…n, streaming defaults, model picker fixes

Resolved uv.lock conflict: kept pillow 12.2.0 (local), added pathspec 1.1.1 (upstream).

Commits from upstream:
- ci(nix): fold package+devShell builds into flake check
- fix(desktop): triage batch of GUI quality-of-life fixes (NousResearch#37536)
- fix(desktop): stabilize project folder sessions (NousResearch#37586)
- fix(models): restore gemini-3-flash-preview to Gemini OAuth picker
- feat(desktop): content-hash build stamp with --build-only and --force-build
- feat(installer): rename macOS installer to Hermes launcher (NousResearch#37516)
- fix(auth): align Codex OAuth persistence paths (NousResearch#37517)
- feat(dashboard): nous-blue theme, bulk sessions, schedule picker (NousResearch#37383)
- docs: add Desktop App guide (NousResearch#37457)
- feat(streaming): per-platform streaming defaults (NousResearch#37303)
- feat(desktop): session search in sidebar
- And more...

* refactor(desktop): consolidate skills + tools management into one pane

The left-nav Skills pane and Settings > Skills & Tools rendered the same
getSkills()/getToolsets() data with the same helpers and toggles — genuine
duplication that drifted (different default category labels, sort orders).

Make the left pane the single home: it keeps its category-tabbed browsing
and now gains the functional bits it lacked — a real toolset enable/disable
switch (was a read-only pill) and the expandable ToolsetConfigPanel for
provider selection + per-key credential config. Remove the Tools section
from Settings (nav item, view branch, query slot, type union entries) and
delete tools-settings.tsx, migrating its toggle coverage into the skills
pane test. Relabel the entry point to 'Skills & Tools' in the sidebar and
command center.

* refactor(desktop): move model management from Command Center into Settings

Command Center's Models section and Settings > Model rendered the same
model state with identical persistence semantics — both write config and
apply to new sessions only (POST /api/model/set). The Command Center UI
was strictly better (provider catalog, curated model lists, friendly
auxiliary-task labels, Nous-gateway auto-routing on main-provider switch),
while Settings > Model was three barebones config fields.

Extract that UI into a shared settings/model-settings.tsx (restyled with
Settings primitives) and render it at the top of Settings > Model: main
model picker via setModelAssignment + the 9 auxiliary task slots with
per-task set-to-main / change / reset-all. model_context_length and
fallback_providers stay as config fields below it; the raw auxiliary.*
keys are dropped from Advanced (now covered by the panel).

Strip the Models section from Command Center entirely (section, state,
handlers, render, nav, search entry) leaving it focused on Sessions /
System / Usage, and move the live store-sync callback (onMainModelChanged)
from CommandCenterView to SettingsView. The composer's per-session model
picker (the only live hot-swap, via /model) is unchanged.

* feat(dashboard-auth): rotate dashboard sessions via refresh token (#37247)

* feat(dashboard-auth): rotate dashboard sessions via refresh token

The dashboard auth-code grant now issues a 24h rotating refresh token
(server side: NousResearch/nous-account-service#293). This wires up the
Hermes client half so an expired access token is transparently refreshed
instead of bouncing the user to /login every 15 minutes.

plugins/dashboard_auth/nous:
- refresh_session() now POSTs grant_type=refresh_token to Portal's token
  endpoint and returns a Session carrying the ROTATED refresh token (was
  an unconditional RefreshExpiredError under the old "no RT in V1"
  contract). The RT is sent in BOTH the request body (Portal's schema
  requires it there) and the X-Refresh-Token header (log redaction) —
  verified against the #293 preview deploy: header-only is rejected as
  invalid_request, body is accepted.
- A 400 from Portal (expired / revoked / reuse-detected) maps to
  RefreshExpiredError so the middleware forces a clean re-login; network
  errors map to ProviderError; empty RT fast-fails without a network call.
- complete_login now captures the initial refresh token Portal returns
  (forward-tolerant: empty string if a deploy omits it).
- Extracted the shared token-response handling into
  _token_response_to_session, parameterised on the 400 exception type so
  the auth-code path raises InvalidCodeError and the refresh path raises
  RefreshExpiredError.
- revoke_session stays a best-effort no-op: Portal exposes no public
  token-endpoint revocation grant (revocation is the authenticated
  /sessions UI, keyed by sessionId+userId), so logout is cookie-clearing
  and the 24h session expires on its own. Documented for a future
  revoke grant.

hermes_cli/dashboard_auth/middleware:
- On an expired/invalid access token the gate now attempts refresh via
  the session's RT BEFORE forcing re-login. On success it serves the
  request and re-sets the rotated cookies on the response (mandatory:
  Portal rotates the RT every refresh and reuse-detects, so a stale RT
  cookie would revoke the whole session on the next refresh). On
  RefreshExpiredError (or no RT) it falls through to clear-and-relogin.
- ProviderError during refresh (Portal unreachable) forces a clean
  re-login rather than 500-ing the request.
- Uses the existing REFRESH_SUCCESS / REFRESH_FAILURE audit events.

Validation:
- 176 dashboard-auth unit/integration tests pass.
- Live E2E against the #293 preview deploy: refresh_session(bad rt) ->
  RefreshExpiredError through the real token endpoint; live JWKS fetch +
  RS256 verification rejects a forged token; empty-RT fast-fail. The
  successful happy-path rotation is covered by unit tests (a live run
  needs an interactive browser OAuth round trip + registered agent:*
  client).

Depends on: NousResearch/nous-account-service#293 (server-side RT issuance).

* fix(dashboard-auth): use Portal's x-nous-refresh-token header name

The refresh-token header must match Portal's REFRESH_TOKEN_HEADER exactly
("x-nous-refresh-token"); the initial cut used "X-Refresh-Token", which
Portal silently ignores (harmless since the RT is also in the body, which
is what the schema requires — but the header redaction was a no-op).
Confirmed against the NAS token route + re-validated live against the
#293 preview deploy.

* fix(dashboard-auth): refresh session when access-token cookie has been evicted

The gated middleware bounced users to /login the instant the access-token
cookie was absent, without ever consulting the refresh token:

    at, _rt = read_session_cookies(request)
    if not at:
        return _unauth_response(...)   # bailed here

This made transparent refresh effectively dead for the common case. The
access-token cookie is set with Max-Age = access_token_expires_in (~15 min),
so a real browser EVICTS hermes_session_at the moment the token lapses while
hermes_session_rt persists (30-day Max-Age). From that point the browser
sends only the refresh-token cookie — and the old guard rejected it before
_attempt_refresh could run. The _attempt_refresh path only fired for a
present-but-invalid access token, which never happens in a browser.

Fix: only hard-bounce when NEITHER cookie is present. A request carrying
just the refresh token now skips verification (no AT to verify) and flows
into the existing refresh path, which rotates both cookies and serves the
request transparently. A dead/expired RT still raises RefreshExpiredError
and falls through to clear-and-relogin.

This failure mode escaped the original tests + manual refresh button because
both kept the access-token cookie present; only a real browser evicting the
cookie at Max-Age exposes it. Added 3 regression tests covering: AT-evicted +
RT-present (transparent refresh), no-cookies (still bounces), and RT-only with
a dead RT (clean 401, no 500).

* fix(desktop): keep pinned + recent sessions visible across compression

Long-running sessions auto-compress: the gateway ends the original session
and surfaces the live continuation under a new id (list_sessions_rich projects
the root forward to its tip). Two symptoms fell out of the id rotation:

- A pinned session "vanished" — the pin is stored as the pre-compression root
  id, but the sidebar only matched on the live id, so it was filtered out.
  Pins now resolve on the durable lineage-root id (`_lineage_root_id`, already
  surfaced by the projection): the sidebar indexes sessions by both ids, pin/
  unpin and reorder operate on the durable id, and `sessionPinId()` is shared
  with the Cmd+P toggle. Existing pins keep working with no migration.

- A freshly-continued session was missing from the list until you ungrouped +
  "load 50 more" — the list paginated by original start time, so an old-but-
  active conversation sat past the first page. The desktop now requests
  `order=recent` (GET /api/sessions gains an `order` param backed by the
  existing recency CTE), surfacing live continuations on the first page.

* feat(desktop): stable in-workspace ordering + No-workspace default

- Sidebar: rows within a workspace group now sort by creation time instead of
  last activity, so they stop reshuffling every time a message lands (muscle
  memory). Groups still float up by recency.
- Sessions only persist a workspace cwd when one was explicitly chosen; an
  auto-detected launch directory is no longer stamped on the row, so untargeted
  sessions group under "No workspace" instead of "desktop". The agent still
  runs in the detected directory.

* feat(desktop): session search in the sidebar

Adds a search box above the session list. Loaded sessions match instantly
client-side; a debounced full-text search (existing /api/sessions/search FTS)
covers the rest so all sessions stay findable at 699+. Results replace the
pinned/agents sections while a query is active and resume on click.

* feat(streaming): per-platform streaming defaults (Telegram on, Discord off) + dashboard toggles (#37303)

Streaming quality differs sharply by platform: Telegram has native animated
draft streaming (sendMessageDraft) which is smooth, while Discord/Slack only
have edit-based streaming (repeated editMessage) which visibly flickers. Ship
defaults that match reality instead of one global flag.

- hermes_cli/config.py: DEFAULT_CONFIG display.platforms now ships
  telegram.streaming=true and discord.streaming=false (was empty {}). These
  are gap-fillers — config deep-merge has user values win, so anyone who
  explicitly sets discord.streaming=true keeps it. The global
  streaming.enabled master switch still gates everything; these per-platform
  flags only take effect once streaming is on.
- Dashboard exposure comes for free: the web settings schema is generated
  from DEFAULT_CONFIG, so display.platforms.telegram.streaming and
  .discord.streaming now surface as editable boolean toggles in the UI with
  no frontend change. (Previously the per-platform tree was {} and invisible.)
- tests: pin the defaults, the resolver outcome (telegram on / discord off /
  unlisted platforms follow global), user-override-wins, and dashboard schema
  exposure.

No _config_version bump: deep-merge fills the gap for existing installs; no
value migration needed.

* fix(model-picker): OpenAI shows curated models; OpenRouter no longer phantom-shows (#37404)

The model picker now matches `hermes model` for OpenAI, and OpenRouter
stops appearing as authenticated when only OPENAI_API_KEY is set.

