The tail-protection budget walks estimated an assistant message's tokens from content + function.arguments only, dropping each tool_call's id, type and function.name (plus JSON structure). Assistant turns that fan out into parallel tool calls were undercounted by 2-15x (a 4-tool-call turn measures ~73 vs ~1,090 real tokens), so the protected tail overshot tail_token_budget and compression ran far below its intended ratio — context kept growing.
Consolidate the three duplicated budget walks (_prune_old_tool_results and the two passes in _find_tail_cut_by_tokens) into a single _estimate_msg_budget_tokens() helper that counts the full tool_call envelope via len(str(tc)), consistent with how _estimate_message_chars estimates message size elsewhere.
Tested on Windows: new tests/agent/test_compressor_tool_call_budget.py plus the existing compression suite (test_context_compressor, compressor_image_tokens, cross_session_guard, infinite_compaction_loop) — 209 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A cron job that sets `enabled_toolsets` to a list of *native* toolsets (e.g.
`["web", "terminal"]`) silently got ZERO MCP tools, while a job with no
per-job list got every globally-enabled MCP server. `_resolve_cron_enabled_
toolsets` returned the per-job list verbatim, bypassing the MCP-merge that the
platform-fallback branch performs via `_get_platform_tools`. So
`discover_mcp_tools()` registered the MCP tools into the registry, but
`get_tool_definitions(enabled_toolsets=...)` kept only the named native
toolsets — the agent then rejected every `mcp_*` call as "Unknown tool". (R2
of #23997.)
Fix: `_merge_mcp_into_per_job_toolsets` layers MCP membership onto a per-job
allowlist with the SAME semantics as `_get_platform_tools`:
* `no_mcp` sentinel present -> no MCP servers (sentinel stripped)
* one or more MCP server names already listed -> treat as an allowlist
* otherwise -> union in every globally-enabled MCP server
To avoid duplicating the "which MCP servers are enabled" computation (it
already existed inline in `_get_platform_tools`), this extracts a shared
`enabled_mcp_server_names(config)` helper in `hermes_cli.tools_config` and has
BOTH the gateway/CLI platform resolver and the cron per-job resolver call it —
so every path agrees on MCP membership (extend, don't duplicate).
Note: the issue's *headline* — bare MCP server names rejected, registry never
includes them — was already fixed on main (commits c10fea8d2 + 04918345e,
both before the issue was filed). This PR closes the remaining cron-specific
gap (R2). The `server:*` / `mcp:server` alias-notation rejection (R1) and the
quiet-mode silent-drop (R3) are tracked separately.
Salvaged from #32788 by sherman-yang (credited below). Reworked to reuse the
shared `enabled_mcp_server_names` helper instead of re-implementing the MCP
membership set in cron/scheduler.py.
Fixes#23997
Co-authored-by: sherman-yang <58446328+sherman-yang@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(desktop): add Update now button to About panel
The About > Updates panel only surfaced "See what's new" when an update
was available, which just opens the changelog overlay — there was no way
to start the install directly from About. Add an "Update now" primary
button that opens the updates overlay (for apply progress) and kicks off
the install for the active target (backend in remote mode, else client).
* feat(desktop): PR-style file diffs in chat
Render write_file/edit_file/patch as a reviewable diff instead of raw
result JSON, closer to a Cursor/T3 per-edit review.
- Unified diff via FileDiffPanel: strip git file-header + @@ hunk noise,
drop the +/- gutter, color by line with a 2px gutter accent, full-bleed
to the card, transparent context lines, compact scroll height.
- Header shows filename + language icon + +N/-N stats; full path moves to
a hover tooltip (no Edited verb, no ms).
- Treat the three file-edit tools uniformly (isFileEditTool); read diff
from inline_diff or patch's diff field; suppress raw-arg detail.
- Reusable FileTypeIcon primitive sharing the code-block icon mapping
(codiconForFilename), codicon fallback.
