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Summary

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator "skills" are no longer skills — their guidance is now part of KANBAN_GUIDANCE, the block already injected into every kanban worker's system prompt. This removes the bug class behind the Blank Slate / Kanban leak (Discord report) instead of patching the gate.

Root cause of the leak: those two skills existed only to be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers. They were gated by environments: [kanban] so they wouldn't show up in normal CLI skill listings — but stale legacy toolsets: [kanban] state could re-expose them on a Blank Slate install (the case #50443 patches). They were never user-facing skills, and the --skills kanban-worker auto-load was already best-effort: most workers ran without it because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Changes

  • agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the load-bearing reference details (workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created_cards integrity, orchestrator profile discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, so every worker reliably gets them.
  • hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop the --skills kanban-worker auto-injection and the _kanban_worker_skill_available resolvability probe.
  • hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=["kanban-orchestrator"] on the swarm root card.
  • hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop the kanban init skill-seeding block; fix --skill help text.
  • Delete skills/devops/kanban-worker and skills/devops/kanban-orchestrator.
  • Docs: delete the two bundled skill pages (EN + zh-Hans), fix sidebars, skills-catalog (EN + zh), kanban.md, kanban-worker-lanes.md (EN + zh), the codex-lane and video-orchestrator references.
  • The kanban-video-orchestrator optional skill: scrub all always_load: kanban-worker / kanban-orchestrator references (they would now fail at startup with Unknown skill(s)).
  • Tests: update dispatcher spawn-argv expectations (no auto-loaded skill; per-task skills pass through verbatim); re-bound the KANBAN_GUIDANCE size guard to reflect the absorbed content.

The generic environments: skill mechanism is kept intact — it's still a valid extension point for user-authored skills; no bundled skill uses environments: [kanban] anymore.

Validation

Before After
Kanban skills on a Blank Slate CLI could leak none exist anywhere
Worker gets lifecycle guidance only if skill resolved (often didn't) always (system-prompt injected)
KANBAN_GUIDANCE size ~3.5 KB ~5.0 KB (under the re-bounded 5.5 KB guard)
  • 269 kanban tests + 235 db/signal/decompose + 27 skill_utils/blank_slate — all pass.
  • E2E: spawned a worker (HERMES_KANBAN_TASK set) in an isolated temp HERMES_HOME with no kanban skill on disk; confirmed the system prompt contains the full lifecycle + all four promoted reference details and zero dead skill-name references.
  • Full-repo grep: no remaining functional references to the deleted skills.

Relation to #50443

Supersedes the skill-leak half of #50443 — credit to @helix4u for diagnosing the area. This removes the source of the leak (the skills) rather than tightening the offer-time gate. The tool-visibility precedence #50443 added still governs the kanban toolset and is untouched.

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kanban-guidance-folded-in

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that #50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.

- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard

Supersedes the skill-leak half of #50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).
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Related: #50443 (fix(kanban): respect disabled toolsets — the offer-time gate fix), #39028 (refactor that introduced the environments: relevance gate this builds on).

This PR removes the source of the Blank Slate / Kanban skill-leak by folding the kanban-worker/kanban-orchestrator skills into the injected KANBAN_GUIDANCE block, rather than tightening the gate. It supersedes only the skill-leak half of #50443 — the tool-visibility precedence #50443 adds for the kanban toolset is untouched, so the two are complementary, not duplicates.

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OutThisLife added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 22, 2026
The merge with main (#50473, which folded the kanban-worker skill into
injected guidance) dropped this branch's worker-facing note about
project-linked worktrees. Restore it in KANBAN_GUIDANCE's Workspace bullet:
a project-linked task's workspace is `<repo>/.worktrees/<task-id>` with a
deterministic `<project-slug>/<task-id>` branch, and the main repo is two
levels up — so `git worktree add` must run from there.
OutThisLife added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 23, 2026
The merge with main (#50473, which folded the kanban-worker skill into
injected guidance) dropped this branch's worker-facing note about
project-linked worktrees. Restore it in KANBAN_GUIDANCE's Workspace bullet:
a project-linked task's workspace is `<repo>/.worktrees/<task-id>` with a
deterministic `<project-slug>/<task-id>` branch, and the main repo is two
levels up — so `git worktree add` must run from there.
kpadilha pushed a commit to kpadilha/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 24, 2026
…nce (NousResearch#50473)

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that NousResearch#50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.

- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard

Supersedes the skill-leak half of NousResearch#50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).
ppazosp added a commit to useomnia/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 25, 2026
* fix(desktop): filter undefined entries in AttachmentList to prevent refText crash on session switch (#49624)

* fix(desktop): filter undefined entries in AttachmentList to prevent refText crash on session switch

When switching sessions, the attachments array can contain stale/undefined
entries from the previous session's state. Accessing attachment.refText on
an undefined entry throws TypeError, breaking session switching entirely.

Fix: add .filter(Boolean) before .map() to skip undefined/null entries.

Fixes #49614

* fix(desktop): update I18nConfigClient usage in attachment test

The i18n config API changed from getLocale/saveLocale to
getConfig/saveConfig. Update the test fixture to match.

* fix(security): quote HERMES_TIMEZONE in remote code execution to prevent shell injection

* fix: show desktop approval fallback (#46548)

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for #45205 salvage (EtherAura)

* fix(desktop): relaunch on Linux after in-app update instead of hanging (#45205)

On a Linux source install the in-app updater ran the full backend update +
desktop rebuild successfully but never restarted the app — it hung forever on
the applying overlay with no close button. Two causes:

- applyUpdatesPosixInApp() only handled the macOS .app bundle swap;
  runningAppBundle() is null off macOS, so Linux fell through to
  { ok: true, backendUpdated: true } without ever relaunching.
- The renderer store had no terminal state for that result shape, so
  $updateApply stayed { applying: true } and the overlay's close button
  (hidden while applying) never appeared.

Fix (new electron/update-relaunch.cjs, pure + unit-tested):
- Decide the Linux outcome from whether the *running* binary is the one we
  just rebuilt (execPath under release/<plat>-unpacked, path-segment-aware so
  linux-unpacked-evil can't masquerade) and whether its chrome-sandbox helper
  is launchable (root:root + setuid, or an --no-sandbox / ELECTRON_DISABLE_SANDBOX
  opt-out):
    relaunch — detached watcher waits for this PID to exit (graceful, then
      SIGKILL), self-deletes, and re-execs the rebuilt binary with the original
      launch context (filtered args + HERMES_*/sandbox env + cwd) restored.
    guiSkew  — AppImage/.deb/.rpm/dev: backend updated but this GUI package was
      NOT changed; surface an honest closeable 'reinstall the desktop app'
      terminal state instead of lying that it loads next launch (#37541 skew).
    manual   — rebuilt binary but sandbox helper not launchable: keep the
      working window, don't quit into a dead app.
- store/updates.ts lands a terminal, closeable state for EVERY resolved apply
  outcome (handedOff / guiSkew / manualRestart / updated-not-relaunched / error)
  so the hang is impossible regardless of platform or result.
- New DesktopUpdateStage values (update/rebuild/done/guiSkew) + GuiSkewView so
  progress reads correctly and the skew state is closeable. i18n in all four
  locales (en/ja/zh/zh-hant) in parity.
- electron/update-relaunch.test.cjs (16 tests) + store outcome tests.

Salvaged from #45205 onto current main. Linux quit dwell uses the shared
UPDATE_HANDOFF_DWELL_MS (2.5s) from #50448 for consistency. Four-locale i18n
parity, AUTHOR_MAP entry, and the test wiring added on top.

Closes #45205.

* refactor(kanban): fold worker/orchestrator skills into injected guidance (#50473)

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that #50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.

- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard

Supersedes the skill-leak half of #50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).

* fix(process-registry): re-validate PID identity before killing host processes

The background-process registry signalled host PIDs (recovery adoption,
detached-session kill, tree-kill) using a number captured at spawn, guarded
only by a bare liveness check. Once a session's process exits and is reaped the
kernel recycles that PID onto an unrelated process, so an alive-but-different
PID passed the check and got tree-killed.

Observed in the wild: a recycled background-session PID landed on Firefox's
session leader; a later kill/refresh walked its process tree and SIGTERMed
every tab — Firefox "closing" at irregular intervals with no crash/coredump.

This is the same PID/PGID-recycling class fixed for the MCP orphan reaper in
7bd1f8a2d, but the process_registry subsystem was never guarded — so the bug
persisted.

Fix: record each host process's kernel start time (/proc/<pid>/stat field 22)
at spawn, persist it in the checkpoint, and re-validate it before every signal
via `_host_pid_is_ours`. A PID whose start time no longer matches — or that is
gone — is never signalled:
  - recover_from_checkpoint: a recycled PID is not adopted as a session.
  - _refresh_detached_session: a recycled detached PID is marked exited.
  - kill_process / _terminate_host_pid: refuse to tree-kill a stranger.
Legacy checkpoints and platforms without /proc (no baseline) degrade to the
prior best-effort liveness behaviour, so nothing else changes.

Adds TestPidReuseGuard: real-process tests proving a mismatched start time
refuses termination while a matching one still kills, plus recovery/refresh
recycling paths. 74 registry + 22 MCP-stability tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(whatsapp): validate bridge PID identity before killing stale pidfile entry

`_kill_stale_bridge_by_pidfile` SIGTERMed the PID recorded in `bridge.pid`
after only a bare liveness check. Once the bridge exits and is reaped the
kernel recycles that PID onto an unrelated process; because the WhatsApp bridge
crash-loops ("Bridge process died (exit code 1)" repeating), this cleanup ran
on every restart and could SIGTERM a recycled PID that had landed on the user's
browser — closing Firefox at irregular intervals with no crash and no coredump
(a clean kill of a stranger).

Same PID-recycling class as the MCP reaper (7bd1f8a2d) and the process-registry
host-PID guard (e6a99cef2); this was the third, and most actively-fired, path.

Fix: `_write_bridge_pidfile` now also records the leader's kernel start time
(line 2). `_kill_stale_bridge_by_pidfile` re-validates identity via
`_bridge_pid_is_ours` before signalling — the (pid, start time) pair must match,
or for legacy single-line pidfiles the live cmdline must name `node` + this
session's unique path. A recycled PID (different start time / cmdline) is logged
and skipped, never signalled. Legacy pidfiles stay readable.

Adds TestWhatsappBridgePidfile: real-process tests proving a genuine bridge is
reaped while a recycled PID (start-time mismatch, or non-bridge cmdline) is
spared. 7 new + 108 gateway/registry tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(whatsapp): only kill LISTENers when freeing the bridge port, never clients

This is the bug that was actually closing Firefox. `_kill_port_process`, run on
every bridge (re)start to free the port, used `lsof -ti :PORT` / `fuser PORT/tcp`
— both of which match a process whose socket merely *involves* that port number
in ANY state, including ESTABLISHED client connections. It then SIGTERMed every
match.

The bridge defaults to port 3000 — a ubiquitous local dev-server port. With a
browser tab open on localhost:3000, `lsof -ti :3000` returned Firefox's PID, so
each restart of the (crash-looping) WhatsApp bridge SIGTERMed Firefox, closing
the whole browser at irregular intervals with no crash and no coredump.

Proven live with the kernel `signal:signal_generate` tracepoint:
  hermes-gateway(3396516) -> sig=15 (code=0/SI_USER) -> comm=firefox pid=3371585
captured immediately after a gateway start, while Firefox held a socket on the
bridge port. Demonstrated over-match: `lsof -ti :8080` returns the listener AND
the gateway's own client connection; `lsof -ti tcp:8080 -sTCP:LISTEN` returns
only the listener.

Fix: `_listener_pids_on_port` resolves only LISTEN-state sockets
(`lsof -ti tcp:PORT -sTCP:LISTEN`, with an `ss -ltnp` fallback) and
`_kill_port_process` signals just those. A client whose connection happens to
involve the port number is never touched — which is also more correct, since a
client never blocks the new bridge from binding. Windows already filtered
LISTENING; the broad `fuser -k` path is removed.

Adds TestKillPortProcess: real-socket tests proving a separate client process
is excluded from the listener lookup and survives port cleanup. 9 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(whatsapp): add missing re import + fix test import path after adapter relocation

Follow-up to the salvaged #43846 commits: the WhatsApp adapter moved from
gateway/platforms/whatsapp.py to plugins/platforms/whatsapp/adapter.py since the
PR was authored. The cherry-pick brought _listener_pids_on_port's `re.finditer`
ss-fallback and the new test's import, but the new module location doesn't import
`re` (latent NameError on the lsof-absent fallback path) and the test imported the
old module path. Add `import re` to the adapter and repoint the test import.

* chore: add valentt to AUTHOR_MAP for #43846 salvage

* test(whatsapp): fix port-spares-client test race (listen before announce + retry connect)

The salvaged test spawned a listener subprocess that printed its port
immediately after bind() but BEFORE listen(), so under CI's loaded 8-worker
box the parent connected before the socket was listening -> ConnectionRefused
(flaked on test slice 2/6). Reorder the child to listen() then print the port,
and make the client connect with a short bounded retry to absorb scheduler
jitter. 15/15 green locally including direct hammering.

* fix(status): cross-platform start-time fingerprint via psutil fallback

The PID-reuse guard (#43846) reads /proc/<pid>/stat field 22, which only
exists on Linux — on macOS/Windows it returned None and the guard silently
degraded to a bare liveness check (a no-op, safety-wise). Add a
psutil.create_time() fallback (psutil is a hard dep, cross-platform),
quantized to centiseconds for stable equality, so the recycled-PID guard
actually protects macOS/Windows too. /proc always wins first on Linux and
always misses on macOS/Windows, so the two sources never mix on one host and
same-source equality is all the guard needs.

* feat(mem0): add self-hosted support via MEM0_HOST / host config

The mem0 plugin previously hardcoded api.mem0.ai as the endpoint.
This adds a `host` config key and MEM0_HOST env var so users can
point the plugin at a self-hosted Mem0 instance.

Changes:
- _load_config(): read MEM0_HOST env var
- is_available(): accept host OR api_key (self-hosted may not need a real key)
- get_config_schema(): add host field
- initialize(): read host from config
- _get_client(): pass host kwarg to MemoryClient when set
- system_prompt_block(): show target (cloud vs URL)
- README: document self-hosted setup

* fix(mem0): address PR review — restore docstrings, keep api_key required

Addresses reviewer feedback on #13377:
1. Restore all stripped docstrings (_load_config, _is_breaker_open,
   sync_turn, register, _get_client, _read_filters, _write_filters,
   _unwrap_results, save_config) and section dividers
2. Revert api_key to required:true in schema — self-hosted Mem0 also
   requires auth by default; validation in _get_client() handles the
   either/or logic separately from the schema
3. Confirm secret:true remains on api_key (already correct)

* chore: add buihongduc132 to AUTHOR_MAP for mem0 salvage

* fix(agent): strip stale reasoning_content when falling back to a strict provider (#50480)

* fix(agent): strip stale reasoning_content when falling back to a strict provider

A reasoning primary (DeepSeek/Kimi/MiMo thinking mode) pins reasoning_content
on every assistant tool-call turn (a single space " " pad). api_messages is
built once under the primary; on a mid-session fallback to a strict
OpenAI-compatible provider (Mistral, Cerebras, Groq, SambaNova), those stale
pads were replayed verbatim and rejected with HTTP 400/422:

    body.messages.2.assistant.reasoning_content: Extra inputs are not
    permitted  (input: ' ')

reapply_reasoning_echo_for_provider() only ever ADDED pads, so it never
reconciled history built under a reasoning primary against a strict fallback.
copy_reasoning_content_for_api() also leaked empty-string and 'reasoning'-only
shapes to non-pad providers.

