The pre-update / pre-migration backup path (_write_full_zip_backup) had the
same /tmp staging bug as run_backup: a small tmpfs at the default tempfile
location silently drops large *.db files from the archive. Route its SQLite
staging temp files to the output zip's directory as well, and add regression
tests (mutation-verified) for both staging paths.
Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>
Two bugs in the backup routine:
1. SQLite safe-copy used tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() which defaults to
the system temp directory (/tmp). When /tmp is a small tmpfs and the
database is large, the copy silently fails and the resulting zip is
missing state.db, kanban.db, and response_store.db.
Fix: pass dir=out_path.parent so the temp file is staged alongside the
output zip on the same filesystem.
2. _EXCLUDED_DIRS contained "hermes-agent" which matched at ANY path
depth, accidentally excluding the Hermes Agent skill directory at
skills/autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent/.
Fix: special-case "hermes-agent" to only match when it is the first
path component (the root-level code checkout). All other excluded dir
names continue to match at any depth.
Regression tests added for both fixes.
* fix(cli): omit --workspace when subpackage has its own package-lock.json
When ui-tui/ (or web/) contains its own package-lock.json, _workspace_root()
returns the subpackage directory itself. Passing --workspace ui-tui in that
case fails because npm cannot find a workspace named 'ui-tui' inside ui-tui/.
Fix: skip the --workspace flag when npm_cwd equals the target directory,
running a plain 'npm install' from the standalone project root instead.
Applies the same fix to both _make_tui_argv (TUI) and _build_web_ui (web).
Fixes#42973
* test(cli): fix web workspace-scope fixture + cover own-lockfile fallback (#42973)
The web half of the #42977 fix broke test_npm_install_uses_workspace_web_scope,
which built its fixture with no lockfile anywhere. Without a root lockfile,
_workspace_root(web_dir) already returns web_dir, so the new
"() if npm_cwd == web_dir" branch correctly drops --workspace and the
assertion failed. Model a real workspace checkout instead: the single
package-lock.json lives at the root, so --workspace web scopes the install.
Also add the symmetric web regression test (web/ carrying its own lockfile =>
--workspace must be dropped and the install runs plainly from web_dir via
npm ci), matching the TUI coverage already in test_tui_npm_install.py.
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Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>
* feat(agent): coding-context posture with per-model edit-format tuning
Hermes detects when it's running in a coding context — an interactive
surface (CLI, TUI, ACP, desktop) sitting in a code workspace (git repo or
recognised project root) — and shifts into a coding posture. Outside that
(chat platforms, non-workspaces) nothing changes.
The posture is modelled as a frozen RuntimeMode selected from a small
ContextProfile registry (coding/general). A profile is data: the toolset to
collapse to, the operating brief to inject, and seams for model routing and
memory. Every domain reads the same resolved object instead of re-probing
git/config on its own:
- System prompt — RuntimeMode.system_blocks(): an operating brief (gather
context before editing, edit through tools not chat, verify with terminal,
cap retry loops) plus a live git/workspace snapshot, built once and baked
into the stable prompt tier so per-conversation caching is preserved.
- Per-model edit-format tuning — the brief nudges each model family toward
the patch mode it handles best: OpenAI/Codex toward mode='patch' (V4A
multi-file diffs), Anthropic toward mode='replace' (string replacement).
The model id rides on RuntimeMode; unknown families keep neutral wording.
- Skill index — non-coding skill categories are pruned from the prompt's
skill index (discovery-only; skills_list/skill_view still reach the full
catalog, with a disclosure note).
- Toolset — only under the opt-in 'focus' mode does the posture collapse to
the coding toolset + enabled MCP servers; the default posture is
prompt-only and never overrides configured toolsets.
Activation via agent.coding_context: auto (default), focus, on, off.
Subagents inherit the posture for free via toolset inheritance + the shared
prompt builder. Detection is not memoized so a long-lived gateway/TUI
process can't pin a stale posture across working directories.
* feat(agent): cover new-file authoring in the coding edit-format nudge
The per-model edit-format guidance only addressed editing existing code
(patch mode='patch' vs 'replace'), but authoring a brand-new file —
write_file, not patch — is a large fraction of real coding work and the
nudge was silent on it. Surfaced when building a single-file artifact where
the dominant operation was write_file and the steering offered no guidance.
Both family lines now lead with "author new files with write_file; for
edits to existing code prefer ...". Tests assert write_file appears in each
family's brief; unknown families still get neutral wording.
* docs(agent): correct memoization docstring + clarify TUI config-load asymmetry
* feat(agent): sharpen the coding posture — verify-loop facts, wider edit steering, $HOME guard
Tuning pass on the coding posture from dogfooding it as a harness:
- Workspace snapshot now hands the model its verify loop up front:
detected manifests + package manager (lockfile sniff), the exact
verify commands (package.json scripts, Makefile targets,
scripts/run_tests.sh, pytest config), and which context files
(AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / .cursorrules) exist at the root. Marker-only
(non-git) projects get the snapshot too instead of nothing. The
"verify before claiming done" brief line was the highest-value piece
in evals — this turns it from advice into an executable loop instead
of making the model rediscover the test command every session. Still
stat-cheap, size-guarded reads, built once at prompt time.
- Edit-format steering covers the families Hermes actually serves:
Gemini and open-weight coding models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM,
Grok, Hermes, Llama, Mistral, Devstral, MiniMax) steer to
mode='replace' — their RL scaffolds use str_replace-style editors.
Previously only GPT/Codex and Claude families got steering; the
models Hermes users disproportionately run all fell to neutral.
- Operating brief gains four behaviors elite harnesses encode: batch
independent reads/searches in one turn; fix root causes and the bug
class (sibling call paths), not the reported site; no drive-by
refactors/renames/reformatting; never read, print, or commit secrets.
Plus a patch-failure escalation ladder: after the same region fails
twice, rewrite the enclosing function/file with write_file instead of
a third patch attempt.
