When a session gets stuck (hung terminal, runaway tool loop) and the
user restarts the gateway, the same session history loads and puts the
agent right back in the stuck state. The user is trapped in a loop:
restart → stuck → restart → stuck.
Fix: track restart-failure counts per session using a simple JSON file
(.restart_failure_counts). On each shutdown with active agents, the
counter increments for those sessions. On startup, if any session has
been active across 3+ consecutive restarts, it's auto-suspended —
giving the user a clean slate on their next message.
The counter resets to 0 when a session completes a turn successfully
(response delivered), so normal sessions that happen to be active
during planned restarts (/restart, hermes update) won't accumulate
false counts.
Implementation:
- _increment_restart_failure_counts(): called during stop() when
agents are active. Writes {session_key: count} to JSON file.
Sessions NOT active are dropped (loop broken).
- _suspend_stuck_loop_sessions(): called on startup. Reads the file,
suspends sessions at threshold (3), clears the file.
- _clear_restart_failure_count(): called after successful response
delivery. Removes the session from the counter file.
No SessionEntry schema changes. No database migration. Pure file-based
tracking that naturally cleans up.
Test plan:
- 9 new stuck-loop tests (increment, accumulate, threshold, clear,
suspend, file cleanup, edge cases)
- All 28 gateway lifecycle tests pass (restart drain + auto-continue
+ stuck loop)
When the gateway restarts mid-agent-work, the session transcript ends
on a tool result the agent never processed. Previously, the user had
to type 'continue' or use /retry (which replays from scratch, losing
all prior work).
Now, when the next user message arrives and the loaded history ends
with role='tool', a system note is prepended:
[System note: Your previous turn was interrupted before you could
process the last tool result(s). Please finish processing those
results and summarize what was accomplished, then address the
user's new message below.]
This is injected in _run_agent()'s run_sync closure, right before
calling agent.run_conversation(). The agent sees the full history
(including the pending tool results) and the system note, so it can
summarize what was accomplished and then handle the user's new input.
Design decisions:
- No new session flags or schema changes — purely detects trailing
tool messages in the loaded history
- Works for any restart scenario (clean, crash, SIGTERM, drain timeout)
as long as the session wasn't suspended (suspended = fresh start)
- The user's actual message is preserved after the note
- If the session WAS suspended (unclean shutdown), the old history is
abandoned and the user starts fresh — no false auto-continue
Also updates the shutdown notification message from 'Use /retry after
restart to continue' to 'Send any message after restart to resume
where it left off' — which is now accurate.
Test plan:
- 6 new auto-continue tests (trailing tool detection, no false
positives for assistant/user/empty history, multi-tool, message
preservation)
- All 13 restart drain tests pass (updated /retry assertion)
Instead of consuming one top-level slash command slot per skill (hitting the
100-command limit with ~26 built-ins + 74 skills), skills are now organized
under a single /skill group command with category-based subcommand groups:
/skill creative ascii-art [args]
/skill media gif-search [args]
/skill mlops axolotl [args]
Discord supports 25 subcommand groups × 25 subcommands = 625 max skills,
well beyond the previous 74-slot ceiling.
Categories are derived from the skill directory structure:
- skills/creative/ascii-art/ → category 'creative'
- skills/mlops/training/axolotl/ → category 'mlops' (top-level parent)
- skills/dogfood/ → uncategorized (direct subcommand)
Changes:
- hermes_cli/commands.py: add discord_skill_commands_by_category() with
category grouping, hub/disabled filtering, Discord limit enforcement
- gateway/platforms/discord.py: replace top-level skill registration with
_register_skill_group() using app_commands.Group hierarchy
- tests: 7 new tests covering group creation, category grouping,
uncategorized skills, hub exclusion, deep nesting, empty skills,
and handler dispatch
Inspired by Discord community suggestion from bottium.
