The bootstrap-runner PowerShell spawn is formatted multiline (spawn(\n ps,\n fullArgs,...), so the literal substring 'spawn(ps, fullArgs' never matched and the assertion was failing on main independent of #54635. Convert it to a whitespace-tolerant regex like every other call-site assertion in this file.
The recurring Windows desktop console-flash bug (#54220) is governed by the
*parent's* console, not by each child spawn. The desktop backend was launched as
GUI-subsystem pythonw.exe, which has no console at all — so every
console-subsystem child it spawns (git, gh, cmd, wmic, powershell, ...) had to
allocate its own console, flashing a window. That is why the fix had become an
endless per-call-site sweep of CREATE_NO_WINDOW flags: each leaf spawn was
papering over a missing console on the root.
Launch the backend as the venv's console python.exe instead. Under the existing
hiddenWindowsChildOptions() wrapper (windowsHide: true -> CREATE_NO_WINDOW) the
backend owns a single *windowless* console, and every descendant spawn inherits
it instead of allocating a visible one. This makes "no flashing windows" a
property of the one backend launch rather than a flag that must be remembered at
every spawn site — including spawns inside third-party libraries that no
call-site sweep can reach.
Verified on Windows 11 25H2 (Windows Terminal default): with the per-site hide
flag forcibly neutered, the canonical culprits (git/gh/cmd/wmic/powershell)
spawned naively and none flashed, while the same naive spawn from the old
console-less pythonw parent did flash — isolating the parent console as the cause.
Two premises behind the old pythonw approach did not hold up on current Windows
and are dropped here:
- The venv Scripts\python.exe uv shim, under CREATE_NO_WINDOW, re-execs base
python *windowless* — it does not flash a conhost (the #52239 concern), so the
base-pythonw detour is unnecessary.
- Console python restores stdout, so the backend announces its port on the normal
HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY stdout line; the pythonw-only ready-file side channel is
no longer needed and the readyFile opt-in is removed.
Removes the now-dead pythonw machinery (getNoConsoleVenvPython, toNoConsolePython,
applyWindowsNoConsoleSpawnHints, readVenvHome) and updates the test to assert the
new invariant: backend command is never pythonw, both backend spawns still go
through hiddenWindowsChildOptions, and no backend opts into the ready-file path.
Scope: this fixes the high-frequency backend-descendant flash classes. The
updater/UAC handoff (#54543) and embedded-terminal PTY accumulation (#53555)
classes have separate root causes and are unaffected.
`hermes serve` is newer than the desktop binary's release cadence, so a new
app launched against an un-upgraded managed install / PATH `hermes` would
crash on an unknown subcommand and brick the user mid-upgrade. Detect whether
the resolved runtime registers `serve` (fast source read of its dashboard.py,
with a one-time CLI probe fallback) and rewrite the backend argv to the legacy
`dashboard --no-open` only when it does not. Happy path (current runtimes)
pays nothing and still spawns `serve`.
- electron/backend-command.cjs: pure serve/dashboard argv helpers + serve-
source detection (unit-tested in backend-command.test.cjs)
- main.cjs: backendSupportsServe() cache + getBackendArgsForRuntime() guard at
both backend spawn sites; expose `root` from the Windows venv unwrap so the
fast source check covers Windows too
- docs: note the backward-compat fallback in README, desktop.md, AGENTS.md
The desktop app spawned `hermes dashboard --no-open` as its backend, which
made the dashboard look like a desktop prerequisite. Add a dedicated headless
`hermes serve` command that boots the same gateway (shared cmd_dashboard /
start_server) but never opens a browser, and point the desktop backend spawn
exclusively at it. dashboard and serve are now independent surfaces — neither
launches the other.
- subcommands/dashboard.py: factor shared server args; add `serve` parser
(always headless; accepts legacy --no-open as a no-op)
- main.py: register serve in _BUILTIN_SUBCOMMANDS + coalesce set + gui-log
detection; extend stale-backend reaper patterns to match `serve`
- desktop electron: spawn `serve`, rename dashboardArgs -> backendArgs,
update comments + windows-child-process test assertions
- docs: desktop README, desktop.md (incl. remote-backend), AGENTS.md, and
cli-commands.md now describe `hermes serve` as the desktop/headless backend
main (cb982ad99) wired windows_hide_flags() into the auxiliary git/gh/wmic/
bash/powershell/taskkill legs but left two it didn't reach, plus the Electron
backend-launch leg it explicitly deferred. Cover them the same way:
- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs: getNoConsoleVenvPython resolves the BASE
pythonw.exe instead of the venv Scripts\pythonw.exe shim, which re-execs a
console python.exe and flashes a conhost the desktop backend can't suppress.