- models.py: provider_model_ids() for the default api.openai.com endpoint
  intersects the live /v1/models dump (120+ entries incl. embeddings,
  whisper, tts, dall-e, moderation, legacy chat) with the curated agentic
  list, preserving curated order. Custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints keep
  the live list verbatim so discovery still works.
- providers.py: drop extra_env_vars=("OPENAI_API_KEY",) from the openrouter
  overlay. list_authenticated_providers reads extra_env_vars to decide
  whether a provider is authenticated, so any OpenAI user saw a phantom
  OpenRouter row. Runtime OpenRouter credential resolution still falls back
  to OPENAI_API_KEY (runtime_provider.py), independent of the overlay.
- Regression tests for both paths.

* feat(desktop): cancellable first-launch install

The install overlay had no way to stop a running install — the runner already
supported an abortSignal, but nothing drove it. Wire it end to end:

- main.cjs holds an AbortController for the active runBootstrap and aborts it
  on a new hermes:bootstrap:cancel IPC and on app quit, so quitting/cancelling
  mid-install actually kills install.sh/ps1 instead of orphaning it.
- runBootstrap bails before spawning anything if the signal is already aborted.
- Install overlay gains a "Cancel install" button while a bootstrap is active;
  a cancel surfaces the recovery overlay (retry/repair).

Test: electron/bootstrap-runner.test.cjs asserts the already-aborted early
return (no spawn) via `node --test`.

* chore: uptick

* Potential fix for pull request finding

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* docs: add Desktop App guide (#37457)

The native Electron desktop app shipped (PR #20059 and follow-ups) but the
docs only told people how to download it, not what it is or how to use it.

Adds website/docs/user-guide/desktop.md covering install (installer +
prebuilt + Windows GUI), the chat-first UI and management panes, the
hermes desktop CLI flag reference, self-update, how-it-works, and
troubleshooting. Sourced from apps/desktop/README.md, routes.ts, and the
real argparse. Wired into sidebars.ts under Interfaces after the TUI.

* Merge pull request #37462 from NousResearch/bb/desktop-update-throttle

fix(desktop): throttle the update-available toast

* fix(docs): update desktop app docs

* feat(dashboard): nous-blue theme, bulk sessions, schedule picker (#37383)

* feat(dashboard): nous-blue theme, bulk sessions, schedule picker

Batch of related dashboard improvements gathered on
austin/fix/dashboard-changes:

* Nous Blue theme — faithful port of the LENS_5I overlay system onto
  the existing DashboardTheme. Lifts the foreground inversion layer to
  z-index 200 to fix the long-standing hover / loading visual artifact,
  adds an explicit swatchColors slot so the theme picker shows the
  post-inversion preview, and migrates the legacy "lens-5i" theme key
  from localStorage / API to "nous-blue" on first read.
* Theme-aware series colors: new --series-input-token /
  --series-output-token CSS vars consumed by Analytics + Models
  charts; ToolCall + ModelInfoCard switched to semantic
  --color-success for diff lines and the Tools capability badge.
* Analytics + Models headers: consolidate period selector + refresh
  next to the page title and drop the redundant period badge.
* Bulk session management — "Delete empty (N)" button + per-row
  checkboxes with shift-click range select and a bulk-delete action
  bar. Backed by SessionDB.delete_sessions() /
  delete_empty_sessions() plus POST /api/sessions/bulk-delete and
  DELETE /api/sessions/empty (registered before the templated
  /api/sessions/{session_id} family so they don't get shadowed).
  Hard cap of 500 IDs per bulk request. Full pytest coverage.
* Cron page — human-readable schedule picker (every-interval / daily
  / weekly / monthly / once / custom) replaces the raw cron
  expression input; the job list now renders "Weekly on Mon, Wed,
  Fri at 14:30" instead of "30 14 * * 1,3,5". English-only ordinals
  for monthly schedules so non-English locales don't get incorrect
  suffixes.
* example-dashboard plugin moved from plugins/ to tests/fixtures/ so
  stock installs no longer ship the demo. Tests install it
  dynamically via a pytest fixture that also reorders the FastAPI
  routes.
* i18n: 40+ new keys for the bulk-select UI and schedule
  picker/describer translated across all 16 locales.

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* refactor(dashboard): dedupe memory provider picker

The memory provider <Select> lived on both /system and /plugins,
writing the same config.yaml field through two different endpoints
with no cross-page refresh. Remove the picker from /system in favor
of a read-only status row + link to /plugins, where it pairs with
the context-engine picker under "Plugin providers".

/system retains the destructive admin controls (file sizes, Reset
MEMORY.md / USER.md / all). The api.setMemoryProvider client and
PUT /api/memory/provider backend endpoint are left in place for
CLI / script callers.

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* docs(dashboard): address Copilot review on PR #37383

- Backdrop layer-stack comment claimed LENS_5I-style themes override
  --component-backdrop-bg-blend-mode to multiply, but our only
  LENS_5I-style theme (nous-blue) keeps the default difference.
  Reword to describe what the code actually does and present the
  var as a forward-looking extension hook.
- /api/sessions/bulk-delete docstring promised the response would
  echo back the list of deleted IDs, but the implementation only
  returns {ok, deleted}. Tighten the docstring to match the wire
  format; the client already knows what it asked to delete, so the
  IDs aren't needed.

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* fix(dashboard): address copilot review on cron describe + bulk-select checkbox

- schedule.ts: restrict `describeCronExpression` to strictly 5-field cron
  expressions. The backend `parse_schedule` also accepts the 6-field
  `min hour dom month dow year` form, and humanising those by
  destructuring only the first five fields would silently drop the year
  (e.g. ``0 9 * * * 2099`` rendered as "Daily at 09:00"). 6+ field
  expressions now fall through to the raw-string fallback so the user
  sees what's actually scheduled.

- SessionsPage.tsx (SessionRow): wire the bulk-select Checkbox's
  ``onClick`` directly instead of attaching it to a parent ``<span>``
  with a no-op ``onCheckedChange``. Radix forwards onClick to the
  underlying ``<button role=checkbox>``, so the same handler now drives
  both mouse clicks (preserving shift-key state for range select) and
  keyboard activation (Space on the focused checkbox, which the browser
  synthesises as a click on the <button>). Improves a11y / keyboard UX
  without changing the controlled-selection model.

- SessionsPage.tsx: also extend ``SessionRowProps`` with the new
  ``onRename`` / ``onExport`` props introduced on main so the row's
  destructured prop types resolve after the merge.

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* Clarify desktop install retry guidance

* fix(auth): align Codex OAuth persistence paths (#37517)

* fix(desktop): codex OAuth onboarding now resolves on fresh install

The desktop codex device-code worker persisted tokens with a hand-rolled
pool.add_entry(), writing only credential_pool.openai-codex. It never set
active_provider, so on a fresh install the onboarding setup.runtime_check
resolved provider "auto", couldn't detect the Codex OAuth session, and raised
"No inference provider configured" — while setup.status (which sniffs the pool)
reported configured. The disagreement surfaced as the onboarding banner
"Connected, but Hermes still cannot resolve a usable provider."

Use the canonical _save_codex_tokens() instead, matching the CLI's
`hermes auth add openai-codex` path and the Nous/MiniMax dashboard workers.
It writes the providers.openai-codex singleton (setting active_provider) and
syncs the pool.

* fix(auth): align Codex OAuth persistence paths

Ensure desktop and CLI Codex OAuth logins both write the canonical provider state so fresh installs resolve a usable runtime provider.

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* feat(installer): rename macOS installer to "Hermes" and make it a launcher (#37516)

* feat(installer): rename macOS installer to "Hermes" and make it a launcher

The bootstrap installer was branded "Hermes Setup" and always re-ran the full
install flow on every open — so the /Applications app said "Setup" and couldn't
double as a way to relaunch Hermes (the real desktop app lives in ~/.hermes,
not /Applications, with no Dock/Launchpad entry).

Two changes, macOS-focused:

1. Rename the installer's user-visible name to "Hermes" (productName, window
   title, shortDescription, document title). Bundle id stays
   com.nousresearch.hermes.setup (distinct from the desktop app's
   com.nousresearch.hermes); the on-disk staged updater name (hermes-setup) is
   unchanged, so the desktop's update hand-off still resolves it.

2. Launcher fast path: on a bare ("Install") launch, if Hermes is already
   installed (bootstrap-complete marker + a built desktop app on disk), skip the
   installer UI entirely and relaunch the desktop app, then exit. First run still
   installs; Update mode and fresh/repair installs still show the UI. The window
   now starts hidden ("visible": false) and is revealed only when the UI is
   actually needed, so the launcher path never flashes a window.

Net UX: one "Hermes" in /Applications you can pin to the Dock — first click
installs, every later click opens the app instantly (same icon throughout, so
the Dock stays seamless). Nothing pins to the Dock permanently; the app shows a
normal Dock icon only while running.

Windows naming is intentionally left as-is in this change (scope: macOS).

* fix(installer): gate launcher fast path to macOS + log window-show failures

Address review feedback:
- Gate the already-installed launcher fast path to macOS (cfg!(target_os =
  "macos")). On Windows/Linux the installer keeps its prior behavior, so the
  change is a pure no-op there. This avoids relaunching the desktop app on
  Windows via a spawn that lacks the DETACHED_PROCESS + startup-grace handling
  launch_hermes_desktop uses (which could race the installer's exit).
- Add a brief startup grace before exiting on the mac fast path, mirroring
  launch_hermes_desktop.
- Log (instead of silently ignoring) failures to show the main window, and log
  when the "main" window can't be found, so a no-UI state is diagnosable.

* fix(installer): add --reinstall escape hatch + keep spawn detached on Windows

Address follow-up review:
- Add a `--reinstall`/`--repair` flag that forces the installer UI even when
  Hermes is already installed, so a broken install can be repaired by re-running
  setup instead of the launcher fast path silently relaunching the (possibly
  bad) app.
- Apply DETACHED_PROCESS on Windows in spawn_installed_desktop, mirroring
  launch_hermes_desktop, so the helper stays correct cross-platform even though
  its only caller is macOS-gated today.

