- plugins/image_gen/xai: merge the live /v1/image-generation-models catalog
(5-min cache, 10s timeout, static-table fallback when offline/unauth)
into the picker so new xAI Imagine models appear automatically the day
they launch, with generic metadata until curated text is added.
- Add grok-imagine-image-2.0 to the curated static table (typography/
layout-aware model, API-available since Aug 8 2026).
- Edits honor an explicitly selected image-input-capable model
(e.g. grok-imagine-image-2.0) instead of always forcing
grok-imagine-image-quality; quality remains the default edit baseline.
- Tests: hermetic autouse fixture keeps unit runs offline; new coverage
for live-merge, unknown-future-model selection, offline fallback, and
edit-model resolution. Docs model table updated (en + zh-Hans).
Live-verified: /image-generation-models returns grok-imagine-image,
grok-imagine-image-2.0, grok-imagine-image-quality; real generation with
2.0 succeeded end to end.
Follows PR #89762: cli-commands reference and CLI guide document the new
--query-file flag; bot-mode.md's DM and peer-dm recipes now show the
file/stdin transport instead of inlining message bodies into the shell.
Ten behavior tests for target discovery, stable-selector ordering, step
paging, recovery hints, and the self-containment contract the preview
injection depends on. Docs cover data-tour markup and the curated-tour
entry point alongside the tool itself.
Some authorization servers and WAFs reject httpx's default User-Agent on
the OAuth token endpoint. mcp_servers.<name>.oauth.user_agent now stamps a
custom User-Agent onto the two token-endpoint requests (authorization-code
exchange and refresh) on both provider construction paths. Opt-in,
per-server, token requests only — never MCP traffic or discovery, and no
other headers are configurable. Empty/null/non-string values are ignored.
Completes the second half of #75576 (the CIMD half landed via #89566).
The Bots roster highlight and the Routines (Cronjobs) tile were keyed off
host.state.profile — the gateway socket's home. Tab/tile focus moves without
swapping the socket, so opening one bot's chat while the socket was homed on
another highlighted the wrong bot and showed the wrong bot's cronjobs
(community report: Newsanalyst chat open, Hermes highlighted).
- sdk: new host.state.focusedSessionProfile — owner profile of the focused
chat, resolved from the focused stored session's row stamp via
rememberedSessionProfile() (same ladder as remembered navigation and the
HUD), with the gateway profile as the draft/uncached fallback.
- hermes-bots: $focusedBotProfile = focusedSessionProfile || profile
(feature-detected; older desktops keep prior behavior). BotRow highlight,
RoutinesPane scope, and the $selectedBot tracker use it. Turn-busy 'work'
mood stays keyed to the socket-home profile (only it can be mid-turn).
- tests: SDK atom behavior (vitest) + plugin source-shape suite; prewarm
harness stubs gain the new atom.
- docs: SDK page + hermes-agent skill reference list the new atom.
The batch card previously locked each answer with its own Continue
press. Now picks and typed answers stage locally, and one Confirm and
continue button (enabled when every question has an answer) submits
the whole batch. Staged answers stay editable until that confirm.
The wire protocol is unchanged. The confirm sends the per-question
locks in sequence, because the last lock resolves the blocked tool and
each earlier lock must already be accepted when it lands. Replayed
locked answers from a reconnect pre-stage their questions so restored
progress stays visible. The TUI and CLI keep incremental per-question
locks, so a timeout there still returns partial answers.
Hermes is an agent for one person. The credentials, the memory, the
sessions and the cron jobs all belong to that person. But the only
declarative path was a NixOS system service. Issue #9056 asks for the
user-level equivalent. 25 public Nix configurations already write one by
hand, and several of them copy nix/nixosModules.nix and edit the systemd
part.
This module is not a second copy of that file. The code that both modules
share moves into nix/moduleCommon.nix:
- the options
- the renderers for config.yaml, .env and the documents
- the activation body
- the command lines of the processes
nixosModules.nix keeps only the parts that need root. Those parts are the
service user, stateDir, addToSystemPackages, container mode and tmpfiles.
The file goes from 1008 lines to 666.
`services.hermes-agent` is now the same option set on both modules. A
NixOS example works on Home Manager without a change, and an option added
one time appears on both.
