- Refactored the agent response processing to return a comprehensive result dictionary, including final responses and full message history.
- Improved transcript logging to capture the complete conversation, including tool calls and intermediate reasoning, facilitating session resumption and debugging.
- Added handling for fresh sessions to include tool definitions in the transcript for clarity.
- Implemented logic to filter and timestamp new messages, ensuring accurate logging of user and assistant interactions.
- Updated the vision tool to accept both HTTP/HTTPS URLs and local file paths for image analysis.
- Implemented caching of user-uploaded images in local directories to ensure reliable access for the vision tool, addressing issues with ephemeral URLs.
- Enhanced platform adapters (Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp) to download and cache images, allowing for immediate analysis and enriched message context.
- Added a new method to auto-analyze images attached by users, enriching the conversation with detailed descriptions.
- Improved documentation for image handling processes and updated related functions for clarity and efficiency.
- Clarified the requirements for Telegram voice bubbles, specifying the need for ffmpeg when using Edge TTS.
- Enhanced README and messaging documentation to detail audio delivery formats across platforms.
- Improved installation script messages to inform users about the necessity of ffmpeg for proper audio playback on Telegram.
- Updated `pyproject.toml` to include Edge TTS and ElevenLabs as dependencies.
- Enhanced documentation to detail voice message capabilities across platforms and TTS provider options.
- Modified the GatewayRunner to handle MEDIA tags from TTS tool responses, ensuring proper delivery of audio messages.
- Introduced a default agent identity prompt to ensure consistent behavior across platforms.
- Added platform-specific formatting hints for CLI, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord to guide the agent's output style.
- Updated the AIAgent initialization to accept a platform parameter, enhancing adaptability to different interfaces.
- Updated the image generation function description to clarify usage with markdown.
- Added `send_image` method to `BasePlatformAdapter` for native image sending across platforms.
- Implemented `send_image` in `DiscordAdapter` and `TelegramAdapter` to handle image attachments directly.
- Introduced `extract_images` method to extract image URLs from markdown and HTML, improving content processing.
- Enhanced message handling to support sending images as attachments while maintaining text content.
- Added functionality to signal and terminate long-running terminal commands when a new user message is received, allowing for immediate agent response.
- Introduced a global interrupt event in the terminal tool to facilitate early termination of subprocesses.
- Updated the AIAgent class to handle interrupts gracefully, ensuring that remaining tool calls are skipped and appropriate messages are returned to maintain valid message sequences.
- Enhanced the conversion of message history to agent format by distinguishing between normal and rich agent messages.
- Implemented logic to preserve full message structure for tool-related messages, ensuring valid assistant-to-tool sequences.
- Simplified handling of simple text messages by stripping unnecessary fields while retaining essential role and content information.
- Added logic to clear the adapter's interrupt event to prevent infinite loops during message processing.
- Updated the get_pending_message method to pop messages from the pending queue, ensuring proper message handling.
- Updated the start_gateway function to return a boolean indicating success or failure, allowing for better control over exit codes.
- Modified the main function to handle gateway startup failures, ensuring systemd can automatically restart on transient errors.
- Enhanced error handling in the hermes_cli gateway to exit with code 1 if the gateway fails to connect to any platform.
- Added `max_tokens`, `reasoning_config`, and `prefill_messages` parameters to `BatchRunner` and `AIAgent` for improved model response control.
- Updated CLI to support new options for reasoning effort and prefill messages from a JSON file.
- Modified example configuration files to reflect changes in default model and summary model.
- Improved error handling for loading prefill messages and reasoning configurations in the CLI.
- Updated documentation to include new parameters and usage examples.
- Introduced a monitoring mechanism in GatewayRunner to detect incoming messages while an agent is active, allowing for graceful interruption and processing of new messages.
- Enhanced BasePlatformAdapter to manage active sessions and pending messages, ensuring that new messages can interrupt ongoing tasks effectively.
- Improved the handling of pending messages by checking for interrupts and processing them in the correct order, enhancing user experience during message interactions.
- Updated the cleanup process for active tasks to ensure proper resource management after interruptions.
