Three changes consolidated into the existing backup system:
1. Fix: hermes backup now uses sqlite3.Connection.backup() for .db files
instead of raw file copy. Raw copy of a WAL-mode database can produce
a corrupted backup — the backup() API handles this correctly.
2. hermes backup --quick: fast snapshot of just critical state files
(config.yaml, state.db, .env, auth.json, cron/jobs.json, etc.)
stored in ~/.hermes/state-snapshots/. Auto-prunes to 20 snapshots.
3. /snapshot slash command (alias /snap): in-session interface for
quick state snapshots. create/list/restore/prune subcommands.
Restore by ID or number. Powered by the same backup module.
No new modules — everything lives in hermes_cli/backup.py alongside
the existing full backup/import code.
No hooks in run_agent.py — purely on-demand, zero runtime overhead.
Closes the use case from PRs #8406 and #7813 with ~200 lines of new
logic instead of a 1090-line content-addressed storage engine.
- Move test file to tests/hermes_cli/ (consistent with test layout)
- Remove unused imports (os, pytest) from test file
- Update _sanitize_env_lines docstring: now used on read + write paths
When .env files become corrupted (e.g. concatenated KEY=VALUE pairs on
a single line due to concurrent writes or encoding issues), both
python-dotenv and load_env() would parse the entire concatenated string
as a single value. This caused bot tokens to appear duplicated up to 8×,
triggering InvalidToken errors from the Telegram API.
Root cause: _sanitize_env_lines() — which correctly splits concatenated
lines — was only called during save_env_value() writes, not during reads.
Fix:
- load_env() now calls _sanitize_env_lines() before parsing
- env_loader.load_hermes_dotenv() sanitizes the .env file on disk
before python-dotenv reads it, so os.getenv() also returns clean values
- Added tests reproducing the exact corruption pattern from #8908Closes#8908
The startup warning that Nous Research Hermes 3 & 4 models are not agentic
fired on any model whose name contained "hermes" anywhere, via a plain
substring check. That false-positived on unrelated local Modelfiles such
as `hermes-brain:qwen3-14b-ctx16k` — a tool-capable Qwen3 wrapper that
happens to live under a custom "hermes" tag namespace — making the warning
noise for legitimate setups.
Replace the substring check with a narrow regex anchored on `^`, `/`, or
`:` boundaries that only matches the real Hermes-3 / Hermes-4 chat family
(e.g. `NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B`, `hermes-4-405b`,
`openrouter/hermes3:70b`). Consolidate into a single helper
`is_nous_hermes_non_agentic()` in `hermes_cli.model_switch` so the CLI
and the canonical check don't drift, and route the duplicate inline site
in `cli.HermesCLI._print_warnings()` through the helper.
Add a parametrized test covering positive matches (real Hermes-3/-4
names) and a broad set of negatives (custom Modelfiles, Qwen/Claude/GPT,
older Nous-Hermes-2 families, bare "hermes", empty string, and the
"brain-hermes-3-impostor" boundary case).
_remap_path_for_user was calling .resolve() on the Python path, which
followed venv/bin/python into the base interpreter. On uv-managed venvs
this swaps the systemd ExecStart to a bare Python that has none of the
venv's site-packages, so the service crashes on first import. Classical
python -m venv installs were unaffected by accident: the resolved target
/usr/bin/python3.x lives outside $HOME so the path-remap branch was
skipped and the system Python's packages silently worked.
Remove .resolve() calls on both current_home and the path; use
.expanduser() for lexical tilde expansion only. The function does
lexical prefix substitution, which is all it needs to do for its
actual purpose (remapping /root/.hermes -> /home/<user>/.hermes when
installing system services as root for a different user).
Repro: on a uv-managed venv install, `sudo hermes gateway install
--system` writes ExecStart=.../uv/python/cpython-3.11.15-.../bin/python3.11
instead of .../hermes-agent/venv/bin/python, and the service crashes on
ModuleNotFoundError: yaml.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: web UI dashboard for managing Hermes Agent (salvage of #8204/#7621)
Adds an embedded web UI dashboard accessible via `hermes web`:
- Status page: agent version, active sessions, gateway status, connected platforms
- Config editor: schema-driven form with tabbed categories, import/export, reset
- API Keys page: set, clear, and view redacted values with category grouping
- Sessions, Skills, Cron, Logs, and Analytics pages
Backend:
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: FastAPI server with REST endpoints
- hermes_cli/config.py: reload_env() utility for hot-reloading .env
- hermes_cli/main.py: `hermes web` subcommand (--port, --host, --no-open)
- cli.py / commands.py: /reload slash command for .env hot-reload
- pyproject.toml: [web] optional dependency extra (fastapi + uvicorn)
- Both update paths (git + zip) auto-build web frontend when npm available
Frontend:
- Vite + React + TypeScript + Tailwind v4 SPA in web/
- shadcn/ui-style components, Nous design language
- Auto-refresh status page, toast notifications, masked password inputs
Security:
- Path traversal guard (resolve().is_relative_to()) on SPA file serving
- CORS localhost-only via allow_origin_regex
- Generic error messages (no internal leak), SessionDB handles closed properly
Tests: 47 tests covering reload_env, redact_key, API endpoints, schema
generation, path traversal, category merging, internal key stripping,
and full config round-trip.