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* test(installer): unit-test --reinstall/--repair force-setup parsing

Extract the force-setup flag parsing into a unit-testable
`force_setup_from_args` helper (mirrors `AppMode::from_args`) and add tests:
- --reinstall and --repair are recognized
- bare/unrelated args (incl. --update) do not force setup
- the repair flags never affect Install<->Update mode selection

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* feat(desktop): content-hash build stamp with --build-only and --force-build flags

Add a SHA-256 content-hash based build stamp to `hermes desktop` so
unchanged source trees skip the npm install + build step. Uses pathspec
for .gitignore-aware file matching instead of a hardcoded skip-list.

New CLI flags:
- --build-only: run the build but don't launch the app
- --force-build: rebuild even when the stamp matches

`hermes update` now calls `hermes desktop --build-only` so the
desktop app is rebuilt (if needed) as part of the update flow.

16/16 tests passing.

* fix(models): restore gemini-3-flash-preview to Gemini OAuth picker (#37606)

#37046 swapped gemini-3-flash-preview -> gemini-3.5-flash in the
google-gemini-cli (OAuth/Code Assist) picker on the premise that the
preview slug was renamed. It wasn't. Per gemini-cli's models.ts, Code
Assist serves two distinct flash slugs with different access gates:
gemini-3-flash-preview (PREVIEW_GEMINI_FLASH_MODEL — what subscription/
free-tier OAuth users reach) and gemini-3.5-flash
(DEFAULT_GEMINI_3_5_FLASH_MODEL — GA-channel-gated). The model string is
passed verbatim into the {project, model, ...} envelope sent to
cloudcode-pa.googleapis.com, so non-GA users got a hard error on every
prompt because gemini-3.5-flash 404s for them.

Offer both slugs in the OAuth picker (matching gemini-cli's own /model
list) so non-GA users can select the preview flash that works. The
gemini (API-key), OpenRouter, and Nous lists are untouched —
google/gemini-3.5-flash is a real live model on those surfaces.

* fix(desktop): stabilize project folder sessions (#37586)

* fix(desktop): stabilize project folder sessions

Keep desktop folder selection aligned with new sessions and scope TUI gateway cwd through session context so prompts and tools resolve against the selected workspace.

* fix(desktop): address review feedback on folder sessions

Snapshot sessions before iterating to avoid concurrent-mutation crashes,
optional-chain the revealLogs catch, and read console-message args from
the correct Electron event/messageDetails positions.

* fix(desktop): address second review pass on folder sessions

Sync the remembered workspace key with the cwd atom (clear on empty),
only load tree children for real directory nodes, and throttle renderer
auto-reloads so a deterministic startup crash can't loop forever.

* fix(desktop): inherit parent workspace for ephemeral agent tasks

Background and preview tasks use ephemeral ids absent from the session
map, so pass the parent session cwd into the session context explicitly
instead of clearing it back to the gateway launch dir. Also correct the
set_session_vars docstring about clear_session_vars semantics.

* fix(desktop): validate preview cwd before pinning session context

A non-empty but non-existent client cwd would pin an unusable override
and silently fall back to the launch dir. Validate once, reuse for both
the session context and the terminal override, and fall back to the
parent session workspace when invalid.

* fix(desktop): harden preview cwd normalization and adopt normalized cwd

Guard preview cwd normalization against malformed client paths so a bad
input can't fail the whole restart, and adopt the backend's normalized
config.get cwd in the no-active-session path so the persisted workspace
stays consistent with what the agent uses.

* fix(desktop): triage batch of GUI quality-of-life fixes (#37536)

* fix(desktop): triage 24 GUI quality-of-life fixes across sidebar, composer, tool cards, messaging, and platform plumbing

A grab-bag of high-leverage UX fixes plus a few backend touches that the
GUI needs to behave correctly on Windows.

Sidebar / sessions
- Decrement $sessionsTotal on delete + archive so "Load N more" stops
  claiming removed rows are still on the server.
- Hide the "Group by workspace" toggle when no unpinned sessions exist.
- Accept Cmd/Ctrl+N as a "new session" accelerator (in addition to bare
  Shift+N), and render the kbd hint per-platform.
- Switch the statusbar to overflow-x-clip so untitled sessions don't
  paint a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the window.

Messaging + Cron
- Add [-webkit-app-region: no-drag] to the page-search input so clicks
  reach the field instead of routing to the OS window-drag handler.
- Replace single-letter PlatformAvatar with brand glyphs from
  @icons-pack/react-simple-icons (telegram, discord, matrix, signal,
  whatsapp, mattermost, wechat, qq, ...). Letter monogram fallback for
  Slack / Dingtalk / Feishu / WeCom (removed from Simple Icons at brand
  owner request).
- Drop the duplicate "Create first cron" button in the empty state.

Composer
- Dedupe pasted images by (name, size, lastModified, type) instead of
  Blob identity; Chromium hands us the same screenshot via both
  clipboard.items and clipboard.files with fresh File instances.
- Enable spellcheck on the contentEditable, configure Chromium's
  spellchecker with the system locale on whenReady, and add
  replaceMisspelling + "Add to dictionary" entries to the context menu.
- Render user messages through a minimal markdown pipeline (inline
  backtick code + fenced ``` blocks) while keeping @file:/@image:
  directive chips intact.
- max-h-[60vh] overflow-y-auto + collisionPadding on the prompt-snippet
  submenu.
- Bake cursor-pointer into the <Button> primitive (with
  disabled:cursor-default) and into titlebarButtonClass.

Dialogs + tabs + version
- Default DialogContent now has max-h-[85vh] overflow-y-auto so long
  bodies scroll instead of falling off-screen.
- Right-rail preview tabs close on middle-click (button === 1), with an
  onMouseDown swallow to suppress Chromium autoscroll.
- New refreshDesktopVersion() helper called from About mount, after
  every update check, and on throttled window focus so About reflects
  the just-installed binary.

Keys + Artifacts + Terminal
- Drop the global "Show advanced" toggle in KeysSettings. Provider
  groups now default-expand when they have any key set.
- Extend openExternalUrl to handle file:// via shell.openPath, with
  showItemInFolder fallback when the OS can't open the file.
- New lib/ansi.ts SGR parser + <AnsiText> component, applied to
  terminal/execute_code tool output.
- ToolView gained stdout / stderr / rendersAnsi; tool-fallback renders
  the two streams as separate labeled blocks with stderr in a neutral
  tone (not destructive — many CLIs log info on stderr).
- Drop 'stderr' from ERROR_MSG_KEYS in tool-result-summary.

Paths + platform
- resolveHermesCwd skips process.cwd() when packaged and prefers a
  user-configurable default project directory.
- New hermes:setting:defaultProjectDir:{get,set,pick} IPC handlers +
  preload bridge + global.d.ts typing + a "Default project directory"
  row in Sessions settings.
- FileOperations.delete_path(path, recursive=True) on the abstract
  base; ShellFileOperations.delete_file rewritten to run a cross-
  platform python3 -c snippet so deletes work on Windows shells (which
  have no rm/rm -rf). Fallback to `python` when `python3` isn't on PATH.
- README troubleshooting block split into macOS/Linux + Windows
  PowerShell recipes.
- Tightened renderer favicon links in index.html + added color-scheme
  and theme-color meta.

Backend lifecycle (renderer-side mitigation)
- New noteSessionActivity() heartbeat + session.ts watchdog: an
  8-minute silence on the stream auto-clears stuck $workingSessionIds
  entries so "Session Busy" never gets permanently wedged. Wired into
  useSessionStateCache so every state update refreshes the timer.

i18n spike
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md scoping a future language-switcher PR
  (recommends react-intl, audits IME/RTL/CJK in the composer +
  chat bubbles, 4-PR rollout plan, ~3-4 eng-weeks for the first
  non-English locale).

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

* fix(desktop): replace native OS scrollbar in portaled dropdown menus

Radix's DropdownMenuPrimitive.Portal renders content under document.body,
outside the `.scrollbar-dt` scope on #root. Whenever a menu's max-height
clipped its content (even by a pixel — common for the composer "+" menu
that opens upward near the bottom of the window), the user saw the OS's
chunky native scrollbar painted across the whole menu.

Bake a thin, slot-styled scrollbar onto DropdownMenuContent and
DropdownMenuSubContent via [scrollbar-width:thin] + WebKit pseudo-element
arbitrary variants. The submenu also gets a max-h tied to
--radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height so long snippet lists scroll
cleanly instead of running off the bottom of the viewport. Drop the now-
redundant max-h-[60vh] override on the prompt-snippet submenu.

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

* fix(desktop): unbork dropdown menu — submenu opens, parent isn't a circle

Two regressions from the previous dropdown-scrollbar fix:

- The parent menu rendered as a rounded oval. Long Tailwind v4 arbitrary-
  variant strings like [&::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb]:rounded-full inside a
  cn() call were being mis-resolved so the `rounded-full` leaked onto the
  menu container itself. Replaced the whole tower of arbitrary variants
  with a real `.dt-portal-scrollbar` class in styles.css that mirrors what
  `.scrollbar-dt` already does for #root descendants. Plain CSS, no Tailwind
  parser ambiguity.
- The Prompt snippets submenu didn't open. Radix publishes
  --radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height on Content but NOT on
  SubContent, so the `max-h` bound to that variable computed to 0 and the
  submenu collapsed to zero height. Switched SubContent to a fixed
  max-h-80 (≈20rem) which is plenty for a snippet list and never collapses.

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

* fix(desktop): promote prompt snippets from Radix submenu to a real Dialog

The submenu refused to open when the parent dropdown was anchored at the
bottom of the window (composer "+" button) — Radix's collision detection +
SubContent positioning was fighting us. Rather than keep tuning side /
sideOffset / collisionPadding / max-h until something stuck, replace the
DropdownMenuSub with a clicked DropdownMenuItem that opens a proper
Dialog.

Side benefits over the submenu:
- Each snippet gets a description line, so a glance is enough to pick one.
- Focus management is handled by Dialog automatically.
- Easy to grow (search, custom user snippets, categories) without
  another round of Radix positioning bugs.

Also extract types/interfaces to the bottom of the file per workspace
convention.

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

* fix(desktop): move cron 'New cron' button off the top bar into the body

Reverses the previous direction on cron empty-state dedup. The body
button is more discoverable for first-time users (it's anchored next to
the "No scheduled jobs yet" copy that explains the feature) and frees
the top bar from a global CTA that wasn't pulling its weight.

