gnome-shell moves a launched ShellApp from STARTING to STOPPED when the
startup-notification sequence completes or times out (mutter, ~15 s), not
when the process exits. finish() healing right after an exit-without-reveal
(boot crash, early quit) therefore wrote the entry during STARTING — the
exact #111906 arming condition. Only the reveal byte from Electron heals
now; the wake byte finish() writes just unblocks the reader. A skipped heal
is picked up by the next terminal/updater launch or revealed grid launch.
- cmd_gui with DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID: the entry is installed only after the fake Electron
writes the reveal byte to HERMES_DESKTOP_READY_FD (spawn precedes install).
- cmd_gui without DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID (control): install still precedes the spawn.
- DeferredDesktopEntryInstall.finish(): an app that exits without revealing heals
exactly once, after the exit.
- linux-launcher-ready: one byte, fd closed, variable consumed; garbage/absent = no-op.
Docs: user-guide/desktop.md explains when the entry write happens for grid launches.
Only names in OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS / _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS and the platform *_HOME_CHANNEL /
*_ALLOWED_USERS suffix family route to .env; other documented ALL-CAPS names still land in
config.yaml as top-level scalars with a notice. Say so instead of 'every documented
environment variable' (#111848 stays open for the remaining names).
`hermes config set gateway.discord.gateway_restart_notification true` wrote the
typo into config.yaml and only then printed the "not a recognized config key — it
was saved anyway" notice (#112003). Under a KNOWN section an unknown sub-key can
only be a typo, so `set_config_value` now exits non-zero via `_exit_invalid`
before reading or writing config.yaml, with the did-you-mean hint.
Scope preserved from ed3a0b3 (warn-after-write): unknown TOP-LEVEL keys are
still written with the post-write notice, because top-level scalars are bridged
into os.environ for skills/external apps and that namespace is open by design;
the `_OPEN_SUBKEY_TOP_LEVEL_KEYS` / platform-container exemptions in
`_validate_config_key` are untouched, and `--force` keeps writing anything. This
is the fail-fast piece the maintainer scoped in the close comment on #111133.
`_validate_config_key` also suggests the path minus its wrong prefix
(`gateway.discord.x` -> `discord.x`) when no same-level sibling is close; the
headline typo previously produced no hint at all.
Docs: cli-commands.md `set`/`unset` rows, configuration.md tip, `--force` help.
Co-authored-by: KoNit-K <124019182+KoNit-K@users.noreply.github.com>
`hermes config set FEISHU_HOME_CHANNEL oc_x` wrote the top level of config.yaml
while the platform setup flows and /sethome write the same name to .env via
save_env_value, so two writers fed two readers: the gateway bridges the yaml copy
into the environment only when .env lacks the name, one-shot CLI readers never
bridge, and the two copies diverged silently (#111848). Only credential-shaped
names were routed to .env because `_is_env_config_key` is the provider-credential
predicate.
Follow-up to KoNit-K's cherry-picked fix (#111850), which routed the
`setup_hidden_env` suffix family: the predicate now lives in the topical sibling
`hermes_cli/config_env_routing.py` and covers every bare name Hermes itself
registers as an environment variable (OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS, _EXTRA_ENV_KEYS — "env
var names written to .env" — plus the setup-hidden suffixes for plugin adapters
nobody enumerated), so `*_ALLOWED_USERS`, `WHATSAPP_MODE`, `MATRIX_PASSWORD` and
the rest of the adapter-saved family take the same file. `set` and `unset` also
drop a stale same-named top-level config.yaml copy so the reporter's drift cannot
come back, and `get` resolves .env first then that copy — the gateway's own read
order. Provider credentials keep the credential_lifecycle rotation path.
Docs: environment-variables.md tip, hermes_cli/AGENTS.md config rule.
`hermes doctor` printed the same informational "WAL journal mode" line for a database
that is still WAL although the operator configured `database.journal_mode: delete`. The
runtime never live-downgrades an existing WAL database (a downgrade under open
connections corrupts it) and says so only once per process in the gateway log, so the
one surface operators check told them they were protected when every process was still
writing WAL on the filesystem they configured `delete` for (#111729).
Doctor now compares the configured mode (`resolve_journal_mode`) with the on-disk header
and warns `<db> is in WAL mode despite database.journal_mode=delete`, naming the
never-live-downgraded rule and the one-time offline `PRAGMA journal_mode=DELETE`
remedy; a vulnerable SQLite still counts the database as WAL-reset exposed. This check
outranks the cross-VM hint (whose remedy, "set journal_mode: delete", is already
applied). A configured `wal` is unchanged.
