#108319 made the release thread carry the caller's context and enter the owner's profile
scope only when no scope was present. But the LRU-cap eviction runs inside the REQUESTING
turn (run_turn_runner: _enforce_agent_cache_cap / _release_evicted_agent), and the LRU
agent it evicts may belong to another profile — so with profile A's scope active, profile
B's end-of-session memory commit ran under A's scope and A's home: B's transcript extracted
into A's provider namespace with A's credentials. Before #108319 the same commit ran under
the launch profile; the fix moved the leak, it did not close it.
_run_release_in_profile_scope now resolves the owner from the session key first — a named
profile's home, else the DEFAULT profile at the root Hermes dir (agent:main: keys), which
is not the launch profile when the gateway runs under `hermes -p x` — and enters that
profile's scope whenever the current one is not already the owner's (compared via
hermes_home_key). Same-profile in-turn evictions and the unscoped housekeeping sweep behave
as before. A failed owner lookup is logged at WARNING instead of silently swallowed, since
it reassigns the commit to the default profile.
Three invariant tests: A's turn evicting B's agent commits under B; a secondary's turn
evicting a default-profile agent commits under the default home; the same with the gateway
launched under a named profile still commits under the root. All red on main.
Reapplied onto current main. The branch had drifted ~3348 commits and a trial
merge produced 48 conflict markers, so this is the same change re-landed rather
than a rebase of the old history.
_interrupt_and_clear_session interrupts the running agent without signalling
plugins, so a plugin holding a per-turn external resource — an outbound RPC
waiting on a tool result the loop will never consume — has no way to learn the
turn is gone. Dispatch agent_loop_stopped immediately after
running_agent.interrupt(), gated on a real running agent: the pending-sentinel
/stop path has no in-flight work, so firing there would be noise.
Per review on #27208, the current helper's behaviour is preserved untouched —
multiplex-aware _adapter_for_source() resolution and cached-agent eviction both
still run; the hook is additive and its dispatch failures are swallowed so a
misbehaving plugin cannot break an interrupt.
Tests fail without the change (hook registration and dispatch) and pass with
it. The three failures in tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py::TestPluginDiscovery
are pre-existing on this checkout and reproduce with the change stashed.
- _drop_turn_slot takes the post-bump run_generation from _interrupt_running_turn
and forwards it to _release_running_agent_state: _interrupt_and_clear_session
awaits adapter.interrupt_session_activity between bump and release, so a
successor claiming the slot in that window must not have its sentinel/lease
wiped by the displaced /stop tail (sync eviction path forwards too, for the
same guard).
- _drop_turn_slot then sweeps lease_tokens from generations older than current:
a hung evicted turn's finalizer may never run, and each such generation pinned
its token (and _SessionLease) forever. Identity-checked + idempotent release,
so a live successor's token is untouched.
- _claim_one_turn_restore folds the two spellings of the one-shot "earliest
snapshot wins" rule (/moa direct write, /model --once setdefault) into one
helper; /model --once passes its pre-switch snapshot so the earliest-wins
contract is expressed once.
- The `one_turn_restore["run_generation"]` stamp had no reader once settlement
moved to the invalidate chokepoint (the finalizer guards on its own generation
via _is_session_run_current); delete it and the test lines that set it.
- release-slot-then-evict-cached-agent (#44212 rationale) was duplicated in
/stop and eviction; one _drop_turn_slot owns it.
- Best-effort interrupt uses the repo's _log_suppressed seam like run_shutdown.
- turn_lease.rebind resolves the lease via token.lease like release does
(identity, not a session_id lookup); _held_turn_lease hands back the token
map so release/rebind stop re-peeking session state.
- Test trims: vacuous isinstance, registry-internals asserts.
_hm_evict_running_agent copied the head of _interrupt_and_clear_session
(peek → sentinel check → request_hard_interrupt → invalidate), minus the
turn-process reaper the stop path spawns — so tool subprocesses of an
evicted turn were never reaped. Extract the sync core
(_interrupt_running_turn) and call it from both; the raising-interrupt
guard now protects /stop as well.
#107013 made the finalizer's one-shot restore (/moa, /model --once)
generation-guarded so a displaced turn cannot clobber its successor — but
every displacing path (/stop, /new, idle or reaped eviction) bumps the
generation before that finalizer runs, so the guard skipped the restore and
the one-shot model stayed in force for every later message (main restored
unconditionally). Settle the snapshot inside
_invalidate_session_run_generation, the chokepoint all of those paths go
through, so the displaced finalizer then finds nothing to restore.
