FactRetriever.search() re-encoded the query vector once per candidate,
related() re-encoded both role atoms once per fact row, and probe()
re-encoded the role-content atom once per row. All three encoders are
deterministic (SHA-256 counter blocks), so the hoisted vectors are
bit-identical to the per-iteration values they replace.
Measured (300-fact store, dim=1024, median of 30 calls): search()
11.62 -> 1.46 ms/call (8.0x; encode_text 30 -> 1 per call), related()
63.08 -> 16.17 ms/call (3.9x; encode_atom 601 -> 3 per call), probe()
431.93 -> 389.36 ms/call (1.1x; dominated by per-fact content encoding,
which is inherent to the algorithm and unchanged).
Tests: call-count regression tests for each hoist plus a bit-exact
parity test of search() against the pre-fix per-candidate loop.
Every ORDER BY id query on the messages table sorted or scanned the
whole session: get_messages_around's window seek, latest_message_row_id
(LIMIT 1), and get_messages' full-load ordering all paid O(session
history) per call — hot mid-turn via session_search and reactions.
messages.id is an original column (INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT),
so the index lives in SCHEMA_SQL next to idx_messages_session — no
legacy-column migration hazard (the kanban lesson from #28776 does not
apply).
Measured (real schema, one 20k-message session, median of 30):
get_messages_around 7.08 -> 0.22 ms (32x), latest_message_row_id
3.37 -> 0.011 ms (307x), get_messages full load 111.6 -> 98.6 ms
(1.13x — remaining cost is row deserialization, not the sort).
Window results byte-identical at probe points across the session.
Tests: VM-step pin (get_messages_around bounded work, calibrated
~12 vs ~855 handler calls, threshold 300 — fails without the index)
and window parity with/without the index. No EXPLAIN/plan text
(behavior contracts, AGENTS.md).
The scheduler's pre-dispatch loop called advance_next_run per due job —
one full load_jobs() + one full save_jobs() of the jobs file each — so
N due jobs cost N reads + N writes of the whole file (gateway-restart
catch-up or co-scheduled bursts). advance_next_runs() does one load +
at most one save for the whole due set with identical per-job semantics;
advance_next_run() is now a thin wrapper over it.
Measured (50 due recurring jobs, real jobs file): 107.9 ms -> 2.5 ms
(45x; 50 loads + 50 saves -> 1 + 1).
Tests: batch advances recurring and skips one-shots, single load + save
I/O pin (fails pre-fix — no such function), no save when nothing
advances, and per-job wrapper semantics unchanged. Related: #60946 and
#75833 both restructure this loop's call site for correctness — neither
addresses the I/O cost, and this batch primitive composes with either
dispatch design; happy to rebase onto whichever lands first.
Every reply paid one extra Discord API round trip: the text send path,
the voice send path, and the edit path each called fetch_message() just
to obtain a reference or an editable handle. Discord resolves
message_reference payloads from ids alone, and PartialMessage.edit()
works without a fetch — so build MessageReference directly (with
fail_if_not_exists=False, preserving the deleted-target behavior the
existing send-side 10008 retry already covered) and use
channel.get_partial_message() for edits. Overflow continuations keep
threading via an ids-built reference fallback for PartialMessage.
Measured by call count (deterministic): reply sends and edits now make
ZERO fetch_message calls where they made 1 per reply and 1 per edit
(including every streaming edit tick).
Tests: pin that first-mode replies construct the reference without any
fetch, deleted-target retry test updated to assert fetch await_count==0
(retry now happens purely send-side), overflow/edit mocks retargeted
from fetch_message to get_partial_message (any fetch regression breaks
all five). Note: 4 discord-suite failures are pre-existing ordering
flakes — identical with the change stashed on clean main.
Architecture fix for the bug class behind the Termux --version NameError
(live on main since eb4040242): version-printing kept being reimplemented
as *_fast() copies at the top of hermes_cli/main.py, each duplicating
canonical logic (project-root resolution, container detection, profile
detection). The copies drift silently — eb4040242 edited the canonical
output and referenced the PROJECT_ROOT module constant inside the fast
function, which doesn't exist yet at the fast exit point.
- hermes_cli/_startup_fast.py: THE implementations, stdlib-only. main.py's
*_fast() names become thin delegates (kept for test/back-compat), and
PROJECT_ROOT itself derives from the same helper — the constant and the
fast path can no longer disagree.
