* feat(i18n): layered catalogs — plugin packs and user overlay over bundled locales
* feat(tui): i18n layer — en catalog, nanostore runtime, RPC pack loader, _keys.tui.json emitter
ui-tui/src/i18n/: en.ts (facade over topical siblings under en/), types.ts
(Translations + dotted TranslationKey derived from en), runtime.ts ($locale/
$catalog atoms, translateFrom active→en→key, pack merge with string→fn
wrapping for {0}/{1} placeholders), loader.ts (display.language →
i18n.catalog {lang, surface:'tui'}, English when the method is missing),
useT()/useLocale() hooks, t() for non-React code. useConfigSync feeds the
loader from the existing config.get full hydration. `npm run i18n:keys`
writes locales/_keys.tui.json (sorted flat key list) and runs before build.
* feat(plugins): provides_locales manifest field, ctx.register_locale/register_locale_dir, manifest-only language packs
* chore(tui): split en catalog siblings by lane (slash sibling)
* feat(plugins): validate language packs — parse, text-only, key-subset WARN against en / _keys exports
* feat(tui_gateway): i18n.languages / i18n.catalog RPC + regenerated contracts
* feat(config): display.language accepts any supported_languages() id, refuses unknown ids with the list
* docs(i18n): language packs user guide, pluggable display.language, plugin developer section, AGENTS notes
* feat(plugins): report language-pack layers in the mid-run activation summary
* feat(tui): wire status bar, composer placeholders, hotkey help and approval/clarify/confirm prompts through i18n
StatusRule maps compared state values (ready/running…/summoning) to catalog
text at render via displayStatus(); hotkeys()/placeholder() resolve lazily so
a pack that arrives after boot applies. Catalog grows to 81 keys.
* feat(desktop): pluggable app locales — registry, host.i18n.registerAppLocale, backend packs, keys emitter
- Locale widens to string (BundledLocale keeps the union); TRANSLATIONS stays
the bundled record and every consumer resolves through the registry.
- src/i18n/registry.ts: registerAppLocale(id, {endonym, rtl, translations})
layers partial packs (nested or flat dotted) over bundled/en via
mergeTranslations; a string over a function-valued en entry becomes a
positional {0}/{1} formatter; $appLocaleVersion bumps so translators
re-render; per-source disposers + replaceAppLocaleSource for atomic swaps.
- Backend packs: i18n.languages + i18n.catalog {surface:'desktop'} feed the
registry as source 'backend' (method-not-found is silent); re-synced on
socket open, display.language change and profile switch. A saved pack-only
language is promoted once its pack registers.
- SDK: host.i18n.registerAppLocale / languageOptions; ctx.i18n.registerAppLocale
tracked for unload. Docs in the desktop plugin SDK guide + skill reference.
- Language switcher lists bundled ∪ registered ∪ backend, endonym-only; RTL
from the registry (applyDocumentLocale takes rtl).
- npm run i18n:keys emits locales/_keys.desktop.json (wired into build).
* i18n(cli): route /topup + /subscription copy through t() (cli.billing.*, cli.subscription.*)
Module-level copy tables and modal choice tuples in cli_billing_mixin.py froze
English at import, before display.language was known. They are now key tables /
builder functions evaluated at call time; every user-facing line in the /usage
balance block, /subscription and the five /topup screens reads the catalog.
Choice VALUES stay English identifiers. Fragment-assembled status lines
(Plan: … → cancels · $x left · renews …) become full templates.
* i18n(gateway): exec-approval card contract + base/run/run_busy/run_inbound replies through t()
- base_exec_approval: EA_* English constants stay; add ea_header_text()/ea_reason_label_text()/
ea_smart_deny_line_text()/ea_default_reason_text()/ea_action_labels()/approval_timed_out_notice()
accessors; deadline + timed-out notice resolve via gateway.exec_approval.*
- BasePlatformAdapter._EA_HEADER/_EA_REASON_LABEL/_EA_SMART_DENY_LINE/_EA_ACTION_LABELS become
properties (adapters still shadow them with markup class attrs)
- run.py: provider error replies table holds catalog keys; _CONTEXT_OVERFLOW_REPLY -> _context_overflow_reply()
- run_busy/run_inbound: typed approval + slash-confirm matchers accept English ∪ approval.inputs.* (t())
- locales/en.yaml: gateway.exec_approval/busy/errors/... namespaces
* i18n(cli): wire modal, loops, agent-setup mixins through t() (cli.* keys)
* i18n(platforms): route Slack, Matrix and Feishu user-facing text through t()
Exec-approval markup overrides (_EA_HEADER/_EA_REASON_LABEL/_EA_SMART_DENY_LINE/
_EA_ACTION_LABELS) become per-call properties over the shared
gateway.exec_approval.* contract keys, so Slack's 3000-char section budget
measures the resolved template. Slack _APPROVAL_DECISIONS/_CONFIRM_DECISIONS,
Feishu _APPROVAL_LABEL_MAP and Matrix _EA_LEGEND/_EA_TYPED_HINT turn into
key tables resolved at click time; the Matrix typed hints become whole
sentences per offered tier instead of spliced fragments. Slack button labels
are cut to 75 chars and select placeholders to 150 after translation; the
model-facing clarify fallback answer ('choice N') stays English while the
card copy localizes.
locales/en.yaml gains the gateway.exec_approval.* contract keys plus the
platform.shared.* / platform.slack.* / platform.matrix.* / platform.feishu.*
namespaces (and the keys for the other adapters wired in follow-up commits).
* i18n(gateway): run_turn / run_turn_runner / approval-settle copy through t()
- status hints, proxy errors, background task notices, progress heartbeats, session info lines
- tool progress chrome (tool_head/tool_pending/tool_preview/tool_verbose) shared by base.format_tool_event
- run_turn_runner:1406 Chinese clarify placeholder -> gateway.clarify.native_stream_placeholder (zh text kept in zh.yaml)
- _UNEXPECTED_SILENCE_REPLY/_CLARIFY_EXPIRED_NOTICE -> accessor functions
* i18n(platforms): route Google Chat and Teams user-facing text through t()
Google Chat clarify card, typing placeholder, orphan-card labels and the whole
/setup-files reply set (module constants become platform.google_chat.setup_files.*
keys resolved at reply time). The attachment-fallback notice that shipped
hardcoded in Spanish is keyed with an English en value; es.yaml carries the
original Spanish text for those four keys.
Teams approval card header/reason use the gateway.exec_approval.* contract,
_APPROVAL_LABELS becomes a key table resolved at click time, and the meeting
summary writer resolves its section headings/fallbacks per render.
* i18n(platforms): route LINE, WeCom, email, DingTalk, IRC and Home Assistant text through t()
LINE default copy constants become catalog keys resolved in __init__ (the
LINE_*_TEXT / extra.* operator overrides still win); the busy-ack bypass
matcher keys on the leading emoji marker only, so it keeps firing once the
gateway busy heads are localized. WeCom media size/format notices that shipped
hardcoded in Chinese are keyed with English en values and zh.yaml carries the
original Chinese text. DingTalk emotion bubbles resolve per send.
* i18n(cli): route /model switch output and -q status lines through t() (cli.model.*, cli.single_query.*)
Switch-summary labels shared with the gateway reuse gateway.model.* keys
(provider/context/max-output/capabilities/prompt-caching); CLI-only variants
(glyph or no-backtick forms) live under cli.model.*. The hand-padded /model usage
block becomes a (form, description-key) table padded at render time so the
command syntax stays fixed while descriptions translate. -q 'Error:' reuses
gateway.model.error_prefix.
* i18n(cli): route TUI panel/hint/placeholder copy through t() (cli.tui.*)
_APPROVAL_CHOICE_LABELS and _TUI_MODAL_HINTS become key tables resolved at
render time; vault/sudo panel bodies are one catalog value per panel split on
newline; inline plurals use <key>_one/<key>_other. Adds the cli.* namespace
(shared/tui/voice/render/subagents/dock) to locales/en.yaml.
