Two pre-Python readers anchored their awk patterns on the exact leading
whitespace of the machine-written json they parse:
- setup-hermes.sh read artifact-mirror.json with /^ "origin"/ (exact
two spaces), so any other one-member-per-line layout lost the mirror
fallback silently: the mirror url resolved empty and fetch_pinned
reported only the primary url it failed on.
- scripts/install.sh read packages.python.version from pm/lock.json
with exact 4-space and 6-space anchors; on any other layout the pin
resolved empty and the install fell back to the hardcoded "3.14".
setup-hermes.sh's own pin() already established the contract for the
same file ("follow object names and braces, not indentation"); both
sites now follow it. The mirror read is a flat key match; the python
pin uses the same brace-tracking reader as pin().
No other site in the tree has the pattern: setup-hermes.ps1 uses
ConvertFrom-Json, nix uses builtins.fromJSON, python readers use
json.loads, and remaining awk users parse command output, not config.
Tests:
- tests/pm/test_setup_lock_format.py now parametrizes the mirror json
indent (it was fixed at 2, leaving the mirror read unguarded) and
adds a mirror-fallback E2E: the primary url is a dead port (curl
exit 7, retriable), so the staged uv must come from the mirror,
with the mirror json written at 9-space indent. Red on the old
regex (mirror url resolves empty, exit 1), green with the fix.
- tests/test_install_sh_python_pin_indent.py (new) sources
install.sh --manifest and proves bootstrap_python resolves the
pinned version through a fake uv that records its calls, across
2/4/0/tab/blank-line lock layouts.
Verified via scripts/run_tests.sh: 16 passed, 0 failed on the fix; the
new mirror-fallback test fails against the old parsers (verified by
stashing the two script changes and re-running). Sibling install/setup
tests (test_install_sh_node_deps_workspaces, test_install_stage_frames,
test_install_sh_desktop_stage, pm/test_activate_scripts) all green.
Activation reaches plugin discovery before the application dependencies
exist. Give PM its own locked Python project and runtime so it can install
or repair the application without importing that dependency tree.
Keep PM outside the application workspace. A shared uv workspace resolves
the application graph and cannot provide this isolation. Route mutations
through an isolated worker and preserve transaction callbacks, cancellation,
custom package registrations, and correlated receipts.
Use the same runtime builder for source installs and packaged payloads.
Keep offline wheelhouse support in that builder. Nix builds the independent
PM lock as a separate derivation. Refuse lazy-disabled bootstrap before
installing tools or dependencies.
Move first-party YAML readers and writers to ruamel. Keep the application
lock's transitive PyYAML requirements for third-party packages.
Verification:
- Focused canonical Python suite: 177 passed, 1 host-gated skip.
- Electron backend probes: 12 passed. Electron typecheck passed.
- Both uv locks, scoped lint, Bash syntax, and whitespace checks passed.
- Cold activation, corrupt-app repair, offline staging, and relocation ran.
- Built and exercised the Nix PM runtime and standalone YAML merge script.
Six broader caller test files retain the same 24 failing test IDs as an
archive of HEAD. The existing real-home guard blocks those tests before
they can exercise the affected paths. No full-suite pass is claimed.
Native Windows signing and full Bionic package execution remain unverified.
Termux removes old package files, so a pinned URL and hash do not keep
build inputs available. Preserve the exact bytes without changing pins.
Archive every PM HTTP artifact and the Termux runtime inputs by SHA256.
CI reads R2 first. Only a missing object permits an upstream download,
hash verification, immutable upload, and verified readback. Seed the
actual toolchain and payload stores before their consumers run.
Use the public archive as a pinned fallback in PM, bootstrap installers,
and Nix fetchers. Keep network retries bounded and report attempted URLs.
Keep publication credentials in protected CI jobs, not installed clients.
Verification:
- 283 targeted tests passed; five POSIX tests skipped on Windows.
- All 87 preserved Termux packages passed local archive miss/hit checks.
- Native ARM64 ripgrep installed through the mirror and ran successfully.
- Wheel import, workflow lint, Python lint, shell syntax, and pins passed.
Live R2 publication, POSIX tests, and Nix builds remain for native CI.
The real-byte archive checks used loopback HTTP, not the live bucket.
Setup searched for console scripts in a checkout-local venv that PM no
longer creates. Publish both commands through the shared writer after
PM setup, using store Python rather than a dependency interpreter.
