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.
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.
Register previewable artifacts from the tool row, feed a session-scoped store,
and render compact rows above the composer. Remove the inline preview card.
Add the in-window floating pet (sprite, speech bubble, contact shadow,
profile-scoped, resize-safe) and a pop-out always-on-top overlay window
with gestures and notifications. Add the Cmd+K pet picker page plus the
appearance gallery and size slider in settings. Includes the pet stores,
electron overlay wiring, i18n strings, and store tests.
The desktop slash dispatcher dropped the `notice` field on `send` and
never handled `prefill` directives at all. `/goal <text>` returns
{type: send, notice: "⊙ Goal set …", message} from command.dispatch —
the desktop submitted the goal text as a plain prompt with no feedback,
so the goal looked like it did nothing. `/undo` returns a prefill
directive that fell through to "invalid response".
- types: add `notice?` to SendCommandDispatchResponse; add
PrefillCommandDispatchResponse to the union.
- parseCommandDispatch: keep `notice` on send, parse prefill.
- runExec dispatcher: render the notice as a system line before acting,
and handle prefill by dropping the message into the composer for
editing (mirrors the TUI's createSlashHandler).
Tests: parseCommandDispatch send-notice / prefill cases.
The "💾 Self-improvement review" summary (skill/memory updated) was invisible
on two surfaces:
- Desktop Electron app had no review.summary event handler — skill/memory
writes happened silently. Now appends a persistent system message to the
transcript (matching the Ink TUI's persistent-line semantics, not a
transient toast that can be missed).
- tui_gateway (backs both 'hermes --tui' and the desktop) never read
display.memory_notifications, so it always behaved as 'on' and ignored a
user who set 'off'/'verbose'. Added _load_memory_notifications() (mirrors
the messaging gateway's bool->str normalization, defaults to 'on') and
wired it to agent.memory_notifications, matching gateway/run.py and the CLI.
Delivery chain now reaches all surfaces:
background_review.py -> background_review_callback -> review.summary event ->
desktop transcript / Ink TUI line / gateway message / CLI print.
* fix(desktop): recover stranded session windows when resume fails
Opening a session in a new window (or any routed resume) could latch the
thread loader on "session" forever — the reported "stays stuck loading,
even after a nap" bug. Two compounding causes:
1. use-session-actions.resumeSession's catch ran the REST transcript
fallback OUTSIDE its own try. When session.resume rejected AND the
fallback also threw (the common case on a wedged/unreachable backend),
the throw skipped setMessages and left activeSessionId null with an
empty transcript — exactly the state the loader gates on
(messagesEmpty && !activeSessionId), with no terminal/error state.
2. use-route-resume's self-heal could never re-fire: resumeSession sets
selectedStoredSessionIdRef synchronously at entry (before failing), so
stuckOnRoutedSession stays false, and on an already-open idle window
neither pathnameChanged nor gatewayBecameOpen fire again. The window
never retried — naps, focus, nothing recovered it.
Fix:
- Wrap the REST fallback in its own try so a fallback failure can't strand
the loader.
- Add $resumeFailedSessionId: armed on terminal resume failure, cleared at
the next resume's entry (and left clear on success).
- use-route-resume gains a bounded backoff auto-retry (4 attempts, 1s→8s)
that re-resumes while the routed session matches the failure flag, with a
fire-time liveness recheck so a recovered session isn't double-resumed.
Regression tests cover: fallback-wrap arming the flag without throwing,
flag cleared on success, retry fires on backoff, no retry for a
non-routed/recovered session, and the retry cap.
* feat(desktop): show error + manual Retry when resume retries exhaust
When a stranded session window's bounded auto-retry gives up (gateway
resume RPC + REST fallback fail through all MAX_RESUME_RETRIES attempts),
the loader latched forever. Add a $resumeExhaustedSessionId atom armed at
the give-up point so the chat view swaps the perpetual spinner for an
explicit error state + manual Retry button. Retry / reconnect / reselect
clears the latch and resets the auto-retry counter for a fresh cycle; a
route-change away from the stranded session also clears it.
Distinct from $resumeFailedSessionId (armed during the backoff window) so
the error UI only appears once auto-recovery has actually given up, not
mid-retry. Adds i18n strings across en/ja/zh/zh-hant and 3 tests covering
latch-arms-on-exhaustion, stays-clear-while-retries-remain, and
clears-on-route-change.
* fix(desktop): address review on stranded-resume recovery layer
Follow-up to review on #47655 (PR head 253bfc0e3). Four issues on the
recovery layer:
1. (blocking) Arm $resumeFailedSessionId only when the transcript is still
empty after the REST fallback ($messages.get().length === 0), matching the
atom's documented contract and the loader's messagesEmpty gate. Previously
armed on any resume-RPC reject regardless of fallback outcome, so a window
that recovered its history via REST still auto-retried and, on exhaustion,
blanked the visible transcript behind the error overlay.
2. Reset the bounded-retry attempt counter on the $resumeExhaustedSessionId
armed->cleared edge so a manual Retry / reconnect / reselect on the SAME
stranded session gets a fresh backoff cycle, not a single one-shot attempt
that immediately re-arms the error. (Keyed on the exhausted latch rather
than the resumeFailedSessionId null->value transition the review suggested:
the auto-retry loop itself toggles resumeFailedSessionId every cycle, so
keying the reset there would defeat the MAX_RESUME_RETRIES cap. Only
resumeSession clears the exhausted latch, making its clear edge the
unambiguous manual-retry signal.)
3. Advance retryAttemptRef only when the timer actually dispatches a resume,
not at schedule time. Prevents unrelated dep changes during the 1s-8s
backoff window (transient gatewayState flip, non-stable resumeSession) from
burning attempts and hitting MAX with fewer than 4 real resume attempts.
4. Drop unrelated blank-line-only insertions in store/session.ts and
use-session-actions.ts to keep the diff tight.
