Add the flag-gated compute-host supervisor, delta/control protocol, PPID orphan guard, inline fail-open path, synthetic GIL-heavy turn seam, and AC-4 certify harness.
Verified on current origin/main: 343 focused tests pass; Ruff and diff checks pass; 360s AC-4 run with six heavy lanes passes at 6.11ms serving p99 with zero stalls and valid load.
Co-authored-by: Kyzcreig <9063726+Kyzcreig@users.noreply.github.com>
terminal_tool reads all settings from TERMINAL_* env vars, bridged from
config.yaml by the CLI, gateway, and TUI-PTY launchers. Processes that
skip every launcher bridge — hermes serve / the Desktop app backend's
in-process agents, the desktop cron ticker — saw an unset TERMINAL_ENV
and silently ran every command on the host even when config.yaml selects
terminal.backend: docker. A user who configured Docker isolation got
unsandboxed host execution with no warning.
Two layers:
- _ensure_terminal_env_bridged() in _get_env_config(): when TERMINAL_ENV
is unset, backfill TERMINAL_* from config.yaml via
apply_terminal_config_to_env(override=False). Explicit env always wins
(honor explicit choice; only fix the accidental fallback). One-shot,
fail-open to the historical local default.
- cmd_dashboard/serve: run the same bridge at startup so every consumer
in the backend process (in-process agents, desktop cron ticker,
tui_gateway cwd resolution) sees the bridged env directly.
Fixes#63141, #54449, #61115, #65696.
hermes update ran TWO separate pre-update backup mechanisms: the
config-gated full zip (updates.pre_update_backup, default off) and an
unconditional quick state snapshot added for #15733 that ignored the
user's setting entirely. On a large state.db (observed: 24 GB) the
'cheap' snapshot silently added ~60s to every update and ate 24 GB of
disk in state-snapshots/.
Now there is ONE mechanism, gated by updates.pre_update_backup with
three modes:
- quick (new default): state snapshot of critical small files (pairing
JSONs, cron jobs, config, auth, per-profile DBs). Files over 1 GiB
are skipped with a warning so a bloated state.db can never stall the
update again.
- full: the quick snapshot plus the HERMES_HOME zip (old 'true'
behavior; --backup forces it for one run).
- off: nothing runs — an explicit opt-out now disables the quick
snapshot too (--no-backup does the same per-run).
Legacy booleans are honored: true -> full, false -> off.
_run_pre_update_backup() now returns the quick-snapshot id so the
post-update cron-jobs restore safety net (#34600) keeps working; the
snapshot moved from the post-fetch site to the pre-mutation site,
which also covers the zip-fallback update path it previously missed.
The desktop self-update rebuild (`hermes desktop --build-only`, driven by
the macOS in-app updater) runs `_run_npm_install_deterministic`, which used
plain `npm ci` / `npm install`. Those honor an inherited
`NODE_ENV=production` (or npm `omit=dev`) and silently omit devDependencies.
The desktop build toolchain — tsc, vite, electron-builder — are all
devDependencies, so under `NODE_ENV=production` the install completes (exit 0)
but `tsc` is never placed, and the very next step (`tsc -b && vite build`)
dies with `tsc: command not found` (exit 127). The user sees
"UPDATE DIDN'T FINISH / Rebuilding the desktop app failed (exit 127)" even
though the git/pip update applied cleanly. NODE_ENV=production can leak in
from a shell profile, a parent process, or a packaged-app launch context.
Force `--include=dev` on both the `npm ci` and `npm install` paths. The only
callers are frontend builds (desktop / TUI / web), which always need the dev
toolchain, so this is safe across the board.
Verified empirically: under NODE_ENV=production, `npm ci` leaves tsc MISSING
while `npm ci --include=dev` installs it. Added two regression tests
(test_npm_ci_forces_include_dev, test_npm_install_fallback_forces_include_dev)
— both confirmed to FAIL when the fix is reverted.
Three follow-up fixes to the salvaged reasoning_effort support, all verified
live against ollama.com /v1/chat/completions + /api/show on deepseek-v4-pro,
gemma3, and qwen3-coder:
1. Capability-gate on /api/show 'thinking'. The original ignored the
supports_reasoning flag and emitted reasoning_effort for every model. Now
gated: only models whose native /api/show capabilities list contains
'thinking' (deepseek-v4 yes; gemma3 / qwen3-coder no) get reasoning_effort.
