Statusbar items declared a 'title' string (e.g. YOLO, gateway health,
agents, cron, version, context usage) that was populated by
use-statusbar-items.tsx but never forwarded to the rendered DOM in
StatusbarControls — so every statusbar button/menu/text/link had no
hover hint.
Wrap the four render branches (menu trigger, text, link, action) in
the existing 'Tip' component from components/ui/tooltip.tsx. Tip is
self-contained (carries its own Provider), instant (delayDuration=0),
themed (bg-foreground/text-background, auto-inverts per theme), and
already in use elsewhere in the desktop shell. Renders the child
untouched when label is falsy, so items without a title stay
zero-cost.
Add a hover/focus "Remix" action on each completed draft card in the
generation grid. It re-runs generation with the chosen draft fed back in
as the reference image, keeping the same prompt and staying on step 2 so
the user can explore variations without starting over.
Because regenerating is slow and replaces the current drafts, the first
remix shows a one-time confirmation; the acknowledgement is persisted so
subsequent remixes fire immediately.
Move terminal/execute_code/read_file preview compaction into agent.display so CLI, gateway, and Ink TUI all inherit the same labels that desktop introduced in #52321.
The shared preview keeps raw args intact while trimming display-only shell plumbing (`cd`, pipe tails, banner/status echoes) and read_file line ranges. Desktop now prefers backend `context` for live rows and keeps its TypeScript fallback only for hydrated history.
The fixed "up to 5 minutes" wording undersells the slow quality-first path
(OpenAI image via OpenRouter), where a full hatch can run far longer. Use an
open-ended "several minutes" instead so the banner stays honest across the
fast and slow providers.
The quality-first default (OpenAI image via OpenRouter) is slow, and a full
hatch fans out ~8 rows with up to 3 retries each (300s/call) across 2 parallel
waves, so the absolute backend worst case is ~30 min. The old ceilings fired
mid-run:
- per-image HTTP call: 180s -> 300s (a single cold row can exceed 3 min)
- drafts RPC: 240s -> 420s (single wave, no retries — 7 min is ample)
- hatch RPC: 420s -> 1hr (sits above the ~30 min backend worst case)
The hatch ceiling is intentionally well above the realistic max so the frontend
never throws "request timed out" before the backend has exhausted its own
retries. The background-resumable notification path remains the real UX safety
net — the user can close the modal and get pinged on completion.
Make completed desktop tool rows read like useful activity labels instead of raw plumbing: terminal rows use a dispatch-style shell summarizer for agent wrappers, and read_file rows keep the action plus filename and requested line range.
The shell cleanup follows condensed-milk-pi's shape: split command compounds on real separators, strip pipe tails inside each segment, clean redirects/env prefixes, then classify setup/banner/status segments. Multi-command probes render as `first command + N commands`; the full command remains available in copy/detail.
Read rows now render as `Read package.json` or `Read main.ts L25-34`, using requested positive offset/limit and returned line numbers only as fallback for negative/unknown offsets.
OpenRouter/Nous image gen now runs a quality-first model chain by default:
attempt the highest-fidelity OpenAI image model first, then fall back to
Gemini 3 Pro Image when it's access-gated/unavailable/times out. An explicit
OPENROUTER_IMAGE_MODEL / config model override pins one model with no fallback.
Atlas validation rejects malformed model output instead of shipping it: adds a
per-state collapse guard (a single sliver/fragment row no longer passes because
other rows are healthy), on top of the existing postage-stamp + multi-pose
checks.
Desktop: pet-gen native notifications are now "global" (not tied to a chat
session), so a background generation started from the command center fires an
OS notification when the user is away even with no active session. Adds a
neutral "This can take up to 5 minutes." banner on step 1, and lets the
provider picker auto-size.
Tests updated/added for the OpenRouter fallback chain, the collapse guard, and
the global notification path.
ToolFallback rebuilt the `part` wrapper every render, defeating the
buildToolView memo and re-running a full JSON.stringify of the result on
every ~33ms stream delta. A /learn over a large directory (many ~100KB
tool results) saturated the renderer main thread (hang/throttle) and
spiked memory until it OOMd (crash).