When the gateway receives SIGTERM/SIGINT, the shutdown handler now
runs 'ps aux' and logs every hermes/gateway-related process (excluding
itself). This will show in agent.log as:
WARNING: Shutdown diagnostic — other hermes processes running:
hermes 1234 ... hermes update --gateway
hermes 5678 ... hermes gateway restart
This is the missing diagnostic for #5646 / #6666 — we can prove
the restarts are from systemctl but can't determine WHO issues the
systemctl command. Next time it happens, the agent.log will contain
the evidence (the process that sent the signal or called systemctl
should still be alive when the handler fires).
The dashboard's gateway status detection relied solely on local PID checks
(os.kill + /proc), which fails when the gateway runs in a separate container.
Changes:
- web_server.py: Add _probe_gateway_health() that queries the gateway's HTTP
/health/detailed endpoint when the local PID check fails. Activated by
setting the GATEWAY_HEALTH_URL env var (e.g. http://gateway:8642/health).
Falls back to standard PID check when the env var is not set.
- api_server.py: Add GET /health/detailed endpoint that returns full gateway
state (platforms, gateway_state, active_agents, pid, etc.) without auth.
The existing GET /health remains unchanged for backwards compatibility.
- StatusPage.tsx: Handle the case where gateway_pid is null but the gateway
is running remotely, displaying 'Running (remote)' instead of 'PID null'.
Environment variables:
- GATEWAY_HEALTH_URL: URL of the gateway health endpoint (e.g.
http://gateway-container:8642/health). Unset = local PID check only.
- GATEWAY_HEALTH_TIMEOUT: Probe timeout in seconds (default: 3).
Root cause: when the gateway received SIGTERM (from hermes update,
external kill, WSL2 runtime, etc.), it exited with status 0. systemd's
Restart=on-failure only restarts on non-zero exit, so the gateway
stayed dead permanently. Users had to manually restart.
Fix 1: Signal-initiated shutdown exits non-zero
When SIGTERM/SIGINT is received and no restart was requested (via
/restart, /update, or SIGUSR1), start_gateway() returns False which
causes sys.exit(1). systemd sees a failure exit and auto-restarts
after RestartSec=30.
This is safe because systemctl stop tracks its own stop-requested
state independently of exit code — Restart= never fires for a
deliberate stop, regardless of exit code.
Also logs 'Received SIGTERM/SIGINT — initiating shutdown' so the
cause of unexpected shutdowns is visible in agent.log.
Fix 2: PID file ownership guard
remove_pid_file() now checks that the PID file belongs to the current
process before removing it. During --replace handoffs, the old
process's atexit handler could fire AFTER the new process wrote its
PID file, deleting the new record. This left the gateway running but
invisible to get_running_pid(), causing 'Another gateway already
running' errors on next restart.
Test plan:
- All restart drain tests pass (13)
- All gateway service tests pass (84)
- All update gateway restart tests pass (34)
Feishu approval clicks need the resolved card to come back from the
synchronous callback path itself. Leaving approval resolution to the
generic asynchronous card-action flow made button feedback depend on
later loop work instead of the callback response the client is waiting
for.
Change-Id: I574997cbbcaa097fdba759b47367e28d1b56b040
Constraint: Feishu card-action callbacks must acknowledge quickly and reflect final approval state from the callback response path
Rejected: Keep approval handling on the generic async card-action route | leaves card state synchronization vulnerable to callback timing and follow-up update ordering
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep approval callback response construction separate from async queue unblocking unless Feishu callback semantics change
Tested: pytest tests/gateway/test_feishu.py tests/gateway/test_feishu_approval_buttons.py tests/gateway/test_approve_deny_commands.py tests/gateway/test_slack_approval_buttons.py tests/gateway/test_telegram_approval_buttons.py -q
Not-tested: Live Feishu workspace end-to-end callback rendering
Three fixes for gateway lifecycle stability:
1. Notify active sessions before shutdown (#new)
When the gateway receives SIGTERM or /restart, it now sends a
notification to every chat with an active agent BEFORE starting
the drain. Users see:
- Shutdown: 'Gateway shutting down — your task will be interrupted.'
