A MoA preset whose reference or aggregator slot points at the moa virtual
provider creates a recursive MoA tree. The runtime guards in moa_loop.py only
surface this mid-turn (references silently skipped, aggregator raises). Reject
it at the config chokepoint (_clean_slot) so it can never be saved, and hide it
from the desktop/dashboard slot pickers so it isn't offered as a dead choice.
_normalize_preset uses bare float() and int() to coerce
reference_temperature, aggregator_temperature, and max_tokens from
config.yaml. When a user hand-edits a non-numeric value (e.g.
max_tokens: "8k" or reference_temperature: "hot"), the coercion raises
ValueError. Since normalize_moa_config runs on every model-selection
and MoA turn (via resolve_moa_preset), the crash is unrecoverable and
blocks all MoA usage until the config is manually fixed.
Replace the bare casts with _coerce_float / _coerce_int helpers that
fall back to the default on TypeError/ValueError instead of raising.
Natural-language skill search returned a short, arbitrary list and never
surfaced NVIDIA (or OpenAI/Anthropic/HuggingFace) skills. Two causes:
1. The runtime index collapses every GitHub tap into source="github", so
there was no way to find or filter by provider at the CLI — the per-tap
identity only existed in the docs-site catalog.
2. HermesIndexSource.search matched only name/description/tags (not the
identifier or provider) and broke at the first `limit` hits in raw index
order, burying the most relevant skills. `search` also defaulted to
--limit 10 against an 86k-entry catalog.
Changes:
- GitHubSource stamps a per-tap provider label (extra.provider) on each
skill via github_provider_for(); source stays "github" so dedup/floor/
index-skip logic is untouched. Flows into the built index.
- HermesIndexSource.search now matches identifier + provider too, and
collect-then-ranks (exact > prefix > whole-word > substring) instead of
break-at-limit.
- --source nvidia|openai|anthropic|huggingface|voltagent|gstack|minimax
provider filters for browse/search (narrows merged results by provider).
- search --limit default 10 -> 25; table Source column shows the provider
label for github skills.
Tested: 181 unit tests pass; E2E against the live runtime index confirms
'nvidia'/'cuda' searches now surface NVIDIA-provider skills and
--source nvidia narrows to exactly the NVIDIA catalog.
The post-update gateway restart path relaunched the gateway with the
venv's console `python.exe` (via `get_python_path()` in
`_gateway_run_args_for_profile`). On Windows this leaves a terminal
window open permanently: uv's `venv\Scripts\python.exe` is a launcher
shim that re-execs the *base* console interpreter, which allocates its
own conhost — and `CREATE_NO_WINDOW` cannot suppress that second window.
The clean-start path (`_spawn_detached`) already dodges this by routing
through `_resolve_detached_python` to use the windowless base
`pythonw.exe`; the restart watcher did not.
Symptom (reported on Windows 11): after an in-app GUI update, a console
window for the gateway stays open and never closes. Confirmed on the
reporter's box — the running gateway was `python.exe ... gateway run
--replace` with a live conhost child and the foreground "Press Ctrl+C to
stop" banner, born exactly at the update's "Restarting Windows gateway"
log line.
Fix:
- Add `gateway_windows.windowless_gateway_restart_spec(run_argv)` which
rewrites a console-python gateway argv into the windowless `pythonw.exe`
equivalent and returns the cwd + env overlay (VIRTUAL_ENV / PYTHONPATH /
HERMES_HOME) the base interpreter needs to import `hermes_cli` without
the venv launcher's site config. No-op on POSIX.
- `_spawn_gateway_restart_watcher` now applies that rewrite on Windows and
threads cwd= / env= into the inlined respawn Popen. Covers both restart
entry points (`launch_detached_profile_gateway_restart` and
`launch_detached_gateway_restart_by_cmdline`). CREATE_NO_WINDOW |
DETACHED_PROCESS | CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB and the breakaway-denied
fallback are all preserved.
Verified E2E on a real Windows 11 box: drove the actual watcher against a
dummy old-pid; the respawned gateway came up as `pythonw.exe` (zero
console python, no conhost child) and booted fully (housekeeping + kanban
dispatcher started → imports resolved under the base interpreter).
Tests: TestWindowlessGatewayRestartSpec (behavior) +
TestGatewayDetachedWatcherWindowsFlags regression assert. Pre-existing
Linux-only failures on a Windows host (SIGKILL, systemd, docker-root)
confirmed identical on the bare base.
projects.db (per-profile project store) and kanban.db were missing from
_QUICK_STATE_FILES, so the pre-update quick snapshot never backed them up.
On a desktop upgrade, when the update flow removes/replaces the file and the
post-update schema-init re-creates an empty one, all user-created projects,
folder mappings, the active-project pointer, kanban board bindings, and tasks
vanish silently — no error.
Add the per-profile user-created stores to the snapshot set:
- projects.db — project store
- response_store.db — gateway conversation history / tool payloads (WAL)
- memory_store.db — holographic memory facts/entities (WAL)
- verification_evidence.db — agent verification audit trail
- kanban.db — default board (back-compat <root>/kanban.db)
- kanban/boards — non-default boards (<root>/kanban/boards/<slug>/kanban.db
+ metadata); workspaces/ and attachments/ subtrees
are skipped as large + regenerable.
