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…search#35729) The all/* wildcard expands to every registered toolset, but a handful of tools have an additional check_fn gate on top of toolset membership and are intentionally NOT turned on by all/* alone: - Capability-gated tools (browser, computer_use, code_execution, Feishu, Home Assistant, cronjob) require their backend/credential prerequisite. - The kanban toolset is workflow-gated and deliberately opt-in. Kanban tools mutate shared board state, so they stay off by default even under all/* — you must list 'kanban' by name (or be a dispatcher-spawned worker with HERMES_KANBAN_TASK set). This was the expectations gap behind NousResearch#35581 — the docs previously said all/* expands to 'every registered toolset' without noting the carve-out. Closes NousResearch#35581.
…ousResearch#35719) SSH sessions hard-failed voice mode on the presence of SSH_* env vars alone, even when a PulseAudio/PipeWire server is running on the host and audio works (ffplay/aplay/pw-play -> pulseaudio). Probe the default sound-server sockets (PULSE_SERVER unix path, PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH/native, $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/{pulse/native,pipewire-0}) and actually connect() so a stale socket doesn't count; downgrade the SSH branch to a notice when audio is reachable. Mirrors the existing Docker/WSL forwarding handling. Fixes NousResearch#35622
…Research#35732) Resize vision tool-result images down to a 4 MB embed cap at load time, not just at the 20 MB hard ceiling. A 5-20 MB image previously sailed through the native fast path and got baked into conversation history, where Anthropic's 5 MB per-image base64 limit rejected every subsequent turn with a 400 — and because history is immutable, retries could never clear it, permanently wedging the session. Also harden the reactive shrink-recovery: it now returns False (don't retry) when any oversized image part can't be brought under target, so the single retry isn't burned re-sending a payload that will fail identically. Previously it returned True after shrinking *any* part, even when the actual oversized culprit survived.
…d providers (NousResearch#35718) DeepSeek / Baidu Qianfan stream tool-call arguments in cumulative mode: each chunk resends the full arguments-so-far instead of the new fragment. The stream accumulator blindly concatenated arg deltas with +=, turning that into '{...}{...}{...}', which failed json.loads and got nuked to '{}' — a silently corrupted tool call (NousResearch#35592). Worse on multi-param tools (search_files, session_search, memory replace) because longer args take more chunks, giving more resend opportunities. - Per-slot cumulative latch in the stream accumulator: a delta that is a strict superset of the accumulated buffer marks the slot cumulative and replaces (not appends); exact duplicates are dropped only after latching. Incremental fragments are untouched (default += path). - Backstop _collapse_repeated_json_arguments() in the repair pipeline collapses pure identical-resend buffers (K exact repeats of a valid-JSON unit) for providers that resend the complete object from chunk 1. Only reached after json.loads already failed, so compliant single objects are never touched. Not a gateway or DeepSeek-model bug — any OpenAI-wire provider in cumulative streaming mode is affected.
…arch#35756) Lower the model_catalog disk-cache TTL from 24h to 1h so freshly published model-catalog.json deploys reach the picker within an hour instead of up to a day. The picker now refetches on the next `hermes model` / `/model` once the cache is older than 1h; younger than 1h still serves the cache (no network hit), and network failures still fall back to the stale copy. - DEFAULT_TTL_HOURS 24 -> 1 (model_catalog.py) - DEFAULT_CONFIG model_catalog.ttl_hours 24 -> 1, _config_version 24 -> 25 - migration v24->25 rewrites a stale ttl_hours:24 to 1, preserving any custom value the user set E2E: verified >1h refetches / <1h skips, and migration rewrites 24->1 while preserving a custom 6.
…ounded growth _message_text_cache was a plain dict with no size limit. Every unique message_id whose text was fetched (for reply-context lookups) stayed in memory permanently, causing unbounded growth in long-running deployments with active group chats. Replace with an OrderedDict and evict the least-recently-used entry whenever the cache exceeds _FEISHU_MESSAGE_TEXT_CACHE_SIZE (512). Cache hits call move_to_end() to refresh LRU order. Mirrors the identical pattern already used by _pending_processing_reactions in the same class.
…ded growth The _guid_cache dict grows without bound as new contacts/groups are resolved. In a long-running gateway instance with many unique targets this becomes a slow memory leak. Replace the plain dict with an OrderedDict capped at 500 entries. When the cap is exceeded the oldest (least-recently-used) entries are evicted.
…nnect poll
PAIN BEFORE:
Inside _handle_auth_error_and_retry() (a sync function that runs on the MCP
event loop thread), there was a blocking polling loop:
while time.monotonic() < deadline:
if srv.session is not None and srv._ready.is_set():
break
time.sleep(0.25) # BLOCKS THE ENTIRE EVENT LOOP
Since _handle_auth_error_and_retry is invoked from tool handlers that run ON
the MCP event loop, time.sleep(0.25) blocked ALL concurrent MCP operations
(including other tools, keepalive heartbeats, OAuth refreshes) for 250ms per
iteration. With a 15-second deadline, worst case = 60 * 250ms = 15 seconds
of fully blocked concurrency.
WHAT WAS FIXED:
Extracted the blocking poll into an async helper _await_ready() that uses
asyncio.sleep(0.25) (non-blocking), and runs it via _run_on_mcp_loop().
_run_on_mcp_loop() properly awaits the coroutine on the event loop without
blocking the caller's thread. Added exception handling around the poll so
stuck reconnects still fall through to the error path.
The sync _handle_auth_error_and_retry now:
1. Fires reconnect signal (threadsafe)
2. Calls _run_on_mcp_loop(_await_ready(), timeout=15) — non-blocking
3. Returns; the event loop handles the polling
File: tools/mcp_tool.py
Lines: _handle_auth_error_and_retry() (~1886-1920)
Found by: exhaustive multi-pass audit (10 strategies, 1901 files, 913K lines)
…her recovery N43 — Silent plugin/bundle errors: - Plugin command dispatch: logger.debug() -> logger.warning() - Bundle dispatch: logger.debug() -> logger.warning() Plugin/auth failures are no longer invisible to operators. N42 — O(n^2) pending_watchers recovery: - Both recovery loops (startup + per-message) used while+pop(0) which is O(n) per pop - Replaced with enumerate() over the list + periodic asyncio.sleep(0) yield points - Clears the list after iteration instead of per-pop - Batch size of 100 balances throughput vs event-loop responsiveness
…align test fixtures + AUTHOR_MAP Self-review follow-up on top of the salvaged perf fixes: - gateway/run.py (both watcher-drain sites): the salvaged O(n^2) fix (NousResearch#32708) replaced `while pending_watchers: pop(0)` with iterate-then- `watchers.clear()`, but `watchers` aliased the registry's live list. A watcher appended by a concurrent session during the `await asyncio.sleep(0)` yield would be cleared without ever being scheduled. Detach the batch atomically (`pending_watchers = []`) before iterating. - gateway/platforms/bluebubbles.py: normalize the salvaged _guid_cache LRU (NousResearch#30523) to match feishu/codebase precedent — module-level `_GUID_CACHE_SIZE` constant, `while len > cap`, and drop the redundant post-insert `move_to_end` (a fresh insert is already most-recent). - gateway/platforms/feishu.py: drop the same redundant post-insert `move_to_end` from the salvaged _message_text_cache LRU (NousResearch#23706). - scripts/release.py: add AUTHOR_MAP entries for the salvaged commits' authors (amathxbt NousResearch#22155, ErnestHysa NousResearch#32636/NousResearch#32708) so the contributor audit passes when these commits land on main. - tests/tools/test_tool_output_limits.py: autouse fixture resets the new module-level limits cache between tests. - tests/gateway/test_feishu.py: hand-built adapter fixture seeded _message_text_cache as a plain dict; it's now an OrderedDict, so the fixture type had to match.
…ch#35710) * feat(kanban): goal_mode cards run workers in a /goal loop A goal_mode card wraps its dispatched worker in the Ralph-style goal loop behind /goal: after each turn an auxiliary judge checks the worker's response against the card title+body, and if not done the worker keeps going in the SAME session until the judge agrees, the worker terminates the task itself, or the turn budget runs out (which blocks the card for human review — never a silent exit). - kanban_db: goal_mode + goal_max_turns columns (additive migration), Task fields, create_task params, INSERT wiring, created-event payload. - kanban_tools: goal_mode/goal_max_turns on the kanban_create tool so orchestrators can opt cards in when fanning out. - kanban CLI: --goal / --goal-max-turns on 'kanban create'. - dashboard API: goal_mode/goal_max_turns on the create endpoint (auto-surfaced back via asdict). - _default_spawn: sets HERMES_KANBAN_GOAL_MODE / _GOAL_MAX_TURNS only when the card opts in. - goals.run_kanban_goal_loop: standalone, callback-injected loop engine (no SessionDB persistence; ephemeral worker). cli.py quiet path calls it after the worker's first turn when the env vars are set. - Docs: orchestrator skill + kanban feature page. Tests: DB roundtrip + legacy migration, spawn env gating, and the loop's continuation/completion/budget-block/finalize-nudge branches. E2E run against a real kanban DB confirms a budget-exhausted goal worker lands in a sticky blocked state. * feat(kanban/dashboard): goal-mode toggle in the create form Wires the goal_mode card setting into the dashboard UI (the plugin's hand-written IIFE bundle, no build step): - InlineCreate: 'goal mode' checkbox after the skills field; checking it reveals an optional 'max turns' number input. Both reset on submit and only post goal_mode/goal_max_turns when enabled. - TaskDrawer: a 'Goal mode: on (max N turns)' MetaRow so a card's goal-mode setting is visible after creation (auto-fed by asdict via the existing _task_dict). Live-tested through the running dashboard with a browser: created a goal-mode card with max-turns=8, confirmed it persisted to the kanban DB (goal_mode=1, goal_max_turns=8) and rendered back in the drawer as 'on (max 8 turns)'. No JS console errors.
The setup wizard's provider/model pickers (curses_radiolist via prompt_choice) bailed to the numbered "Select [1-N]" fallback the moment a user pressed up or down. Root cause: even with keypad(True) — which curses.wrapper sets — many terminals/terminfo entries deliver cursor keys to getch() as raw CSI/SS3 byte sequences (e.g. 27, 91, 66 for arrow-down) rather than the translated curses.KEY_DOWN. The menus matched only curses.KEY_UP/KEY_DOWN and treated the leading 27 (ESC) as cancel, so navigation dropped into the text fallback and the trailing bytes leaked into the next input(). Add a shared read_menu_key() helper that decodes CSI/SS3 escape sequences into normalized NAV_* actions (only a lone ESC, with no continuation byte within a short timeout, still cancels) and consumes the tail of unhandled sequences so stray bytes can't corrupt later input(). Route all three curses menus (checklist, radiolist, single_select) through it. Add regression tests covering raw CSI/SS3 arrows, translated KEY_* constants, vim keys, lone-ESC cancel, and full consumption of unhandled sequences (Delete/Home/End).
…rrow-key-decode fix(cli): decode raw arrow-key escape sequences in curses menus
…o curses The setup provider->model sub-menu (and three sibling pickers) used simple_term_menu.TerminalMenu, whose ESC and arrow-key handling was unreliable across terminals — notably ESC failed to back out of the model selection list on terminals that emit raw escape sequences (e.g. Ghostty). The codebase already notes simple_term_menu 'conflicts with /dev/tty' and causes 'ghost-duplication rendering', and a prior attempt to migrate these (closed PR) confirmed the same root cause. Route all four single-select pickers through the shared, already-hardened curses_radiolist (which decodes raw CSI/SS3 escape sequences and handles ESC consistently, fixed in NousResearch#35776): - auth.py _prompt_model_selection — model picker; the pricing column header and the unavailable-models block are passed as the radiolist description so they survive the curses screen clear. ESC now cancels. - main.py _prompt_reasoning_effort_selection — reasoning-effort picker. - main.py _model_flow_named_custom — named custom-provider model picker. - main.py _remove_custom_provider — provider-removal picker. simple_term_menu is no longer imported anywhere (only stale comments referenced it; one in setup.py is corrected). The numbered-input fallbacks are unchanged and still trigger on curses errors / non-TTY. Tests: updated test_terminal_menu_fallbacks / test_reasoning_effort_menu / test_custom_provider_model_switch / test_model_provider_persistence to drive the fallback via curses_radiolist errors instead of breaking simple_term_menu. New test_setup_menu_curses_migration.py asserts each picker routes through curses_radiolist, ESC cancels, and the pricing header is preserved. Net -147/+183 (mostly the new test file; production code shrinks by removing TerminalMenu boilerplate).