Tests: +3 (RPC-fails-REST-succeeds-no-arm; manual-retry-fresh-cycle;
no-attempts-burned-on-dep-churn). All 19 resume tests + full session-hook
suite (65) pass; tsc --noEmit clean.
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Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
A turn that ends in an error (e.g. an out-of-funds state) was being
re-rendered in unrelated threads. On a warm thread switch the on-screen
`$messages` still belongs to the previously viewed thread, and
`flushPendingViewState` fed it into `preserveLocalAssistantErrors`, which
grafted the prior thread's failed turn onto the newly opened one. Because
the polluted view then became the next switch's baseline, the error
cascaded into every thread the user visited.
Only carry local errors across a view flush when the on-screen baseline is
the same session being flushed; the cached state we publish already retains
that session's own errors. Also surface the turn error as a global toast
even when the failing turn ran in a background thread, since the error
blocks all subsequent interactions until the user acts.
The picker no longer touches the profile default. Model/effort/fast live as
plain UI state persisted in localStorage, so a pick follows across Cmd+N and
restarts instead of snapping back. New chats ship that state through
session.create as per-session overrides; live chats still scope switches to the
current session. Settings -> Model remains the only surface that writes the
profile default.
The gateway now accepts those session.create overrides, builds the agent with
them directly, reflects them in the immediate session.info payload, and writes
the chat's own model_config into the lazy DB row so reconnect/resume restores
that chat instead of the global default.
* fix(skills): guard recursive skill delete against tree-escape
Port from Kilo-Org/kilocode#11240. Their issue #11227 lost a user's entire
working directory: a built-in-skill sentinel location resolved to the server
cwd and the skill-removal endpoint ran a recursive delete on it.
Hermes' /skills uninstall path (skills_hub.py) is already hardened, but the
agent-facing skill_manage(action='delete') path did a bare
shutil.rmtree(skill_dir) with no last-line validation. Add _validate_delete_target():
refuse to rmtree a path that (1) isn't strictly inside a known skills root,
(2) is a skills root itself, or (3) is reached via a symlink/junction.
Tests: 4 cases (normal delete works; symlinked dir, skills-root, out-of-tree
all refused). E2E verified with real symlink + file I/O.
* feat(desktop): allow /browser connect on a local gateway
/browser was hardcoded as terminal-only in the desktop slash palette, so
the chat GUI rejected it with "only available in the terminal interface."
The TUI already drives the live CDP connection via the browser.manage RPC.
Wire the same RPC into the desktop dispatcher as a /browser action handler,
gated to local-gateway connections ($connection.mode !== 'remote'). connect
mutates BROWSER_CDP_URL (and may launch Chrome) in the gateway process, so
it's only meaningful when that process runs on this machine; a remote
gateway gets a clear "local gateway only" message instead.
When a desktop/dashboard session had no agent built yet and the user explicitly
picked a provider in the model picker, config.set('model', ...) would first try
to initialize the agent from the (possibly broken) config default provider —
failing before the user's explicit switch could take effect, trapping them on a
misconfigured default.
config.set now pre-parses the model flags: if an explicit --provider is present
and no agent exists yet, it skips the default-provider agent build and routes
straight through _apply_model_switch with the explicit provider. _apply_model_switch
gained a parsed_flags passthrough (avoids double-parsing) and only falls back to
resolve_runtime_provider(requested=None) when no explicit provider was given.
The desktop hook now sends config.set instead of slash.exec for active-session
model changes, so errors from the selected provider surface to the user instead
of being swallowed.
Co-authored-by: rodboev <rod.boev@gmail.com>
Show a shimmering "Summarizing thread" label during auto-compaction, skip
the post-turn hydrate when compaction fired so the live transcript does not
collapse to the stored summary-only session.
Auto-compression rewrites history mid-turn, which made long threads look
like they reset. Re-tag the gateway lifecycle status as compacting and
surface it in the desktop thread loading indicators.
Adds a native OS notification system (Electron Notification, routed cross-OS)
distinct from the in-app toast feed. Before this, one hardcoded cue existed
(message.complete while document.hidden) with no settings or event coverage.
- Engine (store/native-notifications.ts): localStorage-backed prefs (master
switch + per-kind toggles) and a gated dispatcher over five kinds — approval,
input, turnDone, turnError, backgroundDone — with a 1s per-(kind,session)
self-evicting throttle.
- Gating: "backgrounded" = document.hidden OR !document.hasFocus(), so an
alt-tabbed window still counts as away. Completion kinds fire only when
backgrounded and for the active session (no spam from a busy gateway);
attention kinds (approval/input) also break through for off-screen sessions.
- Wired into real event sites (use-message-stream.ts): message.complete, error,
approval/clarify/sudo/secret.request; backgroundDone from composer-status at
the running -> exited transition.
- Click focuses the window and jumps to the originating session; approval
notifications carry Approve/Reject buttons that resolve in place over
approval.respond, mirroring the in-app Run/Reject bar.
- Settings: new Notifications panel (master + per-kind switches, test button
with real OS-result feedback). Full i18n (en/ja/zh/zh-hant).
* feat(desktop): add curated completion sound bank for turn completion
Replace the prior haptic-only completion cue with a curated Web Audio completion sound flow, defaulting to the minimal two-note comfort preset while keeping alternate presets available for quick iteration. Play the cue on every message completion event (including background sessions) so turn-end feedback is consistent across active and non-active chats.
* refactor(desktop): drop done1 byte sample from completion bank
Keep the curated Web Audio presets only; the embedded sample added bulk without shipping as the default cue.
* feat(desktop): expand completion sounds and add Appearance picker
Add fourteen synthesized turn-end presets with preview in settings, persisted variant selection, and softer default mixing for late-night use.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* refactor(desktop): dedupe completion-sound resolver, trim audio comments
Make the store the single source of truth for the variant default + range
validation and have the sound lib import it (one-way lib→store edge, no
cycle), instead of two divergent copies. Extract the shared white-noise
buffer used by the air/whoosh voices and cut the synth comments down to
why-only notes.
