The recurring Windows desktop console-flash bug (#54220) is governed by the
*parent's* console, not by each child spawn. The desktop backend was launched as
GUI-subsystem pythonw.exe, which has no console at all — so every
console-subsystem child it spawns (git, gh, cmd, wmic, powershell, ...) had to
allocate its own console, flashing a window. That is why the fix had become an
endless per-call-site sweep of CREATE_NO_WINDOW flags: each leaf spawn was
papering over a missing console on the root.
Launch the backend as the venv's console python.exe instead. Under the existing
hiddenWindowsChildOptions() wrapper (windowsHide: true -> CREATE_NO_WINDOW) the
backend owns a single *windowless* console, and every descendant spawn inherits
it instead of allocating a visible one. This makes "no flashing windows" a
property of the one backend launch rather than a flag that must be remembered at
every spawn site — including spawns inside third-party libraries that no
call-site sweep can reach.
Verified on Windows 11 25H2 (Windows Terminal default): with the per-site hide
flag forcibly neutered, the canonical culprits (git/gh/cmd/wmic/powershell)
spawned naively and none flashed, while the same naive spawn from the old
console-less pythonw parent did flash — isolating the parent console as the cause.
Two premises behind the old pythonw approach did not hold up on current Windows
and are dropped here:
- The venv Scripts\python.exe uv shim, under CREATE_NO_WINDOW, re-execs base
python *windowless* — it does not flash a conhost (the #52239 concern), so the
base-pythonw detour is unnecessary.
- Console python restores stdout, so the backend announces its port on the normal
HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY stdout line; the pythonw-only ready-file side channel is
no longer needed and the readyFile opt-in is removed.
Removes the now-dead pythonw machinery (getNoConsoleVenvPython, toNoConsolePython,
applyWindowsNoConsoleSpawnHints, readVenvHome) and updates the test to assert the
new invariant: backend command is never pythonw, both backend spawns still go
through hiddenWindowsChildOptions, and no backend opts into the ready-file path.
Scope: this fixes the high-frequency backend-descendant flash classes. The
updater/UAC handoff (#54543) and embedded-terminal PTY accumulation (#53555)
classes have separate root causes and are unaffected.
The env translation block is type-checked across every locale (tsc -b), so
the 8 new customKeys strings must exist in all of them, not just en/zh. Add
translated entries to the remaining 14 locales (de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, pt,
ru, tr, uk, hu, ga, af, zh-hant).
The Keys page only rendered env vars present in a catalog (OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS
or the provider catalog); any other key a user set in .env was invisible, and
there was no way to add an arbitrary env var from the GUI (e.g. to inject a
var a skill or MCP server needs).
Backend: GET /api/env now also emits a row for every on-disk .env key that
isn't in any catalog, flagged category="custom" + custom=true and
password-masked (an unrecognised key could hold anything, so it's redacted and
reveal-gated like any secret). Channel-managed credentials stay excluded. The
write (PUT /api/env) and reveal (POST /api/env/reveal) paths already handle
arbitrary keys, with the existing env-name guard + denylist (PATH, LD_PRELOAD,
PYTHONPATH, …) enforced server-side — no new write surface.
Frontend: a new "Custom Keys" section lists those custom rows and carries an
add-a-key form (client-side name validation mirroring the backend regex; the
new row reuses the normal edit/save flow, so on save it round-trips back from
the backend as a durable custom row). i18n added for en + zh + types.
Tests: behavior-contract coverage that an unknown .env key surfaces as a
masked custom row and a catalogued key does not — verified to fail on the
pre-fix backend.
When local Ollama models are absent from models.dev, probe the Ollama
server's /api/show capabilities so attached images are routed natively
instead of being stripped as non-vision input.
