- Add _fetch_anthropic_models() to hermes_cli/models.py — hits the
Anthropic /v1/models endpoint to get the live model catalog. Handles
both API key and OAuth token auth headers.
- Wire it into provider_model_ids() so both 'hermes model' and
'hermes setup model' show the live list instead of a stale static one.
- Update static _PROVIDER_MODELS fallback with full current catalog:
opus-4-6, sonnet-4-6, opus-4-5, sonnet-4-5, opus-4, sonnet-4, haiku-4-5
- Update model_metadata.py with context lengths for all current models.
- Fix thinking parameter for 4.5+ models: use type='adaptive' instead
of type='enabled' (Anthropic deprecated 'enabled' for newer models,
warns at runtime). Detects model version from the model name string.
Verified live:
hermes model → Anthropic → auto-detected creds → shows 7 live models
hermes chat --provider anthropic --model claude-opus-4-6 → works
Both 'hermes model' and 'hermes setup model' now present a clear
two-option auth flow when no credentials are found:
1. Claude Pro/Max subscription (setup-token)
- Step-by-step instructions to run 'claude setup-token'
- User pastes the resulting sk-ant-oat01-... token
2. Anthropic API key (pay-per-token)
- Link to console.anthropic.com/settings/keys
- User pastes sk-ant-api03-... key
Also handles:
- Auto-detection of existing Claude Code creds (~/.claude/.credentials.json)
- Existing credentials shown with option to update
- Consistent UX between 'hermes model' and 'hermes setup model'
- gateway/run.py: Take main's _resolve_gateway_model() helper
- hermes_cli/setup.py: Re-apply nous-api removal after merge brought
it back. Fix provider_idx offset (Custom is now index 3, not 4).
- tests/hermes_cli/test_setup.py: Fix custom setup test index (3→4)
Model selection now comes exclusively from config.yaml (set via
'hermes model' or 'hermes setup'). The LLM_MODEL env var is no longer
read or written anywhere in production code.
Why: env vars are per-process/per-user and would conflict in
multi-agent or multi-tenant setups. Config.yaml is file-based and
can be scoped per-user or eventually per-session.
Changes:
- cli.py: Read model from CLI_CONFIG only, not LLM_MODEL/OPENAI_MODEL
- hermes_cli/auth.py: _save_model_choice() no longer writes LLM_MODEL
to .env
- hermes_cli/setup.py: Remove 12 save_env_value('LLM_MODEL', ...)
calls from all provider setup flows
- gateway/run.py: Remove LLM_MODEL fallback (HERMES_MODEL still works
for gateway process runtime)
- cron/scheduler.py: Same
- agent/auxiliary_client.py: Remove LLM_MODEL from custom endpoint
model detection
The old flow blindly asked for an OpenRouter API key after ANY non-OR
provider selection, even for Nous Portal and Codex which already
support vision natively. This was confusing and annoying.
New behavior:
- OpenRouter: skip — vision uses Gemini via their OR key
- Nous Portal OAuth: skip — vision uses Gemini via Nous
- OpenAI Codex: skip — gpt-5.3-codex supports vision
- Custom endpoint (api.openai.com): show OpenAI vision model picker
(gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1, etc.), saves AUXILIARY_VISION_MODEL
- Custom (other) / z.ai / kimi / minimax / nous-api:
- First checks if existing OR/Nous creds already cover vision
- If not, offers friendly choice: OpenRouter / OpenAI / Skip
- No more 'enter OpenRouter key' thrown in your face
Also fixes the setup summary to check actual vision availability
across all providers instead of hardcoding 'requires OPENROUTER_API_KEY'.
MoA still correctly requires OpenRouter (calls multiple frontier models).
Add support for using Nous Portal via a direct API key, mirroring
how OpenRouter and other API-key providers work. This gives users a
simpler alternative to the OAuth device-code flow when they already
have a Nous API key.
Changes:
- Add 'nous-api' to PROVIDER_REGISTRY as an api_key provider
pointing to https://inference-api.nousresearch.com/v1
- Add NOUS_API_KEY and NOUS_BASE_URL to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS
- Add NOUS_API_BASE_URL / NOUS_API_CHAT_URL to hermes_constants
- Add 'Nous Portal API key' as first option in setup wizard
- Add provider aliases (nous_api, nousapi, nous-portal-api)
- Add test for nous-api runtime provider resolution
Closes#644
The #1 support issue with Slack is 'bot works in DMs but not channels'.
