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* fix(desktop): surface background-session clarify prompts instead of hanging
clarify.request is a one-shot blocking event: the gateway turn blocks on
clarify.respond. The desktop handler dropped it for any non-focused session
(`if (!isActiveEvent) return`) and stored at most one request in a single
global atom, so a background session that asked a clarifying question hung
forever and re-focusing it could never recover (the event was already gone).
- store/clarify.ts: key pending requests by runtime session id; expose the
active session's request via a focus-scoped computed view (ClarifyTool is
unchanged). clearClarifyRequest takes an optional session id for targeted
clears, with a request-id fallback.
- use-message-stream.ts: park every session's clarify (drop the isActiveEvent
early return); toast when one lands for a background session since the row
otherwise just keeps spinning like normal work.
- clarify-tool.tsx: clear by session id so answering one chat can't wipe
another's pending request.
- store/clarify.test.ts: concurrent independence, focus-scoped view,
targeted/stale/fallback clears.
* feat(desktop): persistent needs-input indicator + icon button consolidation
Replace the background-clarify toast (expired on alt-tab, easy to miss) with a
persistent, glowing amber "needs input" dot on the session's sidebar row,
driven off a new ClientSessionState.needsInput flag mirrored into a
$attentionSessionIds store. The flag is set on clarify.request and cleared the
moment the turn resumes (tool.complete) or ends.
Also: redesign the clarify tool UI (borderless choices, pseudo-radio dots,
right-aligned checkmark, arc border, tighter padding), make Button the single
source of icon-button styling (4px radius, new icon-titlebar variant, titlebar
buttons rendered polymorphically via asChild, Codicons throughout), put the
file-tree refresh action first, and .trim() pasted composer text.
* style(desktop): padding-driven, square non-icon buttons
Default button sizing was vanilla-shadcn chunky (fixed h-9, 16px padding) and
inconsistent with the icon-button radius pass. Size text variants by
padding + line-height instead of fixed heights so they stay snug and scale
with content, and drop the radius on non-icon buttons (icon buttons keep the
shared 4px). Move the update-overlay CTAs off a hardcoded h-10 onto the
padding-based lg variant. Composer and the inline approval strip are untouched.
* style(desktop): shrink button scale, flush overlay sidebar, variant-ize stray buttons
- Buttons: smaller default font (14px -> 13px) and tighter padding-driven sizes
across every variant; the chunky shadcn scale read as oversized in a dense
desktop UI.
- Overlay split layout (settings / command center): the shared OverlayView top
padding left the card surface showing as a gap above the sidebar. Move the
titlebar clearance into each column so the sidebar background runs flush to
the card's top edge.
- Consolidate buttons that hardcoded size/radius/font onto the proper size
variants (tooltip-icon-button, overlay close, cron IconAction, SidebarTrigger,
gateway system button, session-row actions radius, title chip radius, release
notes link) so styling flows from variant props, not per-call overrides.
Composer and the inline approval strip are intentionally left as-is.
* style(desktop): 12px button text, drop sparkle decoration + redundant settings titles
- Button base font down to 12px (text-xs) for the dense desktop scale.
- Remove the decorative Sparkles glyph from the model "Apply" button (keep the
spinner while applying).
- Drop the page-level section titles that just restate the left nav ("Main
model", "Appearance", "MCP servers") — the sidebar already labels the pane.
Sub-section headings (Auxiliary models, LLM providers, etc.) stay.
* feat(desktop): add boxless `text` button variant; use for aux-model actions
New reusable `text` variant renders a button as inline label text (no
bg/border, muted -> foreground, underline-on-hover affordance). Emphasize the
actionable word by adding `font-semibold`/`underline` at the call site. Applied
to the auxiliary-model "Set to main" (plain), "Change" and "Reset all to main"
(bold + underlined) actions, replacing the boxed ghost/outline buttons.