- Re-derive a stable `part` from the referentially-stable args/result so
the view/copy memos hold across deltas.
- Clamp every inline-painted payload (detail, stdout/stderr, rawResult,
technical trace) to MAX_TOOL_RENDER_CHARS; the row's Copy button still
reads the uncapped view.detail for the full output.
Regression for the refText crash: attachmentDisplayText and
optimisticAttachmentRef must return null (not throw) when handed an
undefined/null attachment hole, so the submit path can't reproduce
"Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'refText')".
A session switch or draft restore can leave undefined/null holes in the
composer attachments array. AttachmentList was guarded against this in
#49624, but the sibling submit path was not: submitPromptText maps the
same array through attachmentDisplayText/optimisticAttachmentRef and
buildContextText (a.kind / a.label / a.refText), so a hole threw
"Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'refText')" — an uncaught
renderer error that blanks the chat pane and shows "Desktop app link
offline".
Close the whole bug class:
- attachmentDisplayText / optimisticAttachmentRef no-op on a falsy
attachment (shared chokepoint, also protects thread.tsx drop handler).
- submitPromptText filters falsy entries from the source array, and
buildContextText filters its (possibly post-sync) input before reading
fields.
Wire the sparkle generate button's cancel action to the same discard/reset path as step-2 cancel so abort semantics are consistent and always return to step 1 while retaining the prompt input.
Two ways the update overlay read as stuck even though the update was
streaming progress underneath:
- In-app (macOS/Linux) UpdatesOverlay: runStreamedUpdate forwards every
stdout line as a progress event with percent: null, and ingestProgress
wrote that straight through — clobbering the milestone percents (10/60)
so the bar fell back to indeterminate on every log line. Keep the last
percent when a line carries null.
- Staged install/update overlay: the bar is completedCount / totalCount,
which counts only *finished* stages, so a long first stage pinned it at
"0 of 2" / 0% until the stage ended. Count the running stage as half a
unit so the bar advances during the stage (the per-stage spinner already
shows which step is live).
Both are display-only; no stage/event semantics change. (The Windows
hermes-setup Tauri progress UI in apps/bootstrap-installer has the same
counter-only-on-completion logic — parity follow-up.)
restartGateway, getActionStatus, getStatus, updateHermes and
checkHermesUpdate all hit window.hermesDesktop.api WITHOUT spreading
profileScoped() — unlike their siblings (getModelInfo, setModelAssignment,
grantComputerUsePermissions). _apiProfile tracks the active gateway
profile, and the Electron proxy uses request.profile to pick which pooled
/ remote backend serves the call.
So for a multi-profile or global-remote user, the System-panel "Restart
gateway" (and its status poll, plus Update / status reads) targeted the
primary/default backend instead of the one they're on: the restart hit
the wrong gateway and the poll never saw the action → it looked like
restart silently failed. Single-profile users are unaffected
(profileScoped() returns {} when no profile is active).
Add ...profileScoped() to the five backend-action helpers so they follow
the active profile like the rest of the API surface.
checkUpdates() ran `git rev-list HEAD..origin/<branch> --count`
unconditionally in the parallel probe batch, even on the shallow +
no-merge-base path where resolveBehindCount() ignores the result and
falls back to a SHA compare. In the #51922 failure mode that count walks
the entire remote ancestry (thousands of commits), so the work was pure
latency on every update check for the exact case the fix targets.
Split the probes into two phases: resolve --is-shallow-repository and
merge-base first, then run rev-list --count only when shouldCountCommits
says the number is meaningful (full clone, or shallow-with-merge-base).
The shallow/no-merge-base SHA fallback is preserved unchanged.
The desktop installer clones with `--depth 1`, so a public install's local
history often shares no merge-base with the freshly fetched origin tip. In
that state `git rev-list HEAD..origin/<branch> --count` enumerates the
entire remote ancestry and returns a meaningless huge number, surfacing as
e.g. "v0.17.0 (+12104)" in the update indicator (#51922).
The official-SSH branch of checkUpdates() already sidesteps this by reporting
a binary up-to-date check (`behind: currentSha === targetSha ? 0 : 1`), and
hermes_cli/banner.py guards the identical class for the CLI banner. The
passive desktop count path was the one place the shallow guard was missing.