- Restart: 'Gateway restarting — use /retry after restart to continue.'
Deduplicates per-chat so group sessions with multiple users get
one notification. Best-effort: send failures are logged and swallowed.
2. Skip .clean_shutdown marker when drain timed out
Previously, a graceful SIGTERM always wrote .clean_shutdown, even if
agents were force-interrupted when the drain timed out. This meant
the next startup skipped session suspension, leaving interrupted
sessions in a broken state (trailing tool response, no final message).
Now the marker is only written if the drain completed without timeout,
so interrupted sessions get properly suspended on next startup.
3. Post-restart health check for hermes update (#6631)
cmd_update() now verifies the gateway actually survived after
systemctl restart (sleep 3s + is-active check). If the service
crashed immediately, it retries once. If still dead, prints
actionable diagnostics (journalctl command, manual restart hint).
Also closes#8104 — already fixed on main (the /restart handler
correctly detects systemd via INVOCATION_ID and uses via_service=True).
Test plan:
- 6 new tests for shutdown notifications (dedup, restart vs shutdown
messaging, sentinel filtering, send failure resilience)
- Existing restart drain + update tests pass (47 total)
When BlueBubbles posts webhook events to the adapter, it uses the exact
URL registered via /api/v1/webhook — and BB's registration API does not
support custom headers. The adapter currently registers the bare URL
(no credentials), but then requires password auth on inbound POSTs,
rejecting every webhook with HTTP 401.
This is masked on fresh BB installs by a race condition: the webhook
might register once with a prior (possibly patched) URL and keep working
until the first restart. On v0.9.0, _unregister_webhook runs on clean
shutdown, so the next startup re-registers with the bare URL and the
401s begin. Users see the bot go silent with no obvious cause.
Root cause: there's no way to pass auth credentials from BB to the
webhook handler except via the URL itself. BB accepts query params and
preserves them on outbound POSTs.
## Fix
Introduce `_webhook_register_url` — the URL handed to BB's registration
API, with the configured password appended as a `?password=<value>`
query param. The existing webhook auth handler already accepts this
form (it reads `request.query.get("password")`), so no change to the
receive side is needed.
The bare `_webhook_url` is still used for logging and for binding the
local listener, so credentials don't leak into log output. Only the
registration/find/unregister paths use the password-bearing form.
## Notes
- Password is URL-encoded via urllib.parse.quote, handling special
characters (&, *, @, etc.) that would otherwise break parsing.
- Storing the password in BB's webhook table is not a new disclosure:
anyone with access to that table already has the BB admin password
(same credential used for every other API call).
- If `self.password` is empty (no auth configured), the register URL
is the bare URL — preserves current behavior for unauthenticated
local-only setups.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
BlueBubbles v1.9+ webhook payloads for new-message events do not always
include a top-level chatGuid field on the message data object. Instead,
the chat GUID is nested under data.chats[0].guid.
The adapter currently checks five top-level fallback locations (record and
payload, snake_case and camelCase, plus payload.guid) but never looks
inside the chats array. When none of those top-level fields contain the
GUID, the adapter falls through to using the sender's phone/email as the
session chat ID.
This causes two observable bugs when a user is a participant in both a DM
and a group chat with the bot:
1. DM and group sessions merge. Every message from that user ends up with
the same session_chat_id (their own address), so the bot cannot
distinguish which thread the message came from.
2. Outbound routing becomes ambiguous. _resolve_chat_guid() iterates all
chats and returns the first one where the address appears as a
participant; group chats typically sort ahead of DMs by activity, so
replies and cron messages intended for the DM can land in a group.
This was observed in production: a user's morning brief cron delivered to
a group chat with his spouse instead of his DM thread.