- Empty (zero jobs): EmptyState renders the "Create first cron" button
  again, like the original design.
- Empty (search filtered out all jobs): no button, just "Try a broader
  search query" copy.
- Has jobs: small inline header above the list shows `N/M active` plus
  a single "New cron" button (right-aligned). The rows themselves
  already cover edit/pause/trigger/delete, so this is the only "create"
  affordance.

Also drop the dead `<div className="hidden">…</div>` enabledCount line
the previous patch left behind; the count is now visible in the new
header instead of hidden.

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

* fix(desktop): address Copilot review on PR 37536

- sessions-settings: guard the WHOLE bridge call rather than chaining
  `?.settings.foo().then(...)` — the latter throws when
  `window.hermesDesktop` is undefined (non-Electron / Vitest contexts)
  because the chain short-circuits to `undefined.then(...)`.
- file_operations: drop `Path.unlink(missing_ok=True)` (Py>=3.8) so the
  generated delete snippet still works on remote backends running
  Python 3.7. The existing FileNotFoundError handler covers the same
  case and works back to 3.4.
- ansi.test.ts: add focused Vitest coverage for the SGR parser
  (basic/bright colors, bold toggles, default-fg reset, coalescing,
  256-color / truecolor arg consumption, non-SGR CSI drop, empty SGR
  full-reset) so future refactors can't silently regress terminal
  rendering.

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

* fix(desktop/updates): swallow refreshDesktopVersion bridge errors

`refreshDesktopVersion()` is called best-effort with `void` from
`checkUpdates()`, `startUpdatePoller()`, and the window focus handler.
If the IPC bridge rejects (main process shutting down during reload,
bridge not yet ready on first paint), the rejection surfaces as an
unhandled promise rejection in the renderer. Wrap the call in try/catch
and return null on failure so callers can keep the existing
fire-and-forget pattern safely.

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

* chore(desktop): drop work duplicated by other in-flight PRs

- composer/text-utils.ts: revert paste-image dedupe — PR #37596
  ships the same fix with a cleaner content-key approach and a
  Vitest file (text-utils.test.ts). Letting that PR own the change.
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md: delete the i18n scoping RFC — PR #37568
  has already shipped a working i18n surface (homegrown nanostores
  `t()` helper over en/zh dictionaries), so the RFC's framework
  recommendation (`react-intl`) is now obsolete and would just
  contradict the implementation that's actually landing.

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

---------

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

* feat(desktop): make xAI Grok a first-class OAuth provider in the launcher

xAI Grok was only reachable via the "I have an API key" form. xAI's
OAuth (SuperGrok / Premium+) flow already exists in the backend
(`hermes auth add xai-oauth`) but was never surfaced in the desktop
onboarding launcher.

Add a loopback PKCE flow: the local backend binds the 127.0.0.1
callback listener, the client opens the browser, and the redirect lands
back automatically — no code to copy/paste. Reuses the existing xAI
OAuth helpers (discovery, callback server, token exchange, persist)
rather than duplicating them.

- web_server: catalog entry (flow: loopback) + status dispatch +
  _start_xai_loopback_flow + background worker + route branch
- desktop: 'loopback' flow type, awaiting_browser status, xAI Grok card
  (PROVIDER_DISPLAY / FLOW_SUBTITLES / FlowPanel waiting render)
- tests: catalog listing, start authorize-url, worker persist, state
  mismatch rejection

* fix(desktop): order xAI Grok after MiniMax in the OAuth catalog

* fix(desktop): address Copilot review on xAI loopback flow

- web_server: join the callback-server thread in the start error path so a
  failed discovery/URL build doesn't leave a daemon thread running
- web_server: loopback worker now bails if the session was cancelled while
  waiting for the callback or exchanging the code, instead of persisting
  tokens the user no longer wants (+ regression test)
- onboarding: fall back to window.open when the desktop bridge's
  openExternal is unavailable, so the flow never silently stalls

* fix(desktop): address second Copilot pass on xAI loopback flow

- onboarding: openSignInUrl now falls back to window.open when the desktop
  bridge's openExternal throws/rejects (OS handler missing, user denied),
  not just when the bridge is absent
- web_server: cancelling a loopback session shuts down the 127.0.0.1
  callback server + joins its thread immediately, freeing the port instead
  of holding it until the wait times out (+ regression test)
- web_server: document the new "loopback" flow in the /api/providers/oauth
  enum, the poll-endpoint docstring, and the Phase 2 flow comment block

* ci(nix): fold package+devShell builds into flake check

Add build-package and build-devshell as cross-platform check
derivations so nix flake check verifies the default package and
devShell build on every platform (including darwin, which previously
only did eval-only checks).

This lets us drop the separate nix build step from the CI workflow
and removes the macOS-only eval fallback — a single nix flake check
now covers builds + runtime checks on all runners.

* fix(desktop): use auth-store path as xAI OAuth source_label

source_label is meant to be a human-readable origin (file path / source),
not the internal auth_mode string ("oauth_pkce"). Surface the auth-store
path, then the source slug, then a generic label.

* fix(desktop): signal loopback worker to stop on cancel

Shutting down the callback server stopped the serve thread but left the
worker spinning in _xai_wait_for_callback (which polls callback_result)
until the timeout. Flag callback_result as cancelled on DELETE so the
wait returns promptly and the daemon thread exits — avoids thread
buildup on repeated cancel/retry.

* fix(web-server): move event channel state from module globals to app.state (#37683)

Module-level asyncio.Lock() binds to whatever event loop was active at
import time.  When the same web_server module is reused across multiple
TestClient instances (or across uvicorn reloads), the old lock still
references a defunct loop, causing 'attached to a different loop' errors
and flaky subscriber-registration races in CI.

Replace the module-level _event_channels dict + _event_lock with:
  - _lifespan() async context manager that creates both on the running
    event loop during FastAPI startup (guaranteed correct loop binding)
  - _get_event_state() lazy accessor that initialises on app.state when
    TestClient is used without a `with` block (preserves backward compat)

All call sites (_broadcast_event, /api/pub, /api/events) now receive the
app reference and read state via _get_event_state(app) instead of the
module globals.  The test polling loop is updated to check
app.state.event_channels rather than the removed module attribute.

* fix(gateway): route /background result media by type

Background-task (/background, /btw) result media now routes to the
type-specific sender — TTS clip → voice bubble, video → send_video,
image → send_image_file — instead of forcing everything through
send_document. Mirrors the streaming + kanban delivery paths and
reuses base.should_send_media_as_audio for the Telegram OGG nuance.

Co-authored-by: LJ Li <liliangjya@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Kolektori <256073454+Kolektori@users.noreply.github.com>

* test(honcho): de-flake prewarm smoke test's thread wait (#37614)

TestDialecticLifecycleSmoke._await_thread did a single join(timeout=3.0) and
then proceeded regardless of whether the background dialectic thread had
finished. On a loaded CI runner (6 parallel test slices) the prewarm thread's
completion can slip past that 3s window, so the join times out silently and the
test reads _prefetch_result before the worker wrote it — the intermittent
'session-start prewarm must land in _prefetch_result' failure.

Join in a loop up to a 30s ceiling and assert the thread is actually dead, so a
genuine hang surfaces as a clear failure instead of a timing race. Reproduced
the old failure deterministically (5/5 fails with a 3.5s prewarm delay) and
confirmed the fix (0/8) before/after.

* feat(desktop): inline model picker in the status bar

Replace the status-bar model chip's modal with a Cursor-style dropdown:
- providers grouped by name in a stable order (no recency reshuffle on select)
- per-model hover-Edit submenu for reasoning effort + fast, gated by per-model
  capabilities now surfaced in the model.options payload
- unified Fast toggle: flips the speed=fast param where supported, else swaps
  to the model's `-fast` variant (base and variant collapse into one row)
- localStorage-backed "Edit Models" dialog to choose which models appear

Adds reusable dropdown primitives (DropdownMenuSearch, shared row/label
tokens, portaled + collision-aware submenus) and reads session state from
nanostores rather than prop-drilling, so editing options doesn't rebuild and
close the menu.

* fix(desktop): adopt existing macOS install + auto-place app

First-launch "already installed?" hinged solely on a marker that only the
desktop's own bootstrap writes, so a runtime from `install.sh --include-desktop`
(or a DMG launch over a prior CLI install) was runnable yet markerless and got
the WHOLE installer re-run on top of it. Detect a runnable ACTIVE_HERMES_ROOT
(valid source + venv), adopt it (stamp the marker, recording HEAD), and forward
straight to the app. Repair keeps forcing a real re-bootstrap.

Also: on first packaged macOS launch relocate the bundle into /Applications
(Electron relaunches from there) and pin the canonical copy to the Dock once,
so users stop re-opening the installer from Downloads/the DMG.

* fix(aux): self-heal Nous-routed calls when a pinned model leaves the catalog (#37732)

A long-lived process (gateway, watcher) caches the Nous Portal's
recommended-models payload and can pin a model for its whole lifetime.
When that model is later dropped from the Nous -> OpenRouter catalog,
every auxiliary call 404s with 'model does not exist in our
configuration or OpenRouter catalog' until the process restarts.

Now such a 404 force-refreshes the Portal recommendation and retries
once with the current pick (or the gemini-3-flash-preview default).
Scoped to Nous-routed calls only.

- _is_model_not_found_error(): 404/400 'not found / does not exist /
  not a valid model' predicate, excludes billing keywords so it never
  overlaps _is_payment_error.
- _refresh_nous_recommended_model(): force-refresh fetch, returns a
  model distinct from the one that failed, else the known-good default.
- Wired into both call_llm and async_call_llm error chains.

* fix(gateway): close ResponseStore + dispose unowned adapter on reconnect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes #37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes #37018, #37110, #37238, #37260, #37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)

* fix(release): add fearvox1015@gmail.com -> Fearvox to AUTHOR_MAP

The check-attribution CI job on #37679 failed because the commit
author email nolan@0xvox.com (a local git config mistake on this
machine) is not in scripts/release.py AUTHOR_MAP. The commit
itself is now re-authored to fearvox1015@gmail.com, and this
follow-up adds the entry to AUTHOR_MAP so any future commits
authored from this email also pass the check.

