Three independent fixes batched together:
1. hermes auth add crashes on non-interactive stdin (#10468)
input() for the label prompt was called without checking isatty().
In scripted/CI environments this raised EOFError. Fix: check
sys.stdin.isatty() and fall back to the computed default label.
2. Subcommand help prints twice (#10230)
'hermes dashboard -h' printed help text twice because the
SystemExit(0) from argparse was caught by the fallback retry
logic, which re-parsed and printed help again. Fix: re-raise
SystemExit with code 0 (help/version) immediately.
3. Duplicate entries in /model picker (#10526, #9545)
- Kimi showed 2x because kimi-coding and kimi-coding-cn both
mapped to the same models.dev ID. Fix: track seen mdev_ids
and skip aliases.
- Providers could show 2-3x from case-variant slugs across the
four loading paths. Fix: normalize all seen_slugs membership
checks and insertions to lowercase.
Closes#10468, #10230, #10526, #9545
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
Extract resolve_channel_prompt() shared helper into
gateway/platforms/base.py. Refactor Discord to use it.
Wire channel_prompts into Telegram (groups + forum topics),
Slack (channels), and Mattermost (channels).
Config bridging now applies to all platforms (not just Discord).
Added channel_prompts defaults to telegram/slack/mattermost
config sections.
Docs added to all four platform pages with platform-specific
examples (topic inheritance for Telegram, channel IDs for Slack,
etc.).
OpenCode Go does not expose a shared /models endpoint, so the doctor
probe was always failing and producing a false warning. Set the default
URL to None and disable the health check for this provider.
Both /queue and /quit registered 'q' as an alias. Since /quit appeared
later in COMMAND_REGISTRY, _build_command_lookup() silently overwrote
/queue's claim, making the documented /queue shorthand unusable.
Fix: remove 'q' from /quit's aliases. /quit already has 'exit' as an
alias plus the full '/quit' command. /queue has no other short alias.
Closes#10467
Route kimi-coding-cn through _resolve_kimi_base_url() in both
get_api_key_provider_status() and resolve_api_key_provider_credentials()
so CN users with sk-kimi- prefixed keys get auto-detected to the Kimi
Coding Plan endpoint, matching the existing behavior for kimi-coding.
Also update the kimi-coding display label to accurately reflect the
dual-endpoint setup (Kimi Coding Plan + Moonshot API).
Salvaged from PR #10525 by kkikione999.
Memory provider discovery (discover_memory_providers, load_memory_provider)
only scanned the bundled plugins/memory/ directory. User-installed providers
at $HERMES_HOME/plugins/<name>/ were invisible, forcing users to symlink
into the repo source tree — which broke on hermes update and created a
dual-registration path causing duplicate tool names (400 errors on strict
providers like Xiaomi MiMo).
Changes:
- Add _get_user_plugins_dir(), _is_memory_provider_dir(), _iter_provider_dirs(),
and find_provider_dir() helpers to plugins/memory/__init__.py
- discover_memory_providers() now scans both bundled and user dirs
- load_memory_provider() uses find_provider_dir() (bundled-first)
- discover_plugin_cli_commands() uses find_provider_dir()
- _install_dependencies() in memory_setup.py uses find_provider_dir()
- User plugins use _hermes_user_memory namespace to avoid sys.modules collisions
- Non-memory user plugins filtered via source text heuristic
- Bundled providers always take precedence on name collisions
Fixes#4956, #9099. Supersedes #4987, #9123, #9130, #9132, #9982.
- Pastes uploaded by /debug now auto-delete after 1 hour via a detached
background process that sends DELETE to paste.rs
- CLI: shows privacy notice listing what data will be uploaded
- Gateway: only uploads summary report (system info + log tails), NOT
full log files containing conversation content
- Added 'hermes debug delete <url>' for immediate manual deletion
- 16 new tests covering auto-delete scheduling, paste deletion, privacy
notices, and the delete subcommand
Addresses user privacy concern where /debug uploaded full conversation
logs to a public paste service with no warning or expiry.
hermes doctor now checks whether the ~/.local/bin/hermes symlink exists
and points to the correct venv entry point. With --fix, it creates or
repairs the symlink automatically.
Covers:
- Missing symlink at ~/.local/bin/hermes (or $PREFIX/bin on Termux)
- Symlink pointing to wrong target
- Missing venv entry point (venv/bin/hermes or .venv/bin/hermes)
- PATH warning when ~/.local/bin is not on PATH
- Skipped on Windows (different mechanism)
Addresses user report: 'python -m hermes_cli.main doesn't have an option
to fix the local bin/install'
10 new tests covering all scenarios.