Core hunk ported from #104714 (@jonpol01); its holder enumeration
(`foreign_state_db_holders(include_scan_gaps=True)` + per-PID report) is not included
here — that half is a 600-line change under separate review.
`hermes -p <profile> setup gateway` (and `hermes setup` / `hermes import`) reach the
service step through `ensure_gateway_service`, which only knew "is THIS profile's
unit running" — a satellite served by the default multiplexer has no unit of its
own, so the step printed "Installing the gateway background service ..." and
registered a launchd plist / systemd unit that the #97120 start guard then refused,
leaving a stray dead service the user had to find and remove by hand (#111958).
Route both setup surfaces through one shared predicate: `_served_profile_needs_no_service`
wraps `named_profile_served_by_running_multiplexer` (the same probe `profile create`,
cron liveness and the run/start/install guards use), prints the "already served"
note and returns True so `ensure_gateway_service` and the `hermes gateway setup`
wizard (#111962's hunk) skip the install. Default profile and non-multiplex hosts
are unchanged.
Adds the invariant for the `ensure_gateway_service` path (served → no install,
unserved → still installs). Docs: multi-profile-gateways.md names the skipped step.
Co-authored-by: kvnloo <7121943+kvnloo@users.noreply.github.com>
`hermes worktree prune` (and the startup/cron pruner) classified every clean tree in a
repository with no remote as "clean and fully merged/pushed" and force-deleted its branch,
even when the branch carried commits that exist nowhere else. `audit_branches` returned []
in the same repos, so a unique local-only branch was invisible to the audit as well.
Root cause: `_worktree_has_unpushed_commits` answered False when `refs/remotes` was empty
("nothing to be unpushed against") and both consumers — `worktree_gc._classify_tree` and
`worktree_ops._classify_prune_candidates` — read False as "safe to reap".
The preceding commit (#111897) flips that branch to True, which is safe but also means a
no-remote repo can never reclaim anything (a tree sitting at trunk, or squash-merged into
it, stays "unpushed" forever because `_worktree_commits_all_merged_upstream` finds no
origin/* base). This commit replaces the unconditional True with a real baseline:
- `_worktree_local_trunk`: `main`/`master`, else the branch checked out in the main
worktree; None when no trunk exists.
- `_worktree_merge_base_ref`: origin/HEAD|origin/main|origin/master, falling back to the
local trunk ONLY when the repo has no remote-tracking refs at all. Single resolver used
by `_worktree_commits_all_merged_upstream` and `worktree_gc.audit_branches`.
- `_worktree_has_unpushed_commits`: with no remote refs, `git log HEAD --not <trunk>`;
no trunk -> True (preserve), matching the docstring's fail-safe promise.
Net effect in a no-remote repo: unique work is kept ("unpushed commits not found
upstream"), trees at/merged into the local trunk still reap, branch audit reports unique
branches as keep and merged ones as delete, and `git branch -D` can only run on a branch
whose every commit is reachable from or patch-equivalent to the trunk.
Tests: the salvaged no-remote keep test now uses a shared `local_repo` fixture; a control
test proves trunk-merged trees still reclaim and the branch audit reports in the same
repo; `test_merged_predicate_fails_safe_without_upstream` now pins both halves of the
contract (trunk resolves -> merged; no trunk at all -> False/preserve).
Trim the three contributor tests from #101340 to two invariants: the
root-only ignore test now also asserts that a named profile used as
source keeps its own models/ (the exclusion is gated on the default
root), and the end-to-end create_profile(clone_all=True) test stays.
Same assertions, two tests — the salvage bar.
Docs: profile-commands.md and profiles.md list models/, runtimes/ and
node/ among the --clone-all exclusions so users know why a clone from
the default profile does not carry the local-model weights.
Collapse the five contributor tests from #101345 into two: one for the
error class (unloadable IANA name, non-string value) and one for the
silent class (valid, blank, missing, None, and no tz database at all).
Same coverage, half the surface — the salvage bar is two invariant tests
per fix.
Docs: the `timezone` section now says `hermes doctor` reports a value the
runtime cannot load, so users know where the typo surfaces.