Detect shallow + no-merge-base up front and fall back to the same SHA-based
binary check; full clones (developers / Docker dev images) keep the exact
count path unchanged. The resolution logic lives in a pure update-count.cjs
helper so it is unit-testable without booting Electron.
Ship the final pet-generation UX polish (provider picker behavior, step-2 cancel flow, banner integration, and visual consistency) and make saturated-chroma background removal C-op driven so hatch processing no longer hammers the machine during long runs.
The 8-minute stream-silence watchdog only removed a stuck session from
$workingSessionIds (the sidebar dot). The composer's busy state lives in
the session-state cache and was never cleared, so a hung or looping turn
that never delivered its terminal event — including an old session
re-opened while the backend still reports it "running" — stayed wedged on
"Thinking" / Stop indefinitely.
Have the watchdog notify subscribers when it force-clears a session, and
subscribe from the session-state cache to also drop that session's
busy/awaiting/needsInput flags. updateSessionState re-syncs $busy when the
healed session is the one on screen, so the composer recovers instead of
spinning forever.
Frontend-only safety net; doesn't touch the turn lifecycle. The backend
root (a stale in-memory session["running"] surviving a dead turn thread
and re-arming busy on every resume) is a separate follow-up.
When a remote gateway dropped after a healthy boot (internet loss,
sleep/wake, VPS restart), use-gateway-boot retried with backoff forever
and never surfaced an error. The renderer sat behind the fullscreen
CONNECTING overlay with gatewayState non-open and boot.error null — no
way to reach Settings, sign in again, or switch to a local gateway. To
the user the app was simply broken on connection loss.
Raise a recoverable boot error once the reconnect loop crosses
RECONNECT_ESCALATE_AFTER (6 attempts, ≈45s), so the BootFailureOverlay
(Retry / Sign in / Use local gateway) replaces the dead-end CONNECTING
screen. The loop keeps retrying underneath; the next successful reconnect
(or a manual/wake-driven one) clears the error and dismisses the overlay.
This implements the contract already specified — but never wired up — in
use-gateway-boot.test.tsx (desktop vitest isn't in CI, so the failing
"FIX:" specs went unnoticed). All 4 hook tests + the 3 connecting-overlay
tests pass.
Three voice-mode papercuts in the desktop app:
1. Ctrl+B did nothing. The docs + `voice.record_key` advertise Ctrl+B to
talk, but the desktop never bound it (only ⌘B = sidebar existed). Add a
rebindable `composer.voice` action that toggles the voice conversation,
defaulting to ⌃B on macOS (distinct from ⌘B; off-macOS `ctrl` folds to
the sidebar chord, so it ships unbound there to avoid stealing it). The
global keybind reaches the composer through a new focus-bus event.
2. The Voice settings page rendered every provider's options at once (~30
fields). Filter to the *selected* TTS/STT provider's sub-fields; STT
provider fields hide when STT is off. Picking "edge" now shows just the
Edge voice, making it obvious voice chat also needs STT enabled.
3. Voice mode could hang "speaking" forever. Free Edge TTS sometimes returns
audio that never fires `playing`/`ended`/`error`, so the playback promise
never settled. Add a stall watchdog (rearmed on each progress tick, so
long speech is never cut off) that rejects a stuck stream, letting the
loop recover with a clear error.
The status-bar "Agents" item conflated three unrelated signals — running
subagents (aggregated across all sessions), in-flight session turns, and
failed background *system* actions (gateway restarts, toolset installs,
computer-use grants via $desktopActionTasks/preview restart) — yet
clicking it opens AgentsView, which renders only subagents. A failed
gateway restart therefore showed "Agents (1 Failed)" over an empty
"No live subagents" tree. AgentsView also filtered to the active session,
so a subagent running in a background session showed "Agents N running"
with nothing in the tree (the desync reported in #49808).
Unify the scope both surfaces speak:
- AgentsView aggregates subagents across every session (salvages #49819).
- The indicator's running/failed counts come from subagents only
(aggregated), never background system actions — those keep their own
surfaces in settings / command center.
So "Agents (N …)" now always points at a populated Spawn tree.