The fix adds a single fallback that extracts chat_guid from
record["chats"][0]["guid"] when the top-level fields are empty. The chats
array is included in every new-message webhook payload in BB v1.9.9
(verified against a live server). It is backwards compatible: if a future
BB version starts including chatGuid at the top level, that still wins.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The BlueBubbles adapter registers its webhook with three events:
["new-message", "updated-message", "message"]. The third, "message",
is not a valid event type in the BlueBubbles server API — BB rejects
the registration payload with HTTP 400 Bad Request.
Currently this is masked by the "crash resilience" check in
_register_webhook, which reuses any existing registration matching the
webhook URL and short-circuits before reaching the API call. So an
already-registered webhook from a prior run keeps working. But any fresh
install, or any restart after _unregister_webhook has run during a clean
shutdown, fails to re-register and silently stops receiving messages.
Observed in production: after a gateway restart in v0.9.0 (which auto-
unregisters on shutdown), the next startup hit this 400 and the bot went
silent until the invalid event was removed.
BlueBubbles documents "new-message" and "updated-message" as the message
event types (see https://docs.bluebubbles.app/). There is no "message"
event, and no harm in dropping it — the two remaining events cover all
inbound message webhooks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When GATEWAY_PROXY_URL (or gateway.proxy_url in config.yaml) is set,
the gateway becomes a thin relay: it handles platform I/O (encryption,
threading, media) and delegates all agent work to a remote Hermes API
server via POST /v1/chat/completions with SSE streaming.
This enables the primary use case of running a Matrix E2EE gateway in
Docker on Linux while the actual agent runs on the host (e.g. macOS)
with full access to local files, memory, skills, and a unified session
store. Works for any platform adapter, not just Matrix.
Configuration:
- GATEWAY_PROXY_URL env var (Docker-friendly)
- gateway.proxy_url in config.yaml
- GATEWAY_PROXY_KEY env var for API auth (matches API_SERVER_KEY)
- X-Hermes-Session-Id header for session continuity
Architecture:
- _get_proxy_url() checks env var first, then config.yaml
- _run_agent_via_proxy() handles HTTP forwarding with SSE streaming
- _run_agent() delegates to proxy path when URL is configured
- Platform streaming (GatewayStreamConsumer) works through proxy
- Returns compatible result dict for session store recording
Files changed:
- gateway/run.py: proxy mode implementation (~250 lines)
- hermes_cli/config.py: GATEWAY_PROXY_URL + GATEWAY_PROXY_KEY env vars
- tests/gateway/test_proxy_mode.py: 17 tests covering config
resolution, dispatch, HTTP forwarding, error handling, message
filtering, and result shape validation
Closes discussion from Cars29 re: Matrix gateway mixed-mode issue.
The /new and /reset commands were not calling shutdown_memory_provider()
on the cached agent before eviction. This caused OpenViking (and any
memory provider that relies on session-end shutdown) to skip commit,
leaving memories un-indexed until idle timeout or gateway shutdown.
Add the missing shutdown_memory_provider() call in _handle_reset_command(),
matching the behavior already present in the session expiry watcher.
Fixes#7759
During rapid tool-calling, the model often emits 1-2 tokens before
switching to tool calls. The stream consumer would create a new message
with 'X ▉' (short text + cursor), and if the follow-up edit to strip
the cursor was rate-limited by the platform, the cursor remained as
a permanent standalone message — reported on Telegram as 'white box'
artifacts.
Add a minimum-content guard in _send_or_edit: when creating a new
standalone message (no existing message_id), require at least 4
visible characters alongside the cursor before sending. Shorter text
accumulates into the next streaming segment instead.
This prevents cursor-only 'tofu' messages across all platforms without
affecting normal streaming (edits to existing messages, final sends
without cursor, and messages with substantial text are all unaffected).
Reported by @michalkomar on X.
