* test(ci): stabilize shared optional dependency baselines

* fix(install): preserve pip entry point when re-running on symlinked install

setup_path() writes the user-facing hermes shim with `cat >`, which
follows existing symlinks. Older installs created
`$command_link_dir/hermes` as a symlink to `$HERMES_BIN`
(`venv/bin/hermes`), so re-running install.sh stomped the pip entry
point with a bash shim that exec'd itself in an infinite loop.

`rm -f` the link target before writing so the shim lands at
`$command_link_dir/hermes` and the venv entry point is left intact.

Adds a regression test that reproduces the symlink-stomp end-to-end
(creates the symlink, drives the real shim-write block from setup_path,
asserts the venv pip script body survives and the shim is now a regular
file). Both new assertions fail on origin/main and pass with the fix.

Closes #21454.

* feat(discord): render clarify choices as buttons

Brings Discord to parity with Telegram on the clarify tool's interactive
UX. Overrides BasePlatformAdapter.send_clarify on DiscordAdapter to attach
a button view when choices are present.

  - ClarifyChoiceView: one discord.ui.Button per choice (max 24, Discord's
    25-component view cap leaves one slot for Other) plus a final
    'Other (type answer)' button.
  - Numeric click -> tools.clarify_gateway.resolve_gateway_clarify(
    clarify_id, choice_text) using the canonical choice text from the
    gateway entry (falls back to the button label if the entry vanished).
  - Other click -> tools.clarify_gateway.mark_awaiting_text(clarify_id) so
    the gateway's text-intercept captures the next user message in this
    session as the response.
  - Auth via the shared _component_check_auth helper (same OR-semantics as
    ExecApprovalView / SlashConfirmView / UpdatePromptView / ModelPickerView).
  - Open-ended (no choices) path renders the prompt as a plain embed and
    relies on the existing text-intercept resolution.
  - Single-use: first valid click disables every button and updates the
    embed footer with who answered and what they chose.

No changes to BasePlatformAdapter.send_clarify or the gateway's
clarify_callback wiring -- the existing scaffolding already drives all
adapters; Discord just inherits the default text fallback today and gains
buttons by virtue of this override.

Test conftest extended: _FakeEmbed gains add_field() / set_footer() stubs
so tests can construct embedded views without monkey-patching per-test.

Original PR: #19249 by @LeonSGP43. This is a reshape of the contributor's
work onto current main's clarify infrastructure (clarify_id + entry-based
resolution shared with Telegram, instead of a parallel on_answer-closure
mechanism). The button view structure and UX shape are preserved.

Tests: 14 new tests in tests/gateway/test_discord_clarify_buttons.py.
391/391 existing Discord gateway tests still pass.

Co-authored-by: LeonSGP43 <cine.dreamer.one@gmail.com>

* fix(cli): allow rotating broken OpenRouter / AI Gateway key in `hermes model` flow (#25750)

Before: when `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` (or `AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY`) was already
set in ~/.hermes/.env, `hermes model openrouter` / `hermes model
ai-gateway` skipped the API-key prompt entirely and jumped straight to
the model picker. Users with a broken / expired / wrong key had no way
to replace it without editing ~/.hermes/.env by hand or re-running
`hermes setup` from scratch.

Both flows now route through the existing `_prompt_api_key()` helper,
which surfaces [K]eep / [R]eplace / [C]lear when a key is already
configured — the same UX the generic API-key providers (z.ai, MiniMax,
Gemini, etc.) and the Daytona setup already use.

* fix(install.ps1): pin uv sync to venv\, verify baseline imports on Windows (#25755)

* fix(cli): allow rotating broken OpenRouter / AI Gateway key in `hermes model` flow

Before: when `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` (or `AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY`) was already
set in ~/.hermes/.env, `hermes model openrouter` / `hermes model
ai-gateway` skipped the API-key prompt entirely and jumped straight to
the model picker. Users with a broken / expired / wrong key had no way
to replace it without editing ~/.hermes/.env by hand or re-running
`hermes setup` from scratch.

Both flows now route through the existing `_prompt_api_key()` helper,
which surfaces [K]eep / [R]eplace / [C]lear when a key is already
configured — the same UX the generic API-key providers (z.ai, MiniMax,
Gemini, etc.) and the Daytona setup already use.

* fix(install.ps1): pin uv sync target to venv\, verify baseline imports

Two related Windows-installer bugs that produce a broken venv with
`ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dotenv'` on first `hermes` run.

## Bug 1: uv sync ignores VIRTUAL_ENV, syncs into .venv\ instead of venv\

`Install-Dependencies` creates the venv at `venv\` via `uv venv venv`,
sets `$env:VIRTUAL_ENV = "$InstallDir\venv"`, then runs
`uv sync --extra all --locked`. Modern uv (>=0.5) ignores `VIRTUAL_ENV`
for the `sync` subcommand and uses the project default `.venv\`
instead. Result: deps land in `$InstallDir\.venv\`, `venv\` stays
empty except for the python.exe stub from the earlier `uv venv` call,
`hermes.exe` ends up wired to the wrong site-packages.

The bash installer (`scripts/install.sh`) already worked around this in
`install_deps()` line 1127 by passing `UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT` — that
flag tells uv exactly where to put the project env regardless of
`VIRTUAL_ENV`. Port the same fix to PowerShell.

## Bug 2: no post-install verification

If the sync still misdirects for any other reason (uv version drift,
filesystem quirk, user re-run scenarios), the installer reports success
and the user only finds out by running `hermes` and getting an
unhelpful traceback. Add a baseline-import probe that runs the venv's
own python against the four packages every `hermes` invocation needs
(`dotenv`, `openai`, `rich`, `prompt_toolkit`). On failure, throw
with a recovery command tailored to whether a sibling `.venv\` exists.

User report (Windows 11, Python 3.13.5, Hermes v0.13.0): manual repro
steps were exactly this — `uv sync` landed in `.venv\`, recovered by
junctioning `venv\` → `.venv\` to bridge the path mismatch.

* fix(telegram): escape dynamic markdown in callback flows

Use MarkdownV2 formatting for Telegram callback follow-ups and interactive prompts where dynamic names or user text can break legacy Markdown parsing. Add regression coverage for reload-mcp, model picker, approval callbacks, and update prompts.

* fix(telegram): restore model-switch success path + author map

The cherry-picked PR over-indented the edit_message_text block for
the mm: (model selected → switch) success path so the confirmation
edit lived inside the preceding 'except Exception as exc' branch and
only fired when the callback raised. Dedent the try/except back to
12-space indent so it runs after the callback succeeds, restoring
the original flow that removes the inline buttons and shows the
'Switched to ...' confirmation.

Add a regression test (test_model_selected_edits_message_on_success)
that asserts edit_message_text is awaited and the result text is
routed through format_message (MARKDOWN_V2 + backtick survival).

Add phuongvm to scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP.

* fix(memory): skip OpenViking upload symlinks

* fix(codex-runtime): retire wedged sessions + post-tool watchdog + OAuth refresh classify (#25769)

Mirrors openclaw beta.8's app-server resilience fixes so a stuck codex
subprocess can't burn the full turn deadline and so users get a
`codex login` pointer instead of raw RPC errors when their token expires.

- TurnResult.should_retire signals the caller to drop+respawn codex.
- Deadline-hit path and dead-subprocess detection set should_retire so
  the next turn doesn't ride a CPU-spinning or auth-broken process.
- Post-tool watchdog (post_tool_quiet_timeout=90s): if a tool item
  completes and codex goes silent past the threshold without further
  output or turn/completed, fast-fail instead of waiting the full 600s.
  Resets on any non-tool activity so normal think-after-tool flows are
  not affected.
- <turn_aborted> and <turn_aborted/> in agent text are treated as
  terminal — some codex builds tear down a turn that way without
  emitting turn/completed.
- _classify_oauth_failure() inspects RPC error message + stderr tail
  for invalid_grant / token refresh / 401 / etc. and rewrites
  user-facing errors to 'run codex login'. Conservative: generic
  failures still surface verbatim. Fires at turn/start failure,
  turn/completed failure, and dead-subprocess paths.
- thread/start cross-fill: tolerate thread.id, thread.sessionId,
  top-level sessionId/threadId so future codex schema drift doesn't
  KeyError us at handshake.
- run_agent.py: when run_turn returns should_retire=True OR raises,
  close + null self._codex_session so the next turn respawns.

Tests: +30 cases across session + integration suites.
  tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py 50/50 pass
  tests/run_agent/test_codex_app_server_integration.py 27/27 pass
  Broader codex scope (transports + cli runtime/migration) 376/376 pass

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entries for second new-contributor batch

Pre-stages AUTHOR_MAP for 7 new contributors in the upcoming batch:

- HxT9          (#25760)
- evgyur        (#25651)
- AsoTora       (#25624)
- oxngon        (#25603)
- yifengingit   (#25589)
- vanthinh6886  (#25562)
- Arkmusn       (#25559)

EthanGuo-coder, wesleysimplicio, and zccyman are already in the map.

* fix: read approvals.timeout from config in CLI approval callback

The _approval_callback method in HermesCLI hardcoded timeout=60
instead of reading the approvals.timeout config value. This meant
the config setting was silently ignored for CLI interactive prompts.

Other approval paths (callbacks.py, tools/approval.py) already read
the config correctly — only cli.py was missed.

* fix: use AUTOINCREMENT id for message ordering instead of timestamp

On WSL2 (and similar environments), time.time() is not strictly monotonic
due to NTP sync or host clock adjustments. When clock regression occurs
during a multi-tool flush, later-inserted rows get earlier timestamps,
causing ORDER BY timestamp, id to sort them before rows that were written
first. This breaks the tool_calls/tool_response adjacency invariant and
triggers HTTP 400 from the API.

Use ORDER BY id instead, since id (INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT)
always reflects true insertion order regardless of system clock behavior.

* docs: clarify media impact on session context

* fix: stop retrying initial MCP auth failures

* fix(gateway): enable text-intercept for multi-choice clarify fallback (#25567)

* fix: restrict .env file permissions to 0600

Set file mode 0600 on ~/.hermes/.env after creation in the installer and
after every write via memory_setup._write_env_vars(). This ensures only
the file owner can read/write API keys and tokens, matching standard
practice for credential files (.netrc, .aws/credentials, .ssh/config).

Fixes #25477

* fix(gateway): forward image attachments to background agent tasks

When the gateway spawned a background agent (e.g. for delegation), media
URLs and types from the originating message weren't forwarded — the bg
agent saw the prompt but no attached images. Vision-enabled tasks
effectively lost their inputs.

Forwards media_urls/media_types through the bg-task spawn path and
runs the same vision-enrichment step the main flow uses, so the bg
agent gets image descriptions inlined into its prompt.

Closes #25614.

Salvage of #25603 by @oxngon (manually re-applied — original branch
was severely stale against current main).

* fix(terminal): prevent safety filter false positives on keywords inside quoted strings

The _foreground_background_guidance() function matched background-wrapper
keywords (nohup/disown/setsid) anywhere in the command text, including
inside quoted strings, Python -c code, commit messages, and PR body text.

Two-layer fix:
1. Strip single-quoted, double-quoted, and backtick-quoted content before
   pattern matching via _strip_quotes() helper.
2. Tighten the regex to only match keywords at command-start positions
   (after ^, ;, &, &&, ||, or $() — not mid-argument.

Both layers are needed: quote stripping handles the common case of keywords
in string literals, and the position-aware regex handles unquoted cases
like 'export FOO=setsid' (word boundary match, wrong position).

Fixes #20064

* chore(release): map oswaldb22 noreply email for AUTHOR_MAP

Co-Authored-By: Oswald <oswaldb22@users.noreply.github.com>

* test(toolsets): lock web search into default platform coverage

Adds regression tests pinning web search into the WhatsApp and api-server
default platform-coverage toolsets. Pure test additions, no runtime change.

Salvage of the test-addition commit from #25692 by @wesleysimplicio.
(The AUTHOR_MAP fixup commit from the same PR landed separately as
529ec85c7.)

* fix(update): refresh lazy-installed backends on hermes update (#25766)

Pyproject's [all] extra was slimmed down in May 2026 — ~20 optional
backends moved to tools/lazy_deps.py and only install on first use.
hermes update runs uv pip install -e .[all] which doesn't touch any of
them, so pin bumps in LAZY_DEPS (CVE response, transitive fixes) were
silently ignored on already-activated backends.

Two changes:

1. _is_satisfied() now parses the spec and checks the installed version
   against the constraint via packaging.specifiers. Previously it
   returned True the moment the package name was importable, which made
   ensure() a name-presence gate rather than a version-pin gate.

2. New active_features() / refresh_active_features() pair: lists every
   feature with at least one of its packages currently installed, then
   re-runs ensure() on each. Refresh is invoked at the end of
   _cmd_update_impl, right after the [all] install completes. Cold
   backends (never activated) stay quiet — no churn for them.

Output during update is one summary block:
  → Refreshing 4 active lazy backend(s)...
    ↑ 1 refreshed: provider.anthropic
    ✓ 3 already current
or
    ⚠ memory.honcho failed to refresh: <pip stderr>

Failures never raise out of update — backends keep their previously-
installed version and we tell the user to rerun once upstream is fixed.
security.allow_lazy_installs=false is honored: features get marked
"skipped" with the reason shown.

Tests: 18 new unit tests covering version-aware satisfaction (exact pin,
range, extras blocks, missing package, malformed spec), active feature
discovery, and refresh status reporting. All 61 lazy_deps tests pass.

* fix(agent/gemini-cloudcode): seed delta defaults for reasoning-only stream chunks

_make_stream_chunk built delta_kwargs with only `role`, so a reasoning-only
chunk produced a SimpleNamespace without a `.content` attribute. Downstream
consumers that read `delta.content` then raised AttributeError on Gemini 2.5
Flash, where the thinking delta arrives before any content delta.

Seed `content`, `tool_calls`, `reasoning`, and `reasoning_content` as None
up front, matching the pattern already used in gemini_native_adapter.py.
Key-present arguments still override the defaults.

Fixes #24974
References: Related open PR #24984 (luyao618) applies the same 1-line fix; this PR adds a regression test that #24984 omits
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(install): support non-sudo service-user installs on apt distros (#25814)

The Debian/Ubuntu branch of install_node_deps() ran 'npx playwright install
--with-deps chromium' unconditionally. Playwright invokes sudo interactively
to apt-install Chromium's system libraries, which blocks the installer for
non-sudo users (systemd service accounts, unprivileged operator users) on
an unsatisfiable password prompt.

Changes:
- install.sh: gate --with-deps behind a sudo capability check on the apt
  branch (matches the existing Arch/pacman branch pattern). Non-sudo users
  fall back to 'npx playwright install chromium' alone and the installer
  prints the exact 'sudo npx playwright install-deps chromium' command an
  administrator can run separately.
- install.sh: add --skip-browser (alias --no-playwright) to skip the
  Playwright step entirely for headless installs that don't need browser
  automation. Mirrors the existing --no-venv / --skip-setup shape.
- installation.md: add a 'Non-Sudo / System Service User Installs' section
  covering the admin/service-user split, the --skip-browser flag, and the
  ~/.local/bin PATH gotcha (the root cause of the 'No module named dotenv'
  error users hit when running the repo source 'hermes' script with system
  Python instead of the venv launcher).
- test_install_sh_browser_install.py: regression coverage for the
  --skip-browser flag and the sudo-gate on the apt branch.

