- stderr handler now uses RedactingFormatter to match file handlers
- restart path uses verbose=0 (int) instead of verbose=False (bool)
- test mock updated with new run_gateway(verbose, quiet, replace) signature
By default 'hermes gateway run' now prints WARNING+ to stderr so
connection errors and startup failures are visible in the terminal
without having to tail ~/.hermes/logs/gateway.log.
- gateway/run.py: start_gateway() accepts verbosity: Optional[int]=0.
When not None, attaches a StreamHandler to stderr with level mapped
from the count (0=WARNING, 1=INFO, 2+=DEBUG). Root logger level is
also lowered when DEBUG is requested so records are not swallowed.
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: run_gateway() gains verbose: int and
quiet: bool params. -q translates to verbosity=None (no stderr
handler). Wired through gateway_command().
- hermes_cli/main.py: -v changed from store_true to action=count so
-v/-vv/-vvv each increment the level. -q/--quiet added as a new flag.
Behaviour summary:
hermes gateway run -> WARNING+ on stderr (default)
hermes gateway run -q -> silent
hermes gateway run -v -> INFO+
hermes gateway run -vv -> DEBUG
The library removed the static get_transcript() method in v1.0.
Migrate to the new instance-based fetch() API and normalize
FetchedTranscriptSnippet objects back to dicts for compatibility
with the rest of the script.
When `sudo hermes gateway install --system --run-as-user <user>` generates
the systemd unit, get_hermes_home() resolves to /root/.hermes because
Path.home() returns root's home under sudo. The unit correctly sets
HOME= and User= via _system_service_identity(), but HERMES_HOME was
computed independently and pointed to root's config directory.
Add _hermes_home_for_target_user() which remaps the current HERMES_HOME
to the equivalent path under the target user's home. This handles:
- Default ~/.hermes → target user's ~/.hermes
- Profiles (e.g. ~/.hermes/profiles/coder) → preserves relative structure
- Custom paths (e.g. /opt/hermes) → kept as-is
Supersedes #3861 which only handled the default case and left profiles
broken (also flagged by Copilot review).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PR #4419 was based on pre-credential-pools main where _config_version was 10.
The squash merge downgraded it from 11 (set by #2647) back to 10.
Also fixes the test assertion.
* feat(skills): add content size limits for agent-created skills
Agent writes via skill_manage (create/edit/patch/write_file) are now
constrained to prevent unbounded growth:
- SKILL.md and supporting files: 100,000 character limit
- Supporting files: additional 1 MiB byte limit
- Patches on oversized hand-placed skills that reduce the size are
allowed (shrink path), but patches that grow beyond the limit are
rejected
Hand-placed skills and hub-installed skills have NO hard limit —
they load and function normally regardless of size. Hub installs
get a warning in the log if SKILL.md exceeds 100k chars.
This mirrors the memory system's char_limit pattern. Without this,
the agent auto-grows skills indefinitely through iterative patches
(hermes-agent-dev reached 197k chars / 72k tokens — 40x larger than
the largest skill in the entire skills.sh ecosystem).
Constants: MAX_SKILL_CONTENT_CHARS (100k), MAX_SKILL_FILE_BYTES (1MiB)
Tests: 14 new tests covering all write paths and edge cases
* feat(skills): add fuzzy matching to skill patch
_patch_skill now uses the same 8-strategy fuzzy matching engine
(tools/fuzzy_match.py) as the file patch tool. Handles whitespace
normalization, indentation differences, escape sequences, and
block-anchor matching. Eliminates exact-match failures when agents
patch skills with minor formatting mismatches.
Adds two Camofox features:
1. Persistent browser sessions: new `browser.camofox.managed_persistence`
config option. When enabled, Hermes sends a deterministic profile-scoped
userId to Camofox so the server maps it to a persistent browser profile
directory. Cookies, logins, and browser state survive across restarts.
Default remains ephemeral (random userId per session).
2. VNC URL discovery: Camofox /health endpoint returns vncPort when running
in headed mode. Hermes constructs the VNC URL and includes it in navigate
responses so the agent can share it with users.
Also fixes camofox_vision bug where call_llm response object was passed
directly to json.dumps instead of extracting .choices[0].message.content.
