When the provider rejects a request (e.g. invalid model slug like
'--provider nous --model kimi-k2.6' where the valid slug is
'moonshotai/kimi-k2.6'), run_conversation() returns
{failed: True, error: <detail>, final_response: None}. The TUI gateway
and one-shot CLI mode both dropped the error on the floor and emitted
an empty turn, so the user saw a blank response with no indication
that anything went wrong.
Mirror the interactive CLI's existing pattern (cli.py:9832): when
final_response is empty AND (failed|partial) is set AND error is
populated, surface 'Error: <detail>' as the visible text. Leaves
the None-with-no-error path and the '(empty)' sentinel path
untouched — an empty successful turn still renders empty, and
existing sentinel handlers keep owning their lane.
Reported by @counterposition in PR #20873; taking a minimal fix
rather than the broader structured-failure refactor proposed there.
Per repo policy, ~/.hermes/.env is for secrets only. Guild IDs are
behavioral configuration, not secrets. Replacing the
DISCORD_DM_ROLE_AUTH_GUILD env var from the original fix with
discord.dm_role_auth_guild in config.yaml.
- New module-level _read_dm_role_auth_guild() helper reads
hermes_cli.config.read_raw_config()['discord']['dm_role_auth_guild'].
Fails closed on any parse error (safe default = DM role-auth off).
- DEFAULT_CONFIG['discord'] gains dm_role_auth_guild: '' with a comment
documenting the opt-in.
- Tests patch hermes_cli.config.read_raw_config directly (via the
_set_dm_role_auth_guild helper) instead of setenv/delenv. 12 tests
in test_discord_roles_dm_scope pass; no env var involvement.
- Docstring + module docstring + comments updated to reference
discord.dm_role_auth_guild.
- E2E verified with real imports across 6 scenarios: unset, int,
string, garbage, zero, and (crucially) env-var-only-no-config all
return None except the valid int/string cases. Env var has zero
effect — policy compliance confirmed.
Sibling-site fix: _evaluate_slash_authorization was the fourth
_is_allowed_user caller and didn't pass guild/is_dm through, so slash
interactions would take the DM branch regardless of whether they came
from a guild channel. Now reads interaction.guild + in_dm and forwards.
Also updates test_discord_slash_auth fixture (_make_interaction) so
the SimpleNamespace guild mock has a get_member(uid)->None method —
required by the new guild-scoped fallback path in _is_allowed_user.
Tests exercising positive role paths still work via user.roles.
Three new regression tests in test_discord_roles_dm_scope:
- Slash DM + role in mutual public guild → rejected
- Slash in guild B + role only in guild A → rejected
- Slash in guild B + role in guild B → allowed (positive control)
368 Discord tests pass. test_discord_free_channel_skips_auto_thread
also fails on clean main (pre-existing, unrelated to this fix).
Lists the skills sitting in ~/.hermes/skills/.archive/ so users have
something to pass to `hermes curator restore`. `curator status` already
shows counts; this fills the name-discovery gap.
Archive layout is flat (`archive_skill` writes to `.archive/<skill>/`),
so the directory name IS the skill name — no frontmatter parsing
needed. Timestamped collision directories (`<skill>-<ts>`) are listed
literally; user can still pass them to `restore`.
Reshape of @EvilDrag0n's #20651, simplified: drop the frontmatter
rglob + preamble/trailer output + duplicate subcommand registration.
Co-authored-by: EvilDrag0n <lxl694522264@gmail.com>
Authenticated remote OpenViking servers derive tenancy from the Bearer
key, but the client was always sending X-OpenViking-Account and
X-OpenViking-User — defaulted to the literal string "default" — which
overrode the key-derived tenant and broke auth.
- _headers(): skip X-OpenViking-Account/-User when blank or "default"
(treats the legacy default value as unset, so existing installs don't
need to touch their .env)
- _headers(): send Authorization: Bearer <key> alongside X-API-Key for
standard HTTP auth compatibility
- health(): include auth headers so /health works against servers that
require authentication
Tests cover bearer emission, legacy "default" suppression, empty
suppression, real tenant passthrough, and authenticated health checks.
Fixes the same user report as #20695 (from @ZaynJarvis); that PR could
not be merged because its branch was stale against main and would have
reverted recent OpenViking work (#15696, local resource uploads, summary
URI normalization, fs-stat pre-check).
When the user created a new board via the dashboard with "switch" checked,
the server-side `current` file was flipped to the new board. Clicking the
original board's tab then showed no cards even though the count badge read
correctly — the REST fetch dropped `?board=` when the selection was
"default" and the backend fell through to `current` (= the new board),
returning a different board's data than the tab the user clicked.
Fix:
- `withBoard()` always appends `?board=<slug>` when a board is selected,
including "default". The dashboard's tab selection becomes authoritative
instead of silently deferring to the server's `current` file.
- `writeSelectedBoard()` persists every selection (including "default")
to localStorage. Previously "default" was stripped, which meant the
next page load had nothing to pin to and fell through to `current`.
- Same change applied to the WebSocket query builder in `openWs()`.
Contract verified live:
current_board = "proj2"
GET /board → proj2's tasks (bug shape: falls through to current)
GET /board?board=default → default's tasks (fix: explicit pin wins)
GET /board?board=proj2 → proj2's tasks
Closes#20879.
Cloud metadata endpoints (169.254.169.254 etc.) are now always blocked
by browser_navigate regardless of hybrid routing, allow_private_urls,
or backend.
Bug: commit 42c076d3 (#16136) added hybrid routing that flips
auto_local_this_nav=True for private URLs and short-circuits
_is_safe_url(). IMDS endpoints are technically private (169.254/16
link-local), so the sidecar happily routed them to a local Chromium,
and the agent could read IAM credentials via browser_snapshot. On
EC2/GCP/Azure this is a full SSRF-to-credential-theft.
Fix: new is_always_blocked_url() in url_safety.py — a narrow floor
that checks _BLOCKED_HOSTNAMES, _ALWAYS_BLOCKED_IPS,
_ALWAYS_BLOCKED_NETWORKS only. Applied as an independent gate in
browser_navigate's pre-nav and post-redirect checks, BEFORE
auto_local_this_nav gets a chance to short-circuit. Ordinary private
URLs (localhost, 192.168.x, 10.x, .local, CGNAT) still route to the
local sidecar as the #16136 feature intends.
Secondary fix (reporter's finding): _url_is_private() now explicitly
checks 172.16.0.0/12. ipaddress.is_private only covers that range on
Python ≥3.11 (bpo-40791), so on 3.10 runtimes those URLs were routed
to cloud instead of the local sidecar. No security impact — just a
correctness fix for the hybrid-routing feature.
Closes#16234.
The MCP SDK discovers OAuth server metadata (token_endpoint, etc.) on
demand and keeps it in memory only. Without disk persistence, a restart
with valid cached refresh tokens forces the SDK to fall back to the
guessed '{server_url}/token' path — which returns 404 on most real
providers (Notion, Atlassian, GitHub remote MCP, etc.) and triggers a
full browser re-authorization even though the refresh token is fine.
Add a .meta.json file next to the existing tokens/client_info files:
HERMES_HOME/mcp-tokens/<server>.json -- tokens (existing)
HERMES_HOME/mcp-tokens/<server>.client.json -- client info (existing)
HERMES_HOME/mcp-tokens/<server>.meta.json -- oauth metadata (new)
Changes:
- HermesTokenStorage.save_oauth_metadata / load_oauth_metadata / _meta_path
— disk layer for the discovered OAuthMetadata.
- HermesTokenStorage.remove() now also clears .meta.json so
'hermes mcp remove <name>' and the manager's remove() path clean up fully.
- HermesMCPOAuthProvider._initialize cold-restores from disk before the
existing pre-flight discovery runs. If disk has metadata we skip the
discovery HTTP round-trips entirely.
- HermesMCPOAuthProvider._prefetch_oauth_metadata now persists ASM as
soon as it's discovered, so even the first pre-flight run seeds disk.
- HermesMCPOAuthProvider._persist_oauth_metadata_if_changed() is called
at the end of async_auth_flow so metadata discovered via the SDK's
lazy 401-branch (not pre-flight) is also saved for next time.
Tests cover the storage roundtrip (save/load/missing/corrupt/remove) and
the manager provider path (cold-load restore, skip-when-in-memory,
persist-on-discover, noop-when-unchanged, end-to-end async_auth_flow).
