feat(hermes): memory index in the ClawBox AI cloud by default; a plugin installed after boot reaches the chat

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Two Hermes-edition fixes from the owner's morning (2026-09-18)

1. Memory Shard indexes in the ClawBox AI cloud on the Hermes edition too — and cloud is the default, always

The Hermes-edition indexer (ClawBox's own sqlite index) sent documents only to the box's loopback proxy by design, and the provider route answered cloudSupported: false, cloudReason: "edition", so the Memory index card read "On device" with no cloud choice anywhere. The owner ruled: the cloud index on Hermes as on OpenClaw, and cloud as the default, always.

src/lib/memory-embedder.ts resolves the embedder per pass, per search and per status read — a word in ClawBox's own store (memory_shard_embedder: "cloud" | "local"), never an address, never a copy of the credential (endpoint from the image env, bearer from the credential store per request). With no pin the box follows the cloud-defaults verdict itself (linked + paid + the embeddings probe answered), so cloud is what it embeds with, not a wizard preselection; "On this box" is the opt-in; a cloud that cannot serve runs locally and names the reason; a credential landing later promotes through the existing applyClawaiCloudDefaults/promoteEmbeddings, now edition-neutral. The privacy rule is checked at the moment the socket opens: exactly two addresses are allowed — the loopback proxy or the ClawBox AI embeddings endpoint — anything else is refused on both arms. The identity stamp carries provider|model|baseUrl, so a switch reports mismatched and the full pass rebuilds. No new UI, no new locale keys.

2. A Hermes plugin installed after boot reaches the chat

Hermes has no runtime plugin reload (hermes plugins install ends with "restart the gateway"); on this edition the chat backend is clawbox-hermes-dashboard, and nothing restarted it, so a plugin installed after boot stayed invisible to every chat. Now the web server watches the declared plugin set (content hash, debounced) and restarts the dashboard through Hermes' own stop command with Restart=always bringing it back (bounceHermesDashboard, no root grant needed or added — a systemctl restart grant would also let an OpenClaw box resurrect the unit its teardown disabled, and a test pins that it stays absent), verifies the restart by a new main PID and the port answering, and posts a desktop notice naming the plugin. POST /setup-api/hermes/plugins/reload and the MCP tool hermes_plugins_reload do the same on purpose; the assistant's field guide tells it to call that instead of trying sudo. stale (declared set newer than the running process) is the load-bearing signal; loaded is null where the dashboard's journal cannot establish it.

Also fixed on the way: every dashboard bounce reported a false failure, because hermes dashboard --stop exits 143 after signalling its own process group while the restart succeeds — three callers (ClawKeep restore, image refresh, this watcher) read that code as the outcome. The helper now verifies the restart instead.

RED → GREEN

Memory: 21 failures on unmodified beta across 5 files (provider gate, POST cloud → 409, applier reason "edition", no promotion) → 1286 tests green in the memory/clawkeep/embed/clawai globs. Plugins: 8 named failures + 2 unresolvable modules → 38 new tests, 168 sudoers/teardown, 2220 hermes+clawkeep, 1412 mcp/instrumentation. Full unit suites green on both source branches; the combined branch: 191 files / 2993 tests in the affected globs, tsc clean.

Proven on hardware

• Hermes box, this branch head: provider with no choice → source: cloud, cloudAvailable: true; one temporary note folder added through the sources route; full pass succeeded in 1.2 s with text-embedding-3-large, location: cloud, healthy, 1 file / 1 chunk / 1 vector; GET /setup-api/clawkeep/memory/search?q=<secret word> returned the note with its snippet; the card reads "Cloud"; folder removed and a pass run afterwards. Plugin reload: the dashboard from 10:52 did not carry a plugin enabled at 12:59 (stale: true); hermes plugins enable on the box → the box restarted the dashboard on its own within 22 s, stale: false, the notice in the ring, a new chat session listing the plugin; the deliberate route → 200 in 12 s with a new main PID; bearer admitted, anonymous 401.
• OpenClaw box: the same default-cloud rule: provider with no choice → cloud, full pass 21 chunks in the cloud model in 8 s, card "Cloud", OpenClaw's own memory search answering from that index.