* i18n(cli): voice/wake-word CLI copy through t() (cli.voice.*)
RuntimeError texts raised in _voice_start_recording are human copy (callers
print {e}) and are keyed; the Termux requirement-check match stays English.
Wake state ids stay internal, only their labels localize.
* i18n(cli): live-work dock, subagent monitor and render copy through t()
cli.subagents.* / cli.dock.* / cli.render.*; count fragments pluralize via
_one/_other keys, verdict table holds keys resolved at paint time so width
clipping measures the translated text.
* i18n(gateway): unauthorized/pairing, voice, topics, shutdown, startup, notifications, kanban pings through t()
* i18n(cli): move tips + composer placeholders into the catalog (tips.tNNN / tips.placeholder.pNN)
get_random_tip()/get_random_composer_placeholder() pick a key from the English catalog
(the parity baseline, probed once per process) and resolve it through t() for the active
language, so language packs translate tips like any other string. Also lands the cli.*
en.yaml namespace consumed by the CLI info/help/error-copy wiring in the next commit.
* i18n(cli): wire chat-turn + session mixins through t(); kanban log trimmer matches t() output
* test(cli): assert TUI/dock/voice copy via t(key); prove labels resolve at render time
Pinned-English assertions in the approval-UI, live-work dock and voice tests now
go through the catalog. New test swaps the catalog after import and checks the
approval panel + hint row follow it (the reason _APPROVAL_CHOICE_LABELS and
_TUI_MODAL_HINTS became key tables).
* i18n(cli): route CLI info/help/error copy through t() (cli.* namespace)
cli_info_mixin: /help consumes CommandDef.describe() (added to commands.py: slash.<name>.description
with fallback to .description), section titles/skill/quick-command headers, /tools, /toolsets,
/usage labels, /context, /whoami, /insights, /gateway status, tool-progress labels, bang-shell
denials, MCP config-watch + /reload-mcp confirm/reload lines, /reload-skills, and the session-store
warning all read the catalog at call time (module-level label tables became functions so the
active language is honoured after startup). cli.py: worktree cleanup, tirith warning, show_config
(labels re-padded at print time), quick/plugin/skill slash-command errors, ambiguous-command hint,
stdin error, gateway start, profile warning. cli_chat_error_copy / cli_unknown_command /
cli_output / cli_init_mixin: chat error panel copy, did-you-mean lines, n-more / yes-no prompt
(localized affirmative initial alongside 'y'), unknown-toolsets warning.
* i18n(w1a): wire agent display/explainers/approval + slash registry/help through t()
- hermes_cli/commands.py: CommandDef.describe() resolves slash.<name>.description
at call time; category labels via slash.category.*; help/alias/usage suffixes
via slash.shared.*; gateway_help_lines and commands_platforms/slash_exec use them.
- agent/display.py: display.verb.* resolved at call time via get_tool_verb();
bridge/spinner/thinking-verb/cute-row/failure/preview/diff text via display.*.
- agent/turn_explainers.py: exit-reason / persistence-cause tables become call-time
lookups (explainer.exit.*, explainer.persistence.*, explainer.file_mutation.*).
- agent/background_review.py, session_activity.py, context_breakdown.py,
status_output.py: review summaries, iteration progress, context notices.
- tools/approval.py, approval_context.py: approval.summary.*, approval.noun.*,
approval.window.* pluralized keys.
- gateway/slash_commands*.py: remaining raw strings (busy, whoami, platform,
bundles, memory, skills, approvals, set_home, diff, update, debug, profile,
heartbeat, refine, review, subgoal, loop, retry, compress codex path, save,
sessions, model guard/errors, agents rows, topup, login). HISTORY_UNREADABLE
keeps its English constant; callers use history_unreadable() ->
gateway.shared.history_unreadable.
- locales/en.yaml: new approval/display/explainer/slash blocks + gateway leftovers.
* i18n(telegram): route adapter chat copy through t()
Approval card (header/reason/smart-deny as HTML-escaped properties), inline
button labels, callback toasts (cut at Telegram's 200-char cap), model/choice
pickers, clarify/update/slash-confirm prompts, gmail-triage labels and the
inbound-media failure notice now come from the catalog. _UNAUTHORIZED is a
lazy _unauthorized() so the import no longer binds a language. The command
menu carries a language+payload fingerprint (forum scopes re-register on
change) and BotCommand descriptions are cut at 256.
Adds gateway.exec_approval.* (WAVE2 contract), platform.telegram.*,
platform.discord.* and the slash.*.description keys the Discord table shares
with the CLI registry to locales/en.yaml.
* i18n(gateway/platforms): whatsapp_cloud, yuanbao, weixin, signal, api_server copy through t()
- whatsapp_cloud: clarify list/buttons, approve/deny + slash-confirm labels via platform.whatsapp.* (t()-then-truncate at 20/24/72 caps); _EA_HEADER becomes a property wrapping ea_header_text()
- yuanbao: SLOW_RESPONSE_MESSAGE -> slow_response_message() (platform.yuanbao.slow_response_notice; zh keeps the original text); cron-wrapper markers centralized as module constants for strip_cron_wrapper
- api_server: PROVIDER_AUTH_FAILED_LABEL/PROVIDER_RATE_LIMITED_LABEL stay English for run.py matchers; user_text() renders via t()
- signal/_format_wait, weixin voice caption, openai_routes transformed notice
- run_turn: second _UNEXPECTED_SILENCE_REPLY consumer -> accessor
* i18n(discord): route adapter chat copy through t()
Native slash-command table becomes _NATIVE_SLASH_COMMAND_SPECS holding catalog
keys; _native_slash_commands() resolves descriptions, parameter descriptions
and Choice names for the active language, each cut at Discord's 100-char cap,
and the app-command sync fingerprint now includes get_language() so a
display.language change re-syncs. Exec-approval card (gateway.exec_approval.*
contract), slash-confirm / clarify / update views, model+choice pickers,
thread creation, forum titles, voice acks, the response-truncation notice,
the unauthorized-slash security alert and the media upload-size notices all
read from platform.discord.*. Decorator-declared button labels are relabelled
in __init__ (80-char cap); embed titles cut at 256, select placeholders at
150, option label/description at 100. _UNAUTHORIZED is a lazy _unauthorized().
* i18n(cli): wire status-bar, stream, terminal mixins + terminal_input through t(); rename kwargs that shadow t(key)
* i18n: wire hermes_cli/cli_commands_mixin.py slash-command copy through t()
- 431 new leaves under cli.commands.<cmd>.* in locales/en.yaml; 12 rows reuse
existing gateway.* keys (rollback, diff, resume, branch, btw, model, reasoning)
via a _gt() helper so CLI and gateway replies stay identical.
- Module-level English tables (_BUSY_MODE_*, _REASONING_TOGGLES, _HATCH_PROGRESS,
_DIFF_LABELS, _LOCAL_ENGINE_LINES) become call-time catalog lookups keyed by id.
- Verb tables (Enabling/Disabling, Paused/Resumed/Triggered, planned/done,
Updating/Generating) are one full template per variant; plurals use
<key>_one/<key>_other via _tn(); hand-padded column labels (/snapshot list)
translate the value and re-pad at the call site.
- Multi-line usage blocks are single catalog values split with _lines().
- Model-facing system notes and DB-stored reasons stay English (EXCLUDED).
* tests: assert /handoff, /worktree, /login CLI copy via t(key) instead of pinned English
* test(i18n): pin Telegram/Discord adapter catalog wiring
Lazy unauthorized notice, exec-approval contract keys, HTML escaping before
Telegram <b> wrapping, 200-char toast / 256-char BotCommand caps, Discord
100-char app-command text and 80-char button caps, and language-bearing
command-menu fingerprints on both platforms.
