Three mechanisms to detect and notify when gateway sessions stall silently:
1. Mid-turn activity heartbeats stamped to SessionDB so hermes sessions list
and hermes status show progress during long turns without new message rows.
2. Stall watchdog: when a busy session has pending inbound and the shared
activity clock is idle past agent.session_stall_timeout (default 300),
log a WARNING and notify the user once to try /new. Notify-only; does
not kill the turn.
3. Compaction timeout: fenceless compress_context callers get a progress-aware
host budget (compression.context_timeout_seconds default 120 idle,
compression.context_total_ceiling_seconds default 600 ceiling). On timeout,
cancel via commit fence, skip compaction without dropping messages, and
continue the turn.
Closes#72016 (slices 1-3; slice 4 cumulative SSE stream-retry deadline
remains a follow-up).
Cherry-picked from PR #72424 by @fangliquanflq.
The stale-.pyc bug class (#6207, #60242, live WhatsApp report: gateway
ImportError 'cannot import name parse_model_flags_detailed' after /update)
has one shared shape: the checkout's .py files change while __pycache__
retains bytecode from the previous revision, and a later process trusts
the stale .pyc.
Update-time clears can never fully close this class: 'hermes update'
always executes the PRE-pull updater code, so hardening added to it takes
effect one update late — and a manual 'git pull' never runs the updater
at all.
Class fix:
- Launch-time guard in main(): compare the checkout fingerprint (cheap
file reads via _read_git_revision_fingerprint, no git subprocess)
against a .bytecode-fingerprint stamp; sweep __pycache__ once when they
diverge. Covers manual pulls, old updaters, ZIP restores — every entry
point (CLI, gateway service, desktop backend) passes through main().
- Record the stamp at all three update-time clear sites (git path pre-
install, git path post-install, ZIP path) so a normal update never
triggers a redundant launch sweep.
- Sibling site: 'hermes plugins update' + dashboard plugin update now
clear __pycache__ under the plugin dir after git pull (plugin trees
live outside the repo guard).
E2E validated: reproduced the stale-pyc shadowing (same-size same-mtime
source swap → old symbol wins in a fresh process), confirmed the launch
sweep restores the new symbol, no-ops when the checkout is unchanged,
and re-sweeps on the next pull. Sabotage-tested: reverting the sweep
fails 4 of the new tests.
Refresh update-sensitive modules before lazy backend refresh so an in-place git update does not keep using pre-pull module objects when newly pulled code imports fresh helpers.
Constraint: Issue #60242 reports post-update lazy backend refresh importing stale hermes_constants after a large Windows update.
Rejected: Only clearing __pycache__ earlier | the update process can still hold old modules in sys.modules.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep update-time lazy refresh guarded against in-process code skew after git pull.
Tested: ./.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/hermes_cli/test_update_autostash.py::test_cmd_update_reloads_runtime_modules_before_lazy_refresh tests/hermes_cli/test_update_autostash.py::test_reload_updated_runtime_modules_restores_new_hermes_constants_symbol -q
Tested: ./.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/hermes_cli/test_update_autostash.py -q
Tested: ./.venv/bin/python -m ruff check hermes_cli/main.py tests/hermes_cli/test_update_autostash.py
Tested: ./.venv/bin/python -m py_compile hermes_cli/main.py tests/hermes_cli/test_update_autostash.py
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Windows v0.14.0 to v0.18.0 end-to-end update.
Reshapes the salvaged fix so it recovers the `tsc: not found` build without
mis-diagnosing healthy trees.
The npm config forcing is dropped. It rested on the premise that an inherited
`npm_config_omit=dev` can beat the `--include=dev` CLI flag; npm resolves
command-line flags above environment config and filters `omit` by `include`,
so the flag already wins. Verified on npm 10 and 11.5.1: with
`npm_config_omit=dev` set and `--include=dev` passed, devDependencies install.
`npm_config_production` is worse than redundant — npm 9 removed it, so setting
it prints `npm warn config production Use --omit=dev instead.` on every
install.
The readiness probe now reads every root `npm run build` searches, not just
the workspace root. npm links a package's bin shims under the package itself
when it owns its lockfile (#42973), so a root-only check called a working tree
broken: it forced a redundant install, skipped the build entirely, and made
`hermes web` exit 1 on a layout that builds fine today.