/moa now records its prior override in the same conversation.one_turn_restore
snapshot /model --once uses (via _snapshot_session_model_override) instead of
per-turn event attributes, which removes _restore_moa_one_shot,
_moa_run_generation and the "stamp only when None" plumbing; the finalizer
checks ownership with the existing _is_session_run_current. One test drives
the /stop-mid-turn settlement and the stale-finalizer no-op; the moa restore
test now exercises the shared path.
PR #107013 introduced `TurnState.lease_tokens` (generation-keyed) so a
displaced turn's unwind releases only its own transcript lease, but kept
the older `lease_token`/`lease_generation` pair alongside it, leaving two
sources of truth and a fallback branch in `_held_turn_lease`.
Drop the singleton pair: acquire, release, rebind, and the legacy
`_turn_lease_tokens` view all read and write `lease_tokens[run_generation]`.
Behaviour is unchanged; the fallback that reconciled the two fields is gone.
Under gateway.multiplex_profiles, os.environ holds the DEFAULT profile's .env; a
secondary profile's values exist only in the per-turn secret scope. Every reader
below still read os.environ/os.getenv at call time, so a secondary profile's turn
silently used the default profile's value.
Credentials (F6): FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (read_file hosted OCR), OPENVIKING_API_KEY,
mem0-OSS OPENAI_API_KEY, MODAL_TOKEN_ID/SECRET and BROWSER_USE_API_KEY presence
gates, and the xAI video plugin's os.getenv("XAI_API_KEY") fallback AFTER the
scoped resolver had already missed — the exact fallback-after-miss shape
gateway/AGENTS.md forbids. Deleted, not re-scoped: the resolver is the scope.
Identity / tenant (F7): MEM0_USER_ID/AGENT_ID/HOST/MODE, SUPERMEMORY_CONTAINER_TAG,
RETAINDB_PROJECT, OPENVIKING_ACCOUNT/USER/AGENT (and the whole layered() env
read), HINDSIGHT_BANK_ID/MODE/retain shaping, HERMES_HONCHO_HOST. A raw read
put a secondary profile's memories into the default profile's account/bank/
project/tenant and recalled them back into the default's turns. Each now uses
get_secret with the provider's own per-profile default on a miss.
Endpoints (F8): OPENAI_BASE_URL (aux custom runtime + direct-alias expansion),
XAI_BASE_URL/HERMES_XAI_BASE_URL (aux OAuth), NOUS_INFERENCE_BASE_URL (#65941,
both the aux builder and hermes_cli.auth_nous._nous_inference_env_override),
GATEWAY_PROXY_URL (same UnscopedSecretError-only fallback shape as
GATEWAY_PROXY_KEY three lines below), FIRECRAWL_API_URL, BROWSERBASE_BASE_URL,
SUPERMEMORY/RETAINDB/HONCHO/HINDSIGHT URLs. The keys beside them were already
scoped, so a secondary's key was sent to the default profile's proxy or host.
Targets / display (F11): WEIXIN_HOME_CHANNEL (message posted into the default's
chat), HERMES_LANGUAGE, and agent/i18n's process-wide lru_cache of
display.language — now keyed by HERMES_HOME.
Outbound webhooks: hooks.outbound[].secret_env resolved from os.environ while
the gateway registers each profile's targets inside that profile's scope, so a
secondary's deliveries were signed with the default's secret or left unsigned.
Agent-cache eviction: _spawn_release_thread started a bare threading.Thread, so
commit_memory_session -> provider on_session_end ran with an EMPTY context. The
thread now runs copy_context() and, for the unscoped housekeeping sweep, enters
the owning profile's _profile_runtime_scope resolved from the session key
(agent:<profile>:...). The pressure batch does the same per key.
session_search (#82903): agent/inline_tool_executors.py::_session_search
forwarded every schema argument except `profile`, so a gateway agent could
never select a named profile's store. Forwarded; the ownership-scoping design
in #87779/#87847 is a separate design call and is not attempted here.
Live repro (/tmp/mux_audit/fix-tool-memory-reads/repro.py): 28 FAIL on
origin/main -> 0 FAIL with this change; 10 new invariant tests red on base.
