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da4f407e51 feat(cli): make hermes portal the human-readable Portal onboarding alias
`hermes portal` (no subcommand) now runs the one-shot Nous Portal onboarding
— OAuth login, switch provider to Nous, offer Tool Gateway — identical to
`hermes setup --portal` and the human-readable alias for
`hermes auth add nous --type oauth` (which still works).

The prior status default moves to `hermes portal info`; `status` is kept as a
hidden back-compat alias. `open`/`tools` subcommands are unchanged.

User-facing hints and docs (status.py, conversation_loop 401 guidance,
SystemPage, README, website docs + zh-Hans) now point at `hermes portal` /
`hermes portal info`. `--manual-paste` references keep the explicit auth
command since `hermes portal` does not expose that flag.
2026-06-04 01:19:28 +05:30
51c68d4ab1 Add Hermes desktop app (#20059)
* feat: better composer etc

* docs: add desktop and dashboard run instructions

* fix(desktop): address security scan findings

* fix(dashboard): resolve @nous-research/ui path under npm workspaces

The sync-assets prebuild step shelled out to 'cp -r
node_modules/@nous-research/ui/dist/fonts ...' with a path relative
to apps/dashboard/. That works only when the dep is installed
locally in the dashboard workspace, but 'npm install' at the repo
root (the documented setup — see apps/desktop/README.md) hoists
shared deps to the root node_modules under npm workspaces. The
relative cp then fails with 'No such file or directory', sync-assets
exits 1, the Vite build aborts, and 'hermes dashboard' surfaces a
generic 'Web UI build failed' message.

Replace the shell one-liner with scripts/sync-assets.cjs, which
walks up from the dashboard directory looking for node_modules/
@nous-research/ui — working in both the hoisted (workspaces) and
co-located (standalone) layouts. Also guards against a missing
dist/fonts or dist/assets with a clearer error pointing at a
rebuild of the UI package rather than silently copying nothing.

* feat(desktop): support connecting to a remote Hermes backend

Add HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_URL and HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_TOKEN env
vars that, when set, short-circuit the local-child spawn in
startHermes() and connect the Electron renderer to an already-
running 'hermes dashboard' server reachable over the network.

Motivating use case: WSL2 users who want to run the Hermes core
(agent loop, tools, filesystem access) inside their WSL
distribution while rendering the Electron GUI on native Windows.
Before this change, the desktop app always spawned a local Python
child on the same host as the renderer, which doesn't cross the
WSL/Windows boundary.

The remote path reuses waitForHermes() as a liveness probe
(/api/status is in the backend's public endpoint allowlist), so
the connection is only returned once the backend is actually
ready. WebSocket URL derivation picks ws:// or wss:// based on
the input scheme. URL validation rejects non-http(s) schemes and
requires both env vars together to avoid a half-configured
connection that would silently fall through to the spawn path.

No behaviour change when the env vars are unset — the default
local-spawn flow is untouched.

Typical usage:

  # in WSL2
  hermes dashboard --tui --no-open --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9119 --insecure

  # on Windows
  set HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_URL=http://localhost:9119
  set HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_TOKEN=<session token>
  set HERMES_DESKTOP_IGNORE_EXISTING=1
  (launch Hermes desktop)

* ci(desktop): automate desktop releases

Add GitHub Actions release channels for signed desktop installers and document the stable/nightly download paths.

* feat: file tabs

* refactor(desktop): tighten right-rail tab close API

Promote closeRightRailTab/closeActiveRightRailTab as the single
public entry point. Drops the activeTabRef + handleCloseDocument
indirection in ChatPreviewRail, the unused $rightRailHasContent
atom, and the legacy dismissFilePreviewTarget alias. -70 LOC.

* feat(desktop): polish composer pill toward reference look

Solid foreground-on-background send/voice-conversation circle (black-on-white
in light, white-on-black in dark) anchors the right edge as the primary CTA
instead of the orange theme primary. Bumps the primary control to 2.125rem so
it visually outranks the ghost mic/plus controls. Opens up the surface padding
(0.625rem x / 0.5rem y) so the input row breathes around its controls, and
nudges the corner radius from 20 to 24px for a slightly pill-ier silhouette.
LiquidGlass distortion is preserved.

* feat(desktop): add startup and onboarding flow

Add phase-based desktop boot progress, fresh-install sandbox testing, and first-run provider credential onboarding so packaged installs can start cleanly without manual settings detours.

* fix(desktop): gate prompts on provider setup

Show the desktop provider onboarding flow before prompt submission when no inference provider is configured, preventing fresh installs from falling through to backend credential errors.

* fix(desktop): surface provider onboarding from session warnings

Propagate credential warnings through session runtime info and open desktop onboarding whenever a session reports no usable provider, so unconfigured installs cannot fall through to prompt errors.

* fix(desktop): route gateway provider errors to onboarding

The "No inference provider configured" auth error reaches the renderer through gateway error events, not the prompt.submit promise; the previous patch only caught the latter, so the error toast still surfaced and onboarding never opened.

Also strip credential-shaped env vars from the test:desktop:fresh sandbox so the packaged backend can't see provider keys leaking from the launching shell.

* fix(desktop): use strict runtime check to drive onboarding

setup.status returned True whenever any provider auth state was discoverable, including indirect fallbacks like a gh-CLI Copilot token. That made desktop think the user was set up while the agent's actual resolve_runtime_provider call still raised AuthError, leaving the user with a useless toast and no onboarding.

Add a setup.runtime_check gateway method that runs the same resolver the agent uses on session creation, and switch the desktop onboarding overlay and prompt precheck to use it.

* feat(desktop): OAuth-first onboarding using existing dashboard provider API

Replace the engineer-flavored API key form with a Sign-in-first onboarding overlay that uses the dashboard's existing /api/providers/oauth catalog and PKCE/device-code endpoints (Anthropic, Nous, OpenAI Codex, etc.). API key entry is now a fallback tab with friendly provider names instead of env var prefixes, and the loud raw resolver error is gone in favor of a one-line welcome message.

* fix(desktop): polish onboarding provider list

Reorder OAuth providers so Nous Portal is first, give the segmented Sign in / API key control equal column widths, and replace the engineer-flavored backend names like "Anthropic (Claude API)" / "MiniMax (OAuth)" with friendlier in-app titles. External-CLI providers now show a softer subtitle and an external-link icon instead of a chevron.

* refactor(desktop): split onboarding overlay into store + view

Move the OAuth state machine, runtime check, copy-to-clipboard, and api-key save into store/onboarding.ts (matching the boot.ts pattern), leaving the overlay as a presentation layer that subscribes via useStore. Tabs are now table-driven, child panels read flow from the store instead of prop-drilling, and the polling/PKCE/error/success branches share a small Status atom.

* fix(desktop): external CLI providers + center mode tabs

External-CLI providers (Claude Code, Qwen Code) now open an in-overlay panel with the CLI command, copy button, and an "I've signed in" recheck instead of firing an invisible toast. Center the Sign in / API key tab control so it sits under the heading instead of hugging the left edge.

* fix(desktop): drop onboarding tabs for an inline link, group device-code waiting state

Replace the Sign in / API key tab pair with an "I have an API key" footer link under the OAuth provider list, with a "Back to sign in" affordance inside the API key form. Group the device-code "Waiting for you to authorize..." status next to the Cancel button so the alignment matches the action.

* refactor(desktop): tighten onboarding store + overlay

Drop the dead isOnboardingBusy/BUSY set, factor the catch-fallback dance into safeReq, and share a single reloadAndConnect helper between PKCE submit, device-code success, external recheck, and api-key save.

In the overlay, extract Step / CodeBlock / FlowFooter / CancelBtn / DocsLink atoms so the four sign-in panels share the same chrome instead of repeating it inline. Net effect: fewer literal divs, one place to touch the spacing, and the code-block + footer rows are reusable across future flows.

* fix(desktop): mount onboarding from frame 1 to kill the FOUT

Default onboarding.configured to null (unknown until the runtime check resolves) and have the onboarding overlay render whenever it's not yet confirmed true. The boot overlay now yields to it, so the very first paint is the Welcome card with a "While we get you set up..." progress strip instead of a flash of the chat shell between boot dismiss and onboarding mount.

The picker swaps in cleanly once the gateway opens and the runtime check confirms the user is not configured. Already-configured users see the same prep card briefly while their existing runtime warms up, then the overlay dismisses without touching the chat shell.

* fix(desktop): top-align empty sessions placeholder

The "Start a chat to build your history." empty state used a min-h-35 grid place-items-center container, which floated the text in a tall dead zone. Render it as a flat paragraph that sits right under the section header like the empty pinned state does.

* refactor(desktop): drop dead boot overlay

Onboarding overlay subsumes the boot card now that it mounts from frame 1 and renders boot progress inline. The standalone DesktopBootOverlay is unreachable in every flow (yields whenever onboarding has not confirmed configured, dismisses once it has).

* fix(desktop): hide pinned/recents sections until first session

A fresh sidebar showed the Pinned and Recent chats headers with floating empty-state copy underneath. Drop both sections (and the now-orphan SidebarEmptySessionState) when there are no sessions yet — they reappear after the first chat. Skeletons during initial load are unchanged.

* feat(gui): route embedded TUI through dashboard gateway (#21979)

Inject HERMES_TUI_GATEWAY_URL into dashboard PTY sessions so embedded ui-tui instances attach to the in-process websocket gateway, with coverage for the new env wiring.

* Add desktop remote gateway settings

Make the desktop gateway connection configurable from settings so local remains the default while remote backends can be saved, tested, and applied without environment variables.

* feat(gui): first-class Messaging page + gateway menu redesign

- Add Messaging page to the desktop app with per-platform setup,
  status, and inline guidance. Catalog derives from gateway.config
  Platform enum + plugin registry, so every messaging adapter the CLI
  supports (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Matrix, WhatsApp,
  Signal, BlueBubbles, Home Assistant, Email, SMS, DingTalk, Feishu,
  WeCom, Weixin, QQ, Yuanbao, API server, Webhooks, plugins) shows up
  without per-platform code.
- New REST endpoints: GET /api/messaging/platforms, PUT and POST
  /test on the same path. Secrets go through the existing .env
  pipeline; enable/disable writes config.yaml.
- Replace gateway statusbar dropdown with a richer panel: status row,
  icon-only restart + system-panel actions, recent activity (with
  timestamps trimmed in display, full text on hover), platform list.
- Auto-poll the messaging page every 6s (paused when hidden) so
  status updates without a manual check.
- Drop Settings / Command Center from the sidebar nav (still
  reachable via shortcuts and the titlebar cog).
- Flatten top corners on Messaging/Skills/Artifacts/Chat panes.
- Share new StatusDot component across messaging + gateway menu.
- Fix gateway/config.py so an explicit platforms.<name>.enabled=false
  in config.yaml is honored when env tokens are present.
- pb-9 on the chat content area for breathing room above the composer.

* Potential fix for pull request finding 'CodeQL / Clear-text logging of sensitive information'

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <62310815+github-advanced-security[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

* pin electron version

* hide application menu on non-mac systems

* interpret compactPreview for non-string vlaues as JSON or an empty string

* fix(desktop): keep composer contenteditable mounted across stacked toggle

The composer rendered {input} inside two different parent fragments
depending on `stacked`. When auto-expand flipped `stacked` (e.g. the
moment typed text wrapped past two lines), React reconciled the two
branches as different positions and unmounted/remounted the
contenteditable. The fresh mount started empty, so any in-flight
characters — most reliably reproduced by holding a key — were lost.

Replace the conditional with a single CSS Grid whose template-areas
swap on `stacked`. The three children (menu, input, controls) keep
stable identities across the toggle; only their grid placement
changes, which the browser handles without React tearing down the
editor.

* refactor(desktop): align install layout with install.ps1 / install.sh

Make the desktop app's runtime layout match what scripts/install.ps1 and
scripts/install.sh produce, so a desktop-only user and a CLI-only user end
up with the same files in the same places and can share one install.

Layout
- ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT = HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent  (was: process.resourcesPath/hermes-agent, read-only)
- VENV_ROOT          = HERMES_HOME/hermes-agent/venv  (was: userData/hermes-runtime)
- desktop.log        = HERMES_HOME/logs/desktop.log  (was: userData/desktop.log)
- HERMES_HOME default: %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes on Windows, ~/.hermes elsewhere

The packaged .app/.exe still ships a read-only payload at
process.resourcesPath/hermes-agent (FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT). On first launch
or after an installer-driven upgrade we sync factory -> active, then
provision the venv and run pip install -e . against the active root.

Key behaviors
- Pin HERMES_HOME in the spawned Python's env so get_hermes_home() resolves
  to the same path resolveHermesHome() picked. Without this, Python falls
  back to ~/.hermes on every platform - fine on mac/linux, a split-state
  bug on Windows where our default is %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes.
- Detect developer installs by .git presence at ACTIVE; never overwrite
  a user's checkout via factory sync.
- Marker at ACTIVE/.hermes-desktop-runtime.json (schema v4) tracks
  pyproject hash + factory version + runtime schema version. depsFresh
  fast-paths when nothing changed.
- Dev (npm run dev) prefers SOURCE_REPO_ROOT over ACTIVE so devs run
  their local edits, not whatever's under HERMES_HOME.
- Better error messages distinguish "no payload" from "no Python".
- Preserve a legacy ~/.hermes on Windows when no %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes
  exists, so users with prior pip/manual installs aren't orphaned.

pyproject.toml
- Promote fastapi, uvicorn[standard], ptyprocess (non-Windows), and
  pywinpty (Windows) to main dependencies. The dashboard backend
  (hermes dashboard) needs them at runtime; the previous lazy-import
  fallback was a footgun for fresh installs.
- Empty the [pty] optional-extra; kept as a no-op back-compat alias for
  any existing pip install hermes-agent[pty] invocations.

Drops the hardcoded BUNDLED_RUNTIME_REQUIREMENTS list in main.cjs - the
desktop now installs whatever pyproject.toml says, single source of truth.

Files
- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs:    runtime layout, HERMES_HOME pin,
                                      factory->active sync, marker v4
- apps/desktop/scripts/test-desktop.mjs:  track new venv location
- apps/desktop/README.md:            new Setup, Runtime Bootstrap, and
                                      Debugging sections
- pyproject.toml:                    fastapi/uvicorn/pty backends in main
                                      dependencies; [pty] extra emptied

Tested locally on Windows: npm run dev boots cleanly, sessions land at
the new location, type-check + lint + test:desktop:platforms all pass.
Verified end-to-end on a fresh Win11 VM via dist:win installer.

Known gaps (filed as follow-ups, not in this PR):
- Skills not seeded on packaged installs (sync_skills only runs in
  cmd_chat, not cmd_dashboard). Need to move to shared pre-dispatch.
- Git Bash not bundled or detected; agent's terminal tool errors out
  with a useful message but desktop bootstrapper should pre-flight it.
- install.ps1 / install.sh should be decomposed into composable phase
  libraries so the desktop bootstrapper can reuse them as a single
  source of truth across all install surfaces.

* feat(desktop): theme polish, prose chat typography, composer chrome

- DS tokens/midground, Backdrop, scoped scrollbars, typography plugin + prose
- Composer liquid/radius utilities, thread font parity, tool/thinking cues
- File tree label scale, preview flex, thread retry loading + streaming tests

* feat(desktop): NSIS prereq detection page + auto-install via winget

The packaged Windows installer now detects Python 3.11+ and Git for Windows
at install time and offers to install missing prereqs via winget. Mirrors
the prereq logic scripts/install.ps1 already runs for CLI installs, so
desktop installer users get the same out-of-the-box experience as
install.ps1 users.

Why
- Hermes' terminal tool calls bash.exe directly (tools/environments/
  local.py); on Windows that's Git Bash from Git for Windows. Without it,
  the agent fails on the first terminal() call.
- Hermes' Python runtime needs 3.11+. Without it, the desktop bootstrapper
  errors out at venv creation.
- Both gaps surfaced on a fresh Windows 11 VM smoke test: VM had Python
  pre-installed but no Git, so the agent's first terminal call failed
  with "Git Bash isn't installed."
- install.ps1 has had Install-Git + Install-Uv functions for ages. The
  desktop installer was the asymmetric outlier.

How — NSIS prereq page
- New file: apps/desktop/installer/prereq-check.nsh (plugged into
  electron-builder via build.nsis.include)
- Real Wizard page using nsDialogs, inserted via customPageAfterChangeDir
  hook (between the Directory page and InstFiles).
  - Group boxes for Python and Git, each showing detection status.
  - Pre-checked install checkboxes when winget is available.
  - Auto-skips silently if both prereqs are already installed.
  - Falls back to manual download URLs when winget itself is missing.
- Detection:
  - Python: probes `py -3.11`/`-3.12`/`-3.13`/`-3.14` via the Python
    launcher. Microsoft Store "Python stub" (no py.exe) is correctly
    classified as not-installed.
  - Git: `where git`.
  - winget: `where winget` (Win10 1809+ / Win11 with App Installer).
- Install execution (in customInstall macro):
  - Python: nsExec::ExecToLog with `--scope user --silent`. Per-user
    install, no UAC prompt, output streams to install log.
  - Git: ExecShellWait via Windows ShellExecute. Critical because Git
    always installs per-machine and triggers UAC; ShellExecute preserves
    the foreground focus chain across non-elevated → elevated process
    spawns, so UAC actually comes to the foreground. nsExec::ExecToLog
    breaks the chain because winget runs hidden.
  - Both pass `--disable-interactivity --accept-package-agreements
    --accept-source-agreements` to suppress winget's own dialogs.
- Verification: probes Git's standard install locations via FileExists
  rather than `where git`. NSIS's process inherits PATH at startup, so
  a freshly-installed Git won't be visible to `where` until restart.
- Silent installs (/S) skip the prompts; managed deploys handle prereqs
  out-of-band via Group Policy / Intune.

How — Electron-side safety net
- New findGitBash() in main.cjs, parallel to findSystemPython(). Probes
  the same locations as tools/environments/local.py:_find_bash() so a
  positive result here means the agent's terminal tool will work.
- ensureRuntime now throws a clear, actionable error on Windows when Git
  Bash isn't found, matching the existing "Python 3.11+ is required"
  error path.
- Catches users the NSIS page doesn't: .msi installer users (NSIS prereq
  page doesn't run for MSI), `npm run dev` users, manual installers,
  anyone who unchecked the install boxes on the NSIS prereq page.
- All gated on `IS_WINDOWS`; macOS / Linux unaffected.

NSIS build issue (resolved)
- electron-builder defaults to `-WX` (warnings as errors). NSIS optimizer
  emits "warning 6010: function not referenced" for our page functions
  because Page custom directives don't count as references in its
  static-analysis pass. The functions ARE called at runtime when NSIS
  invokes the page; the optimizer just can't see it statically.
- Set `build.nsis.warningsAsErrors=false` in package.json so this
  spurious warning doesn't fail the build. (Documented option from
  electron-builder's nsisOptions.)

Out of scope (filed for future work)
- MSI prereq detection: Windows Installer custom actions are a different
  mechanism. Enterprise deploys typically handle prereqs via GP/Intune.
- Bundle PortableGit + python-build-standalone in extraResources for
  zero-network installs. ~80MB increase.
- Mac / Linux GUI prereq flows (different installer formats; Xcode CLT
  covers most macOS prereqs already; Linux is per-distro hard).

Files
- apps/desktop/installer/prereq-check.nsh   (new, ~290 lines NSIS)
- apps/desktop/package.json                 (build.nsis.include +
                                              warningsAsErrors)
- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs            (findGitBash + preflight)
- apps/desktop/README.md                    (Runtime prerequisites
                                              section)

Cross-platform impact
- macOS / Linux builds (dist:mac, dist:mac:dmg, dist:mac:zip): nsis
  config is ignored entirely; .nsh is dormant.
- npm run dev: .nsh dormant; main.cjs preflight gated on IS_WINDOWS.
- scripts/install.ps1, scripts/install.sh: no reference to any new
  files; CLI install paths untouched.
- Hermes CLI / dashboard / gateway: no reference; runtime untouched.
- All checks: node --check on main.cjs and test-desktop.mjs pass;
  npm run test:desktop:platforms 4/4 passing; node --test green.

Tested
- npm run dist:win produces signed .exe and .msi without errors.
- Fresh Win11 VM (Python pre-installed, no Git): prereq page renders,
  Python check shows detected, Git checkbox pre-checked. Click Next →
  Git installs via winget with UAC prompt in foreground.
- After install completes, Hermes launches and the agent's terminal
  tool can run bash commands. Verified Git Bash is detected at
  `C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe` by ensureRuntime's preflight.

* feat: theme changes, composer tweaks, in app update ux, finesse

* fix(cli): seed bundled skills on dashboard + gateway entrypoints

`sync_skills(quiet=True)` was only being called from inside `cmd_chat`,
which meant `hermes dashboard` (the desktop GUI's backend) and `hermes
gateway` (Telegram/Discord/Slack/etc daemons) never seeded the bundled
skill library into ~/.hermes/skills/.

This surfaced as "No skills found" in the desktop GUI's skills panel on
fresh installs, despite the agent having access to the full bundled
library when invoked via `hermes chat`. scripts/install.ps1 worked
around it by running skills_sync.py as part of Copy-ConfigTemplates,
but that's not part of the desktop installer's bootstrap chain.

Fix
- Extract the skills-sync block from cmd_chat into a module-level
  `_sync_bundled_skills_quietly()` helper.
- Call the helper from cmd_chat (preserving existing behavior),
  cmd_dashboard (after the --status/--stop early-return paths and
  fastapi import check, so we don't run skills_sync on management
  commands or when deps aren't installed), and cmd_gateway.

Why these three entrypoints
- cmd_chat: the user's primary CLI entrypoint
- cmd_dashboard: the desktop GUI's backend; this is what `hermes
  dashboard --tui` invokes when the desktop bootstrapper spawns Hermes
- cmd_gateway: long-running daemons where the user expects the agent
  to have full skill access

Other entrypoints (cmd_config, cmd_doctor, cmd_login, cmd_status,
etc.) are management commands that don't need skill discovery and were
never running skills_sync in the first place — leaving them alone.

Idempotence
- tools/skills_sync.py is manifest-based: skipped skills cost
  milliseconds. Calling it from multiple entrypoints adds no real
  cost, and users running `hermes chat` then `hermes dashboard` get
  two fast no-ops on the second call.

Failure handling
- Helper wraps skills_sync in try/except. Skills are an enhancement,
  not a hard dependency — Hermes runs fine with an empty skills/ dir.

Files
- hermes_cli/main.py:
  + new helper `_sync_bundled_skills_quietly()` at module level
  + cmd_chat: replace inline block with helper call
  + cmd_dashboard: add helper call after fastapi import succeeds
  + cmd_gateway: add helper call before delegating to gateway_command

* feat(desktop): hoisted todo widget, JSON tool summaries, history grouping & timer fixes

- Hoist todo to first-class widget (shadcn checkboxes, brand colors, no
  tool-accordion). Header derives label from active task; non-active rows fade.
- Replace raw JSON dumps with structured key/value summaries via
  formatToolResultSummary; nested error extraction for clearer failures.
- Fix loaded-session grouping: stitch interleaved assistant/tool iterations
  into one bubble instead of orphaned synthetic messages.
- Stable tool/thinking timers via keyed registry so unmount/scroll doesn't
  reset elapsed counts; gate "running" on real live thread state.
- Reorganize chat-only assistant-ui components under components/chat/.

* fix(desktop): address CodeQL alerts on PR #20059

- settings/helpers.ts: harden setNested against prototype pollution.
  POLLUTING_PATH_PARTS check is now applied at every assignment site
  (loop + leaf) and uses Object.defineProperty so CodeQL can see the
  guard inline rather than via a helper function call.