- $HOME dotfiles guard: a git repo rooted exactly at the home directory
(or a marker sitting in it, e.g. a global ~/AGENTS.md) is user config,
not a code workspace — without the guard, every session anywhere under
a dotfiles-managed home silently flipped to the coding posture. Real
projects under such a home still detect via their own markers/repos;
'on' mode bypasses the guard.
Fully removes the cron per-job 'profile' arg added in #28124: the
cronjob tool schema field, CLI --profile flags on cron create/edit,
job-record storage/validation, the scheduler's _job_profile_context
wrapper, and the script-runner env override. Sequential-partition
logic reverts to workdir-only.
The context-local HERMES_HOME override in hermes_constants and the
subprocess bridging in tools/environments/local.py are kept — they
now have other consumers (dashboard multi-profile, TUI gateway).
'Set as active' on the Profiles page only flips the sticky active_profile
file (future CLI/gateway runs) — it never retargets the running dashboard
process. The skills/toolsets endpoints called bare load_config()/
save_config(), so after 'activating' a profile in the web UI, deactivating
a skill silently wrote into the dashboard's own profile and the activated
profile was untouched.
Backend:
- _profile_scope() context manager on the skills/toolsets endpoints:
context-local HERMES_HOME override for call-time config resolution +
cron-style locked swap of tools.skills_tool's import-time SKILLS_DIR
- profile param on /api/skills, /api/skills/toggle, /api/tools/toolsets*
(list/toggle/config/provider/env), hub sources/search installed-state
- hub install/uninstall/update spawn 'hermes -p <profile> skills ...' so
the child rebinds skills_hub.SKILLS_DIR at import (the override cannot
reach import-time globals); profile validated -> 404/400 before spawn
Frontend:
- Skills page: profile selector (deep-linkable /skills?profile=<name>),
amber banner naming the managed profile, threaded through skill toggles,
toolset drawer, and hub browser
- Profiles page: 'Manage skills & tools' action per card; 'Set as active'
toast now says it applies to new CLI/gateway runs only
Omitted profile keeps legacy behavior (dashboard's own profile).
Make Parallel the web search/extract backend with a zero-setup free tier:
- Keyless (no PARALLEL_API_KEY): web_search/web_extract work out of the box via
Parallel's free hosted Search MCP (search.parallel.ai/mcp), and parallel
becomes the default backend when no other web credentials are configured
(ahead of ddgs, which is search-only). A small hand-rolled Streamable-HTTP
JSON-RPC client speaks the MCP's web_search/web_fetch tools; the existing
web_search/web_extract tools are the only tools registered.
- Keyed (PARALLEL_API_KEY set): uses the Parallel v1 REST endpoints
(client.search / client.extract with advanced_settings.full_content) — no beta.
Bumps parallel-web 0.4.2 -> 0.6.0.
- Attribution: on the free path only, results carry provider/attribution and the
CLI tool line reads "Parallel search" / "Parallel fetch"; the paid path is
unbranded.
- Selection/registration: web tools register unconditionally (free MCP backstop)
while check_web_api_key remains a real usability probe; explicit per-capability
backends are honored (so misconfig surfaces) rather than masked by the fallback.
Tested: live web_search/web_extract against search.parallel.ai in keyless and
keyed modes; unit suites for the MCP client, backend selection, and display
labeling; full agent run shows the "Parallel search" label on the free path.
* desktop: surface /tools, /save, /personality and fix /help skill count
Move /tools and /save out of TERMINAL_ONLY_COMMANDS and /personality out of
ADVANCED_COMMANDS so they appear in the desktop slash palette and execute via
the existing slash.exec → command.dispatch fallback. The backend gateway already
accepts these through slash.exec (none are in _PENDING_INPUT_COMMANDS or the
skill list), so no backend change is required.
Recompute skill_count in filterDesktopCommandsCatalog from the filtered pairs.
Previously the /help footer echoed the unfiltered backend total — e.g. "60
skill commands available" while only ~29 actually appeared in the rendered
list, because the desktop hides terminal-only, picker-owned, and advanced
commands.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* desktop: keep slash popover live while typing args
The trigger regex `(?:^|[\s])([@/])([^\s@/]*)$` stopped matching the moment
the user typed a space after a slash command, so the popover never showed arg
completions for `/personality`, `/tools`, etc. — even though the backend's
`complete.slash` already returns them with a `replace_from` indicator.
Split the trigger detection so `/` allows args (`/cmd arg1 arg2`) while `@`
keeps the strict no-space behavior. Restrict the slash command name to
`[a-zA-Z][\w-]*` so file paths like `src/foo/bar` don't accidentally trigger
the popover.
Rewrite arg-completion items in useSlashCompletions to insert the full
`/personality alice` token instead of stranding `/alice`: when `replace_from`
is past the command base, prepend the existing prefix to each item's text so
the chip serializer produces a coherent replacement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* cli: complete toolset names after /tools enable|disable
SlashCommandCompleter previously only auto-derived the first subcommand level
from args_hint, so `/tools enable <tab>` yielded nothing — the user had to
remember every toolset key (web, file, spotify, …) and every MCP server prefix.
Add `_tools_completions` that handles both stages: subcommand (list|disable|enable)
and tool name. Filter by current enable state so `/tools enable <tab>` only
offers disabled toolsets and `/tools disable <tab>` only offers enabled ones —
no point suggesting a no-op. MCP server prefixes (server:) come from the
saved mcp_servers config; per-tool completion under a server would require
runtime MCP introspection and is left as follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* desktop: registry-driven slash commands with first-class pickers
Collapse the if/else slash dispatch into one DESKTOP_COMMAND_SPECS table
that drives popover suggestions, per-type composer pills, and execution.
