hermes-setup.exe bakes its build-time commit into the binary
(BUILD_PIN_COMMIT) and passes it as -Commit on every install-mode run,
including the retry the desktop's "Update didn't finish" screen kicks
off. The repository stage checked that SHA out unconditionally, so an
installer built months earlier rewound a current managed checkout to its
build commit -- 9,160 commits in the reported case -- leaving ancient
source against a current venv. npm then failed on workspaces that did not
exist yet at that commit, and every later update ran against the wrong
tree.
Skip the pin when its target is already an ancestor of HEAD. Fresh clones
have no such ancestry so reproducible/CI pinning is unchanged, and
--force-commit / -ForceCommit still rolls back on purpose.
install.sh probed pypi.org and duckduckgo.com serially with
--max-time 8 each, so a fully blocked network cost 16s before the user
saw any useful guidance. The two probes are independent; running them
as background jobs and gathering verdicts caps the worst case at one
--max-time (8s) while the good path stays instant.
Verified live: reachable URLs 0.24s (both probes concurrent);
blackholed 10.255.255.x URLs 8.02s total (was 2x8s), warning text
unchanged. bash -n clean.
The Skills Hub 'Marketplace' tab showed a single useless entry: Anthropic
changed .claude-plugin/marketplace.json to bundle-shaped plugins whose
source is './', so all plugins collapsed to one identifier pointing at the
repo root, and the second marketplace repo (aiskillstore/marketplace) is
gone (404). Everything in anthropics/skills is already surfaced by the
GitHub tap as the Anthropic tab, making this source fully redundant.
Removes ClaudeMarketplaceSource and all wiring: source router, index
builder (crawl + floors + sort order + rate-limit messaging), extract
labels/install/URL mapping, hub UI tab, web server labels, CLI limits,
docs (en + zh), the legacy index-cache snapshot, and test fixtures.
Stale skills-index entries with source 'claude-marketplace' still install
fine: HermesIndexSource fetches via resolved GitHub paths generically.
install.sh duplicated the raw deep ad-hoc re-sign, so install/repair and
self-update could disagree about the app's signing identity — an update
signed with the stable identity would be clobbered back to a cdhash-only
DR by the next installer repair. Call the shared Python fixup (passing
the shell's publisher-signing decision explicitly), and branch into the
historical xattr + deep ad-hoc repair when the venv helper is missing or
fails so a broken venv never leaves the bundle unlaunchable.
Co-authored-by: cipry0200 <cipry0200@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: natebransc <natebransc@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: caseyanthony <caseyanthony@users.noreply.github.com>
Running the suite could take over the machine it ran on. Two real
effects, both now closed:
- **The suite spoke through the speakers.** Once any test drove the
`voice.toggle` RPC with `action="tts"`, the handler set
`HERMES_VOICE_TTS=1` in the *live process environment*, and the flag
outlived that test. Every later test that drove a turn to completion
then fed its final response text to `hermes_cli.voice.speak_text` on a
background thread - real synthesis, real playback, no API key needed
(the default `edge` provider is keyless). A developer heard the fixture
string "partial answer complete" out loud. Because the flag is set from
inside the process, `scripts/run_tests.sh`'s `env -i` never protected
against this.
`tests/conftest.py` now blanks `HERMES_VOICE`/`HERMES_VOICE_TTS` per
test, and a new autouse `_audio_playback_guard` stubs `speak_text` and
its playback binding outright, so the speakers stay shut even inside the
test that sets the flag itself. `@pytest.mark.real_audio_playback` opts
out.
- **The suite launched Chrome.** `tests/tools/test_browser_supervisor.py`
spawned a real browser on any machine with Chrome on `PATH`. Its
docstring promised a `HERMES_E2E_BROWSER=1` gate that existed nowhere in
the code. That gate is now real, and the file is marked `integration`
so the default marker filter excludes it. `scripts/run_tests.sh`
forwards `HERMES_E2E_BROWSER` so the documented manual run still works.
Miscellanea
- `tests/test_audio_playback_guard.py`: regression cover for both defences,
driving the real `voice.toggle` handler rather than a stand-in.
setup_path() wrote a `hermes` launcher to ~/.local/bin but nothing for
`hermes-acp`. That console script exists only inside the venv, which is
not on the login-shell PATH.
