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Summary

Plugins can now observe kanban task lifecycle transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  • kanban_task_claimed — fires in the dispatcher process, before the worker subprocess spawns.
  • kanban_task_completed — fires in the worker process when it completes (carries summary).
  • kanban_task_blocked — fires in the worker process when it blocks (carries reason).

Previously the plugin hook set covered session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no kanban awareness, so a plugin could not react to tasks being picked up, finished, or stuck.

Why this shape

  • Fired after the write txn commits, never inside it — so a hook always observes durable board state and a slow/hanging plugin can never hold the SQLite write lock.
  • Best-effort: a raising callback is logged and swallowed and never breaks a board transition (covered by a test).
  • Process semantics are documented in VALID_HOOKS — kanban workers run as separate hermes -p <profile> chat -q subprocesses, so claimed fires dispatcher-side and completed/blocked fire worker-side. profile_name is resolved from HERMES_HOME so both sides carry the right profile.

Changes

  • hermes_cli/plugins.py: add the three hook names + a doc block in VALID_HOOKS.
  • hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: _fire_kanban_lifecycle_hook() helper; fire at the post-commit points of claim_task, complete_task, block_task.
  • tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_lifecycle_hooks.py: 6 tests (registration, each transition fires with correct kwargs, no-fire on failed transition, raising hook doesn't break the board).

Validation

6/6 new tests pass; 476/476 across test_kanban_db.py + test_kanban_core_functionality.py + test_plugins.py (no regressions). E2E-verified with real imports against a temp HERMES_HOME: claim→complete and claim→block both fire with correct task_id / assignee / profile_name / summary|reason.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

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Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.
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* feat(gateway): track active_agents in runtime status on turn boundaries

The gateway only rewrote gateway_state.json on lifecycle transitions
(start/connect/drain/stop), never on turn start/end. Live-verified on a
hosted agent: a confirmed end-to-end turn ran while gateway_updated_at
stayed frozen at boot and active_agents was absent — so any active_agents
read from the file between transitions is stale. That makes it unusable
as a busy/idle signal for an external consumer (NAS deciding whether it's
safe to restart/migrate/auto-update an agent mid-turn).

Add _persist_active_agents(), called at every turn boundary:
  - turn start: both running-agent sentinel-claim sites (normal inbound
    message path + startup-resume path)
  - turn end: the central _release_running_agent_state() choke point
    (covers normal completion, /stop, /reset, sentinel cleanup,
    stale-eviction — every path that ends a running turn)

It passes ONLY active_agents to write_runtime_status, leaving
gateway_state (and every other field) _UNSET so the read-merge-write
preserves the current lifecycle state. Passing gateway_state=None would
clobber it — hence a dedicated helper rather than reusing
_update_runtime_status. The write is the same cheap JSON write done on
lifecycle transitions today; best-effort (a failed status write never
disrupts a turn).

Behaviour-contract test: an active_agents-only write preserves both
running and draining gateway_state, and the count clamps non-negative.

* feat(dashboard): surface gateway busy/drainable on /api/status

Give an external consumer (NAS) a trustworthy, always-reachable busy/idle
readout it can poll before a disruptive lifecycle action (restart,
migrate, stop, auto-update). The dashboard /api/status is the only HTTP
surface guaranteed up on a hosted agent regardless of which gateway
platforms are enabled, and it already reads gateway_state.json.

Add to /api/status (additive, non-breaking):
  - active_agents       — in-flight gateway-turn count (now refreshed
                          per-turn by the companion gateway-side commit)
  - gateway_busy        — running AND active_agents > 0
  - gateway_drainable   — running and live (a valid begin-drain target)
  - restart_drain_timeout — resolved seconds, so the consumer can size its
                          poll deadline without out-of-band knowledge
                          (env HERMES_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT → config
                          agent.restart_drain_timeout → default)

The busy/drainable contract is defined once in gateway.status
(derive_gateway_busy / derive_gateway_drainable) and consumed by both
/api/status and /health/detailed so the two surfaces can never disagree.
Liveness keys off gateway_running (a live PID/health probe), NEVER
gateway_updated_at — a healthy idle gateway never advances that timestamp.
All derived fields degrade to safe falsy values when the gateway is down
or the status file is absent/corrupt (never a spurious "busy" that would
wedge the consumer). active_sessions (the 5-min DB recency heuristic the
SPA reads) is left exactly as-is — new signal, new fields.

Tests (behaviour contracts, not snapshots): the pure derivation contract
across every running/state/count/liveness combination; /api/status
integration for busy, idle-drainable, draining, down, stale-busy-file,
corrupt-count, and timeout surfacing; and /health/detailed parity.

* refactor(gateway): dedupe drain-timeout resolution + share active_agents parse

Follow-up cleanups on top of the busy/idle readout (PR #50103):

- web_server.py /api/status reused the single drain-timeout resolver
  hermes_cli.gateway._get_restart_drain_timeout() (HERMES_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT
  env -> agent.restart_drain_timeout config -> default) instead of inlining a
  third hand-rolled copy of that precedence chain. Also fixes a subtle
  divergence: the inline copy used os.environ.get() so a set-but-empty env var
  was treated as a value rather than falling through to config; the shared
  resolver .strip()s and falls through correctly.
- Added gateway.status.parse_active_agents() and routed BOTH HTTP surfaces
  (/api/status and /health/detailed) through it, so the exposed active_agents
  field is consistently clamped non-negative. Previously /api/status clamped
  while /health/detailed exposed the raw file value, diverging on a corrupt
  count.
- Added TestParseActiveAgents covering the shared coercion contract.

* refactor(gateway): route all active_agents coercion through parse_active_agents; harden drain-timeout fallback

Second cleanup pass (simplify-code review of the first follow-up):

- write_runtime_status now clamps active_agents via parse_active_agents
  instead of an inline max(0, int(...)). Removes the duplicated clamp the
  helper's docstring acknowledged AND closes a write-side ValueError gap
  (a non-numeric active_agents previously raised; now degrades to 0).
- hermes_cli/gateway.py draining-status line routes its active-agents count
  through parse_active_agents too — the third coercion site of the same
  persisted field, now consistent and non-raising with the two HTTP surfaces.
- web_server.py /api/status: the drain-timeout resolver fallback now catches
  ImportError specifically and falls back to DEFAULT_GATEWAY_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT
  (a real float) instead of a blanket 'except Exception -> None'. None would
  have violated the surfaced field's int/float contract and stripped NAS's
  poll-deadline hint silently.
- Dropped a redundant 'if runtime else 0' branch (parse_active_agents already
  handles the empty/None case) and tightened the parse_active_agents docstring
  to describe the actual single-contract role (write + both reads).

* fix(agent): scale tool-output budget to the model context window (#23767)

The tool-result persistence budget was a fixed 100K chars/result and 200K
chars/turn regardless of the active model. On a small-context model (e.g. a
65K-token local model switched into mid-session) a single large tool result
(reporter: a 279K-char search result) or a full 200K-char turn (~50K tokens)
could by itself approach or exceed the window, forcing an oversized request
that the provider rejects as "Prompt too long".

- budget_config.budget_for_context_window() scales per-result/per-turn char
  caps to a fraction of the model window, clamped to the historical 100K/200K
  defaults (large models unchanged) and floored so small models stay usable.
- resolve_threshold() now caps the per-tool registry value at default_result_size
  so tools that register a fixed 100K cap (web/terminal/x_search) don't re-inflate
  a scaled-down budget. No-op for the default budget (both 100K).
- tool_executor wires the agent's live context_length (recomputed on model
  switch) into all four persist/turn-budget call sites.

read_file stays inf-pinned (no persist loop). Verified E2E: a 279K-char result
against a 65K model collapses to a ~1.6K preview; a 200K model is byte-identical
to today.

* fix(agent): reset stale token calibration on model switch (#23767)

ContextCompressor.update_model() recomputed context_length/threshold/budgets
but kept the cross-call calibration state (last_real_prompt_tokens,
last_rough_tokens_when_real_prompt_fit, last_compression_rough_tokens,
awaiting_real_usage_after_compression, _ineffective_compression_count) from the
PREVIOUS model.

Those fields encode 'the provider proved this prompt fit' / 'preflight can be
deferred' decisions valid only for the model that produced them. Carried across
a switch to a smaller-context model, should_defer_preflight_to_real_usage() used
the old model's 'it fit' history to SKIP a preflight compression the new model
actually needed — sending an oversized prompt the provider rejects (#23767).

update_model() now clears that state; the new model's first response repopulates
it via update_from_response(). Verified E2E: after a 200K->65,536 switch, defer
no longer suppresses and should_compress fires on an over-threshold estimate.

* fix(telegram): keep chunk markers outside code fences

When truncate_message appends a (N/M) chunk indicator to a chunk that
had to close an in-progress fenced code block, the marker lands on the
closing fence line (``` \(1/2\) after MarkdownV2 escaping). Telegram
does not treat that as a clean closing fence and rejects the MarkdownV2,
falling back to plain text. Move the indicator onto its own line right
after the closing fence at all three legacy-send call sites.

Fixes #48517

* fix(agent): guard finalize_turn cleanup chain so it never drops the response (#50009)

When a turn hit max_iterations, finalize_turn ran three unguarded cleanup
steps after the model's summary — _save_trajectory (file I/O), _cleanup_task_resources
(remote VM/browser teardown), and _persist_session (SQLite write). Any raise
there propagated out of run_conversation, discarding the partial final_response
the caller was waiting for; subprocess wrappers saw an empty stdout with no
traceback (#8049).

Each step is now guarded independently so one failure can't skip the others.
Failures log at ERROR with a traceback and are surfaced on the result dict via
cleanup_errors; the partial response is always returned.

Closes #8049.

* fix(cli): persist sessions before shutdown

* feat(api-server): configurable concurrent-run cap to prevent DoS (#50007)

The OpenAI-compatible API server only enforced a hardcoded cap of 10
concurrent runs on /v1/runs, leaving /v1/chat/completions and
/v1/responses unbounded — a request flood could exhaust CPU, memory,
and upstream LLM quota (#7483).

- Add gateway.api_server.max_concurrent_runs (config.yaml, default 10,
  0 disables). No env var.
- Shared concurrency gate across all three agent-serving endpoints,
  counting both the chat/responses in-flight counter and the /v1/runs
  stream set. Returns OpenAI-style 429 + Retry-After when at the cap.
- Remove the dead hardcoded _MAX_CONCURRENT_RUNS class attribute.

Closes #7483.

* fix(tui): persist session messages on force-quit / signal shutdown

Mirror the CLI's exit-path behaviour in the TUI gateway so that
unpersisted conversation messages are flushed to state.db and the
on_session_end plugin hook fires before the session is closed.

Root cause: _finalize_session() only called db.end_session() to
mark the session row as ended, but did NOT flush in-memory messages
via _persist_session() or fire the on_session_end hook.  When the
user force-quit (double Ctrl-C, terminal-close, SIGHUP) while the
agent was mid-turn, messages accumulated since the last persist
point were silently lost.

Changes
-------
tui_gateway/server.py - _finalize_session():
  - Persist unflushed messages via agent._persist_session() before
    db.end_session(). Prefers agent._session_messages (set by the
    last _persist_session call inside run_conversation) over
    session['history'] (stale when agent is mid-turn).
  - Fire on_session_end(interrupted=True) plugin hook so crash-
    recovery plugins can flush buffers, matching cli.py behaviour.

tui_gateway/entry.py - _log_signal():
  - Explicitly call _shutdown_sessions() before sys.exit(0) in the
    SIGHUP/SIGTERM handler as belt-and-suspenders over atexit.

tests/tui_gateway/test_finalize_session_persist.py (new):
  - 11 tests covering: history persistence, _session_messages
    priority, empty-history skip, missing-agent, double-finalize,
    persist-exception resilience, hook firing, hook-exception
    resilience, and db.end_session preservation.

Related
-------
Closes the TUI half of #5021 (CLI already handles this via its
atexit handler).  Also addresses the session-persistence gap
discussed in #18465 and #18269.

* fix(browser): enable SSRF guard when terminal runs in container

When terminal.backend is docker/modal/daytona/ssh/singularity, the
terminal runs in a sandboxed container with network isolation, but the
browser still runs on the host.  The SSRF guard was skipped because
_is_local_backend() only checked browser.cloud_provider, not the
terminal backend.

Now _is_local_backend() also checks TERMINAL_ENV — when the terminal
is containerized, the browser is treated as non-local and SSRF
protection is enabled.

Fixes #38690

* fix(compression): auto-compression triggers at minimum context length (#14690)

The compaction threshold is max(context_length * threshold_percent,
MINIMUM_CONTEXT_LENGTH=64000). The floor prevents premature compression on
large models, but degenerates at small windows: a model at exactly 64000
ctx gets max(32000, 64000) = 64000 — a threshold equal to the ENTIRE
window. should_compress() can then never fire, because the provider
rejects the request before usage reaches 100%. Auto-compression silently
never triggers for any model whose context_length <= MINIMUM /
threshold_percent (e.g. 64K-per-slot local models).

Centralize the calc in _compute_threshold_tokens(). When the floor would
meet or exceed the context window, trigger at 85% of the window
(_MIN_CTX_TRIGGER_RATIO) — high enough that a minimum-context model uses
most of its budget before compacting (compacting at the 50% percentage
would waste half the small window), but below 100% so compaction actually
fires before the provider rejects the request. This mirrors the existing
gpt-5.5/Codex 85% autoraise rationale. Large-context behavior (floor at
64000) is unchanged; both call sites (__init__ and update_model) use the
shared helper.

Co-authored-by: soynchux <soynchuux@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <154585401+LeonSGP43@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tranquil-Flow <tranquil_flow@protonmail.com>

* fix(gateway): raise session-hygiene hard message limit 400 → 5000 (#50194)

The gateway pre-compression hygiene valve force-compressed any session
crossing 400 messages regardless of token usage. On large-context (1M+)
models doing many short, message-dense turns, a healthy session at ~16%
token usage could hit 400 messages and get force-compressed — and the
compression summary's stale Active Task could then bleed into the next
turn.

The valve's actual purpose is to break a death spiral: when API calls
keep disconnecting on an oversized session, no token-usage data arrives,
the token threshold never fires, and the transcript grows unbounded.
It's a count-based floor for that pathological case only. 400 was tuned
for ~200K-context models and is far too low for modern large-context
sessions. Raise the default to 5000 — still well clear of any death
spiral, but no longer firing on legitimate long conversations.

The value remains fully configurable via compression.hygiene_hard_message_limit.

* fix(telegram): preserve newlines in rich slash-command output (#46070)

Bot API 10.1 sendRichMessage treats a lone newline as a soft break, so
multi-line content joined with "\n".join(lines) — slash-command lists,
etc. — collapses into a single paragraph. Normalize single newlines to
Markdown hard breaks (two trailing spaces) in _rich_message_payload,
leaving paragraph breaks and fenced code blocks untouched.

Fixes #46070

* fix(telegram): exempt tables from rich newline hard-breaks

The newline normalization is the shared chokepoint for every rich send
(sendRichMessage, draft, and editMessageText). Injecting a Markdown hard
break (two trailing spaces) into a GFM table row separator corrupts the
natively-rendered table — the rich path's headline feature. Protect both
fenced code blocks AND pipe-table blocks as bare regions; only prose
between them gets hard breaks. Verified RICH_CONTENT and the existing
rich-table tests stay byte-identical.

* fix(auth): make load_pool() non-destructive for env-seeded credentials

load_pool() is meant to be a read, but it persistently pruned env-seeded
pool entries whenever the calling process's os.environ lacked the seeding
var. A process without MINIMAX_API_KEY would delete the persisted
env:MINIMAX_API_KEY entry from auth.json for every other process, causing
auth.json to oscillate and auxiliary auto-detect to fall through to the
wrong provider.

env:* entries are persisted references re-hydrated from the environment on
each load — a missing var means "cannot re-seed right now", not "source is
gone forever". _prune_stale_seeded_entries now gates env-source removal
behind prune_env_sources (default True for explicit cleanup paths);
load_pool() passes prune_env_sources=False. File-backed singletons
(device-code OAuth, hermes_pkce) still prune when their backing file is
gone, and explicit removal via `hermes auth remove` (source suppression)
is unaffected.

Fixes #9331.

Co-authored-by: houko <suzukaze.haduki@gmail.com>

* fix(codex): bridge app-server item/started events to Telegram tool-progress (#38835)

When the main provider is the Codex app-server runtime (api_mode
codex_app_server), the gateway showed no verbose 'running X' tool-progress
breadcrumbs on Telegram while every other provider did. The app-server
session processes item/started notifications (command execution, file
changes, MCP/dynamic tool calls) but never surfaced them as Hermes
tool-progress events — the session was constructed without an on_event
hook, so the agent's tool_progress_callback was never invoked on this
route.

Add _codex_note_to_tool_progress() mapping item/started → (tool_name,
preview, args) for commandExecution / fileChange / mcpToolCall /
dynamicToolCall, and wire an on_event hook into CodexAppServerSession that
forwards mapped events to agent.tool_progress_callback('tool.started',
...) — the same signature the chat_completions path uses (tool_executor.py).
Non-tool items (agentMessage/reasoning) and non-item/started methods map
to None and are ignored.

Co-authored-by: jplew <462836+jplew@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(desktop): add Update now button to About panel (#50186)

* fix(telegram): avoid rich messages for CJK text

Telegram Mac/Desktop Bot API 10.1 rich-message rendering leaves garbled
overlapping draft/overlay glyphs for CJK text (#47653), affecting every
message containing CJK characters. The legacy MarkdownV2 path renders the
same text cleanly, so skip the rich send / draft / final-edit paths up
front for content containing CJK (incl. astral-plane extensions) until
affected clients age out. Non-CJK rich rendering is preserved.

Fixes #47653

* fix(file): harden read_file device alias blocking

Security-hardening fix for the read_file device guard, not a new sandbox
boundary. The guard already rejects direct device paths and upstream now
has a resolved-path pass for workspace symlinks to blocked devices, but
its concrete-path helper still compared the expanded path before
normalization. That leaves residual alias cases where the dangerous path
is visible before final terminal-specific resolution, for example:

  1. /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom should match the blocked-device
     list as concrete paths, not only after final realpath;
  2. /dev/stdin-style aliases can disappear once realpath follows them
     to /proc/self/fd/0 and then to a tty path;
  3. a user symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin exposes the dangerous
     intermediate target before final resolution, but not necessarily
     after it.

Normalize expanded paths before matching and inspect each symlink hop
before falling back to realpath. This preserves the existing /proc fd and
/proc pseudo-file guards while enforcing the intended security invariant:
model-supplied read paths must not reach blocking or infinite device
streams through spelling, normalization, or symlink-hop tricks.

Classification: security hardening / residual bypass fix for the
read_file device blocklist. This is defensive code at the file-tool
boundary, but it fixes a concrete denial-of-service class tracked as
security in #10141 and #29158.

Tests:
  - normalized /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom aliases
  - symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin blocked before realpath
  - existing symlink-to-device and regular-symlink guards still pass

Fixes #10141
Fixes #29158

* fix: keep poll read-only for notify_on_complete watcher

* fix(process): keep CLI drain dedup after poll goes read-only (#10156)

Follow-up to @de1tydev's poll-read-only fix. Removing the
_completion_consumed.add() from poll() fixes the gateway/tui watcher
suppression (#10156) but reintroduces the CLI duplicate that #8228 fixed:
a notify_on_complete process always enqueues a completion event, and the
CLI idle/post-turn drain would re-inject it as a [SYSTEM: ...] message
even though the agent already saw the exit inline in its poll result.

Add a separate _poll_observed set that poll() populates on an observed
exit. drain_notifications() (CLI only) skips poll-observed sessions; the
gateway/tui watchers keep checking only is_completion_consumed, so a
read-only poll never suppresses their autonomous delivery turn.

- _poll_observed pruned alongside _completion_consumed in _prune_if_needed
- 4 tests: CLI drain dedup after poll, gateway gate untouched, running
  poll doesn't mark observed, wait/log still skip CLI drain

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for de1tydev (#10158)

* fix(compressor): treat empty-content summary response as failure, not an empty summary (#50297)

When an OpenAI-compatible proxy (e.g. cmkey.cn, one-api Anthropic channels)
returns a well-formed HTTP 200 whose summary content is null or empty/
whitespace-only, _generate_summary coerced it to "" and stored a prefix-only
summary — silently replacing the compacted turns with nothing. The model then
lost all in-progress context after compression (#11978, #11914).

_validate_llm_response already guards None / empty-choices, so those never
reach the compressor; the gap was a well-formed response with empty *content*.
Now treat empty content as a summary failure: raise so it routes through the
existing main-model fallback then transient cooldown, dropping the turns
without a summary rather than wiping context with an empty one.

Also narrow the bare 'except RuntimeError' so only genuine 'No LLM provider
configured' errors take the 600s no-provider cooldown; empty/invalid-response
RuntimeErrors from a configured provider now correctly get the main-model
fallback instead of being misrouted into the long no-provider cooldown.

Reported by @Hung2124; area identified by @annguyenNous in #39590.

* fix(agent): preserve copilot routed headers

* fix(agent): route repeated-compression warning through _emit_status (#36908)

The 'Session compressed N times — accuracy may degrade' warning went
through _vprint (CLI stdout only), so the Ink TUI / Telegram / Discord
never saw it — unlike the two other compression warnings in the same
module, which route through _emit_status (and store _compression_warning
for late-bound gateway status_callback replay).

Set agent._compression_warning + call agent._emit_status() for this
warning too, matching the sibling pattern. _emit_status still _vprints
for the CLI, so CLI output is unchanged; TUI / gateway surfaces now
receive it via status_callback (and replay_compression_warning can
re-deliver it once a late-bound gateway callback is wired).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(session): finalize owned SQLite session rows on AIAgent.close()

Funnel session finalization through AIAgent.close() — the single terminal
path every agent (CLI, gateway, subagent, cron) funnels through — so finished
agents stop leaving rows with ended_at IS NULL. The biggest leak source was
delegate_task subagent + background-review forks whose close() never ended
their row.

end_session() is first-reason-wins and no-ops on an already-ended row, so a
'compression'/'cron_complete'/'cli_close' reason set by an earlier terminal
path is never clobbered. /resume already calls reopen_session(), so
finalizing-on-close does not break resumability.

Temporary helper agents that rotate/share the session forward (manual
compression, gateway session-hygiene) opt out via _end_session_on_close=False.

Also stop the long-running gateway heartbeat once the executor is done or the
session slot is rebound to a different agent, preventing a stale
'running: delegate_task' bubble from outliving its run.

Closes #12029.

* fix(session): opt the background-review fork out of session finalization

The background-review fork (fires ~every 10 turns) pins
review_agent.session_id = agent.session_id — the parent's LIVE id — for
prefix-cache parity, then calls close(). With session finalization now in
close(), that would end the still-active parent session mid-conversation.
Set _end_session_on_close = False on the fork so the real owner (CLI close /
gateway reset / cron) finalizes the session instead.

Follow-up to the #12029 fix.

* fix(tui): /compress shows a before/after summary (#46686)

The TUI /compress slash side-effect compressed the session, synced the
key, and emitted session.info — but returned an empty string, so the
user saw no 'Compressed: N → M messages / ~X → ~Y tokens' feedback. The
CLI (_manual_compress) and gateway (slash_commands) paths both already
call summarize_manual_compression; the TUI slash path was the lone gap.

Snapshot history + rough token estimate before and after compaction and
return the formatted summarize_manual_compression() feedback, mirroring
the session.compress RPC handler. The estimate uses the same
estimate_request_tokens_rough(system_prompt, tools) inputs as the RPC
path, re-reading the system prompt after compaction (it may be rebuilt).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(hindsight): skip local_embedded daemon when running as root

PostgreSQL's initdb refuses to run as root, so the embedded Hindsight
daemon could never initialize its data directory under root. The
daemon-start thread would fail, retry, and loop forever — each cycle
reloading embedding models (~958MB RAM, ~33% CPU) with no user-visible
error, leaving Hermes sluggish on a common VPS/cloud root setup.

initialize() now detects root (os.geteuid() == 0) before spawning the
daemon thread, disables local_embedded mode, and surfaces a clear
warning to both the log and the terminal so the user knows to run as a
non-root user or switch to cloud / local_external mode.

Closes #13125.

Co-authored-by: teknium1 <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bedrock): price Claude prompt-cache tokens in /usage (#50307)

Bedrock Claude routes through the AnthropicBedrock SDK and injects
cache_control, so cached tokens are always reported — but the pricing
table had no cache cost fields for any Bedrock model, so /usage showed
"cost unknown" on every cached session. Also, cross-region inference
profiles (us./global./eu. prefixes) never matched the bare pricing keys.

- Add cache_read/cache_write rates to the four Bedrock Claude rows
  (read 0.1x input, write 1.25x input per the Bedrock pricing page).
- Normalize the cross-region prefix in the Bedrock pricing lookup,
  mirroring is_anthropic_bedrock_model's prefix list.

Closes #50295.

* fix(config): redact api_key in config show/set output (#50245) (#50313)

hermes config show printed the model dict raw via print(), bypassing the
logging redactor; a custom-provider api_key (e.g. Cloudflare cfut_...) was
shown in plaintext even with security.redact_secrets=true. Opaque tokens
don't match any vendor-prefix regex, so structural key-name masking is
required.

- Add redact_config_value(): recursively masks credential-shaped keys
  (api_key/token/secret/... exact-match) via mask_secret.
- Wrap the show_config model dump in it.
- Mask the set_config_value echo when the leaf key is credential-shaped
  (config set model.api_key routes to config.yaml, lowercase misses the
  .env allowlist).

* fix(file): reject read_file line-numbered writeback

* test(file): update guard assertions for unified display-text message

The salvaged #19820 unifies the write_file guard under
_is_internal_file_tool_content with the message 'internal read_file
display text'. Two tests added to test_file_read_guards.py after the PR
branch point still asserted the old 'status text' wording. Update them
to match the new (correct, more general) message.

* fix(gateway): cap inbound media download size to prevent memory exhaustion

Inbound image/audio/video payloads were buffered fully into process memory
before being written to the cache, with no size limit. A large upload
(Discord Nitro allows 500 MB) or a remote media URL in an inbound message
pointing at a huge file could spike RAM and OOM-kill the gateway.

Enforce a configurable cap in the shared cache helpers (gateway/platforms/
base.py) so the protection holds across every platform adapter, not one:

- cache_image/audio/video_from_bytes reject oversized payloads before writing
  (video was the gap in the original report — now covered).
- cache_image/audio_from_url stream the body, rejecting on an oversized
  Content-Length header and re-checking the running total per chunk so an
  absent/lying header can't smuggle an unbounded body past the cap.
- Discord's _read_attachment_bytes checks att.size up front, so an oversized
  attachment is rejected before any bytes are pulled into memory.

Configurable via gateway.max_inbound_media_bytes in config.yaml (default
128 MiB; 0 disables). No new env var — non-secret config lives in config.yaml.

Salvaged and extended from @sgaofen's PR #13341 (the original report and the
shared-helper approach). Reapplied onto current main (Discord adapter has
since moved to plugins/platforms/discord/), the configurable knob moved from
an env var to config.yaml, and the video cache helper added.

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(gateway): persist in-flight transcript on restart/shutdown drain timeout (#50312)

A turn forcibly interrupted by the drain-timeout escalation never reaches
turn_finalizer.finalize_turn (the only place that flushes the turn to
state.db). Its in-flight tool rounds live only in the in-memory
_session_messages, so the immediate pre-restart turn was silently dropped
from load_transcript() on resume.

_finalize_shutdown_agents now flushes _session_messages to the SQLite
session store before teardown. The flush is idempotent (identity-tracked
in _flush_messages_to_session_db), so agents that finished gracefully
re-flush nothing. The resume_pending / fresh-tool-tail branches in
_handle_message_with_agent already expect a transcript whose tail may be a
pending tool result.

Fixes #13121.

* fix(security): redact secrets in kanban tool payloads before persistence

* fix(telegram): make Bot API 10.1 rich messages opt-in (default off)

Rich messages are not ready for primetime: current Telegram clients can
render Bot API 10.1 rich messages as blank/unsupported bubbles and make
them hard to copy as plain text, which is worse than the legacy
MarkdownV2 path for command snippets and mobile handoffs. Default the
rich_messages toggle to False so replies stay on the copyable legacy
path; users opt in per bot via platforms.telegram.extra.rich_messages:
true. Updates adapter, gateway config default, example config, English +
zh-Hans docs, and the default/opt-in tests.

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48422 salvage

* fix(backup): capture memory-provider state stored outside HERMES_HOME (#50325)

hermes backup only walks HERMES_HOME, so memory providers that keep
config/credentials in home-anchored dotdirs (honcho -> ~/.honcho,
hindsight -> ~/.hindsight, openviking -> ~/.openviking) lost that data
across a backup/import cycle — the peer IDs, session pairings, and API
keys never made it into the archive.

Add an optional MemoryProvider.backup_paths() hook (default []). The
active provider declares its external paths; backup resolves them from
config only (no init, no network), archives the ones under the home dir
into a reserved _external/ subtree encoded relative to home, and import
restores them to their original location with a home-anchored traversal
guard and 0600 on credential-shaped files. Paths outside home are
skipped as non-portable.

honcho, hindsight, and openviking override the hook. E2E-validated full
backup->import cycle plus 7 new tests.

* fix(kanban): single-writer dispatch lock to prevent orphan-dispatcher DB corruption (#50331)

A shell-launched 'hermes gateway run --replace' / 'gateway restart' on a
systemd/launchd host can leave an orphan gateway whose kanban dispatcher
escapes the service cgroup, survives 'systemctl restart', and becomes a
second long-lived writer on the shared kanban.db. Two dispatchers that each
believe they own the file both pass SQLite busy_timeout and then race on WAL
frames — the documented root cause of multi-writer corruption (issue #35240).

The existing _guard_supervised_gateway_conflict startup guard blocks the
common way an orphan is born, but does nothing once a second dispatcher
already exists. This adds the defense-in-depth: dispatch_once now wraps every
tick in a non-blocking, board-scoped flock (_dispatch_tick_lock). A losing
dispatcher returns DispatchResult(skipped_locked=True) and does zero DB writes
this tick — so two dispatchers can never run a reclaim/spawn/write sequence
concurrently regardless of how the second one got there.

- Non-blocking (LOCK_NB): never stalls the gateway's async watcher.
- Board-scoped: lock file is a .dispatch.lock sibling of each board's
  kanban.db, so unrelated boards tick in parallel.
- POSIX + Windows (fcntl / msvcrt LK_NBLCK), no-op degrade where neither
  exists — mirrors the existing _cross_process_init_lock pattern.

Verified with a real two-process orphan repro: while a separate process holds
the lock, dispatch_once skips; after release it runs.

* fix(agent): stop delegate cascade from deleting the parent session

_collect_delegate_child_ids() walks the _delegate_from marker chain to
gather delegate subagents for cascade deletion, but started its visited
set empty. When the chain loops back onto a parent — a delegation cycle,
or a parent that is also another parent's delegate child when several ids
are deleted together — that parent was collected as one of its own
descendants and then permanently deleted, along with all of its messages,
by _delete_delegate_children().

Seed the visited set with the parent ids so they can never be re-collected,
and exclude them from the returned child set. Callers (delete_session,
bulk delete) remove the parents separately, so this only prevents the
unintended parent deletion; legitimate child collection is unchanged.

Add regression tests (in-memory sqlite) covering single/multi-level
delegate chains, the parent_session_id+marker branch, untagged children
(orphan-don't-delete contract), and the cycle case that previously leaked
the parent into the deletion set.

Fixes #49148

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path (#50319)

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path

terminal(notify_on_complete=True / watch_patterns) and delegate_task(background=True)
silently no-op'd on the API server / WebUI path (#10760): the watcher / detached
child registered, but every API-server route (OpenAI-spec /v1/chat/completions
and /v1/responses, plus the proprietary /v1/runs SSE stream) tears down its
channel when the turn ends, and APIServerAdapter.send() is a no-op stub. A
completion that fires after the response closed had nowhere to go — from the
agent side, indistinguishable from a hang.

There is no spec-compliant surface to wake the agent later on a stateless HTTP
client, so make the no-op honest instead of silent:

- Add a per-adapter capability flag supports_async_delivery (default True;
  APIServerAdapter = False), propagated into a HERMES_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY
  contextvar via async_delivery_supported(). Toggle on the adapter, not a
  hardcoded platform string — a future stateless adapter is correct-by-default.
- terminal: when delivery is unsupported, skip watcher registration, force
  notify_on_complete off, and return a notify_unsupported note telling the
  agent to process(action='poll').
- delegate_task: when delivery is unsupported, fall back to SYNCHRONOUS
  execution (work runs and returns in the same response) with a note, instead
  of handing out a handle that never resolves.

CLI (in-process completion_queue) and the real gateway platforms are unchanged.

Fixes #10760

* refactor(api-server): route session binding through a single no-delivery chokepoint

Add APIServerAdapter._bind_api_server_session() and route both agent-entry
paths (_run_agent for /v1/chat/completions + /v1/responses, and the /v1/runs
_run_sync path) through it. The helper hardwires platform="api_server" and
async_delivery=False with no async_delivery parameter to pass, so a future
route added to the API server physically cannot reintroduce the silent
no-op (#10760) by forgetting to mark the channel as non-delivering.

The binding stays request-scoped (cleared per turn), so a session resumed
later on a delivering interface (CLI / gateway platform) re-binds fresh and
is NOT blocked — the no-delivery decision tracks the interface handling the
current turn, never the session.

* fix(photon): classify Envoy overflow errors as retryable; add typing cooldown

Closes #50185

Two independent gaps let a transient Photon/Spectrum upstream overflow
degrade message delivery and amplify gRPC pressure:

1. _is_retryable_error did not recognise Photon- or Envoy-specific error
   strings ("internal sidecar error", "upstream connect error",
   "reset reason: overflow"), so _send_with_retry fell through to the
   plain-text fallback immediately instead of backing off and retrying.

2. send_typing had no rate gate, so a burst of typing-indicator calls
   during an overflow event kept hitting the upstream gRPC connection and
   widened the failure window.

Fix:
- Add _PHOTON_RETRYABLE_PATTERNS with the three high-specificity Envoy /
  sidecar substrings and override _is_retryable_error on PhotonAdapter to
  check them after delegating to the base-class patterns.  base.py and all
  other adapters are untouched.
- Add a 5 s per-chat cooldown in send_typing backed by _typing_last_sent.
  stop_typing clears the entry so the next start after a completed turn
  fires immediately — only rapid consecutive starts without a stop are
  suppressed.
- Reduce PhotonAdapter._send_with_retry default max_retries from 2 to 1
  (single 2 s back-off check) — enough to confirm whether the Envoy
  circuit-breaker has opened, without adding unnecessary latency.

All changes are scoped to plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py.

* fix(photon): detect unexpected sidecar death and trigger reconnect

When the Node spectrum-ts sidecar process exited mid-session (crash,
OOM, upstream overflow escalation), _supervise_sidecar returned
silently — readline hit EOF, the log-pump loop broke, and nothing
notified the gateway. _inbound_loop entered an infinite retry loop
against a dead port, _running stayed True, and the adapter remained
in self.adapters with no path to self-recovery short of a manual
gateway restart.

Add a death-detection tail to _supervise_sidecar: after the log-pump
exits (EOF or exception), guard on _inbound_running to distinguish
unexpected death from a deliberate disconnect(). On unexpected exit,
call _set_fatal_error("SIDECAR_CRASHED", retryable=True) followed by
_notify_fatal_error() so the reconnect watcher picks up the platform
within 30 s and retries with exponential backoff (30 s → 300 s cap)
until the sidecar comes back up. All other platforms remain unaffected.

The _inbound_running guard is safe against races: disconnect() sets
_inbound_running = False before _stop_sidecar() cancels the supervisor
task. CancelledError is BaseException, not Exception, so it bypasses
the except clause and propagates normally — the detection block never
runs during a clean shutdown.

* test(photon): cover overflow retry, typing cooldown, sidecar-crash detection

Follow-up for salvaged PR #50256. Unit tests for the three behaviors:
retryable classification of Envoy/sidecar overflow strings, per-chat typing
cooldown with stop_typing reset, and the _supervise_sidecar crash-detection
path that raises a retryable fatal (and the clean-shutdown no-op).

