hermes-agent/plugins
teknium1 9b5dae17a5 feat(context-engine): host contract for external context engines
Condenses the substance of PRs #16453, #17453, #16451, #17600, and #13373
into a minimal generic host contract that external context engine plugins
(e.g. hermes-lcm) need to integrate cleanly. Drops scaffolding that
duplicated existing infrastructure or had marginal value.

Five concrete changes:

1. `_transition_context_engine_session()` on AIAgent — generic lifecycle
   helper that fires on_session_end → on_session_reset → on_session_start
   → optional carry_over_new_session_context. Engines implement only the
   hooks they need; missing hooks are skipped. Built-in compressor keeps
   its existing reset-only behavior because callers default to no
   metadata. `reset_session_state()` now optionally accepts
   previous_messages / old_session_id / carry_over_context and delegates
   to the transition helper when provided. (#16453)

2. `conversation_id` passed to `on_session_start()` — both the
   agent-init call site and the compression-boundary call site now
   forward `self._gateway_session_key` so plugin engines have a stable
   conversation identity that survives session_id rotation (compression
   splits, /new, resume). The key already existed on AIAgent; it just
   wasn't reaching engines. (#16453)

3. Canonical cache buckets forwarded to engines — the usage dict passed
   to `update_from_response()` now includes input_tokens, output_tokens,
   cache_read_tokens, cache_write_tokens, and reasoning_tokens on top of
   the legacy prompt/completion/total keys. Engines can make decisions on
   cache-hit ratios and reasoning costs instead of only aggregates. ABC
   docstring updated. (#17453)

4. Plugin-registered context engines visible in the picker —
   `_discover_context_engines()` in plugins_cmd.py now also includes
   engines registered via `ctx.register_context_engine()` from plugin
   manifests, deduplicating by name so repo-shipped descriptions win on
   collision. (#16451)

5. `_EngineCollector.register_command()` — context engines using the
   standard `register(ctx)` pattern can now expose slash commands (e.g.
   `/lcm`). Routes to the global plugin command registry with the same
   conflict-rejection policy regular plugins use (no shadowing built-ins,
   no clobbering other plugins). Previously these calls hit a no-op and
   the slash commands silently never appeared. (#17600)

Dropped from the original 5 PRs:

- Compression boundary signal (`boundary_reason="compression"`) from
  #16453 — already on main at `agent/conversation_compression.py:412-424`,
  landed via the bg-review extraction.

- `discover_plugins()` before fallback in run_agent.py from #16451 —
  redundant: `get_plugin_context_engine()` already routes through
  `_ensure_plugins_discovered()` which is idempotent.

- Runtime identity diagnostics method + helpers from #13373 (+251 LOC) —
  operators can already read engine state via `engine.get_status()`;
  the diagnostics view added marginal value relative to its surface area.

- The 553-LOC slash-command machinery from #17600 — replaced with a
  20-LOC `register_command` method on the collector that reuses the
  existing plugin command registry instead of building a parallel one.

Net: ~215 LOC of host-contract changes + 282 LOC of focused tests, vs
~1,176 LOC across the original 5 PRs.

Co-authored-by: Tosko4 <1294707+Tosko4@users.noreply.github.com>

Closes #16453.
Closes #17453.
Closes #16451.
Closes #17600.
Closes #13373.
Related: stephenschoettler/hermes-lcm#68.
2026-05-28 01:45:30 -07:00
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browser Revert "feat(firecrawl): add integration tag for Hermes usage in browser and web providers" (#28862) 2026-05-19 11:05:12 -07:00
context_engine feat(context-engine): host contract for external context engines 2026-05-28 01:45:30 -07:00
dashboard_auth/nous feat(dashboard-auth): config.yaml as canonical surface for dashboard.oauth 2026-05-27 02:12:27 -07:00
disk-cleanup chore: ruff auto-fix PLR6201 resweep — tuple → set in membership tests (#27355) 2026-05-17 02:29:41 -07:00
example-dashboard/dashboard fix(dashboard): UI polish — modals, layout, consistency, test fixes 2026-05-12 13:59:22 -04:00
google_meet chore: ruff auto-fix PLR6201 resweep — tuple → set in membership tests (#27355) 2026-05-17 02:29:41 -07:00
hermes-achievements fix(achievements): use canonical X-Hermes-Session-Token header 2026-05-10 19:41:45 -07:00
image_gen feat(image_gen): add Krea provider plugin (Krea 2 Medium + Large) (#33236) 2026-05-27 11:01:47 -07:00
kanban feat(web): migrate dashboard checkboxes to @nous-research/ui + DS polish (#28814) 2026-05-20 08:00:17 -04:00
memory chore(honcho): trim peer-card fallback comment 2026-05-27 10:49:33 -07:00
model-providers remove Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox (#33067) 2026-05-27 00:43:32 -07:00
observability/langfuse fix(plugins): remove unreachable hermes tools → Langfuse path 2026-05-16 17:15:19 -07:00
platforms fix(discord): recover Windows voice opus decoding 2026-05-27 03:35:33 -07:00
security-guidance plugins: add security-guidance — pattern-matched warnings on dangerous code writes (#33131) 2026-05-27 02:07:21 -07:00
spotify refactor(spotify): convert to built-in bundled plugin under plugins/spotify (#15174) 2026-04-24 07:06:11 -07:00
teams_pipeline chore: ruff auto-fix PLR6201 resweep — tuple → set in membership tests (#27355) 2026-05-17 02:29:41 -07:00
video_gen fix(model): include Premium+ in xAI OAuth label 2026-05-24 18:12:16 -07:00
web feat(auth) normalise the way in which we check whether a user has free/paid access to nous portal so we can expose behaviour and error messages accordingly. 2026-05-28 00:19:31 -07:00
__init__.py feat(memory): pluggable memory provider interface with profile isolation, review fixes, and honcho CLI restoration (#4623) 2026-04-02 15:33:51 -07:00