The dashboard's embedded Chat surface (/chat, /api/ws, /api/pty) was gated behind `hermes dashboard --tui` / HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI=1. The desktop app and the dashboard's own Chat tab both drive the agent over the /api/ws + /api/pty WebSockets, so a dashboard started without the flag would pass the /api/status health check but slam the chat WebSocket shut with WS code 4403 — the app connects, reports "ready", and chat stays dead. This was the root cause behind multiple user reports of the desktop app failing to connect to a self-hosted gateway/dashboard, and it bit Docker and host installs alike. Make the embedded chat unconditional: - web_server.py: _DASHBOARD_EMBEDDED_CHAT_ENABLED defaults to True; drop the embedded_chat parameter and the runtime reassignment from start_server(). The WS gates still read the constant (now always true) so the seam — and its "rejects when disabled" contract test — stays meaningful. - main.py: remove the `--tui` argument from the dashboard subparser and the `embedded_chat = args.tui or HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI==1` derivation. - web/: isDashboardEmbeddedChatEnabled() returns true unconditionally; drop the deprecated __HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI__ alias and the dead LEGACY_TUI_RE scrape in the vite dev-token plugin. - apps/desktop/electron/main.cjs: drop `--tui` from the spawned dashboardArgs (it would now error with "unrecognized arguments: --tui") and the redundant HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI env injection. - Docker: no s6 run-script change needed — the script never passed --tui; the HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI env var is now simply a no-op, so the image works out of the box with no extra var. - Docs: remove every dashboard --tui / HERMES_DASHBOARD_TUI reference across the CLI reference, env-var reference, docker/desktop/web-dashboard guides, in-app tips, and the zh-Hans translations. The terminal `hermes --tui` / HERMES_TUI references are intentionally left untouched. Tests: 270 passing across web_server, dashboard lifecycle, host-header, auth-gate, and docker-override-scripts suites.
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