Original work by @austinpickett (PR #1813), salvaged by @kshitijk4poor
(PR #7621 → #8204), re-salvaged onto current main with stale-branch
regressions removed.
* fix(web): clean up status page cards, always rebuild on `hermes web`
- Remove config version migration alert banner from status page
- Remove config version card (internal noise, not surfaced in TUI)
- Reorder status cards: Agent → Gateway → Active Sessions (3-col grid)
- `hermes web` now always rebuilds from source before serving,
preventing stale web_dist when editing frontend files
* feat(web): full-text search across session messages
- Add GET /api/sessions/search endpoint backed by FTS5
- Auto-append prefix wildcards so partial words match (e.g. 'nimb' → 'nimby')
- Debounced search (300ms) with spinner in the search icon slot
- Search results show FTS5 snippets with highlighted match delimiters
- Expanding a search hit auto-scrolls to the first matching message
- Matching messages get a warning ring + 'match' badge
- Inline term highlighting within Markdown (text, bold, italic, headings, lists)
- Clear button (x) on search input for quick reset
---------
Co-authored-by: emozilla <emozilla@nousresearch.com>
OpenCode Zen was in _DOT_TO_HYPHEN_PROVIDERS, causing all dotted model
names (minimax-m2.5-free, gpt-5.4, glm-5.1) to be mangled. The fix:
Layer 1 (model_normalize.py): Remove opencode-zen from the blanket
dot-to-hyphen set. Add an explicit block that preserves dots for
non-Claude models while keeping Claude hyphenated (Zen's Claude
endpoint uses anthropic_messages mode which expects hyphens).
Layer 2 (run_agent.py _anthropic_preserve_dots): Add opencode-zen and
zai to the provider allowlist. Broaden URL check from opencode.ai/zen/go
to opencode.ai/zen/ to cover both Go and Zen endpoints. Add bigmodel.cn
for ZAI URL detection.
Also adds glm-5.1 to ZAI model lists in models.py and setup.py.
Closes#7710
Salvaged from contributions by:
- konsisumer (PR #7739, #7719)
- DomGrieco (PR #8708)
- Esashiero (PR #7296)
- sharziki (PR #7497)
- XiaoYingGee (PR #8750)
- APTX4869-maker (PR #8752)
- kagura-agent (PR #7157)
Adds /debug as a slash command available in CLI, Telegram, Discord,
Slack, and all other gateway platforms. Uploads debug report + full
logs to paste services and returns shareable URLs.
- commands.py: CommandDef in Info category (no cli_only/gateway_only)
- gateway/run.py: async handler with run_in_executor for blocking I/O
- cli.py: dispatch in process_command to run_debug_share
* feat: add `hermes debug share` — upload debug report to pastebin
Adds a new `hermes debug share` command that collects system info
(via hermes dump), recent logs (agent.log, errors.log, gateway.log),
and uploads the combined report to a paste service (paste.rs primary,
dpaste.com fallback). Returns a shareable URL for support.
Options:
--lines N Number of log lines per file (default: 200)
--expire N Paste expiry in days (default: 7, dpaste.com only)
--local Print report locally without uploading
Files:
hermes_cli/debug.py - New module: paste upload + report collection
hermes_cli/main.py - Wire cmd_debug + argparse subparser
tests/hermes_cli/test_debug.py - 19 tests covering upload, collection, CLI
* feat: upload full agent.log and gateway.log as separate pastes
hermes debug share now uploads up to 3 pastes:
1. Summary report (system info + log tails) — always
2. Full agent.log (last ~500KB) — if file exists
3. Full gateway.log (last ~500KB) — if file exists
Each paste uploads independently; log upload failures are noted
but don't block the main report. Output shows all links aligned:
Report https://paste.rs/abc
agent.log https://paste.rs/def
gateway.log https://paste.rs/ghi
Also adds _read_full_log() with size-capped tail reading to stay
within paste service limits (~512KB per file).
* feat: prepend hermes dump to each log paste for self-contained context
Each paste (agent.log, gateway.log) now starts with the hermes dump
output so clicking any single link gives full system context without
needing to cross-reference the summary report.
Refactored dump capture into _capture_dump() — called once and
reused across the summary report and each log paste.
* fix: fall back to .1 rotated log when primary log is missing or empty
When gateway.log (or agent.log) doesn't exist or is empty, the debug
share now checks for the .1 rotation file. This is common — the
gateway rotates logs and the primary file may not exist yet.
Extracted _resolve_log_path() to centralize the fallback logic for
both _read_log_tail() and _read_full_log().
