Follow-ups to the salvaged #71385 guard (which raises RuntimeError from
require_readable_config_before_write on unparseable / non-mapping YAML):
- config_command: catch RuntimeError for set/unset and print a clean
one-line error + exit(1) instead of a raw traceback on the primary
'hermes config set/unset' CLI path.
- console_engine._capture_output: convert escaping RuntimeError into a
ConsoleCommandError so 'hermes console' and the dashboard console
report the refusal instead of crashing the REPL/websocket session.
- _warn_config_parse_failure: add a dedicated 'refuse-write' wording
branch — the old fallthrough claimed 'falling back to default config'
even though the write was refused and the file preserved.
- approval_mode: update the stale SystemExit-only comment.
- Regression tests for the console path and both config_command paths.
'hermes --version' (and -V) now prints the full version report — banner
version line with upstream SHA, install directory, authoritative install
method, Python and OpenAI SDK versions, and update status — making the
separate 'hermes version' subcommand redundant. The subcommand is removed.
- _startup_fast.print_fast_version_info() is now THE canonical version
printer: static lines print instantly from stdlib probes, then the
banner label, install-method resolver, and update check lazy-import
after the first line is on screen (each degrades gracefully).
- main.py _print_version_info() delegates to it (used by /version in the
CLI chat surface and the --version flag path); the old duplicate
implementation is deleted.
- hermes_cli/subcommands/version.py removed; parser wiring, subcommand
sets, console-engine extraction entry, and tests updated. Hermes
Console keeps a 'version' command wired to the shared printer.
- Termux fast paths now include update status too (previously
check_updates=False).
- Docs/i18n, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY, and nix checks updated to
'hermes --version'.
Hermes Console registers `checkpoints prune`, `clear` and `clear-legacy` as
mutating, so it takes a console-level confirmation before dispatching any of
them. `_apply_confirmed_defaults` then exists to keep the CLI layer from
asking a second time — its docstring says so — but it only force-defaults
`clear` and `clear-legacy`. `prune` was left out, even though `cmd_prune`
gates its orphan preview on the identical `not args.force` shape.
`_capture_output` redirects stdout and stderr but never stdin, so the
unskipped `_confirm()` call hits `input()` with no terminal behind it:
`EOFError` propagates into `_confirm`, which returns False, and `cmd_prune`
prints "Aborted." and returns 1. The console turns that non-zero exit into a
ConsoleCommandError, so `checkpoints prune` fails outright for any user who
has at least one orphan checkpoint project — after that user already
confirmed. When the server does happen to inherit a foreground terminal, the
same call instead blocks a console worker thread and eats the operator's
keystrokes.
Forcing the flag is the documented behavior here rather than a weakening of
the recent orphan-allowlist hardening. `orphan_allowlist` binds a deletion to
the identities shown in the preview, guarding the window where a workdir
disappears while the command waits on `input()`. Under the console there is
no preview and no wait, which is exactly the `--force` case the comment on
`cmd_prune` describes as "no restriction".
Sweep of open Windows issues affecting day-to-day agent operation
(explicitly excluding install/setup and locale classes):
- hermes_cli/_subprocess_compat.py: new split_command_line() — Windows-
safe command-line tokenizer (posix=False + quote stripping) so
backslash paths survive. POSIX behavior unchanged (plain shlex.split).
- hermes_cli/console_engine.py (#83934): console commands like
'sessions export C:\Users\me\out.jsonl' no longer silently mangle the
path into a relative filename in the cwd.
- agent/shell_hooks.py (#78293): hook commands with backslash paths now
spawn, resolve their script path, and pass hooks doctor instead of
reporting 'not executable'. All three shlex sites routed through the
shared splitter.
- agent/prompt_builder.py (#51755): system prompt now reports
Windows (11) on Windows 11 — platform.release() returns 10 for both;
distinguish via sys.getwindowsversion().build >= 22000.