The three curses menus (curses_checklist / curses_radiolist / curses_single_select) each hand-rolled an identical event loop: cursor hide + color-pair init, the per-frame clear/getmaxyx/refresh cycle, scroll-offset math, row iteration, the read_menu_key dispatch with NAV_UP/NAV_DOWN cursor wrap, flush_stdin, and the KeyboardInterrupt/curses-unavailable fallback. Terminal-behavior changes (e.g. Ghostty raw-escape handling, scroll tweaks, a new key) had to be made in three places. Extract that boilerplate into one _run_curses_menu driver. Each public menu now supplies small callbacks for the parts that genuinely differ: draw_header (returns the item-list start row), draw_row (checkbox vs radio vs bare prefix), an on_action reducer (toggle-set vs return-cursor vs return-None + the single_select cancel-row guard), an optional draw_footer (the checklist status bar), reserve_bottom, and the numbered fallback. Behavior is passed as functions; the loop is the only stateful piece — so future terminal/Ghostty work is a one-place edit. Duplicated event-loop primitives drop 3 -> 1 (stdscr.clear, read_menu_key dispatch, scroll math). Verified byte-identical: a render harness records every addnstr(y, x, clamped-text, attr) call across frames plus the return value for 6 cases (checklist, checklist+status, radiolist, radiolist+description, single_select, single_select ESC-cancel); output diffs clean against origin/main. Non-TTY returns the cancel value directly (not the input()-based numbered fallback), matching the old per-menu guard. 150 menu/setup/browse/plugins tests pass.
…ousResearch#35792) * feat(tools): always show Nous Tool Gateway backends, login on select The Nous-managed Tool Gateway rows in `hermes tools` (Firecrawl, OpenAI TTS, Browser Use, FAL image/video) were hidden unless the user was already logged into Nous Portal with paid access. Now they are always listed. Selecting one runs an inline Nous Portal device-code OAuth + entitlement check — auth only, no inference-provider switch and no bulk 'enable all tools' prompt (that stays in `hermes model`). The row only activates the gateway once paid access is confirmed. - _visible_providers: stop hiding managed_nous_feature rows (incl. those also flagged requires_nous_auth); pure pre-auth UX rows still gate on login - nous_subscription.ensure_nous_portal_access(): auth + entitlement gate that preserves the user's active inference provider - _configure_provider / _reconfigure_provider: run the inline gate for managed backends; write config only when entitled - picker marker: 'via Nous Portal (login on select)' for logged-out users - _hidden_nous_gateway_message: now a no-op (rows are never hidden) * docs: hermes tools is a first-class Tool Gateway entry point The Tool Gateway docs framed `hermes setup --portal` / `hermes model` as the activation path and only mentioned `hermes tools` for mixing in your own keys. With the inline-login change, picking a Nous-managed backend in `hermes tools` is a complete path on its own — it logs you into Nous Portal on select if needed, without switching your inference provider or prompting to enable every other tool. - tool-gateway.md: Get started now lists three peer entry points; new paragraph explaining login-on-select and the no-prompt fast path when OAuth is already active - nous-portal.md + run-hermes-with-nous-portal.md: note that managed rows appear logged-out and trigger inline login on select
…search#35858) The status bar read context_compressor.last_prompt_tokens directly with an 'or 0' guard that only catches 0/None. Right after a compression the compressor parks last_prompt_tokens at the -1 sentinel (awaiting_real_usage_after_compression) until the next API call reports real usage. -1 is truthy, so it sailed through and rendered as '-1/200K' and '-1%' for that one transitional turn. Clamp negative token/context-length values to 0 in the status-bar snapshot so the gap reads as empty context until real usage arrives.
…ng path (NousResearch#35718) (NousResearch#35860) PR NousResearch#35718 added a per-slot "cumulative-resend" latch to the universal streaming tool-call accumulator to fix DeepSeek / Baidu Qianfan (NousResearch#35592). The latch fires when a delta is a strict superset of the accumulated buffer (len(_new) > len(_prev) and _new.startswith(_prev)) and then REPLACES the buffer instead of appending. That superset test is not an unambiguous cumulative signature. A normal incremental stream can emit a single fragment that restates an already- accumulated prefix — trivially common in large code-patch arguments with repeated lines / indentation — which trips the latch and clobbers the accumulated buffer, corrupting the tool call. Observed in the wild on Anthropic Opus (the primary model) building a large patch: corrupted / short arguments → finish_reason='length' dead-end → session killed. A guessing heuristic that can silently clobber a tool-call buffer has no place on the path every provider and model shares. Reverting restores the known-good plain `+=` accumulator. The NousResearch#35592 narrow provider bug should be re-addressed provider-gated so it is structurally impossible to touch Anthropic / OpenAI incremental streams, rather than via a heuristic on the shared path. Reverts ca03486.
…tes the latest turn
Extended-thinking Claude models (4.6+, e.g. Opus 4.8) emit a signed `thinking`
block on assistant turns that also carry parallel `tool_use` blocks. Anthropic
signs that block against the full, original turn content.
When a parallel tool batch is interrupted before every `tool_result` returns,
`_strip_orphaned_tool_blocks` removes the unanswered `tool_use` on replay — which
mutates the turn. The latest-assistant branch of `_manage_thinking_signatures`
then replays the now-stale signed thinking block verbatim, and Anthropic rejects
the request with a non-retryable HTTP 400:
messages.N.content.M: `thinking` or `redacted_thinking` blocks in the latest
assistant message cannot be modified. These blocks must remain as they were
in the original response.
Because the poisoned turn is rebuilt from the persisted store every turn, the
gateway crash-loops with no self-recovery (a soft session reset does not clear
it). The drifting content index in the error is the changing count of stripped
`tool_use` blocks across rebuilds.
Fix: when orphan-stripping removes a `tool_use` from a turn that also holds a
thinking/redacted_thinking block, flag the turn. `_manage_thinking_signatures`
then demotes every thinking block on that latest turn to a plain text block
(preserving the reasoning text) instead of replaying a signature that can no
longer validate. An intact turn is unaffected — its signed thinking is still
replayed verbatim. The internal flag is stripped before the payload is sent.
Adds two regression tests:
- demotion when an orphaned parallel tool_use is stripped
- control: signed thinking preserved verbatim when nothing is stripped
… lifecycle breadcrumbs) (NousResearch#35893) * fix(tui): persist gateway lifecycle breadcrumbs to crash log A backend SIGTERM (`=== SIGTERM received ===` in tui_gateway_crash.log) is always a parent action — `gw.kill()` (graceful-exit on a signal to Node, or an explicit /quit) or `start()` replacing a live child. NousResearch#31051 added parent-side lifecycle breadcrumbs but left them in an in-memory CircularBuffer that dies with the process, so SIGTERM crash reports arrive with no parent context and no way to tell a signal-driven kill from a memory-critical `process.exit(137)` (which closes the child's stdin → clean EOF, not SIGTERM). Persist the death-explaining breadcrumbs (spawn / transport-exit / child-exit / replace-live-child / kill-reason / startup-timeout) plus the graceful-exit signal name and the memory-critical exit into the same crash log the Python side writes, so they interleave by timestamp next to the child's panic entry — making these recurring reports diagnosable. Gated off under VITEST so unit tests stay hermetic. * feat(tui): auto-recover the session when the gateway dies unexpectedly When a still-owned gateway child dies while the TUI is alive (a crash, OOM process.exit, or a SIGTERM/SIGHUP forwarded to it), the app currently nulls the session and drops to an inert "gateway exited" state — the user loses a long session and has to restart + re-run everything. That single behavior is most of the "TUI doesn't survive heavy work" complaint, independent of what does the killing. The 'exit' event only reaches this handler on an *unexpected* death: a user /quit calls process.exit before it fires, and a replaced child is identity- skipped in GatewayClient. So on exit we now respawn the gateway and resume the session that was live (history is persisted in SQLite) via a one-shot recoverSidRef the next gateway.ready consults before forging a new session. The in-flight reply is lost (it died with the process) but the session survives. Bounded to GATEWAY_RECOVERY_LIMIT (3) attempts per GATEWAY_RECOVERY_WINDOW_MS (60s) so a gateway that crash-loops on startup can't spawn-storm; past the budget we fall back to the inert state. * fix(tui): sanitize newlines + soften SIGTERM-cause claim in parentLog Address PR review: - recordParentLifecycle collapses embedded \r\n so a multi-line value (e.g. an error message) stays a single breadcrumb and can't masquerade as a separate entry or as the child's panic output sharing the crash log. - Reword the header: a backend SIGTERM is *usually* a parent action but can come straight from an external supervisor (s6, cgroup OOM, stray kill); the presence/absence of a [tui-parent] line before the child's panic is precisely what disambiguates the two. * fix(tui): clear sid during recovery + extract/test the recovery budget Address PR review: - Null `sid` immediately in the gateway exit handler. While the gateway is down (busy=false) the old sid would otherwise let sid-guarded effects (the 1.5s session.active_list poll, queue drain) fire RPCs at a dead/respawning gateway. recoverSidRef carries the session forward; resumeById restores sid on ready. - Extract the respawn budget into a pure evalRecovery() (gatewayRecovery.ts) and unit-test the bound: allows GATEWAY_RECOVERY_LIMIT within the window, blocks past it, and prunes attempts older than the window so recovery re-arms. * fix(tui): cap parent-log breadcrumb length (PR review) Truncate a single persisted breadcrumb to 4096 chars (matching GatewayClient's in-memory log-line cap) so a pathological value — e.g. a giant error string — can't bloat the shared crash log or add noticeable blocking on the synchronous append during a failure path. Covered by a test. * fix(tui): keep "recovering session…" status visible during resume (PR review) resumeById() synchronously sets status to 'resuming…' on entry, so the recovery branch now applies its 'recovering session…' label *after* calling resumeById — the distinct label sticks for the duration of the resume RPC (which later flips to 'ready') instead of being immediately clobbered. Test updated to assert the ordering. * fix(tui): keep recovery budget alive across a startup crash-loop (PR review) deadSid was read from getUiState().sid, which the first exit nulls — so if the respawned gateway crash-looped before gateway.ready (resumeById never restored sid), later exits saw null and abandoned the session after a single attempt, defeating the bounded retry budget. Lift the whole decision into a pure planGatewayRecovery() that falls back to the pending recoverSidRef target when the live sid is already cleared, and unit-test the crash-loop sequence (keeps retrying the same session up to the limit, then falls back to inert). Supersedes evalRecovery. * chore(tui): drop non-null assertion + clarify breadcrumb cap comment (PR review) - Recovery branch guards on `recoverSidRef && recoverSid` so the ref write needs no `!` assertion (avoids a future unsafe refactor). - Reword the parentLog cap comment: it slices the value to 4096 chars and appends a short truncation marker (so the written line is slightly longer), rather than implying a strict 4096-byte limit. * chore(tui): soften "absence ⇒ external signal" + "any in-flight reply" (PR review) - parentLog header: a missing [tui-parent] line only *suggests* an external signal (the logger is best-effort: VITEST-disabled, failed append swallowed), not a definitive conclusion. - Recovery notice says "any in-flight reply was lost" since the gateway can also exit while idle.
