Treat HERMES_DESKTOP_HERMES as an authoritative deployment override.
This keeps the Nix desktop package on its matching immutable Hermes CLI
instead of falling through to install.sh when a best-effort version probe
fails or times out.
Surface audit for #64438 consistency: cli.py and acp_adapter had their
gates removed by the salvaged #63630 commit (each with a behavioral
test). The remaining manual-compress surfaces never gated on
compression.enabled — pin that contract so a gate can't regress in:
- gateway/slash_commands.py _handle_compress_command (new behavioral
test: compression_enabled=False still compresses, force=True).
- tui_gateway/server.py — all three manual routes (session.compress
RPC, command.dispatch compress branch, slash.exec mirror) plus the
compute-host slash.compress/session.compress controls converge on
_compress_session_history; new test pins the helper ignores
agent.compression_enabled and passes force=True.
Main renamed the ACP slash command from /compact to /compress after #63630
was written; update the salvaged status line, comment, and behavioral test
to dispatch the command that actually exists.
compression.enabled: false is documented (agent/conversation_loop.py
overflow path) as disabling *automatic* compaction only — the terminal
context-overflow error explicitly tells users to run /compress manually,
and the gateway handler has never gated on the flag. But the classic CLI
(_manual_compress) and the ACP adapter (/compact) refused with
'Compression is disabled', leaving users at a full context with no
manual escape hatch on those surfaces.
Remove the stale gates (they predate the overflow-path design; the CLI
gate came from the original /compress commit's boilerplate) and unify
force=True across all manual-compaction call sites: ACP /compact and the
TUI's _compress_session_history (manual-only helper) now bypass the
summary-failure cooldown exactly like the CLI and gateway already did.
Also reword the ACP /context status line so a disabled-compression agent
no longer implies /compact is unavailable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Integration test for the two compaction layers landing this sweep:
#63144's discovery-scope fix (archived rows surface from the current
session) and #69334's bookend bounding (summary exclusion + content
caps). A single compacted session exercises both: the archived FTS hit
must surface while the compaction handoff at the session tail stays out
of bookend_end and long messages stay capped.
Addresses @teknium1's second review round on #63144:
1. _is_compacted_message now checks both active=0 AND compacted=1.
Previously checked active=0 alone, which also matched rewind/undo rows
(active=0, compacted=0) that must stay hidden.
2. Added _is_compression_ended() — checks only the session's own
end_reason, not the lineage-wide has_compression_hop flag. This prevents
delegation children living under a compression continuation from leaking
through the lineage filter.
3. _discover lineage skip now uses is_ended_session (session-level check)
instead of has_compression (lineage-level flag).
New tests:
- TestRewindExclusion: rewind rows stay hidden alongside compacted rows
- TestCompressionEndedHelper: session-level end_reason checks
- TestLegacyContinuationPlusDelegation: delegate child excluded while
compression ancestors surface
78 passed (71 + 7 new).
After context compaction, pre-compaction content was invisible to
session_search — a memory black hole. The _discover() skip logic
filtered both same-session and same-lineage hits unconditionally,
without distinguishing compression-summarised content (gone from live
context) from delegation children (still visible to the parent agent).
Reworked _resolve_to_parent to return (root_id, has_compression_hop),
checking end_reason='compression' on every hop during the same
db.get_session() traversal — zero extra queries.
_discover() now has three compression-aware paths:
- In-place compaction: FTS hits on active=0 (compacted=1) rows pass
through even when raw_sid == current_session_id
- Legacy rotation: lineage hits pass through when has_compression_hop
is true on either side of the chain
- Delegation children: still excluded (no compression edge)
18 new tests covering all three scenarios + unit tests for the helpers.
Addresses Teknium's review feedback on #6256.
Closes#13840, #13841.
With compression.in_place defaulting True the cron session id never
rotates; get_compression_tip returns the input id. Pin that the
salvaged #67188 fix titles/ends the ORIGINAL cron session in that path
(and for falsy tip returns), i.e. zero behavior change when no
compression rotation happened. Also maps colingreig's contributor
email for attribution CI.