- /resume, /sessions, /switch: inline session completions (like /skin) plus
a "Browse all sessions…" entry that opens a dedicated session picker overlay
- /handoff: inline platform completion + handoff.request/handoff.state
gateway bridge so desktop reaches CLI parity
- colored per-type pills (command/skill/theme) in the composer
- strip ANSI and fix width/alignment of slash output in the chat panel
* desktop: fold repeated slash session/output boilerplate into one helper
runExec, /title, /help and the unavailable case each re-derived the same
ensure-session → bail-with-notify → build-renderSlashOutput dance.
withSlashOutput() returns {sessionId, render} or null, so each handler is
a two-line resolve instead of an eight-line preamble.
* desktop: keep backend meta on slash arg completions
Arg suggestions (/personality <name>, /tools enable <toolset>, /handoff
<platform>) were having their meta overwritten with the parent command's
registry description: desktopSlashDescription("/personality none") canonicalizes
back to /personality and returns its blurb. Skip the lookup for arg rows so the
backend's own display_meta ("clear personality overlay", etc.) survives.
* cli: list real personalities in /personality completion
_personality_completions resolved load_config().agent.personalities — but that
schema has no agent.personalities key, so completion always returned just
`none` even though the runtime (load_cli_config().agent.personalities) ships a
dozen built-ins (helpful, kawaii, pirate, …). Read from the same source the
command actually applies, so `/personality ` surfaces the real options.
* desktop: expand bare arg-commands to their options on pick
Picking a command like /personality from the slash popover committed it
immediately instead of advancing to its argument list. Mark arg-taking
commands (/skin, /resume, /handoff, /personality, /tools) in the registry
and, when one is picked bare, insert "/cmd " as plain text and re-open the
popover on its inline options — mirroring typing "/cmd " by hand. Arg picks
(serialized text already contains a space) still commit a single pill.
Also realign trigger-popover loading test with the redesigned popover (the
/help empty-state hint shows when resolved, not while the spinner is up);
the merge from main reintroduced the pre-redesign expectation.
* tui_gateway: fold session-db close into a context manager
Both handoff RPCs repeated the same `db, close_db = _session_db_handle()`
+ `finally: if close_db: db.close()` dance. Turn the helper into a
`_session_db` contextmanager that owns the close, so callers just
`with _session_db(session) as db:`.
* desktop: unblock handoff retries and exact resume ids
Clear timed-out desktop handoffs through the gateway so retries are not stuck behind a pending row, and let typed /resume session ids bypass the loaded sidebar cache.
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A cron job stored with `provider: "custom"` and a matching `providers.custom`
entry in config failed at execution with `auth_unavailable: providers=codex`.
Two layers conspired:
- `_get_named_custom_provider` returned None for bare "custom" *before*
scanning config, so a literal `providers.custom` entry was never matched and
resolution fell through to the global default (codex). Now it scans config
for an entry literally named "custom"; with none it still returns None,
preserving the legacy model.base_url trust path.
- `_resolve_model_override` blindly stripped bare "custom" at job creation and
pinned `model.provider` (e.g. codex). It now keeps "custom" when a configured
custom endpoint resolves, pinning the main provider only when it doesn't.
The previous fix for #23387 changed _launchd_domain() from gui/<uid> to
user/<uid> to support Background/SSH sessions on macOS 26+. However, this
broke Aqua sessions where gui/<uid> is the only working domain and
user/<uid> cannot bootstrap or manage the service.
Now _launchd_domain() probes which domain actually contains the loaded
service:
1. Try gui/<uid> first (Aqua sessions)
2. Fall back to user/<uid> (Background/SSH sessions)
3. Use launchctl managername as heuristic when neither has the service
4. Cache the result for the process lifetime
Regression tests cover all four paths plus caching behavior.
* feat(profiles): extend create endpoint for full profile-builder (model + MCPs + skills)
Backend foundation for the dashboard profile builder. Extends POST /api/profiles
to accept, in one call, everything a profile needs beyond name/clone:
- mcp_servers[] -> written into the new profile's config.yaml
- keep_skills[] -> replace-semantics: disable every seeded skill not kept
- hub_skills[] -> async install via 'hermes -p <name> skills install <id>'
All applied best-effort AFTER the profile dir exists, so a hiccup in any one
never 500s the create. Model/MCP/keep-skills writes are profile-scoped via the
HERMES_HOME context override (same mechanism as the existing _write_profile_model).
Hub installs go through a subprocess scoped with -p because skills_hub.SKILLS_DIR
is import-time-bound and the runtime override can't redirect it.
Adds two helpers (_write_profile_mcp_servers, _disable_unselected_skills) and a
TestClient test asserting all four paths land in the NEW profile's config and
the hub spawn is scoped to it. Design doc at docs/design/profile-builder.md.
* feat(dashboard): full-featured profile builder page
Adds a dedicated /profiles/new builder that composes everything a profile
needs into one stepped create flow, reusing the existing Models/Skills/MCP
data paths instead of duplicating them:
- Identity name + description
- Model provider+model picker (api.getModelOptions)
- Skills keep-which-built-in/optional (replace semantics, default = full
bundle) + skills-hub search/add (api.getSkills, searchSkillsHub)
- MCPs add HTTP/stdio servers inline
- Review blueprint -> single POST /api/profiles create
Nothing writes until Create; the one call commits model+MCPs+skill selection
and spawns hub-skill installs (reported in the success toast). ProfilesPage
header gets a 'Build' button (full builder) alongside 'Create' (quick modal).
Route is page-only (not in the sidebar nav). Verified with vite build (2258
modules, green).
Follow-ups to #38199/#43354 found in post-merge review:
- Inline CLI memory approval never worked: the per-thread approval callback
was not passed to prompt_dangerous_approval, so the prompt_toolkit
fail-closed guard (#15216) denied every gated foreground write without
showing a prompt. Now invokes the registered callback directly; a crashed
prompt falls back to staging instead of a silent deny.
- Gateway sessions claimed inline support but prompt_dangerous_approval has
no gateway round-trip (that lives in the pending-approval queue), so gated
gateway memory writes hit the input() fallback and denied. Gateway
contexts now stage for /memory pending review.
