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Fixes #83438.

Problem

hermes update restarts hermes-gateway* systemd units (and dashboards)
after a code update, but it never looked for hermes-serve* — the systemd
unit backing the Desktop app's backend. After an update, hermes-serve
kept running pre-update code until the user manually ran
systemctl --user restart hermes-serve.service, even though the Desktop
client correctly detected the version mismatch.

Fix

hermes_cli/update_cmd.py:

  • The systemctl list-units discovery call in the post-update restart
    loop now matches both hermes-gateway* and hermes-serve* patterns.
  • _for_each_systemd_gateway_unit()'s unit-name gate now accepts
    hermes-serve* units in addition to hermes-gateway*.
  • The graceful SIGUSR1 drain-then-restart path is only wired up in
    gateway/run.py, so hermes-serve units don't have a SIGUSR1 handler.
    Sending them SIGUSR1 anyway would just trigger the OS default (terminate)
    action and burn the full drain-wait budget for no benefit. A new
    _service_unit_supports_graceful_sigusr1_restart() helper gates that
    path on unit name (hermes-gateway* only); hermes-serve* units go
    straight to the existing blunt systemctl restart path, which is the
    same thing the issue's manual workaround does.
  • Tweaked one warning string ("some gateway units were not restarted" →
    "some units were not restarted") since the incomplete-restart list can
    now contain serve units too.

Scope is intentionally limited to the Linux/systemd path described in the
issue (the reporter's environment). macOS launchd and Windows cold-start
handling for the Desktop backend are untouched.

Test plan

Added to tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_restart_timeout.py:

  • test_hermes_serve_units_are_includedhermes-serve* units now pass
    the unit-name filter alongside hermes-gateway*, other services are
    still excluded.
  • TestGracefulSigusr1Eligibilityhermes-gateway* units are eligible
    for the graceful SIGUSR1 restart path, hermes-serve* units are not.

Verified the new tests fail without the fix (reverted just the two source
files with git checkout HEAD~1 -- hermes_cli/update_cmd.py hermes_cli/main.py,
which reproduces the pre-fix import error / behavior), then pass with the
fix restored:

$ scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_restart_timeout.py
=== Summary: 1 files, 7 tests passed, 0 failed (100% complete) in 0.8s (8 workers) ===

Also ran the broader update-related suite and the full test_cmd_update.py
file to check for regressions, both green:

$ scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/ -k update
=== Summary: 573 files, 253 tests passed, 0 failed, 6 skipped (100% complete) in 173.3s (8 workers) ===

$ scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_cmd_update.py
=== Summary: 1 files, 22 tests passed, 0 failed (100% complete) in 27.4s (8 workers) ===

ruff check on the changed files passes clean.


AI-assistance disclosure: this change was authored by an autonomous Claude
Code agent (Anthropic) working from the issue description, with the patch,
tests, and verification steps above produced and run by the agent.

hermes update discovered and restarted hermes-gateway* systemd units but
never looked for hermes-serve* — the Desktop app's backend — so it kept
running stale pre-update code until the user restarted it by hand (NousResearch#83438).

Extend the systemd unit discovery/restart loop to also match hermes-serve*
units. They don't wire SIGUSR1 to a graceful drain (only gateway/run.py
does), so restart eligibility for the graceful path is now gated on unit
name via a small, directly-tested helper; hermes-serve units fall straight
to the existing blunt systemctl restart path, matching the workaround the
issue already documents.
@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/bug Something isn't working comp/cli CLI entry point, hermes_cli/, setup wizard comp/desktop Electron desktop app (apps/desktop/*) area/install-update Installer, updater, packaging, wheels, doctor P2 Medium — degraded but workaround exists sweeper:risk-compatibility Sweeper risk: may break existing users, config, migrations, defaults, or upgrades labels Aug 11, 2026

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The direction looks promising: explicitly discovering active hermes-serve units addresses the coexistence case, and using a direct systemd restart instead of the gateway-only SIGUSR1 drain path appears appropriate. The focused tests, lint, and current-main merge checks are green. I noticed two service-lifecycle cases that may be worth considering.

First, this introduces two restart paths for the same managed Serve unit. The updater already ends with _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup(node_failures), whose _kill_stale_dashboard_processes(restart_managed=True) path discovers hermes serve PIDs and restarts their owning custom systemd unit (the #72192 behavior). With no installed/active hermes-dashboard.service, a Serve unit is restarted in the fleet loop, then its freshly started PID is found and restarted again during cleanup. I reproduced the helper sequence yielding both ('fleet', 'hermes-serve') and ('cleanup', 'hermes-serve.service'). One possible refinement would be to deduplicate already-restarted units or consolidate this into a single lifecycle path. An orchestration-level regression covering both Serve-only and Dashboard+Serve installations could help preserve that behavior.

Second, the new wildcard/name gate is broader than the intended unit family: hermes-serve* plus startswith('hermes-serve') also accepts hermes-server.service. It may be safer to recognize only hermes-serve.service and hermes-serve-*.service, with a near-prefix rejection test, to avoid restarting an unrelated similarly named service.

Validation performed locally: PR-head focused tests 19 passed/3 skipped; PR merged cleanly onto current main; merged-tree focused updater tests 51 passed/3 skipped; Ruff and compileall passed. The broader tests/hermes_cli -k update run had five managed-uv failures that reproduce identically on current main and are unrelated to this PR.

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+ [
"list-units",
"hermes-gateway*",
"hermes-serve*",

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Suggestion: this adds a first restart for hermes-serve, while the updater still calls _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() later. Its existing restart_managed=True path scans hermes serve PIDs and restarts the owning custom systemd unit. On a Serve-only install, the newly restarted process may therefore be found and restarted a second time. It may be worth deduplicating the lifecycle paths and adding an orchestration test for Serve-only and Dashboard+Serve cases.

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# stray non-gateway line cannot enter the restart path.
if not unit.startswith("hermes-gateway"):
# stray non-gateway/serve line cannot enter the restart path.
if not (unit.startswith("hermes-gateway") or unit.startswith("hermes-serve")):

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Suggestion: this prefix also accepts hermes-server.service, and the hermes-serve* systemctl pattern selects it. Consider constraining the match to the exact base unit or the hyphenated profile family (hermes-serve / hermes-serve-*) and adding a near-prefix rejection test.

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Review on NousResearch#83595 flagged two service-lifecycle gaps in the hermes-serve
restart support:

- The unit-name gate accepted anything starting with "hermes-serve",
  which also matched the unrelated hermes-server.service. Require the
  exact base unit or the hyphenated profile family instead.
- The fleet-restart loop and _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() could
  both restart the same hermes-serve unit — the loop restarts it
  directly, then cleanup's PID scan finds the fresh process and
  restarts its owning unit again. Thread the fleet loop's restarted
  unit names through to _kill_stale_dashboard_processes() so it skips
  units already handled.
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Addressed both points:

  • _for_each_systemd_gateway_unit()'s gate now requires the exact hermes-serve.service unit or the hyphenated hermes-serve-* family, so hermes-server.service no longer passes. Added test_hermes_server_near_prefix_is_rejected.
  • Threaded the fleet-restart loop's restarted_services through _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() into _kill_stale_dashboard_processes(already_restarted_units=...), which now skips PIDs whose owning unit was already restarted directly — fixes the double-restart on Serve-only installs. Added test_already_restarted_unit_is_left_untouched.

Both new tests reproduce failure against the pre-fix code (TypeError/wrong match) and pass with the fix. scripts/run_tests.sh tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_restart_timeout.py tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_dashboard.py — 21 passed, 3 skipped. ruff check clean on changed files.

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fix(update): restart hermes-serve systemd units alongside gateways

Solid fix with good regression tests for the near-prefix and double-restart cases. Observations:

  1. already_restarted_units excludes PIDs whose owning unit the fleet loop already restarted — but if a hermes-serve* unit's restart failed during the fleet loop (warned via _warn_incomplete_gateway_fleet_restart), and that unit name still ends up in restarted_services, its stale pre-update process would be excluded from the kill-stale sweep — leaving exactly the "old code still running after update" failure mode this cleanup exists to prevent. Please confirm only successfully-restarted units are forwarded (ideally with a test for a failed unit restart).
  2. _for_each_systemd_gateway_unit now also processes hermes-serve* units; the name is misleading for future readers — a rename (e.g. _for_each_systemd_hermes_unit) or an explicit docstring pointer would help.
  3. The SIGUSR1 eligibility gate is svc_name.startswith("hermes-gateway") while the serve gate uses the stricter exact/hyphenated form (== "hermes-serve" / startswith("hermes-serve-")). A hypothetical hermes-gateway-helper unit that doesn't run gateway/run.py would get a SIGUSR1 it doesn't handle. Mirroring the stricter shape for the gateway side would close that.

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Review on #83595 flagged two service-lifecycle gaps in the hermes-serve
restart support:

- The unit-name gate accepted anything starting with "hermes-serve",
  which also matched the unrelated hermes-server.service. Require the
  exact base unit or the hyphenated profile family instead.
- The fleet-restart loop and _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() could
  both restart the same hermes-serve unit — the loop restarts it
  directly, then cleanup's PID scan finds the fresh process and
  restarts its owning unit again. Thread the fleet loop's restarted
  unit names through to _kill_stale_dashboard_processes() so it skips
  units already handled.
teknium1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 16, 2026
Mirror the strict unit-name shape from the hermes-serve gate (review on
PR #83595) on the gateway side too: the discovery gate and the SIGUSR1
eligibility helper now accept only `hermes-gateway.service` or the
`hermes-gateway-<profile>` family, so a near-prefix unit like
`hermes-gatewayd.service` can neither enter the restart path nor be sent
a SIGUSR1 it does not handle.
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Merged via PR #87859 (#87859) — your two commits were cherry-picked onto current main with your authorship preserved in git history (rebase-merge). The branch here was ~1470 commits behind main and CONFLICTING, so we salvaged rather than merging directly.

Thanks for the clean fix and for turning both review-thread findings around quickly — the near-prefix gate and the fleet/cleanup dedup both landed exactly as you wrote them, with regression tests. We added one small follow-up on top tightening the gateway-side gates to the same strict shape.

Fixes #83438.

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* fix(gateway): keep persisted model routes consistent

* fix(desktop): don't cancel the running turn on Esc while an overlay is open

The composer's global Esc-to-cancel listener (useComposerEscCancel) fires
whenever the turn is busy and the active composer matches — but overlays
(Settings, Command Center, agents, cron, …) cover the chat while the
composer stays mounted and 'active' beneath them, so pressing Esc on any
of those pages interrupted the session the user wasn't even looking at.
OverlayView's own escape-layer Esc-to-close fired too, but the stream was
already dead.

Stand Esc down with composerFocusBlockedBySurface() — the same signal the
type-to-focus path uses (BLOCKING_OVERLAY includes OverlayView's
[data-overlay-surface] marker). Esc on an overlay now closes the overlay
via its escape layer instead of canceling the stream beneath it.

Fixes #82618

* fix(caching): engage prompt caching for LiteLLM Claude on the OpenAI wire

anthropic_prompt_cache_policy() only granted Anthropic cache_control
markers to LiteLLM over the native Anthropic wire
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OpenAI-compatible surface instead (/v1/chat/completions, /v1/messages
-> 404) matched no grant branch and fell through to (False, False): no
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full price on every turn. Silent: no error, no warning, usage simply
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Add one branch after the is_anthropic_wire/is_claude case that grants
caching to Claude-family models on a LiteLLM endpoint regardless of
wire, with the native inner-block layout. Same failure class already
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Design:
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Tests: adds TestLiteLLMOpenAIWire covering the grant (several model
spellings x provider/host signals), no-over-reach (non-Claude on the
same proxy get nothing; operator disable wins), and adjacent behavior
(LiteLLM in Anthropic proxy mode still native layout). Full module:
43 passed.

Closes #84506. Original diagnosis, patch design, and measurements by
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Follow-up to the salvaged LiteLLM cache grant. The grant itself is right;
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1. Layout. The branch returned the native inner-block layout
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Self-review follow-up. The previous commit fixed substring matching on the
HOST but left the provider-id side as a bare substring, so a user-named
provider like `custom:notlitellm` or `mylitellmthing` still matched and was
handed Anthropic markers — the same bug class, half-fixed.

Both signals now match `litellm` as a whole delimited token via a shared
helper. Real spellings (`litellm`, `custom:litellm`, `litellm-router`, and
the already-lowercased `LiteLLM`) still match; lookalikes no longer do.

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new guards mutation-checked. Differential matrix over 2688 configs vs
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Measured with a realistic config.yaml present (mtime cache warm), vs
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  destination planning  219.3us -> 347.7us

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of a real install. Non-LiteLLM and non-Claude routes are unaffected
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schemas are sent to models, no config knobs.

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active profile's enabled HTTP/SSE MCP servers on gateway connect and
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MCP page with ?server=<name> so useDeepLinkHighlight focuses the
server and its Authenticate button. Navigation only — OAuth flows are
never auto-launched.

stdio servers are deliberately excluded: probing a stdio server SPAWNS
a local process, so a background timer must never touch them. Only
url-shaped servers (where OAuth expiry lives) are swept, sequentially.

The tab's probeCache/serverFingerprint/probeKey/NEEDS_AUTH_RE moved to
a shared lib/mcp-probe-cache.ts (behavior identical) so the page and
the checker share one probe cache and its 5-minute TTL — neither
surface re-probes what the other just learned.

Notifications fire only on a TRANSITION into needs-auth/error (pure
state machine, unit-tested), hard-capped at one per server per app
session, keyed per profile. Profile switches drop pending timers and
re-arm for the new profile; sweeps never run while the gateway is
disconnected. No new config knobs. i18n keys added across
en/zh/zh-hant/ja/ar + types.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87607)

Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(desktop): scope messaging to active remote profile

Complete the sidebar profile-scope contract across remote Electron routing, older-backend fallbacks, standalone messaging refreshes, and pagination. Reject stale profile responses and keep the explicit all-profiles view unified.

Co-authored-by: 墨綠BG <s5460703@gmail.com>

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

* fix(desktop): retain messaging totals per profile

Key resolved platform totals by Desktop profile and source so profile switches neither inherit another profile's count nor discard a count that was already resolved. Keep the full reset for connection configuration changes.

Co-authored-by: frendo <frendo.wu@gmail.com>

* fix(desktop): ignore stale messaging page responses

Sequence per-profile platform pagination so an older overlapping response cannot replace a newer, larger page.

* docs(desktop): document profile scope helpers

Add JSDoc to the exported helpers introduced by the profile-scoped sidebar change.

* fix(desktop): reject stale profile refreshes

* fix(desktop): harden profile-scoped refreshes

* fix(desktop): resolve sessions from sidebar caches

Consult messaging and cron caches before the by-id fallback so opening a sidebar row neither depends on a redundant network lookup nor duplicates it into regular recents.

Co-authored-by: protas-box <protas.box@icloud.com>

* fix(tools-config): stop reconfigure flow clobbering image_gen.use_gateway on managed FAL rows

The Nous Subscription image_gen row carries imagegen_backend="fal", so
_reconfigure_provider's post-model-picker step ran

    img_cfg["use_gateway"] = False

unconditionally at two sites, immediately after the managed branch had
written use_gateway=True. A user who picked Nous Subscription and then
re-entered `hermes tools` to change the model was silently flipped onto
their personal FAL_KEY.

Same bug class as fe63353cb, which fixed the plugin-provider selector
but missed these two legacy-backend sites in the reconfigure flow. Both
now write bool(managed_feature), matching the existing correct site in
_configure_provider.

Adds regression tests driven through the real TOOL_CATEGORIES managed
row; sabotage-verified (tests fail with the old behavior restored).

* feat(desktop): make the multi-gateway Connections registry discoverable

The multi-connection registry (Settings -> Connections) shipped with no
entry point outside the settings nav, and the product-owner report was
blunt: 'I didn't see any obvious way to hook up multiple gateways.'

- Profile rail: a plug pill pinned beside Manage ('Connect another
  Hermes gateway...') deep-links to /settings?tab=connections. Always
  visible, including for single-profile first-run users.
- Command palette: Settings -> Connections is now a searchable entry
  (keywords: add gateway, remote, ssh, cloud, instances, registry).
- i18n: profiles.connectGateway added to en/types/zh; other locales
  fall back through defineLocale.
- Tests: profile-rail-connect.test.tsx covers the deep link and the
  single-profile visibility guarantee.

* docs: full multi-gateway setup guide for Hermes Desktop

Expand user-guide/multi-connection-desktop.md into a complete setup
walkthrough: where to find the pane (settings nav, profile-rail plug,
command palette), the exact add-connection editor fields (Name,
Gateway URL, Authentication: Session token/OAuth, SSH host), Primary /
This device pills, Test semantics, agent roster + profile-rail
switching and per-profile session/cron/messaging scoping, token
storage via Electron safeStorage with the keyring-less Linux plain-
text opt-in, and troubleshooting. All quoted labels match the desktop
i18n strings. Cross-link the rail entry point from desktop.md.

* fix(desktop): never resolve a missing named gateway scope to the primary

activeGateway() fell back to the primary gateway when the active key named
a registry-agent scope (conn:<id>::<profile>) whose secondaries entry had
been evicted — e.g. closeSecondaryGateways() during a soft gateway switch —
so sends and session ops silently executed against the WRONG machine.

A named scope now resolves to its own socket or null, and every eviction
path (closeSecondaryGateways, pruneSecondaryGateways) explicitly restores
the primary as active when it evicts the active scope, keeping the
'activeKey always resolves' invariant with the atoms following.

* fix(desktop): sync connection atoms and share the switch mutex for agent activation

ensureGatewayForAgent (the SDK ensureAgent door) skipped the two invariants
the profile path provides:

- $connection / $activeGatewayProfile were only updated when a socket was
  freshly dialed (setConnection inside openSecondary), so activating an
  ALREADY-OPEN registry agent left both describing the previous backend —
  /api/fs, /api/media and image.attach routed to the wrong machine (same
  class as #46651) and newSessionInProfile targeted the stale profile.
- Activations bypassed the gatewaySwitch mutex, so a rapid agent/profile
  interleave could complete out of order with the earlier setActive()
  landing last.

Add profile.ts ensureGatewayAgent: the (connectionId, profile) analogue of
ensureGatewayProfile that shares the same gatewaySwitch mutex, moves
$activeGatewayProfile on every activation, and resyncs $connection from
getConnectionFor (best-effort, like the profile path). The SDK ensureAgent
now routes through it; local/null connectionId falls through to the
profile path unchanged.

* feat(desktop): expose busy turn flags on plugin SDK

Plugins can now read host.state.busy and host.state.awaitingResponse
for the focused chat. These follow the same session slice the chat pane
uses, so a draft falls back to the global flags and a background turn
does not leak.

* fix(desktop): make plugin SDK turn flags follow the focused chat

Follow-up to the salvaged #87558 commit: the PR's docs promised the flags
follow "the focused chat", but PRIMARY_SESSION_VIEW is the primary
workspace tab only — a focused session TILE would read the wrong chat.
Wire host.state.busy / host.state.awaitingResponse through the focused
slice ($focusedStoredSessionId / $focusedSessionState), same semantics
as the statusbar busy pulse, with the primary view (and its draft
fallback) while the workspace holds focus.

Adds a tile-focus vitest case and corrects the docs wording.

* feat(desktop): paste-anything MCP server import

Add a compact Import popover to the MCP Capabilities page that accepts
anything a user might copy from an MCP server README and infers the
server config:

- mcp.json snippets (mcpServers-wrapped, bare name->config maps, single
  unnamed server objects, Cursor/Claude `type` normalized to `transport`)
- bare npx/bunx/uvx/node/docker command lines (name inferred from the
  package basename, e.g. server-filesystem -> filesystem)
- `claude mcp add NAME [--transport http|sse] [-e K=V] [-H ...] [--] CMD
  ARGS...` and `claude mcp add NAME URL`
- bare http(s) URLs (name inferred from the hostname)
- Cursor deeplinks (cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install with
  a base64-encoded JSON config payload)

The parser is a pure module (src/lib/mcp-import.ts) with unit tests for
every format plus garbage input. The popover previews the inferred
name + config and, on confirm, merges the entries into the editor draft
exactly like addServer's starter entry: unique keys, dirty (unsaved)
draft, first new block focused. Placeholder env values (YOUR_KEY,
TOKEN_HERE, ...) are kept verbatim for the user to edit in the editor
before saving.

i18n keys added under settings.mcp for en, zh, zh-hant, ja (ar falls
back through defineLocale).

* feat(desktop): running is not busy

Gate composer submit and plugin host busy on the target session slice, not a leftover foreground busyRef. Staff can keep typing while a worker session is running.

Includes the follow-up test that submit uses the target session busy flag.

* fix(desktop): lint and map contributor email for running-is-not-busy

Drop the redundant Boolean() on selected in $primaryBusy and add the
professorpalmer9@gmail.com mapping so attribution CI can resolve the PR.

* feat(desktop-sdk): expose focused-session state atoms to plugins

Disk plugins read app state exclusively through host.state, which only
exposed the primary workspace tab ($activeSessionId). In the multi-tile
layout, clicking a tile never touches that atom — and tile focus is a
pure renderer concern, invisible to both gateway RPC and the event
stream — so a plugin cannot follow the session the user is actually
looking at.

The core statusbar solves this same problem by reading the focused-
session atoms (use-statusbar-items.tsx). Widen the generic plugin
surface with the same signals, per the contribution rubric:

- host.state.focusedSessionId — runtime id of the focused session
  (interacted tile, else the primary), the key for session.* RPC
- host.state.focusedStoredSessionId — durable id for navigation and
  session-list matching
- host.state.focusedUsage — live streamed UsageStats projection
  (context_used/max/percent, tokens, cost_usd), no RPC needed

Additive only; no existing behavior changes. tsc --noEmit clean.
Verified end-to-end with a disk plugin that now tracks the focused
session across tiles.

* test(desktop-sdk): contract-test the focused-session host.state atoms

Locks the plugin-facing contract: the focused atoms exist as readonly
nanostores, mirror the primary session while no tile is focused, project
the focused session's usage, and — the behavior this PR exists for —
follow the interacted tile while the primary-only $activeSessionId
stays put.

* fix(desktop-sdk): type focusedUsage as Partial<UsageStats>, fix expect arity

ClientSessionState.usage is Partial<UsageStats> (app/types.ts) — the
backend streams whichever fields changed — so the computed produces
ReadableAtom<Partial<UsageStats> | null>. Annotate the entry honestly
instead of claiming full UsageStats, and document the fallback rule for
plugin authors. Also collapse the three-argument expect() calls in the
contract test (vitest takes one message arg). Addresses triage review on
PR #80461.

* fix(desktop-sdk): address adversarial review — type honesty, real tile coverage, docs

Independent second-pass review found three gaps:

- focusedUsage is null | UsageStats, not Partial — ClientSessionState.usage
  is the full type (app/types.ts) and its only write site seeds the four
  required fields before merging (gateway-event.ts). The earlier Partial
  annotation traced the wrong type (SessionRuntimeInfo, an RPC payload).
  Comment now names the genuinely optional fields instead.
- The tile-focus contract test never seeded $sessionTiles/$sessionStates,
  so it proved focusedStoredSessionId follows a tile but could not
  distinguish focusedSessionId/focusedUsage working from broken. Seed a
  bound runtime with distinct usage and assert both readout atoms move.
- The two public host.state references (website docs + bundled skill
  reference) enumerated the old six atoms; plugin authors would never
  discover the new ones. Both lists updated.

tsc/eslint/vitest green (4/4).

* chore: map contributor email for focused-session atoms salvage

* fix(desktop): exclude process-less descriptors from backend pool LRU cap

Remote/cloud registry descriptors (entry.process === null) shared the
POOL_MAX_BACKENDS cap with real spawned local backends, so a roster
refresh across N registered remote connections could LRU-evict a live
local backend idle past the keepalive window. Cap accounting and
cap-driven eviction now count only entries with a live child process;
descriptors remain subject to the idle reaper.

* fix(desktop): tear down renderer secondaries when a registry connection is removed

Removing a connection stopped its pooled backends and ssh tunnels but
never told the renderer: for remote/cloud sources there is no local
process to die, so the removed connection's WebSocket stayed open and
kept streaming ghost events into the UI until page reload. If the
socket did drop, openSecondary -> getConnectionFor threw 'No connection
with id' and scheduleReconnect retried forever (backoff caps at 15s,
entry never evicted).

- main now broadcasts 'hermes:connections:changed' on removal (and on
  material edits); preload exposes connections.onChanged.
- use-gateway-boot subscribes and calls the new
  disposeSecondariesForConnection(), which disposes + evicts every
  secondary scoped to the connection id (redialing on edits).
- reconnectSecondary fail-stops: when the Electron main reports the
  connection no longer exists, the entry is disposed and evicted
  instead of retrying forever; ordinary transport errors keep the
  existing backoff behavior.

* fix(desktop): recycle live backends and sockets when a connection edit changes its target

saveRegistryConnection only rewrote the registry file: editing a
connection's URL/token/host left pooled backend descriptors under
'conn:<id>::*' and open renderer sockets pointing at the OLD endpoint —
the UI showed the new target while traffic kept flowing to the old one
until idle-reap.

When a save MATERIALLY changes an existing connection (endpoint / auth /
ssh routing fields, via the new connectionDialFieldsChanged helper),
main now stops that connection's pooled backends and tunnels
(stopRegistryConnectionBackends, same teardown as removal) and
broadcasts 'hermes:connections:changed' with reason 'updated' so
renderers dispose and re-dial their secondaries at the new target.
Label-only renames do not recycle.

* fix(cli): restore Kitty keyboard protocol push and complete the extended-key alias table

Commit 4c34eeb416 fixed dead Ctrl+C by removing the Kitty protocol push
(CSI >1u) from _EXTENDED_ENTER_KEYS_SEQ, keeping only modifyOtherKeys
level 2. That regressed kitty-the-terminal completely: kitty removed
xterm modifyOtherKeys support (kovidgoyal/kitty#4075) and only speaks
its own protocol, so after the removal kitty users lost Shift+Enter and
every other extended key — the CSI >4;2m we still pushed is a no-op
there (kitty even logs a PARSE ERROR for it).

The original reason for removing the push is obsolete: #87511 mapped
CSI-u control sequences, so Ctrl+C as ESC[99;5u now parses to
Keys.ControlC and fires the existing c-c binding. (The kernel-INTR
concern in that commit was moot — prompt_toolkit's raw mode clears
ISIG, so Ctrl+C is always handled by the binding, never the kernel.)

Restore the dual push (CSI >1u + CSI >4;2m), exactly mirroring the Ink
TUI, and complete the alias table for what the kitty disambiguate flag
actually emits — #87511 left real gaps, some of which its PR body
wrongly claimed were covered:

- Esc key: ESC[27u (+ modifiers) — previously leaked '[27u' as text
- Ctrl+Backspace -> backward-kill-word (#78285 was closed on the wrong
  claim that codepoint-127 mapping existed; it did not)
- Shift+Space -> space (#86866's second symptom; the Ctrl+Space
  mapping never covered modifier 2)
- Alt+Enter -> newline tuple; Shift+Tab -> BackTab; Ctrl+Tab -> Tab;
  Alt/Shift+Backspace
- Multi-modifier letters (Shift+Alt 4, Ctrl+Shift 6, Ctrl+Alt 7,
  Ctrl+Alt+Shift 8) normalized onto their Ctrl/Escape-prefix targets,
  both unshifted (kitty) and shifted (mok emitters) codepoints
- Kitty PUA functional keys: keypad -> non-keypad equivalents,
  F13-F24, and Ignore for lock/media/modifier-event keys so they are
  consumed instead of leaking (kitty emits these even in legacy mode)

Also: clear the VT100 parser's prefix cache after installing (stale
answers could misparse), and re-push extended keys after
_recover_terminal_input_modes' reset — the recovery previously popped
both modes mid-session and never re-enabled them, silently killing
Shift+Enter until restart.

Refs #87511, #87074, #56684, #56645, #78285, #86866, #87390.

* fix(cron): process .pth files for Windows uv-venv script jobs (#86567)

_windows_cron_python_invocation bypasses the uv venv launcher (to avoid
flashing a console window) and re-attaches the venv via PYTHONPATH — but
PYTHONPATH entries are plain sys.path additions and never get .pth
processing, so editable installs (pip install -e) were invisible to cron
script jobs (ModuleNotFoundError).

Bootstrap the script with site.addsitedir() on the venv site-packages,
then exec it as __main__ via runpy.run_path, preserving the script
directory on sys.path (python script.py semantics). Falls back to a
plain invocation when the venv layout is unresolvable.

* fix(cron): log and document the .pth bootstrap fallback (#86816 review)

- WARN when the venv site-packages layout is unresolvable and the script
  falls back to plain PYTHONPATH execution, so 'editable installs
  invisible' failures are diagnosable.
- Docstring: note that runpy does not set __package__/__spec__ the way a
  direct python script.py invocation does.

* fix(update): surface config mutations applied silently during version-bump-only updates

* fix: honor JSON-array string forms for skills.disabled and agent.disabled_toolsets

`hermes config set` and JSON-mode editor saves store lists as quoted
strings (e.g. '["skill-a","skill-b"]' or "['memory']"). Both disable
filters treated such a string as a single name, so curated disable
lists silently filtered nothing with zero diagnostics.

Add parse_config_string_list() in agent.skill_utils and use it in
_normalize_string_set (skills.disabled / platform_disabled) and at
every agent.disabled_toolsets read site: tools_config resolve +
reconcile, CLI, gateway agent construction (both sites), cron
scheduler, and prompt_size. A scalar string still names a single
entry (#13026); malformed JSON falls back to the single-name
behavior instead of raising.

Fixes #86661

* fix(desktop-update): put --daemonized ahead of ORIGINAL_ARGS in posix.sh re-exec

Appending --daemonized after ORIGINAL_ARGS put it past the `--`
relaunch-args separator on Linux, so it was absorbed into
RELAUNCH_ARGS instead of being parsed as a flag. HANDOFF_DAEMONIZED
never got set, so the one-shot self-detach block re-fired on every
re-exec -- an unbounded self-exec loop (thousands of iterations/sec,
100%+ CPU, argv growing until execve fails with E2BIG) whenever
relaunch args were present, which is the normal invocation shape on
Linux.

Fixes #86957

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

* fix(cli): deliver the Bedrock API key through a named provider

The Bedrock API-key flow stored the bearer token in OPENAI_API_KEY and set
a bare `provider: custom`. Since #28660 that variable is only honoured for
openai.com hosts, so for bedrock-mantle.*.api.aws the token was dropped and
requests went out with api_key="no-key-required", a 401 on every call.

Write a named `providers.bedrock-mantle` entry with
key_env: AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK instead. The named-provider branch in
runtime_provider.py resolves key_env; the bare-custom branch cannot.

Fixes authentication only. Per-model mantle route selection is separate.

* fix(gateway): improve Windows detach diagnostics

* refactor(gateway): share breakaway marker constant

* fix(tui): settle session close against active turns

* fix(tui): stop queued dispatch after session close

* fix(cron): reject NUL-bearing script paths before any Path call (#76762 class)

_run_job_script wrapped only expanduser() in its ingestion try/except.
On Linux an unexpandable NUL-bearing value raises inside that call, so it
landed on the clean fail-with-report path; on Windows expanduser() never
expands '~user' (and so never raises), and the NUL surfaces later as an
uncaught ValueError from resolve()/exists() — crashing the scheduler.

Align with cron.lifecycle_guard._expand_candidate_path, which already
documents this as the whole-class fix (the per-syscall catching produced
#76762, #77703, #77780, #78256): reject '\\x00' eagerly at the ingestion
boundary so both platforms fail identically.

* test(cron): pin the eager NUL rejection contract for _run_job_script (#86829)

* fix(cron): coerce script_path to str in the NUL guard so it can never crash (#86829, review #86832)

"\x00" in script_path raises TypeError when a caller passes a non-str
(e.g. a pathlib.Path, which is not iterable) — the guard itself would
crash the scheduler. All current call sites pass plain str, but the
guard must be crash-proof: str() first, then check. Adds a regression
test running a real script through _run_job_script with a Path argument,
which fails with TypeError on the pre-fix guard.

* docs(agents): record multiplex profile-scoped env fail-closed rule (#86905)

Lesson from the feishu DM multiplex investigation: under multiplex,
os.environ holds the default profile's values, so any profile-level env
config (credentials AND authorization) must be read scope-aware, and a
scoped miss with a scope installed must fail closed instead of borrowing
from os.environ. The _get_scoped_secret wrapper is copy-pasted across
~15 platform adapters — new adapters and edits to existing ones must
keep the fail-closed semantics.

* fix(auth): resolve provider auto-detection keys through the profile scope (#86917)

resolve_provider's auto path read provider API keys with bare
os.getenv — under multiplex a secondary profile's keys live only in its
secret scope, so auto-detection found nothing and every secondary
profile with model.provider: auto failed with 'No LLM provider
configured' at agent init (reproduced on a live 7-profile gateway).

Route both env-key reads (the OPENAI/OPENROUTER tier and the
PROVIDER_REGISTRY loop) through _scoped_key_env, the scope-aware helper
auxiliary_client already uses: secret scope wins under multiplex,
UnscopedSecretError falls back to os.environ (default-profile/CLI
paths unchanged). Same bug class as #86905.

Verified in a gateway-accurate simulation (hermes_home_override +
profile scope): resolve_provider('auto') now returns the secondary
profile's own provider (deepseek) instead of erroring.

* test(auth): cover profile-scoped key resolution in resolve_provider (#86917)

Three regression tests: scoped DEEPSEEK_API_KEY is visible to auto
detection under multiplex (the #86917 failure); unscoped paths keep the
os.environ read; explicit config provider still wins.

* fix(auth): only fall back to os.getenv on ImportError in resolve_provider (#86918 review)

The previous except Exception silently fell back to os.getenv if the
_scoped_key_env import ever failed — under multiplex that is exactly the
fail-open this PR removes (secondary profiles would regress to 'No LLM
provider configured' with zero trace). Catch only ImportError, log a
WARNING naming the consequence, and let any other failure propagate.
Also replaces the lambda fallback with a named nested function.

* test(gitlock): pin the git-process guard in sweep tests (deflake slice 8)

The stale-lock removal tests asserted the sweep result while leaving
_git_proc_running() live: on CI the parallel per-file runner almost
always has a real git subprocess in flight, pgrep -x git hits, and
clear_stale_git_locks correctly refuses to sweep — failing the tests
for reasons unrelated to the code under test (surfaced on PR #86918,
which doesn't touch gitlock at all).

Monkeypatch the guard to False in the sweep tests and add an explicit
test pinning the guard's block-while-git-running behavior.

* fix(gateway): complete /loop ticks after streamed already_sent turns

Streamed replies return None so the adapter does not send twice.
The /loop hook then saw empty text and never ran, so
awaiting_response stayed true and later ticks never fired.

Stash the delivered text on the event and use it for the post-turn
hooks. /goal uses the same path.

Tests: tests/gateway/test_loop_command.py

* fix(cli): chat -c fails loudly on stderr and gains --create-if-missing

`hermes chat -c "<title>" -q "<text>"` silently no-oped when no session
matched the title under quiet/programmatic use: the not-found message was
written to stdout (the channel quiet callers parse as the final response),
so a background send to a not-yet-existing named session vanished with no
error. Surfaces via Hermes-Bot-Mode bot-to-bot handoffs (#86794).

- not-found message now goes to stderr (exit 1 unchanged), so programmatic
  callers always see it even with -Q/--quiet
- new --create-if-missing: with `-c <title>` and no matching session, create
  a fresh session carrying the title and proceed — the deterministic
  "send to this named thread, making it if needed" primitive plugins asked for
- extract the -c resolution block into _resolve_continue_arg for testability

Tests: flag parsing, titled-session creation, stderr routing, source guard.

