SimpleX tagged unknown files application/octet-stream in media_types
but classification only handled audio/image, leaving msg_type TEXT —
run.py never injected the document context. Same bug class as #12845.
Inbound events key the tracker by the DM chat GUID (any;-;+1555...),
but home-channel react calls address the same space by bare E.164 —
normalize both to the phone so add_reaction's last-inbound default
resolves regardless of which form the caller uses (mirrors the
sidecar's phoneTargetFromSpaceId).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add `action='react'` to `send_message` tool and expose `add_reaction`/
`remove_reaction` on the Photon adapter.
- Track latest inbound message id per chat (`_last_inbound_by_chat`,
bounded to 200 entries) so the agent can react without threading
message ids through tool calls
- New `add_reaction`/`remove_reaction` public methods on PhotonAdapter;
unlike the lifecycle tapbacks, these are not gated by PHOTON_REACTIONS
- `send_message` gains `action='react'` with `emoji` and optional
`message_id` params; resolves target via existing channel-directory
and home-channel logic; requires a live gateway adapter
Prevents "Future attached to a different loop" errors when
_sidecar_call is invoked from a worker thread via _run_async in
send_message_tool. The persistent _http_client remains in use for
the inbound streaming loop, which always runs on the gateway's loop.
A hard gateway exit (crash, SIGKILL, supervisor restart) left the
detached Node sidecar running with a token the next gateway run doesn't
know, so it could never be told to /shutdown. Every replacement spawn
then died on EADDRINUSE, failing each 30→300s reconnect attempt while
the orphan kept consuming the inbound gRPC stream.
Two layers:
- Lifetime binding: the adapter now holds the sidecar's stdin as a
pipe, and the sidecar (PHOTON_SIDECAR_WATCH_STDIN=1) shuts down on
stdin EOF — fired by the OS on any parent death, including SIGKILL.
- Startup reaping: before spawning, the adapter probes the port and
terminates a stale listener, but only after verifying its command
line is a Photon sidecar; a foreign listener raises a clear error
instead of being signalled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pin spectrum-ts to exactly 3.0.0 (was ^1.18.0 plus an `npm install
spectrum-ts@latest` on every setup) so breaking SDK majors can't take
down fresh installs silently; `hermes photon setup` now runs `npm ci`.
Upgrade procedure documented in the README.
Migrate resolveSpace to the v3 namespace API: `im.space.create(phone)`
for DMs and `im.space.get(id)` for everything else — group spaces are
now rehydratable from their persisted id after a sidecar restart, which
v1 could not do.
Markdown: replies go out via the v3 `markdown()` builder (iMessage
renders natively; other Spectrum platforms degrade to plain text).
`PHOTON_MARKDOWN=false` reverts to the stripped plain-text path.
Reactions, behind PHOTON_REACTIONS (default off): lifecycle tapbacks
(👀 while processing, 👍/👎 on completion) via new sidecar /react and
/unreact endpoints with per-target reaction-handle tracking, and user
tapbacks on bot-sent messages routed to the agent as synthetic
`reaction:added:<emoji>` events.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(discord): recover from runtime gateway task exits
Salvaged from #39416 (AMEOBIUS) — cherry-picked only the task-exit
recovery; the original PR was 1081 commits behind with 28 unrelated
commits.
A post-ready discord.py WebSocket crash left the gateway split-brained:
producers stayed active while Discord stopped responding. After this fix
the adapter calls _set_fatal_error(retryable=True) + _notify_fatal_error()
so the existing GatewayRunner reconnect watcher replaces the dead adapter.
Also adds _wait_for_ready_or_bot_exit() so startup failures (SOCKS/proxy
errors, invalid tokens) surface fast instead of burning the full ready
timeout. Because connect() no longer waits via asyncio.wait_for on that
path, test_connect_releases_token_lock_on_timeout is updated to trigger
the timeout through the new helper (same lock-release contract).
3 tests pass (2 new runtime-failure tests + the updated timeout test);
test_discord_connect.py and test_discord_slash_commands.py green.
Co-Authored-By: ameobius <ameobius@local.host>
* fix(test): patch _wait_for_ready_or_bot_exit in timeout cancel test
connect() no longer uses asyncio.wait_for for the ready handshake, so
test_connect_timeout_cancels_bot_task was hanging for 30s in CI.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Co-authored-by: ameobius <ameobius@local.host>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Follow-up to #44389: the generic 'except Exception' branch in connect()
had the same orphaned-task hazard as the timeout branch. Extract the
cancel-and-await logic into _cancel_bot_task() and call it from all
three sites (timeout branch, exception branch, disconnect()).
