Research reports:
- Vector DB research
- Workflow orchestration research
- Fleet knowledge graph SOTA research
- LLM inference optimization
- Local model crisis quality
- Memory systems SOTA
- Multi-agent coordination
- R5 vs E2E gap analysis
- Text-to-music-video
Test:
- test_skill_manager_error_context.py
[Allegro] Forge workers — 2026-04-16
10 integration tests verifying crisis detection works correctly
when called from the agent conversation flow:
- scan_user_message detects CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW levels
- Safe messages pass through without triggering
- Tool handler returns valid JSON
- Compassion injection includes 988 lifeline for CRITICAL/HIGH
- Case insensitive detection
- Empty/None text handled gracefully
- False positive resistance on common non-crisis phrases
- Config check returns bool
- Callable from agent context (not just isolation tests)
New tool: tools/crisis_tool.py
- Wraps the-door's canonical crisis detection (detect.py)
- Scans user messages for despair/suicidal ideation
- Classifies into NONE/LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH/CRITICAL tiers
- Provides recommended actions per tier
- Gateway hook: scan_user_message() for pre-API-call detection
- System prompt injection: compassion_injection based on crisis level
- Optional escalation logging to crisis_escalations.jsonl
- Optional bridge API POST for HIGH+ (configurable via CRISIS_BRIDGE_URL)
- Configurable via crisis_detection: true/false in config.yaml
- Follows the-door design principles: never computes life value,
never suggests death, errs on side of higher risk
Also: tests/test_crisis_tool.py (9 tests, all passing)
- Fix file handle closed before POST: nest session.post() inside
the 'with open()' block so aiohttp can read the file during upload
- Update warning text to include weixin (also supports media delivery)
- Add 8 unit tests covering: text+media, media-only, missing files,
upload failures, multiple files, and _send_to_platform routing
* fix(gateway): suppress duplicate replies on interrupt and streaming flood control
Three fixes for the duplicate reply bug affecting all gateway platforms:
1. base.py: Suppress stale response when the session was interrupted by a
new message that hasn't been consumed yet. Checks both interrupt_event
and _pending_messages to avoid false positives. (#8221, #2483)
2. run.py (return path): Remove response_previewed guard from already_sent
check. Stream consumer's already_sent alone is authoritative — if
content was delivered via streaming, the duplicate send must be
suppressed regardless of the agent's response_previewed flag. (#8375)
3. run.py (queued-message path): Same fix — already_sent without
response_previewed now correctly marks the first response as already
streamed, preventing re-send before processing the queued message.
The response_previewed field is still produced by the agent (run_agent.py)
but is no longer required as a gate for duplicate suppression. The stream
consumer's already_sent flag is the delivery-level truth about what the
user actually saw.
Concepts from PR #8380 (konsisumer). Closes#8375, #8221, #2483.
* fix(cron): include job_id in delivery and guide models on removal workflow
Users reported cron reminders keep firing after asking the agent to stop.
Root cause: the conversational agent didn't know the job_id (not in delivery)
and models don't reliably do the list→remove two-step without guidance.
1. Include job_id in the cron delivery wrapper so users and agents can
reference it when requesting removal.
2. Replace confusing footer ('The agent cannot see this message') with
actionable guidance ('To stop or manage this job, send me a new
message').
3. Add explicit list→remove guidance in the cronjob tool schema so models
know to list first and never guess job IDs.
Three fixes for the duplicate reply bug affecting all gateway platforms:
1. base.py: Suppress stale response when the session was interrupted by a
new message that hasn't been consumed yet. Checks both interrupt_event
and _pending_messages to avoid false positives. (#8221, #2483)
2. run.py (return path): Remove response_previewed guard from already_sent
check. Stream consumer's already_sent alone is authoritative — if
content was delivered via streaming, the duplicate send must be
suppressed regardless of the agent's response_previewed flag. (#8375)
3. run.py (queued-message path): Same fix — already_sent without
response_previewed now correctly marks the first response as already
streamed, preventing re-send before processing the queued message.
