docs/ was not the documentation site; it was a grab bag of long-form
design notes, wire contracts and observability guides that landed with
feature PRs because their authors needed somewhere to put them. Root
AGENTS.md already says long-form dev docs live in
website/docs/developer-guide/; this moves the 14 living documents there
(or to the matching user-guide section) so they are published, searchable
and linked from the sidebar instead of being found by grep only.
Developer guide: micro-compaction, gateway-session-lifecycle (was
session-lifecycle), state-db-recovery, multiplexing-gateway,
chronos-managed-cron-contract, relay-connector-contract, observer-hooks
(was observability/README), gateway-monitoring (observability/monitoring),
relay-shared-metrics, middleware, streaming-tts, billing-lifecycle.
User guide: egress/network-isolation (was security/network-egress-
isolation), features/kanban-multi-gateway (was kanban/multi-gateway).
Each page got title/description frontmatter and a sidebar entry; repo-
relative links became site links or GitHub blob URLs; two MDX brace
hazards escaped. Every in-tree pointer (module docstrings, config
comments, the relay conformance test's Path, the monitoring-doc test,
gateway-internals, cron-internals, kanban docs, .dockerignore, AGENTS.md)
now names the new location. `docusaurus build` passes with no unresolved
links on the moved pages.
Maintainer ruling: no new slash command for this. `display.vim_mode: true`
in config.yaml enables vi keybindings in the composer at startup; the
NORMAL/INSERT/REPLACE status-bar label stays. Removes the CommandDef, the
handler, its dispatch-table entry and slash-command docs; documents the key
under Display Settings.
Introduces the opt-in surface for vi editing in the input composer:
- display.vim_mode config default (False, so existing users are
unaffected and prompt_toolkit keeps its standard emacs bindings)
- /vim command registered with on|off|status subcommands, matching
the established /battery and /timestamps pattern
Part of #4254.
MiniMax Code CLI 0.3.1 added a status-line segment showing the git branch
for the current workspace. Hermes' status bar had no repo-awareness field.
Adds `git_branch` to display.status_bar.fields (opt-in only — the default
set never probes the filesystem). Reads .git/HEAD directly with a 5s
per-directory TTL cache (no subprocess per repaint); follows gitdir:
pointer files so worktrees/submodules resolve their private HEAD; a
detached HEAD renders the abbreviated commit.
Inspired by MiniMax Code CLI 0.3.1 changelog (agent.minimax.io/docs/changelog).
`hermes config set gateway.multiplex_profiles true` warned "not a recognized
config key" although gateway/config.py reads it: the key (and profile_routes)
were never in DEFAULT_CONFIG["gateway"]. Both are registered with their doc
comment; the CLI loaders deep-merge new keys, so no _config_version bump.
`hermes gateway migrate --multiplex` with two or more profiles but no
secondary running its own gateway printed "nothing to migrate" and left the
flag OFF. The explicit command now applies the one remaining step — flag on,
default gateway (re)started, the same rollback manifest (empty secondaries)
for --standalone. `hermes update`'s automatic hook keeps treating that case
as a no-op: it never flips modes on an install where nothing was running.
Follow-up to the cherry-picked #102431 fix, addressing the review findings:
- The two real-helper scheduler tests ran the Linux-only helper unmarked
and failed on macOS/Windows; the surviving one is now `linux_only`.
- `_warn_scope_degraded_once` used a bare `os.getuid()` that tripped
scripts/check-windows-footguns.py --all (lint lane red). The remedy text
is now built once in the helper and passed into the warning, so the
"scope binary vanished" case no longer warns about a missing D-Bus.
- Tests trimmed to the invariant bar: degraded != in_process and warns
once (helper level); default config still Popens externally and
`require_restart_safe_scope: true` raises (scheduler level, real helper).
Dropped the stubbed duplicate, the standalone config-raise test and the
in_process half already covered by the existing passthrough test.
- `GatewayChildDispatch.reason` had no reader outside a test; removed.
- Both degrade branches share one local `_degrade(detail)`.
- The per-fire config read uses `load_config_readonly()` (no deepcopy)
with the same `except Exception` guard as the sibling
`failure_nudge_threshold` read, so a config error no longer escapes
the launcher.
- Kanban's no-run-id guard fails closed for any non-`in_process` mode
instead of matching one enum value.
- Rationale restated in six places collapsed to the helper docstring;
`cron.require_restart_safe_scope` documented in the cron user guide.
A systemd-supervised gateway (INVOCATION_ID set) with no user D-Bus
session (containers, minimal LXCs, supervisors without linger) fails
EVERY scheduled job at dispatch: restart_safe_gateway_child_argv()
raises, run_one_job() records a failure, and the only symptom is
silently skipped executions (a missed nightly backup, dead watchdogs,
no alert).
Cron now degrades to a direct external subprocess with a
once-per-process warning instead of raising, unless
cron.require_restart_safe_scope=true (config.yaml, default false)
restores fail-closed. Degraded jobs keep process separation and the
full #101940 ownership handoff - only cgroup isolation is lost, so a
mid-job gateway restart kills the worker and the execution ledger
records exactly that.
The dispatch is a GatewayChildDispatch NamedTuple (in_process /
scoped / degraded) so the degraded case can never collapse into the
"not managed, stay in-process" sentinel - the failure mode that would
recreate the restart-interruption edge #101940 closed.
Kanban stays fail-closed (require_restart_safe_scope=True at its call
sites): its workers are long-lived agentic runs, so the degrade policy
is limited to bounded cron jobs in this PR.
Addresses the #102431 review: the env-var flag became a config key per
AGENTS.md (no new HERMES_* non-secret vars), Kanban keeps fail-closed
instead of updating its tests to a degraded contract, main's
enable-linger remedy message is preserved, and the degrade warning
fires once per process.
Every inline glyph — CLI banner/status bar/response labels/goodbye, setup
and doctor boxes, gateway update prompts, WhatsApp reply prefix, TUI theme,
locale strings and the docs — used ⚕, the staff of Asclepius (medicine).
Hermes carries the Caduceus ☤. The ASCII-art logo was already correct.
Mechanical swap across 60 files (no logic change); both glyphs are
East-Asian-width Neutral so no layout shifts. Skins that set their own
`response_label` / `goodbye` are unaffected.
Direction from PR #7064 (@bixycler), the earliest of #7064 / #9611 / #15574,
redone against current main.
Fixes#9565
A skill nobody has loaded in a month is prompt weight, not knowledge, and
archival is recoverable (`hermes curator restore`). Defaults move
stale 30→14 / archive 90→30; config v44 rewrites only the OLD defaults so
an explicitly customized window is preserved. `hermes curator prune`
now defaults --days to curator.archive_after_days instead of a
hardcoded 90 so the manual and automatic paths agree.
The multiplexing default gateway now serves default + every live named profile
under profiles/. profiles_to_serve(multiplex=True) is a pure directory read
(tombstoned profiles skipped, never mkdir); every reader — gateway served set,
/p/<profile>/ prefixes for api_server + webhook, the named-profile standalone
guard, the Desktop cron ticker (its #108428 standdown for a profile owned by a
running gateway is unchanged) — drops the allowlist parameter.
Config v43 migration deletes the key from user config.yaml; DEFAULT_CONFIG,
GatewayConfig and the top-level yaml bridge no longer carry it.
BREAKING: anyone who set an allowlist now has their excluded profiles served.
Archive or delete a profile you do not want served (Teknium approved).
`voice.voice_chat_mode: gpt-live` swaps the desktop's chained STT → turn → TTS
loop for OpenAI's gpt-live-1: one voice model that listens while it speaks and
has no tools of its own. Every real request it hears becomes a normal Hermes
turn on the open chat — any model/provider the session selected, full toolset,
memory, approvals — and the voice paraphrases the reply aloud.
