On a launchd-managed gateway (macOS), /restart stopped the gateway but
never relaunched it: the handler's service detection checks only
INVOCATION_ID (systemd) and container markers, so under launchd it takes
the detached path and exits 0 — which KeepAlive.SuccessfulExit=false
treats as a deliberate stop. The gateway stays silently dead until a
manual launchctl kickstart.
Detect launchd via XPC_SERVICE_NAME, which launchd sets to the job label
for processes it spawns. The probe deliberately excludes the literal
"0": interactive macOS shells inherit XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0 (a truthy
string), and routing an unsupervised interactive gateway to the service
path would make it exit non-zero with nothing to revive it.
Routing through via_service=True (rather than forcing a non-zero exit
on the detached path) matters: the detached path also spawns a helper
that relaunches the gateway, so exiting non-zero there would have BOTH
the helper and launchd respawn it — two gateways racing for the same
bot tokens. The service path spawns no helper; launchd is the single
respawner.
Fixes#43475. Supersedes the run.py-era probes in #19940/#33393 (the
handler has since moved to gateway/slash_commands.py) and avoids the
double-spawn risk in the exit-code-site approaches (#43498, #43596).
Users who inspect ~/.hermes/sessions/sessions.json see only gateway entries
(e.g. agent:main:whatsapp:dm:...) and mistake it for the session index that
hermes sessions list / /sessions read — which is actually state.db. Issue
#49361 reported CLI sessions as 'invisible' on this premise.
- gateway/session.py: write a self-documenting _README sentinel at the top of
sessions.json explaining it's the gateway routing index and that ALL sessions
(CLI/TUI/gateway) live in state.db; skip _-prefixed keys on load so the
sentinel never round-trips into a SessionEntry.
- Harden every sessions.json reader against the sentinel: mcp_serve loader,
gateway/mirror.py, gateway/channel_directory.py all skip _-prefixed keys.
- docs/user-guide/sessions.md: warning callout naming the exact symptom.
- tests: assert prune ignores metadata sentinels; add round-trip coverage.
The dashboard Profiles view showed "Gateway stopped" for a gateway that
is in fact running — while the sidebar status strip and `hermes gateway
status` (CLI) both correctly showed it running. Reported on v0.17.0
running the gateway + dashboard in one Docker container.
Root cause: three liveness surfaces with three detection strengths, all
reading the same `gateway.pid`:
- `hermes gateway status` -> find_gateway_pids() (process-table scan)
- sidebar /api/status -> get_running_pid() + gateway_state.json PID
fallback + health-URL probe
- Profiles view -> _check_gateway_running() = get_running_pid()
ONLY, no fallback
`get_running_pid()` short-circuits to None the moment the runtime lock
(`gateway.lock`) doesn't register as held by the *calling* process —
which is always true when the reader is a separate process from the
gateway (the dashboard is its own s6 service in the container), and also
for any launch-service-managed gateway that left a fresh
`gateway_state.json` but no live PID file. So the Profiles view alone
reported the live gateway as stopped.
Fix: give _check_gateway_running the same fallback the sidebar already
has — after the pid-file/lock check misses, validate the PID recorded in
that profile's gateway_state.json against the live process table via the
existing get_runtime_status_running_pid(). read_runtime_status() gains an
optional path arg so a profile's state file can be read without mutating
the process-global HERMES_HOME (preserving the contextvar-based profile
isolation the dashboard relies on). Backward compatible: every existing
caller passes no argument.
Tests: a regression test that fails pre-fix (live gateway, lock check
returns None -> must still report running) and a guard test that a
'stopped' state file is never reported running even with a live PID.
The contributor PR stamped runner._exit_code=78 on non-retryable startup
errors, but start_gateway()'s clean-exit branch returned True before the
SystemExit(runner.exit_code) site, so main() exited 0. The s6 finish
script's [ "$1" = "78" ] check never matched and s6 crash-looped the
gateway anyway — the fix was dead as shipped (#51228).
Honor runner.exit_code in the clean-exit branch: raise SystemExit(code)
when set, else return True (normal /restart clean exit). Add a
start_gateway()-level test that asserts process-level SystemExit(78)
propagation — the gap the PR's object-level test missed — plus exit_code
on the existing _CleanExitRunner mocks.
Profiles without their own messaging token inherit the default
profile's token via os.getenv, hit a token collision, and exit with
startup_failed. s6 restarts them immediately, creating ~30MB tirith
sandbox dirs in /tmp each cycle — filling the disk in hours (#51228).
Changes:
- gateway/restart.py: add GATEWAY_FATAL_CONFIG_EXIT_CODE = 78
- gateway/run.py: set exit_code=78 on non-retryable startup errors
(token collision, no platforms)
- hermes_cli/service_manager.py: add _render_finish_script() that
translates exit 78 → exit 125 (s6 permanent failure)
- hermes_cli/container_boot.py: write finish script alongside run
script during profile registration
The s6 finish script pattern follows docker/s6-rc.d/dashboard/finish.
Closes#51228
Register a per-instance wakeUrl and forward it to the connector at
self-provision so a suspended gateway can be poked awake when buffered
work arrives (pairs with the connector-side WakePoker).
