Previously the scheduler checked startswith('[SILENT]'), so agents that
appended [SILENT] after an explanation (e.g. 'N items filtered.\n\n[SILENT]')
would still trigger delivery.
Change the check to 'in' so the marker is caught regardless of position.
Add test_silent_trailing_suppresses_delivery to cover this case.
The cron scheduler delivery path passed raw text including MEDIA: tags
to _send_to_platform(), so media attachments were delivered as literal
text instead of actual files. The send function already supports
media_files= but the cron path never used it.
Now calls BasePlatformAdapter.extract_media() to split media paths
from text before sending, matching the gateway's normal message flow.
Salvaged from PR #4877 by robert-hoffmann.
Cron agents were burning iterations trying to use send_message (which is
disabled via messaging toolset) because their prompts said things like
'send the report to Telegram'. The scheduler handles delivery
automatically via the deliver setting, but nothing told the agent that.
Add a delivery guidance hint to _build_job_prompt alongside the existing
[SILENT] hint: tells agents their final response is auto-delivered and
they should NOT use send_message.
Before: only [SILENT] suppression hint
After: delivery guidance ('do NOT use send_message') + [SILENT] hint
Port the gateway's inactivity-based timeout pattern (PR #5389) to the
cron scheduler. The agent can now run for hours if it's actively calling
tools or receiving stream tokens — only genuine inactivity (no activity
for HERMES_CRON_TIMEOUT seconds, default 600s) triggers a timeout.
This fixes the Sunday PR scouts (openclaw, nanoclaw, ironclaw) which
all hit the hard 600s wall-clock limit while actively working.
Changes:
- Replace flat future.result(timeout=N) with a polling loop that checks
agent.get_activity_summary() every 5s (same pattern as gateway)
- Timeout error now includes diagnostic info: last activity description,
idle duration, current tool, iteration count
- HERMES_CRON_TIMEOUT=0 means unlimited (no timeout)
- Move sys.path.insert before repo-level imports to fix
ModuleNotFoundError for hermes_time on stale gateway processes
- Add time import needed by the polling loop
- Add 9 tests covering active/idle/unlimited/env-var/diagnostic scenarios
Add an optional 'script' parameter to cron jobs that references a Python
script. The script runs before each agent turn, and its stdout is injected
into the prompt as context. This enables stateful monitoring — the script
handles data collection and change detection, the LLM analyzes and reports.
- cron/jobs.py: add script field to create_job(), stored in job dict
- cron/scheduler.py: add _run_job_script() executor with timeout handling,
inject script output/errors into _build_job_prompt()
- tools/cronjob_tools.py: add script to tool schema, create/update handlers,
_format_job display
- hermes_cli/cron.py: add --script to create/edit, display in list/edit output
- hermes_cli/main.py: add --script argparse for cron create/edit subcommands
- tests/cron/test_cron_script.py: 20 tests covering job CRUD, script
execution, path resolution, error handling, prompt injection, tool API
Script paths can be absolute or relative (resolved against ~/.hermes/scripts/).
Scripts run with a 120s timeout. Failures are injected as error context so
the LLM can report the problem. Empty string clears an attached script.
Cron jobs configured with deliver labels from send_message(action='list')
like 'whatsapp:Alice (dm)' passed the label as a literal chat_id.
WhatsApp bridge failed with jidDecode error since 'Alice (dm)' isn't
a valid JID.
Now _resolve_delivery_target() strips display suffixes like ' (dm)' and
resolves human-friendly names via the channel directory before using
them. Raw IDs pass through unchanged when the directory has no match.
Fixes#1945.
Adds a config option to suppress the header/footer text that wraps
cron job responses when delivered to messaging platforms.
Set cron.wrap_response: false in config.yaml for clean output without
the 'Cronjob Response: <name>' header and 'The agent cannot see this
message' footer. Default is true (preserves current behavior).
When a gateway crashes mid-job execution (before mark_job_run can persist
the updated next_run_at), the job would fire again on every restart attempt
within the grace window. For a daily 6:15 AM job with a 2-hour grace,
rapidly restarting the gateway could trigger dozens of duplicate runs.
Fix: call advance_next_run() BEFORE run_job() in tick(). For recurring
jobs (cron/interval), this preemptively advances next_run_at to the next
future occurrence and persists it to disk. If the process then crashes
during execution, the job won't be considered due on restart.
One-shot jobs are left unchanged — they still retry on restart since
there's no future occurrence to advance to.
This changes the scheduler from at-least-once to at-most-once semantics
for recurring jobs, which is the correct tradeoff: missing one daily
message is far better than sending it dozens of times.
Cron was the only execution path that never called end_session(),
leaving ended_at = NULL permanently. This made cron sessions invisible
to hermes prune --older-than and indistinguishable from active sessions.
Captures session_id in a local variable before agent construction so
it's available in the finally block even if AIAgent() fails, then calls
end_session(session_id, 'cron_complete') before close().
