Audit of all external contributor PRs revealed 97 commit emails
not mapped in AUTHOR_MAP, meaning contributors weren't properly
credited in release notes. Cross-referenced via:
- GitHub API email search (9 resolved before rate limit)
- Salvage PR body mentions (@username in descriptions)
- Git noreply email cross-reference (same person, both emails)
- GH contributor list username matching
Also adds .mailmap for git shortlog/log display consistency.
Remaining 22 unmapped emails need GH API resolution when rate
limit resets — the contributor_audit.py script will flag them.
Addresses ColourfulWhite's report about missing contributor tags.
Three problems fixed:
1. bobashopcashier missing from v0.9.0 contributor list despite
authoring the gateway drain PR (#7290, salvaged into #7503).
Their email (kennyx102@gmail.com) was missing from AUTHOR_MAP.
2. release.py only scanned git commit authors, missing Co-authored-by
trailers. Now parse_coauthors() extracts trailers from commit bodies.
3. No mechanism to detect contributors from salvaged PRs (where original
author only appears in PR description, not git log).
Changes:
- scripts/release.py: add kennyx102@gmail.com to AUTHOR_MAP, enhance
get_commits() to parse Co-authored-by trailers, filter AI assistants
(Claude, Copilot, Cursor Agent) from co-author lists
- scripts/contributor_audit.py: new script that cross-references git
authors, co-author trailers, and salvaged PR descriptions. Reports
unknown emails and contributors missing from release notes.
- RELEASE_v0.9.0.md: add bobashopcashier to community contributors
Usage:
python scripts/contributor_audit.py --since-tag v2026.4.8
python scripts/contributor_audit.py --since-tag v2026.4.8 --release-file RELEASE_v0.9.0.md
Comprehensive cleanup across 80 files based on automated (ruff, pyflakes, vulture)
and manual analysis of the entire codebase.
Changes by category:
Unused imports removed (~95 across 55 files):
- Removed genuinely unused imports from all major subsystems
- agent/, hermes_cli/, tools/, gateway/, plugins/, cron/
- Includes imports in try/except blocks that were truly unused
(vs availability checks which were left alone)
Unused variables removed (~25):
- Removed dead variables: connected, inner, channels, last_exc,
source, new_server_names, verify, pconfig, default_terminal,
result, pending_handled, temperature, loop
- Dropped unused argparse subparser assignments in hermes_cli/main.py
(12 instances of add_parser() where result was never used)
Dead code removed:
- run_agent.py: Removed dead ternary (None if False else None) and
surrounding unreachable branch in identity fallback
- run_agent.py: Removed write-only attribute _last_reported_tool
- hermes_cli/providers.py: Removed dead @property decorator on
module-level function (decorator has no effect outside a class)
- gateway/run.py: Removed unused MCP config load before reconnect
- gateway/platforms/slack.py: Removed dead SessionSource construction
Undefined name bugs fixed (would cause NameError at runtime):
- batch_runner.py: Added missing logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
- tools/environments/daytona.py: Added missing Dict and Path imports
Unnecessary global statements removed (14):
- tools/terminal_tool.py: 5 functions declared global for dicts
they only mutated via .pop()/[key]=value (no rebinding)
- tools/browser_tool.py: cleanup thread loop only reads flag
- tools/rl_training_tool.py: 4 functions only do dict mutations
- tools/mcp_oauth.py: only reads the global
- hermes_time.py: only reads cached values
Inefficient patterns fixed:
- startswith/endswith tuple form: 15 instances of
x.startswith('a') or x.startswith('b') consolidated to
x.startswith(('a', 'b'))
- len(x)==0 / len(x)>0: 13 instances replaced with pythonic
truthiness checks (not x / bool(x))
- in dict.keys(): 5 instances simplified to in dict
- Redefined unused name: removed duplicate _strip_mdv2 import in
send_message_tool.py
Other fixes:
- hermes_cli/doctor.py: Replaced undefined logger.debug() with pass
- hermes_cli/config.py: Consolidated chained .endswith() calls
Test results: 3934 passed, 17 failed (all pre-existing on main),
19 skipped. Zero regressions.
- Fix version mismatch: __init__.py had 'v1.0.0', pyproject.toml had '0.1.0'
Now both use '0.1.0' (no v prefix — added in display code only)
- Add __release_date__ for CalVer date tracking alongside SemVer version
- Fix double-v bug in cmd_version (was printing 'vv1.0.0')
- Update banner title to show 'Hermes Agent v0.1.0 (2026.3.12)' format
- Update cli.py banner to match new format
- Add scripts/release.py: full release automation tool
- Generates categorized changelogs from git history
- Maps git authors to GitHub @mentions (70+ contributors)
- Supports dry-run preview and --publish mode
- Creates annotated CalVer git tags + GitHub Releases
- Bumps semver in source files automatically
- Usage: python scripts/release.py --bump minor --publish
- Add .release_notes.md to .gitignore
Versioning scheme: CalVer tags (v2026.3.12) + SemVer display (v0.1.0)