- /skills pending|approve|reject|diff|approval now works on the gateway
(gateway_config_gate on skills.write_approval), so skills staged from a
messaging session can be reviewed there. Diff output truncated for chat.
- memory_tool validates required params before the gate so invalid writes
are rejected immediately instead of staged and failing at approve time.
- Stale tri-state write_mode docstrings updated to the boolean gate; docs
table corrected (inline prompt is interactive-CLI-only).
- 6 new tests covering the interactive approve/deny/error paths, gateway
staging, skills never-prompt invariant, and pre-gate validation.
* fix(update): self-heal a venv left half-built by an interrupted install
An update killed mid dependency-install (Ctrl-C, terminal close, WSL OOM)
could leave the venv with pip wiped and core deps (e.g. Pillow) missing,
with no automatic recovery — the user had to manually run ensurepip +
reinstall.
Drop an install-scoped .update-incomplete breadcrumb right before the dep
install and clear it only after core-dependency verification passes. On the
next launch (any command except 'update' itself), if the marker is present,
unconditionally bootstrap pip via ensurepip then re-run the .[all] install +
verification, then clear the marker. Failure leaves the marker for retry and
prints the manual recovery command. Never raises — recovery cannot block
launch.
* fix(update): address review — stderr-only recovery output, single-flight lock, gitignore marker
- Route all recovery output (status lines + streamed pip/uv install via
fd-level dup2) to stderr so protocol-on-stdout launches (hermes acp)
never get install noise on the JSON-RPC stream.
- Single-flight O_EXCL lockfile (.update-incomplete.lock) so a gateway
start + CLI launch (or two profiles) can't run concurrent installs
into the shared venv; stale locks (>1h) are broken for the next launch.
- gitignore .update-incomplete + lock so source-tree installs keep a
clean git status and update's autostash skips them.
- Document why the loose 'update' argv substring match is intentional
(over-match defers one launch; under-match would race the real update).
- 4 new tests: lock held → skip, stale lock broken, lock released,
output lands on stderr only.
#33699 fixed save_env_value so an operator-set .env mode (e.g. 0640 on a
Docker bind-mount) survives a config write instead of being re-tightened
to 0600 by the unconditional _secure_file() call. The sibling
remove_env_value() had the identical bug: it restores original_mode and
then unconditionally called _secure_file(env_path), clobbering the mode
back to 0600 on every `hermes config remove KEY`.
Apply the same fix: move _secure_file() into the else branch so it only
runs when no original mode was captured (a freshly created .env still
gets 0600 hardening; existing operator-set modes survive).
Added test_remove_env_value_preserves_existing_file_mode_on_posix, which
fails on the unfixed remove path (expected 0o640, got 0o600) and passes
with the fix.
`hermes setup` (and other banner-printing commands) crash with an unhandled
UnicodeEncodeError on Linux hosts whose locale selects a non-UTF-8 codec —
e.g. a fresh Raspberry Pi / minimal Debian with a latin-1 or C/POSIX locale.
The setup wizard prints box-drawing characters (┌│├└─) and the ⚕ glyph before
any stream repair runs, so the command dies before it can start.
The existing _ensure_utf8() shim already knew how to re-wrap the standard
streams as UTF-8, but it returned early on `sys.platform != "win32"`, so the
identical crash class on Linux was never covered.
- Drop the win32 gate: repair any stdout/stderr whose encoding is not UTF-8.
- Prefer TextIOWrapper.reconfigure() so the stream object is fixed in place
(cached sys.stdout references keep working); fall back to reopening the fd
with closefd=False (the CPython-recommended safe variant).
- Use errors="replace" — matching the sibling hermes_cli/stdio.py shim — so a
stray un-encodable byte degrades gracefully instead of crashing.
- Only set the PYTHONUTF8/PYTHONIOENCODING child-process hints when a repair
actually happened, so a healthy UTF-8 host sees zero footprint (no stream
swap, no env mutation).
This is intentionally the earliest, platform-agnostic guard, running at import
time before any banner prints. hermes_cli/stdio.py::configure_windows_stdio()
still runs later from the entry points for the Windows-only extras (console
code-page flip, EDITOR default, PATH augmentation); it early-returns on
non-Windows and its stream reconfigure is an idempotent no-op once we've
already repaired the streams here.
Add regression tests covering latin-1 and ascii/POSIX streams, the reconfigure
fallback, already-UTF-8 no-op (identity preserved + no env mutation), the
repair-sets-env and respects-explicit-env contracts, and hostile/None streams.
Follow-ups to the salvaged Telegram QR onboarding auto-restart:
- _spawn_gateway_restart() reuses a live in-flight 'hermes gateway restart'
child instead of spawning a second racing one (stale cached frontend +
new backend both requesting a restart, or restart-button double-click).
Both /api/gateway/restart and the onboarding apply path go through it.
- ChannelsPage polls /api/actions/gateway-restart/status after a
server-initiated restart and surfaces a non-zero exit (e.g. systemd
linger missing) via the manual-restart banner, since restart_started
only means the child spawned.
- Test for the reuse path + _ACTION_PROCS isolation in existing tests.
do_browse waited on a frozen 'Fetching skills...' spinner while sources
resolved, so a slow source looked like a hang. parallel_search_sources
already exposes an on_source_done(sid, count) callback fired as each source
completes — wire it into the status line so it ticks off sources live
(official (12), + github (4), + clawhub (500)). The page is still rendered
once, after the full set is merged and trust-sorted, so browse's
official-first ordering and pagination contract are untouched.
Follow-ups on top of #26016's expensive-model guard:
- gateway/slash_commands.py: typed '/model <name>' now routes through the
expensive-model confirmation gate (slash-confirm buttons / text fallback)
instead of bypassing the guard the pickers enforce. Cancel leaves the
session override and --global config untouched.
