* feat(docker): publish nousresearch/hermes-sandbox:desktop for terminal backends
The terminal backends (docker, modal, daytona, singularity) all default to
nikolaik/python-nodejs:python3.11-nodejs20, a bare Python+Node base. For Bot
Screen, computer_use and the browser to run INSIDE that sandbox instead of on
the gateway host, the sandbox image needs the display stack.
docker/sandbox-desktop.Dockerfile is that base plus:
- the everyday tools it lacked (jq, ripgrep, fd, tmux, less, nano, vim,
zip, rsync, tree, procps, htop, sudo for the base's uid-1000 `pn`)
- the exact package set the Hermes -desktop image installs (TigerVNC,
Xfce components, dbus, xauth, fonts)
- Playwright's headed Chromium (same build as the -desktop image)
- cua-driver 0.28.2 from its pinned release tarball
No Hermes inside; the default user stays root like the base so nothing
changes for people who just switch docker_image. Desktop processes run as
`pn`. 4.27 GB on amd64.
docker.yml gains a `sandbox` variant with its own cache scope and repository
(nousresearch/hermes-sandbox:desktop, :main-desktop, :<release>-desktop);
the docker-integration suite is skipped for it (no Hermes to test) and
docker/sandbox-desktop-smoke.sh runs instead: as `pn`, every launcher and
cua-driver binary resolves, the real launcher.sh publishes :20, the RFB
socket completes the 3.8 handshake relayed over `docker exec -i` stdio, and
a headed Chromium maps a window on that display. hadolint lints the new
Dockerfile in docker-lint.yml.
* feat(docker): sandbox desktop base on python3.13-nodejs26
Matches the Hermes image (Python 3.13 / Node 26) and the top of requires-python;
the default docker_image tag it inherited was Python 3.11 / Node 20. Same pn
uid 1000, Debian 13; smoke (launcher, RFB relay, headed Chromium) passes.
* feat(docker): bake agent-browser into hermes-sandbox:desktop
The browser tools drive the agent-browser CLI; when the browser follows the
terminal backend that CLI has to exist inside the sandbox. Pinned to the same
^0.26.0 range the gateway resolves, --ignore-scripts like the gateway's npx path.
* feat(bot_desktop): the screen, computer_use and the browser follow the terminal backend
A user who sandboxes `terminal` (docker/ssh/singularity) had the agent's
screen, cua-driver and Chromium running on the gateway HOST beside that
sandbox: Bot Screen gave a headless host a display, the Xfce panel carries
xfce4-terminal, and `computer_use` could open a shell outside the boundary
the sandbox exists for.
Now the desktop lives where the terminal lives:
- tools/environments/streams.py: one primitive per spawn-per-call backend, the
local argv prefix that runs its remainder inside the sandbox with stdio open
(`docker exec -i`, `ssh`, `apptainer exec`). SDK backends (modal, daytona,
vercel) have none and report so.
- tools/bot_desktop/sandbox_host.py: launcher.sh runs inside the sandbox as
the image's `pn`; the pane's RFB bytes ride a 12-line python relay over that
prefix; `cua-driver mcp` is the prefix + the sandbox image's own driver.
- tools/bot_desktop/placement.py + `bot_desktop.placement` (auto|terminal|
gateway). `auto` follows the backend; a sandbox that cannot host a screen
REFUSES with the opt-in named instead of silently using the host.
- runtime.start/stop/status/published_env branch on placement; the pane,
lease, epoch fencing and CLI are unchanged.
- cua_backend: the MCP invocation is the sandbox one when the screen is
there; the host driver's runtime contract is irrelevant then; check_fn is
true under a terminal placement without a host binary.
- browser_tool_session: agent-browser invocations are wrapped in the prefix
with the daemon, socket dir and profile inside the sandbox; screenshots are
fetched back so MEDIA: paths keep working; recycle closes the sandbox
daemon.
- web_routers/display.py: the bridge pumps a relay's stdio when the screen is
in a sandbox, a unix socket otherwise.
Live on docker with nousresearch/hermes-sandbox:desktop: start/observe/RFB
handshake through the dashboard bridge, human takeover fences the agent
(HumanHasControl) and keystrokes reach the sandbox Xvnc, handback restores,
three start/stop rounds leave zero desktop processes; computer_use capture
and list_windows see only the sandbox's Xfce; browser_navigate/snapshot/
vision run with Chromium and agent-browser inside the container and zero
host processes on the bot profile; modal + auto refuses naming the opt-in.
* feat(desktop): Screen pane shows where a sandbox-placed screen runs; Install is host-only
DesktopStatus gains placement ('gateway' | 'terminal:<backend>'). A sandbox
image lacking the stack is a blocker naming hermes-sandbox:desktop, shown in
place of Start; install_command stays None there because the pane's Install
button runs the package manager on the gateway host, the wrong machine, and
display.install refuses for the same reason. The pane header carries
'Screen runs inside the docker sandbox, with the terminal' (4 locales).
