Merge pull request #10271 from spencerbull/hermes-remove-ask-user-data

Ask, default no, before Remove Hermes deletes the user's data
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Spencer Bull authored and GitHub committed 2026-09-05 20:00:19 -05:00
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@@ -22,14 +22,11 @@ omarchy-install-hermes-cli --remove || cli_removed=false
# and it is the only thing that tells that runtime apart from one the user
# installed themselves -- the paths are the same either way. Without it the app
# never got that far: a machine where it was installed but never launched still
# has whatever was there before, and none of it is ours to delete.
# has whatever was there before, and none of it is ours to delete unasked.
if [[ -f $HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent/.hermes-bootstrap-complete ]]; then
# The checkout and venv, its own uv, its own node. None of it is any use once
# the app is gone. Not ~/.config/Hermes, which holds the gateway connections
# and their encrypted tokens, the active profile and the update settings. Not
# the rest of ~/.hermes either: the chats, memories and the skills Hermes
# wrote for itself are the user's, they are small, and finding them still
# there after a reinstall is the better surprise.
# the app is gone, so it goes without asking; what the user made with the app
# is a different question, answered below.
rm -rf \
"$HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent" \
"$HOME/.hermes/bootstrap-cache" \
@@ -58,14 +55,38 @@ if [[ -f $HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent/.hermes-bootstrap-complete ]]; then
fi
done
echo ""
echo "Hermes Desktop has been removed."
fi
# What survives to here is the user's: the chats, memories and skills in
# ~/.hermes, the connections and their encrypted tokens in ~/.config/Hermes.
# Keeping them stays the default -- they are small, and finding them intact
# after a reinstall is the better surprise -- but a removal meant to be
# complete should not leave credentials behind either, so the choice is put in
# front of the user with the size, default no. Asked whenever the directories
# exist, marker or no marker: on a machine where the marker never appeared the
# data came from the terminal CLI or an install the app never finished, and it
# is still what removal is asked to clean up. Naming the paths keeps the
# question honest there too -- ~/.hermes may still carry a runtime the app
# never owned, a yes takes that with it, and saying so is the prompt's job.
# Without a terminal to ask in, keeping everything is the answer.
data_removed=false
if [[ -d $HOME/.hermes || -d $HOME/.config/Hermes ]] && [[ -t 0 ]] && command -v gum >/dev/null; then
# du answers non-zero when either directory is missing, and pipefail would
# turn that into an aborted removal; the size is worth no such thing.
size=$(du -shc "$HOME/.hermes" "$HOME/.config/Hermes" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | cut -f1 || true)
if gum confirm --default=false "Also delete ~/.hermes and ~/.config/Hermes ($size: chats, memories, skills, connections and tokens)?"; then
rm -rf "$HOME/.hermes" "$HOME/.config/Hermes"
data_removed=true
fi
fi
echo ""
echo "Hermes Desktop has been removed."
if [[ $data_removed == true ]]; then
echo "Its chats, memories, and settings in ~/.hermes and ~/.config/Hermes are gone too."
elif [[ -d $HOME/.hermes || -d $HOME/.config/Hermes ]]; then
echo "Your chats, memories, and skills are still in ~/.hermes,"
echo "and your connections and settings in ~/.config/Hermes."
else
echo ""
echo "Hermes Desktop has been removed."
echo "It never finished installing its own Hermes, so nothing in ~/.hermes was touched."
fi
# The messages above still hold -- the app and its runtime are gone -- but a CLI