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kshitijk4poor ee942a7bbf fix(terminal-env): adapter secrets are the declared ones, not any platform-named variable
The shape rule (a platform prefix plus _TOKEN/_SECRET/_PASSWORD/_KEY) also
matched variables Hermes never reads: the platform list holds plain words
(LOCAL, GATEWAY, WEBHOOK, SLACK), so a user's SLACK_USER_TOKEN,
LOCAL_LLM_API_KEY or GATEWAY_API_KEY vanished from the terminal and
terminal.env_passthrough could not bring them back. The prefix census it
leaned on also failed open (an unreadable plugins dir cached an empty set).

Adapter secrets now come from what adapters declare: password entries of
the messaging OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS (built-ins plus every platform plugin
manifest) and secret-named keys of the gateway env-override table, both
Tier 1 and refused by passthrough; plus the secret-named required_env of
adapters registered in the current profile scope, read per spawn without
loading deferred adapters, Tier 2 only because required_env is an
unchecked setup list. Secrets nothing declared get a manifest entry
(TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET, PHOTON_SIDECAR_TOKEN, A2A_PUSH_SECRET,
TEAMS_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN, TEAMS_INCOMING_WEBHOOK_URL) or join the
policy's read-in-code list (QQ_STT_API_KEY, the two MSGRAPH names).
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name: a2a-platform
label: A2A
kind: platform
version: 1.0.0
description: >
A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol v1.0 support for Hermes Agent — both directions
of the open Linux Foundation standard for inter-agent communication.
OUTBOUND (client tools): a2a_discover, a2a_call, a2a_list, a2a_history, and
a2a_orchestrate let the agent fetch another agent's Agent Card and send it
tasks over JSON-RPC — works with any A2A-compliant peer (Hermes, LangChain,
CrewAI, Google ADK, OpenClaw, ...).
INBOUND (platform adapter): exposes Hermes as an A2A-discoverable agent. An
Agent Card is served at /.well-known/agent-card.json (v1.0 canonical path;
legacy agent.json also answers) and incoming tasks are routed
into the agent's live gateway session like any other platform — so the agent
that replies is the same one talking to its user, with full memory and
context, not a throwaway clone.
Security is on by default: no bearer token configured => localhost-only bind.
Inbound task text passes through prompt-injection filters; outbound text is
scrubbed of credential-shaped strings; every exchange is audit-logged and
persisted to disk outside the context-compaction pipeline so conversations
survive compaction and restarts.
Pure stdlib transport (http.server + urllib) — no a2a-sdk dependency required.
author: Nous Research
# The outbound client tools. Declaring them here is what asks discovery to
# import `tools.py` in CLI/TUI processes, where the plugin is otherwise
# deferred and the tools would never register at all (#78050). The inbound
# adapter stays deferred either way — only this submodule is imported.
provides_tools:
- a2a_discover
- a2a_call
- a2a_list
- a2a_history
- a2a_orchestrate
# requires_env / optional_env are surfaced in the `hermes config` UI via the
# platform-plugin env var injector in hermes_cli/config.py.
requires_env: []
optional_env:
- name: A2A_PEER_TOKENS
description: "Per-peer bearer tokens ('alice:tok1,bob:tok2'). Each remote agent gets its own credential; the matched name is the authenticated identity used for rate limiting, trust, and audit."
prompt: "A2A per-peer tokens (name:token, comma-separated; or empty)"
password: true
- name: A2A_BEARER_TOKEN
description: "Shared bearer token for inbound A2A calls (identity falls back to caller IP). With no token of any kind => bind to 127.0.0.1 only (no remote access)."
prompt: "A2A shared bearer token (or empty for localhost-only)"
password: true
- name: A2A_PUSH_SECRET
description: "HMAC secret for signing push notifications (default: the shared bearer token)."
prompt: "A2A push signing secret (or empty)"
password: true
- name: A2A_HOST
description: "Inbound bind host. Defaults to 127.0.0.1; only widens to 0.0.0.0 when a bearer token is set AND you opt in here."
prompt: "A2A bind host (default 127.0.0.1)"
password: false
- name: A2A_PORT
description: "Inbound A2A server port (default 9900)."
prompt: "A2A port (default 9900)"
password: false
- name: A2A_AGENT_NAME
description: "Name advertised on this agent's Agent Card (default: hostname-derived)."
prompt: "A2A agent name"
password: false
- name: A2A_ALLOW_ALL_USERS
description: "Allow any authenticated A2A peer to reach the agent (dev only)."
prompt: "Allow all A2A peers? (true/false)"
password: false
- name: A2A_HOME_CHANNEL
description: "Task/context id used as the cron / notification delivery target for deliver=a2a."
prompt: "A2A home channel (or empty)"
password: false