Co-authored-by: nocturnum91 <50326054+nocturnum91@users.noreply.github.com>
Drives stream_events directly and cancels the task while it is sleeping
in the poll loop, asserting the coroutine returns cleanly instead of
letting CancelledError bubble. Regression coverage for the Uvicorn
application traceback on dashboard Ctrl-C fixed by the preceding commit.
Follow-up to the previous commit which flipped 'hermes curator run'
default from async to sync. Updates the curator.md feature page and
cli-commands.md reference to show --background as the opt-in async
flag and note that the default now blocks until the LLM pass finishes.
Parity with the classic CLI status bar (PR #18579). The Python backend
already exposes 'compressions' on SessionUsageResponse; this wires it
through the Ink Usage type and renders 'cmp N' next to the duration
segment of StatusRule.
- types.ts Usage: add optional compressions field
- appChrome.tsx StatusRule: render 'cmp N' when > 0, color-tiered by
pressure (muted <5, warn 5-9, error 10+)
- Plain text 'cmp' token (no emoji) matches PR #18579's original author
rationale and avoids Ink layout drift from VS16 emoji width
When a kanban worker subprocess exits rc=0 but its task is still in
status='running', the agent almost certainly answered the task
conversationally without calling kanban_complete or kanban_block. The
dispatcher used to classify this as a generic crash and respawn, which
loops forever on small local models (gemma4-e2b q4 etc.) that keep
returning clean but unproductive output.
Dispatcher changes:
- The waitpid reap loop at the top of dispatch_once now records each
reaped child's raw exit status in a bounded module registry
(_recent_worker_exits, TTL 600s, size cap 4096).
- _classify_worker_exit distinguishes clean_exit / nonzero_exit /
signaled / unknown using os.WIFEXITED / WIFSIGNALED.
- detect_crashed_workers consults the classification when a worker
is found dead. clean_exit → protocol_violation event + immediate
circuit-breaker trip (failure_limit=1). Everything else keeps the
existing crashed-event + counter behavior.
- DispatchResult.auto_blocked now includes protocol-violation trips.
Gateway fix (Bug A in #20894):
- gateway.run._notify_active_sessions_of_shutdown snapshots
self.adapters with list(...) before iterating. adapter.send() can
hit a fatal-error path that pops the adapter from the dict, which
was raising 'RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration'
during shutdown.
Regression tests:
- test_detect_crashed_workers_protocol_violation_auto_blocks verifies
rc=0 + still-running → status=blocked on first occurrence with
protocol_violation + gave_up events and NO crashed event.
- test_detect_crashed_workers_nonzero_exit_uses_default_limit verifies
non-zero exits keep the existing 2-strike behavior.
Closes#20894.
Follow-up on top of Zyproth's session-source cache: swap the unbounded
dict for an OrderedDict with a 512-entry LRU cap so long-running
gateways can't accumulate stale entries for dead sessions forever.
- self._session_sources is now an OrderedDict
- _cache_session_source() move_to_end + popitem(last=False) above cap
- _get_cached_session_source() move_to_end on hit (LRU read bump)
- restart_test_helpers.py wires OrderedDict + _session_sources_max
`_save_auth_store`, `_save_qwen_cli_tokens`, and `_write_shared_nous_state`
all created the temp file via `Path.open('w')` / `Path.write_text` and only
tightened permissions to 0o600 afterward. Between create and chmod the file
existed at the process umask (commonly 0o644 = world-readable on multi-user
hosts), briefly exposing OAuth access/refresh tokens for Nous, Codex,
Copilot, Claude, Qwen, Gemini, and every other native OAuth provider that
flows through auth.json.
Switch all three to `os.open(O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0o600)` + `os.fdopen`
+ `fsync` so the file is atomic at 0o600 on creation. Tighten each parent
directory (`~/.hermes/`, Qwen auth dir, Nous shared auth dir) to 0o700 so
siblings can't traverse to the creds. `_save_auth_store` also gains a
per-process random temp suffix to match `agent/google_oauth.py` (#19673)
and `tools/mcp_oauth.py` (#21148).
Adds `tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_toctou_file_modes.py` asserting final
file mode 0o600 and parent dir mode 0o700 across all three writers, plus
an explicit `os.open(flags, mode)` check on the main auth.json writer
that would fail if anyone reintroduces the `Path.open('w')` pattern.
POSIX-only (mode bits skipped on Windows).
Flip the default for HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS from off to on so the redactor
already wired into send_message_tool, logs, and tool output actually runs
on a fresh install.
- agent/redact.py: env-var default "" → "true"
- hermes_cli/config.py: DEFAULT_CONFIG security.redact_secrets True;
two config-template comments rewritten
- gateway/run.py + cli.py: startup log / banner warning when the user
has explicitly opted out, so the downgrade is visible in agent.log
and at CLI banner time
- docs/reference/environment-variables.md: description reconciled
- tests: flipped the default-pin, restructured the force=True
regression test to explicit-false instead of unset
Users who need raw credential values (redactor development) can still
opt out via security.redact_secrets: false in config.yaml or
HERMES_REDACT_SECRETS=false in .env.
Closes#17691.
Addresses #20785 (short-term output-pipeline recommendation).
Widen PR #20314's fix to the other timeout-polling sites in the codebase
that share the same wall-clock-jump bug class. All of these measure elapsed
timeout duration, not civil time, so they belong on time.monotonic().
- hermes_cli/auth.py: auth-store file-lock timeout, Spotify OAuth callback
wait, Nous portal device-auth token poll.
- hermes_cli/copilot_auth.py: Copilot OAuth device-flow token poll.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: gateway systemd restart wait.
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: dashboard Codex device-auth user_code wait,
dashboard Nous device-auth token poll. (sess["expires_at"] stays on
time.time() — it's a persisted absolute timestamp, not a local
deadline-polling variable.)
- agent/copilot_acp_client.py: Copilot ACP JSON-RPC request timeout.
Extract the shared flock/msvcrt boilerplate from _auth_store_lock and
_nous_shared_store_lock into a single _file_lock(lock_path, holder,
timeout, message) helper. Each caller keeps its own threading.local
holder so reentrancy state stays per-lock.
Also document the lock-ordering invariant on both wrappers:
_auth_store_lock is OUTER, _nous_shared_store_lock is INNER for all
runtime refresh paths. The one exception is _try_import_shared_nous_state,
which holds the shared lock alone across the full HTTP refresh+mint
cycle to prevent concurrent sibling imports from racing on the single-
use shared refresh token; that helper must not be called with the auth
lock already held.
Follow-up on top of @kyan12's PR #20888 — same feature, cleaner shape,
wider coverage.
Changes:
- Drop the synthetic '[System note: ...]' in the internal MessageEvent.
The existing _is_resume_pending branch in _handle_message_with_agent
(run.py ~L13738) already injects a reason-aware recovery system note
on the next turn. With kyan's text in place the model saw two stacked
system notes. Now the event text is empty and the existing injection
path owns the wording.
- Drop SessionStore.list_resume_pending() as a new public method. The
filter is 8 lines inline in _schedule_resume_pending_sessions() —
one caller, no other pluggability need.
- Add 'restart_interrupted' to the auto-resume reason set. That's the
reason SessionStore.suspend_recently_active() stamps on sessions
recovered from a crash/OOM/SIGKILL (no .clean_shutdown marker).
Previously those sessions had to wait for a real user message to
auto-resume; now they continue automatically at startup like
drain-timeout interruptions do.
- Reasons live in a _AUTO_RESUME_REASONS frozenset at class scope so
future reasons (e.g. 'manual_resume_request') can be opted in with
one line.
Test coverage added:
- drain-timeout + crash-recovery both scheduled
- stale entries skipped (outside freshness window)
- suspended entries skipped (suspended > resume_pending)
- originless entries skipped (no routing target)
- disallowed reasons skipped (graceful forward-compat)
E2E verified end-to-end with a real on-disk SessionStore: 2 eligible
sessions scheduled, 2 ineligible skipped, empty-text internal events
delivered to the adapter.
Co-authored-by: Kevin Yan <kevyan1998@gmail.com>
When display.cleanup_progress (or display.platforms.<plat>.cleanup_progress)
is true, the gateway deletes tool-progress bubbles, long-running '⏳ Still
working...' notices, and status-callback messages after the final response
is delivered successfully. Currently effective on adapters that implement
delete_message (Telegram); silently no-ops elsewhere. Off by default.
