* fix(desktop): preserve interim assistant text wiped at message.complete
When the agent emits interim text (commentary alongside tool calls, or the
attempted final answer before a verify-on-stop nudge), all UI surfaces
streamed it live but then wiped it at message.complete — keeping only the
final response. The user saw text appear during inference, then disappear.
This is the complete fix across all three layers: agent core, gateway
transport, and all UI surfaces (desktop + Ink TUI).
The verify-on-stop and pre_verify paths flagged the assistant's attempted
final answer as _verification_stop_synthetic, suppressing it from both
state.db and the UI. The user only saw the terse post-verification reply.
Now the assistant response is real content: it's persisted to state.db and
emitted as an interim message via _emit_interim_assistant_message(force_display=True)
before the verification loop runs. Only the synthetic nudge messages keep
the synthetic flags. The turn finalizer drops nudges from live history and
compares content (not just role) to avoid duplicating a published candidate.
Message sequence repair collapses verification candidates in the
consecutive-assistant merge.
Wire agent.interim_assistant_callback both at construction (_agent_cbs())
and per-turn (defense-in-depth), emitting a new message.interim event with
{text, already_streamed}. Gated on display.interim_assistant_messages
(default true). Cleared in the finally block so a stale closure can't
fire on a later turn.
Add message.interim to the GatewayEventName union (apps/shared) and a
typed payload to the TUI's GatewayEvent discriminated union.
The TUI already had the segment-anchoring machinery (flushStreamingSegment +
finalTail) but had no handler for message.interim. Added recordInterimMessage
+ interimBoundaryIndex to seal segments mid-turn, and updated
recordMessageComplete to only dedupe segments after the interim boundary.
Replaced the fragile sealed-set approach with a proper interimBoundaryPending
state flag on ClientSessionState. finalizeInterimAssistantMessage finalizes
the streaming bubble in place (or creates a standalone one), rotates the
stream ID so next deltas create a new bubble, and sets the flag. When the
final text equals an already-sealed interim, they stay as distinct messages.
Extracted mergeFinalAssistantText() as a pure function in chat-messages.ts,
used by both completeAssistantMessage and finalizeInterimAssistantMessage.
Split the bidirectional dedup predicate: reasoning is a restatement only when
the final FULLY covers it. A short final ("Done.") no longer swallows a
longer reasoning block that merely starts with it.
Honor display.interim_assistant_messages (default true) across all layers:
the tui_gateway gates the callback, the desktop wires it to a nanostores
atom via use-hermes-config. Updated hermes_cli/config.py and
cli-config.yaml.example comments to document the Desktop behavior.
_split_segment_tokens now accepts posix=False and _find_ad_hoc_match tries
both posix modes so ad-hoc verification scripts with Windows backslash
paths are matched correctly. (response_previewed forwarding from #53553
is not included — our emit-interim + persist approach makes it unnecessary
since the attempted answer is now surfaced before the verification loop.)
- tsc: clean (desktop + TUI + shared)
- vitest desktop: 73/73 pass (7 interim-sealing + 5 mergeFinalAssistantText + 4 config atom)
- vitest TUI: 83/83 pass (4 new message.interim tests)
- python: 390 tests pass (340 tui_gateway + 33 verification/finalizer + 6 config gating + 3 evidence + 8 continuation budget)
Co-authored-by: Liam Zhang <yingliang-zhang@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Lucas D'Alessandro <lucasfdale@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Manganaro <superposition@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: sweetcornna <sweetcornna@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: DECK6 <DECK6@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: matantsevs <matantsevs@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: gitcommit90 <gitcommit90@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix: prefix-match interim streamed content to avoid benign duplicate bubbles
_interim_content_was_streamed used exact equality (streamed == visible_content),
so a final response that was the streamed text plus a trailing delta — or a
partial stream before the verify nudge fired — failed the match and left
_response_was_previewed false. The turn then showed two bubbles (interim +
identical final) instead of settling the interim in place.
Relax to a prefix check (visible_content.startswith(streamed)) in both the
core match and the desktop's settle-in-place gate. The TUI already used
prefix matching via finalTail. The reverse direction (streamed longer than
final) is intentionally not matched — that could suppress a needed resend
in the gateway path where already_streamed=True calls on_segment_break().
* test(desktop): add partial-stream-then-nudge dedup edge case
Third edge case for the interim-sealing dedup: model streams part of its
answer via message.delta, verify nudge fires, interim seals the streamed
prefix, then the final response is the same text plus a trailing delta.
Asserts one bubble (not two) containing the full final text.
