Anthropic's API can legitimately return content=[] with stop_reason="end_turn"
when the model has nothing more to add after a turn that already delivered the
user-facing text alongside a trivial tool call (e.g. memory write). The transport
validator was treating that as an invalid response, triggering 3 retries that
each returned the same valid-but-empty response, then failing the run with
"Invalid API response after 3 retries."
The downstream normalizer already handles empty content correctly (empty loop
over response.content, content=None, finish_reason="stop"), so the only fix
needed is at the validator boundary.
Tests:
- Empty content + stop_reason="end_turn" → valid (the fix)
- Empty content + stop_reason="tool_use" → still invalid (regression guard)
- Empty content without stop_reason → still invalid (existing behavior preserved)
Copilot on #14145 flagged that the shift+tab yolo handler treated any
non-null RPC result as valid, so a response shape like {value: undefined}
or {value: 'weird'} would incorrectly echo 'yolo off'. Now only '1' and
'0' map to on/off; anything else (including missing value) surfaces as
'failed to toggle yolo', matching the null/catch branches.
When the streaming connection dropped AFTER user-visible text was
delivered but a tool call was in flight, we stubbed the turn with a
'⚠ Stream stalled mid tool-call; Ask me to retry' warning — costing
an iteration and breaking the flow. Users report this happening
increasingly often on long SSE streams through flaky provider routes.
Fix: in the existing inner stream-retry loop, relax the
deltas_were_sent short-circuit. If a tool call was in flight
(partial_tool_names populated) AND the error is a transient connection
error (timeout, RemoteProtocolError, SSE 'connection lost', etc.),
silently retry instead of bailing out. Fire a brief 'Connection
dropped mid tool-call; reconnecting…' marker so the user understands
the preamble is about to be re-streamed.
Researched how Claude Code (tombstone + non-streaming fallback),
OpenCode (blind Effect.retry wrapping whole stream), and Clawdbot
(4-way gate: stopReason==error + output==0 + !hadPotentialSideEffects)
handle this. Chose the narrow Clawdbot-style gate: retry only when
(a) a tool call was actually in flight (otherwise the existing
stub-with-recovered-text is correct for pure-text stalls) and
(b) the error is transient. Side-effect safety is automatic — no
tool has been dispatched within this single API call yet.
UX trade-off: user sees preamble text twice on retry (OpenCode-style).
Strictly better than a lost action with a 'retry manually' message.
If retries exhaust, falls through to the existing stub-with-warning
path so the user isn't left with zero signal.
Tests: 3 new tests in TestSilentRetryMidToolCall covering
(1) silent retry recovers tool call; (2) exhausted retries fall back
to stub; (3) text-only stalls don't trigger retry. 30/30 pass.
Copilot on #14138 flagged that the share report says '(file not found)'
when the log exists but is empty (either because the primary is empty
and no .1 rotation exists, or in the rare race where the file is
truncated between _resolve_log_path() and stat()).
- Split _primary_log_path() out of _resolve_log_path so both can share
the LOG_FILES/home math without duplication.
- _capture_log_snapshot now reports '(file empty)' when the primary
path exists on disk with zero bytes, and keeps '(file not found)'
for the truly-missing case.
Tests: rename test_returns_none_for_empty → test_empty_primary_reports_file_empty
with the new assertion, plus a race-path test that monkeypatches
_resolve_log_path to exercise the size==0 branch directly.
- entry.tsx no longer writes bootBanner() to the main screen before the
alt-screen enters. The <Banner> renders inside the alt screen via the
seeded intro row, so nothing is lost — just the flash that preceded it.
Fixes the torn first frame reported on Alacritty (blitz row 5 #17) and
shaves the 'starting agent' hang perception (row 5 #1) since the UI
paints straight into the steady-state view
- AlternateScreen prefixes ERASE_SCROLLBACK (\x1b[3J) to its entry so
strict emulators start from a pristine grid; named constants replace
the inline sequences for clarity
- bootBanner.ts deleted — dead code
- normalizeStatusBar: trim/lowercase + 'on' → 'top' alias so user-edited
YAML variants (Top, " bottom ", on) coerce correctly
- shift-tab yolo: no-op with sys note when no live session; success-gated
echo and catch fallback so RPC failures don't report as 'yolo off'
- tui_gateway config.set/get statusbar: isinstance(display, dict) guards
mirroring the compact branch so a malformed display scalar in config.yaml
can't raise
Tests: +1 vitest for trim/case/on, +2 pytest for non-dict display survival.
