Two silent-loss modes in the ephemeral slash reply path:
1. Delivery failure was swallowed: _send_slash_ephemeral returned
success=True on any POST failure, so the user's actual command reply
vanished behind the stale 'Running /cmd…' ack. It now returns
success=False and send() falls back to normal channel delivery.
2. Long replies were truncated to the first ~39k chunk with no notice.
Replies are now chunked across response_url POSTs (first replaces
the ack, follow-ups append, all ephemeral), capped at Slack's 5-POST
response_url budget with an explicit truncation notice when exceeded.
Also updates the #55357 bounded-error-read test for the #26788 precise
context matching (ContextVar must be set) and channel fallback.
Fixes#19688
Commands typed in Slack could be mangled by every enrichment layer the
adapter applies to normal messages:
- Block Kit / unfurl / attachment-notice / text-file injection could
prepend or append content around a command, moving the command token
away from character zero or polluting its arguments. Commands are now
restored from canonical authored input after all enrichment
(final is_command_text guard before MessageEvent construction).
- @bot /cmd (typed slash behind a mention) was never classified as a
command; the mention-strip branch now re-probes for both slash and
bang forms.
- The Slack Agent-view context label ([Slack app context: ...]) was
prepended to command events too; now command-exempt.
- Native slash payload arguments were strip()ed, destroying meaningful
spacing inside/after arguments; only the command delimiter is
nonsemantic now.
- Slash payload thread identity (thread_ts/message_ts, top-level or
nested in message/container) is preserved onto SessionSource so
session-scoped commands hit the same thread session.
- /queue and /steer queued fallbacks now propagate channel_context so a
command that triggered first-entry thread backfill doesn't lose the
history when re-queued.
Adapted from PR #66310 to the post-#69320 channel_context design (thread
history already rides MessageEvent.channel_context, never text).
Slack's send() caught all exceptions and returned a bare
SendResult(success=False) — never setting retryable=True or extracting
the server's Retry-After header. When Slack returned a 429 rate-limit
error, the base _send_with_retry() layer saw retryable=False and did
not retry, silently dropping remaining message chunks.
Reuse the existing _is_retryable_upload_error() helper (which already
detects 429, 500+, and connection-type errors) to set retryable=True,
and extract the Retry-After header from the SlackApiError response
when present so the base retry layer honors Slack's backoff schedule
instead of its own default.
Sibling of the Telegram FloodWait fix (PR #46762 / commit 404b06ac4)
which added the SendResult.retry_after plumbing to the base layer.
Adds five regression tests covering 429 with/without Retry-After,
500 server errors, 403 non-retryable errors, and connection errors.
_pop_slash_context fell back to a channel-only scan when the
_slash_user_id ContextVar was unset (i.e. send() invoked from a
non-slash code path such as a cron delivery or a normal channel reply).
That scan could steal another user's pending slash reply context: the
normal message got swallowed into an ephemeral response_url POST that
replaces the invoker's ack, and the slash invoker's actual reply then
posted publicly. Remove the fallback — when the ContextVar is unset,
match nothing.
Surgical reapply of PR #26788 (originally against gateway/platforms/slack.py).
_has_active_session_for_thread() hardcoded chat_type='group', causing
session key mismatch for DM and MPIM threads. DM sessions key as
agent:main:slack:dm:{chat_id}:{thread_ts} but the lookup built
agent:main:slack:group:{chat_id}:{user_id}:{thread_ts}.
Impact: _has_active_session_for_thread always returned False for DM
threads, causing thread context to be prepended on every message. The
prepended context broke slash command detection (get_command() checks
text.startswith('/')), so /cmd and !cmd never worked in DM threads.
Fix: accept event-derived chat_type parameter instead of hardcoding
'group'. Both call sites pass chat_type='dm' if is_dm else 'group',
where is_dm is already computed from channel_type in {'im', 'mpim'}.