* i18n: reconcile cli.shared on/off vs enabled/disabled after lane merge
* i18n: describe() in TUI-gateway slash listings; localize TUI exit resume hint
* i18n(tr): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(ja): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(ko): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(zh): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(fr): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(af): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(uk): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(ar): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(pt): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(it): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(es): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(zh-hant): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(ru): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(hu): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(hu): translate pre-existing English-valued leftovers (kanban wake, /context, /status, fast labels)
* i18n(de): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* i18n(ga): translate bundled catalog + tui pack
* test(i18n): fixture matches _normalize_lang(lang, home) signature
* i18n(tui): scaffold userMessages/slashCmd en siblings
* i18n(tui): wire secure prompts + content tables
* feat(tui): i18n — wire billing, subscription, connection-setup and journey overlays
Adds en siblings billing.ts / subscription.ts / connection.ts (namespaces
billing, subscription, connection, journey) and routes every user-facing
literal in billingOverlay, subscriptionOverlay, connectionSetupOverlay and
journey through useT()/messages(). Module-level label tables became lazy
(scopeStillDeniedResult(), verbOf(T, action)); auto-reload rows dispatch on
stable ids instead of label text. Regenerates locales/_keys.tui.json.
* i18n(tui): wire slash ops/wake replies
* i18n(tui): wire pickers (modelPicker, activeSessionSwitcher, petPicker)
* i18n(tui): wire slash core/debug/setup replies
* i18n(tui): wire hubs (agents overlay/panel/controls, skills, plugins)
* i18n(tui): wire slash session/topup/subscription replies
* i18n(tui): wire chat bits (branding, thinking, messageLine, loaders, todo, queued, banner, entry)
* i18n(tui): register t3 siblings (pickers, hubs, secure, content, chatBits) and regenerate keys
* i18n(tui): wire userMessages copy through the userMessages namespace
* i18n(tui): lazy-copy test for userMessages, regenerate _keys.tui.json
* i18n(tui): wire session/gateway/lib text through the TUI catalog (lane t2)
Adds en siblings session.ts, gatewayMsg.ts, libText.ts (namespaces session,
gatewayMsg, libText) and routes user-facing literals in app/{useMainApp,
useSessionLifecycle,useInputHandlers,turnController,createServerRequestHandler,
setupHandoff,createGatewayEventHandler}.ts, gatewayClient displayed reasons,
lib/*, domain/*, hooks/* through t()/messages(). Status-bar state values that
code compares against, backend-matched strings, log lines, model-bound text,
and machine 'error:' prefixes stay literal. Regenerates locales/_keys.tui.json
(232 keys).
* i18n: serve bundled locales/<lang>.tui.yaml under overlay/packs; TUI pack parity test; regen _keys.tui.json (1250)
* i18n: translate pre-existing English stubs in bundled locales (424 leaves, 14 locales)
* tui: i18n-export-en script (English templates for pack translators)
* docs(i18n): bundled TUI packs are the bottom layer of the tui surface
* i18n(ru): translate TUI pack
* i18n(ar): translate TUI pack
* i18n(es): translate TUI pack
* i18n(pt): translate TUI pack
* i18n(ko): translate TUI pack
* i18n(de): translate TUI pack
* i18n(ja): translate TUI pack
* i18n(fr): translate TUI pack
* i18n(tr): translate TUI pack
* i18n(it): translate TUI pack
* i18n(zh): translate TUI pack
* i18n(zh-hant): translate TUI pack
* i18n(hu): translate TUI pack
* i18n(uk): translate TUI pack
1,169 missing keys translated; 81 pre-existing kept byte-identical. Parity OK missing=0 extra=0 placeholder_mismatch=0 empty=0.
Deliberately identical to en: chatBits.branding.mcpSummary ({0} MCP), chatBits.thinking.agentsHint ((/agents)), session.main.voiceStt (◉ STT), session.main.voiceTtsSuffix ( [tts]), slashCmd.core.help.tuiSection (TUI), slashCmd.core.history.hermesTag (Hermes #{0}), slashCmd.debug.heapdump.heapPath (heapdump: {0}), slashCmd.debug.mem.rss (rss), subscription.stepUp.title (Remote Spending — product feature name, as in core catalog), content.faces.* (glyph-only kaomoji).
* i18n(ga): translate TUI pack
* i18n(af): translate TUI pack
* plugin_guard: locale catalogs in language packs step down the agent-config family
A translated status line such as "Updating AGENTS.md" in locales/<lang>.yaml is UI text the loader
reads as a string leaf; it cannot edit a file. The bundled en.yaml itself tripped agent_config_mod
at critical, making any faithful language pack uninstallable. Injection shapes keep full severity.
* plugin_validate_locales: read key exports with utf-8-sig (Windows footgun lint)
* i18n(relay): route relay adapter prompt copy through t(); drop dead import-bound approval header
Adds platform.relay.* (5 keys) to en and all 16 bundled locales, reusing the sibling platform
translations for the confirm buttons and the Other option.
* ci: fix TUI import order, MDX table pipe, main's overflow-warning wording in all locales; fresh-install fixture carries the i18n kernel
- ui-tui/src/i18n/en.ts: perfectionist/sort-imports (slash before slashCmd)
- docs plugins/index.md: escape the | inside the provides_locales table cell (MDX parsed <id> as JSX)
- display.notice.uncompressed_context_overflow: adopt main's wording (names compression.enabled: false
and /compact) in en + 16 locales; the guardrail test pins that phrase
- tests/scripts/test_fresh_source_install.py: the installer tail now resolves CLI text through
agent.i18n, so the fixture tree carries the i18n kernel + en.yaml (not the agent runtime)
* docs(desktop-plugin-sdk): double-backtick the template-literal example (MDX evaluated ${n})
* test(e2e): display.language is validated against the live language set; exclude it from the arbitrary-string set property
* commands: keep the localized COMMANDS/COMMANDS_BY_CATEGORY module __getattr__ after the compat block removal
* build: never write locales/_keys.*.json from the desktop/TUI builds; regenerate the committed desktop key export
The desktop build regenerated locales/_keys.desktop.json in the checkout, so a
hermes update that rebuilt the app left the tree dirty (Desktop update E2E:
'M locales/_keys.desktop.json'). The key exports are committed artifacts pinned
to en.ts by apps/desktop/scripts/i18n-keys.test.mjs and ui-tui i18n:keys:check;
builds read them, never write them. Regenerated after main's new desktop strings.
* test: unbreak two main-red timing tests the PR merge-ref inherits
- test_local_runtime racing fake publishes the modern state record (legacy pid-only
records are rejected since 65ff3ad353; main has been red on this test since)
- test_run_progress_topics ManyProgressLinesAgent waits for the first bubble instead of
a fixed 0.35s, which a loaded CI runner does not always meet
* chore(i18n): regenerate desktop key catalog for main's new strings (model pricing, copy changelog)
* test(e2e): torture-chamber fd monitor confirms a deleted sidecar is still held before calling it a leak
SQLite's WAL last-close unlinks -shm before closing its descriptor (unixShmUnmap, then
unixShmPurge), so a healthy close shows a (deleted) -shm for microseconds; the 20ms poll
occasionally caught that window on the short-lived opener and failed the episode.
* chore(i18n): regenerate desktop key catalog for main's telemetry/consent strings
* chore(i18n): regenerate desktop key catalog after main sync
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Co-authored-by: Teknium <teknium@nousresearch.com>
Hindsight now ships from its maintainer's repo (vectorize-io/hindsight,
hindsight-integrations/hermes) through plugin-catalog/hindsight.yaml, so the
in-tree copy under plugins/memory/hindsight goes away. Homes that still name
`memory.provider: hindsight` are migrated by hermes_cli/memory_provider_migration.py
(the `hermes update` hook and the first agent start install the catalog plugin);
that path is untouched here.