The response_previewed field is still produced by the agent (run_agent.py)
but is no longer required as a gate for duplicate suppression. The stream
consumer's already_sent flag is the delivery-level truth about what the
user actually saw.
Concepts from PR #8380 (konsisumer). Closes#8375, #8221, #2483.
With store=False (our default for the Responses API), the API does not
persist response items. When reasoning items with 'id' fields were
replayed on subsequent turns, the API attempted a server-side lookup
for those IDs and returned 404:
Item with id 'rs_...' not found. Items are not persisted when store
is set to false.
The encrypted_content blob is self-contained for reasoning chain
continuity — the id field is unnecessary and triggers the failed lookup.
Fix: strip 'id' from reasoning items in both _chat_messages_to_responses_input
(message conversion) and _preflight_codex_input_items (normalization layer).
The id is still used for local deduplication but never sent to the API.
Reported by @zuogl448 on GPT-5.4.
Matrix room IDs contain ! and : which must be percent-encoded in URI
path segments per the Matrix C-S spec. Without encoding, some
homeservers reject the PUT request.
Also adds 'matrix:!roomid:server.org' and 'matrix:@user:server.org'
to the tool schema examples so models know the correct target format.
hermes doctor now checks whether the ~/.local/bin/hermes symlink exists
and points to the correct venv entry point. With --fix, it creates or
repairs the symlink automatically.
Covers:
- Missing symlink at ~/.local/bin/hermes (or $PREFIX/bin on Termux)
- Symlink pointing to wrong target
- Missing venv entry point (venv/bin/hermes or .venv/bin/hermes)
- PATH warning when ~/.local/bin is not on PATH
- Skipped on Windows (different mechanism)
Addresses user report: 'python -m hermes_cli.main doesn't have an option
to fix the local bin/install'
10 new tests covering all scenarios.
On some Python versions, argparse fails to route subcommand tokens when
the parent parser has nargs='?' optional arguments (--continue). The
symptom: 'hermes model' produces 'unrecognized arguments: model' even
though 'model' is a registered subcommand.
Fix: when argv contains a token matching a known subcommand, set
subparsers.required=True to force deterministic routing. If that fails
(e.g. 'hermes -c model' where 'model' is consumed as the session name
for --continue), fall back to the default optional-subparsers behaviour.
Adds 13 tests covering all key argument combinations.
Reported via user screenshot showing the exact error on an installed
version with the model subcommand listed in usage but rejected at parse
time.
The existing recovery block sanitized self.api_key and
self._client_kwargs['api_key'] but did not update self.client.api_key.
The OpenAI SDK stores its own copy of api_key and reads it dynamically
via the auth_headers property on every request. Without this fix, the
retry after sanitization would still send the corrupted key in the
Authorization header, causing the same UnicodeEncodeError.
The bug manifests when an API key contains Unicode lookalike characters
(e.g. ʋ U+028B instead of v) from copy-pasting out of PDFs, rich-text
editors, or web pages with decorative fonts. httpx hard-encodes all
HTTP headers as ASCII, so the non-ASCII char in the Authorization
header triggers the error.
Adds TestApiKeyClientSync with two tests verifying:
- All three key locations are synced after sanitization
- Recovery handles client=None (pre-init) without crashing
Previously, non-integer context_length values (e.g. '256K') in
config.yaml were silently ignored, causing the agent to fall back
to 128K auto-detection with no user feedback. This was confusing
for users with custom LiteLLM endpoints expecting larger context.
Now prints a clear stderr warning and logs at WARNING level when
model.context_length or custom_providers[].models.<model>.context_length
cannot be parsed as an integer, telling users to use plain integers
(e.g. 256000 instead of '256K').
Reported by community user ChFarhan via Discord.
When a user sends a message while the agent is executing a task on the
gateway, the agent is now interrupted immediately — not silently queued.
Previously, messages were stored in _pending_messages with zero feedback
to the user, potentially leaving them waiting 1+ hours.