Fix both sites: when the active provider does not enforce echo-back, strip
reasoning_content (empty, space-pad, or non-empty) entirely. Re-padding when
switching TO a reasoning provider is preserved. Covers the Cerebras 400 from
#45655 and the DeepSeek->Mistral 422 fallback report.

Refs #45655.

* test: update reasoning-replay tests for strict-provider stripping

test_explicit_reasoning_content_beats_normalized_reasoning_on_replay was
implicitly running on the OpenRouter fixture (non-pad); pin it to a reasoning
provider so the precedence it checks is observable. Add a positive
strict-provider test asserting reasoning_content is stripped on replay.

* fix(compressor): remove logging.basicConfig from library class __init__

logging.basicConfig() in TrajectoryCompressor.__init__ overrides the
root logger configuration every time the class is instantiated. Library
code should use logging.getLogger(__name__) and let the application
entry point configure the root logger.

Fixes inconsistent log formatting when the compressor is used alongside
other logging configuration in the gateway.

* fix(swe-runner): move logging.basicConfig out of Runner __init__ into main

Same library-code anti-pattern as the compressor fix: MiniSWERunner.__init__
called logging.basicConfig(), overriding the application's root logger config
every time a runner was instantiated. Moved the call into main() (the CLI
entry point) where it belongs; __init__ now only does getLogger(__name__).
Standalone verbose logging is preserved.

* fix(security): close hermes-0day MCP-persistence attack surface

Remove the dashboard --insecure auth-bypass, add an MCP persistence guard +
IOC blocklist, and raise the API-server key entropy floor.

Driven by the June 2026 hermes-0day campaign (r/hermesagent, live 854.media
instance): scanners find exposed Hermes dashboards/API servers, drive the
root agent to plant a 'command: bash' MCP entry that appends an attacker SSH
key to authorized_keys, which cron + startup then re-execute every tick.

- dashboard: --insecure no longer disables the auth gate. should_require_auth
  returns True for every non-loopback bind; a public bind ALWAYS requires an
  auth provider (bundled password provider or OAuth). --insecure kept as a
  warned no-op for backward compat. Fail-closed error now points at the
  password provider, not at --insecure.
- mcp_security: validate_mcp_server_entry now also rejects shell payloads that
  write to OS persistence surfaces (authorized_keys/.ssh/pam.d/sudoers/cron/
  rc files) and hard-rejects a hermes-0day IOC blocklist (attacker SSH key +
  source IPs) anywhere in command/args/env. Runs at save AND spawn time.
- api_server: raise network-bind API_SERVER_KEY entropy floor 8->16 chars;
  warn when a network-accessible API server runs an unsandboxed local backend.

* fix(docker): replace dashboard --insecure with basic-auth provider

The s6 dashboard entrypoint and docker integration tests relied on
HERMES_DASHBOARD_INSECURE=1 to bring up a 0.0.0.0 dashboard with no auth
provider. With --insecure now a no-op (auth gate mandatory on non-loopback
binds), that path fails closed.

- s6 dashboard/run: drop --insecure derivation; warn that the env is a no-op
  and point operators at HERMES_DASHBOARD_BASIC_AUTH_* / OAuth.
- docker tests: supervision tests now register the bundled basic password
  provider (HERMES_DASHBOARD_BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME/_PASSWORD) so the gate has a
  provider and the dashboard binds. Rewrote the insecure-opt-out test to
  assert fail-closed (dashboard does NOT serve) instead of gate-bypass.
- docs (en + zh-Hans): HERMES_DASHBOARD_INSECURE documented as deprecated
  no-op; basic-auth is the zero-infra way to authenticate a containerized
  public dashboard.

* feat(security): startup security posture audit (warn-on-load)

Surface dangerous host/deployment posture at gateway startup so operators get
the 'you're exposed' signal the June 2026 MCP-config persistence campaign
victims never had. Warn-only — never blocks startup, never raises.

Checks (each independently fail-safe):
- Running as root (POSIX uid 0)
- SSH daemon with PasswordAuthentication enabled (incl. the 'yes' default)
- Running in a container with no persistent volume mount over HERMES_HOME
- Network-accessible API server with no API_SERVER_KEY

New module hermes_cli/security_audit_startup.py; invoked once per process from
start_gateway() right after setup_logging(). Cross-platform (root/SSH checks
no-op on Windows). Idea: @Cthulhu.

* style(security-audit): add explicit encoding to read_text calls (ruff PLW1514)

* feat(process): escalate SIGTERM->SIGKILL on host-pid termination after grace

A daemon that ignores or stalls in its SIGTERM handler currently survives the
process-registry reap and leaks until reboot (observed as agent-browser
daemons accumulating to EMFILE on long-running gateways). _terminate_host_pid
now snapshots the tree, SIGTERMs it, waits a bounded grace window
(terminal.daemon_term_grace_seconds, default 2.0s, 0 disables), then SIGKILLs
any survivor. The recycled-PID identity guard still gates the whole path, so
escalation never reaches a stranger; Windows is unchanged (taskkill /F is
already a hard kill).

Config lives in config.yaml (terminal.daemon_term_grace_seconds), NOT an env
var, per the .env-secrets-only policy.

Implements the SIGKILL-escalation idea from @tkwong's #15008, reworked onto the
current _terminate_host_pid tree-kill path (the original predated it) and
config-gated instead of env-var-gated.

Co-authored-by: Benjamin Wong <tkwong@inspiresynergy.com>

* chore: map tkwong co-author email for #15008 SIGKILL-escalation credit

* fix(process): SIGKILL the whole tree on escalation, not just wait_procs survivors

Live testing against a real SIGTERM-ignoring process TREE (parent + children,
the agent-browser daemon + renderer shape) revealed psutil.wait_procs's
gone/alive partition mis-handles a parent/child tree: it reaps via
Process.wait() and could mark targets gone/alive inconsistently across the
tree, leaving survivors un-killed (flaky — sometimes the parent lived,
sometimes a child). Replace it with: sleep out the grace window, then
directly re-probe every captured target (_proc_alive, treating zombies as
dead) and SIGKILL any that's still running. Add a multi-child-tree regression
test. 6/6 escalation tests green across repeated runs; the real-tree E2E now
kills the full tree 6/6 runs.

* fix(banner): don't advertise toolsets/skills the agent wasn't given (#50497)

The welcome banner's 'Available Tools' merged in every toolset from the
global check_tool_availability() registry walk, regardless of whether it
was enabled for the current platform. On a Blank Slate CLI (file +
terminal only) that surfaced discord / feishu / kanban tools the agent
was never actually given — they are not in the agent's tool schema, but
the banner displayed them, making it look like they were exposed.

- Filter the unavailable-toolset merge to toolsets actually in
  enabled_toolsets (a toolset that's enabled but has unmet deps still
  legitimately shows as disabled/lazy).
- Gate the 'Available Skills' section on the skills toolset being
  enabled — when it's off, the agent can't load any skill, so show
  'Skills toolset disabled' instead of the on-disk catalog.

When enabled_toolsets is empty (older callers), behavior is unchanged.

Validation: blank-slate banner now shows only file + terminal and
'Skills toolset disabled'; a skills-enabled banner still lists the
catalog. Added regression tests; full banner suite green (15/15).

* feat(providers): remove google-gemini-cli + google-antigravity OAuth providers (#50492)

* feat(providers): remove google-gemini-cli + google-antigravity OAuth providers

Google now actively bans accounts for third-party tools that piggyback on
Gemini CLI / Antigravity / Code Assist OAuth, and because abuse prevention
sits at a backend layer the ban can extend to the entire Google account
(Gmail/Drive), with a second violation being permanent.
Ref: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/20632

Removes both OAuth inference providers entirely (modules, provider profiles,
auth/runtime/config/models wiring, the /gquota Code Assist quota command,
the antigravity-cli optional skill, desktop + docs surface in en + zh-Hans).
The API-key 'gemini' provider (GOOGLE_API_KEY/GEMINI_API_KEY against
generativelanguage.googleapis.com) is unaffected and stays fully supported.

* fix(skills): keep the antigravity-cli skill — only the OAuth provider is removed

The antigravity-cli optional skill orchestrates the external `agy` binary as
a coding-agent tool via the terminal tool — it does NOT wrap Hermes inference
through the banned google-antigravity OAuth provider, so it carries none of
the account-ban risk that motivated removing that provider. Restore the skill,
its docs page, the sidebar entry, and the optional-skills catalog row. The
google-antigravity / google-gemini-cli inference providers stay fully removed.

* docs(agents): fix stale platform adapter path in token-lock note

gateway/platforms/telegram.py no longer exists (adapters moved to
plugins/platforms/<name>/adapter.py) and telegram no longer uses the
scoped-lock pattern. Point the token-lock canonical-pattern reference to
plugins/platforms/irc/adapter.py, which acquires the lock in connect()
and releases it in disconnect() — and is already cited as a canonical
example in ADDING_A_PLATFORM.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: repoint remaining stale gateway/platforms adapter refs to plugins/platforms

Sibling-site follow-up to the AGENTS.md token-lock fix (#50481). Platform
adapters migrated from gateway/platforms/<name>.py to
plugins/platforms/<name>/adapter.py; a handful (signal, weixin, bluebubbles,
qqbot, yuanbao, msgraph_webhook, webhook, api_server) still live in
gateway/platforms/.

- adding-platform-adapters.md: new-adapter creation path + reference-impl table
- gateway-internals.md: rewrite the adapter tree to reflect the actual split
- zh-Hans mirrors of both kept in parity
- scripts/release.py: add TutkuEroglu to AUTHOR_MAP (CI gate)

* fix(terminal): make hermes install dir reachable in subshell PATH (#50534)

Plugins shelling out to bare `hermes` via the terminal tool hit
`command not found` (exit 127) when the gateway was launched without the
hermes install dir on PATH (systemd, service managers, cron, desktop
launchers) — even though `hermes` works in the user's own interactive
terminal, which sources the shell rc that exports that dir.

The terminal tool's subshell PATH was the agent process PATH plus a
static set of system dirs (_SANE_PATH); it never included wherever the
hermes console-script actually lives (~/.local/bin, the venv bin/Scripts,
pipx, nix). Resolve that dir once (which/argv0/sys.executable) and
prepend-if-missing it so bare `hermes` resolves regardless of launch
method.

* feat(cli): /reasoning full — show complete thinking, not 10-line clamp (#50499)

* feat(cli): /reasoning full to show complete thinking, not 10-line clamp

The post-response Reasoning recap box hard-clamped long thinking to the
first 10 lines, so there was no way to see the full reasoning trace after
a turn (live streaming already shows it in full). Add display.reasoning_full
(default off) plus /reasoning full|clamp to toggle it at runtime; the clamp
truncation note now points at the command. Addresses repeated user requests
to show all thinking tokens.

* test(gateway): de-snapshot /reasoning help assertion

The test froze the exact args-hint literal '/reasoning [level|show|hide]',
which the new full/clamp args change to '[level|show|hide|full|clamp]'.
Convert to an invariant: assert /reasoning is in help and carries its core
args, not the exact hint string.

* feat(tui): /reasoning full|clamp parity in tui_gateway

The classic-CLI reasoning_full toggle had no TUI equivalent — typing
/reasoning full in the TUI fell through to parse_reasoning_effort and
errored. The TUI renders thinking as an expand/collapse section (no fixed
10-line recap), so map full -> sections.thinking=expanded (raw, uncapped
via thinkingPreview mode='full') and clamp -> collapsed, persisting
display.reasoning_full for cross-surface config consistency.

* feat(cli): /prompt — compose your next prompt in $EDITOR (#50509)

* feat(cli): /prompt — compose your next prompt in $EDITOR

Adds /prompt (alias /compose): opens $VISUAL/$EDITOR on a temp markdown
file so you can hand-edit a multi-line prompt, then sends the saved buffer
as the next agent turn. Text after the command pre-seeds the buffer; an
empty save cancels. Reuses the one-shot _pending_agent_seed the interactive
loop already consumes (same mechanism as /blueprint), so no changes to the
input event loop or message pipeline. CLI-only.

* feat(tui): /prompt slash command opens $EDITOR (parity with CLI)

The TUI already opens $EDITOR via Ctrl+G (openEditor), but had no /prompt
slash command like the classic CLI. Wire openEditor into the slash handler
context and register /prompt (alias /compose) to call it; inline text after
the command is dropped into the composer first so it carries into the editor,
matching the CLI's /prompt <text>.

* feat(dashboard): interactive auth setup on no-provider non-loopback bind (#50551)

When `hermes dashboard --host 0.0.0.0` is run interactively with the auth
gate engaged but no DashboardAuthProvider configured, prompt to set up the
bundled username/password provider on the spot (or point at `hermes dashboard
register` for OAuth) instead of only emitting the fail-closed error.

- main.py: `_maybe_setup_dashboard_auth_interactively()` runs before
  start_server. No-ops on loopback binds, when a provider is already
  registered, or when stdin/stdout isn't a TTY (Docker/s6, CI, piped runs) so
  the fail-closed SystemExit stays the backstop for unattended deploys. On the
  password path it writes dashboard.basic_auth.{username,password_hash,secret}
  to config.yaml (scrypt hash, never plaintext), then force-rediscovers
  plugins so the basic provider registers before the gate check.
- web_server.py: fix the fail-closed hint — it told operators to set
  `dashboard_auth.basic.username` but the provider reads `dashboard.basic_auth`.
- docs: note the interactive setup under Fail-closed semantics.

No new env vars; reuses the existing dashboard.basic_auth config surface.

* fix(container): detect dashboard role under s6-overlay v3 (#49196) (#50600)

* fix(gateway): walk /proc/*/cmdline to find main-wrapper.sh under s6-overlay v3 (#49196)

(cherry picked from commit 3a108c2df0edce4ce0e6f9f3a8eb8db3839a4630)

* fix(container): peel s6-v3 rc.init prefix so dashboard role is detected

kyssta-exe's preceding commit (#49238) fixed _read_container_argv() to
locate the rc.init-launched main-wrapper.sh process under s6-overlay v3,
but the skip still never fired: _strip_container_argv_prefix() only peeled
a prefix when args[0] was init/main-wrapper.sh/hermes. Under s6 v3 the
matched argv is

    /bin/sh -e /run/s6/basedir/scripts/rc.init top
        /opt/hermes/docker/main-wrapper.sh dashboard ...

so args[0] stayed /bin/sh, _is_dashboard_container() returned False, and
the dashboard container reconciled + started its own gateway-default —
the exact dual Telegram getUpdates 409 in issue #49196.

Fix: strip everything up to and including the main-wrapper.sh token (the
stable boundary the image owns), covering both the v2 (/init ...) and v3
(/bin/sh ... rc.init top ...) shapes with one rule, instead of matching
launcher tokens positionally. This also repairs _is_legacy_gateway_run_request()
under v3, which shares the same strip helper (the issue called this out).

Tests: extend the dashboard true/false parametrize sets with the s6-v3
argv shape, and add test_main_skips_reconcile_in_dashboard_container_s6v3
exercising main() end-to-end with the v3 argv. Verified via mutation that
both new v3 assertions fail under the old positional strip and pass with
the fix.

---------

Co-authored-by: kyssta-exe <kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(terminal): bridge docker_extra_args to TERMINAL_DOCKER_EXTRA_ARGS in CLI + gateway (#50631)

terminal.docker_extra_args passes flags verbatim to `docker run` (e.g.
--gpus=all, --shm-size=16g). It was wired into DEFAULT_CONFIG,
TERMINAL_CONFIG_ENV_MAP (so `hermes config set` bridged it),
terminal_tool._get_env_config (reads TERMINAL_DOCKER_EXTRA_ARGS), and
DockerEnvironment (applies extra_args) -- but it was MISSING from cli.py's
env_mappings and gateway/run.py's _terminal_env_map.

