The example-plugins repo is a multi-plugin repo with no root plugin.yaml;
the admission CI correctly rejected the root-level seed entry. Pin the
plugin-llm-example subdir instead — the admission gate catching its own
seed entry is the E2E proof it works.
Lane 2 (CLI) and lane 5 (dashboard) each shipped a sidecar read/write pair
with identical format; keep the CLI pair and alias the public names the
dashboard imports.
- install: catalog names resolve to the pinned SHA (ref= checkout),
print tier + capability summary before the enable prompt, and write a
.hermes-catalog.json provenance sidecar; raw git URLs get a
'custom (unreviewed) source' banner; --allow-removed loudly bypasses
the removed blocklist (skip_removed_check=True)
- update: sidecar installs compare against the current catalog pin and
force-reinstall at the new SHA (enabled state preserved); plain git
installs keep the git-pull flow
- list: catalog:<tier>@<shaShort> annotation + red 'REMOVED from
catalog' lines for blocklisted installs (table and --json)
- search/browse/info: live-index catalog tables and full entry detail
with removed-list warnings
- validate: human ✓/✗ output, --json for CI, exit 0/1
- doctor: per-plugin manifest/enabled/load-error/env/requires_hermes/
provenance/pin/removed diagnosis, compact table or single-name detail
New hermes_cli/plugin_validate.py — the checks behind
'hermes plugins validate <dir>': manifest fields, strict requires_hermes
spec parsing, config: shape, UPPER_SNAKE requires_env, a capability
probe that imports the plugin and calls register(ctx) against a
recording stub in a scratch subprocess (throwaway HERMES_HOME, 30s
timeout) and diffs actual registrations against provides_* (undeclared
= fail, unregistered = warn), plus built-in tool collision checks via
the discovered tool registry.
Add fetch_live_catalog()/load_catalog_live() to hermes_cli.plugin_catalog:
list plugin-catalog/*.yaml via the GitHub contents API (unauthenticated,
5s timeout), raw-fetch each entry, and cache under
<hermes_home>/cache/plugin-catalog/ with a 6h TTL. Any network failure
falls back silently to the in-tree catalog. Also expose filter_entries()
so callers can reuse search semantics on a live entry list.
- aux summary call on main intentionally omits max_tokens; use .get() in the
telemetry hook (and widen the param type) so the hook never breaks the call
- update test expectation: aux_output_reservation is None on main
- record no_progress failure_class in the no-progress boundary branch
Follow-up for salvaged PR #60444.
The summary_idx head-copy skip (from #69302) dropped the entire merged
handoff message, deleting the genuine prior-tail user content that
#47274's _strip_context_summary_handoff_message correctly unwraps.
Strip handles both shapes: standalone handoffs drop, merged handoffs
keep their real content. Caught by
test_recompression_of_current_merged_handoff_preserves_prior_tail_once
when both PRs landed together.
Follow-up for salvaged #24279:
- cli-config.yaml.example: document compression.threshold_tokens
(commented-out, default null = disabled)
- contributors/emails: map maly.dan@gmail.com -> DanielMaly
- tests: should_compress() fires at the absolute cap below the pct
threshold (first-fires-wins); DEFAULT_CONFIG ships None and 0/None
are behavior-neutral incl. across update_model(); the small-context
pct floor is unaffected by the cap and re-derives correctly on
model switch
Add compression.threshold_tokens config option that sets an absolute
token cap for auto-compaction. When configured alongside the existing
ratio-based threshold, the effective trigger point is the lower of the
two, so compression never fires later than the user's preferred token
count regardless of which model is active.
This solves the problem where switching between models with different
context windows (e.g. 1M → 400K) shifts the absolute trigger point,
causing premature or delayed compression.
Rework from PR #24279 addressing sweeper feedback:
- The cap is now a first-class compressor configuration value
(threshold_tokens_cap parameter on ContextCompressor.__init__),
not a post-construction patch on the live instance.
