Consolidated findings from three independent reviewers (Codex, Claude Code, a
Hermes subagent w/ the hermes-agent-dev skill):
- BLOCKING: refresh_agent_mcp_tools rebuilt only the registry subset, silently
dropping post-build-injected memory-provider (mem0/honcho/…) and context-
engine (lcm_*) tools on every refresh. Now additive-preserving: re-applies
the same injectors agent_init uses, staged on locals and published atomically.
- Re-injection now honors the #5544 enabled_toolsets gate for context-engine
tools, so a restricted-toolset platform can't get lcm_* leaked back in.
- Atomic read-diff-publish under one lock: the returned `added` set and the
(tools, valid_tool_names) pair are consistent even under concurrent callers
(no half-swap, no TOCTOU).
- background_review fork opts out (_skip_mcp_refresh) so its byte-identical
tools[] cache parity with the parent is preserved.
- CLI /reload-mcp routed through the shared helper (was a 4th divergent copy
with the same clobber bug + missing disabled_toolsets).
- Explicit reloads (TUI RPC + CLI) pass enabled_override so a server the user
just enabled in config this session is picked up; automatic paths reuse the
agent's build-time selection.
- mcp_discovery_timeout default 5.0 -> 1.5s: correctness now comes from the
between-turns refresh, so the startup wait is only a small turn-1 UX bump
rather than a heavy dead-server latency penalty.
- has_registered_mcp_tools checks registered TOOLS (not connected servers) so a
zero-tool/prompt-only server doesn't make the per-turn hook fire forever.
- Tests: rewrote the thread-safety test to actually exercise the write path
(alternating tool sets), added the #5544-gate regression, the memory/context
preservation regression, and a "callable next turn via valid_tool_names"
contract; removed a dead monkeypatch line.
MCP servers that connect after the agent's one-time tool snapshot were
invisible for the whole session. Two root causes, fixed together:
1. The startup discovery wait was a flat 0.75s. HTTP/OAuth servers
commonly take 2-6s on a cold connect, so they missed the window and
their tools never entered the agent's snapshot. `thread.join(timeout)`
already returns the instant discovery completes, so raising the bound
costs ~0s for the common case (no MCP / fast servers) and only ever
blocks for a genuinely-pending server, capped so a dead server can't
freeze startup. The bound is now configurable via
`mcp_discovery_timeout` (config.yaml, default 5.0s).
2. Three call sites duplicated the agent tool-snapshot rebuild (the TUI
`reload.mcp` RPC, the gateway reload, and the TUI late-binding refresh
thread), and the late-refresh detected changes by tool COUNT — missing
an equal-size add/remove swap. Consolidated into one shared
`tools.mcp_tool.refresh_agent_mcp_tools(agent)` helper that diffs by
tool NAME, mutates the agent under a lock (thread-safe), and respects
the agent's own enabled/disabled toolsets.
The late-binding refresh keeps its pre-first-turn cache-safety guard:
it never rebuilds the tool list once a turn has started, so the cached
prompt prefix is never invalidated mid-conversation.
Tests: new tests/tools/test_refresh_agent_mcp_tools.py covers the
name-based diff, in-place mutation, agent-scoped filtering, thread
safety, and the config-driven discovery bound (incl. instant-return
when nothing is pending). 75 passed across the touched areas.
The skin bug was one instance of a class: several subsystems build their
config dict directly from config.yaml instead of routing through
hermes_cli.config.load_config (which carries the managed merge), so they
silently ignored administrator-pinned values. Audited every config.yaml
reader and fixed the behavioral-read bypasses:
- gateway/config.py load_gateway_config (messaging gateway: session_reset,
quick_commands, stt, model, ...)
- gateway/run.py _load_gateway_config (its read_raw_config fast path also
skipped the merge — read_raw_config returns raw user YAML)
- tui_gateway/server.py _load_cfg (new TUI + desktop backend: skin,
reasoning_effort, service_tier, provider_routing)
- cron/scheduler.py (scheduled-job model/reasoning/toolsets/provider_routing)
- hermes_logging.py (logging.level/max_size_mb/backup_count)
- hermes_time.py (timezone)
- hermes_cli/doctor.py (memory-provider diagnostic reads effective config)
All route through a new shared managed_scope.apply_managed_overlay() helper
that mirrors _load_config_impl (env-only expansion so a user ${VAR} can't
shadow a managed literal, root-model-string normalization, leaf-merge) and is
fail-open. cli.py's earlier inline fix is refactored onto the same helper.
Write-back paths (slash_commands, telegram/yuanbao dm_topics, profile
distribution) are deliberately left reading raw user YAML — overlaying managed
values there would persist them into the user file. The dashboard
(web_server.py) already routes through load_config and needed no change.
TUI loader caches the RAW config so _save_cfg never writes managed values to
disk. Adds test_managed_scope_overlay.py (helper) and
test_managed_scope_loaders.py (per-surface integration); mutation-checked.
A plain /model <name> switch only lasted for the current session — every
new session reverted to the previously-configured model, so users had to
re-switch every time (e.g. glm-5.1 -> glm-5.2 on every launch).
Persist-by-default is now the behavior across all three /model surfaces
(CLI, gateway, TUI/dashboard), gated by a new config key
model.persist_switch_by_default (default true):
/model <name> switch model (persists to config.yaml)
/model <name> --session switch for this session only
/model <name> --global switch and persist (explicit, unchanged)
The effective persistence is resolved once via resolve_persist_behavior()
in hermes_cli/model_switch.py so --session opts out, --global opts in,
and the config-gated default applies otherwise. --global remains a valid
explicit no-op alias for the new default.
When /goal (and other _PENDING_INPUT_COMMANDS: retry, queue, q, steer,
plan, undo) were typed in the TUI desktop app, slash.exec returned error
4018 instructing the frontend to fall back to command.dispatch. Some
clients failed that client-side fallback, leaving the command empty and
surfacing "empty command" — the user's typed text was silently dropped.
slash.exec now routes pending-input commands to command.dispatch
internally, eliminating the fragile client-side fallback hop. The
response is exactly what command.dispatch would have produced, so the
TUI client behaves identically once the round-trip succeeds.
Salvaged from #48944 — rebased onto current main. The original PR's
source change and test_goal_command.py update are correct, but it missed
the second test surface: tests/tui_gateway/test_protocol.py's
parametrized test_slash_exec_rejects_pending_input_commands still
asserted the old 4018 rejection for retry/queue/q/steer/plan, turning CI
red (5 failures). That test is rewritten here as a behavior contract:
slash.exec for a pending-input command must yield the same payload as a
direct command.dispatch call, and must no longer emit the old
"pending-input command" fallback rejection.
Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>
The desktop model picker had no way to force a fresh model fetch: model.options
went through the 1h-cached provider_models_cache.json, and there was no flag to
bust it. When a provider's cached list expired and its next live fetch failed,
the picker fell back to the curated static list — silently dropping live-only
models (e.g. OpenCode Zen's free tier like deepseek-v4-flash-free) the user had
been using.
- Thread refresh through model.options (RPC + REST /api/model/options) ->
build_models_payload -> list_authenticated_providers, which calls
clear_provider_models_cache() up front when set so every row re-fetches live.
- Add a 'Refresh Models' control to the desktop picker (5-locale i18n, spinning
sync icon). Normal opens leave refresh=false to stay snappy on the cache.
Verified: stale cache hides deepseek-v4-flash-free -> refresh busts it -> live
re-fetch surfaces it. refresh=false never touches the cache.
Auto-compression ends the live session and forks a continuation child
(linked via parent_session_id). A long-lived parent keeps its own flushed
message rows, so resolve_resume_session_id()'s empty-head walk never
redirected it — resuming the parent id reloaded the pre-compression
transcript and dropped every turn generated after compression, including
the assistant's response. On the desktop this is the recurring "I sent a
message, came back, and the reply isn't there" report on large sessions:
the chat's routed id is the pre-rotation id, and both the gateway
session.resume RPC and the REST /messages read anchored on it.
Fix the resolver at the chokepoint: resolve_resume_session_id() now
follows the compression-continuation chain forward via get_compression_tip()
before its existing empty-head descendant walk. get_compression_tip() only
follows children whose parent ended with end_reason='compression' (created
after the parent was ended), so delegation/branch children never hijack a
resume. This fixes every resume caller at once (REST /messages, CLI
--resume, gateway /resume).
session.resume in tui_gateway was the one resume path that never called the
resolver — it used the raw target id directly. Route it through
resolve_resume_session_id() too (non-lazy only; lazy watch windows must
stay on their exact child branch). Resolving up front also re-anchors the
live-session fast path so a still-live rotated session is reused by its new
key instead of rebuilding a duplicate agent on the stale parent.
Tests:
- resolve_resume_session_id follows the tip even when the parent retains
messages, and is not confused by a delegation child.
- session.resume binds the agent to the continuation tip and returns the
post-compression reply.
The interactive model pickers (Desktop REST API, TUI model.options, CLI
/model) were hard-capped at max_models=50, which truncated large provider
catalogs like Kilo Gateway (336 models) to just 50 entries. This made
most models undiscoverable via the picker search box.