* fix(file): anchor device symlink guard to task cwd

The read_file device guard now walks symlink hops before the file operation
layer, but that hop walk still interpreted relative paths against the Python
process cwd. In sessions where TERMINAL_CWD points at the task workspace, a
relative workspace symlink to a blocked alias such as /dev/../dev/stdin could
therefore miss the intermediate device target before later task-cwd resolution.

Anchor relative device checks to the task base before symlink-hop inspection so
the pre-I/O guard sees the same workspace path that read_file would otherwise
read. Absolute device paths and the existing final realpath fallback remain
unchanged.

Refs #10141
Refs #29158

* feat(hindsight): configurable embedded daemon health grace timeout (#50341)

On resource-contended hosts the embedded Hindsight daemon can exceed a
single 2s /health check; upstream then waits a grace window before
treating it as stale and killing+restarting it (hindsight-embed reads
HINDSIGHT_EMBED_PORT_HEALTH_GRACE_TIMEOUT, default 30s, into a
module-level constant at import time). Users on busy boxes had no
Hermes-side way to raise it short of hand-setting an env var.

Add a 'port_health_grace_timeout' config.json option to the Hindsight
plugin. When set, initialize() exports it to the process env BEFORE
daemon_embed_manager is imported (the import-time read is the contract).
setdefault() so an explicit operator env override always wins. Exposed
in 'hermes memory setup' for local_embedded mode.

Follow-up to #50308 / issue #13125 comment thread.

* fix(web_server): use run_in_executor for gateway pre-warm and drain-timeout

Fixes a regression introduced by the prior approach (synchronous import
hermes_cli.gateway inside _lifespan) that caused a new failure mode:
the blocking import stalled the asyncio event loop before uvicorn could
bind its port, pushing HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY past the desktop shell's
45 s announcement deadline and triggering a respawn loop that accumulated
orphaned backend processes.

Two-part fix:

_lifespan: replace the blocking import with a fire-and-forget
run_in_executor call (_warm_gateway_module).  The import runs in a
worker thread while the server socket is already open, so
HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY fires without delay.

get_status: replace the inline lazy import with
await run_in_executor(None, _resolve_restart_drain_timeout).  This is
the root fix for the original 15 s socket-timeout: the blocking
.pyc-compilation + Defender scan is offloaded to a thread, keeping the
event loop free for every /api/status probe.  After the first call the
module is in sys.modules and the executor returns in microseconds.

Both helpers are extracted as module-level sync functions so they can
be unit-tested independently of FastAPI or uvicorn.

Closes #50209

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(web_server): add integration tests for desktop boot handshake fix

Three tests covering the scenarios from issue #50209 that could not be
validated with real Defender on a fresh install:

1. test_lifespan_warmup_is_nonblocking
   Patches _warm_gateway_module to sleep 3 s. Measures TestClient startup
   time — must complete in < 1.5 s, proving the fire-and-forget
   run_in_executor does not block the event loop before port binding
   (HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY timing proxy).

2. test_get_status_does_not_block_event_loop
   Patches _resolve_restart_drain_timeout to sleep 3 s. Fires concurrent
   GET /api/status and GET /api/version requests. /api/version must
   respond in < 3 s while /api/status waits — proving the event loop
   stays free during the slow import (15 s socket timeout would not fire).

3. test_concurrent_status_probes_all_respond
   Three simultaneous /api/status probes with the slow patch — all must
   return HTTP 200 (no connection resets, no orphan accumulation).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(desktop): make cold-start port-announcement deadline tolerant

The port-announcement clock in waitForDashboardPort starts the instant the
backend process is spawned — before uvicorn binds its socket. On a cold
install the child first compiles and imports the whole hermes_cli.main ->
web_server -> FastAPI/uvicorn chain, and on Windows real-time AV scans every
freshly written .pyc. That pre-bind cost can exceed the old hardcoded 45s
deadline, so the desktop killed a healthy-but-still-starting backend and
respawned it, piling up orphaned processes (#50209).

Raise the default to 90s and make it overridable via
HERMES_DESKTOP_PORT_ANNOUNCE_TIMEOUT_MS, clamped to a 45s floor so a bad
override can't reintroduce the loop. Warm starts still announce in well under
a second; both call sites inherit the new default with no change. Adds
backend-ready.test.cjs (wired into test:desktop:platforms).

* feat(gateway): typed send-error classification (SendResult.error_kind) (#50342)

Add a platform-neutral send-failure vocabulary so consumers can branch on a
typed category instead of substring-matching the raw provider message.

- base.py: SEND_ERROR_KINDS + classify_send_error() (too_long / bad_format /
  forbidden / not_found / rate_limited / transient / unknown), and an optional
  SendResult.error_kind field (defaults None — fully backward compatible).
- telegram.py: populate error_kind on send() failures; message_too_long keeps
  its existing error token plus error_kind='too_long'.

Purely additive: no behavioral change to the existing degrade-and-deliver
paths (MarkdownV2->plain-text fallback, overflow split, retry classification
all untouched). 22 new tests + 210 adapter regression tests green.

* fix(telegram): stop typing indicator lingering after final reply

After the agent's final response, the '...typing' bubble persisted ~5s.
send() re-triggers send_typing() after every delivery so the bubble
survives intermediate progress messages (Telegram clears typing on each
delivered message). But that re-trigger also fired on the FINAL send,
re-arming Telegram's ~5s timer AFTER the gateway had already torn down
its typing-refresh loop — and Telegram exposes no stop-typing API, so
nothing cancelled it.

Gate the post-send re-trigger on the absence of metadata['notify'] (set
only on the final user-visible reply via _mark_notify_metadata). Both
the rich-message and legacy send paths are covered; intermediate
progress sends still re-trigger so the bubble stays alive mid-response.

Fixes #48678

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48678 salvage

* feat(plugins): add ctx.profile_name for session-agnostic profile access (#50346)

Plugins previously had no way to read the active profile name from the
PluginContext. The workaround in the wild — reaching into
ctx._manager._cli_ref — only works in an interactive CLI session;
_cli_ref is None in the gateway and in kanban-spawned worker sessions
(hermes -p <profile> chat -q ...), so the workaround breaks exactly
where multi-profile awareness matters most.

ctx.profile_name wraps hermes_cli.profiles.get_active_profile_name(),
which derives the name from HERMES_HOME and therefore works in every
execution context with zero dependency on _cli_ref.

* feat(kanban): add task lifecycle plugin hooks (claimed/completed/blocked) (#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(cli): branch new worktrees from the fresh remote tip, not stale local HEAD (#50355)

hermes -w created the worktree branch from the standalone clone's HEAD, which
lags origin when the clone isn't freshly updated (it's only refreshed by
hermes update, not per session). Every worktree branch then rooted on a stale
base, so the PR diff GitHub computes against current main ballooned with
unrelated changes and the agent had to discover the staleness at push time and
rebase.

_resolve_worktree_base() now fetches and branches from the freshest available
ref: the current branch's upstream if it tracks one (so a deliberate
feature-branch worktree tracks its own remote), else the remote's default
branch (origin/HEAD), else local HEAD as a fail-soft fallback (offline / no
remote / detached). A bogus 'origin/(unknown)' default is guarded, and worktree
creation retries from HEAD if branching off the remote ref fails — so this is
never worse than the old behavior.

Gated by worktree_sync (default true); set worktree_sync: false to keep the
old branch-from-local-HEAD behavior. The resolved base is printed in the
session banner.

This is the follow-up to the #50319 session, where the standalone clone was
213 commits behind origin and the worktree inherited that stale base.

* fix(kanban): pin worker TERMINAL_CWD to the task workspace (#50348)

_default_spawn launched the worker subprocess with cwd=workspace and set
HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACE, but never set TERMINAL_CWD — so the worker inherited
the dispatching gateway's TERMINAL_CWD. That value takes precedence over the
process cwd in two places:

- tools/file_tools.py::_resolve_base_dir — a relative write_file path resolved
  against the gateway user's home instead of the workspace, so artifacts
  silently landed outside the workspace (#41312).
- agent_init's context-file loader — AGENTS.md was discovered relative to the
  gateway's cwd, so under multi-profile dispatch a worker loaded whichever
  gateway won the claim race's AGENTS.md, not the task's (#34619).

Both are the same root cause. Pinning TERMINAL_CWD to the workspace (where the
task's work actually happens) fixes both. Guarded on an existing absolute dir
because file_tools rejects relative/sentinel TERMINAL_CWD values — a non-dir
workspace leaves the inherited value rather than writing a meaningless one.

Closes #34619, closes #41312.

* fix(kanban): bound the cross-process init lock so connect() can't hang forever (#50353)

connect() wrapped its entire body in an unbounded blocking flock(LOCK_EX) on
every call (_cross_process_init_lock). A single process stalled inside the
critical section — or a stale lock held by a wedged worker — blocked every
other connect(), including the long-lived gateway dispatcher's next-tick
connect, forever. No timeout, no traceback, no recovery: the board silently
stopped being worked until a manual restart (issue #36644).

Two fixes:

1. Fast-path skip: once THIS process has initialized a path, the expensive
   first-open work (header validation, integrity probe, schema + additive
   migrations) is already cached in _INITIALIZED_PATHS. The steady-state
   connect has nothing for the cross-process lock to protect, so it now opens
   the connection (WAL + pragmas) under only the cheap in-process _INIT_LOCK
   and never touches the file lock. This removes the lock from the dispatcher's
   hot path entirely — a stalled external 'hermes kanban list' can no longer
   block ticks.

2. Bounded acquire: even on first-init, _cross_process_init_lock now retries a
   non-blocking acquire up to a 10s deadline, then logs a WARNING and proceeds
   WITHOUT the cross-process lock. Safe because the in-process _INIT_LOCK still
   serializes same-process threads and the init work is idempotent
   (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS + additive migrations) — worst case is redundant
   work, not corruption. A bounded 'proceed anyway' beats an unbounded hang.

Windows path switched LK_LOCK -> LK_NBLCK (non-blocking) to match.

Closes #36644.

* fix(kanban): honor kanban.auto_decompose toggle live, without a gateway restart (#50358)

The gateway dispatcher captured kanban.auto_decompose ONCE at boot, so a user
who flipped it to false to STOP auto-decompose had no way to make that take
effect short of restarting the gateway. Reported (#49638): auto-decompose
created and launched tasks the user never intended (while they were still
typing the task description), and 'even Hermes Agent couldn't disable this
feature' — because the live config edit was silently ignored.

Auto-decompose is a safety toggle; turning it off must halt fan-out on the
next tick. The dispatcher now re-reads the flag (and auto_decompose_per_tick)
from config every tick via the extracted _resolve_auto_decompose_settings(),
which fails SAFE (disabled) on a config read error so a transient failure can
never re-enable a feature the user turned off.

Closes #49638.

* fix(security): validate snapshot_id and file paths in restore_quick_snapshot to prevent path traversal

* test(backup): add regression tests for restore_quick_snapshot path traversal

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR, the security fix is behaviorally
correct but lacks focused regression coverage for the two traversal
vectors it closes. Adding tests now so the path-traversal guard
cannot silently regress.

* test_restore_rejects_snapshot_id_traversal -- exercises the
  snapshot_id input guard with seven hostile values (parent
  traversal, single parent, bare '.', bare '..', forward slash,
  backslash, empty string). Each must return False without touching
  the filesystem.

* test_restore_rejects_manifest_rel_traversal -- exercises the
  manifest rel guard by injecting '../../outside.txt' into a real
  snapshot's manifest.json, seeding a source payload at the escaped
  path, and asserting the destination outside HERMES_HOME does not
  exist after restore. This is the higher-value test of the pair --
  verified locally that it fails without the fix in
  restore_quick_snapshot (the escape destination gets written) and
  passes with the fix in place.

The 67 pre-existing tests in test_backup.py continue to pass.

* fix(kanban): make reclaim claim-lock-aware to stop task/run status desync (#50366)

After a worker crash + reclaim + respawn, the board could show a task in the
Ready lane while its task_run was 'running' and the new worker was actively
executing (#36910). The dispatcher could then treat live work as available and
double-assign.

Root cause: the three reclaim paths (detect_crashed_workers,
release_stale_claims heartbeat-stale backstop, enforce_max_runtime) each
snapshot a task's worker_pid/claim_lock, do liveness work, then reset
tasks.status back to 'ready' with only a 'WHERE status=running' guard. If the
task was reclaimed AND re-claimed by a NEW worker in between (new run, new
claim_lock, live pid), the stale UPDATE clobbered the live task: status flipped
to 'ready' while the fresh run stayed 'running'. claim_task is the only writer
that sets status='running', so nothing put it back — permanent desync.

Fix: gate each reset on the snapshot's claim_lock (and worker_pid where
available) so it only fires when the task is still owned by the worker the
reclaim was computed for. A stale reclaim now no-ops (rowcount 0) instead of
desyncing a re-claimed task. Genuine crashes (lock still matches) reclaim
exactly as before.

This is the same race class the in-gateway dispatch lock (single-writer ticks)
mitigates, closed at the row level so a single dispatcher's fast
reclaim->respawn across two ticks is also safe.

Closes #36910.

* docs(ui-tui): fix file paths, add billing command, update file map

* docs(ui-tui): add billing.step_up.verification event + perfPane.tsx to README

Follow-up on salvaged #50347: the event surface table was missing the
billing.step_up.verification switch case, and the File map omitted
lib/perfPane.tsx.

* docs(plugins): document acting from hooks via ctx.profile_name + dispatch_tool (#50352)

Answers a recurring plugin-author question: how to read the active
profile and drive Hermes from inside a hook callback when ctx._cli_ref
is None (gateway, hermes chat -q, and kanban-spawned worker sessions).

- Adds a 'Act from inside a hook' section to the plugin guide covering
  ctx.profile_name and ctx.dispatch_tool as the session-agnostic APIs,
  with a kanban_task_blocked example, and notes there is no in-process
  slash-command bridge for headless workers (shell out via the terminal
  tool instead).
- Adds the three kanban lifecycle hooks to the hook reference table with
  their process semantics.
- Pins the contract with a regression test: ctx.dispatch_tool invokes a
  tool handler with _cli_ref=None (worker/hook context).

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(windows): prefer cmd npm shim on PATH fallback

* fix(security): sanitize kanban markdown html

* fix(cli): guard missing ui-tui workspace before TUI launch

* fix(cli): auto-restore a deleted ui-tui workspace from git before TUI launch

The Windows update path can leave tracked ui-tui/ files deleted in the
working tree (HEAD intact). The guard now self-heals: when ui-tui/ is
missing in a git checkout, run `git restore -- ui-tui` and continue,
falling back to the printed manual-recovery steps only when git can't
recover it (no checkout / restore failed).

Builds on konsisumer's missing-workspace guard.

* fix(cli): make ZIP-update directory replace atomic so it can't delete ui-tui

Root cause of #49145: the Windows ZIP-update path did rmtree(dst) then
copytree(src, dst). If the copy failed partway — common on that path,
which only runs because file I/O is already flaky on the machine — the
directory was left deleted with nothing copied back. ui-tui/ vanishing
is what broke 'hermes --tui' (WinError 267), but the bug hit every
top-level directory.

_atomic_replace_dir stages the new copy into a sibling temp dir and only
swaps it in on full success, restoring the original on failure. A failed
update now leaves the live tree untouched instead of half-deleted.

* fix(gateway): pause Telegram typing before stream finalize

In Telegram streaming, the typing indicator persisted through the slow
final rich-text/MarkdownV2 finalize edit, so the '...typing' bubble
lingered for seconds after the last streamed token. Add a one-shot
on_before_finalize hook to GatewayStreamConsumer, fired once when the
stream transitions into its finalization path, and wire it on both
Telegram streaming call sites to call pause_typing_for_chat() before
the final edit. Cover hook ordering and once-only behavior in tests.

Fixes #49712

* fix(desktop/windows): stop in-app update from cascading into a backend restart loop (#50381)

When a Windows user relaunches Hermes while an in-app update is still
running (the desktop vanished with no progress and looks crashed), the
fresh instance spawns its own dashboard backend. That backend re-locks
the venv shim, the updater's straggler cleanup (force_kill_other_hermes
-> taskkill /F /T /IM hermes.exe) kills it, the launch dies with the 45s
"backend didn't come up" timeout, and the user relaunches into the same
trap -- an infinite respawn/kill loop (#50238).

Root cause: no mutual exclusion between an applying update and a fresh
desktop spawning its own local backend.

Fix: the updater publishes a HERMES_HOME/.hermes-update-in-progress
marker (pid + start time) for the whole run via an RAII drop-guard that
removes it on every exit path (success, early return, panic). A
freshly-launched desktop checks the marker before spawning its local
backend and PARKS until the update finishes -- then brings the backend
up itself (it is the surviving instance; the updater's own relaunch hits
the single-instance lock and quits). A stale marker (dead pid or past a
20-minute ceiling) is pruned so a crashed updater can never strand
future launches. No rogue backend spawns mid-update, so
force_kill_other_hermes has nothing legitimate to kill.

Marker parse/staleness logic is extracted to update-marker.cjs and
unit-tested; the Rust guard has unit tests; the Rust-write <-> JS-read
contract is E2E-verified.

* fix(whatsapp): normalize bare phone targets to JIDs before bridge send

Baileys' jidDecode crashes ("Cannot destructure property 'user' of
jidDecode(...) as it is undefined") when handed a bare phone number, so
sending a WhatsApp message to +50766715226 / 50766715226 returned HTTP
500 and never delivered (#8637).

Add to_whatsapp_jid() to gateway/whatsapp_identity.py — the outbound
inverse of normalize_whatsapp_identifier: it builds the JID a send must
use (bare phone -> <digits>@s.whatsapp.net) and passes through already
qualified JIDs (@g.us, @lid, status@broadcast, @newsletter) unchanged.
Wire it at every outbound bridge call site in the WhatsApp adapter
(send, edit, media, typing, get_chat_info, and the standalone cron /
send_message sender).

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(security): fail-closed when WebSocket peer is empty in loopback mode

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR (#15544), the original fix was
correct but the file has refactored since: the four endpoint-local
empty-peer checks have been consolidated into _ws_client_is_allowed
and _ws_client_reason, but the helpers were left fail-open ('no peer
host known means allow' / 'no reason to block').

On a loopback-bound dashboard with auth disabled, an ASGI server
behind a misconfigured proxy or a unix-socket transport can deliver
ws.client == None or ws.client.host == ''. The helpers were treating
that as 'allowed', so the loopback-only peer gate could be bypassed
by anything that suppressed the client tuple in transit. All four
WebSocket endpoints (/api/pty, /api/ws, /api/pub, /api/events) route
through _ws_request_is_allowed -> _ws_client_is_allowed, so the gap
applied uniformly.

Fix:

* _ws_client_is_allowed: return False when client_host is empty
  instead of True. Only reached on loopback bind with auth disabled
  (auth_required=True and explicit non-loopback binds short-circuit
  earlier), so the fail-closed behavior is scoped to the surface
  that needs it.

* _ws_client_reason: return a 'missing_or_empty_peer bound=...'
  block reason instead of None, so the dispatcher's existing
  reason-based rejection path picks it up and the close gets logged
  with a machine-parseable token for diagnosability.

Behavior unchanged for:

* gated mode (auth_required=True) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. The OAuth ticket is the auth at that point.
* explicit non-loopback bind (--host 0.0.0.0/::, or a specific LAN
  address, always with --insecure) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. DNS-rebinding is still blocked by the
  Host/Origin guard in _ws_host_origin_is_allowed.
* legitimate loopback peers (client_host == '127.0.0.1' / '::1') —
  not affected by the empty-peer branch.

Regression tests added in tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py:

* test_empty_client_host_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_missing_client_object_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_empty_client_host_reason_is_block

Plus two regression guards to ensure the fix does not over-reach:

* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_insecure_public_mode
* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_gated_mode

All three new fail-closed tests fail without this patch (the helpers
return True / None for an empty peer) and pass with it. The 45
pre-existing tests in test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py continue to pass.

* fix(model-switch): a failed in-place swap must be a no-op, not a dead session (#50375)

When a /model switch resolves a valid model but the in-place agent swap
fails mid-conversation (expired key, unreachable base_url), the agent
rolls itself back to the old working model+client and re-raises. The
callers caught that re-raise, logged a warning, then committed the broken
switch anyway: wrote the failed model to the session DB, set
_session_model_overrides to the broken model/provider/key, and (gateway
direct path) evicted the working cached agent. The next message then
rebuilt a dead agent from the broken override -> permanently unusable
conversation (#50163).

Fix the whole caller class so a failed swap aborts the commit entirely:

- gateway/slash_commands.py (picker + direct /model paths): on swap
  failure, early-return an error message; skip DB persist, session
  override, cache eviction, and config write.
- cli.py (both /model handlers): snapshot CLI-level credential/runtime
  fields before mutating, restore them on swap failure, and abort the
  note + success print.
- tui_gateway/server.py: wrap the previously-unguarded swap; on failure
  raise a clean error and skip worker restart, runtime persist, switch
  marker, session model_override, and config persist.

The no-cached-agent path (apply-on-next-session) is unaffected.

Adds a gateway regression test that fails on the pre-fix behavior.

* fix(gateway): respawn unmapped Windows gateways after update (#50090) (#50373)

On Windows, _pause_windows_gateways_for_update() force-kills every running
gateway before mutating the venv. Gateways mapped to a profile (via
profile.path/gateway.pid) …
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* feat(gateway): track active_agents in runtime status on turn boundaries

The gateway only rewrote gateway_state.json on lifecycle transitions
(start/connect/drain/stop), never on turn start/end. Live-verified on a
hosted agent: a confirmed end-to-end turn ran while gateway_updated_at
stayed frozen at boot and active_agents was absent — so any active_agents
read from the file between transitions is stale. That makes it unusable
as a busy/idle signal for an external consumer (NAS deciding whether it's
safe to restart/migrate/auto-update an agent mid-turn).

Add _persist_active_agents(), called at every turn boundary:
  - turn start: both running-agent sentinel-claim sites (normal inbound
    message path + startup-resume path)
  - turn end: the central _release_running_agent_state() choke point
    (covers normal completion, /stop, /reset, sentinel cleanup,
    stale-eviction — every path that ends a running turn)

It passes ONLY active_agents to write_runtime_status, leaving
gateway_state (and every other field) _UNSET so the read-merge-write
preserves the current lifecycle state. Passing gateway_state=None would
clobber it — hence a dedicated helper rather than reusing
_update_runtime_status. The write is the same cheap JSON write done on
lifecycle transitions today; best-effort (a failed status write never
disrupts a turn).

Behaviour-contract test: an active_agents-only write preserves both
running and draining gateway_state, and the count clamps non-negative.

* feat(dashboard): surface gateway busy/drainable on /api/status

Give an external consumer (NAS) a trustworthy, always-reachable busy/idle
readout it can poll before a disruptive lifecycle action (restart,
migrate, stop, auto-update). The dashboard /api/status is the only HTTP
surface guaranteed up on a hosted agent regardless of which gateway
platforms are enabled, and it already reads gateway_state.json.

Add to /api/status (additive, non-breaking):
  - active_agents       — in-flight gateway-turn count (now refreshed
                          per-turn by the companion gateway-side commit)
  - gateway_busy        — running AND active_agents > 0
  - gateway_drainable   — running and live (a valid begin-drain target)
  - restart_drain_timeout — resolved seconds, so the consumer can size its
                          poll deadline without out-of-band knowledge
                          (env HERMES_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT → config
                          agent.restart_drain_timeout → default)

The busy/drainable contract is defined once in gateway.status
(derive_gateway_busy / derive_gateway_drainable) and consumed by both
/api/status and /health/detailed so the two surfaces can never disagree.
Liveness keys off gateway_running (a live PID/health probe), NEVER
gateway_updated_at — a healthy idle gateway never advances that timestamp.
All derived fields degrade to safe falsy values when the gateway is down
or the status file is absent/corrupt (never a spurious "busy" that would
wedge the consumer). active_sessions (the 5-min DB recency heuristic the
SPA reads) is left exactly as-is — new signal, new fields.

Tests (behaviour contracts, not snapshots): the pure derivation contract
across every running/state/count/liveness combination; /api/status
integration for busy, idle-drainable, draining, down, stale-busy-file,
corrupt-count, and timeout surfacing; and /health/detailed parity.

* refactor(gateway): dedupe drain-timeout resolution + share active_agents parse

Follow-up cleanups on top of the busy/idle readout (PR #50103):

- web_server.py /api/status reused the single drain-timeout resolver
  hermes_cli.gateway._get_restart_drain_timeout() (HERMES_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT
  env -> agent.restart_drain_timeout config -> default) instead of inlining a
  third hand-rolled copy of that precedence chain. Also fixes a subtle
  divergence: the inline copy used os.environ.get() so a set-but-empty env var
  was treated as a value rather than falling through to config; the shared
  resolver .strip()s and falls through correctly.
- Added gateway.status.parse_active_agents() and routed BOTH HTTP surfaces
  (/api/status and /health/detailed) through it, so the exposed active_agents
  field is consistently clamped non-negative. Previously /api/status clamped
  while /health/detailed exposed the raw file value, diverging on a corrupt
  count.
- Added TestParseActiveAgents covering the shared coercion contract.

* refactor(gateway): route all active_agents coercion through parse_active_agents; harden drain-timeout fallback

Second cleanup pass (simplify-code review of the first follow-up):

- write_runtime_status now clamps active_agents via parse_active_agents
  instead of an inline max(0, int(...)). Removes the duplicated clamp the
  helper's docstring acknowledged AND closes a write-side ValueError gap
  (a non-numeric active_agents previously raised; now degrades to 0).
- hermes_cli/gateway.py draining-status line routes its active-agents count
  through parse_active_agents too — the third coercion site of the same
  persisted field, now consistent and non-raising with the two HTTP surfaces.
- web_server.py /api/status: the drain-timeout resolver fallback now catches
  ImportError specifically and falls back to DEFAULT_GATEWAY_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT
  (a real float) instead of a blanket 'except Exception -> None'. None would
  have violated the surfaced field's int/float contract and stripped NAS's
  poll-deadline hint silently.
- Dropped a redundant 'if runtime else 0' branch (parse_active_agents already
  handles the empty/None case) and tightened the parse_active_agents docstring
  to describe the actual single-contract role (write + both reads).

* fix(agent): scale tool-output budget to the model context window (#23767)

The tool-result persistence budget was a fixed 100K chars/result and 200K
chars/turn regardless of the active model. On a small-context model (e.g. a
65K-token local model switched into mid-session) a single large tool result
(reporter: a 279K-char search result) or a full 200K-char turn (~50K tokens)
could by itself approach or exceed the window, forcing an oversized request
that the provider rejects as "Prompt too long".

- budget_config.budget_for_context_window() scales per-result/per-turn char
  caps to a fraction of the model window, clamped to the historical 100K/200K
  defaults (large models unchanged) and floored so small models stay usable.
- resolve_threshold() now caps the per-tool registry value at default_result_size
  so tools that register a fixed 100K cap (web/terminal/x_search) don't re-inflate
  a scaled-down budget. No-op for the default budget (both 100K).
- tool_executor wires the agent's live context_length (recomputed on model
  switch) into all four persist/turn-budget call sites.

read_file stays inf-pinned (no persist loop). Verified E2E: a 279K-char result
against a 65K model collapses to a ~1.6K preview; a 200K model is byte-identical
to today.

* fix(agent): reset stale token calibration on model switch (#23767)

ContextCompressor.update_model() recomputed context_length/threshold/budgets
but kept the cross-call calibration state (last_real_prompt_tokens,
last_rough_tokens_when_real_prompt_fit, last_compression_rough_tokens,
awaiting_real_usage_after_compression, _ineffective_compression_count) from the
PREVIOUS model.

Those fields encode 'the provider proved this prompt fit' / 'preflight can be
deferred' decisions valid only for the model that produced them. Carried across
a switch to a smaller-context model, should_defer_preflight_to_real_usage() used
the old model's 'it fit' history to SKIP a preflight compression the new model
actually needed — sending an oversized prompt the provider rejects (#23767).

update_model() now clears that state; the new model's first response repopulates
it via update_from_response(). Verified E2E: after a 200K->65,536 switch, defer
no longer suppresses and should_compress fires on an over-threshold estimate.

* fix(telegram): keep chunk markers outside code fences

When truncate_message appends a (N/M) chunk indicator to a chunk that
had to close an in-progress fenced code block, the marker lands on the
closing fence line (``` \(1/2\) after MarkdownV2 escaping). Telegram
does not treat that as a clean closing fence and rejects the MarkdownV2,
falling back to plain text. Move the indicator onto its own line right
after the closing fence at all three legacy-send call sites.

Fixes #48517

* fix(agent): guard finalize_turn cleanup chain so it never drops the response (#50009)

When a turn hit max_iterations, finalize_turn ran three unguarded cleanup
steps after the model's summary — _save_trajectory (file I/O), _cleanup_task_resources
(remote VM/browser teardown), and _persist_session (SQLite write). Any raise
there propagated out of run_conversation, discarding the partial final_response
the caller was waiting for; subprocess wrappers saw an empty stdout with no
traceback (#8049).

Each step is now guarded independently so one failure can't skip the others.
Failures log at ERROR with a traceback and are surfaced on the result dict via
cleanup_errors; the partial response is always returned.

Closes #8049.

* fix(cli): persist sessions before shutdown

* feat(api-server): configurable concurrent-run cap to prevent DoS (#50007)

The OpenAI-compatible API server only enforced a hardcoded cap of 10
concurrent runs on /v1/runs, leaving /v1/chat/completions and
/v1/responses unbounded — a request flood could exhaust CPU, memory,
and upstream LLM quota (#7483).

- Add gateway.api_server.max_concurrent_runs (config.yaml, default 10,
  0 disables). No env var.
- Shared concurrency gate across all three agent-serving endpoints,
  counting both the chat/responses in-flight counter and the /v1/runs
  stream set. Returns OpenAI-style 429 + Retry-After when at the cap.
- Remove the dead hardcoded _MAX_CONCURRENT_RUNS class attribute.

Closes #7483.

* fix(tui): persist session messages on force-quit / signal shutdown

Mirror the CLI's exit-path behaviour in the TUI gateway so that
unpersisted conversation messages are flushed to state.db and the
on_session_end plugin hook fires before the session is closed.

Root cause: _finalize_session() only called db.end_session() to
mark the session row as ended, but did NOT flush in-memory messages
via _persist_session() or fire the on_session_end hook.  When the
user force-quit (double Ctrl-C, terminal-close, SIGHUP) while the
agent was mid-turn, messages accumulated since the last persist
point were silently lost.

Changes
-------
tui_gateway/server.py - _finalize_session():
  - Persist unflushed messages via agent._persist_session() before
    db.end_session(). Prefers agent._session_messages (set by the
    last _persist_session call inside run_conversation) over
    session['history'] (stale when agent is mid-turn).
  - Fire on_session_end(interrupted=True) plugin hook so crash-
    recovery plugins can flush buffers, matching cli.py behaviour.

tui_gateway/entry.py - _log_signal():
  - Explicitly call _shutdown_sessions() before sys.exit(0) in the
    SIGHUP/SIGTERM handler as belt-and-suspenders over atexit.

tests/tui_gateway/test_finalize_session_persist.py (new):
  - 11 tests covering: history persistence, _session_messages
    priority, empty-history skip, missing-agent, double-finalize,
    persist-exception resilience, hook firing, hook-exception
    resilience, and db.end_session preservation.

Related
-------
Closes the TUI half of #5021 (CLI already handles this via its
atexit handler).  Also addresses the session-persistence gap
discussed in #18465 and #18269.

* fix(browser): enable SSRF guard when terminal runs in container

When terminal.backend is docker/modal/daytona/ssh/singularity, the
terminal runs in a sandboxed container with network isolation, but the
browser still runs on the host.  The SSRF guard was skipped because
_is_local_backend() only checked browser.cloud_provider, not the
terminal backend.

Now _is_local_backend() also checks TERMINAL_ENV — when the terminal
is containerized, the browser is treated as non-local and SSRF
protection is enabled.

Fixes #38690

* fix(compression): auto-compression triggers at minimum context length (#14690)

The compaction threshold is max(context_length * threshold_percent,
MINIMUM_CONTEXT_LENGTH=64000). The floor prevents premature compression on
large models, but degenerates at small windows: a model at exactly 64000
ctx gets max(32000, 64000) = 64000 — a threshold equal to the ENTIRE
window. should_compress() can then never fire, because the provider
rejects the request before usage reaches 100%. Auto-compression silently
never triggers for any model whose context_length <= MINIMUM /
threshold_percent (e.g. 64K-per-slot local models).

Centralize the calc in _compute_threshold_tokens(). When the floor would
meet or exceed the context window, trigger at 85% of the window
(_MIN_CTX_TRIGGER_RATIO) — high enough that a minimum-context model uses
most of its budget before compacting (compacting at the 50% percentage
would waste half the small window), but below 100% so compaction actually
fires before the provider rejects the request. This mirrors the existing
gpt-5.5/Codex 85% autoraise rationale. Large-context behavior (floor at
64000) is unchanged; both call sites (__init__ and update_model) use the
shared helper.

Co-authored-by: soynchux <soynchuux@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <154585401+LeonSGP43@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tranquil-Flow <tranquil_flow@protonmail.com>

* fix(gateway): raise session-hygiene hard message limit 400 → 5000 (#50194)

The gateway pre-compression hygiene valve force-compressed any session
crossing 400 messages regardless of token usage. On large-context (1M+)
models doing many short, message-dense turns, a healthy session at ~16%
token usage could hit 400 messages and get force-compressed — and the
compression summary's stale Active Task could then bleed into the next
turn.

The valve's actual purpose is to break a death spiral: when API calls
keep disconnecting on an oversized session, no token-usage data arrives,
the token threshold never fires, and the transcript grows unbounded.
It's a count-based floor for that pathological case only. 400 was tuned
for ~200K-context models and is far too low for modern large-context
sessions. Raise the default to 5000 — still well clear of any death
spiral, but no longer firing on legitimate long conversations.

The value remains fully configurable via compression.hygiene_hard_message_limit.

* fix(telegram): preserve newlines in rich slash-command output (#46070)

Bot API 10.1 sendRichMessage treats a lone newline as a soft break, so
multi-line content joined with "\n".join(lines) — slash-command lists,
etc. — collapses into a single paragraph. Normalize single newlines to
Markdown hard breaks (two trailing spaces) in _rich_message_payload,
leaving paragraph breaks and fenced code blocks untouched.

Fixes #46070

* fix(telegram): exempt tables from rich newline hard-breaks

The newline normalization is the shared chokepoint for every rich send
(sendRichMessage, draft, and editMessageText). Injecting a Markdown hard
break (two trailing spaces) into a GFM table row separator corrupts the
natively-rendered table — the rich path's headline feature. Protect both
fenced code blocks AND pipe-table blocks as bare regions; only prose
between them gets hard breaks. Verified RICH_CONTENT and the existing
rich-table tests stay byte-identical.

* fix(auth): make load_pool() non-destructive for env-seeded credentials

load_pool() is meant to be a read, but it persistently pruned env-seeded
pool entries whenever the calling process's os.environ lacked the seeding
var. A process without MINIMAX_API_KEY would delete the persisted
env:MINIMAX_API_KEY entry from auth.json for every other process, causing
auth.json to oscillate and auxiliary auto-detect to fall through to the
wrong provider.

env:* entries are persisted references re-hydrated from the environment on
each load — a missing var means "cannot re-seed right now", not "source is
gone forever". _prune_stale_seeded_entries now gates env-source removal
behind prune_env_sources (default True for explicit cleanup paths);
load_pool() passes prune_env_sources=False. File-backed singletons
(device-code OAuth, hermes_pkce) still prune when their backing file is
gone, and explicit removal via `hermes auth remove` (source suppression)
is unaffected.

Fixes #9331.

Co-authored-by: houko <suzukaze.haduki@gmail.com>

* fix(codex): bridge app-server item/started events to Telegram tool-progress (#38835)

When the main provider is the Codex app-server runtime (api_mode
codex_app_server), the gateway showed no verbose 'running X' tool-progress
breadcrumbs on Telegram while every other provider did. The app-server
session processes item/started notifications (command execution, file
changes, MCP/dynamic tool calls) but never surfaced them as Hermes
tool-progress events — the session was constructed without an on_event
hook, so the agent's tool_progress_callback was never invoked on this
route.

