- Captured stdout at spinner creation to prevent redirection issues from child agents.
- Replaced direct print statements with a new `_write` method for consistent output handling during spinner animation and final message display.
- Enhanced code maintainability and clarity by centralizing output logic.
- Eliminated the `_raw_write` function to simplify output handling in the `KawaiiSpinner` class.
- Updated spinner animation and final message display to use standard print statements, ensuring compatibility with prompt_toolkit.
- Improved code clarity and maintainability by reducing complexity in the output rendering process.
- Added a new function `_raw_write` to write directly to stdout, bypassing prompt_toolkit's interference with ANSI escapes and carriage returns.
- Updated the `KawaiiSpinner` class to utilize `_raw_write` for rendering spinner animations and final messages, ensuring proper display in terminal environments.
- Improved the clarity of output handling during spinner operations, enhancing user experience during tool execution.
- Introduced a new configuration option for reasoning effort in the CLI, allowing users to specify the level of reasoning the agent should perform before responding.
- Updated the CLI and agent initialization to incorporate the reasoning configuration, enhancing the agent's responsiveness and adaptability.
- Implemented logic to load reasoning effort from environment variables and configuration files, providing flexibility in agent behavior.
- Enhanced the documentation in the example configuration file to clarify the new reasoning effort options available.
- Introduced a new landing page with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to showcase the Hermes Agent.
- Added a banner image and logo to enhance visual appeal.
- Implemented interactive features such as a copy-to-clipboard function for installation commands and scroll-triggered animations for improved user engagement.
- Designed a responsive layout with sections detailing the agent's features, installation instructions, and community links.
- Implemented functionality to load ephemeral prefill messages from a JSON file, enhancing few-shot priming capabilities for the agent.
- Introduced a mechanism to load an ephemeral system prompt from environment variables or configuration files, ensuring dynamic prompt adjustments at API-call time.
- Updated the CLI and agent initialization to utilize the new prefill messages and system prompt, improving the overall interaction experience.
- Enhanced configuration options with new environment variables for prefill messages and system prompts, allowing for greater customization without persistence.
- Added a new section in the README for Inference Providers, detailing setup instructions for Nous Portal, OpenRouter, and Custom Endpoints, improving user guidance for LLM connections.
- Updated messaging platform setup instructions to include Slack and WhatsApp, providing clearer steps for configuration.
- Introduced a new environment variable, TERMINAL_SANDBOX_DIR, to allow users to customize the sandbox storage location for Docker and Singularity environments.
- Refactored the Docker and Singularity environment classes to utilize the new sandbox directory for persistent workspaces, enhancing organization and usability.
- Improved handling of working directories across various environments, ensuring compatibility and clarity in execution paths.
- Updated the README to include new badges, a detailed description of the Hermes Agent, and a table summarizing its features, improving clarity and presentation for users.
- Modified the API client initialization in `transcription_tools.py` and `tts_tool.py` to include a base URL, ensuring compatibility with the OpenAI API.
- Introduced a new mapping for toolset environment variable requirements, enhancing the configuration process by prompting users for missing API keys.
- Implemented a function to check and prompt users for necessary API keys when enabling toolsets, improving user experience and ensuring proper setup.
- Updated the tools command to integrate the new API key checks, streamlining the configuration workflow for users.
- Updated messaging in the checklist prompts to simplify instructions for item selection, changing "Press SPACE to select items, then ENTER on Continue" to "SPACE to toggle, ENTER to confirm."
- Removed the "Continue →" entry from the menu items to streamline the selection process.
- Enhanced user experience by clarifying input prompts and removing unnecessary options, ensuring a more intuitive interaction.
- Updated the display format of tool descriptions in the configuration prompts to enhance readability.
- Simplified the messaging for enabled tool counts, removing unnecessary color formatting for a cleaner output.
- Streamlined the exit message for the configuration process, improving user experience during tool setup.
- Introduced a new `tools` command in the CLI for configuring enabled tools per platform.
- Implemented an interactive checklist for users to enable or disable toolsets for various platforms, enhancing customization options.
- Created a new `tools_config.py` file to handle the logic for toolset management and user prompts, improving code organization and user experience.
- Introduced a new helper function to handle API key prompts, improving code organization and readability.
- Enhanced user experience by providing a formatted display for API key input, including tool descriptions and URLs.
- Simplified the setup wizard by replacing inline API key handling with the new helper function, ensuring consistent messaging and feedback during configuration.
