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Teknium 761990b780 feat: identical re-calls enter context as reference stubs, not duplicate payloads 2026-08-20 00:16:22 -07:00
Teknium ad7a14a539 fix(desktop): renamed Bot Mode agents stay @-taggable by their new name
Renaming a bot (Bot Mode title or 'hermes profile rename' display_name)
changed the roster row but not what the user could @-tag it with — mentions
still only resolved the original profile handle, and the composer
autocomplete never offered the new name.

- mentionNameForms()/botFriendlyNames()/botMentionTag(): one resolver for
  the taggable forms a friendly name yields (slugged + collapsed), with
  reserved tokens (hermes/default/everyone/all/user) excluded so a rename
  can never hijack them.
- resolveRosterMentions() and parseGroupChatMentions() accept the friendly
  forms alongside the profile name/handle (both keep working).
- Composer @ autocomplete (global provider + group-room popover) inserts
  the renamed tag and prefix-matches on tag, handle, and display name.
- Mention middleware's cold-cache fallback now runs the same resolver
  instead of a bare-names-only parse, so renamed tags resolve there too.
- durableGroupChatMembers persists title/display_name so renamed-tag
  mentions survive connection switches in cross-machine rooms.
- Docs: bot-mode.md documents renamed tags.
2026-08-20 00:08:46 -07:00
Teknium f309f92d30 feat: hermes worktree list/prune — attended reclaim for accumulated worktrees and merged branches
The startup pruner is deliberately conservative (unattended, pre-banner),
so real installs accumulate what it can never touch: trees preserved for
untracked-only scratch, and orphaned local branches beyond the two
auto-generated prefixes it deletes. A measured multi-agent box: 35 trees /
15GB / 244 local branches, 120 of them fully merged.

New attended surface (hermes_cli/worktree_gc.py + worktree_cmd.py):
- hermes worktree list — audit every tree: age, size, verdict, reason,
  plus deletable-branch count
- hermes worktree prune [--dry-run|--trees-only|--branches-only]
- /worktree prune [--dry-run] — same engine in-session; never touches the
  session's own active tree
- startup escalation: one WARNING when .worktrees/ exceeds 10 trees or
  5GB, naming the reclaim commands (silence is how boxes hit 15GB)

Safety invariants (shared with the startup pruner via cli.py primitives):
tracked modifications and unique unpushed commits never deleted at any
age; live-locked trees untouched; branch deletion gated on worktree
removal success; untracked-only scratch ARCHIVED to
~/.hermes/archive/worktree-prune/ before its tree is reaped.

Branch GC is content-gated, not name-gated: any local branch fully merged
or git-cherry patch-equivalent upstream is safe to delete (rebase merges
rewrite SHAs, so --merged alone misses the dominant leak); unique-commit,
checked-out, protected, and stale-base (>50 ahead) branches are kept.
Classification is parallel (8 workers) — 244 branches audit in ~64s live.

git timeouts degrade to keep (returncode 124) instead of crashing the
audit — live-verified failure on a 746MB .git repo.

16 behavior-contract tests against real git fixtures; live dry-run on the
production repo: 12 trees reclaimable, 120 branches deletable, 0 false
positives among kept trees.
2026-08-19 23:55:20 -07:00
Teknium dbbd8937ae docs(computer-use): document requesting the actual screenshot on chat surfaces
Follow-up to PR #90183 — computer_use now saves a bounded shareable copy of
image captures, so attachment-capable surfaces (Telegram, Discord, Desktop)
can deliver the real screenshot when the user asks. Documents the behavior,
the 20-file cache bound, and the no-automatic-send rule.
2026-08-19 23:23:56 -07:00
Cassie Gray b38c40319d fix(cli): align hermes memory status and docs with memory tool gate 2026-08-19 23:15:01 -07:00
Teknium 797bc4bf9b Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat/keyless-tavily-firecrawl-failover 2026-08-19 23:04:36 -07:00
Teknium 481bc9391e fix(memory): profile-only config gets narrow USER_PROFILE_GUIDANCE instead of the full memory block
With memory_enabled: false but user_profile_enabled: true, the memory tool
stays (it backs USER.md) but the full MEMORY_GUIDANCE told the model to save
notes to a MEMORY.md store that does not exist. Split the guidance: a
profile-only block is injected for that configuration, directing writes to
target='user' only.
2026-08-19 22:59:17 -07:00
HexLab98 d5cddae187 fix(memory): drop dead memory tool and guidance when built-in stores are off
With memory.memory_enabled and memory.user_profile_enabled both false,
agent_init never builds a MemoryStore -- but check_memory_requirements()
returned True unconditionally and MEMORY_GUIDANCE was gated only on the
tool being present in valid_tool_names. So the tool shipped in every
request's schema while answering "Memory is not available" on every call,
and the system prompt still told the model to save durable facts there.