Add _codex_note_to_tool_progress() mapping item/started → (tool_name,
preview, args) for commandExecution / fileChange / mcpToolCall /
dynamicToolCall, and wire an on_event hook into CodexAppServerSession that
forwards mapped events to agent.tool_progress_callback('tool.started',
...) — the same signature the chat_completions path uses (tool_executor.py).
Non-tool items (agentMessage/reasoning) and non-item/started methods map
to None and are ignored.

Co-authored-by: jplew <462836+jplew@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(desktop): add Update now button to About panel (#50186)

* fix(telegram): avoid rich messages for CJK text

Telegram Mac/Desktop Bot API 10.1 rich-message rendering leaves garbled
overlapping draft/overlay glyphs for CJK text (#47653), affecting every
message containing CJK characters. The legacy MarkdownV2 path renders the
same text cleanly, so skip the rich send / draft / final-edit paths up
front for content containing CJK (incl. astral-plane extensions) until
affected clients age out. Non-CJK rich rendering is preserved.

Fixes #47653

* fix(file): harden read_file device alias blocking

Security-hardening fix for the read_file device guard, not a new sandbox
boundary. The guard already rejects direct device paths and upstream now
has a resolved-path pass for workspace symlinks to blocked devices, but
its concrete-path helper still compared the expanded path before
normalization. That leaves residual alias cases where the dangerous path
is visible before final terminal-specific resolution, for example:

  1. /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom should match the blocked-device
     list as concrete paths, not only after final realpath;
  2. /dev/stdin-style aliases can disappear once realpath follows them
     to /proc/self/fd/0 and then to a tty path;
  3. a user symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin exposes the dangerous
     intermediate target before final resolution, but not necessarily
     after it.

Normalize expanded paths before matching and inspect each symlink hop
before falling back to realpath. This preserves the existing /proc fd and
/proc pseudo-file guards while enforcing the intended security invariant:
model-supplied read paths must not reach blocking or infinite device
streams through spelling, normalization, or symlink-hop tricks.

Classification: security hardening / residual bypass fix for the
read_file device blocklist. This is defensive code at the file-tool
boundary, but it fixes a concrete denial-of-service class tracked as
security in #10141 and #29158.

Tests:
  - normalized /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom aliases
  - symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin blocked before realpath
  - existing symlink-to-device and regular-symlink guards still pass

Fixes #10141
Fixes #29158

* fix: keep poll read-only for notify_on_complete watcher

* fix(process): keep CLI drain dedup after poll goes read-only (#10156)

Follow-up to @de1tydev's poll-read-only fix. Removing the
_completion_consumed.add() from poll() fixes the gateway/tui watcher
suppression (#10156) but reintroduces the CLI duplicate that #8228 fixed:
a notify_on_complete process always enqueues a completion event, and the
CLI idle/post-turn drain would re-inject it as a [SYSTEM: ...] message
even though the agent already saw the exit inline in its poll result.

Add a separate _poll_observed set that poll() populates on an observed
exit. drain_notifications() (CLI only) skips poll-observed sessions; the
gateway/tui watchers keep checking only is_completion_consumed, so a
read-only poll never suppresses their autonomous delivery turn.

- _poll_observed pruned alongside _completion_consumed in _prune_if_needed
- 4 tests: CLI drain dedup after poll, gateway gate untouched, running
  poll doesn't mark observed, wait/log still skip CLI drain

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for de1tydev (#10158)

* fix(compressor): treat empty-content summary response as failure, not an empty summary (#50297)

When an OpenAI-compatible proxy (e.g. cmkey.cn, one-api Anthropic channels)
returns a well-formed HTTP 200 whose summary content is null or empty/
whitespace-only, _generate_summary coerced it to "" and stored a prefix-only
summary — silently replacing the compacted turns with nothing. The model then
lost all in-progress context after compression (#11978, #11914).

_validate_llm_response already guards None / empty-choices, so those never
reach the compressor; the gap was a well-formed response with empty *content*.
Now treat empty content as a summary failure: raise so it routes through the
existing main-model fallback then transient cooldown, dropping the turns
without a summary rather than wiping context with an empty one.

Also narrow the bare 'except RuntimeError' so only genuine 'No LLM provider
configured' errors take the 600s no-provider cooldown; empty/invalid-response
RuntimeErrors from a configured provider now correctly get the main-model
fallback instead of being misrouted into the long no-provider cooldown.

Reported by @Hung2124; area identified by @annguyenNous in #39590.

* fix(agent): preserve copilot routed headers

* fix(agent): route repeated-compression warning through _emit_status (#36908)

The 'Session compressed N times — accuracy may degrade' warning went
through _vprint (CLI stdout only), so the Ink TUI / Telegram / Discord
never saw it — unlike the two other compression warnings in the same
module, which route through _emit_status (and store _compression_warning
for late-bound gateway status_callback replay).

Set agent._compression_warning + call agent._emit_status() for this
warning too, matching the sibling pattern. _emit_status still _vprints
for the CLI, so CLI output is unchanged; TUI / gateway surfaces now
receive it via status_callback (and replay_compression_warning can
re-deliver it once a late-bound gateway callback is wired).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(session): finalize owned SQLite session rows on AIAgent.close()

Funnel session finalization through AIAgent.close() — the single terminal
path every agent (CLI, gateway, subagent, cron) funnels through — so finished
agents stop leaving rows with ended_at IS NULL. The biggest leak source was
delegate_task subagent + background-review forks whose close() never ended
their row.

end_session() is first-reason-wins and no-ops on an already-ended row, so a
'compression'/'cron_complete'/'cli_close' reason set by an earlier terminal
path is never clobbered. /resume already calls reopen_session(), so
finalizing-on-close does not break resumability.

Temporary helper agents that rotate/share the session forward (manual
compression, gateway session-hygiene) opt out via _end_session_on_close=False.

Also stop the long-running gateway heartbeat once the executor is done or the
session slot is rebound to a different agent, preventing a stale
'running: delegate_task' bubble from outliving its run.

Closes #12029.

* fix(session): opt the background-review fork out of session finalization

The background-review fork (fires ~every 10 turns) pins
review_agent.session_id = agent.session_id — the parent's LIVE id — for
prefix-cache parity, then calls close(). With session finalization now in
close(), that would end the still-active parent session mid-conversation.
Set _end_session_on_close = False on the fork so the real owner (CLI close /
gateway reset / cron) finalizes the session instead.

Follow-up to the #12029 fix.

* fix(tui): /compress shows a before/after summary (#46686)

The TUI /compress slash side-effect compressed the session, synced the
key, and emitted session.info — but returned an empty string, so the
user saw no 'Compressed: N → M messages / ~X → ~Y tokens' feedback. The
CLI (_manual_compress) and gateway (slash_commands) paths both already
call summarize_manual_compression; the TUI slash path was the lone gap.

Snapshot history + rough token estimate before and after compaction and
return the formatted summarize_manual_compression() feedback, mirroring
the session.compress RPC handler. The estimate uses the same
estimate_request_tokens_rough(system_prompt, tools) inputs as the RPC
path, re-reading the system prompt after compaction (it may be rebuilt).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(hindsight): skip local_embedded daemon when running as root

PostgreSQL's initdb refuses to run as root, so the embedded Hindsight
daemon could never initialize its data directory under root. The
daemon-start thread would fail, retry, and loop forever — each cycle
reloading embedding models (~958MB RAM, ~33% CPU) with no user-visible
error, leaving Hermes sluggish on a common VPS/cloud root setup.

initialize() now detects root (os.geteuid() == 0) before spawning the
daemon thread, disables local_embedded mode, and surfaces a clear
warning to both the log and the terminal so the user knows to run as a
non-root user or switch to cloud / local_external mode.

Closes #13125.

Co-authored-by: teknium1 <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bedrock): price Claude prompt-cache tokens in /usage (#50307)

Bedrock Claude routes through the AnthropicBedrock SDK and injects
cache_control, so cached tokens are always reported — but the pricing
table had no cache cost fields for any Bedrock model, so /usage showed
"cost unknown" on every cached session. Also, cross-region inference
profiles (us./global./eu. prefixes) never matched the bare pricing keys.

- Add cache_read/cache_write rates to the four Bedrock Claude rows
  (read 0.1x input, write 1.25x input per the Bedrock pricing page).
- Normalize the cross-region prefix in the Bedrock pricing lookup,
  mirroring is_anthropic_bedrock_model's prefix list.

Closes #50295.

* fix(config): redact api_key in config show/set output (#50245) (#50313)

hermes config show printed the model dict raw via print(), bypassing the
logging redactor; a custom-provider api_key (e.g. Cloudflare cfut_...) was
shown in plaintext even with security.redact_secrets=true. Opaque tokens
don't match any vendor-prefix regex, so structural key-name masking is
required.

- Add redact_config_value(): recursively masks credential-shaped keys
  (api_key/token/secret/... exact-match) via mask_secret.
- Wrap the show_config model dump in it.
- Mask the set_config_value echo when the leaf key is credential-shaped
  (config set model.api_key routes to config.yaml, lowercase misses the
  .env allowlist).

* fix(file): reject read_file line-numbered writeback

* test(file): update guard assertions for unified display-text message

The salvaged #19820 unifies the write_file guard under
_is_internal_file_tool_content with the message 'internal read_file
display text'. Two tests added to test_file_read_guards.py after the PR
branch point still asserted the old 'status text' wording. Update them
to match the new (correct, more general) message.

* fix(gateway): cap inbound media download size to prevent memory exhaustion

Inbound image/audio/video payloads were buffered fully into process memory
before being written to the cache, with no size limit. A large upload
(Discord Nitro allows 500 MB) or a remote media URL in an inbound message
pointing at a huge file could spike RAM and OOM-kill the gateway.

Enforce a configurable cap in the shared cache helpers (gateway/platforms/
base.py) so the protection holds across every platform adapter, not one:

- cache_image/audio/video_from_bytes reject oversized payloads before writing
  (video was the gap in the original report — now covered).
- cache_image/audio_from_url stream the body, rejecting on an oversized
  Content-Length header and re-checking the running total per chunk so an
  absent/lying header can't smuggle an unbounded body past the cap.
- Discord's _read_attachment_bytes checks att.size up front, so an oversized
  attachment is rejected before any bytes are pulled into memory.

Configurable via gateway.max_inbound_media_bytes in config.yaml (default
128 MiB; 0 disables). No new env var — non-secret config lives in config.yaml.

Salvaged and extended from @sgaofen's PR #13341 (the original report and the
shared-helper approach). Reapplied onto current main (Discord adapter has
since moved to plugins/platforms/discord/), the configurable knob moved from
an env var to config.yaml, and the video cache helper added.

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(gateway): persist in-flight transcript on restart/shutdown drain timeout (#50312)

A turn forcibly interrupted by the drain-timeout escalation never reaches
turn_finalizer.finalize_turn (the only place that flushes the turn to
state.db). Its in-flight tool rounds live only in the in-memory
_session_messages, so the immediate pre-restart turn was silently dropped
from load_transcript() on resume.

_finalize_shutdown_agents now flushes _session_messages to the SQLite
session store before teardown. The flush is idempotent (identity-tracked
in _flush_messages_to_session_db), so agents that finished gracefully
re-flush nothing. The resume_pending / fresh-tool-tail branches in
_handle_message_with_agent already expect a transcript whose tail may be a
pending tool result.

Fixes #13121.

* fix(security): redact secrets in kanban tool payloads before persistence

* fix(telegram): make Bot API 10.1 rich messages opt-in (default off)

Rich messages are not ready for primetime: current Telegram clients can
render Bot API 10.1 rich messages as blank/unsupported bubbles and make
them hard to copy as plain text, which is worse than the legacy
MarkdownV2 path for command snippets and mobile handoffs. Default the
rich_messages toggle to False so replies stay on the copyable legacy
path; users opt in per bot via platforms.telegram.extra.rich_messages:
true. Updates adapter, gateway config default, example config, English +
zh-Hans docs, and the default/opt-in tests.

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48422 salvage

* fix(backup): capture memory-provider state stored outside HERMES_HOME (#50325)

hermes backup only walks HERMES_HOME, so memory providers that keep
config/credentials in home-anchored dotdirs (honcho -> ~/.honcho,
hindsight -> ~/.hindsight, openviking -> ~/.openviking) lost that data
across a backup/import cycle — the peer IDs, session pairings, and API
keys never made it into the archive.

Add an optional MemoryProvider.backup_paths() hook (default []). The
active provider declares its external paths; backup resolves them from
config only (no init, no network), archives the ones under the home dir
into a reserved _external/ subtree encoded relative to home, and import
restores them to their original location with a home-anchored traversal
guard and 0600 on credential-shaped files. Paths outside home are
skipped as non-portable.

honcho, hindsight, and openviking override the hook. E2E-validated full
backup->import cycle plus 7 new tests.

* fix(kanban): single-writer dispatch lock to prevent orphan-dispatcher DB corruption (#50331)

A shell-launched 'hermes gateway run --replace' / 'gateway restart' on a
systemd/launchd host can leave an orphan gateway whose kanban dispatcher
escapes the service cgroup, survives 'systemctl restart', and becomes a
second long-lived writer on the shared kanban.db. Two dispatchers that each
believe they own the file both pass SQLite busy_timeout and then race on WAL
frames — the documented root cause of multi-writer corruption (issue #35240).

The existing _guard_supervised_gateway_conflict startup guard blocks the
common way an orphan is born, but does nothing once a second dispatcher
already exists. This adds the defense-in-depth: dispatch_once now wraps every
tick in a non-blocking, board-scoped flock (_dispatch_tick_lock). A losing
dispatcher returns DispatchResult(skipped_locked=True) and does zero DB writes
this tick — so two dispatchers can never run a reclaim/spawn/write sequence
concurrently regardless of how the second one got there.

- Non-blocking (LOCK_NB): never stalls the gateway's async watcher.
- Board-scoped: lock file is a .dispatch.lock sibling of each board's
  kanban.db, so unrelated boards tick in parallel.
- POSIX + Windows (fcntl / msvcrt LK_NBLCK), no-op degrade where neither
  exists — mirrors the existing _cross_process_init_lock pattern.

Verified with a real two-process orphan repro: while a separate process holds
the lock, dispatch_once skips; after release it runs.

* fix(agent): stop delegate cascade from deleting the parent session

_collect_delegate_child_ids() walks the _delegate_from marker chain to
gather delegate subagents for cascade deletion, but started its visited
set empty. When the chain loops back onto a parent — a delegation cycle,
or a parent that is also another parent's delegate child when several ids
are deleted together — that parent was collected as one of its own
descendants and then permanently deleted, along with all of its messages,
by _delete_delegate_children().

Seed the visited set with the parent ids so they can never be re-collected,
and exclude them from the returned child set. Callers (delete_session,
bulk delete) remove the parents separately, so this only prevents the
unintended parent deletion; legitimate child collection is unchanged.

Add regression tests (in-memory sqlite) covering single/multi-level
delegate chains, the parent_session_id+marker branch, untagged children
(orphan-don't-delete contract), and the cycle case that previously leaked
the parent into the deletion set.

Fixes #49148

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path (#50319)

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path

terminal(notify_on_complete=True / watch_patterns) and delegate_task(background=True)
silently no-op'd on the API server / WebUI path (#10760): the watcher / detached
child registered, but every API-server route (OpenAI-spec /v1/chat/completions
and /v1/responses, plus the proprietary /v1/runs SSE stream) tears down its
channel when the turn ends, and APIServerAdapter.send() is a no-op stub. A
completion that fires after the response closed had nowhere to go — from the
agent side, indistinguishable from a hang.

There is no spec-compliant surface to wake the agent later on a stateless HTTP
client, so make the no-op honest instead of silent:

- Add a per-adapter capability flag supports_async_delivery (default True;
  APIServerAdapter = False), propagated into a HERMES_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY
  contextvar via async_delivery_supported(). Toggle on the adapter, not a
  hardcoded platform string — a future stateless adapter is correct-by-default.
- terminal: when delivery is unsupported, skip watcher registration, force
  notify_on_complete off, and return a notify_unsupported note telling the
  agent to process(action='poll').
- delegate_task: when delivery is unsupported, fall back to SYNCHRONOUS
  execution (work runs and returns in the same response) with a note, instead
  of handing out a handle that never resolves.

CLI (in-process completion_queue) and the real gateway platforms are unchanged.

Fixes #10760

* refactor(api-server): route session binding through a single no-delivery chokepoint

Add APIServerAdapter._bind_api_server_session() and route both agent-entry
paths (_run_agent for /v1/chat/completions + /v1/responses, and the /v1/runs
_run_sync path) through it. The helper hardwires platform="api_server" and
async_delivery=False with no async_delivery parameter to pass, so a future
route added to the API server physically cannot reintroduce the silent
no-op (#10760) by forgetting to mark the channel as non-delivering.

The binding stays request-scoped (cleared per turn), so a session resumed
later on a delivering interface (CLI / gateway platform) re-binds fresh and
is NOT blocked — the no-delivery decision tracks the interface handling the
current turn, never the session.

* fix(photon): classify Envoy overflow errors as retryable; add typing cooldown

Closes #50185

Two independent gaps let a transient Photon/Spectrum upstream overflow
degrade message delivery and amplify gRPC pressure:

1. _is_retryable_error did not recognise Photon- or Envoy-specific error
   strings ("internal sidecar error", "upstream connect error",
   "reset reason: overflow"), so _send_with_retry fell through to the
   plain-text fallback immediately instead of backing off and retrying.

2. send_typing had no rate gate, so a burst of typing-indicator calls
   during an overflow event kept hitting the upstream gRPC connection and
   widened the failure window.

Fix:
- Add _PHOTON_RETRYABLE_PATTERNS with the three high-specificity Envoy /
  sidecar substrings and override _is_retryable_error on PhotonAdapter to
  check them after delegating to the base-class patterns.  base.py and all
  other adapters are untouched.
- Add a 5 s per-chat cooldown in send_typing backed by _typing_last_sent.
  stop_typing clears the entry so the next start after a completed turn
  fires immediately — only rapid consecutive starts without a stop are
  suppressed.
- Reduce PhotonAdapter._send_with_retry default max_retries from 2 to 1
  (single 2 s back-off check) — enough to confirm whether the Envoy
  circuit-breaker has opened, without adding unnecessary latency.

All changes are scoped to plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py.

* fix(photon): detect unexpected sidecar death and trigger reconnect

When the Node spectrum-ts sidecar process exited mid-session (crash,
OOM, upstream overflow escalation), _supervise_sidecar returned
silently — readline hit EOF, the log-pump loop broke, and nothing
notified the gateway. _inbound_loop entered an infinite retry loop
against a dead port, _running stayed True, and the adapter remained
in self.adapters with no path to self-recovery short of a manual
gateway restart.

Add a death-detection tail to _supervise_sidecar: after the log-pump
exits (EOF or exception), guard on _inbound_running to distinguish
unexpected death from a deliberate disconnect(). On unexpected exit,
call _set_fatal_error("SIDECAR_CRASHED", retryable=True) followed by
_notify_fatal_error() so the reconnect watcher picks up the platform
within 30 s and retries with exponential backoff (30 s → 300 s cap)
until the sidecar comes back up. All other platforms remain unaffected.

The _inbound_running guard is safe against races: disconnect() sets
_inbound_running = False before _stop_sidecar() cancels the supervisor
task. CancelledError is BaseException, not Exception, so it bypasses
the except clause and propagates normally — the detection block never
runs during a clean shutdown.

* test(photon): cover overflow retry, typing cooldown, sidecar-crash detection

Follow-up for salvaged PR #50256. Unit tests for the three behaviors:
retryable classification of Envoy/sidecar overflow strings, per-chat typing
cooldown with stop_typing reset, and the _supervise_sidecar crash-detection
path that raises a retryable fatal (and the clean-shutdown no-op).

* fix(file): anchor device symlink guard to task cwd

The read_file device guard now walks symlink hops before the file operation
layer, but that hop walk still interpreted relative paths against the Python
process cwd. In sessions where TERMINAL_CWD points at the task workspace, a
relative workspace symlink to a blocked alias such as /dev/../dev/stdin could
therefore miss the intermediate device target before later task-cwd resolution.

Anchor relative device checks to the task base before symlink-hop inspection so
the pre-I/O guard sees the same workspace path that read_file would otherwise
read. Absolute device paths and the existing final realpath fallback remain
unchanged.

Refs #10141
Refs #29158

* feat(hindsight): configurable embedded daemon health grace timeout (#50341)

On resource-contended hosts the embedded Hindsight daemon can exceed a
single 2s /health check; upstream then waits a grace window before
treating it as stale and killing+restarting it (hindsight-embed reads
HINDSIGHT_EMBED_PORT_HEALTH_GRACE_TIMEOUT, default 30s, into a
module-level constant at import time). Users on busy boxes had no
Hermes-side way to raise it short of hand-setting an env var.

Add a 'port_health_grace_timeout' config.json option to the Hindsight
plugin. When set, initialize() exports it to the process env BEFORE
daemon_embed_manager is imported (the import-time read is the contract).
setdefault() so an explicit operator env override always wins. Exposed
in 'hermes memory setup' for local_embedded mode.

Follow-up to #50308 / issue #13125 comment thread.

* fix(web_server): use run_in_executor for gateway pre-warm and drain-timeout

Fixes a regression introduced by the prior approach (synchronous import
hermes_cli.gateway inside _lifespan) that caused a new failure mode:
the blocking import stalled the asyncio event loop before uvicorn could
bind its port, pushing HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY past the desktop shell's
45 s announcement deadline and triggering a respawn loop that accumulated
orphaned backend processes.

Two-part fix:

_lifespan: replace the blocking import with a fire-and-forget
run_in_executor call (_warm_gateway_module).  The import runs in a
worker thread while the server socket is already open, so
HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY fires without delay.

get_status: replace the inline lazy import with
await run_in_executor(None, _resolve_restart_drain_timeout).  This is
the root fix for the original 15 s socket-timeout: the blocking
.pyc-compilation + Defender scan is offloaded to a thread, keeping the
event loop free for every /api/status probe.  After the first call the
module is in sys.modules and the executor returns in microseconds.

Both helpers are extracted as module-level sync functions so they can
be unit-tested independently of FastAPI or uvicorn.

Closes #50209

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(web_server): add integration tests for desktop boot handshake fix

Three tests covering the scenarios from issue #50209 that could not be
validated with real Defender on a fresh install:

1. test_lifespan_warmup_is_nonblocking
   Patches _warm_gateway_module to sleep 3 s. Measures TestClient startup
   time — must complete in < 1.5 s, proving the fire-and-forget
   run_in_executor does not block the event loop before port binding
   (HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY timing proxy).

2. test_get_status_does_not_block_event_loop
   Patches _resolve_restart_drain_timeout to sleep 3 s. Fires concurrent
   GET /api/status and GET /api/version requests. /api/version must
   respond in < 3 s while /api/status waits — proving the event loop
   stays free during the slow import (15 s socket timeout would not fire).

3. test_concurrent_status_probes_all_respond
   Three simultaneous /api/status probes with the slow patch — all must
   return HTTP 200 (no connection resets, no orphan accumulation).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(desktop): make cold-start port-announcement deadline tolerant

The port-announcement clock in waitForDashboardPort starts the instant the
backend process is spawned — before uvicorn binds its socket. On a cold
install the child first compiles and imports the whole hermes_cli.main ->
web_server -> FastAPI/uvicorn chain, and on Windows real-time AV scans every
freshly written .pyc. That pre-bind cost can exceed the old hardcoded 45s
deadline, so the desktop killed a healthy-but-still-starting backend and
respawned it, piling up orphaned processes (#50209).

Raise the default to 90s and make it overridable via
HERMES_DESKTOP_PORT_ANNOUNCE_TIMEOUT_MS, clamped to a 45s floor so a bad
override can't reintroduce the loop. Warm starts still announce in well under
a second; both call sites inherit the new default with no change. Adds
backend-ready.test.cjs (wired into test:desktop:platforms).

* feat(gateway): typed send-error classification (SendResult.error_kind) (#50342)

Add a platform-neutral send-failure vocabulary so consumers can branch on a
typed category instead of substring-matching the raw provider message.

- base.py: SEND_ERROR_KINDS + classify_send_error() (too_long / bad_format /
  forbidden / not_found / rate_limited / transient / unknown), and an optional
  SendResult.error_kind field (defaults None — fully backward compatible).
- telegram.py: populate error_kind on send() failures; message_too_long keeps
  its existing error token plus error_kind='too_long'.

Purely additive: no behavioral change to the existing degrade-and-deliver
paths (MarkdownV2->plain-text fallback, overflow split, retry classification
all untouched). 22 new tests + 210 adapter regression tests green.

* fix(telegram): stop typing indicator lingering after final reply

After the agent's final response, the '...typing' bubble persisted ~5s.
send() re-triggers send_typing() after every delivery so the bubble
survives intermediate progress messages (Telegram clears typing on each
delivered message). But that re-trigger also fired on the FINAL send,
re-arming Telegram's ~5s timer AFTER the gateway had already torn down
its typing-refresh loop — and Telegram exposes no stop-typing API, so
nothing cancelled it.

Gate the post-send re-trigger on the absence of metadata['notify'] (set
only on the final user-visible reply via _mark_notify_metadata). Both
the rich-message and legacy send paths are covered; intermediate
progress sends still re-trigger so the bubble stays alive mid-response.

Fixes #48678

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48678 salvage

* feat(plugins): add ctx.profile_name for session-agnostic profile access (#50346)

Plugins previously had no way to read the active profile name from the
PluginContext. The workaround in the wild — reaching into
ctx._manager._cli_ref — only works in an interactive CLI session;
_cli_ref is None in the gateway and in kanban-spawned worker sessions
(hermes -p <profile> chat -q ...), so the workaround breaks exactly
where multi-profile awareness matters most.

ctx.profile_name wraps hermes_cli.profiles.get_active_profile_name(),
which derives the name from HERMES_HOME and therefore works in every
execution context with zero dependency on _cli_ref.

* feat(kanban): add task lifecycle plugin hooks (claimed/completed/blocked) (#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(cli): branch new worktrees from the fresh remote tip, not stale local HEAD (#50355)

hermes -w created the worktree branch from the standalone clone's HEAD, which
lags origin when the clone isn't freshly updated (it's only refreshed by
hermes update, not per session). Every worktree branch then rooted on a stale
base, so the PR diff GitHub computes against current main ballooned with
unrelated changes and the agent had to discover the staleness at push time and
rebase.

_resolve_worktree_base() now fetches and branches from the freshest available
ref: the current branch's upstream if it tracks one (so a deliberate
feature-branch worktree tracks its own remote), else the remote's default
branch (origin/HEAD), else local HEAD as a fail-soft fallback (offline / no
remote / detached). A bogus 'origin/(unknown)' default is guarded, and worktree
creation retries from HEAD if branching off the remote ref fails — so this is
never worse than the old behavior.

Gated by worktree_sync (default true); set worktree_sync: false to keep the
old branch-from-local-HEAD behavior. The resolved base is printed in the
session banner.

This is the follow-up to the #50319 session, where the standalone clone was
213 commits behind origin and the worktree inherited that stale base.

* fix(kanban): pin worker TERMINAL_CWD to the task workspace (#50348)

_default_spawn launched the worker subprocess with cwd=workspace and set
HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACE, but never set TERMINAL_CWD — so the worker inherited
the dispatching gateway's TERMINAL_CWD. That value takes precedence over the
process cwd in two places:

- tools/file_tools.py::_resolve_base_dir — a relative write_file path resolved
  against the gateway user's home instead of the workspace, so artifacts
  silently landed outside the workspace (#41312).
- agent_init's context-file loader — AGENTS.md was discovered relative to the
  gateway's cwd, so under multi-profile dispatch a worker loaded whichever
  gateway won the claim race's AGENTS.md, not the task's (#34619).

Both are the same root cause. Pinning TERMINAL_CWD to the workspace (where the
task's work actually happens) fixes both. Guarded on an existing absolute dir
because file_tools rejects relative/sentinel TERMINAL_CWD values — a non-dir
workspace leaves the inherited value rather than writing a meaningless one.

Closes #34619, closes #41312.

* fix(kanban): bound the cross-process init lock so connect() can't hang forever (#50353)

connect() wrapped its entire body in an unbounded blocking flock(LOCK_EX) on
every call (_cross_process_init_lock). A single process stalled inside the
critical section — or a stale lock held by a wedged worker — blocked every
other connect(), including the long-lived gateway dispatcher's next-tick
connect, forever. No timeout, no traceback, no recovery: the board silently
stopped being worked until a manual restart (issue #36644).

Two fixes:

1. Fast-path skip: once THIS process has initialized a path, the expensive
   first-open work (header validation, integrity probe, schema + additive
   migrations) is already cached in _INITIALIZED_PATHS. The steady-state
   connect has nothing for the cross-process lock to protect, so it now opens
   the connection (WAL + pragmas) under only the cheap in-process _INIT_LOCK
   and never touches the file lock. This removes the lock from the dispatcher's
   hot path entirely — a stalled external 'hermes kanban list' can no longer
   block ticks.

2. Bounded acquire: even on first-init, _cross_process_init_lock now retries a
   non-blocking acquire up to a 10s deadline, then logs a WARNING and proceeds
   WITHOUT the cross-process lock. Safe because the in-process _INIT_LOCK still
   serializes same-process threads and the init work is idempotent
   (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS + additive migrations) — worst case is redundant
   work, not corruption. A bounded 'proceed anyway' beats an unbounded hang.

Windows path switched LK_LOCK -> LK_NBLCK (non-blocking) to match.

Closes #36644.

* fix(kanban): honor kanban.auto_decompose toggle live, without a gateway restart (#50358)

The gateway dispatcher captured kanban.auto_decompose ONCE at boot, so a user
who flipped it to false to STOP auto-decompose had no way to make that take
effect short of restarting the gateway. Reported (#49638): auto-decompose
created and launched tasks the user never intended (while they were still
typing the task description), and 'even Hermes Agent couldn't disable this
feature' — because the live config edit was silently ignored.

Auto-decompose is a safety toggle; turning it off must halt fan-out on the
next tick. The dispatcher now re-reads the flag (and auto_decompose_per_tick)
from config every tick via the extracted _resolve_auto_decompose_settings(),
which fails SAFE (disabled) on a config read error so a transient failure can
never re-enable a feature the user turned off.

Closes #49638.

* fix(security): validate snapshot_id and file paths in restore_quick_snapshot to prevent path traversal

* test(backup): add regression tests for restore_quick_snapshot path traversal

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR, the security fix is behaviorally
correct but lacks focused regression coverage for the two traversal
vectors it closes. Adding tests now so the path-traversal guard
cannot silently regress.

* test_restore_rejects_snapshot_id_traversal -- exercises the
  snapshot_id input guard with seven hostile values (parent
  traversal, single parent, bare '.', bare '..', forward slash,
  backslash, empty string). Each must return False without touching
  the filesystem.

* test_restore_rejects_manifest_rel_traversal -- exercises the
  manifest rel guard by injecting '../../outside.txt' into a real
  snapshot's manifest.json, seeding a source payload at the escaped
  path, and asserting the destination outside HERMES_HOME does not
  exist after restore. This is the higher-value test of the pair --
  verified locally that it fails without the fix in
  restore_quick_snapshot (the escape destination gets written) and
  passes with the fix in place.

The 67 pre-existing tests in test_backup.py continue to pass.

* fix(kanban): make reclaim claim-lock-aware to stop task/run status desync (#50366)

After a worker crash + reclaim + respawn, the board could show a task in the
Ready lane while its task_run was 'running' and the new worker was actively
executing (#36910). The dispatcher could then treat live work as available and
double-assign.

Root cause: the three reclaim paths (detect_crashed_workers,
release_stale_claims heartbeat-stale backstop, enforce_max_runtime) each
snapshot a task's worker_pid/claim_lock, do liveness work, then reset
tasks.status back to 'ready' with only a 'WHERE status=running' guard. If the
task was reclaimed AND re-claimed by a NEW worker in between (new run, new
claim_lock, live pid), the stale UPDATE clobbered the live task: status flipped
to 'ready' while the fresh run stayed 'running'. claim_task is the only writer
that sets status='running', so nothing put it back — permanent desync.

Fix: gate each reset on the snapshot's claim_lock (and worker_pid where
available) so it only fires when the task is still owned by the worker the
reclaim was computed for. A stale reclaim now no-ops (rowcount 0) instead of
desyncing a re-claimed task. Genuine crashes (lock still matches) reclaim
exactly as before.

This is the same race class the in-gateway dispatch lock (single-writer ticks)
mitigates, closed at the row level so a single dispatcher's fast
reclaim->respawn across two ticks is also safe.

Closes #36910.

* docs(ui-tui): fix file paths, add billing command, update file map

* docs(ui-tui): add billing.step_up.verification event + perfPane.tsx to README

Follow-up on salvaged #50347: the event surface table was missing the
billing.step_up.verification switch case, and the File map omitted
lib/perfPane.tsx.

* docs(plugins): document acting from hooks via ctx.profile_name + dispatch_tool (#50352)

Answers a recurring plugin-author question: how to read the active
profile and drive Hermes from inside a hook callback when ctx._cli_ref
is None (gateway, hermes chat -q, and kanban-spawned worker sessions).

- Adds a 'Act from inside a hook' section to the plugin guide covering
  ctx.profile_name and ctx.dispatch_tool as the session-agnostic APIs,
  with a kanban_task_blocked example, and notes there is no in-process
  slash-command bridge for headless workers (shell out via the terminal
  tool instead).
- Adds the three kanban lifecycle hooks to the hook reference table with
  their process semantics.
- Pins the contract with a regression test: ctx.dispatch_tool invokes a
  tool handler with _cli_ref=None (worker/hook context).

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(windows): prefer cmd npm shim on PATH fallback

* fix(security): sanitize kanban markdown html

* fix(cli): guard missing ui-tui workspace before TUI launch

* fix(cli): auto-restore a deleted ui-tui workspace from git before TUI launch

The Windows update path can leave tracked ui-tui/ files deleted in the
working tree (HEAD intact). The guard now self-heals: when ui-tui/ is
missing in a git checkout, run `git restore -- ui-tui` and continue,
falling back to the printed manual-recovery steps only when git can't
recover it (no checkout / restore failed).

Builds on konsisumer's missing-workspace guard.

* fix(cli): make ZIP-update directory replace atomic so it can't delete ui-tui

Root cause of #49145: the Windows ZIP-update path did rmtree(dst) then
copytree(src, dst). If the copy failed partway — common on that path,
which only runs because file I/O is already flaky on the machine — the
directory was left deleted with nothing copied back. ui-tui/ vanishing
is what broke 'hermes --tui' (WinError 267), but the bug hit every
top-level directory.

_atomic_replace_dir stages the new copy into a sibling temp dir and only
swaps it in on full success, restoring the original on failure. A failed
update now leaves the live tree untouched instead of half-deleted.

* fix(gateway): pause Telegram typing before stream finalize

In Telegram streaming, the typing indicator persisted through the slow
final rich-text/MarkdownV2 finalize edit, so the '...typing' bubble
lingered for seconds after the last streamed token. Add a one-shot
on_before_finalize hook to GatewayStreamConsumer, fired once when the
stream transitions into its finalization path, and wire it on both
Telegram streaming call sites to call pause_typing_for_chat() before
the final edit. Cover hook ordering and once-only behavior in tests.

Fixes #49712

* fix(desktop/windows): stop in-app update from cascading into a backend restart loop (#50381)

When a Windows user relaunches Hermes while an in-app update is still
running (the desktop vanished with no progress and looks crashed), the
fresh instance spawns its own dashboard backend. That backend re-locks
the venv shim, the updater's straggler cleanup (force_kill_other_hermes
-> taskkill /F /T /IM hermes.exe) kills it, the launch dies with the 45s
"backend didn't come up" timeout, and the user relaunches into the same
trap -- an infinite respawn/kill loop (#50238).

Root cause: no mutual exclusion between an applying update and a fresh
desktop spawning its own local backend.

Fix: the updater publishes a HERMES_HOME/.hermes-update-in-progress
marker (pid + start time) for the whole run via an RAII drop-guard that
removes it on every exit path (success, early return, panic). A
freshly-launched desktop checks the marker before spawning its local
backend and PARKS until the update finishes -- then brings the backend
up itself (it is the surviving instance; the updater's own relaunch hits
the single-instance lock and quits). A stale marker (dead pid or past a
20-minute ceiling) is pruned so a crashed updater can never strand
future launches. No rogue backend spawns mid-update, so
force_kill_other_hermes has nothing legitimate to kill.