This correctly handles:
- IM channels (D-prefix): chat_type='dm'
- MPIM channels (G-prefix): chat_type='dm' (was missed by D-prefix heuristic)
- Channel messages (C-prefix): chat_type='group' (unchanged)
Added regression tests covering DM thread lookup, MPIM thread lookup,
and negative cases verifying the old hardcoded 'group' behavior fails.
Slack rich_text blocks mirror the original message text. When bang
commands are rewritten from !model to /model, appending block text makes
the command arguments include a duplicate payload, so the model switcher
sees spaces in the model name and rejects valid commands like:
!model qwen3.7-plus --provider opencode-go
Skip block extraction for command messages while preserving it for
normal messages. Also preserve Slack thread_ts (top-level or nested in
message/container payload shapes) on native slash-command payloads so
session-scoped commands like /model apply to the intended thread instead
of a channel+user key the next threaded message never matches.
Surgical reapply of PR #43533 (originally against gateway/platforms/slack.py,
now plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py). Thread-shape widening credit also
to #66310.
Removes Homebrew and PyPI wheel/sdist as Hermes distribution paths while
preserving the supported source, Docker, and Nix workflows.
Changes:
- Removes the Homebrew formula, PyPI publish workflow, sdist manifest
(MANIFEST.in), and wheel/sdist release-attachment logic from scripts/release.py.
- Keeps setuptools metadata and entry points required by editable installs
and Docker/Nix builds, but adds a setup.py guard that rejects wheel/sdist
builds outside a sealed Nix derivation (HERMES_NIX_BUILD=1).
- Removes pip/Homebrew install detection, PyPI update checks, the pip
self-update path, the deprecation-banner state, the postinstall subcommand,
wheel data-directory fallbacks in agent/i18n.py and hermes_constants.py,
and the ACP Registry manifest/version-lockstep release logic.
- Adds /nix/store/ path detection so `nix run` / `nix profile install`
installs (which don't set HERMES_MANAGED) are correctly identified as
"nix" rather than falling through to "git"/"unknown".
- Retired install-method values ("pip", "homebrew") in existing
.install_method stamps (both code-scoped and home-scoped) are ignored by
the allowlist reader and fall through to "unknown" instead of resurrecting
a retired enum value.
- Updates Nix packaging to ship bare runtime data (locales, optional-mcps)
through store symlinks and wrapper env vars instead of wheel data-files.
- Removes the ACP Registry manifest/icon and their version-lockstep tests.
- Deletes or rewrites packaging, pip-update, Homebrew, and ACP Registry
tests; adds parametrized coverage for the packaging build guard covering
BOTH sdist and wheel paths (the guards live in separate cmdclass entries
— a passing sdist test proves nothing about the wheel path).
- Updates installation/platform documentation and related user-facing copy.
- Adjusts the supply-chain scan so deleted install-hook files do not trigger
a finding, while additions or modifications still require the existing
ci-reviewed label gate.
Supported installation paths (unchanged):
- git installer (install.sh)
- Docker
- Nix/NixOS
- editable development installs (uv sync, uv pip install -e ., pip install -e .)
Slack delivers user mentions as opaque IDs (<@U123>). The agent had no
way to tell one participant from another — or from itself — so it could
misread a mention of a human as a self-mention and answer messages
addressed to that person (the "bot thinks it's @someone-else" bug).
Two cooperating fixes:
- _humanize_user_mentions rewrites remaining <@UID> tokens (the bot's
own mention is stripped earlier) to @DisplayName in the trigger text
and reply_to_text — the Slack equivalent of Discord's clean_content.
Handles the labelled <@UID|handle> form; unresolvable IDs fall back
to the raw ID.
- _build_identity_prompt injects an ephemeral per-turn system-prompt
line via the channel_prompt seam (applied at API-call time, never
persisted — prompt caching preserved) naming the bot's own workspace
handle (per-team in multi-workspace installs) so the agent has a
positive "that's me" anchor.