Root cause: Level 1 guard (base.py) intercepted all messages for active
sessions and returned with no response. Level 2 (gateway/run.py) which
calls agent.interrupt() was never reached.
Fix: Expand _handle_active_session_busy_message to handle the normal
(non-draining) case:
1. Call running_agent.interrupt(text) to abort in-flight tool calls
and exit the agent loop at the next check point
2. Store the message as pending so it becomes the next turn once the
interrupted run returns
3. Send a brief ack: 'Interrupting current task (10 min elapsed,
iteration 21/60, running: terminal). I'll respond shortly.'
4. Debounce acks to once per 30s to avoid spam on rapid messages
Reported by @Lonely__MH.
- find_docker() now checks HERMES_DOCKER_BINARY env var first, then
docker on PATH, then podman on PATH, then macOS known locations
- Entrypoint respects HERMES_HOME env var (was hardcoded to /opt/data)
- Entrypoint uses groupmod -o to tolerate non-unique GIDs (fixes macOS
GID 20 conflict with Debian's dialout group)
- Entrypoint makes chown best-effort so rootless Podman continues
instead of failing with 'Operation not permitted'
- 5 new tests covering env var override, podman fallback, precedence
Based on work by alanjds (PR #3996) and malaiwah (PR #8115).
Closes#4084.
When compression fails after max attempts, the agent returns
{completed: False, partial: True} but was missing the 'failed' flag.
The gateway's agent_failed_early guard checked for 'failed' AND
'not final_response', but _run_agent_blocking always converts errors
to final_response — making the guard dead code. This caused the
oversized session to persist, creating an infinite fail loop where
every subsequent message hits the same compression failure.
Changes:
- run_agent.py: add 'failed: True' and 'compression_exhausted: True'
to all 5 compression-exhaustion return paths
- gateway/run.py (_run_agent_blocking): forward 'failed' and
'compression_exhausted' flags through to the caller
- gateway/run.py (_handle_message_with_agent): fix agent_failed_early
to check bool(failed) without the broken 'not final_response' clause;
auto-reset the session when compression is exhausted so the next
message starts fresh
- Update tests to match new guard logic and add
TestCompressionExhaustedFlag test class
Closes#9893
The /v1/responses endpoint generated a new UUID session_id for every
request, even when previous_response_id was provided. This caused each
turn of a multi-turn conversation to appear as a separate session on the
web dashboard, despite the conversation history being correctly chained.
Fix: store session_id alongside the response in the ResponseStore, and
reuse it when a subsequent request chains via previous_response_id.
Applies to both the non-streaming /v1/responses path and the streaming
SSE path. The /v1/runs endpoint also gains session continuity from
stored responses (explicit body.session_id still takes priority).
Adds test verifying session_id is preserved across chained requests.
The streaming path emits output as content-part arrays for Open WebUI
compatibility, but the batch (non-streaming) Responses API path must
return output as a plain string per the OpenAI Responses API spec.
Reverts the _extract_output_items change from the cherry-picked commits
while preserving the streaming path's array format.
API keys containing Unicode lookalike characters (e.g. ʋ U+028B instead
of v) cause UnicodeEncodeError when httpx encodes the Authorization
header as ASCII. This commonly happens when users copy-paste keys from
PDFs, rich-text editors, or web pages with decorative fonts.
Three layers of defense:
1. **Save-time validation** (hermes_cli/config.py):
_check_non_ascii_credential() strips non-ASCII from credential values
when saving to .env, with a clear warning explaining the issue.
2. **Load-time sanitization** (hermes_cli/env_loader.py):
_sanitize_loaded_credentials() strips non-ASCII from credential env
vars (those ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY) after dotenv
loads them, so the rest of the codebase never sees non-ASCII keys.
3. **Runtime recovery** (run_agent.py):
The UnicodeEncodeError recovery block now also sanitizes self.api_key
and self._client_kwargs['api_key'], fixing the gap where message/tool
sanitization succeeded but the API key still caused httpx to fail on
the Authorization header.