Acceptance protocol #2 — covers all three dedup edges:
1. interim == final (existing)
2. interim = strict prefix of final (existing)
3. partial-stream-then-nudge (this commit)
---------
Co-authored-by: Liam Zhang <yingliang-zhang@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Lucas D'Alessandro <lucasfdale@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Manganaro <superposition@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: sweetcornna <sweetcornna@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: DECK6 <DECK6@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: matantsevs <matantsevs@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: gitcommit90 <gitcommit90@users.noreply.github.com>
Transform of salvaged PR #34250 per maintainer direction: arbitrary
config keys are a supported pattern (top-level scalars bridge into
os.environ for skills and external apps), so hard-refusing unknown
keys would break legitimate writes. Keep the contributor's schema
walker and did-you-mean suggestion engine, but write the value first
and print a post-write notice — no more bare success for
plausible-but-wrong paths like
gateway.discord.gateway_restart_notification, and no blocked writes.
--force suppresses the notice for scripted use.
The schema validation added in this PR (#34250) rejected underscore-
prefixed config keys like '_test.shim_marker', breaking the Docker
privilege-drop test suite (tests/docker/test_docker_exec_privilege_drop.py)
which writes such markers via 'hermes config set _test.<marker> 1' to
probe config.yaml file ownership after the UID-drop shim runs.
Ten Docker tests failed in build-amd64 CI for this reason:
test_shim_drops_root_to_hermes_uid (_test.shim_marker)
test_shim_short_circuits_for_non_root (_test.shim_short_circuit)
test_shim_opt_out_keeps_root (_test.opt_out)
test_shim_opt_out_strict_truthiness[*] (_test.falsy) x6
test_e2e_login_then_supervised_gateway (_test.e2e_marker)
Fix: treat a leading underscore on the TOP-LEVEL segment as an
internal/test marker that bypasses schema validation. Mirrors Python's
own '_private' convention. The escape is narrow:
- Only the first segment is checked, so a genuine typo in a sub-key
under a known top-level key (e.g. 'agent._max_turns') is still
flagged.
- Real typos ('agent.max_turn' -> 'agent.max_turns') still caught.
- The headline #34067 bug ('gateway.discord.gateway_restart_notification')
still caught.
Tests (5 new in TestValidateConfigKey):
- 4 parametrized cases for accepted underscore-prefixed keys
(_test.shim_marker, _internal, _test.nested.deep.marker, _x)
- test_underscore_only_first_segment_escapes: confirms agent._max_turns
(underscore in a SUB-key, not the top) is still rejected.
All 58 tests in test_set_config_value.py pass.
Refs: #34067#34250
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Fixes#34067. 'hermes config set <unknown.key.path> <value>' silently
accepted arbitrary key paths, wrote them to config.yaml, and reported
success — but the runtime/gateway never read them.
The headline case from the issue: a user typing
hermes config set gateway.discord.gateway_restart_notification false
gets success, but the value lands at config.yaml:gateway.discord.* where
nothing reads it. The correct path is discord.gateway_restart_notification
(platform configs live at the top level of DEFAULT_CONFIG, not under
a 'platforms' namespace). The user reasonably believes the change took
effect, then loses time debugging behavior that hasn't changed.
Fix: schema-validate the dotted key path against DEFAULT_CONFIG before
writing. Walk DEFAULT_CONFIG along the user's segments and:
- Reject unknown top-level keys with a fuzzy-match suggestion
- Reject unknown sub-keys by suggesting the closest sibling
- Accept anything below open-dict shapes (mcp_servers.<name>.command,
providers.<openrouter>.api_key, etc.)
- Accept anything below schema-defined-extensible shapes (platform
configs like discord.*, telegram.* — PlatformConfig has dynamic
'extra' fields, so deep validation is unsafe)
- Special-case 'platforms.X' → suggest 'X' (the actual top-level layout)
Bypass with --force for forward-compatibility with keys a newer Hermes
version adds but the running version doesn't recognize yet:
hermes config set --force brand_new_future_key value
API-key style names (OPENROUTER_API_KEY, *_TOKEN, etc.) still route to
.env before schema validation runs, so this is non-breaking for that path.
Adds 21 regression tests across TestSchemaValidation + TestValidateConfigKey
covering: unknown top-level keys, unknown sub-keys (the headline bug),
platforms.* prefix suggestions, fuzzy-match top-level typos, sibling-
suggestion sub-key typos, --force bypass, and that known config keys
(simple, platform-extensible, open-dict) still work.
Also updates 2 pre-existing tests that used non-canonical paths
(platforms.telegram.* and 'verbose') which schema validation correctly
flags — switched to canonical paths (telegram.* and agent.gateway_timeout).
All 53 tests in test_set_config_value.py pass.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* feat(desktop): inline TTS voice/model settings in the Capabilities tab
The Capabilities > Tools > Text-to-Speech panel only surfaced API keys per
provider — voice and model settings (e.g. tts.openai.voice) lived exclusively
in Settings > Voice, so users couldn't select or type a voice/model name where
they configure the backend.
