Live Desktop E2E (real Electron, worktree backend, demo plugin on old paths) found the modal never fired:
compat_report() was only called from the CLI banner / doctor / update / plugins-compat surfaces, none of
which run inside the Desktop's `serve` backend, so .plugin-compat-report.json was never written.
PluginManager.discover_and_load now refreshes the report from the manifests it just discovered (fail-open).
E2E after the fix, all five acceptance steps green on the real seat: report written and names the plugin;
native dialog 'Plugins need an update' with plugin, date, and `hermes plugins compat`; OK persists the
dismissal; relaunch with the same userData shows nothing and logs no 'compat notice shown'; fixing the
plugin's imports deletes the report and shows nothing.
Every PLUGIN-COMPAT __getattr__ now calls hermes_cli.plugin_compat.warn_once(facade, name, target) before
resolving, emitting a HermesPluginCompatWarning (FutureWarning) once per process per name: old path, new
path, removal target. Importing a facade for its live API stays silent; only resolving a moved name warns.
COMPAT_MANIFEST.md documents the warning and how to silence it during migration.
Verified the runtime never routes through a pointer: every entry point (run_agent, cli, hermes_cli.main,
gateway.run, tui_gateway.server, web_server, model_tools + tool discovery, hermes_state, cron.scheduler,
browser_tool, mcp_tool, kanban, auth) imports clean and `hermes doctor` runs end to end with the warning
promoted to an error.
Also restores the check_compat_pointers CI step to .github/workflows/lint.yml, which a0be177aac dropped
when the compat layer was regenerated (the lint script itself was present; the workflow step was not).
hermes_cli/plugin_compat.py, tests/test_plugin_compat_warning.py and the two-line insert per facade are
part of the compat layer and go away with it.
The Sep 2026 decomposition (PR #102117) makes internal import paths a non-API: names now live in
the focused modules that define them. This commit is the ONLY thing keeping the old paths alive,
so external plugins have time to update. It is deliberately a single, unsquashed commit:
git revert <this sha>
removes every shim, stub and manifest at once on the announced date. Nothing in-tree may depend on
these pointers: scripts/check_compat_pointers.py (wired into lint.yml) fails CI if it does.
What it adds (see COMPAT_MANIFEST.md, compat_manifest.json):
- 332 facade modules get one delimited `PLUGIN-COMPAT` block appended at the end of the file
- 1,172 moved names resolved lazily via a module `__getattr__` (PEP 562) — never a top-level import,
so no import cycles; facades that already had `__getattr__` get a chained one
- 592 third-party/stdlib names the old modules used to expose, with their original import statements
- 266 public definitions that had been deleted as unused, restored byte-for-byte from the pre-decomposition
tree (+40 private helpers and 16 imports pulled in only because a restored definition needs them)
- 3 deleted modules recreated as re-export stubs (gateway/startup_watchdog, hermes_cli/observability/
relay_runtime, tools/environments/modal_utils)
- private names (`_x`) get no pointer: they were never API (3,792 skipped)
Verified: all 335 touched modules import under a fresh HERMES_HOME and every manifest name resolves;
the lint reports zero in-tree uses; ruff clean; targeted suites unchanged.
No runtime consumer read the proxy (terminal_tool/environments call is_interrupted()/set_interrupt()
directly); its only users were tests patching tools.interrupt._interrupt_event, which had no effect on
the code under test. tools/terminal_tool.py's own re-export of the name is owned by another worker.
tools/approval.py no longer re-exports sibling names (approval_context/prompt/floors/detection/
human_wait/smart/gateway_wait); it imports only what it uses. Siblings reference sibling-defined
names directly (module-attribute reads on tools.approval_context so patching the defining module
still works); only facade-owned state (_lock, _gateway_queues, _permanent_approved, _denied,
_denial_breaker_addendum, _gateway_notify_cb) is still read back through tools.approval.
approval_detection calls its own _command_detection_variants instead of late-binding through the facade.
For each issue anchor present in BASE 63279301bc non-test .py and absent on HEAD, the BASE comment/docstring block was re-attached at the HEAD location of the code it explained (matched by the distinctive code line / enclosing def). Sentences already covered by an existing HEAD comment were deduped; the issue number always survives. Insert-only: no code lines changed.