This is almost always caused by missing event subscriptions (message.channels,
message.groups) or missing OAuth scopes (channels:history, groups:history).
Changes:
- slack.md: Move channels:history and groups:history from optional to required
scopes. Move message.channels and message.groups to required events. Add new
'How the Bot Responds' section explaining DM vs channel behavior. Add Step 8
for inviting bot to channels. Expand troubleshooting table with specific
'works in DMs not channels' entry. Add quick checklist for channel debugging.
- setup.py: Expand Slack setup wizard with all required scopes, event
subscriptions, and a warning that without message.channels/message.groups
the bot only works in DMs. Add link to full docs. Improve Member ID
discovery instructions.
- config.py: Update SLACK_BOT_TOKEN and SLACK_APP_TOKEN descriptions to list
required scopes and event subscriptions inline.
When switching FROM Codex/Nous/custom TO OpenRouter via 'hermes setup',
the old provider stayed active because setup only saved the API key but
never updated config.yaml or auth.json. This caused resolve_provider()
to keep returning the old provider (e.g. openai-codex) even after the
user selected OpenRouter.
Fix: the OpenRouter path in setup now deactivates any OAuth provider
in auth.json and writes model.provider='openrouter' to config.yaml,
matching what all other provider paths already do.
Three issues caused the gateway to display 'openrouter' instead of
'Custom endpoint' when users configured a custom OAI-compatible endpoint:
1. hermes setup: custom endpoint path saved OPENAI_BASE_URL and
OPENAI_API_KEY to .env but never wrote model.provider to config.yaml.
All other providers (Codex, z.ai, Kimi, etc.) call
_update_config_for_provider() which sets this — custom was the only
path that skipped it. Now writes model.provider='custom' and
model.base_url to config.yaml.
2. hermes model: custom endpoint set model.provider='auto' in config.yaml.
The CLI display had a hack to detect OPENAI_BASE_URL and override to
'custom', but the gateway didn't. Now sets model.provider='custom'
directly.
3. gateway /model and /provider commands: defaulted to 'openrouter' and
read config.yaml — which had no provider set. Added OPENAI_BASE_URL
detection fallback (same pattern the CLI uses) as a defensive catch
for existing users who set up before this fix.
The wizard and tools_command each loaded their own config dict. When
tools_command saved platform_toolsets (with MoA/HA disabled), the
wizard's final save_config() overwrote it with its own dict that lacked
platform_toolsets entirely — resetting everything to defaults.
Fix: pass the wizard's config dict into tools_command so they share the
same object. Now platform_toolsets survives the wizard's final save.
On fresh installs, the multi-level curses menu flow (platform menu →
checklist → loop back → Done) was unreliable — users could end up
skipping API key configuration entirely.
Now the setup wizard passes first_install=True to tools_command(), which:
- Skips the platform selection menu entirely
- Goes straight to the tool checklist
- Prompts for API keys on ALL selected tools that need them
- Linear flow, no loop — impossible to accidentally skip
Returning users (hermes tools / hermes setup tools) get the existing
platform menu loop as before.
The setup wizard imported `get_codex_models` which does not exist;
the actual function is `get_codex_model_ids`. This caused a runtime
ImportError when selecting the openai-codex provider during setup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added functionality to detect the appropriate Z.AI endpoint based on the provided API key, accommodating different billing plans and regions. The setup process now probes available endpoints and updates the configuration accordingly, enhancing user experience and reducing potential billing errors. Updated the setup model provider function to integrate this new detection logic.
- tools_config.py: Add 'Local Browser' as first provider option
(no API keys needed, same npm install for agent-browser)
- setup.py: Show 'Browser Automation (local)' when agent-browser
CLI is found but no Browserbase key is set
- config.py: Mark BROWSERBASE_* descriptions as optional
- status.py: Note that local browser works without Browserbase
uv pip install requires a virtual environment by default. When hermes
is installed system-wide or via pipx, the setup wizard's SDK installs
(daytona, swe-rex[modal], tinker-atropos) fail with 'No virtual
environment found'. Fix by passing --python sys.executable to uv,
which targets the correct Python regardless of venv state.
Also show the actual error message on install failure so users can
debug.
config['model'] can be a dict (old format: {default, base_url, provider})
or a string (new format). The setup wizard was showing the raw dict in
'Keep current' and 'Model set to' messages. Now extracts the model name
from either format.