`hermes sessions list` applied --limit inside the SQL query and rendered
whatever came back, so a user with 35 sessions saw 20 rows and a prompt
and had no way to tell the page was cut. The lister now asks for one row
past the cap, drops that probe row, and ends a truncated page with
"… more not shown (use --limit N to see more)". `--limit 0` is LIMIT 0
(no rows), so the copy never suggests it.
The footer goes through one shared helper, `cli_output.print_truncated`,
and the three "... N more" / "… N more" / "… and N more" variants already
in sessions_cmd.py (export dry-run preview, never-active cleanup, prune/
archive preview) now use it too, so every capped listing in the command
reads the same. Migrating checkpoints / curator / skills search / console
listers is follow-up work.
Co-authored-by: KoNit-K <124019182+KoNit-K@users.noreply.github.com>
Replace the three monkeypatch-heavy tests from the salvaged commit (which
faked clear_legacy's return dict, so they could not catch the manager hunk
regressing) with two invariant tests that drive the real cmd_clear_legacy
against a temp checkpoint base: an undeletable legacy-* dir yields exit 2
plus the "Could not delete" line while the archive stays on disk; a clean
sweep keeps exit 0 and the unchanged success line. The green-path guard is
harvested from #111789.
Reword the CLI failure line to "Could not delete N archive(s) (see logs)."
so it matches the manager's WARNING wording and the text proposed in
#111776, and document the exit code in the CLI reference.
Co-authored-by: KoNit-K <124019182+KoNit-K@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Khlopkov <47825603+kokhlo@users.noreply.github.com>
When every row create of a turn loses to the SQLite lock, the queued token delta's
"ensure the row exists" guard becomes the session's first writer and minted the row as
source='unknown'. That placeholder was permanent on the real path even with the upsert
repair from #112045: the turn lease (turn_facade_lease.admit_durable_turn) treats an existing
row as proof the create already happened and sets _session_db_created, so the creator never
returns to repair it. Live probe: a platform="desktop" AIAgent whose create_session raised
"database is locked" for the whole first turn ended with a source='unknown' row on base AND
on the contributor head; with this change the row is minted 'desktop' by the guard itself.
Producer fix: update_token_counts gains an optional source= that the two agent call sites
(agent/turn_usage.py, agent/codex_runtime.py) fill from _session_source_for_agent(platform),
the same value _ensure_db_session would stamp. record_auxiliary_usage has no surface and
keeps the placeholder, which the creator's upsert now repairs.
Salvage trims: the contributor's SimpleNamespace dispatch test is replaced by a real-AIAgent
invariant test under tests/agent/ (the dispatch hunk in _run_prompt_submit is kept; the
INSERT-OR-IGNORE is idempotent under prompt.submit's own persist); narration comments cut
to the WHY; docs list 'unknown' among the startup-sweep sources.
Refs #111999
Follow-up to the cherry-picked #111876 (@KoNit-K), which shares the design
of the earlier #111875 by the issue author (@ats3v): emit DeepInfra's
top-level ``reasoning_effort`` from the provider profile, ungated on
``supports_reasoning``, ``none`` as the only off switch, ``xhigh`` native,
``ultra`` clamped to ``max`` via the shared vocabulary, unset/unknown omitted.
- drop the constructor/blank-line reformat churn (byte-identical to main)
- replace the 14-case test file with two invariant tests: the profile's
config -> top-level field table, and the transport main-turn path with
``supports_reasoning=False`` (the gate the core allowlist actually passes)
- docs: DeepInfra subsection in integrations/providers.md describing the
two-directional reasoning control
Offline kwargs probe: before every reasoning_config -> ({}, {}) and the
main turn carried no reasoning field; after ``high`` -> ``reasoning_effort:
high``, ``{'enabled': False}`` -> ``none``, ``ultra`` -> ``max``, unset and
unknown levels omitted, aux calls stop emitting the generic
``extra_body.reasoning`` for this provider.
Co-authored-by: Georgi Atsev <georgi@deepinfra.com>
The turn-end file-mutation verifier only sees write_file/patch receipts. It
asserted "N file(s) were NOT modified this turn" whenever a call had failed,
which is wrong when the file was in fact changed afterwards through a path
that leaves no receipt (terminal redirect, execute_code) or when the
successful retry used another spelling of the same path (relative vs
absolute, separator/case variants on Windows): the state dict was keyed on
the model's raw `path` argument, so the pop never matched.
- Header now says what the recorder knows: "N file edit(s) FAILED this turn",
and asks the user to confirm what actually landed.
