- Implemented a new interactive model selection feature after user login, allowing users to choose from available models or enter a custom model name.
- Added functionality to save the selected model to the configuration file and environment variables, ensuring persistence across sessions.
- Enhanced user experience by providing both menu-based and fallback number-based selection methods for model choice.
- Implemented a multi-provider authentication system for the Hermes Agent, supporting OAuth for Nous Portal and traditional API key methods for OpenRouter and custom endpoints.
- Enhanced CLI with commands for logging in and out of providers, allowing users to authenticate and manage their credentials easily.
- Updated configuration options to select inference providers, with detailed documentation on usage and setup.
- Improved status reporting to include authentication status and provider details, enhancing user awareness of their current configuration.
- Added new files for authentication handling and updated existing components to integrate the new provider system.
- Changed the banner message in both PowerShell and shell scripts to reflect the new branding of the Hermes Agent as an open source AI agent by Nous Research, enhancing clarity and consistency across installation scripts.
- Removed outdated sections detailing existing tools and knowledge systems to enhance readability.
- Consolidated information on subagent architecture and interactive clarifying questions, emphasizing their current status and implementation details.
- Updated formatting and structure to improve navigation and understanding of the document's content.
- Added a spinner to visually indicate task delegation progress in quiet mode, improving user experience during batch processing.
- Implemented a method to update spinner text dynamically based on remaining tasks, providing real-time feedback.
- Enhanced the `delegate_task` function to include per-task completion messages, ensuring clarity on task status during execution.
- Updated the KawaiiSpinner class to allow message updates while running, facilitating better interaction during long-running tasks.
- Introduced the `delegate_task` tool, allowing the main agent to spawn child AIAgent instances with isolated context for complex tasks.
- Supported both single-task and batch processing (up to 3 concurrent tasks) to enhance task management capabilities.
- Updated configuration options for delegation, including maximum iterations and default toolsets for subagents.
- Enhanced documentation to provide clear guidance on using the delegation feature and its configuration.
- Added comprehensive tests to ensure the functionality and reliability of the delegation logic.
- Changed the target parameter from "content" and "files" to "grep" and "find" to better represent their functionality.
- Revised descriptions in the tool definitions and execution code schema to enhance understanding of search modes and output formats.
- Ensured consistency in the handling of search operations across the codebase.
- Updated the tool name from "search" to "search_files" across multiple files to better reflect its functionality.
- Adjusted related documentation and descriptions to ensure clarity in usage and expected behavior.
- Enhanced the toolset definitions and mappings to incorporate the new naming convention, improving overall consistency in the codebase.
- 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.