Failed runs skip cleanup so bubbles stay as breadcrumbs.
Minimal plumbing: base.py's existing post_delivery_callback slot now chains
new registrations onto any existing callback (with per-callback exception
isolation) rather than clobbering. Stale-generation registrations are
rejected so they can't step on a fresher run's callbacks. This lets the
cleanup callback coexist with the background-review release hook already
registered on the same slot.
Co-authored-by: mrcharlesiv <Mrcharlesiv@gmail.com>
Adds 7 optional skills under optional-skills/finance/ adapted from
anthropics/financial-services (Apache-2.0):
excel-author — openpyxl conventions: blue/black/green cells,
formulas over hardcodes, named ranges, balance
checks, sensitivity tables. Ships recalc.py.
pptx-author — python-pptx for model-backed decks (pitch,
IC memo, earnings note) that bind every number
to a source workbook cell.
dcf-model — institutional DCF (49KB skill): projections,
WACC, terminal value, Bear/Base/Bull scenarios,
5x5 sensitivity tables. Ships validate_dcf.py.
comps-analysis — comparable company analysis: operating metrics,
multiples, statistical benchmarking.
lbo-model — leveraged buyout: S&U, debt schedule, cash
sweep, exit multiple, IRR/MOIC sensitivity.
3-statement-model — fully-integrated IS/BS/CF with balance-check
plugs. Ships references/ for formatting,
formulas, SEC filings.
merger-model — accretion/dilution analysis for M&A.
All seven are optional (not active by default). Users install via
'hermes skills install official/finance/<skill>'.
Hermesification:
- Stripped every Office JS / Office Add-in / mcp__office__*
branch — skills assume headless openpyxl only.
- Replaced Cowork MCP data-source instructions with 'MCP first (via
native-mcp), fall back to web_search/web_extract against SEC EDGAR
and user-provided data'.
- Swapped Claude tool references (Bash, Read, Write, Edit, mcp__*)
for Hermes-native equivalents and Python library calls.
- Canonical Hermes frontmatter (name/description/version/author/
license/metadata.hermes.{tags,related_skills}).
- Descriptions tightened to 187-238 chars, trigger-first.
- Attribution preserved: author field credits 'Anthropic (adapted by
Nous Research)', license: Apache-2.0, each SKILL.md links back to
the upstream source directory.
Verification:
- All 7 discovered by OptionalSkillSource with source_id='official'
- Bundle fetch includes support files (scripts, references, troubleshooting)
- related_skills cross-refs all resolve within the bundle
- No Claude product / Cowork / Office JS / /mnt/skills leakage
remains in body text (bounded mentions only in attribution blocks)
Source: https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services (Apache-2.0)
Adds `hermes profile create <name> --no-skills` to create a profile with
zero bundled skills. Writes a `.no-bundled-skills` marker file in the
profile root so `hermes update`'s all-profile skill sync loop also skips
the profile — without the marker, every update would re-seed skills and
the user would have to delete them again.
Use case (from @hiut1u): orchestrator profiles and narrow-task profiles
don't need 100+ bundled skills polluting their system prompt.
- create_profile() gains a `no_skills` param, mutually exclusive with
`--clone` / `--clone-all` (cloning explicitly copies skills).
- seed_profile_skills() no-ops on opted-out profiles and returns
`{skipped_opt_out: True}` so callers can report cleanly.
- Web API (POST /api/profiles) accepts `no_skills: bool`.
- Delete `.no-bundled-skills` to opt back in — next `hermes update`
re-seeds normally.
6 new tests in TestNoSkillsOptOut cover marker write, mutual exclusion
with clone, seed_profile_skills opt-out, fresh profile unaffected, and
delete-marker-re-enables-seeding.
Follow-up to #20958. The worker skill section had the same stale
'hermes skills install devops/kanban-worker' command — kanban-worker
is also bundled, so that command fails with 'Could not fetch from any
source.'
Replace with bundled-skill verification + restore pattern, matching
the orchestrator section. Uses <your-worker-profile> placeholder since
assignees vary (researcher, writer, ops, linguist, reviewer, etc.)
rather than a single fixed 'worker' profile.
Two follow-ups on top of helix4u's slash-command sync hardening:
- Only suppress exceptions that are actually Discord 429 rate limits
(discord.RateLimited, HTTPException with status 429, or a clearly
rate-limit-named duck type). Arbitrary failures that happen to expose
a retry_after attribute now re-raise to the outer handler instead of
silently swallowing a cooldown.
- Move the sync-state JSON under $HERMES_HOME/gateway/ so the home root
stops collecting ad-hoc runtime files.
Added a test verifying unrelated exceptions don't get misclassified as
rate limits.
The setup wizard dropped non-root users at a bare shell prompt when
trying to start a system-scope gateway service. Previously
_require_root_for_system_service called sys.exit(1), which the
wizard's `except Exception` guards cannot catch (SystemExit is a
BaseException). Users with a pre-existing /etc/systemd/system unit
(e.g. from an earlier `sudo hermes setup` run) hit this whenever
they re-ran `hermes setup` as a regular user.
- Convert _require_root_for_system_service to raise a typed
SystemScopeRequiresRootError (RuntimeError subclass) instead of
sys.exit(1). The direct CLI path (`hermes gateway install|start|stop|
restart|uninstall` without sudo) still exits 1 cleanly via a new
catch at the top of gateway_command, matching the existing
UserSystemdUnavailableError pattern.
- Add _system_scope_wizard_would_need_root() pre-check and
_print_system_scope_remediation() helper. Both setup wizards
(hermes_cli/setup.py and hermes_cli/gateway.py::gateway_setup) now
detect the dead-end before prompting and print actionable guidance:
either `sudo systemctl start <service>` this time, or uninstall the
system unit and install a per-user one.
- Defense-in-depth: all 5 wizard prompt sites also catch
SystemScopeRequiresRootError and fall back to the remediation
helper if the pre-check is bypassed (race, etc.).
Tests: 12 new tests in TestSystemScopeRequiresRootError,
TestSystemScopeWizardPreCheck, TestSystemScopeRemediationOutput, and
TestGatewayCommandCatchesSystemScopeError covering the exception
contract, pre-check matrix (root vs non-root, system-only vs
user-present vs none vs explicit system=True), remediation output
for each action, and the direct-CLI exit-1 path.
Profile processes (kanban workers, cron subprocesses, delegated subagents)
read the profile's auth.json only. If a provider was authenticated at the
global root but not inside the profile, the profile's credential_pool
comes back empty and the process fails with 'No LLM provider configured'
— even though the credentials are sitting in ~/.hermes/auth.json. #18594
propagated HERMES_HOME correctly, which is what surfaced this: workers
now land in the right profile, and the profile turns out to shadow global
with no fallback.
Semantics (read-only, per-provider shadowing):
* Profile has any entries for provider X → use profile only (global ignored).
* Profile has zero entries for provider X → fall back to global.
* Writes (write_credential_pool, _save_auth_store) still target the profile.
* Classic mode (HERMES_HOME == global root) skips the fallback entirely —
_global_auth_file_path() returns None.
Also mirrors the fallback in get_provider_auth_state so OAuth singletons
(nous, minimax-oauth, openai-codex, spotify) inherit cleanly — the Nous
shared-token store (PR #19712) remains the authoritative path for Nous
OAuth rotation, this just makes the read side consistent with it.
Seat belt: _load_global_auth_store() refuses to read the real user's
~/.hermes/auth.json under PYTEST_CURRENT_TEST even when HERMES_HOME points
to a profile-shaped path. Guard uses $HOME (stable across fixtures) rather
than Path.home() (which fixtures often monkeypatch to a tmp root).
Reported by @SeedsForbidden on Twitter as the credential_pool shadowing
follow-up to the #18594 fix.
Previous version read like internal API docs \u2014 leading with env var tables,
config YAML, and 'precedence' rules before ever explaining the product.
Complete rewrite inverts the structure so readers see value first,
mechanics last.
Structure now:
- Lede: 'One subscription. Every tool built in.' + pitch paragraph
- CTA: subscribe/manage button styled as a real call-to-action
- What's included: emoji-led table with expanded descriptions per tool.