Changes from original PR:
- Removed browser_evaluate tool (separate feature, needs own PR)
- Removed snapshot truncation limit change (unrelated)
- Config.yaml only for managed_persistence (no env var, no version bump)
- Rewrote tests to use config mock instead of env var
- Reverted package-lock.json churn
Co-authored-by: analista <psikonetik@gmail.com.com>
The unified skill from PR #4332 was placed at a top-level
skills/hermes-agent/ directory, creating a redundant standalone
category. Move it to skills/autonomous-ai-agents/hermes-agent/
alongside claude-code, codex, and opencode where it belongs.
The total_tokens field includes cache_read + cache_write tokens, but
the display only showed input + output — making the math look wrong
(e.g. 765K + 134K displayed but total said 9.2M). Now shows a cache
line when cache tokens are present so all visible numbers sum to the
displayed total.
Affects both terminal (hermes insights) and gateway (/insights)
formats.
Show inline diffs in the CLI transcript when write_file, patch, or
skill_manage modifies files. Captures a filesystem snapshot before the
tool runs, computes a unified diff after, and renders it with ANSI
coloring in the activity feed.
Adds tool_start_callback and tool_complete_callback hooks to AIAgent
for pre/post tool execution notifications.
Also fixes _extract_parallel_scope_path to normalize relative paths
to absolute, preventing the parallel overlap detection from missing
conflicts when the same file is referenced with different path styles.
Gated by display.inline_diffs config option (default: true).
Based on PR #3774 by @kshitijk4poor.
- Add _DEFAULT_EXPORT_EXCLUDE_ROOT constant with 25+ entries to exclude
from default profile exports: repo checkout (hermes-agent), worktrees,
databases (state.db), caches, runtime state, logs, binaries
- Add _default_export_ignore() with root-level and universal exclusions
(__pycache__, *.sock, *.tmp at any depth)
- Remove redundant shutil/tempfile imports from contributor's if-block
- Block import_profile() from accepting 'default' as target name with
clear guidance to use --name
- Add 7 tests covering: archive creation, inclusion of profile data,
exclusion of infrastructure, nested __pycache__ exclusion, import
rejection without --name, import rejection with --name default,
full export-import roundtrip with a different name
Addresses review feedback on PR #4370.
Replace the per-response padding from PR #4359 (which created a void
between short responses and the prompt) with a one-time initial scroll
at session start. Prints terminal_height newlines before the banner so
the cursor starts at the bottom row — banner, responses, and prompt all
appear pinned to the bottom with empty space above, not below.
patch_stdout naturally keeps the prompt at the bottom from there, so
no per-response padding is needed.
The openai SDK's SyncAPIClient.is_closed is a method, not a property.
getattr(client, 'is_closed', False) returned the bound method object,
which is always truthy — causing _is_openai_client_closed() to report
all clients as closed and triggering unnecessary client recreation
(~100-200ms TCP+TLS overhead per API call).
Fix: check if is_closed is callable and call it, otherwise treat as bool.
Fixes#4377
Co-authored-by: Bartok9 <Bartok9@users.noreply.github.com>
When a dangerous command was blocked and the user approved it via /approve,
the command was executed but the agent loop had already exited — the agent
never received the command output and the task died silently.
Now _handle_approve_command sends immediate feedback to the user, then
creates a synthetic continuation message with the command output and feeds
it through _handle_message so the agent picks up where it left off.
- Send command result to chat immediately via adapter.send()
- Create synthetic MessageEvent with command + output as context
- Spawn asyncio task to re-invoke agent via _handle_message
- Return None (feedback already sent directly)
- Add test for agent re-invocation after approval
- Update existing approval tests for new return behavior
Target the exact state that breaks: when .navbar-sidebar--show is active
on the same <nav> element. This preserves the blur on mobile when the
sidebar is closed, and only removes it when the sidebar is open.
backdrop-filter on .navbar creates a new CSS stacking context that
hides .navbar-sidebar menu content on mobile (only the close button
is visible). Scope the blur effect to min-width: 997px so it only
applies on desktop where the sidebar is not rendered inside the navbar.
Ref: facebook/docusaurus#6996, facebook/docusaurus#6853
Three bugs prevented credential pool rotation from working when multiple
Codex OAuth tokens were configured:
1. credential_pool was dropped during smart model turn routing.
resolve_turn_route() constructed runtime dicts without it, so the
AIAgent was created without pool access. Fixed in smart_model_routing.py
(no-route and fallback paths), cli.py, and gateway/run.py.
2. Eager fallback fired before pool rotation on 429. The rate-limit
handler at line ~7180 switched to a fallback provider immediately,
before _recover_with_credential_pool got a chance to rotate to the
next credential. Now deferred when the pool still has credentials.