Mirrors the LM Studio pattern — capability resolved once per (model,
base_url) in run_agent._supports_reasoning_extra_body via a cached probe
(hermes_cli.models.ollama_model_supports_thinking), threaded into the
profile hook as supports_reasoning. No live HTTP in the per-request path.
2. Disable actually disables. Ollama Cloud defaults to thinking ON and IGNORES
the extra_body.thinking:{type:disabled} shape (verified: still returned
reasoning). The only working off switch is top-level reasoning_effort:'none'.
The salvaged code returned ({}, {}) for enabled:false / effort:none, leaving
thinking ON. Now emits {'reasoning_effort': 'none'}.
3. Omit unrecognized effort. The original forwarded any unknown string verbatim
including 'minimal' (a real Hermes effort level). Ollama Cloud rejects
unrecognized values with a hard HTTP 400 (accepted set: low/medium/high/
max/none), so forwarding 'minimal' would break the request. Now omitted.
Core touches (run_agent.py, hermes_cli/models.py) add the capability probe;
the plugin profile only consumes the resolved flag. 24/24 profile tests green;
194 provider/transport tests unaffected.
The salvaged attachment-toolset commit predated main centralizing the
25 MB cap as kanban_db.KANBAN_ATTACHMENT_MAX_BYTES and re-introduced a
private _MAX_ATTACHMENT_BYTES alias. Drop the duplicate: kanban_db's
store_attachment_bytes(), the dashboard upload endpoint, and the
kanban_attach_url tool all reference the one shared constant now, and
the tests monkeypatch that same name.
The kanban board has had full attachment storage and a dashboard HTTP
API (upload/list/download/delete) since #35338, but there was no agent
toolset tool and no `hermes kanban` CLI verb for attachments. Agents and
scripts that don't go through the dashboard server (or can't touch the DB
directly) had no way to create or read real attachments — only links in
comments.
Close that gap by mirroring the existing comment surface:
- `kanban_db.store_attachment_bytes()` — one shared write path (validate
name, enforce the 25 MB cap, write the blob under the per-task dir with
collision-free naming, insert the metadata row, clean up an orphan blob
if the insert fails). `_MAX_ATTACHMENT_BYTES`, `_safe_attachment_name`,
and a new `_collision_free_path` move here so the dashboard, the tool,
and the CLI all share one implementation and can't drift.
- Tools (`tools/kanban_tools.py`): `kanban_attach` (inline base64),
`kanban_attach_url` (server-side http/https fetch with the same cap),
`kanban_attachments` (list). Write tools respect worker task-ownership;
list is read-only. Registered in the `kanban` toolset.
- CLI (`hermes_cli/kanban.py`): `attach <id> <path>`, `attachments <id>`,
`attach-rm <attachment_id>`.
- Dashboard `upload_task_attachment` now imports the shared helpers and
uses `_collision_free_path` — behavior identical (still streams to disk
with the cap, still 413 on overflow).
- Docs (AGENTS.md, kanban-worker skill) and toolset membership updated.
Tests: tool round-trip + oversize + bad base64 + ownership; attach_url
against a local HTTP fixture incl. oversize-mid-stream and non-http
scheme rejection; CLI attach/attachments/attach-rm; shared-helper unit
tests; dashboard parity preserved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review fixes for the inline critical-CSS bootstrap (PR #36024):
1. Variable names now match what the bundle actually consumes.
--color-background, --color-midground, --font-sans and
--font-base-size appear nowhere in web/src; the real tokens are:
--background-base / --midground-base (layerVars(), context.tsx)
--theme-font-sans / --theme-base-size (typographyVars(), and
index.css html{font-family:var(--theme-font-sans);
font-size:var(--theme-base-size)})
2. Stale-rule bug: the injected html,body rule previously baked in
literal hex/font values. Because the <style> block sits after the
bundle's <link> at equal specificity and is never removed, switching
themes in the picker left the old canvas/font until reload. The rule
now references the same CSS variables instead of literals —
applyTheme() writes those vars as inline styles on documentElement,
which outrank this block in the cascade, so runtime theme switches
re-resolve the rule automatically. No frontend change needed.
