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What does this PR do?

Supersedes #42745 (elashera:custom-endpoints-desktop) with a conflict-free, rebased-onto-main version of the same work. The original PR could no longer merge — mergeable: CONFLICTING, 6 files in conflict, and it predated two structural changes on main (the desktop settings navGroups refactor and the _apply_main_model_assignment signature change).

Authorship is preserved: the salvage commit is authored to @elashera with a Co-authored-by trailer.

Adds first-class Desktop settings support for OpenAI-compatible custom endpoints: a Custom Endpoints sub-view under Settings → Providers (add / edit / validate / activate / delete), backend dashboard CRUD routes, and model.base_url preservation when selecting a named custom provider from the picker.

How this differs from #42745 (conflict reconciliation)

  • Settings nav — wired the new sub-view into main's data-driven navGroups/OverlayNav layout and added custom-endpoints to PROVIDER_VIEWS (the PR was built on the old hand-rolled sidebar).
  • providers-settings — kept both main's new LocalEndpointRow affordance and the PR's fuller CRUD panel; unified ProvidersSettingsProps to carry onClose + onConfigSaved + onMainModelChanged.
  • web_server — kept main's _normalize_main_model_assignment + api_key propagation and the PR's providers[...] base_url lookup in _apply_model_assignment_sync.
  • model_switch — dropped the PR's bare direct-custom-config picker block: main already implements it (source="model-config", with live model discovery via fetch_api_models). The PR's block was dead code behind an always-false guard. Updated the salvaged test to assert main's behavior.
  • Merged additive import/type blocks in hermes.ts / types/hermes.ts; i18n labels carried across en/ja/zh/zh-hant.

Type of Change

  • ✨ New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • ✅ Tests (adding or improving test coverage)

Testing

uv run --extra dev python -m pytest tests/hermes_cli/test_user_providers_model_switch.py tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py -k "custom or direct_custom or named_custom_provider"
28 passed, 465 deselected

TS resolutions verified by inspection (import-list merges, prop contract consistency across index.tsxProvidersSettingsCustomEndpointsSettings, i18n label present in all locale files). A full desktop type-check should run in CI.

Closes #42745.

Salvages PR #42745 (elashera:custom-endpoints-desktop), which could no
longer merge cleanly against main. Re-integrated the work onto current
main and reconciled the conflicts:

- Settings nav: wired the new 'Custom Endpoints' provider sub-view into
  main's data-driven navGroups/OverlayNav layout (PR predated that
  refactor) and added it to PROVIDER_VIEWS.
- providers-settings: kept BOTH main's LocalEndpointRow affordance and
  the PR's fuller CRUD panel; unified ProvidersSettingsProps to carry
  onClose + onConfigSaved + onMainModelChanged.
- web_server: kept main's _normalize_main_model_assignment + api_key
  propagation AND the PR's provider base_url lookup in
  _apply_model_assignment_sync.
- model_switch: dropped the PR's bare direct-custom-config picker block;
  main already implements it (source='model-config', with live model
  discovery). Updated the salvaged test to assert main's behavior.
- Merged additive import/type blocks in hermes.ts and types/hermes.ts.

Backend endpoints, i18n labels (en/ja/zh/zh-hant), and the
custom-endpoints-settings.tsx panel carried over. 28 custom-endpoint
tests pass.

Co-authored-by: elashera <emilio.jesus.lasheras.romero@nttdata.com>
Salvage of #42745 (superseded by #67759) preserves @elashera's
authorship, whose corporate commit email had no contributor mapping.
Adds contributors/emails/ mapping so check-attribution passes.
Verified: GitHub user 'elashera' id=135239963 matches their own
noreply commit email (135239963+elashera@users.noreply.github.com).
@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/feature New feature or request P3 Low — cosmetic, nice to have comp/desktop Electron desktop app (apps/desktop/*) comp/cli CLI entry point, hermes_cli/, setup wizard area/config Config system, migrations, profiles sweeper:risk-compatibility Sweeper risk: may break existing users, config, migrations, defaults, or upgrades labels Jul 19, 2026
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This was generated by AI during triage.

Active salvage of closed #42745 and related to #55619's saved-endpoint selection fix; this is not a duplicate of the closed predecessor.

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The initial check contributors / check-attribution failure was a side effect of preserving @elashera's authorship on the salvage commit — their corporate commit email (emilio.jesus.lasheras.romero@nttdata.com) had no contributor mapping.

Fixed by adding the mapping file contributors/emails/emilio.jesus.lasheras.romero@nttdata.com → elashera via scripts/add_contributor.py (the sanctioned mechanism; AUTHOR_MAP in release.py is frozen). Verified the login is correct: GitHub user elashera has id 135239963, matching the prefix of their own noreply commit email 135239963+elashera@users.noreply.github.com.

All checks now green — check-attribution, apps/desktop typecheck, all 8 Python test slices, ruff/ty, and supply-chain scans pass.

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* chore(contributors): map s0xn1ck@proton.me -> s0xn1ck

* feat(desktop): list config-defined command TTS/STT providers in settings

The Settings > Voice provider dropdowns (tts.provider / stt.provider) only offer
the built-in providers plus whatever value is currently set. Custom `type: command`
providers declared in config.yaml aren't selectable — and once you switch away from
one it drops off the list, so you can only return to it by hand-editing config.

enumOptionsFor now merges in the names of any `type: command` entries under the
tts/stt config sections, so local command-backed engines appear alongside the
built-ins and can be switched freely from the UI.

Enumeration mirrors the runtime's own resolution so the dropdown can only offer a
name the runtime would actually honour: the canonical `<section>.providers.<name>`
location plus the back-compat top-level `<section>.<name>` block, the optional
`type:` discriminator, and the built-in-name guard. The guard compares against the
runtime's built-in sets rather than the ENUM_OPTIONS display list, which is not a
substitute — it already omits `deepinfra` (TTS) and `deepinfra`/`local_command`
(STT), so a `providers.deepinfra` command block would otherwise be offered as
selectable while the runtime dispatches to the native backend instead.

- helpers.ts: add commandProviderNames() + the built-in guard; merge for
  tts.provider + stt.provider
- helpers.test.ts: cover both sections, incl. that non-command config blocks
  aren't offered and that built-ins absent from the display list are never
  offered as command providers

* feat: surface all xAI TTS params in desktop GUI config

- Add speed, auto_speech_tags, text_normalization,
  optimize_streaming_latency, sample_rate, bit_rate to
  DEFAULT_CONFIG tts.xai block (backend schema source)
- Add field labels, descriptions, and section keys in
  frontend constants.ts for all 7 xAI TTS fields
- Update i18n translations (ja, zh, zh-hant)
- Fix stale tts.provider options in web_server.py schema
  overrides (was missing xai, minimax, mistral, gemini,
  kittentts, piper)

* fix(gui): add xAI prefix to all xAI-specific TTS field labels

Consistent naming across the xAI TTS settings section. Speed and
sampleRate are shown only when xAI is the selected provider, so they
get the prefix too.

* fix(desktop): drop tts.xai.text_normalization — not honored by the xAI TTS backend

Follow-up to the salvaged #56724: the runtime's _generate_xai_tts reads
voice_id, language, speed, auto_speech_tags, optimize_streaming_latency,
sample_rate, and bit_rate — but never text_normalization, and the xAI
/v1/tts payload builder has no such field. Surfacing it in the desktop
GUI would be a dead knob, so remove it from DEFAULT_CONFIG, constants.ts
(labels/descriptions/SECTIONS), and the ja/zh/zh-hant locale catalogs.
The other six xAI keys are all verified against tools/tts_tool.py.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#67419)

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* fix(credentials): suppress re-seeding when a pool entry is deleted via API (#55217) (#67429)

* fix(gateway): per-session turn lease + conversation-scope funnel (#64934) (#67401)

* fix(gateway): serialize concurrent turns per resolved session_id with a turn lease

Closes the serialization half of #64934. The busy guards are keyed by
routing key, but the durable transcript is owned by session_id — and
switch_session() makes the key→id mapping many-to-one (/resume from a
second chat/topic, CLI-continuity rebinding, async-delegation pinning,
topic-binding tip-walks). Two routing keys mapped to one session_id ran
concurrent turns on two different agent objects, invisible to every
per-key guard: flushes persisted in completion order, the identity-marker
dedup swallowed rows, and the second turn ran on a stale history base —
leaving a permanent user;user alternation wedge.

The fix: an asyncio lease keyed by RESOLVED session_id (gateway/turn_lease.py),
acquired in _handle_message_with_agent after session resolution is final
(post switch_session/tip-walk), immediately before the transcript load, and
released in _handle_message's finally on every exit path. Tokens are granted
per (routing key, run generation) so a stale unwind can never release a newer
turn's lease (#28686 ownership lesson). Same-key messages never reach the
acquisition point mid-turn (both routing-key guards hold them), so the lock
is uncontended outside the alias-key route — where the second turn now waits
for the first turn's flush and logs one WARNING naming the session and both
routing keys (pairs with the #67371 tripwire).

Fail-open: a stuck holder degrades to today's unserialized behavior with a
loud ERROR after agent.gateway_timeout — never a wedged session; a degraded
token holds nothing and can't steal the lease. Registry is size-capped and
never evicts a live lease. Persist-disabled review forks never dispatch
through _handle_message, so they cannot contend.

Known limits (tracked on #64934): CLI-continuity cross-process pairs need a
DB-level lease; mid-turn compression rotation leaves a small alias window
for a follow-up at the binding-sync sites.

Validation: 8 behavior tests (alias-key wait + flush order, no cross-session
contention, generation-scoped idempotent release, timeout fail-open without
lease theft, bounded registry, bare-runner-safe release wiring) + E2E against
a real SessionStore reproducing the issue's switch_session alias route —
strict alternation and arrival order preserved.

* refactor(gateway): conversation-scope funnel + mid-turn lease rebind

Completes the #64934 system beyond the point fix. Two structural changes,
both eliminating whole bug classes rather than instances:

1. _clear_conversation_scope — THE single conversation-boundary funnel.
   /new, /resume, auto-reset, expiry finalization, and the
   compression-exhausted reset each carried a hand-copied pop-list of the
   per-session dicts, and the lists drifted every time a new dict was
   added (#48031, #58403, #10702, #35809 were all 'boundary X forgot
   dict Y' bugs). All five sites now make one funnel call driven by the
   _CONVERSATION_SCOPED_STATE registry; adding a new conversation-scoped
   dict means adding one name to the registry, and every boundary picks
   it up automatically. Scope rules documented at the registry: turn-scoped
   state, the monotonic generation counter, and the agent cache are
   deliberately excluded (different lifecycles).

2. SessionTurnLeaseRegistry.rebind — the held turn lease now FOLLOWS
   mid-turn compression rotation. Both rotation sites (session-hygiene
   pre-compression, agent-result session_id swap) alias the same
   _SessionLease object under the new id, so an alias routing key
   resolving the fresh child (topic tip-walk) still serializes against
   the in-flight turn. Closes the rotation-alias window flagged as a
   known limit on #64934. Ownership-checked like release; when the
   target id already has a live lease the rebind fails open with a loud
   WARNING (never a mid-turn deadlock).

Tests: 3 new rebind behavior tests + 5 funnel behavior tests (including
a real-setter drift guard); the two AST change-detector pins in
test_10710/test_48031 were re-pointed at the funnel and the #58403 pin
converted to a behavioral test. E2E: rotation-alias scenario against a
real SessionStore + SessionDB — turn B on the fresh child waits behind
the rotated holder, sees its rows, alternation intact.

* fix(desktop): resolve session color for repo-root-only sessions

liveSessionProjectId bailed the instant a session had no cwd, so an
older/imported session carrying only a git_repo_root — which the backend
still groups under its project — got no project and rendered a grey idle
dot instead of the project color ("grouped but grey"). Anchor on the repo
root when cwd is absent, matching how the sidebar grouped the row, and keep
the sibling-worktree guard for the cwd-present case.

* feat(desktop): let inherited projects set color and icon

Auto-detected git repos ("inherited" projects) have no projects.db row, so
their menu hid appearance/rename/etc. entirely and they could never be
themed. Add appearance to the auto-project menu: the first color/icon choice
adopts the repo as a real project (folder = repo root, name = its label)
carrying that look, after which it themes in place like any explicit
project. Routes both explicit and auto edits through one setProjectAppearance
helper; the picker closes on adopt so a stale second write can't double-create.

* bench(desktop): systematized perf harness; sunset 12 one-off scripts (#67466)

Replaces the dozen ad-hoc measure-*/profile-* scripts (each reinventing the
CDP client — 4 different copies — plus its own arg parsing, stats, output
path, and none with a baseline) with one framework under scripts/perf/:

- lib/cdp.mjs      one CDP client + target discovery + typing + CPU-profile wrapper + DOM selectors
- lib/stats.mjs    percentiles, histograms, CPU-profile self-time ranking
- lib/baseline.mjs load/compare/update baseline + regression gate (new capability)
- lib/launch.mjs   attach, OR spawn a fully ISOLATED instance
- scenarios/*      one module per measurement, registered in scenarios/index.mjs
- run.mjs / serve.mjs, baseline.json, README.md

Isolation solves the long-standing measurement blocker: a running `hgui` held
the Electron single-instance lock, so a second instance quit. `--spawn` /
`perf:serve` launch with their own --user-data-dir (separate lock scope), their
own HERMES_HOME (separate backend/sessions, config seeded from ~/.hermes so it
reaches a chat view without onboarding), and their own --remote-debugging-port.
Synthetic scenarios drive $messages via window.__PERF_DRIVE__, so no LLM credits.

Scenario -> sunset script mapping:
  stream            <- measure-synthetic-stream, profile-synth-stream, profile-long-stream
  stream --real     <- measure-real-stream, profile-real-stream
  keystroke         <- measure-latency, profile-typing, leak-typing
  transcript        <- (new: long-transcript mount cost)
  submit            <- measure-submit, measure-jump
  session-switch    <- profile-session-switch
  profile-switch    <- measure-profile-switch
CPU profiling is now a cross-cutting --cpuprofile flag, not 5 separate scripts.

CI-tier scenarios (stream, keystroke, transcript) need no backend/credits and
are gated against baseline.json (seed values; re-capture with --update-baseline
on a reference device). Backend-tier scenarios are report-only.

perf-probe.tsx gains loadTranscript() for the transcript scenario. No core
files touched; isolation is via CLI args, not env-gated app changes.

Verified: node --check all modules, tsc, eslint, and a unit smoke of the
stats + regression-gate logic. The end-to-end GUI run (which opens a window)
is left to run interactively via `npm run perf -- --spawn`.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#67474)

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* fix(desktop): Windows browser-setup journey — console flash, idempotent setup, Nous Portal activation (#67473)

* fix(windows): suppress console-window flash in tools post-setup subprocess spawns

The desktop GUI runs post-setup hooks via a detached, console-less
'hermes tools post-setup <key>' child (spawned with windows_detach_flags).
But the hook implementations in tools_config.py ran their inner installers
(npm install, agent-browser install, uv/pip installs, ensurepip, cua-driver
version probes and installer) without Windows creationflags — and on
Windows a console-less parent spawning a console/.cmd child materializes a
brand-new console window, the 'terminal flash' reported on the
Capabilities > Browser Automation setup journey.

Add _post_setup_no_window_flags(), a local wrapper around
windows_hide_flags() (CREATE_NO_WINDOW only — DETACHED_PROCESS would sever
stdio and break capture_output), and pass it at every post-setup subprocess
call site. Spawns that stream live output to the user's console
(verbose cua-driver install) only hide when stdout is not a tty, so
interactive CLI installs keep their output. POSIX behavior is unchanged
(the helper returns 0 off-Windows).

* fix(desktop): make Capabilities post-setup idempotent — Installed state instead of unconditional Run setup

The GUI panel rendered the primary 'Run setup' CTA whenever a provider
declared post_setup, ignoring the server-computed readiness status the
config endpoint already serves. Users on Windows clicked 'Run setup' on
an already-installed Local Browser and watched it 'install' again.

Frontend: PostSetupRunner now takes installed (provider.status === 'ready')
and renders an 'Installed' pill + small 'Re-run setup' text button in that
state; onComplete still refetches the toolset config, so a fresh install
flips the row to Installed once the endpoint reports ready.

Backend:
- _POST_SETUP_READY extended: agent_browser now tracks the FULL local
  install (_local_browser_runnable: CLI + Chromium-or-Lightpanda) instead
  of the bare CLI check; new entries for the cloud 'browserbase' hook
  (CLI only — cloud rows host their own Chromium) and camofox (npm
  package present).
- _run_post_setup prints distinct 'already installed, nothing to do'
  messages for the agent-browser/Chromium/Camofox early-exits so the GUI
  action log tells the truth on re-runs vs fresh installs.

i18n: new postSetupInstalled/postSetupRerun/postSetupInstalledHint strings
in en, ja, zh, zh-hant + types.

* fix(desktop): let managed Nous Subscription rows activate from the GUI via the Portal sign-in flow

PUT /api/tools/toolsets/{name}/provider intentionally skips the Nous
Portal auth gate the CLI runs inline (ensure_nous_portal_access) — but no
desktop surface handled it. Selecting 'Nous Subscription (Browser Use
cloud)' from Capabilities wrote browser.cloud_provider=browser-use +
use_gateway=true and then silently never activated: _is_provider_active
requires feature.managed_by_nous, which stays false without the
entitlement, and the credential was never used.

Backend: after apply_provider_selection, the endpoint now checks the
managed row's entitlement (get_nous_subscription_features force_fresh +
the same per-category coverage gate the CLI applies) and reports the gap
with additive response fields {needs_nous_auth: true, feature}. The
selection is still persisted — activation is what's gated.

Frontend: handleSelect surfaces a 'Sign in to Nous Portal' warning toast
with a Sign-in action instead of the misleading success toast. The action
drives the EXISTING Nous Portal OAuth device-code flow (provider id
'nous' in _OAUTH_PROVIDER_CATALOG): POST /api/providers/oauth/nous/start,
open verification_url, poll /poll/{session}; on approval the panel
refetches the toolset config so is_active/status flip.

i18n: nousAuthNeeded*/nousAuthSignIn/nousAuthDone*/nousAuthFailed strings
in en, ja, zh, zh-hant + types.

* feat(desktop): per-job model picker in the cron create/edit dialog (#67472)

The cron backend has always supported per-job model/provider pins (the
dashboard web UI and the cronjob tool expose them), but the desktop app's
cron editor had no way to set one — every job silently ran on the global
default model.

- Cron editor gains an optional Model select, grouped by provider, fed by
  the same model.options catalog as the chat model picker (configured
  providers with available models only, curated order preserved).
- Resetting to 'Default (global model)' clears a previous pin (model and
  provider written as null); script-only (no_agent) jobs never touch the
  model fields since the scheduler ignores overrides for them.
- A pinned model that has since left the catalog stays visible and
  re-selectable instead of rendering Radix's blank trigger.
- Job detail pane shows the pinned model when one is set.
- ui/select grows SelectGroup + SelectLabel primitives for the grouped list.
- CronJob/CronJobCreatePayload/CronJobUpdates types carry model/provider;
  en/ja/zh/zh-hant locales add the two new labels.

The cronjob model tool schema is intentionally unchanged — model selection
stays a user-facing UX affordance, not an agent-facing tool parameter.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#67486)

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* feat(config): surface custom and plugin voice providers in config schema

* fix(web): compute voice provider schema options per-request, align guards with desktop (#40338 follow-up)

Refactor the cherry-picked #40338 backend half:

- Move option merging from import-time _SCHEMA_OVERRIDES mutation to a
  per-request overlay in GET /api/config/schema — options now reflect the
  current config.yaml (no restart needed) and the module-level
  CONFIG_SCHEMA is never mutated. The endpoint gains an optional
  ?profile= param scoped via _config_profile_scope.
- Keep builtin display order first, customs appended (drop the
  sorted(set(...)) re-sort) — matches desktop enumOptionsFor.
- Only command-type provider blocks count (type absent or 'command' plus
  non-empty command string), enumerated from the canonical
  <kind>.providers.* location AND the legacy top-level <kind>.<name>
  fallback — the same dual resolution as _get_named_provider_config /
  _get_named_stt_provider_config. Builtin-name collisions are excluded
  case-insensitively against the RUNTIME builtin sets (not the display
  shortlist), mirroring apps/desktop/src/app/settings/helpers.ts
  commandProviderNames (#67209).
- Drop the plugin.yaml 'provides: [tts]' manifest scan — that convention
  does not exist (manifests carry provides_tools/provides_hooks only);
  plugin TTS/STT providers register at runtime via
  ctx.register_tts_provider(). Instead, opportunistically include names
  from agent.tts_registry / agent.transcription_registry when plugins
  happen to be loaded in this process.
- Current tts.provider/stt.provider value preserved in options.
- Tests: custom command provider merge (tts+stt), builtin-order
  preservation, EDGE collision exclusion, non-command block exclusion,
  current-value preservation, per-request freshness, legacy top-level
  block support.

* feat(desktop): five Capabilities-tab UX fixes from live testing — hints, vision link, web split, key deep-links (#67482)

* fix(desktop): stop contradicting the Ready pill with the one-time-install hint

When a provider's server-computed status is 'ready' (post_setup install
verifiably satisfied, e.g. cua-driver on PATH), the PostSetupRunner row
still said 'This backend needs a one-time install (…)'. Swap the copy for
a muted installed-confirmation one-liner and keep the Run setup button for
repair re-runs. Gated purely on the provider status prop so it composes
with the server-driven resting state work in the sibling lane.

* feat(tools): surface the web search/extract capability split in the Capabilities UI

The runtime has dispatched web_search and web_extract to independently
configurable backends for a long time (web.search_backend /
web.extract_backend overrides with web.backend as the shared fallback),
but the Capabilities tab still presented one monolithic 'Web Search &
Extract' choice that only wrote web.backend.

Backend:
- GET /api/tools/toolsets/web/config now returns active_search_backend /
  active_extract_backend resolved via the REAL runtime getters
  (tools.web_tools._get_search_backend/_get_extract_backend), plus each
  provider row's web_backend key and supported capabilities (from the
  registry's supports_search/supports_extract flags).
- PUT /api/tools/toolsets/web/provider accepts an optional capability
  ('search'|'extract') that writes web.<capability>_backend without
  touching web.backend; validates the provider actually supports the
  requested capability (ddgs/brave-free are search-only). Omitted →
  unchanged legacy apply_provider_selection path.
- New tools_config.web_provider_capabilities() helper reads the plugin
  registry's capability flags.