Salvaged from #55340 by @benbarclay, rebased over the workspace-scoped
user-name cache (team_id-aware resolution) on main.
Two mention-tracking gaps around thread parents (#24848):
1. When a thread PARENT @-mentioned the bot (e.g. '<@bot> check this
and ask me before running'), a later bare reply like 'run' fell
through every wake check if the mention event predated this process
(restart) — _mentioned_threads is in-memory only. Add a 5th wake
check that fetches the parent text (with the bot mention preserved
via strip_bot_mention=False) and wakes when the parent addressed the
bot, registering the thread so later replies skip the fetch.
2. A TOP-LEVEL @mention starts a thread (session keying falls back to
the message ts), but only the raw event thread_ts was registered in
_mentioned_threads — so replies to a top-level mention did not
auto-trigger. Register the session-scoped thread_ts instead.
_fetch_thread_parent_text reuses the shared thread-context cache (raw
payloads) so the parent check costs at most one conversations.replies
call per thread; _register_mentioned_thread centralizes the bounded-set
eviction.
Salvaged from #24848 by @kaiyisg, rebased onto the extracted
_should_wake_on_unmentioned_message helper.
The un-mentioned wake decision relied on three checks: thread root in
_bot_message_ts (populated only by the adapter's own send() path),
_mentioned_threads (populated on @mention), and an existing session.
Two gaps (#63530):
- Gap A: bot messages posted OUTSIDE gateway send() — skills/scripts
calling chat.postMessage directly, cron/API posts — never enter
_bot_message_ts, so human replies in those threads were silently
dropped.
- Gap B: _bot_message_ts is process memory; after a gateway restart the
bot stopped waking on replies to threads it started before the
restart.
Fix: add a 4th, API-derived check — _bot_authored_thread_root — which
resolves the thread root's author via conversations.replies (cached in
_thread_context_cache via the new parent_user_id field, TTL-bounded).
Root authorship comes from Slack itself, so it covers outside-send
posts and survives restarts, unlike in-memory ts tracking. The wake
decision is extracted into _should_wake_on_unmentioned_message for
direct unit testing; the legacy checks remain first (cheap, additive).
Fixes#63530.
Salvaged from #64067 by @knoal (author metadata normalized to their
GitHub identity), rebased over the thread-context formatter split and
extended with per-team bot-id resolution for multi-workspace installs.
Persistent sessions survive gateway restarts, but thread replies posted
while the gateway was DOWN never reached the session — and the adapter
had no way to notice, so the conversation silently resumed with a hole
in it.
On the first ordinary reply per thread after a restart (tracked by a
fresh-process _thread_rehydration_checked set), fetch the thread delta
past the persisted per-session watermark and inject any missed messages
as part of the new turn via channel_context. Exactly-once per thread
per process; when the watermark is empty (pre-feature sessions) the
check is a no-op. Steady-state replies keep advancing the watermark so
rehydration never re-injects messages the session already carries as
ordinary turns. Prior history is never rewritten (prompt caching safe).
Builds on the persisted watermark introduced for #23918.
Salvaged from #33215 by @vexclawx31, reworked from a repeated
full-thread injection guard into a watermark-delta injection so
rehydration adds only what the session actually missed.
Once a thread has an active session, a later reply that explicitly
@mentions the bot did not re-fetch Slack thread context, so the agent
missed messages added to the thread after the initial hydrate (e.g.
other bots/integrations replying in multi-agent workflows). The
explicit mention is a fresh intent signal and now triggers a refresh.
Mechanics:
- SessionEntry gains a small persisted metadata dict, with
SessionStore.get/set_session_metadata accessors (survives gateway
restarts via the routing index).
- The adapter stores a per-thread consumption watermark
(slack_thread_watermark:<channel>:<thread>) recording the last
thread ts the session consumed.