- relay_wake_url() resolver (env GATEWAY_RELAY_WAKE_URL, then
gateway.relay_wake_url in config.yaml), mirroring relay_instance_id()
- thread wake_url through _post_provision (adds wakeUrl to the body only
when set) + self_provision_relay (resolve, forward, log)
- hermes gateway enroll --wake-url <url> persists GATEWAY_RELAY_WAKE_URL
- document the §5.2 wake poke in relay-connector-contract.md §3.3
- tests: relay_wake_url resolution (env/config/absent), provision
forwarding, body-only-when-set (6 new; 130 relay tests pass)
The actual reconnect+drain on wake is Unit B's loop; this unit only
wires the wake SIGNAL. Opt-in: absent wakeUrl => connector never pokes.
The gateway half of the going-idle/buffered-flip primitive (scale-to-zero
PRIMITIVE, not the behaviour). Integrates with the EXISTING drain transition:
- ws_transport: `go_idle()` sends `going_idle` + awaits the connector's
`going_idle_ack` (connector-authoritative flip-then-ack, Q-5.3c — stays
serving until the ack so nothing is lost in the flip window); acks a buffered
inbound (bufferId present) via `inbound_ack` after the handler runs
(drain-without-dup on the delivery leg); NET-NEW reconnect loop re-dials +
re-handshakes after an unexpected close (off by default, on in production).
- adapter: emits `going_idle` from its existing `disconnect()` drain seam before
tearing down the socket; best-effort + guarded (never blocks shutdown).
- transport Protocol + contract doc §3.2 document the 3 new frames.
+6 relay tests (124 pass). NOT in scope: the autonomous idle timer / machine
suspend / NAS health model (deferred behaviour). Ben's relay-adapter solo lane.
_session_task_is_stale() failed to detect a stale session lock when the owner
task completed and cleaned _session_tasks (del in _process_message_background's
finally) but _active_sessions was NOT released because _release_session_guard
skipped on a guard mismatch (a concurrent reset/new command or drain handoff
swapped _active_sessions[key] to a different guard). With no owner task left to
inspect, _session_task_is_stale reported 'not stale', the orphaned guard was
never healed, and the session deadlocked permanently — later messages received
but never dispatched.
Reorder the finally cleanup to release-then-conditional-delete: release the
guard first, then drop the _session_tasks entry ONLY if the guard was actually
released (session_key no longer in _active_sessions). On a guard mismatch the
done-task entry survives, so the on-entry self-heal (_session_task_is_stale ->
_heal_stale_session_lock) detects the stale lock and clears it on the next
inbound message.
Extracted the cleanup into a callable _cleanup_finished_session_task() helper so
the regression test drives the REAL production code path rather than a copy of
its logic (the original test inlined the fixed logic and passed regardless of
the production order — mutation-verified the rewritten tests now fail on the
buggy del-first order). Added a positive-path test (guard matches -> release +
delete) so both branches are pinned.
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Open-ended skill learning across every surface. /learn <free text> takes a
description of any source — a directory, a URL, the workflow you just walked
the agent through, or pasted notes — and the live agent gathers it with the
tools it already has (read_file/search_files, web_extract, the conversation,
the pasted text), then authors a SKILL.md via skill_manage following the
house authoring standards (<=60-char description, the standard section order,
Hermes-tool framing, no invented commands).
No engine, no model-tool footprint, works on any terminal backend (local,
Docker, remote): /learn builds a standards-guided prompt and hands it to the
agent as a normal turn.
- agent/learn_prompt.py: shared standards-guided prompt builder
- /learn registry entry (both surfaces) + CLI handler (inject onto input
queue) + gateway handler (rewrite turn, fall through, /blueprint pattern)
- tui_gateway command.dispatch returns a send directive -> TUI + dashboard chat
- dashboard Skills page 'Learn a skill' panel (dir + URL + open-ended text)
composes a /learn request and runs it in chat
- docs (slash-commands ref + skills feature page), 11 targeted tests
Inspired by OpenAI Codex's Record & Replay and the /learn concept from #47234
(dir-distillation engine); reworked to be open-ended and engine-free per
review.
Adds a per-platform display.reasoning_style setting (code | blockquote |
subtext) controlling how the show_reasoning summary renders on the gateway.
Discord defaults to "subtext" (-# small grey metadata text); every other
platform keeps the fenced code block. Resolves through the existing
display.platforms.<platform>.reasoning_style override chain.
The gateway half of Phase 6 Unit ζ: project the agent's existing relevance
knobs into the connector's platform-agnostic vocabulary and declare them at boot
over the /relay/policy route, so the SAME mention-gating / free-response /
allow-bots behavior the agent applies directly also governs relay delivery (and
excluded chatter never wakes a scaled-to-zero agent).
- gateway/relay/__init__.py:
- relay_relevance_policy(): project require_mention -> requireAddress,
free_response_channels -> freeResponseScopes, {PLATFORM}_ALLOW_BOTS in
{mentions,all} -> allowOtherBots. Reads the fronted platform's config block
+ bridged top-level keys. Returns None when all-default (the connector's
quiet default already matches) or no concrete platform is fronted.
- send_relay_policy(): POST /relay/policy authenticated with the gateway's own
per-gateway upgrade token (make_upgrade_token — same bearer as the WS
upgrade), so the connector attaches it to the authenticated instance, never
a body-asserted id. Re-declares every boot (self-healing, full replace).
