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* feat(desktop): session-scoped status stack + kill new-window theme flash Stack subagents, background tasks, and the queue into one collapsible "sink" above the composer, reusing the queue's chrome so every status reads as one piece. Extracts shared StatusSection / StatusRow / TerminalOutput primitives and a unified $statusItemsBySession store (subagents mirrored, background owned here, merged + grouped for render). Renames BrailleSpinner → GlyphSpinner now that it drives more than braille. Separately, fix the white flash on every new/cmd-clicked window: macOS `vibrancy` paints an NSVisualEffectView that follows the OS appearance and ignores `backgroundColor`, so a dark app on a light-mode Mac flashed white until the renderer painted over it. Pin `nativeTheme.themeSource` to the app theme (persisted to userData so cold launches paint right before the renderer loads), hold windows with `show:false` until `ready-to-show`, and pre-paint the themed background via an inline script before the bundle runs. * feat(desktop): dock the slash popover to the composer via one shared fill var The slash·@ popover (and ? help) now docks onto the composer's edge with the same chrome as the queue/status stack — rounded outer corners, fused borderless edge, no shadow — but keeps its own narrow width. Surface + drawer paint a single --composer-fill var; the state ladder (rest / scrolled / focused / drawer-open) lives once in styles.css on [data-slot='composer-root']. The :has() drawer-open rule is last and forces an opaque fill, since translucent glass sampling different backdrops (thread vs fade gradient) can never match. This replaces the focus-within !important override that repainted the surface behind every previous matching attempt. Also drop the chevron column from the project file tree — the folder open/closed icon already carries the expand state. * feat(desktop): base inset for file tree rows (post-chevron alignment) * feat(desktop): wire the status stack's background tasks to the real process registry The background group was UI-only (dev-mock seeded). Now it's live e2e: - tui_gateway: new session-scoped `process.list` (registry snapshot filtered by the session's session_key, plus a 4KB output tail for the inline terminal viewer) and `process.kill` (single process, ownership-checked — unlike process.stop's kill_all). - Renderer: `reconcileBackgroundProcesses` syncs snapshots into the store layout-stably — rows keep their position when state flips (never re-sort), new processes append, unchanged rows keep object identity so memoised rows skip re-rendering, and a dismissed-set stops the registry's retained finished procs from resurrecting X-ed rows. - Refresh triggers: session open, terminal/process tool.complete, status.update(kind=process) from the gateway's notification poller, and a 5s poll armed only while a running row is visible (catches silent exits). - Stop = real `process.kill` + optimistic dismiss; Dismiss = client-side with resurrection guard. - Re-keyed the stack to the RUNTIME session id: it was keyed by the stored session id, where neither subagent events nor process.list would ever land. - Deleted dev-status-mocks.ts (__hermesStatusMocks) — no more seed shit. Reconcile invariants covered in store/composer-status.test.ts. * feat(desktop): todos + openable subagents in the status stack, self-healing file tree - todo lists move out of the inline chat panel into the composer status stack (checklist icon, dashed ring = pending, spinner = in progress, check = done), fed live from todo tool events and seeded from history on session open - subagent rows carry the child's real session id end-to-end (delegate_tool → gateway → renderer) so clicking one opens ITS session window - status stack publishes its measured height so the thread's bottom clearance grows with it; card paints the shared --composer-fill so focused/scrolled states match the composer exactly - file tree self-heals: ENOENT roots retry on a 3s cadence + Try again button, and the main process expands ~ in IPC paths (gateway cwds arrive as ~/...) - composer drag-drop of tree entries inserts inline refs instead of attachments * fix(desktop): file tree falls back to the workspace dir when a session's cwd is gone Sessions record their launch cwd; deleted worktrees leave that path dead, so opening such a session swapped the tree from the default workspace to a directory that ENOENTs forever — the 3s retry just spun on it. On a root read error the tree now asks main to sanitize the cwd (prefers the configured default project dir), displays that fallback, and quietly re-probes the original path so it switches back if the dir reappears. * feat(desktop): working restore-checkpoint button on past user prompts The discard icon on hover of a past user bubble was decorative — clicking did nothing. It's now a real control: a confirmation dialog explains that everything after the prompt is removed, then the session rewinds to that turn and reruns the same prompt (prompt.submit with truncate_before_user_ordinal, the same mechanism the edit composer uses). Failures rethrow into the dialog's inline error instead of toasting. * fix(desktop): show the restore-checkpoint button on the latest user prompt too Restoring the most recent prompt is just 'retry this turn' — no reason to exclude