Also: hermes_logging.py RotatingFileHandler now explicitly sets
encoding='utf-8' instead of relying on locale default (defensive
hardening for ASCII-locale systems).
Previously, systemd_restart() sent SIGUSR1 to the gateway, printed
'restart requested', and returned immediately. The gateway still
needed to drain active agents, exit with code 75, wait for systemd's
RestartSec=30, and start the new process. The user saw 'success' but
the gateway was actually down for 30-60 seconds.
Now the SIGUSR1 path blocks with progress feedback:
Phase 1 — wait for old process to die:
⏳ User service draining active work...
Polls os.kill(pid, 0) until ProcessLookupError (up to 90s)
Phase 2 — wait for new process to become active:
⏳ Waiting for hermes-gateway to restart...
Polls systemctl is-active + verifies new PID (up to 60s)
Success:
✓ User service restarted (PID 12345)
Timeout:
⚠ User service did not become active within 60s.
Check status: hermes gateway status
Check logs: journalctl --user -u hermes-gateway --since '2 min ago'
The reload-or-restart fallback path (line 1189) already blocks because
systemctl reload-or-restart is synchronous.
Test plan:
- Updated test to verify wait-for-restart behavior
- All 118 gateway CLI tests pass
When a session gets stuck (hung terminal, runaway tool loop) and the
user restarts the gateway, the same session history loads and puts the
agent right back in the stuck state. The user is trapped in a loop:
restart → stuck → restart → stuck.
Fix: track restart-failure counts per session using a simple JSON file
(.restart_failure_counts). On each shutdown with active agents, the
counter increments for those sessions. On startup, if any session has
been active across 3+ consecutive restarts, it's auto-suspended —
giving the user a clean slate on their next message.
The counter resets to 0 when a session completes a turn successfully
(response delivered), so normal sessions that happen to be active
during planned restarts (/restart, hermes update) won't accumulate
false counts.
Implementation:
- _increment_restart_failure_counts(): called during stop() when
agents are active. Writes {session_key: count} to JSON file.
Sessions NOT active are dropped (loop broken).
- _suspend_stuck_loop_sessions(): called on startup. Reads the file,
suspends sessions at threshold (3), clears the file.
- _clear_restart_failure_count(): called after successful response
delivery. Removes the session from the counter file.
No SessionEntry schema changes. No database migration. Pure file-based
tracking that naturally cleans up.
Test plan:
- 9 new stuck-loop tests (increment, accumulate, threshold, clear,
suspend, file cleanup, edge cases)
- All 28 gateway lifecycle tests pass (restart drain + auto-continue
+ stuck loop)
When the gateway restarts mid-agent-work, the session transcript ends
on a tool result the agent never processed. Previously, the user had
to type 'continue' or use /retry (which replays from scratch, losing
all prior work).
Now, when the next user message arrives and the loaded history ends
with role='tool', a system note is prepended:
[System note: Your previous turn was interrupted before you could
process the last tool result(s). Please finish processing those
results and summarize what was accomplished, then address the
user's new message below.]
This is injected in _run_agent()'s run_sync closure, right before
calling agent.run_conversation(). The agent sees the full history
(including the pending tool results) and the system note, so it can
summarize what was accomplished and then handle the user's new input.
Design decisions:
- No new session flags or schema changes — purely detects trailing
tool messages in the loaded history
- Works for any restart scenario (clean, crash, SIGTERM, drain timeout)
as long as the session wasn't suspended (suspended = fresh start)
- The user's actual message is preserved after the note
- If the session WAS suspended (unclean shutdown), the old history is
abandoned and the user starts fresh — no false auto-continue
Also updates the shutdown notification message from 'Use /retry after
restart to continue' to 'Send any message after restart to resume
where it left off' — which is now accurate.
Test plan:
- 6 new auto-continue tests (trailing tool detection, no false
positives for assistant/user/empty history, multi-tool, message
preservation)
- All 13 restart drain tests pass (updated /retry assertion)