Supersedes #49819. Fixes#49808.
When no reference-capable image backend is configured, generating a pet is
impossible — so instead of a dead prompt + post-hoc error, the overlay now
detects it up front and offers a way out:
- pet.generate.status RPC reports whether a reference-capable provider
(OpenRouter / Nous Portal / OpenAI) is set up; the overlay probes it on
open and swaps the prompt for a friendly setup card (paw, one-line copy,
"Set up image generation" → /settings?tab=providers, key links).
- useRouteOverlayActive(): reusable hook so any portaled modal yields the
screen to a full-screen route overlay (e.g. settings) and reappears —
re-running its mount effects — on return, instead of closing. The probe
re-runs on that remount, so adding a key flips the card to the prompt.
- pet.generate / pet.hatch (parallel rows, off the reader thread) +
cooperative pet.cancel; pet.export / pet.rename.
- pet.gallery localOnly fast path + background manifest prefetch so the
picker never blocks on petdex; rename follows the active-pet config.
- gateway request gains optional timeout + AbortSignal for real Stop.
The desktop window opened at a hardcoded 1220×800 every launch, discarding
whatever size and position the user left it at (#39101) — on macOS the dock
reopen was the most visible case, but every restart reset it.
A small window-state.json under userData (same pattern as connection.json /
updates.json) records the window's normal bounds plus its maximized flag,
written debounced on resize/move/maximize and flushed on close, applied on the
next createWindow(). getNormalBounds() captures the pre-maximize size so an
un-maximize next session lands where the user actually sized it.
Restore is defensive: sanitize rejects garbage, drops off-screen positions
(window falls back to Electron centering), and caps a size saved on a
since-disconnected larger monitor to the largest current display. The geometry
math lives in a side-effect-free window-state.cjs so it unit-tests with
node --test, no Electron boot. No new dependency.
Salvages #39154 by @jeffrobodie-glitch — same userData approach and validation
intent, reimplemented tighter and folded into one module.
Co-authored-by: jeffrobodie-glitch <jeffrobodie@gmail.com>
Let setup.runtime_check accept an optional provider, persist the selected
provider/model before the gate, and validate the provider the user just
connected instead of a stale config entry such as anthropic.
hermes-pr-review findings:
- notifyError('runtime-not-ready', msg) misused the (error, fallback) API:
the key became the notification body and the message became the title.
Switch to notify({ id, kind, title, message }) which puts content in the
right slots.
- The stable id 'runtime-not-ready' deduplicates: notify() replaces by id,
so repeated refreshOnboarding calls during an outage no longer stack
up to 4 persistent error toasts.
- Remove dead !state.manual guard from shouldPreserveConfiguredOnFallback:
refreshOnboarding already short-circuits on manual before the helper.
- Test: seed localStorage with '1' before asserting it survives (was testing
the wrong invariant — null in, null out).
- Test: use static import for spy instead of fragile await import.
- Test: add negative case for requested=true + configured=true (should
still downgrade — requested overrides preservation).
When shouldPreserveConfiguredOnFallback keeps configured=true, also call
notifyError('runtime-not-ready', ...) so the user knows the backend wasn't
verified instead of silently proceeding. Adapted from @mohamedorigami-jpg's
approach in PR #37634.
The desktop composer threw an uncaught "Composer is not available" at
startup and the input went unresponsive (#49903). assistant-ui's composer
mutators (setText/send/…) throw when the thread's composer core isn't bound
yet; the read path is null-safe but the writes are not. ChatBar pushes draft
text via aui.composer().setText() from mount-time effects (draft restore,
clearDraft, external inserts), and the v0.17.0 popout refactor (#49488)
widened the unbound window by moving the composer out of the contain wrapper
into a sibling of the thread — so the throw surfaced as an uncaught error
that wedged the input.
Wrap every composer mutation in a setComposerText helper that swallows the
unbound-core throw. The contentEditable DOM + draftRef already hold the text
and the draft-editor sync re-applies it once the core attaches, so the draft
is never lost — only the premature state push is skipped.
Register previewable artifacts from the tool row, feed a session-scoped store,
and render compact rows above the composer. Remove the inline preview card.