* polish(gateway): address Copilot review comments on fd-leak fix

Seven Copilot inline review comments on #37679, four worth landing
in a polish pass before merge:

1. _dispose_unused_adapter signature: 'BasePlatformAdapter' ->
   'BasePlatformAdapter | None'. The function explicitly handles
   None and the reconnect watcher calls it with None in the
   except arm, so the annotation now matches the actual contract.

2. (duplicate of #1 on a different line) — same fix.

3. except Exception in _dispose_unused_adapter — the reviewer
   asked about asyncio.CancelledError swallowing. On Python 3.8+
   (Hermes requires 3.13, see pyproject.toml), CancelledError
   inherits from BaseException, NOT Exception, so the existing
   'except Exception' does NOT swallow task cancellation. Added
   an explicit comment explaining the contract so future readers
   don't repeat the analysis. We don't re-raise because the
   watcher loop intentionally treats dispose failures as
   best-effort: a failed dispose on an unowned adapter should not
   take down the watcher that's keeping the gateway alive.

4. _response_store = None after close in api_server.py — the
   reviewer flagged this for idempotency. Decided to keep the
   non-None state intentionally: setting it to None cascades
   to ~9 callers that access self._response_store without a
   None check, and 'close() is idempotent on a closed sqlite3
   Connection' means the current code is already safe. The
   type stays stable; LSP doesn't flag a cascade of
   reportOptionalMemberAccess errors. (This matches the
   pre-existing pattern in the codebase — e.g.
   _mark_disconnected doesn't reset state to None either.)

5. _build_adapter_with_store: reviewer worried about
   disconnect() failing on the self.name property if
   __init__ wasn't called. Already handled: we set
   'adapter.platform = Platform.API_SERVER' so the
   'self.platform.value.title()' property returns
   'Api_Server' without raising. The exception-swallowing
   branch in disconnect() does call self.name via the
   logger.debug format, so this is a real path that needs
   the platform attribute, and we have it.

6. test_disconnect_closes_response_store: bare 'pytest.raises(Exception)'
   -> 'pytest.raises(sqlite3.ProgrammingError)'. The bare
   Exception matcher would silently accept AttributeError,
   OperationalError, env-related issues, etc. The specific
   exception type ('Cannot operate on a closed database') is
   the actual signal we want — proves the SQLite conn is
   closed, not just that *something* raised.

7. test_nonretryable_failure_disposes_unowned_adapter:
   assertion tightened from '>= 1' to '== 1' on
   adapter._disconnect_calls. The docstring said 'exactly once',
   the assertion now matches. Catches the hypothetical
   'watcher disposes the same adapter twice' regression that
   '>=' would have missed.

* fix(desktop): address Copilot review on model picker

- selectModel reports success; edits bail (and roll back) instead of landing
  on the previously active model when a switch fails
- Fast toggle stays available to turn off a carried-over speed param even when
  the new model has no native fast mechanism
- active row's "Fast" label derives from the same fastControl as the submenu
  toggle, so it's consistent and handles standalone `-fast` model ids

* fix(node/nix): consolidate workspace lockfile + update all consumers

Consolidate per-package package-lock.json files into a single root-level
workspace lockfile.  Update all consumers:

- Nix: shared src/npmDeps/npmDepsHash in lib.nix; devshell hook stamps
  package.json paths then runs npm ci from root; individual .nix files
  use mkNpmPassthru attrs instead of per-package fetchNpmDeps.
- Python CLI: new _workspace_root() helper so _tui_need_npm_install,
  _make_tui_argv, _build_web_ui resolve lockfile/node_modules from the
  workspace root.
- Desktop: replace --force-build/mtime heuristic with content-hash build
  stamp (_compute_desktop_content_hash via pathspec).  Remove --force-build
  flag.
- Dockerfile: single root npm install; no per-directory lockfile copies.
- CI: nix-lockfile-fix and osv-scanner reference root package-lock.json;
  apps/dashboard → apps/desktop.
- Tests: new test_tui_npm_install.py; desktop stamp tests in
  test_gui_command.py; updated assertions in test_cmd_update.py,
  test_web_ui_build.py, test_dockerfile_pid1_reaping.py.
- Docs: remove --force-build from desktop flag table.

Deleted: apps/desktop/package-lock.json, ui-tui/package-lock.json,
ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/package-lock.json, web/package-lock.json.

* refactor(uv): single managed-uv path, delete fts5 installer escalation

Replace the multi-path UV resolution chain (PATH probing, conda guards,
5-location trust ordering, temp-dir fallback installs) with a single
managed uv binary at $HERMES_HOME/bin/uv. Every code path that needs
uv resolves it from that one location; if missing, ensure_uv()
bootstraps it via the official standalone installer.

Key changes:

- New hermes_cli/managed_uv.py: managed_uv_path(), resolve_uv(),
  ensure_uv() (returns (path, freshly_bootstrapped) tuple),
  update_managed_uv(), rebuild_venv(), installer internals.
- hermes_cli/main.py: replace all shutil.which('uv') with ensure_uv(),
  add venv rebuild on first-time managed uv bootstrap, update_managed_uv
  before dep install on all 3 update paths.
- scripts/install.sh: install_uv() always installs to
  $HERMES_HOME/bin/uv; delete ensure_fts5, _python_has_fts5,
  _reinstall_python_with_fts5, _warn_no_fts5 (61 lines).
  Managed uv always installs current Python with FTS5.
- scripts/install.ps1: Install-Uv always installs to
  $HermesHome\bin\uv.exe; Resolve-UvCmd checks managed location first.
- hermes_state.py: simplified FTS5 warning now suggests 'hermes update'
  as the fix instead of blaming install method.
- tests: 15 tests in test_managed_uv.py, autouse _patch_managed_uv
  fixture in test_cmd_update.py.

Closes #37605, Closes #37622

* fix(tests): add _patch_managed_uv autouse fixture to uv-dependent test files

Production code now uses ensure_uv()/update_managed_uv() from
managed_uv.py instead of shutil.which("uv") directly. Tests that
patched shutil.which to control uv availability no longer controlled
the actual code path, causing CI failures.

Add an autouse _patch_managed_uv fixture to test_update_autostash.py
and test_uv_tool_update.py (matching the existing fixture in
test_cmd_update.py). The fixture makes managed_uv functions delegate
to shutil.which so existing test patches flow through naturally.

* fix(desktop): write Dock tile as a file-reference URL

The Dock stores persistent-apps as type-15 file:// URLs; the type-0/raw-path
tile we wrote was silently dropped on the next Dock restart (so the pin never
took, yet we'd stamped the marker and never retried). Use pathToFileURL + type
15 and flush prefs through cfprefsd before `killall Dock`. Verified end-to-end
on a packaged build: move -> adopt -> Dock tile lands as
file:///Applications/Hermes.app/.

* fix(desktop): configure Linux Electron sandbox helper

Electron's chrome-sandbox helper must be root:root 4755 on Linux or the
sandboxed renderer aborts before the desktop app starts. The existing
installer only searched for macOS .app bundles, so a successful Linux
build was reported as missing.

Changes:
- Add _desktop_linux_sandbox_fixup() to hermes_cli/main.py, called
  before launching a packaged desktop app on Linux.
- Use lstat() + S_ISREG check to reject symlinks — chown/chmod on a
  symlink target would set SUID on an arbitrary path.
- Update install.sh to recognize Linux unpacked artifacts and configure
  chrome-sandbox with proper error handling (the original PR silently
  ignored chown/chmod failures).
- Add regression tests: normal fixup flow, symlink rejection, and
  already-configured skip path.

Closes #37529 (rebased, merge conflicts resolved, copilot review
feedback addressed).

* fix(desktop): inherit microphone entitlement for macOS helpers

Add com.apple.security.device.audio-input to entitlements.mac.inherit.plist.
Under hardenedRuntime the Electron Helper/Setup processes inherit this file,
and the missing entitlement made macOS TCC deny the microphone with no prompt,
breaking voice chat.

Fixes #37718

* test(desktop): assert macOS device entitlements are inherited

Pin #37718: the inherit plist must grant audio-input, every device.*
entitlement on the main app must also be inherited by the Helper/Setup
processes, and both entitlement files must stay valid plists.

* fix(desktop): roll back optimistic model switch on failure

selectModel snapshots the prior model/provider and restores the store +
query cache when the backend switch fails, so the UI never shows a model the
backend didn't actually select.

* docs(desktop): sync marker schema comment + default dock note arg

Address Copilot review: document the `adopted` flag and nullable `pinnedCommit`
in the marker schema comment, and default `done(note = {})` so the dock-pinned
marker write is unambiguous (object spread of undefined was already a no-op, but
explicit is clearer).

* fix(desktop): switch model on keyboard activation of picker rows

The model row is a Radix sub-trigger (no onSelect), so switching was
pointer-only. Wire Enter/Space alongside onClick so keyboard users can switch
models too.

* fix(dashboard): allow desktop websocket origins on remote binds

* chore: add leonardsellem to AUTHOR_MAP for PR #37405

* fix: expand skill bundles in cron jobs

* feat(cli): configurable default interface (cli vs tui)

Add `display.interface` config key so users can make the modern TUI the
default for bare `hermes` / `hermes chat` without exporting HERMES_TUI=1 in
every shell. Default stays "cli" to preserve current behavior.

Add a `--cli` flag (mirrors `--tui`) so an explicit invocation can force the
classic prompt_toolkit REPL even when `display.interface: tui` is configured.

Precedence (highest first): `--cli` > `--tui`/`HERMES_TUI=1` > config
`display.interface` > classic REPL. Two resolvers enforce it:

  * `_resolve_use_tui(args)` — the args-aware resolver used by `cmd_chat`
    and the Termux fast-TUI path (uses full load_config()).
  * `_wants_tui_early(argv)` — a dependency-free early resolver used by
    mouse-residue suppression and the Termux fast paths, which run before
    argparse / hermes_cli.config are importable (minimal cached YAML read).

Both `--cli` and `--tui` are registered via `_inherited_flag`, so they are
carried across self-relaunch automatically.

- config: add display.interface ("cli" default), bump _config_version 25->26.
  The generic missing-field migration + load_config() deep-merge seed the key
  for existing configs; no bespoke migration block needed.
- docs: document --cli flag and display.interface in cli-commands.md and
  the TUI user guide.
- tests: new test_default_interface_resolution.py covering resolver
  precedence at every layer, early resolver edge cases (missing/garbage
  config), parser flags, and relaunch inheritance.

