- 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.
- Appended the current local date and time to the active system prompt to provide context for the model, addressing potential misinterpretations due to training cutoffs.
- Introduced a new script, `kill_modal.sh`, to facilitate stopping running Modal apps, including the ability to stop all apps or specific swe-rex sandboxes.
- Enhanced user experience with clear usage instructions and feedback during the stopping process.
- Improved error handling to ensure smooth execution even if some apps fail to stop.
- Updated task filter descriptions for clarity and added a new skip task feature to exclude incompatible tasks.
- Introduced a set of modal incompatible tasks to prevent execution errors in cloud environments.
- Implemented streaming JSONL logging for task results, preserving data even on interruptions.
- Refactored task evaluation logic to include skipped task reporting and improved error handling.
- Included "image_generate" in the toolsets for web, vision, and skills categories, expanding functionality for image-related tasks.
- Updated comments for clarity on the new tool's purpose, ensuring users understand its integration within the existing framework.
- 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.
- Revised the description to reflect full access capabilities, including terminal usage with a dangerous command approval system.
- Added terminal and file manipulation tools to the toolset, enhancing functionality for users.
- Updated comments for clarity on tool purposes, ensuring better understanding of available features.
- Revised the labeled shape and arrow sections to utilize container binding instead of the deprecated "label" property, ensuring proper text rendering.
- Added warnings about the invalidity of the "label" property and emphasized the use of `boundElements` for text elements.
- Updated examples in dark-mode and general references to reflect the new binding approach, enhancing clarity and usability for users creating diagrams.
- Removed the skills_categories tool from the skills toolset, streamlining the skills functionality to focus on skills_list and skill_view.
- Updated the system prompt to dynamically build a compact skills index, allowing the model to quickly reference available skills without additional tool calls.
- Cleaned up related code and documentation to reflect the removal of skills_categories, ensuring clarity and consistency across the codebase.
- Introduced a new DESCRIPTION.md file outlining diagram creation skills for visual diagrams and flowcharts using Excalidraw.
- Added SKILL.md for the Excalidraw skill, detailing its functionality, usage, and workflow for creating hand-drawn style diagrams.
- Created references for color palettes, dark mode diagrams, and example diagrams to assist users in utilizing the Excalidraw skill effectively.
- Implemented an upload script for sharing diagrams via Excalidraw.com, ensuring user-friendly access to generated diagrams.
- 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 /retry command to resend the last user message, improving user experience by allowing message re-sending without retyping.
- Introduced /undo command to remove the last user/assistant exchange from conversation history, providing better control over conversation flow.
- Updated save_config_value function to respect user and project config precedence, enhancing configuration management.
- Improved prompt handling and visual output for user input, adapting to terminal width for better readability.
- Implemented a cleanup process to terminate any remaining sandboxes after evaluation, addressing issues with orphaned thread pool workers.
- Enhanced logging to inform users about the cleanup process, ensuring better resource management and user awareness.
- Added a new `_atexit_cleanup` function to handle cleanup of active environments and stop the cleanup thread upon program exit.
- Enhanced logging to inform users about the number of remaining sandboxes being shut down during cleanup.
- Added task_timeout parameter to enforce a maximum wall-clock time for each task, automatically scoring as FAIL if exceeded.
- Introduced terminal_timeout and tool_pool_size parameters to improve command execution and concurrency management.
- Updated logging to provide detailed task execution times and timeout handling, enhancing overall monitoring.
- Removed outdated evaluate_config.yaml file to streamline configuration management.
- Introduced terminal_timeout and terminal_lifetime parameters to control command execution and sandbox inactivity.
- Updated environment variable handling to allow configuration overrides for terminal settings.
- Enhanced logging to provide detailed information about terminal settings during initialization.
- Added tool_pool_size parameter to dynamically resize the thread pool for tool execution, improving concurrency management.
- Increased thread pool size for tool execution from 8 to 128 to improve concurrency and prevent starvation.
- Added a function to resize the tool executor dynamically based on configuration.
- Enhanced logging to track API call durations and tool execution times, including warnings for slow tools.
- Improved overall performance monitoring by logging detailed information for each turn in the agent loop.
- Increased max_token_length from 16000 to 32000 to allow for longer inputs.
- Adjusted agent_temperature from 0.6 to 0.8 for more varied responses.
- Extended test_timeout from 180 to 600 seconds to accommodate longer evaluations.
- Updated data directory path for saving evaluations to ensure proper organization.
- Introduced new environments: Terminal Test Environment and SWE Environment, each with default configurations for testing and software engineering tasks.
- Added TerminalBench 2.0 evaluation environment with comprehensive setup for agentic LLMs, including task execution and verification.
- Enhanced ToolContext with methods for uploading and downloading files, ensuring binary-safe operations.
- Updated documentation across environments to reflect new features and usage instructions.
- Refactored existing environment configurations for consistency and clarity.
- Updated the _SingularityEnvironment class to utilize a persistent Apptainer instance, allowing state (files, installs, environment changes) to persist across commands.
- Enhanced the initialization process to start a background instance with full isolation and writable filesystem.
- Modified the execute method to connect to the running instance, ensuring commands run within the same container context.
- Implemented cleanup functionality to stop the persistent instance on cleanup or destruction, improving resource management.
- Updated class documentation to reflect new features and usage of the persistent environment.
- Introduced a caching strategy that reduces input token costs by ~75% on multi-turn conversations by caching the conversation prefix.