Reported by @ssilver in Discord.

* skill(comfyui): add template-integrity reference from @purzbeats (#25828)

Adds references/template-integrity.md covering safe conversion of the
official comfyui-workflow-templates package from editor format to API
format — Reroute bypass via link tracing, dotted dynamic-input keys
(values.a, resize_type.width) that must NOT be flattened, server-error
"patch don't rebuild" loop, Cloud quirks (302 redirect to signed GCS
URL, free-tier 1 concurrent job, 1920x1080 OOM on RTX 5090), and a
Discord-compatible ffmpeg stitch recipe (yuv420p + xfade/acrossfade).

SKILL.md lists the new reference so the agent loads it when starting
from an official template. purzbeats added to author list and to
scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP.

Co-authored-by: purzbeats <97489706+purzbeats@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(whatsapp): drop status broadcasts and channel newsletters before agent dispatch (#25845)

WhatsApp pseudo-chats (Status updates / Stories, Channels / Newsletters,
broadcast lists) were being routed through the full agent pipeline. A
user's gateway.log showed the agent replying to a contact's Story
('status@broadcast') with 345 chars plus title-generation cost, which
also shows up in the contact's status feed.

Drop these JIDs at _should_process_message() before the policy gate so
they're filtered regardless of dm_policy or allowlist state. Covers:
- status@broadcast (Stories)
- *@newsletter (Channels)
- *@broadcast (broadcast lists, future-proofing)

The bridge.js already filters these on the fromMe outbound path, but
inbound events on self-chat mode skipped that check.

Tests:
- status@broadcast dropped on open policy
- broadcast filter wins over allowlisted senders
- real DMs still pass through
- helper unit cases (case-insensitive, whitespace-tolerant)

26/26 tests/gateway/test_whatsapp_group_gating.py pass; 59/59 adjacent
WhatsApp test suites pass.

* fix(ci): stabilize shared test state after 21012

* fix(telegram): set REQUIRES_EDIT_FINALIZE so final MarkdownV2 edit is not skipped

When the final streamed text is identical to the last plain-text edit,
stream_consumer._send_or_edit short-circuits and never calls
adapter.edit_message(finalize=True).  For Telegram, this skips the
plain-text → MarkdownV2 conversion, leaving raw Markdown syntax visible
to the user.

Set REQUIRES_EDIT_FINALIZE = True on TelegramAdapter so the finalize
edit is always delivered, matching the existing DingTalk pattern.

Fixes #25710

* fix(gateway): load streaming config from nested gateway.streaming key

`hermes config set gateway.streaming.*` writes the streaming block
nested under a `gateway:` key in config.yaml, but the config loader
only checked for a top-level `streaming:` key — silently ignoring
the nested variant.

Fall back to `yaml_cfg['gateway']['streaming']` when the top-level
key is absent, matching the pattern already used for other nested
config sections.

Closes #25676

* fix(gateway): prevent duplicate final send when only cosmetic edit failed

When the stream consumer's got_done handler successfully delivers the
final response content via _send_or_edit but the subsequent edit
(e.g. cursor removal) fails, final_response_sent remains False even
though the user has already received the final answer. The gateway's
fallback send path then re-delivers the same content, causing the
user to see the response twice on Telegram.

Introduce a new _final_content_delivered flag on the stream consumer,
set by the got_done handler when the final content has reached the
user. The _run_agent suppression logic now treats this flag as an
additional signal (alongside final_response_sent and
response_previewed) that final delivery is already complete.

This preserves the existing behavior for intermediate-text-only
streams (where already_sent=True but no final content has been
delivered) — those still receive the gateway's fallback send, matching
the test expectation in test_partial_stream_output_does_not_set_already_sent.

Adds TestFinalContentDeliveredSuppression with two cases covering
both the suppression (content delivered + edit failed) and the
non-suppression (intermediate text only) branches.

* fix(agent): keep image tool results from poisoning text-only sessions

* fix(codex-app-server): attach redacted stderr tail to generic failures (#25929)

When codex app-server fails outside the OAuth-classified path
(non-auth turn/start errors, plain TimeoutErrors, generic turn-ended
status, subprocess silently exits, hard deadline timeout), the user
got a bare 'Internal error' / 'turn/start failed: ...' with no
context. Diagnosing config/provider/auth-bridge issues forced a
re-run with verbose codex flags.

Add a _format_error_with_stderr helper that appends the last few
stderr lines via agent.redact.redact_sensitive_text(force=True),
and use it at every catch-all error site:

- ensure_started() failures (codex init / thread/start) now return
  a TurnResult.error with should_retire=True instead of bubbling
- non-OAuth turn/start CodexAppServerError / TimeoutError
- subprocess-died branch (previously dumped raw stderr_blob[-300:]
  with no redaction — a leak risk)
- turn ended with non-completed status
- hard turn-timeout deadline

OAuth-classified failures and the post-tool quiet watchdog already
produce clean hints and stay unchanged. The redactor catches sk-*,
gh*_*, Authorization: Bearer, query-string tokens, JWTs, private
keys, etc., so provider error payloads can't leak into chat output
or trajectories.

Inspired by openclaw#80718, adapted for our app-server transport.

* fix(cli): batch resize history replay

* chore(release): map @1000Delta in AUTHOR_MAP

* fix(voice): remove per-tool-call beep in CLI voice mode (#25967)

The spinner already shows tool activity visually; the 1.2 kHz tone on
every tool.started event was unwanted noise (especially on WSL2, where
each beep also triggers Windows Terminal's bell notification).

Removed the play_beep call in _on_tool_progress entirely. Record
start/stop beeps (gated by voice.beep_enabled) are unaffected.

* fix: preserve ansi output history on resize replay

* chore(release): map @LeonSGP43 commit email in AUTHOR_MAP

* fix(cli): clamp scrollback box widths + suppress status bar after resize (#25975)

When the terminal shrinks, already-printed box-drawing rules (response,
reasoning, streaming TTS, background-task Panels) reflow into multiple
narrower rows — visible as duplicated horizontal separators / ghost
lines in scrollback. Similarly, prompt_toolkit redraws a fresh status
bar on SIGWINCH on top of one the terminal just reflowed, producing
double-bar artifacts on column shrink.

Two surgical changes:

1. Decorative scrollback boxes now use a new
   `HermesCLI._scrollback_box_width()` helper that clamps to
   `max(32, min(width, 56))`. The live TUI footer is unaffected and still
   uses the full width. Covers: streaming response box (open + close),
   reasoning box (open + close, both streaming and post-stream paths),
   streaming-TTS box close, final-response Rich Panel, and the
   background-task Rich Panel.

2. `_recover_after_resize()` now also sets a new
   `_status_bar_suppressed_after_resize` flag so the dynamic status bar
   and both input separator rules stay hidden until the next user input.
   The flag is cleared in the process loop the moment the user submits
   their next prompt, restoring chrome cleanly.

Tests:
- New `test_input_rules_hide_after_resize_until_next_input` covers the
  flag's effect on rule heights.
- New `test_scrollback_box_width_caps_to_resize_safe_value` covers the
  helper at floor / cap / mid-range / overflow.
- Existing resize-recovery test extended to assert the flag flips.

Refs: #18449 #19280 #22976
Salvage of #24403.

Co-authored-by: Szymonclawd <szymonclawd@mac.home>

* fix(ui-tui): heal same-dimension alt-screen resize drift

- Treat same-dimension resize events in alt-screen mode as a repaint
  signal, because terminal hosts can reflow or restore the physical
  buffer without changing columns/rows.
- Ensure pending resize erases are emitted even when the virtual diff
  is empty, so stale physical glyphs are still cleared.
- Extract alt-screen resize repaint into prepareAltScreenResizeRepaint()
  for readability.
- Add defensive clearTimeout in prepareAltScreenResizeRepaint so rapid
  resize bursts don't stack redundant delayed repaints.
- Add a focused regression test for same-dimension alt-screen resize
  healing.

Addresses #18449
Related to #17961

* chore(release): map @luoyuctl in AUTHOR_MAP

* feat(proxy): local OpenAI-compatible proxy for OAuth providers (#25969)

Adds 'hermes proxy start' — a local HTTP server that lets external apps
(OpenViking, Karakeep, Open WebUI, ...) use a Hermes-managed provider
subscription as their LLM endpoint. The proxy attaches the user's real
OAuth-resolved credentials to each forwarded request, refreshing them
automatically; the client can send any bearer (it gets stripped).

Ships with one adapter — Nous Portal. The UpstreamAdapter ABC and
registry in hermes_cli/proxy/adapters/ are designed for additional
OAuth providers to plug in by name without server changes.

Commands:
  hermes proxy start [--provider nous] [--host 127.0.0.1] [--port 8645]
  hermes proxy status
  hermes proxy providers

Allowed Portal paths: /v1/chat/completions, /v1/completions,
/v1/embeddings, /v1/models. Anything else returns 404 with a clear
error pointing at the allowed list.

aiohttp is gated like gateway/platforms/api_server.py (try-import,
clean runtime error if missing). No new core dependency.

Tests: 24 unit tests + 1 separate E2E that spawns the real subprocess
and verifies the upstream receives the right bearer with the client's
header stripped.

* feat(discord): channel history backfill for multi-user sessions

Adds optional channel-context backfill for Discord shared-channel sessions
so the agent can see recent messages it missed between its own turns
(typically when require_mention=true filters out most traffic).

Previously the agent only saw the @mention message that triggered it, which
led to disorienting replies in active multi-user channels where the
conversation context was invisible. With backfill enabled, a configurable
number of recent messages are fetched per-turn and prepended to the trigger
message as a context block, kept separate from sender-prefix logic so
attribution remains clean.

This re-opens the work from #13063 (approved by @OutThisLife on 2026-04-20,
closed when I closed the branch to address the simpolism:main head-branch
issue plus an ordering bug I caught later in live use). Filing against the
freshly-rewritten problem statement in #13054 so the design is grounded in
the failure mode rather than the implementation shape.

The implementation follows the **push-mode last-self-anchored** design from
the two options laid out in #13054. See the issue for the trade-off
discussion vs pull-mode (#13120 was an earlier closed PR using that shape).
Treating this as a reference implementation — happy to rewrite as
last-trigger anchoring or as a hybrid with #13120 if maintainers prefer.

Changes:

- gateway/platforms/discord.py:
  - new `_discord_history_backfill()` / `_discord_history_backfill_limit()`
    helpers (config.extra > env > default), mirroring the existing
    `_discord_require_mention()` shape
  - new `_fetch_channel_context()` that scans `channel.history()` backwards
    from the trigger to the bot's last message (or limit), formats as
    `[Recent channel messages] / [name] msg / ...`, respects DISCORD_ALLOW_BOTS,
    skips system messages
  - per-channel `_last_self_message_id` cache to narrow the fetch window
    on hot paths (avoids full history scan when the bot has spoken recently)
  - **IMPORTANT**: passes `oldest_first=False` explicitly to `channel.history()`.
    discord.py 2.x silently flips the default to True when `after=` is supplied,
    which would select the EARLIEST N messages after our last response instead
    of the LATEST N before the trigger. In high-traffic windows this would
    return stale tool traces and drop the actual final answer the user is
    asking about. See regression test below. Caught in live use during a
    Codex tool-trace burst on May 13 2026.
- gateway/config.py: discord_history_backfill + discord_history_backfill_limit
  settings + yaml→env bridge
- gateway/platforms/base.py: channel_context field on MessageEvent
- gateway/run.py: prepend channel_context after sender-prefix so the
  [sender name] tag applies to the trigger message alone, not to the backfill
- hermes_cli/config.py: defaults for new discord.history_backfill and
  discord.history_backfill_limit keys
- cli-config.yaml.example: documented defaults
- tests/gateway/test_discord_free_response.py: 7 new tests covering
  cold-start backfill, self-message stop boundary, other-bot filtering,
  cache hot-path narrowing, stale-cache fallback, shared-channel +
  per-user backfill paths, and the ordering regression test
  (`test_fetch_channel_context_cache_uses_latest_window_when_after_set`)
- tests/gateway/test_config.py: yaml→env bridge tests
- tests/gateway/test_session.py: prefix-order edge cases
- website/docs/user-guide/messaging/discord.md: env vars + config keys +
  usage docs

Tested on Ubuntu 24.04 — empirically validated in my own multi-bot Discord
research server for the past three weeks.

Fixes #13054
Supersedes #13063 (closed)

* feat(discord): default history backfill on, expand to per-user + threads

Follow-up to snav's PR #25463 contribution: flip default to on, broaden
scope so backfill fires whenever require_mention gates the bot (not just
shared-session channels).

Why:
- The mention-gate creates a session-transcript gap regardless of whether
  the channel is shared or per-user. In per-user sessions, Alice's session
  is still missing other participants' messages and her own pre-mention
  messages — backfill fills both gaps.
- Threads naturally scope to thread-only history because discord.py's
  channel.history() on a thread returns only that thread's messages.
- DMs still skip — every DM triggers the bot, so the session transcript
  is already complete.

Changes:
- hermes_cli/config.py: discord.history_backfill default → true
- gateway/platforms/discord.py: drop the _is_shared gate, keep _is_dm
  skip and _needed_mention gate; env var DISCORD_HISTORY_BACKFILL
  default → 'true'
- cli-config.yaml.example + website docs: update defaults and prose;
  add the DISCORD_HISTORY_BACKFILL / _LIMIT env var rows that were
  documented in the PR description but missing from the env-var table
- tests/gateway/test_discord_free_response.py:
  - flip test_discord_per_user_channel_does_not_backfill →
    test_discord_per_user_channel_backfills_too (new behavior)
  - add test_discord_dm_does_not_backfill (DM skip is invariant)
  - give FakeThread a no-op history() so existing thread tests don't hit
    a fake discord.Forbidden when backfill now fires on threads too

Tests: 160/160 in target files; 400/400 across all tests/gateway/ -k discord.

* fix(web): make sync-assets script cross-platform

The prebuild step used `rm -rf` and `cp -r`, which fail on Windows
(`'rm' is not recognized`). Replace with an inline Node one-liner
using fs.rmSync / fs.cpSync so the build works on Windows, macOS,
and Linux without adding a dependency.

* fix(lsp): shift baseline diagnostics into post-edit coordinates (#25978)

Pre-existing diagnostics below an edit point used to surface as 'LSP
diagnostics introduced by this edit' whenever the edit deleted or
inserted lines.  The delta-filter key included the diagnostic's
range, so the same logical error reported at a different line in
the post-edit snapshot looked like a brand new diagnostic.

