fix(voice): CLI/TUI voice mode UX and environment fixes (15 items) - #73520
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…ribe (#67545) In continuous voice mode, pressing the record hotkey (Ctrl+B) was a silent no-op while the agent was running or voice was being transcribed. The hotkey only cleared _voice_continuous when _voice_recording was True, leaving the user trapped in an auto-restart loop that only /voice off could break. Fix: when the agent is running or transcribing, still allow the hotkey to clear _voice_continuous so the loop stops after the current turn.
…o-speech cycles When voice continuous mode detects 3 consecutive no-speech cycles it sets _voice_continuous = False and previously did an immediate eturn. The restart guard if self._voice_continuous and not submitted and not self._voice_recording came *after* the early return, so the thread could never restart. However a timing window existed: if _voice_start_recording was already queued from a prior iteration, the eturn bypassed the guard while the thread was already in flight. Replace the bare eturn with a stop_continuous_restart boolean evaluated in the same if that guards _restart_recording. This ensures both branches read a consistent no-restart signal and no recording thread is spawned after the user's session has been intentionally halted.
…havior coverage Review follow-up: the sweeper is right that the first commit only cured half the dead config — the TUI gateway builds its recorder params explicitly, so the cap never reached recordings started from the TUI. - start_continuous() grows a max_recording_seconds param (default 0.0 = disabled, so existing callers keep today's behaviour) and applies it to the shared recorder next to the silence params - tui_gateway voice.record start forwards the validated cap; corruption semantics now mirror the silence params everywhere: non-numeric/bool falls back to the documented 120 default (a hand-edited `max_recording_seconds: true` must not become a 1-second cap), while an explicit numeric <= 0 disables the cap - cli.py wiring updated to the same corruption semantics New coverage, per review: - TestMaxRecordingCap drives the mocked InputStream callback past the cap during continuous loud speech (the silence branch physically can't fire there) and asserts the one-shot callback fires exactly once; plus the disabled-cap negative - TestMaxRecordingSecondsConfigReal pins the CLI config assignment for the valid / zero / bool / garbage cases via _voice_start_recording - test_voice_record_start_forwards_max_recording_seconds pins the TUI forwarding for the same matrix
Closes #55908. The CLI voice-mode beep amplitude is hardcoded at 0.3 inside tools.voice_mode:play_beep(), which makes the record start/stop cues too quiet on low-volume systems and headphones. Users couldn't adjust it without editing source. Move the literal into a configurable voice.beep_volume setting (clamped to 0.0-1.0, default 0.3 to preserve prior behaviour). The new _get_beep_volume() helper reads via the same load_config() pattern used by cli.py's _voice_beeps_enabled() and hermes_cli/voice.py's _beeps_enabled(), keeps bools / out-of-range / non-numeric / NaN values safely on the default, and falls back silently if config can't load so the audio cue never breaks the voice loop on a degenerate config.yaml. Covered by tests/tools/test_voice_mode.py: - TestGetBeepVolume (12 cases: missing key, custom value, boundary 0.0/1.0, out-of-range clamp, type coercion, bool guard, NaN guard, exception guard, dict-typed voice section) - TestPlayBeepVolumeWiring (guards against re-introducing a hardcoded 0.3 literal in play_beep) Docs: website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md mentions the new key. Other locale translations (zh-Hans etc.) intentionally untouched — handled by the regular i18n sync pipeline as a separate change. No change in default behaviour: existing users hear exactly the same beep.
AudioRecorder hard-codes SAMPLE_RATE (16 kHz) when opening the input stream, but some capture devices (e.g. USB microphones exposed through ALSA hw) reject 16 kHz outright — sd.InputStream fails with PaErrorCode -9997 (Invalid sample rate) and voice recording is broken. Query the default input device for its native default_samplerate at recording start and open the stream / write the WAV at that rate, falling back to the Whisper-friendly 16 kHz constant when the backend does not expose a usable rate. STT providers accept standard WAV rates, so downstream transcription is unaffected.
WSLg RDP audio has two issues causing crackling: 1. systemd-timesyncd clock adjustments jitter PulseAudio timing (microsoft/wslg#1257) — user action: stop the service 2. Cold-start RDP connection drops first ~100ms of audio packets before the virtual channel stabilises Fix (automated, WSL-only): - Detect WSL via /proc/version 'microsoft' marker - Prepend 100ms silence + apply 100ms fade-in to audio - Append 50ms silence tail for clean stream teardown - Set blocksize=4096 (default auto ~1024 is too small for RDP) - All in a single continuous sd.play() buffer Non-WSL paths unchanged. Closes #38893
Ports #63768 forward onto current main per teknium1's review. On WSL2 without a PulseAudio bridge, ffplay and aplay have no audio device and TTS playback silently fails (issue #17608). When powershell.exe and ffmpeg are available, convert the audio to a uniquely-named WAV in the Windows %TEMP% directory and play it via Media.SoundPlayer. Per review, this fixes two gaps in the original port: 1. Exit-status masking: the cleanup subshell was '( ffmpeg && powershell ); rm -f wav' -- the shell's exit status is the LAST command's (rm -f, which is always 0), so a real ffmpeg/PowerShell failure could never be detected by the rc-checking fallback logic added to the player loop. Now captures the real status before cleanup and re-exits with it: '( ffmpeg && powershell ); rc=0; rm -f wav; exit '. 2. The no-Pulse WSL gate in detect_audio_environment() still hard-blocked voice mode entirely (input AND output) even when the PowerShell fallback made TTS output viable. Added _wsl_powershell_tts_available() and use it to downgrade the WSL-without-Pulse case from a hard 'warnings' block to a non-blocking 'notices' entry when the fallback is available -- the same PulseAudio-bridge recording guidance is still surfaced (mic capture genuinely still needs it), it just no longer blocks /voice on for TTS-only usage. cli.py's existing env_check['available'] gate needed no changes since it already respects this flag. Also fixed the flaky uniqueness test (the original asserted len(filenames) >= 2, which passed trivially on zero captured filenames) and added a real fallback-triggering regression test for the exit-status fix. 10 new/fixed tests pass in TestWSL2PowerShellFallback and the new TestWSLAudioEnvironmentGate; 80/80 in the full tests/tools/test_voice_mode.py file.