- Applied in both __init__ and update_model() so it survives model
switches and fallback activations (the old approach was undone by
update_model() restoring _configured_threshold_percent).
- Clamped to the model's context length so a cap above the window is
a no-op (ratio-based threshold wins).
- Works with max_tokens output-token reservations.
- Added 9 tests covering cap-vs-ratio selection, model switch survival,
context-length clamping, max_tokens interaction, and invalid values.
- Updated user-facing configuration docs.
- Removed unrelated background-review/curator/Honcho changes (main
already contains background-review memory isolation in 973f27e95).
Config example:
compression:
threshold: 0.50
threshold_tokens: 200000 # never compress later than 200K tokens
Compaction summaries persist across sessions and re-enter every subsequent
summarizer prompt, but every redact_sensitive_text() call in
context_compressor.py used default mode: a no-op under
security.redact_secrets:false, and opaque OAuth-callback / URL-userinfo
credentials passed through even when enabled. The stored _previous_summary
also re-entered the iterative-update prompt unredacted.
Add _redact_compaction_text() — redact_sensitive_text(force=True,
redact_url_credentials=True) — and thread it through all compaction text
boundaries: serializer input (content + tool args), deterministic fallback
summary, summarizer LLM output, manual + auto focus topics, the latest-user
task snapshot, and _previous_summary re-entry.
Note: force=True at this boundary intentionally overrides
security.redact_secrets:false — that opt-out targets live tool output, not
persisted summaries.
Salvages the compaction half of #49556 (the redact.py strict-URL half
landed independently via 75af6dc57/62a00a739). Addresses #43666 item 2.
Co-authored-by: AndrewMoryakov <topazd2@gmail.com>
Integration layer for the cjk_unicode61 tokenizer, rebuilt on the v23
schema (the contributed integration in PR #65544 predated it):
- messages_fts_cjk: external-content FTS5 over a tool-row-excluding view
(same v23 storage discipline as the trigram index it supersedes — zero
inline text copies). Serves EVERY CJK query shape the legacy routing
split between trigram (>=3 chars/token) and LIKE full scans (1-2 char
tokens). Lone 1-char CJK runs and role_filter=['tool'] queries keep
their legacy routes.
- Dedicated marker pair (fts_cjk_rebuild_high_water/progress) gates the
id-scoped triggers, so a cjk-only backfill never gates the complete
messages_fts/trigram triggers.
- Transitions ride (the existing
throttled/resumable chunk engine): fresh DBs are born with the index;
legacy v22 DBs land on v23+cjk in one run; already-optimized v23 DBs
gaining the tokenizer get a marker-gated backfill; live writes are
indexed immediately in every case.
- Tokenizer-loss self-heal: a process that can't load the extension drops
the cjk triggers (writes keep working), leaves a stale breadcrumb, and
the index is rebuilt from scratch on the next optimize run — triggers
are never reinstalled over a gap (external-content 'delete' on an
unindexed rowid is the FTS5 corruption hazard the marker gating exists
to prevent).
- Capability classification: 'no such tokenizer: cjk_unicode61' joins the
degraded-runtime error class everywhere (read probe, write probe,
repair) so tokenizer absence is never misclassified as corruption.
- Config: sessions.cjk_fts (default on, inert without the .so) and
sessions.search_slow_ms in config.yaml, bridged to env by CLI + gateway
(startup + per-turn reload). build.sh falls back to vendored SQLite
headers so no libsqlite3-dev is needed.
Slow-query log path attribution updated: fts_cjk / fts5 / trigram /
like_scan. Tests: 14 lifecycle tests (fresh/legacy/stale/backfill paths,
tokenizer-loss round-trip) + 5 config-bridge tests + slow-log suite.
One INFO line per slow search naming the path taken (fts_cjk / fts5 /
trigram / like_scan), elapsed time, row count, and the query. The 2026-07
session_search investigation needed turn-trace archaeology plus workload
replay to discover that short-CJK queries were full-scanning the table —
with this line the next routing regression is a journalctl grep.