The Home Manager module is different only where it must be. It uses
systemd.user.services on Linux and launchd.agents on Darwin. It uses
home.activation and not system.activationScripts. It sets HERMES_HOME
directly, with the default ~/.hermes, so an existing directory continues
to work. It uses the modes 0600 and 0700, because the state has one user
and does not need the group-shared umask of the NixOS module. It does not
support container mode, which needs root and the Docker socket.
The change also makes four corrections that apply to both modules:
- backend.mode runs `hermes serve` or `hermes dashboard`. Both modules
had only the gateway. But Hermes Desktop and the web dashboard connect
to a different process, so six of the configurations in public repos
add a second unit by hand. serve and dashboard are one entry point with
one flag of difference, and you can run only one of them. Thus the
option is an enum. The NixOS module asserts against container mode with
a backend, and does not make a unit that cannot start.
- hermesHomeFiles installs files into HERMES_HOME. The `documents` option
installs into the working directory, which is correct for AGENTS.md but
wrong for SOUL.md and memories/. Hermes reads those files from
HERMES_HOME, in agent/prompt_builder.py:2095. A SOUL.md in `documents`
made a workspace file that Hermes never loaded as the identity. The
documentation said this in prose, but two directory diagrams showed the
opposite. This change corrects both. A key in either option can now
contain subdirectories.
- `documents` needs an explicit `workingDirectory`. The default of that
option is bad on both modules. It is the home directory of the user on
Home Manager, and ${stateDir}/workspace on NixOS. A user who declares
workspace files without a directory therefore gets a place that the
user did not select. The place is also different on each module. The
modules now refuse that combination.
The test is on the priority of the option and not on its value. An
option that nothing sets keeps the priority of its own default, and
each definition from a user is stronger. Thus a directory with the same
text as the default still counts as a selection, and so does a
mkDefault. A comparison of values detects neither case.
- Each activation writes .env again from a base in the Nix store, and
does not add to the file that exists. Thus a second activation cannot
put the same secret in the file two times, and a removed
environmentFile goes away. environmentFiles keeps the type `listOf
str` and not `path`, so Nix cannot copy a sops-nix or agenix path into
the Nix store, which all users can read.
- HERMES_MANAGED and the .managed marker now hold the name of the system
that manages the install. Thus a refusal says "managed by home-manager"
and not "managed by NixOS", and `hermes update` gives the Nix guidance
for both shapes. The CLI does not print a rebuild command for each
system. It names the owner, and the user knows their own tool. A bare
`true` and an empty marker still mean NixOS, so this does not change an
existing install.
Verification. Six new checks, all built:
nixos-module evaluates the module with evalModules and the
NixOS module list. It asserts both units, one
HERMES_HOME, and that the module refuses
container mode with a backend.
home-manager-module evaluates the module with the
homeManagerConfiguration function of
home-manager. The process assertions run against
systemd units on Linux and launchd agents on
Darwin.
module-option-parity asserts that each shared option is on both
modules, and that the two exclusion lists name
only options that exist.
env-file-assembly runs the real .env script and checks the
contents, the mode, that a second run gives the
same bytes, and that a removed file goes away.
workspace-files-need-a-directory
checks that the module refuses `documents`
without a directory, and accepts a directory
that has the same text as the default.
service-argv runs each command line that the modules build
through the real parser of the CLI, with one
sentinel flag added, and requires that argparse
refuses only the sentinel.
`nix flake check` passes, with 21 checks in total.
The CLI branches that treat an install as a Nix install move to one
helper, is_nix_install_method. Four call sites in main.py, web_server.py,
update_cmd.py and doctor.py tested the literal set {"nix", "nixos"}, and
each one missed home-manager. recommended_update_command asks the managed
state before the code-scoped stamp again, because a managed install can
carry a stale stamp that names an update path the managed guard refuses.
The metrics contract gets a home-manager bucket, so a Home Manager
install does not report as unknown.