Image gen lists all 9 models by name (FLUX 2 Klein/Pro, Z-Image Turbo,
Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 1.5/2, Ideogram V3, Recraft V4 Pro, Qwen)
- Why it's here: value bullets \u2014 one bill, one signup, one key, same
quality, bring-your-own anytime
- Get started: two-command flow (hermes model \u2192 hermes status)
- Eligibility: paid-tier note with upgrade link
- Mix and match: three realistic usage patterns
- Using individual image models: ID reference table for power users
- --- separator ---
- Configuration reference (demoted): use_gateway flag, disabling,
self-hosted gateway env vars moved below the fold where they belong
- FAQ: streamlined, removed redundant content
Fact-checked against code:
- 9 FAL models confirmed from tools/image_generation_tool.py FAL_MODELS
- Status section output verified against hermes_cli/status.py
- Portal subscription URL preserved
- Self-hosted env vars (TOOL_GATEWAY_DOMAIN etc.) kept accurate
Verified: docusaurus build SUCCESS, page renders, no new broken links.
Same Hermes Teal palette as the default theme, but with baseSize 18px,
lineHeight 1.65, and spacious density so the whole dashboard scales up.
Gives users a one-click bigger-text preset and a copyable reference for
authoring custom YAML themes with their own typography settings.
OpenCode Go and OpenCode Zen are flat-namespace model resellers — their
/v1/models returns bare IDs (deepseek-v4-flash, minimax-m2.7), and the
inference API rejects vendor-prefixed names with HTTP 401 'Model not
supported'. Two bugs fixed:
1. `switch_model` in hermes_cli/model_switch.py was silently switching the
user off opencode-go to native deepseek when they typed
`/model deepseek-v4-flash`. Step d found the model in opencode-go's live
catalog, but step e (detect_provider_for_model) still ran and matched
the bare name against deepseek's static catalog. Fix: track whether
the live catalog resolved it; skip step e when it did.
2. `normalize_model_for_provider` in hermes_cli/model_normalize.py only
stripped the exact `opencode-zen/` prefix, leaving arbitrary vendor
prefixes like `minimax/minimax-m2.7` (commonly copied from aggregator
slugs into fallback_model configs) intact — causing HTTP 401s when
the fallback chain activated. Fix: opencode-go/opencode-zen strip ANY
leading vendor prefix because their APIs are flat-namespace.
Tests: 11 new cases in tests/hermes_cli/test_opencode_go_flat_namespace.py
covering both normalization (prefix stripping, regression guards for
opencode-zen Claude hyphenation and openrouter vendor-prepending) and
switch_model (bare-name resolution on opencode-go's live catalog must
not trigger cross-provider hijack).
Reported by @Ufonik via Discord; Kimi K2.6 always worked because moonshotai
has no overlapping entry in a native provider's static catalog. Deepseek
and minimax failed because their v4/v2.7 names existed in the native
deepseek/minimax catalogs.
Two pluggable surfaces were mentioned in the interfaces map without a
real authoring guide behind them:
1. **Image-gen backends** — only had 'See bundled examples' pointers.
Now a full developer-guide/image-gen-provider-plugin.md (270 lines)
mirroring the memory/context/model provider docs:
- How discovery works, directory structure, plugin.yaml
- ImageGenProvider ABC with every overridable method
(name, display_name, is_available, list_models, default_model,
get_setup_schema, generate)
- Full authoring walkthrough with a working MyBackendImageGenProvider
- Response-format reference (success_response / error_response)
- Handling b64 vs URL output (save_b64_image helper)
- User overrides at ~/.hermes/plugins/image_gen/<name>/
- Testing recipe + pip distribution
- Reference examples (openai, openai-codex, xai)
2. **Skill taps** — features/skills.md mentioned the CLI commands but
never explained the repo contract for publishing a tap. Added
'Publishing a custom skill tap' section under Skills Hub covering:
- Repo layout (skills/<name>/SKILL.md by default)
- Minimal working example
- Non-default path configuration (taps.json)
- Installing individual skills without subscribing
- Trust-level handling
- Full tap management CLI + in-session /skills tap commands
Wired into:
- website/sidebars.ts: image-gen-provider-plugin added to Extending group
- website/docs/user-guide/features/plugins.md: pluggable interfaces
table + 'What plugins can do' table now link to the real guides
instead of 'See bundled examples'
- website/docs/guides/build-a-hermes-plugin.md: top info map and
inline sub-sections updated, 'Full guide:' line added to
image-gen block, tap section mentions publishing
Verified: docusaurus build SUCCESS, new page renders at
/docs/developer-guide/image-gen-provider-plugin, anchor
#publishing-a-custom-skill-tap resolves from plugins.md +
build-a-hermes-plugin.md. Pre-existing zh-Hans broken links unchanged.
* feat(skills/linear): add Documents support + Python helper script
The bundled Linear skill (PR #1230) covered issues, projects, teams, and
workflow states via curl. It had no coverage for Linear's Documents API,
so fetching an RFC/doc from a linear.app URL required hand-writing
GraphQL against an underdocumented schema.
Adds:
- Documents section in SKILL.md explaining slugId extraction from URLs,
the contentState (markdown) vs contentState (ProseMirror) split, and
four canonical curl examples (fetch by slugId, fetch by UUID, list
recent, title-search).
- scripts/linear_api.py — stdlib-only Python CLI wrapping the most
common operations (whoami, list-teams, list/get/search/create/update
issues, add-comment, update-status, list/get/search documents, raw
GraphQL passthrough). Zero deps, reads LINEAR_API_KEY from env.
Auth header quirk (personal key takes bare $LINEAR_API_KEY, no Bearer
prefix) is already documented in the skill.
Found during RFC review: the existing skill's lack of document support
forced falling back to the browser (which hit Linear's login wall).
Also fixes a schema gotcha — the Document field is `contentState`, not
`contentData` (which returns 400).
Tested end-to-end against the production API:
python3 linear_api.py whoami
python3 linear_api.py get-document 38359beef67c
Both return expected payloads.
* fix(skills/linear): point LINEAR_API_KEY setup to the correct page
The org-level Settings > API page (/settings/api) only shows OAuth apps
and workspace-member keys. Personal API keys live under Account,
Security, access (/settings/account/security). Update both the setup
link in config.py (shown during hermes setup) and the setup step in
SKILL.md so users land on the page that can create a personal key.
* docs(providers): add model-provider-plugin authoring guide + fix stale refs
New docs:
- website/docs/developer-guide/model-provider-plugin.md — full authoring
guide (directory layout, minimal example, ProviderProfile fields,
overridable hooks, user overrides, api_mode selection, auth types,
testing, pip distribution)
- Wired into website/sidebars.ts under 'Extending'
- Cross-references added in:
- guides/build-a-hermes-plugin.md (tip block)
- developer-guide/adding-providers.md
- developer-guide/provider-runtime.md
User guide:
- user-guide/features/plugins.md: Plugin types table grows from 3 to 4
with 'Model providers' row
Stale comment cleanup (providers/*.py → plugins/model-providers/<name>/):
- hermes_cli/main.py:_is_profile_api_key_provider docstring
- hermes_cli/doctor.py:_build_apikey_providers_list docstring
- hermes_cli/auth.py: PROVIDER_REGISTRY + alias auto-extension comments
- hermes_cli/models.py: CANONICAL_PROVIDERS auto-extension comment
AGENTS.md:
- Project-structure tree: added plugins/model-providers/ row
- New section: 'Model-provider plugins' explaining discovery, override
semantics, PluginManager integration, kind auto-coerce heuristic
Verified: docusaurus build succeeds, new page renders, all 3 cross-links
resolve. 347/347 targeted tests pass (tests/providers/,
tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_runtime_provider_resolution.py,
tests/run_agent/test_provider_parity.py).
