* fix(streaming): route mid-tool-call partial-stream-stub through length continuation (#31998)
When a stream stalls mid-tool-call (e.g. a large write_file), the
partial-stream-stub recovery used finish_reason='stop' which caused the
conversation loop to treat the turn as complete, returning only the
warning text. When users said 'continue', the model retried the same
large tool call, hit the same stale timeout, and looped indefinitely.
Changes:
- chat_completion_helpers.py: change _stub_finish_reason from 'stop' to
'length' for mid-tool-call partials. The stub still has tool_calls=None
so no tool auto-executes — the model gets a fresh API call through the
existing length-continuation machinery (bounded to 3 retries).
Also attach _dropped_tool_names to the stub for downstream use.
- conversation_loop.py: add a third continuation prompt branch for
partial-stream-stubs with dropped tool calls. Instead of the generic
'continue where you left off' (which would retry the same large call),
tell the model to break the output into smaller tool calls (~8K
tokens each) to avoid stream timeouts.
- test_partial_stream_finish_reason.py: update existing test from
finish_reason='stop' to 'length', add _dropped_tool_names assertion,
add new test_dropped_tool_call_uses_chunking_prompt for the 3-way
prompt branching.
Safety: tool_calls=None is preserved on the stub, so the conversation
loop enters the text-continuation branch (line 1513), NOT the tool-call
execution branch (line 3246). No tool auto-executes. The model simply
gets another API call with targeted guidance.
* refactor: extract constants and continuation prompt helper
- Move magic strings to hermes_constants.py (PARTIAL_STREAM_STUB_ID,
FINISH_REASON_LENGTH)
- Extract _get_continuation_prompt() in conversation_loop.py — DRYs the
3-way prompt branching and lets tests import the real function
- Trim verbose inline comments in chat_completion_helpers.py
- Tests import constants + helper instead of duplicating logic
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Co-authored-by: alt-glitch <balyan.sid@gmail.com>
Five call sites do os.chmod(path.parent, 0o700) without checking that
the parent resolves to a safe directory. If HERMES_HOME or another
path env var resolves to /, the chmod strips traversal permission from
the root inode and bricks the entire host.
Add secure_parent_dir() to hermes_constants.py that refuses to chmod
/ or any top-level directory (depth < 2). Replace all 5 call sites
with this helper.
Fixes#25821
Salvages #23738 by @LeonSGP43. Wheel installs were missing skills/ and
optional-skills/ because pyproject's [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
only includes Python packages — the skills directories don't have
__init__.py so they were silently dropped from the wheel.
Adds setup.py with data_files spec emitting skills/* and optional-skills/*
under hermes_agent-<v>.data/data/, and a get_bundled_skills_dir() helper
in hermes_constants that discovers the wheel-installed location via
sysconfig before falling back to a source-checkout path. tools/skills_sync
uses the helper so 'hermes update' works for pip-installed users.
Closes the last Python-on-Windows UTF-8 exposure by making every
text-mode open() call explicit about its encoding.
Before: on Windows, bare open(path, 'r') defaults to the system
locale encoding (cp1252 on US-locale installs). That means reading
any config/yaml/markdown/json file with non-ASCII content either
crashes with UnicodeDecodeError or silently mis-decodes bytes.
After: all 89 affected call sites in production code now pass
encoding='utf-8' explicitly. Works identically on every platform
and every locale, no surprise behavior.
Mechanical sweep via:
ruff check --preview --extend-select PLW1514 --unsafe-fixes --fix --exclude 'tests,venv,.venv,node_modules,website,optional-skills, skills,tinker-atropos,plugins' .
All 89 fixes have the same shape: open(x) or open(x, mode) became
open(x, encoding='utf-8') or open(x, mode, encoding='utf-8'). Nothing
else changed. Every modified file still parses and the Windows/sandbox
test suite is still green (85 passed, 14 skipped, 0 failed across
tests/tools/test_code_execution_windows_env.py +
tests/tools/test_code_execution_modes.py + tests/tools/test_env_passthrough.py +
tests/test_hermes_bootstrap.py).
Scope notes:
- tests/ excluded: test fixtures can use locale encoding intentionally
(exercising edge cases). If we want to tighten tests later that's
a separate PR.
- plugins/ excluded: plugin-specific conventions may differ; plugin
authors own their code.
- optional-skills/ and skills/ excluded: skill scripts are user-authored
and we don't want to mass-edit them.
- website/ and tinker-atropos/ excluded: vendored / generated content.
46 files touched, 89 +/- lines (symmetric replacement). No behavior
change on POSIX or on Windows when the file is ASCII; bug fix on
Windows when the file contains non-ASCII.