* fix(deps): refresh lockfile to clear 6 npm audit findings (#37752)

* fix(deps): refresh lockfile to clear 6 npm audit findings

Plain `npm audit fix` (no --force, no overrides) — every patched
version was already in-range, so a lockfile refresh clears all
findings without permanent override pins.

Cleared:
- tmp 0.2.5 -> 0.2.7 (path traversal, HIGH — GHSA-ph9p-34f9-6g65)
- brace-expansion 5.0.5 -> 5.0.6 (DoS — GHSA-jxxr-4gwj-5jf2)
- mermaid 11.14.0 -> 11.15.0 (4 advisories: GHSA-6m6c-36f7-fhxh,
  GHSA-xcj9-5m2h-648r, GHSA-87f9-hvmw-gh4p, GHSA-ghcm-xqfw-q4vr)

npm audit: 6 vulnerabilities -> 0. package.json untouched.

* fix(nix): bump npmDepsHash for refreshed lockfile

Uses the hash fetchNpmDeps (the actual build fetcher) produces, which
diverges from prefetch-npm-deps / nix run .#fix-lockfiles output for
this lockfile.

* fix(setup): default browser/TTS picker to free local backend, not paid Nous (#37800)

The Browser Automation and Text-to-Speech provider pickers listed the paid
"Nous Subscription" gateway row first, so on a fresh install the menu cursor
defaulted to index 0 (Nous). Pressing Enter selected it and ran the inline
Nous Portal device-code login — walking users into a paid offering they
never chose.

Reorder both provider lists so the free, no-key local backend is index 0
(Local Browser / Microsoft Edge TTS). Users who already configured Nous are
unaffected: _detect_active_provider_index still resolves their active row
first, so the cursor lands on Nous (now index 1) for them.

Reported by Javier via Kujila.

* 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…

…#37536)

* fix(desktop): triage 24 GUI quality-of-life fixes across sidebar, composer, tool cards, messaging, and platform plumbing

A grab-bag of high-leverage UX fixes plus a few backend touches that the
GUI needs to behave correctly on Windows.

Sidebar / sessions
- Decrement $sessionsTotal on delete + archive so "Load N more" stops
  claiming removed rows are still on the server.
- Hide the "Group by workspace" toggle when no unpinned sessions exist.
- Accept Cmd/Ctrl+N as a "new session" accelerator (in addition to bare
  Shift+N), and render the kbd hint per-platform.
- Switch the statusbar to overflow-x-clip so untitled sessions don't
  paint a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the window.

Messaging + Cron
- Add [-webkit-app-region: no-drag] to the page-search input so clicks
  reach the field instead of routing to the OS window-drag handler.
- Replace single-letter PlatformAvatar with brand glyphs from
  @icons-pack/react-simple-icons (telegram, discord, matrix, signal,
  whatsapp, mattermost, wechat, qq, ...). Letter monogram fallback for
  Slack / Dingtalk / Feishu / WeCom (removed from Simple Icons at brand
  owner request).
- Drop the duplicate "Create first cron" button in the empty state.

Composer
- Dedupe pasted images by (name, size, lastModified, type) instead of
  Blob identity; Chromium hands us the same screenshot via both
  clipboard.items and clipboard.files with fresh File instances.
- Enable spellcheck on the contentEditable, configure Chromium's
  spellchecker with the system locale on whenReady, and add
  replaceMisspelling + "Add to dictionary" entries to the context menu.
- Render user messages through a minimal markdown pipeline (inline
  backtick code + fenced ``` blocks) while keeping @file:/@image:
  directive chips intact.
- max-h-[60vh] overflow-y-auto + collisionPadding on the prompt-snippet
  submenu.
- Bake cursor-pointer into the <Button> primitive (with
  disabled:cursor-default) and into titlebarButtonClass.

Dialogs + tabs + version
- Default DialogContent now has max-h-[85vh] overflow-y-auto so long
  bodies scroll instead of falling off-screen.
- Right-rail preview tabs close on middle-click (button === 1), with an
  onMouseDown swallow to suppress Chromium autoscroll.
- New refreshDesktopVersion() helper called from About mount, after
  every update check, and on throttled window focus so About reflects
  the just-installed binary.

Keys + Artifacts + Terminal
- Drop the global "Show advanced" toggle in KeysSettings. Provider
  groups now default-expand when they have any key set.
- Extend openExternalUrl to handle file:// via shell.openPath, with
  showItemInFolder fallback when the OS can't open the file.
- New lib/ansi.ts SGR parser + <AnsiText> component, applied to
  terminal/execute_code tool output.
- ToolView gained stdout / stderr / rendersAnsi; tool-fallback renders
  the two streams as separate labeled blocks with stderr in a neutral
  tone (not destructive — many CLIs log info on stderr).
- Drop 'stderr' from ERROR_MSG_KEYS in tool-result-summary.

Paths + platform
- resolveHermesCwd skips process.cwd() when packaged and prefers a
  user-configurable default project directory.
- New hermes:setting:defaultProjectDir:{get,set,pick} IPC handlers +
  preload bridge + global.d.ts typing + a "Default project directory"
  row in Sessions settings.
- FileOperations.delete_path(path, recursive=True) on the abstract
  base; ShellFileOperations.delete_file rewritten to run a cross-
  platform python3 -c snippet so deletes work on Windows shells (which
  have no rm/rm -rf). Fallback to `python` when `python3` isn't on PATH.
- README troubleshooting block split into macOS/Linux + Windows
  PowerShell recipes.
- Tightened renderer favicon links in index.html + added color-scheme
  and theme-color meta.

Backend lifecycle (renderer-side mitigation)
- New noteSessionActivity() heartbeat + session.ts watchdog: an
  8-minute silence on the stream auto-clears stuck $workingSessionIds
  entries so "Session Busy" never gets permanently wedged. Wired into
  useSessionStateCache so every state update refreshes the timer.

i18n spike
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md scoping a future language-switcher PR
  (recommends react-intl, audits IME/RTL/CJK in the composer +
  chat bubbles, 4-PR rollout plan, ~3-4 eng-weeks for the first
  non-English locale).

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

* fix(desktop): replace native OS scrollbar in portaled dropdown menus

Radix's DropdownMenuPrimitive.Portal renders content under document.body,
outside the `.scrollbar-dt` scope on #root. Whenever a menu's max-height
clipped its content (even by a pixel — common for the composer "+" menu
that opens upward near the bottom of the window), the user saw the OS's
chunky native scrollbar painted across the whole menu.

Bake a thin, slot-styled scrollbar onto DropdownMenuContent and
DropdownMenuSubContent via [scrollbar-width:thin] + WebKit pseudo-element
arbitrary variants. The submenu also gets a max-h tied to
--radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height so long snippet lists scroll
cleanly instead of running off the bottom of the viewport. Drop the now-
redundant max-h-[60vh] override on the prompt-snippet submenu.

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

* fix(desktop): unbork dropdown menu — submenu opens, parent isn't a circle

Two regressions from the previous dropdown-scrollbar fix:

- The parent menu rendered as a rounded oval. Long Tailwind v4 arbitrary-
  variant strings like [&::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb]:rounded-full inside a
  cn() call were being mis-resolved so the `rounded-full` leaked onto the
  menu container itself. Replaced the whole tower of arbitrary variants
  with a real `.dt-portal-scrollbar` class in styles.css that mirrors what
  `.scrollbar-dt` already does for #root descendants. Plain CSS, no Tailwind
  parser ambiguity.
- The Prompt snippets submenu didn't open. Radix publishes
  --radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height on Content but NOT on
  SubContent, so the `max-h` bound to that variable computed to 0 and the
  submenu collapsed to zero height. Switched SubContent to a fixed
  max-h-80 (≈20rem) which is plenty for a snippet list and never collapses.

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

* fix(desktop): promote prompt snippets from Radix submenu to a real Dialog

The submenu refused to open when the parent dropdown was anchored at the
bottom of the window (composer "+" button) — Radix's collision detection +
SubContent positioning was fighting us. Rather than keep tuning side /
sideOffset / collisionPadding / max-h until something stuck, replace the
DropdownMenuSub with a clicked DropdownMenuItem that opens a proper
Dialog.

Side benefits over the submenu:
- Each snippet gets a description line, so a glance is enough to pick one.
- Focus management is handled by Dialog automatically.
- Easy to grow (search, custom user snippets, categories) without
  another round of Radix positioning bugs.

Also extract types/interfaces to the bottom of the file per workspace
convention.

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

* fix(desktop): move cron 'New cron' button off the top bar into the body

Reverses the previous direction on cron empty-state dedup. The body
button is more discoverable for first-time users (it's anchored next to
the "No scheduled jobs yet" copy that explains the feature) and frees
the top bar from a global CTA that wasn't pulling its weight.

- Empty (zero jobs): EmptyState renders the "Create first cron" button
  again, like the original design.
- Empty (search filtered out all jobs): no button, just "Try a broader
  search query" copy.
- Has jobs: small inline header above the list shows `N/M active` plus
  a single "New cron" button (right-aligned). The rows themselves
  already cover edit/pause/trigger/delete, so this is the only "create"
  affordance.

Also drop the dead `<div className="hidden">…</div>` enabledCount line
the previous patch left behind; the count is now visible in the new
header instead of hidden.

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

* fix(desktop): address Copilot review on PR 37536

- sessions-settings: guard the WHOLE bridge call rather than chaining
  `?.settings.foo().then(...)` — the latter throws when
  `window.hermesDesktop` is undefined (non-Electron / Vitest contexts)
  because the chain short-circuits to `undefined.then(...)`.
- file_operations: drop `Path.unlink(missing_ok=True)` (Py>=3.8) so the
  generated delete snippet still works on remote backends running
  Python 3.7. The existing FileNotFoundError handler covers the same
  case and works back to 3.4.
- ansi.test.ts: add focused Vitest coverage for the SGR parser
  (basic/bright colors, bold toggles, default-fg reset, coalescing,
  256-color / truecolor arg consumption, non-SGR CSI drop, empty SGR
  full-reset) so future refactors can't silently regress terminal
  rendering.