* fix(cli): address review feedback on chat -c fail-loudly PR

Response to AI review (Enough1122) on #86812:

1. `_create_titled_session`: log the underlying exception before returning
   None so programmatic callers aren't left with an undebuggable "could
   not be created" — failures (DB lock, I/O, import) now land in errors.log
   via logger.exception.

2. Drop the source-reading `TestSourceGuard` — it violated the repo's
   "never read source code in tests" rule and was a change-detector
   (passed even if behavior regressed). The stderr routing is already
   covered by the real-path `test_missing_session_fails_on_stderr`.

3. Bare `-c` + `--create-if-missing` now prints a stderr note explaining
   the flag needs a session name, instead of silently ignoring it — makes
   the no-op self-evident to programmatic callers.

Tests: 6 targeted + 8 adjacent, all passing.

* chore: map contributor email for @yflmq001

* fix(acp): probe CLI for --acp support before spawning subprocess

CopilotACPClient unconditionally passes [self._acp_command] +
self._acp_args (default ['--acp', '--stdio']) to subprocess.Popen.
When the resolved CLI doesn't accept --acp (e.g. Claude Code
v2.1.233, where 'claude --acp --stdio' exits 1 with
'error: unknown option') the subprocess dies in ~250ms with the
error on stderr, but the parent ACP loop has no fast-fail for this
shape and waits the full child_timeout_seconds (default 600s,
observed 109s+ before user interruption) for stdout that never
arrives.

Add _acp_supported() that probes the CLI's --help output for the
--acp flag in ~50ms, then call it at the top of _run_prompt before
any spawn happens. When the probe fails, raise a RuntimeError that
names the unsupported flag, lists the expected fix (install
@github/copilot late 2025+, or set HERMES_COPILOT_ACP_*), and
returns control to the caller in ~280ms instead of hanging the
delegate_task parent for hundreds of seconds.

Measured locally against Claude Code v2.1.233:
  - Before: delegate_task acp_command=claude hangs 109s+ then
    returns tokens={input:0, output:0}.
  - After: delegate_task acp_command=claude raises RuntimeError
    in 280ms with a clear actionable message.

This does NOT change behavior for supported CLIs (the new
@github/copilot ships with --acp) — the probe returns True and
the spawn proceeds unchanged.

Refs the bundled claude-review-delegate skill which already
documents this class of transport-mismatch pitfall for users
who call 'claude -p' directly; this fix closes the same gap for
the delegate_task MCP path.

* fix(acp): make --acp probe tri-state, cached, and mock-safe

Salvage hardening on top of #87308 (thanks @Dudeman456):

- Tri-state verdict: inconclusive probes (binary missing, --help
  failed/timed out) return None and fall through to the normal spawn
  path, preserving the established 'Could not start Copilot ACP
  command' error instead of masking it. This also fixes the two
  test_copilot_acp_client HOME-env regressions that went red on the
  PR: their mocked-Popen path was intercepted by the new unmocked
  subprocess.run probe.
- Cache definitive verdicts per binary path so CLIs that DO support
  --acp pay the ~50ms --help cost once per process, not per prompt.
- Skip the probe entirely when custom ACP args don't include --acp.
- Fix the help-text regex: the old pattern never matched '[--acp]'
  (leading '[' is neither start-of-string nor whitespace) and \b
  after 'p' matched '--acpfoo'.
- Hermeticity: stub subprocess.run in the two HOME-env tests; add 6
  probe-specific tests (fast-fail, fall-through, caching, skip).

* fix(cli): bound the Windows process-scan probes so a slow WMI scan cannot wedge hermes update (#87134)

subprocess.run(capture_output=True, timeout=N) is not hang-safe on
Windows: after the timeout fires, run()'s cleanup kills the direct child
and then joins the pipe reader threads with an UNBOUNDED communicate().
A descendant (conhost.exe under wmic/powershell) holding duplicated pipe
handles keeps the pipes from EOF and the join never returns.

_scan_gateway_pids() runs its wmic / Get-CimInstance Win32_Process scans
exactly that way, and on machines where the full process scan genuinely
exceeds its 10/15s budget (cold WMI on first boot, ARM VMs, heavy
Update/AV activity) hermes update wedged forever inside
_pause_windows_gateways_for_update() before printing a single line —
observed live on a fresh Windows 11 ARM64 VM with a faulthandler stack
pinning the main thread in subprocess._communicate and only a conhost.exe
child surviving. The single-flight update lock then blocks retries until
the wedged process is killed by hand.

This is the same deadlock class bounded_git_probe already fixed for git
probes (#68609 / #66037). Generalize that proven pattern into a shared
bounded_probe_run() — explicit communicate(timeout), kill_process_tree on
failure, bounded 1s drain, then abandon the daemonic readers — and
migrate the whole call-site class onto it:

- hermes_cli/gateway.py _scan_gateway_pids (the site that hung; reached
  from hermes update, cron, gateway restart/status, dashboard)
- hermes_cli/dashboard_procs.py wmic scan (same shape, reached on update)
- hermes_cli/claw.py tasklist + PowerShell probes (same shape; its
  try/except cannot catch a hang because a hang raises nothing)
- bounded_git_probe now delegates to bounded_probe_run (identical
  contract, one copy of the cleanup logic)

Unlike bounded_git_probe, bounded_probe_run returns the CompletedProcess
(or None) rather than collapsing to stdout, because the gateway scan
branches on returncode to trip its wmic -> powershell fallback.

Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_bounded_probe_run.py covers success,
nonzero-exit passthrough, spawn failure, bounded timeout (fails against
the old unbounded semantics — verified by sabotage), errors= decoding,
DEVNULL stdin, POSIX process-group placement, and the bounded_git_probe
delegation contract. Existing test_git_probe_tree_kill.py passes
unchanged against the delegated implementation.

Closes #87134

* test(cli): retarget the wmic-encoding regression test at bounded_probe_run

The Windows-only test asserted encoding/errors kwargs on a mocked
subprocess.run, but the scan now routes through bounded_probe_run
(#87134), so subprocess.run is never invoked. Assert the probe call's
contract instead (errors='ignore', finite timeout), verify the parsed
PIDs, and add a fail-open case for probe failure. The test no longer
needs a Windows host once the probe is mocked, so the windows_only
gate is dropped.

* fix(agent): attribute background-review usage and add cost controls

Persist fork token usage under session_model_usage task=background_review,
emit a per-fork completion log line, and expose enabled/max_iterations/
prompt_file so operators can see and bound the automatic review cost.

Address review feedback: load auxiliary.background_review once per spawn,
classify completion logs by summarize action prefixes, treat explicit
api_call_count=None as the documented default of 1, and WARNING on the
fail-open enabled-gate path.

* fix(desktop): route registry 'local' entry to the genuinely-local runtime

ensureRegistryBackend delegated kind==='local' to ensureBackend(), which
follows the v1 connection.json routing table — under a v1 REMOTE global
mode (the migration keeps the mandatory 'local' entry AND makes that
remote the registry primary) the roster's 'This device' rows enumerated
and dialed the REMOTE primary: every profile appeared twice (forcing
-slug handles) and clicking a local agent talked to the remote box.

resolveRegistryLocalRoute() (pure, colocated with the registry helpers)
now decides the local entry's path: delegate to the legacy route only
when v1 is itself local (single-source behavior byte-identical);
otherwise spawn/reuse a forced-local pool child via spawnPoolBackend's
new forceLocal option, pooled under the composite conn:local::<profile>
key so it cannot collide with the v1 remote descriptor cached at the
bare profile key.

* fix(desktop): key fan-out event consumption by (connectionId, profile)

Secondary-gateway events were tagged with connectionId (store/gateway
fan-out) but no consumer read it: working/attention tracking, the
pruneSecondaryGateways keep-set, and the profile-scoped event gates
(skin.changed / change-watcher broadcasts / approval-mode reconcile)
all keyed by session id + bare profile name. Every registered source
exposes a 'default' profile (the roster force-unshifts it), so two
connected gateways collided — gateway B's 'default' activity was
attributed to gateway A's 'default', keeping the wrong socket alive
and applying the wrong source's config/skin/cron changes.

Thread connectionId through consumption using the existing composite
backendScopeKey helper:

- session-states records each registry-tagged event's (connectionId,
  profile) scope per runtime session; liveSessionScopes() projects the
  busy/needs-input ones as composite keys for the gateway keep-set.
- recomputeKeptGateways (use-gateway-boot) seeds the keep-set with
  those scopes; pruneSecondaryGateways matches registry-scoped entries
  ONLY on their composite key, while local entries keep matching bare
  profile names (single-source path unchanged).
- gateway-event's 'from the active profile' gates now compare the
  event's composite scope against the active gateway's connection via
  the new activeGatewayConnectionId(); untagged local/primary events
  behave byte-identically.

Display-only surfaces that already use roster handles are untouched.

* style(desktop): order @hermes/shared import before nanostores (perfectionist/sort-imports)

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87839)

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* fix(agent): trim background_review to the enabled switch

Follow-up to #87400: drop the max_iterations and prompt_file knobs from
auxiliary.background_review. The aux model routing (provider/model/
base_url/...) predates #87400 and stays; the enabled switch and the
usage telemetry stay. The fork's iteration budget returns to the
historical hardcoded 16.

* fix(update): reload _subprocess_compat and dashboard_procs after git pull

hermes update runs in the PRE-pull Python process. After git pull updates
source files on disk, modules already in sys.modules still hold the OLD
code. The existing _reload_config_modules() reloaded only config modules,
but the post-update dashboard cleanup path (_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup
-> _scan_dashboard_processes) imports hermes_cli._subprocess_compat lazily;
a new symbol added there (e.g. bounded_probe_run) is invisible to the
cached module object, causing ImportError during the cleanup step.

Extend the reload list to include hermes_cli._subprocess_compat and
hermes_cli.dashboard_procs so the cleanup uses freshly-pulled code.

* fix(update): reload process-scan modules at the dashboard-cleanup entry point

Widen PR #87757 to cover the ZIP path: _update_via_zip() also calls
_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() but never runs _reload_config_modules,
so the Windows git-broken fallback would still crash with the same
ImportError (cannot import name 'bounded_probe_run' from the stale cached
hermes_cli._subprocess_compat).

- new _reload_process_scan_modules() called inside
  _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup itself, so every current and future
  call site is covered; reloads dependency-first
  (_subprocess_compat, then dashboard_procs)
- reload failures log at warning (a miss surfaces seconds later as an
  ImportError in the same process)
- regression tests: reload-before-kill ordering, node-failure skip,
  stale-module symbol restoration (the exact #87134 boundary state),
  nonfatal reload failure, and the #87757 reload-list contract

* chore: release v0.20.2 (2026.8.16)

* fix(tui): modified Enter and bare LF insert a newline in the composer across IDE and macOS terminals (#87854)

* fix(tui): send atomic CSI u for modified Enter in IDE terminals

VS Code/Cursor/Windsurf terminals bound Shift/Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to the
legacy \\r\n sequence, which Ink's parse-keypress split into a
backslash keypress plus a plain Return — inserting a stray backslash and
submitting instead of adding a newline. Emit Kitty CSI u sequences that
encode the modifier atomically, and migrate keybindings users already
have on disk.

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* fix(tui): treat a bare LF as a newline in macOS composer terminals

Terminals that can't send a distinct Shift+Enter collapse a modified
Enter / Ctrl+J down to a bare LF. shouldPreserveCtrlJNewline() already
handles the env-detectable cases (SSH, Windows Terminal, Ghostty, WSL),
but plain macOS terminals (Terminal.app, iTerm2 defaults) do the same and
aren't env-detectable, leaving no keyboard-driven newline there. Fold the
return-key decision into shouldInsertNewlineOnReturn() and accept a bare
LF as a multiline fallback on macOS too, keeping CR as submit everywhere.

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* fix(state): classify structural DB corruption as its own persistence cause

'database disk image is malformed' contains the word 'disk', so
classify_persistence_error bucketed SQLITE_CORRUPT / SQLITE_NOTADB
failures as 'disk' and the turn-completion explainer told users to
free disk space for a structurally damaged state.db (the #77386-family
misdiagnosis, reproduced in the v0.20.0 malformed-DB incident report).

- hermes_state: new 'corrupt' bucket in PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES,
  matched via _DB_CORRUPTION_MARKERS BEFORE the locked/disk buckets
- run_agent: explainer text for 'corrupt' points at hermes doctor and
  explicitly says freeing space will not help
- cron explainer-variant suppression picks the new variant up
  automatically (it iterates PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES)

* fix(openviking): strip PYTHONPATH from autostarted server child env (#78153)

(cherry picked from commit 7afd99155667cde480c0ab4ee31e242dab849d40)

* fix(openviking): read .env BOM-tolerantly when rewriting credentials

f1ea4a56c ("cover the remaining setup-time .env reads with utf-8-sig",
following 75afc47ba for mem0/hindsight) swept this class; openviking's
_write_env_vars was missed and still reads with strict utf-8.

It copies every existing line through on each update, so the read decides
whether a credential update lands:

  BOM'd .env  -> the first key never matches, so the old line survives and
                 the new value is appended as a duplicate. .env loaders keep
                 the first occurrence, so the update silently does nothing.
  cp1252 .env -> UnicodeDecodeError aborts setup outright.

Read exactly like the canonical hermes_cli/config.py save_env_value
(utf-8-sig + errors="replace"). A plain UTF-8 file rewrites byte-identically.

Scope: hermes_cli/memory_setup.py has the same read but is already the
subject of #30281 / #60587, so it is left alone here.

(cherry picked from commit 175c6852c2c255b3219575b5de0b1b70f1f0efcb)

* fix(openviking): preserve non-UTF-8 env bytes on update

* docs(openviking): correct environment handling explanations

Clarify that the Desktop backend can add Hermes venv packages to PYTHONPATH and that current .env loaders use the last duplicate value.

* Revert "fix(agent): preserve local reasoning timeout opt-out"

This reverts commit 26b2b475935d5f5f369142fe1648cf5c95e7b056.

* Revert "fix(agent): harden canonical tool call deduplication"

This reverts commit 8fc4189edd23dde055232cc07ea14d1d525e44ee.

* fix(update): restart hermes-serve systemd units alongside gateways

hermes update discovered and restarted hermes-gateway* systemd units but
never looked for hermes-serve* — the Desktop app's backend — so it kept
running stale pre-update code until the user restarted it by hand (#83438).

Extend the systemd unit discovery/restart loop to also match hermes-serve*
units. They don't wire SIGUSR1 to a graceful drain (only gateway/run.py
does), so restart eligibility for the graceful path is now gated on unit
name via a small, directly-tested helper; hermes-serve units fall straight
to the existing blunt systemctl restart path, matching the workaround the
issue already documents.

* fix(update): tighten hermes-serve unit gate, dedupe fleet/cleanup restarts

Review on #83595 flagged two service-lifecycle gaps in the hermes-serve
restart support:

- The unit-name gate accepted anything starting with "hermes-serve",
  which also matched the unrelated hermes-server.service. Require the
  exact base unit or the hyphenated profile family instead.
- The fleet-restart loop and _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() could
  both restart the same hermes-serve unit — the loop restarts it
  directly, then cleanup's PID scan finds the fresh process and
  restarts its owning unit again. Thread the fleet loop's restarted
  unit names through to _kill_stale_dashboard_processes() so it skips
  units already handled.

* fix(update): tighten gateway-side unit gates to exact/hyphenated shape

Mirror the strict unit-name shape from the hermes-serve gate (review on
PR #83595) on the gateway side too: the discovery gate and the SIGUSR1
eligibility helper now accept only `hermes-gateway.service` or the
`hermes-gateway-<profile>` family, so a near-prefix unit like
`hermes-gatewayd.service` can neither enter the restart path nor be sent
a SIGUSR1 it does not handle.

* fix(desktop): ignore stale remote connection attempts

* chore: map contributor email for xkam7ar

* fix(apps): dial primary sleep/wake reconnect at window backend not active profile

* fix(desktop): scope pluginSocket's connection to the active profile

pluginSocket (hermes.ts) is documented as "the live twin of pluginRest,
scoped the same way", but it calls window.hermesDesktop.getConnection()
with no profile argument, while pluginRest passes the active profile via
profileScoped(). getConnection's IPC handler (ensureBackend in
electron/main.ts) falls back to the primary profile whenever the profile
argument is empty, so an unscoped call always resolves to the primary
profile's backend regardless of which profile is actually active.

For a plugin used from a non-primary profile (e.g. kanban), this means REST
calls go to the correct pooled backend while the plugin's WebSocket silently
connects to the wrong one — a multi-profile user sees one profile's data
with another profile's live events.

Fix (adapted to the post-#87600 registry-agent store shape during salvage):
resolve the plugin socket's connection through the same (connectionId,
profile) source of truth ensureGatewayProfile/ensureGatewayAgent maintain
for $connection — store/gateway's setActive now pushes the active scope's
registry connection id into the hermes module (setApiRequestConnection,
the no-store-import twin of setApiRequestProfile), and pluginSocket
resolves via getConnectionFor for registry-agent scopes and
getConnection(profile) for the local pool. The plugin socket therefore
follows registry-agent activations too, not just profile switches.

voice-playback.ts's resolveSpeakStreamUrl had the same gap originally, but
main has since fixed it independently (via the getApiRequestProfile()
getter rather than direct store access) — dropped from this PR as
redundant, keeping only the still-open pluginSocket gap.

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* fix(image_gen): disable default-on upscaling everywhere — opt-in only

The Aug 8 default-on upscaling policy (66ea4e686) chained the Clarity
Upscaler after every sub-2MP generation. Clarity is an SD1.5 creative
tile-diffusion enhancer (creativity 0.35, "masterpiece" prompt prefix) —
it redraws content, which degraded output on 100% of generations for
models like GPT Image 2 and Ideogram whose value is precise text
rendering, CJK, and photorealistic detail.

Policy now: no model upscales by default, on FAL or Krea. The `upscale`
tool param remains as a per-call opt-in (`upscale: true`); explicit
requests still chain Clarity (FAL) / Krea Enhance as before.

- FAL catalog: all 17 default-on entries flipped to upscale=False
- Krea plugin: medium + medium-turbo per-model defaults flipped off
- Tool schema: upscale param described as opt-in with a fidelity warning
- Tests updated: catalog invariant now pins all-off; default-on cases
  now assert no upscaler call
- Docs (en + zh) updated to the opt-in policy

* fix: make every tool interruptible — sequential executor abandons on user interrupt

The sequential tool path only noticed a user interrupt after the running
tool returned: with the deadline disabled it ran the tool inline (fully
blocking), and with a deadline it waited in 5s slices without ever
checking agent._interrupt_requested. Any tool without cooperative
is_interrupted() polling (image_generate, tts, transcription, skills
sync, ...) held the whole turn hostage — the reported symptom was a
redirect queued ~40s behind a FAL image generation + upscale pass.

Executor backstop (class fix, covers ALL tools):
- _run_sequential_tool_execution_middleware always dispatches on the
  daemon worker (timeout None no longer means inline blocking) and polls
  the interrupt flag every 1s.
- On interrupt: 3s cooperative grace (mirrors the concurrent path), then
  synthesize a cancelled tool result (_ToolCancelledResult), emit the
  terminal post_tool_call with status=cancelled, and abandon the worker.
- _ToolCancelledResult suppresses downstream post-hook double emission
  exactly like _ToolTimeoutResult, so an abandoned worker finishing late
  cannot report success for a cancelled call.
- clarify (interactive, _NEVER_PARALLEL_TOOLS) keeps the inline path —
  it owns its own human wait.

Cooperative layer in the reported offender:
- image_generation_tool: blind handler.get() (generation + Clarity
  upscale) replaced with _wait_fal_result(), which polls is_interrupted()
  in 0.5s slices and raises ImageGenerationInterrupted immediately.
- _upscale_image propagates the interrupt instead of swallowing it into
  the "upscale failed, use original" fallback.

Message alternation is preserved: the cancelled result is a normal tool
result for the call_id. Sabotage-verified: with the old wait loop
restored, the new tests fail (tool blocks full runtime); with the fix
they pass in ~4s.

* feat(computer-use): support Cua Driver 0.20 runtime contracts

* fix(computer-use): reconcile existing cua-driver installs

* fix(computer-use): enforce existing-profile grant, unblock the opt-in

Live-testing the Cua Driver 0.20 convergence on Windows 11 (session 2,
cua-driver 0.20.0) surfaced three defects in the existing-profile browser
path and in install status.

1. The config grant was silently nullified by an approval bypass.

`--yolo` / `-z` map onto a private unrestricted daemon, which answers every
browser_prepare. Because the host delegated the entire existing-profile
decision to the driver, that bypass also nullified
`computer_use.grant_existing_profile: false`: a plain `hermes -z` attached
to the user's real Chrome profile and read live page content over CDP, with
the driver reporting it as "the approved existing Chromium profile". It was
never approved.

An approval bypass is consent to skip prompts, not consent to read an
existing profile's pages, cookies, and storage. CuaTypedBrowserRoute.prepare
now enforces the key itself, regardless of permission mode. bounded stays
exempt - its reviewed capability manifest is the authorization boundary.
The authorization inputs are resolved in the backend from config and the
backend's immutable mode, never from model-supplied kwargs.

2. The grant, once set, still could not b…
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* fix(desktop): don't cancel the running turn on Esc while an overlay is open

The composer's global Esc-to-cancel listener (useComposerEscCancel) fires
whenever the turn is busy and the active composer matches — but overlays
(Settings, Command Center, agents, cron, …) cover the chat while the
composer stays mounted and 'active' beneath them, so pressing Esc on any
of those pages interrupted the session the user wasn't even looking at.
OverlayView's own escape-layer Esc-to-close fired too, but the stream was
already dead.

Stand Esc down with composerFocusBlockedBySurface() — the same signal the
type-to-focus path uses (BLOCKING_OVERLAY includes OverlayView's
[data-overlay-surface] marker). Esc on an overlay now closes the overlay
via its escape layer instead of canceling the stream beneath it.

Fixes #82618

* fix(caching): engage prompt caching for LiteLLM Claude on the OpenAI wire

anthropic_prompt_cache_policy() only granted Anthropic cache_control
markers to LiteLLM over the native Anthropic wire
(api_mode == "anthropic_messages"). A LiteLLM deployment exposing the
OpenAI-compatible surface instead (/v1/chat/completions, /v1/messages
-> 404) matched no grant branch and fell through to (False, False): no
cache_control injected, the system prompt sent as a plain string, and
the provider serving zero cache hits -- the entire prompt re-billed at
full price on every turn. Silent: no error, no warning, usage simply
shows 100% uncached input forever.

Add one branch after the is_anthropic_wire/is_claude case that grants
caching to Claude-family models on a LiteLLM endpoint regardless of
wire, with the native inner-block layout. Same failure class already
documented in-function for Qwen/DashScope.

Design:
- Gated on the Claude family only (is_claude); a Gemini/GPT/Qwen route
  through the same proxy must not receive markers (they may reject the
  cache_control block format -- cf. the DeepSeek/OpenCode exclusion).
- Matches on provider string OR base_url host, since provider naming
  varies per install (litellm, custom:litellm, or a bare custom alias
  pointed at a LiteLLM host).
- prompt_caching.cache_ttl: false still wins (the _cache_disabled early
  return is untouched).
- Generic strict OpenAI-wire custom providers (e.g. Fireworks) remain
  excluded -- verified by the existing over-reach regression test.

Tests: adds TestLiteLLMOpenAIWire covering the grant (several model
spellings x provider/host signals), no-over-reach (non-Claude on the
same proxy get nothing; operator disable wins), and adjacent behavior
(LiteLLM in Anthropic proxy mode still native layout). Full module:
43 passed.

Closes #84506. Original diagnosis, patch design, and measurements by
@ottosulin.

* fix(caching): use the envelope layout for LiteLLM Claude on the OpenAI wire

Follow-up to the salvaged LiteLLM cache grant. The grant itself is right;
four things about how it was scoped were not.

1. Layout. The branch returned the native inner-block layout
   (use_native_layout=True) on api_mode == "chat_completions". That layout
   writes a TOP-LEVEL msg["cache_control"] on role:tool and empty-content
   messages and depends on the Anthropic adapter to relocate it into the
   block — but that adapter only runs for api_mode == "anthropic_messages"
   (agent/transports/anthropic.py registers there), and the
   chat_completions transport does no relocation. Measured on a 3-tool-turn
   transcript: 2 of the 4 available breakpoints landed on markers the
   provider never sees. Worse, when LiteLLM itself relocates a top-level
   marker for an OpenRouter-backed Claude route
   (OpenrouterConfig._move_cache_control_to_content), the marker lands on
   an empty assistant turn and produces a cache_control-marked empty text
   block — the HTTP 400 "text content blocks must contain" shape already
   guarded in agent/anthropic_adapter.py (#69512). Switched to the envelope
   layout, matching every other OpenAI-wire grant in this function:
   4 of 4 breakpoints honored, zero empty blocks.

2. Host matching. `"litellm" in base_url_hostname(...)` is the substring
   false-positive class base_url_hostname's own docstring warns against; it
   granted Anthropic markers to notlitellm.example.com,
   foolitellmbar.example and friends. Replaced with a label-token match in
   a named helper, so "litellm" must be a whole dot- or hyphen-delimited
   token. All three of the original test hosts still match; a "litellm"
   path segment on an unrelated host still does not.

3. Transport gate. `not is_anthropic_wire` also swept in codex_responses,
   bedrock_converse and codex_app_server. Gated on
   api_mode == "chat_completions" explicitly.

4. Operator override. The grant is inferred from a provider/host name, but
   the custom-provider capability lookup was gated on is_anthropic_wire, so
   an explicit `prompt_caching: false` for the route+model was honored on
   /v1/messages and silently ignored on /v1/chat/completions. The lookup
   now also runs for a LiteLLM route, and its layout follows the transport
   rather than the declaration (an explicit `true` must not promote a
   chat_completions request to the native layout).

Tests: 64 passed. Adds the wire-shape contract the original matrix was
missing (asserts no breakpoint sits on the message envelope, rather than
only checking the returned tuple), plus lookalike-host, other-transport,
and both operator-override directions. All five guards mutation-checked —
reverting each fix turns the corresponding test red.

* fix(caching): match the litellm provider id token-wise too

Self-review follow-up. The previous commit fixed substring matching on the
HOST but left the provider-id side as a bare substring, so a user-named
provider like `custom:notlitellm` or `mylitellmthing` still matched and was
handed Anthropic markers — the same bug class, half-fixed.

Both signals now match `litellm` as a whole delimited token via a shared
helper. Real spellings (`litellm`, `custom:litellm`, `litellm-router`, and
the already-lowercased `LiteLLM`) still match; lookalikes no longer do.

Tests: 71 passed. Adds lookalike-provider and real-spelling guards; both
new guards mutation-checked. Differential matrix over 2688 configs vs
origin/main: 60 changes, every one a Claude model on a genuine LiteLLM
route getting the envelope layout, zero pre-existing routes altered.

* perf(caching): narrow the widened capability lookup to the LiteLLM grant

Self-review follow-up, caught by benchmarking the previous commit.

Widening the custom-provider capability-lookup gate to `is_anthropic_wire or
_is_litellm_route(...)` made EVERY chat_completions route with a litellm-ish
provider/host enter the lookup, including non-Claude models that the grant
branch below can never match. Measured on a route with no config.yaml
(the uncached worst case) that was ~7.5us -> ~1528us per evaluation.

Narrowed the gate to the exact condition the LiteLLM branch grants on
(chat_completions + Claude + litellm route), computed once into a local and
reused by the branch itself so the predicate no longer runs twice.

Measured with a realistic config.yaml present (mtime cache warm), vs
origin/main:
  live-agent policy      20.6us -> 61.7us
  destination planning  219.3us -> 347.7us

Sub-millisecond and scoped to the routes that actually opted in. The
earlier 1.5ms figures were a tempdir artifact: load_config_readonly's
mtime cache cannot engage when no config.yaml exists, which is never true
of a real install. Non-LiteLLM and non-Claude routes are unaffected
(openrouter Claude measured flat at ~7.9us).

Tests: 82 passed across the policy and TTL-propagation modules.

* test(caching): pin signal precedence and the openrouter-host opt-out

Review follow-up. Three coverage gaps in the LiteLLM matrix:

- The operator opt-out on a litellm-named provider pointed at an OpenRouter
  host. That route previously took the OpenRouter branch and ignored an
  explicit per-model `prompt_caching: false`; it is the only cell in the
  differential matrix where the salvage REMOVES caching, so pin it as
  intended rather than leaving it to be read as a regression.
- Signal precedence: an explicitly litellm-named provider grants even on a
  lookalike host, because the provider id is an independent signal and only
  the host-derived signal is token-gated. Intentional, now documented.
- A hyphen-delimited host label (`my-litellm-gw.internal.example.com`),
  which the token matcher handles but nothing exercised.

Traded the redundant `claude-3-7-sonnet` parametrize cell for the new host
case, so the matrix covers more shapes with the same cell count.

Tests: 83 passed. All three production fixes re-mutation-checked against
the final stack.

* fix(web_server): discover root user plugins under profile-scoped processes

When the backend is spawned profile-scoped (`--profile <name>` sets
HERMES_HOME=<root>/profiles/<name>), _discover_dashboard_plugins()
scanned only get_process_hermes_home()/plugins — the profile directory,
which has no plugins/ content. Pooled per-profile backends therefore
discovered zero user plugins, mounted no plugin API routes, and every
plugin REST call fell through to the SPA catch-all 404.

Also scan get_default_hermes_root()/plugins (which unwraps
<root>/profiles/<name> to <root> and leaves a custom HERMES_HOME
untouched when it is itself the root), matching how hermes_cli.plugins
resolves install locations. The profile home is scanned first, so a
profile-local plugin of the same name stays authoritative via the
existing seen_names dedupe.

Adds regression tests for root-plugin discovery under a profile-scoped
process and for profile-over-root precedence.

Fixes #87197 (plugin discovery half — the misleading /api/* catch-all
half is addressed separately in #87270).

* fix(telegram): keep /loop and synthetic sends in the active DM topic

Fixes #87051

* fix(desktop): show failed status for timed-out subagents in fallback stream path

Fixes #87200

* fix(desktop): match custom provider aliases in model catalog menu

Fixes #87035

* chore(contributors): map emails for P2-sweep salvage wave

* fix(desktop): avoid PowerShell parent marker boot gate

* fix(desktop): give Windows start-marker PowerShell probe a 30s budget

PowerShell 5.1 cold starts take 2.4-8s on affected Windows hosts, so the
shared 3s execText timeout hard-failed the parent start-marker probe for
any PID that still needs the PowerShell path (e.g. backend children).
Make execText's timeout overridable and raise the marker probe to 30s.

Fixes #87169

* perf(desktop): hydrate transcripts with a small tail page + on-demand older-page backfill

Replace the fixed 500-message REST hydration (getLatestSessionMessages)
with a 120-row newest-first tail page. When the page comes back full, a
new per-session tail store records "possibly truncated + next offset";
"Show earlier" — once the DOM budget and the in-memory store window are
both exhausted — fetches the next older page via the new
getOlderSessionMessages helper (order latest + offset, matching the
backend's back-from-newest paging semantics) and prepends it to the
session store, deduped by durable row id and race-guarded against
session switches. Legacy backends without pagination metadata fall back
to the one-shot full transcript and retire the action.

Tail-page refreshes (background sync, post-turn rehydrate, re-activate,
cold-resume prefetch) graft the refreshed tail onto any backfilled
prefix instead of clobbering it, preserving reference identity on
no-ops. includeCompacted stays on every read — compaction-archived rows
remain part of the durable display history.

* feat(desktop): MCP fleet cost/usage overlay with schema token estimates and 30-day usage

Each configured server row on the MCP Capabilities page now shows what it
costs and whether it earns its keep:

- ~per-call token estimate of the server's tool schemas, summed over ENABLED
  tools only (ceil(schema_chars/4) via the existing include/exclude filter)
- 30-day usage count from getUsageAnalytics(30), cached per scope profile
  like the Toolsets tab's toolCallsCache, mapped to servers via the
  mcp__<server>__<tool> registry-name convention (tools/mcp_tool.py)
- a subtle muted "unused" pill on enabled, probed-ok servers with nonzero
  schema cost and zero 30-day uses — never a dialog

Backend: the /api/mcp/servers/{name}/test probe now fills an additive
per-tool `schema_chars` (length of the SAME converted registry schema the
agent registers). Older backends omit it → renderer shows counts only;
older renderers ignore the extra key. Display-only: nothing changes what
schemas are sent to models, no config knobs.

i18n keys (costTokens/usage30d/unusedPill) added to types/en/zh/zh-hant/ja
(ar inherits en via defineLocale overrides). Pure math lives in
lib/mcp-cost.ts with unit tests; Python wire shape pinned in
tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_profile_unification.py.

* fix(tui): map lineage edit ordinals past compression prefix

Desktop/TUI count full displayed lineage after compression, but
prompt.submit validated truncate ordinals against tip-only history.
Translate via display_history_prefix and recover stale 4018s on Desktop.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(desktop): hoist GatewayMock type into #82462 edit recovery suite

CI typecheck failed because GatewayMock lived only in the previous describe.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* feat(desktop): hermes:// deep link to install MCP servers with explicit confirmation

Adds hermes://mcp/install?name=NAME&config=B64 (base64url or standard
base64 JSON), mirroring Cursor's mcp/install deep link, so vendors and
docs can offer an "Add to Hermes" button.

- Electron: the existing generic hermes:// handler already forwards
  {kind, name, params}; only its comment is updated (no new handler).
- Renderer: use-desktop-integrations routes kind=mcp/name=install into
  a pending-install store; a new confirmation dialog shows the server
  name and the FULL pretty-printed config (attacker-controllable input),
  with a prominent caution for stdio command entries. Nothing is written
  until the user confirms; existing names require a rename or cancel.
  On confirm the server is merged over a fresh fetch of the current map
  via saveMcpServers, then navigation lands on /skills?tab=mcp&server=…
  so useDeepLinkHighlight focuses the new row.
- Validation: name ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]{1,64}$; config must decode to an
  object with a string http(s) `url` or a string `command` (never both);
  payloads over 32KB rejected; failures surface as a toast.
- Pure parser in src/lib/mcp-deeplink.ts with unit tests (url shape,
  command shape, bad base64, non-object, javascript: URL, oversized).
- i18n keys in types + en/zh/zh-hant/ja/ar.
- Docs: "Add to Hermes link" section in the MCP config reference.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87599)

Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(desktop): background MCP health checks with re-auth nudges

MCP server problems (expired OAuth tokens especially) were only
discovered when the user visited the MCP page and a probe ran. Now a
renderer-side background checker (store/mcp-health.ts) sweeps the
active profile's enabled HTTP/SSE MCP servers on gateway connect and
every 30 minutes, and fires an in-app notification with a "Sign in"
action ("<name> MCP needs re-authentication") that navigates to the
MCP page with ?server=<name> so useDeepLinkHighlight focuses the
server and its Authenticate button. Navigation only — OAuth flows are
never auto-launched.

stdio servers are deliberately excluded: probing a stdio server SPAWNS
a local process, so a background timer must never touch them. Only
url-shaped servers (where OAuth expiry lives) are swept, sequentially.

The tab's probeCache/serverFingerprint/probeKey/NEEDS_AUTH_RE moved to
a shared lib/mcp-probe-cache.ts (behavior identical) so the page and
the checker share one probe cache and its 5-minute TTL — neither
surface re-probes what the other just learned.