User themes (`~/.hermes/dashboard-themes/*.yaml`) reach the SPA only
after `/api/dashboard/themes` resolves at React mount. The bundle paints
the first frame with the default Hermes Teal canvas — the
`<link rel="stylesheet">` carries `:root{--background-base:#041c1c}`,
the bundled `presets.ts` defines the same surfaces in JS — and then
`ThemeProvider.applyTheme(<user theme>)` flips the inline CSS variables
on `documentElement` once the API response lands. Visible to the user
as a green canvas behind the loading SPA on every reload when the active
theme is non-default.
Built-in themes do not suffer the same effect because their full
definitions ship inside the bundle, so the SPA already has the palette
before first paint.
This patch closes the gap on the backend side: `_serve_index()` injects
a `<style id="hermes-theme-bootstrap">` block inside `<head>` with the
six critical CSS variables (`--background-base`, `--color-background`,
`--midground-base`, `--color-midground`, `--font-sans`,
`--font-base-size`) plus an `html, body` rule painting the body in the
target palette. Because the inline `<style>` follows the bundle's
`<link>` in DOM order and matches the same `:root` specificity, the
later declaration wins the cascade — the static canvas behind the SPA is
already the right colour before any JavaScript runs.
`_render_active_theme_bootstrap_css()` looks up the active theme through
the existing `_discover_user_themes()` helper. No-op for built-in
active themes (empty string returned, no `<style>` injected). No new
API endpoints, no config flags, no frontend changes.
After `ThemeProvider` mounts and `applyTheme()` writes the same
variables as inline styles on `documentElement`, the values match what
the bootstrap block set, so there is no second-paint discrepancy on the
critical CSS variables.
A fallback chain entry can name its API key via key_env (or the
api_key_env alias) per the fallback-providers docs, but only the gateway
path resolved it — TUI/desktop, cron, and CLI setup fallbacks ignored it,
so a fallback provider whose key lives in a non-standard env var never
resolved on those surfaces.
Centralize the inline-api_key-then-key_env lookup in
hermes_cli/fallback_config.resolve_entry_api_key() and use it at all four
fallback resolution sites (tui_gateway, cron scheduler, gateway runner,
CLI setup mixin); the CLI mixin also gains the base_url passthrough the
other surfaces already had.
Salvaged from PR #43861 (surgical reapply — the original branch predates
the #65264 fallback restructuring).
The Channels API (PUT /api/messaging/platforms/{id}) accepted and persisted
enabling a port-binding platform on a secondary profile while
gateway.multiplex_profiles is on — a config the gateway only rejects on its
next start, aborting startup with MultiplexConfigError for every multiplexed
profile.
Validate before any .env/config.yaml write and return 409 for the enable
attempt. Disabling and clearing env stay allowed so an already-invalid
profile can be repaired. The port-binding platform set moves to
gateway/config.py (PORT_BINDING_PLATFORM_VALUES) as the single source of
truth shared by gateway startup validation and the dashboard, so the two
policies cannot drift. Platform config mutations now get a names-only audit
log line.
Fixes#62791
_clean_reasoning_effort kept its own whitelist that stopped at 'max',
silently dropping 'ultra' from MoA slot configs. Route it through
hermes_constants.parse_reasoning_effort — the same one-source-of-truth
fix the salvaged commit applies to the gateway — so future effort
levels can't drift here either. Docs updated to list ultra.
Follow-up to salvaged PR #64012.
Switch provider and model together after setup-time auth failure. Serialize global auth-store merges under target-specific locks and preserve auth-to-shared lock ordering for profile OAuth refreshes.
A turn that persists a user row with no assistant row (suppressed reply,
or two concurrent turns interleaving their flushes) leaves a user;user
pair in state.db. The defensive pre-request repair_message_sequence then
re-fires on EVERY request for the rest of the session's life — it mutates
only the per-request list, never the stored transcript.
Add repair_alternation (default False) to get_messages_as_conversation
and pass it from the three live-replay restore sites (gateway
load_transcript, CLI session resume x2). Inspection/export consumers
(trace upload, context guard, api_server history) keep the verbatim
default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Refresh _OFFICIAL_DOCS_PRICING fireworks entries against current
docs.fireworks.ai/serverless/pricing: qwen3p6-plus is gone (replaced
by qwen3p7-plus); add glm-5p2/5p1, kimi-k2p7-code, deepseek-v4-flash,
minimax-m3/m2p7, gpt-oss-120b/20b, and the routers/*-fast tiers with
their distinct higher rates.