ACP hosts resolve the agent by command name against that PATH, so an
otherwise healthy install looks absent to them. Buzz Desktop ships a
Hermes preset that spawns `hermes-acp` and reports the runtime as
unavailable; Zed and JetBrains configs that name the bare command have
the same problem.
Write a hermes-acp launcher next to the hermes one, dispatching to the
acp subcommand. Same PYTHONPATH/PYTHONHOME clearing, and the same rm -f
before cat > so an older symlink into the venv cannot be followed and
stomp the console script (#21454). Uninstall removes both launchers.
tests/test_install_sh_acp_launcher.py drives the block out of install.sh
rather than asserting on a copy, covering the venv and non-venv branches
plus the symlink-stomp case. Reverting the install.sh change turns all
three red.
Signed-off-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
test_install_ps1_is_pure_ascii guards against PowerShell 5.1 ANSI
codepage misdecoding (issues #66994/#67000); the Install-DesktopVoiceDeps
comment had an em-dash.
Two fixes from live testing (Teknium):
1. Desktop installs now ship the wake/voice stacks up front.
install.sh + install.ps1 desktop stages run 'uv pip install
-e .[wake,voice]' (best-effort, lazy-install remains the fallback)
before building the app, so the first ear-click arms instantly
instead of sitting through a multi-minute onnxruntime download.
CLI-only installs keep the lazy path — [all] curation unchanged.
2. The vanished ear: the STT/TTS gate made wake.status call
check_tts_requirements(), whose edge path runs _import_edge_tts →
lazy_deps.ensure — a synchronous PIP INSTALL inside a status poll.
On a venv without edge-tts that blew the desktop's 30s RPC timeout,
armWakeWord caught the error, the atom never learned enabled=true,
and the ear unmounted. _tts_ready is now a pure probe: deps missing
+ lazy installs allowed counts as ready (installs at first speak)
WITHOUT touching pip; check_tts_requirements only runs once deps
are present. Regression test asserts the probe never calls it while
deps are missing.
install.ps1 wrote the marker on Windows and the Rust installer now writes it,
but install.sh -- the path every Mac and Linux CLI install takes -- never did.
A machine set up with install.sh therefore looked uninstalled to the desktop
app, which re-ran first-run bootstrap on every launch.
Stamp the same schema-v1 payload install.ps1 writes, from both the staged
`complete` stage and monolithic main(). An unresolvable HEAD skips the marker
rather than writing one the desktop validator rejects: absent reads as a clean
"bootstrap needed", malformed reads as a confusing half-state.
The Windows-footgun check is red on current main, not just on this branch:
a2c42be93c added `encoding="utf-8"` to one `write_text` in this file and
missed the other two.
Line 190 is what the checker reports. Line 211 has the same defect but the
call is split across lines, so the single-line regex never flagged it —
fixing only the reported site would have left the same bug in the file and
re-armed it for the next reader.
Both now pass an explicit encoding, matching line 68.
Bridge vs listing only (Opus 4.8, 830 real UE schemas, 3 reps/cell).
Excluding one both-modes mock artifact: listing 24/24 vs bridge 20/24,
searches/task 0.2 vs 4.0. Bridge failures: core-tool substitution at
frontier tier (ran the host test suite via terminal instead of
discovering RunTests, 2/3 reps), up to 8 searches to prove a negative,
and search-vocabulary misses on paraphrase. Listing asserts absence in
zero searches and answers a 5-way capability survey in 1 API call.
Scenarios target real confusion clusters in Epic's UE 5.8 catalog
(StaticMesh vs SkeletalMesh set_material, three tag systems, CurveTable
vs DataTable rows, Niagara Component vs System variables, four capture
variants, zero-keyword phrasing). Mocks return realistic editor errors
on wrong-type calls; scoring is strict (clean solve = correct tool with
zero distractor calls; first-call accuracy tracked separately).