Native and shell launchers load the selected dependency generation at
boot, retain the custom-home default, and ignore foreign Python paths.
Both installer stages reuse their bootstrap interpreter for publication.
PowerShell passes the resolved home to child processes.
Verified: 57 focused tests passed with one POSIX host skip. Real Windows
launchers, generated shell scripts, and both stage callers ran against
temporary trees. No full cold dependency install or native POSIX install
was run. The user-PATH edge is stubbed in the PowerShell test.
Explicit failures exited before the dispatcher could emit its result.
Unchecked writes could instead reach the success log. Run each stage
in an errexit subshell and emit one EXIT result with the actual status.
Escape JSON text before reporting paths or diagnostic messages.
Accept the desktop's home argument, derive the default install path
from it, and export it to child processes. Explicit install paths win.
Verified actual Bash stage calls over disposable repositories and
failed writes, plus the real CLI's argument and platform boundaries.
No complete POSIX installation or native package acceptance is claimed.
Finish bootstrap uv before PM replaces its store entry. Keep failure
receipts stdlib-only and align the cryptography requirement and override
with the locked version.
Let bundle builders declare launch paths and update ownership. Remove
payload discovery, Store probing, and the unused develop command.
Derive Nix Python from the PM lock and share its provenance stamp.
Document setup, activation, optional dependencies, and distribution
ownership. Targeted Windows tests, relocated runtime launches, Electron
bundling, and bilingual docs builds pass. Native Nix and signed-package
acceptance remain CI gates.
pm python node: 3.14.7+20260901 (freshest python-build-standalone 3.14
build) for the 6 desktop targets; the bionic row moves from the third-party
TUR python3.11 deb to the official termux-main python_3.14.6-1 deb (which
lags PBS by one patch — pinned manually, documented). All 7 digests fetched
from the live sources (PBS release API + termux-main Packages index).
pm/packages.py: main_bin_rel python3.14, deb_package python, bionic fetch
constant, latest_versions guards bionic (no PBS build exists).
termux lane: PYTHON_ABI cp311->cp314, python3.11->python3.14 paths,
libpython3.11.so->3.14, TARGET_ENV 3.11.15->3.14.6 AND sys_platform
linux->android (CPython 3.13+ reports 'android', docs-verified) — linux-
gated markers no longer admit the termux target. runtime_libs.json needs no
change: every python 3.14.6-1 Depends is already staged.
CI: python-version/--python 3.11->3.14 across all 11 workflows incl. the
uv lockfile-check lane. Installers derive the minor from the lock already;
fallbacks bumped. Sandbox images nikolaik/python-nodejs:python3.11-nodejs20
-> python3.14-nodejs22 (tag exists). runtime_repair fall-forward cap now
tracks the <3.15 requires-python window. Docs/README python version claims
updated.
Prepare dependency generations before selecting them. Keep shipped tool
bytes separate from writable additions, and store facts beside their entries.
Validate proposed plugin sets before config publication. Restore the previous
config if the facts write fails.
Consolidate duplicate updater, backup, setup, and voice helpers. Repair
launcher selection, dependency consumers, download ownership, update feeds,
and native Windows process and file handling.
Verification: 206 changed/prior-failing Python files reported 4630 passed,
one failed, and 330 skipped. Fix the remaining Hindsight fixture boundary.
The final targeted rerun reported 234 passed and two skipped. The store
review regression batch reported 83 passed and one skipped. Desktop
TypeScript checks, 56 selected Electron tests, 24 release tests, and the
removed-import/compatibility guards passed.
This is an integration checkpoint, not full audit acceptance. The complete
Python suite has not run on this fixed tree. Crash-atomic plugin publication,
generation cleanup, receipt correlation, and packaged lifecycle acceptance
remain open in docs/pm-audit-status.md.
Introduce the pm store: a unified, hash-verified package store that
replaces lazy_deps and the old installer's ad-hoc tool downloads.
Store tools are provisioned on PATH (ffmpeg, node/npm via pinned uv),
with a resumable 8-way downloader, verify() returning failure reasons,
and adopt() made EPERM-safe. chromium ships in the payload for every
target. The 3600-line install.sh is replaced by a staged bootstrapper
(heavy deps are pm's job after this); setup-hermes.sh, Dockerfile and
nix pin tables are rewired onto the store. Old install-script tests,
lazy_deps/managed_uv/build_info, and the ps1/bash installer test
batteries are removed with the machinery they tested.