Changes:
- Change build_models_payload() default from max_models=50 to None (unlimited)
- Change list_authenticated_providers() default from max_models=8 to None
- Change list_picker_providers() default from max_models=8 to None
- Fix all [:max_models] slicing to handle None as 'no limit'
- Remove max_models=50 from 5 interactive picker callers:
* web_server.py: get_model_options (Desktop /api/model/options)
* web_server.py: get_recommended_default_model
* model_switch.py: prewarm_picker_cache_async
* tui_gateway/server.py: model.options JSON-RPC
* cli.py: HermesCLI model picker
- Telegram/Discord inline keyboard picker (gateway/slash_commands.py)
still passes max_models=50 explicitly — unchanged behavior.
The total_models field was already in the response payload and is now
meaningful since models.length == total_models for interactive pickers.
Fixes#48279
* feat(billing): nous_billing http client + BillingState core (phase 2b)
Phase 2b terminal-billing client foundation:
- hermes_cli/nous_billing.py: typed client for the 4 /api/billing/* endpoints
(state/charge/poll/auto-top-up). Raises typed errors (BillingScopeRequired,
BillingRateLimited, BillingAuthError) mapped from the live-verified contract;
fail-open is the caller's job. Idempotency-Key enforced client-side.
- agent/billing_view.py: surface-agnostic BillingState core + Decimal money
parsing (server emits decimal strings, not 2dp), fail-open builder,
idempotency-key gen, custom-amount validation.
- 51 unit tests (decimal parse/format, payload tiering, error->exception
matrix, fail-open, amount validation).
Plan: docs/plans/2026-06-13-001-phase-2b-terminal-billing-tui-plan.md
* feat(billing): billing:manage scope + lazy step-up re-auth (phase 2b)
- NOUS_BILLING_MANAGE_SCOPE constant.
- nous_token_has_billing_scope(): split-based scope check (no false-positive
substring match).
- step_up_nous_billing_scope(): re-runs the device flow requesting
billing:manage, reusing the held credential's portal/inference URLs + client_id
(so a preview stays a preview), persists like _login_nous but WITHOUT the model
picker. Returns True iff the minted token carries the scope (False when NAS
silently downscopes a non-admin / unticked grant).
Lazy step-up (plan D-A): normal login path unchanged; 403 insufficient_scope
from a billing call triggers this. 7 unit tests.
* feat(billing): billing JSON-RPC methods for the TUI (phase 2b)
billing.state / charge / charge_status / auto_reload / step_up in
tui_gateway/server.py. Return STRUCTURED success envelopes (result.ok +
result.error=<code>) rather than JSON-RPC-level errors, so the Ink rpc() promise
always resolves and the TUI branches on the typed billing error code
(insufficient_scope, rate_limited, no_payment_method, …) to render the right
affordance. Money serialized as decimal STRINGS + display strings. charge mints
+ echoes an idempotency_key for retry reuse. 16 unit tests.
* feat(billing): /billing CLI handler + command registry (phase 2b)
- CommandDef("billing", subcommands=buy|auto-reload|limit), added to
_SLACK_VIA_HERMES_ONLY so it routes via /hermes on Slack (keeps the 50-cap
parity test green, same as /credits).
- cli.py::_show_billing + screen helpers: all 5 screens (overview, buy→confirm→
poll, auto-reload, monthly-limit read-only). Reuses _prompt_text_input_modal /
_prompt_text_input (D-C). Non-interactive (_app is None) renders text + portal
deep-link, never prompts (R7). Decimal money end-to-end. 2s/5-min cancellable
poll loop; 429/503 = retry not failure; settled = ledger truth. Lazy step-up on
403 insufficient_scope. no_payment_method treated as mainline funnel-to-portal.
- 6 CLI tests; 156 command tests (incl. Slack/Telegram parity) green.
* feat(billing): /billing Ink TUI screens + tests (phase 2b)
- ui-tui/src/app/slash/commands/billing.ts: /billing TUI command covering all 5
screens — overview (text), buy <amt> → ConfirmReq → charge → non-blocking 2s/
5-min poll loop → settled/failed/timeout branches, auto-reload <below> <to> →
ConfirmReq → PATCH, limit (read-only). Reuses the existing ConfirmReq overlay
(D-C) — no bespoke component. Typed-error envelope branching: insufficient_scope
arms the lazy step-up confirm; no_payment_method/rate_limited/cap funnel to
portal. Client-side amount validation mirrors the server (bounds + 2dp).
- gatewayTypes.ts: Billing* response interfaces.
- registry.ts: register billingCommands.
- billingCommand.test.ts: 12 vitest cases (overview/gating/buy-confirm-poll-
settled/no_payment_method/step-up/limit/auto-reload/validation).
TUI build green; 12/12 vitest pass; slash tests pass once @hermes/ink is built.
* docs(billing): scrub private cross-repo references
NAS is a private repo — remove all references to it from the public PR:
- drop the cross-repo planning doc (planning scaffolding, not a deliverable;
the PR description documents the design)
- replace 'NAS' / 'PR #412 preview' mentions in code + test comments with
generic 'the server' / 'a preview deployment'
* docs(billing): scrub final NAS reference in step-up docstring
* docs(billing): drop dangling plan-doc refs
The phase-2b plan doc was removed in the cross-repo scrub (300afcc0b)
but two module docstrings still pointed at it. Drop the dead refs.
* feat(billing): interactive /billing overlay + step-up UX, portal-URL & token fixes
Adds the interactive /billing TUI overlay and hardens the terminal-billing
client across CLI and TUI.
- TUI: full /billing overlay state machine (overview to buy to confirm,
auto-reload, read-only monthly limit) reusing the existing confirm overlay.
- Step-up: surface the verification link in-transcript and open the browser
via the TUI's own opener (the device flow runs in the headless gateway, so a
printed URL was being dropped); run the step-up handler off the main loop and
emit the link as an out-of-band event so the gateway stays responsive.
- Step-up copy is scope-accurate ("Billing permission granted") and re-checks
/state so it never claims "enabled" when the org kill-switch is still off.
- Portal deep-links resolve to absolute URLs against the active portal base
(the server emits them relative) - fixes a bare "/billing?topup=open" link.
- Billing calls refresh an expired access token via the stored refresh token
instead of reporting a false "not logged in".
- Optimistic funnel: advise "set up a saved card on the portal" up front when
no card is on file (advisory, not a hard gate).
- Token resolution is cached briefly so the 2s charge poll loop stops
re-locking + re-reading the auth store on every tick; 401 re-resolves fresh.
- Remove the temporary demo-mode shims.
Validation: 87 Python billing tests, 88 TS tests (billing command + gateway
event handler), tsc clean, ink + ui-tui builds green.
* docs(billing): add /billing TUI screenshots for PR
* fix(cli): guard _last_invalidate on bare instances; update stale prompt-fallback test
The UI-invalidate throttle read self._last_invalidate unconditionally, which
raised AttributeError on HermesCLI instances built without __init__ (the
thread-safety test's object.__new__ shell). Guard the read with getattr.
The off-main-thread branch of _prompt_text_input was changed (#23185) to cancel
cleanly to None instead of falling back to a bare input() that would hang on the
slash-worker thread; the test still asserted the old direct-input fallback.
Update it to assert the current intended behavior: returns None, calls neither
run_in_terminal nor input(), and does not hang.
The "💾 Self-improvement review" summary (skill/memory updated) was invisible
on two surfaces:
- Desktop Electron app had no review.summary event handler — skill/memory
writes happened silently. Now appends a persistent system message to the
transcript (matching the Ink TUI's persistent-line semantics, not a
transient toast that can be missed).
- tui_gateway (backs both 'hermes --tui' and the desktop) never read
display.memory_notifications, so it always behaved as 'on' and ignored a
user who set 'off'/'verbose'. Added _load_memory_notifications() (mirrors
the messaging gateway's bool->str normalization, defaults to 'on') and
wired it to agent.memory_notifications, matching gateway/run.py and the CLI.
Delivery chain now reaches all surfaces:
background_review.py -> background_review_callback -> review.summary event ->
desktop transcript / Ink TUI line / gateway message / CLI print.
* Port from cline/cline#11514: encourage parallel tool calls
Add a universal system-prompt guidance block telling the model to batch
independent tool calls (reads, searches, web fetches, read-only commands)
into a single assistant turn instead of one call per turn. The runtime
already executes independent batches concurrently (read-only tools always;
non-overlapping path-scoped file ops); the open-source system prompt had
nothing steering the model to PRODUCE the batch. Fewer round-trips means
less resent context, which compounds over a long conversation.
- prompt_builder.py: new PARALLEL_TOOL_CALL_GUIDANCE block (short, static,
cache-amortised) modeled on TASK_COMPLETION_GUIDANCE.
- system_prompt.py: inject right after the task-completion block, gated by
agent.valid_tool_names + the new toggle.
- agent_init.py: read agent.parallel_tool_call_guidance (default True).
- config.py: add the default under the agent section.
- test_prompt_builder.py: behavior-contract tests (batching steer, dependent
carve-out, length bound) — invariants, not wording snapshots.
Adapted from Cline's TypeScript tool-surface guidance to hermes-agent's
Python prompt-assembly architecture and config-over-env conventions.
