- Replaced file locking with atomic file operations using temporary files to prevent race conditions during read/write.
- Added deduplication of memory and user entries to avoid exact duplicates in the memory store.
- Enhanced error handling for duplicate entries and improved logic for managing multiple matches in memory operations.
- Updated docstrings to clarify the behavior of file reading and writing methods, ensuring better understanding of the implementation.
- Updated the default timeout for sandbox script execution from 120 seconds to 300 seconds (5 minutes) to allow longer-running scripts.
- Enhanced comments in the code execution tool to clarify the timeout duration.
- Suppressed stdout and stderr output from internal tool handlers during execution to prevent clutter in the CLI interface.
- Revised docstrings for `web_search` and `web_extract` functions to clarify return types and structure.
- Updated the execution code schema documentation to reflect changes in the output format for both tools, ensuring consistency and improved understanding for users.
- Introduced a new `execute_code` tool that allows the agent to run Python scripts that call Hermes tools via RPC, reducing the number of round trips required for tool interactions.
- Added configuration options for timeout and maximum tool calls in the sandbox environment.
- Updated the toolset definitions to include the new code execution capabilities, ensuring integration across platforms.
- Implemented comprehensive tests for the code execution sandbox, covering various scenarios including tool call limits and error handling.
- Enhanced the CLI and documentation to reflect the new functionality, providing users with clear guidance on using the code execution tool.
- Added a new configuration option for the clarify tool to set a custom timeout for user responses.
- Updated the clarify callback to implement a countdown display during user interaction, improving user experience.
- Refactored timeout handling to ensure the UI remains responsive and provides feedback on remaining time.
- Enhanced hint text to include countdown information when clarify questions are active.
- Added a new `clarify_tool` to enable the agent to ask structured multiple-choice or open-ended questions to users.
- Implemented callback functionality for user interaction, allowing the platform to handle UI presentation.
- Updated the CLI and agent to support clarify questions, including timeout handling and response management.
- Enhanced toolset definitions and requirements to include the clarify tool, ensuring availability across platforms.
- Increased the tool count to 44+ and clarified the management of bundled and agent-managed skills.
- Introduced a persistent memory system with MEMORY.md and USER.md for agent notes and user profiles.
- Updated the storage evolution section to reflect the use of SQLite for sessions and clarified the organization of skills and memories.
- Added current status of memory types implemented, highlighting progress in agent intelligence capabilities.
- Added a new `skill_manager_tool` to enable agents to create, update, and delete their own skills, enhancing procedural memory capabilities.
- Updated the skills directory structure to support user-created skills in `~/.hermes/skills/`, allowing for better organization and management.
- Enhanced the CLI and documentation to reflect the new skill management functionalities, including detailed instructions on creating and modifying skills.
- Implemented a manifest-based syncing mechanism for bundled skills to ensure user modifications are preserved during updates.
- Updated the file glob and include filters in the ShellFileOperations class to escape shell arguments, preventing unintended shell expansion.
- Added comments to clarify the necessity of quoting for file glob patterns.
- Updated the `_search_with_rg` and `_search_with_grep` methods to include filename in the output and improve result handling.
- Adjusted result fetching to account for context lines, ensuring accurate total counts and pagination.
- Enhanced parsing logic for matches and context lines, improving the accuracy of search results.
- Refactored result slicing to maintain consistency across output modes, ensuring users receive the correct number of results.
- Modified the `_exec` method in `ShellFileOperations` to accept `stdin_data`, allowing large content to be piped directly to commands, bypassing ARG_MAX limitations.
- Updated the `execute` method in various environment classes (`_LocalEnvironment`, `_SingularityEnvironment`, `_SSHEnvironment`, `_DockerEnvironment`) to support `stdin_data`, improving command execution flexibility.
- Removed the unique marker generation for heredoc in favor of direct stdin piping, simplifying file writing operations and enhancing performance for large files.
- Introduced the `/new` command to start a new conversation, resetting the history.
- Updated command handling in the CLI and various platform adapters (Discord, Slack, Telegram) to support the new command.
- Added help command functionality to list available commands, improving user guidance.
- Enhanced command mapping for better integration across platforms, ensuring consistent command behavior.
- Implemented prompts for configuring Slack bot and WhatsApp bridge during the setup process.
- Added instructions for creating a Slack app and saving necessary tokens, enhancing user guidance.
- Included security recommendations for restricting bot access and a reminder to start the messaging gateway after setup.
- Introduced a new function to check for configured messaging platform tokens and prompt the user to start the gateway.
- Updated the installation scripts to automatically start the gateway if messaging tokens are detected, enhancing user experience.
