A recurring job that fails at the scheduler layer - an exception escaping
run_one_job's body before the agent is ever constructed - has delivered a
failure alert since 4668750fa. It has never carried the repeated-failure
review nudge the normal agent-failure delivery carries: the nudge (#80752,
2026-08-06) predates that second delivery site by eight days and only ever
composed the first one.
The streak itself is layer-agnostic. mark_job_run increments failure_streak
for an escaped failure exactly as it does for an agent failure, and the
escape handler calls it. So the counter climbs correctly and shows up in
`hermes cron list`, but the chat message that spends it is unreachable for a
job whose failures ALL escape - a half-applied update leaving a bad import,
a provider client that cannot construct. Those are precisely the failures
that repeat identically on every tick, so the operator gets the same one-line
error every 10 minutes indefinitely and is never told the automation itself
is worth reviewing or pausing.
Compose the nudge at the escape handler's delivery exactly as the normal
path does. It stays config-gated and threshold-gated by the same helper, so
a first-time escaped failure reads exactly as it did before.
Docs said the streak counts "runs where the agent failed", which is what the
reporter read and reasonably concluded their failures were out of scope. The
counter never worked that way; correct the sentence to match the code.
Tests: two cases on the escaped-failure delivery path - streak at threshold
appends the nudge (fails on the unfixed handler with the bare summary), and
streak below threshold delivers the unchanged one-liner, so the guard also
proves the nudge is not unconditional. The existing nudge tests only ever
exercised the helper in isolation, which is why the second delivery site
could be added without it.
Fixes#88655
deliver='bot-chat[:<profile>]' is a machine-local pseudo-platform: the
scheduler delivers job output as a real inbound turn in the target
profile's canonical Bot Chat via the chat CLI lane (--in ~ -c "Bot Chat"
--create-if-missing -Q --query-file), the same lane Bot Mode
agent-to-agent messages use. The bot reads the output, acts on it, and
responds in its chat — instead of the output only landing in Run history.
- cron/scheduler.py: token parsing, target resolution (own profile /
named local profile / unknown -> skipped with warning), subprocess
delivery lane with cron.bot_chat_delivery_timeout_seconds (default
600s), preflight exemption, and bot-chat entries in
cron_delivery_targets() for UI pickers. Excluded from 'all' by design.
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: create/update-time validation — named profiles
must exist on this machine (fail at create, not at 3am); deliver schema
documents the new token.
- tui_gateway/methods_tools.py: cron.manage add forwards deliver.
- hermes_cli/profiles.py: list_profile_names() cheap name-only scan.
- hermes-bots plugin: Create Cronjob dialog gains a 'Send results to'
picker (Run history only / <bot>'s chat); bot-chat jobs send the BARE
token on the profile-scoped create so Desktop-side aliases can never
name a profile the backend doesn't have.
- Docs: user cron guide, automate-with-cron, cron-internals.
Machine-local by construction: names resolve only against the executing
machine's ~/.hermes/profiles/, so overlapping profile names across
multiple connected gateways are unambiguous.
Standing policy: models do not make model-configuration decisions (the
only exception is user-defined profile selection in Bot Mode/kanban).
The per-job reasoning pin stays fully functional via
`hermes cron create/edit --reasoning-effort` and the job store; the
cronjob tool still SURFACES the pin in listings but cannot set it.
A schema-absence test pins the policy.
A cron job can now pin its own reasoning (thinking) effort, independent
of the global agent.reasoning_effort and per-model reasoning_overrides.
Heavy scheduled analyses can run at high while cheap recurring jobs run
at minimal, without touching the fleet-wide default.
- cron/jobs.py: new optional job field, validated at the storage choke
point against the canonical grammar via the shared
hermes_constants.parse_reasoning_effort (spelling-only; capability
clamping stays owned by the provider transports at send time, same as
config-set effort). Empty string clears on update; invalid values
raise ValueError before anything persists. Not a drift-guard axis.
- cron/scheduler.py: _resolve_job_reasoning_config resolves per-job pin
> agent.reasoning_overrides > agent.reasoning_effort at fire time,
after the auth-fallback model swap (the pin is model-independent by
design). A stored value that no longer parses warns and falls back to
config resolution instead of killing the tick.
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: reasoning_effort on BOTH mutation verbs
(create and update), conditional key in _format_job, schema documents
grammar/precedence/transport clamping/clear semantics. Agent-settable,
unlike model/provider pins: it cannot redirect spend to a different
model.
- hermes cron create/edit --reasoning-effort (empty string clears).
- Docs: cron feature page tip + CLI reference rows.
Tests: tests/cron/test_cron_reasoning_effort.py (32) — store contract,
scheduler precedence incl. byte-identical absent-field behavior and
garbage fallback, tool create/update/clear/error paths, schema surface.
Follow-up on the salvaged commits from PRs #87965 and #87967
(@AiwendilInTheWoods):
- Promote the media-send timeout to the standard resolution pattern:
HERMES_CRON_MEDIA_SEND_TIMEOUT env var, then
cron.media_send_timeout_seconds in config.yaml, then 300s default
(mirrors script_timeout_seconds; .env stays secrets-only).
- Register the config key in DEFAULT_CONFIG and document both surfaces
(environment-variables reference + cron user guide).
- Fold the empty-str() exception fallback into the error string recorded
in delivery_errors (post-#88631 the reason reaches the run status, not
just the log line).
- Tests: timeout resolution precedence + TimeoutError reason fallback.
When an external scheduler (Chronos on hosted deployments) cannot
deliver a fire — dead loopback hop at fire time, retry budget exhausted
— the job's next_run_at stays parked in the past and nothing ever runs
it: external providers have no local tick loop, so the day is silently
lost even if the gateway heals minutes later (4 consecutive nightly
misses in the field).
fire_overdue_jobs() in cron/scheduler_provider.py, called from the
gateway housekeeping loop every 5 minutes:
- No-op for the built-in ticker (its tick loop already self-heals
past-due jobs) and when cron.misfire_grace_minutes <= 0.