* fix(desktop): never persist or restore a named custom provider as bare "custom"
Custom providers vanish from the Desktop/TUI model picker with
"No LLM provider configured" — repeatedly fixed (#44062, #44109, #45578)
and repeatedly regressed (#44022, #47714) because every fix only recovered
the entry identity from a persisted base_url. When a session is
persisted/restored with the resolved provider "custom" and NO base_url, bare
"custom" leaked through verbatim; resolve_runtime_provider("custom") routes to
the OpenRouter default URL with no api_key, so the next turn/resume dies.
Bare "custom" is the resolved billing class shared by every named providers:/
custom_providers: entry — it is not a routable identity. Centralize the
"never let bare custom escape" invariant in one helper,
runtime_provider.canonical_custom_identity(), and apply it at all four leak
sites in tui_gateway/server.py:
- _ensure_session_db_row — the ORIGIN: first DB write seeds the bad row
- _runtime_model_config — live persist
- _stored_session_runtime_overrides — resume restore (heals old rows; drops
unrecoverable bare custom so resume falls back to config default)
- _make_agent — rebuild / per-turn
The helper recovers custom:<name> from the endpoint URL when present, else
from config.model.provider (the durable identity left when no base_url
survived). Regression tests in test_custom_provider_session_persistence.py
lock the no-base_url vector at every site so it cannot regress again.
The TUI banner reported fewer tools than the classic CLI for the same
config (e.g. 32 vs 38) when an MCP server connected slowly. Root cause:
the agent snapshots `agent.tools` once at build time and never re-reads
the registry. `_make_agent` briefly joins the background MCP discovery
thread (`wait_for_mcp_discovery`, ~0.75s) so fast servers land in that
snapshot, but a server slower than the bound — common for an HTTP MCP
server on first connect — lands *after* the agent is built. Its tools are
then absent from both the agent (uncallable until `/reload-mcp`) and the
banner for the whole session.
The classic CLI doesn't hit this because it re-derives
`get_tool_definitions()` at banner render time (which re-waits for
discovery), so it picks the late tools up.
Fix: after a fresh agent is built and its first `session.info` emitted,
if discovery is still in flight, schedule an off-critical-path daemon that
waits for it to finish, then rebuilds the tool snapshot and re-emits
`session.info` — the same rebuild `/reload-mcp` performs, but automatic.
Both the agent's callable tools and the banner count catch up.
Cache safety: the rebuild runs only while the session is still
pre-first-turn (`_user_turn_count`/`_api_call_count` both 0 → nothing
cached to invalidate). Once the user has sent a message we leave the
snapshot frozen rather than break the cached prompt prefix mid-conversation;
late tools then require an explicit `/reload-mcp` (user-consented), exactly
as today. No-op when discovery finished before the agent build, when the
join times out, when the registry was unchanged, or when the session was
swapped/closed while waiting.
Adds entry.mcp_discovery_in_flight() / join_mcp_discovery() accessors and
covers the matrix (added/none/post-turn/timeout/unchanged/replaced) with
unit tests.
A /title typed before any message in a fresh desktop chat could be silently
lost: the session DB row is deferred to the first prompt, so session.title
found no row, only stashed pending_title, and returned pending:true. It then
relied on a post-turn apply block to write the title. When that turn never
landed under the same session_key (or the apply path didn't fire), the title
was dropped and the sidebar fell back to the first-message preview — e.g.
"/title my-custom-name" then "hello" left the session titled "hello".
Mirror the messaging gateway's _handle_title_command: an explicit /title is
clear user intent, not an abandoned draft, so create the row up front
(_ensure_session_db_row) and set the title immediately via the profile-aware
_session_db handle, returning pending:false. This also fixes the frontend
symptom for free — the desktop handler's immediate refreshSessions() now pulls
the correct persisted title instead of clobbering the optimistic value with a
still-NULL row.
If row creation can't take (DB unavailable / racing writer), fall back to the
existing pending_title queue so the post-turn apply block remains a recovery
path. The sidebar's min-messages filter keeps a titled 0-message row hidden, so
a /title'd-but-never-used draft still doesn't clutter the list.
Updates the test that asserted the old queue-on-missing-row behavior and adds a
fallback-to-queue regression test.
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(desktop): stream subagent replies into watch windows
A desktop watch window resumes a child session lazily (no full agent) and
mirrors the parent-relayed `subagent.*` events into native child-session
stream events. The child's streamed reply text was never relayed, so the
window sat blank while the subagent "talked".
- delegate_tool: forward the child's `run_conversation` stream tokens up the
progress relay as `subagent.text` (inert under CLI/TUI — their progress
handlers ignore non-tool event types; only a gateway watch window mirrors it).
- server: mirror `subagent.text` -> `message.delta` on the child sid only, and
skip the parent emit (per-token frames are meaningless on the parent session,
which shows the child via the spawn tree). Demote `subagent.start` to a
one-time goal header and drop the noisy `subagent.progress` mirror — tools
already mirror natively.
- server: guard `_start_agent_build` so a lazy watch session spectating an
in-flight child stays lazy; incidental RPCs were upgrading it to a full
agent mid-stream and silently killing the mirror.
* fix(desktop): keep watch-window chat clear of titlebar chrome
Secondary windows (new-session scratch, subagent watch, cmd-click pop-out)
hide the titlebar tool cluster + session header, so the transcript ran to the
window's top edge and streamed text slid up under the OS traffic lights.
- Gate the hidden chrome on `isSecondaryWindow()` everywhere (app-shell,
chat header, thread list) instead of the narrower new-session flag.
- Add a fixed opaque drag-strip at the top of the secondary-window transcript:
content padding alone scrolls away with the text, so the strip masks
anything behind it and keeps the window draggable like the main header.
* fix: WSL subagent window
* fix: subagent window top padding
---------
Co-authored-by: Austin Pickett <pickett.austin@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
A live config.set model switch already moved the next API call to the new model,
but the conversation could still restore an old sessions.system_prompt snapshot
whose Model/Provider lines named the previous runtime. That made "what model are
you?" answer from stale metadata even while inference ran on the new model.
After a live switch we now refresh the stored system prompt and append a real
system-history pivot (not a fake user turn) so the transcript itself records the
new model/provider. Restore also rejects already-stale prompt snapshots when
their Model/Provider lines disagree with the runtime, so existing bad sessions
self-heal.
The picker no longer touches the profile default. Model/effort/fast live as
plain UI state persisted in localStorage, so a pick follows across Cmd+N and
restarts instead of snapping back. New chats ship that state through
session.create as per-session overrides; live chats still scope switches to the
current session. Settings -> Model remains the only surface that writes the
profile default.
The gateway now accepts those session.create overrides, builds the agent with
them directly, reflects them in the immediate session.info payload, and writes
the chat's own model_config into the lazy DB row so reconnect/resume restores
that chat instead of the global default.
* feat(delegation): async background subagents via delegate_task(background=true)
delegate_task(background=true) dispatches a subagent that runs in the
background and returns a handle immediately, so the user and model keep
working while it runs. The full result — plus the original task source —
re-enters the conversation as a new turn when the subagent finishes,
riding the same completion-queue rail as terminal background processes.
- tools/async_delegation.py: daemon-executor registry, capacity cap,
rich self-contained completion event pushed onto the shared
process_registry.completion_queue (type='async_delegation').
- delegate_tool.py: background param + single-task dispatch branch;
batch async rejected (v1).
- process_registry.py: format_process_notification renders the rich
task-source block (goal/context/toolsets/model/status/result).
- gateway/run.py: dedicated _async_delegation_watcher drains + injects
results into the originating session (idle + post-turn), session_key
routing enrichment, shutdown interrupt of dangling delegations.
- config: delegation.max_async_children (default 3).
Reuses the existing idle-drain wiring rather than mutating a running
agent loop, preserving message-role alternation and prompt-cache
invariants. 13 targeted tests; CLI + gateway paths E2E-verified.
* test(delegation): make async non-blocking tests environment-independent
CI 'test (5)' flaked on a cold, 8-worker runner: the first
delegate_task(background=true) call measured 2.27s of one-time setup
(config load + child-agent construction + imports), tripping the
elapsed < 1.0 wall-clock assertion. That assertion was testing setup
overhead, not blocking.
Replace the wall-clock thresholds with the real invariant: dispatch
returns while the child is still gated (active_count == 1, completion
queue empty), which a synchronous impl could not do. Keep only a loose
4s sanity backstop well under the runner's 5s gate.
* fix(delegation): harden async background delegation
Follow-up review fixes:
- Detach background child from parent._active_children at dispatch —
otherwise parent-turn interrupts (Ctrl+C, mid-turn steering), cache
evicts (release_clients), and session close (/new) kill/close the
detached subagent mid-run, defeating the point of background mode.
Lifecycle is owned by the async registry's interrupt_fn.
- Make the capacity check atomic with the record insert (TOCTOU: two
concurrent dispatches could both pass active_count() and exceed the cap).
- TUI dedup: key async_delegation events by delegation_id — the
fallthrough keyed them all as ("", type), suppressing every completion
after the first in the desktop/TUI status feed.
- CLI /stop now interrupts running background delegations and /agents
lists them (they live outside the process registry and were invisible).
- Drop stray unbalanced ']' line from the re-injection block and the
unused _ASYNC_DEFAULT import.