NEVER raises, NEVER blocks boot — relevance is an optimization layered on
the δ/ε authorization gate. Reuses the per-gateway secret + the
/relay/provision host; no new inbound surface, no new credential.
- _policy_url(): ws(s)://…/relay -> http(s)://…/relay/policy.
- gateway/run.py: call send_relay_policy() after register_relay_adapter()
succeeds (the secret is resolved by then).
- docs/relay-connector-contract.md: new §7 documenting per-instance delivery +
the management plane (/manage/* + /relay/policy) + the relevance-declaration
contract; versioning renumbered to §8. Contract conformance test stays green
(§2/§3 tables untouched).
Tests: +12 (projection mapping incl. comma-string + top-level fallback; send
auth/skip/fail-soft/non-200). Full relay suite 118 pass. The connector route is
already E2E-proven (connector repo gateway_policy_driver.py); this adds the real
gateway send-path it pairs with.
This completes Phase 6 (Team Gateway per-user isolation) end to end.
Follow-up to the /memory approve fresh-store fix. Both the CLI fallback and
the messaging-gateway handler built a bare MemoryStore() with the hardcoded
default char limits (2200/1375), ignoring the user's configured
memory.memory_char_limit / user_char_limit. A live agent honors those
overrides (agent/agent_init.py), so an approval applied without a live agent
could accept a write the user's lower cap would reject, or vice versa.
Extract a shared tools.memory_tool.load_on_disk_store() factory that reads
the configured limits (falling back to defaults if config can't load) and
wire both the CLI and gateway handlers to it, closing the gap on both
surfaces and de-duplicating the construction block.
The media-delivery denylist in gateway/platforms/base.py enumerated only
.env/auth.json/credentials/config.yaml under HERMES_HOME, so other
credential stores that live at the root fell through and could be
auto-attached to chat replies. The reported case: the Google Workspace
skill's google_token.json refreshes every turn, bumping its mtime to
'now', which kept passing the strict-mode recency window and re-sent the
OAuth token on every reply.
Extend the explicit per-file denylist to mirror the canonical credential
set already enforced by the read/write guards in agent/file_safety.py:
google_token.json, google_oauth_pending.json, auth/google_oauth.json,
.anthropic_oauth.json, webhook_subscriptions.json, cache/bws_cache.json,
auth.lock, and the pairing/ token directory.
Targeted per-file additions (not a blanket ~/.hermes deny, which was
declined in #32090/#34425 because it would block skills/, logs/, and
ad-hoc agent-written deliverables). mcp-tokens/ (#37222) and
state.db/kanban.db (#41071) are left to their sibling targeted PRs.
Reported-by: xxxigm (#50912)
Adds an optional structured completion contract to the standing-goal loop,
adapted from OpenAI Codex's /goal guidance (a durable objective works best
when it names what done means, how to prove it, what not to break, what's in
scope, and when to stop).
A contract has five optional fields — outcome, verification, constraints,
boundaries, stop_when. When set, the continuation prompt tells the agent to
target the verification surface and respect constraints, and the judge marks
the goal done only when the verification criterion is met with concrete
evidence (command result, file excerpt, test output) instead of a loose
"looks done" claim. This tightens the most common /goal failure mode:
premature completion / endless over-continuation on an underspecified goal.
Two ways to set a contract, both backward compatible (bare /goal <text>
behaves exactly as before):
- /goal draft <objective> — expands plain text into a full contract via the
goal_judge aux model (cache-safe side call), falls back to a free-form goal
if the model is unavailable.
- /goal <text> with inline 'field: value' lines (verify:, constraints:,
boundaries:, stop when:, ...). Plain goals with an incidental colon are not
mangled — only known field prefixes are pulled out.
- /goal show prints the active contract.
Contracts persist in SessionDB.state_meta alongside the goal (survive /resume),
compose with /subgoal criteria, and old goal rows load unchanged. CLI + every
gateway platform via the shared GoalManager engine; zero new model tools.
Tests: +18 in tests/hermes_cli/test_goals.py (parse/serialize/judge-prompt/
draft/fallback), 73/73 green; 42/42 across the broader goal test surface;
live E2E roundtrip (set -> persist -> reload -> contract-aware prompts) green.
* feat(goals): add /goal wait <pid> barrier to park the loop on a background process
The /goal loop re-pokes the agent every turn via the post-turn judge. When a
goal is gated on a long-running background process (CI poller, build, test
matrix, deploy) that produces nothing to judge yet, this spins the agent into
'is it done?' busy-work and burns the turn budget.
/goal wait <pid> [reason] parks the loop: while the PID is alive, the judge is
skipped, no turn is consumed, no continuation fires, and /goal status shows a
parked indicator. The barrier auto-clears the moment the process exits (the
agent's notify_on_complete watcher is the natural wake signal), then the next
turn resumes normal judging. /goal unwait clears it manually; pause/resume/clear
drop it; a dead/stale PID can never wedge the loop.
Wired across CLI, gateway, and the mid-run command guard for parity. Barrier
persists in SessionDB.state_meta (survives /resume); GoalState gains
backward-compatible waiting_on_pid/waiting_reason/waiting_since fields. 12 new
tests; docs updated.