Google's native Gemini REST endpoint (generativelanguage.googleapis.com,
non-/openai) rejects OpenAI-only stream_options={"include_usage": true},
crashing every streaming chat-completions call with TypeError. Omit it for
that endpoint while keeping it for the Gemini OpenAI-compat shim and all
OpenAI-compatible aggregators (OpenRouter, etc.) so usage accounting is
preserved.
Reuses is_native_gemini_base_url() so the compat shim (.../openai), which
accepts stream_options, is correctly excluded from the omission.
Fixes#14387
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
The WeCom callback endpoint (internet-facing, 0.0.0.0) parsed untrusted
request bodies before signature verification. defusedxml already guards
the entity-expansion class on main, but there was no cap on raw body
size, so an unauthenticated POST could still force unbounded read work
pre-auth.
Set client_max_size=64KB on the aiohttp app (413 at the framework layer)
plus an explicit length guard in _handle_callback as defense in depth.
WeCom callbacks are small encrypted XML envelopes — media is delivered
out-of-band via MediaId, never inline — so 64KB is ample for legitimate
traffic. Adds tests for oversized (413) and normal-sized (not 413) bodies.
Salvaged from #10192 by @memosr (body-size limit half; defusedxml half
already superseded on main).
Relocate marco0158's eviction into the dedicated auto-reset cleanup block
(single source of truth for dropping session-scoped transient state) and
add an AST invariant pinning _evict_cached_agent into that block. Add
AUTHOR_MAP entry for marco0158.
When a session is auto-reset by daily schedule, idle timeout, or suspended
state, the agent cache was not being cleared. This caused the old agent's
context_compressor._previous_summary to leak into the new session, mixing
old conversation history into new compaction summaries.
This was the root cause of the "skin making history" appearing after
compaction in fresh sessions reported by the user.
Follow-up to #9893 which only handled compression_exhausted case.
Changes:
- Add _evict_cached_agent(session_key) call after was_auto_reset check
- Covers daily, idle, and suspended auto-reset scenarios
- Matches the behavior of manual /reset command
Related tests: test_session_boundary_hooks, test_async_memory_flush,
test_session_reset_notify, test_session_reset_fix - all passing.
/resume is a conversation boundary, but unlike /new it did not clear the
chat-keyed _session_model_overrides / _pending_model_notes. A /model switch
made in the previous session under the same chat session_key leaked into the
resumed conversation, running it on the wrong model.
Clear both maps for the session_key after the switch (mirroring /new), scoped
to that key so other chats' overrides are untouched. The cached-agent eviction
this leak also implied already landed via #6672.
Closes#10702.
The cron delivery table only showed Discord/Telegram with explicit
target syntax and described Slack and every other platform as
home-channel-only. In fact the generic platform:<target> routing in
_resolve_single_delivery_target resolves explicit targets for every
platform: Slack (#channel / channel ID / channel:thread_ts), Matrix
(room/user IDs), Feishu (chat:thread), WhatsApp (JID / E.164), Signal
(group / E.164), SMS, Email, and Weixin all have dedicated explicit-
target branches in _parse_target_ref; the remaining platforms accept a
generic platform:<chat_id> passthrough.
Update the Delivery Model table (en + zh-Hans) to show the real
per-platform syntax, document #channel name resolution via the channel
directory, and note the Slack thread_ts nuance. Docs-only.
Clears the ty diff bot's warnings on the new test: pass real callables to
build_dashboard_parser (not object()) and replace the pytest.mark.parametrize
with a plain loop so the file is stdlib-only.
`hermes cron status` (and the create/list 'gateway not running' nag)
judge whether cron will fire purely from the in-process ticker's
heartbeat file + a live gateway PID. That heuristic is correct for the
built-in ticker but WRONG for an external provider like Chronos:
Chronos arms exactly one external one-shot per job and is fired by a
NAS-mediated webhook (POST /api/cron/fire). Its `start()` returns
immediately and it deliberately runs no 60s loop and writes no ticker
heartbeat — that's the whole point of scale-to-zero (the machine is at
zero between fires). So on a perfectly healthy Chronos instance,
`cron status` always printed '✗ Gateway is not running — cron jobs will
NOT fire' (or a STALLED-ticker warning), and `cron create` always
appended the 'jobs won't fire automatically' nag — both false.
