cmd_update no longer SIGKILLs in-flight agent runs, and users get
'still working' status every 3 min instead of 10. Two long-standing
sources of '@user — agent gives up mid-task' reports on Telegram and
other gateways.
Drain-aware update:
- New helper hermes_cli.gateway._graceful_restart_via_sigusr1(pid,
drain_timeout) sends SIGUSR1 to the gateway and polls os.kill(pid,
0) until the process exits or the budget expires.
- cmd_update's systemd loop now reads MainPID via 'systemctl show
--property=MainPID --value' and tries the graceful path first. The
gateway's existing SIGUSR1 handler -> request_restart(via_service=
True) -> drain -> exit(75) is wired in gateway/run.py and is
respawned by systemd's Restart=on-failure (and the explicit
RestartForceExitStatus=75 on newer units).
- Falls back to 'systemctl restart' when MainPID is unknown, the
drain budget elapses, or the unit doesn't respawn after exit (older
units missing Restart=on-failure). Old install behavior preserved.
- Drain budget = max(restart_drain_timeout, 30s) + 15s margin so the
drain loop in run_agent + final exit have room before fallback
fires. Composes with #14728's tool-subprocess reaping.
Notification interval:
- agent.gateway_notify_interval default 600 -> 180.
- HERMES_AGENT_NOTIFY_INTERVAL env-var fallback in gateway/run.py
matched.
- 9-minute weak-model spinning runs now ping at 3 min and 6 min
instead of 27 seconds before completion, removing the 'is the bot
dead?' reflex that drives gateway-restart cycles.
Tests:
- Two new tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_update_gateway_restart.py:
one asserts SIGUSR1 is sent and 'systemctl restart' is NOT called
when MainPID is known and the helper succeeds; one asserts the
fallback fires when the helper returns False.
- E2E: spawned detached bash processes confirm the helper returns
True on SIGUSR1-handling exit (~0.5s) and False on SIGUSR1-ignoring
processes (timeout). Verified non-existent PID and pid=0 edge cases.
- 41/41 in test_update_gateway_restart.py (was 39, +2 new).
- 154/154 in shutdown-related suites including #14728's new tests.
Reported by @GeoffWellman and @ANT_1515 on X.
Closes#8202.
Root cause: stop() reclaimed tool-call bash/sleep children only at the
very end of the shutdown sequence — after a 60s drain, 5s interrupt
grace, and per-adapter disconnect. Under systemd (TimeoutStopSec bounded
by drain_timeout), that meant the cgroup SIGKILL escalation fired first,
and systemd reaped the bash/sleep children instead of us.
Fix:
- Extract tool-subprocess cleanup into a local helper
_kill_tool_subprocesses() in _stop_impl().
- Invoke it eagerly right after _interrupt_running_agents() on the
drain-timeout path, before adapter disconnect.
- Keep the existing catch-all call at the end for the graceful path
and defense in depth against mid-teardown respawns.
- Bump generated systemd unit TimeoutStopSec to drain_timeout + 30s
so cleanup + disconnect + DB close has headroom above the drain
budget, matching the 'subprocess timeout > TimeoutStopSec + margin'
rule from the skill.
Tests:
- New: test_gateway_stop_kills_tool_subprocesses_before_adapter_disconnect_on_timeout
asserts kill_all() runs before disconnect() when drain times out.
- New: test_gateway_stop_kills_tool_subprocesses_on_graceful_path
guards that the final catch-all still fires when drain succeeds
(regression guard against accidental removal during refactor).
- Updated: existing systemd unit generator tests expect TimeoutStopSec=90
(= 60s drain + 30s headroom) with explanatory comment.
On fresh RHEL/Debian SSH sessions without linger, `systemctl --user
start hermes-gateway` fails with 'Failed to connect to bus: No medium
found' because /run/user/$UID/bus doesn't exist. Setup previously
showed a raw CalledProcessError and continued claiming success, so the
gateway never actually started.
systemd_start() and systemd_restart() now call _preflight_user_systemd()
for the user scope first:
- Bus socket already there → no-op (desktop / linger-enabled servers)
- Linger off → try loginctl enable-linger (works when polkit permits,
needs sudo otherwise), wait for socket
- Still unreachable → raise UserSystemdUnavailableError with a clean
remediation message pointing to sudo loginctl + hermes gateway run
as the foreground fallback
Setup's start/restart handlers and gateway_command() catch the new
exception and render the multi-line guidance instead of a traceback.