- Per-row scaffolding fade (not the group wrapper, which trapped child
opacity); expanded edits stay full, collapsed fade; keyboard-only focus
lift. Hide diff-less rehydrated creates that read as dupes.
* style(desktop): lead --dt-font-mono with bundled JetBrains Mono
Code/diff blocks preferred a system Cascadia Code before the bundled
JetBrains Mono, so they drifted from the terminal (which leads with
JetBrains Mono) on machines where Cascadia is installed. Reorder so every
mono surface uses the face we actually ship.
* feat(desktop): syntax-highlight inline diffs via Shiki
Unify the diff renderer onto the same Shiki path as code blocks: highlight
the marker-stripped change content in the file's language, then a per-line
transformer layers the add/remove tint + gutter accent on top. Falls back
to the plain color-only renderer when the language is unknown, over budget,
or while Shiki loads.
- shikiLanguageForFilename(): extension → bundled-language id (shared
filename-token helper with codiconForFilename).
- code display:grid so full-width line tints don't double with newline
nodes; theme surface stripped so context lines stay transparent.
* style(desktop): use github-dark-dimmed for inline diffs
The vivid github-dark-default tokens read harsh behind the add/remove
tint in dark mode; switch the diff's dark theme to GitHub's lower-contrast
dimmed palette. Light mode and code blocks are unchanged.
* style(desktop): dim code-block syntax theme + share with diffs
Apply github-dark-dimmed to code blocks too (not just inline diffs) and
export one shared SHIKI_THEME so the two highlighters can't drift. Lower
contrast reads easier at our small code size in dark mode.
* style(desktop): soften shiki token contrast in dark mode
github-dark-dimmed only dims the background, which the diff/code surfaces
strip — so the bright token foregrounds were unchanged. Pull saturation +
brightness back a touch (hues preserved) on .shiki in dark mode for both
code blocks and inline diffs.
Follow-up to the salvaged preflight token-progress fix: require a material
(>5%) token reduction to count as progress, matching the overflow-handler
retry path (conversation_loop.py, #39550), so a sub-5% wobble can't keep the
3-pass preflight loop spinning. Adds boundary + zero-token regression tests.
/simplify-code QUALITY finding: the `if callable(_available_entries): ... else:
pool.select()` ladder was dead for the real CredentialPool type (`_available_entries`
is always a bound method) AND the select() fallback violated the helper's read-only
contract — select() -> _select_unlocked() runs _available_entries(clear_expired=True,
refresh=True), which persists to auth.json and triggers a network refresh. Call
_available_entries(clear_expired=False, refresh=False) directly inside the existing
try/except instead.
Also drops the now-dead `select=` stubs from the 6 pool tests (they only existed to
satisfy the removed fallback branch). Behavior unchanged; 6 pool tests pass and the
read-only / null-token contract tests were mutation-checked (flipping the flags /
removing the None-guard fails the respective test).
Rebased onto god-file Phase 1 refactor — preflight compression has moved
from agent/conversation_loop.py to agent/turn_context.py (no semantic
change in the refactor itself; the bug below was carried over verbatim).
The preflight compression loop in ``turn_context.py`` uses
``len(messages) >= _orig_len`` to decide whether a compression pass has
made progress. That conflates two different conditions: a true no-op
(transcript materially unchanged) and effective token compression that
summarises message contents but keeps the same number of rows. The
second case is misread as "Cannot compress further" — the session then
surfaces ``Context length exceeded`` and auto-resets even when the
post-compression estimate is far below the model context window.
Observed example from #39548: a Telegram session on GPT-5.5 with a 1M
context dropped from ~288k → ~183k tokens (a 36% reduction) while
preserving 220 messages. The loop treats that as exhaustion and the
gateway auto-resets the session.
Fix
---
Add ``_compression_made_progress(orig_len, new_len, orig_tokens, new_tokens)``
and call it after the post-pass ``estimate_request_tokens_rough`` (which
is moved up to run *before* the progress check instead of after it).