- normalizeStatusBar collapses to one ternary expression
- /statusbar slash hoists the toggle value and flattens the branch tree
- shift-tab yolo comment reduced to one line
- cursorLayout/offsetFromPosition lose paragraph-length comments
- appLayout collapses the three {!overlay.agents && …} into one fragment
- StatusRule drops redundant flexShrink={0} (Yoga default)
- server.py uses a walrus + frozenset and trims the compat helper
Net -43 LoC. 237 vitest + 46 pytest green, layouts unchanged.
The heart was rendered as a literal space when inactive. Because it's
absolutely positioned at right:0 inside the composer row, that blank
still overpainted the rightmost input cell. On wrapped 2-line drafts,
editing near the boundary made the final visible character appear to
jump in/out as it crossed the overpainted column.
When inactive, render nothing; only mount the heart while it's actually
animating.
The 'columns' prop passed to TextInput was cols - pw, but the actual
render width is cols - pw - 2 (NoSelect's paddingX={1} on each side
subtracts two cols from the composer area). cursorLayout thought it
had two extra cols, so wrap-ansi wrapped at render col N while the
declared cursor sat at col N+2 on the same row. The render and the
declared cursor disagreed right at the wrap boundary — the last
letter of a sentence spanning two lines flickered in/out as each
keystroke flipped which cell the cursor claimed.
Also polish the /help hotkeys panel — the !cmd / {!cmd} placeholders
read as literal commands to type, so show them with angle-bracket
syntax and a concrete example (blitz row 5 sub-item 4).
Previous revision added marginTop={1} to the input which stacked as a
phantom gap BETWEEN status and input. The breathing row should sit
ABOVE the status-in-top cluster, not inside it.
- StatusRulePane at="top" now carries its own marginTop={1} so it
always has a one-row gap above (separating it from transcript or,
when queue is present, from the last queue item)
- Input Box marginTop flips: 0 in top mode (status is the separator),
1 in bottom/off mode (input itself caps the composer cluster)
- Net: status and input are tight together in 'top'; input and status
are tight together at the bottom in 'bottom'; one-row breathing room
above whichever element sits on top of the cluster
Three bugs rolled together, all in the composer area:
- StatusRule was measuring as 2 rows in Yoga due to a quirk with the
complex nested <Text wrap="truncate-end"> content. Lock the outer box
to height={1} so 'top' mode actually abuts the input instead of
leaving a phantom blank row between them
- FloatingOverlays (slash completions, /model picker, /resume, /skills
browser, pager) was anchored to the status box. In 'bottom' mode the
status box moved away, so overlays vanished. Move the overlays into
the input row (which is position:relative) so they always pop up
above the input regardless of status position
- Drop the <Text> </Text> fallback in the sticky-prompt slot (only
render a row when there's an actual sticky prompt to show) and
collapse the now-unused Box column wrapping the input. Saves two
rows of dead vertical space in the default layout
'top' and 'bottom' are positions relative to the input row, not the alt
screen viewport:
- top (default) → inline above the input, where the bar originally lived
(what 'on' used to mean)
- bottom → below the input, pinned to the last row
- off → hidden
Drops the literal top-of-screen placement; 'on' is kept as a backward-
compat alias that resolves to 'top' at both the config layer
(normalizeStatusBar, _coerce_statusbar) and the slash command.
Default is back to 'on' (inline, above the input) — bottom was too far
from the input and felt disconnected. Users who want it pinned can
opt in explicitly.
- UiState.statusBar: boolean → 'on' | 'off' | 'bottom' | 'top'
- /statusbar [on|off|bottom|top|toggle]; no-arg still binary-toggles
between off and on (preserves muscle memory)
- appLayout renders StatusRulePane in three slots (inline inside
ComposerPane for 'on', above transcript row for 'top', after
ComposerPane for 'bottom'); only the slot matching ui.statusBar
actually mounts
- drop the input's marginBottom when 'bottom' so the rule sits tight
against the input instead of floating a row below
- useConfigSync.normalizeStatusBar coerces legacy bool (true→on,
false→off) and unknown shapes to 'on' for forward-compat reads
- tui_gateway: split compact from statusbar config handlers; persist
string enum with _coerce_statusbar helper for legacy bool configs
- input wrap: add <Text wrap="wrap-char"> mode that drives wrap-ansi with
wordWrap:false, and align cursorLayout/offsetFromPosition to that same
boundary (w=cols, trailing-cell overflow). Word-wrap's whitespace
reshuffle was causing the cursor to jump a word left/right on each
keystroke near the right edge — blitz row 9
- shift-tab: toggle per-session yolo without submitting a turn (mirrors
Claude Code's in-place dangerously-approve); slash /yolo still works
for discoverability — blitz row 5 sub-item 11
- statusline: lift StatusRule out of ComposerPane to a new StatusRulePane
anchored at the bottom of AppLayout, below the input — blitz row 5
sub-item 12
The salvaged status-bar skin keys were seeded on the default skin, but
_build_skin_config merges default.colors into every skin — so daylight
and warm-lightmode silently inherited silver status_bar_text (#C0C0C0)
on their light backgrounds, rendering as low-contrast gray on gray.
