The stage2-hook auth.json seed is first-boot-only ([ ! -f auth.json ]) to avoid
clobbering rotated refresh tokens on restart. That guard means a container whose
Nous bootstrap session took a terminal invalid_grant (tokens cleared,
providers.nous.last_auth_error.relogin_required stamped) cannot recover from a
restart — it stays unauthenticated until the credential is replaced.
Add a self-heal path: an orchestrator that manages the container supplies a
freshly-issued session via HERMES_AUTH_JSON_REBOOTSTRAP (distinct from the
create-only *_BOOTSTRAP var). On boot, scripts/docker_rebootstrap_nous_session.py
swaps ONLY the providers.nous entry, and ONLY when the on-disk entry is provably
terminal (quarantine marker + no usable tokens). Healthy/rotating/absent/
unparseable auth.json is always a no-op, so the env is safe to leave set across
restarts and never clobbers a good token. Pure stdlib, runs as its own
subprocess, always exits 0 so a re-seed error never fails the boot.
Reuses the same terminal predicate as get_nous_session_validity() so we re-seed
only a session that is genuinely dead.
The salvaged commits from #32824 use a bare
spiky02plateau@users.noreply.github.com (no numeric-id + prefix), which the
contributor-check.yml gate does not auto-resolve (it only skips the
<id>+<user>@users.noreply form). Add the explicit mapping so attribution CI
passes and release notes credit @spiky02plateau.
Follow-up hardening on the cherry-picked pool-fallback fix. The original
_resolve_codex_usage_credentials wrapped BOTH resolve_codex_runtime_credentials()
and the separate _read_codex_tokens() account_id read in one broad
'except Exception: pass', which had three problems:
1. A transient refresh/network failure (non-AuthError) from the resolver was
silently swallowed and downgraded to pool.select(), which could report
/usage limits for a DIFFERENT pool account than the one actually running.
On main that error surfaced. This is a real behavior regression for the
multi-account/pool case.
2. If the resolver succeeded but only the account_id read raised, the whole
singleton tier was abandoned in favor of a pool token that carries no
ChatGPT-Account-Id header (PooledCredential has no account_id concept),
risking a wrong-account read or 401.
3. 'except Exception' masked genuine programming errors.
Fix: narrow the outer catch to AuthError (the documented 'no creds' failure
mode of both functions), and read account_id in a best-effort inner try so a
partial/missing singleton store can't sink an otherwise-usable credential.
Transient errors now propagate and fail open via the outer fetch_account_usage
guard rather than mis-routing to the wrong account. Adds debug breadcrumbs and
a comment characterizing when the tier-3 pool path actually fires.
Guard tests: a non-AuthError resolver failure must NOT swap to the pool
(fail-open, no snapshot); an account_id read failure keeps the singleton token.
Updated the existing pool-fallback test to use AuthError (the real failure
mode) instead of a generic RuntimeError.
Follow-up on the salvage of #59523. Two low-risk cleanups surfaced by review:
- Extract _ZAI_CODING_OVERLOAD_SHORT_ATTEMPTS as a module constant so
adaptive_rate_limit_backoff() and zai_coding_overload_retry_ceiling()
share one source of truth. Previously both hardcoded short_attempts=3
independently; tuning one without the other would silently desync the
retry ceiling from the backoff schedule.
- Replace the tautological formula-mirroring assert in
test_zai_overload_retry_ceiling_exceeds_short_attempts with a behavior
invariant (ceiling leaves headroom for every long-backoff entry), per the
repo's contracts-over-snapshots testing rule.
Assert the invariant that the Z.AI overload retry ceiling exceeds the
short-retry threshold (the original bug had them equal, so the long tier
was dead code), and walk the attempt range the retry loop actually
traverses to prove the full 30/60/90/120s long-backoff schedule now runs.