* fix(bot_desktop): "is the screen in the sandbox" is a disk check on hot paths, never a config read
Every browser command and CUA spawn asked in_sandbox(), which resolves placement by
loading config, which initializes HERMES_HOME. Under a test's fake home that raised
HomeInitializationError from _run_browser_command; on a real host it read config per
click. Hot paths now ask sandbox_screen_running(): the start marker on disk, written
only by a sandbox start. Policy (in_sandbox) stays for start/install, where config is
the question. display.observe gates on "an RFB endpoint exists" for either placement.
* test(moa): late-accounting sink test asserts the wedged slot's row, not sink order
Under CI load the poll loop can see the interrupt before collecting the fast slot, so the
fast slot also arrives late and first; the test then failed on sink_calls[0]. The
contract is that the wedged slot's real usage reaches the sink.
* chore: retrigger CI (zero-job dispatch failure, auto-heal)
* fix(bot_desktop): a sandbox that died under a live screen fails loudly, never falls to the host
sandbox_screen_running() drops a start marker whose terminal environment is no longer
registered (stale after a process restart). When the environment object outlives its
container, the browser's sandbox wrap now checks the published DISPLAY and raises
"the screen inside the terminal backend's sandbox is gone; start it again" instead of
KeyError('AGENT_BROWSER_PROFILE'). Live: fresh sandbox navigate ok; docker rm -f the
container; next navigate returns that error; zero host Chromium either way.
* feat(terminal): nousresearch/hermes-sandbox:desktop is the default container sandbox
Every container backend (docker, modal, daytona, singularity) now defaults to the
sandbox image with the desktop stack, so Bot Screen, computer_use and the browser
run inside the sandbox for everyone who never chose an image; Python 3.13 / Node 26
match the Hermes image. One constant (DEFAULT_SANDBOX_IMAGE) replaces six copies of
the old literal. Migration 47 moves saved configs still holding the OLD default and
never touches an image the user pinned. Docker reuse recreates a container built
from another image, or the flip would silently never take effect for anyone with a
persisted container (live: old container removed, new one on 3.13 / Node 26 with
Xvnc, cua-driver, agent-browser present).
* chore: retrigger CI (zero-job dispatch failure)
* chore: retrigger CI (zero-job dispatch failure, auto-heal)
* chore: retrigger CI (zero-job dispatch failure, auto-heal)
* chore(config): template stamps v47 and shows the new default sandbox image
The template is what install.sh / docker / doctor --fix seed; a stamp behind
DEFAULT_CONFIG makes every fresh install migrate on first run.
* feat(sandbox): the default image change is a decision, not a surprise
A persisted Docker sandbox on another image is kept when docker_image is unset;
only a written docker_image (an explicit pin) recreates it. The pin verdict
travels as TERMINAL_DOCKER_IMAGE_PINNED through both terminal bridges (process
env and per-profile scope) and the container-config allowlist.
Approval surfaces, all through hermes_cli.sandbox_image_switch: the interactive
CLI asks once at startup (y = pin the new image, n = pin the current one, Enter =
ask later); the Screen pane shows the same choice with Switch / Keep buttons via
display.switchSandboxImage; `hermes config set terminal.docker_image …` is the
same answer from any shell. Gateways and cron never decide: they keep the sandbox
and log the notice.
Migration 47 now unsets a saved image equal to the OLD default instead of
rewriting it to the new one — that value was the template copied, not a pin, and
rewriting it would have made the runtime recreate existing sandboxes unasked.
Modal restores its snapshot and Daytona reuses its labeled sandbox regardless of
the configured image, so existing sandboxes there were already untouched.
* fix(config): both plain defaults that preceded the desktop sandbox image are template copies
main pinned nikolaik/python-nodejs:python3.14-nodejs22 (cd0f97f833) without a migration;
a saved config holding either literal is unset by migration 47, so it follows the default
and existing sandboxes get the keep-or-switch decision instead of a silent recreate.
* ci(docker): build the sandbox image on release/dispatch, not every main push
Leaves docker.yml exactly as on main. The sandbox image carries no Hermes code,
so two 4 GB multi-arch builds per merge bought nothing. sandbox-image.yml builds
and smokes on a PR that edits its own Dockerfile/smoke, and publishes only on a
release or a manual dispatch with publish=true. Stable tag stays :desktop.
* fix(config): keep main's config.py/config_defaults.py edits under the sandbox-image delta
The rebase resolved both files wholesale with the branch side, dropping main's move to
hermes_yaml (the 3.14 runtime venv has no PyYAML) and the 3.14 base pin. This is main's
version plus exactly the branch's own changes: DEFAULT_SANDBOX_IMAGE, the pin verdict in the
env bridge, placement defaults and the v47 stamp.
* test: sandbox-image tests read config.yaml through hermes_yaml (no PyYAML on the 3.14 runtime)
* fix(bot_desktop): read the sandbox marker BOM-tolerantly (windows footgun lint)
* fix(bot_desktop): placement is the authority; sandbox screen survives restarts
Review findings on the sandbox-hosted Bot Screen, each reproduced live first.