- Expanded the README to include instructions for starting the gateway, ensuring users are informed about the necessary steps for message handling.
- Enhanced the `handle_send_message_function_call` to support sending messages to multiple platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp) using their respective APIs.
- Added error handling for missing parameters and platform configuration issues.
- Introduced asynchronous message sending with helper functions for each platform, improving responsiveness and reliability.
- Updated documentation within the function to clarify usage and requirements.
- Added detailed sections for updating the Hermes agent, including quick and manual update methods.
- Introduced a messaging gateway section with setup instructions for Telegram, Discord, and Slack, along with commands for managing the gateway.
- Included security recommendations and context file usage to enhance user guidance.
- Updated the logic for stopping the thinking spinner to improve clarity in tool execution messages.
- Removed unnecessary checks for tool calls, simplifying the spinner's stop behavior while maintaining informative output for users.
- Updated the input area height calculation to ensure it matches the exact line count of content, eliminating extra blank space.
- Adjusted the return values to improve the responsiveness of the input area, enhancing user experience when adding newlines.
- Updated the input area layout by replacing the styled border frame with horizontal rules above and below the input, enhancing visual clarity.
- Adjusted the layout to ensure the input area grows dynamically with content while maintaining a consistent appearance with inline completions.
- Modified style definitions to reflect the new horizontal rule design, improving the overall aesthetics of the CLI.
- Wrapped the input area in a styled border frame to enhance visual structure and user experience.
- Updated layout to accommodate the framed input, ensuring consistent appearance with inline completions below the input area.
- Introduced new style definitions for the input frame to improve overall aesthetics of the CLI.
- Adjusted console width handling to ensure consistent output formatting.
- Introduced a short sleep after flushing stdout to allow for proper rendering of tool/status lines before displaying responses.
- Enhanced the response display by modifying the rendering logic to improve visual clarity and prevent interleaving of output.
- Added a flush of the StdoutProxy buffer to ensure that tool/status lines render above the response box, preventing interleaving of output.
- Combined the rendering of the response and the surrounding box into a single _cprint call for improved visual consistency and clarity.
- Added dynamic top and bottom borders to the response output in the HermesCLI, improving visual structure and readability.
- Implemented width adjustments for the borders based on console size, ensuring consistent appearance across different terminal environments.
- This change enhances the overall user experience by providing a clearer separation of messages in the CLI.
- Introduced a new function `_cprint` to handle ANSI-colored text rendering using prompt_toolkit's native capabilities, ensuring proper display of colors and formatting.
- Updated various print statements in the HermesCLI to utilize `_cprint`, enhancing the visual output of user messages and conversation indicators.
- This change improves the overall user experience by providing clearer and more visually appealing text in the CLI.
- Added ANSI escape codes for improved visual formatting in the CLI, including bold and colored text for user messages and conversation headers.
- Simplified the output structure by removing unnecessary visual separators and adapting the display to enhance readability and user experience.
- Implemented dynamic height adjustment for the input area in HermesCLI to accommodate varying content lines, ensuring that newlines (Alt+Enter) remain visible.
- This change improves usability by preventing internal scrolling of the input area when displaying output from the agent.
- Updated the HermesCLI layout to replace the floating completion menu with an inline CompletionsMenu, ensuring it appears consistently below the input area.
- This change enhances user experience by maintaining visibility of completions even after agent output fills the terminal, improving usability in non-full-screen modes.
- Eliminated the 'read' action from the memory tool and related logging in the agent, streamlining the available actions to 'add', 'replace', and 'remove'.
- Updated error messages and documentation to reflect the removal of the 'read' action, ensuring clarity in the API's usage.
Two-part implementation:
Part A - Curated Bounded Memory:
- New memory tool (tools/memory_tool.py) with MEMORY.md + USER.md stores
- Character-limited (2200/1375 chars), § delimited entries
- Frozen snapshot injected into system prompt at session start
- Model manages pruning via replace/remove with substring matching
- Usage indicator shown in system prompt header
Part B - SQLite Session Store:
- New hermes_state.py with SessionDB class, FTS5 full-text search
- Gateway session.py rewritten to dual-write SQLite + legacy JSONL
- Compression-triggered session splitting with parent_session_id chains
- New session_search tool with Gemini Flash summarization of matched sessions
- CLI session lifecycle (create on launch, close on exit)
Also:
- System prompt now cached per session, only rebuilt on compression
(fixes prefix cache invalidation from date/time changes every turn)
- Config version bumped to 3, hermes doctor checks for new artifacts
- Disabled in batch_runner and RL environments
- Introduced a new function `_resolve_short_name` to convert short skill names to full identifiers, improving user experience during skill installation.