Z.AI Coding Plan GLM-5.2 reports server overload as HTTP 429 code 1305
("temporarily overloaded"). classify_api_error routes that to
FailoverReason.overloaded (so a valid credential pool isn't burned), but
the adaptive Z.AI backoff was gated on is_rate_limited — which excludes
overloaded — so it never ran (policy=default) and the request failed after
a few quick short retries.
Two compounding causes, both fixed here:
1. Detect the Z.AI overload 429 directly and let its adaptive backoff run
on the overloaded path, not only the rate_limit path.
2. Raise the retry ceiling for this narrow case via
zai_coding_overload_retry_ceiling(). The long-backoff tier
(30/60/90/120s) starts after short_attempts (3) retries, but the default
api_max_retries is also 3, so the loop always gave up before the long
tier could run — leaving the whole long-backoff schedule as dead code.
Scope is limited to the existing narrow is_zai_coding_overload_error match,
so other providers' 429/503/529 handling is unchanged.
A fallback candidate can itself carry a stale credential (e.g. an
expired ANTHROPIC_TOKEN picked up by _try_anthropic). Its 401 previously
propagated out of the fallback call site and aborted the auxiliary task
— for compression: a 60s cooldown + context marker while the session
kept growing past the context cap. Live case: mattalachia debug dump
(Jul 2026), Codex timeout → Anthropic 401 x5 → 296K 'Cannot compress
further'.
Now each fallback candidate call is wrapped: on auth error, refresh the
candidate's provider credentials and retry once; if unrefreshable, mark
the provider unhealthy and walk the discovery chain again so the next
viable candidate serves. Sync + async paths. Non-auth errors still
raise unchanged.
Infer the concrete auxiliary auth provider from the selected client base
URL so provider:auto routes can refresh Copilot/Codex/Anthropic/Nous
credentials after auth errors, instead of skipping refresh because
resolved_provider stayed 'auto'. Adds the copilot branch to
_refresh_provider_credentials and evicts the stale auto-route cache
before retrying.
Fixes#20832. Salvaged from PR #20837, reapplied surgically onto current
main (branch predated the _retry_same_provider_sync/async extraction).
The -m flag seeds HERMES_MODEL/HERMES_INFERENCE_MODEL for the launched TUI
process only. But the per-turn config sync (_sync_agent_model_with_config)
computed its target via _config_model_target(), which fell back to those
env vars whenever config.yaml had no model.default — the normal state for
custom-provider-only setups. The sync then replayed the -m model as a
/model switch, and with model.persist_switch_by_default (default true)
_persist_model_switch wrote model.default/provider/base_url into
config.yaml. A one-shot CLI flag became the permanent global model,
visible in every new session and every model picker.
Two-sided fix:
- _config_model_target() no longer falls back to the env seed. Empty
model = config expresses no preference = sync is a no-op. The agent
keeps the session-scoped -m model; config.yaml edits still sync.
- _apply_model_switch() gains persist_override; all three internal
callers (config sync, /moa one-shot swap, /moa post-turn restore) pass
persist_override=False so session-mechanical switches can never write
config.yaml regardless of the persist-by-default setting. User-typed
/model keeps its existing flag/config behavior.
E2E-verified against an isolated HERMES_HOME with a custom-provider-only
config + -m env seed: sync no longer fires, config.yaml byte-identical,
_resolve_model() still returns the seed for the session's own agent.
When context.engine selects a plugin engine (e.g. LCM), the host
compression threshold — including the Codex gpt-5.5 50% -> 85%
autoraise — only configures the built-in ContextCompressor and never
reaches the plugin. The autoraise notice still fired, telling the user
auto-compaction was raised when nothing actually changed, and the
startup context-limit line printed the host percent next to the
engine's own threshold_tokens, contradicting itself.
- Clear _compression_threshold_autoraised when a plugin engine is
selected, suppressing both the CLI startup notice and the gateway
turn-1 replay via _compression_warning.
- Print the active engine's own threshold_percent in the startup
context-limit line so percent and token count agree.