Either a row-count reduction OR a token-count reduction now counts as
progress; only when neither moves do we break out as "stuck".
Fixes#39548
Share one SHIKI_THEME (github-dark-dimmed) across code blocks and inline
diffs so they can't drift, and pull token saturation/brightness back via a
`.shiki` dark-mode filter. The dimmed theme alone only changes the
background — which both surfaces strip — so the bright foregrounds needed
the filter to actually calm down.
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).
Unify the diff renderer onto the same Shiki path as code blocks: highlight
the marker-stripped change content in the file's language, then a per-line
transformer layers the add/remove tint + gutter accent on top. Falls back
to the plain color-only renderer when the language is unknown, over budget,
or while Shiki loads.
- shikiLanguageForFilename(): extension → bundled-language id (shared
filename-token helper with codiconForFilename).
- code display:grid so full-width line tints don't double with newline
nodes; theme surface stripped so context lines stay transparent.
Code/diff blocks preferred a system Cascadia Code before the bundled
JetBrains Mono, so they drifted from the terminal (which leads with
JetBrains Mono) on machines where Cascadia is installed. Reorder so every
mono surface uses the face we actually ship.
Render write_file/edit_file/patch as a reviewable diff instead of raw
result JSON, closer to a Cursor/T3 per-edit review.
- Unified diff via FileDiffPanel: strip git file-header + @@ hunk noise,
drop the +/- gutter, color by line with a 2px gutter accent, full-bleed
to the card, transparent context lines, compact scroll height.
- Header shows filename + language icon + +N/-N stats; full path moves to
a hover tooltip (no Edited verb, no ms).
- Treat the three file-edit tools uniformly (isFileEditTool); read diff
from inline_diff or patch's diff field; suppress raw-arg detail.
- Reusable FileTypeIcon primitive sharing the code-block icon mapping
(codiconForFilename), codicon fallback.
- Per-row scaffolding fade (not the group wrapper, which trapped child
opacity); expanded edits stay full, collapsed fade; keyboard-only focus
lift. Hide diff-less rehydrated creates that read as dupes.
Adds test_413_retries_on_token_only_compression: same message count but
materially fewer tokens after compaction must count as progress and retry,
not abort. Fails on main without the salvaged fix, passes with it.
Compression can materially reduce request size (tool-result pruning,
in-place summarization) without reducing message count. The two
compression-success checks in conversation_loop.py (413 handler and
context-overflow handler) only compared len(messages) to detect
success, missing token-only compression.
Now re-estimates tokens after compress_context() returns and treats
any >=5% reduction as a successful compression pass. Error logs
also use the post-compression token count instead of the stale
pre-compression estimate.
Fixes: #39550
display.timestamps already drove the [HH:MM] suffix on live submitted and
streamed message labels, but there was no runtime command to toggle it and
/history ignored the setting entirely. Add /timestamps [on|off|status]
(alias /ts) and render [HH:MM] in /history for turns that carry a stored
unix timestamp (resumed sessions). Live unsaved turns without a stored time
are never given a fabricated one. Uses the existing sanctioned non-wire
'timestamp' message key (stripped before the API call in chat_completions),
so message-alternation and prompt-cache invariants are untouched.
Ctrl+G already opened $EDITOR with the current draft, but used
open_in_editor(validate_and_handle=False), which only loaded the saved text
back into the input area — the user still had to press Enter. The TUI's
Ctrl+G (openEditor) submits the draft on a clean exit. Since CLI submission
is driven by the custom Enter keybinding (not the buffer accept_handler),
validate_and_handle can't route through it; instead chain a done-callback on
the editor Task that calls the new _submit_editor_buffer(), which mirrors the
Enter handler's idle/queue/slash branches and drops an empty save.