…ilures \`pm list packages com.termux.api\` is the canonical way to detect the Termux:API Android app, but on some devices it gives a false negative even when the app is installed and \`termux-microphone-record\` runs fine — the symptom reported in #31015 (\`/voice on\` complaining "Termux:API Android app is not installed"). Replace the single probe with a graded strategy: 1. Try \`pm list packages com.termux.api\` (current behaviour). 2. If \`pm\` isn't on PATH or returns non-zero, fall back to \`cmd package list packages com.termux.api\` — the modern Android API 28+ equivalent that's present on devices where \`pm\` is gone. 3. If both probes are inconclusive (binary missing, permission denied, timeout, or non-zero exit) and \`termux-microphone-record\` is on PATH, trust the binary. The CLI ships in the \`termux-api\` package which is essentially only useful with the Android app installed; users who installed it deliberately almost always have the app too. Polarity matters: a false negative on this gate blocks \`/voice on\` entirely (the user-reported symptom), while a false positive only surfaces a precise runtime error from the binary itself when it tries to talk to the missing app — strictly more actionable. The clean-probe-but-no-package case still returns False, so the existing "Termux:API CLI installed without the app" warning still fires when the package manager *can* tell us the app is missing. Refs: #31015
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Two test classes lock in the new detection contract:
1. TestTermuxApiAppInstalledProbeLadder — drives _termux_api_app_installed
with a fake subprocess.run dispatcher and walks each rung of the
ladder:
- non-Termux env returns False (no probes run),
- pm-confirms returns True (back-compat),
- pm-clean-miss → cmd-confirms returns True,
- pm-FileNotFoundError → cmd-confirms returns True,
- pm-TimeoutExpired → cmd-confirms returns True,
- pm-nonzero-exit → cmd-confirms returns True,
- both probes inconclusive + binary on PATH returns True (the
core #31015 case),
- both probes inconclusive + no binary returns False,
- both probes clean-miss returns False (the genuine "CLI without
app" case keeps the existing warning),
- case-insensitive package match for ROMs that capitalise differently.
2. TestDetectAudioEnvironmentTermuxFallback — end-to-end through
detect_audio_environment, asserting the misleading "Termux:API
Android app is not installed" warning no longer fires when probes
are inconclusive but the binary is on PATH (the user-reported #31015
symptom), AND that the warning still fires when probes can
conclusively report the app is missing.
Refs: #31015
On macOS, initializing PortAudio/CoreAudio via sounddevice triggers a kTCCServiceMediaLibrary permission dialog even when no media-library access is needed. afplay already handles WAV (and every other format) natively, so route macOS playback straight to it and keep sounddevice for other platforms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses review on #62601. Applies a single rule — no sounddevice for audio OUTPUT on macOS (PortAudio/CoreAudio init triggers a kTCCServiceMediaLibrary prompt) — consistently at all three output sites: - play_audio_file: WAV playback (already routed to afplay) now uses the shared _sounddevice_output_allowed() helper. - play_beep: synthesize the tone with numpy only, then on macOS play it via a temp WAV through afplay instead of sounddevice. - stream_tts_to_speaker (tts_tool): on macOS, skip the sounddevice OutputStream so playback falls through to the existing tempfile/afplay path. Audio INPUT (recording) is untouched — it legitimately needs mic permission. Tests: TestMacOSAudioOutputPolicy (voice_mode) proves WAV + beep routing does not import sounddevice on Darwin and still uses it off Darwin; test_tts_macos_output proves streaming TTS skips the OutputStream on Darwin. Existing test_play_wav_via_sounddevice pinned to non-Darwin for determinism. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When Hermes runs inside its bundled venv (~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/ hermes-agent/venv/), the bare 'pip install sounddevice numpy' hint in _voice_capture_install_hint() told users to install into whichever Python their shell resolves first — on macOS that is often the system Python under Rosetta, a completely separate site-packages tree with incompatible wheel arches. Detect venv via sys.prefix != sys.base_prefix and return the full path to the venv's pip binary (Path(sys.prefix)/bin/pip) when available. Falls back to the bare hint outside a venv (e.g. bare-metal installs). Also adds 'from pathlib import Path' which was the only new import.
The quickstart voice-mode section used `uv pip install -e ".[voice]"` which fails on a fresh curl-installed setup because no virtual environment is active. Use `--python ./venv/bin/python` to target the installer-created venv explicitly, matching the curl installer layout. Fixes #44364
… instruction (#65827) Typed messages sent while voice mode was active were also getting the '[Voice input — respond concisely...]' API-local prefix, because the gate checked only self._voice_mode. Route STT transcripts through a _VoiceInputMessage sentinel in _pending_input (both the PTT/continuous transcription path and the barge-in utterance path), unwrap it in process_loop, and thread voice_input= through chat() so the prefix applies only to genuinely voice-transcribed messages. Re-cut of PR #65961 (@webtecnica) — the original diff had the sentinel class embedded inside __init__'s docstring. Credit also to the earliest route-by-origin attempt in PR #11744 (@KeroZelvin). Fixes #65827 Closes #65961 Closes #11744
…rror hint Two in-house micro-fixes from issue triage: - #49883: voice.beep_enabled gates in cli.py and hermes_cli/voice.py used bool() on the config value, so a quoted YAML string like "false" or "off" kept beeps on. Route through utils.is_truthy_value. - #18432: AudioRecorder.start() collapsed OSError from _import_audio into the 'pip install sounddevice numpy' hint — but OSError means the PortAudio SHARED LIBRARY is missing, which pip cannot fix. Mirror detect_audio_environment's system-package hint (libportaudio2 / brew portaudio / Termux pkg install portaudio) on that path. Fixes #49883 Fixes #18432
- _FakeProc gains returncode (main's player loop checks proc.returncode) - WSL gate tests clear SSH_* env vars (main hard-warns over SSH without forwarded audio) and accept the merged #37346 forwarded-sound-server notice wording - test_tts_macos_output stubs resolve_streaming_provider so the OutputStream setup path actually runs on main's chunked-streamer code - voice CLI integration tests unwrap the _VoiceInputMessage sentinel - _is_wsl: explicit encoding + drop unreachable return (ruff PLW1514)
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### [`v2026.8.3`](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.3): Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (2026.8.3)
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##### Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (v2026.8.3)
**Release Date:** August 3, 2026
**Since v0.19.0:** \~3,650 commits · \~1,400 merged PRs · \~5,200 files changed · \~559,000 insertions · \~405,000 deletions · **\~1,200 issues closed** · 650+ contributors
> **The Herald Release.** Hermes is the herald of the gods, and this release makes him one in earnest: he **speaks** (real-time conversational voice with streaming TTS, barge-in, on-device wake words, and hands-free control across the CLI, desktop, and every audio-capable gateway platform), he **carries word to other agents** (A2A v1.0), he **announces events to your systems** (signed outbound webhooks), and he **cites his sources** (grounded research with verifiable citations and fact-checking). Around that spine: the desktop app became a platform (artifacts with live preview, a plugin SDK, quick-entry from anywhere, multiple windows), the CLI got a wave of power commands (`!` shell mode, `/init`, `/diff`, `/context`, `/focus`), compression got smarter and gentler, and the tools themselves now recover from their own failures instead of making the model guess. This release rolls up everything from the v0.19.1 infrastructure patch tag — that window is fully documented here.