3. (Non-issue) Retry budget was reported as too small, but successful
pool rotations already skip retry_count increment — no change needed.
Reported by community member Schinsly who identified all three root
causes and verified the fix locally with multiple Codex accounts.
After a successful write_file or patch, update the stored read
timestamp to match the file's new modification time. Without this,
consecutive edits by the same task (read → write → write) would
false-warn on the second write because the stored timestamp still
reflected the original read, not the first write.
Also renames the internal tracker key from 'file_mtimes' to
'read_timestamps' for clarity.
Telegram API returns HTTP 400 when sent whitespace-only or empty
text. Add a guard at the top of send() to silently succeed on
blank content instead of crashing.
Equivalent to OpenClaw #56620.
* fix: root-level provider in config.yaml no longer overrides model.provider
load_cli_config() had a priority inversion: a stale root-level
'provider' key in config.yaml would OVERRIDE the canonical
'model.provider' set by 'hermes model'. The gateway reads
model.provider directly from YAML and worked correctly, but
'hermes chat -q' and the interactive CLI went through the merge
logic and picked up the stale root-level key.
Fix: root-level provider/base_url are now only used as a fallback
when model.provider/model.base_url is not set (never as an override).
Also added _normalize_root_model_keys() to config.py load_config()
and save_config() — migrates root-level provider/base_url into the
model section and removes the root-level keys permanently.
Reported by (≧▽≦) in Discord: opencode-go provider persisted as a
root-level key and overrode the correct model.provider=openrouter,
causing 401 errors.
* fix(security): redact secrets from execute_code sandbox output
The execute_code sandbox stripped env vars with secret-like names from
the child process (preventing os.environ access), but scripts could
still read secrets from disk (e.g. open('~/.hermes/.env')) and print
them to stdout. The raw values entered the model context unredacted.
terminal_tool and file_tools already applied redact_sensitive_text()
to their output — execute_code was the only tool that skipped this
step. Now the same redaction runs on both stdout and stderr after
ANSI stripping.
Reported via Discord (not filed on GitHub to avoid public disclosure
of the reproduction steps).
After short agent responses, the prompt_toolkit input area sat mid-screen
with empty terminal space below it. Now prints padding newlines (half
terminal height) after each response to push the prompt toward the bottom.
patch_stdout renders the padding above the input area.
Track file mtime when read_file is called. When write_file or patch
subsequently targets the same file, compare the current mtime against
the recorded one. If they differ (external edit, concurrent agent,
user change), include a _warning in the result advising the agent to
re-read. The write still proceeds — this is a soft signal, not a
hard block.
Key design points:
- Per-task isolation: task A's reads don't affect task B's writes.
- Files never read produce no warning (not enforcing read-before-write).
- mtime naturally updates after the agent's own writes, so the warning
only fires on external changes, not the agent's own edits.
- V4A multi-file patches check all target paths.
Tests: 10 new tests covering write staleness, patch staleness,
never-read files, cross-task isolation, and the helper function.
The camofox-browser image defaults to port 3000 internally, not 9377.
Without -e CAMOFOX_PORT=9377, the -p 9377:9377 mapping silently fails
because nothing listens on 9377 inside the container.
E2E verified: -p 9377:9377 alone → connection reset,
-p 9377:9377 -e CAMOFOX_PORT=9377 → healthy and functional.
load_cli_config() had a priority inversion: a stale root-level
'provider' key in config.yaml would OVERRIDE the canonical
'model.provider' set by 'hermes model'. The gateway reads
model.provider directly from YAML and worked correctly, but
'hermes chat -q' and the interactive CLI went through the merge
logic and picked up the stale root-level key.
Fix: root-level provider/base_url are now only used as a fallback
when model.provider/model.base_url is not set (never as an override).
Also added _normalize_root_model_keys() to config.py load_config()
and save_config() — migrates root-level provider/base_url into the
model section and removes the root-level keys permanently.
Reported by (≧▽≦) in Discord: opencode-go provider persisted as a
root-level key and overrode the correct model.provider=openrouter,
causing 401 errors.
* feat(file_tools): harden read_file with size guard, dedup, and device blocking
Three improvements to read_file_tool to reduce wasted context tokens and
prevent process hangs:
1. Character-count guard: reads that produce more than 100K characters
(≈25-35K tokens across tokenisers) are rejected with an error that
tells the model to use offset+limit for a smaller range. The
effective cap is min(file_size, 100K) so small files that happen to
have long lines aren't over-penalised. Large truncated files also
get a hint nudging toward targeted reads.
