One-shot bootstrap that installs non-Python deps (node, browser,
ripgrep, ffmpeg) via ensure_dependency(), then runs setup if no
provider is configured. Closes the gap between `pip install` and
the full user-facing experience.
Also fixes 3 pre-existing test regressions caused by earlier commits:
- test_recommended_update_command: mock detect_install_method for git env
- test_check_for_updates_no_git_dir: now falls back to PyPI, not None
- test_plist_path_includes_node_modules_bin: skip when dir absent
Adds detect_install_method() to identify nixos/homebrew/git/pip installs,
and recommended_update_command_for_method() to return the right upgrade command
for each method. Updates recommended_update_command() to use these for pip-installed
instances (no .git dir, not managed).
Add _find_bundled_tui() that checks for hermes_cli/tui_dist/entry.js
(present in wheel installs) and wire it into _make_tui_argv() between
the HERMES_TUI_DIR prebuilt path and the npm install fallback.
Extract PATH building into _build_service_path_dirs() that skips directories
which don't exist on disk (e.g. node_modules/.bin for pip installs) and also
includes ~/.hermes/node/bin and ~/.hermes/node_modules/.bin for agent-browser.
For pip-installed hermes-agent (no .git directory), fall back to
querying PyPI's JSON API to compare __version__ against the latest
published release, using stdlib only (urllib + json, no packaging dep).
Stop the gateway from exiting (or systemd-restart-looping) when a single
messaging adapter fails at startup or runtime. A misconfigured WhatsApp
(npm install timeout, unpaired bridge, missing creds.json) used to take
the entire gateway down, killing cron jobs and any other connected
platforms with it.
Changes:
• Startup (gateway/run.py): when connected_count==0 but the only
errors are retryable, log a degraded-state warning and keep the
gateway alive instead of returning False. Reconnect watcher then
recovers platforms as their underlying problem clears.
• Runtime (gateway/run.py _handle_adapter_fatal_error): when the last
adapter goes down with a retryable error and is queued for
reconnection, stay alive instead of exit-with-failure. Previously
this triggered systemd Restart=on-failure, which created infinite
restart loops on persistent retryable failures (proxy outage,
repeated bridge crashes).
• Reconnect watcher (gateway/run.py _platform_reconnect_watcher):
replace the 20-attempt hard drop with a circuit-breaker pause.
After _PAUSE_AFTER_FAILURES (10) consecutive retryable failures, the
platform stays in _failed_platforms with paused=True so the watcher
skips it but the operator can still see and resume it. Non-retryable
errors still drop out of the queue immediately. Resolves#17063
(gateway giving up on Telegram after 20 attempts).
• WhatsApp preflight (gateway/platforms/whatsapp.py): refuse to start
the Node bridge when creds.json is missing. Sets a non-retryable
whatsapp_not_paired fatal error so the watcher drops it cleanly
with a single 'run hermes whatsapp' log line instead of paying the
30s bridge bootstrap timeout on every gateway start.
• WhatsApp setup ordering (hermes_cli/main.py cmd_whatsapp): only set
WHATSAPP_ENABLED=true once pairing actually succeeds. Previously
the wizard wrote the env var at step 2 (before npm install and QR
pairing), so any Ctrl+C left .env claiming WhatsApp was ready when
the bridge had no creds.json. Also propagate the env var when the
user keeps an existing pairing on a re-run.
• /platform slash command (hermes_cli/commands.py + gateway/run.py):
new gateway-only command for manual circuit-breaker control.
/platform list — show connected + failed/paused platforms
/platform pause <name> — silence a known-broken platform
/platform resume <name> — re-queue a paused platform
Tests:
• New: pause/resume helpers, /platform list|pause|resume command,
WhatsApp creds.json preflight, WhatsApp setup ordering.
• Updated: stale assertions that codified the old 'exit and let
systemd restart' behavior in test_runner_fatal_adapter.py,
test_runner_startup_failures.py, and test_platform_reconnect.py
(the 20-attempt give-up test became a circuit-breaker pause test).
5488 tests pass in tests/gateway/.
Two loopback-redirect OAuth flows (xAI Grok, Spotify) silently fail when
Hermes runs on a remote host: the auth server redirects to
127.0.0.1:<port> on the user's laptop, not on the remote box. The
--no-browser flag only suppresses webbrowser.open() — it doesn't change
the bind address. Symptom xAI surfaces is 'Could not establish
connection. We couldn't reach your app.', followed by a 'xAI
authorization timed out waiting for the local callback' on the CLI side.
Changes
- hermes_cli/auth.py: new _print_loopback_ssh_hint() helper, called from
_xai_oauth_loopback_login() and _spotify_login() right after they
print the redirect URI. Silent off SSH; on SSH prints the exact
'ssh -N -L <port>:127.0.0.1:<port>' command using the actually-bound
port (not the hardcoded constant — the listener auto-bumps when the
preferred port is busy), a provider-specific docs URL, and a link to
the new shared guide.
- website/docs/guides/oauth-over-ssh.md (new): single source of truth
for the tunnel pattern — TL;DR command, jump-box / ProxyJump variant,
mosh+tmux+ControlMaster gotchas, troubleshooting.
- website/docs/guides/xai-grok-oauth.md: fix the two sections that
claimed --no-browser alone was enough; link to the shared guide.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/spotify.md: expand the existing
one-liner; link to the shared guide.
- website/sidebars.ts: register the new page.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_loopback_ssh_hint.py: 7 unit tests
covering SSH-vs-not, loopback-vs-not, malformed URIs, port echo,
with and without provider docs URL.