Both backend creators put the venv site-packages on PYTHONPATH so imports
still resolve under the base interpreter. (main's commit said this Electron
leg "needs a Windows-tested change of its own".)
- tools/tts_tool.py, tools/transcription_tools.py, plugins/platforms/discord:
ffmpeg conversions (voice notes / TTS / STT) via windows_hide_flags().
- plugins/platforms/whatsapp: netstat + taskkill bridge-port cleanup via
windows_hide_flags().
All no-ops on POSIX. Tests assert the base-pythonw preference and the ffmpeg
legs pass CREATE_NO_WINDOW.
On macOS app.quit() closes windows but window-all-closed deliberately keeps
the process alive (Dock convention). Every detached hand-off (update swap,
relaunch, Windows bootstrap recovery, uninstall cleanup) waits for the
desktop PID to exit before replacing/removing the bundle — so the process
never dying means the script spins its full PID-wait and the user sees a
blank app, or an uninstall that appears to do nothing.
Add a module-level isQuittingForHandoff flag, set before every hand-off
app.quit(); window-all-closed then quits on all platforms when it's set.
Covers all five hand-off sites including the Linux relaunch path.
Two Windows-only desktop boot bugs that caused spurious reinstall/repair loops:
1. findOnPath() searched the empty extension BEFORE PATHEXT, so an
extensionless Git-Bash `hermes` shim shadowed the real hermes.cmd/.exe.
The shim then failed the shell:false --version probe and the resolver
fell through to bootstrap/repair even though a working CLI was on PATH.
Fix: try PATHEXT extensions first, keep the empty entry LAST so callers
that already include the extension (py.exe, pwsh.exe) still resolve.
2. handOffWindowsBootstrapRecovery() chose the destructive --repair over the
gentle --update by checking only venv\Scripts\hermes.exe -- the setuptools
console-script shim, written at the END of venv setup and absent in
interrupted/quarantined states. Fix: take --update when ANY real-install
signal is present (venv python, the shim, or .hermes-bootstrap-complete).
Adds windows-hermes-resolution.test.cjs (source-assertion pattern, wired into
test:desktop:platforms) guarding both regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A broken/empty Windows launcher venv can see the source tree via PYTHONPATH
but lack PyYAML, so 'import hermes_cli' succeeds while the first real CLI
import dies — the desktop then trusts the bootstrap marker, spawns a dead
backend, and loops on 'gateway offline' (#52378).
- backend-probes.cjs: canImportHermesCli now runs 'import yaml; import
hermes_cli.config' (extracted as hermesRuntimeImportProbe) and accepts an
env override, so a dependency regression is caught without a real broken
venv fixture.
- main.cjs: isBootstrapComplete() routes through new isActiveRuntimeUsable(),
which requires the venv python to pass the runtime import probe (with
ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT on PYTHONPATH) — not just exist on disk.
Salvaged from PR #38179. The PR's install.ps1 reset/clean + autocrlf changes
and their tests are dropped: current main already preserves dirty checkouts
via stash (the data-loss-safe #38542 path) rather than the PR's older
reset-based Repair-ManagedCheckoutBeforeUpdate approach.
`npm run build` ended with `bundle-electron-main.mjs`, which esbuild-bundled
electron/main.cjs and renamed the bundle on top of the tracked source file.
Because every `hermes desktop` runs `npm run build`, each launch rewrote a
checked-in source file (~7.5k-line source -> ~14.8k-line bundle), dirtying the
working tree with a build artifact that `git restore` couldn't keep (the next
launch re-clobbered it) and forcing autostash/restore conflicts on update.
The bundle only existed to inline `simple-git` so the packaged app.asar (which
ships no node_modules) wouldn't crash at launch with "Cannot find module
'simple-git'". Replace it with the mechanism the repo already uses for the
other hoisted runtime dep (node-pty): stage the dependency closure and resolve
it from process.resourcesPath at runtime.
