Follow-up to the #55780 dead-target not_found blast-radius fix (merged in
#56225). classify_send_error and is_chat_level_not_found each built their own
lowercased error blob, but divergently: classify_send_error appended the
exception CLASS NAME while is_chat_level_not_found did not. A caller passing
exc= to both could get inconsistent answers on the same failure.
- Extract _error_blob(exc, error_text) as the single source of truth both
classifiers use (str(exc) when non-empty + class name; no stray leading
space).
- Align is_chat_level_not_found's signature to (exc, error_text), matching
classify_send_error, removing the swapped-positional footgun; update the
sole caller and the three tests to keyword form.
- Add a regression guard asserting _error_blob keeps the class name.
Surfaced by the hermes-pr-review Phase 2c structured review of #56225.
#55115 added the dead-target registry so confirmed-dead delivery targets are
short-circuited. Its documented scope (gateway/dead_targets.py) is deliberately
narrow: only *whole-chat* deaths -- the `forbidden` and chat-level `not_found`
(`chat not found`) kinds -- should be recorded; "Thread/topic-level not_found is
NOT recorded here ... a deleted topic does not mean the parent chat is dead."
But the implementation doesn't honor that scope. classify_send_error collapses
chat-level "chat not found" AND thread/message-level not_found ("thread not
found", "topic_deleted", "message_id_invalid", "message to edit/reply not
found") into one "not_found" kind, _DEAD_ERROR_KINDS contains "not_found"
wholesale, and deliver()'s except marks the PARENT chat_id dead. So a single
deleted Telegram topic or edited-away message permanently marks the entire chat
(and every future scheduled / cron / agent delivery to it) dead -- silently. The
adapter self-heal the docstring relies on only covers the non-private-group
thread retry; named-DM-topic and message-level failures propagate to deliver()'s
except and wrongly kill the whole chat.
Add is_chat_level_not_found() (factoring the not_found substrings into chat-level
vs sub-chat-level constants) and gate the delivery dead-path: a "not_found" only
marks the target dead when it is chat-level. classify_send_error's public
contract is unchanged (still returns "not_found" for every shape); only the
mark_dead decision is refined, restoring the registry's documented scope.
Cross-platform: telegram/slack/discord delivery all flow through
classify_send_error -> mark_dead. Adds regression tests through the real
deliver() path plus helper/classifier units.
The handoff seed path inlined its own int(chat_id) > 0 private-chat
check; delivery.py already had the identical heuristic. Promote it to
a public name and reuse it from both sites instead of duplicating.
* fix(gateway): skip confirmed-dead delivery targets (deleted groups, blocked bots)
A deleted Telegram group, kicked/blocked bot, or deactivated user keeps
throwing Forbidden/not_found on every cron tick and fan-out delivery. Each
retry burns a send against the platform's flood-control envelope and spams
the logs, making the whole session feel broken even when the model call
completed.
Add a small persistent DeadTargetRegistry (per-profile JSON under
HERMES_HOME) that records a target the moment a send reports a whole-chat
death (forbidden / chat-level not_found), and have DeliveryRouter.deliver()
short-circuit it on subsequent attempts. Self-healing: any successful send
clears the flag, so a user re-adding the bot recovers with no manual cleanup.
Thread/topic-level not_found is NOT recorded (adapters already self-heal that
by retrying without reply_to). Transient/timeout errors are never marked dead.
* infographic: dead delivery target skipping
Follow-up to ScotterMonk's cron-truncation fix:
- Remove HERMES_DELIVERY_MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT env var. Behavioral config
belongs in config.yaml, not a new HERMES_* env var (.env is secrets
only). The actual bug is fixed entirely by the adapter-aware skip; the
configurable cap was unneeded scope. MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT is a constant
again, collapsing the max_output=0 disable branch and the
audit-vs-truncation threshold divergence.
- Flag the remaining verified-chunking adapters (slack, matrix, feishu,
mattermost, teams, whatsapp, whatsapp_cloud, weixin, bluebubbles,
yuanbao) with splits_long_messages=True so the fix covers the whole
bug class, not just Discord/Telegram. Each verified to chunk in its
own send() via truncate_message().
