Remove the implicit hermes peer and the peer question from new connection setup. Preserve explicit peer settings and keep memory paths consistent with the captured client identity.
Add setup, configuration, request, recall, and session regression tests, plus upgrade guidance.
Review follow-up to the viking://~ migration: the ~ home alias only
expands for USER/ADMIN roles. The DEFAULT dev auth mode (no
server.auth_mode, no root_api_key) resolves every request as ROOT,
which bypasses current-user expansion — the canonical parser rejects
viking://~ with 400 'Home alias URI is not canonical' (verified on a
live 0.4.16 server). A deployment upgrading to 0.4.16 with an
untouched ov.conf is in dev mode, so the ~ spelling would break
exactly the way the old uid-less one will.
Mirror the upstream first-party plugin pattern instead: resolve the
user space client-side from /api/v1/system/status (result.user,
'default' fallback) and emit explicit-uid
viking://user/<user>/memories/... URIs, which are canonical under
every auth mode (dev/ROOT, trusted/USER, api-key) and every server
version. viking://~/... input typed by the user keeps passing through
untouched. (#91995)
Upstream OpenViking removed the uid-less viking://user/<segment>
shorthand (#4196, merged 2026-08-21): reserved segments like memories
and peers no longer expand to the caller's space and the server
rejects them with HTTP 400 (NamespaceShapeError). First-party clients
were migrated to viking://~ in the same change; the Hermes plugin was
not (#91995).
Migrate every URI the plugin constructs — the profile/preferences/
entities session-start reads, the _build_memory_uri memory-mirroring
write path, and the tool-schema example — to viking://~/... README
uid-less references updated to match; canonical user-scoped forms
(viking://user/default/...) are unchanged. The ~ alias requires
OpenViking server >= 0.4.16 (#4167).
The provider used to disable OpenViking permanently when the server was
unreachable. That was fixed: `_ensure_client()` now reconnects lazily,
with a 30s cooldown gate in `_ensure_client_locked`.
Only one of the seven user-facing warnings was updated to match. The
other six still told the user memory was "disabled for this Hermes run",
which is no longer true — every one of those paths is retried on the next
access. A user who reads the old message has no reason to retry, which is
very likely how #5721 ("never recovers") came to be filed against
behaviour that already recovers.
All six sites were traced to confirm none is terminal for the run: the
`initialize()`-time and waiter-thread failures never arm `_failed_refresh`
(only line 2439 does), so they retry on the very next access with no
cooldown at all.
The replacement wording deliberately omits the "(after cooldown)"
parenthetical used at the already-correct site — that detail is only
accurate where `_failed_refresh` was just armed. The neutral phrasing is
true at all six.
Also promotes two clause separators to periods to avoid "…; …disabled;"
collisions.
(cherry picked from commit 8346403a4b97af503d26b0f7905ff513828d821e)
Follow-up hardening on the salvaged _ensure_client() (#21130 fix):
- Failed-config cooldown: after a refresh attempt fails for a given
resolved config, skip re-probing for 30s. Previously every provider
access against a down endpoint paid a 3s health probe under
_client_refresh_lock and emitted a warning (2+ per turn, some on
user-facing threads: prefetch, tool calls, session end). Retries
still happen after the cooldown or immediately when config changes,
and the log message now says so instead of the false 'disabled until
config changes'.
- Atomic connection snapshot: _conn_snapshot (5-tuple, single
assignment) is published only after a health check passes.
_new_client() and on_memory_write's writer read it as one load, so
background writers can no longer observe a torn mix of old/new
identity fields mid-refresh or target an endpoint that never passed
health. Field writes in _ensure_client_locked keep tracking the
attempted config for the unchanged-config dedupe.
- _env_refresh_enabled moves to the top of initialize(): an exception
mid-initialize (swallowed by MemoryManager) can no longer leave the
provider silently stuck in never-refresh mode.
- _search_prefetch_context reuses _new_client() and degrades to ''
on construction failure instead of propagating.
Mutation-checked: neutering the cooldown or publishing the snapshot on
failed health makes the new regression tests fail.
Avoid spawning multiple local OpenViking server processes while a runtime autostart waiter is already active. Remote endpoints still retry on later accesses because they do not install a local waiter.
Route refreshed unreachable local OpenViking configs through the existing runtime recovery path so /reload can attach to a locally starting server instead of disabling memory until restart.
(cherry picked from commit 040e18ad907a55442c54ea59db16d4ca3f61daa9)
initialize() snapshots OPENVIKING_* into the provider once, so /reload
(which only updates os.environ) leaves viking_* tools running against
stale auth — users have to restart hermes to pick up keys added to
~/.hermes/.env after startup.
Add _ensure_client(), which re-resolves the connection settings via the
same _resolve_connection_settings/_load_hermes_openviking_config path
initialize() uses and rebuilds + health-checks the client only when an
OPENVIKING_* value actually changed; otherwise it reuses the cached
client so the hot path stays at one dict comparison with no network
calls. Every `if not self._client:` guard in system_prompt_block,
queue_prefetch, sync_turn, on_session_end, on_memory_write and
handle_tool_call now goes through it.