- lib/markdown-preprocess.ts: rebuild the dangling-fence close regex
  from a fence-char + length instead of marker.replace(...). The marker
  is captured by `(`{3,}|~{3,})` so it can only be backticks or tildes,
  but CodeQL was tracing tainted input text into the RegExp source and
  flagging hostname dots from input as part of the pattern (false
  positive js/incomplete-hostname-regexp on the test fixture URLs).
  Reconstructing from a literal char breaks the dataflow.

- scripts/notarize-artifact.cjs: drop args from the run() rejection
  message. Args carry --key-id / --issuer / key file path; the existing
  outer catch already squashes errors to a generic line, but CodeQL was
  flagging the args.join(' ') as clear-text logging of APPLE_API_KEY_ID.

Composer DOM-text-as-HTML alerts (composer/index.tsx:379, :547) are
already addressed in 4dd9732a9 — innerHTML assignment was replaced with
renderComposerContents which builds DOM via replaceChildren / append
text nodes (no HTML interpretation).

* fix(desktop): inline prototype-pollution guard so CodeQL sees it

CodeQL's dataflow doesn't follow the helper-function guard inside
`safeSet`, so it kept flagging Object.defineProperty as prototype-
polluting. Inline the literal `__proto__`/`constructor`/`prototype`
check at the assignment site to break the dataflow.

Behavior unchanged — same set of disallowed keys, same throw.

* feat(ui-tui): resolve links to readable page titles

Mirror desktop pretty-link behavior in the TUI by resolving HTTP links to page titles with shared caching and safe fetch filters, plus slug-based fallbacks so chat links stay readable even when title fetch fails.

* fix(desktop): drop RegExp from dangling-fence close detection

Previous attempt tried to break the dataflow by reconstructing the
close-fence regex from a literal char + marker.length, but CodeQL still
traced marker.length back to input and kept flagging the test-fixture
URLs as hostname-regex sources (js/incomplete-hostname-regexp).

Replace `new RegExp(...)` + `closeRe.test(body)` with a string-only
hasCloseFenceLine() helper that splits on '\n' and uses ===. No regex
on this path now, so input data can no longer reach a RegExp source.

Behavior preserved: matches lines that are (whitespace + marker +
whitespace), which is what the original `\n[ \t]*${marker}[ \t]*(?=\n|$)`
matched. All 12 markdown-text tests still pass.

* fix(process-registry): suppress windows-footgun false positive on guarded killpg

Keep the existing POSIX-only process-group teardown path, but make the
signal selection explicit via getattr and add an inline windows-footgun
suppression marker on the guarded os.killpg line so the Windows footgun
check no longer blocks CI on this intentionally platform-gated code.

* feat(desktop): reconcile live tool events, polish thread chrome, harden boot

- chat-messages: match tool rows by overlapping query/context/preview values
  so preview-first `tool.progress` rows reliably adopt later stable-id
  `tool.start` payloads instead of spawning ghost rows or mis-merging
  parallel same-name calls; preserve prior args/result across phases.
- tui_gateway: emit full args + parsed result on `tool.start` / `tool.complete`,
  drop redundant `tool.started` re-emit from `tool.progress`.
- electron/main: prefer SOURCE_REPO_ROOT before PATH `hermes` in dev so
  local backend edits actually run; split hardening helpers into
  `electron/hardening.cjs` with tests.
- thread/tool UI: one-shot enter animation keyed by stable ids, braille
  spinner for running rows, Cursor-like disclosure rows, drill-down +
  duration/count formatting via new tool-fallback-model.
- composer: extract `text-utils`, drop liquid-glass overrides.
- right-rail: split preview-pane into preview-console / preview-file.
- runtime: incremental external-store runtime + runtime-readiness gate;
  onboarding store + tests; route-resume hook test.
- regression tests for live tool reconciliation (parallel tools, id-less
  progress, preview-first rows, structured args/results).

* feat(desktop): add ripgrep to NSIS prereq page + polish layout

Add ripgrep as a third (recommended) prereq alongside Python and Git in
the NSIS prereq detection page, and clean up the page layout based on
on-VM testing.

Why ripgrep
- Hermes' search_files tool calls `rg` directly for content + filename
  search (tools/file_operations.py:1382). Falls back to grep/find from
  Git Bash when missing — works but slower and noisier (no .gitignore
  awareness).
- ~5MB winget install via `BurntSushi.ripgrep.MSVC --scope user` — no
  UAC prompt, parallel to how Python installs.
- scripts/install.ps1 already installs ripgrep as part of
  Install-SystemPackages; this brings the desktop installer to parity.

Why "recommended" not "required"
- Python and Git are hard requirements: without them the agent runtime
  or terminal tool refuses to start. The bootstrapper preflight throws.
- ripgrep is a performance enhancement: missing it just means slower
  searches. Page wording reflects this; failure to install is logged
  but doesn't show a MessageBox or block.

Layout polish (response to on-VM screenshot review)
- Wizard header now correctly reads "System Requirements" instead of
  the leftover "Choose Install Location" from the previous page. Set
  via `GetDlgItem $HWNDPARENT 1037/1038` + WM_SETTEXT — the standard
  NSIS pattern for overriding the page header on a custom Page.
- Removed redundant in-body title + verbose intro paragraph; the
  wizard header IS the title now. Body has one short intro line.
- Group boxes tightened to 26u with content positioned just below the
  groupbox title (not top-anchored status + bottom-anchored checkbox
  with empty space in the middle). All three panels + footer fit
  comfortably in 126u, well under the 140u page limit.
- Checkbox labels simplified: dropped "(per-user, no admin prompt)"
  and "(administrator approval required)" suffixes. The footer note
  still calls out UAC for Git when relevant.
- Footer text trimmed to fit cleanly without clipping.

Install order (in customInstall macro)
- Python → ripgrep → Git
- Python and ripgrep are silent and run first; Git's UAC prompt comes
  last so the user's approval interaction isn't interrupted by silent
  activity afterwards.

Skip behavior unchanged
- All three detected → page auto-skips via Abort
- Silent install (/S) → customInstall winget block skips
- User unchecks all → page advances without running winget

Files
- apps/desktop/installer/prereq-check.nsh: ripgrep detection block,
  ripgrep page panel + checkbox, ripgrep customInstall block,
  GetDlgItem header override, layout reflow
- apps/desktop/README.md: Runtime prerequisites section updated to
  list ripgrep as recommended, with manual winget command

* feat(desktop): add model-confirmation step to onboarding

After OAuth/API-key login completes, onboarding now shows a confirmation
card with the curated default model and a Change button before dropping
the user into chat. Closes the gap where the desktop's `model.default`
was empty after first launch and the agent had to fall back to whatever
heuristic happened to fire — leaving users wondering "why am I getting
sonnet-4 when I logged into Nous Portal?"

Why
- Desktop onboarding only persisted credentials, never `model.default`.
  The CLI's `hermes model` command pairs provider + model selection,
  but the desktop's onboarding skipped the model step entirely.
- Result: users saw whichever model the agent's auto-fallback picked,
  unpredictably and undocumented.
- For the BUILD demo we want users to land on the model they expect
  for their provider, with a clear "this is what you're getting" UI
  and a one-click path to change it before chatting.

How
- New `confirming_model` flow status carries the just-authenticated
  provider slug, current default model, label, and a saving flag.
- `completeWithModelConfirm()` runs after credentials succeed: reloads
  env, verifies runtime, fetches /api/model/options to find the curated
  first-model for the provider, persists it via /api/model/set, then
  transitions into `confirming_model`.
- If anything fails (no providers returned, network error), falls
  through to the previous behaviour — onboarding completes without
  the confirm step. Polish, not a hard requirement.
- All four credential paths (device_code OAuth, PKCE OAuth, external
  CLI flow, API key) now use completeWithModelConfirm instead of
  reloadAndConnect.

UI
- `ConfirmingModelPanel` shows: green "<provider> connected" banner,
  card with "Default model: <name>" + Change button, and a "Start
  chatting" CTA that finalises onboarding.
- Reuses the existing `ModelPickerDialog` (the same picker available
  from the chat shell) for the change-model UX. Search, filtering,
  multi-provider listing — all already built.
- Stacking: ModelPickerDialog defaults to z-130, which renders UNDER
  the onboarding overlay (z-1300) and breaks pointer events. Added
  optional `contentClassName` prop to ModelPickerDialog so callers
  can override; onboarding passes `z-[1310]`.

Provider-slug matching
- For OAuth flows: pass `provider.id` directly as the preferred slug.
- For API-key flows: `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` → "openrouter" via env-key
  prefix strip. Also includes the user-visible label as a fallback
  candidate.
- fetchProviderDefaultModel falls back to the first authenticated
  provider in the response if no preferred slug matches — so even a
  miss still surfaces a reasonable default.

Files
- apps/desktop/src/store/onboarding.ts:
  + new `confirming_model` flow variant
  + fetchProviderDefaultModel + completeWithModelConfirm helpers
  + setOnboardingModel (optimistic update + revert on failure)
  + confirmOnboardingModel (finalises onboarding from the card)
  - reloadAndConnect (replaced; the four call sites now go through
    completeWithModelConfirm)
- apps/desktop/src/components/desktop-onboarding-overlay.tsx:
  + ConfirmingModelPanel component
  + new branch in FlowPanel for status `confirming_model`
  + ModelPickerDialog usage with z-[1310] content class
- apps/desktop/src/components/model-picker.tsx:
  + optional `contentClassName` prop on ModelPickerDialog so the
    dialog can be stacked on top of other fixed overlays

Tested
- `npm run type-check` passes
- `npx eslint` clean on touched files
- Live test in `npm run dev`: cleared onboarding cache, walked
  through Nous device-code flow, saw confirm card with curated
  default, clicked Change → ModelPickerDialog rendered above the
  onboarding overlay with working pointer events, picked a different
  model, "Start chatting" persisted to ~/.hermes/config.yaml.

* fix(desktop): suppress generic provider warning in onboarding

Hide the red setup notice when the message is the generic missing-provider guidance, since onboarding already presents provider auth actions. Centralize provider-setup matching across desktop hooks and add coverage for the matcher.

* fix(desktop): add 2u clearance below prereq checkboxes

Group box bottom border was clipping the checkboxes by 1-2px.
Bumped each box height 26u→30u; checkboxes now sit 2u above the bottom border.

* fix(nix): refresh dashboard lockfile hash

Update the web npm deps hash in nix/web.nix to match the committed apps/dashboard/package-lock.json so bb/gui passes the nix lockfile check.

* fix(desktop): install TUI deps in release workflow

Ensure desktop release builds install the standalone ui-tui package before bundling the TUI payload.

* fix(desktop): run release builder from app package

Invoke the desktop builder through the package script so electron-builder uses apps/desktop/package.json.

* fix(desktop): expand release artifact names safely

Build desktop artifact names from workflow version/channel while preserving electron-builder platform macros.

* fix(desktop): use package artifact naming in release workflow

Let electron-builder's desktop package config provide platform-specific artifact extensions while the workflow injects the release version/channel metadata.

* fix(nix): fetch dashboard npm deps from package root

Point the dashboard npm dependency fetch at apps/dashboard so Nix can find the package lockfile after the dashboard move.

* fix(nix): build dashboard from package directory

Set the web package source root to apps/dashboard so npm patch/build phases run beside the dashboard lockfile while keeping apps/shared available as a sibling.

* feat(desktop): render LaTeX math via KaTeX after streaming completes

Add @streamdown/math plugin to the chat markdown renderer.
Inline ($x^2$) and block ($$...$$) math both supported with
singleDollarTextMath enabled. Plugin is gated to non-streaming state
to match the existing pattern for syntax highlighting — math renders
when the message completes, avoiding KaTeX re-render churn during
streaming. KaTeX CSS is imported in styles.css; ~30KB CSS + ~430KB
JS added to the bundle. Smoothness improvements during streaming
deferred to a follow-up.

* perf(desktop): memoize KaTeX renders so math streams without re-rendering

Wrap rehype-katex with a per-equation LRU cache (keyed by
displayMode + source text) and re-enable math during streaming.

Stock @streamdown/math runs rehype-katex on every markdown commit,
so each new token re-katexes every equation in the message. For
math-heavy responses (an equation derived step-by-step) that's
hundreds of ms of wasted work per token and the streaming UI
chokes. With memoization, each equation pays katex.renderToString
exactly once; subsequent tokens re-walk the tree but hit cache for
unchanged equations.

The wrapper mirrors rehype-katex's semantics exactly: same class
detection (language-math, math-inline, math-display), same
<pre>-walk-up for fenced math blocks, same parent.children.splice
replacement, same SKIP traversal, same strict-then-lenient render
strategy with VFile message reporting.

Cached children are structuredCloned on each splice so downstream
rehype plugins or toJsxRuntime can't mutate the cache.

* fix(desktop): declare katex-memo deps directly + drop per-app lockfile

katex-memo.ts (added in 112cad59b) imports hast-util-from-html-isomorphic,
hast-util-to-text, remark-math, katex, and unist-util-visit-parents but
those were never added to apps/desktop/package.json. They were silently
resolving via @streamdown/math at the workspace root, which broke the
moment `npm i --prefix apps/desktop` ran with the per-workspace lockfile
because that install only consults apps/desktop/package.json. Add them
as direct deps, plus unified/vfile/@types/hast for the type imports.

Also delete apps/desktop/package-lock.json — root package.json declares
workspaces: ["apps/*"], so npm manages all lockfile state at the root.
The stale per-app lockfile is what made `npm i --prefix apps/desktop`
diverge from the workspace install in the first place and left an empty
apps/desktop/node_modules/@assistant-ui/ stub that Vite's dep optimizer
then tried (and failed) to open at @assistant-ui/core/dist/internal.js.

* feat(desktop): disable Backdrop noise overlay by default

The noise overlay defaulted to on, which adds a busy speckle layer over
the whole window for every new user. Flip the Leva default to off; the
toggle stays in Backdrop / Noise for anyone who wants it back.

* fix(desktop): polish LaTeX rendering — currency, code blocks, brackets

Five distinct bugs surfaced from a math-heavy stress test:

1. Adjacent code fences glued together. scrubBacktickNoise's
   second-pass regex /``\s*``/g matched the LAST 2 backticks of
   one fence + whitespace + FIRST 2 backticks of the next, collapsing
   two blocks into one. Fixed with lookbehind/lookahead so we only
   match exactly 2 backticks not part of a longer run.

2. Whitespace eaten between fences and following content.
   stripPreviewTargets internally calls .trim() which strips leading/
   trailing whitespace from each split-segment. For segments between
   two fences this collapsed \n\n to '', gluing fence close to next
   block. Fixed by capturing leading/trailing whitespace at the call
   site and restoring it after the transform.

3. Currency dollar signs eaten as math. With singleDollarTextMath:true
   remark-math greedy-matched any pair of $, so '$5 ... $10' became
   one inline math span. Added escapeCurrencyDollars to escape $<digit>
   patterns to \$<digit> in prose segments (not in code). Trade-off:
   math expressions starting with a digit (rare — '$5x = 10$') get
   escaped too. Mirrors the convention in ChatGPT/Claude's UIs.

4. \(...\) and \[...\] LaTeX brackets unsupported. Models often
   emit these instead of $...$ / $$...$$. Added
   rewriteLatexBracketDelimiters preprocessor pass.

