The upstream cua-driver installer scripts on trycua/cua@main carry a
baked default version that Release Please bumps in the release PR
*before* the release assets are published. During that window an
unpinned installer run 404s on the asset download and the
`hermes update` cua-driver refresh fails with:
error: download failed: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
⚠ cua-driver refreshing did not complete. Re-run manually: ...
Observed live 2026-07-29: baked version 0.14.0 vs latest published
release 0.13.1 — every `hermes update` run with an out-of-date driver
hit the warning until upstream publishes the assets.
We already know the correct version: `cua-driver check-update --json`
returns `latest_version` straight from the GitHub Releases API, whose
entries by definition have published assets. When the check positively
confirms an update, export that version as CUA_DRIVER_RS_VERSION into
the installer child env (both install.sh and install.ps1 honour it over
their baked default), so the refresh downloads the release that
actually exists instead of racing the upstream release pipeline.
Malformed / missing latest_version values fall back to the previous
unpinned behaviour. The explicit `hermes computer-use install
--upgrade` force path and fresh installs are unchanged.
STT previously had no configuration surface outside hand-editing
config.yaml — no category in the hermes tools picker, no provider
matrix in the GUI capabilities tab, no status line in hermes setup.
- TOOL_CATEGORIES['stt']: 7 provider rows (Local Whisper, Nous
Subscription managed, OpenAI, Groq, xAI, ElevenLabs Scribe,
DeepInfra) with key prompts, badges, and post-setup hooks
- stt_provider marker wired through _write_provider_config,
_configure_provider, _reconfigure_provider, and
_is_provider_active — GUI and CLI share one write path
(apply_provider_selection)
- STT model picker (_configure_stt_model + STT_MODEL_CATALOG) runs
after provider pick: local sizes, Groq whisper family, OpenAI
whisper-1/gpt-4o-*/gpt-transcribe, ElevenLabs scribe (model_id key)
- faster_whisper post-setup hook auto-installs the local backend;
registered in _POST_SETUP_READY
- stt is CONFIG-ONLY (_CONFIG_ONLY_TOOLSETS): it ships no tool
schemas, so it is excluded from the per-platform enable checklist;
the GUI toolset toggle writes stt.enabled instead of
platform_toolsets
- hermes setup shows a Speech-to-Text status line per provider
- Mistral row omitted (mistralai PyPI quarantine), mirroring the
dashboard stt.provider options
Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_stt_picker.py (20 cases) incl. invariant
checks against agent.transcription_registry builtins and the runtime
OPENAI_MODELS/GROQ_MODELS sets.
Three GUI Capabilities-tab defects reported on Windows:
1. Browser rows stuck on 'Setup required' after a successful setup run.
Root causes, all in the readiness probe (not the installer):
- _has_agent_browser() never searched the Hermes-managed Node dir
(%LOCALAPPDATA%/hermes/node / $HERMES_HOME/node/bin) where the
Windows install lands, and probed node_modules/.bin/agent-browser
as the extensionless POSIX shim, which fails exec on Windows
(WinError 193) — now resolved via PATHEXT-aware shutil.which
against both rungs, mirroring _find_agent_browser().
- Cloud rows (Nous Subscription Browser Use, Browserbase, Browser
Use, Firecrawl) declared post_setup: agent_browser, whose
readiness gate requires a LOCAL Chromium build the cloud never
uses — switched to the cloud-scoped 'browserbase' hook (CLI-only).
- _agent_browser_installed() could read browser_tool's stale cached
'Chromium missing' result from before the install ran in the
spawned post-setup process — cache now dropped before probing so
the pill flips to Ready right after a successful run.
2. No way to tell which backend is active, and clicking a row to read
its details silently rewrote config. Row click now only
expands/collapses; activation is an explicit 'Use this backend'
button, the active row carries an 'Active' pill, and the expanded
active row says 'This is your active backend'.
3. OpenAI TTS showed one model and one voice. The options were always
defined but rendered through a native <datalist>, which filters by
the field's current value — a field already set to a valid option
suggested only itself. Replaced with a real combobox (Input +
dropdown) that lists every option, and voice suggestions now track
the selected model per the OpenAI TTS docs: tts-1/tts-1-hd = 9
voices, gpt-4o-mini-tts = 13 (adds ballad, verse, marin, cedar).
'Refreshing cua-driver (Computer Use)...' could hang for minutes on
Windows: when the driver's native check-update verb returned an
indeterminate result (old driver without the verb, offline, GitHub
rate-limited, or the probe timing out), install_cua_driver(upgrade=True)
fell through to the full upstream installer — a silent, output-captured
run with a 660s ceiling, plus install.ps1's 600s concurrency-lock wait
on Windows on top. Every 'hermes update' paid that cost.
Two changes:
- install_cua_driver() grows require_confirmed_update: with it set, an
indeterminate check keeps the installed version and returns fast,
printing the force path (hermes computer-use install --upgrade).
'hermes update' passes it; the explicit --upgrade CLI keeps the old
fall-through so a force refresh still works when the check can't
answer.
- cua_driver_update_check() default timeout is now 25s on Windows
(8s unchanged on POSIX): first-spawn of the exe under Defender /
SmartScreen routinely exceeds 8s, and a false timeout is exactly the
indeterminate result that used to trigger the multi-minute reinstall.
Adds build_aux_picker_rows() + format_aux_picker_entries() to
hermes_cli/inventory.py and converts both auxiliary-task pickers to them,
so custom providers, exclusions, and picker visibility can no longer be
dropped one call site at a time.
The two salvaged commits each fixed one kwarg at these same two sites
(user/custom providers, then for_picker). Both were per-site patches, so
the next aux picker would have reintroduced the gap. The seam makes the
correct behaviour the default a new caller cannot forget:
- user `providers:` and saved `custom_providers:` entries
- `model_catalog.excluded_providers`, matching /model
- exhausted-credential-pool providers stay visible
- only the active custom endpoint is probed, so an offline saved local
server can't hang the picker
- the virtual `moa` row is excluded (auxiliary_client unwraps it to the
aggregator anyway, so offering it is a silently-rewritten choice)
The vision picker also gains the current-selection marker it never had.
Also threads for_picker through build_models_payload, which had no way to
express it despite list_authenticated_providers supporting it.
credential pool has entries but is entirely rate-limited (exhausted): rate
limits are per-model for many providers (e.g. Google Gemini), so an exhausted
key for model-A may still serve model-B, and the user should stay able to
select it. That fix wired `for_picker=True` into `list_picker_providers`.