Marker parse/staleness logic is extracted to update-marker.cjs and
unit-tested; the Rust guard has unit tests; the Rust-write <-> JS-read
contract is E2E-verified.

* fix(whatsapp): normalize bare phone targets to JIDs before bridge send

Baileys' jidDecode crashes ("Cannot destructure property 'user' of
jidDecode(...) as it is undefined") when handed a bare phone number, so
sending a WhatsApp message to +50766715226 / 50766715226 returned HTTP
500 and never delivered (#8637).

Add to_whatsapp_jid() to gateway/whatsapp_identity.py — the outbound
inverse of normalize_whatsapp_identifier: it builds the JID a send must
use (bare phone -> <digits>@s.whatsapp.net) and passes through already
qualified JIDs (@g.us, @lid, status@broadcast, @newsletter) unchanged.
Wire it at every outbound bridge call site in the WhatsApp adapter
(send, edit, media, typing, get_chat_info, and the standalone cron /
send_message sender).

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(security): fail-closed when WebSocket peer is empty in loopback mode

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR (#15544), the original fix was
correct but the file has refactored since: the four endpoint-local
empty-peer checks have been consolidated into _ws_client_is_allowed
and _ws_client_reason, but the helpers were left fail-open ('no peer
host known means allow' / 'no reason to block').

On a loopback-bound dashboard with auth disabled, an ASGI server
behind a misconfigured proxy or a unix-socket transport can deliver
ws.client == None or ws.client.host == ''. The helpers were treating
that as 'allowed', so the loopback-only peer gate could be bypassed
by anything that suppressed the client tuple in transit. All four
WebSocket endpoints (/api/pty, /api/ws, /api/pub, /api/events) route
through _ws_request_is_allowed -> _ws_client_is_allowed, so the gap
applied uniformly.

Fix:

* _ws_client_is_allowed: return False when client_host is empty
  instead of True. Only reached on loopback bind with auth disabled
  (auth_required=True and explicit non-loopback binds short-circuit
  earlier), so the fail-closed behavior is scoped to the surface
  that needs it.

* _ws_client_reason: return a 'missing_or_empty_peer bound=...'
  block reason instead of None, so the dispatcher's existing
  reason-based rejection path picks it up and the close gets logged
  with a machine-parseable token for diagnosability.

Behavior unchanged for:

* gated mode (auth_required=True) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. The OAuth ticket is the auth at that point.
* explicit non-loopback bind (--host 0.0.0.0/::, or a specific LAN
  address, always with --insecure) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. DNS-rebinding is still blocked by the
  Host/Origin guard in _ws_host_origin_is_allowed.
* legitimate loopback peers (client_host == '127.0.0.1' / '::1') —
  not affected by the empty-peer branch.

Regression tests added in tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py:

* test_empty_client_host_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_missing_client_object_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_empty_client_host_reason_is_block

Plus two regression guards to ensure the fix does not over-reach:

* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_insecure_public_mode
* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_gated_mode

All three new fail-closed tests fail without this patch (the helpers
return True / None for an empty peer) and pass with it. The 45
pre-existing tests in test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py continue to pass.

* fix(model-switch): a failed in-place swap must be a no-op, not a dead session (#50375)

When a /model switch resolves a valid model but the in-place agent swap
fails mid-conversation (expired key, unreachable base_url), the agent
rolls itself back to the old working model+client and re-raises. The
callers caught that re-raise, logged a warning, then committed the broken
switch anyway: wrote the failed model to the session DB, set
_session_model_overrides to the broken model/provider/key, and (gateway
direct path) evicted the working cached agent. The next message then
rebuilt a dead agent from the broken override -> permanently unusable
conversation (#50163).

Fix the whole caller class so a failed swap aborts the commit entirely:

- gateway/slash_commands.py (picker + direct /model paths): on swap
  failure, early-return an error message; skip DB persist, session
  override, cache eviction, and config write.
- cli.py (both /model handlers): snapshot CLI-level credential/runtime
  fields before mutating, restore them on swap failure, and abort the
  note + success print.
- tui_gateway/server.py: wrap the previously-unguarded swap; on failure
  raise a clean error and skip worker restart, runtime persist, switch
  marker, session model_override, and config persist.

The no-cached-agent path (apply-on-next-session) is unaffected.

Adds a gateway regression test that fails on the pre-fix behavior.

* fix(gateway): respawn unmapped Windows gateways after update (#50090) (#50373)

On Windows, _pause_windows_gateways_for_update() force-kills every running
gateway before mutating the venv. Gateways mapped to a profile (via
profile.path/gateway…
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* feat(gateway): track active_agents in runtime status on turn boundaries

The gateway only rewrote gateway_state.json on lifecycle transitions
(start/connect/drain/stop), never on turn start/end. Live-verified on a
hosted agent: a confirmed end-to-end turn ran while gateway_updated_at
stayed frozen at boot and active_agents was absent — so any active_agents
read from the file between transitions is stale. That makes it unusable
as a busy/idle signal for an external consumer (NAS deciding whether it's
safe to restart/migrate/auto-update an agent mid-turn).

Add _persist_active_agents(), called at every turn boundary:
  - turn start: both running-agent sentinel-claim sites (normal inbound
    message path + startup-resume path)
  - turn end: the central _release_running_agent_state() choke point
    (covers normal completion, /stop, /reset, sentinel cleanup,
    stale-eviction — every path that ends a running turn)

It passes ONLY active_agents to write_runtime_status, leaving
gateway_state (and every other field) _UNSET so the read-merge-write
preserves the current lifecycle state. Passing gateway_state=None would
clobber it — hence a dedicated helper rather than reusing
_update_runtime_status. The write is the same cheap JSON write done on
lifecycle transitions today; best-effort (a failed status write never
disrupts a turn).

Behaviour-contract test: an active_agents-only write preserves both
running and draining gateway_state, and the count clamps non-negative.

* feat(dashboard): surface gateway busy/drainable on /api/status

Give an external consumer (NAS) a trustworthy, always-reachable busy/idle
readout it can poll before a disruptive lifecycle action (restart,
migrate, stop, auto-update). The dashboard /api/status is the only HTTP
surface guaranteed up on a hosted agent regardless of which gateway
platforms are enabled, and it already reads gateway_state.json.

Add to /api/status (additive, non-breaking):
  - active_agents       — in-flight gateway-turn count (now refreshed
                          per-turn by the companion gateway-side commit)
  - gateway_busy        — running AND active_agents > 0
  - gateway_drainable   — running and live (a valid begin-drain target)
  - restart_drain_timeout — resolved seconds, so the consumer can size its
                          poll deadline without out-of-band knowledge
                          (env HERMES_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT → config
                          agent.restart_drain_timeout → default)

The busy/drainable contract is defined once in gateway.status
(derive_gateway_busy / derive_gateway_drainable) and consumed by both
/api/status and /health/detailed so the two surfaces can never disagree.
Liveness keys off gateway_running (a live PID/health probe), NEVER
gateway_updated_at — a healthy idle gateway never advances that timestamp.
All derived fields degrade to safe falsy values when the gateway is down
or the status file is absent/corrupt (never a spurious "busy" that would
wedge the consumer). active_sessions (the 5-min DB recency heuristic the
SPA reads) is left exactly as-is — new signal, new fields.

Tests (behaviour contracts, not snapshots): the pure derivation contract
across every running/state/count/liveness combination; /api/status
integration for busy, idle-drainable, draining, down, stale-busy-file,
corrupt-count, and timeout surfacing; and /health/detailed parity.

* refactor(gateway): dedupe drain-timeout resolution + share active_agents parse

Follow-up cleanups on top of the busy/idle readout (PR #50103):

- web_server.py /api/status reused the single drain-timeout resolver
  hermes_cli.gateway._get_restart_drain_timeout() (HERMES_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT
  env -> agent.restart_drain_timeout config -> default) instead of inlining a
  third hand-rolled copy of that precedence chain. Also fixes a subtle
  divergence: the inline copy used os.environ.get() so a set-but-empty env var
  was treated as a value rather than falling through to config; the shared
  resolver .strip()s and falls through correctly.
- Added gateway.status.parse_active_agents() and routed BOTH HTTP surfaces
  (/api/status and /health/detailed) through it, so the exposed active_agents
  field is consistently clamped non-negative. Previously /api/status clamped
  while /health/detailed exposed the raw file value, diverging on a corrupt
  count.
- Added TestParseActiveAgents covering the shared coercion contract.

* refactor(gateway): route all active_agents coercion through parse_active_agents; harden drain-timeout fallback

Second cleanup pass (simplify-code review of the first follow-up):

- write_runtime_status now clamps active_agents via parse_active_agents
  instead of an inline max(0, int(...)). Removes the duplicated clamp the
  helper's docstring acknowledged AND closes a write-side ValueError gap
  (a non-numeric active_agents previously raised; now degrades to 0).
- hermes_cli/gateway.py draining-status line routes its active-agents count
  through parse_active_agents too — the third coercion site of the same
  persisted field, now consistent and non-raising with the two HTTP surfaces.
- web_server.py /api/status: the drain-timeout resolver fallback now catches
  ImportError specifically and falls back to DEFAULT_GATEWAY_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT
  (a real float) instead of a blanket 'except Exception -> None'. None would
  have violated the surfaced field's int/float contract and stripped NAS's
  poll-deadline hint silently.
- Dropped a redundant 'if runtime else 0' branch (parse_active_agents already
  handles the empty/None case) and tightened the parse_active_agents docstring
  to describe the actual single-contract role (write + both reads).

* fix(agent): scale tool-output budget to the model context window (#23767)

The tool-result persistence budget was a fixed 100K chars/result and 200K
chars/turn regardless of the active model. On a small-context model (e.g. a
65K-token local model switched into mid-session) a single large tool result
(reporter: a 279K-char search result) or a full 200K-char turn (~50K tokens)
could by itself approach or exceed the window, forcing an oversized request
that the provider rejects as "Prompt too long".

- budget_config.budget_for_context_window() scales per-result/per-turn char
  caps to a fraction of the model window, clamped to the historical 100K/200K
  defaults (large models unchanged) and floored so small models stay usable.
- resolve_threshold() now caps the per-tool registry value at default_result_size
  so tools that register a fixed 100K cap (web/terminal/x_search) don't re-inflate
  a scaled-down budget. No-op for the default budget (both 100K).
- tool_executor wires the agent's live context_length (recomputed on model
  switch) into all four persist/turn-budget call sites.

read_file stays inf-pinned (no persist loop). Verified E2E: a 279K-char result
against a 65K model collapses to a ~1.6K preview; a 200K model is byte-identical
to today.

* fix(agent): reset stale token calibration on model switch (#23767)

ContextCompressor.update_model() recomputed context_length/threshold/budgets
but kept the cross-call calibration state (last_real_prompt_tokens,
last_rough_tokens_when_real_prompt_fit, last_compression_rough_tokens,
awaiting_real_usage_after_compression, _ineffective_compression_count) from the
PREVIOUS model.

Those fields encode 'the provider proved this prompt fit' / 'preflight can be
deferred' decisions valid only for the model that produced them. Carried across
a switch to a smaller-context model, should_defer_preflight_to_real_usage() used
the old model's 'it fit' history to SKIP a preflight compression the new model
actually needed — sending an oversized prompt the provider rejects (#23767).

update_model() now clears that state; the new model's first response repopulates
it via update_from_response(). Verified E2E: after a 200K->65,536 switch, defer
no longer suppresses and should_compress fires on an over-threshold estimate.

* fix(telegram): keep chunk markers outside code fences

When truncate_message appends a (N/M) chunk indicator to a chunk that
had to close an in-progress fenced code block, the marker lands on the
closing fence line (``` \(1/2\) after MarkdownV2 escaping). Telegram
does not treat that as a clean closing fence and rejects the MarkdownV2,
falling back to plain text. Move the indicator onto its own line right
after the closing fence at all three legacy-send call sites.

Fixes #48517

* fix(agent): guard finalize_turn cleanup chain so it never drops the response (#50009)

When a turn hit max_iterations, finalize_turn ran three unguarded cleanup
steps after the model's summary — _save_trajectory (file I/O), _cleanup_task_resources
(remote VM/browser teardown), and _persist_session (SQLite write). Any raise
there propagated out of run_conversation, discarding the partial final_response
the caller was waiting for; subprocess wrappers saw an empty stdout with no
traceback (#8049).

Each step is now guarded independently so one failure can't skip the others.
Failures log at ERROR with a traceback and are surfaced on the result dict via
cleanup_errors; the partial response is always returned.

Closes #8049.

* fix(cli): persist sessions before shutdown

* feat(api-server): configurable concurrent-run cap to prevent DoS (#50007)

The OpenAI-compatible API server only enforced a hardcoded cap of 10
concurrent runs on /v1/runs, leaving /v1/chat/completions and
/v1/responses unbounded — a request flood could exhaust CPU, memory,
and upstream LLM quota (#7483).

- Add gateway.api_server.max_concurrent_runs (config.yaml, default 10,
  0 disables). No env var.
- Shared concurrency gate across all three agent-serving endpoints,
  counting both the chat/responses in-flight counter and the /v1/runs
  stream set. Returns OpenAI-style 429 + Retry-After when at the cap.
- Remove the dead hardcoded _MAX_CONCURRENT_RUNS class attribute.

Closes #7483.

* fix(tui): persist session messages on force-quit / signal shutdown

Mirror the CLI's exit-path behaviour in the TUI gateway so that
unpersisted conversation messages are flushed to state.db and the
on_session_end plugin hook fires before the session is closed.

Root cause: _finalize_session() only called db.end_session() to
mark the session row as ended, but did NOT flush in-memory messages
via _persist_session() or fire the on_session_end hook.  When the
user force-quit (double Ctrl-C, terminal-close, SIGHUP) while the
agent was mid-turn, messages accumulated since the last persist
point were silently lost.

Changes
-------
tui_gateway/server.py - _finalize_session():
  - Persist unflushed messages via agent._persist_session() before
    db.end_session(). Prefers agent._session_messages (set by the
    last _persist_session call inside run_conversation) over
    session['history'] (stale when agent is mid-turn).
  - Fire on_session_end(interrupted=True) plugin hook so crash-
    recovery plugins can flush buffers, matching cli.py behaviour.

tui_gateway/entry.py - _log_signal():
  - Explicitly call _shutdown_sessions() before sys.exit(0) in the
    SIGHUP/SIGTERM handler as belt-and-suspenders over atexit.

tests/tui_gateway/test_finalize_session_persist.py (new):
  - 11 tests covering: history persistence, _session_messages
    priority, empty-history skip, missing-agent, double-finalize,
    persist-exception resilience, hook firing, hook-exception
    resilience, and db.end_session preservation.

Related
-------
Closes the TUI half of #5021 (CLI already handles this via its
atexit handler).  Also addresses the session-persistence gap
discussed in #18465 and #18269.

* fix(browser): enable SSRF guard when terminal runs in container

When terminal.backend is docker/modal/daytona/ssh/singularity, the
terminal runs in a sandboxed container with network isolation, but the
browser still runs on the host.  The SSRF guard was skipped because
_is_local_backend() only checked browser.cloud_provider, not the
terminal backend.

Now _is_local_backend() also checks TERMINAL_ENV — when the terminal
is containerized, the browser is treated as non-local and SSRF
protection is enabled.

Fixes #38690

* fix(compression): auto-compression triggers at minimum context length (#14690)

The compaction threshold is max(context_length * threshold_percent,
MINIMUM_CONTEXT_LENGTH=64000). The floor prevents premature compression on
large models, but degenerates at small windows: a model at exactly 64000
ctx gets max(32000, 64000) = 64000 — a threshold equal to the ENTIRE
window. should_compress() can then never fire, because the provider
rejects the request before usage reaches 100%. Auto-compression silently
never triggers for any model whose context_length <= MINIMUM /
threshold_percent (e.g. 64K-per-slot local models).

Centralize the calc in _compute_threshold_tokens(). When the floor would
meet or exceed the context window, trigger at 85% of the window
(_MIN_CTX_TRIGGER_RATIO) — high enough that a minimum-context model uses
most of its budget before compacting (compacting at the 50% percentage
would waste half the small window), but below 100% so compaction actually
fires before the provider rejects the request. This mirrors the existing
gpt-5.5/Codex 85% autoraise rationale. Large-context behavior (floor at
64000) is unchanged; both call sites (__init__ and update_model) use the
shared helper.

Co-authored-by: soynchux <soynchuux@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <154585401+LeonSGP43@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tranquil-Flow <tranquil_flow@protonmail.com>

* fix(gateway): raise session-hygiene hard message limit 400 → 5000 (#50194)

The gateway pre-compression hygiene valve force-compressed any session
crossing 400 messages regardless of token usage. On large-context (1M+)
models doing many short, message-dense turns, a healthy session at ~16%
token usage could hit 400 messages and get force-compressed — and the
compression summary's stale Active Task could then bleed into the next
turn.

The valve's actual purpose is to break a death spiral: when API calls
keep disconnecting on an oversized session, no token-usage data arrives,
the token threshold never fires, and the transcript grows unbounded.
It's a count-based floor for that pathological case only. 400 was tuned
for ~200K-context models and is far too low for modern large-context
sessions. Raise the default to 5000 — still well clear of any death
spiral, but no longer firing on legitimate long conversations.

The value remains fully configurable via compression.hygiene_hard_message_limit.

* fix(telegram): preserve newlines in rich slash-command output (#46070)

Bot API 10.1 sendRichMessage treats a lone newline as a soft break, so
multi-line content joined with "\n".join(lines) — slash-command lists,
etc. — collapses into a single paragraph. Normalize single newlines to
Markdown hard breaks (two trailing spaces) in _rich_message_payload,
leaving paragraph breaks and fenced code blocks untouched.

Fixes #46070

* fix(telegram): exempt tables from rich newline hard-breaks

The newline normalization is the shared chokepoint for every rich send
(sendRichMessage, draft, and editMessageText). Injecting a Markdown hard
break (two trailing spaces) into a GFM table row separator corrupts the
natively-rendered table — the rich path's headline feature. Protect both
fenced code blocks AND pipe-table blocks as bare regions; only prose
between them gets hard breaks. Verified RICH_CONTENT and the existing
rich-table tests stay byte-identical.

* fix(auth): make load_pool() non-destructive for env-seeded credentials

load_pool() is meant to be a read, but it persistently pruned env-seeded
pool entries whenever the calling process's os.environ lacked the seeding
var. A process without MINIMAX_API_KEY would delete the persisted
env:MINIMAX_API_KEY entry from auth.json for every other process, causing
auth.json to oscillate and auxiliary auto-detect to fall through to the
wrong provider.

env:* entries are persisted references re-hydrated from the environment on
each load — a missing var means "cannot re-seed right now", not "source is
gone forever". _prune_stale_seeded_entries now gates env-source removal
behind prune_env_sources (default True for explicit cleanup paths);
load_pool() passes prune_env_sources=False. File-backed singletons
(device-code OAuth, hermes_pkce) still prune when their backing file is
gone, and explicit removal via `hermes auth remove` (source suppression)
is unaffected.

Fixes #9331.

Co-authored-by: houko <suzukaze.haduki@gmail.com>

* fix(codex): bridge app-server item/started events to Telegram tool-progress (#38835)

When the main provider is the Codex app-server runtime (api_mode
codex_app_server), the gateway showed no verbose 'running X' tool-progress
breadcrumbs on Telegram while every other provider did. The app-server
session processes item/started notifications (command execution, file
changes, MCP/dynamic tool calls) but never surfaced them as Hermes
tool-progress events — the session was constructed without an on_event
hook, so the agent's tool_progress_callback was never invoked on this
route.

Add _codex_note_to_tool_progress() mapping item/started → (tool_name,
preview, args) for commandExecution / fileChange / mcpToolCall /
dynamicToolCall, and wire an on_event hook into CodexAppServerSession that
forwards mapped events to agent.tool_progress_callback('tool.started',
...) — the same signature the chat_completions path uses (tool_executor.py).
Non-tool items (agentMessage/reasoning) and non-item/started methods map
to None and are ignored.

Co-authored-by: jplew <462836+jplew@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(desktop): add Update now button to About panel (#50186)

* fix(telegram): avoid rich messages for CJK text

Telegram Mac/Desktop Bot API 10.1 rich-message rendering leaves garbled
overlapping draft/overlay glyphs for CJK text (#47653), affecting every
message containing CJK characters. The legacy MarkdownV2 path renders the
same text cleanly, so skip the rich send / draft / final-edit paths up
front for content containing CJK (incl. astral-plane extensions) until
affected clients age out. Non-CJK rich rendering is preserved.

Fixes #47653

* fix(file): harden read_file device alias blocking

Security-hardening fix for the read_file device guard, not a new sandbox
boundary. The guard already rejects direct device paths and upstream now
has a resolved-path pass for workspace symlinks to blocked devices, but
its concrete-path helper still compared the expanded path before
normalization. That leaves residual alias cases where the dangerous path
is visible before final terminal-specific resolution, for example:

  1. /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom should match the blocked-device
     list as concrete paths, not only after final realpath;
  2. /dev/stdin-style aliases can disappear once realpath follows them
     to /proc/self/fd/0 and then to a tty path;
  3. a user symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin exposes the dangerous
     intermediate target before final resolution, but not necessarily
     after it.

Normalize expanded paths before matching and inspect each symlink hop
before falling back to realpath. This preserves the existing /proc fd and
/proc pseudo-file guards while enforcing the intended security invariant:
model-supplied read paths must not reach blocking or infinite device
streams through spelling, normalization, or symlink-hop tricks.

Classification: security hardening / residual bypass fix for the
read_file device blocklist. This is defensive code at the file-tool
boundary, but it fixes a concrete denial-of-service class tracked as
security in #10141 and #29158.

Tests:
  - normalized /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom aliases
  - symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin blocked before realpath
  - existing symlink-to-device and regular-symlink guards still pass

Fixes #10141
Fixes #29158

* fix: keep poll read-only for notify_on_complete watcher

* fix(process): keep CLI drain dedup after poll goes read-only (#10156)

Follow-up to @de1tydev's poll-read-only fix. Removing the
_completion_consumed.add() from poll() fixes the gateway/tui watcher
suppression (#10156) but reintroduces the CLI duplicate that #8228 fixed:
a notify_on_complete process always enqueues a completion event, and the
CLI idle/post-turn drain would re-inject it as a [SYSTEM: ...] message
even though the agent already saw the exit inline in its poll result.

Add a separate _poll_observed set that poll() populates on an observed
exit. drain_notifications() (CLI only) skips poll-observed sessions; the
gateway/tui watchers keep checking only is_completion_consumed, so a
read-only poll never suppresses their autonomous delivery turn.

- _poll_observed pruned alongside _completion_consumed in _prune_if_needed
- 4 tests: CLI drain dedup after poll, gateway gate untouched, running
  poll doesn't mark observed, wait/log still skip CLI drain

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for de1tydev (#10158)

* fix(compressor): treat empty-content summary response as failure, not an empty summary (#50297)

When an OpenAI-compatible proxy (e.g. cmkey.cn, one-api Anthropic channels)
returns a well-formed HTTP 200 whose summary content is null or empty/
whitespace-only, _generate_summary coerced it to "" and stored a prefix-only
summary — silently replacing the compacted turns with nothing. The model then
lost all in-progress context after compression (#11978, #11914).

_validate_llm_response already guards None / empty-choices, so those never
reach the compressor; the gap was a well-formed response with empty *content*.
Now treat empty content as a summary failure: raise so it routes through the
existing main-model fallback then transient cooldown, dropping the turns
without a summary rather than wiping context with an empty one.

Also narrow the bare 'except RuntimeError' so only genuine 'No LLM provider
configured' errors take the 600s no-provider cooldown; empty/invalid-response
RuntimeErrors from a configured provider now correctly get the main-model
fallback instead of being misrouted into the long no-provider cooldown.

Reported by @Hung2124; area identified by @annguyenNous in #39590.

* fix(agent): preserve copilot routed headers

* fix(agent): route repeated-compression warning through _emit_status (#36908)

The 'Session compressed N times — accuracy may degrade' warning went
through _vprint (CLI stdout only), so the Ink TUI / Telegram / Discord
never saw it — unlike the two other compression warnings in the same
module, which route through _emit_status (and store _compression_warning
for late-bound gateway status_callback replay).

Set agent._compression_warning + call agent._emit_status() for this
warning too, matching the sibling pattern. _emit_status still _vprints
for the CLI, so CLI output is unchanged; TUI / gateway surfaces now
receive it via status_callback (and replay_compression_warning can
re-deliver it once a late-bound gateway callback is wired).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(session): finalize owned SQLite session rows on AIAgent.close()

Funnel session finalization through AIAgent.close() — the single terminal
path every agent (CLI, gateway, subagent, cron) funnels through — so finished
agents stop leaving rows with ended_at IS NULL. The biggest leak source was
delegate_task subagent + background-review forks whose close() never ended
their row.

end_session() is first-reason-wins and no-ops on an already-ended row, so a
'compression'/'cron_complete'/'cli_close' reason set by an earlier terminal
path is never clobbered. /resume already calls reopen_session(), so
finalizing-on-close does not break resumability.

Temporary helper agents that rotate/share the session forward (manual
compression, gateway session-hygiene) opt out via _end_session_on_close=False.

Also stop the long-running gateway heartbeat once the executor is done or the
session slot is rebound to a different agent, preventing a stale
'running: delegate_task' bubble from outliving its run.

Closes #12029.

* fix(session): opt the background-review fork out of session finalization

The background-review fork (fires ~every 10 turns) pins
review_agent.session_id = agent.session_id — the parent's LIVE id — for
prefix-cache parity, then calls close(). With session finalization now in
close(), that would end the still-active parent session mid-conversation.
Set _end_session_on_close = False on the fork so the real owner (CLI close /
gateway reset / cron) finalizes the session instead.

Follow-up to the #12029 fix.

* fix(tui): /compress shows a before/after summary (#46686)

The TUI /compress slash side-effect compressed the session, synced the
key, and emitted session.info — but returned an empty string, so the
user saw no 'Compressed: N → M messages / ~X → ~Y tokens' feedback. The
CLI (_manual_compress) and gateway (slash_commands) paths both already
call summarize_manual_compression; the TUI slash path was the lone gap.

Snapshot history + rough token estimate before and after compaction and
return the formatted summarize_manual_compression() feedback, mirroring
the session.compress RPC handler. The estimate uses the same
estimate_request_tokens_rough(system_prompt, tools) inputs as the RPC
path, re-reading the system prompt after compaction (it may be rebuilt).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(hindsight): skip local_embedded daemon when running as root

PostgreSQL's initdb refuses to run as root, so the embedded Hindsight
daemon could never initialize its data directory under root. The
daemon-start thread would fail, retry, and loop forever — each cycle
reloading embedding models (~958MB RAM, ~33% CPU) with no user-visible
error, leaving Hermes sluggish on a common VPS/cloud root setup.

initialize() now detects root (os.geteuid() == 0) before spawning the
daemon thread, disables local_embedded mode, and surfaces a clear
warning to both the log and the terminal so the user knows to run as a
non-root user or switch to cloud / local_external mode.

Closes #13125.

Co-authored-by: teknium1 <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bedrock): price Claude prompt-cache tokens in /usage (#50307)

Bedrock Claude routes through the AnthropicBedrock SDK and injects
cache_control, so cached tokens are always reported — but the pricing
table had no cache cost fields for any Bedrock model, so /usage showed
"cost unknown" on every cached session. Also, cross-region inference
profiles (us./global./eu. prefixes) never matched the bare pricing keys.

- Add cache_read/cache_write rates to the four Bedrock Claude rows
  (read 0.1x input, write 1.25x input per the Bedrock pricing page).
- Normalize the cross-region prefix in the Bedrock pricing lookup,
  mirroring is_anthropic_bedrock_model's prefix list.

Closes #50295.

* fix(config): redact api_key in config show/set output (#50245) (#50313)

hermes config show printed the model dict raw via print(), bypassing the
logging redactor; a custom-provider api_key (e.g. Cloudflare cfut_...) was
shown in plaintext even with security.redact_secrets=true. Opaque tokens
don't match any vendor-prefix regex, so structural key-name masking is
required.

- Add redact_config_value(): recursively masks credential-shaped keys
  (api_key/token/secret/... exact-match) via mask_secret.
- Wrap the show_config model dump in it.
- Mask the set_config_value echo when the leaf key is credential-shaped
  (config set model.api_key routes to config.yaml, lowercase misses the
  .env allowlist).

* fix(file): reject read_file line-numbered writeback

* test(file): update guard assertions for unified display-text message

The salvaged #19820 unifies the write_file guard under
_is_internal_file_tool_content with the message 'internal read_file
display text'. Two tests added to test_file_read_guards.py after the PR
branch point still asserted the old 'status text' wording. Update them
to match the new (correct, more general) message.

* fix(gateway): cap inbound media download size to prevent memory exhaustion

Inbound image/audio/video payloads were buffered fully into process memory
before being written to the cache, with no size limit. A large upload
(Discord Nitro allows 500 MB) or a remote media URL in an inbound message
pointing at a huge file could spike RAM and OOM-kill the gateway.

Enforce a configurable cap in the shared cache helpers (gateway/platforms/
base.py) so the protection holds across every platform adapter, not one:

- cache_image/audio/video_from_bytes reject oversized payloads before writing
  (video was the gap in the original report — now covered).
- cache_image/audio_from_url stream the body, rejecting on an oversized
  Content-Length header and re-checking the running total per chunk so an
  absent/lying header can't smuggle an unbounded body past the cap.
- Discord's _read_attachment_bytes checks att.size up front, so an oversized
  attachment is rejected before any bytes are pulled into memory.

Configurable via gateway.max_inbound_media_bytes in config.yaml (default
128 MiB; 0 disables). No new env var — non-secret config lives in config.yaml.

Salvaged and extended from @sgaofen's PR #13341 (the original report and the
shared-helper approach). Reapplied onto current main (Discord adapter has
since moved to plugins/platforms/discord/), the configurable knob moved from
an env var to config.yaml, and the video cache helper added.

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(gateway): persist in-flight transcript on restart/shutdown drain timeout (#50312)

A turn forcibly interrupted by the drain-timeout escalation never reaches
turn_finalizer.finalize_turn (the only place that flushes the turn to
state.db). Its in-flight tool rounds live only in the in-memory
_session_messages, so the immediate pre-restart turn was silently dropped
from load_transcript() on resume.

_finalize_shutdown_agents now flushes _session_messages to the SQLite
session store before teardown. The flush is idempotent (identity-tracked
in _flush_messages_to_session_db), so agents that finished gracefully
re-flush nothing. The resume_pending / fresh-tool-tail branches in
_handle_message_with_agent already expect a transcript whose tail may be a
pending tool result.

Fixes #13121.

* fix(security): redact secrets in kanban tool payloads before persistence

* fix(telegram): make Bot API 10.1 rich messages opt-in (default off)

Rich messages are not ready for primetime: current Telegram clients can
render Bot API 10.1 rich messages as blank/unsupported bubbles and make
them hard to copy as plain text, which is worse than the legacy
MarkdownV2 path for command snippets and mobile handoffs. Default the
rich_messages toggle to False so replies stay on the copyable legacy
path; users opt in per bot via platforms.telegram.extra.rich_messages:
true. Updates adapter, gateway config default, example config, English +
zh-Hans docs, and the default/opt-in tests.

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48422 salvage

* fix(backup): capture memory-provider state stored outside HERMES_HOME (#50325)

hermes backup only walks HERMES_HOME, so memory providers that keep
config/credentials in home-anchored dotdirs (honcho -> ~/.honcho,
hindsight -> ~/.hindsight, openviking -> ~/.openviking) lost that data
across a backup/import cycle — the peer IDs, session pairings, and API
keys never made it into the archive.

Add an optional MemoryProvider.backup_paths() hook (default []). The
active provider declares its external paths; backup resolves them from
config only (no init, no network), archives the ones under the home dir
into a reserved _external/ subtree encoded relative to home, and import
restores them to their original location with a home-anchored traversal
guard and 0600 on credential-shaped files. Paths outside home are
skipped as non-portable.

honcho, hindsight, and openviking override the hook. E2E-validated full
backup->import cycle plus 7 new tests.

* fix(kanban): single-writer dispatch lock to prevent orphan-dispatcher DB corruption (#50331)

A shell-launched 'hermes gateway run --replace' / 'gateway restart' on a
systemd/launchd host can leave an orphan gateway whose kanban dispatcher
escapes the service cgroup, survives 'systemctl restart', and becomes a
second long-lived writer on the shared kanban.db. Two dispatchers that each
believe they own the file both pass SQLite busy_timeout and then race on WAL
frames — the documented root cause of multi-writer corruption (issue #35240).

The existing _guard_supervised_gateway_conflict startup guard blocks the
common way an orphan is born, but does nothing once a second dispatcher
already exists. This adds the defense-in-depth: dispatch_once now wraps every
tick in a non-blocking, board-scoped flock (_dispatch_tick_lock). A losing
dispatcher returns DispatchResult(skipped_locked=True) and does zero DB writes
this tick — so two dispatchers can never run a reclaim/spawn/write sequence
concurrently regardless of how the second one got there.

- Non-blocking (LOCK_NB): never stalls the gateway's async watcher.
- Board-scoped: lock file is a .dispatch.lock sibling of each board's
  kanban.db, so unrelated boards tick in parallel.
- POSIX + Windows (fcntl / msvcrt LK_NBLCK), no-op degrade where neither
  exists — mirrors the existing _cross_process_init_lock pattern.

Verified with a real two-process orphan repro: while a separate process holds
the lock, dispatch_once skips; after release it runs.

* fix(agent): stop delegate cascade from deleting the parent session

_collect_delegate_child_ids() walks the _delegate_from marker chain to
gather delegate subagents for cascade deletion, but started its visited
set empty. When the chain loops back onto a parent — a delegation cycle,
or a parent that is also another parent's delegate child when several ids
are deleted together — that parent was collected as one of its own
descendants and then permanently deleted, along with all of its messages,
by _delete_delegate_children().

Seed the visited set with the parent ids so they can never be re-collected,
and exclude them from the returned child set. Callers (delete_session,
bulk delete) remove the parents separately, so this only prevents the
unintended parent deletion; legitimate child collection is unchanged.

Add regression tests (in-memory sqlite) covering single/multi-level
delegate chains, the parent_session_id+marker branch, untagged children
(orphan-don't-delete contract), and the cycle case that previously leaked
the parent into the deletion set.

Fixes #49148

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path (#50319)

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path

terminal(notify_on_complete=True / watch_patterns) and delegate_task(background=True)
silently no-op'd on the API server / WebUI path (#10760): the watcher / detached
child registered, but every API-server route (OpenAI-spec /v1/chat/completions
and /v1/responses, plus the proprietary /v1/runs SSE stream) tears down its
channel when the turn ends, and APIServerAdapter.send() is a no-op stub. A
completion that fires after the response closed had nowhere to go — from the
agent side, indistinguishable from a hang.

There is no spec-compliant surface to wake the agent later on a stateless HTTP
client, so make the no-op honest instead of silent:

- Add a per-adapter capability flag supports_async_delivery (default True;
  APIServerAdapter = False), propagated into a HERMES_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY
  contextvar via async_delivery_supported(). Toggle on the adapter, not a
  hardcoded platform string — a future stateless adapter is correct-by-default.
- terminal: when delivery is unsupported, skip watcher registration, force
  notify_on_complete off, and return a notify_unsupported note telling the
  agent to process(action='poll').
- delegate_task: when delivery is unsupported, fall back to SYNCHRONOUS
  execution (work runs and returns in the same response) with a note, instead
  of handing out a handle that never resolves.

CLI (in-process completion_queue) and the real gateway platforms are unchanged.

Fixes #10760

* refactor(api-server): route session binding through a single no-delivery chokepoint

Add APIServerAdapter._bind_api_server_session() and route both agent-entry
paths (_run_agent for /v1/chat/completions + /v1/responses, and the /v1/runs
_run_sync path) through it. The helper hardwires platform="api_server" and
async_delivery=False with no async_delivery parameter to pass, so a future
route added to the API server physically cannot reintroduce the silent
no-op (#10760) by forgetting to mark the channel as non-delivering.