Backend
- tools/voice_live.py: mode/credential/persona resolution and the one server-side
step the API needs — POST /v1/live/sessions exchanging the renderer's SDP offer,
pinned to client delegation; the OpenAI key never reaches the renderer. Voice
persona follows the vendor prompting guide (role, style, labelled delegation
policy describing Hermes as the backend). VOICE_LIVE_TURN_NOTE is the per-turn
model-input note (transcript in, speakable prose out).
- REST: GET /api/audio/voice-live/status (mode + readiness, non-secret),
POST /api/audio/voice-live/session (SDP exchange). The offer is passed
byte-exact: a stripped trailing CRLF is a vendor 400 "unmarshal SDP: EOF".
- prompt.submit accepts surface=voice-live (+ voice_context) beside hud; the
note rides the model input via the existing _prepend_note seam, the persisted
user row stays the user's words, the system prompt stays byte-stable.
- config_defaults: voice.voice_chat_mode (chained|gpt-live), voice.gpt_live.*.
Desktop
- lib/voice-live.ts: RTCPeerConnection + oai-events data channel owner, transcript
accumulation, session.commentary/thinking/instructions appends (500-token
chunking), mute, graceful close waiting for session.closed.
- hooks/use-voice-live-conversation.ts: same public shape as useVoiceConversation;
delegation → prompt.submit(surface=voice-live); tool activity → quiet thinking
appends; reply streamed back per sentence; spoken stop phrase ends the chat;
a newer delegation interrupts an in-flight turn.
- use-composer-voice mounts both engines and latches one at conversation start
from the backend-resolved status; gpt-live without a key falls back to chained
with a notice. Settings → Voice gets the mode dropdown, voice picker, persona.
Live-verified on the worktree desktop build (headless Electron, CDP, synthetic
mic): "what is 17 times 23 and which model are you on" → delegation → Hermes
(Claude Sonnet 4.5 via OpenRouter) → spoken "391 … Claude Sonnet 4.5 through
OpenRouter"; follow-up "double that" resolved from the spoken context → 782;
"run uname -r" ran the terminal tool with "Hermes is working: terminal" fed as
quiet context → spoken kernel version; "stop" closed the session
(reason=close_requested). Chained mode creates no RTCPeerConnection.
Reverts the in-tree org skill-marketplace: hermes_wisdom package, three
model tools, CLI/gateway/desktop/dashboard/Telegram/Slack surfaces.
Later non-Wisdom work on shared files (guest onboarding i18n, dashboard
startup schema, Slack adapter, tui_gateway) is kept; Wisdom-only call
sites and config were stripped from those files.
A bare `astra: 0.85` in compression.model_thresholds was written for the Codex
OAuth route, where Astra is capped at 272K and 50% would compact at ~136K. The
key is substring-matched on the model name alone, so it also fired on
openai/gpt-6-astra via OpenRouter and Nous, where the window is 1.1M: the user's
0.5 global threshold was silently replaced by 0.85 and the session sat at 620K
(~59%) without compacting.
Keys may now carry a provider prefix: `"openai-codex:astra": 0.85` applies only
when the session's provider is openai-codex; bare keys keep their route-agnostic
behaviour. Ranking is by model-substring length with scope as the tie-break, so
`astra-900k` still outranks `openai-codex:astra` for the 900K picker. The
provider flows through ContextCompressor (ctor + update_model), the ContextEngine
base class and the TUI hot-reload path, so a /model switch between routes
re-scopes the override.
* feat(wisdom): add trusted publish and install foundation
* feat(wisdom): add private contribution loop
* feat(wisdom): add managed consumption workflows
* fix(wisdom): close cross-repository safety gaps
* fix(wisdom): align local package and lifecycle policy
* fix(wisdom): require explicit profile setup
* docs(wisdom): repin reconciled gateway head
* fix(wisdom): fence content downloads and approval receipts
* docs(wisdom): record generation-fenced downloads
* docs(wisdom): record unified delivery PR
* fix(ci): stop passing invalid classifier inputs
* docs(wisdom): remove internal requirements ledger
* feat(wisdom): localize dashboard and desktop copy
* feat(wisdom): complete local contribution and consumption UX
* style(wisdom): satisfy desktop lint
* chore(wisdom): refresh requirements pin
* test(dashboard): allow formatted profile copy
* test(wisdom): stabilize desktop interaction coverage
* fix(wisdom): surface dashboard action failures
* fix(wisdom): add repeatable Portal demo login
* feat(wisdom): add actionable skill notifications
* feat(wisdom): add notification install and update actions
* fix(wisdom): make Telegram skill alerts actionable
* fix(wisdom): always refresh demo Agent login
* feat(wisdom): embed Telegram notification actions
* fix(wisdom): preserve Telegram notifications after actions
* fix(wisdom): keep Telegram notification cards readable
* feat(wisdom): add Telegram candidate approval flow
* feat(wisdom): explain Telegram qualification reasons
* fix(wisdom): reconcile cross-surface candidate actions
* feat(telegram): add Collective Wisdom management command
* chore(wisdom): refresh Gateway contract pin
* chore(wisdom): advance Gateway contract pin
* feat(wisdom): align command UX across clients
* feat(slack): add Collective Wisdom management parity
* feat(wisdom): add security and professionalism reviews
* feat(wisdom): add first-time qualification guidance
* feat(wisdom): simplify qualification sharing choices
* feat(skills): add optional editorial metadata
* feat(wisdom): enrich legacy skill presentation
* fix(wisdom): harden review and update boundaries
* fix(wisdom): emit canonical review timestamps
* fix(wisdom): align with merged gateway and main
* wisdom: add agent-led sharing core (policy, evidence, schemas, templates, delivery, weekly job, share/install flows)
- hermes_wisdom/agent_led/: policy resolution (server > local > defaults),
7-day evidence builder that excludes bundled/hub/managed skills and
dismissed/handled/recently-suggested content hashes, strict pydantic
schemas for agent output with repair-or-reject, fixed copy templates
(Share / Teammate / Published / Update / Mute), idempotent retried
delivery ledger with stale-action resolution, weekly review job,
resumable Share and Install flows.
- prompts/: candidate review, recipient recommendation, share packaging.
- tests/wisdom/test_agent_led.py: 30 tests.
* wisdom: agent-led renderers and button action dispatcher
- render.py: Telegram HTML, Slack blocks, Desktop payload; editorial name
is the emphasized line, product label stays separate.
- actions.py: resolve opaque wa:<action>:<dedup> targets via the delivery
ledger; Not now -> dismissal, Mute -> fixed options, Share -> resumable
packaging flow, Install/Update -> plan command. Never publishes/installs.
* wisdom: CLI verbs, agent_led config default, conversational catalog skill
- hermes wisdom browse/review-week/act/share/dismiss/mute (all --json).
- wisdom.agent_led config block, default enabled.
- SKILL.md rewritten so natural-language catalog questions map to the CLI
verbs, share/install flows and fixed notification templates.
* wisdom: wire agent-led weekly review into gateway tick and Telegram buttons
- gateway housekeeping tick calls maybe_run_weekly_review with a home
channel sender when a Telegram adapter is available.
- Telegram: wa: callbacks resolved through the ledger (stale-safe), mute
duration keyboard, send_wisdom_agent_recommendation rich card + fallback.