* style(desktop): nudge button scale up + 2.5px radius on non-icon buttons
Bump default/sm vertical padding a step (the 12px pass read too small) and give
non-icon buttons a subtle 2.5px radius instead of square corners. Icon buttons
keep their 4px.
* style(desktop): unify Input/Textarea/SelectTrigger on shared controlVariants
Mirror the buttonVariants exercise for non-composer form controls: add a
single controlVariants source of truth (2.5px radius, 12px text,
padding-driven sizing, chrome via desktop-input-chrome) and consume it from
Input, Textarea, and SelectTrigger. Drop per-call radius/height/font
overrides that fought the shared look.
* style(desktop): flatten appearance settings — drop card-in-card sections
Remove the outer card chrome (border/bg/shadow/rounded) wrapping each
appearance section so they're flat headings + option grids instead of
boxes nested inside boxes, matching the other settings pages.
* style(desktop): de-box appearance options into flat rows + bare theme swatches
Color Mode and Tool Call Display become flat radio-style rows (no tile
border/fill, no inner icon box, no filled check badge — just a subtle active
bg and a check). Theme drops its outer card wrapper so only the preview
swatch shows, with a primary ring marking the active palette.
* style(desktop): primitive-level pointer cursor + borderless settings lists
Add a base-layer rule giving every interactive control (button, select,
menu item, switch, tab, summary) cursor:pointer, and strip the now-redundant
hardcoded cursor-pointer from those elements (plain clickable divs/labels
keep theirs). Remove the divide-y separators from settings list sections so
they breathe.
* style(desktop): Color Mode + Tool Call Display as one-row segmented controls
Replace the vertical option-row lists with a compact SegmentedControl
(grouped pill buttons on a single track), dropping the per-option
descriptions since the section subtitle already covers the context.
* style(desktop): drop redundant On/Off label next to boolean config switches
The switch already communicates state, so the text label was noise.
* style(desktop): add Switch xs size; move appearance controls inline-right
Add an xs size variant to the Switch primitive and use it for the provider
edit submenu toggles. In appearance settings, drop the redundant selection
Pills (the UI already shows the active choice), move the Color Mode and Tool
Call Display segmented controls into the section header's right side
(responsive: stacks under the heading on narrow widths), and shrink the
segmented control.
* feat(desktop): titlebar toggle to flip sidebar sides
Adds a top-left swap button (replacing the search icon) that mirrors the
layout: sessions sidebar ↔ file browser + preview rail. Persisted via
$panesFlipped. The left/right sidebar toggles, content inset, and pane
borders all follow the active side so the buttons stay accurate after a flip.
* feat(desktop): global Cmd+K palette + UI consistency overhaul
Builds on the clarify/needs-input work with a cross-cutting pass to make
the desktop surfaces feel like one app.
- Global Cmd+K command palette (cmdk): nav, settings deep-links, async
API-key / MCP-server / archived-session groups, reusable theme sub-page
(light/dark groups, stays open on pick), loop nav, fuzzy match. Replaces
per-page settings search.
- Shared SearchField: borderless, underline-on-focus, `field-sizing`
auto-width. Unifies sessions sidebar, pages, overlays, command center,
cron; drops bespoke OverlaySearchInput.
- Cron & Profiles converted to OverlayView; flat token-driven panels
(no card-in-card / divider borders) matching command center.
- `r` refresh hotkey via useRefreshHotkey; drop the visible refresh buttons.
- Button text/textStrong link variants applied across settings & views;
shared PAGE_INSET_X content gutters.
- Math/ascii loaders replace "Loading…" text placeholders; x-icon close
over text "Close"; cursor-pointer at the dropdown/select primitive level.
* style(desktop): tidy root error-boundary actions
Reload window → text link, Open logs pushed right (ml-auto), and the
error message box drops the oversized rounded-2xl for rounded-md.
* style(desktop): fix profiles sidebar — header + add-icon, drop text-link
The full-width `text` New-profile button drew an underline under the +
glyph on hover (text-decoration spans the icon). Replace with a proper
"PROFILES" section header + ghost add-icon button, matching the chat
sidebar's header/new-item pattern.