…p defaults (NousResearch#35723) * feat(setup): Quick Setup routes through Nous Portal (OAuth + model + messaging) First-time quick setup now goes straight to the Nous Portal provider instead of showing the full provider picker. Runs the device-code OAuth login, selects a Nous model, configures the terminal backend, and offers messaging setup — applying recommended defaults for everything else. - Rename menu entry to 'Quick Setup (Nous Portal)'. - _run_first_time_quick_setup now calls _model_flow_nous (handles both the logged-out OAuth+model-select path and the logged-in curated picker), then re-syncs config from disk to avoid the NousResearch#4172 stale-overwrite. - Terminal / defaults / messaging steps unchanged. * feat(setup): thin out Full Setup with happy defaults Full Setup no longer asks for every config knob — anything with an obvious default is applied silently and stays tunable via the per-section commands (hermes setup agent|terminal|tts, hermes auth add). - Model section: drop the same-provider rotation pool, vision-backend picker, and TTS provider sub-flows. Vision auto-detects from the main provider; TTS defaults to Edge; rotation lives in hermes auth add. - Terminal section: keep the backend picker (Local default) and any required credentials (Modal token, SSH host/user/key, Daytona key), but stop prompting for container image, CPU/mem/disk resources, gateway cwd, and sudo password — all use defaults. - Agent Settings: removed from the wizard. First installs get recommended defaults silently; existing installs keep their tuned values. - New defaults: max_turns 90 -> 150, session_reset both -> none. - Tests: reconfigure tests assert agent settings are no longer prompted on existing installs; drop 3 tests covering the deleted in-setup rotation flow.
…r-user thread (NousResearch#35959) In a per-user thread (thread_sessions_per_user=True), each participant gets an isolated session key (...:{thread_id}:{user_id}). A run another user started lives under a different key, so the caller's own /stop found nothing and replied 'no active task to stop'. When /stop finds no run under the caller's own key, fall back to interrupting any running agent(s) sharing the caller's thread prefix ({chat_id}:{thread_id}), gated on _is_user_authorized. Thread-only — the fallback returns [] for non-thread channels, and a prefix-collision guard prevents thr1 from matching thr11.
…update_cwd authoritative terminal_tool re-sent the init-time/config cwd on every command, clobbering session-local `cd` state: the environment tracked the new directory in `env.cwd`, but foreground/background calls forced the old cwd back. A small `_resolve_command_cwd` resolver now applies the precedence `workdir > live env.cwd > config/override cwd` to: - foreground `env.execute(...)` - background `process_registry.spawn_local(...)` - background `process_registry.spawn_via_env(...)` Additionally, syncing the cwd onto the live cached env when a `cwd` override is (re-)registered. Preferring live `env.cwd` would otherwise demote the ACP `update_cwd` override (registered via `register_task_env_overrides` on `session/load` / `session/resume`) below an already-set `env.cwd`, silently ignoring an editor's mid-session project-root change once any command had run. `register_task_env_overrides` now pushes a new cwd onto the cached env so an explicit ACP cwd change wins, while ordinary in-session `cd` tracking is preserved. Regression coverage: - foreground/background commands follow live `env.cwd` - explicit `workdir` still overrides everything - registering a cwd override updates the live env cwd (ACP authority) - no-op when no live env exists; non-cwd overrides leave env.cwd untouched Based on NousResearch#35510 by @Dusk1e. Co-authored-by: Dusk1e <yusufalweshdemir@gmail.com>
Background tasks on non-local backends (SSH/Docker/Modal/Daytona/Singularity)
go through `ProcessRegistry.spawn_via_env`, which builds a hand-crafted,
shell-safe wrapper:
mkdir -p T && ( nohup bash -lc CMD > LOG 2>&1; rc=$?; ... ) & echo $! > PID && cat PID
`BaseEnvironment.execute()` unconditionally ran `_rewrite_compound_background`
on every command, including this wrapper. The rewrite (meant to defuse the
`A && B &` subshell-wait trap for user commands) turns `( ... ) & echo $!` into
`{ ( ... ) & } echo $!` — note `} echo` with no separator, which is a bash
syntax error. The wrapper then never produces a PID, the redirected output file
is never created, and the agent sees an immediate exit code -1. This breaks
*every* background launch on a non-local backend (e.g. a simple
count-and-redirect script over SSH), not just edge cases.
Fix:
- Add `rewrite_compound_background: bool = True` to `BaseEnvironment.execute()`
(and the `BaseModalExecutionEnvironment` override, which accepts and ignores
it). Default preserves existing behavior; the user foreground terminal path
still rewrites.
- `spawn_via_env` passes `rewrite_compound_background=False` so its already
shell-safe wrapper is left intact.
- Treat a wrapper that produces no PID as a failed launch (mark the session
exited with a real exit code instead of exposing a fake running session), and
don't register/checkpoint a session that never started.
Verified empirically: with the rewrite skipped, the wrapper is valid bash,
launches the process, captures the PID, and writes the log/pid/exit files; the
old rewritten form fails `bash -n` with a syntax error.
Based on NousResearch#33756 by @charzhou (extracted from a multi-feature branch; the
unrelated image_gen / docker-media changes are not included here).
Co-authored-by: CharZhou <17255546+CharZhou@users.noreply.github.com>
…-cwd-acp-aware fix(tools): preserve live session cwd in terminal_tool, keep ACP update_cwd authoritative
…a-env-bg-wrapper fix(tools): don't compound-rewrite spawn_via_env background wrappers
Follow-up to the synthetic-notification DM-topic routing fix. The new _is_telegram_dm_topic_target probed the adapter's _get_dm_topic_info via instance-level getattr, which a MagicMock auto-creates as a truthy callable — so any test double with a non-dm chat_type and a thread_id would be misclassified as a DM topic lane and have the fallback routing keys injected. Resolve the method on type(adapter) and treat only dict-shaped returns as an operator-declared topic, mirroring the existing guard in _rename_telegram_topic_for_session_title. Update the home-channel startup test to declare _get_dm_topic_info on a real adapter subclass instead of patching a MagicMock onto the instance.
Update the tui_desc text shown for each provider in the interactive `hermes model` / setup wizard / `/model` pickers. Pure copy refresh — slugs, labels, PROVIDER_GROUPS folding, and all typed paths are unchanged, so the 7 grouped families (OpenAI, xAI Grok, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, Kimi / Moonshot, MiniMax, OpenCode) still fold identically. Also aligns the auto-injected alibaba-coding-plan provider description to the same parenthetical style.
The 7 consolidated provider families (OpenAI, xAI Grok, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, Kimi / Moonshot, MiniMax, OpenCode) collapse to one top-level picker row. Previously that row showed only the bare group label (e.g. `OpenAI ▸`); now it carries a short blurb describing the endpoints folded inside (e.g. `OpenAI ▸ (Codex CLI or direct OpenAI API)`). - models.py: extend PROVIDER_GROUPS tuples to (label, description, members); group_providers() emits the description on group rows. - main.py: CLI picker renders `<label> ▸ (<description>)` for group rows. - telegram.py: update the group tuple unpack (button text keeps the member count, which fits inline keyboards better than a long blurb). - tests: assert every group has a non-empty description and the fold emits it. Member-specific detail still lives in each member's tui_desc and shows in the drill-down sub-picker. Slug identity, --provider, /model paths unchanged.
For grouped provider families, the descriptive text now lives only on the collapsed top-level group row. The member sub-picker rows show just the short provider label (no parenthetical tui_desc), so the description is not duplicated one layer down. Ungrouped providers are unaffected — they have no group layer, so their own row keeps its full tui_desc. - main.py: member sub-picker uses provider_labels (label) instead of canonical_descs (tui_desc). - Telegram already showed labels + model count on member buttons; group buttons keep Label ▸ (count) since inline keyboards can't fit a long blurb. Member labels retain their short disambiguators (e.g. 'MiniMax (OAuth)') so the sub-picker rows stay distinguishable.
…h#36093) Native Windows is out of beta. Removes the early-beta warnings, headings, and rough-edge framing across the README and docs (EN + zh-Hans), keeping the WSL2-only dashboard PTY caveat. Historical RELEASE_v0.14.0.md notes are left intact since they accurately describe the state at that release. - README: Windows install + cross-platform notes - index.mdx, installation.md: headings, warning admonitions, parity note - windows-native.md: title/sidebar_label/warning, provider-hunting tip - contributing.md, nous-portal.md: cross-platform / Portal parity prose - Repoint cross-links to the renamed installation#windows-native-powershell anchor (EN) and #windows原生powershell (zh, also fixes pre-existing drift)
* feat: better composer etc
* docs: add desktop and dashboard run instructions
* fix(desktop): address security scan findings
* fix(dashboard): resolve @nous-research/ui path under npm workspaces
The sync-assets prebuild step shelled out to 'cp -r
node_modules/@nous-research/ui/dist/fonts ...' with a path relative
to apps/dashboard/. That works only when the dep is installed
locally in the dashboard workspace, but 'npm install' at the repo
root (the documented setup — see apps/desktop/README.md) hoists
shared deps to the root node_modules under npm workspaces. The
relative cp then fails with 'No such file or directory', sync-assets
exits 1, the Vite build aborts, and 'hermes dashboard' surfaces a
generic 'Web UI build failed' message.
Replace the shell one-liner with scripts/sync-assets.cjs, which
walks up from the dashboard directory looking for node_modules/
@nous-research/ui — working in both the hoisted (workspaces) and
co-located (standalone) layouts. Also guards against a missing
dist/fonts or dist/assets with a clearer error pointing at a
rebuild of the UI package rather than silently copying nothing.
* feat(desktop): support connecting to a remote Hermes backend
Add HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_URL and HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_TOKEN env
vars that, when set, short-circuit the local-child spawn in
startHermes() and connect the Electron renderer to an already-
running 'hermes dashboard' server reachable over the network.
Motivating use case: WSL2 users who want to run the Hermes core
(agent loop, tools, filesystem access) inside their WSL
distribution while rendering the Electron GUI on native Windows.
Before this change, the desktop app always spawned a local Python
child on the same host as the renderer, which doesn't cross the
WSL/Windows boundary.
The remote path reuses waitForHermes() as a liveness probe
(/api/status is in the backend's public endpoint allowlist), so
the connection is only returned once the backend is actually
ready. WebSocket URL derivation picks ws:// or wss:// based on
the input scheme. URL validation rejects non-http(s) schemes and
requires both env vars together to avoid a half-configured
connection that would silently fall through to the spawn path.
No behaviour change when the env vars are unset — the default
local-spawn flow is untouched.
Typical usage:
# in WSL2
hermes dashboard --tui --no-open --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9119 --insecure
# on Windows
set HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_URL=http://localhost:9119
set HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_TOKEN=<session token>
set HERMES_DESKTOP_IGNORE_EXISTING=1
(launch Hermes desktop)
* ci(desktop): automate desktop releases
Add GitHub Actions release channels for signed desktop installers and document the stable/nightly download paths.
* feat: file tabs
* refactor(desktop): tighten right-rail tab close API
Promote closeRightRailTab/closeActiveRightRailTab as the single
public entry point. Drops the activeTabRef + handleCloseDocument
indirection in ChatPreviewRail, the unused $rightRailHasContent
atom, and the legacy dismissFilePreviewTarget alias. -70 LOC.
* feat(desktop): polish composer pill toward reference look
Solid foreground-on-background send/voice-conversation circle (black-on-white
in light, white-on-black in dark) anchors the right edge as the primary CTA
instead of the orange theme primary. Bumps the primary control to 2.125rem so
it visually outranks the ghost mic/plus controls. Opens up the surface padding
(0.625rem x / 0.5rem y) so the input row breathes around its controls, and
nudges the corner radius from 20 to 24px for a slightly pill-ier silhouette.
LiquidGlass distortion is preserved.
* feat(desktop): add startup and onboarding flow
Add phase-based desktop boot progress, fresh-install sandbox testing, and first-run provider credential onboarding so packaged installs can start cleanly without manual settings detours.