* fix(wisdom): integrate local mediation and harden model and setup boundaries
* fix(wisdom): honor authoritative recommendation policy and defer on failure
* fix(wisdom): synchronize opaque suppression and recheck delivery preferences
* feat(wisdom): route weekly selection through the session-owned assessment queue
* fix(wisdom): prepare and submit the reviewed generated share package
* feat(wisdom): separate native Share preparation from publication consent
* feat(wisdom): sync native mute choices through a leased preference outbox
* feat(wisdom): bind native mute controls to durable preference choices
* feat(wisdom): add scoped desktop and dashboard notification settings
* fix(wisdom): revalidate feed recommendations before assessment and delivery
* fix(wisdom): persist validated delivery receipts before completing notices
* feat(wisdom): add private notification claim and receipt client
* Persist Wisdom send reservations and recover delivery acknowledgements
* Route legacy Wisdom controls through current native review
* Add typed private Wisdom operation outcome client
* fix(wisdom): make agent-led advice usable in the local demo
* fix(wisdom): keep requested consent outside proactive limits
* fix(wisdom): distinguish unavailable assessments and preserve digest text
* fix(wisdom): assess ongoing usefulness beyond the current task
* fix(wisdom): restore immediate qualification sharing controls
* fix(wisdom): separate qualification review from installation advice
* fix(wisdom): collapse review checklists and simplify sharing copy
* fix(wisdom): show compact sharing progress and publication receipts
* fix(wisdom): require credential prefixes rather than matching skill names
* fix(wisdom): finish package checks before presenting sharing consent
* fix(wisdom): scan local skills before qualification cards
* fix(wisdom): update moderation results on existing sharing cards
* fix(wisdom): keep sharing review accessible from receipt cards
* fix(wisdom): align mediated review cards and collapsible checks
* fix(wisdom): clarify clean security summary wording
* fix(wisdom): normalize consent plans and add explicit recheck
* fix(wisdom): keep install and update receipts concise
* fix(wisdom): collapse assessments and deduplicate operation cards
* fix(wisdom): restore private Portal review from native cards
* fix(wisdom): sync Portal publication to original consent card
* fix(wisdom): show local skill version on sharing cards
* fix(wisdom): skip agent recommendations for self-published versions
* fix(wisdom): simplify candidate notices and local-edit recovery copy
* feat(wisdom): submit locally reviewed packages with one confirmation
* feat(wisdom): expose safe receipt and outcome sync recovery
* wisdom: onboarding notice says detect and share, names the user's own skill
Copy review from the product owner on the first and returning
qualification notices (fixed delivery mode):
- the feature blurb now says the org enabled detection *and sharing*
- both notices say the detected skill is one the user created
- both close with an exclamation mark
Applied identically to hermes_wisdom.notice, the desktop and web i18n
strings, and the tests that assert the sentences.
* wisdom: one opener, no approval line, ask to share after the skill is shown
Product owner review of the candidate card.
- The Hermes written card now opens with the same sentence as the fixed card
("Your organisation has enabled Collective Wisdom, a feature designed to
automatically detect and share useful skills across all team members.")
instead of its own blurb, so there is one first time message.
- "Nothing is shared without your approval." removed from Telegram, Slack
and Desktop. The buttons already make the permission explicit.
- "Would you like to share?" no longer appears before the skill is named.
It is now the last line, after the skill name, description, why suggested
and the checks, and reads "Would you like to share it?" (matching the
agent led template wording).
Tests updated for the new order; proposalNotice removed from all desktop locales.
* wisdom: American spelling, organization
Product owner decision: user facing copy uses American spelling.
Changes "Your organisation" to "Your organization" in the chat notice,
the Hermes written card opener, the desktop and web strings, and the
tests that assert them. Identifiers such as nas_organisation:* and the
German and French locales are untouched.
* wisdom: candidate card copy round 4 (owner review)
Apply the product owner's round 4 copy decisions to the Hermes Collective
Wisdom candidate card on Telegram, Slack, Desktop and the shared views:
1. Hermes-written cards are titled "Hermes Collective Wisdom" instead of
the bare "Collective Wisdom".
2. The "Reusable skill ready to review" line is gone from the candidate
card (Telegram rich card and plain fallback, legacy agent-led share
template).
3. The skill name and description are labelled: "Skill name: <name>" and
"What it does: <description>" (Telegram, Slack, Desktop).
4. "Why suggested:" is now "Why others might benefit:".
5. A passing professionalism review reads "Safe to share at work ✓ (no
inappropriate content found)" with no per-check bullets and no "Pass";
a failed review reads "Needs a look before sharing at work (possible
inappropriate content)" and lists only the checks that flagged
something. Pending/unavailable wording is unchanged.
6. Telegram button toasts: "Will ask later...", "Preparing more
details...", "Sharing...".
7. Qualification reasons: "You used this skill consistently across many
days." and "You've really refined this skill."
8. prompts/wisdom_candidate_review.md asks for a compelling
editorial_name, a simple one_line_description and a compelling
why_coworkers_benefit under 300 characters; "Be concise and
convincing." becomes "Be concise and compelling: the goal is that the
user wants to share it."
Tests updated for the new strings; review_text() gains direct coverage.
* wisdom: re-apply owner copy after rebase
- Native share cards (advice_view/interaction_view): drop the approval line, ask "Would you like to share it?" as the last line after the checks
- Hermes-written completion card titled "Hermes Collective Wisdom"
- Qualification reasons use the owner wording (consistently across many days / really refined)
- American spelling (organization) in remaining English copy
- Desktop test asserts the current Share button; web test matches the returning notice
* fix(wisdom): pin reconciled Gateway and verify Unicode hash vectors
Pin Gateway 60cd2d6b613ae3cd4a6e65155d1142006d907e78 and byte-identical producer artifacts. Verify every content-order case and package-manifest binding. Validation: 186 focused Python tests, Ruff and contract verifier.