Rebuilt from ethie/pm onto upstream/main (ac6c8028e0) after the
utf-8-sig sweep. 16 hot files (main also churned them) hand-merged:
platform adapters, main.py, electron/main.ts, tui_gateway/server.py,
cua_backend, installer-tests workflow, install.sh (full rewrite),
setup-hermes.sh, plugins doc.
DEFAULT_AGENT_IDENTITY was rewritten in agent/prompt_builder.py (behavior
spec, exploration-thrift line deliberately removed) but the actual seed
written to disk on first run, hermes_cli/default_soul.py's
DEFAULT_SOUL_MD, was never updated. ensure_hermes_home() writes
DEFAULT_SOUL_MD into SOUL.md on every fresh install before the agent's
first turn, so virtually all real users end up as "SOUL.md users" seeded
with the pre-rewrite text -- including the exact "targeted and efficient
exploration" line the rewrite explicitly banned -- while the new
DEFAULT_AGENT_IDENTITY fallback essentially never serves the "fresh
install" audience its own PR body named as the target.
- DEFAULT_SOUL_MD now matches DEFAULT_AGENT_IDENTITY exactly.
- The pre-rewrite text is added to _LEGACY_TEMPLATE_SOULS so installs
already seeded with it self-heal via the existing upgrade-in-place
mechanism (same guarantee as the comment-only scaffold entries: the
string carries zero user intent, so it's safe to replace).
- Synced the other places install.sh's own comment says "MUST match
DEFAULT_SOUL_MD": scripts/install.sh, scripts/install.ps1,
docker/SOUL.md, and the docs/i18n pages that quote the fallback text
verbatim.
The locked dependency tree now carries @babel/* 8.x, which requires
node ^22.18.0 || >=24.11.0. Our engines.node arm said ^24.0.0 and the
installer gates (node_satisfies_build / Test-NodeVersionOk) accepted any
Node 24 — so a system Node 24.0–24.10 cleared every gate we own and then
failed 'npm install' with EBADENGINE under engine-strict=true.
- Raise the 24 arm to ^24.11.0 in root + desktop package.json and the
package-lock.json mirrors
- Tighten node_satisfies_build (install.sh) and Test-NodeVersionOk
(install.ps1) to 24.11+; update user-facing wording
- Add invariant tests: every engines.node arm floor must satisfy every
locked dependency's engines.node, and the installer gates must encode
the same floors as the manifest — so the next babel-style floor bump
turns into a CI red instead of a user install outage
- docs: correct stale 'Node.js v22' provisioning claim
The installer exports UV_NO_CONFIG=1 at script start (sudo -u hygiene,
#21269). That export also hides the project's own [tool.uv] policy —
exclude-newer and its package exemptions — from uv. The resolver then
runs under a different policy than uv.lock was resolved under, and
--locked makes that mismatch fatal:
error: The lockfile at `uv.lock` needs to be updated, but `--locked` was provided.
Every fresh install hit this and fell through to the non-hash-verified
PyPI fallback tiers, defeating the point of Tier 0. Strip the variable
for this one invocation only; it stays exported for every other uv call.
Runtime code already strips UV_NO_CONFIG before its own locked syncs for
the same reason (hermes_cli/managed_uv.py).
Salvage follow-up for #88993: the preflight was defined but never
called from the prerequisites stage or the full-install path, so the
Fedora node-gyp failure (#93063) would still occur. Wire it in after
check_node in both sequences.
npm install inside install_node_deps() builds native addons (e.g. node-pty) via node-gyp, which needs a C/C++ compiler. That was never checked, so a missing g++ only surfaced as a generic "npm install failed or timed out" deep inside npm's own output — and because install_node_deps failing short-circuits the rest of main() via `|| return`, users end up with no `hermes` command and no clue why.
Three problems with install.sh --commit:
1. No validation: non-hex or too-short arguments passed through to git,
producing misleading errors.
2. Fetch failure swallowed by || true: abbreviated SHAs are refused by
GitHub's server ("couldn't find remote ref"), but the error was
silently ignored.
3. Checkout failure not checked: git checkout --detach with a missing
object produces a misleading "does not take a path argument" error
and the install continues unpinned, exiting 0.