Also: the directory-branch of create_quick_snapshot now routes *.db through the
WAL-safe _safe_copy_db (SQLite backup() API), matching the top-level file path —
previously a non-default board DB with an open WAL could be copied inconsistently.
Salvaged from #52930 by @0xDevNinja (authorship preserved via cherry-pick).
On top of the original (which covered only projects.db + the default kanban.db),
this adds: non-default-board coverage, the three sibling per-profile DBs that
meet the same upgrade-wipe criteria, WAL-safe directory copies, and a
workspaces/attachments skip to avoid snapshot bloat (×20 retained). 8 tests,
all mutation-verified; E2E verified snapshot→wipe→restore preserves all six
store types on the real code path.
Closes#52889. Supersedes #52930.
## Description
On macOS 26.x, `launchctl bootstrap` and `launchctl kickstart` return exit code 5 ("Input/output error"), which Hermes already anticipates and handles by spawning a detached fallback process. However, the gateway status reporting is ambiguous:
- `gateway status` says "Gateway service is loaded" (because `launchctl list` returns exit 0)
- But `launchctl print` shows `state = not running` — launchd isn't actually supervising anything
- The detached fallback PID running is invisible to the status command
- Users can't tell whether auto-start at login and auto-restart on crash are available
### Root Cause
Two problems in `hermes_cli/gateway.py`:
1. **`_probe_launchd_service_running()`** (line 1067): Determined launchd service liveness solely by `launchctl list <label>` exit code. On macOS 26, this returns 0 even when the service is only *registered* but not running (output lacks a `"PID"` field). This caused `GatewayRuntimeSnapshot.service_running = True` incorrectly, which suppressed the process/service mismatch warning.
2. **`launchd_status()`** (line 3569): Used the same binary "loaded/not loaded" check without inspecting whether launchd actually has a PID, whether a detached fallback is running, or whether auto-start/restart are available.
### Changes
**`hermes_cli/gateway.py`:**
1. **New `_parse_launchd_pid_from_list_output()` helper** — Extracts the PID from `launchctl list` output. When launchd is actively supervising, the output includes `"PID" = <number>;`. When only registered but not running, no PID field is present.
2. **Fixed `_probe_launchd_service_running()`** — Now requires a PID in the `launchctl list` output to confirm launchd is actually supervising. This correctly sets `service_running = False` when launchd has the service registered but `state = not running`, which triggers the existing process/service mismatch detection.
3. **Reworked `launchd_status()`** — Reports clearly separated information:
- LaunchAgent plist currentness (stale or current)
- Whether launchd is actively supervising (with PID)
- Whether a detached fallback PID is running
- Whether auto-start at login and auto-restart on crash are available
- When launchd supervision is known to be unavailable, explains why
4. **Persistent unsupported marker** (`~/.hermes/.gateway-launchd-unsupported`) — Written when `_launchd_fallback_to_detached()` is called (launchd exit 5/125). Allows `launchd_status()` to explain *why* launchd can't supervise even when no fallback process is currently running. Cleared automatically when a future bootstrap/kickstart succeeds (e.g., after an OS update fixes the issue).
5. **Updated `_print_gateway_process_mismatch()`** — Distinguishes the managed detached fallback from a genuinely manual `nohup hermes gateway run`, providing accurate guidance for each case.
### Status Output Examples
**Before** (macOS 26, fallback active):
```
Launchd plist: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist
✓ Service definition matches the current Hermes install
✓ Gateway service is loaded
{
"Label" = "ai.hermes.gateway";
"OnDemand" = true;
...
};
```
**After** (macOS 26, fallback active):
```
Launchd plist: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist
✓ Service definition matches the current Hermes install
⚠ Gateway service is registered but launchd is not supervising it
launchd cannot manage the gateway on this macOS version.
✓ Detached fallback process is running (PID 12345)
Cron jobs will fire. Stop with: hermes gateway stop
⚠ Auto-start at login and auto-restart on crash are NOT available.
```
**After** (normal launchd supervision):
```
Launchd plist: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist
✓ Service definition matches the current Hermes install
✓ Gateway is supervised by launchd (PID 12345)
Auto-start at login and auto-restart on crash are available.
```
### Tests
Updated 5 existing tests and added 11 new tests in `tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_service.py`:
- PID parsing from `launchctl list` output (with PID, without PID, empty, unquoted PID)
- `_probe_launchd_service_running()` requires PID presence
- Unsupport marker lifecycle (write, clear, persist across fallback)
- Marker cleared on successful bootstrap
- `launchd_status()` reporting: supervised, fallback-running, fallback-unavailable
- Existing fallback tests now verify marker creation
### Related Issues
- Issue #23387 (original macOS 26 launchd workaround)
- Issue #42524 (this issue)
A config migration (or hand-edit) that leaves an invalid toolset name in
`platform_toolsets` — e.g. the #38798 corruption that rewrote `hermes-cli` to
the non-existent `hermes` — silently disabled all affected tools:
resolve_toolset() returns [] for an unknown name, so the agent quietly lost its
tools with no error, warning, or log entry and degraded to text-only replies.