Authority. The browser preflight and the CUA invocation keyed off screen
LIVENESS, so `placement: terminal` with the screen not yet up handed the tool an
unchanged host command. `runtime.tool_placement()` is now the one resolver:
terminal placement starts the sandbox screen on demand (no auto_start opt-in
inside the user's own sandbox), refused placement raises its reason, and neither
ever yields the host. placement.resolve() answers a local backend from env alone
so the common case costs no config load on the spawn path.
Restart. sandbox_screen_running() deleted the marker whenever the process-local
terminal registry was empty, i.e. after every gateway restart, while Xvnc kept
running in the container; stop() then returned False and left it. The marker
now records the owning container; liveness comes from `docker inspect` on it,
stop/status re-attach to the recorded owner (even after the placement setting
moved), and only a container that is gone drops the marker.
SSH. remote_argv emitted `bash -c <script>` as three words; OpenSSH joins them
and the remote login shell ran `bash -c export` and the rest itself. The script
travels as one quoted word for ssh (remote_command knows the backend); docker
and apptainer keep argv.
CDP reach. agent-browser inside the sandbox reports the sandbox's loopback;
the Browser Use harness, browser_exec and the vault supervisor connect from the
host and got connection refused. streams.forward_port() proxies a local port
over the exec stream (same relay as the RFB bridge) and the CDP URL is rewritten
to the local end.
pids limit. --pids-limit 256 counts threads; measured on the desktop image the
desktop stack is 44, one Chromium tab 212, the agent's browser with two tabs
488. Past the cap every further docker exec died with "procReady not received".
Default is 2048 with the measurements in the comment.
Replacement. An approved image switch force-removed the old container before
`docker run` tried the new image; a private tag or registry outage left nothing.
The image is inspected/pulled first and the old container kept on failure.
Desktop integration. The sandbox start never passed the dock's browser launcher
(no Browser icon) and the thumbnail needed a host launcher pid + host ImageGrab
(always None). The dock runs the sandbox's Playwright Chromium on the shared
profile; the thumbnail is grabbed inside the sandbox (Pillow baked into the
image). The browser profile moves from /tmp — a 512 MB tmpfs emptied on every
container stop — to the desktop user's home, so logins follow the container.
Pin provenance. A TERMINAL_DOCKER_IMAGE written in a routed profile's .env is a
pin even when it spells the default; the scope compared values before.
* docs(bot-screen): no literal tmp path in the profile-location note
* fix(bot_desktop): docker inspect liveness probe closes stdin (TUI subprocess guard)
* fix(bot_desktop): adopting a screen the sandbox kept records the marker
Live ssh probe: after the host's state was lost while the sandbox kept its
Xvnc, start() took the idempotent early return (display already published)
and never wrote the host marker, so status/thumbnail/stop lost the screen.
Record the adopted display like a fresh launch.
Docs: what an ssh host of your own must carry, and why a Dockerfile ENV is
not enough for a login session (PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH via /etc/environment).
* docker(sandbox-desktop): login sessions find the browser (PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH via /etc/environment)
* docs(bot-screen): what the Apptainer path inherits from the image and what it does not
* chore(config): sandbox-image migration is 47→48 (main took 47 for compression.threshold_tokens)
* chore: retrigger CI (zero-job dispatch failure, auto-heal)
* fix(desktop): bound NVIDIA EGL fallback to confirmed-broken driver series
The 580+ check was open-ended: every future NVIDIA series (615.x, #123203)
was forced onto CPU SwiftShader rendering even though only 580.x has
confirmed EGL probe reports (#40077: 580.159.03, 580.173.02) and 570.x is
the recommended downgrade. Replace the >= floor with a closed set of
known-broken series majors so healthy newer drivers keep GPU rendering.
HERMES_DESKTOP_NVIDIA_SWIFTSHADER still overrides both ways.
* docs(desktop): document the NVIDIA SwiftShader override and scope its force-on claim
- add HERMES_DESKTOP_NVIDIA_SWIFTSHADER to environment-variables.md (both
directions, with the recovery-hatch framing the closed-set design leans on)
- correct the module header: force-on does not apply where an earlier gate
already returned (remote display, WSLg, DISABLE_GPU=0)
Review follow-ups on PR #123213.
* test(desktop): pin NVIDIA EGL detection to set membership across a driver sweep
The closed-set test only checked that 580 is a member, so it still passed
if a neighbouring series was added to the set or the check drifted back
to a floor. Sweep majors 500-700 and require enable === set.has(major);
this fails against a '>= 580' floor. Also clears the prettier arrow-paren
diff that js-autofix would have reverted on merge.
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Co-authored-by: Austin Pickett <austinpickett@users.noreply.github.com>
HERMES_DESKTOP_IGNORE_EXISTING=1 only wrapped the PATH probe, so a usable
active install or system Python still started a local serve. Skipping those
rungs on every resolve would make the post-bootstrap re-resolve return
bootstrap-needed and start the installer again. The first pass now falls
through to connect/onboarding; the re-resolve keeps the runtime just installed.
Fixes#117682
The previous commit stops auto-routing a non-sk-or- OPENAI_API_KEY to
OpenRouter. The env-var reference still described OPENAI_API_KEY only as a
custom-endpoint key and the non-interactive setup hint listed it as an
OpenRouter alternative. Say what the key now selects so users with an
OpenRouter key in OPENAI_API_KEY know to move it to OPENROUTER_API_KEY.