The auto-update workstream reads manifest update_url (check-updates,
trust-update-url) but the field was never added to
_KNOWN_MANIFEST_FIELDS — every plugin declaring it got an 'unknown
manifest field ignored' warning, and the parse dropped it. Now: known
(no warning), parsed onto PluginManifest (claims, not provenance —
the sidecar saves its own copy at install).
Third-party directory plugins declare python deps two ways; both now
install through the workspace union (settled design:
.hermes/plans/2026-09-02_164500-plugin-deps-workspace-union.md):
- materialize_legacy_pyproject(): a plugin.yaml with pip_dependencies/
python_dependencies and no user-owned pyproject gets one GENERATED in
its dir (specs carried verbatim, 'GENERATED by pm' header marks pm's
own output — a user pyproject is never touched, a generated one is
rewritten on spec change, byte-identical regen is a no-op).
- scan_plugin(): auto-pickup classification of one plugin dir —
pyproject (python), package.json (node sidecar), packages.py (pm
store binaries), legacy manifest deps (bridge).
- plugins.py manifest parser: pip_dependencies was whitelisted-but-
silently-dropped (the memory-plugin legacy key real external plugins
like basic-memory use); now parsed into python_dependencies with a
deprecation warning naming the migration path.
- _warn_python_dependencies(): the 'declaration seam ONLY' posture is
replaced by the bridge — materialize + presence-check, pointing at
the pm sync as the installer (conflict = loud refusal there).
- memory_setup._provider_extras(): external legacy manifests bridged
too, so hermes memory setup heals an external provider's deps through
the union instead of print-only advice.
tests: 3 new (materialize happy/idempotent/rewrite, skip-modern/
depless, scan classification); tests/pm 155 passed 0 failed.
hermes_cli/plugins.py (7193 -> 4961):
- _register_scoped_provider: one body for the 8 scope-keyed register_*_provider methods;
_track_callback/_track_mapping_entry unify manager-mapping lease tracking (4 sites);
_track_scoped_registration for the ownership ledger. Public method names, signatures,
return values and warning strings unchanged.
- Manifest v2 type checks table-driven (_manifest_field_of_type); _unload_scoped split into
_unload_target_keys + _reset_after_unload_all; _gate_manifest/_record_placeholder out of
_discover_and_load_inner; _track_tool_override_policy/_attribute_registrations out of
_load_plugin_scoped; bounded hook worker lifted into _run_hook_callback_bounded;
prompt-section rendering extracted; resolve_pre_tool_block delegates to
_dispatch_pre_tool_call_hooks; _evict_modules (3 sites); _remove_name_if_unowned and
_nowait_plugin_set unify unowned-name cleanup and *_nowait probes.
- Dead (zero references outside their own test): unload_plugins, has_portable_mcp_servers,
_classify_entrypoint_kind, _reset_event_bus, get_plugin_subscriptions,
get_telegram_handler_factories, pass-through _restore_* helpers; _env_enabled is now an alias
of utils.env_var_enabled (plugins/memory still imports it).
- Docstrings/comments compacted; contract sentences and rationale kept (multi-profile ledger
keying, persistent auth-provider registration, capability declaration is not a grant).
re_register_config_hooks() cleared the entire process-global idempotence
set on every force-reload, so a profile-local plugin force-reload dropped
another live profile's ledger key without touching its still-registered
callback — the next registration call for that profile then appended a
duplicate. Scope the clear to the reloading profile's own home, and give
outbound webhooks the same force-reload restoration shell hooks already
had, since unload() wipes both from the shared _hooks dict.
hermes_home_key already resolved None to the default home. Make it treat an
empty string the same way, then remove the now-redundant guards at the call
sites:
- scope or hermes_home_key() -> hermes_home_key(scope)
- the two ternary forms -> hermes_home_key(scope)
The scope=None sites that mean "global fallback" are unchanged.