When HERMES_HOME is unset but ~/.hermes/active_profile names a non-default
profile, any data this process writes lands in the default profile — not the
one the operator expects. Before this change the fallback was silent, so
cross-profile contamination (#18594) was invisible until a user noticed
their memory/state ended up in the wrong place.
Now we emit a one-shot warning to stderr the first time this happens in
a process. No raise — there are 30+ module-level callers of get_hermes_home()
and raising from any of them would brick import. Behavior is otherwise
unchanged; subprocess spawners (systemd template, kanban dispatcher, docker
entrypoint) already propagate HERMES_HOME correctly.
Bypasses logging.getLogger() because this runs before logging is configured
in a significant fraction of callers (module import time).
Refs #18594. Credit to @liuhao1024 for surfacing the silent-fallback case
in PR #18600; we kept the diagnostic signal without the import-time raise.
Centralize container detection in hermes_constants.is_container() with
process-lifetime caching, matching existing is_wsl()/is_termux() patterns.
Dedup _is_inside_container() in config.py to delegate to the new function.
Add _run_systemctl() wrapper that converts FileNotFoundError to RuntimeError
for defense-in-depth — all 10 bare subprocess.run(_systemctl_cmd(...)) call
sites now route through it.
Make supports_systemd_services() return False in containers and when
systemctl binary is absent (shutil.which check).
Add Docker-specific guidance in gateway_command() for install/uninstall/start
subcommands — exit 0 with helpful instructions instead of crashing.
Make 'hermes status' show 'Manager: docker (foreground)' and 'hermes dump'
show 'running (docker, pid N)' inside containers.
Fix setup_gateway() to use supports_systemd instead of _is_linux for all
systemd-related branches, and show Docker restart policy instructions in
containers.
Replace inline /.dockerenv check in voice_mode.py with is_container().
Fixes#7420
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
On servers with broken or unreachable IPv6, Python's socket.getaddrinfo
returns AAAA records first. urllib/httpx/requests all try IPv6 connections
first and hang for the full TCP timeout before falling back to IPv4. This
affects web_extract, web_search, the OpenAI SDK, and all HTTP tools.
Adds network.force_ipv4 config option (default: false) that monkey-patches
socket.getaddrinfo to resolve as AF_INET when the caller didn't specify a
family. Falls back to full resolution if no A record exists, so pure-IPv6
hosts still work.
Applied early at all three entry points (CLI, gateway, cron scheduler)
before any HTTP clients are created.
Reported by user @29n — Chinese Ubuntu server with unreachable IPv6 causing
timeouts on lobste.rs and other IPv6-enabled sites while Google/GitHub
worked fine (IPv4-only resolution).
- Add shared is_wsl() to hermes_constants (like is_termux)
- Update supports_systemd_services() to verify systemd is actually
running on WSL before returning True
- Add WSL-specific guidance in gateway install/start/setup/status
for both cases: WSL+systemd and WSL without systemd
- Improve help strings: 'run' now says recommended for WSL/Docker,
'start'/'install' now mention systemd/launchd explicitly
- Add WSL gateway FAQ section with tmux/nohup/Task Scheduler tips
- Update CLI commands docs with WSL tip
- Deduplicate _is_wsl() from clipboard.py to shared hermes_constants
- Fix clipboard tests to reset hermes_constants cache
- 20 new WSL-specific tests covering detection, systemd check,
supports_systemd_services integration, and command output
Motivated by user feedback: took 1 hour to figure out run vs start
on WSL, Telegram bot kept disconnecting due to flaky WSL systemd.
Isolate system tool configs (git, ssh, gh, npm) per profile by injecting
a per-profile HOME into subprocess environments only. The Python
process's own os.environ['HOME'] and Path.home() are never modified,
preserving all existing profile infrastructure.
Activation is directory-based: when {HERMES_HOME}/home/ exists on disk,
subprocesses see it as HOME. The directory is created automatically for:
- Docker: entrypoint.sh bootstraps it inside the persistent volume
- Named profiles: added to _PROFILE_DIRS in profiles.py
Injection points (all three subprocess env builders):
- tools/environments/local.py _make_run_env() — foreground terminal
- tools/environments/local.py _sanitize_subprocess_env() — background procs
- tools/code_execution_tool.py child_env — execute_code sandbox
Single source of truth: hermes_constants.get_subprocess_home()
Closes#4426
In Docker, HERMES_HOME=/opt/data (set in Dockerfile) and users mount
their .hermes directory to /opt/data. However, profile operations used
Path.home() / '.hermes' which resolves to /root/.hermes in Docker —
an ephemeral container path, not the mounted volume.
This caused:
- Profiles created at /root/.hermes/profiles/ (lost on container recreate)
- active_profile sticky file written to wrong location
- profile list looking at wrong directory
Fix: Add get_default_hermes_root() to hermes_constants.py that detects
Docker/custom deployments (HERMES_HOME outside ~/.hermes) and returns
HERMES_HOME as the root. Also handles Docker profiles correctly
(<root>/profiles/<name> → root is grandparent).