The two sibling interactive pickers reached by `hermes model` still called
`list_authenticated_providers()` WITHOUT `for_picker=True`, so they kept
hiding exhausted-pool providers:
- `_aux_select_for_task` (hermes_cli/main.py) — the auxiliary-task
provider/model picker.
- `_configure_vision_provider_model` (hermes_cli/tools_config.py) — the vision
provider/model picker.
Both persist a per-task config the user runs *later* (once the momentary
cooldown clears), so hiding an exhausted-pool provider here is exactly the
Tests: two regressions assert each picker requests `for_picker=True` (they
omitted it before the fix); the existing picker/exhausted-pool suite still
passes (6 total).
AST-driven pass over every subprocess.run/Popen/check_output/check_call/call
with text=True (or universal_newlines=True) and no explicit encoding=:
append encoding='utf-8', errors='replace' at the kwarg site. 136 call
sites across 28 files (cli.py, hermes_cli/main.py, tools_config.py,
environments, computer_use, gateway, scripts, skills helpers, agent/*).
Together with the salvaged #55339/#60741 commits this closes out issue
#53428's bug class; the salvaged #60751 linter rule in
check-windows-footguns.py now enforces it repo-wide (verified: 807 files
scanned, zero findings).
Make the x_search / xurl boundary explicit in the skill, feature docs,
toolset metadata, setup note, and reference pages, while keeping the
model-facing x_search schema generic (no static xurl name).
Regression tests assert behavioral routing invariants rather than frozen
prose snapshots. Drop the stale CI-only plugin/hangup hunks already on
main so this rebases cleanly.
* fix(desktop): stop contradicting the Ready pill with the one-time-install hint
When a provider's server-computed status is 'ready' (post_setup install
verifiably satisfied, e.g. cua-driver on PATH), the PostSetupRunner row
still said 'This backend needs a one-time install (…)'. Swap the copy for
a muted installed-confirmation one-liner and keep the Run setup button for
repair re-runs. Gated purely on the provider status prop so it composes
with the server-driven resting state work in the sibling lane.
* feat(tools): surface the web search/extract capability split in the Capabilities UI
The runtime has dispatched web_search and web_extract to independently
configurable backends for a long time (web.search_backend /
web.extract_backend overrides with web.backend as the shared fallback),
but the Capabilities tab still presented one monolithic 'Web Search &
Extract' choice that only wrote web.backend.
Backend:
- GET /api/tools/toolsets/web/config now returns active_search_backend /
active_extract_backend resolved via the REAL runtime getters
(tools.web_tools._get_search_backend/_get_extract_backend), plus each
provider row's web_backend key and supported capabilities (from the
registry's supports_search/supports_extract flags).
- PUT /api/tools/toolsets/web/provider accepts an optional capability
('search'|'extract') that writes web.<capability>_backend without
touching web.backend; validates the provider actually supports the
requested capability (ddgs/brave-free are search-only). Omitted →
unchanged legacy apply_provider_selection path.
- New tools_config.web_provider_capabilities() helper reads the plugin
registry's capability flags.
Frontend: 'Search: <backend>' / 'Extract: <backend>' pills above the web
provider matrix, per-row 'Search backend'/'Extract backend' assignment
pills, and 'Use for Search'/'Use for Extract' actions gated on each
backend's declared capabilities.
Tests: endpoint tests assert the runtime getters resolve to the written
backend (searxng for search, firecrawl for extract) after the endpoint
write; vitest covers badges, capability-gated buttons, and non-web
toolsets staying untouched.
* feat(desktop): deep-link Capabilities key rows to Settings → API Keys
Set env-var rows in the toolset config panel now offer 'Manage in API
Keys' in the row actions menu — an internal route change to
/settings?tab=keys&key=<ENV_KEY>. KeysSettings consumes the ?key= param
via the shared useDeepLinkHighlight hook (same mechanism as the command
palette's ?field= config deep links and ?session= archived-session
links): scrolls the credential card into view, flashes it, and expands
it. Applies generically to every env-var row, and only when the key is
set (unset keys are managed inline via Set). i18n in en/zh/zh-hant/ja.
* feat(desktop): point the vision Capabilities detail at Settings → Models
The vision toolset has no TOOL_CATEGORIES provider matrix — its
provider/model resolution runs through the auxiliary model config
(agent/auxiliary_client.py), so the Capabilities detail pane looked
empty with no hint of where the model choice lives.
Add a short explainer + an internal deep link
(/settings?tab=config:model&aux=vision) rendered only for
toolset.name === 'vision'. ModelSettings consumes the ?aux= param via
the shared useDeepLinkHighlight hook and scrolls/flashes the matching
auxiliary task row (rows now carry aux-task-<key> anchor ids). No
external URLs. i18n in en/zh/zh-hant/ja.
* test(desktop): use type-alias imports for the react-router mock (lint)
* chore: drop accidentally committed node_modules symlinks
* chore: drop remaining committed node_modules symlinks (apps/desktop, apps/shared)
* fix(windows): suppress console-window flash in tools post-setup subprocess spawns
The desktop GUI runs post-setup hooks via a detached, console-less
'hermes tools post-setup <key>' child (spawned with windows_detach_flags).
But the hook implementations in tools_config.py ran their inner installers
(npm install, agent-browser install, uv/pip installs, ensurepip, cua-driver
version probes and installer) without Windows creationflags — and on
Windows a console-less parent spawning a console/.cmd child materializes a
brand-new console window, the 'terminal flash' reported on the
Capabilities > Browser Automation setup journey.
Add _post_setup_no_window_flags(), a local wrapper around
windows_hide_flags() (CREATE_NO_WINDOW only — DETACHED_PROCESS would sever
stdio and break capture_output), and pass it at every post-setup subprocess
call site. Spawns that stream live output to the user's console
(verbose cua-driver install) only hide when stdout is not a tty, so
interactive CLI installs keep their output. POSIX behavior is unchanged
(the helper returns 0 off-Windows).
* fix(desktop): make Capabilities post-setup idempotent — Installed state instead of unconditional Run setup
The GUI panel rendered the primary 'Run setup' CTA whenever a provider
declared post_setup, ignoring the server-computed readiness status the
config endpoint already serves. Users on Windows clicked 'Run setup' on
an already-installed Local Browser and watched it 'install' again.