- Built-in behavior is preserved, including the fallback path where a
configured engine fails to load and the built-in compressor takes
over.
Fixes#44439
The Codex gpt-5.5 compaction-threshold autoraise notice re-fired on every
agent init. Because the gateway rebuilds the agent per inbound message, the
notice spammed long-running Discord/Telegram/etc. sessions, and the only
documented remedy (`compression.codex_gpt55_autoraise false`) disables the
useful autoraise behavior itself.
Gate both emission surfaces — the CLI startup print and the gateway
`_compression_warning` replay — on a persisted per-profile marker under
`$HERMES_HOME` (`.codex_gpt55_autoraise_notice`), keyed on the from→to
percentages the notice displays. The notice now shows at most once per
profile; the autoraise still fires and `codex_gpt55_autoraise: false` still
disables it; and a later change to the raised threshold re-notifies once.
Docs updated to match.
The Codex gpt-5.5 compaction autoraise (#40957) overrode the effective
threshold unconditionally. If a user had set compression.threshold above
0.85, agent_init dropped them down to 0.85. That wastes usable window and
contradicts the feature's whole point: use more of the context, not less.
It happened silently too, since the one-time notice is suppressed when the
override doesn't raise.
The override is an autoraise. It must only raise. Pulled the apply logic
into a small pure helper that clamps the Codex case to never lower a
higher-or-equal user threshold, and emits the notice only when it actually
fires. Other overrides (Arcee Trinity) keep their existing unconditional
behavior.
Fixes the Codex gpt-5.5 compaction autoraise lowering a user's higher
configured threshold. A user on the Codex OAuth route with
compression.threshold > 0.85 was silently clamped to 0.85, compacting
earlier than they asked and using less of the 272K window the feature was
meant to unlock. The autoraise now only ever raises.
N/A
- [x] 🐛 Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
- [ ] ✨ New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
- [ ] 🔒 Security fix
- [ ] 📝 Documentation update
- [ ] ✅ Tests (adding or improving test coverage)
- [ ] ♻️ Refactor (no behavior change)
- [ ] 🎯 New skill (bundled or hub)
- `agent/agent_init.py`: added `_resolve_compression_threshold()`, a pure
helper that combines the global threshold with a per-model override. The
Codex gpt-5.5 autoraise never lowers a higher-or-equal user threshold;
the notice is returned only when it actually raises. Rewired `init_agent`
to call it, replacing the unconditional `compression_threshold = _model_cthresh`.
- `tests/agent/test_arcee_trinity_overrides.py`: added 5 cases for the
helper — raise from default, never-lower regression, equal-is-noop,
no-override passthrough, and non-codex (Trinity) unconditional apply.
1. Set `compression.threshold: 0.90` and run gpt-5.5 on provider `openai-codex`.
2. Before: effective threshold drops to 0.85, no notice. After: stays 0.90.
3. Run `scripts/run_tests.sh tests/agent/test_arcee_trinity_overrides.py`.
Stash `agent/agent_init.py` and the new cases fail; restore and they pass.
- [x] I've read the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [x] My commit messages follow [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/) (`fix(scope):`, `feat(scope):`, etc.)
- [x] I searched for [existing PRs](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pulls) to make sure this isn't a duplicate
- [x] My PR contains **only** changes related to this fix/feature (no unrelated commits)
- [x] I've run `pytest tests/ -q` and all tests pass
- [x] I've added tests for my changes (required for bug fixes, strongly encouraged for features)
- [x] I've tested on my platform: macOS 15 (Darwin 25.5)
- [x] I've updated relevant documentation (README, `docs/`, docstrings) — or N/A
- [x] I've updated `cli-config.yaml.example` if I added/changed config keys — or N/A
- [x] I've updated `CONTRIBUTING.md` or `AGENTS.md` if I changed architecture or workflows — or N/A
- [x] I've considered cross-platform impact (Windows, macOS) per the [compatibility guide](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#cross-platform-compatibility) — or N/A
- [x] I've updated tool descriptions/schemas if I changed tool behavior — or N/A
gpt-5.3-codex-spark has a native 128K context window but the default
50% compaction trigger fires at ~64K, wasting half the usable window
before the session has accumulated enough turns to summarize
meaningfully. This raises the trigger to 70% (~90K) on the Codex OAuth
route only, leaving ~38K headroom for the summary and continued
conversation before the 128K hard limit.