- SMS deliberately left False: it chunks for normal replies but a
multi-segment cron blast is cost-bearing; the 4000-cap + file save is
the safer default there.
- Update tests: drop the two env-override tests, add a test asserting a
save failure during truncation (non-chunking) propagates.
Gateway-level truncation (MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT=4000) was pre-empting
adapter-side message splitting. Discord and Telegram both chunk long
content natively in their send() via truncate_message(), but the
delivery router truncated to 3800 chars + footer before the adapter
ever saw the full payload — so long cron output was cut short instead
of being delivered as multiple messages (issue #50126).
Changes:
- HERMES_DELIVERY_MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT env var makes the cap configurable
(default 4000, backward compatible). Set to 0 to disable truncation.
- TRUNCATED_VISIBLE (3800) removed — visible portion now derived
dynamically from max_output minus the actual footer length.
- New BasePlatformAdapter.splits_long_messages capability flag (default
False). Adapters that chunk in send() set True; delivery skips
truncation for them but still saves full output to disk as audit.
- Flagged Discord and Telegram (both verified to chunk in send()).
Fixes#50126
Hallucinated 'silence' tokens (*(silent)*, _silent_, the bare '.', '...',
'silent', no response/reply, the mute emoji) are emitted when a persona has
nothing actionable to say. In bot-to-bot channels the receiving bot mirrors
the token back, creating a tight loop that burns API tokens and can crash a
model with 'no content after all retries'. SOUL.md/prompt rules drift across
providers and have already failed in practice, so add a substrate-level guard.
_deliver_to_platform now drops a message whose finalized content is only a
silence-narration token, logs a WARNING with platform/chat_id/truncated
content, and returns {success: True, filtered: 'silence_narration',
delivered: False} instead of calling the adapter. Single chokepoint covers
every platform adapter; the regex is anchored start/end with a 64-char guard
so prose like 'Silence is golden — here is the plan...' or 'Silent install
completed' is never dropped. Local/file delivery is a separate path and is
left untouched. Opt out via gateway.filter_silence_narration: false or the
HERMES_FILTER_SILENCE_NARRATION env override (env wins when set).
Closes#34616
FixesNousResearch/hermes-agent#11768
Root cause: target.strip().lower() was lowercasing the entire target string,
corrupting case-sensitive chat IDs like Slack C123ABC and Matrix !RoomABC.
Fix: Only lowercase the platform prefix for case-insensitive matching;
preserve the original case for chat_id and thread_id values.
Automated dead code audit using vulture + coverage.py + ast-grep intersection,
confirmed by Opus deep verification pass. Every symbol verified to have zero
production callers (test imports excluded from reachability analysis).
Removes ~1,534 lines of dead production code across 46 files and ~1,382 lines
of stale test code. 3 entire files deleted (agent/builtin_memory_provider.py,
hermes_cli/checklist.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_setup_model_selection.py).
Co-authored-by: alt-glitch <balyan.sid@gmail.com>
The delivery target parser uses split(':', 1) which only splits on the
first colon. For the documented format platform:chat_id:thread_id
(e.g. 'telegram:-1001234567890:17585'), thread_id gets munged into
chat_id and is never extracted.
Fix: split(':', 2) to correctly extract all three parts. Also fix
to_string() to include thread_id for proper round-tripping.
The downstream plumbing in _deliver_to_platform() already handles
thread_id correctly (line 292-293) — it just never received a value.
Salvages the two still-relevant fixes from PR #993 onto current main:
- use a 3-tuple LOCAL delivery key so explicit/local-origin targets are not duplicated
- shut down the previous agent-loop ThreadPoolExecutor when resizing the global pool
Adds regression tests for both behaviors.
- Updated CLI to load configuration from user-specific and project-specific YAML files, prioritizing user settings.
- Introduced a new command `/platforms` to display the status of connected messaging platforms (Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp).
- Implemented a gateway system for handling messaging interactions, including session management and delivery routing for cron job outputs.
- Added support for environment variable configuration and a dedicated gateway configuration file for advanced settings.
- Enhanced documentation in README.md and added a new messaging.md file to guide users on platform integrations and setup.
- Updated toolsets to include platform-specific capabilities for Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp, ensuring secure and tailored interactions.