Tests: detach-at-dispatch + concurrent-capacity race added (15 total in
test_async_delegation.py); 137 delegate + 140 process-registry/notify/watch
+ 7 TUI dedup tests pass.
* fix(delegation): harden async background completion drains
When a desktop/dashboard session had no agent built yet and the user explicitly
picked a provider in the model picker, config.set('model', ...) would first try
to initialize the agent from the (possibly broken) config default provider —
failing before the user's explicit switch could take effect, trapping them on a
misconfigured default.
config.set now pre-parses the model flags: if an explicit --provider is present
and no agent exists yet, it skips the default-provider agent build and routes
straight through _apply_model_switch with the explicit provider. _apply_model_switch
gained a parsed_flags passthrough (avoids double-parsing) and only falls back to
resolve_runtime_provider(requested=None) when no explicit provider was given.
The desktop hook now sends config.set instead of slash.exec for active-session
model changes, so errors from the selected provider surface to the user instead
of being swallowed.
Co-authored-by: rodboev <rod.boev@gmail.com>
Auto-compression rewrites history mid-turn, which made long threads look
like they reset. Re-tag the gateway lifecycle status as compacting and
surface it in the desktop thread loading indicators.
A thinking-only assistant turn (reasoning present, empty visible text) is
persisted with its reasoning fields and stays recallable from the transcript,
but `_history_to_messages` dropped it as "empty" before its reasoning was
attached. On desktop/TUI resume or reload the turn therefore vanished from the
session view while the agent could still recall it from a fresh session --
exactly the "messages disappear when the LLM uses its thinking block, but a new
session can recall them" symptom reported on #44022.
Keep an assistant turn when it carries reasoning, even with empty text, so the
desktop "Thinking…" disclosure has something to render. Genuinely empty turns
(no text, no reasoning, no tool calls) are still filtered out.
Refs #44022
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_runtime_model_config persisted the live agent's RESOLVED provider into
the session row's model_config JSON. For any named providers:/
custom_providers: entry, agent.provider is the literal string "custom",
so the entry name was lost (and the api_key is deliberately never
persisted). On session.resume or _reset_session_agent the stored
provider="custom" fed resolve_runtime_provider(requested="custom"),
which cannot match a named entry — the rebuild either raised "No LLM
provider configured" or silently resolved placeholder credentials
against the patched-back base_url.
Persist the REQUESTED/entry identity instead: a new reverse lookup
find_custom_provider_identity(base_url) maps the endpoint URL back to
the canonical custom:<name> menu key. _runtime_model_config stores that
key; _make_agent performs the same recovery for rows persisted before
the fix, falling back to passing the stored base_url as
explicit_base_url so the direct-alias branch still targets the
session's endpoint when no entry matches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`_stored_session_runtime_overrides` restored the session provider from
`billing_provider` when `model_config` had no explicit provider. For a
`custom:<name>` endpoint that only ran normal turns (no `/model` switch), the
persisted `billing_provider` is the bare billing bucket `"custom"`, which
`agent_init` treats as non-routable, so `session.resume` failed with
"No LLM provider configured" even though new chats and CLI `--resume` work.
Only restore an explicit `model_config.provider`; skip a bare billing bucket
(`auto`/`openrouter`/`custom`) so resume falls back to the configured default,
matching the CLI path.
Fixes#44022
* fix(tui): honor provider_routing config in the desktop/TUI backend
The messaging gateway and classic CLI both read `provider_routing` from
config.yaml and pass the OpenRouter routing prefs (only / ignore / order /
sort / require_parameters / data_collection) into the agent. The tui_gateway
backend that powers the desktop app and TUI never did, so it built agents
with every routing pref left at its default — OpenRouter then selected
providers freely (effectively at random), ignoring the user's config.
Load `provider_routing` in `_make_agent` and forward the same six prefs the
gateway does, restoring parity across CLI / gateway / desktop. Background
subagent kwargs already propagate these from the parent agent, so they now
inherit correctly too.
* test(tui): cover provider_routing forwarding in _make_agent
Asserts the six OpenRouter routing prefs flow from config.yaml into AIAgent,
and that an absent provider_routing section forwards None/False (unchanged
behavior for users who never configured routing).
Hosted instances set HERMES_INFERENCE_MODEL as a provision-time seed in
the container env. _config_model_target() previously went through
_resolve_model() (env-first), so on hosted VPS the sync target stayed
pinned to the seed and dashboard model changes never reached an open
chat -- the exact scenario the sync exists to fix. The sync target now
reads config.yaml first and only falls back to the env vars when config
has no model. Startup resolution (_resolve_model) is unchanged.
* feat(desktop): session-scoped status stack + kill new-window theme flash
Stack subagents, background tasks, and the queue into one collapsible
"sink" above the composer, reusing the queue's chrome so every status
reads as one piece. Extracts shared StatusSection / StatusRow /
TerminalOutput primitives and a unified $statusItemsBySession store
(subagents mirrored, background owned here, merged + grouped for render).
Renames BrailleSpinner → GlyphSpinner now that it drives more than braille.
Separately, fix the white flash on every new/cmd-clicked window: macOS
`vibrancy` paints an NSVisualEffectView that follows the OS appearance and
ignores `backgroundColor`, so a dark app on a light-mode Mac flashed white
until the renderer painted over it. Pin `nativeTheme.themeSource` to the
app theme (persisted to userData so cold launches paint right before the
renderer loads), hold windows with `show:false` until `ready-to-show`, and
pre-paint the themed background via an inline script before the bundle runs.
* feat(desktop): dock the slash popover to the composer via one shared fill var
The slash·@ popover (and ? help) now docks onto the composer's edge with the
same chrome as the queue/status stack — rounded outer corners, fused borderless
edge, no shadow — but keeps its own narrow width.
Surface + drawer paint a single --composer-fill var; the state ladder
(rest / scrolled / focused / drawer-open) lives once in styles.css on
[data-slot='composer-root']. The :has() drawer-open rule is last and forces an
opaque fill, since translucent glass sampling different backdrops (thread vs
fade gradient) can never match. This replaces the focus-within !important
override that repainted the surface behind every previous matching attempt.
Also drop the chevron column from the project file tree — the folder open/closed
icon already carries the expand state.
* feat(desktop): base inset for file tree rows (post-chevron alignment)
* feat(desktop): wire the status stack's background tasks to the real process registry
The background group was UI-only (dev-mock seeded). Now it's live e2e:
- tui_gateway: new session-scoped `process.list` (registry snapshot filtered
by the session's session_key, plus a 4KB output tail for the inline
terminal viewer) and `process.kill` (single process, ownership-checked —
unlike process.stop's kill_all).
- Renderer: `reconcileBackgroundProcesses` syncs snapshots into the store
layout-stably — rows keep their position when state flips (never re-sort),
new processes append, unchanged rows keep object identity so memoised rows
skip re-rendering, and a dismissed-set stops the registry's retained
finished procs from resurrecting X-ed rows.
- Refresh triggers: session open, terminal/process tool.complete,
status.update(kind=process) from the gateway's notification poller, and a
5s poll armed only while a running row is visible (catches silent exits).
- Stop = real `process.kill` + optimistic dismiss; Dismiss = client-side
with resurrection guard.
- Re-keyed the stack to the RUNTIME session id: it was keyed by the stored
session id, where neither subagent events nor process.list would ever land.
- Deleted dev-status-mocks.ts (__hermesStatusMocks) — no more seed shit.
Reconcile invariants covered in store/composer-status.test.ts.
* feat(desktop): todos + openable subagents in the status stack, self-healing file tree
- todo lists move out of the inline chat panel into the composer status stack
(checklist icon, dashed ring = pending, spinner = in progress, check = done),
fed live from todo tool events and seeded from history on session open
- subagent rows carry the child's real session id end-to-end
(delegate_tool → gateway → renderer) so clicking one opens ITS session window
- status stack publishes its measured height so the thread's bottom clearance
grows with it; card paints the shared --composer-fill so focused/scrolled
states match the composer exactly
- file tree self-heals: ENOENT roots retry on a 3s cadence + Try again button,
and the main process expands ~ in IPC paths (gateway cwds arrive as ~/...)
- composer drag-drop of tree entries inserts inline refs instead of attachments
* fix(desktop): file tree falls back to the workspace dir when a session's cwd is gone
Sessions record their launch cwd; deleted worktrees leave that path dead,
so opening such a session swapped the tree from the default workspace to a
directory that ENOENTs forever — the 3s retry just spun on it. On a root
read error the tree now asks main to sanitize the cwd (prefers the
configured default project dir), displays that fallback, and quietly
re-probes the original path so it switches back if the dir reappears.
* feat(desktop): working restore-checkpoint button on past user prompts
The discard icon on hover of a past user bubble was decorative — clicking
did nothing. It's now a real control: a confirmation dialog explains that
everything after the prompt is removed, then the session rewinds to that
turn and reruns the same prompt (prompt.submit with
truncate_before_user_ordinal, the same mechanism the edit composer uses).
Failures rethrow into the dialog's inline error instead of toasting.
* fix(desktop): show the restore-checkpoint button on the latest user prompt too
Restoring the most recent prompt is just 'retry this turn' — no reason to
exclude it. Stop still takes the slot while the turn is running.