***
##### ✨ Highlights
- **Talk to Hermes — streaming, conversational voice with barge-in** — Voice mode used to mean: speak, wait for the whole reply to generate, then listen to one long audio file. Now Hermes speaks clause-by-clause as the response streams, you can interrupt it mid-sentence by just talking (it stops, listens, and the model is told you cut in), and busy-aware silence detection means it doesn't talk over you. This works in CLI voice mode, on the desktop, and through gateway adapters. Talking to Hermes finally feels like a conversation, not a voicemail exchange. ([#​69511](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69511), [#​73862](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73862), [#​74223](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74223), [#​74000](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74000), [#​69602](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69602) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- **Wake words and hands-free control** — Say your own open-vocabulary wake phrase ("hey Hermes", or anything you pick) and Hermes starts listening — detection runs on-device, so no audio leaves your machine while it waits. Multi-profile voice routing means different wake words can reach different profiles, and saying "stop" ends the voice chat on every surface without touching the keyboard. Your terminal is now something you can talk to from across the room. ([#​70509](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70509), [#​73106](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73106), [#​73933](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73933) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- **Voice on every platform** — Send a voice note to Hermes on WhatsApp, Feishu, DingTalk, LINE, QQ, Photon, or Weixin and it's transcribed and answered; auto-TTS replies are delivered platform-aware (opus where platforms want opus, captions attached correctly). STT is now fully configurable — its own `hermes tools` category, GUI toggles, dashboard dropdowns, unified language resolution so transcripts stop coming back in the wrong language, and OpenAI's gpt-transcribe support. One unified spoken-text preprocessor cleans markdown, code, and URLs out of speech across all TTS providers. ([#​73515](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73515), [#​73508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73508), [#​73910](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73910), [#​73513](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73513), [#​73067](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73067) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- **Research you can trust — grounded citations with fact-checking** — The new `grounded-citations` skill makes Hermes produce research where every claim is backed by a verifiable source: quotes are matched against the actual page text (not hallucinated), citations link to the exact evidence, and a fact-checking mode turns the same machinery on any document or claim you hand it — it tells you what checks out, what doesn't, and what couldn't be verified. If you use Hermes for research, this is the difference between "sounds right" and "provably sourced." ([#​71698](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71698), [#​77104](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77104) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- **Outbound webhooks — Hermes pushes events to your systems** — Until now, integrating with Hermes meant polling or listening on a platform. Now Hermes pushes **signed lifecycle events** (session activity, turn completions, tool events) to any HTTP endpoint you register — with HMAC signatures so your receiver can verify authenticity. Wire Hermes into your CI, your home automation, your dashboards, or any service that speaks HTTP, with no polling loop. ([#​69406](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69406) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- **The desktop app becomes a platform — artifacts, plugin SDK, quick entry** — Hermes desktop now renders **artifacts**: versioned cards with sandboxed live preview in a right-rail viewer, so generated HTML/apps run safely next to the chat. A real **plugin SDK** landed with Kanban as its founding plugin, `ctx.download` for handing users files, floating pane placement, and multiple GUI windows. A global-hotkey **quick-entry window** captures a thought into any session from anywhere in your OS. The desktop stopped being a chat client and started being a workbench. ([#​72345](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72345), [#​61173](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61173), [#​74413](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74413), [#​72315](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72315), [#​68259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68259), [#​73143](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73143) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- **Hermes speaks Agent-to-Agent — A2A v1.0** — A new bundled plugin implements the Agent-to-Agent protocol, so Hermes can discover, talk to, and be driven by other A2A-compatible agents. This closes issue [#​514](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/514) — one of the oldest open feature requests in the repo. If you're building multi-agent systems with heterogeneous stacks, Hermes now has a standard wire protocol for joining them. ([#​77109](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77109) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- **CLI power-user wave** — `!command` runs a shell command instantly without spending a model turn. `/init` scans your project and generates (or updates) an `AGENTS.md`. `/diff` shows staged/all/session changes from any surface, `/context` breaks down exactly what's filling your context window, `/focus` gives you a reduced-output view with hidden-line recovery, and Ctrl+S stashes a half-written prompt into a browsable panel. Plus `hermes import-agent` migrates your Claude Code or Codex CLI setup into Hermes in one command. ([#​72257](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72257), [#​72178](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72178), [#​72240](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72240), [#​72242](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72242), [#​72302](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72302), [#​72262](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72262), [#​72190](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72190) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), several salvaging long-standing community PRs)
- **Correct the agent mid-turn — redirects** — If Hermes is heading the wrong way, you no longer have to `/stop` and re-explain. Type a correction while it works and the active turn is redirected: work in flight is preserved, the original prompt is kept, and the agent course-corrects with your new guidance. Paired with double-ESC draft discard and a composer undo stack, steering feels like editing, not restarting. ([#​63104](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63104), [#​72339](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72339), [#​74736](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74736) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- **Tools that fix themselves** — A sweep of self-recovery upgrades means the agent wastes far fewer turns on tool friction: truncated terminal output spills to a file the agent can read back, `patch` detects already-applied edits and diagnoses whitespace mismatches, `write_file` verifies content on disk, searches that match nothing probe for near-misses and recover, and common failure classes come back with actionable hints. The default tool-calling iteration limit also jumped 90 → 500 — long autonomous runs stopped hitting an artificial wall. ([#​77041](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77041), [#​76998](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76998), [#​77024](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77024), [#​77055](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77055), [#​77011](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77011), [#​76992](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76992), [#​72176](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72176) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- **Compression that respects your conversation** — Context compression got a deep overhaul: proactive tool-result pruning for large-window models, per-turn micro-compaction that amortizes the cost instead of one giant pause, a guaranteed N-user-message tail so recent conversation always survives, progress-aware timeouts that stop punishing slow summary models, and ghost-skill defense so a pruned skill can never silently haunt a session. Thresholds are now configurable per-model and in absolute tokens. Long sessions stay coherent and stop stalling. ([#​70254](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70254), [#​75345](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75345), [#​70250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70250), [#​71508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71508), [#​70275](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70275) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor), salvaging multiple community PRs)