The pre-build probe is gone with it. A build that works is never second-guessed
and no filesystem introspection gates it; recovery is driven by the failure
instead. When the build cannot resolve tsc or vite, we reinstall (visibly) and
retry before the generic delayed retry, which otherwise just reruns the same
command and leaves the stale dist in place forever. The lockfile-hash skip
still invalidates on an incomplete toolchain so the next update repairs itself.
Also drops the branches that changed behavior based on whether a test mock was
installed, and replaces the mock-call-count tests with real temp trees covering
both hoisting layouts, the Windows shim extensions, and each shell's wording of
an unresolvable binary.
Co-authored-by: Gerardo Camorlinga Jr. <gercamjr.dev@gmail.com>
hermes update could report a successful workspace npm ci while
devDependencies were omitted (production/omit-dev env leakage), leaving
tsc/vite unlinked. The subsequent web UI build then failed with
`tsc: not found` and fell back to a stale dashboard dist.
Force npm_config_include=dev on install, verify toolchain shims after
workspace install (and refuse to hash-cache a half tree), repair/reinstall
when node_modules exists without tsc/vite, prepend workspace .bin dirs to
PATH, and retry the build after a tsc/vite-not-found failure.
Per hermes-sweeper review on #56671: the fallback exclusion matched any
canonical string starting with "custom" (e.g. "customproxy"), not just
the durable named-custom-provider syntax ("custom" bucket or
"custom:<name>" slugs). Narrow it to an exact/prefix match on that
syntax so unrelated vendor names aren't accidentally exempted from the
openrouter fallback.
Also clarifies the test suite: a properly configured custom:<name>
provider now resolves via resolve_custom_provider before this fallback
is ever reached (added upstream in 9a15fad0d6), so the existing test
was mislabeled as exercising that primary path when it was actually
exercising the fallback-safety-net case (missing/unresolved config
entry). Split into explicit primary-path and fallback-safety-net tests,
plus a regression test for the "customproxy"-style false positive.
_normalize_main_model_assignment() (POST /api/model/set, the endpoint
Desktop's Settings -> Model page uses to persist the main model slot) has
a fallback for a specific analytics bug: an older session row with no
billing_provider sends the model's bare vendor prefix as "provider"
(e.g. "anthropic" from "anthropic/claude-opus-4.6"), so the code detects
an unrecognized provider paired with a slash-bearing model and treats it
as that stray-vendor-prefix case.
Named custom providers are represented as "custom:<name>" slugs
everywhere else in the codebase (runtime_provider.py, model_switch.py),
but _KNOWN_PROVIDER_NAMES only lists the bare "custom" bucket. So picking
a named custom provider (e.g. "custom:litellm", a LiteLLM proxy fronting
Ollama) together with a slash-bearing model ("ollama/glm-5.2") looked
identical to the stray-vendor-prefix case and got silently rewritten to
provider: openrouter in config.yaml on save -- reassigning the provider
entirely, not just mangling the model id.
Exclude anything starting with "custom" from the fallback, matching the
guard the same function already applies later for the actual
normalize_model_for_provider call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_MATCHING_PREFIX_STRIP_PROVIDERS includes "custom" so that manually typed
config values like "zai/glm-5.1" repair themselves for their matching
native provider. But "custom" is a generic bucket for arbitrary
user-defined endpoints, not a vendor identity -- unlike zai/gemini/xai,
where a matching alias really does mean "this prefix names the same
backend as the target provider."
_PROVIDER_ALIASES maps "ollama" -> "custom", so a model configured as
"ollama/glm-5.2" against a named custom provider (e.g. a LiteLLM proxy
fronting Ollama, which registers its routes as "ollama/<model>") had its
prefix stripped to bare "glm-5.2" -- a name the proxy doesn't recognize.
_strip_matching_provider_prefix now only strips a literal "custom/"
prefix when the target resolves to "custom"; an alias that merely
resolves to custom (ollama) no longer qualifies, since custom has no
vendor identity for it to redundantly repeat.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root-context rm -f "$log_dir/lock" could follow a raced directory
symlink and unlink a foreign lock outside HERMES_HOME. Clear the
stale lock via s6-setuidgid hermes alongside mkdir, and assert
victim/lock survives the swap-race test.