Co-authored-by: notwitcheer <notwitcheer@users.noreply.github.com>
The image refused every lazy install (HERMES_DISABLE_LAZY_INSTALLS=1), so
edge-tts and the other opt-in SDKs could never be installed at runtime. PM
never writes the sealed /opt/hermes/.venv: it builds a generation under
$HERMES_HOME/installs and commits it in facts.json there, which already
survives container recreates and image updates. Drop the refusal.
Surviving updates means a new image boots under a selection resolved against
the previous image's lock. refresh_dependencies() re-resolves the recorded
extras and plugins against the current inputs; if that fails (offline), it
deselects the generation so the image's own environment boots, keeping the
extras recorded for the next boot or install. stage2 runs it as hermes before
any service starts, then collects generations nothing selects any more, since
nothing else collects them automatically and each one is a full venv.
HERMES_DATA_DIR_SUFFIX, HERMES_REPO_URL, HERMES_UPDATE_STATUS_FILE and
HERMES_UPDATE_UI_ACTIVE are set by Hermes' own bundles, installers and
update shim, not by users, but only the suffix was documented and it
read as a user knob. Add an "Internal bridge variables" table that
says who sets each one and why it cannot live in config, and move the
suffix row there.
Since the first-strike escalation, a closed transport (socket_closed /
client_closed) forces the reconnect on the first unhealthy sample and the
failure threshold only applies to soft signals (ack staleness, latency,
event silence). The user guide (website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md:89)
and the env-var reference (website/docs/reference/environment-variables.md:780)
still described the threshold as gating every unhealthy sample, so an
operator reading `1/2` followed by a forced reconnect would think the
knob was ignored. One sentence each, citing #118487.
Branch semantics kept where main and PM disagree: update_cmd_deps.py,
constraints-termux.txt, the Electron update-api-check module and the
post-swap hand-off test stay deleted; the pending-fleet-restart catch-up
and the local_runtime tag/download ladder stay retired (PM owns engines).
Ported from main onto the branch's shape: profile_scoped_chore for the
auto-archive and plugin-update housekeeping chores, the local-runtime
cross-process boot lock and residency cap, the checkpoint tmp_pack sweep,
the cua daemon-liveness status probe, the remote-served Desktop update
flag (posix.sh / windows.ps1), sign-in for env-pinned remote gateways
(urlDisabled on RemoteSetupFields), the uvloop extra split (uvicorn
without [standard]), and the umask-scoping spawn test.
uv.lock regenerated with pm.build_env --lock-only; new utf-8 reads from
main switched to utf-8-sig (check-windows-footguns).
BasePlatformAdapter._get_human_delay read HERMES_HUMAN_DELAY_MODE/_MIN_MS/_MAX_MS from the
process environment at every send, so under multiplexing the launch profile's pacing applied
to every served profile, and the documented `human_delay:` config section (mode/min_ms/max_ms,
already in DEFAULT_CONFIG) was never consulted. The runner now resolves `human_delay` per
profile through the same seam as the busy-text timings (`_human_delay_from_config`,
snapshotted in `_snapshot_profile_busy_modes`, installed by `_wire_adapter_handlers`) and the
adapter only consumes the installed range. Invalid `custom` bounds (non-integer, negative,
inverted) warn naming the key and fall back to the natural range.
Fixes#116895
The salvaged commit added https-proxy-agent, proxy-from-env and
@types/proxy-from-env as caret ranges; the repo pins every dependency to an
exact version so `npm ci` resolves the same tree everywhere. Pins are the
versions the lockfile already resolved (7.0.6 / 2.1.0 / 1.0.4), regenerated
with `npm install --package-lock-only`.
Documents that the Desktop update check now follows HTTPS_PROXY / HTTP_PROXY /
NO_PROXY in the environment-variables reference.
The prior commit only documented the <=2-member DM auto-classification
in the adapter.py module docstring — source an operator configuring
MATRIX_REQUIRE_MENTION etc. would never read. Issue #114733 explicitly
asks for the callout wherever MATRIX_ALLOWED_ROOMS,
MATRIX_FREE_RESPONSE_ROOMS, MATRIX_REQUIRE_MENTION, and MATRIX_AUTO_THREAD
are documented for operators, i.e. the env-var reference table and the
Matrix user guide. Add the same rule + bypassed vars + escape hatch to
both, matching the precedent set by 08aa67e473 for this kind of env-var
clarification, and extend the doc-content test to cover them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A launcher that spawns `hermes dashboard` (Desktop shell, link-style
integrations) mints HERMES_DASHBOARD_SESSION_TOKEN into the child's
environment and keeps the same token for its own /api probes. Every
dotenv layer in load_hermes_dotenv() loads with override=True, so a
persisted HERMES_DASHBOARD_SESSION_TOKEN line in ~/.hermes/.env replaced
the injected token: the child authenticated with the persisted value and
the parent got HTTP 401 from its own child.