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

* fix(desktop/updates): swallow refreshDesktopVersion bridge errors

`refreshDesktopVersion()` is called best-effort with `void` from
`checkUpdates()`, `startUpdatePoller()`, and the window focus handler.
If the IPC bridge rejects (main process shutting down during reload,
bridge not yet ready on first paint), the rejection surfaces as an
unhandled promise rejection in the renderer. Wrap the call in try/catch
and return null on failure so callers can keep the existing
fire-and-forget pattern safely.

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

* chore(desktop): drop work duplicated by other in-flight PRs

- composer/text-utils.ts: revert paste-image dedupe — PR NousResearch#37596
  ships the same fix with a cleaner content-key approach and a
  Vitest file (text-utils.test.ts). Letting that PR own the change.
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md: delete the i18n scoping RFC — PR NousResearch#37568
  has already shipped a working i18n surface (homegrown nanostores
  `t()` helper over en/zh dictionaries), so the RFC's framework
  recommendation (`react-intl`) is now obsolete and would just
  contradict the implementation that's actually landing.

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

---------

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

…#37536)

* fix(desktop): triage 24 GUI quality-of-life fixes across sidebar, composer, tool cards, messaging, and platform plumbing

A grab-bag of high-leverage UX fixes plus a few backend touches that the
GUI needs to behave correctly on Windows.

Sidebar / sessions
- Decrement $sessionsTotal on delete + archive so "Load N more" stops
  claiming removed rows are still on the server.
- Hide the "Group by workspace" toggle when no unpinned sessions exist.
- Accept Cmd/Ctrl+N as a "new session" accelerator (in addition to bare
  Shift+N), and render the kbd hint per-platform.
- Switch the statusbar to overflow-x-clip so untitled sessions don't
  paint a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the window.

Messaging + Cron
- Add [-webkit-app-region: no-drag] to the page-search input so clicks
  reach the field instead of routing to the OS window-drag handler.
- Replace single-letter PlatformAvatar with brand glyphs from
  @icons-pack/react-simple-icons (telegram, discord, matrix, signal,
  whatsapp, mattermost, wechat, qq, ...). Letter monogram fallback for
  Slack / Dingtalk / Feishu / WeCom (removed from Simple Icons at brand
  owner request).
- Drop the duplicate "Create first cron" button in the empty state.

Composer
- Dedupe pasted images by (name, size, lastModified, type) instead of
  Blob identity; Chromium hands us the same screenshot via both
  clipboard.items and clipboard.files with fresh File instances.
- Enable spellcheck on the contentEditable, configure Chromium's
  spellchecker with the system locale on whenReady, and add
  replaceMisspelling + "Add to dictionary" entries to the context menu.
- Render user messages through a minimal markdown pipeline (inline
  backtick code + fenced ``` blocks) while keeping @file:/@image:
  directive chips intact.
- max-h-[60vh] overflow-y-auto + collisionPadding on the prompt-snippet
  submenu.
- Bake cursor-pointer into the <Button> primitive (with
  disabled:cursor-default) and into titlebarButtonClass.

Dialogs + tabs + version
- Default DialogContent now has max-h-[85vh] overflow-y-auto so long
  bodies scroll instead of falling off-screen.
- Right-rail preview tabs close on middle-click (button === 1), with an
  onMouseDown swallow to suppress Chromium autoscroll.
- New refreshDesktopVersion() helper called from About mount, after
  every update check, and on throttled window focus so About reflects
  the just-installed binary.

Keys + Artifacts + Terminal
- Drop the global "Show advanced" toggle in KeysSettings. Provider
  groups now default-expand when they have any key set.
- Extend openExternalUrl to handle file:// via shell.openPath, with
  showItemInFolder fallback when the OS can't open the file.
- New lib/ansi.ts SGR parser + <AnsiText> component, applied to
  terminal/execute_code tool output.
- ToolView gained stdout / stderr / rendersAnsi; tool-fallback renders
  the two streams as separate labeled blocks with stderr in a neutral
  tone (not destructive — many CLIs log info on stderr).
- Drop 'stderr' from ERROR_MSG_KEYS in tool-result-summary.

Paths + platform
- resolveHermesCwd skips process.cwd() when packaged and prefers a
  user-configurable default project directory.
- New hermes:setting:defaultProjectDir:{get,set,pick} IPC handlers +
  preload bridge + global.d.ts typing + a "Default project directory"
  row in Sessions settings.
- FileOperations.delete_path(path, recursive=True) on the abstract
  base; ShellFileOperations.delete_file rewritten to run a cross-
  platform python3 -c snippet so deletes work on Windows shells (which
  have no rm/rm -rf). Fallback to `python` when `python3` isn't on PATH.
- README troubleshooting block split into macOS/Linux + Windows
  PowerShell recipes.
- Tightened renderer favicon links in index.html + added color-scheme
  and theme-color meta.

Backend lifecycle (renderer-side mitigation)
- New noteSessionActivity() heartbeat + session.ts watchdog: an
  8-minute silence on the stream auto-clears stuck $workingSessionIds
  entries so "Session Busy" never gets permanently wedged. Wired into
  useSessionStateCache so every state update refreshes the timer.

i18n spike
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md scoping a future language-switcher PR
  (recommends react-intl, audits IME/RTL/CJK in the composer +
  chat bubbles, 4-PR rollout plan, ~3-4 eng-weeks for the first
  non-English locale).

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

* fix(desktop): replace native OS scrollbar in portaled dropdown menus

Radix's DropdownMenuPrimitive.Portal renders content under document.body,
outside the `.scrollbar-dt` scope on #root. Whenever a menu's max-height
clipped its content (even by a pixel — common for the composer "+" menu
that opens upward near the bottom of the window), the user saw the OS's
chunky native scrollbar painted across the whole menu.

Bake a thin, slot-styled scrollbar onto DropdownMenuContent and
DropdownMenuSubContent via [scrollbar-width:thin] + WebKit pseudo-element
arbitrary variants. The submenu also gets a max-h tied to
--radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height so long snippet lists scroll
cleanly instead of running off the bottom of the viewport. Drop the now-
redundant max-h-[60vh] override on the prompt-snippet submenu.

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

* fix(desktop): unbork dropdown menu — submenu opens, parent isn't a circle

Two regressions from the previous dropdown-scrollbar fix:

- The parent menu rendered as a rounded oval. Long Tailwind v4 arbitrary-
  variant strings like [&::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb]:rounded-full inside a
  cn() call were being mis-resolved so the `rounded-full` leaked onto the
  menu container itself. Replaced the whole tower of arbitrary variants
  with a real `.dt-portal-scrollbar` class in styles.css that mirrors what
  `.scrollbar-dt` already does for #root descendants. Plain CSS, no Tailwind
  parser ambiguity.
- The Prompt snippets submenu didn't open. Radix publishes
  --radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height on Content but NOT on
  SubContent, so the `max-h` bound to that variable computed to 0 and the
  submenu collapsed to zero height. Switched SubContent to a fixed
  max-h-80 (≈20rem) which is plenty for a snippet list and never collapses.

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

* fix(desktop): promote prompt snippets from Radix submenu to a real Dialog

The submenu refused to open when the parent dropdown was anchored at the
bottom of the window (composer "+" button) — Radix's collision detection +
SubContent positioning was fighting us. Rather than keep tuning side /
sideOffset / collisionPadding / max-h until something stuck, replace the
DropdownMenuSub with a clicked DropdownMenuItem that opens a proper
Dialog.

Side benefits over the submenu:
- Each snippet gets a description line, so a glance is enough to pick one.
- Focus management is handled by Dialog automatically.
- Easy to grow (search, custom user snippets, categories) without
  another round of Radix positioning bugs.

Also extract types/interfaces to the bottom of the file per workspace
convention.

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

* fix(desktop): move cron 'New cron' button off the top bar into the body

Reverses the previous direction on cron empty-state dedup. The body
button is more discoverable for first-time users (it's anchored next to
the "No scheduled jobs yet" copy that explains the feature) and frees
the top bar from a global CTA that wasn't pulling its weight.

- Empty (zero jobs): EmptyState renders the "Create first cron" button
  again, like the original design.
- Empty (search filtered out all jobs): no button, just "Try a broader
  search query" copy.
- Has jobs: small inline header above the list shows `N/M active` plus
  a single "New cron" button (right-aligned). The rows themselves
  already cover edit/pause/trigger/delete, so this is the only "create"
  affordance.

Also drop the dead `<div className="hidden">…</div>` enabledCount line
the previous patch left behind; the count is now visible in the new
header instead of hidden.

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

* fix(desktop): address Copilot review on PR 37536

- sessions-settings: guard the WHOLE bridge call rather than chaining
  `?.settings.foo().then(...)` — the latter throws when
  `window.hermesDesktop` is undefined (non-Electron / Vitest contexts)
  because the chain short-circuits to `undefined.then(...)`.
- file_operations: drop `Path.unlink(missing_ok=True)` (Py>=3.8) so the
  generated delete snippet still works on remote backends running
  Python 3.7. The existing FileNotFoundError handler covers the same
  case and works back to 3.4.
- ansi.test.ts: add focused Vitest coverage for the SGR parser
  (basic/bright colors, bold toggles, default-fg reset, coalescing,
  256-color / truecolor arg consumption, non-SGR CSI drop, empty SGR
  full-reset) so future refactors can't silently regress terminal
  rendering.

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

* fix(desktop/updates): swallow refreshDesktopVersion bridge errors

`refreshDesktopVersion()` is called best-effort with `void` from
`checkUpdates()`, `startUpdatePoller()`, and the window focus handler.
If the IPC bridge rejects (main process shutting down during reload,
bridge not yet ready on first paint), the rejection surfaces as an
unhandled promise rejection in the renderer. Wrap the call in try/catch
and return null on failure so callers can keep the existing
fire-and-forget pattern safely.

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

* chore(desktop): drop work duplicated by other in-flight PRs

- composer/text-utils.ts: revert paste-image dedupe — PR NousResearch#37596
  ships the same fix with a cleaner content-key approach and a
  Vitest file (text-utils.test.ts). Letting that PR own the change.
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md: delete the i18n scoping RFC — PR NousResearch#37568
  has already shipped a working i18n surface (homegrown nanostores
  `t()` helper over en/zh dictionaries), so the RFC's framework
  recommendation (`react-intl`) is now obsolete and would just
  contradict the implementation that's actually landing.