* fix(wisdom): reconcile optional SDK tests and frontend lint
* fix(wisdom): default to agent-written notification summaries
* fix(wisdom): restore deferred install review and browse controls
* feat(wisdom): inspect installed setup with exact package provenance
* feat(wisdom): run native-approved installed setup steps with durable evidence
* fix(wisdom): recover interrupted setup with explicit native consent
* feat(wisdom): hand native installs into guided setup review
* fix(wisdom): continue requested setup with fixed notification copy
* fix(wisdom): preserve setup while waiting for a session model
* fix(wisdom): expose canonical setup review controls on desktop
* fix(wisdom): resume setup after recorded automatic updates
* fix(wisdom): make missing setup prerequisites recheckable
* chore(wisdom): align Agent with verified Gateway contract
* fix(wisdom): stop guessing team slugs in portal links
* fix(wisdom): retire pending advice on account sign-out
* fix(wisdom): cancel advice after terminal account revocation
* fix(wisdom): fence feed responses across account sign-out
* fix(wisdom): checkpoint signed-out feed before reactivation
* fix(wisdom): link proactive advice to scoped notification settings
* fix(wisdom): coalesce queued publication recommendations by version
* fix(wisdom): keep package review navigation local and deferable
* fix(wisdom): reflect installed state in discovery controls
* fix(wisdom): show exact checks before command confirmation
* chore(wisdom): pin bounded analytics privacy contract
* chore(wisdom): pin retired legacy notification contract
* feat(wisdom): review publisher usage with exact sharing copy
* fix(wisdom): align discovery and review check summaries
* fix(wisdom): show expired consent before confirmation
* fix(wisdom): require fresh review for legacy install controls
* fix(wisdom): preserve review expiry across check toggles
* fix(wisdom): retain update policy in native install reviews
* fix(wisdom): surface failed native card edits
* fix(wisdom): persist local command approval reviews
* fix(wisdom): use saved approvals for messaging commands
* test(wisdom): provide scan result in setup handoff fixture
* test(wisdom): exercise Telegram approvals with saved review state
* fix(wisdom): retain suppression policy for offline deferral
* fix(wisdom): reconsider candidates after deferred suppression expires
* fix(wisdom): bind review checks and report verified readiness separately
* fix(wisdom): persist accepted publication intent and recover exact outcomes
* fix(sync): pin UTF-8 tree ordering across writers
* chore(wisdom): pin organisation-scoped Gateway authorization
* fix(wisdom): restrict consent delivery to user-facing sessions
* chore(wisdom): refresh reviewed Gateway contract pin
* fix(wisdom): preserve kept tools in Blank Slate exclusions
* test(auth): reset anonymous fixture with a profile-scoped cache
* fix(wisdom): gate local surfaces and work on current profile entitlement
* fix(wisdom): invalidate quiet tool cache on entitlement changes
* test(wisdom): authorize local consent gateway fixtures
* fix(wisdom): keep entitlement decoding free of native crypto imports
* test(wisdom): provide local entitlement to demo CLI subprocess
* ci: leave upstream workflow unchanged in Wisdom PR
* fix(wisdom): ship package and contracts in Nix wheels
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* refactor(auth): one sign-in flow behind SignInState, rendered by the CLI and the desktop
* feat(gateway): /signin signs the free tier into a Nous account from a DM
* feat(cli): chat surfaces name /signin as the sign-in verb
* fix(auth): review follow-ups for the shared sign-in flow and /signin
* fix(i18n): carry the /status free-tier line in every locale catalog
* refactor(cli): the chat sign-in command is /login
* fix(auth): durable override cleanup in the /login sweep, and the sign-in flow in its own modules
* feat(auth): Nous free tier core: anonymous identity minted on first use, welcome inference, shared-store scoping
A fresh install with no provider sets up a free Nous identity (anonymous auth method of the nous
provider) instead of forcing the setup wizard. The identity is persisted through the same path a
real login uses, so the resolver ladder is unchanged. Two seams differ: token acquisition
re-exchanges the anon credential (no refresh token), and routing pins the welcome host's single
model nous/welcome. One identity per shared store; nous.guest: false turns the free tier off.
* test(auth): free tier core contracts: lifecycle, resolver precedence, exchange seam, model pin
* docs(user-guide): free tier and signing in
New page explaining what a fresh install gets before any key or sign-in
(free inference on nous/welcome plus connectors), how the free tier
coexists with a user's own API key, how to sign in with hermes auth
upgrade and keep connectors, how to turn the free tier off with
nous.guest, what hermes logout does in each state, a troubleshooting
table, and a plain privacy note. Wired into the Using Hermes sidebar.
* fix(auth): logout leaves the free tier alone and clears the shared store for a real Nous account
Logging out of the free tier is a no-op: it is not a login, so nothing is cleared and the user
is told they were never signed in. Logging out of a real Nous account now also clears the
cross-profile store, so a profile logout is not silently re-adopted on the next boot.
* fix(model): switching off the free tier points at signing in, never hops providers
* Name the free tier in the gateway startup notice and tell explicit-provider installs about it once
* Render the Nous free tier as free tier on auth status, auth list, hermes status and portal info, short-circuit billing copy for it, and skip the keepalive when there is no refresh token
* fix(auth): free tier is set up where nothing is configured: resolver last rung and first-run check
Both the provider resolver's terminal rung and the CLI first-run check now try to set up the free
tier before declaring nothing configured. On a fresh install the first command lands in chat on
nous/welcome; a failed setup still falls through to the existing guidance.
* Add hermes auth upgrade: sign the free tier into a Nous account while keeping its connectors
The device-code flow runs as usual, with a promotion intent registered on the portal between the
code request and the token poll so the account that approves the code inherits the free tier's
connectors. The promotion status decides the outcome: only a completed one is followed by the
token grant, which is persisted over the free-tier singleton and the shared store. Declined,
superseded, retired and busy outcomes each print their own plain copy, and a retired identity is
cleared so the next use sets up a fresh one. User-facing text never names the free tier's internals.
* Show the Nous free tier as one picker row with nous/welcome and hide it when nous.guest is off
* fix(auth): upgrade opens the consent page for this sign-in; one mint attempt per process; forced free tier wins the first-run check
The browser leg of hermes auth upgrade now prints and opens the promotion claim URL with the
claim code, not the generic device page. A failed mint is attempted once per process so several
bootstrap sites cannot hit a closed gate or a 429 twice; a retired credential resets that so
re-minting still happens. HERMES_FORCE_GUEST is honoured ahead of the first-run provider check.
* fix(auth): pin the welcome model on the selected route, not on profile state; background setup retries after a failure
A credential-pool entry can select a paid Nous key while the profile singleton is still the free
tier. The model pin now keys on the resolved endpoint (welcome host) in agent init and /model, and
the pin in model normalization is removed since it had no route to look at. A failed background
identity setup releases its latch so a later attempt in the same process can try again.
* fix(auth): decide the Nous model together with the route on every credential-pool swap
The credential pool can move a Nous agent between the welcome host and the portal host after
init. One helper, pin_model_for_route, now runs at init and inside every pool swap, so the
welcome host always carries nous/welcome and a paid endpoint always keeps the caller's model.
* fix(auth): apply the route model policy on every wire mode during a pool swap; release the setup latch if the thread cannot start
* fix(auth): free-tier lifecycle takes profile then shared lock, reconciles with the shared store, persists the mint before exchanging, and clears only the identity that died
The shared store is the identity of record for a Hermes root: a profile holding a stale free-tier
identity adopts a sibling's newer sign-in instead of keeping the guest, and never overwrites the
shared account. Locks are taken in the documented order (profile, then shared). A minted credential
is stored as soon as create succeeds, so a rate-limited or timed-out exchange does not lose it and
trigger a second mint. Retiring a dead credential removes only that credential from both stores.
Guest exchange uses the resolver's canonical portal URL.
* fix(auth): a credential rotation never rewrites the conversation model; connectors honour the off switch and replace a retired free-tier credential
The welcome host serves one model, so a rotation onto it is refused for any conversation on another
model instead of silently switching that conversation to nous/welcome (the model pin applies only
when a route is first chosen). The connector token path now treats the free tier as absent when
nous.guest is false, including cached tokens, and shares the one dead-credential rule with
inference: a retired identity is replaced once rather than returning its stale token.
* fix(auth): plain login never imports the free tier as OAuth credentials; the gateway startup line reads persisted state only
A free-tier identity in the shared store is not an OAuth credential to offer for import; a real
sign-in replaces it. The gateway's startup notice now answers provider precedence from persisted
state (no token refresh at boot), so an expired free-tier token cannot stall the online message.
The browser vault now draws from three login sources behind one handle
shape: the local encrypted vault (vault_…), 1Password Login items (op:…)
and Bitwarden Password Manager logins (bw:…). browser_vault_list aggregates
metadata across them; browser_vault_fill routes by prefix and resolves the
password at fill time only, through the manager CLI.
External managers are locked until the user unlocks them for the current
session. The new browser_vault_unlock tool (and the fill path, implicitly)
asks the surface to show a masked master-password prompt — CLI panel
(reuses the sudo panel state), TUI/Desktop via a vault.unlock.request
blocking card. The password goes to `op signin --raw` / `bw unlock --raw`
on stdin, never argv or env; only the session token is kept, in memory,
with a 30-minute idle TTL, cleared on session close or `vault.lock`.
Headless contexts (cron, webhook, api_server, -q) can never prompt: the
manager is reported as locked with unlock=unavailable_in_this_session and
fill refuses — the same posture approvals take where nobody can answer.