On some Python versions, argparse fails to route subcommand tokens when
the parent parser has nargs='?' optional arguments (--continue). The
symptom: 'hermes model' produces 'unrecognized arguments: model' even
though 'model' is a registered subcommand.
Fix: when argv contains a token matching a known subcommand, set
subparsers.required=True to force deterministic routing. If that fails
(e.g. 'hermes -c model' where 'model' is consumed as the session name
for --continue), fall back to the default optional-subparsers behaviour.
Adds 13 tests covering all key argument combinations.
Reported via user screenshot showing the exact error on an installed
version with the model subcommand listed in usage but rejected at parse
time.
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.
API keys containing Unicode lookalike characters (e.g. ʋ U+028B instead
of v) cause UnicodeEncodeError when httpx encodes the Authorization
header as ASCII. This commonly happens when users copy-paste keys from
PDFs, rich-text editors, or web pages with decorative fonts.
Three layers of defense:
1. **Save-time validation** (hermes_cli/config.py):
_check_non_ascii_credential() strips non-ASCII from credential values
when saving to .env, with a clear warning explaining the issue.
2. **Load-time sanitization** (hermes_cli/env_loader.py):
_sanitize_loaded_credentials() strips non-ASCII from credential env
vars (those ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY) after dotenv
loads them, so the rest of the codebase never sees non-ASCII keys.
3. **Runtime recovery** (run_agent.py):
The UnicodeEncodeError recovery block now also sanitizes self.api_key
and self._client_kwargs['api_key'], fixing the gap where message/tool
sanitization succeeded but the API key still caused httpx to fail on
the Authorization header.
Also: hermes_logging.py RotatingFileHandler now explicitly sets
encoding='utf-8' instead of relying on locale default (defensive
hardening for ASCII-locale systems).
PR #9467 added a call to self._fuzzy_file_completions() inside
_context_completions(), but the method was still decorated with
@staticmethod and didn't receive self. Every @ mention in the input
triggers 'name self is not defined' from prompt_toolkit's async
completer, spamming the error on every keystroke.
Fix: remove @staticmethod, add self parameter. The method already uses
self._fuzzy_file_completions() and self._get_project_files() via that
call chain, so it was never meant to stay static after the fuzzy search
feature was added.
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
New users don't know which tool providers to pick during setup.
Add [badge] labels to each provider in the selection menu:
- [★ recommended · free] for best default choices (Edge TTS, Local Browser)
- [★ recommended] for top-tier paid options (Firecrawl Cloud)
- [paid] for options requiring an API key
- [free tier] for services with a free tier (Tavily)
- [free · self-hosted] / [free · local] for self-run options
- [subscription] for Nous subscription-managed options
Also improves vague tag descriptions — e.g. 'AI-native search and
contents' becomes 'Neural search with semantic understanding' and
Tavily gets '1000 free searches/mo'.
Both hermes setup and hermes tools share the same rendering path,
so badges appear in both flows.
Addresses user feedback about setup being confusing for newcomers.
Instead of consuming one top-level slash command slot per skill (hitting the
100-command limit with ~26 built-ins + 74 skills), skills are now organized
under a single /skill group command with category-based subcommand groups:
/skill creative ascii-art [args]
/skill media gif-search [args]
/skill mlops axolotl [args]
Discord supports 25 subcommand groups × 25 subcommands = 625 max skills,
well beyond the previous 74-slot ceiling.
Categories are derived from the skill directory structure:
- skills/creative/ascii-art/ → category 'creative'
- skills/mlops/training/axolotl/ → category 'mlops' (top-level parent)
- skills/dogfood/ → uncategorized (direct subcommand)
Changes:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: add discord_skill_commands_by_category() with
category grouping, hub/disabled filtering, Discord limit enforcement
- gateway/platforms/discord.py: replace top-level skill registration with
_register_skill_group() using app_commands.Group hierarchy
- tests: 7 new tests covering group creation, category grouping,
uncategorized skills, hub exclusion, deep nesting, empty skills,
and handler dispatch
Inspired by Discord community suggestion from bottium.