- Waits out a grace window (default 10 min) so the external scheduler's
own retry backoff gets first right to deliver.
- Claims via the provider's claim_fire (store CAS — a concurrent late
external retry is de-duplicated) and runs fire_claimed in a daemon
thread, mirroring the webhook admission pattern, so housekeeping
never blocks for the length of an agent run. Provider re-arm logic
(Chronos NAS one-shots) runs exactly as for a normal fire.
Docs: cron.md section + cron.misfire_grace_minutes reference.
On hosted deployments a scheduled fire that cannot be forwarded to the
gateway api_server (dead 8642 listener, gateway down) was invisible
outside gui.log: no execution row is created because the claim never
happens, so `cronjob list` showed a healthy job that silently missed
days of scheduled runs (4 consecutive nightly misses in the field,
diagnosed only by log grep).
Changes:
- cron/jobs.py: note_fire_forward_failure() durably stamps
last_fire_error ({at, detail}) on the job record; mark_job_run clears
it on the next successful run so it always describes current
auto-fire health (mirrors preflight_alerted/drift_alerted).
- hermes_cli/web_routers/cron.py: the dashboard fire webhook stamps the
job on the gateway-unreachable path, best-effort (never disturbs the
503/Retry-After retry contract or the OOF-266 intentional-stop drop).
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: _format_job carries last_fire_error so the
agent-facing cronjob list surfaces it.
- hermes_cli/cron.py: `hermes cron list` prints a red
"Missed scheduled fire" line.
- web/: dashboard CronPage renders the miss; api.ts type updated.
- gateway/run.py: one-time startup warning when an external cron
provider is active but the api_server adapter is not running (the
fire path is dead-on-arrival; most common cause is API_SERVER_KEY
missing from an unsupervised gateway relaunch).
- website/docs: cron doc section on missed fires.
CLI parity for the continuity toggle:
- subcommands/cron.py: --continuity on create; --continuity / --no-continuity
tri-state pair on edit (same store_const pattern as --no-agent/--agent)
- cron.py: forwarded to the cronjob tool; created/edited job summaries print
a "Continuity: on" line
- cronjob_tools._format_job: reports continuity as an explicit boolean and
strips the reserved 'self' entry from the reported context_from list
- cron-job.ts: form reader accepts both shapes (raw store record with 'self'
inside context_from, or formatted record with the explicit flag)
- docs: CLI flag examples in the continuity section
E2E (real argparse -> cron_create/cron_edit -> jobs.json in temp HERMES_HOME):
create --continuity stores ['self']; edit --no-continuity clears; edit
--continuity restores; default-off unchanged. 91 cron/tool tests + 16 CLI
cron tests + vitest 10/10 pass.
Per review: expose run-to-run continuity as a boolean `continuity` flag on
cronjob create/update instead of asking users to know the reserved
context_from='self' value. The flag translates to the 'self' entry in
context_from internally (create: appends/omits; update: adds or removes
'self' while preserving other upstream refs). Schema documents the flag and
steers context_from back to job-id chaining only. Docs updated; 7 new tests.
Amp's 'Right on Schedule' (Jul 21 2026) lets scheduled agents wake up with
their saved context and continue where they left off. Hermes cron jobs run
in isolated sessions with per-run amnesia; the existing context_from chain
mechanism only referenced OTHER jobs. This adds the special value 'self'
(and treats a job's own literal id the same way): the job's most recent
output is injected with continuity framing so recurring scouts/monitors
dedupe against what they already reported and continue where they left off.
- cron/scheduler.py: resolve 'self'/own-id in _build_job_prompt with
continuity framing instead of upstream-job framing
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: allow 'self' through create/update validation
(can't be validated against the store — the job doesn't exist yet at
create time); schema description documents the value
- tests: 6 new tests incl. sabotage-verified failures without the fix
- docs: self-context section in cron.md
Poke (poke.com) 'encourages users to review recurring automations that
haven't been acted upon'. Hermes' equivalent pain point is a recurring
cron job that fails run after run: each failure delivers the same one-line
error with no signal that the automation itself needs attention.
- cron/jobs.py: persist a failure_streak counter in mark_job_run —
incremented on agent failure, reset on success; delivery failures don't
count. Back-compat: missing field reads as 0.
- cron/scheduler.py: _failure_streak_nudge() appends a review nudge to the
delivered failure summary once a recurring job's streak reaches
cron.failure_nudge_threshold (default 3, 0 disables). One-shots never
nudge.
- hermes_cli/cron.py: 'hermes cron list' shows '(N failures in a row)' on
failing jobs with streak >= 2.
- docs: new 'Repeated-failure review nudge' section in cron.md.
Tests: 17 passed (TestMarkJobRun + TestFailureStreakNudge); E2E verified
with real cron store in temp HERMES_HOME.
Validate a job's configuration BEFORE any agent machinery is constructed:
- missing provider API key (AuthError from a read-only
resolve_runtime_provider probe; skipped when a fallback_providers chain
is configured, since auth-fallback may rescue the run)
- attached skill not ready (skill_view readiness_status=setup_needed —
missing required env vars / commands / credential files)
- delivery platform unknown or unconnected (deliver=local/origin/all are
never checked; gateway-config load failures fail open)
On a failing check run_job returns a [blocked_config]-marked error without
constructing AIAgent/MCP/etc, so a misconfigured job never burns an LLM
call. run_one_job records last_status='blocked_config' and delivers the
alert exactly ONCE across ticks (persisted preflight_alerted bit — the
alert-once shape from the #73506 dead-pin auto-pause); the next healthy
run clears the marker so a future break re-alerts. Every preflight check
fails open: only an affirmative misconfiguration verdict blocks.