---------
Co-authored-by: Austin Pickett <pickett.austin@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The image-generate tool showed a placeholder, then the model echoed a
(often different) image inline in its prose — a second, jarring copy in
the wrong place, dimmed as tool scaffolding, with a misplaced download
button.
Now the generated image lives only in the tool slot:
- Strip every embedded image/media link from the assistant prose of a
message that produced an image (the model frequently restates the
remote URL while the result holds the local path), preserving the
agent's words. Applied on hydration, live deltas, and completion.
- One stable frame sized from the aspect_ratio arg up front, so the
diffusion placeholder and the decoded image share the same box and
crossfade with no layout shift; the box derives its height from the
true ratio on load (no letterboxing).
- Exempt generated images from the tool-block dim-until-hover rule.
- Extract a shared useImageDownload hook + ImageLightbox so the tool
image and markdown images share one implementation.
"Session busy" (4009) is the gateway's concurrency guard, not a user-facing
error. The queue already covers the deliberate "type while busy" case, so
the only leak was a submit racing the settle edge. Generalize the rewind
path's busy-retry into a shared `withSessionBusyRetry` and wrap every
`prompt.submit` (fresh send, session-resume resubmit, and rewind) so a
transient busy is ridden out within a bounded deadline and the call lands
silently. The fromQueue swallow stays as a backstop for the pathological
>deadline case.
A queued drain firing on the settle edge can race a not-yet-wound-down
turn and get a transient 4009 "session busy". Previously that appended a
red "session busy" error bubble (and toast) per attempt. For fromQueue
submits, swallow the busy error: release busy, keep the entry queued, and
let the composer's bounded auto-drain retry on the next idle.
A prompt typed mid-turn ("ghost bubble") could stick forever and never
send when the backend restarted/reconnected during the turn. Two fragile
assumptions in the composer queue drain caused it:
1. Drain fired ONLY on an observed busy true→false edge. A remount/
reconnect resets `previousBusyRef` to the current busy value, so the
settle edge is swallowed and the queue never drains. Replace
`shouldAutoDrainOnSettle` with the edge-independent `shouldAutoDrain`
(idle + non-empty), driven on the settle edge, on mount/reconnect, and
after a re-key. The drain lock still serializes sends.
2. The queue is keyed by `queueSessionKey || sessionId`. When a backend
resume mints a new runtime session id for the same conversation, the
entry strands under the dead key. Pass the *stable* stored id as
`queueSessionKey` so the composer can tell runtime churn from a real
session switch, and `migrateQueuedPrompts` re-keys pending entries on a
runtime-id change only (never on a deliberate switch).
Also make the drain resilient to a thrown/rejected onSubmit (e.g. a stale-
session 404): the entry stays queued and is retried on the next idle, with
a per-entry attempt cap (MAX_AUTO_DRAIN_ATTEMPTS) to avoid spin-loops and a
quiet toast once it gives up. A manual send clears the backoff.
Tests: composer-queue covers edge-free drain + re-key migration;
use-prompt-actions covers rejected-drain-keeps-entry + idle retry sends.
- Resume: fire the REST transcript prefetch and the session.resume RPC in
parallel, and skip the redundant message conversion + reconciliation
when the prefetch already hydrated the transcript.
- Haptics: web-haptics builds its AudioContext lazily on first trigger,
paying the ~850ms CoreAudio spin-up on the first streamStart haptic as
the first token paints. Open/close a throwaway context at idle so the
real one connects to an already-warm audio service.
The top "New Session" button (and /new, the keyboard shortcut) cleared
$newChatProfile to null, meaning "use the live gateway context". But
createBackendSessionForSend turned a null into an omitted `profile` param on
session.create. In global-remote mode one backend serves every profile, so an
omitted profile silently binds the new chat to the launch (default) profile's
home/state.db — the session "rubberbands back to default" even though the rail
still shows the selected profile. The per-profile "+" worked because it sets
$newChatProfile explicitly.
Resolve a null $newChatProfile to the active gateway profile at the single
session-creation chokepoint so session.create always carries the live profile.
Harmless for single-profile and local-pooled users: a backend resolves its own
launch profile to None (_profile_home), so passing it changes nothing.
* feat(desktop): session-scoped status stack + kill new-window theme flash
Stack subagents, background tasks, and the queue into one collapsible
"sink" above the composer, reusing the queue's chrome so every status
reads as one piece. Extracts shared StatusSection / StatusRow /
TerminalOutput primitives and a unified $statusItemsBySession store
(subagents mirrored, background owned here, merged + grouped for render).
Renames BrailleSpinner → GlyphSpinner now that it drives more than braille.
Separately, fix the white flash on every new/cmd-clicked window: macOS
`vibrancy` paints an NSVisualEffectView that follows the OS appearance and
ignores `backgroundColor`, so a dark app on a light-mode Mac flashed white
until the renderer painted over it. Pin `nativeTheme.themeSource` to the
app theme (persisted to userData so cold launches paint right before the
renderer loads), hold windows with `show:false` until `ready-to-show`, and
pre-paint the themed background via an inline script before the bundle runs.
* feat(desktop): dock the slash popover to the composer via one shared fill var
The slash·@ popover (and ? help) now docks onto the composer's edge with the
same chrome as the queue/status stack — rounded outer corners, fused borderless
edge, no shadow — but keeps its own narrow width.
Surface + drawer paint a single --composer-fill var; the state ladder
(rest / scrolled / focused / drawer-open) lives once in styles.css on
[data-slot='composer-root']. The :has() drawer-open rule is last and forces an
opaque fill, since translucent glass sampling different backdrops (thread vs
fade gradient) can never match. This replaces the focus-within !important
override that repainted the surface behind every previous matching attempt.