it. Stop still takes the slot while the turn is running. * fix(desktop): finished todo lists clear themselves out of the status stack A list whose every item is completed/cancelled lingers ~4s so the final checkmark is visible, then the todo group drops out of the stack. A fresh active list arriving within the linger cancels the scheduled clear. * chore(desktop): drop dead editableCheckpoint copy, terser restore confirm * fix(desktop): rewind clears the abandoned timeline's todos + background Restoring to (or editing) an earlier prompt rewinds the conversation, but the todos and background processes spawned by the now-discarded turns kept showing in the status stack — and the real background processes kept running. Both rewind paths now clear the session's todo rows and kill + drop its background processes before the fresh run repopulates them. Also drops the click-to-edit clamp transition, which flashed a half-expanded bubble on the way into the edit composer. * feat(desktop): user messages are always editable; edit/restore revert mid-stream The bubble is now always click-to-edit — even while a turn streams — instead of going inert during a run. Sending an edit acts like restore: it rewinds to that prompt and re-runs with the new text. Both edit and restore can fire mid-stream now; the gateway refuses prompt.submit while a turn runs (4009 "session busy"), so they interrupt the live turn first and retry the submit until the cooperative interrupt winds it down. Restore (re-run as-is) shows on every prompt except the latest running one, which keeps the Stop button. * fix(desktop): label preview-pane ⌘L selections with the filename, not "zsh" The terminal owns a global ⌘/Ctrl+L "send selection to composer" shortcut, so selecting text in the file preview pane and hitting it fell through to the terminal handler — which imported the right text but labelled the composer ref "zsh:N lines" off the shell name. When the selection isn't an xterm selection, label it with the previewed file instead. * fix(desktop): ⌘L on a preview line selection inserts the @line ref, like dragging The source preview lets you select lines in the gutter and drag them into the composer as an @line:path:start-end ref. ⌘/Ctrl+L now does the same when a line selection is active — it drops the identical ref instead of falling through to the terminal's global handler (which grabbed the native text selection and sent a bogus terminal block). Capture-phase + stopPropagation so it wins; with a line selection there's no native selection, so the terminal handler stays out of it. * chore: gitignore apps/desktop/demo/ scratch output The desktop demo prompt writes demo/*.txt during recorded walkthroughs; it's throwaway, never part of the app. Ignore it so it stops cluttering git status. * feat(desktop): subagent watch windows, hard stop, sidebar hygiene Child-session mirror for live subagent windows, delegate sessions tagged and excluded from the sidebar, composer focus/stop polish, and WS stall resilience on the gateway transport. * refactor: DRY delegate SQL + trim status-stack noise Extract shared listable-child and delegate-delete helpers in hermes_state, collapse cancelRun busy release, and cut comment bloat in resume/status paths. * fix(desktop): hide orphaned subagent sessions in sidebar Cascade-delete all ephemeral children on parent delete (not just tagged rows), run v16 backfill to tag legacy orphans, and record new delegates as source=subagent. * fix: restore orphan contract for untagged children + lazy session eviction Cascade-delete only _delegate_from-tagged rows (v16 backfill covers legacy), walk marker chains recursively with FK-safe orphaning, gate lazy watch sessions out of the still-starting eviction exemption via an explicit flag, pass session_id to _make_agent only when resuming, and hide source=subagent from session search. * fix(gateway): gate child mirror off upgraded sessions + age out stale run entries Review findings: the mirror could interleave synthetic events with a real native stream once a watch window upgrades (prompt.submit builds an agent), and a lost subagent.complete left _active_child_runs pinning running=true forever. Mirror now stops when the live session owns an agent; liveness reads ignore entries older than an hour. * fix(gateway): reject prompt.submit into a watch session while its child runs A lazy watch session's running flag is False (the run lives in the parent turn), so typing mid-run sailed past the busy guard and built a second agent racing the in-flight child on the same stored session. Busy error until the run completes; afterwards the submit upgrades into a normal conversation. * refactor(gateway): DRY watch-resume payload + compose listable-child SQL Fold the duplicated child-run busy overlay into one _reuse_live_payload helper across both resume reuse paths, collapse the twin mirror early-returns, and build _LISTABLE_CHILD_SQL from _BRANCH_CHILD_SQL instead of restating it. * fix(desktop): clip horizontal overflow on sidebar scroll areas Add overflow-x-hidden alongside overflow-y-auto on session list scrollers and the shared SidebarContent primitive — vertical scroll unchanged. |
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Hermes Agent ☤
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop — talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM.