* fix(desktop): gate prompts on provider setup
Show the desktop provider onboarding flow before prompt submission when no inference provider is configured, preventing fresh installs from falling through to backend credential errors.
* fix(desktop): surface provider onboarding from session warnings
Propagate credential warnings through session runtime info and open desktop onboarding whenever a session reports no usable provider, so unconfigured installs cannot fall through to prompt errors.
* fix(desktop): route gateway provider errors to onboarding
The "No inference provider configured" auth error reaches the renderer through gateway error events, not the prompt.submit promise; the previous patch only caught the latter, so the error toast still surfaced and onboarding never opened.
Also strip credential-shaped env vars from the test:desktop:fresh sandbox so the packaged backend can't see provider keys leaking from the launching shell.
* fix(desktop): use strict runtime check to drive onboarding
setup.status returned True whenever any provider auth state was discoverable, including indirect fallbacks like a gh-CLI Copilot token. That made desktop think the user was set up while the agent's actual resolve_runtime_provider call still raised AuthError, leaving the user with a useless toast and no onboarding.
Add a setup.runtime_check gateway method that runs the same resolver the agent uses on session creation, and switch the desktop onboarding overlay and prompt precheck to use it.
* feat(desktop): OAuth-first onboarding using existing dashboard provider API
Replace the engineer-flavored API key form with a Sign-in-first onboarding overlay that uses the dashboard's existing /api/providers/oauth catalog and PKCE/device-code endpoints (Anthropic, Nous, OpenAI Codex, etc.). API key entry is now a fallback tab with friendly provider names instead of env var prefixes, and the loud raw resolver error is gone in favor of a one-line welcome message.
* fix(desktop): polish onboarding provider list
Reorder OAuth providers so Nous Portal is first, give the segmented Sign in / API key control equal column widths, and replace the engineer-flavored backend names like "Anthropic (Claude API)" / "MiniMax (OAuth)" with friendlier in-app titles. External-CLI providers now show a softer subtitle and an external-link icon instead of a chevron.
* refactor(desktop): split onboarding overlay into store + view
Move the OAuth state machine, runtime check, copy-to-clipboard, and api-key save into store/onboarding.ts (matching the boot.ts pattern), leaving the overlay as a presentation layer that subscribes via useStore. Tabs are now table-driven, child panels read flow from the store instead of prop-drilling, and the polling/PKCE/error/success branches share a small Status atom.
* fix(desktop): external CLI providers + center mode tabs
External-CLI providers (Claude Code, Qwen Code) now open an in-overlay panel with the CLI command, copy button, and an "I've signed in" recheck instead of firing an invisible toast. Center the Sign in / API key tab control so it sits under the heading instead of hugging the left edge.
* fix(desktop): drop onboarding tabs for an inline link, group device-code waiting state
Replace the Sign in / API key tab pair with an "I have an API key" footer link under the OAuth provider list, with a "Back to sign in" affordance inside the API key form. Group the device-code "Waiting for you to authorize..." status next to the Cancel button so the alignment matches the action.
* refactor(desktop): tighten onboarding store + overlay
Drop the dead isOnboardingBusy/BUSY set, factor the catch-fallback dance into safeReq, and share a single reloadAndConnect helper between PKCE submit, device-code success, external recheck, and api-key save.
In the overlay, extract Step / CodeBlock / FlowFooter / CancelBtn / DocsLink atoms so the four sign-in panels share the same chrome instead of repeating it inline. Net effect: fewer literal divs, one place to touch the spacing, and the code-block + footer rows are reusable across future flows.
* fix(desktop): mount onboarding from frame 1 to kill the FOUT
Default onboarding.configured to null (unknown until the runtime check resolves) and have the onboarding overlay render whenever it's not yet confirmed true. The boot overlay now yields to it, so the very first paint is the Welcome card with a "While we get you set up..." progress strip instead of a flash of the chat shell between boot dismiss and onboarding mount.
The picker swaps in cleanly once the gateway opens and the runtime check confirms the user is not configured. Already-configured users see the same prep card briefly while their existing runtime warms up, then the overlay dismisses without touching the chat shell.
* fix(desktop): top-align empty sessions placeholder
The "Start a chat to build your history." empty state used a min-h-35 grid place-items-center container, which floated the text in a tall dead zone. Render it as a flat paragraph that sits right under the section header like the empty pinned state does.
* refactor(desktop): drop dead boot overlay
Onboarding overlay subsumes the boot card now that it mounts from frame 1 and renders boot progress inline. The standalone DesktopBootOverlay is unreachable in every flow (yields whenever onboarding has not confirmed configured, dismisses once it has).
* fix(desktop): hide pinned/recents sections until first session
A fresh sidebar showed the Pinned and Recent chats headers with floating empty-state copy underneath. Drop both sections (and the now-orphan SidebarEmptySessionState) when there are no sessions yet — they reappear after the first chat. Skeletons during initial load are unchanged.
* feat(gui): route embedded TUI through dashboard gateway (#21979)
Inject HERMES_TUI_GATEWAY_URL into dashboard PTY sessions so embedded ui-tui instances attach to the in-process websocket gateway, with coverage for the new env wiring.
* Add desktop remote gateway settings
Make the desktop gateway connection configurable from settings so local remains the default while remote backends can be saved, tested, and applied without environment variables.
* feat(gui): first-class Messaging page + gateway menu redesign
- Add Messaging page to the desktop app with per-platform setup,
status, and inline guidance. Catalog derives from gateway.config
Platform enum + plugin registry, so every messaging adapter the CLI
supports (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Matrix, WhatsApp,
Signal, BlueBubbles, Home Assistant, Email, SMS, DingTalk, Feishu,
WeCom, Weixin, QQ, Yuanbao, API server, Webhooks, plugins) shows up
without per-platform code.
- New REST endpoints: GET /api/messaging/platforms, PUT and POST
/test on the same path. Secrets go through the existing .env
pipeline; enable/disable writes config.yaml.
- Replace gateway statusbar dropdown with a richer panel: status row,
icon-only restart + system-panel actions, recent activity (with
timestamps trimmed in display, full text on hover), platform list.
- Auto-poll the messaging page every 6s (paused when hidden) so
status updates without a manual check.
- Drop Settings / Command Center from the sidebar nav (still
reachable via shortcuts and the titlebar cog).
- Flatten top corners on Messaging/Skills/Artifacts/Chat panes.
- Share new StatusDot component across messaging + gateway menu.
- Fix gateway/config.py so an explicit platforms.<name>.enabled=false
in config.yaml is honored when env tokens are present.
- pb-9 on the chat content area for breathing room above the composer.
* Potential fix for pull request finding 'CodeQL / Clear-text logging of sensitive information'
Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <62310815+github-advanced-security[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
* pin electron version
* hide application menu on non-mac systems
* interpret compactPreview for non-string vlaues as JSON or an empty string
* fix(desktop): keep composer contenteditable mounted across stacked toggle
The composer rendered {input} inside two different parent fragments
depending on `stacked`. When auto-expand flipped `stacked` (e.g. the
moment typed text wrapped past two lines), React reconciled the two
branches as different positions and unmounted/remounted the
contenteditable. The fresh mount started empty, so any in-flight
characters — most reliably reproduced by holding a key — were lost.
Replace the conditional with a single CSS Grid whose template-areas
swap on `stacked`. The three children (menu, input, controls) keep
stable identities across the toggle; only their grid placement
changes, which the browser handles without React tearing down the
editor.
* refactor(desktop): align install layout with install.ps1 / install.sh
Make the desktop app's runtime layout match what scripts/install.ps1 and
scripts/install.sh produce, so a desktop-only user and a CLI-only user end
up with the same files in the same places and can share one install.
Layout
- ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT = HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent (was: process.resourcesPath/hermes-agent, read-only)
- VENV_ROOT = HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent/venv (was: userData/hermes-runtime)
- desktop.log = HERMES_HOME/logs/desktop.log (was: userData/desktop.log)
- HERMES_HOME default: %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes on Windows, ~/.hermes elsewhere
The packaged .app/.exe still ships a read-only payload at
process.resourcesPath/hermes-agent (FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT). On first launch
or after an installer-driven upgrade we sync factory -> active, then
provision the venv and run pip install -e . against the active root.
Key behaviors
- Pin HERMES_HOME in the spawned Python's env so get_hermes_home() resolves
to the same path resolveHermesHome() picked. Without this, Python falls
back to ~/.hermes on every platform - fine on mac/linux, a split-state
bug on Windows where our default is %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes.
- Detect developer installs by .git presence at ACTIVE; never overwrite
a user's checkout via factory sync.
- Marker at ACTIVE/.hermes-desktop-runtime.json (schema v4) tracks
pyproject hash + factory version + runtime schema version. depsFresh
fast-paths when nothing changed.
- Dev (npm run dev) prefers SOURCE_REPO_ROOT over ACTIVE so devs run
their local edits, not whatever's under HERMES_HOME.
- Better error messages distinguish "no payload" from "no Python".
- Preserve a legacy ~/.hermes on Windows when no %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes
exists, so users with prior pip/manual installs aren't orphaned.
pyproject.toml
- Promote fastapi, uvicorn[standard], ptyprocess (non-Windows), and
pywinpty (Windows) to main dependencies. The dashboard backend
(hermes dashboard) needs them at runtime; the previous lazy-import
fallback was a footgun for fresh installs.
- Empty the [pty] optional-extra; kept as a no-op back-compat alias for
any existing pip install hermes-agent[pty] invocations.
Drops the hardcoded BUNDLED_RUNTIME_REQUIREMENTS list in main.cjs - the
desktop now installs whatever pyproject.toml says, single source of truth.
Files
- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs: runtime layout, HERMES_HOME pin,
factory->active sync, marker v4
- apps/desktop/scripts/test-desktop.mjs: track new venv location
- apps/desktop/README.md: new Setup, Runtime Bootstrap, and
Debugging sections
- pyproject.toml: fastapi/uvicorn/pty backends in main
dependencies; [pty] extra emptied
Tested locally on Windows: npm run dev boots cleanly, sessions land at
the new location, type-check + lint + test:desktop:platforms all pass.
Verified end-to-end on a fresh Win11 VM via dist:win installer.
Known gaps (filed as follow-ups, not in this PR):
- Skills not seeded on packaged installs (sync_skills only runs in
cmd_chat, not cmd_dashboard). Need to move to shared pre-dispatch.
- Git Bash not bundled or detected; agent's terminal tool errors out
with a useful message but desktop bootstrapper should pre-flight it.
- install.ps1 / install.sh should be decomposed into composable phase
libraries so the desktop bootstrapper can reuse them as a single
source of truth across all install surfaces.
* feat(desktop): theme polish, prose chat typography, composer chrome
- DS tokens/midground, Backdrop, scoped scrollbars, typography plugin + prose
- Composer liquid/radius utilities, thread font parity, tool/thinking cues
- File tree label scale, preview flex, thread retry loading + streaming tests
* feat(desktop): NSIS prereq detection page + auto-install via winget
The packaged Windows installer now detects Python 3.11+ and Git for Windows
at install time and offers to install missing prereqs via winget. Mirrors
the prereq logic scripts/install.ps1 already runs for CLI installs, so
desktop installer users get the same out-of-the-box experience as
install.ps1 users.
Why
- Hermes' terminal tool calls bash.exe directly (tools/environments/
local.py); on Windows that's Git Bash from Git for Windows. Without it,
the agent fails on the first terminal() call.
- Hermes' Python runtime needs 3.11+. Without it, the desktop bootstrapper
errors out at venv creation.
- Both gaps surfaced on a fresh Windows 11 VM smoke test: VM had Python
pre-installed but no Git, so the agent's first terminal call failed
with "Git Bash isn't installed."
- install.ps1 has had Install-Git + Install-Uv functions for ages. The
desktop installer was the asymmetric outlier.
How — NSIS prereq page
- New file: apps/desktop/installer/prereq-check.nsh (plugged into
electron-builder via build.nsis.include)
- Real Wizard page using nsDialogs, inserted via customPageAfterChangeDir
hook (between the Directory page and InstFiles).