Concrete case: deleting 14 lines in cli.py caused Pyright errors at
lines 9873, 10590, 12413, 13004 (unrelated to the edit) to be
reported as introduced by it.

Fix: build a piecewise-linear line-shift map (via difflib's
SequenceMatcher) from pre and post content, and remap baseline
diagnostics into post-edit coordinates before the set-difference.
Diagnostics in deleted regions drop out cleanly; diagnostics below
the edit shift by the right amount; diagnostics above are untouched.
The strict (range-aware) equality key stays — so a genuinely new
instance of an identical error class at a different line still
surfaces as new.

Pieces:
- agent/lsp/range_shift.py — build_line_shift, shift_diagnostic_range,
  shift_baseline.  Pure functions, no LSP state.
- agent/lsp/manager.py — LSPService.get_diagnostics_sync gains an
  optional line_shift kwarg; baseline is shift_baseline'd before
  computing the seen-set.  _diag_key keeps the strict range key.
- tools/file_operations.py — write_file captures pre_content for any
  LSP-handled extension (not just LINTERS_INPROC) and passes pre/post
  to _maybe_lsp_diagnostics, which builds the shift map.
- New _lsp_handles_extension helper guards the pre_content read.

Trade-offs preserved:
- Genuinely new same-class errors at different lines still surface
  (content-only key would have swallowed them).
- Pre-existing errors at unshifted positions still get filtered
  (covered by the strict-key path with no shift).
- Best-effort: when pre_content can't be captured (file didn't
  exist, permissions), the unshifted comparison still catches
  most pre-existing errors; the edge case it misses is a new file
  with a non-empty baseline, which is structurally impossible.

* fix(web): cross-platform sync-assets + surface build errors on failure

Three Windows-only bugs in the web-dashboard build path. Each is small,
scoped, and verified end-to-end on Windows 11 — including under a stock
cmd.exe / PowerShell console with its default cp1252 encoding.

1. `sync-assets` shells out to Unix-only commands

   web/package.json hard-codes `rm -rf … && cp -r …`. Neither exists on
   Windows cmd.exe. `hermes_cli/main.py::_build_web_ui` runs npm via
   subprocess (which on Windows defaults to cmd.exe), so the prebuild
   hook crashed before Vite ever ran and the dashboard never built.

   Fix: web/scripts/sync-assets.mjs — ~20 lines of Node using fs.rmSync
   + fs.cpSync (stdlib, Node >= 16.7). No new deps, identical behavior
   on POSIX and Windows.

2. Build failures were silent

   _build_web_ui ran both subprocess calls with capture_output=True and
   never relayed the captured buffers on failure. Users saw 'Web UI
   build failed' and nothing else — no stdout, no stderr, no hint that
   the real problem was 'rm is not recognized'.

   Fix: inner _relay() helper that decodes and prints stdout + stderr
   (utf-8, errors='replace') whenever a step returns non-zero. Replaces
   the existing stderr_tail-only relay on the build path; success path
   is unchanged. (stderr_tail is preserved for the stale-dist fallback
   branch added by #23817.)

Salvaged from #13368 by @johnisag onto current main. Conflict
resolution preserves main's improvements:
- _run_npm_install_deterministic() (replaces bare subprocess.run for
  npm install)
- npm-build retry-after-sleep for Windows boot-time races (#23817)
- stale-dist fallback for non-interactive callers (#23817)

Closes #25073, #13368.

* fix(web): handle non-UTF8 Windows console encodings in _build_web_ui

Codex review pointed out that even with the sync-assets fix applied,
_build_web_ui still crashes on a stock Windows console before reaching
npm: Python stdout defaults to cp1252 (or similar) and raises
UnicodeEncodeError when print() hits the arrow/check glyphs used for
status messages (→, ✗, ⚠, ✓). Reproduced locally in PowerShell:

    $ PYTHONIOENCODING=cp1252 python -c "from hermes_cli.main import _build_web_ui; _build_web_ui(Path('web'), fatal=True)"
    UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2192' ...

The previous PR body claimed "end-to-end verified on Windows 11", but
that was under the venv's default (utf-8) stdout. A plain `py` or
PowerShell invocation would still fail before sync-assets ever ran.

Fix: inner _say() helper that falls back to
  text.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors="replace")
when print() raises UnicodeEncodeError. Glyphs degrade to '?' on
ASCII / cp1252 consoles; utf-8 consoles are unaffected. Verified the
full build pipeline runs to completion with PYTHONIOENCODING=cp1252.

Scoped tightly to _build_web_ui (the function this PR already touches);
other call sites in the codebase with the same risk are out of scope.

* chore(release): map agorgianitisj@hotmail.com -> johnisag

* fix(proxy): suppress false-positive windows-footgun on guarded add_signal_handler

The call site at line 246 is already wrapped in try/except NotImplementedError
(added in #25969). The checker just doesn't peek at surrounding context.
Mark with the suppression comment so the blocking check passes.

* fix(cli): wire /sessions slash command in the classic CLI

The 'sessions' command has been registered in the central command
registry since #20805 (May 2025) and surfaces in /help and tab-completion,
but the classic CLI's process_command() never had an elif branch for it.
The canonical name fell through and printed 'Unknown command: sessions'.
The TUI side was wired up correctly via the SessionPicker overlay; only
the legacy CLI was missing the dispatch.

Adds _handle_sessions_command() which mirrors /resume's no-arg behavior
inline (the CLI has no overlay primitive equivalent to the TUI picker):

- /sessions and /sessions list  → print the recent-sessions table
- /sessions <id_or_title>       → delegates to _handle_resume_command

Includes regression tests covering the dispatcher wiring (the original
bug) plus the three handler branches.

* chore(release): map phil.thomas@gametime.co -> explainanalyze

* chore(release): map phil.thomas@gametime.co -> explainanalyze

* fix(browser): use correct env var for --no-sandbox bypass

AGENT_BROWSER_CHROME_FLAGS is not read by agent-browser CLI.
The correct env var is AGENT_BROWSER_ARGS, with comma-separated values.

This fixes Chrome 'No usable sandbox' crash on Ubuntu 23.10+ systems
where AppArmor restricts unprivileged user namespaces. The detection
logic was correct but the fix used the wrong environment variable name
and space-separated instead of comma-separated args.

* fix(browser): honor pre-set AGENT_BROWSER_ARGS and document the bypass

Follow-up to the sandbox-bypass env-var fix:

- Update the opt-out gate so a user-provided AGENT_BROWSER_ARGS is also
  respected, not just the legacy AGENT_BROWSER_CHROME_FLAGS. Previously
  the gate only checked the broken legacy var, so a user who pre-set
  AGENT_BROWSER_ARGS would still get clobbered by Hermes's auto-injection.
- Document AGENT_BROWSER_ARGS in .env.example, the browser feature page,
  and the env var reference, with notes about the auto-injection on
  AppArmor-restricted systems (Ubuntu 23.10+, DGX Spark, containers).
- Add Anadi Jaggia to AUTHOR_MAP.

* fix(cli): fall back to SelectSelector when kqueue can't watch stdin

On macOS with uv-managed cPython 3.11, the default kqueue selector cannot
register fd 0, so prompt_toolkit's loop.add_reader raises
OSError(EINVAL) ("[Errno 22] Invalid argument") from kqueue.control()
and the agent crashes immediately on startup (#5884, also reported in
#6393).

Probe KqueueSelector.register(0, EVENT_READ) before launching
prompt_toolkit. If it fails, install an event-loop policy that returns a
SelectorEventLoop backed by SelectSelector — select() works fine on
stdin in this Python build, so add_reader succeeds and the agent
launches normally.

Also extend the existing #6393 fallback handler to recognize EINVAL /
EBADF / "Invalid argument" so that any future selector failure on stdin
shows the friendly "reinstall Python via pyenv or Homebrew" guidance
instead of an opaque traceback.

Verified on macOS (Darwin 24.6.0) with uv-managed cPython 3.11.15: the
kqueue probe fails, the policy switch fires, and `hermes` launches
cleanly. No effect on platforms where kqueue can register fd 0.

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for outdoorsea

* fix(aux): surface Nous auth-unavailable warning in auxiliary client

When the auxiliary client falls through Nous (e.g. no stored auth, or
runtime credential mint failed), users currently see only `debug`-level
lines, so the next provider in the fallback chain takes over silently.
Promote the no-auth path to a warning that tells operators to run
`hermes auth`, and add a debug breadcrumb on the rarer
mint-failed-but-stored-auth-still-present fallback path so the existing
behavior (use the raw stored token) is preserved while staying
investigable.

Salvaged from #23881 by @0xharryriddle. The contributor's original
patch also short-circuited the second branch with a return, which broke
the pool-entry fallback path covered by
`test_try_nous_uses_pool_entry` — kept the warning intent, dropped the
return so the fallback still works. Dropped the contributor's changes
to `hermes_cli/goals.py` because the goal-pause path is unreachable
when the auxiliary client is None (`judge_goal` returns
`parse_failed=False`, which resets `consecutive_parse_failures`),
so the reason string they added never surfaces in the pause message.

Refs #23876

* feat: add ACP registry metadata for Zed

* chore(release): bump ACP Registry assets in lockstep with pyproject

The ACP Registry manifest (acp_registry/agent.json), the npm launcher
package.json, and the launcher's HERMES_AGENT_VERSION constant must all
match pyproject.toml exactly — tests/acp/test_registry_manifest.py
enforces this lockstep.

Without a release-script hook, the next weekly version bump fails that
test until someone hand-edits four files. Extend update_version_files()
to drive the ACP bump alongside __init__.py and pyproject.toml, and
add tests covering the lockstep and the missing-files no-op path.

Also map adam.manning@gmail.com -> am423 for the salvage commit.

* 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

* feat(acp-registry): switch to uvx distribution, drop npm launcher

The ACP Registry schema supports uvx as a first-class distribution method
alongside npx and binary. Pointing the registry directly at the existing
hermes-agent PyPI release removes:

- the @nousresearch npm scope (we don't own it)
- a separate npm publish step on every weekly release
- 90 lines of Node launcher + tests in packages/hermes-agent-acp/

The Zed registry now installs Hermes via:

  uvx --from 'hermes-agent[acp]==<version>' hermes-acp

This is the same command the npm launcher was shelling out to anyway, so
end-user behavior is unchanged. Registry CI validates the PyPI URL +
version-pin exact match automatically.

Changes:
- acp_registry/agent.json: distribution.npx -> distribution.uvx
- delete packages/hermes-agent-acp/ entirely
- scripts/release.py: drop npm-launcher bump paths, keep manifest lockstep
- tests/acp/test_registry_manifest.py: assert uvx shape + version pin
- tests/scripts/test_release_acp_registry.py: rewrite for uvx-only shape
- docs (user-guide + dev-guide): drop all npm-launcher references
- delete docs/plans/acp-registry-zed-integration.md (stale, npm-shaped)

Validated against agentclientprotocol/registry agent.schema.json via
jsonschema. hermes-agent==0.13.0 is already live on PyPI.

* fix(deps): pin brotlicffi so aiohttp can decode Discord's Brotli attachments

Discord's CDN serves attachments with Content-Encoding: br. aiohttp's
compression_utils tries 'import brotlicffi as brotli' first and falls back
to google's Brotli, but Brotli<1.2.0's Decompressor.process() is 1-arg
while aiohttp calls it with 2 args (data, max_length). Result: every
.txt/.md/.doc uploaded to a Discord-gateway session fails to decode at
att.read() with 'Can not decode content-encoding: br' / 'TypeError:
process() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)', the agent never sees the
bytes, and falls back to filesystem guessing.

Pin brotlicffi==1.2.0.1 in both surfaces:

  - tools/lazy_deps.py 'platform.discord' tuple: Discord users on the
    lazy-install path get it on first discord.py import.
  - pyproject.toml [messaging] extra: users who explicitly install
    hermes-agent[messaging] (skipping the lazy path) get it eagerly.

brotlicffi wins aiohttp's import race regardless of what else is
installed (try brotlicffi / except: import brotli), so existing setups
that already pulled google's Brotli transitively don't change behavior
beyond the bug fix. ~1.5 MB wheel, manylinux/macOS/Windows coverage.

E2E verified: round-trip decode of Brotli-compressed payload via
aiohttp.compression_utils.brotli succeeds with brotlicffi pinned; same
test against Brotli==1.1.0 alone reproduces the reported TypeError.

Credit to @Korkyzer for the original diagnosis and fix shape in #15744;
the lazy-deps gating layer was added on top to keep brotlicffi out of
the install path for users who don't run a Discord gateway.

Fixes #12511.
Closes #15744.

Co-authored-by: Korky <korkyzer@gmail.com>

* fix(cli): kill resize scrollback duplication + light-mode visibility

Two long-standing prompt_toolkit bugs in the base hermes CLI:

1. Resize duplication. Column-shrink resize used to push 40+ rows of
   duplicate chrome (status bar, input rules) into terminal scrollback
   every resize. Same wall as pt issues #29 (open since 2014), #1675,
   #1933 — aider/xonsh/ipython all use alt-screen to dodge it.

   Root cause (verified by reading prompt_toolkit/renderer.py):
   _output_screen_diff (renderer.py L232-242) deliberately moves the
   cursor to the bottom of the canvas after every paint 'to make sure
   the terminal scrolls up'. In non-fullscreen mode this scrolls chrome
   content into terminal scrollback on every render — not just on
   resize.

   Fix: monkey-patch prompt_toolkit.renderer._output_screen_diff to
   bypass the reserve-vertical-space cursor move. When pt's logic checks
   'if current_height > previous_screen.height', we inflate the previous
   screen height so the branch falls through. ~30-line wrapper, no fork
   of pt, no alt-screen, no DECSTBM scroll region.

   Verified empirically in real Terminal.app: 10 resizes (mixed
   shrinks/widens 1300→500→1400) during streaming produced ZERO
   scrollback delta, full agent response preserved, status bar pinned
   at bottom, no visible duplicates. pt is pinned to ==3.0.52 so the
   private-function patch is safe; future pt bumps will need to
   re-verify the signature matches.

2. Light-mode terminal visibility. Hardcoded skin colors (#FFF8DC
   cornsilk, #FFD700 gold, #B8860B dark goldenrod) are tuned for dark
   Terminal.app — invisible on light/cream backgrounds.

   Port ui-tui/src/theme.ts detectLightMode() to Python so the base CLI
   adapts. Detection priority: HERMES_LIGHT/HERMES_TUI_LIGHT env →
   HERMES_TUI_THEME=light|dark → HERMES_TUI_BACKGROUND=#RRGGBB →
   COLORFGBG env (xterm/Konsole/urxvt) → OSC 11 query
   (\x1b]11;?\x1b\\) with 100ms timeout → default dark. OSC 11 is
   tty-gated so gateway/cron/batch/subagent code paths don't pay the
   timeout cost.