Key result: first-call selection is unreliable in EVERY mode — eager
with all 199K of schemas in context managed 2/10 — but clean solves stay
75-95% because agents probe (get_components, get_material_slots) before
committing. The probe loop works through the 3-tool bridge at 1/4 the
cost of eager ($1.60-1.69 vs $6.49/task, Opus 4.8). On Haiku the
listing beats bare bridge 18/20 vs 15/20 (core-tool substitution again).
Zero distractor invocations across all 50 Opus runs.
Replays the actual tool schemas captured from Epic's UE 5.8
ModelContextProtocol + AllToolsets plugins (830 tools / 52 toolsets) as
live registry tools with mocked editor responses, then benchmarks
eager vs bare-bridge vs bridge+listing at two scales (62-tool editor
subset, full 830) on Claude Opus 4.8 (1M ctx; eager at 830 does not fit
any 200K model — first call requests ~266K tokens).
Headline (full 830, mean per task, rescored): eager 8/8 at 810,578
input tokens ($4.05); bare bridge 16/16 at 160,844 ($0.80); listing
16/16 at 257,264 ($1.29). Frontier model erases the accuracy gap in
every mode; cost is the differentiator. At 62 tools eager wins on cost
— consistent with the auto-threshold design.
Also parameterizes livetest harness model + listing_max_tokens via
env/args (TS_UE_MODEL, TS_UE_SCALE, TS_UE_MODES, TS_UE_LISTING_MAX).
Deferred MCP/plugin tools become invisible once the tool_search bridge
activates — live benchmarking (48 runs, Claude Haiku 4.5) showed models
substituting visible core tools (terminal/web_search/browser) for deferred
capabilities or declaring them nonexistent instead of searching: 16/24
task success vs 24/24 with eager loading.
Skills never had this failure mode because every skill keeps a ~21-token
name+description listing line in the system prompt. This ports that exact
pattern to the tool bridge: when tool_search activates, a grouped manifest
of every deferred tool (name + first sentence of description, clipped to
60 chars, grouped per MCP server / toolset) is embedded in the tool_search
bridge description.
- tools/tool_search.py: build_catalog_listing() with deterministic
ordering (byte-stable across assemblies -> prompt prefix stays
cacheable); token-budget fallbacks full -> names-only -> legacy bare
count; bridge_tool_schemas(listing=...) embeds it and instructs the
model to skip tool_search when the exact name is visible (one fewer
round-trip per use)
- config: tools.tool_search.listing auto|on|off (default auto),
listing_max_tokens (default 4000, clamped 200..20000); legacy bool
shapes keep working
- tests: 8 new tests (config parsing/clamps, short-desc clipping,
deterministic rendering, budget fallbacks, bridge embedding, assembly
on/off paths); full file green (47 passed)
- docs: tool-search.md config table + rationale
- scripts/tool_search_livetest2.py: benchmark harness v2 with real
per-call token accounting (normalize_usage spy) and a third 'listing'
mode for A/B/C comparison
Three foot-guns in the canonical test runner, each of which cost real
debugging time by making an unverified run look verified.
1. Zero collection across the whole run reported success-shaped output.
Per-file rc=5 is rewritten to rc=0 so a platform-gated file (every test
skipped on this OS) doesn't fail the suite — correct, but it also meant a
run where NOTHING was collected anywhere printed
"0 tests passed, 0 failed (100% complete)" and, with no failures
recorded, could exit 0. Now the run-level guard counts every collected
outcome (passed/failed/skipped/errors/xfailed/xpassed): an all-skipped
file still passes, but zero-collected-anywhere prints an explicit
"✗ NO TESTS RAN — this is NOT a pass" block naming the likely causes and
returns 1.
2. A venv without pytest was selected merely for existing. The probe
accepted any directory with bin/activate, so in a checkout/worktree
without a local .venv it picked the RELEASE venv
(~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv, no pytest). Every file then died with
"No module named pytest" and the run reported 0 tests. Candidates are now
import-checked for pytest — the same guard the HERMES_PYTHON fallback
already applied — and a skipped candidate is named on stderr.
3. Pytest node ids were silently discarded. This runner is file-granular,
so `tests/foo.py::TestBar::test_baz` isn't an existing path: discovery
dropped it and the run ended "No test files to run" while the selector
looked accepted. Node ids are now translated to the FILE plus an inferred
`-k` on the leaf name (parametrized ids reduced to the function name),
with a note explaining the translation. An explicit caller `-k` wins over
the inferred one.