Notifications fire only on a TRANSITION into needs-auth/error (pure
state machine, unit-tested), hard-capped at one per server per app
session, keyed per profile. Profile switches drop pending timers and
re-arm for the new profile; sweeps never run while the gateway is
disconnected. No new config knobs. i18n keys added across
en/zh/zh-hant/ja/ar + types.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87607)

Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(desktop): scope messaging to active remote profile

Complete the sidebar profile-scope contract across remote Electron routing, older-backend fallbacks, standalone messaging refreshes, and pagination. Reject stale profile responses and keep the explicit all-profiles view unified.

Co-authored-by: 墨綠BG <s5460703@gmail.com>

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

* fix(desktop): retain messaging totals per profile

Key resolved platform totals by Desktop profile and source so profile switches neither inherit another profile's count nor discard a count that was already resolved. Keep the full reset for connection configuration changes.

Co-authored-by: frendo <frendo.wu@gmail.com>

* fix(desktop): ignore stale messaging page responses

Sequence per-profile platform pagination so an older overlapping response cannot replace a newer, larger page.

* docs(desktop): document profile scope helpers

Add JSDoc to the exported helpers introduced by the profile-scoped sidebar change.

* fix(desktop): reject stale profile refreshes

* fix(desktop): harden profile-scoped refreshes

* fix(desktop): resolve sessions from sidebar caches

Consult messaging and cron caches before the by-id fallback so opening a sidebar row neither depends on a redundant network lookup nor duplicates it into regular recents.

Co-authored-by: protas-box <protas.box@icloud.com>

* fix(tools-config): stop reconfigure flow clobbering image_gen.use_gateway on managed FAL rows

The Nous Subscription image_gen row carries imagegen_backend="fal", so
_reconfigure_provider's post-model-picker step ran

    img_cfg["use_gateway"] = False

unconditionally at two sites, immediately after the managed branch had
written use_gateway=True. A user who picked Nous Subscription and then
re-entered `hermes tools` to change the model was silently flipped onto
their personal FAL_KEY.

Same bug class as fe63353cb, which fixed the plugin-provider selector
but missed these two legacy-backend sites in the reconfigure flow. Both
now write bool(managed_feature), matching the existing correct site in
_configure_provider.

Adds regression tests driven through the real TOOL_CATEGORIES managed
row; sabotage-verified (tests fail with the old behavior restored).

* feat(desktop): make the multi-gateway Connections registry discoverable

The multi-connection registry (Settings -> Connections) shipped with no
entry point outside the settings nav, and the product-owner report was
blunt: 'I didn't see any obvious way to hook up multiple gateways.'

- Profile rail: a plug pill pinned beside Manage ('Connect another
  Hermes gateway...') deep-links to /settings?tab=connections. Always
  visible, including for single-profile first-run users.
- Command palette: Settings -> Connections is now a searchable entry
  (keywords: add gateway, remote, ssh, cloud, instances, registry).
- i18n: profiles.connectGateway added to en/types/zh; other locales
  fall back through defineLocale.
- Tests: profile-rail-connect.test.tsx covers the deep link and the
  single-profile visibility guarantee.

* docs: full multi-gateway setup guide for Hermes Desktop

Expand user-guide/multi-connection-desktop.md into a complete setup
walkthrough: where to find the pane (settings nav, profile-rail plug,
command palette), the exact add-connection editor fields (Name,
Gateway URL, Authentication: Session token/OAuth, SSH host), Primary /
This device pills, Test semantics, agent roster + profile-rail
switching and per-profile session/cron/messaging scoping, token
storage via Electron safeStorage with the keyring-less Linux plain-
text opt-in, and troubleshooting. All quoted labels match the desktop
i18n strings. Cross-link the rail entry point from desktop.md.

* fix(desktop): never resolve a missing named gateway scope to the primary

activeGateway() fell back to the primary gateway when the active key named
a registry-agent scope (conn:<id>::<profile>) whose secondaries entry had
been evicted — e.g. closeSecondaryGateways() during a soft gateway switch —
so sends and session ops silently executed against the WRONG machine.

A named scope now resolves to its own socket or null, and every eviction
path (closeSecondaryGateways, pruneSecondaryGateways) explicitly restores
the primary as active when it evicts the active scope, keeping the
'activeKey always resolves' invariant with the atoms following.

* fix(desktop): sync connection atoms and share the switch mutex for agent activation

ensureGatewayForAgent (the SDK ensureAgent door) skipped the two invariants
the profile path provides:

- $connection / $activeGatewayProfile were only updated when a socket was
  freshly dialed (setConnection inside openSecondary), so activating an
  ALREADY-OPEN registry agent left both describing the previous backend —
  /api/fs, /api/media and image.attach routed to the wrong machine (same
  class as #46651) and newSessionInProfile targeted the stale profile.
- Activations bypassed the gatewaySwitch mutex, so a rapid agent/profile
  interleave could complete out of order with the earlier setActive()
  landing last.

Add profile.ts ensureGatewayAgent: the (connectionId, profile) analogue of
ensureGatewayProfile that shares the same gatewaySwitch mutex, moves
$activeGatewayProfile on every activation, and resyncs $connection from
getConnectionFor (best-effort, like the profile path). The SDK ensureAgent
now routes through it; local/null connectionId falls through to the
profile path unchanged.

* feat(desktop): expose busy turn flags on plugin SDK

Plugins can now read host.state.busy and host.state.awaitingResponse
for the focused chat. These follow the same session slice the chat pane
uses, so a draft falls back to the global flags and a background turn
does not leak.

* fix(desktop): make plugin SDK turn flags follow the focused chat

Follow-up to the salvaged #87558 commit: the PR's docs promised the flags
follow "the focused chat", but PRIMARY_SESSION_VIEW is the primary
workspace tab only — a focused session TILE would read the wrong chat.
Wire host.state.busy / host.state.awaitingResponse through the focused
slice ($focusedStoredSessionId / $focusedSessionState), same semantics
as the statusbar busy pulse, with the primary view (and its draft
fallback) while the workspace holds focus.

Adds a tile-focus vitest case and corrects the docs wording.

* feat(desktop): paste-anything MCP server import

Add a compact Import popover to the MCP Capabilities page that accepts
anything a user might copy from an MCP server README and infers the
server config:

- mcp.json snippets (mcpServers-wrapped, bare name->config maps, single
  unnamed server objects, Cursor/Claude `type` normalized to `transport`)
- bare npx/bunx/uvx/node/docker command lines (name inferred from the
  package basename, e.g. server-filesystem -> filesystem)
- `claude mcp add NAME [--transport http|sse] [-e K=V] [-H ...] [--] CMD
  ARGS...` and `claude mcp add NAME URL`
- bare http(s) URLs (name inferred from the hostname)
- Cursor deeplinks (cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install with
  a base64-encoded JSON config payload)

The parser is a pure module (src/lib/mcp-import.ts) with unit tests for
every format plus garbage input. The popover previews the inferred
name + config and, on confirm, merges the entries into the editor draft
exactly like addServer's starter entry: unique keys, dirty (unsaved)
draft, first new block focused. Placeholder env values (YOUR_KEY,
TOKEN_HERE, ...) are kept verbatim for the user to edit in the editor
before saving.

i18n keys added under settings.mcp for en, zh, zh-hant, ja (ar falls
back through defineLocale).

* feat(desktop): running is not busy

Gate composer submit and plugin host busy on the target session slice, not a leftover foreground busyRef. Staff can keep typing while a worker session is running.

Includes the follow-up test that submit uses the target session busy flag.

* fix(desktop): lint and map contributor email for running-is-not-busy

Drop the redundant Boolean() on selected in $primaryBusy and add the
professorpalmer9@gmail.com mapping so attribution CI can resolve the PR.

* feat(desktop-sdk): expose focused-session state atoms to plugins

Disk plugins read app state exclusively through host.state, which only
exposed the primary workspace tab ($activeSessionId). In the multi-tile
layout, clicking a tile never touches that atom — and tile focus is a
pure renderer concern, invisible to both gateway RPC and the event
stream — so a plugin cannot follow the session the user is actually
looking at.

The core statusbar solves this same problem by reading the focused-
session atoms (use-statusbar-items.tsx). Widen the generic plugin
surface with the same signals, per the contribution rubric:

- host.state.focusedSessionId — runtime id of the focused session
  (interacted tile, else the primary), the key for session.* RPC
- host.state.focusedStoredSessionId — durable id for navigation and
  session-list matching
- host.state.focusedUsage — live streamed UsageStats projection
  (context_used/max/percent, tokens, cost_usd), no RPC needed

Additive only; no existing behavior changes. tsc --noEmit clean.
Verified end-to-end with a disk plugin that now tracks the focused
session across tiles.

* test(desktop-sdk): contract-test the focused-session host.state atoms

Locks the plugin-facing contract: the focused atoms exist as readonly
nanostores, mirror the primary session while no tile is focused, project
the focused session's usage, and — the behavior this PR exists for —
follow the interacted tile while the primary-only $activeSessionId
stays put.

* fix(desktop-sdk): type focusedUsage as Partial<UsageStats>, fix expect arity

ClientSessionState.usage is Partial<UsageStats> (app/types.ts) — the
backend streams whichever fields changed — so the computed produces
ReadableAtom<Partial<UsageStats> | null>. Annotate the entry honestly
instead of claiming full UsageStats, and document the fallback rule for
plugin authors. Also collapse the three-argument expect() calls in the
contract test (vitest takes one message arg). Addresses triage review on
PR #80461.

* fix(desktop-sdk): address adversarial review — type honesty, real tile coverage, docs

Independent second-pass review found three gaps:

- focusedUsage is null | UsageStats, not Partial — ClientSessionState.usage
  is the full type (app/types.ts) and its only write site seeds the four
  required fields before merging (gateway-event.ts). The earlier Partial
  annotation traced the wrong type (SessionRuntimeInfo, an RPC payload).
  Comment now names the genuinely optional fields instead.
- The tile-focus contract test never seeded $sessionTiles/$sessionStates,
  so it proved focusedStoredSessionId follows a tile but could not
  distinguish focusedSessionId/focusedUsage working from broken. Seed a
  bound runtime with distinct usage and assert both readout atoms move.
- The two public host.state references (website docs + bundled skill
  reference) enumerated the old six atoms; plugin authors would never
  discover the new ones. Both lists updated.

tsc/eslint/vitest green (4/4).

* chore: map contributor email for focused-session atoms salvage

* fix(desktop): exclude process-less descriptors from backend pool LRU cap

Remote/cloud registry descriptors (entry.process === null) shared the
POOL_MAX_BACKENDS cap with real spawned local backends, so a roster
refresh across N registered remote connections could LRU-evict a live
local backend idle past the keepalive window. Cap accounting and
cap-driven eviction now count only entries with a live child process;
descriptors remain subject to the idle reaper.

* fix(desktop): tear down renderer secondaries when a registry connection is removed

Removing a connection stopped its pooled backends and ssh tunnels but
never told the renderer: for remote/cloud sources there is no local
process to die, so the removed connection's WebSocket stayed open and
kept streaming ghost events into the UI until page reload. If the
socket did drop, openSecondary -> getConnectionFor threw 'No connection
with id' and scheduleReconnect retried forever (backoff caps at 15s,
entry never evicted).

- main now broadcasts 'hermes:connections:changed' on removal (and on
  material edits); preload exposes connections.onChanged.
- use-gateway-boot subscribes and calls the new
  disposeSecondariesForConnection(), which disposes + evicts every
  secondary scoped to the connection id (redialing on edits).
- reconnectSecondary fail-stops: when the Electron main reports the
  connection no longer exists, the entry is disposed and evicted
  instead of retrying forever; ordinary transport errors keep the
  existing backoff behavior.

* fix(desktop): recycle live backends and sockets when a connection edit changes its target

saveRegistryConnection only rewrote the registry file: editing a
connection's URL/token/host left pooled backend descriptors under
'conn:<id>::*' and open renderer sockets pointing at the OLD endpoint —
the UI showed the new target while traffic kept flowing to the old one
until idle-reap.

When a save MATERIALLY changes an existing connection (endpoint / auth /
ssh routing fields, via the new connectionDialFieldsChanged helper),
main now stops that connection's pooled backends and tunnels
(stopRegistryConnectionBackends, same teardown as removal) and
broadcasts 'hermes:connections:changed' with reason 'updated' so
renderers dispose and re-dial their secondaries at the new target.
Label-only renames do not recycle.

* fix(cli): restore Kitty keyboard protocol push and complete the extended-key alias table

Commit 4c34eeb416 fixed dead Ctrl+C by removing the Kitty protocol push
(CSI >1u) from _EXTENDED_ENTER_KEYS_SEQ, keeping only modifyOtherKeys
level 2. That regressed kitty-the-terminal completely: kitty removed
xterm modifyOtherKeys support (kovidgoyal/kitty#4075) and only speaks
its own protocol, so after the removal kitty users lost Shift+Enter and
every other extended key — the CSI >4;2m we still pushed is a no-op
there (kitty even logs a PARSE ERROR for it).

The original reason for removing the push is obsolete: #87511 mapped
CSI-u control sequences, so Ctrl+C as ESC[99;5u now parses to
Keys.ControlC and fires the existing c-c binding. (The kernel-INTR
concern in that commit was moot — prompt_toolkit's raw mode clears
ISIG, so Ctrl+C is always handled by the binding, never the kernel.)

Restore the dual push (CSI >1u + CSI >4;2m), exactly mirroring the Ink
TUI, and complete the alias table for what the kitty disambiguate flag
actually emits — #87511 left real gaps, some of which its PR body
wrongly claimed were covered:

- Esc key: ESC[27u (+ modifiers) — previously leaked '[27u' as text
- Ctrl+Backspace -> backward-kill-word (#78285 was closed on the wrong
  claim that codepoint-127 mapping existed; it did not)
- Shift+Space -> space (#86866's second symptom; the Ctrl+Space
  mapping never covered modifier 2)
- Alt+Enter -> newline tuple; Shift+Tab -> BackTab; Ctrl+Tab -> Tab;
  Alt/Shift+Backspace
- Multi-modifier letters (Shift+Alt 4, Ctrl+Shift 6, Ctrl+Alt 7,
  Ctrl+Alt+Shift 8) normalized onto their Ctrl/Escape-prefix targets,
  both unshifted (kitty) and shifted (mok emitters) codepoints
- Kitty PUA functional keys: keypad -> non-keypad equivalents,
  F13-F24, and Ignore for lock/media/modifier-event keys so they are
  consumed instead of leaking (kitty emits these even in legacy mode)

Also: clear the VT100 parser's prefix cache after installing (stale
answers could misparse), and re-push extended keys after
_recover_terminal_input_modes' reset — the recovery previously popped
both modes mid-session and never re-enabled them, silently killing
Shift+Enter until restart.

Refs #87511, #87074, #56684, #56645, #78285, #86866, #87390.

* fix(cron): process .pth files for Windows uv-venv script jobs (#86567)

_windows_cron_python_invocation bypasses the uv venv launcher (to avoid
flashing a console window) and re-attaches the venv via PYTHONPATH — but
PYTHONPATH entries are plain sys.path additions and never get .pth
processing, so editable installs (pip install -e) were invisible to cron
script jobs (ModuleNotFoundError).

Bootstrap the script with site.addsitedir() on the venv site-packages,
then exec it as __main__ via runpy.run_path, preserving the script
directory on sys.path (python script.py semantics). Falls back to a
plain invocation when the venv layout is unresolvable.

* fix(cron): log and document the .pth bootstrap fallback (#86816 review)

- WARN when the venv site-packages layout is unresolvable and the script
  falls back to plain PYTHONPATH execution, so 'editable installs
  invisible' failures are diagnosable.
- Docstring: note that runpy does not set __package__/__spec__ the way a
  direct python script.py invocation does.

* fix(update): surface config mutations applied silently during version-bump-only updates

* fix: honor JSON-array string forms for skills.disabled and agent.disabled_toolsets

`hermes config set` and JSON-mode editor saves store lists as quoted
strings (e.g. '["skill-a","skill-b"]' or "['memory']"). Both disable
filters treated such a string as a single name, so curated disable
lists silently filtered nothing with zero diagnostics.

Add parse_config_string_list() in agent.skill_utils and use it in
_normalize_string_set (skills.disabled / platform_disabled) and at
every agent.disabled_toolsets read site: tools_config resolve +
reconcile, CLI, gateway agent construction (both sites), cron
scheduler, and prompt_size. A scalar string still names a single
entry (#13026); malformed JSON falls back to the single-name
behavior instead of raising.

Fixes #86661

* fix(desktop-update): put --daemonized ahead of ORIGINAL_ARGS in posix.sh re-exec

Appending --daemonized after ORIGINAL_ARGS put it past the `--`
relaunch-args separator on Linux, so it was absorbed into
RELAUNCH_ARGS instead of being parsed as a flag. HANDOFF_DAEMONIZED
never got set, so the one-shot self-detach block re-fired on every
re-exec -- an unbounded self-exec loop (thousands of iterations/sec,
100%+ CPU, argv growing until execve fails with E2BIG) whenever
relaunch args were present, which is the normal invocation shape on
Linux.

Fixes #86957

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

* fix(cli): deliver the Bedrock API key through a named provider

The Bedrock API-key flow stored the bearer token in OPENAI_API_KEY and set
a bare `provider: custom`. Since #28660 that variable is only honoured for
openai.com hosts, so for bedrock-mantle.*.api.aws the token was dropped and
requests went out with api_key="no-key-required", a 401 on every call.

Write a named `providers.bedrock-mantle` entry with
key_env: AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK instead. The named-provider branch in
runtime_provider.py resolves key_env; the bare-custom branch cannot.

Fixes authentication only. Per-model mantle route selection is separate.

* fix(gateway): improve Windows detach diagnostics

* refactor(gateway): share breakaway marker constant

* fix(tui): settle session close against active turns

* fix(tui): stop queued dispatch after session close

* fix(cron): reject NUL-bearing script paths before any Path call (#76762 class)

_run_job_script wrapped only expanduser() in its ingestion try/except.
On Linux an unexpandable NUL-bearing value raises inside that call, so it
landed on the clean fail-with-report path; on Windows expanduser() never
expands '~user' (and so never raises), and the NUL surfaces later as an
uncaught ValueError from resolve()/exists() — crashing the scheduler.

Align with cron.lifecycle_guard._expand_candidate_path, which already
documents this as the whole-class fix (the per-syscall catching produced
#76762, #77703, #77780, #78256): reject '\\x00' eagerly at the ingestion
boundary so both platforms fail identically.

* test(cron): pin the eager NUL rejection contract for _run_job_script (#86829)

* fix(cron): coerce script_path to str in the NUL guard so it can never crash (#86829, review #86832)

"\x00" in script_path raises TypeError when a caller passes a non-str
(e.g. a pathlib.Path, which is not iterable) — the guard itself would
crash the scheduler. All current call sites pass plain str, but the
guard must be crash-proof: str() first, then check. Adds a regression
test running a real script through _run_job_script with a Path argument,
which fails with TypeError on the pre-fix guard.

* docs(agents): record multiplex profile-scoped env fail-closed rule (#86905)

Lesson from the feishu DM multiplex investigation: under multiplex,
os.environ holds the default profile's values, so any profile-level env
config (credentials AND authorization) must be read scope-aware, and a
scoped miss with a scope installed must fail closed instead of borrowing
from os.environ. The _get_scoped_secret wrapper is copy-pasted across
~15 platform adapters — new adapters and edits to existing ones must
keep the fail-closed semantics.

* fix(auth): resolve provider auto-detection keys through the profile scope (#86917)

resolve_provider's auto path read provider API keys with bare
os.getenv — under multiplex a secondary profile's keys live only in its
secret scope, so auto-detection found nothing and every secondary
profile with model.provider: auto failed with 'No LLM provider
configured' at agent init (reproduced on a live 7-profile gateway).

Route both env-key reads (the OPENAI/OPENROUTER tier and the
PROVIDER_REGISTRY loop) through _scoped_key_env, the scope-aware helper
auxiliary_client already uses: secret scope wins under multiplex,
UnscopedSecretError falls back to os.environ (default-profile/CLI
paths unchanged). Same bug class as #86905.

Verified in a gateway-accurate simulation (hermes_home_override +
profile scope): resolve_provider('auto') now returns the secondary
profile's own provider (deepseek) instead of erroring.

* test(auth): cover profile-scoped key resolution in resolve_provider (#86917)

Three regression tests: scoped DEEPSEEK_API_KEY is visible to auto
detection under multiplex (the #86917 failure); unscoped paths keep the
os.environ read; explicit config provider still wins.

* fix(auth): only fall back to os.getenv on ImportError in resolve_provider (#86918 review)

The previous except Exception silently fell back to os.getenv if the
_scoped_key_env import ever failed — under multiplex that is exactly the
fail-open this PR removes (secondary profiles would regress to 'No LLM
provider configured' with zero trace). Catch only ImportError, log a
WARNING naming the consequence, and let any other failure propagate.
Also replaces the lambda fallback with a named nested function.

* test(gitlock): pin the git-process guard in sweep tests (deflake slice 8)

The stale-lock removal tests asserted the sweep result while leaving
_git_proc_running() live: on CI the parallel per-file runner almost
always has a real git subprocess in flight, pgrep -x git hits, and
clear_stale_git_locks correctly refuses to sweep — failing the tests
for reasons unrelated to the code under test (surfaced on PR #86918,
which doesn't touch gitlock at all).

Monkeypatch the guard to False in the sweep tests and add an explicit
test pinning the guard's block-while-git-running behavior.

* fix(gateway): complete /loop ticks after streamed already_sent turns

Streamed replies return None so the adapter does not send twice.
The /loop hook then saw empty text and never ran, so
awaiting_response stayed true and later ticks never fired.

Stash the delivered text on the event and use it for the post-turn
hooks. /goal uses the same path.

Tests: tests/gateway/test_loop_command.py

* fix(cli): chat -c fails loudly on stderr and gains --create-if-missing

`hermes chat -c "<title>" -q "<text>"` silently no-oped when no session
matched the title under quiet/programmatic use: the not-found message was
written to stdout (the channel quiet callers parse as the final response),
so a background send to a not-yet-existing named session vanished with no
error. Surfaces via Hermes-Bot-Mode bot-to-bot handoffs (#86794).

- not-found message now goes to stderr (exit 1 unchanged), so programmatic
  callers always see it even with -Q/--quiet
- new --create-if-missing: with `-c <title>` and no matching session, create
  a fresh session carrying the title and proceed — the deterministic
  "send to this named thread, making it if needed" primitive plugins asked for
- extract the -c resolution block into _resolve_continue_arg for testability

Tests: flag parsing, titled-session creation, stderr routing, source guard.

* fix(cli): address review feedback on chat -c fail-loudly PR

Response to AI review (Enough1122) on #86812:

1. `_create_titled_session`: log the underlying exception before returning
   None so programmatic callers aren't left with an undebuggable "could
   not be created" — failures (DB lock, I/O, import) now land in errors.log
   via logger.exception.

2. Drop the source-reading `TestSourceGuard` — it violated the repo's
   "never read source code in tests" rule and was a change-detector
   (passed even if behavior regressed). The stderr routing is already
   covered by the real-path `test_missing_session_fails_on_stderr`.

3. Bare `-c` + `--create-if-missing` now prints a stderr note explaining
   the flag needs a session name, instead of silently ignoring it — makes
   the no-op self-evident to programmatic callers.

Tests: 6 targeted + 8 adjacent, all passing.

* chore: map contributor email for @yflmq001

* fix(acp): probe CLI for --acp support before spawning subprocess

CopilotACPClient unconditionally passes [self._acp_command] +
self._acp_args (default ['--acp', '--stdio']) to subprocess.Popen.
When the resolved CLI doesn't accept --acp (e.g. Claude Code
v2.1.233, where 'claude --acp --stdio' exits 1 with
'error: unknown option') the subprocess dies in ~250ms with the
error on stderr, but the parent ACP loop has no fast-fail for this
shape and waits the full child_timeout_seconds (default 600s,
observed 109s+ before user interruption) for stdout that never
arrives.

Add _acp_supported() that probes the CLI's --help output for the
--acp flag in ~50ms, then call it at the top of _run_prompt before
any spawn happens. When the probe fails, raise a RuntimeError that
names the unsupported flag, lists the expected fix (install
@github/copilot late 2025+, or set HERMES_COPILOT_ACP_*), and
returns control to the caller in ~280ms instead of hanging the
delegate_task parent for hundreds of seconds.

Measured locally against Claude Code v2.1.233:
  - Before: delegate_task acp_command=claude hangs 109s+ then
    returns tokens={input:0, output:0}.
  - After: delegate_task acp_command=claude raises RuntimeError
    in 280ms with a clear actionable message.

This does NOT change behavior for supported CLIs (the new
@github/copilot ships with --acp) — the probe returns True and
the spawn proceeds unchanged.

Refs the bundled claude-review-delegate skill which already
documents this class of transport-mismatch pitfall for users
who call 'claude -p' directly; this fix closes the same gap for
the delegate_task MCP path.

* fix(acp): make --acp probe tri-state, cached, and mock-safe

Salvage hardening on top of #87308 (thanks @Dudeman456):

- Tri-state verdict: inconclusive probes (binary missing, --help
  failed/timed out) return None and fall through to the normal spawn
  path, preserving the established 'Could not start Copilot ACP
  command' error instead of masking it. This also fixes the two
  test_copilot_acp_client HOME-env regressions that went red on the
  PR: their mocked-Popen path was intercepted by the new unmocked
  subprocess.run probe.
- Cache definitive verdicts per binary path so CLIs that DO support
  --acp pay the ~50ms --help cost once per process, not per prompt.
- Skip the probe entirely when custom ACP args don't include --acp.
- Fix the help-text regex: the old pattern never matched '[--acp]'
  (leading '[' is neither start-of-string nor whitespace) and \b
  after 'p' matched '--acpfoo'.
- Hermeticity: stub subprocess.run in the two HOME-env tests; add 6
  probe-specific tests (fast-fail, fall-through, caching, skip).

* fix(cli): bound the Windows process-scan probes so a slow WMI scan cannot wedge hermes update (#87134)

subprocess.run(capture_output=True, timeout=N) is not hang-safe on
Windows: after the timeout fires, run()'s cleanup kills the direct child
and then joins the pipe reader threads with an UNBOUNDED communicate().
A descendant (conhost.exe under wmic/powershell) holding duplicated pipe
handles keeps the pipes from EOF and the join never returns.

_scan_gateway_pids() runs its wmic / Get-CimInstance Win32_Process scans
exactly that way, and on machines where the full process scan genuinely
exceeds its 10/15s budget (cold WMI on first boot, ARM VMs, heavy
Update/AV activity) hermes update wedged forever inside
_pause_windows_gateways_for_update() before printing a single line —
observed live on a fresh Windows 11 ARM64 VM with a faulthandler stack
pinning the main thread in subprocess._communicate and only a conhost.exe
child surviving. The single-flight update lock then blocks retries until
the wedged process is killed by hand.

This is the same deadlock class bounded_git_probe already fixed for git
probes (#68609 / #66037). Generalize that proven pattern into a shared
bounded_probe_run() — explicit communicate(timeout), kill_process_tree on
failure, bounded 1s drain, then abandon the daemonic readers — and
migrate the whole call-site class onto it:

- hermes_cli/gateway.py _scan_gateway_pids (the site that hung; reached
  from hermes update, cron, gateway restart/status, dashboard)
- hermes_cli/dashboard_procs.py wmic scan (same shape, reached on update)
- hermes_cli/claw.py tasklist + PowerShell probes (same shape; its
  try/except cannot catch a hang because a hang raises nothing)
- bounded_git_probe now delegates to bounded_probe_run (identical
  contract, one copy of the cleanup logic)

Unlike bounded_git_probe, bounded_probe_run returns the CompletedProcess
(or None) rather than collapsing to stdout, because the gateway scan
branches on returncode to trip its wmic -> powershell fallback.

Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_bounded_probe_run.py covers success,
nonzero-exit passthrough, spawn failure, bounded timeout (fails against
the old unbounded semantics — verified by sabotage), errors= decoding,
DEVNULL stdin, POSIX process-group placement, and the bounded_git_probe
delegation contract. Existing test_git_probe_tree_kill.py passes
unchanged against the delegated implementation.

Closes #87134

* test(cli): retarget the wmic-encoding regression test at bounded_probe_run

The Windows-only test asserted encoding/errors kwargs on a mocked
subprocess.run, but the scan now routes through bounded_probe_run
(#87134), so subprocess.run is never invoked. Assert the probe call's
contract instead (errors='ignore', finite timeout), verify the parsed
PIDs, and add a fail-open case for probe failure. The test no longer
needs a Windows host once the probe is mocked, so the windows_only
gate is dropped.

* fix(agent): attribute background-review usage and add cost controls

Persist fork token usage under session_model_usage task=background_review,
emit a per-fork completion log line, and expose enabled/max_iterations/
prompt_file so operators can see and bound the automatic review cost.

Address review feedback: load auxiliary.background_review once per spawn,
classify completion logs by summarize action prefixes, treat explicit
api_call_count=None as the documented default of 1, and WARNING on the
fail-open enabled-gate path.

* fix(desktop): route registry 'local' entry to the genuinely-local runtime

ensureRegistryBackend delegated kind==='local' to ensureBackend(), which
follows the v1 connection.json routing table — under a v1 REMOTE global
mode (the migration keeps the mandatory 'local' entry AND makes that
remote the registry primary) the roster's 'This device' rows enumerated
and dialed the REMOTE primary: every profile appeared twice (forcing
-slug handles) and clicking a local agent talked to the remote box.

resolveRegistryLocalRoute() (pure, colocated with the registry helpers)
now decides the local entry's path: delegate to the legacy route only
when v1 is itself local (single-source behavior byte-identical);
otherwise spawn/reuse a forced-local pool child via spawnPoolBackend's
new forceLocal option, pooled under the composite conn:local::<profile>
key so it cannot collide with the v1 remote descriptor cached at the
bare profile key.

* fix(desktop): key fan-out event consumption by (connectionId, profile)

Secondary-gateway events were tagged with connectionId (store/gateway
fan-out) but no consumer read it: working/attention tracking, the
pruneSecondaryGateways keep-set, and the profile-scoped event gates
(skin.changed / change-watcher broadcasts / approval-mode reconcile)
all keyed by session id + bare profile name. Every registered source
exposes a 'default' profile (the roster force-unshifts it), so two
connected gateways collided — gateway B's 'default' activity was
attributed to gateway A's 'default', keeping the wrong socket alive
and applying the wrong source's config/skin/cron changes.

Thread connectionId through consumption using the existing composite
backendScopeKey helper:

- session-states records each registry-tagged event's (connectionId,
  profile) scope per runtime session; liveSessionScopes() projects the
  busy/needs-input ones as composite keys for the gateway keep-set.
- recomputeKeptGateways (use-gateway-boot) seeds the keep-set with
  those scopes; pruneSecondaryGateways matches registry-scoped entries
  ONLY on their composite key, while local entries keep matching bare
  profile names (single-source path unchanged).
- gateway-event's 'from the active profile' gates now compare the
  event's composite scope against the active gateway's connection via
  the new activeGatewayConnectionId(); untagged local/primary events
  behave byte-identically.

Display-only surfaces that already use roster handles are untouched.

* style(desktop): order @hermes/shared import before nanostores (perfectionist/sort-imports)

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87839)

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* fix(agent): trim background_review to the enabled switch

Follow-up to #87400: drop the max_iterations and prompt_file knobs from
auxiliary.background_review. The aux model routing (provider/model/
base_url/...) predates #87400 and stays; the enabled switch and the
usage telemetry stay. The fork's iteration budget returns to the
historical hardcoded 16.

* fix(update): reload _subprocess_compat and dashboard_procs after git pull

hermes update runs in the PRE-pull Python process. After git pull updates
source files on disk, modules already in sys.modules still hold the OLD
code. The existing _reload_config_modules() reloaded only config modules,
but the post-update dashboard cleanup path (_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup
-> _scan_dashboard_processes) imports hermes_cli._subprocess_compat lazily;
a new symbol added there (e.g. bounded_probe_run) is invisible to the
cached module object, causing ImportError during the cleanup step.

Extend the reload list to include hermes_cli._subprocess_compat and
hermes_cli.dashboard_procs so the cleanup uses freshly-pulled code.

* fix(update): reload process-scan modules at the dashboard-cleanup entry point

Widen PR #87757 to cover the ZIP path: _update_via_zip() also calls
_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() but never runs _reload_config_modules,
so the Windows git-broken fallback would still crash with the same
ImportError (cannot import name 'bounded_probe_run' from the stale cached
hermes_cli._subprocess_compat).

- new _reload_process_scan_modules() called inside
  _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup itself, so every current and future
  call site is covered; reloads dependency-first
  (_subprocess_compat, then dashboard_procs)
- reload failures log at warning (a miss surfaces seconds later as an
  ImportError in the same process)
- regression tests: reload-before-kill ordering, node-failure skip,
  stale-module symbol restoration (the exact #87134 boundary state),
  nonfatal reload failure, and the #87757 reload-list contract

* chore: release v0.20.2 (2026.8.16)

* fix(tui): modified Enter and bare LF insert a newline in the composer across IDE and macOS terminals (#87854)

* fix(tui): send atomic CSI u for modified Enter in IDE terminals

VS Code/Cursor/Windsurf terminals bound Shift/Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to the
legacy \\r\n sequence, which Ink's parse-keypress split into a
backslash keypress plus a plain Return — inserting a stray backslash and
submitting instead of adding a newline. Emit Kitty CSI u sequences that
encode the modifier atomically, and migrate keybindings users already
have on disk.

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* fix(tui): treat a bare LF as a newline in macOS composer terminals

Terminals that can't send a distinct Shift+Enter collapse a modified
Enter / Ctrl+J down to a bare LF. shouldPreserveCtrlJNewline() already
handles the env-detectable cases (SSH, Windows Terminal, Ghostty, WSL),
but plain macOS terminals (Terminal.app, iTerm2 defaults) do the same and
aren't env-detectable, leaving no keyboard-driven newline there. Fold the
return-key decision into shouldInsertNewlineOnReturn() and accept a bare
LF as a multiline fallback on macOS too, keeping CR as submit everywhere.

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* fix(state): classify structural DB corruption as its own persistence cause

'database disk image is malformed' contains the word 'disk', so
classify_persistence_error bucketed SQLITE_CORRUPT / SQLITE_NOTADB
failures as 'disk' and the turn-completion explainer told users to
free disk space for a structurally damaged state.db (the #77386-family
misdiagnosis, reproduced in the v0.20.0 malformed-DB incident report).

- hermes_state: new 'corrupt' bucket in PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES,
  matched via _DB_CORRUPTION_MARKERS BEFORE the locked/disk buckets
- run_agent: explainer text for 'corrupt' points at hermes doctor and
  explicitly says freeing space will not help
- cron explainer-variant suppression picks the new variant up
  automatically (it iterates PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES)

* fix(openviking): strip PYTHONPATH from autostarted server child env (#78153)

(cherry picked from commit 7afd99155667cde480c0ab4ee31e242dab849d40)

* fix(openviking): read .env BOM-tolerantly when rewriting credentials

f1ea4a56c ("cover the remaining setup-time .env reads with utf-8-sig",
following 75afc47ba for mem0/hindsight) swept this class; openviking's
_write_env_vars was missed and still reads with strict utf-8.

It copies every existing line through on each update, so the read decides
whether a credential update lands:

  BOM'd .env  -> the first key never matches, so the old line survives and
                 the new value is appended as a duplicate. .env loaders keep
                 the first occurrence, so the update silently does nothing.
  cp1252 .env -> UnicodeDecodeError aborts setup outright.

Read exactly like the canonical hermes_cli/config.py save_env_value
(utf-8-sig + errors="replace"). A plain UTF-8 file rewrites byte-identically.