* docs(plugins): add 'pluggable interfaces at a glance' maps to plugins.md + build-a-hermes-plugin
Devs landing on either the user-guide plugin page or the build-a-plugin
guide now get an upfront table of every distinct pluggable surface with
a link to the right authoring doc. Previously they'd have to read the
full general-plugin guide to discover that model providers / platforms
/ memory / context engines are separate systems.
user-guide/features/plugins.md:
- New 'Pluggable interfaces — where to go for each' section below the
existing 4-kinds table
- 10 rows covering every register_* surface (tool, hook, slash command,
CLI subcommand, skill, model provider, platform, memory, context
engine, image-gen)
- Explicit note: TTS/STT are NOT plugin-extensible yet — documented
with a pointer to the current config.yaml 'command providers' pattern
and a note that register_tts_provider()/register_stt_provider() may
come later
guides/build-a-hermes-plugin.md:
- New :::info 'Not sure which guide you need?' map at the top so devs
see all pluggable interfaces before investing in this 737-line
general-plugin walkthrough
- Existing bottom :::tip expanded to include platform adapters alongside
model/memory/context plugins
Verified:
- All 8 cross-doc links in the new plugins.md table resolve in a
docusaurus build (SUCCESS, no new broken links)
- TTS link corrected (features/voice → features/tts; latter exists)
- Pre-existing broken links/anchors (cron-script-only, llms.txt,
adding-platform-adapters#step-by-step-checklist) are unchanged
* docs(plugins): correct TTS/STT pluggability \u2014 they ARE plugins (command-providers)
Previous commit incorrectly said TTS/STT 'aren't plugin-extensible'. They
are, via the config-driven command-provider pattern \u2014 any CLI that reads
text and writes audio (or vice versa for STT) is automatically a plugin
with zero Python. The tts.md docs cover this extensively and I missed it.
plugins.md:
- TTS row: 'Config-driven (not a Python plugin)', points at
tts.md#custom-command-providers
- STT row: points at tts.md#voice-message-transcription-stt (STT docs
live in tts.md despite the filename)
- Expanded note: TTS/STT use config-driven shell-command templates as
their plugin surface (full tts.providers.<name> registry for TTS;
HERMES_LOCAL_STT_COMMAND escape hatch for STT)
- Any CLI that reads/writes files is automatically a plugin \u2014 no Python
register_* API needed
- Future register_tts_provider()/register_stt_provider() hooks mentioned
as nice-to-have for SDK/streaming cases, not as the primary story
build-a-hermes-plugin.md:
- Same map update: TTS/STT rows explicit, footer note corrected
Verified:
- tts.md anchors (custom-command-providers, voice-message-transcription-stt)
exist and resolve in docusaurus build (SUCCESS, no new broken links)
* docs(plugins): expand pluggable interfaces table with MCP / event hooks / shell hooks / skill taps
Broadened the scope beyond Python register_* hooks. Hermes has MULTIPLE
plugin-style extension surfaces; they're now all in one table instead of
being scattered across feature docs.
Added rows for:
- **MCP servers** — config.yaml mcp_servers.<name> auto-registers external
tools from any MCP server. Huge extensibility surface, previously not
linked from the plugin map.
- **Gateway event hooks** — drop HOOK.yaml + handler.py into
~/.hermes/hooks/<name>/ to fire on gateway:startup, session:*, agent:*,
command:* events. Separate from Python plugin hooks.
- **Shell hooks** — hooks: block in config.yaml runs shell commands on
events (notifications, auditing, etc.).
- **Skill sources (taps)** — hermes skills tap add <repo> to pull in new
skill registries beyond the built-in sources.
Both docs updated:
- user-guide/features/plugins.md: table column renamed to 'How' (mixes
Python API + config-driven + drop-in-dir surfaces accurately)
- guides/build-a-hermes-plugin.md: :::info map at top mirrors the new
surfaces with a forward-link to the consolidated table
Note block rewritten: instead of singling out TTS/STT as the 'different
style' exception, now honestly describes that Hermes deliberately
supports three plugin styles — Python APIs, config-driven commands, and
drop-in manifest directories — and devs should pick the one that fits
their integration.
Not included (considered and rejected):
- Transport layer (register_transport) — internal, not user-facing
- Tool-call parsers — internal, VLLM phase-2 thing
- Cloud browser providers — hardcoded registry, not drop-in yet
- Terminal backends — hardcoded if/elif, not drop-in yet
- Skill sources (the ABC) — hardcoded list, only taps are user-extensible
Verified:
- All 5 new anchors resolve (gateway-event-hooks, shell-hooks, skills-hub,
custom-command-providers, voice-message-transcription-stt)
- Docusaurus build SUCCESS, zero new broken links
- Same 3 pre-existing broken links on main (cron-script-only, llms.txt,
adding-platform-adapters#step-by-step-checklist)
* docs(plugins): cover every pluggable surface in both the overview and how-to
Both plugins.md and build-a-hermes-plugin.md now cover every extension
surface end-to-end \u2014 general plugin APIs, specialized plugin types,
config-driven surfaces \u2014 with concrete authoring patterns for each.
plugins.md:
- 'What plugins can do' table grows from 9 rows (general ctx.register_*
only) to 14 rows covering register_platform, register_image_gen_provider,
register_context_engine, MemoryProvider subclass, register_provider
(model). Each row links to its full authoring guide.
- New 'Plugin sub-categories' section under Plugin Discovery explains
how plugins/platforms/, plugins/image_gen/, plugins/memory/,
plugins/context_engine/, plugins/model-providers/ are routed to
different loaders \u2014 PluginManager vs the per-category own-loader
systems.
- Explicit mention of user-override semantics at
~/.hermes/plugins/model-providers/ and ~/.hermes/plugins/memory/.
build-a-hermes-plugin.md:
- New '## Specialized plugin types' section (5 sub-sections):
- Model provider plugins \u2014 ProviderProfile + plugin.yaml example,
auto-wiring summary, link to full guide
- Platform plugins \u2014 BasePlatformAdapter + register_platform() skeleton
- Memory provider plugins \u2014 MemoryProvider subclass example
- Context engine plugins \u2014 ContextEngine subclass example
- Image-generation backends \u2014 ImageGenProvider + kind: backend example
- New '## Non-Python extension surfaces' section (5 sub-sections):
- MCP servers \u2014 config.yaml mcp_servers.<name> example
- Gateway event hooks \u2014 HOOK.yaml + handler.py example
- Shell hooks \u2014 hooks: block in config.yaml example
- Skill sources (taps) \u2014 hermes skills tap add example
- TTS / STT command templates \u2014 tts.providers.<name> with type: command
- Distribute via pip / NixOS promoted from ### to ## (they were orphaned
after the reorganization)
Each specialized / non-Python section has a concrete, copy-pasteable
example plus a 'Full guide:' link to the authoritative doc. Devs arriving
at the build-a-hermes-plugin guide now see every extension surface at
their disposal, not just the general tool/hook/slash-command surface.
Verified:
- Docusaurus build SUCCESS, zero new broken links
- All new cross-links (developer-guide/model-provider-plugin,
adding-platform-adapters, memory-provider-plugin, context-engine-plugin,
user-guide/features/mcp, skills#skills-hub, hooks#gateway-event-hooks,
hooks#shell-hooks, tts#custom-command-providers,
tts#voice-message-transcription-stt) resolve
- Same 3 pre-existing broken links on main (cron-script-only, llms.txt,
adding-platform-adapters#step-by-step-checklist)
* docs(plugins): fix opt-in inconsistency — not every plugin is gated
The 'Every plugin is disabled by default' statement was wrong. Several
plugin categories intentionally bypass plugins.enabled:
- Bundled platform plugins (IRC, Teams) auto-load so shipped gateway
channels are available out of the box. Activation per channel is via
gateway.platforms.<name>.enabled.
- Bundled backends (plugins/image_gen/*) auto-load so the default
backend 'just works'. Selection via <category>.provider config.
- Memory providers are all discovered; one is active via memory.provider.
- Context engines are all discovered; one is active via context.engine.
- Model providers: all 33 discovered at first get_provider_profile();
user picks via --provider / config.
The plugins.enabled allow-list specifically gates:
- Standalone plugins (general tools/hooks/slash commands)
- User-installed backends
- User-installed platforms (third-party gateway adapters)
- Pip entry-point backends
Which matches the actual code in hermes_cli/plugins.py:737 where the
bundled+backend/platform check bypasses the allow-list.
Rewrote '## Plugins are opt-in' to:
- Retitle to 'Plugins are opt-in (with a few exceptions)'
- Narrow opening claim to 'General plugins and user-installed backends
are disabled by default'
- Added 'What the allow-list does NOT gate' subsection with a full
table of which bypass the gate and how they're activated instead
- Fixed migration section wording (bundled platform/backend plugins
never needed grandfathering)
Verified: docusaurus build SUCCESS, zero new broken links.