Threshold: sessions.search_slow_ms (default 1000ms; 0 logs every call),
bridged to HERMES_SEARCH_SLOW_MS.
Salvaged from PR #65544 (adapted to the v23 schema in follow-up commits).
unicode61 indexes a CJK run as ONE token, so 2-char Korean terms (일본,
구글, 우리, ...) can never match it and the trigram tokenizer needs >=3
chars per term — any query containing a 1-2 char CJK token falls through
to a LIKE full-table scan (measured 3-6.4s CPU per query on a 6.8GB
production state.db; the #1 base cost behind a 12.4s session_search
average on CJK workloads).
This ships a ~250-line loadable FTS5 tokenizer (no deps) that wraps
unicode61: maximal CJK runs inside its tokens are re-emitted as
overlapping character bigrams (Lucene CJKAnalyzer semantics), everything
else passes through unchanged. FTS5 phrase semantics turn consecutive
sub-tokens into exact substring matching down to 2-char terms at index
speed.
Build: native/fts5_cjk/build.sh -> ~/.hermes/lib/libfts5_cjk.so
(override: HERMES_FTS5_CJK_SO).
Salvaged from PR #65544; the schema integration lands separately on the
v23 external-content layout.
- _install_plugin_core accepts ref= (full-depth clone + git checkout,
PluginOperationError on failure) and skip_removed_check=
- installs are refused when the identifier or resolved repo URL matches
plugin-catalog/removed.yaml, with the recorded reason and date
- plugin.yaml gains requires_hermes (version spec) and config: (list of
{key, prompt, type, default, secret}) parsed onto PluginManifest
- PluginManager skips loading (clean error, no traceback) when the
running Hermes version does not satisfy requires_hermes; local
_version_satisfies helper supports >=,>,<=,<,==,!= and comma specs
- PluginContext.plugin_config merges config-spec defaults under
plugins.entries.<plugin_id> values from config.yaml
Slack delivers user mentions as opaque IDs (<@U123>). The agent had no
way to tell one participant from another — or from itself — so it could
misread a mention of a human as a self-mention and answer messages
addressed to that person (the "bot thinks it's @someone-else" bug).
Two cooperating fixes:
- _humanize_user_mentions rewrites remaining <@UID> tokens (the bot's
own mention is stripped earlier) to @DisplayName in the trigger text
and reply_to_text — the Slack equivalent of Discord's clean_content.
Handles the labelled <@UID|handle> form; unresolvable IDs fall back
to the raw ID.
- _build_identity_prompt injects an ephemeral per-turn system-prompt
line via the channel_prompt seam (applied at API-call time, never
persisted — prompt caching preserved) naming the bot's own workspace
handle (per-team in multi-workspace installs) so the agent has a
positive "that's me" anchor.
Salvaged from #55340 by @benbarclay, rebased over the workspace-scoped
user-name cache (team_id-aware resolution) on main.
In shared Slack threads the model saw only [sender name] prefixes, with
no verifiable current-author Slack user ID — so 'mention me again'
requests could bind to a stale or unrelated <@U...> pulled from names,
memory, or prior history (#17916).
Two cooperating changes:
- The shared-session sender prefix on Slack now carries the current
author's ID from the event envelope:
'[Alice | Slack user <@U123>] ...' — per-turn data, so it does not
touch the cached system prompt.
- The Slack platform notes gain a shared-thread instruction to use the
current turn's sender prefix as the only verified mention target and
never guess or reuse historical mentions.
Fixes#17916.
Salvaged from #18711 by @LeonSGP43 (asdigitos), rebased over the
sender-name neutralization added on main (the ID is appended after
neutralizing the display name; the ID itself comes from the Slack
event, not user-editable text).
Two mention-tracking gaps around thread parents (#24848):
1. When a thread PARENT @-mentioned the bot (e.g. '<@bot> check this
and ask me before running'), a later bare reply like 'run' fell
through every wake check if the mention event predated this process
(restart) — _mentioned_threads is in-memory only. Add a 5th wake
check that fetches the parent text (with the bot mention preserved
via strip_bot_mention=False) and wakes when the parent addressed the
bot, registering the thread so later replies skip the fetch.