Residuals

• MAX_INDEX_CHUNKS is dimension-blind (3,072-dim cloud vectors are three times the memory of the local model's); own ticket.
• A lapsed plan on a box pinned to cloud fails its passes honestly rather than re-embedding locally; nothing demotes automatically (same as OpenClaw).
• No turn-in-flight gate for the dashboard restart: the dashboard socket exposes no active-run signal; the debounce keeps it to one restart per action and the notice explains it.
• loaded needs a plugins.list method upstream in Hermes to become a real list.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added Hermes plugin reloading through chat and MCP, with automatic detection of plugin changes.
  • Cloud memory embeddings are now supported across both product editions.
  • Memory indexing capacity adapts to the selected embedding model.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved dashboard restart coordination and status reporting.
  • Cloud embedding requests retry temporary service failures when possible.
  • Memory searches now honor a server-side time limit.
  • Improved endpoint validation and credential-status handling for cloud embeddings.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance for Hermes plugin discovery, reloading, access, and session behavior.

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The pull request adds Hermes plugin reload support with shared restart coordination, API and MCP entry points, and updated documentation. It also changes Memory Shard to track recorded embedding placement, resolve cloud or local embedders, and use the resolved embedder across provider, indexing, and search flows.

Changes

Hermes plugin lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Plugin state and parsing src/lib/hermes-plugin-set.ts, src/lib/yaml-block-edit.ts, src/tests/unit/hermes-plugin-set.test.ts	The code reads declared and loaded plugin state, computes content signatures, and parses the YAML shapes used in the plugin config. The tests cover block extraction, declaration reading, loaded-state lookup, and state matching.
Watcher and shared bounce src/lib/hermes-bounce-claim.ts, src/lib/hermes-plugin-reload.ts, src/lib/hermes-dashboard-control.ts, src/instrumentation.ts, src/tests/unit/hermes-plugin-reload.test.ts, src/tests/unit/hermes-dashboard-control.test.ts, src/tests/unit/hermes-image-refresh.test.ts, src/tests/routes/clawkeep-restore-restart.test.ts	The shared bounce claim tracks in-flight reloads and owed work. The watcher debounces declaration changes, reconciles replacement states, and retries failed restarts with backoff. The tests cover restart outcomes, shared-claim coordination, and dashboard bounce behavior.
API, MCP, and docs src/app/setup-api/hermes/plugins/reload/route.ts, mcp/tools/hermes-plugins.ts, mcp/clawbox-mcp.ts, mcp/README.md, CLAUDE.md, Clawbox.md, config/clawbox-sudoers, src/tests/routes/hermes-plugins-reload.test.ts	The route exposes authenticated GET and POST handlers for plugin state and reload. The MCP server registers a Hermes-only tool. The docs and comments describe the reload behavior and the no-sudo posture.

Memory embedding provider support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Embedder resolution and placement src/lib/memory-embedder.ts, src/lib/memory-shard.ts, src/lib/memory-shard-state.ts, src/lib/clawai-cloud-embeddings.ts, src/components/MemoryShardEmbedderCard.tsx, src/components/MemoryShardWizard.tsx, src/tests/unit/memory-embedder.test.ts, src/tests/unit/memory-shard-embedding-keys.test.ts, src/tests/unit/clawai-cloud-embeddings.test.ts, src/tests/components/memory-shard-wizard.test.tsx	The code resolves local or cloud sources, stores source pins, validates endpoints, and records placement state on both editions. The tests cover pin handling, placement, endpoint fences, and wizard selection.
Embedding execution and identity src/lib/memory-index-local.ts, src/lib/clawkeep-memory.ts, src/app/setup-api/clawkeep/memory/search/route.ts, src/tests/unit/memory-index-local.test.ts, src/tests/routes/memory-shard-search.test.ts	Indexing and search use the resolved embedder. Requests select the matching URL, token, model, and input format. Identity, retry behavior, deadlines, chunk limits, and readiness follow the resolved embedder.
Cloud defaults and provider routes src/lib/clawai-cloud-defaults.ts, src/lib/clawai-cloud-defaults-state.ts, src/app/setup-api/clawkeep/memory/provider/route.ts, src/tests/routes/memory-shard-provider.test.ts, src/tests/unit/clawai-cloud-defaults-apply.test.ts	Cloud support is reported on both editions. Provider status, cloud switching, promotion, and tests use recorded placement and the shared default source.