- telegram/discord/web_server: run expensive_model_warning() via
asyncio.to_thread — it can hit models.dev or a /models endpoint on a
cache miss, which would otherwise block the event loop.
- telegram: picker callback no longer toasts 'Model switched!' when the
switch callback raised (both mm: and mc: paths).
- tests: new tests/gateway/test_model_command_expensive_confirm.py pins
the typed-path gate (prompt, confirm-once, cancel, cheap-model no-op).
Rebased onto current main and re-ported across the restructured
surfaces: model flows now thread confirm_provider/base_url/api_key
through hermes_cli/model_setup_flows.py, the Discord picker lives in
plugins/platforms/discord/adapter.py, and the web dashboard picker
applies chat-mode switches via config.set so the expensive-model
confirmation can ride the response.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
xAI's consent page renders the authorization code in-page instead of
redirecting to the loopback callback, so the listener just hangs and the
manual-paste flow demands a callback URL that never contains the token.
- auth.py: poll stdin non-blockingly while waiting for the xAI loopback
callback; accept a pasted bare Grok Build code and substitute the locally
generated state (PKCE code_verifier still binds the exchange). No need to
wait for timeout or re-run with --manual-paste.
- computer_use: parse PNG/JPEG dimensions from base64 and fall back to the
text/AX/SOM payload when the screenshot is below the provider minimum
(8x8), which xAI rejects with HTTP 400.
- model_setup_flows.py: xAI credential reuse prompt uses the standard radio
picker via a shared _prompt_auth_credentials_choice helper.
- main.py: thread a title through _prompt_provider_choice; re-home the helper
import (flows live in model_setup_flows.py post-decomposition).
Salvaged from #36781 onto current main (contributor's main.py edits re-homed
to model_setup_flows.py, where the flows were extracted since the PR opened).
The shipped tri-state write_mode (on|off|approve) conflated two concepts —
whether writes are enabled and whether they're gated — so 'on' (writes flow
freely, gate inactive) read like 'gating is on'. Replace it with a single
clear boolean gate that defaults off.
memory.write_approval / skills.write_approval:
false (default) — write freely; the approval gate is off (pre-gate behaviour)
true — require approval: memory foreground prompts inline, memory
background-review + all skill writes stage for review
The old 'off = block all writes' mode is dropped; memory_enabled: false already
disables memory entirely, so a third 'block' state was redundant.
- tools/write_approval.py: get_write_mode/MODE_* → write_approval_enabled() bool;
evaluate_gate() loses the config-driven 'blocked' path (blocked now only comes
from an interactive user denial).
- tools/memory_tool.py, tools/skill_manager_tool.py: comment + behaviour follow.
- hermes_cli/config.py: memory/skills write_mode → write_approval (False);
_config_version 28→29 with a 28→29 migration that renames any persisted
write_mode (approve→true, on/off/unset→false) and drops the old key.
- slash commands: '/memory|/skills mode <on|off|approve>' → 'approval <on|off>'
('mode' kept as a back-compat alias); set_mode_fn callback now takes a bool.
- write_approval_commands.py, cli_commands_mixin.py, gateway/slash_commands.py,
commands.py: handlers + registry args/subcommands updated.
- docs + tests rewritten for the boolean model; added migration tests.
* fix(dashboard): let _require_token endpoints work behind the OAuth gate
In gated/OAuth mode (non-loopback bind without --insecure) the dashboard
authenticates the SPA via a session cookie and deliberately does NOT inject
the legacy ephemeral _SESSION_TOKEN into index.html. gated_auth_middleware
verifies the cookie and attaches request.state.session before any non-public
/api/ route runs; the legacy auth_middleware short-circuits in this mode too.
But several handlers call _require_token() directly, which only validated the
(absent) _SESSION_TOKEN header. So every cookie-authenticated request to those
endpoints 401'd — making plugin install/enable/disable, /api/dashboard/plugins/hub,
and the other _require_token routes permanently unreachable behind the gate.
In the UI this surfaced as a 401: {"detail":"Unauthorized"} popup on plugin
install for any publicly-bound (e.g. Fly-hosted NAS) dashboard.
Fix: _require_token now defers to the active gate. When auth_required is True it
accepts the request iff the gate attached a verified session (and 401s otherwise);
loopback/--insecure behavior is unchanged (still validates the session token).
Adds two regression tests driving the full in-process stub OAuth round trip:
the install endpoint must NOT 401 a logged-in request, and must still 401 with
no cookie. Verified the accept-test fails on the pre-fix code.
* test(dashboard): cover the whole _require_token route class under the gate
The install popup was one symptom of a class-wide bug: all 14 endpoints that
call _require_token directly (API-key reveal, provider validation, the
OAuth-provider connect/disconnect flow, and plugin enable/disable/update/
delete/visibility/providers) 401'd cookie-authenticated requests in gated mode.
Add a parametrized test hitting a representative spread (plugins/hub, env/reveal,
providers/validate, an oauth provider route, agent-plugin enable) asserting a
logged-in caller is never 401'd — proving the fix covers the class, not just
agent-plugins/install.
`save_env_value()` captures the original .env file mode (e.g. 0640 for Docker
volume mounts) and restores it via `os.chmod` — but then unconditionally calls
`_secure_file(env_path)` on the next line, which re-tightens the mode to 0600
and defeats the entire preservation logic. The intent (preserve when
`original_mode` is captured, secure otherwise) was already in the code but
got short-circuited.
Move `_secure_file()` into the `else` branch so it only runs when no original
mode was captured — fresh `.env` files written for the first time still get
the 0600 hardening treatment, but operator-set modes survive subsequent writes.
Salvages #31518 by @blut-agent (config.py portion only). Their PR also bundled
unrelated lowercase-lookup changes in `hermes_cli/commands.py`; this salvage
takes only the focused config fix. The commands.py changes are reasonable on
their own merits but belong in a separate PR.