Fix:
- Validate --commit is a 7-40 hex string up front
- Remove || true from fetch; fail with actionable message directing
users to full 40-char SHAs
- Check git checkout --detach result and fail hard on error
Fixes#87268
Both install-blocking npm install call sites (browser tools and TUI) ran
with --silent and no output capture, so failures printed only a generic
error message with no npm diagnostics.
Apply the same pattern used by the camofox install path: redirect npm
output to a temp file and replay it on failure, so users can see the
actual error (EBADENGINE, ETARGET, network timeout, registry 5xx, etc.).
Fixes#87340
The relative exclude-newer = "14 days" cutoff bricks installs whenever the
resolver cannot see (or accept) a package's upload date:
- defusedxml / python-olm / unpaddedbase64 (#80387, #79434): ancient frozen
releases (2021-2023) whose upload dates are often absent from mirror
indexes and stale uv HTTP caches. uv then filters them entirely
("there are no versions of defusedxml"), breaking [youtube]/[wecom]/
[matrix] resolution and daily `uv sync --locked` runs.
- setuptools / pillow / mcp (#78227, #75992, #76020): exact-pinned deps.
When the pinned version's upload date is invisible, the resolver filters
the ONLY acceptable candidate — setuptools==83.0.0 in
[build-system].requires meant the project could not even be built from a
git checkout on released v0.20.0. Exempting an exact pin costs nothing:
the version cannot float without a reviewed pin bump.
Changes:
- pyproject.toml: add all six to the existing exclude-newer-package
whitelist, with rationale comments per class.
- uv.lock: regenerated; diff is the whitelist metadata only (verified
zero version drift, still 249 packages).
- tests/test_packaging_metadata.py: new standing guard
test_build_system_requires_exempt_from_exclude_newer — every
[build-system].requires package must be whitelisted while a relative
exclude-newer cutoff is configured. Verified both directions (fails
when setuptools is removed from the whitelist).
- scripts/install.sh: fix the stale tier-name comparison ("all (with
RL/matrix extras)" vs actual "all") that mislabeled every successful
Tier-1 install as a fallback-tier install (#79434 bonus finding).
Verification: uv lock --check green on uv 0.11.19 and 0.12.5;
uv sync --extra all --locked green; uv pip install -e '.[all]' resolves;
whitelist mechanism A/B-proven on a minimal project (unsatisfiable ->
resolves; build-requires variant: uv build fails -> succeeds).
Reported-by: MichaelClawHub (#80387), liujianqiu (#79434), maxonliu (#78227)
Everything Browser Use is now managed by Hermes: the canonical binary
is the one install_cli() provisions into HERMES_HOME/bin, and every
resolution and provisioning site prefers it.
- _find_cli(): probe order flipped to managed bin -> PATH ->
user-level tool dir (then uvx across the same order). A user's own
uv tool install can no longer shadow the Hermes-managed copy with a
drifted version; side installs only matter when we have nothing.
- install_cli(): a browser-use on PATH no longer short-circuits the
install — only the managed copy does, so selecting any backend
provisions the copy Hermes controls and updates.
- _ensure_browser_use_cli() (hermes tools): drops its own PATH check
and always delegates to install_cli(), the single owner of the
managed-copy policy.
- install.sh / install.ps1: same short-circuit fix — only
HERMES_HOME/bin/browser-use counts as installed.
Follow-up to #86240 and #86320: with every non-Camofox backend
selection installing the CLI, managed-first closes the remaining
version-drift/shadowing class instead of guarding single sites.
Tests updated to pin the new contract: managed beats PATH and
user-local; PATH install does not satisfy install_cli; helper always
delegates. E2E-verified precedence chain with real files and a real
degraded-PATH install attempt.
* fix(install): fail when Node dependencies cannot install (#85297)
The POSIX installer converted root and TUI npm failures into warnings, then
printed a dependency-success message and reached the installation-complete
banner with a zero exit status. This left consumers with no usable
node_modules while reporting success.
Treat both required npm installs as fatal: log an error, restore tracked
lockfile churn, return status 1, and propagate the failure from the monolithic
and node-deps stage callers. Successful installs, Termux and missing-Node
skips, missing-manifest skips, and optional Playwright/Browser Use/Computer
Use best-effort behavior remain unchanged. The fix is limited to the POSIX
installer; the PowerShell installer is outside this issue's scope.
Focused and adjacent installer tests passed (32), with bash syntax,
py_compile, and diff checks clean. The broader installer family had 90 passes,
one unrelated pre-existing failure, and two skips; the full suite was
environment-limited by missing dependencies. CodeRabbit, iterative deep
security/compatibility reviews, and final confidence security/compatibility
reviews were clean against the final diff.