* style(desktop): kill focus rings globally
Tab/focus showed Tailwind's `focus-visible:ring-*` (a box-shadow) plus the
native outline. Drop both via an unlayered reset that nulls --tw-ring-*;
the composer / input soft-glow is untouched (those use direct box-shadows).
* style(desktop): shared Badge component; tidy profile metadata
Add a proper shadcn-style Badge (CVA tones, app radius — not a full pill)
and use it for the Default/.env tags instead of bespoke rounded-full spans.
Drop the oversized text-sm metadata values to text-xs.
* style(desktop): migrate bespoke pills to shared Badge; tidy cron/titlebar
- Sidebar toggles in the titlebar no longer carry an active highlight —
they're plain show/hide affordances now.
- Replace every bespoke rounded-full status pill (cron, messaging,
settings, skills) with the shared Badge (adds a `warn` tone). App radius,
one component.
- Cron row actions use Codicons (play/debug-pause/zap/edit/trash) to match
the rest of the chrome instead of stray lucide glyphs.
* style(desktop): drop active background on titlebar actions
Mute/haptics state reads from the icon glyph (and aria-pressed) — no
background highlight on any titlebar action.
* style(desktop): tighten error-boundary action gap
gap-4 → gap-2.5 between Try again / Reload window.
* style(desktop): hide search when there's nothing to search
Empty datasets no longer render a search field. Adds a `searchHidden` prop
to PageSearchShell (artifacts/skills/messaging) and gates cron + command
center sessions search on a non-empty list. The chat sidebar already did
this via showSessionSections.
* fix(desktop): composer wraps long text & expands at the real wrap point
Long unbroken input ran off horizontally and the stacked layout flipped
on a char-count guess (too early). Add wrap rules to the contentEditable
and drive expansion off the editor's actual rendered height via the
resize observer, so it stacks exactly when the text wraps to a 2nd line.
* feat(desktop): composer/intro polish + shared ErrorState
- Composer single-line row centers (was bottom-aligned); placeholder
randomizes per session (starter vs follow-up) without mid-stream flip.
- Drop chat header on brand-new sessions (dead label + border).
- ⌘N flashes its sidebar hint; ⌘. toggles the command center.
- Intro wordmark fills width (drop 8rem fit cap).
- Unify error states on a shared ErrorState component (boundary + updates).
* style(desktop): satisfy lint across PR-touched files
* refactor(desktop): DRY/elegance pass over PR-touched files
- Shared useDeepLinkHighlight hook collapses 3 near-identical settings
deep-link effects (keys/mcp); config kept inline (distinct bail-clear).
- command-center: table-driven SECTION_ICONS + single errorText helper.
- clarify-tool: OPTION_ROW_CLASS + RadioDot extracted from option rows.
- desktop-controller: merge Cmd+K / Cmd+. into one keydown handler.
- statusbar-controls: hoist shared action class.
- Misc: drop redundant cn()/cursor-pointer/dead fields; tidy switch.
* feat(desktop): Cmd+K jumps to sessions; drop API-key entries
Add active sessions to the palette (fuzzy jump-to-chat), remove the
low-value per-API-key entries, and move the lazy palette sources
(config/sessions/archived) to react-query instead of hand-rolled
useState + effect fetching. Hoist the shared nav helper.
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Hermes Agent ☤
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, or serverless infrastructure that costs nearly nothing when idle. It's not tied to your laptop — talk to it from Telegram while it works on a cloud VM.
