Re-parsing the full message markdown every reveal frame is O(N^2) over a
long answer and dominated stream CPU.
- Throttle useSmoothReveal commits to ~1 frame (REVEAL_MIN_COMMIT_MS).
- Memoize block parsing with an LRU keyed on source text so only changed
blocks re-parse.
- Replace Streamdown's full-text parseIncompleteMarkdown with a
tail-bounded remend: scan to the last top-level boundary outside
fences/math and repair only the trailing open block. New remend-tail.ts
is proven render-equivalent to full remend at every streaming prefix
(remend-tail.test.ts), minus an intentional, documented divergence on
cross-block dangling openers.
Group recents as parent-repo → worktree → sessions using local git
metadata (probed over IPC, with a path-name heuristic fallback for
remote backends). Single-worktree repos collapse to one level. Sessions
order by creation time and never reshuffle on new messages.
Also: fuse the status stack to the composer border, restore icon actions
in the queue panel, fix sidebar label truncation and drag styling, hide
sticky-message attachments while pinned, and bump the terminal font.
* 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.
When a tirith content-security warning is present the approval backend
forces allow_permanent=False and silently downgrades an "always" choice to
session scope (the persistence loop in check_all_command_guards only honors
"always" → permanent when no tirith finding exists). But the gateway notify
payload that drives the TUI and the Electron desktop app never carried that
flag, so both surfaces always rendered "Always allow" — offering a permanent
allow the backend would quietly refuse to persist.
Plumb allow_permanent end-to-end:
- tools/approval.py: include `allow_permanent: not has_tirith` in the gateway
approval_data the notify callback emits as `approval.request`.
- ui-tui: thread `allowPermanent` through the event handler, gateway types,
and ApprovalReq; ApprovalPrompt drops the "always" option (and renumbers the
quick-pick keys) when it's false.
- apps/desktop: thread `allow_permanent` through the gateway payload type, the
per-session approval store, and the inline ApprovalBar, which now hides the
"Always allow…" dropdown item when permanent allow is disallowed — reusing
the existing DropdownMenu / confirm-Dialog UI.
The desktop/TUI render path for approvals already landed in #38578 (the root
cause of approvals not surfacing in the GUI); this completes the salvage of
#37856 by carrying allow_permanent across both surfaces. #37856's original
thread-local _block() approach is dropped: desktop/TUI approvals resolve via
approval.respond → resolve_gateway_approval (the per-session queue), not the
_block()/request_id correlation, so a worker-thread callback waiting on _block
would never be released by the real UI.
Tests: gateway notify payload carries allow_permanent (True without tirith,
False with a tirith warning); ui-tui approvalAction reduced option set +
event-handler allowPermanent propagation; desktop store round-trip + the
ApprovalBar showing/hiding "Always allow".
Supersedes #37856Closes#37812
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <cine.dreamer.one@gmail.com>
* desktop: surface /tools, /save, /personality and fix /help skill count
Move /tools and /save out of TERMINAL_ONLY_COMMANDS and /personality out of
ADVANCED_COMMANDS so they appear in the desktop slash palette and execute via
the existing slash.exec → command.dispatch fallback. The backend gateway already
accepts these through slash.exec (none are in _PENDING_INPUT_COMMANDS or the
skill list), so no backend change is required.
Recompute skill_count in filterDesktopCommandsCatalog from the filtered pairs.
Previously the /help footer echoed the unfiltered backend total — e.g. "60
skill commands available" while only ~29 actually appeared in the rendered
list, because the desktop hides terminal-only, picker-owned, and advanced
commands.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* desktop: keep slash popover live while typing args
The trigger regex `(?:^|[\s])([@/])([^\s@/]*)$` stopped matching the moment
the user typed a space after a slash command, so the popover never showed arg
completions for `/personality`, `/tools`, etc. — even though the backend's
`complete.slash` already returns them with a `replace_from` indicator.
Split the trigger detection so `/` allows args (`/cmd arg1 arg2`) while `@`
keeps the strict no-space behavior. Restrict the slash command name to
`[a-zA-Z][\w-]*` so file paths like `src/foo/bar` don't accidentally trigger
the popover.
Rewrite arg-completion items in useSlashCompletions to insert the full
`/personality alice` token instead of stranding `/alice`: when `replace_from`
is past the command base, prepend the existing prefix to each item's text so
the chip serializer produces a coherent replacement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* cli: complete toolset names after /tools enable|disable
SlashCommandCompleter previously only auto-derived the first subcommand level
from args_hint, so `/tools enable <tab>` yielded nothing — the user had to
remember every toolset key (web, file, spotify, …) and every MCP server prefix.
Add `_tools_completions` that handles both stages: subcommand (list|disable|enable)
and tool name. Filter by current enable state so `/tools enable <tab>` only
offers disabled toolsets and `/tools disable <tab>` only offers enabled ones —
no point suggesting a no-op. MCP server prefixes (server:) come from the
saved mcp_servers config; per-tool completion under a server would require
runtime MCP introspection and is left as follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* desktop: registry-driven slash commands with first-class pickers
Collapse the if/else slash dispatch into one DESKTOP_COMMAND_SPECS table
that drives popover suggestions, per-type composer pills, and execution.
- /resume, /sessions, /switch: inline session completions (like /skin) plus
a "Browse all sessions…" entry that opens a dedicated session picker overlay
- /handoff: inline platform completion + handoff.request/handoff.state
gateway bridge so desktop reaches CLI parity
- colored per-type pills (command/skill/theme) in the composer
- strip ANSI and fix width/alignment of slash output in the chat panel
* desktop: fold repeated slash session/output boilerplate into one helper
runExec, /title, /help and the unavailable case each re-derived the same
ensure-session → bail-with-notify → build-renderSlashOutput dance.
withSlashOutput() returns {sessionId, render} or null, so each handler is
a two-line resolve instead of an eight-line preamble.