- Fast output now includes the .install_method stamp (one cheap file read)
and a 'Run hermes version for update status' pointer, so globalizing the
fast path doesn't silently drop slow-path info.
- Guard tests: (1) import-weight — subprocess-imports _startup_fast and
fails if any heavy module (config/yaml/argparse/cli/run_agent/httpx)
lands in sys.modules; (2) subprocess parity on+off Termux — the test
that would have caught eb4040242 the day it landed; (3) install-method
stamp surfacing.
hermes --version: ~3.8s cold / 0.2-0.4s warm -> 0.01-0.02s everywhere.
- agent_import.dump_yaml_file now calls utils.atomic_yaml_write instead
of hand-rolling safe_dump + atomic_write_text — same temp+fsync+atomic
rename and symlink preservation, plus mode/owner preservation a
0600-secured config.yaml needs
- openclaw script: the EXDEV/EBUSY copy fallback gains copystat + target
fsync so the docstring's 'mirrors utils.atomic_replace' durability
claim is true on cross-device deployments
- trim load_yaml_file's docstring to the behavior contract
The inlined temp-file + os.replace in openclaw_to_hermes.dump_yaml_file
replaced a symlinked config.yaml with a regular file, silently detaching
managed deployments that symlink ~/.hermes/config.yaml into a dotfiles repo or
profile package. The bare path.write_text it replaced followed the link, and
utils.atomic_replace -- which the hermes_cli twin reaches through
atomic_write_text -- resolves the link for exactly this reason (#16743).
Mirror that here: resolve the symlink before creating the temp file so the
rename lands on the real file, and fall back to copyfile on EXDEV/EBUSY now
that the target can live on another device. Covered by a regression test that
fails when the resolution is removed.
Also guard the permission-denied test for Windows: os.geteuid does not exist
there and chmod-based denial is unreliable, so skip on non-POSIX.
agent_import.py carries a private load_yaml_file/dump_yaml_file pair that
returned {} for an absent file AND for a present file it could not read or
parse. Three importers -- import_permission_allowlist, import_permission_denylist
and import_mcp_servers -- read config.yaml through it, merge one section into
the result, and write the whole mapping straight back. So a YAML syntax error,
a permission problem or a broken mount meant the importer replaced every
setting the user had with only the one to three keys it merged, and still
reported the item as "imported". The write was a bare path.write_text(), so an
interrupted import truncated the file instead.
Distinguish the two cases at the read. Absent, or present but empty, still
yields {} so first-time creation works. Present but unreadable, unparseable, or
not a mapping raises ConfigReadError; the three sites funnel through a new
load_target_config() that records the refusal as a per-item error and leaves the
file byte-identical. Dry-run refuses too, rather than previewing an "imported"
that would destroy the config. dump_yaml_file now writes through
utils.atomic_write_text, which the module already imports and uses for the
memory store.
This is the invariant hermes_cli/config.py already enforces for its own writers
via require_readable_config_before_write / atomic_config_write, whose docstring
names this exact root cause and calls itself "the single chokepoint every
config-update path should use". agent_import.py has its own helper pair and so
was never covered; it was the last config.yaml writer without the guard.
The identical helper pair lives in openclaw_to_hermes.py, the script this module
was ported from, where twelve config.yaml read-modify-write sites share the same
defect; fixed there too. Its refusal is recorded at the run_if_selected dispatch
point, which flips the existing _config_apply_blocked flag so the remaining
config-mutating options short-circuit instead of each rediscovering the same
unreadable file. The atomic write is inlined with tempfile + os.replace because
that script runs standalone with only the stdlib on its path.
kill_started_since duplicated kill_all's collect-under-lock/kill-outside-lock
loop line for line; it is now a thin delegate through new kill_all kwargs
(exclude_ids, source, consume_output). Public signatures unchanged — existing
callers and test monkeypatch seams keep working. kill_process's docstring now
names the deliberate consume_output=True exception for abandoned-turn reaping
so the deviation isn't 'fixed' later.
The API server intentionally lets concurrent runs share a client-provided
session_id (= process task_id), so the SSE-disconnect reap could kill a
process a still-live concurrent run spawned after the disconnecting run's
baseline — the same stale-reaper bug class the gateway path gates via
run_generation.
- Per-task-id run epochs (monotonic counter): each run claims the epoch at
publish; a reaper holding a superseded epoch declines to kill. A missing
entry (the run's own clear pruned it) still reaps, so the leak fix isn't
silently disabled.
