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A Hermes pane had no conversation reader, so Chat fell back to the terminal-text heuristic. server/hermes.ts reads Hermes's state.db read-only: the session herdr's herdr:hermes integration reports, else the one a foreground process of the pane holds in runtime/active_sessions.json (an ended one is no answer: the classic CLI keeps its lease after /new), shown as Hermes's own display projection and paged by display group. Work blocks count Hermes's terminal, read_file and write_file calls as commands, reads and edits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughHermes Agent sessions can now appear as database-backed chat transcripts. The server discovers sessions from integration reports or pane processes, reads and pages conversation history, retrieves tool output, and classifies Hermes tool calls. ChangesHermes Agent transcripts
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🟡 Minor · Do not cache a Hermes tool output as immutable. · index.ts:1816-1820
server/index.ts:1816-1820
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDo not cache a Hermes tool output as immutable.
A Hermes ref is
hermes:<row id>. It is a row id in a SQLite database, not a stable call id. These responses are sent withmax-age=86400, immutable. A store can be replaced (a new profile, a deletedstate.db) while the pane id stays the same. In that case the same ref can name a different row, and the browser serves the old cached output for a day. Sendno-storeforHERMES_TOOL_REF, as the code already does for OpenCode refs.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 480-494: Update hermesToolOutput to reject tool-output references
to rows removed from visible conversation history: when the messages table has
an active column, require active rows, also allowing compacted rows when that
column exists; preserve compatibility with schemas lacking these columns.
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- Around line 1816-1820: Update the cacheControl selection in the tool-output
response to treat Hermes refs as non-cacheable alongside OpenCode refs. Use
HERMES_TOOL_REF to select no-store, while preserving the existing caching
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CHANGELOG.mdREADME.ja.mdREADME.ko.mdREADME.mdREADME.zh-CN.mddocs/guide.mdserver/AGENTS.mdserver/api.contract.test.tsserver/conversation.tsserver/hermes.test.tsserver/hermes.tsserver/index.tsshared/protocol.tssite/demo/transport.tssrc/lib/toolVerbs.test.tssrc/lib/toolVerbs.tssrc/lib/workBlocks.test.tssrc/lib/workBlocks.ts
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| /** The whole output of a tool call whose page output was cut (ref `hermes:<tool row id>`). */ | ||
| export function hermesToolOutput(path: string, session: string, ref: string): string | null { | ||
| const match = HERMES_TOOL_REF.exec(ref); | ||
| if (match === null || !SESSION_ID.test(session)) return null; | ||
| try { | ||
| return withStore(path, (db) => { | ||
| const row = db.query<{ content: unknown }, [number, string]>("SELECT content FROM messages WHERE id = ? AND session_id = ? AND role = 'tool'").get(Number(match[1]), session); | ||
| return row === null ? null : hermesToolResult(row.content).text; | ||
| }); | ||
| } catch (error) { | ||
| // a store held for a moment has no answer now: the next request finds it, where a failure would stick | ||
| if (unusable(error) || busy(error)) return null; | ||
| throw error; | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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Reject stale Hermes tool-output references.
hermesTurns issues hermes:<row.id> for trimmed tool rows. After undo or rewind marks that row active = 0 and compacted = 0, hermesConversation removes it, but hermesToolOutput still returns its output by ID. Comparable readers reject outputs from abandoned history.
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return withStore(path, (db) => {
- const row = db.query<{ content: unknown }, [number, string]>("SELECT content FROM messages WHERE id = ? AND session_id = ? AND role = 'tool'").get(Number(match[1]), session);
+ const has = columns(db, "messages");
+ const visible = has.has("active")
+ ? has.has("compacted") ? " AND (active = 1 OR compacted = 1)" : " AND active = 1"
+ : "";
+ const row = db.query<{ content: unknown }, [number, string]>(`SELECT content FROM messages WHERE id = ? AND session_id = ? AND role = 'tool'${visible}`).get(Number(match[1]), session);
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Review comment at @server/hermes.ts around lines 480 - 494:
Update hermesToolOutput to reject tool-output references to rows removed from
visible conversation history: when the messages table has an active column,
require active rows, also allowing compacted rows when that column exists;
preserve compatibility with schemas lacking these columns.