- web_server: TTS provider rows now carry their tts_provider config key
(the section holding that backend's voice/model settings)
- desktop: new VoiceProviderFields renders the provider's config fields
inline in the toolset panel, deriving the key list from the curated
Settings > Voice section so the two surfaces can't drift; shared
ConfigField extracted to config-field.tsx
- voice/model name fields are now free-input comboboxes (Input + datalist)
instead of closed Selects — custom voice IDs (ElevenLabs cloned voices,
xAI custom voices, Edge's 400+ catalog) are typeable, known values remain
suggestions
- refreshed the stale OpenAI voice list (adds ash/ballad/cedar/coral/marin/
sage/verse) and added suggestion lists for edge/gemini/minimax/mistral/
kittentts/piper/neutts models and voices
- config.py: added missing tts.minimax and tts.kittentts default blocks and
deepinfra model/voice fields to the Voice section so those providers are
configurable from the GUI at all
* test(desktop): await effect-driven panel content in post-setup CTA tests
The auto-expand effect renders the provider's inner panel one re-render
after the row; with the QueryClientProvider wrapper the extra provider
tick made the synchronous getByRole race it (~10% local flake, failed on
CI). Await the panel content with findBy* instead.
A ``providers.<name>`` block in ``config.yaml`` can now opt out of being
listed anywhere by setting ``enabled: false`` — without removing the
block, so re-enabling it stays a one-line edit. Missing or ``true`` keeps
the previous behaviour (enabled), so this is fully backwards-compatible.
The flag is honoured in four places:
* ``hermes_cli/model_switch.py`` — model-override validation (the
allow-list that the picker consults to accept a non-public model id)
and the picker's own endpoint iteration. A disabled provider no longer
appears as a row and its models can't be silently accepted via
override.
* ``hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py`` — the runtime resolver skips
disabled blocks, so an explicit ``--provider X`` against a disabled
entry fails fast instead of using stale base_url / api_key from the
ignored block.
* ``hermes_cli/doctor.py`` — the doctor's "configured providers" set
excludes disabled entries, so health checks don't flag missing API
keys for providers the user has turned off.
Motivation: when a user has 20+ providers wired up in ``config.yaml``
(many of them only used occasionally) the picker becomes noisy and the
runtime resolver may pick a suboptimal one on ambiguous --provider names.
There's currently no way to hide a provider short of deleting its block
— which loses the api_key + base_url + custom routing config the user
spent time wiring. ``enabled: false`` lets them keep the config but get
it out of the way.
The helper ``is_provider_enabled()`` in ``hermes_cli/config.py``
centralises the gate (and accepts YAML-stringified booleans like
``"false"`` for hand-edited configs). 17 unit tests cover the defaults
and edge cases.
A follow-up PR can wire ``hermes provider enable/disable <name>`` and a
dashboard toggle on top of this primitive — they reduce to mutating the
flag.
The 'Unknown top-level config key' warning (f5bacee27) assumed a
closed-world allowlist of valid roots, but top-level scalars in
config.yaml are deliberately bridged into os.environ (gateway/run.py,
hermes send) so skills and external apps Hermes drives can read
arbitrary env-style keys (DISCORD_HOME_CHANNEL, MY_APP_TOKEN, ...).
An allowlist can never enumerate those — two widening follow-ups
(7c2ece53c, 3c7217706) already proved the whack-a-mole. Drop the
generic warning entirely; keep the targeted provider-like-field
misplacement hint (base_url/api_key at root).
Follow-up on the salvaged #67449: auxiliary.mcp is the side-LLM task
provider block (provider/model/timeout for MCP aux calls) — a watcher
behavior toggle doesn't belong there. Move it to a new top-level mcp:
runtime section and read it from the same freshly-parsed config.yaml the
watcher already diffs (no second load_config() per tick, and flipping the
toggle + editing mcp_servers in one edit behaves correctly).
Also adds a regression test for the salvaged #55701 false-positive fix:
${VAR} templates in mcp_servers made the raw-yaml-vs-expanded-snapshot
comparison permanently unequal, so ANY save_config_value() rewrite (e.g.
/reasoning changing agent.reasoning_effort) fired a full MCP reconnect.
Credits: @OYLFLMH (#55701 env-expand fix), @TurgutKural (#67449 opt-out).
The automatic MCP reload added in #1474 watches config.yaml's mcp_servers
section every 5s and reloads on any change. Every reload rebuilds the agent
tool surface and INVALIDATES the provider prompt cache — the next message
re-sends the full input prefix, which is expensive on long-context /
high-reasoning models. When config.yaml is rewritten frequently (external
tooling, multiple Hermes instances, or a flapping MCP server that rewrites
config), this causes silent, repeated cache-breaking reloads.
Add `mcp.auto_reload_on_config_change` (default: true, backward compatible).
When set to false:
- The config change is still DETECTED (watcher keeps running).
- No automatic reload happens.
- The user is told the config changed, that new settings are NOT yet
applied, and how to apply them on their own terms with /reload-mcp —
including the explicit warning that /reload-mcp invalidates the prompt
cache.
Manual /reload-mcp is unaffected and still works for users who want to
apply changes deliberately.
Tests: extend TestMCPConfigWatch with test_optout_disables_auto_reload.