Also adds deaneeth to AUTHOR_MAP.
When connect() times out waiting for the Discord ready event, the background
asyncio.Task running client.start() was not cancelled. discord.py's internal
reconnect loop can ignore client.close() while a WebSocket handshake is in
flight, so the orphaned task eventually completes and fires on_ready.
A later successful reconnect then leaves two live Discord clients in the same
process — each with its own on_message handler and MessageDeduplicator instance
— so every @mention creates two threads because the per-adapter dedup caches
cannot catch cross-client duplicates.
Fix: explicitly cancel and await _bot_task in two places:
1. The asyncio.TimeoutError handler inside connect() — catches the case where
the adapter's own inner wait_for fires before the gateway's outer timeout.
2. The start of disconnect() — the load-bearing path, always reached via
_dispose_unused_adapter regardless of which timeout fired first.
Root cause confirmed from production logs: a Jun 8 network outage caused three
consecutive connect() timeouts. The first attempt's bot_task completed its
handshake 4 minutes later ("Connected as") with no preceding watcher line,
then the watcher's real reconnect also connected 90 seconds after that. The two
clients ran continuously for 41+ hours, confirmed by the same user message
appearing as two separate inbound events in two different thread IDs 357ms apart.
Regression tests added to tests/gateway/test_discord_connect.py:
- test_connect_timeout_cancels_bot_task: simulates a connect() timeout with a
NeverReadyBot and asserts _bot_task is None afterward
- test_disconnect_cancels_running_bot_task: injects a live zombie task, calls
disconnect(), and asserts the task is cancelled and the attribute cleared
Replace the hermes-identifying clientInfo/User-Agent/session-id prefix on
the keyless Parallel Search MCP path with a neutral 'mcp-web-client'
identity. Project policy forbids third-party usage attribution without an
explicit user opt-in (see telemetry PR policy); MCP requires a clientInfo,
so a generic one satisfies the spec without attributing traffic.
Also adds the contributor AUTHOR_MAP entry and refreshes uv.lock against
current main (parallel-web 0.6.0).
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.
* fix(openrouter): route reasoning_effort to verbosity for adaptive Anthropic models
Reasoning-mandatory Anthropic models (Claude 4.6+/fable/mythos-class) over
OpenRouter ignore reasoning.effort and use adaptive thinking. #42991 correctly
stopped Hermes from sending a reasoning field to them (it 400s), but put nothing
in its place — leaving agent.reasoning_effort a silent no-op on the OpenRouter
path: the model always ran at its adaptive default (high) regardless of config.
OpenRouter honors the requested effort on the top-level verbosity field instead
(maps to Anthropic output_config.effort). Route the existing
reasoning_config[effort] there for these models while still never emitting a
reasoning field, preserving the #42991 fix. No new config arg — the value the
user already sets via agent.reasoning_effort now flows to verbosity.
- low/medium/high/xhigh/max pass through verbatim (OpenRouter accepts the
extended scale for Claude; verified live HTTP 200 + monotonic token spend).
- effort unset/none/disabled omits verbosity so the model keeps its default.
- native Anthropic transport already correct; unchanged.
Fixes#43432
* test(openrouter): cover real effort range (add minimal, frame max as passthrough)
Adversarial review noted the verbosity tests looped over 'max' — a value
parse_reasoning_effort can never produce — while omitting 'minimal', which it
can. Align the routing test with the real config range
(VALID_REASONING_EFFORTS = minimal/low/medium/high/xhigh) and keep a separate
value-agnostic passthrough test that documents why xhigh/max must survive
verbatim (TypedDict, no runtime literal validation; OpenRouter accepts the
extended scale for Claude).
* docs: explain reasoning_effort -> verbosity routing for adaptive Anthropic models
Document that reasoning_effort transparently maps to OpenRouter's verbosity
field for adaptive-thinking Anthropic models (Claude 4.6+/Fable/Mythos), where
reasoning.effort is ignored. Note xhigh is the configurable ceiling (max is wire-
only). Add verbosity as a top-level-kwarg example in the provider-plugin guide.
Follow-ups on top of #26016's expensive-model guard:
- gateway/slash_commands.py: typed '/model <name>' now routes through the
expensive-model confirmation gate (slash-confirm buttons / text fallback)
instead of bypassing the guard the pickers enforce. Cancel leaves the
session override and --global config untouched.