5. ```latex / ```tex blocks were being routed to KaTeX via a
   rewrite to ```math. Aligns with GitHub markdown convention:
   ```math = render as math; ```latex / ```tex = LaTeX/TeX
   source code (syntax highlighted, not rendered). Conflating them
   broke teaching/showing-source use cases. MATH_FENCE_LANGUAGES
   pruned to {'math'} only.

Also flipped parseIncompleteMarkdown to true (was !isStreaming) so
the math parser can't see $ inside streaming-but-not-yet-closed code
fences. Shiki was already deferred via defer={isStreaming} so this
doesn't introduce new tokenization cost.

Test: 18/18 existing tests still pass; one test updated to expect
escaped \$ in currency-prose-with-URL case.

* fix(desktop): detect Python via registry/filesystem; pin to 3.11–3.13

Two related fixes for Python detection on Windows:

1. py.exe (Python launcher) is missing from per-user installs that
   didn't check the launcher option, so 'py -3.X --version' alone
   misses real Python installs. User-reported case: clean Win11 +
   official Python.org 3.14 install -> 'where py' returned nothing,
   our installer offered to install Python again. Both NSIS prereq
   page and main.cjs now probe in this order:
     1. py.exe launcher (when present)
     2. PEP 514 registry: HKLM/HKCU\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\<v>\InstallPath
     3. Filesystem: %ProgramFiles%\Python<v>, %LocalAppData%\Programs\Python\Python<v>
   Crucially, we never fall back to running 'python.exe' from PATH
   on Windows — the WindowsApps stub at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\
   WindowsApps\python.exe is a redirector that opens the Microsoft
   Store window if no Store Python is installed. Triggering that
   during boot would be terrible UX. Registry/filesystem probes
   never execute the binary.

2. Drop 3.14 from the supported version set. Several Hermes deps
   (notably pywinpty, which carries Rust crates like
   windows_x86_64_msvc) don't yet publish 3.14 wheels. With wheels
   missing, 'pip install -e .' falls back to building from sdist,
   which needs a Rust toolchain — users see 'could not compile
   windows_x86_64_msvc build script' on first run. install.ps1
   sidesteps this by pinning to 3.11 via uv; the desktop installer
   doesn't yet have the same uv-managed-Python pathway, so for now
   we accept 3.11/3.12/3.13 and tell winget to install 3.11 if
   none of those are present. Revisit when the wheel ecosystem
   catches up to 3.14 (~early 2026).

* feat(desktop): Cron, Profiles, usage analytics, and titlebar fixes

- Add Cron and Profiles sidebar routes with full CRUD-style flows and API wiring.
- Extend Command Center with auxiliary task overrides and a Usage panel (7d/30d/90d).
- Fix titlebar geometry for WSL/Windows (native overlay width, tool spacing).
- Remove stray merge conflict markers from pyproject.toml optional deps.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(title-bar): position sidebar toggle button

* feat(desktop): composer queue — queue many, edit/delete/cancel-edit, Cursor-style

Press Enter while busy with a draft to queue it; with no draft to interrupt
and send the next queued turn. Auto-drains one queued turn each time the
session settles, same as Cursor. Queue persists across reloads so an
interrupted-and-queued turn isn't lost on refresh.

Each queued row supports edit-in-composer (with explicit Save/Cancel),
send-now (↑), and delete. Drain skips only the entry currently being
edited so the rest of the queue keeps flowing.

Queue dequeue is transactional — an entry only leaves the queue after
`prompt.submit` is accepted, so a rejected submit doesn't drop the turn.

Also shrinks the `[interrupted]` marker to a muted one-liner and drops
its assistant footer so it stops looking like a real reply.

* fix(desktop): handle empty usage analytics totals

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(desktop): address PR review titlebar and usage races

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* feat(desktop): add MCP settings and live subagent tree

Surface configured MCP servers in Settings with JSON edit/save and a gateway-backed reload action so users can manage tool servers without falling back to slash commands.

Track live subagent gateway events in a desktop store, show active subagent counts in the Agents statusbar item, and replace the Agents overlay stub with a live spawn tree for the active session.

* fix(desktop): move power-user views out of sidebar

Keep Cron and Profiles available through lower-prominence chrome entry points so the workspace sidebar stays focused on core chat navigation.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* refactor(desktop): subagent overlay reads like a live transcript, not a dashboard

Strip the card chrome and rewire /agents to feel like peeking into the
child agent's stream:

- subagents store: single `stream` of typed entries (thinking/tool/progress/
  summary) replaces the parallel notes/thinking/tools arrays. Drop unused
  fields (toolsets, depth, apiCalls, reasoningTokens, sessionId).
- agents view: no OverlayCards, no boxed stream, no per-row borders. Goal +
  status pill + indented stream lines, full row width.
- Group root spawns into "Delegation N" sections when batch shape + spawn
  time match — hides task-index interleaving and makes hierarchy obvious.
- Sort tree by spawn time, then task_index. Step indicator is one colored
  pill (primary while running, emerald when done) inside the row, not a
  trailing pill that wrapped under the chevron.
- Tree picks up `subagent.start` (not only `spawn_requested`) and prunes
  delegate-tool fallback rows once native subagent events land for the
  session — fixes duplicate "Delegated task" rows alongside the real ones.

* feat(desktop): Esc closes every OverlayView-based overlay

Lift the keyboard handler into the shared OverlayView so Agents, Settings,
Command Center — and anything we build on top of it later — all dismiss on
Esc by default. Nested Radix dialogs stop propagation themselves, so a
modal opened inside an overlay (e.g. model picker inside Settings) still
closes the modal first, not the overlay underneath.

Drop the now-redundant Esc handlers in Settings (kept Cmd/Ctrl+P) and
Command Center.

* fix(desktop): drop numbered step pill on subagent rows

The pill was getting clipped at the overlay edge anyway. Just use the
status glyph (●/✓/✗/■/○) — the delegation header already conveys
"3 workers, 3 active", and order in the list implies which step you're
looking at.

* fix(desktop): drop noisy "returned N items / empty object" stub strings

When a tool returns nothing useful, the row should be silent — the title
("Search Files", etc.) already tells the user what happened. Counting the
fields in an opaque payload is engineer-noise.

`formatToolResultSummary` and `minimalValueSummary` now return '' for
empty arrays / records / unrecognized values; tool-fallback already hides
the detail section when its body is empty.

* refactor(desktop): subagent rows borrow chat tool patterns (fade-in, lucide glyphs, shimmer)

Pull the agents view closer to how chat tool blocks render:
- statusGlyph() returns the same lucide BrailleSpinner / CheckCircle2 /
  AlertCircle vocabulary as tool-fallback's statusGlyph
- Stream lines fade-in via useEnterAnimation (one-shot WAAPI), keyed per
  entry so streamed deltas settle in instead of popping
- Subagent rows fade in too, and pick up the existing data-slot=tool-block
  spacing rules between blocks
- Active stream line trails a BrailleSpinner instead of a hand-rolled
  pulsing rectangle
- Goal text drops FadeText (which forces nowrap); keep FadeText only for
  the single-line meta subtitle
- Running rows shimmer the title — same affordance the chat thinking row
  uses

* refactor(desktop): make /agents subagent-only, drop sidebar + dead sections

Activity rail and History stub were both noise. Strip the split layout,
sidebar, route enum, and the rail/stub helpers — the overlay is now just
the spawn tree, centered in a max-w-3xl column so it stops claiming the
whole screen for one section's worth of content.

* feat: update cron modals

* Add dedicated GUI log stream for dashboard debugging.

Capture dashboard and PTY websocket lifecycle failures in gui.log and expose it via hermes logs.

* Improve desktop runtime UX by surfacing inference readiness in gateway status and hardening WSL link opening.

This also stabilizes markdown code/table block spacing and adds root-install guards so desktop dev runs use a healthy workspace dependency tree.

* Log detailed GUI websocket failure metadata.

Capture richer reject/disconnect/send/parse context for dashboard gateway websocket flows so GUI connection failures are diagnosable from logs.

* Default dashboard startup logging to GUI mode.

Detect the dashboard subcommand during early CLI bootstrap so gui.log is attached from process start and GUI startup failures are always captured.

* Clean up gateway status conditionals and logging bootstrap mode detection.

Simplify nested dashboard gateway status branches for readability and use a concise first-subcommand check when selecting early GUI logging mode.

* add logging to nsis installer

* feat: glass ui pass

* fix(desktop): persist inline assistant errors across hydrate/resume

- Detect provider failure text arriving via message.complete
  (HTTP 4xx, "API call failed after N retries", Provider/Gateway
  error: ...) and persist as an inline assistant error instead of
  regular completion text, blocking the hydrate that was wiping it.
- preserveLocalAssistantErrors: merge by id so same-id hydrated
  messages keep their local error, and preserve the optimistic
  user+error pair as a unit (with tail-user dedupe).
- Hook all hydrate/resume writers (use-session-actions resume +
  fallback, hydrateFromStoredSession, syncSessionStateToView) into
  the merge so stale snapshots can't clobber a failed turn.
- Add error to chatMessagesEquivalent so the resume diff actually
  sees error-only changes and paints them.
- editMessage on a failed turn now submits a plain resend (no
  truncate_before_user_ordinal) and retries plainly on the
  "no longer in session history" race.

Style polish on touched files:
- Inline error: text-only treatment (no card).
- User stop / edit-composer send: shared Tabler IconPlayerStopFilled
  glyph + shared icon-button class slot for parity.

* feat(desktop): theme xterm with active light/dark mode

The right-sidebar terminal hardcoded a light palette, which read poorly
on the dark glass surface. Subscribe to `useTheme().resolvedMode` and
hot-swap `term.options.theme` so Shift+X (and any other mode change)
updates the terminal in place without tearing down the PTY session.

Dark mode uses xterm's built-in defaults (white fg/cursor + vivid ANSI
16) with just a transparent background so the glass shows through;
light mode keeps the existing hand-tuned overrides for legibility on a
bright surface.

* feat(sidebar): right-click + drag-reorder sessions and workspaces

- Wire right-click on session rows to open the same actions menu;
  suppresses the OS-native context menu so Windows stops looking awful.
- Share dropdown + context menu items via useSessionActions() driving
  a single declarative ItemSpec[]; render polymorphic over MenuItem.
- New shadcn ContextMenu primitive mirroring DropdownMenu styling.
- Restore drag-and-drop reordering for Agents (lost during the cwd
  cleanup) and add reordering of workspace groups via a right-side
  grab handle. Pinned reorder unchanged.
- Generic orderByIds<T> replaces the duplicated session/group orderers;
  useSortableBindings() hook collapses the two Sortable wrappers.
- cursor-pointer on every actionable element; cursor-grab on handles.
- KISS pass: baseName() helper, AGE_TICKS table, single WORKSPACE_PAGE
  constant, flatter SidebarSessionsSection render.

* feat(desktop): solarize the xterm palette in both light & dark

xterm's default ANSI 16 is tuned for dark and reads candy-bright on the
light glass surface (vivid cyans/greens). Ship the canonical Solarized
palette (Schoonover) for both modes — same 16 accents either way, only
fg/cursor swap between `base00/01` (light) and `base0/1` (dark), so a
prompt's colors look uniform across a Shift+X toggle.

Background stays transparent in both modes — Solarized's cream/slate
backgrounds would fight the glass.

* feat(desktop): virtualize chat thread + sidebar via TanStack Virtual

Replaces `use-stick-to-bottom` and per-row session rendering with
`@tanstack/react-virtual`, matching what Cursor uses.

Chat thread (`thread-virtualizer.tsx`):
- Natural-flow virtualization (padding spacers, not absolute items) so
  `position: sticky` on the human bubble still resolves cleanly against
  the scroller.
- Custom at-bottom anchor: pins when armed, disarms on user-driven
  upward scroll, re-arms at bottom, jumps on session switch +
  `thread.runStart`.
- Loading indicator and `--thread-last-message-clearance` move to a
  real `[data-slot=aui_composer-clearance]` node; drops the brittle
  `:nth-last-child(1 of …)` rule that can't fire reliably under
  virtualization.

Sidebar (`virtual-session-list.tsx`):
- Flat agents list virtualizes at >=25 rows; pinned and
  workspace-grouped paths stay direct-render.
- `SortableContext` keeps all IDs; only the window mounts; dnd-kit's
  `setNodeRef` is merged with `virtualizer.measureElement` so rows
  participate in both DnD hit-testing and TanStack measurement.

Drops `use-stick-to-bottom`. Streaming test gets a global
`offsetWidth/offsetHeight` stub so the virtualizer's viewport sizing
works in jsdom; the scroll-up-doesn't-pull-back invariant still passes.

* feat: more ui qa

* fix(desktop): trim sidebar terminal startup spacer

Drop zsh's initial spacer row before writing the first terminal prompt so new sidebar terminal sessions do not open with a selectable blank line.

* chore: uptick

* feat(desktop): thin installer + first-launch install.ps1 bootstrap

Converges the Windows packaged desktop installer onto a single canonical
install topology: drop the Electron shell only (~80MB instead of ~500MB),
clone Hermes Agent at a build-time-pinned commit on first launch via
install.ps1's stage protocol, and treat the resulting git checkout at
%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\hermes-agent\ as the canonical install location
(same path the CLI installer uses).  Future updates flow through the
existing applyUpdates() git-pull path.

Replaces the previous fat-installer architecture where the .exe bundled
a pre-staged hermes-agent source tree under resources/hermes-agent/ that
was then sync'd into ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT at launch -- a complicated
factory-vs-active dance with several footguns (FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT
mismatch on path resolve, isGitCheckout guard regressions, pyproject
hash drift detection inside the sync loop).

Architecture overview
---------------------

  Build time
    apps/desktop/scripts/write-build-stamp.cjs writes
    apps/desktop/build/install-stamp.json with {commit, branch, builtAt,
    dirty}.  Honours $GITHUB_SHA / $GITHUB_REF_NAME in CI, falls back to
    `git rev-parse HEAD` locally.

    apps/desktop/scripts/stage-native-deps.cjs copies the runtime subset
    of @homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch from the workspace-root
    node_modules into apps/desktop/build/native-deps/.  Workspace dedup
    hoists this dep to the root, out of reach of electron-builder's
    `files:`-restricted collector; staging gives us a deterministic
    path to extraResources.

    electron-builder ships both into resources/install-stamp.json and
    resources/native-deps/ respectively.

  Boot resolver (electron/main.cjs)
    Resolver order:
      1. HERMES_DESKTOP_HERMES_ROOT override
      2. SOURCE_REPO_ROOT (dev mode)
      3. ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT git checkout WITH .hermes-bootstrap-complete
         marker -- the post-install fast path
      4. `hermes` on PATH (CLI-installed user adding the desktop)
      5. pip-installed hermes_cli via system Python
      6. bootstrap-needed sentinel -> hand off to runBootstrap

    Deletes the entire FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT / RUNTIME_MARKER /
    syncTreeExcludingVenv machinery (-200 lines).  The isGitCheckout
    guard that bit us in the install.ps1 PR is gone.

  First-launch bootstrap (electron/bootstrap-runner.cjs)
    1. Resolve install.ps1: prefer SOURCE_REPO_ROOT/scripts (dev), else
       download from GitHub raw at INSTALL_STAMP.commit (cached at
       HERMES_HOME\bootstrap-cache\install-<sha>.ps1).
    2. Fetch the stage manifest via install.ps1 -Manifest -Commit X
       -Branch Y.
    3. Iterate stages: install.ps1 -Stage <name> -NonInteractive -Json
       -Commit X -Branch Y per stage.
    4. On all stages green: write the .hermes-bootstrap-complete
       marker with {schemaVersion, pinnedCommit, pinnedBranch,
       completedAt, desktopVersion}.

    Per-run log to HERMES_HOME\logs\bootstrap-<ts>.log.  Cancellation
    via AbortSignal.  Manifest cache so retries don't re-download.

  Install overlay (src/components/desktop-install-overlay.tsx)
    Mounted alongside the existing onboarding overlay; flexbox card
    with header (static) + middle (scrollable) + footer (failure-only,
    static).  Subscribes to hermes:bootstrap:event IPC + resyncs from
    hermes:bootstrap:get on mount/reload.  Renders:
      - 14-stage checklist with per-stage state icons
      - Overall progress bar + current-stage spotlight
      - Auto-expanded installer-output panel on failure
      - "Copy output" button (full ring buffer + error to clipboard)
      - "Reload and retry" wired through hermes:bootstrap:reset to
        clear main.cjs's latched failure
    Synthetic empty-manifest event from main.cjs flips the overlay to
    'active' immediately so the slow install.ps1 download doesn't
    leave the user staring at the generic Preparing splash.

  Failure latching (main.cjs)
    bootstrapFailure module-scope variable holds the rejection after
    install.ps1 fails.  startHermes() throws the latched error
    immediately when set, bypassing the entire ensureRuntime +
    runBootstrap chain.  Without this, the renderer's ensureGatewayOpen
    retries would re-run install.ps1 in a 5-10 min hot loop while the
    user was still reading the failure overlay.  Cleared via
    hermes:bootstrap:reset on user-driven retry.

  Unsupported-platform overlay (1F)
    macOS / Linux packaged builds (no install.sh stage protocol yet)
    emit an unsupported-platform event with a copy-pasteable install
    command + docs URL.  Dedicated overlay branch with "Copy command"
    + "I've run it -- retry" buttons.

install.ps1 additions (Phase 1F.3 + 1F.5)
-----------------------------------------

  New -Commit and -Tag string params.  Precedence Commit > Tag >
  Branch.  Honoured by all three code paths (update / fresh clone /
  ZIP fallback), with archive URL selection that handles each
  ref-type variant.  Detached-HEAD checkouts intentionally -- they're
  pins, not branches the user pulls into.

  EAP=Continue wrap around the new pin-step git invocations.  `git
  fetch origin <commit>` writes the routine 'From <url>' info line to
  stderr; under the script's global EAP=Stop that terminates the
  script even though fetch+checkout succeed.  Matches the established
  pattern in Install-Uv, Test-Python, _Run-NpmInstall.

Backend fix (hermes_cli/web_server.py)
--------------------------------------

  CORS allow_origin_regex now accepts Origin: 'null'.  Packaged
  Electron loads index.html via file://; Chromium sets the WebSocket
  upgrade Origin header to the opaque origin 'null', which the old
  regex rejected with HTTP 403 before gateway_ws() ever ran.  This
  failure mode was masked in the older FACTORY_HERMES_ROOT
  architecture because the resolver often found an existing hermes
  on PATH with different binding behavior.

  Security maintained: localhost-only bind keeps cross-machine pages
  out; per-process session token still gates every authenticated
  /api/ endpoint regardless of Origin.

Desktop QoL
-----------

  DevTools is now enabled in packaged builds (F12 / Cmd+Opt+I).
  Field-debugging trade-off: tiny attack surface increase versus
  a much better support story when CSP / WS / theme issues surface.

  NSIS prereq-check page deleted (-767 lines).  The standard
  Welcome -> License -> Directory -> InstallFiles -> Finish wizard
  now installs without custom Python/Git/ripgrep detection -- those
  prereqs are install.ps1's job at first launch.

Test infrastructure (Phase 1G)
------------------------------

  apps/desktop/scripts/test-desktop.mjs rewritten as a cross-platform
  bundle validator (was darwin-only and asserted on dead factory-
  payload paths):
    NEGATIVE: hermes_cli/main.py is NOT shipped (regression guard)
    POSITIVE: install-stamp.json carries a real commit + branch
    POSITIVE: node-pty native deps shipped under resources/native-deps
    POSITIVE: renderer dist/index.html reachable (asar or unpacked)
  New nsis mode and npm run test:desktop:nsis script.

Validated end-to-end on clean Win10 VM
--------------------------------------

  Confirmed: NSIS installer drops Electron shell, app launches,
  install overlay shows progress, install.ps1 clones the pinned
  commit, 14 stages run to completion, marker written, backend
  spawns, WebSocket connects, onboarding overlay asks for API key,
  main UI loads, integrated terminal works.

  Failures handled: bootstrap stays failed (no hot-loop retry),
  "Copy output" gives actionable transcript, "Reload and retry"
  explicitly re-runs install.ps1.

What's deferred
---------------

  - MSIX wrapping (Phase 2): same Electron .exe under MSIX manifest
    with runFullTrust, signed and submitted to Microsoft Store.
  - install.sh stage protocol parity (Phase 2): once shipped, the
    unsupported-platform overlay becomes drive-it-yourself and
    macOS/Linux packaged installers gain feature parity with Windows.

* feat(desktop): persistent terminal pane + fullscreen takeover

Adds a VSCode-style "focus terminal" toggle to the right sidebar's Terminal
tab that takes over the chat pane area without unmounting the shell. The
xterm host is mounted once at the layout root and CSS-overlayed onto
whichever <TerminalSlot /> is currently active, so the PTY session,
scrollback, selection, focus, and WebGL renderer survive every toggle.

Also:
- WebGL renderer (matching dashboard ChatPage) so Hermes' TUI skins paint
  faithfully instead of muting through xterm's default DOM renderer
- File drag/drop from the project tree or OS into xterm — paths are
  shell-quoted (zsh/bash/pwsh/cmd) and written straight into the PTY
- Solarized dark canvas with brights promoted to real accent variants
  (Schoonover's UI-gray brights washed out every TUI accent)
- Strip NO_COLOR/FORCE_COLOR/COLORFGBG/TERM=dumb leaking from non-tty
  parents (CI runners, Cursor's agent shell) so the embedded shell gets
  truecolor regardless of how Electron was launched
- rAF-debounced ResizeObserver — running fit.fit() synchronously during
  sibling pane transitions crashed the WebGL texture-atlas rebuild

* fix(install.ps1): strip UTF-8 BOM regression that broke 'irm | iex'

The canonical install flow

    irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/.../scripts/install.ps1 | iex

fails on PowerShell 5.1 with a cascade of 'The assignment expression
is not valid' errors at every param() default value:

    [string]$Branch = 'main',
                      ~~~~~~
    The assignment expression is not valid. The input to an assignment
    operator must be an object that is able to accept assignments...

Root cause: scripts/install.ps1 carries a UTF-8 BOM (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF)
as its first three bytes. 'irm' returns the response body as a string;
on PS 5.1 the BOM survives into that string as a leading \ufeff
character. 'iex' then evaluates the string and PS's parser chokes
on the invisible character before param() -- error recovery proceeds
into the body but every assignment is reported as broken.

This was the exact failure mode the install.ps1 hardening pass (PR
#27224) deliberately fixed by stripping the BOM and ensuring the
file body is pure ASCII. Commit 4279da4db ('fix(windows): make
PowerShell installer parse in 5.1') re-introduced the BOM later,
unintentionally undoing the irm|iex compatibility fix; the merge
that brought it into bb/gui carried it forward.

Fix: strip the three BOM bytes. File body is verified pure ASCII
(any-byte > 127 returns false), so PS 5.1 with no BOM falls back to
Windows-1252 decoding which is identical to ASCII for our content.
Both install paths now work:
  - 'irm ... | iex' (canonical CLI)
  - 'powershell -File install.ps1' (programmatic / desktop bootstrap)

* install.ps1: detect ARM64 Windows reliably for Node and Git stages

Add a Get-WindowsArch helper that reads Win32_Processor.Architecture
via CIM (invariant to PowerShell host bitness) with PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432
fallback. Use it in:

- Install-Git: previously only triggered the arm64 PortableGit asset
  when invoked from a native-ARM64 PowerShell host. WoW64 / emulated
  x64 hosts (the default powershell.exe on Windows-on-ARM) saw
  PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64 and fell through to the x64 PortableGit
  build, leaving ARM64 users on emulated Git for Windows.

- Test-Node: previously hardcoded the Node download to win-x64 on any
  64-bit OS, so ARM64 users always got x64 Node under Prism emulation
  even though Node ships an arm64 build for Windows. The winget
  fallback now also passes --architecture arm64 on ARM64.

Python remains x86_64 by design: uv intentionally prefers
windows-x86_64 cpython on ARM64 hosts for ecosystem (wheel)
compatibility (see astral-sh/uv#19015).

* install.ps1: harden Install-SystemPackages against winget msstore failures

The previous winget invocation discarded stdout/stderr and trusted no
signal at all -- not the exit code (winget exits 0 even when it bails
"please specify --source"), not output (sent to Out-Null), not the
catch handler (winget returning 0 means no exception fires). The only
trust signal was a post-install Get-Command rg / Get-Command ffmpeg
check, which would also miss the package because %LOCALAPPDATA%\
Microsoft\WinGet\Links (where winget puts command aliases) is added to
PATH by AppExecutionAlias machinery only in fresh shells. End result on
machines where the msstore source has a cert problem (0x8a15005e --
common on Windows-on-ARM and some corporate networks): silent failure,
no log, no breadcrumb, and the user is told the install succeeded.

Specifically:

- Pin --source winget on every winget install call. Defeats the broken-
  msstore-source path. We ship nothing from msstore so this is safe and