Treat the token as a spawn credential in the dotenv publisher: a value
that dotenv did not put into os.environ (tracked by _DOTENV_PUBLISHED)
is left alone, while a value an earlier pass published still reloads,
so .env edits and home switches behave as before. Other keys, including
the documented HERMES_DASHBOARD_PUBLIC_URL, keep .env-wins precedence.
Co-authored-by: liuhao1024 <sunsky.lau@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: fangliquan <fangliquan@qq.com>
Conflicts resolved toward the PM model: main's lazy_deps/update_cmd_deps/npm
stamp machinery stays deleted (PM + scripts/build/node-deps.mjs own it), the
systemd ExecStop stop-mark rides the installation launcher, legacy
linux_only/macos_only/windows_only markers are rewritten to platforms(), and
finalize_update_receipt carries pending manual-serve obligations forward
again (lost when the ContextVar receipt rewrite crossed c0aa3ce354).
Test harness: the real-home I/O guard exempts /proc/<pid>/fd metadata reads
(deleted-WAL holder scans) and run_tests.sh drops ~/.hermes PATH entries so
shutil.which() cannot trip the tripwire.
Resolved toward the branch: PM provisions uv/python (main's install.ps1 uv-shim
salvage + its test and workflow steps dropped), the shim re-exec stays retired,
package.json carries no electron-builder block (afterExtract identity stamp wired
into electron-builder.config.cjs instead; after-pack.mjs keeps signing only),
Desktop workspace-deps helpers stay retired. Main's scratch-dir bootstrap
(export_scratch_tmp_env) is taken and re-run after profile resolution.
Two invariant tests (red on origin/main): a 401 rotation onto a Codex pool
row keeps the HERMES_CODEX_BASE_URL target, and model.base_url under
model.provider: openai-codex resolves for pool credentials. Adds the
previously undocumented HERMES_CODEX_BASE_URL row to the environment
variables reference so proxy users can find the knob and its reach.
Adds the key to cli-config.yaml.example and the multi-profile per-key list,
records the env-over-YAML precedence, and drops the duplicated
no_thread_channels clause in the new section.
Free-response channels skip auto-threading by default so the bot replies
inline (lightweight chat mode). This prevented users who wanted BOTH
mention-free replies AND per-conversation threads from getting either.
Add a new opt-in `discord.free_response_auto_thread` (env:
`DISCORD_FREE_RESPONSE_AUTO_THREAD`, default false) that, when true,
re-enables auto-threading in free-response channels. Voice-linked
channels continue to skip auto-thread regardless, and the flag is
gated behind the global `DISCORD_AUTO_THREAD=true`.
Default behavior is unchanged; all 291 existing discord tests pass.
Groups: policy, group-JID allowlist, and that participants are still authorised by
the gateway sender allowlist or pairing (`open` alone admits nobody without one);
`require_mention` defaults to false; WHATSAPP_GROUP_POLICY / WHATSAPP_GROUP_ALLOWED_USERS
rows in the environment reference. The alt-id node tests collapse to one (the
participantAlt case duplicated the first-contact case; the "still resolves via mapping
files" case only re-asserted matchesAllowedUser).
Mechanical `check_doc_links.py --fix` pass over website/docs (hand-authored
and generated pages) and the zh-Hans mirror: 1,868 route-style links
(`](/section/page#anchor)`, `](/docs/...)`) become `](../section/page.md#anchor)`.
Every target was asserted to exist on disk; anchors and query strings are
preserved; fenced code blocks and inline-code examples are untouched.
Two dead targets found by the converter were fixed by hand first:
memory-providers.md linked `/user-guide/plugins` (page is
`user-guide/features/plugins`), and the zh-Hans learning-path still linked the
removed `rl-training` page — ported the EN treatment (external Atropos link).
Docusaurus build after: EN locale 0 unresolved Markdown links, 0 broken links,
0 broken anchors.
Follow-up to the salvaged hermes_constants expansion (#109212): the CLI has
~30 raw `os.environ["HERMES_HOME"]` readers (fast --version path, early
display.interface probe, profile re-home, dotenv loader, subprocess-home
helper) that never go through get_hermes_home(). A literal `~` (fish, or
any quoted value) left them resolving `~/.hermes` against cwd while the
resolver now expands it, so the process would disagree with itself.
Normalize the env var once, at the earliest point of hermes_cli/main.py
(stdlib-only, before the fast paths), and expand it in the one raw
hermes_constants reader (`_profile_home_path`). A relative value that is
not tilde/variable-shaped is deliberately left alone: rejecting it would
break `HERMES_HOME=./tmp-home` in tests and CI for no user-facing gain.
Tests: real-CLI subprocess with HERMES_HOME='~/.x' under a fake HOME asserts
`config path` lands in the fake home and that no literal `~` directory
appears under cwd (the reporter's acceptance criterion, #114353), plus a
unit test for the normalizer. Docs: environment-variables reference.
The adapter honours six env fallbacks for discord.missed_message_backfill
(including the new MAX_ATTEMPTS one) but none was in the environment
variables reference; document them next to the other DISCORD_* rows.