Fixes#82903Fixes#65941Fixes#99121
Addresses #87779
Co-authored-by: webtecnica <75556242+webtecnica@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Versluis (Berry) <michael@wve.nl>
* fix(auth): close the free tier's gaps against the gateway's welcome-tier contract
The inference gateway's welcome tier (NousResearch/api DOCS/anon-tier/plan.md) serves an
anonymous account exactly one model on its own host, refuses everything else with a structured
429, cross-refuses a request on the wrong host with a 400 (403 while the tier is dark), and
tells a signed-in account that still asks for `nous/welcome` what to switch to in an
`x-nous-model-switch` header. Four client-side gaps against that contract:
- Auxiliary calls were refused on every session. The auxiliary client asked the welcome host
for the Portal's recommended compaction/vision model, a guaranteed 429 `model_not_free`
before each fallback. On the welcome host it now uses `nous/welcome` (its backing model
covers auxiliary work) and skips Nous for vision, which the welcome model does not take.
- The structured 429 body was never read. The classifier now parses `reason` /
`retry_after` / `alternates` / `upgrade_url`: `model_not_free` and `feature_not_free` are
non-retryable gates that fall back; `at_capacity`, `admission_closed` and `rate_limited`
are rate limits that honour `retry_after` and never rotate the free tier's only credential.
The wrong-host 400 and the dark-tier 403 are deterministic, so they abort this route and
fall back instead of retrying or re-exchanging. The terminal paths say what happened and
name the sign-in (`/login` in a chat, `hermes auth upgrade` in a terminal).
- The `x-nous-model-switch` header was ignored. The chat-completions transport records it
beside the rate-limit and credits headers; the next call moves the session, and the config
default when it still names `nous/welcome`, to the backing model the gateway named.
- A guest fell back to the paid host. With `inference_base_url` absent from the exchange or
outside the host allowlist, routing defaulted to inference-api, where every request is a
400. A guest now defaults to the welcome literal at the exchange, in the shared store's
shape, and in effective routing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit fc758aad7efceff6223fc144a9b5c69f13e41bd8)
* feat(auth): the free tier is set up on request; nous.guest_setup decides whether also on first use
A caller that names nous/welcome on a Nous route with no Nous identity in reach — the guided
setup's session (provider=nous, which skips the resolver's nothing-configured rung), the free-tier
picker row, a bare --provider nous pointed at it — is asking for the free tier. The OAuth runtime
rung now sets it up there instead of failing "not logged in", so the guided chat no longer races
the root profile's first-run mint.
nous.guest_setup is the policy seam: "auto" (default) keeps today's first-use setup wherever
nothing else is configured; "on-request" mints only when the free tier is asked for by name
(nous/welcome, /login, hermes auth upgrade, replacing a retired identity). Implicit callers —
the resolver's last rung, the first-run check, free_tier.status, the CLI's background setup, the
connector token path — still adopt what the shared store holds, so every profile follows the one
identity the guided setup created, but never create one on their own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit ae915ddc65ecdb81b81e29b604671d15cd49233c)
(cherry picked from commit 62ad1ff3ab200ea064975a32c502041b25910165)
* feat(auth): the guided setup provisions the free tier explicitly; nous.guest_setup is auto | explicit
Two questions govern the free tier: may it exist (nous.guest) and who may CREATE the identity
(nous.guest_setup). "auto" (default) keeps today's first-use setup wherever nothing else is
configured. "explicit" means Hermes never creates one on its own: the only creator is the new
provision_free_tier() primitive, exposed as the free_tier.provision RPC, which the guided setup
on Hermes Desktop calls as its first step — on the root gateway, before the setup profile and
before the guided chat exists — so the identity lands in the root store every profile reads
through and is there before any session asks for nous/welcome. That closes the race against the
backend's own setup, and makes "only when the setup-bot flow is used" literally true.
The earlier "on-request" tier is replaced: it minted whenever any caller named nous/welcome
(the hermes model row, --provider nous), which treated a model name as intent and was broader
than the guided setup. Under "explicit" a nous/welcome request with no identity fails "not
logged in" as before the free tier existed, and /login or hermes auth upgrade report nothing to
sign in from. Implicit callers still adopt an identity the shared store holds, and a retired
credential is replaced (a continuation, not a creation).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit c63d2c935c1e59016164fdfb90cf70b4094466a0)
* fix(auth): remove the nous.guest_setup knob; the free tier is created on first use
`nous.guest_setup: auto | explicit` decided who may CREATE the free-tier identity. Under its
default every line it added was inert (`may_mint` always true), nothing in tree set `explicit`,
unknown values read as `auto`, and under `explicit` a CLI-only install could never get an
identity, which contradicts the first-run contract (first command mints, then chats).