Core-side special cases that only made sense with the bundled copy go with it:
the `memory.hindsight` LAZY_DEPS feature, `_provider_pip_dependencies`'s
`hindsight-all` expansion in `hermes memory setup` (the plugin's own
`_ensure_local_runtime()` installs the embedded runtime now), the compat-manifest
pointers of the deleted module, and prose that listed hindsight among the in-tree
providers. Generic provider-name lists, the HINDSIGHT_* env hints and the API-key
redaction pattern stay — a catalog-installed hindsight still uses them.
Revert this commit alone to restore the bundled provider.
The docs batch (#105782-#105787, tracking #105788) fixed the website docs but
flagged two in-code strays it could not touch:
- hermes_cli/tips.py:121 still said delegate_task "spawns up to 3 concurrent
sub-agents"; the default has been 10 since the v33 config migration
(config_defaults.py:1256, config_migrations.py:613).
- hermes_cli/config_defaults.py:1778 said "remote backends run per-call",
contradicted by tools/code_kernel_remote.py (session kernels on remote
backends, failing open to per-call only when the backend cannot spawn one)
since #96991.
Comment-only changes: tips.py list entry updated, config_defaults.py comment
rewritten to match the actual kernel lifecycle. No behaviour change.
Validated: test_tips.py 6 passed; ruff, check-windows-footguns, and
check_compat_pointers all clean. Refs #105788 (crumb noted in the issue body).
Slim adaptation of #83772 to the current schema and failure-hint table.
Generated helpers are module exports on every execution path, not globals.
Correct schema, recovery hints and CLI tip rather than injecting names or
changing the execution boundary. Two registry-driven invariants reproduce
both misleading instructions on main and execute the corrected guidance.
Additional tool fix discovered during campaign #104904.
Original diagnosis and correction: @yuzilongleif-collab (#83772).
Co-authored-by: yuzilongleif-collab <235949691+yuzilongleif-collab@users.noreply.github.com>
The bundled plan skill's auto-generated slash command fell off the capped
Telegram/Discord command menus for most installs (skills are the only tier
trimmed at the platform caps, alphabetically — 'plan' sat past the cutoff at
index 57 of 82 bundled skills). Converting it to a first-class CommandDef
gives it a guaranteed core-tier menu slot on every platform.
- agent/plan_prompt.py: build_plan_prompt() — plan-mode rules + authoring
craft distilled from the retired skill; prompt-injection pattern like
/learn and /init (no engine, no model-tool footprint, cache-safe).
- CLI: _handle_plan_command mixin handler (pending-input injection).
- Gateway: /plan branch rewrites event.text and falls through (role
alternation preserved).
- TUI: command.dispatch branch ('plan' was already in
_PENDING_INPUT_COMMANDS).
- Removed skills/software-development/plan/ + docs pages (EN + zh-Hans),
catalog rows, sidebar entry, related_skills references.
- PROTECTED_BUILTIN_SKILLS is now empty (mechanism kept); dependent
curator/usage tests moved to monkeypatched sentinels.
Salvages #67292 by @webtecnica (credit: first /plan command submission,
issue #67264); reworked from inline planning prompt to the prompt-injection
pattern with workspace-saved plans. Closes#67264, closes#36821 (empty
/plan infers task from conversation context).
/bg (formerly /background, which is retired) keeps the existing semantics:
spawn a fresh, independent agent session in the background.
/btw is now its own command matching the convention other harnesses use:
ask a quick side question ABOUT the current conversation without
interrupting it. A one-shot auxiliary LLM call (main model by default,
overridable via auxiliary.side_question.* in config.yaml) answers from a
read-only transcript snapshot — the live session's history, role
alternation, and prompt cache are untouched, and the current turn keeps
running.
Surfaces wired: CLI (inline mid-run dispatch), gateway (all messengers,
busy-dispatch table + idle dispatch, i18n across all 17 locales), TUI
(prompt.btw RPC + btw.complete event), Discord native slash, relay
command manifest, desktop exec routing, docs (EN + zh-Hans).
Background process completions on messaging platforms now default to a
one-line status message (✅/❌ + command + duration; failures append a
short output tail) instead of dumping the raw output buffer into the
chat. New display.background_process_notifications mode 'concise' is
the default; 'all' keeps the old raw-dump behavior for anyone who wants
it. Config migration v35 moves users still on the old implicit default
'all' to 'concise' on their next update; explicit result/error/off
choices are preserved.
request_restart was calling stop() immediately, so the requesting turn stayed
in the drain wait set and got force-killed at restart_drain_timeout. Wait for
active work to reach zero first, then stop against an idle gateway.
The default max_iterations/agent.max_turns budget was set when long
agentic runs were rare; complex tasks now routinely exceed 90 tool
calls. Raise the default to 500 across every surface that hardcodes
the fallback: AIAgent constructor, DEFAULT_CONFIG, CLI resolution
chain, gateway env bridge, cron scheduler, and TUI gateway. Explicit
user config values are unaffected (deep-merge preserves them; no
_config_version bump needed).
Docs (en + zh-Hans), CLI help text, tips, and pinned tests updated
to match.
The startup pruner only considered directories named hermes-* (the
hermes -w scratch trees), so salvage/review/port lanes created with raw
'git worktree add' accumulated forever — a real checkout reached 117
directories / 26 GB with trees dating back months. Two further leaks:
squash-merged branches' local commits stay unreachable from
refs/remotes/* forever, so the unpushed-commits guard preserved fully
merged scratch trees indefinitely; and preserved trees rotted silently
with no visibility.
- Pruner now covers every directory under .worktrees/ except kanban
task trees (t_<hex>, owned by 'hermes kanban gc'). Named (non
hermes-*) trees get a 3x timeline (72h soft / 9d hard) since they
were created deliberately.
- New _worktree_commits_all_merged_upstream(): git-cherry
patch-equivalence check against origin/HEAD|main|master, bounded at
20 commits ahead, fails safe toward preserve. Lets the pruner reap
trees whose every local-only commit already landed upstream via
squash-merge/cherry-pick.
- Dirty guard now applies at every tier (previously the 24-72h tier
skipped it — it only survived because the unpushed check usually
caught the same trees).
- Trees preserved for unpushed/dirty reasons older than 7 days are
listed in a single WARNING so in-flight work can't rot silently.
- tips.py text updated; 13 new behavior-contract tests.
* feat(browser): store full snapshots on truncation; make eval denylist opt-in
Two harness fixes motivated by BU_Bench results where fixed-verb + lossy
observation cost Hermes heavily vs code-driven browser agents:
1. Snapshot truncation no longer loses content. When a snapshot exceeds
the 8000-char threshold, the complete accessibility tree is saved to
cache/web (same truncate-and-store pattern as web_extract) and the
truncated view / LLM summary includes the file path plus a ready-made
read_file call. Element refs beyond the cut are recoverable without
re-snapshotting. Stored copies are force-redacted and capped at 2MB;
content-hash filenames dedupe repeated snapshots of the same page.
2. The browser_console(expression=...) sensitive-primitive denylist is
now opt-in via browser.restrict_evaluate (default false). The
names-based denylist blocked legitimate DOM extraction — any selector
or expression containing 'fetch', 'cookie', 'input', etc. — which
crippled the agent's only programmatic page-inspection path. The
SSRF/private-URL egress guards in _browser_eval are independent of
this policy and remain always-on. browser.allow_unsafe_evaluate keeps
its meaning (bypass the denylist) for configs that already set it.
* test: update None-guard test for stored-snapshot pointer in _extract_relevant_content
test_normal_content_returned pinned the exact return value; the summary
now carries a pointer to the stored full snapshot. Assert the summary
passes through and the pointer is present instead.
* feat(browser): align snapshot threshold with web_extract's 15k char budget
SNAPSHOT_SUMMARIZE_THRESHOLD 8000 -> 15000, matching
web_tools.DEFAULT_EXTRACT_CHAR_LIMIT so the snapshot and web_extract
truncate-and-store paths give the model the same per-page budget.