Co-authored-by: blut-agent <278569635+blut-agent@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds memory.write_mode and skills.write_mode (on|off|approve), applied to
both foreground turns and the background self-improvement review fork — the
source of the unprompted 'wrong assumption' saves users reported.
- on (default): write freely, unchanged behaviour
- off: never write; the tool returns a clean disabled result
- approve: don't commit. Memory foreground writes prompt inline (small,
reviewable in a chat bubble); background memory writes and ALL skill writes
stage to a pending store instead (a SKILL.md is too large to review inline,
and a daemon thread can't block on a prompt)
Review staged writes from CLI or any messaging platform:
/memory pending|approve|reject|mode
/skills pending|approve|reject|diff|mode
Skill review respects the size asymmetry: inline you see a one-line gist;
the full unified diff stays out-of-band (/skills diff, dashboard, or the
staged JSON file).
New: tools/write_approval.py (gate + pending store), hermes_cli/
write_approval_commands.py (shared CLI+gateway handlers). Gates wired at the
single entry points memory_tool() and skill_manage(), using the existing
write-origin ContextVar to distinguish foreground from background_review.
* fix(gateway): auto-start after container restart via planned-stop marker
On Docker (s6-overlay), the gateway runs as a dynamically-registered s6
service. When the container stops/restarts/upgrades, s6 sends the gateway
a plain SIGTERM. The shutdown path (_stop_impl) ended with an
unconditional _update_runtime_status("stopped"), persisting
gateway_state=stopped to the volume. container_boot.py reads that on the
next boot and only auto-starts gateways whose last state was "running"
(_AUTOSTART_STATES) — so after a routine `docker compose up
--force-recreate` the gateway stays down and messaging channels silently
go dark, with no error surfaced (issue #42675).
The codebase already distinguishes intentional stops from unexpected
signals via the planned-stop marker (write_planned_stop_marker /
consume_planned_stop_marker_for_self): `hermes gateway stop`,
systemd/launchd ExecStop, and Ctrl+C write a marker before signalling,
so the handler classifies them as planned. An unmarked SIGTERM
(container/s6 restart, OOM, bare kill) is signal-initiated.
This wires that existing classification through to the state persist,
rather than adding unreliable signal-source inference:
- run.py: GatewayRunner._signal_initiated_shutdown, set in
shutdown_signal_handler's unmarked-signal branch. In _stop_impl, a
signal-initiated (non-restart) teardown now persists "running" instead
of "stopped" — preserving the operator's run-intent and overwriting the
mid-shutdown "draining" marker so _AUTOSTART_STATES matches on reboot.
Operator stops and restarts persist "stopped" as before.
- service_manager.py: S6ServiceManager.stop() now writes the planned-stop
marker for the supervised PID (read from s6-svstat) before `s6-svc -d`,
so an in-container `hermes gateway stop` is correctly classified as
intentional (parity with the systemd/launchd/host stop paths, which
already mark). Best-effort: a marker-write failure falls back to the
safe signal-initiated path.
Tests: shutdown persist-decision table (signal→running, operator→stopped,
restart→stopped), s6 stop marker write + svstat PID parse + failure
tolerance. The signal→running and s6-marker tests fail without the
respective source change. Verified end-to-end against a container built
from this branch: an unmarked SIGTERM to the live gateway leaves
gateway_state=running (shutdown-context log confirms signal path);
existing real container-restart suite still green.
* docs(docker): clarify gateway autostart distinguishes operator-stop from container-kill
The per-profile-supervision section described the autostart-across-restart
contract as "running gateways come back, stopped stay stopped" without
spelling out what records 'stopped'. That contract was the source of
#42675 confusion: users expected a restart to bring the gateway back and
it didn't. With the write-side fix, only an explicit `hermes gateway stop`
records 'stopped'; container/s6 restart SIGTERMs (incl. image upgrades and
unexpected exits) leave the state 'running' so the gateway auto-starts.
Make that distinction explicit in both the multi-profile and
per-profile-supervision sections.
* test(docker): real-restart autostart E2E for #42675
Adds test_live_gateway_autostarts_after_real_restart_without_manual_state_stamp:
a live s6-supervised gateway is killed by an actual `docker restart`
SIGTERM (no manual gateway_state stamp, no planned-stop marker) and must
auto-start on the next boot. Exercises the WRITE side of the fix that the
existing stamp-based tests bypass.
Verified to FAIL against an origin/main image (reconciler logs
prior_state=stopped action=registered — the #42675 bug) and PASS against
the fixed image (prior_state=running action=started).
A non-empty HERMES_DASHBOARD_PUBLIC_URL / dashboard.public_url value that
fails URL validation (overwhelmingly: a missing http(s):// scheme, e.g.
"hermes.domain.com") was silently discarded by resolve_public_url(),
falling back to reconstructing the OAuth redirect_uri from request
headers. Behind a reverse proxy that doesn't forward X-Forwarded-Proto
reliably, that yields an http:// callback even though the operator
explicitly set the public URL — with no signal as to why (#42780).
Emit a deduplicated operator-facing WARNING (once per distinct value,
since resolve_public_url runs per request) naming the offending value
and the required scheme. Turns a silent footgun into a self-diagnosing
one; behaviour is otherwise unchanged.
Tests assert the warning fires for a scheme-less value, is deduplicated
across repeated calls, and stays silent for a valid value — all three
fail without the fix.
* fix(state.db): recover from malformed sqlite_master so hidden sessions reappear
The corruption class behind "Desktop/Dashboard show no sessions while
hundreds of session files sit on disk" is a malformed sqlite_master — most
often a duplicate object row, e.g. two CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE messages_fts
entries — surfacing as:
sqlite3.DatabaseError: malformed database schema (messages_fts) -
table messages_fts already exists
SQLite parses the whole schema while preparing the FIRST statement on a
connection, so on this class every statement fails before it runs: PRAGMA
journal_mode (which is where SessionDB.__init__ actually trips, in
apply_wal_with_fallback, BEFORE _init_schema), PRAGMA integrity_check, and
even DROP TABLE. The only operations that still work are
PRAGMA writable_schema=ON plus direct sqlite_master surgery. A plain
FTS-index rebuild at the _init_schema layer therefore cannot reach or fix
this; the canonical sessions/messages rows are intact — only the derived
schema is broken.