* fix(goals): use gateway.status._pid_exists for liveness, not os.kill(pid,0)
The Windows-footguns CI guard flagged os.kill(pid, 0) in _pid_alive — on
Windows that's not a no-op, it routes to CTRL_C_EVENT and hard-kills the
target's console process group (bpo-14484). Delegate to the canonical
footgun-safe gateway.status._pid_exists (psutil + ctypes/POSIX fallback)
instead, with a direct-psutil last resort.
* feat(goals): judge-driven auto-wait — the loop parks itself, no manual /goal wait
Makes the wait barrier automatic. Every turn the judge is shown the agent's
live background processes (pid, command, uptime, output tail from the
process_registry) alongside the goal + response, and can return a new 'wait'
verdict instead of continue:
{"verdict":"wait","wait_on_pid":N} → park until that process exits
{"verdict":"wait","wait_for_seconds":N} → park until the deadline passes
evaluate_after_turn acts on the directive (sets the barrier, parks the loop)
so the agent isn't re-poked into busy-work while CI/builds/deploys run. Adds a
time-based waiting_until barrier alongside the pid barrier; both auto-clear and
can never wedge the loop. Drivers (CLI, gateway, tui_gateway) feed the live
registry in via gather_background_processes(). Manual /goal wait stays as an
override. Judge verdict contract widened to (verdict, reason, parse_failed,
wait_directive); legacy {"done":bool} shape still accepted.
* test(goals): update kanban _fake_judge to the 4-tuple judge contract
CI test(3) caught it: test_kanban_goal_mode's _fake_judge still returned the
3-tuple (verdict, reason, parse_failed), but the kanban loop now unpacks the
4-tuple (+ wait_directive). Update the fake to return None for the directive
and accept the background_processes kwarg.
* feat(goals): trigger-based wait — park on a process's own signal, not just exit
Addresses two gaps in the judge-driven wait: (1) the judge could only express
'wait until PID exits' or 'wait N seconds', so a long-lived watcher/server that
fires a trigger MID-RUN (and may never exit) couldn't be waited on; (2) the
process's own watch_patterns/notify_on_complete trigger was invisible to the judge.
Adds a session-based barrier (waiting_on_session) that releases on the process's
OWN trigger via process_registry.is_session_waiting(): the session exits, OR (if
started with watch_patterns) its pattern matches — even while the process keeps
running. list_sessions() now surfaces session_id + watch_patterns/watch_hit/
notify_on_complete so the judge sees the trigger and is told to prefer
wait_on_session for trigger processes. Judge verdict gains a {wait_on_session}
directive (preferred over pid). Backward-compatible GoalState field; pid + time
barriers unchanged.
Tests: TestSessionTriggerBarrier (release on mid-run pattern match while alive,
release on exit, unknown-session, full park→trigger→resume, parse, validation,
backcompat load). 105 goal-surface + 85 process_registry tests green.
Follow-up to ScotterMonk's cron-truncation fix:
- Remove HERMES_DELIVERY_MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT env var. Behavioral config
belongs in config.yaml, not a new HERMES_* env var (.env is secrets
only). The actual bug is fixed entirely by the adapter-aware skip; the
configurable cap was unneeded scope. MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT is a constant
again, collapsing the max_output=0 disable branch and the
audit-vs-truncation threshold divergence.
- Flag the remaining verified-chunking adapters (slack, matrix, feishu,
mattermost, teams, whatsapp, whatsapp_cloud, weixin, bluebubbles,
yuanbao) with splits_long_messages=True so the fix covers the whole
bug class, not just Discord/Telegram. Each verified to chunk in its
own send() via truncate_message().
- SMS deliberately left False: it chunks for normal replies but a
multi-segment cron blast is cost-bearing; the 4000-cap + file save is
the safer default there.
- Update tests: drop the two env-override tests, add a test asserting a
save failure during truncation (non-chunking) propagates.
Gateway-level truncation (MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT=4000) was pre-empting
adapter-side message splitting. Discord and Telegram both chunk long
content natively in their send() via truncate_message(), but the
delivery router truncated to 3800 chars + footer before the adapter
ever saw the full payload — so long cron output was cut short instead
of being delivered as multiple messages (issue #50126).
Changes:
- HERMES_DELIVERY_MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT env var makes the cap configurable
(default 4000, backward compatible). Set to 0 to disable truncation.
- TRUNCATED_VISIBLE (3800) removed — visible portion now derived
dynamically from max_output minus the actual footer length.
- New BasePlatformAdapter.splits_long_messages capability flag (default
False). Adapters that chunk in send() set True; delivery skips
truncation for them but still saves full output to disk as audit.
- Flagged Discord and Telegram (both verified to chunk in send()).
Fixes#50126
Add relay_instance_id() (env GATEWAY_RELAY_INSTANCE_ID first, then
gateway.relay_instance_id in config.yaml, mirroring the other relay readers) and
forward it in the /relay/provision body so the connector can bind
gatewayId -> instanceId and route inbound per-instance once Phase 6 delivery
lands.
The value is gateway-asserted but safely scoped: the org/tenant stays
NAS-token-verified at the connector, so a dishonest gateway can only bind its
OWN tenant's instance — same posture as relay_endpoint(). instanceId is only
added to the body when present, so omitting it lets the connector store null
(back-compat: self-hosted / pre-Phase-6 gateways simply have no binding yet).