- stage-native-deps.cjs: resolve simple-git's runtime closure (walking
dependencies + optionalDependencies, so a version bump that adds a transitive
dep can't silently reintroduce the crash) and stage it under
build/native-deps/vendor/node_modules/. The `vendor/` nesting is load-bearing:
electron-builder drops a node_modules dir at the ROOT of an extraResources
copy but keeps a nested one.
- git-review-ops.cjs: fall back to the staged
native-deps/vendor/node_modules/simple-git when the hoisted require() fails;
dev runs resolve the hoisted copy and never hit the fallback.
- package.json: drop the bundler from the `build` script so main.cjs is never a
build target again.
- nix/desktop.nix: drop the direct bundler call (the closure rides the existing
`cp -rn native-deps` into $out) and patch process.resourcesPath in
git-review-ops.cjs alongside main.cjs.
- delete scripts/bundle-electron-main.mjs.
Verified: electron-builder's own file filter keeps the full staged closure
(0 dropped), and a packaged win-unpacked build launches with the git-review
pane resolving simple-git from the staged vendor path.
The plain-Linux overlay re-enable (#53185) left nativeOverlayWidth() at 0
for plain Linux, so the native min/max/close buttons painted on top of the
app's right-edge titlebar tools. Reserve the fallback width everywhere the
WCO overlay is painted (Windows, WSLg, plain Linux); macOS still reserves 0
since it uses traffic lights.
Commit da5484b61 disabled the Window Controls Overlay on all Linux
(non-Windows, non-WSL) with the note that WCO is a Windows/macOS-only
Electron feature. However, several Linux compositors (KDE/KWin,
GNOME/Mutter) do support it — plain Electron titleBarOverlay paints
native min/max/close buttons that were working before that change.
Narrow the exclusion to only WSLg, where the RDP host draws its own
window controls and an Electron overlay would leave a dead gap.
Fixes: da5484b61 ("fix(desktop): WSL2 clipboard image paste + Linux titlebar overlay")
* fix(windows): stop terminal-window popups from background spawns
Native-Windows desktop/gateway users saw cmd/conhost windows flash on
gateway restart, image paste, the dashboard Projects tree, voice notes,
and ~5 min after closing the app (detached cron). Two root causes:
- Console-subsystem exes (taskkill, schtasks, wmic, netstat, tasklist,
agent-browser, git, ffmpeg, powershell, git-bash) spawned via raw
subprocess allocate a fresh console when the launching process has
none (pythonw desktop backend / detached gateway) - even with output
captured.
- uv venv pythonw shims re-exec console python.exe, so Python children
get a console regardless of how they're launched.
Fixes:
- Single hidden-spawn primitive (_subprocess_compat.run/.popen) that ORs
CREATE_NO_WINDOW on Windows, no-op on POSIX. Route every Hermes-owned
console-exe spawn through it.
- FreeConsole() catch-all in hermes_bootstrap: any Python child that
exclusively owns an auto-allocated console detaches it at startup
(GetConsoleProcessList()==1 gate leaves shared interactive consoles
untouched).
- Replace PowerShell/wmic gateway PID scans with in-process psutil.
- Skip schtasks queries on non-interactive desktop restarts.
- Prefer native agent-browser .exe over .cmd shims.
- Guard test bans raw subprocess spawns of the Windows-only console
tools repo-wide so the popup class can't regress.
* fix(windows): scope FreeConsole to background entry points; fix merge fallout
Console detach review (per #53810 feedback): GetConsoleProcessList()==1 can't
tell a uv pythonw->python phantom console apart from a user opening the
interactive CLI/TUI in its own fresh console (double-click, shortcut, ConPTY) —
both report a single attached process with a tty. Running FreeConsole() in the
import-time bootstrap therefore risked detaching a legitimately-interactive
terminal.
- Extract FreeConsole into explicit hermes_bootstrap.detach_orphan_console();
remove it from apply_windows_utf8_bootstrap() (import side effect).
- Call it only from known background mains: gateway run, dashboard backend
(start_server, what the desktop spawns), cron standalone, tui_gateway entry,
slash worker. Interactive CLI/TUI never calls it.
- Behavior-contract tests: frees only when solo owner, leaves shared console,
no-op without console / on POSIX, and asserts it's not an import side effect.