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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

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🟠 Major · Reject search when the stored embedder identity does not match. · memory-index-local.ts:1464-1482

src/lib/memory-index-local.ts:1464-1482
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Reject search when the stored embedder identity does not match.

openIndexForRead does not check the stored identity. searchLocalMemory checks only vector dimensions before ranking. After a provider switch, equal-width vectors from the previous embedder can therefore reach result ranking before the next rebuild.

Compare the stored identity with embedderIdentity(embedder) before embedding the query.

Proposed identity check

   const embedder = await resolveMemoryEmbedder();
+  const identityNow = embedderIdentity(embedder);
   const db = await openIndexForRead();
   if (!db) return [];
   try {
+    if (metaGet(db, "identity") !== identityNow) return [];
     const embedding = embedBatch([text], "query", signal, embedder);

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In `@src/lib/memory-index-local.ts` around lines 1464 - 1482, Update
searchLocalMemory around resolveMemoryEmbedder and openIndexForRead to compute
embedderIdentity(embedder) and compare it with the stored “identity” metadata
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In `@src/app/setup-api/clawkeep/memory/provider/route.ts`:
- Line 83: Update the readEmbeddingPlacement call to pass verdict?.source with a
local fallback when no cloud source is available, ensuring the response does not
re-probe cloud defaults or report cloud placement while cloudAvailable is false.

In `@src/app/setup-api/hermes/plugins/reload/route.ts`:
- Line 55: After the requireSession check in the POST handler, validate the
request with isSameOriginRequest and return a 403 JSON response when it fails;
preserve authorization for headerless MCP bearer calls and only proceed to
restart Hermes for same-origin requests.

In `@src/lib/hermes-dashboard-control.ts`:
- Line 269: Update the dashboard restart flow around the initial mainPid() read
to retry when it returns null before invoking runHermesCli(["dashboard",
"--stop"]). If the PID remains unavailable after the retry, return "failed"
without stopping; preserve MainPID=0 as a valid baseline and continue using it
for replacement detection.

In `@src/lib/hermes-plugin-reload.ts`:
- Around line 265-267: Update the baseline initialization in the watcher tick
flow around declaration.signature so it uses declaration.changedAt compared with
the dashboard start time. Treat declarations changed after startup as initially
stale and report the change instead of establishing them as the baseline; only
set baseline for declarations that could have been loaded when the dashboard
started, using the exact startup state rather than the first asynchronous poll.
- Around line 296-316: Update reloadHermesPlugins and the watcher handling
around bounceHermesDashboard so a "pending" result keeps the acted signature in
a distinct reconciliation state instead of clearing pending or advancing
baseline. Poll the existing replacement for readiness without stopping the
dashboard again; advance baseline only once it serves, and apply backoff or
initiate a new bounce only when reconciliation confirms recovery failed or the
unit is down. Keep the existing failed-restart handling separate from the
"pending" path.

In `@src/lib/hermes-plugin-set.ts`:
- Line 81: Update the plugins-block parsing condition in the identified
line-processing function to treat column-zero comment lines like indented
comments, keeping them inside the block instead of breaking extraction. Preserve
the existing handling for blank lines and indented lines so subsequent enabled
or disabled entries remain included in the declaration and signature.

In `@src/lib/memory-embedder.ts`:
- Around line 139-146: The cloud embedding configuration in usableEndpoint and
the CLAWBOX_AI_PROXY_URL fallback currently permits plaintext HTTP while sending
sensitive request data. Reject HTTP endpoints by default, while preserving
trusted-LAN staging behavior only when a separate explicit staging configuration
opts in; ensure both the validated endpoint and fallback base URL follow this
policy before returning the cloud embedding request configuration.

In `@src/lib/memory-shard.ts`:
- Line 372: Update readEmbeddingPlacement to validate non-loopback baseUrl
values with assertEmbedEndpointAllowed before returning a recorded "cloud"
placement; preserve the recorded local result for loopback endpoints and allow
invalid remote endpoints to fail validation rather than being recorded.