Drop the seven status_bar_{text,strong,dim,good,warn,bad,critical}
entries from the default skin's colors and let get_prompt_toolkit_style
_overrides fall back to banner_text / banner_title / banner_dim /
ui_ok / ui_warn / ui_error. Dark skins keep their explicit overrides
and render identically; light skins now inherit their own dark banner
colors for readable status-bar text.
Drop rebased test assumptions about theme-mode helpers removed on main and keep the status bar skin integration aligned with the current skin engine model.
Route prompt_toolkit status bar colors through the skin engine so /skin updates the status bar alongside the rest of the interactive TUI.
Add regression coverage for the new status bar style override keys and CLI style composition.
These thin wrappers around _capture_log_snapshot had zero production
callers after the snapshot refactor — run_debug_share uses snapshots
directly and collect_debug_report captures internally. The wrappers
also caused a performance regression: _read_log_tail read up to 512KB
and built full_text just to return tail_text.
Remove both wrappers and migrate TestReadFullLog → TestCaptureLogSnapshot
to test _capture_log_snapshot directly. Same coverage, tests the real
API instead of dead indirection.
Add missing AUTHOR_MAP entry for taosiyuan163 whose truncation boundary
fix was adapted into _capture_log_snapshot().
Add regression tests proving: line-boundary truncation keeps the full
first line, mid-line truncation correctly drops the partial fragment.
Adapt the byte-boundary-safe truncation fix from PR #14040 by
taosiyuan163 into the new _capture_log_snapshot() code path: when
the truncation cut lands exactly on a line boundary, keep the first
retained line instead of unconditionally dropping it.
Also add a 2x max_bytes safety cap to the backward-reading loop to
prevent unbounded memory consumption when log files contain very long
lines (e.g. JSON blobs) with few newlines.
Based on #14040 by @taosiyuan163.
Pull duplicated rules into ui-tui/src/lib/subagentTree so the live overlay,
disk snapshot label, and diff pane all speak one dialect:
- export fmtDuration(seconds) — was a private helper in subagentTree;
agentsOverlay's local secLabel/fmtDur/fmtElapsedLabel now wrap the same
core (with UI-only empty-string policy).
- export topLevelSubagents(items) — matches buildSubagentTree's orphan
semantics (no parent OR parent not in snapshot). Replaces three hand-
rolled copies across createGatewayEventHandler (disk label), agentsOverlay
DiffPane, and prior inline filters.
Also collapse agentsOverlay boilerplate:
- replace IIFE title + inner `delta` helper with straight expressions;
- introduce module-level diffMetricLine for replay-diff rows;
- tighten OverlayScrollbar (single thumbColor expression, vBar/thumbBody).
Adds unit coverage for the new exports (fmtDuration + topLevelSubagents).
No behaviour change; 221 tests pass.
- delegate_task: use shared tool_error() for the paused-spawn early return
so the error envelope matches the rest of the tool.
- Disk snapshot label: treat orphaned nodes (parentId missing from the
snapshot) as top-level, matching buildSubagentTree / summarizeLabel.
- List rows: pad the status dot with space before (heat-marker gap or
matching 2-space filler) and after (3 spaces to goal) so `●` / `○` /
`✓` / `■` / `✗` don't read glued to the heat bar or the goal text.
- Gantt rows: bump id→bar separator from 1 to 2 spaces; widen the id
gutter from 4 to 5 cols and re-align the ruler lead to match.
Four real issues Copilot flagged:
1. delegate_tool: `_build_child_agent` never passed `toolsets` to the
progress callback, so the event payload's `toolsets` field (wired
through every layer) was always empty and the overlay's toolsets
row never populated. Thread `child_toolsets` through.