Each check was mutation-probed. 22 faults were injected, and the checks
caught all 22:
- a lost --no-open
- a backend that runs the gateway
- an overwritten config.yaml
- documents in the wrong directory
- a different HERMES_HOME on the two processes
- a lost HERMES_HOME export
- a missing backend unit
- a removed assertion
- an .env file that grows at each activation
- an install that reports NixOS
- an empty .managed marker
- an option on the NixOS module only
- a stale entry in an exclusion list
- a renamed subcommand
- an unknown flag
- the workspace-files assertion always passes
- the assertion compares values instead of priorities
- an off-by-one that lets an untouched default through
- the assertion also fires for hermesHomeFiles
- a mkDefault no longer counts as a selection
- the Home Manager module stops wiring the assertion
- the NixOS module stops wiring the assertion
The 16 Python tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_managed_install_shapes.py
were probed the same way. 8 faults were injected and 8 were caught.
These tests fail on this tree. They fail in the same way on the stashed
HEAD, and they have no relation to Nix:
- test_git_probe_tree_kill.py (2 tests)
- test_update_import_guard.py (1 test)
- test_telegram_media_read_timeout.py (2 tests)
- test_teams.py (a collection error)
Closes#9056
# Conflicts:
# hermes_cli/main.py
# hermes_cli/update_cmd.py
# hermes_cli/web_server.py
The deeplink-driven plugin install flow shipped in #89464 (salvage of
#82735 by @serefyarar) had no docs. Adds:
- user-guide/features/plugins.md: "One-click install links (Desktop)"
section under Managing plugins — link forms (repo/enable/force), the
confirm-first dialog contract (never auto-installs, same install-time
security scanning as the CLI), hybrid-repo behavior, legacy
plugin-agent/plugin-desktop routing, hermes-dev:// in dev builds, and
the no-SDK anchor example. Cross-links the MCP "Add to Hermes link"
equivalent.
- developer-guide/desktop-plugin-sdk.md: "Distributing with an install
link" section so plugin authors find the link form next to the
packaging docs.
New agents now get a blobatar — a deterministic soft-body face generated
from the bot's name (same name, same face, forever) — as the default
shapes mode, with full manual control:
- Face follows the name live while typing in New Agent
- Randomize re-rolls the seed; Lock face pins the current one so a later
rename can't change it (Unlock returns to name-following)
- Any of the six silhouettes (round/organic/boxy/nub/cloud/sun) can be
pinned via frozen-per-major trait positions while the rest stays
name-derived
- Classic geometric shapes remain one click away, and existing bots keep
their stored looks untouched
Wiring: blobatar@0.2.0 (zero deps, ~3.7KB) exported through the plugin
SDK (blobatarSvg / Blobatar), feature-detected in plugin.js with a
legacy-shape fallback for older desktops. Blob shape strings are
'blobatar[:seed[:kind]]' inside the existing meta.shape field, so
persistence, cross-machine ui_meta sync, and the roster's PNG backfill
(data-bot-face tag preserved) all work unchanged.
Extends ctx.os.notify (the curated plugin OS door from #78685) with icon,
action buttons, and a serializable `activate` target. Body/action clicks
focus the window and navigate to the plugin's screen; activation paths
share one resolver (hermes-open-target.ts) with hermes:// OS deep links,
so `hermes://index-network/intent/1`, `/index-network/intent/1`, and
{ path, params } all land on the same hash-router route. Approval
notifications keep their existing session-scoped channel.
Salvaged from PR #84192 by @serefyarar (net diff of the PR branch applied
onto current main; branch carried merge commits so a single authored
commit preserves attribution).
Follow-up to #89382: the operator runbook, bundled-skill docs page, and the
bundled SKILL.md now cover the organizer-scoped lookup flag and note that
/meet/ short URLs require it while webhook jobs derive the organizer
automatically.
A profile belongs to one gateway, but the Capabilities surface (Skills /
Tools / MCP) always read and wrote through the window's active backend —
scoping to a remote-owned profile silently edited the wrong machine.
- hermes.ts: capability REST helpers accept a ProfileScope
(string | {connectionId, profile}); ambient path now also carries the
active registry connection tag (same contract as the cron helpers,
#87882); profileScopeKey namespaces cache keys per connection.
- SkillsView: scope selector lists (profile, device) rows from the union
agent roster on multi-connection desktops; new fixedConnection prop
pins the whole view to a registered connection (plugin door), with a
probe-able SkillsView.supportsFixedConnection flag.
- MCP tab: live reload.mcp RPC withheld for cross-backend scopes (it
rides the active gateway socket and would reload the wrong machine).
- Bot Mode: remote-target drafts now get the live Capabilities tab
pinned to the target machine via fixedConnection, feature-detected so
older desktops keep the staged checklists.