Reconcile plugin declarations and validation through PM's atomic generation publication; preserve external runtimes, target markers, and conflict refusal. Keep one source-update completion owner and port upstream lifecycle changes to the PM desktop/runtime paths.
Closes the last atom of #112615. A Desktop app started from the Dock, Finder or a
desktop launcher inherits a minimal environment, so the GITHUB_TOKEN / GH_TOKEN rung
landed in #113190 never fires for exactly the users the issue is about (shared exit
IP, 60/hour anonymous budget exhausted by neighbours). The update check now walks the
same ladder as the Python GitHub client (tools/skills_hub_github.py::GitHubAuth):
1. GITHUB_TOKEN, then GH_TOKEN, from the launch env (unchanged).
2. `gh auth token` — execFile with an argv array (no shell), stdin closed, 3 s
timeout, windowsHide. `gh` is resolved on PATH plus the GUI-safe install
locations backend-env already appends for the backend (Homebrew, /usr/local,
~/.local/bin, nix profile, the Windows GitHub CLI installer dirs). The outcome
(token or none) is cached for the process lifetime so gh runs at most once.
3. Anonymous.
A rejected credential (401) still retries anonymously; the log line names the
source (env vars vs gh login) and never the token, once per source per process.
A rejected gh token also drops the cache so a re-login is picked up by the next
check. envTokenRejected is renamed githubTokenRejected since both rungs use it.
Live: with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin and no env token, the module found
gh, resolved a credential in 135 ms and api.github.com reported a 5000/hour core
budget (anonymous: 60). A logged-out gh and a hanging gh both resolved to null
(anonymous) in 5 ms / 3001 ms.
Docs: the credential ladder is documented on the Desktop "Updating" page and in
the environment-variables reference.
Trim the salvaged ladder to its env rung and make the 403 copy actionable.
- github-api-auth.ts keeps githubTokenFromEnv / githubApiHeaders; the
`gh auth token` rung (resolveGithubToken, readGhCliToken, the per-process
cache and the execFile import in main.ts) is dropped. Whether a GUI app may
silently spend the user's gh CLI login on a passive background check is a
product call, not a bug fix; the pure seam makes re-adding it a ~15-line
follow-up.
- fetchGitHubApi reads GITHUB_TOKEN / GH_TOKEN from process.env per request
(nothing stored) and attaches x-ratelimit-remaining / x-ratelimit-reset plus
whether the call was authenticated to the rejected error.
- describeUpdateCheckFailure moves out of the unimportable main.ts into
update-api-check.ts. A 403/429 with x-ratelimit-remaining: 0 now says the
anonymous budget is 60/hour per network address shared with everyone behind
the same connection, gives the real reset time and names GITHUB_TOKEN as the
remedy; a 403 without rate-limit headers is reported as a plain HTTP 403
instead of a rate limit the user did not cause.
- Docs: desktop.md "Updating" and the GITHUB_TOKEN row in
environment-variables.md.
- Tests trimmed to two invariants per module.
Why: behind a shared exit IP "try again in an hour" is advice the user cannot
act on, and the old copy hid the one thing that does help.
Both readers now share utils.env_var_enabled(), so the reference table
spells out the falsy values instead of implying "any value enables".
Also registers the contributor email mapping for the salvaged commit.
tests/tools/test_code_execution.py::test_timezone_injected_when_set asserted
child_env["TZ"] == "America/New_York" unconditionally, which encoded the
Windows defect as intended behaviour; on win32 it now asserts TZ is absent and
keeps the POSIX assertion.
Add a windows_only live-child test to test_code_execution_windows_env.py: with
timezone: configured, a real Windows child's time.timezone and astimezone()
offset must equal the test process's own OS-zone view — the reporter's exact
witness (time.timezone == 0, +01:00 instead of -07:00, tzname still correct).
Docs (environment-variables.md, configuration.md): HERMES_TIMEZONE / timezone:
reaches execute_code children as TZ on Linux/macOS only; Windows children keep
the OS zone because the Windows C runtime parses only POSIX-form TZ strings.
Sibling env builders swept: the remote-backend prefix in
code_execution_tool.py (TZ=... before `python3 script.py`) targets POSIX
backends (Docker/SSH/Modal) and is unchanged; no other spawner forwards
HERMES_TIMEZONE into TZ. HERMES_TIMEZONE itself stays stripped from the child
(adf23550f5: under the multiplexed gateway it holds only the default
profile's value).
Refs #112233
`hermes config set TELEGRAM_GROUP_ALLOWED_USERS ...` (and ~290 other documented
variables Hermes reads straight from os.getenv without registering them in
OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS) still landed as a config.yaml top-level scalar with a notice,
while the setup flows write .env and one-shot CLI readers never bridge YAML
scalars — two writers, two readers. #112250 routed the registered names; this
closes the class with a shape rule: any bare ^[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*$ key is an
environment setting.
- set: writes .env, drops a stale config.yaml copy, never writes UPPER_SNAKE
into config.yaml (--force included); the env writer's denylist
(HERMES_YOLO_MODE, PATH, ...) now refuses cleanly instead of the YAML detour
bridging the value into os.environ; a name neither registered nor in the
environment-variables reference gets a one-line note but is still saved.