Config: vault.onepassword / vault.bitwarden {enabled, binary_path, …};
a 1Password service-account token skips the prompt for headless use.
RPC: vault.sources, vault.source.set, vault.unlock, vault.lock for Settings.
Tests (2, real subprocess against a fake bw; each proven red by sabotage):
headless never prompts or spawns; unlock feeds stdin only, token never
enters os.environ, fill routes by prefix and the password only reaches the
fill script.
The Telegram adapter asks the authorization check before dispatch, the ingress gate asks it
again, and the busy path asks a third time. Each call counted one loop-guard event, so a
Telegram bot tripped the budget after a third of the configured messages. The verdict now only
refuses a chat that is cooling down. The ingress gate counts an admitted bot message once.
`parse_turn_author` treats only booleans, integers and the strings true/1/yes as a bot flag,
and returns None for an author with neither id nor name. Names keep format characters and
non-breaking spaces so emoji sequences survive. The quiet one-shot pops HERMES_TURN_AUTHOR
before the turn so tool subprocesses do not inherit it. `max_events` must be a whole positive
number. Issue numbers move out of code comments.
#91483 added the guard inside the ALLOW_BOTS block. on today's authz layout
an admitted bot returns from an earlier rule before that block runs, so the
guard never tripped (its own ping-pong test passes turn 21 on this tree).
_is_user_authorized now computes the allowlist verdict first and runs every
admitted bot-authored message through the guard, so bots admitted by a chat
allowlist, allow-all, pairing or delegation are metered too. the budget stays
per conversation. settings move from HERMES_BOT_LOOP_* environment variables
to config.yaml gateway.bot_loop_guard (defaults added to config_defaults),
re-read on every call. an unauthorized bot dm no longer gets a pairing code,
so a cooldown produces no outbound traffic. tests rebuilt against real
SessionSource objects.
A managed cron with `deliver: "slack"` (no captured origin) delivers to the
Slack home channel, but the brief was never mirrored into that session and
the in_channel seed never fired: bare-platform targets resolved with no
`_resolved_from` provenance, so `_target_mirror_eligible` treated them like
`all` broadcast expansions.
- `_resolve_delivery_targets` derives `from_broadcast` from the raw token
and passes it to `_resolve_single_delivery_target`; a user-written bare
platform token is tagged `_resolved_from: "home"`, `all` expansions stay
untagged (fan-out is never continuable).
- `_target_mirror_eligible`: `home` eligible under the same flags as
`origin_fallback` (per-job attach_to_session wins, else cron.mirror_delivery).
- `_MIRROR_PROVENANCE_RANK`: `home` == `origin_fallback` so token order
through dedup cannot strip eligibility.
- Docs, tool schema text, cron/gateway AGENTS.md updated; existing
exact-dict pins carry the new key.
Squashed from PR #101819 (commits 5fe612c9, 65e36926, 10e0af1d, f2cc4639):
they predate the cron/scheduler.py -> scheduler_delivery.py split and do
not cherry-pick individually onto current main.
* feat: add session-scoped connector access for onboarding
* fix(connectors): availability is the config flag AND the portal entitlement — no free-tier leg
The port carried a third availability leg from hermes-magic: a stored guest
(free-tier) identity short-circuits the managed-tool entitlement check. That
leg reads hermes_cli.anon_auth, which does not exist on hermes-agent main, so
connectors_available() raised ImportError inside its fail-closed try and the
whole connector surface was silently dark on a plain upstream checkout.
On this tree availability is the two-leg AND the design started with:
tools.connectors.enabled AND managed_nous_tools_enabled(). The free-tier leg
is a hermes-magic concern and belongs in hermes-magic's own delta over this
branch, next to the identity it depends on. Its integration test goes with it.
* docs(tool-search): connectors section — remote tools through the bridge
The squashed port carried the code but not the user-facing docs. Restores the
Connectors section of the Tool Search page and the connector-gateway host /
CONNECTOR_GATEWAY_URL override on the Tool Gateway page, updated for the
manage_connections tool and the pure-connector batch rule.
* fix(tool-search): connector tools rank with local tools in one pass instead of taking leftover slots
dispatch_tool_search ran BM25 over the local catalog, filled `limit` slots,
then appended connector hits only into slots left empty. On a 300-tool
catalog no slot was ever empty, so with Gmail and Google Calendar connected
"send gmail email" returned five betterstack tools and zero connector tools.
The gateway's hits for a query now become catalog entries (connector name,
slug words, description as the search text) and join the local catalog for
that query's BM25 pass. One ranking, one rarest-token admission rule for both
sources, `limit` as the total per query. The merge loop and the separate
record builder for connector hits are gone; `_shared_tool_record` serves both
sources.
The gateway search timeout rises from 8 s to 30 s. One request with six
use_cases measured 7 s, so 8 s sat on the edge and cut real answers off; the
failure path is unchanged (local-only results, no error to the model).
Live, 311 local tools + gateway, before -> after:
"send gmail email": 5 betterstack tools -> gmail SEND_EMAIL, CREATE_EMAIL_DRAFT
"read google calendar events": 5 betterstack tools -> googlecalendar EVENTS_LIST_ALL_CALENDARS
"linear create issue", "betterstack incident": unchanged
Benchmark (25 labelled queries): connector recall 0.09 -> 0.82, precision@5
0.18 -> 0.59, false positives on absent intents 17 -> 2.
* refactor(tool-search): connector leg into tools/connector_search.py
tools/tool_search.py is a facade. The connector leg (gateway hits as catalog
entries for tool_search, remote schemas for tool_describe, the
connections_in_scope gate) was appended to it by the port. It now lives in
its own sibling, tools/connector_search.py, and the facade imports the three
entry points: connections_in_scope, connector_entries_by_group,
remote_schemas_for.
No behaviour change. The tool_describe remote block became
remote_schemas_for(names, current_tool_defs, connector_describe) with the
same inputs, the same silent-degradation contract and the same injection
seam the tests already use.
* fix(tool-search): at most 7 queries per call, the gateway's search limit
One tool_search call sends all its queries to the connector gateway as one
search request. The gateway answers 7 use_cases per request and returns
HTTP 502 for 8 or more (measured 2026-09-09, re-measured with one-word
use_cases: it is a count limit, not a size limit). With the client cap at
10, a model sending 8 to 10 queries lost every connector hit for that call
and saw local-only results with no error.
The shared constant splits: _MAX_QUERIES_PER_CALL = 7 for search,
_MAX_DESCRIBE_NAMES_PER_CALL = 10 for describe, which has no remote count
limit. Eight or more queries now get the existing "too many queries" retry
hint before any request is made. No chunking: one call, one request.
* fix(tool-search): the model is told that connectors__ names are manage_connections accounts
tool_search results carry names like connectors__gmail__CREATE_EMAIL_DRAFT and
manage_connections is the tool that checks and connects those accounts, but
nothing told the model the two are the same thing. A model that hit
CONNECTION_REQUIRED had to infer the fix on its own.
The tool_search description gains one sentence making the link, added at
assembly only when manage_connections is in the session's tools. Signed out
or with connectors off the tool is absent and the description is unchanged,
so it never names a tool the model cannot call. This follows the existing
rule for cross-tool references (tools/AGENTS.md): they are added dynamically
from the session's actual tool set, never hardcoded in a schema.
Tool defs are fixed for the life of a conversation, so the description is
byte-stable per conversation; this is a one-time prefix change.
Live, real get_tool_definitions() against a signed-in home: sentence present.
Same home with auth.json removed: manage_connections absent, sentence absent.