Use any model you want — Nous Portal, OpenRouter (200+ models), NovitaAI (AI-native cloud for Model API, Agent Sandbox, and GPU Cloud), NVIDIA NIM (Nemotron), Xiaomi MiMo, z.ai/GLM, Kimi/Moonshot, MiniMax, Hugging Face, OpenAI, or your own endpoint. Switch with hermes model — no code changes, no lock-in.
| A real terminal interface | Full TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output. |
| Lives where you do | Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI — all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity. |
| A closed learning loop | Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges. Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. FTS5 session search with LLM summarization for cross-session recall. Honcho dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the agentskills.io open standard. |
| Scheduled automations | Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits — all in natural language, running unattended. |
| Delegates and parallelizes | Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns. |
| Runs anywhere, not just your laptop | Six terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, and Daytona. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your agent's environment hibernates when idle and wakes on demand, costing nearly nothing between sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. |
| Research-ready | Batch trajectory generation, trajectory compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models. |
Quick Install
Linux, macOS, WSL2, Termux
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
Windows (native, PowerShell)
Heads up: Native Windows runs Hermes without WSL — CLI, gateway, TUI, and tools all work natively. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux/macOS one-liner above works there too. Found a bug? Please file issues.
Run this in PowerShell:
iex (irm https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.ps1)
The installer handles everything: uv, Python 3.11, Node.js, ripgrep, ffmpeg, and a portable Git Bash (MinGit, unpacked to %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\git — no admin required, completely isolated from any system Git install). Hermes uses this bundled Git Bash to run shell commands.
If you already have Git installed, the installer detects it and uses that instead. Otherwise a ~45MB MinGit download is all you need — it won't touch or interfere with any system Git.
Android / Termux: The tested manual path is documented in the Termux guide. On Termux, Hermes installs a curated
.[termux]extra because the full.[all]extra currently pulls Android-incompatible voice dependencies.Windows: Native Windows is fully supported — the PowerShell one-liner above installs everything. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux command works there too. Native Windows install lives under
%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes; WSL2 installs under~/.hermesas on Linux.
After installation:
source ~/.bashrc # reload shell (or: source ~/.zshrc)
hermes # start chatting!
Getting Started
hermes # Interactive CLI — start a conversation
hermes model # Choose your LLM provider and model
hermes tools # Configure which tools are enabled
hermes config set # Set individual config values
hermes gateway # Start the messaging gateway (Telegram, Discord, etc.)
hermes setup # Run the full setup wizard (configures everything at once)
hermes claw migrate # Migrate from OpenClaw (if coming from OpenClaw)
hermes update # Update to the latest version
hermes doctor # Diagnose any issues
Skip the API-key collection — Nous Portal
Hermes works with whatever provider you want — that's not changing. But if you'd rather not collect five separate API keys for the model, web search, image generation, TTS, and a cloud browser, Nous Portal covers all of them under one subscription:
- 300+ models — pick any of them with
/model <name> - Tool Gateway — web search (Firecrawl), image generation (FAL), text-to-speech (OpenAI), cloud browser (Browser Use), all routed through your sub. No extra accounts.
One command from a fresh install:
hermes setup --portal
That logs you in via OAuth, sets Nous as your provider, and turns on the Tool Gateway. Check what's wired up any time with hermes portal info. Full details on the Tool Gateway docs page.