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In `@src/lib/memory-index-local.ts`:
- Around line 1464-1482: Update searchLocalMemory around resolveMemoryEmbedder
and openIndexForRead to compute embedderIdentity(embedder) and compare it with
the stored “identity” metadata before starting embedBatch or ranking; return an
empty result when they differ, while preserving the existing flow for matching
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In `@src/lib/hermes-plugin-reload.ts`:
- Around line 229-235: Update reloadHermesPlugins to check shared.bouncing
immediately before claiming it; if already set, read current plugin state and
return an explicit restarted:false in-flight result without calling
bounceHermesDashboard. Only the caller that sets shared.bouncing may clear it in
finally.

In `@src/lib/hermes-plugin-set.ts`:
- Around line 169-185: Update enabledNames parsing to support trailing YAML
comments in both block entries and flow lists. Extend the inline-list handling
near the inline regex to accept comments after the closing bracket, and use a
stripYamlComment helper for block item values that removes # only outside
single- or double-quoted scalars before trimming quotes and adding nonempty
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- Around line 613-628: Find the interactive search route that calls
searchLocalMemory and add a server-side deadline signal combined with
request.signal, ensuring delayed embed attempts and retry waits are cancelled
when the interactive deadline expires. Keep the existing longer retry behavior
for rebuild or background indexing flows unchanged, and use the established
signal-combination utilities if available.

In `@src/tests/unit/hermes-plugin-reload.test.ts`:
- Around line 356-360: Update the in-flight guard test around
reloadHermesPlugins and bounceMock to use an explicit entry barrier: have
bounceMock resolve an inBounce promise when bounceHermesDashboard is entered,
then await inBounce before advancing time and calling watcher.tick(), replacing
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In `@CLAUDE.md`:
- Line 52: Update the Hermes plugins documentation to refer to
bounceHermesDashboardShared() instead of bounceHermesDashboard(), and describe
that the shared helper coordinates claim ownership, baseline state, and
pending-restart state across all callers.

In `@src/lib/hermes-bounce-claim.ts`:
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request instead of returning only "in_flight". Ensure the active bounce
completion consumes that pending request and runs one additional bounce,
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hermesDashboardServing so it advances shared.baseline and stops retries only
after replacement is positively confirmed by a new PID or invocation ID. Do not
treat null or a port probe as proof; alternatively, perform the post-bounce
plugin query and require stale === false before accepting the reload.

In `@src/tests/routes/memory-shard-search.test.ts`:
- Around line 72-74: Update the test around the memory-shard search call to stub
AbortSignal.timeout with a controlled timeoutController.signal before invoking
the route, assert it is called with 60_000, then abort the controller and verify
the forwarded signal becomes aborted. Keep the existing AbortSignal and
initially-not-aborted assertions.

In `@src/tests/unit/memory-index-local.test.ts`:
- Around line 95-99: Align proxyRefusedClawaiCredential with production by
accepting only statuses 401 and 403, then update the related embed failure setup
and refusalNotes expectation to use 401 consistently instead of 402.
- Around line 645-657: Update the test “waits a real interval when the far side
asks for `Retry-After: 0`” to use Vitest fake timers while
`runLocalIndexPass("full")` is awaiting its retry delay, advance the clock by
the expected minimum wait, and restore real timers in a finally block. Preserve
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In `@src/lib/hermes-bounce-claim.ts`:
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- Line 693: Update the fetch options in the embedding request around
embedder.requestUrl to set redirect handling to manual, ensuring redirects reach
the existing !res.ok rejection path instead of being followed. Preserve the
current POST method, headers, and request body behavior.

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Two Hermes-edition fixes that unlock capabilities the edition was silently missing. First, the Memory Shard indexer on Hermes can now embed via the ClawBox AI cloud — the provider gate that answered cloudSupported: false on this edition is removed, and cloud is the new default wherever the subscription covers it. Second, a plugin installed after the Hermes dashboard started is now reachable: a new API route, MCP tool (hermes_plugins_reload), and background watcher in instrumentation.ts restart the dashboard through Hermes' own stop path and Restart=always, with all three callers (restore, image refresh, and this new watcher) sharing one claim so a bounce in flight is never doubled.