Consequence: a user who hand-edits config.yaml (rather than running
`hermes config set`) has docker_extra_args silently dropped on the CLI and
gateway/desktop startup paths, while docker_image / docker_volumes (which
ARE in those maps) bridge correctly -- producing the reported 'Hermes
partially reads the Docker config' symptom where --gpus=all and
--shm-size=16g never reach docker run.

This is the same bridge-coverage bug class that shipped before for
docker_run_as_host_user (cli + gateway) and docker_mount_cwd_to_workspace
(gateway). Fix by adding the key to both maps, plus a dedicated regression
pin in test_terminal_config_env_sync.py mirroring the existing
test_docker_*_is_bridged_everywhere guards.

* fix(gateway): accept any inbound file type across all messaging platforms

Authorization to message the agent is the gate, not the file extension.
Previously the inbound-attachment allowlist (SUPPORTED_DOCUMENT_TYPES) was
opt-OUT on Discord (allow_any_attachment defaulted false) and had no bypass
at all on Telegram/Slack — so an .html (or any non-allowlisted type) was
dropped or hard-rejected before the agent saw it.

Now every authorized upload is cached and surfaced to the agent regardless
of type:
- base.cache_media_bytes(): unknown types cache as octet-stream (or the
  caller-supplied MIME) instead of returning None — fixes the chokepoint
  that Teams/Telegram-media route through.
- discord/telegram/slack adapters: removed the allowlist reject/skip; any
  non-media attachment is typed DOCUMENT and cached. Known types keep their
  precise MIME.
- Text inlining now gates on a shared _TEXT_INJECT_EXTENSIONS set (text +
  code + config + markup) instead of a blind UTF-8 decode, so binary formats
  (PDF/zip/docx) with ASCII headers are never inlined.
- gateway/run.py emits the path-pointing context note for every DOCUMENT,
  including non text/application MIME types.
- discord.allow_any_attachment is now a documented no-op kept for config
  back-compat.

Validation: 357 gateway tests pass; E2E confirms .html/.bin/custom types
cache, known types stay precise, PDFs are not inlined.

* fix(telegram): observed/replied group docs of any type are cached too

Follow-up to the accept-any-file-type change. The observe-unmentioned and
replied-media paths relied on cache_media_bytes() returning None for
unsupported document types to emit an 'unsupported, not cached' note. Now
that any file type is always cached, those docs are cached and surfaced with
a path-pointing note — consistent with the main document path. The
remaining cached-is-None branch is image-validation-failure only; its note
is reworded accordingly. Updates the group-gating test to the new contract.

* fix Nous auth refresh for idle agents

* feat(cli): Ctrl+G submits the edited draft on save (TUI parity) (#50560)

Ctrl+G already opened $EDITOR with the current draft, but used
open_in_editor(validate_and_handle=False), which only loaded the saved text
back into the input area — the user still had to press Enter. The TUI's
Ctrl+G (openEditor) submits the draft on a clean exit. Since CLI submission
is driven by the custom Enter keybinding (not the buffer accept_handler),
validate_and_handle can't route through it; instead chain a done-callback on
the editor Task that calls the new _submit_editor_buffer(), which mirrors the
Enter handler's idle/queue/slash branches and drops an empty save.

* Make email pairing opt-in

* Address email pairing review feedback

* fix dashboard chat session titles

* feat(cli): /timestamps command + timestamps in /history (#50506)

display.timestamps already drove the [HH:MM] suffix on live submitted and
streamed message labels, but there was no runtime command to toggle it and
/history ignored the setting entirely. Add /timestamps [on|off|status]
(alias /ts) and render [HH:MM] in /history for turns that carry a stored
unix timestamp (resumed sessions). Live unsaved turns without a stored time
are never given a fabricated one. Uses the existing sanctioned non-wire
'timestamp' message key (stripped before the API call in chat_completions),
so message-alternation and prompt-cache invariants are untouched.

* fix #39550: detect token-only compression success

Compression can materially reduce request size (tool-result pruning,
in-place summarization) without reducing message count. The two
compression-success checks in conversation_loop.py (413 handler and
context-overflow handler) only compared len(messages) to detect
success, missing token-only compression.

Now re-estimates tokens after compress_context() returns and treats
any >=5% reduction as a successful compression pass. Error logs
also use the post-compression token count instead of the stale
pre-compression estimate.

Fixes: #39550

* no-mistakes(review): guard token-delta status msg on actual compression in overflow handler

* test(agent): regression for token-only compression progress (#39550, #23767)

Adds test_413_retries_on_token_only_compression: same message count but
materially fewer tokens after compaction must count as progress and retry,
not abort. Fails on main without the salvaged fix, passes with it.

* feat(desktop): PR-style file diffs in chat

Render write_file/edit_file/patch as a reviewable diff instead of raw
result JSON, closer to a Cursor/T3 per-edit review.

- Unified diff via FileDiffPanel: strip git file-header + @@ hunk noise,
  drop the +/- gutter, color by line with a 2px gutter accent, full-bleed
  to the card, transparent context lines, compact scroll height.
- Header shows filename + language icon + +N/-N stats; full path moves to
  a hover tooltip (no Edited verb, no ms).
- Treat the three file-edit tools uniformly (isFileEditTool); read diff
  from inline_diff or patch's diff field; suppress raw-arg detail.
- Reusable FileTypeIcon primitive sharing the code-block icon mapping
  (codiconForFilename), codicon fallback.
- Per-row scaffolding fade (not the group wrapper, which trapped child
  opacity); expanded edits stay full, collapsed fade; keyboard-only focus
  lift. Hide diff-less rehydrated creates that read as dupes.

* style(desktop): lead --dt-font-mono with bundled JetBrains Mono

Code/diff blocks preferred a system Cascadia Code before the bundled
JetBrains Mono, so they drifted from the terminal (which leads with
JetBrains Mono) on machines where Cascadia is installed. Reorder so every
mono surface uses the face we actually ship.

* feat(desktop): syntax-highlight inline diffs via Shiki

Unify the diff renderer onto the same Shiki path as code blocks: highlight
the marker-stripped change content in the file's language, then a per-line
transformer layers the add/remove tint + gutter accent on top. Falls back
to the plain color-only renderer when the language is unknown, over budget,
or while Shiki loads.

- shikiLanguageForFilename(): extension → bundled-language id (shared
  filename-token helper with codiconForFilename).
- code display:grid so full-width line tints don't double with newline
  nodes; theme surface stripped so context lines stay transparent.

* feat(relay): handle passthrough_forward over the WS (Phase 5 §5.1, gateway half) (#50702)

The connector half (gateway-gateway) moves the passthrough plane's post-ACK
forward off the HTTP gatewayEndpoint onto the gateway's outbound /relay WS via
a new passthrough_forward frame. This is the gateway side: the relay adapter
now RECEIVES and handles that frame, so a hosted gateway (no public IP) can
process forwarded Class-2/3 traffic (Discord interactions, Twilio) over the
socket it already holds — closing the "passthrough inbound doesn't work for
hosted gateways" gap.

- ws_transport.py: decode the passthrough_forward frame; PassthroughForward
  dataclass + _passthrough_from_wire (base64 body -> exact bytes, byte parity
  with the connector's toPassthroughForward); set_passthrough_handler mirrors
  set_interrupt_inbound_handler.
- transport.py: PassthroughHandler type + set_passthrough_handler on the
  RelayTransport protocol.
- adapter.py: connect() wires the passthrough handler; _on_passthrough decodes
  the (already-sanitized, token-free) forward and, for a Discord interaction,
  converts it to a MessageEvent routed through the normal agent path
  (handle_message) — the reply egresses over the outbound / token-less
  follow_up path, so the gateway never holds the interaction credential. Never
  raises (a bad forward can't kill the read loop). Non-discord forwards (Twilio)
  are logged + dropped for now.
- docs/relay-connector-contract.md: document the passthrough_forward frame +
  PassthroughForward shape + §3.1.

The interaction -> MessageEvent CONVERSION semantics (slash-command vs button
UX, option rendering) are the open sub-design flagged in the spec; the TRANSPORT
+ receive mechanism (this) is settled per Ben's Gate-2 decision: "the relay
adapter handles receiving these events over the WS."

Tests (tests/gateway/relay/test_relay_passthrough.py): byte-preservation
round-trip (+ malformed-body tolerance), connect() wiring, application-command
and message-component interactions route through handle_message with correct
session source + scope capture, malformed/non-discord forwards dropped cleanly.
100 relay tests green. Pairs with the connector PR (gateway-gateway).

* style(desktop): soften dark-mode syntax highlighting

Share one SHIKI_THEME (github-dark-dimmed) across code blocks and inline
diffs so they can't drift, and pull token saturation/brightness back via a
`.shiki` dark-mode filter. The dimmed theme alone only changes the
background — which both surfaces strip — so the bright foregrounds needed
the filter to actually calm down.

* fix(agent): count tokens, not just rows, as preflight compression progress

Rebased onto god-file Phase 1 refactor — preflight compression has moved
from agent/conversation_loop.py to agent/turn_context.py (no semantic
change in the refactor itself; the bug below was carried over verbatim).

The preflight compression loop in ``turn_context.py`` uses
``len(messages) >= _orig_len`` to decide whether a compression pass has
made progress. That conflates two different conditions: a true no-op
(transcript materially unchanged) and effective token compression that
summarises message contents but keeps the same number of rows. The
second case is misread as "Cannot compress further" — the session then
surfaces ``Context length exceeded`` and auto-resets even when the
post-compression estimate is far below the model context window.

Observed example from #39548: a Telegram session on GPT-5.5 with a 1M
context dropped from ~288k → ~183k tokens (a 36% reduction) while
preserving 220 messages. The loop treats that as exhaustion and the
gateway auto-resets the session.

Fix
---
Add ``_compression_made_progress(orig_len, new_len, orig_tokens, new_tokens)``
and call it after the post-pass ``estimate_request_tokens_rough`` (which
is moved up to run *before* the progress check instead of after it).
Either a row-count reduction OR a token-count reduction now counts as
progress; only when neither moves do we break out as "stuck".

Fixes #39548

* refactor(auth): drop dead select() fallback in anthropic pool resolver

/simplify-code QUALITY finding: the `if callable(_available_entries): ... else:
pool.select()` ladder was dead for the real CredentialPool type (`_available_entries`
is always a bound method) AND the select() fallback violated the helper's read-only
contract — select() -> _select_unlocked() runs _available_entries(clear_expired=True,
refresh=True), which persists to auth.json and triggers a network refresh. Call
_available_entries(clear_expired=False, refresh=False) directly inside the existing
try/except instead.

Also drops the now-dead `select=` stubs from the 6 pool tests (they only existed to
satisfy the removed fallback branch). Behavior unchanged; 6 pool tests pass and the
read-only / null-token contract tests were mutation-checked (flipping the flags /
removing the None-guard fails the respective test).

* fix(agent): align preflight token-progress floor to 5% (#23767, #39548)

Follow-up to the salvaged preflight token-progress fix: require a material
(>5%) token reduction to count as progress, matching the overflow-handler
retry path (conversation_loop.py, #39550), so a sub-5% wobble can't keep the
3-pass preflight loop spinning. Adds boundary + zero-token regression tests.

* fix(cron): layer enabled MCP servers onto per-job enabled_toolsets

A cron job that sets `enabled_toolsets` to a list of *native* toolsets (e.g.
`["web", "terminal"]`) silently got ZERO MCP tools, while a job with no
per-job list got every globally-enabled MCP server. `_resolve_cron_enabled_
toolsets` returned the per-job list verbatim, bypassing the MCP-merge that the
platform-fallback branch performs via `_get_platform_tools`. So
`discover_mcp_tools()` registered the MCP tools into the registry, but
`get_tool_definitions(enabled_toolsets=...)` kept only the named native
toolsets — the agent then rejected every `mcp_*` call as "Unknown tool". (R2
of #23997.)

Fix: `_merge_mcp_into_per_job_toolsets` layers MCP membership onto a per-job
allowlist with the SAME semantics as `_get_platform_tools`:
  * `no_mcp` sentinel present -> no MCP servers (sentinel stripped)
  * one or more MCP server names already listed -> treat as an allowlist
  * otherwise -> union in every globally-enabled MCP server

To avoid duplicating the "which MCP servers are enabled" computation (it
already existed inline in `_get_platform_tools`), this extracts a shared
`enabled_mcp_server_names(config)` helper in `hermes_cli.tools_config` and has
BOTH the gateway/CLI platform resolver and the cron per-job resolver call it —
so every path agrees on MCP membership (extend, don't duplicate).

Note: the issue's *headline* — bare MCP server names rejected, registry never
includes them — was already fixed on main (commits c10fea8d2 + 04918345e,
both before the issue was filed). This PR closes the remaining cron-specific
gap (R2). The `server:*` / `mcp:server` alias-notation rejection (R1) and the
quiet-mode silent-drop (R3) are tracked separately.

Salvaged from #32788 by sherman-yang (credited below). Reworked to reuse the
shared `enabled_mcp_server_names` helper instead of re-implementing the MCP
membership set in cron/scheduler.py.

Fixes #23997

Co-authored-by: sherman-yang <58446328+sherman-yang@users.noreply.github.com>

* chore(release): add sherman-yang to AUTHOR_MAP

* fix(compressor): count tool_call envelope in tail-budget token estimate (#28053)

The tail-protection budget walks estimated an assistant message's tokens from content + function.arguments only, dropping each tool_call's id, type and function.name (plus JSON structure). Assistant turns that fan out into parallel tool calls were undercounted by 2-15x (a 4-tool-call turn measures ~73 vs ~1,090 real tokens), so the protected tail overshot tail_token_budget and compression ran far below its intended ratio — context kept growing.

Consolidate the three duplicated budget walks (_prune_old_tool_results and the two passes in _find_tail_cut_by_tokens) into a single _estimate_msg_budget_tokens() helper that counts the full tool_call envelope via len(str(tc)), consistent with how _estimate_message_chars estimates message size elsewhere.

Tested on Windows: new tests/agent/test_compressor_tool_call_budget.py plus the existing compression suite (test_context_compressor, compressor_image_tokens, cross_session_guard, infinite_compaction_loop) — 209 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(release): map basilalshukaili@gmail.com in AUTHOR_MAP

Committer email for the salvaged #43293 commit; required by the contributor
attribution check.

* fix(agent): defer preflight compaction until real usage after a compaction (#23767, #36718)

After a compaction, the post-compression path parks last_prompt_tokens=-1 and
sets awaiting_real_usage_after_compression=True, but last_real_prompt_tokens
still holds the stale pre-compression value (above threshold). should_defer_
preflight_to_real_usage() hit the 'last_real_prompt_tokens >= threshold => False'
short-circuit and let preflight fire a SECOND compaction before the provider
reported real post-compaction usage. Add an early-return on the awaiting flag so
deferral holds for exactly one turn; update_from_response() clears it.

The flag-setting half (#36718) already landed on main via the in-place
compaction path (conversation_compression.py); this adds the missing
should_defer guard that consumes it.

Credit:
- @ashishpatel26 (#38133) — diagnosis + the should_defer early-return design
- @Tranquil-Flow (#36769) — same #36718 fix, identical guard placement

Closes #36718.

* fix(gateway): redact credentials from approval prompts before sending to clients (#48456) (#50767)

Tirith redacts its own findings, but the approval-request callbacks built the
operator prompt from the RAW command string, so a credential-shaped value
Tirith flagged was sent verbatim to clients, undoing the redaction one layer up.