Follow-up to the accept-any-file-type change. The observe-unmentioned and
replied-media paths relied on cache_media_bytes() returning None for
unsupported document types to emit an 'unsupported, not cached' note. Now
that any file type is always cached, those docs are cached and surfaced with
a path-pointing note — consistent with the main document path. The
remaining cached-is-None branch is image-validation-failure only; its note
is reworded accordingly. Updates the group-gating test to the new contract.
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.
* fix(gateway): walk /proc/*/cmdline to find main-wrapper.sh under s6-overlay v3 (#49196)
(cherry picked from commit 3a108c2df0)
* fix(container): peel s6-v3 rc.init prefix so dashboard role is detected
kyssta-exe's preceding commit (#49238) fixed _read_container_argv() to
locate the rc.init-launched main-wrapper.sh process under s6-overlay v3,
but the skip still never fired: _strip_container_argv_prefix() only peeled
a prefix when args[0] was init/main-wrapper.sh/hermes. Under s6 v3 the
matched argv is
/bin/sh -e /run/s6/basedir/scripts/rc.init top
/opt/hermes/docker/main-wrapper.sh dashboard ...
so args[0] stayed /bin/sh, _is_dashboard_container() returned False, and
the dashboard container reconciled + started its own gateway-default —
the exact dual Telegram getUpdates 409 in issue #49196.
Fix: strip everything up to and including the main-wrapper.sh token (the
stable boundary the image owns), covering both the v2 (/init ...) and v3
(/bin/sh ... rc.init top ...) shapes with one rule, instead of matching
launcher tokens positionally. This also repairs _is_legacy_gateway_run_request()
under v3, which shares the same strip helper (the issue called this out).
Tests: extend the dashboard true/false parametrize sets with the s6-v3
argv shape, and add test_main_skips_reconcile_in_dashboard_container_s6v3
exercising main() end-to-end with the v3 argv. Verified via mutation that
both new v3 assertions fail under the old positional strip and pass with
the fix.
---------
Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
When `hermes dashboard --host 0.0.0.0` is run interactively with the auth
gate engaged but no DashboardAuthProvider configured, prompt to set up the
bundled username/password provider on the spot (or point at `hermes dashboard
register` for OAuth) instead of only emitting the fail-closed error.
- main.py: `_maybe_setup_dashboard_auth_interactively()` runs before
start_server. No-ops on loopback binds, when a provider is already
registered, or when stdin/stdout isn't a TTY (Docker/s6, CI, piped runs) so
the fail-closed SystemExit stays the backstop for unattended deploys. On the
password path it writes dashboard.basic_auth.{username,password_hash,secret}
to config.yaml (scrypt hash, never plaintext), then force-rediscovers
plugins so the basic provider registers before the gate check.
- web_server.py: fix the fail-closed hint — it told operators to set
`dashboard_auth.basic.username` but the provider reads `dashboard.basic_auth`.
- docs: note the interactive setup under Fail-closed semantics.
No new env vars; reuses the existing dashboard.basic_auth config surface.
* feat(cli): /prompt — compose your next prompt in $EDITOR
Adds /prompt (alias /compose): opens $VISUAL/$EDITOR on a temp markdown
file so you can hand-edit a multi-line prompt, then sends the saved buffer
as the next agent turn. Text after the command pre-seeds the buffer; an
empty save cancels. Reuses the one-shot _pending_agent_seed the interactive
loop already consumes (same mechanism as /blueprint), so no changes to the
input event loop or message pipeline. CLI-only.
* feat(tui): /prompt slash command opens $EDITOR (parity with CLI)
The TUI already opens $EDITOR via Ctrl+G (openEditor), but had no /prompt
slash command like the classic CLI. Wire openEditor into the slash handler
context and register /prompt (alias /compose) to call it; inline text after
the command is dropped into the composer first so it carries into the editor,
matching the CLI's /prompt <text>.
* feat(cli): /reasoning full to show complete thinking, not 10-line clamp
The post-response Reasoning recap box hard-clamped long thinking to the
first 10 lines, so there was no way to see the full reasoning trace after
a turn (live streaming already shows it in full). Add display.reasoning_full
(default off) plus /reasoning full|clamp to toggle it at runtime; the clamp
truncation note now points at the command. Addresses repeated user requests
to show all thinking tokens.