* fix(connectors): /stop halts a connector batch before the next remote call
dispatch_connector_batch runs every remote entry of a tool_call batch in
sequence. The executor only checks the interrupt flag between tools, and
the whole batch is one tool to it, so a /stop landing during entry 1 of
20 still sent the other 19 to the gateway.
The loop now reads tools.interrupt.is_interrupted before each dispatch.
Once set, it stops calling handle_function_call and fills every unstarted
slot with the loop's existing error-slot shape, code INTERRUPTED and the
message "Stopped by the user before this call was made.", so the result
envelope stays valid and the counts stay honest. Entries already
dispatched keep their real results.
Test: three connector calls where the fake client sets the interrupt on
the first execute. The client sees exactly one call and slots 2 and 3
carry INTERRUPTED. Red on the base branch, green with the fix.
* test(connections): schema assertions become dispatch contracts
test_schema_documents_wait_and_its_timeout froze description fragments
("REQUIRED", "can NOT disconnect", "Nous Portal"). A wording edit fails
it while a real regression (a disconnect that reaches the gateway) does
not. That is a snapshot of prose, not a behaviour contract.
Delete it. The requirement that wait needs connectors is already covered
by test_wait_requires_connectors. The user-only disconnect boundary is
now asserted as behaviour: action disconnect with a connector returns an
error and the fake client records no call. That replaces the earlier
de-authenticate test, which only checked that the word "dashboard"
appeared in the error text.
Test count in the file goes from 26 to 25.
* docs(tool-search): connector batches are one gateway request per entry
The user guide said a connector batch travels as one gateway request. It
does not: model_tools_connectors.dispatch_connector_batch re-enters core
dispatch per entry, and each entry becomes its own execute request in
bridge._run_remote (plus at most one literal-slug retry when the gateway
reports TOOL_NOT_FOUND under the conventional slug). The docstrings in
tools/tool_gateway/bridge.py and tools/tool_gateway/__init__.py still
described the abandoned V1 plan and claimed nothing outside the package
imports it.
Rewrite those sentences to match the code: one request per entry, in
input order, dispatched from model_tools_connectors.py, with the per-entry
approval and interrupt behaviour that motivated the split. The guide also
still showed the single-call shape tool_call(name, arguments); both
places now show the `calls: [{name, arguments}]` array the schema
advertises and note that a single local call is an array of one.
Docs only, no test.
* fix(tools): the between-turns refresh never rewrites the bridge tools
The per-turn MCP refresh folds a fresh tool snapshot into the live array
with preserve_prefix: order and membership stay, but a name present in both
takes the fresh schema. That is right for ordinary tools, whose schema is a
constant. tool_search is the one tool whose description is derived from the
session: the deferred-tool count, the embedded listing, and, on this branch,
whether manage_connections was present. A late MCP server or one failed
portal lookup (manage_connections' check_fn fails closed) changed those bytes
on the next turn, and every byte after tool_search in the cached prefix was
re-prefilled. The array also contradicted itself in that case: the flapping
manage_connections was carried forward while the description lost its hint.
The bridge entries now keep the bytes they were built with for the life of
the conversation. Nothing is lost: tool_search reads the live catalog at
dispatch, so tools that arrived late are still found; connector availability
is checked at dispatch too. The compaction-boundary rebuild (content_aware,
the one sanctioned cache break) still refreshes the description.
Consequence: connector exposure in the prompt is decided once, at agent
build, by whether the user was signed in then. That is the intended
contract.
* refactor(tool-search): normalize_tool_call_entries lives with the other argument validation
The port appended the tool_call argument parser to the tool_search facade.
The family already has tools/tool_search_validation.py for exactly this
work (schema validation of deferred call arguments), so the parser moves
there and the facade imports it. No behaviour change; the one test that
imported it now imports from the defining module.
* refactor(connectors): delete the unused batch dispatcher; _run_remote becomes run_remote
bridge.dispatch_calls and its helpers (_dispatch_calls_inner, _run_pre_dispatch,
_run_local, _error_slot, _maybe_parse_json) and the LocalDispatch / PreDispatch
seams had no production caller. Connector dispatch runs through
model_tools_connectors: dispatch_connector_batch re-enters handle_function_call
once per entry, so scope, hook, approval and middleware policy fire against each
composed name inside core dispatch, and dispatch_connector_call hands the single
planned entry to the bridge's transport function. Only tests called the batch
dispatcher, and they exercised policy seams that production never wires.
The transport function is the module's real entry point, so it drops the
underscore: _run_remote becomes run_remote, body unchanged. The module
docstring now describes the two legs that exist (availability with D32 silent
degradation, and run_remote) instead of the injected seams. Imports that only
the deleted code used are gone; merge.py is untouched because every export
still has a caller.
Tests that drove dispatch_calls are deleted where they covered the removed
seams (pre_dispatch blocks and rewrites, local_dispatch classification, mixed
batches). The literal-slug fallback, the per-entry transport failure, and the
hook rewrite reaching the gateway request body are re-targeted at
handle_function_call('tool_call', ...) with the fake client swapped in at
bridge._default_client_factory, the same seam test_connector_dispatch_policy
uses. Each re-targeted test fails when the retry is disabled in run_remote.
* fix(connectors): search keeps the twin a colliding name reaches, and says so
format_connector_name strips the toolkit prefix, so GMAIL_FETCH_PROFILE and a
literal FETCH_PROFILE on gmail both compose to connectors__gmail__FETCH_PROFILE.
describe and execute decode that name to the prefixed slug first, so the
literal twin is unreachable under it. If a vendor ever shipped both, search
could describe the literal under a name that runs the prefixed tool.
Search is the one place that sees both twins in one response. It now keeps
the twin the name reaches and drops the other with a WARNING that names both
slugs, whichever the gateway listed first. Short names stay; no marker, no
per-process map, no change to describe or execute. No such pair exists in the
live catalog today; the guard turns a silent alias into a logged one.
A global model/provider change must never stop a cron job. The #44585 guard
raised [drift_skip] for every unpinned job whose provider_snapshot /
model_snapshot no longer matched the live global default, so one `hermes model`
switch silently killed whole fleets (reported by fastfinge, nitinthewiz,
Dr-ilies; 13 of 60 jobs on the project lead's box after
claude-fable-5 -> claude-fable-5.1).
The snapshot is now the job's effective pin: _load_cron_job_config prefers
job['model_snapshot'] over the global default and _resolve_job_runtime passes
job['provider_snapshot'] as `requested` when neither a per-job pin nor a
cron.model / cron.model_provider fleet default covers the axis. One INFO line
per differing axis tells the operator what the job is running on and how to
move it. Jobs without a snapshot (legacy records) still follow the global
default; the existing fallback chain still handles a snapshot provider that
fails to resolve.
Both goals of #44585 hold: no silent inherit of a paid default (the job runs on
what it was created under) and no outage. Owner decision (Teknium): "main agent
model changing should not stop crons from executing, ever".
Removed as unreachable: _check_model_drift, DRIFT_SKIP markers, the
drift_alerted alert-once bit (mark_drift_alerted + the _record_run_outcome pop),
the drift special-cases in _compose_run_delivery and
_summarize_cron_failure_for_delivery, cron_model_drift_guard_enabled and the
cron.model_drift_guard config key (v42 migration drops it from existing
configs). The PLUGIN-COMPAT clear_drift_alerted block is untouched (scheduled
revert).
The `hermes config set model.default` notice and the Desktop model-change toast
are reworded from "will fail closed / will be skipped" to "keep running on the
model they were created under"; the impact payload drops guard_enabled (all six
desktop locales updated).