For a managed (NAS-hosted) agent the id is NAS's AgentInstance.id, stamped into
the container env beside GATEWAY_RELAY_URL.
Tests: reader (env/config/absent), self_provision_relay forwards the id (set +
absent), and the real _post_provision body includes instanceId ONLY when set.
Refs: ~/nous/specs/gateway-gateway plan.md Phase 6 Unit α; decisions.md Q11.
Tirith redacts its own findings, but the approval-request callbacks built the
operator prompt from the RAW command string, so a credential-shaped value
Tirith flagged was sent verbatim to clients, undoing the redaction one layer up.
Two egress transports carried the leak; both are fixed via a shared
module-level seam _redact_approval_command() (redact_sensitive_text force=True):
1. chat platforms — _approval_notify_sync (gateway/run.py): redact before
both the button path (send_exec_approval) and the plain-text /approve
fallback.
2. SSE/API stream — _approval_notify (gateway/platforms/api_server.py):
redact event['command'] before it is enqueued to API/desktop clients.
(whole-bug-class: sibling call path on a separate transport.)
force=True so the prompt — a hard secret-egress boundary — honors redaction
even when security.redact_secrets is off. Clean commands pass through unchanged.
Tests bind the seam (synthetic credential-format fixtures, force-when-disabled) AND assert
BOTH callbacks ASSIGN the redacted result before the send/enqueue sink, via an
AST contract that rejects a discarded-result call. All mutation-checked.
The connector half (gateway-gateway) moves the passthrough plane's post-ACK
forward off the HTTP gatewayEndpoint onto the gateway's outbound /relay WS via
a new passthrough_forward frame. This is the gateway side: the relay adapter
now RECEIVES and handles that frame, so a hosted gateway (no public IP) can
process forwarded Class-2/3 traffic (Discord interactions, Twilio) over the
socket it already holds — closing the "passthrough inbound doesn't work for
hosted gateways" gap.
- ws_transport.py: decode the passthrough_forward frame; PassthroughForward
dataclass + _passthrough_from_wire (base64 body -> exact bytes, byte parity
with the connector's toPassthroughForward); set_passthrough_handler mirrors
set_interrupt_inbound_handler.
- transport.py: PassthroughHandler type + set_passthrough_handler on the
RelayTransport protocol.
- adapter.py: connect() wires the passthrough handler; _on_passthrough decodes
the (already-sanitized, token-free) forward and, for a Discord interaction,
converts it to a MessageEvent routed through the normal agent path
(handle_message) — the reply egresses over the outbound / token-less
follow_up path, so the gateway never holds the interaction credential. Never
raises (a bad forward can't kill the read loop). Non-discord forwards (Twilio)
are logged + dropped for now.
- docs/relay-connector-contract.md: document the passthrough_forward frame +
PassthroughForward shape + §3.1.
The interaction -> MessageEvent CONVERSION semantics (slash-command vs button
UX, option rendering) are the open sub-design flagged in the spec; the TRANSPORT
+ receive mechanism (this) is settled per Ben's Gate-2 decision: "the relay
adapter handles receiving these events over the WS."
Tests (tests/gateway/relay/test_relay_passthrough.py): byte-preservation
round-trip (+ malformed-body tolerance), connect() wiring, application-command
and message-component interactions route through handle_message with correct
session source + scope capture, malformed/non-discord forwards dropped cleanly.
100 relay tests green. Pairs with the connector PR (gateway-gateway).
Authorization to message the agent is the gate, not the file extension.
Previously the inbound-attachment allowlist (SUPPORTED_DOCUMENT_TYPES) was
opt-OUT on Discord (allow_any_attachment defaulted false) and had no bypass
at all on Telegram/Slack — so an .html (or any non-allowlisted type) was
dropped or hard-rejected before the agent saw it.
Now every authorized upload is cached and surfaced to the agent regardless
of type:
- base.cache_media_bytes(): unknown types cache as octet-stream (or the
caller-supplied MIME) instead of returning None — fixes the chokepoint
that Teams/Telegram-media route through.
- discord/telegram/slack adapters: removed the allowlist reject/skip; any
non-media attachment is typed DOCUMENT and cached. Known types keep their
precise MIME.
- Text inlining now gates on a shared _TEXT_INJECT_EXTENSIONS set (text +
code + config + markup) instead of a blind UTF-8 decode, so binary formats
(PDF/zip/docx) with ASCII headers are never inlined.
- gateway/run.py emits the path-pointing context note for every DOCUMENT,
including non text/application MIME types.
- discord.allow_any_attachment is now a documented no-op kept for config
back-compat.
Validation: 357 gateway tests pass; E2E confirms .html/.bin/custom types
cache, known types stay precise, PDFs are not inlined.
terminal.docker_extra_args passes flags verbatim to `docker run` (e.g.
--gpus=all, --shm-size=16g). It was wired into DEFAULT_CONFIG,
TERMINAL_CONFIG_ENV_MAP (so `hermes config set` bridged it),
terminal_tool._get_env_config (reads TERMINAL_DOCKER_EXTRA_ARGS), and
DockerEnvironment (applies extra_args) -- but it was MISSING from cli.py's
env_mappings and gateway/run.py's _terminal_env_map.