Use any model you want — Nous Portal, OpenRouter (200+ models), NovitaAI (AI-native cloud for Model API, Agent Sandbox, and GPU Cloud), NVIDIA NIM (Nemotron), Xiaomi MiMo, z.ai/GLM, Kimi/Moonshot, MiniMax, Hugging Face, OpenAI, or your own endpoint. Switch with hermes model — no code changes, no lock-in.
| A real terminal interface | Full TUI with multiline editing, slash-command autocomplete, conversation history, interrupt-and-redirect, and streaming tool output. |
| Lives where you do | Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI — all from a single gateway process. Voice memo transcription, cross-platform conversation continuity. |
| A closed learning loop | Agent-curated memory with periodic nudges. Autonomous skill creation after complex tasks. Skills self-improve during use. FTS5 session search with LLM summarization for cross-session recall. Honcho dialectic user modeling. Compatible with the agentskills.io open standard. |
| Scheduled automations | Built-in cron scheduler with delivery to any platform. Daily reports, nightly backups, weekly audits — all in natural language, running unattended. |
| Delegates and parallelizes | Spawn isolated subagents for parallel workstreams. Write Python scripts that call tools via RPC, collapsing multi-step pipelines into zero-context-cost turns. |
| Runs anywhere, not just your laptop | Six terminal backends — local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal, and Daytona. Daytona and Modal offer serverless persistence — your agent's environment hibernates when idle and wakes on demand, costing nearly nothing between sessions. Run it on a $5 VPS or a GPU cluster. |
| Research-ready | Batch trajectory generation, trajectory compression for training the next generation of tool-calling models. |
Quick Install
Linux, macOS, WSL2, Termux
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
Windows (native, PowerShell)
Heads up: Native Windows runs Hermes without WSL — CLI, gateway, TUI, and tools all work natively. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux/macOS one-liner above works there too. Found a bug? Please file issues.
Run this in PowerShell:
iex (irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.ps1)
The installer handles everything: uv, Python 3.11, Node.js, ripgrep, ffmpeg, and a portable Git Bash (MinGit, unpacked to %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes\git — no admin required, completely isolated from any system Git install). Hermes uses this bundled Git Bash to run shell commands.
If you already have Git installed, the installer detects it and uses that instead. Otherwise a ~45MB MinGit download is all you need — it won't touch or interfere with any system Git.
Android / Termux: The tested manual path is documented in the Termux guide. On Termux, Hermes installs a curated
.[termux]extra because the full.[all]extra currently pulls Android-incompatible voice dependencies.Windows: Native Windows is fully supported — the PowerShell one-liner above installs everything. If you'd rather use WSL2, the Linux command works there too. Native Windows install lives under
%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes; WSL2 installs under~/.hermesas on Linux. The only Hermes feature that currently needs WSL2 specifically is the browser-based dashboard chat pane (it uses a POSIX PTY — classic CLI and gateway both run natively).
After installation:
source ~/.bashrc # reload shell (or: source ~/.zshrc)
hermes # start chatting!
Getting Started
hermes # Interactive CLI — start a conversation
hermes model # Choose your LLM provider and model
hermes tools # Configure which tools are enabled
hermes config set # Set individual config values
hermes gateway # Start the messaging gateway (Telegram, Discord, etc.)
hermes setup # Run the full setup wizard (configures everything at once)
hermes claw migrate # Migrate from OpenClaw (if coming from OpenClaw)
hermes update # Update to the latest version
hermes doctor # Diagnose any issues
Skip the API-key collection — Nous Portal
Hermes works with whatever provider you want — that's not changing. But if you'd rather not collect five separate API keys for the model, web search, image generation, TTS, and a cloud browser, Nous Portal covers all of them under one subscription:
- 300+ models — pick any of them with
/model <name> - Tool Gateway — web search (Firecrawl), image generation (FAL), text-to-speech (OpenAI), cloud browser (Browser Use), all routed through your sub. No extra accounts.
One command from a fresh install:
hermes setup --portal
That logs you in via OAuth, sets Nous as your provider, and turns on the Tool Gateway. Check what's wired up any time with hermes portal info. Full details on the Tool Gateway docs page.
You can still bring your own keys per-tool whenever you want — the gateway is per-backend, not all-or-nothing.