Fixes#85297
* fix(install): require npm alongside node in check_node (#77003)
A stray `node` symlink without a sibling `npm` (leftover from a node
version manager) made check_node report "Node.js found"; every later
npm install then failed and the desktop build died with an opaque
"Node.js / npm unavailable". Node now only counts as found when npm
resolves on the same PATH, with an explicit "stray node symlink?" branch
that falls through to the Hermes-managed Node (which bundles npm).
The overlapping success-log honesty half of the original PR is subsumed
by the previous commit, which makes a failed npm install fatal rather
than conditionally-logged; the behavioral tests there cover it, so this
commit keeps only the check_node PATH-gate assertions.
Fixes#77003.
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Choosing Computer Use should be a config flip, not a hunt for
'hermes computer-use install'. Three provisioning rungs:
- install.sh / install.ps1 pre-install cua-driver (best-effort,
non-fatal, time-boxed at 660s above the upstream installer's 600s
lock window; --skip-computer-use / -SkipComputerUse to opt out;
Termux and unwritable-/Applications skipped cleanly)
- PUT /api/tools/toolsets/{name} (dashboard + desktop toggle) spawns
the background 'hermes tools post-setup cua_driver' action when the
toolset is enabled while the binary is missing — previously the
toggle 'saved' but the tool never appeared in the schema because
check_computer_use_requirements() couldn't find the binary
- hermes tools interactive flow already installed via
_toolset_needs_configuration_prompt/_POST_SETUP_INSTALLED (unchanged)
Docs: computer-use.md enabling section rewritten around the new flow;
installation.md documents --skip-computer-use.
ensure_browser() (install.sh) and Install-AgentBrowser (install.ps1)
are reached only via the explicit --ensure browser / -Ensure browser
on-demand mode, itself only triggered by an actual browser-tool call's
lazy-install fallback or `hermes acp --setup-browser`. agent-browser
already resolves via npx in that same fallback before ever reaching
these scripts, so eagerly npm-installing a second, separately
version-pinned copy here was redundant and an extra credential/
supply-chain surface for a path npx already covers. Chromium
acquisition for this on-demand path is now deferred entirely to
_maybe_autoinstall_chromium's existing lazy fallback. camofox's
install and system-browser detection/configuration are unaffected.
install.ps1 also drops the now-dead -SkipChromium switch, confirmed
unused at its one call site.
The Browser Use CLI became the default browser backend, but nothing
provisioned it: users without uv/uvx (field report from DongyangHe on
macOS) silently fell back to the built-in browser tools with no notice.
- install_cli() in tools/browser_use_cli.py: uv tool install browser-use
via the managed uv (bootstrapped on demand), linked into
$HERMES_HOME/bin (UV_TOOL_BIN_DIR)
- _find_cli() now also probes $HERMES_HOME/bin for browser-use/uvx —
Hermes' managed uv is not on the user's PATH
- hermes tools post_setup actually installs (Camofox standard) instead
of printing instructions
- install.sh / install.ps1 provision the CLI at install time
(best-effort, non-fatal, honors --skip-browser)
- CLI startup shows a one-line notice (24h rate-limited) when the
default backend downgraded to the built-in tools
`hermes desktop` still failed with EBADENGINE demanding Node >=26 after
#76562, on a machine whose `apps/desktop/package.json` already said
`^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0`. #76562 fixed the manifest but not its mirror in
`package-lock.json`, and `npm ci` reads engines from the lockfile:
package.json apps/desktop -> {'node': '^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0'}
package-lock apps/desktop -> {'node': '>=26.0.0'} <- what gated
Chasing that exposed a second, pre-existing problem: the floor #76562
declared was too generous. Running the real `npm ci` against the whole
workspace on Node 22.21.1 fails on a transitive dependency —
npm error notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm:
react-router@8.3.0
npm error notsup Required: {"node":">=22.22.0"}
react-router 8.3.0 (a direct dependency of both `apps/desktop` and `web`)
declares `>=22.22.0`, which is tighter than Vite's `^20.19 || >=22.12` and
excludes all of Node 20. So `>=20.0.0` promised support the tree cannot
deliver: an install on Node 20 or early 22 passed the installer's gate and
then died inside `npm ci` on someone else's package.
