Remove hallucinated providers (openai, deepseek, together, groq,
fireworks, mistral, gemini, nous) from the fallback provider map.
These don't exist in hermes-agent's provider system.
The real supported providers for fallback are:
openrouter (OPENROUTER_API_KEY)
zai (ZAI_API_KEY)
kimi-coding (KIMI_API_KEY)
minimax (MINIMAX_API_KEY)
minimax-cn (MINIMAX_CN_API_KEY)
For any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint, users can use the
base_url + api_key_env overrides in the config.
Also adds Kimi User-Agent header for kimi fallback (matching
the main provider system).
The config comment now shows the complete list of built-in providers
that the fallback system supports, each with the env var it reads
for the API key. Also clarifies that custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints
work via base_url + api_key_env.
When the primary model/provider fails after retries (rate limit, overload,
auth errors, connection failures), Hermes automatically switches to a
configured fallback model for the remainder of the session.
Config (in ~/.hermes/config.yaml):
fallback_model:
provider: openrouter
model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4
Supports all major providers: OpenRouter, OpenAI, Nous, DeepSeek, Together,
Groq, Fireworks, Mistral, Gemini — plus custom endpoints via base_url and
api_key_env overrides.
Design principles:
- Dead simple: one fallback model, not a chain
- One-shot: switches once, doesn't ping-pong back
- Zero new dependencies: uses existing OpenAI client
- Minimal code: ~100 lines in run_agent.py, ~5 lines in cli.py/gateway
- Three trigger points: max retries exhausted, non-retryable client errors,
and invalid response exhaustion
Does NOT trigger on context overflow or payload-too-large errors (those
are handled by the existing compression system).
Addresses #737.
25 new tests, 2492 total passing.
Complete Signal adapter using signal-cli daemon HTTP API.
Based on PR #268 by ibhagwan, rebuilt on current main with bug fixes.
Architecture:
- SSE streaming for inbound messages with exponential backoff (2s→60s)
- JSON-RPC 2.0 for outbound (send, typing, attachments, contacts)
- Health monitor detects stale SSE connections (120s threshold)
- Phone number redaction in all logs and global redact.py
Features:
- DM and group message support with separate access policies
- DM policies: pairing (default), allowlist, open
- Group policies: disabled (default), allowlist, open
- Attachment download with magic-byte type detection
- Typing indicators (8s refresh interval)
- 100MB attachment size limit, 8000 char message limit
- E.164 phone + UUID allowlist support
Integration:
- Platform.SIGNAL enum in gateway/config.py
- Signal in _is_user_authorized() allowlist maps (gateway/run.py)
- Adapter factory in _create_adapter() (gateway/run.py)
- user_id_alt/chat_id_alt fields in SessionSource for UUIDs
- send_message tool support via httpx JSON-RPC (not aiohttp)
- Interactive setup wizard in 'hermes gateway setup'
- Connectivity testing during setup (pings /api/v1/check)
- signal-cli detection and install guidance
Bug fixes from PR #268:
- Timestamp reads from envelope_data (not outer wrapper)
- Uses httpx consistently (not aiohttp in send_message tool)
- SIGNAL_DEBUG scoped to signal logger (not root)
- extract_images regex NOT modified (preserves group numbering)
- pairing.py NOT modified (no cross-platform side effects)
- No dual authorization (adapter defers to run.py for user auth)
- Wildcard uses set membership ('*' in set, not list equality)
- .zip default for PK magic bytes (not .docx)
No new Python dependencies — uses httpx (already core).
External requirement: signal-cli daemon (user-installed).
Tests: 30 new tests covering config, init, helpers, session source,
phone redaction, authorization, and send_message integration.
Co-authored-by: ibhagwan <ibhagwan@users.noreply.github.com>
The Codex model normalization was rejecting any model without 'codex'
in its name, forcing a fallback to gpt-5.3-codex. This blocked models
like gpt-5.4 that the Codex API actually supports.
The fix simplifies _normalize_model_for_provider() to two operations:
1. Strip provider prefixes (API needs bare slugs)
2. Replace the *untouched default* model with a Codex-compatible one
If the user explicitly chose a model — any model — we trust them and
let the API be the judge. No allowlists, no slug checks.
Also removes the 'codex not in slug' filter from _read_cache_models()
so the local cache preserves all API-available models.
Inspired by OpenClaw's approach which explicitly lists non-codex models
(gpt-5.4, gpt-5.2) as valid Codex models.