* test(gateway): de-snapshot /reasoning help assertion
The test froze the exact args-hint literal '/reasoning [level|show|hide]',
which the new full/clamp args change to '[level|show|hide|full|clamp]'.
Convert to an invariant: assert /reasoning is in help and carries its core
args, not the exact hint string.
* feat(tui): /reasoning full|clamp parity in tui_gateway
The classic-CLI reasoning_full toggle had no TUI equivalent — typing
/reasoning full in the TUI fell through to parse_reasoning_effort and
errored. The TUI renders thinking as an expand/collapse section (no fixed
10-line recap), so map full -> sections.thinking=expanded (raw, uncapped
via thinkingPreview mode='full') and clamp -> collapsed, persisting
display.reasoning_full for cross-surface config consistency.
Plugins shelling out to bare `hermes` via the terminal tool hit
`command not found` (exit 127) when the gateway was launched without the
hermes install dir on PATH (systemd, service managers, cron, desktop
launchers) — even though `hermes` works in the user's own interactive
terminal, which sources the shell rc that exports that dir.
The terminal tool's subshell PATH was the agent process PATH plus a
static set of system dirs (_SANE_PATH); it never included wherever the
hermes console-script actually lives (~/.local/bin, the venv bin/Scripts,
pipx, nix). Resolve that dir once (which/argv0/sys.executable) and
prepend-if-missing it so bare `hermes` resolves regardless of launch
method.
Sibling-site follow-up to the AGENTS.md token-lock fix (#50481). Platform
adapters migrated from gateway/platforms/<name>.py to
plugins/platforms/<name>/adapter.py; a handful (signal, weixin, bluebubbles,
qqbot, yuanbao, msgraph_webhook, webhook, api_server) still live in
gateway/platforms/.
- adding-platform-adapters.md: new-adapter creation path + reference-impl table
- gateway-internals.md: rewrite the adapter tree to reflect the actual split
- zh-Hans mirrors of both kept in parity
- scripts/release.py: add TutkuEroglu to AUTHOR_MAP (CI gate)
gateway/platforms/telegram.py no longer exists (adapters moved to
plugins/platforms/<name>/adapter.py) and telegram no longer uses the
scoped-lock pattern. Point the token-lock canonical-pattern reference to
plugins/platforms/irc/adapter.py, which acquires the lock in connect()
and releases it in disconnect() — and is already cited as a canonical
example in ADDING_A_PLATFORM.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(providers): remove google-gemini-cli + google-antigravity OAuth providers
Google now actively bans accounts for third-party tools that piggyback on
Gemini CLI / Antigravity / Code Assist OAuth, and because abuse prevention
sits at a backend layer the ban can extend to the entire Google account
(Gmail/Drive), with a second violation being permanent.
Ref: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/20632
Removes both OAuth inference providers entirely (modules, provider profiles,
auth/runtime/config/models wiring, the /gquota Code Assist quota command,
the antigravity-cli optional skill, desktop + docs surface in en + zh-Hans).
The API-key 'gemini' provider (GOOGLE_API_KEY/GEMINI_API_KEY against
generativelanguage.googleapis.com) is unaffected and stays fully supported.
* fix(skills): keep the antigravity-cli skill — only the OAuth provider is removed
The antigravity-cli optional skill orchestrates the external `agy` binary as
a coding-agent tool via the terminal tool — it does NOT wrap Hermes inference
through the banned google-antigravity OAuth provider, so it carries none of
the account-ban risk that motivated removing that provider. Restore the skill,
its docs page, the sidebar entry, and the optional-skills catalog row. The
google-antigravity / google-gemini-cli inference providers stay fully removed.