Frontend: 'Search: <backend>' / 'Extract: <backend>' pills above the web
provider matrix, per-row 'Search backend'/'Extract backend' assignment
pills, and 'Use for Search'/'Use for Extract' actions gated on each
backend's declared capabilities.

Tests: endpoint tests assert the runtime getters resolve to the written
backend (searxng for search, firecrawl for extract) after the endpoint
write; vitest covers badges, capability-gated buttons, and non-web
toolsets staying untouched.

* feat(desktop): deep-link Capabilities key rows to Settings → API Keys

Set env-var rows in the toolset config panel now offer 'Manage in API
Keys' in the row actions menu — an internal route change to
/settings?tab=keys&key=<ENV_KEY>. KeysSettings consumes the ?key= param
via the shared useDeepLinkHighlight hook (same mechanism as the command
palette's ?field= config deep links and ?session= archived-session
links): scrolls the credential card into view, flashes it, and expands
it. Applies generically to every env-var row, and only when the key is
set (unset keys are managed inline via Set). i18n in en/zh/zh-hant/ja.

* feat(desktop): point the vision Capabilities detail at Settings → Models

The vision toolset has no TOOL_CATEGORIES provider matrix — its
provider/model resolution runs through the auxiliary model config
(agent/auxiliary_client.py), so the Capabilities detail pane looked
empty with no hint of where the model choice lives.

Add a short explainer + an internal deep link
(/settings?tab=config:model&aux=vision) rendered only for
toolset.name === 'vision'. ModelSettings consumes the ?aux= param via
the shared useDeepLinkHighlight hook and scrolls/flashes the matching
auxiliary task row (rows now carry aux-task-<key> anchor ids). No
external URLs. i18n in en/zh/zh-hant/ja.

* test(desktop): use type-alias imports for the react-router mock (lint)

* chore: drop accidentally committed node_modules symlinks

* chore: drop remaining committed node_modules symlinks (apps/desktop, apps/shared)

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#67491)

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* fix(desktop): profile-scope all cron REST calls

Salvaged from #49948 by @helix4u: every desktop cron API call
(list/get/runs/create/update/pause/resume/trigger/delete) now carries
profileScoped(), so global-remote mode routes the request to the profile
the UI is acting for instead of silently hitting the primary backend's
default profile.

* fix(cron): resolve provider with the job's effective model; default dashboard cron creates to the backend's own profile

Two follow-ups to the per-job model pin surface (#67472 / #49948 review):

- cron/scheduler.py: pass target_model=<effective job model> to
  resolve_runtime_provider() on the primary path, so providers with
  model-specific api_mode routing derive the mode from the model the job
  actually runs (per-job pin > env > config default) instead of the stale
  persisted default. The auth-fallback path already did this for its
  fb_model.

- hermes_cli/web_server.py: POST /api/cron/jobs (and its sync worker) no
  longer hardcodes profile="default" when the request carries no profile
  param. A pool backend scoped to a named profile now resolves its own
  profile via get_active_profile_name(), so pre-profileScoped desktop
  clients can't write a named profile's job into ~/.hermes. Unscoped /
  custom HERMES_HOME keeps the legacy default fallback.

Tests: target_model capture test on run_job; two profile-default tests on
the create endpoint.

* test(cron): accept target_model kwarg in codex-path resolver stub

run_job now passes target_model to resolve_runtime_provider; the codex
401-refresh test stubbed it with a requested-only lambda. Widen to
**kwargs like every other cron resolver stub.

* test(desktop): contract test — every cron helper is profile-scoped

Salvaged from #59888 by @isfttr: the profileScoped() fix itself landed
via #67493 (salvaged from the earlier #49948), but this PR contributed a
contract test locking all 9 cron helpers to the active gateway profile —
omitted when none is set (single-profile users unaffected), attached when
one is active. Keeps the multi-profile/remote cron routing from silently
regressing.

* feat(delegation): live-viewable subagent transcripts — tail your subagents while they work (#67479)

* feat(delegation): live-viewable subagent transcripts for delegate_task

Each child now streams an append-only, human-readable log to
<hermes_home>/cache/delegation/live/<delegation_id>/task-<n>.log while it
runs, and the dispatch return includes the paths so the caller can tail
them immediately instead of waiting blind for the consolidated summary.

- New tools/delegation_live_log.py: LiveTranscriptWriter (per-event append
  + flush, one-line rendering with truncation, never raises into the agent
  loop), wrap_progress_callback (tees the child's existing
  tool_progress_callback events into the log, preserves the _flush
  contract), dispatch-time creation with pre-headered files so tail -f
  attaches immediately, manifest.json (goals/task count/per-task status),
  and 7-day retention pruning on new dispatches.
- delegate_task: wraps each child's progress callback with the writer;
  sync results and background dispatch responses gain live_transcripts
  (+ hint field on dispatch); per-task result entries carry
  live_transcript; transcripts finalized with exit-reason markers.
- async_delegation: dispatch_async_delegation_batch accepts an optional
  delegation_id so the live/ dir name matches the returned handle; the
  completion event carries live_transcripts.
- process_registry: consolidated batch-completion block references each
  task's live transcript path.
- Tool schema description documents the live_transcripts return surface;
  docs gain a 'Live Transcripts' section with a tail -f example.

Placement under cache/delegation means the logs are mounted read-only
into remote terminal backends for free. Side-channel only: zero changes
to message content, so prompt caching is unaffected. Transcript-OUT only
— no overlap with the subagent control surfaces of PR #66046.

* fix(delegation): label the kickoff transcript line as user — it is the child's one user message

* fix(desktop): scope the cron jobs list to the active profile

Salvaged from #42654 by @digitalbase (earliest report of the leak, June 9):
the desktop sidebar and cron overlay showed EVERY profile's jobs because
GET /api/cron/jobs defaults to profile=all and the desktop never sent the
param — profileScoped() (landed in #67493) routes the backend process but
adds no endpoint filter on local pools.

- hermes.ts: getCronJobs(profile?) appends ?profile= when given; omitting
  the arg keeps the legacy unfiltered path. profileScoped() still rides
  along for process routing.
- use-session-list-actions.ts: sidebar cron refresh passes the sidebar's
  profile scope (concrete profile → own jobs; ALL_PROFILES → 'all').
- app/cron/index.tsx: the cron overlay's refresh uses the same scope so
  the overlay and sidebar (shared $cronJobs atom) always agree.
- Tests: list ?profile= contract in hermes-cron-scope.test.ts; sidebar
  scoping in use-session-list-actions.test.tsx.

Reworked onto current main per the sweeper review: threaded through the
existing profileScoped()/list-param seams instead of the original PR's
pre-refactor call sites (DesktopController has since delegated to
use-session-list-actions).

* feat(agent): adaptive thinking for Kimi-family Anthropic endpoints

Kimi's Anthropic-compatible endpoints (api.moonshot.cn/anthropic,
api.kimi.com/coding) implement the adaptive thinking contract — they
accept thinking.type=adaptive + output_config.effort (all of low,
medium, high, xhigh, max verified live) and return thinking blocks, and
the replay-validation 400s that originally motivated dropping the
parameter (#13848) no longer occur.

_supports_adaptive_thinking() now returns True for Kimi-family models,
so they get thinking={type: adaptive, display: summarized} +
output_config.effort via ADAPTIVE_EFFORT_MAP instead of nothing, and
the blanket drop of the thinking parameter for Kimi-family endpoints is
removed. MiniMax and other non-adaptive third parties keep the manual
budget_tokens path; Claude behavior is unchanged.

* fix(desktop): support spaced Windows Git paths in review

simple-git's custom-binary validation rejects paths containing spaces, so
the default Windows Git install (C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe) made
every Review pane git call throw and the pane silently showed 'No diffs'.

The binary is resolved inside the Electron main process from known install
locations or PATH — never renderer/user input — so for spaced paths we opt
into simple-git's supported unsafe.allowUnsafeCustomBinary escape hatch
rather than falling back to PATH (often absent in GUI-launched apps).

Simplified from PR #64713 by @unsupportedpastels; supersedes the 8.3
short-path approaches in #55337/#60156.

Fixes #54888

* bench(desktop): make --spawn work + capture a real baseline (#67670)

- Resolve the vite CLI via vite/package.json `bin` (Vite 8's exports block
  importing vite/bin/vite.js directly — --spawn failed with ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED).
- Add a post-launch settle so cold-start contention (vite dep pre-bundling,
  first backend-connect attempts) doesn't contaminate the first scenario.
- Drop the raw autolink from the default stream chunk (resolvable URLs trigger
  link-embed DNS lookups unrelated to render cost).
- Replace seed baseline with real numbers from a darwin-arm64 --spawn run.
  keystroke + transcript are clean; stream is a clean single-run capture (the
  isolated backend may not connect, and its reconnect churn inflates frame
  pacing — re-capture on a connected instance for tighter tolerances).

* refactor(desktop): tidy session-color pass (#67671)

- sessionColorFor: drop the no-op `?? undefined` (the map read is already
  string | undefined).
- sessionProjectColor: fix a now-stale doc line — a rootless (no cwd AND no
  git_repo_root) row returns null, not any cwd-less row (repo-root-only rows
  resolve since the grouped-but-grey fix).
- ProjectMenu.applyAppearance: await instead of a .then block; flatten the
  auto-branch's nested ternary.

* feat(desktop): per-session color override (#66565 layer 2) (#67681)

Add a color picker to the session menu (an Appearance submenu of reusable
ColorSwatches, in both the dropdown and right-click flavors). The pick is a
per-session override that wins over the inherited project color; clearing
falls back to it.

Storage is desktop-local like pins ($sessionColorOverrides persistentAtom),
keyed by the DURABLE lineage id so a color survives auto-compression's id
rotation. Precedence folds into the existing $sessionColorById resolver, so
sidebar rows AND pane tabs pick it up with no changes to either — the payoff
of the shared store. To take this to the TUI later, promote this one atom to
a backend SessionInfo.color field; the resolver and picker stay put.

* bench(desktop): trustworthy --spawn stream numbers + real baseline (#67694)

Chased the "stream frame p95 = 60ms with ZERO longtasks" mystery to its actual
cause: the default stream chunk had no paragraph breaks, so it grew into one
giant ~22KB block that re-rendered fully every flush — defeating the block
memoization real streaming relies on. Plain text = 21ms; realistic chunk with
`\n\n` breaks (blocks settle, only the tail re-renders) = 23ms. Fixed the
default chunk to model real LLM output; a break-less `--chunk` remains available
as a single-block worst-case stress.

Also hardened the isolated instance so measurements reflect real cost:
- Wait for the gateway socket to actually connect before measuring (a booting/
  absent backend's reconnect backoff churns the main thread). Exposed via a new
  __PERF_DRIVE__.connected() probe reading $gateway.connectionState.
- Focus emulation + anti-throttle/occlusion flags so a backgrounded perf window
  isn't frame-throttled (no OS focus stealing).
- Generation-guarded the rAF frame recorder so repeated runs don't leave
  overlapping recorders polluting frame intervals.

Baseline re-captured as the median of 5 --spawn runs (darwin-arm64); all three
CI scenarios now green and stable. Absolute values are dev-build (noted in
_meta) — regression guards, not shipped numbers.

* bench(desktop): measure the full picture — prod build, cold-start, first-token (#67697)

Stop drip-feeding scenarios: extend the harness to cover the latencies that
actually dominate perceived speed, and measure them on a REAL production build.

- --prod: build a production renderer with the probe included (VITE_PERF_PROBE=1,
  off in normal builds) and launch it from dist/. Measures minified React, so
  numbers are representative shipped figures instead of ~3x-inflated dev ones.
- cold-start scenario (tier "cold"): launch → CDP → driver → first paint, via a
  fresh isolated spawn per run. Captures spawn_to_cdp_ms, spawn_to_driver_ms, fcp_ms.
- first-token scenario (backend tier): Enter → first assistant token painted —
  the TTFT latency an agent app is uniquely judged on.
- run.mjs gained --prod (build once), cold-start fresh-spawn loop, and gates
  ci+cold tiers against the baseline.

Baseline re-captured on a PRODUCTION build (median of 5), darwin-arm64 — all
green. Representative numbers:
  cold-start  spawn→interactive ~1.6s, FCP ~0.5s
  stream      frame p95 22ms, 1 longtask
  keystroke   p50 2ms, p95 8.7ms
  transcript  mount 145ms, 82ms longtask (400-msg open)

The prod build also settled the open question from the dev numbers: the
transcript-mount "lead" (221ms longtask in dev) is only ~72-82ms in prod — not
actionable. Measurement did its job.

* fix(dashboard): don't let a provider-name query hide the selected provider's models (#65374) (#65413)

Co-authored-by: Simplicio, Wesley (ext) <wesley.simplicio.ext@siemens-energy.com>

* fix(dashboard): opaque MoA presets modal (stop page bleed-through) (#67410)

* fix(dashboard): make MoA presets modal opaque and readable

Card defaults to bg-background-base/80 glass, so the Mixture of Agents
dialog let the Models page bleed through — especially on Cyberpunk/mobile.
Portal an opaque dialog shell above the z-2 dashboard column, and ignore
Escape while the nested model picker is open.

* test(web): lock dashboard modal shell to opaque panel classes

Guard the MoA/dialog shell contract so glass Card defaults cannot
quietly return to modal panels, and Escape stays picker-aware.

* bench(desktop): trustworthy cold-start measurement (code-splitting is not the lever) (#67720)

* bench(desktop): measure the full picture — prod build, cold-start, first-token

Stop drip-feeding scenarios: extend the harness to cover the latencies that
actually dominate perceived speed, and measure them on a REAL production build.

- --prod: build a production renderer with the probe included (VITE_PERF_PROBE=1,
  off in normal builds) and launch it from dist/. Measures minified React, so
  numbers are representative shipped figures instead of ~3x-inflated dev ones.
- cold-start scenario (tier "cold"): launch → CDP → driver → first paint, via a
  fresh isolated spawn per run. Captures spawn_to_cdp_ms, spawn_to_driver_ms, fcp_ms.
- first-token scenario (backend tier): Enter → first assistant token painted —
  the TTFT latency an agent app is uniquely judged on.
- run.mjs gained --prod (build once), cold-start fresh-spawn loop, and gates
  ci+cold tiers against the baseline.

Baseline re-captured on a PRODUCTION build (median of 5), darwin-arm64 — all
green. Representative numbers:
  cold-start  spawn→interactive ~1.6s, FCP ~0.5s
  stream      frame p95 22ms, 1 longtask
  keystroke   p50 2ms, p95 8.7ms
  transcript  mount 145ms, 82ms longtask (400-msg open)

The prod build also settled the open question from the dev numbers: the
transcript-mount "lead" (221ms longtask in dev) is only ~72-82ms in prod — not
actionable. Measurement did its job.

* bench(desktop): trustworthy cold-start measurement (code-splitting is NOT the lever)

Investigated code-splitting the ~22MB renderer bundle to cut cold start. It is
the wrong fix on both counts:

1. Intentional design: vite.config disables codeSplitting because Shiki emits
   thousands of dynamic chunks and electron-builder OOMs scanning them — a
   packaging/installer constraint, not an oversight.
2. The data says it wouldn't help. Fixing the cold-start measurement to be
   trustworthy and reading the boot composition (prod build):
     spawn → interactive ~1.5s
     renderer nav → DOMInteractive ~0.8s, → DOMContentLoaded ~1.06s
   so the whole 22MB bundle EVAL is only ~0.27s (DCL − DOMInteractive) of the
   ~1.5s. The dominant costs are Electron/window startup and React app mount —
   neither touched by splitting.

The measurement fixes (the real content of this PR — no app change, since the
optimization was rejected):
- Drop HERMES_DESKTOP_BOOT_FAKE from spawned instances — it injected artificial
  per-phase boot-overlay sleeps that inflated cold-start (and slowed every run).
- Unique debug/dev port per cold-start run — a just-killed instance can hold
  :9222 briefly, so reusing it made CDP attach to the DYING instance and report
  garbage (spawn_to_cdp of ~4ms). Stepping the port per run fixes the race.
- Richer boot marks (dom_interactive, dom_content_loaded, main-script size) so
  cold-start composition is visible, not just a single number.
- Forward all numeric boot marks from the cold-start loop.
- Re-baseline cold-start with the clean numbers.

A real cold-start win would target Electron startup / app-mount (e.g. V8 code
cache, deferred non-critical mount) — a future pass, now that it's measurable.

* bench(desktop): measure representative (warm-cache) cold start (#67733)

Profiling the boot answered "is there a real cold-start win?": no wasteful
hotspot — the renderer does only ~tens of ms of work at mount, no heavy library
(shiki/mermaid/katex/d3/motion) initializes at startup; the rest is Electron
runtime + waiting, near the Electron floor.

It also exposed that the cold-start number was pessimistic: a fresh
--user-data-dir per run means a COLD V8 code cache and worst-case bundle
recompile every launch. Real users reuse their profile. Measured delta:
  fresh (cold cache):  spawn→interactive ~1.48s
  reused (warm cache): ~1.0s
So representative launch is ~1.0s; only first-launch-after-install pays ~+400ms.

- coldStartSamples() reuses one profile (run 0 warms the cache, discarded;
  runs 1..N are warm samples), stepping ports + pausing so the single-instance
  lock releases. `--cold-fresh` measures the first-launch worst case.
- Re-baselined cold-start with the representative warm numbers.

Net: nothing high-ROI left to optimize. The only lever is shipping a pre-warmed
V8 code cache to make first launch match warm (~400ms, once per update) — real
packaging complexity for a marginal win, deliberately not pursued.

* perf(desktop): stop per-token sidebar + tool-row re-renders during streaming

Two real render-cost wins found by inspection (no behavior change):

1. Sidebar re-rendered on every stream token. $sessionStates is republished on
   every message delta (tens/sec during a turn), and the derived ID computeds
   ($workingSessionIds, $attentionSessionIds, $backgroundRunningSessionIds)
   allocated a fresh array each time. nanostores notifies on !==, so the whole
   ChatSidebar + every mounted row re-rendered per token even when the working/
   attention/background set was unchanged. Return the previous array reference
   when the contents match → nanostores skips the notify unless the set actually
   changes. Turns streaming from O(visible rows)/token into O(0) for the sidebar.

2. Tool rows normalized the FULL uncapped detail every render. `looksRedundant`
   (lowercase + whitespace-collapse over the entire read_file/terminal payload)
   ran twice in the ToolEntry render body, so every completed tool re-normalized
   its whole output on every stream tick of the running message. Memoize on the
   view fields so it recomputes only when the tool's content changes.

Both are correctness-preserving (stable refs + memoization). The CI stream
scenario drives $messages directly, not the publishSessionState path, so it
won't reflect #1 — verified by inspection.

* fix(desktop): stop hard-failing pack on non-git checkouts + fix ZIP-path autocrlf (supersedes #67643) (#67730)

* fix(desktop): allow write-build-stamp from non-git checkouts

Stop hard-failing npm pack when neither GITHUB_SHA nor git HEAD is
available (ZIP installs / broken .git). Emit an explicit fallback stamp
instead so local Windows desktop builds can finish (#50823).

* fix(desktop): treat fallback stamps as unpinned; harden Windows install

Keep all-zero fallback commits out of -Commit/--commit pins and fetch
install.ps1 by branch instead. After bootstrap, pin the marker to the
checkout HEAD so isBootstrapComplete accepts it. On Windows, force ZIP
checkout, seed GITHUB_SHA (ASCII-only install.ps1), and avoid the pack
stamp failure.

* fix(install): pin core.autocrlf=false before ZIP-path checkout (#50823 review)

The ZIP-fallback path added in #67643 runs `git checkout -f FETCH_HEAD`
before core.autocrlf gets pinned (which only happened later, on the
shared clone-path config). On Git for Windows -- where core.autocrlf
defaults to true -- that renormalizes the repo's LF text files to CRLF in
the working tree during checkout, leaving the freshly-created managed
checkout dirty versus HEAD and aborting the next `hermes update`. That is
the exact "dirty tree the user never touched" failure the surrounding
code already guards against (install.ps1:1461-1469, 1750-1753).

Move the `config core.autocrlf false` pin to run immediately after
`git init`, before the fetch/checkout. The later idempotent pin on the
shared clone path is retained so git-clone installs are unaffected.

Addresses teknium1's review on #67643 and supersedes it, preserving the
original author's two commits.

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* chore(contributors): map austinpickett commit email for attribution

The check-attribution CI gate flagged austinpickett@users.noreply.github.com
as an unmapped commit-author email (introduced by the autocrlf fix commit
on this PR). Add the per-email mapping file as the gate instructs (the
legacy AUTHOR_MAP in scripts/release.py is frozen).

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* fix(desktop): preserve new-chat selector choices (#67729)

Salvaged and rebased from #66354 by @UnathiCodex onto current main.

Fixes a fresh-chat race in Hermes Desktop where a model, reasoning-effort,
or Fast selection made before the first Send could be replaced by an
in-flight profile refresh, or read only after the profile handshake
yielded. Send is now the linearization point: the visible selector state is
snapshotted before awaiting profile readiness, and intent-generation guards
make older config/model responses stand down after a picker/toggle action.
Adds the contract-v4 session-create wire contract for explicit Fast=false.

Conflict resolution vs the original branch (use-model-controls.ts / .test.tsx):
combined main's catalog-aware keepManualPick() sticky-pick logic with the
PR's profileRefreshEpoch + composerSelectionGeneration staleness guards so
both a removed-from-catalog reseed and the in-flight-picker race are handled.

Verified on current main: apps/desktop tsc --noEmit clean; 80 affected
UI/store tests pass (use-model-controls, use-hermes-config,
use-session-actions, model-edit-submenu, model-presets, updates).

Co-authored-by: UnathiCodex <theunathi@gmail.com>

* feat(x_search): default model grok-4.20-reasoning -> grok-4.5 (#67719)

grok-4.5 is xAI's newest release (their versioning is non-monotonic:
4.5 > 4.20) and is the model xAI's own docs use for the server-side
x_search tool. Users who explicitly pinned x_search.model keep their
choice; everyone else picks up the new default via the config
deep-merge — no _config_version bump needed.