* fix(desktop): finished todo lists clear themselves out of the status stack
A list whose every item is completed/cancelled lingers ~4s so the final
checkmark is visible, then the todo group drops out of the stack. A fresh
active list arriving within the linger cancels the scheduled clear.
* chore(desktop): drop dead editableCheckpoint copy, terser restore confirm
* fix(desktop): rewind clears the abandoned timeline's todos + background
Restoring to (or editing) an earlier prompt rewinds the conversation, but
the todos and background processes spawned by the now-discarded turns kept
showing in the status stack — and the real background processes kept
running. Both rewind paths now clear the session's todo rows and kill +
drop its background processes before the fresh run repopulates them. Also
drops the click-to-edit clamp transition, which flashed a half-expanded
bubble on the way into the edit composer.
* feat(desktop): user messages are always editable; edit/restore revert mid-stream
The bubble is now always click-to-edit — even while a turn streams — instead
of going inert during a run. Sending an edit acts like restore: it rewinds to
that prompt and re-runs with the new text. Both edit and restore can fire
mid-stream now; the gateway refuses prompt.submit while a turn runs (4009
"session busy"), so they interrupt the live turn first and retry the submit
until the cooperative interrupt winds it down. Restore (re-run as-is) shows on
every prompt except the latest running one, which keeps the Stop button.
* fix(desktop): label preview-pane ⌘L selections with the filename, not "zsh"
The terminal owns a global ⌘/Ctrl+L "send selection to composer" shortcut, so
selecting text in the file preview pane and hitting it fell through to the
terminal handler — which imported the right text but labelled the composer ref
"zsh:N lines" off the shell name. When the selection isn't an xterm selection,
label it with the previewed file instead.
* fix(desktop): ⌘L on a preview line selection inserts the @line ref, like dragging
The source preview lets you select lines in the gutter and drag them into the
composer as an @line:path:start-end ref. ⌘/Ctrl+L now does the same when a line
selection is active — it drops the identical ref instead of falling through to
the terminal's global handler (which grabbed the native text selection and sent
a bogus terminal block). Capture-phase + stopPropagation so it wins; with a line
selection there's no native selection, so the terminal handler stays out of it.
* chore: gitignore apps/desktop/demo/ scratch output
The desktop demo prompt writes demo/*.txt during recorded walkthroughs; it's
throwaway, never part of the app. Ignore it so it stops cluttering git status.
* feat(desktop): subagent watch windows, hard stop, sidebar hygiene
Child-session mirror for live subagent windows, delegate sessions tagged
and excluded from the sidebar, composer focus/stop polish, and WS stall
resilience on the gateway transport.
* refactor: DRY delegate SQL + trim status-stack noise
Extract shared listable-child and delegate-delete helpers in hermes_state,
collapse cancelRun busy release, and cut comment bloat in resume/status paths.
* fix(desktop): hide orphaned subagent sessions in sidebar
Cascade-delete all ephemeral children on parent delete (not just tagged rows),
run v16 backfill to tag legacy orphans, and record new delegates as source=subagent.
* fix: restore orphan contract for untagged children + lazy session eviction
Cascade-delete only _delegate_from-tagged rows (v16 backfill covers legacy),
walk marker chains recursively with FK-safe orphaning, gate lazy watch
sessions out of the still-starting eviction exemption via an explicit flag,
pass session_id to _make_agent only when resuming, and hide source=subagent
from session search.
* fix(gateway): gate child mirror off upgraded sessions + age out stale run entries
Review findings: the mirror could interleave synthetic events with a real
native stream once a watch window upgrades (prompt.submit builds an agent),
and a lost subagent.complete left _active_child_runs pinning running=true
forever. Mirror now stops when the live session owns an agent; liveness
reads ignore entries older than an hour.
* fix(gateway): reject prompt.submit into a watch session while its child runs
A lazy watch session's running flag is False (the run lives in the parent
turn), so typing mid-run sailed past the busy guard and built a second agent
racing the in-flight child on the same stored session. Busy error until the
run completes; afterwards the submit upgrades into a normal conversation.
* refactor(gateway): DRY watch-resume payload + compose listable-child SQL
Fold the duplicated child-run busy overlay into one _reuse_live_payload
helper across both resume reuse paths, collapse the twin mirror early-returns,
and build _LISTABLE_CHILD_SQL from _BRANCH_CHILD_SQL instead of restating it.
* fix(desktop): clip horizontal overflow on sidebar scroll areas
Add overflow-x-hidden alongside overflow-y-auto on session list scrollers
and the shared SidebarContent primitive — vertical scroll unchanged.
* feat(billing): /usage → portal top-up browser handoff
Add the terminal side of the billing slice (phase 2a): start a top-up by
throwing the user to the portal billing page with the top-up modal open. The
terminal does not confirm, poll, or track payment — checkout completes in the
browser and the next /usage shows the new balance.
- nous_account.py: parse organisation.slug/name from /api/oauth/account into
NousPortalAccountInfo; add nous_portal_topup_url() building the org-pinned
{base}/orgs/{slug}/billing?topup=open with a null-slug fallback to the legacy
{base}/billing?topup=open (never /orgs/None/...).
- portal_cli.py: 'hermes portal topup' — fresh account fetch, identity line
(Topping up as <email> / org <name>), browser open with printed-URL fallback,
no-wait closing copy. No polling/confirmation (deferred to 2b).
- account_usage.py: the shared /usage credits block now links the org-pinned
top-up URL (auto-opens the modal) + points to the command.
Depends on NAS #409 (organisation.slug/name + ?topup=open). Do not merge until
that is live on the target env; until then /api/oauth/account returns
organisation: { id } only and the URL falls back to legacy.
* feat(billing): /credits command for balance + top-up handoff
Replace the standalone `hermes portal topup` subcommand with an in-session
/credits slash command — a focused money surface (balance in, top-up out) that
works in the CLI, TUI, and every messaging platform from one registry entry.
- commands.py: register /credits (Info category). Slack is at its 50-slash cap,
so /credits is routed via /hermes credits on Slack only (new
_SLACK_VIA_HERMES_ONLY set) to avoid clamping a canonical command off the
native list and breaking Telegram parity; native everywhere else.
- account_usage.py: build_credits_view() — one portal fetch → balance lines +
identity line + org-pinned top-up URL + depleted flag, consumed by all
surfaces. Reuses the same snapshot/URL builder as /usage so numbers match.
- cli.py: _show_credits() — balance block + identity line + 3-button panel
(Open top-up / Copy link / Cancel) via the existing prompt_toolkit modal.
ASK, never auto-launch; headless falls back to printing the URL.
- gateway/slash_commands.py: _handle_credits_command() — renders the block +
tappable top-up URL + no-wait copy; works on button and plain-text platforms.
- /usage credits line now points to /credits.
- Retire `hermes portal topup` (portal_cli.py back to baseline); the engine
(slug/name parse + nous_portal_topup_url) stays as the shared core.
No polling, no payment confirmation (billing phase 2a). Depends on NAS #409.
* fix(credits): /credits works in the TUI slash-worker (non-interactive)
In the TUI, /credits runs in the slash-worker subprocess where there is no
live prompt_toolkit app and stdin is the JSON-RPC pipe. _show_credits called
the 3-button modal unconditionally, which fell back to reading stdin →
exception → slash.exec rejected → the command produced no output (only the
pre-existing 'Credit access paused' banner showed).
- _show_credits: when self._app is None (TUI worker / piped / non-interactive),
render the text variant — balance block + tappable top-up URL + no-wait line,
same affordance as the messaging surfaces — and skip the modal entirely. The
3-button panel still renders in the interactive CLI.
- Depleted banner copy: 'run /usage for balance' → 'run /credits to top up'
now that /credits is the dedicated money surface (+ tests).
- Regression tests: _show_credits with self._app=None renders text and never
invokes the modal; logged-out path.
* feat(tui): credits.view RPC for the /credits tappable top-up button
Add a credits.view JSON-RPC method returning the structured CreditsView
(logged_in, balance_lines, identity_line, topup_url, depleted) so the TUI can
render a clickable <Link> top-up button instead of plain text. Account-
independent (portal fetch gated on a logged-in Nous account), fail-open to
{logged_in: false} on any hiccup. Mirrors session.usage's credits-block pattern.
Frontend (TUI-local /credits command + Ink component) lands separately.
* feat(tui): /credits command with keyboard-driven top-up confirm
TUI-local /credits: fetches the structured balance via the credits.view RPC,
prints the balance + identity + top-up URL, then arms the EXISTING confirm
overlay (Enter = open top-up in browser via openExternalUrl, Esc = cancel).
Reuses ConfirmReq — no new overlay component/state/input handler. Headless
(openExternalUrl returns false) falls back to printing the URL.
- gatewayTypes.ts: CreditsViewResponse.
- commands/credits.ts: the command (mirrors /status's rpc+guarded pattern).
- registry.ts: register creditsCommands.
- test: balance+overlay armed, headless fallback, no-url, logged-out (4 cases).
Matches the CLI /credits 'Enter to open' affordance. Phase 2a: no polling.
The desktop chat surface talks to the dashboard's in-process /api/ws
gateway, which builds agents through tui_gateway.server._make_agent. That
path only snapshots the existing tool registry — MCP discovery is started
by tui_gateway/entry.py (the stdio TUI), which the dashboard process never
runs. So a profile's configured MCP servers never connect under the
desktop app and sessions show no MCP tools.