Gate both on the config flags, using the store predicate for the tool and
the already-resolved agent state for the guidance (config is not re-read
mid-conversation, so the prompt stays byte-stable). Either flag alone
still backs the tool, so only turning both off removes it.

This lets a user running a third-party provider (Hindsight, Mem0, ...)
turn the built-in files off without paying for the dead surface on every
API call. The provider's own tools are unaffected: hiding the built-in
tool moves the decision onto the toolset gate, and listing memory under
agent.disabled_toolsets remains the only switch that takes those down.
2026-08-19 22:59:17 -07:00
Teknium 2eb5217af9 feat: keyless free-tier failover + Tavily/Firecrawl salvage integration
- Cross-vendor failover: when Exa's or Parallel's keyless free tier
  returns a rate-limit-shaped error, the request retries once on the
  other vendor's free endpoint (search + whole-batch extract). Result
  notes served_by; a peer pinned to its paid tier is never used;
  non-throttle errors never fail over.
- Docs: failover note + Tavily/Firecrawl keyless-when-selected rows.
- Firecrawl keyless test expectations aligned with the keyless tier.
2026-08-19 22:58:05 -07:00
Lakshya Agarwal ee37f3d897 feat(tavily): update Tavily integration to support keyless access
- Updated the Tavily API key description to clarify that it is optional and keyless access is supported.
- Modified the Tavily plugin and provider to handle requests with or without an API key, using Bearer authentication when the key is provided.
- Enhanced documentation to reflect the new keyless functionality and updated environment variable descriptions.
- Added tests to ensure correct behavior for both keyed and keyless requests.
2026-08-19 22:42:58 -07:00
Teknium 1fa66f2577 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat/keyless-web-search-fallback
# Conflicts:
#	website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md
2026-08-19 19:36:12 -07:00
Teknium 26da56fd53 docs: tool provider selection follows the hermes tools pick (post #90317) 2026-08-19 19:25:50 -07:00
Jeffrey Quesnelle 612b3633d2 Merge pull request #77915 from bbednarski9/feat/relay-native-plugin-init
feat(relay)!: initialize static/dynamic plugins via native integration, remove opt-in plugin
2026-08-19 22:11:13 -04:00
Teknium 095f003377 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat/keyless-web-search-fallback
# Conflicts:
#	hermes_cli/tools_config.py
2026-08-19 16:48:40 -07:00
Teknium 449471c334 feat: runtime stall guards — identical-call loop breaker and continue-intent recovery (agent.stall_guards)
Composio eval traces showed Hermes wasting turns re-issuing identical tool
calls (same tool, same args, same result — 3x/4x in one run) and ending
turns by announcing an action it never took. Two conservative, config-gated
guards (agent.stall_guards, default true):

- Identical-call loop breaker: ToolCallGuardrailController.observe_identical_call
  tracks the consecutive streak of (tool, canonical args, result-hash); on
  the 3rd identical call a compact one-line notice is appended to that tool
  RESULT at construction time (cache-safe — tool results are append-only).
  Never blocks the call. Pollers (process, *_get_result, *_poll) are exempt
  via STALL_GUARD_REPEATABLE_TOOLS. Streak resets on any different call,
  changed result, or new turn. Observed on the raw result before the
  tool-loop warning suffix so its changing count can't defeat matching.

- Said-continue-but-stopped recovery: trailing_continue_intent() detects a
  short reply ENDING on an announced next action ('Let me now…', 'I will
  now…', 'Next, I…'); the conversation loop feeds it into the EXISTING
  intent-ack continuation path (same interim-assistant + user-nudge
  mechanism, same codex_ack_continuations cap of 2), preserving message
  alternation — no parallel recovery machinery.