Config: cron.preflight (default true); `cron.preflight: false` restores
the old fail-during-run behavior. Documented in the cron user guide and
config defaults.
mark_job_run gains an optional status= override (unblocked call shape
unchanged) and drops preflight_alerted on any successful run.
Tests: tests/cron/test_preflight_config.py (blocked_config + no agent +
single alert across two ticks, healthy job unaffected, recovery clears
dedup, fallback-chain rescue, opt-out restores old behavior, skill
readiness miss, unknown delivery platform, deliver=local never loads
gateway config). Full tests/cron/ + cronjob tool suite green (525 tests).
Ported from: paperclipai/paperclip execution-semantics §5 (MIT);
in-repo precedent: #27948, #73506
Covers the behavior shipped in #80807 (background dispatch for
cronjob action='run') and #80838 (per-run '## Run Context' prompt,
gateway-loop delivery): immediate return with handle, completion
re-entering the conversation, in-flight dedupe, transient context
injection with prompt scanning, and the sync fallbacks.
The original PR #78453 said 'A job that was mid-run during a restart
resumes according to the attempt policy described in this page.' This
is misleading — the existing docs explicitly state 'Unknown attempts
are audit records and are never automatically rerun.' Corrected to
accurately describe: the mid-run attempt is marked unknown (not retried),
but the job's next scheduled tick fires normally.
- cron: state explicitly that job definitions survive updates, gateway
restarts and reboots (asked directly in #37542)
- mcp: add a Claude Code bridge tip - mcpServers maps to mcp_servers and
hermes import-agent migrates it (the MCP page never says 'mcpServers'
in the client direction; arrivals from Claude Code get no pointer)
- installation: surface loginctl enable-linger in the non-sudo/service
user section where affected users start (currently only on the
gateway page; #43748)
- sessions: document optimize, optimize-storage, repair, recover and
retitle-skills in the CLI reference (shipped in v0.19.1 --help but
absent from the table) and recommend non-destructive optimize before
prune in the db-growth tip
All wording verified against hermes v0.19.1 --help output and the live
pages on 2026-08-04.
Per-job cron inference pins are now user-owned: the agent-facing cronjob
tool schema no longer exposes model/provider/base_url, and the registered
handler ignores them even if a model hallucinates the old parameters.
Users set pins via the dashboard, hermes cron create/edit --model/--provider,
or jobs.json directly — and once set, a pin sticks until the user changes it.
Existing agent-era pins are grandfathered untouched.
New cron.model / cron.model_provider config keys give the cron fleet its
own default model, independent of the chat model. Fire-time resolution:
per-job pin > cron.model > HERMES_MODEL > model.default. An axis covered
by the explicit cron-fleet default is deliberate routing, not drift, so
the #44585 fail-closed guard skips it — switching your chat model with
/model or hermes model no longer breaks unpinned cron fleets.
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: drop model param from agent schema + handler;
remove now-dead _resolve_model_override
- cron/scheduler.py: cron.model/model_provider resolution + per-axis
drift-guard skip
- cron/jobs.py: snapshot resolution mirrors the new precedence
- hermes_cli/subcommands/cron.py + hermes_cli/cron.py: --model/--provider
on hermes cron create/edit
- hermes_cli/config.py: cron.model / cron.model_provider defaults
- docs: cron.md model-resolution tip rewritten
When an operator changes the global model/provider config, warn that
unpinned cron jobs with stored snapshots will fail-closed on their next
run. Adds a cron.model_drift_guard config opt-out (default true) for
fleets that should deliberately track changing global defaults.
Addresses #59031. Original PR #59177 by @doncazper.
Document that safe-root violations are hard-blocked (not approval-gated),
add a security guide section for write_file/patch guards, and link cron
and verifier docs so users trust the footer over agent summaries.
Live DM testing showed a reply to a DM cron brief did NOT continue the job.
Root cause: for a 1:1 DM the governing knob is dm_top_level_threads_as_sessions
(default True), NOT reply_in_thread / cron_continuable_surface. Under the
default, each top-level DM keys to a per-message session (…:dm:<chat>:<ts>),
so a reply mints a new ts and can never converge with the flat …:dm:<chat>
session the cron seed creates.
A 1:1 DM has no thread-vs-timeline split, so "in_channel" has no coherent
meaning for a DM — cron_continuable_surface is a channel concept and is a
no-op for DMs. DM continuation is governed entirely by
dm_top_level_threads_as_sessions:
- false → all top-level DMs share …:dm:<chat> → seed + reply converge → works
- true (default) → per-message sessions → no continuation (cron or interactive)
Option A (chosen): document the requirement; no code change (the flat-DM seed
from the prior commit already lands correctly when the knob is false). Adds a
":::note 1:1 DMs" admonition to cron.md + the zh-Hans mirror.
Verification (real inbound handler, not a hard-coded assumption — the mistake
that made the earlier DM E2E falsely pass): tests/manual/cron_inchannel_dm_e2e.py
drives the REAL _handle_slack_message for a top-level DM under both knob values
and asserts false→converges (…:dm:D_TESTDM == seed), true→diverges
(…:dm:D_TESTDM:<ts>). See decisions.md D9.
Add a per-platform `cron_continuable_surface` extra key
(`thread` default | `in_channel`) so a continuable cron job can deliver
FLAT into a Slack channel — no dedicated thread — and still be
replied-to. In `in_channel` mode the scheduler skips the thread-open
branch (leaves `thread_id=None`); the shipped origin-mirror then seeds
the `(slack, chat_id, None)` shared-channel session — the same bucket
`reply_in_thread: false` routes inbound channel replies to — so a plain
channel reply continues the job in context.
Design: specs/cron-inchannel-continuable (D1–D7, F5). Model B
(shared-channel session), NOT anchoring to the delivery `ts` — on Slack
replying to a specific message IS threading, so a `ts` anchor would only
relocate the thread, never deliver true threadless continuable.