- Picker pricing via get_pricing_for_provider('fireworks'): pure dict
transform over the shared models.dev in-memory/disk cache (1h TTL) +
_pricing_cache memoization — no new network call on the picker path.
- Wire pricing display into the generic api-key-provider setup flow so
Fireworks model pickers show $/M columns like OpenRouter/Nous do.
- Invariant tests: plugin fallback_models all priced, fast tiers price
higher than standard, every row carries cache_read < input.
* feat(analytics): record auxiliary model usage per task in session accounting
Auxiliary LLM calls (vision, compression, title_generation, web_extract,
session_search, ...) discarded their token usage, leaving dashboard
analytics blind to aux model spend (issue #23270).
- hermes_state.py: session_model_usage gains a task PK dimension
(''=main loop) via v22 table-rebuild migration (SQLite can't alter a
PK); record_auxiliary_usage() writes per-(model,provider,task) deltas
WITHOUT touching sessions counters (gateway overwrites those with
absolute main-loop totals — folding aux in would double-count or be
clobbered). Aux rows never inherit the session's main-loop route.
- agent/aux_accounting.py: ContextVar ambient accounting context
(mirrors the portal_tags conversation context); record_aux_usage()
normalizes usage via usage_pricing.normalize_usage, estimates cost,
and is strictly best-effort. moa_reference/moa_aggregator excluded —
conversation_loop already folds MoA usage+cost into the main delta.
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: _validate_llm_response is the recording
chokepoint — every successful non-streaming aux response passes
through it exactly once, sync and async, including fallback paths
(model read from the response itself stays accurate across
fallbacks).
- run_agent.py: run_conversation publishes/resets the accounting
context; agent/title_generator.py republishes on its bare thread.
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: /api/analytics/usage folds aux rows into
by_model (aux-only models finally appear) and adds a by_task
summary; /api/analytics/models surfaces aux rows on the Models page.
Design per review of PR #62850 by @eeksock (thread-local + separate
auxiliary_usage table): rebuilt on ContextVar (async-safe — thread-local
cross-attributes concurrent coroutines on one event loop) and the
existing session_model_usage table instead of a parallel accounting
path, extended beyond vision to every aux task, and wired the analytics
endpoints so the dashboard actually shows it. Credit to @eeksock for
the approach and @tboatman for the detailed root-cause analysis.
* test(moa): match _validate_llm_response mock to new accounting-hint signature
* test(aux): accept accounting-hint kwargs in remaining _validate_llm_response mocks
tools_disable_enable_command filters platform-restricted toolsets out of
toolset_targets and prints an error for each, but the success summary at
the end is built from the raw targets list and only excludes unknown
toolsets and failed MCP servers. Running e.g.
hermes tools enable discord --platform telegram
prints the 'not available on platform' error followed by 'Enabled:
discord' for a toolset that was never written to the config.
Exclude restricted_targets from the success summary, matching how
unknown toolsets and failed MCP servers are already handled.
Two regression tests: a restricted toolset alone must not print
'Enabled', and a mixed allowed+restricted invocation must report only
the allowed toolset (both fail before the fix).
Disable address reuse so an existing family-specific listener cannot silently split traffic with the webhook server. Normalize wildcard bind hosts for local CLI URLs and align setup documentation with the dual-stack default.
Moves the fireworks entry in CANONICAL_PROVIDERS from its old slot
(after GMI Cloud) to directly below Nous Portal, ahead of OpenRouter.
Order propagates automatically to hermes model, the setup wizard,
Telegram /model, and the desktop provider catalog.
hermes-agent is public/OSS; the forensic-logging comment in
_quarantine_nous_oauth_state named 'Fly' (the specific managed-hosting compute
provider) twice. Reword generically ('a hosted agent', 'a managed log drain may
be WARNING-only') — the behaviour is unchanged, only the comment. Follows the
same scrub applied to the boot re-seed helper (#59983) before merge; this one
slipped through in #59976.
Bug 2 of #28156: the picker offered us./global. inference profiles to
EU-region endpoints (unroutable — AWS rejects them regardless of
credentials) and _RECOMMENDED hardcoded us.anthropic.* ids, so non-US
pickers pinned profiles their endpoint can't invoke.
- bedrock_model_routable_from_region(): geo-prefixed profiles are only
offered in their own geography (full AWS prefix set incl. apac./jp./
ca./sa./me./af.); bare ids and global.* pass everywhere; unknown
region shapes hide nothing.
