KnownFix — Hermes Agent known issues

[Hermes Agent] [Bug]: macOS headless: gateway ensure aborts with service_manager_unavailable because launchctl print gui/ returns 125

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:54:31 +0000

What happens: hermes -z "…" (and any entrypoint that ensures the gateway) fails with Error: Gateway inaccessible: servicemanagerunavailable when run without a GUI login session — e.g. from a system LaunchDaemon with UserName= , or via sudo…

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[Hermes Agent] Unified gateway (#106742): open post-merge problems on main, continuing #134889

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:00:12 +0000

What changed. On 14 October, #106742 (the unified gateway) moved every local conversation into one gateway process. The CLI, the terminal UI, the local Desktop app, the API server, editors, messaging bots, cron jobs, Kanban cards and Group…

Workaround (quoted from comment by @teknium1): The only workaround is config (`ws_orphan_reap_grace_s=0` plus a higher `HERMES_TUI_SESSION_TTL_S`). "I expected orchestration to continue with the laptop off." - [https://discord.com/channels/1053877538025386074/1563120848624164905](https://

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[Hermes Agent] Gateway group workspace UX gaps: no paste/drag, no @-autocomplete, no inline image rendering, members can't send files

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:30:54 +0000

The gateway-owned group chat workspace (canonical-group, Desktop v0.22.2) lost several capabilities the legacy Desktop room UI had. Five gaps, all in the same surface: Composer: no clipboard image paste, no drag-and-drop — a bare in…

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[Hermes Agent] Automation wakes into auto-created Discord threads are refused admission_conflict forever (parents never resume after children finish)

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:54:10 +0000

With discord.autothread: true, every automation wake that targets a session whose thread was auto-created is refused at admission: The drain requeues the event and retries forever, so parent agents never resume after their children finish…

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[Hermes Agent] [Bug]: Desktop: reasoning-effort pill spins forever when opening a messaging-platform session

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:43:15 +0000

Opening a conversation that belongs to a messaging platform (Telegram DM/group, WeChat, Feishu, …) in Hermes Desktop leaves the composer's reasoning-effort pill in its loading state indefinitely. It never paints the chat's actual level…

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[Hermes Agent] gateway /model pick on a profile-following session crashes (AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'get') when the session carries config secrets

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:11:26 +0000

A /model pick made in any gateway chat (Telegram, Bot Chat, TUI) on a session that follows the profile config fails with an internal error ("Model switch failed") whenever the session policy carries private config secrets…

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[Hermes Agent] Plugin tools can't declare execution_timeout — register_tool() drops it, so every plugin tool is capped at the 420s deadline

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:04:01 +0000

Plugin tools can't raise their own execution deadline. PluginContext.registertool() (hermescli/plugins.py) does not accept or forward executiontimeout, but tools.registry.register() supports it and…

Workaround (quoted from issue body): `timeouts.tools.sequential_call: 960` in `config.yaml`. This raises the ceiling for every tool, so a wedged tool now blocks for up to 16 minutes instead of 7. It also leaves the concurrent-batch path at 420 s.

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[Hermes Agent] [Bug]: Telegram init hangs pre-socket inside gateway (no SYN, healthy loop, standalone 0.3s) — recurring #63309-family variant

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:05:44 +0000

Telegram init hangs pre-socket inside the gateway process after a routine network blip, while the identical stack (same venv, same token, same transports, same SSL context) connects in 0.3s standalone. Appears to be a new variant of the…

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[Hermes Agent] pm repair cannot commit a dependency environment on a case-insensitive filesystem: shutil.copytree dies with Errno 17 on the bundled CPython terminfo

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:27:34 +0000

On the official Docker image (linux-arm64, v0.21.6) with HERMESHOME on a case-insensitive volume (macOS/APFS default — a plain Docker Desktop bind mount under /Users/...), no dependency environment can ever be committed for the install…

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[Hermes Agent] [Bug]: Intermittent server_error with openai-codex across models on Windows Desktop

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:08:09 +0000

Hermes Agent intermittently fails with APIError and servererror when using the openai-codex provider with gpt-6.1-sol. The issue occurs in both Hermes Desktop and Discord Gateway on Windows 11. Some requests complete successfully…

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[Hermes Agent] kanban dispatcher: _pid_recycled compares the composed worker fingerprint by exact equality, so live macOS workers read as recycled and get duplicated

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:48:59 +0000

hermescli/kanbandbdispatch.py::pidrecycled has a string branch for the composed worker fingerprint (" | ") that compares the recorded value to a freshly computed one with EXACT equality. On hosts without /proc (macOS) the start-time half…

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[Hermes Agent] [Bug]: v0.21.6 shows the v0.21.5 release date (2026.9.24) in `hermes --version` and the banner

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:01:19 +0000

On v0.21.6 the version line still carries the release date of v0.21.5: The version is right (it comes from the install stamp), but the date in parentheses is hermescli.releasedate, which is still "2026.9.24" in the v0.21.6 tag and on main…

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[Hermes Agent] [Bug]: Update failed

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:43:34 +0000

Hi i tried to update the hermes client on MacOS but it failed. Error message is only Update failed so no info there :). Hermes Agent v0.21.5+8076.g85db7c3 (2026.9.24) · upstream 85db7c3a Install directory…

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[Hermes Agent] Bundled plugin solstice fails to load on fresh installs: No module named 'httpx' (startup warnings paint over TUI)