- Modified the prompt in the setup wizard to clarify the selection process, instructing users to press SPACE to select items and ENTER to continue, enhancing user experience during configuration.
- Updated the setup wizard to present messaging platforms as a checklist, allowing users to select which platforms to configure.
- Preserved the order of platforms while grouping them for improved clarity.
- Enhanced user prompts for setting up each selected messaging platform, streamlining the configuration process.
- Changed default value for HERMES_TOOL_PROGRESS from "false" to "true" to enable tool progress notifications by default.
- Updated default value for HERMES_TOOL_PROGRESS_MODE from "new" to "all" to provide more comprehensive progress updates.
- Enhanced the setup wizard prompts for enabling tool progress messages and context compression, improving user guidance and experience.
- Updated the OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS dictionary to include a new "category" field for better organization of environment variables.
- Improved the setup wizard to categorize missing optional environment variables into tools and messaging platforms, enhancing user experience during configuration.
- Streamlined the prompts for configuring tools and messaging platforms, allowing for a more intuitive setup process.
- Updated the environment variable name from HERMES_OPENAI_API_KEY to VOICE_TOOLS_OPENAI_KEY across multiple files to avoid interference with OpenRouter.
- Adjusted related error messages and configuration prompts to reflect the new variable name, ensuring consistency throughout the codebase.
- Eliminated the multi_select_cursor_brackets_style parameter from the prompt_checklist function, simplifying the code and improving clarity in the multi-select user interface.
- Introduced automatic installation of Node.js version 22 if not found on the system, enhancing the setup process for browser tools.
- Improved the check for existing Node.js installations, including support for Hermes-managed installations.
- Added logic to download and extract the appropriate Node.js binary based on the system architecture and OS.
- Updated the installation script to handle missing dependencies like ripgrep and ffmpeg, providing installation prompts for macOS users.
- Cleared the REQUIRED_ENV_VARS dictionary as no single environment variable is universally required.
- Enhanced the OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS with improved descriptions and added advanced options for better user guidance.
- Introduced a new prompt_checklist function to allow users to select tools during setup, improving the configuration experience.
- Updated the setup wizard to handle missing optional environment variables using the new checklist, streamlining the tool configuration process.
- Updated the command name from `/set-home` to `/sethome` in the GatewayRunner class for consistency.
- Added a new slash command `/sethome` in the Discord adapter to set the home channel.
- Registered the `/sethome` command in the Telegram adapter to align with the updated naming convention.
- Renamed variable `source` to `mirror_src` for clarity in the message tagging logic within the GatewayRunner class, enhancing code readability while maintaining functionality.
- Replaced the call to `_load()` with `_ensure_loaded()` in the `has_any_sessions` method to improve clarity and ensure that session data is properly initialized before checking for existing sessions.
- Updated the toolset ID retrieval logic in the build_welcome_banner function to use a fallback to the toolset name if the ID is not present, ensuring robustness in displaying unavailable toolsets.
- Updated the mapping of unavailable toolsets in the welcome banner from using the internal toolset ID to the toolset name for improved clarity and accuracy in display.
- Removed static methods for converting and checking <REASONING_SCRATCHPAD> tags, simplifying the codebase.
- Replaced calls to the removed methods with direct function calls for better clarity and maintainability.
- Updated trajectory saving logic to utilize a dedicated function for improved organization and readability.
- Introduced a new `_cleanup_test_artifacts` function to remove test-generated files and directories after test execution.
- Integrated the cleanup function into the `test_current_implementation` and `test_interruption_and_resume` tests to ensure proper resource management and prevent clutter from leftover files.
- Replaced the Nous API key check with the Auxiliary Model check in the WebToolsTester class.
- Updated the environment configuration to reflect the change in API key validation, ensuring accurate reporting of available keys.
- Introduced a shared interrupt signaling mechanism to allow tools to check for user interrupts during long-running operations.
- Updated the AIAgent to handle interrupts more effectively, ensuring in-progress tool calls are canceled and multiple interrupt messages are combined into one prompt.
- Enhanced the CLI configuration to include container resource limits (CPU, memory, disk) and persistence options for Docker, Singularity, and Modal environments.
- Improved documentation to clarify interrupt behaviors and container resource settings, providing users with better guidance on configuration and usage.
- Introduced a method to strip <think> blocks from content, improving text visibility.
- Implemented counters to reset nudge intervals when memory and skill tools are used, enhancing user guidance.
- Captured content from turns with tool calls to provide fallback responses, ensuring continuity in conversation.
