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hermes-agent/website
kshitijk4poor b52c73c3e4 fix(desktop): hermes update puts back an installed Hermes.app that went missing
hermes update only refreshed installed copies that still existed: once
/Applications/Hermes.app was gone (trashed, deleted by a tool, lost in a
migration) every later update skipped it silently, and Finder, the Dock
and Spotlight never found Hermes again. The ownership stamp that marks a
copy as this checkout's lives inside the bundle, so it left with it.

Record the installed copies the update keeps current in
desktop-installed-apps.json under the default Hermes root. When no owned
copy is left, a recorded path that is now missing still counts as
installed: the update rebuilds for it, reinstalls it and says so. A copy
the user moved to the other Applications folder keeps its stamp, so it
is found instead of doubled. The record is machine-wide, so Hermes' GUI
uninstall deletes it from any profile and an uninstalled app stays
uninstalled. Only the checkout that owns installed apps writes it; a
copy that failed to reinstall stays recorded so the next update retries.

The skip dates from 032cf8438f (#113933), which scoped the refresh to
existing bundles.
2026-09-29 02:37:33 +05:30
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Website

This website is built using Docusaurus, a modern static website generator.

Reading the docs on GitHub? The Markdown under docs/ is authored for the rendered site at https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/. Cross-page links are relative Markdown paths, so they follow through on GitHub's file viewer too. Every page on the site has an Edit this page link that opens the source file here.

  • Link to another page with a relative Markdown path, anchors included: [Profiles](../user-guide/profiles.md), [Bundles](../user-guide/features/skills.md#skill-bundles). Docusaurus turns the file path into the page route; GitHub follows the same path. Site routes (/user-guide/profiles, /docs/user-guide/profiles) only work on the rendered site — GitHub resolves them as repository paths and 404s, and the /docs/ form also emits /docs/zh-Hans/docs/... 404s in the zh-Hans build because baseUrl is already /docs/.
  • python3 website/scripts/check_doc_links.py fails on any route-style link in hand-authored pages (EN and the zh-Hans mirror); --fix rewrites them. It runs in the Docs Site Checks workflow. Generated pages (user-guide/skills/{bundled,optional}, reference/*skills-catalog.md) are produced by scripts/generate-skill-docs.py, which emits the same relative form.
  • Pin {#anchor} on cross-linked headings so the zh-Hans mirror keeps the same id.

Installation

yarn

Local Development

yarn start

This command starts a local development server and opens up a browser window. Most changes are reflected live without having to restart the server.

Build

yarn build

This command generates static content into the build directory and can be served using any static contents hosting service.

Deployment

Using SSH:

USE_SSH=true yarn deploy

Not using SSH:

GIT_USER=<Your GitHub username> yarn deploy

If you are using GitHub pages for hosting, this command is a convenient way to build the website and push to the gh-pages branch.

Diagram Linting

CI runs ascii-guard to lint docs for ASCII box diagrams. Use Mermaid (````mermaid`) or plain lists/tables instead of ASCII boxes to avoid CI failures.