Verified live on a staging Chronos instance: jobs fired and completed on
schedule via the relay while `cron status` insisted the gateway wasn't
running and the heartbeat was 370s+ stale.
Fix: resolve the active provider (offline — `resolve_cron_scheduler`,
whose `is_available()` contract forbids network) and, for any non-builtin
provider, report the managed-scheduler state instead of the ticker
heuristics, and suppress the ticker-only 'gateway not running' warning.
The built-in path is byte-unchanged. Active-job summary is factored into
a shared helper so both paths print it identically.
New tests prove both directions (chronos: no false negative even with no
gateway PID / no heartbeat; builtin: historical warning preserved) and
fail without the fix.
_on_invite now rejects auto-joins from users not on the allow-list. The
DM-recording tests invite @alice and expect a join, so the shared
_make_adapter fixture now puts @alice on _allowed_user_ids.
Two platform-security hardenings:
- Matrix: _on_invite now checks the inviter against the existing
allow-list (_allowed_user_ids / GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS) before
auto-joining. Without this any federated Matrix user could invite
the bot into arbitrary rooms, exposing its presence and metadata.
The message and reaction paths already enforce this allow-list; the
invite path bypassed it.
- Mattermost: _api_get / _api_post / _api_put reject any path
containing '..'. WebSocket-event values (channel_id, post_id,
file_id) are interpolated directly into API paths, so a malicious or
compromised server could craft traversal payloads to make the bot
issue authenticated requests to arbitrary endpoints with its bearer
token.
The configurable-E2EE-passphrase change from the original PR is dropped:
the matrix adapter was rewritten onto mautrix and the passphrase-protected
key-export file no longer exists.
PR infographics are rendered locally and embedded in PR descriptions via
the image-provider (fal.media) URL — they were never meant to live in the
repo. The intended .gitignore enforcement (documented as added back in May
2026) was never actually committed, so 35 PNGs (~54MB) accumulated under
infographic/ via 'docs: add PR infographic for X' commits.
- Remove all 35 tracked infographic/*.png files.
- Add infographic/ to .gitignore so git add on the path is now a no-op.
The PR body remains the archive for these images.
Regression tests for the injection fix: outside a git repo only cwd is
checked (planted ancestor .hermes.md is ignored), a cwd-local .hermes.md
is still found, and inside a git repo the parent walk to the git root
still works.
_find_hermes_md walks parent directories looking for .hermes.md/HERMES.md,
stopping at the git root. But when there is no git repo (_find_git_root
returns None), the stop guard never fires and the loop walks all the way
to /. On shared systems (CI runners, multi-tenant servers), a .hermes.md
planted at /tmp, /home, or / would be loaded into the system prompt of any
agent session not inside a git repo — a cross-user prompt-injection vector.
Fix: when there is no git root, only check cwd; do not walk parents.
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
User terminal tabs and their recent scrollback now survive an app restart
(VS Code parity). Tabs, active selection, cwd, and a serialized scrollback
snapshot are written to localStorage on every change; on launch the tabs
reopen with their history replayed above a fresh shell. Processes are NOT
revived — a new shell starts one line below the restored block.
- Capture: SerializeAddon snapshots the buffer on a 750ms leading-edge
throttle, so a `cmd; quit` lands on disk before teardown; the snapshot is
trimmed of its trailing idle prompt (no "double prompt" on restore) and
capped (200 scrollback lines / 48k chars) to stay under the storage budget.
- Teardown guard: app quit/reload kills the PTYs from the main process,
firing onExit in the renderer, but React skips effect cleanups on teardown
so the per-instance `disposed` flag never flips. A pagehide/beforeunload
flag stops onExit from calling closeTerminal() and wiping the persisted
tabs right before relaunch restores them. A real `exit`/Ctrl-D still closes.