- _publish_turn_process_ownership / _clear_turn_process_ownership helpers
replace the copy-pasted marker set/clear blocks, so attribute names and
epoch bookkeeping can't drift between surfaces.
- /v1/runs — the third own-lifecycle surface — now records ownership and
reaps on POST /v1/runs/{id}/stop and on server-side SSE cancellation,
closing the remaining sibling paths of #76115.
Two follow-ups from review of the salvaged fix:
- _reap_gateway_turn_processes now returns 0 for a blank task_id.
ProcessSession.task_id defaults to empty for sessionless callers, so a
blank turn id would match (and kill) every unrelated empty-task process
instead of the turn's own.
- The asyncio poll loop checks executor completion BEFORE the watchdog's
timeout flag. When both race in the same window, the completed run has
already persisted its real reply to session history; surfacing the
'agent inactive' diagnostic would contradict the stored transcript.
This matches _abandon_timed_out_gateway_turn's own worker-done-wins
tiebreak.
dbbb10d39 shipped without direct test coverage for its own new logic
— the same gap teknium's review flagged on the competing PR. Close it:
- _reap_gateway_turn_processes: skips when is_still_current() is
False, proceeds when True, fails open (reaps) if the check itself
raises rather than silently disabling the leak fix.
- _abandon_timed_out_gateway_turn: still marks the turn abandoned
(interrupt fires) even when the reap itself is skipped.
- api_server._reap_disconnected_agent_processes: reaps the
baseline-diff for an owned turn, no-ops when the agent never
recorded ownership markers.
- APIServerAdapter._run_agent: markers are populated with the right
task_id/baseline during the turn and cleared once it completes,
closing the same race window fixed in gateway/run.py for this
separate agent-lifecycle surface.
An agent turn can spawn a long-running background subprocess (e.g.
`next build`) and later be abandoned via inactivity timeout, /stop,
/new, or a client disconnect. Before this fix the gateway interrupted
the agent loop but never touched the subprocess: it kept running
inside the gateway's cgroup, unbounded, until memory pressure starved
the event loop and made every platform/cron look hung (#76115).
The process registry already knew how to kill a process tree — the
missing piece was per-turn ownership: nothing distinguished a process
that predates the turn (must survive), a process the turn started and
finished successfully (must survive), and a process an abandoned turn
left running (must be reaped).
- tools/process_registry.py: snapshot_running_ids() captures a turn's
starting baseline; kill_started_since() reaps only IDs created after
it, scoped to one task_id.
- gateway/turn_context.py: TurnContext carries process_task_id +
process_baseline so the timeout/interrupt paths can reach them.
- gateway/run.py: baseline is snapshotted right before the turn's
executor task starts; the inactivity-timeout path and the explicit
/stop|/new|disconnect interrupt path both reap via the same helper.
A daemon-thread watchdog backs up the asyncio-based timeout poll,
since a starved event loop is exactly the failure mode this bug
causes. The turn's own worker clears its ownership markers the
instant it finishes, closing a race where a /stop landing right
after normal completion could reap a background process the turn
deliberately left running.
Related but insufficient on their own: #37454 (cgroup ExecStopPost
reaper only fires on service restart) and #68915 (orphaned-pipe
grandchild detection, a registry bug not a turn-lifecycle gap).
Neither ties process cleanup to turn abandonment.
- logger.warning when the 6h ceiling stops the heartbeat (matches the
delegate_task stale-stop precedent) so the eventual watchdog reap is
explainable from logs instead of silent
- new mutation-checked test: past the ceiling the heartbeat stops while
the job still completes
- clearer assertion messages (surface res on failure)
- heartbeat loop continues past a raising activity callback instead of
silently stopping (matches delegate_task / touch_activity_if_due
swallow-and-continue semantics) — one transient error must not drop
watchdog protection for the rest of a long job
- hard 6h elapsed ceiling so a wedged job under HERMES_CRON_TIMEOUT=0
(unlimited child watchdog) cannot mask the gateway watchdog forever
- public get_activity_callback() accessor in tools/environments/base.py
instead of importing the private _get_activity_callback cross-module
- tests: deterministic heartbeat test (event-gated, no timing sleep),
no-callback test now asserts the thread is truly never created, new
exception-survival guard; dead started event removed
- fix comment: delegate_task heartbeat cadence is 30s, not 10s
/simplify-code review found _poll_for_token has a second caller:
web_server._nous_poller (dashboard/desktop device login), which surfaces
str(e) as the UI error_message — so wrapping only in
_nous_device_code_login left the dashboard showing the bare timeout.
