The shape rule (a platform prefix plus _TOKEN/_SECRET/_PASSWORD/_KEY) also
matched variables Hermes never reads: the platform list holds plain words
(LOCAL, GATEWAY, WEBHOOK, SLACK), so a user's SLACK_USER_TOKEN,
LOCAL_LLM_API_KEY or GATEWAY_API_KEY vanished from the terminal and
terminal.env_passthrough could not bring them back. The prefix census it
leaned on also failed open (an unreadable plugins dir cached an empty set).
Adapter secrets now come from what adapters declare: password entries of
the messaging OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS (built-ins plus every platform plugin
manifest) and secret-named keys of the gateway env-override table, both
Tier 1 and refused by passthrough; plus the secret-named required_env of
adapters registered in the current profile scope, read per spawn without
loading deferred adapters, Tier 2 only because required_env is an
unchecked setup list. Secrets nothing declared get a manifest entry
(TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET, PHOTON_SIDECAR_TOKEN, A2A_PUSH_SECRET,
TEAMS_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN, TEAMS_INCOMING_WEBHOOK_URL) or join the
policy's read-in-code list (QQ_STT_API_KEY, the two MSGRAPH names).
The adapter still honours PHOTON_NODE_BIN ahead of PM's pinned node, but
the pm hand-merge dropped it from optional_env, so the override became
undocumented and unreachable from setup.
Introduce the pm store: a unified, hash-verified package store that
replaces lazy_deps and the old installer's ad-hoc tool downloads.
Store tools are provisioned on PATH (ffmpeg, node/npm via pinned uv),
with a resumable 8-way downloader, verify() returning failure reasons,
and adopt() made EPERM-safe. chromium ships in the payload for every
target. The 3600-line install.sh is replaced by a staged bootstrapper
(heavy deps are pm's job after this); setup-hermes.sh, Dockerfile and
nix pin tables are rewired onto the store. Old install-script tests,
lazy_deps/managed_uv/build_info, and the ps1/bash installer test
batteries are removed with the machinery they tested.
Rebuilt from ethie/pm onto upstream/main (ac6c8028e0) after the
utf-8-sig sweep. 16 hot files (main also churned them) hand-merged:
platform adapters, main.py, electron/main.ts, tui_gateway/server.py,
cua_backend, installer-tests workflow, install.sh (full rewrite),
setup-hermes.sh, plugins doc.
Follow-ups on top of #98964's cherry-pick:
- PHOTON_READ_RECEIPTS env toggle (default true) so users can keep
messages at Delivered; declared in plugin.yaml optional_env
- adapter drops both 'read' and 'read_receipt' content types (alias
coverage from #91759 by @mooserini) + regression test
- docs: photon.md feature note + environment-variables.md row
Pin spectrum-ts to exactly 3.0.0 (was ^1.18.0 plus an `npm install
spectrum-ts@latest` on every setup) so breaking SDK majors can't take
down fresh installs silently; `hermes photon setup` now runs `npm ci`.
Upgrade procedure documented in the README.
Migrate resolveSpace to the v3 namespace API: `im.space.create(phone)`
for DMs and `im.space.get(id)` for everything else — group spaces are
now rehydratable from their persisted id after a sidecar restart, which
v1 could not do.
Markdown: replies go out via the v3 `markdown()` builder (iMessage
renders natively; other Spectrum platforms degrade to plain text).
`PHOTON_MARKDOWN=false` reverts to the stripped plain-text path.
Reactions, behind PHOTON_REACTIONS (default off): lifecycle tapbacks
(👀 while processing, 👍/👎 on completion) via new sidecar /react and
/unreact endpoints with per-target reaction-handle tracking, and user
tapbacks on bot-sent messages routed to the agent as synthetic
`reaction:added:<emoji>` events.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Switch `list_users`, `find_user_by_phone`, `create_user`,
`register_user_if_absent`, and `refresh_user_numbers` from the
Dashboard API (Bearer token) to the Spectrum API (Basic auth with
project credentials). Update response unwrapping to handle the nested
`data.users` envelope returned by Spectrum, add `_spectrum_host()`
resolver, `_basic()` header helper, and structured error helpers.
Update tests, docs, and plugin.yaml accordingly.
Allow PHOTON_HOME_CHANNEL to accept a bare E.164 phone number or a
`any;-;+1...` DM chat GUID in addition to a Spectrum space id. Inbound
DM spaces are cached so replies resolve without a second SDK lookup,
and `photon` is added to _PHONE_PLATFORMS so send_message treats E.164
strings as explicit targets rather than falling through to channel-name
resolution.
