* fix(desktop): honor default project directory for new sessions
The Settings picker persisted project-dir.json but the renderer kept
seeding new chats from sticky localStorage home. Prefer the configured
default on boot and session.create, pin TERMINAL_CWD at backend spawn,
and reject packaged install-dir paths that regressed after #37536.
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* fix(desktop): address review on default project dir PR
Add workspace cwd precedence tests, extract isPackagedInstallPath for
platform test coverage, and stop rewriting live $currentCwd when a
session is already active (cache-only until the next new chat).
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Follow-up to the read-routing fix: make remote-profile sessions fully
first-class, not just resumable.
Mutations (rename/archive/delete) went through the same hermes:api handler but
never carried the owning profile, so they hit the local primary's state.db --
which has no row for a remote session. Deleting/archiving/renaming a remote
session silently no-op'd or 404'd, and the row reappeared on next refresh.
- hermes.ts: setSessionArchived/deleteSession/renameSession take the owning
profile and pass it as request.profile so Electron routes to that profile's
backend (matching the read path). Callers now forward session.profile.
- main.cjs: generalize the intercept (read -> request) to also reroute
DELETE/PATCH on /api/sessions/{id} for remote profiles, stripping the profile
param (the remote serves its own state.db; no cross-profile semantics there).
- web_server.py: DELETE /api/sessions/{id} gains a profile param for parity with
GET/PATCH (local cross-profile delete).
Also fix the unified-list merge: it concatenated each remote's page onto the
primary's without re-windowing, so a limit=N request could return up to
N*(1+remotes) rows and report the primary's (stale) total. Now it over-fetches
limit+offset from each remote (from offset 0), re-sorts by recency, re-windows
to the page, and recomputes total/profile_totals from the remote counts.
Verified live against a remote backend: rename/archive/delete mutate the remote
db; page 1 windows to limit, profile_totals reflect remote counts, page 2 has no
overlap with page 1. tsc -b clean; connection-config tests pass.
Add first-class profile support to the desktop app without app reloads.
- Swap the single live gateway onto a session's profile lazily (spawned on
demand by the Electron backend pool), so one backend serves the active
profile and others stay cold — no OOM with many profiles.
- Aggregate sessions across profiles by reading each profile's state.db
read-only; unified "All profiles" view groups sessions per profile with
per-profile pagination, while the default view stays scoped to one profile.
- Add an Arc-style profile rail at the sidebar foot: a default<->all toggle
pinned left, colored named-profile squares scrolling between, Manage pinned
right. Profile identity is a deterministic per-name color.
- Route profile-scoped REST (config/env/skills/tools/model) to the active
gateway profile and invalidate React Query caches on swap. Single-profile
users never trigger a swap, so their path is unchanged.
Backend:
- web_server: profile-aware active/list endpoints + per-profile session
totals; hermes_state: session_count(exclude_children); main.py: honor
--profile over HERMES_HOME env for pooled backends.
UI primitives:
- Add a position-aware Tip tooltip (instant, themed) as a drop-in for native
title=, and strip redundant tooltips from self-descriptive chrome.
Builds on the clarify/needs-input work with a cross-cutting pass to make
the desktop surfaces feel like one app.
- Global Cmd+K command palette (cmdk): nav, settings deep-links, async
API-key / MCP-server / archived-session groups, reusable theme sub-page
(light/dark groups, stays open on pick), loop nav, fuzzy match. Replaces
per-page settings search.
- Shared SearchField: borderless, underline-on-focus, `field-sizing`
auto-width. Unifies sessions sidebar, pages, overlays, command center,
cron; drops bespoke OverlaySearchInput.
- Cron & Profiles converted to OverlayView; flat token-driven panels
(no card-in-card / divider borders) matching command center.
- `r` refresh hotkey via useRefreshHotkey; drop the visible refresh buttons.
- Button text/textStrong link variants applied across settings & views;
shared PAGE_INSET_X content gutters.