Surface it loudly at two points:
- After migration (migrate_config): validate platform_toolsets and record/print
a warning per unknown name, with a `hermes-<platform>` suggestion when that
would have been valid (the exact #38798 shape).
- At runtime (_get_platform_tools): if a platform was explicitly configured but
every toolset name is invalid, log a warning when tools are resolved for a
session — so an ALREADY-corrupted config is caught at startup, not only on the
next `hermes update`.
Logic lives in a new pure, side-effect-free helper (toolset_validation.py) with
validate_toolset injected, so it is unit-testable without the tool registry.
Note: the original v25→v26 migration that caused the corruption no longer
exists (config format is now v30; no migration step rewrites toolset names).
This change is the durable defense against the silent-failure mode regardless
of cause, matching the issue's "Expected: log a warning".
Salvaged from #39207 by @lEWFkRAD (authorship preserved via cherry-pick).
Tests: 9 helper cases (incl. the #38798 corruption shape, mixed valid/invalid,
zero-tools state, non-dict/scalar/non-string) + a runtime caplog test — both the
helper warning and the runtime guard mutation-verified to fail without the fix.
Closes#38798. Supersedes #39581 (prevent-in-v25→v26 — that path is gone),
#41006 / #40208 (repair-migration for already-corrupted configs).
Tasks 2.1 + 2.2 + 2.3 of the safe-shutdown plan — the reversible
quiesce-without-restart machinery NAS drives during a lifecycle action (D4a).
These ship together because the endpoint, the control channel, and the gateway
state machine are one coherent slice.
2.2 — control channel (gateway/drain_control.py, new):
The dashboard has no HTTP path into a running gateway (guardrails: "there is NO
external control channel into a running gateway"); restart/drain is driven only
by markers the gateway reacts to. So begin/cancel-drain writes/removes a
presence-based marker .drain_request.json (HERMES_HOME-scoped, atomic write,
never-raises read; a corrupt marker reads as present-contentless → fail-safe
toward quiescing). This is Q-B option A.
2.2 — gateway state machine (gateway/run.py):
- _external_drain_active flag, DISTINCT from the shutdown _draining flag: this
one does NOT exit the process and is fully reversible.
- _enter_external_drain / _exit_external_drain: idempotent transitions that
flip gateway_state→draining / →running via _update_runtime_status (preserving
the live active_agents count). exit refuses to revert to running during a
real shutdown or after the loop stops (shutdown wins).
- _drain_control_watcher: 1s background task (modelled on _handoff_watcher)
reconciling accept-state with the marker; honours a marker that survived a
restart on its first tick. Registered alongside the other watchers in start.
- New-turn accept gate in _handle_message, placed BEFORE the session-slot
claim: when draining, refuse to START a new turn (so active_agents can only
fall → no TOCTOU race), while in-flight turns finish untouched. Internal/
system events (restart-recovery replays, bg-process completions) bypass it.
2.1 — endpoint (hermes_cli/web_server.py):
POST /api/gateway/drain {action: drain|cancel}. Authenticated by the Task-2.0a
token seam (the drain plugin registered this exact path as a token route);
attributes the request to the verified token principal. Begin writes the
marker, cancel removes it — the gateway process owns the actual transition.
Force-override (D6) is NOT here; it maps onto the existing immediate
/api/gateway/restart force path.
Tests (mocked — necessary-not-sufficient; the HARD live gate Q-B is next):
- tests/gateway/test_external_drain_control.py — marker contract (write/clear/
read/corrupt/atomic), state machine (enter/exit/idempotency/shutdown-wins/
loop-stopped), watcher reconcile-enter-then-exit, new-turn refusal, and
in-flight-not-interrupted. 15 tests.
- tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py — /api/gateway/drain begin/default-begin/
cancel/cancel-idempotent/bad-action-400. 6 tests.
- dashboard.drain_auth config section already added in 2.0b commit.
All touched suites green: 301 (gateway+auth) + 9 (web_server endpoints) passed.
Intentionally deferred:
- HARD live-validation gate (Q-B): real isolated `hermes gateway run`, drive a
real begin-drain marker, prove the 5-point checklist a–e.
- Spec-doc status flip + Phase-2 PR.
Build status: external-drain, restart-drain, status, dashboard-auth, drain-plugin,
token-auth, and web_server-endpoint suites green.
Task 2.0b: the concrete shared-bearer-secret auth provider, the FIRST consumer
of the generic token-auth capability (Task 2.0a). Implements decisions.md Q-A.
plugins/dashboard_auth/drain/ (bundled, discovered like dashboard_auth/basic):
- DrainSecretProvider: non-interactive provider, supports_token=True. Verifies
an inbound Authorization bearer token against a per-agent shared secret with
hmac.compare_digest (constant-time, no timing oracle) and, on a match,
vouches for the caller as the "drain-control" principal scoped to "drain".
The five interactive ABC methods raise NotImplementedError; verify_session
returns None (stacks harmlessly in the cookie-verify loop).
- assess_secret_strength(): fail-closed entropy gate. Rejects secrets shorter
than 43 url-safe-b64 chars (~256 bits), with < 16 distinct characters, or
below 128 bits Shannon entropy — so a weak/structured/repeated secret can
never be silently accepted. Enforced both at register() (friendly skip
reason) and in __init__ (raises — defence in depth).