- Failure entries carry the task-resolved, normcase'd on-disk identity plus a
(mtime_ns, size) snapshot; a later success clears every entry with the same
identity regardless of spelling.
- At turn end `_file_mutations_still_failed` re-stats each target and drops
entries whose file changed since the failed call, so a receipt-less
mutation no longer produces a false footer.
- `tool_executor` passes the effective task id so relative paths resolve the
way the file tools resolved them.
Kept the deliberate first-error-per-path semantics (the pinned test says why);
did not add an "unverified" bucket for receipt-less non-error results, since
the built-in tools always return a receipt on success and it would only add
noise.
Co-authored-by: KoNit. <124019182+KoNit-K@users.noreply.github.com>
An interrupted turn left `finalize_turn` with a diagnostic `final_response`
("Operation interrupted: waiting for model response") and no failure, so the
result said `completed=True` — the only producer that did; `turn_recovery`
and `codex_runtime` already return `completed=False` for an interrupt and the
gateway stream gate documents that contract. `completed` now also requires
`not interrupted`.
The API server then hard-coded the terminal status: the session chat stream
emitted `assistant.completed {completed: true, interrupted: false}` and
`run.completed` for every turn that did not raise, and `/v1/runs` booked any
non-`failed` result as `completed` — including an interrupt that did not come
through `/stop` and a turn that ran out of iteration budget. Automation that
reads the run status or the terminal event saw unfinished work as delivered,
and `partial: true` could sit next to `completed: true` in one payload.
`api_server_runs.terminal_run_status()` is now the single mapping for both
surfaces: interrupted -> `cancelled`, failed/partial/`completed=False` ->
`failed` (with `turn_exit_reason` and the fallback text as `output`),
otherwise `completed`; the terminal event is always `run.<status>` and a
late `pending_steer` rides on every terminal status instead of only on
`completed`.
CLI exit codes (`-q` quiet mode, `-z` one-shot) are deliberately unchanged
here: `hermes -z` returning 0 whenever text was produced was a stated design
choice (093f567f0d) and scripts depend on it, so that flip needs a
maintainer decision.
Fixes the gateway/producer half of #111770; slimmer redo of #111785 by
@KoNit-K (same mapping idea, one helper instead of three ladders).
Co-authored-by: KoNit-K <124019182+KoNit-K@users.noreply.github.com>
Follow-up to the two salvaged commits (#111777, #111781 by @KoNit-K):
- agent/prompt_builder.py::_truncate_content — with queue_warning=False the
logged line no longer tells the operator to "pin a larger
context_file_max_chars, or use a larger-context model": the subdirectory
hint cap is a constant neither knob raises. It now points at the read_file
recovery the marker already discloses.
- tests/gateway/test_startup_environment_probe.py — replace the
call-detection test with the behavioural invariant: an oversized SOUL.md in
HERMES_HOME and a warm-up leave the truncation-warning queue empty for the
next default-executor task (the api_server turn path runs on that executor
without copy_context, which is how the boot warning reached a foreign
session).
- tests/agent/test_subdirectory_hints.py — fold the new drain assertion into
the existing oversized-hint test (same fixture) and pin that the log carries
no context_file_max_chars advice.
- agent/AGENTS.md, website/docs/.../context-files.md — the hint cap is 32,000
(docs said 8,000) and is fixed; document that it is logged, not surfaced as a
chat warning.
Salvage follow-up to the cherry-picked #112055 hunk (@Finn763):
- tests: fold the landed-commit control into the turn-hold-miss test and drop the
two extra end-to-end tests (sub-limit identity is already pinned by the pure
contract test) so the fix carries exactly two invariant tests.
- gateway/run_turn.py::bound_model_input_without_hygiene: drop the isinstance /
limit<=0 defences — the caller always passes the transcript list and a
_knob()-validated positive int, so the checks could never fire.
- docs: configuration.md now says hygiene_hard_message_limit also bounds the
model payload on any turn where hygiene did not land (payload-only, disk
untouched, landed summaries adopted as-is).
Co-authored-by: Noor-Sol <187156657+Noor-Sol@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Rajan <7121943+kvnloo@users.noreply.github.com>
The streaming section documented only the manual model.streaming escape
hatch; users hitting a degraded gateway need to know the session flips to
non-streaming on its own and why the warning appears.
Teknium ruled that maintainers may add batches of community plugins from a
reviewed sweep instead of waiting for each owner to submit. Rule 5 and the
user-guide checklist now say so, and give authors the explicit right to adjust
or remove a swept-in entry via their own PR.