- Added functions to apply cache control markers to messages, enhancing efficiency in token usage.
- Updated AIAgent to auto-enable prompt caching for Claude models, with configurable cache TTL.
- Enhanced logging to track cache hit statistics when caching is active, improving monitoring of token usage.
- Added checks for local installation of the agent-browser CLI in the `_find_agent_browser` function, improving installation guidance.
- Implemented per-task socket directory management in `_run_browser_command` to prevent concurrency issues.
- Updated `cleanup_browser` to remove per-task socket directories, ensuring proper resource cleanup after task completion.
- Refactored comments for clarity and improved documentation throughout the browser tool code.
- Added imports for resource cleanup during safe shutdown, including terminal and browser session cleanup.
- Refactored command handling to preserve original case for model names and prompt text, improving user experience.
- Introduced a dedicated interrupt queue to manage user input while the agent is running, preventing race conditions.
- Updated comments and documentation for clarity on command processing and input handling.
- Changed the default LLM model in the setup wizard and example environment file to 'anthropic/claude-opus-4.6'.
- Updated terminal working directory settings in CLI and related files to use the current directory ('.') instead of '/tmp'.
- Enhanced documentation comments for clarity on terminal configuration and working directory behavior.
- Updated `ALL_POSSIBLE_TOOLS` to auto-derive from `TOOL_TO_TOOLSET_MAP` for consistent schema.
- Introduced `_extract_reasoning_stats` function to track reasoning coverage in assistant turns.
- Enhanced `_process_batch_worker` to discard prompts with no reasoning and aggregate reasoning statistics.
- Updated documentation and comments for clarity on new features and changes.
- 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.
- Updated `.gitignore` to exclude `testlogs` directory.
- Refactored `handle_web_function_call` in `model_tools.py` to support running async functions in existing event loops, improving compatibility with Atropos.
- Introduced a thread pool executor in `agent_loop.py` for running synchronous tool calls that internally use `asyncio.run()`, preventing deadlocks.
- Added `ToolError` class to track tool execution errors, enhancing error reporting during agent loops.
- Updated `wandb_log` method in `hermes_base_env.py` to log tool error statistics for better monitoring.
- Implemented patches in `patches.py` to ensure async-safe operation of tools within Atropos's event loop.
- Enhanced `ToolContext` and `terminal_tool.py` to utilize the new async handling, improving overall tool execution reliability.
- Integrated `uv` as a fast Python package manager for automatic Python provisioning and dependency management.
- Updated installation scripts (`setup-hermes.sh`, `install.sh`, `install.ps1`) to utilize `uv` for installing Python and packages, streamlining the setup process.
- Revised `README.md` to reflect changes in installation steps, including symlinking `hermes` for global access and clarifying Python version requirements.
- Adjusted commands in `doctor.py` and other scripts to recommend `uv` for package installations, ensuring consistency across the project.
- Reorganized the 'all' dependencies to include specific optional groups for better modularity.
- Added support for 'hermes-agent' with distinct categories: modal, messaging, cron, cli, and dev.
- Added new environments for reinforcement learning, including `HermesSweEnv` for software engineering tasks and `TerminalTestEnv` for inline testing.
- Introduced `ToolContext` for unrestricted access to tools during reward computation.
- Updated `.gitignore` to exclude `wandb/` directory.
- Enhanced `README.md` with detailed architecture and usage instructions for Atropos environments.
- Added configuration files for SWE and terminal test environments to streamline setup.
- Removed unnecessary compiled Python files from `__pycache__`.
- Added `prompt_toolkit` as a direct dependency for interactive CLI support.
- Updated `modal` optional dependency to require `swe-rex[modal]>=1.4.0` for improved cloud execution capabilities.
- Enhanced `messaging` optional dependencies to include `aiohttp>=3.9.0` for WhatsApp bridge communication.
- Refined installation scripts to check for Python version requirements, emphasizing the need for Python 3.11+ for RL training tools.
- Improved setup scripts to ensure proper installation of submodules and dependencies, enhancing user experience during setup.
- Introduced file manipulation capabilities in `model_tools.py`, including functions for reading, writing, patching, and searching files.
- Added a new `file` toolset in `toolsets.py` and updated distributions to include file tools.
- Enhanced `setup-hermes.sh` and `install.sh` scripts to check for and optionally install `ripgrep` for faster file searching.
- Implemented a new `file_operations.py` module to encapsulate file operations using shell commands.
- Updated `doctor.py` and `install.ps1` to check for `ripgrep` and provide installation guidance if not found.
- Added fuzzy matching and patch parsing capabilities to improve file manipulation accuracy and flexibility.
- Added unique run ID generation for WandB tracking during test inference.
- Enabled WandB usage for test tracking and updated command-line arguments accordingly.
- Implemented real-time output streaming for process execution, improving log visibility and debugging.
- Enhanced error handling to display last few lines of stderr for better troubleshooting.
- Modified `model_tools.py` to update default model IDs and add new RL function `rl_test_inference`.
- Enhanced `README.md` with installation instructions for submodules and updated API key usage.
- Improved `rl_cli.py` to load configuration from `~/.hermes/config.yaml` and set terminal working directory for RL tools.
- Updated `run_agent.py` to handle empty string arguments as empty objects for better JSON validation.
- Refined installation scripts to ensure submodules are cloned and installed correctly, enhancing setup experience.