- register(ctx): no-op + skip reason when HERMES_DASHBOARD_DRAIN_SECRET is
unset; rejects a weak secret fail-closed (drain endpoint stays gated). On a
strong secret, registers the provider AND opts /api/gateway/drain into the
generic token-auth seam via register_token_route().
Config: the secret is a CREDENTIAL → carried via HERMES_DASHBOARD_DRAIN_SECRET
(per-agent, provisioned by NAS at deploy). Behavioural knobs only
(dashboard.drain_auth.{scope,min_secret_chars}) live in config.yaml — added to
DEFAULT_CONFIG with the .env-is-for-secrets rationale documented inline.
Tests: tests/plugins/dashboard_auth/test_drain_provider.py — entropy gate
(strong pass; empty/short/repeated/few-distinct/custom-min reject), verify_token
(match → scoped principal, wrong/empty → None, custom scope), protocol
compliance, interactive-methods-raise, and register() (skip-no-secret,
fail-closed-weak-secret, strong-env-secret registers + route opt-in, config
scope + min_secret_chars). 21 new tests; drain + token-auth suites 44 passed.
Verified the plugin is discovered as dashboard_auth/drain alongside basic/nous.
Intentionally deferred:
- The begin/cancel-drain endpoint handler itself — Task 2.1.
- The dashboard→gateway control channel — Task 2.2.
Build status: dashboard-auth + drain-plugin suites green.
Task 2.0a of the safe-shutdown drain-coordination plan. Widens the dashboard
auth framework GENERICALLY to support non-interactive (service-to-service)
bearer-token auth, mirroring the existing supports_password precedent. This is
a reusable capability — any future machine-credential provider plugs in without
core changes (decisions.md Q-C). The drain bearer-secret plugin (Task 2.0b) is
the first consumer, not the definition.
- base.py: add TokenPrincipal dataclass (the token analog of Session) +
supports_token capability flag + verify_token() on the ABC (default raises
NotImplementedError so a misconfigured provider fails loud). Contract mirrors
verify_session stacking: return None for unrecognised tokens (never raise),
raise ProviderError only on a genuine backing-store outage.
- registry.py: list_token_providers() — the supports_token subset, in
registration order. Empty when none registered (token routes fail closed).
- token_auth.py (new): route-agnostic seam. Routes opt in via
register_token_route(exact path); token_auth_middleware owns the auth
decision for those routes only — authenticate via stacked providers, attach
request.state.token_principal + token_authenticated, pass through. 401 on
missing/unrecognised token, 503 when a provider was unreachable, untouched
passthrough for non-token routes. Fails closed (never open).
- web_server.py: install the seam OUTERMOST (registered last → runs first).
Both downstream gates (legacy auth_middleware + gated_auth_middleware) honour
request.state.token_authenticated and skip enforcement, so a token-authed
service request is never bounced to /login.
- audit.py: TOKEN_AUTH_SUCCESS / TOKEN_AUTH_FAILURE events.
Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_token_auth.py — ABC flag default,
verify_token NotImplementedError, registry filter, bearer extraction
(case-insensitive scheme, malformed/non-bearer → ""), provider stacking
(first-match-wins, unreachable-remembered, unreachable-then-valid, buggy
provider doesn't crash the gate), and the seam's passthrough/401/503/
fail-closed behaviour. 29 new tests; full dashboard-auth suite 169 passed.
Intentionally deferred:
- The concrete shared-bearer-secret provider plugin — Task 2.0b.
- The begin/cancel-drain endpoint that registers itself as a token route —
Task 2.1.
Build status: dashboard-auth + plugin-hook suites green.
Fixes#36767.
Two complementary recoveries for the recurring "delete three cache files and
re-auth by hand" ritual when an MCP server's dynamically-registered OAuth
client goes dead server-side (IdP redeploy / DB wipe / rebrand):
- Auto-heal (token-endpoint subset): HermesMCPOAuthProvider now sniffs
auth-flow responses and, on a 400/401 `invalid_client` from the discovered
token endpoint, backs up + deletes `<server>.client.json` and `.meta.json`
and clears the in-memory client so the SDK re-runs RFC 7591 dynamic client
registration on the next flow. Conservative by construction: only
dynamically-registered (non config-supplied) clients, only the token
endpoint, only on a word-boundary `invalid_client` match (so RFC 7591's
`invalid_client_metadata` does not trip it); best-effort so a miss never
breaks the live flow. Covers both code-exchange and refresh when the token
endpoint was discovered. Tokens are preserved.
- `hermes mcp reauth [<name>|--all]`: the reporter's primary symptom — the
IdP's in-browser "Redirect URI Mismatch" — produces no HTTP signal (the SDK
only sees a callback timeout), so it cannot be auto-detected. The new
command re-auths one or ALL `auth: oauth` servers, serially: one browser
flow at a time, which also fixes the startup popup storm when several
servers are stale at once. Single-server reauth is factored out of
`mcp login` and shared.