- Recommendations match geo-agnostically on the base model id, so an EU
picker pins eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6; in-region geo profiles
sort above global.* for the same model (addresses the global.*-first
ordering complaint from the issue thread).
- Dedup generalized from (us., global.) to all profile prefixes.
Three fixes for the Bedrock Claude path:
1. Streaming fallback: When AnthropicBedrock SDK raises 'Unexpected event
order' (SDK misparses Bedrock error events as message_start), auto-switch
to native Converse API for the rest of the session instead of failing
after 3 retries.
2. Image base64 decode (#33317): data URL payloads were passed as base64
strings to source.bytes, but boto3 re-encodes at the wire layer. Now
decoded to raw bytes before passing to Converse API.
3. Bearer token routing (#28156): Users with AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK are
now routed through Converse API regardless of model, since the
AnthropicBedrock SDK only supports SigV4 signing.
3 new tests. 121 bedrock_adapter tests passing.
Follow-up hardening on top of #64158 (@DavidMetcalfe):
Backend (the root-cause fix):
- hermes_cli/moa_config.py: add validate_moa_payload() — strict write-time
counterpart to the deliberately tolerant normalize_moa_config(). Flags
half-filled slots, empty reference lists, recursive moa slots, naming the
exact preset/slot.
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: PUT /api/model/moa validates before normalizing
and returns 422 with the specific problems instead of silently swapping the
user's preset for hardcoded defaults (#64156). Also declares
fanout / reference_max_tokens / reasoning_effort on the Pydantic payload so
client round-trips no longer erase hand-set values.
Desktop:
- Replace sanitize-then-send with hold-while-incomplete: the debounced
autosave is deferred (not repaired) while any slot is half-filled, and
flushes once the model pick completes the edit. Mid-edit UI state is never
repainted by a save response (generation guard covers held edits too).
- updateMoaSlot only clears the model when the provider actually changed.
- Explicit preset ops (set default / add / delete) cancel the pending
autosave and invalidate in-flight responses so the two writers can't race.
- Stable row keys (preset+index) so mid-edit rows don't remount; cleared
model shows the 'Model' placeholder instead of vanishing.
Both TS clients' MoaConfigResponse types now declare the round-tripped
fields (fanout, reference_max_tokens, reasoning_effort).
Tests: 12 new backend unit tests (validate_moa_payload contract incl.
validate/normalize agreement), 3 new web_server endpoint tests (422 on
half-filled ref/aggregator, fanout round-trip), 3 new desktop vitest cases
(autosave held while half-filled, flush on completion, same-provider
reselect no-op). E2E validated against a live TestClient with isolated
HERMES_HOME: bug sequence now 422s with config untouched.
Fixes#64156
Extract shared hermes_cli/input_sanitize.py (bracketed-paste wrapper stripping
and terminal ~[[e artifact suffix collapse) and wire it into prompt.submit
and the Desktop composer so corrupted user text is cleaned before
messages.content is persisted.
* fix(auxiliary): route direct-create aux callers through call_llm (#35566)
Five callers (kanban_decompose, kanban_specify, profile_describer, and
goals.py's judge + draft-contract) built raw clients via
get_text_auxiliary_client() and passed extra_body=get_auxiliary_extra_body()
— which only returns Nous portal tags and ignores
auxiliary.<task>.extra_body from config.yaml entirely. That was the
remaining half of #35566 after the call_llm path was fixed.
Routing them through call_llm(task=...) gives each caller the full
auxiliary contract for free: task extra_body, the reasoning_effort
shorthand, transient retries, provider-profile projection, and fallback
chains. goal_judge gains a DEFAULT_CONFIG block (it had none — its
provider/model overrides silently didn't exist as documented keys).
get_auxiliary_extra_body() now has zero non-test callers; kept for
plugin back-compat.
Fixes#35566.
* test: migrate kanban dashboard + CLI specify mocks to call_llm
Two more consumers of specify_task mocked the old
get_text_auxiliary_client symbol (missed in the first sibling sweep —
they live outside tests/hermes_cli's kanban files): the dashboard
plugin's /specify endpoint tests and the /kanban slash-command E2E.
Same migration as the rest: mock call_llm at the source, no-provider
now surfaces via the LLM-error branch.