Config: agent.stall_guards in DEFAULT_CONFIG; docs in configuration.md;
unit tests for streak/allowlist/reset/gate and detector pos/neg cases.
2026-08-19 16:34:21 -07:00
Teknium 803397ecc3 feat: wall-clock run budget — wrap-up injection at 80% and deadline-scaled stale timeouts (agent.run_budget_seconds / --run-budget) 2026-08-19 16:32:17 -07:00
Teknium 09e657793e feat: MCP tool results spill at 50K and carry upstream-elision warnings
Composio-style MCP servers return un-paginated 22-47K-char payloads that
sail under the generic 100K per-result spillover threshold, bloating
context and ballooning per-turn reasoning time on long conversations.
Competitors cap harder (OpenCode/pi 50KB, Claude Code 30K, Codex ~10K
tokens). Three changes:

- mcp_* tools spill at a tighter 50K default (BudgetConfig.mcp_result_size,
  config-overridable via tool_budget.mcp_result_size_chars; pinned and
  per-tool overrides still win; capped by the context-scaled default).
- The persisted-output preview now teaches recovery: page the saved file
  with read_file or process with execute_code instead of re-requesting the
  same data from the remote API.
- Untrusted/MCP string results are scanned (bounded, first 64KB) for
  provider-side elision markers ('...N more items', "has_more": true,
  'saved to sandbox', data_preview) and get ONE cache-safe incompleteness
  notice appended at result-construction time, before untrusted wrapping —
  so the model stops treating provider-elided enumerations as complete.
- Hard 2M-char allocation cap in mcp_tool.py (text, error, and
  structuredContent paths) so a pathological multi-MB server payload is
  bounded before it propagates, while ordinary large results reach
  spillover intact. Distilled from #56060/#56072/#56511 (issue #56059);
  supersedes their 50K lossy truncation with spillover-friendly semantics.

Docs: configuration.md spillover-budget section + cli-config.yaml.example.

Co-authored-by: Stoltemberg <215755014+Stoltemberg@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: AlexFucuson9 <295703459+AlexFucuson9@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tranquil-Flow <66773372+Tranquil-Flow@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-19 16:31:16 -07:00
Teknium 4d87290d39 feat: keyless web traffic splits 50/50 between Exa and Parallel like opencode
Unpinned zero-credential installs now pick Exa or Parallel by the
parity of the per-process random session id (stable within a process,
even split fleet-wide) instead of always favoring Parallel. An explicit
hermes tools selection (web.backend / per-capability keys) bypasses the
split entirely; the runner-up vendor stays in the walk as fallback.

Live E2E: 6 fresh processes split 3/3 between vendors, each performed
a real keyless search via its picked endpoint; explicit pin verified.
2026-08-19 16:22:30 -07:00
Teknium d762ed9b3c feat: execution-discipline guidance now reaches all tool-capable models (config model.execution_guidance)
Un-fences OPENAI_MODEL_EXECUTION_GUIDANCE from the gpt/codex/grok substring
check and gives it its own injection gate, independent of
tool_use_enforcement, controlled by config.yaml `agent.execution_guidance`
(auto/true/false/list — same semantics as tool_use_enforcement). The "auto"
list (EXECUTION_GUIDANCE_MODELS) now also covers deepseek, kimi, qwen, glm,
minimax, mimo, and mistral.

Composio agentic-eval traces showed Hermes+DeepSeek/Kimi failing where
competitors passed: financial math done in prose, no read-back after
external writes, malformed identifiers "repaired", completeness claimed
despite count mismatches. The discipline block existed but those models
never received it.

The block is extended with compact clauses distilled from that analysis:
- external-write read-back (tool-call success is not task success; internal
  file edits already confirmed by the tool are not re-verified)
- count reconciliation (declared totals/has_more are hard assertions)
- literal preservation (never normalize identifiers that fail a stated
  format; lookup success does not validate a malformed token)
- retry-differently (empty/partial/suspiciously narrow results get a
  broader retry before concluding)
- completion gated on verification (done = every named acceptance
  criterion verified, never a plausible subset)

The todo tool description now encourages enumeration-as-checklist for
"all N items" tasks and gates completed status on verified work, never
intent.

Guidance is chosen once at session start keyed on model name, so the
system prompt stays byte-stable for the life of a conversation.

Supersedes/absorbs prior contributor proposals: #20588, #35087, #41874
(MiMo), #53847 (GLM tool-calls-as-text stall).