Wraps every sync->async coroutine-scheduling site in the codebase with a
new agent.async_utils.safe_schedule_threadsafe() helper that closes the
coroutine on scheduling failure (closed loop, shutdown race, etc.)
instead of leaking it as 'coroutine was never awaited' RuntimeWarnings
plus reference leaks.
22 production call sites migrated across the codebase:
- acp_adapter/events.py, acp_adapter/permissions.py
- agent/lsp/manager.py
- cron/scheduler.py (media + text delivery paths)
- gateway/platforms/feishu.py (5 sites, via existing _submit_on_loop helper
which now delegates to safe_schedule_threadsafe)
- gateway/run.py (10 sites: telegram rename, agent:step hook, status
callback, interim+bg-review, clarify send, exec-approval button+text,
temp-bubble cleanup, channel-directory refresh)
- plugins/memory/hindsight, plugins/platforms/google_chat
- tools/browser_supervisor.py (3), browser_cdp_tool.py,
computer_use/cua_backend.py, slash_confirm.py
- tools/environments/modal.py (_AsyncWorker)
- tools/mcp_tool.py (2 + 8 _run_on_mcp_loop callers converted to
factory-style so the coroutine is never constructed on a dead loop)
- tui_gateway/ws.py
Tests: new tests/agent/test_async_utils.py covers helper behavior under
live loop, dead loop, None loop, and scheduling exceptions. Regression
tests added at three PR-original sites (acp events, acp permissions,
mcp loop runner) mirroring contributor's intent.
Live-tested end-to-end:
- Helper stress test: 1500 schedules across live/dead/race scenarios,
zero leaked coroutines
- Race exercised: 5000 schedules with loop killed mid-flight, 100 ok /
4900 None returns, zero leaks
- hermes chat -q with terminal tool call (exercises step_callback bridge)
- MCP probe against failing subprocess servers + factory path
- Real gateway daemon boot + SIGINT shutdown across multiple platform
adapter inits
- WSTransport 100 live + 50 dead-loop writes
- Cron delivery path live + dead loop
Salvages PR #2657 — adopts contributor's intent over a much wider site
list and a single centralized helper instead of inline try/except at
each site. 3 of the original PR's 6 sites no longer exist on main
(environments/patches.py deleted, DingTalk refactored to native async);
the equivalent fix lives in tools/environments/modal.py instead.
Co-authored-by: JithendraNara <jithendranaidunara@gmail.com>
Build on @aydnOktay's cronjob fix by routing the cronjob check through
the shared 'env_var_enabled' helper in utils.py (same truthy set:
1/true/yes/on) and applying the same semantics to the 8 sibling call
sites that read HERMES_INTERACTIVE / HERMES_GATEWAY_SESSION /
HERMES_EXEC_ASK / HERMES_CRON_SESSION with bare os.getenv() truthy
checks:
- tools/approval.py: _is_gateway_approval_context (2), check_command_safety (2),
check_all_command_guards (3) -- 7 sites total
- tools/terminal_tool.py: _handle_sudo_failure, sudo password prompt -- 2 sites
- tools/skills_tool.py: _is_gateway_surface -- 1 site
Without this, a user who exports HERMES_INTERACTIVE=0 in their shell
still gets interactive sudo prompts, approval prompts, and gateway
skill-install paths -- only the cronjob tool was hardened. Now all
consumers agree on the same false-like values.
Also drops the duplicate _is_truthy_env helper from cronjob_tools.py
in favour of the existing canonical utils.env_var_enabled.
Tests: extend the parametrized regression coverage to all three
session env vars (HERMES_INTERACTIVE / HERMES_GATEWAY_SESSION /
HERMES_EXEC_ASK) symmetrically. tests/tools/test_cronjob_tools.py:
60/60 pass; tests/tools/{approval,terminal_tool,skills_tool,
cron_approval_mode,hardline_blocklist}.py: 378/378 pass.
Per @mark-xai's review on PR #26457 and the xAI model retirement on
2026-05-15: grok-code-fast-1 is being retired today and aliases redirect
to grok-4.3 (already pinned to the top of the xAI model list by this
PR). Update the two xAI Responses-API test fixtures Mark flagged plus
the picker fallback default in hermes_cli/main.py that uses the same
literal.
The xAI prompt_cache_key block carried two long comment paragraphs
that either restated setdefault semantics, narrated the SDK
type-validation mechanism, or recapped the historical motivation for
the extra_body indirection — all already covered by the test
docstring at test_xai_responses_sends_cache_key_via_extra_body
(which links to the xAI docs). Also restored the truncated link in
the body-injection comment.
No behavior change.
The new resolve_xai_http_credentials() resolver was using os.getenv()
for the XAI_API_KEY/XAI_BASE_URL fallback path, which dropped the
~/.hermes/.env contract guarded by PR #17140 / #17163. Users with
XAI_API_KEY in dotenv only would see "No xAI credentials found" even
though the key was configured.
Separately, _transcribe_xai started consulting creds["base_url"] (which
always returns at least the default https://api.x.ai/v1) ahead of the
public XAI_STT_BASE_URL env override, so the per-tool override stopped
working.
- tools/xai_http.py: add module-level get_env_value() wrapper that
reads ~/.hermes/.env first (via hermes_cli.config.get_env_value),
then os.environ. Resolver uses it for the API-key/base-url fallback.
- tools/transcription_tools.py: restore precedence so XAI_STT_BASE_URL
wins over creds["base_url"].
- tests/tools/test_transcription_dotenv_fallback.py +
tests/tools/test_tts_dotenv_fallback.py: repoint the per-call-site
patches at the new resolution point (tools.xai_http.get_env_value).