Two egress transports carried the leak; both are fixed via a shared
module-level seam _redact_approval_command() (redact_sensitive_text force=True):
  1. chat platforms — _approval_notify_sync (gateway/run.py): redact before
     both the button path (send_exec_approval) and the plain-text /approve
     fallback.
  2. SSE/API stream — _approval_notify (gateway/platforms/api_server.py):
     redact event['command'] before it is enqueued to API/desktop clients.
     (whole-bug-class: sibling call path on a separate transport.)

force=True so the prompt — a hard secret-egress boundary — honors redaction
even when security.redact_secrets is off. Clean commands pass through unchanged.

Tests bind the seam (synthetic credential-format fixtures, force-when-disabled) AND assert
BOTH callbacks ASSIGN the redacted result before the send/enqueue sink, via an
AST contract that rejects a discarded-result call. All mutation-checked.

* feat(relay): forward a stable instance id at self-provision (Phase 6 Unit α) (#50772)

Add relay_instance_id() (env GATEWAY_RELAY_INSTANCE_ID first, then
gateway.relay_instance_id in config.yaml, mirroring the other relay readers) and
forward it in the /relay/provision body so the connector can bind
gatewayId -> instanceId and route inbound per-instance once Phase 6 delivery
lands.

The value is gateway-asserted but safely scoped: the org/tenant stays
NAS-token-verified at the connector, so a dishonest gateway can only bind its
OWN tenant's instance — same posture as relay_endpoint(). instanceId is only
added to the body when present, so omitting it lets the connector store null
(back-compat: self-hosted / pre-Phase-6 gateways simply have no binding yet).

For a managed (NAS-hosted) agent the id is NAS's AgentInstance.id, stamped into
the container env beside GATEWAY_RELAY_URL.

Tests: reader (env/config/absent), self_provision_relay forwards the id (set +
absent), and the real _post_provision body includes instanceId ONLY when set.

Refs: ~/nous/specs/gateway-gateway plan.md Phase 6 Unit α; decisions.md Q11.

* fix(compress): reserve output tokens in the compaction threshold (#23767, #43547)

The compaction trigger compared estimated input against context_length *
threshold, but the provider reserves max_tokens of OUTPUT out of the same
window. With a large max_tokens (e.g. 65536 on a custom provider) the usable
input budget is materially smaller than the raw window, so sessions hit a
provider 400 before compaction ever fired.

_compute_threshold_tokens now subtracts the output reservation
(context_length - max_tokens) before applying the percentage and the
small-window 85% guard. max_tokens is stored on the compressor (threaded from
agent.max_tokens at construction) and reused across update_model() switches;
None = provider default = no reservation (full-window behavior, unchanged).

Reimplemented on the current _compute_threshold_tokens surface (the inline
threshold calc the original PR targeted was since refactored for the
small-window #14690 fix); composes with that 85% guard on the effective budget.

Credit: @kyssta-exe (#43651) — original design for the output-token
reservation in the compaction threshold.

Closes #43547.

* fix(security): restrict dashboard plugin backend import to bundled plugins (#43719)

Defense-in-depth for the dashboard plugin auto-import path. The web server
auto-imports and mounts the Python backend (dashboard/manifest.json -> api file)
of plugins found in ~/.hermes/plugins/ (user) and ./.hermes/plugins/ (project),
not just bundled plugins. So any plugin that reaches one of those dirs gets
arbitrary Python executed on the next dashboard start.

NOTE ON THREAT MODEL: #43719's originally-documented delivery chain (a public
--insecure dashboard + open API used to git clone a malicious repo into
~/.hermes/plugins/) is ALREADY mitigated on main — since the June 2026
hermes-0day hardening, a non-loopback bind ALWAYS requires an auth provider and
--insecure no longer bypasses the auth gate. This change is therefore NOT
closing that (now-authenticated) network path; it removes the residual
'arbitrary code executes merely because a plugin is on disk' hazard, which still
applies when a plugin arrives by other means: a socially-engineered git clone,
a supply-chain drop, an authenticated-but-malicious actor, or a future
regression in the auth gate. Untrusted on-disk code should not auto-execute.

Restrict dashboard backend Python auto-import to BUNDLED plugins only. User and
project plugins may still extend the dashboard UI via static JS/CSS, but their
api Python file is never auto-imported. Two layers: _discover_dashboard_plugins
scrubs api/_api_file for user/project sources (and bundled wins name conflicts
so a non-bundled plugin cannot shadow a trusted backend route);
_mount_plugin_api_routes re-refuses user/project at mount time. Tightens the
prior GHSA-5qr3-c538-wm9j / #29156 hardening (bundled+user) to bundled-only.

Salvaged from #44472 (@egilewski) onto current main.

* feat(mem0): v3 API, OSS mode, update/delete tools, telemetry & review fixes (#15624)

* fix: update to version 3 endpoints and adding update and delete tool

* chore: removing the test md file

* fix: prevent circuit breaker on client errors in Mem0 provider

* chore: add telemetry for platform version

* feat: add OSS mode support to Mem0 memory provider

* chore: bump mem0ai dependency to >=2.0.1 in memory plugin

* refactor: enhance dependency checks and embedder config in mem0 backend

* refactor: adjust fact storage message for OSS mode

* refactor: expand user paths, add collection recreation on dimension change for Qdrant

* fix(mem0): make MEM0_USER_ID override gateway-native ids and tag writes with channel

When MEM0_USER_ID was configured (env or mem0.json), the gateway-native id
from kwargs (Telegram numeric id, Discord snowflake, ...) still won, so the
same human ended up under different user_ids per channel and memories never
merged across CLI / Telegram / Slack / Discord. Mirrors openclaw's cfg.userId
pattern: configured override wins, gateway-native id is the fallback.

The legacy "hermes-user" placeholder default written by the setup wizard is
treated as unset to avoid silently bucketing every gateway user together.

Also tag every write with metadata.channel (cli/telegram/discord/...) so the
dashboard can offer per-channel filtered views without coupling identity to
the channel; document the read/write filter asymmetry as intentional
(reads scope to user_id only for cross-agent recall).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor: improve Mem0 memory provider backend, pagination, config, and error handling

* refactor: update mem0 telemetry code, docs, and bump version

* fix(mem0): make get_config_schema() return unified schema with mode-aware required flag

Schema always includes api_key field so picker shows "API key / local" for
both modes. In OSS mode api_key.required=False so status won't mislead.

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

* refactor: improve mem0 telemetry, add env var key and OSS mode detection

* chore: bump mem0ai lower bound to 2.0.4 (latest SDK release)

* refactor: set telemetry sample rate to 1.0 and update docs for opt‑out

* fix(mem0): resolve 15 correctness, thread-safety, and resource bugs

Thread safety:
- Protect circuit breaker counters with _breaker_lock (race between
  prefetch/sync daemon threads and main thread)
- Wrap sync_turn thread creation in _sync_lock; skip if previous sync
  is still alive after 5 s join to prevent duplicate memory ingestion
- Guard _schedule_flush timer creation under _queue_lock (TOCTOU race)
- Capture local `backend` reference in prefetch/sync closures so
  shutdown() nulling self._backend cannot crash in-flight threads

Correctness:
- Fix bool("false")==True for rerank param; parse string values explicitly
- Guard page/top_k with max(1,...) and move int() inside try blocks
- Fix fact_count=0 always in OSS mode (Memory.add returns list, not dict)
- Fix prefetch() not clearing result when thread still alive after timeout
- Fix atexit.register accumulating on repeated initialize() calls

Backend / setup:
- Handle Qdrant named-vector collections in _recreate_collection_if_dims_changed
  (vectors is a dict; .size access raised AttributeError, swallowed silently)
- Wrap QdrantClient and psycopg2 conn/cursor in try/finally to prevent leaks
- Resolve ollama_bin at top of _ensure_ollama; use it for ollama pull
- Fix embedder key lookup when LLM provider has no env_var (e.g. ollama)

Also: remove _telemetry_enabled cache (env var check is cheap), bump
required mem0ai to >=2.0.7, minor README wording fix.

* fix(mem0): fix brittle qdrant path test + add telemetry sample-rate docs

- Replace generator-throw lambda with a proper def in
  test_qdrant_path_not_writable; use tmp_path instead of a hardcoded
  /nonexistent path so the test is root-safe
- Add MEM0_TELEMETRY_SAMPLE_RATE to memory-providers.md (was only
  in the plugin README, not the user-guide docs)

* revert: remove MEM0_TELEMETRY_SAMPLE_RATE from user-guide docs

* refactor: remove telemetry from mem0 plugin and update documentation

* fix(mem0): set stdin=DEVNULL on setup subprocess calls

The TUI stdin guard (scripts/check_subprocess_stdin.py) requires every
subprocess call in plugin code to set stdin= so it can't inherit the
gateway's JSON-RPC stdin fd. Muzzle the docker/ollama calls in the OSS
setup wizard with stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL (none need interactive input).
Also covers the docker-inspect call the linter's regex misses.

---------

Co-authored-by: chaithanyak42 <chaithanya.kumar42a@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(update): don't count across shallow-clone boundary (bogus '12492 commits behind') (#50784)

* chore: re-trigger CI (workflows did not dispatch on prior head)

* fix(update): don't count across shallow-clone boundary (bogus '12492 commits behind')

Installer checkouts are shallow (git clone --depth 1). The CLI banner and
hermes update --check both did a plain git fetch (silently unshallowing the
repo) then git rev-list --count HEAD..origin/main, which counts across the
shallow boundary and prints a huge nonsense number like '12492 commits behind'.

Detect shallow up front, fetch with --depth 1 to preserve the boundary, and
compare tip SHAs instead of counting:
- banner _check_via_local_git: returns UPDATE_AVAILABLE_NO_COUNT when behind
  (renders as 'update available') instead of the bogus count.
- _cmd_update_check: reports presence-only on shallow clones.
Full clones keep the exact count path unchanged. Mirrors the desktop fix in
apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs (commit 2950c6fa2).

* fix(delivery): make cron output truncation configurable + adapter-aware

Gateway-level truncation (MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT=4000) was pre-empting
adapter-side message splitting. Discord and Telegram both chunk long
content natively in their send() via truncate_message(), but the
delivery router truncated to 3800 chars + footer before the adapter
ever saw the full payload — so long cron output was cut short instead
of being delivered as multiple messages (issue #50126).

Changes:
- HERMES_DELIVERY_MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT env var makes the cap configurable
  (default 4000, backward compatible). Set to 0 to disable truncation.
- TRUNCATED_VISIBLE (3800) removed — visible portion now derived
  dynamically from max_output minus the actual footer length.
- New BasePlatformAdapter.splits_long_messages capability flag (default
  False). Adapters that chunk in send() set True; delivery skips
  truncation for them but still saves full output to disk as audit.
- Flagged Discord and Telegram (both verified to chunk in send()).

Fixes #50126

* fix(delivery): drop env-var knob, flag all chunking adapters

Follow-up to ScotterMonk's cron-truncation fix:

- Remove HERMES_DELIVERY_MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT env var. Behavioral config
  belongs in config.yaml, not a new HERMES_* env var (.env is secrets
  only). The actual bug is fixed entirely by the adapter-aware skip; the
  configurable cap was unneeded scope. MAX_PLATFORM_OUTPUT is a constant
  again, collapsing the max_output=0 disable branch and the
  audit-vs-truncation threshold divergence.
- Flag the remaining verified-chunking adapters (slack, matrix, feishu,
  mattermost, teams, whatsapp, whatsapp_cloud, weixin, bluebubbles,
  yuanbao) with splits_long_messages=True so the fix covers the whole
  bug class, not just Discord/Telegram. Each verified to chunk in its
  own send() via truncate_message().
- SMS deliberately left False: it chunks for normal replies but a
  multi-segment cron blast is cost-bearing; the 4000-cap + file save is
  the safer default there.
- Update tests: drop the two env-override tests, add a test asserting a
  save failure during truncation (non-chunking) propagates.

* chore(release): map ScotterMonk for PR #50145 salvage

* fix(gateway): cold-start installed Windows gateway after update when none was running (#50804)

The post-update gateway resume path (`_resume_windows_gateways_after_update`)
only relaunched gateways that were *running* when the update began — it
enumerates live PIDs in `_pause_windows_gateways_for_update` and respawns
exactly those. A gateway that had already died between updates (e.g. it was
launched attached to a terminal/TUI that later closed, taking the child with
it) was never brought back: the Startup-folder / Scheduled-Task autostart
entry only fires on the next login, not after an in-place update.

So a Desktop-GUI update (which runs `hermes update --yes --gateway`) on a box
whose gateway had quietly died would complete with no gateway running, and the
user had no indication anything should have come up.

Fix: when no gateway is running at pause time but an autostart entry is
installed (`gateway_windows.is_installed()` — an explicit "I want a gateway"
signal), return a `cold_start_if_installed` token. The resume step then does a
fresh detached spawn via `gateway_windows._spawn_detached()` — the same
windowless `pythonw` + `CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB` path `hermes gateway start`
uses. It re-checks liveness immediately before spawning so a concurrent start
(autostart entry firing) can't produce a duplicate.

Gateway-less users (no autostart entry) get nothing forced on them — the
pause step still returns None for them. POSIX is unaffected: enabled systemd
units already restart via `Restart=always`.

Windows-only; best-effort throughout (logs at debug and no-ops on any error).

Tests: pause returns the cold-start token only when installed, returns None
when not installed, resume cold-starts on the token, and resume skips the
cold-start when a gateway is already running.

* fix(picker): keep flat-namespace reseller first-party models in desktop picker

OpenCode Go (and OpenCode Zen) showed only a subset of the models they
serve in the desktop/CLI model picker — e.g. opencode-go rendered 13 of
19, silently dropping minimax-m3/m2.7/m2.5, glm-5/5.1, deepseek-v4-flash.

Root cause: the picker dedup in build_models_payload strips any model
from an aggregator row that overlaps a user-defined provider's catalog
(so a local proxy isn't shadowed by OpenRouter). It gated on
is_aggregator(), which is True for opencode-go/zen because their flat
/v1/models returns bare IDs the model-switch resolver searches. But
those are flat-namespace RESELLERS, not routing aggregators — every
model they list is first-party, so deduping them against a user proxy
that happens to serve a same-named model guts their own catalog.

Fix: add is_routing_aggregator() (True only for true routers like
OpenRouter and custom:* proxies; False for opencode-go/zen) and gate the
picker dedup on it. is_aggregator() is unchanged so model-switch flat
catalog resolution keeps working. Both desktop entry points
(model.options JSON-RPC and /api/model/options REST) and hermes model
share build_models_payload, so all surfaces get the full list.

Fixes #47077

* fix(desktop): show all of a provider's models when searching the composer picker

The composer model picker capped each provider's search matches at 12
(PER_PROVIDER_SEARCH). A provider serving more than 12 models (e.g.
opencode-go with 19) showed only a truncated subset when the user typed
its name to find it — exactly the models they were searching for got
cut. Edit Models showed the full list because it never applied this cap.

A search is already a narrowing action, so capping a single provider's
own matches is wrong. Remove the slice; search now lists every matching
model for the provider. The no-search default still shows the curated
top-N per provider via the visibility set.

Follow-up to #47077 (the backend dedup fix); this closes the remaining
frontend truncation users saw in the composer.

* feat(goals): /goal wait <pid> — park the loop on a background process (#50503)

* feat(goals): add /goal wait <pid> barrier to park the loop on a background process

The /goal loop re-pokes the agent every turn via the post-turn judge. When a
goal is gated on a long-running background process (CI poller, build, test
matrix, deploy) that produces nothing to judge yet, this spins the agent into
'is it done?' busy-work and burns the turn budget.