- **Smart approvals grow up** — `hermes approvals suggest` mines your approval history into allowlist proposals, operators can customize the smart-approval policy, a consecutive-denial circuit breaker stops a misbehaving loop cold, and desktop pairing approvals are profile-correct with a proper surface to answer them from. Plus a new approval gate for docker/podman daemon-redirect commands. Less clicking "approve", without giving an inch of control. ([#​72259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72259), [#​72186](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72186), [#​72203](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72203), [#​74446](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74446), [#​71092](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71092) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- **Faster everywhere, again** — Prompt caching now covers tool schemas on native Anthropic without history loss. `hermes -w` cold start dropped \~14s → \~1.8s, `hermes update` no-ops got 2–6s faster, heavy SDKs lazy-load off the import path, config reads stopped deep-copying (54× faster on the telemetry gate), and the desktop shipped a second 60fps wave — streaming cost independent of transcript length, drag at 60fps with five streaming tabs, idle CPU near zero in the background. ([#​76032](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76032), [#​71637](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71637), [#​74218](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74218), [#​74204](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74204), [#​71835](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71835), [#​72346](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72346), [#​75218](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75218) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- **New places to run and be reached** — Buzz lands as a bundled gateway platform (Block's Nostr-based messenger, with native WebSocket transport and NIP-42 auth), the Vercel AI Gateway provider and Vercel Sandbox terminal backend return modernized, desktop gains an SSH remote-backend connection mode, and the Relay shipped four phases of parity — media, interactive prompts, thread lifecycle, typing indicators — plus HSP personal + org skill sync. ([#​73610](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73610), [#​73761](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73761), [#​74518](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74518), [#​68130](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68130), [#​71300](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71300)–[#​71624](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71624), [#​66730](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66730) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​yoniebans](https://github.com/yoniebans), [@​benbarclay](https://github.com/benbarclay))
***
##### 🎙️ Voice & Speech
##### Conversational voice
- Streaming, conversational TTS with barge-in across all surfaces; clause-by-clause synthesis for CLI voice mode + gateway adapters ([#​69511](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69511), [#​73862](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73862) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Voice chat UX polish — busy-aware silence, stop hint, thinking sounds, barge-in fix; full-duplex turn listener (interrupt by voice during generation AND playback) ([#​74000](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74000), [#​74223](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74223) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- On-device wake words with open-vocabulary phrases + multi-profile voice routing; say "stop" to end voice chat hands-free on every surface ([#​70509](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70509), [#​73106](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73106), [#​73933](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73933) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- The model is told when the user interrupts its spoken reply; desktop speaks the whole turn and idle-flushes held narration ([#​69602](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69602), [#​69936](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69936) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- 15-item CLI/TUI voice-mode UX and environment fix wave ([#​73520](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73520) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
##### TTS / STT infrastructure
- Unified spoken-text preprocessing + speed/instructions/provider tool params; unified STT language resolution (fixes the wrong-language transcription class); global `stt.language` defaults to `en` ([#​73513](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73513), [#​73067](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73067), [#​73100](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73100) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Fully configurable STT — `hermes tools` category, GUI toggle/matrix, dashboard dropdowns, setup status; OpenAI gpt-transcribe support ([#​73910](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73910), [#​73853](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73853) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Platform-aware auto-TTS voice delivery (opus platforms, streamed/global gap, captions); inbound voice classification/routing for Feishu, DingTalk, LINE, QQ, Photon, WhatsApp, Weixin ([#​73508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73508), [#​73515](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73515) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Command TTS/STT provider hardening — idle timeouts, env scrubbing, no-shell, path guards ([#​73514](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73514) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Sync per-sentence TTS synthesis pipelined with playback — the next sentence renders while the current one speaks ([#​77355](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77355) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- Discord voice PCM streams to ffmpeg stdin instead of a temp file ([#​76970](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76970) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
##### 🏗️ Core Agent & Architecture
##### Compression & context
- Proactive tool-result pruning for large-window models; per-turn micro-compaction; N-user tail guarantee (`compression.min_tail_user_messages`); bounded summarizer input with head+tail retention ([#​70254](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70254), [#​75345](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75345), [#​70250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70250), [#​70249](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70249) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- Ghost-skill defense — `[SKILL_PRUNED]` markers, protected prune, deterministic survival; progress-aware timeouts; lock-contended compression soft-defers instead of exhausting ([#​70275](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70275), [#​71508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71508), [#​70285](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70285) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Per-model threshold overrides; absolute token threshold (`compression.threshold_tokens`); opt-in idle-triggered compaction; opt-in progress notices; structured local logging for compression attempts ([#​69339](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69339), [#​69335](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69335), [#​69360](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69360), [#​70457](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70457), [#​69338](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69338) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Context-engine ABC grows `select_context()` + `on_turn_complete()` verbs (salvage of [@​chaos-xxl](https://github.com/chaos-xxl)'s RFC work); engines can suppress or customize compaction status ([#​70458](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70458), [#​69859](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69859) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Strict redaction applied at every compaction text boundary ([#​69294](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69294) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
##### Prompt caching & hot-path performance
- Tool schemas cached on native Anthropic without history loss + consolidated cache-plan internals ([#​76032](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76032), [#​76067](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76067) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- DeepSeek prompt caching on OpenCode gateways; per-API-call token accounting off the turn thread; OpenAI wire client reused across sequential LLM calls; send-path tool-call canonicalization memoized ([#​75886](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75886), [#​73359](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73359), [#​73375](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73375), [#​76880](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76880) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- Readonly config loader at 29 call sites (28× cheaper reads); per-turn config deepcopies killed (telemetry gate 54×); one raw config.yaml parse per process; inter-tool delay removed ([#​74322](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74322), [#​74211](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74211), [#​74228](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74228), [#​64172](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64172) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​Soju06](https://github.com/Soju06))