2. A TOP-LEVEL @mention starts a thread (session keying falls back to
the message ts), but only the raw event thread_ts was registered in
_mentioned_threads — so replies to a top-level mention did not
auto-trigger. Register the session-scoped thread_ts instead.
_fetch_thread_parent_text reuses the shared thread-context cache (raw
payloads) so the parent check costs at most one conversations.replies
call per thread; _register_mentioned_thread centralizes the bounded-set
eviction.
Salvaged from #24848 by @kaiyisg, rebased onto the extracted
_should_wake_on_unmentioned_message helper.
The un-mentioned wake decision relied on three checks: thread root in
_bot_message_ts (populated only by the adapter's own send() path),
_mentioned_threads (populated on @mention), and an existing session.
Two gaps (#63530):
- Gap A: bot messages posted OUTSIDE gateway send() — skills/scripts
calling chat.postMessage directly, cron/API posts — never enter
_bot_message_ts, so human replies in those threads were silently
dropped.
- Gap B: _bot_message_ts is process memory; after a gateway restart the
bot stopped waking on replies to threads it started before the
restart.
Fix: add a 4th, API-derived check — _bot_authored_thread_root — which
resolves the thread root's author via conversations.replies (cached in
_thread_context_cache via the new parent_user_id field, TTL-bounded).
Root authorship comes from Slack itself, so it covers outside-send
posts and survives restarts, unlike in-memory ts tracking. The wake
decision is extracted into _should_wake_on_unmentioned_message for
direct unit testing; the legacy checks remain first (cheap, additive).
Fixes#63530.
Salvaged from #64067 by @knoal (author metadata normalized to their
GitHub identity), rebased over the thread-context formatter split and
extended with per-team bot-id resolution for multi-workspace installs.
Persistent sessions survive gateway restarts, but thread replies posted
while the gateway was DOWN never reached the session — and the adapter
had no way to notice, so the conversation silently resumed with a hole
in it.
On the first ordinary reply per thread after a restart (tracked by a
fresh-process _thread_rehydration_checked set), fetch the thread delta
past the persisted per-session watermark and inject any missed messages
as part of the new turn via channel_context. Exactly-once per thread
per process; when the watermark is empty (pre-feature sessions) the
check is a no-op. Steady-state replies keep advancing the watermark so
rehydration never re-injects messages the session already carries as
ordinary turns. Prior history is never rewritten (prompt caching safe).
Builds on the persisted watermark introduced for #23918.
Salvaged from #33215 by @vexclawx31, reworked from a repeated
full-thread injection guard into a watermark-delta injection so
rehydration adds only what the session actually missed.
Once a thread has an active session, a later reply that explicitly
@mentions the bot did not re-fetch Slack thread context, so the agent
missed messages added to the thread after the initial hydrate (e.g.
other bots/integrations replying in multi-agent workflows). The
explicit mention is a fresh intent signal and now triggers a refresh.
Mechanics:
- SessionEntry gains a small persisted metadata dict, with
SessionStore.get/set_session_metadata accessors (survives gateway
restarts via the routing index).
- The adapter stores a per-thread consumption watermark
(slack_thread_watermark:<channel>:<thread>) recording the last
thread ts the session consumed.
- On explicit mention in an active thread, _fetch_thread_context runs
with force_refresh=True (bypassing the TTL cache) and after_ts=<the
watermark>, so only NOT-yet-seen messages are injected — as part of
the new turn via channel_context. Prior conversation history is
never rewritten, preserving prompt caching.
- _fetch_thread_context caches raw conversations.replies payloads so
watermark-scoped re-formatting needs no extra API call; formatting
is split into _format_thread_context.
- Thread session keys are built once in _build_thread_session_key
(shared by the wake gate and the watermark accessors), still via
build_session_key().
Fixes#23918. Supersedes #62299 (keyword-triggered refresh limited to
'investigate' prompts — the mention signal is the general fix).