Tests: +14 (poison helper x2; token-endpoint detection x5 incl. wrong-endpoint,
success-response, pre-registered, and invalid_client_metadata negative guards;
a bridge integration test driving the real async_auth_flow generator to prove
the detection hook preserves the bidirectional asend() forwarding contract;
reauth CLI x6). Verified against the pinned mcp==1.26.0: scripts/run_tests.sh
122/122 green for the touched suites; check-windows-footguns.py and ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(kanban): typed block reasons + unblock-loop breaker
Stops the kanban blocked-task loop: a worker blocks a task, a cron
unblocks it, the worker re-blocks for the same reason, repeat forever.
block_task now takes a typed kind and a persistent block_recurrences
counter on the tasks table:
- kind=dependency routes to todo (parent-gated, auto-resumed), never
the human 'blocked' bucket a cron would keep unblocking.
- needs_input/capability/transient/untyped land in blocked; each
same-cause re-block after an unblock increments block_recurrences,
and at BLOCK_RECURRENCE_LIMIT (default 2) the task routes to triage
for a human instead of blocked.
- unblock_task no longer resets block_recurrences (the amnesia that
let the loop run unbounded); complete_task clears it on success.
Wired through the worker kanban_block tool (new kind arg) and the
hermes kanban block --kind CLI flag, both reporting where the task
actually landed. Docs + 11 new tests; 536 existing kanban tests green.
* test(kanban): make second-block notify test use a distinct block cause
test_notifier_second_blocked_delivers blocked the same task twice with
the same (untyped) reason, which now trips the new unblock-loop breaker
and routes the second block to triage instead of blocked — so only one
'blocked' notification fired. The test's actual intent is that TWO
distinct block cycles each notify; give the two cycles different kinds
(needs_input then capability) so they're genuinely separate blocks. The
same-cause loop→triage path is covered by test_kanban_block_kinds.py.
A readable state.db can still reject every message write through the
messages_fts* triggers when the FTS5 index is corrupt: base-table reads and
PRAGMA integrity_check pass, but INSERT INTO messages fails with 'database
disk image is malformed'. The gateway reloads conversation_history from disk
each turn, so a silently-failed write hands the next turn stale/empty history
even though the same cached AIAgent still holds the live transcript — causing
immediate same-session amnesia. (#50502)
- hermes_state.py: _db_opens_cleanly() now drives a rolled-back message write
through the FTS triggers, so write-only corruption (which the read-only
probe reported healthy) is detected. repair_state_db_schema() gains an
in-place FTS5 'rebuild' strategy (tier 0) before the dedup/drop tiers, plus
an already_healthy short-circuit. Both 'hermes sessions repair' and
'hermes doctor' route through these, so the fix covers the whole class.
- hermes_cli/doctor.py: the state.db check runs the write-health probe even on
the success (readable) path and repairs in place with --fix.
- gateway/run.py: _select_cached_agent_history() prefers the cached agent's
longer live _session_messages over a shorter persisted transcript, so an
FTS write failure can't wipe in-session context.
- tests: regressions for write-health detection, in-place repair preserving
rows + resuming writes, the already_healthy shortcut, and the gateway guard.
Combines the approaches from #50504 (@0-CYBERDYNE-SYSTEMS-0, issue author),
#52165 (@davidgut1982), and #50576 (@trevorgordon981).
The desktop scheduler can overwrite cron/jobs.json with its own small
set of internally-tracked crons after an update/restart, causing
partial loss of tool-created cron jobs. The previous guard only
checked for total loss (live_count == 0), missing the case where
live_count > 0 but less than the pre-update snapshot count.
Compare live_count against snap_count instead of checking for zero,
so both total loss (0 vs N) and partial loss (1 vs 19) trigger
restoration.
Salvaged from #52161 by @liuhao1024.
Closes#52144
Adds a CodeMirror 6 spot editor to the right-rail file preview so users can
make quick edits in-app without leaving for an IDE. Entering edit mode is a
pure in-place swap of the read view — same fixed-height header, same gutter
geometry/typography (mirrors SourceView 1:1) so nothing shifts — toggled via
the Edit button, a bare `e` when the pane is hovered/focused, or the tab.
- Save path is transport-agnostic (writeDesktopFileText): local Electron IPC
or a new hardened POST /api/fs/write-text on the dashboard server (path
validation, parent-must-exist, regular-files-only, size cap, atomic
temp-file + os.replace), behind the existing auth middleware.
- Stale-on-disk guard re-reads before writing and offers overwrite vs
discard-and-reload instead of clobbering external/agent edits.
- VS Code-style modified dot on the tab; ⌘/Ctrl+S and ⌘/Ctrl+Enter save,
Esc cancels; GitHub highlight style matched to the read view's Shiki theme.
- Typing stays render-free (draft in a ref; dirty flips once at the boundary).
The pre-update HERMES_HOME zip shipped on by default (DEFAULT_CONFIG +
runtime fallback both True), so every `hermes update` zipped the entire
~/.hermes — sessions DB, caches, skills — adding minutes to each update.
The shipped cli-config.yaml.example, the --backup help, and the example
config all already said "off by default," so the live default
contradicted its own documentation.
Flip the default to off everywhere: DEFAULT_CONFIG, the runtime
`.get(..., False)` fallback in _run_pre_update_backup, and the stale
--backup help string. Users who want the #48200 safety net opt in via
updates.pre_update_backup: true or --backup for a single run.
Updated test_default_enabled_creates_backup -> test_default_disabled_is_silent
to assert the new default (silent no-op, no zip).