Merge fallout from origin/main (#53791):
- local.py: 3-way merge left a dangling **_popen_kwargs (NameError crashing
every terminal init). _subprocess_compat.popen already hides the window, so
drop it.
- discord adapter: merge stacked an undefined windows_hide_flags() onto the
primitive call; drop the redundant arg.
- test_gateway: scan now goes psutil-first (zero spawn); rewrite the
case-variant test to drive that production path.
* test(claw): mock _subprocess_compat.run seam for Windows process scan
claw.py's Windows tasklist/powershell scan routes through the hidden-spawn
primitive; the tests still patched claw_mod.subprocess, so on win32 the mock
was never hit and real spawns returned nothing. Patch the actual seam.
Per-kind renderers, each a lazy split chunk: plain-iframe video/maps (wheel
chains to the transcript; maps gate scroll behind ⌘), the in-document
blockquote-script path for X/Instagram, the dark Spotify player, and the
YouTube iframe. Adds Mermaid and DOMPurify-sanitised SVG fences and GFM alert
callouts, all sized to 33dvh and theme-matched to avoid white color-scheme
artifacts. Main-process stamps a Referer on YouTube embed requests.
Bring apps/desktop and ui-tui to a clean state for typecheck, eslint,
and prettier:
- Run prettier across both trees (printWidth/wrap drift; prettier is not
CI-enforced for these JS projects, so main had accumulated drift).
- Apply eslint --fix for padding-line-between-statements and perfectionist
import/export sorting.
- Manual fixes for non-auto-fixable rules:
- remove unused node:net import in electron/main.cjs (uses Electron net)
- replace inline `typeof import(...)` annotations with top-level
`import type * as EnvModule` in two ui-tui test files
- scoped eslint-disable no-control-regex on intentional sentinel/ANSI
regexes (mathUnicode.ts, text.ts)
- resolve react-hooks/exhaustive-deps per-case: correct swapped/missing
deps, collapse redundant session.* members, and justified disables on
settings mount-only data-load effects to preserve run-once behavior
No behavior changes; test pass/fail counts are unchanged from the main
baseline.
Hold Alt/Option and scroll over the mascot to resize it (same on Mac and
Windows); the modifier keeps a plain scroll passing through to the page. The
gesture drives the same `display.pet.scale` path as the settings slider.
The popped-out overlay grows its OS window to fit the pet at any scale (anchored
bottom-center) so the sprite is never clipped by the window edge, and the
in-window pet re-clamps against its actual size so growing near an edge can't
crop it. Also makes the overlay click-through per-pixel: only solid sprite
pixels (plus bubble / mail button) are interactive, transparent margins pass
clicks through.
Live-measure WCO width in the renderer, drop the right rail below the titlebar
band, and re-enable GPU compositing under WSLg when /dev/dxg is present.
WSLg bridges clipboard text but not images — pull host screenshots via
PowerShell. Disable titleBarOverlay on plain Linux; gate overlay width per
platform in titlebar-overlay-width.cjs.
checkUpdates() ran `git rev-list HEAD..origin/<branch> --count`
unconditionally in the parallel probe batch, even on the shallow +
no-merge-base path where resolveBehindCount() ignores the result and
falls back to a SHA compare. In the #51922 failure mode that count walks
the entire remote ancestry (thousands of commits), so the work was pure
latency on every update check for the exact case the fix targets.
Split the probes into two phases: resolve --is-shallow-repository and
merge-base first, then run rev-list --count only when shouldCountCommits
says the number is meaningful (full clone, or shallow-with-merge-base).
The shallow/no-merge-base SHA fallback is preserved unchanged.
The desktop installer clones with `--depth 1`, so a public install's local
history often shares no merge-base with the freshly fetched origin tip. In
that state `git rev-list HEAD..origin/<branch> --count` enumerates the
entire remote ancestry and returns a meaningless huge number, surfacing as
e.g. "v0.17.0 (+12104)" in the update indicator (#51922).
The official-SSH branch of checkUpdates() already sidesteps this by reporting
a binary up-to-date check (`behind: currentSha === targetSha ? 0 : 1`), and
hermes_cli/banner.py guards the identical class for the CLI banner. The
passive desktop count path was the one place the shallow guard was missing.
Detect shallow + no-merge-base up front and fall back to the same SHA-based
binary check; full clones (developers / Docker dev images) keep the exact
count path unchanged. The resolution logic lives in a pure update-count.cjs
helper so it is unit-testable without booting Electron.
