The desktop payloads shipped the builder's full uv cache (2.0GB mac,
1.1GB win-x64, 800MB win-arm64) so a mutable-venv rebuild could run
offline. But the bundle contract never needed offline rebuilds — it
needs rebuilds that never invoke a compiler: packages with no
downloadable wheel (sdist-only or platform gaps) would otherwise
demand Xcode CLT/MSVC/Rust on the user's machine.
prune_uv_cache_to_built keeps only what the builder compiled itself,
detected from the cache's own records (sdists-v9 entries, cached
wheels not listed in uv.lock, archive-v0 buckets by dist-info) and
drops the ~245 packages whose wheels PyPI re-serves in seconds.
Validated live on a clean host per target:
- macos arm64 (iris, no uv): 2.0GB -> 3MB; sync online, 0 builds,
pilk/psutil/alibabacloud-tea installed from the slim
- win11 arm64 (promise, no uv/MSVC): 800MB -> 48MB; sync online,
0 dependency builds, all 12 CI-built packages (cryptography,
httptools, brotlicffi, dependency-injector, ruamel-yaml-clib,
obstore, davey, firecrawl-anydoc, pilk, psutil, alibabacloud set)
import clean. The kept set matched the CI build log's Built list
exactly (12/12, no false positives).
Index-dir detection is name-agnostic (pypi/ vs custom --index-url
hashed dir), proven by the rewritten bundle test: sdist-only survives
the slim, downloadable wheels are dropped, the build machine's cache
is untouched, and an online rebuild compiles nothing.
The e2e-screen-record action installed ffmpeg through three different
OS package managers (apt, brew, winget). winget is the flaky leg on
windows-11-arm and serves an x64-gyan build that runs emulated on ARM;
choco's community package wraps the same gyan x64 zip, so a choco
fallback would not fix either problem. PM already ships a locked,
sha256-pinned ffmpeg (martin-riedl posix, BtbN win32 including a NATIVE
winarm64 build), so the recording action now verifies ffmpeg on PATH
instead of installing it, and the pinned binary rides the same
tools-cache as node/python.
- setup-pm learns a `packages` input (extra PM tools beyond the
toolchain roots, e.g. ffmpeg) threaded through setup_toolchain.py's
prepare/install/archive-inputs phases; the tools-cache key gains an
extra-packages fragment so existing keys stay byte-identical.
- The six chat-driver jobs pass `packages: ffmpeg` to setup-pm.
- e2e-screen-record drops the apt/brew/winget install steps, the
ffmpeg actions/cache steps and the save-cache input; Xvfb (headless
linux) and the macOS replayd-approval hack stay.
- The "Install locked chat driver dependencies" step installs only the
tests-js workspace with --omit=dev instead of the whole apps/desktop
tree: the drivers need @playwright/test, zod (previously a phantom
hoisted from @assistant-ui/react), js-yaml and semver only. 64 pure
packages in ~2s vs ~1800 including electron-builder and native
builds; the tree-shaken node_modules runs the real driver modules
(verified by importing desktop-chat-smoke.ts and update-window-chat
end to end).
- tests pin the new contracts; tests/install/README.md updated.
Share the real composer, provider-witness and completed-reply check across
post-build bundle smoke and desktop-bearing install/update checkpoints.
Keep native automatic-relaunch proof separate from post-update chat.
Download receipt-bound artifacts without release credentials and install
DMG, ZIP, MSIX and universal MSIXBUNDLE on each native architecture.
Split Windows assembly from feed publication; publish tested bytes only.
Bind candidate smoke results into the manifest used by stable promotion.
Verify historical/source provenance without assuming a version IPC commit,
strip CI identity from source build children, and use the actual Electron
PID rather than Playwright's Windows launcher wrapper.
Validation: real Linux Electron chat and sequential OLD/NEW source smoke
with preserved history; 145 targeted Python tests and 14 JS tests passed;
TypeScript, shell/PowerShell parsing and workflow checks passed.
Native macOS/Windows deployment and historical upgrades need Actions proof.
Dependency acquisition during packaging left native wheels and packager
inputs outside the pre-build cache save. Compose PM and existing providers
into a preparation phase, then require builds to consume admitted inputs.
Share native preparation with PM Bundle. Keep path-bound environments and
signing outputs separate from reusable caches. Use read-only cache tokens
for commit builds and preserve the one-command local build path.
Verify pinned tools through PM, probe PTYs under the prepared Electron,
and supply dmgbuild through a build-only PM package. Resolve bundled tool
stores from their payload manifest so relocation preserves discovery.
Validation: focused Python and JS tests, checkJs, Ruff, Windows checks,
anti-slop, cache relocation, and network-denied Linux AppImage builds.
Relocated runtime smoke passed with NixOS host libraries supplied.
Native Windows/macOS signing and live GitHub cache behavior remain untested.