Co-authored-by: Mat-London <56627804+Mat-London@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: intelac <8803887+intelac@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: 6ylqq <51219463+6ylqq@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: tauros1983 <267660491+tauros1983@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-19 16:16:37 -07:00
Teknium f08d3e400f feat: hermes tools lets Exa/Parallel users pick the free keyless or paid keyed endpoint
Exa and Parallel now each render as two picker rows in hermes tools —
'Free (keyless)' and 'Paid (API key)'. Selection persists to
web.provider_tier.<name>:
- free: always the anonymous public endpoint, even with a key set
- paid: always the keyed SDK path; missing key errors instead of
  silently downgrading to the free tier (is_keyless_available also
  returns False so the auto-fallback walk can't route there)
- unset: auto (key present -> paid, else keyless)

Mechanism: get_setup_schema() gains a 'variants' list the picker
flattens into sibling rows sharing one web_backend; selection writes
the tier via both _write_provider_config sites; active-row detection
matches the tier (auto mirrors use_keyless). Routing goes through a
single use_keyless() chokepoint shared by search+extract in both
providers.

Live E2E: tier=free with a fake key present searched keyless OK (a
keyed call would have 401'd); tier=paid without key errored naming
PARALLEL_API_KEY; picker rows verified for both vendors x both tiers.
2026-08-19 15:36:20 -07:00
Teknium 2d9dad0bae docs: correct Exa keyless rate-limit characterization
A 12-request sequential burst from the same IP that earlier saw the
free-tier rate-limit error went 12/12 OK — the limit is a transient
burst/load control, not a tight standing per-IP quota. Soften the docs
and setup-schema wording accordingly (opencode users hit Exa keyless
as their default path in practice without throttling).
2026-08-19 15:24:27 -07:00
Teknium 96c2fd3c04 feat: web search/extract now work keyless on fresh installs via Parallel + Exa free tiers
With zero web credentials configured, web_search/web_extract previously
resolved to the nonfunctional firecrawl sentinel and errored. Now the
backend resolution walks a strictly-last keyless tier: Parallel's and
Exa's public anonymous MCP endpoints (the same free tiers opencode ships
as its default search path).

- plugins/web/keyless_mcp.py: minimal JSON-RPC tools/call client for
  mcp.exa.ai + search.parallel.ai (SSE + plain JSON parsing, typed
  errors, per-process random session id, no user identifiers)
- WebSearchProvider.is_keyless_available(): separate weaker tier that
  never leaks into is_available(), so keyed setups are never pre-empted
- Exa/Parallel providers: route to keyless endpoints when their key is
  absent; keyed SDK path unchanged
- registry + _get_backend(): keyless walk (parallel -> exa) strictly
  after every keyed/importable candidate; check_web_api_key() lights
  the tools up on zero-credential installs
- web.keyless_fallback config key (default true) to disable the tier
- docs: web-search.md + configuration.md

E2E-verified against both live endpoints from an isolated HERMES_HOME
(search + extract via the real dispatchers, disable-flag negative path).
2026-08-19 15:15:27 -07:00
Teknium aba96d5251 feat(image-gen): route live-catalog models to the Image API; merge picker catalogs; docs
Follow-ups on top of the salvaged #82631 surface:

- _select_surface: an unknown model id found in the live /images/models
  catalog now ROUTES to the dedicated Image API instead of only logging a
  hint — without this, a model picked from the live picker that postdates
  the curated snapshot would fall onto chat-completions and fail. Curated
  defaults stay pinned to chat (no behaviour change for existing setups);
  offline probes still fall back to chat. _HINTED_MODELS removed.
- list_models (OpenRouter): union of the live GET /images/models catalog
  (43 models today) and the chat-completions image models, deduped,
  defaults first; curated metadata wins for known ids, API names for the
  rest. Nous Portal (no /images route) keeps its chat-only catalog.
  Offline fallback: static chain + curated Image API snapshot.
- Tests updated/added: unknown-id routing (flipped from the hint-only
  pinning test), non-catalog id stays on chat, merged-picker union/dedupe/
  order, Nous exclusion.
- Docs: image-generation.md gains the OpenRouter Image API section and an
  editing-support row.