Move the enrichment into _poll_for_token's deadline raise so every
caller inherits the guidance, and drop the now-redundant try/except
wrap in the CLI login. Add a source-level regression test driving the
real poll loop (authorization_pending stub client) to the deadline.
A bare 'Timed out waiting for device authorization' gives the user
nothing to act on. The most common cause is Portal sign-in failing in
the opened browser tab (including the server-side CAPTCHA loop from
issue #20605), so point at the Portal login page and the hermes portal
retry command.
Salvaged from PR #75290 by @HexLab98 (timeout-guidance kernel only).
The URL-rewrite portion of that PR was dropped: the live Portal has no
/device route (verified 404 with a real user_code), so rewriting the
manage-subscription verification URL would break login entirely.
Guidance text reworded to reference only real URLs.
Follow-up to the salvaged #76000 guard:
- refuse installing a skill INTO an existing skill directory (hybrid
skill-plus-category dirs whose later update/uninstall rmtree would
destroy the nested skill — sibling case of #75983)
- refuse a stray regular file at the install path with the caller's
ValueError contract instead of an uncaught NotADirectoryError
- regression tests: nested-only category (skills at depth >= 2),
category-inside-skill, file collision
The salvaged hydrate_profile_secret_sources (#74549) seeded its
profile-local env from <home>/.env only, but the documented 1Password
bootstrap flow puts OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN in the gitignored
<home>/.op.env (mirrored from load_hermes_dotenv). A cold profile using
that flow still failed 1Password hydration — the one unaddressed item
from the sweeper review on #74549. Seed .op.env via setdefault so .env
values win; never touches os.environ. Two regression tests.
Fix#75349
Root cause:
Under multiplex_profiles, secondary profiles run inside
_profile_runtime_scope which installs a per-profile secret scope via
set_secret_scope. The WhatsApp adapter (and the shared
WhatsAppBehaviorMixin + Cloud API adapter) read WHATSAPP_MODE,
WHATSAPP_DM_POLICY, etc. via raw os.getenv(), bypassing the secret
scope. Since os.environ doesn't contain secondary profile .env values,
the bridge silently falls back to 'self-chat' and rejects all inbound
messages with self_chat_mode_rejects_non_self.
Fix:
- Add _wenv() helper in adapter.py that reads WHATSAPP_* vars through
get_secret() (agent.secret_scope), which honors the active scope.
- Replace all os.getenv('WHATSAPP_*') calls in adapter.py,
whatsapp_common.py, and whatsapp_cloud.py with get_secret()-based
equivalents.
- Inject resolved WHATSAPP_* values into the bridge subprocess
environment so the Node.js bridge (which reads process.env) sees the
profile's own configuration.
Changes:
- plugins/platforms/whatsapp/adapter.py: 37 lines (+ helper, bridge_env
injection, 2 os.getenv→_wenv)
- gateway/platforms/whatsapp_common.py: 13 lines (6 os.getenv→_get_wsecret)
- gateway/platforms/whatsapp_cloud.py: 21 lines (9 os.getenv→_get_wsecret)
- New regression test: 6 test cases covering scope isolation, fallback,
and cross-profile non-leakage.
The Matrix adapter read MATRIX_RECOVERY_KEY via os.getenv, so under
gateway.multiplex_profiles every profile resolved the default profile's
key. That produced "recovery key verification failed: Key MAC does not
match" and broke E2EE for secondary profiles (#69090).
Route the read through agent.secret_scope.get_secret, which honors the
active profile's scope, with an os.getenv fallback for an unscoped read
under multiplex (default-profile startup loop) — mirroring the Slack
app-token pattern (#59739). Applied to both the startup verification
site and the status diagnostic.
Fixes#69090
Multiplexed gateways resolve credentials through the fail-closed
per-profile secret scope (agent/secret_scope.py, Workstream A): any
get_secret() read outside a set_secret_scope(...) block raises
UnscopedSecretError. The agent turn installs the scope via _run_agent's
profile-scoping wrapper, but slash-command dispatch does not — so manual
/compress reached provider resolution unscoped and every invocation on a
gateway.multiplex_profiles: true deployment failed with:
Manual compress failed: get_secret('OPENROUTER_BASE_URL') called with
no profile secret scope active while multiplexing is on.
Same bug class as the cron scheduler (#57692) and the /v1/runs agent
path — an un-migrated call site the fail-closed design is meant to catch.