* chore: remove unused display_hermes_home import
Users who set up Nous auth without explicitly selecting a model via
`hermes model` were silently falling back to anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
(the first entry in _PROVIDER_MODELS['nous']), causing unexpected
charges on their Nous plan. Move xiaomi/mimo-v2-pro to the first
position so unconfigured users default to a free model instead.
Combines detection from both PRs into _detect_openclaw_processes():
- Cross-platform process scan (pgrep/tasklist/PowerShell) from PR #8102
- systemd service check from PR #8555
- Returns list[str] with details about what's found
Fixes in cleanup warning (from PR #8555):
- print_warning -> print_error/print_info (print_warning not in import chain)
- Added isatty() guard for non-interactive sessions
- Removed duplicate _check_openclaw_running() in favor of shared function
Updated all tests to match new API.
- Use PowerShell to inspect node.exe command lines on Windows,
since tasklist output does not include them.
- Also check for dedicated openclaw.exe/clawd.exe processes.
- Skip the interactive prompt in non-interactive sessions so the
preview-only behavior is preserved.
- Update tests accordingly.
Relates to #7907
Add _is_openclaw_running() and _warn_if_openclaw_running() to detect
OpenClaw processes (via pgrep/tasklist) before hermes claw migrate.
Warns the user that messaging platforms only allow one active session
per bot token, and lets them cancel or continue.
Fixes#7907
Skills.sh installs hit the GitHub API 45 times per install because the
same repo tree was fetched 6 times redundantly. Combined with search
(23 API calls), this totals 68 — exceeding the unauthenticated rate
limit of 60 req/hr, causing 'Could not fetch' errors for users without
a GITHUB_TOKEN.
Changes:
- Add _get_repo_tree() cache to GitHubSource — repo info + recursive
tree fetched once per repo per source instance, eliminating 10
redundant API calls (6 tree + 4 candidate 404s)
- _download_directory_via_tree returns {} (not None) when cached tree
shows path doesn't exist, skipping unnecessary Contents API fallback
- _check_rate_limit_response() detects exhausted quota and sets
is_rate_limited flag
- do_install() shows actionable hint when rate limited: set
GITHUB_TOKEN or install gh CLI
Before: 45 API calls per install (68 total with search)
After: 31 API calls per install (54 total with search — under 60/hr)
Reported by community user from Vietnam (no GitHub auth configured).
Centralize container detection in hermes_constants.is_container() with
process-lifetime caching, matching existing is_wsl()/is_termux() patterns.
Dedup _is_inside_container() in config.py to delegate to the new function.
Add _run_systemctl() wrapper that converts FileNotFoundError to RuntimeError
for defense-in-depth — all 10 bare subprocess.run(_systemctl_cmd(...)) call
sites now route through it.
Make supports_systemd_services() return False in containers and when
systemctl binary is absent (shutil.which check).
Add Docker-specific guidance in gateway_command() for install/uninstall/start
subcommands — exit 0 with helpful instructions instead of crashing.
Make 'hermes status' show 'Manager: docker (foreground)' and 'hermes dump'
show 'running (docker, pid N)' inside containers.
Fix setup_gateway() to use supports_systemd instead of _is_linux for all
systemd-related branches, and show Docker restart policy instructions in
containers.
Replace inline /.dockerenv check in voice_mode.py with is_container().
Fixes#7420
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
The backup validation checked for 'hermes_state.db' and 'memory_store.db'
as telltale markers of a valid Hermes backup zip. Neither name exists in a
real Hermes installation — the actual database file is 'state.db'
(hermes_state.py: DEFAULT_DB_PATH = get_hermes_home() / 'state.db').
A fresh Hermes installation produces:
~/.hermes/state.db (actual name)
~/.hermes/config.yaml
~/.hermes/.env
Because the marker set never matched 'state.db', a backup zip containing
only 'state.db' plus 'config.yaml' would fail validation with:
'zip does not appear to be a Hermes backup'
and the import would exit with sys.exit(1), silently rejecting a valid backup.
Fix: replace the wrong marker names with the correct filename.
Adds TestValidateBackupZip with three cases:
- state.db is accepted as a valid marker
- old wrong names (hermes_state.db, memory_store.db) alone are rejected
- config.yaml continues to pass (existing behaviour preserved)
Add agent.gateway_notify_interval config option (default 600s).
Set to 0 to disable periodic 'still working' notifications.
Bridged to HERMES_AGENT_NOTIFY_INTERVAL env var (same pattern as
gateway_timeout and gateway_timeout_warning).
The inactivity warning (gateway_timeout_warning) was already
configurable; this makes the wall-clock ping configurable too.
- Remove duplicate _setup_feishu() definition (old 3-line version left
behind by cherry-pick — Python picked the new one but dead code
remained)
- Remove misleading 'Disable direct messages' DM option — the Feishu
adapter has no DM policy mechanism, so 'disable' produced identical
env vars to 'pairing'. Users who chose 'disable' would still see
pairing prompts. Reduced to 3 options: pairing, allow-all, allowlist.