The docs batch (#105782-#105787, tracking #105788) fixed the website docs but
flagged two in-code strays it could not touch:
- hermes_cli/tips.py:121 still said delegate_task "spawns up to 3 concurrent
sub-agents"; the default has been 10 since the v33 config migration
(config_defaults.py:1256, config_migrations.py:613).
- hermes_cli/config_defaults.py:1778 said "remote backends run per-call",
contradicted by tools/code_kernel_remote.py (session kernels on remote
backends, failing open to per-call only when the backend cannot spawn one)
since #96991.
Comment-only changes: tips.py list entry updated, config_defaults.py comment
rewritten to match the actual kernel lifecycle. No behaviour change.
Validated: test_tips.py 6 passed; ruff, check-windows-footguns, and
check_compat_pointers all clean. Refs #105788 (crumb noted in the issue body).
Adopted from PR #80421 with the author's explicit go-ahead on #80450
('Please proceed!'): config_defaults entry, cli-config.yaml.example
block, and user-guide docs for the delegation-scoped fallback chain.
Co-authored-by: Andrex Ibiza, MBA <84248988+andrexibiza@users.noreply.github.com>
Give dispatcher-owned workers a tool-capable reporting opportunity before the
hard iteration cap, without accepting arbitrary diffs or weakening failure
counting. Add opt-in per-turn iteration checkpoints for ordinary agents.
Persist checkpoint text with the fresh tool result, never rewrite cached rows.
Salvages the opt-in ratio and per-turn reset implementation from #104683;
credits the earlier default-off signpost proposal in #92438.
Local fixture wire A/B: Kanban ready/1 failure -> done/0; deliberately stuck
workers still reach blocked/2 after two runs. Default-off control unchanged.
Targeted and affected-directory suites queued behind campaign test lock.
Co-authored-by: fangliquanflq <fangliquan@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: C. Michael Gibbs <252231331+MikeGibbsOnyx@users.noreply.github.com>
Three orchestrator failures traced through the Sep 7 gpt-6-astra campaign sessions:
1. delegation.independent_completions (new, default false). #104299 made every
ungrouped task its own completion message, so a 15-task call woke the
orchestrator up to 15 times; one chain received 132 notices and answered
130 of them with "already incorporated". A multi-task call now returns as
ONE consolidated message unless the flag is on; `group` is inert until then.
2. Queued units were killed before they started. Units of one call share a
pool slot but the executor was still sized by slots, so with 15 units live
a new unit queued behind a full pool; the stale monitor's clock ran from
dispatch, interrupted it at 450 s, and the child exited `interrupted 0.02s`
when its thread finally came up (13 such lanes in one session). The
executor now grows to the number of live units and the stall clock arms
when the runner actually starts.
3. The tool text said "do not wait or poll — just continue" without saying
that completions are delivered only BETWEEN turns. A model that never ends
its turn (one 203-minute turn, 717 API calls) never received 40 finished
results. Tool description, dispatch note and completion header now say to
finish independent work, give a one-line status, and end the turn.
Adapt the config-only portion of #104347; omit its environment flag and unrelated docs. Explicit update commands remain independent.
Co-authored-by: Rohith Pariki <rohithpariki@gmail.com>
Salvage #101453 (03a3f466d38134ba416764185884b3d655197a1d). Preserve its opt-out and first-run behavior; replace predicate-mocked tests with one native config/filesystem invariant and clarify XDG docs. Real venv/XDG probe: base clobbers custom entry, fix preserves it; targeted suite 94 passed.
Codex OAuth caps gpt-6-astra at the same 272K window as gpt-5.4/5.5/5.6,
so the global 50% trigger compacted at ~136K. Extend the existing
codex_gpt55_autoraise gate to any slug containing "astra" (minus the
opt-in -900k picker variants, which already unlock the wider window).
Other routes (OpenAI direct, OpenRouter) keep the user threshold.
Older desktop builds appended a frozen "## Messaging other agents" section (roster
included) to SOUL.md. Since the server started injecting the live section into Bot Chat
sessions, that copy did two wrong things: every CLI/TUI/messenger session paid ~600 tok
for a bot-only protocol, and in Bot Chat itself the probe went silent when SOUL carried
the heading, so bots saw the stale roster instead of the live one.
- load_soul_md strips the legacy section at read time (covers un-migrated profiles and
the ambient-home edge cases the same way the SOUL isolation fix does)
- bot_mode_probe drops the SOUL-carries-heading suppression; a SOUL-era stored Bot Chat
prompt now counts as legacy and is upgraded once (stamped, so it cannot loop)
- config migration v41 rewrites SOUL.md across the default + every profile once
Slimmed after review: the 200K default is dropped. Children compact at the same
0.50 x window ratio trigger as their parent (500K on a 1M model). Reasons:
- the run this came from happened at 0.85 (850K); main was already at 0.50, so
the real delta against main was 500K -> 200K, not 850K -> 200K;
- a replay of the run's 22,489 logged calls (evals/postmortem, cap sweep) put
200K-400K caps within 5% of each other in cost once cache prefixes are intact,
because the write price dominates and the cap only trims read volume;
- every compaction is a chance to lose detail, and the accuracy side was never
measured; at 500K a 1M child compacts roughly never.
What stays: the reviewer's finding that the value was coerced, not validated
(YAML true -> int 1 -> a one-token trigger; "200k" -> silently off). Values are
validated: int >= 16000 enables the cap, 0/false/null/unset = off, anything else
is warned and ignored. Docs and config comment restated accordingly.
Portal will serve anthropic/* from more than one upstream (OpenRouter
passthrough today; GMI/Vertex once it is back online). The native Messages
wire is the better transport but is only safe where the upstream keeps
prompt-cache routing sticky: measured false on the OpenRouter path (14-20% of
consecutive calls re-write the previous turn; #104284 moved the default to
chat), untested on GMI. Hermes cannot see the upstream in the request, only
in the response: OpenRouter stamps `provider` (chat wire) and mints
`gen-<unix>-<rand>` ids; GMI/Vertex returns Anthropic-native `msg_...` ids
and no provider.
`auto` therefore starts every session on chat (correct on both upstreams),
classifies the first response, and switches that session to native only
when the upstream is GMI AND `agent/nous_wire.py::GMI_NATIVE_WIRE_CLEARED`
is True. The switch is scheduled at response time and applied at the start
of the next iteration (turn_iteration_prep), so nothing is rebuilt while a
response is being consumed; it goes through switch_model so the client,
cache policy and _primary_runtime stay consistent. One decision per session,
call 1 only; unknown upstream never switches; a failed switch logs and stays.
GMI_NATIVE_WIRE_CLEARED is False: until the 20x6 concurrency probe
(evals/postmortem/live_ab) is clean on a GMI-served anthropic/* id on the
native wire, `auto` behaves exactly like `chat`. Flipping it is the whole
rollout once GMI is measured. Default stays `chat`.
Tests (17): classifier on real Portal response shapes from both wires and
both upstreams; chat for openrouter/unknown, GMI gated on the flag; one
decision per session, call 1 only, explicit chat/native never auto-switch,
other providers/models untouched, switch failure swallowed and final;
record_response_usage on a real AIAgent invokes the hook once.
Live (auto, real Portal, Fable 5.1): arm A, real classification
(OpenRouter today) - stays on chat through a tool loop and a second turn,
cache 97-99%. Arm B, classifier forced to gmi with the flag on - call 1 on
chat, switch applied before call 2, calls 2-3 on the native wire in the
same session, tool result and both turns correct, cache 97-99%. An earlier
shape that switched inside the response path broke call 1 (SimpleNamespace
has no .content); the scheduled apply is why.