- tools/x_search_tool.py: DEFAULT_X_SEARCH_MODEL
- hermes_cli/config.py: DEFAULT_CONFIG x_search.model + comment
- agent/reasoning_timeouts.py: 300s stale-timeout floor entry for
  grok-4.5 (grok-4.20-reasoning entry kept for pinned users)
- docs: x-search.md en + zh-Hans (config sample + troubleshooting)
- tests: default-model assertion + timeout-floor positive case

* fix(docs): fix broken image and video in TUI docs (#43501)

* fix(docs): fix video tag self-closing in tui.md

* fix(docs): fix image and video paths, fix self-closing video tag

* fix: speed up CLI /model picker by skipping non-current custom provider probing (#65652)

* fix: speed up CLI /model picker by skipping non-current custom provider probing

The CLI /model picker calls build_models_payload() with default
probe_custom_providers=True, which live-fetches /v1/models from every
saved custom endpoint on every open. The GUI/desktop picker already
passes probe_custom_providers=False for snappiness.

Match the GUI behavior: skip probing non-current custom providers, but
still probe the current one so its model list stays accurate. Users can
force a full re-fetch with /model --refresh.

Fixes #65650
Related: #63583

* fix(cli): forward force_refresh to model picker probe flags

When /model --refresh is used, the CLI model picker must probe all
custom providers to refresh their model lists — not skip them.
Normal bare /model still skips non-current probes for speed.

Mirrors the existing desktop/TUI behavior. Add regression test for
both normal and refresh flag forwarding.

Fixes #65650

* fix: auto-save discovered models to config for discover-once caching

After a successful /v1/models probe, persist the discovered model list
back to config.yaml under the matching custom_providers entry. This
makes discover_models: false meaningful out of the box — users get a
populated cache after the first probe instead of a stale 1-model list.

- Add _save_discovered_models_to_config() helper
- Call after successful fetch_api_models in section 4 probe path
- Skip config write when model list hasn't changed
- Idempotent — no-op on empty api_url or model_ids

Tests: 4 new tests covering auto-save, empty-probe skip, unchanged
skip, and no-op-on-empty-args. All 4 pass.

Refs: #65652, #65650

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* fix(tui): recognize standard DSR cursor position reports (supersedes #48762) (#67731)

* fix(tui): recognize standard DSR cursor position reports in input parser

The CURSOR_POSITION_RE regex only matched DECXCPR reports (CSI ? row;col R)
but not standard DSR reports (CSI row;col R without the ? marker). Terminals
that respond to CSI ? 6 n with the plain DSR form had their cursor position
reports fall through to parseKeypress, where they were inserted as literal
text — garbling the composer input with escape sequences like ESC[22;1R.

Fix: make the regex match both forms. For the standard form (no ?), only
treat it as a cursor position report when row > 1, since modified F3 keys
(Shift+F3 = CSI 1;2 R, etc.) always use row 1 and are genuinely ambiguous
with row-1 cursor reports.

* fix(tui): reject invalid row-zero DSR cursor position reports

Follow-up to the standard-DSR recognition fix. The row guard rejected
only row === 1, which let CSI 0;col R (row 0, no ? marker) through and
misclassified it as a cursorPosition report. Terminal coordinates are
1-indexed, so row 0 is an invalid DSR report and must remain
unclassified.

Change the guard to row <= 1 to match the stated 'row > 1' semantics,
and add a boundary test asserting CSI 0;col R is not emitted as a
response.

Supersedes #48762; incorporates review feedback from that PR.

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* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#67749)

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* feat(desktop): custom endpoint settings (supersedes #42745) (#67759)

* feat(desktop): add custom endpoint settings (supersedes #42745)

Salvages PR #42745 (elashera:custom-endpoints-desktop), which could no
longer merge cleanly against main. Re-integrated the work onto current
main and reconciled the conflicts:

- Settings nav: wired the new 'Custom Endpoints' provider sub-view into
  main's data-driven navGroups/OverlayNav layout (PR predated that
  refactor) and added it to PROVIDER_VIEWS.
- providers-settings: kept BOTH main's LocalEndpointRow affordance and
  the PR's fuller CRUD panel; unified ProvidersSettingsProps to carry
  onClose + onConfigSaved + onMainModelChanged.
- web_server: kept main's _normalize_main_model_assignment + api_key
  propagation AND the PR's provider base_url lookup in
  _apply_model_assignment_sync.
- model_switch: dropped the PR's bare direct-custom-config picker block;
  main already implements it (source='model-config', with live model
  discovery). Updated the salvaged test to assert main's behavior.
- Merged additive import/type blocks in hermes.ts and types/hermes.ts.

Backend endpoints, i18n labels (en/ja/zh/zh-hant), and the
custom-endpoints-settings.tsx panel carried over. 28 custom-endpoint
tests pass.

Co-authored-by: elashera <emilio.jesus.lasheras.romero@nttdata.com>

* chore(contributors): map elashera's commit email

Salvage of #42745 (superseded by #67759) preserves @elashera's
authorship, whose corporate commit email had no contributor mapping.
Adds contributors/emails/ mapping so check-attribution passes.
Verified: GitHub user 'elashera' id=135239963 matches their own
noreply commit email (135239963+elashera@users.noreply.github.com).

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* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#67771)

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* refactor(desktop): DRY the computed-dedup into stableArray + freeze

One shared `stableArray(prev, next)` helper replaces the duplicated
element-equal/keep-prev logic in both stores, and freezes the shared ref so a
future in-place mutation fails loud instead of silently corrupting the cache.
Computed return type is now `readonly string[]` (it always was, immutably).

* perf(agent): drop per-call base64 re-serialization from request-size estimate

Every API iteration computed `total_chars = sum(len(str(msg)) ...)`, which
str()-serializes the ENTIRE history — including base64 images and large tool
results — just to take its length, then called estimate_request_tokens_rough,
which walked the messages a SECOND time (it re-runs estimate_messages_tokens_rough
internally, already computed one line above).

Now derive both from one image-stripped message estimate:
  approx_tokens = estimate_messages_tokens_rough(api_messages)   # once
  request_pressure_tokens = approx_tokens + tools_tokens          # == old value
  total_chars = approx_tokens * 4                                 # log/metric only

request_pressure_tokens is byte-identical to the old
estimate_request_tokens_rough(api_messages, tools=agent.tools or None) (no
system_prompt arg → messages + tools). total_chars only feeds a verbose log and
the pre-api-request hook's request_char_count, so a rough proxy is fine and it no
longer balloons on image turns. On the TTFT critical path for every call.

tests/agent/test_model_metadata.py + test_compressor_image_tokens.py green.

* style(agent): tighten request-estimate comment

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#67793)

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* perf(desktop): virtualize the review-pane diff (no more full-Shiki freeze)

Selecting a large changed file in the review pane froze it: FileDiffPanel with
no fullText + no showLineNumbers rendered SyntaxDiff over EVERY line — a full
Shiki highlight + thousands of mounted DOM nodes — because windowing was tied to
showLineNumbers/fullText and the review call had neither.

Decouple windowing from the gutter:
- `windowed = showLineNumbers || virtualized`; windowed paths always render the
  fixed-row chunked body (TokenizedDiffBody chunked / PreviewDiffRows), never
  SyntaxDiff, so only visible rows mount.
- New `virtualized` prop → windowed scroller WITHOUT the line-number gutter.
- Review passes `virtualized` + the preview's fill className.

Preview (showLineNumbers + fullText) and tool-card (compact) render byte-for-byte
as before — the gutter body just reads the same chunked window it already used,
and the no-fullText+highlight case (previously SyntaxDiff) now windows too.

tsc + eslint clean. Visual paths preserved by construction; needs an in-app
eyeball on a large review diff.

* refactor(desktop): merge the two windowed diff returns into one

* perf(desktop): stop the file tree going sticky during agent edit bursts

revalidateTree runs on every $workspaceChangeTick (mutating-tool completion,
coalesced ~500ms). Two costs per tick, gone:

1. clearProjectDirCache() wiped the gitroot + gitignore caches. But listings are
   read fresh every time (readProjectDir never caches them), so the wipe bought
   nothing except forcing a full re-read of every ancestor .gitignore — each a
   full readdir — for every loaded dir, every tick. Dropped; a .gitignore edit is
   still picked up on the next full refresh (cwd/connection change / manual).
2. reconcile awaited each child dir serially, crawling a wide/deep tree one dir
   at a time. Now Promise.all over siblings (order preserved), recursing per
   loaded subfolder.

use-project-tree.test.ts + right-sidebar/index.test.tsx green (15). tsc + eslint clean.

* style(desktop): tighten revalidateTree comments

* perf(desktop): targeted file-tree revalidation instead of whole-tree rescan

Rewrite of the paradigm, not just a cheaper version of it. Before, any file
mutation bumped a contentless $workspaceChangeTick and the tree re-read EVERY
loaded directory to diff — the parent state was never told what actually changed.

Now the mutation carries its path:
- workspace-events accumulates the changed dir(s) (dirname of an absolute tool
  path) and exposes consumeWorkspaceChange(); an opaque mutation (terminal, or a
  relative/unresolvable path) sets `full` instead.
- gateway-event passes toolChangedPath(payload) through on tool.complete.
- revalidateTree(cwd, change) re-reads ONLY the changed dirs that are loaded and
  patches just those subtrees — root + untouched folders never hit the FS or
  re-render. Full recursive reconcile is kept as the fallback for `full`.

So a write in one folder no longer crawls the whole tree; the opaque terminal
case still self-heals via the full path. Safe fallback everywhere a path can't be
resolved, so no change is ever missed.

typecheck + eslint clean; use-project-tree / right-sidebar / gateway-events tests green.

* perf(desktop): rAF-coalesce pane + console sash resizes

Both drag handlers wrote to nanostores on every pointermove — the pane sash via
setPaneWidth/HeightOverride / setTreeSplitWeights (relayouts the whole pane
tree), the preview console sash via consoleState.setHeight (reflows webview +
split). pointermove outpaces 60fps, so that's several store-driven relayouts per
frame during a drag.

Stash the latest clamped value and apply it once per frame in a requestAnimation-
Frame (the same pattern drag-session.ts / use-popout-drag.ts already use);
cleanup cancels the pending frame and commits the final position. Behavior
identical, just one relayout per frame instead of per event.

typecheck + eslint clean; preview-pane tests green.

* refactor(desktop): extract shared rafCoalesce helper for sash drags

* perf(desktop): stop eagerly JSON.stringify-ing every tool's args + result

buildToolView ran prettyJson (JSON.stringify + clamp) on part.args AND part.result
for EVERY tool row, on every rebuild:
- rawArgs was dead — assigned + typed, never read anywhere. Removed.
- rawResult is only rendered by the web_search raw-JSON drilldown, yet was
  serialized for read_file/terminal/every tool. Moved to a memoized, web_search-
  only computation in the consumer (fallback.tsx), so a 100KB read_file result
  is no longer stringified just to be discarded.

No behavior change (web_search drilldown identical; clamp still applies via
prettyJson). The oversized-result guard test retargets from view.rawResult to
prettyJson (its real layer now).

typecheck + eslint clean; fallback-model tests green (26).

* perf(desktop): stop tool rows re-rendering on session/cwd change + memo leaves

Two tool-render wins during streaming / on session switch:

1. Every ToolEntry did useStore($activeSessionId)+useStore($currentCwd), so any
   session or cwd change re-rendered *every* mounted tool row — but they're only
   read inside the preview-artifact effect. Read .get() at fire time instead
   (the effect only runs when a previewable target appears); no subscription.

2. memo() AnsiText + CompactMarkdown. Their text props are string values
   (value-equal across renders), so memo skips the re-render — and the per-tick
   ANSI parse / Streamdown re-run — when a parent ToolEntry re-renders on an
   unrelated stream delta.

No behavior change. typecheck + eslint clean; tool fallback tests green (30).

* test(desktop): widen Testing Library async deadline to de-flake UI panels (#67849)

findBy*/waitFor default to a 1000ms deadline, which is too tight for
async-heavy settings panels (radix menus + refetch chains) when the full
suite runs under xdist CPU contention in CI. toolset-config-panel.test.tsx
has reddened unrelated PRs multiple times with `Unable to find ...` timeouts
that pass on re-run — the textbook contention flake.

Bump asyncUtilTimeout to 5000ms in the shared ui setup. Success still
resolves the instant the node appears; the wider deadline only absorbs a
starved runner, so happy-path speed is unchanged and only genuine failures
wait longer.

* perf(desktop): idle-mount boot-hidden panes off the cold-start critical path (#67857)

* perf(desktop): idle-mount boot-hidden panes off the cold-start critical path

The layout tree keeps a chrome-hidden pane's content MOUNTED behind
display:none (so toggling back is instant) — but that means files, preview,
review (Shiki diff) and logs all mount their real content during first paint
even though none are visible at launch (fresh profile: no cwd, review off,
no preview target, logs not in the default tree). First paint only needs
sessions + workspace + statusbar; the rest is pure app-mount tax, the one
cold-start lever that's actually in our code (Electron startup and the
un-splittable bundle eval are not).

Wrap those four pane renders in <IdleMount>: mount on requestIdleCallback
(2s timeout fallback), then stay mounted. Idle fires within a frame of first
paint, so a hidden pane is warm before it can be revealed — zero UX change,
the instant-toggle contract intact. Degrades to eager mount where rIC is
absent (jsdom/tests), so no behavioral fork.

* refactor(desktop): collapse the four idle-mount wrappers into one idle() helper

* fix(desktop): scope multi-pane model UI and stabilize tile chrome (#67855)

* fix(desktop): scope multi-pane model UI and stabilize tile chrome

Composer model controls were still keyed off the primary session globals, so every tile showed the same model and a busy primary blocked switches in idle panes. Bind the pill/menu/select path to SessionView, force lone session-tile headers (incl. after tab cycle), and persist strip order so add/remove/switch stops scrambling adjacent panes.

* fix(desktop): scope preset effort/fast writes per surface, simplify tile order sync

A tile's model pick still pushed effort/fast onto the primary composer globals via applyModelPreset — scope it to the surface (primary → globals, tile → its session slice). Tile order persistence drops the before-stamping walk for a plain sort by tree encounter order; restore replays the array sequentially so array order is strip order.

* test(desktop): cover tile strip-order + selection-home; fix stale docs

Extract syncTileStripOrder's sort into a pure `orderTilesByTree` and the
selection listener's guard into `selectionHomesToWorkspace` (same shape as
the PR's lone-header extraction), then unit-test both — the two store
behaviors that shipped without coverage. Correct the `anchor`/`before` docs
(now persisted, not in-memory) and note that a tile's effort/fast edit still
writes the shared per-model preset even though the session write is scoped.

* fix(desktop): drop forbidden import() type annotations in model tests

`importOriginal<typeof import('…')>()` trips consistent-type-imports (error)
and reddens the desktop lint job. Switch to the repo's accepted top-level
`import type * as X` + `typeof X` form, matching skills/index.test.tsx.

* fix(desktop): retry OAuth cookie read on cold-start jar race (#67769)

A `persist:` partition's cookie store hydrates lazily, so the first
cookies.get() on a fresh launch can return empty for a signed-in user.
That false-negative made hasLiveOauthSession() throw "not signed in",
which on the no-retry initial boot path surfaced as the transient
"Hermes couldn't start" OAuth overlay that always cleared on Retry.

hasLiveOauthSession now reads once (no added latency on the happy path);
only on an empty read does it warm the store (flushStorageData + a
throwaway get, memoized) and re-read with a bounded ~180ms backoff
before trusting the negative. Genuinely signed-out users still resolve
false quickly and get the overlay. Fixes the whole class: the same
function backs the reconnect path and the Settings connected indicator.

* fix(gateway): don't spend a redelivery attempt when the platform is down

The delivery ledger durably records a final response before the send so a
crash between finalize and platform ACK can redeliver it on the next boot.
attempts is that redelivery budget, capped at MAX_ATTEMPTS=3.

sweep_recoverable() claims every dead-owner row and increments attempts
before the caller knows whether it can send. self.adapters only holds a
platform after its connect() succeeded, so when the platform failed to
connect this boot _redeliver_pending_obligations() hits its "adapter is
None" branch and continues WITHOUT sending — but the attempt is already
spent. Three such boots and the row abandons, having never been sent once.

That is the loss the ledger exists to prevent, and the trigger correlates
with the crash that created the obligation: the network trouble that killed
the send tends to still be there on the next boot. Worse, the message stays
lost — once abandoned it is never retried even after the platform recovers.

Reproduced against the real runner with an unconnected adapter:

    boot 1: claimed=1 state='attempting' attempts=1  (0 sends attempted)
    boot 2: claimed=1 state='attempting' attempts=2  (0 sends attempted)
    boot 3: claimed=1 state='attempting' attempts=3  (0 sends attempted)
    boot 4: claimed=0 state='abandoned'  attempts=3  (0 sends attempted)

Let the caller declare which platforms it can send on, and skip claiming
rows for the others. attempts then only ever buys a real send. Rows for a
platform that never returns are still bounded by the stale cutoff, so
nothing accumulates. The parameter is keyword-only and optional — omitting
it keeps the previous claim-everything behaviour for other callers.

* fix(config): whitelist Hermes-owned roots doctor falsely flagged

Hermes writes known_plugin_toolsets via tools_config and bridges
group_sessions_per_user / thread_sessions_per_user in gateway/config,
but doctor treated them as unknown top-level keys. Add them to
_EXTRA_KNOWN_ROOT_KEYS so validation matches keys Hermes itself uses.

* test(config): cover doctor allowlist for Hermes-written root keys

Regression for known_plugin_toolsets / group_sessions_per_user /
thread_sessions_per_user so validate_config_structure no longer
false-positives on keys Hermes owns.

* fix(config): widen doctor allowlist to all gateway-bridged top-level keys

Salvage of PR #67447 — the original PR fixed 3 of 7 missing keys.
gateway/config.py reads 4 more top-level keys (stt_echo_transcripts,
reset_triggers, always_log_local, filter_silence_narration) that
produced the same false 'Unknown top-level config key' warning.
Add all 4 and extend the regression test to cover them.

* fix(compression): stop the progress floor from splitting a tool group

_find_tail_cut_by_tokens aligns cut_idx away from tool-call/result
boundaries (_align_boundary_backward), and both tail anchors re-align after
moving it. The final statement then raised the result to head_end + 1 so
compression always claims at least one message — without that floor the
caller's compress_start >= compress_end guard turns the pass into a no-op
that re-runs forever.

That raise discarded the alignment. When the floor land…
pull Bot pushed a commit to Penguinjanator/luna-hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2026
Overlay panes each set their own top padding, so the Settings sidebar and
Panel headers sat at different heights than System/Agents and the close X
(the NousResearch#67759 regression). Hoist the shared beside-the-X clearance into
OVERLAY_TOP_CLEARANCE, keep the taller pad only on OverlayMain (which sits
under the X), tighten OverlayMain's gutters, and drop the one-off Settings
override. Also give PanelAction a `primary` variant so a detail header can
promote its main action to a filled button.
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* fix(checkpoints): bind an empty orphan preview to an empty deletion allowlist

Follow-up for salvaged PR #69141, addressing the last open review point:
cmd_prune() only set orphan_allowlist inside 'if orphans or pre_v2_orphans',
so a zero-orphan preview passed the unrestricted None sentinel down to
prune_checkpoints(), authorizing deletion of any project that became
orphaned between the preview and the rescan — with zero confirmation
calls. The allowlist is now bound unconditionally for every non-force
run (empty preview => empty allowlist); --force keeps None. Adds the
zero-orphan-preview timing regression plus allowlist-identity tests.

* fix(agent): cache static system prompt prefixes

* fix(prompt-caching): inject cache breakpoints after message normalization

The conversation loop normalizes message text right before the API call so
the request prefix is byte-identical across turns -- the stated reason is
KV cache reuse on local inference servers and better cache hit rates on
cloud providers. Cache breakpoints were injected *before* that pass, which
defeats it.

`_apply_cache_marker` rewrites a plain-string `content` into a
`[{"type": "text", ...}]` block. The normalization pass is guarded on
`isinstance(content, str)`, so every message that just got marked is
silently skipped by it and keeps its raw leading/trailing whitespace. A
message is only marked while it sits in the last-3 window, so:

    turn N      in the window  -> marked, content "file1\nfile2\n"
    turn N+1    rolled out     -> plain,  content "file1\nfile2"

The same logical message is sent with different bytes on consecutive
turns. The prefix stops matching at that position -- which is inside the
span the breakpoints were placed to protect -- so the reusable prefix
collapses back toward the system breakpoint on every turn. Tool results
carry a trailing newline almost by default (any shell command output), so
this is the common case, not an edge case.

Move the injection below every message mutation. Besides fixing the
whitespace divergence this stops breakpoints from being spent on messages
that the orphan sweep or the thinking-only drop is about to remove or
merge away -- a marker on a dropped message is a wasted breakpoint out of
the four available.

Nothing between the old and new call sites reads `cache_control`, and the
mutators now see the plain-string shapes they were written against.

* fix(caching): reconstruct static system prefix on session restore and post-compression reuse

Follow-up to the cherry-picked #68258 base: the cross-session-stable
prefix (_cached_system_prompt_static) was only recorded on fresh
builds, so two paths silently degraded to the legacy single-breakpoint
layout (flagged in review of #68258/#69341/#69704):

- Session restore: gateway surfaces build a fresh AIAgent per turn and
  restore the persisted prompt verbatim from the session DB; the static
  prefix stayed None from turn 2 onward, flip-flopping the wire layout.
- Post-compression cached-prompt reuse: _invalidate_system_prompt()
  clears the static prefix, and the keep-cached-prompt branch never
  restored it.

Both sites now reconstruct the stable tier and adopt it ONLY when the
authoritative prompt string literally startswith() it — stable-tier
drift (skills edited, identity changed) falls back to the legacy layout
with the stored bytes untouched. Fail-open on any builder error. The
restore-path rebuild is gated on _use_prompt_caching so non-Anthropic
routes skip it entirely.

Refs #68191

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* fix(config): preserve opaque .env values

The .env sanitizer inferred missing newlines from known KEY= substrings
inside existing values. Plain secrets containing those bytes could therefore
be split into synthetic assignments and rewritten to disk.

Treat each physical line as the only assignment boundary and keep bytes after
the first equals sign opaque for boundary discovery. Preserve safe formatting,
null-byte removal, BOM handling, and normal one-assignment-per-line parsing.

Cover direct loading, dotenv loading, sanitization, writers, and migration
with behavioral regressions.