Start a shared background MCP discovery thread at dashboard startup (via
hermes_cli.mcp_startup, bounded so a slow/dead server can't block boot),
and have _make_agent briefly join that thread in addition to the existing
entry-owned TUI thread before snapshotting tools.
Carved out of #44478.
Co-authored-by: AJ <yspdev@gmail.com>
* feat(agent): coding-context posture with per-model edit-format tuning
Hermes detects when it's running in a coding context — an interactive
surface (CLI, TUI, ACP, desktop) sitting in a code workspace (git repo or
recognised project root) — and shifts into a coding posture. Outside that
(chat platforms, non-workspaces) nothing changes.
The posture is modelled as a frozen RuntimeMode selected from a small
ContextProfile registry (coding/general). A profile is data: the toolset to
collapse to, the operating brief to inject, and seams for model routing and
memory. Every domain reads the same resolved object instead of re-probing
git/config on its own:
- System prompt — RuntimeMode.system_blocks(): an operating brief (gather
context before editing, edit through tools not chat, verify with terminal,
cap retry loops) plus a live git/workspace snapshot, built once and baked
into the stable prompt tier so per-conversation caching is preserved.
- Per-model edit-format tuning — the brief nudges each model family toward
the patch mode it handles best: OpenAI/Codex toward mode='patch' (V4A
multi-file diffs), Anthropic toward mode='replace' (string replacement).
The model id rides on RuntimeMode; unknown families keep neutral wording.
- Skill index — non-coding skill categories are pruned from the prompt's
skill index (discovery-only; skills_list/skill_view still reach the full
catalog, with a disclosure note).
- Toolset — only under the opt-in 'focus' mode does the posture collapse to
the coding toolset + enabled MCP servers; the default posture is
prompt-only and never overrides configured toolsets.
Activation via agent.coding_context: auto (default), focus, on, off.
Subagents inherit the posture for free via toolset inheritance + the shared
prompt builder. Detection is not memoized so a long-lived gateway/TUI
process can't pin a stale posture across working directories.
* feat(agent): cover new-file authoring in the coding edit-format nudge
The per-model edit-format guidance only addressed editing existing code
(patch mode='patch' vs 'replace'), but authoring a brand-new file —
write_file, not patch — is a large fraction of real coding work and the
nudge was silent on it. Surfaced when building a single-file artifact where
the dominant operation was write_file and the steering offered no guidance.
Both family lines now lead with "author new files with write_file; for
edits to existing code prefer ...". Tests assert write_file appears in each
family's brief; unknown families still get neutral wording.
* docs(agent): correct memoization docstring + clarify TUI config-load asymmetry
* feat(agent): sharpen the coding posture — verify-loop facts, wider edit steering, $HOME guard
Tuning pass on the coding posture from dogfooding it as a harness:
- Workspace snapshot now hands the model its verify loop up front:
detected manifests + package manager (lockfile sniff), the exact
verify commands (package.json scripts, Makefile targets,
scripts/run_tests.sh, pytest config), and which context files
(AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / .cursorrules) exist at the root. Marker-only
(non-git) projects get the snapshot too instead of nothing. The
"verify before claiming done" brief line was the highest-value piece
in evals — this turns it from advice into an executable loop instead
of making the model rediscover the test command every session. Still
stat-cheap, size-guarded reads, built once at prompt time.
- Edit-format steering covers the families Hermes actually serves:
Gemini and open-weight coding models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM,
Grok, Hermes, Llama, Mistral, Devstral, MiniMax) steer to
mode='replace' — their RL scaffolds use str_replace-style editors.
Previously only GPT/Codex and Claude families got steering; the
models Hermes users disproportionately run all fell to neutral.
- Operating brief gains four behaviors elite harnesses encode: batch
independent reads/searches in one turn; fix root causes and the bug
class (sibling call paths), not the reported site; no drive-by
refactors/renames/reformatting; never read, print, or commit secrets.
Plus a patch-failure escalation ladder: after the same region fails
twice, rewrite the enclosing function/file with write_file instead of
a third patch attempt.
- $HOME dotfiles guard: a git repo rooted exactly at the home directory
(or a marker sitting in it, e.g. a global ~/AGENTS.md) is user config,
not a code workspace — without the guard, every session anywhere under
a dotfiles-managed home silently flipped to the coding posture. Real
projects under such a home still detect via their own markers/repos;
'on' mode bypasses the guard.
* desktop: surface /tools, /save, /personality and fix /help skill count
Move /tools and /save out of TERMINAL_ONLY_COMMANDS and /personality out of
ADVANCED_COMMANDS so they appear in the desktop slash palette and execute via
the existing slash.exec → command.dispatch fallback. The backend gateway already
accepts these through slash.exec (none are in _PENDING_INPUT_COMMANDS or the
skill list), so no backend change is required.
Recompute skill_count in filterDesktopCommandsCatalog from the filtered pairs.
Previously the /help footer echoed the unfiltered backend total — e.g. "60
skill commands available" while only ~29 actually appeared in the rendered
list, because the desktop hides terminal-only, picker-owned, and advanced
commands.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* desktop: keep slash popover live while typing args
The trigger regex `(?:^|[\s])([@/])([^\s@/]*)$` stopped matching the moment
the user typed a space after a slash command, so the popover never showed arg
completions for `/personality`, `/tools`, etc. — even though the backend's
`complete.slash` already returns them with a `replace_from` indicator.
Split the trigger detection so `/` allows args (`/cmd arg1 arg2`) while `@`
keeps the strict no-space behavior. Restrict the slash command name to
`[a-zA-Z][\w-]*` so file paths like `src/foo/bar` don't accidentally trigger
the popover.
Rewrite arg-completion items in useSlashCompletions to insert the full
`/personality alice` token instead of stranding `/alice`: when `replace_from`
is past the command base, prepend the existing prefix to each item's text so
the chip serializer produces a coherent replacement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* cli: complete toolset names after /tools enable|disable
SlashCommandCompleter previously only auto-derived the first subcommand level
from args_hint, so `/tools enable <tab>` yielded nothing — the user had to
remember every toolset key (web, file, spotify, …) and every MCP server prefix.
Add `_tools_completions` that handles both stages: subcommand (list|disable|enable)
and tool name. Filter by current enable state so `/tools enable <tab>` only
offers disabled toolsets and `/tools disable <tab>` only offers enabled ones —
no point suggesting a no-op. MCP server prefixes (server:) come from the
saved mcp_servers config; per-tool completion under a server would require
runtime MCP introspection and is left as follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* desktop: registry-driven slash commands with first-class pickers
Collapse the if/else slash dispatch into one DESKTOP_COMMAND_SPECS table
that drives popover suggestions, per-type composer pills, and execution.
- /resume, /sessions, /switch: inline session completions (like /skin) plus
a "Browse all sessions…" entry that opens a dedicated session picker overlay
- /handoff: inline platform completion + handoff.request/handoff.state
gateway bridge so desktop reaches CLI parity
- colored per-type pills (command/skill/theme) in the composer
- strip ANSI and fix width/alignment of slash output in the chat panel
* desktop: fold repeated slash session/output boilerplate into one helper
runExec, /title, /help and the unavailable case each re-derived the same
ensure-session → bail-with-notify → build-renderSlashOutput dance.
withSlashOutput() returns {sessionId, render} or null, so each handler is
a two-line resolve instead of an eight-line preamble.
* desktop: keep backend meta on slash arg completions
Arg suggestions (/personality <name>, /tools enable <toolset>, /handoff
<platform>) were having their meta overwritten with the parent command's
registry description: desktopSlashDescription("/personality none") canonicalizes
back to /personality and returns its blurb. Skip the lookup for arg rows so the
backend's own display_meta ("clear personality overlay", etc.) survives.
* cli: list real personalities in /personality completion
_personality_completions resolved load_config().agent.personalities — but that
schema has no agent.personalities key, so completion always returned just
`none` even though the runtime (load_cli_config().agent.personalities) ships a
dozen built-ins (helpful, kawaii, pirate, …). Read from the same source the
command actually applies, so `/personality ` surfaces the real options.
* desktop: expand bare arg-commands to their options on pick
Picking a command like /personality from the slash popover committed it
immediately instead of advancing to its argument list. Mark arg-taking
commands (/skin, /resume, /handoff, /personality, /tools) in the registry
and, when one is picked bare, insert "/cmd " as plain text and re-open the
popover on its inline options — mirroring typing "/cmd " by hand. Arg picks
(serialized text already contains a space) still commit a single pill.
Also realign trigger-popover loading test with the redesigned popover (the
/help empty-state hint shows when resolved, not while the spinner is up);
the merge from main reintroduced the pre-redesign expectation.
* tui_gateway: fold session-db close into a context manager
Both handoff RPCs repeated the same `db, close_db = _session_db_handle()`
+ `finally: if close_db: db.close()` dance. Turn the helper into a
`_session_db` contextmanager that owns the close, so callers just
`with _session_db(session) as db:`.