* desktop: keep backend meta on slash arg completions
Arg suggestions (/personality <name>, /tools enable <toolset>, /handoff
<platform>) were having their meta overwritten with the parent command's
registry description: desktopSlashDescription("/personality none") canonicalizes
back to /personality and returns its blurb. Skip the lookup for arg rows so the
backend's own display_meta ("clear personality overlay", etc.) survives.
* cli: list real personalities in /personality completion
_personality_completions resolved load_config().agent.personalities — but that
schema has no agent.personalities key, so completion always returned just
`none` even though the runtime (load_cli_config().agent.personalities) ships a
dozen built-ins (helpful, kawaii, pirate, …). Read from the same source the
command actually applies, so `/personality ` surfaces the real options.
* desktop: expand bare arg-commands to their options on pick
Picking a command like /personality from the slash popover committed it
immediately instead of advancing to its argument list. Mark arg-taking
commands (/skin, /resume, /handoff, /personality, /tools) in the registry
and, when one is picked bare, insert "/cmd " as plain text and re-open the
popover on its inline options — mirroring typing "/cmd " by hand. Arg picks
(serialized text already contains a space) still commit a single pill.
Also realign trigger-popover loading test with the redesigned popover (the
/help empty-state hint shows when resolved, not while the spinner is up);
the merge from main reintroduced the pre-redesign expectation.
* tui_gateway: fold session-db close into a context manager
Both handoff RPCs repeated the same `db, close_db = _session_db_handle()`
+ `finally: if close_db: db.close()` dance. Turn the helper into a
`_session_db` contextmanager that owns the close, so callers just
`with _session_db(session) as db:`.
* desktop: unblock handoff retries and exact resume ids
Clear timed-out desktop handoffs through the gateway so retries are not stuck behind a pending row, and let typed /resume session ids bypass the loaded sidebar cache.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(desktop): keep model runtime state per session
(cherry picked from commit f72ee87d99ee38cb7b5badeb9a8af869bb92073a)
* fix(desktop): keep footer model state scoped to active session
(cherry picked from commit d91942ebd4671ff857b5c8526dbf133f04782ecb)
* fix(desktop): restore stored runtime when resuming sessions
(cherry picked from commit 32b3793418257617b8da57e26151f079c2620d00)
* fix(desktop): persist live runtime changes for resume
(cherry picked from commit c58467779436dcef44a80ad55b52664752dc0837)
* fix(desktop): persist resumed endpoint runtime
* chore(attribution): map pinguarmy's commit email in AUTHOR_MAP
The salvaged commits on this branch preserve @pinguarmy's authorship
(郝鹏宇 / peterhao@Peters-MacBook-Air.local). Add the mapping so the
check-attribution CI gate resolves the email to the GitHub username.
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Co-authored-by: 郝鹏宇 <peterhao@Peters-MacBook-Air.local>
* refactor(desktop): dock terminal under chat and simplify file rail
Keep the right rail focused on file browsing while moving the persistent terminal into the chat column bottom slot, and make terminal colors follow the active light/dark mode instead of a fixed Solarized palette.
* fix(desktop): make the terminal a resizable, themed side pane
- Move the terminal into a resizable pane (viewport-% widths) that shares
<main>'s stacking context, so its drag handle no longer sits under the
fixed terminal overlay; works on either rail side.
- Restore +x on node-pty's spawn-helper before the first spawn to fix
"posix_spawnp failed" on macOS prebuilds (real cause; drop the redundant
shell-candidate retry loop).
- Gate terminal open/fit/start on document.fonts.ready and strip leading
blank rows (re-armed before the resize Ctrl-L redraw) so the prompt sits
flush at the top with no starship add_newline gap.
- Inherit the app editor-surface color as the terminal background.
- Bind Ctrl+` (⌃` on macOS) to toggle the terminal; add a palette entry.
* feat(desktop): show platform hotkey hints in the command palette
- Render each palette item's live binding as a <KbdGroup> hint via a new
comboTokens() helper (mac shows ⌘/⌃/⌥/⇧, every other platform shows
Ctrl/Alt/Shift — never a ⌘ on PC).
- Default the terminal toggle to ⌘` / Ctrl+` (the ~ key) on both platforms.
- Drop the hardcoded (⌘⏎) baked into the composer steer tooltip; render it
platform-aware with formatCombo instead.
* fix(desktop): drop the active check on the command-palette terminal item
* fix(desktop): remove active/check states from the command palette
* fix(desktop): allow ⌥/Shift-drag selection over mouse-mode TUIs
Full-screen apps (hermes --tui, vim) enable mouse reporting, so a plain
drag can't select text and ⌘/Ctrl+L (add-selection-to-chat) had nothing
to send. Enable macOptionClickForcesSelection so ⌥-drag on macOS (Shift
elsewhere) forces a native selection over mouse-mode apps.
* feat(desktop): tell the in-pane agent it's embedded in the GUI
Set HERMES_DESKTOP_TERMINAL=1 on the terminal pane's shell env and surface
it in build_environment_hints, so a hermes/--tui launched inside the pane
knows it's next to the GUI chat and that ⌥/Shift-drag + ⌘/Ctrl+L sends a
selection to the composer. Distinct from HERMES_DESKTOP (agent backend).
* refactor(desktop): drop the redundant Ctrl+` terminal-toggle fallback
The toggle now ships as mod+` on both platforms, so the standard combo
index handles it — the bespoke fallback (and its stale 'old default'
comment) is dead weight.
* fix(desktop): read live terminal selection for ⌘/Ctrl+L
A redraw-heavy TUI (spinners/clocks) outruns onSelectionChange, leaving the
React selection state empty so the state-gated shortcut listener never
attached and ⌘L no-op'd. Always listen and read xterm's live selection (with
a native fallback) at press time; only swallow the key when there's text to
send. Drops the now-redundant custom key handler.