The binding stays request-scoped (cleared per turn), so a session resumed
later on a delivering interface (CLI / gateway platform) re-binds fresh and
is NOT blocked — the no-delivery decision tracks the interface handling the
current turn, never the session.

* fix(photon): classify Envoy overflow errors as retryable; add typing cooldown

Closes #50185

Two independent gaps let a transient Photon/Spectrum upstream overflow
degrade message delivery and amplify gRPC pressure:

1. _is_retryable_error did not recognise Photon- or Envoy-specific error
   strings ("internal sidecar error", "upstream connect error",
   "reset reason: overflow"), so _send_with_retry fell through to the
   plain-text fallback immediately instead of backing off and retrying.

2. send_typing had no rate gate, so a burst of typing-indicator calls
   during an overflow event kept hitting the upstream gRPC connection and
   widened the failure window.

Fix:
- Add _PHOTON_RETRYABLE_PATTERNS with the three high-specificity Envoy /
  sidecar substrings and override _is_retryable_error on PhotonAdapter to
  check them after delegating to the base-class patterns.  base.py and all
  other adapters are untouched.
- Add a 5 s per-chat cooldown in send_typing backed by _typing_last_sent.
  stop_typing clears the entry so the next start after a completed turn
  fires immediately — only rapid consecutive starts without a stop are
  suppressed.
- Reduce PhotonAdapter._send_with_retry default max_retries from 2 to 1
  (single 2 s back-off check) — enough to confirm whether the Envoy
  circuit-breaker has opened, without adding unnecessary latency.

All changes are scoped to plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py.

* fix(photon): detect unexpected sidecar death and trigger reconnect

When the Node spectrum-ts sidecar process exited mid-session (crash,
OOM, upstream overflow escalation), _supervise_sidecar returned
silently — readline hit EOF, the log-pump loop broke, and nothing
notified the gateway. _inbound_loop entered an infinite retry loop
against a dead port, _running stayed True, and the adapter remained
in self.adapters with no path to self-recovery short of a manual
gateway restart.

Add a death-detection tail to _supervise_sidecar: after the log-pump
exits (EOF or exception), guard on _inbound_running to distinguish
unexpected death from a deliberate disconnect(). On unexpected exit,
call _set_fatal_error("SIDECAR_CRASHED", retryable=True) followed by
_notify_fatal_error() so the reconnect watcher picks up the platform
within 30 s and retries with exponential backoff (30 s → 300 s cap)
until the sidecar comes back up. All other platforms remain unaffected.

The _inbound_running guard is safe against races: disconnect() sets
_inbound_running = False before _stop_sidecar() cancels the supervisor
task. CancelledError is BaseException, not Exception, so it bypasses
the except clause and propagates normally — the detection block never
runs during a clean shutdown.

* test(photon): cover overflow retry, typing cooldown, sidecar-crash detection

Follow-up for salvaged PR #50256. Unit tests for the three behaviors:
retryable classification of Envoy/sidecar overflow strings, per-chat typing
cooldown with stop_typing reset, and the _supervise_sidecar crash-detection
path that raises a retryable fatal (and the clean-shutdown no-op).

* fix(file): anchor device symlink guard to task cwd

The read_file device guard now walks symlink hops before the file operation
layer, but that hop walk still interpreted relative paths against the Python
process cwd. In sessions where TERMINAL_CWD points at the task workspace, a
relative workspace symlink to a blocked alias such as /dev/../dev/stdin could
therefore miss the intermediate device target before later task-cwd resolution.

Anchor relative device checks to the task base before symlink-hop inspection so
the pre-I/O guard sees the same workspace path that read_file would otherwise
read. Absolute device paths and the existing final realpath fallback remain
unchanged.

Refs #10141
Refs #29158

* feat(hindsight): configurable embedded daemon health grace timeout (#50341)

On resource-contended hosts the embedded Hindsight daemon can exceed a
single 2s /health check; upstream then waits a grace window before
treating it as stale and killing+restarting it (hindsight-embed reads
HINDSIGHT_EMBED_PORT_HEALTH_GRACE_TIMEOUT, default 30s, into a
module-level constant at import time). Users on busy boxes had no
Hermes-side way to raise it short of hand-setting an env var.

Add a 'port_health_grace_timeout' config.json option to the Hindsight
plugin. When set, initialize() exports it to the process env BEFORE
daemon_embed_manager is imported (the import-time read is the contract).
setdefault() so an explicit operator env override always wins. Exposed
in 'hermes memory setup' for local_embedded mode.

Follow-up to #50308 / issue #13125 comment thread.

* fix(web_server): use run_in_executor for gateway pre-warm and drain-timeout

Fixes a regression introduced by the prior approach (synchronous import
hermes_cli.gateway inside _lifespan) that caused a new failure mode:
the blocking import stalled the asyncio event loop before uvicorn could
bind its port, pushing HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY past the desktop shell's
45 s announcement deadline and triggering a respawn loop that accumulated
orphaned backend processes.

Two-part fix:

_lifespan: replace the blocking import with a fire-and-forget
run_in_executor call (_warm_gateway_module).  The import runs in a
worker thread while the server socket is already open, so
HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY fires without delay.

get_status: replace the inline lazy import with
await run_in_executor(None, _resolve_restart_drain_timeout).  This is
the root fix for the original 15 s socket-timeout: the blocking
.pyc-compilation + Defender scan is offloaded to a thread, keeping the
event loop free for every /api/status probe.  After the first call the
module is in sys.modules and the executor returns in microseconds.

Both helpers are extracted as module-level sync functions so they can
be unit-tested independently of FastAPI or uvicorn.

Closes #50209

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(web_server): add integration tests for desktop boot handshake fix

Three tests covering the scenarios from issue #50209 that could not be
validated with real Defender on a fresh install:

1. test_lifespan_warmup_is_nonblocking
   Patches _warm_gateway_module to sleep 3 s. Measures TestClient startup
   time — must complete in < 1.5 s, proving the fire-and-forget
   run_in_executor does not block the event loop before port binding
   (HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY timing proxy).

2. test_get_status_does_not_block_event_loop
   Patches _resolve_restart_drain_timeout to sleep 3 s. Fires concurrent
   GET /api/status and GET /api/version requests. /api/version must
   respond in < 3 s while /api/status waits — proving the event loop
   stays free during the slow import (15 s socket timeout would not fire).

3. test_concurrent_status_probes_all_respond
   Three simultaneous /api/status probes with the slow patch — all must
   return HTTP 200 (no connection resets, no orphan accumulation).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(desktop): make cold-start port-announcement deadline tolerant

The port-announcement clock in waitForDashboardPort starts the instant the
backend process is spawned — before uvicorn binds its socket. On a cold
install the child first compiles and imports the whole hermes_cli.main ->
web_server -> FastAPI/uvicorn chain, and on Windows real-time AV scans every
freshly written .pyc. That pre-bind cost can exceed the old hardcoded 45s
deadline, so the desktop killed a healthy-but-still-starting backend and
respawned it, piling up orphaned processes (#50209).

Raise the default to 90s and make it overridable via
HERMES_DESKTOP_PORT_ANNOUNCE_TIMEOUT_MS, clamped to a 45s floor so a bad
override can't reintroduce the loop. Warm starts still announce in well under
a second; both call sites inherit the new default with no change. Adds
backend-ready.test.cjs (wired into test:desktop:platforms).

* feat(gateway): typed send-error classification (SendResult.error_kind) (#50342)

Add a platform-neutral send-failure vocabulary so consumers can branch on a
typed category instead of substring-matching the raw provider message.

- base.py: SEND_ERROR_KINDS + classify_send_error() (too_long / bad_format /
  forbidden / not_found / rate_limited / transient / unknown), and an optional
  SendResult.error_kind field (defaults None — fully backward compatible).
- telegram.py: populate error_kind on send() failures; message_too_long keeps
  its existing error token plus error_kind='too_long'.

Purely additive: no behavioral change to the existing degrade-and-deliver
paths (MarkdownV2->plain-text fallback, overflow split, retry classification
all untouched). 22 new tests + 210 adapter regression tests green.

* fix(telegram): stop typing indicator lingering after final reply

After the agent's final response, the '...typing' bubble persisted ~5s.
send() re-triggers send_typing() after every delivery so the bubble
survives intermediate progress messages (Telegram clears typing on each
delivered message). But that re-trigger also fired on the FINAL send,
re-arming Telegram's ~5s timer AFTER the gateway had already torn down
its typing-refresh loop — and Telegram exposes no stop-typing API, so
nothing cancelled it.

Gate the post-send re-trigger on the absence of metadata['notify'] (set
only on the final user-visible reply via _mark_notify_metadata). Both
the rich-message and legacy send paths are covered; intermediate
progress sends still re-trigger so the bubble stays alive mid-response.

Fixes #48678

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48678 salvage

* feat(plugins): add ctx.profile_name for session-agnostic profile access (#50346)

Plugins previously had no way to read the active profile name from the
PluginContext. The workaround in the wild — reaching into
ctx._manager._cli_ref — only works in an interactive CLI session;
_cli_ref is None in the gateway and in kanban-spawned worker sessions
(hermes -p <profile> chat -q ...), so the workaround breaks exactly
where multi-profile awareness matters most.

ctx.profile_name wraps hermes_cli.profiles.get_active_profile_name(),
which derives the name from HERMES_HOME and therefore works in every
execution context with zero dependency on _cli_ref.

* feat(kanban): add task lifecycle plugin hooks (claimed/completed/blocked) (#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(cli): branch new worktrees from the fresh remote tip, not stale local HEAD (#50355)

hermes -w created the worktree branch from the standalone clone's HEAD, which
lags origin when the clone isn't freshly updated (it's only refreshed by
hermes update, not per session). Every worktree branch then rooted on a stale
base, so the PR diff GitHub computes against current main ballooned with
unrelated changes and the agent had to discover the staleness at push time and
rebase.

_resolve_worktree_base() now fetches and branches from the freshest available
ref: the current branch's upstream if it tracks one (so a deliberate
feature-branch worktree tracks its own remote), else the remote's default
branch (origin/HEAD), else local HEAD as a fail-soft fallback (offline / no
remote / detached). A bogus 'origin/(unknown)' default is guarded, and worktree
creation retries from HEAD if branching off the remote ref fails — so this is
never worse than the old behavior.

Gated by worktree_sync (default true); set worktree_sync: false to keep the
old branch-from-local-HEAD behavior. The resolved base is printed in the
session banner.

This is the follow-up to the #50319 session, where the standalone clone was
213 commits behind origin and the worktree inherited that stale base.

* fix(kanban): pin worker TERMINAL_CWD to the task workspace (#50348)

_default_spawn launched the worker subprocess with cwd=workspace and set
HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACE, but never set TERMINAL_CWD — so the worker inherited
the dispatching gateway's TERMINAL_CWD. That value takes precedence over the
process cwd in two places:

- tools/file_tools.py::_resolve_base_dir — a relative write_file path resolved
  against the gateway user's home instead of the workspace, so artifacts
  silently landed outside the workspace (#41312).
- agent_init's context-file loader — AGENTS.md was discovered relative to the
  gateway's cwd, so under multi-profile dispatch a worker loaded whichever
  gateway won the claim race's AGENTS.md, not the task's (#34619).

Both are the same root cause. Pinning TERMINAL_CWD to the workspace (where the
task's work actually happens) fixes both. Guarded on an existing absolute dir
because file_tools rejects relative/sentinel TERMINAL_CWD values — a non-dir
workspace leaves the inherited value rather than writing a meaningless one.

Closes #34619, closes #41312.

* fix(kanban): bound the cross-process init lock so connect() can't hang forever (#50353)

connect() wrapped its entire body in an unbounded blocking flock(LOCK_EX) on
every call (_cross_process_init_lock). A single process stalled inside the
critical section — or a stale lock held by a wedged worker — blocked every
other connect(), including the long-lived gateway dispatcher's next-tick
connect, forever. No timeout, no traceback, no recovery: the board silently
stopped being worked until a manual restart (issue #36644).

Two fixes:

1. Fast-path skip: once THIS process has initialized a path, the expensive
   first-open work (header validation, integrity probe, schema + additive
   migrations) is already cached in _INITIALIZED_PATHS. The steady-state
   connect has nothing for the cross-process lock to protect, so it now opens
   the connection (WAL + pragmas) under only the cheap in-process _INIT_LOCK
   and never touches the file lock. This removes the lock from the dispatcher's
   hot path entirely — a stalled external 'hermes kanban list' can no longer
   block ticks.

2. Bounded acquire: even on first-init, _cross_process_init_lock now retries a
   non-blocking acquire up to a 10s deadline, then logs a WARNING and proceeds
   WITHOUT the cross-process lock. Safe because the in-process _INIT_LOCK still
   serializes same-process threads and the init work is idempotent
   (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS + additive migrations) — worst case is redundant
   work, not corruption. A bounded 'proceed anyway' beats an unbounded hang.

Windows path switched LK_LOCK -> LK_NBLCK (non-blocking) to match.

Closes #36644.

* fix(kanban): honor kanban.auto_decompose toggle live, without a gateway restart (#50358)

The gateway dispatcher captured kanban.auto_decompose ONCE at boot, so a user
who flipped it to false to STOP auto-decompose had no way to make that take
effect short of restarting the gateway. Reported (#49638): auto-decompose
created and launched tasks the user never intended (while they were still
typing the task description), and 'even Hermes Agent couldn't disable this
feature' — because the live config edit was silently ignored.

Auto-decompose is a safety toggle; turning it off must halt fan-out on the
next tick. The dispatcher now re-reads the flag (and auto_decompose_per_tick)
from config every tick via the extracted _resolve_auto_decompose_settings(),
which fails SAFE (disabled) on a config read error so a transient failure can
never re-enable a feature the user turned off.

Closes #49638.

* fix(security): validate snapshot_id and file paths in restore_quick_snapshot to prevent path traversal

* test(backup): add regression tests for restore_quick_snapshot path traversal

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR, the security fix is behaviorally
correct but lacks focused regression coverage for the two traversal
vectors it closes. Adding tests now so the path-traversal guard
cannot silently regress.

* test_restore_rejects_snapshot_id_traversal -- exercises the
  snapshot_id input guard with seven hostile values (parent
  traversal, single parent, bare '.', bare '..', forward slash,
  backslash, empty string). Each must return False without touching
  the filesystem.

* test_restore_rejects_manifest_rel_traversal -- exercises the
  manifest rel guard by injecting '../../outside.txt' into a real
  snapshot's manifest.json, seeding a source payload at the escaped
  path, and asserting the destination outside HERMES_HOME does not
  exist after restore. This is the higher-value test of the pair --
  verified locally that it fails without the fix in
  restore_quick_snapshot (the escape destination gets written) and
  passes with the fix in place.

The 67 pre-existing tests in test_backup.py continue to pass.

* fix(kanban): make reclaim claim-lock-aware to stop task/run status desync (#50366)

After a worker crash + reclaim + respawn, the board could show a task in the
Ready lane while its task_run was 'running' and the new worker was actively
executing (#36910). The dispatcher could then treat live work as available and
double-assign.

Root cause: the three reclaim paths (detect_crashed_workers,
release_stale_claims heartbeat-stale backstop, enforce_max_runtime) each
snapshot a task's worker_pid/claim_lock, do liveness work, then reset
tasks.status back to 'ready' with only a 'WHERE status=running' guard. If the
task was reclaimed AND re-claimed by a NEW worker in between (new run, new
claim_lock, live pid), the stale UPDATE clobbered the live task: status flipped
to 'ready' while the fresh run stayed 'running'. claim_task is the only writer
that sets status='running', so nothing put it back — permanent desync.

Fix: gate each reset on the snapshot's claim_lock (and worker_pid where
available) so it only fires when the task is still owned by the worker the
reclaim was computed for. A stale reclaim now no-ops (rowcount 0) instead of
desyncing a re-claimed task. Genuine crashes (lock still matches) reclaim
exactly as before.

This is the same race class the in-gateway dispatch lock (single-writer ticks)
mitigates, closed at the row level so a single dispatcher's fast
reclaim->respawn across two ticks is also safe.

Closes #36910.

* docs(ui-tui): fix file paths, add billing command, update file map

* docs(ui-tui): add billing.step_up.verification event + perfPane.tsx to README

Follow-up on salvaged #50347: the event surface table was missing the
billing.step_up.verification switch case, and the File map omitted
lib/perfPane.tsx.

* docs(plugins): document acting from hooks via ctx.profile_name + dispatch_tool (#50352)

Answers a recurring plugin-author question: how to read the active
profile and drive Hermes from inside a hook callback when ctx._cli_ref
is None (gateway, hermes chat -q, and kanban-spawned worker sessions).

- Adds a 'Act from inside a hook' section to the plugin guide covering
  ctx.profile_name and ctx.dispatch_tool as the session-agnostic APIs,
  with a kanban_task_blocked example, and notes there is no in-process
  slash-command bridge for headless workers (shell out via the terminal
  tool instead).
- Adds the three kanban lifecycle hooks to the hook reference table with
  their process semantics.
- Pins the contract with a regression test: ctx.dispatch_tool invokes a
  tool handler with _cli_ref=None (worker/hook context).

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(windows): prefer cmd npm shim on PATH fallback

* fix(security): sanitize kanban markdown html

* fix(cli): guard missing ui-tui workspace before TUI launch

* fix(cli): auto-restore a deleted ui-tui workspace from git before TUI launch

The Windows update path can leave tracked ui-tui/ files deleted in the
working tree (HEAD intact). The guard now self-heals: when ui-tui/ is
missing in a git checkout, run `git restore -- ui-tui` and continue,
falling back to the printed manual-recovery steps only when git can't
recover it (no checkout / restore failed).

Builds on konsisumer's missing-workspace guard.

* fix(cli): make ZIP-update directory replace atomic so it can't delete ui-tui

Root cause of #49145: the Windows ZIP-update path did rmtree(dst) then
copytree(src, dst). If the copy failed partway — common on that path,
which only runs because file I/O is already flaky on the machine — the
directory was left deleted with nothing copied back. ui-tui/ vanishing
is what broke 'hermes --tui' (WinError 267), but the bug hit every
top-level directory.

_atomic_replace_dir stages the new copy into a sibling temp dir and only
swaps it in on full success, restoring the original on failure. A failed
update now leaves the live tree untouched instead of half-deleted.

* fix(gateway): pause Telegram typing before stream finalize

In Telegram streaming, the typing indicator persisted through the slow
final rich-text/MarkdownV2 finalize edit, so the '...typing' bubble
lingered for seconds after the last streamed token. Add a one-shot
on_before_finalize hook to GatewayStreamConsumer, fired once when the
stream transitions into its finalization path, and wire it on both
Telegram streaming call sites to call pause_typing_for_chat() before
the final edit. Cover hook ordering and once-only behavior in tests.

Fixes #49712

* fix(desktop/windows): stop in-app update from cascading into a backend restart loop (#50381)

When a Windows user relaunches Hermes while an in-app update is still
running (the desktop vanished with no progress and looks crashed), the
fresh instance spawns its own dashboard backend. That backend re-locks
the venv shim, the updater's straggler cleanup (force_kill_other_hermes
-> taskkill /F /T /IM hermes.exe) kills it, the launch dies with the 45s
"backend didn't come up" timeout, and the user relaunches into the same
trap -- an infinite respawn/kill loop (#50238).

Root cause: no mutual exclusion between an applying update and a fresh
desktop spawning its own local backend.

Fix: the updater publishes a HERMES_HOME/.hermes-update-in-progress
marker (pid + start time) for the whole run via an RAII drop-guard that
removes it on every exit path (success, early return, panic). A
freshly-launched desktop checks the marker before spawning its local
backend and PARKS until the update finishes -- then brings the backend
up itself (it is the surviving instance; the updater's own relaunch hits
the single-instance lock and quits). A stale marker (dead pid or past a
20-minute ceiling) is pruned so a crashed updater can never strand
future launches. No rogue backend spawns mid-update, so
force_kill_other_hermes has nothing legitimate to kill.

Marker parse/staleness logic is extracted to update-marker.cjs and
unit-tested; the Rust guard has unit tests; the Rust-write <-> JS-read
contract is E2E-verified.

* fix(whatsapp): normalize bare phone targets to JIDs before bridge send

Baileys' jidDecode crashes ("Cannot destructure property 'user' of
jidDecode(...) as it is undefined") when handed a bare phone number, so
sending a WhatsApp message to +50766715226 / 50766715226 returned HTTP
500 and never delivered (#8637).

Add to_whatsapp_jid() to gateway/whatsapp_identity.py — the outbound
inverse of normalize_whatsapp_identifier: it builds the JID a send must
use (bare phone -> <digits>@s.whatsapp.net) and passes through already
qualified JIDs (@g.us, @lid, status@broadcast, @newsletter) unchanged.
Wire it at every outbound bridge call site in the WhatsApp adapter
(send, edit, media, typing, get_chat_info, and the standalone cron /
send_message sender).

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(security): fail-closed when WebSocket peer is empty in loopback mode

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR (#15544), the original fix was
correct but the file has refactored since: the four endpoint-local
empty-peer checks have been consolidated into _ws_client_is_allowed
and _ws_client_reason, but the helpers were left fail-open ('no peer
host known means allow' / 'no reason to block').

On a loopback-bound dashboard with auth disabled, an ASGI server
behind a misconfigured proxy or a unix-socket transport can deliver
ws.client == None or ws.client.host == ''. The helpers were treating
that as 'allowed', so the loopback-only peer gate could be bypassed
by anything that suppressed the client tuple in transit. All four
WebSocket endpoints (/api/pty, /api/ws, /api/pub, /api/events) route
through _ws_request_is_allowed -> _ws_client_is_allowed, so the gap
applied uniformly.

Fix:

* _ws_client_is_allowed: return False when client_host is empty
  instead of True. Only reached on loopback bind with auth disabled
  (auth_required=True and explicit non-loopback binds short-circuit
  earlier), so the fail-closed behavior is scoped to the surface
  that needs it.

* _ws_client_reason: return a 'missing_or_empty_peer bound=...'
  block reason instead of None, so the dispatcher's existing
  reason-based rejection path picks it up and the close gets logged
  with a machine-parseable token for diagnosability.

Behavior unchanged for:

* gated mode (auth_required=True) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. The OAuth ticket is the auth at that point.
* explicit non-loopback bind (--host 0.0.0.0/::, or a specific LAN
  address, always with --insecure) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. DNS-rebinding is still blocked by the
  Host/Origin guard in _ws_host_origin_is_allowed.
* legitimate loopback peers (client_host == '127.0.0.1' / '::1') —
  not affected by the empty-peer branch.

Regression tests added in tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py:

* test_empty_client_host_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_missing_client_object_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_empty_client_host_reason_is_block

Plus two regression guards to ensure the fix does not over-reach:

* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_insecure_public_mode
* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_gated_mode

All three new fail-closed tests fail without this patch (the helpers
return True / None for an empty peer) and pass with it. The 45
pre-existing tests in test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py continue to pass.

* fix(model-switch): a failed in-place swap must be a no-op, not a dead session (#50375)

When a /model switch resolves a valid model but the in-place agent swap
fails mid-conversation (expired key, unreachable base_url), the agent
rolls itself back to the old working model+client and re-raises. The
callers caught that re-raise, logged a warning, then committed the broken
switch anyway: wrote the failed model to the session DB, set
_session_model_overrides to the broken model/provider/key, and (gateway
direct path) evicted the working cached agent. The next message then
rebuilt a dead agent from the broken override -> permanently unusable
conversation (#50163).

Fix the whole caller class so a failed swap aborts the commit entirely:

- gateway/slash_commands.py (picker + direct /model paths): on swap
  failure, early-return an error message; skip DB persist, session
  override, cache eviction, and config write.
- cli.py (both /model handlers): snapshot CLI-level credential/runtime
  fields before mutating, restore them on swap failure, and abort the
  note + success print.
- tui_gateway/server.py: wrap the previously-unguarded swap; on failure
  raise a clean error and skip worker restart, runtime persist, switch
  marker, session model_override, and config persist.

The no-cached-agent path (apply-on-next-session) is unaffected.

Adds a gateway regression test that fails on the pre-fix behavior.

* fix(gateway): respawn unmapped Windows gateways after update (#50090) (#50373)

On Windows, _pause_windows_gateways_for_update() force-kills every running
gateway before mutating the venv. Gateways mapped to a profile (via
profile.path/gateway.pid) …
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* feat(gateway): track active_agents in runtime status on turn boundaries

The gateway only rewrote gateway_state.json on lifecycle transitions
(start/connect/drain/stop), never on turn start/end. Live-verified on a
hosted agent: a confirmed end-to-end turn ran while gateway_updated_at
stayed frozen at boot and active_agents was absent — so any active_agents
read from the file between transitions is stale. That makes it unusable
as a busy/idle signal for an external consumer (NAS deciding whether it's
safe to restart/migrate/auto-update an agent mid-turn).

Add _persist_active_agents(), called at every turn boundary:
  - turn start: both running-agent sentinel-claim sites (normal inbound
    message path + startup-resume path)
  - turn end: the central _release_running_agent_state() choke point
    (covers normal completion, /stop, /reset, sentinel cleanup,
    stale-eviction — every path that ends a running turn)

It passes ONLY active_agents to write_runtime_status, leaving
gateway_state (and every other field) _UNSET so the read-merge-write
preserves the current lifecycle state. Passing gateway_state=None would
clobber it — hence a dedicated helper rather than reusing
_update_runtime_status. The write is the same cheap JSON write done on
lifecycle transitions today; best-effort (a failed status write never
disrupts a turn).

Behaviour-contract test: an active_agents-only write preserves both
running and draining gateway_state, and the count clamps non-negative.

* feat(dashboard): surface gateway busy/drainable on /api/status

Give an external consumer (NAS) a trustworthy, always-reachable busy/idle
readout it can poll before a disruptive lifecycle action (restart,
migrate, stop, auto-update). The dashboard /api/status is the only HTTP
surface guaranteed up on a hosted agent regardless of which gateway
platforms are enabled, and it already reads gateway_state.json.

Add to /api/status (additive, non-breaking):
  - active_agents       — in-flight gateway-turn count (now refreshed
                          per-turn by the companion gateway-side commit)
  - gateway_busy        — running AND active_agents > 0
  - gateway_drainable   — running and live (a valid begin-drain target)
  - restart_drain_timeout — resolved seconds, so the consumer can size its
                          poll deadline without out-of-band knowledge
                          (env HERMES_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT → config
                          agent.restart_drain_timeout → default)

The busy/drainable contract is defined once in gateway.status
(derive_gateway_busy / derive_gateway_drainable) and consumed by both
/api/status and /health/detailed so the two surfaces can never disagree.
Liveness keys off gateway_running (a live PID/health probe), NEVER
gateway_updated_at — a healthy idle gateway never advances that timestamp.
All derived fields degrade to safe falsy values when the gateway is down
or the status file is absent/corrupt (never a spurious "busy" that would
wedge the consumer). active_sessions (the 5-min DB recency heuristic the
SPA reads) is left exactly as-is — new signal, new fields.

Tests (behaviour contracts, not snapshots): the pure derivation contract
across every running/state/count/liveness combination; /api/status
integration for busy, idle-drainable, draining, down, stale-busy-file,
corrupt-count, and timeout surfacing; and /health/detailed parity.

* refactor(gateway): dedupe drain-timeout resolution + share active_agents parse

Follow-up cleanups on top of the busy/idle readout (PR #50103):

- web_server.py /api/status reused the single drain-timeout resolver
  hermes_cli.gateway._get_restart_drain_timeout() (HERMES_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT
  env -> agent.restart_drain_timeout config -> default) instead of inlining a
  third hand-rolled copy of that precedence chain. Also fixes a subtle
  divergence: the inline copy used os.environ.get() so a set-but-empty env var
  was treated as a value rather than falling through to config; the shared
  resolver .strip()s and falls through correctly.
- Added gateway.status.parse_active_agents() and routed BOTH HTTP surfaces
  (/api/status and /health/detailed) through it, so the exposed active_agents
  field is consistently clamped non-negative. Previously /api/status clamped
  while /health/detailed exposed the raw file value, diverging on a corrupt
  count.
- Added TestParseActiveAgents covering the shared coercion contract.

* refactor(gateway): route all active_agents coercion through parse_active_agents; harden drain-timeout fallback

Second cleanup pass (simplify-code review of the first follow-up):

- write_runtime_status now clamps active_agents via parse_active_agents
  instead of an inline max(0, int(...)). Removes the duplicated clamp the
  helper's docstring acknowledged AND closes a write-side ValueError gap
  (a non-numeric active_agents previously raised; now degrades to 0).
- hermes_cli/gateway.py draining-status line routes its active-agents count
  through parse_active_agents too — the third coercion site of the same
  persisted field, now consistent and non-raising with the two HTTP surfaces.
- web_server.py /api/status: the drain-timeout resolver fallback now catches
  ImportError specifically and falls back to DEFAULT_GATEWAY_RESTART_DRAIN_TIMEOUT
  (a real float) instead of a blanket 'except Exception -> None'. None would
  have violated the surfaced field's int/float contract and stripped NAS's
  poll-deadline hint silently.
- Dropped a redundant 'if runtime else 0' branch (parse_active_agents already
  handles the empty/None case) and tightened the parse_active_agents docstring
  to describe the actual single-contract role (write + both reads).

* fix(agent): scale tool-output budget to the model context window (#23767)

The tool-result persistence budget was a fixed 100K chars/result and 200K
chars/turn regardless of the active model. On a small-context model (e.g. a
65K-token local model switched into mid-session) a single large tool result
(reporter: a 279K-char search result) or a full 200K-char turn (~50K tokens)
could by itself approach or exceed the window, forcing an oversized request
that the provider rejects as "Prompt too long".

- budget_config.budget_for_context_window() scales per-result/per-turn char
  caps to a fraction of the model window, clamped to the historical 100K/200K
  defaults (large models unchanged) and floored so small models stay usable.
- resolve_threshold() now caps the per-tool registry value at default_result_size
  so tools that register a fixed 100K cap (web/terminal/x_search) don't re-inflate
  a scaled-down budget. No-op for the default budget (both 100K).
- tool_executor wires the agent's live context_length (recomputed on model
  switch) into all four persist/turn-budget call sites.

read_file stays inf-pinned (no persist loop). Verified E2E: a 279K-char result
against a 65K model collapses to a ~1.6K preview; a 200K model is byte-identical
to today.

* fix(agent): reset stale token calibration on model switch (#23767)

ContextCompressor.update_model() recomputed context_length/threshold/budgets
but kept the cross-call calibration state (last_real_prompt_tokens,
last_rough_tokens_when_real_prompt_fit, last_compression_rough_tokens,
awaiting_real_usage_after_compression, _ineffective_compression_count) from the
PREVIOUS model.

Those fields encode 'the provider proved this prompt fit' / 'preflight can be
deferred' decisions valid only for the model that produced them. Carried across
a switch to a smaller-context model, should_defer_preflight_to_real_usage() used
the old model's 'it fit' history to SKIP a preflight compression the new model
actually needed — sending an oversized prompt the provider rejects (#23767).

update_model() now clears that state; the new model's first response repopulates
it via update_from_response(). Verified E2E: after a 200K->65,536 switch, defer
no longer suppresses and should_compress fires on an over-threshold estimate.

* fix(telegram): keep chunk markers outside code fences

When truncate_message appends a (N/M) chunk indicator to a chunk that
had to close an in-progress fenced code block, the marker lands on the
closing fence line (``` \(1/2\) after MarkdownV2 escaping). Telegram
does not treat that as a clean closing fence and rejects the MarkdownV2,
falling back to plain text. Move the indicator onto its own line right
after the closing fence at all three legacy-send call sites.

Fixes #48517

* fix(agent): guard finalize_turn cleanup chain so it never drops the response (#50009)

When a turn hit max_iterations, finalize_turn ran three unguarded cleanup
steps after the model's summary — _save_trajectory (file I/O), _cleanup_task_resources
(remote VM/browser teardown), and _persist_session (SQLite write). Any raise
there propagated out of run_conversation, discarding the partial final_response
the caller was waiting for; subprocess wrappers saw an empty stdout with no
traceback (#8049).

Each step is now guarded independently so one failure can't skip the others.
Failures log at ERROR with a traceback and are surfaced on the result dict via
cleanup_errors; the partial response is always returned.

Closes #8049.

* fix(cli): persist sessions before shutdown

* feat(api-server): configurable concurrent-run cap to prevent DoS (#50007)

The OpenAI-compatible API server only enforced a hardcoded cap of 10
concurrent runs on /v1/runs, leaving /v1/chat/completions and
/v1/responses unbounded — a request flood could exhaust CPU, memory,
and upstream LLM quota (#7483).

- Add gateway.api_server.max_concurrent_runs (config.yaml, default 10,
  0 disables). No env var.
- Shared concurrency gate across all three agent-serving endpoints,
  counting both the chat/responses in-flight counter and the /v1/runs
  stream set. Returns OpenAI-style 429 + Retry-After when at the cap.
- Remove the dead hardcoded _MAX_CONCURRENT_RUNS class attribute.

Closes #7483.

* fix(tui): persist session messages on force-quit / signal shutdown

Mirror the CLI's exit-path behaviour in the TUI gateway so that
unpersisted conversation messages are flushed to state.db and the
on_session_end plugin hook fires before the session is closed.

Root cause: _finalize_session() only called db.end_session() to
mark the session row as ended, but did NOT flush in-memory messages
via _persist_session() or fire the on_session_end hook.  When the
user force-quit (double Ctrl-C, terminal-close, SIGHUP) while the
agent was mid-turn, messages accumulated since the last persist
point were silently lost.

Changes
-------
tui_gateway/server.py - _finalize_session():
  - Persist unflushed messages via agent._persist_session() before
    db.end_session(). Prefers agent._session_messages (set by the
    last _persist_session call inside run_conversation) over
    session['history'] (stale when agent is mid-turn).
  - Fire on_session_end(interrupted=True) plugin hook so crash-
    recovery plugins can flush buffers, matching cli.py behaviour.

tui_gateway/entry.py - _log_signal():
  - Explicitly call _shutdown_sessions() before sys.exit(0) in the
    SIGHUP/SIGTERM handler as belt-and-suspenders over atexit.

tests/tui_gateway/test_finalize_session_persist.py (new):
  - 11 tests covering: history persistence, _session_messages
    priority, empty-history skip, missing-agent, double-finalize,
    persist-exception resilience, hook firing, hook-exception
    resilience, and db.end_session preservation.

Related
-------
Closes the TUI half of #5021 (CLI already handles this via its
atexit handler).  Also addresses the session-persistence gap
discussed in #18465 and #18269.

* fix(browser): enable SSRF guard when terminal runs in container

When terminal.backend is docker/modal/daytona/ssh/singularity, the
terminal runs in a sandboxed container with network isolation, but the
browser still runs on the host.  The SSRF guard was skipped because
_is_local_backend() only checked browser.cloud_provider, not the
terminal backend.

Now _is_local_backend() also checks TERMINAL_ENV — when the terminal
is containerized, the browser is treated as non-local and SSRF
protection is enabled.

Fixes #38690

* fix(compression): auto-compression triggers at minimum context length (#14690)

The compaction threshold is max(context_length * threshold_percent,
MINIMUM_CONTEXT_LENGTH=64000). The floor prevents premature compression on
large models, but degenerates at small windows: a model at exactly 64000
ctx gets max(32000, 64000) = 64000 — a threshold equal to the ENTIRE
window. should_compress() can then never fire, because the provider
rejects the request before usage reaches 100%. Auto-compression silently
never triggers for any model whose context_length <= MINIMUM /
threshold_percent (e.g. 64K-per-slot local models).

Centralize the calc in _compute_threshold_tokens(). When the floor would
meet or exceed the context window, trigger at 85% of the window
(_MIN_CTX_TRIGGER_RATIO) — high enough that a minimum-context model uses
most of its budget before compacting (compacting at the 50% percentage
would waste half the small window), but below 100% so compaction actually
fires before the provider rejects the request. This mirrors the existing
gpt-5.5/Codex 85% autoraise rationale. Large-context behavior (floor at
64000) is unchanged; both call sites (__init__ and update_model) use the
shared helper.