Catalog entries now follow the same supply-chain rules as pyproject
dependencies:
- n8n: install.ref main -> full commit SHA 7a9ae007 (2026-05-23,
branches/tags can be moved by the upstream owner; SHAs cannot)
- new contract test: every shipped manifest must pin exactly —
git installs need a 40-char SHA, uvx/npx-style launchers need
pkg==X / pkg@X with a digit-leading version (rejects bare names,
ranges, and npm dist-tags like @latest)
- module docstring documents the pin policy (exact version, 2-week
cooldown)
unreal-engine and linear are http transports (server runs elsewhere)
so there is nothing to pin at the transport layer.
Verified: unpinning blender-mcp in the manifest makes the contract
test fail with a named diagnostic; restoring the pin passes.
Adds optional-mcps/blender (ahujasid/blender-mcp, stdio via uvx). The
server advertises 22 tools; 18 front optional asset services with no
upstream trim mechanism, so tools.default_enabled pins the install to
the core surface (scene/object info, viewport screenshot, code exec)
and the rest stay opt-in through 'hermes mcp configure blender'.
Manifests can now declare transport.env (static, non-secret subprocess
env vars), parsed/validated in _parse_manifest and written by
_build_server_config — used here to ship DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true per
the no-telemetry-without-opt-in policy. Runtime already honored
per-server env; manifests just couldn't declare it.
Add merge_existing to save_config (default False for full-document callers
like the dashboard YAML editor) and route partial writes through
_merge_partial_save. _persist_migration writes the full migrated dict
directly so deleted keys are not resurrected from the on-disk file.
The remote model catalog (website/static/api/model-catalog.json) now labels
exactly one entry per provider block with "default": true — z-ai/glm-5.2 for
both OpenRouter and Nous Portal. That labeled entry is the model Hermes
silently lands on when the user never picked one, and it can be rotated by
editing the manifest alone: no release needed.
- model_catalog.py: get_default_model_from_cache() reads the label from the
in-process/disk cache only — never triggers a network fetch, so hot
resolution paths (agent build, gateway session setup) stay network-free.
- models.py: get_preferred_silent_default_model() resolves catalog label
first, PREFERRED_SILENT_DEFAULT_MODEL constant second (offline/fresh
install). _PROVIDER_SILENT_DEFAULT_OVERRIDES dict replaced by
_SILENT_DEFAULT_PROVIDERS routing through the shared resolver.
fetch_openrouter_models() preserves the "default" badge through live
/v1/models refreshes so the picker shows it.
- scripts/build_model_catalog.py: generator emits the default label so
regeneration can't drop it.
- website/docs/reference/model-catalog.md: schema documents the new field.
- Salvaged from PR #61141 (@HumphreySun98): bare-provider /model switches
(/model nous) route through the cost-safe default instead of curated
entry [0].
- tests: catalog-label precedence, constant fallback, stale-label fallback,
cache-only (no network) guarantee, and a shipped-manifest contract test
pinning the labeled entry to PREFERRED_SILENT_DEFAULT_MODEL.
E2E (temp HERMES_HOME): fresh-install constant fallback, shipped-manifest
label read, release-free rotation (relabeled cache -> new default across
models.py, tui_gateway, and gateway empty-model paths) all verified.
`detect_static_provider_for_model` handles a bare provider name typed as a
model (e.g. `/model nous`) by returning `_PROVIDER_MODELS[provider][0]` — the
first curated entry. For metered aggregators whose curated list is ordered
most-capable-first (Nous Portal), entry [0] is the priciest flagship, so
`/model nous` silently switched to it.
This is exactly the billing footgun `_PROVIDER_SILENT_DEFAULT_OVERRIDES` /
`get_default_model_for_provider` exist to prevent (per their docstring, a
missing model "escalated to Opus and billed 863 requests before the user
noticed"). The non-interactive fallback already routes through that cost-safe
helper; the interactive `/model <provider>` path did not.
Route this path through `get_default_model_for_provider` too. Providers
without a silent-default override are unchanged (the helper returns
`models[0]`), so only overridden providers (currently `nous`) change — from
the flagship to the low-cost default.
Adds regression tests: `/model nous` resolves to the cost-safe default, and
non-overridden providers still resolve to their first catalog model.
When a user starts a chat without ever selecting a model (GUI Chat App
onboarding, provider-set-but-model-missing config, empty model.default),
every silent fallback path resolved to the first curated catalog entry —
anthropic/claude-fable-5, the priciest flagship. Users were silently
billed for the most expensive model without opting in.