- Replace async create_bind_task/poll_bind_result with synchronous
httpx.Client equivalents, eliminating manual event loop management
- Move _render_qr and full qr_register() entry-point into onboard.py,
mirroring the Feishu onboarding pattern
- Remove _qqbot_render_qr and _qqbot_qr_flow from gateway.py (~90 lines);
call site becomes a single qr_register() import
- Fix potential segfault: previous code called loop.close() in the EXPIRED
branch and again in the finally block (double-close crashed under uvloop)
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.
* fix(gateway): detect legacy hermes.service units from pre-rename installs
Older Hermes installs used a different service name (hermes.service) before
the rename to hermes-gateway.service. When both units remain installed, they
fight over the same bot token — after PR #5646's signal-recovery change,
this manifests as a 30-second SIGTERM flap loop between the two services.
Detection is an explicit allowlist (no globbing) plus an ExecStart content
check, so profile units (hermes-gateway-<profile>.service) and unrelated
third-party services named 'hermes' are never matched.
Wired into systemd_install, systemd_status, gateway_setup wizard, and the
main hermes setup flow — anywhere we already warn about scope conflicts now
also warns about legacy units.
* feat(gateway): add migrate-legacy command + install-time removal prompt
- New hermes_cli.gateway.remove_legacy_hermes_units() removes legacy
unit files with stop → disable → unlink → daemon-reload. Handles user
and system scopes separately; system scope returns path list when not
running as root so the caller can tell the user to re-run with sudo.
- New 'hermes gateway migrate-legacy' subcommand (with --dry-run and -y)
routes to remove_legacy_hermes_units via gateway_command dispatch.
- systemd_install now offers to remove legacy units BEFORE installing
the new hermes-gateway.service, preventing the SIGTERM flap loop that
hits users who still have pre-rename hermes.service around.
Profile units (hermes-gateway-<profile>.service) remain untouched in
all paths — the legacy allowlist is explicit (_LEGACY_SERVICE_NAMES)
and the ExecStart content check further narrows matches.
* fix(gateway): mark --replace SIGTERM as planned so target exits 0
PR #5646 made SIGTERM exit the gateway with code 1 so systemd's
Restart=on-failure revives it after unexpected kills. But when a user has
two gateway units fighting for the same bot token (e.g. legacy
hermes.service + hermes-gateway.service from a pre-rename install), the
--replace takeover itself becomes the 'unexpected' SIGTERM — the loser
exits 1, systemd revives it 30s later, and the cycle flaps indefinitely.
Before calling terminate_pid(), --replace now writes a short-lived marker
file naming the target PID + start_time. The target's shutdown_signal_handler
consumes the marker and, when it names this process, leaves
_signal_initiated_shutdown=False so the final exit code stays 0.
Staleness defences:
- PID + start_time combo prevents PID reuse matching an old marker
- Marker older than 60s is treated as stale and discarded
- Marker is unlinked on first read even if it doesn't match this process
- Replacer clears the marker post-loop + on permission-denied give-up
- feat: support one-click QR scan to create DingTalk bot and establish connection
- fix(gateway): wrap blocking DingTalkStreamClient.start() with asyncio.to_thread()
- fix(gateway): extract message fields from CallbackMessage payload instead of ChatbotMessage
- fix(gateway): add oapi.dingtalk.com to allowed webhook URL domains
procps-ng 4.0.4 in Docker rejects BSD-style 'ps eww -ax' with a
'must set personality' error, causing find_gateway_pids() to return
empty and falsely report the gateway as not running.
Fix: replace 'ps eww -ax' with 'ps -A eww'. -A is the POSIX
equivalent of BSD -ax (select all processes), and the eww modifiers
(show environment + wide output) still work as BSD flags alongside
the POSIX -A flag. This preserves the HERMES_HOME= environment
visibility needed for profile-aware PID matching.
Closes#9723
Three independent fixes:
1. Reset activity timestamp on cached agent reuse (#9051)
When the gateway reuses a cached AIAgent for a new turn, the
_last_activity_ts from the previous turn (possibly hours ago)
carried over. The inactivity timeout handler immediately saw
the agent as idle for hours and killed it.
Fix: reset _last_activity_ts, _last_activity_desc, and
_api_call_count when retrieving an agent from the cache.