Cherry-picked from PR #2979 by ygd58. Fixed bug: original PR called
end_session() with zero arguments (TypeError — method requires
session_id and end_reason).
Fixes#2972.
Co-authored-by: ygd58 <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
Parse thread_id from explicit deliver target (e.g. telegram:-1003724596514:17)
and forward it to _send_to_platform and mirror_to_session.
Previously _resolve_delivery_target() always set thread_id=None when
parsing the platform:chat_id format, breaking cron job delivery to
specific Telegram topics.
Added tests:
- test_explicit_telegram_topic_target_with_thread_id
- test_explicit_telegram_chat_id_without_thread_id
Also updated CRONJOB_SCHEMA deliver description to document the
platform:chat_id:thread_id format.
Co-authored-by: Alex Ferrari <alex@thealexferrari.com>
Replace hardcoded 120-second grace period with a dynamic window that
scales with the job's scheduling frequency (half the period, clamped
to [120s, 2h]). Daily jobs now catch up if missed by up to 2 hours
instead of being silently skipped after just 2 minutes.
Fixes#2234
The placeholder '(No response generated)' was overwriting the actual
final_response, causing it to be delivered to Discord even when the
agent completed work silently via tools.
Changes:
- Separate logged_response for output template display
- Keep final_response clean (empty when agent has no text)
- Delivery logic now correctly skips when final_response is empty
Test added to verify empty response stays empty for delivery.
Co-authored-by: Bartok9 <bartokmagic@proton.me>
Cron deliveries were mirrored into the target gateway session as
assistant-role messages, causing consecutive assistant messages that
violate message alternation (issue #2221).
Instead of fixing the role, remove the mirror injection entirely.
Cron outputs already live in their own cron session and don't belong
in the interactive conversation history.
Delivered messages are now wrapped with a header (task name) and a
footer noting the agent cannot see or respond to the message, so
users have clear context about what they're reading.
Closes#2221
When a cron job references a skill that is no longer installed,
_build_job_prompt() now logs a warning and injects a user-visible notice
into the prompt instead of raising RuntimeError. The job continues with
any remaining valid skills and the user prompt.
Adds 4 regression tests for missing skill handling.
Every cron job prompt now includes guidance that the agent can respond
with [SILENT] when it has nothing new or noteworthy to report. The
scheduler checks for this marker and skips delivery, while still saving
output to disk for audit. Failed jobs always deliver regardless.
This replaces the notify parameter approach from PR #1807 with a simpler
always-on design — the model is smart enough to decide when there's
nothing worth reporting without needing a per-job flag.
When the gateway restarts after being down past a scheduled run time,
recurring jobs (cron/interval) were firing immediately because their
next_run_at was in the past. Now jobs more than 2 minutes late are
fast-forwarded to the next future occurrence instead.
- get_due_jobs() checks staleness for cron/interval jobs
- Stale jobs get next_run_at recomputed and saved
- Jobs within 2 minutes of their schedule still fire normally
- One-shot (once) jobs are unaffected — they fire if missed
Fixes the 'cron jobs run on every gateway restart' issue.
Salvaged from PR #1292 onto current main. Preserve per-job model,
provider, and base_url overrides in cron execution, persist them in
job records, expose them through the cronjob tool create/update paths,
and add regression coverage. Deliberately does not persist per-job
api_key values.
Resolve cron auto-delivery targets after reloading .env so bare-platform deliveries pick up home-channel settings before the agent run. Add a regression test for the dotenv-backed home-channel path and clean up scheduler tests that were leaking un-awaited send coroutines.
Allow cron runs to keep using send_message for additional destinations, but
skip same-target sends when the scheduler will already auto-deliver the final
response there. Add prompt/tool guidance, docs, and regression coverage for
origin/home-channel resolution and thread-aware comparisons.
- store cron-run sessions with source=cron instead of falling back to cli
- close the per-run SessionDB after completion
- add regression coverage for cron session_db/platform wiring
Follow-up to PR #716 (0xbyt4):
- Log the third remaining silent except-pass in scheduler (prefill
messages JSON parse failure)
- Fix test mock: run → run_conversation (matches actual agent API)
- Remove unused imports (asyncio, AsyncMock)
- Add test for prefill_messages parse failure logging
Two 'except Exception: pass' blocks silently hide failures:
- mirror_to_session failure: user's message never gets mirrored, no trace
- config.yaml parse failure: wrong model used silently
Replace with logger.warning so failures are visible in logs.
Authored by areu01or00. Adds timezone support via hermes_time.now() helper
with IANA timezone resolution (HERMES_TIMEZONE env → config.yaml → server-local).
Updates system prompt timestamp, cron scheduling, and execute_code sandbox TZ
injection. Includes config migration (v4→v5) and comprehensive test coverage.
Cover model_tools, toolset_distributions, context_compressor,
prompt_caching, cronjob_tools, session_search, process_registry,
and cron/scheduler with 127 new test cases.