Scope: hermes_cli/memory_setup.py has the same read but is already the
subject of #30281 / #60587, so it is left alone here.

(cherry picked from commit 175c6852c2c255b3219575b5de0b1b70f1f0efcb)

* fix(openviking): preserve non-UTF-8 env bytes on update

* docs(openviking): correct environment handling explanations

Clarify that the Desktop backend can add Hermes venv packages to PYTHONPATH and that current .env loaders use the last duplicate value.

* Revert "fix(agent): preserve local reasoning timeout opt-out"

This reverts commit 26b2b475935d5f5f369142fe1648cf5c95e7b056.

* Revert "fix(agent): harden canonical tool call deduplication"

This reverts commit 8fc4189edd23dde055232cc07ea14d1d525e44ee.

* fix(update): restart hermes-serve systemd units alongside gateways

hermes update discovered and restarted hermes-gateway* systemd units but
never looked for hermes-serve* — the Desktop app's backend — so it kept
running stale pre-update code until the user restarted it by hand (#83438).

Extend the systemd unit discovery/restart loop to also match hermes-serve*
units. They don't wire SIGUSR1 to a graceful drain (only gateway/run.py
does), so restart eligibility for the graceful path is now gated on unit
name via a small, directly-tested helper; hermes-serve units fall straight
to the existing blunt systemctl restart path, matching the workaround the
issue already documents.

* fix(update): tighten hermes-serve unit gate, dedupe fleet/cleanup restarts

Review on #83595 flagged two service-lifecycle gaps in the hermes-serve
restart support:

- The unit-name gate accepted anything starting with "hermes-serve",
  which also matched the unrelated hermes-server.service. Require the
  exact base unit or the hyphenated profile family instead.
- The fleet-restart loop and _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() could
  both restart the same hermes-serve unit — the loop restarts it
  directly, then cleanup's PID scan finds the fresh process and
  restarts its owning unit again. Thread the fleet loop's restarted
  unit names through to _kill_stale_dashboard_processes() so it skips
  units already handled.

* fix(update): tighten gateway-side unit gates to exact/hyphenated shape

Mirror the strict unit-name shape from the hermes-serve gate (review on
PR #83595) on the gateway side too: the discovery gate and the SIGUSR1
eligibility helper now accept only `hermes-gateway.service` or the
`hermes-gateway-<profile>` family, so a near-prefix unit like
`hermes-gatewayd.service` can neither enter the restart path nor be sent
a SIGUSR1 it does not handle.

* fix(desktop): ignore stale remote connection attempts

* chore: map contributor email for xkam7ar

* fix(apps): dial primary sleep/wake reconnect at window backend not active profile

* fix(desktop): scope pluginSocket's connection to the active profile

pluginSocket (hermes.ts) is documented as "the live twin of pluginRest,
scoped the same way", but it calls window.hermesDesktop.getConnection()
with no profile argument, while pluginRest passes the active profile via
profileScoped(). getConnection's IPC handler (ensureBackend in
electron/main.ts) falls back to the primary profile whenever the profile
argument is empty, so an unscoped call always resolves to the primary
profile's backend regardless of which profile is actually active.

For a plugin used from a non-primary profile (e.g. kanban), this means REST
calls go to the correct pooled backend while the plugin's WebSocket silently
connects to the wrong one — a multi-profile user sees one profile's data
with another profile's live events.

Fix (adapted to the post-#87600 registry-agent store shape during salvage):
resolve the plugin socket's connection through the same (connectionId,
profile) source of truth ensureGatewayProfile/ensureGatewayAgent maintain
for $connection — store/gateway's setActive now pushes the active scope's
registry connection id into the hermes module (setApiRequestConnection,
the no-store-import twin of setApiRequestProfile), and pluginSocket
resolves via getConnectionFor for registry-agent scopes and
getConnection(profile) for the local pool. The plugin socket therefore
follows registry-agent activations too, not just profile switches.

voice-playback.ts's resolveSpeakStreamUrl had the same gap originally, but
main has since fixed it independently (via the getApiRequestProfile()
getter rather than direct store access) — dropped from this PR as
redundant, keeping only the still-open pluginSocket gap.

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* fix(image_gen): disable default-on upscaling everywhere — opt-in only

The Aug 8 default-on upscaling policy (66ea4e686) chained the Clarity
Upscaler after every sub-2MP generation. Clarity is an SD1.5 creative
tile-diffusion enhancer (creativity 0.35, "masterpiece" prompt prefix) —
it redraws content, which degraded output on 100% of generations for
models like GPT Image 2 and Ideogram whose value is precise text
rendering, CJK, and photorealistic detail.

Policy now: no model upscales by default, on FAL or Krea. The `upscale`
tool param remains as a per-call opt-in (`upscale: true`); explicit
requests still chain Clarity (FAL) / Krea Enhance as before.

- FAL catalog: all 17 default-on entries flipped to upscale=False
- Krea plugin: medium + medium-turbo per-model defaults flipped off
- Tool schema: upscale param described as opt-in with a fidelity warning
- Tests updated: catalog invariant now pins all-off; default-on cases
  now assert no upscaler call
- Docs (en + zh) updated to the opt-in policy

* fix: make every tool interruptible — sequential executor abandons on user interrupt

The sequential tool path only noticed a user interrupt after the running
tool returned: with the deadline disabled it ran the tool inline (fully
blocking), and with a deadline it waited in 5s slices without ever
checking agent._interrupt_requested. Any tool without cooperative
is_interrupted() polling (image_generate, tts, transcription, skills
sync, ...) held the whole turn hostage — the reported symptom was a
redirect queued ~40s behind a FAL image generation + upscale pass.

Executor backstop (class fix, covers ALL tools):
- _run_sequential_tool_execution_middleware always dispatches on the
  daemon worker (timeout None no longer means inline blocking) and polls
  the interrupt flag every 1s.
- On interrupt: 3s cooperative grace (mirrors the concurrent path), then
  synthesize a cancelled tool result (_ToolCancelledResult), emit the
  terminal post_tool_call with status=cancelled, and abandon the worker.
- _ToolCancelledResult suppresses downstream post-hook double emission
  exactly like _ToolTimeoutResult, so an abandoned worker finishing late
  cannot report success for a cancelled call.
- clarify (interactive, _NEVER_PARALLEL_TOOLS) keeps the inline path —
  it owns its own human wait.

Cooperative layer in the reported offender:
- image_generation_tool: blind handler.get() (generation + Clarity
  upscale) replaced with _wait_fal_result(), which polls is_interrupted()
  in 0.5s slices and raises ImageGenerationInterrupted immediately.
- _upscale_image propagates the interrupt instead of swallowing it into
  the "upscale failed, use original" fallback.

Message alternation is preserved: the cancelled result is a normal tool
result for the call_id. Sabotage-verified: with the old wait loop
restored, the new tests fail (tool blocks full runtime); with the fix
they pass in ~4s.

* feat(computer-use): support Cua Driver 0.20 runtime contracts

* fix(computer-use): reconcile existing cua-driver installs

* fix(computer-use): enforce existing-profile grant, unblock the opt-in

Live-testing the Cua Driver 0.20 convergence on Windows 11 (session 2,
cua-driver 0.20.0) surfaced three defects in the existing-profile browser
path and in install status.

1. The config grant was silently nullified by an approval bypass.

`--yolo` / `-z` map onto a private unrestricted daemon, which answers every
browser_prepare. Because the host delegated the entire existing-profile
decision to the driver, that bypass also nullified
`computer_use.grant_existing_profile: false`: a plain `hermes -z` attached
to the user's real Chrome profile and read live page content over CDP, with
the driver reporting it as "the approved existing Chromium profile". It was
never approved.

An approval bypass is consent to skip prompts, not consent to read an
existing profile's pages, cookies, and storage. CuaTypedBrowserRoute.prepare
now enforces the key itself, regardless of permission mode. bounded stays
exempt - its reviewed capability manifest is the authorization boundary.
The authorization inputs are resolved in the backend from config and the
backend's immutable mode, never from model-supplied kwargs.

2. The grant, once set, still could not be used.

With `grant_existing_profile: true` the runtime is launched
`--grant existing-profile` correctly…
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* fix(web_server): discover root user plugins under profile-scoped processes

When the backend is spawned profile-scoped (`--profile <name>` sets
HERMES_HOME=<root>/profiles/<name>), _discover_dashboard_plugins()
scanned only get_process_hermes_home()/plugins — the profile directory,
which has no plugins/ content. Pooled per-profile backends therefore
discovered zero user plugins, mounted no plugin API routes, and every
plugin REST call fell through to the SPA catch-all 404.

Also scan get_default_hermes_root()/plugins (which unwraps
<root>/profiles/<name> to <root> and leaves a custom HERMES_HOME
untouched when it is itself the root), matching how hermes_cli.plugins
resolves install locations. The profile home is scanned first, so a
profile-local plugin of the same name stays authoritative via the
existing seen_names dedupe.

Adds regression tests for root-plugin discovery under a profile-scoped
process and for profile-over-root precedence.

Fixes #87197 (plugin discovery half — the misleading /api/* catch-all
half is addressed separately in #87270).

* fix(telegram): keep /loop and synthetic sends in the active DM topic

Fixes #87051

* fix(desktop): show failed status for timed-out subagents in fallback stream path

Fixes #87200

* fix(desktop): match custom provider aliases in model catalog menu

Fixes #87035

* chore(contributors): map emails for P2-sweep salvage wave

* fix(desktop): avoid PowerShell parent marker boot gate

* fix(desktop): give Windows start-marker PowerShell probe a 30s budget

PowerShell 5.1 cold starts take 2.4-8s on affected Windows hosts, so the
shared 3s execText timeout hard-failed the parent start-marker probe for
any PID that still needs the PowerShell path (e.g. backend children).
Make execText's timeout overridable and raise the marker probe to 30s.

Fixes #87169

* perf(desktop): hydrate transcripts with a small tail page + on-demand older-page backfill

Replace the fixed 500-message REST hydration (getLatestSessionMessages)
with a 120-row newest-first tail page. When the page comes back full, a
new per-session tail store records "possibly truncated + next offset";
"Show earlier" — once the DOM budget and the in-memory store window are
both exhausted — fetches the next older page via the new
getOlderSessionMessages helper (order latest + offset, matching the
backend's back-from-newest paging semantics) and prepends it to the
session store, deduped by durable row id and race-guarded against
session switches. Legacy backends without pagination metadata fall back
to the one-shot full transcript and retire the action.

Tail-page refreshes (background sync, post-turn rehydrate, re-activate,
cold-resume prefetch) graft the refreshed tail onto any backfilled
prefix instead of clobbering it, preserving reference identity on
no-ops. includeCompacted stays on every read — compaction-archived rows
remain part of the durable display history.

* feat(desktop): MCP fleet cost/usage overlay with schema token estimates and 30-day usage

Each configured server row on the MCP Capabilities page now shows what it
costs and whether it earns its keep:

- ~per-call token estimate of the server's tool schemas, summed over ENABLED
  tools only (ceil(schema_chars/4) via the existing include/exclude filter)
- 30-day usage count from getUsageAnalytics(30), cached per scope profile
  like the Toolsets tab's toolCallsCache, mapped to servers via the
  mcp__<server>__<tool> registry-name convention (tools/mcp_tool.py)
- a subtle muted "unused" pill on enabled, probed-ok servers with nonzero
  schema cost and zero 30-day uses — never a dialog

Backend: the /api/mcp/servers/{name}/test probe now fills an additive
per-tool `schema_chars` (length of the SAME converted registry schema the
agent registers). Older backends omit it → renderer shows counts only;
older renderers ignore the extra key. Display-only: nothing changes what
schemas are sent to models, no config knobs.

i18n keys (costTokens/usage30d/unusedPill) added to types/en/zh/zh-hant/ja
(ar inherits en via defineLocale overrides). Pure math lives in
lib/mcp-cost.ts with unit tests; Python wire shape pinned in
tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_profile_unification.py.

* fix(tui): map lineage edit ordinals past compression prefix

Desktop/TUI count full displayed lineage after compression, but
prompt.submit validated truncate ordinals against tip-only history.
Translate via display_history_prefix and recover stale 4018s on Desktop.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(desktop): hoist GatewayMock type into #82462 edit recovery suite

CI typecheck failed because GatewayMock lived only in the previous describe.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* feat(desktop): hermes:// deep link to install MCP servers with explicit confirmation

Adds hermes://mcp/install?name=NAME&config=B64 (base64url or standard
base64 JSON), mirroring Cursor's mcp/install deep link, so vendors and
docs can offer an "Add to Hermes" button.

- Electron: the existing generic hermes:// handler already forwards
  {kind, name, params}; only its comment is updated (no new handler).
- Renderer: use-desktop-integrations routes kind=mcp/name=install into
  a pending-install store; a new confirmation dialog shows the server
  name and the FULL pretty-printed config (attacker-controllable input),
  with a prominent caution for stdio command entries. Nothing is written
  until the user confirms; existing names require a rename or cancel.
  On confirm the server is merged over a fresh fetch of the current map
  via saveMcpServers, then navigation lands on /skills?tab=mcp&server=…
  so useDeepLinkHighlight focuses the new row.
- Validation: name ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]{1,64}$; config must decode to an
  object with a string http(s) `url` or a string `command` (never both);
  payloads over 32KB rejected; failures surface as a toast.
- Pure parser in src/lib/mcp-deeplink.ts with unit tests (url shape,
  command shape, bad base64, non-object, javascript: URL, oversized).
- i18n keys in types + en/zh/zh-hant/ja/ar.
- Docs: "Add to Hermes link" section in the MCP config reference.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87599)

Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(desktop): background MCP health checks with re-auth nudges

MCP server problems (expired OAuth tokens especially) were only
discovered when the user visited the MCP page and a probe ran. Now a
renderer-side background checker (store/mcp-health.ts) sweeps the
active profile's enabled HTTP/SSE MCP servers on gateway connect and
every 30 minutes, and fires an in-app notification with a "Sign in"
action ("<name> MCP needs re-authentication") that navigates to the
MCP page with ?server=<name> so useDeepLinkHighlight focuses the
server and its Authenticate button. Navigation only — OAuth flows are
never auto-launched.

stdio servers are deliberately excluded: probing a stdio server SPAWNS
a local process, so a background timer must never touch them. Only
url-shaped servers (where OAuth expiry lives) are swept, sequentially.

The tab's probeCache/serverFingerprint/probeKey/NEEDS_AUTH_RE moved to
a shared lib/mcp-probe-cache.ts (behavior identical) so the page and
the checker share one probe cache and its 5-minute TTL — neither
surface re-probes what the other just learned.

Notifications fire only on a TRANSITION into needs-auth/error (pure
state machine, unit-tested), hard-capped at one per server per app
session, keyed per profile. Profile switches drop pending timers and
re-arm for the new profile; sweeps never run while the gateway is
disconnected. No new config knobs. i18n keys added across
en/zh/zh-hant/ja/ar + types.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87607)

Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(desktop): scope messaging to active remote profile

Complete the sidebar profile-scope contract across remote Electron routing, older-backend fallbacks, standalone messaging refreshes, and pagination. Reject stale profile responses and keep the explicit all-profiles view unified.

Co-authored-by: 墨綠BG <s5460703@gmail.com>

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

* fix(desktop): retain messaging totals per profile

Key resolved platform totals by Desktop profile and source so profile switches neither inherit another profile's count nor discard a count that was already resolved. Keep the full reset for connection configuration changes.

Co-authored-by: frendo <frendo.wu@gmail.com>

* fix(desktop): ignore stale messaging page responses

Sequence per-profile platform pagination so an older overlapping response cannot replace a newer, larger page.

* docs(desktop): document profile scope helpers

Add JSDoc to the exported helpers introduced by the profile-scoped sidebar change.

* fix(desktop): reject stale profile refreshes

* fix(desktop): harden profile-scoped refreshes

* fix(desktop): resolve sessions from sidebar caches

Consult messaging and cron caches before the by-id fallback so opening a sidebar row neither depends on a redundant network lookup nor duplicates it into regular recents.

Co-authored-by: protas-box <protas.box@icloud.com>

* fix(tools-config): stop reconfigure flow clobbering image_gen.use_gateway on managed FAL rows

The Nous Subscription image_gen row carries imagegen_backend="fal", so
_reconfigure_provider's post-model-picker step ran

    img_cfg["use_gateway"] = False

unconditionally at two sites, immediately after the managed branch had
written use_gateway=True. A user who picked Nous Subscription and then
re-entered `hermes tools` to change the model was silently flipped onto
their personal FAL_KEY.

Same bug class as fe63353cb, which fixed the plugin-provider selector
but missed these two legacy-backend sites in the reconfigure flow. Both
now write bool(managed_feature), matching the existing correct site in
_configure_provider.

Adds regression tests driven through the real TOOL_CATEGORIES managed
row; sabotage-verified (tests fail with the old behavior restored).

* feat(desktop): make the multi-gateway Connections registry discoverable

The multi-connection registry (Settings -> Connections) shipped with no
entry point outside the settings nav, and the product-owner report was
blunt: 'I didn't see any obvious way to hook up multiple gateways.'

- Profile rail: a plug pill pinned beside Manage ('Connect another
  Hermes gateway...') deep-links to /settings?tab=connections. Always
  visible, including for single-profile first-run users.
- Command palette: Settings -> Connections is now a searchable entry
  (keywords: add gateway, remote, ssh, cloud, instances, registry).
- i18n: profiles.connectGateway added to en/types/zh; other locales
  fall back through defineLocale.
- Tests: profile-rail-connect.test.tsx covers the deep link and the
  single-profile visibility guarantee.

* docs: full multi-gateway setup guide for Hermes Desktop

Expand user-guide/multi-connection-desktop.md into a complete setup
walkthrough: where to find the pane (settings nav, profile-rail plug,
command palette), the exact add-connection editor fields (Name,
Gateway URL, Authentication: Session token/OAuth, SSH host), Primary /
This device pills, Test semantics, agent roster + profile-rail
switching and per-profile session/cron/messaging scoping, token
storage via Electron safeStorage with the keyring-less Linux plain-
text opt-in, and troubleshooting. All quoted labels match the desktop
i18n strings. Cross-link the rail entry point from desktop.md.

* fix(desktop): never resolve a missing named gateway scope to the primary

activeGateway() fell back to the primary gateway when the active key named
a registry-agent scope (conn:<id>::<profile>) whose secondaries entry had
been evicted — e.g. closeSecondaryGateways() during a soft gateway switch —
so sends and session ops silently executed against the WRONG machine.

A named scope now resolves to its own socket or null, and every eviction
path (closeSecondaryGateways, pruneSecondaryGateways) explicitly restores
the primary as active when it evicts the active scope, keeping the
'activeKey always resolves' invariant with the atoms following.

* fix(desktop): sync connection atoms and share the switch mutex for agent activation

ensureGatewayForAgent (the SDK ensureAgent door) skipped the two invariants
the profile path provides:

- $connection / $activeGatewayProfile were only updated when a socket was
  freshly dialed (setConnection inside openSecondary), so activating an
  ALREADY-OPEN registry agent left both describing the previous backend —
  /api/fs, /api/media and image.attach routed to the wrong machine (same
  class as #46651) and newSessionInProfile targeted the stale profile.
- Activations bypassed the gatewaySwitch mutex, so a rapid agent/profile
  interleave could complete out of order with the earlier setActive()
  landing last.

Add profile.ts ensureGatewayAgent: the (connectionId, profile) analogue of
ensureGatewayProfile that shares the same gatewaySwitch mutex, moves
$activeGatewayProfile on every activation, and resyncs $connection from
getConnectionFor (best-effort, like the profile path). The SDK ensureAgent
now routes through it; local/null connectionId falls through to the
profile path unchanged.

* feat(desktop): expose busy turn flags on plugin SDK

Plugins can now read host.state.busy and host.state.awaitingResponse
for the focused chat. These follow the same session slice the chat pane
uses, so a draft falls back to the global flags and a background turn
does not leak.

* fix(desktop): make plugin SDK turn flags follow the focused chat

Follow-up to the salvaged #87558 commit: the PR's docs promised the flags
follow "the focused chat", but PRIMARY_SESSION_VIEW is the primary
workspace tab only — a focused session TILE would read the wrong chat.
Wire host.state.busy / host.state.awaitingResponse through the focused
slice ($focusedStoredSessionId / $focusedSessionState), same semantics
as the statusbar busy pulse, with the primary view (and its draft
fallback) while the workspace holds focus.

Adds a tile-focus vitest case and corrects the docs wording.

* feat(desktop): paste-anything MCP server import

Add a compact Import popover to the MCP Capabilities page that accepts
anything a user might copy from an MCP server README and infers the
server config:

- mcp.json snippets (mcpServers-wrapped, bare name->config maps, single
  unnamed server objects, Cursor/Claude `type` normalized to `transport`)
- bare npx/bunx/uvx/node/docker command lines (name inferred from the
  package basename, e.g. server-filesystem -> filesystem)
- `claude mcp add NAME [--transport http|sse] [-e K=V] [-H ...] [--] CMD
  ARGS...` and `claude mcp add NAME URL`
- bare http(s) URLs (name inferred from the hostname)
- Cursor deeplinks (cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install with
  a base64-encoded JSON config payload)

The parser is a pure module (src/lib/mcp-import.ts) with unit tests for
every format plus garbage input. The popover previews the inferred
name + config and, on confirm, merges the entries into the editor draft
exactly like addServer's starter entry: unique keys, dirty (unsaved)
draft, first new block focused. Placeholder env values (YOUR_KEY,
TOKEN_HERE, ...) are kept verbatim for the user to edit in the editor
before saving.

i18n keys added under settings.mcp for en, zh, zh-hant, ja (ar falls
back through defineLocale).

* feat(desktop): running is not busy

Gate composer submit and plugin host busy on the target session slice, not a leftover foreground busyRef. Staff can keep typing while a worker session is running.

Includes the follow-up test that submit uses the target session busy flag.

* fix(desktop): lint and map contributor email for running-is-not-busy

Drop the redundant Boolean() on selected in $primaryBusy and add the
professorpalmer9@gmail.com mapping so attribution CI can resolve the PR.

* feat(desktop-sdk): expose focused-session state atoms to plugins

Disk plugins read app state exclusively through host.state, which only
exposed the primary workspace tab ($activeSessionId). In the multi-tile
layout, clicking a tile never touches that atom — and tile focus is a
pure renderer concern, invisible to both gateway RPC and the event
stream — so a plugin cannot follow the session the user is actually
looking at.

The core statusbar solves this same problem by reading the focused-
session atoms (use-statusbar-items.tsx). Widen the generic plugin
surface with the same signals, per the contribution rubric:

- host.state.focusedSessionId — runtime id of the focused session
  (interacted tile, else the primary), the key for session.* RPC
- host.state.focusedStoredSessionId — durable id for navigation and
  session-list matching
- host.state.focusedUsage — live streamed UsageStats projection
  (context_used/max/percent, tokens, cost_usd), no RPC needed

Additive only; no existing behavior changes. tsc --noEmit clean.
Verified end-to-end with a disk plugin that now tracks the focused
session across tiles.

* test(desktop-sdk): contract-test the focused-session host.state atoms

Locks the plugin-facing contract: the focused atoms exist as readonly
nanostores, mirror the primary session while no tile is focused, project
the focused session's usage, and — the behavior this PR exists for —
follow the interacted tile while the primary-only $activeSessionId
stays put.

* fix(desktop-sdk): type focusedUsage as Partial<UsageStats>, fix expect arity

ClientSessionState.usage is Partial<UsageStats> (app/types.ts) — the
backend streams whichever fields changed — so the computed produces
ReadableAtom<Partial<UsageStats> | null>. Annotate the entry honestly
instead of claiming full UsageStats, and document the fallback rule for
plugin authors. Also collapse the three-argument expect() calls in the
contract test (vitest takes one message arg). Addresses triage review on
PR #80461.

* fix(desktop-sdk): address adversarial review — type honesty, real tile coverage, docs

Independent second-pass review found three gaps:

- focusedUsage is null | UsageStats, not Partial — ClientSessionState.usage
  is the full type (app/types.ts) and its only write site seeds the four
  required fields before merging (gateway-event.ts). The earlier Partial
  annotation traced the wrong type (SessionRuntimeInfo, an RPC payload).
  Comment now names the genuinely optional fields instead.
- The tile-focus contract test never seeded $sessionTiles/$sessionStates,
  so it proved focusedStoredSessionId follows a tile but could not
  distinguish focusedSessionId/focusedUsage working from broken. Seed a
  bound runtime with distinct usage and assert both readout atoms move.
- The two public host.state references (website docs + bundled skill
  reference) enumerated the old six atoms; plugin authors would never
  discover the new ones. Both lists updated.

tsc/eslint/vitest green (4/4).

* chore: map contributor email for focused-session atoms salvage

* fix(desktop): exclude process-less descriptors from backend pool LRU cap

Remote/cloud registry descriptors (entry.process === null) shared the
POOL_MAX_BACKENDS cap with real spawned local backends, so a roster
refresh across N registered remote connections could LRU-evict a live
local backend idle past the keepalive window. Cap accounting and
cap-driven eviction now count only entries with a live child process;
descriptors remain subject to the idle reaper.

* fix(desktop): tear down renderer secondaries when a registry connection is removed

Removing a connection stopped its pooled backends and ssh tunnels but
never told the renderer: for remote/cloud sources there is no local
process to die, so the removed connection's WebSocket stayed open and
kept streaming ghost events into the UI until page reload. If the
socket did drop, openSecondary -> getConnectionFor threw 'No connection
with id' and scheduleReconnect retried forever (backoff caps at 15s,
entry never evicted).

- main now broadcasts 'hermes:connections:changed' on removal (and on
  material edits); preload exposes connections.onChanged.
- use-gateway-boot subscribes and calls the new
  disposeSecondariesForConnection(), which disposes + evicts every
  secondary scoped to the connection id (redialing on edits).
- reconnectSecondary fail-stops: when the Electron main reports the
  connection no longer exists, the entry is disposed and evicted
  instead of retrying forever; ordinary transport errors keep the
  existing backoff behavior.

* fix(desktop): recycle live backends and sockets when a connection edit changes its target

saveRegistryConnection only rewrote the registry file: editing a
connection's URL/token/host left pooled backend descriptors under
'conn:<id>::*' and open renderer sockets pointing at the OLD endpoint —
the UI showed the new target while traffic kept flowing to the old one
until idle-reap.

When a save MATERIALLY changes an existing connection (endpoint / auth /
ssh routing fields, via the new connectionDialFieldsChanged helper),
main now stops that connection's pooled backends and tunnels
(stopRegistryConnectionBackends, same teardown as removal) and
broadcasts 'hermes:connections:changed' with reason 'updated' so
renderers dispose and re-dial their secondaries at the new target.
Label-only renames do not recycle.

* fix(cli): restore Kitty keyboard protocol push and complete the extended-key alias table

Commit 4c34eeb416 fixed dead Ctrl+C by removing the Kitty protocol push
(CSI >1u) from _EXTENDED_ENTER_KEYS_SEQ, keeping only modifyOtherKeys
level 2. That regressed kitty-the-terminal completely: kitty removed
xterm modifyOtherKeys support (kovidgoyal/kitty#4075) and only speaks
its own protocol, so after the removal kitty users lost Shift+Enter and
every other extended key — the CSI >4;2m we still pushed is a no-op
there (kitty even logs a PARSE ERROR for it).

The original reason for removing the push is obsolete: #87511 mapped
CSI-u control sequences, so Ctrl+C as ESC[99;5u now parses to
Keys.ControlC and fires the existing c-c binding. (The kernel-INTR
concern in that commit was moot — prompt_toolkit's raw mode clears
ISIG, so Ctrl+C is always handled by the binding, never the kernel.)

Restore the dual push (CSI >1u + CSI >4;2m), exactly mirroring the Ink
TUI, and complete the alias table for what the kitty disambiguate flag
actually emits — #87511 left real gaps, some of which its PR body
wrongly claimed were covered:

- Esc key: ESC[27u (+ modifiers) — previously leaked '[27u' as text
- Ctrl+Backspace -> backward-kill-word (#78285 was closed on the wrong
  claim that codepoint-127 mapping existed; it did not)
- Shift+Space -> space (#86866's second symptom; the Ctrl+Space
  mapping never covered modifier 2)
- Alt+Enter -> newline tuple; Shift+Tab -> BackTab; Ctrl+Tab -> Tab;
  Alt/Shift+Backspace
- Multi-modifier letters (Shift+Alt 4, Ctrl+Shift 6, Ctrl+Alt 7,
  Ctrl+Alt+Shift 8) normalized onto their Ctrl/Escape-prefix targets,
  both unshifted (kitty) and shifted (mok emitters) codepoints
- Kitty PUA functional keys: keypad -> non-keypad equivalents,
  F13-F24, and Ignore for lock/media/modifier-event keys so they are
  consumed instead of leaking (kitty emits these even in legacy mode)

Also: clear the VT100 parser's prefix cache after installing (stale
answers could misparse), and re-push extended keys after
_recover_terminal_input_modes' reset — the recovery previously popped
both modes mid-session and never re-enabled them, silently killing
Shift+Enter until restart.

Refs #87511, #87074, #56684, #56645, #78285, #86866, #87390.

* fix(cron): process .pth files for Windows uv-venv script jobs (#86567)

_windows_cron_python_invocation bypasses the uv venv launcher (to avoid
flashing a console window) and re-attaches the venv via PYTHONPATH — but
PYTHONPATH entries are plain sys.path additions and never get .pth
processing, so editable installs (pip install -e) were invisible to cron
script jobs (ModuleNotFoundError).

Bootstrap the script with site.addsitedir() on the venv site-packages,
then exec it as __main__ via runpy.run_path, preserving the script
directory on sys.path (python script.py semantics). Falls back to a
plain invocation when the venv layout is unresolvable.

* fix(cron): log and document the .pth bootstrap fallback (#86816 review)

- WARN when the venv site-packages layout is unresolvable and the script
  falls back to plain PYTHONPATH execution, so 'editable installs
  invisible' failures are diagnosable.
- Docstring: note that runpy does not set __package__/__spec__ the way a
  direct python script.py invocation does.

* fix(update): surface config mutations applied silently during version-bump-only updates

* fix: honor JSON-array string forms for skills.disabled and agent.disabled_toolsets

`hermes config set` and JSON-mode editor saves store lists as quoted
strings (e.g. '["skill-a","skill-b"]' or "['memory']"). Both disable
filters treated such a string as a single name, so curated disable
lists silently filtered nothing with zero diagnostics.

Add parse_config_string_list() in agent.skill_utils and use it in
_normalize_string_set (skills.disabled / platform_disabled) and at
every agent.disabled_toolsets read site: tools_config resolve +
reconcile, CLI, gateway agent construction (both sites), cron
scheduler, and prompt_size. A scalar string still names a single
entry (#13026); malformed JSON falls back to the single-name
behavior instead of raising.

Fixes #86661

* fix(desktop-update): put --daemonized ahead of ORIGINAL_ARGS in posix.sh re-exec

Appending --daemonized after ORIGINAL_ARGS put it past the `--`
relaunch-args separator on Linux, so it was absorbed into
RELAUNCH_ARGS instead of being parsed as a flag. HANDOFF_DAEMONIZED
never got set, so the one-shot self-detach block re-fired on every
re-exec -- an unbounded self-exec loop (thousands of iterations/sec,
100%+ CPU, argv growing until execve fails with E2BIG) whenever
relaunch args were present, which is the normal invocation shape on
Linux.

Fixes #86957

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

* fix(cli): deliver the Bedrock API key through a named provider

The Bedrock API-key flow stored the bearer token in OPENAI_API_KEY and set
a bare `provider: custom`. Since #28660 that variable is only honoured for
openai.com hosts, so for bedrock-mantle.*.api.aws the token was dropped and
requests went out with api_key="no-key-required", a 401 on every call.

Write a named `providers.bedrock-mantle` entry with
key_env: AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK instead. The named-provider branch in
runtime_provider.py resolves key_env; the bare-custom branch cannot.

Fixes authentication only. Per-model mantle route selection is separate.

* fix(gateway): improve Windows detach diagnostics

* refactor(gateway): share breakaway marker constant

* fix(tui): settle session close against active turns

* fix(tui): stop queued dispatch after session close

* fix(cron): reject NUL-bearing script paths before any Path call (#76762 class)

_run_job_script wrapped only expanduser() in its ingestion try/except.
On Linux an unexpandable NUL-bearing value raises inside that call, so it
landed on the clean fail-with-report path; on Windows expanduser() never
expands '~user' (and so never raises), and the NUL surfaces later as an
uncaught ValueError from resolve()/exists() — crashing the scheduler.

Align with cron.lifecycle_guard._expand_candidate_path, which already
documents this as the whole-class fix (the per-syscall catching produced
#76762, #77703, #77780, #78256): reject '\\x00' eagerly at the ingestion
boundary so both platforms fail identically.

* test(cron): pin the eager NUL rejection contract for _run_job_script (#86829)

* fix(cron): coerce script_path to str in the NUL guard so it can never crash (#86829, review #86832)

"\x00" in script_path raises TypeError when a caller passes a non-str
(e.g. a pathlib.Path, which is not iterable) — the guard itself would
crash the scheduler. All current call sites pass plain str, but the
guard must be crash-proof: str() first, then check. Adds a regression
test running a real script through _run_job_script with a Path argument,
which fails with TypeError on the pre-fix guard.

* docs(agents): record multiplex profile-scoped env fail-closed rule (#86905)

Lesson from the feishu DM multiplex investigation: under multiplex,
os.environ holds the default profile's values, so any profile-level env
config (credentials AND authorization) must be read scope-aware, and a
scoped miss with a scope installed must fail closed instead of borrowing
from os.environ. The _get_scoped_secret wrapper is copy-pasted across
~15 platform adapters — new adapters and edits to existing ones must
keep the fail-closed semantics.

* fix(auth): resolve provider auto-detection keys through the profile scope (#86917)

resolve_provider's auto path read provider API keys with bare
os.getenv — under multiplex a secondary profile's keys live only in its
secret scope, so auto-detection found nothing and every secondary
profile with model.provider: auto failed with 'No LLM provider
configured' at agent init (reproduced on a live 7-profile gateway).

Route both env-key reads (the OPENAI/OPENROUTER tier and the
PROVIDER_REGISTRY loop) through _scoped_key_env, the scope-aware helper
auxiliary_client already uses: secret scope wins under multiplex,
UnscopedSecretError falls back to os.environ (default-profile/CLI
paths unchanged). Same bug class as #86905.

Verified in a gateway-accurate simulation (hermes_home_override +
profile scope): resolve_provider('auto') now returns the secondary
profile's own provider (deepseek) instead of erroring.

* test(auth): cover profile-scoped key resolution in resolve_provider (#86917)

Three regression tests: scoped DEEPSEEK_API_KEY is visible to auto
detection under multiplex (the #86917 failure); unscoped paths keep the
os.environ read; explicit config provider still wins.

* fix(auth): only fall back to os.getenv on ImportError in resolve_provider (#86918 review)

The previous except Exception silently fell back to os.getenv if the
_scoped_key_env import ever failed — under multiplex that is exactly the
fail-open this PR removes (secondary profiles would regress to 'No LLM
provider configured' with zero trace). Catch only ImportError, log a
WARNING naming the consequence, and let any other failure propagate.
Also replaces the lambda fallback with a named nested function.

* test(gitlock): pin the git-process guard in sweep tests (deflake slice 8)

The stale-lock removal tests asserted the sweep result while leaving
_git_proc_running() live: on CI the parallel per-file runner almost
always has a real git subprocess in flight, pgrep -x git hits, and
clear_stale_git_locks correctly refuses to sweep — failing the tests
for reasons unrelated to the code under test (surfaced on PR #86918,
which doesn't touch gitlock at all).