* feat(desktop): make any agent aware it's in the Hermes desktop GUI
Generalize the runtime-surface hint: fire for HERMES_DESKTOP (the backend
powering the GUI chat) as well as HERMES_DESKTOP_TERMINAL (a hermes in the
embedded terminal pane), so it's about being inside the desktop GUI, not
about being a TUI. The terminal-pane selection note stays pane-specific.
* feat(desktop): give the GUI agent a read_terminal tool
The in-app terminal buffer lives in the renderer (xterm), so expose it to the
chat agent over the same blocking bridge clarify uses: read_terminal emits
terminal.read.request, the renderer serializes the buffer (visible screen by
default, or a start_line/count range against total_lines) and answers
terminal.read.respond. Gated to the GUI via HERMES_DESKTOP.
Also restores the flipped-layout titlebar inset fix (app-shell +
desktop-controller) for terminal/preview rails at the window's left edge.
* chore(desktop): trim read_terminal comments
* feat(desktop): add a terminal toggle to the statusbar
The file rail lost its terminal icon, leaving ⌘` and the command palette
as the only ways in. Add a one-click toggle to the statusbar's left
cluster, mirroring the command-center item: it reads $terminalTakeover so
it lights up while the pane is open and stays in sync with the hotkey, and
is gated to chat view (the only place the pane can show).
* fix(desktop): relabel the terminal header button to what it does
The in-pane button claimed a focus/split fullscreen toggle ("Focus
terminal view" / "Return to split view", screen-full/normal icons), but
the terminal is just a resizable side pane — there's no fullscreen. The
button only mounts while the pane is open, so the focus branch was dead
and clicking it merely closed the terminal. Relabel to "Hide terminal"
with a close icon, drop the dead conditional and the now-unused takeover
read.
* fix(desktop): move the terminal toggle next to the version item
Relocate it from the left cluster to the right of the statusbar, just
left of the client version item.
* feat(desktop): default the terminal to PowerShell on Windows
Prefer pwsh (7+) then Windows PowerShell 5.1 over cmd.exe, falling back to
comspec only when neither is present. -NoLogo drops the startup banner so
the prompt sits flush like the POSIX shells.
* feat(desktop): show a persistent divider on the terminal pane
The resize sash only painted on hover, so the terminal/chat boundary was
invisible at rest. Add an opt-in `divider` prop to Pane that paints a thin
resting hairline on the resize edge (side-aware, so it tracks the rail when
the layout flips) and enable it on the terminal pane.
* refactor(desktop): resolve the terminal shell instead of hardcoding it
Make shell selection a real resolver: an explicit override wins
(HERMES_DESKTOP_SHELL on both platforms, $SHELL on POSIX), otherwise
auto-detect the best installed shell — pwsh > Windows PowerShell 5.1 > cmd
on Windows, zsh > bash > sh on POSIX. A shared shellSpecFor() picks the
interactive flags by family, so an overridden bash/pwsh/cmd all launch
correctly.
* fix(desktop): repaint the terminal on light/dark switch
Setting term.options.theme updated colors for the DOM renderer but not the
WebGL one, which caches glyph colors in a texture atlas — so already-drawn
cells kept their old palette after a mode switch. Hold the WebglAddon in a
ref and clear its atlas when the theme changes.
* fix(desktop): match the terminal palette to VS Code Light+/Dark+
Adopt VS Code's exact default ANSI palette (the terminalColorRegistry
defaults), enable minimumContrastRatio: 4.5 so foregrounds are clamped
against the background the way the integrated terminal does, and key the
light/dark choice off renderedMode (the painted surface) instead of
resolvedMode so it can't invert. The canvas + inset paint the live skin
surface (--ui-editor-surface-background) so the terminal blends with the
app and follows light/dark, while the contrast clamp keeps colors crisp.
* fix(desktop): tighten command palette search to substring matching
cmdk's default fuzzy scorer matched anything with the query letters
scattered across an item, so e.g. "color" never narrowed to color
entries. Add a substring filter: every typed word must literally appear
in an item's value/keywords, keeping results tight and predictable.
* fix(desktop): blend the terminal header into the skin surface
The persistent-terminal overlay painted the static palette background
(#1e1e1e/#ffffff), so the transparent header strip revealed a near-black
slab above the surface-colored body. Paint the overlay with the live
--ui-editor-surface-background so header and body read as one pane.
* fix(desktop): re-resolve the terminal surface on skin switch
The canvas surface only re-resolved on light/dark change, so switching
skins at the same mode left the WebGL canvas painted with the old tint
until reload. Key the resolve off themeName too. Also trim the palette
comments.
* chore(desktop): drop redundant terminal theming header comment
Bind session.next/prev to Control+Tab / Control+Shift+Tab with a distinct
`ctrl` modifier token (literal Control on macOS — not Cmd, which the OS
reserves). Add ^1…^9 positional jumps mirroring profile ⌘1…⌘9.
Mac-style interaction:
- Quick ^Tab tap jumps on keydown with no HUD (even if Ctrl stays down)
- Hold Tab ~220ms, or tap Tab again while Ctrl is held → compact HUD
- Ctrl↑ commits the highlight; Esc cancels; rows clickable (^+click safe)
- Recency-ordered list snapshotted on open; cycles by stored session id
Includes combo.test.ts + session-switcher.test.ts.
The in-flight user bubble seeded image attachment refs as `@image:<localpath>`.
In remote-gateway mode that path lives on the desktop, not the gateway, so the
inline thumbnail fetch hit /api/media and 403'd ("Path outside media roots"),
flashing a fallback chip until submit uploaded the bytes.