/goal wait <pid> [reason] parks the loop: while the PID is alive, the judge is
skipped, no turn is consumed, no continuation fires, and /goal status shows a
parked indicator. The barrier auto-clears the moment the process exits (the
agent's notify_on_complete watcher is the natural wake signal), then the next
turn resumes normal judging. /goal unwait clears it manually; pause/resume/clear
drop it; a dead/stale PID can never wedge the loop.

Wired across CLI, gateway, and the mid-run command guard for parity. Barrier
persists in SessionDB.state_meta (survives /resume); GoalState gains
backward-compatible waiting_on_pid/wait…
pai-scaffolde pushed a commit to pai-scaffolde/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 28, 2026
…nce (NousResearch#50473)

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that NousResearch#50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.

- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard

Supersedes the skill-leak half of NousResearch#50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).
waefrebeorn pushed a commit to waefrebeorn/slermes that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2026
…nce (NousResearch#50473)

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that NousResearch#50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.

- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard

Supersedes the skill-leak half of NousResearch#50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).
habarmc1223-sudo pushed a commit to habarmc1223-sudo/hermes-agent-fluxmem that referenced this pull request Jul 8, 2026
…nce (NousResearch#50473)

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that NousResearch#50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.

- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard

Supersedes the skill-leak half of NousResearch#50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).
santhreal pushed a commit to santhreal/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 13, 2026
…nce (NousResearch#50473)

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that NousResearch#50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.

- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard

Supersedes the skill-leak half of NousResearch#50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).
teknium1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 16, 2026
PR #36019 documented the attachment tools in the kanban-worker skill,
but main removed that skill in #50473 and folded its content into the
KANBAN_GUIDANCE prompt block. Land the same guidance there instead so
every dispatcher-spawned worker sees it.
teknium1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 16, 2026
PR #36019 documented the attachment tools in the kanban-worker skill,
but main removed that skill in #50473 and folded its content into the
KANBAN_GUIDANCE prompt block. Land the same guidance there instead so
every dispatcher-spawned worker sees it.
vashkartik added a commit to vashkartik/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 18, 2026
* docs(kanban): port attachment guidance into KANBAN_GUIDANCE

PR #36019 documented the attachment tools in the kanban-worker skill,
but main removed that skill in #50473 and folded its content into the
KANBAN_GUIDANCE prompt block. Land the same guidance there instead so
every dispatcher-spawned worker sees it.

* fix(mcp): reuse cached oauth redirect port

* fix(gateway): install _profile_runtime_scope in _run_background_task when multiplexing is active

When multiplex_profiles is true, background tasks spawned by /background
command failed with UnscopedSecretError because _resolve_session_agent_runtime()
was called without a profile secret scope. This fix wraps the task in
_profile_runtime_scope, mirroring the pattern used by _run_agent.

Fixes #60726

* test: use object.__new__ runner pattern for background-task scope tests

Replaces the salvaged tests' dict-config path (which required a
GatewayRunner.__init__ dict-coercion hack — dropped from this salvage;
the second commit on the PR branch existed only to support it) with the
established bare-runner test pattern. Also asserts full argument
passthrough to the inner task.

* fix(lmstudio): clamp max/ultra reasoning effort to LM Studio's ceiling

LM Studio's request vocabulary tops out at "xhigh", but Hermes' generic
effort ladder has since grown two stronger levels. "max" and "ultra" miss
the _LM_VALID_EFFORTS membership test, keep the initialized "medium"
default, and are thereby conflated with unparseable input -- so asking for
more reasoning yields less than "xhigh":

    high  -> 'high'     xhigh -> 'xhigh'
    max   -> 'medium'   ultra -> 'medium'

This is drift, not a design choice. The valid set was an exact mirror of
VALID_REASONING_EFFORTS when the file was authored; the ladder then grew
"max" and later "ultra", and the sweep that taught every other provider
about the new levels missed this module -- it has never been touched since
it was written.

Clamp the two stronger levels onto LM Studio's declared ceiling instead,
mirroring the ceiling clamp every other provider already applies. Widening
_LM_VALID_EFFORTS would instead assert that LM Studio accepts "max" on the
wire, which is a provider-side claim this repo cannot verify; clamping
consumes only the ceiling the file already declares for itself.

The clamp is kept separate from _LM_EFFORT_ALIASES because that mapping is
also applied to the model's published allowed_options, which must not be
rewritten. A clamped value stays subject to the allowed_options check, so a
model that does not publish "xhigh" still gets the field omitted and falls
back to its own default -- exactly how a directly-requested "xhigh" behaves.

The regression test asserts monotonicity over the canonical ladder rather
than the two values alone, so the next level added upstream cannot silently
reintroduce the inversion.

* chore(release): add briandevans to AUTHOR_MAP for PR #64951 salvage

* fix(ollama-cloud): capability-gate reasoning_effort + correct disable semantics

Three follow-up fixes to the salvaged reasoning_effort support, all verified
live against ollama.com /v1/chat/completions + /api/show on deepseek-v4-pro,
gemma3, and qwen3-coder:

1. Capability-gate on /api/show 'thinking'. The original ignored the
   supports_reasoning flag and emitted reasoning_effort for every model. Now
   gated: only models whose native /api/show capabilities list contains
   'thinking' (deepseek-v4 yes; gemma3 / qwen3-coder no) get reasoning_effort.
   Mirrors the LM Studio pattern — capability resolved once per (model,
   base_url) in run_agent._supports_reasoning_extra_body via a cached probe
   (hermes_cli.models.ollama_model_supports_thinking), threaded into the
   profile hook as supports_reasoning. No live HTTP in the per-request path.

2. Disable actually disables. Ollama Cloud defaults to thinking ON and IGNORES
   the extra_body.thinking:{type:disabled} shape (verified: still returned
   reasoning). The only working off switch is top-level reasoning_effort:'none'.
   The salvaged code returned ({}, {}) for enabled:false / effort:none, leaving
   thinking ON. Now emits {'reasoning_effort': 'none'}.

3. Omit unrecognized effort. The original forwarded any unknown string verbatim
   including 'minimal' (a real Hermes effort level). Ollama Cloud rejects
   unrecognized values with a hard HTTP 400 (accepted set: low/medium/high/
   max/none), so forwarding 'minimal' would break the request. Now omitted.

Core touches (run_agent.py, hermes_cli/models.py) add the capability probe;
the plugin profile only consumes the resolved flag. 24/24 profile tests green;
194 provider/transport tests unaffected.

* fix(gateway): strip /queue prefix when no agent is running

When no agent is active, '/queue <prompt>' previously fell through
dispatch with its raw text intact instead of being treated as a
normal prompt. Rewrite event.text to the bare payload (mirroring the
/steer no-active-agent path just below) and return a usage hint when
the payload is empty.

Salvaged from PR #29290 (queue half only — the /footer mid-run
dispatch half already landed on main via #65521).

* chore(release): map focusedmiqa@gmail.com to m1qaweb in AUTHOR_MAP (PR #29290 salvage)

* fix(desktop): force npm --include=dev so self-update rebuild can't be broken by NODE_ENV=production (#38416)

The desktop self-update rebuild (`hermes desktop --build-only`, driven by
the macOS in-app updater) runs `_run_npm_install_deterministic`, which used
plain `npm ci` / `npm install`. Those honor an inherited
`NODE_ENV=production` (or npm `omit=dev`) and silently omit devDependencies.

The desktop build toolchain — tsc, vite, electron-builder — are all
devDependencies, so under `NODE_ENV=production` the install completes (exit 0)
but `tsc` is never placed, and the very next step (`tsc -b && vite build`)
dies with `tsc: command not found` (exit 127). The user sees
"UPDATE DIDN'T FINISH / Rebuilding the desktop app failed (exit 127)" even
though the git/pip update applied cleanly. NODE_ENV=production can leak in
from a shell profile, a parent process, or a packaged-app launch context.

Force `--include=dev` on both the `npm ci` and `npm install` paths. The only
callers are frontend builds (desktop / TUI / web), which always need the dev
toolchain, so this is safe across the board.

Verified empirically: under NODE_ENV=production, `npm ci` leaves tsc MISSING
while `npm ci --include=dev` installs it. Added two regression tests
(test_npm_ci_forces_include_dev, test_npm_install_fallback_forces_include_dev)
— both confirmed to FAIL when the fix is reverted.

* fix: don't downgrade xhigh reasoning effort when provider supports it

The current code unconditionally downgrades 'xhigh' to 'high' whenever
'high' is in supported_efforts, even if 'xhigh' is also supported.
This prevents users from using extended thinking on providers like
Copilot that list 'xhigh' in their supported efforts.

Fix: only downgrade 'xhigh' to 'high' when 'xhigh' is NOT in the
provider's supported efforts list.

* fix(copilot): clamp reasoning effort to the nearest supported level, not xhigh->high

The Copilot provider profile unconditionally mapped ``xhigh`` to ``high`` before
checking the model's catalog, so models that DO support ``xhigh`` (e.g. the
gpt-5.x family per the live /models catalog) were silently capped one level
down.

Honor the requested effort when the catalog lists it as supported, and only
downgrade when it does not, choosing the nearest weaker supported level
(xhigh->high, minimal->low, else medium, else the first supported level). This
matches the nearest-down clamp behavior used elsewhere for the ``max`` effort.

Adds tests/plugins/model_providers/test_copilot_profile.py covering forward,
downgrade, and fallback paths (catalog lookup stubbed).

* test(copilot): cover supported xhigh request paths

Add current-main regression coverage for both the registered provider
profile and core GitHub Responses path while leaving live catalog loading
to the complementary catalog-resolution work in #51953.

* chore(release): map bare-noreply test-commit identity for PR #62028 salvage

* fix(update): consolidate pre-update backups into one gated mechanism (#65754)

hermes update ran TWO separate pre-update backup mechanisms: the
config-gated full zip (updates.pre_update_backup, default off) and an
unconditional quick state snapshot added for #15733 that ignored the
user's setting entirely. On a large state.db (observed: 24 GB) the
'cheap' snapshot silently added ~60s to every update and ate 24 GB of
disk in state-snapshots/.

Now there is ONE mechanism, gated by updates.pre_update_backup with
three modes:

- quick (new default): state snapshot of critical small files (pairing
  JSONs, cron jobs, config, auth, per-profile DBs). Files over 1 GiB
  are skipped with a warning so a bloated state.db can never stall the
  update again.
- full: the quick snapshot plus the HERMES_HOME zip (old 'true'
  behavior; --backup forces it for one run).
- off: nothing runs — an explicit opt-out now disables the quick
  snapshot too (--no-backup does the same per-run).

Legacy booleans are honored: true -> full, false -> off.

_run_pre_update_backup() now returns the quick-snapshot id so the
post-update cron-jobs restore safety net (#34600) keeps working; the
snapshot moved from the post-fetch site to the pre-mutation site,
which also covers the zip-fallback update path it previously missed.

* fix(tui): fall back to config terminal.backend when TERMINAL_ENV is unset in dashboard/TUI process (#54449)

* fix(terminal): bridge terminal.backend config in serve/desktop processes lacking a launcher env bridge

terminal_tool reads all settings from TERMINAL_* env vars, bridged from
config.yaml by the CLI, gateway, and TUI-PTY launchers. Processes that
skip every launcher bridge — hermes serve / the Desktop app backend's
in-process agents, the desktop cron ticker — saw an unset TERMINAL_ENV
and silently ran every command on the host even when config.yaml selects
terminal.backend: docker. A user who configured Docker isolation got
unsandboxed host execution with no warning.

Two layers:
- _ensure_terminal_env_bridged() in _get_env_config(): when TERMINAL_ENV
  is unset, backfill TERMINAL_* from config.yaml via
  apply_terminal_config_to_env(override=False). Explicit env always wins
  (honor explicit choice; only fix the accidental fallback). One-shot,
  fail-open to the historical local default.
- cmd_dashboard/serve: run the same bridge at startup so every consumer
  in the backend process (in-process agents, desktop cron ticker,
  tui_gateway cwd resolution) sees the bridged env directly.

Fixes #63141, #54449, #61115, #65696.

* fix(discord): expose /reasoning reset|show|hide as slash choices

The Discord /reasoning command declared a single free-text `effort`
parameter, so the native UI funneled every invocation into that one box
and never surfaced the reset / show / hide subcommands the gateway
handler already supports. Replace the free-text param with an explicit
choices dropdown covering the effort levels plus reset/show/hide,
mirroring the existing /tokens and /voice commands. --global persistence
stays reachable by typing the command as plain text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(release): add sam7894604 to AUTHOR_MAP; widen /reasoning choices to max/ultra

The salvaged choices list predates the max/ultra effort levels (#62650);
add them so the Discord dropdown matches the canonical ladder. Discord
caps choices at 25 — we're at 11, plenty of headroom.

* fix(desktop): model picker reverts in existing threads (#65777)

selectModel in use-model-controls captured activeSessionId as a closure
prop, but the actions bag in wiring.tsx mutates in place to keep a stable
identity for memoized surfaces. The modelMenuContent useMemo captures
selectModel once when the gateway first opens (before any session is
active) and never re-evaluates, so clicking a model in an existing thread
goes through a stale closure with activeSessionId=null — the pick is
treated as UI-only, config.set is never sent, and the next session.info
event clobbers the optimistic update back to the session's real model.

Drop the activeSessionId prop entirely. All three callbacks now read
$activeSessionId.get() live from the store, matching the pattern
refreshCurrentModel already followed. This is the correct contract for
the actions bag's in-place mutation: callbacks read live state from the
store, not from captured props.

* feat(gateway): inline choice pickers for /reasoning and /fast (Telegram, Discord, Matrix) (#65799)

Bare /reasoning and /fast now render a native one-tap picker on
picker-capable platforms, with automatic fallback to the text status
card everywhere else — parity with the /model picker UX.

- gateway/slash_commands.py: generic send_choice_picker capability gate
  (detected on the adapter type, like send_model_picker); selection and
  typed arguments flow through one shared application path so they can
  never diverge; choices built from VALID_REASONING_EFFORTS so future
  levels appear automatically
- telegram: flat inline-keyboard picker (cp:<idx> callbacks), authorized
  users only (same gate as approval buttons)
- discord: ChoicePickerView select menu, auth mirrors ExecApprovalView,
  2-minute timeout with expiry edit
- matrix: reaction-based picker; reaction set extended to 12 slots to
  fit the full effort ladder + subcommands
- locales: picker_title + choice labels in all 16 languages
- docs: ADDING_A_PLATFORM.md capability table

Closes #61110.

* fix(desktop): preserve routed session on profile rebind (#65283)

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* fix(desktop): ignore stale backend exits

* fix(desktop): restore cloud reconnect action

* test(desktop): port backend-connection-state test to vitest

Rebased onto current main, where the electron test harness migrated from
node:test to vitest (test:desktop:platforms = `vitest run --project electron`,
auto-discovering electron/*.test.ts). Swap the node:test import for vitest and
drop the .ts-extension import hack; the obsolete package.json node --test list
edit is dropped in the cherry-pick resolution since vitest auto-discovers.

Co-authored-by: Gille <4317663+helix4u@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(desktop): serialize git status refreshes (#65341)

* fix(desktop): refresh default-derived composer model

* fix(desktop): preserve zoom across display moves (#65874)

Reassert the persisted webContents zoom after BrowserWindow moved, covering Windows monitor transitions where Chromium recalculates display scaling and drops the user-selected zoom.