- Fix test_probe_returns_bot_info_on_success and
test_probe_returns_none_on_failure: patch FEISHU_AVAILABLE=True so
probe_bot() takes the SDK path when lark_oapi is not installed
Fresh profiles (created without --clone) now:
- Auto-seed a default SOUL.md immediately, so users have a file to
customize right away instead of discovering it only after first use
- Print a clear warning that the profile has no API keys and will
inherit from the shell environment unless configured separately
- Show the SOUL.md path for personality customization
Previously, fresh profiles started with no SOUL.md (only seeded on
first use via ensure_hermes_home), no mention of credential isolation,
and no guidance about customizing personality. Users reported confusion
about profiles using the wrong model/plan tokens and SOUL.md not
being read — both traced to operational gaps in the creation UX.
Closes#8093 (investigated: code correctly loads SOUL.md from profile
HERMES_HOME; issue was operational, not a code bug).
When a user configures a provider (e.g. `hermes auth add openai-codex`)
but never selects a model via `hermes model`, the gateway and CLI would
pass an empty model string to the API, causing:
'Codex Responses request model must be a non-empty string'
Now both gateway (_resolve_session_agent_runtime) and CLI
(_ensure_runtime_credentials) detect an empty model and fill it from
the provider's first catalog entry in _PROVIDER_MODELS. This covers
all providers that have a static model list (openai-codex, anthropic,
gemini, copilot, etc.).
The fix is conservative: it only triggers when model is truly empty
and a known provider was resolved. Explicit model choices are never
overridden.
When /update runs via Telegram, hermes update --gateway is spawned inside
the gateway's systemd cgroup. The update process itself calls
systemctl restart hermes-gateway, which tears down the cgroup with
KillMode=mixed — SIGKILL to all remaining processes. The wrapping bash
shell is killed before it can execute the exit-code epilogue, so
.update_exit_code is never created. The new gateway's update watcher
then polls for 30 minutes and sends a spurious timeout message.
Fix: write .update_exit_code from Python inside cmd_update() immediately
after the git pull + pip install succeed ("Update complete!"), before
attempting the gateway restart. The shell epilogue still writes it too
(idempotent overwrite), but now the marker exists even when the process
is killed mid-restart.
Follow-up for cherry-picked PR #8272:
- Add MATRIX_RECOVERY_KEY to module docstring header in matrix.py
- Register in OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS (config.py) with password=True, advanced=True
- Add to _NON_SETUP_ENV_VARS set
- Document cross-signing verification in matrix.md E2EE section
- Update migration guide with recovery key step (step 3)
- Add to environment-variables.md reference
OpenAI OAuth refresh tokens are single-use and rotate on every refresh.
When Hermes refreshes a Codex token, it consumed the old refresh_token
but never wrote the new pair back to ~/.codex/auth.json. This caused
Codex CLI and VS Code to fail with 'refresh_token_reused' on their
next refresh attempt.
This mirrors the existing Anthropic write-back pattern where refreshed
tokens are written to ~/.claude/.credentials.json via
_write_claude_code_credentials().
Changes:
- Add _write_codex_cli_tokens() in hermes_cli/auth.py (parallel to
_write_claude_code_credentials in anthropic_adapter.py)
- Call it from _refresh_codex_auth_tokens() (non-pool refresh path)
- Call it from credential_pool._refresh_entry() (pool happy path + retry)
- Add tests for the new write-back behavior
- Update existing test docstring to clarify _save_codex_tokens vs
_write_codex_cli_tokens separation
Fixes refresh token conflict reported by @ec12edfae2cb221
Reject non-URL values (e.g. shell commands typed by mistake) in the
base URL prompt during provider setup. Previously any string was saved
as-is to .env, breaking connectivity when the garbage value was used
as the API endpoint.
Adds http:// / https:// prefix check with a clear error message.
The custom-endpoint flow already had this validation (line 1620);
this brings the generic API-key provider flow to parity.
Triggered by a user support case where 'nano ~/.hermes/.env' was
accidentally entered as GLM_BASE_URL during Z.AI setup.
- Add openai/openai-codex -> openai mapping to PROVIDER_TO_MODELS_DEV
so context-length lookups use models.dev data instead of 128k fallback.
Fixes#8161.
- Set api_mode from custom_providers entry when switching via hermes model,
and clear stale api_mode when the entry has none. Also extract api_mode
in _named_custom_provider_map(). Fixes#8181.
- Convert OpenAI image_url content blocks to Anthropic image blocks when
the endpoint is Anthropic-compatible (MiniMax, MiniMax-CN, or any URL
containing /anthropic). Fixes#8147.
Add a 'tip of the day' feature that displays a random one-liner about
Hermes Agent features on every new session — CLI startup, /clear, /new,
and gateway /new across all messaging platforms.