Replaces the 22-line stub with a ~320-line guide covering the parts of the
Windows/WSL2 split that specifically affect Hermes users:
- Why WSL2 (and not native Windows)
- Install: distro choice, WSL1→2, systemd via /etc/wsl.conf
- Filesystem boundary: /mnt/c vs \\wsl$, perf/perms/watchers/case,
wslpath/wslview, CRLF + git core.autocrlf, clone-where guidance
- Networking in both directions:
- WSL → Windows services: links to the canonical WSL2 Networking section
in integrations/providers.md (mirrored mode, NAT + host IP, bind addr,
firewall) instead of duplicating
- Windows/LAN → Hermes in WSL: mirrored vs NAT, netsh portproxy one-liner,
firewall rule, webhook tunneling pointer
- Long-running services: systemd gateway + Task Scheduler wsl.exe --exec
'sleep infinity' to keep the VM alive at login
- GPU passthrough: NVIDIA works, AMD/Intel out of matrix
- Common pitfalls: connection refused, /mnt/c slowness, CRLF ^M,
UNC warnings, post-sleep clock drift, mirrored-mode DNS with VPN,
PATH, Defender scanning, VHDX disk reclaim
All internal links use site-absolute /docs/... form (matches the rest of
user-guide/); all seven link targets verified to exist.
Follow-up to the salvaged fix for /goal ENAMETOOLONG drop — adds
AUTHOR_MAP entry so the release script resolves the commit author to
the correct GitHub user.
Replaces the per-directory shadow-repo design with a single shared shadow
git store at ~/.hermes/checkpoints/store/. Object DB is now deduplicated
across every working directory the agent has ever touched; a dozen
worktrees of the same project cost near-zero in additional disk.
Why
---
Pre-v2 design had three compounding problems that let ~/.hermes/checkpoints/
grow to multi-GB on active machines:
1. Each working directory got its own full shadow git repo — no object
dedup across projects or across worktrees of the same project.
2. _prune() was a documented no-op: max_snapshots only limited the
/rollback listing. Loose objects accumulated forever.
3. Defaults: enabled=True, auto_prune=False — users paid the disk cost
without ever asking for /rollback.
Field report on a single workstation: 847 MB across 47 shadow repos,
mostly redundant clones of the hermes-agent source tree.
Changes
-------
- tools/checkpoint_manager.py: full rewrite. Single bare store, per-project
refs (refs/hermes/<hash>), per-project indexes (store/indexes/<hash>),
per-project metadata (store/projects/<hash>.json with workdir +
created_at + last_touch). On first v2 init, any pre-v2 per-directory
shadow repos are auto-migrated into legacy-<timestamp>/ so the new
store starts clean. _prune() now actually rewrites the per-project ref
to the last max_snapshots commits and runs git gc --prune=now. New
_enforce_size_cap() drops oldest commits round-robin across projects
when the store exceeds max_total_size_mb. _drop_oversize_from_index()
filters any single file larger than max_file_size_mb out of the snapshot.
- hermes_cli/checkpoints.py: new 'hermes checkpoints' CLI
(status / list / prune / clear / clear-legacy) for managing the store
outside a session.
- hermes_cli/config.py: flipped defaults — enabled=False, max_snapshots=20,
auto_prune=True. Added max_total_size_mb=500, max_file_size_mb=10.
Tightened DEFAULT_EXCLUDES (added target/, *.so/*.dylib/*.dll,
*.mp4/*.mov, *.zip/*.tar.gz, .worktrees/, .mypy_cache/, etc.).
- run_agent.py / cli.py / gateway/run.py: thread the new kwargs through
AIAgent and the startup auto_prune hooks.
- Tests rewritten to match v2 storage while keeping backwards-compat
coverage for the pre-v2 prune path (per-directory shadow repos under
base/ are still swept correctly for anyone mid-migration).
- Docs updated: user-guide/checkpoints-and-rollback.md explains the
shared store, new defaults, migration, and the new CLI;
reference/cli-commands.md documents 'hermes checkpoints'.
E2E validated
-------------
- Legacy migration: pre-v2 shadow repos auto-archived into legacy-<ts>/.
- Object dedup: two projects with an identical shared.py blob resolve to
7 total objects in the store (v1 would have stored the blob twice).
- max_snapshots=3 actually enforced: after 6 commits, list shows 3.
- Orphan prune: deleting a project's workdir + 'hermes checkpoints prune
--retention-days 0' removes its ref, index, and metadata; GC reclaims
the objects.
- max_file_size_mb=1 excludes a 2 MB weights.bin while keeping the
tracked source code files.
- hermes checkpoints {status,prune,clear,clear-legacy} all work from the
CLI without an agent running.
Breaking / migration
--------------------
No in-place data migration — legacy per-directory shadow repos are moved
into legacy-<timestamp>/ on first run. Old /rollback history is still
accessible by inspecting the archive with git; run
'hermes checkpoints clear-legacy' to reclaim the space when ready. Users
relying on /rollback must now set checkpoints.enabled=true (or pass
--checkpoints) explicitly.
Port Shop.app's upstream SKILL.md (https://shop.app/SKILL.md) into
optional-skills/productivity/shop-app/ with Hermes-native adaptations:
- Proper Hermes frontmatter (name, description<=60 chars, version,
author, license, prerequisites, metadata.hermes tags + related_skills
+ homepage + upstream)
- Swap Shop.app's bespoke 'message()' tool references for Hermes
conventions: gateway adapters handle platform formatting, so the
skill just writes markdown (no Telegram/WhatsApp/iMessage sections
referencing a tool Hermes doesn't ship)
- Name Hermes tools where relevant: curl via 'terminal', HTML policy
pages via 'web_extract', try-on via 'image_generate'
- Reframe session state as 'hold in your reasoning context for this
conversation only' and forbid writing tokens to .env / disk — matches
Hermes ephemeral-memory discipline
- Drop NO_REPLY convention (Shop-app-runtime specific)
- Trigger-first description so the skill loader picks it up when the
user wants to search products, track orders, returns, or reorder
The verb-padding change dropped the leading space in durationSegment on
the assumption that the verb's trailing pad always supplies the gap. But
the unicode spinner style sets showVerb=false, making verbSegment an
empty string — in that mode the output would become `{frame}· {duration}`
with no separator. Add the space back; harmless when the verb segment
is shown (its trailing pad still provides the gap).
CPython's logging module is not reentrant-safe. `Logger.isEnabledFor`
caches level results in `Logger._cache`; under shutdown races the cache
can be cleared (`Logger._clear_cache`, triggered by logging config changes
from another thread) or mid-mutation when a signal fires, raising
`KeyError: <level_int>` (e.g. `KeyError: 10` for DEBUG) inside the signal
handler.
When that happens, the KeyError escapes before the `raise KeyboardInterrupt()`
on the next line can fire, which bypasses prompt_toolkit's normal interrupt
unwind and surfaces as the EIO cascade originally reported in #13710.
Issue #13710 shipped two defenses (asyncio exception handler + outer
`except (KeyError, OSError)` with EIO suppression) that cover the EIO
unwind path. This patch closes the remaining escape hatch: the
`logger.debug` call at the top of `_signal_handler` itself. Wrap it in a
bare `try/except Exception: pass` so logging can never raise through a
signal handler.
Observed in the wild: debug report on 0.12.0 (commit 8163d371) shows the
exact stack — KeyError: 10 at logging/__init__.py:1742 inside the
signal handler's `logger.debug`, followed by the EIO cascade from
prompt_toolkit's emergency flush.
Tests: adds `TestSignalHandlerLoggingRace` to
`tests/hermes_cli/test_suppress_eio_on_interrupt.py` with 6 new cases:
- normal path still raises KeyboardInterrupt
- KeyError(10) from logger.debug does not escape
- any Exception from logger.debug is swallowed
- agent.interrupt still fires when logger.debug raises
- agent.interrupt raising also does not escape
- BaseException (SystemExit) is NOT swallowed — guard uses `except Exception`
deliberately so real shutdown signals still propagate
Closes#13710 regression.
On Termux/Android aarch64 (and other platforms without prebuilt wheels
for some optional extras), 'pip install -e .[all]' compiles C/Rust
extensions from source. This can run for several minutes with zero
network activity and — with --quiet — zero stdout. Users report
'hermes update hangs at Updating Python dependencies', Ctrl+C it, then
re-run and see 'up to date' (because git pull already succeeded and the
pip step was still working when they interrupted).
Pip's default output is proportional to actual work (one line per
Collecting / Building wheel for X / Installing), so removing --quiet
costs nothing on fast hardware and prevents the false-hang interrupt
loop on slow hardware.
Reported via Discord on Termux/Android. Supersedes #20466 which
misdiagnosed the hang as PYTHONPATH shadowing (install.sh doesn't run
during 'hermes update', and terminal() doesn't inherit PYTHONPATH).