- Group boxes for Python and Git, each showing detection status.
- Pre-checked install checkboxes when winget is available.
- Auto-skips silently if both prereqs are already installed.
- Falls back to manual download URLs when winget itself is missing.
- Detection:
- Python: probes `py -3.11`/`-3.12`/`-3.13`/`-3.14` via the Python
launcher. Microsoft Store "Python stub" (no py.exe) is correctly
classified as not-installed.
- Git: `where git`.
- winget: `where winget` (Win10 1809+ / Win11 with App Installer).
- Install execution (in customInstall macro):
- Python: nsExec::ExecToLog with `--scope user --silent`. Per-user
install, no UAC prompt, output streams to install log.
- Git: ExecShellWait via Windows ShellExecute. Critical because Git
always installs per-machine and triggers UAC; ShellExecute preserves
the foreground focus chain across non-elevated → elevated process
spawns, so UAC actually comes to the foreground. nsExec::ExecToLog
breaks the chain because winget runs hidden.
- Both pass `--disable-interactivity --accept-package-agreements
--accept-source-agreements` to suppress winget's own dialogs.
- Verification: probes Git's standard install locations via FileExists
rather than `where git`. NSIS's process inherits PATH at startup, so
a freshly-installed Git won't be visible to `where` until restart.
- Silent installs (/S) skip the prompts; managed deploys handle prereqs
out-of-band via Group Policy / Intune.
How — Electron-side safety net
- New findGitBash() in main.cjs, parallel to findSystemPython(). Probes
the same locations as tools/environments/local.py:_find_bash() so a
positive result here means the agent's terminal tool will work.
- ensureRuntime now throws a clear, actionable error on Windows when Git
Bash isn't found, matching the existing "Python 3.11+ is required"
error path.
- Catches users the NSIS page doesn't: .msi installer users (NSIS prereq
page doesn't run for MSI), `npm run dev` users, manual installers,
anyone who unchecked the install boxes on the NSIS prereq page.
- All gated on `IS_WINDOWS`; macOS / Linux unaffected.
NSIS build issue (resolved)
- electron-builder defaults to `-WX` (warnings as errors). NSIS optimizer
emits "warning 6010: function not referenced" for our page functions
because Page custom directives don't count as references in its
static-analysis pass. The functions ARE called at runtime when NSIS
invokes the page; the optimizer just can't see it statically.
- Set `build.nsis.warningsAsErrors=false` in package.json so this
spurious warning doesn't fail the build. (Documented option from
electron-builder's nsisOptions.)
Out of scope (filed for future work)
- MSI prereq detection: Windows Installer custom actions are a different
mechanism. Enterprise deploys typically handle prereqs via GP/Intune.
- Bundle PortableGit + python-build-standalone in extraResources for
zero-network installs. ~80MB increase.
- Mac / Linux GUI prereq flows (different installer formats; Xcode CLT
covers most macOS prereqs already; Linux is per-distro hard).
Files
- apps/desktop/installer/prereq-check.nsh (new, ~290 lines NSIS)
- apps/desktop/package.json (build.nsis.include +
warningsAsErrors)
- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs (findGitBash + preflight)
- apps/desktop/README.md (Runtime prerequisites
section)
Cross-platform impact
- macOS / Linux builds (dist:mac, dist:mac:dmg, dist:mac:zip): nsis
config is ignored entirely; .nsh is dormant.
- npm run dev: .nsh dormant; main.cjs preflight gated on IS_WINDOWS.
- scripts/install.ps1, scripts/install.sh: no reference to any new
files; CLI install paths untouched.
- Hermes CLI / dashboard / gateway: no reference; runtime untouched.
- All checks: node --check on main.cjs and test-desktop.mjs pass;
npm run test:desktop:platforms 4/4 passing; node --test green.
Tested
- npm run dist:win produces signed .exe and .msi without errors.
- Fresh Win11 VM (Python pre-installed, no Git): prereq page renders,
Python check shows detected, Git checkbox pre-checked. Click Next →
Git installs via winget with UAC prompt in foreground.
- After install completes, Hermes launches and the agent's terminal
tool can run bash commands. Verified Git Bash is detected at
`C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe` by ensureRuntime's preflight.
* feat: theme changes, composer tweaks, in app update ux, finesse
* fix(cli): seed bundled skills on dashboard + gateway entrypoints
`sync_skills(quiet=True)` was only being called from inside `cmd_chat`,
which meant `hermes dashboard` (the desktop GUI's backend) and `hermes
gateway` (Telegram/Discord/Slack/etc daemons) never seeded the bundled
skill library into ~/.hermes/skills/.
This surfaced as "No skills found" in the desktop GUI's skills panel on
fresh installs, despite the agent having access to the full bundled
library when invoked via `hermes chat`. scripts/install.ps1 worked
around it by running skills_sync.py as part of Copy-ConfigTemplates,
but that's not part of the desktop installer's bootstrap chain.
Fix
- Extract the skills-sync block from cmd_chat into a module-level
`_sync_bundled_skills_quietly()` helper.
- Call the helper from cmd_chat (preserving existing behavior),
cmd_dashboard (after the --status/--stop early-return paths and
fastapi import check, so we don't run skills_sync on management
commands or when deps aren't installed), and cmd_gateway.
Why these three entrypoints
- cmd_chat: the user's primary CLI entrypoint
- cmd_dashboard: the desktop GUI's backend; this is what `hermes
dashboard --tui` invokes when the desktop bootstrapper spawns Hermes
- cmd_gateway: long-running daemons where the user expects the agent
to have full skill access
Other entrypoints (cmd_config, cmd_doctor, cmd_login, cmd_status,
etc.) are management commands that don't need skill discovery and were
never running skills_sync in the first place — leaving them alone.
Idempotence
- tools/skills_sync.py is manifest-based: skipped skills cost
milliseconds. Calling it from multiple entrypoints adds no real
cost, and users running `hermes chat` then `hermes dashboard` get
two fast no-ops on the second call.
Failure handling
- Helper wraps skills_sync in try/except. Skills are an enhancement,
not a hard dependency — Hermes runs fine with an empty skills/ dir.
Files
- hermes_cli/main.py:
+ new helper `_sync_bundled_skills_quietly()` at module level
+ cmd_chat: replace inline block with helper call
+ cmd_dashboard: add helper call after fastapi import succeeds
+ cmd_gateway: add helper call before delegating to gateway_command
* feat(desktop): hoisted todo widget, JSON tool summaries, history grouping & timer fixes
- Hoist todo to first-class widget (shadcn checkboxes, brand colors, no
tool-accordion). Header derives label from active task; non-active rows fade.
- Replace raw JSON dumps with structured key/value summaries via
formatToolResultSummary; nested error extraction for clearer failures.
- Fix loaded-session grouping: stitch interleaved assistant/tool iterations
into one bubble instead of orphaned synthetic messages.
- Stable tool/thinking timers via keyed registry so unmount/scroll doesn't
reset elapsed counts; gate "running" on real live thread state.
- Reorganize chat-only assistant-ui components under components/chat/.
* fix(desktop): address CodeQL alerts on PR #20059
- settings/helpers.ts: harden setNested against prototype pollution.
POLLUTING_PATH_PARTS check is now applied at every assignment site
(loop + leaf) and uses Object.defineProperty so CodeQL can see the
guard inline rather than via a helper function call.
- lib/markdown-preprocess.ts: rebuild the dangling-fence close regex
from a fence-char + length instead of marker.replace(...). The marker
is captured by `(`{3,}|~{3,})` so it can only be backticks or tildes,
but CodeQL was tracing tainted input text into the RegExp source and
flagging hostname dots from input as part of the pattern (false
positive js/incomplete-hostname-regexp on the test fixture URLs).
Reconstructing from a literal char breaks the dataflow.
- scripts/notarize-artifact.cjs: drop args from the run() rejection
message. Args carry --key-id / --issuer / key file path; the existing
outer catch already squashes errors to a generic line, but CodeQL was
flagging the args.join(' ') as clear-text logging of APPLE_API_KEY_ID.
Composer DOM-text-as-HTML alerts (composer/index.tsx:379, :547) are
already addressed in 4dd9732a9 — innerHTML assignment was replaced with
renderComposerContents which builds DOM via replaceChildren / append
text nodes (no HTML interpretation).
* fix(desktop): inline prototype-pollution guard so CodeQL sees it
CodeQL's dataflow doesn't follow the helper-function guard inside
`safeSet`, so it kept flagging Object.defineProperty as prototype-
polluting. Inline the literal `__proto__`/`constructor`/`prototype`
check at the assignment site to break the dataflow.
Behavior unchanged — same set of disallowed keys, same throw.
* feat(ui-tui): resolve links to readable page titles
Mirror desktop pretty-link behavior in the TUI by resolving HTTP links to page titles with shared caching and safe fetch filters, plus slug-based fallbacks so chat links stay readable even when title fetch fails.
* fix(desktop): drop RegExp from dangling-fence close detection
Previous attempt tried to break the dataflow by reconstructing the
close-fence regex from a literal char + marker.length, but CodeQL still
traced marker.length back to input and kept flagging the test-fixture
URLs as hostname-regex sources (js/incomplete-hostname-regexp).
Replace `new RegExp(...)` + `closeRe.test(body)` with a string-only
hasCloseFenceLine() helper that splits on '\n' and uses ===. No regex
on this path now, so input data can no longer reach a RegExp source.
Behavior preserved: matches lines that are (whitespace + marker +
whitespace), which is what the original `\n[ \t]*${marker}[ \t]*(?=\n|$)`
matched. All 12 markdown-text tests still pass.
* fix(process-registry): suppress windows-footgun false positive on guarded killpg
Keep the existing POSIX-only process-group teardown path, but make the
signal selection explicit via getattr and add an inline windows-footgun
suppression marker on the guarded os.killpg line so the Windows footgun
check no longer blocks CI on this intentionally platform-gated code.
* feat(desktop): reconcile live tool events, polish thread chrome, harden boot
- chat-messages: match tool rows by overlapping query/context/preview values
so preview-first `tool.progress` rows reliably adopt later stable-id
`tool.start` payloads instead of spawning ghost rows or mis-merging
parallel same-name calls; preserve prior args/result across phases.
- tui_gateway: emit full args + parsed result on `tool.start` / `tool.complete`,
drop redundant `tool.started` re-emit from `tool.progress`.
- electron/main: prefer SOURCE_REPO_ROOT before PATH `hermes` in dev so
local backend edits actually run; split hardening helpers into
`electron/hardening.cjs` with tests.
- thread/tool UI: one-shot enter animation keyed by stable ids, braille
spinner for running rows, Cursor-like disclosure rows, drill-down +
duration/count formatting via new tool-fallback-model.
- composer: extract `text-utils`, drop liquid-glass overrides.
- right-rail: split preview-pane into preview-console / preview-file.
- runtime: incremental external-store runtime + runtime-readiness gate;
onboarding store + tests; route-resume hook test.
- regression tests for live tool reconciliation (parallel tools, id-less
progress, preview-first rows, structured args/results).
* feat(desktop): add ripgrep to NSIS prereq page + polish layout
Add ripgrep as a third (recommended) prereq alongside Python and Git in
the NSIS prereq detection page, and clean up the page layout based on
on-VM testing.
Why ripgrep
- Hermes' search_files tool calls `rg` directly for content + filename
search (tools/file_operations.py:1382). Falls back to grep/find from
Git Bash when missing — works but slower and noisier (no .gitignore
awareness).
- ~5MB winget install via `BurntSushi.ripgrep.MSVC --scope user` — no
UAC prompt, parallel to how Python installs.
- scripts/install.ps1 already installs ripgrep as part of
Install-SystemPackages; this brings the desktop installer to parity.
Why "recommended" not "required"
- Python and Git are hard requirements: without them the agent runtime
or terminal tool refuses to start. The bootstrapper preflight throws.