Add a dedicated recovery that operates where the failure actually happens:
- hermes_state.repair_state_db_schema(): backs up the raw file first, then a
least-destructive ladder — (1) de-duplicate sqlite_master keeping the
lowest rowid per object (preserves the existing FTS index), escalating to
(2) drop every messages_fts* schema object + VACUUM and let the next open
rebuild the FTS index from messages. sessions/messages are never modified.
Plus is_malformed_db_error() to discriminate this class.
- SessionDB.__init__ auto-heals: on a malformed-schema open error it repairs
once (process-guarded against loops / concurrent web_server opens) and
reopens, so Desktop/Dashboard recover on their own instead of silently
showing "no sessions".
- hermes doctor --fix detects the malformed class and repairs it (reporting
the recovered session count + backup name).
- hermes sessions repair [--check-only] [--no-backup] runs on the raw file
path, since SessionDB() itself cannot open a malformed DB.
Supersedes #32589 and #33869: both targeted FTS corruption but gated their
repair behind statements (integrity_check / SELECT / DROP TABLE) that
themselves fail on this class, and neither addressed the apply_wal_with_fallback
open-time failure. Credit preserved via Co-authored-by.
Closes#33865.
Co-authored-by: João Vitor Cunha <145560011+plcunha@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tuna Dev <273476039+tuancookiez-hub@users.noreply.github.com>
* test(state.db): cover strat-B escalation + unrepairable safe-fail paths
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Co-authored-by: João Vitor Cunha <145560011+plcunha@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tuna Dev <273476039+tuancookiez-hub@users.noreply.github.com>
The Anthropic picker returned the live /v1/models dump verbatim whenever
credentials were configured. Anthropic's API lags newly-routed curated
aliases (e.g. claude-fable-5, reachable on Anthropic before the models
endpoint enumerates it), so the curated entry vanished from the picker.
Merge curated _PROVIDER_MODELS["anthropic"] with the live catalog —
curated first, live-only appended, deduped — mirroring the OpenAI
curated-merge path. Live failure / no creds falls back to curated verbatim.
* fix(install): self-heal a stuck Electron download on the desktop build
The desktop build downloads Electron (~114MB) from GitHub. A corrupt cached
zip, or a blocked/throttled GitHub release host (the repeating "retrying" log),
hard-failed the install — and install.sh had no recovery at all while
install.ps1 / `hermes desktop` only purged the cache.
All three build paths now escalate on a failed `npm run pack`:
GitHub → purge corrupt electron-*.zip + stale *-unpacked and retry → one retry
via a public Electron mirror (npmmirror.com). @electron/get SHASUM-verifies the
download, and a user-pinned ELECTRON_MIRROR is always respected (never
overridden). Adds a bash clear_electron_build_cache()/_desktop_pack() to mirror
the existing PowerShell/Python helpers.
* test(install): cover the Electron mirror fallback
Verify `hermes desktop` falls back to a mirror when the cache purge finds
nothing, and that a user-pinned ELECTRON_MIRROR is respected (no extra attempt,
not overridden).
* docs(desktop): troubleshoot a stuck Electron download
Document the automatic cache-purge + mirror fallback, how to pin your own
ELECTRON_MIRROR, and how to clear a corrupt cached zip by hand.
* docs(install): correct the Electron mirror trust framing
The mirror-fallback comments and the desktop troubleshooting doc implied
`@electron/get`'s SHASUM check makes the npmmirror.com download safe against
tampering. It doesn't: the SHASUMS256.txt is fetched from the same mirror, so
the check guards against a corrupt/partial download, not a compromised mirror.
Reframe all four surfaces (install.sh, install.ps1, `hermes desktop`, and the
docs) to state the trust trade-off honestly — npmmirror.com is the de-facto
Electron community mirror, we only fall back to it after the canonical GitHub
download fails, and a user-pinned ELECTRON_MIRROR is never overridden. No
behavior change.
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Co-authored-by: xxxigm <tuancanhnguyen706@gmail.com>
Support installing a plugin that lives in a subdirectory of a larger
repo (docs/tests at root, plugin in a subdir) without forcing a
dedicated single-plugin repo.
Identifier syntax:
owner/repo/path/to/plugin (shorthand + subpath)
<url>.git/path/to/plugin (.git boundary on GitHub-style URLs)
<url>#path/to/plugin (explicit fragment, any scheme)
_resolve_git_url now returns (git_url, subdir); _install_plugin_core
reads the manifest from and moves only the subdir, so root-level docs
and tests no longer leak into ~/.hermes/plugins. _resolve_subdir_within
guards against path traversal, missing dirs, and non-directories.
Both the CLI (hermes plugins install) and the dashboard install endpoint
inherit this for free since they share _install_plugin_core. Dashboard
install hint + placeholder updated to advertise the subdir syntax.
Co-authored-by: Austin Pickett <pickett.austin@gmail.com>
Adds the model above claude-opus-4.8 in both the OpenROUTER_MODELS and
_PROVIDER_MODELS['nous'] curated picker lists used by /model and
`hermes model`. Regenerated website/static/api/model-catalog.json to match.
The Portal's /api/nous/recommended-models endpoint is the source of truth for
which models are free/paid right now, but its result was cached in-process
only. When the live fetch failed (network, parse, non-2xx), the function
returned {} and the model picker silently dropped the free/paid
recommendations — free models would vanish with no indication anything went
wrong.
Add a per-base disk cache at $HERMES_HOME/cache/nous_recommended_cache.json:
a successful live fetch is persisted as last-known-good, and a failed fetch
with an empty in-process cache falls back to the disk copy instead of {}.