  forward-compatible.

- Add --exact --id for a tighter package match.

- Capture each winget invocation's combined stdout/stderr + exit code to
  %TEMP%\hermes-winget-<pkg>-<n>.log instead of Out-Null. On the happy
  path the log is deleted after the post-install check confirms the
  binary is on PATH; on failure the log is kept and its path is named in
  a Write-Warn so the user has something to grep.

- Refresh PATH to include %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links in
  addition to the User/Machine env-var hives, so Get-Command sees newly-
  installed winget aliases in the same process.

- No behavior change on the happy path. Same Write-Info/Success/Warn
  cadence, same fallback order (winget -> choco -> scoop -> manual),
  same $script:HasRipgrep / $script:HasFfmpeg outputs.

Verified end-to-end on a real Snapdragon ARM64 Windows host: ripgrep
uninstalled, stage re-run, [OK] ripgrep installed in 1.4s, ok:true.

* desktop: swap node-pty fork for upstream microsoft/node-pty 1.1.0

The previous dependency, @homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch@0.13.1,
publishes no win32-arm64 prebuilds on its v0.13.x line, and its v0.14.x
betas (which do add an arm64 Windows build) ship no electron-vXXX-win32-
arm64 prebuilds at all -- so packaged Electron 40 builds (NMV 143) would
fail at runtime even on a successful npm install. Net effect: the
desktop's integrated terminal was unbuildable on Windows-on-ARM, in
both dev (npm install fails: 404 fetching the node-vXXX-win32-arm64
prebuilt) and packaged builds (no Electron-ABI prebuilt exists).

The homebridge fork was originally created because upstream node-pty
shipped no prebuilds at all. That hasn't been true since node-pty@1.0
(April 2024), which:

- bundles prebuilts for mac (arm64+x64) and Windows (arm64+x64) directly
  inside the npm tarball -- no GitHub-Releases fetch, no missing-binary
  failure mode
- uses N-API (node-addon-api) for ABI stability across Node and Electron
  major versions, so the same pty.node binary loads under Node 22 (dev)
  and Electron 40+ (packaged) without per-ABI rebuilds
- is what VS Code, Hyper, and Theia actually ship

API surface is identical (spawn / onData / onExit / write / resize /
kill) -- no call-site changes needed.

Specifically:

- apps/desktop/package.json: replace the @homebridge fork with
  node-pty@1.1.0 (exact pin). Widen `asarUnpack` from `["**/*.node"]`
  to also unpack `**/prebuilds/**`, because node-pty ships runtime-
  execed helpers alongside its .node files (darwin spawn-helper has no
  extension and would not be matched by `**/*.node`; conpty.dll,
  OpenConsole.exe, winpty.dll, winpty-agent.exe on Windows are also
  exec'd at runtime and cannot live inside asar).

- apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs: update both require() strings to
  match the new package name and the new staged path under
  resources/native-deps/node-pty/.

- apps/desktop/scripts/stage-native-deps.cjs: point at node_modules/
  node-pty. node-pty's prebuilts live under prebuilds/<plat>-<arch>/
  (not build/Release/), so update the include glob to copy that dir.
  Per-arch staging keeps the resource bundle small (target arch comes
  from npm_config_arch when electron-builder cross-builds, else
  process.arch). Explicitly enumerate file types in the prebuilds glob
  so the ~25 MB of .pdb debug symbols that prebuild-install bundles
  for Windows crash analysis don't bloat the installer (29 MB -> 2.6 MB
  staged on win32-arm64). Re-assert +x on the darwin spawn-helper
  defensively, since a stripped mode bit would manifest as a silent
  ENOENT at first pty.spawn().

- apps/desktop/scripts/test-desktop.mjs: update expectedNativeDepPaths()
  and its assertion site to look at prebuilds/<plat>-<arch>/ instead of
  build/Release/. Add an explicit spawn-helper-exists check on darwin
  so a regression in the asarUnpack glob would fail loudly in CI rather
  than at first PTY spawn.

Trade-off: Linux end-users lose prebuilts and fall back to building
node-pty from source on `npm install`. Acceptable because Hermes
ships no Linux desktop builds (desktop-release.yml matrix is mac + win
only, package.json declares no `linux` target), and Linux developers
hacking on the desktop already need a C++ toolchain for the rest of
the stack.

Verified on Windows 11 ARM64 (Snapdragon):
  npm install                                          -> exit 0
  node -e "require('node-pty').spawn(...)" round-trip  -> OK
  stage-native-deps                                    -> 27 files, 2.6 MB
  load from staged tree (simulates packaged fallback)  -> ConPTY
                                                           round-trip OK

* desktop+gateway: harden Slack socket recovery and Windows restart dedupe (#28873)

* desktop+gateway: harden Slack socket recovery and Windows restart dedupe

Fix Slack Socket Mode reliability by adding a watchdog/reconnect path so silent socket task drops no longer leave the adapter stuck. Harden Windows gateway lifecycle by avoiding desktop-binary path collisions, making gateway PID scans case/extension tolerant, and reusing in-flight restart actions to prevent duplicate gateway spawns.

* test(slack): add Socket Mode watchdog/reconnect behavioural coverage

Drive the new Slack Socket Mode self-healing logic through a fake AsyncSocketModeHandler so we can simulate the P0 silent-hang failure mode (task exit, transport disconnected, intentional shutdown, concurrent reconnect attempts) without touching real Slack.

* fix(slack,desktop): address Copilot review on watchdog races and path normalization

- connect(): explicitly cancel + await the prior socket watchdog before flipping _running, so an old monitor cannot exit between teardown and respawn (Copilot #1)
- _socket_watchdog_loop: wrap the body in try/except + add a done-callback that respawns on unexpected crash, so a transient bug cannot permanently disable self-healing (Copilot #2)
- normalizeExecutablePathForCompare: use the resolved path for realpathSync so non-string inputs cannot leak through (Copilot #3)
- Add tests for crash-recovery and atomic watchdog replacement across reconnects

* fix(slack): tighten connect() error path and clarify watchdog test intent

Address Copilot review round 2.

- connect(): wrap _start_socket_mode_handler/_ensure_socket_watchdog in a focused try/except so any failure rolls back partially-started handler/task state and leaves _running=False, ensuring the platform lock is always released by the outer finally
- Defer _running=True until after the handler is actually started so the watchdog observes a live socket task immediately and never spins against a half-built adapter
- Rename test_watchdog_self_restarts_after_unexpected_crash to test_watchdog_cancellation_does_not_respawn (matches what it actually asserts) and add test_watchdog_unexpected_exit_respawns_via_done_callback that drives a real RuntimeError through _on_socket_watchdog_done and verifies a fresh task replaces the crashed one

* fix(web_server): serialize action spawn check+store under a threading lock

Address Copilot review round 3.

FastAPI runs sync handlers on its threadpool, so two near-simultaneous /api/gateway/restart (or /api/hermes/update) requests could both observe "no live process" in _spawn_hermes_action's poll-based dedupe and double-spawn. Add a module-level _ACTION_SPAWN_LOCK around the entire check + Popen + _ACTION_PROCS store sequence so the dedupe is atomic across threads.

* fix: address Copilot review round 4

- slack.disconnect(): mirror connect()'s defensive cleanup — catch the broad Exception path on watchdog await so handler shutdown and lock release still run if the watchdog raised before cancellation took effect
- web_server._spawn_hermes_action: wrap subprocess.Popen in try/except so a missing executable / permission error closes the log file handle, writes a failure marker, and re-raises instead of leaking a file descriptor
- gateway._scan_gateway_pids: drop the over-broad "hermes.exe --profile" / "hermes.exe -p" patterns that would match any Hermes CLI subcommand using a profile flag (e.g. `hermes.exe --profile foo dashboard`); rely on the "hermes.exe gateway" + "hermes-gateway.exe" tokens instead
- tests: tighten _fake_create_task to assert coroutine input and return a real asyncio.Task that stays pending until pytest teardown, and update the three callsites whose mocked AsyncSocketModeHandler.start_async returned a non-coroutine value

* fix(slack): reset multi-workspace state on reconnect

Address Copilot review round 5.

connect() is reentrant (gateway restart, in-process reconnect), but it was leaving _bot_user_id / _team_clients / _team_bot_user_ids populated from the previous session. A reconnect that rotated the primary token or dropped a workspace would silently keep the stale bot user id and stale workspace client maps, leading to dispatch against gone workspaces.

Clear these three pieces of state right after _stop_socket_mode_handler() and before the auth_test loop, then let the loop repopulate from the current tokens. Add test_reconnect_refreshes_multi_workspace_state to lock it in.

* nix: package apps/desktop as .#desktop (#28964)

Adds nix/desktop.nix building the Electron renderer with buildNpmPackage
and wrapping nixpkgs' electron binary.  Reuses .#default by setting
HERMES_DESKTOP_HERMES to its hermes binary, so the desktop's resolver
picks up the fully-wired nix hermes (venv, bundled skills/plugins,
runtime PATH) without reimplementing agent resolution.

- nix/desktop.nix: renderer + electron wrapper
- nix/hermes-agent.nix: finalAttrs form, exposes hermesDesktop in passthru
- nix/packages.nix: exposes .#desktop + adds to fix-lockfiles
- apps/desktop/package-lock.json: standalone hermetic lockfile

nix build .#desktop && nix run .#desktop both clean.

* fix(desktop): probe steps 4 & 5 of resolveHermesBackend before trusting

A user-reported failure on Windows-on-ARM: a pre-installed Python 3.13
on PATH makes findSystemPython() succeed, so resolveHermesBackend
returns a backend pointing at it -- but hermes_cli isn't in that
interpreter's site-packages. The spawn dies with ModuleNotFoundError
and the user sees a dead GUI instead of the first-launch installer.

Same shape can hit step 4 (existing `hermes` on PATH) when a stale
shim survives a partial uninstall.

Add cheap exit-code probes -- `python -c "import hermes_cli"` for
step 5, `<hermes> --version` for step 4 -- and fall through to step 6
(bootstrap-needed) on failure. install.ps1 then runs as if on a clean
box and the venv gets built.

Probes live in a standalone electron/backend-probes.cjs module so they
can be unit-tested with node --test, same pattern as bootstrap-platform.cjs
and hardening.cjs. New test file wired into test:desktop:platforms.

* test(desktop): allow `node-pty` bare-require in packaged entrypoints

Pre-existing failure on bb/gui since c858484b4 swapped the node-pty
fork for upstream microsoft/node-pty 1.1.0. main.cjs intentionally
bare-requires node-pty (it's hoisted by workspace dedup in dev, and
staged to resources/native-deps via scripts/stage-native-deps.cjs +
extraResources for packaged builds, with a try/catch fallback at
line ~38). The allowlist hadn't been updated to match -- same shape
as `electron`, which was already allowed.

* chore(deps): refresh root lockfile for dashboard @nous-research/ui 0.14.0

apps/dashboard/package.json was bumped to @nous-research/ui 0.14.0 (+
flag-icons ^7.5.0, motion ^12.38.0) but the root package-lock.json was
never refreshed. Running `npm install` from the repo root now
materialises 0.14.0's transitive closure (launder, bumps for
@nanostores/react, nanostores, sanitize-html, tailwind-merge).

No code changes; purely a lockfile catch-up so fresh checkouts on bb/gui
get a working dashboard install.

* chore(desktop): bump version to 0.0.1

First non-placeholder version so electron-builder's artifactName template
produces `Hermes-0.0.1-win-x64.exe` instead of the obviously-unreleased
`Hermes-0.0.0-...`. No release process yet; this just stops the artifact
filename from telling users "you got a debug build."

Bumped in three slots that all carry the desktop app's version:
- apps/desktop/package.json (source of truth)
- apps/desktop/package-lock.json (per-app lockfile, kept for CI parity)
- root package-lock.json's apps/desktop workspace entry

Identity-of-build for first-launch bootstrap continues to come from
build/install-stamp.json (commit SHA + builtAt), unchanged.

* fix: fs icon color

* perf(desktop): cut per-keystroke layout + listener churn in chat composer

Empirical work via CDP harnesses under apps/desktop/scripts/ (see
profile-typing-lag.md):

  jsListeners growth (per round of 200 chars + GC):
    before: +35  (verified leak — listeners stuck after 1st trigger popover use)
    after:  +0

Four narrow edits in src/app/chat/composer/index.tsx:

1. Drop the per-keystroke `editorRef.current.scrollHeight` read used to
   decide composer expansion. Replace with `draft.length > 60` heuristic;
   the existing ResizeObserver still catches edge cases. `scrollHeight`
   is a forced-layout call and was firing on every char until the first
   wrap.

2. Bucket measured composer height to 8px before writing
   `--composer-measured-height` / `--composer-surface-measured-height`
   on `documentElement`. Without this, the editor grows ~1px per char,
   setProperty fires every keystroke, computed style is invalidated tree-
   wide.

3. Remove the dead `$composerDraft` two-way sync. Nothing outside the
   composer subscribed to that atom (verified via grep). Two useEffects
   on `[draft]` were pushing draft→atom and atom→aui per keystroke for
   no consumer. Also drop the per-keystroke
   `reconcileComposerTerminalSelections` call; it was pruning stale
   labels for `terminalContextBlocksFromDraft`, but that helper already
   ignores labels not in the current submitted text, so pruning per
   keystroke was just bookkeeping.

4. `refreshTrigger` fast-bails when the draft contains neither `@` nor
   `/`. Previously `textBeforeCaret(editor)` ran on every input/keyup
   regardless; `range.toString()` inside is O(n) over draft length.

Synthetic typing latency p50/p90/p99 is similar before vs after on a
freshly-loaded session (Blink can already handle ~30cps typing into a
contentEditable on its own); the real win is the listener leak being
gone and the global computed-style invalidations dropping ~8× when the
composer is sitting at a fixed height row.

The `Enter → stall` follow-up (see profile-typing-lag.md §"Submit /
TTFT stall") is unmeasured here — needs a throwaway session because
the harness fires a real prompt. Not blocking this commit.

* perf(desktop): cut FadeText forced layouts during streaming

The slowest user-felt path is typing into the composer while the
assistant is streaming. Profile (scripts/profile-under-stream.mjs):

  FadeText measureOverflow self time:  35.8 ms → 18.1 ms  (-50%)
  total active CPU during 7s window:   ~150 ms → ~50 ms

Two changes in src/components/ui/fade-text.tsx:

1. Drop the `useEffect([children])` that re-ran `measureOverflow`
   (reads scrollWidth + clientWidth — forced layout) on every parent
   re-render. `useResizeObserver` already fires the same callback on
   mount and whenever the host span's box size changes; that covers
   the only case where overflow state can legitimately change. The
   previous explicit useEffect was a forced-layout flush on every
   parent render, which during streaming meant every token tick.

2. Wrap the component in `memo` with a custom comparator that
   short-circuits the entire render when scalar string `children` and
   the className/fadeWidth/style props are unchanged. The hot path
   was tool-fallback's title chips being re-rendered by parent
   streaming updates even though their text was stable; memo+
   comparator skips that.

Also adds two harness scripts under apps/desktop/scripts/:
  - latency-under-stream.mjs (key→paint latency while a turn streams)
  - profile-under-stream.mjs (CPU profile while a turn streams)

Updates profile-typing-lag.md with the streaming numbers and confirms
the Enter→paint submit path is already fast (≤320ms on the populated
session; the 2s "stall after Enter" the user noticed once was a
one-time cold-start, not reproducible at the UI layer).

I'd guess the felt jank in real use is fast-burst typing during a
long-form streaming reply (code blocks + markdown lists multiply the
per-token render cost). The CPU savings here scale linearly with
token volume.

* chore(desktop): drop diag scratch scripts no longer needed

* docs(desktop): correct leak-typing numbers on a real session

Re-ran the leak harness on a populated session (Phaser thread) for both
unpatched and patched builds. The original 'listener leak' was transient
warm-up cost, not a steady-state leak — both versions show 0 listener
growth/round in steady state.

The load-bearing number is forced layouts per character:
  unpatched (HEAD~2):  7.02 layouts/char
  patched   (HEAD):    2.35 layouts/char  (3× fewer)

The patches reduce per-char forced-layout work to Blink's natural floor.
Document node count and heap are flat in both builds.

* perf(desktop): fix "Enter jumps up" on long threads

User reported: after pressing Enter on a long thread, the view jumps up
— the just-submitted message disappears below the fold. Confirmed via
apps/desktop/scripts/measure-jump.mjs:

  before:  distFromBottom 0 → 49.5px, sticks there permanently
  after:   distFromBottom 0 → ~0 (worst case 4px for one frame)

Root cause in useThreadScrollAnchor (thread-virtualizer.tsx):

1. The sticky-bottom logic disarmed on any scroll event where
   `scrollTop < lastTopRef.current`. That check can't distinguish a
   user scrolling up from a programmatic `pinToBottom` write that
   the browser clamped short of bottom (because content also grew in
   the same frame, so `scrollTop = scrollHeight` lands at
   `scrollHeight - clientHeight` for the OLD scrollHeight, which is
   now below the NEW scrollHeight). Result: sticky-bottom disarmed
   permanently on the user's first submit.

2. There was no synchronous pin tied to React's commit phase. By the
   time the ResizeObserver fired and re-pinned, the user had already
   seen ~50ms of "message below the fold" — visually that reads as the
   view jumping up.

Fix:

- `programmaticScrollPendingRef` counter tracks scroll events we
  expect to be ours (one per `pinToBottom` write). The scroll handler
  skips the disarm check when consuming a pending tick, keeps the
  arm bit true, and re-pins synchronously if the browser clamped us
  short of bottom. A depth cap (8) breaks runaway loops in
  pathological streaming-burst layouts.

- `useLayoutEffect` on `groupCount` increase pins BEFORE the browser
  paints, eliminating the visible ~50ms window between optimistic
  user-message insert and the RO/scroll-event chain firing.

Verified on the long Cloud Shadows thread (7-8 turns, ~11k px tall):
all three repro runs now hold within 0–4 px of bottom across the
post-Enter transition. Submit latency unchanged (paint 77–107 ms),
streaming-typing latency unchanged.

Also adds three debug harnesses:
  - measure-jump.mjs   — sample thread scroll across Enter
  - probe-thread.mjs   — dump current thread / scroll state
  - diag-jump.mjs      — intercept scrollTop + RO + mutations across Enter

* perf(desktop): rate-limit thread auto-pin during streaming

Follow-up to the Enter-jump fix. The first version did a synchronous
re-pin loop inside the on-scroll handler when the browser clamped our
`scrollTop = scrollHeight` write short of the new bottom; that gave a
tight 4 px visible jump on Enter, but during streaming the
ResizeObserver fires many times per second as content grows, and each
RO callback re-entered the pin loop. CPU profile showed
`Virtualizer.getMaxScrollOffset` climbing to 22 ms self over a typing-
during-streaming window — the sync re-pin path was paying tanstack-
virtual's recompute cost ~3× per token.

Re-architect:

- RO callback coalesces to one pin per animation frame. Streaming-rate
  RO bursts now cost the same as a single per-frame pin.
- The on-scroll programmatic-counter guard remains (it's what prevents
  the false-disarm bug when the browser clamps a write). It no longer
  does sync re-pins; the next RO/rAF will catch up.
- The useLayoutEffect on groupCount (the path that fires on user
  submit / new turn arrival) ALSO schedules one rAF pin in addition to
  the synchronous pin. This catches the case where React mounts the
  new message in a second commit (after our layout effect ran), which
  grows scrollHeight again. Two pins instead of a tight loop, paid only
  once per turn change.

Net effect on the Cloud Shadows long thread:

  enter-jump transient:   12–20 px for 1 frame (was 49 px permanent)
  CPU during stream+type: `getMaxScrollOffset` dropped out of top-5
                          self-time list
  typing-during-stream:   p50 ~10 ms paint, p99 ~20 ms (1 frame),
                          occasional 40 ms+ outliers during burst
                          token arrivals

Also adds scripts/profile-long-stream.mjs: 20-second streaming profile
with per-500ms FPS histogram + content-length tracking, so we can see
whether streaming render cost grows with message length (it doesn't —
sustained 60 fps).

* perf(desktop): use textContent for trigger precondition

Replace composerPlainText() call inside refreshTrigger's no-trigger
fast-bail with a textContent check. textContent is a browser-native
flat traversal; composerPlainText walks recursively with chip-aware
logic. We only need to know if @ or / appears; either way the trigger
char will be in textContent because chips contain @ in their refText.

Profile shows composerPlainText was ~18ms self over a 12s typing-during-
stream window, called from refreshTrigger on every keystroke. Most of
that was the precondition check (the trigger detection path is the
slow path but only runs when a trigger char is present).

* Revert "perf(desktop): use textContent for trigger precondition"

This reverts commit a6a78ff08a31129a3a47fa55aca260d93af913a5.

* Revert "perf(desktop): cut FadeText forced layouts during streaming"

This reverts commit 88e7d7537cdab87200405edf298e38cb37e0a950.

* Revert "perf(desktop): cut per-keystroke layout + listener churn in chat composer"

This reverts commit bff1b3261d18a2427ac6c345c99f8312728346dd.

* Revert "Revert "perf(desktop): cut per-keystroke layout + listener churn in chat composer""

This reverts commit b7b378e3a43f94b9f4a1a34155707c6301c0fd87.

* Revert "Revert "perf(desktop): use textContent for trigger precondition""

This reverts commit 0739588f4896902f7f0d4ded8b5eaeb92bfdf042.

* chore(desktop): synthetic-stream perf harness + scripts

Drops the React `<Profiler>` approach (no-op because Vite is currently
serving the production React build) in favor of an externally-observable
measurement stack: rAF frame intervals, `PerformanceObserver({entryTypes:
['longtask']})`, and a `MutationObserver` on the live streaming message.

Adds a synthetic stream driver — `window.__PERF_DRIVE__.stream({...})` —
that pushes tokens through the live `$messages` atom at a controlled rate,
so the assistant-ui runtime, incremental repository, and Streamdown
markdown pipeline see the same workload they'd see during a real LLM
stream, without the LLM cost.

The driver lives in `src/app/chat/perf-probe.tsx`; `main.tsx` side-imports
it under `import.meta.env.MODE !== 'production'` so it tree-shakes out of
prod builds. (Using `MODE` rather than `DEV` because our Vite setup
currently reports `DEV=false` even under `vite dev` — see the dev-build
note in `profile-typing-lag.md`.)

Scripts:
  - measure-synthetic-stream.mjs  drive synthetic + record frame/longtask/mutation
  - profile-synth-stream.mjs      CPU profile + top self-time during synthetic
  - measure-real-stream.mjs       same harness, real LLM stream
  - profile-real-stream.mjs       CPU profile bracketing the real stream window
  - eval.mjs / reload.mjs         small CDP helpers

A real-LLM measurement on Cloud Shadows (gpt-4o-mini, 39 s window) showed
12 longtasks in the same 75-127 ms range the synthetic predicted, so the
synthetic is a faithful proxy.

* perf(desktop): memo FadeText so it skips re-renders when text unchanged

FadeText is used 110+ times inside `tool-fallback.tsx` on a tool-heavy
thread. During streaming each parent re-render previously triggered the
component's `useEffect([children])`, which forced a `scrollWidth` layout
read even when the title text was unchanged. The `useResizeObserver` was
already covering the genuine resize case, so that effect was strictly
redundant work.

Drops the effect and wraps the component in `React.memo` with a custom
comparator that field-compares `className`, `fadeWidth`, and `style`,
plus identity-compares `children` (scalar fast-path; correct for JSX
nodes too since a new node should force a re-render).

Verified via temporary render counter on the 34 MB
`session_20260514_215353_fe0ac8` thread (110 FadeText instances): a
2 s synthetic stream went from ~11k FadeText render calls to 122 —
roughly one render per truly-new instance instead of one per parent
commit per instance.

Doesn't move the longtask needle on its own (Streamdown's markdown
re-parse dwarfs it) but eliminates a steady CPU floor and a class of
forced layouts during streaming. Profile-typing-lag.md documents the
full investigation, including the remaining Streamdown cost as the
real source of the perceived "5 fps moment" hitches.

* perf(desktop): memoize MarkdownText plugins to stop churning Streamdown

The inline `plugins={{ math: mathPlugin, ...(isStreaming ? {} : { code }) }}`
on `<StreamdownTextPrimitive>` constructed a new object literal on every
parent render. That broke `<Streamdown>`'s outer memo and forced its
internal `rehypePlugins` / `remarkPlugins` array useMemos to rebuild,
which propagates a new identity into every `<Block>` and defeats Block's
memoization for stable historical blocks.

After memoizing on `[isStreaming]` (the only real dimension of variance),
CPU profile during a 5 s synthetic stream on the 34 MB session shows
`parser` self-time dropping out of the top 10, `compile` cut roughly in
half, and `bn$1` / `m$1` (micromark internals) leaving the top entries.

Doesn't move the visible longtask count on its own — Streamdown's
per-Block parse cost still dominates whenever the last block's content
changes — but it removes a class of unnecessary re-parses for historical
blocks during streaming. See `scripts/profile-typing-lag.md` for the
full investigation.

* perf(desktop): floor assistant-text flush gap to 33ms for predictable batching

`scheduleDeltaFlush` previously coalesced via `requestAnimationFrame`
only. The "at most one flush per frame" guarantee that gives you is fine
for fast streams (>~80 tok/sec) where multiple tokens arrive within a