* fix(cron): add default retention to per-run job output to bound disk usage (#52383)
Per-run cron output (cron/output/<job>/<timestamp>.md) is written once
per execution and was never pruned, so a frequently-scheduled job on
a long-running deploy accumulates one file per run indefinitely and
can fill the volume ('no space left on device').
save_job_output() now keeps the most recent N output files per job and
removes older ones. N defaults to 50 and is configurable via
cron.output_retention; a non-positive value disables pruning for
operators who manage cleanup externally.
Salvaged from #52402 by @0xDevNinja.
Closes#52383
* fix(config): add cron.output_retention to DEFAULT_CONFIG
Follow-up to #52383: the retention config key was functional via
get()-with-default but missing from DEFAULT_CONFIG, so the deep-merge
wouldn't auto-populate it for new installs. Add it explicitly.
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Co-authored-by: 0xDevNinja <manmit0x@gmail.com>
* feat(moa): expose MoA presets as selectable virtual models
Reconstructed onto current main (PR #46081's base had diverged with no common
ancestor, marking the PR dirty so CI never dispatched). MoA is now a virtual
provider: each named preset is a selectable model under provider 'moa', and the
preset's aggregator is the acting model that answers and calls tools.
Reference models fan out in parallel via a bounded ThreadPoolExecutor (the same
batch pattern delegate_task uses) — all references dispatched at once, collected
when every one finishes, then handed to the aggregator. Output order is
preserved, failures and the MoA-recursion guard stay isolated per reference.
- Removed the old mixture_of_agents model tool and moa toolset.
- Added moa as a virtual provider in the provider/model inventory.
- /moa is shortcut behavior over model selection (default preset / named preset
/ one-shot prompt).
- Dashboard + Desktop manage named presets; presets appear in model pickers.
- Parallel reference fan-out in agent/moa_loop.py with regression test.
* fix(moa): thread moa_config through _run_agent to _run_agent_inner
The reconstructed gateway MoA wiring declared moa_config on _run_agent (the
profile-scoping wrapper) and used it inside _run_agent_inner, but the wrapper
never forwarded it — _run_agent_inner had no such parameter, so the runtime hit
NameError: name 'moa_config' is not defined on the compression-failure session
sync path. Add moa_config to _run_agent_inner's signature and forward it from
both wrapper call sites (multiplex and non-multiplex). Caught by
tests/gateway/test_compression_failure_session_sync.py on CI shard test(4).
* fix(moa): classify moa as a virtual provider in the catalog
The moa virtual provider has no PROVIDER_REGISTRY/ProviderProfile entry, so
provider_catalog() fell through to the default auth_type="api_key" with no
env vars — tripping two catalog invariants:
- test_provider_catalog: api_key providers must expose a credential env var
- test_provider_parity: every hermes-model provider must be desktop-configurable
moa already declares auth_type="virtual" in HERMES_OVERLAYS; consult that
overlay as an auth_type fallback so the catalog reports moa as virtual (no real
credential, no network endpoint). Exempt virtual providers from the desktop
parity union check the same way 'custom' is exempt — derived from the catalog,
not a hardcoded slug, so future virtual providers are covered too.
In-place compaction (single durable session id, non-destructive soft-archive)
becomes the default. Rotation is now the opt-out fallback via
compression.in_place: false.
Prerequisite: #50098 (hygiene guard reads result flag not config flag) merged
first — without it, flipping the default causes permanent transcript loss on
gateway hygiene-compress and /compress when no session_db is available.
Blast radius (empirically measured on current main): 7 rotation-asserting
tests broke and are pinned to in_place=False in the companion test commit:
- tests/agent/test_compression_concurrent_fork.py (2)
- tests/agent/test_compression_logging_session_context.py (1)
- tests/agent/test_compression_rotation_state.py (1)
- tests/run_agent/test_compression_boundary_hook.py (2 _make_agent helpers)
- tests/gateway/test_compression_concurrent_sessions.py (2)
Rotation stays as a working fallback and deserves continued coverage.
Plan: .hermes/plans/in-place-compaction-38763.md
Switching sessions in the desktop app could freeze the whole UI for
several seconds on heavy, tool-rich chats. Root causes and fixes:
- Cold `session.resume` built the AIAgent (MCP discovery, prompt/skill
build) *before* returning, and the desktop awaits that RPC before it
paints — so the entire switch blocked on the build. Add an opt-in
`defer_build` resume path (the contract `session.create` already uses):
return the full display transcript immediately, register an upgradable
live session, and pre-warm the agent on a short timer. The persisted
runtime identity (model/provider/base_url/api_mode/reasoning/tier) is
restored on the deferred build so it can't drop the provider.
- Nothing bounded how many in-memory agents accumulate; a user who
reconnects often piled up detached sessions for the full 6h TTL. Add a
soft LRU cap (`max_live_sessions`, default 16) that evicts the
least-recently-active DETACHED sessions (no live client) — never a
running, awaiting-input, mid-build, or live-transport one. Reopening
re-resumes from disk.
- On the prefetch-hit cold-resume path, skip rebuilding a throwaway
merged-message array (and its 1000-entry Map) when the prefetch already
painted the exact transcript; the downstream sameMessageList guard
already drops the publish, so it was pure main-thread cost.