- telegram/discord/web_server: run expensive_model_warning() via
asyncio.to_thread — it can hit models.dev or a /models endpoint on a
cache miss, which would otherwise block the event loop.
- telegram: picker callback no longer toasts 'Model switched!' when the
switch callback raised (both mm: and mc: paths).
- tests: new tests/gateway/test_model_command_expensive_confirm.py pins
the typed-path gate (prompt, confirm-once, cancel, cheap-model no-op).
Rebased onto current main and re-ported across the restructured
surfaces: model flows now thread confirm_provider/base_url/api_key
through hermes_cli/model_setup_flows.py, the Discord picker lives in
plugins/platforms/discord/adapter.py, and the web dashboard picker
applies chat-mode switches via config.set so the expensive-model
confirmation can ride the response.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DISCORD_ALLOWED_ROLES was checked by the Discord adapter (_is_allowed_user)
but gateway._is_user_authorized only read DISCORD_ALLOWED_USERS, so
role-authorized users were rejected with "Unauthorized user" at the
gateway layer despite passing the adapter gate.
- Add role_authorized: bool = False to SessionSource
- Add role_authorized param to build_source (base.py)
- Compute _role_authorized in on_message when user passes via role not user ID
- Thread _role_authorized through _handle_message -> build_source
- Check source.role_authorized early in _is_user_authorized (run.py)
Fixes#33952
The voice inactivity timer (VOICE_TIMEOUT) only counted the bot's OWN audio
playback as activity. Under /voice off (text-only replies, but still in the
channel — leaving is /voice leave) nothing ever reset it, so every 300s the bot
disconnected and spammed "Left voice channel (inactivity timeout)."
The adapter now learns the live voice-reply mode via a getter wired from run.py
and skips the auto-disconnect while mode is off. It also resets the timer when a
user actually speaks to the bot, so an active listener (incl. voice-on
text-only sessions that never play audio) isn't dropped mid-conversation.
The Langfuse SDK treats `data:*;base64,...` strings as media and tries to
decode them. `_truncate_text` was slicing those strings mid-payload, producing
invalid base64 and noisy "Error parsing base64 data URI" logs. Observability
only needs the metadata, not raw image/audio bytes, so redact the whole data
URI (type, media_type, length) before it reaches the SDK.
Salvaged the Langfuse fix from #39682 onto current main as a standalone,
single-concern change (the dashboard `dist/**` and plugin-discovery parts of
that PR already landed separately on main).
Co-authored-by: foras910521-lab <foras910521-lab@users.noreply.github.com>
The previous fix (#42991) only omitted reasoning when it was being disabled.
But reasoning-mandatory Anthropic models (Claude 4.6+, fable) 400 with
thinking.type.disabled on EVERY tool-continuation turn even when reasoning is
enabled: chat_completions never replays signed thinking blocks, so the prior
assistant tool_call has no thinking, and OpenRouter resolves "reasoning
requested but history has none" by emitting thinking.type.disabled — which
these models reject. Result: first turn works, every turn after the first tool
call dies (HTTP 400, non-retryable).
OpenRouter ignores reasoning.effort for adaptive Anthropic models anyway (the
model self-decides), so the reasoning field is pointless for them on every turn
and harmful on tool-replay turns. Omit it entirely → adaptive default.
- openrouter profile: drop the reasoning field for reasoning-mandatory Anthropic
models regardless of enabled/disabled; legacy Anthropic + non-Anthropic models
unchanged.
- tests: assert omission across enabled/disabled/effort variants; parity tests
switched to a non-Anthropic reasoning model (deepseek) since Anthropic 4.6+ no
longer carries a reasoning field.
Verified live end-to-end: a tool-replay turn on anthropic/claude-fable-5 with
reasoning enabled now builds extra_body=None and returns HTTP 200 (was 400).
New Anthropic models without a recognized version substring (claude-fable-5
and future named/numbered releases) were classified as legacy and routed down
the manual-thinking path, which made OpenRouter emit thinking.type.disabled —
a form reasoning-mandatory Claude models reject with a non-retryable HTTP 400.
Invert the brittle version-substring allowlists to default-to-modern (mirroring
_get_anthropic_max_output): unknown Claude models get the adaptive/xhigh/
no-sampling contract, with an explicit legacy list for older families. Non-Claude
Anthropic-Messages models (minimax, qwen3, …) keep the manual path.