Consequence: a user who hand-edits config.yaml (rather than running
`hermes config set`) has docker_extra_args silently dropped on the CLI and
gateway/desktop startup paths, while docker_image / docker_volumes (which
ARE in those maps) bridge correctly -- producing the reported 'Hermes
partially reads the Docker config' symptom where --gpus=all and
--shm-size=16g never reach docker run.
This is the same bridge-coverage bug class that shipped before for
docker_run_as_host_user (cli + gateway) and docker_mount_cwd_to_workspace
(gateway). Fix by adding the key to both maps, plus a dedicated regression
pin in test_terminal_config_env_sync.py mirroring the existing
test_docker_*_is_bridged_everywhere guards.
Surface dangerous host/deployment posture at gateway startup so operators get
the 'you're exposed' signal the June 2026 MCP-config persistence campaign
victims never had. Warn-only — never blocks startup, never raises.
Checks (each independently fail-safe):
- Running as root (POSIX uid 0)
- SSH daemon with PasswordAuthentication enabled (incl. the 'yes' default)
- Running in a container with no persistent volume mount over HERMES_HOME
- Network-accessible API server with no API_SERVER_KEY
New module hermes_cli/security_audit_startup.py; invoked once per process from
start_gateway() right after setup_logging(). Cross-platform (root/SSH checks
no-op on Windows). Idea: @Cthulhu.
Remove the dashboard --insecure auth-bypass, add an MCP persistence guard +
IOC blocklist, and raise the API-server key entropy floor.
Driven by the June 2026 hermes-0day campaign (r/hermesagent, live 854.media
instance): scanners find exposed Hermes dashboards/API servers, drive the
root agent to plant a 'command: bash' MCP entry that appends an attacker SSH
key to authorized_keys, which cron + startup then re-execute every tick.
- dashboard: --insecure no longer disables the auth gate. should_require_auth
returns True for every non-loopback bind; a public bind ALWAYS requires an
auth provider (bundled password provider or OAuth). --insecure kept as a
warned no-op for backward compat. Fail-closed error now points at the
password provider, not at --insecure.
- mcp_security: validate_mcp_server_entry now also rejects shell payloads that
write to OS persistence surfaces (authorized_keys/.ssh/pam.d/sudoers/cron/
rc files) and hard-rejects a hermes-0day IOC blocklist (attacker SSH key +
source IPs) anywhere in command/args/env. Runs at save AND spawn time.
- api_server: raise network-bind API_SERVER_KEY entropy floor 8->16 chars;
warn when a network-accessible API server runs an unsandboxed local backend.
The PID-reuse guard (#43846) reads /proc/<pid>/stat field 22, which only
exists on Linux — on macOS/Windows it returned None and the guard silently
degraded to a bare liveness check (a no-op, safety-wise). Add a
psutil.create_time() fallback (psutil is a hard dep, cross-platform),
quantized to centiseconds for stable equality, so the recycled-PID guard
actually protects macOS/Windows too. /proc always wins first on Linux and
always misses on macOS/Windows, so the two sources never mix on one host and
same-source equality is all the guard needs.
For adapter plugins, ``PlatformEntry.check_fn`` doubles as a lazy installer:
calling it pip-installs the platform SDK as a side effect (see e.g.
``plugins/platforms/discord/adapter.py::check_discord_requirements``). The
enablement sweep in ``_apply_env_overrides`` called ``check_fn`` for every
registered plugin platform unconditionally, so a single
``load_gateway_config()`` — which the desktop/dashboard readiness probe
``GET /api/status`` awaits synchronously — pip-installed Discord, Telegram,
Slack, Feishu and Dingtalk even when the user configured none of them
(``platforms: none``). On a slow or restricted network the installs ran long
enough to block the event loop past the desktop's readiness timeouts, so the
app timed out, killed and re-spawned the backend, and boot-looped (stuck at
94%).
Consult the cheap ``is_connected`` credential check FIRST and only run the
install-triggering ``check_fn`` for platforms that are already enabled or
actually configured. Auto-enable-by-credentials is unchanged: a platform with
its token set still gets its SDK installed and enabled.
Follow-up to the salvaged #9560 fix:
- Replace the _TRAVERSAL_RE regex with an explicit _is_path_unsafe() helper
(drops the now-unused `import re`); catches a path separator ANYWHERE,
not just leading, so a non-leading Windows backslash can't slip through.
- Switch the per-entry skip in _ensure_loaded_locked from print() to
logger.warning to match the module's logging conventions.
- Add AUTHOR_MAP entry for the contributor.
- Add regression tests for the non-leading-separator case.
Extends the CWE-22 path traversal guard to cover Windows absolute paths
of the form C:/... and D:\... — previously only leading / and \ were
checked, which missed drive-letter prefixes. Replaces the inline
startswith check with a compiled module-level regex (_TRAVERSAL_RE) that
covers all three attack patterns: .., leading /\, and leading X: drives.
Adds two regression tests for C:/windows/system32 and D:\\path\\to\\file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses PR #9560 review comments: applies the CWE-22 fix to current main
(post-PR #458 rebase) and adds the requested regression tests.