2. event handler: the race-protection on subagent.spawn_requested /
subagent.start only preserved `completed`, so a late-arriving queued
event could clobber `failed` / `interrupted` too. Preserve any
terminal status (`completed | failed | interrupted`).
3. SpawnHud: comment claimed concurrency was approximated by "widest
level in the tree" but code used `totals.activeCount` (total across
all parents). `max_concurrent_children` is a per-parent cap, so
activeCount over-warns for multi-orchestrator runs. Switch to
`max(widthByDepth(tree))`; the label now reads `⚡W/cap+extra` where
W is the widest level (drives the ratio) and `+extra` is the rest.
4. spawn_tree.list: comment said "peek header without parsing full list"
but the code json.loads()'d every snapshot. Adds a per-session
`_index.jsonl` sidecar written on save; list() reads only the index
(with a full-scan fallback for pre-index sessions). O(1) per
snapshot now vs O(file-size).
Adds _reactions_enabled() gating to match Discord (DISCORD_REACTIONS) and
Telegram (TELEGRAM_REACTIONS) pattern. Defaults to true to preserve existing
behavior. Gates at three levels:
- _handle_slack_message: skips _reacting_message_ids registration
- on_processing_start: early return
- on_processing_complete: early return
Also adds config.yaml bridge (slack.reactions) and two new tests.
Slack reactions were placed around handle_message(), which returns
immediately after spawning a background task. This caused the 👀
→ ✅ swap to happen before any real work began.
Fix: implement on_processing_start / on_processing_complete callbacks
(matching Discord/Telegram) so reactions bracket actual _message_handler
work driven by the base class.
Also fixes missing stop_typing() for Slack's assistant thread status
indicator, which left 'is thinking...' stuck in the UI after processing
completed.
- Add _reacting_message_ids set for DM/@mention-only gating
- Add _active_status_threads dict for stop_typing lookup
- Update test_reactions_in_message_flow for new callback pattern
- Add test_reactions_failure_outcome and test_reactions_skipped_for_non_dm_non_mention
- createGatewayEventHandler: remove dead `return` after a block that
always returns (tool.complete case). The inner block exits via
both branches so the outer statement was never reachable. Was
pre-existing on main; fixed here because it was the only thing
blocking `npm run fix` on this branch.
- agentsOverlay + ops: prettier reformatting.
`npm run fix` / `npm run type-check` / `npm test` all clean.
The Write tool that wrote the cleaned overlay split the `if` keyword
across two lines in 9 places (` i\nf (cond) {`), which silently
passed one typecheck run but actually left the handler as broken
JS — every keystroke threw. Input froze in the /agents overlay
(j/k/arrows/q/etc. all no-ops) while the 500ms now-tick kept
rendering, so the UI looked "frozen but the timeline moves".
Reflows the handler as-intended with no behaviour change.
Adds a live + post-hoc audit surface for recursive delegate_task fan-out.
None of cc/oc/oclaw tackle nested subagent trees inside an Ink overlay;
this ships a view-switched dashboard that handles arbitrary depth + width.
Python
- delegate_tool: every subagent event now carries subagent_id, parent_id,
depth, model, tool_count; subagent.complete also ships input/output/
reasoning tokens, cost, api_calls, files_read/files_written, and a
tail of tool-call outputs
- delegate_tool: new subagent.spawn_requested event + _active_subagents
registry so the overlay can kill a branch by id and pause new spawns
- tui_gateway: new RPCs delegation.status, delegation.pause,
subagent.interrupt, spawn_tree.save/list/load (disk under
\$HERMES_HOME/spawn-trees/<session>/<ts>.json)
TUI
- /agents overlay: full-width list mode (gantt strip + row picker) and
Enter-to-drill full-width scrollable detail mode; inverse+amber
selection, heat-coloured branch markers, wall-clock gantt with tick
ruler, per-branch rollups
- Detail pane: collapsible accordions (Budget, Files, Tool calls, Output,
Progress, Summary); open-state persists across agents + mode switches
via a shared atom
- /replay [N|last|list|load <path>] for in-memory + disk history;
/replay-diff <a> <b> for side-by-side tree comparison
- Status-bar SpawnHud warns as depth/concurrency approaches caps;
overlay auto-follows the just-finished turn onto history[1]
- Theme: bump DARK dim #B8860B → #CC9B1F for readable secondary text
globally; keep LIGHT untouched
Tests: +29 new subagentTree unit tests; 215/215 passing.