Without restartable log/run chown, warm volumes that keep a hermes-owned
HERMES_HOME but root-owned logs/gateways would again deny hermes mkdir.
Add a non-recursive stage2 parent heal and cover the poisoned-parent reboot path.
Root-context log/run used to pathname-chown hermes-writable log paths,
which a hermes user can race through a symlink swap via the writable
log control FIFO. Create the leaf with s6-setuidgid hermes mkdir instead;
parent logs/gateways ownership stays a stage2 boot concern (#45258).
`hermes -c`/`--resume` (continue last session) resolved the globally
most-recently-used session, then cd'd into *its* recorded cwd. So running
`hermes -c` from repo A could land you in repo B's session — the session
you last touched anywhere, not the last one *here*.
Now `_resolve_last_session` scopes to the current workspace first: the git
repo root when CWD is inside a repo (so all sessions across its
subdirs/worktrees group together), else the CWD itself — matching the
`workspace_key` identity `hermes sessions list --workspace` already groups
on. It falls back to the unscoped global MRU when no session matches the
current workspace, preserving the old behaviour for fresh directories.
Adds `workspace_key` param to `SessionDB.search_sessions` and a
`_workspace_key_clause` SQL helper that mirrors `workspace_key()`: a row
matches when its `git_repo_root` equals the key, or (legacy rows without
git metadata) when its `cwd` is at or under it.
Follow-up to the salvaged #67409 search aliases: with kimi-k3 now in
the curated kimi-coding list (#68108), a Coding Plan key rendered TWO
rows for one model — curated 'kimi-k3' plus live-discovered bare 'k3'
(merge dedup was exact-string). Add model_alias_canonical() derived
from the same alias table and use it as the merge dedup key, so the
curated public slug wins and live-only models still surface.
`hermes skills update` could silently replace a same-named skill from a
DIFFERENT registry — deleting the user's files and rewriting the lockfile's
recorded provenance. Two defects on main:
- tools/skills_hub.py: check_for_skill_updates fell back to *all* sources
(`... or sources`) when no adapter matched the recorded source, so any
registry with a same-named skill could satisfy the fetch and be reported
as an update — silently reassigning provenance. Now reports the entry as
`unavailable` instead of cross-registry fallback.
- hermes_cli/skills_hub.py: do_update called do_install with a bare, slash-
less identifier and no source constraint, letting _resolve_short_name fuzzy-
match a same-named skill in another registry. do_install now takes an
optional source_id pin that ABORTS (rather than falls back) when no adapter
matches, and do_update forwards the lockfile's recorded source as that pin.
Includes regression tests reproducing the cross-registry hijack.
Salvaged from PR #72216 onto current main; re-attributed to the human
contributor.
Co-authored-by: menhguin <menhguin@users.noreply.github.com>
Surgical reapply of #53505 by @LeonSGP43 onto current main (stale-base
cherry-pick conflicted in main.py):
- _refresh_active_memory_provider_dependencies() in hermes_cli/main.py,
wired into BOTH the git-pull update path (after lazy refresh) and the
ZIP update path — the provider's plugin.yaml bridge packages are not
in extras or LAZY_DEPS, so the core reinstall could strip/downgrade
them and the update flow never healed them (#53272 mem0ai).
- _install_dependencies(force=True) in memory_setup.py: hand every
declared spec to the resolver on update so missing AND version-drifted
packages are restored (no-op when satisfied).
- Skip guards: no provider / builtin store / memory.enabled=false.
Widened beyond the original PR for the #70636 half:
- _provider_pip_dependencies(): mode-aware expansion — Hindsight in
local/local_embedded mode needs hindsight-all (daemon + embedder), not
just the declared hindsight-client; setup installs it but plugin.yaml
can't express it, so update-time healing previously missed
hindsight-embed and the daemon stayed broken.
- Spec-aware import probing: version ranges in pip_dependencies
(mem0ai>=2.0.10,<3) no longer break the pip-name -> import-name
mapping.
Fixes#53272. Fixes the hindsight-embed half of #70636.
Widen the cherry-picked /diff base (#4839 by @SHL0MS) into one
cross-surface implementation, folding in the review feedback and the
best ideas from the two sibling PRs (#22703, #53527):
- tools/working_diff.py: shared git collection layer — unstaged
(default), staged, and all (vs HEAD) modes; untracked files folded in
via `git diff --no-index` so new files appear as additions (Codex
/diff parity); shlex-split arguments preserve quoted paths.