- Agent mirror tabs stay runtime-only — only user tabs persist.
Add a focused contract test for the headless `serve` command (routes to the
shared dashboard handler, headless by default while `dashboard` is not, accepts
the legacy --no-open, shares the same runtime/lifecycle flag surface). Also
refresh the dashboard.py module docstring to cover both commands.
`hermes serve` is newer than the desktop binary's release cadence, so a new
app launched against an un-upgraded managed install / PATH `hermes` would
crash on an unknown subcommand and brick the user mid-upgrade. Detect whether
the resolved runtime registers `serve` (fast source read of its dashboard.py,
with a one-time CLI probe fallback) and rewrite the backend argv to the legacy
`dashboard --no-open` only when it does not. Happy path (current runtimes)
pays nothing and still spawns `serve`.
- electron/backend-command.cjs: pure serve/dashboard argv helpers + serve-
source detection (unit-tested in backend-command.test.cjs)
- main.cjs: backendSupportsServe() cache + getBackendArgsForRuntime() guard at
both backend spawn sites; expose `root` from the Windows venv unwrap so the
fast source check covers Windows too
- docs: note the backward-compat fallback in README, desktop.md, AGENTS.md
The desktop app spawned `hermes dashboard --no-open` as its backend, which
made the dashboard look like a desktop prerequisite. Add a dedicated headless
`hermes serve` command that boots the same gateway (shared cmd_dashboard /
start_server) but never opens a browser, and point the desktop backend spawn
exclusively at it. dashboard and serve are now independent surfaces — neither
launches the other.
- subcommands/dashboard.py: factor shared server args; add `serve` parser
(always headless; accepts legacy --no-open as a no-op)
- main.py: register serve in _BUILTIN_SUBCOMMANDS + coalesce set + gui-log
detection; extend stale-backend reaper patterns to match `serve`
- desktop electron: spawn `serve`, rename dashboardArgs -> backendArgs,
update comments + windows-child-process test assertions
- docs: desktop README, desktop.md (incl. remote-backend), AGENTS.md, and
cli-commands.md now describe `hermes serve` as the desktop/headless backend
The desktop app spawns a headless `hermes dashboard --no-open` backend and
talks to it through the shared @hermes/shared WebSocket client — it never
runs or requires the browser dashboard UI. Spell this out in the desktop
README, the desktop docs page, and AGENTS.md so "dashboard" stops reading
as a desktop prerequisite.
The shared websocket package is a web file: dependency but was excluded
by .dockerignore and never copied into the Docker build context. Also fix
tsc -b errors: expose buildWsUrl on api and drop the GatewayClient state
getter that conflicted with the shared base class.
Remove the prompt-gap cleanup that sent Ctrl-L into the user's shell; it could
render as literal ^L and create the exact top-line gap it was meant to hide.
Keep first-prompt cleanup renderer-side only, and parse short ESC charset
sequences so the initial newline stripper does not disarm early.
Also add a Close all action to the terminal tab context menu.
Run the package-appropriate Prettier config on the shared WebSocket files so
the extracted helpers match the surrounding desktop/shared TypeScript style.
Revert the repo-wide prettier churn the earlier fmt pass pulled into files
unrelated to this work; run prettier/eslint scoped to the touched files only.
Keep dashboard pages and components on the dashboard API helper instead of
calling the raw shared URL primitive directly. The shared helper remains the
single low-level implementation; web/src/lib/api.ts is the dashboard-specific
facade for auth, base path, and ticket minting.
- Gateway status popout: flatten the header to stacked connection + inference
statuses with system-panel and restart actions (reusing the shared
runGatewayRestart helper). The recent-activity tail is now live while the
popout is open via the shared LogView (WS connection churn filtered), and the
icon / "View all logs" link dismiss the popover.