_truncate_snapshot's default max_chars now follows the constant.
Invariant test added; docs (en+zh) and CLI tip updated.
- Use os.pathsep instead of literal ':' so Windows paths (C:\dir) and
the Windows separator ';' work correctly.
- Add 9 tests covering multi-root behavior: writes inside first/second
root, writes outside all roots, trailing/leading/double separators,
all-separators edge case, static deny priority, duplicate dedup.
- Update hermes_cli/tips.py tip string to mention multiple paths.
- Update docs to mention os.pathsep / ; on Windows.
Follow-up for salvaged PR #49557.
* feat(moa): expose MoA presets as selectable virtual models
Reconstructed onto current main (PR #46081's base had diverged with no common
ancestor, marking the PR dirty so CI never dispatched). MoA is now a virtual
provider: each named preset is a selectable model under provider 'moa', and the
preset's aggregator is the acting model that answers and calls tools.
Reference models fan out in parallel via a bounded ThreadPoolExecutor (the same
batch pattern delegate_task uses) — all references dispatched at once, collected
when every one finishes, then handed to the aggregator. Output order is
preserved, failures and the MoA-recursion guard stay isolated per reference.
- Removed the old mixture_of_agents model tool and moa toolset.
- Added moa as a virtual provider in the provider/model inventory.
- /moa is shortcut behavior over model selection (default preset / named preset
/ one-shot prompt).
- Dashboard + Desktop manage named presets; presets appear in model pickers.
- Parallel reference fan-out in agent/moa_loop.py with regression test.
* fix(moa): thread moa_config through _run_agent to _run_agent_inner
The reconstructed gateway MoA wiring declared moa_config on _run_agent (the
profile-scoping wrapper) and used it inside _run_agent_inner, but the wrapper
never forwarded it — _run_agent_inner had no such parameter, so the runtime hit
NameError: name 'moa_config' is not defined on the compression-failure session
sync path. Add moa_config to _run_agent_inner's signature and forward it from
both wrapper call sites (multiplex and non-multiplex). Caught by
tests/gateway/test_compression_failure_session_sync.py on CI shard test(4).
* fix(moa): classify moa as a virtual provider in the catalog
The moa virtual provider has no PROVIDER_REGISTRY/ProviderProfile entry, so
provider_catalog() fell through to the default auth_type="api_key" with no
env vars — tripping two catalog invariants:
- test_provider_catalog: api_key providers must expose a credential env var
- test_provider_parity: every hermes-model provider must be desktop-configurable
moa already declares auth_type="virtual" in HERMES_OVERLAYS; consult that
overlay as an auth_type fallback so the catalog reports moa as virtual (no real
credential, no network endpoint). Exempt virtual providers from the desktop
parity union check the same way 'custom' is exempt — derived from the catalog,
not a hardcoded slug, so future virtual providers are covered too.
* feat(providers): remove google-gemini-cli + google-antigravity OAuth providers
Google now actively bans accounts for third-party tools that piggyback on
Gemini CLI / Antigravity / Code Assist OAuth, and because abuse prevention
sits at a backend layer the ban can extend to the entire Google account
(Gmail/Drive), with a second violation being permanent.
Ref: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/20632
Removes both OAuth inference providers entirely (modules, provider profiles,
auth/runtime/config/models wiring, the /gquota Code Assist quota command,
the antigravity-cli optional skill, desktop + docs surface in en + zh-Hans).
The API-key 'gemini' provider (GOOGLE_API_KEY/GEMINI_API_KEY against
generativelanguage.googleapis.com) is unaffected and stays fully supported.
* fix(skills): keep the antigravity-cli skill — only the OAuth provider is removed
The antigravity-cli optional skill orchestrates the external `agy` binary as
a coding-agent tool via the terminal tool — it does NOT wrap Hermes inference
through the banned google-antigravity OAuth provider, so it carries none of
the account-ban risk that motivated removing that provider. Restore the skill,
its docs page, the sidebar entry, and the optional-skills catalog row. The
google-antigravity / google-gemini-cli inference providers stay fully removed.
The dashboard's embedded Chat surface (/chat, /api/ws, /api/pty) was gated
behind `hermes dashboard --tui` / HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI=1. The desktop app and
the dashboard's own Chat tab both drive the agent over the /api/ws + /api/pty
WebSockets, so a dashboard started without the flag would pass the /api/status
health check but slam the chat WebSocket shut with WS code 4403 — the app
connects, reports "ready", and chat stays dead. This was the root cause behind
multiple user reports of the desktop app failing to connect to a self-hosted
gateway/dashboard, and it bit Docker and host installs alike.
Make the embedded chat unconditional:
- web_server.py: _DASHBOARD_EMBEDDED_CHAT_ENABLED defaults to True; drop the
embedded_chat parameter and the runtime reassignment from start_server().
The WS gates still read the constant (now always true) so the seam — and its
"rejects when disabled" contract test — stays meaningful.
- main.py: remove the `--tui` argument from the dashboard subparser and the
`embedded_chat = args.tui or HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI==1` derivation.
- web/: isDashboardEmbeddedChatEnabled() returns true unconditionally; drop the
deprecated __HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI__ alias and the dead LEGACY_TUI_RE scrape in
the vite dev-token plugin.
- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs: drop `--tui` from the spawned dashboardArgs
(it would now error with "unrecognized arguments: --tui") and the redundant
HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI env injection.
- Docker: no s6 run-script change needed — the script never passed --tui; the
HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI env var is now simply a no-op, so the image works out of
the box with no extra var.
- Docs: remove every dashboard --tui / HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI reference across the
CLI reference, env-var reference, docker/desktop/web-dashboard guides, in-app
tips, and the zh-Hans translations. The terminal `hermes --tui` / HERMES_TUI
references are intentionally left untouched.
Tests: 270 passing across web_server, dashboard lifecycle, host-header,
auth-gate, and docker-override-scripts suites.
'hermes login' was removed (the command now just prints a deprecation
message and exits). The bundled hermes-agent SKILL.md, in-code error
messages, the tip rotation, the proxy adapters, and the docs site
still pointed agents and users at the dead command — so models loading
the skill kept running 'hermes login --provider openai-codex' and
getting a dead-end print.
Replacements use the canonical 'hermes auth add <provider>' surface
(or bare 'hermes auth' for the interactive manager).
Files:
- skills/autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent/SKILL.md (+ regenerated docs page)
- hermes_cli/tips.py (tip rotation)
- agent/google_oauth.py (gemini-cli error message)
- agent/conversation_loop.py (nous re-auth troubleshooting line)
- agent/credential_sources.py (docstring)
- hermes_cli/proxy/cli.py + hermes_cli/proxy/adapters/nous_portal.py (proxy auth hints)
- tests/hermes_cli/test_proxy.py (updated assertions)
- website/docs/reference/faq.md, website/docs/user-guide/features/subscription-proxy.md
- zh-Hans i18n mirrors for the above
'hermes logout' is still a live command and is left untouched.
The 'hermes login' stub in hermes_cli/auth.py:login_command() and
the cli-commands.md 'Deprecated' rows are intentionally kept as
the discoverable deprecation surface.
* feat(mcp): Nous-approved MCP catalog with interactive picker
Adds an optional-mcps/ directory mirroring optional-skills/: curated,
Nous-approved MCP servers shipped with the repo but disabled by default.
Presence in optional-mcps/ = approval. No community tier, no trust signals.
Entries are added by merging a PR.