The override is not gated by allow_codex_gpt55_autoraise because 128K
is the model's native window (unlike gpt-5.5's artificial 272K Codex
cap). Non-Codex routes are unaffected.
Also adds a boundary regression test verifying the short-session
scenario from the issue always yields a non-empty compressible window
(no silent context wipe).
The ChatGPT Codex OAuth backend caps both gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.5 at a 272K
context window, but the autoraise that lifts the compaction trigger to 85%
only matched gpt-5.5. On gpt-5.4 the global 50% threshold fired at ~136K —
half the usable window — compacting far earlier than necessary.
Rename _is_codex_gpt55 -> _is_codex_gpt54_or_gpt55 and match both families.
The one-time user notice is now model-aware (shows the actual slug). The
config key codex_gpt55_autoraise is kept as-is for backward compatibility.
Adds gpt-5.4 coverage to the autoraise tests.
The 'CI timing report' job is pure observability — it collects per-job/step
durations from the GitHub API after the run and publishes an HTML gantt
report + PR-vs-main timing diff. It gates nothing (all-checks-pass does not
include it), yet it could redden a PR: the script makes dozens of paginated
API calls with the shared repo GITHUB_TOKEN and had zero retry handling, so
a single 403 (rate-limit burst when several PRs run CI concurrently) failed
the job. Observed twice in a row on PR #59805.
- api_get(): retry 403/429/5xx and connection errors with exponential
backoff, honoring Retry-After / X-RateLimit-Reset (max 5 attempts, 120s
cap). Non-transient statuses (404 etc.) still fail fast.
- main(): exhausted retries raise TimingsUnavailable, caught to emit a
degraded summary line + placeholder HTML artifact and exit 0 — a metrics
collector must never fail the PR's checks. No timings JSON is written on
the degraded path so an empty baseline can never be cached.
- ci.yml: baseline-save steps on main skip gracefully when no JSON exists.
Verified with a mocked urlopen harness: retry-then-success (3 attempts),
exhausted-retries -> TimingsUnavailable, 404 fails fast without retry,
degraded main() exits 0 with summary + placeholder and no JSON, and the
--from-json happy path is unchanged.
- New developer-guide/browser-provider-plugin.md: BrowserProvider ABC
(session lifecycle, CDP contract, bb_session_id back-compat key,
raise/never-raise split between create and close/cleanup),
get_setup_schema() hermes-tools integration, discovery, checklist.
Closes the one gap in the provider-plugin family — the ABC and
ctx.register_browser_provider() existed with zero docs.
- Register the page in the Plugins sidebar subcategory.
- Extend the routing map on the Plugins landing page (both locales)
with the previously missing rows: web-search, browser, secret-source,
and dashboard-auth surfaces.
Surfaces the usage_report()/provenance() data layer added in #36701 as a
user-facing CLI command. Unlike `hermes curator status` (scoped to
curator-managed agent-created candidates), `usage` lists every skill on disk
— bundled built-ins and hub-installed included — with per-skill use/view/patch
counts and an agent/bundled/hub provenance tag.
Flags: --sort {activity,recent,name}, --provenance {agent,bundled,hub} filter,
--json for machine-readable output.