Monkeypatch the guard to False in the sweep tests and add an explicit
test pinning the guard's block-while-git-running behavior.

* fix(gateway): complete /loop ticks after streamed already_sent turns

Streamed replies return None so the adapter does not send twice.
The /loop hook then saw empty text and never ran, so
awaiting_response stayed true and later ticks never fired.

Stash the delivered text on the event and use it for the post-turn
hooks. /goal uses the same path.

Tests: tests/gateway/test_loop_command.py

* fix(cli): chat -c fails loudly on stderr and gains --create-if-missing

`hermes chat -c "<title>" -q "<text>"` silently no-oped when no session
matched the title under quiet/programmatic use: the not-found message was
written to stdout (the channel quiet callers parse as the final response),
so a background send to a not-yet-existing named session vanished with no
error. Surfaces via Hermes-Bot-Mode bot-to-bot handoffs (#86794).

- not-found message now goes to stderr (exit 1 unchanged), so programmatic
  callers always see it even with -Q/--quiet
- new --create-if-missing: with `-c <title>` and no matching session, create
  a fresh session carrying the title and proceed — the deterministic
  "send to this named thread, making it if needed" primitive plugins asked for
- extract the -c resolution block into _resolve_continue_arg for testability

Tests: flag parsing, titled-session creation, stderr routing, source guard.

* fix(cli): address review feedback on chat -c fail-loudly PR

Response to AI review (Enough1122) on #86812:

1. `_create_titled_session`: log the underlying exception before returning
   None so programmatic callers aren't left with an undebuggable "could
   not be created" — failures (DB lock, I/O, import) now land in errors.log
   via logger.exception.

2. Drop the source-reading `TestSourceGuard` — it violated the repo's
   "never read source code in tests" rule and was a change-detector
   (passed even if behavior regressed). The stderr routing is already
   covered by the real-path `test_missing_session_fails_on_stderr`.

3. Bare `-c` + `--create-if-missing` now prints a stderr note explaining
   the flag needs a session name, instead of silently ignoring it — makes
   the no-op self-evident to programmatic callers.

Tests: 6 targeted + 8 adjacent, all passing.

* chore: map contributor email for @yflmq001

* fix(acp): probe CLI for --acp support before spawning subprocess

CopilotACPClient unconditionally passes [self._acp_command] +
self._acp_args (default ['--acp', '--stdio']) to subprocess.Popen.
When the resolved CLI doesn't accept --acp (e.g. Claude Code
v2.1.233, where 'claude --acp --stdio' exits 1 with
'error: unknown option') the subprocess dies in ~250ms with the
error on stderr, but the parent ACP loop has no fast-fail for this
shape and waits the full child_timeout_seconds (default 600s,
observed 109s+ before user interruption) for stdout that never
arrives.

Add _acp_supported() that probes the CLI's --help output for the
--acp flag in ~50ms, then call it at the top of _run_prompt before
any spawn happens. When the probe fails, raise a RuntimeError that
names the unsupported flag, lists the expected fix (install
@github/copilot late 2025+, or set HERMES_COPILOT_ACP_*), and
returns control to the caller in ~280ms instead of hanging the
delegate_task parent for hundreds of seconds.

Measured locally against Claude Code v2.1.233:
  - Before: delegate_task acp_command=claude hangs 109s+ then
    returns tokens={input:0, output:0}.
  - After: delegate_task acp_command=claude raises RuntimeError
    in 280ms with a clear actionable message.

This does NOT change behavior for supported CLIs (the new
@github/copilot ships with --acp) — the probe returns True and
the spawn proceeds unchanged.

Refs the bundled claude-review-delegate skill which already
documents this class of transport-mismatch pitfall for users
who call 'claude -p' directly; this fix closes the same gap for
the delegate_task MCP path.

* fix(acp): make --acp probe tri-state, cached, and mock-safe

Salvage hardening on top of #87308 (thanks @Dudeman456):

- Tri-state verdict: inconclusive probes (binary missing, --help
  failed/timed out) return None and fall through to the normal spawn
  path, preserving the established 'Could not start Copilot ACP
  command' error instead of masking it. This also fixes the two
  test_copilot_acp_client HOME-env regressions that went red on the
  PR: their mocked-Popen path was intercepted by the new unmocked
  subprocess.run probe.
- Cache definitive verdicts per binary path so CLIs that DO support
  --acp pay the ~50ms --help cost once per process, not per prompt.
- Skip the probe entirely when custom ACP args don't include --acp.
- Fix the help-text regex: the old pattern never matched '[--acp]'
  (leading '[' is neither start-of-string nor whitespace) and \b
  after 'p' matched '--acpfoo'.
- Hermeticity: stub subprocess.run in the two HOME-env tests; add 6
  probe-specific tests (fast-fail, fall-through, caching, skip).

* fix(cli): bound the Windows process-scan probes so a slow WMI scan cannot wedge hermes update (#87134)

subprocess.run(capture_output=True, timeout=N) is not hang-safe on
Windows: after the timeout fires, run()'s cleanup kills the direct child
and then joins the pipe reader threads with an UNBOUNDED communicate().
A descendant (conhost.exe under wmic/powershell) holding duplicated pipe
handles keeps the pipes from EOF and the join never returns.

_scan_gateway_pids() runs its wmic / Get-CimInstance Win32_Process scans
exactly that way, and on machines where the full process scan genuinely
exceeds its 10/15s budget (cold WMI on first boot, ARM VMs, heavy
Update/AV activity) hermes update wedged forever inside
_pause_windows_gateways_for_update() before printing a single line —
observed live on a fresh Windows 11 ARM64 VM with a faulthandler stack
pinning the main thread in subprocess._communicate and only a conhost.exe
child surviving. The single-flight update lock then blocks retries until
the wedged process is killed by hand.

This is the same deadlock class bounded_git_probe already fixed for git
probes (#68609 / #66037). Generalize that proven pattern into a shared
bounded_probe_run() — explicit communicate(timeout), kill_process_tree on
failure, bounded 1s drain, then abandon the daemonic readers — and
migrate the whole call-site class onto it:

- hermes_cli/gateway.py _scan_gateway_pids (the site that hung; reached
  from hermes update, cron, gateway restart/status, dashboard)
- hermes_cli/dashboard_procs.py wmic scan (same shape, reached on update)
- hermes_cli/claw.py tasklist + PowerShell probes (same shape; its
  try/except cannot catch a hang because a hang raises nothing)
- bounded_git_probe now delegates to bounded_probe_run (identical
  contract, one copy of the cleanup logic)

Unlike bounded_git_probe, bounded_probe_run returns the CompletedProcess
(or None) rather than collapsing to stdout, because the gateway scan
branches on returncode to trip its wmic -> powershell fallback.

Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_bounded_probe_run.py covers success,
nonzero-exit passthrough, spawn failure, bounded timeout (fails against
the old unbounded semantics — verified by sabotage), errors= decoding,
DEVNULL stdin, POSIX process-group placement, and the bounded_git_probe
delegation contract. Existing test_git_probe_tree_kill.py passes
unchanged against the delegated implementation.

Closes #87134

* test(cli): retarget the wmic-encoding regression test at bounded_probe_run

The Windows-only test asserted encoding/errors kwargs on a mocked
subprocess.run, but the scan now routes through bounded_probe_run
(#87134), so subprocess.run is never invoked. Assert the probe call's
contract instead (errors='ignore', finite timeout), verify the parsed
PIDs, and add a fail-open case for probe failure. The test no longer
needs a Windows host once the probe is mocked, so the windows_only
gate is dropped.

* fix(agent): attribute background-review usage and add cost controls

Persist fork token usage under session_model_usage task=background_review,
emit a per-fork completion log line, and expose enabled/max_iterations/
prompt_file so operators can see and bound the automatic review cost.

Address review feedback: load auxiliary.background_review once per spawn,
classify completion logs by summarize action prefixes, treat explicit
api_call_count=None as the documented default of 1, and WARNING on the
fail-open enabled-gate path.

* fix(desktop): route registry 'local' entry to the genuinely-local runtime

ensureRegistryBackend delegated kind==='local' to ensureBackend(), which
follows the v1 connection.json routing table — under a v1 REMOTE global
mode (the migration keeps the mandatory 'local' entry AND makes that
remote the registry primary) the roster's 'This device' rows enumerated
and dialed the REMOTE primary: every profile appeared twice (forcing
-slug handles) and clicking a local agent talked to the remote box.

resolveRegistryLocalRoute() (pure, colocated with the registry helpers)
now decides the local entry's path: delegate to the legacy route only
when v1 is itself local (single-source behavior byte-identical);
otherwise spawn/reuse a forced-local pool child via spawnPoolBackend's
new forceLocal option, pooled under the composite conn:local::<profile>
key so it cannot collide with the v1 remote descriptor cached at the
bare profile key.

* fix(desktop): key fan-out event consumption by (connectionId, profile)

Secondary-gateway events were tagged with connectionId (store/gateway
fan-out) but no consumer read it: working/attention tracking, the
pruneSecondaryGateways keep-set, and the profile-scoped event gates
(skin.changed / change-watcher broadcasts / approval-mode reconcile)
all keyed by session id + bare profile name. Every registered source
exposes a 'default' profile (the roster force-unshifts it), so two
connected gateways collided — gateway B's 'default' activity was
attributed to gateway A's 'default', keeping the wrong socket alive
and applying the wrong source's config/skin/cron changes.

Thread connectionId through consumption using the existing composite
backendScopeKey helper:

- session-states records each registry-tagged event's (connectionId,
  profile) scope per runtime session; liveSessionScopes() projects the
  busy/needs-input ones as composite keys for the gateway keep-set.
- recomputeKeptGateways (use-gateway-boot) seeds the keep-set with
  those scopes; pruneSecondaryGateways matches registry-scoped entries
  ONLY on their composite key, while local entries keep matching bare
  profile names (single-source path unchanged).
- gateway-event's 'from the active profile' gates now compare the
  event's composite scope against the active gateway's connection via
  the new activeGatewayConnectionId(); untagged local/primary events
  behave byte-identically.

Display-only surfaces that already use roster handles are untouched.

* style(desktop): order @hermes/shared import before nanostores (perfectionist/sort-imports)

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87839)

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* fix(agent): trim background_review to the enabled switch

Follow-up to #87400: drop the max_iterations and prompt_file knobs from
auxiliary.background_review. The aux model routing (provider/model/
base_url/...) predates #87400 and stays; the enabled switch and the
usage telemetry stay. The fork's iteration budget returns to the
historical hardcoded 16.

* fix(update): reload _subprocess_compat and dashboard_procs after git pull

hermes update runs in the PRE-pull Python process. After git pull updates
source files on disk, modules already in sys.modules still hold the OLD
code. The existing _reload_config_modules() reloaded only config modules,
but the post-update dashboard cleanup path (_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup
-> _scan_dashboard_processes) imports hermes_cli._subprocess_compat lazily;
a new symbol added there (e.g. bounded_probe_run) is invisible to the
cached module object, causing ImportError during the cleanup step.

Extend the reload list to include hermes_cli._subprocess_compat and
hermes_cli.dashboard_procs so the cleanup uses freshly-pulled code.

* fix(update): reload process-scan modules at the dashboard-cleanup entry point

Widen PR #87757 to cover the ZIP path: _update_via_zip() also calls
_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() but never runs _reload_config_modules,
so the Windows git-broken fallback would still crash with the same
ImportError (cannot import name 'bounded_probe_run' from the stale cached
hermes_cli._subprocess_compat).

- new _reload_process_scan_modules() called inside
  _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup itself, so every current and future
  call site is covered; reloads dependency-first
  (_subprocess_compat, then dashboard_procs)
- reload failures log at warning (a miss surfaces seconds later as an
  ImportError in the same process)
- regression tests: reload-before-kill ordering, node-failure skip,
  stale-module symbol restoration (the exact #87134 boundary state),
  nonfatal reload failure, and the #87757 reload-list contract

* chore: release v0.20.2 (2026.8.16)

* fix(tui): modified Enter and bare LF insert a newline in the composer across IDE and macOS terminals (#87854)

* fix(tui): send atomic CSI u for modified Enter in IDE terminals

VS Code/Cursor/Windsurf terminals bound Shift/Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to the
legacy \\r\n sequence, which Ink's parse-keypress split into a
backslash keypress plus a plain Return — inserting a stray backslash and
submitting instead of adding a newline. Emit Kitty CSI u sequences that
encode the modifier atomically, and migrate keybindings users already
have on disk.

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* fix(tui): treat a bare LF as a newline in macOS composer terminals

Terminals that can't send a distinct Shift+Enter collapse a modified
Enter / Ctrl+J down to a bare LF. shouldPreserveCtrlJNewline() already
handles the env-detectable cases (SSH, Windows Terminal, Ghostty, WSL),
but plain macOS terminals (Terminal.app, iTerm2 defaults) do the same and
aren't env-detectable, leaving no keyboard-driven newline there. Fold the
return-key decision into shouldInsertNewlineOnReturn() and accept a bare
LF as a multiline fallback on macOS too, keeping CR as submit everywhere.

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* fix(state): classify structural DB corruption as its own persistence cause

'database disk image is malformed' contains the word 'disk', so
classify_persistence_error bucketed SQLITE_CORRUPT / SQLITE_NOTADB
failures as 'disk' and the turn-completion explainer told users to
free disk space for a structurally damaged state.db (the #77386-family
misdiagnosis, reproduced in the v0.20.0 malformed-DB incident report).

- hermes_state: new 'corrupt' bucket in PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES,
  matched via _DB_CORRUPTION_MARKERS BEFORE the locked/disk buckets
- run_agent: explainer text for 'corrupt' points at hermes doctor and
  explicitly says freeing space will not help
- cron explainer-variant suppression picks the new variant up
  automatically (it iterates PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES)

* fix(openviking): strip PYTHONPATH from autostarted server child env (#78153)

(cherry picked from commit 7afd99155667cde480c0ab4ee31e242dab849d40)

* fix(openviking): read .env BOM-tolerantly when rewriting credentials

f1ea4a56c ("cover the remaining setup-time .env reads with utf-8-sig",
following 75afc47ba for mem0/hindsight) swept this class; openviking's
_write_env_vars was missed and still reads with strict utf-8.

It copies every existing line through on each update, so the read decides
whether a credential update lands:

  BOM'd .env  -> the first key never matches, so the old line survives and
                 the new value is appended as a duplicate. .env loaders keep
                 the first occurrence, so the update silently does nothing.
  cp1252 .env -> UnicodeDecodeError aborts setup outright.

Read exactly like the canonical hermes_cli/config.py save_env_value
(utf-8-sig + errors="replace"). A plain UTF-8 file rewrites byte-identically.

Scope: hermes_cli/memory_setup.py has the same read but is already the
subject of #30281 / #60587, so it is left alone here.

(cherry picked from commit 175c6852c2c255b3219575b5de0b1b70f1f0efcb)

* fix(openviking): preserve non-UTF-8 env bytes on update

* docs(openviking): correct environment handling explanations

Clarify that the Desktop backend can add Hermes venv packages to PYTHONPATH and that current .env loaders use the last duplicate value.

* Revert "fix(agent): preserve local reasoning timeout opt-out"

This reverts commit 26b2b475935d5f5f369142fe1648cf5c95e7b056.

* Revert "fix(agent): harden canonical tool call deduplication"

This reverts commit 8fc4189edd23dde055232cc07ea14d1d525e44ee.

* fix(update): restart hermes-serve systemd units alongside gateways

hermes update discovered and restarted hermes-gateway* systemd units but
never looked for hermes-serve* — the Desktop app's backend — so it kept
running stale pre-update code until the user restarted it by hand (#83438).

Extend the systemd unit discovery/restart loop to also match hermes-serve*
units. They don't wire SIGUSR1 to a graceful drain (only gateway/run.py
does), so restart eligibility for the graceful path is now gated on unit
name via a small, directly-tested helper; hermes-serve units fall straight
to the existing blunt systemctl restart path, matching the workaround the
issue already documents.

* fix(update): tighten hermes-serve unit gate, dedupe fleet/cleanup restarts

Review on #83595 flagged two service-lifecycle gaps in the hermes-serve
restart support:

- The unit-name gate accepted anything starting with "hermes-serve",
  which also matched the unrelated hermes-server.service. Require the
  exact base unit or the hyphenated profile family instead.
- The fleet-restart loop and _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() could
  both restart the same hermes-serve unit — the loop restarts it
  directly, then cleanup's PID scan finds the fresh process and
  restarts its owning unit again. Thread the fleet loop's restarted
  unit names through to _kill_stale_dashboard_processes() so it skips
  units already handled.

* fix(update): tighten gateway-side unit gates to exact/hyphenated shape

Mirror the strict unit-name shape from the hermes-serve gate (review on
PR #83595) on the gateway side too: the discovery gate and the SIGUSR1
eligibility helper now accept only `hermes-gateway.service` or the
`hermes-gateway-<profile>` family, so a near-prefix unit like
`hermes-gatewayd.service` can neither enter the restart path nor be sent
a SIGUSR1 it does not handle.

* fix(desktop): ignore stale remote connection attempts

* chore: map contributor email for xkam7ar

* fix(apps): dial primary sleep/wake reconnect at window backend not active profile

* fix(desktop): scope pluginSocket's connection to the active profile

pluginSocket (hermes.ts) is documented as "the live twin of pluginRest,
scoped the same way", but it calls window.hermesDesktop.getConnection()
with no profile argument, while pluginRest passes the active profile via
profileScoped(). getConnection's IPC handler (ensureBackend in
electron/main.ts) falls back to the primary profile whenever the profile
argument is empty, so an unscoped call always resolves to the primary
profile's backend regardless of which profile is actually active.

For a plugin used from a non-primary profile (e.g. kanban), this means REST
calls go to the correct pooled backend while the plugin's WebSocket silently
connects to the wrong one — a multi-profile user sees one profile's data
with another profile's live events.

Fix (adapted to the post-#87600 registry-agent store shape during salvage):
resolve the plugin socket's connection through the same (connectionId,
profile) source of truth ensureGatewayProfile/ensureGatewayAgent maintain
for $connection — store/gateway's setActive now pushes the active scope's
registry connection id into the hermes module (setApiRequestConnection,
the no-store-import twin of setApiRequestProfile), and pluginSocket
resolves via getConnectionFor for registry-agent scopes and
getConnection(profile) for the local pool. The plugin socket therefore
follows registry-agent activations too, not just profile switches.

voice-playback.ts's resolveSpeakStreamUrl had the same gap originally, but
main has since fixed it independently (via the getApiRequestProfile()
getter rather than direct store access) — dropped from this PR as
redundant, keeping only the still-open pluginSocket gap.

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* fix(image_gen): disable default-on upscaling everywhere — opt-in only

The Aug 8 default-on upscaling policy (66ea4e686) chained the Clarity
Upscaler after every sub-2MP generation. Clarity is an SD1.5 creative
tile-diffusion enhancer (creativity 0.35, "masterpiece" prompt prefix) —
it redraws content, which degraded output on 100% of generations for
models like GPT Image 2 and Ideogram whose value is precise text
rendering, CJK, and photorealistic detail.

Policy now: no model upscales by default, on FAL or Krea. The `upscale`
tool param remains as a per-call opt-in (`upscale: true`); explicit
requests still chain Clarity (FAL) / Krea Enhance as before.

- FAL catalog: all 17 default-on entries flipped to upscale=False
- Krea plugin: medium + medium-turbo per-model defaults flipped off
- Tool schema: upscale param described as opt-in with a fidelity warning
- Tests updated: catalog invariant now pins all-off; default-on cases
  now assert no upscaler call
- Docs (en + zh) updated to the opt-in policy

* fix: make every tool interruptible — sequential executor abandons on user interrupt

The sequential tool path only noticed a user interrupt after the running
tool returned: with the deadline disabled it ran the tool inline (fully
blocking), and with a deadline it waited in 5s slices without ever
checking agent._interrupt_requested. Any tool without cooperative
is_interrupted() polling (image_generate, tts, transcription, skills
sync, ...) held the whole turn hostage — the reported symptom was a
redirect queued ~40s behind a FAL image generation + upscale pass.

Executor backstop (class fix, covers ALL tools):
- _run_sequential_tool_execution_middleware always dispatches on the
  daemon worker (timeout None no longer means inline blocking) and polls
  the interrupt flag every 1s.
- On interrupt: 3s cooperative grace (mirrors the concurrent path), then
  synthesize a cancelled tool result (_ToolCancelledResult), emit the
  terminal post_tool_call with status=cancelled, and abandon the worker.
- _ToolCancelledResult suppresses downstream post-hook double emission
  exactly like _ToolTimeoutResult, so an abandoned worker finishing late
  cannot report success for a cancelled call.
- clarify (interactive, _NEVER_PARALLEL_TOOLS) keeps the inline path —
  it owns its own human wait.

Cooperative layer in the reported offender:
- image_generation_tool: blind handler.get() (generation + Clarity
  upscale) replaced with _wait_fal_result(), which polls is_interrupted()
  in 0.5s slices and raises ImageGenerationInterrupted immediately.
- _upscale_image propagates the interrupt instead of swallowing it into
  the "upscale failed, use original" fallback.

Message alternation is preserved: the cancelled result is a normal tool
result for the call_id. Sabotage-verified: with the old wait loop
restored, the new tests fail (tool blocks full runtime); with the fix
they pass in ~4s.

* feat(computer-use): support Cua Driver 0.20 runtime contracts

* fix(computer-use): reconcile existing cua-driver installs

* fix(computer-use): enforce existing-profile grant, unblock the opt-in

Live-testing the Cua Driver 0.20 convergence on Windows 11 (session 2,
cua-driver 0.20.0) surfaced three defects in the existing-profile browser
path and in install status.

1. The config grant was silently nullified by an approval bypass.

`--yolo` / `-z` map onto a private unrestricted daemon, which answers every
browser_prepare. Because the host delegated the entire existing-profile
decision to the driver, that bypass also nullified
`computer_use.grant_existing_profile: false`: a plain `hermes -z` attached
to the user's real Chrome profile and read live page content over CDP, with
the driver reporting it as "the approved existing Chromium profile". It was
never approved.

An approval bypass is consent to skip prompts, not consent to read an
existing profile's pages, cookies, and storage. CuaTypedBrowserRoute.prepare
now enforces the key itself, regardless of permission mode. bounded stays
exempt - its reviewed capability manifest is the authorization boundary.
The authorization inputs are resolved in the backend from config and the
backend's immutable mode, never from model-supplied kwargs.

2. The grant, once set, still could not be used.

With `grant_existing_profile: true` the runtime is launched
`--grant existing-profile` correctly, but cua_browser_prepare then hit a
runtime approval prompt anyway - re-asking the user to authorize what the
config already authorized, and making the documented opt-in unusable on any
non-interactive run, where the prompt has nobody to answer it and the call
dies on approval timeout. The durable, file-backed grant now stands in for
that prompt. Scope is narrow: only the existing-profile prepare, only when
the grant is present; isolated launches still prompt and any resolution
failure falls closed to prompting.

3. `computer-use status` hid a custom override and spliced its output.

With HERMES_CUA_DRIVER_CMD pointed at cmd.exe, status printed the child's
multi-line banner and prompt inside the one-line version field, never
mentioned the override, and advised `hermes computer-use install` - which
install itself (correctly) refuses to run against an overridden path. It now
names the override and mirrors install's update-or-unset guidance, and
version output is reduced to one bounded line.

Verified on the reported host: `-z` existing-profile attach now refuses and
names the key; `grant: true` no longer prompts (33s vs a 300s approval
timeout); status names the override and prints one line. No change to the
reconciliation path - driver SHA256 unchanged end to end.

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* fix(computer-use): make the typed-browser bind/snapshot split discoverable

`cua_browser_state` has two branches, chosen implicitly: any call carrying
pid or window_id is a *binding* (browser_route.py:252), anything else is a
*snapshot*. A binding clears session state, mints fresh tab_ids, returns
binding metadata with no page content, and sets verification_required.

Nothing in the response says that. A caller that keeps passing pid/window_id
- the natural reading of "bind to this window, then read it" - re-binds
forever: the tab_id it just received is unbound by the next bind, so every
cua_browser_navigate comes back browser_verification_required, and the
refusal ("take a fresh snapshot") points at the same call that just re-bound.
Observed live as 11 consecutive refused navigates before the model gave up
and fell back to foreground SendInput on the address bar.

The same confusion silently swallowed include_screenshot: both calls that
requested one were bindings, which carry no page content, so the flag had
nothing to attach to and was dropped without comment.

A binding response now reports snapshot_required, next_step
(fresh_browser_state, matching the existing token convention) and a hint
naming the exact next call; requesting a screenshot on a binding reports
screenshot_deferred instead of dropping it. The verification refusal now
says to call cua_browser_state WITHOUT pid/window_id and why re-sending them
does not help. The schema documents that include_screenshot applies to
snapshots.

Behavior of the bind and snapshot branches themselves is unchanged - this is
purely about making the split legible to the caller.

Unit-tested. Not verified end to end on the reporting host: the driver
refuses the bind upstream there (`browser_requires_setup: no owned DevTools
endpoint`, and it does not accept a user-launched --remote-debugging-port),
so the typed route never reaches this branch. That attach failure is a
separate cua-driver issue.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(computer-use): keep a v3 capability manifest on approval-bypassed runs

`--yolo` / `-z` route the session onto a private embedded daemon in
`unrestricted` mode. That daemon was constructed without the configured
capability manifest, and the serve command only attached
`--capability-manifest` when the mode was exactly `bounded`. So the moment a
run was bypassed, the user's declared ceiling was dropped:

    without -z:  --permission-mode bounded --capability-manifest ...
    with -z:     --permission-mode unrestricted --dangerously-bypass-approvals

No manifest, no warning. The most carefully configured run - a reviewed
ceiling, written by hand - became the least constrained one, silently, and
it failed open.

That was never a driver limitation. cua-driver documents the manifest as a
ceiling across modes ("A manifest can narrow a profile but never widen it";
its own authorization table calls it `optional_capability_manifest_ceiling`),
and accepts it alongside `--permission-mode unrestricted`.

The forwarding is version-aware, because the two manifest schemas differ
(cua-driver session_manifest.rs):

* v1/v2 are legacy and must declare `mode: bounded`. Handing one to an
  unrestricted runtime aborts startup with "legacy capability manifest mode
  must be bounded", so a naive forward would turn a working session into a
  hard failure. These are forwarded for bounded only, and a warning names
  the migration when one cannot apply.
* v3 must not declare a mode. It is the mode-independent ceiling, and it now
  rides along with unrestricted.

Unreadable or unparseable manifests are not forwarded outside bounded, on
the same fail-safe reasoning; bounded still forwards unconditionally and
lets the driver be the authority there.

Verified against cua-driver 0.20.0 on Windows. Launch args now carry
`--permission-mode unrestricted --dangerously-bypass-approvals
--capability-manifest <v3> --approve-capability-manifest`, and the ceiling
is enforced in the bypassed run - a tool outside the manifest is refused
("outside the capability manifest for this session ... blocked as a
protected resource") where the same config previously ran unbounded. A
legacy manifest was confirmed to abort driver startup when forwarded, which
is what the version gate prevents.

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* fix(computer-use): warn when an approval bypass widens the driver mode

`--yolo` / `-z` read as "don't prompt me", but they also swap computer_use
onto a private `unrestricted` daemon, dropping the ceilings the configured
mode would have applied. Nothing said so. A script picks up `-z` for quiet
output and loses its limits as a side effect, and the only trace is a driver
process nobody inspects.

The mapping itself stays. It is deliberate, and `unrestricted` is reachable
no other way: it is intentionally not a config value so a stale config line
can never silently bypass approvals (see `_cua_configured_permission_mode`).
Removing the mapping would delete the capability rather than fix it, and
splitting it onto a second CLI flag was declined to avoid growing the
surface.

So the widening is now stated instead: one warning per session naming the
configured mode it left, what stopped applying, and the two ways to keep a
ceiling - drop the bypass flag, or declare a version-3 capability manifest,
which now rides along with unrestricted as of the previous commit.

Once per session, not per dispatch: the resolver runs on every tool call.

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* fix(computer-use): report unusable driver exit status

(cherry picked from commit 8bda6191ca548d65648263dfe30d2d18950a6e60)

* fix(computer-use): preserve missing driver overrides

* fix(computer-use): verify Windows driver repair

* fix(computer-use): align browser guidance and screenshots

* fix(desktop): keep the local pack out of electron-builder's publish path

`hermes desktop` runs `npm run pack` through _npm_lifecycle_env(), which
sets CI=1. electron-builder 26 reads that as an implicit publish request
(`onTagOrDraft`) when --publish is absent, so a local --dir build enters
publish resolution it has no business being in.

Pin `--publish never` on the pack script. This is also what electron-builder
asks for directly -- the implicit CI behavior is removed in v27.

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* fix(desktop): declare the repository so publish resolution can succeed

With a GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN in the environment, electron-builder auto-selects
the github provider and resolves owner/repo from the repository field, falling
back to reading <projectDir>/.git/config. projectDir is apps/desktop, which has
no .git of its own, and app-builder-lib does not walk up to the workspace root
-- so resolution returned null and threw "Cannot detect repository by
.git/config".

On Linux this fires from onAfterPack for a plain `dir` target: the darwin and
Windows branches return early for non-installer targets, Linux has no such
guard. That is why the same build worked elsewhere.

--publish never keeps `pack` from reaching this at all, but `dist:*` and
test-desktop.mjs still resolve publish config on a machine with a token, so
declare t…
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* fix(cli): bound the Windows process-scan probes so a slow WMI scan cannot wedge hermes update (#87134)

subprocess.run(capture_output=True, timeout=N) is not hang-safe on
Windows: after the timeout fires, run()'s cleanup kills the direct child
and then joins the pipe reader threads with an UNBOUNDED communicate().
A descendant (conhost.exe under wmic/powershell) holding duplicated pipe
handles keeps the pipes from EOF and the join never returns.

_scan_gateway_pids() runs its wmic / Get-CimInstance Win32_Process scans
exactly that way, and on machines where the full process scan genuinely
exceeds its 10/15s budget (cold WMI on first boot, ARM VMs, heavy
Update/AV activity) hermes update wedged forever inside
_pause_windows_gateways_for_update() before printing a single line —
observed live on a fresh Windows 11 ARM64 VM with a faulthandler stack
pinning the main thread in subprocess._communicate and only a conhost.exe
child surviving. The single-flight update lock then blocks retries until
the wedged process is killed by hand.

This is the same deadlock class bounded_git_probe already fixed for git
probes (#68609 / #66037). Generalize that proven pattern into a shared
bounded_probe_run() — explicit communicate(timeout), kill_process_tree on
failure, bounded 1s drain, then abandon the daemonic readers — and
migrate the whole call-site class onto it:

- hermes_cli/gateway.py _scan_gateway_pids (the site that hung; reached
  from hermes update, cron, gateway restart/status, dashboard)
- hermes_cli/dashboard_procs.py wmic scan (same shape, reached on update)
- hermes_cli/claw.py tasklist + PowerShell probes (same shape; its
  try/except cannot catch a hang because a hang raises nothing)
- bounded_git_probe now delegates to bounded_probe_run (identical
  contract, one copy of the cleanup logic)

Unlike bounded_git_probe, bounded_probe_run returns the CompletedProcess
(or None) rather than collapsing to stdout, because the gateway scan
branches on returncode to trip its wmic -> powershell fallback.

Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_bounded_probe_run.py covers success,
nonzero-exit passthrough, spawn failure, bounded timeout (fails against
the old unbounded semantics — verified by sabotage), errors= decoding,
DEVNULL stdin, POSIX process-group placement, and the bounded_git_probe
delegation contract. Existing test_git_probe_tree_kill.py passes
unchanged against the delegated implementation.

Closes #87134

* test(cli): retarget the wmic-encoding regression test at bounded_probe_run

The Windows-only test asserted encoding/errors kwargs on a mocked
subprocess.run, but the scan now routes through bounded_probe_run
(#87134), so subprocess.run is never invoked. Assert the probe call's
contract instead (errors='ignore', finite timeout), verify the parsed
PIDs, and add a fail-open case for probe failure. The test no longer
needs a Windows host once the probe is mocked, so the windows_only
gate is dropped.

* fix(agent): attribute background-review usage and add cost controls

Persist fork token usage under session_model_usage task=background_review,
emit a per-fork completion log line, and expose enabled/max_iterations/
prompt_file so operators can see and bound the automatic review cost.

Address review feedback: load auxiliary.background_review once per spawn,
classify completion logs by summarize action prefixes, treat explicit
api_call_count=None as the documented default of 1, and WARNING on the
fail-open enabled-gate path.

* fix(desktop): route registry 'local' entry to the genuinely-local runtime

ensureRegistryBackend delegated kind==='local' to ensureBackend(), which
follows the v1 connection.json routing table — under a v1 REMOTE global
mode (the migration keeps the mandatory 'local' entry AND makes that
remote the registry primary) the roster's 'This device' rows enumerated
and dialed the REMOTE primary: every profile appeared twice (forcing
-slug handles) and clicking a local agent talked to the remote box.

resolveRegistryLocalRoute() (pure, colocated with the registry helpers)
now decides the local entry's path: delegate to the legacy route only
when v1 is itself local (single-source behavior byte-identical);
otherwise spawn/reuse a forced-local pool child via spawnPoolBackend's
new forceLocal option, pooled under the composite conn:local::<profile>
key so it cannot collide with the v1 remote descriptor cached at the
bare profile key.

* fix(desktop): key fan-out event consumption by (connectionId, profile)

Secondary-gateway events were tagged with connectionId (store/gateway
fan-out) but no consumer read it: working/attention tracking, the
pruneSecondaryGateways keep-set, and the profile-scoped event gates
(skin.changed / change-watcher broadcasts / approval-mode reconcile)
all keyed by session id + bare profile name. Every registered source
exposes a 'default' profile (the roster force-unshifts it), so two
connected gateways collided — gateway B's 'default' activity was
attributed to gateway A's 'default', keeping the wrong socket alive
and applying the wrong source's config/skin/cron changes.

Thread connectionId through consumption using the existing composite
backendScopeKey helper:

- session-states records each registry-tagged event's (connectionId,
  profile) scope per runtime session; liveSessionScopes() projects the
  busy/needs-input ones as composite keys for the gateway keep-set.
- recomputeKeptGateways (use-gateway-boot) seeds the keep-set with
  those scopes; pruneSecondaryGateways matches registry-scoped entries
  ONLY on their composite key, while local entries keep matching bare
  profile names (single-source path unchanged).
- gateway-event's 'from the active profile' gates now compare the
  event's composite scope against the active gateway's connection via
  the new activeGatewayConnectionId(); untagged local/primary events
  behave byte-identically.

Display-only surfaces that already use roster handles are untouched.

* style(desktop): order @hermes/shared import before nanostores (perfectionist/sort-imports)

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87839)

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* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87844)

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* fix(agent): trim background_review to the enabled switch

Follow-up to #87400: drop the max_iterations and prompt_file knobs from
auxiliary.background_review. The aux model routing (provider/model/
base_url/...) predates #87400 and stays; the enabled switch and the
usage telemetry stay. The fork's iteration budget returns to the
historical hardcoded 16.

* fix(update): reload _subprocess_compat and dashboard_procs after git pull

hermes update runs in the PRE-pull Python process. After git pull updates
source files on disk, modules already in sys.modules still hold the OLD
code. The existing _reload_config_modules() reloaded only config modules,
but the post-update dashboard cleanup path (_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup
-> _scan_dashboard_processes) imports hermes_cli._subprocess_compat lazily;
a new symbol added there (e.g. bounded_probe_run) is invisible to the
cached module object, causing ImportError during the cleanup step.