Self-heals on the next successful fetch. With no disk copy, still degrades to
{} (callers already handle that). Keyed by portal base URL so staging/prod
don't collide.
E2E: live fetch writes disk; simulated Portal failure returns the cached free
models from disk; no-disk + failure returns {}.
Two new free-tier slugs surfaced in /model and `hermes model`. owl-alpha
was already present. Regenerated website/static/api/model-catalog.json to
keep the manifest sync test green.
hermes update pulls the latest repo, so the freshly-pulled
website/static/api/model-catalog.json is already the newest catalog. Copy
it straight over ~/.hermes/cache/model_catalog.json instead of relying on a
network fetch (which can be Vercel bot-gated or hit a Portal hiccup and
silently degrade the picker to a stale/short list).
Adds seed_cache_from_checkout() in model_catalog.py (read shipped manifest,
validate, atomic write via _write_disk_cache, reset in-process cache) and
calls it from both update paths in main.py: _cmd_update_impl (git pull) and
_update_via_zip (Docker/no-git). Non-fatal on missing/malformed/invalid
files — the normal network refresh still applies on next picker open.
* fix(cli): persist custom --portal-url to .env on dashboard register
`hermes dashboard register --portal-url <url>` resolved the custom portal
for the registration request but only persisted it to .env when the var was
absent AND non-default. So a user who re-registered against a different
portal (e.g. switching preview deploys) silently kept the stale
HERMES_DASHBOARD_PORTAL_URL, and an explicit request for the production
portal was never written at all.
Track whether a custom portal was *explicitly supplied* (--portal-url flag
or HERMES_DASHBOARD_PORTAL_URL env), separately from the resolved value:
- explicit custom URL -> always persist (update in place via
save_env_value, which overwrites the matching key rather than appending
a duplicate), even when it equals the production default; no-op when it
already matches.
- no custom URL supplied -> unchanged conservative behaviour: only write an
inferred portal when absent and non-default; never alter an existing
entry unexpectedly.
save_env_value already preserves other lines/comments and dedups in place;
this only changes the decision of *when* to call it.
Adds TestCustomPortalPersistence covering all four cases.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <agent@nousresearch.com>
* feat(cli): persist dashboard public URL from --redirect-uri on register
When the user registers a publicly-exposed dashboard with --redirect-uri
(the full OAuth callback, e.g. https://hermes.example.com/auth/callback),
derive its origin and persist it as HERMES_DASHBOARD_PUBLIC_URL — the env var
the dashboard auth layer actually consumes at serve time.
dashboard_auth/routes._redirect_uri reconstructs the callback as
HERMES_DASHBOARD_PUBLIC_URL + "/auth/callback" (verbatim), and
dashboard_auth/prefix.resolve_public_url reads that var (then config.yaml
dashboard.public_url) to decide the public origin. Previously --redirect-uri
was sent to the portal at registration but never persisted, so the operator
had to set HERMES_DASHBOARD_PUBLIC_URL by hand for the login gate to engage
and the callback to round-trip. We now wire it automatically.
Persist the ORIGIN (scheme://host[:port]), not the full callback path —
persisting the raw redirect would double the path when the runtime appends
/auth/callback. Mirrors the portal-url persistence semantics already in this
PR: always write an explicitly-derived value (updating in place, no
duplicate), no-op when it already matches, never written on a localhost-only
install (no --redirect-uri), and skipped for a non-http(s)/malformed redirect.
Verified end-to-end: cmd_dashboard_register writes the origin to .env, then
resolve_public_url() reads it back and public_url + /auth/callback
reconstructs exactly the originally-supplied --redirect-uri.
Adds TestPublicUrlPersistence (8 cases) incl. origin-derivation, port
preservation, update-in-place, no-op, no-flag, non-http skip, and
both-portal-and-public-url-persisted.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <agent@nousresearch.com>
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Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <agent@nousresearch.com>
Re-running `hermes dashboard register` now updates the existing dashboard
record in nous-account-service instead of creating a duplicate.
The stable key is the client_id this install already persisted in
HERMES_DASHBOARD_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID on a prior run:
- No stored client_id -> first registration -> create a fresh client with an
auto-generated name (unchanged behavior).
- Stored client_id present -> re-send it as `client_id` so the portal updates
that row in place. Without an explicit --name, the name is omitted so the
portal-stored name isn't churned to a new random value on every re-run.
- Prints "Updated dashboard" vs "Registered dashboard" based on whether the
portal echoed back the same client_id. A stale/deleted id safely falls
through to a fresh create server-side.
Requires the matching nous-account-service change (POST
/api/oauth/self-hosted-client accepting an optional client_id + optional name).
Tests: 7 new TestIdempotentRerun cases (key sent, name preserved/overridden,
Updated message, persisted id, stale-id fall-through, blank-id first-run);
existing create-path tests unchanged (23 pass).
Collapse the bare-"custom" allowlist entry and the custom:<name> guard into
a single provider_accepts_vendor_slug predicate so the slug-warning suppression
reads as one rule instead of two scattered conditions. No behavior change.
A bare `git fetch origin` (and `git fetch upstream`) pulls every ref. The
repo carries thousands of auto-generated branches, so on any
non-single-branch checkout the installer's update path and `hermes update`
spend minutes downloading the full branch list — long enough to stall the
desktop installer or trip the follow-up `git pull --ff-only`.
Scope every update-path fetch to the branch we actually compare/merge
against:
- scripts/install.sh: collapse the remote to single-branch and fetch only
$BRANCH on the "existing install, updating" path.
- hermes_cli/main.py: fetch the resolved branch in the apply path, the
--check path (upstream + origin), and the fork upstream-sync.
Tracking-ref updates still happen via git's opportunistic refspec, so the
later origin/<branch> rev-parse/rev-list checks are unaffected.
Tests assert the apply-path fetch is branch-scoped and never bare.
