Adds a per-prompt elapsed timer to the CLI status bar (live ⏱ while the
turn runs, frozen ⏲ after completion, resets on next prompt). Fills the
gap left by the KawaiiSpinner — the spinner only shows elapsed time while
actively animating, so it disappears between tool calls and after the
turn finishes. Status bar is always pinned, so users can glance down
and see how long the current/last prompt has been running.
- New instance vars: _prompt_start_time, _prompt_duration
- Timer starts before agent_thread.start() and freezes once the thread
has exited (both interrupt and normal-completion paths)
- _format_prompt_elapsed() formats s/m/h/d with seconds visible at all
scales, trailing zeros hidden on exact boundaries, negative clamp
- Displayed in the wide (>=76 col) status bar as position 7, after the
session duration timer
- Uses width-1 glyphs (⏱/⏲, no variation selector) to stay aligned in
monospace terminals
Discovered via real user session where hermes doctor missed two failures:
1. OpenRouter HTTP 402 (credits exhausted) fell through to the generic
'else' branch — printed yellow but never added to issues, so
'hermes doctor --fix' couldn't surface it. User had to manually
find and run 'hermes config set model.provider minimax'.
2. A provider value 'main' (from a stale gateway state or config
corruption) caused 'Unknown provider main' at runtime. Doctor
checked that config.yaml existed but never validated that
model.provider or model.default contained sane values.
Changes:
- OpenRouter health-check now catches 402 (out of credits) and 429
(rate limited) separately, prints a red X, and adds a fixable
issue with the exact command to run.
- New config validation after the config.yaml existence check:
* Validates model.provider against PROVIDER_REGISTRY. Unknown
provider names fail red with the full valid list.
* Warns when model.default uses a provider-prefixed name (e.g.
'anthropic/claude-opus-4') but provider is not openrouter/custom.
* Warns when model.provider is configured but no API key or
base_url is set for it.
Both fixes are fully general — they catch classes of errors, not
hardcoded values specific to one user's setup.
Stefan