- CLI: handler moved to hermes_cli/cli_commands_mixin.py per the
current god-file decomposition (dispatch stays in cli.py), renders
through the rich console with a 400-line terminal-flood guard.
- Gateway: _handle_diff_command in gateway/slash_commands.py + dispatch
in gateway/run.py; fenced ```diff output truncated to 60 lines /
3000 chars before the platform senders apply their own per-platform
message clamps (tool-progress-style layered truncation). Localized
strings in all 17 locale catalogs.
- /diff session (from #53527): cumulative checkpoint-baseline diff of
everything Hermes changed, via new CheckpointManager.session_diff();
docstring records the retained-baseline approximation caveat from
review. Works on both surfaces; degrades with an actionable message
when checkpoints are off.
- Slack: /diff routed via /hermes diff (50-slash cap; keeps
telegram-parity test green and /version native).
- Registry: cross-surface CommandDef with staged|all|session
subcommands; docs: slash-commands reference (CLI + gateway tables +
both-surfaces list) and hermes-agent skill reference.
- Tests: tests/tools/test_working_diff.py (real git repos),
tests/hermes_cli/test_diff_command.py (real git + stubbed checkpoint
manager), tests/gateway/test_diff_command.py (end-to-end handler,
real checkpoint store), TestSessionDiff in
tests/tools/test_checkpoint_manager.py.
Salvaged from the /diff PR cluster #4839 + #22703 + #53527.
Co-authored-by: Ninso112 <ninso112@proton.me>
Co-authored-by: Harshkamdar67 <harshkamdar67@gmail.com>
Extends the cherry-picked /context command (PR #52184) and prompt-size
attribution helpers (PR #66656) into one visual context view across
surfaces, and absorbs the per-component budget-visibility goal of the
/tokens proposal (PR #48470):
- agent/context_breakdown.py: pure renderers over the existing payload —
a 5x20 glyph block grid (1 cell ~= 1% of the model window), an
'Estimated usage by category' table with free space, and expanded
per-skill / per-toolset listings via compute_context_details(), which
reuses the prompt-size attribution mechanism (skills index-line bytes +
registry tool->toolset map) converted to the same chars/4 heuristic.
- cli.py: /context [all] renders grid + category table (+ expanded
listings) from the live agent and in-memory conversation history.
- gateway/slash_commands.py: /context appends the plain-text category
table (no grid — monospace not guaranteed on messaging platforms);
/context all adds the expanded listings. Fail-open: breakdown errors
never break the gauge.
- hermes_cli/commands.py: /context gains the 'all' subcommand; /version
demoted to /hermes version on Slack to keep the 50-slash cap.
- tests: renderer unit tests against synthetic payloads, registry test,
gateway /context + /context all + failure-degradation handler tests.
- docs: slash-commands reference + CLI guide entries.
Read-only and locally computed: no provider calls, no prompt-cache impact.
Co-authored-by: RemyFevry <29257684+RemyFevry@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: joelbrilliant <joelbrilliant1@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: CharlesMcquade <6466275+CharlesMcquade@users.noreply.github.com>
`hermes prompt-size` reported skills as one <available_skills> block total
and tools as one json-bytes total, so there was no way to see which
installed skill or toolset actually dominates the fixed prompt budget.
Add two additive breakdowns to compute_prompt_breakdown (hermes_cli/
prompt_size.py):
- toolsets_breakdown: each resolved tool is attributed to its single
canonical registry toolset (registry.get_tool_to_toolset_map), summed by
group. Fully attributable — the grand total equals the existing
tools.json_bytes minus JSON array framing (2*count bytes).
- skills_breakdown: parsed from the rendered <available_skills> block, one
entry per skill with two honest, distinct numbers — index_line_bytes (the
always-on cost of listing the skill) and skill_md_bytes (on-disk SKILL.md
size, the real read cost paid only on skill_view). Sorted largest-first
by read cost.
render_breakdown prints both as sorted "Toolsets by size" / "Skills by
size" tables (skills capped at 20; --json carries them all). All existing
keys and output are unchanged.