Root AGENTS.md § Code Shape Rules replaces "module-level constants are fine — they cache after
_apply_profile_override() sets HERMES_HOME" (true for `hermes -p x <cmd>`, inverted under the
multiplex gateway and the Desktop/dashboard `serve` backend, where os.environ holds the LAUNCH
profile) with the invariant: a profile = home + secret scope + terminal scope, bound per profile
ACTIVITY, and every execution point with no turn on the stack binds it explicitly. Names the real
seams: gateway/run.py::_profile_runtime_scope, tui_gateway @_profile_scoped +
_session_profile_runtime_scope (+ _profile_runtime_scope_tokens, launch_profile_policy ->
set_multiplex_active), cron/scheduler_provider.py::_profile_cron_scope,
gateway/run_agent_cache.py::_run_release_in_profile_scope, tools/environments/local.py::
served_profile_child_env, agent/memory_provider.py::spawn_context_thread. Adds a routing-table row
for profiles / multiplex / secret scope.
Area AGENTS.md paragraphs, one per seam, for gateway/ (activity-not-turn binding, hooks per
profile, adapter YAML never reaches os.environ, unserved shared-ingress reported via
_note_unserved_secondary_platform + needs_attention at the single writer), tui_gateway/ (RPC
binding is home AND secret AND terminal; HOME-only is half-bound; teardown chokepoint), cron/
(per-home tick lock, ticker scope incl. pre-loop code, kanban notifier routing, worker liveness by
(pid, worker_started_at) fingerprint, descendant fence as a path), hermes_cli/ (DEFAULT_CONFIG
key <-> reader parity, service-install matrix, -p vs multiplex home binding), tools/ (check_fn
reads through get_secret and is cached per hermes_home_key, one env builder per spawn, MCP trust
per profile), plugins/ (lifecycle hooks are bound by the caller; never cache the home from
initialize()), apps/desktop/src/ (pooled serve per (connection, profile); remote topologies),
agent/ (end-of-session flush is caller-bound; set_multiplex_active gates fail-closed).
Corrects the statements the multiplex model made wrong, in the same PR: root module-constant
sentence; hermes_cli "sets HERMES_HOME before any import" (+ cli-internals.md);
ADDING_A_PLATFORM.md §2 raw os.getenv loader (now an _ENV_STEPS row through config.py::_getenv)
and §4 platform_env_map in gateway/run.py (now _PLATFORM_ALLOWLIST_ENV in pairing.py + registry
allowed_users_env); platform_registry.py "may set os.environ (guard with not os.getenv)";
cron/AGENTS.md hardcoded ~/.hermes/cron/.tick.lock; gateway-internals.md agent:main as THE key
format, ~/.hermes/hooks/, single-profile `gateway stop`, plus a new "Multiplexed profiles"
section; tools/AGENTS.md os.getenv check_fn sample; "installed per turn" wording; "one temp
HERMES_HOME" E2E wording; multi-profile-gateways.md intro lists system units, Windows tasks, s6
and the Desktop backend.
Symptom: `hermes update` sat for ~40s after "Refreshing cua-driver" and ended
with "Fleet version check returned no rows" (exit 1); the restarted gateway
took 26s to reach "Starting Hermes Gateway" instead of the usual 3s. The
gateway constructor was running `maybe_auto_prune_checkpoints` synchronously,
before the control socket, adapters and the code_sha stamp, and on a 1.2 GB
store its `git gc --prune=now` (a full repack) takes 20-28s — twice, because
the size-cap shrink gc'd again even when it could drop nothing.
The same defect sat on the tool-call path: `CheckpointManager._take` ran
`_enforce_size_cap`, whose `_shrink_store_to_cap` returned True without
dropping anything and triggered a 20-28s gc on the first file-mutating tool
call of every turn once the store was over the cap. That loop also re-measured
a pack size that cannot move without a gc, so a single over-cap checkpoint
dropped 20 rounds of history and flattened every project to one snapshot.
- `_take` never gcs: `_prune` and `_enforce_size_cap` rewrite refs (cheap),
drop at most one snapshot round, and mark the store `.gc-pending`.
- `prune_checkpoints` gcs only when a ref moved (project deleted, or the
pending marker), and its cap loop is drop -> gc -> re-measure.
- `maybe_auto_prune_checkpoints` claims the interval marker before the run
so a failing prune costs one day, not a gc per housekeeping tick.