Frontend: PostSetupRunner now takes installed (provider.status === 'ready')
and renders an 'Installed' pill + small 'Re-run setup' text button in that
state; onComplete still refetches the toolset config, so a fresh install
flips the row to Installed once the endpoint reports ready.
Backend:
- _POST_SETUP_READY extended: agent_browser now tracks the FULL local
install (_local_browser_runnable: CLI + Chromium-or-Lightpanda) instead
of the bare CLI check; new entries for the cloud 'browserbase' hook
(CLI only — cloud rows host their own Chromium) and camofox (npm
package present).
- _run_post_setup prints distinct 'already installed, nothing to do'
messages for the agent-browser/Chromium/Camofox early-exits so the GUI
action log tells the truth on re-runs vs fresh installs.
i18n: new postSetupInstalled/postSetupRerun/postSetupInstalledHint strings
in en, ja, zh, zh-hant + types.
* fix(desktop): let managed Nous Subscription rows activate from the GUI via the Portal sign-in flow
PUT /api/tools/toolsets/{name}/provider intentionally skips the Nous
Portal auth gate the CLI runs inline (ensure_nous_portal_access) — but no
desktop surface handled it. Selecting 'Nous Subscription (Browser Use
cloud)' from Capabilities wrote browser.cloud_provider=browser-use +
use_gateway=true and then silently never activated: _is_provider_active
requires feature.managed_by_nous, which stays false without the
entitlement, and the credential was never used.
Backend: after apply_provider_selection, the endpoint now checks the
managed row's entitlement (get_nous_subscription_features force_fresh +
the same per-category coverage gate the CLI applies) and reports the gap
with additive response fields {needs_nous_auth: true, feature}. The
selection is still persisted — activation is what's gated.
Frontend: handleSelect surfaces a 'Sign in to Nous Portal' warning toast
with a Sign-in action instead of the misleading success toast. The action
drives the EXISTING Nous Portal OAuth device-code flow (provider id
'nous' in _OAUTH_PROVIDER_CATALOG): POST /api/providers/oauth/nous/start,
open verification_url, poll /poll/{session}; on approval the panel
refetches the toolset config so is_active/status flip.
i18n: nousAuthNeeded*/nousAuthSignIn/nousAuthDone*/nousAuthFailed strings
in en, ja, zh, zh-hant + types.
Sibling-site fix for the flaw addressed in the global 'Configure all
platforms' flow: the per-platform checklist also returned to the menu
without opening provider setup when a selected toolset was already
enabled but lacked provider configuration. Adds a matching regression
test.
* fix(desktop): compute truthful per-provider readiness for Capabilities tool config
Backend: GET /api/tools/toolsets/{name}/config now sends a per-provider
'status' field ('ready' | 'needs_keys' | 'needs_auth' | 'needs_setup')
computed by the new provider_readiness_status() in tools_config:
- env vars declared: all set -> ready, else needs_keys
- Nous-managed rows: Portal login + per-category tool-gateway entitlement
(MANAGED_FEATURE_COVERAGE_CATEGORY) -> ready, else needs_auth
- post_setup 'xai_grok' rows: Grok OAuth or XAI_API_KEY -> ready, else
needs_auth
- other keyless post_setup rows: installed-state predicate
(_POST_SETUP_READY: kittentts/piper/ddgs/langfuse via find_spec,
agent_browser via _has_agent_browser, cua_driver via PATH probe);
unknown hooks fall back to is_active as the setup-completed signal
- genuinely-free keyless rows (Edge TTS) stay ready
Existing fields are untouched; 'status' is additive so older desktops
keep working.
* fix(desktop): render server readiness status in Capabilities provider pills
The panel's providerConfigured() heuristic pilled every zero-env-var
provider 'Ready' — including logged-out Nous Subscription rows, xAI TTS
without Grok OAuth, and never-installed KittenTTS/Piper. Render the
backend's per-provider 'status' instead:
- ready -> existing 'Ready' pill
- needs_auth -> warn pill 'Needs sign-in'
- needs_setup -> warn pill 'Needs setup'
- needs_keys -> no pill (env-var fields are the signal)
Keyed rows keep deriving ready/needs_keys from local envState so saving
or clearing a key updates the pill without a refetch. Older backends
without 'status' fall back to the legacy env-var heuristic (narrow
compat path, desktop/runtime update on separate clocks).
Adds the warn tone to the settings Pill primitive and needsSignIn /
needsSetup strings to all locale catalogs (en, zh, zh-hant, ja).
tools_disable_enable_command filters platform-restricted toolsets out of
toolset_targets and prints an error for each, but the success summary at
the end is built from the raw targets list and only excludes unknown
toolsets and failed MCP servers. Running e.g.
hermes tools enable discord --platform telegram
prints the 'not available on platform' error followed by 'Enabled:
discord' for a toolset that was never written to the config.
Exclude restricted_targets from the success summary, matching how
unknown toolsets and failed MCP servers are already handled.
Two regression tests: a restricted toolset alone must not print
'Enabled', and a mixed allowed+restricted invocation must report only
the allowed toolset (both fail before the fix).
Sibling of the salvaged #53196 read-path fix: setdefault() does not
replace a present-but-null key, so saving platform tools with
known_plugin_toolsets: null in config.yaml crashed on indexing None.
When config.yaml has known_plugin_toolsets set to null (or any value
mapped to None by the YAML loader), config.get returns None (dict.get
only falls back to the default when the key is absent, not when its
value is None). The subsequent set(known_map.get(platform, [])) then
crashes with TypeError: NoneType object is not iterable and the gateway
fails to start, even though no plugin toolsets are configured.
Add or-empty-dict and or-empty-list guards so a null/None value is
treated as empty instead of crashing the platform-tools resolver.
When a user explicitly configures a platform with its native composite
(e.g. platform_toolsets.discord: [hermes-discord]), the discord and
discord_admin toolsets were silently stripped by _DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS
even though the composite contains those tools. The strip could not tell
an explicit composite opt-in apart from the unconfigured default.
Track whether the platform was explicitly configured and, when it was,
exempt toolsets that are both default-off and platform-restricted to the
current platform from the strip. Only discord/discord_admin are affected
(the sole entries in both _DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS and
_TOOLSET_PLATFORM_RESTRICTIONS). Unconfigured and empty-list platforms
keep the security default-off behaviour.
Replaces the POSIX `/bin/bash -c "$(curl …)"` invocation with a
download-then-exec flow: curl the upstream install.sh into a mkstemp
temp file (unpredictable name, 0600) and run it as a plain argv list.