- ripgrep is a performance enhancement: missing it just means slower
searches. Page wording reflects this; failure to install is logged
but doesn't show a MessageBox or block.
Layout polish (response to on-VM screenshot review)
- Wizard header now correctly reads "System Requirements" instead of
the leftover "Choose Install Location" from the previous page. Set
via `GetDlgItem $HWNDPARENT 1037/1038` + WM_SETTEXT — the standard
NSIS pattern for overriding the page header on a custom Page.
- Removed redundant in-body title + verbose intro paragraph; the
wizard header IS the title now. Body has one short intro line.
- Group boxes tightened to 26u with content positioned just below the
groupbox title (not top-anchored status + bottom-anchored checkbox
with empty space in the middle). All three panels + footer fit
comfortably in 126u, well under the 140u page limit.
- Checkbox labels simplified: dropped "(per-user, no admin prompt)"
and "(administrator approval required)" suffixes. The footer note
still calls out UAC for Git when relevant.
- Footer text trimmed to fit cleanly without clipping.
Install order (in customInstall macro)
- Python → ripgrep → Git
- Python and ripgrep are silent and run first; Git's UAC prompt comes
last so the user's approval interaction isn't interrupted by silent
activity afterwards.
Skip behavior unchanged
- All three detected → page auto-skips via Abort
- Silent install (/S) → customInstall winget block skips
- User unchecks all → page advances without running winget
Files
- apps/desktop/installer/prereq-check.nsh: ripgrep detection block,
ripgrep page panel + checkbox, ripgrep customInstall block,
GetDlgItem header override, layout reflow
- apps/desktop/README.md: Runtime prerequisites section updated to
list ripgrep as recommended, with manual winget command
* feat(desktop): add model-confirmation step to onboarding
After OAuth/API-key login completes, onboarding now shows a confirmation
card with the curated default model and a Change button before dropping
the user into chat. Closes the gap where the desktop's `model.default`
was empty after first launch and the agent had to fall back to whatever
heuristic happened to fire — leaving users wondering "why am I getting
sonnet-4 when I logged into Nous Portal?"
Why
- Desktop onboarding only persisted credentials, never `model.default`.
The CLI's `hermes model` command pairs provider + model selection,
but the desktop's onboarding skipped the model step entirely.
- Result: users saw whichever model the agent's auto-fallback picked,
unpredictably and undocumented.
- For the BUILD demo we want users to land on the model they expect
for their provider, with a clear "this is what you're getting" UI
and a one-click path to change it before chatting.
How
- New `confirming_model` flow status carries the just-authenticated
provider slug, current default model, label, and a saving flag.
- `completeWithModelConfirm()` runs after credentials succeed: reloads
env, verifies runtime, fetches /api/model/options to find the curated
first-model for the provider, persists it via /api/model/set, then
transitions into `confirming_model`.
- If anything fails (no providers returned, network error), falls
through to the previous behaviour — onboarding completes without
the confirm step. Polish, not a hard requirement.
- All four credential paths (device_code OAuth, PKCE OAuth, external
CLI flow, API key) now use completeWithModelConfirm instead of
reloadAndConnect.
UI
- `ConfirmingModelPanel` shows: green "<provider> connected" banner,
card with "Default model: <name>" + Change button, and a "Start
chatting" CTA that finalises onboarding.
- Reuses the existing `ModelPickerDialog` (the same picker available
from the chat shell) for the change-model UX. Search, filtering,
multi-provider listing — all already built.
- Stacking: ModelPickerDialog defaults to z-130, which renders UNDER
the onboarding overlay (z-1300) and breaks pointer events. Added
optional `contentClassName` prop to ModelPickerDialog so callers
can override; onboarding passes `z-[1310]`.
Provider-slug matching
- For OAuth flows: pass `provider.id` directly as the preferred slug.
- For API-key flows: `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` → "openrouter" via env-key
prefix strip. Also includes the user-visible label as a fallback
candidate.
- fetchProviderDefaultModel falls back to the first authenticated
provider in the response if no preferred slug matches — so even a
miss still surfaces a reasonable default.
Files
- apps/desktop/src/store/onboarding.ts:
+ new `confirming_model` flow variant
+ fetchProviderDefaultModel + completeWithModelConfirm helpers
+ setOnboardingModel (optimistic update + revert on failure)
+ confirmOnboardingModel (finalises onboarding from the card)
- reloadAndConnect (replaced; the four call sites now go through
completeWithModelConfirm)
- apps/desktop/src/components/desktop-onboarding-overlay.tsx:
+ ConfirmingModelPanel component
+ new branch in FlowPanel for status `confirming_model`
+ ModelPickerDialog usage with z-[1310] content class
- apps/desktop/src/components/model-picker.tsx:
+ optional `contentClassName` prop on ModelPickerDialog so the
dialog can be stacked on top of other fixed overlays
Tested
- `npm run type-check` passes
- `npx eslint` clean on touched files
- Live test in `npm run dev`: cleared onboarding cache, walked
through Nous device-code flow, saw confirm card with curated
default, clicked Change → ModelPickerDialog rendered above the
onboarding overlay with working pointer events, picked a different
model, "Start chatting" persisted to ~/.hermes/config.yaml.
* fix(desktop): suppress generic provider warning in onboarding
Hide the red setup notice when the message is the generic missing-provider guidance, since onboarding already presents provider auth actions. Centralize provider-setup matching across desktop hooks and add coverage for the matcher.
* fix(desktop): add 2u clearance below prereq checkboxes
Group box bottom border was clipping the checkboxes by 1-2px.
Bumped each box height 26u→30u; checkboxes now sit 2u above the bottom border.
* fix(nix): refresh dashboard lockfile hash
Update the web npm deps hash in nix/web.nix to match the committed apps/dashboard/package-lock.json so bb/gui passes the nix lockfile check.
* fix(desktop): install TUI deps in release workflow
Ensure desktop release builds install the standalone ui-tui package before bundling the TUI payload.
* fix(desktop): run release builder from app package
Invoke the desktop builder through the package script so electron-builder uses apps/desktop/package.json.
* fix(desktop): expand release artifact names safely
Build desktop artifact names from workflow version/channel while preserving electron-builder platform macros.
* fix(desktop): use package artifact naming in release workflow
Let electron-builder's desktop package config provide platform-specific artifact extensions while the workflow injects the release version/channel metadata.
* fix(nix): fetch dashboard npm deps from package root
Point the dashboard npm dependency fetch at apps/dashboard so Nix can find the package lockfile after the dashboard move.
* fix(nix): build dashboard from package directory
Set the web package source root to apps/dashboard so npm patch/build phases run beside the dashboard lockfile while keeping apps/shared available as a sibling.
* feat(desktop): render LaTeX math via KaTeX after streaming completes
Add @streamdown/math plugin to the chat markdown renderer.
Inline ($x^2$) and block ($$...$$) math both supported with
singleDollarTextMath enabled. Plugin is gated to non-streaming state
to match the existing pattern for syntax highlighting — math renders
when the message completes, avoiding KaTeX re-render churn during
streaming. KaTeX CSS is imported in styles.css; ~30KB CSS + ~430KB
JS added to the bundle. Smoothness improvements during streaming
deferred to a follow-up.
* perf(desktop): memoize KaTeX renders so math streams without re-rendering
Wrap rehype-katex with a per-equation LRU cache (keyed by
displayMode + source text) and re-enable math during streaming.
Stock @streamdown/math runs rehype-katex on every markdown commit,
so each new token re-katexes every equation in the message. For
math-heavy responses (an equation derived step-by-step) that's
hundreds of ms of wasted work per token and the streaming UI
chokes. With memoization, each equation pays katex.renderToString
exactly once; subsequent tokens re-walk the tree but hit cache for
unchanged equations.
The wrapper mirrors rehype-katex's semantics exactly: same class
detection (language-math, math-inline, math-display), same
<pre>-walk-up for fenced math blocks, same parent.children.splice
replacement, same SKIP traversal, same strict-then-lenient render
strategy with VFile message reporting.
Cached children are structuredCloned on each splice so downstream
rehype plugins or toJsxRuntime can't mutate the cache.
* fix(desktop): declare katex-memo deps directly + drop per-app lockfile
katex-memo.ts (added in 112cad59b) imports hast-util-from-html-isomorphic,
hast-util-to-text, remark-math, katex, and unist-util-visit-parents but
those were never added to apps/desktop/package.json. They were silently
resolving via @streamdown/math at the workspace root, which broke the
moment `npm i --prefix apps/desktop` ran with the per-workspace lockfile
because that install only consults apps/desktop/package.json. Add them
as direct deps, plus unified/vfile/@types/hast for the type imports.
Also delete apps/desktop/package-lock.json — root package.json declares
workspaces: ["apps/*"], so npm manages all lockfile state at the root.
The stale per-app lockfile is what made `npm i --prefix apps/desktop`
diverge from the workspace install in the first place and left an empty
apps/desktop/node_modules/@assistant-ui/ stub that Vite's dep optimizer
then tried (and failed) to open at @assistant-ui/core/dist/internal.js.
* feat(desktop): disable Backdrop noise overlay by default
The noise overlay defaulted to on, which adds a busy speckle layer over
the whole window for every new user. Flip the Leva default to off; the
toggle stays in Backdrop / Noise for anyone who wants it back.
* fix(desktop): polish LaTeX rendering — currency, code blocks, brackets
Five distinct bugs surfaced from a math-heavy stress test:
1. Adjacent code fences glued together. scrubBacktickNoise's
second-pass regex /``\s*``/g matched the LAST 2 backticks of
one fence + whitespace + FIRST 2 backticks of the next, collapsing
two blocks into one. Fixed with lookbehind/lookahead so we only
match exactly 2 backticks not part of a longer run.
2. Whitespace eaten between fences and following content.
stripPreviewTargets internally calls .trim() which strips leading/
trailing whitespace from each split-segment. For segments between
two fences this collapsed \n\n to '', gluing fence close to next
block. Fixed by capturing leading/trailing whitespace at the call
site and restoring it after the transform.
3. Currency dollar signs eaten as math. With singleDollarTextMath:true
remark-math greedy-matched any pair of $, so '$5 ... $10' became
one inline math span. Added escapeCurrencyDollars to escape $<digit>
patterns to \$<digit> in prose segments (not in code). Trade-off:
math expressions starting with a digit (rare — '$5x = 10$') get
escaped too. Mirrors the convention in ChatGPT/Claude's UIs.
4. \(...\) and \[...\] LaTeX brackets unsupported. Models often
emit these instead of $...$ / $$...$$. Added
rewriteLatexBracketDelimiters preprocessor pass.
5. ```latex / ```tex blocks were being routed to KaTeX via a
rewrite to ```math. Aligns with GitHub markdown convention:
```math = render as math; ```latex / ```tex = LaTeX/TeX
source code (syntax highlighted, not rendered). Conflating them
broke teaching/showing-source use cases. MATH_FENCE_LANGUAGES
pruned to {'math'} only.
Also flipped parseIncompleteMarkdown to true (was !isStreaming) so
the math parser can't see $ inside streaming-but-not-yet-closed code
fences. Shiki was already deferred via defer={isStreaming} so this
doesn't introduce new tokenization cost.
Test: 18/18 existing tests still pass; one test updated to expect
escaped \$ in currency-prose-with-URL case.
* fix(desktop): detect Python via registry/filesystem; pin to 3.11–3.13
Two related fixes for Python detection on Windows:
1. py.exe (Python launcher) is missing from per-user installs that
didn't check the launcher option, so 'py -3.X --version' alone
misses real Python installs. User-reported case: clean Win11 +
official Python.org 3.14 install -> 'where py' returned nothing,
our installer offered to install Python again. Both NSIS prereq
page and main.cjs now probe in this order:
1. py.exe launcher (when present)
2. PEP 514 registry: HKLM/HKCU\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\<v>\InstallPath
3. Filesystem: %ProgramFiles%\Python<v>, %LocalAppData%\Programs\Python\Python<v>
Crucially, we never fall back to running 'python.exe' from PATH
on Windows — the WindowsApps stub at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\
WindowsApps\python.exe is a redirector that opens the Microsoft
Store window if no Store Python is installed. Triggering that
during boot would be terrible UX. Registry/filesystem probes
never execute the binary.