All four engine declarations now state the floor the dependency tree
actually has, `>=22.22.0`: root `package.json`, `apps/desktop/package.json`,
and both of their `package-lock.json` mirrors. The installer gates move with
them (`node_satisfies_build` in install.sh, `Test-NodeVersionOk` in
install.ps1) so a too-old system Node is replaced with the managed one
*before* npm runs, and the failure a user does see names hermes-agent rather
than a transitive package. NODE_VERSION stays 22 — latest-v22.x is 22.23.2,
comfortably above the floor.
The invariant test gains the case that would have caught the mirror drift on
its own: the desktop assertion now pins the tightest floor a dependency
actually declares, and the managed-runtime check compares majors, since
install.sh fetches latest-v{major}.x rather than {major}.0.0.
Verified with real `npm ci --dry-run` over the full workspace:
- node 22.23.2 (what install.sh provisions) -> 1258 packages
- node 26.5.1 -> 1189 packages
- node 22.21.1 (below the floor) -> EBADENGINE naming
hermes-agent, i.e. our own manifest, not react-router
Fresh installs and `hermes update` both fail at the first `npm ci`:
npm error code EBADENGINE
npm error notsup Required: {"node":">=26.0.0","npm":">=12.0.0"}
npm error notsup Actual: {"node":"v24.15.0","npm":"11.12.1"}
`.npmrc` sets engine-strict=true, so `engines` is a hard gate on every
install. The floor was raised to npm >=12 — but no Node release bundles
npm 12: Node 26 ships 11.17.0, 24 ships 11.16.0, 22 ships 10.9.8. The
requirement is unsatisfiable by any stock toolchain, so the installer
provisions a Node and is immediately unable to install with it.
engines.npm becomes `<11.10.0 || >=11.17.0`. That still excludes the band
the strictness was actually for: npm 11.10-11.16 honor `min-release-age`
but ignore `min-release-age-exclude`, both set in .npmrc, so they apply the
14-day gate to packages we exempted. Verified rather than assumed — npm
11.12.1 fails `ETARGET ... vite@8.2.0 with a date before 7/18/2026` while
11.17.0 installs it.
engines.node returns to >=20.0.0 and the toolchain floor to Node 22.
Nothing in the tree needs 26: Vite 8.2.0 declares `^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0`
and Electron 40 declares `>=12.20.55`. Requiring 26 force-migrated every
working install for no dependency reason. apps/desktop drops to Vite's own
floor for the same reason; the desktop bundle builds clean on Node 22.
install.sh gained a second gate: a system Node was accepted on version
alone, so a machine with Node 24 + its bundled npm 11.16.0 (the bad band)
passed the check and then failed `npm ci`. npm_supports_npmrc() now rejects
that band and installs the managed Node instead.
CI, Docker and nix are hermetic and keep pinning Node 26 / npm 12 — they
provision their own toolchain, and both satisfy the relaxed range.
tests/test_engines_satisfiable.py encodes the invariants that would have
caught this: the npm floor must be met by an npm some shipping Node
bundles, the node floor by the runtime install.sh provisions, the desktop
floor by its own build toolchain, and the lockfile mirror must match.
Restoring the broken values fails 5 of them with the reason stated.
Verified end-to-end (real downloads, temp HERMES_HOME):
- fresh install: managed node v22.23.2 / npm 10.9.8 -> npm ci, 209 packages
- existing managed tree (v22.22.3 / npm 10.9.8) -> npm ci, 209 packages
- node 26.5.1 + bundled npm 11.17.0 -> npm ci, 208 packages
- system npm 11.12.1 (the reported case) -> EBADENGINE, recovery provisions
a managed tree and retries green
- apps/desktop `npm run build` on Node 22 -> dist built, assert passes
Hermes now pins its toolchain to Node 26 everywhere. Every path that
installs, accepts, heals, or upgrades a Node runtime moves from the old
22-default / `^20.19 || >=22.12` floor to a single rule: Node >=26.
Installers:
- scripts/install.sh — NODE_VERSION=26; node_satisfies_build() collapses
the two-branch Vite floor to `major >= 26`; user-facing messages updated.
- scripts/install.ps1 — $NodeVersion=26; Test-NodeVersionOk likewise;
winget fallback switches OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS -> OpenJS.NodeJS (26 is
Current, not LTS — the LTS manifest would reinstall a too-old Node).