Gate the POSIX-only and symlink-only tests with the linux_only and
require_symlinks markers. Fix the real cross-platform bugs:
- file_operations: use the translate_path flag, send snippets as base64, and
use sys.executable (the MS Store python3 stub and the list2cmdline
backslash collapse both broke snippets)
- approval: treat backslash as a Windows path separator, not an escape
- registry, browser_registry, secret_sources, plugins: normalize scope-key case
- checkpoint_manager, plugins_cmd: clear read-only bits before delete
- deadline: make MAX_SAFE_TIMEOUT_S fit the Windows limit
- image_routing, acp, cua_backend, daytona: fix Windows and POSIX paths
- hermes_state: match backslash in the retag LIKE clause
- kanban, disk-cleanup: match drive paths and split command arguments
- scripts: emit host separators through as_posix
207 test files are gated or isolated.
Read text files with the encoding utf-8-sig so a BOM at the start of a
file does not cause a Unicode decode error (Windows editors add BOMs).
Reconstructed from ethie/pm commits 48a32b135b + 013219e814 onto the
current upstream/main base: only the utf-8 -> utf-8-sig transforms were
carried (370 exact line pairs across 205 files); pm-rename hunks that
rode in the original commit were left to the pm-store commit, and
utf8sig hunks entangled with content changes ride their owning commit.
Rebuilt on ethie/pm-clean off ac6c8028e0 (upstream/main).
New commands and plugins declare argument_mode and desktop availability
on CommandDef / register_command. commands.catalog ships that map so
desktop does not need a second command list.
ctx.register_platform_handler(platform, factory) — the generic surface for
plugins to wire native handlers into any platform adapter at connect()
time. Factories receive (native, adapter): the platform's client/app
object (PTB Application, discord.py Bot, slack_bolt AsyncApp, Teams App,
DingTalkStreamClient, aiohttp web.Application) or None for adapters with
no separate native object.
- BasePlatformAdapter._wire_plugin_handlers(native): shared, isolated
invocation helper — a raising plugin cannot block a platform connect.
- All 27 connectable adapters call it: telegram/slack/teams/line/
api_server/msgraph_webhook wire before their dispatch tables freeze;
the rest hook at connect success.
- register_telegram_handler and get_telegram_handler_factories retained
as thin back-compat aliases over the telegram bucket.
- Source-invariant test guarantees every adapter with connect() keeps
calling the hook.
Mirrors the Slack precedent (register_slack_action_handler): plugins queue
a factory at register() time; the Telegram adapter invokes each factory
with (application, adapter) at connect() time, before the core handlers
register, so pattern-scoped plugin handlers take precedence for their own
updates while everything else falls through unchanged. Factories are
isolated — a raising plugin cannot prevent Telegram from connecting.
Unblocks standalone plugins that need PTB update types the core adapter
doesn't route (Telegram Business API secretary bots, custom callback
prefixes, chat-member events) without touching core files.
Allowlist hot-path hooks for abandon-on-timeout, keep subagent_stop on the caller thread, suppress re-fires of hung callbacks, and block tools when pre_tool_call times out.
web_extract stopped using an auxiliary LLM long ago (deterministic
truncate-and-store), but browser snapshots still routed oversized
accessibility trees through the auxiliary web_extract model, keeping a
dead-looking aux slot alive across every config/picker surface.
- tools/browser_tool.py: remove _extract_relevant_content and
_get_extraction_model; oversized snapshots always truncate at line
boundaries, store the full tree to cache/web, and append a read_file
pointer (element refs beyond the cut live in the file)
- tools/browser_camofox.py: same — no LLM path
- Remove auxiliary.web_extract slot: config_defaults (removal note, same
pattern as session_search/PR #27590), cli.py defaults + env bridge,
gateway/run.py bridged keys, hermes config display, hermes model picker,
dashboard REST slots, desktop + web AUX_TASKS, i18n labels (en/zh/
zh-hant/ja/ar)
- Docs: env-vars, configuration, fallback-providers, browser + zh-Hans
mirrors (web-search zh-Hans was stale on the old LLM pipeline — synced
to truncate-and-store truth)
- Tests updated: aux bridge uses approval slot, browser tests assert the
LLM path is gone and stored files are secret-redacted
