`@file` / `@folder` context-reference expansion enforced its own narrow
deny-list (`_ensure_reference_path_allowed` in `agent/context_references.py`)
that only covered `~/.ssh` keys, a handful of shell dotfiles, `~/.hermes/.env`,
and `skills/.hub`. It never blocked the credential stores that the canonical
read guard (`agent/file_safety.get_read_block_error`) protects: provider API
keys (`~/.hermes/auth.json`), Anthropic OAuth tokens
(`~/.hermes/.anthropic_oauth.json`), MCP OAuth material (`~/.hermes/mcp-tokens/`),
webhook HMAC secrets, and project-local `.env` files.
This matters because the messaging gateway feeds **untrusted** remote text
straight into reference expansion: `gateway/run.py` calls
`preprocess_context_references_async(..., allowed_root=_msg_cwd)` where
`_msg_cwd` defaults to the operator's HOME when `TERMINAL_CWD` is unset. A chat
peer (Telegram/Discord/Slack/...) could send `@file:~/.hermes/auth.json`, pass
the `allowed_root` check (it resolves under HOME), slip past the narrow list,
and have the operator's live keys read into the agent's context — where the
model would typically echo or act on them.
Rather than duplicate and re-sync a second secret list, this routes the guard
through the existing single source of truth. A reviewer might ask "why not just
add `auth.json` to the local list?" — because the local list has already drifted
once (a prior commit had to add `.config/gh`); anchoring to
`get_read_block_error` means every future addition there protects this path too.
The narrow checks are kept as a fallback since they also cover dirs that guard
does not (`.aws`, `.gnupg`, `.kube`, etc.), and the canonical lookup is wrapped
so it can never crash reference expansion.
N/A
- [x] 🔒 Security fix
- `agent/context_references.py`: `_ensure_reference_path_allowed` now also
consults `agent.file_safety.get_read_block_error` after its existing checks
and refuses the reference when that canonical guard flags the resolved path.
The lookup is wrapped so guard-resolution failures fall back to the explicit
checks instead of breaking expansion.
- `tests/agent/test_context_references.py`: added
`test_blocks_canonical_read_denylist_credential_stores`, asserting that
`@file` attaches for `auth.json`, `.anthropic_oauth.json`, `mcp-tokens/*`, and
a project-local `.env` are all refused and their secret bodies never reach the
expanded message.
- `scripts/release.py`: added the contributor email to `AUTHOR_MAP` (release
gate).
1. `scripts/run_tests.sh tests/agent/test_context_references.py` — all 15 tests
pass, including the new credential-store case.
2. Regression proof: stash `agent/context_references.py`, run the suite with
`-- -k canonical`, and confirm the new test fails (secrets leak into the
message) without the fix; restore and confirm it passes.
3. `ruff check agent/context_references.py tests/agent/test_context_references.py`
and `python scripts/check-windows-footguns.py agent/context_references.py
tests/agent/test_context_references.py` both pass.
- [x] I've read the Contributing Guide
- [x] My commit messages follow Conventional Commits (`fix(scope):`, etc.)
- [x] I searched for existing PRs to make sure this isn't a duplicate
- [x] My PR contains **only** changes related to this fix (plus the AUTHOR_MAP release gate)
- [x] I've run the test suite for the touched area and all tests pass
- [x] I've added tests for my changes (required for bug fixes)
- [x] I've tested on my platform: macOS 15 (Darwin 25.5)
- [x] I've updated relevant documentation (README, `docs/`, docstrings) — or N/A
- [x] I've updated `cli-config.yaml.example` if I added/changed config keys — or N/A
- [x] I've updated `CONTRIBUTING.md` or `AGENTS.md` if I changed architecture or workflows — or N/A
- [x] I've considered cross-platform impact (Windows, macOS) — or N/A
- [x] I've updated tool descriptions/schemas if I changed tool behavior — or N/A
models_dev.py's fetch uses a synchronous requests.get(timeout=15). Called
from the async gateway message handlers, it blocked the event loop for up
to 15s, starving Discord heartbeats and causing ClientConnectionResetError
disconnects.
Adds get_model_context_length_async() which offloads the entire sync
resolution chain to a worker thread via asyncio.to_thread(), and switches
the two async gateway call sites (_prepare_inbound_message_text,
_handle_message_with_agent) to await it. The loop stays responsive; the
sync path remains the single source of truth for the cache.
Salvaged from PR #22753 by @itenev. Follow-up: dropped the unused
fetch_models_dev_async/lookup_models_dev_context_async aiohttp variants
from the original PR (dead code with zero callers that had drifted from
the sync cache logic) — the to_thread wrapper already runs the sync path
off-loop, so they were redundant.
Path(raw).name reduces '..'/'.'/'' to themselves, so basename
extraction alone still let a Graph-provided display_name of '..' or
'../' escape the temp recording directory (tmp_dir / '..' resolves to
the parent). Reject the dot-only basenames explicitly and fall back to
the artifact id. Extends @outsourc-e's regression coverage with the
dot-only cases.