- On explicit mention in an active thread, _fetch_thread_context runs
with force_refresh=True (bypassing the TTL cache) and after_ts=<the
watermark>, so only NOT-yet-seen messages are injected — as part of
the new turn via channel_context. Prior conversation history is
never rewritten, preserving prompt caching.
- _fetch_thread_context caches raw conversations.replies payloads so
watermark-scoped re-formatting needs no extra API call; formatting
is split into _format_thread_context.
- Thread session keys are built once in _build_thread_session_key
(shared by the wake gate and the watermark accessors), still via
build_session_key().
Fixes#23918. Supersedes #62299 (keyword-triggered refresh limited to
'investigate' prompts — the mention signal is the general fix).
Salvaged from #23927 by @heathley, rebased onto the plugin adapter
layout and rerouted through channel_context instead of text-prepend.
Prepending cold-start thread backfill directly onto the message text
moved a recognized command (e.g. a bang-normalized "!queue ...") away
from character zero, so downstream command routing misclassified it as
conversational text and the command silently didn't run.
Route the backfill through MessageEvent.channel_context instead —
gateway.run already prepends channel_context after command dispatch
("[New message]" framing), so commands keep their COMMAND type while
the recovered history stays available to the agent.
Supersedes #68020, which dropped the fetched context entirely for
commands instead of preserving it out-of-band.
Salvaged from #66069 by @LevSky22.
_fetch_thread_context unconditionally filtered out the bot's own prior
replies, so cold-start sessions (bot posts a thread root, user replies
later, no active session) lost every assistant turn and the agent could
not reconstruct the prior conversation.
The circular-context concern the filter guarded against does not apply
here: the call site is gated by _has_active_session_for_thread, so this
method only runs when there is no session history to duplicate.
Self-bot replies are now kept and labelled with an explicit [assistant]
prefix (skipping user-name resolution — the label already communicates
authorship). Third-party bot posts and the bot-authored thread parent
keep their existing treatment.
Fixes#38861.
Salvaged from #38936 by @temalo, rebased from the pre-plugin
gateway/platforms/slack.py layout onto plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py
(preserving the [unverified] trust-tag handling added on main since).
A session key that exists in the store but would be rolled to a fresh
session by the reset policy (daily/idle/suspended) is not an active
session. Treating it as active suppressed the first-turn Slack
thread-history reseed after reset (#55239).
_has_active_session_for_thread() now consults SessionStore._should_reset
so a stale entry gates like a missing one, letting _fetch_thread_context
reseed the fresh session with recent thread history.
Fixes#55239.
Salvaged from #55240 by @ooiuuii.
Slack buffers un-acked Socket Mode events and replays them when the
websocket reconnects; the replay can arrive several minutes later —
past the 300s default dedup TTL — producing a duplicate bot reply.
Default the Slack dedup window to 1 hour (memory stays bounded by the
deduplicator's max_size LRU pruning) and allow overriding via
SLACK_DEDUP_TTL_SECONDS.
Salvaged from PR #40064 by @MrAbsaroka (reapplied onto the
plugin-migrated adapter path). Fixes#4777.
The Socket Mode watchdog only reconnects when is_connected() returns False
or the receiver task dies. When the underlying aiohttp ClientSession is
closed (e.g. after a network blip), slack_sdk gets stuck retrying
"Session is closed" while is_connected() can still report healthy and the
receiver task stays alive — so the watchdog never fires and the process is
alive but deaf to Slack indefinitely.
Add a ping/pong staleness probe: Slack sends a ping roughly every
ping_interval seconds even on an idle socket, so a stale/missing
last_ping_pong_time (past a first-ping grace window) is a reliable signal
the transport is wedged. The watchdog now also reconnects on staleness,
which rebuilds the handler with a fresh session. Guards non-numeric
attributes so a mocked/partial client never triggers a spurious reconnect.
7 new tests; full test_slack.py (216) green.