The end-to-end regression-guard test (which patches load_env) is
unchanged and still passes.
Two bugs in the `hermes tools` reconfigure flow caused picking xAI Grok
Imagine for video_gen (or image_gen) to feel like a no-op:
1. `_is_provider_active()` had a branch for `image_gen_plugin_name` but
none for `video_gen_plugin_name`, so a row marked as the active xAI
video provider was never recognized as active. The picker fell through
to the env-var fallback in `_detect_active_provider_index()`, which
matched the FAL row (because `FAL_KEY` is set), so the picker visually
defaulted to FAL even though the user had selected xAI.
2. `_plugin_video_gen_providers()` and `_plugin_image_gen_providers()`
built picker rows from the plugin's `get_setup_schema()` but only
copied `name`, `badge`, `tag`, `env_vars`. The xAI plugins declare
`post_setup: "xai_grok"` so the picker should run the OAuth /
API-key prompt hook after selection — that key was silently dropped,
so the hook never fired from the picker rows.
Adds the missing `video_gen_plugin_name` branch (placed before the
`managed_nous_feature` block, mirroring the existing image_gen branch)
and propagates `post_setup` from the plugin schema into both picker-row
builders. Adds focused tests in `test_video_gen_picker.py` and
`test_image_gen_picker.py`.
Adds a new authentication provider that lets SuperGrok subscribers sign
in to Hermes with their xAI account via the standard OAuth 2.0 PKCE
loopback flow, instead of pasting a raw API key from console.x.ai.
Highlights
----------
* OAuth 2.0 PKCE loopback login against accounts.x.ai with discovery,
state/nonce, and a strict CORS-origin allowlist on the callback.
* Authorize URL carries `plan=generic` (required for non-allowlisted
loopback clients) and `referrer=hermes-agent` for best-effort
attribution in xAI's OAuth server logs.
* Token storage in `auth.json` with file-locked atomic writes; JWT
`exp`-based expiry detection with skew; refresh-token rotation
synced both ways between the singleton store and the credential
pool so multi-process / multi-profile setups don't tear each other's
refresh tokens.
* Reactive 401 retry: on a 401 from the xAI Responses API, the agent
refreshes the token, swaps it back into `self.api_key`, and retries
the call once. Guarded against silent account swaps when the active
key was sourced from a different (manual) pool entry.
* Auxiliary tasks (curator, vision, embeddings, etc.) route through a
dedicated xAI Responses-mode auxiliary client instead of falling back
to OpenRouter billing.
* Direct HTTP tools (`tools/xai_http.py`, transcription, TTS, image-gen
plugin) resolve credentials through a unified runtime → singleton →
env-var fallback chain so xai-oauth users get them for free.
* `hermes auth add xai-oauth` and `hermes auth remove xai-oauth N` are
wired through the standard auth-commands surface; remove cleans up
the singleton loopback_pkce entry so it doesn't silently reinstate.
* `hermes model` provider picker shows
"xAI Grok OAuth (SuperGrok Subscription)" and the model-flow falls
back to pool credentials when the singleton is missing.
Hardening
---------
* Discovery and refresh responses validate the returned
`token_endpoint` host against the same `*.x.ai` allowlist as the
authorization endpoint, blocking MITM persistence of a hostile
endpoint.
* Discovery / refresh / token-exchange `response.json()` calls are
wrapped to raise typed `AuthError` on malformed bodies (captive
portals, proxy error pages) instead of leaking JSONDecodeError
tracebacks.
* `prompt_cache_key` is routed through `extra_body` on the codex
transport (sending it as a top-level kwarg trips xAI's SDK with a
TypeError).
* Credential-pool sync-back preserves `active_provider` so refreshing
an OAuth entry doesn't silently flip the active provider out from
under the running agent.
Testing
-------
* New `tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_xai_oauth_provider.py` (~63 tests)
covers JWT expiry, OAuth URL params (plan + referrer), CORS origins,
redirect URI validation, singleton↔pool sync, concurrency races,
refresh error paths, runtime resolution, and malformed-JSON guards.
* Extended `test_credential_pool.py`, `test_codex_transport.py`, and
`test_run_agent_codex_responses.py` cover the pool sync-back,
`extra_body` routing, and 401 reactive refresh paths.
* 165 tests passing on this branch via `scripts/run_tests.sh`.
* fix(langfuse): reject placeholder credentials with one-shot warning
When operators leave HERMES_LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY / HERMES_LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY
at a template value like 'placeholder', 'test-key', or 'your-langfuse-key',
the Langfuse SDK silently accepts the credentials at construction time and
drops every trace at flush time. No warning, no error — just an empty
Langfuse dashboard the operator only notices hours later.
Add prefix-based validation in _get_langfuse() against the documented
'pk-lf-' / 'sk-lf-' prefixes that Langfuse always issues server-side.
Anything else fires a single warning naming the offending env var(s)
with a log-safe value preview (full string for short placeholders so the
operator knows which template they left in place; truncated for long
values so a real secret pasted into the wrong field never hits the log),
then short-circuits via the existing _INIT_FAILED cache so the warning
fires once per process, not once per hook invocation.
The check sits after the 'Langfuse is None' SDK-installed guard so hosts
without the optional langfuse SDK don't see misleading 'set real keys'
hints when the actionable fix is 'pip install langfuse'. Missing
credentials remains the documented opt-out path and stays silent — no
log noise for unconfigured installs.