Seed (and keep) image refs as the raw base64 preview data URL instead. It
renders inline via extractEmbeddedImages with zero network, and survives the
post-sync rewrite (the agent gets the bytes through the attached-image pipeline,
not this display ref) so the thumbnail no longer remounts/flashes. Non-image
refs are unchanged.
Adds optimisticAttachmentRef + unit coverage.
* fix(desktop): keep chat recents focused and reset hotkey target
Exclude messaging platform threads from chat recents pagination so Load More returns chat sessions, and clear stale quick-create profile state before Ctrl+N starts a new session.
* fix(desktop): surface new sessions in sidebar + unstick new-chat Thinking
Two renderer regressions in the desktop chat app:
- Sidebar ordering: orderByIds/reconcileOrderIds appended ids missing from
the persisted order to the BOTTOM. Callers pass recency-sorted lists
(newest first), so a brand-new Ctrl+N session sank below the saved order
and read as "my latest session never showed up". Prepend fresh ids so new
activity surfaces at the top.
- New-chat stuck on "Thinking": terminal/attention state transitions
(turn finished, error, or agent now waiting on user) were RAF-batched.
Electron throttles requestAnimationFrame to ~0 while the window is
backgrounded, occluded, or unfocused, stranding the deferred flush. Flush
critical transitions (!busy || needsInput) synchronously; keep the busy
heartbeat RAF-batched to avoid scroll churn.
Does not touch the messaging-source exclusion in chat recents queries.
* fix(desktop): stop excluding messaging platforms from chat recents
The "keep chat recents focused" change excluded every messaging-platform
source (telegram, discord, slack, …) from the recents query. That silently
undid the messaging-source-folder feature already on main (ede4f5a4a): the
sidebar builds those folders purely from the loaded recents page, so once the
sources were filtered out the folders never rendered — telegram and friends
vanished from the left sidebar.
Only cron stays excluded (it has its own dedicated section). Messaging
sessions belong in the sidebar and render with their platform folder/icon.
Removes the now-unused MESSAGING_SESSION_SOURCE_IDS export.
* fix(desktop): give each messaging platform its own self-managed sidebar section
Recents are local-only again: cron and every messaging platform are excluded
from the chat-recents query, so "Load more" pages through interactive local
chats instead of interleaving gateway threads that bury them.
Each messaging platform (telegram, discord, ...) is now fetched as its own
slice (refreshMessagingSessions) and rendered as a self-managed sidebar
section with its platform icon, count, and per-platform "load more" — no
source-grouping magic inside recents.
Handed-off sessions (live source becomes local after a handoff) keep their
origin-platform badge on the row via handoff_platform, so a Telegram thread
continued in the desktop still reads as Telegram.
* fix(desktop): self-heal a stranded routed session in route-resume
An intermittent create/stream race can leave selected/active session ids
null while the route stays on /:sid — the transcript then sticks empty
even though the turn completed and persisted (the "second Ctrl+N shows no
response" symptom). The pathname didn't change, so route-resume's normal
gate skipped and the view stayed stuck.
Resume whenever the routed session isn't the loaded one, gated on
freshDraftReady so the /:sid -> /new transition (which also momentarily
nulls selected/active a render before the pathname flips) is NOT treated
as stranded. selectedStoredSessionIdRef is set synchronously at resume
entry, so this can't loop, and the resume cached fast-path restores the
already-streamed messages without a refetch.
* fix(desktop): bypass smooth reveal on primary markdown stream
Render main assistant text through deferred markdown directly instead of the smooth-reveal wrapper. This isolates the wrapper to reasoning surfaces and avoids the intermittent blank-response regression after consecutive new-session flows.
System messages (slash-command output like /debug, plus the generic
system-message fallback) were rendered as plain text, so the uploaded
paste.rs URLs in a debug report were neither clickable nor easily
copyable.
Route both through LinkifiedText so URLs become real <a> links (open
externally via the desktop bridge, selectable/copyable text). Add an
opt-in explicitOnly mode that matches only explicit http(s):// / www.
URLs, used here so filename-shaped tokens in the report (agent.log,
errors.log, gateway.log) aren't mistaken for bare domains and linkified.
Bare-domain matching is preserved for all other LinkifiedText callers.
Adds regression tests covering explicitOnly (links only real URLs, keeps
.log filenames as text) and the default bare-domain behavior.
#42178 dropped every session-scoped gateway event that arrived without an
explicit session_id, to stop background activity attaching to the focused
chat. But the gateway already stamps background sessions with their own id, so
an unscoped message/reasoning/tool/prompt event can only be the focused turn's
own output. Dropping those swallowed the live answer — it reappeared only after
a transcript refetch (manual refresh).
Narrow the guard to subagent.* (the only genuinely background/async family);
everything else falls back to the active session as before.
* fix(desktop): require session ids for scoped gateway events
Drop unscoped stream, tool, and subagent events in the desktop renderer so async activity cannot attach to whichever chat is currently focused.
* fix(desktop): preserve unscoped session info events
Keep session.info out of the scoped-event drop list so global desktop runtime broadcasts still initialize UI state before a session is active.
The status bar merged both versions into one pill with a single click target,
so there was no way to tell which artifact an update acted on — and the apply
path was overloaded by connection mode. Separate them:
- store: independent client (checkUpdates/applyUpdates) and backend
(checkBackendUpdates/applyBackendUpdate) flows with their own status/apply
atoms; openUpdateOverlayFor(target) drives the overlay.
- status bar: two buttons — client vX (always) and backend vY (+N) (remote
only), each with its own behind-count, opening the overlay for its target.
- overlay: reads the active target's atoms; install/check route per target.
Removes the version-bar merge helper (no longer merging the two versions).
The updates overlay showed generic 'New update available / improvements and
fixes' with no indication of whether it was updating the client or the backend.