Make Photon iMessage a first-class persistent-connection channel like
Discord/Slack, using the spectrum-ts gRPC stream for both directions.
- Inbound: the sidecar forwards the SDK's app.messages gRPC stream to the
adapter over a loopback GET /inbound (NDJSON) instead of webhooks. Drops
the aiohttp webhook server, HMAC signature verification, public URL, and
PHOTON_WEBHOOK_* config; adapter reconnects with backoff.
- Management plane: device login uses client_id=photon-cli against the
single dashboard host (Bearer), matching the official photon-hq/cli;
find-or-create "Hermes Agent" project, enable Spectrum, rotate secret,
register user (with phone dedup), surface the assigned iMessage line.
- SDK projectId is the project's spectrumProjectId, not the dashboard id;
runtime creds persist to ~/.hermes/.env like every other channel.
- CLI: 6-step setup, webhook subcommands removed.
- Tests/docs updated for the gRPC flow; sidecar pins spectrum-ts ^1.17.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the last missing parity piece vs the established channels: group
chats can be made opt-in via a mention wake word, exactly like the
BlueBubbles iMessage channel.
- require_mention + mention_patterns, read from config.extra (config.yaml
via the generic gateway bridge) or PHOTON_REQUIRE_MENTION /
PHOTON_MENTION_PATTERNS env vars. Same shapes BlueBubbles accepts
(list / JSON / comma / newline), same default Hermes wake words.
- _dispatch_inbound drops unmatched group messages and strips the leading
wake word from matched ones; DMs are never gated.
- plugin.yaml + docs document both knobs and the config.yaml form.
- New test_mention_gating.py (8 tests): default-off, group drop/pass,
wake-word strip, DM bypass, custom patterns, env comma-list, invalid
regex skip.
The config.yaml -> extra bridge needed no core change — the generic
shared-key loop in gateway/config.py already iterates plugin platforms
(_shared_loop_targets += plugin_entries()), so require_mention /
mention_patterns flow through automatically.
Note: outbound media is the one capability Photon still can't reach —
Photon exposes no HTTP send-attachment endpoint yet (documented API
limitation), so the sidecar can't send files. Not faked.
Validation: 34/34 photon tests; E2E confirms config.yaml require_mention
+ custom mention_patterns bridge through load_gateway_config into a live
adapter and gate/strip correctly.
First-class iMessage support via Photon's managed Spectrum platform.
Targeted as a successor to the BlueBubbles adapter — Photon allocates
the iMessage line, handles delivery, and abuse-prevention so users
don't have to run their own Mac relay. Free tier uses Photon's shared
line pool.
Architecture:
- Inbound: signed JSON webhooks (X-Spectrum-Signature, HMAC-SHA256)
delivered to a local aiohttp listener. Dedupes on message.id,
rejects deliveries with >5min timestamp drift.
- Outbound: small supervised Node sidecar that runs the spectrum-ts
SDK. Photon does not currently expose a public HTTP send-message
endpoint; the sidecar is the only way to call Space.send() today.
When Photon ships an HTTP send endpoint we collapse the sidecar
into _sidecar_send and drop the Node dep — every other layer of
the plugin stays the same.
- Setup: 'hermes photon login' runs the RFC 8628 device-code flow;
'hermes photon setup' creates a Spectrum-enabled project, creates
a shared user (free tier), installs the sidecar's npm deps.
- Webhook management: 'hermes photon webhook register|list|delete'.
- Credentials persisted under credential_pool.photon /
credential_pool.photon_project in ~/.hermes/auth.json.
Plugin path (not built-in) — per current policy (May 2026), all new
platforms ship under plugins/platforms/. Registers itself via
ctx.register_platform() + ctx.register_cli_command(), zero edits to
core gateway code.
Tests cover:
- HMAC-SHA256 signature verification (happy path, tampered body,
wrong secret, drift, missing v0 prefix, empty inputs, non-integer
timestamp)
- Inbound dispatch for text DMs, group ids (any;+;...), and
attachment metadata markers
- Deduplication window
- check_requirements gating when Node is absent
- Device-code flow: request, header-based token return,
body-fallback token return, access_denied propagation
- Project/user/webhook API clients with mocked httpx
Known limitations (current Photon API):
- Attachments are metadata only — no download URL yet
- Outbound attachment send not wired (sidecar can add easily)
- Reactions / message effects not exposed yet
Docs: website/docs/user-guide/messaging/photon.md + sidebar entry.