You can still bring your own keys per-tool whenever you want — the gateway is per-backend, not all-or-nothing.
CLI vs Messaging Quick Reference
Hermes has two entry points: start the terminal UI with hermes, or run the gateway and talk to it from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, or Email. Once you're in a conversation, many slash commands are shared across both interfaces.
| Action | CLI | Messaging platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Start chatting | hermes |
Run hermes gateway setup + hermes gateway start, then send the bot a message |
| Start fresh conversation | /new or /reset |
/new or /reset |
| Change model | /model [provider:model] |
/model [provider:model] |
| Set a personality | /personality [name] |
/personality [name] |
| Retry or undo the last turn | /retry, /undo |
/retry, /undo |
| Compress context / check usage | /compress, /usage, /insights [--days N] |
/compress, /usage, /insights [days] |
| Browse skills | /skills or /<skill-name> |
/<skill-name> |
| Interrupt current work | Ctrl+C or send a new message |
/stop or send a new message |
| Platform-specific status | /platforms |
/status, /sethome |
For the full command lists, see the CLI guide and the Messaging Gateway guide.
Documentation
All documentation lives at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs:
| Section | What's Covered |
|---|---|
| Quickstart | Install → setup → first conversation in 2 minutes |
| CLI Usage | Commands, keybindings, personalities, sessions |
| Configuration | Config file, providers, models, all options |
| Messaging Gateway | Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Home Assistant |
| Security | Command approval, DM pairing, container isolation |
| Tools & Toolsets | 40+ tools, toolset system, terminal backends |
| Skills System | Procedural memory, Skills Hub, creating skills |
| Memory | Persistent memory, user profiles, best practices |
| MCP Integration | Connect any MCP server for extended capabilities |
| Cron Scheduling | Scheduled tasks with platform delivery |
| Context Files | Project context that shapes every conversation |
| Architecture | Project structure, agent loop, key classes |
| Contributing | Development setup, PR process, code style |
| CLI Reference | All commands and flags |
| Environment Variables | Complete env var reference |
Migrating from OpenClaw
If you're coming from OpenClaw, Hermes can automatically import your settings, memories, skills, and API keys.
During first-time setup: The setup wizard (hermes setup) automatically detects ~/.openclaw and offers to migrate before configuration begins.
Anytime after install:
hermes claw migrate # Interactive migration (full preset)
hermes claw migrate --dry-run # Preview what would be migrated
hermes claw migrate --preset user-data # Migrate without secrets
hermes claw migrate --overwrite # Overwrite existing conflicts
What gets imported:
- SOUL.md — persona file
- Memories — MEMORY.md and USER.md entries
- Skills — user-created skills →
~/.hermes/skills/openclaw-imports/ - Command allowlist — approval patterns
- Messaging settings — platform configs, allowed users, working directory
- API keys — allowlisted secrets (Telegram, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs)
- TTS assets — workspace audio files
- Workspace instructions — AGENTS.md (with
--workspace-target)
See hermes claw migrate --help for all options, or use the openclaw-migration skill for an interactive agent-guided migration with dry-run previews.
Contributing
We welcome contributions! See the Contributing Guide for development setup, code style, and PR process.
Quick start for contributors — clone and go with setup-hermes.sh:
git clone https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent.git
cd hermes-agent
./setup-hermes.sh # installs uv, creates venv, installs .[all], symlinks ~/.local/bin/hermes
./hermes # auto-detects the venv, no need to `source` first
Manual path (equivalent to the above):
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv venv .venv --python 3.11
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e ".[all,dev]"
scripts/run_tests.sh
Community
- 💬 Discord
- 📚 Skills Hub
- 🐛 Issues
- 🔌 computer-use-linux — Linux desktop-control MCP server for Hermes and other MCP hosts, with AT-SPI accessibility trees, Wayland/X11 input, screenshots, and compositor window targeting.
- 🔌 HermesClaw — Community WeChat bridge: Run Hermes Agent and OpenClaw on the same WeChat account.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Built by Nous Research.