Also drop the chevron column from the project file tree — the folder open/closed
icon already carries the expand state.
* feat(desktop): base inset for file tree rows (post-chevron alignment)
* feat(desktop): wire the status stack's background tasks to the real process registry
The background group was UI-only (dev-mock seeded). Now it's live e2e:
- tui_gateway: new session-scoped `process.list` (registry snapshot filtered
by the session's session_key, plus a 4KB output tail for the inline
terminal viewer) and `process.kill` (single process, ownership-checked —
unlike process.stop's kill_all).
- Renderer: `reconcileBackgroundProcesses` syncs snapshots into the store
layout-stably — rows keep their position when state flips (never re-sort),
new processes append, unchanged rows keep object identity so memoised rows
skip re-rendering, and a dismissed-set stops the registry's retained
finished procs from resurrecting X-ed rows.
- Refresh triggers: session open, terminal/process tool.complete,
status.update(kind=process) from the gateway's notification poller, and a
5s poll armed only while a running row is visible (catches silent exits).
- Stop = real `process.kill` + optimistic dismiss; Dismiss = client-side
with resurrection guard.
- Re-keyed the stack to the RUNTIME session id: it was keyed by the stored
session id, where neither subagent events nor process.list would ever land.
- Deleted dev-status-mocks.ts (__hermesStatusMocks) — no more seed shit.
Reconcile invariants covered in store/composer-status.test.ts.
* feat(desktop): todos + openable subagents in the status stack, self-healing file tree
- todo lists move out of the inline chat panel into the composer status stack
(checklist icon, dashed ring = pending, spinner = in progress, check = done),
fed live from todo tool events and seeded from history on session open
- subagent rows carry the child's real session id end-to-end
(delegate_tool → gateway → renderer) so clicking one opens ITS session window
- status stack publishes its measured height so the thread's bottom clearance
grows with it; card paints the shared --composer-fill so focused/scrolled
states match the composer exactly
- file tree self-heals: ENOENT roots retry on a 3s cadence + Try again button,
and the main process expands ~ in IPC paths (gateway cwds arrive as ~/...)
- composer drag-drop of tree entries inserts inline refs instead of attachments
* fix(desktop): file tree falls back to the workspace dir when a session's cwd is gone
Sessions record their launch cwd; deleted worktrees leave that path dead,
so opening such a session swapped the tree from the default workspace to a
directory that ENOENTs forever — the 3s retry just spun on it. On a root
read error the tree now asks main to sanitize the cwd (prefers the
configured default project dir), displays that fallback, and quietly
re-probes the original path so it switches back if the dir reappears.
* feat(desktop): working restore-checkpoint button on past user prompts
The discard icon on hover of a past user bubble was decorative — clicking
did nothing. It's now a real control: a confirmation dialog explains that
everything after the prompt is removed, then the session rewinds to that
turn and reruns the same prompt (prompt.submit with
truncate_before_user_ordinal, the same mechanism the edit composer uses).
Failures rethrow into the dialog's inline error instead of toasting.
* fix(desktop): show the restore-checkpoint button on the latest user prompt too
Restoring the most recent prompt is just 'retry this turn' — no reason to
exclude it. Stop still takes the slot while the turn is running.
* fix(desktop): finished todo lists clear themselves out of the status stack
A list whose every item is completed/cancelled lingers ~4s so the final
checkmark is visible, then the todo group drops out of the stack. A fresh
active list arriving within the linger cancels the scheduled clear.
* chore(desktop): drop dead editableCheckpoint copy, terser restore confirm
* fix(desktop): rewind clears the abandoned timeline's todos + background
Restoring to (or editing) an earlier prompt rewinds the conversation, but
the todos and background processes spawned by the now-discarded turns kept
showing in the status stack — and the real background processes kept
running. Both rewind paths now clear the session's todo rows and kill +
drop its background processes before the fresh run repopulates them. Also
drops the click-to-edit clamp transition, which flashed a half-expanded
bubble on the way into the edit composer.
* feat(desktop): user messages are always editable; edit/restore revert mid-stream
The bubble is now always click-to-edit — even while a turn streams — instead
of going inert during a run. Sending an edit acts like restore: it rewinds to
that prompt and re-runs with the new text. Both edit and restore can fire
mid-stream now; the gateway refuses prompt.submit while a turn runs (4009
"session busy"), so they interrupt the live turn first and retry the submit
until the cooperative interrupt winds it down. Restore (re-run as-is) shows on
every prompt except the latest running one, which keeps the Stop button.
* fix(desktop): label preview-pane ⌘L selections with the filename, not "zsh"
The terminal owns a global ⌘/Ctrl+L "send selection to composer" shortcut, so
selecting text in the file preview pane and hitting it fell through to the
terminal handler — which imported the right text but labelled the composer ref
"zsh:N lines" off the shell name. When the selection isn't an xterm selection,
label it with the previewed file instead.
* fix(desktop): ⌘L on a preview line selection inserts the @line ref, like dragging
The source preview lets you select lines in the gutter and drag them into the
composer as an @line:path:start-end ref. ⌘/Ctrl+L now does the same when a line
selection is active — it drops the identical ref instead of falling through to
the terminal's global handler (which grabbed the native text selection and sent
a bogus terminal block). Capture-phase + stopPropagation so it wins; with a line
selection there's no native selection, so the terminal handler stays out of it.
* chore: gitignore apps/desktop/demo/ scratch output
The desktop demo prompt writes demo/*.txt during recorded walkthroughs; it's
throwaway, never part of the app. Ignore it so it stops cluttering git status.
* feat(desktop): subagent watch windows, hard stop, sidebar hygiene
Child-session mirror for live subagent windows, delegate sessions tagged
and excluded from the sidebar, composer focus/stop polish, and WS stall
resilience on the gateway transport.