- Added support for auxiliary model overrides in the configuration, allowing users to specify providers and models for vision and web extraction tasks.
- Updated the CLI configuration example to include new auxiliary model settings.
- Enhanced the environment variable mapping in the CLI to accommodate auxiliary model configurations.
- Improved the resolution logic for auxiliary clients to support task-specific provider overrides.
- Updated relevant documentation and comments for clarity on the new features and their usage.
When resuming a session via --continue or --resume, show a compact recap
of the previous conversation inside a Rich panel before the input prompt.
This gives users immediate visual context about what was discussed.
Changes:
- Add _preload_resumed_session() to load session history early (in run(),
before banner) so _init_agent() doesn't need a separate DB round-trip
- Add _display_resumed_history() that renders a formatted recap panel:
* User messages shown with gold bullet (truncated at 300 chars)
* Assistant responses shown with green diamond (truncated at 200 chars / 3 lines)
* Tool calls collapsed to count + tool names
* System messages and tool results hidden
* <REASONING_SCRATCHPAD> blocks stripped from display
* Pure-reasoning messages (no visible output) skipped entirely
* Capped at last 10 exchanges with 'N earlier messages' indicator
* Dim/muted styling distinguishes recap from active conversation
- Add display.resume_display config option: 'full' (default) or 'minimal'
- Store resume_display as instance variable (like compact) for testability
- 27 new tests covering all display scenarios, config, and edge cases
Closes#719
NOUS_API_KEY is unused — vision tools use OPENROUTER_API_KEY or Nous
Portal OAuth (auth.json), and MoA tools use OPENROUTER_API_KEY.
Removed from:
- hermes_cli/config.py: api_keys allowlist for config set routing
- .env.example: example env file entry and comment
- tests/hermes_cli/test_set_config_value.py: parametrize test data
- tests/integration/test_web_tools.py: updated comments and log
messages to reference 'auxiliary LLM provider' instead of NOUS_API_KEY
No HECATE references found in codebase (already cleaned up).
Add `hermes sessions browse` — a curses-based interactive session picker
with live type-to-search filtering, arrow key navigation, and seamless
session resume via Enter.
Features:
- Arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select and resume, Esc/q to quit
- Type characters to live-filter sessions by title, preview, source, or ID
- Backspace to edit filter, first Esc clears filter, second Esc exits
- Adaptive column layout (title/preview, last active, source, ID)
- Scrolling support for long session lists
- --source flag to filter by platform (cli, telegram, discord, etc.)
- --limit flag to control how many sessions to load (default: 50)
- Windows fallback: numbered list with input prompt
- After selection, seamlessly execs into `hermes --resume <id>`
Design decisions:
- Separate subcommand (not a flag on -c) — preserves `hermes -c` as-is
for instant most-recent-session resume
- Uses curses (not simple_term_menu) per Known Pitfalls to avoid the
arrow-key ghost-duplication rendering bug in tmux/iTerm
- Follows existing curses pattern from hermes_cli/tools_config.py
Also fixes: removed redundant `import os` inside cmd_sessions stats
block that shadowed the module-level import (would cause UnboundLocalError
if browse action was taken in the same function).
Tests: 33 new tests covering curses picker, fallback mode, filtering,
navigation, edge cases, and argument parser registration.
Source code (hermes_cli/clipboard.py):
- _convert_to_png() lost the file when both Pillow and ImageMagick were
unavailable: path.rename(tmp) moved the file to .bmp, then subprocess.run
raised FileNotFoundError, but the file was never renamed back. The final
fallback 'return path.exists()' returned False.
- Fix: restore the original file in both except handlers by renaming tmp
back to path when the original is missing.
Test (tests/tools/test_clipboard.py):
- test_file_still_usable_when_no_converter expected 'from PIL import Image'
to raise an Exception, but Pillow is installed so pytest.raises fired
'DID NOT RAISE'. The test also never called _convert_to_png().
- Fix: properly mock PIL unavailability via patch.dict(sys.modules),
actually call _convert_to_png(), and assert the correct result.
- website/docs/user-guide/sessions.md: New 'Session Naming' section
with /title usage, title rules, auto-lineage, gateway support.
Updated 'Resume by Name' section, 'Rename a Session' subsection,
updated sessions list output format, updated DB schema description.
- website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md: Added -c "name" and
--resume by title to Core Commands, sessions rename to Sessions
table, /title to slash commands.