- New hermes_cli/tips.py module with 210 curated tips covering slash
commands, keybindings, CLI flags, config options, tools, gateway
platforms, profiles, sessions, memory, skills, cron, voice, security,
and more
- CLI: tips display in skin-aware dim gold color after the welcome line
- Gateway: tips append to the /new and /reset response on all platforms
- Fully wrapped in try/except — tips are non-critical and never break
startup or reset
Display format (CLI):
✦ Tip: /btw <question> asks a quick side question without tools or history.
Display format (gateway):
✨ Session reset! Starting fresh.
✦ Tip: hermes -c resumes your most recent CLI session.
Remove auto-archival from hermes claw migrate — not its
responsibility (hermes claw cleanup is still there for that).
Skip MESSAGING_CWD when it points inside the OpenClaw source
directory, which was the actual root cause of agent confusion
after migration. Use Path.is_relative_to() for robust path
containment check.
Salvaged from PR #8192 by opriz.
Co-authored-by: opriz <opriz@users.noreply.github.com>
- Add rebrand_text() that replaces OpenClaw, Open Claw, Open-Claw,
ClawdBot, and MoltBot with Hermes (case-insensitive, word-boundary)
- Apply rebranding to memory entries (MEMORY.md, USER.md, daily memory)
- Apply rebranding to SOUL.md and workspace instructions via new
transform parameter on copy_file()
- Fix moldbot -> moltbot typo across codebase (claw.py, migration
script, docs, tests)
- Add unit tests for rebrand_text and integration tests for memory
and soul migration rebranding
Users whose credentials exist only in external files — OpenAI Codex
OAuth tokens in ~/.codex/auth.json or Anthropic Claude Code credentials
in ~/.claude/.credentials.json — would not see those providers in the
/model picker, even though hermes auth and hermes model detected them.
Root cause: list_authenticated_providers() only checked the raw Hermes
auth store and env vars. External credential file fallbacks (Codex CLI
import, Claude Code file discovery) were never triggered.
Fix (three parts):
1. _seed_from_singletons() in credential_pool.py: openai-codex now
imports from ~/.codex/auth.json when the Hermes auth store is empty,
mirroring resolve_codex_runtime_credentials().
2. list_authenticated_providers() in model_switch.py: auth store + pool
checks now run for ALL providers (not just OAuth auth_type), catching
providers like anthropic that support both API key and OAuth.
3. list_authenticated_providers(): direct check for anthropic external
credential files (Claude Code, Hermes PKCE). The credential pool
intentionally gates anthropic behind is_provider_explicitly_configured()
to prevent auxiliary tasks from silently consuming tokens. The /model
picker bypasses this gate since it is discovery-oriented.
On servers with broken or unreachable IPv6, Python's socket.getaddrinfo
returns AAAA records first. urllib/httpx/requests all try IPv6 connections
first and hang for the full TCP timeout before falling back to IPv4. This
affects web_extract, web_search, the OpenAI SDK, and all HTTP tools.
Adds network.force_ipv4 config option (default: false) that monkey-patches
socket.getaddrinfo to resolve as AF_INET when the caller didn't specify a
family. Falls back to full resolution if no A record exists, so pure-IPv6
hosts still work.
Applied early at all three entry points (CLI, gateway, cron scheduler)
before any HTTP clients are created.
Reported by user @29n — Chinese Ubuntu server with unreachable IPv6 causing
timeouts on lobste.rs and other IPv6-enabled sites while Google/GitHub
worked fine (IPv4-only resolution).
Adds an optional focus topic to /compress: `/compress database schema`
guides the summariser to preserve information related to the focus topic
(60-70% of summary budget) while compressing everything else more aggressively.
Inspired by Claude Code's /compact <focus>.
Changes:
- context_compressor.py: focus_topic parameter on _generate_summary() and
compress(); appends FOCUS TOPIC guidance block to the LLM prompt
- run_agent.py: focus_topic parameter on _compress_context(), passed through
to the compressor
- cli.py: _manual_compress() extracts focus topic from command string,
preserves existing manual_compression_feedback integration (no regression)
- gateway/run.py: _handle_compress_command() extracts focus from event args
and passes through — full gateway parity
- commands.py: args_hint="[focus topic]" on /compress CommandDef
Salvaged from PR #7459 (CLI /compress focus only — /context command deferred).
15 new tests across CLI, compressor, and gateway.
* feat: add `hermes backup` and `hermes import` commands
hermes backup — creates a zip of ~/.hermes/ (config, skills, sessions,
profiles, memories, skins, cron jobs, etc.) excluding the hermes-agent
codebase, __pycache__, and runtime PID files. Defaults to
~/hermes-backup-<timestamp>.zip, customizable with -o.
hermes import <zipfile> — restores from a backup zip, validating it
looks like a hermes backup before extracting. Handles .hermes/ prefix
stripping, path traversal protection, and confirmation prompts (skip
with --force).