- Updated the `do_install` function to utilize the new resolution method for identifiers without slashes, ensuring accurate skill fetching.
- Enhanced the install confirmation process to include a disclaimer about third-party skills, emphasizing user responsibility and security awareness.
- Introduced a new configuration section in `cli-config.yaml.example` for defining platform-specific toolsets, allowing for greater customization of available tools per platform.
- Updated the CLI to check for user-defined toolsets in the configuration, falling back to the default `hermes-cli` toolset if none are specified.
- Enhanced the `GatewayRunner` class to load platform-specific toolsets from the configuration, ensuring that the correct tools are enabled based on the platform being used.
- Introduced a new `todo_tool.py` for planning and tracking multi-step tasks, enhancing the agent's capabilities.
- Updated CLI to include a floating autocomplete dropdown for commands and improved user instructions for better navigation.
- Revised toolsets to incorporate the new `todo` tool and updated documentation to reflect changes in available tools and commands.
- Enhanced user experience with new keybindings and clearer command descriptions in the CLI.
- Updated the layout in HermesCLI to include a floating completion menu, improving user experience by providing real-time suggestions as users type.
- Refactored the layout structure to utilize FloatContainer, ensuring the input area remains accessible while displaying the completion menu dynamically.
- Revised user instructions to reflect the removal of the Ctrl+Enter key binding for new lines, simplifying the input method.
- Clarified that Alt+Enter is now the sole key for multi-line input, enhancing user experience.
- Removed the Shift+Enter key binding for inserting new lines, simplifying the input method.
- Introduced Ctrl+Enter as the primary key for multi-line input, ensuring better compatibility across terminals.
- Updated user instructions to reflect the new key bindings for a clearer user experience.
- Patched prompt_toolkit to recognize Shift+Enter as a distinct key for inserting new lines, improving the multiline input experience.
- Added Alt+Enter as a fallback for terminals that do not support Shift+Enter, ensuring consistent functionality across different environments.
- Updated user instructions to reflect the new key bindings for multiline input.
- Introduced SlashCommandCompleter for command autocompletion, enhancing user experience by suggesting commands as users type.
- Enabled multiline input with Shift+Enter, allowing users to enter longer messages more conveniently.
- Implemented paste detection to handle large text inputs, saving them to temporary files and replacing them with compact references in the input area.
- Updated input area styling and hint display to improve usability and feedback during agent operation.
- Updated the dynamic prompt to display the Hermes symbol when the agent is active, enhancing user feedback.
- Introduced a spacer line in the layout to prevent spinner output from overlapping the input cursor, improving usability.
- Adjusted the overall layout to maintain a clean interface while accommodating dynamic elements.
- Updated the input area prompt to dynamically reflect agent status, enhancing user feedback during operation.
- Removed the status line from the layout to streamline the interface, focusing solely on the input area.
- Adjusted styling for prompt states to improve visual clarity and user experience.
- Removed ANSI escape codes for color in tool activity messages to simplify output.
- Updated the _get_cute_tool_message method to provide a cleaner, more consistent format for various tool activities.
- Enhanced readability by aligning messages and removing unnecessary complexity, ensuring a more straightforward user experience.
- Introduced ANSI escape codes for color-coded CLI messages to enhance readability.
- Updated the _get_cute_tool_message method to generate clean, aligned activity lines for various tools, replacing kawaii ASCII art with a more structured format.
- Simplified message construction for web tools, terminal commands, and process management, ensuring consistent and scannable output.
- Updated the _build_tool_preview function to include detailed previews for new tools: 'todo', 'send_message', and various 'rl_' tools, improving user feedback during task execution.
- Added emoji representations for tools in GatewayRunner, including 'process', 'todo', and 'send_message', to enhance visual clarity in progress messages.
- Improved handling of task management and messaging outputs, ensuring more informative and user-friendly interactions.
Single `todo` tool that reads (no params) or writes (provide todos array
with merge flag). In-memory TodoStore on AIAgent, no system prompt
mutation, behavioral guidance in tool description only. State re-injected
after context compression events. Gateway sessions hydrate from
conversation history. Added to all platform toolsets.
Also wired into RL agent_loop.py with per-run TodoStore and fixed
browser_snapshot user_task passthrough from first user message.
- Enhanced the _build_tool_preview function to include specific formatting for the 'process' tool, displaying action, session_id, data, and timeout when applicable.
- This update improves the clarity of tool previews, particularly for actions that require session tracking and timeout management.