The desktop window opened at a hardcoded 1220×800 every launch, discarding
whatever size and position the user left it at (#39101) — on macOS the dock
reopen was the most visible case, but every restart reset it.
A small window-state.json under userData (same pattern as connection.json /
updates.json) records the window's normal bounds plus its maximized flag,
written debounced on resize/move/maximize and flushed on close, applied on the
next createWindow(). getNormalBounds() captures the pre-maximize size so an
un-maximize next session lands where the user actually sized it.
Restore is defensive: sanitize rejects garbage, drops off-screen positions
(window falls back to Electron centering), and caps a size saved on a
since-disconnected larger monitor to the largest current display. The geometry
math lives in a side-effect-free window-state.cjs so it unit-tests with
node --test, no Electron boot. No new dependency.
Salvages #39154 by @jeffrobodie-glitch — same userData approach and validation
intent, reimplemented tighter and folded into one module.
Co-authored-by: jeffrobodie-glitch <jeffrobodie@gmail.com>
Windows toast notifications silently no-op unless the app sets an
AppUserModelID — new Notification().show() returns without error and
nothing appears. The desktop's native-notification system (approval,
turn-done, input, etc.) was therefore dead on Windows while working on
macOS/Linux.
Set the AUMID to the build appId (com.nousresearch.hermes) on Windows
right after app.setName, so toasts route to the installed Start Menu
shortcut. No-op on macOS/Linux, which don't require it.
On a Linux source install the in-app updater ran the full backend update +
desktop rebuild successfully but never restarted the app — it hung forever on
the applying overlay with no close button. Two causes:
- applyUpdatesPosixInApp() only handled the macOS .app bundle swap;
runningAppBundle() is null off macOS, so Linux fell through to
{ ok: true, backendUpdated: true } without ever relaunching.
- The renderer store had no terminal state for that result shape, so
$updateApply stayed { applying: true } and the overlay's close button
(hidden while applying) never appeared.
Fix (new electron/update-relaunch.cjs, pure + unit-tested):
- Decide the Linux outcome from whether the *running* binary is the one we
just rebuilt (execPath under release/<plat>-unpacked, path-segment-aware so
linux-unpacked-evil can't masquerade) and whether its chrome-sandbox helper
is launchable (root:root + setuid, or an --no-sandbox / ELECTRON_DISABLE_SANDBOX
opt-out):
relaunch — detached watcher waits for this PID to exit (graceful, then
SIGKILL), self-deletes, and re-execs the rebuilt binary with the original
launch context (filtered args + HERMES_*/sandbox env + cwd) restored.
guiSkew — AppImage/.deb/.rpm/dev: backend updated but this GUI package was
NOT changed; surface an honest closeable 'reinstall the desktop app'
terminal state instead of lying that it loads next launch (#37541 skew).
manual — rebuilt binary but sandbox helper not launchable: keep the
working window, don't quit into a dead app.
- store/updates.ts lands a terminal, closeable state for EVERY resolved apply
outcome (handedOff / guiSkew / manualRestart / updated-not-relaunched / error)
so the hang is impossible regardless of platform or result.
- New DesktopUpdateStage values (update/rebuild/done/guiSkew) + GuiSkewView so
progress reads correctly and the skew state is closeable. i18n in all four
locales (en/ja/zh/zh-hant) in parity.
- electron/update-relaunch.test.cjs (16 tests) + store outcome tests.
Salvaged from #45205 onto current main. Linux quit dwell uses the shared
UPDATE_HANDOFF_DWELL_MS (2.5s) from #50448 for consistency. Four-locale i18n
parity, AUTHOR_MAP entry, and the test wiring added on top.
Closes#45205.
Follow-up to #50238/#50381. The restart-loop is now SAFE (marker + launch
gate), but the trigger that lured users into relaunching mid-update remained:
on the in-app update hand-off the desktop window vanished almost immediately
(app.quit() 600ms after spawning the detached updater), before the updater's
own window appeared — a blank-screen gap that looks like a crash.
- Linger on the update overlay for UPDATE_HANDOFF_DWELL_MS (2.5s, was 600ms)
before quitting, on BOTH hand-off paths (in-app update + Windows bootstrap
recovery), so the message lands and bridges to the updater window.