New surface:
hermes mcp Interactive catalog picker (default)
hermes mcp catalog Plain-text list, scriptable
hermes mcp install <name> Install a catalog entry
Picker behavior:
not installed -> install (clone/bootstrap if needed, prompt for creds)
installed/off -> enable
installed/on -> menu (disable / uninstall / reinstall)
Manifest schema (manifest_version: 1) supports:
- transport: stdio (command/args, ${INSTALL_DIR} substitution) or http (url)
- install: optional git clone + bootstrap commands (for repos that need
local venv setup, like the n8n bridge); omit for npx/uvx servers
- auth: api_key (prompts -> ~/.hermes/.env), oauth (provider-mediated
or native MCP), or none
Catalog entries are never auto-updated. Users re-run `hermes mcp install`
to refresh. Credentials always go to ~/.hermes/.env (the .env-is-for-secrets
rule), never to per-server env blocks.
Ships n8n as the reference manifest (https://github.com/CyberSamuraiX/hermes-n8n-mcp).
Tests: 19 catalog tests + E2E install/uninstall round-trip via the shipped
manifest.
* feat(mcp): tool-selection checklist + Linear catalog entry
Adds install-time tool selection so users only enable the MCP tools they
actually want, and ships Linear as a second reference catalog entry to
demonstrate the http+oauth path alongside n8n's stdio+api_key+git-bootstrap.
Tool selection flow:
install (clone/auth/credentials) ->
probe server for available tools ->
curses checklist with pre-checked rows ->
write mcp_servers.<name>.tools.include
Pre-check priority:
1. user's prior tools.include (reinstall preserves selection)
2. manifest's tools.default_enabled (curated subset)
3. all probed tools (default)
Probe-failure fallback (server unreachable, OAuth not yet complete,
backing service offline):
- manifest declared default_enabled -> applied directly
- no default declared -> no filter written (all-on when reachable)
- both cases point user at hermes mcp configure <name>
Manifest schema additions:
tools:
default_enabled: [list, of, tool, names] # optional
Updates:
- optional-mcps/linear/manifest.yaml -- new reference entry (http+oauth)
- optional-mcps/n8n/manifest.yaml -- tools.default_enabled set to the
8 read-mostly tools; mutating tools (activate/deactivate, container_logs)
pruned by default
- docs: new 'Tool selection at install time' section in features/mcp.md
Tests: 7 new tests in TestToolSelection covering probe-success / probe-fail
matrix, manifest-default filtering, reinstall-preserves-selection, and
invalid-default-enabled rejection. 26 catalog tests + 32 existing
mcp_config tests passing.
* feat(mcp): polish — picker unification, include-mode convergence, hardening
Addresses review findings on PR #30870. Lands all improvements that
belong in this PR before merge; defers separate cleanup (consolidating
two probe implementations, change-detector tests) to follow-ups.
Picker UX (mcp_picker.py)
- Unifies catalog + custom (user-added) MCPs in one view with distinct
status badges (available / enabled / installed (disabled) /
custom — enabled / custom — disabled)
- Adds 'Configure tools (probe server + re-pick)' action to both the
catalog-installed and custom-row submenus — the existing
hermes mcp configure flow was previously unreachable from the picker
- Loops until ESC/q so the user can manage several entries in one
session instead of having to re-launch
- Uninstall message now mentions .env credentials are preserved with a
pointer to clean them up manually if no longer needed
- Surfaces a 'requires a newer Hermes' warning per future-manifest
entry instead of silently hiding it
Catalog (mcp_catalog.py)
- catalog_diagnostics() exposes which manifests were skipped and why
(future_manifest vs invalid) so UIs can give actionable feedback
- _do_git_install detects SHA-shaped refs (regex /[0-9a-f]{7,40}/)
and skips the doomed 'git clone --branch <sha>' attempt — clone --branch
only accepts branches/tags, so SHAs always failed noisily before
falling back to the full-clone path
- Probe-success all-tools-enabled message now mentions that new tools
the server adds later will be auto-enabled (no-filter mode)
Convergence (tools_config.py)
- _configure_mcp_tools_interactive now writes tools.include (whitelist)
instead of tools.exclude (blacklist), matching the catalog flow and
hermes mcp configure. The on-disk config shape no longer depends on
which UI the user touched last
- Two existing tests updated to assert the new include-mode contract
Discoverability
- Setup wizard final step now prints 'Browse curated MCPs: hermes mcp'
- Three tip-corpus entries pointing at the new catalog
- Docs updated with: trust model (manifests run code locally, gated by
PR review, but read before installing), runtime ${ENV_VAR} substitution
semantics, and the manifest_version forward-compat behavior
Tests
- 7 new tests covering future-manifest diagnostics, custom MCP picker
rows, SHA-ref git-install path, branch-ref git-install path, and the
tools_config include-mode write contract
- 80 MCP-related tests passing across test_mcp_catalog.py,
test_mcp_config.py, test_mcp_tools_config.py
* fix(mcp): drop setup-wizard catalog hint to satisfy supply-chain scanner
The wizard line 'Browse curated MCPs: hermes mcp' triggered the
CI supply-chain scanner because it pattern-matches on edits to any
file named hermes_cli/setup.py — that filename matches the Python
'install-hook file' heuristic even though this setup.py is the
user-facing 'hermes setup' wizard, not a packaging install hook.
The catalog is already surfaced via three tip-corpus entries in
hermes_cli/tips.py (which the scanner doesn't flag), so dropping the
wizard mention loses no discoverability. Worth revisiting after a
scanner allowlist for this specific file lands.
Add browser CDP launch candidates for Chrome, Chromium, Brave, and Edge while preserving Chrome-first selection. Retry candidate launch failures instead of giving up after the first executable.
Update /browser CLI and TUI messaging, docs, and tool descriptions from Chrome-only wording to Chromium-family browser support. Add regression coverage for Brave/Edge paths, Chrome-first precedence, fallback launches, and CDP endpoint probing.
* feat(session_search): single-shape tool with discovery, scroll, browse — no LLM
Replaces the LLM-summarized session_search with a single-shape tool that
returns actual messages from the DB. Three calling shapes inferred from
args (no mode parameter):
1. Discovery — pass query. FTS5 + anchored ±5 window + bookends per hit,
all in one call. ~20ms on a real DB instead of ~90s for the previous
three aux-LLM calls.
2. Scroll — pass session_id + around_message_id. Returns a window
centered on the anchor. To paginate, re-anchor on the first/last id
of the returned window. Boundary message appears in both windows
as the orientation marker. ~1ms per scroll call.
3. Browse — no args. Recent sessions chronologically.
Bookend_start (first 3 user+assistant msgs) and bookend_end (last 3) give
the agent goal + resolution on every discovery hit, so a single tool call
reconstructs a long session's arc without loading the whole transcript.
The aux-LLM summary path is gone: it cost ~$0.30/call, took ~30s, and
laundered FTS5 hits through a model that could confabulate when the right
session wasn't in the hit list. The merged shape returns byte-for-byte
content from SQLite.
History:
- PR #20238 (JabberELF) seeded the fast/summary dual-mode split.
- PR #26419 (yoniebans) expanded to fast/guided/summary with bookends,
multi-anchor drill-down, default-mode config, and a teaching skill.
This PR collapses that toolkit into one shape with explicit scroll
support, drops the summary path, drops the mode parameter, drops the
config knob, drops the skill. JabberELF's seed work is acknowledged via
the AUTHOR_MAP entry.
Validation:
- 38/38 tool tests pass (tests/tools/test_session_search.py)
- 12/12 get_messages_around tests pass (tests/hermes_state/)
- 11/11 get_anchored_view tests pass (tests/hermes_state/)
- Full tests/tools/ run: 5168 passing, 2 failures pre-exist on main
(test ordering in test_delegate.py, unrelated)
- E2E against live state DB: discovery 20ms, scroll 1ms, browse 280ms;
pagination forward+backward works with boundary-message orientation;
error paths return clean tool_error responses
Co-authored-by: JabberELF <abcdjmm970703@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: yoniebans <jonny@nousresearch.com>
* chore(session_search): prune dead LLM-summary config and docs
Companion to the single-shape rewrite. The auxiliary.session_search config
block, max_concurrency / extra_body tunables, and matching docs sections
all referenced the removed LLM summarization path. Removing them so users
don't try to tune knobs that nothing reads.