29 tests covering exclusion rules, backup creation, import validation,
prefix detection, path traversal blocking, confirmation flow, and a
full round-trip test.
* test: improve backup/import coverage to 97%
Add 17 additional tests covering:
- _format_size helper (bytes through terabytes)
- Nonexistent hermes home error exit
- Output path is a directory (auto-names inside it)
- Output without .zip suffix (auto-appends)
- Empty hermes home (all files excluded)
- Permission errors during backup and import
- Output zip inside hermes root (skips itself)
- Not-a-zip file rejection
- EOFError and KeyboardInterrupt during confirmation
- 500+ file progress display
- Directory-only zip prefix detection
Remove dead code branch in _detect_prefix (unreachable guard).
* feat: auto-restore profile wrapper scripts on import
After extracting backup files, hermes import now scans profiles/ for
subdirectories with config.yaml or .env and recreates the ~/.local/bin
wrapper scripts so profile aliases (e.g. 'coder chat') work immediately.
Also prints guidance for re-installing gateway services per profile.
Handles edge cases:
- Skips profile dirs without config (not real profiles)
- Skips aliases that collide with existing commands
- Gracefully degrades if hermes_cli.profiles isn't available (fresh install)
- Shows PATH hint if ~/.local/bin isn't in PATH
3 new profile restoration tests (49 total).
* feat: component-separated logging with session context and filtering
Phase 1 — Gateway log isolation:
- gateway.log now only receives records from gateway.* loggers
(platform adapters, session management, slash commands, delivery)
- agent.log remains the catch-all (all components)
- errors.log remains WARNING+ catch-all
- Moved gateway.log handler creation from gateway/run.py into
hermes_logging.setup_logging(mode='gateway') with _ComponentFilter
Phase 2 — Session ID injection:
- Added set_session_context(session_id) / clear_session_context() API
using threading.local() for per-thread session tracking
- _SessionFilter enriches every log record with session_tag attribute
- Log format: '2026-04-11 10:23:45 INFO [session_id] logger.name: msg'
- Session context set at start of run_conversation() in run_agent.py
- Thread-isolated: gateway conversations on different threads don't leak
Phase 3 — Component filtering in hermes logs:
- Added --component flag: hermes logs --component gateway|agent|tools|cli|cron
- COMPONENT_PREFIXES maps component names to logger name prefixes
- Works with all existing filters (--level, --session, --since, -f)
- Logger name extraction handles both old and new log formats
Files changed:
- hermes_logging.py: _SessionFilter, _ComponentFilter, COMPONENT_PREFIXES,
set/clear_session_context(), gateway.log creation in setup_logging()
- gateway/run.py: removed redundant gateway.log handler (now in hermes_logging)
- run_agent.py: set_session_context() at start of run_conversation()
- hermes_cli/logs.py: --component filter, logger name extraction
- hermes_cli/main.py: --component argument on logs subparser
Addresses community request for component-separated, filterable logging.
Zero changes to existing logger names — __name__ already provides hierarchy.
* fix: use LogRecord factory instead of per-handler _SessionFilter
The _SessionFilter approach required attaching a filter to every handler
we create. Any handler created outside our _add_rotating_handler (like
the gateway stderr handler, or third-party handlers) would crash with
KeyError: 'session_tag' if it used our format string.
Replace with logging.setLogRecordFactory() which injects session_tag
into every LogRecord at creation time — process-global, zero per-handler
wiring needed. The factory is installed at import time (before
setup_logging) so session_tag is available from the moment hermes_logging
is imported.
- Idempotent: marker attribute prevents double-wrapping on module reload
- Chains with existing factory: won't break third-party record factories
- Removes _SessionFilter from _add_rotating_handler and setup_verbose_logging
- Adds tests: record factory injection, idempotency, arbitrary handler compat
Add display.platforms section to config.yaml for per-platform overrides of
display settings (tool_progress, show_reasoning, streaming, tool_preview_length).
Each platform gets sensible built-in defaults based on capability tier:
- High (telegram, discord): tool_progress=all, streaming follows global
- Medium (slack, mattermost, matrix, feishu): tool_progress=new
- Low (signal, whatsapp, bluebubbles, wecom, etc.): tool_progress=off, streaming=false
- Minimal (email, sms, webhook, homeassistant): tool_progress=off, streaming=false
Example config:
display:
platforms:
telegram:
tool_progress: all
show_reasoning: true
slack:
tool_progress: off
Resolution order: platform override > global setting > built-in platform default.