* Merge pull request #65893 from NousResearch/bb/salvage-63082-sessiondb-offload

fix(dashboard): offload blocking SessionDB handlers (supersedes #63082)

* feat(dashboard): isolate turns in compute host (#65895)

Add the flag-gated compute-host supervisor, delta/control protocol, PPID orphan guard, inline fail-open path, synthetic GIL-heavy turn seam, and AC-4 certify harness.

Verified on current origin/main: 343 focused tests pass; Ruff and diff checks pass; 360s AC-4 run with six heavy lanes passes at 6.11ms serving p99 with zero stalls and valid load.

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* fix(desktop): restore closed main window on second launch (#64800)

* fix(desktop): restore closed main window on second launch

* fix(desktop): reset deep-link readiness when main window closes

* fix(desktop): slow session switch (#65890)

react-router v7's HashRouter wraps every route state update in
React.startTransition() by default. In React 19's concurrent renderer,
transitions are non-urgent — React can yield mid-render and come back
later. When the app is under load (streaming token deltas, gateway
events, store updates from active sessions), those higher-priority
updates keep interrupting the transition, starving the route change commit.

This matches every symptom of the session-switch lag:
- Main thread is free (animations run, clicks work) — startTransition
  defers, it does not block
- navigate() does not take effect for seconds — the transition keeps
  getting interrupted by higher-priority updates
- Worse under load — more concurrent re-renders = more interruptions
- The whole UI (sidebar + main pane) does not update — the entire route
  change is one transition, so nothing commits until it finishes

Pass useTransitions={false} to HashRouter so route state updates are
synchronous at default React priority instead of deferred transition
priority. navigate() now commits and paints immediately.

See: react-router v7 chunk-BIP66BKV.js HashRouter implementation.

* fix(title): contain auto-title thread exceptions instead of dumping tracebacks to the terminal (#65792)

auto_title_session runs as a bare daemon-thread target. Any exception
escaping it hits the default threading excepthook and sprays a raw
traceback into the user's terminal mid-session. The canonical trigger
is the post-'hermes update' stale-module window: the function's lazy
imports read NEW source from disk while already-imported modules
(agent.portal_tags) are still the OLD cached version, producing an
ImportError that repeats on every auto-title attempt until the
long-running process restarts (seen live after 9ce0e67f2 added
set_conversation_context).

The public entrypoint now wraps the body in a catch-all that logs one
WARNING naming the likely cause ('restart the running Hermes process'),
routes the exception through the existing failure_callback channel
(user-visible warning in CLI, debug-suppressed in gateway per #23246),
and never re-raises. This also makes the function honor its own
docstring contract ('silently skips if title generation fails').

* fix(honcho): make honcho_search do real cross-session message search

honcho_search routed through search_context() -> peer.context(search_query=),
which returns the peer's standing representation + card. The search_query arg
does not turn that endpoint into a search, so results were effectively
query-independent: the same representation blob regardless of the query. Factual
lookups ('what medication', 'which value did we pick') returned noise.

Rewire search_context() to call the workspace message-search endpoint
(Honcho.search) with a peer_perspective filter: RRF-ranked (hybrid semantic +
full-text) raw message excerpts spanning every session the peer was a member of,
across all authors, membership-time-scoped. This is the cross-session factual
recall primitive.

peer_perspective is chosen over the alternatives because it is the only scope
that is simultaneously (a) cross-session, (b) inclusive of assistant-authored
facts about the peer (peer-author search drops these, and they are a large part
of what you want to recall about yourself), and (c) privacy-scoped to the peer's
own sessions (plain workspace search leaks other peers' sessions).

- snippets are labeled by author so the model can tell user-stated facts from
  assistant-derived ones
- max_tokens is now an enforced budget (was accepted but meaningless)
- graceful fallback to peer-authored search if peer_perspective is unsupported
- query length clamped under the embedding input cap

Replaces 3 change-detector tests that asserted the old representation-dump
behavior with 4 that assert the message-search contract + fallback path.

* fix(honcho): honest, non-overlapping tool descriptions + drop dead param

The five Honcho tool schemas had overlapping/misleading descriptions, making it
hard for the model to pick the right one, plus two concrete correctness bugs:

- honcho_context advertised an 'Optional focus query' parameter that the dispatch
  never read. The model could pass query= expecting filtering that never happened.
  Remove the dead parameter; honcho_context is an honest no-query snapshot. Focused
  retrieval now lives in honcho_search (see prior commit).
- honcho_conclude's peer param was described as 'Peer to query' — wrong; it's the
  peer the conclusion is ABOUT. Corrected.

Rewrite all five descriptions to give each tool a distinct mental model and
cross-reference siblings:
  profile  = read/write the compact card (cheapest, no query, no LLM)
  search   = find what was actually said, ranked, cross-session (cheap, no LLM)
  reasoning= ask a question, get a synthesized answer (the only LLM tool; expensive)
  context  = a fixed session snapshot (no query, no LLM)
  conclude = write a durable fact to the profile

Addresses the honcho_context query param half of #29402 (see PR notes for the
divergence from that issue's proposed wire-through approach).

* fix(honcho): inject base context on the first message of a session

A brand-new session injected no Honcho context on the user's first message —
the peer card/representation only showed up from turn 2 onward. The base-context
fetch was fired asynchronously and popped in the same synchronous pass, so it
always lost the race on turn 1 (a background thread can't finish inside one
pass), leaving the first response with zero recalled context.

Fetch the base layer (representation + card + summary) synchronously with a
bounded timeout on turn 1 so the peer card is injected immediately; subsequent
turns still consume the background-refreshed result primed by queue_prefetch().
The wait is bounded by _FIRST_TURN_BASE_TIMEOUT and tightened further by a small
configured request timeout (fail-fast deployments / tests).

Two related first-turn/dialectic reliability fixes ride along:
- first-turn dialectic no longer double-fires: if a prewarm .chat() thread is
  already in flight from session init, turn 1 waits briefly for it instead of
  firing a second (duplicate) call that also blocked the first response. The
  first-turn wait is decoupled from a large host timeout (a 60s host timeout
  must not block the first response for 60s) via _FIRST_TURN_DIALECTIC_CAP,
  while still honoring a tight configured timeout.
- empty-pass propagation guard in multi-pass dialectic: at depth > 1 each pass
  feeds the prior pass's output into the next prompt. If a pass returned empty
  (e.g. a reasoning model that spent its whole budget thinking), the next prompt
  carried a blank assessment (the "empty spot" seen in Honcho request logs). Now
  only non-empty prior results feed dependent passes; if all priors are empty,
  re-issue the base prompt instead of referencing nothing.

* fix(honcho): stop dropping dialectic results on trivial turns

Symptom: Honcho logs show a dialectic answer was generated, but Hermes never
injects it — intermittently.

Root cause: the dialectic supplement that queue_prefetch() fires at the end of
turn N is stored pending (fired_at=N) for consumption by turn N+1's prefetch().
But prefetch()'s trivial-prompt guard returned early BEFORE the consumption
block. So when turn N+1's prompt was trivial ('ok', 'yes', 'continue', a slash
command), the ready result was never consumed, and a few turns later the
stale-discard guard dropped it. Generated by Honcho, never seen by the model.
The dependence on 'is the consuming turn trivial?' is why the loss looked random.

Fix: trivial turns now consume and inject a ready, non-stale pending result while
still spending no new work (no base-context fetch, no new dialectic fire). A
trivial ack shouldn't generate context, but it shouldn't destroy an answer
already computed for that exact turn. Extracted the pop+stale-check into a shared
_consume_pending_dialectic() used by both the trivial path and the normal path so
they age-check identically.

Preserved (covered by new tests): genuinely stale results are still discarded on
trivial turns; trivial turns still fire no new work; a trivial turn with nothing
pending still injects nothing.

Adds regression tests for inject-on-trivial and discard-stale-on-trivial.

* fix(honcho): honor per-host timeout in config resolution

HonchoClientConfig timeout/requestTimeout resolution skipped the per-host config
block, silently dropping a host-scoped timeout and falling through to the global
config.yaml value (or the default). Add the host block at the front of the
resolution chain, consistent with every other field (base_url, api_key, etc.).

* fix(honcho): resolve cost-awareness config from host block

injectionFrequency, contextCadence, and dialecticCadence were read
only via raw.get() which checks root-level keys in honcho.json.
Settings placed inside hosts.<name> (the normal per-host location)
were silently ignored, falling back to defaults.

- Add typed dataclass fields: injection_frequency, context_cadence,
  dialectic_cadence with host-block-first resolution chains matching
  the pattern used by all other config fields.
- Update HonchoMemoryProvider.initialize() to read from typed cfg
  fields instead of cfg.raw directly.
- Fix search_context tests that mocked _honcho directly — the
  .honcho property getter calls get_honcho_client() which overwrites
  the backing field, so use patch.object on the property instead.
- Add injection_frequency and context_cadence config override tests.

* fix(honcho): don't let first-turn injection suppress dialectic

injectionFrequency='first-turn' returned empty for the entire
prefetch_context() method on turns 2+, which blocked the dialectic
supplement from being consumed and injected. The dialectic has its
own cadence (dialecticCadence) and must continue to fire and inject
independently of the base context layer.

Now first-turn mode gates only Layer 1 (base context: representation
+ card), letting Layer 2 (dialectic supplement) flow through its
normal consumption path on every turn.

Also fixes all remaining tests that passed dialecticCadence via
cfg_extra={'raw': {...}} to use the typed dialectic_cadence field.

* fix(honcho): ground dialectic queries in latest user message

* feat(honcho): add list mode to honcho_conclude so delete can resolve a real conclusion id

honcho_conclude's delete action was unreachable in practice: no tool ever
surfaced a real conclusion id for the model to pass as delete_id.
honcho_search only searches the separate Message resource space, and the
SDK's ConclusionScope.list()/.query() (which do return real Conclusion.id
values) were never wired into any tool.

Adds an optional list mode to honcho_conclude (query to search, omit to
browse recent conclusions), backed by a new
HonchoSessionManager.list_conclusions(). No new tool, no changes to the
create/delete signatures or their conclusions_of() routing.

* fix(honcho): preserve delayed and rewritten recall context

* fix(honcho): update SDK and restore CI coverage

* fix(honcho): stop clipping honcho_reasoning tool results to the injection budget

dialecticMaxChars (default 600) is documented as the budget for the dialectic
supplement auto-injected into the system prompt every turn — a small recurring
cost that is correct to bound tightly. But dialectic_query() applied that cap
unconditionally, so explicit honcho_reasoning tool calls — where the model
deliberately spends a turn asking for a synthesized answer — were silently
truncated mid-word to 600 chars with a trailing " …", no error surfaced. The
full answer is returned by Honcho server-side; the clip happens client-side.

The auto-injection path already has its own token-based budget (contextTokens,
enforced in prefetch() via _truncate_to_budget), so the char cap's real job is a
cheap always-on guardrail for that recurring injection. Explicit tool results
are already bounded server-side by Honcho's dialectic MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS and don't
need the injection cap — sibling tools (honcho_search, honcho_context) don't
post-clip their results either.

Add apply_injection_cap (default True, preserving current behavior) to
dialectic_query(); the honcho_reasoning tool handler passes False so it returns
Honcho's full synthesized answer. Auto-injection is unchanged. Tests cover both
the capped injection path and the uncapped tool path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(honcho): gate the stalled-init prefetch wait to the first turn

* refactor(memory): make query rewrite provider-agnostic

Move query_rewrite from the honcho plugin to plugins/memory/ and
rename the auxiliary task key honcho_query_rewrite ->
memory_query_rewrite so any memory provider can use the same
rewrite path and model/timeout config block. No behavior change.

* feat(honcho): make latency-adding paths configurable

queryRewrite (default off) gates the latest-message rewrite so the
extra auxiliary LLM call is opt-in. firstTurnBaseWait and
firstTurnDialecticWait expose the turn-1 bounded waits in seconds
(0 disables). All three resolve host-block-first like every other
field. Also pins per-host timeout resolution with tests.

* docs(honcho): document latency flags and updated tool contracts

* fix(honcho): enforce recall latency and budget contracts

* fix(memory): fail fast on stuck external prefetch

* fix(memory): align external prefetch guard with fail-open contracts

* fix(ci): use autofix-bot PAT

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#65912)

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* feat(models): add moonshotai/kimi-k3 to Nous Portal and OpenRouter curated lists, retire kimi-k2.x (#65913)

Replaces moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 (recommended) and moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code
with moonshotai/kimi-k3 in both curated lists, regenerates the published
model-catalog.json manifest, and updates the docs example manifest (en+zh).

kimi-k3 verified live on both endpoints (Nous Portal /v1/models and
OpenRouter /api/v1/models; 1M context, $3/$15 per Mtok). Family-prefix
matching already covers k3 in moonshot_schema, cache policy, and context
heuristics — no code changes needed there.

* ci(js-autofix): skip apply-patch job when no fixes found

generate-patch now emits a has-fixes job output (true/false).
apply-patch is gated on it via `if: needs.generate-patch.outputs.has-fixes == 'true'`,
so when `npm run fix` produces no diff, the privileged job is skipped
entirely — no runner allocation, no redundant checkout/download/push/PR.

* feat(kimi): discover K3 on coding endpoint

* fix(desktop): sidebar status indicators lag for background sessions

The sidebar working dot didn't update for background sessions until the
user opened them. Two coupled causes:

1. The gateway's session.info event payload omitted stored_session_id,
   so the desktop app had no way to map a background session's runtime
   id to its stored id. Without the stored id, setSessionWorking(null,
   ...) was a no-op — the $workingSessionIds atom never updated.

2. The running→busy transition in the session.info handler was gated on
   `apply` (active session only). The gate correctly scopes view-only
   side effects (setCurrentModel, setCurrentCwd, etc.) to the focused
   chat, but the per-session busy state drives the sidebar indicator and
   must reach every session. updateSessionState only mutates the
   per-runtime cache entry, and syncSessionStateToView already guards
   the view publish to the active session, so ungating is safe.

Fix: add stored_session_id to _session_info() in tui_gateway/server.py,
add the field to GatewayEventPayload, pass it to updateSessionState in
the session.info handler, and ungate the running→busy transition.

* perf(desktop): make session switching snappy on large transcripts (#65898)

Switching between chat sessions in the desktop app froze for up to ~1–2s on
large transcripts. Profiling the switch path surfaced three main-thread
blockers, fixed here minimally and without changing behavior.

1. JSON.stringify deep-compare (worst case). chatMessagesEquivalent compared
   message parts with JSON.stringify(a) === JSON.stringify(b) on every switch.
   On image-/large-blob-bearing transcripts this serialized every part twice
   and cost well over a second. Replaced with a structural compare that never
   stringifies: array-level identity fast-path, per-part reference fast-path,
   then type-aware field comparison. The compare's only consumer asks "did the
   transcript change, should I setMessages?", so it is deliberately
   conservative — a false-negative just causes one extra idempotent
   setMessages, while a false-positive (the unsafe direction) is avoided.

2. Scroll-settle loop. thread-list ran a requestAnimationFrame settle loop up
   to 90 frames (or 5 stable frames) on every sessionKey change, each frame
   forcing a synchronous layout read + write — racing the markdown paint for
   up to ~1.5s. A normal synchronous switch stabilizes within a couple
   frames, so the ceiling is now 2 stable frames / 15 max.

3. Synchronous first paint of up to 300 parts. On switch, thread-list reset
   the render budget to the full RENDER_BUDGET=300, so up to 300 parts went
   through markdown + shiki syntax-highlighting synchronously on the switch
   commit. It now paints a small FIRST_PAINT_BUDGET=60 first, then bumps to
   the full 300 in a requestAnimationFrame after the first commit.

Salvaged from PR #49807 by professorpalmer — re-applied to the restructured
file layout (use-session-actions/utils.ts, thread/list.tsx) and tests merged
into the existing utils.test.ts.