- Dockerfile — node_source stage node:22-bookworm-slim -> node:26 (digest
pinned, amd64 sha256:9e6f...bf73).
- nix/ was already on nodejs_26 (lib.nix, npm-12-0-2.nix); the checks.nix
wrapper check ratchets from `>= 20` to `>= 26`.
Heal/upgrade paths:
- scripts/lib/node-bootstrap.sh — HERMES_NODE_TARGET_MAJOR default 22->26
and HERMES_NODE_MIN_VERSION default 20->26, so heal_managed_node,
_nb_install_bundled_node, and the fnm/proto/nvm/brew rungs all target 26
and stop accepting an on-PATH Node below it. Both remain env-overridable.
- hermes_constants.py — _HERMES_NODE_TARGET_MAJOR fallback 22->26, which
drives the Windows heal path's latest-v26.x download.
Version gates:
- package.json engines.node >=20 -> >=26; apps/desktop engines
`^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0` -> `>=26.0.0`.
- CI setup-node: all five workflows 22 -> 26.
- Docs describing Hermes's own toolchain updated (windows-native, docker,
acp, nix-setup, contributing). Skill docs describing third-party tools'
own requirements are untouched.
Termux still installs via `pkg install nodejs` best-effort (nodejs.org
ships no Android tarballs); that path was never version-gated.
Verified: bash -n on both shell scripts, PowerShell AST parse of
install.ps1, latest-v26.x index resolves (node-v26.5.1), and the install
test suite — 18 tests across the 5 install/runtime test files — passes.
setup_path() only wrote a 'hermes' launcher into the command-link dir,
even though pyproject.toml declares three [project.scripts]:
hermes, hermes-agent (run_agent:main), hermes-acp (acp_adapter.entry:main).
Fresh venv installs (the common case on macOS/Linux) leave
~/.local/bin/{hermes-agent,hermes-acp} empty, so external tools
expecting 'hermes-acp' as a standalone command (documented as
first-tier supported in website/docs/user-guide/features/acp.md)
fail to find it after a fully successful install.
Loop over the three console-script names, writing a shim per entry
that exec's the venv interpreter with the right checked-in
entrypoint. --no-venv keeps the old single-shim behaviour since
it does not manage the venv and only 'hermes' is guaranteed on PATH.
Fixes#74819
hermes-setup.exe bakes its build-time commit into the binary
(BUILD_PIN_COMMIT) and passes it as -Commit on every install-mode run,
including the retry the desktop's "Update didn't finish" screen kicks
off. The repository stage checked that SHA out unconditionally, so an
installer built months earlier rewound a current managed checkout to its
build commit -- 9,160 commits in the reported case -- leaving ancient
source against a current venv. npm then failed on workspaces that did not
exist yet at that commit, and every later update ran against the wrong
tree.
Skip the pin when its target is already an ancestor of HEAD. Fresh clones
have no such ancestry so reproducible/CI pinning is unchanged, and
--force-commit / -ForceCommit still rolls back on purpose.
install.sh probed pypi.org and duckduckgo.com serially with
--max-time 8 each, so a fully blocked network cost 16s before the user
saw any useful guidance. The two probes are independent; running them
as background jobs and gathering verdicts caps the worst case at one
--max-time (8s) while the good path stays instant.
Verified live: reachable URLs 0.24s (both probes concurrent);
blackholed 10.255.255.x URLs 8.02s total (was 2x8s), warning text
unchanged. bash -n clean.
install.sh duplicated the raw deep ad-hoc re-sign, so install/repair and
self-update could disagree about the app's signing identity — an update
signed with the stable identity would be clobbered back to a cdhash-only
DR by the next installer repair. Call the shared Python fixup (passing
the shell's publisher-signing decision explicitly), and branch into the
historical xattr + deep ad-hoc repair when the venv helper is missing or
fails so a broken venv never leaves the bundle unlaunchable.
Co-authored-by: cipry0200 <cipry0200@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: natebransc <natebransc@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: caseyanthony <caseyanthony@users.noreply.github.com>
setup_path() wrote a `hermes` launcher to ~/.local/bin but nothing for
`hermes-acp`. That console script exists only inside the venv, which is
not on the login-shell PATH.
ACP hosts resolve the agent by command name against that PATH, so an
otherwise healthy install looks absent to them. Buzz Desktop ships a
Hermes preset that spawns `hermes-acp` and reports the runtime as
unavailable; Zed and JetBrains configs that name the bare command have
the same problem.