2. Detect uv-managed virtual environments (#8620 sub-issue 1)
The systemd unit generator fell back to sys.executable (uv's
standalone Python) when running under 'uv run', because
sys.prefix == sys.base_prefix (uv doesn't set up traditional
venv activation). The generated ExecStart pointed to a Python
binary without site-packages, crashing the service on startup.
Fix: check VIRTUAL_ENV env var before falling back to
sys.executable. uv sets VIRTUAL_ENV even when sys.prefix
doesn't reflect the venv.
3. Nudge model to continue after empty post-tool response (#9400)
Weaker models (GLM-5, mimo-v2-pro) sometimes return empty
responses after tool calls instead of continuing to the next
step. The agent silently abandoned the remaining work with
'(empty)' or used prior-turn fallback text.
Fix: when the model returns empty after tool calls AND there's
no prior-turn content to fall back on, inject a one-time user
nudge message telling the model to process the tool results and
continue. The flag resets after each successful tool round so it
can fire again on later rounds.
Test plan: 97 gateway + CLI tests pass, 9 venv detection tests pass
- gateway start --all: kills all stale gateway processes across all
profiles before starting the current profile's service
- gateway restart --all: stops all gateway processes across all
profiles, then starts the current profile's service fresh
- gateway stop --all: already existed, unchanged
The --all flag was only available on 'stop' but not on 'start' or
'restart', causing 'unrecognized arguments' errors for users.
Previously, systemd_restart() sent SIGUSR1 to the gateway, printed
'restart requested', and returned immediately. The gateway still
needed to drain active agents, exit with code 75, wait for systemd's
RestartSec=30, and start the new process. The user saw 'success' but
the gateway was actually down for 30-60 seconds.
Now the SIGUSR1 path blocks with progress feedback:
Phase 1 — wait for old process to die:
⏳ User service draining active work...
Polls os.kill(pid, 0) until ProcessLookupError (up to 90s)
Phase 2 — wait for new process to become active:
⏳ Waiting for hermes-gateway to restart...
Polls systemctl is-active + verifies new PID (up to 60s)
Success:
✓ User service restarted (PID 12345)
Timeout:
⚠ User service did not become active within 60s.
Check status: hermes gateway status
Check logs: journalctl --user -u hermes-gateway --since '2 min ago'
The reload-or-restart fallback path (line 1189) already blocks because
systemctl reload-or-restart is synchronous.
Test plan:
- Updated test to verify wait-for-restart behavior
- All 118 gateway CLI tests pass
- 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
_remap_path_for_user was calling .resolve() on the Python path, which
followed venv/bin/python into the base interpreter. On uv-managed venvs
this swaps the systemd ExecStart to a bare Python that has none of the
venv's site-packages, so the service crashes on first import. Classical
python -m venv installs were unaffected by accident: the resolved target
/usr/bin/python3.x lives outside $HOME so the path-remap branch was
skipped and the system Python's packages silently worked.
Remove .resolve() calls on both current_home and the path; use
.expanduser() for lexical tilde expansion only. The function does
lexical prefix substitution, which is all it needs to do for its
actual purpose (remapping /root/.hermes -> /home/<user>/.hermes when
installing system services as root for a different user).
Repro: on a uv-managed venv install, `sudo hermes gateway install
--system` writes ExecStart=.../uv/python/cpython-3.11.15-.../bin/python3.11
instead of .../hermes-agent/venv/bin/python, and the service crashes on
ModuleNotFoundError: yaml.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
- Remove duplicate _setup_feishu() definition (old 3-line version left
behind by cherry-pick — Python picked the new one but dead code
remained)
- Remove misleading 'Disable direct messages' DM option — the Feishu
adapter has no DM policy mechanism, so 'disable' produced identical
env vars to 'pairing'. Users who chose 'disable' would still see
pairing prompts. Reduced to 3 options: pairing, allow-all, allowlist.
- Fix test_probe_returns_bot_info_on_success and
test_probe_returns_none_on_failure: patch FEISHU_AVAILABLE=True so
probe_bot() takes the SDK path when lark_oapi is not installed
Add a second WeCom integration mode for regular enterprise self-built
applications. Unlike the existing bot/websocket adapter (wecom.py),
this handles WeCom's standard callback flow: WeCom POSTs encrypted XML
to an HTTP endpoint, the adapter decrypts, queues for the agent, and
immediately acknowledges. The agent's reply is delivered proactively
via the message/send API.