Runs fully offline (dummy credentials, no network). Tests cover shapes,
largest-first ordering, per-tool attribution reconciling to the total,
namespaced-name parsing, and unmapped-skill handling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two halves close the 'legacy pythonw gateways survive updates forever' gap:
1. hermes update now regenerates the installed Scheduled Task / Startup
launcher scripts (gateway.cmd + gateway.vbs) during the gateway resume
phase. They are persistence artifacts written once at install time;
updates never touched them, so pre-aa2ae36c3f installs kept launching
the gateway through pythonw.exe forever — every descendant spawn
flashed a conhost (#54220/#56747) and, since #70344, the console-less
gateway died at startup with RuntimeError: sys.stderr is None (#71671).
The task /TR points at a stable script path, so rewriting the files
retargets it with no schtasks call and no UAC. No-op for modern
installs; best-effort so a failed refresh never fails the update.
2. _resolve_detached_python() normalizes a legacy pythonw.exe interpreter
to its sibling console python.exe when it exists, so the update
pause/resume argv-replay path (and any other caller handed a legacy
command line) respawns on the current design instead of faithfully
resurrecting the old one. Keeps pythonw when no sibling exists — a
failed respawn is worse than a console-less gateway.
Maps CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md, permission allowlists, MCP servers, skills, and memories into their Hermes equivalents. Follows the openclaw migration pattern. Inspired by ChatGPT Work import-from-another-agent onboarding.
The sidebar labelled sections and workspace lanes `loaded/total`, which
read as a progress bar people expected to fill up rather than a count of
loaded rows. Pricing that label cost a COUNT(*) per profile database on
every sidebar refresh, purely so the numerator and denominator could
differ.
Pagination only needs to know whether another page exists, and that comes
free from the rows the query already returned: a window that comes back
full means more remain on disk. Sections now show the loaded count alone,
and the backend reports per-profile `profiles_truncated` flags in place of
`total` / `profile_totals`.
Compile and checksum-pin SQLite 3.53.4 in the published image, preserve Hermes' required SQLite features, and assert the final Python linkage plus FTS5 trigram behavior during image builds.\n\nMake doctor remediation install-aware so Docker users pull and recreate every Hermes container instead of running the inapplicable git updater.\n\nFixes #70480
The managed uv is installed with UV_UNMANAGED_INSTALL, which disables
'uv self update' by design — the swallowed failure left its embedded
python-build-standalone catalog frozen at bootstrap age forever.
python-build-standalone re-releases existing patch versions with fixed
SQLite (3.11.15 was re-cut with 3.53.1), so a stale catalog resolves
the same version number to the OLD vulnerable build, the probe rejects
it, and the patch-retry loop cannot recover because the fixed build
carries no newer number to try. Result: 'hermes update' printed a
guaranteed-failure provisioning warning on every run (issue #72093).
- When provisioning fails, re-bootstrap the Hermes-managed uv binary
via the official installer (the only supported refresh for unmanaged
installs) and retry provisioning once — only when the binary version
actually changed, so no wasted download cycles.
- Never touch a caller-supplied uv outside the managed path.
- Soften the failure report from alarming ⚠ to informational ℹ and say
why it is safe to wait: the WAL gate keeps databases out of WAL on
vulnerable builds, and the next update retries.
Verified: 56 unit tests green; sabotage run (retry block removed) fails
the 3 new retry tests; live E2E replaced a fake managed uv via the real
astral installer and the refreshed binary resolved the 3.11 catalog.
Fixes#72093
A providers: entry with only a default_model/model (no explicit models:
list) is un-narrowed — the singular field is just the active selection.
Section 3 derived has_explicit_models from the merged models list, so
the lone default_model entry counted as an explicit catalog and
suppressed the /v1/models probe for no-key endpoints, leaving a
one-line /model picker menu for local llama.cpp/Ollama/vLLM servers.
Track explicit models: declarations separately at group-build time
(mirrors section 4's declaration-tracking from #40542 / PR #61928) and
gate the probe on that instead.
Salvaged from PR #68984 by @vigilancetech-com (the probe_custom_providers
gate removal in that PR is not taken — the GUI no-probe gate is
intentional).
Stop offering deepseek-chat/reasoner in the static catalog and point
fallback/aux defaults at the permanent v4 IDs. Keep retired aliases in
a detection-only map so /model deepseek-chat still resolves to deepseek.