- Config-record/hub-action stores accept scopes; cache keys fold in the
connection id so two gateways' same-named profiles never share rows.
`hermes profile rename default <name>` (and the Desktop/dashboard rename
flows) now set a presentation-only `display_name` in profile.yaml instead
of erroring. The canonical id stays "default"; resolution, comparison,
and spawn paths are untouched. Named profiles keep real renames and their
display_name survives the move.
Surfaces: profile list/show/status, /profile (text only — data.profile
stays canonical), dashboard ProfilesPage, TUI-gateway profiles.list, and
Desktop (rail, switcher, Manage page, and the Bot Mode roster via a
displayName fallback so a renamed default shows its name, not "default").
Slimmer redo of the direction in PR #87760 by @yxssxn — thanks; see PR
body for what changed vs that approach.
acc614e72 added a raw backslash inside a <code> span in a table row;
MDX reads it as an escape and never finds the closing </code>, failing
docs-site-checks on main and every open PR. Escape it as \.
Live incident 2026-08-17: the source checkout was parked on a stale feature
branch (claude-code-inspired/local-terminal-memory-limit, days behind main),
left there by earlier tooling. 'hermes update' autostashed, refreshed lazy
backends, synced skills, and printed '✓ Code updated!' / '✓ Update complete!'
while the checkout stayed on the stale branch with none of main's new code.
Two sessions burned time on 'the fix is missing' confusion.
- Parked-branch guard: auto-switch back to the update target ONLY when the
parked branch is clean and fully merged (git cherry origin/<target> shows
nothing unmerged); the checkout then STAYS on the target instead of being
re-parked. Otherwise: loud CODE UPDATE SKIPPED block naming the branch,
behind-count, and resolution commands; exit 1; branch untouched.
- The up-to-date (commit_count == 0) path no longer switches back to a
fully-merged parked branch either.
- Post-pull gate additionally refuses to print '✓ Code updated!' when HEAD
ends up attached to a non-target branch.
- Summary lines now carry the actual branch + HEAD short-sha:
'✓ Update complete! [main @ 30fcf9580]' — drift visible at a glance.
- New config toggle updates.auto_switch_parked_branch (default true).
- Real-git-fixture regression tests (init/clone/branch, no subprocess
mocks): clean+merged auto-switch, dirty skip, unmerged skip, cherry-picked
equivalence, config opt-out, unverifiable ref, on-main fast path,
up-to-date no-repark, summary branch/sha assertions.
The unified Gateways settings page (from the recent settings merge) still
carried the legacy per-profile gateway-override machinery: an "Applies to"
profile-chip scope switcher, a scope state machine threaded through load/
save/test/sign-in paths, inherit-mode ModeCard variants, and an SSH
remote-profile mapping row.
The page is machine-level gateway management: it decides which gateway
backends this desktop can connect to, and profiles are discovered FROM the
connected gateways. It must not be profile-scoped.
- Delete the scope chips section, ScopeChip component, and the scope/setScope
state; every scope-conditional collapses to its global (scope === null)
branch. getConnectionConfig/save/apply/test/sign-in are all unscoped now.
- ModeCard local card always renders the local title/desc (inherit variants
gone); SSH remote-profile mapping row removed.
- i18n: drop now-unused gateway keys (appliesTo, allProfiles,
defaultConnection, profileConnection, inheritTitle, inheritDesc,
sshRemoteProfileTitle, sshRemoteProfileDesc) from types.ts and en/zh/
zh-hant/ja/ar in sync; rewrite the gateway intro in each locale to say
connections are machine-level and profiles come from gateways.
- Tests: replace the scope-switching component tests with a machine-level
assertion (loads getConnectionConfig(null), never a profile scope, no
scope UI rendered).
- Docs: update desktop.md and multi-connection-desktop.md wording — gateway
connections are machine-level; per-profile backend routing continues via
the profile rail / session source surfaces, not the settings page.
The electron main-process per-profile override mechanism
(getConnectionConfig(profileName), route map) and the profile-rail connect
flows are intentionally untouched; only the settings page loses the
affordance.
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.