Co-authored-by: Turgut Kural <turgut.kural@gmail.com>
Salvage of PR #67447 — the original PR fixed 3 of 7 missing keys.
gateway/config.py reads 4 more top-level keys (stt_echo_transcripts,
reset_triggers, always_log_local, filter_silence_narration) that
produced the same false 'Unknown top-level config key' warning.
Add all 4 and extend the regression test to cover them.
Hermes writes known_plugin_toolsets via tools_config and bridges
group_sessions_per_user / thread_sessions_per_user in gateway/config,
but doctor treated them as unknown top-level keys. Add them to
_EXTRA_KNOWN_ROOT_KEYS so validation matches keys Hermes itself uses.
grok-4.5 is xAI's newest release (their versioning is non-monotonic:
4.5 > 4.20) and is the model xAI's own docs use for the server-side
x_search tool. Users who explicitly pinned x_search.model keep their
choice; everyone else picks up the new default via the config
deep-merge — no _config_version bump needed.
- tools/x_search_tool.py: DEFAULT_X_SEARCH_MODEL
- hermes_cli/config.py: DEFAULT_CONFIG x_search.model + comment
- agent/reasoning_timeouts.py: 300s stale-timeout floor entry for
grok-4.5 (grok-4.20-reasoning entry kept for pinned users)
- docs: x-search.md en + zh-Hans (config sample + troubleshooting)
- tests: default-model assertion + timeout-floor positive case
Follow-up to the salvaged #56724: the runtime's _generate_xai_tts reads
voice_id, language, speed, auto_speech_tags, optimize_streaming_latency,
sample_rate, and bit_rate — but never text_normalization, and the xAI
/v1/tts payload builder has no such field. Surfacing it in the desktop
GUI would be a dead knob, so remove it from DEFAULT_CONFIG, constants.ts
(labels/descriptions/SECTIONS), and the ja/zh/zh-hant locale catalogs.
The other six xAI keys are all verified against tools/tts_tool.py.
* fix(env): recognize export-prefixed .env lines in save/remove (#40041)
load_env() parses bash-compatible 'export KEY=value' lines (#6659), so a
hand-added 'export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_...' shows as set (green light) in the
desktop Tools & Keys page. But save_env_value/remove_env_value only matched
plain 'KEY=' lines:
- DELETE /api/env 404'd ('not found in .env') — the token could not be
removed through the UI
- PUT /api/env appended a SECOND line; a later delete removed the new line
while the export line silently resurrected the old value
Both writers now match assignments through a shared _env_line_defines_key()
helper that understands the export prefix. Commented-out lines are still
ignored.
Regression tests drive the real dashboard endpoint handlers against a temp
HERMES_HOME with runtime-constructed classic-PAT-shaped fixtures, covering
save-does-not-500, export-line remove, export-line replace-without-duplicate,
and the plain-line path staying intact.
Fixes#40041
* fix(credentials): unify provider key delete/update across .env, auth.json, config.yaml (#51071#59761#62269)
A provider API key can live in three stores at once: ~/.hermes/.env,
auth.json credential_pool (env-seeded 'env:<VAR>' entries persisted by the
pool loader), and config.yaml mirrors (model.api_key, auxiliary.*.api_key,
custom_providers[*].api_key). The desktop/dashboard endpoints and the TUI
gateway RPCs only ever mutated .env, so the stores diverged:
- #51071/#59761: DELETE /api/env removed the key from .env but left the
credential_pool entry (the loader is additive-only and never prunes),
so the provider kept appearing in the model picker — surviving restart
via the stale pool entry + provider_models_cache.json row.
- #62269: PUT /api/env rewrote .env but left the OLD key in config.yaml
(model.api_key wins over env at client construction), producing 401s
with a key the UI no longer showed.
New hermes_cli/credential_lifecycle.py is the single choke point:
- remove_provider_env_credential(): clears the .env entry, prunes
env:<VAR> pool entries across ALL providers (a shared var like
GITHUB_TOKEN can seed several), suppresses the env source so a lingering
shell export can't re-seed it (matching 'hermes auth remove' semantics),
drops the affected providers' model-cache rows, and scrubs value-matched
config.yaml api_key mirrors. Returns 'found' spanning every store so a
stale pool-only entry is cleanable through the same delete button.
- save_provider_env_credential(): writes .env, rotates any config.yaml
mirror that held the PREVIOUS value (value-matched — an unrelated inline
key is untouched), and lifts a prior env-source suppression so re-adding
behaves like 'hermes auth add'.
OAuth preservation: only entries with source == 'env:<VAR>' are pruned.
OAuth/device-code/manual/borrowed pool entries and providers.<id> OAuth
token blocks are never touched by a key-only delete. (model.disconnect in
the TUI gateway still clears OAuth via clear_provider_auth — that surface
is a full provider disconnect, which is the documented intent there.)