- Statusbar "menu" items accept a menuContent(close) render fn over a now
controlled DropdownMenu, so popover content can close itself.
- Drop the always-on gateway-log poll from useStatusSnapshot (logs are fetched
by the popout only while open).
- SearchField → text-xs to match Input/Select (controlVariants).
- Command center: remove the usage/system section dividers, swap the sessions
nav icon (Pin → MessageCircle), small padding tweaks.
Ensure intentional client closes mark the transport closed and reject pending
RPCs immediately instead of relying on a browser close event that can be
ignored after the socket reference is cleared.
The Electron desktop app and the web dashboard each carried their own
copy of the tui_gateway JSON-RPC WebSocket client plus near-identical
auth'd WS-URL construction. The dashboard's copy was the historical
source of the "is the dashboard required to run the desktop app?"
confusion, since the two surfaces looked coupled.
Consolidate the genuinely shared transport into the existing
framework-agnostic `@hermes/shared` package so both surfaces consume it
independently — neither app depends on the other:
- Move `resolveGatewayWsUrl` + `GatewayReauthRequiredError` (single-use
OAuth ticket re-mint vs long-lived token fallback) into
`@hermes/shared`; desktop now imports them directly.
- Add `buildHermesWebSocketUrl`, one base-path/scheme/auth-aware URL
builder, and route every dashboard WS endpoint through it
(`/api/ws`, `/api/events`, `/api/pty`, plugin WS URLs).
- Reduce the dashboard `GatewayClient` to a thin subclass of the shared
`JsonRpcGatewayClient`, deleting ~210 lines of duplicated pending-call
/event-dispatch/connect plumbing while keeping its dashboard-specific
ticket-vs-token auth selection.
- Drop the stale "start it with --tui" chat banner, which implied the
dashboard flag was required.
Behavior is preserved on both surfaces; the dashboard additionally
inherits the shared client's 15s connect timeout (previously
desktop-only), so a hung connect now fails fast instead of pinning the
composer in "connecting".
Register read-only agent terminals with the same renderer-side terminal reader
as user terminals so read_terminal works on whichever tab is active.
Also bring agent xterm rendering closer to user-terminal parity (unicode 11,
web links, font weights/spacing) and make the gateway sink wiring resilient if
only one terminal event sink was already installed.
The dashboard Keys page and `hermes setup` render API-key rows from
OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS, but only Honcho had an entry — so Hindsight,
Supermemory, Mem0, RetainDB, ByteRover, and OpenViking read their keys
straight from os.environ yet had no place to set them in the GUI.
Add catalog entries (category=tool, password-masked, with get-key URLs
and the tool each powers) for all six, plus the relevant base-URL/endpoint
companions. Pure declaration: the generic GET /api/env endpoint, the
save/reveal write path, and the sandbox env blocklist (which auto-derives
from tool-category OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS) all pick these up with no further
wiring.
Adds a behavior-contract test asserting every memory provider's primary
credential key is catalogued, tool-categorised, and password-masked.
Make the read-only agent terminal mirrors stream in real time and give
the agent a desktop-only way to dismiss its own tabs.
- Stream background output live: the local reader used a blocking
read(4096) that buffered small periodic output until EOF, so agent
tabs only "filled in" at process exit. Switch to buffer.read1(4096)
(decoded) for incremental chunks.
- Route agent.terminal.output / terminal.close to the window that owns
the process (its gateway session) instead of an empty session id, so
events actually reach the desktop renderer.
- Add close_terminal: a HERMES_DESKTOP-gated tool (sibling of
read_terminal) that drops a process's read-only tab WITHOUT killing it
via process_registry.on_close; output keeps buffering and the user can
reopen from the status stack.
- ⌘W now closes a focused agent tab: mark the agent instance
data-terminal and focus it on activation so isFocusWithin routes there.
- ensureTerminal() no longer spawns an extra user shell when a tab
already exists (e.g. opening a background task from the status stack).