Hardening for the #59114 salvage: generate real standalone and merged
handoffs with the current compressor and assert classify_summary_content
agrees with _is_context_summary_content and is_compaction_summary_message
on every emitted shape (behavior contract, not a format snapshot), incl.
the flag-stripped DB-reload copy. Also adds the contributor email mapping
for @israellot.
A context-compaction handoff is persisted as an ordinary history message
but is not a real turn. The ACP history replay streamed it as a bare
user/agent message chunk, dropping the in-process _compressed_summary
marker, so ACP frontends (editors, vscode-hermes) rendered the entire
handoff as a regular message.
Tag replayed summary chunks under _meta.hermes (ACP's extensibility
channel), covering all three persistence shapes the compressor emits:
- standalone role="user" handoff -> compactionSummary: true
- standalone role="assistant" handoff (alternation-driven role pick)
-> compactionSummary: true
- merge-into-tail message (preserved tail content + appended summary)
-> containsCompactionSummary: true, a distinct key so clients that
collapse standalone summaries cannot hide the preserved real content
Detection honors the in-process metadata flag and falls back to a new
ContextCompressor.classify_summary_content() content classifier
(standalone/merged/None), so it also works for a DB-reloaded session
that lost the in-memory flag. _is_context_summary_content is now a thin
wrapper over the classifier, keeping existing callers unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(desktop): show steer glyph in busy composer
Restore the steering-wheel glyph when a typed draft redirects a live turn.
Add a real Electron E2E regression test for stop, steer, attachment queueing,
and a paused queue after Stop.
* feat(desktop): add queue action beside steer
Restore an explicit queue action in the former steering slot while a typed
correction is ready. Keep the primary steering-wheel action for redirecting
the active turn.
* fix(desktop): retain dictation beside queued drafts
Keep the dictation microphone visible when a typed busy draft exposes the
separate queue action. Cover the combined controls in the real Electron flow.
* fix(desktop): place queue beside the busy action
Keep the Queue message control after the read-aloud toggle and directly before
the shared Stop/Steer action. Cover the rendered control order in Electron E2E.
* ci: surface E2E screenshots in review comment
* ci: mark completed review commits in past tense
* ci: surface approved sensitive-file reviews
* ci: link sensitive files to reviewed changes
* ci: stage desktop E2E visual evidence
Track screenshots newly introduced against main and package visual diffs for a trusted publisher.
* fix(ci): pass E2E evidence output paths
Supply the manifest and staging-directory arguments required by the screenshot status helper.
* fix(ci): download the OSV SARIF artifact
Match the artifact name and result filename emitted by the pinned upstream reusable workflow.
* fix(desktop): refresh composer branch after worktree creation
Route new worktree sessions through the shared workspace target handoff so
composer git status follows the created worktree instead of remaining on the
main checkout. Add an Electron E2E regression test for Ctrl+Shift+B.
* fix(desktop): fixme flaky test
The theme engine picked light/dark adaptation from the HOST terminal
(detectLightMode) even when the skin authors its own background — which
the TUI then paints onto the terminal via OSC-11. On a light-mode Apple
Terminal without truecolor, a pure-black skin (e.g. Bloomberg) got its
foregrounds ansi256-bucketed *for a light background that no longer
exists*: theme.color.text became 'ansi256(214)', which also fails the
OSC-10 hex gate, so the terminal default fg stayed the light profile's
near-black — markdown body text rendered black-on-black.
fromSkin now resolves polarity from the skin's authored background when
present (skinIsLight), uses that background as the reference canvas for
the derived tone ladder and contrast adaptation, and only falls back to
host detection for skins without a background (they render on the
terminal's own surface). The paired light_colors/dark_colors pick in
themeForSkin follows the same rule.