Update the desktop docs for five just-merged desktop changes:
- Settings → Gateway + Settings → Connections are now one "Gateways" page:
retitle every reference, describe the Add-connection flow's four kinds
(Local / Hermes Cloud / Remote gateway / SSH) and the save-time duplicate
rules (one local; URL-normalized dedupe across remote/cloud; user@host:port
+ remote profile for SSH), and describe the "Per-profile overrides"
subsection that replaced the page-level Applies to chip row.
- Document the shared "Applies to" profile scope on the config-backed
settings pages (Model, Workspace, Safety, Memory & Context, Voice, Chat,
Advanced, Tools & Keys) and the Messaging overlay.
- Agent plugins section: bundled built-ins are hidden (user/git/project/
pip/portable installs only), Example Plugin is gone, and the section has
its own Applies to selector backed by plugins.manage's optional profile
param.
- Bot Mode: group chats are standalone Discord-style roster rows and open
in the main chat window (older builds fall back to the in-panel view).
- Desktop Plugin SDK: document the new host.openWorkspace(id, { render,
title, minWidth, onClose }) door, its refresh/re-front semantics, and
the feature-detection fallback pattern.
Also retitles the Settings → Gateway references in the web-dashboard guide.
No new pages; sidebars.ts unchanged. `npx docusaurus build` passes.
Review feedback from NVIDIA (Nir Paz), minus the LLM items (declined
on the thread: cost-by-default + prompt-injection surface; static-only
also keeps the timeout moot at ~1.5s vs the 120s ceiling):
- Incomplete-validator findings are now PRESERVED as partial evidence;
only the validator's pass/fail verdict is excluded from the advisory
verdict. A report with findings from an incomplete check no longer
reads as clean.
- Clean-report wording is now "no findings from completed checks"
whenever any validator was incomplete.
- Pinned both scanner binaries to known releases in code comments,
config guidance, and docs: SkillEvaluator v0.1.0, SkillSpector v2.9.5.
- Tests: 29 (was 28) — partial-evidence preservation flips the old
discard-pinning test, plus the completed-checks wording case.
Review feedback from NVIDIA (Nir Paz): run the full deterministic
Tier 1 surface, not just pii,unicode,lint.
- TIER1_CHECKS now pii,unicode,lint,license,security. License is pure
static (no measurable cost); security invokes NVIDIA SkillSpector in
its keyless static-rules mode (~+1.2s per install). schema/quality
stay excluded: hygiene signal ("author not specified" is
high-severity upstream), wrong noise for an install prompt.
- SkillSpector is a second optional binary, pinned separately. Absent
or failing, the security check reports status="incomplete" and the
adapter treats it as "no opinion" — surfaced as a dim "(not run: ...)"
note, never as a failure.
- _parse_report derives the verdict from COMPLETED validators only.
This also absorbs a live upstream inconsistency: SkillEvaluator's
anti-tamper cross-check on SkillSpector's risk score currently trips
on moderate-finding skills (fail verdict with zero findings, e.g.
github-pr-workflow at 15 MEDIUM issues / score 35). Reported to
NVIDIA separately; either way an evidence-free fail must not render
as an unexplained failure at install time.
- Dashboard tier1 block gains incomplete_checks.
- Docs: SkillSpector install command + not-run semantics.
- Tests: 28 (was 24) — incomplete-status exclusion, verdict derivation,
not-run formatting.
E2E against real binaries: clean skill (no findings), skill tripping
the upstream consistency check (passed, "(not run: Security Scan)"),
seeded dirty skill (2 findings, SECRETS row). Full scan cost measured
at ~1.4-1.5s per skill, install-time only.
Adds an optional, advisory second-opinion scan to the skills hub install
path using NVIDIA SkillEvaluator's deterministic, keyless Tier 1 checks
(PII, unicode smuggling, script lint).
- tools/skillevaluator_scan.py: subprocess adapter — runs the scanner
over the quarantined bundle, parses the JSON report, classifies
secrets-class findings (private keys, tokens, credentialed connection
strings) apart from advisory PII findings. Every failure mode
(binary missing, timeout, crash, bad JSON) degrades to a no-op.
- hermes_cli/skills_hub.py: prints the advisory panel after the built-in
guard's policy decision and before the install confirmation. Findings
are shown with file:line; secrets-class findings render red with a
loud warning. Warn-and-continue by design — the built-in skills guard
remains the only enforcement layer, because the upstream PII scanner
has known false-positive classes (git@github.com, docs example
emails, op:// references).