Fixes#22763Fixes#23823
* fix(langfuse): use actual API request messages for generation input
on_pre_llm_request previously used the messages kwarg alone, which
could be None when Hermes passes the payload via request_messages,
conversation_history, or user_message instead. Add _coerce_request_messages
to pick the first available list across all variants, falling back to a
synthetic user message. Generations now show the real outbound payload
rather than an empty input.
* fix(langfuse): record tool call outputs in traces
Tool observations showed input (arguments) but output was always
undefined. Root cause: when tool_call_id is empty, pre_tool_call stored
observations under a unique time-based key that post_tool_call could
never reconstruct, so every tool span was closed without output by the
_finish_trace sweep.
Fix pre/post matching by routing empty-tool_call_id tools through a
per-name FIFO queue (pending_tools_by_name) instead of the time-based
key. Tools with a tool_call_id continue to use the id-keyed dict.
Also:
- Preserve OpenAI-style nested function shape in serialized tool calls
so Langfuse renders name/arguments correctly
- Keep name + tool_call_id on role:tool messages for proper pairing
- Backfill tool results onto the matching turn_tool_calls entry so the
generation's tool-call record carries the result alongside arguments
- Coerce request messages from whichever field the runtime provides
(request_messages, messages, conversation_history, user_message)
* fix(langfuse): salvage-review polish — drop dead is_first_turn, shallow-copy request_messages, real threaded FIFO test
Self-review of the combined #22345 + #23831 salvage surfaced three issues
worth fixing in the same PR rather than as follow-ups:
1. Drop is_first_turn from the pre_api_request hook. The boolean expression
`not bool(conversation_history)` was wrong: conversation_history is
reassigned to None mid-run after compression (5 sites in run_agent.py),
so the value flips False -> True mid-conversation on every post-compression
API call. The langfuse plugin never consumed it, so the kwarg was both
misleading AND dead.
2. Replace copy.deepcopy(request_messages) with shallow list() copy. The
pre_api_request hook contract discards return values (invoke_hook never
writes back to api_kwargs), and the langfuse plugin's _serialize_messages
already builds its own snapshot dicts via _safe_value. A deepcopy on every
API call would walk every tool result and base64 image — significant
overhead for no real isolation benefit. Shallow copy of the outer list
protects against later mutations of api_messages without paying for the
inner-dict walk.
3. Rename test_empty_tool_call_id_concurrent_fifo_order ->
test_empty_tool_call_id_observations_are_fifo_within_tool_name and add a
real test_threaded_post_calls_preserve_fifo_under_lock that spawns 8
threads behind a barrier to actually exercise _STATE_LOCK on the
pending_tools_by_name queue. The original test was sequential and only
validated Python list semantics; this one validates the lock discipline.
4. Fix stale 'Cleared by reset_cache_for_tests()' comment on _INIT_FAILED —
that function does not exist. Tests reload the module via sys.modules.pop
+ importlib.import_module instead.
Tests: 37 langfuse plugin tests pass, 658 plugin tests overall pass.
---------
Co-authored-by: xxxigm <tuancanhnguyen706@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brian Conklin <brian@dralth.com>
Builds on @steezkelly's Bug A fix (#25857, top-level default_permissions
via _insert_managed_block_at_top_level) by addressing the other two
config-corruption bugs described in #26250:
Bug B (duplicate [plugins.X] tables)
- Codex itself writes [plugins."<name>@<marketplace>"] tables to
config.toml when the user runs `codex plugins enable` directly,
before hermes-agent's managed block exists. On the next migrate run,
_query_codex_plugins() re-discovers the same plugins via plugin/list
and render_codex_toml_section() re-emits them inside the managed
block. Codex's strict TOML parser then rejects the duplicate table
header on startup.
- Add _strip_unmanaged_plugin_tables() that drops [plugins.*] tables
from the user-content portion of the file. Only run it when
plugin/list succeeded — if the RPC failed we can't re-emit and
must preserve the user's tables. plugin/list is the source of
truth when it answers.
Bug C (HERMES_HOME pytest-tempdir leak into ~/.codex/config.toml)
- _build_hermes_tools_mcp_entry() read HERMES_HOME directly from
os.environ, so a sibling pytest's monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME",
tmp_path) silently burned a transient pytest tempdir into the
user's real ~/.codex/config.toml. After pytest reaped the tempdir,
every codex-routed hermes-tools tool call failed silently.
- Derive HERMES_HOME from get_hermes_home() (the canonical resolver
that goes through the profile-aware path) and refuse to emit
obvious test-tempdir paths via _looks_like_test_tempdir() as
belt-and-suspenders for any other callsite that forgets to patch
migrate().
- test_enable_succeeds_when_codex_present in test_codex_runtime_switch.py
invoked the real migrate() (no mock), writing to Path.home() / .codex
using whatever HERMES_HOME the running pytest session had set. Add
the same migrate patch the other apply() tests already use, so the
suite stops touching the user's real ~/.codex/config.toml.
E2E verification (replicating the issue's repro):
- Pre-state config.toml with user [mcp_servers.omx_team_run] +
codex-installed [plugins."tasks@openai-curated"],
HERMES_HOME="/private/var/folders/.../pytest-of-.../..."
- On origin/main: tomllib refuses to load the result with
"Cannot declare ('plugins', 'tasks@openai-curated') twice" AND
the pytest-tempdir HERMES_HOME is burned in.
- On this branch: file parses cleanly, default_permissions is
top-level, exactly one [plugins."tasks@openai-curated"] table
inside the managed block, no HERMES_HOME in the MCP env.
7 new regression tests covering all three bugs + the test-leak guard.
`bash scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_codex_runtime_*.py` —
95 passed, 0 failed.