2. File-read deduplication: when the same (path, offset, limit) is read
a second time and the file hasn't been modified (mtime unchanged),
return a lightweight stub instead of re-sending the full content.
Writes and patches naturally change mtime, so post-edit reads always
return fresh content. The dedup cache is cleared on context
compression — after compression the original read content is
summarised away, so the model needs the full content again.
3. Device path blocking: paths like /dev/zero, /dev/random, /dev/stdin
etc. are rejected before any I/O to prevent process hangs from
infinite-output or blocking-input devices.
Tests: 17 new tests covering all three features plus the dedup-reset-
on-compression integration. All 52 file-read tests pass (35 existing +
17 new). Full tool suite (2124 tests) passes with 0 failures.
* feat: make file_read_max_chars configurable, add docs
Add file_read_max_chars to DEFAULT_CONFIG (default 100K). read_file_tool
reads this on first call and caches for the process lifetime. Users on
large-context models can raise it; users on small local models can lower it.
Also adds a 'File Read Safety' section to the configuration docs
explaining the char limit, dedup behavior, and example values.
Follow-up to PR #4305 — .config/gh was added to the write-deny list
but missed from _SENSITIVE_HOME_DIRS, leaving GitHub CLI OAuth tokens
exposed via @file:~/.config/gh/hosts.yml context injection.
save_config_value() used bare open(path, 'w') + yaml.dump() which truncates
the file to zero bytes on open. If the process is interrupted mid-write,
config.yaml is left empty. Replace with atomic_yaml_write() (temp file +
fsync + os.replace), matching the gateway config write path.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
_load_config_files() had the same hermes_home / item pattern without
containment checks. While config.yaml is user-controlled (lower threat
than skill frontmatter), defense in depth prevents exploitation via
config injection or copy-paste mistakes.
Fixes a zip-slip path traversal vulnerability in hermes profile import.
shutil.unpack_archive() on untrusted tar members allows entries like
../../escape.txt to write files outside ~/.hermes/profiles/.
- Add _normalize_profile_archive_parts() to reject absolute paths
(POSIX and Windows), traversal (..), empty paths, backslash tricks
- Add _safe_extract_profile_archive() for manual per-member extraction
that only allows regular files and directories (rejects symlinks)
- Replace shutil.unpack_archive() with the safe extraction path
- Add regression tests for traversal and absolute-path attacks
Co-authored-by: Gutslabs <gutslabsxyz@gmail.com>
WSL detection was treated as a hard fail, blocking voice mode even when
audio worked via PulseAudio bridge. Now PULSE_SERVER env var presence
makes WSL a soft notice instead of a blocking warning. Device query
failures in WSL with PULSE_SERVER are also treated as non-blocking.
Exposes the existing max_turns parameter (cli.py main()) as a CLI flag
so programmatic callers (Paperclip adapter, scripts) can control the
agent's tool-calling iteration limit without editing config.yaml.
Priority chain unchanged: CLI flag > config agent.max_turns > env
HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS > default 90.
When an OAuth token refresh fails on a 401 error, the pool recovery
would return 'not recovered' without trying the next credential in the
pool. This meant users who added a second valid credential via
'hermes auth add' would never see it used when the primary credential
was dead.
Now: try refresh first (handles expired tokens quickly), and if that
fails, rotate to the next available credential — same as 429/402
already did.
Adds three tests covering 401 refresh success, refresh-fail-then-rotate,
and refresh-fail-with-no-remaining-credentials.
The _has_any_provider_configured() guard only checked env vars, .env file,
and auth.json — missing config.yaml model.provider/base_url/api_key entirely.
Users who configured a provider through setup (saving to config.yaml) but had
empty API key placeholders in .env from the install template were permanently
blocked by the 'not configured' message.
Changes:
- _has_any_provider_configured() now checks config.yaml model section for
explicit provider, base_url, or api_key — covers custom endpoints and
providers that store credentials in config rather than env vars
- .env.example: comment out all empty API key placeholders so they don't
pollute the environment when copied to .env by the installer
- .env.example: mark LLM_MODEL as deprecated (config.yaml is source of truth)
- 4 new tests for the config.yaml detection path
Reported by OkadoOP on Discord.