Two changes, both required:
- _handle_compress_command becomes a profile-scoping wrapper around the
existing handler (renamed _handle_compress_command_inner), mirroring
_run_agent: gated on multiplex_profiles, resolves the source profile's
home and runs the whole handler inside _profile_runtime_scope. Covers
the coroutine-side read (_resolve_session_agent_runtime).
- The compressor call switches from a bare loop.run_in_executor(None, …)
to the existing _run_in_executor_with_context helper, so the scope
contextvar survives the thread hop into _compress_context, where the
aux-client provider resolution reads credentials.
Single-profile gateways take the pass-through branch — zero behavior
change (pinned by test).
Tests: 2 added (scoped read inside the executor under fail-closed
multiplexing reproduces the field failure pre-fix; single-profile
pass-through). 162 gateway compress/multiplex-scope tests green.
- Merge _aux_free_only() + _aux_openrouter_model() into single
_aux_openrouter_settings() that reads config once via
load_config_readonly (avoids double deepcopy).
- Remove 15-line block comment and 5-line inline comment that
restated what the code already says.
- Trim module docstring from 10 lines to 3.
- Update test patches to target load_config_readonly.
Desktop edit / regenerate / restore-checkpoint send truncate_before_user_ordinal
on prompt.submit. The handler rewrote session['history'] first, then called
replace_messages, and on failure only printed to stderr and still started the
turn. When the durable write fails, in-memory history is already truncated
and history_version is bumped while state.db still holds the pre-edit tail.
The agent flush is append-only for history-dict identities, so the new
exchange is appended on top of the 'undone' turns — durable zombie history.
Fix: persist first; only then mutate memory. On failure return 5008 and
leave memory/DB unchanged.
Based on #72876 by @necoweb3. Adapted: the handler moved from
tui_gateway/server.py to tui_gateway/methods_prompt.py since the PR's base.
Start from main's 13 tests (renamed test_openai_available_reflects_key
to test_openai_available_reflects_audio_key_resolution, added 4 new
tests for xai oauth, elevenlabs secret resolver, openai configured
key, stream cap). Append 12 new regression tests from PR #71084 for
the prefetch pipeline, PCM misalignment, and PortAudio resilience.
Patch platform.system in stream-path tests for main's macOS guard.
Follow-ups from review of #76113:
- Extract cache_ttl_means_disabled() as the single disable-synonym
predicate; agent_init and prompt_caching_disabled_from_config both use
it so the two detection sites can no longer drift (drift would recreate
the #76085 bug class).
- Mirror _run_reference's not-None injection guard in
aggregate_moa_context (stamping None was a harmless no-op copy).
- Replace a vacuous trailing test assertion with the intended
input-non-mutation check; drop a stray blank line.
- Add a predicate-parity regression test (unknown TTL values keep
caching enabled, matching historical agent_init semantics).
Absorb the useful deltas from the parallel #76121 approach: a single
blank_cache_policy_stub factory so _cache_disabled cannot be left off
hand-rolled SimpleNamespaces, and pin the live agent disable onto MoA
advisor fan-out and one-shot aggregate_moa_context decoration so those
paths track conversation state rather than a fresh config re-read.
Keeps the earlier tri-state prepared-aggregator no-agent fix. Adds
factory and synthesis/advisor regressions.
Coordinates with #76121 / #76085.
Co-authored-by: JoaoMarcos44 <87440198+JoaoMarcos44@users.noreply.github.com>
Prepared-aggregator facades built via __new__ lack _agent. Accessing
self._agent raised inside the planner try and bool-coercion of a missing
snapshot forced False, suppressing config fallback for cache_ttl=off.
Pass a tri-state value and add a no-agent/config-off regression.
Blank SimpleNamespace stubs used by MoA decoration and
plan_cache_sections_for_destination never set _cache_disabled, so
anthropic_prompt_cache_policy re-injected cache_control markers after
operators turned caching off. Stamp the disable onto those stubs from
an explicit flag or the live config, and pass the agent flag from the
MoA aggregator path.
Fixes#76085
Extend phone/JID alias matching to whatsapp_cloud and treat a removed
allowlist env key as empty so sole-entry revoke cannot revive a stale
adapter snapshot.
Track which source seeded the DM allowlist so live intake does not let a
stale env carrier override explicit config, while env-seeded adapters still
reread pairing mutations.