Production fixes:
- Add clear_session_context() to hermes_logging.py (fixes 48 teardown errors)
- Add clear_session() to tools/approval.py (fixes 9 setup errors)
- Add SyncError M_UNKNOWN_TOKEN check to Matrix _sync_loop (bug fix)
- Fall back to inline api_key in named custom providers when key_env
is absent (runtime_provider.py)
Test fixes:
- test_memory_user_id: use builtin+external provider pair, fix honcho
peer_name override test to match production behavior
- test_display_config: remove TestHelpers for non-existent functions
- test_auxiliary_client: fix OAuth tokens to match _is_oauth_token
patterns, replace get_vision_auxiliary_client with resolve_vision_provider_client
- test_cli_interrupt_subagent: add missing _execution_thread_id attr
- test_compress_focus: add model/provider/api_key/base_url/api_mode
to mock compressor
- test_auth_provider_gate: add autouse fixture to clean Anthropic env
vars that leak from CI secrets
- test_opencode_go_in_model_list: accept both 'built-in' and 'hermes'
source (models.dev API unavailable in CI)
- test_email: verify email Platform enum membership instead of source
inspection (build_channel_directory now uses dynamic enum loop)
- test_feishu: add bot_added/bot_deleted handler mocks to _Builder
- test_ws_auth_retry: add AsyncMock for sync_store.get_next_batch,
add _pending_megolm and _joined_rooms to Matrix adapter mocks
- test_restart_drain: monkeypatch-delete INVOCATION_ID (systemd sets
this in CI, changing the restart call signature)
- test_session_hygiene: add user_id to SessionSource
- test_session_env: use relative baseline for contextvar clear check
(pytest-xdist workers share context)
Improvements from our earlier #8269 salvage work applied to #7616:
- Platform token lock: acquire_scoped_lock/release_scoped_lock prevents
two profiles from double-connecting the same QQ bot simultaneously
- Send retry with exponential backoff (3 attempts, 1s/2s/4s) with
permanent vs transient error classification (matches Telegram pattern)
- Proper long-message splitting via truncate_message() instead of
hard-truncating at MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH (preserves code blocks, adds 1/N)
- REST-based one-shot send in send_message_tool — uses QQ Bot REST API
directly with httpx instead of creating a full WebSocket adapter per
message (fixes the connect→send race condition)
- Use shared strip_markdown() from helpers.py instead of 15 lines of
inline regex with import-inside-method (DRY, same as BlueBubbles/SMS)
- format_message() now wired into send() pipeline
- Add Platform.QQBOT to _UPDATE_ALLOWED_PLATFORMS (enables /update command)
- Add 'qqbot' to webhook cross-platform delivery routing
- Add 'qqbot' to hermes dump platform detection
- Fix test_name_property casing: 'QQBot' not 'QQBOT'
- Add _parse_qq_timestamp() for ISO 8601 + integer ms compatibility
(QQ API changed timestamp format — from PR #2411 finding)
- Wire timestamp parsing into all 4 message handlers
- Rename platform from 'qq' to 'qqbot' across all integration points
(Platform enum, toolset, config keys, import paths, file rename qq.py → qqbot.py)
- Add PLATFORM_HINTS for QQBot in prompt_builder (QQ supports markdown)
- Set SUPPORTS_MESSAGE_EDITING = False to skip streaming on QQ
(prevents duplicate messages from non-editable partial + final sends)
- Add _send_qqbot() standalone send function for cron/send_message tool
- Add interactive _setup_qq() wizard in hermes_cli/setup.py
- Restore missing _setup_signal/email/sms/dingtalk/feishu/wecom/wecom_callback
functions that were lost during the original merge
Models like MiniMax emit inline <think>...</think> reasoning blocks in
their content field. The CLI already suppresses these via a state machine
in _stream_delta, but the gateway's GatewayStreamConsumer had no
equivalent filtering — raw think blocks were streamed directly to
Discord/Telegram/Slack.