Co-authored-by: soynchux <soynchuux@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <154585401+LeonSGP43@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tranquil-Flow <tranquil_flow@protonmail.com>

* fix(gateway): raise session-hygiene hard message limit 400 → 5000 (#50194)

The gateway pre-compression hygiene valve force-compressed any session
crossing 400 messages regardless of token usage. On large-context (1M+)
models doing many short, message-dense turns, a healthy session at ~16%
token usage could hit 400 messages and get force-compressed — and the
compression summary's stale Active Task could then bleed into the next
turn.

The valve's actual purpose is to break a death spiral: when API calls
keep disconnecting on an oversized session, no token-usage data arrives,
the token threshold never fires, and the transcript grows unbounded.
It's a count-based floor for that pathological case only. 400 was tuned
for ~200K-context models and is far too low for modern large-context
sessions. Raise the default to 5000 — still well clear of any death
spiral, but no longer firing on legitimate long conversations.

The value remains fully configurable via compression.hygiene_hard_message_limit.

* fix(telegram): preserve newlines in rich slash-command output (#46070)

Bot API 10.1 sendRichMessage treats a lone newline as a soft break, so
multi-line content joined with "\n".join(lines) — slash-command lists,
etc. — collapses into a single paragraph. Normalize single newlines to
Markdown hard breaks (two trailing spaces) in _rich_message_payload,
leaving paragraph breaks and fenced code blocks untouched.

Fixes #46070

* fix(telegram): exempt tables from rich newline hard-breaks

The newline normalization is the shared chokepoint for every rich send
(sendRichMessage, draft, and editMessageText). Injecting a Markdown hard
break (two trailing spaces) into a GFM table row separator corrupts the
natively-rendered table — the rich path's headline feature. Protect both
fenced code blocks AND pipe-table blocks as bare regions; only prose
between them gets hard breaks. Verified RICH_CONTENT and the existing
rich-table tests stay byte-identical.

* fix(auth): make load_pool() non-destructive for env-seeded credentials

load_pool() is meant to be a read, but it persistently pruned env-seeded
pool entries whenever the calling process's os.environ lacked the seeding
var. A process without MINIMAX_API_KEY would delete the persisted
env:MINIMAX_API_KEY entry from auth.json for every other process, causing
auth.json to oscillate and auxiliary auto-detect to fall through to the
wrong provider.

env:* entries are persisted references re-hydrated from the environment on
each load — a missing var means "cannot re-seed right now", not "source is
gone forever". _prune_stale_seeded_entries now gates env-source removal
behind prune_env_sources (default True for explicit cleanup paths);
load_pool() passes prune_env_sources=False. File-backed singletons
(device-code OAuth, hermes_pkce) still prune when their backing file is
gone, and explicit removal via `hermes auth remove` (source suppression)
is unaffected.

Fixes #9331.

Co-authored-by: houko <suzukaze.haduki@gmail.com>

* fix(codex): bridge app-server item/started events to Telegram tool-progress (#38835)

When the main provider is the Codex app-server runtime (api_mode
codex_app_server), the gateway showed no verbose 'running X' tool-progress
breadcrumbs on Telegram while every other provider did. The app-server
session processes item/started notifications (command execution, file
changes, MCP/dynamic tool calls) but never surfaced them as Hermes
tool-progress events — the session was constructed without an on_event
hook, so the agent's tool_progress_callback was never invoked on this
route.

Add _codex_note_to_tool_progress() mapping item/started → (tool_name,
preview, args) for commandExecution / fileChange / mcpToolCall /
dynamicToolCall, and wire an on_event hook into CodexAppServerSession that
forwards mapped events to agent.tool_progress_callback('tool.started',
...) — the same signature the chat_completions path uses (tool_executor.py).
Non-tool items (agentMessage/reasoning) and non-item/started methods map
to None and are ignored.

Co-authored-by: jplew <462836+jplew@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(desktop): add Update now button to About panel (#50186)

* fix(telegram): avoid rich messages for CJK text

Telegram Mac/Desktop Bot API 10.1 rich-message rendering leaves garbled
overlapping draft/overlay glyphs for CJK text (#47653), affecting every
message containing CJK characters. The legacy MarkdownV2 path renders the
same text cleanly, so skip the rich send / draft / final-edit paths up
front for content containing CJK (incl. astral-plane extensions) until
affected clients age out. Non-CJK rich rendering is preserved.

Fixes #47653

* fix(file): harden read_file device alias blocking

Security-hardening fix for the read_file device guard, not a new sandbox
boundary. The guard already rejects direct device paths and upstream now
has a resolved-path pass for workspace symlinks to blocked devices, but
its concrete-path helper still compared the expanded path before
normalization. That leaves residual alias cases where the dangerous path
is visible before final terminal-specific resolution, for example:

  1. /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom should match the blocked-device
     list as concrete paths, not only after final realpath;
  2. /dev/stdin-style aliases can disappear once realpath follows them
     to /proc/self/fd/0 and then to a tty path;
  3. a user symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin exposes the dangerous
     intermediate target before final resolution, but not necessarily
     after it.

Normalize expanded paths before matching and inspect each symlink hop
before falling back to realpath. This preserves the existing /proc fd and
/proc pseudo-file guards while enforcing the intended security invariant:
model-supplied read paths must not reach blocking or infinite device
streams through spelling, normalization, or symlink-hop tricks.

Classification: security hardening / residual bypass fix for the
read_file device blocklist. This is defensive code at the file-tool
boundary, but it fixes a concrete denial-of-service class tracked as
security in #10141 and #29158.

Tests:
  - normalized /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom aliases
  - symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin blocked before realpath
  - existing symlink-to-device and regular-symlink guards still pass

Fixes #10141
Fixes #29158

* fix: keep poll read-only for notify_on_complete watcher

* fix(process): keep CLI drain dedup after poll goes read-only (#10156)

Follow-up to @de1tydev's poll-read-only fix. Removing the
_completion_consumed.add() from poll() fixes the gateway/tui watcher
suppression (#10156) but reintroduces the CLI duplicate that #8228 fixed:
a notify_on_complete process always enqueues a completion event, and the
CLI idle/post-turn drain would re-inject it as a [SYSTEM: ...] message
even though the agent already saw the exit inline in its poll result.

Add a separate _poll_observed set that poll() populates on an observed
exit. drain_notifications() (CLI only) skips poll-observed sessions; the
gateway/tui watchers keep checking only is_completion_consumed, so a
read-only poll never suppresses their autonomous delivery turn.

- _poll_observed pruned alongside _completion_consumed in _prune_if_needed
- 4 tests: CLI drain dedup after poll, gateway gate untouched, running
  poll doesn't mark observed, wait/log still skip CLI drain

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for de1tydev (#10158)

* fix(compressor): treat empty-content summary response as failure, not an empty summary (#50297)

When an OpenAI-compatible proxy (e.g. cmkey.cn, one-api Anthropic channels)
returns a well-formed HTTP 200 whose summary content is null or empty/
whitespace-only, _generate_summary coerced it to "" and stored a prefix-only
summary — silently replacing the compacted turns with nothing. The model then
lost all in-progress context after compression (#11978, #11914).

_validate_llm_response already guards None / empty-choices, so those never
reach the compressor; the gap was a well-formed response with empty *content*.
Now treat empty content as a summary failure: raise so it routes through the
existing main-model fallback then transient cooldown, dropping the turns
without a summary rather than wiping context with an empty one.

Also narrow the bare 'except RuntimeError' so only genuine 'No LLM provider
configured' errors take the 600s no-provider cooldown; empty/invalid-response
RuntimeErrors from a configured provider now correctly get the main-model
fallback instead of being misrouted into the long no-provider cooldown.

Reported by @Hung2124; area identified by @annguyenNous in #39590.

* fix(agent): preserve copilot routed headers

* fix(agent): route repeated-compression warning through _emit_status (#36908)

The 'Session compressed N times — accuracy may degrade' warning went
through _vprint (CLI stdout only), so the Ink TUI / Telegram / Discord
never saw it — unlike the two other compression warnings in the same
module, which route through _emit_status (and store _compression_warning
for late-bound gateway status_callback replay).

Set agent._compression_warning + call agent._emit_status() for this
warning too, matching the sibling pattern. _emit_status still _vprints
for the CLI, so CLI output is unchanged; TUI / gateway surfaces now
receive it via status_callback (and replay_compression_warning can
re-deliver it once a late-bound gateway callback is wired).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(session): finalize owned SQLite session rows on AIAgent.close()

Funnel session finalization through AIAgent.close() — the single terminal
path every agent (CLI, gateway, subagent, cron) funnels through — so finished
agents stop leaving rows with ended_at IS NULL. The biggest leak source was
delegate_task subagent + background-review forks whose close() never ended
their row.

end_session() is first-reason-wins and no-ops on an already-ended row, so a
'compression'/'cron_complete'/'cli_close' reason set by an earlier terminal
path is never clobbered. /resume already calls reopen_session(), so
finalizing-on-close does not break resumability.

Temporary helper agents that rotate/share the session forward (manual
compression, gateway session-hygiene) opt out via _end_session_on_close=False.

Also stop the long-running gateway heartbeat once the executor is done or the
session slot is rebound to a different agent, preventing a stale
'running: delegate_task' bubble from outliving its run.

Closes #12029.

* fix(session): opt the background-review fork out of session finalization

The background-review fork (fires ~every 10 turns) pins
review_agent.session_id = agent.session_id — the parent's LIVE id — for
prefix-cache parity, then calls close(). With session finalization now in
close(), that would end the still-active parent session mid-conversation.
Set _end_session_on_close = False on the fork so the real owner (CLI close /
gateway reset / cron) finalizes the session instead.

Follow-up to the #12029 fix.

* fix(tui): /compress shows a before/after summary (#46686)

The TUI /compress slash side-effect compressed the session, synced the
key, and emitted session.info — but returned an empty string, so the
user saw no 'Compressed: N → M messages / ~X → ~Y tokens' feedback. The
CLI (_manual_compress) and gateway (slash_commands) paths both already
call summarize_manual_compression; the TUI slash path was the lone gap.

Snapshot history + rough token estimate before and after compaction and
return the formatted summarize_manual_compression() feedback, mirroring
the session.compress RPC handler. The estimate uses the same
estimate_request_tokens_rough(system_prompt, tools) inputs as the RPC
path, re-reading the system prompt after compaction (it may be rebuilt).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(hindsight): skip local_embedded daemon when running as root

PostgreSQL's initdb refuses to run as root, so the embedded Hindsight
daemon could never initialize its data directory under root. The
daemon-start thread would fail, retry, and loop forever — each cycle
reloading embedding models (~958MB RAM, ~33% CPU) with no user-visible
error, leaving Hermes sluggish on a common VPS/cloud root setup.

initialize() now detects root (os.geteuid() == 0) before spawning the
daemon thread, disables local_embedded mode, and surfaces a clear
warning to both the log and the terminal so the user knows to run as a
non-root user or switch to cloud / local_external mode.

Closes #13125.

Co-authored-by: teknium1 <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bedrock): price Claude prompt-cache tokens in /usage (#50307)

Bedrock Claude routes through the AnthropicBedrock SDK and injects
cache_control, so cached tokens are always reported — but the pricing
table had no cache cost fields for any Bedrock model, so /usage showed
"cost unknown" on every cached session. Also, cross-region inference
profiles (us./global./eu. prefixes) never matched the bare pricing keys.

- Add cache_read/cache_write rates to the four Bedrock Claude rows
  (read 0.1x input, write 1.25x input per the Bedrock pricing page).
- Normalize the cross-region prefix in the Bedrock pricing lookup,
  mirroring is_anthropic_bedrock_model's prefix list.

Closes #50295.

* fix(config): redact api_key in config show/set output (#50245) (#50313)

hermes config show printed the model dict raw via print(), bypassing the
logging redactor; a custom-provider api_key (e.g. Cloudflare cfut_...) was
shown in plaintext even with security.redact_secrets=true. Opaque tokens
don't match any vendor-prefix regex, so structural key-name masking is
required.

- Add redact_config_value(): recursively masks credential-shaped keys
  (api_key/token/secret/... exact-match) via mask_secret.
- Wrap the show_config model dump in it.
- Mask the set_config_value echo when the leaf key is credential-shaped
  (config set model.api_key routes to config.yaml, lowercase misses the
  .env allowlist).

* fix(file): reject read_file line-numbered writeback

* test(file): update guard assertions for unified display-text message

The salvaged #19820 unifies the write_file guard under
_is_internal_file_tool_content with the message 'internal read_file
display text'. Two tests added to test_file_read_guards.py after the PR
branch point still asserted the old 'status text' wording. Update them
to match the new (correct, more general) message.

* fix(gateway): cap inbound media download size to prevent memory exhaustion

Inbound image/audio/video payloads were buffered fully into process memory
before being written to the cache, with no size limit. A large upload
(Discord Nitro allows 500 MB) or a remote media URL in an inbound message
pointing at a huge file could spike RAM and OOM-kill the gateway.

Enforce a configurable cap in the shared cache helpers (gateway/platforms/
base.py) so the protection holds across every platform adapter, not one:

- cache_image/audio/video_from_bytes reject oversized payloads before writing
  (video was the gap in the original report — now covered).
- cache_image/audio_from_url stream the body, rejecting on an oversized
  Content-Length header and re-checking the running total per chunk so an
  absent/lying header can't smuggle an unbounded body past the cap.
- Discord's _read_attachment_bytes checks att.size up front, so an oversized
  attachment is rejected before any bytes are pulled into memory.

Configurable via gateway.max_inbound_media_bytes in config.yaml (default
128 MiB; 0 disables). No new env var — non-secret config lives in config.yaml.

Salvaged and extended from @sgaofen's PR #13341 (the original report and the
shared-helper approach). Reapplied onto current main (Discord adapter has
since moved to plugins/platforms/discord/), the configurable knob moved from
an env var to config.yaml, and the video cache helper added.

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(gateway): persist in-flight transcript on restart/shutdown drain timeout (#50312)

A turn forcibly interrupted by the drain-timeout escalation never reaches
turn_finalizer.finalize_turn (the only place that flushes the turn to
state.db). Its in-flight tool rounds live only in the in-memory
_session_messages, so the immediate pre-restart turn was silently dropped
from load_transcript() on resume.

_finalize_shutdown_agents now flushes _session_messages to the SQLite
session store before teardown. The flush is idempotent (identity-tracked
in _flush_messages_to_session_db), so agents that finished gracefully
re-flush nothing. The resume_pending / fresh-tool-tail branches in
_handle_message_with_agent already expect a transcript whose tail may be a
pending tool result.

Fixes #13121.

* fix(security): redact secrets in kanban tool payloads before persistence

* fix(telegram): make Bot API 10.1 rich messages opt-in (default off)

Rich messages are not ready for primetime: current Telegram clients can
render Bot API 10.1 rich messages as blank/unsupported bubbles and make
them hard to copy as plain text, which is worse than the legacy
MarkdownV2 path for command snippets and mobile handoffs. Default the
rich_messages toggle to False so replies stay on the copyable legacy
path; users opt in per bot via platforms.telegram.extra.rich_messages:
true. Updates adapter, gateway config default, example config, English +
zh-Hans docs, and the default/opt-in tests.

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48422 salvage

* fix(backup): capture memory-provider state stored outside HERMES_HOME (#50325)

hermes backup only walks HERMES_HOME, so memory providers that keep
config/credentials in home-anchored dotdirs (honcho -> ~/.honcho,
hindsight -> ~/.hindsight, openviking -> ~/.openviking) lost that data
across a backup/import cycle — the peer IDs, session pairings, and API
keys never made it into the archive.

Add an optional MemoryProvider.backup_paths() hook (default []). The
active provider declares its external paths; backup resolves them from
config only (no init, no network), archives the ones under the home dir
into a reserved _external/ subtree encoded relative to home, and import
restores them to their original location with a home-anchored traversal
guard and 0600 on credential-shaped files. Paths outside home are
skipped as non-portable.

honcho, hindsight, and openviking override the hook. E2E-validated full
backup->import cycle plus 7 new tests.

* fix(kanban): single-writer dispatch lock to prevent orphan-dispatcher DB corruption (#50331)

A shell-launched 'hermes gateway run --replace' / 'gateway restart' on a
systemd/launchd host can leave an orphan gateway whose kanban dispatcher
escapes the service cgroup, survives 'systemctl restart', and becomes a
second long-lived writer on the shared kanban.db. Two dispatchers that each
believe they own the file both pass SQLite busy_timeout and then race on WAL
frames — the documented root cause of multi-writer corruption (issue #35240).

The existing _guard_supervised_gateway_conflict startup guard blocks the
common way an orphan is born, but does nothing once a second dispatcher
already exists. This adds the defense-in-depth: dispatch_once now wraps every
tick in a non-blocking, board-scoped flock (_dispatch_tick_lock). A losing
dispatcher returns DispatchResult(skipped_locked=True) and does zero DB writes
this tick — so two dispatchers can never run a reclaim/spawn/write sequence
concurrently regardless of how the second one got there.

- Non-blocking (LOCK_NB): never stalls the gateway's async watcher.
- Board-scoped: lock file is a .dispatch.lock sibling of each board's
  kanban.db, so unrelated boards tick in parallel.
- POSIX + Windows (fcntl / msvcrt LK_NBLCK), no-op degrade where neither
  exists — mirrors the existing _cross_process_init_lock pattern.

Verified with a real two-process orphan repro: while a separate process holds
the lock, dispatch_once skips; after release it runs.

* fix(agent): stop delegate cascade from deleting the parent session

_collect_delegate_child_ids() walks the _delegate_from marker chain to
gather delegate subagents for cascade deletion, but started its visited
set empty. When the chain loops back onto a parent — a delegation cycle,
or a parent that is also another parent's delegate child when several ids
are deleted together — that parent was collected as one of its own
descendants and then permanently deleted, along with all of its messages,
by _delete_delegate_children().

Seed the visited set with the parent ids so they can never be re-collected,
and exclude them from the returned child set. Callers (delete_session,
bulk delete) remove the parents separately, so this only prevents the
unintended parent deletion; legitimate child collection is unchanged.

Add regression tests (in-memory sqlite) covering single/multi-level
delegate chains, the parent_session_id+marker branch, untagged children
(orphan-don't-delete contract), and the cycle case that previously leaked
the parent into the deletion set.

Fixes #49148

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path (#50319)

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path

terminal(notify_on_complete=True / watch_patterns) and delegate_task(background=True)
silently no-op'd on the API server / WebUI path (#10760): the watcher / detached
child registered, but every API-server route (OpenAI-spec /v1/chat/completions
and /v1/responses, plus the proprietary /v1/runs SSE stream) tears down its
channel when the turn ends, and APIServerAdapter.send() is a no-op stub. A
completion that fires after the response closed had nowhere to go — from the
agent side, indistinguishable from a hang.

There is no spec-compliant surface to wake the agent later on a stateless HTTP
client, so make the no-op honest instead of silent:

- Add a per-adapter capability flag supports_async_delivery (default True;
  APIServerAdapter = False), propagated into a HERMES_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY
  contextvar via async_delivery_supported(). Toggle on the adapter, not a
  hardcoded platform string — a future stateless adapter is correct-by-default.
- terminal: when delivery is unsupported, skip watcher registration, force
  notify_on_complete off, and return a notify_unsupported note telling the
  agent to process(action='poll').
- delegate_task: when delivery is unsupported, fall back to SYNCHRONOUS
  execution (work runs and returns in the same response) with a note, instead
  of handing out a handle that never resolves.

CLI (in-process completion_queue) and the real gateway platforms are unchanged.

Fixes #10760

* refactor(api-server): route session binding through a single no-delivery chokepoint

Add APIServerAdapter._bind_api_server_session() and route both agent-entry
paths (_run_agent for /v1/chat/completions + /v1/responses, and the /v1/runs
_run_sync path) through it. The helper hardwires platform="api_server" and
async_delivery=False with no async_delivery parameter to pass, so a future
route added to the API server physically cannot reintroduce the silent
no-op (#10760) by forgetting to mark the channel as non-delivering.

The binding stays request-scoped (cleared per turn), so a session resumed
later on a delivering interface (CLI / gateway platform) re-binds fresh and
is NOT blocked — the no-delivery decision tracks the interface handling the
current turn, never the session.

* fix(photon): classify Envoy overflow errors as retryable; add typing cooldown

Closes #50185

Two independent gaps let a transient Photon/Spectrum upstream overflow
degrade message delivery and amplify gRPC pressure:

1. _is_retryable_error did not recognise Photon- or Envoy-specific error
   strings ("internal sidecar error", "upstream connect error",
   "reset reason: overflow"), so _send_with_retry fell through to the
   plain-text fallback immediately instead of backing off and retrying.

2. send_typing had no rate gate, so a burst of typing-indicator calls
   during an overflow event kept hitting the upstream gRPC connection and
   widened the failure window.

Fix:
- Add _PHOTON_RETRYABLE_PATTERNS with the three high-specificity Envoy /
  sidecar substrings and override _is_retryable_error on PhotonAdapter to
  check them after delegating to the base-class patterns.  base.py and all
  other adapters are untouched.
- Add a 5 s per-chat cooldown in send_typing backed by _typing_last_sent.
  stop_typing clears the entry so the next start after a completed turn
  fires immediately — only rapid consecutive starts without a stop are
  suppressed.
- Reduce PhotonAdapter._send_with_retry default max_retries from 2 to 1
  (single 2 s back-off check) — enough to confirm whether the Envoy
  circuit-breaker has opened, without adding unnecessary latency.

All changes are scoped to plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py.

* fix(photon): detect unexpected sidecar death and trigger reconnect

When the Node spectrum-ts sidecar process exited mid-session (crash,
OOM, upstream overflow escalation), _supervise_sidecar returned
silently — readline hit EOF, the log-pump loop broke, and nothing
notified the gateway. _inbound_loop entered an infinite retry loop
against a dead port, _running stayed True, and the adapter remained
in self.adapters with no path to self-recovery short of a manual
gateway restart.

Add a death-detection tail to _supervise_sidecar: after the log-pump
exits (EOF or exception), guard on _inbound_running to distinguish
unexpected death from a deliberate disconnect(). On unexpected exit,
call _set_fatal_error("SIDECAR_CRASHED", retryable=True) followed by
_notify_fatal_error() so the reconnect watcher picks up the platform
within 30 s and retries with exponential backoff (30 s → 300 s cap)
until the sidecar comes back up. All other platforms remain unaffected.

The _inbound_running guard is safe against races: disconnect() sets
_inbound_running = False before _stop_sidecar() cancels the supervisor
task. CancelledError is BaseException, not Exception, so it bypasses
the except clause and propagates normally — the detection block never
runs during a clean shutdown.

* test(photon): cover overflow retry, typing cooldown, sidecar-crash detection

Follow-up for salvaged PR #50256. Unit tests for the three behaviors:
retryable classification of Envoy/sidecar overflow strings, per-chat typing
cooldown with stop_typing reset, and the _supervise_sidecar crash-detection
path that raises a retryable fatal (and the clean-shutdown no-op).

* fix(file): anchor device symlink guard to task cwd

The read_file device guard now walks symlink hops before the file operation
layer, but that hop walk still interpreted relative paths against the Python
process cwd. In sessions where TERMINAL_CWD points at the task workspace, a
relative workspace symlink to a blocked alias such as /dev/../dev/stdin could
therefore miss the intermediate device target before later task-cwd resolution.

Anchor relative device checks to the task base before symlink-hop inspection so
the pre-I/O guard sees the same workspace path that read_file would otherwise
read. Absolute device paths and the existing final realpath fallback remain
unchanged.

Refs #10141
Refs #29158

* feat(hindsight): configurable embedded daemon health grace timeout (#50341)

On resource-contended hosts the embedded Hindsight daemon can exceed a
single 2s /health check; upstream then waits a grace window before
treating it as stale and killing+restarting it (hindsight-embed reads
HINDSIGHT_EMBED_PORT_HEALTH_GRACE_TIMEOUT, default 30s, into a
module-level constant at import time). Users on busy boxes had no
Hermes-side way to raise it short of hand-setting an env var.

Add a 'port_health_grace_timeout' config.json option to the Hindsight
plugin. When set, initialize() exports it to the process env BEFORE
daemon_embed_manager is imported (the import-time read is the contract).
setdefault() so an explicit operator env override always wins. Exposed
in 'hermes memory setup' for local_embedded mode.

Follow-up to #50308 / issue #13125 comment thread.

* fix(web_server): use run_in_executor for gateway pre-warm and drain-timeout

Fixes a regression introduced by the prior approach (synchronous import
hermes_cli.gateway inside _lifespan) that caused a new failure mode:
the blocking import stalled the asyncio event loop before uvicorn could
bind its port, pushing HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY past the desktop shell's
45 s announcement deadline and triggering a respawn loop that accumulated
orphaned backend processes.

Two-part fix:

_lifespan: replace the blocking import with a fire-and-forget
run_in_executor call (_warm_gateway_module).  The import runs in a
worker thread while the server socket is already open, so
HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY fires without delay.

get_status: replace the inline lazy import with
await run_in_executor(None, _resolve_restart_drain_timeout).  This is
the root fix for the original 15 s socket-timeout: the blocking
.pyc-compilation + Defender scan is offloaded to a thread, keeping the
event loop free for every /api/status probe.  After the first call the
module is in sys.modules and the executor returns in microseconds.

Both helpers are extracted as module-level sync functions so they can
be unit-tested independently of FastAPI or uvicorn.

Closes #50209

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(web_server): add integration tests for desktop boot handshake fix

Three tests covering the scenarios from issue #50209 that could not be
validated with real Defender on a fresh install:

1. test_lifespan_warmup_is_nonblocking
   Patches _warm_gateway_module to sleep 3 s. Measures TestClient startup
   time — must complete in < 1.5 s, proving the fire-and-forget
   run_in_executor does not block the event loop before port binding
   (HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY timing proxy).

2. test_get_status_does_not_block_event_loop
   Patches _resolve_restart_drain_timeout to sleep 3 s. Fires concurrent
   GET /api/status and GET /api/version requests. /api/version must
   respond in < 3 s while /api/status waits — proving the event loop
   stays free during the slow import (15 s socket timeout would not fire).

3. test_concurrent_status_probes_all_respond
   Three simultaneous /api/status probes with the slow patch — all must
   return HTTP 200 (no connection resets, no orphan accumulation).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(desktop): make cold-start port-announcement deadline tolerant

The port-announcement clock in waitForDashboardPort starts the instant the
backend process is spawned — before uvicorn binds its socket. On a cold
install the child first compiles and imports the whole hermes_cli.main ->
web_server -> FastAPI/uvicorn chain, and on Windows real-time AV scans every
freshly written .pyc. That pre-bind cost can exceed the old hardcoded 45s
deadline, so the desktop killed a healthy-but-still-starting backend and
respawned it, piling up orphaned processes (#50209).

Raise the default to 90s and make it overridable via
HERMES_DESKTOP_PORT_ANNOUNCE_TIMEOUT_MS, clamped to a 45s floor so a bad
override can't reintroduce the loop. Warm starts still announce in well under
a second; both call sites inherit the new default with no change. Adds
backend-ready.test.cjs (wired into test:desktop:platforms).

* feat(gateway): typed send-error classification (SendResult.error_kind) (#50342)

Add a platform-neutral send-failure vocabulary so consumers can branch on a
typed category instead of substring-matching the raw provider message.

- base.py: SEND_ERROR_KINDS + classify_send_error() (too_long / bad_format /
  forbidden / not_found / rate_limited / transient / unknown), and an optional
  SendResult.error_kind field (defaults None — fully backward compatible).
- telegram.py: populate error_kind on send() failures; message_too_long keeps
  its existing error token plus error_kind='too_long'.

Purely additive: no behavioral change to the existing degrade-and-deliver
paths (MarkdownV2->plain-text fallback, overflow split, retry classification
all untouched). 22 new tests + 210 adapter regression tests green.

* fix(telegram): stop typing indicator lingering after final reply

After the agent's final response, the '...typing' bubble persisted ~5s.
send() re-triggers send_typing() after every delivery so the bubble
survives intermediate progress messages (Telegram clears typing on each
delivered message). But that re-trigger also fired on the FINAL send,
re-arming Telegram's ~5s timer AFTER the gateway had already torn down
its typing-refresh loop — and Telegram exposes no stop-typing API, so
nothing cancelled it.

Gate the post-send re-trigger on the absence of metadata['notify'] (set
only on the final user-visible reply via _mark_notify_metadata). Both
the rich-message and legacy send paths are covered; intermediate
progress sends still re-trigger so the bubble stays alive mid-response.

Fixes #48678

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48678 salvage

* feat(plugins): add ctx.profile_name for session-agnostic profile access (#50346)

Plugins previously had no way to read the active profile name from the
PluginContext. The workaround in the wild — reaching into
ctx._manager._cli_ref — only works in an interactive CLI session;
_cli_ref is None in the gateway and in kanban-spawned worker sessions
(hermes -p <profile> chat -q ...), so the workaround breaks exactly
where multi-profile awareness matters most.

ctx.profile_name wraps hermes_cli.profiles.get_active_profile_name(),
which derives the name from HERMES_HOME and therefore works in every
execution context with zero dependency on _cli_ref.

* feat(kanban): add task lifecycle plugin hooks (claimed/completed/blocked) (#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(cli): branch new worktrees from the fresh remote tip, not stale local HEAD (#50355)

hermes -w created the worktree branch from the standalone clone's HEAD, which
lags origin when the clone isn't freshly updated (it's only refreshed by
hermes update, not per session). Every worktree branch then rooted on a stale
base, so the PR diff GitHub computes against current main ballooned with
unrelated changes and the agent had to discover the staleness at push time and
rebase.

_resolve_worktree_base() now fetches and branches from the freshest available
ref: the current branch's upstream if it tracks one (so a deliberate
feature-branch worktree tracks its own remote), else the remote's default
branch (origin/HEAD), else local HEAD as a fail-soft fallback (offline / no
remote / detached). A bogus 'origin/(unknown)' default is guarded, and worktree
creation retries from HEAD if branching off the remote ref fails — so this is
never worse than the old behavior.

Gated by worktree_sync (default true); set worktree_sync: false to keep the
old branch-from-local-HEAD behavior. The resolved base is printed in the
session banner.

This is the follow-up to the #50319 session, where the standalone clone was
213 commits behind origin and the worktree inherited that stale base.

* fix(kanban): pin worker TERMINAL_CWD to the task workspace (#50348)

_default_spawn launched the worker subprocess with cwd=workspace and set
HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACE, but never set TERMINAL_CWD — so the worker inherited
the dispatching gateway's TERMINAL_CWD. That value takes precedence over the
process cwd in two places:

- tools/file_tools.py::_resolve_base_dir — a relative write_file path resolved
  against the gateway user's home instead of the workspace, so artifacts
  silently landed outside the workspace (#41312).
- agent_init's context-file loader — AGENTS.md was discovered relative to the
  gateway's cwd, so under multi-profile dispatch a worker loaded whichever
  gateway won the claim race's AGENTS.md, not the task's (#34619).

Both are the same root cause. Pinning TERMINAL_CWD to the workspace (where the
task's work actually happens) fixes both. Guarded on an existing absolute dir
because file_tools rejects relative/sentinel TERMINAL_CWD values — a non-dir
workspace leaves the inherited value rather than writing a meaningless one.

Closes #34619, closes #41312.

* fix(kanban): bound the cross-process init lock so connect() can't hang forever (#50353)

connect() wrapped its entire body in an unbounded blocking flock(LOCK_EX) on
every call (_cross_process_init_lock). A single process stalled inside the
critical section — or a stale lock held by a wedged worker — blocked every
other connect(), including the long-lived gateway dispatcher's next-tick
connect, forever. No timeout, no traceback, no recovery: the board silently
stopped being worked until a manual restart (issue #36644).

Two fixes:

1. Fast-path skip: once THIS process has initialized a path, the expensive
   first-open work (header validation, integrity probe, schema + additive
   migrations) is already cached in _INITIALIZED_PATHS. The steady-state
   connect has nothing for the cross-process lock to protect, so it now opens
   the connection (WAL + pragmas) under only the cheap in-process _INIT_LOCK
   and never touches the file lock. This removes the lock from the dispatcher's
   hot path entirely — a stalled external 'hermes kanban list' can no longer
   block ticks.

2. Bounded acquire: even on first-init, _cross_process_init_lock now retries a
   non-blocking acquire up to a 10s deadline, then logs a WARNING and proceeds
   WITHOUT the cross-process lock. Safe because the in-process _INIT_LOCK still
   serializes same-process threads and the init work is idempotent
   (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS + additive migrations) — worst case is redundant
   work, not corruption. A bounded 'proceed anyway' beats an unbounded hang.

Windows path switched LK_LOCK -> LK_NBLCK (non-blocking) to match.

Closes #36644.

* fix(kanban): honor kanban.auto_decompose toggle live, without a gateway restart (#50358)

The gateway dispatcher captured kanban.auto_decompose ONCE at boot, so a user
who flipped it to false to STOP auto-decompose had no way to make that take
effect short of restarting the gateway. Reported (#49638): auto-decompose
created and launched tasks the user never intended (while they were still
typing the task description), and 'even Hermes Agent couldn't disable this
feature' — because the live config edit was silently ignored.

Auto-decompose is a safety toggle; turning it off must halt fan-out on the
next tick. The dispatcher now re-reads the flag (and auto_decompose_per_tick)
from config every tick via the extracted _resolve_auto_decompose_settings(),
which fails SAFE (disabled) on a config read error so a transient failure can
never re-enable a feature the user turned off.

Closes #49638.

* fix(security): validate snapshot_id and file paths in restore_quick_snapshot to prevent path traversal

* test(backup): add regression tests for restore_quick_snapshot path traversal

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR, the security fix is behaviorally
correct but lacks focused regression coverage for the two traversal
vectors it closes. Adding tests now so the path-traversal guard
cannot silently regress.

* test_restore_rejects_snapshot_id_traversal -- exercises the
  snapshot_id input guard with seven hostile values (parent
  traversal, single parent, bare '.', bare '..', forward slash,
  backslash, empty string). Each must return False without touching
  the filesystem.

* test_restore_rejects_manifest_rel_traversal -- exercises the
  manifest rel guard by injecting '../../outside.txt' into a real
  snapshot's manifest.json, seeding a source payload at the escaped
  path, and asserting the destination outside HERMES_HOME does not
  exist after restore. This is the higher-value test of the pair --
  verified locally that it fails without the fix in
  restore_quick_snapshot (the escape destination gets written) and
  passes with the fix in place.

The 67 pre-existing tests in test_backup.py continue to pass.

* fix(kanban): make reclaim claim-lock-aware to stop task/run status desync (#50366)

After a worker crash + reclaim + respawn, the board could show a task in the
Ready lane while its task_run was 'running' and the new worker was actively
executing (#36910). The dispatcher could then treat live work as available and
double-assign.

Root cause: the three reclaim paths (detect_crashed_workers,
release_stale_claims heartbeat-stale backstop, enforce_max_runtime) each
snapshot a task's worker_pid/claim_lock, do liveness work, then reset
tasks.status back to 'ready' with only a 'WHERE status=running' guard. If the
task was reclaimed AND re-claimed by a NEW worker in between (new run, new
claim_lock, live pid), the stale UPDATE clobbered the live task: status flipped
to 'ready' while the fresh run stayed 'running'. claim_task is the only writer
that sets status='running', so nothing put it back — permanent desync.

Fix: gate each reset on the snapshot's claim_lock (and worker_pid where
available) so it only fires when the task is still owned by the worker the
reclaim was computed for. A stale reclaim now no-ops (rowcount 0) instead of
desyncing a re-claimed task. Genuine crashes (lock still matches) reclaim
exactly as before.

This is the same race class the in-gateway dispatch lock (single-writer ticks)
mitigates, closed at the row level so a single dispatcher's fast
reclaim->respawn across two ticks is also safe.

Closes #36910.

* docs(ui-tui): fix file paths, add billing command, update file map

* docs(ui-tui): add billing.step_up.verification event + perfPane.tsx to README

Follow-up on salvaged #50347: the event surface table was missing the
billing.step_up.verification switch case, and the File map omitted
lib/perfPane.tsx.

* docs(plugins): document acting from hooks via ctx.profile_name + dispatch_tool (#50352)

Answers a recurring plugin-author question: how to read the active
profile and drive Hermes from inside a hook callback when ctx._cli_ref
is None (gateway, hermes chat -q, and kanban-spawned worker sessions).