Key design choice: always acknowledge immediately and use proactive
send — agent sessions take 3-30 minutes, so the 5-second inline reply
window is never useful. The original PR's Future/pending-reply
machinery was removed in favour of this simpler architecture.
Features:
- AES-CBC encrypt/decrypt (BizMsgCrypt-compatible)
- Multi-app routing scoped by corp_id:user_id
- Legacy bare user_id fallback for backward compat
- Access-token management with auto-refresh
- WECOM_CALLBACK_* env var overrides
- Port-in-use pre-check before binding
- Health endpoint at /health
Salvaged from PR #7774 by @chqchshj. Simplified by removing the
inline reply Future system and fixing: secrets.choice for nonce
generation, immediate plain-text acknowledgment (not encrypted XML
containing 'success'), and initial token refresh error handling.
Wire Signal, Email, SMS (Twilio), DingTalk, Feishu/Lark, and WeCom into
the hermes setup gateway interactive wizard. These platforms all had
working adapters and _PLATFORMS entries in gateway.py but were invisible
in the setup checklist — users had to manually edit .env to configure them.
Changes:
- gateway.py: Add _setup_email/sms/dingtalk/feishu/wecom functions
delegating to _setup_standard_platform (Signal already had a custom one)
- setup.py: Add wrapper functions for all 6 new platforms
- setup.py: Add all 6 to _GATEWAY_PLATFORMS checklist registry
- setup.py: Add missing env vars to any_messaging check
- setup.py: Add all missing platforms to _get_section_config_summary
(was also missing Matrix, Mattermost, Weixin, Webhooks)
- docs: Add FEISHU_ALLOWED_USERS and WECOM_ALLOWED_USERS examples
Incorporates and extends the work from PR #7918 by bugmaker2.
- add all_profiles=False to find_gateway_pids() and
kill_gateway_processes() so hermes update and gateway stop --all
can still discover processes across all profiles
- narrow bare 'except Exception' to (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired)
- update test mocks to match new signatures
Translate all nio SDK calls to mautrix equivalents while preserving the
adapter structure, business logic, and all features (E2EE, reactions,
threading, mention gating, text batching, media caching, voice MSC3245).
Key changes:
- nio.AsyncClient -> mautrix.client.Client + HTTPAPI + MemoryStateStore
- Manual E2EE key management -> OlmMachine with auto key lifecycle
- isinstance(resp, nio.XxxResponse) -> mautrix returns values directly
- add_event_callback per type -> single ROOM_MESSAGE handler with
msgtype dispatch
- Room state (member_count, display_name) via async state store lookups
- Upload/download return ContentURI/bytes directly (no wrapper objects)
- Add shared is_wsl() to hermes_constants (like is_termux)
- Update supports_systemd_services() to verify systemd is actually
running on WSL before returning True
- Add WSL-specific guidance in gateway install/start/setup/status
for both cases: WSL+systemd and WSL without systemd
- Improve help strings: 'run' now says recommended for WSL/Docker,
'start'/'install' now mention systemd/launchd explicitly
- Add WSL gateway FAQ section with tmux/nohup/Task Scheduler tips
- Update CLI commands docs with WSL tip
- Deduplicate _is_wsl() from clipboard.py to shared hermes_constants
- Fix clipboard tests to reset hermes_constants cache
- 20 new WSL-specific tests covering detection, systemd check,
supports_systemd_services integration, and command output
Motivated by user feedback: took 1 hour to figure out run vs start
on WSL, Telegram bot kept disconnecting due to flaky WSL systemd.
- Remove sys.path.insert hack (leftover from standalone dev)
- Add token lock (acquire_scoped_lock/release_scoped_lock) in
connect()/disconnect() to prevent duplicate pollers across profiles
- Fix get_connected_platforms: WEIXIN check must precede generic
token/api_key check (requires both token AND account_id)
- Add WEIXIN_HOME_CHANNEL_NAME to _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS
- Add gateway setup wizard with QR login flow
- Add platform status check for partially configured state
- Add weixin.md docs page with full adapter documentation
- Update environment-variables.md reference with all 11 env vars
- Update sidebars.ts to include weixin docs page
- Wire all gateway integration points onto current main
Salvaged from PR #6747 by Zihan Huang.