No shell=True, no command substitution. The temp script is removed in
a finally block; download failures return cleanly without exec.
Salvages the intent of #34974 by @ErnestHysa. His original patch
targeted a fixed /tmp/cua-driver-install.sh path (symlink/TOCTOU-prone
on multi-user hosts) and predates Windows/Linux installer support;
this version uses mkstemp and keeps the powershell path untouched.
Co-authored-by: ErnestHysa <takis312@hotmail.com>
* fix(cli): unwedge cua-driver installer timeouts — group-kill on timeout, stale-lock pre-clear, 660s ceiling
The cua-driver refresh in hermes update could wedge permanently:
subprocess timeout (300s) killed only the outer shell, orphaning the
curl|bash grandchildren and the upstream installer's concurrent-install
lock (~/.cua-driver/packages/.install.lock.d). The installer only
reclaims a stale lock after 600s of waiting — longer than our old
ceiling — so every subsequent run was killed before recovery could
fire: 'always times out'.
- Run the installer in its own process group (start_new_session) and
SIGKILL the whole group on timeout, so no lock-holding orphans survive.
- Pre-clear a provably-stale lock (dead holder pid, or pid-less and
older than the upstream 600s window) before invoking the installer.
- Raise the ceiling to 660s (> upstream LOCK_STALE_AFTER_SECONDS=600).
- Timeout message now names the lock path and the manual re-run command.
Fixes#58762
* chore: suppress windows-footgun lint on platform-gated kill calls
Both sites are POSIX-only: _clear_stale_cua_install_lock early-returns
on win32, and os.killpg sits in the 'not is_windows' branch.
_get_platform_tools reverse-maps a platform composite to configurable
toolsets with an all-tools subset test. Because get_toolset() merges
registry-registered tools into a toolset, a tool added to a toolset
(delegate_cli -> delegation; desktop-only read_terminal -> terminal) that the
static composite never listed made the subset test fail, silently dropping the
entire toolset on api_server and other inference-based platforms. Compare the
toolset's static membership at all three reverse-map sites.
Fixes#49622.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add durable public-URL output and URL-based chaining to xAI Grok Imagine:
- Store generated media on files-cdn with permanent public HTTPS URLs
(public_url: true, no expiry by default).
- Chain by URL: generate -> edit -> extend each take a prior result's
public HTTPS URL (or a data URI / local file for inputs).
- Add provider-specific xai_video_edit and xai_video_extend tools.
- Image generation: public-URL/storage output, multi-reference edits,
and ~/ local-path support for image edits.
Credentials use xAI Grok device-code OAuth (separate PR).
_get_platform_tools() applies agent.disabled_toolsets as a final
override AFTER reading platform_toolsets.<platform>, so a toolset
listed there stays permanently OFF no matter what the toggle write
path saves. Blank Slate installs pre-populate this list with ~27
toolsets, making most of the desktop Toolsets UI un-enableable
(issue #49995).
Fix: _save_platform_tools() now removes any toolset the user just
explicitly enabled FOR THIS PLATFORM from agent.disabled_toolsets.
Toolsets the user did not touch, or that remain disabled on other
platforms, are left alone -- disabled_toolsets keeps working as a
cross-platform suppression list for anything not actively re-enabled.
Disabling a toolset (unchecking it) does not touch disabled_toolsets
at all -- only enables reconcile it.
Verified end-to-end with the exact repro from the issue: Blank Slate
config (disabled_toolsets=['todo','memory','browser'], cli=['file',
'terminal']) -> enable 'todo' via the toggle -> _get_platform_tools()
now resolves 'todo' as enabled while 'memory'/'browser' (untouched)
remain disabled.
Added 4 regression tests. Full tools_config suite: 101 passed
(97 existing + 4 new), no regressions.
Fixes#49995
* fix(windows): stop subprocess console-window popups + add CI guard
The single biggest source of Windows 'terminal popup' bug reports was bare
subprocess.run/Popen calls spawning a console window. The compat helpers
(windows_hide_flags / windows_detach_popen_kwargs) already existed but the
footgun checker had no rule to stop new bare calls from reintroducing the flash.
- scripts/check-windows-footguns.py: new AST-based rule flagging subprocess
calls that can create a new console — output-redirection-aware (capture/
redirect/check_output exempt) and POSIX-only-program-aware (launchctl/
systemctl/brew/etc. exempt). Comprehensive on real popups, no annotation
burden on calls that can't flash.
- Swept all genuine window-spawning sites through windows_hide_flags()/
windows_detach_popen_kwargs(); marked intentionally-visible launches
(editor/terminal/foreground re-exec) with '# windows-footgun: ok'.
- tests/scripts/test_windows_footgun_subprocess_rule.py: behavior-contract
tests + full-repo cleanliness invariant.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: documents the rule + the helper pattern.
* test: accept creationflags kwarg in psutil_android fake_subprocess_run
The Windows no-window sweep added creationflags=windows_hide_flags() to
install_psutil_android.py's subprocess.run call; the test's fake stub had a
fixed (cmd) signature and raised TypeError on the new kwarg.
* fix(update): route loud build/installer output to update.log instead of the terminal
hermes update flooded the terminal with the full vite asset dump,
electron-builder logs, npm deprecation warnings from the desktop build,
and the cua-driver installer's 'Next steps' wall. All of that is
low-signal noise the user doesn't need on a successful update.
- Capture the desktop --build-only subprocess (vite + electron-builder)
into ~/.hermes/logs/update.log; print a one-line status, and on
failure surface the last 15 lines + a pointer to the full log.
- Capture the cua-driver installer's output when verbose=False (the
hermes update refresh path); concise upgrade line is unchanged.
- Add _log_only_write() / _run_logged_subprocess() helpers that write to
the update.log handle without echoing to the terminal.
The repo-root npm install keeps streaming (capture_output=False) — that
is the deliberate #18840 guard so a slow postinstall download doesn't
look hung. The desktop npm install is a separate Electron process with
no such progress concern and is captured.
* fix(update): persist full cua-driver installer output to update.log
The captured cua-driver installer output was only sent to logger.debug
(agent.log) on failure, so the 'Next steps' wall was lost from
update.log entirely on success. Write the full captured output straight
to the update.log handle (sys.stdout._log) on both success and failure,
matching the desktop-build capture, so update.log keeps the complete
record of everything an update did.