- hermes_cli/config.py: drop dead auxiliary.session_search block from
DEFAULT_CONFIG. Leftover keys in user config.yaml are harmless and
ignored.
- hermes_cli/tips.py: drop two tips referencing the removed
max_concurrency / extra_body knobs.
- website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md: drop 'Session Search Tuning'
section and the auxiliary.session_search block from the example.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/fallback-providers.md: drop session_search
rows from the auxiliary-tasks tables and the dedicated tuning subsection.
- website/docs/reference/tools-reference.md: rewrite the session_search
entry to describe the new three-shape behaviour.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: update the file-tree description.
- tests/tools/test_llm_content_none_guard.py: remove TestSessionSearchContentNone
class and test_session_search_tool_guarded — both guard against an
unguarded .content.strip() call site in _summarize_session() that no
longer exists.
Validation: 97/97 targeted tests still pass (hermes_state + session_search +
llm_content_none_guard). Config tests 55/55.
---------
Co-authored-by: JabberELF <abcdjmm970703@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: yoniebans <jonny@nousresearch.com>
Windows Terminal intercepts Alt+Enter for its fullscreen shortcut, leaving
Windows users with no Enter-involving way to insert a newline in the Hermes
prompt. Fix it by reclaiming c-j on Windows only:
- _bind_prompt_submit_keys now binds c-j (LF) to submit only on POSIX, where
thin PTYs (docker exec, some SSH configs) deliver Enter as LF. On Windows
plain Enter is always c-m, so c-j is free.
- Windows-only prompt binding: c-j inserts a newline. Windows Terminal sends
Ctrl+Enter as LF, so the user-facing keystroke is Ctrl+Enter — no terminal
settings changes required.
- Alt+Enter binding unchanged; still works on mac/Linux/WSL.
- Test TestPromptToolkitTerminalCompatibility::test_lf_enter_binds_to_submit_handler
split into platform-aware assertions for POSIX vs win32.
- Fixed the Ctrl+J claim in hermes_cli/tips.py (was wrong before this commit
even on POSIX) to point Windows users at Ctrl+Enter.
Tradeoff: on Windows, raw Ctrl+J (without Enter) also inserts a newline,
since WT collapses Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+J to the same c-j keycode. No
conflicting Hermes binding existed for Ctrl+J, so this is a harmless side
effect.
AGENTS.md is the AI-assistant entry doc, so its counts get used as ground
truth. Several values had drifted, and the same drift had spread to a few
user-facing surfaces. Fixing all of them in one commit so the count claims
agree and clearly distinguish gateway-core from plugin-shipped platforms.
AGENTS.md:
- run_agent.py "~12k LOC" → "~14k LOC as of 2026-05-03" (actual 14,097)
- cli.py "~11k LOC" → "~12k LOC as of 2026-05-03" (actual 12,043)
- tools/environments/ list now lists all 7 user-selectable terminal backends
in canonical order, matching tools/terminal_tool.py:2214-2215
- gateway/platforms/ list adds yuanbao and wecom_callback; the 19 names
match the user-facing list at website/docs/integrations/index.md
- plugins/ tree now mentions plugins/platforms/ (irc, teams)
- tests/ snapshot "~15k tests across ~700 files as of Apr 2026" →
"~19k tests across ~890 files as of 2026-05-03"
User-facing count claims:
- hermes_cli/tips.py:195 — "19 platforms" → "21 messaging platforms" with
IRC and Microsoft Teams added to the named list
- website/docs/index.md:49 — "6 terminal backends" → "7 terminal backends:
..., Vercel Sandbox" (also corrected by PR #19044; same edit content)
- website/docs/index.md:50 — "15+ platforms from one gateway" → "21+ messaging
platforms (19 in the gateway, plus IRC and Microsoft Teams via plugins)"
- website/docs/integrations/index.md:83-85 — "15+ messaging platforms" → "19+",
added yuanbao to the linked list. The surrounding text scopes it to "configured
through the same gateway subsystem", so plugin platforms (IRC, Teams) are
intentionally not in this list
- website/scripts/generate-llms-txt.py:205 — "15+ platforms" → "21+ messaging
platforms — 19 native to the gateway plus IRC and Microsoft Teams via plugins"
LOC and date stamps follow the existing AGENTS.md "as of <date>" convention
(line 56 already used this pattern). Source of truth for the gateway count is
gateway/config.py:130-148 (PlatformID enum); plugin platforms live in
plugins/platforms/.
Out of scope:
- RELEASE_v0.9.0.md historical "16 platforms" claim (immutable history)
- userStories.json verbatim user quotes
- Programmatic count generation from gateway/config.py + plugin manifests
is a worthwhile build-system change but separate from these content fixes
Seed the tips corpus with the knobs users can turn to reduce token
spend: hermes tools / hermes skills config to trim surface area,
/reasoning low|minimal to dial thinking depth down from the medium
default, and hermes models to route auxiliary tasks (vision, compression,
title gen, session_search) to cheaper backends while the main chat model
stays intact.
Requested by @micheltamanda under Teknium's tip-of-the-day tweet.
BOOT.md was merged in PR #3733 before the feature was ready — the
built-in hook spawned a bare AIAgent() with no model/runtime kwargs,
which immediately 401s on any provider with a custom endpoint. Three
separate community PRs (#5240, #12514, #14992) tried to paper over it.
Remove the BOOT.md hook entirely and its user-facing docs/tips. Keep
the gateway/builtin_hooks/ package and the HookRegistry._register_builtin_hooks()
hook-point intact as the extension surface for future always-on
gateway hooks.
Closes#5239.
Co-authored-by: teknium1 <teknium@users.noreply.github.com>
Enter while the agent is busy can now inject the typed text via /steer —
arriving at the agent after the next tool call — instead of interrupting
(current default) or queueing for the next turn.
Changes:
- cli.py: keybinding honors busy_input_mode='steer' by calling
agent.steer(text) on the UI thread (thread-safe), with automatic
fallback to 'queue' when the agent is missing, steer() is unavailable,
images are attached, or steer() rejects the payload. /busy accepts
'steer' as a fourth argument alongside queue/interrupt/status.
- gateway/run.py: busy-message handler and the PRIORITY running-agent
path both route through running_agent.steer() when the mode is 'steer',
with the same fallback-to-queue safety net. Ack wording tells users
their message was steered into the current run. Restart-drain queueing
now also activates for 'steer' so messages aren't lost across restarts.
- agent/onboarding.py: first-touch hint has a steer branch for both
CLI and gateway.
- hermes_cli/commands.py: /busy args_hint updated to include steer,
and 'steer' is registered as a subcommand (completions).
- hermes_cli/web_server.py: dashboard select widget offers steer.
- hermes_cli/config.py, cli-config.yaml.example, hermes_cli/tips.py:
inline docs updated.
- website/docs/user-guide/cli.md + messaging/index.md: documented.
- Tests: steer set/status path for /busy; onboarding hints;
_load_busy_input_mode accepts steer; busy-session ack exercises
steer success + two fallback-to-queue branches.
Requested on X by @CodingAcct.
Default is unchanged (interrupt).
The ephemeral no-tools side-question variant of /btw confused users who
expected 'by-the-way' to mean 'run this off to the side with tools' —
they'd type /btw and get a toolless agent that couldn't do the work.
/bg worked because it was /background with full tools.
Collapse the two: /btw and /bg both alias to /background. One command,
one behavior, no more gotchas about which variant has tools.
Removed:
- _handle_btw_command in cli.py and gateway/run.py
- _run_btw_task + _active_btw_tasks state in gateway/run.py
- prompt.btw JSON-RPC method + btw.complete event in tui_gateway
- BtwStartResponse type + btw.complete case in ui-tui
- Standalone /btw slash tree registration in Discord
- Standalone btw CommandDef in hermes_cli/commands.py
Updated:
- background CommandDef aliases: (bg,) -> (bg, btw)
- TUI session.ts: local btw handler merged into background
- Docs and tips updated to describe /btw as a /background alias
Make the main-branch test suite pass again. Most failures were tests
still asserting old shapes after recent refactors; two were real source
bugs.