In remote mode it now reads 'Backend update available' and names the connected
backend, and when there's no commit changelog (e.g. pip/non-git backend) it
degrades to honest 'release notes aren't available for this install type' copy
instead of filler.
Copy selection extracted to a pure resolveUpdateCopy() helper (unit-tested);
threads target ('client'|'backend') from connection.mode through the overlay.
In remote thin-client mode the Electron client and the backend it connects to
are separate installs that drift independently. The status bar previously showed
only the client version, hiding skew (e.g. client 0.15.1 talking to backend
0.16.0 looked fine).
Add a pure resolveVersionBar() helper (unit-tested) that, gated on
connection.mode === 'remote', renders both 'client vX · backend vY' from the
desktop appVersion and StatusResponse.version, and flags skew. Local mode is
byte-identical to before. Wire it into the status-bar version item.
The status-bar zap currently toggles per-session approval bypass (the same
scope as the TUI's Shift+Tab). This adds a global escape hatch: Shift+clicking
the zap flips the persistent approvals.mode in config.yaml between "off"
(bypass on) and "manual" (bypass off), affecting every session, the CLI, the
TUI, and cron — and it survives restarts.
- statusbar-controls: thread the click's shiftKey through onSelect via a new
StatusbarSelectModifiers arg.
- yolo-session: add setGlobalYolo() that calls config.set with scope="global".
- use-statusbar-items: branch toggleYolo on modifiers.shiftKey; plain click
stays per-session, Shift+click goes global.
- tui_gateway config.set "yolo" key: add scope="global" that reads/writes
approvals.mode through the gateway's own (mtime-cached) config view, honors
an explicit value, and re-emits session.info to every live session so each
window's zap reflects the flip immediately.
- i18n: tooltip copy in en/ja/zh/zh-hant notes Shift+click toggles globally.
Tests: two new tui_gateway tests cover the global toggle and explicit-value
paths; existing session/process-scope yolo tests still pass.
Desktop connected to a remote gateway can now attach images and PDFs and
display agent-written images. Previously the desktop passed a LOCAL file path
to image.attach; on a remote gateway that path doesn't exist, so the image was
silently dropped ("skipped unreadable path") and the vision model never saw it.
The reverse direction was also broken — images the agent wrote on the gateway
rendered as dead links in the remote client.
Gateway (tui_gateway/server.py):
- image.attach_bytes: base64 byte upload written into the gateway's own images
dir and queued via the existing native-image-attach pipeline. Magic-byte
extension sniffing, data-URL prefix + whitespace tolerance, 25 MB cap,
structured error codes. Accepts content_base64/filename (canonical) and
data/ext (older-desktop aliases).
- pdf.attach: renders each page to PNG via pdftoppm (poppler-utils) at 150 DPI
and queues the pages as images; 50 MB / 25-page caps. Accepts host path or
base64 upload.
- Shared helpers (_decode_attach_base64, _sniff_image_ext, _queue_attached_image)
so the two methods and the existing image.attach don't duplicate logic.
Gateway (hermes_cli/web_server.py):
- GET /api/media: returns a gateway-local image as a base64 data URL so remote
clients can display it. Auth-gated like every /api route, extension
allowlist + size cap, AND confined to the gateway's own media roots
(images/screenshots/cache, resolved symlink-safe) so an authed caller can't
read image-extension files anywhere on disk.
Desktop (apps/desktop):
- syncImageAttachmentsForSubmit uploads bytes via image.attach_bytes when the
connection mode is 'remote'; the local fast path is unchanged.
- media.ts gains isRemoteGateway() + gatewayMediaDataUrl(); directive-text and
markdown-text fetch images over /api/media in remote mode.
Consolidates the competing remote-media PRs (#38876, #40317, #21908, #39437)
into one coherent implementation, taking the strongest parts of each and adding
shared-helper cleanup plus the /api/media root-confinement hardening on top.
The per-profile gateway switching from #38876 is intentionally left out as a
separable feature. TUI file uploads (#40492) remain a separate surface.
Tested: 11 new tui_gateway tests + 5 /api/media endpoint tests + desktop
media.remote unit tests; full tui_gateway + web_server suites green (472
passed); tsc -b clean; E2E verified the full attach→disk→queue and
gateway-path→data-URL display round-trip plus the out-of-root security block.
Co-authored-by: Max Mitcham <maxmitcham@mac.home>
Co-authored-by: Justlrnal4 <Justlrnal4@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris Cook <ccook@nvms.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Paquette <thomas.paquette@gmail.com>
The desktop statusbar turn timer read a single process-global $turnStartedAt,
set/cleared only for the active session. With multiple same-profile sessions
running at once, switching to session B reset the one shared clock, so
session A's still-running turn "restarted from zero" the moment you left it —
exactly the behaviour @Da7_Tech reported after the profile-scoped session work.
Move turnStartedAt onto ClientSessionState so each session owns its own turn
clock. The global atom now just mirrors whichever session is focused, written
on view-sync (the flush that already stages the active session's state). A
backgrounded turn keeps counting in its own cache entry, and focusing it
restores its real elapsed time instead of zeroing it.
Set/clear sites: message.start (seed), message.complete + error + interrupted
bail (clear), and the session.info running-state path (seed if missing / clear
on stop) so a turn that goes busy via session.info — e.g. resuming a session
that's already running — also gets a clock.
Note: the agent loop itself never froze — every same-profile session runs in
its own backend thread and background deltas are buffered per-session. This
fixes the timer-reset symptom; the "no live progress until you return" is
inherent to a single-view transcript and is out of scope here.