Fixes #29155

* fix(web): resolve per-profile gateway state for ?profile= in /api/status

When ?profile=<name> was passed to /api/status, the handler used
_config_profile_scope to set the HERMES_HOME contextvar override, but the
gateway liveness check (get_running_pid_cached) and runtime status read
(read_runtime_status) both resolve _get_process_hermes_home(), which
deliberately ignores contextvar overrides (issue #56986) — it always reads
os.environ['HERMES_HOME'] or the platform default. A named profile's
gateway identity files (~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/gateway.pid,
gateway_state.json) were therefore never found and the endpoint always
reported the profile's gateway as stopped.

Fix: when ?profile=<name> is requested, resolve the profile directory and
pass explicit profile-scoped paths:
- get_running_pid_cached(pid_path=profile_dir / 'gateway.pid')
- read_runtime_status(path=profile_dir / 'gateway_state.json')
- get_runtime_status_running_pid(..., expected_home=profile_dir)

This is the same explicit-path pattern _collect_profile_gateway_topology
already uses for per-profile gateway state, and it works within the #56986
constraint (no HERMES_HOME env mutation; read-only cross-profile access).
Plain /api/status without ?profile= keeps the exact zero-arg calls, so its
behavior — including the pid-cache signature and runtime-status fallback —
is byte-for-byte unchanged.

Fixes #69143

* test(web): pin per-profile gateway state scoping on /api/status

Follow-up for the salvaged #70498 fix: replace the original PR's
mock-signature churn (28 lambda **kw edits, needed only because it changed
the no-profile call shape) with two targeted regression tests:

- ?profile=<name> must pass the profile's gateway.pid / gateway_state.json
  paths and expected_home to the gateway status readers (HOME-anchored
  per-profile state under ~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/)
- ?profile=<unknown> must 404 via _resolve_profile_dir

The production change keeps plain /api/status on the exact zero-arg calls,
so every pre-existing test passes unmodified.

* test: accept the new profile-scoped kwargs in status fakes

/api/status?profile= now passes pid_path=/path=/expected_home= to the
PID and runtime-status readers; the profile-unification fakes had
zero-arg signatures and raised TypeError. Plain /api/status call shapes
are unchanged (pinned by the existing zero-arg tests in
test_web_server.py).

* fix(gateway): prevent reconnect watcher wedge after network-loss fatal error (#70344)

Three-part fix for the gateway going silently deaf after a retryable
fatal adapter error (e.g. httpx.ConnectError on Telegram):

1. **Detach-on-timeout in _connect_adapter_with_timeout** — Replaced
   plain asyncio.wait_for with the task-detach pattern used by
   _await_adapter_cleanup_with_timeout. asyncio.wait_for cancels the
   overdue task but then waits for it to exit, so a connect() that
   catches CancelledError can block recovery forever. The detach
   pattern releases the runner at the deadline via
   consume_detached_task_result.

2. **Ensure reconnect watcher always runs after escalation** — Added
   _ensure_reconnect_watcher_running(), called after queueing a
   retryable fatal error. If the reconnect watcher task has died
   (exhausted restart budget, terminal exception), it is respawned
   so queued platforms are never permanently stranded.

3. **Faulthandler at gateway startup** — Enabled faulthandler +
   SIGUSR2 dump to a rotating file under HERMES_HOME/logs/ for
   post-mortem diagnosis of future event-loop freezes.

Tests added for _ensure_reconnect_watcher_running (alive, dead,
not-started, not-running), fatal-error integration (retryable calls
ensure, non-retryable does not), and _connect_adapter_with_timeout
(timeout raises, success returns).

* fix: explicit encoding for faulthandler file open (ruff PLW1514)

* fix(gateway): stay alive on mixed retryable + non-retryable startup failures

When connected_count == 0 and at least one platform failed with a
non-retryable error, the runner exited with GATEWAY_FATAL_CONFIG_EXIT_CODE
(78) even if OTHER platforms failed for merely transient reasons.

Real-world shape (NS-609, hosted instance): WhatsApp enabled but never
paired (non-retryable whatsapp_not_paired) + Telegram TimedOut during
polling startup (retryable) => exit 78 => the gateway either goes
permanently down (supervisors honoring the exit-78 contract via
RestartPreventExitStatus / the s6 finish->125 translation from #51228) or
crash-loops (anything else). Either way Telegram never gets its retry and
the dashboard drops with every exit, so a single unpaired platform plus
one network blip disconnected every channel on the instance.

Now exit 78 is reserved for the case where ALL startup failures are
non-retryable (true config error, nothing to wait for). With mixed
failures the gateway stays alive in degraded state: the reconnect watcher
recovers the retryable platforms and the misconfigured ones stay
fatal-parked and visible in runtime status.

* fix: gate SIGUSR2 faulthandler registration behind POSIX check

signal.SIGUSR2 and faulthandler.register() don't exist on Windows;
the bare reference raised AttributeError at import time per the
windows-footgun checker. faulthandler.enable() still covers
fatal-error dumps on all platforms.

* fix(gateway): detect and escape silent event-loop freezes

- A self-rescheduling 5s call_later floor timer, armed before any
  adapter connects, guarantees the selector always has a finite
  timeout, so the existing async defenses (polling heartbeat, timeout
  guards) regain a chance to run after a zero-pending-timer stall.
- A resident daemon-thread liveness watchdog probes the loop via
  call_soon_threadsafe every 30s; after 3 consecutive 10s-timeout
  misses (~120s of total unresponsiveness) it dumps all thread
  tracebacks and exits with the established
  GATEWAY_SERVICE_RESTART_EXIT_CODE (75) so a supervisor restarts the
  gateway - async-level recovery cannot run on a frozen loop.
- stop() disarms both guards before any teardown await so a busy
  shutdown is never misjudged as a freeze.
  HERMES_GATEWAY_LOOP_WATCHDOG=0 disables; _INTERVAL/_TIMEOUT/_STRIKES
  tune the thresholds.

Fixes #69089

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(gateway): close watchdog shutdown race against final-strike exit

- Re-check stop_event after a missed probe (before the strike
  increment) and again on entering the final-strike branch (before the
  critical log, dump, and hard exit), so a normal stop() landing
  between the last timeout check and the exit path can no longer be
  misclassified as a freeze and trigger a supervisor restart.
- Deterministic boundary tests pin both re-checks independently
  (mutation-verified: removing either check turns its own test red);
  frozen-loop semantics are unchanged.

Addresses the shutdown-race review on #69164.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(gateway): recheck stop immediately before watchdog hard exit

- A stop() landing while the final diagnostics (critical log,
  traceback dump) are executing could still reach os._exit(75) after
  the pre-diagnostic check. Add a third stop_event recheck immediately
  before the hard exit: diagnostics may complete, but a disarmed
  watchdog never exits.
- Deterministic regressions for both windows (stop triggered from
  inside logger.critical and from inside faulthandler.dump_traceback);
  mutation-verified (removing the check turns both red). Frozen-loop
  semantics unchanged.

Addresses the second round of the shutdown-race review on #69164.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(gateway): gate loop-liveness watchdog via config.yaml, drop HERMES_* env knobs

Follow-up to the salvaged #69164 commits: policy forbids introducing new
HERMES_* environment variables, so the four watchdog env knobs
(HERMES_GATEWAY_LOOP_WATCHDOG / _INTERVAL / _TIMEOUT / _STRIKES) are
replaced with a single config.yaml boolean:

  gateway:
    loop_watchdog: true   # default; false disables both guards

- gateway/config.py: new GatewayConfig.loop_watchdog field (default True),
  parsed from top-level or nested gateway: form, round-trips via
  to_dict/from_dict.
- gateway/run.py: _start_loop_liveness_guards() checks config.loop_watchdog
  before arming the floor timer + watchdog (getattr-guarded for bare
  object.__new__ runners).
- gateway/shutdown_watchdog.py: start_loop_liveness_watchdog() no longer
  reads the environment; probe interval/timeout/strikes are module
  constants (30s/10s/3 — ~90s to restart, matching the systemd watchdog
  layer's posture).
- hermes_cli/config.py: documented gateway.loop_watchdog default so
  'hermes config set gateway.loop_watchdog false' validates.
- tests: env-knob tests replaced with config-gate + round-trip tests;
  the final-strike boundary test injects its probe via max_strikes
  directly instead of patching the removed env helper.

* fix: getattr-guard _stop_loop_liveness_guards in GatewayRunner.stop

Teardown-path tests build bare runners via object.__new__ without
the liveness-guard machinery; the unguarded call raised
AttributeError in 8 tests. Same guard pattern as the start path.

* fix(desktop): close cross-session leak windows in composer + session refs (#59305)

Two React passive-effect timing bugs let a session switch land in the wrong
chat: activeSessionIdRef/selectedStoredSessionIdRef (use-session-state-cache)
and the composer's attachment-scope swap (use-composer-draft) both mirrored
their source props via useEffect, which fires one commit AFTER the new
session's view has already painted — a synchronous read/submit in that window
observed the outgoing session's ids/attachments.

- use-session-state-cache.ts: mirror the session refs synchronously during
  render instead of a useEffect, guarded to fire only when the prop itself
  changed (not unconditionally) so an imperative pin from submit.ts /
  use-session-actions (e.g. a freshly resumed runtime id, intentionally not
  synced to the source atom) survives an unrelated re-render.
- use-composer-draft.ts: the per-thread attachment-scope-swap effect is now a
  useLayoutEffect, closing the window before paint.
- submit.ts / session-context-drift.ts: add a 3rd drift prong comparing the
  composer's loaded scope (SubmitTextOptions.composerScope) against the
  submit target, resolved into the same lineage-root domain
  (resolveComposerSessionKey) the composer itself uses — comparing against
  the raw tip id would false-positive-abort every submit into any session
  that has ever auto-compressed.
- routes.ts / chat/index.tsx: the primary composer's durable scope key now
  prefers the route over a possibly-stale store selection
  (primaryRouteSelectedSessionId).
- use-composer-draft.ts: redacted [composer-rehydrate] diagnostic log
  (counts/kinds/scope only, never raw refs) for future reports in this class.
- chat-runtime.ts: normalize attachment id values (url/path) before hashing
  so a re-attach with a trailing slash or backslash path dedupes correctly.

16 files, 286 tests across the touched/dependent suites (17 files) green,
including new regression coverage for each fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(desktop): satisfy eslint import-order rules in use-composer-draft.test.tsx

CI's check:lint failed on two perfectionist rule violations introduced by the
new test file: type import ordering and missing blank line between the
parent-relative and same-directory import groups. No behavior change.

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* fix(agent): prevent shared OpenAI client FD-recycle corruption from stale stream watchdog

The streaming stale watchdog was calling
_replace_primary_openai_client() from its polling thread, which closes
the shared client's connection pool. Worker threads from previous
stale-killed attempts may still be unwinding their SSL BIOs, causing
TLS application-data to overwrite SQLite file headers via FD reuse.

This is the same corruption vector documented in #67142 for Anthropic,
where the fix was to never close the shared client from a non-owner
thread. Apply the same pattern to the OpenAI-wire path:

- Stale stream watchdog: skip shared client replacement
- Mid-tool-retry cleanup: skip shared client replacement
- Stream retry cleanup: skip shared client replacement

The request-local client is already closed via _close_request_client_once.
The shared client is replaced lazily by _ensure_primary_openai_client
on the next request, which runs on the owning thread.

Closes #70773.

* fix(agent): retire replaced shared OpenAI clients instead of cross-thread pool close

Widen the #70773 fix beyond the three in-request cleanup sites removed in
the cherry-picked commit: every remaining path that swaps out the shared
OpenAI client could still hard-close its pool from a thread that doesn't
own the in-flight sockets (credential rotation/refresh on the turn thread,
dead-connection cleanup, gateway cache eviction, transport recovery) —
the same FD-recycle corruption vector, just rarer.

Add AIAgent._retire_shared_openai_client(): shutdown(SHUT_RDWR) all pooled
sockets (FD-safe from any thread, unblocks in-flight readers) but never
call client.close() — FD release is deferred to GC, which cannot run until
every borrowing thread has unwound its SSL BIO. Refcounting is the
ownership handshake; with no borrowers the FDs are released immediately.

Wired into:
- _replace_primary_openai_client (rotation/refresh/dead-conn cleanup)
- try_recover_primary_transport (primary_recovery)
- release_clients (gateway cache_evict)

agent.close() keeps the hard close: full teardown is a real session
boundary where no request may be in flight.

Tests: new tests/run_agent/test_70773_shared_client_fd_corruption.py
covers the three watchdog/retry sites plus retire semantics; existing
close-assertions updated to pin retire-not-close.

* test: update credential-refresh tests for retire-not-close contract

The three refresh tests asserted the replaced shared client gets
close()d — the exact cross-thread close #70773 removes. They now pin
the new contract: close() is NOT called from the refresh path; the
old client is retired (sockets shutdown, FD release deferred to GC).

* fix(doctor): UTF-8/latin-1 fallback when scanning .env

Prefer UTF-8 for ~/.hermes/.env provider scans, then latin-1 for cp1252/Notepad files. Add regression test for invalid UTF-8 bytes.

* fix: handle non-UTF-8 files in OpenClaw migration script

* fix: decode config and state files as UTF-8 on non-UTF-8 locales

Several file-I/O call sites still use open() / Path.read_text() /
Path.write_text() without an explicit encoding, so they fall back to
the platform default. On Windows CN/JP/KR locales (GBK/CP932/CP949)
any non-ASCII byte in a config/state/user-content file raises
UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError and crashes the caller.

to the remaining hot paths:

- agent/copilot_acp_client.py:  fs/read_text_file and fs/write_text_file
                                (Copilot's read_file / write_file tools,
                                 directly reported in #18637 bug 2)
- agent/model_metadata.py:      context-length YAML cache load + two
                                save sites (context probing is on the
                                call path of every model invocation)
- agent/nous_rate_guard.py:     cross-session rate-limit JSON state
                                (read + atomic write via os.fdopen)
- cron/scheduler.py:            user config.yaml read in run_job
- gateway/delivery.py:          cron output writes for AI-generated
                                content, very likely non-ASCII

yaml.dump call sites also gain allow_unicode=True so the emitted
YAML preserves non-ASCII chars as-is instead of emitting \u escape
sequences.

Adds regression tests that monkeypatch builtins.open / Path.read_text
/ Path.write_text to simulate a GBK locale: each test raises
UnicodeDecodeError / UnicodeEncodeError unless the caller explicitly
passes encoding='utf-8'. Verified that the tests fail on main and
pass with this change, on Linux as well as on Windows.

Refs #18637

* fix(cli): add explicit encoding to read_text/write_text calls

Path.read_text() and Path.write_text() without explicit encoding
default to the system locale encoding. On Windows this is typically
cp1252, which causes UnicodeDecodeError for UTF-8 content (JSON
configs, user data, service scripts).

Add encoding="utf-8" to all read_text() and write_text() calls
across 8 CLI files, matching the pattern established in PR #50534
(security_audit_startup.py) and ruff rule PLW1514.

Fixed files:
- main.py: 4 read_text calls
- auth.py: 3 read_text calls
- banner.py: 1 read_text + 1 write_text
- service_manager.py: 1 read_text + 4 write_text
- container_boot.py: 1 read_text + 4 write_text
- doctor.py: 3 read_text calls
- uninstall.py: 2 read_text calls
- gateway.py: 1 write_text call

* fix(core,cli,gateway,plugins): add encoding='utf-8' to read_text() calls

Path.read_text() without an explicit encoding uses the platform's
default encoding. On Windows this is typically cp1252 or mbcs, which
causes UnicodeDecodeError or silent data corruption when reading
UTF-8 content (JSON files, user text, config with non-ASCII chars).

This is the read-side companion to the write_text() encoding fix.
Fixed the most critical locations that read JSON data, user content,
and config files across 14 files with 31 call sites.

Pattern: .read_text() → .read_text(encoding='utf-8')
         json.loads(path.read_text()) → json.loads(path.read_text(encoding='utf-8'))

* fix(install): emit UTF-8 from skills_sync on non-UTF-8 Windows locales

On Windows with a non-UTF-8 system locale (e.g. CP936/GBK on zh-CN),
Python defaults stdout/stderr to the active codepage. tools/skills_sync.py
prints glyphs such as checkmark (U+2713) and up-arrow (U+2191) that GBK
cannot encode, raising UnicodeEncodeError mid-run.

The installer (scripts/install.ps1) captures this script's stdout and the
Rust bootstrap parses it as UTF-8 expecting a JSON result frame. A GBK
byte stream (or the traceback it triggers) surfaces as:

  WARN stdout read error: stream did not contain valid UTF-8
  stage=config-templates state=Failed
  error=install.ps1 -Stage config-templates produced no JSON result frame
        (exit=Some(0))

i.e. the stage fails even though the script exits 0. install.ps1 already
sets [Console]::OutputEncoding = UTF8, but that does not propagate to the
python.exe child (Python reads PYTHONIOENCODING / locale, not the console
encoding).

Fix in two places for defense in depth:
- tools/skills_sync.py: reconfigure sys.stdout/stderr to UTF-8 at import so
  output is valid UTF-8 regardless of caller or active codepage.
- scripts/install.ps1: set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 and PYTHONUTF8=1 (scoped
  to the call, restored afterwards) around the skills_sync.py invocation.

* test(install): add UTF-8 regression guard for skills_sync child path

Addresses hermes-sweeper review on PR #54866: the installer runs
tools/skills_sync.py as a child python.exe whose PYTHONIOENCODING /
PYTHONUTF8 the scoped install.ps1 block sets, but there was no
regression test for this child-Python UTF-8 path. The existing
test_child_process_inherits_utf8_mode covers a different (bootstrap
entry-point) flow.

Add TestSkillsSyncUtf8Guard: three subprocess tests that import
skills_sync (triggering its import-time stdout/stderr reconfigure)
and assert the checkmark/up-arrow glyphs the script prints at
tools/skills_sync.py:596,675 emit valid UTF-8 and exit 0 even when
the child env is left unset or explicitly hostile (gbk). A third
test proves the guard is load-bearing by reproducing the crash
without it.

Also keep the new install.ps1 comment ASCII-only (the checkmark
spelled out as U+2713) per the file's PS 5.1 parser-compatibility
contract at scripts/install.ps1:79-80; the literal glyph in the
comment violated that contract.

* fix: add encoding="utf-8" to Path.write_text() calls (P1)

Path.write_text() without encoding defaults to system locale encoding.
On Windows (cp1252), this silently corrupts non-ASCII content written
to JSON files, config files, and cache files.

This is the write-side counterpart to the read_text() encoding fix
(PR #56115). PLW1514 only covers open() calls — Path methods are
unguarded by ruff.

39 instances across 16 files, all passing py_compile.

Files changed:
- agent/copilot_acp_client.py (1)
- tools/web_tools.py (1)
- tools/xai_http.py (1)
- tools/skills_hub.py (8)
- gateway/slash_commands.py (1)
- gateway/run.py (5)
- gateway/dead_targets.py (1)
- gateway/delivery.py (2)
- gateway/platforms/qqbot/adapter.py (1)
- hermes_cli/gateway.py (1)
- hermes_cli/banner.py (1)
- hermes_cli/service_manager.py (5)
- hermes_cli/container_boot.py (5)
- hermes_cli/uninstall.py (1)
- hermes_cli/main.py (2)
- hermes_cli/profiles.py (3)

* fix(hindsight): specify UTF-8 encoding for file I/O on Windows

On Windows with CJK locales (e.g. Chinese/GBK), pathlib.Path.read_text()
defaults to the system encoding instead of UTF-8, causing UnicodeDecodeError
when reading .env or .json config files that contain non-ASCII characters.

Explicitly pass encoding='utf-8' to all read_text() and write_text() calls
in the hindsight memory provider plugin.

* fix(memory): read/write .env as UTF-8 in mem0 and hindsight setup

The mem0 and hindsight memory-provider setup routines round-trip the
user's ~/.hermes/.env: they read existing lines, update the keys they
manage, and rewrite the whole file preserving every other line verbatim.
Both used env_path.read_text() / write_text() with no encoding.

read_text()/write_text() with no encoding fall back to the system locale
(cp1252/GBK on Windows), so on a non-UTF-8 host the preserved lines get
mangled or the call crashes on any non-ASCII value, and — because the
reader never strips a BOM — a Notepad-edited .env makes the first key
fail the in-place match and get duplicated instead of updated.

Match the canonical .env readers in hermes_cli/config.py: read with
encoding='utf-8-sig' (BOM-tolerant) and write with encoding='utf-8'.
mem0/_setup.py already pins utf-8 for mem0.json, so this just aligns the
.env path in the same file. Fixes both memory plugins in one class fix.

Adds regression tests: a BOM'd .env updates the first key in place
(locale-independent, fails without the fix) and non-ASCII existing lines
survive the round-trip.

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* fix(memory): cover the remaining setup-time .env reads with utf-8-sig

Follow-up to review feedback:

- mem0 _prompt_api_key read .env with the locale default, so a Notepad
  BOM hid the first key from the masked current-value lookup; read it
  with utf-8-sig + errors=replace like the canonical readers in
  hermes_cli/config.py.
- hindsight _load_simple_env used plain utf-8; it also parses the Hermes
  .env during post_setup, where a BOM stuck to the first key. Switch to
  utf-8-sig + errors=replace.
- Add hindsight regressions: BOM key matching in _load_simple_env and in
  the cloud post_setup writer, plus non-ASCII round-trip preservation,
  and a mem0 regression for the BOM'd masked-key lookup. The BOM tests
  fail without the fix on any platform.

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* fix(profile): read .env as utf-8-sig in the distribution-install preview

`_render_distribution_plan` reads the target profile's `.env` to decide
whether a required env var is already set (so it doesn't nag the user),
using `Path.read_text()` with no encoding. Two bugs:

1. `Path.read_text()` defaults to the system locale (cp1251/GBK on Windows),
   which raises `UnicodeDecodeError` on any non-ASCII byte. The surrounding
   `except OSError` does NOT catch that — `UnicodeDecodeError` is a
   `ValueError` — so a mis-encoded `.env` aborts the entire install preview.
2. Even on a UTF-8 locale, a Notepad-added BOM prefixes the first key
   (`KEY`), so the very first required env var is mis-reported as
   "needs setting" when it is actually present.

`.env` is written as UTF-8 everywhere in the codebase. Read it as
`utf-8-sig` (tolerates the BOM) and also catch `UnicodeDecodeError` so a
genuinely un-decodable file skips the pre-check instead of crashing.