- `auto_prune_from_config` is the one config-driven entry point; the gateway
calls it from the housekeeping tick (last chore), the CLI from a daemon
thread. Nothing on either startup path waits for git.
Live A/B on a copy of a real 1.2 GB / 224-ref store: checkpoint 20.5s ->
1.2-1.6s (0 inline gc); the single repack (19.6s) now runs in the prune.
Figma's authorization-server metadata advertises
authorization_response_iss_parameter_supported and its redirect omits iss,
so the mcp SDK's RFC 9207 check discarded every valid code and login never
finished. For that one issuer the provider fills a missing iss with the
discovered issuer and warns; a mismatching iss still fails and every other
server keeps the strict rule.
Fixes#111135
For people who run profiles as bots, the colored profile strip at the sidebar
foot duplicates the sessions list (community request). Add a persisted
`hermes.desktop.profileRailVisible` preference (on by default) toggled from the
Sessions view menu ("Profile rail"), the shell right-click menu, ⌘K
("Toggle profile rail") and an unbound `view.toggleProfileRail` keybind.
While the rail is hidden the statusbar grows a `ProfileSwitcher` dropdown
beside the gateway switcher ("This device ⌄ · Profiles ⌄") offering the same
choices the rail does: this gateway's profiles, All profiles, every other
gateway's agents in fleet mode, New / Import / Manage. It also answers the
`profile.create` hotkey the rail used to own, so no door is lost.
The Gateway & profile sidebar sections carried dnd-kit listeners on the lead
glyph alone, and that glyph only reveals its grabber on hover — so a press on
the row's name or empty space did nothing and users fell back to the ⋯ menu's
Move up / Move down. Bind the sortable to the whole header (same shape as a
project row), with the handle and the ⋯/caret cluster keeping their own
gestures; a sub-threshold press on the label is still the fold click.
Live: Playwright pointer drag on the header label reorders sections (before:
unchanged, after: reordered); handle-drag still works. Test drives dnd-kit's
keyboard sensor on the label and is red on the old binding.
The fault-injecting server served one-off manual rehearsal only and would
drift silently from the real services; the doc now says how to point the
desktop at any local stand-in (the three env overrides) and what such a
stand-in has to speak. The dev-only HERMES_EXTRA_WELCOME_HOSTS override stays,
pinned by a test in test_anon_failure_modes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The free tier depends on the account service (NAS) and the welcome inference
host, and Hermes had no honest answer for most of the ways either can refuse
or fail: the NAS codes it matched were never sent, the tier-dark 403 carried
no message to match, a single boot-time blip disabled minting for the whole
process, and a structured rate-limit refusal never reached the cross-session
guard, so the "sign in for a bigger allowance" prompt was dead code.
Backend
- anon_auth: classify what NAS actually sends (404 not_found, 503
temporarily_disabled, 429 + Retry-After, 428 pow_*, 403 account_locked)
into one ANON_* code each, carrying retry_after / retryable on AuthError.
- Replace the process-lifetime mint memo with a per-profile cooldown that
honours the server's wait, climbs a short ladder when the service is
unreachable, never retries terminal codes, and yields to the user's own
retry (force=True).
- Bootstrap record carries error_code / retryable / retry_after; a bounded
background loop retries transient failures and re-announces setup.ready.
setup.status and free_tier.status expose the block; free_tier.provision is
the forced retry.
- Inference: a generic 403 from a welcome host is the tier refusing (keyed on
the route); model_not_free moves onto the gateway's alternate once;
anon_on_paid_host re-reads the route once; a long rate_limited refusal
trips the cross-session guard; a locked account is retired but never
replaced; terminal copy on the free route is one plain sentence.
- Sign-in: Failed keeps the service's code and wait; account_busy is
retryable; the OAuth poll reports retryable / retry_after.
- All user-facing copy rewritten for first-time users: never "the free
service is off" (what is unavailable is using Hermes without signing in,
and signing in is free), no jargon, spoken waits.
Desktop
- A setup-failure notice above the provider picker: one sentence per code,
a retry when the backend says one can work, the sign-in pointer only when
the account service answered at all. The overlay re-checks readiness on
setup.ready so a background success dismisses it.
- Sign-in dialog gains busy / unreachable / unavailable screens.
Rehearsal
- scripts/free_tier_fault_server.py stands in for both services with the
real wire contract and a CORS-open scenario switch; HERMES_EXTRA_WELCOME_HOSTS
(dev-only, env-only) lets the route rules treat it as the welcome host.