- Math/ascii loaders replace "Loading…" text placeholders; x-icon close
over text "Close"; cursor-pointer at the dropdown/select primitive level.
Add a base-layer rule giving every interactive control (button, select,
menu item, switch, tab, summary) cursor:pointer, and strip the now-redundant
hardcoded cursor-pointer from those elements (plain clickable divs/labels
keep theirs). Remove the divide-y separators from settings list sections so
they breathe.
* fix(desktop): triage 24 GUI quality-of-life fixes across sidebar, composer, tool cards, messaging, and platform plumbing
A grab-bag of high-leverage UX fixes plus a few backend touches that the
GUI needs to behave correctly on Windows.
Sidebar / sessions
- Decrement $sessionsTotal on delete + archive so "Load N more" stops
claiming removed rows are still on the server.
- Hide the "Group by workspace" toggle when no unpinned sessions exist.
- Accept Cmd/Ctrl+N as a "new session" accelerator (in addition to bare
Shift+N), and render the kbd hint per-platform.
- Switch the statusbar to overflow-x-clip so untitled sessions don't
paint a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the window.
Messaging + Cron
- Add [-webkit-app-region: no-drag] to the page-search input so clicks
reach the field instead of routing to the OS window-drag handler.
- Replace single-letter PlatformAvatar with brand glyphs from
@icons-pack/react-simple-icons (telegram, discord, matrix, signal,
whatsapp, mattermost, wechat, qq, ...). Letter monogram fallback for
Slack / Dingtalk / Feishu / WeCom (removed from Simple Icons at brand
owner request).
- Drop the duplicate "Create first cron" button in the empty state.
Composer
- Dedupe pasted images by (name, size, lastModified, type) instead of
Blob identity; Chromium hands us the same screenshot via both
clipboard.items and clipboard.files with fresh File instances.
- Enable spellcheck on the contentEditable, configure Chromium's
spellchecker with the system locale on whenReady, and add
replaceMisspelling + "Add to dictionary" entries to the context menu.
- Render user messages through a minimal markdown pipeline (inline
backtick code + fenced ``` blocks) while keeping @file:/@image:
directive chips intact.
- max-h-[60vh] overflow-y-auto + collisionPadding on the prompt-snippet
submenu.
- Bake cursor-pointer into the <Button> primitive (with
disabled:cursor-default) and into titlebarButtonClass.
Dialogs + tabs + version
- Default DialogContent now has max-h-[85vh] overflow-y-auto so long
bodies scroll instead of falling off-screen.
- Right-rail preview tabs close on middle-click (button === 1), with an
onMouseDown swallow to suppress Chromium autoscroll.
- New refreshDesktopVersion() helper called from About mount, after
every update check, and on throttled window focus so About reflects
the just-installed binary.
Keys + Artifacts + Terminal
- Drop the global "Show advanced" toggle in KeysSettings. Provider
groups now default-expand when they have any key set.
- Extend openExternalUrl to handle file:// via shell.openPath, with
showItemInFolder fallback when the OS can't open the file.
- New lib/ansi.ts SGR parser + <AnsiText> component, applied to
terminal/execute_code tool output.
- ToolView gained stdout / stderr / rendersAnsi; tool-fallback renders
the two streams as separate labeled blocks with stderr in a neutral
tone (not destructive — many CLIs log info on stderr).
- Drop 'stderr' from ERROR_MSG_KEYS in tool-result-summary.
Paths + platform
- resolveHermesCwd skips process.cwd() when packaged and prefers a
user-configurable default project directory.
- New hermes:setting:defaultProjectDir:{get,set,pick} IPC handlers +
preload bridge + global.d.ts typing + a "Default project directory"
row in Sessions settings.
- FileOperations.delete_path(path, recursive=True) on the abstract
base; ShellFileOperations.delete_file rewritten to run a cross-
platform python3 -c snippet so deletes work on Windows shells (which
have no rm/rm -rf). Fallback to `python` when `python3` isn't on PATH.