- gateway/platforms/base.py: `supports_inchannel_continuable` capability
flag (default False → unsupported platforms fail SAFE to `thread`).
- plugins/platforms/slack/adapter.py: flag=True; `_cron_continuable_surface()`
resolver (coerces to the two-value enum); `_warn_if_inchannel_without_flat_reply`
connect-time warning (D5: warn, not hard-require — the misconfig fails safe).
- gateway/config.py: shared-key bridge line (top-level OR nested config).
- cron/scheduler.py: read the key generically from platform config, gate
the `in_channel` branch on the adapter capability flag, skip thread-open.
No new seed function (reuses the existing mirror — G6).
Pairing (docs): `in_channel` + `reply_in_thread: false` +
`require_mention: false` (or a free-response channel). Missing
`reply_in_thread: false` fails safe to a threaded continuation.
Gateway-side config flag — `/restart` to apply; NO Slack app reinstall.
Tests (from inside the worktree, PYTHONPATH=$PWD):
- +6 cron scheduler tests (in_channel skips thread-open; seeds flat
channel session with thread_id=None; thread-mode regression;
fail-safe on unsupported platform; value coercion). Prove-fail:
removing the `and not in_channel_surface` guard turns the two
load-bearing tests RED; restore → GREEN.
- +10 slack resolver/capability/warning tests; +2 config-bridge tests.
- tests/manual/cron_inchannel_e2e.py: offline E2E driving BOTH real
legs (delivery seed + inbound reply keying) → both converge on
(slack, C, None).
- No regressions: test_slack.py 216 passed alone; broader sweep green
(4 pre-existing cross-file-ordering failures reproduce identically on
pristine origin/main).
Docs: cron.md + slack.md + zh-Hans mirrors of both.
Cron pre-run scripts were capped at 120s by default, which surprised
users running long data-collection scripts on crons (the whole point of
crons being to offload long work). Raise _DEFAULT_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT to 3600s
(1 hour).
This bounds the script only — skill/agent jobs already run on a separate
inactivity budget (HERMES_CRON_TIMEOUT, default 600s idle, 0=unlimited),
not a wall-clock cap. Scripts dispatch to a persistent thread pool and do
not hold the tick lock, so a long script doesn't starve other due jobs.
Docs clarified to make the script-vs-agent timeout distinction explicit.
env/config overrides (HERMES_CRON_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT,
cron.script_timeout_seconds) unchanged and still take precedence.
* feat(moa): expose MoA presets as selectable virtual models
Reconstructed onto current main (PR #46081's base had diverged with no common
ancestor, marking the PR dirty so CI never dispatched). MoA is now a virtual
provider: each named preset is a selectable model under provider 'moa', and the
preset's aggregator is the acting model that answers and calls tools.
Reference models fan out in parallel via a bounded ThreadPoolExecutor (the same
batch pattern delegate_task uses) — all references dispatched at once, collected
when every one finishes, then handed to the aggregator. Output order is
preserved, failures and the MoA-recursion guard stay isolated per reference.
- Removed the old mixture_of_agents model tool and moa toolset.
- Added moa as a virtual provider in the provider/model inventory.
- /moa is shortcut behavior over model selection (default preset / named preset
/ one-shot prompt).
- Dashboard + Desktop manage named presets; presets appear in model pickers.
- Parallel reference fan-out in agent/moa_loop.py with regression test.
* fix(moa): thread moa_config through _run_agent to _run_agent_inner
The reconstructed gateway MoA wiring declared moa_config on _run_agent (the
profile-scoping wrapper) and used it inside _run_agent_inner, but the wrapper
never forwarded it — _run_agent_inner had no such parameter, so the runtime hit
NameError: name 'moa_config' is not defined on the compression-failure session
sync path. Add moa_config to _run_agent_inner's signature and forward it from
both wrapper call sites (multiplex and non-multiplex). Caught by
tests/gateway/test_compression_failure_session_sync.py on CI shard test(4).
* fix(moa): classify moa as a virtual provider in the catalog
The moa virtual provider has no PROVIDER_REGISTRY/ProviderProfile entry, so
provider_catalog() fell through to the default auth_type="api_key" with no
env vars — tripping two catalog invariants:
- test_provider_catalog: api_key providers must expose a credential env var
- test_provider_parity: every hermes-model provider must be desktop-configurable
moa already declares auth_type="virtual" in HERMES_OVERLAYS; consult that
overlay as an auth_type fallback so the catalog reports moa as virtual (no real
credential, no network endpoint). Exempt virtual providers from the desktop
parity union check the same way 'custom' is exempt — derived from the catalog,
not a hardcoded slug, so future virtual providers are covered too.
Addresses review on #51077 (kxee). The continuable-cron mirror reused
gateway.mirror.mirror_to_session, which writes role=assistant — re-
introducing the exact alternation violation #2313 (37a997945)
deliberately removed: a cron brief landing as assistant after the
agent's last turn yields assistant->assistant, which breaks strict-
alternation providers (OpenAI/OpenRouter) per issue #2221. The mirror/
mirror_source metadata is also dropped at the SQLite boundary, so the
[Delivered from cron] label is lost on replay.
This is an intentional, opt-in (default OFF) reversal of #2313's
'cron output does not belong in interactive history' for the reply-to-
cron use case — gated behind cron.mirror_delivery / attach_to_session.
Fixes:
- mirror_to_session gains a role param (default 'assistant' — interactive
send_message mirror unchanged, it IS the agent speaking). Cron paths
pass role='user' with a '[Cron delivery: <task>]' prefix so the brief
collapses via repair_message_sequence's consecutive-user merge on every
provider, and stays distinguishable on replay despite the metadata drop.