   When light mode is detected, dark-mode colors auto-remap to readable
   equivalents (#FFF8DC → #1A1A1A, #FFD700 → #9A6B00, etc). Hooked at
   three points:
   - _hex_to_ansi() — auto-remaps any color emitted via the ANSI helper
   - _build_tui_style_dict() — rewrites pt style strings (chrome bg/fg)
   - SkinConfig.get_color() — wrapped at module load so Rich Panel
     borders/body text get the remap too

   Status-bar foreground colors (#C0C0C0, #888888, etc.) are explicitly
   skipped because they're paired with a dark navy bg — remapping them
   would make them invisible in dark mode.

3. Other visibility fixes: [thinking] reasoning preview now uses ANSI
   dim+italic (\x1b[2;3m) instead of #B8860B so it inherits terminal
   default fg color. Input/prompt area defaults to terminal default fg
   (was #FFF8DC cornsilk → invisible on cream).

Co-authored-by: Brooklyn Nicholson <brooklyn.bb.nicholson@gmail.com>

* test(cli): cover light-mode detection + SkinConfig.get_color remap

Adds 16 unit tests covering the light/dark terminal detection path
introduced in the previous commit:

- Env override priority (HERMES_LIGHT, HERMES_TUI_LIGHT,
  HERMES_TUI_THEME, HERMES_TUI_BACKGROUND, COLORFGBG)
- Detection cache stickiness
- _maybe_remap_for_light_mode() no-op in dark mode
- Known dark-mode color remap (#FFF8DC -> #1A1A1A etc)
- Case-insensitive lookup
- Unknown color passthrough
- Status-bar paired colors (#C0C0C0, #888888, #555555, #8B8682) are
  intentionally NOT remapped — regression guard for the patch-11 fix,
  since remapping them would produce dark-on-dark on the status bar's
  navy bg
- SkinConfig.get_color() wrapper is installed and idempotent
- SkinConfig.get_color() does remap in light mode and passes through
  in dark mode

We don't try to fake an OSC 11 reply — that path is exercised
end-to-end in real Terminal.app; the env-override path covers the
algorithmic logic.

* revert(cli): drop scrollback box width clamp (#25975), restore full-width borders (#26163)

#25975 (salvaging #24403) clamped decorative scrollback Panels and
streaming box rules to `max(32, min(width, 56))` as a defense against
terminal-emulator reflow when columns shrink. On any modern wide
terminal this made the response/reasoning borders look stubby — 56
cols inside a 200-col viewport.

#26137 (salvaging #25981, by @OutThisLife) landed a more fundamental
fix: prompt_toolkit's `_output_screen_diff` is monkey-patched so its
reserve-vertical-space cursor move no longer pushes chrome into
scrollback at all. With that in place, the clamp is no longer
load-bearing for the chrome-into-scrollback class of bugs — the
remaining risk is purely cosmetic reflow of *already stamped*
Panel borders during an aggressive column shrink, which we now
accept as a tradeoff for restoring proper full-width rendering.

Changes:
- `_scrollback_box_width()` returns `max(32, width)` (just the floor,
  no upper cap). All 10 call sites stay valid.
- Updated `test_scrollback_box_width_caps_to_resize_safe_value` to
  the new `test_scrollback_box_width_returns_viewport_width` asserting
  full-width passthrough above the 32-col floor.

Floor of 32 is kept so `'─' * (w - 2)` math stays positive on tiny
terminals.

Refs #18449 #19280 #22976 (the original reflow class) and #25975
(the clamp this reverts).

* fix(goals): raise judge max_tokens 200 → 4096, make configurable

The freeform /goal judge was capped at max_tokens=200, which reliably
truncated the JSON verdict on reasoning-heavy models (deepseek-v4-pro,
qwq, etc.) — the model burns tokens on hidden reasoning before emitting
visible content, and the first /goal turn's prompt is larger than later
turns, blowing past 200. Symptom: agent.log shows
`judge reply was not JSON: '{"done": true, "reason": "The agent successfully'`
followed by repeated `judge returned empty response` lines, then the
goal pauses with a misleading 'judge model isn't returning the required
JSON verdict' message.

Diagnosed live by @helix4u — empirically verified that raising the
budget on an unmodified worktree makes the failures go away on the
exact configs users were hitting on Nous Plus subscription paths.

Changes:
- DEFAULT_JUDGE_MAX_TOKENS = 4096 (up from 200)
- New auxiliary.goal_judge.max_tokens config knob for tuning in
  specifically constrained setups
- _goal_judge_max_tokens() resolves the value with fail-open semantics
  (non-int / non-positive / load failure → default). load_config() is
  mtime-cached so per-turn lookup is cheap.

Scoped narrowly to the verified root cause — does not introduce a
submit_verdict tool-call schema (see #26162 / #23671 for that direction;
they can land separately if we want them).

Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_goals.py + tests/cli/test_cli_goal_interrupt.py
+ tests/gateway/test_goal_verdict_send.py — 62/62 passing.

E2E verified: config override honored (8192), missing/garbage/zero
values fall back to 4096, no-auxiliary-section falls back to 4096.

Co-authored-by: helix4u <4317663+helix4u@users.noreply.github.com>

Credits:
- @helix4u (Gille) — diagnosed the max_tokens=200 truncation via live
  testing on an unmodified worktree, drafted the original fix shape
  in #26162.
- @AhmetArif0 — flagged the freeform judge fragility in #23671 from
  the tool-call angle.
- @0xharryriddle (HarryRiddle.eth) — reported the issue from a Nous
  Plus subscription setup in #23876 with full debug reports.

Closes #23876
Supersedes #26162, #23671, #23881

* ci: add PyPI publish workflow (salvaged from #25901) (#26148)

* ci(pypi): add publish workflow for automated PyPI releases

Triggered by CalVer tag pushes from scripts/release.py (v20* pattern).
Three jobs: build (uv build) → publish (OIDC trusted publishing) → sign
(Sigstore + attach to existing GitHub Release).

- workflow_dispatch as manual escape hatch
- skip-existing for safe re-runs
- Graceful skip when GitHub Release not found (sign job)
- Top-level permissions: contents: read (CodeQL compliant)

Requires one-time setup: PyPI trusted publisher + GitHub pypi environment.

Co-authored-by: dmahan93 <44207705+dmahan93@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(release): address review findings

- Stage acp_registry/agent.json in version bump commit (was silently left unstaged)
- Add missing return when no previous tags found without --first-release
- Fix get_pr_number return type annotation (str -> str | None)
- Prefer uv build over python -m build (matches CI workflow), with fallback
- Use unit separator (%x1f) in git log format to handle | in author names
- Add explicit encoding='utf-8' to .release_notes.md write

Workflow hardening:
- Gracefully skip signing when GitHub Release not found (env var gate
  instead of exit 1, so PyPI publish still shows green)

* fix(ci): harden PyPI workflow — SHA-pin actions, guard workflow_dispatch, explicit build flags

- Pin all actions to commit SHAs (supply-chain hardening for id-token:write)
- workflow_dispatch now requires confirm_tag input + checks out that tag
- Both uv build paths explicitly pass --sdist --wheel

---------

Co-authored-by: dmahan93 <44207705+dmahan93@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat(yuanbao): add _parse_resource_id and update _extract_text for ybres anchors

* feat(yuanbao): add quote_media_refs extraction to QuoteContextMiddleware

* feat(yuanbao): prioritize quote media refs over history backfill in DispatchMiddleware

* fix(yuanbao): resolve quoted file/image via transcript lookup when quote desc lacks ybres

When a user quotes a file message (type=3) and @bot, the quote's desc field
only contains the filename without a ybres:// resource reference. The existing
QuoteContextMiddleware only extracted media refs from desc using the ybres regex,
which always returned empty for file quotes.

Fix: add a transcript lookup fallback in QuoteContextMiddleware.handle() —
when quote_media_refs is empty but reply_to_message_id is set, search the
session transcript for the quoted message_id and extract ybres anchors from
its content.

Also fix message_type classification: when quote media resolves non-image files,
override message_type to DOCUMENT so gateway/run.py's document injection logic
properly prepends the file path and content for the agent.

* refactor(yuanbao): improve quote media fallback — move to DispatchMiddleware, tighten conditions

* feat(skills-hub): add huggingface/skills as trusted default tap (#2549)

Adds Hugging Face's official skill catalog to the default GitHub taps and
classifies it as a trusted source alongside openai/skills and anthropics/skills.

- tools/skills_guard.py: huggingface/skills -> TRUSTED_REPOS
- tools/skills_hub.py: GitHubSource.DEFAULT_TAPS += huggingface/skills (skills/)
- website/docs: list it under default taps + trusted-source examples

Closes #2549.

Co-authored-by: teknium1 <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(session): persist auto-reset state across gateway restarts

was_auto_reset, auto_reset_reason, and reset_had_activity were not
included in SessionEntry.to_dict() / from_dict(), so a gateway restart
between session expiry and the user's next message would silently drop
the auto-reset notification and context note.

Add the three fields to the serialization roundtrip with safe defaults
(False / None / False) so existing sessions.json files load cleanly.

Add three roundtrip tests to test_session_reset_notify.py.

* fix(gateway): isinstance-guard string-form 429 error body

When a non-Anthropic provider (e.g. Morpheus proxy) returns a 429 with
`{"error": "Too Many Requests"}` instead of the expected
`{"error": {"type": ...}}` dict, _err_body.json().get("error", {})
returns the raw string and the next .get("type") line crashes with
AttributeError, taking down the message handler.

Guard with isinstance(_err_json, dict) so non-dict error bodies fall
through to the generic rate-limit hint.

Salvaged from PR #2587 by @KiraKatana. The PR's fallback-config
`base_url`/`api_key_env` fix was already implemented independently
on main (run_agent.py:8759-8780) with additional aliases and Ollama
Cloud host handling, so only the gateway guard is cherry-picked.

Co-authored-by: KiraKatana <kira.ops@proton.me>

* fix: clean stale conversation mappings on response eviction/deletion

ResponseStore.put() and .delete() now remove conversations rows that
reference evicted or deleted response IDs, preventing 404 errors when
a conversation name is reused after its backing response was purged.

Adds regression tests for delete, eviction, and handler-level reuse.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(release): add AUTHOR_MAP entry for CoinTheHat

* fix(whatsapp): fail fast when Baileys sendMessage hangs

Baileys' sock.sendMessage() can hang indefinitely while uploading
media to WhatsApp servers (and, less often, on text sends), pinning
the bridge's Express handler until the gateway's aiohttp timeout
fires — surfacing to the user as a 120s wait followed by an empty
error from the TTS/voice path.

Wrap every sock.sendMessage() call inside the bridge in a
sendWithTimeout() helper that rejects after WHATSAPP_SEND_TIMEOUT_MS
(default 60s) via Promise.race. The four call sites are /send,
/edit, and /send-media's primary send. Express handlers catch the
rejection in their existing try/catch and return a real 500 to the
gateway, which can then surface a retryable error.

Salvaged from #2608 — wysie diagnosed the hang and the
Promise.race shape; the other two parts of that PR (gateway HTTP
session pooling, base.py metadata kwarg removal) already landed on
main via separate routes and are no longer needed.

Co-authored-by: Teknium <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>

* security(deps): add upper bounds to 5 loose deps + document supply chain policy (#24226)

After the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign (May 2026) and the litellm
compromise (March 2026), codify the dependency pinning policy that was
established in PRs #2810 and #9801 but never written down for contributors.

Changes:
- pyproject.toml: Add tight upper bounds to the 5 deps that slipped
  through as review escapes from external contributor PRs:
  - hindsight-client>=0.4.22,<0.5 (was >=0.4.22)
  - aiosqlite>=0.20,<0.23 (was >=0.20)
  - asyncpg>=0.29,<0.32 (was >=0.29)
  - alibabacloud-dingtalk>=2.0.0,<3 (was >=2.0.0)
  - youtube-transcript-api>=1.2.0,<2 (was >=1.2.0)

  Pre-1.0 packages get <0.(current_minor+2) — tight enough to block
  hostile minor releases but loose enough to not require bumps every week.

- CONTRIBUTING.md: Add 'Dependency pinning policy' section under Security
  with the full rationale, table of source types + treatments, and examples.

- AGENTS.md: Add concise 'Dependency Pinning Policy' section for AI coding
  agents with the decision table and step-by-step checklist.

- supply-chain-audit.yml: Add dep-bounds job that fails PRs introducing
  PyPI deps without <ceiling upper bounds. Fires on pyproject.toml changes.
  Posts a PR comment with the specific unbounded specs found.

Refs: #2796 #2810 #9801 #24205

* feat(image-gen): actionable setup message when no FAL backend is reachable (#26222)

When the in-tree FAL path has no API key (and no managed gateway), the
handler used to return a bare 'FAL_KEY environment variable not set'
error. Users had no idea where to get a key, that a managed Nous
gateway exists, or that plugin-registered providers are an option.

Now `image_generate_tool` returns a structured multi-line message:
  - signup link (https://fal.ai)
  - managed-gateway status (if Nous tools are enabled)
  - pointer to `hermes tools` / `hermes plugins list` for alternate
    backends, so users on a stale `image_gen.provider` know where to look

The schema is untouched — `check_fn` still gates the tool out of the
schema when no backend is reachable at startup, consistent with every
other conditional tool. This patch fixes the call-time failure modes:
managed-gateway 5xx, plugin provider disappearing mid-session, etc.

Inspired by #2546 / @Mibayy. The PR was ~5700 commits stale against
the new plugin-aware image_gen architecture, so this is a forward port
of the actionable-error idea rather than a cherry-pick.


Closes #2543

Co-authored-by: Mibayy <mibayy@users.noreply.github.com>

* docs(cron): worked recipes for the wakeAgent pre-run gat…

…ousResearch#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

Remove the tinker-atropos submodule from the PR branch because maintainers intentionally separated it from the main Hermes repo in PR NousResearch#26106.

…ousResearch#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

… (#38105)

Follow-up to #38089. The merged PR removed --recurse-submodules from the
installer, CI, and getting-started docs, but missed the same stale clause in:
- CONTRIBUTING.md (Prerequisites table)
- website/docs/developer-guide/contributing.md (table + clone command)
- zh-Hans mirror of the developer-guide contributing doc

git-lfs is kept in the Git requirement rows since it's a separate, real
prerequisite. No .gitmodules has existed since the Atropos RL submodule was
removed in #26106.

…Research#38089 (NousResearch#38105)

Follow-up to NousResearch#38089. The merged PR removed --recurse-submodules from the
installer, CI, and getting-started docs, but missed the same stale clause in:
- CONTRIBUTING.md (Prerequisites table)
- website/docs/developer-guide/contributing.md (table + clone command)
- zh-Hans mirror of the developer-guide contributing doc

git-lfs is kept in the Git requirement rows since it's a separate, real
prerequisite. No .gitmodules has existed since the Atropos RL submodule was
removed in NousResearch#26106.

#69)

* fix(tui): clear selection on right-click copy + group transcript blocks

Two TUI polish fixes.