The mint race the knob accompanied is already benign: every caller takes the profile lock then
the shared-store lock, and the loser adopts what the winner wrote. What makes the guided setup
win deterministically is `provision_free_tier()` behind the `free_tier.provision` RPC, which
stays. `nous.guest` remains the only free-tier policy.
Removed: `guest_setup_policy()` and its constants, the `explicit=` / `may_mint=` threading through
`ensure_portal_identity` and `_reconcile_and_provision`, the flag at the three replacement call
sites (now no-ops), the config default, the docs section, and the four `guest_setup` test-config
entries. The three policy tests that hold regardless of the knob are kept under
`TestExplicitProvision`; the two that only tested the knob are deleted.
(cherry picked from commit d8a50526d93c374c0067dd935b5a65055e0af261)
* fix(gateway): a server-driven model switch off nous/welcome does not evict the cached agent
When a signed-in account still asks the paid host for `nous/welcome`, the inference gateway
serves the current backing model and names it in `x-nous-model-switch`. `apply_model_switch`
moves the live session to that model and moves `config.yaml`'s default off the alias in the
same step. The messaging gateway's fallback-eviction check compares the agent's model with the
config default and evicts on any mismatch that is not a /model override, so when the config
write did not land (unreadable config, lock) the cached agent was evicted once per turn, and
prompt caching with it.
`apply_model_switch` now stamps the alias it moved the session off on the agent, and
`_is_intentional_model_switch` treats "agent moved off the alias the config still carries" as
deliberate, beside the existing /model override case. The check takes the agent and the config
model instead of a bare model string; its one caller in `_run_agent_evict_on_fallback` passes them.
(cherry picked from commit 696d1ec86b69db28bf002c841e9389b85178a954)
* fix(auth): the free tier outranks implicit host credentials in provider resolution
On a fresh install with a leftover ~/.aws profile, resolve_provider("auto")
reached the Bedrock rung before the free-tier rung, so the first turn ran on
Bedrock and failed 403 while the free tier was still being minted in the
background at agent setup (NS-829). Live on a Mac with ~/.aws present: 28 s,
three retries, no answer; the next process then switched to nous/welcome.
The free-tier rung now sits directly above the Bedrock chain: when nous.guest
is on, an existing free-tier identity answers, else a blocking mint runs, and
only then does the boto chain get a say. Everything above is unchanged and
still wins: CLI creds, config.yaml model.provider, env keys, the OpenRouter
pool, a logged-in active_provider. nous.guest: false skips the rung, and a
failed mint still falls through to Bedrock and the no-provider guidance.
Tests: six precedence cases (identity present, fresh mint, free tier off, env
key still wins, sign-in still wins, failed mint falls through). The opt-out
test now neutralizes the AWS chain like the precedence tests do; on a machine
with ~/.aws it was failing for the same reason as the bug.
Live after the fix, same Mac, AWS credentials visible, isolated shared store:
identity minted 2 s in, turn on model=nous/welcome provider=nous, answer in
11 s.
(cherry picked from commit a04b05260cd334dd7199ad9b6cd5b2538364c75a)
* fix(auth): review follow-ups for the free-tier rung (NS-829)
- tests/agent/test_bedrock_integration.py: the Bedrock auto-detect test switches
the free tier off; its contract is the boto chain, and the free tier now
sits above it.
- gateway/run_notifications.py: the free-tier startup line reads auth.json
before consulting the resolver, so a gateway boot on a machine with AWS
credentials never mints or refreshes over the network.
- hermes_cli/anon_auth.py: module docstring says where the free tier sits in
the ladder instead of "the ladder is untouched".
- tests/hermes_cli/test_provider_precedence.py: two invariant tests instead of
six (parametrized ladder cases; a failed mint that returns None or raises
falls through to Bedrock).
scripts/run_tests.sh on the five affected files: 147 passed, 0 failed.
(cherry picked from commit 10790d148c60ada11b9ecdde2cd2c836c6a82a11)
* feat(auth): HERMES_GUEST_ONBOARDING=1 is the one launch gate for the free tier; HERMES_FORCE_GUEST is gone
The free tier is pre-GA. Until GA it must not exist for anyone who did not
ask for it: no identity minted, no portal traffic, no free-tier copy on any
surface. One environment variable now decides that, and one function reads it.