* refactor: DRY delegate SQL + trim status-stack noise
Extract shared listable-child and delegate-delete helpers in hermes_state,
collapse cancelRun busy release, and cut comment bloat in resume/status paths.
* fix(desktop): hide orphaned subagent sessions in sidebar
Cascade-delete all ephemeral children on parent delete (not just tagged rows),
run v16 backfill to tag legacy orphans, and record new delegates as source=subagent.
* fix: restore orphan contract for untagged children + lazy session eviction
Cascade-delete only _delegate_from-tagged rows (v16 backfill covers legacy),
walk marker chains recursively with FK-safe orphaning, gate lazy watch
sessions out of the still-starting eviction exemption via an explicit flag,
pass session_id to _make_agent only when resuming, and hide source=subagent
from session search.
* fix(gateway): gate child mirror off upgraded sessions + age out stale run entries
Review findings: the mirror could interleave synthetic events with a real
native stream once a watch window upgrades (prompt.submit builds an agent),
and a lost subagent.complete left _active_child_runs pinning running=true
forever. Mirror now stops when the live session owns an agent; liveness
reads ignore entries older than an hour.
* fix(gateway): reject prompt.submit into a watch session while its child runs
A lazy watch session's running flag is False (the run lives in the parent
turn), so typing mid-run sailed past the busy guard and built a second agent
racing the in-flight child on the same stored session. Busy error until the
run completes; afterwards the submit upgrades into a normal conversation.
* refactor(gateway): DRY watch-resume payload + compose listable-child SQL
Fold the duplicated child-run busy overlay into one _reuse_live_payload
helper across both resume reuse paths, collapse the twin mirror early-returns,
and build _LISTABLE_CHILD_SQL from _BRANCH_CHILD_SQL instead of restating it.
* fix(desktop): clip horizontal overflow on sidebar scroll areas
Add overflow-x-hidden alongside overflow-y-auto on session list scrollers
and the shared SidebarContent primitive — vertical scroll unchanged.
Collapse the verbose multi-line rationale comments across the TUI/desktop/
backend approval surfaces into single-line "why" notes, and derive
APPROVAL_OPTS_NO_ALWAYS from APPROVAL_OPTS instead of re-listing it.
No behavior change.
When a tirith content-security warning is present the approval backend
forces allow_permanent=False and silently downgrades an "always" choice to
session scope (the persistence loop in check_all_command_guards only honors
"always" → permanent when no tirith finding exists). But the gateway notify
payload that drives the TUI and the Electron desktop app never carried that
flag, so both surfaces always rendered "Always allow" — offering a permanent
allow the backend would quietly refuse to persist.
Plumb allow_permanent end-to-end:
- tools/approval.py: include `allow_permanent: not has_tirith` in the gateway
approval_data the notify callback emits as `approval.request`.
- ui-tui: thread `allowPermanent` through the event handler, gateway types,
and ApprovalReq; ApprovalPrompt drops the "always" option (and renumbers the
quick-pick keys) when it's false.
- apps/desktop: thread `allow_permanent` through the gateway payload type, the
per-session approval store, and the inline ApprovalBar, which now hides the
"Always allow…" dropdown item when permanent allow is disallowed — reusing
the existing DropdownMenu / confirm-Dialog UI.
The desktop/TUI render path for approvals already landed in #38578 (the root
cause of approvals not surfacing in the GUI); this completes the salvage of
#37856 by carrying allow_permanent across both surfaces. #37856's original
thread-local _block() approach is dropped: desktop/TUI approvals resolve via
approval.respond → resolve_gateway_approval (the per-session queue), not the
_block()/request_id correlation, so a worker-thread callback waiting on _block
would never be released by the real UI.
Tests: gateway notify payload carries allow_permanent (True without tirith,
False with a tirith warning); ui-tui approvalAction reduced option set +
event-handler allowPermanent propagation; desktop store round-trip + the
ApprovalBar showing/hiding "Always allow".
Supersedes #37856Closes#37812
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <cine.dreamer.one@gmail.com>
Desktop already recovers from a stale runtime session id when
`prompt.submit` returns `session not found` after a gateway restart or
sleep/wake. The stop path did not have the same recovery: `cancelRun`
called `session.interrupt` once with the stale runtime id, then surfaced
`Stop failed / session not found`.
This makes stop/cancel mirror the prompt recovery path. If
`session.interrupt` reports `session not found` and the selected stored
session id is available, Desktop resumes that durable session, updates
the active runtime ref with the recovered id, and retries
`session.interrupt` once against the recovered runtime id.
Salvaged from #43941 — rebased onto current main, dropping the unrelated
`package-lock.json` (@types/node 24.13.1->24.13.2) and `nix/lib.nix`
hash churn. That bump is a local npm 11 re-resolution artifact, not a CI
requirement: repo CI runs node 22 (npm 10) and main is green at
@types/node 24.13.1, so the lockfile and nix hash do not need to change.
Co-authored-by: helix4u <4317663+helix4u@users.noreply.github.com>
Keyed draft stash (Map + localStorage mirror) behind the live composer:
switching threads stashes the departing draft and restores the entering
one; empty threads show an empty box. Session lifecycle never clears
composer state — the scope swap is the only coupling.
Co-authored-by: mollusk <roger@roger.local>
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
- DRY the duplicated submit-restore blocks into dispatchSubmit()
- inline localStorage access (drop browserStorage indirection);
clearPersistedComposerDraft delegates to write('')
- drop stale per-scope-stash comment in use-session-actions
Manual testing of the salvaged draft persistence showed none of it worked
end-to-end. Three distinct bugs, all invisible to the store-level unit
tests:
1. New-chat drafts were never written. The skip-one-persist sentinel was
reset to null after consuming, but null IS a real scope (the unsaved
new-session draft) — so in a new chat every persist run matched the
"consumed" sentinel and bailed. This silently killed the headline
#38498 fix. Use undefined as the no-skip sentinel, which can never
collide with a scope.