* test(desktop): e2e test for interim assistant message preservation (#65919)
Adds a Playwright E2E test that reproduces the fix from PR #65919 across
all three layers (agent core → tui_gateway → desktop renderer). The mock
inference server is upgraded with a multi-turn scripted response that
exercises several interleaved patterns:
1. text + tool_call → should produce an interim message
2. text + tool_call → another interim message
3. no text + tool_call → NO interim (no visible text alongside tools)
4. text + tool_call → another interim message
5. final answer (stop) → message.complete, different from all interims
Two describe blocks exercise display.interim_assistant_messages both on
(default) and off:
- ON: all interim texts + the final answer visible in the transcript
- OFF: only the final answer visible, all interim texts wiped
Also fixes a footgun: test:e2e now runs `npm run build` as a pretest
hook so the renderer dist/ is always fresh. Previously, running
`npx playwright test` locally would silently load a stale dist/ that
predated renderer fixes — the python backend ran from source (had the
fix) but the renderer was frozen in an old bundle. CI already built
fresh, so the explicit build step there is removed to avoid duplication.
* test(desktop): e2e sidebar states — background dot, subagent, cross-session
Add sidebar-states.spec.ts with three E2E tests exercising the desktop
sidebar's session dot states driven by real gateway events:
1. Background process dot appears during a terminal(background=true)
call and disappears after auto-dismiss; subagent (delegate_task)
runs concurrently; final answer is visible in the transcript.
2. Background dot remains visible while a subagent runs concurrently
(longer sleep 5 background process so the dot is catchable).
3. Cross-session dot transition: start a turn with a background process,
wait for the turn to complete, open a new session, then verify the
original session's dot transitions from 'background running' to
'finished — unread' when the background process exits.
The mock server gains SIDEBAR_SCRIPT and SIDEBAR_CROSS_SCRIPT trigger
keywords that return tool_calls for terminal(background=true) and
delegate_task — the agent executes these for real (real background
process, real subagent), so the tests assert against genuine gateway
events rather than mocked UI state.
Verified: 3 passed (1.2m) under cage headless wlroots.
* test(desktop): e2e tests for tile-unread bug (tab passes, split fails)
Two scenarios for the tile-unread bug where a session that finishes
while visible on-screen gets the green 'finished unread' dot even
though the user is looking right at it.
The unread check in handleTransition (session-states.ts:174) only
compares against $selectedStoredSessionId and ignores $sessionTiles,
so a session visible in a tile gets marked unread even though it's
on screen.
1. TAB (hidden, PASSES): ⌃-click opens the session as a stacked tab
that is NOT visible on screen. The unread dot IS correct here —
the user isn't looking at it.
2. SPLIT (visible, FAILS): drag the session row to the workspace's
right edge to create a side-by-side split tile. Both sessions are
visible on screen. The unread dot is WRONG — the session is visible
in the split tile, so it should not be marked 'unread'. This test
is RED until the fix lands.
Also adds explicit page.screenshot() calls at key assertion points in
sidebar-states.spec.ts so the trace viewer has full-res captures of the
sidebar dot states during the test.
* test(desktop): cover compression and queued stop lifecycle
Add real desktop E2E coverage for session compression continuation and
queue parking after an explicit Stop. Extend the mock server with a
blocking scripted turn and submitted-prompt assertions.
* test(desktop): cover busy composer submit routing
Replace the invalid queued-stop E2E scenario: plain text redirects a busy
turn rather than entering the queue. Add focused submit-routing coverage for
plain text, slash commands, attachments, explicit Stop, and idle submission.
markVoicePlaybackInterrupted() / takeVoicePlaybackInterrupted() mirror
the backend latch in the renderer (the barge happens client-side, where
the audio plays). VAD barges and typing over playback mark it; the next
prompt.submit carries interrupted:true, which the TUI gateway latches
into the model note.
CLI: the VAD monitor's playback cut and the record-key interrupt both
mark the latch; the chat path prepends the note via the existing
_prepend_note_to_message channel. TUI: _tts_stream_stop() grows a
user_barge flag (False for /voice off — a mode change isn't an
interruption; no-op when speech already finished), the VAD monitor
marks on cut, prompt.submit accepts interrupted:true from clients, and
_run_prompt_submit pops the latch into the run message.
mark_speech_interrupted() / take_speech_interrupted(): a one-shot,
TTL'd (120s) latch plus SPEECH_INTERRUPTED_NOTE. Barge-in paths mark
it when they cut live speech; the next turn's submit path pops it and
prepends the note to the model-bound message — API-call local, never
persisted, so history and prompt caching are untouched.