- hermes_cli/web_routers/skills.py: the dashboard Browse-hub scan
endpoint returns the same advisory data in a new `tier1` field.
- config: skills.tier1_advisory (default true; no-op without the
optional scanner binary on PATH).
- docs: user-guide/features/skills.md section with install command and
config toggle.
Scanner install (optional):
uv tool install --python 3.13 \
"skillevaluator @ git+https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillEvaluator.git"
E2E-validated against the real scanner binary: clean bundled skill (no
findings, "no findings" line), seeded dirty skill (email + credentialed
connection string -> yellow/red panel, install continues), config
disable via real config.yaml (silence). Real scan cost: ~0.2s per skill.
Builds on @nductien's completion-notify module (PR #87705):
- Notify on the gateway watcher's full terminal set — blocked, gave_up,
crashed, timed_out, block_loop_detected — not just completed. A worker
hitting a blocker while the user is away was the original community ask.
- Route all notification copy through the kanban plugin i18n bundles
(en/ja/zh/zh-hant), with an English-bundle fallback when the translator
isn't bound yet.
- Wire the ctx.os.notify door so events also fire a NATIVE OS notification
while the user is away from the Hermes window (host.notify toast covers
the foreground). OS-door failures are isolated from the toast path.
- Docs: Desktop notifications section in kanban.md, including the
app-running coverage window.
Bots could message teammates on their own machine (hermes -p <bot> chat) and
the desktop could relay user mentions over Connections, but a bot had NO
transport to a bot on another gateway. This adds one, with zero new server
surface: the peer's existing api_server platform is the wire.
- hermes_cli/subcommands/peer.py: `hermes peer add/list/remove/dm`.
`dm <peer>[/<agent>]` resolves the remote agent's canonical "Bot Chat"
(list by title, create when missing), runs one synchronous agent turn via
POST /api/sessions/{id}/chat, and prints the reply on stdout — the exact
cross-machine twin of the local bot-messaging command, so the Bot Mode
protocol composes over it unchanged. Named profiles route via the peer's
/p/<profile>/ multiplex mirror. Peer URLs live in config.yaml
(`bot_peers`); the peer's API_SERVER_KEY is a credential and lives in
~/.hermes/.env as HERMES_PEER_<NAME>_KEY.
- hermes_cli/main.py: parser wiring + fast-path/session-flag command sets.
- tools/bot_mode_probe.py: when peers are registered, the injected Bot Chat
messaging protocol gains a cross-machine paragraph (peer roster +
`hermes peer dm` pattern) so agents discover remote teammates on their
own; peers join the capability fingerprint so registering/removing one
refreshes eternal Bot Chat prompts on the next message (loud, one-time,
user-initiated — no per-turn cache drift).
- Docs: Bot Mode guide (bot-initiated DMs across machines) + cli-commands
reference (`hermes peer` section + summary row).
Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_peer_cmd.py (target parsing, /p/ scoping,
registry round-trip in isolated config, real-loopback-HTTP dm flow incl.
Bot Chat create-vs-reuse and bearer auth), bot_mode_probe peer-paragraph +
epoch tests. E2E: real `python -m hermes_cli.main peer ...` against a live
fake peer over HTTP with isolated HERMES_HOME (config/.env persistence,
bare + /p/<profile> routing, stdin, --json). 23 passed; ruff clean.
Bot Mode's group chats spawned one per-member session per room, and those
"Group: ..." rows (plus canonical Bot Chats when the old eye-toggle pref was
off) flooded the global Sessions sidebar — a 6-bot room dumped six identical
rows into recents (reported with screenshot, Aug 17).
Plugin (apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/plugin.js):
- session.create now passes hidden:true UNCONDITIONALLY for both canonical
Bot Chats and group-room member sessions; the $hideBotChats pref, its eye
toggle, and its storage hydrate are removed (Bot Mode sessions are plumbing
or plugin-owned forever-chats, never scratch conversations).
- hideOwnedBotSessions(): idempotent reconciliation sweep over every owned
session id (bot meta canonical chats + each room's member sessions) via
session.set_hidden, run on plugin load and on each gateway reconnect, so
rows born visible under the old pref get cleaned up.
- The Bots session browser and canonical-chat recovery scan pass
include_hidden:true so they still see the rows they own.