Closes#26250
Replace O(n²) string concatenation of truncated_response_prefix in the
length-continuation retry loop with a list + ''.join(). Functionally
equivalent: same partial response on early return, same prepend on
final assembly. The legacy retry path is capped at 3 iterations, so
the practical wall-clock win is small, but the new idiom matches the
rest of the codebase and removes a needless repeated allocation.
Salvaged from PR #2717 (the run_conversation portion only — trajectory
refactor dropped because it silently rewrote </tool_response> to </think>).
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
SimpleX Chat (https://simplex.chat) is a private, decentralised messenger
with no persistent user IDs — every contact is identified by an opaque
internal ID generated at connection time. This adds it as a Hermes
gateway platform via the plugin system.
The adapter connects to a local simplex-chat daemon via WebSocket,
listens for inbound messages, and sends replies. Originally proposed in
PR #2558 as a core-modifying integration; reshaped here as a self-
contained plugin under plugins/platforms/simplex/ with no edits to any
core file. Discovery is filesystem-based (scanned by gateway.config),
and the platform identity is resolved on demand via Platform("simplex").
Plugin contract:
- check_requirements() requires SIMPLEX_WS_URL AND the websockets package
- validate_config() / is_connected() accept env or config.yaml input
- _env_enablement() seeds PlatformConfig.extra (ws_url + home_channel)
- _standalone_send() supports out-of-process cron delivery
- interactive_setup() provides a stdin wizard for hermes gateway setup
- register() wires the adapter into the registry with required_env,
install_hint, cron_deliver_env_var, allowed_users_env, and a
platform_hint for the LLM.
Lazy dependency: the websockets Python package is imported inside the
functions that need it. The plugin is importable and discoverable even
when websockets is missing — check_requirements() simply returns False
until `pip install websockets` is run. No new pyproject extras are
introduced.
Environment variables:
SIMPLEX_WS_URL WebSocket URL of the daemon (required)
SIMPLEX_ALLOWED_USERS Comma-separated allowed contact IDs
SIMPLEX_ALLOW_ALL_USERS Set true to allow all contacts
SIMPLEX_HOME_CHANNEL Default contact for cron delivery
SIMPLEX_HOME_CHANNEL_NAME Human label for the home channel
Closes#2557.
The Zed ACP Registry path (uvx --from 'hermes-agent[acp]==X' hermes-acp)
gets a Python-only install. Browser tools depend on the agent-browser npm
package + Chromium, neither of which are in the wheel. Without an
explicit bootstrap, registry users have no path to working browser tools.
Ship a bundled, idempotent bootstrap script (Linux/macOS bash + Windows
PowerShell) inside acp_adapter/bootstrap/ as wheel package-data. New
entry points:
hermes acp --setup-browser # interactive; prompts before Chromium download
hermes acp --setup-browser --yes # non-interactive
hermes-acp --setup-browser
The terminal-auth flow (hermes acp --setup) also offers the browser
bootstrap as a follow-up after model selection, so first-run registry
users get the option without knowing the flag exists.
Key design choices:
- npm install -g --prefix $NODE_PREFIX so we never need sudo. System Node
on PATH is respected; only the install target is redirected to the
user-writable Hermes-managed Node prefix.
- tools/browser_tool.py::_browser_candidate_path_dirs() already walks
$HERMES_HOME/node/bin, so installed binaries are discovered with no
agent-side code change.
- System Chrome/Chromium detection short-circuits the ~400 MB Playwright
download when a suitable browser already exists.
- Bash + PowerShell live as ONE copy each under acp_adapter/bootstrap/.
Not duplicated under scripts/. install.sh and install.ps1 keep their
inline browser blocks for the source-checkout path.
E2E validated end-to-end:
bash bootstrap_browser_tools.sh --skip-chromium
→ installs agent-browser into ~/.hermes/node/bin/
tools.browser_tool._find_agent_browser()
→ returns the installed path
check_browser_requirements()
→ returns True (browser tools register)
Tests:
- tests/acp/test_entry.py: 11 tests covering --setup-browser dispatch
(linux + windows + --yes forwarding + failure propagation), the
terminal-auth follow-up prompt path, and a package-data wheel-shipping
assertion that catches any future pyproject.toml regression.
Docs: website/docs/user-guide/features/acp.md gains a 'Browser tools
(optional)' subsection with the two-line install + what-it-does.
Cron mutation operations (run/pause/resume/remove) and 'hermes cron edit'
now accept a job name in addition to the hex ID, with case-insensitive
matching. Before this, 'hermes cron run my_job_name' died with
'Job with ID my_job_name not found' and forced the user to look up the
hex ID first.
The original PR matched by name but silently picked the first match when
two jobs shared a name. This version refuses to act on an ambiguous name
and surfaces every matching job (id, name, schedule, next_run_at) so the
caller can pick a specific ID.
- cron/jobs.py:
- get_job() stays ID-only (preserves existing call-site semantics for
web_server/api_server/curator/scheduler/test code that always passes
real IDs).
- resolve_job_ref() is the new name-or-ID resolver, used by pause/
resume/trigger/remove_job. Exact ID match wins over a name match
even if a different job's name happens to equal that ID. Ambiguous
name match raises AmbiguousJobReference with all candidate IDs.
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: dispatch site uses resolve_job_ref, surfaces
ambiguous matches as a structured error with the matching IDs.
- hermes_cli/cron.py: 'cron edit' uses resolve_job_ref so editing by
name works and ambiguous names are reported with IDs.
- tests/cron/test_jobs.py: new TestResolveJobRef covering ID match,
case-insensitive name match, ID-wins-over-name, ambiguous refusal,
and that pause/resume/trigger/remove all refuse on ambiguity.