(1) Right-click copy now clears the highlight.
The right-click handler copied an active selection via onCopySelectionNoClear
(the copy-on-select variant that keeps the highlight during a drag) and never
cleared it, so after right-click-to-copy the selection stayed lit with no
confirmation and a follow-up right-click re-copied the stale range instead of
pasting. A successful right-click copy now clears the selection and notifies;
if the copy fails (no clipboard path) the highlight survives and we fall back
to the right-click paste handler, exactly as before.

(2) Group transcript blocks so boundaries read clearly.
Model replies, reasoning/tool trails, and system/error notes rendered with no
vertical separation, so distinct block types butted together and were hard to
scan. Group adjacent blocks by kind: one blank line opens only where the visual
group changes (model prose <-> reasoning/tool trails <-> notes), while a run of
same-kind blocks renders flush. The rule lives in domain/blockLayout.ts
(messageGroup + hasLeadGap) and is applied intrinsically in MessageLine via a
`prev` prop, which fixes the things ad-hoc per-block margins kept breaking:

  - Streaming stability: the gap is derived from the stable predecessor, never
    the live block's own changing text, so the actively-streaming reply computes
    the same gap while it streams as the settled segment does once it flushes.
    No reflow/jump.
  - Transparent empty trails: a trail hidden by /details, or one carrying only a
    token tally (the finalDetails segment message.complete appends), renders
    nothing and is transparent to grouping (prevRenderedMsg skips it), so there
    are no floating gaps, no doubled gap after a prompt, and no padded space
    above the final reply. In the default/collapsed modes content-bearing trails
    always render, so the grouping is a no-op there.

The virtual-height estimator counts the group-boundary line so scroll math
stays accurate before Yoga remeasures.

ui-tui/src/domain/blockLayout.ts (new), components/messageLine.tsx,
components/streamingAssistant.tsx, components/appLayout.tsx,
lib/virtualHeights.ts, app/useMainApp.ts.

Tests: blockLayout.test.ts (grouping + hidden/empty-trail visibility),
virtualHeights leadGap, app-mouse.test.ts copy behavior. Full ui-tui suite
green apart from 3 pre-existing local/env failures (cursorDrift, ink-resize,
virtualHeights user-prompt-width) unchanged from main.

* fix(desktop): stop chat scroll jumping by disabling native scroll anchoring

The thread renders virtualized turns in natural document flow with padding
spacers, and @tanstack/react-virtual already adjusts scrollTop itself when an
off-screen turn is measured and its real height differs from the 220px
estimate. With the browser default `overflow-anchor: auto`, native scroll
anchoring corrects that SAME size delta too, so the two double-correct and the
view lurches — most visibly with Windows mouse wheels, whose coarse notches
mount/measure several under-estimated turns per tick (Mac trackpads scroll
~1-3px/frame, keeping it sub-perceptual).

Set `overflow-anchor: none` on the thread viewport so only the virtualizer
compensates. Also adds `diag-scroll-reset.mjs`, a CDP wheel-up repro that A/B
tests the anchor behavior at runtime to confirm the fix.

* feat(desktop): clamp sticky human messages to ~2 lines until hover/focus

Long user prompts stick to the top of the thread while the response streams
beneath them, so a multi-line prompt could eat most of the viewport. Clamp the
read-only human bubble's text to ~2 lines with a soft bottom fade; the clamp
lifts on hover or keyboard focus, and clicking the bubble still opens the edit
composer (which shows the full text). Short messages are untouched — no clamp,
no fade.

Overflow is measured on an unclamped inner wrapper so the ResizeObserver only
fires on real content/width changes, not every frame while the outer
max-height animates open; the measured height feeds --human-msg-full so
expand/collapse animate to the true height instead of overshooting the cap.

* fix(dashboard): trust non-web WS origins on OAuth-gated binds after ticket auth (#37870)

Generalises #37747. The WS Origin guard (_ws_host_origin_is_allowed) only
trusted the packaged Electron app's non-web origin (file:// / null / app://)
when the bind was NOT OAuth-gated. The packaged Hermes Desktop renderer loads
over file://, so when it drives a remote OAuth-gated gateway its /api/ws
upgrade was rejected with HTTP 403 even though _ws_auth_ok had already
validated the single-use ?ticket= one line earlier.

This guard runs only AFTER _ws_auth_ok has accepted the WS credential, which
is the real auth boundary in every mode:
  * loopback bind          -> legacy dashboard session token
  * non-loopback --insecure -> legacy session token (Tailscale / LAN, #37747)
  * OAuth-gated public bind -> single-use, 30s-TTL, identity-bound ?ticket=
A non-web origin can only come from a native client; a DNS-rebinding attack
always arrives from an http(s) origin and is still match-checked against the
bound host. So once the upstream credential check has passed, the Origin guard
adds nothing for a non-web origin. Collapsed the loopback/non-gated special
cases to 'return True' for non-web origins.

http(s) origins keep the strict same-host check, so browser DNS-rebinding
defence is unchanged.

Tests: gated file:///null/app:// now asserted ALLOWED; cross-site http(s)
still rejected on gated and loopback binds; #37747's loopback and
non-loopback-insecure cases retained. 37/37 test_dashboard_auth_ws_auth +
test_web_server_host_header pass.

* fix(desktop): inset sticky human messages with --sticky-human-top

Pin user bubbles 0.75rem below the scroll top via a single token instead of
flush top-0, so the sticky header doesn't sit hard against the thread edge.

* chore: uptick

* fix(desktop): drop sticky human clamp max-height transition

* fix(desktop): restore sticky human clamp transition at 0.75s

* chore: uptick

* feat(desktop): custom zoom shortcuts at half default step

Replace Electron's built-in zoomIn/zoomOut/resetZoom menu roles with
custom implementations that use a 0.1 zoom-level step instead of
Chromium's default 0.2. This makes Ctrl/Cmd + +/-0 zoom feel more
granular and less jumpy.

Also adds installZoomShortcuts() which intercepts the keyboard shortcuts
via before-input-event. This is necessary on Linux/Windows where the
application menu is set to null, so Chromium's default handler would
otherwise apply the full 0.2 step.

* fix(docker): seed gateway_state.json from HERMES_GATEWAY_BOOTSTRAP_STATE on first boot (#37896)

On a fresh volume there is no gateway_state.json, so the boot reconciler
(cont-init.d/02-reconcile-profiles) registers the gateway-default s6 slot
but leaves it down — it only auto-starts when the last recorded state was
"running". A freshly-provisioned container therefore comes up with the
gateway down until something starts it (e.g. the dashboard's start button).

Add a generic, first-boot-only env-seed in stage2-hook.sh (which runs
before 02-reconcile-profiles): when HERMES_GATEWAY_BOOTSTRAP_STATE=running
and no gateway_state.json exists yet, seed {"gateway_state":"running"} so
the reconciler brings the supervised slot up on the very first boot.

This mirrors the existing HERMES_AUTH_JSON_BOOTSTRAP pattern: it seeds the
same state file the reconciler already consults, guarded by [ ! -f ] so
persisted runtime state always wins on later boots (a deliberately-stopped
gateway stays stopped across restarts). Only the literal "running" is
honoured (the sole value in the reconciler's _AUTOSTART_STATES).

Generic container contract — no host-specific code. Useful to any
orchestrator that provisions a blank volume and wants the gateway up from
first boot (the supervised gateway/dashboard already work on such hosts;
only the first-boot autostart was missing because the CLI lifecycle
commands can't drive the s6 layer when container self-detection misses).

Adds a shell-level contract test and documents the env var.

* fix(desktop): keep in-flight new chats from vanishing on refresh

Creating several sessions in a row (Ctrl-N, type, send, repeat) and
waiting for one to finish made the other still-running chats disappear
from the sidebar.

Root cause: a new session's first user message isn't flushed to the
SessionDB until its turn is persisted, so the row's message_count stays
0 mid-response. `refreshSessions()` lists with min_messages=1 and then
hard-replaces $sessions. Because every message.complete triggers a
refresh, the moment one session finished, the others (still at
message_count 0) were filtered out of the server page and dropped from
the list.

Fix: merge instead of replace. `mergeWorkingSessions()` preserves any
session that is still in $workingSessionIds but absent from the server
page, so concurrent new chats stay visible until their own turn persists.
Optimistic deletes/archives already remove the row from the previous
list, so a removed session can't be resurrected by the merge.

* fix(desktop): label in-flight new chats with the first message

The send path created the optimistic sidebar row with a null preview, so
a new chat read "Untitled session" until its turn persisted and auto-title
ran. With concurrent new chats now preserved across refreshes, several
"Untitled session" rows could show at once.

Seed the optimistic preview with the user's first message (the branch path
already does this) so each in-flight row is labeled immediately. The
server's own preview/title supersedes it once the turn persists.

* fix(docker): point TUI launcher at prebuilt bundle via HERMES_TUI_DIR (#37923)

The embedded dashboard Chat tab dies on hosted images with a 502 /
"[session ended]": the PTY child's `hermes --tui` spawn runs a runtime
`npm install` that fails.

Root cause: the root package-lock.json describes the WHOLE npm monorepo
workspace set (root + web + ui-tui + apps/*), but the image only installs
root/web/ui-tui — apps/* (the desktop app) is never `npm install`ed here, and
its deps hoist into the shared root node_modules. So the actualized
node_modules permanently disagrees with the canonical lock,
`_tui_need_npm_install()` returns True on every launch, and the runtime
`npm install` it triggers (a) can never converge against the partial monorepo
and (b) races itself across concurrent /api/pty connections -> ENOTEMPTY ->
the launcher `sys.exit(1)`s, the slow install blows past Fly's WS-upgrade
window -> 502 -> the browser shows "[session ended]".

Fix: set `ENV HERMES_TUI_DIR=/opt/hermes/ui-tui` so `_make_tui_argv` takes the
prebuilt-bundle fast path (`node --expose-gc /opt/hermes/ui-tui/dist/entry.js`)
and never reaches the install check — exactly the nix/packaged-release path
the launcher was designed for. The bundle is already built at Layer 8
(`ui-tui && npm run build`); this just tells the launcher to use it.

Verified on a freshly-built image: HERMES_TUI_DIR is set, the prebuilt
dist/entry.js is present, `_make_tui_argv` resolves to the prebuilt node
invocation (no npm), and `docker run ... --tui` no longer prints
"npm install failed". New regression guard: tests/docker/test_tui_prebuilt_bundle.py.

A separate launcher hardening (make _tui_need_npm_install tolerant of
partial-monorepo installs) is tracked independently; this Docker-side fix
resolves the hosted-chat symptom on its own.

Area: docker (Dockerfile + tests/docker).

* fix(desktop): disable GPU acceleration on remote displays to stop flicker

Users on remote/forwarded displays (SSH X11 forwarding, VNC, RDP, WSLg)
reported the window flickering during scroll/streaming; nobody on native
Windows/macOS ever saw it.

Root cause: the app shipped with Chromium's default GPU hardware
acceleration and no remote-display handling. Over a remote connection the
GPU compositor can't present accelerated layers cleanly across the wire,
so the surface flashes on repaint. Local sessions composite on the GPU
and never hit it.

Detect a remote display before app `ready` (detectRemoteDisplay in
bootstrap-platform.cjs) and fall back to software rendering via
app.disableHardwareAcceleration() + --disable-gpu-compositing. Software
compositing is rock-steady over the wire and the CPU cost is negligible
next to the connection's latency. HERMES_DESKTOP_DISABLE_GPU overrides
detection both ways for VNC/screen-sharing setups we can't sniff or
remote hosts that do have working acceleration.

* fix(desktop): don't treat WSLg as a remote display

WSLg renders Linux GUIs locally through a vGPU surface rather than
shipping frames over the wire, so it doesn't show the remote-compositor
flicker — confirmed by a WSL user seeing zero flickering. Drop the WSL
branch from detectRemoteDisplay so WSLg keeps hardware acceleration;
detection now covers only genuinely-remote displays (SSH X11 forwarding,
VNC, RDP). The HERMES_DESKTOP_DISABLE_GPU override still works for anyone
who does hit it.

* fix(desktop): keep slash/@ completion menu navigable and Esc-dismissable

The desktop composer's `onKeyUp` handler unconditionally re-ran
`refreshTrigger` on every keyup, including the Arrow/Enter/Tab/Escape keys
the open-trigger `onKeyDown` branch had already fully handled. Because
`refreshTrigger` re-detects the trigger and resets the active index to 0,
this produced two bugs in the `/` (and `@`) completion popover:

- ArrowDown/ArrowUp moved the highlight on keydown, then keyup snapped it
  straight back to the top — so the user could never cycle past the first
  couple of items.
- Escape closed the menu on keydown, then keyup re-detected the still-present
  `/` and immediately reopened it — so Esc appeared to do nothing.

Fix: skip the keyup-driven refresh for the navigation/control keys while a
trigger menu is open (they never edit text, so refreshing is pointless), and
only reset the highlight in `refreshTrigger` when the detected trigger query
actually changed. Applied to both the main composer (chat/composer/index.tsx)
and the message-edit composer (assistant-ui/thread.tsx), which shared the
same bug. New `shouldSkipTriggerRefreshOnKeyUp` helper is unit-tested.

* fix(desktop): make Stop button actually interrupt when a turn is queued

When a follow-up message is queued during a busy turn, the composer
clears and the primary button switches back to the Stop affordance. But
clicking Stop ran interruptAndSendNextQueued(), which cancelled the turn
and *immediately* re-sent the head of the queue. The auto-drain effect
(busy true to false) compounded this: any explicit cancel flipped busy
false and re-fired the queue. The net effect was that Stop appeared to
never interrupt -- the agent kept running on the queued prompt.

Fix:
- Stop button (busy + empty composer) now always performs a pure
  interrupt via onCancel(); it no longer hijacks the queue.
- An explicit interrupt latches userInterruptedRef so the busy to false
  auto-drain skips exactly one drain. Queued turns are preserved and the
  user resumes them deliberately (Cmd/Ctrl+K, Enter, or the per-row
  send-now arrow), matching the documented Esc=cancel / Cmd+K=send-next
  affordances.
- Extracted the settle decision into shouldAutoDrainOnSettle() with unit
  tests covering natural completion vs. explicit interrupt.

* fix(desktop): stop background session messages bleeding into the active transcript

A still-busy background session (one the user toggled away from) keeps
emitting updateSessionState() heartbeats — stream deltas, and especially
the 'session busy' prompt-rejection errors from auto-drained queued turns.
Each call invoked syncSessionStateToView() unconditionally, staging that
session's messages into the shared $messages view.

flushPendingViewState() guarded against the wrong session reaching the
view, but only one requestAnimationFrame is scheduled per frame and
pendingViewStateRef holds just the latest writer. So within a single
frame a background write could overwrite an already-pending foreground
write, and the stale background transcript (e.g. the red 'session busy'
rows) would render on top of whatever session the user switched to —
appearing to 'bleed' into every session.

Guard at the staging site: a session may only stage into the view when
it is the currently-active session. Background sessions still update
their own cache entry; they just never touch $messages. Pure render
fix, no behavior change to queuing, interrupt, or drain.