2. Cmd+R inside the debounce window dropped the trailing text. React does
not run effect cleanups on a page reload, so the flush-on-unmount
never fired; with the 400ms debounce that meant type-then-reload lost
the draft every time. Flush pending writes on pagehide.
3. Session switch/new/resume/branch paths in use-session-actions cleared
the composer stores synchronously with the session-id updates. React
batches those, so by the time ChatBar's scope-change cleanup ran to
stash the departing session's attachments, the store was already
empty — the stash recorded [] and the chips were lost anyway. The
composer's per-scope restore now owns composer contents wholesale on
scope change, so drop the upstream clears (clearComposerDraft only
touched the vestigial $composerDraft atom nothing reads).
Co-authored-by: mollusk <roger@roger.local>
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
* desktop: surface /tools, /save, /personality and fix /help skill count
Move /tools and /save out of TERMINAL_ONLY_COMMANDS and /personality out of
ADVANCED_COMMANDS so they appear in the desktop slash palette and execute via
the existing slash.exec → command.dispatch fallback. The backend gateway already
accepts these through slash.exec (none are in _PENDING_INPUT_COMMANDS or the
skill list), so no backend change is required.
Recompute skill_count in filterDesktopCommandsCatalog from the filtered pairs.
Previously the /help footer echoed the unfiltered backend total — e.g. "60
skill commands available" while only ~29 actually appeared in the rendered
list, because the desktop hides terminal-only, picker-owned, and advanced
commands.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* desktop: keep slash popover live while typing args
The trigger regex `(?:^|[\s])([@/])([^\s@/]*)$` stopped matching the moment
the user typed a space after a slash command, so the popover never showed arg
completions for `/personality`, `/tools`, etc. — even though the backend's
`complete.slash` already returns them with a `replace_from` indicator.
Split the trigger detection so `/` allows args (`/cmd arg1 arg2`) while `@`
keeps the strict no-space behavior. Restrict the slash command name to
`[a-zA-Z][\w-]*` so file paths like `src/foo/bar` don't accidentally trigger
the popover.
Rewrite arg-completion items in useSlashCompletions to insert the full
`/personality alice` token instead of stranding `/alice`: when `replace_from`
is past the command base, prepend the existing prefix to each item's text so
the chip serializer produces a coherent replacement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* cli: complete toolset names after /tools enable|disable
SlashCommandCompleter previously only auto-derived the first subcommand level
from args_hint, so `/tools enable <tab>` yielded nothing — the user had to
remember every toolset key (web, file, spotify, …) and every MCP server prefix.
Add `_tools_completions` that handles both stages: subcommand (list|disable|enable)
and tool name. Filter by current enable state so `/tools enable <tab>` only
offers disabled toolsets and `/tools disable <tab>` only offers enabled ones —
no point suggesting a no-op. MCP server prefixes (server:) come from the
saved mcp_servers config; per-tool completion under a server would require
runtime MCP introspection and is left as follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* desktop: registry-driven slash commands with first-class pickers
Collapse the if/else slash dispatch into one DESKTOP_COMMAND_SPECS table
that drives popover suggestions, per-type composer pills, and execution.
- /resume, /sessions, /switch: inline session completions (like /skin) plus
a "Browse all sessions…" entry that opens a dedicated session picker overlay
- /handoff: inline platform completion + handoff.request/handoff.state
gateway bridge so desktop reaches CLI parity
- colored per-type pills (command/skill/theme) in the composer
- strip ANSI and fix width/alignment of slash output in the chat panel
* desktop: fold repeated slash session/output boilerplate into one helper
runExec, /title, /help and the unavailable case each re-derived the same
ensure-session → bail-with-notify → build-renderSlashOutput dance.
withSlashOutput() returns {sessionId, render} or null, so each handler is
a two-line resolve instead of an eight-line preamble.
* desktop: keep backend meta on slash arg completions
Arg suggestions (/personality <name>, /tools enable <toolset>, /handoff
<platform>) were having their meta overwritten with the parent command's
registry description: desktopSlashDescription("/personality none") canonicalizes
back to /personality and returns its blurb. Skip the lookup for arg rows so the
backend's own display_meta ("clear personality overlay", etc.) survives.
* cli: list real personalities in /personality completion
_personality_completions resolved load_config().agent.personalities — but that
schema has no agent.personalities key, so completion always returned just
`none` even though the runtime (load_cli_config().agent.personalities) ships a
dozen built-ins (helpful, kawaii, pirate, …). Read from the same source the
command actually applies, so `/personality ` surfaces the real options.
* desktop: expand bare arg-commands to their options on pick
Picking a command like /personality from the slash popover committed it
immediately instead of advancing to its argument list. Mark arg-taking
commands (/skin, /resume, /handoff, /personality, /tools) in the registry
and, when one is picked bare, insert "/cmd " as plain text and re-open the
popover on its inline options — mirroring typing "/cmd " by hand. Arg picks
(serialized text already contains a space) still commit a single pill.
Also realign trigger-popover loading test with the redesigned popover (the
/help empty-state hint shows when resolved, not while the spinner is up);
the merge from main reintroduced the pre-redesign expectation.
* tui_gateway: fold session-db close into a context manager
Both handoff RPCs repeated the same `db, close_db = _session_db_handle()`
+ `finally: if close_db: db.close()` dance. Turn the helper into a
`_session_db` contextmanager that owns the close, so callers just
`with _session_db(session) as db:`.