Regression tests: a BOM-prefixed `.env` whose first key must still read as
"set", and an invalid-UTF-8 `.env` that must not abort the preview.

* fix: add UTF-8 encoding to read_text/write_text in tools/ and agent/

Path.read_text() and Path.write_text() without encoding= default to the
system locale (cp1252 on Windows), which corrupts non-ASCII JSON content.

Coverage-gap fix for files not addressed by prior encoding PRs:
- tools/skills_hub.py: 6 read_text + 8 write_text (cache, index, lock files)
- tools/skills_sync.py: 1 read_text (lock file)
- tools/xai_http.py: 1 read_text + 1 write_text (auth store, marker)
- agent/shell_hooks.py: 1 read_text (allowlist)
- gateway/status.py: 1 read_text (PID file)
- hermes_cli/banner.py: 1 read_text + 1 write_text (update cache)

All sites read/write JSON or short text. No behavioral change on Linux
(already UTF-8); fixes silent data corruption on Windows.

* fix(skills): tolerate non-UTF-8 bytes in hub lock.json

_read_hub_installed_names() reads ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/lock.json with a
strict utf-8 decode. Hub skill descriptions can carry Windows-1252
typographic bytes (em-dash 0x97, smart quotes, bullets) as single high
bytes; read_text(encoding="utf-8") then raises UnicodeDecodeError, which
is a ValueError sibling not caught by the function's
except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError). It escapes and 500s the whole
/api/skills endpoint, blanking the desktop Skills panel.

Decode with errors="replace" so the offending byte degrades to U+FFFD
and the structurally valid JSON — and every other skill — stays readable.

Fixes #68053

* fix(cli): read .worktreeinclude and .gitignore as UTF-8 in worktree setup

_setup_worktree read both files with the locale default encoding. On a
cp1251/GBK Windows machine a UTF-8 include list either decodes to
mojibake paths (non-ASCII entries silently not copied) or raises
UnicodeDecodeError, which the enclosing handler logs at DEBUG and
swallows — no include is copied at all, so the worktree starts without
.env/keys and the agent breaks invisibly. A Notepad BOM likewise glues
to the first include entry on every platform, and to the first
.gitignore line, defeating the '.worktrees/' membership check and
appending a duplicate entry on each run.

Read both files with utf-8-sig + errors=replace, matching the canonical
.env readers in hermes_cli/config.py (utf-8-sig because Notepad adds a
BOM) and the UTF-8 append this same block already performs on
.gitignore.

Regression tests exercise the real cli._setup_worktree: the two BOM
tests fail without the fix on any platform, the non-ASCII include test
additionally reproduces the Windows locale failure.

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* fix(skills): read OOXML parts as bytes and form JSON as UTF-8 in office skill scripts

The bundled office skills (#68595) read user documents and agent-authored
payloads with the locale-default codec:

- docx/powerpoint validators/base.py opened OOXML part XML in text mode
  before handing it to lxml. On Windows (cp1251/GBK) the bytes decode to
  mojibake that lxml then parses, so validation runs against silently
  corrupted document text; on locales where the UTF-8 bytes don't decode
  the validator crashes with UnicodeDecodeError instead of validating.
  Opening as bytes lets lxml honor the encoding declared in the XML prolog.

- The pdf form scripts (fill_fillable_fields, fill_pdf_form_with_annotations,
  create_validation_image, check_bounding_boxes) read the fields JSON the
  agent authors — UTF-8 by construction — with the locale codec, so
  non-ASCII form values (any Cyrillic/CJK/accented input) either crash or
  get written into the user's PDF as mojibake. The json.dump writers use
  ensure_ascii=True and were already safe; only the readers needed pinning.

Adds a contract test asserting every document/payload reader is
locale-independent, plus a live regression test that runs
check_bounding_boxes.py on a non-ASCII fields.json under a forced
non-UTF-8 locale — it fails without the fix on both POSIX (C locale)
and Windows (cp1251 chokes on the 0x98 byte of U+2018).

* fix(windows): sweep remaining bare read_text/write_text sites + linter rule

AST-driven pass over every Path.read_text()/write_text() without an
explicit encoding= across non-test code: 71 sites in 34 files
(skills_hub, hermes_cli/main+profiles+service_manager+container_boot,
mem0/hindsight/honcho plugins, achievements dashboard, release/CI
scripts, productivity+comfyui skill helpers, agent/*). Verified zero
positional-encoding collisions before insertion; per-file compile()
check after.

Adds a check-windows-footguns rule flagging bare single-line
read_text/write_text (multi-line forms stay covered by the AST guard
test from #38985). Together with the salvaged contributor commits this
retires the ~169-site bare file-I/O class (#37423's long tail).

* fix: restore utf-8-sig BOM tolerance at .env readers the sweep normalized

The cherry-pick auto-resolution + AST sweep applied plain utf-8 at three
.env reader sites where the salvaged PRs (#62617, #62123) deliberately
use utf-8-sig — a Notepad BOM must not hide/duplicate the first key.
Restore the contract (tests pin it).

* chore: contributor email mappings for the file-I/O salvage

* refactor(desktop): add shared Field form-dialog primitive

Dialog forms each hand-rolled their own label+control+hint stack (or
borrowed the settings-surface ListRow), so gaps and hint styling drifted
between the profile, cron, and webhook dialogs. Add a single Field /
FieldHint primitive for label-over-control dialog fields and adopt it in
the create/rename profile dialogs as the first consumers.

* fix(desktop): unify overlay-pane padding and add primary PanelAction

Overlay panes each set their own top padding, so the Settings sidebar and
Panel headers sat at different heights than System/Agents and the close X
(the #67759 regression). Hoist the shared beside-the-X clearance into
OVERLAY_TOP_CLEARANCE, keep the taller pad only on OverlayMain (which sits
under the X), tighten OverlayMain's gutters, and drop the one-off Settings
override. Also give PanelAction a `primary` variant so a detail header can
promote its main action to a filled button.

* refactor(desktop): fold cron Blueprints into the New Job dialog

Blueprints lived behind a separate Jobs/Blueprints tab with its own card
gallery — a bespoke surface no other overlay uses. Remove the tab and make
blueprints a "Start from" dropdown at the top of the New Job dialog
(default "Custom" = the manual editor); picking one swaps the form for that
blueprint's typed slots. Also promote the detail-view "Trigger now" button
to a primary action and adopt the shared Field primitive.

* refactor(desktop): webhooks create form uses shared Field; drop status pill

The create dialog used the settings-surface ListRow/ToggleRow inside a
modal, which read differently from every other form dialog, and the detail
header carried an enabled/disabled pill that rendered as a stray dash.
Switch the form to the shared Field primitive (+ Switch) and remove the
pill.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#71099)

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* fix(dashboard): add lightweight /api/health liveness endpoint

/api/status is the only public liveness route, and its handler loads the
gateway config, probes gateway health, and counts sessions before it can
answer. That work is wrong for a readiness probe: a caller that only needs
to know the process is up pays for a cold plugin import tree.

Add /api/health, which returns process liveness, version, and the auth-gate
shape and touches nothing else.

* fix(desktop): probe /api/health for boot readiness, and survive a stalled loop

Desktop boot polls /api/status, so readiness waits on gateway config and a
cold plugin import tree. On Windows that regularly outlives the probe and
Desktop kills a backend that is already listening, respawns it, and re-pays
the same import cost — the reported crash loop.

Probe /api/health instead, falling back to /api/status only for the
missing-route shapes the fetch helpers emit (404, or HTML from the SPA), so
an older remote backend still connects. Timeouts and server errors keep
polling health rather than dropping to the heavyweight route.

A cheap route is not enough on its own. Warming the gateway import holds the
GIL, so the event loop can stall for tens of seconds and starve /api/health
too. At the default 15s socket timeout only three attempts fit in the 45s
budget; give each probe 5s so the loop keeps retrying across the stall.

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* fix(state): decode display_metadata at every message read path

get_messages(), get_messages_around() and get_anchored_view() returned the
raw display_metadata column instead of the dict every caller expects. The
desktop paints a resumed transcript from the REST prefetch, which reads
through get_messages(), so any session holding an async_delegation_complete
event failed resume with "Cannot use 'in' operator to search for
'task_count'" — on every such session, not just corrupted ones.

Route all four read paths through one shared codec that also unwraps rows
carrying a second JSON layer, so sessions already broken on disk recover on
read rather than needing a migration.

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* fix(state): stop double-encoding display_metadata on write

export_session() reads through get_messages(), so before the read fix an
already-serialized string went straight back into _insert_message_rows() and
got re-dumped — an export/import round trip permanently corrupted the row.
Guard the three write paths the same way tool_calls already is: parse a
string argument before storing it, and drop metadata that isn't an object
rather than persisting something no reader can use.

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* fix(desktop): tolerate unparsed display_metadata from an older backend

The desktop and the Hermes backend it talks to version independently — a
remote VM running an older build still serves display_metadata as JSON text.
Indexing into that string with `in` threw and failed the whole resume, so
narrow the type to admit a string and parse it before reading task_count.
Falling back to the generic label keeps a delegation event renderable even
when the metadata is unusable.

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* fix(checkpoints): don't prune a project whose volume is merely unmounted

Orphan pruning decides a project is gone from a single probe:

    if delete_orphans and (not workdir or not Path(workdir).exists()):
        reason = "orphan"

then deletes its ref, index, and metadata — the project's entire checkpoint
history. `Path.exists()` is False for a deleted directory, but it is equally
False for one whose storage is not attached right now: an unplugged external
drive, a share behind a downed VPN, a bind-mount absent from this container,
an offline Windows mapped drive. The project is fine; only our view of it is.

This is not an opt-in maintenance command. `maybe_auto_prune_checkpoints`
runs unattended at startup from both `cli.py` and `gateway/run.py`, with
`delete_orphans=True` by default. So starting Hermes once while the drive is
unplugged silently destroys the restore points for every project on it — the
one thing checkpoints exist to provide, and there is nothing to restore from
afterwards.

Reproduced against the real store: a project registered under an unmounted
path and one on local disk, then a startup prune —

    prune: {'scanned': 2, 'deleted_orphan': 1}
    unreachable project index still on disk: False

The legacy pre-v2 branch has the same flaw plus a second one: a
`HERMES_WORKDIR` marker that exists but cannot be read leaves `workdir = None`,
which the same condition treats as an orphan. Failing to read a file is not
evidence that a project was deleted.

Require corroboration before deleting: the workdir's parent must be present,
so its absence is something we actually observed. A missing parent means the
volume is not there and we know nothing, so the entry is left alone — and an
unreadable marker never deletes at all. Genuinely abandoned projects are still
reclaimed, both by the unchanged orphan path (parent present, project gone)
and by the retention/stale rule, which runs off `last_touch` rather than a
filesystem probe.

tests/tools/test_checkpoint_manager.py: a project whose whole mount disappears
keeps its history; controls prove a genuinely deleted project is still pruned
and a live project is untouched. The data-loss test fails on main; both
controls pass there. 81 passed across the checkpoint suites (2 failures in
test_checkpoint_manager.py are pre-existing and fail identically on clean
main).

* fix(checkpoints): an empty surviving mount point is not evidence of deletion

Addresses @egilewski's review: the parent-directory check still deleted
checkpoint history for the most common unmount layout.

Detaching storage removes the parent outright in some layouts
(`/Volumes/Ext/proj` on macOS, `/media/<user>/<label>/proj`), which the first
commit handles. But in the classic static layout — `/mnt/volume/proj`, an
fstab entry, a container bind-mount — unmounting removes the contents and
leaves the mount point behind as an empty directory. `parent.is_dir()` is then
true, the project is absent, and the startup sweep deletes its ref, index and
metadata: exactly the case this PR set out to protect.

Reproduced against the real predicate before this commit:

    mount root vanished (macOS)   -> False   ok
    empty surviving mount point   -> True    <-- history deleted
    really deleted (siblings)     -> True    ok

An empty parent carries no information: it looks identical whether the volume
was detached or the project was deleted. So require the parent to actually say
something — it holds some other entry (we observed a populated directory that
does not contain the project), or it is itself a live mount point (the volume
is attached right now and demonstrably does not hold the project).

The cost is that a project deleted out of an otherwise-empty parent is no
longer reclaimed by the orphan rule. It is not leaked: the retention rule
reads `last_touch` rather than probing the filesystem and still collects it,
so reclamation is deferred, not lost. That is the right direction for a
predicate whose false positive destroys a user's restore points unattended.

`_dir_has_any_entry` stops at the first entry via `os.scandir` instead of
materializing a listing, since a project root can hold a large tree.

tests/tools/test_checkpoint_manager.py: `test_surviving_empty_mountpoint_
keeps_its_checkpoints` pins the reviewed case, and `test_empty_parent_project_
is_still_reclaimed_by_retention` pins the deferral above so the safety valve
cannot silently regress into a leak. Both fail on the previous commit. The
real-orphan control now seeds a sibling so it exercises a populated parent
rather than the ambiguous empty one. 80 passed in the checkpoint suite; the 2
remaining failures (`TestGitEnvIsolation`, `TestClearFunctions`) fail
identically on clean main.

* fix(checkpoints): require positive volume-attachment evidence before orphan classification

Follow-up to the cherry-picked #69063: egilewski's review found that the
_dir_has_any_entry(parent) guard treats ANY entry in the mount point's
parent as proof the volume is attached — but unmounting exposes the
UNDERLAY directory's own files (e.g. a .keep placeholder), so a populated
underlying mount-point dir still classified the project as an orphan and
deleted its ref/index/metadata. Reproduced on both main and the PR head.

Attachment evidence is now positive instead of circumstantial:

* _volume_evidence() records the parent directory's (st_dev, st_ino)
  identity in the project's metadata while the workdir is observably
  live (at _register_project/_touch_project time). A mount point
  resolves to the mounted filesystem's root while attached and to the
  underlay directory after detach — same path, different directory,
  different identity.
* _workdir_is_observably_gone() now requires the parent visible at
  prune time to match that recorded identity before the populated-parent
  check can classify an orphan. A mismatch means a different directory
  (the underlay) is showing through — a detached volume, not an
  observed deletion.
* Metadata without a recorded identity (written by older versions) is
  never orphan-classified — unsure never deletes; the retention/stale
  rule still reclaims genuinely abandoned projects off last_touch.
* The frozen pre-v2 layout has no metadata channel for the identity, so
  it keeps the structural checks only (require_parent_identity=False).
* A failed evidence probe on re-registration preserves the previously
  recorded identity — stale evidence can only make pruning MORE
  conservative.

Windows: st_dev/st_ino of 0 (filesystems without file IDs, some network
shares) is treated as "no evidence recorded", which falls into the
conservative never-orphan path. os.path.ismount and Path.stat are
cross-platform; no POSIX-only calls added.

tests/tools/test_checkpoint_manager.py: adds egilewski's exact
regression (checkpoint history for mnt/volume/project, detach exposes
mnt/volume/.keep, prune with orphan deletion enabled → NOT deleted;
fails on the bare cherry-pick, passes with this fix), plus
no-recorded-identity conservatism and probe-failure identity
preservation. His absent-parent/empty-parent/retention/genuine-deletion/
live-project controls all still pass.

Reported-by: egilewski (review on #69063)

* fix(telegram): require initial polling readiness

Use wall deadlines for deleteWebhook and start_polling, then fail cold startup unless getUpdates proves progress. This lets the gateway discard partial PTB state and retry with a fresh adapter.\n\nRefs #67498

* fix(gateway): allow Telegram readiness budget

Give Telegram a 180s default outer connect budget so cold polling can prove getUpdates readiness. Preserve the 30s default for other platforms and all explicit config/env overrides.\n\nRefs #67498

* fix(telegram): bind strict cold-start readiness to its own polling generation

Follow-up hardening for the salvaged #69240 readiness gate (#67498):

- _start_polling_once now returns its (generation, progress_event) pair
  so the strict cold-start gate binds to exactly the generation it
  started, instead of re-reading self._polling_progress_event which a
  concurrent recovery task may have replaced with a newer generation's
  event (the G1/G2 race flagged in the #69240 review).
- Strict cold start no longer schedules background polling recovery: a
  polling error during the readiness wait is captured by a strict
  callback and fails the connect attempt immediately with a loud
  OSError, so GatewayRunner disposes the partial adapter and retries
  with a fresh one — no more waiting out the full readiness deadline on
  a generation that already errored, and no G2-on-partial-app healing.
- After readiness is proven the strict callback delegates every later
  polling error to the real background-recovery callback, preserving
  the existing degraded/reconnect semantics for the polling lifetime.
- The readiness-timeout error message now states the deadline and that
  the gateway will retry with a fresh adapter (loud failure, not a
  silent wait).
- Regression tests: current-generation progress connects; a polling
  error during strict cold start fails fast without scheduling
  background recovery (the #67498 idle-threads shape); stale-generation
  progress is rejected.

Progresses #67498

* test: record getUpdates progress in mocked cold-connect polling flows

The strict cold-start readiness gate (#67498) means adapter.connect() no
longer returns True until the mocked start_polling records a successful
getUpdates round trip for its generation. Update the conflict-suite
Application mocks accordingly:

- fake_start_polling side effects call
  adapter._record_polling_progress(adapter._polling_generation) on the
  initial connect (retry generations intentionally do NOT auto-progress
  where a test asserts the conflict count survives an unproven retry).
- _build_polling_app takes the adapter so its start_polling mock can
  record progress.

Without this, the cold connects in these tests wait out the full 60s
readiness deadline and fail — which is exactly the fail-closed behavior
the gate is supposed to provide when polling shows no progress.

* fix(config): add a collision-safe env var name for custom endpoint keys

Both the Desktop panel and the CLI setup flow need somewhere in .env to put
a custom endpoint's API key. Deriving the name from the endpoint's hostname
collapses two servers on one machine onto a single slot, and every IP-based
local endpoint slugs to a digit-leading name that save_env_value rejects
outright. Key off the endpoint's own identity and keep a fixed prefix.

Co-authored-by: asorry75 <33794789+asorry75@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: webtecnica <75556242+webtecnica@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(windows): verify rebuilt Hermes.exe integrity before shipping it as an update (#69179)

The desktop self-update chain (Desktop -> hermes-setup --update ->
hermes update -> hermes desktop --build-only -> relaunch) rebuilds
Hermes.exe on the user's machine and declared success on bare file
EXISTENCE. A truncated PE (corrupt cached Electron zip / interrupted
extraction or rcedit rewrite / full disk) or a wrong-architecture
unpacked tree therefore shipped as the 'updated' app, which Windows
refuses to load with 'This app can't run on your computer'
(此应用无法在你的电脑上运行) — and the previous working build had
already been wiped by before-pack.mjs, leaving nothing to fall back to.

Fix, in three parts:

- hermes_cli/main.py: post-build integrity gate on Windows
  (_ensure_desktop_exe_launchable). Parses the PE header of the freshly
  built Hermes.exe — MZ/PE magic, section-table completeness vs file
  size (catches truncation), and COFF machine vs the host arch (catches
  arm64/x64 mixups). On failure it purges the (likely corrupt) cached
  Electron zip, invalidates the content-hash build stamp so the
  updater's retry-once genuinely re-downloads and rebuilds, restores
  the previous build from the .bak tree when one exists (keeping the
  corrupt tree as .corrupt for diagnostics), tells the user the update
  was aborted and their old version kept, and exits nonzero.
  _desktop_packaged_executable also now prefers a host-loadable PE over
  pure newest-mtime when multiple win-*-unpacked trees coexist.

- apps/desktop/scripts/before-pack.mjs: on win32, the previous unpacked
  tree is preserved as <appOutDir>.bak (only when it holds the product
  exe — partial/corrupt trees still get the plain wipe) instead of
  being destroyed, providing the rollback material for the gate above.
  Non-Windows behavior is unchanged.

- Behavior-contract tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_desktop_exe_integrity.py
  (23 tests — synthetic PE fixtures for truncation/non-PE/arch-mismatch,
  rollback semantics, and the build-only exit contract) and 6 new vitest
  cases in before-pack.test.mjs for the .bak preservation rules.

Progresses #69179

* fix(desktop): persist the whole discovered model list when saving an endpoint

Test enumerates a custom provider's catalogue and the panel holds the result
in discoveredModels, but the save payload never carried it, so only the one
model the user hand-typed reached providers.<id>.models. Every downstream
picker reads that map straight from config.yaml with no live probe, which is
why a proxy serving 18 models offered exactly one.

Send the discovered list and merge it onto the entry, so models already
known keep their context lengths.

Fixes #69988

Co-authored-by: asorry75 <33794789+asorry75@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(web_server): keep Desktop custom endpoint API keys out of config.yaml

The Custom Endpoints panel wrote the raw key to providers.<id>.api_key, so
the credential sat in plaintext in a file users routinely share and commit.
The input is masked, so nothing warned them.

Write the key to .env and reference it via key_env, the same indirection
built-in providers use and that runtime_provider already resolves. The read
side has to move with it: reporting has_api_key from api_key alone would
show "no API key" for every migrated endpoint, and activate copying only
api_key would drop the credential entirely. Delete now clears the .env slot
too, and an entry still carrying a pre-fix plaintext key is migrated on its
next save so existing users get cleaned up without re-entering anything —
unless the key is a hand-written ${VAR} template, which is already safe and
must not be duplicated into a second env var.

Fixes #69449

Co-authored-by: webtecnica <75556242+webtecnica@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: asorry75 <33794789+asorry75@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(cli): store custom endpoint API key in .env instead of config.yaml

hermes model's custom-endpoint flow is the other write path that produced a
plaintext key, on both the model block and the custom_providers entry. Route
it through the same .env indirection as the Desktop panel, and swap an
existing entry's inline key for the reference when the URL is re-saved.

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

* test: cover custom endpoint key storage and model-list persistence

Bug-class coverage for both fixes: the full catalogue survives Save, context
lengths are preserved, the key never lands in config.yaml on either write
path, blank clears it, a pre-fix plaintext key migrates while a ${VAR}
template is left alone, two endpoints on one host keep separate credentials,
and an IP-derived name is still a valid POSIX env var.

The two delete tests asserted on the plaintext mirror; they now assert the
same invariants against the credential reference.