Follow-up to the cherry-picked PR #13897 fix. Three issues found:
1. CRITICAL: The thinking block synthesised from reasoning_content was
immediately stripped by the third-party signature management code
(Kimi is classified as _is_third_party_anthropic_endpoint). Added a
Kimi-specific carve-out that preserves unsigned thinking blocks while
still stripping Anthropic-signed blocks Kimi can't validate.
2. Empty-string reasoning_content was silently dropped because the
truthiness check ('if reasoning_content and ...') evaluates to False
for ''. Changed to 'isinstance(reasoning_content, str)' so the
tier-3 fallback from _copy_reasoning_content_for_api (which injects
'' for Kimi tool-call messages with no reasoning) actually produces
a thinking block.
3. The thinking block was appended AFTER tool_use blocks. Anthropic
protocol requires thinking -> text -> tool_use ordering. Changed to
blocks.insert(0, ...) to prepend.
FixesNousResearch/hermes-agent#13848
Kimi's /coding endpoint speaks the Anthropic Messages protocol but has its
own thinking semantics: when thinking is enabled, Kimi validates message
history and requires every prior assistant tool-call message to carry
OpenAI-style reasoning_content.
The Anthropic path never populated that field, and
convert_messages_to_anthropic strips all Anthropic thinking blocks on
third-party endpoints — so the request failed with HTTP 400:
"thinking is enabled but reasoning_content is missing in assistant
tool call message at index N"
Now, when an assistant message contains tool_calls and a
reasoning_content string, we append a {"type": "thinking", ...} block
to the Anthropic content so Kimi can validate the history. This only
affects assistant messages with tool_calls + reasoning_content; plain
text assistant messages are unchanged.
The 404 branch in _classify_by_status had dead code: the generic
fallback below the _MODEL_NOT_FOUND_PATTERNS check returned the
exact same classification (model_not_found + should_fallback=True),
so every 404 — regardless of message — was treated as a missing model.
This bites local-endpoint users (llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM) whose 404s
usually mean a wrong endpoint path, proxy routing glitch, or transient
backend issue — not a missing model. Claiming 'model not found' misleads
the next turn and silently falls back to another provider when the real
problem was a URL typo the user should see.
Fix: only classify 404 as model_not_found when the message actually
matches _MODEL_NOT_FOUND_PATTERNS ("invalid model", "model not found",
etc.). Otherwise fall through as unknown (retryable) so the real error
surfaces in the retry loop.
Test updated to match the new behavior. 103 error_classifier tests pass.
* fix(plugins): auto-coerce user-installed memory plugins to kind=exclusive
User-installed memory provider plugins at $HERMES_HOME/plugins/<name>/
were being dispatched to the general PluginManager, which has no
register_memory_provider method on PluginContext. Every startup logged:
Failed to load plugin 'mempalace': 'PluginContext' object has no
attribute 'register_memory_provider'
Bundled memory providers were already skipped via skip_names={memory,
context_engine} in discover_and_load, but user-installed ones weren't.
Fix: _parse_manifest now scans the plugin's __init__.py source for
'register_memory_provider' or 'MemoryProvider' (same heuristic as
plugins/memory/__init__.py:_is_memory_provider_dir) and auto-coerces
kind to 'exclusive' when the manifest didn't declare one explicitly.
This routes the plugin to plugins/memory discovery instead of the
general loader.
The escape hatch: if a manifest explicitly declares kind: standalone,
the heuristic doesn't override it.
Reported by Uncle HODL on Discord.
* fix(nous): actionable CLI message when Nous 401 refresh fails
Mirrors the Anthropic 401 diagnostic pattern. When Nous returns 401
and the credential refresh (_try_refresh_nous_client_credentials)
also fails, the user used to see only the raw APIError. Now prints:
🔐 Nous 401 — Portal authentication failed.
Response: <truncated body>
Most likely: Portal OAuth expired, account out of credits, or
agent key revoked.
Troubleshooting:
• Re-authenticate: hermes login --provider nous
• Check credits / billing: https://portal.nousresearch.com
• Verify stored credentials: $HERMES_HOME/auth.json
• Switch providers temporarily: /model <model> --provider openrouter
Addresses the common 'my hermes model hangs' pattern where the user's
Portal OAuth expired and the CLI gave no hint about the next step.