* desktop: unblock handoff retries and exact resume ids
Clear timed-out desktop handoffs through the gateway so retries are not stuck behind a pending row, and let typed /resume session ids bypass the loaded sidebar cache.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(desktop): keep model runtime state per session
(cherry picked from commit f72ee87d99ee38cb7b5badeb9a8af869bb92073a)
* fix(desktop): keep footer model state scoped to active session
(cherry picked from commit d91942ebd4671ff857b5c8526dbf133f04782ecb)
* fix(desktop): restore stored runtime when resuming sessions
(cherry picked from commit 32b3793418257617b8da57e26151f079c2620d00)
* fix(desktop): persist live runtime changes for resume
(cherry picked from commit c58467779436dcef44a80ad55b52664752dc0837)
* fix(desktop): persist resumed endpoint runtime
* chore(attribution): map pinguarmy's commit email in AUTHOR_MAP
The salvaged commits on this branch preserve @pinguarmy's authorship
(郝鹏宇 / peterhao@Peters-MacBook-Air.local). Add the mapping so the
check-attribution CI gate resolves the email to the GitHub username.
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Co-authored-by: 郝鹏宇 <peterhao@Peters-MacBook-Air.local>
* fix(desktop): honor default project directory for new sessions
The Settings picker persisted project-dir.json but the renderer kept
seeding new chats from sticky localStorage home. Prefer the configured
default on boot and session.create, pin TERMINAL_CWD at backend spawn,
and reject packaged install-dir paths that regressed after #37536.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(desktop): address review on default project dir PR
Add workspace cwd precedence tests, extract isPackagedInstallPath for
platform test coverage, and stop rewriting live $currentCwd when a
session is already active (cache-only until the next new chat).
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* refactor(desktop): dock terminal under chat and simplify file rail
Keep the right rail focused on file browsing while moving the persistent terminal into the chat column bottom slot, and make terminal colors follow the active light/dark mode instead of a fixed Solarized palette.
* fix(desktop): make the terminal a resizable, themed side pane
- Move the terminal into a resizable pane (viewport-% widths) that shares
<main>'s stacking context, so its drag handle no longer sits under the
fixed terminal overlay; works on either rail side.
- Restore +x on node-pty's spawn-helper before the first spawn to fix
"posix_spawnp failed" on macOS prebuilds (real cause; drop the redundant
shell-candidate retry loop).
- Gate terminal open/fit/start on document.fonts.ready and strip leading
blank rows (re-armed before the resize Ctrl-L redraw) so the prompt sits
flush at the top with no starship add_newline gap.
- Inherit the app editor-surface color as the terminal background.
- Bind Ctrl+` (⌃` on macOS) to toggle the terminal; add a palette entry.
* feat(desktop): show platform hotkey hints in the command palette
- Render each palette item's live binding as a <KbdGroup> hint via a new
comboTokens() helper (mac shows ⌘/⌃/⌥/⇧, every other platform shows
Ctrl/Alt/Shift — never a ⌘ on PC).
- Default the terminal toggle to ⌘` / Ctrl+` (the ~ key) on both platforms.
- Drop the hardcoded (⌘⏎) baked into the composer steer tooltip; render it
platform-aware with formatCombo instead.
* fix(desktop): drop the active check on the command-palette terminal item
* fix(desktop): remove active/check states from the command palette
* fix(desktop): allow ⌥/Shift-drag selection over mouse-mode TUIs
Full-screen apps (hermes --tui, vim) enable mouse reporting, so a plain
drag can't select text and ⌘/Ctrl+L (add-selection-to-chat) had nothing
to send. Enable macOptionClickForcesSelection so ⌥-drag on macOS (Shift
elsewhere) forces a native selection over mouse-mode apps.
* feat(desktop): tell the in-pane agent it's embedded in the GUI
Set HERMES_DESKTOP_TERMINAL=1 on the terminal pane's shell env and surface
it in build_environment_hints, so a hermes/--tui launched inside the pane
knows it's next to the GUI chat and that ⌥/Shift-drag + ⌘/Ctrl+L sends a
selection to the composer. Distinct from HERMES_DESKTOP (agent backend).
* refactor(desktop): drop the redundant Ctrl+` terminal-toggle fallback
The toggle now ships as mod+` on both platforms, so the standard combo
index handles it — the bespoke fallback (and its stale 'old default'
comment) is dead weight.
* fix(desktop): read live terminal selection for ⌘/Ctrl+L
A redraw-heavy TUI (spinners/clocks) outruns onSelectionChange, leaving the
React selection state empty so the state-gated shortcut listener never
attached and ⌘L no-op'd. Always listen and read xterm's live selection (with
a native fallback) at press time; only swallow the key when there's text to
send. Drops the now-redundant custom key handler.
* feat(desktop): make any agent aware it's in the Hermes desktop GUI
Generalize the runtime-surface hint: fire for HERMES_DESKTOP (the backend
powering the GUI chat) as well as HERMES_DESKTOP_TERMINAL (a hermes in the
embedded terminal pane), so it's about being inside the desktop GUI, not
about being a TUI. The terminal-pane selection note stays pane-specific.
* feat(desktop): give the GUI agent a read_terminal tool
The in-app terminal buffer lives in the renderer (xterm), so expose it to the
chat agent over the same blocking bridge clarify uses: read_terminal emits
terminal.read.request, the renderer serializes the buffer (visible screen by
default, or a start_line/count range against total_lines) and answers
terminal.read.respond. Gated to the GUI via HERMES_DESKTOP.
Also restores the flipped-layout titlebar inset fix (app-shell +
desktop-controller) for terminal/preview rails at the window's left edge.
* chore(desktop): trim read_terminal comments
* feat(desktop): add a terminal toggle to the statusbar
The file rail lost its terminal icon, leaving ⌘` and the command palette
as the only ways in. Add a one-click toggle to the statusbar's left
cluster, mirroring the command-center item: it reads $terminalTakeover so
it lights up while the pane is open and stays in sync with the hotkey, and
is gated to chat view (the only place the pane can show).