* desktop: unblock handoff retries and exact resume ids
Clear timed-out desktop handoffs through the gateway so retries are not stuck behind a pending row, and let typed /resume session ids bypass the loaded sidebar cache.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(desktop): keep model runtime state per session
(cherry picked from commit f72ee87d99ee38cb7b5badeb9a8af869bb92073a)
* fix(desktop): keep footer model state scoped to active session
(cherry picked from commit d91942ebd4671ff857b5c8526dbf133f04782ecb)
* fix(desktop): restore stored runtime when resuming sessions
(cherry picked from commit 32b3793418257617b8da57e26151f079c2620d00)
* fix(desktop): persist live runtime changes for resume
(cherry picked from commit c58467779436dcef44a80ad55b52664752dc0837)
* fix(desktop): persist resumed endpoint runtime
* chore(attribution): map pinguarmy's commit email in AUTHOR_MAP
The salvaged commits on this branch preserve @pinguarmy's authorship
(郝鹏宇 / peterhao@Peters-MacBook-Air.local). Add the mapping so the
check-attribution CI gate resolves the email to the GitHub username.
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Co-authored-by: 郝鹏宇 <peterhao@Peters-MacBook-Air.local>
Rebased onto current main and re-ported across the restructured
surfaces: model flows now thread confirm_provider/base_url/api_key
through hermes_cli/model_setup_flows.py, the Discord picker lives in
plugins/platforms/discord/adapter.py, and the web dashboard picker
applies chat-mode switches via config.set so the expensive-model
confirmation can ride the response.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(desktop): dock terminal under chat and simplify file rail
Keep the right rail focused on file browsing while moving the persistent terminal into the chat column bottom slot, and make terminal colors follow the active light/dark mode instead of a fixed Solarized palette.
* fix(desktop): make the terminal a resizable, themed side pane
- Move the terminal into a resizable pane (viewport-% widths) that shares
<main>'s stacking context, so its drag handle no longer sits under the
fixed terminal overlay; works on either rail side.
- Restore +x on node-pty's spawn-helper before the first spawn to fix
"posix_spawnp failed" on macOS prebuilds (real cause; drop the redundant
shell-candidate retry loop).
- Gate terminal open/fit/start on document.fonts.ready and strip leading
blank rows (re-armed before the resize Ctrl-L redraw) so the prompt sits
flush at the top with no starship add_newline gap.
- Inherit the app editor-surface color as the terminal background.
- Bind Ctrl+` (⌃` on macOS) to toggle the terminal; add a palette entry.
* feat(desktop): show platform hotkey hints in the command palette
- Render each palette item's live binding as a <KbdGroup> hint via a new
comboTokens() helper (mac shows ⌘/⌃/⌥/⇧, every other platform shows
Ctrl/Alt/Shift — never a ⌘ on PC).
- Default the terminal toggle to ⌘` / Ctrl+` (the ~ key) on both platforms.
- Drop the hardcoded (⌘⏎) baked into the composer steer tooltip; render it
platform-aware with formatCombo instead.
* fix(desktop): drop the active check on the command-palette terminal item
* fix(desktop): remove active/check states from the command palette
* fix(desktop): allow ⌥/Shift-drag selection over mouse-mode TUIs
Full-screen apps (hermes --tui, vim) enable mouse reporting, so a plain
drag can't select text and ⌘/Ctrl+L (add-selection-to-chat) had nothing
to send. Enable macOptionClickForcesSelection so ⌥-drag on macOS (Shift
elsewhere) forces a native selection over mouse-mode apps.
* feat(desktop): tell the in-pane agent it's embedded in the GUI
Set HERMES_DESKTOP_TERMINAL=1 on the terminal pane's shell env and surface
it in build_environment_hints, so a hermes/--tui launched inside the pane
knows it's next to the GUI chat and that ⌥/Shift-drag + ⌘/Ctrl+L sends a
selection to the composer. Distinct from HERMES_DESKTOP (agent backend).
* refactor(desktop): drop the redundant Ctrl+` terminal-toggle fallback
The toggle now ships as mod+` on both platforms, so the standard combo
index handles it — the bespoke fallback (and its stale 'old default'
comment) is dead weight.
* fix(desktop): read live terminal selection for ⌘/Ctrl+L
A redraw-heavy TUI (spinners/clocks) outruns onSelectionChange, leaving the
React selection state empty so the state-gated shortcut listener never
attached and ⌘L no-op'd. Always listen and read xterm's live selection (with
a native fallback) at press time; only swallow the key when there's text to
send. Drops the now-redundant custom key handler.
* feat(desktop): make any agent aware it's in the Hermes desktop GUI
Generalize the runtime-surface hint: fire for HERMES_DESKTOP (the backend
powering the GUI chat) as well as HERMES_DESKTOP_TERMINAL (a hermes in the
embedded terminal pane), so it's about being inside the desktop GUI, not
about being a TUI. The terminal-pane selection note stays pane-specific.
* feat(desktop): give the GUI agent a read_terminal tool
The in-app terminal buffer lives in the renderer (xterm), so expose it to the
chat agent over the same blocking bridge clarify uses: read_terminal emits
terminal.read.request, the renderer serializes the buffer (visible screen by
default, or a start_line/count range against total_lines) and answers
terminal.read.respond. Gated to the GUI via HERMES_DESKTOP.
Also restores the flipped-layout titlebar inset fix (app-shell +
desktop-controller) for terminal/preview rails at the window's left edge.
* chore(desktop): trim read_terminal comments
* feat(desktop): add a terminal toggle to the statusbar
The file rail lost its terminal icon, leaving ⌘` and the command palette
as the only ways in. Add a one-click toggle to the statusbar's left
cluster, mirroring the command-center item: it reads $terminalTakeover so
it lights up while the pane is open and stays in sync with the hotkey, and
is gated to chat view (the only place the pane can show).
* fix(desktop): relabel the terminal header button to what it does
The in-pane button claimed a focus/split fullscreen toggle ("Focus
terminal view" / "Return to split view", screen-full/normal icons), but
the terminal is just a resizable side pane — there's no fullscreen. The
button only mounts while the pane is open, so the focus branch was dead
and clicking it merely closed the terminal. Relabel to "Hide terminal"
with a close icon, drop the dead conditional and the now-unused takeover
read.
* fix(desktop): move the terminal toggle next to the version item
Relocate it from the left cluster to the right of the statusbar, just
left of the client version item.
* feat(desktop): default the terminal to PowerShell on Windows
Prefer pwsh (7+) then Windows PowerShell 5.1 over cmd.exe, falling back to
comspec only when neither is present. -NoLogo drops the startup banner so
the prompt sits flush like the POSIX shells.
* feat(desktop): show a persistent divider on the terminal pane
The resize sash only painted on hover, so the terminal/chat boundary was
invisible at rest. Add an opt-in `divider` prop to Pane that paints a thin
resting hairline on the resize edge (side-aware, so it tracks the rail when
the layout flips) and enable it on the terminal pane.
* refactor(desktop): resolve the terminal shell instead of hardcoding it
Make shell selection a real resolver: an explicit override wins
(HERMES_DESKTOP_SHELL on both platforms, $SHELL on POSIX), otherwise
auto-detect the best installed shell — pwsh > Windows PowerShell 5.1 > cmd
on Windows, zsh > bash > sh on POSIX. A shared shellSpecFor() picks the
interactive flags by family, so an overridden bash/pwsh/cmd all launch
correctly.
* fix(desktop): repaint the terminal on light/dark switch
Setting term.options.theme updated colors for the DOM renderer but not the
WebGL one, which caches glyph colors in a texture atlas — so already-drawn
cells kept their old palette after a mode switch. Hold the WebglAddon in a
ref and clear its atlas when the theme changes.
* fix(desktop): match the terminal palette to VS Code Light+/Dark+
Adopt VS Code's exact default ANSI palette (the terminalColorRegistry
defaults), enable minimumContrastRatio: 4.5 so foregrounds are clamped
against the background the way the integrated terminal does, and key the
light/dark choice off renderedMode (the painted surface) instead of
resolvedMode so it can't invert. The canvas + inset paint the live skin
surface (--ui-editor-surface-background) so the terminal blends with the
app and follows light/dark, while the contrast clamp keeps colors crisp.
* fix(desktop): tighten command palette search to substring matching
cmdk's default fuzzy scorer matched anything with the query letters
scattered across an item, so e.g. "color" never narrowed to color
entries. Add a substring filter: every typed word must literally appear
in an item's value/keywords, keeping results tight and predictable.
* fix(desktop): blend the terminal header into the skin surface
The persistent-terminal overlay painted the static palette background
(#1e1e1e/#ffffff), so the transparent header strip revealed a near-black
slab above the surface-colored body. Paint the overlay with the live
--ui-editor-surface-background so header and body read as one pane.
* fix(desktop): re-resolve the terminal surface on skin switch
The canvas surface only re-resolved on light/dark change, so switching
skins at the same mode left the WebGL canvas painted with the old tint
until reload. Key the resolve off themeName too. Also trim the palette
comments.
* chore(desktop): drop redundant terminal theming header comment
* fix(tui_gateway): honor target profile's terminal.cwd on desktop profile switch
The desktop's app-global remote mode serves every profile from one
tui_gateway backend, so the process-global TERMINAL_CWD only reflects the
launch profile. After switching profiles, a new session resolved its
workspace from that stale env var and inherited the previous profile's
directory.