- thread_seeded: defer seeding + the flag until delivery into the new
thread actually succeeds. Previously set pre-delivery, so an open-
succeeds / deliver-fails case both stranded a seeded-but-unseen brief
AND suppressed the DM-fallback mirror.
- seed mirror now passes user_id='system:cron' to resolve the exact
thread-keyed session row it just created.
- dedupe the duplicate BasePlatformAdapter import in _deliver_result.
- trim oversized docstrings to non-obvious WHY (AGENTS.md).
- docs: document cron.mirror_delivery / attach_to_session in
website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md.
- test: assert the cron mirror writes role='user' with the label prefix.
204 cron+mirror tests pass.
An unpinned cron job follows the global default provider (config.yaml
model.default + resolve_runtime_provider). If that global state is changed
after the job is created — e.g. a temporary switch to a paid provider like
nous/claude-fable-5 — the job silently inherits it on its next tick and spends
real money. This is the reported $7.73 incident: a job created under a
free/default provider later inherited a temporary paid switch.
Fix (ask #1 only) preserves the legitimate "unpinned job should follow
model.default" use case by detecting *drift* rather than freezing the model:
- create_job (cron/jobs.py): for UNPINNED, agent-backed jobs (no explicit
provider, not no_agent), snapshot the provider that resolution WOULD pick
right now into a new optional `provider_snapshot` field, resolved via the
same resolve_runtime_provider() path the ticker uses. Fail-open to None on
any resolution error so job creation never breaks.
- run_job (cron/scheduler.py): right after runtime resolution, if the job has
a provider_snapshot AND is unpinned AND the currently-resolved provider
DIFFERS from the snapshot, fail closed for that run — make no paid call and
deliver a loud, actionable alert naming both providers and telling the user
to pin explicitly (`cronjob action=update job_id=.. provider=..`).
Back-compat: jobs with no snapshot (pre-existing jobs, no_agent jobs, or any
job whose creation-time resolution failed) behave exactly as before — the
guard only engages when a snapshot exists. Explicitly-pinned jobs (job.provider
set) are unaffected since they don't drift with global state.
Tests: tests/cron/test_cron_provider_pin.py covers snapshot-matches (runs),
snapshot-differs (fail closed, no agent constructed), no-snapshot back-compat,
None-snapshot back-compat, explicitly-pinned (runs regardless), plus create_job
snapshot capture/skip/fail-open. The fail-closed case is load-bearing (fails
without the guard).
Issue #44585 asks #2-4 (hard-stop a running job, gateway-stop containment,
fail-closed on provider mutation) are out of scope for this change.
Fully removes the cron per-job 'profile' arg added in #28124: the
cronjob tool schema field, CLI --profile flags on cron create/edit,
job-record storage/validation, the scheduler's _job_profile_context
wrapper, and the script-runner env override. Sequential-partition
logic reverts to workdir-only.
The context-local HERMES_HOME override in hermes_constants and the
subprocess bridging in tools/environments/local.py are kept — they
now have other consumers (dashboard multi-profile, TUI gateway).
The locale switcher appeared broken because hardcoded markdown links
(`](/docs/X)`) got double-prefixed by Docusaurus to `/docs/<locale>/docs/X`
(404) in non-English locales, and the MDX hero `<a href>` on the index
page escaped locale routing entirely.
Changes:
- Rewrite 922 `](/docs/X)` -> `](/X)` across 166 docs files (strip trailing
.md too). Docusaurus prepends locale + baseUrl itself.
- docs/index.md -> index.mdx; hero "Get Started" anchor -> Docusaurus
<Link> so it stays inside the active locale.
- Drop `ko` locale entirely from docusaurus.config.ts + delete i18n/ko/
(4 stale auto-translated kanban pages, <2% coverage, misleading).
Verified `npm run build` succeeds for both en and zh-Hans; `build/zh-Hans/
index.html` has no /docs/zh-Hans/docs/... double-prefixed paths.
PR2 will translate the 335 English docs into i18n/zh-Hans/.
When Telegram topic mode is enabled, cron messages delivered to the bot's
root DM (TELEGRAM_HOME_CHANNEL without a thread id) land in the system
lobby — replies there are rebuffed with the lobby reminder and
reply_to_message_id is dropped, so users cannot interact with the cron
output (#24409).
Add an optional TELEGRAM_CRON_THREAD_ID env var that overrides
TELEGRAM_HOME_CHANNEL_THREAD_ID for cron deliveries only. Operators can
create a "Cron" forum topic in the DM, point this var at its thread id,
and replies to cron messages will land in that topic's existing session
instead of the lobby. The home-channel thread id (used elsewhere, e.g.
restart notifications) is unchanged, and explicit
deliver="telegram:chat:thread" targets continue to win over the env var.
Per the reporter's clarification on 2026-05-13, option (a) (cron-side
route to a dedicated topic + config knob) was chosen.
Fixes#24409
Adds three pre-run gate recipes to the cron docs:
- file-change gate (stat + mtime + state file)
- external-flag gate (file presence)
- SQL-count gate (user's own database, not state.db)
These are the use cases @iankar8 proposed adding as a parallel
'trigger' subsystem in #2654. The existing `script` + `wakeAgent`
gate already covers all three at $0 — this lands the patterns as
documentation so users can find them, instead of adding a second
gating mechanism to the cron subsystem.
Adds one reserved token to the cron `deliver` field:
- `all` — expand to every platform with a configured home channel
Resolves at fire time, not create time, so a job created before Telegram
was wired up picks it up once `TELEGRAM_HOME_CHANNEL` is set. Composes
with existing targets: `origin,all`, `all,telegram:-100:17`.
Inspired by Vellum Assistant's reminder routing-intent system.