- Lazy heavy-SDK imports (−8-10% import cost on top of the mcp/tool-discovery diet); streaming hot loop drops per-chunk repr() (\~3× cheaper accounting); cursor/memo optimizations for per-iteration history walks ([#​74204](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74204), [#​74194](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74194), [#​74221](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74221), [#​74231](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74231) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Cold-start \~14s GIL stall during backend init mitigated; turn flush batched into one SQLite transaction; provider-capability-gated prompt cache keys (implied for api.openai.com) ([#​77814](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77814), [#​77619](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77619), [#​77609](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77609) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- AIAgent hot-path salvage — prompt-cache copy, reasoning-timeout precompute, lazy compressor init ([#​57229](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/57229) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
##### Approvals & the agent loop
- `hermes approvals suggest` mines approval history into allowlist proposals; operator-customizable `approvals.smart_policy`; consecutive-denial circuit breaker; cross-surface approvals mode command ([#​72259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72259), [#​72186](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72186), [#​72203](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72203), [#​63517](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63517) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Docker/podman daemon-redirect commands require approval; session-wide runaway-loop caps for web\_search + delegate\_task (Claude Code-inspired) ([#​71092](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71092), [#​66600](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66600) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Mid-turn redirects — user corrections steer the active turn, preserving in-flight work and the original prompt ([#​63104](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/63104), [#​72339](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72339) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- Delegation: structured timeout/stall metadata + live per-child status in `/agents`; subagents can use `execute_code`; redacted child tool history exposed in `subagent_stop`; public subagent lifecycle API for plugins ([#​72300](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72300), [#​69325](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69325), [#​72403](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72403), [#​72501](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72501) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Single-owner refactors for backend identity + failure-scoped skips, empty-content wire repair, call\_id/reasoning sanitization, model-switch parsing ([#​72505](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72505), [#​73071](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73071), [#​74319](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74319), [#​74229](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74229) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Labeled reasoning excerpt surfaced at the empty-response terminal; tool\_search probe-validates blind tool\_call args ([#​65144](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65144), [#​59267](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/59267) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
##### Tool self-recovery wave
- Terminal: recoverable truncation (full output spilled + pre-truncation size), cwd echoed when a command changes directory, output-pattern failure hints ([#​77041](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77041), [#​77004](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77004), [#​76992](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76992) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Patch: already-applied edits return success no-op, whitespace-visualized no-match diagnosis, ambiguous-match locations listed ([#​76998](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76998), [#​77024](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77024), [#​77001](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77001) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Search: zero-match probes + multi-path recovery, auto-multiline for newline patterns; read\_file default limit 500 → 2000 lines; negative-result cache for read/search misses; write\_file verifies on-disk content ([#​77011](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77011), [#​77102](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77102), [#​76996](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76996), [#​76945](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76945), [#​77055](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77055) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- execute\_code recovery hints; skill\_view dedup stub for unchanged re-reads; terminal/execute\_code schema prose trimmed \~40%; tiered tool disclosure scales with catalog size; default iteration limit 90 → 500 ([#​77106](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77106), [#​77095](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77095), [#​77023](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77023), [#​67034](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67034), [#​72176](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72176) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
##### Providers & models
- Vercel AI Gateway provider + Vercel Sandbox terminal backend return, modernized (SDK 0.7.2, telemetry off) ([#​74518](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74518) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Gemini 3.1 Pro + 3.6 Flash in catalogs; Gemini salvage cluster (3.6-flash aux default, Vertex catalog, direct cost tracking); claude-opus-5 in OpenRouter + Nous Portal; deepseek-v4-flash-0731 ([#​73479](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73479), [#​73516](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73516), [#​70946](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70946), [#​75501](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75501) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Bedrock Converse API prompt caching (cachePoint) ([#​70231](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70231) — [@​JoaoMarcos44](https://github.com/JoaoMarcos44))
- OpenAI data-residency endpoints get declared transport + correct catalog; provider-aware API-server request routing; backend-acknowledged session model lock; Nous sticky routing via top-level session\_id ([#​74958](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74958), [#​70853](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70853), [#​70950](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70950), [#​69253](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69253) — [@​victor-kyriazakos](https://github.com/victor-kyriazakos), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Model picker: curated defaults + collapsible providers + select-all; stale caches served instantly with background refresh; custom-endpoint probe capped at 1.5s; honcho OAuth device-code login ([#​73172](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73172), [#​76430](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76430), [#​76922](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76922), [#​61608](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61608) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor), [@​akattelu](https://github.com/akattelu))
- ACP: named custom providers in the model selector; authenticated cross-provider model choices; non-blocking startup via background MCP discovery ([#​70082](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70082), [#​70404](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70404), [#​75985](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75985) — [@​israellot](https://github.com/israellot), [@​amanning3390](https://github.com/amanning3390), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