* fix(tools): let vision pick any provider+model, not just OpenRouter
hermes tools → configure → vision no longer forces an OPENROUTER_API_KEY.
It now offers the same any-provider surface as the model command: Auto
(use main model / aggregator fallback), pick any authenticated provider +
model, or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Selections persist to
auxiliary.vision.{provider,model,base_url} — the keys the vision resolver
already reads. Custom endpoint pins provider=custom so base_url routes
correctly. Reconfigure path uses the same picker instead of re-prompting
for OPENROUTER_API_KEY.
* docs: add PR infographic for vision any-provider picker
A config migration (or hand-edit) that leaves an invalid toolset name in
`platform_toolsets` — e.g. the #38798 corruption that rewrote `hermes-cli` to
the non-existent `hermes` — silently disabled all affected tools:
resolve_toolset() returns [] for an unknown name, so the agent quietly lost its
tools with no error, warning, or log entry and degraded to text-only replies.
Surface it loudly at two points:
- After migration (migrate_config): validate platform_toolsets and record/print
a warning per unknown name, with a `hermes-<platform>` suggestion when that
would have been valid (the exact #38798 shape).
- At runtime (_get_platform_tools): if a platform was explicitly configured but
every toolset name is invalid, log a warning when tools are resolved for a
session — so an ALREADY-corrupted config is caught at startup, not only on the
next `hermes update`.
Logic lives in a new pure, side-effect-free helper (toolset_validation.py) with
validate_toolset injected, so it is unit-testable without the tool registry.
Note: the original v25→v26 migration that caused the corruption no longer
exists (config format is now v30; no migration step rewrites toolset names).
This change is the durable defense against the silent-failure mode regardless
of cause, matching the issue's "Expected: log a warning".
Salvaged from #39207 by @lEWFkRAD (authorship preserved via cherry-pick).
Tests: 9 helper cases (incl. the #38798 corruption shape, mixed valid/invalid,
zero-tools state, non-dict/scalar/non-string) + a runtime caplog test — both the
helper warning and the runtime guard mutation-verified to fail without the fix.
Closes#38798. Supersedes #39581 (prevent-in-v25→v26 — that path is gone),
#41006 / #40208 (repair-migration for already-corrupted configs).
* feat(moa): expose MoA presets as selectable virtual models
Reconstructed onto current main (PR #46081's base had diverged with no common
ancestor, marking the PR dirty so CI never dispatched). MoA is now a virtual
provider: each named preset is a selectable model under provider 'moa', and the
preset's aggregator is the acting model that answers and calls tools.
Reference models fan out in parallel via a bounded ThreadPoolExecutor (the same
batch pattern delegate_task uses) — all references dispatched at once, collected
when every one finishes, then handed to the aggregator. Output order is
preserved, failures and the MoA-recursion guard stay isolated per reference.
- Removed the old mixture_of_agents model tool and moa toolset.
- Added moa as a virtual provider in the provider/model inventory.
- /moa is shortcut behavior over model selection (default preset / named preset
/ one-shot prompt).
- Dashboard + Desktop manage named presets; presets appear in model pickers.
- Parallel reference fan-out in agent/moa_loop.py with regression test.
* fix(moa): thread moa_config through _run_agent to _run_agent_inner
The reconstructed gateway MoA wiring declared moa_config on _run_agent (the
profile-scoping wrapper) and used it inside _run_agent_inner, but the wrapper
never forwarded it — _run_agent_inner had no such parameter, so the runtime hit
NameError: name 'moa_config' is not defined on the compression-failure session
sync path. Add moa_config to _run_agent_inner's signature and forward it from
both wrapper call sites (multiplex and non-multiplex). Caught by
tests/gateway/test_compression_failure_session_sync.py on CI shard test(4).
* fix(moa): classify moa as a virtual provider in the catalog
The moa virtual provider has no PROVIDER_REGISTRY/ProviderProfile entry, so
provider_catalog() fell through to the default auth_type="api_key" with no
env vars — tripping two catalog invariants:
- test_provider_catalog: api_key providers must expose a credential env var
- test_provider_parity: every hermes-model provider must be desktop-configurable
moa already declares auth_type="virtual" in HERMES_OVERLAYS; consult that
overlay as an auth_type fallback so the catalog reports moa as virtual (no real
credential, no network endpoint). Exempt virtual providers from the desktop
parity union check the same way 'custom' is exempt — derived from the catalog,
not a hardcoded slug, so future virtual providers are covered too.
`hermes computer-use install` refused to install on Linux, Windows, and
macOS x86_64 because the pre-install asset probe was hitting the wrong
GitHub endpoint AND duplicating tag-resolution logic the upstream
installer already does correctly.
`_check_cua_driver_asset_for_arch()` queried
`https://api.github.com/repos/trycua/cua/releases/latest`. On trycua/cua:
- cua-driver-rs releases (the binary the installer fetches) are marked
**prerelease** on every cut. GitHub's `/releases/latest` explicitly
skips prereleases.
- The Python package releases (`cua-agent`, `cua-computer`, `cua-train`)
are non-prerelease and end up as the "latest" instead.
Live API check today:
$ curl -sf https://api.github.com/repos/trycua/cua/releases/latest \
| jq '{tag:.tag_name, asset_count: (.assets|length)}'
{ "tag": "agent-v0.8.3", "asset_count": 0 }
The probe sees zero assets, prints "Latest CUA release has no Linux
x86_64 asset", and skips install on every Linux / Windows / macOS-x86_64
host — even though the cua-driver-rs-v0.6.0 release ships 19 binary
assets covering all those platforms.
Filtering `/releases?per_page=N` for the `cua-driver-rs-v*` prefix
fixes the bug, but it duplicates tag-resolution logic the upstream
`_install-rust.sh` already does correctly via `CUA_DRIVER_RS_BAKED_VERSION`
(auto-baked by CD on every release, with a `/releases?per_page=N` API
fallback for dev checkouts). The right answer is to trust that
contract instead of mirroring it in Python where it can drift.
Two paths get the same outcome without the probe:
1. **Fresh install**: run `install.sh` directly. It has the baked
release tag, fetches the right asset, and errors with a clear
message on missing-arch downloads. No preflight needed.
2. **Upgrade path**: `cua_driver_update_check()` (separately added)
shells `cua-driver check-update --json` against the installed
binary, which returns the canonical update answer from the same
source the installer uses.