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* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#65971)

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* feat(desktop): button tooltip keybind hints + keybinds settings tab + unified worktree dialog (#65204)

* feat(desktop): add useKeybindHint hook and TipKeybindLabel

Add a shared hook that reads the current keybind combo for an action
id from the $bindings store (rebindable) or KEYBIND_READONLY (fixed),
returning a formatted string or null when unbound.

Add TipKeybindLabel — a convenience component that auto-reads both
its label (from i18n) and keybind combo from the action registry.
Pass only actionId for the common case; pass text to override when
the tooltip is context-dependent.

* fix(desktop): replace native title= on buttons with themed Tip

Migrate all <button>/<Button> elements using the native HTML title=
attribute to the instant, themed <Tip> component. Native tooltips are
unstyled, delayed (~500ms OS default), and visually inconsistent with
the app's instant themed tooltips.

Also adds <Tip> wrappers to icon-only buttons that were missing
tooltips entirely (dialog close, search clear, overlay close,
master-detail pane controls, keybind panel rebind/reset buttons).

Adds an enforcement test (no-native-title.test.ts) that scans all
.tsx files for <button>/<Button> with title= and fails if any are
found. Updates DESIGN.md with the icon-only button tooltip rule and
keybind hint guidance.

* feat(desktop): wire keybind hints into button tooltips

Add actionId to TitlebarTool, StatusbarItem, and SidebarNavItem so
their tooltips show the current keybind combo via TipKeybindLabel.
Fix the hardcoded NEW_SESSION_KBD in the sidebar to read from
$bindings so it stays live on rebind.

Wired surfaces:
- Titlebar: sidebar toggle, flip panes, keybinds, settings
- Statusbar: terminal toggle (view.showTerminal)
- Status stack: open agents button (nav.agents)
- Sidebar nav: new session, skills, messaging, artifacts

* feat(desktop): move keybind panel to settings tab with search filter

Move the keyboard shortcuts panel from a Radix Dialog into a proper
Settings tab (/settings?tab=keybinds). The ⌘/ shortcut and titlebar
keyboard button now navigate to this settings tab instead of toggling
a dialog. Adds a search filter to filter shortcuts by label.

- New: src/app/settings/keybind-settings.tsx (extracted from keybind-panel.tsx)
- Delete: src/app/shell/keybind-panel.tsx (dialog wrapper removed)
- Remove: $keybindPanelOpen atom and toggle/open/close functions
- Add: IconKeyboard to lib/icons.ts
- i18n: keybinds.search + settings.nav.keybinds (en, zh, zh-hant, ja)

* refactor(desktop): unify worktree dialog into shared WorktreeDialog

Extract the worktree creation dialog from StartWorkButton (sidebar) into a
shared WorktreeDialog component. Both the sidebar's StartWorkButton and the
composer's CodingStatusRow now use the same dialog, eliminating the duplicated
UI.

The shared dialog keeps the sidebar version's full feature set:
- BaseBranchPicker (filterable base branch combobox)
- Convert mode (check out an existing branch into a worktree)
- Sanitized branch name input

The coding row passes repoPath (from cwd) and onOpenWorktree (which carries
the composer draft to the new session) so the unified dialog works everywhere
there's a repo, not just inside an entered project.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#65974)

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* fix(desktop): follow compression's stored-id rotation to prevent thread reload (#65984)

Auto-compression ends the SessionDB session and forks a continuation,
rotating the stored session id. The gateway emits `session.info` with
the new `stored_session_id`, and the desktop's cache entry was updated
via `ensureSessionState` — but the URL route and `$selectedStoredSessionId`
never followed the rotation.

On the next send, `getRuntimeIdForStoredSession(oldStoredId)` returned
null (the cache entry's `storedSessionId` no longer matched the old id),
so `routedSessionNeedsResume` evaluated true, triggering a full
`session.resume` + REST transcript prefetch — the whole thread reloaded.

Fix: a new `$activeSessionStoredId` atom is set in `ensureSessionState`
when the active session's stored id changes. A `useEffect` in
`use-session-actions` subscribes to it and re-anchors the route +
selection (`setSelectedStoredSessionId` + `navigate(replace: true)`),
and cleans up the stale stored→runtime mapping.

`replace: true` because it's the same conversation — compression is
transparent to the user, so back-button stays correct.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#65986)

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* fix(dashboard): scope chat attach tokens by session (#60745)

* fix(dashboard): unblock basic auth plugin when setting password interactively (#54489) (#63786)

* fix(dashboard): unblock basic auth plugin during interactive password setup

When the dashboard prompts for username/password on a non-loopback bind,
also remove the bundled basic provider from plugins.disabled so
discover_plugins(force=True) can register it (#54489).

* test(dashboard): cover basic auth plugin blocked by plugins.disabled

Regression harness for #54489: credentials in config are not enough when
the bundled basic provider is on the deny-list.

* fix(dashboard): drop _HERMES_GATEWAY when spawning hermes actions (#52482)

The web dashboard runs inside the gateway process, so `os.environ` carries
`_HERMES_GATEWAY=1`. `_spawn_hermes_action` spread that into the subprocess env,
so a spawned `hermes gateway restart` (dashboard "Enable webhooks", Telegram QR
apply) tripped the in-process restart-loop guard and exited 1 — the gateway
never restarted, but the dashboard reported `restart_started: true` because it
only checks that the spawn succeeded.

Scrub `_HERMES_GATEWAY` from the spawned action's env, matching what the
gateway's own restart watcher already does (gateway/run.py).

Fixes #52470. Adds a test asserting the spawned env drops the loop-guard var
while keeping HERMES_NONINTERACTIVE.

* fix(desktop): drain queued prompts for background sessions (#66001)

Co-authored-by: Jakub Wolniewicz <4850809+frizikk@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(desktop): put Hermes-managed Node on PATH for install/rebuild (#66002)

Desktop launch and the update-chain rebuild install npm deps whose child
scripts shell out to a bare `node` (e.g. electron-winstaller's
select-7z-arch.js). When launched from the desktop updater chain
(Desktop -> hermes-setup -> hermes update) the shell PATH customizations are
lost, so the install dies with `'node' is not recognized` / `node: not found`.

- cmd_gui: wrap the npm-install env with with_hermes_node_path(_nixos_build_env())
  so managed Node is prepended even on a stripped PATH — mirrors the idiom
  already used by the update deps refresh. (The original fix merged nixos_env
  on TOP of the managed env, whose full os.environ copy clobbered the managed
  PATH back to bare; wrapping fixes that merge order.)
- _cmd_update_impl: spawn the `desktop --build-only` subprocess with
  with_hermes_node_path() so the child starts with managed Node from the outset.

Regression test: the desktop install env now prepends the managed Node dir
ahead of a bare updater PATH instead of passing env=None.

Co-authored-by: F4TB0Yz <jfduarte09@gmail.com>

* fix(desktop): don't latch remote backend boot failures so remote gateway reconnect recovers (#65756)

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#66010)

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* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#66013)

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* perf(desktop): kill the layout-thrash cascade on session switch

Follow-up to #65890 (router transitions off) and #65898 (structural
compare + first-paint budget): profiling the switch path on real 1000+-
message sessions with a new CDP harness showed the remaining freeze is
NOT markdown rendering — it's a forced-reflow cascade from mount-time
layout reads interleaved with style writes across the transcript's
layout effects, plus the first-paint budget cut landing too late to
stop the full-budget commit.

Measured on the two largest local sessions (996 and 1363 messages),
main-thread longtask totals per switch: warm 2450ms -> 557ms and
1158ms -> 194ms; first paint 1690ms -> 444ms. Harness:
scripts/profile-session-switch.mjs (same CDP family as
profile-real-stream.mjs).

- use-resize-observer: drop the synchronous initial callback and ride
  the observer's spec-guaranteed first delivery instead (same frame,
  after layout, before paint). The sync call ran while the commit's
  layout was dirty, so every size read in a callback forced a full
  reflow — with one instance per user bubble (measureClamp read
  scrollHeight, then WROTE --human-msg-full, re-dirtying layout for the
  next bubble), the switch commit thrashed for over a second. Inside RO
  timing the same reads are free. Composer metrics (2x
  getBoundingClientRect + documentElement style writes) rides the same
  fix.
- Same class, same fix at the remaining call sites profiling surfaced:
  ExpandableBlock and TerminalOutput (dozens per tool-heavy transcript)
  now measure/pin via RO initial delivery; the tool-window and
  thinking-preview pins drop their sync pin() call; the thread
  timeline's initial active-tick compute joins its existing
  scroll-time rAF batching so back-to-back transcript updates coalesce.
- thread/list: cut the render budget in the RENDER phase (state-from-
  props adjustment) instead of the post-commit layout effect. The
  effect-time cut was too late — on a warm switch React first built and
  committed the full 300-part tree, then re-rendered at 60, then bumped
  back to 300, so the expensive commit still happened (and on a cold
  switch the bump rAF usually fired while the transcript was still
  empty, so the prefetched messages rendered at full budget anyway).
  The render-phase cut restarts the component before any child renders;
  a second trigger handles the cold path where messages land later
  under the same sessionKey.
- thread/list: backfill 60 -> 300 inside startTransition so the older
  turns' markdown+shiki render is interruptible background work instead
  of a synchronous freeze one frame after the switch paints. Functional
  Math.max so an urgent "Show earlier" click can't be rebased back down.
- composer focus: skip the rAF/timeout focus retries when the element
  is already focused — focus() runs the full focusing steps (forcing
  layout) even on the active element, ~585ms per switch on a large
  dirty DOM.
- Replace the tautological render-budget test (it re-declared the
  constants locally and asserted 60 < 300) with behavior tests of the
  now-exported buildGroups + firstVisibleGroupIndex.

Verification: apps/desktop `npx tsc --noEmit` clean; full
`npx vitest run` 210 files / 1763 passed; manual CDP check confirms the
deferred backfill commits the full transcript, stays pinned to bottom,
and "Show earlier" still pages.

* test(desktop): cover the review store (refresh, selection, mutations, ship flow)

* feat(optional-skills): add unreal-mcp companion skill for the unreal-engine MCP catalog entry

Companion to optional-mcps/unreal-engine (Epic's official editor-embedded
MCP server, UE 5.8 experimental). Mirrors the blender-mcp catalog-entry +
companion-skill pattern, sized up for Unreal's discovery-based surface:

- SKILL.md: tool-search discovery contract (list_toolsets/describe_toolset/
  call_tool), serial game-thread call discipline (explicitly overrides the
  parallel-batching default), plain-English->scene translation workflow,
  save/verify hygiene, art-direction loop
- references/tool-surface.md: architecture (Unreal MCP / Toolset Registry /
  AllToolsets), confirmed shipped toolsets, call_tool dispatch semantics,
  project Agent Skills (AgentSkillToolset), capture paths, custom Python/C++
  toolset authoring, config/CVar/console reference, cooked-build notes
- references/scene-craft.md: physically-based lighting values (lux/lumens/
  Kelvin/EV100), mood recipes, Lumen Movable-mobility rule, scale tables,
  content-path conventions, CineCamera framing, editor Python entry points
- references/recipes.md: four end-to-end builds in INTENT/DISCOVER/VALUES/
  VERIFY grammar (exterior, night interior, golden-hour cinematic still,
  import+populate) that stay honest about the project-dependent surface
- references/pitfalls.md: 25+ failure modes with fixes: start order, modal
  deadlocks, Hermes-timeout-vs-editor-completion, _C class suffix, PascalCase
  silent no-op writes, referenced-asset delete crash, async shader compiles,
  editor sprite icons in screenshots, PIE interference

Grounded in Epic's UE 5.8 docs and Epic's agent-facing skill pack for this
server; no fabricated tool names — live describe_toolset schemas are the
contract throughout.

* feat(unreal-mcp): live-verify skill against a running UE 5.8 server; encode e2e test findings

Ran the full loop against a real editor (blank project, ModelContextProtocol
+ ToolsetRegistry + AllToolsets enabled): raw MCP handshake, discovery walk,
environment relight for golden hour, primitive monument build, virtual-camera
captures with vision judgment, exposure debugging, annotated spatial capture.
67 toolsets advertised; every dispatch semantic below observed, not inferred.

Corrections and additions from the live run:
- Qualified toolset names (editor_toolset.toolsets.scene.SceneTools) with
  SHORT tool_name; TOptional params must be explicit null; find_actors
  requires ''/[] for its schema-required optionals; ObjectTools values is a
  JSON *string*; refPath object references; returnValue wrapping; per-property
  failure lists with schema-in-error
- HTTP wire contract: initialize=JSON + session header, tools/call=SSE frame
  after game-thread completion (plain-JSON clients read empty body)
- CaptureViewport as virtual camera (captureTransform, meter-unit annotation
  grid + actor callouts) verified with pixel evidence; recipes rewritten to
  use it instead of viewport piloting
- New pitfalls from real failures: template-level environment-actor
  duplication compounding into whiteouts (find-first/spawn-if-missing rule),
  template exposure calibration vs physical lux (12b), objective exposure
  check via ffprobe YAVG (12c), untitled-level Save-As modal deadlock,
  macOS full-Xcode + Metal Toolchain requirement (xcodebuild
  -downloadComponent MetalToolchain)
- Live toolset census (67 on blank project), LogsToolset/ConfigSettings/
  SemanticSearch highlights, UE EULA 6(e) licensing note

* fix(unreal-mcp): dedupe pitfall numbering (two sections numbered 4)

* feat(unreal-mcp): advanced-workflows layer, live-verified against UE 5.8

New references/advanced-workflows.md covering the sophisticated-workflow
surface, each section exercised against a running editor:

- ProgrammaticToolset batching: full contract (get_execution_environment
  gate, execute_tool fully-qualified names, JSON-string inputs,
  returnValue unwrapping, allowed imports) + a verified worked example
  (12-column colonnade, 36 components in one round-trip vs 37 serial calls)
- Blueprint DSL authoring loop, verified end-to-end: create -> list_graphs
  -> get_graph_dsl_docs -> find_node_types per node -> write_graph_dsl ->
  compile_blueprint -> spawn instance. Every node-ID gotcha hit live is
  recorded (EventTick not Tick, Math|Rotator|MakeRotator, registry
  categories vs doc categories, no (self) node)
- PIE session options schema (bSimulate/playMode/warmupSeconds/
  startTransform, out-of-process downgrade behavior)
- Sequencer orientation: 140-tool surface mapped by capability group +
  sibling keyframing/controlrig/conditions toolsets + minimal cinematic
  skeleton
- LogsToolset self-debugging, AutomationTestToolset CI loop,
  SemanticSearch, ConfigSettings, project AgentSkillToolset precedence
- Per-situation decision table

New pitfalls from this round's live failures: 10b (refPath-object vs
plain-string params; schema-in-error as tiebreaker), 10c (DSL node IDs
must come from find_node_types). SKILL.md: batching exception wired into
the operating loop, reference table row, description updated.

* feat(unreal-mcp): video/frame-sequence pitfalls from live orbit production

21c: the viewport axis gizmo survives bShowUI=false — measured extent on
5.8, deterministic ffmpeg post-crop recipe. 21d: frame-sequence discipline
(one session, serial captures, idempotent resumable loop, s/frame budget,
smoothstep easing, VolumetricCloud artifact removal) — all from producing
a real 240-frame orbit through CaptureViewport.

* fix(unreal-mcp): pitfall 21b rewritten from live video production — hide sprites at source

Post-hoc sprite removal is a losing battle (three inpainting strategies
failed QC on letter-edge overlap frames). The production answer: sprites
are BillboardComponent/SpriteComponent/ArrowComponent subobjects — set
bVisible:false via ObjectTools (remove_component fails on default
subobjects), swept scene-wide in one ProgrammaticToolset script
(148 actors, 13 sprites, one round-trip, verified).

