hermes-agent/gateway
emozilla 984e6cb5b8 feat(whatsapp): add WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter
Add an official, production-grade WhatsApp integration via Meta's
Business Cloud API as a complement to the existing Baileys bridge.
No bridge subprocess, no QR codes, no account-ban risk — at the cost
of a Meta Business account and a public HTTPS webhook URL.

Setup is fully wizard-driven: 'hermes whatsapp-cloud' walks through
every credential with paste-time validation (catches the #1 trap of
pasting a phone number into the Phone Number ID field), generates a
verify token, and ends with copy-paste instructions for the
cloudflared / Meta-dashboard / Business Manager pieces that can't be
automated. The wizard also points users at Meta's Business Manager
for setting the bot's display name and profile picture.

Feature set:

- Inbound: text, images (with native-vision routing), voice notes
  (STT), documents (small text inlined, larger cached), reply context.
- Outbound: text with WhatsApp-flavored markdown conversion, images,
  videos, documents, opus voice notes via ffmpeg with MP3 fallback.
- Native interactive buttons for clarify, dangerous-command approval,
  and slash-command confirmation flows — matches the Telegram /
  Discord UX, graceful degrades to plain text.
- Read receipts (blue double-checkmarks) and typing indicator,
  using Meta's combined endpoint so they fire in a single API call.
- Webhook security: X-Hub-Signature-256 HMAC verification (raw body,
  constant-time), wamid deduplication, group-shaped-message refusal
  (groups deferred to v2 — Baileys still covers them).
- Full integration with the gateway's session, cron, display-tier,
  prompt-hint, and auth-allowlist systems. Cloud and Baileys can run
  side-by-side against different phone numbers.

Also wires STT (speech-to-text) through Nous's managed audio gateway
for Nous subscribers — previously the default stt.provider=local
required a separate faster-whisper install. New subscribers now get
voice-note transcription out of the box.

Docs: 418-line user guide at website/docs/user-guide/messaging/
whatsapp-cloud.md, sidebar entry, environment-variables reference,
ADDING_A_PLATFORM.md updated with the optional interactive-UX
contract for future adapter authors.

Tests: 100 dedicated tests for the adapter, 32 for the setup wizard,
20 for the Nous subscription STT wiring, plus regression coverage
across display_config, prompt_builder, and the cron scheduler.

Known limitations (deferred until clear demand signal):
- Group chats — use the Baileys bridge if you need them.
- Message templates for 24-hour-window outside-conversation sends —
  reactive chat is unaffected; cron / delegate_task with gaps > 24h
  will fail with a clear error. The agent's system prompt warns the
  model about this so it knows to mention it when scheduling delayed
  messages.
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assets fix: improve telegram topic mode setup 2026-05-04 12:07:17 -07:00
builtin_hooks remove: BOOT.md built-in hook (#17093) 2026-04-28 09:50:27 -07:00
platforms feat(whatsapp): add WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter 2026-05-23 01:07:01 -04:00
__init__.py docs(gateway): mention Weixin in gateway help and docstrings 2026-05-12 17:08:51 -07:00
channel_directory.py feat: complete plugin platform parity — all 12 integration points 2026-04-29 21:56:51 -07:00
config.py feat(whatsapp): add WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter 2026-05-23 01:07:01 -04:00
delivery.py fix(gateway): preserve case-sensitive chat IDs in DeliveryTarget.parse 2026-05-01 14:01:26 -07:00
display_config.py feat(whatsapp): add WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter 2026-05-23 01:07:01 -04:00
hooks.py fix(plugins): register dynamically-loaded modules in sys.modules before exec 2026-04-29 23:34:35 -07:00
memory_monitor.py Port from cline/cline#10343: periodic gateway memory logging (#27102) 2026-05-16 12:55:23 -07:00
mirror.py refactor(gateway): drop _append_to_jsonl from mirror 2026-05-20 13:00:57 -07:00
pairing.py fix(pairing): enforce lockout on approve_code, not just generate_code (#10195) (#21325) 2026-05-07 07:18:21 -07:00
platform_registry.py refactor(plugins): add apply_yaml_config_fn registry hook 2026-05-13 22:20:30 -07:00
restart.py fix(gateway): address restart review feedback 2026-04-10 21:18:34 -07:00
run.py feat(whatsapp): add WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter 2026-05-23 01:07:01 -04:00
runtime_footer.py feat(gateway): opt-in runtime-metadata footer on final replies (#17026) 2026-04-28 06:50:04 -07:00
session.py feat(state.db): persist platform_message_id; restore yuanbao exact-id recall 2026-05-20 13:00:57 -07:00
session_context.py fix(gateway): route background-process notifications into Telegram DM topics 2026-05-18 22:03:12 -07:00
shutdown_forensics.py chore: ruff auto-fixes — collapsible-else-if, if-stmt-min-max, dict.fromkeys (#23926) 2026-05-11 11:03:29 -07:00
slash_access.py feat(gateway): per-platform admin/user split for slash commands (salvage of #4443) (#23373) 2026-05-10 12:33:54 -07:00
status.py fix: gateway PID detection fails on Windows (two issues) 2026-05-13 23:10:57 -07:00
sticker_cache.py fix: guard yaml.safe_load, flock unlock, TOCTOU races, and atomic writes 2026-05-19 00:12:41 -07:00
stream_consumer.py fix(telegram): preserve topic metadata on overflow edits 2026-05-18 22:40:03 -07:00
whatsapp_identity.py fix(whatsapp_identity): pin identifier regex to ASCII, clarify it's defense-in-depth 2026-04-26 20:48:31 -07:00