- Update messaging guide to use 'hermes gateway' CLI commands instead
of raw systemctl (auto-resolves the correct service name)
- Add info callout explaining multi-install service name scoping
- Update HERMES_HOME env var docs to mention PID + service name scoping
* docs: comprehensive fallback providers documentation
- New dedicated page: user-guide/features/fallback-providers.md covering
both primary model fallback and auxiliary task fallback systems
- Updated configuration.md with fallback_model config section
- Updated environment-variables.md noting fallback is config-only
- Fleshed out developer-guide/provider-runtime.md fallback section with
internal architecture details (trigger points, activation flow, config flow)
- Added cross-reference from provider-routing.md distinguishing OpenRouter
sub-provider routing from Hermes-level model fallback
- Added new page to sidebar under Integrations
* docs: comprehensive /background command documentation
- Added Background Sessions section to cli.md covering how it works
(daemon threads, isolated sessions, config inheritance, Rich panel
output, bell notification, concurrent tasks)
- Added Background Sessions section to messaging/index.md covering
messaging-specific behavior (async execution, result delivery back
to same chat, fire-and-forget pattern)
- Documented background_process_notifications config
(all/result/error/off) in messaging docs and configuration.md
- Added HERMES_BACKGROUND_NOTIFICATIONS env var to reference page
- Fixed inconsistency in slash-commands.md: /background was listed as
messaging-only but works in both CLI and messaging. Moved it to the
'both surfaces' note.
- Expanded one-liner table descriptions with detail and cross-references
Add a hands-on guide for using voice mode with Hermes, fix and expand the main voice-mode docs, surface /voice in messaging docs, and improve discoverability from the homepage and learning path.
Remove web UI gateway (web.py, tests, docs, toolset, env vars, Platform.WEB
enum) per maintainer request — Nous is building their own official chat UI.
Fix 1: Replace sd.wait() with polling pattern in play_audio_file() to prevent
indefinite hang when audio device stalls (consistent with play_beep()).
Fix 2: Use importlib.util.find_spec() for faster_whisper/openai availability
checks instead of module-level imports that trigger heavy native library
loading (CUDA/cuDNN) at import time.
Fix 3: Remove inspect.signature() hack in _send_voice_reply() — add **kwargs
to Telegram send_voice() so all adapters accept metadata uniformly.
Fix 4: Make session loading resilient to removed platform enum values — skip
entries with unknown platforms instead of crashing the entire gateway.
- add code-derived reference pages for slash commands, tools, toolsets,
bundled skills, and official optional skills
- document the skin system and link visual theming separately from
conversational personality
- refresh quickstart, configuration, environment variable, and messaging
docs to match current provider, gateway, and browser behavior
- fix stale command, session, and Home Assistant configuration guidance
* fix: Home Assistant event filtering now closed by default
Previously, when no watch_domains or watch_entities were configured,
ALL state_changed events passed through to the agent, causing users
to be flooded with notifications for every HA entity change.
Now events are dropped by default unless the user explicitly configures:
- watch_domains: list of domains to monitor (e.g. climate, light)
- watch_entities: list of specific entity IDs to monitor
- watch_all: true (new option — opt-in to receive all events)
A warning is logged at connect time if no filters are configured,
guiding users to set up their HA platform config.
All 49 gateway HA tests + 52 HA tool tests pass.
* docs: update Home Assistant integration documentation
- homeassistant.md: Fix event filtering docs to reflect closed-by-default
behavior. Add watch_all option. Replace Python dict config example with
YAML. Fix defaults table (was incorrectly showing 'all'). Add required
configuration warning admonition.
- environment-variables.md: Add HASS_TOKEN and HASS_URL to Messaging section.
- messaging/index.md: Add Home Assistant to description, architecture
diagram, platform toolsets table, and Next Steps links.
Post-merge fixes for the email gateway (PR #797):
1. Add Platform.EMAIL to all 4 platform-to-toolset/config mapping
dicts in gateway/run.py. Without this, email sessions silently
fell back to the Telegram toolset because these dicts were added
after the PR branched off main.
2. Add email (and signal) to hermes_cli/tools_config.py and
hermes_cli/skills_config.py PLATFORMS dicts so they appear in
'hermes tools' and 'hermes skills' CLI commands.
3. Add full email setup documentation:
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/email.md — setup guide with
Gmail/Outlook instructions, configuration, troubleshooting,
security advice, and env var reference
- Update messaging/index.md — add email to architecture diagram,
platform toolset table, security examples, and next steps
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/signal.md: Full setup guide with
prerequisites, step-by-step instructions, access policies, features,
troubleshooting, security notes, and env var reference
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/index.md: Added Signal to architecture
diagram, platform toolset table, security examples, and Next Steps links
- website/docs/reference/environment-variables.md: All 7 SIGNAL_* env vars
- README.md: Signal in feature table and documentation table
- AGENTS.md: Signal in gateway description and env var config section
User messaging improvements:
- Rejection: '(>_<) Error: not a valid model' instead of '(^_^) Warning: Error:'
- Rejection: shows 'Model unchanged' + tip about /model and /provider
- Session-only: explains 'this session only' with reason and 'will revert on restart'
- Saved: clear '(saved to config)' confirmation
Docs updated:
- cli-commands.md, cli.md, messaging/index.md: /model now shows
provider:model syntax, /provider command added to tables
Test fixes: deduplicated test names, assertions match new messages.
- website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md: Added 'hermes insights' terminal
command section with --days and --source flags, plus /insights slash command
in the Conversation section
- website/docs/user-guide/cli.md: Added /insights to slash commands table
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/index.md: Added /insights to gateway
chat commands table
- website/docs/user-guide/sessions.md: Added cross-reference to hermes
insights from the sessions stats section
- 25 documentation pages covering Getting Started, User Guide, Developer Guide, and Reference
- Docusaurus with custom amber/gold theme matching the landing page branding
- GitHub Actions workflow to deploy landing page + docs to GitHub Pages
- Landing page at root, docs at /docs/ on hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
- Content extracted and restructured from existing repo docs (README, AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/)
- Auto-deploy on push to main when website/ or landingpage/ changes