* docs: update llama.cpp section with --jinja flag and tool calling guide
The llama.cpp docs were missing the --jinja flag which is required for
tool calling to work. Without it, models output tool calls as raw JSON
text instead of structured API responses, making Hermes unable to
execute them.
Changes:
- Add --jinja and -fa flags to the server startup example
- Replace deprecated env vars (OPENAI_BASE_URL, LLM_MODEL) with
hermes model interactive setup
- Add caution block explaining the --jinja requirement and symptoms
- List models with native tool calling support
- Add /props endpoint verification tip
* docs+feat: comprehensive local LLM provider guides and context length warning
Docs (providers.md):
- Rewrote Ollama section with context length warning (defaults to 4k on
<24GB VRAM), three methods to increase it, and verification steps
- Rewrote vLLM section with --max-model-len, tool calling flags
(--enable-auto-tool-choice, --tool-call-parser), and context guidance
- Rewrote SGLang section with --context-length, --tool-call-parser,
and warning about 128-token default max output
- Added LM Studio section (port 1234, context length defaults to 2048,
tool calling since 0.3.6)
- Added llama.cpp context length flag (-c) and GPU offload (-ngl)
- Added Troubleshooting Local Models section covering:
- Tool calls appearing as text (with per-server fix table)
- Silent context truncation and diagnosis commands
- Low detected context at startup
- Truncated responses
- Replaced all deprecated env vars (OPENAI_BASE_URL, LLM_MODEL) with
hermes model interactive setup and config.yaml examples
- Added deprecation warning for legacy env vars in General Setup
Code (cli.py):
- Added context length warning in show_banner() when detected context
is <= 8192 tokens, with server-specific fix hints:
- Ollama (port 11434): suggests OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH env var
- LM Studio (port 1234): suggests model settings adjustment
- Other servers: suggests config.yaml override
Tests:
- 9 new tests covering warning thresholds, server-specific hints,
and no-warning cases
Some models (e.g. Kimi K2.5 on Alibaba OpenAI-compatible endpoint)
emit reasoning text followed by a closing </think> without a matching
opening <think> tag. The existing paired-tag regexes in
_strip_think_blocks() cannot match these orphaned tags, so </think>
leaks into user-facing responses on all platforms.
Add a catch-all regex that strips any remaining opening or closing
think/thinking/reasoning/REASONING_SCRATCHPAD tags after the existing
paired-block removal pass.
Closes#4285
`hermes config set KEY ""` and `hermes config set KEY 0` were rejected
because the guard used `not value` which is truthy for empty strings,
zero, and False. Changed to `value is None` so only truly missing
arguments are rejected.
Closes#4277
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The delivery target parser uses split(':', 1) which only splits on the
first colon. For the documented format platform:chat_id:thread_id
(e.g. 'telegram:-1001234567890:17585'), thread_id gets munged into
chat_id and is never extracted.
Fix: split(':', 2) to correctly extract all three parts. Also fix
to_string() to include thread_id for proper round-tripping.
The downstream plumbing in _deliver_to_platform() already handles
thread_id correctly (line 292-293) — it just never received a value.
* docs: clarify WhatsApp allowlist behavior and document WHATSAPP_ALLOW_ALL_USERS
- Add WHATSAPP_ALLOW_ALL_USERS and WHATSAPP_DEBUG to env vars reference
- Warn that * is not a wildcard and silently blocks all messages
- Show WHATSAPP_ALLOWED_USERS as optional, not required
- Update troubleshooting with the * trap and debug mode tip
- Fix Security section to mention the allow-all alternative
Prompted by a user report in Discord where WHATSAPP_ALLOWED_USERS=*
caused all incoming messages to be silently dropped at the bridge level.
* feat: support * wildcard in platform allowlists
Follow the precedent set by SIGNAL_GROUP_ALLOWED_USERS which already
supports * as an allow-all wildcard.
Bridge (allowlist.js): matchesAllowedUser() now checks for * in the
allowedUsers set before iterating sender aliases.
Gateway (run.py): _is_authorized() checks for * in allowed_ids after
parsing the allowlist. This is generic — works for all platforms, not
just WhatsApp.
Updated docs to document * as a supported value instead of warning
against it. Added WHATSAPP_ALLOW_ALL_USERS and WHATSAPP_DEBUG to
the env vars reference.
Tests: JS allowlist test + 2 Python gateway tests (WhatsApp + Telegram
to verify cross-platform behavior).