Walkthrough in website/docs/developer-guide/free-tier-fault-rehearsal.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to the salvaged #110786 commit:
- `_is_bot_mode_session` mirrors the system-prompt gate (`agent._session_title_hint`
first, then the live DB title) instead of reading `pending_title`/`title` off the
session dict: `pending_title` is cleared after turn 1 and the record never carries
`title`, so the contributor's gate matched only the very first Bot Chat turn.
- `tools/bot_mode_dm.py::_run_local_turn` (the `hermes -p X chat -c "Bot Chat" -Q`
transport behind `message_agent` when no live owner holds the target) re-emits ""
for a successful bare marker — the third delivery path of the same class.
- Tests trimmed to one invariant per surface (live completion, relay RPC, one-shot
transport), each proven red on origin/main sources.
- Bot Mode docs gain a "Staying silent" line pointing at the shared token list.
The flat-install block only ignored the bare cron/executions.db. All three
cron stores (executions, deliveries, notepad) are opened through
sqlite_util.open_db in WAL mode, so executions.db-wal/-shm exist whenever
the scheduler is live, and deliveries.db / notepad.db were not ignored at
all. `git stash push --include-untracked` therefore still unlinked the
live WAL/SHM and the whole deliveries/notepad stores under the running
gateway - the same mechanism this PR closes for the root state.db.
Switch the cron entries to the by-class shape already used at the root
(/cron/*.db plus -wal/-shm/-journal/retired-wal sidecars) and also ignore
the cron lock/heartbeat/output files and the per-launch root markers
(.update_check, gateway-starts.log, .clean_shutdown, active_profile,
.hermes_history, slack_tokens.json) that otherwise force every update
into the stash step. `git ls-files -i -c --exclude-standard` is unchanged
(no tracked file newly hidden). The test's FLAT_INSTALL_RUNTIME_STATE
gains one representative per new class; red before, green after.
Review finding: cron/executions.db-wal, cron/deliveries.db and cron/notepad.db were unignored and swept by the flat-install autostash.
`backups/` is where the pre-update snapshot the updater restores a swept
state.db FROM lives — leaving it unignored means the recovery copy is
swept together with the live database. `vault.key`/`vault.json.enc` are
the local secret vault.
Docs: website/docs/getting-started/updating.md explains that on a flat
install (checkout root == $HERMES_HOME) runtime state is git-ignored and
never enters the autostash.
create_task(parents=[open parent]) — the reporter's actual incident path —
parked the card in todo with only a `created` event, and kanban_create's
payload carried no `gated`, so the board still showed an unexplained todo
while only the link surface was fixed. create_task now appends the same
dependency_wait {reason: parent_not_done, parent} event and kanban_create
returns gated/gated_by, mirroring kanban_link.
link_tasks gated on `status != 'done'`, but _parents_satisfied and
recompute_ready treat `archived` as terminal: linking a ready child under an
archived parent demoted it to todo with a false parent_not_done event and the
next recompute promoted it straight back. Gate on not in ('done','archived').
Review finding: create_task(parents=...) emitted no dependency_wait/gated; link under an archived parent flapped ready->todo->ready with a false reason.
The dashboard's POST /links is the fourth writer of link_tasks (CLI, tool,
dashboard, plus the graph builder); return the same ``gated`` flag so every
surface that can create the deadlock can see it. Document the
``dependency_wait`` payload the link path emits and the delegation rule the
reporter derived (never link a support card under the card it unblocks).
Drops the CLI output test (a change-detector on prose); the two DB-level
invariants (event emitted on demotion / none for a done parent) stay.
A ready child linked under an unfinished parent drops to todo with no
event and no operator signal; the only trace used to be claim_rejected
after a forced promote. Record a dependency_wait event when the demotion
fires, return the gate from link_tasks, warn in the CLI link command,
report gated in the kanban_link tool, and document the gate.
The per-root merge in _copy_dist_payload treated the first level under
skills/ as the replace unit, but skills live at skills/<category>/<skill>.
A distribution shipping one skill inside a category rmtree'd the whole
category directory, wiping every skill the user (or hermes update) had
placed there — the exact scenario of issue #25120 that this PR claims to
fix. A shipped directory with no files of its own is now a container:
its children are merged one level down, and the replace unit becomes the
nearest directory that holds a file (a skill dir always holds SKILL.md).