Extend the reload list to include hermes_cli._subprocess_compat and
hermes_cli.dashboard_procs so the cleanup uses freshly-pulled code.

* fix(update): reload process-scan modules at the dashboard-cleanup entry point

Widen PR #87757 to cover the ZIP path: _update_via_zip() also calls
_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() but never runs _reload_config_modules,
so the Windows git-broken fallback would still crash with the same
ImportError (cannot import name 'bounded_probe_run' from the stale cached
hermes_cli._subprocess_compat).

- new _reload_process_scan_modules() called inside
  _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup itself, so every current and future
  call site is covered; reloads dependency-first
  (_subprocess_compat, then dashboard_procs)
- reload failures log at warning (a miss surfaces seconds later as an
  ImportError in the same process)
- regression tests: reload-before-kill ordering, node-failure skip,
  stale-module symbol restoration (the exact #87134 boundary state),
  nonfatal reload failure, and the #87757 reload-list contract

* chore: release v0.20.2 (2026.8.16)

* fix(tui): modified Enter and bare LF insert a newline in the composer across IDE and macOS terminals (#87854)

* fix(tui): send atomic CSI u for modified Enter in IDE terminals

VS Code/Cursor/Windsurf terminals bound Shift/Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to the
legacy \\r\n sequence, which Ink's parse-keypress split into a
backslash keypress plus a plain Return — inserting a stray backslash and
submitting instead of adding a newline. Emit Kitty CSI u sequences that
encode the modifier atomically, and migrate keybindings users already
have on disk.

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* fix(tui): treat a bare LF as a newline in macOS composer terminals

Terminals that can't send a distinct Shift+Enter collapse a modified
Enter / Ctrl+J down to a bare LF. shouldPreserveCtrlJNewline() already
handles the env-detectable cases (SSH, Windows Terminal, Ghostty, WSL),
but plain macOS terminals (Terminal.app, iTerm2 defaults) do the same and
aren't env-detectable, leaving no keyboard-driven newline there. Fold the
return-key decision into shouldInsertNewlineOnReturn() and accept a bare
LF as a multiline fallback on macOS too, keeping CR as submit everywhere.

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* fix(state): classify structural DB corruption as its own persistence cause

'database disk image is malformed' contains the word 'disk', so
classify_persistence_error bucketed SQLITE_CORRUPT / SQLITE_NOTADB
failures as 'disk' and the turn-completion explainer told users to
free disk space for a structurally damaged state.db (the #77386-family
misdiagnosis, reproduced in the v0.20.0 malformed-DB incident report).

- hermes_state: new 'corrupt' bucket in PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES,
  matched via _DB_CORRUPTION_MARKERS BEFORE the locked/disk buckets
- run_agent: explainer text for 'corrupt' points at hermes doctor and
  explicitly says freeing space will not help
- cron explainer-variant suppression picks the new variant up
  automatically (it iterates PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES)

* fix(openviking): strip PYTHONPATH from autostarted server child env (#78153)

(cherry picked from commit 7afd99155667cde480c0ab4ee31e242dab849d40)

* fix(openviking): read .env BOM-tolerantly when rewriting credentials

f1ea4a56c ("cover the remaining setup-time .env reads with utf-8-sig",
following 75afc47ba for mem0/hindsight) swept this class; openviking's
_write_env_vars was missed and still reads with strict utf-8.

It copies every existing line through on each update, so the read decides
whether a credential update lands:

  BOM'd .env  -> the first key never matches, so the old line survives and
                 the new value is appended as a duplicate. .env loaders keep
                 the first occurrence, so the update silently does nothing.
  cp1252 .env -> UnicodeDecodeError aborts setup outright.

Read exactly like the canonical hermes_cli/config.py save_env_value
(utf-8-sig + errors="replace"). A plain UTF-8 file rewrites byte-identically.

Scope: hermes_cli/memory_setup.py has the same read but is already the
subject of #30281 / #60587, so it is left alone here.

(cherry picked from commit 175c6852c2c255b3219575b5de0b1b70f1f0efcb)

* fix(openviking): preserve non-UTF-8 env bytes on update

* docs(openviking): correct environment handling explanations

Clarify that the Desktop backend can add Hermes venv packages to PYTHONPATH and that current .env loaders use the last duplicate value.

* Revert "fix(agent): preserve local reasoning timeout opt-out"

This reverts commit 26b2b475935d5f5f369142fe1648cf5c95e7b056.

* Revert "fix(agent): harden canonical tool call deduplication"

This reverts commit 8fc4189edd23dde055232cc07ea14d1d525e44ee.

* fix(update): restart hermes-serve systemd units alongside gateways

hermes update discovered and restarted hermes-gateway* systemd units but
never looked for hermes-serve* — the Desktop app's backend — so it kept
running stale pre-update code until the user restarted it by hand (#83438).

Extend the systemd unit discovery/restart loop to also match hermes-serve*
units. They don't wire SIGUSR1 to a graceful drain (only gateway/run.py
does), so restart eligibility for the graceful path is now gated on unit
name via a small, directly-tested helper; hermes-serve units fall straight
to the existing blunt systemctl restart path, matching the workaround the
issue already documents.

* fix(update): tighten hermes-serve unit gate, dedupe fleet/cleanup restarts

Review on #83595 flagged two service-lifecycle gaps in the hermes-serve
restart support:

- The unit-name gate accepted anything starting with "hermes-serve",
  which also matched the unrelated hermes-server.service. Require the
  exact base unit or the hyphenated profile family instead.
- The fleet-restart loop and _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() could
  both restart the same hermes-serve unit — the loop restarts it
  directly, then cleanup's PID scan finds the fresh process and
  restarts its owning unit again. Thread the fleet loop's restarted
  unit names through to _kill_stale_dashboard_processes() so it skips
  units already handled.

* fix(update): tighten gateway-side unit gates to exact/hyphenated shape

Mirror the strict unit-name shape from the hermes-serve gate (review on
PR #83595) on the gateway side too: the discovery gate and the SIGUSR1
eligibility helper now accept only `hermes-gateway.service` or the
`hermes-gateway-<profile>` family, so a near-prefix unit like
`hermes-gatewayd.service` can neither enter the restart path nor be sent
a SIGUSR1 it does not handle.

* fix(desktop): ignore stale remote connection attempts

* chore: map contributor email for xkam7ar

* fix(apps): dial primary sleep/wake reconnect at window backend not active profile

* fix(desktop): scope pluginSocket's connection to the active profile

pluginSocket (hermes.ts) is documented as "the live twin of pluginRest,
scoped the same way", but it calls window.hermesDesktop.getConnection()
with no profile argument, while pluginRest passes the active profile via
profileScoped(). getConnection's IPC handler (ensureBackend in
electron/main.ts) falls back to the primary profile whenever the profile
argument is empty, so an unscoped call always resolves to the primary
profile's backend regardless of which profile is actually active.

For a plugin used from a non-primary profile (e.g. kanban), this means REST
calls go to the correct pooled backend while the plugin's WebSocket silently
connects to the wrong one — a multi-profile user sees one profile's data
with another profile's live events.

Fix (adapted to the post-#87600 registry-agent store shape during salvage):
resolve the plugin socket's connection through the same (connectionId,
profile) source of truth ensureGatewayProfile/ensureGatewayAgent maintain
for $connection — store/gateway's setActive now pushes the active scope's
registry connection id into the hermes module (setApiRequestConnection,
the no-store-import twin of setApiRequestProfile), and pluginSocket
resolves via getConnectionFor for registry-agent scopes and
getConnection(profile) for the local pool. The plugin socket therefore
follows registry-agent activations too, not just profile switches.

voice-playback.ts's resolveSpeakStreamUrl had the same gap originally, but
main has since fixed it independently (via the getApiRequestProfile()
getter rather than direct store access) — dropped from this PR as
redundant, keeping only the still-open pluginSocket gap.

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* fix(image_gen): disable default-on upscaling everywhere — opt-in only

The Aug 8 default-on upscaling policy (66ea4e686) chained the Clarity
Upscaler after every sub-2MP generation. Clarity is an SD1.5 creative
tile-diffusion enhancer (creativity 0.35, "masterpiece" prompt prefix) —
it redraws content, which degraded output on 100% of generations for
models like GPT Image 2 and Ideogram whose value is precise text
rendering, CJK, and photorealistic detail.

Policy now: no model upscales by default, on FAL or Krea. The `upscale`
tool param remains as a per-call opt-in (`upscale: true`); explicit
requests still chain Clarity (FAL) / Krea Enhance as before.

- FAL catalog: all 17 default-on entries flipped to upscale=False
- Krea plugin: medium + medium-turbo per-model defaults flipped off
- Tool schema: upscale param described as opt-in with a fidelity warning
- Tests updated: catalog invariant now pins all-off; default-on cases
  now assert no upscaler call
- Docs (en + zh) updated to the opt-in policy

* fix: make every tool interruptible — sequential executor abandons on user interrupt

The sequential tool path only noticed a user interrupt after the running
tool returned: with the deadline disabled it ran the tool inline (fully
blocking), and with a deadline it waited in 5s slices without ever
checking agent._interrupt_requested. Any tool without cooperative
is_interrupted() polling (image_generate, tts, transcription, skills
sync, ...) held the whole turn hostage — the reported symptom was a
redirect queued ~40s behind a FAL image generation + upscale pass.

Executor backstop (class fix, covers ALL tools):
- _run_sequential_tool_execution_middleware always dispatches on the
  daemon worker (timeout None no longer means inline blocking) and polls
  the interrupt flag every 1s.
- On interrupt: 3s cooperative grace (mirrors the concurrent path), then
  synthesize a cancelled tool result (_ToolCancelledResult), emit the
  terminal post_tool_call with status=cancelled, and abandon the worker.
- _ToolCancelledResult suppresses downstream post-hook double emission
  exactly like _ToolTimeoutResult, so an abandoned worker finishing late
  cannot report success for a cancelled call.
- clarify (interactive, _NEVER_PARALLEL_TOOLS) keeps the inline path —
  it owns its own human wait.

Cooperative layer in the reported offender:
- image_generation_tool: blind handler.get() (generation + Clarity
  upscale) replaced with _wait_fal_result(), which polls is_interrupted()
  in 0.5s slices and raises ImageGenerationInterrupted immediately.
- _upscale_image propagates the interrupt instead of swallowing it into
  the "upscale failed, use original" fallback.

Message alternation is preserved: the cancelled result is a normal tool
result for the call_id. Sabotage-verified: with the old wait loop
restored, the new tests fail (tool blocks full runtime); with the fix
they pass in ~4s.

* feat(computer-use): support Cua Driver 0.20 runtime contracts

* fix(computer-use): reconcile existing cua-driver installs

* fix(computer-use): enforce existing-profile grant, unblock the opt-in

Live-testing the Cua Driver 0.20 convergence on Windows 11 (session 2,
cua-driver 0.20.0) surfaced three defects in the existing-profile browser
path and in install status.

1. The config grant was silently nullified by an approval bypass.

`--yolo` / `-z` map onto a private unrestricted daemon, which answers every
browser_prepare. Because the host delegated the entire existing-profile
decision to the driver, that bypass also nullified
`computer_use.grant_existing_profile: false`: a plain `hermes -z` attached
to the user's real Chrome profile and read live page content over CDP, with
the driver reporting it as "the approved existing Chromium profile". It was
never approved.

An approval bypass is consent to skip prompts, not consent to read an
existing profile's pages, cookies, and storage. CuaTypedBrowserRoute.prepare
now enforces the key itself, regardless of permission mode. bounded stays
exempt - its reviewed capability manifest is the authorization boundary.
The authorization inputs are resolved in the backend from config and the
backend's immutable mode, never from model-supplied kwargs.

2. The grant, once set, still could not be used.

With `grant_existing_profile: true` the runtime is launched
`--grant existing-profile` correctly, but cua_browser_prepare then hit a
runtime approval prompt anyway - re-asking the user to authorize what the
config already authorized, and making the documented opt-in unusable on any
non-interactive run, where the prompt has nobody to answer it and the call
dies on approval timeout. The durable, file-backed grant now stands in for
that prompt. Scope is narrow: only the existing-profile prepare, only when
the grant is present; isolated launches still prompt and any resolution
failure falls closed to prompting.

3. `computer-use status` hid a custom override and spliced its output.

With HERMES_CUA_DRIVER_CMD pointed at cmd.exe, status printed the child's
multi-line banner and prompt inside the one-line version field, never
mentioned the override, and advised `hermes computer-use install` - which
install itself (correctly) refuses to run against an overridden path. It now
names the override and mirrors install's update-or-unset guidance, and
version output is reduced to one bounded line.

Verified on the reported host: `-z` existing-profile attach now refuses and
names the key; `grant: true` no longer prompts (33s vs a 300s approval
timeout); status names the override and prints one line. No change to the
reconciliation path - driver SHA256 unchanged end to end.

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* fix(computer-use): make the typed-browser bind/snapshot split discoverable

`cua_browser_state` has two branches, chosen implicitly: any call carrying
pid or window_id is a *binding* (browser_route.py:252), anything else is a
*snapshot*. A binding clears session state, mints fresh tab_ids, returns
binding metadata with no page content, and sets verification_required.

Nothing in the response says that. A caller that keeps passing pid/window_id
- the natural reading of "bind to this window, then read it" - re-binds
forever: the tab_id it just received is unbound by the next bind, so every
cua_browser_navigate comes back browser_verification_required, and the
refusal ("take a fresh snapshot") points at the same call that just re-bound.
Observed live as 11 consecutive refused navigates before the model gave up
and fell back to foreground SendInput on the address bar.

The same confusion silently swallowed include_screenshot: both calls that
requested one were bindings, which carry no page content, so the flag had
nothing to attach to and was dropped without comment.

A binding response now reports snapshot_required, next_step
(fresh_browser_state, matching the existing token convention) and a hint
naming the exact next call; requesting a screenshot on a binding reports
screenshot_deferred instead of dropping it. The verification refusal now
says to call cua_browser_state WITHOUT pid/window_id and why re-sending them
does not help. The schema documents that include_screenshot applies to
snapshots.

Behavior of the bind and snapshot branches themselves is unchanged - this is
purely about making the split legible to the caller.

Unit-tested. Not verified end to end on the reporting host: the driver
refuses the bind upstream there (`browser_requires_setup: no owned DevTools
endpoint`, and it does not accept a user-launched --remote-debugging-port),
so the typed route never reaches this branch. That attach failure is a
separate cua-driver issue.

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* fix(computer-use): keep a v3 capability manifest on approval-bypassed runs

`--yolo` / `-z` route the session onto a private embedded daemon in
`unrestricted` mode. That daemon was constructed without the configured
capability manifest, and the serve command only attached
`--capability-manifest` when the mode was exactly `bounded`. So the moment a
run was bypassed, the user's declared ceiling was dropped:

    without -z:  --permission-mode bounded --capability-manifest ...
    with -z:     --permission-mode unrestricted --dangerously-bypass-approvals

No manifest, no warning. The most carefully configured run - a reviewed
ceiling, written by hand - became the least constrained one, silently, and
it failed open.

That was never a driver limitation. cua-driver documents the manifest as a
ceiling across modes ("A manifest can narrow a profile but never widen it";
its own authorization table calls it `optional_capability_manifest_ceiling`),
and accepts it alongside `--permission-mode unrestricted`.

The forwarding is version-aware, because the two manifest schemas differ
(cua-driver session_manifest.rs):

* v1/v2 are legacy and must declare `mode: bounded`. Handing one to an
  unrestricted runtime aborts startup with "legacy capability manifest mode
  must be bounded", so a naive forward would turn a working session into a
  hard failure. These are forwarded for bounded only, and a warning names
  the migration when one cannot apply.
* v3 must not declare a mode. It is the mode-independent ceiling, and it now
  rides along with unrestricted.

Unreadable or unparseable manifests are not forwarded outside bounded, on
the same fail-safe reasoning; bounded still forwards unconditionally and
lets the driver be the authority there.

Verified against cua-driver 0.20.0 on Windows. Launch args now carry
`--permission-mode unrestricted --dangerously-bypass-approvals
--capability-manifest <v3> --approve-capability-manifest`, and the ceiling
is enforced in the bypassed run - a tool outside the manifest is refused
("outside the capability manifest for this session ... blocked as a
protected resource") where the same config previously ran unbounded. A
legacy manifest was confirmed to abort driver startup when forwarded, which
is what the version gate prevents.

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* fix(computer-use): warn when an approval bypass widens the driver mode

`--yolo` / `-z` read as "don't prompt me", but they also swap computer_use
onto a private `unrestricted` daemon, dropping the ceilings the configured
mode would have applied. Nothing said so. A script picks up `-z` for quiet
output and loses its limits as a side effect, and the only trace is a driver
process nobody inspects.

The mapping itself stays. It is deliberate, and `unrestricted` is reachable
no other way: it is intentionally not a config value so a stale config line
can never silently bypass approvals (see `_cua_configured_permission_mode`).
Removing the mapping would delete the capability rather than fix it, and
splitting it onto a second CLI flag was declined to avoid growing the
surface.

So the widening is now stated instead: one warning per session naming the
configured mode it left, what stopped applying, and the two ways to keep a
ceiling - drop the bypass flag, or declare a version-3 capability manifest,
which now rides along with unrestricted as of the previous commit.

Once per session, not per dispatch: the resolver runs on every tool call.

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* fix(computer-use): report unusable driver exit status

(cherry picked from commit 8bda6191ca548d65648263dfe30d2d18950a6e60)

* fix(computer-use): preserve missing driver overrides

* fix(computer-use): verify Windows driver repair

* fix(computer-use): align browser guidance and screenshots

* fix(desktop): keep the local pack out of electron-builder's publish path

`hermes desktop` runs `npm run pack` through _npm_lifecycle_env(), which
sets CI=1. electron-builder 26 reads that as an implicit publish request
(`onTagOrDraft`) when --publish is absent, so a local --dir build enters
publish resolution it has no business being in.

Pin `--publish never` on the pack script. This is also what electron-builder
asks for directly -- the implicit CI behavior is removed in v27.

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* fix(desktop): declare the repository so publish resolution can succeed

With a GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN in the environment, electron-builder auto-selects
the github provider and resolves owner/repo from the repository field, falling
back to reading <projectDir>/.git/config. projectDir is apps/desktop, which has
no .git of its own, and app-builder-lib does not walk up to the workspace root
-- so resolution returned null and threw "Cannot detect repository by
.git/config".

On Linux this fires from onAfterPack for a plain `dir` target: the darwin and
Windows branches return early for non-installer targets, Linux has no such
guard. That is why the same build worked elsewhere.

--publish never keeps `pack` from reaching this at all, but `dist:*` and
test-desktop.mjs still resolve publish config on a machine with a token, so
declare the field too.

Tests call the real app-builder-lib resolver rather than asserting on the text
of package.json, so they track electron-builder's behavior instead of our
formatting.

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* fix(computer-use): auto-repair an installed driver that fails the runtime contract

A same-day version-floor bump (0.20 runtime contract) left every install
with an older cua-driver hard-failing on all computer_use calls: the
start() gate fails closed, while the `hermes update` refresh defers to the
driver's own check-update verb — whose ~20h cache routinely answers "no
update available" right after we raise the floor. Hermes knew it required
0.20+ but never acted on that knowledge.

Two changes:

- tools_config.install_cua_driver(): a contract-failed installed driver is
  repaired on the upgrade=True path too (previously only upgrade=False).
  The contract failure itself is the confirmation, so the
  require_confirmed_update gate and the check-update short-circuit are
  bypassed for repairs — an indeterminate or stale-cached check can no
  longer pin users on an unusable driver.

- cua_backend.CuaDriverBackend.start(): when the contract gate fails on an
  installed binary, attempt one automatic repair per process via the
  standard install path, then re-probe. HERMES_CUA_DRIVER_CMD overrides
  are never repaired (explicit override is authoritative even when broken)
  and a missing binary still just reports the install hint. A failing
  installer can't loop: the second start() surfaces the original error.

Tests: contract-repair coverage in test_computer_use.py (auto-repair
success, failed repair surfaces the original error, once-per-process
guard, override never repaired, missing binary never repaired) and
test_install_cua_driver.py (incompatible driver repairs despite an
indeterminate check-update, check-update not consulted). All new tests
verified to fail against the unfixed source (sabotage run).

* docs(computer-use): note driver contract auto-repair at update and runtime

The runtime-contract repair now also runs during hermes update and once
per session at the first computer_use call (PR #87923); the docs only
mentioned setup and toolset enablement.

* feat: raise Codex OAuth context to live-verified 350K for gpt-5.6 family and gpt-5.4

The Codex /models catalog advertises 272K for the gpt-5.6 (sol/terra/luna)
and gpt-5.4 slugs, but the backend actually accepts ~371K input tokens
(verified live against chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, Aug 16 2026:
~371K completed OK on all four slugs; ~382K+ rejected with
context_length_exceeded). 350K keeps ~22K margin under the observed ~372K
enforcement.

The bump applies ONLY when the resolved value is exactly the known-stale
272,000 advertisement — any other advertised value (higher or lower) is
trusted as a real server-side change, so a future catalog correction
deactivates the override automatically. gpt-5.5 and gpt-5.4-mini both
genuinely enforce 272K (rejected 360K live) and are excluded.

* fix(tui): restore Alt+Enter for newlines (#87066)

* fix(tui): restore Alt+Enter for newlines

Restore Alt+Enter support for inserting a new line in the TUI after the behavior was lost during newer input-handling updates.

Legacy terminals encode Alt+Enter as ESC followed by carriage return. Preserve those bytes as a single tokenizer sequence and parse the result as Return with the Meta modifier so TextInput inserts a newline instead of submitting.

Keep plain CR and LF mapped to unmodified Return, and cover the legacy ESC+CR sequence with a regression test.

* fix(tui): scope legacy Alt+Enter tokenization

* feat(desktop): expose connection-aware plugin routing

* fix(desktop): report remote plugin target profiles

* fix(desktop): route plugin profiles through registry

* fix(desktop): harden plugin route lifecycle

* fix(desktop): preserve registry route identity

* chore: add contributor email mapping for addelh

* fix(desktop): scope session/pin lists per connection across windows

Multiple Desktop windows share one renderer origin (one localStorage
area) while each window can be connected to a DIFFERENT gateway. The
sidebar pin set (hermes.desktop.pinnedSessions), the manual session
order, and the remembered last-session/route navigation keys were all
persisted under single global (or profile-only) keys, so two windows on
different gateways read and reconciled the same lists: pin-sync's
pullRemotePins() in one window adopted/dropped pins belonging to the
other window's backend, producing the overlapping mixed PINNED/SESSIONS
lists reported after the v0.19.1 update relaunch.

Introduce a connection-scope persistence layer (connectionScopedAtom in
src/lib/connection-scoped.ts): the local connection keeps the bare
legacy key (byte-identical for single-backend users, same contract as
backendScopeKey), while remote connections persist under
`<key>.remote.<encoded baseUrl>.<encoded profile>` — the shape
workspaceCwdKey already established. setConnection() rescopes every
scoped atom when the window's connection changes (null descriptors keep
the current scope, as with syncCronModelImpactConnection), and pin-sync
resets its mirrored/pending/unconfirmed bookkeeping on rescope so a
reconcile never PATCHes one gateway's pins to another.

Legacy globally-keyed values are deliberately not migrated into remote
scopes: ownership of rows accumulated by every window is unknowable
(the #67709 precedent), and backend-mirrored pins self-heal from the
gateway's own `pinned` rows.

Fixes #77318

* fix(desktop): keep profile rail alive across remote/Cloud connection switches

A connection/mode apply (soft re-home) moves /api/profiles routing to a new
backend, but nothing deterministically re-fetched the rail's $profiles list
and a stale in-flight response from the previous backend could land last and
collapse the rail to Home (#85731).

- store/profile: epoch-guard refreshProfiles/refreshActiveProfile so a
  response fetched against the previous backend never writes the shared cache
  (invalidateProfileListFetches), and bump the epoch on live profile swaps.
- store/gateway-switch: strand in-flight profile-list fetches in the same
  wipe every connection/mode apply funnels through.
- use-gateway-boot: explicitly re-pull the active profile + list from the NEW
  backend during softSwitch, best-effort like its sibling fetches.

Fixes #85731

* fix(desktop): read cron run-history from the owning gateway

When Hermes Desktop works against a REGISTERED gateway connection, cron
jobs execute on that gateway and persist their run sessions in the
gateway's state.db. But every REST call in the app — the cron surface
included — carried only `profile`, so `hermes:api` routed it through the
local profile pool and `_list_cron_job_runs_sync` read a local state.db
with zero `source='cron'` rows. Every job showed "No runs yet" while the
same endpoint on the gateway returned the real runs (#87882).

Fix at the routing seam:

- HermesApiRequest gains an optional `connectionId`. The renderer's cron
  helpers (list/get/runs/delivery-targets/create/update/pause/resume/
  trigger/delete/blueprints) now tag the active registry connection via a
  new connectionScoped() twin of profileScoped(), fed from the same
  setApiRequestConnection seam store/gateway already maintains for the
  plugin socket.
- The hermes:api main-process handler resolves a tagged request through
  ensureRegistryBackend — the SAME pool the job list and WS traffic use —
  instead of the legacy profile route. Shared remote/cloud hosts (one
  gateway, many profiles) get the path scoped with ?profile= via the new
  pathWithProfileScope helper, factored out of pathWithGlobalRemoteProfile.
- '' / 'local' / absent connectionId keep the byte-identical v1 route, so
  single-source and connection-config-remote users are unaffected.

This covers the run-history panel, the sidebar cron peek, and every other
cron surface in one place, since they all funnel through the same helpers.

Fixes #87882

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#88014)

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* test(desktop): pin steered-turn transcript order end-to-end

A steered turn's contract — pre-steer output above the correction bubble,
post-steer output and the settled reply below it — was fixed across
several PRs (#73793/#83151 class, settle fixes) but only covered piecewise:
the mid-turn insert as a unit, the settle math as a unit. Nothing drove the
real stream reducer through a whole steered turn, and nothing asserted the
durable-row hydration renders the same order after reload.

Two suites close that:
- steer-arrival-order: full event sequences through useMessageStream's real
  handler + the real optimistic insert — single steer with tool activity,
  steer racing message.complete, double steer in one turn.
- steered-turn-hydration-order: toChatMessages over persisted row shapes
  copied from a real state.db steered turn, including a tool result that
  lands after the correction row.

* test(desktop): harden steer-order suite against fake-timer id collisions

Review follow-ups: steer ids now come from a monotonic counter instead of
Date.now() (frozen under fake timers — two steers without a clock advance
would have collided), and the settle-above assertion documents its
load-bearing sealed-bubble assumption.

* test(desktop): steer suite drives the real redirectPrompt path; hydration fixture carries durable row shape

The live suite previously called appendMidTurnUserMessage directly, leaving
redirectPrompt's appendAfterActiveReply guard — the production decision of
WHERE a correction lands — outside the harness. Both hooks now mount together
sharing one state map, exactly as the desktop wires them, so a regression in
the caller (not just the insert) goes red. Verified by mutation: disabling the
guard fails 2/4.

Also covers the rejected-redirect path: a not_running response discards the
optimistic bubble instead of stranding a correction the model never saw.

The hydration fixture now carries the durable row shape the client actually
receives (row_id, reasoning, provider call_id/response_item_id on tool_calls)
instead of a hand-simplified echo, so the 'mirrors real state.db rows' claim
is honest. The fake-timer steer id counter is gone with the local insert —
ids come from redirectPrompt itself.

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#88016)

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* feat(desktop): bundle Bot Mode (hermes-bots) as a built-in, default-on plugin

Adopts the Hermes-Bot-Mode desktop plugin (NousResearch/Hermes-Bot-Mode)
into apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/, registered by the bundled
vite glob and ON by default. It stays a pure @hermes/plugin-sdk consumer
in plain-ESM plugin.js form; users disable it live in Settings > Plugins.

- contrib/plugins.ts: bundled glob accepts plugin.js entries
- contrib/runtime-loader.ts: a disk/runtime copy of an id that ships
  bundled is skipped (standalone installs predating adoption cannot
  double-register)
- package.json: check:test:plugins runs the plugin's node:test suite in
  CI (138 tests)
- source: Hermes-Bot-Mode @ c19baba, incl. today's #107/#103/#99 merges

* feat(agent): core Bot Mode teammate protocol — stable-tier prompt section

Replaces the plugin-side SOUL.md protocol append: on Bot-Mode-managed
installs (any profile carrying ui_meta['hermes-bots']) the prompt builder
injects the "Messaging other agents" section into every session of every
profile — including headless `hermes -p <bot> chat` sessions a teammate
starts — so bot handoffs work without mutating user-authored SOUL files.

- tools/bot_mode_probe.py: silent-when-unmanaged probe, cached per
  (process, home), keyed off the agent's OWN home (not ambient
  HERMES_HOME); silent when SOUL.md already carries the legacy section
- agent/system_prompt.py + agent_init.py + config_defaults.py: wired as
  agent.bot_mode_protocol (default True), stable tier, byte-stable
  across rebuilds (E2E-verified against the real build_system_prompt)
- tui_gateway profiles.list gains bot_mode_protocol capability flag;
  the bundled plugin gates ALL SOUL protocol writes on it (backfill,
  composeSoul, Edit save) — older gateways keep the SOUL-append path
- overhead: ~916 bytes, only on Bot-Mode installs; zero elsewhere

Supersedes the SOUL backfill half of Hermes-Bot-Mode#99 (credit
@kaduxo — the handle fix, `hermes profile list` correction, and
idempotent-append guards from that PR ship in the bundled plugin).

* fix: track bundled plugin.js sources past the tsc-artifact gitignore

apps/desktop/src/**/*.js is gitignored (stale tsc output shadows .tsx),
which silently dropped the hermes-bots plugin.js from the adoption
commit — tests shipped, source didn't, CI ENOENT'd. Negate the pattern
for src/plugins/*/plugin.js: adopted plain-ESM plugins have no .tsx
sibling, so the shadow hazard cannot apply.

* fix(agent): scope the Bot Mode protocol section to canonical Bot Chat sessions

Per review: the protocol belongs only in official Bot Mode interactions,
not every session on a managed install. The prompt builder now injects
the section only when the agent's session row is titled "Bot Chat"
(BOT_CHAT_TITLE, matching the desktop's createCanonicalChat pin and the
`hermes -p <bot> chat -c "Bot Chat"` resume target). Regular sessions
never carry it; the desktop composer middleware owns @mention sends.

Title is read once at first prompt build and the rendered prompt is
cached + DB-restored — cache-safe. E2E against the real AIAgent +
SessionDB: absent in an untitled session, present in Bot Chat,
byte-stable across rebuilds, absent after retitle, absent with the
flag off. Overhead unchanged (~916B, Bot Chat sessions only).

* fix(hermes-bots): composeSoul honors the bot_mode_protocol capability

Found in live desktop E2E: the generated-identity path of composeSoul
still appended the protocol section even when the backend injects it
into the system prompt. New agents now get a clean identity-only SOUL
against capable backends; older gateways keep the append. Covered in
the capability-suppression test.

* fix(agent): Bot Chat gate reads a session-title hint before the DB

Live desktop E2E caught a write-ordering bug the automated E2E missed:
tui_gateway applies pending_title to state.db AFTER the first turn, but
the system prompt builds at turn START — the DB-title gate saw nothing
and the Bot Chat was cached protocol-less forever. The gateway now
hands the agent its intended title at construction and the gate checks
the hint first, DB second (CLI/messaging-gateway paths unchanged).

Live-verified on the running desktop: fresh bot's Bot Chat persisted
with the protocol section, handle, and roster in its system prompt;
regular sessions and SOUL.md untouched.

* feat(agent): capability-refresh + timeless prompts for eternal Bot Chat sessions

Bot Chats break the "new sessions come often" assumption behind
build-once system prompts: capability edits used to sit invisible until
/new or compression, and the frozen birth date became misinformation.

- tools/bot_mode_probe.py: capability_fingerprint() hashes the profile's
  capability surface (disabled skills, toolset pins, MCP config, SOUL.md,
  installed skills, Bot-Mode roster); Bot Chat prompts embed the 12-hex
  epoch stamp
- agent/conversation_loop.py restore path: stored Bot Chat prompt whose
  epoch mismatches disk → ONE rebuild (through a cleared skills-prompt
  cache so new installs appear), persisted so the next turn reuses the
  new bytes verbatim. Prompts without a stamp — every non-Bot-Chat
  session — never take the branch; probe failure fails closed to reuse
- agent/system_prompt.py: Bot Chat prompts are timeless — the
  "Conversation started:" date is dropped (timezone kept); no ticking
  fields in an eternal session
- tui_gateway: _sync_bot_capabilities at turn start rebuilds the live
  agent (tool definitions are construction-baked) when the fingerprint
  moves, same session id/history, with a user-visible notice

Cache stance: this is the /model exception applied to capabilities — a
loud, user-initiated, once-per-change prefix break. Unchanged state
hashes identically and stored bytes are reused verbatim (E2E-proven).

Validation: 9 probe unit tests incl. per-axis fingerprint changes;
E2E v3 against the real restore path (fresh build → verbatim reuse →
skill install → single refresh w/ new skill in index → verbatim reuse;
regular sessions dated, unstamped, never refreshed); tests/agent/
4647/4647.

* feat(agent): one-time protocol upgrade for legacy Bot Chat sessions

Bot Chats created before the epoch mechanism persisted prompts with no
protocol section and no stamp — the staleness check only fires on
stamped prompts, so pre-existing bots would never learn to message
teammates. stored_bot_chat_prompt_needs_upgrade() migrates them: one
rebuild, title-gated to Bot Chat, only when the probe would actually
emit a section (SOUL-append legacies and unmanaged installs are left
alone — rebuilding those would loop). The rebuilt prompt carries the
stamp, so the upgrade can never re-fire.

E2E v3b through the real restore path: legacy Bot Chat upgraded once
then verbatim-reused; legacy regular sessions byte-untouched.
tests/agent/ 4648/4648.

* fix: capability fingerprint reads config via the canonical loader

The config-read guard (test_config_read_guard) correctly flagged the
probe's raw yaml.safe_load of config.yaml — raw reads miss the managed
overlay, env expansion, and normalization. Use load_config_readonly()
under a scoped HERMES_HOME override instead. E2E v3/v3b and the guard
both green.

* feat: sync bundled Bot Mode with multi-source roster (Hermes-Bot-Mode#68)

Pulls the multi-source roster into the bundled plugin: profiles.list rows
from the active gateway are merged with the host.agents() union roster
(hermes-agent #86875), so the Bots panel shows agents from every registered
Desktop connection with @name-device handles for duplicates. Feature-detected
and best-effort — an older Desktop build or roster failure leaves the
single-source list untouched.

Adapted for the bundle:
- useRoster queryFn combines the bot_mode_protocol capability read (which
  landed after #68 was cut) with the multi-source merge
- multi-source-roster tests updated for the namespace SDK import harness
- soul-protocol-backfill anchor widened for the new botHandle(name, bot)
  signature

Plugin suite: 143/143.

* feat: raise Codex OAuth context to 900K for gpt-5.6 family and gpt-5.4 (subscription 1M rollout)

OpenAI enabled the large-context window for ChatGPT-subscription Codex
accounts (announced by @thsottiaux Aug 16 2026; previously API-key-only).
Live re-probe the same day: 911,276 input tokens completed OK on
gpt-5.6-sol; ~925K+ rejected with context_length_exceeded (1.05M window
minus reserved output headroom). terra, luna, and gpt-5.4 all completed
900,026 tokens OK. The Codex catalog still advertises 272K, so the
stale-advertisement override from #87981 is the right lever — this just
raises its value 350K -> 900K.

gpt-5.5 and gpt-5.4-mini still enforce 272K live (rejected 500K) and
remain excluded. Override semantics unchanged: fires only on an
exactly-272,000 advertisement; any live catalog change is trusted
verbatim.