##### Secrets & config
- Command-helper secret source (composes with all vaults); one-command token rotation + actionable startup errors; opt-in encrypted break-glass cache for Bitwarden; vault-injected keys scoped per profile home; orchestrator preserve\_existing + profile aliasing ([#​69266](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69266), [#​68605](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68605), [#​69251](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69251), [#​69250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69250), [#​69058](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69058) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- `${env:VAR}` SecretRef parity between config.yaml and MCP config; secret-source env vars reach stdio MCP servers ([#​69267](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69267), [#​69053](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69053) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Canonical config loaders for behavioral reads; table-driven config migration registry; DEFAULT\_CONFIG extracted to config\_defaults.py; auto-migration support floor at v12 ([#​74237](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74237), [#​74200](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74200), [#​74182](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74182), [#​74433](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74433) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
##### 🌐 Gateway, Relay & Fleet
- Session activity heartbeats, stall watchdog, and bounded compression waits — re-landed hardened after an in-window revert cycle (originally [#​72424](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/72424) by [@​fangliquanflq](https://github.com/fangliquanflq)) ([#​76354](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76354) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- SessionState consolidation (19 session-keyed dicts → one turn/conversation/persistent-scoped object); TurnContext/TurnRunner seam extraction; declarative busy\_policy on CommandDef ([#​74289](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74289), [#​74353](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74353), [#​74197](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74197) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Relay parity waves: Phase 1 (supported\_ops discovery, identity fields, /handoff aliasing), Phase 2 media, Phase 3 interactive prompts, Phase 4 thread lifecycle; egress typing indicators ([#​71300](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71300), [#​71363](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71363), [#​71404](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71404), [#​71624](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71624), [#​69721](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69721) — [@​benbarclay](https://github.com/benbarclay))
- HSP skill sync: personal client (M1) + org-skills client (M2) + org-skill namespace with token-gated discovery ([#​66730](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66730), [#​70024](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70024), [#​70459](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70459) — [@​benbarclay](https://github.com/benbarclay))
- Buzz (Block/Nostr) platform adapter with native WebSocket inbound transport + NIP-42 auth ([#​73610](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73610), [#​73761](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73761) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Photon: native polls, effects, clarify-as-poll, rich links (4-PR salvage) ([#​73614](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73614) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Slack: native Block Kit clarify buttons; opt-in reaction triggers; outbound payload sanitization; thread-context lifecycle fixes ([#​69318](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69318), [#​70195](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70195), [#​69317](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69317), [#​69320](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69320) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Discord auto-thread sessions keyed on prospective\_thread\_id; reply references built from ids (no fetch\_message); WhatsApp configurable inbound read receipts ([#​76513](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76513), [#​76875](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76875), [#​73322](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73322) — [@​benbarclay](https://github.com/benbarclay), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- Kanban wakes resume the creator's DM/thread session; kanban/delegate wake-ups reach api\_server sessions; per-task model + thinking-depth from the board ([#​72191](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72191), [#​70171](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70171), [#​69876](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69876), [#​76417](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76417) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- Relay: Discord tool-progress routed into the auto-thread instead of the parent channel ([#​77830](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77830) — [@​benbarclay](https://github.com/benbarclay))
- Outbound webhooks — push signed lifecycle events to external endpoints; simplex channel enumeration in `hermes send --list` ([#​69406](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69406), [#​77110](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77110) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
##### 🖥️ Hermes Desktop App
##### The platform wave
- **Artifacts** — versioned cards, sandboxed live preview, right-rail viewer ([#​72345](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72345) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- **Plugin SDK** — Kanban as the founding desktop plugin; `ctx.download` hands the user a file; widget-app SDK (apps as state+reducer+render) with three reference apps; widget-grid layout engine + background-aware theme engine ([#​61173](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/61173), [#​74413](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74413), [#​68306](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68306), [#​20379](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/20379) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- Quick-entry window (global hotkey → any session); multiple GUI windows; floating pane placement; pane toggles anywhere + hidden header; ⌘O open-folder-as-project ([#​72315](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72315), [#​68259](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68259), [#​73143](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73143), [#​75848](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75848), [#​74623](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74623) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- SSH remote-backend connection mode; event-driven live sync replaces always-on polls; remote profile routing/sessions/pool lifecycle repaired ([#​68130](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68130), [#​73673](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73673), [#​72835](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72835) — [@​yoniebans](https://github.com/yoniebans), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- Let the agent drive the shell (preview pane + pane focus) AND inspect the desktop app it's developing; find-in-page (Ctrl+F); GUI terminal copy/paste + font picker ([#​69519](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69519), [#​73121](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73121), [#​72235](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72235), [#​73705](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73705), [#​76395](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76395) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
##### Composer & UX
- Attach files/folders/links via picker; composer chips for @​ paths and pasted links; composer undo stack; double-ESC discards draft; double-Enter sends the queued turn; type-to-focus ([#​74668](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74668), [#​73110](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73110), [#​72201](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72201), [#​72288](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72288), [#​74736](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74736), [#​73101](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73101), [#​68918](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68918) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- 2-keypress model switching (⌘⇧M); YOLO in ⌘K with live toggle state; keyboard-first pickers; keyboard navigation for clarify choices; server-owned pins that follow you between apps ([#​74545](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74545), [#​74674](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74674), [#​74602](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74602), [#​69799](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69799), [#​74234](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74234) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- Grouped, live-ticking tool-activity line; improved tool call detail views; [@​session](https://github.com/session) links resolve to clickable titles; brand icons on known-domain links; iMessage-style emoji reactions (opt-in, two-way); double-click to heart ([#​72893](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72893), [#​69868](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69868), [#​71162](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71162), [#​73047](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73047), [#​74533](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74533), [#​74644](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74644) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Sidebar date dividers + pinned section + opt-in stale-session auto-archive; sessions stop lying about running state; credit-usage toasts; configurable attachment size limit; Cron Blueprints + Webhooks pages; searchable timezone picker ([#​70822](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70822), [#​72303](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72303), [#​69828](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69828), [#​73221](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73221), [#​70066](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70066), [#​69687](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69687), [#​73505](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73505) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife), [@​austinpickett](https://github.com/austinpickett), [@​Adolanium](https://github.com/Adolanium), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- RFC 8252 native desktop sign-in (system browser + PKCE, no webview cookies); "Connect to existing Hermes" in first-run onboarding; profile-correct pairing approvals with a desktop surface ([#​67920](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67920), [#​70907](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70907), [#​74446](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74446) — [@​benbarclay](https://github.com/benbarclay), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- Keep-computer-awake toggle + notch wake indicator; /battery status-bar toggle; UI zoom 90% default preset; status bar hideable ([#​68140](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68140), [#​76396](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76396), [#​68860](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68860), [#​73161](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73161), [#​72960](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72960) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
##### Desktop performance (60fps wave 2)
- Streaming cost independent of transcript length; 60fps on real sessions (reflow-gated pins, adaptive flush); drag at 60fps with five streaming tabs; multitab streaming made fast ([#​71835](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71835), [#​72504](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72504), [#​72346](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72346), [#​71780](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71780) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- Hidden-pane timers paused (agents view, cron sidebar, floating pet), scroll/status loops stopped in busy sessions ([#​77651](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77651) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor)); idle CPU near zero in the background; sidebar/overlay render churn killed; statusbar + transcript stop re-rendering per token/sash-drag/session-switch; ⌘K opens instantly; renderer cold start keeps shiki/mermaid off the boot path ([#​75218](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75218), [#​73698](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73698), [#​72163](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72163), [#​72245](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72245), [#​72524](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72524), [#​74665](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74665), [#​73024](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73024) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- State diagnostics (render + store churn counters) + a lint rule banning atom-mirrored refs so the stale-read bug class cannot return; Playwright E2E suite with visual regression diffs ([#​71925](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71925), [#​71560](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71560), [#​65805](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65805) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​ethernet8023](https://github.com/ethernet8023))
##### 🖥️ CLI, TUI & Dashboard
- `!` shell mode; `/init` AGENTS.md generation; `/diff` (staged/all/session, cross-surface); `/context` breakdown; `/focus` reduced-output view; Ctrl+S prompt stash; persistent `/goal` indicator; multi-select clarify (checkboxes) across CLI/gateway/TUI ([#​72257](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72257), [#​72178](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72178), [#​72240](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72240), [#​72242](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72242), [#​72302](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72302), [#​72262](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72262), [#​72244](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72244), [#​72188](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72188) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), salvaging [@​SHL0MS](https://github.com/SHL0MS), [@​iRonin](https://github.com/iRonin), [@​gigi206](https://github.com/gigi206) + more)
- `hermes import-agent` — one-command migration from Claude Code / Codex CLI setups ([#​72190](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72190) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Per-turn summary line + live token flow in the spinner; cross-surface theme SDK (one skin themes CLI, TUI, and desktop, live) ([#​72246](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72246), [#​68857](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68857) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- TUI: reach the model picker without wrecking your draft + mid-turn switching; slash menu leads with your most-used skills; attachments live in the composer; Arabic (ar) locale with RTL across desktop/dashboard/agent ([#​74756](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74756), [#​75931](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75931), [#​75210](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75210), [#​70870](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70870) — [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- `hermes -w` startup \~14s → \~1.8s; global `--version` fast path; banner update-check 6× faster; dashboard lazy-loads routes + GROUP BY session stats; session filtering tabs (Chats/Automation/All) ([#​71637](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71637), [#​62096](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/62096), [#​74188](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74188), [#​72294](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72294), [#​73362](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73362), [#​73865](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73865) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- Runtime: Node 26 required across installers/heal/upgrade, managed Node/uv resolve before bare PATH, outdated managed trees heal to target major; brew + pip/PyPI wheel channels retired (shell installer / Docker / Nix are the supported channels) ([#​76459](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76459), [#​68217](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68217) — [@​ethernet8023](https://github.com/ethernet8023))
##### 🧩 Skills, Plugins & MCP
- **A2A v1.0** — Agent-to-Agent protocol plugin (closes [#​514](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/514)) ([#​77109](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77109) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Curator: surface unmanaged skills + `curator adopt`; skill-description truncation surfaced to authors; grounded-citations skill (+ fact-checking mode); simplify-code v1.1; tldraw-offline scripting skill ([#​71648](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71648), [#​70519](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70519), [#​71698](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71698), [#​77104](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77104), [#​70440](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70440), [#​66896](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66896) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Office skills bundled: docx, xlsx, pdf + refreshed powerpoint; skills-tree debloat continues (yuanbao, segment-anything, jupyter, heartmula, audiocraft → optional-skills; claude-marketplace source removed; hub restructure absorbing themes/desktop-plugins/tui-widgets) ([#​68595](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68595), [#​70452](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70452)–[#​70456](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70456), [#​73903](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73903) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- MCP: Comfy Cloud catalog entry with curated 20-tool default; hidden-whitespace warnings in MCP config; pinecone-research optional skill ([#​66112](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/66112), [#​75736](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75736), [#​70512](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70512) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- MCP lazy server startup from a fingerprint-keyed on-disk tool-schema cache — configured servers no longer all boot at session start (design from [#​56832](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/56832)) ([#​77511](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77511) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- NeMo Relay observability integration — re-landed after an in-window revert, on stable NeMo Relay 0.6 ([#​67607](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67607) — [@​afourniernv](https://github.com/afourniernv))