## Changes
- cron/scheduler.py: _expand_routing_tokens + integrate into _resolve_delivery_targets
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: schema description updated
- tests/cron/test_scheduler.py: TestRoutingIntents (5 cases)
- website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md: docs + table rows
## Validation
- tests/cron/test_scheduler.py -k 'Routing or Deliver' → 57 passed
The shipped no-agent docs introduced the feature via CLI first and
mentioned the chat path as a two-line afterthought. That buries the
actual value prop: the cronjob tool exposes no_agent directly to the
agent, so a user can describe a watchdog in plain language and Hermes
wires up the script + schedule + delivery without anyone opening an
editor.
Changes:
* cron-script-only.md: promote 'Create One from Chat' above
'Create One from the CLI', flesh it out with a worked transcript
(the actual tool calls the agent makes), add subsections covering
'what the agent decides for you' (when to pick no_agent=True vs
LLM mode) and 'managing watchdogs from chat' (pause/resume/edit/
remove all agent-accessible).
* user-guide/features/cron.md:
- Add 'no-agent mode' to the top-level feature list with a cross-
link, plus a sentence up top making it clear everything is
agent-accessible through the cronjob tool.
- Add 'The agent sets these up for you' subsection to the no-agent
section showing the exact tool call shape.
* automate-with-cron.md: tighten the existing tip box to mention the
agent-driven path, not just CLI scheduling.
No behavior change — docs only.
* feat(cron): add no_agent mode for script-only cron jobs (watchdog pattern)
Adds a no_agent=True option to the cronjob system. When enabled, the
scheduler runs the attached script on schedule and delivers its stdout
directly to the job's target — no LLM, no agent loop, no token spend.
This is the classic bash-watchdog pattern (memory alert every 5 min,
disk alert every 15 min, CI ping) reimplemented as a first-class Hermes
primitive instead of a systemd timer + curl + bot token triplet living
outside the system.
## What
hermes cron create "every 5m" \
--no-agent \
--script memory-watchdog.sh \
--deliver telegram \
--name memory-watchdog
Agent tool:
cronjob(action='create',
schedule='every 5m',
script='memory-watchdog.sh',
no_agent=True,
deliver='telegram')
Semantics:
- Script stdout (trimmed) → delivered verbatim as the message
- Empty stdout → silent tick (no delivery; watchdog pattern)
- wakeAgent=false gate → silent tick (same gate LLM jobs use)
- Non-zero exit/timeout → delivered as an error alert
(broken watchdogs shouldn't fail silently)
- No LLM ever invoked; no tokens spent; no provider fallback applied
## Implementation
cron/jobs.py
* create_job gains no_agent: bool = False
* prompt becomes Optional (no_agent jobs don't need one)
* Validation: no_agent=True requires a script at create time
* Field roundtrips via load_jobs / save_jobs / update_job
cron/scheduler.py
* run_job: new short-circuit branch at the top that runs the script,
wraps its output into the (success, doc, final_response, error)
tuple downstream delivery already expects, and returns before any
AIAgent import or construction
* _run_job_script: picks interpreter by extension — .sh/.bash run
under /bin/bash, anything else under sys.executable (Python).
Shell support unlocks the bash-watchdog pattern without wrapping
scripts in Python. Extension is explicit; we deliberately do NOT
trust the file's own shebang. Path-containment guard (scripts dir)
unchanged.
tools/cronjob_tools.py
* Schema: new no_agent boolean property with clear trigger guidance
* cronjob() accepts no_agent and validates mode-specific shape:
- no_agent=True requires script; prompt/skills optional
- no_agent=False keeps the existing 'prompt or skill required' rule
* update path rejects flipping no_agent=True on a job without a script
* _format_job surfaces no_agent in list output
* Handler lambda forwards no_agent from tool args
hermes_cli/main.py, hermes_cli/cron.py
* 'hermes cron create --no-agent' and edit's --no-agent / --agent
pair for toggling at CLI parity with the agent tool
* Existing --script help text updated to describe both modes
* List / create / edit output now shows 'Mode: no-agent (...)' when set
## Tests
tests/cron/test_cron_no_agent.py — 18 tests covering:
* create_job: no_agent shape, validation, field persistence
* update_job: flag roundtrip across reload
* cronjob tool: schema validation, update toggling, mode-specific
requirements, prompt-relaxation rule
* run_job short-circuit:
- success path delivers stdout verbatim
- empty stdout → SILENT_MARKER (no delivery downstream)
- wakeAgent=false gate → silent
- script failure → error alert
- run_job does NOT import AIAgent (verified via mock)
* _run_job_script:
- .sh executes via bash (no shebang required)
- .bash executes via bash
- .py still runs via sys.executable (regression)
- path-traversal still blocked (security regression)
All 18 new tests pass. 341/342 pre-existing cron tests still pass; the
one failure (test_script_empty_output_noted) was already broken on main
and is unrelated to this change.
## Docs
website/docs/guides/cron-script-only.md — new dedicated guide covering
the watchdog pattern, interpreter rules, delivery mapping, worked
examples (memory / disk alerts), and the comparison table vs hermes send,
regular LLM cron jobs, and OS-level cron.
website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md — new 'No-agent mode' section
in the cron feature reference, cross-linked to the guide.
website/docs/guides/automate-with-cron.md — new tip box pointing users
to no-agent mode when they don't need LLM reasoning.
## Compatibility
- Existing jobs: unchanged. no_agent defaults to False, existing code
paths untouched until the flag is set.
- Schema additive only; older jobs.json without the field load fine
via .get() with False default.
- New CLI flags are opt-in and don't alter existing flag behavior.
* fix(cron): lazy-import AIAgent + SessionDB so no_agent ticks pay zero
The unconditional `from run_agent import AIAgent` + SessionDB() init at
the top of run_job() meant every no_agent tick still paid the full agent
module load cost (~300ms + transitive imports + DB open) even though it
never touched any of that machinery.
