"""Close a read-only agent terminal tab in the Hermes desktop GUI WITHOUT killing the mirrored ``terminal(background=true)`` process (output keeps buffering; the user can reopen it). Routes through the process registry's ``on_close`` sink, which the desktop gateway wires to a ``terminal.close`` event. ``desktop_ui`` toolset only.""" import json from tools.process_registry import process_registry from tools.registry import registry, tool_error def close_terminal_tool(process_id: str) -> str: """Ask the desktop GUI to close a background process's read-only tab.""" pid = (process_id or "").strip() if not pid: return tool_error("process_id is required (the background process whose tab to close).") return json.dumps(process_registry.request_close_terminal(pid), ensure_ascii=False) CLOSE_TERMINAL_SCHEMA = { "name": "close_terminal", "description": ( "Hide a background process's terminal tab (process keeps running) in " "the Hermes desktop GUI (the tabs mirroring terminal(background=true) runs). " "This does NOT kill the process — it only drops the tab/view; the output " "keeps buffering and the user can reopen it from the status stack. Use it " "to tidy up when a background process's live terminal is no longer worth " "showing. To actually stop the process, use process(action='kill') instead." ), "parameters": { "type": "object", "properties": { "process_id": { "type": "string", "description": ( "The background process's session id (from terminal(background=true) " "output or process(action='list')) whose tab should be closed." ), }, }, "required": ["process_id"], }, } registry.register( name="close_terminal", toolset="desktop_ui", schema=CLOSE_TERMINAL_SCHEMA, handler=lambda args, **kw: close_terminal_tool(process_id=args.get("process_id", "")), emoji="🖥️", )