The desktop markdown preprocessor autolinks bare URLs by wrapping them in
<...>. RAW_URL_RE allowed '*' in its character classes, so a bold line with
a URL and no separating space — e.g. '**PR opened: https://.../pull/123**' —
greedily pulled the closing '**' into the href, producing a broken link and
an unterminated bold run. Exclude '*' from both URL character classes; '_'
and '~' (which can appear in real paths) are preserved.
macOS reserves cmd+` for window cycling, so the keydown never reached the
renderer and profile.default never fired. Move it to ⌥⌘0 — the "0 slot" of
the ⌘⌥-digit profile range — which is unreserved and fits the scheme.
Add rebindable actions for the high-frequency gaps: focus composer, open
model picker, next/prev session, search sessions (⌘⇧F), show files/
terminal tab, and nav→artifacts. Reconcile the duplicate Shift+N new-
session listener into session.new's defaults, and surface the remaining
context-local shortcuts (⌘↵ steer, ⌘L terminal selection, ⌘W close
preview) as read-only rows so the panel is the honest source of truth.
Add a central keybind registry + nanostore so desktop hotkeys are
discoverable and user-rebindable. A titlebar ⌨ button (and ⌘/) opens a
collapsible map grouped by Composer (read-only) / Profiles / Session /
Navigation / View; click any chip to capture a new combo. Overrides
persist to localStorage as a delta against shipped defaults, so future
default changes aren't shadowed by a stored snapshot.
Migrates the previously scattered inline listeners (palette, command
center, new session, sidebar, theme) into the registry, and adds profile
switch/cycle/create + default-profile hotkeys.
* feat(desktop): surface every provider + models from `hermes model` in the GUI
The desktop GUI's model/provider choices were starved relative to the
`hermes model` CLI. Onboarding listed ~8 providers, Settings → Model only
showed authenticated ones, because the global `/api/model/options` endpoint
called build_models_payload() without the full-universe flags the TUI's
model.options JSON-RPC already used.
- web_server.py: `/api/model/options` now passes include_unconfigured +
picker_hints + canonical_order (matching the TUI handler), so every GUI
surface fed by it sees all 37 canonical providers with auth hints.
- Settings → Model: provider dropdown lists every provider; picking an
unconfigured api_key provider shows an inline 'paste key → Activate' flow
(auto-selects the recommended default); OAuth/external route to onboarding.
- Onboarding: the API-key form is now driven by the full provider catalog
(curated five first, then the rest), not a hand-maintained list of five.
- types/hermes.ts: ModelOptionProvider gains authenticated/auth_type/key_env.
- Tests: model-settings covers the full-universe list + inline activation;
fixed a pre-existing stale assertion (nous / hermes-4 was never rendered).
* feat(desktop): /model in GUI chat opens the model picker instead of a dead-end notice
Typing /model in a desktop chat session printed "/model uses the desktop
model picker instead of a slash command" and did nothing — it never opened
the picker. (The slash worker can't render the prompt_toolkit modal /model
opens in the CLI, so the desktop just showed the unavailable-notice.)
- use-prompt-actions.ts: intercept /model client-side. No args → open the
desktop model picker overlay (setModelPickerOpen) — the same full
provider+model picker as the status-bar button. With args (/model <name>
[--provider ...]) → run the switch directly via slash.exec so power users
can still type it.
- desktop-slash-commands.ts: export isModelPickerCommand() so the hook can
detect picker-owned commands without duplicating the PICKER_OWNED_COMMANDS set.
- Test: covers isModelPickerCommand for /model (+ args) vs non-picker commands.
* fix(desktop): make onboarding provider lists scrollable + clean up card styling
The full-catalog onboarding picker could overflow the modal with no way to
scroll — the OAuth provider list and the api-key grid both grew past the
viewport, hiding the key input and the bottom action row (overflow-hidden card,
no scroll container).
- Scope a `max-h-[60dvh] overflow-y-auto` region to just the provider list /
api-key card grid; the "other providers" disclosure, key input, and action
row stay pinned and reachable.
- Inner `p-1` so card borders / focus rings aren't clipped by the scroll viewport.
- Flatter card styling: drop the persistent border, the redundant selected-state
checkmark, and the modal shadow — selection now reads from the ring alone (the
muted "already configured" check stays).
- Remove the " — set up" suffix from the Settings → Model provider dropdown; the
inline setup flow already signals unconfigured providers.
* fix(desktop): identify api-key onboarding cards by env var, not id
Selecting "Google Gemini" also highlighted "Google AI Studio": the curated
catalog and the backend-derived providers can collide on `id` (a provider slug
can equal a curated id like `gemini`), so `option.id === o.id` matched two
cards at once. Key selection (and the React key + snap-back effect) on `envKey`
instead, which the catalog dedups and is therefore unique per card.
---------
Co-authored-by: Brooklyn Nicholson <brooklyn.bb.nicholson@gmail.com>
The desktop app could only queue while busy — `/steer` was in the palette
but had no first-class affordance, so the "nudge the agent mid-turn without
interrupting" lane was effectively unreachable.
Add a steer action to the composer: while busy with a text-only draft, a
steering-wheel button (and Cmd/Ctrl+Enter) injects the text into the live
turn via the `session.steer` RPC — the gateway folds it into the next tool
result so the model reads it on its next iteration. Plain Enter still queues.
steerPrompt returns false when the gateway has no live tool window (or the
RPC errors), and the composer re-queues the words so nothing is lost — the
same safety net as a plain queue.
* fix(desktop): make composer message queue reliable
The queue felt 'dumb' because of three real bugs:
1. Drained-after-interrupt sends went silent. cancelRun sets
interrupted:true and nothing reset it; submitPromptText's optimistic
seed preserved it, and the message stream drops every delta while
interrupted. So Send-now-while-busy and any interrupt+drain submitted
the next turn into a muted session. Fix: a fresh submit is a new turn —
seed interrupted:false.