/api/audio/speak-stream WebSocket: one socket + one Web Audio clock per
reply. The renderer feeds raw LLM deltas as they arrive; the server
cuts sentences with the shared chunker and streams int16 PCM back while
generation continues — speech overlaps generation with no per-sentence
connection or synthesis gaps. Falls back to the POST data-URL path for
old backends / non-chunked providers.
Barge-in runs a MediaRecorder on the monitor's stream the whole time
playback is live (rotated while quiet to bound pre-roll); talking over
the agent cuts playback and the complete utterance goes straight to
transcription and submit. /api/audio/transcribe returns 200/"" for
no-speech results so quiet turns re-listen instead of toasting a 400.
Turn deltas feed a per-turn TTS pipeline; the post-complete speak_text
call survives only as a fallback. session.interrupt, /voice toggles,
and new turns cut in-flight speech. VAD barge-in emits
voice.interrupted at detection, then the captured interruption goes out
as voice.transcript — the same event the TUI already submits as a
spoken turn.
The streaming gate broadens from ElevenLabs-only to any provider that
passes check_tts_requirements(). In continuous voice mode a mic monitor
runs during playback: talking over the agent cuts TTS at detection
while the monitor keeps recording, then the captured interruption is
transcribed and queued as the next turn (process_loop's auto-restart
stands down while the capture owns the mic). New voice.barge_in config
key, default true.
listen_for_speech(): sustained-RMS speech detection with the noise
floor calibrated against audible playback (speaker bleed doesn't
self-trigger). With capture=True it keeps a rolling pre-roll buffer and
records through to a silence endpoint, so the interruption is
transcribed from its first syllable — detection alone loses the opening
words to the detector's sustain window plus the mic re-open.
transcribe_recording() maps no_speech provider results to a successful
empty transcript (silence, not an error).
An STT provider that hears no words is reporting silence, not failing.
ElevenLabs/xAI empty-transcript errors now carry no_speech so live
voice loops can re-listen quietly instead of surfacing an error on
every pause.
stream_tts_to_speaker() drops its hardcoded ElevenLabs client for
resolve_streaming_provider() + SentenceChunker, so any provider speaks
sentence-by-sentence while the model is still generating. Markdown
stripping also drops emoji — providers stall on them or read them out
loud.
StreamingTTSProvider ABC + registry + resolve_streaming_provider() —
ElevenLabs (pcm_24000) and OpenAI (response_format=pcm) stream chunked
PCM; every other provider keeps its configured voice and falls back to
per-sentence sync synthesis. SentenceChunker is the one incremental
cutter every surface shares: sentence-boundary cuts on the delta
stream, <think> blocks stripped even when split across deltas, short
fragments merged forward so they never stall as tiny clips.
Keep a live session projection from adding its user turn when the latest
persisted row already represents that same inflight prompt. Add real Electron
coverage for fast and cold resume with idle and background-inference sessions.
* test(desktop): e2e for warm-route resume render jitter
Pre-seeds a 32-message session into state.db, boots the app, does a
cold resume (populates warm cache), navigates away, then clicks back
(warm resume). A MutationObserver + innerHTML-length poll detects
whether the transcript is re-rendered after the initial warm-cache
paint — the jitter bug where syncSessionStateToView fires twice
(warm cache paint, then session.activate RPC reconcile).
* fix(desktop): warm-route resume jitter from double setMessages
The warm resume path in resumeSession() calls syncSessionStateToView
twice: once for the warm cache paint, then again after the
session.activate RPC reconciles messages. The second call created new
message objects via toChatMessages (different references, same content),
and flushPendingViewState's sameMessageList guard used reference
equality per slot — so it always failed and setMessages fired a second
time, causing a visible transcript re-render.
Replace sameMessageList (reference equality) with chatMessageArraysEquivalent
(deep content comparison: id, role, parts, pending, error, etc.). This
was already used by the cold path's fast-path guard; the flush guard
was the last holdout using shallow reference equality.
Also updates the e2e test to use textContent polling on the first
message element (instead of innerHTML on the full viewport) to avoid
false positives from metadata-only DOM changes.