Move both to live under the default (LLM) path, after the no_agent
short-circuit has returned. Now a no_agent tick's sys.modules stays
clean — verified end-to-end:
assert 'run_agent' not in sys.modules # before
run_job(no_agent_job)
assert 'run_agent' not in sys.modules # after
The existing mock-based unit test (test_run_job_no_agent_never_invokes_aiagent)
kept passing because patch() replaces the class AFTER import; the leak
was only visible via real subprocess-style verification. End-to-end
demo confirmed: agent calls cronjob(no_agent=True) → script runs →
stdout delivered → no LLM machinery loaded.
* docs(cron): tighten no_agent tool schema — defaults, silent semantics, pick rule
Previous description buried the important bits in one long sentence.
Agents could plausibly miss three things an LLM-facing schema should
make unmissable:
1. What the default is — now first sentence + JSON Schema `default: false`
2. What 'silent run' actually means for the user — now spelled out:
'nothing is sent to the user and they won't see anything happened'
3. When to pick True vs False — now a concrete decision rule with
examples on both sides (watchdogs/metrics/pollers → True;
summarize/draft/pick/rephrase → False)
Also adds explicit 'prompt and skills are ignored when True' since the
agent could otherwise still pass them out of habit.
No behavior change — schema text only.
Broad drift audit against origin/main (b52b63396).
Reference pages (most user-visible drift):
- slash-commands: add /busy, /curator, /footer, /indicator, /redraw, /steer
that were missing; drop non-existent /terminal-setup; fix /q footnote
(resolves to /queue, not /quit); extend CLI-only list with all 24
CLI-only commands in the registry
- cli-commands: add dedicated sections for hermes curator / fallback /
hooks (new subcommands not previously documented); remove stale
hermes honcho standalone section (the plugin registers dynamically
via hermes memory); list curator/fallback/hooks in top-level table;
fix completion to include fish
- toolsets-reference: document the real 52-toolset count; split browser
vs browser-cdp; add discord / discord_admin / spotify / yuanbao;
correct hermes-cli tool count from 36 to 38; fix misleading claim
that hermes-homeassistant adds tools (it's identical to hermes-cli)
- tools-reference: bump tool count 55 -> 68; add 7 Spotify, 5 Yuanbao,
2 Discord toolsets; move browser_cdp/browser_dialog to their own
browser-cdp toolset section
- environment-variables: add 40+ user-facing HERMES_* vars that were
undocumented (--yolo, --accept-hooks, --ignore-*, inference model
override, agent/stream/checkpoint timeouts, OAuth trace, per-platform
batch tuning for Telegram/Discord/Matrix/Feishu/WeCom, cron knobs,
gateway restart/connect timeouts); dedupe the Cron Scheduler section;
replace stale QQ_SANDBOX with QQ_PORTAL_HOST
User-guide (top level):
- cli.md: compression preserves last 20 turns, not 4 (protect_last_n: 20)
- configuration.md: display.platforms is the canonical per-platform
override key; tool_progress_overrides is deprecated and auto-migrated
- profiles.md: model.default is the config key, not model.model
- sessions.md: CLI/TUI session IDs use 6-char hex, gateway uses 8
- checkpoints-and-rollback.md: destructive-command list now matches
_DESTRUCTIVE_PATTERNS (adds rmdir, cp, install, dd)
- docker.md: the container runs as non-root hermes (UID 10000) via
gosu; fix install command (uv pip); add missing --insecure on the
dashboard compose example (required for non-loopback bind)
- security.md: systemctl danger pattern also matches 'restart'
- index.md: built-in tool count 47 -> 68
- integrations/index.md: 6 STT providers, 8 memory providers
- integrations/providers.md: drop fictional dashscope/qwen aliases
Features:
- overview.md: 9 image models (not 8), 9 TTS providers (not 5),
8 memory providers (Supermemory was missing)
- tool-gateway.md: 9 image models
- tools.md: extend common-toolsets list with search / messaging /
spotify / discord / debugging / safe
- fallback-providers.md: add 6 real providers from PROVIDER_REGISTRY
(lmstudio, kimi-coding-cn, stepfun, alibaba-coding-plan,
tencent-tokenhub, azure-foundry)
- plugins.md: Available Hooks table now includes on_session_finalize,
on_session_reset, subagent_stop
- built-in-plugins.md: add the 7 bundled plugins the page didn't
mention (spotify, google_meet, three image_gen providers, two
dashboard examples)
- web-dashboard.md: add --insecure and --tui flags
- cron.md: hermes cron create takes positional schedule/prompt, not
flags
Messaging:
- telegram.md: TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET is now REQUIRED when
TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_URL is set (gateway refuses to start without it
per GHSA-3vpc-7q5r-276h). Biggest user-visible drift in the batch.