Endpoint validated over 6 conversational turns with tool calls (9 API
calls, 3 tool calls, 0 failures) and an 8-request burst (8/8 ok,
0 rate limits). Latency ~5-10s/call — slower than grok-4.20 but
expected for a reasoning model.
- hermes_cli/models.py: add to OPENROUTER_MODELS and _PROVIDER_MODELS['nous']
- website/static/api/model-catalog.json: regenerated
Endpoint re-tested over 6 conversational turns (9 API calls, 3 tool calls)
and an 8-request burst — no rate limits, no errors, ~2-3s latency. The
historical rate-limit issues that caused its removal are gone.
- hermes_cli/models.py: add to OPENROUTER_MODELS and _PROVIDER_MODELS['nous']
- website/static/api/model-catalog.json: regenerated via build_model_catalog.py
User-defined model aliases (config.yaml model_aliases: and
model.aliases.*) have worked since early versions but were entirely
undocumented. Add a dedicated 'Custom model aliases' section to
slash-commands.md covering both YAML config formats and the
'hermes config set' shell form, mirror a shorter version into the
configuring-models 'Alternative methods' section, and cross-link from
the two /model table rows.
Flagged by @weehowe on Twitter — he wasn't aware the feature existed.
After #19473 landed (enforce_max_runtime reads from task_runs.started_at
rather than tasks.started_at), a regression test added earlier still
only backdated the tasks column. Backdate both so the test is robust
regardless of which column the enforcer reads from.
Salvage follow-up for PR #20344:
- AUTHOR_MAP entry for rob-maron (required by CI)
- 17 parametrized tests covering _is_arcee_trinity_thinking,
_fixed_temperature_for_model Trinity override, and
_compression_threshold_for_model, including sibling-model negatives
(trinity-large-preview, trinity-mini) and the OpenRouter slug form.
The dispatcher's circuit breaker only protected against spawn-side
failures (profile missing, workspace mount error, exec failure).
Workers that successfully spawned but then timed out or crashed
re-queued to ``ready`` with no counter increment, so the next tick
re-spawned them — loops forever until someone noticed. Reported
externally on Twitter (Forbidden Seeds) and confirmed by walking the
kernel: ``enforce_max_runtime`` flipped the task back to ready, emitted
a ``timed_out`` event, and never touched ``spawn_failures``; same for
``detect_crashed_workers``.
Fix: unify the counter across all non-success outcomes.
Schema
------
* ``tasks.spawn_failures`` → ``tasks.consecutive_failures``
* ``tasks.last_spawn_error`` → ``tasks.last_failure_error``
* Migration renames the columns in-place on existing DBs (``ALTER
TABLE RENAME COLUMN`` — SQLite >= 3.25) so historical counter
values are preserved. Row mappers fall through to the legacy names
if both column renames and a migration somehow got out of sync.
Counter lifecycle
-----------------
New helper ``_record_task_failure(conn, task_id, error, *, outcome,
release_claim, end_run, event_payload_extra)`` is the single point
every non-success outcome funnels through:
* ``spawn_failed`` → ``_record_spawn_failure`` (kept as alias)
calls it with ``release_claim=True, end_run=True`` — transitions
running→ready, clears claim, closes run.
* ``timed_out`` → ``enforce_max_runtime`` already does the status
transition + run close + event emission, then calls
``_record_task_failure`` with ``release_claim=False, end_run=False``
just to bump the counter (and trip the breaker if needed).
* ``crashed`` → ``detect_crashed_workers`` same pattern, but the
counter increment runs after the main write_txn closes (SQLite
doesn't nest write transactions).
If the counter hits the breaker threshold (``DEFAULT_FAILURE_LIMIT=5``,
same as before), the task transitions to ``blocked`` with a ``gave_up``
event on top of whatever outcome-specific event was already emitted.
Reset semantics changed: the counter now clears only on successful
``complete_task`` (and operator ``reclaim_task`` — an explicit "I've
looked at this, try again with a fresh budget"). Previously
``_clear_spawn_failures`` ran on every successful spawn, which would
have wiped the counter before a timeout could accumulate past threshold
— exactly the loop this fix prevents.
Diagnostics
-----------
* ``_rule_repeated_spawn_failures`` → ``_rule_repeated_failures``. Now
fires regardless of which outcome is at fault. Classifies the most
recent failure (spawn_failed / timed_out / crashed) from the run
history so the title ("Agent timeout x3", "Agent crash x4", "Agent
spawn x5") and suggested action (``doctor`` for spawn, ``log`` for
timeout/crash) stay outcome-specific without N duplicate rules.
* ``_rule_repeated_crashes`` kept as a narrower early-warning at
threshold 2 (vs 3 for the unified rule), but now suppresses itself
when the unified rule would also fire — avoids double-flagging.
* Diagnostic ``data`` payload now carries
``{consecutive_failures, most_recent_outcome, last_error}`` instead
of spawn-specific keys.
CLI
---
* ``Task.consecutive_failures`` / ``Task.last_failure_error`` are the
public fields now. Existing callers that referenced the old names
get migrated (tests updated in this commit).
* Backward-compat: ``DEFAULT_SPAWN_FAILURE_LIMIT``,
``_clear_spawn_failures``, ``_record_spawn_failure`` stay as aliases.
Tests
-----
* 6 new kernel tests: timeout increments counter, 3 consecutive
timeouts trip the breaker (was the reported gap), crash increments
counter, reclaim clears counter, completion clears counter, spawn
success does NOT clear counter.
* Diagnostic tests: updated ``repeated_spawn_failures`` cases to use
the new kind name and add a timeout-loop test.
* Dashboard API test: spawn_failures column update → consecutive_failures.
389/389 kanban-suite tests pass.
Live verification
-----------------
Seeded 4 tasks in an isolated HERMES_HOME: 3 timeouts, 4 crashes,
2-spawn-failed + 2-timed-out, and a task that had prior failures but
completed successfully. Board correctly shows "!! 3 tasks need
attention" (the successful one has no badge because the counter
reset). Drawer for the timeout-loop task renders "Agent timeout x3"
with most_recent_outcome=timed_out and the "Check logs" suggested
action (not the spawn-flavoured "Verify profile"). The successful
task has zero diagnostics.
Closes the Forbidden-Seeds-reported gap.
Every provider profile is now a self-contained plugin under
plugins/model-providers/<name>/, mirroring the plugins/platforms/
pattern established for IRC and Teams. The ProviderProfile ABC
stays in providers/; the per-provider profile data moves out.
- plugins/model-providers/<name>/__init__.py calls register_provider()
- plugins/model-providers/<name>/plugin.yaml declares kind: model-provider
- providers/__init__.py._discover_providers() lazily scans bundled plugins
then $HERMES_HOME/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ (user override path)
- User plugins with the same name override bundled ones (last-writer-wins
in register_provider)
- Legacy providers/<name>.py layout still supported for back-compat with
out-of-tree editable installs
- Hermes PluginManager: new kind=model-provider; skipped like memory
plugins (providers/ discovery owns them); standalone plugins with
register_provider+ProviderProfile in their __init__.py auto-coerce to
this kind (same heuristic as memory providers)
- skip_names extended to include 'model-providers' so the general
PluginManager doesn't double-scan the category
- 4 new tests in tests/providers/test_plugin_discovery.py covering
bundled discovery, user override, and general-loader isolation
- Docs updated: website/docs/developer-guide/adding-providers.md,
provider-runtime.md, providers/README.md, plugins/model-providers/README.md
No API break: auth.py / config.py / doctor.py / models.py / runtime_provider.py /
model_metadata.py / auxiliary_client.py / chat_completions.py / run_agent.py
all still consume providers via get_provider_profile() / list_providers() —
they just now see plugin-discovered entries instead of pkgutil-iterated ones.
Third parties can now drop a single directory into
~/.hermes/plugins/model-providers/<name>/ to add or override an inference
provider without touching the repo.
* feat(kanban): generic diagnostics engine for task distress signals
Replaces the hallucination-specific ``warnings`` / ``RecoverySection``
surface (shipped in PR #20232) with a reusable diagnostic-rule engine
that covers five distress kinds in v1 and can be extended without
touching UI code. The "something's wrong with this task" signal is
no longer limited to phantom card ids.
Closes the follow-up from #20232 discussion.