When the primary provider's auth fails (expired token / 429 quota cap),
_resolve_runtime_agent_kwargs() falls through to the fallback provider
chain, whose runtime dict carries its own 'model' key. api_server's
_create_agent then did AIAgent(model=model, **runtime_kwargs), colliding
on 'model' and 500ing every /v1/chat/completions request while a fallback
was active. Pop the runtime model and let it override the config model,
mirroring the native gateway path (_resolve_session_agent_runtime).
Salvaged from #35716 by @ryo-solo (earliest submitter); the PR's second
half (Mistral reasoning_content strip) is already handled on main and
dropped.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <noreply@nousresearch.com>
Ephemeral empty-response/prefill recovery scaffolding (the synthetic
assistant "(empty)" turn, the user nudge, the terminal "(empty)"
sentinel, and the thinking-only prefill placeholder) exists only to
drive the next API retry; the in-memory loop pops it before appending
the real response. The append-only flush did not mirror that, so a
mid-turn persist could commit scaffolding to the SQLite session store
(and JSON log), and a resumed session would replay synthetic
"(empty)"/nudge turns as genuine context — re-poisoning the empty-retry
boundary forever.
Filter ephemeral scaffolding at both durable-write sites
(_flush_messages_to_session_db + _save_session_log), by flag not
position, so buried scaffolding (an answered nudge leaves the synthetic
pair mid-list) is skipped too. Covers all three flags including
_thinking_prefill.
Adapted onto current main's identity-tracking flush.
Cherry-picked from #41281 by petrichor-op.
@janrenz's PR #35862 added prompt_caching.enabled=false at init only. But
_anthropic_prompt_cache_policy re-derives _use_prompt_caching on every /model
switch (agent_runtime_helpers) and fallback-model swap (chat_completion_helpers),
which re-enabled markers and re-broke the strict proxy the toggle was meant to fix.
Move the kill switch into anthropic_prompt_cache_policy so it returns (False, False)
on every path. Drop the now-redundant init-time override (kept @janrenz's isinstance
hardening on the cache_ttl read). Add policy-level tests + docs for the toggle.
Follow-up to salvaged PR #35862.
Mitigates indirect prompt injection (CWE-863) in Slack thread context.
When the bot is mentioned mid-thread for the first time, _fetch_thread_context
pulls the full thread via conversations.replies and prepends every reply to
the LLM prompt. Replies from senders not on the allowlist were rendered
identically to authorised senders, letting a third party in a shared channel
inject instructions the model might act on when answering the next authorised
message.
- BasePlatformAdapter.set_authorization_check / _is_sender_authorized, registered
by GatewayRunner._make_adapter_auth_check() with a closure over the existing
_is_user_authorized chain (platform/global/group allowlists, allow-all flags,
pairing store all stay the single source of truth — no env-var re-parsing).
- Tags non-bot thread messages whose sender fails the auth check with an
[unverified] prefix; strengthens the header with soft guidance only when at
least one unverified message is present, so setups without an allowlist see
no behaviour change.
- Wired into all three adapter-init sites in run.py (start, reconnect watcher,
restart) so the reconnect path is covered too.
Softened wording: adapted from the original [untrusted] tag to [unverified]
and non-accusatory header framing — the label reflects allowlist status, not
a judgment about the person. Adapter relocated to plugins/platforms/slack/
since the PR was authored.
Salvaged from #17059.
/queue rebuilt the queued MessageEvent with only text/type/source/
message_id/channel_prompt, silently dropping any photo, document, voice,
or reply context attached to the command. The deferred turn then ran with
the attachment lost. Carry the full payload through, and accept a /queue
that has media but no prompt text (e.g. "/queue" as an image caption).
Salvaged from #13913 by @ypwcharles — the gateway busy-session/queue
infrastructure was rewritten since that PR (Telegram moved to
plugins/platforms/, /queue now uses the FIFO chain), so the media fix is
reimplemented against the current handler; the PR's batching and
busy-bypass changes targeted code paths that no longer exist.
Co-authored-by: ypwcharles <92324143+ypwcharles@users.noreply.github.com>
The dangerous-command approval prompt renders the flagged command so the
user can decide whether to approve. If the agent constructed it with a
credential (curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-...', psql postgres://user:pw@host,
an execute_code script with api_key = 'sk-...'), that secret hit stdout and,
via the gateway notify payload, Discord/Slack messages — which are
screenshottable and forwardable.
Apply the existing agent.redact.redact_sensitive_text() to every user-facing
approval surface. Redaction is display-only: the raw command still executes
after approval, and approval persistence keys off pattern_key (not the command
text), so the allowlist is unaffected. Decision context (URL, flags, command
structure) is preserved; only the secret value masks.
Covers all surfaces, including the execute_code path the original PR missed:
- prompt_dangerous_approval(): callback + stdout fallback
- check_all_command_guards(): gateway approval_data + cron/batch pending fallback
- check_execute_code_guard(): gateway approval_data + no-notifier pending fallback
(script body can embed credentials)
Adds TestApprovalPromptRedaction covering callback redaction, no-over-redaction
of clean commands, and the execute_code pending fallback.