Both 'hermes tools' and 'hermes setup tools' now use the same unified
flow in tools_config.py:
1. Select platform (CLI, Telegram, Discord, etc.)
2. Toggle all 18 toolsets on/off in checklist
3. Newly enabled tools that need API keys → provider-aware config
(e.g., TTS shows Edge/OpenAI/ElevenLabs picker)
4. Already-configured tools that stay enabled → silent, no prompts
5. Menu option: 'Reconfigure an existing tool' for updating
providers or API keys on tools that are already set up
Key changes:
- Move TOOL_CATEGORIES, provider config, and post-setup hooks from
setup.py to tools_config.py
- Replace flat _check_and_prompt_requirements() with provider-aware
_configure_toolset() that uses TOOL_CATEGORIES
- Add _reconfigure_tool() flow for updating existing configs
- setup.py's setup_tools() now delegates to tools_command()
- tools_command() menu adds 'Reconfigure' option alongside platforms
- Only prompt for API keys on tools that are NEWLY toggled on AND
don't already have keys configured
No breaking changes. All 2013 tests pass.
simple_term_menu miscalculates string widths when labels contain
ANSI escape codes (from color()) or em dashes, causing duplicated
and garbled lines on arrow key navigation.
Replace color() status indicators with plain text [configured]/[active]
and em dashes with regular dashes in all prompt_choice/prompt_checklist
labels.
Restructure the monolithic hermes setup wizard into independently-runnable
sections with a category-first tool configuration experience.
Changes:
- Break setup into 5 sections: model, terminal, gateway, tools, agent
- Each section is a standalone function, runnable individually via
'hermes setup model', 'hermes setup terminal', etc.
- Returning users get a menu: Quick Setup / Full Setup / individual sections
- First-time users get a guided walkthrough of all sections
Tool Configuration UX overhaul:
- Replace flat API key checklist with category-first approach
- Show tool types (TTS, Web Search, Image Gen, etc.) as top-level items
- Within each category, let users pick a provider:
- TTS: Microsoft Edge (Free), OpenAI, ElevenLabs
- Web: Firecrawl Cloud, Firecrawl Self-Hosted
- Image Gen: FAL.ai
- Browser: Browserbase
- Smart Home: Home Assistant
- RL Training: Tinker/Atropos
- GitHub: Personal Access Token
- Shows configured status on each tool and provider
- Only prompts for API keys after provider selection
Also:
- Add section argument to setup argparse parser in main.py
- Update summary to show new section commands
- Add self-hosted Firecrawl and Home Assistant to tool setup
- All 2013 tests pass
When `fetch_nous_models()` fails silently during setup, the model
selection falls through to the OpenRouter static list. Users then pick
models in OpenRouter format (e.g. `anthropic/claude-opus-4.6`) which
the Nous inference API rejects with a 400 "missing model" error.
Add an explicit `elif selected_provider == "nous"` branch that prompts
for manual model entry instead of falling through to the generic
OpenRouter fallback.
Adds 4 new direct API-key providers (zai, kimi-coding, minimax, minimax-cn)
to the inference provider system. All use standard OpenAI-compatible
chat/completions endpoints with Bearer token auth.
Core changes:
- auth.py: Extended ProviderConfig with api_key_env_vars and base_url_env_var
fields. Added providers to PROVIDER_REGISTRY. Added provider aliases
(glm, z-ai, zhipu, kimi, moonshot). Added auto-detection of API-key
providers in resolve_provider(). Added resolve_api_key_provider_credentials()
and get_api_key_provider_status() helpers.
- runtime_provider.py: Added generic API-key provider branch in
resolve_runtime_provider() — any provider with auth_type='api_key'
is automatically handled.
- main.py: Added providers to hermes model menu with generic
_model_flow_api_key_provider() flow. Updated _has_any_provider_configured()
to check all provider env vars. Updated argparse --provider choices.
- setup.py: Added providers to setup wizard with API key prompts and
curated model lists.
- config.py: Added env vars (GLM_API_KEY, KIMI_API_KEY, MINIMAX_API_KEY,
etc.) to OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS.
- status.py: Added API key display and provider status section.
- doctor.py: Added connectivity checks for each provider endpoint.
- cli.py: Updated provider docstrings.