* fix(desktop): persist @image: refs instead of the vision-enrichment text

The desktop gateway passed the vision-enriched, model-only message text
(carrying an `image_url:<path>` hint) straight into run_conversation as
the persisted user turn. The renderer only parses `@image:<path>`, so it
could not rebuild the attachment from history: after a restart the image
was gone and only the caption survived, and on a live session switch the
warm cache disagreed with the authoritative text and the frontend
"rescued" the image by appending it after the caption.

run_conversation already supports persist_user_message for exactly this
"what the model sees" vs "what gets stored" split; it was simply never
wired up for the attachment path.

* fix(desktop): keep cached attachment refs on session resume

Persisted history carries no attachment metadata for non-image refs, so
resume reconciliation dropped `@file:` chips off a user turn whose text
matched. Carry the warm cache's refs forward when the resumed message has
none of its own, never replacing refs that are already present.

(cherry picked from commit eac5b0a8ac39eab242a5d571531e386ec70e2435)

* fix(desktop): quote persisted @image: paths so spaced paths render

The unquoted alternative in the directive pattern is `\S+`, so a ref built
by string interpolation truncates at the first space and strands the tail
as loose text next to a broken thumbnail. Composer images live in the app's
userData dir, which on macOS is `~/Library/Application Support/<App>/` — so
every pasted or dropped image hit this.

Adds format_reference_value next to REFERENCE_PATTERN, mirroring
formatRefValue in the desktop's directive-text.tsx, and covers the
round-trip through the parser.

* fix(desktop): persist the image ref for natively-vision-capable models too

A turn routed to a model that takes pixels directly sends `content` as a
parts list, and the session store deliberately ignores a plain-string
persist override for a list payload — a text override must not erase a
turn's image summary. So the override was dropped for every user on a
vision-capable main model, and the durable row kept only the caption plus a
literal `[Image attached at: ...]` / `[screenshot]`, which the renderer
cannot turn back into an image. Only vision-preprocessed (text-mode) turns
were actually fixed.

Mirror the shape instead: swap the text part for the `@image:` ref form and
keep the image parts, so the model still has the pixels for the rest of the
session, and drop the `[screenshot]` stand-in on the way into the bubble
when a ref was lifted from the same message.

* refactor(desktop): memoize the directive image-segment filter

Matches the two derived values above it and fixes the indentation.

* fix(desktop): lead persisted image turns with the caption

Session previews are the first 60 characters of the first user message, so
persisting the @image: directives ahead of the caption labelled the session
with a truncated file path in the sidebar, session switcher, and command
palette. Clients lift the refs out of the body line by line, so moving them
after the caption changes nothing about how the turn renders.

* test(desktop): cover attached-image resume end to end

The unit tests cover each layer in isolation, but nothing exercised the whole
chain the bug lived in: the real gateway persisting an attachment, SessionDB
holding it after the process exits, and the renderer rebuilding a thumbnail
from the stored turn.

Seeds a session through the real gateway with an image attached, then launches
desktop against it — so the first render is already the relaunch case. Pins
native image routing (the majority path, and the one where a text-only persist
override is dropped) and stages the file behind directory and file names with
spaces, mirroring the macOS composer's Application Support path.

* fix(models): resolve custom provider model ids

Map picker-prefixed custom provider selections back to their configured model IDs before validation, persistence, and API requests.

Fixes #68347

* chore(contributors): map jevin@jevin.org to ijevin

Attribution check needs a mapping for the cherry-picked commit's author so
release notes credit them correctly.

* fix(relay): normalize forwarded Discord interactions to leading-slash commands (#71048)

A real APPLICATION_COMMAND interaction forwarded over the relay arrived
slash-less: _discord_interaction_to_event set text = data['name'] ("new",
not "/new"), MessageType.TEXT, and dropped options entirely — so a
registered /new dispatched as plain chat instead of a command
(MessageEvent.is_command() is text.startswith("/")).

Port the connector's Slack slash-command precedent (normalizeSlackCommand
builds `${command} ${args}`.trim() with a leading slash and explicit
command type): for type-2 interactions build "/" + name, append rendered
options space-separated (scalar options contribute their value, matching
the native adapter's f"/model {name}" shape; SUB_COMMAND/
SUB_COMMAND_GROUP contribute their name then recurse into nested
options), and set MessageType.COMMAND. Type-3 (custom_id) and other
interaction types are unchanged. This implements the interaction->command
sub-design previously flagged as deferred in the _on_passthrough
docstring.

Companion connector fix in gateway-gateway: fix(relay): strip own-mention
prefix so addressed slash commands dispatch.

* feat(desktop): add session link title resolver

Resolve @session:<profile>/<id> reference values to the session's title:
the in-memory sidebar list answers most lookups, and an unknown id falls
back to GET /api/sessions/{id}. Cache, in-flight dedupe, and subscriber
fan-out mirror the external-link title resolver.

An untitled row resolves to empty rather than "Untitled session" so the
caller's short-id fallback stays the chip label.

* feat(desktop): show resolved titles on @session chips

Route session refs in the transcript through the title resolver so a
dropped session reads as its title instead of a truncated id, and use
Tabler's funnel for the session chip icon.

* feat(desktop): render agent-written @session links as chips

Assistant text goes through the markdown renderer, not DirectiveContent,
so a session reference an agent wrote came out as literal text. Rewrite
bare refs into `#session/<value>` links during markdown preprocessing and
dispatch that href to the shared chip in MarkdownLink, alongside the
existing media and preview hrefs.

Preprocessing already skips code fences and inline code, so a ref being
discussed in code stays literal. The pure parsing/href helpers move to
session-refs.ts to keep the resolver's React and API imports out of the
per-flush preprocess path.

* fix(sessions): export delegate cascade before deletion

* refactor: extract lineage_is_logical local + document TOCTOU re-query

Follow-up cleanup for PR #71123:
- Extract getattr(args, 'lineage', 'single') == 'logical' to a local
  (appeared 3x in the export block)
- Document that the double _collect_delegate_child_ids traversal in
  delete_session is an intentional TOCTOU guard inside the write txn

* feat(session-search): give the agent a link to hand back

Asked to link to a session, the agent had no way to know the @session
reference syntax exists — every mention in the tool schema described
consuming a link the user dropped, never writing one — so it answered
with the title and timestamp as prose and the desktop had nothing to
render.

Every result now carries a ready-to-copy `link`, and the schema says to
write it inline instead of restating the title around it. The profile
segment is omitted when the active profile can't be named confidently;
a bare id still resolves.

Also skip linkifying a ref a model already wrapped in a markdown link,
which would otherwise rewrite into a nested link.

* fix(tui_gateway): retain failed turns as replayable inflight snapshots

A turn that ended in error cleared inflight_turn and emitted its terminal
frame in the same breath. If the client was disconnected during that window
(the exact case for a failure like a network drop), the frame went to the
detached drop-transport and the in-memory state was already gone — the
desktop reconnected to a session with no trace of the failure.

Failed turns now retain a compact error snapshot (user prompt, partial
assistant text, error, recoverable) that session.resume's inflight payload
carries to a reconnecting client. Covers all three loss sites: the
returned-error result path, the turn exception path (which now closes with
the same status:"error" message.complete frame shape instead of a bare
error event), and agent-init failure. The snapshot lives until the next
turn starts or the session closes; _run_prompt_submit replaces a retained
error leftover instead of appending onto it.

Co-authored-by: Reza Sayar <rsayar@uvic.ca>

* feat(desktop): crash-survivable in-flight turn journal

The renderer's session-state cache is memory-only and the backend's
inflight snapshot dies with the backend process, so nothing survived a
full app or machine death mid-turn: reopening the session showed the
transcript up to the last committed turn and silently dropped everything
the crashed turn had streamed.

While a turn runs, the visible tail (user prompt + streamed assistant
rows, tool calls included) is now journaled to localStorage — throttled
off the delta-flush hot path, bounded (24 entries / 7 days), cleared the
moment the turn settles. Session resume folds the journaled tail back
onto the restored transcript. When the backend also has a live text-only
inflight projection for the same turn, the journal overlays its richer
structure onto that row (longer text wins, base row id kept so live
deltas keep landing) instead of treating it as caught up — the ordering
defect that dropped locally recorded tool progress in the original PR.

Co-authored-by: Omar Baradei <omar@kostudios.io>

* fix(desktop): surface terminal error frames as failed bubbles

message.complete frames with status "error" were detected only by a text
regex heuristic, which misses the gateway's "Error: <detail>" texts and
partial-text failures — a failed turn rendered as a healthy reply. The
structured e…
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* test(runtime): cover managed SQLite cutover (E-949)

* fix(runtime): preserve cutover lifecycle on retry (E-949)

* fix(runtime): request minor line for SQLite runtime repair + tests

Follow-up on the #70186 salvage. The cherry-picked repair pinned the
candidate to the exact current CPython patch (e.g. 3.11.14). Verified
live with uv 0.11.19: every published python-build-standalone artifact
for 3.11.14 links vulnerable SQLite 3.50.4 — even with --reinstall — so
the exact-patch pin made the repair permanently impossible on the
installs that need it most (repair_vulnerable_runtime returned
'failed: could not provision a fixed private Python runtime').

Request the minor line (3.11) instead — the same resolution a fresh
'uv python install' would make, still inside requires-python — and
tighten the drift gate to 'same minor, no downgrade'. E2E-verified
end-to-end on a real vulnerable venv: repair_vulnerable_runtime()
provisioned 3.11.15, built + smoke-tested the sibling venv, cut over,
and reported SQLite 3.50.4 → 3.53.1 with the old venv parked for
rollback.

* test: accept kwargs in managed_uv fixture fakes

The runtime-repair change passes repair_observer= to update_managed_uv/
ensure_uv; the autouse fixture fakes had zero-arg signatures and raised
TypeError through the mock. Sibling test file to the PR's own suite.

* fix(compression): recover rotated session lineage

* chore: map contributor ruizanthony

* fix: pre-lease drift guard must not fire on in-place compaction or mutated snapshots

The salvaged drift check compared durable rows to the in-memory snapshot
by content and ran in both modes. Two problems:
1. In-place compaction (the default) archives non-destructively — drift
   cannot lose data there, and the strict-prefix content comparison
   failed against seeded histories, aborting every in-place compaction
   (5 test failures in test_in_place_compaction.py).
2. Content equality wedges on sessions with legal in-memory mutation of
   past turns (multimodal compression, retry replacement) — the same
   permanent-abort shape as #14694.

Now rotation-only and length-based: abort only when the durable parent
has MORE rows than the snapshot (a writer committed in the lease window).
Dead helper _durable_history_matches_snapshot removed.

* test: order compression-tip fixtures around the closed-parent write guard

Two compression-tip hydration tests simulated legacy state by emptying
the parent AFTER end_session(compression) — exactly the durable write
the new closed-parent guard refuses. Reordered: empty first, close
second. The tests' actual contract (old id hydrates from the live tip)
is unchanged and still pinned.

* fix(checkpoints): never auto-delete orphans on unattended startup sweep

Builds on this PR's diagnosis by @Frowtek: a missing workdir is
ambiguous (deleted project vs. an unmounted external volume / network
share / VPN not yet up), so it's not safe evidence for a destructive
GC sweep — especially one that runs unattended at startup.

- cli.py / gateway/run.py: the startup auto-maintenance sweep now
  always passes delete_orphans=False to maybe_auto_prune_checkpoints().
  It still prunes by retention_days, size cap, and legacy archives —
  none of which require guessing whether a project was deleted or is
  just temporarily unreachable.
- hermes_cli/config.py: drop the now-unused delete_orphans default.
- hermes_cli/checkpoints.py: `hermes checkpoints prune` (the explicit,
  human-invoked path) now previews the orphan project list and asks
  for confirmation before deleting, unless -f/--force is passed.
- Docs updated (EN + zh-Hans) to match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(checkpoints): include pre-v2 shadow repos in orphan preview

store_status()["projects"] only ever covered v2 metadata, so the
`hermes checkpoints prune` confirmation prompt was blind to pre-v2
base/<hash>/HEAD shadow repos that prune_checkpoints() deletes
separately via shutil.rmtree — a pre-v2-only or mixed store could
lose checkpoint history without ever hitting the confirmation.

Extract the pre-v2 scan into _pre_v2_shadow_repos() and have both
store_status() (preview, new pre_v2_projects key) and
prune_checkpoints() (deletion) read from it, so the CLI prompt can
no longer diverge from what actually gets removed.

Addresses review from egilewski on #69141.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(checkpoints): cover prune decline/accept/--force for pre-v2-only and mixed stores

Requested by egilewski on #69141: the orphan confirmation flow had no
test coverage at all before this. Exercises hermes_cli.checkpoints.cmd_prune
directly against pre-v2-only and mixed (v2 + pre-v2) fake stores —
decline aborts with nothing deleted, accept deletes both layouts,
--force and --keep-orphans skip the prompt as expected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(checkpoints): bind orphan confirmation to previewed identities

Address P1 from PR review: cmd_prune()'s y/N preview reads
store_status() but the confirmed deletion re-scans both the v2 and
pre-v2 layouts from scratch. A workdir that goes missing while the
human is answering the prompt gets swept in as if it had been shown
and approved.

prune_checkpoints() now accepts orphan_allowlist — a set of v2 project
hashes and/or pre-v2 shadow repo paths. When set, only orphans whose
identity is in the set are deleted; anything newly orphaned since the
scan survives the run. cmd_prune() builds this set from the exact
projects it just displayed and passed confirmation for. --force still
passes None (no preview shown, so nothing to bind to).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* doc(checkpoints): add cyberpunk infographic for startup sweep safety

* doc(checkpoints): update infographic to show 8 files

* fix(checkpoints): bind an empty orphan preview to an empty deletion allowlist

Follow-up for salvaged PR #69141, addressing the last open review point:
cmd_prune() only set orphan_allowlist inside 'if orphans or pre_v2_orphans',
so a zero-orphan preview passed the unrestricted None sentinel down to
prune_checkpoints(), authorizing deletion of any project that became
orphaned between the preview and the rescan — with zero confirmation
calls. The allowlist is now bound unconditionally for every non-force
run (empty preview => empty allowlist); --force keeps None. Adds the
zero-orphan-preview timing regression plus allowlist-identity tests.

* fix(agent): cache static system prompt prefixes

* fix(prompt-caching): inject cache breakpoints after message normalization

The conversation loop normalizes message text right before the API call so
the request prefix is byte-identical across turns -- the stated reason is
KV cache reuse on local inference servers and better cache hit rates on
cloud providers. Cache breakpoints were injected *before* that pass, which
defeats it.

`_apply_cache_marker` rewrites a plain-string `content` into a
`[{"type": "text", ...}]` block. The normalization pass is guarded on
`isinstance(content, str)`, so every message that just got marked is
silently skipped by it and keeps its raw leading/trailing whitespace. A
message is only marked while it sits in the last-3 window, so:

    turn N      in the window  -> marked, content "file1\nfile2\n"
    turn N+1    rolled out     -> plain,  content "file1\nfile2"

The same logical message is sent with different bytes on consecutive
turns. The prefix stops matching at that position -- which is inside the
span the breakpoints were placed to protect -- so the reusable prefix
collapses back toward the system breakpoint on every turn. Tool results
carry a trailing newline almost by default (any shell command output), so
this is the common case, not an edge case.

Move the injection below every message mutation. Besides fixing the
whitespace divergence this stops breakpoints from being spent on messages
that the orphan sweep or the thinking-only drop is about to remove or
merge away -- a marker on a dropped message is a wasted breakpoint out of
the four available.

Nothing between the old and new call sites reads `cache_control`, and the
mutators now see the plain-string shapes they were written against.

* fix(caching): reconstruct static system prefix on session restore and post-compression reuse

Follow-up to the cherry-picked #68258 base: the cross-session-stable
prefix (_cached_system_prompt_static) was only recorded on fresh
builds, so two paths silently degraded to the legacy single-breakpoint
layout (flagged in review of #68258/#69341/#69704):

- Session restore: gateway surfaces build a fresh AIAgent per turn and
  restore the persisted prompt verbatim from the session DB; the static
  prefix stayed None from turn 2 onward, flip-flopping the wire layout.
- Post-compression cached-prompt reuse: _invalidate_system_prompt()
  clears the static prefix, and the keep-cached-prompt branch never
  restored it.

Both sites now reconstruct the stable tier and adopt it ONLY when the
authoritative prompt string literally startswith() it — stable-tier
drift (skills edited, identity changed) falls back to the legacy layout
with the stored bytes untouched. Fail-open on any builder error. The
restore-path rebuild is gated on _use_prompt_caching so non-Anthropic
routes skip it entirely.

Refs #68191

Co-authored-by: JonthanaHanh <92574114+JonthanaHanh@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: joaomarcos <joaomarcosdias444@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: webtecnica <webtecnica@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(config): preserve opaque .env values

The .env sanitizer inferred missing newlines from known KEY= substrings
inside existing values. Plain secrets containing those bytes could therefore
be split into synthetic assignments and rewritten to disk.

Treat each physical line as the only assignment boundary and keep bytes after
the first equals sign opaque for boundary discovery. Preserve safe formatting,
null-byte removal, BOM handling, and normal one-assignment-per-line parsing.

Cover direct loading, dotenv loading, sanitization, writers, and migration
with behavioral regressions.

Fixes #29155

* fix(web): resolve per-profile gateway state for ?profile= in /api/status

When ?profile=<name> was passed to /api/status, the handler used
_config_profile_scope to set the HERMES_HOME contextvar override, but the
gateway liveness check (get_running_pid_cached) and runtime status read
(read_runtime_status) both resolve _get_process_hermes_home(), which
deliberately ignores contextvar overrides (issue #56986) — it always reads
os.environ['HERMES_HOME'] or the platform default. A named profile's
gateway identity files (~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/gateway.pid,
gateway_state.json) were therefore never found and the endpoint always
reported the profile's gateway as stopped.

Fix: when ?profile=<name> is requested, resolve the profile directory and
pass explicit profile-scoped paths:
- get_running_pid_cached(pid_path=profile_dir / 'gateway.pid')
- read_runtime_status(path=profile_dir / 'gateway_state.json')
- get_runtime_status_running_pid(..., expected_home=profile_dir)

This is the same explicit-path pattern _collect_profile_gateway_topology
already uses for per-profile gateway state, and it works within the #56986
constraint (no HERMES_HOME env mutation; read-only cross-profile access).
Plain /api/status without ?profile= keeps the exact zero-arg calls, so its
behavior — including the pid-cache signature and runtime-status fallback —
is byte-for-byte unchanged.

Fixes #69143

* test(web): pin per-profile gateway state scoping on /api/status

Follow-up for the salvaged #70498 fix: replace the original PR's
mock-signature churn (28 lambda **kw edits, needed only because it changed
the no-profile call shape) with two targeted regression tests:

- ?profile=<name> must pass the profile's gateway.pid / gateway_state.json
  paths and expected_home to the gateway status readers (HOME-anchored
  per-profile state under ~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/)
- ?profile=<unknown> must 404 via _resolve_profile_dir

The production change keeps plain /api/status on the exact zero-arg calls,
so every pre-existing test passes unmodified.

* test: accept the new profile-scoped kwargs in status fakes

/api/status?profile= now passes pid_path=/path=/expected_home= to the
PID and runtime-status readers; the profile-unification fakes had
zero-arg signatures and raised TypeError. Plain /api/status call shapes
are unchanged (pinned by the existing zero-arg tests in
test_web_server.py).

* fix(gateway): prevent reconnect watcher wedge after network-loss fatal error (#70344)

Three-part fix for the gateway going silently deaf after a retryable
fatal adapter error (e.g. httpx.ConnectError on Telegram):

1. **Detach-on-timeout in _connect_adapter_with_timeout** — Replaced
   plain asyncio.wait_for with the task-detach pattern used by
   _await_adapter_cleanup_with_timeout. asyncio.wait_for cancels the
   overdue task but then waits for it to exit, so a connect() that
   catches CancelledError can block recovery forever. The detach
   pattern releases the runner at the deadline via
   consume_detached_task_result.

2. **Ensure reconnect watcher always runs after escalation** — Added
   _ensure_reconnect_watcher_running(), called after queueing a
   retryable fatal error. If the reconnect watcher task has died
   (exhausted restart budget, terminal exception), it is respawned
   so queued platforms are never permanently stranded.

3. **Faulthandler at gateway startup** — Enabled faulthandler +
   SIGUSR2 dump to a rotating file under HERMES_HOME/logs/ for
   post-mortem diagnosis of future event-loop freezes.

Tests added for _ensure_reconnect_watcher_running (alive, dead,
not-started, not-running), fatal-error integration (retryable calls
ensure, non-retryable does not), and _connect_adapter_with_timeout
(timeout raises, success returns).

* fix: explicit encoding for faulthandler file open (ruff PLW1514)

* fix(gateway): stay alive on mixed retryable + non-retryable startup failures

When connected_count == 0 and at least one platform failed with a
non-retryable error, the runner exited with GATEWAY_FATAL_CONFIG_EXIT_CODE
(78) even if OTHER platforms failed for merely transient reasons.

Real-world shape (NS-609, hosted instance): WhatsApp enabled but never
paired (non-retryable whatsapp_not_paired) + Telegram TimedOut during
polling startup (retryable) => exit 78 => the gateway either goes
permanently down (supervisors honoring the exit-78 contract via
RestartPreventExitStatus / the s6 finish->125 translation from #51228) or
crash-loops (anything else). Either way Telegram never gets its retry and
the dashboard drops with every exit, so a single unpaired platform plus
one network blip disconnected every channel on the instance.

Now exit 78 is reserved for the case where ALL startup failures are
non-retryable (true config error, nothing to wait for). With mixed
failures the gateway stays alive in degraded state: the reconnect watcher
recovers the retryable platforms and the misconfigured ones stay
fatal-parked and visible in runtime status.

* fix: gate SIGUSR2 faulthandler registration behind POSIX check

signal.SIGUSR2 and faulthandler.register() don't exist on Windows;
the bare reference raised AttributeError at import time per the
windows-footgun checker. faulthandler.enable() still covers
fatal-error dumps on all platforms.

* fix(gateway): detect and escape silent event-loop freezes

- A self-rescheduling 5s call_later floor timer, armed before any
  adapter connects, guarantees the selector always has a finite
  timeout, so the existing async defenses (polling heartbeat, timeout
  guards) regain a chance to run after a zero-pending-timer stall.
- A resident daemon-thread liveness watchdog probes the loop via
  call_soon_threadsafe every 30s; after 3 consecutive 10s-timeout
  misses (~120s of total unresponsiveness) it dumps all thread
  tracebacks and exits with the established
  GATEWAY_SERVICE_RESTART_EXIT_CODE (75) so a supervisor restarts the
  gateway - async-level recovery cannot run on a frozen loop.
- stop() disarms both guards before any teardown await so a busy
  shutdown is never misjudged as a freeze.
  HERMES_GATEWAY_LOOP_WATCHDOG=0 disables; _INTERVAL/_TIMEOUT/_STRIKES
  tune the thresholds.