`hermes desktop` still failed with EBADENGINE demanding Node >=26 after
#76562, on a machine whose `apps/desktop/package.json` already said
`^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0`. #76562 fixed the manifest but not its mirror in
`package-lock.json`, and `npm ci` reads engines from the lockfile:
package.json apps/desktop -> {'node': '^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0'}
package-lock apps/desktop -> {'node': '>=26.0.0'} <- what gated
Chasing that exposed a second, pre-existing problem: the floor #76562
declared was too generous. Running the real `npm ci` against the whole
workspace on Node 22.21.1 fails on a transitive dependency —
npm error notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm:
react-router@8.3.0
npm error notsup Required: {"node":">=22.22.0"}
react-router 8.3.0 (a direct dependency of both `apps/desktop` and `web`)
declares `>=22.22.0`, which is tighter than Vite's `^20.19 || >=22.12` and
excludes all of Node 20. So `>=20.0.0` promised support the tree cannot
deliver: an install on Node 20 or early 22 passed the installer's gate and
then died inside `npm ci` on someone else's package.
All four engine declarations now state the floor the dependency tree
actually has, `>=22.22.0`: root `package.json`, `apps/desktop/package.json`,
and both of their `package-lock.json` mirrors. The installer gates move with
them (`node_satisfies_build` in install.sh, `Test-NodeVersionOk` in
install.ps1) so a too-old system Node is replaced with the managed one
*before* npm runs, and the failure a user does see names hermes-agent rather
than a transitive package. NODE_VERSION stays 22 — latest-v22.x is 22.23.2,
comfortably above the floor.
The invariant test gains the case that would have caught the mirror drift on
its own: the desktop assertion now pins the tightest floor a dependency
actually declares, and the managed-runtime check compares majors, since
install.sh fetches latest-v{major}.x rather than {major}.0.0.
Verified with real `npm ci --dry-run` over the full workspace:
- node 22.23.2 (what install.sh provisions) -> 1258 packages
- node 26.5.1 -> 1189 packages
- node 22.21.1 (below the floor) -> EBADENGINE naming
hermes-agent, i.e. our own manifest, not react-router
`hermes update` aborted its managed-Python runtime repair with an error
that reads like a contradiction:
⚠ Managed Python runtime repair skipped: cannot import name
'venv_python_path' from 'hermes_constants'
(/home/teknium/.hermes/hermes-agent/hermes_constants.py)
The named file does contain the symbol. The module in memory does not.
main.py imports hermes_constants from the OLD checkout, `git pull` then
replaces that file on disk, and the freshly-pulled managed_uv runs its
lazy `from hermes_constants import venv_python_path` against the module
object Python already cached in sys.modules — the pre-upgrade one. The
ImportError reports the path of the new file, so it looks like the symbol
is missing from a file that plainly has it.
Same update-boundary class already documented on `_UvResult` for the
ensure_uv() arity skew. It fires on the first update from any release
older than 83314ca38, which introduced the symbol.
Both lazy call sites now reload the module from disk on ImportError:
- hermes_cli/managed_uv.py::_venv_python — the reported path
- hermes_cli/gateway.py::get_python_path — same flaw, same fix; a gateway
restarted mid-update hits it identically
Reload rather than a local fallback on purpose. Recomputing the layout
inline would hand-roll `Scripts`/`bin` a second time — exactly what #76105
deduped into venv_bin_dir()/venv_python_path(), and what
test_no_open_coded_venv_layout_remains_in_hermes_cli bans. Reloading fixes
the actual problem (a stale module) and keeps one owner for the layout.
hermes_cli/update_cmd.py imports the symbol at module scope, which is a
different failure mode (the module fails to import at all) and is already
covered by the installer's retry-once for the update-boundary crash.
Tests reproduce the stale-module state by deleting the attribute from the
imported hermes_constants: recovery resolves through the reloaded shared
helper (asserted via a sentinel, so an open-coded copy cannot pass), and
the normal path never reloads. Against origin/main's managed_uv they fail
with the exact reported ImportError.
Fresh installs and `hermes update` both fail at the first `npm ci`:
npm error code EBADENGINE
npm error notsup Required: {"node":">=26.0.0","npm":">=12.0.0"}
npm error notsup Actual: {"node":"v24.15.0","npm":"11.12.1"}
`.npmrc` sets engine-strict=true, so `engines` is a hard gate on every
install. The floor was raised to npm >=12 — but no Node release bundles
npm 12: Node 26 ships 11.17.0, 24 ships 11.16.0, 22 ships 10.9.8. The
requirement is unsatisfiable by any stock toolchain, so the installer
provisions a Node and is immediately unable to install with it.
engines.npm becomes `<11.10.0 || >=11.17.0`. That still excludes the band
the strictness was actually for: npm 11.10-11.16 honor `min-release-age`
but ignore `min-release-age-exclude`, both set in .npmrc, so they apply the
14-day gate to packages we exempted. Verified rather than assumed — npm
11.12.1 fails `ETARGET ... vite@8.2.0 with a date before 7/18/2026` while
11.17.0 installs it.
engines.node returns to >=20.0.0 and the toolchain floor to Node 22.