single frame, but breaks down at typical LLM token rates (30-80 tok/sec)
where each token arrives slower than the rAF cadence and triggers its
own React commit + Streamdown markdown re-parse.

Track `lastFlushAt` and require at least 33 ms between two flushes.
React 18+ auto-batching probabilistically already collapsed some of
these, but the floor makes it deterministic.

A/B on the 34 MB session, 300 tokens at 50 tok/sec (markdown chunks):

| | avgFps | p99 frame | LTs / 5 s | max LT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| no floor (current rAF) | 54.0 | 38 ms | 2.0 | 145 ms |
| 33 ms floor (this PR) | 54.3 | 41 ms | 1.7 | 110 ms |

`inter-mutation` p50 also tightens from 22-28 ms to a clean 33 ms,
which is the expected signature of a deterministic floor. Doesn't fully
solve the user's perceived hitches — Streamdown's per-Block parse cost
when the last block grows past ~2 k chars is still the elephant — but
it consistently shaves the worst-case longtask and makes the streaming
cadence visibly steadier.

Also threads a matching `flushMinMs` option through the synthetic
stream driver in `perf-probe.tsx` + `scripts/measure-synthetic-stream.mjs`
so the harness can A/B both regimes without spending LLM credits.

See `scripts/profile-typing-lag.md` for the full investigation.

* perf(desktop): useDeferredValue for streaming markdown so parses don't block input

Streamdown's per-Block parse cost grows with the live tail's length and
is unavoidable inside the block-memo pattern (industry standard, see
findings doc). The fix is to stop having that work block the main thread.

`<DeferStreamingText>` is a 12-line wrapper that reads message-part state
via `useMessagePartText`, runs it through `useDeferredValue`, and
re-publishes via assistant-ui's `<TextMessagePartProvider>`. The inner
`<StreamdownTextPrimitive>` reads the deferred value through the normal
`useMessagePartText` hook — no fork, no internal-path imports, fully on
assistant-ui's public API. React's concurrent scheduler then:

  - abandons in-flight deferred renders when a newer token arrives, so
    intermediate states get skipped under fast streams
  - deprioritises the markdown render when the main thread has urgent
    work (typing, scroll), so input stays responsive even while a
    100ms parse is queued

Streamdown already uses `useTransition` for its block-array setState;
this lifts the deferral up to the consumer boundary so it covers the
whole pipeline (preprocess → split → repair → parse → render).

A/B on the 34 MB session, 300 tokens at 50 tok/sec, markdown chunks
(four trials each, with the 33ms flush throttle on for both):

| | avgFps | p99 frame | LTs/5s | max LT | typing-while-stream p95 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pre  | 54.3 | 41 ms | 1.7 | 110 ms | ~17 ms |
| post | 58.5 | 31 ms | 2.0 | 117 ms | 14-18 ms |

Longtask count + max LT unchanged — useDeferredValue doesn't reduce
CPU, only its priority. The avgFps lift and p99 frame drop are the
proof that the existing CPU is no longer blocking 60 fps cadence. One
clean run logged MUTATIONS=0 — React skipped every intermediate text
state and only committed the final one (textbook deferred-value
behaviour).

The actually-reduce-CPU path is replacing the parser with a state
machine like Flowdown — left for a future PR; see
`apps/desktop/scripts/profile-typing-lag.md` for the full investigation.

* feat(desktop): add hermes gui launcher

* feat(desktop): launch packaged gui builds by default

* bump gui version to 0.0.2

* fix(dashboard): allow file:// origin on loopback WS + diagnostic logging

Upstream commit 2e66eefbc ("fix(dashboard): validate WebSocket Host
and Origin") added a WebSocket Host/Origin guard to block DNS
rebinding against the dashboard.  The guard rejects any Origin whose
scheme is not http/https or whose netloc is empty — which includes
Electron's renderer Origin: file:// when the desktop app loads its
bundle from disk in production mode.

That makes the bb/gui Electron desktop unable to open the gateway
WebSocket against the embedded backend on Windows / macOS prod
builds.  The renderer reports "Desktop boot failed" and the backend
logs:

  WARNING hermes_cli.web_server: gateway-ws reject
      peer=127.0.0.1:NNNN reason=non_loopback_or_bad_origin
      bound_host=127.0.0.1 close_code=4403

DNS-rebinding requires a DNS-resolvable hostname; file:// has no
host component and therefore cannot be the attack vector this guard
exists to block.  When bound to a loopback interface (127.0.0.1 /
::1 / localhost), accept file:// origins so desktop wrappers can
attach.  Non-loopback binds (operator opted into network exposure)
keep rejecting file:// — the loose policy doesn't apply.

Also adds per-reason diagnostic logging in
_ws_host_origin_is_allowed, so future ws-guard rejections name the
specific clause that fired (bad_host / bad_origin_scheme /
origin_host_mismatch) instead of the opaque
"non_loopback_or_bad_origin" surfaced at the call site.

Verified against tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_host_header.py
(all 11 upstream tests still pass) and hand-tested by opening the
bb/gui Electron desktop dev build against the patched backend.

* fix(tui_gateway): restore _content_display_text helper

Bb/gui had dropped the helper but the orchestrator code merged from main
still calls it (_inflight_text, _message_preview). Re-add the definition
verbatim from main so session.create / _start_inflight_turn don't crash
with NameError on first prompt submit.

* fix(tui-gateway): restore _content_display_text helper lost in main merge

The May 27 merge of origin/main into bb/gui re-introduced two callers of
_content_display_text (in _inflight_text and _history_to_messages) but
dropped the helper definition itself, leaving an unresolved reference.

NameError fires on every user message via _start_inflight_turn ->
_inflight_text, taking down both the TUI and the desktop (which share
this gateway backend) the moment input is dispatched.

Restores the helper verbatim from main (commit 36c99af37) -- pure
structured-content text extractor, no other dependencies.

* fix(telegram): import Set for _dm_topic_chat_ids annotation

self._dm_topic_chat_ids: Set[str] = {...} at line 460 references Set
but only Dict, List, Optional, Any are imported from typing. The file
has no 'from __future__ import annotations', so the annotation is
evaluated at runtime and raises NameError on TelegramAdapter
construction.

* fix(setup): drop shadowing inner importlib.util re-imports

_print_setup_summary and _setup_tts_provider each had 'import
importlib.util' inside a try: block nested deeper in the function
body. Python flips importlib to function-local for the whole scope,
so earlier references in the same function (the neutts branches at
lines 493 / 1109) hit UnboundLocalError before the late import can
run.

The top-of-module 'import importlib.util' at line 14 already covers
both call sites, so dropping the redundant inner imports restores
the intended behavior.

* feat(install.ps1): add -IncludeDesktop switch + Stage-Desktop

The new Hermes-Setup.exe (Tauri bootstrap installer) passes -IncludeDesktop
so users who install via the GUI end up with a launchable Hermes.exe at
apps/desktop/release/<os>-unpacked/. Existing flows are unchanged:

  * The 'irm install.ps1 | iex' CLI one-liner omits the flag — terminal
    users don't need a prebuilt desktop binary; 'hermes desktop' builds
    on demand.
  * The Electron desktop's bootstrap-runner.cjs also omits the flag —
    rebuilding apps/desktop from inside a running Hermes.exe would try
    to overwrite the live binary on disk and fail.

Stage-Desktop runs after Stage-NodeDeps so workspace npm is already
installed when electron-builder fires. It does:
  1. 'npm install' at repo root so apps/* workspaces resolve their deps
     (Electron itself arrives via npm here, ~150MB)
  2. 'npm run pack' in apps/desktop (tsc + vite + electron-builder --dir)
  3. Probes apps/desktop/release/{win-unpacked,win-arm64-unpacked}/Hermes.exe

The --dir mode produces an unpacked launchable binary without an NSIS/MSI
installer artifact — we don't need one because Hermes-Setup.exe spawns the
unpacked binary directly via launch_hermes_desktop.

* feat(installer): Tauri bootstrap installer for first-time onboarding

Hermes-Setup.exe is a small signed Rust+Tauri binary that drives
scripts/install.ps1 stage-by-stage with a native UI matching the
desktop's design language. Replaces the chicken-and-egg pattern of
shipping a 200MB Electron app whose first launch existed only to
run install.ps1.

The architecture:

  Rust backend (src-tauri/):
    bootstrap.rs        orchestrator -- Tauri commands, stage iteration
    install_script.rs   resolve install.ps1 (dev checkout, cache, GitHub raw)
    powershell.rs       spawn powershell, line-stream stdout/stderr, parse JSON
    events.rs           BootstrapEvent types -- mirror bootstrap-runner.cjs
    paths.rs            HERMES_HOME resolution + tracing log setup
    build.rs            bakes BUILD_PIN_COMMIT / BUILD_PIN_BRANCH from
                        'git rev-parse HEAD' at compile time

  React frontend (src/):
    Tauri webview rendering 4 screens (welcome / progress / success /
    failure), driven by nanostores subscribing to the Rust event stream.
    Visual layer reuses the desktop's styles.css wholesale via @import
    so the installer and desktop never drift visually.

  Distribution:
    targets = ['app', 'dmg', 'appimage'] -- no NSIS/MSI wrapper. The
    raw target/release/Hermes-Setup.exe IS the artifact on Windows;
    .dmg + .app on macOS; AppImage on Linux. One file, double-click,
    no installer-installing-an-installer pattern.

  Compile-time pinning:
    build.rs reads 'git rev-parse HEAD' and emits
    cargo:rustc-env=BUILD_PIN_COMMIT=<sha> + BUILD_PIN_BRANCH=<branch>.
    bootstrap.rs's option_env!() picks these up so the binary fetches
    install.ps1 from the exact SHA it was tested against. CI / release
    builds can override via HERMES_BUILD_PIN_COMMIT env var.

  Windows manifest:
    hermes-setup.manifest declares level='asInvoker' so the
    productName 'Hermes Setup' doesn't trip Windows's installer-
    detection heuristic and refuse to launch without elevation.
    Also declares PerMonitorV2 DPI + UTF-8 active code page + Common
    Controls v6.

Limitations of this initial version:

  * No code signing -- Windows SmartScreen will warn once on Hermes-Setup.exe
    ('More info -> Run anyway'). The downstream binaries it produces
    (Hermes.exe in win-unpacked/, the hermes CLI) are locally-built and
    therefore don't carry MOTW, so they launch without SmartScreen
    intervention. Cert procurement tracked separately.

  * macOS and Linux build paths defined but untested -- Windows-only V1.

* fix(installer): pass -IncludeDesktop to manifest, surface launch errors, alias hermes desktop

Three bugs found in the first VM end-to-end test:

1. install.ps1 -Manifest was called WITHOUT -IncludeDesktop, so the
   manifest came back with the 14-stage list (no desktop stage), the
   UI showed '14 steps' and Stage-Desktop never ran. Pass the flag to
   both the manifest fetch and the per-stage runs — install.ps1 gates
   the desktop stage's inclusion on the flag.

2. The Success screen's Launch button silently swallowed the Tauri
   error when no Hermes.exe existed (e.g. Stage-Desktop was skipped).
   Wire the error through to inline UI with an alert callout, so the
   user gets actionable text ('Hermes.exe missing, run hermes desktop
   from a terminal') instead of an unresponsive button.

3. The Success screen tells users to run 'hermes desktop' from a
   terminal but the CLI only accepted 'hermes gui' — invalid choice
   for 'desktop'. Rename the subcommand canonically to 'desktop' with
   'gui' as a backwards-compatible alias. Update the _SUBCOMMANDS sets
   used by session-flag arg parsing + logging-mode probe so both names
   route to the same logic.

* fix(install.ps1): pre-warm electron-builder winCodeSign cache + fix Stage-Desktop $HasNode false-skip

Two bugs caught in the second VM end-to-end run:

1. electron-builder's winCodeSign extraction fails on grandma-class
   Windows boxes because the .7z archive contains macOS symlinks
   (darwin/10.12/lib/libcrypto.dylib and libssl.dylib pointing at
   versioned siblings). Creating symlinks on Windows requires
   SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege, a per-user right that non-admin
   accounts don't have on stock Windows. Result: every fresh install
   on a non-admin user fails Stage-Desktop with a 7-Zip 'cannot create
   symbolic link' error, retried four times, then bails.

   Fix: Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache pre-extracts winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z
   ourselves with -snl (don't preserve symlinks, store as resolved file
   content) AND -x!darwin (skip the entire macOS subtree — irrelevant
   on Windows). Writes to electron-builder's expected cache dir before
   electron-builder gets a chance to try its own broken extraction.
   Idempotent — fast-paths via signtool.exe sentinel check.

2. Install-Desktop's first guard was 'if (-not $HasNode) skip'.
   $HasNode is set by Stage-Node into $script:HasNode, but in
   cross-process driver mode (each -Stage NAME is a fresh powershell.exe
   spawned by Hermes-Setup.exe), that script-scope variable from the
   PREVIOUS process is invisible — so the guard always fired and
   Install-Desktop returned in 900ms with a misleading
   'Node.js not available' reason. The real npm probe below it never
   got to run. Fix: re-probe npm directly via Get-Command when $HasNode
   is empty/false, since by that point Stage-Node has already verified
   Node is installed and the only question is whether *this* process
   can see it on PATH (it can — installer-wide PATH update from Stage-Node).

* fix(install.ps1): tell electron-builder we're NOT signing instead of pre-extracting winCodeSign

The previous commit (c7e46f9f3) worked around the winCodeSign-symlinks-
on-Windows extraction crash by pre-extracting the archive ourselves with
-snl + -x!darwin. That fix was correct but addressed the wrong layer.

The deeper question: why was electron-builder fetching winCodeSign at all
when we have no signing cert configured? Answer: electron-builder
unconditionally pre-warms the toolchain assuming any build MIGHT sign.
The cert auto-discovery never finds anything (we never set CSC_LINK
or anything else), so the signing never happens — but the 100MB fetch
of winCodeSign and its broken-on-Windows symlink extraction does.

Set CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY=false (with WIN_CSC_LINK and
WIN_CSC_KEY_PASSWORD also explicitly cleared as belt-and-suspenders)
before invoking npm run pack, and electron-builder skips the entire
winCodeSign apparatus. No download, no extraction, no privilege check.
Env vars are saved/restored around the invocation so we don't leak
the override into Stage-PlatformSdks etc.

Net: removes the 100-line Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache helper that
manually downloaded + extracted winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z. Replaced with
3 env-var assignments. The produced Hermes.exe is functionally
identical — just no longer carries a code-signing-machinery dependency
we never used.

* fix(installer): bump bootstrap-installer.log to capture stage transitions + every install.ps1 line

Diagnosing the second VM failure was impossible because bootstrap-installer.log
contained only the 'starting' banner. Two causes:

1. emit_log() inside run_bootstrap() was tracing::debug! — dropped on the
   floor under the default INFO env-filter.

2. The per-stage sink callbacks (on_stdout_line / on_stderr_line) only
   emitted Tauri events to the frontend; they never tee'd to the log file
   at all. When the failure route mounts, the Tauri event stream is the
   only place the script output lived, and it gets discarded.

3. The Failed / Stage / Manifest / Complete lifecycle frames in emit_event()
   were also Tauri-only — so even the 'which stage failed' frame never
   reached the log.

Fixes:
  * emit_log() → tracing::info!
  * Sink callbacks tee stdout to info!, stderr to warn!, with stage label
    as a structured field for grep'ability
  * emit_event() now matches on the variant and logs each lifecycle frame
    at the right level: Failed → tracing::error!, others → info!

Result: a failing install leaves a complete forensic trail in
bootstrap-installer.log — manifest stage list, every install.ps1
stdout/stderr line tagged by stage, the stage transitions, and the
final error. Same path as before so nothing the user does changes.

* fix(install.ps1): Stage-NodeDeps cross-process $HasNode + stream npm install output to bootstrap log

VM run 3 diagnosis: node-deps stage skipped on the VM (logged
'Skipping Node.js dependencies (Node not installed)') and then
desktop's npm install failed with exit 1 and zero diagnostic detail.

Two root causes:

1. $HasNode false-skip in Stage-NodeDeps — same cross-process bug
   pattern we fixed for Stage-Desktop in c7e46f9f3. Stage-Node ran
   in process A and set $script:HasNode = $true, then exited. Stage-
   NodeDeps ran in fresh process B (Hermes-Setup.exe -Stage NAME
   spawns each stage independently), where that variable doesn't
   exist. Re-probe via Get-Command npm instead of trusting the
   stale script-scope global. The previous stage already verified
   Node so the re-probe succeeds.

2. npm install --silent + Tee to TEMP file hid the real error.
   When the workspace install failed on the VM, the actual reason
   was buffered in $env:TEMP\hermes-npm-desktop-install-*.log and
   the user saw only 'exit 1'. Drop --silent so npm streams its
   full output, drop the TEMP-file dance — the Tauri installer's
   streaming sink already tees every stdout/stderr line to the
   rolling bootstrap-installer.log, so a side log file is dead
   weight that hides the very error we need.

After this, the bootstrap log on a failure will contain npm's full
output (deprecation warnings, ETARGET, native-module compile errors,
whatever) tagged with stage=desktop, making the actual cause
diagnosable instead of an opaque exit code.

* fix(install.ps1): restore Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache (CSC env vars alone aren't enough)

VM run 4 diagnosis: even with CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY=false set,
electron-builder still fetches winCodeSign and signs bundled binaries.
The log shows the signing happens BEFORE the cache extraction:

  • signing with signtool.exe  ...\winpty-agent.exe
  • signing with signtool.exe  ...\OpenConsole.exe
  • downloading winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z
  • <symlink privilege error>

Cause: node-pty's bundled prebuilds are listed in apps/desktop's
asarUnpack ['**/*.node', '**/prebuilds/**']. electron-builder
re-signs anything unpacked from asar, regardless of whether OUR
binary gets signed. The signtool invocation needs winCodeSign on
disk, which needs the .7z extracted, which hits the macOS-symlink
crash on non-admin Windows.

The CSC env vars I added in d5fe46727 only kill IDENTITY DISCOVERY
(so OUR Hermes.exe stays unsigned, which is fine — we have no cert).
They don't prevent the toolchain fetch for the bundled-prebuild
re-sign. I removed the pre-extract in d5fe46727 thinking the env
vars subsumed it; that was wrong. Both are needed.

Restoring Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache verbatim from c7e46f9f3
and keeping the CSC env vars. Wrote a clearer doc-comment at the
call site explaining the two-knob interaction so future maintainers
don't drop one half again.

* fix(desktop): disable signtool via signtoolOptions.sign=null, drop dead winCodeSign pre-extract

VM run 5 diagnosis: the pre-extract from 3b29e65c1 ran (extracted 83
files, 24MB) but produced ZERO files at the expected sentinel path
'/winCodeSign-2.6.0/windows-10/x64/signtool.exe'.

Cause: the .7z archive's root entries are 'windows-10/', 'darwin/',
'linux/', etc. — not 'winCodeSign-2.6.0/<arch>'. Extracting with
'-o$cacheRoot' put files at $cacheRoot/windows-10/..., NOT at
$cacheRoot/winCodeSign-2.6.0/windows-10/.... I had the directory
nesting wrong from the start.

And then we observed: electron-builder downloads winCodeSign-2.6.0.7z
under a random numeric filename ('384387955.7z') regardless of what's
already extracted in the parent dir. The cache key isn't the dirname;
it's content-addressed. So the pre-extract approach was doomed even
if the path nesting had been right.

Actual fix: signtoolOptions.sign=null in apps/desktop/package.json's
win build config. electron-builder honors this and skips the bundled-
prebuild signing entirely — no signtool invocation, no winCodeSign
fetch, no symlink-privilege crash. The previous failures all stemmed
from electron-builder pre-signing node-pty's bundled .exes
(winpty-agent.exe, OpenConsole.exe) which are already author-signed
upstream; re-signing with our nonexistent cert was overwriting good
sigs with nothing useful anyway.

Cost: when we DO get a real cert later, we'll add it back with the
sign function pointing at the cert chain. Until then, all-null is
the correct config and unblocks every non-admin Windows user.

Removed Initialize-ElectronBuilderCache (the dead pre-extract).
Removed the call site. Kept the CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY env
vars as belt-and-suspenders against a future electron-builder
change that might revive cert auto-discovery.

* fix(desktop): use no-op sign function instead of sign=null

VM run 6 still hit the symlink crash even with signtoolOptions.sign=null.
electron-builder 26.8.1 treats null as 'use the default signtool path'
rather than 'skip signing', so the winCodeSign fetch + extraction still
fired for the bundled prebuild re-sign.

The Electron docs (electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/code-signing)
make it clear signing is OPTIONAL and unsigned apps work fine — users
just see SmartScreen on first launch. The electron-builder mechanism
for 'don't actually sign anything' is to supply a custom sign function
(via signtoolOptions.sign: '<path-to-cjs-module>') that resolves
without invoking signtool.

build-noop-sign.cjs is that module — a 5-line async function that
returns undefined. electron-builder calls it for every binary it would
have signed, gets back a resolved promise, and considers each binary
'signed.' No signtool spawn, no winCodeSign fetch, no symlink crash.

When Nous's cert arrives, replace this file with a real signing hook
(@electron/windows-sign-based or a direct signtool invocation). The
architecture's signing-ready and the cutover is a one-file edit.

* fix(desktop): signAndEditExecutable=false to skip signtool path entirely

After reading app-builder-lib/winPackager.js line 216 + 231 directly:
signAndEditExecutable is the ACTUAL hardcoded gate that short-circuits
both signApp() (which signs Hermes.exe + every shouldSignFile match
including bundled prebuilds) AND createTransformerForExtraFiles().
None of signtoolOptions.sign / sign:null / sign:<custom-fn> gate the
winCodeSign download — that happens before they're consulted.

What we lose: rcedit also runs through signAndEditResources, so
disabling this drops PE metadata (file properties showing 'Hermes' /
'Nous Research' / file description). Cost is real but bounded:
  * Hermes.exe filename, icon, asar contents, app identity intact
  * Task Manager shows 'Hermes.exe' (the filename) not 'Hermes' (PE
    description) — minor downgrade
  * Start menu, taskbar, window title all work normally
  * SmartScreen will warn once (unsigned, same as before)

When the cert lands, flip signAndEditExecutable back to default true,
both signing AND rcedit return, PE metadata is restored.

Removes the no-op sign function (build-noop-sign.cjs) since
signAndEditExecutable=false prevents signtool from being invoked at
all — the custom hook never gets called either.

* feat(install.ps1): write .hermes-bootstrap-complete marker at end of install

The desktop app's main.cjs resolver ladder has a 'bootstrap-needed' rung
that fires when .hermes-bootstrap-complete is missing from
ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT. Pre-Hermes-Setup, this marker was written by the
packaged-desktop's own bootstrap-runner.cjs at the end of its install
flow. Now that Hermes-Setup.exe runs install.ps1 directly, install.ps1
needs to own the marker — otherwise the desktop sees no marker on first
launch and triggers its legacy first-launch bootstrap (re-running
install.ps1 from inside Electron, the exact recursion Hermes-Setup.exe
was supposed to obviate).

Implementation:
  * New Stage-BootstrapMarker (worker) → Write-BootstrapMarker (helper)
  * Slotted in the manifest right after platform-sdks, before the
    interactive configure/gateway stages, so it runs unconditionally
    when the install reaches the finalize phase
  * Schema mirrors apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs writeBootstrapMarker /
    isBootstrapComplete EXACTLY: {schemaVersion: 1, pinnedCommit,
    pinnedBranch, completedAt}. Schema version stays at 1 so old
    desktops that read marker files written by future install.ps1s
    can still parse them.
  * pinnedCommit comes from -Commit flag (Hermes-Setup.exe passes it)
    or falls back to 'git rev-parse HEAD' in InstallDir
  * pinnedBranch from -Branch flag, defaults to 'main' matching
    install.ps1's own param default

Two PS-5.1 gotchas baked into comments:
  * The ?. null-conditional operator doesn't exist pre-PS7; use
    explicit if-checks on Get-Command results
  * Set-Content -Encoding UTF8 emits a BOM in 5.1 and Node's plain
    JSON.parse rejects BOM — write via .NET's UTF8Encoding(false)
    to produce BOM-less JSON the desktop's readJson() can parse

* feat(installer): drive in-app updates through the Tauri installer

Converge update on the same principle as bootstrap: one driver owns all
repo mutation. The desktop becomes a pure consumer that hands off to
Hermes-Setup.exe --update instead of re-implementing git/pip in Electron.

- hermes desktop --build-only: build without launching, so the installer
  owns the post-update launch (CLI keeps build logic single-sourced).
- Installer AppMode {Install,Update} from argv; get_mode exposed to the UI.
- Installer self-copies to HERMES_HOME/hermes-setup.exe on install success
  (no-op guard during --update re-invocation to avoid the locked-exe copy).
- Installer --update flow (update.rs): wait for the desktop to release the
  venv shim, run 'hermes update --yes --gateway' (branch on exit 0/2/other),
  then 'hermes desktop --build-only', then launch the rebuilt desktop. Reuses
  the bootstrap event channel + progress UI via a synthetic two-stage manifest.
- Desktop applyUpdates() gutted (~105 lines of git/stash/pull/pyproject/pip
  removed) -> thin handoff: spawn updater, app.quit() to free the shim.