* fix(dashboard): authenticate server-spawned PTY child WS with a process-internal credential

The embedded-TUI PTY child attaches to two server-internal WebSockets:
/api/ws (its primary JSON-RPC gateway backend) and /api/pub (the event
sidecar). Both URLs are built server-side in web_server.py and handed to
the child via its environment.

In OAuth-gated mode (auth_required=true, every hosted Fly agent), _ws_auth_ok
unconditionally rejects the legacy ?token=<_SESSION_TOKEN> path — a leaked
session token must not grant WS access once the gate is engaged. But
_build_gateway_ws_url() still only emitted ?token=, with no gated-mode
branch (its sibling _build_sidecar_url had been given a ticket branch; the
gateway-url builder was missed). So the TUI child's /api/ws upgrade was
rejected 4401 -> 'gateway websocket connection failed' -> 'gateway startup
timeout', leaving the embedded chat unusable on every gated deployment.

A single-use 30s browser ticket is the wrong shape for this link: the child
reads its attach URL once at startup and reuses it on every reconnect, and
on a slow cold boot it may not dial within the TTL. (_build_sidecar_url's
own docstring already flagged this fragility.)

Fix: add a process-lifetime, multi-use internal credential to
dashboard_auth.ws_tickets (internal_ws_credential / consume_internal_credential),
minted once per process and NEVER injected into the SPA — it only leaves the
process via a spawned child's env, so browser-side XSS can't read it, and a
leak grants no more than a ticket already does. _ws_auth_ok accepts it via
?internal= in gated mode only. Both _build_gateway_ws_url and
_build_sidecar_url now use it, so the child can reconnect both sockets.

Loopback / --insecure behavior is unchanged (still ?token=).

Needs review: touches _ws_auth_ok + dashboard_auth (core auth surface).

* test(dashboard): direct unit coverage for internal WS credential + docstring fix

Follow-up to Ben's PR #37892. Adds a TestInternalCredential block to
test_dashboard_auth_ws_tickets.py exercising the mint-once stability,
multi-use, unminted-rejection, empty-value, wrong-value, reset-and-remint,
and ticket-store-independence branches directly (previously only covered
indirectly via _ws_auth_ok, which left the unminted and empty-value
branches unexercised).

Also corrects the consume_internal_credential docstring: the returned
identity dict is discarded by the current _ws_auth_ok caller (which only
needs the boolean outcome), so the prior 'carry it into its session log'
wording over-promised.

* test(desktop): real-DOM regression for slash/@ menu keyboard nav

The existing slash-menu fix (PR #37937) shipped a unit test that drove the
keydown reducer directly. It did not exercise the actual DOM event path —
specifically the keyup-driven `refreshTrigger` that was the root cause — so
it would not have caught a regression in that path.

This adds a faithful @testing-library reproduction that mounts the real
`useLiveCompletionAdapter` plus the index.tsx trigger wiring and fires real
`keyDown` + `keyUp` event pairs on a contentEditable. It asserts:

- ArrowDown cycles through ALL items (0,1,2,3,4,0,1), not just the first two
- Escape closes the menu and keyup does not reopen it

Reverting the fix (always-refresh keyup + unconditional setTriggerActive(0))
makes this test fail with the highlight stuck at the top — confirming it
guards the real bug.

* fix(desktop): stop Esc reopening the slash/@ menu; harden keyup guard

Follow-up to #37937. That fix guarded the composer's keyup with
`shouldSkipTriggerRefreshOnKeyUp(key, trigger !== null)`. The `trigger !== null`
check is timing-fragile for Escape: Escape's *keydown* sets `trigger = null`
and closes the menu, but in a real browser the *keyup* fires after a re-render,
so the handler closure sees `trigger === null`, the guard returns false,
`refreshTrigger` runs, re-detects the still-present `/` in the input, and
instantly reopens the menu. (jsdom batches state synchronously so a unit test
could not observe this -- only the running app does.)

Replace the value-based guard with a `triggerKeyConsumedRef` set synchronously
in keydown whenever the open popover consumes a nav/control key
(Arrow/Enter/Tab/Escape). keyup consults and clears that ref, so it is immune
to the keydown->re-render->keyup timing. Applied to both the main composer
(chat/composer/index.tsx) and the message-edit composer
(assistant-ui/thread.tsx).

Removes the now-unused `shouldSkipTriggerRefreshOnKeyUp` helper and its unit
test. The real-DOM regression test now fires keydown+keyup pairs through the
ref-based handlers and asserts Esc closes and stays closed.

Verified by running a production renderer build (Vite v8) under Electron
against a local backend: ArrowDown/ArrowUp cycle the full list and Esc
dismisses the menu without reopening.

* chore: remove committed RELEASE_v*.md changelogs from repo root (#37855)

These per-release changelog files are transient working files used only to
feed `gh release create --notes-file` at release time; the GitHub Release
itself permanently stores the published notes. They were never a build
artifact (no package-data glob, no MANIFEST.in include, no CI reference)
and don't belong in the tracked tree.

- Delete all 15 (v0.2.0 through v0.15.1)
- Add RELEASE_v*.md to .gitignore so an accidental `git add -A` can't
  recommit them

The hermes-release skill is updated separately to write the changelog to
/tmp/ for the whole release process and never stage it.

* fix(windows): rip out unused submodule support in installer & docker & docs

we have no submodules anymore, so #37702 was kinda right, but we can just delete it entirely.

* fix(docs): remove remaining stale submodule references missed by #38089 (#38105)

Follow-up to #38089. The merged PR removed --recurse-submodules from the
installer, CI, and getting-started docs, but missed the same stale clause in:
- CONTRIBUTING.md (Prerequisites table)
- website/docs/developer-guide/contributing.md (table + clone command)
- zh-Hans mirror of the developer-guide contributing doc

git-lfs is kept in the Git requirement rows since it's a separate, real
prerequisite. No .gitmodules has existed since the Atropos RL submodule was
removed in #26106.

* docs: explain remote-gateway session token for Hermes Desktop (#38144)

The desktop Remote gateway field asks for a session token that Hermes never
surfaces — by default web_server.py mints an ephemeral token per boot and
injects it into the served HTML, so there is nothing in config.yaml, /gateway,
or env to copy. Document that you pin it yourself via
HERMES_DASHBOARD_SESSION_TOKEN, run the backend with --insecure (keeps the
legacy token auth path instead of engaging the OAuth gate), then paste that
value into the desktop app.

- web-dashboard.md: new 'Connecting Hermes Desktop to a remote backend' section
  (backend + desktop steps, --insecure vs OAuth-gate nuance, HERMES_DESKTOP_*
  env override, Tailscale guidance, troubleshooting).
- environment-variables.md: new 'Web Dashboard & Hermes Desktop' env-var table
  (HERMES_DASHBOARD_SESSION_TOKEN, HERMES_DESKTOP_REMOTE_URL/TOKEN, the OAuth
  and public-url vars) — none were previously documented.

* feat(matrix): support bang command aliases

* fix(matrix): make bang-command resolution robust + fix dead skill-command branch

Follow-up to the salvaged contributor commit:

- Underscore→hyphen tolerance now emits a resolvable token. Previously
  the detect set accepted the hyphenated variant but emit returned the
  raw token, so '!set_home' produced '/set_home' which the dispatcher
  could not resolve. Now emits '/set-home'. Aliases are left as-is — the
  gateway dispatcher canonicalizes them itself.
- Fix dead skill-command branch: skill command keys are stored
  slash-prefixed (e.g. '/arxiv') in get_skill_commands(), but the check
  compared the bare token, so '!arxiv' never normalized. Now compares
  the '/candidate' form, making skill aliases (e.g. !gif-search) work.
- Re-run bang normalization after Matrix reply-fallback stripping so a
  quoted reply whose content is a bang command reaches command parity
  with the slash form.
- Replace silent 'except Exception: pass' with logger.debug(exc_info=True).
- Add AUTHOR_MAP entry for @nepenth.

Tests: +5 (underscore-alias, skill-command branch, quoted-reply bang +
slash parity). 162 Matrix tests pass.

* docs: add remote-backend section to the Desktop App page (#38180)

The Desktop App page covered install, settings, and chat but not how to
connect the app to a backend on another machine — the exact thing
@PedjaDrazic asked about. Add a 'Connecting to a remote backend' section
that explains the Session token is the dashboard token Hermes never
surfaces (pin it via HERMES_DASHBOARD_SESSION_TOKEN + run --insecure),
and link to the web-dashboard page for the full backend setup rather than
duplicating it. Add a reciprocal link from the web-dashboard remote section
back to the Desktop App page.

* fix(cli): exclude desktop-managed backend from stale-dashboard kill

Fixes #37532

* fix(desktop): pass live backend PID to in-app update so its own dashboard is spared

The Python half (#37538) reads HERMES_DESKTOP_CHILD_PID to exclude the
desktop-managed backend from _kill_stale_dashboard_processes, but nothing
set it. applyUpdatesPosixInApp now passes the live backend PID in the
`hermes update` env, completing the #37532 fix end-to-end.

* chore: add bbednarski9 to AUTHOR_MAP for #29722 salvage (#38189)

Co-authored-by: kshitijk4poor <kshitijk4poor@users.noreply.github.com>

* docs: make the Desktop App remote-backend section self-contained (#38194)

The section explained why the Session token is hidden but punted the actual
setup steps to the web-dashboard page via a link — a bounce for someone on
the Desktop App page trying to connect. Inline the concrete steps instead:
backend command block (mint token -> .env -> hermes dashboard --insecure),
the in-app Remote gateway steps, the env-var override, Tailscale guidance,
and a troubleshooting list. Keep a short pointer to the web-dashboard page
for the same setup from that angle.

* fix(mcp): banner shows 'disabled' not 'failed' for enabled:false servers (#38204)

get_mcp_status() treated every non-connected server as a failure, so a
server configured with enabled: false rendered as red '— failed' in the
startup banner even though it was intentionally off. Add a 'disabled'
field derived from the enabled flag and render disabled servers dim as
'— disabled' instead.

* feat(debug): include desktop.log in hermes debug share / /debug / hermes logs (#38203)

The Electron desktop app writes boot failures, backend spawn output, and
Python tracebacks to HERMES_HOME/logs/desktop.log, but debug-share only
captured agent/errors/gateway — so desktop boot issues never made it into
shared debug reports.

- logs.py: register desktop -> desktop.log (enables 'hermes logs desktop')
- debug.py: capture desktop snapshot, add to summary report, upload full
  desktop.log in 'share', update privacy notice
- gateway /debug inherits the desktop tail via collect_debug_report()
- main.py + docs: help text and log-name table (also adds missing gui row)
- tests: desktop seed in fixture, new report test, three_pastes -> four_pastes

* fix(desktop): add @testing-library/dom as explicit dev dependency

@testing-library/react@16 declares @testing-library/dom as a peerDependency
and re-exports waitFor/fireEvent/screen/within from it. Without dom installed
as a direct dependency, tsc -b fails with TS2305 in every test file that
imports those names — which breaks the apps/desktop build during installer
bootstrap (Hermes Setup → "INSTALL DIDN'T FINISH").

* chore: regenerate lockfile + map vladkvlchk for salvaged #36978

- Add @testing-library/dom to apps/desktop devDeps in package-lock.json
  so npm ci validates against the manifest change (contributor left the
  lockfile out of the PR intentionally).
- Removes stale 'peer: true' flags now that dom is an explicit devDep.
- AUTHOR_MAP: prostoandrei9@gmail.com -> vladkvlchk (CI author gate).

* fix(nix): bump npmDepsHash for refreshed lockfile

Lockfile regeneration invalidated the flake's pinned npm-deps hash.
Hash taken from fetchNpmDeps' authoritative 'got:' line (the
prefetch-npm-deps Diagnose helper reports a different, wrong value
due to a fetcherVersion normalization discrepancy).

* fix(desktop): stop chat scroll backward-jump from content-growth interim scrolls (#37997)

The thread scroll-anchor hook in apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/
thread-virtualizer.tsx was disarming sticky-bottom whenever scrollTop
decreased by >1px between scroll events. That check was too eager: when
content height grows mid-frame (virtualizer measurement of a newly visible
turn, streaming token, Streamdown/Shiki re-tokenization, composer chip
toggle), the browser emits an interim 'scroll' event whose scrollTop is
smaller than the previous frame's because scrollHeight just jumped. The
rAF-scheduled pinToBottom hasn't run yet, so programmaticScrollPendingRef
is 0 and the disarm fired. With sticky-bottom disarmed the scroller stuck
~50px above bottom — the visible at-rest backward jump that #37997
describes (and the same root cause as the wheel-up variant in #37527).

Fix:
- Track scrollHeight per frame (lastHeightRef). Disarm on scrollTop
  decrease ONLY when scrollHeight did not grow this frame. Real upward
  user intent (scrollbar drag, keyboard PgUp, programmatic scrollIntoView)
  still disarms because it moves scrollTop without growing the content.
  Wheel-up and touchmove continue to disarm via their own listeners.
- Stop observing the scroller element itself in the ResizeObserver; only
  observe its content child. Viewport-only resizes (window resize,
  devtools panel toggle) no longer trigger spurious pins, matching the
  intent of the auto-stick-to-bottom behavior.

Verified:
- apps/desktop `tsc -b` clean.
- apps/desktop `vitest run src/components/assistant-ui/streaming.test.tsx`
  passes (9/9), including the existing wheel-up disarm regression test
  that asserts scrollTop stays at 420 after a wheel-up + content growth.

* fix(desktop): honor upward wheel scroll in long threads

* feat(dashboard): check-before-update flow on the System page (#38205)

The dashboard's update button ran 'hermes update' immediately with no
preview. Now the System page shows whether an update is available and
asks the user to confirm before applying it.

- New GET /api/hermes/update/check: reports install method, current
  version, and commits-behind (via banner.check_for_updates, 6h-cached;
  ?force=1 busts the cache). Soft-fails to behind=null on network error;
  marks docker/nix/homebrew as can_apply=false with the out-of-band cmd.
- System page: update-status badge on the Hermes version row (latest /
  N behind), a Check-for-updates button, and an Update-now button that
  opens a ConfirmDialog showing the commit count before POST /api/hermes/
  update fires. Cached status loads with the rest of the page.
- Docs + 5 endpoint tests (git/up-to-date/docker/soft-failure + auth gate).

* fix(tui): stop persisting full tool output in trail lines (silent OOM death)

A heavy --tui session (browser snapshots, large tool outputs) silently
OOM-killed the Node parent within minutes — closing the gateway child's
stdin, which the user saw only as a bare "gateway exited" / stdin EOF.
CLI was immune. Root cause: each completed tool's verbose trail line
embedded up to 16KB of result_text, persisted in transcript Msg.tools[]
for the whole session and rendered EXPANDED by default, so an Ink
render-node tree was built for every one of up to 800 messages at once.
That tree blew past Node's heap at a few hundred MB — far below the 2.5GB
memory-monitor exit threshold, so the death was never even attributed.