Docs: Updated README.md, .env.example, cli-config.yaml.example,
cli-commands.md, environment-variables.md, configuration.md.
Tests: 50 new tests covering registry, aliases, resolution, auto-detection,
credential resolution, and runtime provider dispatch.
Inspired by PR #33 (numman-ali) which proposed a provider registry approach.
Credit to tars90percent (PR #473) and manuelschipper (PR #420) for related
provider improvements merged earlier in this changeset.
Previously pressing Escape in any setup wizard menu called sys.exit(1),
killing the entire wizard with no way to recover. Now:
- prompt_choice: Escape keeps the current default and moves on (prints
'Skipped (keeping current)'). Shows '↑/↓ Navigate Enter Select
Esc Skip Ctrl+C Exit' hint.
- prompt_checklist: Escape returns pre-selected items instead of empty
list. Shows 'SPACE Toggle ENTER Confirm ESC Skip Ctrl+C Exit'.
- prompt_yes_no: now catches KeyboardInterrupt/EOFError properly.
- Fallback number prompts also show control hints.
Ctrl+C still exits the wizard cleanly.
Add Daytona as a backend choice in the interactive setup wizard with
SDK installation and API key prompts. Show Daytona image in status
output and validate API key + SDK in doctor checks. Add OPTION 6
example in cli-config.yaml.example.
Signed-off-by: rovle <lovre.pesut@gmail.com>
Authored by jdblackstar. Catches runtime exceptions from TerminalMenu
init (e.g. CalledProcessError from tput with unknown TERM like
xterm-ghostty over SSH) and falls through to the text-based menu.
Implemented checks to ensure that necessary binaries (Docker, Singularity, SSH) are installed for the selected backend in the setup wizard. If a required binary is missing, the user is prompted to proceed with a fallback to the local backend. This enhances user experience by preventing potential runtime errors due to missing dependencies.
Introduced interactive prompts for configuring container resource settings (CPU, memory, disk, persistence) during the setup wizard. Updated the default configuration to include these settings and improved user guidance on their implications for Docker, Singularity, and Modal backends. This enhancement aims to streamline the setup process and provide users with clearer options for resource management.
Updated the setup wizard to improve clarity around gateway service installation and management. Added prompts for users to install and start the gateway as a system service on Linux and macOS, while refining messaging for home channel configuration. This enhances the overall user experience during the setup process.
Updated the interactive setup in hermes CLI to remove emoji characters from menu choices. This change addresses visual issues caused by emoji miscalculations during terminal redraws, ensuring a cleaner and more readable interface for users.
Modified the setup wizard to ensure it only skips execution when no terminal is available, improving compatibility with piped installations. Additionally, updated environment variable checks to use bool() for accurate provider configuration detection, addressing potential issues with empty values in .env files.
The is_existing check included 'get_config_path().exists()' which is
always True after installation (the installer copies config.yaml from
the template). This caused the wizard to enter quick mode, which
skips provider selection entirely — leaving hermes non-functional.
Fix: only consider it an existing installation when an actual
inference provider is configured (OPENROUTER_API_KEY, OPENAI_BASE_URL,
or an active OAuth provider). Fresh installs now correctly show the
full setup flow with provider selection.
Updated the README and messaging documentation to clarify the two modes for WhatsApp integration: 'bot' mode (recommended) and 'self-chat' mode. Improved setup instructions to guide users through the configuration process, including allowlist management and dependency installation. Adjusted CLI commands to reflect these changes and ensure a smoother user experience. Additionally, modified the WhatsApp bridge to support the new mode functionality.
- Enhanced Codex model discovery by fetching available models from the API, with fallback to local cache and defaults.
- Updated the context compressor's summary target tokens to 2500 for improved performance.
- Added external credential detection for Codex CLI to streamline authentication.
- Refactored various components to ensure consistent handling of authentication and model selection across the application.
- Added configuration options for automatic session resets based on inactivity or daily boundaries in cli-config.yaml.
- Enhanced SessionResetPolicy class to support a "none" mode for no auto-resets.
- Implemented memory flushing before session resets in SessionStore to preserve important information.
- Updated setup wizard to guide users in configuring session reset preferences.
- Added functionality to keep the .env file in sync with terminal configuration settings in config.yaml, ensuring terminal_tool can directly access necessary environment variables.
- Updated setup wizard to save selected backend and associated Docker image to .env for improved consistency and usability.