The desktop opts into `defer_build` for every non-watch cold resume; the
eager path stays for CLI/TUI and existing callers.
The desktop self-updater rebuilds and re-signs the .app on each user's own
machine (`hermes desktop --build-only` -> electron-builder `--dir`). With
CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY on (its default), electron-builder signs the
type=distribution, hardened-runtime bundle with whatever identity is in that
user's keychain -- typically a personal "Apple Development" cert -- which
stalls/fails the sign step (no Developer ID, no provisioning profile) or
clobbers the original notarized signature with an unusable one, tripping
Gatekeeper on every post-update launch.
Force ad-hoc signing for the local packaged rebuild instead: deterministic,
and exactly what _desktop_macos_relaunchable_fixup already finishes off.
No-op for source runs, off-macOS, when a real identity is configured
(CSC_LINK / APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY), or when the caller already pinned the flag.
The verify-on-stop guard (PRs #52296, #52297) defaulted ON for every
session, so on gateway messaging surfaces (Telegram, Discord, etc.) the
model complied with the nudge by writing a hermes-verify temp script and
emitting an ad-hoc verification summary, which the gateway delivered to
the end user as chat noise.
Resolve a surface-aware default instead. The DEFAULT_CONFIG value becomes
the sentinel "auto", which verify_on_stop_enabled() resolves to ON for
interactive coding surfaces (CLI, TUI, desktop) and programmatic callers,
and OFF for conversational messaging surfaces. The surface is read from
HERMES_SESSION_PLATFORM (what the gateway actually binds), with
HERMES_SESSION_SOURCE and HERMES_PLATFORM as fallbacks, matching the
sibling resolution in skill_commands.py and prompt_builder.py. An explicit
HERMES_VERIFY_ON_STOP env var or a boolean agent.verify_on_stop config
still overrides in either direction.
The passive evidence ledger and the call site are untouched.
The host-allowlist hardening (#30611) plus the refresh heal (#49735) left
the documented NOUS_INFERENCE_BASE_URL dev/staging escape hatch unreachable
for OAuth sessions, despite three code comments asserting it still works.
Root cause — resolution precedence in resolve_nous_runtime_credentials:
inference_base_url = (
_optional_base_url(state.get("inference_base_url")) # stored — wins
or os.getenv("NOUS_INFERENCE_BASE_URL") # env — unreachable
or DEFAULT_NOUS_INFERENCE_URL
)
A staging OAuth login persists its inference_base_url, but the allowlist
rejects the staging host and the refresh heal rewrites the stored value to
the production default. The stored (now prod) value is then read BEFORE the
env var, so the override never takes effect — every request 401s against
prod or is pinned to prod, and setting the env var does nothing.
Fix: the user-set env override is the most-trusted source, so consult it
FIRST for the URL used to build the client / returned to callers — while
keeping the PERSISTED value the validated, network-provenance one (the
override is a runtime overlay, never written to auth.json, so unsetting it
cleanly reverts to prod). Applied at both chokepoints:
- resolve_nous_runtime_credentials (no-refresh read path AND refresh path)
- the nous_portal proxy adapter, which re-validates the resolver's returned
base_url against the prod allowlist as defense-in-depth and would
otherwise reject a legitimate staging override at the forward boundary.
New _nous_inference_env_override() / split of stored-vs-effective URL keep
the threat model intact: Portal-returned URLs are still allowlist-validated
at every network site, and the env path stays ungated (trusted OS user).
Also folds in the no-refresh read-path heal (supersedes the approach in
the open #50265): a poisoned stored staging host now heals to the prod
default on read even when no refresh fires.
Tests: TestEnvOverrideWins (env wins on read + refresh paths; override never
persisted; poisoned stored heals) and TestProxyAdapterEnvOverride. Verified
the 4 behavioral tests fail against pre-fix code and pass with the fix; full
inference-validation + nous-provider suites green (85 passed). E2E-validated
against a real temp HERMES_HOME exercising the real resolver + proxy adapter:
resolver→staging, persisted→prod, proxy→staging, unset→reverts to prod.
- Remove dead `chosen_base or effective_base` fallback; _select_zai_endpoint
always returns a non-empty base URL (returns current_base on cancel).
- Add .rstrip("/") to official-endpoint return for symmetry with custom-proxy
path (both now return normalized URLs).
- Replace magic index 4 with len(ZAI_ENDPOINTS) in custom-proxy tests so they
don't break if a 5th endpoint is added to ZAI_ENDPOINTS.
When provider_id == 'zai', replace the plain text Base URL input with
_select_zai_endpoint, which presents a curses picker offering Global,
China, Coding Plan Global, Coding Plan China, and custom proxy options.
Other API-key providers (MiniMax, DeepSeek, etc.) keep the text input.
Presents a curses-based picker (via _prompt_provider_choice) offering the
four official Z.AI endpoints — Global, China, Coding Plan Global, Coding
Plan China — plus a custom-proxy option. Sourced from ZAI_ENDPOINTS in
auth.py so it stays in sync with the probe list.
Not yet wired into the setup flow; that comes in the next commit.
Make verification closure the default coding behavior after landed file edits while keeping bounded retries and config/env switches for users who need to disable it.