Nothing in the tree needs 26: Vite 8.2.0 declares `^20.19.0 || >=22.12.0`
and Electron 40 declares `>=12.20.55`. Requiring 26 force-migrated every
working install for no dependency reason. apps/desktop drops to Vite's own
floor for the same reason; the desktop bundle builds clean on Node 22.
install.sh gained a second gate: a system Node was accepted on version
alone, so a machine with Node 24 + its bundled npm 11.16.0 (the bad band)
passed the check and then failed `npm ci`. npm_supports_npmrc() now rejects
that band and installs the managed Node instead.
CI, Docker and nix are hermetic and keep pinning Node 26 / npm 12 — they
provision their own toolchain, and both satisfy the relaxed range.
tests/test_engines_satisfiable.py encodes the invariants that would have
caught this: the npm floor must be met by an npm some shipping Node
bundles, the node floor by the runtime install.sh provisions, the desktop
floor by its own build toolchain, and the lockfile mirror must match.
Restoring the broken values fails 5 of them with the reason stated.
Verified end-to-end (real downloads, temp HERMES_HOME):
- fresh install: managed node v22.23.2 / npm 10.9.8 -> npm ci, 209 packages
- existing managed tree (v22.22.3 / npm 10.9.8) -> npm ci, 209 packages
- node 26.5.1 + bundled npm 11.17.0 -> npm ci, 208 packages
- system npm 11.12.1 (the reported case) -> EBADENGINE, recovery provisions
a managed tree and retries green
- apps/desktop `npm run build` on Node 22 -> dist built, assert passes
#76499 landed the npm floor as >=11.17.0 on a Node >=20 baseline. This
branch takes the other half of the same constraint: the vendored Node 26
tree now installs npm 12 into itself, so the toolchain satisfies the
stricter floor rather than the manifest relaxing to meet the tarball.
Resolved package.json + package-lock.json to node >=26.0.0 / npm >=12.0.0
and refreshed npm_engine.py's illustrative range to match. website/'s
mirror keeps #76499's >=11.17.0 — it is not a root workspace and builds
on its own Node.
Live staging (2026-08-02): only the FIRST auto-thread in a channel got an
auto-title/rename. Root cause is a grouping-model mismatch — the connector
auto-threads per message (each channel message spawns its own thread), but the
gateway keyed sessions per PARENT CHANNEL, so every message after the first
reused the first message's already-titled session; auto-title short-circuited
and the rename lane never fired for later threads.
Intended model: a channel message INITIATES a session, the thread CONTINUES it.
A Discord thread created from a message reuses that message's id as the thread
id, so the connector can tell us the thread id at inbound (before the thread
exists). The paired connector change stamps it as source.prospective_thread_id;
this keys the session on it:
- SessionSource.prospective_thread_id (new field; to_dict/from_dict + the relay
ws_transport inbound source build read it off the wire).
- build_session_key: effective_thread_id = thread_id or prospective_thread_id.
The channel-initiating message (no thread_id, carries prospective) and the
later follow-ups that arrive IN that thread (real thread_id ==
prospective_thread_id) now produce the SAME key. A real thread_id always
wins. The chat_type slot is normalized to "thread" when keying on a
prospective id so the initiating "group"/"channel" event byte-matches the
follow-up "thread" event. Prospective-thread sessions are shared across
participants like any thread (not per-user).
Net effect: each distinct channel message is its own session/thread and gets
its own title + rename; follow-ups inside a thread continue that session with
full history. Additive and inert until the connector sends the field, so
non-relay and pre-deploy behaviour is byte-identical.
Tests: initiate-then-continue share one session; distinct channel messages get
distinct sessions; real thread_id wins over prospective; prospective sessions
shared across participants. Session suite 59 passed; relay suite green; ruff +
footguns clean.
Paired: gateway-gateway stamps prospective_thread_id per auto-threading instance.