Address all 5 review points against actual delegate_task behavior:
- child toolsets are subject to delegate restrictions (leaf strips
delegate_task/clarify/memory/send_message/execute_code), not 'full'
- durable work has lighter options than kanban (cron one-shot,
managed background terminal) for simpler cases
- unique per-run /tmp/wf_<name>_<uuid> dir + freshness/count check so
a stale interrupted run isn't read as success
- note that one delegate_task batch is capped by
delegation.max_concurrent_children; large fan-out needs bounded waves
- delegate_task exposes no per-task model/profile field (per-task keys
are goal/context/toolsets/role); model/profile-scoped runs go via
delegation config, cron, kanban, or separate process
Adapts Claude Code's research-preview dynamic workflows (plan-in-code
fan-out, hundreds of subagents per session) to Hermes invariants.
The ported mechanic is plan/loop/intermediate-state-out-of-context, not
more subagents. Documents the two real orchestration layers and the hard
capability boundary between them:
- Layer A (execute_code): deterministic fan-out, SANDBOX_ALLOWED_TOOLS
only, cannot call delegate_task
- Layer B (delegate_task batch): LLM-judgment fan-out
Plus the synchronous trap (delegate_task is turn-scoped, cancelled on new
message; durable/resumable = kanban swarm) and the genuinely-new piece:
the adversarial-convergence verification recipe (N independent attempts
with varied framings + M refuters, keep only located claims that survive
refutation, iterate to convergence).
Self-contained: inlines the load-bearing fan-out hygiene rather than
hard-depending on local-only skills; references the shipped kanban swarm
subsystem for the durable path.
The English-side rename from #38138 already landed on main; this carries
the remaining zh-Hans i18n catalog + doc-page rename so the localized
docs match the skill's canonical name.
* docs(secrets): secret-source plugin developer guide + sidebar registration for 1Password page
- New developer-guide/secret-source-plugin.md: SecretSource contract
(never raises/prompts, fetch-only, timeout budget), framework-vs-plugin
ownership table, mapped-vs-bulk shape guidance, run_secret_cli()
subprocess-safety, registration + timing note, conformance kit usage,
ErrorKind reference.
- Register user-guide/secrets/onepassword in the sidebar (page shipped
in #59498 but was not listed, so it was unreachable from nav).
- Cross-link the user-guide plugin section to the new dev guide.
* docs: group all plugin guides under a Plugins subcategory in Extending
- Move guides/build-a-hermes-plugin.md -> developer-guide/plugins/index.md
(both locales) and make it the category landing page (slug pinned to
/developer-guide/plugins).
- New sidebar subcategory Developer Guide > Extending > Plugins holding
the general guide + all 8 provider-plugin docs (llm-access, memory,
context-engine, secret-source, model, image-gen, video-gen, web-search);
provider-doc URLs unchanged.
- Client redirect /guides/build-a-hermes-plugin -> /developer-guide/plugins.
- Update 30 cross-links across both locales.
* feat(oneshot): add --usage-file JSON usage report to hermes -z
Pipelines driving hermes -z (batch reviewers, cron scripts, eval
harnesses) had no way to account for per-invocation spend: the agent
computes estimated_cost_usd and full token counts internally, but
oneshot mode discards everything except the final response text.
- hermes -z PROMPT --usage-file PATH writes a JSON report after the
run: estimated_cost_usd, cost_status/source, input/output/cache/
reasoning/total tokens, api_calls, model, provider, session_id,
completed, failed.
- Written even when the run fails (with a failure field) so callers
can always account for spend; the write itself is best-effort and
never masks the run's own outcome.
- Flag registered in both the full parser and the Termux fast path;
added to both value-flag scan sets so profile detection stays
correct.
Validation: 6 unit tests + live E2E (real -z run produced a report
with real OpenRouter cost + token counts).
* test: include usage_file kwarg in oneshot dispatch assertions
The two dispatch tests assert the exact kwargs dict passed to
run_oneshot; the new usage_file kwarg must appear there.