- Add glm-5v-turbo to OpenRouter, Nous, and native Z.AI model lists
- Add glm-5v context length entry (200K tokens) to model metadata
- Update Z.AI endpoint probe to try multiple candidate models per
endpoint (glm-5.1, glm-5v-turbo, glm-4.7) — fixes detection for
newer coding plan accounts that lack older models
- Add zai to _PROVIDER_VISION_MODELS so auxiliary vision tasks
(vision_analyze, browser screenshots) route through 5v
Fixes#9888
- Add ESC key binding (eager) for secret_state and sudo_state modal
prompts — fires immediately, same behavior as Ctrl+C cancel
- Update placeholder text: 'Enter to submit · ESC to skip' (was
'Enter to skip' which was confusing — Enter on empty looked like
submitting nothing rather than intentionally skipping)
- Update widget body text: 'ESC or Ctrl+C to skip'
- Change feedback message from 'Secret entry cancelled' to 'Secret
entry skipped' — more accurate for the action taken
- getpass fallback prompt also updated for non-TUI mode
When the gateway responds to the health probe but the local
gateway_state.json has a stale 'stopped' state (common in cross-container
setups where the file was written before the gateway restarted), the
dashboard would show 'Running (remote)' but with a 'Stopped' badge.
Now if the HTTP probe succeeded (remote_health_body is not None) and
gateway_state is 'stopped' or None, override it to 'running'. Also
handles the no-shared-volume case where runtime is None entirely.
The probe was appending '/detailed' to whatever URL was provided,
so GATEWAY_HEALTH_URL=http://host:8642 would try /8642/detailed
and /8642 — neither of which are valid routes.
Now strips any trailing /health or /health/detailed from the env var
and always probes {base}/health/detailed then {base}/health.
Accepts bare base URL, /health, or /health/detailed forms.
The dashboard's gateway status detection relied solely on local PID checks
(os.kill + /proc), which fails when the gateway runs in a separate container.
Changes:
- web_server.py: Add _probe_gateway_health() that queries the gateway's HTTP
/health/detailed endpoint when the local PID check fails. Activated by
setting the GATEWAY_HEALTH_URL env var (e.g. http://gateway:8642/health).
Falls back to standard PID check when the env var is not set.
- api_server.py: Add GET /health/detailed endpoint that returns full gateway
state (platforms, gateway_state, active_agents, pid, etc.) without auth.
The existing GET /health remains unchanged for backwards compatibility.
- StatusPage.tsx: Handle the case where gateway_pid is null but the gateway
is running remotely, displaying 'Running (remote)' instead of 'PID null'.
Environment variables:
- GATEWAY_HEALTH_URL: URL of the gateway health endpoint (e.g.
http://gateway-container:8642/health). Unset = local PID check only.
- GATEWAY_HEALTH_TIMEOUT: Probe timeout in seconds (default: 3).
Three fixes for gateway lifecycle stability:
1. Notify active sessions before shutdown (#new)
When the gateway receives SIGTERM or /restart, it now sends a
notification to every chat with an active agent BEFORE starting
the drain. Users see:
- Shutdown: 'Gateway shutting down — your task will be interrupted.'
- Restart: 'Gateway restarting — use /retry after restart to continue.'
Deduplicates per-chat so group sessions with multiple users get
one notification. Best-effort: send failures are logged and swallowed.
2. Skip .clean_shutdown marker when drain timed out
Previously, a graceful SIGTERM always wrote .clean_shutdown, even if
agents were force-interrupted when the drain timed out. This meant
the next startup skipped session suspension, leaving interrupted
sessions in a broken state (trailing tool response, no final message).
Now the marker is only written if the drain completed without timeout,
so interrupted sessions get properly suspended on next startup.
3. Post-restart health check for hermes update (#6631)
cmd_update() now verifies the gateway actually survived after
systemctl restart (sleep 3s + is-active check). If the service
crashed immediately, it retries once. If still dead, prints
actionable diagnostics (journalctl command, manual restart hint).
Also closes#8104 — already fixed on main (the /restart handler
correctly detects systemd via INVOCATION_ID and uses via_service=True).
Test plan:
- 6 new tests for shutdown notifications (dedup, restart vs shutdown
messaging, sentinel filtering, send failure resilience)
- Existing restart drain + update tests pass (47 total)
Addresses responsible disclosure from FuzzMind Security Lab (CVE pending).
The web dashboard API server had 36 endpoints, of which only 5 checked
the session token. The token itself was served from an unauthenticated
GET /api/auth/session-token endpoint, rendering the protection circular.
When bound to 0.0.0.0 (--host flag), all API keys, config, and cron
management were accessible to any machine on the network.