- anthropic_adapter: _supports_adaptive_thinking / _supports_xhigh_effort /
_forbids_sampling_params now default unknown Claude models to modern; legacy
families enumerated in _LEGACY_MANUAL_THINKING_CLAUDE_SUBSTRINGS.
- openrouter profile: omit reasoning entirely (→ adaptive default) instead of
forwarding {enabled:false} for reasoning-mandatory Anthropic models; legacy
Anthropic + all non-Anthropic models still pass the disable form through.
- model_metadata + output-limit table: register claude-fable-5 (1M ctx, 128K out).
Tests assert the invariant ("unknown Claude model -> modern contract; legacy
stays manual; non-Claude unaffected"), not specific model names.
* fix(photon): override transitive CVEs in the sidecar deps
`npm audit` flagged 7 high-severity transitive CVEs (protobufjs code injection
GHSA-66ff-xgx4-vchm + outdated @opentelemetry OTLP exporters) pulled in via
spectrum-ts -> @photon-ai/otel. npm's suggested fix downgrades spectrum-ts to a
version that targets the decommissioned spectrum host, so instead pin patched
versions via `overrides` (protobufjs 8.6.1, @opentelemetry/* 0.218.0) without
touching spectrum-ts. `npm audit` -> 0; spectrum-ts + provider still import.
* fix(photon): harden the sidecar bridge + bound the dedup cache
- constant-time sidecar control-token comparison (was `!==`, timing-attackable).
- cap the control-channel request body (2 MiB) so a compromised local peer can't
OOM the sidecar.
- wrap the inbound gRPC stream consumer in a re-subscribe loop with capped
exponential backoff + jitter — if the async iterator throws/ends it would
otherwise stop inbound forever (the adapter dedupes any replay).
- add an unhandledRejection handler so a stray rejection logs instead of killing
the process.
- dedup cache (adapter) was a true bounded LRU only for expired entries; a burst
of unique ids within the window grew it without limit. Evict oldest at the cap.
* chore: add AUTHOR_MAP entry for PhilipAD
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Co-authored-by: PhilipAD <philipadsouza@gmail.com>
Based on #42658 by @mnajafian-nv.
Preserves the real downstream provider/tool exception when NeMo Relay's
managed adaptive execution wraps a failing callback as an internal runtime
error. Without this, the original exception (and its retry-classification
signal, e.g. status_code) is lost behind Relay's wrapper.
Salvage changes on top of the original PR:
- Tolerant Relay-wrapper match: _is_relay_wrapped_callback_error now uses
str.startswith on the "internal error: <cls>: <msg>" prefix instead of
exact equality, so a future Relay version appending a traceback/suffix
doesn't silently defeat the unwrap. On a total format change it returns
False and falls back to the pre-fix behavior (surfacing Relay's error)
rather than masking it.
- Deduplicated the LLM and tool execute paths into a shared
_run_managed_with_downstream_preservation helper, removing ~20 lines of
copy-pasted nonlocal/try-except scaffolding that could drift out of sync.
- Added a real-middleware regression guard
(test_nemo_relay_downstream_unwrap_matches_real_middleware_wrapper_shape)
that drives hermes_cli.middleware._run_execution_chain and asserts the
plugin's _original_downstream_error unwraps the actual private
_DownstreamExecutionError wrapper. The original synthetic tests modeled the
wrapper with a local class, so a rename or shape change in core middleware
would not have been caught; this test fails loudly if that contract drifts.
Co-authored-by: mnajafian-nv <mnajafian@nvidia.com>
Extend the sidecar and Python adapter to handle `voice` content
alongside `attachment`. Voice notes are inlined as base64 (same
size-cap logic), surfaced as `MessageType.VOICE`, and include an
optional `duration` field in fallback markers when bytes are
unavailable.
Switch `list_users`, `find_user_by_phone`, `create_user`,
`register_user_if_absent`, and `refresh_user_numbers` from the
Dashboard API (Bearer token) to the Spectrum API (Basic auth with
project credentials). Update response unwrapping to handle the nested
`data.users` envelope returned by Spectrum, add `_spectrum_host()`
resolver, `_basic()` header helper, and structured error helpers.
Update tests, docs, and plugin.yaml accordingly.
Store operator and assigned iMessage numbers in `auth.json` after
setup, and surface them in `hermes photon status`. When numbers are
missing, status auto-refreshes from the dashboard without provisioning
new lines.