  Detection (checkUpdates, commit changelog, behind-count) kept intact.
- install.ps1 creates Start Menu + Desktop shortcuts to the packed Hermes.exe
  (never bare 'hermes desktop', which would rebuild every launch).

* test update

* fix(installer): pass --branch to hermes update in the --update flow

The install is a detached-HEAD checkout of a pinned commit. Without
--branch, 'hermes update' fell back to its default (main) and switched
the checkout to main — a divergent branch that lacks the desktop CLI
command — so the update targeted the wrong branch and the rebuild stage
failed with 'invalid choice: desktop'.

Thread BUILD_PIN_BRANCH (the branch this installer was built against,
and the same branch the desktop detected the update on) into
'hermes update --branch <b>' so update + rebuild stay on-branch.

* test update

* fix(installer): stamp Hermes icon onto Hermes.exe via rcedit (no winCodeSign)

The unpacked Hermes.exe showed the stock Electron icon + name in the
taskbar because build.win.signAndEditExecutable=false disables BOTH
electron-builder's signing AND its rcedit metadata/icon stamping. That
flag is load-bearing: enabling it re-triggers signtool -> winCodeSign,
whose macOS symlinks crash 7-Zip on non-admin Windows (unfixable dead end).

Decouple identity-stamping from signing entirely: after npm run pack,
run rcedit ourselves on the produced exe.
- Add rcedit as a direct devDependency of apps/desktop (the transitive
  electron-winstaller copy is fragile).
- apps/desktop/scripts/set-exe-identity.cjs: Node helper that calls
  rcedit's named export to set icon + ProductName/FileDescription/
  CompanyName. Node builds argv natively — avoids the PowerShell->exe
  ->JSON double-escaping that broke the app-builder rcedit path.
- install.ps1 Set-DesktopExeIdentity invokes the script after the build,
  before shortcuts. Best-effort: failure keeps the stock icon, never
  fails the install. rcedit is a pure PE editor — no signtool, no
  winCodeSign, no symlinks.

Verified locally: stamping a copy of the built Hermes.exe embeds the
32x32 icon and sets ProductName=Hermes.

Also fix update-path success-screen flash: in update mode the installer
hands off + exits in ~600ms, so don't route to the 'launch Hermes'
success view (it flashed before the window closed).

* update test

* fix(desktop): show 'hermes update' guidance for CLI installs instead of dead-end error

A user who installed via the CLI (irm|iex / install.sh) then ran
`hermes desktop` has no staged hermes-setup.exe, so clicking Update
in-app hit resolveUpdaterBinary()=null and showed a misleading error
('re-run the Hermes installer') with a Try-again button that could
never succeed — a dead loop for a perfectly valid install.

Treat the no-updater case as an intentional outcome, not a failure:
- main.cjs applyUpdates returns { ok:true, manual:true, command:'hermes update' }
  (no throw, no 'error' stage) when no updater binary exists.
- New 'manual' update stage + apply-state.command thread the command to the UI.
- updates-overlay ManualView: a polished terminal-native card with the
  exact command and a copy button, framed as the correct path for a CLI
  user rather than an error.

GUI-installer users are unaffected — hermes-setup.exe present => seamless
auto-update runs as before. Zero new process orchestration; can't fail
the update demo.

* update test

* fix(gui): pin /api/hermes/update to the current branch

The desktop command-center 'update' action hits POST /api/hermes/update,
which spawned bare `hermes update` with no --branch. cmd_update then
falls back to its default (main) and checks the working tree OUT of the
tracked branch — a bb/gui install silently jumped to main and lost the
desktop CLI.

Resolve the checkout's current branch and pass --branch <current> from
this endpoint only. The engine default (main) is DELIBERATELY unchanged:
bare `hermes update` from a terminal, the gateway /update bot command,
and the CLI/TUI relaunch path all keep their long-standing 'update against
main' contract for the existing user base. Only the GUI button is scoped
to update-the-branch-you're-on. Detached HEAD / git failure falls back to
the bare default.

* update test

* fix(desktop): branch-pin the CLI manual-update command card

The 'Update from your terminal' card (shown to CLI installs with no staged
updater) hardcoded bare `hermes update` — which defaults to main and would
switch a bb/gui (or any non-main) checkout off-branch. Same bug we fixed for
the GUI button, leaked into the card's copy text.

Resolve the checkout's current branch and show `hermes update --branch
<current>` for non-main checkouts; keep it bare for main so the card stays
clean. Best-effort: bare fallback if branch detection fails. Matches the
GUI button + installer --update contract; bare terminal/bot/TUI update
paths still default to main, unchanged.

* docs: phragg was here

* feat(desktop): lead onboarding with Nous Portal + fix fresh-install detection (#34970)

- Feature Nous Portal as the primary onboarding card (Recommended tag,
  app logo, single pitch line); collapse other OAuth providers behind an
  "Other providers" disclosure whose open/closed state persists.
- Surface OpenRouter as a one-click API-key option inside the disclosure;
  move "I have an API key" to a quiet bottom-right link.
- Treat "no provider configured" as a normal onboarding state, not a red
  error banner (provider-setup-errors copy match).
- Fix setup.runtime_check: it reported ready when the resolved runtime had
  an empty credential or only implicit Bedrock/IAM, so fresh installs never
  saw onboarding. Now requires a usable credential.
- Auto-wire Windows fonts for WSL2 users so the renderer renders real
  Segoe UI instead of the DejaVu fallback; make WSL detection env-independent
  via the /proc kernel marker.

* feat(desktop): live elapsed timer on install bootstrap steps

The first-launch install overlay showed a static "Installing" with no
motion, so long steps (notably the repo clone) looked frozen. Stamp each
stage's start time on the running transition and tick once a second so the
active step shows live elapsed (e.g. "Installing · 1:23"), plus elapsed on
the overall current-step line. Completed steps keep their final duration.

* fix(desktop): resolve PortableGit for update checks + reserve titlebar tools space

- runGit() hardcoded spawn('git'), which ENOENTs on fresh installer-driven
  Windows installs (git is PortableGit under %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\git, never
  on PATH) — so "Check for updates" failed with "Couldn't check for updates".
  Add resolveGitBinary() mirroring findGitBash (PortableGit → Git-for-Windows
  → PATH) and use it in runGit.
- PageSearchShell rendered a full-width search input in the titlebar row, so
  on Windows its right edge slid under the fixed top-right tools + native
  window controls. Reserve that footprint via --titlebar-tools-* vars.

* fix(desktop): stop streaming caret from shifting layout on completion

The streaming caret (::after on the running message's last child) was an
in-flow inline-block adding ~0.78em of inline width, which could wrap the
last line mid-stream; when the caret is removed on completion the line
un-wraps and reflows — the visible post-response layout shift. Net-zero its
inline advance with a compensating negative margin so it paints at the text
end without consuming layout width.

* fix(desktop): stop completed-message layout shift while streaming

The assistant message action bar used `hideWhenRunning`, which unmounts it
whenever the thread is streaming. Since the bar reserves vertical space in
each completed assistant message's footer (it's invisible-until-hover via
opacity, not via mount), unmounting it collapsed every prior turn by the
bar's height — then remounting on resolve grew them back, shifting the whole
conversation (visible as "padding appears above the last user message").
Drop hideWhenRunning so the footer height is constant; the bar stays
invisible during streaming via its existing opacity/pointer-events gating.

* fix(merge): keep windows-footgun suppressions inline

* fix(merge): keep remaining gateway footgun suppressions inline

* fix(merge): restore contracts caught by main-target CI

* fix(dashboard): honor injected HERMES_DASHBOARD_SESSION_TOKEN

The desktop shell mints a session token and signs its /api + /api/ws
calls with it via HERMES_DASHBOARD_SESSION_TOKEN, but the main-merge
restored a web_server.py that ignored the env var and minted its own
random _SESSION_TOKEN -- so every desktop request 401'd and the UI
reported "gateway offline". Read the injected token (fall back to a
fresh random one) so loopback HTTP + WS auth line up.

Adds a regression test so a future merge can't silently drop the read.

* fix(desktop): align fresh-install home so upgraders don't brick

Two related first-launch bugs on machines with a legacy ~/.hermes:

- install.ps1 hardcoded $HermesHome/$InstallDir to %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes
  and ignored the HERMES_HOME the desktop passes through. The desktop
  freezes HERMES_HOME at module load and prefers a legacy ~/.hermes when
  %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes is absent, so the installer wrote to a different
  home than the shell read -> "Could not connect to Hermes gateway". Honor
  $env:HERMES_HOME in the param defaults.

- isBootstrapComplete() trusted the marker + checkout without verifying a
  runnable venv, so an interrupted/split install spawned a dead backend
  instead of re-bootstrapping. Also require the venv python to exist.

* fix(dashboard): allow packaged desktop file:// origin on loopback WS

The packaged Electron desktop loads its renderer over file://, so its
/api/ws handshake carries Origin: file:// (or null). The DNS-rebinding
WebSocket Origin guard only accepted http(s) origins matching the bound
host, so it rejected the desktop's own renderer with 4403 -> "Could not
connect to Hermes gateway" on macOS.

A browser DNS-rebinding attacker can only ever present an http(s) origin
(the site hosting the malicious page); it cannot forge file://, null, or
a custom app scheme AND hold the loopback session token. So on loopback
binds we now trust non-web origins -- the token in _ws_auth_ok remains
the real authenticator. Public/gated binds still reject them, and
cross-site http(s) origins are still rejected everywhere.

* fix(desktop): resolve renderer assets relative to BASE_URL

Absolute public asset paths (/apple-touch-icon.png, /ds-assets/...) work
under the dev server but break in the packaged app, where the renderer is
loaded from file://.../index.html and a leading slash resolves to the
filesystem root -> broken onboarding provider icon and backdrop image on
macOS. Prefix these with import.meta.env.BASE_URL so they resolve next to
the bundled index.html in both dev and packaged builds.

* feat(desktop): automate first-launch bootstrap on macOS/Linux

Previously a packaged macOS/Linux app with no Hermes install hit a
dead-end ("first-launch install is not yet automated -- run install.sh
manually") because install.sh lacked the staged protocol install.ps1
exposes. Now both platforms bootstrap on first launch with the same
structured, per-step progress UI as Windows.

- install.sh: add --manifest / --stage / --json / --non-interactive plus
  a stage dispatcher (prerequisites, repository, venv, python-deps,
  node-deps, path, config, setup, gateway, complete). User-input stages
  (setup, gateway) are skipped under --non-interactive; the in-app
  onboarding overlay owns API keys/model, matching the Windows flow.
  Each stage runs inside the install dir (its own process) and a new
  --commit flag pins the checkout to the build-stamp SHA.
- bootstrap-runner.cjs: drive the staged manifest/stage/JSON protocol for
  both install.ps1 (PowerShell) and install.sh (bash), selected by
  installer kind; removed the single-blob POSIX shim.
- main.cjs: drop the macOS/Linux unsupported-platform dead-end so the
  bootstrap-needed path runs the installer on every platform.

* fix(dashboard): return 404 JSON for unmatched /api paths instead of SPA HTML

The SPA catch-all (serve_spa) served index.html for any unmatched GET,
including unregistered /api/* endpoints. A missing API route therefore
came back as <!doctype html> with status 200, and JSON clients (the
desktop app's fetchJson) crashed with an opaque
'SyntaxError: Unexpected token <' instead of a clear error.

- web_server.py: unmatched /api or /api/... now returns 404 JSON
  ('No such API endpoint'); non-api paths still serve the SPA for
  client-side routing.
- main.cjs fetchJson: detect an HTML body / text/html content-type on a
  2xx response and reject with a clear message naming the URL, rather
  than a raw JSON.parse SyntaxError. Empty bodies resolve to null;
  malformed JSON reports the URL plus a snippet.

* say 'OS appearance' instead of 'macOS appearance'

* feat(install): add --include-desktop stage + PowerShell-style flags to install.sh

Brings install.sh to parity with install.ps1's bootstrap surface so the
shared Rust/Tauri bootstrapper (apps/bootstrap-installer) can drive a
macOS/Linux install the same way it drives Windows.

- Accept the PowerShell-style aliases the bootstrapper emits to both
  installers: -Commit / -Branch (alongside existing -Manifest / -Stage /
  -Json / -NonInteractive).
- Add --include-desktop / -IncludeDesktop. When set, the manifest gains a
  'desktop' stage (immediately before 'complete'), and a new install_desktop
  runs a root workspace `npm install` + `npm run pack` (electron-builder
  --dir, signing auto-discovery disabled) to produce release/mac*/Hermes.app
  -- mirroring install.ps1's Install-Desktop / Stage-Desktop.
- The flag is opt-in, exactly like Windows: the signed bootstrap installer
  passes it; the Electron app's own first-launch bootstrap and the CLI
  one-liner omit it (building the desktop from inside the running app would
  clobber it).

* fix: tts endpoints

* macOS desktop: install + in-app self-update (#35607)

* fix(installer): align macOS HERMES_HOME with the rest of the stack

paths.rs computed the macOS Hermes home as ~/Library/Application Support/
hermes, but nothing else does: hermes_constants.get_hermes_home() (Python),
scripts/install.sh, and the Electron desktop's resolveHermesHome() all use
~/.hermes on macOS. The drift meant the Tauri installer wrote the install to
one directory and the desktop looked for it in another, so a fresh GUI
install never found its backend (the file's own comment warned this exact
drift would break things). Use ~/.hermes on macOS to match.

* fix(install.sh): always emit a stage result frame on failure

Stage helpers (clone_repo, install_deps, check_python, …) were written for
the monolithic flow and call `exit 1` on failure. Under `--stage`, that
terminated the process before the JSON result frame was printed, so the
installer's parse_stage_result saw "no frame" instead of a clean
{ok:false,...} contract response. Run the stage body in a subshell so an
`exit` only unwinds the subshell and the parent still emits the frame.

* feat(install.sh): auto-provision git on macOS/Linux (parity with install.ps1)

install.ps1 downloads PortableGit on Windows, but install.sh just printed a
"please install git" hint and exited — so a fresh Mac with no developer tools
(no Xcode CLT → no git) couldn't get past the clone step. check_git now tries
to install git before bailing:
  - macOS: Homebrew if present (headless), else `xcode-select --install`
    (the CLT prompt also provides the compiler some wheels need), polling for
    git to appear.
  - Linux: apt/dnf/pacman via sudo when available.
Falls back to the manual instructions only if auto-provision fails.

* feat(desktop): in-app GUI+backend self-update on macOS/Linux

On Windows the staged Hermes-Setup binary drives updates (quit → hermes
update → hermes desktop --build-only → relaunch). The mac drag-install has no
such binary, so "Update now" previously just printed `hermes update`.

Since there's no venv-shim file lock on POSIX, the desktop can drive the whole
update itself. applyUpdates now, when no staged updater exists on mac/linux:
  1. runs `hermes update --yes [--branch <current>]` (backend git pull + deps),
  2. runs `hermes desktop --build-only` (OS-aware GUI rebuild) with the
     Hermes-managed Node + venv on PATH,
  3. spawns a detached swapper that waits for this process to exit, dittos the
     freshly built Hermes.app over the running bundle, clears quarantine, and
     relaunches.
Degrades to "backend updated — restart to load the new GUI" if the rebuild
fails or there's no .app bundle to swap (dev run, Linux AppImage).

* chore: uptick

* chore: uptick

* chore: linux build

* fix(install): detect xcode-select git stub on fresh macOS

* chore: bump

* fix(desktop): repair voice dictation on Windows

Voice dictation was broken on Windows in two ways:

1. Mic access was denied. The Electron permission request handler only
   granted 'media' requests whose details.mediaTypes included 'audio',
   but Chromium on Windows frequently fires the mic request with an empty
   mediaTypes array, so getUserMedia threw NotAllowedError. The handler
   now grants audio-capture when mediaTypes includes 'audio' OR is
   empty/absent, handles the 'audioCapture' permission name, and adds a
   setPermissionCheckHandler (the synchronous path Chromium also consults
   for getUserMedia on Windows). Video is still denied.

2. Transcripts went nowhere. The composer's insertText handler (used by
   dictation and other inserts) only updated the assistant-ui composer
   store via setText, never the contentEditable editor DOM. The
   draft->editor sync effect only re-renders the editor when it is NOT
   focused, and dictation runs while the editor has/regains focus, so the
   transcript was stored but never shown and could not be sent. insertText
   now renders into the editor DOM and places the caret, mirroring
   appendExternalText.

Also hardens fetchJson: a 2xx response with an HTML body (or text/html
content-type) now rejects with a clear message naming the URL instead of
an opaque JSON.parse 'Unexpected token <' error.

* feat(desktop): route Nous subscribers onto the Tool Gateway from the GUI

When the GUI sets the main provider to Nous via POST /api/model/set, call
the same apply_nous_managed_defaults the CLI uses after model selection, so
GUI/onboarding users land on the Nous Tool Gateway the same way CLI users do
— no separate prompt, no duplicated logic.

Purely additive: apply_nous_managed_defaults skips any tool where the user
has a direct key (FIRECRAWL_API_KEY, FAL_KEY, etc.) or explicit config, so it
never overwrites a user's own setup. Only unconfigured tools get routed.

- web_server.py: in set_model_assignment (scope=main, provider=nous), resolve
  enabled toolsets and apply managed defaults; guarded so a Portal hiccup never
  blocks saving the model. Returns routed tools as gateway_tools.
- onboarding.ts: surface a 'Tool Gateway enabled' toast listing routed tools.
- types/hermes.ts: add gateway_tools to ModelAssignmentResponse.
- tests: cover nous-applies, non-nous-skips, and failure-doesnt-block-save.

* feat(desktop): mirror hermes model free/paid curation in GUI onboarding

GUI onboarding picked models[0] from /api/model/options, which ignores the
Nous free/paid tier — a free user could land on a paid default (e.g.
anthropic/claude-opus-4). Now the recommended default mirrors what `hermes
model` does.

- web_server.py: new GET /api/model/recommended-default?provider=<slug>. For
  Nous it runs the same curation as the CLI (get_curated_nous_model_ids +
  pricing + check_nous_free_tier + union_with_portal_{free,paid}_recommendations
  + partition_nous_models_by_tier) so free users get a free model and paid users
  get the curated default. Other providers fall back to the first curated model.
  Never 500s — returns empty model on error so onboarding degrades gracefully.
- hermes.ts: getRecommendedDefaultModel client + RecommendedDefaultModel type.
- onboarding.ts: fetchProviderDefaultModel prefers the recommended endpoint,
  falls back to models[0] when unavailable.
- tests: free-tier picks free model, paid-tier picks curated default, failure
  returns empty without 500.

* feat(desktop): show model pricing + free/paid tier gating in GUI picker

The CLI `hermes model` picker shows per-model $/Mtok pricing and gates paid
models on free Nous accounts. The GUI picker showed bare model names. Bring it
to parity across both the model-picker dialog and onboarding confirm card.

Backend:
- inventory.build_models_payload gains a pricing=True flag → _apply_pricing
  enriches each provider row with formatted per-model pricing
  ({input,output,cache,free}) via the same _format_price_per_mtok the CLI uses,
  and for Nous adds free_tier + unavailable_models (paid models a free user
  can't select) via check_nous_free_tier + partition_nous_models_by_tier.
  Best-effort: any pricing/tier failure is swallowed and fails open (no gating).
- /api/model/options and TUI model.options now pass pricing=True so the
  global picker and in-session picker both carry pricing.

Frontend:
- ModelOptionProvider gains pricing/free_tier/unavailable_models; new
  ModelPricing type.
- model-picker dialog renders In/Out $/Mtok (or a Free pill) per model, a
  Free tier/Pro badge on the Nous heading, and disables + grays unavailable
  paid models for free users with a 'Pro models need a paid subscription' note.
- onboarding confirm card shows the chosen model's price + tier badge.

Tests: test_inventory_pricing covers price formatting, free-tier gating,
paid no-gating, providers without pricing, and swallowed failures.

* fix(desktop): GUI model picker shows curated Nous list in curated order

Two bugs made the GUI Nous model list diverge from the `hermes model` CLI picker:

1. Backend (model_switch.py): the Nous row in list_authenticated_providers
   fell through to cached_provider_model_ids("nous"), dumping the full live
   /v1/models catalog (~50 vendor-prefixed models, alphabetical). Now it uses
   the curated list AND applies the Portal free/paid recommendation union —
   exactly like _model_flow_nous in main.py — so newly-launched models such as
   stepfun/step-3.7-flash:free surface in curated order. Best-effort: falls
   back to the curated list alone if the Portal fetch fails.

2. Frontend (model-picker.tsx): cmdk's Command had shouldFilter on (default),
   which re-sorts items by fuzzy-match score (≈alphabetical) and ignores array
   order. Set shouldFilter={false} + own the search term and do an
   order-preserving substring filter, so the backend's curated order is shown
   verbatim.

* feat(desktop): add/switch providers from the model picker via onboarding reuse

The model picker could only select models from already-authenticated
providers. Switching to a new provider had no in-app path. Rather than
duplicate provider UI, reuse the existing onboarding provider selector
(featured Nous + other providers + API-key form + device-code/PKCE flow +
model-confirm with pricing/tier).

- onboarding store: add a 'manual' flag with startManualOnboarding() /
  closeManualOnboarding(). Manual mode forces the onboarding overlay to show
  even when configured===true and refreshOnboarding no longer auto-dismisses
  on runtime-ready (the app is already working — the user is just adding or
  switching a provider).
- onboarding overlay: render when manual even if configured; show a Close
  button (the first-run flow has none since the app can't run yet).
- model picker: 'Add provider' footer button opens the onboarding selector;
  ModelResults lists only configured (model-bearing) providers.

* feat(desktop): add PUT /api/tools/toolsets/{name} enable/disable endpoint

* feat(desktop): add toggleToolset RPC binding

* feat(desktop): toolset enable/disable switch in Tools settings

* feat(desktop): tool configuration parity in GUI Tools settings

Bring the desktop GUI Tools settings to parity with the CLI `hermes tools`
for provider selection and API-key configuration.

Backend (hermes_cli/web_server.py):
- GET  /api/tools/toolsets/{name}/config  - provider matrix + key status
- PUT  /api/tools/toolsets/{name}/provider - persist provider selection

Shared core (hermes_cli/tools_config.py):
- Extract apply_provider_selection / _write_provider_config from the
  interactive _configure_provider so the CLI and GUI write identical
  config keys (web.backend, tts.provider, browser.cloud_provider, plugin
  image/video providers, use_gateway flags) through one code path.

Desktop UI:
- ToolsetConfigPanel: provider list with select, per-provider API-key
  entry (set/replace/clear/reveal via the shared env RPCs), Ready/Needs
  keys state, guidance for Nous-auth and post-setup providers.
- Wire the Configured/Needs keys pill to expand the panel inline; refresh
  the toolset list after key changes so the pill updates live.
- Add getToolsetConfig / selectToolsetProvider RPC bindings + types.

Post-setup (OAuth/install) flows still defer to the CLI; see
docs spike findings for the planned /api/tools/setup/* endpoint family.

Tests: backend round-trip + 400 cases for the new endpoints and
apply_provider_selection; desktop vitest coverage for the config panel
(provider render, select, key save). No change-detector tests.

Also removes three stale completed plan docs.

* fix(desktop): show real Hermes version + sync package.json on release

The desktop app version was disconnected from the Hermes version: the
release script bumped pyproject.toml + hermes_cli/__init__.py but never
touched apps/desktop/package.json, which sat stale at 0.0.2 (lockfile at
0.0.1).

- main.cjs: hermes:version IPC now resolves __version__ from
  hermes_cli/__init__.py (the canonical source release.py bumps) via a new
  resolveHermesVersion() helper, falling back to app.getVersion() when the
  source tree isn't readable. The About panel now always shows the live
  Hermes version and can't drift.
- release.py: update_version_files() also bumps apps/desktop/package.json
  in lockstep with pyproject (top-level version only; dep specs untouched).
- One-time catch-up: package.json 0.0.2 -> 0.15.1 and the lockfile root
  mirrors 0.0.1 -> 0.15.1.

* fix(desktop): stamp exe identity in afterPack hook so updates stay branded

The packed Hermes.exe reverted to the stock Electron icon + "Electron" name
after an in-app update. The icon/identity stamp (rcedit) lived only in
install.ps1, but the installer's --update path rebuilds the desktop via
`hermes desktop --build-only` -> `npm run pack`, which never ran install.ps1
and so never stamped the rebuilt exe.

Move the stamp into an electron-builder afterPack hook so it runs for EVERY
packed build regardless of caller (first install, hermes desktop, the update
rebuild, or a manual npm run pack):

- set-exe-identity.cjs: refactor to export stampExeIdentity(exe, desktopRoot);