- README troubleshooting block split into macOS/Linux + Windows
PowerShell recipes.
- Tightened renderer favicon links in index.html + added color-scheme
and theme-color meta.
Backend lifecycle (renderer-side mitigation)
- New noteSessionActivity() heartbeat + session.ts watchdog: an
8-minute silence on the stream auto-clears stuck $workingSessionIds
entries so "Session Busy" never gets permanently wedged. Wired into
useSessionStateCache so every state update refreshes the timer.
i18n spike
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md scoping a future language-switcher PR
(recommends react-intl, audits IME/RTL/CJK in the composer +
chat bubbles, 4-PR rollout plan, ~3-4 eng-weeks for the first
non-English locale).
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* fix(desktop): replace native OS scrollbar in portaled dropdown menus
Radix's DropdownMenuPrimitive.Portal renders content under document.body,
outside the `.scrollbar-dt` scope on #root. Whenever a menu's max-height
clipped its content (even by a pixel — common for the composer "+" menu
that opens upward near the bottom of the window), the user saw the OS's
chunky native scrollbar painted across the whole menu.
Bake a thin, slot-styled scrollbar onto DropdownMenuContent and
DropdownMenuSubContent via [scrollbar-width:thin] + WebKit pseudo-element
arbitrary variants. The submenu also gets a max-h tied to
--radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height so long snippet lists scroll
cleanly instead of running off the bottom of the viewport. Drop the now-
redundant max-h-[60vh] override on the prompt-snippet submenu.
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* fix(desktop): unbork dropdown menu — submenu opens, parent isn't a circle
Two regressions from the previous dropdown-scrollbar fix:
- The parent menu rendered as a rounded oval. Long Tailwind v4 arbitrary-
variant strings like [&::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb]:rounded-full inside a
cn() call were being mis-resolved so the `rounded-full` leaked onto the
menu container itself. Replaced the whole tower of arbitrary variants
with a real `.dt-portal-scrollbar` class in styles.css that mirrors what
`.scrollbar-dt` already does for #root descendants. Plain CSS, no Tailwind
parser ambiguity.
- The Prompt snippets submenu didn't open. Radix publishes
--radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height on Content but NOT on
SubContent, so the `max-h` bound to that variable computed to 0 and the
submenu collapsed to zero height. Switched SubContent to a fixed
max-h-80 (≈20rem) which is plenty for a snippet list and never collapses.
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* fix(desktop): promote prompt snippets from Radix submenu to a real Dialog
The submenu refused to open when the parent dropdown was anchored at the
bottom of the window (composer "+" button) — Radix's collision detection +
SubContent positioning was fighting us. Rather than keep tuning side /
sideOffset / collisionPadding / max-h until something stuck, replace the
DropdownMenuSub with a clicked DropdownMenuItem that opens a proper
Dialog.
Side benefits over the submenu:
- Each snippet gets a description line, so a glance is enough to pick one.
- Focus management is handled by Dialog automatically.
- Easy to grow (search, custom user snippets, categories) without
another round of Radix positioning bugs.
Also extract types/interfaces to the bottom of the file per workspace
convention.
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* fix(desktop): move cron 'New cron' button off the top bar into the body
Reverses the previous direction on cron empty-state dedup. The body
button is more discoverable for first-time users (it's anchored next to
the "No scheduled jobs yet" copy that explains the feature) and frees
the top bar from a global CTA that wasn't pulling its weight.
- Empty (zero jobs): EmptyState renders the "Create first cron" button
again, like the original design.
- Empty (search filtered out all jobs): no button, just "Try a broader
search query" copy.
- Has jobs: small inline header above the list shows `N/M active` plus
a single "New cron" button (right-aligned). The rows themselves
already cover edit/pause/trigger/delete, so this is the only "create"
affordance.
Also drop the dead `<div className="hidden">…</div>` enabledCount line
the previous patch left behind; the count is now visible in the new
header instead of hidden.