Closes#2627
When the in-tree FAL path has no API key (and no managed gateway), the
handler used to return a bare 'FAL_KEY environment variable not set'
error. Users had no idea where to get a key, that a managed Nous
gateway exists, or that plugin-registered providers are an option.
Now `image_generate_tool` returns a structured multi-line message:
- signup link (https://fal.ai)
- managed-gateway status (if Nous tools are enabled)
- pointer to `hermes tools` / `hermes plugins list` for alternate
backends, so users on a stale `image_gen.provider` know where to look
The schema is untouched — `check_fn` still gates the tool out of the
schema when no backend is reachable at startup, consistent with every
other conditional tool. This patch fixes the call-time failure modes:
managed-gateway 5xx, plugin provider disappearing mid-session, etc.
Inspired by #2546 / @Mibayy. The PR was ~5700 commits stale against
the new plugin-aware image_gen architecture, so this is a forward port
of the actionable-error idea rather than a cherry-pick.
Closes#2543
Co-authored-by: Mibayy <mibayy@users.noreply.github.com>
ResponseStore.put() and .delete() now remove conversations rows that
reference evicted or deleted response IDs, preventing 404 errors when
a conversation name is reused after its backing response was purged.
Adds regression tests for delete, eviction, and handler-level reuse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
was_auto_reset, auto_reset_reason, and reset_had_activity were not
included in SessionEntry.to_dict() / from_dict(), so a gateway restart
between session expiry and the user's next message would silently drop
the auto-reset notification and context note.
Add the three fields to the serialization roundtrip with safe defaults
(False / None / False) so existing sessions.json files load cleanly.
Add three roundtrip tests to test_session_reset_notify.py.
#25975 (salvaging #24403) clamped decorative scrollback Panels and
streaming box rules to `max(32, min(width, 56))` as a defense against
terminal-emulator reflow when columns shrink. On any modern wide
terminal this made the response/reasoning borders look stubby — 56
cols inside a 200-col viewport.
#26137 (salvaging #25981, by @OutThisLife) landed a more fundamental
fix: prompt_toolkit's `_output_screen_diff` is monkey-patched so its
reserve-vertical-space cursor move no longer pushes chrome into
scrollback at all. With that in place, the clamp is no longer
load-bearing for the chrome-into-scrollback class of bugs — the
remaining risk is purely cosmetic reflow of *already stamped*
Panel borders during an aggressive column shrink, which we now
accept as a tradeoff for restoring proper full-width rendering.
Changes:
- `_scrollback_box_width()` returns `max(32, width)` (just the floor,
no upper cap). All 10 call sites stay valid.
- Updated `test_scrollback_box_width_caps_to_resize_safe_value` to
the new `test_scrollback_box_width_returns_viewport_width` asserting
full-width passthrough above the 32-col floor.
Floor of 32 is kept so `'─' * (w - 2)` math stays positive on tiny
terminals.
Refs #18449#19280#22976 (the original reflow class) and #25975
(the clamp this reverts).
Adds 16 unit tests covering the light/dark terminal detection path
introduced in the previous commit:
- Env override priority (HERMES_LIGHT, HERMES_TUI_LIGHT,
HERMES_TUI_THEME, HERMES_TUI_BACKGROUND, COLORFGBG)
- Detection cache stickiness
- _maybe_remap_for_light_mode() no-op in dark mode
- Known dark-mode color remap (#FFF8DC -> #1A1A1A etc)
- Case-insensitive lookup
- Unknown color passthrough
- Status-bar paired colors (#C0C0C0, #888888, #555555, #8B8682) are
intentionally NOT remapped — regression guard for the patch-11 fix,
since remapping them would produce dark-on-dark on the status bar's
navy bg
- SkinConfig.get_color() wrapper is installed and idempotent
- SkinConfig.get_color() does remap in light mode and passes through
in dark mode
We don't try to fake an OSC 11 reply — that path is exercised
end-to-end in real Terminal.app; the env-override path covers the
algorithmic logic.
The ACP Registry schema supports uvx as a first-class distribution method
alongside npx and binary. Pointing the registry directly at the existing
hermes-agent PyPI release removes:
- the @nousresearch npm scope (we don't own it)
- a separate npm publish step on every weekly release
- 90 lines of Node launcher + tests in packages/hermes-agent-acp/
The Zed registry now installs Hermes via:
uvx --from 'hermes-agent[acp]==<version>' hermes-acp
This is the same command the npm launcher was shelling out to anyway, so
end-user behavior is unchanged. Registry CI validates the PyPI URL +
version-pin exact match automatically.
Changes:
- acp_registry/agent.json: distribution.npx -> distribution.uvx
- delete packages/hermes-agent-acp/ entirely
- scripts/release.py: drop npm-launcher bump paths, keep manifest lockstep
- tests/acp/test_registry_manifest.py: assert uvx shape + version pin
- tests/scripts/test_release_acp_registry.py: rewrite for uvx-only shape
- docs (user-guide + dev-guide): drop all npm-launcher references
- delete docs/plans/acp-registry-zed-integration.md (stale, npm-shaped)
Validated against agentclientprotocol/registry agent.schema.json via
jsonschema. hermes-agent==0.13.0 is already live on PyPI.
The ACP Registry manifest (acp_registry/agent.json), the npm launcher
package.json, and the launcher's HERMES_AGENT_VERSION constant must all
match pyproject.toml exactly — tests/acp/test_registry_manifest.py
enforces this lockstep.