Changes:
- New gateway/display_config.py: resolver module with tier-based platform defaults
- gateway/run.py: tool_progress, tool_preview_length, streaming, show_reasoning
all resolve per-platform via the new resolver
- /verbose command: now cycles tool_progress per-platform (saves to
display.platforms.<platform>.tool_progress instead of global)
- /reasoning show|hide: now saves show_reasoning per-platform
- Config version 15 -> 16: migrates tool_progress_overrides into display.platforms
- Backward compat: legacy tool_progress_overrides still read as fallback
- 27 new tests for resolver, normalization, migration, backward compat
- Updated verbose command tests for per-platform behavior
Addresses community request for per-channel verbosity control (Guillaume Meyer,
Nathan Danielsen) — high verbosity on backchannel Telegram, low on customer-facing
Slack, none on email.
When /model is called with no arguments in the interactive CLI, open a
two-step prompt_toolkit modal instead of the previous text-only listing:
1. Provider selection — curses_single_select with all authenticated providers
2. Model selection — live API fetch with curated fallback
Also fixes:
- OpenAI Codex model normalization (openai/gpt-5.4 → gpt-5.4)
- Dedicated Codex validation path using provider_model_ids()
Preserves curses_radiolist (used by setup, tools, plugins) alongside the
new curses_single_select. Retains tool elapsed timer in spinner.
Cherry-picked from PR #7438 by MestreY0d4-Uninter.
* feat(nix): container-aware CLI — auto-route all subcommands into managed container
When container.enable = true, the host `hermes` CLI transparently execs
every subcommand into the managed Docker/Podman container. A symlink
bridge (~/.hermes -> /var/lib/hermes/.hermes) unifies state between host
and container so sessions, config, and memories are shared.
CLI changes:
- Global routing before subcommand dispatch (all commands forwarded)
- docker exec with -u exec_user, env passthrough (TERM, COLORTERM,
LANG, LC_ALL), TTY-aware flags
- Retry with spinner on failure (TTY: 5s, non-TTY: 10s silent)
- Hard fail instead of silent fallback
- HERMES_DEV=1 env var bypasses routing for development
- No routing messages (invisible to user)
NixOS module changes:
- container.hostUsers option: lists users who get ~/.hermes symlink
and automatic hermes group membership
- Activation script creates symlink bridge (with backup of existing
~/.hermes dirs), writes exec_user to .container-mode
- Cleanup on disable: removes symlinks + .container-mode + stops service
- Warning when hostUsers set without addToSystemPackages
* fix: address review — reuse sudo var, add chown -h on symlink update
- hermes_cli/main.py: reuse the existing `sudo` variable instead of
redundant `shutil.which("sudo")` call that could return None
- nix/nixosModules.nix: add missing `chown -h` when updating an
existing symlink target so ownership stays consistent with the
fresh-create and backup-replace branches
* fix: address remaining review items from cursor bugbot
- hermes_cli/main.py: move container routing BEFORE parse_args() so
--help, unrecognised flags, and all subcommands are forwarded
transparently into the container instead of being intercepted by
argparse on the host (high severity)
- nix/nixosModules.nix: resolve home dirs via
config.users.users.${user}.home instead of hardcoding /home/${user},
supporting users with custom home directories (medium severity)
- nix/nixosModules.nix: gate hostUsers group membership on
container.enable so setting hostUsers without container mode doesn't
silently add users to the hermes group (low severity)
* fix: simplify container routing — execvp, no retries, let it crash
- Replace subprocess.run retry loop with os.execvp (no idle parent process)
- Extract _probe_container helper for sudo detection with 15s timeout
- Narrow exception handling: FileNotFoundError only in get_container_exec_info,
catch TimeoutExpired specifically, remove silent except Exception: pass
- Collapse needs_sudo + sudo into single sudo_path variable
- Simplify NixOS symlink creation from 4 branches to 2
- Gate NixOS sudoers hint with "On NixOS:" prefix
- Full test rewrite: 18 tests covering execvp, sudo probe, timeout, permissions
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Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
Add display.interim_assistant_messages config (enabled by default) that
forwards completed assistant commentary between tool calls to the user
as separate chat messages. Models already emit useful status text like
'I'll inspect the repo first.' — this surfaces it on Telegram, Discord,
and other messaging platforms instead of swallowing it.
Independent from tool_progress and gateway streaming. Disabled for
webhooks. Uses GatewayStreamConsumer when available, falls back to
direct adapter send. Tracks response_previewed to prevent double-delivery
when interim message matches the final response.
Also fixes: cursor not stripped from fallback prefix in stream consumer
(affected continuation calculation on no-edit platforms like Signal).
Cherry-picked from PR #7885 by asheriif, default changed to enabled.
Fixes#5016
Add the missing 'Adding a Platform Adapter' developer guide — a
comprehensive step-by-step checklist covering all 20+ integration
points (enum, adapter, config, runner, CLI, tools, toolsets, cron,
webhooks, tests, and docs). Includes common patterns for long-poll,
callback/webhook, and token-lock adapters with reference implementations.