`guest_enabled()` returns False unless `HERMES_GUEST_ONBOARDING` is exactly
"1"; only then does `nous.guest` (the user's off switch) get consulted. Every
free-tier site already funnels through `guest_enabled()`, so the gate closes
minting, routing, connector entitlement, status lines and the picker row in
one place. With the variable unset, `resolve_provider("auto")` on a fresh
install raises `no_provider_configured` exactly as upstream does.
`HERMES_FORCE_GUEST` and `force_guest_mode()` are removed. They inverted the
gate (forced the tier ON over `nous.guest: false`), their "new" value re-minted
identities as a side effect of provider resolution, and `_has_any_provider_
configured` read them ahead of every other check, making the CLI a second
reader of a flag that must have exactly one. `_forced_new_done` and the
`force` parameter of `_reconcile_and_provision` go with them.
Supersedes the dev lever introduced in fcf9d11679 (rung 1) and hardened in
b5c162c3ec. Ruling: NS-845 Q1.1 (recorded on NS-847).
Not a user preference: the variable is never written to config.yaml or .env
and never shown in setup. It is deleted at GA together with its comment in
anon_auth.py. This is a deliberate, temporary exception to the "no new
HERMES_* env vars for non-secret config" rule.
Tests: fixtures set the gate instead of deleting the old lever; one new
invariant (`test_launch_gate_off_means_no_free_tier_at_all`) proves that "",
"0", "true" and "new" all leave the tier off with zero portal calls, red on the
previous commit. The `HERMES_FORCE_GUEST=new` re-mint test is deleted with the
feature.
* feat(auth): the free-tier identity is created in one place, at boot; every other site is a read
Before this commit eight sites could create a Nous free-tier identity as a
side effect of something else: resolving a provider, the CLI's first-run
check, the CLI's session setup (in the background beside an own key), a
connector bearer read, the desktop polling `free_tier.status`, the sign-in
precondition, the desktop's `free_tier.provision`, and the dead-credential
re-mint. A poll could mint. Provider resolution could hit the network. Two
of them raced each other on a fresh install.
Now `hermes_cli/free_tier_bootstrap.py::run_bootstrap` is the only creator.
`hermes serve` runs it on a daemon thread from `_lifespan` beside the other
background boots; `cmd_chat` runs it synchronously before the first-run
guard. It inventories credentials first (`resolve_provider("auto",
skip_free_tier=True)`: what would carry inference if the free tier did not
exist), creates the identity only when `guest_enabled()`, resolves inference,
records a `SetupRecord` in process memory and broadcasts ONE `setup.ready`
event. It runs on every boot; only the mint is gated.
`ensure_portal_identity` now requires `explicit=True` and raises otherwise.
Its callers are the bootstrap, the desktop's `free_tier.provision` (the
explicit retry when the boot could not create the identity) and the two
dead-credential replacements (`auth_nous.resolve_nous_runtime_credentials`,
`managed_tool_gateway._replace_dead_guest_token`). The background thread
path and `provision_free_tier` are deleted with their last callers.
Reads that used to mint and now only read: `auth.py::resolve_provider`
rung 7 (an existing identity still outranks the Bedrock chain, NS-829
ordering kept), `main.py::_has_any_provider_configured`,
`cli_agent_setup_mixin._ensure_runtime_credentials`,
`managed_tool_gateway.read_nous_access_token` (no identity -> None),
`anon_sign_in.run_sign_in` (no identity -> Unavailable),
`methods_free_tier` `free_tier.status`.
`setup.status` answers from the record for the launch profile, blocking up
to 8 s while the bootstrap is in flight so a client's first poll lands after
the identity exists rather than racing it; a named profile, or a process
that never ran the bootstrap, keeps today's live probe. The record's fields
ride along additively (`ready`, `free_tier`, `other_providers`,
`inference_provider`).
Identity and inference are decoupled (NS-845 Q1.3): the mint sets
`active_provider="nous"` only when the inventory found nothing else usable
(`_mint_locked(carries_inference=)`); an adopted account always does. A token
refresh no longer re-elects the provider it refreshed
(`_save_provider_state_to_source` writes credentials, not the user's
choice) — that write was how an own-key install ended up on the free tier
after the first connector call.