Keep the minimal sandbox command's existing app/data identity while sharing
its parser, seeding, execution and cleanup with the standard sandbox.
Remove the unused SDK adapter copy and protocol shadow from the environment
facade, plus unconsumed checkout-updater dependencies and their dead helper.
Validation: 72 focused Python tests across sandbox and adapter/backend
paths, 5 checkout-updater tests, Electron typecheck and ESLint passed.
Ruff, touched-file Windows checks and the TS ratchet pass. Sandbox tests
also passed against the original scripts before consolidation.
`scripts/run_tests.sh tests/<dir>/` is how a change gets its regression
coverage run, so a test filed under the wrong directory is a test nobody
runs when that code changes. Two kinds of drift had accumulated.
Parallel directories for one source package, folded into the mirror:
tests/acp -> tests/acp_adapter (its __init__/conftest move with it)
tests/cli -> tests/hermes_cli (prompt_toolkit fixture merged into
hermes_cli/conftest.py)
tests/run_agent -> tests/agent (backoff fixture becomes
agent/conftest.py)
tests/relay -> tests/gateway/relay
tests/state -> tests/hermes_state
246 loose files at tests/ root, routed by the package they import/patch:
hermes_cli, hermes_state, agent, gateway, tools, plugins, tui_gateway, cron.
Installer and desktop-update script tests go to tests/scripts/{install,
desktop_update}/. 43 tests of root-level modules (batch_runner, utils,
hermes_constants, packaging) stay at the root.
Filenames drop their issue numbers (95 files: test_89315_x.py -> test_x.py);
the number stays in the module docstring where it has context.
Collisions: test_cli_skin_integration.py existed in both tests/ and tests/cli
with different subsets — merged into one (10 tests, all kept);
run_agent/test_pre_compress_memory_context.py -> agent/..._handoff.py;
tests/test_account_usage.py -> agent/test_account_usage_fetch.py;
tests/test_web_server.py -> hermes_cli/test_web_server_ws_ping.py.
Deleted: test_minisweagent_path.py (empty since PR #2804),
test_model_picker_scroll.py (tested a private copy of the logic, imported
nothing), test_process_loop_event_loop_warning.py (asserted asyncio behaviour,
imported nothing from Hermes).
Repo-root path arithmetic (Path(__file__).parents[N], dirname chains) is
bumped for the 202 files that changed depth and verified by evaluating every
such expression against the new location. classify_changes' desktop-updater
lane prefix, tests-os.yml's ignore glob and every in-tree path comment follow
the moves. tests/test_tests_tree_layout.py keeps the tree from drifting back.
Keep desktop rollback in staged publication instead of restoring backups
inside a candidate directory that will be discarded.
Use the npm tag endpoint, let the downloader own archive verification,
and ensure CI toolchain roots without repeating dependency verification.
Remove an unused resolver input and replace overlapping tests with
fault-proven lifecycle coverage.
Verified with the scoped Python gate and before-pack tests. Native
Windows/macOS update execution and the full suite were not run.
Preserve upstream fixes without restoring retired dependency installers.
Run configured-feature checks in the selected build interpreter. Reuse a
supported base Python during bootstrap, and preserve durable backup media.
Refresh the dependency lock through PM. Keep the frozen historical import
surface unchanged. Adapt incoming native tests to the platform markers.
Verification: the incoming 86-file pass found two fixture mismatches;
both passed after correction. Targeted PM/update/compatibility checks,
Electron and renderer typechecks, and desktop tests passed.
Native Windows/macOS update journeys and the full suite remain unrun.
Run historical updater completion in a fresh interpreter so cached imports
cannot revive retired dependency installers. Share Git and ZIP completion,
carry receipt and recovery state, and preserve child exit status.
Route plugin admission, binary acquisition, desktop launch and build paths
through PM. Replace redundant helpers and tests with real worker, package,
publication and launch checks. Keep the shipped compatibility surface fixed.
Targeted Python and desktop checks pass. Native update journeys and fresh
production image qualification remain pending. This is a checkpoint before
those acceptance runs.
Competing installers and checkout-local venv assumptions bypassed PM
selection, install consent, and generation lifetimes. Route consumers
through PM and installation-bound launchers. Refresh source launchers
before obsolete Python entries can be collected.
Remove Node, browser, and CUA acquisition engines, obsolete venv-holder
handling, detached sync, and unused PM APIs. Keep historical updater
exports inert and preserve external tool ownership and native integration.
Share product freshness and prepared inputs across builders. Align plugin
admission, Docker provisioning, setup instructions, and behavioral tests.
Verified targeted Python and JavaScript tests, desktop and web typechecks,
scoped lint, real product builds, and the Docker frontend smoke test.
The missed post-setup test cleanup is included and verified.
Native Windows/macOS execution, full Rust compilation, and the complete
repository suite remain unverified. Historical compatibility requirements
were preserved and extended, not fully rescanned.