SocketModeClient.connect() is a "while True" retry loop that never checks
the client's closed flag, so anything still inside it when the shared
aiohttp session is closed keeps retrying against a session that can never
work again. That is the "Failed to connect (error: Session is closed);
Retrying..." spam in #46990, at a steady ping_interval cadence that only
a process restart clears.
_stop_socket_mode_handler closed the handler first and cancelled
afterwards, which loses the race. close_async() closes that shared
session, and three things can be inside connect() when it does: our own
start_async task, monitor_current_session() (on staleness) and
receive_messages() (on a CLOSE frame), the latter two reaching it
independently through connect_to_new_endpoint(). connect() also rebinds
current_session_monitor and message_receiver to fresh tasks when it
succeeds, so the set of live tasks changes across the awaits inside
close(). Cancelling from a snapshot taken partway through races a moving
target rather than closing the window.
So cancel all four before close_async() instead. With nothing left alive
to enter connect(), no rebinding can happen during teardown and the
window cannot open at all. The client's task attributes are read with
getattr so a rename inside the SDK degrades to a no-op instead of raising
during shutdown, and the wait is asyncio.wait with a timeout rather than
an unbounded await, so a task wedged in a network call cannot hold up
shutdown.
The underlying SDK defect is tracked at slackapi/python-slack-sdk#1913.
This replaces the earlier version of this change, which added a closed
session check when building a handler and another in the watchdog. Both
are unnecessary once teardown stops leaking tasks: each
AsyncSocketModeHandler builds its own SocketModeClient with a fresh
ClientSession, so a new handler cannot inherit a closed session, and the
current handler's session is only closed by the teardown path itself.
Dropping the watchdog check also keeps this off the ping/pong staleness
trigger proposed in #52923, which addresses a wedged live connection
rather than a leaked one.
Fixes#46990
A platform with a missing dependency or missing credentials can never
succeed on retry, but connect() returned bare False, so the gateway
treated the failure as transient and queued it for background
reconnection — looping forever at the backoff cap. Set
_set_fatal_error(..., retryable=False) for missing-dependency and
missing-credential failures in the Slack, Telegram, and Discord
adapters so the reconnect watcher drops them from the retry queue.
Salvaged from PR #31057 by @dskwe (reapplied onto the plugin-migrated
adapter paths). Fixes#31049.
Missing SLACK_BOT_TOKEN / SLACK_APP_TOKEN is a permanent configuration
error, not a transient outage. Without a fatal-error marker the gateway
queued Slack for background reconnection and looped forever (#66696).
Set _set_fatal_error(..., retryable=False) so the reconnect watcher
drops it from the retry queue, and point the log/error text at
`hermes gateway setup` / the profile's ~/.hermes/.env.
Salvaged from PR #66720 by @x7peeps. Fixes#66696.
Slack now overrides send_clarify to render multi-choice clarify prompts
as native Block Kit buttons (one per choice + a final '✏️ Other…'
free-text button), mirroring the Telegram/Discord adapters and the
existing Slack approval-button pattern.
- Unique hermes_clarify_choice_<idx> action_ids (Slack rejects
duplicate action_ids within one actions block); dispatch via a
compiled-regex action matcher plus hermes_clarify_other.
- Chunks elements across actions blocks in groups of 5 so a larger
choice list degrades gracefully instead of 400ing (invalid_blocks).
- Choice taps resolve through tools.clarify_gateway
.resolve_gateway_clarify with the canonical registered choice text —
the same applier the typed-reply path uses — then edit the message
to show the outcome and drop the buttons.
- 'Other' flips the entry into text-capture via mark_awaiting_text
(only on tap, never at send time) so the gateway text-intercept
captures the next typed message.
- Auth-gated via _is_interactive_user_authorized; atomic-pop
double-click guard mirrors _approval_resolved; late taps on evicted
entries surface an honest expiry notice instead of a false ✓.
- Open-ended prompts delegate to the base plain-text render.
Salvaged from PR #61943 by @100yenadmin. Earliest implementation of
this feature was PR #28885 by @cypres0099; sibling implementations
#66606 (@jaaro-ai) and #51547 (@Mongol-Jimmi) are superseded.