Salvaged from #23927 by @heathley, rebased onto the plugin adapter
layout and rerouted through channel_context instead of text-prepend.
Prepending cold-start thread backfill directly onto the message text
moved a recognized command (e.g. a bang-normalized "!queue ...") away
from character zero, so downstream command routing misclassified it as
conversational text and the command silently didn't run.
Route the backfill through MessageEvent.channel_context instead —
gateway.run already prepends channel_context after command dispatch
("[New message]" framing), so commands keep their COMMAND type while
the recovered history stays available to the agent.
Supersedes #68020, which dropped the fetched context entirely for
commands instead of preserving it out-of-band.
Salvaged from #66069 by @LevSky22.
_fetch_thread_context unconditionally filtered out the bot's own prior
replies, so cold-start sessions (bot posts a thread root, user replies
later, no active session) lost every assistant turn and the agent could
not reconstruct the prior conversation.
The circular-context concern the filter guarded against does not apply
here: the call site is gated by _has_active_session_for_thread, so this
method only runs when there is no session history to duplicate.
Self-bot replies are now kept and labelled with an explicit [assistant]
prefix (skipping user-name resolution — the label already communicates
authorship). Third-party bot posts and the bot-authored thread parent
keep their existing treatment.
Fixes#38861.
Salvaged from #38936 by @temalo, rebased from the pre-plugin
gateway/platforms/slack.py layout onto plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py
(preserving the [unverified] trust-tag handling added on main since).
A session key that exists in the store but would be rolled to a fresh
session by the reset policy (daily/idle/suspended) is not an active
session. Treating it as active suppressed the first-turn Slack
thread-history reseed after reset (#55239).
_has_active_session_for_thread() now consults SessionStore._should_reset
so a stale entry gates like a missing one, letting _fetch_thread_context
reseed the fresh session with recent thread history.
Fixes#55239.
Salvaged from #55240 by @ooiuuii.
- scripts/validate_plugin_catalog.py: standalone stdlib+pyyaml structural
validator for plugin-catalog entries and removed.yaml (no hermes install
needed; runtime twin of hermes_cli/plugin_catalog.py). --json support,
unknown top-level keys warn instead of failing for forward compat.
- .github/actions/plugin-validate: composite action plugin authors drop
into their own repo's CI — installs hermes-agent from a chosen ref and
runs 'hermes plugins validate <path>'.
- .github/workflows/plugin-catalog-ci.yml: admission gate on PRs touching
plugin-catalog/** — structural job plus pinned-source job that clones
each changed entry's repo, hard-fails on unreachable pinned sha
(supply-chain gate), and validates the plugin at that exact commit.
Slack buffers un-acked Socket Mode events and replays them when the
websocket reconnects; the replay can arrive several minutes later —
past the 300s default dedup TTL — producing a duplicate bot reply.
Default the Slack dedup window to 1 hour (memory stays bounded by the
deduplicator's max_size LRU pruning) and allow overriding via
SLACK_DEDUP_TTL_SECONDS.
Salvaged from PR #40064 by @MrAbsaroka (reapplied onto the
plugin-migrated adapter path). Fixes#4777.
The Socket Mode watchdog only reconnects when is_connected() returns False
or the receiver task dies. When the underlying aiohttp ClientSession is
closed (e.g. after a network blip), slack_sdk gets stuck retrying
"Session is closed" while is_connected() can still report healthy and the
receiver task stays alive — so the watchdog never fires and the process is
alive but deaf to Slack indefinitely.
Add a ping/pong staleness probe: Slack sends a ping roughly every
ping_interval seconds even on an idle socket, so a stale/missing
last_ping_pong_time (past a first-ping grace window) is a reliable signal
the transport is wedged. The watchdog now also reconnects on staleness,
which rebuilds the handler with a fresh session. Guards non-numeric
attributes so a mocked/partial client never triggers a spurious reconnect.
7 new tests; full test_slack.py (216) green.