New module
----------
``hermes_cli/kanban_diagnostics.py`` — stateless, no-side-effect rule
engine. Each rule is a pure function of
``(task, events, runs, now, config) -> list[Diagnostic]``. Registry
is a simple list; adding a new distress kind is one function + one
import, no UI or API changes required.
v1 rule set
-----------
* ``hallucinated_cards`` (error) — folds the existing
``completion_blocked_hallucination`` event into the new surface.
* ``prose_phantom_refs`` (warning) — folds
``suspected_hallucinated_references``.
* ``repeated_spawn_failures`` (error → critical at 2x threshold) —
fires when ``tasks.spawn_failures >= 3``; suggests
``hermes -p <profile> doctor`` / ``auth``.
* ``repeated_crashes`` (error → critical) — fires after N consecutive
``crashed`` run outcomes with no successful completion between;
suggests ``hermes kanban log <id>``.
* ``stuck_in_blocked`` (warning) — fires after 24h in ``blocked``
state with no comments / unblock attempts; suggests commenting.
Every diagnostic carries structured ``actions`` (reclaim, reassign,
unblock, cli_hint, comment, open_docs) that render consistently in
both CLI and dashboard. Suggested actions are highlighted; generic
recovery actions (reclaim / reassign) are available on every kind as
fallbacks.
Diagnostics auto-clear when the underlying failure resolves — a
clean ``completed``/``edited`` event drops hallucination diagnostics,
a successful run drops crash diagnostics, a comment drops
stuck-blocked diagnostics. Audit events persist; the badge goes away.
API
---
``plugin_api.py``:
* ``/board`` now attaches ``diagnostics`` (full list) and
``warnings`` (compact summary with ``highest_severity``) per task.
* ``/tasks/{id}`` attaches diagnostics so the drawer's Diagnostics
section auto-opens on flagged tasks.
* NEW ``/diagnostics`` endpoint — fleet-wide listing, filterable by
severity, sorted critical-first.
CLI
---
* NEW ``hermes kanban diagnostics [--severity X] [--task id]
[--json]`` — fleet view or single-task view, matches dashboard rule
output so CLI users see the same picture.
* ``hermes kanban show <id>`` now renders a Diagnostics section near
the top with severity markers + suggested actions.
Dashboard
---------
* Card badge is severity-coloured (⚠ amber warning, !! orange error,
!!! red critical) using ``warnings.highest_severity``.
* Attention strip above the toolbar counts EVERY task with active
diagnostics (not just hallucinations), severity-coloured, lists
affected tasks with Open buttons when expanded.
* Drawer's old ``RecoverySection`` replaced with generic
``DiagnosticsSection`` rendering a card per active diagnostic:
title + detail + structured data (task-id chips when payload keys
look like id lists) + action buttons. Reassign profile picker is
inline per-diagnostic. Clipboard fallback uses ``.catch()`` for
environments where writeText rejects.
* Three-rung severity palette; amber for warning, orange for error,
red for critical. Uses CSS variables so theming is straightforward.
Tests
-----
* NEW ``tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_diagnostics.py`` — 14 unit tests
covering each rule's positive/negative/threshold paths, severity
sorting, broken-rule isolation, and sqlite3.Row integration.
* Dashboard plugin tests extended: ``/diagnostics`` endpoint (empty,
populated, severity-filtered), ``/board`` exposes both diagnostic
list and compact summary with ``highest_severity``.
* Existing hallucination-specific test (``test_board_surfaces_
warnings_field_for_hallucinated_completions``) updated to reflect
the new contract: warning summary keys by diagnostic kind
(``hallucinated_cards``) not event kind.
379 kanban-suite tests pass (+16 net from this PR).
Live verification
-----------------
Seeded all 5 diagnostic kinds + one clean + one plain-running task
(7 total) into an isolated HERMES_HOME, spun up the dashboard, and
verified:
* Attention strip: shows ``!! 5 tasks need attention`` in the
error-severity orange; Show expands to a list of 5 rows ordered
critical > error > warning.
* Card badges: error tasks render ``!!`` orange, warning tasks
render ``⚠`` amber, clean and plain-running tasks render no badge.
* Each of the 5 rules opens a correctly-coloured, correctly-styled
diagnostic card in the drawer with its specific suggested action.
* Live reassign from a diagnostic card flipped
``broken-ml-worker → alice`` and the drawer refreshed with the
new assignee + the same diagnostic still firing (correct:
spawn_failures counter hasn't reset yet).
* CLI ``hermes kanban diagnostics`` prints all 5 in severity order;
``--severity error`` narrows to 3; ``kanban show <id>`` includes
the Diagnostics block at the top with suggested action hint.
Migration note
--------------
The old ``warnings`` shape (``{count, kinds, latest_at}``) is
preserved on the API but ``kinds`` now keys by diagnostic kind
(``hallucinated_cards``) instead of event kind
(``completion_blocked_hallucination``). ``highest_severity`` is a
new required field. The dashboard was the only consumer and has
been updated in the same commit; external API consumers of the
``warnings`` field will need to update their kind-match logic.
* feat(kanban/diagnostics): lead titles with the actual error text
The generic 'Worker crashed N runs in a row' / 'Worker failed to spawn
N times' titles buried the actual cause in the data section. Operators
had to open logs or expand the diagnostic to see WHY the worker is
stuck — rate-limit vs insufficient quota vs bad auth vs context
overflow vs network blip all looked identical at a glance.
New titles:
Agent crashed 3x: openai: 429 Too Many Requests - rate limit reached
Agent crashed 3x: anthropic: 402 insufficient_quota - credit balance
Agent crashed 3x: provider auth error: 401 Unauthorized
Agent spawn failed 4x: insufficient_quota: You exceeded your current
Detail keeps the full error snippet (capped at 500 chars + ellipsis
for tracebacks). Title takes the first line capped at 160 chars.
Fallback title if no error recorded stays honest ('no error recorded').
Tests: 4 new cases covering 429/billing/spawn/truncation. 383 total
pass (+4).
Live-verified on dashboard with 6 seeded scenarios
(rate-limit, billing, auth, context, network, spawn-billing) —
each card title leads with the actionable error text.
Mirrors the AGENTS.md #20226 additions (Toolsets / Delegation / Curator /
Cron / Kanban) into the user-facing hermes-agent skill, and closes the
drift in the in-session slash command list.
User report (wxrrior in Discord): the skill did not mention /goal, so a
brand-new session answering "/hermes-agent do you have any info on /goal"
confidently said it did not exist. Cross-check against the CommandDef
registry found 16 commands missing from the static list: /goal, /agents,
/busy, /copy, /curator, /debug, /footer, /gquota, /indicator, /kanban,
/redraw, /reload, /reload-skills, /snapshot, /steer, /topic.
Changes:
- Slash Commands header now tells the reader to run /help or check the
live docs reference as the source of truth, and names the registry
of record (hermes_cli/commands.py) so future drift gets flagged
honestly instead of answered confidently wrong.
- Added all 16 missing commands, slotted into existing subsections
(/goal and /steer in Session; /busy + /indicator + /footer in
Configuration; /curator + /kanban + /reload-skills + /reload in
Tools & Skills; /topic in Gateway; /copy in Utility; /gquota +
/debug in Info).
- Toolsets table updated to the authoritative 30-key list from
toolsets.py (added kanban, yuanbao, spotify, safe, debugging, video,
feishu_doc, feishu_drive, discord, discord_admin, clarify; previously
stopped at 20 keys).
- New "Durable & Background Systems" section before Troubleshooting
covers Delegation, Cron, Curator, Kanban - each with a short rundown
of CLI verbs, key invariants, and a pointer to the user-facing docs.
Mirrors AGENTS.md #20226 but in the skill's user-facing register.
- Bumped version 2.0.0 -> 2.1.0.
Mirror _message_thread_id_for_typing() with _message_thread_id_for_send():
both now map the General forum topic (thread id "1") to None upfront.
That removes the need for the retry-without-thread fallback in send_typing()
entirely — if _message_thread_id_for_typing() returns a non-None value, it's
a real user-created topic and falling back to the root chat is never correct.
If Telegram rejects the typing action (e.g. topic deleted mid-session), we
swallow it at debug level instead of bleeding the indicator into All Messages.
Updates the General-topic typing regression test to assert the new single-call
contract.
/model is the canonical command; /provider was a redundant alias that
dispatched to the same ModelPicker overlay. Drop the alias, the regex
branch in useCompletion, and the alias-coverage test.
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