Closes#52369
Consolidated defensive layer for the invalid_blocks / msg_too_long bug
class (#56615, #62054, #53693): one malformed or oversized block fails
the ENTIRE chat.postMessage / chat.update call, so approval cards never
update and messages silently drop.
New block_kit.sanitize_blocks() is applied at every call site that
attaches blocks (send/edit via _maybe_blocks, send_exec_approval,
send_slash_confirm, and the approval/slash-confirm chat.update button
handlers). It:
- truncates section/context text to the 3000-char cap with an ellipsis
(covers interaction payloads where Slack's HTML-escaping of < > &
inflates text past the limit budgeted at send time)
- truncates header text to its 150-char cap
- drops empty blocks (no text / elements / rows)
- replaces null table column_settings entries with {} and trims
default trailing entries (Slack requires every entry be an object)
- caps the payload at Slack's 50-block maximum
- returns None when nothing valid remains so callers fall back to the
plain-text payload; never raises
Also registers contributor mappings for the salvaged PRs in this
cluster (tw0316, kamonspecial, sowork-skills).
Slack's chat.update enforces the same ~40k character limit as
chat.postMessage, but edit_message sent the formatted text unchunked —
an oversized edit failed outright with msg_too_long and the message
was never updated. Unlike send() we cannot split an edit into multiple
messages, so truncate to MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH via the shared chunker
(which preserves code-block boundaries) and keep the first chunk.
Reapplied from PR #33224 (targeted the pre-plugin gateway/platforms/slack.py
path) onto plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py.
Slack API returns `no_text` error when `chat.postMessage` is called
with empty or whitespace-only text. This happens when cron delivery
posts a response before the agent produces content (e.g. malformed
turn before [SILENT]).
Add early-return guards in both code paths:
- `_standalone_send()`: out-of-process cron delivery via Web API
- `send()`: in-process gateway adapter
Both paths now skip the API call and return success when the formatted
message is empty or whitespace-only.
Fixes#52663
Slack re-escapes HTML entities in the interaction payload
(< -> <, > -> >, & -> &), inflating the section text
past the 3000-char Block Kit limit when the button handler
rebuilds updated_blocks for chat.update.
The send path already budget-truncates, but the click handlers
used the echoed original_text verbatim. Cap it to 3000 chars
in both _handle_approval_action and _handle_slash_confirm_action.
Fixes#53693
assert statements are stripped when Python runs with -O flag. Replace
the assert cur is not None in _rich_text_list_block() with an explicit
if/continue guard. The assert is technically unreachable (first loop
iteration always sets cur), but using assert for invariant checking in
production code is fragile under optimization.
Slack rejects a rich_text_section / rich_text_preformatted / rich_text_quote
whose elements list is empty or contains a zero-length text element, and a
header whose plain_text is empty. The Block Kit renderer emits exactly those
shapes for common inputs: a markdown table with a blank cell or a ragged
(short) row, an empty fenced code block, a blank quote line, an empty list
item, and an emphasis-only header ("# ***"). Any one of them poisons the
whole payload — chat.postMessage fails with invalid_blocks ("missing element"
/ "must be more than 0 characters") and the message loses its rich rendering
entirely.
Route every rich_text builder's child elements through _nonempty_elements
(drop zero-length text elements; substitute a single space when nothing
remains) and skip headers that reduce to empty after markdown-marker
stripping. Observed in production via live chat.postMessage rejections;
regression tests cover each case plus a well-formed-content control.
Complementary to #56618 (column_settings hardening + no-blocks retry): that
change makes Block Kit rejections recoverable, this one makes the common
empty-content cases render correctly in the first place. No overlapping hunks.
Bot-posted alerts (Honeycomb, PagerDuty, Datadog, GitHub bot, etc.) carry
their actionable content — section text, button URLs — in Block Kit
blocks, while the plain text field holds only the alert title.
