Description

Pressing Ctrl+C during slow slash commands (e.g., /skills browse) terminates the entire CLI session instead of interrupting the command and returning to the input prompt.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start hermes in interactive mode
2. Run a slow slash command: /skills browse
3. Press Ctrl+C while the command is still loading

Expected Behavior

The slash command is interrupted and the user is returned to the input prompt (same as interrupting an agent mid-task with a normal prompt).

Actual Behavior

The entire CLI session exits and returns to the shell. The session may not be saved to state.db, making hermes -c unable to resume.

Root Cause

Slash commands are handled outside the agent loop (e.g., _handle_skills_command() → hermes_cli/skills_hub.py). The KeyboardInterrupt from Ctrl+C is not caught in this path, so it propagates to the outermost except (EOFError, KeyboardInterrupt, BrokenPipeError): pass in cli.py (around line 8011), which silently exits the session.

In contrast, Ctrl+C during agent execution is caught within run_agent.py's agent loop, properly interrupting the current task and returning to the input prompt.

Environment

• Hermes Agent (latest main)
• Terminal: SSH session (Ghostty on Mac → VPS)