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Siddharth Balyan f9549f3d9b Free-tier rate limits: renewed token, a prompt card on desktop, streamed status, honest resume model (#129396)
* fix: a rate-limited turn renews an expired free-tier token and stops sleeping for minutes on desktop

A free-tier 429 carries retry_after (1069 s in the lab run). The loop capped
it at 600 s, slept, retried inside the same pause, slept 469 s more, and the
third attempt went out on a guest JWT that had expired during the wait (the
JWT lives 15 minutes). The welcome host answered 403 "invalid jwt", which
welcome_route_refusal read as the dark tier, so the user was told signing-in
was switched off, after 18 minutes of a thinking line.

- interruptible_backoff_sleep adopts a fresh Nous key after every completed
  wait; the per-iteration pre-expiry adoption never ran between retries.
- A welcome-host 403 that says "invalid jwt" is its own route kind,
  session_expired: the existing one-shot route heal re-exchanges the anon
  credential and retries. If the renewal fails the copy says so and the card
  is the retryable outage card, never free_tier_disabled.
- On desktop and TUI a provider cooldown longer than 60 s ends the attempt
  cycle at once (fallback first, else the reset time and the sign-in / model
  doors). Background surfaces keep the long wait.
- Rate-limit waits a user feels (over 60 s, or any on a live surface) emit
  their status line when the wait starts instead of from the end-of-turn
  buffer, and every retry line names the attempt that runs after the wait.

* fix: a not-yet-built free-tier session reports nous/welcome, not the silent default

session.resume (deferred build), session.create and the lazy fallback info reported the configured default model (the silent default z-ai/glm-5.2, no provider) while the agent build pins nous/welcome on the free tier's route. _session_default_route reports the pinned route when the profile routes to the free tier.

* fix: the scripted setup opening's setup_choose calls carry options

#129344 made options required on setup_choose; the backend prelude's name and accent cards omitted it, so the history held calls that do not match the schema. The name card carries the suggested-name row or an empty list, the accent card an empty list.
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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.