* test(desktop): e2e for warm resume after background inference
Extract the render counter (MutationObserver + text-content poll) and
assertion into reusable helpers. Add a second test that sends a message,
waits for the mock response to complete, navigates away, then warm-
resumes — verifying the warm cache already has the completed turn from
message.complete events and no second paint occurs.
The input fix's sibling, hit immediately after: the composer was themed but
AGENT text went black-on-black the same way. Root cause is the class, not
the call site — markdown body, borders, and every token rendered without an
explicit color falls back to the terminal's DEFAULT foreground, which
belongs to the HOST profile's polarity, not the skin's. A dark skin on a
light terminal repaints the backdrop via OSC-11 while thousands of
default-fg cells stay near-black.
Chasing every <Text> is unwinnable. Instead own the default itself: when a
skin authors a background (the existing opt-in), paint the default
foreground from the resolved theme's text color via OSC-10. Every unthemed
token — present and future — re-bases onto the skin atomically, exactly
like the background.
terminalModes: the OSC-11 slot generalizes to defaultColorSlot(10|11) —
same paint/clear/exit-restore contract, tracked per slot, so a skinless
session still never touches the terminal. reapplyTheme repaints the fg too:
polarity flips swap paired palettes, moving the text tone while the
background stays.
Tests: slot contract runs table-driven over both OSC codes; handler test
pins the invariant (default fg == theme text; dropping the background
releases both defaults). Suite 1344✓, typecheck/lint/prettier clean.
Live-repaint's composer gap: flip a light terminal to a dark skin and the
input goes black-on-black. The placeholder was already explicit truecolor
(theme muted), but TYPED text rendered with no color at all — the terminal's
default foreground — in both paint paths:
- the Ink render (<Text wrap="wrap">{rendered}</Text>, no color), and
- the fast-echo bypass, which writes raw cells straight to stdout.
The skin owns the background (OSC-11) but the default fg still belongs to
the host terminal's polarity, so any skin/terminal polarity mismatch made
input invisible. Every other transcript line already paints
theme.color.text (the completed inputBuf rows directly above the composer).
Give TextInput a color prop and paint both paths with it: the Ink <Text>
(chalk re-opens the outer color after the placeholder chips' embedded [39m
closes; INV cursor/selection cells never touch fg) and the fast-echo write
via colorizeEcho — same explicit-truecolor-only rule as colorizeHint, so
the bypass cell can't flash terminal-default before the next frame. All six
TextInput sites (composer, prompts, masked, billing ×2, session switcher)
pass theme text; no color ⇒ passthrough, unthemed inputs keep the terminal
default.
Tests: colorizeEcho SGR wrap + passthrough contracts; full ui-tui suite
1338✓; typecheck clean.
Removes Homebrew and PyPI wheel/sdist as Hermes distribution paths while
preserving the supported source, Docker, and Nix workflows.
Changes:
- Removes the Homebrew formula, PyPI publish workflow, sdist manifest
(MANIFEST.in), and wheel/sdist release-attachment logic from scripts/release.py.
- Keeps setuptools metadata and entry points required by editable installs
and Docker/Nix builds, but adds a setup.py guard that rejects wheel/sdist
builds outside a sealed Nix derivation (HERMES_NIX_BUILD=1).
- Removes pip/Homebrew install detection, PyPI update checks, the pip
self-update path, the deprecation-banner state, the postinstall subcommand,
wheel data-directory fallbacks in agent/i18n.py and hermes_constants.py,
and the ACP Registry manifest/version-lockstep release logic.
- Adds /nix/store/ path detection so `nix run` / `nix profile install`
installs (which don't set HERMES_MANAGED) are correctly identified as
"nix" rather than falling through to "git"/"unknown".
- Retired install-method values ("pip", "homebrew") in existing
.install_method stamps (both code-scoped and home-scoped) are ignored by
the allowlist reader and fall through to "unknown" instead of resurrecting
a retired enum value.
- Updates Nix packaging to ship bare runtime data (locales, optional-mcps)
through store symlinks and wrapper env vars instead of wheel data-files.
- Removes the ACP Registry manifest/icon and their version-lockstep tests.