Continuable cron jobs (attach_to_session / cron.mirror_delivery, default
OFF) now prefer a dedicated thread on thread-capable platforms, falling
back to origin-DM mirroring where threads don't exist.
- Thread-capable (Telegram topics, Discord/Slack threads): open a fresh
thread for the job via the shipped adapter.create_handoff_thread,
route the brief into it, and seed the thread-keyed session so the
user's in-thread reply continues with full context. This is the
'continuable cron opens its own thread' interface.
- DM-only (WhatsApp/Signal/SMS): create_handoff_thread returns None ->
fall back to mirroring into the origin DM session (existing behaviour).
Reuses existing infrastructure end-to-end — no new adapter surface, no
provider-chain signature change:
- adapter.create_handoff_thread (already implemented per-platform,
returns None on unsupported platforms = the fallback signal)
- the live SessionStore via adapter._session_store (already set on every
adapter), reached without threading a new param through the frozen
CronScheduler.start() contract
- gateway.mirror.mirror_to_session for the seed/append
- existing per-target delivery routing carries the new thread_id for free
Mirrors GatewayRunner._process_handoff's open-thread-or-fallback +
seed pattern, standalone for the cron delivery path. thread_seeded
guards against a double-mirror after seeding. Scoped to the origin
target only; fan-out/broadcast targets are never threaded or mirrored.
Config docs updated (cron.mirror_delivery) + cronjob tool
attach_to_session description reframed around continuable/thread-preferred.
Tests: +5 (thread id returned on thread platform; None on DM platform;
None without capability/loop; seed creates thread session + mirrors;
seed no-op on empty). 22/22 in TestCronDeliveryMirror; 532 cron tests
pass (4 failures pre-existing: croniter-not-installed + TZ).
Adds an opt-in path so a cron job's delivered output is also appended to
the TARGET chat's gateway session transcript (as an assistant turn), so a
user reply to a recurring delivery (daily brief, reminder) is answered with
the delivery in context instead of 'what is that?' amnesia.
- Reuses the shipped gateway.mirror.mirror_to_session — the same primitive
interactive send_message mirroring already uses. No messaging-toolset
change (cron still can't call send_message; this rides delivery).
- Gated: per-job attach_to_session overrides global cron.mirror_delivery
(config.yaml). Default OFF — historical isolation preserved byte-for-byte.
- Mirrors the CLEAN agent output, not the cron header/footer wrapper.
- Alternation/cache-safe: append lands at a turn boundary, never mid-loop,
never mutates the cached system prompt. Cold-start (no target session)
is a silent no-op; mirror errors never fail a successful delivery.
- Surfaced on the cronjob tool (attach_to_session) + config schema.
Driven by enterprise cron-as-control-plane use case. 10 new tests; full
cron + cronjob-tool suites pass (600).
The desktop bootstrap (and curl/PowerShell/docker installs) seeded
~/.hermes/SOUL.md with a comment-only scaffold that contained no persona
text. That shadowed the runtime default (_ensure_default_soul_md ->
DEFAULT_SOUL_MD), since seeding is guarded by 'if SOUL.md doesn't exist'.
Result: every fresh installer install got the empty template instead of
the documented Hermes persona; desktop just made it visible in onboarding.
- install.sh / install.ps1 / docker/SOUL.md now write DEFAULT_SOUL_MD.
- _ensure_default_soul_md() upgrades a SOUL.md still matching the known
legacy scaffold in place; customized files (any deviation, incl. a
persona appended below the comment) are never touched.
- Detection normalizes CRLF/BOM so Windows-installer drift still matches.
The gateway-side BEHAVIOUR layer that consumes the relay scale-to-zero
primitives (gateway-gateway Phase 5): the gateway decides it is idle and
drives the relay transport dormant so the platform (Fly autostop:"suspend")
can suspend the now-traffic-idle machine, which wakes on the connector's
wakeUrl poke (decisions.md Q3=C', D1-D13).
- gateway/scale_to_zero.py: pure helpers — scale_to_zero_enabled (the NAS
Labs HERMES_SCALE_TO_ZERO stamp, D11/Q8=A), parse_idle_timeout_seconds
(config.yaml gateway.scale_to_zero.idle_timeout_minutes, D2),
messaging_is_relay_only_or_absent (F6/D1), should_arm (D1/D11/§3.4(1)),
is_idle (D2/D3/F7).
- gateway/run.py: _last_inbound_at clock stamped on user inbound in
_handle_message (F13); the arm-gate + idle predicate + the
_scale_to_zero_watcher dormant sequence (mark draining -> adapter
go_dormant() -> cooldown), started only when armed. Deliberately NOT the
stop path and NOT mark_resume_pending (F12/D13).
- tools/process_registry.py: has_any_active() for the bg-work guard (D3/F7).
- hermes_cli/config.py: gateway.scale_to_zero.idle_timeout_minutes default 5.
Tests: 38 pure-logic + 6 watcher (incl. bg-work regression guard proven RED).
Full relay + scale-to-zero suites: 184 passed. The 20 unrelated failures in
the broader run are PRE-EXISTING on origin/main (custom-provider/tools tests),
confirmed via a pristine baseline worktree.