The fix adds a _filter_and_accumulate() method that mirrors the CLI's
approach: a state machine tracks whether we're inside a reasoning block
and silently discards the content. Includes the same block-boundary
check (tag must appear at line start or after whitespace-only prefix)
to avoid false positives when models mention <think> in prose.
Handles all tag variants: <think>, <thinking>, <THINKING>, <thought>,
<reasoning>, <REASONING_SCRATCHPAD>.
Also handles edge cases:
- Tags split across streaming deltas (partial tag buffering)
- Unclosed blocks (content suppressed until stream ends)
- Multiple consecutive blocks
- _flush_think_buffer on stream end for held-back partial tags
Adds 22 unit tests + 1 integration test covering all scenarios.
When the 5-second stream_task timeout in gateway/run.py expires (due to
slow Telegram API calls from rate limiting after several messages), the
stream consumer is cancelled via asyncio.CancelledError. The
CancelledError handler did a best-effort final edit but never set
final_response_sent, so the gateway fell through to the normal send path
and delivered the full response again as a reply — causing a duplicate.
The fix: in the CancelledError handler, set final_response_sent = True
when already_sent is True (i.e., the stream consumer had already
delivered content to the user). This tells the gateway's already_sent
check that the response was delivered, preventing the duplicate send.
Adds two tests verifying the cancellation behavior:
- Cancelled with already_sent=True → final_response_sent=True (no dup)
- Cancelled with already_sent=False → final_response_sent=False (normal
send path proceeds)
Reported by community user hume on Discord.
/stop was calling suspend_session() which marked the session for auto-reset
on the next message. This meant users lost their conversation history every
time they stopped a running agent — especially painful for untitled sessions
that can't be resumed by name.
Now /stop just interrupts the agent and cleans the session lock. The session
stays intact so users can continue the conversation.
The suspend behavior was introduced in #7536 to break stuck session resume
loops on gateway restart. That case is already handled by
suspend_recently_active() which runs at gateway startup, so removing it from
/stop doesn't regress the original fix.
The v11→v12 migration converts custom_providers (list) into providers
(dict), then deletes the list. But all runtime resolvers read from
custom_providers — after migration, named custom endpoints silently stop
resolving and fallback chains fail with AuthError.
Add get_compatible_custom_providers() that reads from both config schemas
(legacy custom_providers list + v12+ providers dict), normalizes entries,
deduplicates, and returns a unified list. Update ALL consumers:
- hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py: _get_named_custom_provider() + key_env
- hermes_cli/auth_commands.py: credential pool provider names
- hermes_cli/main.py: model picker + _model_flow_named_custom()
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: key_env + custom_entry model fallback
- agent/credential_pool.py: _iter_custom_providers()
- cli.py + gateway/run.py: /model switch custom_providers passthrough
- run_agent.py + gateway/run.py: per-model context_length lookup
Also: use config.pop() instead of del for safer migration, fix stale
_config_version assertions in tests, add pool mock to codex test.
Co-authored-by: 墨綠BG <s5460703@gmail.com>
Closes#8776, salvaged from PR #8814
Updated the acquire_scoped_lock function to treat empty or corrupt lock files as stale. This change ensures that if a lock file exists but is invalid, it will be removed to prevent issues with stale locks. Added tests to verify recovery from both empty and corrupt lock files.
- Store source metadata on /voice channel join so voice input shares the
same session as the linked text channel conversation
- Treat voice-linked text channels as free-response (skip @mention and
auto-thread) while voice is active
- Scope the voice-linked exemption to the exact bound channel, not
sibling threads
- Guard signal handler registration in start_gateway() for non-main
threads (prevents RuntimeError when gateway runs in a daemon thread)
- Clean up _voice_sources on leave_voice_channel
Salvaged from PR #3475 by twilwa (Modal runtime portions excluded).