Tests: 4 behavior contracts in tests/test_run_tests_parallel.py. Verified
by sabotage — reverting the runner fails 3 of the 4 (the fourth pins the
pre-existing all-skipped tolerance so fix 1 can't regress it).
GitHub's current signup rules forbid consecutive hyphens, but legacy
accounts with them exist and are valid (Roger--Han, hit live during the
July 24 sweep — the mapping had to be written by hand). Accept any
alphanumeric/hyphen login that doesn't start or end with a hyphen.
AST-driven pass over every Path.read_text()/write_text() without an
explicit encoding= across non-test code: 71 sites in 34 files
(skills_hub, hermes_cli/main+profiles+service_manager+container_boot,
mem0/hindsight/honcho plugins, achievements dashboard, release/CI
scripts, productivity+comfyui skill helpers, agent/*). Verified zero
positional-encoding collisions before insertion; per-file compile()
check after.
Adds a check-windows-footguns rule flagging bare single-line
read_text/write_text (multi-line forms stay covered by the AST guard
test from #38985). Together with the salvaged contributor commits this
retires the ~169-site bare file-I/O class (#37423's long tail).
Addresses hermes-sweeper review on PR #54866: the installer runs
tools/skills_sync.py as a child python.exe whose PYTHONIOENCODING /
PYTHONUTF8 the scoped install.ps1 block sets, but there was no
regression test for this child-Python UTF-8 path. The existing
test_child_process_inherits_utf8_mode covers a different (bootstrap
entry-point) flow.
Add TestSkillsSyncUtf8Guard: three subprocess tests that import
skills_sync (triggering its import-time stdout/stderr reconfigure)
and assert the checkmark/up-arrow glyphs the script prints at
tools/skills_sync.py:596,675 emit valid UTF-8 and exit 0 even when
the child env is left unset or explicitly hostile (gbk). A third
test proves the guard is load-bearing by reproducing the crash
without it.
Also keep the new install.ps1 comment ASCII-only (the checkmark
spelled out as U+2713) per the file's PS 5.1 parser-compatibility
contract at scripts/install.ps1:79-80; the literal glyph in the
comment violated that contract.
On Windows with a non-UTF-8 system locale (e.g. CP936/GBK on zh-CN),
Python defaults stdout/stderr to the active codepage. tools/skills_sync.py
prints glyphs such as checkmark (U+2713) and up-arrow (U+2191) that GBK
cannot encode, raising UnicodeEncodeError mid-run.
The installer (scripts/install.ps1) captures this script's stdout and the
Rust bootstrap parses it as UTF-8 expecting a JSON result frame. A GBK
byte stream (or the traceback it triggers) surfaces as:
WARN stdout read error: stream did not contain valid UTF-8
stage=config-templates state=Failed
error=install.ps1 -Stage config-templates produced no JSON result frame
(exit=Some(0))
i.e. the stage fails even though the script exits 0. install.ps1 already
sets [Console]::OutputEncoding = UTF8, but that does not propagate to the
python.exe child (Python reads PYTHONIOENCODING / locale, not the console
encoding).
Fix in two places for defense in depth:
- tools/skills_sync.py: reconfigure sys.stdout/stderr to UTF-8 at import so
output is valid UTF-8 regardless of caller or active codepage.
- scripts/install.ps1: set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 and PYTHONUTF8=1 (scoped
to the call, restored afterwards) around the skills_sync.py invocation.
- Cut the leftover telemetry.* DEFAULT_CONFIG block (nothing reads it) and
the legacy telemetry-key fallback in policy.py.
- install_id: persist the minted UUID back to config.yaml on first use so
service.instance.id survives gateway restarts (fail-open when the write
is not possible); regression test covers the restart path.
- Remove the no-op gateway_health_export.redaction config keys. Redaction
is always-on by design and deliberately not configurable; status output
now says so.
- Collapse redaction to one unconditional secrets+PII scrub: drop the
none/pii content modes (they served the dropped trajectories plane) and
fold gateway_health.py's duplicate bearer/token/email/phone regex layer
into agent/monitoring/redaction.py.