- Deletes or rewrites packaging, pip-update, Homebrew, and ACP Registry
tests; adds parametrized coverage for the packaging build guard covering
BOTH sdist and wheel paths (the guards live in separate cmdclass entries
— a passing sdist test proves nothing about the wheel path).
- Updates installation/platform documentation and related user-facing copy.
- Adjusts the supply-chain scan so deleted install-hook files do not trigger
a finding, while additions or modifications still require the existing
ci-reviewed label gate.
Supported installation paths (unchanged):
- git installer (install.sh)
- Docker
- Nix/NixOS
- editable development installs (uv sync, uv pip install -e ., pip install -e .)
Exercise the full Electron, gateway, and mock-provider submit path while
same-chat route query tokens churn during session creation. Assert the mock
provider receives the prompt and its streamed response reaches the transcript.
* fix(desktop): route /compress through session.compress RPC with transcript replacement
Salvages #44462, #53755, and #68218 into a single canonical fix for the
desktop /compress cluster.
The desktop routed /compress through slash.exec, which sends it to the
_SlashWorker subprocess. Compressing a large session outlives both the
desktop's 30s WS timeout and the worker's 45s pipe timeout — the client
gives up, runExec's blanket catch swallows the error, and command.dispatch
surfaces a misleading "not a quick/plugin/skill command: compress" (#44456).
Even when compression succeeded via the _mirror_slash_side_effects path,
the desktop never received the post-compress message list, so summarized
bubbles stayed on screen forever — /compress looked like a no-op.
This change routes /compress to the dedicated session.compress RPC (the TUI's
path), combining the best of all three PRs:
- 120s client timeout matching the TUI's HERMES_TUI_RPC_TIMEOUT_MS (#44462)
- Transcript replacement from the response `messages` via toChatMessages,
the same converter session.resume uses (#68218, teknium1 review on #44462)
- Session-isolation guard: updateSessionState only publishes for the active
runtime, so a late result after a session switch can't clobber the
foreground transcript (#53755, teknium1 review on #53755)
- Coalescing: dedup concurrent compress requests per session (#53755)
- Progress toast ("compressing context...") outside the transcript (#53755)
- Error unmasking in runExec: when slash.exec fails and command.dispatch only
adds "not a quick/plugin/skill command" routing noise, surface the original
worker error instead (#44462)
- /compact alias + focus_topic forwarding
Co-authored-by: AlliDev <AIalliAI@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: PinkEVO <PINKIIILQWQ@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(desktop): route slash commands with dedicated RPCs to those RPCs
Salvages #63513 — introduces a new `rpc` kind on DesktopCommandSurface so
commands with a first-class gateway @method handler bypass slash.exec /
command.dispatch entirely, and a `renderRpcResult` utility that shapes
each RPC's structured reply into readable transcript text.
Migrates 6 commands from exec() to rpc(...):
/agents → agents.list
/save → session.save
/status → session.status
/steer → session.steer
/stop → process.stop
/usage → session.usage
/compress stays as action('compress') — it needs transcript replacement
from the response `messages`, which the generic rpc path can't do (per
teknium1 review on #44462/#63513).
Also includes the json-rpc-gateway timeout message improvement: the error
now includes the configured timeout duration ("request timed out after 120s:
session.compress") so a user can tell whether the default 30s fired or a
per-call override.
Co-authored-by: Jelvin <SmallNew2003@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(desktop): preserve provider choice during config initialization
* fix(desktop): preserve slash command and host compression semantics
Keep commands whose CLI behavior exceeds their current RPC contracts on slash.exec.
Propagate the full compression timeout through compute-host control, return structured
host compression outcomes with metadata, and retain successful compression feedback
in the desktop transcript.
Add regressions for timeout forwarding, host aborts and metadata sync, structured host
control responses, command routing parity, and numeric stop counts.
* fix(desktop): harden compression state handling
Preserve the invoking stored-session binding for delayed compression results,
normalize replacement histories, and serialize provider selection. Stabilize
gateway platform tests and guard the desktop Git facade during renderer teardown.
---------
Co-authored-by: AlliDev <AIalliAI@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: PinkEVO <PINKIIILQWQ@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jelvin <SmallNew2003@users.noreply.github.com>