_fetch_thread_context and _fetch_thread_parent_text only read
msg.get('text'), so that content never reached the agent.
Add a _render_message_text helper that merges top-level text with
readable block content, section/header/context text, actionable URLs,
and (folded in from #61261 during conflict resolution) legacy
attachment fields, and use it for thread-context and parent-text
rendering.
Salvaged from #29541.
`_fetch_thread_context` and `_fetch_thread_parent_text` only read each
message's plain `text` field, so messages posted by apps (Alertmanager,
Grafana, PagerDuty, CI bots) — which carry their content in legacy
`attachments` or Block Kit `blocks` with an empty `text` — were dropped
entirely. When such a message *starts* a thread (e.g. an alert), a bot
mentioned mid-thread to investigate sees an empty thread and can only ask
"what should I investigate?".
Fall back to the existing `_extract_text_from_slack_blocks` and a new
`_extract_text_from_slack_attachments` helper when `text` is empty, so
app-posted alerts and notifications are visible in fetched thread history.
Adds TestThreadContextAppMessages (attachment-only, blocks-only, and
empty-message cases).
Closes#52387
Slack messages can carry the bot @mention only inside Block Kit `blocks`
(a `rich_text` section with a `user` element), with the flat top-level
`text` containing just a fallback string. Both mention gates read only the
flat `text`:
- the `allow_bots: mentions` bot-message filter, and
- the `is_mentioned` channel router (`routing_text = original_text`)
so such messages were silently dropped — `allow_bots: mentions` was
effectively non-functional for Block-Kit senders, and the same blind spot
hit `require_mention` / `strict_mention`.
Add `_collect_slack_block_mentions()` (walks blocks, recovers `<@UID>`
tokens from non-quoted rich-text `user` elements) and
`_slack_mention_detection_text()` (flat text + recovered mentions). Both
gates now use the merged detection text. Mentions nested in
`rich_text_quote` are deliberately ignored, preserving the existing
contract that quoted/forwarded content can't trick the bot. Also emit a
debug line when a bot message is dropped so silent drops are diagnosable.
Tests: 4 new cases in tests/gateway/test_slack_mention.py (Block-Kit
mention recovered, flat-text passthrough, no-mention, quoted-mention
ignored). 275 slack tests pass.
Widen the allow_session tier from Matrix to every adapter the gateway
notifies: Telegram, Discord, Slack, Feishu, and Teams gate their Session
button on it; WhatsApp Cloud and qqbot accept the kwarg (no session tier
in their button sets). Also thread allow_session through the plugin-
escalation gate, the execute_code guard payload, and the plain-text
fallback so every notify path carries the same capability flags.
Three related messaging-approval fixes:
1. approvals.timeout default 60 -> 300. PR #63501 collapsed the gateway
wait onto the canonical approvals.timeout (previously
gateway_timeout=300), silently shrinking messaging approval windows
to 60s. Push-notification approvals routinely arrive later than a
minute; taps landed after the wait had already failed closed.
2. Stale-tap honesty: adapters resolved the approval AFTER rendering
'<checkmark> Approved by <user>' (Telegram/Discord/Slack), or ignored a zero
resolve count (WhatsApp Cloud/Feishu). A tap on an expired prompt
claimed approval while the command had already been denied. All
button paths now resolve first and render 'Approval expired -
command was not run' when nothing was waiting.
3. Mixed-warning prompts (dangerous pattern + tirith finding) now offer
Always: the persistence layer already permanently allowlists the
pattern key and downgrades the tirith key to session scope, but the
UI hid Always whenever ANY tirith warning was present. Pure-tirith
prompts still withhold Always (content findings are session-max by
design), and Smart-DENY overrides remain once-only.