- hermes_cli/models.py: add PREFERRED_SILENT_DEFAULT_MODEL (z-ai/glm-5.2)
+ pick_silent_default_model() helper; point the nous silent-default
override at it and add an openrouter override (previously resolved to
"" and let downstream paths land on the flagship).
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: /api/model/recommended-default (the endpoint
the Desktop onboarding confirm card reads) now picks GLM-5.2 when the
provider's list carries it instead of blindly taking entry [0].
- tui_gateway/server.py: _resolve_model()'s last-resort literal was
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4; now PREFERRED_SILENT_DEFAULT_MODEL.
- tests: update empty-model fallback tests for the new contract.
The just-merged auxiliary.<task>.reasoning_effort shorthand applied
ensemble-wide to MoA (one value for every advisor) — wrong granularity.
Per-slot preset config supersedes it:
moa:
presets:
deep_review:
reference_models:
- {provider: ..., model: ..., reasoning_effort: low}
- {provider: ..., model: ..., reasoning_effort: xhigh}
aggregator:
{provider: ..., model: ..., reasoning_effort: high}
- Remove reasoning_effort from the moa_reference/moa_aggregator
DEFAULT_CONFIG blocks; _get_task_extra_body now warns-and-ignores the
key on MoA tasks, pointing at the preset config
- Guard tests: MoA aux blocks must not regrow the key; task-level value
is rejected with the pointer warning
- Docs: configuration.md notes the MoA exception and links the MoA page
Every auxiliary task block (vision, web_extract, compression,
title_generation, curator, background_review, moa_reference, ...) now
accepts a reasoning_effort shorthand:
auxiliary:
compression:
reasoning_effort: low
vision:
reasoning_effort: none
_get_task_extra_body() folds it into extra_body.reasoning, which every
auxiliary wire already translates: chat.completions passes it through,
the Codex Responses adapter maps it to top-level reasoning/include, and
the Anthropic auxiliary adapter now forwards it into
build_anthropic_kwargs(reasoning_config=...) (previously hardcoded None).
An explicit extra_body.reasoning on the same task wins over the
shorthand. Invalid levels are ignored with a warning. Empty string
(the shipped default) is a no-op — zero behavior change.
Config: reasoning_effort added to all 16 auxiliary task blocks in
DEFAULT_CONFIG (no version bump — deep-merge handles new keys).
Add agent.reasoning_overrides dict to config.yaml. Users can now set
a reasoning_effort per model, overriding the global agent.reasoning_effort.
Example:
agent:
reasoning_effort: "medium" # global default
reasoning_overrides:
"openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.5": "xhigh"
"openai/gpt-5": "low"
"claude-sonnet-4.6": "high" # bare model name also works
The helper is spelling-tolerant: override keys match regardless of
provider prefix or dots-vs-dashes normalization, so users can write
keys in any sensible form and they'll match.
Resolution priority:
1. Session-scoped /reasoning --session override (gateway only; unchanged)
2. Per-model override from agent.reasoning_overrides (spelling-tolerant)
3. Global agent.reasoning_effort (existing)
4. Provider default (unchanged)
Wired into:
- CLI startup (cli.py)
- Messaging gateway agent construction (gateway/run.py)
- Desktop/TUI _load_reasoning_config (tui_gateway/server.py)
- Cron job scheduler (cron/scheduler.py)
- /model mid-session switch (agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py)
+ _primary_runtime now tracks reasoning_config for correct fallback recovery
- Fallback activation (agent/chat_completion_helpers.py::try_activate_fallback)
+ Re-resolves reasoning_config for the fallback model (best-effort)
Closes#21256 (per-model reasoning_effort defaults).
Note: no hermes config set agent.reasoning_overrides.<model> support;
users edit the YAML directly. _set_nested splits on "." and would
corrupt model keys containing version dots.
PROVIDER_REGISTRY, its alias map, and CANONICAL_PROVIDERS all auto-extend
from registered ProviderProfiles since the provider-modules refactor
(20a4f79ed). Verified with real imports: registry entry, 'solar' alias
resolution via resolve_provider(), and the picker entry are identical
with the manual entries removed. The hermes_cli/providers.py overlay
stays (models.dev has a stale /v1/solar base URL and no UPSTAGE_BASE_URL
var), and the manual OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS entries stay (non-advanced key +
curated prompt text, matching the fireworks convention).