* fix(desktop): map SSH profile aliases in REST paths

* chore: map contributor email for attribution audit

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#88079)

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* fix(cron): stop retry storms when the gateway is deliberately stopped (OOF-266)

Since the managed-cron redesign (#84339, v2026.8.13) the dashboard fire
webhook forwards fires to the gateway process and returns 503 when it is
unreachable so NAS/QStash retries. Correct for transient windows — but an
operator-STOPPED gateway can never be fixed by retrying: every fire on
every job burns the full scheduler retry budget, NAS converts each 503 to
a retryable 502, and the resulting storms page on-call for a non-incident
(OOF-266 and its five duplicate tickets; +93% relay callback failures as
the fleet adopted v2026.8.13).

Split the unreachable path by durable operator intent:

- desired_state == "stopped" (written only by the s6 lifecycle commands;
  the same intent signal container-boot reconciliation trusts) -> drop
  the fire with 200 + a structured log line, mirroring NAS's own
  instance_stopped drop. Jobs are not lost: the Chronos provider
  reconciles and re-arms every job on the next gateway start.
- Anything else (crash loop, scale-to-zero wake, restart, legacy state
  file without desired_state) -> keep the retryable 503, now stamped
  with Retry-After: 60 so a scheduler that honors it spaces retries
  past the wake/restart window instead of exhausting them inside it.
  The gateway's own pass-through 503s (draining) get the same hint.

The intent check fails open (any parse/resolution error -> retryable
path) and is only consulted when the gateway is actually unreachable, so
a stale state file can never shadow a live gateway.

* feat(state): support the context-manager protocol on SessionDB

A SessionDB handle cannot be released by dropping the last reference.
Once its background token writer starts, the instance pins ITSELF two
ways: the writer thread's target is a bound method, and
queue_token_counts registers atexit.register(_drain_token_queue_at_exit),
which only close() unregisters. A dropped-but-pinned handle keeps its
state.db/-wal/-shm descriptors for the life of the process, and __del__
never runs for it, so the existing safety net is dead code for exactly
the instances that leak.

That is why owning call sites are expected to close explicitly, in those
words, in the ownership comments in run_agent.py and
tui_gateway/methods_session.py. This adds the ergonomic half of that
contract so an owner can scope a handle and be exception-safe by
construction:

    with SessionDB(path) as db:
        db.append_message(...)

Purely additive. __enter__ returns self, __exit__ closes and returns
False so a caller's exception always propagates, and close() is already
idempotent, so a scope that closes early still exits cleanly. Nothing
changes for callers that already close directly.

Four regressions cover the scope closing the handle, __enter__ returning
the instance itself, the failure path closing while still propagating,
and an early close leaving the exit clean. They assert on the
sqlite_safe_read tracking registry rather than raw descriptor counts,
matching test_session_db_read_conn_pool.py, because SQLite's unix VFS
parks a closed descriptor on a per-inode reuse list and makes raw counts
lag the real connection count.

Refs #88033

* fix(state): release abandoned session database handles

* fix(state): avoid overlapping context manager change

* fix(gateway): ignore invalid managed Node directories

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* fix(gateway): accept CJK full-width punctuation as MEDIA path terminators

MEDIA_TAG_CLEANUP_RE (and MEDIA_EXTENSIONLESS_TAG_RE) only recognized
ASCII terminators after a MEDIA:<path> tag. Chinese-language agent
output naturally writes MEDIA:D:\...\zhibao.pdf(782.6 KB)or ...pdf:内容 —
the full-width punctuation failed the trailing lookahead and the
attachment was silently dropped (cron even reported 'delivered') (#88038).

Both lookaheads now accept a CJK full-width terminator set (()〈〉《》:,。;
!?、curly quotes【】) alongside the ASCII set. The #68773 adjacent-tag
splitting guard is covered by a regression test.

* fix(skills): rescan skill commands cache when active profile changes

Switching Desktop profiles mid-session changes HERMES_HOME but not the
platform scope, so get_skill_commands() kept serving the previous
profile's skill list. A skill only available under the new profile then
looked like a cache miss to callers such as slash.exec, which fall
through to the slash_worker dead path (#88023).

* fix(gateway): scope slash.exec's skill-command check to the session's profile

Independent review of the prior commit found the cache-invalidation key
alone doesn't fix the reported #88023 dead path: slash.exec runs as a
_LONG_HANDLER on the pool with a copied context, and no binding of
_HERMES_HOME_OVERRIDE happens between the transport read and the handler
body, so get_skill_commands() there always fell back to the process-level
HERMES_HOME regardless of which profile's session issued the request.

Bind the session's own profile_home around the get_skill_commands() check,
mirroring the same bind/reset-in-finally pattern already used at every
other per-turn HERMES_HOME scoping site (e.g. server.py's prompt-turn and
system-prompt-rebuild paths). This makes the #88023 dead path actually
reachable by the fix instead of only exercising the cache primitive in
isolation.

* feat(desktop): add status bar reconnect for offline gateways

Expose the existing profile-aware gateway boot reconnect path through a
single-flight renderer action, and surface a Reconnect button in the
gateway status menu panel whenever the socket is not open. Repeated
clicks share one in-flight reconnect; failures surface through the
existing non-destructive notification UI. Localized copy for all
supported Desktop locales.

Salvaged from PR #80694 (net diff re-applied onto current main; panel
code lives in app/shell/gateway-menu-panel.tsx now).

* fix(desktop): self-heal dropped SSH/HTTP registered remote connections

A dropped registered remote connection (SSH or HTTP) never recovered on
its own: the next boot attempt failed with a transient transport error
("Could not verify the existing SSH backend", ERR_CONNECTION_RESET,
mint timeout), the failure was correctly NOT latched, but nothing ever
re-attempted the boot — the renderer's reconnect machinery only arms
after a completed boot. The app parked on "Desktop boot failed" until
the user manually deleted and re-entered the same connection details,
which merely forced the fresh bootstrap an automatic retry would have
performed (issue 82679, feature ask 80430).

Root causes and fixes:

- electron/backend-start-failure.ts: new isRetryableRemoteBootFailure()
  predicate — a remote, non-reauth boot failure is transient and may be
  retried; local failures and confirmed 401/403 rejections are not
  (a missing capability differs from a transient failure).
- electron/main.ts: the boot-failure progress broadcast now carries
  `retryable` (rides with `error` through updateBootProgress), and a
  failed reuse probe against a cached SSH master tears the stale
  master/tunnel down so the next attempt bootstraps fresh — exactly
  what manual re-entry did.
- use-gateway-boot.ts: bounded self-heal loop for a failed boot whose
  progress is marked retryable — up to 5 re-attempts with the same
  full-jitter backoff as the socket reconnect loop (2s base, 15s cap).
  Exhausted retries end in the real boot-failure recovery overlay,
  never an infinite spinner. Reset on success and on soft switch;
  timer cleared on unmount.
- store/boot.ts: resumeDesktopBootForRetry() re-arms the overlay with a
  retry status while an automatic retry is in flight.

Secondaries already had full-jitter backoff (store/gateway.ts); this
closes the same class for the PRIMARY/registered-connection path.

Tests: predicate matrix (retryable vs reauth-latch mutually exclusive),
plus renderer hook tests proving a transient SSH failure self-heals on
the next attempt, retries are bounded (6 total dials then the recovery
overlay, no further attempts), and non-retryable failures never enter
the loop. Sabotage-verified (disabling either half fails 4 tests).

Fixes #82679
Fixes #80430

* feat(desktop): support remote gateway headers

* feat(desktop): carry remote gateway headers through the connections registry, test probes, and Settings UI

Completes PR #74468 (remote gateway headers for Cloudflare Access, #74466)
against the v2 multi-connection registry that landed after the PR was
authored, and closes the review blockers:

- connection-registry: additive optional `headers` field on remote/cloud
  entries (normalized through the same forbidden-name filter, secret
  envelopes like `token`); inherited on edit, treated as dial material by
  connectionDialFieldsChanged, preserved by normalizeRegistry, and carried
  through migrateV1ToRegistry. v2 registries without the field load
  unchanged — no version bump.
- main.ts registry paths: connectRegistryBackend dials with the entry's
  headers (readiness probe, ticket mint, descriptor REST via
  getJsonForBackend/fetchJsonForBackend, registry ws-url minting with
  rememberRemoteWsHeaders so renderer upgrades get them injected).
- saveRegistryConnection encrypts incoming plaintext header values with the
  same safeStorage/allowPlainText seam as tokens; sanitizeRegistryConnection
  exposes only header NAMES to the renderer — values never cross IPC.
- Connection tests exercise the leg they validate: both
  hermes:connection-config:test and hermes:connections:test now send the
  configured headers on the HTTP status call, the ws-ticket mint, AND the
  live WebSocket probe (probeGatewayWebSocket grew an injectable `headers`
  option passed as the undici WebSocket constructor's second argument).
- Settings → Connections gains an "Extra gateway headers" editor for
  remote/cloud entries (name + secret value rows, stored values shown as
  saved-but-hidden, clearable), with i18n keys (en + zh; other locales fall
  back through defineLocale).

* chore: map contributor email for tigercraft4 (PR #74468 salvage)

* feat(delegation): record model/provider in live-transcript manifest (#telemetry)

* fix(gateway): attribute scoped credential lock conflicts to the owning profile (OOF-3)

Scoped credential locks (Telegram bot token, Discord bot token, etc.) are
machine-global, but the conflict error only reported the holder's PID:

    Telegram bot token already in use (PID 559). Stop the other gateway first.

On multi-profile hosts (e.g. hosted instances running 13 profiles), a bare
PID gives the operator no way to tell WHICH profile owns the credential —
the exact failure mode observed on zerocool-9781, where the 'default'
profile was misconfigured with the same bot token as 'lead-gen-outreach'
and logged an unattributable conflict every ~5 minutes (4,602 rows).

Fix:
- acquire_scoped_lock() now stamps a 'profile' label on lock records,
  inferred from the process HERMES_HOME (<root>/profiles/<name> layouts,
  'default' for the root home). Omitted when not inferable.
- New scoped_lock_owner_label() resolves the owning profile from a lock
  record: prefers the explicit field, falls back to inferring from the
  persisted hermes_home for locks written before the field existed.
  Labels are validated against the profile-id grammar before use (lock
  files are plain JSON on disk and the label flows into log lines and a
  suggested CLI command).
- _acquire_platform_lock() conflict message now names the owning profile
  and gives the correct remedy:

    Telegram bot token already in use by the 'lead-gen-outreach' profile
    gateway (PID 559). Stop that gateway first
    (hermes --profile lead-gen-outreach gateway stop).

  Records with no attribution signal keep the original PID-only wording.

Testing:
- New TestScopedLockOwnerLabel suite covering label inference (named,
  Docker, root/default, unknown layouts), grammar validation, explicit-
  field preference, hermes_home fallback, and legacy/malformed records.
- acquire_scoped_lock tests for profile stamping and omission.
- Adapter-level tests for profile-attributed, legacy-home-inferred, and
  PID-only conflict messages.
- 76/76 targeted gateway tests pass; broad gateway suite failures are
  baseline-identical (verified via git stash comparison). Ruff clean.

* fix(gateway): surface multiplex profile failures (OOF-3)

* fix(status): aggregate independent per-profile gateway failures; harden key filter (OOF-3)

- /api/status now folds LIVE independent per-profile gateways' platform
  failures (gateway_mode == 'multiple', the OOF-3 deployment mode) into
  gateway_platforms under the validated <profile>:<platform> grammar, so
  NAS fleet health sees them without a schema change. ?profile= requests
  stay unmerged (single-profile view).
- Namespaced-key validation no longer fails open: colon-containing keys
  are grammar-checked even when configured-platform loading throws.
- Platform key segment now accepts hyphens, matching plugin platform IDs
  (plugins/platforms/<dir> names, e.g. foo-bar).

* fix(status): freshness-filter aggregated per-profile platform entries (OOF-3)

Gateway startup deliberately preserves plain platform entries in
gateway_state.json across restarts, and the active-profile endpoint
compensates by filtering against current configuration. The cross-profile
aggregation copied raw maps, so a fatal entry for a platform the operator
had since disabled/removed could keep NAS reporting the instance degraded
indefinitely.

The aggregation has no cheap per-profile config context (platform sets
depend on tokens in each profile's .env behind its secret scope), so use
freshness instead: an entry is aggregatable only when its updated_at is
at/after the live gateway process's create time (validated PID via
get_runtime_status_running_pid + psutil create_time; the record's own
start_time field is a PID-reuse fingerprint in clock ticks, not a
timestamp). Config changes require a restart to take effect, so
restart-anchored freshness is exactly the config filter's semantics.
Fail closed: unparseable timestamps or no live process exclude the entry
— a false 'degraded forever' is the worse failure mode.

* fix(status): strict writer-identity ownership for aggregated platform entries (OOF-3)

The freshness window (updated_at >= live process create_time - 2s) had a
P1 boundary hole: a stale failure written by the PREVIOUS process
immediately before a fast restart landed inside the slack and was
aggregated; if that platform was then removed, the new process never
replaces the entry and NAS stays degraded indefinitely.

Replace clock heuristics with persisted writer identity:

- write_runtime_status now stamps every platform entry with the writing
  process's (writer_pid, writer_start_time) — the same PID-reuse
  fingerprint the liveness checks use, so a recycled PID never
  masquerades as the original writer.
- The aggregation ownership filter requires exact equality between an
  entry's stamp and the profile's validated live gateway process
  (get_runtime_status_running_pid + _get_process_start_time). No slack,
  no timestamps. Legacy entries without a stamp fail closed.
- Writer stamps are process recon (same class as the auth-gated
  gateway_pid) and are stripped from all /api/status projections, both
  active-profile and merged cross-profile entries.

Near-boundary regression test: prior-process entry stamped 100ms before
restart is excluded; recycled-pid-different-fingerprint excluded;
legacy no-stamp excluded; current-process entry kept.

* docs(state): soften stale SessionDB self-pin wording after #88063

#88048 documented the token-writer self-pin (bound-method thread target +
strong atexit hook) as a permanent contract: "__del__ never runs for
exactly the instances that leak". #88063 then removed both pins (idle
writer retirement + weakref atexit hook), making abandoned handles
eventually collectible.

Reword the __enter__ docstring and the context-manager test module
docstring to describe the pin as historical motivation, note the #88063
behavior, and keep the guidance that owners close deterministically.
No code changes.

* fix(desktop): keep cloud bot avatar eye catchlights inside the eyes

The white catchlight dots in BotFace were static circles pinned at the
circle-face eye line (cy 16.5), whi…
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* fix(desktop): route registry 'local' entry to the genuinely-local runtime

ensureRegistryBackend delegated kind==='local' to ensureBackend(), which
follows the v1 connection.json routing table — under a v1 REMOTE global
mode (the migration keeps the mandatory 'local' entry AND makes that
remote the registry primary) the roster's 'This device' rows enumerated
and dialed the REMOTE primary: every profile appeared twice (forcing
-slug handles) and clicking a local agent talked to the remote box.

resolveRegistryLocalRoute() (pure, colocated with the registry helpers)
now decides the local entry's path: delegate to the legacy route only
when v1 is itself local (single-source behavior byte-identical);
otherwise spawn/reuse a forced-local pool child via spawnPoolBackend's
new forceLocal option, pooled under the composite conn:local::<profile>
key so it cannot collide with the v1 remote descriptor cached at the
bare profile key.

* fix(desktop): key fan-out event consumption by (connectionId, profile)

Secondary-gateway events were tagged with connectionId (store/gateway
fan-out) but no consumer read it: working/attention tracking, the
pruneSecondaryGateways keep-set, and the profile-scoped event gates
(skin.changed / change-watcher broadcasts / approval-mode reconcile)
all keyed by session id + bare profile name. Every registered source
exposes a 'default' profile (the roster force-unshifts it), so two
connected gateways collided — gateway B's 'default' activity was
attributed to gateway A's 'default', keeping the wrong socket alive
and applying the wrong source's config/skin/cron changes.

Thread connectionId through consumption using the existing composite
backendScopeKey helper:

- session-states records each registry-tagged event's (connectionId,
  profile) scope per runtime session; liveSessionScopes() projects the
  busy/needs-input ones as composite keys for the gateway keep-set.
- recomputeKeptGateways (use-gateway-boot) seeds the keep-set with
  those scopes; pruneSecondaryGateways matches registry-scoped entries
  ONLY on their composite key, while local entries keep matching bare
  profile names (single-source path unchanged).
- gateway-event's 'from the active profile' gates now compare the
  event's composite scope against the active gateway's connection via
  the new activeGatewayConnectionId(); untagged local/primary events
  behave byte-identically.

Display-only surfaces that already use roster handles are untouched.

* style(desktop): order @hermes/shared import before nanostores (perfectionist/sort-imports)

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#87839)

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* fix(agent): trim background_review to the enabled switch

Follow-up to #87400: drop the max_iterations and prompt_file knobs from
auxiliary.background_review. The aux model routing (provider/model/
base_url/...) predates #87400 and stays; the enabled switch and the
usage telemetry stay. The fork's iteration budget returns to the
historical hardcoded 16.

* fix(update): reload _subprocess_compat and dashboard_procs after git pull

hermes update runs in the PRE-pull Python process. After git pull updates
source files on disk, modules already in sys.modules still hold the OLD
code. The existing _reload_config_modules() reloaded only config modules,
but the post-update dashboard cleanup path (_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup
-> _scan_dashboard_processes) imports hermes_cli._subprocess_compat lazily;
a new symbol added there (e.g. bounded_probe_run) is invisible to the
cached module object, causing ImportError during the cleanup step.

Extend the reload list to include hermes_cli._subprocess_compat and
hermes_cli.dashboard_procs so the cleanup uses freshly-pulled code.

* fix(update): reload process-scan modules at the dashboard-cleanup entry point

Widen PR #87757 to cover the ZIP path: _update_via_zip() also calls
_finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() but never runs _reload_config_modules,
so the Windows git-broken fallback would still crash with the same
ImportError (cannot import name 'bounded_probe_run' from the stale cached
hermes_cli._subprocess_compat).

- new _reload_process_scan_modules() called inside
  _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup itself, so every current and future
  call site is covered; reloads dependency-first
  (_subprocess_compat, then dashboard_procs)
- reload failures log at warning (a miss surfaces seconds later as an
  ImportError in the same process)
- regression tests: reload-before-kill ordering, node-failure skip,
  stale-module symbol restoration (the exact #87134 boundary state),
  nonfatal reload failure, and the #87757 reload-list contract

* chore: release v0.20.2 (2026.8.16)

* fix(tui): modified Enter and bare LF insert a newline in the composer across IDE and macOS terminals (#87854)

* fix(tui): send atomic CSI u for modified Enter in IDE terminals

VS Code/Cursor/Windsurf terminals bound Shift/Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to the
legacy \\r\n sequence, which Ink's parse-keypress split into a
backslash keypress plus a plain Return — inserting a stray backslash and
submitting instead of adding a newline. Emit Kitty CSI u sequences that
encode the modifier atomically, and migrate keybindings users already
have on disk.

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* fix(tui): treat a bare LF as a newline in macOS composer terminals

Terminals that can't send a distinct Shift+Enter collapse a modified
Enter / Ctrl+J down to a bare LF. shouldPreserveCtrlJNewline() already
handles the env-detectable cases (SSH, Windows Terminal, Ghostty, WSL),
but plain macOS terminals (Terminal.app, iTerm2 defaults) do the same and
aren't env-detectable, leaving no keyboard-driven newline there. Fold the
return-key decision into shouldInsertNewlineOnReturn() and accept a bare
LF as a multiline fallback on macOS too, keeping CR as submit everywhere.

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* fix(state): classify structural DB corruption as its own persistence cause

'database disk image is malformed' contains the word 'disk', so
classify_persistence_error bucketed SQLITE_CORRUPT / SQLITE_NOTADB
failures as 'disk' and the turn-completion explainer told users to
free disk space for a structurally damaged state.db (the #77386-family
misdiagnosis, reproduced in the v0.20.0 malformed-DB incident report).

- hermes_state: new 'corrupt' bucket in PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES,
  matched via _DB_CORRUPTION_MARKERS BEFORE the locked/disk buckets
- run_agent: explainer text for 'corrupt' points at hermes doctor and
  explicitly says freeing space will not help
- cron explainer-variant suppression picks the new variant up
  automatically (it iterates PERSISTENCE_ERROR_CAUSES)

* fix(openviking): strip PYTHONPATH from autostarted server child env (#78153)

(cherry picked from commit 7afd99155667cde480c0ab4ee31e242dab849d40)

* fix(openviking): read .env BOM-tolerantly when rewriting credentials

f1ea4a56c ("cover the remaining setup-time .env reads with utf-8-sig",
following 75afc47ba for mem0/hindsight) swept this class; openviking's
_write_env_vars was missed and still reads with strict utf-8.

It copies every existing line through on each update, so the read decides
whether a credential update lands:

  BOM'd .env  -> the first key never matches, so the old line survives and
                 the new value is appended as a duplicate. .env loaders keep
                 the first occurrence, so the update silently does nothing.
  cp1252 .env -> UnicodeDecodeError aborts setup outright.

Read exactly like the canonical hermes_cli/config.py save_env_value
(utf-8-sig + errors="replace"). A plain UTF-8 file rewrites byte-identically.

Scope: hermes_cli/memory_setup.py has the same read but is already the
subject of #30281 / #60587, so it is left alone here.

(cherry picked from commit 175c6852c2c255b3219575b5de0b1b70f1f0efcb)

* fix(openviking): preserve non-UTF-8 env bytes on update

* docs(openviking): correct environment handling explanations

Clarify that the Desktop backend can add Hermes venv packages to PYTHONPATH and that current .env loaders use the last duplicate value.

* Revert "fix(agent): preserve local reasoning timeout opt-out"

This reverts commit 26b2b475935d5f5f369142fe1648cf5c95e7b056.

* Revert "fix(agent): harden canonical tool call deduplication"

This reverts commit 8fc4189edd23dde055232cc07ea14d1d525e44ee.

* fix(update): restart hermes-serve systemd units alongside gateways

hermes update discovered and restarted hermes-gateway* systemd units but
never looked for hermes-serve* — the Desktop app's backend — so it kept
running stale pre-update code until the user restarted it by hand (#83438).

Extend the systemd unit discovery/restart loop to also match hermes-serve*
units. They don't wire SIGUSR1 to a graceful drain (only gateway/run.py
does), so restart eligibility for the graceful path is now gated on unit
name via a small, directly-tested helper; hermes-serve units fall straight
to the existing blunt systemctl restart path, matching the workaround the
issue already documents.

* fix(update): tighten hermes-serve unit gate, dedupe fleet/cleanup restarts

Review on #83595 flagged two service-lifecycle gaps in the hermes-serve
restart support:

- The unit-name gate accepted anything starting with "hermes-serve",
  which also matched the unrelated hermes-server.service. Require the
  exact base unit or the hyphenated profile family instead.
- The fleet-restart loop and _finish_dashboard_update_cleanup() could
  both restart the same hermes-serve unit — the loop restarts it
  directly, then cleanup's PID scan finds the fresh process and
  restarts its owning unit again. Thread the fleet loop's restarted
  unit names through to _kill_stale_dashboard_processes() so it skips
  units already handled.

* fix(update): tighten gateway-side unit gates to exact/hyphenated shape

Mirror the strict unit-name shape from the hermes-serve gate (review on
PR #83595) on the gateway side too: the discovery gate and the SIGUSR1
eligibility helper now accept only `hermes-gateway.service` or the
`hermes-gateway-<profile>` family, so a near-prefix unit like
`hermes-gatewayd.service` can neither enter the restart path nor be sent
a SIGUSR1 it does not handle.

* fix(desktop): ignore stale remote connection attempts

* chore: map contributor email for xkam7ar

* fix(apps): dial primary sleep/wake reconnect at window backend not active profile

* fix(desktop): scope pluginSocket's connection to the active profile

pluginSocket (hermes.ts) is documented as "the live twin of pluginRest,
scoped the same way", but it calls window.hermesDesktop.getConnection()
with no profile argument, while pluginRest passes the active profile via
profileScoped(). getConnection's IPC handler (ensureBackend in
electron/main.ts) falls back to the primary profile whenever the profile
argument is empty, so an unscoped call always resolves to the primary
profile's backend regardless of which profile is actually active.

For a plugin used from a non-primary profile (e.g. kanban), this means REST
calls go to the correct pooled backend while the plugin's WebSocket silently
connects to the wrong one — a multi-profile user sees one profile's data
with another profile's live events.

Fix (adapted to the post-#87600 registry-agent store shape during salvage):
resolve the plugin socket's connection through the same (connectionId,
profile) source of truth ensureGatewayProfile/ensureGatewayAgent maintain
for $connection — store/gateway's setActive now pushes the active scope's
registry connection id into the hermes module (setApiRequestConnection,
the no-store-import twin of setApiRequestProfile), and pluginSocket
resolves via getConnectionFor for registry-agent scopes and
getConnection(profile) for the local pool. The plugin socket therefore
follows registry-agent activations too, not just profile switches.

voice-playback.ts's resolveSpeakStreamUrl had the same gap originally, but
main has since fixed it independently (via the getApiRequestProfile()
getter rather than direct store access) — dropped from this PR as
redundant, keeping only the still-open pluginSocket gap.

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* fix(image_gen): disable default-on upscaling everywhere — opt-in only

The Aug 8 default-on upscaling policy (66ea4e686) chained the Clarity
Upscaler after every sub-2MP generation. Clarity is an SD1.5 creative
tile-diffusion enhancer (creativity 0.35, "masterpiece" prompt prefix) —
it redraws content, which degraded output on 100% of generations for
models like GPT Image 2 and Ideogram whose value is precise text
rendering, CJK, and photorealistic detail.

Policy now: no model upscales by default, on FAL or Krea. The `upscale`
tool param remains as a per-call opt-in (`upscale: true`); explicit
requests still chain Clarity (FAL) / Krea Enhance as before.

- FAL catalog: all 17 default-on entries flipped to upscale=False
- Krea plugin: medium + medium-turbo per-model defaults flipped off
- Tool schema: upscale param described as opt-in with a fidelity warning
- Tests updated: catalog invariant now pins all-off; default-on cases
  now assert no upscaler call
- Docs (en + zh) updated to the opt-in policy

* fix: make every tool interruptible — sequential executor abandons on user interrupt

The sequential tool path only noticed a user interrupt after the running
tool returned: with the deadline disabled it ran the tool inline (fully
blocking), and with a deadline it waited in 5s slices without ever
checking agent._interrupt_requested. Any tool without cooperative
is_interrupted() polling (image_generate, tts, transcription, skills
sync, ...) held the whole turn hostage — the reported symptom was a
redirect queued ~40s behind a FAL image generation + upscale pass.

Executor backstop (class fix, covers ALL tools):
- _run_sequential_tool_execution_middleware always dispatches on the
  daemon worker (timeout None no longer means inline blocking) and polls
  the interrupt flag every 1s.
- On interrupt: 3s cooperative grace (mirrors the concurrent path), then
  synthesize a cancelled tool result (_ToolCancelledResult), emit the
  terminal post_tool_call with status=cancelled, and abandon the worker.
- _ToolCancelledResult suppresses downstream post-hook double emission
  exactly like _ToolTimeoutResult, so an abandoned worker finishing late
  cannot report success for a cancelled call.
- clarify (interactive, _NEVER_PARALLEL_TOOLS) keeps the inline path —
  it owns its own human wait.

Cooperative layer in the reported offender:
- image_generation_tool: blind handler.get() (generation + Clarity
  upscale) replaced with _wait_fal_result(), which polls is_interrupted()
  in 0.5s slices and raises ImageGenerationInterrupted immediately.
- _upscale_image propagates the interrupt instead of swallowing it into
  the "upscale failed, use original" fallback.

Message alternation is preserved: the cancelled result is a normal tool
result for the call_id. Sabotage-verified: with the old wait loop
restored, the new tests fail (tool blocks full runtime); with the fix
they pass in ~4s.

* feat(computer-use): support Cua Driver 0.20 runtime contracts

* fix(computer-use): reconcile existing cua-driver installs

* fix(computer-use): enforce existing-profile grant, unblock the opt-in

Live-testing the Cua Driver 0.20 convergence on Windows 11 (session 2,
cua-driver 0.20.0) surfaced three defects in the existing-profile browser
path and in install status.

1. The config grant was silently nullified by an approval bypass.

`--yolo` / `-z` map onto a private unrestricted daemon, which answers every
browser_prepare. Because the host delegated the entire existing-profile
decision to the driver, that bypass also nullified
`computer_use.grant_existing_profile: false`: a plain `hermes -z` attached
to the user's real Chrome profile and read live page content over CDP, with
the driver reporting it as "the approved existing Chromium profile". It was
never approved.

An approval bypass is consent to skip prompts, not consent to read an
existing profile's pages, cookies, and storage. CuaTypedBrowserRoute.prepare
now enforces the key itself, regardless of permission mode. bounded stays
exempt - its reviewed capability manifest is the authorization boundary.
The authorization inputs are resolved in the backend from config and the
backend's immutable mode, never from model-supplied kwargs.

2. The grant, once set, still could not be used.

With `grant_existing_profile: true` the runtime is launched
`--grant existing-profile` correctly, but cua_browser_prepare then hit a
runtime approval prompt anyway - re-asking the user to authorize what the
config already authorized, and making the documented opt-in unusable on any
non-interactive run, where the prompt has nobody to answer it and the call
dies on approval timeout. The durable, file-backed grant now stands in for
that prompt. Scope is narrow: only the existing-profile prepare, only when
the grant is present; isolated launches still prompt and any resolution
failure falls closed to prompting.

3. `computer-use status` hid a custom override and spliced its output.

With HERMES_CUA_DRIVER_CMD pointed at cmd.exe, status printed the child's
multi-line banner and prompt inside the one-line version field, never
mentioned the override, and advised `hermes computer-use install` - which
install itself (correctly) refuses to run against an overridden path. It now
names the override and mirrors install's update-or-unset guidance, and
version output is reduced to one bounded line.

Verified on the reported host: `-z` existing-profile attach now refuses and
names the key; `grant: true` no longer prompts (33s vs a 300s approval
timeout); status names the override and prints one line. No change to the
reconciliation path - driver SHA256 unchanged end to end.

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* fix(computer-use): make the typed-browser bind/snapshot split discoverable

`cua_browser_state` has two branches, chosen implicitly: any call carrying
pid or window_id is a *binding* (browser_route.py:252), anything else is a
*snapshot*. A binding clears session state, mints fresh tab_ids, returns
binding metadata with no page content, and sets verification_required.

Nothing in the response says that. A caller that keeps passing pid/window_id
- the natural reading of "bind to this window, then read it" - re-binds
forever: the tab_id it just received is unbound by the next bind, so every
cua_browser_navigate comes back browser_verification_required, and the
refusal ("take a fresh snapshot") points at the same call that just re-bound.
Observed live as 11 consecutive refused navigates before the model gave up
and fell back to foreground SendInput on the address bar.

The same confusion silently swallowed include_screenshot: both calls that
requested one were bindings, which carry no page content, so the flag had
nothing to attach to and was dropped without comment.

A binding response now reports snapshot_required, next_step
(fresh_browser_state, matching the existing token convention) and a hint
naming the exact next call; requesting a screenshot on a binding reports
screenshot_deferred instead of dropping it. The verification refusal now
says to call cua_browser_state WITHOUT pid/window_id and why re-sending them
does not help. The schema documents that include_screenshot applies to
snapshots.

Behavior of the bind and snapshot branches themselves is unchanged - this is
purely about making the split legible to the caller.

Unit-tested. Not verified end to end on the reporting host: the driver
refuses the bind upstream there (`browser_requires_setup: no owned DevTools
endpoint`, and it does not accept a user-launched --remote-debugging-port),
so the typed route never reaches this branch. That attach failure is a
separate cua-driver issue.

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* fix(computer-use): keep a v3 capability manifest on approval-bypassed runs

`--yolo` / `-z` route the session onto a private embedded daemon in
`unrestricted` mode. That daemon was constructed without the configured
capability manifest, and the serve command only attached
`--capability-manifest` when the mode was exactly `bounded`. So the moment a
run was bypassed, the user's declared ceiling was dropped:

    without -z:  --permission-mode bounded --capability-manifest ...
    with -z:     --permission-mode unrestricted --dangerously-bypass-approvals

No manifest, no warning. The most carefully configured run - a reviewed
ceiling, written by hand - became the least constrained one, silently, and
it failed open.

That was never a driver limitation. cua-driver documents the manifest as a
ceiling across modes ("A manifest can narrow a profile but never widen it";
its own authorization table calls it `optional_capability_manifest_ceiling`),
and accepts it alongside `--permission-mode unrestricted`.

The forwarding is version-aware, because the two manifest schemas differ
(cua-driver session_manifest.rs):

* v1/v2 are legacy and must declare `mode: bounded`. Handing one to an
  unrestricted runtime aborts startup with "legacy capability manifest mode
  must be bounded", so a naive forward would turn a working session into a
  hard failure. These are forwarded for bounded only, and a warning names
  the migration when one cannot apply.
* v3 must not declare a mode. It is the mode-independent ceiling, and it now
  rides along with unrestricted.

Unreadable or unparseable manifests are not forwarded outside bounded, on
the same fail-safe reasoning; bounded still forwards unconditionally and
lets the driver be the authority there.

Verified against cua-driver 0.20.0 on Windows. Launch args now carry
`--permission-mode unrestricted --dangerously-bypass-approvals
--capability-manifest <v3> --approve-capability-manifest`, and the ceiling
is enforced in the bypassed run - a tool outside the manifest is refused
("outside the capability manifest for this session ... blocked as a
protected resource") where the same config previously ran unbounded. A
legacy manifest was confirmed to abort driver startup when forwarded, which
is what the version gate prevents.

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* fix(computer-use): warn when an approval bypass widens the driver mode

`--yolo` / `-z` read as "don't prompt me", but they also swap computer_use
onto a private `unrestricted` daemon, dropping the ceilings the configured
mode would have applied. Nothing said so. A script picks up `-z` for quiet
output and loses its limits as a side effect, and the only trace is a driver
process nobody inspects.

The mapping itself stays. It is deliberate, and `unrestricted` is reachable
no other way: it is intentionally not a config value so a stale config line
can never silently bypass approvals (see `_cua_configured_permission_mode`).
Removing the mapping would delete the capability rather than fix it, and
splitting it onto a second CLI flag was declined to avoid growing the
surface.

So the widening is now stated instead: one warning per session naming the
configured mode it left, what stopped applying, and the two ways to keep a
ceiling - drop the bypass flag, or declare a version-3 capability manifest,
which now rides along with unrestricted as of the previous commit.

Once per session, not per dispatch: the resolver runs on every tool call.

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* fix(computer-use): report unusable driver exit status

(cherry picked from commit 8bda6191ca548d65648263dfe30d2d18950a6e60)

* fix(computer-use): preserve missing driver overrides

* fix(computer-use): verify Windows driver repair

* fix(computer-use): align browser guidance and screenshots

* fix(desktop): keep the local pack out of electron-builder's publish path

`hermes desktop` runs `npm run pack` through _npm_lifecycle_env(), which
sets CI=1. electron-builder 26 reads that as an implicit publish request
(`onTagOrDraft`) when --publish is absent, so a local --dir build enters
publish resolution it has no business being in.

