omarchy/bin/omarchy-remove-ai-hermes

#!/bin/bash

# omarchy:summary=Remove the Hermes desktop app along with the Hermes runtime it installed.
# omarchy:requires-sudo=true

# -u so an unset HOME is an error rather than a set of rm -rf paths rooted at /.
set -euo pipefail

ensure_hermes_stopped() {
  python3 - "$HOME" <<'PY'
import os
from pathlib import Path
import sys

home = Path(sys.argv[1])
roots = [str((home / relative).resolve()) for relative in ('.hermes', '.config/Hermes')]
roots.append('/opt/hermes-desktop')

def belongs_to_hermes(target):
    target = target.removesuffix(' (deleted)')
    return any(target == root or target.startswith(root + '/') for root in roots)

holders = []
for process in Path('/proc').iterdir():
    if not process.name.isdigit() or int(process.name) == os.getpid():
        continue
    try:
        if process.stat().st_uid != os.getuid():
            continue
        targets = [os.fsdecode(arg) for arg in (process / 'cmdline').read_bytes().split(b'\0')]
        entries = [process / 'exe', process / 'cwd']
        try:
            entries.extend((process / 'fd').iterdir())
        except PermissionError:
            pass
        for entry in entries:
            try:
                targets.append(os.readlink(entry))
            except OSError:
                pass
        if any(belongs_to_hermes(target) for target in targets):
            holders.append(process.name)
    except (FileNotFoundError, ProcessLookupError, PermissionError):
        continue

if holders:
    print('Close Hermes and processes using its files before removing it (PIDs: '
          + ', '.join(holders) + '). Then try again.', file=sys.stderr)
    sys.exit(1)
PY
}

# Removing an open SQLite WAL leaves a live writer on a deleted generation.
ensure_hermes_stopped
omarchy-pkg-drop hermes-desktop

# The installer leaves a unit waiting to hand the app the Omarchy theme.
systemctl --user stop omarchy-hermes-theme.service 2>/dev/null || true

# The mise CLI is the app's predecessor, not the app itself: Hermes Desktop takes
# it over on install and runs its own runtime instead, so a copy still here is one
# the app never superseded -- an interrupted install, or the terminal CLI from
# before the app existed. Remove Hermes clears that too, scoped by the installer
# to what Omarchy owns so a hermes the user set up themselves is left alone.
# Tolerated here rather than fatal, so the ~/.hermes handling below still runs;
# the failure is answered for at the end instead of being swallowed.
cli_removed=true
ensure_hermes_stopped
omarchy-install-hermes-cli --remove || cli_removed=false

# The app writes this when the runtime it provisions under ~/.hermes has landed,
# 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 unasked.
if [[ -f $HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent/.hermes-bootstrap-complete ]]; then
  # The checkout and venv, its own uv, its own node. None of it is any use once
  # the app is gone, so it goes without asking; what the user made with the app
  # is a different question, answered below.
  rm -rf \
    "$HOME/.hermes/hermes-agent" \
    "$HOME/.hermes/bootstrap-cache" \
    "$HOME/.hermes/bin" \
    "$HOME/.hermes/node"

  # Only the wrappers pointing into ~/.hermes, matched as a plain string: the
  # path carries a dot, so an unanchored pattern would also claim a wrapper
  # pointing at a sibling like ~/xhermes.
  for command in hermes hermes-agent hermes-acp; do
    wrapper="$HOME/.local/bin/$command"

    if [[ -f $wrapper && ! -L $wrapper ]] && grep -qF "$HOME/.hermes" "$wrapper"; then
      rm -f "$wrapper"
    fi
  done

  # When Hermes brought its own Node it symlinked these next to its own commands,
  # and they point at what we just deleted. Only the links into ~/.hermes: a
  # system Node, or someone else's, lives somewhere else entirely.
  for command in node npm npx; do
    link="$HOME/.local/bin/$command"

    if [[ -L $link && $(readlink "$link") == "$HOME/.hermes"/* ]]; then
      rm -f "$link"
    fi
  done

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 $HOME/.config/Hermes ]] && [[ -t 0 ]]; then
  # du answers non-zero when either directory is missing, and pipefail would
  # turn that into an aborted removal; the size is worth no such thing.
  size=$(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 ($size: chats, memories, skills, connections and tokens)?"; then
    ensure_hermes_stopped
    rm -rf "$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."
fi

# The messages above still hold -- the app and its runtime are gone -- but a CLI
# teardown that failed already said so on stderr, and that stands.
if [[ $cli_removed == "false" ]]; then
  exit 1
fi