Off should mean the model is never told the tool exists. A switch that
only made the call fail leaves Hermes offering walkthroughs it cannot
give and promising to point at things it cannot point at, which reads as
a broken agent rather than a respected preference.
Both gate on the switch through a shared desktop_ui.user_enabled helper,
which is the reactions check_fn generalized — same config read, same
reason it has to be config rather than an env var: the switch belongs to
the session's client, and the client may be on another machine.
Extract the open_preview emitter into a shared tools/desktop_ui bridge
(one gateway-injected sink, routed by HERMES_UI_SESSION_ID) and add a
second desktop-gated tool on top of it:
- focus_pane(chat|files|terminal|review|sessions) -> pane.reveal event.
The desktop runs each pane's own reveal path (revealDesktopPane table)
and only acts on the active window -- a background turn never moves the
user's focus (desktop AGENTS.md: offer, don't hijack).
open_preview now emits through the same bridge. Both tools are check_fn
on HERMES_DESKTOP (zero footprint elsewhere), sitting beside
read_terminal/close_terminal in _HERMES_CORE_TOOLS.
Deliberately not adding run_slash: letting the agent fire slash commands
mid-turn (/model, /new, /clear) fights prompt-cache + conversation
invariants.