When HTTPS_PROXY / HTTP_PROXY / ALL_PROXY env vars are set (or macOS system proxy
is detected), pass the proxy URL explicitly via HTTPXRequest(proxy=proxy_url) instead
of relying on httpx's trust_env mechanism, which is unreliable for HTTP CONNECT
proxies (e.g. Clash / ClashMac in fake-ip mode).
Uses the shared resolve_proxy_url() from base.py (handles env vars + macOS system
proxy detection) instead of duplicating env var reading inline. Consolidates the
proxy_configured boolean into a single proxy_url = resolve_proxy_url() call that
serves as both the gate for skipping fallback-IP transport and the value passed
to HTTPXRequest.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
Salvaged from PR #8931 by MaybeRichard.
The detached bash subprocess spawned by /restart gets killed by
systemd's KillMode=mixed cgroup cleanup, leaving the gateway dead.
Under systemd (detected via INVOCATION_ID env var), /restart now uses
via_service=True which exits with code 75 — RestartForceExitStatus=75
in the unit file makes systemd auto-restart the service. The detached
subprocess approach is preserved as fallback for non-systemd
environments (Docker, tmux, foreground mode).
When a user sends /restart, the gateway now persists their routing info
(platform, chat_id, thread_id) to .restart_notify.json. After the new
gateway process starts and adapters connect, it reads the file, sends a
'Gateway restarted successfully' message to that specific chat, and
cleans up the file.
This follows the same pattern as _send_update_notification (used by
/update). Thread IDs are preserved so the notification lands in the
correct Telegram topic or Discord thread.
Previously, after /restart the user had no feedback that the gateway was
back — they had to send a message to find out. Now they get a proactive
notification and know their session continues.
When tool_preview_length is 0 (default for platforms without a tier
default, like Session), verbose mode was truncating args JSON to 200
characters. Since the user explicitly opted into verbose mode, they
expect full tool call detail — the 200-char cap defeated the purpose.
Now: tool_preview_length=0 means no truncation in verbose mode.
Positive values still cap as before. Platform message-length limits
handle overflow naturally.
Three changes that address the poor WhatsApp experience reported by users:
1. Reclassify WhatsApp from TIER_LOW to TIER_MEDIUM in display_config.py
— enables streaming and tool progress via the existing Baileys /edit
bridge endpoint. Users now see progressive responses instead of
minutes of silence followed by a wall of text.
2. Lower MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH from 65536 to 4096 and add proper chunking
— send() now calls format_message() and truncate_message() before
sending, then loops through chunks with a small delay between them.
The base class truncate_message() already handles code block boundary
detection (closes/reopens fences at chunk boundaries). reply_to is
only set on the first chunk.
3. Override format_message() with WhatsApp-specific markdown conversion
— converts **bold** to *bold*, ~~strike~~ to ~strike~, headers to
bold text, and [links](url) to text (url). Code blocks and inline
code are protected from conversion via placeholder substitution.
Together these fix the two user complaints:
- 'sends the whole code all the time' → now chunked at 4K with proper
formatting
- 'terminal gets interrupted and gets cooked' → streaming + tool progress
give visual feedback so users don't accidentally interrupt with
follow-up messages
Port from nearai/ironclaw#2304: Telegram's 4096 character limit is
measured in UTF-16 code units, not Unicode codepoints. Characters
outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (emoji like 😀, CJK Extension B,
musical symbols) are surrogate pairs: 1 Python char but 2 UTF-16 units.
Previously, truncate_message() used Python's len() which counts
codepoints. This could produce chunks exceeding Telegram's actual limit
when messages contain many astral-plane characters.