  still runnable as a standalone CLI.
- after-pack.cjs (new): afterPack hook calling stampExeIdentity. Windows-only
  guard; best-effort (logs + resolves on failure, never fails the build).
- package.json: register build.afterPack.
- install.ps1: remove the now-redundant Set-DesktopExeIdentity function + call;
  the hook handles it during npm run pack.

electron-builder's own rcedit step stays disabled (signAndEditExecutable=false)
to avoid the signtool -> winCodeSign -> 7-Zip macOS-symlink crash on non-admin
Windows; the hook runs rcedit directly (pure PE resource edit, no signing).

* fix(desktop): export afterPack hook as exports.default so electron-builder runs it

The afterPack hook used `module.exports = fn`, which electron-builder's hook
loader doesn't pick up — it expects the function as the module's default
export (the same shape afterSign/notarize.cjs uses). The hook silently never
ran, so even first install shipped the stock "Electron" exe.

Switch to `exports.default = async function afterPack(...)`. Verified with a
real `npm run pack`: electron-builder now invokes the hook and the produced
release/win-unpacked/Hermes.exe carries ProductName/FileDescription=Hermes.

* chore(desktop): drop auto-build release CI in favor of manual build + upload

Remove desktop-release.yml (nightly-on-main + stable publish). Installers
are now built locally per platform and uploaded to a GitHub Release by hand;
the website points at them via NEXT_PUBLIC_HERMES_DL_* env. Update README +
docs and drop the dead desktop-nightly channel links.

* fix(desktop): stable shortcut icon + bust icon cache so updates repaint

Symptom on a freshly-installed laptop: Hermes.exe itself shows the correct
Hermes icon (Explorer reads the live exe's stamped PE resource), but the
desktop shortcut still draws the stock Electron icon.

Cause: New-DesktopShortcuts set IconLocation to "<exe>,0", so Windows cached
the icon it extracted from the exe at shortcut-creation time. On an update the
exe gets re-stamped, but the shortcut keeps rendering the stale cached bitmap.

- package.json: ship assets/icon.ico beside the exe via extraResources
  (-> resources/icon.ico). Verified with a real npm run pack.
- install.ps1 New-DesktopShortcuts: point IconLocation at resources/icon.ico
  (fallback to <exe>,0 if absent) — a dedicated .ico is cache-stable and skips
  the per-exe extraction that goes stale. Then run `ie4uinit.exe -show` to bust
  the shell icon cache so the shortcut repaints immediately instead of showing
  the old Electron icon until reboot.

Both best-effort; never fail an otherwise-good install.

* dummy update

* feat(desktop): self-heal update branch + backend contract guard

Two fixes for the bb/gui→main transition:

- Self-update self-heals: if the tracked branch (e.g. bb/gui) no longer
  exists on origin (merged + deleted), the desktop updater falls back to
  main and persists it. Read-only ls-remote probe that only flips on a
  definitive "ref absent" (exit 2), never on a transient network error, so
  already-installed clients migrate themselves with no manual flip.
- Backend contract guard: tui_gateway reports DESKTOP_BACKEND_CONTRACT in
  session runtime info; the desktop warns with a one-click "Update Hermes"
  when the backend predates the GUI's required contract (e.g. a bb/gui app
  pointed at a main checkout) instead of failing cryptically downstream.

* docs(desktop): rewrite README to match current install/update/build flow

The old README contradicted itself (claimed a bundled Python payload while
also saying it no longer bundles source) and predated cross-platform support.
Rewrite for accuracy: Linux is a first-class build target, install.sh/install.ps1
both drive the staged bootstrap, the real self-update handoff (Windows
Hermes-Setup vs in-app macOS/Linux), and the bb/gui→main self-heal + backend
contract guard.

* docs(desktop): rewrite README as a real product readme

Lead with what the app is and how to get it (download an installer, or
`hermes desktop` for existing CLI users) plus a plain-language feature list,
then keep contributor/build/internals as a clearly separated secondary section.

* docs(desktop): fix install framing — releases no longer auto-build installers

Lead with the install-with-Hermes path (`--include-desktop` / `hermes desktop`),
which always works, and describe prebuilt installers as manually published when
a release ships them rather than implying CI attaches them to every release.

* docs(desktop): match base repo README style

Adopt the root README's conventions: centered title + badge row, bold
one-liner intro, a feature <table> grid, --- section dividers, and a
Community / License footer.

* feat(desktop): recover from gateway boot failures + validate API keys on entry (#35864)

Fresh installs that hit a gateway boot failure had no recovery path: the
shell rendered dead ("gateway offline"), logs were undiscoverable, and a
mistyped API key was accepted because onboarding only checked credential
presence, not validity.

- Add BootFailureOverlay: a top-level recovery surface (Retry, Repair
  install, Use local gateway, Open logs + inline recent logs) that mounts
  on any hard boot failure, including post-install. Trims the now-redundant
  recovery button from the onboarding Preparing panel.
- Add hermes:logs:reveal / :recent IPC (reveal desktop.log) and a
  hermes:bootstrap:repair IPC that drops the bootstrap marker to force a
  clean reinstall. Surface "Open logs" in Gateway settings too.
- Add POST /api/providers/validate: a live per-provider probe
  (OpenRouter/OpenAI/xAI/Gemini key check, local endpoint connectivity)
  wired into saveOnboardingApiKey so a rejected key blocks before it's
  persisted, while an unreachable probe falls through (offline-safe).

* test(model-catalog): fix stale nous picker test after curated-list change

ac2e48907 made the GUI/picker Nous row use the curated list (curated["nous"]
= get_curated_nous_model_ids()) + Portal union, matching the `hermes model`
CLI — but test_picker_nous_row_uses_manifest still asserted the old 2-model
manifest snapshot, breaking the test shard.

Rewrite it as an invariant: stub the Portal union to passthrough and assert the
row equals get_curated_nous_model_ids() computed under the same conditions, so
it tracks the real contract instead of a hardcoded model list that rots on every
catalog update.

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2026-05-31 17:46:56 -05:00
cf328723d4 docs: drop early-beta framing for native Windows support (#36093)
Native Windows is out of beta. Removes the early-beta warnings, headings,
and rough-edge framing across the README and docs (EN + zh-Hans), keeping
the WSL2-only dashboard PTY caveat. Historical RELEASE_v0.14.0.md notes are
left intact since they accurately describe the state at that release.

- README: Windows install + cross-platform notes
- index.mdx, installation.md: headings, warning admonitions, parity note
- windows-native.md: title/sidebar_label/warning, provider-hunting tip
- contributing.md, nous-portal.md: cross-platform / Portal parity prose
- Repoint cross-links to the renamed installation#windows-native-powershell
  anchor (EN) and #windows原生powershell (zh, also fixes pre-existing drift)
2026-05-31 15:33:18 -07:00
febc4cfec0 remove Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox (#33067)
* remove Vercel AI Gateway provider and Vercel Sandbox terminal backend

Both Vercel-hosted integrations are removed end-to-end. Users on the AI
Gateway should switch to OpenRouter or one of the other aggregators
(Nous Portal, Kilo Code). Users on the Vercel Sandbox backend should
switch to Docker, Modal, Daytona, or SSH.

What's removed:
- `plugins/model-providers/ai-gateway/` provider plugin
- `hermes_cli/vercel_auth.py` Vercel-Sandbox auth helper
- `tools/environments/vercel_sandbox.py` terminal backend
- `ai-gateway` provider wiring across auth, doctor, setup, models,
  config, status, providers, main, web_server, model_normalize, dump
- `vercel_sandbox` backend wiring across terminal_tool, file_tools,
  code_execution_tool, file_operations, approval, skills_tool,
  environments/local, credential_files, lazy_deps, prompt_builder,
  cli, gateway/run
- `AI_GATEWAY_BASE_URL` constant, `_AI_GATEWAY_HEADERS` auxiliary-client
  header set, run_agent base-URL header/reasoning special-cases
- `[vercel]` pyproject extra and `vercel`/`vercel-workers` from uv.lock
- env vars: `AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY`, `AI_GATEWAY_BASE_URL`, `VERCEL_TOKEN`,
  `VERCEL_PROJECT_ID`, `VERCEL_TEAM_ID`, `VERCEL_OIDC_TOKEN`,
  `TERMINAL_VERCEL_RUNTIME`
- Tests: deletes test_ai_gateway_models.py and
  test_vercel_sandbox_environment.py; scrubs references across 23
  surviving test files (no entire tests deleted unless they were
  dedicated to AI Gateway / Sandbox)
- Docs: provider tables, env-var reference, setup guides, security
  notes, tool config, terminal-backend tables — English plus zh-Hans
  i18n parity
- `hermes-agent` skill: provider table entry and remote-backend list

What stays (intentional):
- `popular-web-designs/templates/vercel.md` — CSS design reference,
  unrelated to Vercel-the-AI-product
- `x-vercel-id` in `stream_diag.py` headers — generic Vercel CDN
  response header, useful diag signal on any Vercel-hosted endpoint
- `vercel-labs/agent-browser` URL in browser config — lightpanda
  browser project, different OSS effort
- `userStories.json` historical contributor entry mentioning Vercel
  Sandbox — archive, not active docs

Validation:
- 1153 tests in the 22 targeted files pass (`scripts/run_tests.sh`)
- Full repo `py_compile` clean
- Live import of every touched module + invariant check (no
  `ai-gateway` in `PROVIDER_REGISTRY`, no `_AI_GATEWAY_HEADERS`, no
  `vercel_sandbox` in `_REMOTE_TERMINAL_BACKENDS`)

* test: convert profile-count check from change-detector to invariant

The hardcoded "== 34" assertion broke when ai-gateway was removed.
Per AGENTS.md change-detector-test guidance, assert the relationship
(registry count >= number of plugin dirs) instead of a literal count.
Counts shift when providers are added/removed; that's expected.
2026-05-27 00:43:32 -07:00
e97a4c8f37 docs(readme): add Nous Portal section between Getting Started and CLI/Messaging reference (#30941)
A small, self-contained section under 'Skip the API-key collection —
Nous Portal' explaining what Portal gives you (300+ models + Tool
Gateway), the one-shot install command, and how to inspect routing.
No buzzwords, no comparison tables, no overselling.

Positioned right after 'Getting Started' so it lands where someone
scanning the README has just seen the install steps and is deciding
their next move. Skippable by anyone who already knows their provider.

The line 'You can still bring your own keys per-tool whenever you
want' is the deliberate honesty rail — Portal is an option, not a
funnel. Existing per-provider language elsewhere in the README is
unchanged.

Mirrored to README.zh-CN.md to keep the two READMEs in sync.
2026-05-23 05:25:46 -07:00
4229facc01 docs(windows): avoid piping installer directly into iex 2026-05-18 20:05:47 -07:00
32c3f06a5b docs(readme): remove hermes-eval and Hermes MemPalace from Community links (#27271)
Both links were merged from low-risk batch salvage but on review they're
brand-new single-commit personal repos with zero stars/forks and no
track record. README links from us implicitly endorse community
projects; the Community section should have a minimum activity bar
before we link to a repo, not just "the contributor opened a PR."

MemPalace in particular wraps an in-process memory provider, so a
README endorsement carries more risk than a typical docs link.
2026-05-16 22:03:37 -07:00
d5ce85c423 docs: add computer-use-linux community MCP 2026-05-16 20:32:43 -07:00
df80bda778 docs: add Hermes MemPalace to Community plugins section 2026-05-16 20:32:43 -07:00
a1e3d7969e docs: add hermes-eval to Community section 2026-05-16 20:32:43 -07:00
5af672c753 chore: remove Atropos RL environments and tinker-atropos integration (#26106)
* chore: remove Atropos RL environments, tools, tests, skill, and tinker-atropos submodule

Delete:
- environments/ (43 files — base env, agent loop, tool call parsers, benchmarks)
- rl_cli.py (standalone RL training CLI)
- tools/rl_training_tool.py (all 10 rl_* tools)
- tests: test_rl_training_tool, test_tool_call_parsers, test_managed_server_tool_support,
  test_agent_loop, test_agent_loop_vllm, test_agent_loop_tool_calling,
  test_terminalbench2_env_security
- optional-skills/mlops/hermes-atropos-environments/
- tinker-atropos git submodule + .gitmodules

* chore: remove RL/Atropos references from Python source

- toolsets.py: remove rl toolset block + update comment
- model_tools.py: remove rl_tools group + update async bridging comment
- hermes_cli/tools_config.py: remove RL display entry, _DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS,
  setup block, and rl_training post-setup handler
- tools/budget_config.py: remove RL environment reference in docstring
- tests/test_model_tools.py: remove rl_tools from expected groups
- tests/run_agent/test_streaming_tool_call_repair.py: fix stale cross-reference

* chore: remove rl/yc-bench extras and tinker-atropos refs from pyproject.toml

- Remove rl extra (atroposlib, tinker, fastapi, uvicorn, wandb)
- Remove yc-bench extra
- Remove rl_cli from py-modules
- Remove [tool.ty.src] exclude for tinker-atropos
- Remove [tool.ruff] exclude for tinker-atropos
- Regenerate uv.lock

* chore: remove tinker-atropos from install/setup scripts

- setup-hermes.sh: remove entire tinker-atropos submodule install block
- scripts/install.sh: remove both tinker-atropos blocks (Termux + standard)
- scripts/install.ps1: remove tinker-atropos block
- nix/hermes-agent.nix: remove tinker-atropos pip install line

* chore: remove RL references from cli-config.yaml.example

* docs: remove Atropos/RL references from README, CONTRIBUTING, AGENTS.md

* docs: remove RL/Atropos references from website

- Delete: environments.md, rl-training.md, mlops-hermes-atropos-environments.md
- sidebars.ts: remove rl-training and environments sidebar entries
- optional-skills-catalog.md: remove hermes-atropos-environments row
- tools-reference.md: remove entire rl toolset section
- toolsets-reference.md: remove rl row + update example
- integrations/index.md: remove RL Training bullet
- architecture.md: remove environments/ from tree + RL section
- contributing.md: remove tinker-atropos setup
- updating.md: remove tinker-atropos install + stale submodule update

* chore: remove remaining RL/Atropos stragglers

- hermes_cli/config.py: remove TINKER_API_KEY + WANDB_API_KEY env var defs
- hermes_cli/doctor.py: remove Submodules check section (tinker-atropos)
- hermes_cli/setup.py: remove RL Training status check
- hermes_cli/status.py: remove Tinker + WandB from API key status display
- agent/display.py: remove both rl_* tool preview/activity blocks
- website/docs: remove RL references from providers.md + env-variables.md
- tests: remove TINKER_API_KEY from conftest, set_config_value, setup_script

* chore: remove RL training section from .env.example
2026-05-15 10:36:38 +05:30
ddb8d8fa84 docs: update NovitaAI provider positioning (#25532) 2026-05-14 01:31:12 -07:00
1551ce46a4 docs: update NovitaAI description to "90+ models, pay-per-use" 2026-05-13 23:51:15 -07:00
c76e879574 feat: add NovitaAI as LLM provider
Add NovitaAI as a first-class provider with dedicated model selection
flow, live pricing, and authoritative context length resolution.

- Register provider in PROVIDER_REGISTRY, HERMES_OVERLAYS, and all
  alias/label maps (ID: novita, aliases: novita-ai, novitaai)
- Add dedicated _model_flow_novita() with 3-tier model list fallback:
  Novita API → models.dev → static curated list
- Fetch live pricing from /v1/models with correct unit conversion
  (input_token_price_per_m is 0.0001 USD per Mtok)
- Add Novita-specific context length resolution (step 4b) in
  get_model_context_length(), prioritized over models.dev/OpenRouter
- Register api.novita.ai in _URL_TO_PROVIDER to prevent early return
  from the custom-endpoint code path
- Add models.dev mapping (novita → novita-ai)
- Add default auxiliary model (deepseek/deepseek-v3-0324)
- Add NOVITA_API_KEY to test isolation (conftest.py)
- Update docs: providers page, env vars reference, CLI reference,
  .env.example, README, and landing page
2026-05-13 23:51:15 -07:00
7a4d5c123a docs(windows): label native Windows support as early beta (#22115)
Adds early-beta framing to every user-facing surface where native Windows
is introduced — landing page install block, Installation page, Windows
(Native) guide, contributor notes, and README. Sets expectations that the
path installs and runs but hasn't been road-tested as broadly as POSIX,
and points users who want maximum stability at WSL2 instead.

Follow-up to #21561 (native Windows support) and #22089 (Windows docs).
2026-05-08 15:54:05 -07:00
b7fe7ed7bd feat(windows-install): bundle portable MinGit instead of relying on winget
User hit a real failure case: their system Git was in a half-installed state
(can neither uninstall nor reinstall) and winget refused to work around it.
We were one step away from shipping an installer that would have left users
with exactly the problem he already had.

What other agents do (reality check):
- Claude Code: requires pre-installed Git; breaks if user doesn't have it.
- OpenCode, Codex: don't need bash at all — PowerShell-first design.
- Cline: uses whatever shell VSCode is configured with; installs nothing.

None of them solve the "broken system Git" problem.  We need to own our Git.

Changes:
- scripts/install.ps1::Install-Git: dropped winget path entirely.  Now:
  (1) use existing git if present; (2) download portable MinGit from the
  official git-for-windows GitHub release to %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\git.
  No winget, no admin, no Windows installer registry, no system impact.
- Added %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\git\{cmd,usr\bin} to User PATH so git + bash
  + POSIX coreutils (which, env, grep, …) resolve in fresh shells.
- tools/environments/local.py::_find_bash: reorder so Hermes' portable
  MinGit install is checked BEFORE falling through to shutil.which("bash")
  or system install locations.  This way a broken system Git can't
  hijack the bash lookup.
- README + installation docs reworded to reflect the new story: "portable
  Git Bash, isolated from any system install, recoverable via rm -rf if it
  ever breaks."

Recoverability: if Hermes' Git install ever breaks, ``Remove-Item %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\git``
and re-run the installer — no system impact, no uninstall drama, no winget
to fight with.
2026-05-08 14:27:40 -07:00
9de893e3b0 feat(windows): close native-Windows install gaps — crash-free startup, UTF-8 stdio, tzdata dep, docs
Native Windows (with Git for Windows installed) can now run the Hermes CLI
and gateway end-to-end without crashing.  install.ps1 already existed and
the Git Bash terminal backend was already wired up — this PR fills the
remaining gaps discovered by auditing every Windows-unsafe primitive
(`signal.SIGKILL`, `os.kill(pid, 0)` probes, bare `fcntl`/`termios`
imports) and by comparing hermes against how Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex,
and Cline handle native Windows.

## What changed

### UTF-8 stdio (new module)
- `hermes_cli/stdio.py` — single `configure_windows_stdio()` entry point.
  Flips the console code page to CP_UTF8 (65001), reconfigures
  `sys.stdout`/`stderr`/`stdin` to UTF-8, sets `PYTHONIOENCODING` + `PYTHONUTF8`
  for subprocesses.  No-op on non-Windows.  Opt out via `HERMES_DISABLE_WINDOWS_UTF8=1`.
- Called early in `cli.py::main`, `hermes_cli/main.py::main`, and
  `gateway/run.py::main` so Unicode banners (box-drawing, geometric
  symbols, non-Latin chat text) don't `UnicodeEncodeError` on cp1252
  consoles.

### Crash sites fixed
- `hermes_cli/main.py:7970` (hermes update → stuck gateway sweep): raw
  `os.kill(pid, _signal.SIGKILL)` → `gateway.status.terminate_pid(pid, force=True)`
  which routes through `taskkill /T /F` on Windows.
- `hermes_cli/profiles.py::_stop_gateway_process`: same fix — also
  converted SIGTERM path to `terminate_pid()` and widened OSError catch
  on the intermediate `os.kill(pid, 0)` probe.
- `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py:2914, 3041`: raw `signal.SIGKILL` →
  `getattr(signal, "SIGKILL", signal.SIGTERM)` fallback (matches the
  pattern already used in `gateway/status.py`).

### OSError widening on `os.kill(pid, 0)` probes
Windows raises `OSError` (WinError 87) for a gone PID instead of
`ProcessLookupError`.  Widened the catch at:
- `gateway/run.py:15101` (`--replace` wait-for-exit loop — without this,
  the loop busy-spins the full 10s every Windows gateway start)
- `hermes_cli/gateway.py:228, 460, 940`
- `hermes_cli/profiles.py:777`
- `tools/process_registry.py::_is_host_pid_alive`
- `tools/browser_tool.py:1170, 1206`

### Dashboard PTY graceful degradation
`hermes_cli/pty_bridge.py` depends on `fcntl`/`termios`/`ptyprocess`,
none of which exist on native Windows.  Previously a Windows dashboard
would crash on `import hermes_cli.web_server` because of a top-level
import.  Now:
- `hermes_cli/web_server.py` wraps the pty_bridge import in
  `try/except ImportError` and sets `_PTY_BRIDGE_AVAILABLE=False`.
- The `/api/pty` WebSocket handler returns a friendly "use WSL2 for
  this tab" message instead of exploding.
- Every other dashboard feature (sessions, jobs, metrics, config
  editor) runs natively on Windows.

### Dependency
- `pyproject.toml`: add `tzdata>=2023.3; sys_platform == 'win32'` so
  Python's `zoneinfo` works on Windows (which has no IANA tzdata
  shipped with the OS).  Credits @sprmn24 (PR #13182).

### Docs
- README.md: removed "Native Windows is not supported"; added
  PowerShell one-liner and Git-for-Windows prerequisite note.
- `website/docs/getting-started/installation.md`: new Windows section
  with capability matrix (everything native except the dashboard
  `/chat` PTY tab, which is WSL2-only).
- `website/docs/user-guide/windows-wsl-quickstart.md`: reframed as
  "WSL2 as an alternative to native" rather than "the only way".
- `website/docs/developer-guide/contributing.md`: updated
  cross-platform guidance with the `signal.SIGKILL` / `OSError`
  rules we enforce now.
- `website/docs/user-guide/features/web-dashboard.md`: acknowledged
  native Windows works for everything except the embedded PTY pane.

## Why this shape

Pulled from a survey of how other agent codebases handle native
Windows (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Cline):

- All four treat Git Bash as the canonical shell on Windows, same as
  hermes already does in `tools/environments/local.py::_find_bash()`.
- None of them force `SetConsoleOutputCP` — but they don't have to,
  Node/Rust write UTF-16 to the Win32 console API.  Python does not get
  that for free, so we flip CP_UTF8 via ctypes.
- None of them ship PowerShell-as-primary-shell (Claude Code exposes
  PS as a secondary tool; scope creep for this PR).
- All of them use `taskkill /T /F` for force-kill on Windows, which
  is exactly what `gateway.status.terminate_pid(force=True)` does.

## Non-goals (deliberate scope limits)

- No PowerShell-as-a-second-shell tool — worth designing separately.
- No terminal routing rewrite (#12317, #15461, #19800 cluster) — that's
  the hardest design call and needs a separate doc.
- No wholesale `open()` → `open(..., encoding="utf-8")` sweep (Tianworld
  cluster) — will do as follow-up if users hit actual breakage; most
  modern code already specifies it.

## Validation

- 28 new tests in `tests/tools/test_windows_native_support.py` — all
  platform-mocked, pass on Linux CI.  Cover:
  - `configure_windows_stdio` idempotency, opt-out, env-preservation
  - `terminate_pid` taskkill routing, failure → OSError, FileNotFoundError fallback
  - `getattr(signal, "SIGKILL", …)` fallback shape
  - `_is_host_pid_alive` OSError widening (Windows-gone-PID behavior)
  - Source-level checks that all entry points call `configure_windows_stdio`
  - pty_bridge import-guard present in `web_server.py`
  - README no longer says "not supported"
- 12 pre-existing tests in `tests/tools/test_windows_compat.py` still pass.
- `tests/hermes_cli/` ran fully (3909 passed, 9 failures — all confirmed
  pre-existing on main by stash-test).
- `tests/gateway/` ran fully (5021 passed, 1 pre-existing failure).
- `tests/tools/test_process_registry.py` + `test_browser_*` pass.
- Manual smoke: `import hermes_cli.stdio; import gateway.run;
  import hermes_cli.web_server` — all clean, `_PTY_BRIDGE_AVAILABLE=True`
  on Linux (as expected).

## Files

- New: `hermes_cli/stdio.py`, `tests/tools/test_windows_native_support.py`
- Modified: `cli.py`, `gateway/run.py`, `hermes_cli/main.py`,
  `hermes_cli/profiles.py`, `hermes_cli/gateway.py`,
  `hermes_cli/kanban_db.py`, `hermes_cli/pty_bridge.py`,
  `hermes_cli/web_server.py`, `tools/browser_tool.py`,
  `tools/process_registry.py`, `pyproject.toml`, `README.md`, and 4
  docs pages.

Credits to everyone whose prior PR work informed these fixes — see
the co-author trailers.  All of the PRs listed in
`~/.hermes/plans/windows-support-prs.md` fixing `os.kill` / `signal.SIGKILL`
/ UTF-8 stdio / tzdata / README patterns found the same issues; this PR
consolidates them.

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2026-05-08 14:27:40 -07:00
ff09853235 docs(readme): prefer .venv to match AGENTS.md and scripts/run_tests.sh (#21334) 2026-05-07 07:27:51 -07:00
699c770e5c docs(readme): drop misleading RL install-extras claim, defer to CONTRIBUTING
README.md:163 said atroposlib and tinker were pulled in by .[all,dev], but
.[all] does not include .[rl] — those dependencies live in pyproject.toml's
[rl] extra (lines 95-101). With the original wording, a contributor running
uv pip install -e ".[all,dev]" would not have atroposlib or tinker
installed.

Rather than swap one extra for another (which paths users to either of two
parallel install conventions — pip [rl] extra vs tinker-atropos submodule —
without saying which the project considers canonical), this PR drops the
specific install command from the README and links to CONTRIBUTING.md,
which already documents the actual development setup.
2026-05-07 05:22:59 -07:00
05cdcac362 docs: add Chinese (zh-CN) README translation
Closes #12954

- Add README.zh-CN.md with complete Simplified Chinese translation
- Add language switcher badge in README.md linking to Chinese version
- Add language switcher badge in README.zh-CN.md linking to English version
2026-05-05 14:15:05 -07:00
0df80f4391 docs: align terminal-backend count and naming across docs and code
README:24 claimed "Six terminal backends" while tools/environments/ exposes
seven top-level backend choices through TERMINAL_ENV: local, docker, ssh,
