The gateway asked the user questions (approval, clarify, sudo, secret,
vault, MCP setup, the desktop read/act bridges) by emitting a
`<x>.request` EVENT carrying a hand-minted request_id, blocking the
agent thread on a module dict keyed by that id, and exposing a paired
`<x>.respond` METHOD per kind — thirteen pairs, four registries
(`_pending`, `_answers`, `_batch_clarify`, `_EXPIRING_REQUESTS`) and a
per-kind reconnect snapshot (`pending_clarify` / `pending_approval`)
that only two of the thirteen kinds ever got. JSON-RPC already has the
primitive: the server sends a request frame with an id and the client
answers with a response frame bearing the same id.
`tui_gateway/server_requests.py` owns the one mechanism:
send() block the agent thread until the response frame
(`srq-<n>` ids; ints belong to the client)
send_async() fire-and-callback variant (bot relay)
cancel*() withdraw with ONE `request.cancel {id, method, reason}`
event (timeout / interrupt / process exit /
answered elsewhere) instead of per-kind *.expire
open_requests() the still-open frames, replayed by session.resume,
session.activate and session.events.since so a
reconnecting client re-renders every kind, not two
clarify.lock stays a real client→server RPC (locks one batch
answer early); locked answers merge into the final
set even when the closing response carries only the
tail the user answered last
A client that does not implement a method answers -32601 and the agent
fails fast (the old fixed-timeout "unavailable" probes for tour/preview
still work — a wire error IS an answer). Approval: the queue entry's
settle hook withdraws the request when `/approve` from another surface,
a timeout or an interrupt resolves it first, so no window keeps a dead
card. Compute-host children own their waits; the parent mirrors their
open frames for replay and relays `clarify.lock` + response frames.
Clients: `JsonRpcRequestChannel` gains `onRequest` (unhandled → -32601,
dedup by id) and `JsonRpcGatewayClient` re-delivers `open_requests`
from the replay result. Desktop gets `gateway-event/server-requests.ts`
(one handler per method, replacing the request branches of
`input-requests.ts` / `desktop-bridge.ts`) and a `store/server-requests`
registry so every answer site calls `respondToServerRequest(id, result)`
synchronously; the TUI gets `createServerRequestHandler.ts` +
`serverRequestStore.ts`. `gateway-events.json` now pins both halves
(events + server request methods); the two contract tests check both.
Live (real stdio gateway, real `clarify_callback` on the agent thread):
before, `clarify.request` event + `clarify.respond` RPC, batch final
answers lost ('' returned); after, `{"id":"srq-…","method":"clarify"}`
frame, `session.events.since.open_requests` replays it, response frame
`{"answer":"yes"}` reaches the agent, batch lock + final response
merge to `{"q0":"1","q1":"free text"}`.
Merge upstream b1f003e186 while preserving PM runtime ownership and
Python 3.14 worker startup, Windows signing, and macOS wait recovery.
Keep retired runtime modules deleted. Port upstream updater preflight
checks into the checkout strategy and preserve live build logging.
Carry checkpoint filename handling and process recovery into the current
module layout. Regenerate locks and adapt incoming platform test markers.
Focused Python and JavaScript tests, desktop and root-test typechecks,
conflict-path lint checks, lock validation, and retired-import checks pass.
The full test suite and packaged release builds were not run.
Finish bootstrap uv before PM replaces its store entry. Keep failure
receipts stdlib-only and align the cryptography requirement and override
with the locked version.
Let bundle builders declare launch paths and update ownership. Remove
payload discovery, Store probing, and the unused develop command.
Derive Nix Python from the PM lock and share its provenance stamp.
Document setup, activation, optional dependencies, and distribution
ownership. Targeted Windows tests, relocated runtime launches, Electron
bundling, and bilingual docs builds pass. Native Nix and signed-package
acceptance remain CI gates.
Rip out the Termux/Android install lane: constraints-termux.txt,
psutil_android extraction, termux-browser tests, the apt install-method
lane in install.sh, termux api detection, and the TUI termux layout.
Zero added termux lines; 255 removed. System prompt and skill-utils
termux branches drop with the platform they served.