Refreshing is gated behind a flag set at the end of initialize() so the
baseline is established before any env re-resolution happens — callers
that wire up a client directly keep the existing client untouched.
Refs #21130
(cherry picked from commit b694d21b7c4ff0330df6051e12dc8991f7ea10a6)
Salvage of PR #48927 by @ehz0ah, which consolidates OpenViking recall
work from #41706 (@huangxun375-stack), #33260, #49975, and #32444.
Replaces stale background post-turn prefetch warming with synchronous
current-query recall. The old queue_prefetch warmed the PREVIOUS user
message while turn-start recall consumed the CURRENT one, so injected
context was always about the wrong topic.
Changes:
- prefetch() now does session-aware /api/v1/search/search with the
current query, falls back to /api/v1/search/find on failure
- Contract-safe payloads: limit, score_threshold, context_type,
session_id — no top_k, no search-body mode, no target_uri
- L2 content reads for items with level=2 or empty abstracts, capped
at full_read_limit (default 2)
- Local ranking (score + query-token overlap + leaf boost), dedup,
score threshold, and injected-char budget
- queue_prefetch() is now a no-op (background warming removed)
- Additive batched viking_read: uris param accepts up to 3 URIs
- Per-request timeout support on _VikingClient.get/post/delete
- Removes stale _prefetch_result/_prefetch_thread/_prefetch_generation
state and _invalidate_prefetch_state()
- Strengthened system_prompt_block guidance
Salvage follow-up fixes:
- Expose all 8 recall config knobs in get_config_schema() (PR #48927
had removed them; #41706 correctly exposed them). Env vars remain
as internal mechanism but are now visible in setup wizard.
- Lower default timeout 8s→4s, request_timeout 6s→3s, full_read_limit
3→2 to reduce per-turn blocking latency.
Co-authored-by: Hao Zhe <haozhe4547@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Eurekaxun <eurekaxun@163.com>
Two follow-up fixes on top of the cherry-picked structured-sync work:
- _messages_to_openviking_batch only added a recall tool result's id to
skipped_tool_ids when the id was non-empty. An empty tool_call_id (which
the canonical transcript can carry; agent_runtime_helpers defaults it to
"") poisoned the skip set with "", silently dropping any *other* tool
result that also lacked an id. Move the recall-skip add inside the
existing `if tool_id:` guard. Adds a regression test (mutation-checked:
fails on pre-fix code, passes after).
- _sync_trace_enabled() open-coded the canonical truthy-env check; reuse
utils.env_var_enabled (byte-identical {1,true,yes,on} semantics).
Generalizes #32663 (@ehz0ah). The slash-skill scaffolding pollution
affected every auto-syncing memory provider — mem0, hindsight, retaindb,
byterover, honcho, supermemory all store/embed the raw user turn, so a
/skill invocation poisoned their stores with the full skill body, not just
openviking.
- Lift the contributor's parser into agent/skill_commands.py as the canonical
extract_user_instruction_from_skill_message(), co-located with the message
builders so the markers can't drift.
- Strip once in MemoryManager.{prefetch_all,queue_prefetch_all,sync_all} —
fixes the whole provider fan-out, bare /skill turns are skipped entirely.
- OpenViking's _derive_openviking_user_text() now delegates to the shared
helper as defense-in-depth (no duplicated marker literals).
- Marker-drift regression now asserts against the canonical skill_commands
constants; add manager-level coverage proving every provider gets clean text.
_build_memory_uri produced URIs of the form:
viking://user/{user}/memories/{subdir}/mem_{slug}.md
The /agent/{agent}/ segment was missing, causing every agent under
the same user to write into the same flat namespace. In multi-agent
deployments agents silently overwrite each other's memories and
vector retrieval cross-pollinates results.
self._agent was already populated correctly (from OPENVIKING_AGENT
env var, default 'hermes') and sent via X-OpenViking-Agent header —
it was simply not interpolated into the URI.
Fix: add the missing segment so URIs follow the documented shape:
viking://user/{user}/agent/{agent}/memories/{subdir}/mem_{slug}.md
Tests: 4 new regression tests in TestOpenVikingMemoryUriBuilder,
13/13 passed (9 existing + 4 new).
Adds a deterministic pre-check on top of htsh's exception-based fallback:
before calling /content/abstract or /content/overview on a non-pseudo URI,
probe /api/v1/fs/stat. If the server says the URI is a file, route straight
to /content/read instead of eating a failing 500 round-trip.
This is the same idea pty819 and chennest independently landed in PRs
#12757 and #12937 — merged here on top of htsh's broader fix so we keep
pseudo-URI normalization and v0.3.3 browse-shape handling while avoiding
the slow exception path on servers that return a raised 500 every time.
The exception fallback from #5886 stays in place for environments where
fs/stat is unavailable or returns an unfamiliar shape.
Also credits pty819, chennest, and htsh in AUTHOR_MAP so future release
notes attribute them correctly.
OpenViking returns 500 for /content/abstract and /content/overview when URI points to mem_*.md files.
Add resilient fallback to /content/read for non-pseudo summary file URIs while preserving pseudo summary normalization.
Also add regression tests for fallback behavior.
ehz0ah