,<2"]
 voice = [
   # Local STT pulls in wheel-only transitive deps (ctranslate2, onnxruntime),
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ pty = [
   "pywinpty>=2.0.0,<3; sys_platform == 'win32'",
 ]
 honcho = ["honcho-ai>=2.0.1,<3"]
-mcp = ["mcp>=1.2.0,<2"]
+mcp = ["mcp>=1.2.0,<2", "psutil>=5.9,<7"]
 homeassistant = ["aiohttp>=3.9.0,<4"]
 sms = ["aiohttp>=3.9.0,<4"]
 acp = ["agent-client-protocol>=0.9.0,<1.0"]
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ rl = [
   "fastapi>=0.104.0,<1",
   "uvicorn[standard]>=0.24.0,<1",
   "wandb>=0.15.0,<1",
+  "datasets>=2.14,<3",
 ]
+tts-local = ["neutts[all]", "soundfile>=0.12,<1"]
 yc-bench = ["yc-bench @ git+https://github.com/collinear-ai/yc-bench.git@bfb0c88062450f46341bd9a5298903fc2e952a5c ; python_version >= '3.12'"]
 all = [
   "hermes-agent[modal]",

tools/mcp_tool.py

@@ -1453,12 +1453,10 @@ def _snapshot_child_pids() -> set:
         pass
 
     # Fallback: psutil
-    try:
     import psutil
+    try:
         return {c.pid for c in psutil.Process(my_pid).children()}
-    except Exception:
+    except psutil.Error:
-        pass
-
         return set()
 
 

tools/neutts_synth.py

@@ -71,12 +71,7 @@ def main():
 
     ref_text = ref_text_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip()
 
-    # Import and run NeuTTS
-    try:
     from neutts import NeuTTS
-    except ImportError:
-        print("Error: neutts not installed. Run: python -m pip install -U neutts[all]", file=sys.stderr)
-        sys.exit(1)
 
     tts = NeuTTS(
         backbone_repo=args.model,
@@ -91,11 +86,8 @@ def main():
     out_path = Path(args.out)
     out_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 
-    try:
     import soundfile as sf
     sf.write(str(out_path), wav, 24000)
-    except ImportError:
-        _write_wav(str(out_path), wav, 24000)
 
     print(f"OK: {out_path}", file=sys.stderr)
 

tools/process_registry.py

@@ -335,12 +335,11 @@ class ProcessRegistry:
         )
 
         if use_pty:
-            # Try PTY mode for interactive CLI tools
-            try:
             if _IS_WINDOWS:
                 from winpty import PtyProcess as _PtyProcessCls
             else:
                 from ptyprocess import PtyProcess as _PtyProcessCls
+            try:
                 user_shell = _find_shell()
                 pty_env = _sanitize_subprocess_env(os.environ, env_vars)
                 pty_env["PYTHONUNBUFFERED"] = "1"
@@ -371,8 +370,6 @@ class ProcessRegistry:
                 self._write_checkpoint()
                 return session
 
-            except ImportError:
-                logger.warning("ptyprocess not installed, falling back to pipe mode")
             except Exception as e:
                 logger.warning("PTY spawn failed (%s), falling back to pipe mode", e)
 

tools/vision_tools.py

@@ -318,15 +318,8 @@ def _resize_image_for_vision(image_path: Path, mime_type: Optional[str] = None,
     else:
         data_url = None  # defer full encode; try Pillow resize first
 
-    # Attempt auto-resize with Pillow (soft dependency)
-    try:
     from PIL import Image
     import io as _io
-    except ImportError:
-        logger.info("Pillow not installed — cannot auto-resize oversized image")
-        if data_url is None:
-            data_url = _image_to_base64_data_url(image_path, mime_type=mime_type)
-        return data_url  # caller will raise the size error
 
     logger.info("Image file is %.1f MB (estimated base64 %.1f MB, limit %.1f MB), auto-resizing...",
                 file_size / (1024 * 1024), estimated_b64 / (1024 * 1024),

tui_gateway/server.py

@@ -182,10 +182,10 @@ def _estimate_image_tokens(width: int, height: int) -> int:
 
 
 def _image_meta(path: Path) -> dict:
-    meta = {"name": path.name}
-    try:
     from PIL import Image
 
+    meta = {"name": path.name}
+    try:
         with Image.open(path) as img:
             width, height = img.size
         meta["width"] = int(width)