Files changed:
- hermes_constants.py: new get_default_hermes_root()
- hermes_cli/profiles.py: _get_default_hermes_home() delegates to shared fn
- hermes_cli/main.py: _apply_profile_override() + _invalidate_update_cache()
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: _profile_suffix() + _profile_arg()
- Tests: 12 new tests covering Docker scenarios
Automated dead code audit using vulture + coverage.py + ast-grep intersection,
confirmed by Opus deep verification pass. Every symbol verified to have zero
production callers (test imports excluded from reachability analysis).
Removes ~1,534 lines of dead production code across 46 files and ~1,382 lines
of stale test code. 3 entire files deleted (agent/builtin_memory_provider.py,
hermes_cli/checklist.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_setup_model_selection.py).
Co-authored-by: alt-glitch <balyan.sid@gmail.com>
Replace 6 identical copies of the Termux detection function across
cli.py, browser_tool.py, voice_mode.py, status.py, doctor.py, and
gateway.py with a single shared implementation in hermes_constants.py.
Each call site imports with its original local name to preserve all
existing callers (internal references and test monkeypatches).
Prep for profiles: user-facing messages now use display_hermes_home() so
diagnostic output shows the correct path for each profile.
New helper: display_hermes_home() in hermes_constants.py
12 files swept, ~30 user-facing string replacements.
Includes dynamic TTS schema description.
New installs get a cleaner structure:
cache/images/ (was image_cache/)
cache/audio/ (was audio_cache/)
cache/documents/ (was document_cache/)
cache/screenshots/ (was browser_screenshots/)
platforms/whatsapp/session/ (was whatsapp/session/)
platforms/matrix/store/ (was matrix/store/)
platforms/pairing/ (was pairing/)
Existing installs are unaffected -- get_hermes_dir() checks for the
old path first and uses it if present. No migration needed.
Adds get_hermes_dir(new_subpath, old_name) helper to hermes_constants.py
for reuse by any future subsystem.
Centralizes two widely-duplicated patterns into hermes_constants.py:
1. get_hermes_home() — Path resolution for ~/.hermes (HERMES_HOME env var)
- Was copy-pasted inline across 30+ files as:
Path(os.getenv("HERMES_HOME", Path.home() / ".hermes"))
- Now defined once in hermes_constants.py (zero-dependency module)
- hermes_cli/config.py re-exports it for backward compatibility
- Removed local wrapper functions in honcho_integration/client.py,
tools/website_policy.py, tools/tirith_security.py, hermes_cli/uninstall.py
2. parse_reasoning_effort() — Reasoning effort string validation
- Was copy-pasted in cli.py, gateway/run.py, cron/scheduler.py
- Same validation logic: check against (xhigh, high, medium, low, minimal, none)
- Now defined once in hermes_constants.py, called from all 3 locations
- Warning log for unknown values kept at call sites (context-specific)
31 files changed, net +31 lines (125 insertions, 94 deletions)
Full test suite: 6179 passed, 0 failed
* feat: add Vercel AI Gateway as a first-class provider
Adds AI Gateway (ai-gateway.vercel.sh) as a new inference provider
with AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY authentication, live model discovery, and
reasoning support via extra_body.reasoning.
Based on PR #1492 by jerilynzheng.
* feat: add AI Gateway to setup wizard, doctor, and fallback providers
* test: add AI Gateway to api_key_providers test suite
* feat: add AI Gateway to hermes model CLI and model metadata
Wire AI Gateway into the interactive model selection menu and add
context lengths for AI Gateway model IDs in model_metadata.py.
* feat: use claude-haiku-4.5 as AI Gateway auxiliary model
* revert: use gemini-3-flash as AI Gateway auxiliary model
* fix: move AI Gateway below established providers in selection order
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Co-authored-by: jerilynzheng <jerilynzheng@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jerilynzheng <zheng.jerilyn@gmail.com>
Add support for using Nous Portal via a direct API key, mirroring
how OpenRouter and other API-key providers work. This gives users a
simpler alternative to the OAuth device-code flow when they already
have a Nous API key.
Changes:
- Add 'nous-api' to PROVIDER_REGISTRY as an api_key provider
pointing to https://inference-api.nousresearch.com/v1
- Add NOUS_API_KEY and NOUS_BASE_URL to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS
- Add NOUS_API_BASE_URL / NOUS_API_CHAT_URL to hermes_constants
- Add 'Nous Portal API key' as first option in setup wizard
- Add provider aliases (nous_api, nousapi, nous-portal-api)
- Add test for nous-api runtime provider resolution
Closes#644