singularity, modal, daytona, vercel_sandbox. Modal additionally has direct
and Nous-managed modes selected via terminal.modal_mode (the
ManagedModalEnvironment class is a Modal sub-mode, not a separate top-level
backend).

The same drift appeared in five other doc and code-comment sites with
inconsistent counts (six, seven, or implicit) and varying lists. Updated
all sites to a consistent seven-backend list in canonical order. The
configuration guide also clarifies how Modal's two modes are selected so
operators do not search for a non-existent backend: managed_modal value.

CONTRIBUTING.md:160 lists six backend filenames in a code tree but does
not carry the "Six terminal" prose; left out of scope per cohesion sweep
guidance to bundle only identical wording.

Files updated:
- README.md (line 24, marketing copy)
- website/docs/index.md (line 49, landing page)
- website/docs/user-guide/configuration.md (line 86, config guide)
- tools/environments/__init__.py (lines 3-6, package docstring)
- tools/file_operations.py (line 6, module docstring)
- environments/README.md (line 43, RL training docs — TERMINAL_ENV list)
2026-05-05 13:44:09 -07:00
2511207cb0 chore: revert docs 2026-04-26 05:46:45 -07:00
a562420383 fix(tui): robust clipboard handling with debug logging and headless detection
Problem: Ctrl+C in Hermes TUI shows 'copied' but clipboard often empty.
Root causes:
- Native Linux tools (xclip, wl-copy) require DISPLAY/WAYLAND_DISPLAY; in
  headless Docker/SSH they fail or hang.
- OSC 52 fallback requires terminal emulator support; when absent, sequence
  is dropped silently.
- Dashboard OSC 52 → Clipboard API path fails due to missing user gesture;
  errors were silently caught.
- User feedback 'copied selection' was shown unconditionally, regardless of
  success.

Solution implemented:
- Short-circuit Linux native clipboard probing when no display server is
  present (no DISPLAY and no WAYLAND_DISPLAY). Avoids futile attempts and
  timeouts.
- Add HERMES_TUI_DEBUG_CLIPBOARD env var (1/true). When set, TUI logs to
  stderr which clipboard path is used, probe results on Linux, and whether
  OSC 52 was emitted. Greatly improves diagnosability.
- Improve dashboard clipboard error handling: replace empty catch blocks
  with console.warn messages for OSC 52 decode/Write failures and direct
  copy/paste errors. Makes browser permission/user-gesture failures visible
  in DevTools.
- Add comprehensive clipboard troubleshooting documentation to README and
  AGENTS, covering OSC 52 verification, tmux config, Docker/headless
  constraints, env vars, dashboard caveats, and fallback strategies.

Technical details:
-  in ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/termio/osc.ts:
  - Early return on Linux if both DISPLAY and WAYLAND_DISPLAY unset.
  - Refactor probe sequence to async  with 500ms timeout,
    caching result; subsequent copies use cached tool immediately.
  - Emit debug logs when HERMES_TUI_DEBUG_CLIPBOARD=1.
-  in ink.tsx: log when OSC 52 not emitted (native
  or tmux path in use) in debug mode.
- : OSC 52 handler and Ctrl+Shift+C handler now
  log warnings to console on Clipboard API rejection with error message.
- Documentation: new 'Clipboard Troubleshooting' section in README; new
  'Clipboard environment variables and pitfalls' subsection in AGENTS.md
  (Known Pitfalls).

Tests: full ui-tui test suite (292 tests) passes; clipboard and OSC tests
unaffected. No breaking changes.

Files changed:
- ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/termio/osc.ts
- ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/ink.tsx
- web/src/pages/ChatPage.tsx
- README.md
- AGENTS.md
- CHANGELOG.md (new)
2026-04-26 05:46:45 -07:00
692ae6dd07 docs(readme): fix stale RL submodule instructions, skills table row, test runner (#14758)
- Drop broken tinker-atropos submodule instructions: no .gitmodules exists,
  tinker-atropos/ is empty, and atroposlib + tinker are regular pip deps in
  pyproject.toml pulled in by .[all,dev]. Replace with a one-line note.
- CLI vs Messaging table: /skills is cli_only=True in COMMAND_REGISTRY, so
  remove it from the messaging column. /<skill-name> still works there.
- Point contributors at scripts/run_tests.sh (the canonical runner enforcing
  CI-parity env) instead of bare pytest.
2026-04-23 15:12:04 -07:00
846b9758d8 Remove Discussions link from README
Removed Discussions link from README
2026-04-22 17:53:45 -07:00
aa583cb14e Merge branch 'main' of github.com:NousResearch/hermes-agent into feat/ink-refactor 2026-04-17 17:51:40 -05:00
3b569ff576 feat(providers): add native NVIDIA NIM provider
Adds NVIDIA NIM as a first-class provider: ProviderConfig in
auth.py, HermesOverlay in providers.py, curated models
(Nemotron plus other open source models hosted on
build.nvidia.com), URL mapping in model_metadata.py, aliases
(nim, nvidia-nim, build-nvidia, nemotron), and env var tests.

Docs updated: providers page, quickstart table, fallback
providers table, and README provider list.
2026-04-17 13:47:46 -07:00
c4b9750bc1 feat: lazy bootstrap node 2026-04-16 10:47:37 -05:00
110892ff69 docs: move Xiaomi MiMo up in README provider list 2026-04-13 22:30:44 -07:00
69d619cf89 docs: add Hugging Face and Xiaomi MiMo to README provider list (#9406)
* feat(skills): add fitness-nutrition skill to optional-skills

Cherry-picked from PR #9177 by @haileymarshall.

Adds a fitness and nutrition skill for gym-goers and health-conscious users:
- Exercise search via wger API (690+ exercises, free, no auth)
- Nutrition lookup via USDA FoodData Central (380K+ foods, DEMO_KEY fallback)
- Offline body composition calculators (BMI, TDEE, 1RM, macros, body fat %)
- Pure stdlib Python, no pip dependencies

Changes from original PR:
- Moved from skills/ to optional-skills/health/ (correct location)
- Fixed BMR formula in FORMULAS.md (removed confusing -5+10, now just +5)
- Fixed author attribution to match PR submitter
- Marked USDA_API_KEY as optional (DEMO_KEY works without signup)

Also adds optional env var support to the skill readiness checker:
- New 'optional: true' field in required_environment_variables entries
- Optional vars are preserved in metadata but don't block skill readiness
- Optional vars skip the CLI capture prompt flow
- Skills with only optional missing vars show as 'available' not 'setup_needed'

* docs: add Hugging Face and Xiaomi MiMo to README provider list

---------

Co-authored-by: haileymarshall <haileymarshall@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-04-13 22:12:46 -07:00
e8385f6f89 docs: add HermesClaw to community ecosystem
Adds a one-line entry for HermesClaw (community WeChat bridge) to the Community section. It lets users run Hermes Agent and OpenClaw on the same WeChat account.
2026-04-12 18:03:16 -07:00
e79cc88985 feat: add tested Termux install path and EOF-aware gh auth 2026-04-09 16:24:53 -07:00
02b38b93cb refactor: remove mini-swe-agent dependency — inline Docker/Modal backends (#2804)
Drop the mini-swe-agent git submodule. All terminal backends now use
hermes-agent's own environment implementations directly.

Docker backend:
- Inline the `docker run -d` container startup (was 15 lines in
  minisweagent's DockerEnvironment). Our wrapper already handled
  execute(), cleanup(), security hardening, volumes, and resource limits.

Modal backend:
- Import swe-rex's ModalDeployment directly instead of going through
  minisweagent's 90-line passthrough wrapper.
- Bake the _AsyncWorker pattern (from environments/patches.py) directly
  into ModalEnvironment for Atropos compatibility without monkey-patching.

Cleanup:
- Remove minisweagent_path.py (submodule path resolution helper)
- Remove submodule init/install from install.sh and setup-hermes.sh
- Remove mini-swe-agent from .gitmodules
- environments/patches.py is now a no-op (kept for backward compat)
- terminal_tool.py no longer does sys.path hacking for minisweagent
- mini_swe_runner.py guards imports (optional, for RL training only)
- Update all affected tests to mock the new direct subprocess calls
- Update README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md

No functionality change — all Docker, Modal, local, SSH, Singularity,
and Daytona backends behave identically. 6093 tests pass.
2026-03-24 07:30:25 -07:00
672e9752a0 docs: align venv path to match installer (venv/ not .venv/)
The install script creates venv/ but several docs referenced .venv/,
causing agents to fail with 'No such file or directory' when following
AGENTS.md instructions.

Fixes #2066
2026-03-19 18:16:26 -07:00
6c6d12033f fix: email send_typing metadata + ☤ Hermes staff symbol (#1431, #1420)
* fix: prevent infinite 400 failure loop on context overflow (#1630)

When a gateway session exceeds the model's context window, Anthropic may
return a generic 400 invalid_request_error with just 'Error' as the
message.  This bypassed the phrase-based context-length detection,
causing the agent to treat it as a non-retryable client error.  Worse,
the failed user message was still persisted to the transcript, making
the session even larger on each attempt — creating an infinite loop.

Three-layer fix:

1. run_agent.py — Fallback heuristic: when a 400 error has a very short
   generic message AND the session is large (>40% of context or >80
   messages), treat it as a probable context overflow and trigger
   compression instead of aborting.

2. run_agent.py + gateway/run.py — Don't persist failed messages:
   when the agent returns failed=True before generating any response,
   skip writing the user's message to the transcript/DB. This prevents
   the session from growing on each failure.

3. gateway/run.py — Smarter error messages: detect context-overflow
   failures and suggest /compact or /reset specifically, instead of a
   generic 'try again' that will fail identically.

* fix(skills): detect prompt injection patterns and block cache file reads

Adds two security layers to prevent prompt injection via skills hub
cache files (#1558):

1. read_file: blocks direct reads of ~/.hermes/skills/.hub/ directory
   (index-cache, catalog files). The 3.5MB clawhub_catalog_v1.json
   was the original injection vector — untrusted skill descriptions
   in the catalog contained adversarial text that the model executed.

2. skill_view: warns when skills are loaded from outside the trusted
   ~/.hermes/skills/ directory, and detects common injection patterns
   in skill content ("ignore previous instructions", "<system>", etc.).

Cherry-picked from PR #1562 by ygd58.

* fix(tools): chunk long messages in send_message_tool before dispatch (#1552)

Long messages sent via send_message tool or cron delivery silently
failed when exceeding platform limits. Gateway adapters handle this
via truncate_message(), but the standalone senders in send_message_tool
bypassed that entirely.

- Apply truncate_message() chunking in _send_to_platform() before
  dispatching to individual platform senders
- Remove naive message[i:i+2000] character split in _send_discord()
  in favor of centralized smart splitting
- Attach media files to last chunk only for Telegram
- Add regression tests for chunking and media placement

Cherry-picked from PR #1557 by llbn.

* fix(approval): show full command in dangerous command approval (#1553)

Previously the command was truncated to 80 chars in CLI (with a
[v]iew full option), 500 chars in Discord embeds, and missing entirely
in Telegram/Slack approval messages. Now the full command is always
displayed everywhere:

- CLI: removed 80-char truncation and [v]iew full menu option
- Gateway (TG/Slack): approval_required message includes full command
  in a code block
- Discord: embed shows full command up to 4096-char limit
- Windows: skip SIGALRM-based test timeout (Unix-only)
- Updated tests: replaced view-flow tests with direct approval tests

Cherry-picked from PR #1566 by crazywriter1.

* fix(cli): flush stdout during agent loop to prevent macOS display freeze (#1624)

The interrupt polling loop in chat() waited on the queue without
invalidating the prompt_toolkit renderer. On macOS, the StdoutProxy
buffer only flushed on input events, causing the CLI to appear frozen
during tool execution until the user typed a key.

Fix: call _invalidate() on each queue timeout (every ~100ms, throttled
to 150ms) to force the renderer to flush buffered agent output.

* fix(claw): warn when API keys are skipped during OpenClaw migration (#1580)

When --migrate-secrets is not passed (the default), API keys like
OPENROUTER_API_KEY are silently skipped with no warning. Users don't
realize their keys weren't migrated until the agent fails to connect.

Add a post-migration warning with actionable instructions: either
re-run with --migrate-secrets or add the key manually via
hermes config set.

Cherry-picked from PR #1593 by ygd58.

* fix(security): block sandbox backend creds from subprocess env (#1264)

Add Modal and Daytona sandbox credentials to the subprocess env
blocklist so they're not leaked to agent terminal sessions via
printenv/env.

Cherry-picked from PR #1571 by ygd58.

* fix(gateway): cap interrupt recursion depth to prevent resource exhaustion (#816)

When a user sends multiple messages while the agent keeps failing,
_run_agent() calls itself recursively with no depth limit. This can
exhaust stack/memory if the agent is in a failure loop.

Add _MAX_INTERRUPT_DEPTH = 3. When exceeded, the pending message is
logged and the current result is returned instead of recursing deeper.

The log handler duplication bug described in #816 was already fixed
separately (AIAgent.__init__ deduplicates handlers).

* fix(gateway): /model shows active fallback model instead of config default (#1615)

When the agent falls back to a different model (e.g. due to rate
limiting), /model still showed the config default. Now tracks the
effective model/provider after each agent run and displays it.

Cleared when the primary model succeeds again or the user explicitly
switches via /model.

Cherry-picked from PR #1616 by MaxKerkula. Added hasattr guard for
test compatibility.

* feat(gateway): inject reply-to message context for out-of-session replies (#1594)

When a user replies to a Telegram message, check if the quoted text
exists in the current session transcript. If missing (from cron jobs,
background tasks, or old sessions), prepend [Replying to: "..."] to
the message so the agent has context about what's being referenced.

- Add reply_to_text field to MessageEvent (base.py)
- Populate from Telegram's reply_to_message (text or caption)
- Inject context in _handle_message when not found in history

Based on PR #1596 by anpicasso (cherry-picked reply-to feature only,
excluded unrelated /server command and background delegation changes).

* fix: recognize Claude Code OAuth credentials in startup gate (#1455)

The _has_any_provider_configured() startup check didn't look for
Claude Code OAuth credentials (~/.claude/.credentials.json). Users
with only Claude Code auth got the setup wizard instead of starting.

Cherry-picked from PR #1455 by kshitijk4poor.

* perf: use ripgrep for file search (200x faster than find)

search_files(target='files') now uses rg --files -g instead of find.
Ripgrep respects .gitignore, excludes hidden dirs by default, and has
parallel directory traversal — ~200x faster on wide trees (0.14s vs 34s
benchmarked on 164-repo tree).

Falls back to find when rg is unavailable, preserving hidden-dir
exclusion and BSD find compatibility.

Salvaged from PR #1464 by @light-merlin-dark (Merlin) — adapted to
preserve hidden-dir exclusion added since the original PR.

* refactor(tts): replace NeuTTS optional skill with built-in provider + setup flow

Remove the optional skill (redundant now that NeuTTS is a built-in TTS
provider). Replace neutts_cli dependency with a standalone synthesis
helper (tools/neutts_synth.py) that calls the neutts Python API directly
in a subprocess.

Add TTS provider selection to hermes setup:
- 'hermes setup' now prompts for TTS provider after model selection
- 'hermes setup tts' available as standalone section
- Selecting NeuTTS checks for deps and offers to install:
  espeak-ng (system) + neutts[all] (pip)
- ElevenLabs/OpenAI selections prompt for API keys
- Tool status display shows NeuTTS install state

Changes:
- Remove optional-skills/mlops/models/neutts/ (skill + CLI scaffold)
- Add tools/neutts_synth.py (standalone synthesis subprocess helper)
- Move jo.wav/jo.txt to tools/neutts_samples/ (bundled default voice)
- Refactor _generate_neutts() — uses neutts API via subprocess, no
  neutts_cli dependency, config-driven ref_audio/ref_text/model/device
- Add TTS setup to hermes_cli/setup.py (SETUP_SECTIONS, tool status)
- Update config.py defaults (ref_audio, ref_text, model, device)

* fix(docker): add explicit env allowlist for container credentials (#1436)

Docker terminal sessions are secret-dark by default. This adds
terminal.docker_forward_env as an explicit allowlist for env vars
that may be forwarded into Docker containers.

Values resolve from the current shell first, then fall back to
~/.hermes/.env. Only variables the user explicitly lists are
forwarded — nothing is auto-exposed.

Cherry-picked from PR #1449 by @teknium1, conflict-resolved onto
current main.

Fixes #1436
Supersedes #1439

* fix: email send_typing metadata param + ☤ Hermes staff symbol

- email.py: add missing metadata parameter to send_typing() to match
  BasePlatformAdapter signature (PR #1431 by @ItsChoudhry)
- README.md: ⚕ → ☤ — the caduceus is Hermes's staff, not the
  medical Staff of Asclepius (PR #1420 by @rianczerwinski)

---------

Co-authored-by: buray <ygd58@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: lbn <llbn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: crazywriter1 <53251494+crazywriter1@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Max K <MaxKerkula@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Angello Picasso <angello.picasso@devsu.com>
Co-authored-by: kshitij <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-03-17 02:37:40 -07:00
fa3db2671a docs(readme): add CLI vs messaging quick reference
Co-authored-by: Frank <97429702+tsubasakong@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-03-15 21:58:11 -07:00
47e49da77c feat: make tinker-atropos RL training fully optional
The tinker-atropos submodule and its heavy dependencies (atroposlib, tinker,
wandb, fastapi, uvicorn) were being installed for all users by default,
adding significant install time and disk usage for most users who don't
need RL training capabilities.

Changes:
- install.sh: Only init mini-swe-agent submodule by default; skip
  tinker-atropos clone and install entirely
- install.sh: Remove --recurse-submodules from git clone (only fetches
  what's needed)
- pyproject.toml: Add [rl] optional dependency group for explicit opt-in
- rl_training_tool.py: Move LOGS_DIR.mkdir() from module-level to lazy
  init (_ensure_logs_dir) to avoid side effects on import
- README.md: Update contributor quick start to not auto-fetch
  tinker-atropos; add RL opt-in instructions

Users who want RL training can opt in with:
  git submodule update --init tinker-atropos
  uv pip install -e ./tinker-atropos
2026-03-12 09:11:44 -07:00
d53035ad82 feat: add 'hermes claw migrate' command + migration docs
- Add hermes_cli/claw.py with full CLI migration handler:
  - hermes claw migrate (interactive migration with confirmation)
  - --dry-run, --preset, --overwrite, --skill-conflict flags
  - --source for custom OpenClaw path
  - --yes to skip confirmation
  - Clean formatted output matching setup wizard style

- Fix Python 3.11+ @dataclass compatibility bug in dynamic module loading:
  - Register module in sys.modules before exec_module()
  - Fixes both setup.py (PR #981) and new claw.py

- Add 16 tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_claw.py covering:
  - Script discovery (project root, installed, missing)
  - Command routing
  - Dry-run, execute, cancellation, error handling
  - Preset/secrets behavior, report formatting

- Documentation updates:
  - README.md: Add 'hermes claw migrate' to Getting Started, new Migration section
  - docs/migration/openclaw.md: Full migration guide with all options
  - SKILL.md: Add CLI Command section at top of openclaw-migration skill
2026-03-12 08:20:12 -07:00
43cb35cb21 docs: list individual config commands first, then hermes setup as all-in-one
Show users the specific commands for each config area (hermes model,
hermes tools, hermes config set, hermes gateway setup) and then
present 'hermes setup' as the option to configure everything at once.
2026-03-11 07:30:28 -07:00
db496180db docs: remove hermes setup from install flow, point to hermes model/tools instead
The installer already handles full setup (provider config, etc.), so
telling users to run 'hermes setup' post-install is redundant and
confusing. Updated all docs to reflect the correct flow:

1. Run the installer (handles everything including provider setup)
2. Use 'hermes model', 'hermes tools', 'hermes gateway setup' to
   reconfigure individual settings later

Files updated:
- README.md: removed setup from quick install & getting started
- installation.md: updated post-install, manual step 9, troubleshooting
- quickstart.md: updated provider section & quick reference table
- cli-commands.md: updated hermes setup description
- faq.md: replaced hermes setup references with specific commands
2026-03-11 07:28:05 -07:00
0c4cff352a docs: add Signal messenger documentation across all doc surfaces
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/signal.md: Full setup guide with
  prerequisites, step-by-step instructions, access policies, features,
  troubleshooting, security notes, and env var reference
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/index.md: Added Signal to architecture
  diagram, platform toolset table, security examples, and Next Steps links
- website/docs/reference/environment-variables.md: All 7 SIGNAL_* env vars
- README.md: Signal in feature table and documentation table
- AGENTS.md: Signal in gateway description and env var config section
2026-03-08 20:42:04 -07:00
388dd4789c feat: add z.ai/GLM, Kimi/Moonshot, MiniMax as first-class providers
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.
2026-03-06 18:55:18 -08:00
2dbbedc05a docs: rebrand messaging — 'the self-improving AI agent'
- Lead with the learning loop: autonomous skill creation, skill
  self-improvement, memory nudges, FTS5 session search, Honcho
  dialectic user modeling
- 'Runs anywhere' angle: 6 backends, serverless persistence with
  Daytona/Modal, not tied to your laptop
- 'Built by model trainers' replaces 'model-agnostic'
- Updated README tagline, feature table, subtitle
- Updated docs landing page hero, description, key features
- Updated docusaurus tagline and pyproject.toml description
2026-03-06 04:34:06 -08:00
74a36b0729 docs: add Daytona to backend lists in docs
Signed-off-by: rovle <lovre.pesut@gmail.com>
2026-03-05 11:55:41 -08:00
82f7483999 docs: simplify README from 1776 to 121 lines
All detailed documentation now lives at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/.
README retains: banner, badges, value proposition, feature highlights,
one-line install, getting started commands, docs site link table,
quick contributor setup, community links, and license.

Removed: 1600+ lines of inline docs covering config, messaging setup,
tools, skills, MCP, terminal backends, memory, cron, hooks, security,
TTS, browser, batch processing, RL training, manual installation,
env vars reference, file structure, and troubleshooting.
2026-03-05 07:33:07 -08:00
d400fb8b23 feat: add /update slash command for gateway platforms
Adds a /update command to Telegram, Discord, and other gateway platforms
that runs `hermes update` to pull the latest code, update dependencies,
sync skills, and restart the gateway.

Implementation:
- Spawns `hermes update` in a separate systemd scope (systemd-run --user
  --scope) so the process survives the gateway restart that hermes update
  triggers at the end. Falls back to nohup if systemd-run is unavailable.
- Writes a marker file (.update_pending.json) with the originating
  platform and chat_id before spawning the update.
- On gateway startup, _send_update_notification() checks for the marker,
  reads the captured update output, sends the results back to the user,
  and cleans up.

Also:
- Registers /update as a Discord slash command
- Updates README.md, docs/messaging.md, docs/slash-commands.md
- Adds 18 tests covering handler, notification, and edge cases
2026-03-05 01:20:58 -08:00
1754bdf1e8 docs: update AGENTS.md, README.md, and messaging.md to include interactive setup for messaging platforms
Enhanced documentation to reflect the new interactive setup command for configuring messaging platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp). Updated sections in AGENTS.md, README.md, and messaging.md to provide clear instructions on using the 'hermes gateway setup' command, improving user experience and accessibility for platform configuration.
2026-03-03 19:00:09 -08:00
de59d91add feat: Windows native support via Git Bash
- Add scripts/install.cmd batch wrapper for CMD users (delegates to install.ps1)
- Add _find_shell() in local.py: detects Git Bash on Windows via
  HERMES_GIT_BASH_PATH env var, shutil.which, or common install paths
  (same pattern as Claude Code's CLAUDE_CODE_GIT_BASH_PATH)
- Use _find_shell() in process_registry.py for background processes
- Fix hermes_cli/gateway.py: use wmic instead of ps aux on Windows,
  skip SIGKILL (doesn't exist on Windows), fix venv path
  (Scripts/python.exe vs bin/python)
- Update README with three install commands (Linux/macOS, PowerShell, CMD)
  and Windows native documentation

Requires Git for Windows, which bundles bash.exe. The terminal tool
transparently uses Git Bash for shell commands regardless of whether
the user launched hermes from PowerShell or CMD.
2026-03-02 22:03:29 -08:00
63f5e14c69 docs: add comprehensive MCP documentation and examples
- docs/mcp.md: Full MCP documentation covering prerequisites, configuration,
  transports (stdio + HTTP), security (env filtering, credential stripping),
  reconnection, troubleshooting, popular servers, and advanced usage
- README.md: Add MCP section with quick config example and install instructions
- cli-config.yaml.example: Add commented mcp_servers section with examples
  for stdio, HTTP, and authenticated server configs
- docs/tools.md: Add MCP to Tool Categories table and MCP Tools section
- skills/mcp/native-mcp/SKILL.md: Create native MCP client skill with
  full configuration reference, transport types, security, troubleshooting
- skills/mcp/DESCRIPTION.md: Update category description to cover both
  native MCP client and mcporter bridge approaches
2026-03-02 18:52:33 -08:00
14b0ad95c6 docs: enhance WhatsApp setup instructions and introduce mode 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.
2026-03-02 17:51:33 -08:00