The welcome banner's 'Available Tools' merged in every toolset from the
global check_tool_availability() registry walk, regardless of whether it
was enabled for the current platform. On a Blank Slate CLI (file +
terminal only) that surfaced discord / feishu / kanban tools the agent
was never actually given — they are not in the agent's tool schema, but
the banner displayed them, making it look like they were exposed.
- Filter the unavailable-toolset merge to toolsets actually in
enabled_toolsets (a toolset that's enabled but has unmet deps still
legitimately shows as disabled/lazy).
- Gate the 'Available Skills' section on the skills toolset being
enabled — when it's off, the agent can't load any skill, so show
'Skills toolset disabled' instead of the on-disk catalog.
When enabled_toolsets is empty (older callers), behavior is unchanged.
Validation: blank-slate banner now shows only file + terminal and
'Skills toolset disabled'; a skills-enabled banner still lists the
catalog. Added regression tests; full banner suite green (15/15).
Live testing against a real SIGTERM-ignoring process TREE (parent + children,
the agent-browser daemon + renderer shape) revealed psutil.wait_procs's
gone/alive partition mis-handles a parent/child tree: it reaps via
Process.wait() and could mark targets gone/alive inconsistently across the
tree, leaving survivors un-killed (flaky — sometimes the parent lived,
sometimes a child). Replace it with: sleep out the grace window, then
directly re-probe every captured target (_proc_alive, treating zombies as
dead) and SIGKILL any that's still running. Add a multi-child-tree regression
test. 6/6 escalation tests green across repeated runs; the real-tree E2E now
kills the full tree 6/6 runs.
A daemon that ignores or stalls in its SIGTERM handler currently survives the
process-registry reap and leaks until reboot (observed as agent-browser
daemons accumulating to EMFILE on long-running gateways). _terminate_host_pid
now snapshots the tree, SIGTERMs it, waits a bounded grace window
(terminal.daemon_term_grace_seconds, default 2.0s, 0 disables), then SIGKILLs
any survivor. The recycled-PID identity guard still gates the whole path, so
escalation never reaches a stranger; Windows is unchanged (taskkill /F is
already a hard kill).
Config lives in config.yaml (terminal.daemon_term_grace_seconds), NOT an env
var, per the .env-secrets-only policy.
Implements the SIGKILL-escalation idea from @tkwong's #15008, reworked onto the
current _terminate_host_pid tree-kill path (the original predated it) and
config-gated instead of env-var-gated.
Co-authored-by: Benjamin Wong <tkwong@inspiresynergy.com>
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.
The s6 dashboard entrypoint and docker integration tests relied on
HERMES_DASHBOARD_INSECURE=1 to bring up a 0.0.0.0 dashboard with no auth
provider. With --insecure now a no-op (auth gate mandatory on non-loopback
binds), that path fails closed.
- s6 dashboard/run: drop --insecure derivation; warn that the env is a no-op
and point operators at HERMES_DASHBOARD_BASIC_AUTH_* / OAuth.
- docker tests: supervision tests now register the bundled basic password
provider (HERMES_DASHBOARD_BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME/_PASSWORD) so the gate has a
provider and the dashboard binds. Rewrote the insecure-opt-out test to
assert fail-closed (dashboard does NOT serve) instead of gate-bypass.
- docs (en + zh-Hans): HERMES_DASHBOARD_INSECURE documented as deprecated
no-op; basic-auth is the zero-infra way to authenticate a containerized
public dashboard.
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.
Same library-code anti-pattern as the compressor fix: MiniSWERunner.__init__
called logging.basicConfig(), overriding the application's root logger config
every time a runner was instantiated. Moved the call into main() (the CLI
entry point) where it belongs; __init__ now only does getLogger(__name__).
Standalone verbose logging is preserved.
logging.basicConfig() in TrajectoryCompressor.__init__ overrides the
root logger configuration every time the class is instantiated. Library
code should use logging.getLogger(__name__) and let the application
entry point configure the root logger.
Fixes inconsistent log formatting when the compressor is used alongside
other logging configuration in the gateway.