Changes:
- Add utf16_len() helper and _prefix_within_utf16_limit() for
UTF-16-aware string measurement and truncation
- Add _custom_unit_to_cp() binary-search helper that maps a custom-unit
budget to the largest safe codepoint slice position
- Update truncate_message() to accept optional len_fn parameter
- Telegram adapter now passes len_fn=utf16_len when splitting messages
- Fix fallback truncation in Telegram error handler to use
_prefix_within_utf16_limit instead of codepoint slicing
- Update send_message_tool.py to use utf16_len for Telegram platform
- Add comprehensive tests: utf16_len, _prefix_within_utf16_limit,
truncate_message with len_fn (emoji splitting, content preservation,
code block handling)
- Update mock lambdas in reply_mode tests to accept **kw for len_fn
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
Port from openclaw/openclaw#64586: users who copy .env.example without
changing placeholder values now get a clear error at startup instead of
a confusing auth failure from the platform API. Also rejects placeholder
API_SERVER_KEY when binding to a network-accessible address.
Cherry-picked from PR #8677.
Port from openclaw/openclaw#64796: Per MSC3952 / Matrix v1.7, the
m.mentions.user_ids field is the authoritative mention signal. Clients
that populate m.mentions but don't duplicate @bot in the body text
were being silently dropped when MATRIX_REQUIRE_MENTION=true.
Cherry-picked from PR #8673.
Some OpenAI-compatible clients (Open WebUI, LobeChat, etc.) send
message content as an array of typed parts instead of a plain string:
[{"type": "text", "text": "hello"}]
The agent pipeline expects strings, so these array payloads caused
silent failures or empty messages.
Add _normalize_chat_content() with defensive limits (recursion depth,
list size, output length) and apply it to both the Chat Completions
and Responses API endpoints. The Responses path had inline
normalization that only handled input_text/output_text — the shared
function also handles the standard 'text' type.
Salvaged from PR #7980 (ikelvingo) — only the content normalization;
the SSE and Weixin changes in that PR were regressions and are not
included.
Co-authored-by: ikelvingo <ikelvingo@users.noreply.github.com>
aiohttp.ClientSession defaults to trust_env=False, ignoring HTTP_PROXY/
HTTPS_PROXY env vars. This causes QR login and all API calls to fail for
users behind a proxy (e.g. Clash in fake-ip mode), which is common in
China where Weixin and WeCom are primarily used.
Added trust_env=True to all aiohttp.ClientSession instantiations that
connect to external hosts (weixin: 3 places, wecom: 1, matrix: 1).
WhatsApp sessions are excluded as they only connect to localhost.
httpx-based adapters (dingtalk, signal, wecom_callback) are unaffected
as httpx defaults to trust_env=True.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four fixes for the Weixin/WeChat adapter, synthesized from the best
aspects of community PRs #8407, #8521, #8360, #7695, #8308, #8525,
#7531, #8144, #8251.
1. Streaming cursor (▉) stuck permanently — WeChat doesn't support
message editing, so the cursor appended during streaming can never
be removed. Add SUPPORTS_MESSAGE_EDITING = False to WeixinAdapter
and check it in gateway/run.py to use an empty cursor for non-edit
platforms. (Fixes#8307, #8326)
2. Media upload failures — two bugs in _send_file():
a) upload_full_url path used PUT (404 on WeChat CDN); now uses POST.
b) aes_key was base64(raw_bytes) but the iLink API expects
base64(hex_string); images showed as grey boxes. (Fixes#8352, #7529)
Also: unified both upload paths into _upload_ciphertext(), preferring
upload_full_url. Added send_video/send_voice methods and voice_item
media builder for audio/.silk files. Added video_md5 field.
3. Markdown links stripped — WeChat can't render [text](url), so
format_message() now converts them to 'text (url)' plaintext.
Code blocks are preserved. (Fixes#7617)
4. Blank message prevention — three guards:
a) _split_text_for_weixin_delivery('') returns [] not ['']
b) send() filters empty/whitespace chunks before _send_text_chunk
c) _send_message() raises ValueError for empty text as safety net
Community credit: joei4cm (#8407), lyonDan (#8521), SKFDJKLDG (#8360),
tomqiaozc (#7695), joshleeeeee (#8308), luoxiao6645(#8525),
longsizhuo (#7531), Astral-Yang (#8144), QingWei-Li (#8251).
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.