- website/docs/user-guide/cli.md: Added -c "name" and --resume by
title to resume options.
- AGENTS.md: Added -c, --resume, sessions list/rename to CLI commands
table. Added hermes_state.py to project structure.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: Updated hermes_state.py and session persistence
descriptions to mention titles.
- hermes_cli/main.py: Fixed sessions help string to include 'rename'.
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>
Call ensure_hub_dirs() at the start of hermes skills list so the\nSkills Hub directory structure is created before reading hub\nmetadata.\n\nAdd a regression test covering the empty-home path where\ndoctor recommends running the list command.\n\nRefs: #703
/provider command (CLI + gateway):
Shows all providers with auth status (✓/✗), aliases, and active marker.
Users can now discover what provider names work with provider:model syntax.
Gateway bugs fixed:
- Config was saved even when validation.persist=False (told user 'session
only' but actually persisted the unvalidated model)
- HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER env var not set on provider switch, causing
the switch to be silently overridden if that env var was already set
parse_model_input hardened:
- Colon only treated as provider delimiter if left side is a recognized
provider name or alias. 'anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet:beta' now passes
through as a model name instead of trying provider='anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet'.
- HTTP URLs, random colons no longer misinterpreted.
56 tests passing across model validation, CLI commands, and integration.
'auto' doesn't always mean openrouter — it could be nous, zai,
kimi-coding, etc. depending on configured credentials. Reverted the
hardcoded mapping and now both CLI and gateway call
resolve_provider() to detect the actual active provider when 'auto'
is set. Falls back to openrouter only if resolution fails.
Added a system to track environment variables introduced in each config version, allowing migration prompts to only mention new variables since the user's last version. Updated the interactive configuration process to offer users the option to set these new optional keys during migration.
- normalize_provider('auto') now returns 'openrouter' (the default)
so /model shows the curated model list instead of nothing
- CLI /model display uses normalize_provider before looking up labels
- Gateway /model handler now uses the same validation logic as CLI:
live API probe, provider:model syntax, curated model list display
Add provider:model syntax to /model command for runtime provider switching:
/model zai:glm-5 → switch to Z.AI provider with glm-5
/model nous:hermes-3 → switch to Nous Portal with hermes-3
/model openrouter:anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 → explicit OpenRouter
When switching providers, credentials are resolved via resolve_runtime_provider
and validated before committing. Both model and provider are saved to config.
Provider aliases work (glm: → zai, kimi: → kimi-coding, etc.).
Enhanced /model (no args) display now shows:
- Current model and provider
- Curated model list for the current provider with ← marker
- Usage examples including provider:model syntax
39 tests covering parse_model_input, curated_models_for_provider,
provider switching (success + credential failure), and display output.
Not all providers require 'provider/model' format. Removing the rigid
format check lets the live API probe handle all validation uniformly.
If someone types 'gpt-5.4' on OpenRouter, the probe won't find it and
will suggest 'openai/gpt-5.4' — better UX than a format rejection.
Replace the static catalog-based model validation with a live API probe.
The /model command now hits the provider's /models endpoint to check if
the requested model actually exists:
- Model found in API → accepted + saved to config
- Model NOT found in API → rejected with 'Error: not a valid model'
and fuzzy-match suggestions from the live model list
- API unreachable → graceful fallback to hardcoded catalog (session-only
for unrecognized models)
- Format errors (empty, spaces, missing '/') still caught instantly
without a network call
The API probe takes ~0.2s for OpenRouter (346 models) and works with any
OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, vLLM, custom, etc.).
32 tests covering all paths: format checks, API found, API not found,
API unreachable fallback, CLI integration.
Updated the systemd unit generation to include the virtual environment and node modules in the PATH, improving the execution context for the hermes CLI. Additionally, added support for installing Playwright and its dependencies on Arch/Manjaro systems in the install script, ensuring a smoother setup process for browser tools.
Two fixes:
1. Gateway CWD override: TERMINAL_CWD from config.yaml was being
unconditionally overwritten by the messaging_cwd fallback (line 114).
Now explicit paths in config.yaml are respected — only '.' / 'auto' /
'cwd' (or unset) fall back to MESSAGING_CWD or home directory.