- `hermes_cli/tools_config.py`: delete `_check_cua_driver_asset_for_arch`
and its two call sites in `install_cua_driver`. Replace with an
inline comment near the top of the module explaining the rationale.
- `tests/hermes_cli/test_install_cua_driver.py`: drop the
`TestCheckCuaDriverAssetForArch` block. Add `TestArchProbeRemoval`
with three regressions:
- `test_probe_function_is_gone` — asserts the deleted helpers stay
deleted.
- `test_fresh_install_does_not_call_github_api` — asserts the
install path doesn't hit GitHub directly from Python anymore.
- `test_upgrade_with_binary_does_not_call_github_api_directly` —
same for the upgrade path.
All 9 `test_install_cua_driver` tests pass.
Reported by @teknium1 while testing on a headed Ubuntu host.
* feat(computer_use): disable cua-driver telemetry by default, add opt-in
cua-driver ships anonymous PostHog usage telemetry ENABLED by default
upstream (fires cua_driver_install / cua_driver_doctor events to
eu.i.posthog.com). Hermes now disables it for our users unless they
explicitly opt in.
- New config key `computer_use.cua_telemetry` (default false) in
DEFAULT_CONFIG.
- `cua_backend.cua_driver_child_env()` injects
`CUA_DRIVER_RS_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=0` into the child env when telemetry is
disabled (the default); leaves the var untouched on opt-in so the driver
uses its own default. Reads config fail-safe — any error defaults to
telemetry off.
- Routed every cua-driver spawn site through the policy: MCP backend
(StdioServerParameters env), `cua_driver_update_check`, doctor's
health_report Popen, the install.sh/install.ps1 runner, and the
`--version` / status probes.
- Docs: new Telemetry subsection in computer-use.md (EN).
- Tests: tests/computer_use/test_cua_telemetry.py — default disables,
explicit-false disables, opt-in leaves var untouched, config-failure
fails safe, inherited-enabled is overridden off.
Verified live on Linux against the real cua-driver-rs 0.6.0 binary: with
the var=0 the driver reports "telemetry: disabled via
CUA_DRIVER_RS_TELEMETRY_ENABLED" and sends no event; with it unset it logs
"sending event: cua_driver_doctor". 213 computer_use + install tests green.
* fix(dashboard): fold computer_use config category into agent tab
The new computer_use.cua_telemetry key created a single-field dashboard
config category, tripping test_no_single_field_categories (web_server's
invariant that categories with <2 fields must be merged to avoid tab
sprawl). Add computer_use -> agent to _CATEGORY_MERGE, matching the
existing onboarding/telegram single-field folds.
The install pre-flight asset probe queried trycua/cua's `releases/latest`,
which floats across the monorepo's components (agent-*, computer-*, lume-*,
train-*) — most ship zero binary assets. So the probe false-negatived and
hard-blocked `install_cua_driver` (line 770: `if not probe: return False`)
BEFORE the upstream installer ran, on Linux, Windows, and Intel macOS — even
though the installer it gates resolves the right tag and would have succeeded.
Net effect: the normal enable path (`hermes tools` → Computer Use post-setup,
and `hermes computer-use install`) refused to install on every platform this
PR claims to support.
Fix: list `/releases?per_page=100`, pick the newest `cua-driver-rs-v*` tag,
and match its assets on OS-token + arch — mirroring what the upstream
`install.sh` already does. Fail open if no driver release surfaces (installer
remains the source of truth). Adds an OS-token gate so a darwin asset can't
satisfy a Linux probe.
Tests: updated the install-probe fixtures to the list-of-releases shape with
`cua-driver-rs-v*` tags + OS-token asset names; added a regression guard
(`test_releases_latest_tag_ignored_picks_driver_rs_tag`) for the monorepo
floating-latest case. 25/25 install + 192 computer_use tests green.
Verified live: probe returns True for all six platform/arch combos against
the real GitHub releases API.
The runtime gate (check_computer_use_requirements) and the hermes tools
platform_gate both enable linux alongside darwin/win32, but several
docstrings/comments still described Linux as "alpha, gated off until it
flips upstream" — contradicting the code that ships it. Bring the prose in
line with the gate that's actually live:
- tool.py / cua_backend.py module docstrings: Linux is enabled (X11 today,
Wayland via XWayland), not gated off.
- toolsets.py description and hermes tools display name: (macOS/Windows) ->
(macOS/Windows/Linux).
No behavior change — the gate already allowed all three platforms.
Make the computer_use toolset platform-agnostic by driving cua-driver on
macOS, Windows, and Linux. Consumes the 8 cua-driver decoupling surfaces
(capability discovery, structuredContent AX tree, opaque element_token,
click button enum, explicit mimeType, machine-readable manifest,
structured list_windows, structured health_report), each degrading
gracefully on older drivers.
Adds `hermes computer-use doctor` (drives cua-driver health_report with a
per-OS check matrix and an exit 0/1/2 ok/degraded/blocked contract), full
typed wrappers for the previously-uncovered cua-driver tools plus a generic
call_tool escape hatch, per-session agent-cursor lifecycle, platform-aware
system-prompt guidance (host-deterministic, cache-safe), and honors
HERMES_CUA_DRIVER_CMD end-to-end.
Replaces the macOS-only skills/apple/macos-computer-use skill with a
cross-platform skills/computer-use skill, and refreshes the EN + zh-Hans
docs.
Supersedes #44221 (Windows-enablement salvage of #30660).
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
A cron job that sets `enabled_toolsets` to a list of *native* toolsets (e.g.
`["web", "terminal"]`) silently got ZERO MCP tools, while a job with no
per-job list got every globally-enabled MCP server. `_resolve_cron_enabled_
toolsets` returned the per-job list verbatim, bypassing the MCP-merge that the
platform-fallback branch performs via `_get_platform_tools`. So
`discover_mcp_tools()` registered the MCP tools into the registry, but
`get_tool_definitions(enabled_toolsets=...)` kept only the named native
toolsets — the agent then rejected every `mcp_*` call as "Unknown tool". (R2
of #23997.)
Fix: `_merge_mcp_into_per_job_toolsets` layers MCP membership onto a per-job
allowlist with the SAME semantics as `_get_platform_tools`:
* `no_mcp` sentinel present -> no MCP servers (sentinel stripped)
* one or more MCP server names already listed -> treat as an allowlist
* otherwise -> union in every globally-enabled MCP server
To avoid duplicating the "which MCP servers are enabled" computation (it
already existed inline in `_get_platform_tools`), this extracts a shared
`enabled_mcp_server_names(config)` helper in `hermes_cli.tools_config` and has
BOTH the gateway/CLI platform resolver and the cron per-job resolver call it —
so every path agrees on MCP membership (extend, don't duplicate).