Add _profile_configured_cwd() to read a non-launch profile's own
terminal.cwd from its config.yaml (skipping placeholder/empty/missing and
non-existent paths so callers fall back cleanly), and wire it into
_completion_cwd() with precedence: explicit client cwd -> existing session
cwd -> bound profile's configured cwd -> TERMINAL_CWD -> os.getcwd().
Fixes#40334
* test(tui_gateway): cover per-profile cwd resolution (#40334)
Pin the new contract: _profile_configured_cwd reads a profile's own
terminal.cwd and rejects placeholders/missing paths, and _completion_cwd
prefers a bound profile's cwd over a stale launch-profile TERMINAL_CWD
while still letting an explicit client cwd win.
* fix(desktop): rebind sessions after websocket reconnect
* docs(desktop): explain the reconnect-resume guard in use-route-resume
The reconnect fix turns on two subtle conditions with no inline rationale:
`seenGatewayStateRef` suppresses a spurious "became open" on the first effect
run (so a session mounting with the gateway already open doesn't double-resume),
and the `gatewayBecameOpen ||` arm forces a re-resume even when the route looks
`alreadyActive` because the cached runtime id can be stale after the gateway
rebinds/reaps the session. Comment both so the next reader doesn't "simplify"
them back into the original bug. No behavior change.
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Co-authored-by: Josh Dow <josh.dow@prepad.io>
The TUI had no way to toggle plugins — `/plugins` only printed a static
list, and the classic `hermes plugins` picker is curses-based and can't
run inside the Ink UI. Users had to drop to a separate shell and run
`hermes plugins enable/disable`.
Add a PluginsHub overlay modeled on the existing SkillsHub:
- New gateway RPC `plugins.manage` (list + toggle) backed by the same
disk-discovery + dashboard_set_agent_plugin_enabled primitives the CLI
and dashboard already use, so all three surfaces agree on state. The
toggle path also wires the plugin's toolset into platform_toolsets.
- `/plugins` with no arg opens the hub; any subcommand still falls
through to the text slash worker for CLI parity.
- pluginsHub overlay state threaded through overlayStore / interfaces /
useInputHandlers (Esc closes) / appOverlays (renders the FloatBox);
preserved across turn teardown like other user-toggled overlays.
- Hub UI: arrow/number select, Enter/Space toggles live, Tab switches
user-only vs all (bundled) scope, shows ✓/✗/○ activation glyphs.
plugins.manage added to _LONG_HANDLERS (disk + config I/O).
@file: attachments now work when the desktop is connected to a remote
gateway. Previously a referenced file resolved to a client-disk path the
gateway couldn't see, so context_references rejected it with "path is
outside the allowed workspace" and the agent never saw the file.
Adds a file.attach RPC (sibling to the existing image.attach_bytes /
pdf.attach byte-upload pipeline): the desktop uploads the file bytes, the
gateway stages them into <workspace>/.hermes/desktop-attachments/ and
returns a workspace-relative @file: ref that resolves cleanly. Local mode
passes the path directly; a gateway-visible file outside the workspace is
copied in; an in-workspace file is referenced as-is with no copy.
Consolidates the file-sync design from #38615 (LeonSGP43) and the
host-file-staging idea from #33455 (Carry00), rebased onto the
image/PDF remote-media helpers already on main.
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <cine.dreamer.one@gmail.com>
Follow-up to the salvaged fallback-chain fix:
- Replace the hand-rolled fallback loader with the shared
hermes_cli.fallback_config.get_fallback_chain() helper so the TUI path
matches HermesCLI and gateway/run.py exactly: fallback_providers stays
first and keeps order, with distinct legacy fallback_model entries
merged in after (deduped). Previously the TUI loader picked one key OR
the other, diverging from CLI/gateway when both were set.
- Update the test to assert the merged canonical semantics.
- Add psionic73 to scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP (CI gate).
When Hermes runs in TUI mode, the gateway child process communicates with
the Node.js parent over a JSON-RPC protocol on stdin. Subprocess calls that
inherit this stdin fd can trigger a race condition where the child's stdin
read returns EOF, causing the gateway to exit cleanly (exit code 0) mid-tool-
execution.
This is the same root cause as issue #14036 (byterover plugin) and PR #39257
(SSH environment backend). This commit applies the fix — stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL
— to all 85 subprocess.run() and subprocess.Popen() calls that execute inside
the TUI gateway child process.
Scope: TUI-context code only (agent/, tools/, plugins/, tui_gateway/server.py).
CLI code (cli.py, hermes_cli/), tests, scripts, and gateway process management
are excluded — they don't run inside the TUI child and inherit the terminal's
stdin, not the JSON-RPC pipe.
85 call sites across 28 files. All files pass syntax check.
Main folded slash_worker.close() into _finalize_session (the single
_finalized-guarded chokepoint) while #42143 was open. The rebase
conflicted with the PR's worker-close in _teardown_session. Keep both —
they target the same #38095 leak and _SlashWorker.close() is
idempotent (_closed/poll()-guarded) — so callers reaching
_teardown_session without the real _finalize_session (and the PR's own
tests, which monkeypatch _finalize_session out) still reap the worker.
Same for _shutdown_sessions, now routed through the unified
_close_session_by_id funnel.
Salvaged from #35626 (banditburai) and re-scoped after maintainers landed the
parent-death watchdog (slash_worker.py) and PTY process-group teardown
(pty_bridge.py) directly on main. Those pieces are intentionally NOT included
here — this carries only what is still missing:
- C1 disconnect reap: ws.py's `finally` only re-pointed the dead transport at
stdio. `_close_sessions_for_transport` now reaps `close_on_disconnect`
sessions and schedules the grace-reap for the rest, offloaded via
`asyncio.to_thread` so the blocking worker.close() + DB write never stalls
the uvicorn loop.
- C2 create/close orphan race: `_attach_worker` stores the worker iff
`_sessions.get(sid) is session` under the lock (else closes it), applied at
every spawn site incl. the post-turn `_restart_slash_worker`.
- Single idempotent teardown funnel: session.close, WS disconnect, the
generous-TTL idle reaper, shutdown, and the WS grace-reap all reach
`_close_session_by_id` → `_teardown_session`; `_finalized`/`_closed` flags
make concurrent/double teardown a no-op. `_sessions_lock` upgraded to RLock.
- uvicorn `ws_ping_interval/timeout=20s` so a half-open socket (reverse-proxy
524) becomes a `WebSocketDisconnect` and the C1 path runs.
Plus two review-driven hardening fixes (mine):
- `session.active_list` now skips `_finalized` sessions so the footer
"N sessions" count reflects attachable sessions instead of only ever
growing until restart (#38950). Keys on `_finalized` only, NOT the stdio
sentinel, so a standalone `hermes --tui` session stays visible.
- `_schedule_ws_orphan_reap._reap` pops via `_close_session_by_id`
(under `_sessions_lock`) instead of `_sessions.pop` under the unrelated
`_session_resume_lock` (#39591); the resume_lock now only guards the orphan
re-check against `session.resume`.
- Float env knobs (`HERMES_SLASH_WATCHDOG_*`, `HERMES_TUI_SESSION_TTL_S`)
parse with a fallback helper so a malformed value can't crash the worker at
import.
Fixes#32377Fixes#38950
Addresses #22855
Co-authored-by: banditburai <123342691+banditburai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <82637225+kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
Two narrow Windows desktop fixes:
1. tools/process_registry.py — PTY stdin writes are now platform-aware.
pywinpty (Windows) expects str; ptyprocess (POSIX) expects bytes.
Previously bytes was unconditionally passed, producing a TypeError on
Windows ("'bytes' object cannot be converted to 'PyString'").
2. tui_gateway/server.py + ws.py — Detached WebSocket sessions now park on
a _DropTransport sink instead of _stdio_transport. In the desktop the
gateway runs in-process and stdout is captured by Electron into
desktop.log, so falling back to stdio leaked raw JSON-RPC frames into
the desktop log after WS disconnects. Orphan-reap semantics are
preserved via _ws_session_is_orphaned.
Verified on a Windows desktop install:
- pywinpty 2.0.15 rejects bytes / accepts str — reproduced exactly
- Focused suite green (write_stdin × 2, write_json_drops_detached_ws_frames,
ws_orphan_reap × 2)
- All 6 CI test shards green, e2e green, nix (ubuntu/macos) green
Salvage commit (21be7ca) fixes the new test referencing an undefined
_ThreadUnsafeStdout — uses the existing _ChunkyStdout helper.
Fold the slash-worker subprocess close into _finalize_session itself —
the single _finalized-guarded session-end chokepoint — instead of
relying on each caller (_teardown_session, _shutdown_sessions) to close
it separately. A future code path that finalizes a session directly can
no longer reintroduce the #38095 worker leak.
Idempotent: _SlashWorker.close() is poll()-guarded and _finalize_session
short-circuits on _finalized, so the existing teardown paths are
unaffected. Drops the now-redundant separate close() in
_shutdown_sessions.
Note: the active leak this issue reported was already fixed on main
(WS-orphan reaper #38591, _restart_slash_worker close, atexit shutdown).
This addresses the residual defense-in-depth gap the reporter correctly
identified in their follow-up comment.