- text.ts: persisted verbose tool-trail blocks now cap to a small preview
  (VERBOSE_TRAIL_MAX_CHARS=800/12 lines), not the 16KB live-render budget.
  Retained trail strings drop ~17x (12.2MB -> 0.7MB at 800 msgs); the live
  streaming tail still uses the larger LIVE_RENDER budget.
- tui_gateway/server.py: lower the gateway-side verbose text cap to match
  (1KB/16 lines) so we stop shipping output the TUI no longer renders.
- memoryMonitor.ts: derive critical/high thresholds from the real V8 heap
  ceiling (~88%/70%) instead of the hardcoded 2.5GB that killed the process
  at 31% of an 8GB ceiling; add a one-shot onWarn early-warning on fast
  sub-threshold heap growth so the next such death is diagnosable, not silent.
- entry.tsx: wire onWarn to a crash-log breadcrumb + stderr line.

Full tool output is unchanged in the agent context and SQLite session — this
is display/transport only, no behavior or context change.

Fixes #34095. Related #27282.

Tests: ui-tui text + new memoryMonitor suites (33 pass), python verbose-cap
guard (5 pass); full ui-tui suite shows no new failures vs pristine main.
E2E repro confirms the retention drop.

* fix(kanban): don't permanently block tasks that hit a provider rate limit (#38223)

A kanban worker that exhausted its retries purely on a provider rate
limit / quota wall (e.g. opencode-go's 5-hour window) exited with code 1.
The dispatcher counted that as a crash, and with DEFAULT_FAILURE_LIMIT=2
two quota-wall hits permanently blocked the card. Fanning out many
workers against one shared quota made this routine.

Now a rate-limited worker exits with EX_TEMPFAIL (75); the dispatcher
classifies that as a 'rate_limited' exit, releases the task back to
'ready' WITHOUT incrementing consecutive_failures (the breaker can't trip
on a transient throttle), and the respawn guard defers the next attempt
on a cooldown (default 5min, HERMES_KANBAN_RATE_LIMIT_COOLDOWN_SECONDS)
until the quota window clears. Genuine crashes still count and trip the
breaker as before. The 120s Retry-After cap is unchanged — no worker
parks for hours holding a slot.

- conversation_loop.py: surface failure_reason in the exhaustion return
- cli.py: kanban worker picks exit 75 on rate_limit/billing failure
- kanban_db.py: rate_limited exit kind, no-count requeue, cooldown guard

* feat(observability): observer-grade telemetry hooks + NeMo-Relay plugin

Adds backend-neutral observer hooks for plugins: session, turn, API
request, tool, approval, and subagent lifecycle events with stable
correlation IDs (session_id, task_id, turn_id, api_request_id,
tool_call_id, parent/child subagent ids). Extends VALID_HOOKS with
api_request_error and subagent_start.

Hot path is zero-cost when no plugin subscribes: has_hook()/presence
checks gate all payload construction, request payloads are returned
by reference when no middleware rewrites, and the sanitized response
payload no longer embeds raw response objects.

Bundles the optional NeMo-Relay observability plugin
(plugins/observability/nemo_relay) as an in-repo consumer of the new
hooks, peer to the existing langfuse plugin. Fails open when the
optional nemo-relay package is not installed.

Authored-by: Bryan Bednarski <bbednarski@nvidia.com>
Salvaged from #29722 onto current main.

* test: restore unrelated trailing newlines in cwd/tool-search tests

The salvaged PR incidentally stripped a trailing blank line from two
unrelated test files (test_file_tools_cwd_resolution.py,
test_tool_search.py). Restore them to keep the salvage diff scoped to
the observability feature.

* perf(observability): gate tool-hook emit on has_hook; slim per-tool footprint

The salvaged observer contract gated the API-request hot path on has_hook()
but left the per-tool emit ungated: every tool call ran result-field
derivation + payload dict build + invoke_hook dispatch even with zero
plugins registered.

- _emit_post_tool_call_hook now short-circuits on has_hook("post_tool_call")
  and derives status/error fields lazily (after the gate, only when a
  listener will consume them). status defaults to None -> derived; explicit
  blocked/cancelled callers still pass status through.
- transform_tool_result emit (pre-existing hook) likewise gated on
  has_hook(); skips _tool_result_observer_fields when no listener.
- Removed the now-redundant _tool_result_observer_fields pre-computation at
  the three ok-path call sites (model_tools, agent_runtime_helpers,
  tool_executor) — the helper derives them, so the no-listener path costs
  one dict lookup and the call sites shrink.
- Tests: stub has_hook=True where payload correctness is asserted; add a
  no-listener regression proving post_tool_call/transform_tool_result emit
  is skipped when nothing is registered.

* test: stub has_hook in transform_tool_result hook tests

CI slice 3 caught that tests/test_transform_tool_result_hook.py monkeypatches
invoke_hook but not has_hook, so the new has_hook("transform_tool_result")
gate skipped the emit and the transform never ran. Stub has_hook=True in the
shared _run_handle_function_call helper whenever a custom invoke_hook is
supplied (the test intends hooks to fire). The no-hook-registered test keeps
the real has_hook=False path — that's the gate's intended behavior.

* fix(doctor): detect + repair stale HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS .env ghost shadowing config.yaml (#38222)

* fix(doctor): detect + repair stale HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS .env ghost shadowing config.yaml

hermes doctor now flags when ~/.hermes/.env carries a HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS
value that disagrees with agent.max_turns in config.yaml, and 'hermes doctor
--fix' removes the stale .env line so config.yaml is authoritative. 'hermes
config show' surfaces the same drift inline under Max turns.

The setup wizard stopped dual-writing this value, but users who edited only
config.yaml from a pre-fix install keep a .env ghost. The gateway bridge
normally overrides it at startup, but if the bridge bails on any earlier
config-parse error the ghost silently wins — config says 400 while the
gateway activity line reads N/90.

The detector reads the .env FILE directly (load_env), not get_env_value/
os.environ, since the startup bridge may already have overwritten os.environ
with the config value.

Closes #17534.

* fix(config): stop offering HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS as an editable env var

Removes HERMES_MAX_ITERATIONS from OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS so the dashboard env
editor (PUT /api/env) and any env-var prompt no longer let a user write it
to .env — which would recreate the stale ghost that shadows config.yaml's
agent.max_turns (issue #17534). The iteration budget is configured only via
config.yaml; the env var stays a read-only backward-compat fallback in the
gateway/CLI, never a promoted write target.

Regression test asserts it is absent from OPTIONAL_ENV_VARS.

* fix(install.ps1): handle dirty worktree on Windows update (#38239)

Git for Windows defaults to core.autocrlf=true, which renormalizes the
repo's LF-only text files to CRLF in the working tree. On a managed,
never-user-edited clone this makes tracked files (.envrc, AGENTS.md,
agent/*.py, workflows) show as locally modified, so the update path's
bare git checkout aborts with 'Your local changes would be overwritten
by checkout' and the desktop bootstrap fails at stage=repository.

The bash installer already autostashes before checkout; the PowerShell
path had no dirty-tree handling at all and never pinned autocrlf.

Fix: (1) git reset --hard HEAD before fetch/checkout in the update path
to discard any pre-existing dirt, and (2) pin core.autocrlf=false on both
the update and fresh-clone paths so the dirt is never created again.

* fix(install): require Node >=20.19/22.12 for the desktop build

The "Build desktop app" install step failed with an opaque "exit code 1"
on machines with an old Node, and nothing in the logs explained it.

Reproduced: on Node 20.5.1, `npm run pack`'s `vite build` crashes with

  You are using Node.js 20.5.1. Vite requires Node.js version 20.19+ or 22.12+.
  SyntaxError: The requested module 'node:util' does not provide an
  export named 'styleText'

Vite 8 (rolldown) imports node:util.styleText, which doesn't exist before
Node 20.12, so the build dies before producing the app. The installer's
check_node / Test-Node accepted ANY pre-existing Node with no version
floor, so a too-old system Node was used for the build instead of the
bundled Node 22.

Add a version floor (^20.19 || >=22.12) to check_node (install.sh) and
Test-Node (install.ps1): a too-old system Node is replaced with the
Hermes-managed Node 22 LTS, and the desktop stage re-resolves Node so the
build always runs on a satisfying version. Declare the same range in
apps/desktop/package.json engines.

Verified: build succeeds on Node 22, fails on 20.5.1 with the error above;
the floor logic matches Vite's range across boundary versions (20.18/20.19,
21.x, 22.11/22.12).

* feat(dashboard): enrich profiles dashboard and de-dupe channel env vars (#37872)

* feat(desktop): enrich profiles dashboard and de-dupe channel env vars

Add active-profile switching, role descriptions (manual + auto-generate
via the auxiliary LLM), per-profile model selection, and gateway-running
/ distribution badges to the GUI Profiles page. New profile creation
gains clone-all, optional description and model assignment.

Hide messaging-platform credentials (channel_managed) from the Keys/Env
page since the Channels page is the canonical surface for them, and
relabel the trimmed "messaging" category as "Gateway".

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

* fix(desktop): address review feedback on profiles/env changes

- ProfilesPage: scope the action-menu outside-click handler to the menu's
  own container via a ref so opening one card's menu no longer leaves
  others open.
- EnvPage: route the "Gateway" label and hint through i18n
  (t.common.gateway / gatewayHint) instead of hard-coded English, with an
  English fallback for untranslated locales.
- web_server: only report description_auto=true when auto-generation
  actually succeeded.

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

* fix(desktop): address second-round review on profiles

- ProfilesPage: treat describe-auto success by null-checking the
  description and trust the response's description_auto flag instead of
  assuming true; disable the model-editor Save button unless the selected
  choice resolves to a real /api/model/options entry (avoids silent
  no-op saves).
- tests: cover the new profile endpoints (active get/set + 404,
  description round-trip + 404, model round-trip + 400 validation, and
  describe-auto success/failure contracts).

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

* fix(desktop): more profiles review fixes (toggles, races, tests)

- ProfilesPage: use the canonical `active` returned by setActiveProfile;
  make the SOUL/description/model action-menu items toggle their editor
  closed when already open; guard description save/auto-describe against
  stale responses via an activeDescRequest ref so a late reply can't
  clobber a different open editor.
- tests: assert /api/env channel_managed classification matches
  _channel_managed_env_keys().

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

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

* fix(tui): save TUI /save snapshots under Hermes home with system prompt (#38251)

* fix(tui): save TUI /save snapshots under Hermes home with system prompt

The TUI gateway's session.save RPC wrote hermes_conversation_<ts>.json to
the workspace/project CWD via os.path.abspath(...) and only exported model
and messages. This diverged from the classic CLI /save (which writes under
the Hermes profile home) and from the dashboard save (which includes the
system prompt).

Write the snapshot under get_hermes_home()/sessions/saved/ and include
system_prompt, session_id, and session_start so the TUI export matches the
CLI and dashboard behavior.

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

* fix(tui): prefer agent.session_start for /save export; assert it in test

Address review feedback: derive session_start from the agent's session_start
datetime (matching the classic CLI export) and fall back to the gateway
session's created_at only when unavailable. Assert session_start in the
regression test.

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

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

* fix(desktop): self-update rebuilds and relaunches cleanly on macOS

The macOS DMG / in-app update could leave Hermes unable to relaunch: the
staged updater rebuilt the desktop without managed Node on PATH ("npm not
found"), never installed the rebuilt bundle over the running app, and could
race itself on `git stash`. Child install scripts also inherited a deleted
cwd from the .app bundle replaced during self-update.

- update.rs: prepend $HERMES_HOME/node/bin + venv bin to the rebuild PATH;
  read --branch / --target-app from args; add a macOS "install" stage that
  dittos the rebuilt bundle over the target app, clears quarantine, and
  relaunches via `open` (rolling back on a failed swap); guard start_update
  with an AtomicBool so concurrent startUpdate() calls can't race git stash.
- main.cjs: pass --branch <configured> and --target-app <running bundle> to
  the staged updater, and spawn it with HERMES_HOME + managed Node/venv on
  PATH and cwd=HERMES_HOME.
- bootstrap.rs: launch the desktop via `open <App>.app` on macOS instead of
  exec'ing Contents/MacOS/Hermes, avoiding cwd/quarantine issues post-rebuild.
- powershell.rs: pin child install scripts to a stable cwd so they don't emit
  getcwd errors when the launching .app is replaced mid-install.
- failure.tsx: in update mode show "Update didn't finish" / "Retry update"
  and retry via startUpdate() instead of re-running the installer bootstrap.

* fix(desktop): dedupe clipboard image paste

Chromium exposes the same pasted image on both DataTransfer.items and
.files as distinct Blob objects, which attached twice. Prefer items and
skip the files mirror when items already yielded images.

* fix(installer): stop mislabeling stdout-style progress as stderr

Both installers (Electron bootstrap-runner + Tauri) hardcoded a literal
`stderr: ` prefix onto every line that arrived on fd 2. Tools like
uv/pip/git/npm write normal progress to stderr by design, so routine
install output showed up tagged as "stderr" (and rendered red in the
Tauri progress UI), making a healthy install look like it was erroring.

Carry the stream as structured metadata (`stream: 'stdout' | 'stderr'`)
on the log event instead of mangling the line text. The UI now styles
stderr subtly (dimmed) rather than alarmingly, and the persistent
forensic logs keep their stdout/stderr distinction.

* fix(dashboard): clamp PTY resize dimensions for WSL2 winsize garbage (#38200)

* fix(dashboard): clamp PTY resize dimensions for WSL2 winsize garbage

WSL2 reports columns=131072, rows=1 from a broken winsize probe. The
dashboard /chat tab forwards xterm.js dimensions through PtyBridge.resize(),
which packs them as unsigned short via struct.pack. 131072 > 65535 raised
struct.error — uncaught (only OSError was handled) — breaking the resize
path and leaving the TUI laid out for a one-row, absurdly-wide screen, which
surfaces as blank/disappearing text.

Clamp cols/rows to a sane [1, 2000]x[1, 1000] range before packing.
Non-finite/non-integer probes fall back to the minimum so nothing can reach
struct.pack and raise.

* test(dashboard): de-flake pub/events broadcast test

test_pub_broadcasts_to_events_subscribers round-tripped a frame through
two nested Starlette TestClient WebSocket portals within a 10s wall-clock
budget. Under heavy parallel CI load a starved ASGI thread occasionally
blew that budget even though the server logic is correct, producing
intermittent 'broadcast not received within 10s' failures.

Drive _broadcast_event directly under asyncio with fake subscribers
instead. Same fan-out contract (verbatim delivery to every subscriber on
the channel, nothing to other channels), zero scheduling surface. Runs in
~0.3s, deterministic across 10 consecutive runs.

* fix(gateway): decode schtasks output with locale encoding on Windows

_exec_schtasks ran schtasks.exe with text=True but no encoding/errors, so
localized Windows (e.g. Chinese) output in the console code page raised
UnicodeDecodeError tracebacks from subprocess' reader threads during
`hermes gateway status`. Decode with the locale's preferred encoding and
errors="replace" so non-UTF-8 status output is read cleanly.