Note: the issue's *headline* — bare MCP server names rejected, registry never
includes them — was already fixed on main (commits c10fea8d2 + 04918345e,
both before the issue was filed). This PR closes the remaining cron-specific
gap (R2). The `server:*` / `mcp:server` alias-notation rejection (R1) and the
quiet-mode silent-drop (R3) are tracked separately.
Salvaged from #32788 by sherman-yang (credited below). Reworked to reuse the
shared `enabled_mcp_server_names` helper instead of re-implementing the MCP
membership set in cron/scheduler.py.
Fixes#23997
Co-authored-by: sherman-yang <58446328+sherman-yang@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(mcp): raise default tool-call timeout 120s -> 300s
Port from openai/codex#28234. Long-running MCP tools (web fetches,
sandboxed builds, deep-research servers) routinely exceed 120s, causing
spurious timeout failures. Codex bumped its default MCP tool timeout from
120 to 300 for the same reason.
- _DEFAULT_TOOL_TIMEOUT 120 -> 300 in tools/mcp_tool.py (per-server
'timeout' config override unchanged)
- update test_default_timeout assertion
- document the default in mcp-config-reference.md
* refactor: remove agent-callable send_message tool
The agent should not decide on its own to fire off cross-platform
messages or reactions. Outbound platform messaging is handled outside
the agent loop — cron delivery, the gateway kanban notifier
(dashboard-toggled), and the `hermes send` CLI.
Removes the model-tool registration only; the send engine in
send_message_tool.py (_send_to_platform, _send_via_adapter,
_parse_target_ref, per-platform _send_* helpers) is kept intact for
those non-agent callers. Drops the now-empty 'messaging' toolset and
its `hermes tools` toggle. Yuanbao DM guidance now points at the
native yb_send_dm tool.
Remove the free Parallel Search MCP path and restore the keyed Parallel backend behavior from before it was introduced.
Also drops the keyless fallback registration/display labeling tests and returns the Parallel SDK pin to the prior version.
* feat(agent): coding-context posture with per-model edit-format tuning
Hermes detects when it's running in a coding context — an interactive
surface (CLI, TUI, ACP, desktop) sitting in a code workspace (git repo or
recognised project root) — and shifts into a coding posture. Outside that
(chat platforms, non-workspaces) nothing changes.
The posture is modelled as a frozen RuntimeMode selected from a small
ContextProfile registry (coding/general). A profile is data: the toolset to
collapse to, the operating brief to inject, and seams for model routing and
memory. Every domain reads the same resolved object instead of re-probing
git/config on its own:
- System prompt — RuntimeMode.system_blocks(): an operating brief (gather
context before editing, edit through tools not chat, verify with terminal,
cap retry loops) plus a live git/workspace snapshot, built once and baked
into the stable prompt tier so per-conversation caching is preserved.
- Per-model edit-format tuning — the brief nudges each model family toward
the patch mode it handles best: OpenAI/Codex toward mode='patch' (V4A
multi-file diffs), Anthropic toward mode='replace' (string replacement).
The model id rides on RuntimeMode; unknown families keep neutral wording.
- Skill index — non-coding skill categories are pruned from the prompt's
skill index (discovery-only; skills_list/skill_view still reach the full
catalog, with a disclosure note).
- Toolset — only under the opt-in 'focus' mode does the posture collapse to
the coding toolset + enabled MCP servers; the default posture is
prompt-only and never overrides configured toolsets.
Activation via agent.coding_context: auto (default), focus, on, off.
Subagents inherit the posture for free via toolset inheritance + the shared
prompt builder. Detection is not memoized so a long-lived gateway/TUI
process can't pin a stale posture across working directories.
* feat(agent): cover new-file authoring in the coding edit-format nudge
The per-model edit-format guidance only addressed editing existing code
(patch mode='patch' vs 'replace'), but authoring a brand-new file —
write_file, not patch — is a large fraction of real coding work and the
nudge was silent on it. Surfaced when building a single-file artifact where
the dominant operation was write_file and the steering offered no guidance.
Both family lines now lead with "author new files with write_file; for
edits to existing code prefer ...". Tests assert write_file appears in each
family's brief; unknown families still get neutral wording.
* docs(agent): correct memoization docstring + clarify TUI config-load asymmetry
* feat(agent): sharpen the coding posture — verify-loop facts, wider edit steering, $HOME guard
Tuning pass on the coding posture from dogfooding it as a harness:
- Workspace snapshot now hands the model its verify loop up front:
detected manifests + package manager (lockfile sniff), the exact
verify commands (package.json scripts, Makefile targets,
scripts/run_tests.sh, pytest config), and which context files
(AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / .cursorrules) exist at the root. Marker-only
(non-git) projects get the snapshot too instead of nothing. The
"verify before claiming done" brief line was the highest-value piece
in evals — this turns it from advice into an executable loop instead
of making the model rediscover the test command every session. Still
stat-cheap, size-guarded reads, built once at prompt time.
- Edit-format steering covers the families Hermes actually serves:
Gemini and open-weight coding models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM,
Grok, Hermes, Llama, Mistral, Devstral, MiniMax) steer to
mode='replace' — their RL scaffolds use str_replace-style editors.
Previously only GPT/Codex and Claude families got steering; the
models Hermes users disproportionately run all fell to neutral.
- Operating brief gains four behaviors elite harnesses encode: batch
independent reads/searches in one turn; fix root causes and the bug
class (sibling call paths), not the reported site; no drive-by
refactors/renames/reformatting; never read, print, or commit secrets.
Plus a patch-failure escalation ladder: after the same region fails
twice, rewrite the enclosing function/file with write_file instead of
a third patch attempt.
- $HOME dotfiles guard: a git repo rooted exactly at the home directory
(or a marker sitting in it, e.g. a global ~/AGENTS.md) is user config,
not a code workspace — without the guard, every session anywhere under
a dotfiles-managed home silently flipped to the coding posture. Real
projects under such a home still detect via their own markers/repos;
'on' mode bypasses the guard.