Write a hermes-acp launcher next to the hermes one, dispatching to the
acp subcommand. Same PYTHONPATH/PYTHONHOME clearing, and the same rm -f
before cat > so an older symlink into the venv cannot be followed and
stomp the console script (#21454). Uninstall removes both launchers.
tests/test_install_sh_acp_launcher.py drives the block out of install.sh
rather than asserting on a copy, covering the venv and non-venv branches
plus the symlink-stomp case. Reverting the install.sh change turns all
three red.
Signed-off-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
Two fixes from live testing (Teknium):
1. Desktop installs now ship the wake/voice stacks up front.
install.sh + install.ps1 desktop stages run 'uv pip install
-e .[wake,voice]' (best-effort, lazy-install remains the fallback)
before building the app, so the first ear-click arms instantly
instead of sitting through a multi-minute onnxruntime download.
CLI-only installs keep the lazy path — [all] curation unchanged.
2. The vanished ear: the STT/TTS gate made wake.status call
check_tts_requirements(), whose edge path runs _import_edge_tts →
lazy_deps.ensure — a synchronous PIP INSTALL inside a status poll.
On a venv without edge-tts that blew the desktop's 30s RPC timeout,
armWakeWord caught the error, the atom never learned enabled=true,
and the ear unmounted. _tts_ready is now a pure probe: deps missing
+ lazy installs allowed counts as ready (installs at first speak)
WITHOUT touching pip; check_tts_requirements only runs once deps
are present. Regression test asserts the probe never calls it while
deps are missing.
install.ps1 wrote the marker on Windows and the Rust installer now writes it,
but install.sh -- the path every Mac and Linux CLI install takes -- never did.
A machine set up with install.sh therefore looked uninstalled to the desktop
app, which re-ran first-run bootstrap on every launch.
Stamp the same schema-v1 payload install.ps1 writes, from both the staged
`complete` stage and monolithic main(). An unresolvable HEAD skips the marker
rather than writing one the desktop validator rejects: absent reads as a clean
"bootstrap needed", malformed reads as a confusing half-state.
Removes Homebrew and PyPI wheel/sdist as Hermes distribution paths while
preserving the supported source, Docker, and Nix workflows.
Changes:
- Removes the Homebrew formula, PyPI publish workflow, sdist manifest
(MANIFEST.in), and wheel/sdist release-attachment logic from scripts/release.py.
- Keeps setuptools metadata and entry points required by editable installs
and Docker/Nix builds, but adds a setup.py guard that rejects wheel/sdist
builds outside a sealed Nix derivation (HERMES_NIX_BUILD=1).
- Removes pip/Homebrew install detection, PyPI update checks, the pip
self-update path, the deprecation-banner state, the postinstall subcommand,
wheel data-directory fallbacks in agent/i18n.py and hermes_constants.py,
and the ACP Registry manifest/version-lockstep release logic.
- Adds /nix/store/ path detection so `nix run` / `nix profile install`
installs (which don't set HERMES_MANAGED) are correctly identified as
"nix" rather than falling through to "git"/"unknown".
- Retired install-method values ("pip", "homebrew") in existing
.install_method stamps (both code-scoped and home-scoped) are ignored by
the allowlist reader and fall through to "unknown" instead of resurrecting
a retired enum value.
- Updates Nix packaging to ship bare runtime data (locales, optional-mcps)
through store symlinks and wrapper env vars instead of wheel data-files.
- Removes the ACP Registry manifest/icon and their version-lockstep tests.
- Deletes or rewrites packaging, pip-update, Homebrew, and ACP Registry
tests; adds parametrized coverage for the packaging build guard covering
BOTH sdist and wheel paths (the guards live in separate cmdclass entries
— a passing sdist test proves nothing about the wheel path).
- Updates installation/platform documentation and related user-facing copy.
- Adjusts the supply-chain scan so deleted install-hook files do not trigger
a finding, while additions or modifications still require the existing
ci-reviewed label gate.
Supported installation paths (unchanged):
- git installer (install.sh)
- Docker
- Nix/NixOS
- editable development installs (uv sync, uv pip install -e ., pip install -e .)
Bootstrap and desktop updates run install.ps1/install.sh, which aborted
with exit 128 when the managed checkout had diverged from origin/main.
Mirror the hermes update recovery path: reset to origin/$BRANCH instead
of failing the repository stage.