Without a release-script hook, the next weekly version bump fails that
test until someone hand-edits four files. Extend update_version_files()
to drive the ACP bump alongside __init__.py and pyproject.toml, and
add tests covering the lockstep and the missing-files no-op path.
Also map adam.manning@gmail.com -> am423 for the salvage commit.
The 'sessions' command has been registered in the central command
registry since #20805 (May 2025) and surfaces in /help and tab-completion,
but the classic CLI's process_command() never had an elif branch for it.
The canonical name fell through and printed 'Unknown command: sessions'.
The TUI side was wired up correctly via the SessionPicker overlay; only
the legacy CLI was missing the dispatch.
Adds _handle_sessions_command() which mirrors /resume's no-arg behavior
inline (the CLI has no overlay primitive equivalent to the TUI picker):
- /sessions and /sessions list → print the recent-sessions table
- /sessions <id_or_title> → delegates to _handle_resume_command
Includes regression tests covering the dispatcher wiring (the original
bug) plus the three handler branches.
Pre-existing diagnostics below an edit point used to surface as 'LSP
diagnostics introduced by this edit' whenever the edit deleted or
inserted lines. The delta-filter key included the diagnostic's
range, so the same logical error reported at a different line in
the post-edit snapshot looked like a brand new diagnostic.
Concrete case: deleting 14 lines in cli.py caused Pyright errors at
lines 9873, 10590, 12413, 13004 (unrelated to the edit) to be
reported as introduced by it.
Fix: build a piecewise-linear line-shift map (via difflib's
SequenceMatcher) from pre and post content, and remap baseline
diagnostics into post-edit coordinates before the set-difference.
Diagnostics in deleted regions drop out cleanly; diagnostics below
the edit shift by the right amount; diagnostics above are untouched.
The strict (range-aware) equality key stays — so a genuinely new
instance of an identical error class at a different line still
surfaces as new.
Pieces:
- agent/lsp/range_shift.py — build_line_shift, shift_diagnostic_range,
shift_baseline. Pure functions, no LSP state.
- agent/lsp/manager.py — LSPService.get_diagnostics_sync gains an
optional line_shift kwarg; baseline is shift_baseline'd before
computing the seen-set. _diag_key keeps the strict range key.
- tools/file_operations.py — write_file captures pre_content for any
LSP-handled extension (not just LINTERS_INPROC) and passes pre/post
to _maybe_lsp_diagnostics, which builds the shift map.
- New _lsp_handles_extension helper guards the pre_content read.
Trade-offs preserved:
- Genuinely new same-class errors at different lines still surface
(content-only key would have swallowed them).
- Pre-existing errors at unshifted positions still get filtered
(covered by the strict-key path with no shift).
- Best-effort: when pre_content can't be captured (file didn't
exist, permissions), the unshifted comparison still catches
most pre-existing errors; the edge case it misses is a new file
with a non-empty baseline, which is structurally impossible.
Follow-up to snav's PR #25463 contribution: flip default to on, broaden
scope so backfill fires whenever require_mention gates the bot (not just
shared-session channels).
Why:
- The mention-gate creates a session-transcript gap regardless of whether
the channel is shared or per-user. In per-user sessions, Alice's session
is still missing other participants' messages and her own pre-mention
messages — backfill fills both gaps.
- Threads naturally scope to thread-only history because discord.py's
channel.history() on a thread returns only that thread's messages.
- DMs still skip — every DM triggers the bot, so the session transcript
is already complete.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/config.py: discord.history_backfill default → true
- gateway/platforms/discord.py: drop the _is_shared gate, keep _is_dm
skip and _needed_mention gate; env var DISCORD_HISTORY_BACKFILL
default → 'true'
- cli-config.yaml.example + website docs: update defaults and prose;
add the DISCORD_HISTORY_BACKFILL / _LIMIT env var rows that were
documented in the PR description but missing from the env-var table
- tests/gateway/test_discord_free_response.py:
- flip test_discord_per_user_channel_does_not_backfill →
test_discord_per_user_channel_backfills_too (new behavior)
- add test_discord_dm_does_not_backfill (DM skip is invariant)
- give FakeThread a no-op history() so existing thread tests don't hit
a fake discord.Forbidden when backfill now fires on threads too
Tests: 160/160 in target files; 400/400 across all tests/gateway/ -k discord.
Adds optional channel-context backfill for Discord shared-channel sessions
so the agent can see recent messages it missed between its own turns
(typically when require_mention=true filters out most traffic).
Previously the agent only saw the @mention message that triggered it, which
led to disorienting replies in active multi-user channels where the
conversation context was invisible. With backfill enabled, a configurable
number of recent messages are fetched per-turn and prepended to the trigger
message as a context block, kept separate from sender-prefix logic so
attribution remains clean.
This re-opens the work from #13063 (approved by @OutThisLife on 2026-04-20,
closed when I closed the branch to address the simpolism:main head-branch
issue plus an ordering bug I caught later in live use). Filing against the
freshly-rewritten problem statement in #13054 so the design is grounded in
the failure mode rather than the implementation shape.
The implementation follows the **push-mode last-self-anchored** design from
the two options laid out in #13054. See the issue for the trade-off
discussion vs pull-mode (#13120 was an earlier closed PR using that shape).
Treating this as a reference implementation — happy to rewrite as
last-trigger anchoring or as a hybrid with #13120 if maintainers prefer.