2. Drop 3.14 from the supported version set. Several Hermes deps
(notably pywinpty, which carries Rust crates like
windows_x86_64_msvc) don't yet publish 3.14 wheels. With wheels
missing, 'pip install -e .' falls back to building from sdist,
which needs a Rust toolchain — users see 'could not compile
windows_x86_64_msvc build script' on first run. install.ps1
sidesteps this by pinning to 3.11 via uv; the desktop installer
doesn't yet have the same uv-managed-Python pathway, so for now
we accept 3.11/3.12/3.13 and tell winget to install 3.11 if
none of those are present. Revisit when the wheel ecosystem
catches up to 3.14 (~early 2026).
* feat(desktop): Cron, Profiles, usage analytics, and titlebar fixes
- Add Cron and Profiles sidebar routes with full CRUD-style flows and API wiring.
- Extend Command Center with auxiliary task overrides and a Usage panel (7d/30d/90d).
- Fix titlebar geometry for WSL/Windows (native overlay width, tool spacing).
- Remove stray merge conflict markers from pyproject.toml optional deps.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(title-bar): position sidebar toggle button
* feat(desktop): composer queue — queue many, edit/delete/cancel-edit, Cursor-style
Press Enter while busy with a draft to queue it; with no draft to interrupt
and send the next queued turn. Auto-drains one queued turn each time the
session settles, same as Cursor. Queue persists across reloads so an
interrupted-and-queued turn isn't lost on refresh.
Each queued row supports edit-in-composer (with explicit Save/Cancel),
send-now (↑), and delete. Drain skips only the entry currently being
edited so the rest of the queue keeps flowing.
Queue dequeue is transactional — an entry only leaves the queue after
`prompt.submit` is accepted, so a rejected submit doesn't drop the turn.
Also shrinks the `[interrupted]` marker to a muted one-liner and drops
its assistant footer so it stops looking like a real reply.
* fix(desktop): handle empty usage analytics totals
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(desktop): address PR review titlebar and usage races
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* feat(desktop): add MCP settings and live subagent tree
Surface configured MCP servers in Settings with JSON edit/save and a gateway-backed reload action so users can manage tool servers without falling back to slash commands.
Track live subagent gateway events in a desktop store, show active subagent counts in the Agents statusbar item, and replace the Agents overlay stub with a live spawn tree for the active session.
* fix(desktop): move power-user views out of sidebar
Keep Cron and Profiles available through lower-prominence chrome entry points so the workspace sidebar stays focused on core chat navigation.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* refactor(desktop): subagent overlay reads like a live transcript, not a dashboard
Strip the card chrome and rewire /agents to feel like peeking into the
child agent's stream:
- subagents store: single `stream` of typed entries (thinking/tool/progress/
summary) replaces the parallel notes/thinking/tools arrays. Drop unused
fields (toolsets, depth, apiCalls, reasoningTokens, sessionId).
- agents view: no OverlayCards, no boxed stream, no per-row borders. Goal +
status pill + indented stream lines, full row width.
- Group root spawns into "Delegation N" sections when batch shape + spawn
time match — hides task-index interleaving and makes hierarchy obvious.
- Sort tree by spawn time, then task_index. Step indicator is one colored
pill (primary while running, emerald when done) inside the row, not a
trailing pill that wrapped under the chevron.
- Tree picks up `subagent.start` (not only `spawn_requested`) and prunes
delegate-tool fallback rows once native subagent events land for the
session — fixes duplicate "Delegated task" rows alongside the real ones.
* feat(desktop): Esc closes every OverlayView-based overlay
Lift the keyboard handler into the shared OverlayView so Agents, Settings,
Command Center — and anything we build on top of it later — all dismiss on
Esc by default. Nested Radix dialogs stop propagation themselves, so a
modal opened inside an overlay (e.g. model picker inside Settings) still
closes the modal first, not the overlay underneath.
Drop the now-redundant Esc handlers in Settings (kept Cmd/Ctrl+P) and
Command Center.
* fix(desktop): drop numbered step pill on subagent rows
The pill was getting clipped at the overlay edge anyway. Just use the
status glyph (●/✓/✗/■/○) — the delegation header already conveys
"3 workers, 3 active", and order in the list implies which step you're
looking at.
* fix(desktop): drop noisy "returned N items / empty object" stub strings
When a tool returns nothing useful, the row should be silent — the title
("Search Files", etc.) already tells the user what happened. Counting the
fields in an opaque payload is engineer-noise.
`formatToolResultSummary` and `minimalValueSummary` now return '' for
empty arrays / records / unrecognized values; tool-fallback already hides
the detail section when its body is empty.
* refactor(desktop): subagent rows borrow chat tool patterns (fade-in, lucide glyphs, shimmer)
Pull the agents view closer to how chat tool blocks render:
- statusGlyph() returns the same lucide BrailleSpinner / CheckCircle2 /
AlertCircle vocabulary as tool-fallback's statusGlyph
- Stream lines fade-in via useEnterAnimation (one-shot WAAPI), keyed per
entry so streamed deltas settle in instead of popping
- Subagent rows fade in too, and pick up the existing data-slot=tool-block
spacing rules between blocks
- Active stream line trails a BrailleSpinner instead of a hand-rolled
pulsing rectangle
- Goal text drops FadeText (which forces nowrap); keep FadeText only for
the single-line meta subtitle
- Running rows shimmer the title — same affordance the chat thinking row
uses
* refactor(desktop): make /agents subagent-only, drop sidebar + dead sections
Activity rail and History stub were both noise. Strip the split layout,
sidebar, route enum, and the rail/stub helpers — the overlay is now just
the spawn tree, centered in a max-w-3xl column so it stops claiming the
whole screen for one section's worth of content.
* feat: update cron modals
* Add dedicated GUI log stream for dashboard debugging.
Capture dashboard and PTY websocket lifecycle failures in gui.log and expose it via hermes logs.
* Improve desktop runtime UX by surfacing inference readiness in gateway status and hardening WSL link opening.
This also stabilizes markdown code/table block spacing and adds root-install guards so desktop dev runs use a healthy workspace dependency tree.
* Log detailed GUI websocket failure metadata.
Capture richer reject/disconnect/send/parse context for dashboard gateway websocket flows so GUI connection failures are diagnosable from logs.
* Default dashboard startup logging to GUI mode.
Detect the dashboard subcommand during early CLI bootstrap so gui.log is attached from process start and GUI startup failures are always captured.
* Clean up gateway status conditionals and logging bootstrap mode detection.
Simplify nested dashboard gateway status branches for readability and use a concise first-subcommand check when selecting early GUI logging mode.
* add logging to nsis installer
* feat: glass ui pass
* fix(desktop): persist inline assistant errors across hydrate/resume
- Detect provider failure text arriving via message.complete
(HTTP 4xx, "API call failed after N retries", Provider/Gateway
error: ...) and persist as an inline assistant error instead of
regular completion text, blocking the hydrate that was wiping it.
- preserveLocalAssistantErrors: merge by id so same-id hydrated
messages keep their local error, and preserve the optimistic
user+error pair as a unit (with tail-user dedupe).
- Hook all hydrate/resume writers (use-session-actions resume +
fallback, hydrateFromStoredSession, syncSessionStateToView) into
the merge so stale snapshots can't clobber a failed turn.
- Add error to chatMessagesEquivalent so the resume diff actually
sees error-only changes and paints them.
- editMessage on a failed turn now submits a plain resend (no
truncate_before_user_ordinal) and retries plainly on the
"no longer in session history" race.
Style polish on touched files:
- Inline error: text-only treatment (no card).
- User stop / edit-composer send: shared Tabler IconPlayerStopFilled
glyph + shared icon-button class slot for parity.
* feat(desktop): theme xterm with active light/dark mode
The right-sidebar terminal hardcoded a light palette, which read poorly
on the dark glass surface. Subscribe to `useTheme().resolvedMode` and
hot-swap `term.options.theme` so Shift+X (and any other mode change)
updates the terminal in place without tearing down the PTY session.
Dark mode uses xterm's built-in defaults (white fg/cursor + vivid ANSI
16) with just a transparent background so the glass shows through;
light mode keeps the existing hand-tuned overrides for legibility on a
bright surface.
* feat(sidebar): right-click + drag-reorder sessions and workspaces
- Wire right-click on session rows to open the same actions menu;
suppresses the OS-native context menu so Windows stops looking awful.
- Share dropdown + context menu items via useSessionActions() driving
a single declarative ItemSpec[]; render polymorphic over MenuItem.
- New shadcn ContextMenu primitive mirroring DropdownMenu styling.
- Restore drag-and-drop reordering for Agents (lost during the cwd
cleanup) and add reordering of workspace groups via a right-side
grab handle. Pinned reorder unchanged.
- Generic orderByIds<T> replaces the duplicated session/group orderers;
useSortableBindings() hook collapses the two Sortable wrappers.
- cursor-pointer on every actionable element; cursor-grab on handles.
- KISS pass: baseName() helper, AGE_TICKS table, single WORKSPACE_PAGE
constant, flatter SidebarSessionsSection render.
* feat(desktop): solarize the xterm palette in both light & dark
xterm's default ANSI 16 is tuned for dark and reads candy-bright on the
light glass surface (vivid cyans/greens). Ship the canonical Solarized
palette (Schoonover) for both modes — same 16 accents either way, only
fg/cursor swap between `base00/01` (light) and `base0/1` (dark), so a
prompt's colors look uniform across a Shift+X toggle.
Background stays transparent in both modes — Solarized's cream/slate
backgrounds would fight the glass.
* feat(desktop): virtualize chat thread + sidebar via TanStack Virtual
Replaces `use-stick-to-bottom` and per-row session rendering with
`@tanstack/react-virtual`, matching what Cursor uses.
Chat thread (`thread-virtualizer.tsx`):
- Natural-flow virtualization (padding spacers, not absolute items) so
`position: sticky` on the human bubble still resolves cleanly against
the scroller.
- Custom at-bottom anchor: pins when armed, disarms on user-driven
upward scroll, re-arms at bottom, jumps on session switch +
`thread.runStart`.
- Loading indicator and `--thread-last-message-clearance` move to a
real `[data-slot=aui_composer-clearance]` node; drops the brittle
`:nth-last-child(1 of …)` rule that can't fire reliably under
virtualization.
Sidebar (`virtual-session-list.tsx`):
- Flat agents list virtualizes at >=25 rows; pinned and
workspace-grouped paths stay direct-render.
- `SortableContext` keeps all IDs; only the window mounts; dnd-kit's
`setNodeRef` is merged with `virtualizer.measureElement` so rows
participate in both DnD hit-testing and TanStack measurement.
Drops `use-stick-to-bottom`. Streaming test gets a global
`offsetWidth/offsetHeight` stub so the virtualizer's viewport sizing
works in jsdom; the scroll-up-doesn't-pull-back invariant still passes.
* feat: more ui qa
* fix(desktop): trim sidebar terminal startup spacer
Drop zsh's initial spacer row before writing the first terminal prompt so new sidebar terminal sessions do not open with a selectable blank line.
* chore: uptick
* feat(desktop): thin installer + first-launch install.ps1 bootstrap
Converges the Windows packaged desktop installer onto a single canonical
install topology: drop the Electron shell only (~80MB instead of ~500MB),
clone Hermes Agent at a build-time-pinned commit on first launch via
install.ps1's stage protocol, and treat the resulting git checkout at
%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\hermes-agent\ as the canonical install location
(same path the CLI installer uses). Future updates flow through the
existing applyUpdates() git-pull path.