- Adds a 'Act from inside a hook' section to the plugin guide covering
  ctx.profile_name and ctx.dispatch_tool as the session-agnostic APIs,
  with a kanban_task_blocked example, and notes there is no in-process
  slash-command bridge for headless workers (shell out via the terminal
  tool instead).
- Adds the three kanban lifecycle hooks to the hook reference table with
  their process semantics.
- Pins the contract with a regression test: ctx.dispatch_tool invokes a
  tool handler with _cli_ref=None (worker/hook context).

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(windows): prefer cmd npm shim on PATH fallback

* fix(security): sanitize kanban markdown html

* fix(cli): guard missing ui-tui workspace before TUI launch

* fix(cli): auto-restore a deleted ui-tui workspace from git before TUI launch

The Windows update path can leave tracked ui-tui/ files deleted in the
working tree (HEAD intact). The guard now self-heals: when ui-tui/ is
missing in a git checkout, run `git restore -- ui-tui` and continue,
falling back to the printed manual-recovery steps only when git can't
recover it (no checkout / restore failed).

Builds on konsisumer's missing-workspace guard.

* fix(cli): make ZIP-update directory replace atomic so it can't delete ui-tui

Root cause of #49145: the Windows ZIP-update path did rmtree(dst) then
copytree(src, dst). If the copy failed partway — common on that path,
which only runs because file I/O is already flaky on the machine — the
directory was left deleted with nothing copied back. ui-tui/ vanishing
is what broke 'hermes --tui' (WinError 267), but the bug hit every
top-level directory.

_atomic_replace_dir stages the new copy into a sibling temp dir and only
swaps it in on full success, restoring the original on failure. A failed
update now leaves the live tree untouched instead of half-deleted.

* fix(gateway): pause Telegram typing before stream finalize

In Telegram streaming, the typing indicator persisted through the slow
final rich-text/MarkdownV2 finalize edit, so the '...typing' bubble
lingered for seconds after the last streamed token. Add a one-shot
on_before_finalize hook to GatewayStreamConsumer, fired once when the
stream transitions into its finalization path, and wire it on both
Telegram streaming call sites to call pause_typing_for_chat() before
the final edit. Cover hook ordering and once-only behavior in tests.

Fixes #49712

* fix(desktop/windows): stop in-app update from cascading into a backend restart loop (#50381)

When a Windows user relaunches Hermes while an in-app update is still
running (the desktop vanished with no progress and looks crashed), the
fresh instance spawns its own dashboard backend. That backend re-locks
the venv shim, the updater's straggler cleanup (force_kill_other_hermes
-> taskkill /F /T /IM hermes.exe) kills it, the launch dies with the 45s
"backend didn't come up" timeout, and the user relaunches into the same
trap -- an infinite respawn/kill loop (#50238).

Root cause: no mutual exclusion between an applying update and a fresh
desktop spawning its own local backend.

Fix: the updater publishes a HERMES_HOME/.hermes-update-in-progress
marker (pid + start time) for the whole run via an RAII drop-guard that
removes it on every exit path (success, early return, panic). A
freshly-launched desktop checks the marker before spawning its local
backend and PARKS until the update finishes -- then brings the backend
up itself (it is the surviving instance; the updater's own relaunch hits
the single-instance lock and quits). A stale marker (dead pid or past a
20-minute ceiling) is pruned so a crashed updater can never strand
future launches. No rogue backend spawns mid-update, so
force_kill_other_hermes has nothing legitimate to kill.

Marker parse/staleness logic is extracted to update-marker.cjs and
unit-tested; the Rust guard has unit tests; the Rust-write <-> JS-read
contract is E2E-verified.

* fix(whatsapp): normalize bare phone targets to JIDs before bridge send

Baileys' jidDecode crashes ("Cannot destructure property 'user' of
jidDecode(...) as it is undefined") when handed a bare phone number, so
sending a WhatsApp message to +50766715226 / 50766715226 returned HTTP
500 and never delivered (#8637).

Add to_whatsapp_jid() to gateway/whatsapp_identity.py — the outbound
inverse of normalize_whatsapp_identifier: it builds the JID a send must
use (bare phone -> <digits>@s.whatsapp.net) and passes through already
qualified JIDs (@g.us, @lid, status@broadcast, @newsletter) unchanged.
Wire it at every outbound bridge call site in the WhatsApp adapter
(send, edit, media, typing, get_chat_info, and the standalone cron /
send_message sender).

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(security): fail-closed when WebSocket peer is empty in loopback mode

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR (#15544), the original fix was
correct but the file has refactored since: the four endpoint-local
empty-peer checks have been consolidated into _ws_client_is_allowed
and _ws_client_reason, but the helpers were left fail-open ('no peer
host known means allow' / 'no reason to block').

On a loopback-bound dashboard with auth disabled, an ASGI server
behind a misconfigured proxy or a unix-socket transport can deliver
ws.client == None or ws.client.host == ''. The helpers were treating
that as 'allowed', so the loopback-only peer gate could be bypassed
by anything that suppressed the client tuple in transit. All four
WebSocket endpoints (/api/pty, /api/ws, /api/pub, /api/events) route
through _ws_request_is_allowed -> _ws_client_is_allowed, so the gap
applied uniformly.

Fix:

* _ws_client_is_allowed: return False when client_host is empty
  instead of True. Only reached on loopback bind with auth disabled
  (auth_required=True and explicit non-loopback binds short-circuit
  earlier), so the fail-closed behavior is scoped to the surface
  that needs it.

* _ws_client_reason: return a 'missing_or_empty_peer bound=...'
  block reason instead of None, so the dispatcher's existing
  reason-based rejection path picks it up and the close gets logged
  with a machine-parseable token for diagnosability.

Behavior unchanged for:

* gated mode (auth_required=True) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. The OAuth ticket is the auth at that point.
* explicit non-loopback bind (--host 0.0.0.0/::, or a specific LAN
  address, always with --insecure) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. DNS-rebinding is still blocked by the
  Host/Origin guard in _ws_host_origin_is_allowed.
* legitimate loopback peers (client_host == '127.0.0.1' / '::1') —
  not affected by the empty-peer branch.

Regression tests added in tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py:

* test_empty_client_host_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_missing_client_object_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_empty_client_host_reason_is_block

Plus two regression guards to ensure the fix does not over-reach:

* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_insecure_public_mode
* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_gated_mode

All three new fail-closed tests fail without this patch (the helpers
return True / None for an empty peer) and pass with it. The 45
pre-existing tests in test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py continue to pass.

* fix(model-switch): a failed in-place swap must be a no-op, not a dead session (#50375)

When a /model switch resolves a valid model but the in-place agent swap
fails mid-conversation (expired key, unreachable base_url), the agent
rolls itself back to the old working model+client and re-raises. The
callers caught that re-raise, logged a warning, then committed the broken
switch anyway: wrote the failed model to the session DB, set
_session_model_overrides to the broken model/provider/key, and (gateway
direct path) evicted the working cached agent. The next message then
rebuilt a dead agent from the broken override -> permanently unusable
conversation (#50163).

Fix the whole caller class so a failed swap aborts the commit entirely:

- gateway/slash_commands.py (picker + direct /model paths): on swap
  failure, early-return an error message; skip DB persist, session
  override, cache eviction, and config write.
- cli.py (both /model handlers): snapshot CLI-level credential/runtime
  fields before mutating, restore them on swap failure, and abort the
  note + success print.
- tui_gateway/server.py: wrap the previously-unguarded swap; on failure
  raise a clean error and skip worker restart, runtime persist, switch
  marker, session model_override, and config persist.

The no-cached-agent path (apply-on-next-session) is unaffected.

Adds a gateway regression test that fails on the pre-fix behavior.

* fix(gateway): respawn unmapped Windows gateways after update (#50090) (#50373)

On Windows, _pause_windows_gateways_for_update() force-kills every running
gateway before mutating the venv. Gateways mapped to a profile (via
profile.path/gateway…
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* fix(auth): make load_pool() non-destructive for env-seeded credentials

load_pool() is meant to be a read, but it persistently pruned env-seeded
pool entries whenever the calling process's os.environ lacked the seeding
var. A process without MINIMAX_API_KEY would delete the persisted
env:MINIMAX_API_KEY entry from auth.json for every other process, causing
auth.json to oscillate and auxiliary auto-detect to fall through to the
wrong provider.

env:* entries are persisted references re-hydrated from the environment on
each load — a missing var means "cannot re-seed right now", not "source is
gone forever". _prune_stale_seeded_entries now gates env-source removal
behind prune_env_sources (default True for explicit cleanup paths);
load_pool() passes prune_env_sources=False. File-backed singletons
(device-code OAuth, hermes_pkce) still prune when their backing file is
gone, and explicit removal via `hermes auth remove` (source suppression)
is unaffected.

Fixes #9331.

Co-authored-by: houko <suzukaze.haduki@gmail.com>

* fix(codex): bridge app-server item/started events to Telegram tool-progress (#38835)

When the main provider is the Codex app-server runtime (api_mode
codex_app_server), the gateway showed no verbose 'running X' tool-progress
breadcrumbs on Telegram while every other provider did. The app-server
session processes item/started notifications (command execution, file
changes, MCP/dynamic tool calls) but never surfaced them as Hermes
tool-progress events — the session was constructed without an on_event
hook, so the agent's tool_progress_callback was never invoked on this
route.

Add _codex_note_to_tool_progress() mapping item/started → (tool_name,
preview, args) for commandExecution / fileChange / mcpToolCall /
dynamicToolCall, and wire an on_event hook into CodexAppServerSession that
forwards mapped events to agent.tool_progress_callback('tool.started',
...) — the same signature the chat_completions path uses (tool_executor.py).
Non-tool items (agentMessage/reasoning) and non-item/started methods map
to None and are ignored.

Co-authored-by: jplew <462836+jplew@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(desktop): add Update now button to About panel (#50186)

* fix(telegram): avoid rich messages for CJK text

Telegram Mac/Desktop Bot API 10.1 rich-message rendering leaves garbled
overlapping draft/overlay glyphs for CJK text (#47653), affecting every
message containing CJK characters. The legacy MarkdownV2 path renders the
same text cleanly, so skip the rich send / draft / final-edit paths up
front for content containing CJK (incl. astral-plane extensions) until
affected clients age out. Non-CJK rich rendering is preserved.

Fixes #47653

* fix(file): harden read_file device alias blocking

Security-hardening fix for the read_file device guard, not a new sandbox
boundary. The guard already rejects direct device paths and upstream now
has a resolved-path pass for workspace symlinks to blocked devices, but
its concrete-path helper still compared the expanded path before
normalization. That leaves residual alias cases where the dangerous path
is visible before final terminal-specific resolution, for example:

  1. /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom should match the blocked-device
     list as concrete paths, not only after final realpath;
  2. /dev/stdin-style aliases can disappear once realpath follows them
     to /proc/self/fd/0 and then to a tty path;
  3. a user symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin exposes the dangerous
     intermediate target before final resolution, but not necessarily
     after it.

Normalize expanded paths before matching and inspect each symlink hop
before falling back to realpath. This preserves the existing /proc fd and
/proc pseudo-file guards while enforcing the intended security invariant:
model-supplied read paths must not reach blocking or infinite device
streams through spelling, normalization, or symlink-hop tricks.

Classification: security hardening / residual bypass fix for the
read_file device blocklist. This is defensive code at the file-tool
boundary, but it fixes a concrete denial-of-service class tracked as
security in #10141 and #29158.

Tests:
  - normalized /dev/../dev/zero and /dev/./urandom aliases
  - symlink to /dev/../dev/stdin blocked before realpath
  - existing symlink-to-device and regular-symlink guards still pass

Fixes #10141
Fixes #29158

* fix: keep poll read-only for notify_on_complete watcher

* fix(process): keep CLI drain dedup after poll goes read-only (#10156)

Follow-up to @de1tydev's poll-read-only fix. Removing the
_completion_consumed.add() from poll() fixes the gateway/tui watcher
suppression (#10156) but reintroduces the CLI duplicate that #8228 fixed:
a notify_on_complete process always enqueues a completion event, and the
CLI idle/post-turn drain would re-inject it as a [SYSTEM: ...] message
even though the agent already saw the exit inline in its poll result.

Add a separate _poll_observed set that poll() populates on an observed
exit. drain_notifications() (CLI only) skips poll-observed sessions; the
gateway/tui watchers keep checking only is_completion_consumed, so a
read-only poll never suppresses their autonomous delivery turn.

- _poll_observed pruned alongside _completion_consumed in _prune_if_needed
- 4 tests: CLI drain dedup after poll, gateway gate untouched, running
  poll doesn't mark observed, wait/log still skip CLI drain

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for de1tydev (#10158)

* fix(compressor): treat empty-content summary response as failure, not an empty summary (#50297)

When an OpenAI-compatible proxy (e.g. cmkey.cn, one-api Anthropic channels)
returns a well-formed HTTP 200 whose summary content is null or empty/
whitespace-only, _generate_summary coerced it to "" and stored a prefix-only
summary — silently replacing the compacted turns with nothing. The model then
lost all in-progress context after compression (#11978, #11914).

_validate_llm_response already guards None / empty-choices, so those never
reach the compressor; the gap was a well-formed response with empty *content*.
Now treat empty content as a summary failure: raise so it routes through the
existing main-model fallback then transient cooldown, dropping the turns
without a summary rather than wiping context with an empty one.

Also narrow the bare 'except RuntimeError' so only genuine 'No LLM provider
configured' errors take the 600s no-provider cooldown; empty/invalid-response
RuntimeErrors from a configured provider now correctly get the main-model
fallback instead of being misrouted into the long no-provider cooldown.

Reported by @Hung2124; area identified by @annguyenNous in #39590.

* fix(agent): preserve copilot routed headers

* fix(agent): route repeated-compression warning through _emit_status (#36908)

The 'Session compressed N times — accuracy may degrade' warning went
through _vprint (CLI stdout only), so the Ink TUI / Telegram / Discord
never saw it — unlike the two other compression warnings in the same
module, which route through _emit_status (and store _compression_warning
for late-bound gateway status_callback replay).

Set agent._compression_warning + call agent._emit_status() for this
warning too, matching the sibling pattern. _emit_status still _vprints
for the CLI, so CLI output is unchanged; TUI / gateway surfaces now
receive it via status_callback (and replay_compression_warning can
re-deliver it once a late-bound gateway callback is wired).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(session): finalize owned SQLite session rows on AIAgent.close()

Funnel session finalization through AIAgent.close() — the single terminal
path every agent (CLI, gateway, subagent, cron) funnels through — so finished
agents stop leaving rows with ended_at IS NULL. The biggest leak source was
delegate_task subagent + background-review forks whose close() never ended
their row.

end_session() is first-reason-wins and no-ops on an already-ended row, so a
'compression'/'cron_complete'/'cli_close' reason set by an earlier terminal
path is never clobbered. /resume already calls reopen_session(), so
finalizing-on-close does not break resumability.

Temporary helper agents that rotate/share the session forward (manual
compression, gateway session-hygiene) opt out via _end_session_on_close=False.

Also stop the long-running gateway heartbeat once the executor is done or the
session slot is rebound to a different agent, preventing a stale
'running: delegate_task' bubble from outliving its run.

Closes #12029.

* fix(session): opt the background-review fork out of session finalization

The background-review fork (fires ~every 10 turns) pins
review_agent.session_id = agent.session_id — the parent's LIVE id — for
prefix-cache parity, then calls close(). With session finalization now in
close(), that would end the still-active parent session mid-conversation.
Set _end_session_on_close = False on the fork so the real owner (CLI close /
gateway reset / cron) finalizes the session instead.

Follow-up to the #12029 fix.

* fix(tui): /compress shows a before/after summary (#46686)

The TUI /compress slash side-effect compressed the session, synced the
key, and emitted session.info — but returned an empty string, so the
user saw no 'Compressed: N → M messages / ~X → ~Y tokens' feedback. The
CLI (_manual_compress) and gateway (slash_commands) paths both already
call summarize_manual_compression; the TUI slash path was the lone gap.

Snapshot history + rough token estimate before and after compaction and
return the formatted summarize_manual_compression() feedback, mirroring
the session.compress RPC handler. The estimate uses the same
estimate_request_tokens_rough(system_prompt, tools) inputs as the RPC
path, re-reading the system prompt after compaction (it may be rebuilt).

Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>

* fix(hindsight): skip local_embedded daemon when running as root

PostgreSQL's initdb refuses to run as root, so the embedded Hindsight
daemon could never initialize its data directory under root. The
daemon-start thread would fail, retry, and loop forever — each cycle
reloading embedding models (~958MB RAM, ~33% CPU) with no user-visible
error, leaving Hermes sluggish on a common VPS/cloud root setup.

initialize() now detects root (os.geteuid() == 0) before spawning the
daemon thread, disables local_embedded mode, and surfaces a clear
warning to both the log and the terminal so the user knows to run as a
non-root user or switch to cloud / local_external mode.

Closes #13125.

Co-authored-by: teknium1 <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bedrock): price Claude prompt-cache tokens in /usage (#50307)

Bedrock Claude routes through the AnthropicBedrock SDK and injects
cache_control, so cached tokens are always reported — but the pricing
table had no cache cost fields for any Bedrock model, so /usage showed
"cost unknown" on every cached session. Also, cross-region inference
profiles (us./global./eu. prefixes) never matched the bare pricing keys.

- Add cache_read/cache_write rates to the four Bedrock Claude rows
  (read 0.1x input, write 1.25x input per the Bedrock pricing page).
- Normalize the cross-region prefix in the Bedrock pricing lookup,
  mirroring is_anthropic_bedrock_model's prefix list.

Closes #50295.

* fix(config): redact api_key in config show/set output (#50245) (#50313)

hermes config show printed the model dict raw via print(), bypassing the
logging redactor; a custom-provider api_key (e.g. Cloudflare cfut_...) was
shown in plaintext even with security.redact_secrets=true. Opaque tokens
don't match any vendor-prefix regex, so structural key-name masking is
required.

- Add redact_config_value(): recursively masks credential-shaped keys
  (api_key/token/secret/... exact-match) via mask_secret.
- Wrap the show_config model dump in it.
- Mask the set_config_value echo when the leaf key is credential-shaped
  (config set model.api_key routes to config.yaml, lowercase misses the
  .env allowlist).

* fix(file): reject read_file line-numbered writeback

* test(file): update guard assertions for unified display-text message

The salvaged #19820 unifies the write_file guard under
_is_internal_file_tool_content with the message 'internal read_file
display text'. Two tests added to test_file_read_guards.py after the PR
branch point still asserted the old 'status text' wording. Update them
to match the new (correct, more general) message.

* fix(gateway): cap inbound media download size to prevent memory exhaustion

Inbound image/audio/video payloads were buffered fully into process memory
before being written to the cache, with no size limit. A large upload
(Discord Nitro allows 500 MB) or a remote media URL in an inbound message
pointing at a huge file could spike RAM and OOM-kill the gateway.

Enforce a configurable cap in the shared cache helpers (gateway/platforms/
base.py) so the protection holds across every platform adapter, not one:

- cache_image/audio/video_from_bytes reject oversized payloads before writing
  (video was the gap in the original report — now covered).
- cache_image/audio_from_url stream the body, rejecting on an oversized
  Content-Length header and re-checking the running total per chunk so an
  absent/lying header can't smuggle an unbounded body past the cap.
- Discord's _read_attachment_bytes checks att.size up front, so an oversized
  attachment is rejected before any bytes are pulled into memory.

Configurable via gateway.max_inbound_media_bytes in config.yaml (default
128 MiB; 0 disables). No new env var — non-secret config lives in config.yaml.

Salvaged and extended from @sgaofen's PR #13341 (the original report and the
shared-helper approach). Reapplied onto current main (Discord adapter has
since moved to plugins/platforms/discord/), the configurable knob moved from
an env var to config.yaml, and the video cache helper added.

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(gateway): persist in-flight transcript on restart/shutdown drain timeout (#50312)

A turn forcibly interrupted by the drain-timeout escalation never reaches
turn_finalizer.finalize_turn (the only place that flushes the turn to
state.db). Its in-flight tool rounds live only in the in-memory
_session_messages, so the immediate pre-restart turn was silently dropped
from load_transcript() on resume.

_finalize_shutdown_agents now flushes _session_messages to the SQLite
session store before teardown. The flush is idempotent (identity-tracked
in _flush_messages_to_session_db), so agents that finished gracefully
re-flush nothing. The resume_pending / fresh-tool-tail branches in
_handle_message_with_agent already expect a transcript whose tail may be a
pending tool result.

Fixes #13121.

* fix(security): redact secrets in kanban tool payloads before persistence

* fix(telegram): make Bot API 10.1 rich messages opt-in (default off)

Rich messages are not ready for primetime: current Telegram clients can
render Bot API 10.1 rich messages as blank/unsupported bubbles and make
them hard to copy as plain text, which is worse than the legacy
MarkdownV2 path for command snippets and mobile handoffs. Default the
rich_messages toggle to False so replies stay on the copyable legacy
path; users opt in per bot via platforms.telegram.extra.rich_messages:
true. Updates adapter, gateway config default, example config, English +
zh-Hans docs, and the default/opt-in tests.

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48422 salvage

* fix(backup): capture memory-provider state stored outside HERMES_HOME (#50325)

hermes backup only walks HERMES_HOME, so memory providers that keep
config/credentials in home-anchored dotdirs (honcho -> ~/.honcho,
hindsight -> ~/.hindsight, openviking -> ~/.openviking) lost that data
across a backup/import cycle — the peer IDs, session pairings, and API
keys never made it into the archive.

Add an optional MemoryProvider.backup_paths() hook (default []). The
active provider declares its external paths; backup resolves them from
config only (no init, no network), archives the ones under the home dir
into a reserved _external/ subtree encoded relative to home, and import
restores them to their original location with a home-anchored traversal
guard and 0600 on credential-shaped files. Paths outside home are
skipped as non-portable.

honcho, hindsight, and openviking override the hook. E2E-validated full
backup->import cycle plus 7 new tests.

* fix(kanban): single-writer dispatch lock to prevent orphan-dispatcher DB corruption (#50331)

A shell-launched 'hermes gateway run --replace' / 'gateway restart' on a
systemd/launchd host can leave an orphan gateway whose kanban dispatcher
escapes the service cgroup, survives 'systemctl restart', and becomes a
second long-lived writer on the shared kanban.db. Two dispatchers that each
believe they own the file both pass SQLite busy_timeout and then race on WAL
frames — the documented root cause of multi-writer corruption (issue #35240).

The existing _guard_supervised_gateway_conflict startup guard blocks the
common way an orphan is born, but does nothing once a second dispatcher
already exists. This adds the defense-in-depth: dispatch_once now wraps every
tick in a non-blocking, board-scoped flock (_dispatch_tick_lock). A losing
dispatcher returns DispatchResult(skipped_locked=True) and does zero DB writes
this tick — so two dispatchers can never run a reclaim/spawn/write sequence
concurrently regardless of how the second one got there.

- Non-blocking (LOCK_NB): never stalls the gateway's async watcher.
- Board-scoped: lock file is a .dispatch.lock sibling of each board's
  kanban.db, so unrelated boards tick in parallel.
- POSIX + Windows (fcntl / msvcrt LK_NBLCK), no-op degrade where neither
  exists — mirrors the existing _cross_process_init_lock pattern.

Verified with a real two-process orphan repro: while a separate process holds
the lock, dispatch_once skips; after release it runs.

* fix(agent): stop delegate cascade from deleting the parent session

_collect_delegate_child_ids() walks the _delegate_from marker chain to
gather delegate subagents for cascade deletion, but started its visited
set empty. When the chain loops back onto a parent — a delegation cycle,
or a parent that is also another parent's delegate child when several ids
are deleted together — that parent was collected as one of its own
descendants and then permanently deleted, along with all of its messages,
by _delete_delegate_children().

Seed the visited set with the parent ids so they can never be re-collected,
and exclude them from the returned child set. Callers (delete_session,
bulk delete) remove the parents separately, so this only prevents the
unintended parent deletion; legitimate child collection is unchanged.

Add regression tests (in-memory sqlite) covering single/multi-level
delegate chains, the parent_session_id+marker branch, untagged children
(orphan-don't-delete contract), and the cycle case that previously leaked
the parent into the deletion set.

Fixes #49148

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path (#50319)

* fix(api-server): stop silently promising async delivery on stateless HTTP path

terminal(notify_on_complete=True / watch_patterns) and delegate_task(background=True)
silently no-op'd on the API server / WebUI path (#10760): the watcher / detached
child registered, but every API-server route (OpenAI-spec /v1/chat/completions
and /v1/responses, plus the proprietary /v1/runs SSE stream) tears down its
channel when the turn ends, and APIServerAdapter.send() is a no-op stub. A
completion that fires after the response closed had nowhere to go — from the
agent side, indistinguishable from a hang.

There is no spec-compliant surface to wake the agent later on a stateless HTTP
client, so make the no-op honest instead of silent:

- Add a per-adapter capability flag supports_async_delivery (default True;
  APIServerAdapter = False), propagated into a HERMES_SESSION_ASYNC_DELIVERY
  contextvar via async_delivery_supported(). Toggle on the adapter, not a
  hardcoded platform string — a future stateless adapter is correct-by-default.
- terminal: when delivery is unsupported, skip watcher registration, force
  notify_on_complete off, and return a notify_unsupported note telling the
  agent to process(action='poll').
- delegate_task: when delivery is unsupported, fall back to SYNCHRONOUS
  execution (work runs and returns in the same response) with a note, instead
  of handing out a handle that never resolves.

CLI (in-process completion_queue) and the real gateway platforms are unchanged.

Fixes #10760

* refactor(api-server): route session binding through a single no-delivery chokepoint

Add APIServerAdapter._bind_api_server_session() and route both agent-entry
paths (_run_agent for /v1/chat/completions + /v1/responses, and the /v1/runs
_run_sync path) through it. The helper hardwires platform="api_server" and
async_delivery=False with no async_delivery parameter to pass, so a future
route added to the API server physically cannot reintroduce the silent
no-op (#10760) by forgetting to mark the channel as non-delivering.

The binding stays request-scoped (cleared per turn), so a session resumed
later on a delivering interface (CLI / gateway platform) re-binds fresh and
is NOT blocked — the no-delivery decision tracks the interface handling the
current turn, never the session.

* fix(photon): classify Envoy overflow errors as retryable; add typing cooldown

Closes #50185

Two independent gaps let a transient Photon/Spectrum upstream overflow
degrade message delivery and amplify gRPC pressure:

1. _is_retryable_error did not recognise Photon- or Envoy-specific error
   strings ("internal sidecar error", "upstream connect error",
   "reset reason: overflow"), so _send_with_retry fell through to the
   plain-text fallback immediately instead of backing off and retrying.

2. send_typing had no rate gate, so a burst of typing-indicator calls
   during an overflow event kept hitting the upstream gRPC connection and
   widened the failure window.

Fix:
- Add _PHOTON_RETRYABLE_PATTERNS with the three high-specificity Envoy /
  sidecar substrings and override _is_retryable_error on PhotonAdapter to
  check them after delegating to the base-class patterns.  base.py and all
  other adapters are untouched.
- Add a 5 s per-chat cooldown in send_typing backed by _typing_last_sent.
  stop_typing clears the entry so the next start after a completed turn
  fires immediately — only rapid consecutive starts without a stop are
  suppressed.
- Reduce PhotonAdapter._send_with_retry default max_retries from 2 to 1
  (single 2 s back-off check) — enough to confirm whether the Envoy
  circuit-breaker has opened, without adding unnecessary latency.

All changes are scoped to plugins/platforms/photon/adapter.py.

* fix(photon): detect unexpected sidecar death and trigger reconnect

When the Node spectrum-ts sidecar process exited mid-session (crash,
OOM, upstream overflow escalation), _supervise_sidecar returned
silently — readline hit EOF, the log-pump loop broke, and nothing
notified the gateway. _inbound_loop entered an infinite retry loop
against a dead port, _running stayed True, and the adapter remained
in self.adapters with no path to self-recovery short of a manual
gateway restart.

Add a death-detection tail to _supervise_sidecar: after the log-pump
exits (EOF or exception), guard on _inbound_running to distinguish
unexpected death from a deliberate disconnect(). On unexpected exit,
call _set_fatal_error("SIDECAR_CRASHED", retryable=True) followed by
_notify_fatal_error() so the reconnect watcher picks up the platform
within 30 s and retries with exponential backoff (30 s → 300 s cap)
until the sidecar comes back up. All other platforms remain unaffected.

The _inbound_running guard is safe against races: disconnect() sets
_inbound_running = False before _stop_sidecar() cancels the supervisor
task. CancelledError is BaseException, not Exception, so it bypasses
the except clause and propagates normally — the detection block never
runs during a clean shutdown.

* test(photon): cover overflow retry, typing cooldown, sidecar-crash detection

Follow-up for salvaged PR #50256. Unit tests for the three behaviors:
retryable classification of Envoy/sidecar overflow strings, per-chat typing
cooldown with stop_typing reset, and the _supervise_sidecar crash-detection
path that raises a retryable fatal (and the clean-shutdown no-op).

* fix(file): anchor device symlink guard to task cwd

The read_file device guard now walks symlink hops before the file operation
layer, but that hop walk still interpreted relative paths against the Python
process cwd. In sessions where TERMINAL_CWD points at the task workspace, a
relative workspace symlink to a blocked alias such as /dev/../dev/stdin could
therefore miss the intermediate device target before later task-cwd resolution.

Anchor relative device checks to the task base before symlink-hop inspection so
the pre-I/O guard sees the same workspace path that read_file would otherwise
read. Absolute device paths and the existing final realpath fallback remain
unchanged.

Refs #10141
Refs #29158

* feat(hindsight): configurable embedded daemon health grace timeout (#50341)

On resource-contended hosts the embedded Hindsight daemon can exceed a
single 2s /health check; upstream then waits a grace window before
treating it as stale and killing+restarting it (hindsight-embed reads
HINDSIGHT_EMBED_PORT_HEALTH_GRACE_TIMEOUT, default 30s, into a
module-level constant at import time). Users on busy boxes had no
Hermes-side way to raise it short of hand-setting an env var.

Add a 'port_health_grace_timeout' config.json option to the Hindsight
plugin. When set, initialize() exports it to the process env BEFORE
daemon_embed_manager is imported (the import-time read is the contract).
setdefault() so an explicit operator env override always wins. Exposed
in 'hermes memory setup' for local_embedded mode.

Follow-up to #50308 / issue #13125 comment thread.

* fix(web_server): use run_in_executor for gateway pre-warm and drain-timeout

Fixes a regression introduced by the prior approach (synchronous import
hermes_cli.gateway inside _lifespan) that caused a new failure mode:
the blocking import stalled the asyncio event loop before uvicorn could
bind its port, pushing HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY past the desktop shell's
45 s announcement deadline and triggering a respawn loop that accumulated
orphaned backend processes.

Two-part fix:

_lifespan: replace the blocking import with a fire-and-forget
run_in_executor call (_warm_gateway_module).  The import runs in a
worker thread while the server socket is already open, so
HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY fires without delay.

get_status: replace the inline lazy import with
await run_in_executor(None, _resolve_restart_drain_timeout).  This is
the root fix for the original 15 s socket-timeout: the blocking
.pyc-compilation + Defender scan is offloaded to a thread, keeping the
event loop free for every /api/status probe.  After the first call the
module is in sys.modules and the executor returns in microseconds.

Both helpers are extracted as module-level sync functions so they can
be unit-tested independently of FastAPI or uvicorn.

Closes #50209

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(web_server): add integration tests for desktop boot handshake fix

Three tests covering the scenarios from issue #50209 that could not be
validated with real Defender on a fresh install:

1. test_lifespan_warmup_is_nonblocking
   Patches _warm_gateway_module to sleep 3 s. Measures TestClient startup
   time — must complete in < 1.5 s, proving the fire-and-forget
   run_in_executor does not block the event loop before port binding
   (HERMES_DASHBOARD_READY timing proxy).

2. test_get_status_does_not_block_event_loop
   Patches _resolve_restart_drain_timeout to sleep 3 s. Fires concurrent
   GET /api/status and GET /api/version requests. /api/version must
   respond in < 3 s while /api/status waits — proving the event loop
   stays free during the slow import (15 s socket timeout would not fire).

3. test_concurrent_status_probes_all_respond
   Three simultaneous /api/status probes with the slow patch — all must
   return HTTP 200 (no connection resets, no orphan accumulation).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(desktop): make cold-start port-announcement deadline tolerant

The port-announcement clock in waitForDashboardPort starts the instant the
backend process is spawned — before uvicorn binds its socket. On a cold
install the child first compiles and imports the whole hermes_cli.main ->
web_server -> FastAPI/uvicorn chain, and on Windows real-time AV scans every
freshly written .pyc. That pre-bind cost can exceed the old hardcoded 45s
deadline, so the desktop killed a healthy-but-still-starting backend and
respawned it, piling up orphaned processes (#50209).

Raise the default to 90s and make it overridable via
HERMES_DESKTOP_PORT_ANNOUNCE_TIMEOUT_MS, clamped to a 45s floor so a bad
override can't reintroduce the loop. Warm starts still announce in well under
a second; both call sites inherit the new default with no change. Adds
backend-ready.test.cjs (wired into test:desktop:platforms).

* feat(gateway): typed send-error classification (SendResult.error_kind) (#50342)

Add a platform-neutral send-failure vocabulary so consumers can branch on a
typed category instead of substring-matching the raw provider message.

- base.py: SEND_ERROR_KINDS + classify_send_error() (too_long / bad_format /
  forbidden / not_found / rate_limited / transient / unknown), and an optional
  SendResult.error_kind field (defaults None — fully backward compatible).
- telegram.py: populate error_kind on send() failures; message_too_long keeps
  its existing error token plus error_kind='too_long'.

Purely additive: no behavioral change to the existing degrade-and-deliver
paths (MarkdownV2->plain-text fallback, overflow split, retry classification
all untouched). 22 new tests + 210 adapter regression tests green.

* fix(telegram): stop typing indicator lingering after final reply

After the agent's final response, the '...typing' bubble persisted ~5s.
send() re-triggers send_typing() after every delivery so the bubble
survives intermediate progress messages (Telegram clears typing on each
delivered message). But that re-trigger also fired on the FINAL send,
re-arming Telegram's ~5s timer AFTER the gateway had already torn down
its typing-refresh loop — and Telegram exposes no stop-typing API, so
nothing cancelled it.

Gate the post-send re-trigger on the absence of metadata['notify'] (set
only on the final user-visible reply via _mark_notify_metadata). Both
the rich-message and legacy send paths are covered; intermediate
progress sends still re-trigger so the bubble stays alive mid-response.

Fixes #48678

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #48678 salvage

* feat(plugins): add ctx.profile_name for session-agnostic profile access (#50346)

Plugins previously had no way to read the active profile name from the
PluginContext. The workaround in the wild — reaching into
ctx._manager._cli_ref — only works in an interactive CLI session;
_cli_ref is None in the gateway and in kanban-spawned worker sessions
(hermes -p <profile> chat -q ...), so the workaround breaks exactly
where multi-profile awareness matters most.

ctx.profile_name wraps hermes_cli.profiles.get_active_profile_name(),
which derives the name from HERMES_HOME and therefore works in every
execution context with zero dependency on _cli_ref.

* feat(kanban): add task lifecycle plugin hooks (claimed/completed/blocked) (#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(cli): branch new worktrees from the fresh remote tip, not stale local HEAD (#50355)

hermes -w created the worktree branch from the standalone clone's HEAD, which
lags origin when the clone isn't freshly updated (it's only refreshed by
hermes update, not per session). Every worktree branch then rooted on a stale
base, so the PR diff GitHub computes against current main ballooned with
unrelated changes and the agent had to discover the staleness at push time and
rebase.

_resolve_worktree_base() now fetches and branches from the freshest available
ref: the current branch's upstream if it tracks one (so a deliberate
feature-branch worktree tracks its own remote), else the remote's default
branch (origin/HEAD), else local HEAD as a fail-soft fallback (offline / no
remote / detached). A bogus 'origin/(unknown)' default is guarded, and worktree
creation retries from HEAD if branching off the remote ref fails — so this is
never worse than the old behavior.

Gated by worktree_sync (default true); set worktree_sync: false to keep the
old branch-from-local-HEAD behavior. The resolved base is printed in the
session banner.