Supersedes the mint sites in fcf9d11679, a42d0748fc (first-run check),
bbbaa8935a (CLI background setup), 0179efc989 (`free_tier.status` mint),
62ad1ff3ab / c63d2c935c / d8a50526d9 (the `nous.guest_setup` knob and
`provision_free_tier`), and a04b05260c (blocking mint in the resolver).
Ruling: NS-845 Q1.2 + Q1.3, recorded on NS-847.
Tests: `TestBootstrapIsTheOneCreator` (one mint per process; own key keeps
inference; reads never reach the portal; a refused mint is memoised),
`free_tier.status` fails loudly if it ever calls the creator, the resolver
stub fails loudly if resolution ever mints, `setup.status` reads the record,
`skip_free_tier` proves the inventory question. The three sign-in tests for
the deleted pre-mint collapse into one (`no identity -> Unavailable, zero
portal calls`). Live: real `_lifespan` boot with a fake portal, gate on and
off (/tmp/ns847-recon/evidence/e2e-rung5-c2-serve-boot.txt), and the CLI
matrix incl. an own-key cell (e2e-rung5-c2-bootstrap.txt), 20/20.
* fix(credits): the welcome host is free-tier evidence, so a free-tier identity never sees "run /topup"
A free-tier identity carries $0 by design, so the portal seed reports
`paid_access=False` for it. `is_free_tier_model` did not know the welcome
host, read that as a depleted account, and every free-tier turn ended with
the credits-depleted notice telling the user to top up an account they do
not have.
Rule (4) in `is_free_tier_model`: a `base_url` on the Nous welcome host
(`anon_auth.route_is_welcome_host`) is the free tier. The host is the
evidence, not the model name: the paid inference host can serve
`nous/welcome` to a named account and that account's depletion is real, so
`("nous/welcome", <inference host>)` stays False. Local data only, like the
three rules above it.
Restores the two contracts dropped by hermes-magic 674e11d1eaa (the
prototype line ran without unit tests): the welcome host is free without
any pricing evidence; the model name alone is not. The first is red without
this fix.
* fix(copy): free-tier text stops promising a connector transfer and never names the config key
Sign-in copy on every surface said "Sign in to keep your connectors" and
ended with "Your connectors are kept." The transfer registry that would
make that true is empty (NS-821): nothing carries over today. The copy now
says what signing in does give ("unlock more models and tools") and the
completion line names the account, not a transfer. The docs page loses the
"connectors carry over" paragraph for the same reason.
The picker's off-state line exposed `nous.guest: false` and the word
"guest"; user copy names the free tier only (R-USR-1).
The docs page gains the pre-rollout note: until GA nothing on it happens
without `HERMES_GUEST_ONBOARDING=1`. Its "first command mints" and
"replaced on next use" sentences now describe the boot bootstrap.
zh is a strict locale: the `freeTier` block was English placeholder text
copied from `en`; it is now Chinese. `connectorsKept` is renamed
`completedBody` since it no longer talks about connectors.
* feat(desktop): the free-tier launch flag is decided once in Electron and stamped onto every backend spawn
The Python backend reads `HERMES_GUEST_ONBOARDING` and treats exactly "1"
as on. Until now nothing in the desktop set it, so a packaged app could
never turn the free tier on, and a backend spawned by the app could
disagree with the app about whether the tier was live.
`electron/guest-onboarding.ts` owns the decision: `guestOnboardingEnabled`
is true when the launch env has `HERMES_GUEST_ONBOARDING=1` or argv has
`--guest-onboarding` (the packaged-app spelling). It is read ONCE at launch
into a module constant. `desktopBackendSpawnEnv` wraps every backend env
as the outermost call and writes the flag LAST, as "1" or an explicit "0",
so no earlier spread (`process.env`, `backend.env`) can resurrect a stray
value from the parent shell.
Stamped onto all three spawn sites: the primary `serve` spawn, the pooled
per-profile spawn, and the remote SSH `exec env ...` command (which gains
` HERMES_GUEST_ONBOARDING=1` only when on). The embedded terminal PTY and
the backend probes are not backend spawns and do not get it: a
`hermes --tui` typed in the pane must not mint.
The renderer learns the same fact read-only through the existing
`hermes:launch-flags` sync IPC (`guestOnboarding`) and preload
(`window.hermesDesktop.guestOnboardingEnabled`).