When Hermes runs in TUI mode, the gateway child process communicates with
the Node.js parent over a JSON-RPC protocol on stdin. Subprocess calls that
inherit this stdin fd can trigger a race condition where the child's stdin
read returns EOF, causing the gateway to exit cleanly (exit code 0) mid-tool-
execution.
This is the same root cause as issue #14036 (byterover plugin) and PR #39257
(SSH environment backend). This commit applies the fix — stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL
— to all 85 subprocess.run() and subprocess.Popen() calls that execute inside
the TUI gateway child process.
Scope: TUI-context code only (agent/, tools/, plugins/, tui_gateway/server.py).
CLI code (cli.py, hermes_cli/), tests, scripts, and gateway process management
are excluded — they don't run inside the TUI child and inherit the terminal's
stdin, not the JSON-RPC pipe.
85 call sites across 28 files. All files pass syntax check.
Drop `replyTo` from all outbound send paths and update the `/typing`
endpoint to use the documented `typing("start" | "stop")` content
builder. Adds a `stop_typing` method on the adapter to pair with
`send_typing`.
Replace raw `{ replyTo }` send options with the `spectrumReply` content
builder from spectrum-ts, which is the correct API for threading
replies.
Adds `maybeReplyContent` helper with graceful fallback to normal send
when
the reply target cannot be resolved.
Allow PHOTON_HOME_CHANNEL to accept a bare E.164 phone number or a
`any;-;+1...` DM chat GUID in addition to a Spectrum space id. Inbound
DM spaces are cached so replies resolve without a second SDK lookup,
and `photon` is added to _PHONE_PLATFORMS so send_message treats E.164
strings as explicit targets rather than falling through to channel-name
resolution.
During `hermes photon setup`, allowlist the operator's number and set
their DM as the cron home channel when those env vars are unset. Without
this, the gateway denies the operator's own messages and cron has no
default delivery target. Re-runs never overwrite hand-tuned values.
Also teaches the sidecar's `resolveSpace` to accept a bare E.164 number
as a space identifier, resolving it to the user's DM space so
`PHOTON_HOME_CHANNEL` can be set to a phone number instead of an opaque
space id.
On shared-number plans, `/lines` has no dedicated entry, so the
`assignedPhoneNumber` field on the user object is the source of truth
for which number to text the agent. Fall back to the line inventory
only when no per-user assignment exists.
Make Photon iMessage a first-class persistent-connection channel like
Discord/Slack, using the spectrum-ts gRPC stream for both directions.
- Inbound: the sidecar forwards the SDK's app.messages gRPC stream to the
adapter over a loopback GET /inbound (NDJSON) instead of webhooks. Drops
the aiohttp webhook server, HMAC signature verification, public URL, and
PHOTON_WEBHOOK_* config; adapter reconnects with backoff.
- Management plane: device login uses client_id=photon-cli against the
single dashboard host (Bearer), matching the official photon-hq/cli;
find-or-create "Hermes Agent" project, enable Spectrum, rotate secret,
register user (with phone dedup), surface the assigned iMessage line.
- SDK projectId is the project's spectrumProjectId, not the dashboard id;
runtime creds persist to ~/.hermes/.env like every other channel.
- CLI: 6-step setup, webhook subcommands removed.
- Tests/docs updated for the gRPC flow; sidecar pins spectrum-ts ^1.17.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Salvage of PR #27978 cherry-picked onto current main, resolving conflicts
with main's intervening SimpleX plugin fixes (resp-envelope normalization,
health-monitor reconnect-churn fix, bare-form DM addressing).
What's new:
- Group support via SIMPLEX_GROUP_ALLOWED (comma-separated IDs or '*');
inbound items surface chat_id=group:<id> + chat_type=group. Disabled by
default so a bot in a group doesn't process every member's traffic.
- Inbound files/voice via rcvFileDescrReady (immediate /freceive) deferred
through _pending_file_transfers, replayed on rcvFileComplete. Voice notes
-> MessageType.VOICE.
- Native outbound media: send_image (PNG/JPEG + inline thumbnail), send_voice
(msgContent.type=voice), send_video, send_document. All addressed by numeric
ID via /_send ... json [...].
- MEDIA:<path> tags in agent replies stripped and dispatched as voice/document.
- Text-burst batching (HERMES_SIMPLEX_TEXT_BATCH_DELAY, default 0.8s).
- Auto-accept contact requests (SIMPLEX_AUTO_ACCEPT, default true).