Rerouted call sites: PUT/DELETE /api/env (dashboard + desktop),
tui_gateway model.save_key / model.disconnect, save_env_value_secure
(TUI/gateway secret capture), and hermes config set/unset for env-shaped
keys.
E2E tests drive the real endpoint handlers against temp-HERMES_HOME
fixtures (.env + auth.json + config.yaml with runtime-constructed fake
keys) and assert cross-store consistency after delete/update, pool-reload
survival ('restart'), OAuth preservation, models-cache invalidation, and
the suppress/unsuppress round-trip.
Fixes#51071Fixes#59761Fixes#62269
Follow-ups on the salvaged unknown-root-key warning from PR #67345:
- Add image_gen, video_gen, plugins, smart_model_routing, platform_toolsets,
session_reset, multiplex_profiles, profile_routes, platforms,
require_mention, unauthorized_dm_behavior, and signal to
_EXTRA_KNOWN_ROOT_KEYS — all are read from the raw user YAML (gateway,
registries, plugin CLI) or written by our own setup wizard, but absent
from DEFAULT_CONFIG. Without this, doctor would warn on configs Hermes
itself wrote.
- Convert tests/hermes_cli/test_config_validation.py back to LF line
endings (the PR's rewrite introduced CRLF).
Extracted from the config-validation portion of PR #67345 (the token-cost
half was not salvaged). Unknown top-level config keys now warn (naming the
key) instead of being silently ignored; known roots derive from
DEFAULT_CONFIG.keys() plus a small extras set for valid-on-disk roots
absent from defaults.
A final response generated but not confirmed-delivered was the one
artifact the gateway could lose without a trace: crash or planned
restart between finalize and platform ACK dropped it silently, and the
resume path re-ran the whole turn at full cost (#58818 P1, #41696,
#63695's gateway half).
gateway/delivery_ledger.py records each outbound final response in
state.db (same conventions as the async-delegation ledger: WAL, owner
pid + process-start-time liveness, bounded retention):
pending -> attempting -> delivered | failed
startup sweep on dead-owner rows -> redeliver | abandoned
Contract (the lessons from the closed delivery-outbox attempt #61790):
- obligation recorded BEFORE the first send attempt; cleared only on
SendResult.success (destination acceptance, #51184)
- ambiguity is labeled, never silently retried: rows that were mid-send
when the process died redeliver with a visible '♻️ Recovered reply —
may be a duplicate' prefix (honest at-least-once)
- stable ids from session_key + inbound message id + content, so
distinct threads/topics can never collide
- poison rows bounded: 3 attempts / 24h freshness -> abandoned; claim
atomically re-stamps ownership so racing sweeps can't double-claim
- redelivery clears resume_pending for the session so the resume path
never re-runs a turn whose answer the ledger already holds
- best-effort everywhere: ledger failure can never block or delay a send
- slash-command/ephemeral/empty responses are not recorded; cron and
proactive delivery stay on DeliveryRouter (separate subsystem)
Config: gateway.delivery_ledger (default on; no version bump needed).
Validation: 30 ledger+producer tests; 352 blast-radius gateway tests
green; cross-process E2E (record in process A, kill it mid-send, claim
+ marker + redeliver in a fresh process B against the same state.db).
_quote_env_value previously left internal spaces unquoted (only #/"/'
and leading/trailing whitespace triggered). Spaced macOS paths written
via hermes setup SSH / Google Chat SA path / hermes config set produced
lines that python-dotenv still parsed but shell `set -a; . file` word-split.
Extend needs_quoting with any(c.isspace()); escaping dialect unchanged.
Route recovered messages through the live Discord ingress policy, preserve dedup and completion invariants, bound and retain the recovery ledger, and expose the opt-in config with docs and backup coverage.
Replace REST-based Discord liveness probe with local WebSocket/heartbeat
state detection. REST success doesn't prove Gateway event delivery — a
half-closed WebSocket can leave Bot.start() alive while REST returns 200.
Now samples ready/open/ACK state and heartbeat latency; consecutive
unhealthy samples emit one retryable fatal code so GatewayRunner rebuilds
the adapter through the existing reconnect path.
Also fixes three lifecycle gaps in the recovery path:
1. asyncio.wait_for() can remain blocked if adapter cleanup swallows
cancellation — now uses bounded asyncio.wait() with task detachment.
2. Multiplexed secondary-profile adapters had no profile-scoped reconnect
owner — now uses one runner-owned reconnect slot per profile.
3. An in-flight turn could send its final text through the disconnected
adapter after a replacement was registered — now resolves the live
same-profile replacement for unsent final responses only (message IDs
never migrate, edits/deletes stay on the old transport).
Adds an opt-in Linux/systemd event-loop watchdog (gateway.systemd_watchdog_seconds,
default 0) for the failure mode where the whole asyncio loop stops making
progress and no in-process liveness task can run. stdlib-only sd_notify,
Type=notify/WatchdogSec generation, READY/STOPPING lifecycle.