- Strengthen the restart-stage copy and the overlay's applyingBody/applyingClose
to explicitly tell the user the window will reopen automatically and NOT to
reopen Hermes themselves while it updates. All four locales (en/ja/zh/zh-hant)
updated in parity.
Pure UX; does not touch the #50381 marker/gate mutual-exclusion safety net.
When a Windows user relaunches Hermes while an in-app update is still
running (the desktop vanished with no progress and looks crashed), the
fresh instance spawns its own dashboard backend. That backend re-locks
the venv shim, the updater's straggler cleanup (force_kill_other_hermes
-> taskkill /F /T /IM hermes.exe) kills it, the launch dies with the 45s
"backend didn't come up" timeout, and the user relaunches into the same
trap -- an infinite respawn/kill loop (#50238).
Root cause: no mutual exclusion between an applying update and a fresh
desktop spawning its own local backend.
Fix: the updater publishes a HERMES_HOME/.hermes-update-in-progress
marker (pid + start time) for the whole run via an RAII drop-guard that
removes it on every exit path (success, early return, panic). A
freshly-launched desktop checks the marker before spawning its local
backend and PARKS until the update finishes -- then brings the backend
up itself (it is the surviving instance; the updater's own relaunch hits
the single-instance lock and quits). A stale marker (dead pid or past a
20-minute ceiling) is pruned so a crashed updater can never strand
future launches. No rogue backend spawns mid-update, so
force_kill_other_hermes has nothing legitimate to kill.
Marker parse/staleness logic is extracted to update-marker.cjs and
unit-tested; the Rust guard has unit tests; the Rust-write <-> JS-read
contract is E2E-verified.
The port-announcement clock in waitForDashboardPort starts the instant the
backend process is spawned — before uvicorn binds its socket. On a cold
install the child first compiles and imports the whole hermes_cli.main ->
web_server -> FastAPI/uvicorn chain, and on Windows real-time AV scans every
freshly written .pyc. That pre-bind cost can exceed the old hardcoded 45s
deadline, so the desktop killed a healthy-but-still-starting backend and
respawned it, piling up orphaned processes (#50209).
Raise the default to 90s and make it overridable via
HERMES_DESKTOP_PORT_ANNOUNCE_TIMEOUT_MS, clamped to a 45s floor so a bad
override can't reintroduce the loop. Warm starts still announce in well under
a second; both call sites inherit the new default with no change. Adds
backend-ready.test.cjs (wired into test:desktop:platforms).
Add the in-window floating pet (sprite, speech bubble, contact shadow,
profile-scoped, resize-safe) and a pop-out always-on-top overlay window
with gestures and notifications. Add the Cmd+K pet picker page plus the
appearance gallery and size slider in settings. Includes the pet stores,
electron overlay wiring, i18n strings, and store tests.
Verify createLinkTitleWindow mutes audio (regression guard for #49505) and
keeps the hardened offscreen defaults, and register the new test file in the
desktop platforms test script.
Tier-2 link-title resolution loads the URL in an offscreen BrowserWindow to
read its <title> when curl can't. That window was never muted, so pages that
autoplay media (e.g. YouTube `watch` URLs) leaked ~2s of audio every time a
session containing such links was re-rendered. Move the window creation into a
dedicated helper that calls `webContents.setAudioMuted(true)` immediately after
construction, so the offscreen probe can never emit sound.
Fixes#49505
Remote displays (RDP/SSH/X11) silently disable GPU hardware acceleration with
only a console.log, leaving the user unaware that software rendering is
active. Expose the detected reason over IPC and surface a dismissible banner
in the renderer.
Behavior-preserving cleanups on the managed-node resolver:
- Hoist _candidate_node_command_names() out of the inner dir loop in
find_hermes_node_executable (computed once, not per directory).
- Drop redundant os.environ.copy() at the two with_hermes_node_path(
os.environ.copy()) sites \u2014 the helper already copies os.environ when
called with no argument (verified env-equivalent).
- Add reciprocal keep-in-sync comments between iter_hermes_node_dirs()
(hermes_constants.py) and hermesManagedNodePathEntries() (electron
main.cjs), which mirror the same platform-ordering rule across the
Python/Node boundary.
The `before-quit` handler tears down the bootstrap controller, preview
watchers, and the Python backend but never disposes live PTY sessions.