In Docker, HERMES_HOME=/opt/data (set in Dockerfile) and users mount
their .hermes directory to /opt/data. However, profile operations used
Path.home() / '.hermes' which resolves to /root/.hermes in Docker —
an ephemeral container path, not the mounted volume.
This caused:
- Profiles created at /root/.hermes/profiles/ (lost on container recreate)
- active_profile sticky file written to wrong location
- profile list looking at wrong directory
Fix: Add get_default_hermes_root() to hermes_constants.py that detects
Docker/custom deployments (HERMES_HOME outside ~/.hermes) and returns
HERMES_HOME as the root. Also handles Docker profiles correctly
(<root>/profiles/<name> → root is grandparent).
Files changed:
- hermes_constants.py: new get_default_hermes_root()
- hermes_cli/profiles.py: _get_default_hermes_home() delegates to shared fn
- hermes_cli/main.py: _apply_profile_override() + _invalidate_update_cache()
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: _profile_suffix() + _profile_arg()
- Tests: 12 new tests covering Docker scenarios
launchd_stop() previously used `launchctl kill SIGTERM` which only
signals the process. Because the plist has KeepAlive.SuccessfulExit=false,
launchd immediately respawns the gateway — making `hermes gateway stop`
a no-op that prints '✓ Service stopped' while the service keeps running.
Switch to `launchctl bootout` which unloads the service definition so
KeepAlive can't trigger. The process exits and stays stopped until
`hermes gateway start` (which already handles re-bootstrapping unloaded
jobs via error codes 3/113).
Also adds _wait_for_gateway_exit() after bootout to ensure the process
is fully gone before returning, and tolerates 'already unloaded' errors.
Fixes: .env changes not taking effect after gateway stop+restart on macOS.
The root cause was that stop didn't actually stop — the respawned process
loaded the old env before the user's restart command ran.
Automated dead code audit using vulture + coverage.py + ast-grep intersection,
confirmed by Opus deep verification pass. Every symbol verified to have zero
production callers (test imports excluded from reachability analysis).
Removes ~1,534 lines of dead production code across 46 files and ~1,382 lines
of stale test code. 3 entire files deleted (agent/builtin_memory_provider.py,
hermes_cli/checklist.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_setup_model_selection.py).
Co-authored-by: alt-glitch <balyan.sid@gmail.com>
When installing a system service via sudo, ExecStart, WorkingDirectory,
VIRTUAL_ENV, and PATH entries were not remapped to the target user's
home — only HERMES_HOME was. This caused the service to fail with
status=200/CHDIR because the target user cannot access /root/.
Adds _remap_path_for_user() helper and applies it to all path variables
in the system branch of generate_systemd_unit().
Closes#6989
Replace 6 identical copies of the Termux detection function across
cli.py, browser_tool.py, voice_mode.py, status.py, doctor.py, and
gateway.py with a single shared implementation in hermes_constants.py.
Each call site imports with its original local name to preserve all
existing callers (internal references and test monkeypatches).
generate_launchd_plist() and generate_systemd_unit() were missing the
--profile <name> argument in ProgramArguments/ExecStart, causing
hermes gateway start to regenerate plists that fell back to
~/.hermes/active_profile instead of the intended profile.
Fix:
- Add _profile_arg(hermes_home?) helper returning '--profile <name>'
only for ~/.hermes/profiles/<name> paths, empty string otherwise.
- Update generate_launchd_plist() to build ProgramArguments array
dynamically with --profile when applicable.
- Update generate_systemd_unit() both user and system service
branches with {profile_arg} in ExecStart.
This ensures hermes --profile <name> gateway start produces a
service definition that correctly scopes to the named profile.
signal-cli is not available via apt or snap. Replace the incorrect
'sudo apt install signal-cli' with the official install method:
downloading from GitHub releases (Linux) or brew (macOS).
Updated both signal.md docs and the gateway.py setup hint.
Inspired by PR #4225 (which proposed snap, also incorrect).
launchctl kickstart returns exit code 113 ("Could not find service") when
the plist exists but the job hasn't been bootstrapped into the runtime domain.
The existing recovery path only caught exit code 3 ("unloaded"), causing an
unhandled CalledProcessError.
Exit code 113 means the same thing practically -- the service definition needs
bootstrapping before it can be kicked. Add it to the same recovery path that
already handles exit 3, matching the existing pattern in launchd_stop().
Follow-up: add a unit test covering the 113 recovery path.