- Enhanced the AIAgent class to support interrupt requests, allowing for graceful interruption of ongoing tasks and processing of new messages.
- Updated the HermesCLI to manage user input in a persistent manner, enabling real-time interruption of the agent's conversation.
- Introduced a mechanism in the GatewayRunner to handle incoming messages while an agent is running, allowing for immediate response to user commands.
- Improved overall user experience by providing feedback during interruptions and ensuring that pending messages are processed correctly.
- Updated the AIAgent class to extract the first user message for trajectory formatting, improving the accuracy of user queries in the trajectory format.
- Enhanced the GatewayRunner to convert transcript history into the agent format, ensuring proper handling of message roles and content.
- Adjusted the typing indicator refresh rate to every 2 seconds for better responsiveness.
- Improved error handling in the message sending process for the Telegram adapter, implementing a fallback mechanism for Markdown parsing failures, and logging send failures for better debugging.
- Updated the `skills_categories` function to include a `verbose` parameter, allowing users to request skill counts per category.
- Modified the `handle_skills_function_call` method to pass the `verbose` argument to `skills_categories`.
- Improved error handling in the `AIAgent` class by injecting a recovery message when invalid JSON arguments are detected, guiding users on how to correct their tool calls.
- Enhanced the `GatewayRunner` to return a user-friendly error message if the agent fails to generate a final response, improving overall user experience.
- Adjusted the `_keep_typing` method to refresh the typing indicator every 2 seconds instead of 4, improving responsiveness after progress messages.
- Updated the `GatewayRunner` to restore the typing indicator after sending progress messages, enhancing user experience during message processing.
- Introduced a new callback mechanism in the AIAgent class to send tool progress messages during execution, enhancing user feedback in messaging platforms.
- Updated the GatewayRunner to support tool progress notifications, allowing users to enable or disable this feature via environment variables.
- Enhanced the CLI setup wizard to prompt users for enabling tool progress messages and selecting the notification mode (all or new), improving configuration options.
- Updated relevant documentation to reflect the new features and configuration settings for tool progress notifications.
- Added a new private method `_keep_typing` to send a typing indicator continuously while processing messages, refreshing every 4 seconds to comply with Telegram/Discord limitations.
- Updated the `handle_message` method to initiate the typing indicator at the start of message processing and ensure it stops once processing is complete, improving user experience during message handling.
- Increased the default maximum tool-calling iterations from 20 to 60 in the CLI configuration and related files, allowing for more complex tasks.
- Updated documentation and comments to reflect the new recommended range for iterations, enhancing user guidance.
- Implemented backward compatibility for loading max iterations from the root-level configuration, ensuring a smooth transition for existing users.
- Adjusted the setup wizard to prompt for the maximum iterations setting, improving user experience during configuration.
- Added new environment variables for Telegram and Discord bot configurations, including `TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS` and `DISCORD_ALLOWED_USERS`, to restrict bot access to specific users.
- Updated documentation in AGENTS.md and README.md to include detailed setup instructions for the messaging gateway, emphasizing the importance of user allowlists for security.
- Improved the CLI setup wizard to prompt for allowed user IDs during configuration, enhancing user guidance and security awareness.
- Refined the gateway run script to support user authorization checks, ensuring only allowed users can interact with the bot.
- Updated requirements.txt to uncomment and ensure the installation of `python-telegram-bot` and `discord.py` packages.
- Enhanced the gateway run script to load environment variables from a specified path, improving configuration management and flexibility for different environments.
- Updated CLI to load configuration from user-specific and project-specific YAML files, prioritizing user settings.
- Introduced a new command `/platforms` to display the status of connected messaging platforms (Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp).
- Implemented a gateway system for handling messaging interactions, including session management and delivery routing for cron job outputs.
- Added support for environment variable configuration and a dedicated gateway configuration file for advanced settings.
- Enhanced documentation in README.md and added a new messaging.md file to guide users on platform integrations and setup.
- Updated toolsets to include platform-specific capabilities for Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp, ensuring secure and tailored interactions.