When `app.quit()` proceeds to `FreeEnvironment()`, node-pty's
`ThreadSafeFunction::CallJS` callback fires on a half-torn-down
environment, throws a C++ exception that can no longer be caught, and
the process aborts (microsoft/node-pty#904).
Iterate `terminalSessions` and call `disposeTerminalSession()` (which
already calls `pty.kill()` + deletes the map entry) before killing the
backend, so the ThreadSafeFunctions are removed before teardown begins.
Closes#48335
The desktop self-update runs `hermes update` then `hermes desktop
--build-only`, and only relaunches if the rebuild returns 0. The first
`--build-only` can exit nonzero on a still-settling post-update tree or a
network-blocked Electron fetch that the installer's self-heal repaired
mid-run — so both updaters (the Tauri setup binary and the in-app POSIX
path) bailed before the relaunch step. The update landed but the app
never restarted; a manual launch worked because the heal had completed.
Retry `--build-only` once in both paths before failing, mirroring the
retry-once `hermes update` already does (and the CLI `hermes update`'s
own desktop rebuild). A second run builds clean off the healed dist and
is a near-no-op when the first actually succeeded (content-hash stamp).
- update.rs: retry stage 2; add rebuild_needs_retry() + test
- main.cjs: retry via new update-rebuild.cjs helper (behavior-tested)
* fix(desktop): keep streaming painting in unfocused secondary chat windows
The chat transcript streams to screen through a requestAnimationFrame-gated
flush, which Chromium pauses for blurred/occluded windows. The primary window
opted out with `backgroundThrottling: false`, but the secondary "session
windows" (cmd-click pop-out, new-session, subagent-watch) hand-copied their
webPreferences and silently lost that flag — so a streamed answer in one of them
stalled until the window regained focus (reported on Windows 11). The primary
window's own comment even claimed it was "matching the secondary windows," which
was no longer true.
Hoist the chat-window webPreferences into a single shared factory
(`chatWindowWebPreferences`) in session-windows.cjs and use it for BOTH windows,
so they can never drift on this flag again.
* test(desktop): assert chat windows disable background throttling
Cover chatWindowWebPreferences: it must set backgroundThrottling=false (so the
streaming transcript paints while the window is blurred) and pass the preload
path through while keeping the hardened defaults (contextIsolation, sandbox,
nodeIntegration=false).
A GUI app launched from Explorer inherits the environment block captured at
login, so a HERMES_HOME set via 'setx' AFTER login is invisible in process.env
even though the CLI (a fresh shell) sees it. The desktop then silently fell
back to %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes and reported 'No inference provider configured'
despite a valid configured home (#45471).
resolveHermesHome() now consults the live HKCU\Environment registry value on
Windows before the LOCALAPPDATA default. New windows-user-env.cjs helper parses
'reg query' output, expands %VAR% refs, and fails safe (returns null off-Windows,
on spawn error, or empty value). The registry value is normalized through the
same normalizeHermesHomeRoot() path as the env var for consistency.
Co-authored-by: jeffrobodie-glitch <jeffrobodie@gmail.com>
Adds a native OS notification system (Electron Notification, routed cross-OS)
distinct from the in-app toast feed. Before this, one hardcoded cue existed
(message.complete while document.hidden) with no settings or event coverage.
- Engine (store/native-notifications.ts): localStorage-backed prefs (master
switch + per-kind toggles) and a gated dispatcher over five kinds — approval,
input, turnDone, turnError, backgroundDone — with a 1s per-(kind,session)
self-evicting throttle.
- Gating: "backgrounded" = document.hidden OR !document.hasFocus(), so an
alt-tabbed window still counts as away. Completion kinds fire only when
backgrounded and for the active session (no spam from a busy gateway);
attention kinds (approval/input) also break through for off-screen sessions.
- Wired into real event sites (use-message-stream.ts): message.complete, error,
approval/clarify/sudo/secret.request; backgroundDone from composer-status at
the running -> exited transition.
- Click focuses the window and jumps to the originating session; approval
notifications carry Approve/Reject buttons that resolve in place over
approval.respond, mirroring the in-app Run/Reject bar.
- Settings: new Notifications panel (master + per-kind switches, test button
with real OS-result feedback). Full i18n (en/ja/zh/zh-hant).