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* fix(desktop): address Copilot review on PR 37536
- sessions-settings: guard the WHOLE bridge call rather than chaining
`?.settings.foo().then(...)` — the latter throws when
`window.hermesDesktop` is undefined (non-Electron / Vitest contexts)
because the chain short-circuits to `undefined.then(...)`.
- file_operations: drop `Path.unlink(missing_ok=True)` (Py>=3.8) so the
generated delete snippet still works on remote backends running
Python 3.7. The existing FileNotFoundError handler covers the same
case and works back to 3.4.
- ansi.test.ts: add focused Vitest coverage for the SGR parser
(basic/bright colors, bold toggles, default-fg reset, coalescing,
256-color / truecolor arg consumption, non-SGR CSI drop, empty SGR
full-reset) so future refactors can't silently regress terminal
rendering.
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* fix(desktop/updates): swallow refreshDesktopVersion bridge errors
`refreshDesktopVersion()` is called best-effort with `void` from
`checkUpdates()`, `startUpdatePoller()`, and the window focus handler.
If the IPC bridge rejects (main process shutting down during reload,
bridge not yet ready on first paint), the rejection surfaces as an
unhandled promise rejection in the renderer. Wrap the call in try/catch
and return null on failure so callers can keep the existing
fire-and-forget pattern safely.
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* chore(desktop): drop work duplicated by other in-flight PRs
- composer/text-utils.ts: revert paste-image dedupe — PR #37596
ships the same fix with a cleaner content-key approach and a
Vitest file (text-utils.test.ts). Letting that PR own the change.
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md: delete the i18n scoping RFC — PR #37568
has already shipped a working i18n surface (homegrown nanostores
`t()` helper over en/zh dictionaries), so the RFC's framework
recommendation (`react-intl`) is now obsolete and would just
contradict the implementation that's actually landing.
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* feat(desktop): session hygiene, archive, media streaming + connecting overlay
Address a batch of desktop feedback:
- Stop leaking empty "Untitled" sessions: the TUI gateway pre-created a DB
row on every session.create (i.e. every launch/draft). Persist the row
lazily on first prompt instead, and hide message-less rows in the sidebar.
- Archive/hide sessions: new `archived` column + set_session_archived, web
API (`?archived=` + PATCH archived), Ctrl/⌘-click and a context-menu item
in the sidebar, and an "Archived Chats" settings panel to restore/delete.
- Videos load via a streaming `hermes-media://` protocol instead of capped,
in-memory data URLs (16 MB limit) — bypasses the cap and supports seeking.
- Background-process completions route to the session that launched them:
the completion event now carries session_key and each poller only consumes
its own.
- Sidebar: "Group by workspace" toggle is always visible; each workspace
group gets a "+" to start a session in that directory; "New agent"/"Agents"
relabeled to "New session"/"Sessions".
- New gateway connecting overlay (ascii decode → fade out) replacing the bare
skeleton/"starting gateway" state.
* fix(desktop): bail connecting overlay on boot error
The shownRef latch kept the connecting overlay mounted behind
BootFailureOverlay after a hard boot failure. Return null on boot.error
so the failure recovery surface fully owns the screen.
* fix(desktop): address Copilot review
- /api/sessions: validate `archived` (400 on unknown) and return `archived`
as a JSON boolean instead of SQLite's 0/1.
- PATCH /api/sessions/{id}: 400 (not a misleading 404) when the body has no
updatable fields; stop conflating a no-op with "not found".
- hermes-media protocol: drop `bypassCSP` — streaming only needs
secure/standard/stream/supportFetchAPI.
- Sidebar workspace header: split the toggle and the "+" into sibling buttons
so we no longer nest interactive elements inside a <button>.
* fix(desktop): address Copilot re-review
- hermes-media protocol: restrict streaming to an audio/video extension
allowlist (415 otherwise) so it can't be used to read arbitrary local files.
- Connecting overlay: use z-[1200] instead of the non-standard z-1200 utility.
* Potential fix for pull request finding
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