Make Parallel the web search/extract backend with a zero-setup free tier:
- Keyless (no PARALLEL_API_KEY): web_search/web_extract work out of the box via
Parallel's free hosted Search MCP (search.parallel.ai/mcp), and parallel
becomes the default backend when no other web credentials are configured
(ahead of ddgs, which is search-only). A small hand-rolled Streamable-HTTP
JSON-RPC client speaks the MCP's web_search/web_fetch tools; the existing
web_search/web_extract tools are the only tools registered.
- Keyed (PARALLEL_API_KEY set): uses the Parallel v1 REST endpoints
(client.search / client.extract with advanced_settings.full_content) — no beta.
Bumps parallel-web 0.4.2 -> 0.6.0.
- Attribution: on the free path only, results carry provider/attribution and the
CLI tool line reads "Parallel search" / "Parallel fetch"; the paid path is
unbranded.
- Selection/registration: web tools register unconditionally (free MCP backstop)
while check_web_api_key remains a real usability probe; explicit per-capability
backends are honored (so misconfig surfaces) rather than masked by the fallback.
Tested: live web_search/web_extract against search.parallel.ai in keyless and
keyed modes; unit suites for the MCP client, backend selection, and display
labeling; full agent run shows the "Parallel search" label on the free path.
Root package.json uses apps/* workspaces glob which unconditionally
includes apps/desktop (Electron + node-pty@1.1.0, ~200MB, requires
make/g++ to build) in every unscoped npm command run from the repo root.
This commit addresses the core problem by adding explicit workspace
scoping to all internal npm calls:
hermes_cli/main.py (_build_web_ui):
- Add --workspace web to the npm install call so only the web
workspace deps are resolved, never apps/desktop.
hermes_cli/tools_config.py:
- Add --workspaces=false to agent-browser and Camofox root installs
so only root-level deps (agent-browser, @streamdown/math) are
installed, bypassing the workspace graph entirely.
hermes_cli/doctor.py (run_doctor npm audit):
- Replace the single unscoped 'npm audit --json' at PROJECT_ROOT with
three scoped invocations:
* --workspaces=false for root deps (Browser tools)
* --workspace web for the web workspace
* --workspace ui-tui for the TUI workspace
- Update remediation hints to use matching scoped 'npm audit fix'
commands so users don't accidentally trigger a desktop rebuild.
package.json:
- Add convenience scripts for scoped operations:
npm run install:root / install:web / install:tui / install:desktop
npm run audit:root / audit:web / audit:tui
npm run audit:fix:root / audit:fix:web / audit:fix:tui
These give developers and CI a safe, explicit interface for the
most common per-workspace tasks without accidentally pulling desktop.
Fixes#38772
Replicate the `hermes tools` configurator in the dashboard Skills →
Toolsets view. Each toolset now opens a config drawer that covers the
full lifecycle the CLI offers: enable/disable, pick a provider/backend,
enter and save API keys, and run a provider's post-setup install hook
with a live log tail.
The toolset view was previously read+toggle only — the provider matrix
and key-status endpoints existed but the page never called them, and
there was no way to save a key or run a backend install (npm/pip/binary)
from the browser.
Backend:
- New CLI subcommand `hermes tools post-setup <KEY>` — non-interactive,
scriptable target that runs a provider's install hook (agent_browser,
camofox, cua_driver, kittentts, piper, ddgs, spotify, langfuse,
xai_grok). Validated against valid_post_setup_keys() so an arbitrary
key can't drive _run_post_setup.
- PUT /api/tools/toolsets/{name}/env — save API keys to ~/.hermes/.env
via save_env_value (same store the CLI writes), validated against the
toolset category's env-var allowlist; blank values skipped.
- POST /api/tools/toolsets/{name}/post-setup — spawn-action that runs
`hermes tools post-setup <key>`; frontend tails the log via the
existing /api/actions/tools-post-setup/status. Registered in
_ACTION_LOG_FILES.
Frontend:
- New ToolsetConfigDrawer component (provider radios, password key
inputs with saved-state, get-a-key links, Run-setup + live install
log). Toolset cards get a Configure button + the drawer also exposes
the enable toggle.
- api.ts: toggleToolset, getToolsetConfig, selectToolsetProvider,
saveToolsetEnv, runToolsetPostSetup + ToolsetConfig/Provider/EnvVar/
EnvResult types.
Validation: 56 admin-endpoint tests pass (10 new: env save w/ CLI
parity + allowlist reject + blank-skip, post-setup spawn validation,
auth gate); 232 web_server tests pass; web npm run build + eslint clean;
HTTP E2E exercises save-key (CLI reads it back) and spawn+poll
post-setup to exit 0.
The hermes tools save summary printed '- kanban' (and would print
'+ kanban') for a platform even though kanban is never offered as a
checklist option. kanban is a check_fn-gated toolset whose tools are a
subset of the platform composite, so _get_platform_tools resolves it as
enabled, but _prompt_toolset_checklist only renders CONFIGURABLE_TOOLSETS
— so it can never survive into the returned selection. The added/removed
diff (current_enabled - new_enabled) then surfaced kanban as removed.
Scope the printed diff to the checklist's actual universe via the new
_checklist_toolset_keys() helper at all three diff sites (first-install,
all-platforms, per-platform). The persisted config is unaffected —
_save_platform_tools already preserves non-configurable entries; this was
purely a false-signal in the UI.
The Browser Automation and Text-to-Speech provider pickers listed the paid
"Nous Subscription" gateway row first, so on a fresh install the menu cursor
defaulted to index 0 (Nous). Pressing Enter selected it and ran the inline
Nous Portal device-code login — walking users into a paid offering they
never chose.
Reorder both provider lists so the free, no-key local backend is index 0
(Local Browser / Microsoft Edge TTS). Users who already configured Nous are
unaffected: _detect_active_provider_index still resolves their active row
first, so the cursor lands on Nous (now index 1) for them.
Reported by Javier via Kujila.
Read the Portal's tool_access claim (JWT + /api/oauth/account) into NousToolAccessInfo and gate managed Tool Gateway access on it: tool_gateway_entitled (paid OR live pool) and per-category tool_gateway_entitled_for(). The pool funds web/image/tts/browser but not video, so per-backend availability, the charge picker (ensure_nous_portal_access coverage_category), and managed defaults all respect coverage.
Setup: rebuild prompt_enable_tool_gateway as a per-tool checklist that renders whenever the pool is enabled, lists only pool-covered tools (video excluded for free-pool users), and is framed as the free tool pool for $0 subscribers rather than a paid subscription. get_gateway_eligible_tools now gates and filters off the entitlement snapshot.