Fixes #69089

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(gateway): close watchdog shutdown race against final-strike exit

- Re-check stop_event after a missed probe (before the strike
  increment) and again on entering the final-strike branch (before the
  critical log, dump, and hard exit), so a normal stop() landing
  between the last timeout check and the exit path can no longer be
  misclassified as a freeze and trigger a supervisor restart.
- Deterministic boundary tests pin both re-checks independently
  (mutation-verified: removing either check turns its own test red);
  frozen-loop semantics are unchanged.

Addresses the shutdown-race review on #69164.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(gateway): recheck stop immediately before watchdog hard exit

- A stop() landing while the final diagnostics (critical log,
  traceback dump) are executing could still reach os._exit(75) after
  the pre-diagnostic check. Add a third stop_event recheck immediately
  before the hard exit: diagnostics may complete, but a disarmed
  watchdog never exits.
- Deterministic regressions for both windows (stop triggered from
  inside logger.critical and from inside faulthandler.dump_traceback);
  mutation-verified (removing the check turns both red). Frozen-loop
  semantics unchanged.

Addresses the second round of the shutdown-race review on #69164.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(gateway): gate loop-liveness watchdog via config.yaml, drop HERMES_* env knobs

Follow-up to the salvaged #69164 commits: policy forbids introducing new
HERMES_* environment variables, so the four watchdog env knobs
(HERMES_GATEWAY_LOOP_WATCHDOG / _INTERVAL / _TIMEOUT / _STRIKES) are
replaced with a single config.yaml boolean:

  gateway:
    loop_watchdog: true   # default; false disables both guards

- gateway/config.py: new GatewayConfig.loop_watchdog field (default True),
  parsed from top-level or nested gateway: form, round-trips via
  to_dict/from_dict.
- gateway/run.py: _start_loop_liveness_guards() checks config.loop_watchdog
  before arming the floor timer + watchdog (getattr-guarded for bare
  object.__new__ runners).
- gateway/shutdown_watchdog.py: start_loop_liveness_watchdog() no longer
  reads the environment; probe interval/timeout/strikes are module
  constants (30s/10s/3 — ~90s to restart, matching the systemd watchdog
  layer's posture).
- hermes_cli/config.py: documented gateway.loop_watchdog default so
  'hermes config set gateway.loop_watchdog false' validates.
- tests: env-knob tests replaced with config-gate + round-trip tests;
  the final-strike boundary test injects its probe via max_strikes
  directly instead of patching the removed env helper.

* fix: getattr-guard _stop_loop_liveness_guards in GatewayRunner.stop

Teardown-path tests build bare runners via object.__new__ without
the liveness-guard machinery; the unguarded call raised
AttributeError in 8 tests. Same guard pattern as the start path.

* fix(desktop): close cross-session leak windows in composer + session refs (#59305)

Two React passive-effect timing bugs let a session switch land in the wrong
chat: activeSessionIdRef/selectedStoredSessionIdRef (use-session-state-cache)
and the composer's attachment-scope swap (use-composer-draft) both mirrored
their source props via useEffect, which fires one commit AFTER the new
session's view has already painted — a synchronous read/submit in that window
observed the outgoing session's ids/attachments.

- use-session-state-cache.ts: mirror the session refs synchronously during
  render instead of a useEffect, guarded to fire only when the prop itself
  changed (not unconditionally) so an imperative pin from submit.ts /
  use-session-actions (e.g. a freshly resumed runtime id, intentionally not
  synced to the source atom) survives an unrelated re-render.
- use-composer-draft.ts: the per-thread attachment-scope-swap effect is now a
  useLayoutEffect, closing the window before paint.
- submit.ts / session-context-drift.ts: add a 3rd drift prong comparing the
  composer's loaded scope (SubmitTextOptions.composerScope) against the
  submit target, resolved into the same lineage-root domain
  (resolveComposerSessionKey) the composer itself uses — comparing against
  the raw tip id would false-positive-abort every submit into any session
  that has ever auto-compressed.
- routes.ts / chat/index.tsx: the primary composer's durable scope key now
  prefers the route over a possibly-stale store selection
  (primaryRouteSelectedSessionId).
- use-composer-draft.ts: redacted [composer-rehydrate] diagnostic log
  (counts/kinds/scope only, never raw refs) for future reports in this class.
- chat-runtime.ts: normalize attachment id values (url/path) before hashing
  so a re-attach with a trailing slash or backslash path dedupes correctly.

16 files, 286 tests across the touched/dependent suites (17 files) green,
including new regression coverage for each fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(desktop): satisfy eslint import-order rules in use-composer-draft.test.tsx

CI's check:lint failed on two perfectionist rule violations introduced by the
new test file: type import ordering and missing blank line between the
parent-relative and same-directory import groups. No behavior change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(agent): prevent shared OpenAI client FD-recycle corruption from stale stream watchdog

The streaming stale watchdog was calling
_replace_primary_openai_client() from its polling thread, which closes
the shared client's connection pool. Worker threads from previous
stale-killed attempts may still be unwinding their SSL BIOs, causing
TLS application-data to overwrite SQLite file headers via FD reuse.

This is the same corruption vector documented in #67142 for Anthropic,
where the fix was to never close the shared client from a non-owner
thread. Apply the same pattern to the OpenAI-wire path:

- Stale stream watchdog: skip shared client replacement
- Mid-tool-retry cleanup: skip shared client replacement
- Stream retry cleanup: skip shared client replacement

The request-local client is already closed via _close_request_client_once.
The shared client is replaced lazily by _ensure_primary_openai_client
on the next request, which runs on the owning thread.

Closes #70773.

* fix(agent): retire replaced shared OpenAI clients instead of cross-thread pool close

Widen the #70773 fix beyond the three in-request cleanup sites removed in
the cherry-picked commit: every remaining path that swaps out the shared
OpenAI client could still hard-close its pool from a thread that doesn't
own the in-flight sockets (credential rotation/refresh on the turn thread,
dead-connection cleanup, gateway cache eviction, transport recovery) —
the same FD-recycle corruption vector, just rarer.

Add AIAgent._retire_shared_openai_client(): shutdown(SHUT_RDWR) all pooled
sockets (FD-safe from any thread, unblocks in-flight readers) but never
call client.close() — FD release is deferred to GC, which cannot run until
every borrowing thread has unwound its SSL BIO. Refcounting is the
ownership handshake; with no borrowers the FDs are released immediately.

Wired into:
- _replace_primary_openai_client (rotation/refresh/dead-conn cleanup)
- try_recover_primary_transport (primary_recovery)
- release_clients (gateway cache_evict)

agent.close() keeps the hard close: full teardown is a real session
boundary where no request may be in flight.

Tests: new tests/run_agent/test_70773_shared_client_fd_corruption.py
covers the three watchdog/retry sites plus retire semantics; existing
close-assertions updated to pin retire-not-close.

* test: update credential-refresh tests for retire-not-close contract

The three refresh tests asserted the replaced shared client gets
close()d — the exact cross-thread close #70773 removes. They now pin
the new contract: close() is NOT called from the refresh path; the
old client is retired (sockets shutdown, FD release deferred to GC).

* fix(doctor): UTF-8/latin-1 fallback when scanning .env

Prefer UTF-8 for ~/.hermes/.env provider scans, then latin-1 for cp1252/Notepad files. Add regression test for invalid UTF-8 bytes.

* fix: handle non-UTF-8 files in OpenClaw migration script

* fix: decode config and state files as UTF-8 on non-UTF-8 locales

Several file-I/O call sites still use open() / Path.read_text() /
Path.write_text() without an explicit encoding, so they fall back to
the platform default. On Windows CN/JP/KR locales (GBK/CP932/CP949)
any non-ASCII byte in a config/state/user-content file raises
UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError and crashes the caller.

to the remaining hot paths:

- agent/copilot_acp_client.py:  fs/read_text_file and fs/write_text_file
                                (Copilot's read_file / write_file tools,
                                 directly reported in #18637 bug 2)
- agent/model_metadata.py:      context-length YAML cache load + two
                                save sites (context probing is on the
                                call path of every model invocation)
- agent/nous_rate_guard.py:     cross-session rate-limit JSON state
                                (read + atomic write via os.fdopen)
- cron/scheduler.py:            user config.yaml read in run_job
- gateway/delivery.py:          cron output writes for AI-generated
                                content, very likely non-ASCII

yaml.dump call sites also gain allow_unicode=True so the emitted
YAML preserves non-ASCII chars as-is instead of emitting \u escape
sequences.

Adds regression tests that monkeypatch builtins.open / Path.read_text
/ Path.write_text to simulate a GBK locale: each test raises
UnicodeDecodeError / UnicodeEncodeError unless the caller explicitly
passes encoding='utf-8'. Verified that the tests fail on main and
pass with this change, on Linux as well as on Windows.

Refs #18637

* fix(cli): add explicit encoding to read_text/write_text calls

Path.read_text() and Path.write_text() without explicit encoding
default to the system locale encoding. On Windows this is typically
cp1252, which causes UnicodeDecodeError for UTF-8 content (JSON
configs, user data, service scripts).

Add encoding="utf-8" to all read_text() and write_text() calls
across 8 CLI files, matching the pattern established in PR #50534
(security_audit_startup.py) and ruff rule PLW1514.

Fixed files:
- main.py: 4 read_text calls
- auth.py: 3 read_text calls
- banner.py: 1 read_text + 1 write_text
- service_manager.py: 1 read_text + 4 write_text
- container_boot.py: 1 read_text + 4 write_text
- doctor.py: 3 read_text calls
- uninstall.py: 2 read_text calls
- gateway.py: 1 write_text call

* fix(core,cli,gateway,plugins): add encoding='utf-8' to read_text() calls

Path.read_text() without an explicit encoding uses the platform's
default encoding. On Windows this is typically cp1252 or mbcs, which
causes UnicodeDecodeError or silent data corruption when reading
UTF-8 content (JSON files, user text, config with non-ASCII chars).

This is the read-side companion to the write_text() encoding fix.
Fixed the most critical locations that read JSON data, user content,
and config files across 14 files with 31 call sites.

Pattern: .read_text() → .read_text(encoding='utf-8')
         json.loads(path.read_text()) → json.loads(path.read_text(encoding='utf-8'))

* fix(install): emit UTF-8 from skills_sync on non-UTF-8 Windows locales

On Windows with a non-UTF-8 system locale (e.g. CP936/GBK on zh-CN),
Python defaults stdout/stderr to the active codepage. tools/skills_sync.py
prints glyphs such as checkmark (U+2713) and up-arrow (U+2191) that GBK
cannot encode, raising UnicodeEncodeError mid-run.

The installer (scripts/install.ps1) captures this script's stdout and the
Rust bootstrap parses it as UTF-8 expecting a JSON result frame. A GBK
byte stream (or the traceback it triggers) surfaces as:

  WARN stdout read error: stream did not contain valid UTF-8
  stage=config-templates state=Failed
  error=install.ps1 -Stage config-templates produced no JSON result frame
        (exit=Some(0))

i.e. the stage fails even though the script exits 0. install.ps1 already
sets [Console]::OutputEncoding = UTF8, but that does not propagate to the
python.exe child (Python reads PYTHONIOENCODING / locale, not the console
encoding).

Fix in two places for defense in depth:
- tools/skills_sync.py: reconfigure sys.stdout/stderr to UTF-8 at import so
  output is valid UTF-8 regardless of caller or active codepage.
- scripts/install.ps1: set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 and PYTHONUTF8=1 (scoped
  to the call, restored afterwards) around the skills_sync.py invocation.

* test(install): add UTF-8 regression guard for skills_sync child path

Addresses hermes-sweeper review on PR #54866: the installer runs
tools/skills_sync.py as a child python.exe whose PYTHONIOENCODING /
PYTHONUTF8 the scoped install.ps1 block sets, but there was no
regression test for this child-Python UTF-8 path. The existing
test_child_process_inherits_utf8_mode covers a different (bootstrap
entry-point) flow.

Add TestSkillsSyncUtf8Guard: three subprocess tests that import
skills_sync (triggering its import-time stdout/stderr reconfigure)
and assert the checkmark/up-arrow glyphs the script prints at
tools/skills_sync.py:596,675 emit valid UTF-8 and exit 0 even when
the child env is left unset or explicitly hostile (gbk). A third
test proves the guard is load-bearing by reproducing the crash
without it.

Also keep the new install.ps1 comment ASCII-only (the checkmark
spelled out as U+2713) per the file's PS 5.1 parser-compatibility
contract at scripts/install.ps1:79-80; the literal glyph in the
comment violated that contract.

* fix: add encoding="utf-8" to Path.write_text() calls (P1)

Path.write_text() without encoding defaults to system locale encoding.
On Windows (cp1252), this silently corrupts non-ASCII content written
to JSON files, config files, and cache files.

This is the write-side counterpart to the read_text() encoding fix
(PR #56115). PLW1514 only covers open() calls — Path methods are
unguarded by ruff.

39 instances across 16 files, all passing py_compile.

Files changed:
- agent/copilot_acp_client.py (1)
- tools/web_tools.py (1)
- tools/xai_http.py (1)
- tools/skills_hub.py (8)
- gateway/slash_commands.py (1)
- gateway/run.py (5)
- gateway/dead_targets.py (1)
- gateway/delivery.py (2)
- gateway/platforms/qqbot/adapter.py (1)
- hermes_cli/gateway.py (1)
- hermes_cli/banner.py (1)
- hermes_cli/service_manager.py (5)
- hermes_cli/container_boot.py (5)
- hermes_cli/uninstall.py (1)
- hermes_cli/main.py (2)
- hermes_cli/profiles.py (3)

* fix(hindsight): specify UTF-8 encoding for file I/O on Windows

On Windows with CJK locales (e.g. Chinese/GBK), pathlib.Path.read_text()
defaults to the system encoding instead of UTF-8, causing UnicodeDecodeError
when reading .env or .json config files that contain non-ASCII characters.

Explicitly pass encoding='utf-8' to all read_text() and write_text() calls
in the hindsight memory provider plugin.

* fix(memory): read/write .env as UTF-8 in mem0 and hindsight setup

The mem0 and hindsight memory-provider setup routines round-trip the
user's ~/.hermes/.env: they read existing lines, update the keys they
manage, and rewrite the whole file preserving every other line verbatim.
Both used env_path.read_text() / write_text() with no encoding.

read_text()/write_text() with no encoding fall back to the system locale
(cp1252/GBK on Windows), so on a non-UTF-8 host the preserved lines get
mangled or the call crashes on any non-ASCII value, and — because the
reader never strips a BOM — a Notepad-edited .env makes the first key
fail the in-place match and get duplicated instead of updated.

Match the canonical .env readers in hermes_cli/config.py: read with
encoding='utf-8-sig' (BOM-tolerant) and write with encoding='utf-8'.
mem0/_setup.py already pins utf-8 for mem0.json, so this just aligns the
.env path in the same file. Fixes both memory plugins in one class fix.

Adds regression tests: a BOM'd .env updates the first key in place
(locale-independent, fails without the fix) and non-ASCII existing lines
survive the round-trip.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): cover the remaining setup-time .env reads with utf-8-sig

Follow-up to review feedback:

- mem0 _prompt_api_key read .env with the locale default, so a Notepad
  BOM hid the first key from the masked current-value lookup; read it
  with utf-8-sig + errors=replace like the canonical readers in
  hermes_cli/config.py.
- hindsight _load_simple_env used plain utf-8; it also parses the Hermes
  .env during post_setup, where a BOM stuck to the first key. Switch to
  utf-8-sig + errors=replace.
- Add hindsight regressions: BOM key matching in _load_simple_env and in
  the cloud post_setup writer, plus non-ASCII round-trip preservation,
  and a mem0 regression for the BOM'd masked-key lookup. The BOM tests
  fail without the fix on any platform.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(profile): read .env as utf-8-sig in the distribution-install preview

`_render_distribution_plan` reads the target profile's `.env` to decide
whether a required env var is already set (so it doesn't nag the user),
using `Path.read_text()` with no encoding. Two bugs:

1. `Path.read_text()` defaults to the system locale (cp1251/GBK on Windows),
   which raises `UnicodeDecodeError` on any non-ASCII byte. The surrounding
   `except OSError` does NOT catch that — `UnicodeDecodeError` is a
   `ValueError` — so a mis-encoded `.env` aborts the entire install preview.
2. Even on a UTF-8 locale, a Notepad-added BOM prefixes the first key
   (`KEY`), so the very first required env var is mis-reported as
   "needs setting" when it is actually present.

`.env` is written as UTF-8 everywhere in the codebase. Read it as
`utf-8-sig` (tolerates the BOM) and also catch `UnicodeDecodeError` so a
genuinely un-decodable file skips the pre-check instead of crashing.

Regression tests: a BOM-prefixed `.env` whose first key must still read as
"set", and an invalid-UTF-8 `.env` that must not abort the preview.

* fix: add UTF-8 encoding to read_text/write_text in tools/ and agent/

Path.read_text() and Path.write_text() without encoding= default to the
system locale (cp1252 on Windows), which corrupts non-ASCII JSON content.

Coverage-gap fix for files not addressed by prior encoding PRs:
- tools/skills_hub.py: 6 read_text + 8 write_text (cache, index, lock files)
- tools/skills_sync.py: 1 read_text (lock file)
- tools/xai_http.py: 1 read_text + 1 write_text (auth store, marker)
- agent/shell_hooks.py: 1 read_text (allowlist)
- gateway/status.py: 1 read_text (PID file)
- hermes_cli/banner.py: 1 read_text + 1 write_text (update cache)

All sites read/write JSON or short text. No behavioral change on Linux
(already UTF-8); fixes silent data corruption on Windows.

* fix(skills): tolerate non-UTF-8 bytes in hub lock.json

_read_hub_installed_names() reads ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/lock.json with a
strict utf-8 decode. Hub skill descriptions can carry Windows-1252
typographic bytes (em-dash 0x97, smart quotes, bullets) as single high
bytes; read_text(encoding="utf-8") then raises UnicodeDecodeError, which
is a ValueError sibling not caught by the function's
except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError). It escapes and 500s the whole
/api/skills endpoint, blanking the desktop Skills panel.

Decode with errors="replace" so the offending byte degrades to U+FFFD
and the structurally valid JSON — and every other skill — stays readable.

Fixes #68053

* fix(cli): read .worktreeinclude and .gitignore as UTF-8 in worktree setup

_setup_worktree read both files with the locale default encoding. On a
cp1251/GBK Windows machine a UTF-8 include list either decodes to
mojibake paths (non-ASCII entries silently not copied) or raises
UnicodeDecodeError, which the enclosing handler logs at DEBUG and
swallows — no include is copied at all, so the worktree starts without
.env/keys and the agent breaks invisibly. A Notepad BOM likewise glues
to the first include entry on every platform, and to the first
.gitignore line, defeating the '.worktrees/' membership check and
appending a duplicate entry on each run.

Read both files with utf-8-sig + errors=replace, matching the canonical
.env readers in hermes_cli/config.py (utf-8-sig because Notepad adds a
BOM) and the UTF-8 append this same block already performs on
.gitignore.

Regression tests exercise the real cli._setup_worktree: the two BOM
tests fail without the fix on any platform, the non-ASCII include test
additionally reproduces the Windows locale failure.

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* fix(skills): read OOXML parts as bytes and form JSON as UTF-8 in office skill scripts

The bundled office skills (#68595) read user documents and agent-authored
payloads with the locale-default codec:

- docx/powerpoint validators/base.py opened OOXML part XML in text mode
  before handing it to lxml. On Windows (cp1251/GBK) the bytes decode to
  mojibake that lxml then parses, so validation runs against silently
  corrupted document text; on locales where the UTF-8 bytes don't decode
  the validator crashes with UnicodeDecodeError instead of validating.
  Opening as bytes lets lxml honor the encoding declared in the XML prolog.

- The pdf form scripts (fill_fillable_fields, fill_pdf_form_with_annotations,
  create_validation_image, check_bounding_boxes) read the fields JSON the
  agent authors — UTF-8 by construction — with the locale codec, so
  non-ASCII form values (any Cyrillic/CJK/accented input) either crash or
  get written into the user's PDF as mojibake. The json.dump writers use
  ensure_ascii=True and were already safe; only the readers needed pinning.

Adds a contract test asserting every document/payload reader is
locale-independent, plus a live regression test that runs
check_bounding_boxes.py on a non-ASCII fields.json under a forced
non-UTF-8 locale — it fails without the fix on both POSIX (C locale)
and Windows (cp1251 chokes on the 0x98 byte of U+2018).

* fix(windows): sweep remaining bare read_text/write_text sites + linter rule

AST-driven pass over every Path.read_text()/write_text() without an
explicit encoding= across non-test code: 71 sites in 34 files
(skills_hub, hermes_cli/main+profiles+service_manager+container_boot,
mem0/hindsight/honcho plugins, achievements dashboard, release/CI
scripts, productivity+comfyui skill helpers, agent/*). Verified zero
positional-encoding collisions before insertion; per-file compile()
check after.

Adds a check-windows-footguns rule flagging bare single-line
read_text/write_text (multi-line forms stay covered by the AST guard
test from #38985). Together with the salvaged contributor commits this
retires the ~169-site bare file-I/O class (#37423's long tail).

* fix: restore utf-8-sig BOM tolerance at .env readers the sweep normalized

The cherry-pick auto-resolution + AST sweep applied plain utf-8 at three
.env reader sites where the salvaged PRs (#62617, #62123) deliberately
use utf-8-sig — a Notepad BOM must not hide/duplicate the first key.
Restore the contract (tests pin it).

* chore: contributor email mappings for the file-I/O salvage

* refactor(desktop): add shared Field form-dialog primitive

Dialog forms each hand-rolled their own label+control+hint stack (or
borrowed the settings-surface ListRow), so gaps and hint styling drifted
between the profile, cron, and webhook dialogs. Add a single Field /
FieldHint primitive for label-over-control dialog fields and adopt it in
the create/rename profile dialogs as the first consumers.