- Group send path uses structured /_send #<id> json form (the bracket
#[<id>] form is parsed as display-name lookup and silently drops).
plugin.yaml bumped to 1.1.0; docs updated. All inside plugins/platforms/simplex/
- no core edits.
Co-authored-by: Juraj Bednar <juraj@bednar.io>
Photon now allowlists registered device clients on the device-code
endpoint; the old client_id "hermes-agent" is rejected with
400 invalid_client, breaking the entire login flow. Switch to Photon's
published "photon-cli" device client and send the standard scope.
Also validate the device-flow token against /api/auth/get-session and
/api/projects/ before persisting it, and extract token candidates from
every response shape Photon has used (access_token, accessToken,
data.*, set-auth-token header) so a token that authenticates the
session lookup but is rejected by the project API fails loudly at
login instead of 404ing downstream.
Verified live: request_device_code() now returns 200 + a valid
user_code where "hermes-agent" returned 400 invalid_client.
Salvaged from #34467 by @yanxue06.
Photon now exposes attachment send (Ray Sun, photon-nousresearch), so
the Photon plugin gains outbound media to match the BlueBubbles iMessage
channel.
- sidecar: new /send-attachment endpoint wrapping space.send(attachment())
/ space.send(voice()); caption sent as a trailing text bubble.
- adapter: override send_image/send_image_file/send_voice/send_video/
send_document/send_animation. URL helpers cache to a local path first
(cache_image_from_url), file helpers pass through. Defense-in-depth
path re-validation before the path reaches the Node sidecar.
- _standalone_send (cron): send text first, then each media_file as a
/send-attachment call (is_voice -> voice builder).
- docs/README: flip the 'outbound attachments not wired' note.
Adds the last missing parity piece vs the established channels: group
chats can be made opt-in via a mention wake word, exactly like the
BlueBubbles iMessage channel.
- require_mention + mention_patterns, read from config.extra (config.yaml
via the generic gateway bridge) or PHOTON_REQUIRE_MENTION /
PHOTON_MENTION_PATTERNS env vars. Same shapes BlueBubbles accepts
(list / JSON / comma / newline), same default Hermes wake words.
- _dispatch_inbound drops unmatched group messages and strips the leading
wake word from matched ones; DMs are never gated.
- plugin.yaml + docs document both knobs and the config.yaml form.
- New test_mention_gating.py (8 tests): default-off, group drop/pass,
wake-word strip, DM bypass, custom patterns, env comma-list, invalid
regex skip.
The config.yaml -> extra bridge needed no core change — the generic
shared-key loop in gateway/config.py already iterates plugin platforms
(_shared_loop_targets += plugin_entries()), so require_mention /
mention_patterns flow through automatically.
Note: outbound media is the one capability Photon still can't reach —
Photon exposes no HTTP send-attachment endpoint yet (documented API
limitation), so the sidecar can't send files. Not faked.
Validation: 34/34 photon tests; E2E confirms config.yaml require_mention
+ custom mention_patterns bridge through load_gateway_config into a live
adapter and gate/strip correctly.
Brings Photon in line with how every other Hermes gateway channel
behaves, instead of being a one-off with its own surfaces.
- gateway setup: register a `setup_fn` so Photon appears in
`hermes gateway setup` (the unified wizard) and runs the same
device-login + project + user + sidecar flow as `hermes photon setup`.
Adds `cli.gateway_setup()` as the zero-arg entry point.
- PII redaction: flip `pii_safe` False -> True. The comment already
said iMessage E.164 numbers should be redacted; the value contradicted
it. Now matches BlueBubbles (the other iMessage channel) which is in
_PII_SAFE_PLATFORMS — phone numbers are stripped before reaching the LLM.
- Pairing/authz: already worked via the registry's allowed_users_env /
allow_all_env generic path in authz_mixin; documented it. The adapter
forwards unauthorized DMs to the gateway (no intake gating), so the
pairing handshake fires and `hermes pairing approve photon <CODE>` works.
- Docs: fixed the `hermes photon status` output block to match the real
labels (project key / webhook key, not project secret / webhook secret),
added the missing PHOTON_API_HOST / PHOTON_DASHBOARD_HOST /
PHOTON_HOME_CHANNEL_NAME env vars, and added gateway-setup +
authorize-users sections mirroring the other channel docs.
Validation: 26/26 photon tests, 6504/6504 gateway+plugins tests, registry
E2E confirms setup_fn dispatch + pii_safe + authz envs all wired.
