The curl installer, the Windows installer, the Docker first boot and
`hermes doctor --fix` copy cli-config.yaml.example into config.yaml byte
for byte. The template had five display keys uncommented: tool_progress,
interim_assistant_messages, long_running_notifications, busy_ack_detail
and show_reasoning. The gateway reads config.yaml without a DEFAULT_CONFIG
merge, and resolve_display_setting takes a global display.<key> ahead of
_PLATFORM_DEFAULTS. So every seeded home ran with those values on every
platform. Telegram and Slack posted every tool call. Signal, email, SMS
and the other no-edit platforms got progress lines, heartbeats and
interim messages. Every messaging reply had the reasoning block prepended.
First-time `hermes setup` (quick and full) and Blank Slate setup also
wrote display.tool_progress: "all". That write was added as a Quick
Install recommended default (79aeaa97e6) nine days before the
per-platform tiers landed (#8006), and it has the same effect for
tool_progress on homes the template never touched.
`hermes config edit` on a home with no config.yaml wrote DEFAULT_CONFIG
unstripped, which pins show_reasoning (all 21 platforms),
interim_assistant_messages (12) and tool_preview_length (16). It now
seeds like the installer and `doctor --fix`: the template when the
checkout has one (a full file to edit, written owner-only), otherwise
DEFAULT_CONFIG with defaults stripped.
Measured through the real gateway loader across the 21 platforms in
_PLATFORM_DEFAULTS, a template-seeded home differed from a bare one on
tool_progress for 19 platforms, show_reasoning for 21, busy_ack_detail
for 14, long_running_notifications for 13 and interim_assistant_messages
for 12. With the pins commented out and the setup writes removed, the
diff is empty, and the same holds for both `config edit` seeds.
The CLI does not depend on these values. It defaults tool_progress to
"all" and show_reasoning to true when the keys are absent, and the TUI
defaults interim_assistant_messages to true.
Homes that were already seeded keep their values. A template value
cannot be told apart from one the operator chose, so there is no
migration. The messaging docs now say which lines to delete.
(cherry picked from commit 96450d4500613ab1ba45c7e972f31de570bc2d71)
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.
Authoring links in docs/
- 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 becausebaseUrlis already/docs/. python3 website/scripts/check_doc_links.pyfails on any route-style link in hand-authored pages (EN and the zh-Hans mirror);--fixrewrites them. It runs in theDocs Site Checksworkflow. Generated pages (user-guide/skills/{bundled,optional},reference/*skills-catalog.md) are produced byscripts/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
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