SocketModeClient.connect() is a "while True" retry loop that never checks
the client's closed flag, so anything still inside it when the shared
aiohttp session is closed keeps retrying against a session that can never
work again. That is the "Failed to connect (error: Session is closed);
Retrying..." spam in #46990, at a steady ping_interval cadence that only
a process restart clears.
_stop_socket_mode_handler closed the handler first and cancelled
afterwards, which loses the race. close_async() closes that shared
session, and three things can be inside connect() when it does: our own
start_async task, monitor_current_session() (on staleness) and
receive_messages() (on a CLOSE frame), the latter two reaching it
independently through connect_to_new_endpoint(). connect() also rebinds
current_session_monitor and message_receiver to fresh tasks when it
succeeds, so the set of live tasks changes across the awaits inside
close(). Cancelling from a snapshot taken partway through races a moving
target rather than closing the window.
So cancel all four before close_async() instead. With nothing left alive
to enter connect(), no rebinding can happen during teardown and the
window cannot open at all. The client's task attributes are read with
getattr so a rename inside the SDK degrades to a no-op instead of raising
during shutdown, and the wait is asyncio.wait with a timeout rather than
an unbounded await, so a task wedged in a network call cannot hold up
shutdown.
The underlying SDK defect is tracked at slackapi/python-slack-sdk#1913.
This replaces the earlier version of this change, which added a closed
session check when building a handler and another in the watchdog. Both
are unnecessary once teardown stops leaking tasks: each
AsyncSocketModeHandler builds its own SocketModeClient with a fresh
ClientSession, so a new handler cannot inherit a closed session, and the
current handler's session is only closed by the teardown path itself.
Dropping the watchdog check also keeps this off the ping/pong staleness
trigger proposed in #52923, which addresses a wedged live connection
rather than a leaked one.
Fixes#46990
A platform with a missing dependency or missing credentials can never
succeed on retry, but connect() returned bare False, so the gateway
treated the failure as transient and queued it for background
reconnection — looping forever at the backoff cap. Set
_set_fatal_error(..., retryable=False) for missing-dependency and
missing-credential failures in the Slack, Telegram, and Discord
adapters so the reconnect watcher drops them from the retry queue.
Salvaged from PR #31057 by @dskwe (reapplied onto the plugin-migrated
adapter paths). Fixes#31049.
Missing SLACK_BOT_TOKEN / SLACK_APP_TOKEN is a permanent configuration
error, not a transient outage. Without a fatal-error marker the gateway
queued Slack for background reconnection and looped forever (#66696).
Set _set_fatal_error(..., retryable=False) so the reconnect watcher
drops it from the retry queue, and point the log/error text at
`hermes gateway setup` / the profile's ~/.hermes/.env.
Salvaged from PR #66720 by @x7peeps. Fixes#66696.
Gateway-level regression coverage for #62034 on top of the
clarify_gateway prose-rejection fix: drives GatewayRunner
._handle_message with a pending native multi-choice clarify and proves
- arbitrary thread prose is NOT swallowed (falls through the clarify
text-intercept and continues as a normal turn),
- typed numeric selections and exact choice labels still resolve,
- 'Other' text-capture mode and open-ended clarifies still accept
free text.
Incident analysis and repro by @brandician (#62034).
The adapter's send_clarify IS the user-facing rendering of a clarify
prompt (interactive buttons, or the numbered-text fallback). The
gateway's tool-progress callback additionally rendered a progress
bubble for the clarify tool.started event — in verbose mode that
bubble contains the raw tool-call args JSON
({"question": ..., "choices": [...]}), and because the progress
queue drains on a background task, the JSON landed right underneath
the rendered interactive prompt on Slack.
Skip clarify in the progress callback entirely: the prompt rendering
already covers every mode, so a progress line is pure duplication at
best and a raw-JSON leak at worst.
Regression test proves no clarify progress content (raw JSON, verb
line, or question text) reaches the chat in verbose or all modes,
while unrelated tools still render progress normally.
Reported by @alexgrama-dev.
Fixes#52374