Gateway tests build adapters via object.__new__() without __init__ (the
documented bare-instance pattern), so the new _status_text dict must be
accessed through getattr guards in set_status_text, the _keep_typing
finally cleanup, and the Slack send_typing read — same treatment as
other post-hoc __init__ attributes. Fixes CI shard 2/8
(test_active_session_text_merge).
Builds on the salvaged typing_status_text plumbing (PR #62007): instead
of a static 'is thinking...', Slack's assistant status line now updates
live as the agent works — 'is running pytest tests/…', 'is reading
docs/api.md…' — and reverts to the static text between tool calls.
Mechanics:
- agent/display.py: build_status_phrase() derives a <=49-char present-
tense phrase from the existing _TOOL_VERBS table (+ 'is using <name>'
for plugin/MCP tools; None for _thinking).
- base adapter: supports_status_text capability flag + set_status_text()
per-chat store, cleared when the typing loop winds down.
- Slack adapter: send_typing() renders the live phrase when set, falling
back to typing_status_text then 'is thinking...'.
- gateway/run.py: progress_callback stashes the phrase on tool.started
and clears on tool.completed. Rendering rides the existing
_keep_typing refresh cadence — zero additional Slack API calls, no
rate-limit exposure. Works with tool_progress: off (Slack default);
the callback is now armed whenever the adapter supports status text.
- display.live_status config (full|verb|off, default full): 'verb' hides
argument previews for shared/customer-facing channels.
Also fixes a latent crash in the cherry-picked from_dict: malformed
non-dict 'extra' sections broke typing_status_text resolution (uses the
already-coerced extra dict).
Design notes: status text is a side-effect display channel only — never
enters the transcript, no prompt-cache impact. Lifecycle guarantees from
the stuck-status fix family are preserved (per-thread tracking,
clear-on-finish via existing stop_typing paths). Related: #45109
(closed; same direction via lifecycle states), #59010/#51363 (native
task cards — complementary, larger scope).
Adds PlatformConfig.typing_status_text for the two platforms that render
text for the working-state line: Slack's assistant.threads.setStatus
status (hardcoded 'is thinking...') and Google Chat's visible marker
message (hardcoded 'Hermes is thinking…'). None keeps each platform's
built-in default; to_dict omits the field when unset so existing configs
serialize unchanged. Plumbing mirrors typing_indicator exactly (typed
field, from_dict extra fallback, shared-key bridge).
Also documents that Slack's status line requires the assistant:write
scope — without it setStatus fails silently and Slack shows its own
generic placeholder, which previously made the behaviour undiagnosable
from config alone.
Secondary profiles under gateway multiplex keep tokens/allowlists in
profile secret_scope, not process os.environ. Auth and Slack were still
reading os.getenv, so Slack on a secondary profile failed allowlist and
socket mode. Webhook deliver also only looked at default adapters.
- Prefer get_secret for allowlists / allow-all flags (authz_mixin)
- Slack app token + allowlist via secret_scope with getenv fallback
- Wrap secondary profile message handlers in _profile_runtime_scope
before auth runs
- Resolve home-channel env from secret_scope / PlatformConfig
- Webhook deliver falls back to _profile_adapters for target platform
- Template key event_type for webhook prompts
Salvaged from #32340 by @LeonSGP43, adapted to the workspace-scoped
status tracking that landed in #63709:
- /stop with no running agent now best-effort clears the platform
status indicator, so a phantom 'is thinking...' left by a gateway
restart or a turn that died without a final send can always be
dismissed (#32295).
- SlackAdapter.stop_typing clears an untracked thread when the caller
names it explicitly in metadata — clearing an unset status is a
harmless no-op on Slack's side. The fallback is skipped when multiple
Slack Connect workspaces track the same channel+thread and no team_id
is given, preserving #63709's cross-workspace safety guarantee.
The docs state feedback_buttons requires rich_blocks: true, but
_maybe_blocks rendered full Block Kit whenever feedback_buttons alone
was enabled — implicitly turning on rich-block rendering the user never
opted into. Align the code with the documented contract and add a
regression test.