CLI vs Messaging Quick Reference
Hermes has two entry points: start the terminal UI with hermes, or run the gateway and talk to it from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, or Email. Once you're in a conversation, many slash commands are shared across both interfaces.
| Action | CLI | Messaging platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Start chatting | hermes |
Run hermes gateway setup + hermes gateway start, then send the bot a message |
| Start fresh conversation | /new or /reset |
/new or /reset |
| Change model | /model [provider:model] |
/model [provider:model] |
| Set a personality | /personality [name] |
/personality [name] |
| Retry or undo the last turn | /retry, /undo |
/retry, /undo |
| Compress context / check usage | /compress, /usage, /insights [--days N] |
/compress, /usage, /insights [days] |
| Browse skills | /skills or /<skill-name> |
/<skill-name> |
| Interrupt current work | Ctrl+C or send a new message |
/stop or send a new message |
| Platform-specific status | /platforms |
/status, /sethome |
For the full command lists, see the CLI guide and the Messaging Gateway guide.
Documentation
All documentation lives at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs:
| Section | What's Covered |
|---|---|
| Quickstart | Install → setup → first conversation in 2 minutes |
| CLI Usage | Commands, keybindings, personalities, sessions |
| Configuration | Config file, providers, models, all options |
| Messaging Gateway | Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Home Assistant |
| Security | Command approval, DM pairing, container isolation |
| Tools & Toolsets | 40+ tools, toolset system, terminal backends |
| Skills System | Procedural memory, Skills Hub, creating skills |
| Memory | Persistent memory, user profiles, best practices |
| MCP Integration | Connect any MCP server for extended capabilities |
| Cron Scheduling | Scheduled tasks with platform delivery |
| Context Files | Project context that shapes every conversation |
| Architecture | Project structure, agent loop, key classes |
| Contributing | Development setup, PR process, code style |
| CLI Reference | All commands and flags |
| Environment Variables | Complete env var reference |
Migrating from OpenClaw
If you're coming from OpenClaw, Hermes can automatically import your settings, memories, skills, and API keys.
During first-time setup: The setup wizard (hermes setup) automatically detects ~/.openclaw and offers to migrate before configuration begins.
Anytime after install:
hermes claw migrate # Interactive migration (full preset)
hermes claw migrate --dry-run # Preview what would be migrated
hermes claw migrate --preset user-data # Migrate without secrets
hermes claw migrate --overwrite # Overwrite existing conflicts
What gets imported:
- SOUL.md — persona file
- Memories — MEMORY.md and USER.md entries
- Skills — user-created skills →
~/.hermes/skills/openclaw-imports/ - Command allowlist — approval patterns
- Messaging settings — platform configs, allowed users, working directory
- API keys — allowlisted secrets (Telegram, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs)
- TTS assets — workspace audio files
- Workspace instructions — AGENTS.md (with
--workspace-target)
See hermes claw migrate --help for all options, or use the openclaw-migration skill for an interactive agent-guided migration with dry-run previews.
Contributing
We welcome contributions! See the Contributing Guide for development setup, code style, and PR process.
Quick start for contributors — clone and go with setup-hermes.sh:
git clone https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent.git
cd hermes-agent
./setup-hermes.sh # installs uv, creates venv, installs .[all], symlinks ~/.local/bin/hermes
./hermes # auto-detects the venv, no need to `source` first
Manual path (equivalent to the above):
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv venv .venv --python 3.11
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e ".[all,dev]"
scripts/run_tests.sh
Community
- 💬 Discord
- 📚 Skills Hub
- 🐛 Issues
- 🔌 computer-use-linux — Linux desktop-control MCP server for Hermes and other MCP hosts, with AT-SPI accessibility trees, Wayland/X11 input, screenshots, and compositor window targeting.
- 🔌 HermesClaw — Community WeChat bridge: Run Hermes Agent and OpenClaw on the same WeChat account.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Built by Nous Research.