This is the follow-up to the #50319 session, where the standalone clone was
213 commits behind origin and the worktree inherited that stale base.

* fix(kanban): pin worker TERMINAL_CWD to the task workspace (#50348)

_default_spawn launched the worker subprocess with cwd=workspace and set
HERMES_KANBAN_WORKSPACE, but never set TERMINAL_CWD — so the worker inherited
the dispatching gateway's TERMINAL_CWD. That value takes precedence over the
process cwd in two places:

- tools/file_tools.py::_resolve_base_dir — a relative write_file path resolved
  against the gateway user's home instead of the workspace, so artifacts
  silently landed outside the workspace (#41312).
- agent_init's context-file loader — AGENTS.md was discovered relative to the
  gateway's cwd, so under multi-profile dispatch a worker loaded whichever
  gateway won the claim race's AGENTS.md, not the task's (#34619).

Both are the same root cause. Pinning TERMINAL_CWD to the workspace (where the
task's work actually happens) fixes both. Guarded on an existing absolute dir
because file_tools rejects relative/sentinel TERMINAL_CWD values — a non-dir
workspace leaves the inherited value rather than writing a meaningless one.

Closes #34619, closes #41312.

* fix(kanban): bound the cross-process init lock so connect() can't hang forever (#50353)

connect() wrapped its entire body in an unbounded blocking flock(LOCK_EX) on
every call (_cross_process_init_lock). A single process stalled inside the
critical section — or a stale lock held by a wedged worker — blocked every
other connect(), including the long-lived gateway dispatcher's next-tick
connect, forever. No timeout, no traceback, no recovery: the board silently
stopped being worked until a manual restart (issue #36644).

Two fixes:

1. Fast-path skip: once THIS process has initialized a path, the expensive
   first-open work (header validation, integrity probe, schema + additive
   migrations) is already cached in _INITIALIZED_PATHS. The steady-state
   connect has nothing for the cross-process lock to protect, so it now opens
   the connection (WAL + pragmas) under only the cheap in-process _INIT_LOCK
   and never touches the file lock. This removes the lock from the dispatcher's
   hot path entirely — a stalled external 'hermes kanban list' can no longer
   block ticks.

2. Bounded acquire: even on first-init, _cross_process_init_lock now retries a
   non-blocking acquire up to a 10s deadline, then logs a WARNING and proceeds
   WITHOUT the cross-process lock. Safe because the in-process _INIT_LOCK still
   serializes same-process threads and the init work is idempotent
   (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS + additive migrations) — worst case is redundant
   work, not corruption. A bounded 'proceed anyway' beats an unbounded hang.

Windows path switched LK_LOCK -> LK_NBLCK (non-blocking) to match.

Closes #36644.

* fix(kanban): honor kanban.auto_decompose toggle live, without a gateway restart (#50358)

The gateway dispatcher captured kanban.auto_decompose ONCE at boot, so a user
who flipped it to false to STOP auto-decompose had no way to make that take
effect short of restarting the gateway. Reported (#49638): auto-decompose
created and launched tasks the user never intended (while they were still
typing the task description), and 'even Hermes Agent couldn't disable this
feature' — because the live config edit was silently ignored.

Auto-decompose is a safety toggle; turning it off must halt fan-out on the
next tick. The dispatcher now re-reads the flag (and auto_decompose_per_tick)
from config every tick via the extracted _resolve_auto_decompose_settings(),
which fails SAFE (disabled) on a config read error so a transient failure can
never re-enable a feature the user turned off.

Closes #49638.

* fix(security): validate snapshot_id and file paths in restore_quick_snapshot to prevent path traversal

* test(backup): add regression tests for restore_quick_snapshot path traversal

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR, the security fix is behaviorally
correct but lacks focused regression coverage for the two traversal
vectors it closes. Adding tests now so the path-traversal guard
cannot silently regress.

* test_restore_rejects_snapshot_id_traversal -- exercises the
  snapshot_id input guard with seven hostile values (parent
  traversal, single parent, bare '.', bare '..', forward slash,
  backslash, empty string). Each must return False without touching
  the filesystem.

* test_restore_rejects_manifest_rel_traversal -- exercises the
  manifest rel guard by injecting '../../outside.txt' into a real
  snapshot's manifest.json, seeding a source payload at the escaped
  path, and asserting the destination outside HERMES_HOME does not
  exist after restore. This is the higher-value test of the pair --
  verified locally that it fails without the fix in
  restore_quick_snapshot (the escape destination gets written) and
  passes with the fix in place.

The 67 pre-existing tests in test_backup.py continue to pass.

* fix(kanban): make reclaim claim-lock-aware to stop task/run status desync (#50366)

After a worker crash + reclaim + respawn, the board could show a task in the
Ready lane while its task_run was 'running' and the new worker was actively
executing (#36910). The dispatcher could then treat live work as available and
double-assign.

Root cause: the three reclaim paths (detect_crashed_workers,
release_stale_claims heartbeat-stale backstop, enforce_max_runtime) each
snapshot a task's worker_pid/claim_lock, do liveness work, then reset
tasks.status back to 'ready' with only a 'WHERE status=running' guard. If the
task was reclaimed AND re-claimed by a NEW worker in between (new run, new
claim_lock, live pid), the stale UPDATE clobbered the live task: status flipped
to 'ready' while the fresh run stayed 'running'. claim_task is the only writer
that sets status='running', so nothing put it back — permanent desync.

Fix: gate each reset on the snapshot's claim_lock (and worker_pid where
available) so it only fires when the task is still owned by the worker the
reclaim was computed for. A stale reclaim now no-ops (rowcount 0) instead of
desyncing a re-claimed task. Genuine crashes (lock still matches) reclaim
exactly as before.

This is the same race class the in-gateway dispatch lock (single-writer ticks)
mitigates, closed at the row level so a single dispatcher's fast
reclaim->respawn across two ticks is also safe.

Closes #36910.

* docs(ui-tui): fix file paths, add billing command, update file map

* docs(ui-tui): add billing.step_up.verification event + perfPane.tsx to README

Follow-up on salvaged #50347: the event surface table was missing the
billing.step_up.verification switch case, and the File map omitted
lib/perfPane.tsx.

* docs(plugins): document acting from hooks via ctx.profile_name + dispatch_tool (#50352)

Answers a recurring plugin-author question: how to read the active
profile and drive Hermes from inside a hook callback when ctx._cli_ref
is None (gateway, hermes chat -q, and kanban-spawned worker sessions).

- Adds a 'Act from inside a hook' section to the plugin guide covering
  ctx.profile_name and ctx.dispatch_tool as the session-agnostic APIs,
  with a kanban_task_blocked example, and notes there is no in-process
  slash-command bridge for headless workers (shell out via the terminal
  tool instead).
- Adds the three kanban lifecycle hooks to the hook reference table with
  their process semantics.
- Pins the contract with a regression test: ctx.dispatch_tool invokes a
  tool handler with _cli_ref=None (worker/hook context).

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.

* fix(windows): prefer cmd npm shim on PATH fallback

* fix(security): sanitize kanban markdown html

* fix(cli): guard missing ui-tui workspace before TUI launch

* fix(cli): auto-restore a deleted ui-tui workspace from git before TUI launch

The Windows update path can leave tracked ui-tui/ files deleted in the
working tree (HEAD intact). The guard now self-heals: when ui-tui/ is
missing in a git checkout, run `git restore -- ui-tui` and continue,
falling back to the printed manual-recovery steps only when git can't
recover it (no checkout / restore failed).

Builds on konsisumer's missing-workspace guard.

* fix(cli): make ZIP-update directory replace atomic so it can't delete ui-tui

Root cause of #49145: the Windows ZIP-update path did rmtree(dst) then
copytree(src, dst). If the copy failed partway — common on that path,
which only runs because file I/O is already flaky on the machine — the
directory was left deleted with nothing copied back. ui-tui/ vanishing
is what broke 'hermes --tui' (WinError 267), but the bug hit every
top-level directory.

_atomic_replace_dir stages the new copy into a sibling temp dir and only
swaps it in on full success, restoring the original on failure. A failed
update now leaves the live tree untouched instead of half-deleted.

* fix(gateway): pause Telegram typing before stream finalize

In Telegram streaming, the typing indicator persisted through the slow
final rich-text/MarkdownV2 finalize edit, so the '...typing' bubble
lingered for seconds after the last streamed token. Add a one-shot
on_before_finalize hook to GatewayStreamConsumer, fired once when the
stream transitions into its finalization path, and wire it on both
Telegram streaming call sites to call pause_typing_for_chat() before
the final edit. Cover hook ordering and once-only behavior in tests.

Fixes #49712

* fix(desktop/windows): stop in-app update from cascading into a backend restart loop (#50381)

When a Windows user relaunches Hermes while an in-app update is still
running (the desktop vanished with no progress and looks crashed), the
fresh instance spawns its own dashboard backend. That backend re-locks
the venv shim, the updater's straggler cleanup (force_kill_other_hermes
-> taskkill /F /T /IM hermes.exe) kills it, the launch dies with the 45s
"backend didn't come up" timeout, and the user relaunches into the same
trap -- an infinite respawn/kill loop (#50238).

Root cause: no mutual exclusion between an applying update and a fresh
desktop spawning its own local backend.

Fix: the updater publishes a HERMES_HOME/.hermes-update-in-progress
marker (pid + start time) for the whole run via an RAII drop-guard that
removes it on every exit path (success, early return, panic). A
freshly-launched desktop checks the marker before spawning its local
backend and PARKS until the update finishes -- then brings the backend
up itself (it is the surviving instance; the updater's own relaunch hits
the single-instance lock and quits). A stale marker (dead pid or past a
20-minute ceiling) is pruned so a crashed updater can never strand
future launches. No rogue backend spawns mid-update, so
force_kill_other_hermes has nothing legitimate to kill.

Marker parse/staleness logic is extracted to update-marker.cjs and
unit-tested; the Rust guard has unit tests; the Rust-write <-> JS-read
contract is E2E-verified.

* fix(whatsapp): normalize bare phone targets to JIDs before bridge send

Baileys' jidDecode crashes ("Cannot destructure property 'user' of
jidDecode(...) as it is undefined") when handed a bare phone number, so
sending a WhatsApp message to +50766715226 / 50766715226 returned HTTP
500 and never delivered (#8637).

Add to_whatsapp_jid() to gateway/whatsapp_identity.py — the outbound
inverse of normalize_whatsapp_identifier: it builds the JID a send must
use (bare phone -> <digits>@s.whatsapp.net) and passes through already
qualified JIDs (@g.us, @lid, status@broadcast, @newsletter) unchanged.
Wire it at every outbound bridge call site in the WhatsApp adapter
(send, edit, media, typing, get_chat_info, and the standalone cron /
send_message sender).

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>

* fix(security): fail-closed when WebSocket peer is empty in loopback mode

Per @egilewski's audit on this PR (#15544), the original fix was
correct but the file has refactored since: the four endpoint-local
empty-peer checks have been consolidated into _ws_client_is_allowed
and _ws_client_reason, but the helpers were left fail-open ('no peer
host known means allow' / 'no reason to block').

On a loopback-bound dashboard with auth disabled, an ASGI server
behind a misconfigured proxy or a unix-socket transport can deliver
ws.client == None or ws.client.host == ''. The helpers were treating
that as 'allowed', so the loopback-only peer gate could be bypassed
by anything that suppressed the client tuple in transit. All four
WebSocket endpoints (/api/pty, /api/ws, /api/pub, /api/events) route
through _ws_request_is_allowed -> _ws_client_is_allowed, so the gap
applied uniformly.

Fix:

* _ws_client_is_allowed: return False when client_host is empty
  instead of True. Only reached on loopback bind with auth disabled
  (auth_required=True and explicit non-loopback binds short-circuit
  earlier), so the fail-closed behavior is scoped to the surface
  that needs it.

* _ws_client_reason: return a 'missing_or_empty_peer bound=...'
  block reason instead of None, so the dispatcher's existing
  reason-based rejection path picks it up and the close gets logged
  with a machine-parseable token for diagnosability.

Behavior unchanged for:

* gated mode (auth_required=True) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. The OAuth ticket is the auth at that point.
* explicit non-loopback bind (--host 0.0.0.0/::, or a specific LAN
  address, always with --insecure) — early-returns True before the
  empty-peer check runs. DNS-rebinding is still blocked by the
  Host/Origin guard in _ws_host_origin_is_allowed.
* legitimate loopback peers (client_host == '127.0.0.1' / '::1') —
  not affected by the empty-peer branch.

Regression tests added in tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py:

* test_empty_client_host_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_missing_client_object_rejected_in_loopback_mode
* test_empty_client_host_reason_is_block

Plus two regression guards to ensure the fix does not over-reach:

* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_insecure_public_mode
* test_empty_client_host_still_allowed_in_gated_mode

All three new fail-closed tests fail without this patch (the helpers
return True / None for an empty peer) and pass with it. The 45
pre-existing tests in test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth.py continue to pass.

* fix(model-switch): a failed in-place swap must be a no-op, not a dead session (#50375)

When a /model switch resolves a valid model but the in-place agent swap
fails mid-conversation (expired key, unreachable base_url), the agent
rolls itself back to the old working model+client and re-raises. The
callers caught that re-raise, logged a warning, then committed the broken
switch anyway: wrote the failed model to the session DB, set
_session_model_overrides to the broken model/provider/key, and (gateway
direct path) evicted the working cached agent. The next message then
rebuilt a dead agent from the broken override -> permanently unusable
conversation (#50163).

Fix the whole caller class so a failed swap aborts the commit entirely:

- gateway/slash_commands.py (picker + direct /model paths): on swap
  failure, early-return an error message; skip DB persist, session
  override, cache eviction, and config write.
- cli.py (both /model handlers): snapshot CLI-level credential/runtime
  fields before mutating, restore them on swap failure, and abort the
  note + success print.
- tui_gateway/server.py: wrap the previously-unguarded swap; on failure
  raise a clean error and skip worker restart, runtime persist, switch
  marker, session model_override, and config persist.

The no-cached-agent path (apply-on-next-session) is unaffected.

Adds a gateway regression test that fails on the pre-fix behavior.

* fix(gateway): respawn unmapped Windows gateways after update (#50090) (#50373)

On Windows, _pause_windows_gateways_for_update() force-kills every running
gateway before mutating the venv. Gateways mapped to a profile (via
profile.path/gateway.pid) were respawned afterward, but gateways with NO
profile mapping — e.g. a Windows Scheduled Task running
"pythonw.exe -m hermes_cli.main gateway run" — were force-killed and only
told to restart manually. After an auto-update/bootstrap the Telegram bot
stayed dead until manual intervention.

Now we snapshot each unmapped gateway's argv (psutil, guarded by
looks_like_gateway_command_line) before the kill and replay it through the
same detached watcher used for profile gateways, so unmapped gateways come
back automatically too.

Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <agent@nousresearch.com>

* fix(config): alias model.api_base -> model.base_url for custom providers (#50385)

A bare custom provider configured via `model.api_base` (the intuitive name
OpenAI-SDK / LiteLLM users reach for) was silently ignored: `hermes config set`
accepts any dotted key, so `model.api_base` got written and confirmed, but the
runtime resolver reads only `model.base_url`. Requests fell back to OpenRouter
with an empty key -> 401, zero hits to the custom endpoint (issue #8919).

Now api_base is migrated to base_url at load time (fixes existing broken
configs) and at set time (with a notice), never overriding an explicit
base_url. Closes #8919.

* fix(approval): honor interrupt in blocking gateway approval wait (#8697)

A dangerous-command gateway approval blocks the agent's execution thread
inside _await_gateway_decision() on threading.Event.wait() until the user
responds or the 5-minute approval timeout fires. The poll loop never checked
is_interrupted(), so /stop (which flags the agent's execution thread via
AIAgent.interrupt()) was silently ignored — the session stayed wedged until
timeout, even though /stop reported the session unlocked.

Check is_interrupted() at the top of the poll loop. The wait runs on the
agent's execution thread, the exact thread interrupt() flags, so the check
sees the signal and resolves the pending approval as deny — the agent loop
receives a normal denial and unwinds cleanly. Covers /stop, /new, and the
gateway inactivity-timeout interrupt through the single shared wait loop used
by both the terminal and execute_code guards.

* test(approval): regression for interrupt-unblocks-approval; AUTHOR_MAP

- Add thread-scoped regression test: interrupt on the waiting thread resolves
  the approval as deny well under the 300s timeout; a foreign-thread interrupt
  does NOT release the wait (interrupts are per-thread).
- Add panghuer023 to AUTHOR_MAP for the salvaged #37994 fix.

* fix(email): resolve IMAP/SMTP host from config and validate before connecting

The email adapter read address/host purely from env vars and never stripped
them, so a missing or whitespace-padded EMAIL_IMAP_HOST reached
imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("") and surfaced as the misleading
"[Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known" — sending users down a
DNS rabbit hole when the real problem was an empty/dirty host string. A
config.yaml-only setup also left the host empty because __init__ ignored
PlatformConfig.extra, even though the "connected" check, the send helper, and
`hermes config show` already read address/imap_host/smtp_host from it.

Resolve address/imap_host/smtp_host from the env var first, then fall back to
config.extra, and strip surrounding whitespace — matching the send helper's
existing pattern. Validate the required settings at the start of connect() and
return False with an actionable message instead of attempting a connection with
an empty host.

Adds regression tests for whitespace stripping, config.extra fallback, and the
no-IMAP-attempt-on-missing-host path.

* chore(release): map devorun salvage author email

* fix(email): mark missing-config as non-retryable + reject blank env vars (#40715)

Fold in the #40715 blank-env OOM fix on top of the host-resolution change:
- connect() now sets a non-retryable fatal error when required settings are
  missing, so the gateway stops reconnecting against an empty host instead of
  looping forever and leaking memory until the host OOM-kills.
- check_email_requirements() treats blank/whitespace-only EMAIL_* values as
  missing, so an abandoned setup with empty keys no longer enables the platform.

Credits the parallel fixes by zerone0x (#40745) and liuhao1024 (#40829).

* fix(gateway): respect adapter decline of fresh-final to prevent double delivery

When a streamed Telegram reply finalizes, the stream consumer could take
the fresh-final path (send a new sendRichMessage + best-effort delete the
preview) purely because the time-based _should_send_fresh_final()
threshold elapsed — even though Telegram's prefers_fresh_final_streaming
returns False. The fresh Rich Message then overlapped the legacy
MarkdownV2 preview already on screen, leaving both visible (the #47048
table + bullet double-render).

Honor the adapter's decision: when prefers_fresh_final_streaming exists
on the adapter (checked on the class + instance __dict__ so MagicMock
auto-attrs don't false-positive) and declines, the time threshold no
longer overrides it. Adapters without the hook keep the time-based
fresh-final for backward compat.

Fixes #47048

* fix(security): handle IPv6 scope IDs in URL safety checks to prevent bypass

ipaddress.ip_address() raises ValueError on IPv6 addresses with scope
IDs (e.g. 'fe80::1%eth0'). Both is_always_blocked_url() and is_safe_url()
silently skipped these via `except ValueError: continue`.

If ALL resolved addresses for a hostname carry scope IDs, every address
is skipped and the URL passes all safety checks — a potential SSRF
bypass vector against link-local or metadata endpoints.

Fix:
- Strip the scope ID (%eth0) before parsing in both functions
- is_safe_url(): fail closed (return False) with a warning log if still
  unparseable after stripping
- is_always_blocked_url(): use continue (not return False) to preserve
  multi-address scanning, with a warning log

Affected: tools/url_safety.py — is_always_blocked_url(), is_safe_url()

* test(url-safety): cover IPv6 scope-ID strip + fail-closed in URL guards

Follow-up to the salvaged #25961 fix: regression tests asserting that
scope-bearing IPv6 addresses (fe80::1%eth0, ::1%lo) are blocked by
is_safe_url after the scope is stripped, that a still-unparseable address
fails closed, and that a scoped IPv4-mapped IMDS address is caught by the
always-blocked floor.

* fix(redact): mask all Authorization schemes and x-api-key style headers

Secret redaction only matched `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. Other auth
headers passed through verbatim into logs, tool output, and transcripts:

- `Authorization: Basic <base64>` — leaks base64(user:password)
- `Authorization: token <pat>` / any non-Bearer scheme
- `Proxy-Authorization: ...`
- `x-api-key: <key>` (Anthropic and many providers) and `api-key`,
  `x-goog-api-key`, `x-auth-token`, `x-access-token`, ... — opaque values with
  no known vendor prefix were caught by nothing

A logged request or an echoed `curl -H "x-api-key: ..."` command therefore
leaked live credentials.

Generalize the Authorization rule to mask the credential for any scheme (and
Proxy-Authorization) while preserving the header name and scheme word for
debuggability, and add an api-key header rule for the single-opaque-value
headers. Bearer behavior is unchanged; plain prose containing the word
"authorization" (no colon-delimited value) is left untouched.

Adds regression tests for Basic/token/Proxy auth and the x-api-key/api-key
headers, including inside a curl command.

* fix: V-009 security vulnerability

Automated security fix generated by Orbis Security AI

* fix(V-009): reject path traversal in SessionEntry.from_dict and harden _ensure_loaded

Addresses PR #9560 review comments: applies the CWE-22 fix to current main
(post-PR #458 rebase) and adds the requested regression tests.

- SessionEntry.from_dict now raises ValueError for session_key or session_id
  containing '..' or starting with '/' or '\' (directory traversal guard)
- SessionStore._ensure_loaded moves per-entry validation inside the loop so
  one malicious/corrupt entry is skipped with a warning instead of aborting
  the entire sessions.json load
- Adds TestSessionEntryFromDictTraversalValidation (5 cases) and
  TestEnsureLoadedSkipsInvalidEntries covering the skip-not-abort behavior

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(V-009): reject Windows drive-letter paths in session field validation

Extends the CWE-22 path traversal guard to cover Windows absolute paths
of the form C:/... and D:\... — previously only leading / and \ were
checked, which missed drive-letter prefixes. Replaces the inline
startswith check with a compiled module-level regex (_TRAVERSAL_RE) that
covers all three attack patterns: .., leading /\, and leading X: drives.
Adds two regression tests for C:/windows/system32 and D:\\path\\to\\file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(session): simplify traversal guard to a helper + logger, harden non-leading separators

Follow-up to the salvaged #9560 fix:
- Replace the _TRAVERSAL_RE regex with an explicit _is_path_unsafe() helper
  (drops the now-unused `import re`); catches a path separator ANYWHERE,
  not just leading, so a non-leading Windows backslash can't slip through.
- Switch the per-entry skip in _ensure_loaded_locked from print() to
  logger.warning to match the module's logging conventions.
- Add AUTHOR_MAP entry for the contributor.
- Add regression tests for the non-leading-separator case.

* fix(browser): verify daemon identity before orphan reaper kills a PID (#14073)

The browser orphan reaper reads a daemon PID from a `.pid` file in a
world-writable, predictably-named temp dir (`/tmp/agent-browser-h_*`) it
does not write itself, then tree-kills that PID via `_terminate_host_pid`
after only a liveness check. A same-user actor could plant a fake socket
dir whose `.pid` points at an arbitrary victim process, and OS PID reuse
after the real daemon exits could land the recorded PID on an unrelated
process — either way an arbitrary same-user process (and its whole tree)
gets SIGTERMed. Local DoS.

Add `_verify_reapable_browser_daemon()`, gated before the kill: via psutil
(a hard dep, fine cross-platform for the same-user processes the reaper can
signal) require both (1) identity — `agent-browser` in the process
name/cmdline — and (2) binding — the live process references *this* session's
socket dir in its cmdline or `AGENT_BROWSER_SOCKET_DIR`. The binding check is
the real spoof defense: a planted/recycled PID won't embed our exact socket
path. Fail-closed on any ambiguity (unreadable cmdline, no match), leaving the
process and its socket dir untouched for a later sweep.

Builds on @sgaofen's fix in #14394 (cmdline identity check); rewritten to use
psutil instead of `/proc`+`ps` (cross-platform, Windows-covered) and to add
the session-socket-dir binding check for recycled-PID / spoof resistance.

Co-authored-by: sgaofen <135070653+sgaofen@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(desktop/windows): show update-in-progress feedback before the desktop exits (#50419) (#50448)

Follow-up to #50238/#50381. The restart-loop is now SAFE (marker + launch
gate), but the trigger that lured users into relaunching mid-update remained:
on the in-app update hand-off the desktop window vanished almost immediately
(app.quit() 600ms after spawning the detached updater), before the updater's
own window appeared — a blank-screen gap that looks like a crash.

- Linger on the update overlay for UPDATE_HANDOFF_DWELL_MS (2.5s, was 600ms)
  before quitting, on BOTH hand-off paths (in-app update + Windows bootstrap
  recovery), so the message lands and bridges to the updater window.
- Strengthen the restart-stage copy and the overlay's applyingBody/applyingClose
  to explicitly tell the user the window will reopen automatically and NOT to
  reopen Hermes themselves while it updates. All four locales (en/ja/zh/zh-hant)
  updated in parity.

Pure UX; does not touch the #50381 marker/gate mutual-exclusion safety net.

* fix(desktop): keep the floating composer in-bounds so it can't be lost off-screen

The pop-out position is a bottom-right corner inset; the old clamp only floored
it and capped each inset by a flat constant, so dragging left/up (or restoring a
position saved on a larger/other monitor) could push the box's width/height past
the left/top edges and strand it off-screen — unrecoverable since the bad spot
persisted to localStorage.

Now the clamp bounds the WHOLE box (accounting for its measured width/height plus
an edge margin) on all four sides. Applied on drag (measured size), on load
(clamped in readPosition), and via a mount + window-resize reclamp so a shrunk
window or stale persisted value always pulls the box back into view.

* fix(codex): seed app-server sessions with configured cwd

* fix(security): harden smart approval guard against prompt injection

# Conflicts:
#	tools/approval.py

* fix(gateway): don't lazy-install SDKs for unconfigured platforms on startup

For adapter plugins, ``PlatformEntry.check_fn`` doubles as a lazy installer:
calling it pip-installs the platform SDK as a side effect (see e.g.
``plugins/platforms/discord/adapter.py::check_discord_requirements``). The
enablement sweep in ``_apply_env_overrides`` called ``check_fn`` for every
registered plugin platform unconditionally, so a single
``load_gateway_config()`` — which the desktop/dashboard readiness probe
``GET /api/status`` awaits synchronously — pip-installed Discord, Telegram,
Slack, Feishu and Dingtalk even when the user configured none of them
(``platforms: none``). On a slow or restricted network the installs ran long
enough to block the event loop past the desktop's readiness timeouts, so the
app timed out, killed and re-spawned the backend, and boot-looped (stuck at
94%).

Consult the cheap ``is_connected`` credential check FIRST and only run the
install-triggering ``check_fn`` for platforms that are already enabled or
actually configured. Auto-enable-by-credentials is unchanged: a platform with
its token set still gets its SDK installed and enabled.

* test(gateway): cover no eager platform install on startup sweep

Pin the contract that ``_apply_env_overrides`` consults ``is_connected``
before the install-triggering ``check_fn``: an unconfigured platform is
skipped without calling ``check_fn`` (no lazy install), while a configured
platform still has ``check_fn`` run and is auto-enabled. The first assertion
fails on the pre-fix unconditional sweep.

* feat(cli): add native Antigravity OAuth provider

* fix(antigravity): bake in public OAuth client + default project fallback

Salvage follow-up on top of @pmos69's #29474. The PR resolved the
Antigravity OAuth client purely by discovering it from an installed `agy`
binary or HERMES_ANTIGRAVITY_CLIENT_ID/SECRET env vars, so users without
agy installed hit a hard 'client ID not available' error.

Antigravity's desktop OAuth client is a public, non-confidential installed-app
client (PKCE provides the security), baked into every copy of the Antigravity
CLI — same posture as the gemini-cli credentials Hermes already ships in
google_oauth.py. Bake it in as the final fallback (env -> discovery -> public
default) and add the public default Code Assist project as the discovery
fallback, matching the reference Antigravity flow. Now consumers can
authenticate directly without agy installed.

* fix(antigravity): register google-antigravity ProviderProfile + AUTHOR_MAP

The salvaged PR wired auth.py…
kpadilha pushed a commit to kpadilha/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 24, 2026
…ked) (NousResearch#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.
pai-scaffolde pushed a commit to pai-scaffolde/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 28, 2026
…ked) (NousResearch#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.
obelisk-complex added a commit to obelisk-complex/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 29, 2026
…stream-sync coexistence

The nightly upstream sync has failed since upstream PR NousResearch#50349 (e217fd4,
2026-06-21) added a NATIVE kanban_task_blocked lifecycle observer. The fork's
quality-gate plugin already registered a hook of the SAME name and fired it via
_invoke_kanban_hook; upstream fires its own via _fire_kanban_lifecycle_hook.
Both dispatch through hermes_cli.plugins.invoke_hook, so the shared name made
the rebase collide and, worse, would have delivered upstream's lean kwargs
(board/assignee/profile_name) to the fork's quality-gate consumer, which reads
the fork's rich escalation kwargs (trigger/consecutive_failures/...).

Resolution (keep BOTH, rename the fork's): the rebase resolves the four
kanban-hook conflicts as a UNION that preserves upstream's structure and
re-applies the fork additions verbatim under the OLD name (so downstream fork
commits, incl. the em-dash style commit, still replay); THIS commit then does
the single uniform rename kanban_task_blocked -> fork_kanban_task_blocked across
every fork site:
  - plugins.py VALID_HOOKS: fork entry renamed; upstream's own entry kept.
  - kanban_db.py: the two fork _invoke_kanban_hook fire sites (block_task manual
    + _record_task_failure auto). Upstream's _fire_kanban_lifecycle_hook calls
    are untouched.
  - quality-gate plugin (register + handler), plugin.yaml manifest, and all
    fork hook-name tests.

Harden the upstream-sync gate and make the PR NousResearch#52848 (BLOCK_RECURRENCE_LIMIT)
interaction safe:
  - blocked_hook now checks requeue_blocked_task's bool: on a no-op (card routed
    to 'triage' by the recurrence breaker, or already moved) it logs loud and
    skips the escalation notify instead of claiming a phantom escalation.
  - test_b2 gains a collision guard (fork dispatcher never fires the bare name),
    a coexistence guard (upstream's fire survives), and a triage-breaker/ladder
    regression test. The new upstream-presence/breaker assertions are GATED on
    upstream markers so the guard is a no-op on the fork's pre-sync main (push
    CI) and full-strength in the post-rebase sync gate.
  - sync workflow py_compile loop now also covers kanban_db.py and the
    quality-gate plugin (the files that carry the conflict resolutions + rename).

Phase 2 (deferred): raise BLOCK_RECURRENCE_LIMIT to scale with the quality-gate
ladder depth (needs config plumbing; block_task is config-agnostic core today).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
obelisk-complex added a commit to obelisk-complex/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 29, 2026
…esolutions

Record the git rerere preimage/postimage for the four conflicts the rebase onto
current upstream hits, so the nightly Sync Upstream workflow auto-replays them
instead of failing for a human:
  - f628783  plugins.py VALID_HOOKS union (upstream PR NousResearch#50349 hooks + fork hooks)
  - e4e7a48  kanban_db.py dispatch_once (pre_kanban_spawn override + KANBAN_GUIDANCE)
  - ba440df  kanban_db.py block_task   (upstream triage/breaker body + fork fire)
  - 5f0df49  kanban_db.py unblock_task (upstream block_recurrences note + fork
             model_override atomic-escalation branch)

Each postimage resolves to the UNION keeping the fork hook under its OLD name
(kanban_task_blocked); the rename to fork_kanban_task_blocked is a later fork
commit that replays cleanly on top, so these preimages stay stable across syncs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
obelisk-complex added a commit to obelisk-complex/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 30, 2026
…stream-sync coexistence

The nightly upstream sync has failed since upstream PR NousResearch#50349 (e217fd4,
2026-06-21) added a NATIVE kanban_task_blocked lifecycle observer. The fork's
quality-gate plugin already registered a hook of the SAME name and fired it via
_invoke_kanban_hook; upstream fires its own via _fire_kanban_lifecycle_hook.
Both dispatch through hermes_cli.plugins.invoke_hook, so the shared name made
the rebase collide and, worse, would have delivered upstream's lean kwargs
(board/assignee/profile_name) to the fork's quality-gate consumer, which reads
the fork's rich escalation kwargs (trigger/consecutive_failures/...).

Resolution (keep BOTH, rename the fork's): the rebase resolves the four
kanban-hook conflicts as a UNION that preserves upstream's structure and
re-applies the fork additions verbatim under the OLD name (so downstream fork
commits, incl. the em-dash style commit, still replay); THIS commit then does
the single uniform rename kanban_task_blocked -> fork_kanban_task_blocked across
every fork site:
  - plugins.py VALID_HOOKS: fork entry renamed; upstream's own entry kept.
  - kanban_db.py: the two fork _invoke_kanban_hook fire sites (block_task manual
    + _record_task_failure auto). Upstream's _fire_kanban_lifecycle_hook calls
    are untouched.
  - quality-gate plugin (register + handler), plugin.yaml manifest, and all
    fork hook-name tests.

Harden the upstream-sync gate and make the PR NousResearch#52848 (BLOCK_RECURRENCE_LIMIT)
interaction safe:
  - blocked_hook now checks requeue_blocked_task's bool: on a no-op (card routed
    to 'triage' by the recurrence breaker, or already moved) it logs loud and
    skips the escalation notify instead of claiming a phantom escalation.
  - test_b2 gains a collision guard (fork dispatcher never fires the bare name),
    a coexistence guard (upstream's fire survives), and a triage-breaker/ladder
    regression test. The new upstream-presence/breaker assertions are GATED on
    upstream markers so the guard is a no-op on the fork's pre-sync main (push
    CI) and full-strength in the post-rebase sync gate.
  - sync workflow py_compile loop now also covers kanban_db.py and the
    quality-gate plugin (the files that carry the conflict resolutions + rename).

Phase 2 (deferred): raise BLOCK_RECURRENCE_LIMIT to scale with the quality-gate
ladder depth (needs config plumbing; block_task is config-agnostic core today).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
obelisk-complex added a commit to obelisk-complex/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 30, 2026
…esolutions

Record the git rerere preimage/postimage for the four conflicts the rebase onto
current upstream hits, so the nightly Sync Upstream workflow auto-replays them
instead of failing for a human:
  - f628783  plugins.py VALID_HOOKS union (upstream PR NousResearch#50349 hooks + fork hooks)
  - e4e7a48  kanban_db.py dispatch_once (pre_kanban_spawn override + KANBAN_GUIDANCE)
  - ba440df  kanban_db.py block_task   (upstream triage/breaker body + fork fire)
  - 5f0df49  kanban_db.py unblock_task (upstream block_recurrences note + fork
             model_override atomic-escalation branch)

Each postimage resolves to the UNION keeping the fork hook under its OLD name
(kanban_task_blocked); the rename to fork_kanban_task_blocked is a later fork
commit that replays cleanly on top, so these preimages stay stable across syncs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
waefrebeorn pushed a commit to waefrebeorn/slermes that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2026
…ked) (NousResearch#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.
habarmc1223-sudo pushed a commit to habarmc1223-sudo/hermes-agent-fluxmem that referenced this pull request Jul 8, 2026
…ked) (NousResearch#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.
santhreal pushed a commit to santhreal/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 13, 2026
…ked) (NousResearch#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.
Gravezzz pushed a commit to Gravezzz/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 21, 2026
…ked) (NousResearch#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.
leewenjie pushed a commit to leewenjie/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Aug 7, 2026
…ked) (NousResearch#50349)

Plugins could observe session/tool/approval lifecycle but had no way to
observe kanban task transitions. Adds three observer hooks fired by the
board's claim/complete/block transitions:

  - kanban_task_claimed   (dispatcher process, before worker spawn)
  - kanban_task_completed (worker process, carries summary)
  - kanban_task_blocked   (worker process, carries reason)

Each fires AFTER the DB write txn commits, so a plugin observes durable
state and a slow/hanging callback can never hold the SQLite write lock.
All firing is best-effort: a raising hook is logged and swallowed and
never breaks a board transition. profile_name is resolved from
HERMES_HOME so dispatcher- and worker-side hooks carry the right profile.

Requested by @Smithangshu on Discord.
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