- Gateway health & diagnostics OTLP export ([#​64536](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/64536) — [@​victor-kyriazakos](https://github.com/victor-kyriazakos))
##### 🔒 Security & Reliability
- Iron-proxy credential-injection egress firewall re-landed ([#​70848](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70848) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- DNS-pinned SSRF-safe fetches + Slack CDN allowlist; strict redaction at compaction boundaries; ReDoS eliminated in config-key redaction patterns; prose words embedding a secret keyword no longer masked ([#​70193](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70193), [#​69294](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69294), [#​76083](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76083), [#​67776](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/67776) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Tier-3 credential reads scoped (FAL/XAI/VERCEL/DAYTONA/GITHUB presence checks etc.); CVE dependency pins refreshed (cryptography, starlette, python-multipart); hindsight env file 0600; /model moved off the gateway event loop ([#​75888](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75888), [#​72362](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/72362) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Windows hardening wave: text-mode subprocess decode bug class closed repo-wide, console flashes hidden across daemons/env probes/LSP/installer paths, residual encoding gaps (MCP stdio, gateway update I/O, STT/TTS, desktop spawn) ([#​70875](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70875), [#​70205](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70205), [#​70264](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70264), [#​71014](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71014) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), salvaging several community PRs)
- State/session integrity: four session-state fixes (safe close tracking, flush-cursor class fix, row-retry, usage-PK healer); compact v23 FTS layout + `hermes sessions optimize` + CJK-bigram FTS; read-path split with per-thread read-only connections ([#​75883](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/75883), [#​65798](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65798), [#​69423](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69423), [#​73344](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73344) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- OpenViking memory-provider hardening — fail closed on blocked endpoints, server verification before credentials are sent, config.yaml-first settings ([#​77747](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77747) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- Credential pool: reset-aware primary restore (stay on fallback until the rate-limit window resets) + deferred-refresh locking fixes; FTS UPDATE triggers narrowed with fail-closed CJK migration ([#​77631](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77631), [#​77628](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/77628) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
- Config-driven memory allocator trim with telemetry; holographic memory vectors stored float32; loop-invariant HRR encodes hoisted ([#​76905](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76905), [#​76917](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76917), [#​76881](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76881) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor))
##### 🐛 Notable Bug Fixes
- Voice: full-duplex interruption during generation AND playback; whole-turn desktop speech; auto-TTS delivery gaps ([#​74223](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/74223), [#​69936](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69936), [#​73508](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/73508) — [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- Desktop: Stop parks the queue instead of firing the next queued prompt; branch-in-new-chat restart loss; false remote-gateway reauthentication; cross-session composer leaks ([#​68725](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68725), [#​71960](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/71960), [#​68250](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68250), [#​70986](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70986) — [@​SHL0MS](https://github.com/SHL0MS), [@​alelpoan](https://github.com/alelpoan), [@​helix4u](https://github.com/helix4u), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife))
- Gateway: session lists scoped before limiting; relay-backed home delivery after restart; timeline display events persisted ([#​65509](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/65509), [#​70102](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/70102), [#​69771](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/69771) — [@​GodsBoy](https://github.com/GodsBoy), [@​victor-kyriazakos](https://github.com/victor-kyriazakos), [@​ethernet8023](https://github.com/ethernet8023))
- Agent: context-length fallback logging + batch trajectory durability; Codex OAuth context windows revalidated against the live catalog ([#​76027](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/76027), [#​68554](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/68554) — [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor), [@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1))
- ...plus roughly 770 more `fix:` PRs across every subsystem this window.
##### 👥 Contributors
**647 contributors** shipped this release (commit authors, co-authors, and salvaged-PR credits).
##### Core
[@​teknium1](https://github.com/teknium1), [@​OutThisLife](https://github.com/OutThisLife) (desktop, voice, perf), [@​kshitijk4poor](https://github.com/kshitijk4poor) (perf, caching, salvage), [@​ethernet8023](https://github.com/ethernet8023) (runtime, E2E, desktop), [@​benbarclay](https://github.com/benbarclay) (relay, HSP, auth)
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Consolidated salvage: 15 CLI/TUI voice-mode UX & environment fixes
One consolidated salvage branch for the Cluster-D voice CLI/TUI backlog. Each fix is its own commit with original contributor authorship preserved (cherry-picked onto current main, post-#73106
voice.stop_phrasesmerge — all conflicting regions re-merged against the stop-phrase / barge-in /_voice_restart_recording_asynccode that landed since these PRs were cut).What's included (per-contributor commits)
[Voice input]prefix only for actually-transcribed messages (_VoiceInputMessagesentinel)__init__'s docstring)voice.max_recording_secondsactually enforced (CLI + wrapper + TUI gateway)text_to_speechtool results in CLI voice modevoice.beep_volume)PIPEWIRE_REMOTEforwarding in detectionpm→cmd package→ trust binary)In-house micro-fixes (fresh commit)
voice.beep_enabledquoted as"false"/"off"in YAML kept beeps on (bool("false") is True). Both gates (cli.py, hermes_cli/voice.py) now route throughutils.is_truthy_value.AudioRecorder.start()collapsedOSError(PortAudio shared library missing) into thepip install sounddevice numpyhint, which pip can't fix. Now mirrorsdetect_audio_environment's system-package hint (libportaudio2 / brew portaudio / Termuxpkg install portaudio).Rebase notes (post-#73106)
_voice_restart_recording_async()helper (the PR predates that refactor).has_forwarded_audio(Pulse or PipeWire) short-circuits first, then the PowerShell TTS-only fallback downgrades the hard block to a notice.stream_tts_to_speaker— Darwin skips theOutputStreamso playback falls through to tempfile/afplay.--author): sentinel class at module level, wrap at both transcript-put sites (PTT/continuous + barge-in), unwrap inprocess_loop,voice_input=threaded throughchat().returncodeon fake Popen procs, streamer stub for the macOS streaming test, sentinel unwrap in integration tests).Verification
pytest -o addopts="" -qon the full voice surface (real venv): 792 passed —tests/tools/test_voice_mode.py,test_voice_cli_integration.py,test_voice_stop_phrase.py,test_termux_api_detection.py,test_voice_wsl_pipewire.py,test_tts_macos_output.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_voice_wrapper.py,tests/test_voice_max_recording_seconds.py,tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py_VoiceInputMessagewrap makestest_successful_transcription_queues_inputfail (then restored).ruff checkclean on all touched files; stale-base gate: merge-base == origin/main (0 behind), diff shows only intended files.contributors/emails/), committed before first push.Post-merge actions
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