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Thanks for this. A Hermes Agent conversation reader is already under review in #604, opened earlier and reviewed by the maintainer, so I'm closing this as a duplicate to keep that work in one place. If your reader handles something #604 misses (profiles under |
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A Hermes Agent pane had no conversation reader, so Chat fell back to the terminal-text heuristic, which does not read Hermes's screen as a conversation: the chat stayed empty or showed the terminal text. herdr already labels these panes
hermes(on macOS withHERDR_AGENT=hermes, see below).This adds
server/hermes.ts, a read-only reader for Hermes's own SQLite store,<home>/state.db(HERMES_HOME, else~/.hermes/%LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes, and profiles under<home>/profiles/<name>):herdr:hermes, kindid, fromherdr integration install hermes), else the one a foreground process of the pane holds in Hermes's own lease registry (runtime/active_sessions.json; the classic CLI is that process, the TUI's gateway is in the same group). The classic CLI keeps its lease on a session/newended, so a leased session that has ended keeps the terminal fallback; with the integration the chat follows/new. A session that is neither in a store the server knows nor placed by a lease keeps the terminal rather than showing an empty chat.hermes_state_messages.py): rows that are live or were summarized by a compaction (active = 1 OR compacted = 1), nomodel_onlyrows, one row perdisplay_ordergroup (compaction generations collapse, the live copy wins),\0json:list content decoded.rewind_countis part of the history id, so an undo/rewind reloads the chat.{output, exit_code, error}is unwrapped and marked failed on a non-zero exit, and a long output is cut with anoutput_refthe tool-output endpoint serves whole. A compaction summary is acompactpart, runtime rows (model_switch,skill_invocation, …) are notices, a steer is the user's text, hidden rows are skipped.before/since/fromcursors as the OpenCode reader (it reusespageStart). Answers are cached per session signature; a store Hermes holds for a moment answers the cached page; a missing, foreign or unreadable store keeps the terminal fallback. Newer columns are optional, so an older schema still reads. The store is opened read-only per request (Hermes only defers its own structural maintenance while another process holds the file, and these reads close within milliseconds).hermes-transcriptinshared/protocol.ts,paneConversation/toolOutput,createServer({ hermesHome })for isolated tests, the demo transport's source mapping, andhermes: "Hermes Agent"in the agent picker labels.terminal,read_file/search_filesandwrite_file/patchas commands, reads and edits, and its rows read "Ran …", "Read …", "Wrote …".docs/guide.md, the four READMEs,server/AGENTS.md, CHANGELOG.macOS note. herdr 0.9.3 does not recognize Hermes's installer launcher (
python3.14 -I -c '<bootstrap>') on macOS, so such a pane has noagentand is in neither the sidebar nor this reader (herdrdev/herdr#5068, herdrdev/herdr#5078). On Linux Hermes renames its process tohermesand herdr sees it. herdr's documented wrapper hint,HERDR_AGENT=hermes hermes, makes herdr recognize it on macOS, and then this reader reads it. Nothing here works around herdr's detection.Not covered: images in a prompt are not shown (their text is), and Hermes's approval prompts are answered in the terminal.
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bun run check full: Fast checks pass (generated types, typecheck, build, unit tests 2030 pass / 7 skip / 0 fail). Integration lane: 308 pass, 0 fail. Browser lane: every script passes except two that fail the same way on an unmodifiedorigin/maincheckout on this PC, which was under heavy CPU load from other jobs at the time (load average 15–21):terminal-arrows-clicks-regression(held-arrow max latency over its 150 ms bound; alternating runs gave 173.7 / 172.5 / 273.0 ms on main and 205.2 / 203.3 / 145.5 ms on this branch) andfile-viewer-regression("test Codex process did not start" on both). The remaining lane scripts were run on their own after the stop: all pass.server/hermes.test.ts(20 tests, synthetic stores): turns and tool results, notices/compaction/hidden rows,\0json:content, cut output and the whole-output read, the display projection across compaction, rewind and model-only rows, an older schema without the newer columns, paging withbefore/fromand a cursor an undo removed, the rewound history id, the answer cache, a busy store (DELETE journal with a second connection holdingBEGIN EXCLUSIVE), unavailable stores, and session binding (report, profile home, lease, two leases, an ended lease, a report on a pane herdr does not callhermes, an unknown home).server/api.contract.test.ts"Hermes conversation API": the terminal fallback without a report, then with aherdr:hermesreport the turns and the whole tool output through/api/pane/conversation/tool-output.5f045f8,state.dbschema 31) talking to a local OpenAI-compatible stub, through this branch's server and a headless Chrome:hermes --tui, a typedhermesandherdr agent start --kind hermes;hermes_cli._launchers._launcher_script, the 7 KBpython -I -cone from Native restore drops HERDR_AGENT hint: restored Hermes (python -I -c launcher) resumes but is absent from agent list herdrdev/herdr#5078) with its process title left as macOS leaves it (python3): unrecognized by herdr without the hint, recognized withHERDR_AGENT=hermes, status working → idle, and the chat reads it (CLI and TUI);/new; without it the pane after/newkeeps the terminal fallback;Screenshot (isolated test session, stub model; the second turn's work block expanded):
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