2. Back-to-back queue drains stalled. The drain fires on the busy->false
settle edge, but busyRef (synced from the busy store by a separate
effect) can still read true on that same edge, so the drained send hit
the busy guard, returned false, and the entry was never removed. Fix:
fromQueue sends bypass the busyRef guard (the queue drain lock
serializes them); the user path keeps the guard.
3. Double-enter-to-interrupt killed single non-queue turns. The hidden
450ms timer meant a natural double-tap after sending stopped the agent.
Fix: empty Enter while busy is a no-op; interrupting is explicit —
Stop button or Esc.
Also: clean stop (no [interrupted] marker), Send-now works while busy
(promote + interrupt + auto-drain), settle on the interrupted completion
path. Adds regression tests and unblocks the prompt-actions suite by
completing its stale @/hermes mock.
* fix(desktop): float the queue panel as an overlay so the chat doesn't resize
The queue list rendered in-flow inside the composer root, so its height
fed --composer-measured-height (the composer rect drives the thread's
bottom padding + last-message clearance). Queuing a message grew that
rect and the whole chat visibly resized.
Anchor the panel out of flow above the composer (absolute bottom-full,
capped at 40vh with internal scroll). It no longer contributes to the
measured height, so the thread layout stays put and the list overlays the
(already faded) chat. Still collapsible via the panel's own
disclosure header.
* fix(desktop): queue panel collapsed by default + shared border with composer
- Default the queue disclosure to collapsed (compact 'N queued' pill)
instead of expanded.
- Drop the gap and merge the panel into the composer: square bottom
corners, no bottom border/radius, and overlap down by the Root's pt-2
(-mb-2) so the panel's borderless bottom lands on the composer surface's
top border — one continuous bordered shape.
* style(desktop): tighten queue panel padding
* style(desktop): trim queue-ux comments to house style
* style(desktop): drop 'Cursor' references from comments
Resolve conflicts in desktop settings/cron/messaging/sidebar: adopt main's
ListRow + actions-menu refactors for credential rows; keep our profileColor
import on the sidebar. Drop the now-orphaned Tip-based helpers.
Hold (~450ms) a profile square — or right-click → Color… — to open a
shadcn Popover of swatches and override its rail color, with Auto to fall
back to the deterministic hue. The hold timer rides alongside the dnd
pointer listener (a real drag cancels it, the trailing click is
suppressed), so reorder/select/recolor stay distinct gestures.
Overrides persist in localStorage ($profileColors), resolved via
resolveProfileColor (override wins, else the name-hashed hue). Cosmetic
and gated on the multi-profile rail, so single-profile users are
unaffected. Adds a reusable ui/popover.tsx (radix-ui umbrella).
Drag a sidebar session into the composer to drop an @session:<profile>/<id>
chip the agent resolves via session_search. New READ shape dumps a whole
session by id (head+tail when large); a `profile` param reads another
profile's DB read-only, and a cross-profile locate scan resolves bare ids
when the model drops the owning profile from the link.
Also: ASCII "waking up <profile>" overlay during lazy gateway swaps,
global haptic rate-limit to kill the reconnect-storm "clickity" buzz, and
reauth toasts surfaced once per disconnect instead of every backoff tick.
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.
The reconnect and boot paths resolved the WS URL with
`(await getGatewayWsUrl().catch(() => null)) || conn.wsUrl`. For OAuth
gateways the cached conn.wsUrl carries a single-use, ~30s-TTL ticket; the
desktop connection is memoized for the process lifetime, so on reconnect
that ticket is both expired and already consumed. A failed fresh mint
therefore fell back to a guaranteed-dead ticket and surfaced as an opaque
"connection closed", masking the gateway's actionable "session expired,
sign in again" message.
Extract resolveGatewayWsUrl() (with unit tests): in OAuth mode a mint
failure throws a tagged GatewayReauthRequiredError instead of falling back;
token/local modes keep the long-lived-token fallback. Thread that error
through the reconnect path so requestGateway surfaces the reauth message
rather than the generic transport error that triggered the retry.
Co-authored-by: Kenmege <205099287+Kenmege@users.noreply.github.com>
The desktop remote-gateway settings now auto-detect whether a gateway
authenticates with OAuth or a static session token and present the
matching UI + connection mechanism.
Detection: an unauthenticated GET {base}/api/status reads auth_required
(true => OAuth, false => session token); /api/auth/providers supplies the
provider label. The settings UI debounce-probes the entered URL and shows
either a 'Sign in with <provider>' button or the session-token box.
OAuth connection mechanism:
- REST is authed by the HttpOnly session cookie held in a persistent
Electron session partition (persist:hermes-remote-oauth); main-process
REST routes through electron net bound to that partition so the cookie
attaches automatically.
- Login opens a BrowserWindow on {base}/login in that partition and
resolves once the hermes_session_at cookie lands.
- WebSocket upgrades use a single-use ?ticket= minted at
POST /api/auth/ws-ticket (the gateway rejects ?token= in gated mode);
getGatewayWsUrl() re-mints before every (re)connect since tickets are
single-use and short-lived.
- Missing cookie / 401 surfaces needsOauthLogin to prompt re-sign-in
(Nous Portal contract v1 issues no refresh token).
Local and token modes are unchanged.
Pure helpers (URL normalize, ws-url token/ticket builders, auth-mode
classify/resolve, cookie detector) are extracted to a standalone
connection-config.cjs (no electron import) and unit-tested with
node --test (26 tests), matching the backend-probes.cjs pattern.
Replace the background-clarify toast (expired on alt-tab, easy to miss) with a
persistent, glowing amber "needs input" dot on the session's sidebar row,
driven off a new ClientSessionState.needsInput flag mirrored into a
$attentionSessionIds store. The flag is set on clarify.request and cleared the
moment the turn resumes (tool.complete) or ends.