Also adds full docs coverage for the WeCom Callback platform:
- New docs page: user-guide/messaging/wecom-callback.md
- Environment variables reference (9 WECOM_CALLBACK_* vars)
- Toolsets reference (hermes-wecom-callback)
- Messaging index (comparison table, architecture diagram, toolsets,
security, next-steps links)
- Integrations index listing
- Sidebar entries for both new pages
- Add --env KEY=VALUE for passing environment variables to stdio MCP servers
- Add --preset for known MCP server templates (empty for now, extensible)
- Validate env var names, reject --env for HTTP servers
- Explicit --command/--url overrides preset defaults
- Remove unused getpass import
Based on PR #7936 by @syaor4n (stitch preset removed, generic infra kept).
Add a second WeCom integration mode for regular enterprise self-built
applications. Unlike the existing bot/websocket adapter (wecom.py),
this handles WeCom's standard callback flow: WeCom POSTs encrypted XML
to an HTTP endpoint, the adapter decrypts, queues for the agent, and
immediately acknowledges. The agent's reply is delivered proactively
via the message/send API.
Key design choice: always acknowledge immediately and use proactive
send — agent sessions take 3-30 minutes, so the 5-second inline reply
window is never useful. The original PR's Future/pending-reply
machinery was removed in favour of this simpler architecture.
Features:
- AES-CBC encrypt/decrypt (BizMsgCrypt-compatible)
- Multi-app routing scoped by corp_id:user_id
- Legacy bare user_id fallback for backward compat
- Access-token management with auto-refresh
- WECOM_CALLBACK_* env var overrides
- Port-in-use pre-check before binding
- Health endpoint at /health
Salvaged from PR #7774 by @chqchshj. Simplified by removing the
inline reply Future system and fixing: secrets.choice for nonce
generation, immediate plain-text acknowledgment (not encrypted XML
containing 'success'), and initial token refresh error handling.
When 'hermes claw migrate' copies Telegram/Discord/Slack bot tokens from
OpenClaw while the Hermes gateway is already polling with those same tokens,
the platforms conflict (e.g. Telegram 409). Add a pre-flight check that reads
gateway_state.json via get_running_pid() + read_runtime_status(), warns the
user, and lets them cancel or continue.
Also improve the Telegram polling conflict error message to mention OpenClaw
as a common cause and give the 'hermes start' restart command.
Refs #7907
Wire Signal, Email, SMS (Twilio), DingTalk, Feishu/Lark, and WeCom into
the hermes setup gateway interactive wizard. These platforms all had
working adapters and _PLATFORMS entries in gateway.py but were invisible
in the setup checklist — users had to manually edit .env to configure them.
Changes:
- gateway.py: Add _setup_email/sms/dingtalk/feishu/wecom functions
delegating to _setup_standard_platform (Signal already had a custom one)
- setup.py: Add wrapper functions for all 6 new platforms
- setup.py: Add all 6 to _GATEWAY_PLATFORMS checklist registry
- setup.py: Add missing env vars to any_messaging check
- setup.py: Add all missing platforms to _get_section_config_summary
(was also missing Matrix, Mattermost, Weixin, Webhooks)
- docs: Add FEISHU_ALLOWED_USERS and WECOM_ALLOWED_USERS examples
Incorporates and extends the work from PR #7918 by bugmaker2.
- add all_profiles=False to find_gateway_pids() and
kill_gateway_processes() so hermes update and gateway stop --all
can still discover processes across all profiles
- narrow bare 'except Exception' to (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired)
- update test mocks to match new signatures
The cherry-picked fix from PR #7916 placed model propagation after
the credential pool early-return in _resolve_named_custom_runtime(),
making it dead code when a pool is active (which happens whenever
custom_providers has an api_key that auto-seeds the pool).
- Inject model into pool_result before returning
- Add 5 regression tests covering direct path, pool path, empty
model, and absent model scenarios
- Add 'model' to _VALID_CUSTOM_PROVIDER_FIELDS for config validation
Fixes#7828
When a custom_providers entry carries a `model` field, that value was
silently dropped by `_get_named_custom_provider` and
`_resolve_named_custom_runtime`. Callers received a runtime dict with
`base_url`, `api_key`, and `api_mode` — but no `model`.
As a result, `hermes chat --model <provider-name>` sent the *provider
name* (e.g. "my-dashscope-provider") as the model string to the API
instead of the configured model (e.g. "qwen3.6-plus"), producing:
Error code: 400 - {'error': {'message': 'Model Not Exist'}}
Setting the provider as the *default* model in config.yaml worked
because that path writes `model.default` and the agent reads it back
directly, bypassing the broken runtime resolution path.
Changes:
1. hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py — _get_named_custom_provider()
Reads `entry.get("model")` and includes it in the result dict so
the value is available to callers.
2. hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py — _resolve_named_custom_runtime()
Propagates `custom_provider["model"]` into the returned runtime dict.
3. cli.py — _ensure_runtime_credentials()
After resolving runtime, if `runtime["model"]` is set, assign it to
`self.model` so the AIAgent is initialised with the correct model
name rather than the provider name the user typed on the CLI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