DeepSeek cut off deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner on 2026-07-24.
Sending those IDs now returns HTTP 400; rewrite them (and fuzzy
reasoner names) to deepseek-v4-flash so saved configs keep working.
A long-lived gateway can have platform routing (HERMES_SESSION_* /
HERMES_CRON_AUTO_DELIVER_*) mirrored in os.environ from a previous turn.
_default_spawn() copied that process environment verbatim into detached
kanban workers, so a worker calling kanban_create treated the inherited
chat/topic as its origin and auto-subscribed the child task — the task's
terminal notification then woke an unrelated chat.
Strip every registered session-context routing key from the worker env
unconditionally (the dispatcher is detached from every conversation);
board, workspace, task, branch, profile, model, and credential
propagation are unchanged.
Salvaged from PR #69181 (both commits squashed; the PR's second commit
fixed the first's engagement-latch assumption).
Fixes the boot-storm half of issue #29905: kanban_notify_subs.last_event_id
defaulted to 0, so a subscription created on an already-active task replayed
the task's ENTIRE terminal-event backlog on the next notifier tick. With
many stale subs (27 observed in the report) a gateway boot after downtime
burst 100+ notifications in one go.
add_notify_sub now snaps the cursor to COALESCE(MAX(task_events.id), 0) for
the task inside the same INSERT, so new subscriptions start caught up and
only receive events that occur AFTER subscribing. The gateway slash-command
and kanban-tool auto-subscribe paths run at task creation, where the
snapshot is just the 'created' event — behavior there is unchanged.
Stale fixtures that asserted the literal 0 creation cursor now assert
'cursor unchanged/unclaimed' instead, which is what they actually meant.
Salvaged from PR #63001 (reduced scope): probe each board with the new
read-only kanban_db.count_notify_subs() before the writable connect(),
so boards with zero subscriptions are never opened writable on the 5s
notifier tick (no schema migration, no WAL/-shm sidecar churn, no
checkpoints).
The PR's machine-global .notifier.lock singleton gate was deliberately
NOT salvaged: a lock-winning default-profile gateway cannot deliver a
secondary profile's subscriptions in standalone-profile deployments
(profile routing fails closed in _authorization_adapter), so the lock
could suppress delivery entirely. The probe captures the per-tick cost
win without that regression.
Companion fixes from a full dashboard QA pass (every page dogfooded
live), on top of the cherry-picked #31863 header-slot fix:
- ChatPage: harden the header-slot effect further — useLayoutEffect and
never write the slot while inactive, so the handoff commentary and
ownership rule live next to the code.
- LogsPage: level classification used raw substring matching, so INFO
lines carrying 'parse_errors=0' (or paths like errors.log) rendered
red. New unit-tested classifier (web/src/lib/log-classify.ts) anchors
on the hermes_logging level token with a word-boundary fallback.
- Channels API: plugin platforms (irc, ntfy, photon, teams, …) rendered
as nameless title-cased cards ('Irc', 'Ntfy') with empty descriptions.
Two root causes: (1) plugin discovery never ran in the dashboard
server process, so plugin_entries() was empty; (2) Platform enum
pseudo-members claimed plugin ids before the registry could attach
labels. The catalog now discovers plugins explicitly and resolves
plugin metadata first; added descriptions + docs links for bundled
plugin platforms and the msgraph_webhook / whatsapp_cloud / relay
enum members. Regression test sabotage-verified against the old
enum-first ordering.
- Config schema: updates.refresh_cua_driver declared type 'bool'
(schema vocabulary is 'boolean'), so the switch rendered as a text
input holding 'true'.
- Page titles: '/mcp' rendered as 'Mcp' via the naive capitalize
fallback; literal-label table now covers MCP/Files/Channels/Webhooks/
Pairing/System (unit-tested).
- AuthWidget: skip the guaranteed-401 /api/auth/me probe in loopback
mode — every dashboard load logged a console error for nothing.
- Model picker: with no filter, providers that actually have models
float above the wall of '0 models' rows.
- Cron: empty state now carries an actionable Create button.
Copy gateway notification subscriptions from parent tasks to child tasks created by create_task(..., parents=...), link_tasks(), and decompose_triage_task().
Inherited subscriptions start at the child's current event cursor, so linking an existing child does not replay pre-link task events.