Rebuilt from ethie/pm (f8236a2d91, 7ad9f0c7a5, 8446c871b6, 82fb8e09d1)
onto the pm-store stack. 11 hot files hand-merged; test_code_execution
restored to branch-final (termux path assertions removed).
74a95a3ddf promoted /bg and /btw to independent canonical commands and
retired /background entirely (hermes_cli/commands.py's COMMAND_REGISTRY
has no "background" command or alias). Three places still taught the
old name:
- skills/autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent/references/slash-commands.md:
the bundled hermes-agent skill's own slash-command reference — the
skill's SKILL.md explicitly routes the model here for in-session
command questions, so a model following it would emit the dead
`/background <prompt>` and never learn /btw exists.
- ui-tui/README.md: listed /btw as an alias of /background, which is
simply wrong post-split (both are independent, alias-free commands).
- tests/cli/test_cli_background_status_indicator.py: docstring/comments
described the ▶ indicator by the retired command name.
No behavior change; corrects documentation only.
- tui_gateway commands.catalog: skip _TUI_EXTRA entries that collide with a
registry command or alias (the /compact class of bug, #57133; also removes
the pre-existing /sessions duplicate) — registry entry is canonical.
- apps/desktop: /compact now dispatches as an alias of /compress (matching
the registry's canonical alias) instead of dead-ending; /density (the
renamed TUI display toggle) is marked terminal-only so the desktop palette
doesn't advertise a command its dispatcher can't run.
- ui-tui/README.md: document /density instead of the old /compact toggle.
- tests: commands.catalog regression test asserting no duplicate advertised
names and no command shadowing another command's alias; desktop routing test.
* fix(billing): rename user-facing "terminal billing" copy to Remote Spending
The capability was renamed Remote Spending on the portal (consent CTA:
"Allow Remote Spending"; per-terminal states Granted/Stopped), but the
terminal, desktop, and docs still said "terminal billing" everywhere.
- Feature name: Remote Spending in titles/labels, lowercase mid-sentence.
- Step-up action verb is now "allow", matching the portal consent CTA.
- Kill-switch-off recovery copy points at the actual control ("a billing
admin can turn it on from the portal's Hermes Agent page") instead of
the dead-end "manage it on the portal".
- Per-terminal revoke copy uses the portal vocabulary ("stopped").
- Wire identifiers (cli_billing_enabled, cli_billing_disabled, ...) are
unchanged; copy, comments, docs, and test expectations only.
* fix(billing): correct the post-step-up denial diagnosis + finish the desktop rename
Adversarial review findings: (1) a repeated insufficient_scope after a
successful step-up is a per-terminal authorization failure, but the copy
blamed the org kill-switch and pointed at the wrong recovery control —
now: "Remote Spending still isn't active for this terminal — the
authorization didn't take. Retry, or make this change on the portal."
(2) the desktop step-up flow started in Remote Spending vocabulary but
finished in "billing management access" — renamed both end states.
(3) prettier formatting on the touched files (matches the post-merge
fmt bot).
Follow-up on salvaged #50347: the event surface table was missing the
billing.step_up.verification switch case, and the File map omitted
lib/perfPane.tsx.
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
- resolveEditor() now returns argv (string[]) so EDITOR='code --wait'
and VISUAL='emacsclient -t' tokenize correctly into spawnSync's
separate command + args. Previously the whole string was passed as
argv[0] and would ENOENT.
- Skip the POSIX X_OK PATH walk on Windows; return ['notepad.exe']
there since fs.constants.X_OK is not meaningful and PATHEXT-based
resolution would need its own implementation.
- Surface openEditor() rejections via actions.sys instead of letting
them become unhandled promise rejections in the useInput callback.
- Hotkey docs/comment now say Cmd/Ctrl+G to match isAction()'s
platform-action-modifier behavior (Cmd on macOS, Ctrl elsewhere).
VSCode and Cursor bind Ctrl+G to "Find Next" at the editor level, so
the keystroke never reaches the embedded terminal — Ctrl+G to open
\$EDITOR was effectively dead inside those IDEs.
Alt+G is unbound in both editors and reaches the TUI cleanly as
`\x1bg` → `key.meta && ch === 'g'` after parse-keypress. Accept it
alongside the existing isAction(key, ch, 'g') check, and document the
fallback in README + the hotkeys panel.