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:22:08 +0000

On startup, this warning is printed (twice in my case) before the agent begins processing: The messages render over already-drawn TUI content, garbling the screen. After the warnings, processing starts and works normally — solstice is a…

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[Hermes Agent] Pain cluster: one transient 429 / entitlement cooldown benches a credential for days — no reset-time probe, no visibility, no pointer to `hermes auth reset` (13 reports this week)

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:11:23 +0000

A single transient 429 / modelentitlement cooldown on one credential benches that credential (and often the whole provider row, or every auxiliary call) for hours to days, with no reset-time probe, no visible "in cooldown until T because…

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[Hermes Agent] Linux Desktop: second-instance launches poison the sandbox fallback marker → sticky --no-sandbox → renderer SIGILL loop (/dev/shm ESRCH)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:55:55 +0000

On Linux, launching Hermes Desktop again while it is already running (the launcher, gtk-launch, or a hermes:// deeplink that starts the binary) can leave windows-sandbox-fallback.json stuck at {"state":"fallback","reason":"boot-loop"}…

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[Hermes Agent] Pain cluster: a failed update leaves a half-applied install with a raw error and no in-product recovery — 5 mechanisms, 15 Discord threads this week, every fix is a hand-typed recipe

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:09:32 +0000

When hermes update / the Desktop updater fails, the install is left half-applied (Desktop launches then closes, gateway venv missing pydanticcore, git checkout carrying partial-clone config) and the product prints the raw underlying error…

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[Hermes Agent] Hindsight core→plugin migration traps source install in interrupted update / dependency prompt loop

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:22:17 +0000

After updating a git/source installation to Hermes Agent v0.21.5+2959.ga342e65 (commit a342e6563d), the automatic migration of the Hindsight memory provider from core to the plugin catalog gets stuck while preparing the plugin's Python…

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[Hermes Agent] [Bug]: Ubuntu historical takeover fails building python-olm when managed Python requires missing clang++

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:52:13 +0000

A git-installed Hermes update on Ubuntu 24.04 failed while preparing the new isolated dependency environment during the historical PM takeover. The selected features included matrix; mautrix[encryption] pulled python-olm==3.2.16, which…

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[Hermes Agent] Plugin runtime state inside a member folder causes an infinite sync/rebuild/re-exec loop

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:52:16 +0000

pm/workspace.py::membersstamp() hashes every file in each enabled plugin member directory to decide whether the recorded dependency environment is current (pm/install.py::venviscurrent). The only exclusions are the hard-coded MEMBEREXCLUDE…

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[Hermes Agent] Curator's automatic inactivity archival can silently break kanban swarm verifier/synthesizer (requesting-code-review, humanizer)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:46:14 +0000

hermes kanban swarm's verifier role hardcodes the skill requesting-code-review (hermescli/kanbanswarm.py:238). This skill ships bundled (skills/software-development/requesting-code-review/), so it normally exists — but the Curator's…

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[Hermes Agent] Support multi-surface access to the same session (desktop + mobile dashboard)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:34:47 +0000

Hermes Agent: v0.21.3 Server: macOS (Mac mini) Surfaces: Desktop app + mobile dashboard When a session is open on the Desktop app (surface=desktop), a second surface (mobile dashboard, surface=tui) cannot submit messages to that same…

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[Hermes Agent] Slack: status indicator silently broken with slack-sdk >= 3.44 (agents.sessions.setStatus rejects free-text and empty status)

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:15:40 +0000

After updating past slack-sdk 3.44.0, the Slack working-status indicator ("is thinking…", live per-tool status via livestatus / typingstatustext) silently disappears on every turn. All status calls fail with invalidarguments; status…

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[Hermes Agent] [Bug]: Hermes shows passwords in Telegram chat

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:29:05 +0000

Hi! I'm developing a skill that uses the following stack: Kimi K3; from OpenCode Go Bitwarden; for secrets (using the "official" resource from Hermes docs) Browserbase headless; integrated in Hermes (free) without API key - as is. Hermes…

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[Hermes Agent] Add Nextcloud Talk as a messaging platform adapter (working implementation, ready to PR)

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:49:14 +0000

I'd like to contribute a Nextcloud Talk messaging-platform adapter for the gateway — the same shape as the existing Mattermost / Signal / Telegram adapters: Hermes both receives messages from and sends replies to a Talk conversation, fully…

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[Hermes Agent] Solving the Multi-Tenant Hermes Problem

Fri, 29 May 2026 04:13:02 +0000

Multiplayer agentic AI is the future. Hermes can and should lead. TL;DR: Memory operations bypass the hook system entirely, making tenant isolation impossible without forking core — we've been running a fix in production for months with…

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[Hermes Agent] Support remote Hermes agent with local tool execution

Sat, 02 May 2026 07:27:37 +0000

I want to use a remote Hermes Agent instance while keeping tool execution on my local machine. Machine A: local client / workspace machine Machine B: remote Hermes Agent with my existing skills, memory, sessions, and model/provider config…

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[Hermes Agent] feat(terminal): Multi-backend terminal — local + N named remotes with persistent shell

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:26:28 +0000

Today, Hermes Agent supports exactly one terminal backend at a time — set globally via terminal.backend in config.yaml (mapped to TERMINALENV). You pick local, ssh, docker, modal, daytona, or singularity, and every terminal() call routes…

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