Merge pull request #166 from omacom-io/hermes-agent

Add hermes-desktop
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David Heinemeier Hansson
2026-08-25 07:49:30 +02:00
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"source": "local",
"release_ring": "fast"
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# Maintainer: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@hey.com>
# Nous builds Hermes Desktop for macOS and Windows only -- their download page
# offers a .dmg and an .exe and tells Linux users to install from a terminal --
# so there is no vendor binary to repackage. Their electron-builder config does
# carry a Linux target, though, and it works; this builds it.
#
# The app only runs against a Hermes runtime built from its own commit, so it
# provisions one itself under ~/.hermes on first launch and the package stays
# on the newest tag. Pairing it with the mise CLI instead was tried and does
# not work: PyPI trails the tags, and the version gap fails the readiness probe
# with a 401. Pinning back to the tag behind PyPI's release does not rescue it
# either -- v2026.7.20's desktop hangs after "backend is ready" without ever
# opening a window, against its own matching runtime.
#
# The app is only a shell: it runs `hermes serve` against a Hermes CLI it does
# not ship, and clones its own copy with the upstream install script when it
# finds none. /usr/bin/hermes-desktop heads that off. See hermes-desktop.sh.
pkgname=hermes-desktop
pkgver=2026.8.18
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Native desktop shell for Hermes Agent'
arch=('x86_64')
url='https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent'
license=('MIT')
depends=(
'alsa-lib'
'at-spi2-core'
'cairo'
'dbus'
'expat'
'curl'
'gcc-libs'
'gdk-pixbuf2'
'git'
'glib2'
'glibc'
'gtk3'
'hicolor-icon-theme'
'libcups'
'libdrm'
'libglvnd'
'libnotify'
'libx11'
'libxcb'
'libxcomposite'
'libxdamage'
'libxext'
'libxfixes'
'libxkbcommon'
'libxrandr'
'mesa'
'nspr'
'nss'
'pango'
'systemd-libs'
'xdg-utils'
)
optdepends=('omarchy: installs the Hermes CLI the app needs on first launch')
# The build runs the repo's own npm workspace install, which fetches Electron
# and rebuilds node-pty against it.
makedepends=('git' 'imagemagick' 'nodejs' 'npm' 'python')
# Electron bundles prebuilt binaries that stripping corrupts.
options=('!strip' '!debug')
# The tag's commit. apps/desktop/scripts/write-build-stamp.mjs pins the app's
# first-launch bootstrap to a Hermes commit, and resolves it from $GITHUB_SHA
# before falling back to `git rev-parse`. That fallback is wrong here: makepkg
# builds inside this repository, so git ascends out of srcdir and stamps the
# app with an omarchy-pkgs commit that means nothing upstream.
_commit=e624e9fde561e1add9388384012b295fde669ade
_srcdir="hermes-agent-${pkgver}"
source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::${url}/archive/refs/tags/v${pkgver}.tar.gz"
'hermes-desktop.sh'
'hermes-desktop.desktop'
'hermes-desktop.png')
sha256sums=('1e3d39d3638ec15fa9d31af262568a953e9272090deb1c50c44cd401175f5b80'
'6c6b59bd168d6ae34b7e9fcfcabc26ced8bccdd837bc2d09e687839ded6a9452'
'3ef685bfcf366776b025d26c37d32854d8d4aa2023b2bd07c8e08b001ef1e8c4'
'd60d164e24fdcf6532133b8ea43c77a201e4b9e9dbc396187b58d51d8590ef52')
build() {
cd "${srcdir}/${_srcdir}"
export GITHUB_SHA="${_commit}"
export GITHUB_REF_NAME="v${pkgver}"
# The desktop workspace resolves against the repo root, so the install has to
# happen there rather than in apps/desktop.
npm ci
cd apps/desktop
npm run pack
}
package() {
cd "${srcdir}/${_srcdir}/apps/desktop/release/linux-unpacked"
install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
cp -a . "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/"
install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/hermes-desktop.sh" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/hermes-desktop.desktop" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/hermes-desktop.png" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/${pkgname}.png"
local size
for size in 512 256 128 64 48; do
magick "${srcdir}/hermes-desktop.png" -resize "${size}x${size}" "${srcdir}/icon-${size}.png"
install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/icon-${size}.png" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/${pkgname}.png"
done
install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${_srcdir}/LICENSE" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/LICENSE.electron.txt" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.electron.txt"
# Chromium's setuid sandbox is only needed where unprivileged user namespaces
# are unavailable; where they work, setuid root is the worse of the two.
if ! { [[ -L /proc/self/ns/user ]] && unshare --user true; }; then
chmod 4755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/chrome-sandbox"
else
chmod 0755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/chrome-sandbox"
fi
}
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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Hermes
GenericName=AI Agent
Comment=The self-improving AI agent that grows with you
Exec=hermes-desktop %U
Icon=hermes-desktop
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/hermes;
Keywords=ai;agent;assistant;hermes;nous;
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=Hermes
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
# Hermes Desktop is a shell around a Hermes runtime, and it only works against
# one built from its own commit. A CLI from PyPI is always a different release
# -- PyPI trails the tags -- and the mismatch fails the app's readiness probe
# with 401 Unauthorized. So keep it away from whatever `hermes` is on PATH,
# which on Omarchy is the mise CLI installed for the terminal agent, and let
# the app provision and manage its own runtime under ~/.hermes. That is the
# arrangement upstream ships, and the only one that starts.
export HERMES_DESKTOP_IGNORE_EXISTING=1
# Reconcile every launch rather than trusting whatever installed us. A plain
# `pacman -S hermes-desktop`, or an install interrupted partway, leaves any
# Hermes the terminal agent had built still sitting there, and by then the
# menu entry that would have tidied it up is disabled because we are present.
if command -v omarchy-install-hermes-cli >/dev/null 2>&1; then
omarchy-install-hermes-cli >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
# Chromium's own Ozone detection falls back to XWayland often enough to matter,
# and the result is a blurry window on every scaled display. Ask for Wayland
# directly, unless the user has already picked a platform themselves.
platform_flags=()
if [[ -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-}" || ${XDG_SESSION_TYPE:-} == wayland ]]; then
platform_flags=(--ozone-platform=wayland)
for flag in "$@"; do
case "$flag" in
--ozone-platform=* | --ozone-platform-hint=*) platform_flags=() ;;
esac
done
fi
exec /opt/hermes-desktop/Hermes "${platform_flags[@]}" "$@"