- SessionEntry.from_dict now raises ValueError for session_key or session_id
containing '..' or starting with '/' or '\' (directory traversal guard)
- SessionStore._ensure_loaded moves per-entry validation inside the loop so
one malicious/corrupt entry is skipped with a warning instead of aborting
the entire sessions.json load
- Adds TestSessionEntryFromDictTraversalValidation (5 cases) and
TestEnsureLoadedSkipsInvalidEntries covering the skip-not-abort behavior
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a streamed Telegram reply finalizes, the stream consumer could take
the fresh-final path (send a new sendRichMessage + best-effort delete the
preview) purely because the time-based _should_send_fresh_final()
threshold elapsed — even though Telegram's prefers_fresh_final_streaming
returns False. The fresh Rich Message then overlapped the legacy
MarkdownV2 preview already on screen, leaving both visible (the #47048
table + bullet double-render).
Honor the adapter's decision: when prefers_fresh_final_streaming exists
on the adapter (checked on the class + instance __dict__ so MagicMock
auto-attrs don't false-positive) and declines, the time threshold no
longer overrides it. Adapters without the hook keep the time-based
fresh-final for backward compat.
Fixes#47048
When a /model switch resolves a valid model but the in-place agent swap
fails mid-conversation (expired key, unreachable base_url), the agent
rolls itself back to the old working model+client and re-raises. The
callers caught that re-raise, logged a warning, then committed the broken
switch anyway: wrote the failed model to the session DB, set
_session_model_overrides to the broken model/provider/key, and (gateway
direct path) evicted the working cached agent. The next message then
rebuilt a dead agent from the broken override -> permanently unusable
conversation (#50163).
Fix the whole caller class so a failed swap aborts the commit entirely:
- gateway/slash_commands.py (picker + direct /model paths): on swap
failure, early-return an error message; skip DB persist, session
override, cache eviction, and config write.
- cli.py (both /model handlers): snapshot CLI-level credential/runtime
fields before mutating, restore them on swap failure, and abort the
note + success print.
- tui_gateway/server.py: wrap the previously-unguarded swap; on failure
raise a clean error and skip worker restart, runtime persist, switch
marker, session model_override, and config persist.
The no-cached-agent path (apply-on-next-session) is unaffected.
Adds a gateway regression test that fails on the pre-fix behavior.
Baileys' jidDecode crashes ("Cannot destructure property 'user' of
jidDecode(...) as it is undefined") when handed a bare phone number, so
sending a WhatsApp message to +50766715226 / 50766715226 returned HTTP
500 and never delivered (#8637).
Add to_whatsapp_jid() to gateway/whatsapp_identity.py — the outbound
inverse of normalize_whatsapp_identifier: it builds the JID a send must
use (bare phone -> <digits>@s.whatsapp.net) and passes through already
qualified JIDs (@g.us, @lid, status@broadcast, @newsletter) unchanged.
Wire it at every outbound bridge call site in the WhatsApp adapter
(send, edit, media, typing, get_chat_info, and the standalone cron /
send_message sender).
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>
In Telegram streaming, the typing indicator persisted through the slow
final rich-text/MarkdownV2 finalize edit, so the '...typing' bubble
lingered for seconds after the last streamed token. Add a one-shot
on_before_finalize hook to GatewayStreamConsumer, fired once when the
stream transitions into its finalization path, and wire it on both
Telegram streaming call sites to call pause_typing_for_chat() before
the final edit. Cover hook ordering and once-only behavior in tests.
Fixes#49712
The gateway dispatcher captured kanban.auto_decompose ONCE at boot, so a user
who flipped it to false to STOP auto-decompose had no way to make that take
effect short of restarting the gateway. Reported (#49638): auto-decompose
created and launched tasks the user never intended (while they were still
typing the task description), and 'even Hermes Agent couldn't disable this
feature' — because the live config edit was silently ignored.
Auto-decompose is a safety toggle; turning it off must halt fan-out on the
next tick. The dispatcher now re-reads the flag (and auto_decompose_per_tick)
from config every tick via the extracted _resolve_auto_decompose_settings(),
which fails SAFE (disabled) on a config read error so a transient failure can
never re-enable a feature the user turned off.
Closes#49638.
Add a platform-neutral send-failure vocabulary so consumers can branch on a
typed category instead of substring-matching the raw provider message.
- base.py: SEND_ERROR_KINDS + classify_send_error() (too_long / bad_format /
forbidden / not_found / rate_limited / transient / unknown), and an optional
SendResult.error_kind field (defaults None — fully backward compatible).
- telegram.py: populate error_kind on send() failures; message_too_long keeps
its existing error token plus error_kind='too_long'.
Purely additive: no behavioral change to the existing degrade-and-deliver
paths (MarkdownV2->plain-text fallback, overflow split, retry classification
all untouched). 22 new tests + 210 adapter regression tests green.
* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path
terminal(notify_on_complete=True / watch_patterns) and delegate_task(background=True)
silently no-op'd on the API server / WebUI path (#10760): the watcher / detached
child registered, but every API-server route (OpenAI-spec /v1/chat/completions
and /v1/responses, plus the proprietary /v1/runs SSE stream) tears down its
channel when the turn ends, and APIServerAdapter.send() is a no-op stub. A
completion that fires after the response closed had nowhere to go — from the
agent side, indistinguishable from a hang.
There is no spec-compliant surface to wake the agent later on a stateless HTTP
client, so make the no-op honest instead of silent:
- Add a per-adapter capability flag supports_async_delivery (default True;
APIServerAdapter = False), propagated into a HERMES_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY
contextvar via async_delivery_supported(). Toggle on the adapter, not a
hardcoded platform string — a future stateless adapter is correct-by-default.