- get: .env first; a leftover top-level config.yaml copy is reported as stale.
- unset: removes the .env entry and the stale copy.
- Registered names, credentials (credential lifecycle + masking), dotted paths
and lowercase bare keys are unchanged.
Fixes#111848 (first half landed in #112250).
Only names in OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS / _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS and the platform *_HOME_CHANNEL /
*_ALLOWED_USERS suffix family route to .env; other documented ALL-CAPS names still land in
config.yaml as top-level scalars with a notice. Say so instead of 'every documented
environment variable' (#111848 stays open for the remaining names).
`hermes config set FEISHU_HOME_CHANNEL oc_x` wrote the top level of config.yaml
while the platform setup flows and /sethome write the same name to .env via
save_env_value, so two writers fed two readers: the gateway bridges the yaml copy
into the environment only when .env lacks the name, one-shot CLI readers never
bridge, and the two copies diverged silently (#111848). Only credential-shaped
names were routed to .env because `_is_env_config_key` is the provider-credential
predicate.
Follow-up to KoNit-K's cherry-picked fix (#111850), which routed the
`setup_hidden_env` suffix family: the predicate now lives in the topical sibling
`hermes_cli/config_env_routing.py` and covers every bare name Hermes itself
registers as an environment variable (OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS, _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS — "env
var names written to .env" — plus the setup-hidden suffixes for plugin adapters
nobody enumerated), so `*_ALLOWED_USERS`, `WHATSAPP_MODE`, `MATRIX_PASSWORD` and
the rest of the adapter-saved family take the same file. `set` and `unset` also
drop a stale same-named top-level config.yaml copy so the reporter's drift cannot
come back, and `get` resolves .env first then that copy — the gateway's own read
order. Provider credentials keep the credential_lifecycle rotation path.
Docs: environment-variables.md tip, hermes_cli/AGENTS.md config rule.
`gateway.allow_all_users: true` (and the top-level spelling) in config.yaml
was a silent no-op: `_TOPLEVEL_BRIDGE` never forwarded it, GatewayConfig has
no field, and every allow-all reader (authz mixin default-deny branch,
startup access check, own-policy adapters, Discord/Matrix/Email plugin
gates) consults the GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS env var only.
Bridge the YAML key into that env var in `bridge_core_env_settings`, the
one seam every reader already shares, instead of threading a new config
attribute through ten readers:
- first-writer-wins: an explicit env var beats YAML (matches every other
{PLATFORM}_* gate);
- skipped inside a multiplexed secondary profile's scope (#80099 class):
the secondary's config.yaml must not become the default profile's policy,
and the isolation test now asserts GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS stays unset;
- a startup warning names config.yaml as the grant source, because the key
was inert until now and a forgotten `true` flips the posture to open.
Tests: both spellings authorize a stranger through `_is_user_authorized`;
`false`, absent key, and env=false over YAML=true all stay denied.
Docs: security guide, env-var reference, gateway internals.
Fixes#110690
#111809 accepted any *.nousresearch.com https host once the operator's Portal override
pointed at a non-production Portal. That let a network-provenance value — the Portal's
refresh response — pick any Nous-owned host as the bearer recipient, including hosts that
are not inference gateways. Owning the DNS suffix is not the same as being an authorized
recipient, and the validator's threat model (an injected refresh response) is exactly the
case a suffix rule fails to bound.
The recipient is now the operator's own NOUS_INFERENCE_BASE_URL: a non-production host
returned by the Portal is accepted exactly when it equals that override's host, otherwise
the strict production set stands. The Portal override grants nothing by itself. What the
operator gains over plain use of the override is that the Portal's value is then persisted
and used for the pricing scope and proxy instead of being healed to production, and the
per-turn "refusing inference URL host" warning stops. No environment is named in code.
Raised on #111809 review. Tests: recipient match accepted, unrelated Nous host refused, no
override refused, Portal override alone grants nothing, the match follows the profile scope
under multiplexing; the widening cases are red on main. Docs row for NOUS_INFERENCE_BASE_URL.
Co-authored-by: Ben Barclay <ben@nousresearch.com>
The per-step leases inside maybe_auto_archive / maybe_auto_prune_and_vacuum
(archive, prune, sweep, vacuum) cover every long step of the construction-time
block, and each renews right before the step it protects, so the extra
report_startup_progress(900) at the top of GatewayRunner._init_session_db
added nothing but a stale phase label ("gateway_startup_state_maintenance"
would outlive the archive step and mask the phase name in the fired record).
Dropped; gateway/run.py is back to origin/main.
Tests: the two contributor tests monkeypatched report_startup_progress in the
module and asserted phase names (change-detectors on the strings). Replaced by
one test that arms a REAL StartupWatchdogHandle and asserts the maintenance
block renews it four times with lease_until in the future — the property the
poller's `lease_until > now` branch actually needs (#111092). Red on
origin/main: lease_count stays at the schema-init lease.
Docs: HERMES_STARTUP_WATCHDOG / HERMES_STARTUP_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT_S existed only
in the module docstring; add them to website/docs/reference/environment-variables.md
next to the respawn-storm variables (existing env vars only, no new surface).