At a glance

• ✨ Feature · touches Hermes edition — memory index cloud embeddings + plugin reload/dashboard-bounce coordination
• Base branch: beta · +3361 source / +3118 tests across 42 files · (large diff — summarized from the first 80k)
• ✅ base beta matches the beta-first convention
• ✅ conventional PR title
• ✅ source changes come with test changes
• 🟡 large PR (6725 lines changed) — consider splitting
• ℹ️ touches security-sensitive paths (config/clawbox-sudoers) — review with extra care

Good to know

• 🟡 Touches config/clawbox-sudoers — the change deliberately adds NO new grant and buries a comment explaining why a systemctl restart grant must not be added; worth an eyes-on pass given the policy flag.
• ℹ️ A background watcher is wired into instrumentation.ts on Hermes boxes; it starts at web-server boot and bounces the dashboard when the declared plugin set changes — a new always-on process in the production startup path.
• ℹ️ All dashboard-bounce callers (ClawKeep restore, image refresh, new plugin-reload route) now route through bounceHermesDashboardShared — a shared claim in process-store.ts. Any future caller that bypasses it gets a second outage window.
• ℹ️ Large PR (42 files, ~6 700 lines), but the body reports 2 993 tests green across affected globs and hardware-verified on a real Hermes box.

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🟠 Major · Require a numeric IPv4 loopback address. · clawai-cloud-embeddings.ts:144

src/lib/clawai-cloud-embeddings.ts:144
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SSRF

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Require a numeric IPv4 loopback address.

http://127.attacker.example passes /^127\./, and the same check runs again in askCloudEmbedder(). If DNS resolves that hostname off-device, the HTTP request sends the claw_ bearer and embedding probe body to that host. No later allowlist or DNS/IP validation closes this path.

Use isIP(host) === 4 before accepting the 127/8 prefix. The explicit insecure HTTP opt-in remains a separate operator-controlled exception.

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In `@src/lib/clawai-cloud-embeddings.ts` at line 144, Update the loopback-host
validation used by askCloudEmbedder to require isIP(host) === 4 before accepting
the 127/8 prefix, preventing hostnames such as 127.attacker.example from
passing; retain the existing localhost, IPv6 loopback, and separate
insecure-HTTP opt-in behavior.

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Inline comments:
In `@mcp/tools/hermes-plugins.ts`:
- Around line 68-69: Update the restart-failure message and next-step text in
the relevant Hermes plugin operation result to use operation-neutral wording:
describe the plugin change as saved but not yet active or applied to the running
agent, without claiming installation or implying reboot behavior specific to
installation.

In `@src/lib/memory-index-local.ts`:
- Around line 754-764: Update the error-response handling around
proxyRefusedClawaiCredential so both the cloned response body and original res
body are always cancelled before retrying or throwing. Store the cloud-only
clone, process it in a try/finally block, and cancel both bodies in the finally
block while preserving the existing credential-refusal notification and
EmbeddingUnavailableError behavior.

In `@src/tests/unit/hermes-plugin-set.test.ts`:
- Line 358: Rename the test case describing the unrelated-setting scenario so it
states that the signature does not change when only an unrelated setting
changes; leave the test assertion and implementation unchanged.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/lib/clawai-cloud-embeddings.ts`:
- Line 144: Update the loopback-host validation used by askCloudEmbedder to
require isIP(host) === 4 before accepting the 127/8 prefix, preventing hostnames
such as 127.attacker.example from passing; retain the existing localhost, IPv6
loopback, and separate insecure-HTTP opt-in behavior.

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• mcp/tools/hermes-plugins.ts
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• src/lib/hermes-bounce-claim.ts
• src/lib/hermes-plugin-reload.ts
• src/lib/hermes-plugin-set.ts
• src/lib/memory-index-local.ts
• src/tests/unit/harness-credentials.test.ts
• src/tests/unit/hermes-plugin-reload.test.ts
• src/tests/unit/hermes-plugin-set.test.ts
• src/tests/unit/memory-index-local.test.ts

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