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* fix(desktop): honor default project directory for new sessions

The Settings picker persisted project-dir.json but the renderer kept
seeding new chats from sticky localStorage home. Prefer the configured
default on boot and session.create, pin TERMINAL_CWD at backend spawn,
and reject packaged install-dir paths that regressed after #37536.

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* fix(desktop): address review on default project dir PR

Add workspace cwd precedence tests, extract isPackagedInstallPath for
platform test coverage, and stop rewriting live $currentCwd when a
session is already active (cache-only until the next new chat).

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…#37536)

* fix(desktop): triage 24 GUI quality-of-life fixes across sidebar, composer, tool cards, messaging, and platform plumbing

A grab-bag of high-leverage UX fixes plus a few backend touches that the
GUI needs to behave correctly on Windows.

Sidebar / sessions
- Decrement $sessionsTotal on delete + archive so "Load N more" stops
  claiming removed rows are still on the server.
- Hide the "Group by workspace" toggle when no unpinned sessions exist.
- Accept Cmd/Ctrl+N as a "new session" accelerator (in addition to bare
  Shift+N), and render the kbd hint per-platform.
- Switch the statusbar to overflow-x-clip so untitled sessions don't
  paint a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the window.

Messaging + Cron
- Add [-webkit-app-region: no-drag] to the page-search input so clicks
  reach the field instead of routing to the OS window-drag handler.
- Replace single-letter PlatformAvatar with brand glyphs from
  @icons-pack/react-simple-icons (telegram, discord, matrix, signal,
  whatsapp, mattermost, wechat, qq, ...). Letter monogram fallback for
  Slack / Dingtalk / Feishu / WeCom (removed from Simple Icons at brand
  owner request).
- Drop the duplicate "Create first cron" button in the empty state.

Composer
- Dedupe pasted images by (name, size, lastModified, type) instead of
  Blob identity; Chromium hands us the same screenshot via both
  clipboard.items and clipboard.files with fresh File instances.
- Enable spellcheck on the contentEditable, configure Chromium's
  spellchecker with the system locale on whenReady, and add
  replaceMisspelling + "Add to dictionary" entries to the context menu.
- Render user messages through a minimal markdown pipeline (inline
  backtick code + fenced ``` blocks) while keeping @file:/@image:
  directive chips intact.
- max-h-[60vh] overflow-y-auto + collisionPadding on the prompt-snippet
  submenu.
- Bake cursor-pointer into the <Button> primitive (with
  disabled:cursor-default) and into titlebarButtonClass.

Dialogs + tabs + version
- Default DialogContent now has max-h-[85vh] overflow-y-auto so long
  bodies scroll instead of falling off-screen.
- Right-rail preview tabs close on middle-click (button === 1), with an
  onMouseDown swallow to suppress Chromium autoscroll.
- New refreshDesktopVersion() helper called from About mount, after
  every update check, and on throttled window focus so About reflects
  the just-installed binary.

Keys + Artifacts + Terminal
- Drop the global "Show advanced" toggle in KeysSettings. Provider
  groups now default-expand when they have any key set.
- Extend openExternalUrl to handle file:// via shell.openPath, with
  showItemInFolder fallback when the OS can't open the file.
- New lib/ansi.ts SGR parser + <AnsiText> component, applied to
  terminal/execute_code tool output.
- ToolView gained stdout / stderr / rendersAnsi; tool-fallback renders
  the two streams as separate labeled blocks with stderr in a neutral
  tone (not destructive — many CLIs log info on stderr).
- Drop 'stderr' from ERROR_MSG_KEYS in tool-result-summary.

Paths + platform
- resolveHermesCwd skips process.cwd() when packaged and prefers a
  user-configurable default project directory.
- New hermes:setting:defaultProjectDir:{get,set,pick} IPC handlers +
  preload bridge + global.d.ts typing + a "Default project directory"
  row in Sessions settings.
- FileOperations.delete_path(path, recursive=True) on the abstract
  base; ShellFileOperations.delete_file rewritten to run a cross-
  platform python3 -c snippet so deletes work on Windows shells (which
  have no rm/rm -rf). Fallback to `python` when `python3` isn't on PATH.
- README troubleshooting block split into macOS/Linux + Windows
  PowerShell recipes.
- Tightened renderer favicon links in index.html + added color-scheme
  and theme-color meta.

Backend lifecycle (renderer-side mitigation)
- New noteSessionActivity() heartbeat + session.ts watchdog: an
  8-minute silence on the stream auto-clears stuck $workingSessionIds
  entries so "Session Busy" never gets permanently wedged. Wired into
  useSessionStateCache so every state update refreshes the timer.

i18n spike
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md scoping a future language-switcher PR
  (recommends react-intl, audits IME/RTL/CJK in the composer +
  chat bubbles, 4-PR rollout plan, ~3-4 eng-weeks for the first
  non-English locale).

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* fix(desktop): replace native OS scrollbar in portaled dropdown menus

Radix's DropdownMenuPrimitive.Portal renders content under document.body,
outside the `.scrollbar-dt` scope on #root. Whenever a menu's max-height
clipped its content (even by a pixel — common for the composer "+" menu
that opens upward near the bottom of the window), the user saw the OS's
chunky native scrollbar painted across the whole menu.

Bake a thin, slot-styled scrollbar onto DropdownMenuContent and
DropdownMenuSubContent via [scrollbar-width:thin] + WebKit pseudo-element
arbitrary variants. The submenu also gets a max-h tied to
--radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height so long snippet lists scroll
cleanly instead of running off the bottom of the viewport. Drop the now-
redundant max-h-[60vh] override on the prompt-snippet submenu.

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* fix(desktop): unbork dropdown menu — submenu opens, parent isn't a circle

Two regressions from the previous dropdown-scrollbar fix:

- The parent menu rendered as a rounded oval. Long Tailwind v4 arbitrary-
  variant strings like [&::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb]:rounded-full inside a
  cn() call were being mis-resolved so the `rounded-full` leaked onto the
  menu container itself. Replaced the whole tower of arbitrary variants
  with a real `.dt-portal-scrollbar` class in styles.css that mirrors what
  `.scrollbar-dt` already does for #root descendants. Plain CSS, no Tailwind
  parser ambiguity.
- The Prompt snippets submenu didn't open. Radix publishes
  --radix-dropdown-menu-content-available-height on Content but NOT on
  SubContent, so the `max-h` bound to that variable computed to 0 and the
  submenu collapsed to zero height. Switched SubContent to a fixed
  max-h-80 (≈20rem) which is plenty for a snippet list and never collapses.

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* fix(desktop): promote prompt snippets from Radix submenu to a real Dialog

The submenu refused to open when the parent dropdown was anchored at the
bottom of the window (composer "+" button) — Radix's collision detection +
SubContent positioning was fighting us. Rather than keep tuning side /
sideOffset / collisionPadding / max-h until something stuck, replace the
DropdownMenuSub with a clicked DropdownMenuItem that opens a proper
Dialog.

Side benefits over the submenu:
- Each snippet gets a description line, so a glance is enough to pick one.
- Focus management is handled by Dialog automatically.
- Easy to grow (search, custom user snippets, categories) without
  another round of Radix positioning bugs.

Also extract types/interfaces to the bottom of the file per workspace
convention.

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* fix(desktop): move cron 'New cron' button off the top bar into the body

Reverses the previous direction on cron empty-state dedup. The body
button is more discoverable for first-time users (it's anchored next to
the "No scheduled jobs yet" copy that explains the feature) and frees
the top bar from a global CTA that wasn't pulling its weight.

- Empty (zero jobs): EmptyState renders the "Create first cron" button
  again, like the original design.
- Empty (search filtered out all jobs): no button, just "Try a broader
  search query" copy.
- Has jobs: small inline header above the list shows `N/M active` plus
  a single "New cron" button (right-aligned). The rows themselves
  already cover edit/pause/trigger/delete, so this is the only "create"
  affordance.

Also drop the dead `<div className="hidden">…</div>` enabledCount line
the previous patch left behind; the count is now visible in the new
header instead of hidden.

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* fix(desktop): address Copilot review on PR 37536

- sessions-settings: guard the WHOLE bridge call rather than chaining
  `?.settings.foo().then(...)` — the latter throws when
  `window.hermesDesktop` is undefined (non-Electron / Vitest contexts)
  because the chain short-circuits to `undefined.then(...)`.
- file_operations: drop `Path.unlink(missing_ok=True)` (Py>=3.8) so the
  generated delete snippet still works on remote backends running
  Python 3.7. The existing FileNotFoundError handler covers the same
  case and works back to 3.4.
- ansi.test.ts: add focused Vitest coverage for the SGR parser
  (basic/bright colors, bold toggles, default-fg reset, coalescing,
  256-color / truecolor arg consumption, non-SGR CSI drop, empty SGR
  full-reset) so future refactors can't silently regress terminal
  rendering.

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* fix(desktop/updates): swallow refreshDesktopVersion bridge errors

`refreshDesktopVersion()` is called best-effort with `void` from
`checkUpdates()`, `startUpdatePoller()`, and the window focus handler.
If the IPC bridge rejects (main process shutting down during reload,
bridge not yet ready on first paint), the rejection surfaces as an
unhandled promise rejection in the renderer. Wrap the call in try/catch
and return null on failure so callers can keep the existing
fire-and-forget pattern safely.

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* chore(desktop): drop work duplicated by other in-flight PRs

- composer/text-utils.ts: revert paste-image dedupe — PR NousResearch#37596
  ships the same fix with a cleaner content-key approach and a
  Vitest file (text-utils.test.ts). Letting that PR own the change.
- docs/desktop-i18n-rfc.md: delete the i18n scoping RFC — PR NousResearch#37568
  has already shipped a working i18n surface (homegrown nanostores
  `t()` helper over en/zh dictionaries), so the RFC's framework
  recommendation (`react-intl`) is now obsolete and would just
  contradict the implementation that's actually landing.

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…esearch#43234)

* fix(desktop): honor default project directory for new sessions

The Settings picker persisted project-dir.json but the renderer kept
seeding new chats from sticky localStorage home. Prefer the configured
default on boot and session.create, pin TERMINAL_CWD at backend spawn,
and reject packaged install-dir paths that regressed after NousResearch#37536.

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* fix(desktop): address review on default project dir PR

Add workspace cwd precedence tests, extract isPackagedInstallPath for
platform test coverage, and stop rewriting live $currentCwd when a
session is already active (cache-only until the next new chat).

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