- hermes_cli/commands.py (#42016): @ autocomplete no longer crashes the
prompt_toolkit event loop when rg emits a path on a different mount
(device paths \.\nul, other drive letters) — relpath ValueError is
skipped per-entry.
- tools/browser_use_cli.py (#83884): screenshot-path detection now
matches Windows drive-letter paths (C:\... and C:/...) in addition to
POSIX; Browser Use screenshots attach on Windows.
- tools/skills_hub.py + tools/skills_guard.py (#62310): the two 'MUST
stay symmetric' skill content hashes actually agree on Windows now.
Bundle keys are normalized to POSIX separators before hashing, and the
disk digest sorts by rel-posix STRING (case-sensitive) instead of Path
objects (case-insensitive on Windows). Fixes permanent false-positive
update_available for every installed skill.
Tests: tests/tools/test_windows_agent_loop_papercuts.py — 16 cases
covering each fix, including a disk-vs-bundle hash symmetry check built
with native Windows separators and a mixed-case filename.
Two claim-failure diagnostic paths (cronjob_tools.py:629,921) still used
the old inline 'not enabled or state==paused' check. After get_job()
normalizes via effective_job_state, a half-paused record has
state='scheduled' and enabled=True, so the inline check returned False —
mislabeling the job as 'already being fired' instead of 'paused/disabled'.
Also hoists effective_job_state/is_job_runnable to the top-level import in
cronjob_tools.py (was function-local) and updates console_engine.py's
_format_job to use effective_job_state instead of the old inline
state-or-enabled derivation — a fourth display path the original PR missed.
Follow-up to PR #81287.
sessions.max_resume_messages / sessions.max_export_messages (default
20000, 0 disables) replace the hardcoded hard-rejects, and the CLI
'sessions export' guard becomes per-session instead of cumulative so
full-DB backups of many small sessions keep working. Error guidance now
points at the config override instead of the (corruption-only) repair
command.
A dispatched console handler that calls sys.exit("message") or
raise SystemExit("message") sets exc.code to a string. int(exc.code or 0)
then raises ValueError, which is not a ConsoleCommandError, so it escapes
execute()'s handler and crashes the local REPL on an ordinary user mistake
(e.g. removing a credential that does not exist). Treat a string exit code
as a status-1 failure carrying that message.
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 .)
The dashboard console previously ran under a 'hosted' context that
blocked most commands (auth add, config set model.*, mcp add --command,
cron --script, ...) behind an allowlist + line-policy layer. With the
full Hermes CLI now built into the dashboard, that policy layer is
redundant gatekeeping: the console gets the same command surface
everywhere.
Removed:
- ConsoleContext/contexts plumbing on ConsoleCommand + engine
- EXPECTED_HOSTED_PATHS allowlist + _mark_hosted
- _enforce_hosted_line_policy + HOSTED_CONFIG_* allow/block tables
- _dashboard_console_context() and the context field on the ready frame
- hosted-context tests; context badge in HermesConsoleModal
Kept (mechanical, not policy): shell-syntax rejection, the
interactive/server command blocks (gateway, dashboard, mcp serve, ...),
mutating-command confirmations, output caps, and command timeouts.
Addresses two non-blocking review notes on the Hermes Console PR:
- console_engine: the four _*_summaries helpers import a subcommand module
and build a throwaway argparse tree purely to extract help summaries. The
dashboard opens a fresh HermesConsoleEngine per /api/console connection, so
every reconnect re-imported + re-parsed the whole CLI surface. The surface
is process-static, so memoize with functools.lru_cache — callers only read
the returned map.
- web_server: console commands run in a worker thread via asyncio.to_thread.
On a 60s timeout asyncio.wait_for cancels the awaitable, but Python threads
aren't preemptible, so a stuck worker keeps running and would leak into the
shared default thread pool. Route console execution through a small
dedicated bounded ThreadPoolExecutor (max_workers=4) so a leaked worker is
capped and concurrent console execution is bounded regardless of reconnects.
Follow-up on top of @shannonsands' NS-574 Hermes Console.