* fix(models): add kimi-for-coding-highspeed to kimi-coding provider list

* perf(desktop): kill the layout-thrash cascade on session switch (#66033)

Follow-up to #65890 (router transitions off) and #65898 (structural
compare + first-paint budget): profiling the switch path on real 1000+-
message sessions with a new CDP harness showed the remaining freeze is
NOT markdown rendering — it's a forced-reflow cascade from mount-time
layout reads interleaved with style writes across the transcript's
layout effects, plus the first-paint budget cut landing too late to
stop the full-budget commit.

Measured on the two largest local sessions (996 and 1363 messages),
main-thread longtask totals per switch: warm 2450ms -> 557ms and
1158ms -> 194ms; first paint 1690ms -> 444ms. Harness:
scripts/profile-session-switch.mjs (same CDP family as
profile-real-stream.mjs).

- use-resize-observer: drop the synchronous initial callback and ride
  the observer's spec-guaranteed first delivery instead (same frame,
  after layout, before paint). The sync call ran while the commit's
  layout was dirty, so every size read in a callback forced a full
  reflow — with one instance per user bubble (measureClamp read
  scrollHeight, then WROTE --human-msg-full, re-dirtying layout for the
  next bubble), the switch commit thrashed for over a second. Inside RO
  timing the same reads are free. Composer metrics (2x
  getBoundingClientRect + documentElement style writes) rides the same
  fix.
- Same class, same fix at the remaining call sites profiling surfaced:
  ExpandableBlock and TerminalOutput (dozens per tool-heavy transcript)
  now measure/pin via RO initial delivery; the tool-window and
  thinking-preview pins drop their sync pin() call; the thread
  timeline's initial active-tick compute joins its existing
  scroll-time rAF batching so back-to-back transcript updates coalesce.
- thread/list: cut the render budget in the RENDER phase (state-from-
  props adjustment) instead of the post-commit layout effect. The
  effect-time cut was too late — on a warm switch React first built and
  committed the full 300-part tree, then re-rendered at 60, then bumped
  back to 300, so the expensive commit still happened (and on a cold
  switch the bump rAF usually fired while the transcript was still
  empty, so the prefetched messages rendered at full budget anyway).
  The render-phase cut restarts the component before any child renders;
  a second trigger handles the cold path where messages land later
  under the same sessionKey.
- thread/list: backfill 60 -> 300 inside startTransition so the older
  turns' markdown+shiki render is interruptible background work instead
  of a synchronous freeze one frame after the switch paints. Functional
  Math.max so an urgent "Show earlier" click can't be rebased back down.
- composer focus: skip the rAF/timeout focus retries when the element
  is already focused — focus() runs the full focusing steps (forcing
  layout) even on the active element, ~585ms per switch on a large
  dirty DOM.
- Replace the tautological render-budget test (it re-declared the
  constants locally and asserted 60 < 300) with behavior tests of the
  now-exported buildGroups + firstVisibleGroupIndex.

Verification: apps/desktop `npx tsc --noEmit` clean; full
`npx vitest run` 210 files / 1763 passed; manual CDP check confirms the
deferred backfill commits the full transcript, stays pinned to bottom,
and "Show earlier" still pages.

* fix(install): detect Git Bash Mandatory ASLR failures (#64651)

* fix(desktop): hide Windows updater console during handoff (#66040)

* fix(desktop): hide Windows updater console (#56884)

* test(desktop): cover hidden updater handoffs behaviorally

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Co-authored-by: Kyssta <218078013+kyssta-exe@users.noreply.github.com>

* docs(developer-guide): document htui/hgui worktree UI dev helpers (#64783)

Add a developer-guide page for running the Ink TUI and Electron desktop
app from a git worktree without a full npm install per checkout, via the
htui/hgui shell helpers that share node_modules from a canonical deps
checkout by symlink (falling back to a local npm ci when the lockfile
diverges). Registers it in the sidebar, cross-links from the TUI and git
-worktrees pages, and documents the previously-undocumented
HERMES_DESKTOP_PYTHON / HERMES_DESKTOP_DEV_SERVER env vars the desktop
backend reads.

* fix(auth): detect configured providers absent from registry (#66017)

* fix: detect env-var-configured providers absent from PROVIDER_REGISTRY

is_provider_explicitly_configured() only checked PROVIDER_REGISTRY (a
manually-maintained dict) for env-var names. Providers that exist solely
in the models.dev catalog — e.g. openrouter — were never recognised as
explicitly configured, so they were filtered out of the desktop model
picker even when their API key was set in .env.

Add a fallback to get_provider() (which reads the models.dev catalog)
when PROVIDER_REGISTRY returns None. Both ProviderConfig and ProviderDef
expose .auth_type and .api_key_env_vars with the same shape.

* test: keep OpenRouter provider gate assertion behavioral

* chore(release): map salvaged OpenRouter contributor

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* fix: honor disabled title generation config

* fix(title): follow-ups for salvaged #37349 — lazy config import, guard ordering, config example

- Make the config imports lazy inside _auto_title_enabled(), matching the
  existing _title_language() pattern (title_generator is imported from agent
  code paths where a module-level hermes_cli import risks circularity).
- Check the enabled flag after the cheap first-exchange guard in
  maybe_auto_title so config isn't read on every turn of a long session.
- Repoint the two new tests at the real import site.
- Document the key in cli-config.yaml.example and merge the enabled flag
  into the existing title_generation block in configuration.md.
- AUTHOR_MAP entry for the contributor.

* fix(honcho): reject whitespace-only search/reasoning queries

Strip query before validation; add regression tests (aligns upstream #11192).

Made-with: Cursor

* fix(honcho): use _resolve_observer_target for user context in session context

_fetch_session_context was using user_peer_id directly as observer
when calling _fetch_peer_context, bypassing _resolve_observer_target.
This caused honcho_context to return empty data because the observer
perspective was wrong (user instead of hermes/assistant).

Fixed by resolving observer via _resolve_observer_target(session, 'user'),
consistent with all other call sites (get_peer_card, honcho_search, etc.).

* test: add prefetch_context observer-resolution test for ai_observe_others

Verify that get_prefetch_context queries user context through the
assistant observer when _ai_observe_others is enabled, matching
the fix that routes _fetch_session_context through
_resolve_observer_target.

* fix(honcho): warn model away from minimal reasoning_level on multi-fact queries

honcho_reasoning's minimal tier hard-caps Honcho's dialectic output at 250
tokens combined with the model's own hidden reasoning tokens. Confirmed via
direct honcho-api server logs that a multi-fact query ("summarize known
facts about this peer and communication preferences") run at
reasoning_level=minimal gets cut off mid chain-of-thought at exactly
output_tokens=250, before the model ever reaches a synthesized answer.

low/medium/high/max fall back to Honcho's much larger global dialectic
default and don't hit this cap. Since dialecticDynamic is on by default and
the calling model picks reasoning_level itself via this tool parameter, the
fix is to make the tradeoff explicit in the parameter description so the
model defaults to low unless the query is genuinely a single-fact lookup.

Schema-description-only change; the shared dialectic_max_chars truncation
cap in session.py's dialectic_query() is a separate fix (its own PR).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(honcho): read base_url and defaultHost from honcho.json host blocks

Fixes Honcho client initialization for setup-generated configs that store
connection details in a named host block (e.g. "local"). Previously:
- base_url was only read from flat config root, not from host_block.
- resolve_active_host() ignored defaultHost and always used the Hermes
  profile key ("hermes"), so the host block lookup returned {} and the
  api_key was also lost.

Fixes NousResearch/hermes-agent#61661

* fix(honcho): preserve profiles for local IP config

* fix(plugins): rebuild Honcho client when timeout config changes

The Honcho client singleton cached the HTTP timeout at first build.
In long-lived processes (gateway, dashboard), changing the timeout
via config.yaml or HONCHO_TIMEOUT had no effect until restart.

Track the resolved timeout alongside the cached client and compare
on each get_honcho_client() call. When the timeout differs, reset
the singleton so the next call rebuilds with the new value.

Fixes #57347

* fix(honcho): memoize timeout staleness check + host-aware status cadence

Follow-ups for the consolidated salvage:
- Memoize the config.yaml-derived timeout on the file's mtime_ns so the
  rebuild-on-timeout-change check from PR #57437 costs one stat() per
  get_honcho_client() call instead of a full YAML load on the hot path.
- hermes honcho status now displays the host-block-resolved
  dialecticCadence (remnant from PR #63776, whose runtime fix landed
  in #62290).
- AUTHOR_MAP entries for the salvaged contributor emails.

* test(honcho): align observer-resolution test with post-#62290 call shape

The salvaged test from PR #62982 asserted search_query=None as an explicit
kwarg; current _fetch_peer_context omits search_query when None.

* fix(tui): recover mouse tracking without a resize via DECRQM watchdog (#66080)

When the terminal's own 'disable mouse reporting' toggle (or an external
app / tmux) clears the DEC mouse modes, a mouse-only user is deadlocked:
every existing recovery trigger (resize, >5s stdin gap + keypress,
raw-mode bounce) needs stdin — and mouse reporting being off is exactly
why no stdin arrives. Users had to resize the window to scroll again.

Fix: a mouse-mode watchdog in App that DECRQM-probes mode 1000 every 2s
while tracking is expected on. If the terminal reports the mode RESET,
reassertTerminalModes() re-arms tracking — the same recovery a resize
performs, without the resize. Probes are skipped whenever a mouse/wheel
event arrived within the interval (tracking provably alive → zero query
chatter during normal use), never fired while paused for an editor
handoff or when /mouse off was chosen, and the watchdog permanently
disables itself on terminals that don't answer DECRQM (DA1-sentinel
resolution via the existing timeout-free TerminalQuerier).

Terminals whose toggle merely gates event delivery report SET, so an
active user toggle is never fought; terminals whose toggle clears the
modes report RESET after re-enable and recover within ~2s.

* fix(agent): avoid overwriting manual session titles

* fix(agent): make auto-title write atomic

* fix(cron): robust session title generation (#50535, #50536, #50537)

* fix(title): reconcile atomic auto-title writes with collision dedup retry

Combines the two salvaged fixes so they compose instead of conflict:
_persist_session_title (#50575) now writes through set_auto_title_if_empty
(#51483) when the store provides it — the collision-dedup retry and the
manual-/title race protection apply together. Predicate failure (a manual
title landed while generation was in flight) returns None: nothing written,
no callback. Legacy stores without the atomic method keep the plain
set_session_title path, including the vanished-session RuntimeError.

Tests cover both store shapes plus the race-skip path; E2E verified against
a real SQLite SessionDB (collision -> 'Weekly Report #2', manual title
preserved, cron dedup, blank guard). AUTHOR_MAP entry for rasitakyol.

* fix(titles): use active runtime for gateway sessions

* chore(release): map seagpt noreply identity for PR #62983 salvage

* fix(title): prevent stale background title generation from reloading unloaded Ollama models

Add a runtime_validator callback to generate_title() / auto_title_session()
/ maybe_auto_title(). Callers snapshot the session's model+provider when
spawning the background titler; the validator runs right before the LLM
request and skips it silently when the live runtime no longer matches —
so a stale title request can't reload a model that strict_single_load
already evicted after a user model switch. Fail-open: a raising validator
never disables titling.

Wired at all four call sites (cli, gateway, tui_gateway, acp_adapter).

Surgical reapply of PR #19137 (base was 8k+ commits stale; the original
patch predates the pinned-language prompts, the atomic-write helper, and
the moved TUI/ACP call sites). Original work by @Thatgfsj. Closes #19027.

* fix(auth): make xAI OAuth pools multi-account resilient

Keep each xAI OAuth auth-add login as an independent manual device-code pool entry and recognize xAI personal-team spending-limit 403 responses as billing exhaustion. Preserve the structured top-level error message so the failed credential is quarantined and the next healthy account is selected without attempting a pointless token refresh.

Route direct xAI HTTP consumers through the credential pool as well. Proactive and 401-reactive refreshes update the exact issuing manual entry, preserve validated xAI base URL overrides, and serialize single-use refresh-token rotation across concurrent pool instances.

* refactor(credentials): consolidate single-use OAuth refresh lock scaffolding

The openai-codex and xai-oauth branches of _refresh_entry duplicated the
lock-timeout computation and _auth_store_lock acquisition. Extract the
shared scaffolding: a combined provider guard, a dispatch to the
provider-specific sync helper, and a _single_use_refresh_lock_timeout()
helper. Each provider's distinct post-sync decision logic (codex
needs-refresh short-circuit vs xai token-equality adoption) is preserved
verbatim. Behavior parity verified by the credential pool suite (98
passed) and a direct timeout-helper probe for both providers.

Follow-up to salvaged PR #62285.

* fix(agent): surface Codex commentary items as interim messages

* fix(agent): redact Codex interim commentary

* fix(agent): harden Codex commentary interim delivery

* feat(agent): stream Codex commentary separately

* feat(agent): add display.show_commentary toggle for Codex commentary channel

Commentary delivery is on by default; users who find the extra mid-turn
narration noisy can set display.s…
Gravezzz pushed a commit to Gravezzz/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 21, 2026
…nce (NousResearch#50473)

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that NousResearch#50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.

- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard

Supersedes the skill-leak half of NousResearch#50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).
Gravezzz pushed a commit to Gravezzz/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 21, 2026
PR NousResearch#36019 documented the attachment tools in the kanban-worker skill,
but main removed that skill in NousResearch#50473 and folded its content into the
KANBAN_GUIDANCE prompt block. Land the same guidance there instead so
every dispatcher-spawned worker sees it.
leewenjie pushed a commit to leewenjie/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Aug 7, 2026
…nce (NousResearch#50473)

The kanban-worker and kanban-orchestrator bundled skills existed only to
be force-loaded into dispatcher-spawned workers, gated by
environments:[kanban] so they wouldn't leak into normal CLI listings.
That gating was fragile (the leak that NousResearch#50443 patched) and the
--skills auto-load was already best-effort — most workers ran without it
because the bundled skill isn't present in profile-scoped skills dirs.

Remove the skills entirely and promote their load-bearing content
(workspace kinds, deliverable artifacts, created-card integrity, profile
discovery) into KANBAN_GUIDANCE, which is already injected into every
kanban worker's system prompt. Net result: every worker reliably gets
the guidance, nothing can leak into a CLI/blank-slate session, and the
gating machinery is gone.

- agent/prompt_builder.py: promote the 4 load-bearing rules into KANBAN_GUIDANCE
- hermes_cli/kanban_db.py: drop --skills kanban-worker auto-injection + _kanban_worker_skill_available probe
- hermes_cli/kanban_swarm.py: drop skills=[kanban-orchestrator] on the root card
- hermes_cli/kanban.py: drop kanban-init skill seeding; fix help text
- delete skills/devops/kanban-{worker,orchestrator}
- docs: delete the two skill pages (EN+zh), fix sidebars/catalog/kanban.md/kanban-worker-lanes.md and the video-orchestrator + codex-lane references
- tests: update spawn-argv expectations; re-bound the guidance-size guard

Supersedes the skill-leak half of NousResearch#50443 (credit @helix4u for flagging the area).
randlee pushed a commit to randlee/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Aug 11, 2026
PR NousResearch#36019 documented the attachment tools in the kanban-worker skill,
but main removed that skill in NousResearch#50473 and folded its content into the
KANBAN_GUIDANCE prompt block. Land the same guidance there instead so
every dispatcher-spawned worker sees it.
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