Existing users who only ever launch Hermes (never re-run an installer)
kept their managed Node 22 tree forever: the heal path only fired for
*broken* trees, and a healthy 22 passes the --version probe. Now
"outdated" heals the same way "broken" does, on both sides of the mirror:
- hermes_constants.py: find_hermes_node_executable() checks
_managed_node_tree_outdated() (managed node major <
_HERMES_NODE_TARGET_MAJOR) and routes through the existing
once-per-process heal_hermes_managed_node(), which redownloads
latest-v26.x. When the heal fails (offline, download error) the
outdated-but-runnable tree is still returned — old Node beats no Node.
- scripts/lib/node-bootstrap.sh: _nb_managed_node_needs_heal() gains the
matching _nb_managed_node_outdated() rung, so heal_managed_node agrees
with the Python side.
This is the same shape as the managed-uv flow: resolve the managed
runtime, notice it can't satisfy the requirement, provision the right one
in place, fall back gracefully.
Tests (tests/test_hermes_constants.py): outdated tree triggers heal and
returns the upgraded binary; failed heal still serves the old tree; an
at-target tree never heals (heal stub raises).
Hermes installs runtimes for itself — `uv` at `$HERMES_HOME/bin/uv`, Node
at `$HERMES_HOME/node` — and neither directory is on an arbitrary
process's PATH. Every `shutil.which("node"/"npm"/"npx"/"uv")` in Hermes's
own code therefore has two failure modes: the managed runtime is invisible,
so the caller reports "not installed" or degrades to a slower tier on a
machine that has exactly what it needed; and when a system copy also
exists, the one Hermes does not own wins.
Routed the Hermes-owned call sites through managed-aware resolvers:
- `agent/lsp/install.py`, `hermes_cli/dep_ensure.py`, `hermes_cli/main.py`
(`_make_tui_argv`), `hermes_cli/tools_config.py` (`_run_post_setup`) now
use `find_node_executable()`.
- `hermes_cli/tools_config.py::_pip_install` and `hermes_cli/setup.py`'s
vercel install use `ensure_uv()` (installing uv is in scope during setup,
and the Windows installer's `uv venv` does not seed pip, so the fallback
tier is "No module named pip"). `tools/lazy_deps.py` uses `resolve_uv()`
— a lookup, not a bootstrap, because it runs mid-turn for an optional
dependency and downloading a runtime as a side effect exceeds what the
caller asked for.
- `hermes_cli/gateway.py`: extracted `_append_node_dir_for_service()`,
shared by the systemd unit and launchd plist generators, which appends
the managed dirs before the PATH-resolved one. A service definition is
written once and survives reboots, so resolving a system Node that
happens to lead the installing shell's PATH bakes the wrong interpreter
in permanently. Managed dirs are profile-scoped, so each profile's unit
still names its own Node; the existing symlink-parent rule (don't
`.resolve()`) is preserved verbatim.
- `tools/environments/local.py`: the terminal tool's subshell PATH gains
the managed dirs, appended alongside the sane entries rather than
prepended — a tool the user deliberately put on their own PATH still
wins, and the managed one only fills a gap. This is also what makes the
bare `which("uv")` in `tools/env_probe.py` correct: that probe reports
the environment the *model* sees, and the model can only run what is on
that subshell's PATH.
`scripts/install.ps1`: the persisted User PATH update becomes
`Set-ManagedNodeFirstOnUserPath`, a move-to-front rather than an
add-if-missing. Installs made by an older install.ps1 already have the
managed dir in User PATH — at the tail, behind a system Node — and an
add-if-missing check sees it present and leaves that ordering in place
forever, so the users the bug hurt would never be repaired. Unrelated
entries keep their relative order (empty segments included; a trailing
`;` is legal and the installer's other PATH code preserves them),
duplicates collapse, and it writes only when the string actually changes.
Tests:
- `tests/test_managed_runtime_resolution.py` — AST guard that fails any
new bare `which()` for a managed runtime, with a short justified
allow-list and a companion test that fails when an allow-list entry goes
stale. Reading source is banned by AGENTS.md and this is the documented
exception: the property is "no call site anywhere spells it this way",
which no runtime seam can observe.
- `scripts/ci/test_install_ps1_path_migration.ps1` — behavioral, not a
source regex: it lifts the real `Set-ManagedNodeFirstOnUserPath` out of
install.ps1's AST and rewrites only the two registry calls into an
in-memory store, so the shipped split/dedupe/prepend/change-detection
logic executes for real. Not in the default lane (Linux runners have no
PowerShell host); runs under `pwsh`. 13/13 assertions pass.
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