Salvages the event-spine foundation from feat/telemetry-observability
(emitter, typed events, OTLP streaming, redaction — authorship preserved in
the preceding commits) and scopes it to the plane enterprise operators need
today: gateway Service Health Monitoring plus redacted Operational
Diagnostics, exported over OTLP.
Dropped from the salvaged branch, deliberately:
- run/model/tool trajectory capture (plugins/telemetry hooks, tel_spans)
- the local JSONL + state.db tel_* store (monitoring is egress, not storage)
- usage rollups/metrics, /insights integration, bulk export
- hermes telemetry CLI (replaced by hermes monitoring status)
Those planes — shared client usage metrics and enterprise trace telemetry —
are being designed on the NeMo Relay integration with distinct consent,
policy, and export boundaries; this keeps the monitoring plane content-free
and independently enableable.
Renames agent/telemetry -> agent/monitoring, config telemetry.* ->
monitoring.*, and pins the otlp extra at OpenTelemetry 1.39.1 (matching
uv.lock; 1.30.0 conflicts with mistralai>=2.4 on opentelemetry-api).
AST-driven pass over every subprocess.run/Popen/check_output/check_call/call
with text=True (or universal_newlines=True) and no explicit encoding=:
append encoding='utf-8', errors='replace' at the kwarg site. 136 call
sites across 28 files (cli.py, hermes_cli/main.py, tools_config.py,
environments, computer_use, gateway, scripts, skills helpers, agent/*).
Together with the salvaged #55339/#60741 commits this closes out issue
#53428's bug class; the salvaged #60751 linter rule in
check-windows-footguns.py now enforces it repo-wide (verified: 807 files
scanned, zero findings).
Adds a new rule to scripts/check-windows-footguns.py that flags
subprocess.run/Popen/call/check_output/check_call(..., text=True, ...) calls
missing an explicit encoding= kwarg.
On Chinese Windows (cp936/GBK) and other non-UTF-8 default codepages,
text=True without encoding= decodes child output with
locale.getpreferredencoding(False), crashing _readerthread with
UnicodeDecodeError on non-default-codepage bytes (issues #47939, #53428,
rule prevents future regressions.
Rule design:
- Pattern matches 'text=True' / 'text = True'
- post_filter skips lines that:
- already pass encoding= on the same line
- are method definitions (def text)
- contain text=True inside string literals
- are not subprocess-shaped calls (heuristic via _is_likely_subprocess_call)
- Two helper functions: _is_likely_subprocess_call, _looks_like_string_literal
- Multi-line calls where subprocess.X( and text=True are on different lines
are not flagged (acceptable false negative for a line-based scanner)
Also fixes the linter's own footgun: get_staged_files() and get_diff_files()
used subprocess.check_output(text=True) without encoding= — now fixed.
Suppresses 4 false positives on non-Windows platform-exclusive calls:
- tools/voice_mode.py (Termux/Android)
- tools/environments/singularity.py (Linux HPC)
- plugins/google_meet/cli.py (macOS system_profiler)
Test plan:
- 21 unit tests in tests/scripts/test_footgun_subprocess_encoding.py
- TestDetection: 6 cases verifying the rule flags real subprocess calls
- TestSuppression: 7 cases verifying false-positive avoidance
- TestHelpers: 7 cases for the two helper functions
- TestFullRepoScan: scans the whole tree and asserts the new rule finds
only the 7 call sites that PR #60741 fixes (or zero, once #60741 merges)
Verified: full-repo scan reports 7 matches on main (the #60741 sites),
4 platform-exclusive calls correctly suppressed, zero false positives.
On Windows with Chinese locale (GBK), subprocess.run(text=True) without
explicit encoding causes UnicodeDecodeError crashes. This fix adds
encoding='utf-8', errors='replace' to all subprocess.run() and
subprocess.Popen() calls that use text=True across 76 non-test Python files.
Fixes#53428 (master tracker for Windows GBK locale crash).
Note: credential_pool.py and electron changes excluded per reviewer request —
those will be submitted as separate focused PRs.