A user-approved terminal/execute_code command could be SIGINT-killed
(exit 130 + "[Command interrupted]") by a stale interrupt bit that landed
on the execution thread during the blocking approval-wait, while the
result still carried the "...approved by the user." note. The terminal
tool runs sequentially inline on the execution thread, and nothing
cleared or re-checked the bit between approval-grant and env.execute.
Clear the current thread's interrupt bit once before an approved command
spawns its child (terminal foreground; execute_code local + remote), and
enrich the note to "...approved by the user, then interrupted." on a
genuine post-start interrupt instead of implying success. A genuine
interrupt arriving after execution starts (or during a retry backoff)
still SIGINTs the command; non-approved commands keep current behavior.
Adds regression tests covering stale-bit-clears, genuine-interrupt-still-
kills, the retry-backoff window, natural-exit-130 (not mislabeled), and
execute_code local + remote.
Follow-up on the cherry-picked #36896 commits, wiring 1Password into
the new registry as the reference *mapped* source:
- OnePasswordSource adapter (shape=mapped, scheme=op): fetch-only —
precedence, override semantics, conflict warnings, and env writes
move to the orchestrator; apply_onepassword_secrets kept as legacy
shim like Bitwarden's.
- Registered in _ensure_builtin_sources; mapped op:// bindings now
outrank bulk Bitwarden project dumps on contested vars.
- _cache.py FetchResult/is_valid_env_name re-exported from base so
there is exactly one canonical definition; bitwarden.py re-adapted
onto the contributor's DiskCache substrate.
- ErrorKind classification for op failures (auth/binary/empty/network).
- Registry + conformance coverage for OnePasswordSource, incl. the
headline multi-source test: both vaults claim the same var, mapped
1Password wins, conflict surfaced, provenance correct.
- env_loader tests migrated off the legacy apply_* mocks onto the
fetch layer; AUTHOR_MAP entry for @hwrdprkns.
The 1Password secret source resolves op:// references using
OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN read from os.environ. Under systemd the gateway
gets that token via EnvironmentFile, but cron jobs, subprocesses, CLI
runs, macOS launchd, and Docker containers spawn fresh interpreters with
no inherited shell state — so they silently failed to resolve any
reference and fell back to empty strings.
Two patches close the gap, matching Bitwarden's reliability guarantees:
1. env_loader: auto-load ~/.hermes/.op.env after .env so the gitignored
bootstrap token is available everywhere. override=False plus an
explicit guard ensure it never clobbers a token already in env (e.g.
from a systemd EnvironmentFile, which keeps precedence).
2. credential_pool: _get_env_prefer_dotenv() now prefers the resolved
value in os.environ when .env still holds a raw op:// reference,
instead of handing a URL to provider auth. Non-op:// values keep the
existing .env-takes-precedence behaviour.
Also gitignore .op.env, document the three bootstrap-token options, and
add tests covering auto-load, no-override, and the resolved-vs-raw
precedence (plus regression guards).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolve provider credentials from 1Password op://vault/item/field references
at startup via the official `op` CLI, alongside the existing Bitwarden source.
Users map env-var names to references in secrets.onepassword.env; after .env
loads, each is resolved with `op read` and injected into os.environ. Auth is
whatever `op` already uses (service-account token or desktop/interactive
session) — Hermes never authenticates or installs `op` itself.
Startup-safe and fail-open: a missing binary, expired auth, a bad reference,
or an empty value each warn and fall back to existing credentials, never
blocking startup. Successful, complete pulls are cached in-process and on disk
(<hermes_home>/cache/op_cache.json, 0600) via the shared DiskCache; only
secret values are stored, never the token (auth is fingerprinted into the
key). Adds `hermes secrets onepassword {setup,status,set,remove,sync,disable}`
(aliases op/1password), config defaults, the cli-config example, docs, and
hermetic tests.
Hardening applied across both backends in env_loader: each source runs in its
own guard, config sections are coerced to dict, and cache_ttl_seconds is
coerced defensively — so a malformed secrets: section can't abort startup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