Co-authored-by: 王鑫 <wx.xw@bytedance.com>
Follow-up to PR #66479 salvage. The three new env vars
(HERMES_LOCAL_STREAM_STALE_TIMEOUT, HERMES_GATEWAY_MAX_STARTS,
HERMES_GATEWAY_START_WINDOW_S) were introduced as bare env-var reads with no
config.yaml surface or documentation — violating the .env-is-for-secrets-only
policy (behavioral settings must live in config.yaml, bridged to env internally).
- config.yaml: add gateway.respawn_storm {max_starts, window_seconds} to
DEFAULT_CONFIG, mirroring the existing restart_loop_guard pattern.
- gateway.py: read config.yaml first, env vars override as escape-hatch.
- environment-variables.md: document all three new env vars, noting the
config.yaml alternative for the gateway ones.
- chat_completion_helpers.py: cross-reference the env-var docs from the
local stale timeout comment.
* fix(dashboard): resolve dashboard-owned assets from the process launch home
Profile-scoped chat / ?profile= requests install a context-local
HERMES_HOME override, which made custom dashboard themes AND user
dashboard-plugin extensions disappear once the embedded /chat started
under a different profile than the dashboard process.
Add get_process_hermes_home() (sharing _hermes_home_from_env() with
get_hermes_home() so the two can't drift, and splitting the profile
fallback warning into _warn_profile_fallback_once()) and use it for both
the theme YAML scan and the user dashboard-plugin scan — machine-level
assets that belong to the server's launch home and must not follow a
transient per-request override.
Genuinely profile-scoped callers (memories/backups/checkpoints/provider
config) and the paired _merged_plugins_hub classification are left
untouched so they keep following the override.
* test(dashboard): cover process-home asset discovery under profile override
- get_process_hermes_home(): env set returns that path, unset falls back
to the platform default, and an active context-local override is ignored.
- _discover_user_themes() and _discover_dashboard_plugins() keep returning
launch-home assets while a profile override scopes the request elsewhere.
Third profiling round (after #66033 / #66347), targeting the composer
model picker and dialog opens (worktree dialog etc.), measured over CDP
on real 1000+-message sessions.
Backend — model.options took 4.8s cold / 1.8s warm per call, and the
desktop model pill/picker blocks on it every open:
- agent/credential_pool: _load_config_safe uses load_config_readonly().
Every consumer only reads, and the per-call deepcopy was the dominant
cost — list_authenticated_providers calls load_pool() per provider
row, and each load_pool loaded (and deep-copied) the full config
again via get_pool_strategy.
- hermes_cli/config: memoize ensure_hermes_home() per home path. It
runs inside the config lock on EVERY load_config(), paying ~14
mkdir/chmod syscalls per call. The fast path still re-checks that the
home dir exists, so a deleted home is recreated as before; profile
switches hit the new path and re-run. Tests cover both.
- tui_gateway/server: add model.options to _LONG_HANDLERS. It measured
seconds inline on the WS reader thread — while it ran, prompt.submit
and session.interrupt sat unread (same class as #21123).
Together: model.options RPC 4825/1842ms → 426/230ms (measured on the
live desktop backend); build_models_payload in isolation 6.2s → 0.97s
cold, 0.27s warm.
Desktop — every Radix dialog/popover open forced a whole-document style
recalc (Presence reads getComputedStyle on mount), which on a
1300-message transcript cost ~650-730ms per open (CPU profile:
getAnimationName 483ms self). The worktree dialog (⌘⇧B) paid it on
every single open:
- thread/list: content-visibility:auto + contain-intrinsic-size on the
per-turn group wrappers. Off-screen turns now skip style recalc,
layout, and paint entirely; never-rendered turns hold a placeholder
height (auto: remembered real size once rendered) so scrollbar and
anchoring stay stable. Verified over CDP: worktree dialog open 656-
730ms → ~200ms on the same session; stick-to-bottom pin, scroll-to-
top rendering, and sticky human bubbles all intact.
Also: profile-session-switch harness accepts CDP_HTTP (Chrome tends to
squat on 9222).
Verification:
- scripts/run_tests.sh: config, credential-pool, inventory,
model-switch routing, tui_gateway protocol, profiles suites green
(test_profiles has one pre-existing failure on main, unrelated);
new tests for the ensure_hermes_home memo.
- apps/desktop: tsc clean, eslint/prettier clean, thread + session
suites green (326 tests).
- E2E over CDP on the live app: numbers above, plus scroll/pin sanity.
* feat(browser): store full snapshots on truncation; make eval denylist opt-in
Two harness fixes motivated by BU_Bench results where fixed-verb + lossy
observation cost Hermes heavily vs code-driven browser agents:
1. Snapshot truncation no longer loses content. When a snapshot exceeds
the 8000-char threshold, the complete accessibility tree is saved to
cache/web (same truncate-and-store pattern as web_extract) and the
truncated view / LLM summary includes the file path plus a ready-made
read_file call. Element refs beyond the cut are recoverable without
re-snapshotting. Stored copies are force-redacted and capped at 2MB;
content-hash filenames dedupe repeated snapshots of the same page.