A token minted by a non-production Portal is meant to be spent at that environment's own
inference gateway, and the Portal's refresh response names that host. The allowlist applied
to Portal-returned inference URLs was production-only, so the value was refused as "not in
allowlist" and healed to the production host — a token the production Portal never issued,
sent to the production gateway, which 401s it. Every hosted non-production instance hit
this on every gateway turn once #108319 made the deploy-wide NOUS_INFERENCE_BASE_URL
invisible inside a routed profile scope (by design, #65941).
The widening is keyed on the operator's trusted HERMES_PORTAL_BASE_URL override, never on
the stored portal_base_url: when that override names a Portal outside the production
allowlist, any https host under the Nous domain is accepted; otherwise the strict production
set stands. So a poisoned auth.json cannot widen the set, a production-Portal session that
finds a foreign inference URL in its state is still refused and healed, and the bearer can
only ever go to a Nous-owned host. No environment is named in code. Because the override is
read through the profile scope (previous commit), each multiplexed profile decides for
itself.
Validation: 4 invariant tests (accepted only under a non-production override; look-alike
domains, dotless suffix and http still refused; stored portal alone does not widen; the
decision follows the profile scope under multiplex) — the new-behaviour ones red on the
previous commit. Main's existing validation tests are unchanged and green. Live receipt for
the symptom and the fixed chain on a hosted instance: #111589.
Based on #102863 and its rebase onto the decomposed auth_nous.py in #111589, whose
portal-keyed pairing this replaces with the same behaviour and no environment literals.
Co-authored-by: Ben Barclay <ben@nousresearch.com>
3fad83df31 (Aug 11) moved Relay exporter config to a plugins.toml
selected by HERMES_NEMO_RELAY_PLUGINS_TOML. A .env still carrying the legacy
exporter vars and no TOML logs ONE warning and initialises no exporters, so
users who followed the earlier docs lost every trace silently (the
maintainer's stopped Aug 20, noticed Sep 14; five multiplexed profiles on
the same box carry the same eight vars today).
- `hermes_cli/relay_plugin_migrate.py`: build the document from the
`nemo_relay.observability` dataclasses (`ComponentSpec(...).to_dict()`,
so the `type = "file"` sink discriminator is emitted), validate it by
activating it through `nemo_relay.plugin.initialize` + `clear_async`,
write `<home>/relay-plugins.toml` (tomli_w when installed, minimal emitter
otherwise), set HERMES_NEMO_RELAY_PLUGINS_TOML in that .env, and comment
the legacy lines out (never delete). Defaults mirror the removed plugin so
files land where they used to.
- `hermes update` runs it for the default home AND every live named profile
(each writes its own TOML) as a best-effort post-update step, with a loud
notice; `hermes migrate relay [--all-profiles] [--no-validate]` runs it on
demand.
- The runtime WARNING and the `hermes doctor` finding now say "NO traces
are being exported" and name the exact command and file path.
- Docs: environment-variables.md + built-in-plugins.md carry the migration
note and a complete plugins.toml example including `type = "file"`.
The Matrix docs described six agent-exposed matrix_* tools and three MATRIX_TOOLS_ALLOW_* env gates that were never implemented — the tool names and gates appear nowhere in code. Docs now describe actual behavior: no Matrix-specific agent tools; reactions/redactions are internal to approval prompts and pickers; MATRIX_ALLOWED_ROOMS scopes responses. Fixes#100535.
The Nix desktop selected a legacy user venv before its explicit backend command. That runtime passed the version probe but failed agent initialization with a missing tools.kanban_toolset_context module.
Resolve the deployment command before the managed-install fallback. Add a headless packaged-desktop check with a competing legacy launcher; it fails on the old artifact and passes inside the Nix sandbox after the fix.
Sherpa 1.13.8 supplies native Windows ARM64 Python and core wheels.
Remove its platform exclusion so auto selects the keyless engine there.
Declare pypinyin for both wake install paths. The tokenizer imports it
unconditionally, including for English phrases. Include sentencepiece
in the lazy engine extra too. Keep the matching core in the lockfile
and admit the reviewed release with bounded package cutoffs.
Verified native ARM64 Python 3.14 with the unchanged Hermes engine:
three phrases detected twice each, with no triggers in 180 seconds of
silence. Engine construction failed without pypinyin and passed with it.
The tested wheels match the lockfile hashes. Focused tests: 78 passed,
2 skipped. uv lock --check passed. No MSIX rebuild or microphone test.
The dependency audit reports the same existing httpx2/httpcore2
advisories as the parent commit. No unrelated packages changed.
The fixed openWakeWord default selects an unavailable engine on native
Windows ARM64 and Intel macOS. Use auto and the existing PM platform gates
to prefer openWakeWord, then sherpa, then Porcupine.
Keep explicit provider choices unchanged. Porcupine still requires its
access key, and wake detection remains disabled until the user enables it.
Expose auto in the config UI and document the backend-platform selection.
Verified config loading, platform selection, explicit-provider preservation,
key requirements, and the config schema. No microphone detection was run.