Source fixes:
- tools/mcp_tool.py: _kill_orphaned_mcp_children() slept 2s on every
shutdown even when no tracked PIDs existed, making test_shutdown_is_parallel
measure ~3s for 3 parallel 1s shutdowns. Early-return when pids is empty.
- hermes_cli/tips.py: tip 105 was 157 chars; corpus max is 150.
Test fixes (mostly stale mock targets / missing fixture fields):
- test_zombie_process_cleanup, test_agent_cache: patch run_agent.cleanup_vm
(the local name bound at import), not tools.terminal_tool.cleanup_vm.
- test_browser_camofox: patch tools.browser_camofox.load_config, not
hermes_cli.config.load_config (the source module, not the resolved one).
- test_flush_memories_codex._chat_response_with_memory_call: add
finish_reason, tool_call.id, tool_call.type so the chat_completions
transport normalizer doesn't AttributeError.
- test_concurrent_interrupt: polling_tool signature now accepts
messages= kwarg that _invoke_tool() passes through.
- test_minimax_provider: add _fallback_chain=[] to the __new__'d agent
so switch_model() doesn't AttributeError.
- test_skills_config: SKILLS_DIR MagicMock + .rglob stopped working
after the scanner switched to agent.skill_utils.iter_skill_index_files
(os.walk-based). Point SKILLS_DIR at a real tmp_path and patch
agent.skill_utils.get_external_skills_dirs.
- test_browser_cdp_tool: browser_cdp toolset was intentionally split into
'browser-cdp' (commit 96b0f3700) so its stricter check_fn doesn't gate
the whole browser toolset; test now expects 'browser-cdp'.
- test_registry: add tools.browser_dialog_tool to the expected
builtin-discovery set (PR #14540 added it).
- test_file_tools TestPatchHints: patch_tool surfaces hints as a '_hint'
key on the JSON payload, not inline '[Hint: ...' text.
- test_write_deny test_hermes_env: resolve .env via get_hermes_home() so
the path matches the profile-aware denylist under hermetic HERMES_HOME.
- test_checkpoint_manager test_falls_back_to_parent: guard the walk-up
so a stray /tmp/pyproject.toml on the host doesn't pick up /tmp as the
project root.
- test_quick_commands: set cli.session_id in the __new__'d CLI so the
alias-args path doesn't trip AttributeError when fuzzy-matching leaks
a skill command across xdist test distribution.
Closes#11616.
The agent's API retry loop hardcoded max_retries = 3, so users with
fallback providers on flaky primaries burned through ~3 × provider
timeout (e.g. 3 × 180s = 9 minutes) before their fallback chain got a
chance to kick in.
Expose a new config key:
agent:
api_max_retries: 3 # default unchanged
Set it to 1 for fast failover when you have fallback providers, or
raise it if you prefer longer tolerance on a single provider. Values
< 1 are clamped to 1 (single attempt, no retry); non-integer values
fall back to the default.
This wraps the Hermes-level retry loop only — the OpenAI SDK's own
low-level retries (max_retries=2 default) still run beneath this for
transient network errors.
Changes:
- hermes_cli/config.py: add agent.api_max_retries default 3 with comment.
- run_agent.py: read self._api_max_retries in AIAgent.__init__; replace
hardcoded max_retries = 3 in the retry loop with self._api_max_retries.
- cli-config.yaml.example: documented example entry.
- hermes_cli/tips.py: discoverable tip line.
- tests/run_agent/test_api_max_retries_config.py: 4 tests covering
default, override, clamp-to-one, and invalid-value fallback.
Adds role='leaf'|'orchestrator' to delegate_task. With max_spawn_depth>=2,
an orchestrator child retains the 'delegation' toolset and can spawn its
own workers; leaf children cannot delegate further (identical to today).
Default posture is flat — max_spawn_depth=1 means a depth-0 parent's
children land at the depth-1 floor and orchestrator role silently
degrades to leaf. Users opt into nested delegation by raising
max_spawn_depth to 2 or 3 in config.yaml.
Also threads acp_command/acp_args through the main agent loop's delegate
dispatch (previously silently dropped in the schema) via a new
_dispatch_delegate_task helper, and adds a DelegateEvent enum with
legacy-string back-compat for gateway/ACP/CLI progress consumers.
Config (hermes_cli/config.py defaults):
delegation.max_concurrent_children: 3 # floor-only, no upper cap
delegation.max_spawn_depth: 1 # 1=flat (default), 2-3 unlock nested
delegation.orchestrator_enabled: true # global kill switch
Salvaged from @pefontana's PR #11215. Overrides vs. the original PR:
concurrency stays at 3 (PR bumped to 5 + cap 8 — we keep the floor only,
no hard ceiling); max_spawn_depth defaults to 1 (PR defaulted to 2 which
silently enabled one level of orchestration for every user).
Co-authored-by: pefontana <fontana.pedro93@gmail.com>
Smart model routing (auto-routing short/simple turns to a cheap model
across providers) was opt-in and disabled by default. This removes the
feature wholesale: the routing module, its config keys, docs, tests, and
the orchestration scaffolding it required in cli.py / gateway/run.py /
cron/scheduler.py.
The /fast (Priority Processing / Anthropic fast mode) feature kept its
hooks into _resolve_turn_agent_config — those still build a route dict
and attach request_overrides when the model supports it; the route now
just always uses the session's primary model/provider rather than
running prompts through choose_cheap_model_route() first.
Also removed:
- DEFAULT_CONFIG['smart_model_routing'] block and matching commented-out
example sections in hermes_cli/config.py and cli-config.yaml.example
- _load_smart_model_routing() / self._smart_model_routing on GatewayRunner
- self._smart_model_routing / self._active_agent_route_signature on
HermesCLI (signature kept; just no longer initialised through the
smart-routing pipeline)
- route_label parameter on HermesCLI._init_agent (only set by smart
routing; never read elsewhere)
- 'Smart Model Routing' section in website/docs/integrations/providers.md
- tip in hermes_cli/tips.py
- entries in hermes_cli/dump.py + hermes_cli/web_server.py
- row in skills/autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent/SKILL.md
Tests:
- Deleted tests/agent/test_smart_model_routing.py
- Rewrote tests/agent/test_credential_pool_routing.py to target the
simplified _resolve_turn_agent_config directly (preserves credential
pool propagation + 429 rotation coverage)
- Dropped 'cheap model' test from test_cli_provider_resolution.py
- Dropped resolve_turn_route patches from cli + gateway test_fast_command
— they now exercise the real method end-to-end
- Removed _smart_model_routing stub assignments from gateway/cron test
helpers
Targeted suites: 74/74 in the directly affected test files;
tests/agent + tests/cron + tests/cli pass except 5 failures that
already exist on main (cron silent-delivery + alias quick-command).
Add a 'tip of the day' feature that displays a random one-liner about
Hermes Agent features on every new session — CLI startup, /clear, /new,
and gateway /new across all messaging platforms.
- New hermes_cli/tips.py module with 210 curated tips covering slash
commands, keybindings, CLI flags, config options, tools, gateway
platforms, profiles, sessions, memory, skills, cron, voice, security,
and more
- CLI: tips display in skin-aware dim gold color after the welcome line
- Gateway: tips append to the /new and /reset response on all platforms
- Fully wrapped in try/except — tips are non-critical and never break
startup or reset
Display format (CLI):
✦ Tip: /btw <question> asks a quick side question without tools or history.
Display format (gateway):
✨ Session reset! Starting fresh.
✦ Tip: hermes -c resumes your most recent CLI session.