* fix(desktop): relabel the terminal header button to what it does
The in-pane button claimed a focus/split fullscreen toggle ("Focus
terminal view" / "Return to split view", screen-full/normal icons), but
the terminal is just a resizable side pane — there's no fullscreen. The
button only mounts while the pane is open, so the focus branch was dead
and clicking it merely closed the terminal. Relabel to "Hide terminal"
with a close icon, drop the dead conditional and the now-unused takeover
read.
* fix(desktop): move the terminal toggle next to the version item
Relocate it from the left cluster to the right of the statusbar, just
left of the client version item.
* feat(desktop): default the terminal to PowerShell on Windows
Prefer pwsh (7+) then Windows PowerShell 5.1 over cmd.exe, falling back to
comspec only when neither is present. -NoLogo drops the startup banner so
the prompt sits flush like the POSIX shells.
* feat(desktop): show a persistent divider on the terminal pane
The resize sash only painted on hover, so the terminal/chat boundary was
invisible at rest. Add an opt-in `divider` prop to Pane that paints a thin
resting hairline on the resize edge (side-aware, so it tracks the rail when
the layout flips) and enable it on the terminal pane.
* refactor(desktop): resolve the terminal shell instead of hardcoding it
Make shell selection a real resolver: an explicit override wins
(HERMES_DESKTOP_SHELL on both platforms, $SHELL on POSIX), otherwise
auto-detect the best installed shell — pwsh > Windows PowerShell 5.1 > cmd
on Windows, zsh > bash > sh on POSIX. A shared shellSpecFor() picks the
interactive flags by family, so an overridden bash/pwsh/cmd all launch
correctly.
* fix(desktop): repaint the terminal on light/dark switch
Setting term.options.theme updated colors for the DOM renderer but not the
WebGL one, which caches glyph colors in a texture atlas — so already-drawn
cells kept their old palette after a mode switch. Hold the WebglAddon in a
ref and clear its atlas when the theme changes.
* fix(desktop): match the terminal palette to VS Code Light+/Dark+
Adopt VS Code's exact default ANSI palette (the terminalColorRegistry
defaults), enable minimumContrastRatio: 4.5 so foregrounds are clamped
against the background the way the integrated terminal does, and key the
light/dark choice off renderedMode (the painted surface) instead of
resolvedMode so it can't invert. The canvas + inset paint the live skin
surface (--ui-editor-surface-background) so the terminal blends with the
app and follows light/dark, while the contrast clamp keeps colors crisp.
* fix(desktop): tighten command palette search to substring matching
cmdk's default fuzzy scorer matched anything with the query letters
scattered across an item, so e.g. "color" never narrowed to color
entries. Add a substring filter: every typed word must literally appear
in an item's value/keywords, keeping results tight and predictable.
* fix(desktop): blend the terminal header into the skin surface
The persistent-terminal overlay painted the static palette background
(#1e1e1e/#ffffff), so the transparent header strip revealed a near-black
slab above the surface-colored body. Paint the overlay with the live
--ui-editor-surface-background so header and body read as one pane.
* fix(desktop): re-resolve the terminal surface on skin switch
The canvas surface only re-resolved on light/dark change, so switching
skins at the same mode left the WebGL canvas painted with the old tint
until reload. Key the resolve off themeName too. Also trim the palette
comments.
* chore(desktop): drop redundant terminal theming header comment
Remote attachments read their bytes through the readFileDataUrl IPC, which is
hard-capped at 16MB and rejects with a raw "file is too large (N bytes; limit M
bytes)" string straight into the failure toast (helix4u review note on #43109).
Translate that into "<file> is too large to upload to the remote gateway (max
16 MB)", parsing the limit out of the message so it tracks the real cap. Applies
to both the image and non-image remote read paths; non-cap errors pass through
unchanged. Adds unit coverage for both.
Two races in the drop-time eager upload:
- Resurrected chip: the success path used addComposerAttachment, which
re-appends when the id is gone, so a file removed mid-upload reappeared once
the upload resolved. Add updateComposerAttachment (update-only; no-op when the
chip was removed) and use it on both the eager success path and submit-time
sync.
- Duplicate upload: submit-time sync didn't join an eager upload still in
flight, so drop-then-Enter could fire file.attach twice and leave a duplicate
under .hermes/desktop-attachments/. Track in-flight eager uploads by id and
await the pending one before deciding to re-upload, reusing its gateway ref.
Tests: composer-store no-resurrect unit tests + a join-on-submit integration
test asserting a single file.attach.
Addresses @helix4u review on #43109.
The in-flight user bubble seeded image attachment refs as `@image:<localpath>`.
In remote-gateway mode that path lives on the desktop, not the gateway, so the
inline thumbnail fetch hit /api/media and 403'd ("Path outside media roots"),
flashing a fallback chip until submit uploaded the bytes.
Seed (and keep) image refs as the raw base64 preview data URL instead. It
renders inline via extractEmbeddedImages with zero network, and survives the
post-sync rewrite (the agent gets the bytes through the attached-image pipeline,
not this display ref) so the thumbnail no longer remounts/flashes. Non-image
refs are unchanged.
Adds optimisticAttachmentRef + unit coverage.
Finder/OS drops became `@file:/Users/...` refs that only resolve when the
gateway shares the local disk, so on a remote gateway non-image files
(PDF/CSV/Markdown/...) never reached the agent. Route OS drops through the
file.attach / image.attach_bytes upload pipeline — in-app project-tree and
gutter drags stay inline workspace-relative refs — across every drop surface:
the conversation area, the composer form, the contenteditable input, and the
message-edit composer (which still reproduced the bug).
Also:
- upload dropped files eagerly when a session exists, so the card shows a
spinner instead of stalling the send (images stay submit-time to avoid
racing their thumbnail write);
- round the attachment card and drop the monospace detail;
- render image previews from the bytes we already hold, so a pasted/dropped
screenshot shows its thumbnail and previews even when its only on-disk copy
is a transient path (the data URL is not persisted to localStorage).
Supersedes #38615, #41203.
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP <154585401+LeonSGP43@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