Pin `--publish never` on the pack script. This is also what electron-builder
asks for directly -- the implicit CI behavior is removed in v27.

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* fix(desktop): declare the repository so publish resolution can succeed

With a GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN in the environment, electron-builder auto-selects
the github provider and resolves owner/repo from the repository field, falling
back to reading <projectDir>/.git/config. projectDir is apps/desktop, which has
no .git of its own, and app-builder-lib does not walk up to the workspace root
-- so resolution returned null and threw "Cannot detect repository by
.git/config".

On Linux this fires from onAfterPack for a plain `dir` target: the darwin and
Windows branches return early for non-installer targets, Linux has no such
guard. That is why the same build worked elsewhere.

--publish never keeps `pack` from reaching this at all, but `dist:*` and
test-desktop.mjs still resolve publish config on a machine with a token, so
declare the field too.

Tests call the real app-builder-lib resolver rather than asserting on the text
of package.json, so they track electron-builder's behavior instead of our
formatting.

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* fix(computer-use): auto-repair an installed driver that fails the runtime contract

A same-day version-floor bump (0.20 runtime contract) left every install
with an older cua-driver hard-failing on all computer_use calls: the
start() gate fails closed, while the `hermes update` refresh defers to the
driver's own check-update verb — whose ~20h cache routinely answers "no
update available" right after we raise the floor. Hermes knew it required
0.20+ but never acted on that knowledge.

Two changes:

- tools_config.install_cua_driver(): a contract-failed installed driver is
  repaired on the upgrade=True path too (previously only upgrade=False).
  The contract failure itself is the confirmation, so the
  require_confirmed_update gate and the check-update short-circuit are
  bypassed for repairs — an indeterminate or stale-cached check can no
  longer pin users on an unusable driver.

- cua_backend.CuaDriverBackend.start(): when the contract gate fails on an
  installed binary, attempt one automatic repair per process via the
  standard install path, then re-probe. HERMES_CUA_DRIVER_CMD overrides
  are never repaired (explicit override is authoritative even when broken)
  and a missing binary still just reports the install hint. A failing
  installer can't loop: the second start() surfaces the original error.

Tests: contract-repair coverage in test_computer_use.py (auto-repair
success, failed repair surfaces the original error, once-per-process
guard, override never repaired, missing binary never repaired) and
test_install_cua_driver.py (incompatible driver repairs despite an
indeterminate check-update, check-update not consulted). All new tests
verified to fail against the unfixed source (sabotage run).

* docs(computer-use): note driver contract auto-repair at update and runtime

The runtime-contract repair now also runs during hermes update and once
per session at the first computer_use call (PR #87923); the docs only
mentioned setup and toolset enablement.

* feat: raise Codex OAuth context to live-verified 350K for gpt-5.6 family and gpt-5.4

The Codex /models catalog advertises 272K for the gpt-5.6 (sol/terra/luna)
and gpt-5.4 slugs, but the backend actually accepts ~371K input tokens
(verified live against chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, Aug 16 2026:
~371K completed OK on all four slugs; ~382K+ rejected with
context_length_exceeded). 350K keeps ~22K margin under the observed ~372K
enforcement.

The bump applies ONLY when the resolved value is exactly the known-stale
272,000 advertisement — any other advertised value (higher or lower) is
trusted as a real server-side change, so a future catalog correction
deactivates the override automatically. gpt-5.5 and gpt-5.4-mini both
genuinely enforce 272K (rejected 360K live) and are excluded.

* fix(tui): restore Alt+Enter for newlines (#87066)

* fix(tui): restore Alt+Enter for newlines

Restore Alt+Enter support for inserting a new line in the TUI after the behavior was lost during newer input-handling updates.

Legacy terminals encode Alt+Enter as ESC followed by carriage return. Preserve those bytes as a single tokenizer sequence and parse the result as Return with the Meta modifier so TextInput inserts a newline instead of submitting.

Keep plain CR and LF mapped to unmodified Return, and cover the legacy ESC+CR sequence with a regression test.

* fix(tui): scope legacy Alt+Enter tokenization

* feat(desktop): expose connection-aware plugin routing

* fix(desktop): report remote plugin target profiles

* fix(desktop): route plugin profiles through registry

* fix(desktop): harden plugin route lifecycle

* fix(desktop): preserve registry route identity

* chore: add contributor email mapping for addelh

* fix(desktop): scope session/pin lists per connection across windows

Multiple Desktop windows share one renderer origin (one localStorage
area) while each window can be connected to a DIFFERENT gateway. The
sidebar pin set (hermes.desktop.pinnedSessions), the manual session
order, and the remembered last-session/route navigation keys were all
persisted under single global (or profile-only) keys, so two windows on
different gateways read and reconciled the same lists: pin-sync's
pullRemotePins() in one window adopted/dropped pins belonging to the
other window's backend, producing the overlapping mixed PINNED/SESSIONS
lists reported after the v0.19.1 update relaunch.

Introduce a connection-scope persistence layer (connectionScopedAtom in
src/lib/connection-scoped.ts): the local connection keeps the bare
legacy key (byte-identical for single-backend users, same contract as
backendScopeKey), while remote connections persist under
`<key>.remote.<encoded baseUrl>.<encoded profile>` — the shape
workspaceCwdKey already established. setConnection() rescopes every
scoped atom when the window's connection changes (null descriptors keep
the current scope, as with syncCronModelImpactConnection), and pin-sync
resets its mirrored/pending/unconfirmed bookkeeping on rescope so a
reconcile never PATCHes one gateway's pins to another.

Legacy globally-keyed values are deliberately not migrated into remote
scopes: ownership of rows accumulated by every window is unknowable
(the #67709 precedent), and backend-mirrored pins self-heal from the
gateway's own `pinned` rows.

Fixes #77318

* fix(desktop): keep profile rail alive across remote/Cloud connection switches

A connection/mode apply (soft re-home) moves /api/profiles routing to a new
backend, but nothing deterministically re-fetched the rail's $profiles list
and a stale in-flight response from the previous backend could land last and
collapse the rail to Home (#85731).

- store/profile: epoch-guard refreshProfiles/refreshActiveProfile so a
  response fetched against the previous backend never writes the shared cache
  (invalidateProfileListFetches), and bump the epoch on live profile swaps.
- store/gateway-switch: strand in-flight profile-list fetches in the same
  wipe every connection/mode apply funnels through.
- use-gateway-boot: explicitly re-pull the active profile + list from the NEW
  backend during softSwitch, best-effort like its sibling fetches.

Fixes #85731

* fix(desktop): read cron run-history from the owning gateway

When Hermes Desktop works against a REGISTERED gateway connection, cron
jobs execute on that gateway and persist their run sessions in the
gateway's state.db. But every REST call in the app — the cron surface
included — carried only `profile`, so `hermes:api` routed it through the
local profile pool and `_list_cron_job_runs_sync` read a local state.db
with zero `source='cron'` rows. Every job showed "No runs yet" while the
same endpoint on the gateway returned the real runs (#87882).

Fix at the routing seam:

- HermesApiRequest gains an optional `connectionId`. The renderer's cron
  helpers (list/get/runs/delivery-targets/create/update/pause/resume/
  trigger/delete/blueprints) now tag the active registry connection via a
  new connectionScoped() twin of profileScoped(), fed from the same
  setApiRequestConnection seam store/gateway already maintains for the
  plugin socket.
- The hermes:api main-process handler resolves a tagged request through
  ensureRegistryBackend — the SAME pool the job list and WS traffic use —
  instead of the legacy profile route. Shared remote/cloud hosts (one
  gateway, many profiles) get the path scoped with ?profile= via the new
  pathWithProfileScope helper, factored out of pathWithGlobalRemoteProfile.
- '' / 'local' / absent connectionId keep the byte-identical v1 route, so
  single-source and connection-config-remote users are unaffected.

This covers the run-history panel, the sidebar cron peek, and every other
cron surface in one place, since they all funnel through the same helpers.

Fixes #87882

* fmt(js): `npm run fix` on merge (#88014)

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* test(desktop): pin steered-turn transcript order end-to-end

A steered turn's contract — pre-steer output above the correction bubble,
post-steer output and the settled reply below it — was fixed across
several PRs (#73793/#83151 class, settle fixes) but only covered piecewise:
the mid-turn insert as a unit, the settle math as a unit. Nothing drove the
real stream reducer through a whole steered turn, and nothing asserted the
durable-row hydration renders the same order after reload.

Two suites close that:
- steer-arrival-order: full event sequences through useMessageStream's real
  handler + the real optimistic insert — single steer with tool activity,
  steer racing message.complete, double steer in one turn.
- steered-turn-hydration-order: toChatMessages over persisted row shapes
  copied from a real state.db steered turn, including a tool result that
  lands after the correction row.

* test(desktop): harden steer-order suite against fake-timer id collisions

Review follow-ups: steer ids now come from a monotonic counter instead of
Date.now() (frozen under fake timers — two steers without a clock advance
would have collided), and the settle-above assertion documents its
load-bearing sealed-bubble assumption.

* test(desktop): steer suite drives the real redirectPrompt path; hydration fixture carries durable row shape

The live suite previously called appendMidTurnUserMessage directly, leaving
redirectPrompt's appendAfterActiveReply guard — the production decision of
WHERE a correction lands — outside the harness. Both hooks now mount together
sharing one state map, exactly as the desktop wires them, so a regression in
the caller (not just the insert) goes red. Verified by mutation: disabling the
guard fails 2/4.

Also covers the rejected-redirect path: a not_running response discards the
optimistic bubble instead of stranding a correction the model never saw.

The hydration fixture now carries the durable row shape the client actually
receives (row_id, reasoning, provider call_id/response_item_id on tool_calls)
instead of a hand-simplified echo, so the 'mirrors real state.db rows' claim
is honest. The fake-timer steer id counter is gone with the local insert —
ids come from redirectPrompt itself.

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* feat(desktop): bundle Bot Mode (hermes-bots) as a built-in, default-on plugin

Adopts the Hermes-Bot-Mode desktop plugin (NousResearch/Hermes-Bot-Mode)
into apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/, registered by the bundled
vite glob and ON by default. It stays a pure @hermes/plugin-sdk consumer
in plain-ESM plugin.js form; users disable it live in Settings > Plugins.

- contrib/plugins.ts: bundled glob accepts plugin.js entries
- contrib/runtime-loader.ts: a disk/runtime copy of an id that ships
  bundled is skipped (standalone installs predating adoption cannot
  double-register)
- package.json: check:test:plugins runs the plugin's node:test suite in
  CI (138 tests)
- source: Hermes-Bot-Mode @ c19baba, incl. today's #107/#103/#99 merges

* feat(agent): core Bot Mode teammate protocol — stable-tier prompt section

Replaces the plugin-side SOUL.md protocol append: on Bot-Mode-managed
installs (any profile carrying ui_meta['hermes-bots']) the prompt builder
injects the "Messaging other agents" section into every session of every
profile — including headless `hermes -p <bot> chat` sessions a teammate
starts — so bot handoffs work without mutating user-authored SOUL files.

- tools/bot_mode_probe.py: silent-when-unmanaged probe, cached per
  (process, home), keyed off the agent's OWN home (not ambient
  HERMES_HOME); silent when SOUL.md already carries the legacy section
- agent/system_prompt.py + agent_init.py + config_defaults.py: wired as
  agent.bot_mode_protocol (default True), stable tier, byte-stable
  across rebuilds (E2E-verified against the real build_system_prompt)
- tui_gateway profiles.list gains bot_mode_protocol capability flag;
  the bundled plugin gates ALL SOUL protocol writes on it (backfill,
  composeSoul, Edit save) — older gateways keep the SOUL-append path
- overhead: ~916 bytes, only on Bot-Mode installs; zero elsewhere

Supersedes the SOUL backfill half of Hermes-Bot-Mode#99 (credit
@kaduxo — the handle fix, `hermes profile list` correction, and
idempotent-append guards from that PR ship in the bundled plugin).

* fix: track bundled plugin.js sources past the tsc-artifact gitignore

apps/desktop/src/**/*.js is gitignored (stale tsc output shadows .tsx),
which silently dropped the hermes-bots plugin.js from the adoption
commit — tests shipped, source didn't, CI ENOENT'd. Negate the pattern
for src/plugins/*/plugin.js: adopted plain-ESM plugins have no .tsx
sibling, so the shadow hazard cannot apply.

* fix(agent): scope the Bot Mode protocol section to canonical Bot Chat sessions

Per review: the protocol belongs only in official Bot Mode interactions,
not every session on a managed install. The prompt builder now injects
the section only when the agent's session row is titled "Bot Chat"
(BOT_CHAT_TITLE, matching the desktop's createCanonicalChat pin and the
`hermes -p <bot> chat -c "Bot Chat"` resume target). Regular sessions
never carry it; the desktop composer middleware owns @mention sends.

Title is read once at first prompt build and the rendered prompt is
cached + DB-restored — cache-safe. E2E against the real AIAgent +
SessionDB: absent in an untitled session, present in Bot Chat,
byte-stable across rebuilds, absent after retitle, absent with the
flag off. Overhead unchanged (~916B, Bot Chat sessions only).

* fix(hermes-bots): composeSoul honors the bot_mode_protocol capability

Found in live desktop E2E: the generated-identity path of composeSoul
still appended the protocol section even when the backend injects it
into the system prompt. New agents now get a clean identity-only SOUL
against capable backends; older gateways keep the append. Covered in
the capability-suppression test.

* fix(agent): Bot Chat gate reads a session-title hint before the DB

Live desktop E2E caught a write-ordering bug the automated E2E missed:
tui_gateway applies pending_title to state.db AFTER the first turn, but
the system prompt builds at turn START — the DB-title gate saw nothing
and the Bot Chat was cached protocol-less forever. The gateway now
hands the agent its intended title at construction and the gate checks
the hint first, DB second (CLI/messaging-gateway paths unchanged).

Live-verified on the running desktop: fresh bot's Bot Chat persisted
with the protocol section, handle, and roster in its system prompt;
regular sessions and SOUL.md untouched.

* feat(agent): capability-refresh + timeless prompts for eternal Bot Chat sessions

Bot Chats break the "new sessions come often" assumption behind
build-once system prompts: capability edits used to sit invisible until
/new or compression, and the frozen birth date became misinformation.

- tools/bot_mode_probe.py: capability_fingerprint() hashes the profile's
  capability surface (disabled skills, toolset pins, MCP config, SOUL.md,
  installed skills, Bot-Mode roster); Bot Chat prompts embed the 12-hex
  epoch stamp
- agent/conversation_loop.py restore path: stored Bot Chat prompt whose
  epoch mismatches disk → ONE rebuild (through a cleared skills-prompt
  cache so new installs appear), persisted so the next turn reuses the
  new bytes verbatim. Prompts without a stamp — every non-Bot-Chat
  session — never take the branch; probe failure fails closed to reuse
- agent/system_prompt.py: Bot Chat prompts are timeless — the
  "Conversation started:" date is dropped (timezone kept); no ticking
  fields in an eternal session
- tui_gateway: _sync_bot_capabilities at turn start rebuilds the live
  agent (tool definitions are construction-baked) when the fingerprint
  moves, same session id/history, with a user-visible notice

Cache stance: this is the /model exception applied to capabilities — a
loud, user-initiated, once-per-change prefix break. Unchanged state
hashes identically and stored bytes are reused verbatim (E2E-proven).

Validation: 9 probe unit tests incl. per-axis fingerprint changes;
E2E v3 against the real restore path (fresh build → verbatim reuse →
skill install → single refresh w/ new skill in index → verbatim reuse;
regular sessions dated, unstamped, never refreshed); tests/agent/
4647/4647.

* feat(agent): one-time protocol upgrade for legacy Bot Chat sessions

Bot Chats created before the epoch mechanism persisted prompts with no
protocol section and no stamp — the staleness check only fires on
stamped prompts, so pre-existing bots would never learn to message
teammates. stored_bot_chat_prompt_needs_upgrade() migrates them: one
rebuild, title-gated to Bot Chat, only when the probe would actually
emit a section (SOUL-append legacies and unmanaged installs are left
alone — rebuilding those would loop). The rebuilt prompt carries the
stamp, so the upgrade can never re-fire.

E2E v3b through the real restore path: legacy Bot Chat upgraded once
then verbatim-reused; legacy regular sessions byte-untouched.
tests/agent/ 4648/4648.

* fix: capability fingerprint reads config via the canonical loader

The config-read guard (test_config_read_guard) correctly flagged the
probe's raw yaml.safe_load of config.yaml — raw reads miss the managed
overlay, env expansion, and normalization. Use load_config_readonly()
under a scoped HERMES_HOME override instead. E2E v3/v3b and the guard
both green.

* feat: sync bundled Bot Mode with multi-source roster (Hermes-Bot-Mode#68)

Pulls the multi-source roster into the bundled plugin: profiles.list rows
from the active gateway are merged with the host.agents() union roster
(hermes-agent #86875), so the Bots panel shows agents from every registered
Desktop connection with @name-device handles for duplicates. Feature-detected
and best-effort — an older Desktop build or roster failure leaves the
single-source list untouched.

Adapted for the bundle:
- useRoster queryFn combines the bot_mode_protocol capability read (which
  landed after #68 was cut) with the multi-source merge
- multi-source-roster tests updated for the namespace SDK import harness
- soul-protocol-backfill anchor widened for the new botHandle(name, bot)
  signature

Plugin suite: 143/143.

* feat: raise Codex OAuth context to 900K for gpt-5.6 family and gpt-5.4 (subscription 1M rollout)

OpenAI enabled the large-context window for ChatGPT-subscription Codex
accounts (announced by @thsottiaux Aug 16 2026; previously API-key-only).
Live re-probe the same day: 911,276 input tokens completed OK on
gpt-5.6-sol; ~925K+ rejected with context_length_exceeded (1.05M window
minus reserved output headroom). terra, luna, and gpt-5.4 all completed
900,026 tokens OK. The Codex catalog still advertises 272K, so the
stale-advertisement override from #87981 is the right lever — this just
raises its value 350K -> 900K.

gpt-5.5 and gpt-5.4-mini still enforce 272K live (rejected 500K) and
remain excluded. Override semantics unchanged: fires only on an
exactly-272,000 advertisement; any live catalog change is trusted
verbatim.

* fix(desktop): map SSH profile aliases in REST paths

* chore: map contributor email for attribution audit

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* fix(cron): stop retry storms when the gateway is deliberately stopped (OOF-266)

Since the managed-cron redesign (#84339, v2026.8.13) the dashboard fire
webhook forwards fires to the gateway process and returns 503 when it is
unreachable so NAS/QStash retries. Correct for transient windows — but an
operator-STOPPED gateway can never be fixed by retrying: every fire on
every job burns the full scheduler retry budget, NAS converts each 503 to
a retryable 502, and the resulting storms page on-call for a non-incident
(OOF-266 and its five duplicate tickets; +93% relay callback failures as
the fleet adopted v2026.8.13).

Split the unreachable path by durable operator intent:

- desired_state == "stopped" (written only by the s6 lifecycle commands;
  the same intent signal container-boot reconciliation trusts) -> drop
  the fire with 200 + a structured log line, mirroring NAS's own
  instance_stopped drop. Jobs are not lost: the Chronos provider
  reconciles and re-arms every job on the next gateway start.
- Anything else (crash loop, scale-to-zero wake, restart, legacy state
  file without desired_state) -> keep the retryable 503, now stamped
  with Retry-After: 60 so a scheduler that honors it spaces retries
  past the wake/restart window instead of exhausting them inside it.
  The gateway's own pass-through 503s (draining) get the same hint.

The intent check fails open (any parse/resolution error -> retryable
path) and is only consulted when the gateway is actually unreachable, so
a stale state file can never shadow a live gateway.

* feat(state): support the context-manager protocol on SessionDB

A SessionDB handle cannot be released by dropping the last reference.
Once its background token writer starts, the instance pins ITSELF two
ways: the writer thread's target is a bound method, and
queue_token_counts registers atexit.register(_drain_token_queue_at_exit),
which only close() unregisters. A dropped-but-pinned handle keeps its
state.db/-wal/-shm descriptors for the life of the process, and __del__
never runs for it, so the existing safety net is dead code for exactly
the instances that leak.

That is why owning call sites are expected to close explicitly, in those
words, in the ownership comments in run_agent.py and
tui_gateway/methods_session.py. This adds the ergonomic half of that
contract so an owner can scope a handle and be exception-safe by
construction:

    with SessionDB(path) as db:
        db.append_message(...)

Purely additive. __enter__ returns self, __exit__ closes and returns
False so a caller's exception always propagates, and close() is already
idempotent, so a scope that closes early still exits cleanly. Nothing
changes for callers that already close directly.

Four regressions cover the scope closing the handle, __enter__ returning
the instance itself, the failure path closing while still propagating,
and an early close leaving the exit clean. They assert on the
sqlite_safe_read tracking registry rather than raw descriptor counts,
matching test_session_db_read_conn_pool.py, because SQLite's unix VFS
parks a closed descriptor on a per-inode reuse list and makes raw counts
lag the real connection count.

Refs #88033

* fix(state): release abandoned session database handles

* fix(state): avoid overlapping context manager change

* fix(gateway): ignore invalid managed Node directories

Signed-off-by: Shawn Wang <32839114+enwaiax@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(gateway): accept CJK full-width punctuation as MEDIA path terminators

MEDIA_TAG_CLEANUP_RE (and MEDIA_EXTENSIONLESS_TAG_RE) only recognized
ASCII terminators after a MEDIA:<path> tag. Chinese-language agent
output naturally writes MEDIA:D:\...\zhibao.pdf(782.6 KB)or ...pdf:内容 —
the full-width punctuation failed the trailing lookahead and the
attachment was silently dropped (cron even reported 'delivered') (#88038).

Both lookaheads now accept a CJK full-width terminator set (()〈〉《》:,。;
!?、curly quotes【】) alongside the ASCII set. The #68773 adjacent-tag
splitting guard is covered by a regression test.

* fix(skills): rescan skill commands cache when active profile changes

Switching Desktop profiles mid-session changes HERMES_HOME but not the
platform scope, so get_skill_commands() kept serving the previous
profile's skill list. A skill only available under the new profile then
looked like a cache miss to callers such as slash.exec, which fall
through to the slash_worker dead path (#88023).

* fix(gateway): scope slash.exec's skill-command check to the session's profile

Independent review of the prior commit found the cache-invalidation key
alone doesn't fix the reported #88023 dead path: slash.exec runs as a
_LONG_HANDLER on the pool with a copied context, and no binding of
_HERMES_HOME_OVERRIDE happens between the transport read and the handler
body, so get_skill_commands() there always fell back to the process-level
HERMES_HOME regardless of which profile's session issued the request.

Bind the session's own profile_home around the get_skill_commands() check,
mirroring the same bind/reset-in-finally pattern already used at every
other per-turn HERMES_HOME scoping site (e.g. server.py's prompt-turn and
system-prompt-rebuild paths). This makes the #88023 dead path actually
reachable by the fix instead of only exercising the cache primitive in
isolation.

* feat(desktop): add status bar reconnect for offline gateways

Expose the existing profile-aware gateway boot reconnect path through a
single-flight renderer action, and surface a Reconnect button in the
gateway status menu panel whenever the socket is not open. Repeated
clicks share one in-flight reconnect; failures surface through the
existing non-destructive notification UI. Localized copy for all
supported Desktop locales.

Salvaged from PR #80694 (net diff re-applied onto current main; panel
code lives in app/shell/gateway-menu-panel.tsx now).

* fix(desktop): self-heal dropped SSH/HTTP registered remote connections

A dropped registered remote connection (SSH or HTTP) never recovered on
its own: the next boot attempt failed with a transient transport error
("Could not verify the existing SSH backend", ERR_CONNECTION_RESET,
mint timeout), the failure was correctly NOT latched, but nothing ever
re-attempted the boot — the renderer's reconnect machinery only arms
after a completed boot. The app parked on "Desktop boot failed" until
the user manually deleted and re-entered the same connection details,
which merely forced the fresh bootstrap an automatic retry would have
performed (issue 82679, feature ask 80430).

Root causes and fixes:

- electron/backend-start-failure.ts: new isRetryableRemoteBootFailure()
  predicate — a remote, non-reauth boot failure is transient and may be
  retried; local failures and confirmed 401/403 rejections are not
  (a missing capability differs from a transient failure).
- electron/main.ts: the boot-failure progress broadcast now carries
  `retryable` (rides with `error` through updateBootProgress), and a
  failed reuse probe against a cached SSH master tears the stale
  master/tunnel down so the next attempt bootstraps fresh — exactly
  what manual re-entry did.
- use-gateway-boot.ts: bounded self-heal loop for a failed boot whose
  progress is marked retryable — up to 5 re-attempts with the same
  full-jitter backoff as the socket reconnect loop (2s base, 15s cap).
  Exhausted retries end in the real boot-failure recovery overlay,
  never an infinite spinner. Reset on success and on soft switch;
  timer cleared on unmount.
- store/boot.ts: resumeDesktopBootForRetry() re-arms the overlay with a
  retry status while an automatic retry is in flight.

Secondaries already had full-jitter backoff (store/gateway.ts); this
closes the same class for the PRIMARY/registered-connection path.

Tests: predicate matrix (retryable vs reauth-latch mutually exclusive),
plus renderer hook tests proving a transient SSH failure self-heals on
the next attempt, retries are bounded (6 total dials then the recovery
overlay, no further attempts), and non-retryable failures never enter
the loop. Sabotage-verified (disabling either half fails 4 tests).

Fixes #82679
Fixes #80430

* feat(desktop): support remote gateway headers

* feat(desktop): carry remote gateway headers through the connections registry, test probes, and Settings UI

Completes PR #74468 (remote gateway headers for Cloudflare Access, #74466)
against the v2 multi-connection registry that landed after the PR was
authored, and closes the review blockers:

- connection-registry: additive optional `headers` field on remote/cloud
  entries (normalized through the same forbidden-name filter, secret
  envelopes like `token`); inherited on edit, treated as dial material by
  connectionDialFieldsChanged, preserved by normalizeRegistry, and carried
  through migrateV1ToRegistry. v2 registries without the field load
  unchanged — no version bump.
- main.ts registry paths: connectRegistryBackend dials with the entry's
  headers (readiness probe, ticket mint, descriptor REST via
  getJsonForBackend/fetchJsonForBackend, registry ws-url minting with
  rememberRemoteWsHeaders so renderer upgrades get them injected).
- saveRegistryConnection encrypts incoming plaintext header values with the
  same safeStorage/allowPlainText seam as tokens; sanitizeRegistryConnection
  exposes only header NAMES to the renderer — values never cross IPC.
- Connection tests exercise the leg they validate: both
  hermes:connection-config:test and hermes:connections:test now send the
  configured headers on the HTTP status call, the ws-ticket mint, AND the
  live WebSocket probe (probeGatewayWebSocket grew an injectable `headers`
  option passed as the undici WebSocket constructor's second argument).
- Settings → Connections gains an "Extra gateway headers" editor for
  remote/cloud entries (name + secret value rows, stored values shown as
  saved-but-hidden, clearable), with i18n keys (en + zh; other locales fall
  back through defineLocale).

* chore: map contributor email for tigercraft4 (PR #74468 salvage)

* feat(delegation): record model/provider in live-transcript manifest (#telemetry)

* fix(gateway): attribute scoped credential lock conflicts to the owning profile (OOF-3)

Scoped credential locks (Telegram bot token, Discord bot token, etc.) are
machine-global, but the conflict error only reported the holder's PID:

    Telegram bot token already in use (PID 559). Stop the other gateway first.

On multi-profile hosts (e.g. hosted instances running 13 profiles), a bare
PID gives the operator no way to tell WHICH profile owns the credential —
the exact failure mode observed on zerocool-9781, where the 'default'
profile was misconfigured with the same bot token as 'lead-gen-outreach'
and logged an unattributable conflict every ~5 minutes (4,602 rows).

Fix:
- acquire_scoped_lock() now stamps a 'profile' label on lock records,
  inferred from the process HERMES_HOME (<root>/profiles/<name> layouts,
  'default' for the root home). Omitted when not inferable.
- New scoped_lock_owner_label() resolves the owning profile from a lock
  record: prefers the explicit field, falls back to inferring from the
  persisted hermes_home for locks written before the field existed.
  Labels are validated against the profile-id grammar before use (lock
  files are plain JSON on disk and the label flows into log lines and a
  suggested CLI command).
- _acquire_platform_lock() conflict message now names the owning profile
  and gives the correct remedy:

    Telegram bot token already in use by the 'lead-gen-outreach' profile
    gateway (PID 559). Stop that gateway first
    (hermes --profile lead-gen-outreach gateway stop).

  Records with no attribution signal keep the original PID-only wording.

Testing:
- New TestScopedLockOwnerLabel suite covering label inference (named,
  Docker, root/default, unknown layouts), grammar validation, explicit-
  field preference, hermes_home fallback, and legacy/malformed records.
- acquire_scoped_lock tests for profile stamping and omission.
- Adapter-level tests for profile-attributed, legacy-home-inferred, and
  PID-only conflict messages.
- 76/76 targeted gateway tests pass; broad gateway suite failures are
  baseline-identical (verified via git stash comparison). Ruff clean.

* fix(gateway): surface multiplex profile failures (OOF-3)

* fix(status): aggregate independent per-profile gateway failures; harden key filter (OOF-3)

- /api/status now folds LIVE independent per-profile gateways' platform
  failures (gateway_mode == 'multiple', the OOF-3 deployment mode) into
  gateway_platforms under the validated <profile>:<platform> grammar, so
  NAS fleet health sees them without a schema change. ?profile= requests
  stay unmerged (single-profile view).
- Namespaced-key validation no longer fails open: colon-containing keys
  are grammar-checked even when configured-platform loading throws.
- Platform key segment now accepts hyphens, matching plugin platform IDs
  (plugins/platforms/<dir> names, e.g. foo-bar).

* fix(status): freshness-filter aggregated per-profile platform entries (OOF-3)

Gateway startup deliberately preserves plain platform entries in
gateway_state.json across restarts, and the active-profile endpoint
compensates by filtering against current configuration. The cross-profile
aggregation copied raw maps, so a fatal entry for a platform the operator
had since disabled/removed could keep NAS reporting the instance degraded
indefinitely.

The aggregation has no cheap per-profile config context (platform sets
depend on tokens in each profile's .env behind its secret scope), so use
freshness instead: an entry is aggregatable only when its updated_at is
at/after the live gateway process's create time (validated PID via
get_runtime_status_running_pid + psutil create_time; the record's own
start_time field is a PID-reuse fingerprint in clock ticks, not a
timestamp). Config changes require a restart to take effect, so
restart-anchored freshness is exactly the config filter's semantics.
Fail closed: unparseable timestamps or no live process exclude the entry
— a false 'degraded forever' is the worse failure mode.

* fix(status): strict writer-identity ownership for aggregated platform entries (OOF-3)

The freshness window (updated_at >= live process create_time - 2s) had a
P1 boundary hole: a stale failure written by the PREVIOUS process
immediately before a fast restart landed inside the slack and was
aggregated; if that platform was then removed, the new process never
replaces the entry and NAS stays degraded indefinitely.

Replace clock heuristics with persisted writer identity:

- write_runtime_status now stamps every platform entry with the writing
  process's (writer_pid, writer_start_time) — the same PID-reuse
  fingerprint the liveness checks use, so a recycled PID never
  masquerades as the original writer.
- The aggregation ownership filter requires exact equality between an
  entry's stamp and the profile's validated live gateway process
  (get_runtime_status_running_pid + _get_process_start_time). No slack,
  no timestamps. Legacy entries without a stamp fail closed.
- Writer stamps are process recon (same class as the auth-gated
  gateway_pid) and are stripped from all /api/status projections, both
  active-profile and merged cross-profile entries.

Near-boundary regression test: prior-process entry stamped 100ms before
restart is excluded; recycled-pid-different-fingerprint excluded;
legacy no-stamp excluded; current-process entry kept.

* docs(state): soften stale SessionDB self-pin wording after #88063

#88048 documented the token-writer self-pin (bound-method thread target +
strong atexit hook) as a permanent contract: "__del__ never runs for
exactly the instances that leak". #88063 then removed both pins (idle
writer retirement + weakref atexit hook), making abandoned handles
eventually collectible.

Reword the __enter__ docstring and the context-manager test module
docstring to describe the pin as historical motivation, note the #88063
behavior, and keep the guidance that owners close deterministically.
No code changes.

* fix(desktop): keep cloud bot avatar eye catchlights inside the eyes

The white catchlight dots in BotFace were static circles pinned at the
circle-face eye line (cy 16.5), while the animation clock moves the
pupils to the shape-aware eye line (cy 22 for the cloud). On the cloud
avatar the highlights floated above the eyes instead of inside them.

- Tag the catchlights (data-hb-hl-l/r) and move them with the pupils in
  paintMathFace, offset upper-left of each pupil center.
- Render the initial eyes/catchlights/shut-lids at the shape-aware eye
  line so the first frame matches the animated frames.

* fix(desktop): make git worktrees work end-to-end on a remote gateway backend

Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+B worktree flows on a remote gateway route through the
backend's /api/git mirror (hermes_cli/web_git.py), but that mirror had
drifted behind the Electron-local git ops the same UI drives locally, so
the flows broke exactly and only on remote connections:

- Convert-a-branch: the picker offers remote-tracking refs, and the
  Electron op turns "origin/feature" into a local tracking branch. The
  mirror ran `git worktree add <dir> origin/feature` verbatim, which
  either fails or detaches HEAD. It now resolves the ref's remote via
  git (never assuming "origin"), fetches best-effort, and creates the
  worktree with `--track -b <short-name>`.
- branch_list omitted remote-tracking refs entirely and never set the
  `isRemote` flag the renderer's HermesGitBranch contract requires —
  the convert picker on a remote gateway couldn't reach a teammate's
  branch and mislabeled every row's action.
- Branching off an `origin/…` base silently wired the new branch to the
  remote upstream; the mirror now passes `--no-track` like the Electron
  op does.

Renderer side, replace the silent degradation with a capability gate:
when a remote backend predates the /api/git worktree routes, worktree
creation failed with an opaque "Expected JSON … got HTML" toast. The
route-missing shapes now surface a clear "update the Hermes backend"
message (isGitEndpointMissingError, mirroring the sidebar batch-endpoint
detector); real git errors still pass through untouched.

Sibling audit (documented, no code change needed): repo status / review /
file-diff / git-root / default-cwd already route through desktopGit()'s
REST bridge or /api/fs on remote; repo scan is deliberately a no-op there.
Stale comments claiming "empty/false on a remote backend" in projects.ts
and coding-status.ts updated to describe the backend-routed reality.

Fixes #81724

* fix(terminal): avoid FileProvider reads in lifecycle guard

* fix(cron): move cloud-placeholder refusal into _read_referenced_script and cover ~/Library/CloudStorage

Widen #88052 per review:
- The walk-level short-circuit only protected _contains_unsafe_gateway_action;
  the sibling caller _read_script_for_scanning still opened cloud-resident cron
  scripts and could hang preflight. Move the check into _read_referenced_script,
  the shared choke point, so every caller fails closed without opening.
- Generalize _is_apple_file_provider_path -> _is_cloud_placeholder_path: detect
  ~/Library/CloudStorage (Dropbox/OneDrive/Google Drive third-party FileProvider
  domains) alongside iCloud's Library/Mobile Documents.
- Regression tests: CloudStorage lexical path blocked without open; the choke
  point itself refuses cloud paths with os.open forbidden.

* fix(cron): attribute cloud-path refusals to the cloud-synced script, not a lifecycle command

When check_gateway_lifecycle refuses a cron script that lives on a
FileProvider path, the generic error implied the job contained a dangerous
gateway lifecycle command. Surface th…
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