- hermes dashboard --status now verifies each matched PID is alive AND
bound to a listening socket before reporting it, so stale PIDs and the
desktop app's IPC-only 'serve --port 0' backends no longer masquerade
as running dashboards (#58578).
- The git and Windows ZIP update paths share one
_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup(), so the ZIP fallback gets the same
stop/restart reporting.
- _kill_stale_dashboard_processes returns a structured
{matched, killed, failed, unrecovered} result; the explicit was-stopped
notice fires only for processes that could NOT be auto-restarted,
meshing with the auto-respawn from #72192.
'Refreshing cua-driver (Computer Use)...' could hang for minutes on
Windows: when the driver's native check-update verb returned an
indeterminate result (old driver without the verb, offline, GitHub
rate-limited, or the probe timing out), install_cua_driver(upgrade=True)
fell through to the full upstream installer — a silent, output-captured
run with a 660s ceiling, plus install.ps1's 600s concurrency-lock wait
on Windows on top. Every 'hermes update' paid that cost.
Two changes:
- install_cua_driver() grows require_confirmed_update: with it set, an
indeterminate check keeps the installed version and returns fast,
printing the force path (hermes computer-use install --upgrade).
'hermes update' passes it; the explicit --upgrade CLI keeps the old
fall-through so a force refresh still works when the check can't
answer.
- cua_driver_update_check() default timeout is now 25s on Windows
(8s unchanged on POSIX): first-spawn of the exe under Defender /
SmartScreen routinely exceeds 8s, and a false timeout is exactly the
indeterminate result that used to trigger the multi-minute reinstall.
DEFAULT_CONFIG declared "kanban" twice. Python keeps only the last
literal for a duplicate key, so the first kanban block was silently
dropped and its "auto_subscribe_on_create": True default never made it
into DEFAULT_CONFIG. The consumer in tools/kanban_tools.py masks the
miss with cfg_get(..., default=True), but the documented default was
absent from DEFAULT_CONFIG (so config templates / 'hermes config show'
omit it), and the duplicate key is a standing hazard: any future key
added to the first block would also vanish.
Merge auto_subscribe_on_create into the single canonical kanban block.
Adds a regression test asserting both default sets survive and a guard
against any duplicate top-level DEFAULT_CONFIG key.
Connecting Discord asked five questions when the platform needs one. The card
listed a home channel ID you need Developer Mode to copy, an allow-all-users
security toggle, a reply-threading preference, and a home channel display name
— all with working defaults, none discoverable from the form.
Drops them from the setup surfaces entirely: the dashboard/Desktop channel
cards and the `hermes setup gateway` wizard. Discord is now bot token +
allowlist. Matrix drops from 11 fields to 7, Mattermost from 6 to 3.
Suffix-matched (`*_HOME_CHANNEL*`, `*_ALLOW_ALL_USERS`, `*_REPLY_TO_MODE`,
`*_REQUIRE_MENTION`, `*_AUTO_THREAD`, `*_FREE_RESPONSE_*`, `*_PROXY`) so plugin
platforms nobody enumerated get the same treatment. Allowlists deliberately
stay — the gateway denies everyone until one is set, so that IS the decision a
new user has to make. Required credentials are never hidden.
Nothing is removed from the product. The vars still work through
`hermes config set`, .env, and config.yaml, the gateway reads them unchanged,
and dropping them from the cards hands them back to the Keys page rather than
orphaning them (Keys hides only what a Channels card owns).
CI slices 2 and 7 caught three tests broken by always-defer:
- /tools (CLI show_tools + TUI gateway tools.show) now passes
skip_tool_search_assembly=True — it's a discovery/inspection surface,
so users verifying an MCP installed must see deferred tools, not a
collapsed bridge row. This also fixes
test_slash_worker_mcp_discovery (profile MCP tool visible in /tools).
- test_plugins.py::test_plugin_tools_in_definitions: 'visible' becomes
'reachable' — direct schema OR listed in the bridge description;
scope-exclusion assertions unchanged (not direct AND not listed).
- test_discord_tool.py dynamic-schema-rebuild test reads the
pre-assembly list (the rebuilt schema is what tool_describe serves).
Banner/status tool counts intentionally keep the post-assembly view —
they reflect what the model actually sees.