Changes:
- gateway/platforms/discord.py:
- new `_discord_history_backfill()` / `_discord_history_backfill_limit()`
helpers (config.extra > env > default), mirroring the existing
`_discord_require_mention()` shape
- new `_fetch_channel_context()` that scans `channel.history()` backwards
from the trigger to the bot's last message (or limit), formats as
`[Recent channel messages] / [name] msg / ...`, respects DISCORD_ALLOW_BOTS,
skips system messages
- per-channel `_last_self_message_id` cache to narrow the fetch window
on hot paths (avoids full history scan when the bot has spoken recently)
- **IMPORTANT**: passes `oldest_first=False` explicitly to `channel.history()`.
discord.py 2.x silently flips the default to True when `after=` is supplied,
which would select the EARLIEST N messages after our last response instead
of the LATEST N before the trigger. In high-traffic windows this would
return stale tool traces and drop the actual final answer the user is
asking about. See regression test below. Caught in live use during a
Codex tool-trace burst on May 13 2026.
- gateway/config.py: discord_history_backfill + discord_history_backfill_limit
settings + yaml→env bridge
- gateway/platforms/base.py: channel_context field on MessageEvent
- gateway/run.py: prepend channel_context after sender-prefix so the
[sender name] tag applies to the trigger message alone, not to the backfill
- hermes_cli/config.py: defaults for new discord.history_backfill and
discord.history_backfill_limit keys
- cli-config.yaml.example: documented defaults
- tests/gateway/test_discord_free_response.py: 7 new tests covering
cold-start backfill, self-message stop boundary, other-bot filtering,
cache hot-path narrowing, stale-cache fallback, shared-channel +
per-user backfill paths, and the ordering regression test
(`test_fetch_channel_context_cache_uses_latest_window_when_after_set`)
- tests/gateway/test_config.py: yaml→env bridge tests
- tests/gateway/test_session.py: prefix-order edge cases
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md: env vars + config keys +
usage docs
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04 — empirically validated in my own multi-bot Discord
research server for the past three weeks.
Fixes#13054
Supersedes #13063 (closed)
Adds 'hermes proxy start' — a local HTTP server that lets external apps
(OpenViking, Karakeep, Open WebUI, ...) use a Hermes-managed provider
subscription as their LLM endpoint. The proxy attaches the user's real
OAuth-resolved credentials to each forwarded request, refreshing them
automatically; the client can send any bearer (it gets stripped).
Ships with one adapter — Nous Portal. The UpstreamAdapter ABC and
registry in hermes_cli/proxy/adapters/ are designed for additional
OAuth providers to plug in by name without server changes.
Commands:
hermes proxy start [--provider nous] [--host 127.0.0.1] [--port 8645]
hermes proxy status
hermes proxy providers
Allowed Portal paths: /v1/chat/completions, /v1/completions,
/v1/embeddings, /v1/models. Anything else returns 404 with a clear
error pointing at the allowed list.
aiohttp is gated like gateway/platforms/api_server.py (try-import,
clean runtime error if missing). No new core dependency.
Tests: 24 unit tests + 1 separate E2E that spawns the real subprocess
and verifies the upstream receives the right bearer with the client's
header stripped.
When the terminal shrinks, already-printed box-drawing rules (response,
reasoning, streaming TTS, background-task Panels) reflow into multiple
narrower rows — visible as duplicated horizontal separators / ghost
lines in scrollback. Similarly, prompt_toolkit redraws a fresh status
bar on SIGWINCH on top of one the terminal just reflowed, producing
double-bar artifacts on column shrink.
Two surgical changes:
1. Decorative scrollback boxes now use a new
`HermesCLI._scrollback_box_width()` helper that clamps to
`max(32, min(width, 56))`. The live TUI footer is unaffected and still
uses the full width. Covers: streaming response box (open + close),
reasoning box (open + close, both streaming and post-stream paths),
streaming-TTS box close, final-response Rich Panel, and the
background-task Rich Panel.
2. `_recover_after_resize()` now also sets a new
`_status_bar_suppressed_after_resize` flag so the dynamic status bar
and both input separator rules stay hidden until the next user input.
The flag is cleared in the process loop the moment the user submits
their next prompt, restoring chrome cleanly.
Tests:
- New `test_input_rules_hide_after_resize_until_next_input` covers the
flag's effect on rule heights.
- New `test_scrollback_box_width_caps_to_resize_safe_value` covers the
helper at floor / cap / mid-range / overflow.
- Existing resize-recovery test extended to assert the flag flips.
Refs: #18449#19280#22976
Salvage of #24403.
Co-authored-by: Szymonclawd <szymonclawd@mac.home>
When codex app-server fails outside the OAuth-classified path
(non-auth turn/start errors, plain TimeoutErrors, generic turn-ended
status, subprocess silently exits, hard deadline timeout), the user
got a bare 'Internal error' / 'turn/start failed: ...' with no
context. Diagnosing config/provider/auth-bridge issues forced a
re-run with verbose codex flags.
Add a _format_error_with_stderr helper that appends the last few
stderr lines via agent.redact.redact_sensitive_text(force=True),
and use it at every catch-all error site:
- ensure_started() failures (codex init / thread/start) now return
a TurnResult.error with should_retire=True instead of bubbling
- non-OAuth turn/start CodexAppServerError / TimeoutError
- subprocess-died branch (previously dumped raw stderr_blob[-300:]
with no redaction — a leak risk)
- turn ended with non-completed status
- hard turn-timeout deadline
OAuth-classified failures and the post-tool quiet watchdog already
produce clean hints and stay unchanged. The redactor catches sk-*,
gh*_*, Authorization: Bearer, query-string tokens, JWTs, private
keys, etc., so provider error payloads can't leak into chat output
or trajectories.
Inspired by openclaw#80718, adapted for our app-server transport.