Ruling: NS-845 Q1.1 / Q2 (env var is the contract, `--guest-onboarding`
maps to it in main). Two invariant tests on the pure helpers: only "1" or
the argv flag enables; the spawn env carries "1"/"0" as the last word and
preserves every other key.
* feat(desktop): the renderer learns free-tier readiness from one `setup.ready` push, not a 60 s poll
The backend's boot bootstrap now announces `setup.ready` once, after it has
created (or refused) the free-tier identity and resolved the inference
route. The renderer used to discover both by polling `setup.status`,
`setup.runtime_check` and `free_tier.status` every 60 s from
`useStatusSnapshot`; a fresh install's chip, notice strip and onboarding
overlay could sit stale for up to a minute after boot, and three RPCs a
minute per window kept asking a question whose answer changes only at
boundaries the backend already announces.
`handleLifecycleEvent` routes `setup.ready` (active source only, like
`skin.changed`) to `notifySetupReady()`, a one-shot tick atom in
`live-sync.ts` beside the other change ticks. `useStatusSnapshot` listens
to it and runs one readiness round at once (`setup.status` +
`setup.runtime_check` + `free_tier.status`). The readiness legs also run
once on open and on return from another app, as today. The 60 s tick keeps
only `getStatus()`.
`SetupStatusSnapshot` types the record's additive fields (`ready`,
`free_tier`, `other_providers`, `inference_provider`); readiness semantics
are unchanged and still key on `provider_configured` + `runtime_check`.
Ruling: NS-845 Q1.2 (renderer half). Tests: the lifecycle branch fires one
refresh from the active source and none from another; the snapshot hook's
contract is three legs on open, one leg on the tick.
* fix(cli): the banner names the free tier's model instead of "no model configured"
The welcome banner prints before credentials resolve, so on a fresh install
`model` is empty and the banner said, in red, "no model configured — run
/model or hermes setup". Under the free tier that is false: the route is
already known from local state (identity on disk, tier on), and the first
message will run on `nous/welcome`.
`_banner_left_lines` now asks the route the same question when `model` is
empty (`guest_carries_inference()`, a local read) and shows `welcome · Nous
Research`. When nothing resolves the red line stays. Ruling: NS-845 ("the
banner's 'no model configured' line reads the resolved route").
Live: fresh HERMES_HOME + fake portal, gate on -> `welcome · Nous Research`;
gate off -> the red line, zero portal calls.
* fix(aux): vision on the free tier uses nous/welcome too
The text-only modality on the gateway's `nous/welcome` row is DeepSeek V4 Flash's, the
backing model until the repoint; `z-ai/glm-5.3-flash` is natively multimodal and the
repoint declares the welcome row `text+image->text`. Skipping Nous for vision on the
welcome host would have sent every image step past the free tier for no reason, so the
auxiliary client pins the route's one model for every lane. A backing model that takes
no images answers with the upstream's own error, which the ladder handles as it always has.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7456e028faba55480db43015dc2c8df3e393a415)
* fix(gateway): hermes gateway run is a boot owner of the free tier too
Rung 5 made every demand-time free-tier site a read: resolve_provider,
the connector token, the /login precondition. That is only correct if
every process that can reach those sites ran the bootstrap first. The
CLI (cmd_chat) and hermes serve (_lifespan) did; the standalone
messaging gateway did not. A fresh HERMES_HOME with the gate on and
`hermes gateway run` reached provider resolution with no identity to
consume, and /login returned Unavailable. Reported by @andrexibiza on
#107697 (P1).
GatewayRunner.start now runs `free_tier_bootstrap.run_bootstrap` on an
executor thread right after startup recovery and BEFORE any adapter
connects, so a fast first DM cannot arrive with nothing to resolve. It
is its own step, not part of the turn-machinery warm-up: the warm-up is
an optimisation with an off switch (HERMES_STARTUP_WARMUP_TIMEOUT<=0);
the bootstrap is correctness and must always run. With the gate unset it
is a local inventory and no network.
Live, real GatewayRunner.start against a fake portal in a fresh home:
gate on -> 1 create, identity persisted, resolve_runtime_provider=nous,
/login precondition sees the identity
gate off -> 0 portal calls, no identity, no_provider_configured
Before the fix the gate-on row was identical to the gate-off row.
Test: the bootstrap seam runs before _start_prefilter_platforms and
delegates to the one creator. Red on 5554eb6993 (no seam), green here.