2. sandbox_dir config: Added terminal.sandbox_dir to config.yaml bridge
in gateway/run.py, cli.py, and hermes_cli/config.py. Maps to
TERMINAL_SANDBOX_DIR env var, which get_sandbox_dir() reads to
determine where Docker/Singularity sandbox data is stored (default:
~/.hermes/sandboxes/). Users can now set:
hermes config set terminal.sandbox_dir /data/hermes-sandboxes
Authored by christomitov. Auto-detects sk-kimi- key prefix and routes
to api.kimi.com/coding/v1. Adds User-Agent header for Kimi Code API
compatibility. Legacy Moonshot keys continue to work unchanged.
Critical fixes:
- Add --worktree/-w to hermes_cli/main.py argparse (both chat
subcommand and top-level parser) so 'hermes -w' works via the
actual CLI entry point, not just 'python cli.py -w'
- Pass worktree flag through cmd_chat() kwargs to cli_main()
- Handle worktree attr in bare 'hermes' and --resume/--continue paths
Bug fixes in cli.py:
- Skip worktree creation for --list-tools/--list-toolsets (wasteful)
- Wrap git worktree subprocess.run in try/except (crash on timeout)
- Add stale worktree pruning on startup (_prune_stale_worktrees):
removes clean worktrees older than 24h left by crashed/killed sessions
Documentation updates:
- AGENTS.md: add --worktree to CLI commands table
- cli-config.yaml.example: add worktree config section
- website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md: add to core commands
- website/docs/user-guide/cli.md: add usage examples
- website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md: add config docs
Test improvements (17 → 31 tests):
- Stale worktree pruning (prune old clean, keep recent, keep dirty)
- Directory symlink via .worktreeinclude
- Edge cases (no commits, not a repo, pre-existing .worktrees/)
- CLI flag/config OR logic
- TERMINAL_CWD integration
- System prompt injection format
Kimi Code (platform.kimi.ai) issues API keys prefixed sk-kimi- that require:
1. A different base URL: api.kimi.com/coding/v1 (not api.moonshot.ai/v1)
2. A User-Agent header identifying a recognized coding agent
Without this fix, sk-kimi- keys fail with 401 (wrong endpoint) or 403
('only available for Coding Agents') errors.
Changes:
- Auto-detect sk-kimi- key prefix and route to api.kimi.com/coding/v1
- Send User-Agent: KimiCLI/1.0 header for Kimi Code endpoints
- Legacy Moonshot keys (api.moonshot.ai) continue to work unchanged
- KIMI_BASE_URL env var override still takes priority over auto-detection
- Updated .env.example with correct docs and all endpoint options
- Fixed doctor.py health check for Kimi Code keys
Reference: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-cli (platforms.py)
Authored by voidborne-d. Fixes#576.
Adds --replace flag to 'hermes gateway run' that terminates any existing
gateway instance (SIGTERM with SIGKILL fallback) before starting.
Updated systemd unit template with --replace, ExecStop, KillMode, and
TimeoutStopSec for robust service management.
When running under systemd, the gateway could enter restart loops in two
scenarios:
1. The previous gateway process hasn't fully exited when systemd starts
a new one, causing 'Gateway already running (PID ...)' → exit 1 →
restart → same error → infinite loop.
2. The interactive CLI exits immediately in non-TTY mode, and systemd
keeps restarting it.
Changes:
- Add --replace flag to 'hermes gateway run' that gracefully kills any
existing gateway instance (SIGTERM → wait 10s → SIGKILL) before
starting, preventing the PID-lock deadlock.
- Update the generated systemd unit template to use --replace by default,
add ExecStop for clean shutdown, set KillMode=mixed and
TimeoutStopSec=15 for proper process management.
- Existing behavior (without --replace) is unchanged: still prints the
error message and exits, now also mentioning the --replace option.
Fixes#576
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.
Check how many commits behind origin/main the local repo is and
display a warning in the welcome banner:
⚠ 12 commits behind — run hermes update to update
- git fetch cached for 6 hours (avoids repeated network calls)
- Falls back gracefully if offline or not a git repo
- Never breaks the banner — all errors silently caught
- 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
The previous 'get_env_value' in dir() check always evaluated to False
(dir() returns local scope, not module scope), making the left branch
dead code. Simplified to just os.getenv() which was the fallback anyway.
Authored by areu01or00. Adds timezone support via hermes_time.now() helper
with IANA timezone resolution (HERMES_TIMEZONE env → config.yaml → server-local).
Updates system prompt timestamp, cron scheduling, and execute_code sandbox TZ
injection. Includes config migration (v4→v5) and comprehensive test coverage.
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.