2. The browser_console(expression=...) sensitive-primitive denylist is
now opt-in via browser.restrict_evaluate (default false). The
names-based denylist blocked legitimate DOM extraction — any selector
or expression containing 'fetch', 'cookie', 'input', etc. — which
crippled the agent's only programmatic page-inspection path. The
SSRF/private-URL egress guards in _browser_eval are independent of
this policy and remain always-on. browser.allow_unsafe_evaluate keeps
its meaning (bypass the denylist) for configs that already set it.
* test: update None-guard test for stored-snapshot pointer in _extract_relevant_content
test_normal_content_returned pinned the exact return value; the summary
now carries a pointer to the stored full snapshot. Assert the summary
passes through and the pointer is present instead.
* feat(browser): align snapshot threshold with web_extract's 15k char budget
SNAPSHOT_SUMMARIZE_THRESHOLD 8000 -> 15000, matching
web_tools.DEFAULT_EXTRACT_CHAR_LIMIT so the snapshot and web_extract
truncate-and-store paths give the model the same per-page budget.
_truncate_snapshot's default max_chars now follows the constant.
Invariant test added; docs (en+zh) and CLI tip updated.
Commentary delivery is on by default; users who find the extra mid-turn
narration noisy can set display.show_commentary: false to restore the
previous behavior (commentary routed to the reasoning channel, visible
only with show_reasoning).
- hermes_cli/config.py: display.show_commentary default true
- agent/agent_init.py: wire config -> agent.show_commentary
- run_agent.py: gate structured commentary extraction on the flag
- agent/codex_runtime.py: gate live-stream commentary callback (falls
back to legacy reasoning-channel routing when off)
- docs + 2 tests (interim path off, live stream fallback)
Also adds AUTHOR_MAP entries for davidrobertson and 100yenadmin.
Move query_rewrite from the honcho plugin to plugins/memory/ and
rename the auxiliary task key honcho_query_rewrite ->
memory_query_rewrite so any memory provider can use the same
rewrite path and model/timeout config block. No behavior change.
Add the flag-gated compute-host supervisor, delta/control protocol, PPID orphan guard, inline fail-open path, synthetic GIL-heavy turn seam, and AC-4 certify harness.
Verified on current origin/main: 343 focused tests pass; Ruff and diff checks pass; 360s AC-4 run with six heavy lanes passes at 6.11ms serving p99 with zero stalls and valid load.
Co-authored-by: Kyzcreig <9063726+Kyzcreig@users.noreply.github.com>
hermes update ran TWO separate pre-update backup mechanisms: the
config-gated full zip (updates.pre_update_backup, default off) and an
unconditional quick state snapshot added for #15733 that ignored the
user's setting entirely. On a large state.db (observed: 24 GB) the
'cheap' snapshot silently added ~60s to every update and ate 24 GB of
disk in state-snapshots/.
Now there is ONE mechanism, gated by updates.pre_update_backup with
three modes:
- quick (new default): state snapshot of critical small files (pairing
JSONs, cron jobs, config, auth, per-profile DBs). Files over 1 GiB
are skipped with a warning so a bloated state.db can never stall the
update again.
- full: the quick snapshot plus the HERMES_HOME zip (old 'true'
behavior; --backup forces it for one run).
- off: nothing runs — an explicit opt-out now disables the quick
snapshot too (--no-backup does the same per-run).
Legacy booleans are honored: true -> full, false -> off.
_run_pre_update_backup() now returns the quick-snapshot id so the
post-update cron-jobs restore safety net (#34600) keeps working; the
snapshot moved from the post-fetch site to the pre-mutation site,
which also covers the zip-fallback update path it previously missed.
* fix(auxiliary): route direct-create aux callers through call_llm (#35566)
Five callers (kanban_decompose, kanban_specify, profile_describer, and
goals.py's judge + draft-contract) built raw clients via
get_text_auxiliary_client() and passed extra_body=get_auxiliary_extra_body()
— which only returns Nous portal tags and ignores
auxiliary.<task>.extra_body from config.yaml entirely. That was the
remaining half of #35566 after the call_llm path was fixed.
Routing them through call_llm(task=...) gives each caller the full
auxiliary contract for free: task extra_body, the reasoning_effort
shorthand, transient retries, provider-profile projection, and fallback
chains. goal_judge gains a DEFAULT_CONFIG block (it had none — its
provider/model overrides silently didn't exist as documented keys).
get_auxiliary_extra_body() now has zero non-test callers; kept for
plugin back-compat.
Fixes#35566.
* test: migrate kanban dashboard + CLI specify mocks to call_llm
Two more consumers of specify_task mocked the old
get_text_auxiliary_client symbol (missed in the first sibling sweep —
they live outside tests/hermes_cli's kanban files): the dashboard
plugin's /specify endpoint tests and the /kanban slash-command E2E.