A symlinked category (skills/devops -> shared dir) is a container too,
so the pre-write symlink check now covers it instead of silently
unlinking the link and dropping the shipped copy in its place.
Review finding: categorised skill payload rmtree'd skills/<category>/,
destroying sibling user and bundled skills; symlinked category was
unlinked rather than refused.
The user guide, command reference, `hermes profile update --help` and the
install-over-plain-profile warning all said skills/ and cron/ are overwritten
wholesale; they are now merged per skill / cron job, so say so, and document the
symlinked-container refusal.
_BLOCKED_PROJECT_ENV_BASENAMES is consulted only by get_read_block_error;
project .env / .env.local / .envrc are read-denied but writable on both main
and this branch, so the write-safety table row saying "anywhere on disk" was
wrong. Denying writes would stop the agent from creating .env files for the
user, so the doc is corrected rather than the behaviour changed.
Review finding: security.md write-safety table listed project .env files that are only read-denied.
Narrow the fix to secret material and stop reverting #45947.
The earlier revision added every read-denied name to the write denylist,
which re-blocked auth.json and webhook_subscriptions.json and rewrote the
test guarding them. #45947 freed those control files deliberately:
containment belongs in Docker/remote backends and OS permissions, not an
expanding hardcoded denylist.
What #45947 kept blocked is secret material, and that list had drifted:
auth/google_oauth.json (OAuth token store), the plaintext Bitwarden cache,
vault/ (key + ciphertext side by side) and browser-profile/ (copied
cookies / Login Data) were writable via write_file / patch.
- Write-deny those four; control files stay writable and read-denied.
- _WRITE_DENIED_SECRET_DIRS is its own tuple rather than _READ_DENIED_DIRS,
so a future read-only convenience deny cannot silently become a write deny.
- tests/tools/test_write_deny.py is restored unchanged from main.
- New tests pin both halves: secrets denied, control files writable, and
write denies stay a subset of read denies.
Fixes#110464
Read guards already refuse auth.json, webhook HMAC secrets,
google_oauth.json, the Bitwarden plaintext cache, vault/, and
browser-profile/. The write denylist only covered .env, the Anthropic
PKCE store, and bws_cache.enc.json, so write_file/patch could replace
the rest.
Drive the write denylist from the same credential names and
read-denied directories. Keep the extra write-only entries
(bws_cache.enc.json, state.db, sessions, pairing).
Fixes#110464
Related: #108716
A claim that expired without a worker ever spawning (worker_pid NULL) was
reclaimed and immediately re-claimed on every dispatcher tick, with
consecutive_failures stuck at 0 — nothing could trip the breaker. Route the
reclaim through _record_task_failure (own txn after the reclaim commit, same
shape as enforce_max_runtime) instead of the salvaged raw counter increment,
so per-task max_retries / kanban.failure_limit and the gave_up event apply
and last_failure_error carries the stale lock. reclaim_task (operator path)
still resets the counter; the live-worker extend path never reaches it.
Trims the salvaged tests to one invariant that walks the breaker to its trip.
The budget in _sweep_agent_cache_under_pressure comes from the gateway's own
cgroup memory.high/memory.max, but read_anon_rss_mb() read /proc/self/status
RssAnon: only the main process. Every child in the unit (execute_code kernels,
terminal commands) is charged against the same limit, so a kernel at 4.7 GiB
pushed the unit to MemoryHigh while the valve saw <1.6 GiB and never fired;
systemd's stop then SIGKILLed the gateway mid-flush (the #80764 signature).
Under a capped cgroup v2, read own memory.stat `anon` (the same scope as the
budget); uncapped, or when the file is unreadable, keep the self reading.
_finite_limit is factored out of _cgroup_limit_bytes so the cap check and
the budget agree on what "unlimited" means.
Fixes#110549
Replace the predicate unit test with an invariant on the real builder: a skill recorded
by a foreground create is in build_learning_graph() with zero uses, and an unmarked
never-used local skill is not. `hermes curator list-unmanaged` prints the actual
marker (created_by:learn) instead of hard-coding created_by:null. Docs: curator.md and
memory.md describe the learn marker and what the journey shows.
Drop the session-only negative (session grants were never consulted on the unattended
path, so it pins pre-existing behaviour rather than the fix). Keep the permanent-key
positive and the Tirith-not-bypassed negative. Docs: command_allowlist rule keys are
honored in cron/-q/unattended sessions.
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