Also: redesign the clarify tool UI (borderless choices, pseudo-radio dots,
right-aligned checkmark, arc border, tighter padding), make Button the single
source of icon-button styling (4px radius, new icon-titlebar variant, titlebar
buttons rendered polymorphically via asChild, Codicons throughout), put the
file-tree refresh action first, and .trim() pasted composer text.
* fix(desktop): render approval/sudo/secret prompts so tools stop silently timing out
The desktop app's gateway event handler (use-message-stream.ts) handled
clarify.request but had no case for approval.request, sudo.request, or
secret.request. When a tool needed approval, the gateway emitted
approval.request and blocked the agent thread in _await_gateway_decision()
for up to 5 min (approvals.gateway_timeout); the desktop dropped the unknown
event, never showed a dialog, then the agent returned BLOCKED. No prompt,
just a stall then a block.
The Ink TUI already handles all three (createGatewayEventHandler.ts); this
brings the Electron app to parity.
- store/prompts.ts: approval/sudo/secret atoms (+ request-id-guarded clears)
- components/prompt-overlays.tsx: Radix dialogs; close/Esc maps to refusal so
silence is never mistaken for consent (parity with TUI Esc->deny)
- use-message-stream.ts: wire the three *.request cases; clearAllPrompts on
message.complete so an overlay can't outlive its turn
- chat-messages.ts: GatewayEventPayload gains command/description/env_var/prompt
- mount PromptOverlays in the chat shell
* feat(desktop): inline tool-call approval bar (Cursor-style "Run")
Render dangerous-command / execute_code approval inline on the pending
tool row instead of as a modal. Binding is positional: the desktop
tool.start payload carries no structured args, but approval.request only
fires from the terminal/execute_code guards and the agent blocks on one
approval at a time, so the single pending row of those tools is the one
that raised it. Command/description text comes from $approvalRequest.
Drops ApprovalDialog from PromptOverlays (sudo/secret stay modal).
* style(desktop): make inline approval bar match Cursor's command card
Drop the amber alert styling for a neutral elevated card: command on a
terminal-prefixed row up top, a divided footer with the muted description
on the left and right-aligned controls — a ghost "Reject" (Esc) plus a
split primary "Run" (⌘⏎) whose chevron opens "Allow this session" /
"Always allow" / "Reject". Wire ⌘/Ctrl+Enter → Run and Esc → Reject to
match Cursor's accept/skip bindings, guarded against double-send via the
$approvalRequest atom.
* style(desktop): shrink inline approval to a tiny Cursor-style button strip
The running tool row already shows the command, so drop the whole card +
command echo + description band. What's left is a compact strip under the
row: a small split "Run ⌘⏎" button (chevron → Allow this session / Always
allow / Reject) and a ghost "Reject Esc", indented to sit under the row's
title text.
* style(desktop): drop the loud blue Run button for a quiet outlined control
Swap the primary (blue) Run for a subtle outlined split control — neutral
border, transparent fill, hover-accent — so the approval strip reads as
quiet inline affordance rather than a big CTA. Reject stays ghost.
* style(desktop): make Run a soft primary badge
Tint the Run split control with the primary color as a badge (bg-primary/10,
primary text, primary/25 border, rounded-md, hover primary/15) instead of a
solid CTA or a neutral outline.
* style(desktop): slim the approval chevron and space out Reject
The chevron button had ballooned because dropping the size prop fell back
to the big default size (h-9 + has-svg px-3). Pin size=xs everywhere and
give the chevron a tight w-5/px-0. Bump the gap between the Run badge and
Reject (gap-2.5) and loosen Reject's internal spacing.
* feat(desktop): confirm before "Always allow" persists an approval
"Always allow" writes the matched pattern to ~/.hermes/config.yaml and
suppresses the prompt in every future session — too consequential to fire
straight from a menu click. Route it through a confirm dialog that names
the pattern + command and the file it touches. The dialog owns the
keyboard while open so Esc closes it instead of denying the approval.
* fix(gateway): make sudo + secret prompts actually fire in the desktop
Tek's PR added the sudo/secret overlays and callback wiring, but neither
reached the live path:
- Sudo: the sudo password callback is thread-local (terminal_tool
_callback_tls), and _wire_callbacks runs on the agent-build thread, not
the turn thread that executes tools. At command time the callback was
missing, so terminal sudo fell through to /dev/tty and hung the headless
gateway. Re-wire callbacks at the top of the prompt-submit turn thread.
- Secret: skills_tool short-circuited to the "secret entry unsupported"
hint for any gateway surface, before invoking the callback. Interactive
surfaces (desktop/TUI) register a secret-capture callback that routes to
the secret.request overlay; only short-circuit when no callback exists,
so messaging still gets the hint but the desktop prompts.
* docs(desktop): drop Cursor references from approval comments
* docs(desktop): drop Cursor reference from prompt-overlays comment
* fix(skills): gate in-band secret capture on HERMES_INTERACTIVE, not callback presence
The desktop/sudo PR switched the gateway secret-capture short-circuit from
"any gateway surface" to "gateway surface with no callback registered". That
made a messaging gateway (telegram/discord/...) attempt interactive in-band
secret capture whenever any callback happened to be registered, instead of
returning the safe "setup unsupported" hint — and broke
test_gateway_still_loads_skill_but_returns_setup_guidance.
Discriminate on HERMES_INTERACTIVE instead: the desktop app / TUI set it in
_enable_gateway_prompts (alongside registering the secret.request callback),
while messaging platforms never do. This is the same flag tools/approval.py
uses to tell an interactive surface from a messaging one, so messaging keeps
the hint and desktop/TUI still prompt.
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Co-authored-by: Brooklyn Nicholson <brooklyn.bb.nicholson@gmail.com>
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