Same migration as the rest: mock call_llm at the source, no-provider
now surfaces via the LLM-error branch.
Add merge_existing to save_config (default False for full-document callers
like the dashboard YAML editor) and route partial writes through
_merge_partial_save. _persist_migration writes the full migrated dict
directly so deleted keys are not resurrected from the on-disk file.
The just-merged auxiliary.<task>.reasoning_effort shorthand applied
ensemble-wide to MoA (one value for every advisor) — wrong granularity.
Per-slot preset config supersedes it:
moa:
presets:
deep_review:
reference_models:
- {provider: ..., model: ..., reasoning_effort: low}
- {provider: ..., model: ..., reasoning_effort: xhigh}
aggregator:
{provider: ..., model: ..., reasoning_effort: high}
- Remove reasoning_effort from the moa_reference/moa_aggregator
DEFAULT_CONFIG blocks; _get_task_extra_body now warns-and-ignores the
key on MoA tasks, pointing at the preset config
- Guard tests: MoA aux blocks must not regrow the key; task-level value
is rejected with the pointer warning
- Docs: configuration.md notes the MoA exception and links the MoA page
Every auxiliary task block (vision, web_extract, compression,
title_generation, curator, background_review, moa_reference, ...) now
accepts a reasoning_effort shorthand:
auxiliary:
compression:
reasoning_effort: low
vision:
reasoning_effort: none
_get_task_extra_body() folds it into extra_body.reasoning, which every
auxiliary wire already translates: chat.completions passes it through,
the Codex Responses adapter maps it to top-level reasoning/include, and
the Anthropic auxiliary adapter now forwards it into
build_anthropic_kwargs(reasoning_config=...) (previously hardcoded None).
An explicit extra_body.reasoning on the same task wins over the
shorthand. Invalid levels are ignored with a warning. Empty string
(the shipped default) is a no-op — zero behavior change.
Config: reasoning_effort added to all 16 auxiliary task blocks in
DEFAULT_CONFIG (no version bump — deep-merge handles new keys).
Add agent.reasoning_overrides dict to config.yaml. Users can now set
a reasoning_effort per model, overriding the global agent.reasoning_effort.
Example:
agent:
reasoning_effort: "medium" # global default
reasoning_overrides:
"openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.5": "xhigh"
"openai/gpt-5": "low"
"claude-sonnet-4.6": "high" # bare model name also works
The helper is spelling-tolerant: override keys match regardless of
provider prefix or dots-vs-dashes normalization, so users can write
keys in any sensible form and they'll match.
Resolution priority:
1. Session-scoped /reasoning --session override (gateway only; unchanged)
2. Per-model override from agent.reasoning_overrides (spelling-tolerant)
3. Global agent.reasoning_effort (existing)
4. Provider default (unchanged)
Wired into:
- CLI startup (cli.py)
- Messaging gateway agent construction (gateway/run.py)
- Desktop/TUI _load_reasoning_config (tui_gateway/server.py)
- Cron job scheduler (cron/scheduler.py)
- /model mid-session switch (agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py)
+ _primary_runtime now tracks reasoning_config for correct fallback recovery
- Fallback activation (agent/chat_completion_helpers.py::try_activate_fallback)
+ Re-resolves reasoning_config for the fallback model (best-effort)
Closes#21256 (per-model reasoning_effort defaults).
Note: no hermes config set agent.reasoning_overrides.<model> support;
users edit the YAML directly. _set_nested splits on "." and would
corrupt model keys containing version dots.
`UPSTAGE_API_KEY` / `UPSTAGE_BASE_URL` were wired through the provider
resolver, auth registry, and the EnvPage grouping, but never added to
`OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS` in hermes_cli/config.py. The dashboard/desktop
Providers page builds its list from that catalog (`/api/env` iterates
`OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS`), so with no entry the keys were never emitted and
"Upstage Solar" never rendered — the EnvPage prefix group stayed empty.
Add both keys under `category: "provider"` (matching gmi/minimax) so they
show up in `hermes dashboard` / `hermes desktop` under "Upstage Solar".
Adds a regression test asserting the catalog contains them, mirroring the
existing GMI coverage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Salvage of #63935. The original fix read HERMES_CRON_SESSION_DB_TIMEOUT
from a bare env var, but AGENTS.md requires non-secret behavioral
settings to live in config.yaml with an env var bridge only for
backward compatibility.
Changes:
- Add cron.session_db_timeout_seconds to DEFAULT_CONFIG (default 10s)
- Resolution order: HERMES_CRON_SESSION_DB_TIMEOUT env override →
cron.session_db_timeout_seconds in config.yaml → 10s default
(mirrors the existing script_timeout_seconds pattern)
- 0 = unlimited (opt-in for debugging, skips the bound)
- Strengthen test: assert the warning is logged on invalid env value
(caplog was taken but never asserted)
- Add test: verify config.yaml resolution path works end-to-end
Co-authored-by: LoicHmh <26006141+LoicHmh@users.noreply.github.com>