- Updated nudge logic to remind users about saving memories and creating skills based on interaction patterns.
- Introduced a new channel directory to cache reachable channels/contacts for messaging platforms, enhancing the send_message tool's ability to resolve human-friendly names to numeric IDs.
- Added functionality to mirror sent messages into the target's session transcript, providing context for cross-platform message delivery.
- Updated the send_message tool to support listing available targets and improved error handling for channel resolution.
- Enhanced the gateway to build and refresh the channel directory during startup and at regular intervals, ensuring up-to-date channel information.
- Added functionality to load values from config.yaml into the environment, allowing os.getenv() to access them.
- Ensured that existing environment variables take precedence over config values.
- Updated DiscordAdapter to resolve usernames in DISCORD_ALLOWED_USERS to numeric IDs, improving user authorization checks.
- Enhanced event handling to provide clearer logging and ensure proper synchronization of slash commands.
- Enhanced warning in `_deliver_result` to provide clearer instructions for setting the home channel.
- Updated error message in `send_message_tool` to specify how to set a home channel when no chat ID is provided, improving user guidance.
- Introduced a new `_deliver_result` function to handle job output delivery to specified platforms.
- Added origin resolution logic to determine the correct delivery target based on job configuration.
- Updated `run_job` to return the final response along with the output for improved context.
- Integrated delivery of job results to the origin chat or fallback channels, with error handling for delivery failures.
- Cleaned up environment variables after job execution to prevent leakage between jobs.
- Updated the authorization logic to include a per-platform allow-all flag for improved flexibility.
- Revised the order of checks to prioritize platform-specific allow-all settings, followed by environment variable allowlists and DM pairing approvals.
- Added global allow-all configuration for broader access control.
- Improved handling of allowlists by stripping whitespace and ensuring valid entries are processed.
- Added skills configuration options in cli-config.yaml.example, including a nudge interval for skill creation reminders.
- Implemented skills guidance in AIAgent to prompt users to save reusable workflows after complex tasks.
- Enhanced skills indexing in the prompt builder to include descriptions from SKILL.md files for better context.
- Updated the agent's behavior to periodically remind users about potential skills during tool-calling iterations.
- Added configuration options for memory nudge interval and flush minimum turns in cli-config.yaml.example.
- Implemented memory flushing before conversation reset, clearing, and exit in the CLI to ensure memories are saved.
- Introduced a flush_memories method in AIAgent to handle memory persistence before context loss.
- Added periodic nudges to remind the agent to consider saving memories based on user interactions.
- Updated the MEMORY_GUIDANCE text to improve clarity by rephrasing the usage instructions for the memory tool, emphasizing its diary-like functionality.
- Introduced a new `_format_timestamp` function to convert Unix timestamps and ISO strings into a human-readable date format.
- Updated the session metadata handling to use the new formatting function for improved clarity in session start dates.
- Adjusted the output structure to reflect the change from "Session started" to "Session date" for better user understanding.
- Introduced MEMORY_GUIDANCE and SESSION_SEARCH_GUIDANCE to improve agent's contextual awareness and proactive assistance.
- Updated AIAgent to conditionally include tool-aware guidance in prompts based on available tools.
- Enhanced descriptions in memory and session search schemas for clearer user instructions on when to utilize these features.
- Eliminated the `compression_model` variable from the AIAgent class, as it was not being utilized.
- Cleaned up the context compressor initialization for improved clarity and maintainability.
- Extracted agent internals into a dedicated `agent/` directory, including model metadata, context compression, and prompt handling.
- Enhanced CLI structure by separating banner, commands, and callbacks into distinct modules within `hermes_cli/`.
- Updated README to reflect the new directory organization and clarify the purpose of each component.
- Improved tool registration and terminal execution backends for better maintainability and usability.
- Relocated functions related to model metadata, including fetch_model_metadata, get_model_context_length, estimate_tokens_rough, and estimate_messages_tokens_rough, to agent/model_metadata.py for better organization and maintainability.
- Updated imports in run_agent.py to reflect the new location of these functions.
- Enhanced tool registration process by implementing a self-registering mechanism in each tool file via `tools/registry.py`.
- Updated `model_tools.py` to serve as a thin orchestration layer, simplifying tool discovery and registration.
- Revised documentation to clarify the steps for adding new tools, emphasizing the importance of schema, handler, and registration consistency.
- Improved dependency resolution in environments by ensuring toolsets are queried from `tools/registry.py`.