Portal serves anthropic/* on two routes. The native /v1/messages wire, which
Hermes has used since 02d5e23085, re-writes the previous turn's prompt cache
on 14-20% of consecutive calls in concurrent tool loops; the chat/completions
route does not. Measured 2026-09-06, 20 concurrent sessions x 6 tool calls on
Fable 5.1, same account, same hour, same first-party pin:
Nous /v1/messages 180 pairs, 25 stuck (13.9%); 3 earlier 40-session
runs 15.0 / 17.3 / 20.2%; unchanged by the pin
Nous /v1/chat/completions 320 pairs (2 runs), 0 stuck
OpenRouter direct, pinned 161 pairs, 0 stuck
"stuck" = cache_read on call k+1 equals cache_read on call k instead of
call k's prompt size: the last write was not visible, the turn (~28K) was
written twice. Every stuck pair had byte-identical system, tools and
per-message shas, so it is not client-side mutation. At $10-20/M for
cache writes that is 15-20% of a fan-out's write bill.
The cause is inside the portal's native route (every element of its
outgoing request reproduces clean from outside; NousResearch/api#227
carries the diagnostics). Until it is fixed, anthropic/* rides
chat/completions. nous.anthropic_wire: native opts back in. Cost of
chat: prior-turn thinking travels as OpenAI-style reasoning fields, and
cache_control scopes are translated by the portal's adapter.
Tests: new test_nous_anthropic_wire_default.py reads the knob through the
real config loader in a temp HERMES_HOME and through
resolve_runtime_provider (both settings); the existing native-wire
contract suite selects native via an autouse fixture so the wire keeps
working for the flip-back. Live: a real AIAgent on this branch,
provider=nous + anthropic/claude-fable-5.1, dispatches to
chat/completions with the session_id intact.
On hosts where Docker ships as a snap (Ubuntu cloud images / Azure VMs), the
snap's AppArmor confinement turns two sandbox hardening flags into a dead
container at start: `--init` fails with "exec /sbin/docker-init: operation not
permitted" and `--security-opt no-new-privileges` then fails every exec the
same way ("exec /usr/bin/sleep: operation not permitted"). This is snapd
LP#1908448 — not probeable from the client, and docker_extra_args cannot remove
flags we add.
`terminal.docker_snap_compat: true` drops exactly those two flags; cap-drop ALL,
the tmpfs hardening, PID limits and the privdrop caps are unchanged, and a
warning is logged at container start. Bridged everywhere the other docker_*
keys are (CLI env map, gateway env map, `hermes config set` sync, terminal_tool
env read, the shared container_config shaper, DEFAULT_CONFIG).
Independent review: a YAML `true` coerced to int 1 and gave every child a
one-token compression trigger; "200k" silently disabled the default cap.
Values are now validated: an int >= 16000 is used, 0/false/null disable on
purpose, anything else warns and falls back to the 200K default so a typo
never costs money. Config comment and docs say it caps the compaction
trigger, not a hard request-size limit.
Test: true / "200k" / 5 -> default; 0 / false / None -> disabled; valid ints
pass.
A delegate_task child inherits the compression threshold as a RATIO of the
model window. On a 1M-window model at the run's configured 0.85 that is an
850K-token trigger: in the 1,393-agent refactor run 1,373 of 1,375 children
never compressed once, 62% of all API calls carried >150K of context, and the
calls above 200K carried ~$10.9k of the $19.3k bill (58% of it cache WRITES,
i.e. re-sending a 300-800K prefix on every call). A sawtooth replay of the
logged calls with a 200K cap / 65K floor cuts context spend by ~49% (~$7k).
Children are brief-driven and disposable; they re-read their brief and the
files they touch, so a large window buys them little. New
delegation.compression_threshold_tokens (default 200000) is applied to the
child's ContextCompressor right after construction as the lower of it and
any global compression.threshold_tokens; the parent's own trigger is
untouched. 0 disables the subagent-specific cap. The compressor applies
threshold_tokens_cap on first window resolution, so this is byte-equivalent
to the user having set compression.threshold_tokens for the child.
Live through the real spawn path (_build_child_agent, real imports, temp
HERMES_HOME, 1M-window model): main child trigger 500,000 / branch 200,000;
parent 500,000 on both.
Tests (3): default caps a 1M child at 200K; the cap is the lower of the
delegation and global values and never raises a small-window child's
trigger; 0 disables and an already-resolved trigger is re-clamped.
Docs: delegation.md, configuration.md.
Adds plugins/web/perplexity — a keyed-only WebSearchProvider over httpx:
- search: POST https://api.perplexity.ai/search (documented Search API),
search_context_size=low so `snippet` stays description-sized;
results[].snippet -> description, max_results capped at the API's 20.
- extract: POST /sdk/content/snippets — the query-relevant page-excerpt
route behind `pplx content snippets` (the CLI's `content fetch` is
deprecated upstream). web_extract has no query, so the URLs' path words
serve as the relevance query; per-URL `error` entries survive a 200.
- Wired into the same touchpoints as the other keyed vendors: legacy
backend set + credential ladder + availability probe (web_tools),
registry preference walk, OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS, `hermes config`/status/
dump key lists, nous_subscription direct-credential detection, setup
summary, test conftests, docs.
Not a keyless-ring member (Perplexity has no anonymous tier). Related
closed PRs #9192 / #23981 / #45225 predate the plugin ABC.
hermes_cli/plugin_compat.py is now the single source of truth for the compat window:
COMPAT_REMOVAL_DATE = 2026-09-14; scan_plugin() statically finds `from F import n`, `import F` + `F.n`,
alias forms and string targets against compat_manifest.json; compat_report() aggregates over the user's
ENABLED external (non-bundled) plugins; disable_reason() decides the loader's skip.
Surfaces (all read from that one report):
* CLI: yellow block under the banner naming plugins + date + `hermes plugins compat` (red + DISABLED after)
* `hermes plugins compat [--json] [path]`: file:line, old -> new per hit; exit 1 while anything remains;
`path` lets a plugin author scan their own checkout
* `hermes doctor`: "Plugin import paths (removed Sep 14, 2026)" section next to the xAI retirement check
* `hermes update`: post-update notice alongside the FTS/curator notices
* Desktop: compat_report() writes HERMES_HOME/.plugin-compat-report.json (deleted when clean); Electron
shows ONE warning dialog per distinct report after the backend is up and persists the dismissal in
userData/plugin-compat-dismissed.json. A new affected plugin, or the date passing, is a new report.
From the date, PluginManager skips a hitting external plugin before importing it, with the reason in
LoadedPlugin.error ("uses N import path(s) removed on 2026-09-14; run `hermes plugins compat` ...") — the
same path a plugin with a broken register() takes, so nothing else is affected. Escape hatch:
plugins.allow_deprecated_imports: true (config_defaults), which only helps until the compat commit is
actually reverted.
Docs: COMPAT_MANIFEST.md (removal date, what-happens table, author instructions), plugin dev guide section.
Tests: tests/test_plugin_compat_notice.py (scanner forms, report scope, date gate + escape hatch, summary
text, report file lifecycle, loader skip via a real PluginManager), electron/plugin-compat-notice.test.ts
(show once, re-show on a different set or on the date passing, malformed file ignored).
Live A/B on this box with a demo plugin on old paths: before the date it loads and the banner/doctor/report
name it; with today=2026-09-14 it is skipped with the reason and the banner turns red; with the escape
hatch it loads again.
For each issue anchor present in BASE 63279301bc non-test .py and absent on HEAD, the BASE comment/docstring block was re-attached at the HEAD location of the code it explained (matched by the distinctive code line / enclosing def). Sentences already covered by an existing HEAD comment were deduped; the issue number always survives. Insert-only: no code lines changed.
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