---------
Co-authored-by: Robin Fernandes <robin@soal.org>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The gateway agent cache read honcho.json itself through a honcho-named
block in gateway/run.py and gateway/run_agent_cache.py. Every other memory
provider had no way to bust the cache when its identity mapping changed.
HonchoMemoryProvider.identity_signature() now returns the same values under
provider-neutral keys: user_identity, agent_identity, pin_user_identity,
runtime_identity_prefix, user_identity_aliases, session_prefixing. The
gateway files them under memory.<key> through the MemoryProvider hook. The
hook reads config only, memoizes on the file's mtime and size, and returns
an empty dict when the file cannot be read.
The honcho-specific extractor, its memo and its key tuple are gone from the
gateway. The pinPeerName cache-busting test now asserts on
memory.pin_user_identity.
The Telegram adapter asks the authorization check before dispatch, the ingress gate asks it
again, and the busy path asks a third time. Each call counted one loop-guard event, so a
Telegram bot tripped the budget after a third of the configured messages. The verdict now only
refuses a chat that is cooling down. The ingress gate counts an admitted bot message once.
`parse_turn_author` treats only booleans, integers and the strings true/1/yes as a bot flag,
and returns None for an author with neither id nor name. Names keep format characters and
non-breaking spaces so emoji sequences survive. The quiet one-shot pops HERMES_TURN_AUTHOR
before the turn so tool subprocesses do not inherit it. `max_events` must be a whole positive
number. Issue numbers move out of code comments.
_extract_cache_busting_config knew one memory provider by name and imported
its config class to read identity keys. it now also asks the configured
provider for identity_signature() through plugins.memory.load_memory_provider
and merges the result under "memory.<key>". the hardcoded block stays until
that provider implements the hook.
Re-applies the gateway compat removal byte-for-byte; see 92d0bd0d73 for the
full inventory (30 re-exports/aliases + 2 shim modules dropped, 3 shim-only
names re-removed, 24 callers + 34 test files repointed). No new changes.
Adolanium review §3 (Medium/Low). BASE shape at every steer/redirect/persist/agent-cache
lock site was: lock = getattr(obj, "_x_lock", None); if lock is not None: with lock: <direct
attribute read>; else: <getattr fallback for object.__new__ test stubs>. The refactor rewrote
several of these as 'with getattr(...) or nullcontext(): getattr(slot, None)', which (a) turned a
missing slot under the lock from a loud AttributeError into silent None and (b) in the gateway
peek helper read the cache without any lock when the lock attribute was absent.
Restored BASE semantics at:
- agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py::_requeue_pending_steer
- agent/interrupt_control.py: steer, redirect, clear_interrupt, _has_pending_redirect,
_drain_pending_redirect, _drain_pending_steer (new _ic_slot helper: direct read under lock)
- agent/session_persistence.py::_persist_lock (explicit None check + BASE rationale)
- gateway/slash_commands.py::_cached_agent_for (BASE callers read ONLY under the lock; no lock -> None)
- gateway/run_agent_cache.py::_evict_cached_agent (BASE: self._agent_cache direct under lock)
- agent/client_lifecycle.py::_is_openai_client_closed: BASE body + docstring verbatim (outer
is_closed first; inner _client.is_closed only when _client exists; else False)
- agent/stream_delivery.py::_ensure_stream_writer_state: restore BASE rationale that the lock is
created unconditionally in agent_init (_STREAM_STATE) and the lazy path is stub-only
A/B (/tmp/rf/rev/ab_lock_fallbacks.py, ab_client_closed.py) is byte-identical BASE vs HEAD on
the reviewer's inputs + edge cases. tests/agent/test_lock_fallback_base_semantics.py pins it
(7 of 25 cases fail on the pre-fix tree).
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.
AST-driven, body-identical move of 359 GatewayRunner methods into cohesive
mixin modules (gateway/run_{voice,adapters,topics,turn,shutdown,busy,
config_loaders,startup,watchers,notifications,inbound,goals,agent_cache}.py)
plus TurnRunner -> gateway/run_turn_runner.py. run.py-internal symbols are
imported lazily inside method bodies so patch('gateway.run.X') keeps
intercepting; neutral deps are top-level; logger name stays 'gateway.run'.
_UNSET moved to leaf gateway/run_common.py (def-time default-arg sentinel).
Whole-module inspect.getsource(gateway_run) AST-walker tests repointed to
the module that now holds the walked code.