Salvaged from PR #13139 by @sgabel; extended to the execute_code surface.
The store-level search_facts() shared the same raw-MATCH bug class as
_fts_candidates (FTS5 AND-joins tokens, zeroing prose recall). Route it
through FactRetriever._sanitize_fts_query via a lazy import to keep the
store->retrieval layering acyclic. Also add cyb3rwr3n to release AUTHOR_MAP.
Interrupting the agent while an approval/clarify/sudo/secret prompt is up
left the overlay state dict set with no thread servicing it. The prompt's
worker thread is torn down on interrupt, but read_only (gated on
_command_running) plus the keypress filter kept the CLI input locked until
the prompt's own timeout expired — the terminal appeared frozen.
Drain and clear all four input-blocking overlays on interrupt via a single
helper (_clear_active_overlays_for_interrupt): approval -> deny,
clarify/sudo/secret -> cancel, each guarded so a dead queue can't block the
others; sudo restores the pre-modal draft. Wired into all three interrupt
paths — new-message interrupt, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+Q. Blocking overlays now
clear AND fall through so one keypress both clears a stale overlay and
interrupts a still-running agent; the /model picker and slash-confirm
foreground prompts keep their cancel-and-return behavior.
Closes#13618.
Two independent bugs evicted the cached gateway AIAgent on every turn,
preventing the prompt cache from ever warming:
1. Model normalization mismatch: the post-run fallback-eviction check
compared _agent.model (stripped in AIAgent.__init__) against the raw
_resolve_gateway_model() config string. For vendor-prefixed config on
native providers (e.g. 'deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro' vs 'deepseek-v4-pro')
this was always unequal, so the agent was evicted after every
successful run. Normalize _cfg_model the same way (skip aggregators).
2. Discord triggering message_id leaked into the cached system prompt via
build_session_context_prompt()'s Discord IDs block. message_id changes
every turn, so the agent-cache signature (computed from the ephemeral
prompt) changed every Discord turn -> rebuild every message. The id is
now injected per-turn into the user message (where per-turn content
belongs and does not touch the cache signature); the cached IDs block
carries a static pointer to it, preserving reply/react/pin via the
discord tools.
Adapted from #28846. Bug #1 fix is the contributor's; bug #2 reworked to
be non-destructive (keeps the triggering-id capability instead of deleting
it). Redundant auto-reset eviction (already on main via #9893/#48031) and
the wrong-premise reset_context_note plumbing from the original PR were
dropped.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <hermes@nousresearch.com>
OpenRouter returns 429 in two shapes: an account-level throttle on the
user's key, and an upstream-provider throttle (DeepSeek/Anthropic/etc.
rate-limiting OpenRouter's aggregate traffic). The classifier treated
both identically and rotated/exhausted OPENROUTER_API_KEY on every 429 —
burning the key for ~24min and silently disabling auxiliary features
(compression, summarization, vision) on an upstream throttle where the
key was healthy.
Add a FailoverReason.upstream_rate_limit classified from OpenRouter's
unambiguous wrapper message "Provider returned error" (the same signal
the metadata-raw parser already trusts). Recovery skips credential
rotation and defers to the fallback chain to switch models instead.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <127238744+teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds tests/agent/test_model_extra_type_guard.py exercising the real
ChatCompletionsTransport.normalize_response path with string/list/None/dict
model_extra; adds the AUTHOR_MAP entry for the contributor.
Vision requests routed through the OpenAI-compat API server forward the
raw multi-part content list ([{type:"text"}, {type:"image_url"}, ...])
straight through as user_message. The codex intermediate-ack detector
flattened it with (user_message or "").strip(), so a truthy list survived
and .strip() raised AttributeError — killing any Codex-routed vision turn
that took the require_workspace path.
Route through the existing _summarize_user_message_for_log helper (which
already backs the logging/banner previews on main), and widen the param
type hint from str to Any to match how the function is actually called.
The two logging-preview sites the original PR also touched were fixed
independently on main by the conversation-loop refactor.
Co-authored-by: Hermes Agent <agent@nousresearch.com>
delegate_task's per-task completion display emitted lines like
"✓ [1/3] Research done (17.92s)" via a bare print(). Under ACP (and any
headless JSON-RPC stdio host where AIAgent routes human output to stderr
via a custom _print_fn), these landed on stdout and corrupted the
protocol frame stream, surfacing as "Failed to parse JSON message: ✓
[3/3] …" in the ACP adapter.
Add _emit_parent_console() which prefers parent_agent._safe_print (the
same hook AIAgent uses for every other user-facing print) and falls back
to print() only when no router is wired up or it raises. CLI behavior is
unchanged.
The PR's other fix (preset toolset expansion) is already covered on main
by _expand_parent_toolsets(), so only the stdio-safe printing change is
salvaged here.