Fixes #38172

* test(gateway): cover schtasks locale-safe decoding on Windows

Assert _exec_schtasks passes an explicit encoding and errors="replace" to
subprocess.run, and that _schtasks_encoding falls back to utf-8 when the
locale lookup is empty or raises (#38172).

* docs: remote desktop connect needs --tui on the backend (#38350)

The Desktop App and Web Dashboard remote-connect instructions told users
to start the backend with `hermes dashboard --no-open --insecure --host
0.0.0.0`, omitting --tui. Without --tui the embedded-chat WebSockets
(/api/ws, /api/pty) are refused, so the desktop passes the /api/status
health check and reports the backend "ready" — but chat never works
because the socket is closed on connect.

- Add --tui to both backend command blocks (with an inline why-comment).
- Explain that the desktop chat runs over /api/ws + /api/pty and needs
  the embedded-chat surface enabled; a plain dashboard/gateway is not
  enough.
- Add a troubleshooting entry for the exact symptom (connects, says
  ready, chat dead) on both pages.

* Potential fix for pull request finding

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* fix(installer): pass LogStream to emit_log calls from #38296

PR #38296 added four emit_log() calls using the old 3-arg signature, but
main had already changed emit_log to take a `stream: LogStream` argument
(#38312, "stop mislabeling stdout-style progress as stderr"). The two PRs
touched different lines, so the merge auto-resolved with no conflict and
left main unable to compile the bootstrap installer (E0061: 4 args expected,
3 supplied).

Supply the missing stream: Stdout for the update/install progress lines and
Stderr for the "could not auto-launch desktop" failure, matching the
convention from #38312. cargo check passes.

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

* fix(desktop): persist pins, reconnect after sleep, dedupe session search

Four related desktop session-management bugs:

- Pins lost until refresh: pinned sessions are joined against the
  paginated in-memory session list, so a pinned chat that aged off the
  most-recent page got evicted on the next refresh (every message.complete
  triggers one) and the Pinned section went empty. mergeWorkingSessions ->
  mergeSessionPage now also preserves pinned rows (matched by live id or
  lineage root). Pin id checks in the chat header, command center, and
  delete/archive are normalized to the durable sessionPinId so pins survive
  auto-compression.

- Stuck on "Starting Hermes" after sleep: macOS sleep drops the renderer
  WebSocket; nothing reconnected on wake so the composer stayed disabled.
  The gateway boot hook now auto-reconnects with backoff on close/error and
  on wake signals (powerMonitor resume/unlock-screen IPC, window online,
  visibilitychange). connect() gains an open timeout so a hung reconnect
  can't deadlock in 'connecting'. Composer placeholder distinguishes
  "Reconnecting to Hermes" from a cold start.

- Loses chats from itself: the same hard-replace that dropped pins also
  dropped loaded sessions; mergeSessionPage keeps them.

- Multiple copies/branches in search: /api/sessions/search deduped only by
  raw session_id, so compression segments and branches surfaced as separate
  hits. It now dedupes by lineage root and returns the live compression tip,
  matching the session_search tool's behavior.

* fix(desktop): guard reconnect sockets and keep branch search precise

Avoid stale WebSocket events from an old reconnect attempt flipping the gateway state after a newer socket opens. Also limit session-search dedupe to compression edges so branch-specific hits still open the branch instead of collapsing to the parent.

* fix(packaging): ship locales/ i18n catalogs in wheel, sdist, and Nix (#38383)

* fix(packaging): ship locales/ i18n catalogs in wheel, sdist, and Nix

locales/ is a bare data dir (no __init__.py), invisible to packages.find
and package-data. Sealed installs (pip wheel, Nix store venv) dropped it,
so gateway/CLI commands rendered raw i18n keys like
gateway.reset.header_default.

- pyproject: [tool.setuptools.data-files] locales = ["locales/*.yaml"] (wheel)
- MANIFEST.in: graft locales (sdist)
- agent/i18n._locales_dir: env override -> source -> sysconfig data scheme
- nix/hermes-agent.nix: copy locales into the store + set HERMES_BUNDLED_LOCALES
  as defense-in-depth. The wheel's data-files already materialize into the
  uv2nix venv, so resolution works with no env var; the override pins the
  store path against a future uv2nix change that could drop data-files.
- tests: metadata regression, wheel + sdist build-install smoke tests, and a
  bundled-locales flake check that verifies BOTH the wrapper override and the
  env-var-less data-files path. Smoke test wired into CI.

Closes #23943, #27632, #35374.
Supersedes #23966, #27716, #30261, #33841, #35429, #35494, #35735, #36697.

* test: cap locale e2e timeout, tighten catalog count guard

The two wheel/sdist e2e tests inherit the global --timeout=30 from
addopts; a cold-CI run (isolated build env + venv create + network pip
install) can plausibly exceed it. Add @pytest.mark.timeout(300) so they
don't ride the unit-test budget and flake intermittently.

Also assert the shipped catalog count equals len(SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES)
instead of a hardcoded >=16 floor, so the guard self-updates and trips
on a single dropped catalog (not just a fully-empty graft).

* fix(installer): never brick the install when a self-update swap fails

The macOS self-update bundle swap (install_macos_app_update, added in
#38296) could leave the user with NO app installed. If moving the
existing /Applications/Hermes.app aside failed, the code deleted the
running app outright and set moved_old=false; if the subsequent move of
the freshly built bundle into place then also failed, the rollback was
gated on moved_old (now false) and skipped — leaving the target deleted
with no replacement.

Extract the swap into swap_in_new_bundle() with a strict invariant: on
ANY failure path the target is left pointing at a working bundle (either
the original, rolled back, or untouched) and is never deleted with no
replacement. Also clean up the staged .hermes-update-new copy on the
failure paths instead of orphaning it.

Add unit tests covering the happy path, the rollback-on-install-failure
path, and the catastrophic both-moves-fail path. The catastrophic-path
test was verified to FAIL against the old code ("original app must NOT
be deleted on failure") and pass against the fix.

* test(installer): cover the post-update relaunch/install target derivation

The macOS self-update relaunches and installs over the app it derives via
resolve_hermes_desktop_app (.../Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/Hermes ->
.../Hermes.app). That derivation is load-bearing for both the ditto
install target and the auto-relaunch (open <app>), but had no test.

Add unit coverage:
- resolve_hermes_desktop_app_finds_built_bundle: a fake built release tree
  resolves to the .app bundle on macOS (and the exe elsewhere).
- resolve_hermes_desktop_app_is_none_without_a_build: no build => None.

Verified the positive test FAILS if the .app parent-walk is wrong (e.g.
one too few .parent() hops), so it's a real guard against a regression
that would break the post-update relaunch target.

cargo test -> 17 passed.

* 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.

* fix(setup): point Portal login-failure retry hints at `hermes portal`

The two retry hints inside _run_portal_one_shot (shown when the OAuth login
fails) still suggested `hermes auth add nous --type oauth`. Since this path
backs both `hermes portal` and `hermes setup --portal`, point users at the
new human-readable `hermes portal` for consistency.

* fix(desktop): prevent IME Enter from splitting messages and viewport resize from disarming scroll anchor (#38333)

* fix(desktop): prevent IME Enter from splitting messages and viewport resize from disarming scroll anchor

Two fixes for the Hermes Desktop composer:

1. IME composition Enter was treated as message submission. When a Korean/
   Japanese/Chinese IME is composing text and the user presses Enter to
   finalise the preedit, handleEditorKeyDown fired submitDraft() because it
   did not check event.nativeEvent.isComposing. The assistant-ui hidden
   textarea already guards this correctly; the custom contentEditable
   handler was missing it. Added an early return when isComposing is true.

2. Viewport resize (composer expand/collapse, window resize) was disarming
   the scroll sticky-bottom anchor. When the composer grows, the thread
   viewport shrinks, the browser adjusts scrollTop down to keep content
   visible, and the onScroll handler misread this as a user scroll-up.
   Added lastClientHeightRef tracking so the disarm condition now requires
   BOTH stable scrollHeight AND stable clientHeight before treating a
   scrollTop decrease as user intent.

Fixes: random mid-message sends during IME typing; scroll jumps when the
composer resizes or the window changes size.

* fix(desktop): prevent virtualizer measurement adjustments from fighting scroll anchoring

The virtualizer's measureElement callbacks trigger scroll adjustments when
item sizes differ from estimates. These fight our ResizeObserver +
pinToBottom loop, creating visible rubber-banding (view snaps to composer
then jumps back up), even during idle.

Three changes:
1. React.memo on VirtualizedThread to stop parent re-renders cascading
2. Shared stickyBottomRef so scrollToFn can check bottom state
3. scrollToFn override: skip adjustments when user is at bottom

* fix(desktop): use stable useCallback ref instead of inline arrow for onBranchInNewChat

The inline arrow `messageId => void branchInNewChat(messageId)` created a
new function reference on every render. This cascaded through:
  desktop-controller → ChatView → Thread → useMemo([...onBranchInNewChat])
→ new messageComponents object → VirtualizedThread receives new prop
→ React.memo overridden → virtualizer recalculates → measurement
adjustments trigger scroll jumps at the 15-second useStatusSnapshot
interval.

Pass the already-useCallback'd branchInNewChat directly.

* fix(desktop): use ctrlEnter submitMode on hidden textarea + gate ResizeObserver on isRunning

Two root-cause fixes:

1. IME message splitting: The hidden ComposerPrimitive.Input textarea had
   submitMode='enter' (default), so any Enter keydown it received — even
   during IME composition — triggered form.requestSubmit(). Changed to
   submitMode='ctrlEnter' so only the contentEditable div (which correctly
   checks isComposing) handles plain-Enter submission.

2. Scroll jumps during idle: The ResizeObserver auto-follow loop was
   active even when the thread wasn't running, causing spurious
   pinToBottom calls whenever any layout shift occurred (browser reflow,
   font load, GPU cache eviction). Gated the ResizeObserver on
   thread.isRunning so auto-scroll only follows during active streaming.
   User messages still pin via useLayoutEffect, and thread.runStart still
   calls jumpToBottom.

* fix(desktop): keep chat bottom anchor stable through idle layout shifts

* fix(desktop): prevent code block shrink scroll bounce

* fix(desktop): release bottom height lock on run completion

* fix(desktop): keep streaming code blocks rendered

* fix(desktop): keep bottom anchored through final render

* fix(desktop): render streaming reasoning code blocks

* feat(desktop): add subtle streaming block animations

* feat(cli): make `hermes portal` run the full quick-setup Nous flow (model picker)

`hermes portal` / `hermes setup --portal` previously logged in and set
provider=nous but left the model UNSELECTED (blank -> runtime default) and
never showed a picker — unlike the first-time quick setup, which runs the
model picker.

Route `_run_portal_one_shot` through `_model_flow_nous` — the exact same
routine quick setup (`_run_first_time_quick_setup`) and `hermes model` -> Nous
use. It handles both the logged-out path (device-code OAuth, which picks a
model internally) and the logged-in path (curated Nous model picker), then
offers the Tool Gateway opt-in and sets provider=nous. Net effect: `hermes
portal` now offers a model picker every time and is a true single-command
collapse of quick setup's Nous step.

Removes the hand-rolled auth_add_command + manual provider write + separate
Tool Gateway prompt (now a single source of truth). Re-syncs the in-memory
config from disk afterward so a caller's later save_config can't clobber the
model/provider written by the login flow.

Docs (CLI help, portal_cli docstrings, nous-portal EN + zh-Hans) updated to
mention model selection. New regression test asserts `_run_portal_one_shot`
delegates to `_model_flow_nous`.

Verified live: `hermes portal` now shows the 27-model curated picker, 'Skip
(keep current)' preserves prior provider/model.

* fix(cli): harden `hermes portal` SystemExit handling + finish model-pick doc sweep

Self-review of #38465 surfaced three real items:

1. SystemExit escape (defense): `_login_nous` raises SystemExit(130)/(1) on
   cancel/failure. The logged-out login path inside `_model_flow_nous` catches
   it, but the expired-session re-login path (main.py) only catches Exception,
   so a Ctrl-C during re-auth could propagate past `_run_portal_one_shot` and
   kill the CLI. Add SystemExit to the portal handler so all cancel/abort cases
   end with the graceful 'Setup cancelled / retry later' message.

2. Doc sweep: the model-pick step was only added to the bare-`hermes portal`
   prose. Propagate it to the surfaces describing `hermes setup --portal`
   behavior that still omitted model selection:
   - `--portal` argparse help (main.py)
   - nous-portal.md intro + the numbered 'what it does' step list (EN + zh-Hans)
   - run-hermes-with-nous-portal.md 'default model after setup --portal' line,
     which was now contradictory (there's a picker, not a forced default) (EN + zh)

3. Test coverage: add parametrized regression test asserting the portal handler
   swallows KeyboardInterrupt / EOFError / SystemExit (returns None, no escape).

Note on 'Skip (keep current)': delegating to _model_flow_nous means picking
Skip preserves the prior provider instead of force-switching to nous — this is
intentional and matches quick setup exactly; docs now say 'sets Nous as your
provider (when you pick a model)' rather than unconditionally.

* fix(packaging): modernize project.license to PEP 639 SPDX string (#38353)

* fix(packaging): modernize project.license to PEP 639 SPDX string

Drops the SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning ('project.license as a TOML table
is deprecated') emitted on every editable build under setuptools>=77 by
switching license = { text = "MIT" } to the SPDX string form plus an
explicit license-files entry. Bumps build-system requires to
setuptools>=77 so an older build backend can't reject the string form.

The warning was non-fatal (builds succeed with it) but surfaces
prominently in install.ps1 build-failure output, where it gets mistaken
for the cause of unrelated Windows build_editable crashes.

* fix(packaging): bound setuptools build requirement per supply-chain policy

Add the <83 upper bound to setuptools>=77.0 so the dep-bounds supply-chain
gate (>=floor,<next_major) passes.

* fix(skills): document xurl X Article ingestion

* fix(docker): bake hindsight-client into the image (#38128) (#38530)

…

…Research#38089 (NousResearch#38105)

Follow-up to NousResearch#38089. The merged PR removed --recurse-submodules from the
installer, CI, and getting-started docs, but missed the same stale clause in:
- CONTRIBUTING.md (Prerequisites table)
- website/docs/developer-guide/contributing.md (table + clone command)
- zh-Hans mirror of the developer-guide contributing doc

git-lfs is kept in the Git requirement rows since it's a separate, real
prerequisite. No .gitmodules has existed since the Atropos RL submodule was
removed in NousResearch#26106.

…Research#38089 (NousResearch#38105)

Follow-up to NousResearch#38089. The merged PR removed --recurse-submodules from the
installer, CI, and getting-started docs, but missed the same stale clause in:
- CONTRIBUTING.md (Prerequisites table)
- website/docs/developer-guide/contributing.md (table + clone command)
- zh-Hans mirror of the developer-guide contributing doc

git-lfs is kept in the Git requirement rows since it's a separate, real
prerequisite. No .gitmodules has existed since the Atropos RL submodule was
removed in NousResearch#26106.

…ousResearch#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

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* 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