Replaces the previous fat-installer architecture where the .exe bundled
a pre-staged hermes-agent source tree under resources/hermes-agent/ that
was then sync'd into ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT at launch -- a complicated
factory-vs-active dance with several footguns (FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT
mismatch on path resolve, isGitCheckout guard regressions, pyproject
hash drift detection inside the sync loop).
Architecture overview
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Build time
apps/desktop/scripts/write-build-stamp.cjs writes
apps/desktop/build/install-stamp.json with {commit, branch, builtAt,
dirty}. Honours $GITHUB_SHA / $GITHUB_REF_NAME in CI, falls back to
`git rev-parse HEAD` locally.
apps/desktop/scripts/stage-native-deps.cjs copies the runtime subset
of @homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch from the workspace-root
node_modules into apps/desktop/build/native-deps/. Workspace dedup
hoists this dep to the root, out of reach of electron-builder's
`files:`-restricted collector; staging gives us a deterministic
path to extraResources.
electron-builder ships both into resources/install-stamp.json and
resources/native-deps/ respectively.
Boot resolver (electron/main.cjs)
Resolver order:
1. HERMES_DESKTOP_HERMES_ROOT override
2. SOURCE_REPO_ROOT (dev mode)
3. ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT git checkout WITH .hermes-bootstrap-complete
marker -- the post-install fast path
4. `hermes` on PATH (CLI-installed user adding the desktop)
5. pip-installed hermes_cli via system Python
6. bootstrap-needed sentinel -> hand off to runBootstrap
Deletes the entire FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT / RUNTIME_MARKER /
syncTreeExcludingVenv machinery (-200 lines). The isGitCheckout
guard that bit us in the install.ps1 PR is gone.
First-launch bootstrap (electron/bootstrap-runner.cjs)
1. Resolve install.ps1: prefer SOURCE_REPO_ROOT/scripts (dev), else
download from GitHub raw at INSTALL_STAMP.commit (cached at
HERMES_HOME\bootstrap-cache\install-<sha>.ps1).
2. Fetch the stage manifest via install.ps1 -Manifest -Commit X
-Branch Y.
3. Iterate stages: install.ps1 -Stage <name> -NonInteractive -Json
-Commit X -Branch Y per stage.
4. On all stages green: write the .hermes-bootstrap-complete
marker with {schemaVersion, pinnedCommit, pinnedBranch,
completedAt, desktopVersion}.
Per-run log to HERMES_HOME\logs\bootstrap-<ts>.log. Cancellation
via AbortSignal. Manifest cache so retries don't re-download.
Install overlay (src/components/desktop-install-overlay.tsx)
Mounted alongside the existing onboarding overlay; flexbox card
with header (static) + middle (scrollable) + footer (failure-only,
static). Subscribes to hermes:bootstrap:event IPC + resyncs from
hermes:bootstrap:get on mount/reload. Renders:
- 14-stage checklist with per-stage state icons
- Overall progress bar + current-stage spotlight
- Auto-expanded installer-output panel on failure
- "Copy output" button (full ring buffer + error to clipboard)
- "Reload and retry" wired through hermes:bootstrap:reset to
clear main.cjs's latched failure
Synthetic empty-manifest event from main.cjs flips the overlay to
'active' immediately so the slow install.ps1 download doesn't
leave the user staring at the generic Preparing splash.
Failure latching (main.cjs)
bootstrapFailure module-scope variable holds the rejection after
install.ps1 fails. startHermes() throws the latched error
immediately when set, bypassing the entire ensureRuntime +
runBootstrap chain. Without this, the renderer's ensureGatewayOpen
retries would re-run install.ps1 in a 5-10 min hot loop while the
user was still reading the failure overlay. Cleared via
hermes:bootstrap:reset on user-driven retry.
Unsupported-platform overlay (1F)
macOS / Linux packaged builds (no install.sh stage protocol yet)
emit an unsupported-platform event with a copy-pasteable install
command + docs URL. Dedicated overlay branch with "Copy command"
+ "I've run it -- retry" buttons.
install.ps1 additions (Phase 1F.3 + 1F.5)
-----------------------------------------
New -Commit and -Tag string params. Precedence Commit > Tag >
Branch. Honoured by all three code paths (update / fresh clone /
ZIP fallback), with archive URL selection that handles each
ref-type variant. Detached-HEAD checkouts intentionally -- they're
pins, not branches the user pulls into.
EAP=Continue wrap around the new pin-step git invocations. `git
fetch origin <commit>` writes the routine 'From <url>' info line to
stderr; under the script's global EAP=Stop that terminates the
script even though fetch+checkout succeed. Matches the established
pattern in Install-Uv, Test-Python, _Run-NpmInstall.
Backend fix (hermes_cli/web_server.py)
--------------------------------------
CORS allow_origin_regex now accepts Origin: 'null'. Packaged
Electron loads index.html via file://; Chromium sets the WebSocket
upgrade Origin header to the opaque origin 'null', which the old
regex rejected with HTTP 403 before gateway_ws() ever ran. This
failure mode was masked in the older FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT
architecture because the resolver often found an existing hermes
on PATH with different binding behavior.
Security maintained: localhost-only bind keeps cross-machine pages
out; per-process session token still gates every authenticated
/api/ endpoint regardless of Origin.
Desktop QoL
-----------
DevTools is now enabled in packaged builds (F12 / Cmd+Opt+I).
Field-debugging trade-off: tiny attack surface increase versus
a much better support story when CSP / WS / theme issues surface.
NSIS prereq-check page deleted (-767 lines). The standard
Welcome -> License -> Directory -> InstallFiles -> Finish wizard
now installs without custom Python/Git/ripgrep detection -- those
prereqs are install.ps1's job at first launch.
Test infrastructure (Phase 1G)
------------------------------
apps/desktop/scripts/test-desktop.mjs rewritten as a cross-platform
bundle validator (was darwin-only and asserted on dead factory-
payload paths):
NEGATIVE: hermes_cli/main.py is NOT shipped (regression guard)
POSITIVE: install-stamp.json carries a real commit + branch
POSITIVE: node-pty native deps shipped under resources/native-deps
POSITIVE: renderer dist/index.html reachable (asar or unpacked)
New nsis mode and npm run test:desktop:nsis script.
Validated end-to-end on clean Win10 VM
--------------------------------------
Confirmed: NSIS installer drops Electron shell, app launches,
install overlay shows progress, install.ps1 clones the pinned
commit, 14 stages run to completion, marker written, backend
spawns, WebSocket connects, onboarding overlay asks for API key,
main UI loads, integrated terminal works.
Failures handled: bootstrap stays failed (no hot-loop retry),
"Copy output" gives actionable transcript, "Reload and retry"
explicitly re-runs install.ps1.
What's deferred
---------------
- MSIX wrapping (Phase 2): same Electron .exe under MSIX manifest
with runFullTrust, signed and submitted to Microsoft Store.
- install.sh stage protocol parity (Phase 2): once shipped, the
unsupported-platform overlay becomes drive-it-yourself and
macOS/Linux packaged installers gain feature parity with Windows.
* feat(desktop): persistent terminal pane + fullscreen takeover
Adds a VSCode-style "focus terminal" toggle to the right sidebar's Terminal
tab that takes over the chat pane area without unmounting the shell. The
xterm host is mounted once at the layout root and CSS-overlayed onto
whichever <TerminalSlot /> is currently active, so the PTY session,
scrollback, selection, focus, and WebGL renderer survive every toggle.
Also:
- WebGL renderer (matching dashboard ChatPage) so Hermes' TUI skins paint
faithfully instead of muting through xterm's default DOM renderer
- File drag/drop from the project tree or OS into xterm — paths are
shell-quoted (zsh/bash/pwsh/cmd) and written straight into the PTY
- Solarized dark canvas with brights promoted to real accent variants
(Schoonover's UI-gray brights washed out every TUI accent)
- Strip NO_COLOR/FORCE_COLOR/COLORFGBG/TERM=dumb leaking from non-tty
parents (CI runners, Cursor's agent shell) so the embedded shell gets
truecolor regardless of how Electron was launched
- rAF-debounced ResizeObserver — running fit.fit() synchronously during
sibling pa…
…earch#36104) The desktop self-update branch defaulted to bb/gui, the pre-merge feature branch. Now that the desktop app is on main, flip DEFAULT_UPDATE_BRANCH to main so freshly built apps check for updates against the right branch instead of relying on the runtime self-heal fallback.
…usResearch#36112) The lazy session.create path hand-builds a partial info dict that omitted desktop_contract. The desktop GUI reads a missing contract as undefined and treats it as an out-of-date backend, so it surfaced a "Backend out of date" toast on every launch even against a current backend. Carry the contract in the lazy payload like _session_info already does for resume/branch.
… of silently skipping (NousResearch#36134) The thin installer (apps/bootstrap-installer) drives install.sh stage-by-stage, each in its own process. The `desktop` stage never called check_node, so the Hermes-managed Node provisioned earlier (at $HERMES_HOME/node/bin) wasn't on PATH. install_desktop's `command -v npm` check then failed and the build was skipped — yet the stage still reported {"ok":true,"skipped":false}, so the installer showed "Installation Complete" and only failed at the end with "Couldn't find a built Hermes desktop ... the desktop build step may have been skipped or failed." Fix: - Call check_node in the `desktop` stage (mirrors every other Node-dependent stage) so the managed Node is on PATH (or installed). - Make install_desktop self-provision via check_node and hard-fail (return 1) if npm is still unavailable, instead of a silent `return 0`. The desktop stage only runs when a build is explicitly requested (--include-desktop), so an unavailable toolchain is a real failure, not graceful degradation. Verified on macOS arm64: the `desktop` stage now builds release/mac-arm64/Hermes.app, which matches resolve_hermes_desktop_exe, so the installer's "Launch Hermes" succeeds.
…esearch#36153) Read the Portal's tool_access claim (JWT + /api/oauth/account) into NousToolAccessInfo and gate managed Tool Gateway access on it: tool_gateway_entitled (paid OR live pool) and per-category tool_gateway_entitled_for(). The pool funds web/image/tts/browser but not video, so per-backend availability, the charge picker (ensure_nous_portal_access coverage_category), and managed defaults all respect coverage. Setup: rebuild prompt_enable_tool_gateway as a per-tool checklist that renders whenever the pool is enabled, lists only pool-covered tools (video excluded for free-pool users), and is framed as the free tool pool for $0 subscribers rather than a paid subscription. get_gateway_eligible_tools now gates and filters off the entitlement snapshot.
…4829) * fix(docker): seed s6 gateway state for legacy run cmd * fix(docker): honor no-supervise during legacy gateway migration --------- Co-authored-by: Donovan Yohan <donovan-yohan@users.noreply.github.com>
…in stage2-hook (NousResearch#35340) Co-authored-by: sprmn24 <oncuevtv@gmail.com>
…y matches remapped UID (NousResearch#35027)
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Upstream PR: NousResearch#36187 |
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Superseded: this mirror branch was based on upstream/main and conflicts with fork main. Replacing it with a fork-main-based mirror branch for the same upstream PR. |
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Why
Mirror PR for the upstream background-review idle gate. The prior dflash fork mirrors are already settled, so this new follow-up needs its own fork mirror instead of reusing a closed PR.
What changed
HERMES_BACKGROUND_REVIEW_IDLE_DELAY_SECONDSis configured.Verification
python3 -m py_compile run_agent.py agent/agent_init.py agent/conversation_loop.py agent/background_review.py tests/run_agent/test_background_review.pypython3 -m pytest -o addopts='' tests/run_agent/test_background_review.py tests/run_agent/test_background_review_cache_parity.py tests/run_agent/test_background_review_toolset_restriction.py -qpython3 -m pytest -o addopts='' tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py::TestRunConversationCodexPath::test_background_review_skill_trigger_fires_above_threshold tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py::TestRunConversationCodexPath::test_background_review_signature_never_breaks -qgit diff --checkUpstream
Created alongside the upstream PR for the same commit.