Give native payload dependency builds two hours without changing the normal install timeout. Allow three hours for the standalone PM bundle job so setup, cache saves, and smoke tests fit around the build.
Verified seven focused tests, Ruff, and actionlint. Full CI builds were not rerun.
Resolve the default cache before isolating HOME so payload builds use the directory that CI restores and saves. Remove the standalone bundle workflow dependency on an unset cache variable.
Verified offline wheel reuse in isolated children, 20 focused tests, Ruff, and actionlint. Full native release builds and the separate source-build timeout remain unverified.
Commit builds have no update channel, even when installed through dpkg. Read the installed stamp before checking the refusal message and require exit code 2 for both artifact kinds.
Verified real CLI refusal paths, negative controls, and related tests: 15 passed. Ruff and type checks passed. Full deb validation was not rerun.
Every scheduled skills-index.yml run since 2026-07-20 was cancelled at the 15-minute
job timeout, so the live skills-index.json has been frozen at that date and every
`hermes skills search` fell through to live GitHub API calls (~500 inspect requests per
cold search, against a 60/hr unauthenticated budget). The freshness watchdog has been
appending to #66616 four times a day since.
Root cause: enrich_owners() walks every ClawHub skill's detail endpoint (~2s each) to
fetch an owner handle for the "View source" link. The catalog grew from ~50k to 78k
skills, so even at 30 workers that phase alone runs over an hour; nothing bounded it.
- enrich_owners() gains budget_seconds: on expiry it stops and ships the remainder
without an owner (the link is a nicety; the index is not).
- build_skills_index.py passes an 8-minute budget.
- skills-index.yml build job timeout 15 -> 50 min to cover the measured critical path
(clawhub walk ~14 min || github taps ~8 min, skills.sh resolve ~6 min, enrichment 8 min).
Reuse a matching ARM64 Visual Studio environment instead of growing its paths on each initialization. Preserve Rust and Cargo homes before isolating bundle state. Hand the private Termux assembly directory to its container user and restore host ownership afterward.
Verified targeted tests, real ARM64 SDK/OpenSSL execution, Rust compilation, and container facts publication. Full release packages were not rebuilt. The Windows x64 source-build timeout and the unchanged Termux linkage fixture failure remain unresolved.
Canary and commit builds must not replace stable or share its desktop
state. Package names alone are insufficient because Electron reads the
product name before main initializes its paths. Pin nonstable userData
before the first lookup, and keep the packaged identity independent of
runtime build variables.
Keep release artifact filenames unchanged. Qualify payload CLI names,
route each nonstable MSIX alias to its own entrypoint, and copy the
immutable desktop provenance into the embedded Python checkout. Only
stable releases can use the official Store identity.
Targeted validation: 75 JavaScript tests passed, 2 platform skips;
15 Python tests passed with file retries disabled. Native Windows SDK
manifest proof is tracked separately. Full app install, signing and macOS
launch validation are not claimed.
Canary uses yellow tiles. Commit builds use red tiles and the first seven
characters of HERMES_BUILD_COMMIT. Vector glyphs need no host fonts.
Only desktop targets use these colors. Shared branding remains unchanged.
PM-generated pixels preserve the artwork and native alpha masks. The macOS
content bounds remain (100, 100, 924, 924) on the 1024 canvas. Stable output
matches the pre-change baseline byte for byte.
Validation: 13 focused Python tests and 7 Node tests pass. Stable, canary,
and commit generation each wrote 35 targets and passed structural checks.
The full suite and native installation acceptance were not run.
The minted launchers wired venv site-packages onto sys.path with a raw
insert (win32 wrapper) / PYTHONPATH (posix), neither of which runs .pth
files. pywin32.pth is load-bearing on Windows: it puts win32\lib on
sys.path, which is what makes 'import pywintypes' resolve — without it
portalocker's Win32Locker dies and concurrent-log-handler silently drops
every file-log record on Windows bundles.
* launcher_wrapper.py: site.addsitedir() for the site entry (repo first,
site directly after, .pth dirs last)
* launchers.py posix: same via HERMES_SITE env in the -c bootstrap
* pm/environment.py: prune_site_pth() drops _virtualenv.pth and the
__editable__ pointer (build-machine path) that must never run in a
sealed payload
* python_env.py: run the prune after every environment build
An inherited HERMES_HOME can defeat a test bundle's data-directory suffix.
Older Windows installers also persisted that variable in the user registry.
This gives the app fresh UI state while its backend reads existing sessions.
Add --bundle-unset NAME, encoded as null in the existing bundle environment
object. Apply each clear as an explicit empty value before module startup.
Do not restore an explicitly empty HERMES_HOME from the Windows registry.
Ordinary defaults still preserve runtime overrides.
Verified the release parser, builder handoff, compiled startup ordering,
registry opt-out, and child environment with focused regression tests.
A native Windows probe passed with an inherited home. No MSIX was rebuilt.