Live-verified: picker lists 43 models; generation succeeded through the
dedicated API on google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image and on the previously
unreachable black-forest-labs/flux.2-klein-4b (config-selected, no kwarg).
2026-08-19 14:44:36 -07:00
Brooklyn Nicholson 60e9ed12c4 feat(tools): close_preview so the agent can dismiss the pane it opened
open_preview and read_preview could drive the page, but nothing could close
the pane. Same desktop_ui / session-source gate as the rest of the GUI tools.
2026-08-19 14:59:51 -05:00
Alex Fournier 31402f630b fix(relay): complete native plugin cutover
Signed-off-by: Alex Fournier <afournier@nvidia.com>
2026-08-19 08:52:03 -07:00
Bryan Bednarski 8afd98ef2a refactor(relay): remove legacy observability plugin
Signed-off-by: Bryan Bednarski <bbednarski@nvidia.com>
2026-08-19 08:52:02 -07:00
Bryan Bednarski 0a079b946f fix(relay): retain legacy observability plugin
Signed-off-by: Bryan Bednarski <bbednarski@nvidia.com>
2026-08-19 08:52:02 -07:00
Bryan Bednarski e8644e05a3 refactor(relay): remove legacy observability plugin
Signed-off-by: Bryan Bednarski <bbednarski@nvidia.com>
2026-08-19 08:52:01 -07:00
Teknium ac0a8cd281 feat(image-gen): xAI Grok image catalog goes live-driven; grok-imagine-image-2.0 selectable
- 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.
2026-08-19 01:19:37 -07:00
brooklyn! 6cf6ad47e1 Merge pull request #89620 from NousResearch/bb/agent-tours
Let Hermes give live guided tours of the UI
2026-08-19 01:06:59 -05:00
Teknium d23a4875aa docs: cover hermes chat --query-file and the file-based Bot Mode DM transport
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.
2026-08-18 23:02:48 -07:00
Brooklyn Nicholson bbd6607968 docs(tour): document navigating steps and the handle vocabulary 2026-08-19 00:52:56 -05:00
Brooklyn Nicholson 93b50ea0bb test+docs(tour): cover the engine and document the API
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.
2026-08-19 00:52:54 -05:00
David Dudok de Wit 9ed738fa0c fix(desktop): stabilize gateway settings interactions 2026-08-18 22:03:25 -07:00
David Dudok de Wit 72fc5ab7ca fix(desktop): use gateway terminology in connection UI 2026-08-18 22:03:25 -07:00
David Dudok de Wit 2228bc7d88 feat(desktop): remember the last used source 2026-08-18 22:03:25 -07:00
David Dudok de Wit ccd30f955c feat(desktop): distinguish sources from profiles 2026-08-18 22:03:25 -07:00
David Dudok de Wit 4ea516b8d4 docs(desktop): explain multi-source session scoping 2026-08-18 22:03:25 -07:00
Teknium a6bada232c feat(mcp): per-server oauth.user_agent for token-endpoint requests (#75576)
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).
2026-08-18 21:57:53 -07:00
Jaime Henriques 35078e849b docs: surface Bot Mode in docs landing paths 2026-08-18 21:51:09 -07:00
rob-maron 0b588cb3a4 MCP CIMD auth 2026-08-18 20:03:18 -07:00
Teknium 23c1c9815f fix(desktop): Bots sidebar highlight and Cronjobs tile now follow the chat on screen
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.
2026-08-18 19:51:13 -07:00
ethernet 25c6516607 feat(desktop): single confirm for the batch clarify card
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.
2026-08-18 21:28:53 -04:00
ethernet 86a6865e6e docs: describe multi-question clarify batches per surface 2026-08-18 21:28:53 -04:00
ethernet d5a9c2ba6c feat(nix): home-manager module, shared with the NixOS module
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
2026-08-18 20:42:06 -04:00
Teknium 0c5f195ee2 docs: document one-click plugin install links (hermes://plugin/install)
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.
2026-08-18 16:42:04 -07:00
Teknium a77ee88ce2 feat: Bot Mode avatars default to deterministic blob faces drawn from the agent's name
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.
2026-08-18 15:54:24 -07:00
seref 73ddf6665c feat(desktop): rich plugin OS notifications with deeplink activation
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).
2026-08-18 14:26:28 -07:00
Teknium c820a5d383 docs(teams-pipeline): document fetch --organizer-user-id
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.
2026-08-18 13:03:16 -07:00
Teknium d8e2386912 feat: Capabilities view configures the selected profile on its own gateway
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.
2026-08-18 11:31:43 -07:00