- terminal: when delivery is unsupported, skip watcher registration, force
notify_on_complete off, and return a notify_unsupported note telling the
agent to process(action='poll').
- delegate_task: when delivery is unsupported, fall back to SYNCHRONOUS
execution (work runs and returns in the same response) with a note, instead
of handing out a handle that never resolves.
CLI (in-process completion_queue) and the real gateway platforms are unchanged.
Fixes#10760
* refactor(api-server): route session binding through a single no-delivery chokepoint
Add APIServerAdapter._bind_api_server_session() and route both agent-entry
paths (_run_agent for /v1/chat/completions + /v1/responses, and the /v1/runs
_run_sync path) through it. The helper hardwires platform="api_server" and
async_delivery=False with no async_delivery parameter to pass, so a future
route added to the API server physically cannot reintroduce the silent
no-op (#10760) by forgetting to mark the channel as non-delivering.
The binding stays request-scoped (cleared per turn), so a session resumed
later on a delivering interface (CLI / gateway platform) re-binds fresh and
is NOT blocked — the no-delivery decision tracks the interface handling the
current turn, never the session.
A turn forcibly interrupted by the drain-timeout escalation never reaches
turn_finalizer.finalize_turn (the only place that flushes the turn to
state.db). Its in-flight tool rounds live only in the in-memory
_session_messages, so the immediate pre-restart turn was silently dropped
from load_transcript() on resume.
_finalize_shutdown_agents now flushes _session_messages to the SQLite
session store before teardown. The flush is idempotent (identity-tracked
in _flush_messages_to_session_db), so agents that finished gracefully
re-flush nothing. The resume_pending / fresh-tool-tail branches in
_handle_message_with_agent already expect a transcript whose tail may be a
pending tool result.
Fixes#13121.
Inbound image/audio/video payloads were buffered fully into process memory
before being written to the cache, with no size limit. A large upload
(Discord Nitro allows 500 MB) or a remote media URL in an inbound message
pointing at a huge file could spike RAM and OOM-kill the gateway.
Enforce a configurable cap in the shared cache helpers (gateway/platforms/
base.py) so the protection holds across every platform adapter, not one:
- cache_image/audio/video_from_bytes reject oversized payloads before writing
(video was the gap in the original report — now covered).
- cache_image/audio_from_url stream the body, rejecting on an oversized
Content-Length header and re-checking the running total per chunk so an
absent/lying header can't smuggle an unbounded body past the cap.
- Discord's _read_attachment_bytes checks att.size up front, so an oversized
attachment is rejected before any bytes are pulled into memory.
Configurable via gateway.max_inbound_media_bytes in config.yaml (default
128 MiB; 0 disables). No new env var — non-secret config lives in config.yaml.
Salvaged and extended from @sgaofen's PR #13341 (the original report and the
shared-helper approach). Reapplied onto current main (Discord adapter has
since moved to plugins/platforms/discord/), the configurable knob moved from
an env var to config.yaml, and the video cache helper added.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>
Funnel session finalization through AIAgent.close() — the single terminal
path every agent (CLI, gateway, subagent, cron) funnels through — so finished
agents stop leaving rows with ended_at IS NULL. The biggest leak source was
delegate_task subagent + background-review forks whose close() never ended
their row.
end_session() is first-reason-wins and no-ops on an already-ended row, so a
'compression'/'cron_complete'/'cli_close' reason set by an earlier terminal
path is never clobbered. /resume already calls reopen_session(), so
finalizing-on-close does not break resumability.
Temporary helper agents that rotate/share the session forward (manual
compression, gateway session-hygiene) opt out via _end_session_on_close=False.
Also stop the long-running gateway heartbeat once the executor is done or the
session slot is rebound to a different agent, preventing a stale
'running: delegate_task' bubble from outliving its run.
Closes#12029.
The gateway pre-compression hygiene valve force-compressed any session
crossing 400 messages regardless of token usage. On large-context (1M+)
models doing many short, message-dense turns, a healthy session at ~16%
token usage could hit 400 messages and get force-compressed — and the
compression summary's stale Active Task could then bleed into the next
turn.
The valve's actual purpose is to break a death spiral: when API calls
keep disconnecting on an oversized session, no token-usage data arrives,
the token threshold never fires, and the transcript grows unbounded.
It's a count-based floor for that pathological case only. 400 was tuned
for ~200K-context models and is far too low for modern large-context
sessions. Raise the default to 5000 — still well clear of any death
spiral, but no longer firing on legitimate long conversations.
The value remains fully configurable via compression.hygiene_hard_message_limit.
The OpenAI-compatible API server only enforced a hardcoded cap of 10
concurrent runs on /v1/runs, leaving /v1/chat/completions and
/v1/responses unbounded — a request flood could exhaust CPU, memory,
and upstream LLM quota (#7483).
- Add gateway.api_server.max_concurrent_runs (config.yaml, default 10,
0 disables). No env var.
- Shared concurrency gate across all three agent-serving endpoints,
counting both the chat/responses in-flight counter and the /v1/runs
stream set. Returns OpenAI-style 429 + Retry-After when at the cap.
- Remove the dead hardcoded _MAX_CONCURRENT_RUNS class attribute.
Closes#7483.