Changes:
- Add auth middleware requiring session token on ALL /api/ routes except
a small public whitelist (status, config/defaults, config/schema,
model/info)
- Remove GET /api/auth/session-token endpoint entirely; inject the token
into index.html via a <script> tag at serve time instead
- Replace all inline token comparisons (!=) with hmac.compare_digest()
to prevent timing side-channel attacks
- Block non-localhost binding by default; require --insecure flag to
override (with warning log)
- Update frontend fetchJSON() to send Authorization header on all
requests using the injected window.__HERMES_SESSION_TOKEN__
Credit: Callum (@0xca1x) and @migraine-sudo at FuzzMind Security Lab
When GATEWAY_PROXY_URL (or gateway.proxy_url in config.yaml) is set,
the gateway becomes a thin relay: it handles platform I/O (encryption,
threading, media) and delegates all agent work to a remote Hermes API
server via POST /v1/chat/completions with SSE streaming.
This enables the primary use case of running a Matrix E2EE gateway in
Docker on Linux while the actual agent runs on the host (e.g. macOS)
with full access to local files, memory, skills, and a unified session
store. Works for any platform adapter, not just Matrix.
Configuration:
- GATEWAY_PROXY_URL env var (Docker-friendly)
- gateway.proxy_url in config.yaml
- GATEWAY_PROXY_KEY env var for API auth (matches API_SERVER_KEY)
- X-Hermes-Session-Id header for session continuity
Architecture:
- _get_proxy_url() checks env var first, then config.yaml
- _run_agent_via_proxy() handles HTTP forwarding with SSE streaming
- _run_agent() delegates to proxy path when URL is configured
- Platform streaming (GatewayStreamConsumer) works through proxy
- Returns compatible result dict for session store recording
Files changed:
- gateway/run.py: proxy mode implementation (~250 lines)
- hermes_cli/config.py: GATEWAY_PROXY_URL + GATEWAY_PROXY_KEY env vars
- tests/gateway/test_proxy_mode.py: 17 tests covering config
resolution, dispatch, HTTP forwarding, error handling, message
filtering, and result shape validation
Closes discussion from Cars29 re: Matrix gateway mixed-mode issue.
Critical bug fixes only (no redundant changes):
1. **Write non-secret fields to .env** - Add non-secret fields with env_var to env_writes so they get saved to .env
2. **Status checks all fields** - Check all fields with env_var (both secret and non-secret), not just secrets
Fixes:
- OPENVIKING_ENDPOINT and similar non-secret env vars now get written to .env
- hermes memory status now shows ALL missing required fields
The dynamic parser walker from the contributor's commit lost the profile
name tab-completion that existed in the old static generators. This adds
it back for all three shells:
- Bash: _hermes_profiles() helper, -p/--profile completion, profile
action→name completion (use/delete/show/alias/rename/export)
- Zsh: _hermes_profiles() function, -p/--profile argument spec, profile
action case with name completion
- Fish: __hermes_profiles function, -s p -l profile flag, profile action
completions
Also removes the dead fallback path in cmd_completion() that imported
the old static generators from profiles.py (parser is always available
via the lambda wiring) and adds 11 regression-prevention tests for
profile completion.
Replaces the hardcoded completion stubs in profiles.py with a dynamic
generator that walks the live argparse parser tree at runtime.
- New hermes_cli/completion.py: _walk() recursively extracts all
subcommands and flags; generate_bash/zsh/fish() produce complete
scripts with nested subcommand support
- cmd_completion now accepts the parser via closure so completions
always reflect the actual registered commands (including plugin-
registered ones like honcho)
- completion subcommand now accepts bash | zsh | fish (fish requested
in issue comments)
- Fix _SUBCOMMANDS set: add honcho, claw, plugins, acp, webhook,
memory, dump, debug, backup, import, completion, logs so that
multi-word session names after -c/-r are not broken by these commands
- Add tests/hermes_cli/test_completion.py: 17 tests covering parser
extraction, alias deduplication, bash/zsh/fish output content,
bash syntax validation, fish syntax validation, and subcommand
drift prevention
Tested on Linux (Arch). bash and fish completion verified live.
zsh script passes syntax check (zsh not installed on test machine).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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).
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)
- Add Platform.QQBOT to _UPDATE_ALLOWED_PLATFORMS (enables /update command)
- Add 'qqbot' to webhook cross-platform delivery routing
- Add 'qqbot' to hermes dump platform detection
- Fix test_name_property casing: 'QQBot' not 'QQBOT'
- Add _parse_qq_timestamp() for ISO 8601 + integer ms compatibility
(QQ API changed timestamp format — from PR #2411 finding)
- Wire timestamp parsing into all 4 message handlers
- 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