Adds schema v7 'api_call_count' column. run_agent.py increments it by 1
per LLM API call, web_server analytics SQL aggregates it, frontend uses
the real counter instead of summing sessions.
The 'API Calls' card on the analytics dashboard previously displayed
COUNT(*) from the sessions table — the number of conversations, not
LLM requests. Each session makes 10-90 API calls through the tool loop,
so the reported number was ~30x lower than real.
Salvaged from PR #10140 (@kshitijk4poor). The cache-token accuracy
portions of the original PR were deferred — per-provider analytics is
the better path there, since cache_write_tokens and actual_cost_usd
are only reliably available from a subset of providers (Anthropic
native, Codex Responses, OpenRouter with usage.include).
Tests:
- schema_version v7 assertion
- migration v2 -> v7 adds api_call_count column with default 0
- update_token_counts increments api_call_count by provided delta
- absolute=True sets api_call_count directly
- /api/analytics/usage exposes total_api_calls in totals
- Replace async create_bind_task/poll_bind_result with synchronous
httpx.Client equivalents, eliminating manual event loop management
- Move _render_qr and full qr_register() entry-point into onboard.py,
mirroring the Feishu onboarding pattern
- Remove _qqbot_render_qr and _qqbot_qr_flow from gateway.py (~90 lines);
call site becomes a single qr_register() import
- Fix potential segfault: previous code called loop.close() in the EXPIRED
branch and again in the finally block (double-close crashed under uvloop)
- Add configurable retain_tags / retain_source / retain_user_prefix /
retain_assistant_prefix knobs for native Hindsight.
- Thread gateway session identity (user_name, chat_id, chat_name,
chat_type, thread_id) through AIAgent and MemoryManager into
MemoryProvider.initialize kwargs so providers can scope and tag
retained memories.
- Hindsight attaches the new identity fields as retain metadata,
merges per-call tool tags with configured default tags, and uses
the configurable transcript labels for auto-retained turns.
Co-authored-by: Abner <abner.the.foreman@agentmail.to>
* feat(state): auto-prune old sessions + VACUUM state.db at startup
state.db accumulates every session, message, and FTS5 index entry forever.
A heavy user (gateway + cron) reported 384MB with 982 sessions / 68K messages
causing slowdown; manual 'hermes sessions prune --older-than 7' + VACUUM
brought it to 43MB. The prune command and VACUUM are not wired to run
automatically anywhere — sessions grew unbounded until users noticed.
Changes:
- hermes_state.py: new state_meta key/value table, vacuum() method, and
maybe_auto_prune_and_vacuum() — idempotent via last-run timestamp in
state_meta so it only actually executes once per min_interval_hours
across all Hermes processes for a given HERMES_HOME. Never raises.
- hermes_cli/config.py: new 'sessions:' block in DEFAULT_CONFIG
(auto_prune=True, retention_days=90, vacuum_after_prune=True,
min_interval_hours=24). Added to _KNOWN_ROOT_KEYS.
- cli.py: call maintenance once at HermesCLI init (shared helper
_run_state_db_auto_maintenance reads config and delegates to DB).
- gateway/run.py: call maintenance once at GatewayRunner init.
- Docs: user-guide/sessions.md rewrites 'Automatic Cleanup' section.
Why VACUUM matters: SQLite does NOT shrink the file on DELETE — freed
pages get reused on next INSERT. Without VACUUM, a delete-heavy DB stays
bloated forever. VACUUM only runs when the prune actually removed rows,
so tight DBs don't pay the I/O cost.
Tests: 10 new tests in tests/test_hermes_state.py covering state_meta,
vacuum, idempotency, interval skipping, VACUUM-only-when-needed,
corrupt-marker recovery. All 246 existing state/config/gateway tests
still pass.
Verified E2E with real imports + isolated HERMES_HOME: DEFAULT_CONFIG
exposes the new block, load_config() returns it for fresh installs,
first call prunes+vacuums, second call within min_interval_hours skips,
and the state_meta marker persists across connection close/reopen.
* sessions.auto_prune defaults to false (opt-in)
Session history powers session_search recall across past conversations,
so silently pruning on startup could surprise users. Ship the machinery
disabled and let users opt in when they notice state.db is hurting
performance.
- DEFAULT_CONFIG.sessions.auto_prune: True → False
- Call-site fallbacks in cli.py and gateway/run.py match the new default
(so unmigrated configs still see off)
- Docs: flip 'Enable in config.yaml' framing + tip explains the tradeoff