- discord.md: HERMES_DISCORD_TEXT_BATCH_SPLIT_DELAY_SECONDS default
is 2.0, not 0.1
- dingtalk.md: document DINGTALK_REQUIRE_MENTION /
FREE_RESPONSE_CHATS / MENTION_PATTERNS / HOME_CHANNEL /
ALLOW_ALL_USERS that the adapter supports
- bluebubbles.md: drop fictional BLUEBUBBLES_SEND_READ_RECEIPTS env
var; the setting lives in platforms.bluebubbles.extra only
- qqbot.md: drop dead QQ_SANDBOX; add real QQ_PORTAL_HOST and
QQ_GROUP_ALLOWED_USERS
- wecom-callback.md: replace 'hermes gateway start' (service-only)
with 'hermes gateway' for first-time setup
Developer-guide:
- architecture.md: refresh tool/toolset counts (61/52), terminal
backend count (7), line counts for run_agent.py (~13.7k), cli.py
(~11.5k), main.py (~10.4k), setup.py (~3.5k), gateway/run.py
(~12.2k), mcp_tool.py (~3.1k); add yuanbao adapter, bump platform
adapter count 18 -> 20
- agent-loop.md: run_agent.py line count 10.7k -> 13.7k
- tools-runtime.md: add vercel_sandbox backend
- adding-tools.md: remove stale 'Discovery import added to
model_tools.py' checklist item (registry auto-discovery)
- adding-platform-adapters.md: mark send_typing / get_chat_info as
concrete base methods; only connect/disconnect/send are abstract
- acp-internals.md: ACP sessions now persist to SessionDB
(~/.hermes/state.db); acp.run_agent call uses
use_unstable_protocol=True
- cron-internals.md: gateway runs scheduler in a dedicated background
thread via _start_cron_ticker, not on a maintenance cycle; locking
is cross-process via fcntl.flock (Unix) / msvcrt.locking (Windows)
- gateway-internals.md: gateway/run.py ~12k lines
- provider-runtime.md: cron DOES support fallback (run_job reads
fallback_providers from config)
- session-storage.md: SCHEMA_VERSION = 11 (not 9); add migrations
10 and 11 (trigram FTS, inline-mode FTS5 re-index); add
api_call_count column to Sessions DDL; document messages_fts_trigram
and state_meta in the architecture tree
- context-compression-and-caching.md: remove the obsolete 'context
pressure warnings' section (warnings were removed for causing
models to give up early)
- context-engine-plugin.md: compress() signature now includes
focus_topic param
- extending-the-cli.md: _build_tui_layout_children signature now
includes model_picker_widget; add to default layout
Also fixed three pre-existing broken links/anchors the build warned
about (docker.md -> api-server.md, yuanbao.md -> cron-jobs.md and
tips#background-tasks, nix-setup.md -> #container-aware-cli).
Regenerated per-skill pages via website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py
so catalog tables and sidebar are consistent with current SKILL.md
frontmatter.
docusaurus build: clean, no broken links or anchors.
Cron jobs can now specify a per-job working directory. When set, the job
runs as if launched from that directory: AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md /
.cursorrules from that dir are injected into the system prompt, and the
terminal / file / code-exec tools use it as their cwd (via TERMINAL_CWD).
When unset, old behaviour is preserved (no project context files, tools
use the scheduler's cwd).
Requested by @bluthcy.
## Mechanism
- cron/jobs.py: create_job / update_job accept 'workdir'; validated to
be an absolute existing directory at create/update time.
- cron/scheduler.py run_job: if job.workdir is set, point TERMINAL_CWD
at it and flip skip_context_files to False before building the agent.
Restored in finally on every exit path.
- cron/scheduler.py tick: workdir jobs run sequentially (outside the
thread pool) because TERMINAL_CWD is process-global. Workdir-less jobs
still run in the parallel pool unchanged.
- tools/cronjob_tools.py + hermes_cli/cron.py + hermes_cli/main.py:
expose 'workdir' via the cronjob tool and 'hermes cron create/edit
--workdir ...'. Empty string on edit clears the field.
## Validation
- tests/cron/test_cron_workdir.py (21 tests): normalize, create, update,
JSON round-trip via cronjob tool, tick partition (workdir jobs run on
the main thread, not the pool), run_job env toggle + restore in finally.
- Full targeted suite (tests/cron/, test_cronjob_tools.py, test_cron.py,
test_config_cwd_bridge.py, test_worktree.py): 314/314 passed.
- Live smoke: hermes cron create --workdir $(pwd) works; relative path
rejected; list shows 'Workdir:'; edit --workdir '' clears.
find-nearby and the (new) maps optional skill both used OpenStreetMap's
Overpass + Nominatim to answer the same question — 'what's near this
location?' — so shipping both would be duplicate code for overlapping
capability. Consolidate into one active-by-default skill at
skills/productivity/maps/ that is a strict superset of find-nearby.
Moves + deletions:
- optional-skills/productivity/maps/ → skills/productivity/maps/ (active,
no install step needed)
- skills/leisure/find-nearby/ → DELETED (fully superseded)
Upgrades to maps_client.py so it covers everything find-nearby did:
- Overpass server failover — tries overpass-api.de then
overpass.kumi.systems so a single-mirror outage doesn't break the skill
(new overpass_query helper, used by both nearby and bbox)
- nearby now accepts --near "<address>" as a shortcut that auto-geocodes,
so one command replaces the old 'search → copy coords → nearby' chain
- nearby now accepts --category (repeatable) for multi-type queries in
one call (e.g. --category restaurant --category bar), results merged
and deduped by (osm_type, osm_id), sorted by distance, capped at --limit
- Each nearby result now includes maps_url (clickable Google Maps search
link) and directions_url (Google Maps directions from the search point
— only when a ref point is known)
- Promoted commonly-useful OSM tags to top-level fields on each result:
cuisine, hours (opening_hours), phone, website — instead of forcing
callers to dig into the raw tags dict
SKILL.md:
- Version bumped 1.1.0 → 1.2.0, description rewritten to lead with
capability surface
- New 'Working With Telegram Location Pins' section replacing
find-nearby's equivalent workflow
- metadata.hermes.supersedes: [find-nearby] so tooling can flag any
lingering references to the old skill
External references updated:
- optional-skills/productivity/telephony/SKILL.md — related_skills
find-nearby → maps
- website/docs/reference/skills-catalog.md — removed the (now-empty)
'leisure' section, added 'maps' row under productivity
- website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md — find-nearby example
usages swapped to maps
- tests/tools/test_cronjob_tools.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_cron.py,
tests/cron/test_scheduler.py — fixture string values swapped
- cli.py:5290 — /cron help-hint example swapped
Not touched:
- RELEASE_v0.2.0.md — historical record, left intact
E2E-verified live (Nominatim + Overpass, one query each):
- nearby --near "Times Square" --category restaurant --category bar → 3 results,
sorted by distance, all with maps_url, directions_url, cuisine, phone, website
where OSM had the tags
All 111 targeted tests pass across tests/cron/, tests/tools/, tests/hermes_cli/.
Jack Lau