Gateway (tui_gateway/methods_session.py):
- session.list honors an include_hidden param (default off — the resume
picker and all global callers keep dropping hidden rows).
- session.set_hidden gains a durable fallback: when no LIVE runtime session
matches, resolve the stored session id in the target profile's state.db
(via resolve_session_id) and flip the flag there. The sweep holds stored
ids for chats that aren't live; the old live-only lookup 4001'd them.
Validated E2E with real imports against a temp HERMES_HOME: born-hidden row
(hidden=1), profile-scoped session.list default vs include_hidden (0 vs 1),
and stored-id sweep on a non-live legacy row (hidden=1). Plugin suite
167/167; new RPC regression tests in tests/tui_gateway/test_session_hidden_rpc.py.
Covers the precise pinned-session resolver added in PR #88690: request
param shape, the preferred_session response field, hidden-row and
compression-lineage resolution, and older-gateway behavior.
Community asks (Discord, Aug 17): unclear what happens across cloud vs
desktop, whether every bot replies in group chats, and how to persist
connections to multiple gateways.
Extends the Bot Mode user-guide page (landed on main today) with the new
cross-connection features:
- "Create on" picker: creating an agent on another registered machine, with
the remote-target caveats (clone source, staged capability checklists,
draft discard).
- Group chats: explicit "not every bot replies" explanation of the
round-robin/pass model, and rooms spanning machines with device badges.
- @mentions across machines via the Connections registry (no gateway switch).
- Bots-across-machines section: persistent SSH inventory, last-known rows,
and the stay-in-your-chat interaction model; cloud+desktop recipe.
- desktop.md Bot Mode section links to the full guide; multi-connection
page's Bot Mode reference points at the docs page instead of the old
standalone repo.
Bot Mode ships built into the desktop app (default on) but only had a
short section in desktop.md. This adds a dedicated user-guide page
covering the Bots roster, creating and editing Bots, avatars, routines,
group chats, bot-to-bot messaging (agent.bot_mode_protocol), the
multi-connection roster, and CLI parity.
An inline ::preview widget could render and be clicked, but the click went
nowhere: the sandbox has no channel to the agent, so an interactive chart
was a dead end. Now the frame injects a second script beside the measurer
that gives the page one voice:
window.hermes.send('get-price eth')
<button data-hermes-send="get-price eth">ETH</button> (zero-script form)
The prompt rides postMessage up tagged with the mount token, then goes
through the composer's own send path (requestComposerSubmit -> prompt.submit)
flagged display_kind=hidden — the same row-typing auto-continue and internal
notifications already use. The agent wakes and takes a real turn; the
durable row persists (context, resume, DB audit); but NO bubble renders,
live or on reload. The user clicks ETH and the chart just changes — the
off-screen loop is click -> hidden turn -> agent rewrites the widget file ->
frame hot-swaps.
Trust boundary matches size reports and is tighter where it matters: mount
token required (frames can't forge each other's intents), string-only,
trimmed, capped at 500 chars, throttled to one intent per second per frame.
The gateway whitelists display_kind to "hidden" — the RPC can't mint
arbitrary row types — and the flag threads through both turn paths (inline
and compute-host isolation) so isolated sessions don't resurrect bubbles on
resume.
The desktop platform hint teaches the model to wire interactive widgets
with data-hermes-send and to answer clicks by updating the widget's file
rather than with prose; the SDK doc documents the contract.
Completes the project-local skills epic's remaining skill items (#48974,
#48975) on top of the discovery/trust work in #88566.
Quarantine (#48974): trust is a repo-level decision made once, but repo
skill content changes with every pull — the hub install path scans, a
checkout didn't. Every project SKILL.md dir now runs through the same
skills_guard scanner as hub installs (content-hash cached under
~/.hermes/cache/project_skill_scans/, never inside the repo). Verdict
'dangerous' quarantines the skill: excluded from the index, skills_list,
and slash commands via the single iteration chokepoint
iter_project_skill_files(), and skill_view refuses by name with an
explanatory error. Scanner failure fails closed. Verified against a real
injection fixture (6 findings: prompt_injection_ignore, deception_hide,
invisible_unicode, credential exfil patterns).