* fix(desktop): unify overlay-pane padding and add primary PanelAction

Overlay panes each set their own top padding, so the Settings sidebar and
Panel headers sat at different heights than System/Agents and the close X
(the #67759 regression). Hoist the shared beside-the-X clearance into
OVERLAY_TOP_CLEARANCE, keep the taller pad only on OverlayMain (which sits
under the X), tighten OverlayMain's gutters, and drop the one-off Settings
override. Also give PanelAction a `primary` variant so a detail header can
promote its main action to a filled button.

* refactor(desktop): fold cron Blueprints into the New Job dialog

Blueprints lived behind a separate Jobs/Blueprints tab with its own card
gallery — a bespoke surface no other overlay uses. Remove the tab and make
blueprints a "Start from" dropdown at the top of the New Job dialog
(default "Custom" = the manual editor); picking one swaps the form for that
blueprint's typed slots. Also promote the detail-view "Trigger now" button
to a primary action and adopt the shared Field primitive.

* refactor(desktop): webhooks create form uses shared Field; drop status pill

The create dialog used the settings-surface ListRow/ToggleRow inside a
modal, which read differently from every other form dialog, and the detail
header carried an enabled/disabled pill that rendered as a stray dash.
Switch the form to the shared Field primitive (+ Switch) and remove the
pill.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#71099)

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* fix(dashboard): add lightweight /api/health liveness endpoint

/api/status is the only public liveness route, and its handler loads the
gateway config, probes gateway health, and counts sessions before it can
answer. That work is wrong for a readiness probe: a caller that only needs
to know the process is up pays for a cold plugin import tree.

Add /api/health, which returns process liveness, version, and the auth-gate
shape and touches nothing else.

* fix(desktop): probe /api/health for boot readiness, and survive a stalled loop

Desktop boot polls /api/status, so readiness waits on gateway config and a
cold plugin import tree. On Windows that regularly outlives the probe and
Desktop kills a backend that is already listening, respawns it, and re-pays
the same import cost — the reported crash loop.

Probe /api/health instead, falling back to /api/status only for the
missing-route shapes the fetch helpers emit (404, or HTML from the SPA), so
an older remote backend still connects. Timeouts and server errors keep
polling health rather than dropping to the heavyweight route.

A cheap route is not enough on its own. Warming the gateway import holds the
GIL, so the event loop can stall for tens of seconds and starve /api/health
too. At the default 15s socket timeout only three attempts fit in the 45s
budget; give each probe 5s so the loop keeps retrying across the stall.

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* fix(state): decode display_metadata at every message read path

get_messages(), get_messages_around() and get_anchored_view() returned the
raw display_metadata column instead of the dict every caller expects. The
desktop paints a resumed transcript from the REST prefetch, which reads
through get_messages(), so any session holding an async_delegation_complete
event failed resume with "Cannot use 'in' operator to search for
'task_count'" — on every such session, not just corrupted ones.

Route all four read paths through one shared codec that also unwraps rows
carrying a second JSON layer, so sessions already broken on disk recover on
read rather than needing a migration.

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* fix(state): stop double-encoding display_metadata on write

export_session() reads through get_messages(), so before the read fix an
already-serialized string went straight back into _insert_message_rows() and
got re-dumped — an export/import round trip permanently corrupted the row.
Guard the three write paths the same way tool_calls already is: parse a
string argument before storing it, and drop metadata that isn't an object
rather than persisting something no reader can use.

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* fix(desktop): tolerate unparsed display_metadata from an older backend

The desktop and the Hermes backend it talks to version independently — a
remote VM running an older build still serves display_metadata as JSON text.
Indexing into that string with `in` threw and failed the whole resume, so
narrow the type to admit a string and parse it before reading task_count.
Falling back to the generic label keeps a delegation event renderable even
when the metadata is unusable.

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* fix(checkpoints): don't prune a project whose volume is merely unmounted

Orphan pruning decides a project is gone from a single probe:

    if delete_orphans and (not workdir or not Path(workdir).exists()):
        reason = "orphan"

then deletes its ref, index, and metadata — the project's entire checkpoint
history. `Path.exists()` is False for a deleted directory, but it is equally
False for one whose storage is not attached right now: an unplugged external
drive, a share behind a downed VPN, a bind-mount absent from this container,
an offline Windows mapped drive. The project is fine; only our view of it is.

This is not an opt-in maintenance command. `maybe_auto_prune_checkpoints`
runs unattended at startup from both `cli.py` and `gateway/run.py`, with
`delete_orphans=True` by default. So starting Hermes once while the drive is
unplugged silently destroys the restore points for every project on it — the
one thing checkpoints exist to provide, and there is nothing to restore from
afterwards.

Reproduced against the real store: a project registered under an unmounted
path and one on local disk, then a startup prune —

    prune: {'scanned': 2, 'deleted_orphan': 1}
    unreachable project index still on disk: False

The legacy pre-v2 branch has the same flaw plus a second one: a
`HERMES_WORKDIR` marker that exists but cannot be read leaves `workdir = None`,
which the same condition treats as an orphan. Failing to read a file is not
evidence that a project was deleted.

Require corroboration before deleting: the workdir's parent must be present,
so its absence is something we actually observed. A missing parent means the
volume is not there and we know nothing, so the entry is left alone — and an
unreadable marker never deletes at all. Genuinely abandoned projects are still
reclaimed, both by the unchanged orphan path (parent present, project gone)
and by the retention/stale rule, which runs off `last_touch` rather than a
filesystem probe.

tests/tools/test_checkpoint_manager.py: a project whose whole mount disappears
keeps its history; controls prove a genuinely deleted project is still pruned
and a live project is untouched. The data-loss test fails on main; both
controls pass there. 81 passed across the checkpoint suites (2 failures in
test_checkpoint_manager.py are pre-existing and fail identically on clean
main).

* fix(checkpoints): an empty surviving mount point is not evidence of deletion

Addresses @egilewski's review: the parent-directory check still deleted
checkpoint history for the most common unmount layout.

Detaching storage removes the parent outright in some layouts
(`/Volumes/Ext/proj` on macOS, `/media/<user>/<label>/proj`), which the first
commit handles. But in the classic static layout — `/mnt/volume/proj`, an
fstab entry, a container bind-mount — unmounting removes the contents and
leaves the mount point behind as an empty directory. `parent.is_dir()` is then
true, the project is absent, and the startup sweep deletes its ref, index and
metadata: exactly the case this PR set out to protect.

Reproduced against the real predicate before this commit:

    mount root vanished (macOS)   -> False   ok
    empty surviving mount point   -> True    <-- history deleted
    really deleted (siblings)     -> True    ok

An empty parent carries no information: it looks identical whether the volume
was detached or the project was deleted. So require the parent to actually say
something — it holds some other entry (we observed a populated directory that
does not contain the project), or it is itself a live mount point (the volume
is attached right now and demonstrably does not hold the project).

The cost is that a project deleted out of an otherwise-empty parent is no
longer reclaimed by the orphan rule. It is not leaked: the retention rule
reads `last_touch` rather than probing the filesystem and still collects it,
so reclamation is deferred, not lost. That is the right direction for a
predicate whose false positive destroys a user's restore points unattended.

`_dir_has_any_entry` stops at the first entry via `os.scandir` instead of
materializing a listing, since a project root can hold a large tree.

tests/tools/test_checkpoint_manager.py: `test_surviving_empty_mountpoint_
keeps_its_checkpoints` pins the reviewed case, and `test_empty_parent_project_
is_still_reclaimed_by_retention` pins the deferral above so the safety valve
cannot silently regress into a leak. Both fail on the previous commit. The
real-orphan control now seeds a sibling so it exercises a populated parent
rather than the ambiguous empty one. 80 passed in the checkpoint suite; the 2
remaining failures (`TestGitEnvIsolation`, `TestClearFunctions`) fail
identically on clean main.

* fix(checkpoints): require positive volume-attachment evidence before orphan classification

Follow-up to the cherry-picked #69063: egilewski's review found that the
_dir_has_any_entry(parent) guard treats ANY entry in the mount point's
parent as proof the volume is attached — but unmounting exposes the
UNDERLAY directory's own files (e.g. a .keep placeholder), so a populated
underlying mount-point dir still classified the project as an orphan and
deleted its ref/index/metadata. Reproduced on both main and the PR head.

Attachment evidence is now positive instead of circumstantial:

* _volume_evidence() records the parent directory's (st_dev, st_ino)
  identity in the project's metadata while the workdir is observably
  live (at _register_project/_touch_project time). A mount point
  resolves to the mounted filesystem's root while attached and to the
  underlay directory after detach — same path, different directory,
  different identity.
* _workdir_is_observably_gone() now requires the parent visible at
  prune time to match that recorded identity before the populated-parent
  check can classify an orphan. A mismatch means a different directory
  (the underlay) is showing through — a detached volume, not an
  observed deletion.
* Metadata without a recorded identity (written by older versions) is
  never orphan-classified — unsure never deletes; the retention/stale
  rule still reclaims genuinely abandoned projects off last_touch.
* The frozen pre-v2 layout has no metadata channel for the identity, so
  it keeps the structural checks only (require_parent_identity=False).
* A failed evidence probe on re-registration preserves the previously
  recorded identity — stale evidence can only make pruning MORE
  conservative.

Windows: st_dev/st_ino of 0 (filesystems without file IDs, some network
shares) is treated as "no evidence recorded", which falls into the
conservative never-orphan path. os.path.ismount and Path.stat are
cross-platform; no POSIX-only calls added.

tests/tools/test_checkpoint_manager.py: adds egilewski's exact
regression (checkpoint history for mnt/volume/project, detach exposes
mnt/volume/.keep, prune with orphan deletion enabled → NOT deleted;
fails on the bare cherry-pick, passes with this fix), plus
no-recorded-identity conservatism and probe-failure identity
preservation. His absent-parent/empty-parent/retention/genuine-deletion/
live-project controls all still pass.

Reported-by: egilewski (review on #69063)

* fix(telegram): require initial polling readiness

Use wall deadlines for deleteWebhook and start_polling, then fail cold startup unless getUpdates proves progress. This lets the gateway discard partial PTB state and retry with a fresh adapter.\n\nRefs #67498

* fix(gateway): allow Telegram readiness budget

Give Telegram a 180s default outer connect budget so cold polling can prove getUpdates readiness. Preserve the 30s default for other platforms and all explicit config/env overrides.\n\nRefs #67498

* fix(telegram): bind strict cold-start readiness to its own polling generation

Follow-up hardening for the salvaged #69240 readiness gate (#67498):

- _start_polling_once now returns its (generation, progress_event) pair
  so the strict cold-start gate binds to exactly the generation it
  started, instead of re-reading self._polling_progress_event which a
  concurrent recovery task may have replaced with a newer generation's
  event (the G1/G2 race flagged in the #69240 review).
- Strict cold start no longer schedules background polling recovery: a
  polling error during the readiness wait is captured by a strict
  callback and fails the connect attempt immediately with a loud
  OSError, so GatewayRunner disposes the partial adapter and retries
  with a fresh one — no more waiting out the full readiness deadline on
  a generation that already errored, and no G2-on-partial-app healing.
- After readiness is proven the strict callback delegates every later
  polling error to the real background-recovery callback, preserving
  the existing degraded/reconnect semantics for the polling lifetime.
- The readiness-timeout error message now states the deadline and that
  the gateway will retry with a fresh adapter (loud failure, not a
  silent wait).
- Regression tests: current-generation progress connects; a polling
  error during strict cold start fails fast without scheduling
  background recovery (the #67498 idle-threads shape); stale-generation
  progress is rejected.

Progresses #67498

* test: record getUpdates progress in mocked cold-connect polling flows

The strict cold-start readiness gate (#67498) means adapter.connect() no
longer returns True until the mocked start_polling records a successful
getUpdates round trip for its generation. Update the conflict-suite
Application mocks accordingly:

- fake_start_polling side effects call
  adapter._record_polling_progress(adapter._polling_generation) on the
  initial connect (retry generations intentionally do NOT auto-progress
  where a test asserts the conflict count survives an unproven retry).
- _build_polling_app takes the adapter so its start_polling mock can
  record progress.

Without this, the cold connects in these tests wait out the full 60s
readiness deadline and fail — which is exactly the fail-closed behavior
the gate is supposed to provide when polling shows no progress.

* fix(config): add a collision-safe env var name for custom endpoint keys

Both the Desktop panel and the CLI setup flow need somewhere in .env to put
a custom endpoint's API key. Deriving the name from the endpoint's hostname
collapses two servers on one machine onto a single slot, and every IP-based
local endpoint slugs to a digit-leading name that save_env_value rejects
outright. Key off the endpoint's own identity and keep a fixed prefix.

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* fix(windows): verify rebuilt Hermes.exe integrity before shipping it as an update (#69179)

The desktop self-update chain (Desktop -> hermes-setup --update ->
hermes update -> hermes desktop --build-only -> relaunch) rebuilds
Hermes.exe on the user's machine and declared success on bare file
EXISTENCE. A truncated PE (corrupt cached Electron zip / interrupted
extraction or rcedit rewrite / full disk) or a wrong-architecture
unpacked tree therefore shipped as the 'updated' app, which Windows
refuses to load with 'This app can't run on your computer'
(此应用无法在你的电脑上运行) — and the previous working build had
already been wiped by before-pack.mjs, leaving nothing to fall back to.

Fix, in three parts:

- hermes_cli/main.py: post-build integrity gate on Windows
  (_ensure_desktop_exe_launchable). Parses the PE header of the freshly
  built Hermes.exe — MZ/PE magic, section-table completeness vs file
  size (catches truncation), and COFF machine vs the host arch (catches
  arm64/x64 mixups). On failure it purges the (likely corrupt) cached
  Electron zip, invalidates the content-hash build stamp so the
  updater's retry-once genuinely re-downloads and rebuilds, restores
  the previous build from the .bak tree when one exists (keeping the
  corrupt tree as .corrupt for diagnostics), tells the user the update
  was aborted and their old version kept, and exits nonzero.
  _desktop_packaged_executable also now prefers a host-loadable PE over
  pure newest-mtime when multiple win-*-unpacked trees coexist.

- apps/desktop/scripts/before-pack.mjs: on win32, the previous unpacked
  tree is preserved as <appOutDir>.bak (only when it holds the product
  exe — partial/corrupt trees still get the plain wipe) instead of
  being destroyed, providing the rollback material for the gate above.
  Non-Windows behavior is unchanged.

- Behavior-contract tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_desktop_exe_integrity.py
  (23 tests — synthetic PE fixtures for truncation/non-PE/arch-mismatch,
  rollback semantics, and the build-only exit contract) and 6 new vitest
  cases in before-pack.test.mjs for the .bak preservation rules.

Progresses #69179

* fix(desktop): persist the whole discovered model list when saving an endpoint

Test enumerates a custom provider's catalogue and the panel holds the result
in discoveredModels, but the save payload never carried it, so only the one
model the user hand-typed reached providers.<id>.models. Every downstream
picker reads that map straight from config.yaml with no live probe, which is
why a proxy serving 18 models offered exactly one.

Send the discovered list and merge it onto the entry, so models already
known keep their context lengths.

Fixes #69988

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* fix(web_server): keep Desktop custom endpoint API keys out of config.yaml

The Custom Endpoints panel wrote the raw key to providers.<id>.api_key, so
the credential sat in plaintext in a file users routinely share and commit.
The input is masked, so nothing warned them.

Write the key to .env and reference it via key_env, the same indirection
built-in providers use and that runtime_provider already resolves. The read
side has to move with it: reporting has_api_key from api_key alone would
show "no API key" for every migrated endpoint, and activate copying only
api_key would drop the credential entirely. Delete now clears the .env slot
too, and an entry still carrying a pre-fix plaintext key is migrated on its
next save so existing users get cleaned up without re-entering anything —
unless the key is a hand-written ${VAR} template, which is already safe and
must not be duplicated into a second env var.

Fixes #69449

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* fix(cli): store custom endpoint API key in .env instead of config.yaml

hermes model's custom-endpoint flow is the other write path that produced a
plaintext key, on both the model block and the custom_providers entry. Route
it through the same .env indirection as the Desktop panel, and swap an
existing entry's inline key for the reference when the URL is re-saved.

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* test: cover custom endpoint key storage and model-list persistence

Bug-class coverage for both fixes: the full catalogue survives Save, context
lengths are preserved, the key never lands in config.yaml on either write
path, blank clears it, a pre-fix plaintext key migrates while a ${VAR}
template is left alone, two endpoints on one host keep separate credentials,
and an IP-derived name is still a valid POSIX env var.

The two delete tests asserted on the plaintext mirror; they now assert the
same invariants against the credential reference.

* fix(desktop): persist @image: refs instead of the vision-enrichment text

The desktop gateway passed the vision-enriched, model-only message text
(carrying an `image_url:<path>` hint) straight into run_conversation as
the persisted user turn. The renderer only parses `@image:<path>`, so it
could not rebuild the attachment from history: after a restart the image
was gone and only the caption survived, and on a live session switch the
warm cache disagreed with the authoritative text and the frontend
"rescued" the image by appending it after the caption.

run_conversation already supports persist_user_message for exactly this
"what the model sees" vs "what gets stored" split; it was simply never
wired up for the attachment path.

* fix(desktop): keep cached attachment refs on session resume

Persisted history carries no attachment metadata for non-image refs, so
resume reconciliation dropped `@file:` chips off a user turn whose text
matched. Carry the warm cache's refs forward when the resumed message has
none of its own, never replacing refs that are already present.

(cherry picked from commit eac5b0a8ac39eab242a5d571531e386ec70e2435)

* fix(desktop): quote persisted @image: paths so spaced paths render

The unquoted alternative in the directive pattern is `\S+`, so a ref built
by string interpolation truncates at the first space and strands the tail
as loose text next to a broken thumbnail. Composer images live in the app's
userData dir, which on macOS is `~/Library/Application Support/<App>/` — so
every pasted or dropped image hit this.

Adds format_reference_value next to REFERENCE_PATTERN, mirroring
formatRefValue in the desktop's directive-text.tsx, and covers the
round-trip through the parser.

* fix(desktop): persist the image ref for natively-vision-capable models too

A turn routed to a model that takes pixels directly sends `content` as a
parts list, and the session store deliberately ignores a plain-string
persist override for a list payload — a text override must not erase a
turn's image summary. So the override was dropped for every user on a
vision-capable main model, and the durable row kept only the caption plus a
literal `[Image attached at: ...]` / `[screenshot]`, which the renderer
cannot turn back into an image. Only vision-preprocessed (text-mode) turns
were actually fixed.

Mirror the shape instead: swap the text part for the `@image:` ref form and
keep the image parts, so the model still has the pixels for the rest of the
session, and drop the `[screenshot]` stand-in on the way into the bubble
when a ref was lifted from the same message.

* refactor(desktop): memoize the directive image-segment filter

Matches the two derived values above it and fixes the indentation.

* fix(desktop): lead persisted image turns with the caption

Session previews are the first 60 characters of the first user message, so
persisting the @image: directives ahead of the caption labelled the session
with a truncated file path in the sidebar, session switcher, and command
palette. Clients lift the refs out of the body line by line, so moving them
after the caption changes nothing about how the turn renders.

* test(desktop): cover attached-image resume end to end

The unit tests cover each layer in isolation, but nothing exercised the whole
chain the bug lived in: the real gateway persisting an attachment, SessionDB
holding it after the process exits, and the renderer rebuilding a thumbnail
from the stored turn.

Seeds a session through the real gateway with an image attached, then launches
desktop against it — so the first render is already the relaunch case. Pins
native image routing (the majority path, and the one where a text-only persist
override is dropped) and stages the file behind directory and file names with
spaces, mirroring the macOS composer's Application Support path.

* fix(models): resolve custom provider model ids

Map picker-prefixed custom provider selections back to their configured model IDs before validation, persistence, and API requests.

Fixes #68347

* chore(contributors): map jevin@jevin.org to ijevin

Attribution check needs a mapping for the cherry-picked commit's author so
release notes credit them correctly.

* fix(relay): normalize forwarded Discord interactions to leading-slash commands (#71048)

A real APPLICATION_COMMAND interaction forwarded over the relay ar…
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* feat(desktop): add custom endpoint settings (supersedes NousResearch#42745)

Salvages PR NousResearch#42745 (elashera:custom-endpoints-desktop), which could no
longer merge cleanly against main. Re-integrated the work onto current
main and reconciled the conflicts:

- Settings nav: wired the new 'Custom Endpoints' provider sub-view into
  main's data-driven navGroups/OverlayNav layout (PR predated that
  refactor) and added it to PROVIDER_VIEWS.
- providers-settings: kept BOTH main's LocalEndpointRow affordance and
  the PR's fuller CRUD panel; unified ProvidersSettingsProps to carry
  onClose + onConfigSaved + onMainModelChanged.
- web_server: kept main's _normalize_main_model_assignment + api_key
  propagation AND the PR's provider base_url lookup in
  _apply_model_assignment_sync.
- model_switch: dropped the PR's bare direct-custom-config picker block;
  main already implements it (source='model-config', with live model
  discovery). Updated the salvaged test to assert main's behavior.
- Merged additive import/type blocks in hermes.ts and types/hermes.ts.

Backend endpoints, i18n labels (en/ja/zh/zh-hant), and the
custom-endpoints-settings.tsx panel carried over. 28 custom-endpoint
tests pass.

Co-authored-by: elashera <emilio.jesus.lasheras.romero@nttdata.com>

* chore(contributors): map elashera's commit email

Salvage of NousResearch#42745 (superseded by NousResearch#67759) preserves @elashera's
authorship, whose corporate commit email had no contributor mapping.
Adds contributors/emails/ mapping so check-attribution passes.
Verified: GitHub user 'elashera' id=135239963 matches their own
noreply commit email (135239963+elashera@users.noreply.github.com).

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Co-authored-by: elashera <emilio.jesus.lasheras.romero@nttdata.com>
randlee pushed a commit to randlee/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Aug 11, 2026
Overlay panes each set their own top padding, so the Settings sidebar and
Panel headers sat at different heights than System/Agents and the close X
(the NousResearch#67759 regression). Hoist the shared beside-the-X clearance into
OVERLAY_TOP_CLEARANCE, keep the taller pad only on OverlayMain (which sits
under the X), tighten OverlayMain's gutters, and drop the one-off Settings
override. Also give PanelAction a `primary` variant so a detail header can
promote its main action to a filled button.
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