Non-interactive inheritance (#48975): find_project_root() now resolves
from TERMINAL_CWD (the per-surface workdir cron jobs and the terminal
tool already use) before falling back to process cwd. Cron/API/ACP
surfaces inherit a prior interactive trust decision by project identity:
job workdir inside a trusted repo => project skills load; untrusted or
no workdir => nothing loads; no surface ever prompts.
Tests: +10 cases in tests/agent/test_project_skills.py (real malicious
fixture, fail-closed, rescan-on-change, cache location, TERMINAL_CWD
inheritance matrix). Docs: quarantine + non-interactive sections in
skills.md.
The SDK doc still described the v1 frame (fixed height attribute, rail card
under the frame) — chrome that no longer exists. And plugin_storage's usage
example used `with plugin_db(...)`, which reads as auto-close but sqlite3's
context manager only scopes transactions; the example now closes explicitly.
The first cut of the core ::preview consumer rendered the classic
preview-attachment card — a button into the right rail we already had, which
made the directive indistinguishable from an ordinary preview link. Now the
directive shows the thing itself: the workspace HTML file renders in a
sandboxed srcdoc iframe inline in the assistant message (opaque origin,
allow-scripts only — no reach into the app, its storage, or the bridge),
with an optional height attribute clamped to 120-1200px and the classic
card kept below as the rail escape hatch.
The frame waits for turn settle before reading the file (mid-stream it is
often mid-write), resolves relative paths against the session's own cwd,
and falls back to the plain card for non-HTML targets and remote gateways
(no local file door there).
Plugins that persist state have been writing into their own install tree
(<hermes home>/plugins/<name>/), which `hermes plugins update` git-pulls and
`hermes plugins remove` deletes — user data dies with the code that wrote it.
plugins/plugin_storage.py is the sanctioned home: plugin_data_dir(name) gives
one data root per plugin under <hermes home>/plugin-data/<name>/ (profile-
aware, created on first use, names validated against traversal), and
plugin_db(name) opens a WAL-mode SQLite database inside it. Secrets stay on
the existing secret-scope path — this is state, not credentials.
hermes-achievements, the in-tree offender, converts with a legacy-file
migration on first read.
The transcript becomes a contribution area (transcript.directives). A plugin
registers a named directive and the model addresses it by emitting
::name{key="value"} as its own paragraph; that leaf renders as the plugin's
component, wrapped in the contribution error boundary. Unclaimed or malformed
directives stay plain prose, so nothing changes for text that merely looks
like a directive (std::vector) or for users with the plugin disabled.
Core ships ::preview{file="..."} as the reference consumer (the existing
preview-attachment card), the desktop platform hint teaches the model the
syntax, and the SDK exports the area + types so runtime plugin.js files get
the surface through the normal plugins API.
- hermes_cli/providers.host_mandated_api_mode: add exact-hostname clause for
api.meta.ai → codex_responses (measured 0% cache on /chat/completions vs
93-99% on /responses with retention); update docstring.
- hermes_cli/runtime_provider._detect_api_mode_for_url: mirror clause for
api.meta.ai (exact hostname, #32243) to keep runtime resolver in lockstep.
- agent/agent_init: call host_mandated_api_mode early in api_mode cascade
(after explicit api_mode wins, before provider-name specials) via lazy
import; single source of truth, preserves user override.
- agent/transports/codex._default_prompt_cache_retention_for_request: return
24h for api.meta.ai unconditionally; build_kwargs setdefault preserves
override; Bedrock branch untouched.
- cli-config.yaml.example: add commented providers.meta example (api_mode
auto-detected).
- website/docs/developer-guide/adding-providers.md: list Meta alongside
Codex/xAI as codex_responses native provider with retention note.
- tests: add hermetic behavior-contract suites for mandate, retention,
content-addressed prompt_cache_key, reasoning passthrough, AIAgent init,
usage cache reporting, model-switch override, and config roundtrip; extend
test_model_switch_openai_api_mode with meta cases.
- plugins/model-providers/meta-ai/__init__.py: drop out-of-tree install
instructions from the module docstring (now bundled)
- tests/providers/test_meta_ai_profile.py: port the plugin's test suite
into the repo (registry discovery instead of file-location import)
- website/docs/integrations/providers.md: meta-ai in the first-class
API-key provider list, META_BASE_URL override, contributor-tier
data-training note
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.
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