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Hermes Mobile — Delivery Plan
Operational contract: Codex must read this file before each work loop. Work exactly one coherent milestone at a time. Move completed items to the completed section in the same commit that implements them. Add a concise entry to
CHANGELOG.mdin the same commit. Never mark work complete without running its listed verification.
Product guardrails
- Native Android client for upstream Hermes Agent: Kotlin + Jetpack Compose.
- Material 3 base, deliberately customized through a reusable design system.
- Thin client: Hermes remains the authority for auth, sessions, streaming, tool semantics, and backend behavior.
- No WebView-first app, no cloned Hermes backend, no embedded credentials.
- Adaptive, accessible, compact-but-readable UI: phone, tablet, light/dark, font scaling, IME/keyboard, long code/output must remain safe.
- Keep DTO/transport, domain/UI models, repositories, view models/state, and composables separated.
- Never commit APKs, build outputs, credentials, or generated local environment files.
Release policy
- Start artifacts at
v0.1.0-beta.1. - Patch: compatible fixes/polish. Minor: a coherent feature milestone. Major: stable
v1.0.0+only. - A release requires a pushed source commit, passing relevant checks, a versioned APK artifact, and a Telegram release post.
Now — direct gateway pivot
Complete the Android/client contract pivot before implementing backend behavior. The next release path targets a remote upstream Hermes Agent gateway/API server directly; apps/companion is legacy compatibility only.
- R2 — Verify a clean
v0.1.0-beta.1install against a direct gateway- On one named real device or emulator, build the source-current versioned debug APK, confirm package metadata, uninstall prior app data, install and launch it, configure an upstream Hermes gateway directly, and record the connection result plus APK SHA-256.
- Verification: required preflight and Android checks pass in the install environment; device/install evidence is recorded in
docs/ROADMAP.md; no release or final beta criterion is claimed from source-only checks.
Externally blocked
- R1 — Execute and document the adaptive/accessibility device matrix
- Source safeguards and 61 cached source-current unit tests were verified on 2026-07-24, but small-phone, normal-phone, tablet, TalkBack, contrast, motion, and IME evidence still requires a permitted real device or emulator.
- Unblock evidence is maintained in
docs/BLOCKERS.md; do not mark R1 complete from source review alone.
- B3 — Direct gateway session contract and durable chat state
- Foundation verified 2026-07-24: repository search contract and fake implementation, capability-gated session list/create/get/delete mapping, durable selected-session/draft/pending-send storage, and duplicate-send reducer/UI protection.
- Not complete: official upstream documentation still provides no session-search HTTP contract, and the configured local API server was not listening for a live compatibility exercise on 2026-07-24.
- Unblock evidence is maintained in
docs/BLOCKERS.md; do not mark B3 complete until documented search and real gateway behavior are verified.
V2 backlog
- Multiple server profiles and fast switching.
- Rich file/artifact workflows based on upstream capability.
- Notifications for task completion.
- Mature tablet/two-pane session + optional terminal/log pane.
- Offline cache/search and diagnostic export with privacy controls.
- Remove legacy companion Android routes and deprecate
apps/companioninstall/runtime docs after direct gateway chat/session/streaming is verified.
Completed
Move finished items here with date, commit, and verification. Keep this section factual; do not claim unverified work.
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P0 — First-run Setup Wizard — 2026-07-24, commits
5b3263e(feat: add first-run setup wizard) and7780760(fix: prevent setup restart bypass).- Added a Compose first-run flow covering welcome/privacy guidance, required Remote HTTPS and optional Local HTTPS routes, None/Bearer/username-password authentication, local-first connection testing, and completion only after a successful test.
- Added direct password login through
/auth/password-login, allowlisted session-cookie extraction, encrypted cookie/password storage, credential redaction, replacement/retention rules, and cookie-authenticated gateway probes without persisting raw credentials in UI state or connection forms. - Added Settings entry for editing the same profile, skip behavior for existing valid configurations, one-time legacy/current-profile setup-version migration, and accessible adaptive Compose semantics plus phone/tablet/light/dark previews.
- Fixed a restart bypass: a profile saved by a failed first-run connection test remains in mandatory setup until setup completion is durably recorded; valid migrated and completed profiles still skip setup.
- Repaired the setup gate so only valid profiles with recorded legacy provenance receive the one-time completion migration; untested first-run None and Bearer profiles remain mandatory after restart.
- Follow-up regression repair on 2026-07-25: removed bearer-token-only self-migration, which could classify a failed/offline first-run Bearer profile as a historical profile. Added a focused restart regression covering that state.
- Verification for the follow-up repair: offline focused
SetupWizardReducerTestplus:app:assembleDebugpassed (43 tasks, 9 executed);git diff --checkpassed. - Verification for the migration repair: source-current offline focused
SetupWizardReducerTestplus:app:assembleDebugpassed (43 tasks, 9 executed);git diff --checkpassed. - Verification on 2026-07-24: source-current offline
:app:testDebugUnitTest :app:assembleDebugpassed (43 tasks, 4 executed; all unit tests passed), including the focused restart-regression test;git diff --checkpassed. No device, release, or real gateway credential test is claimed. - Task 5 source-current re-verification on 2026-07-24:
/root/.openclaw/workspace/scripts/hermes-mobile-preflight.shpassed; the documented offline:app:testDebugUnitTest :app:assembleDebugcommand passed (43 tasks, 1 executed); the generated Gradle XML report records 106 tests with 0 failures/errors, including 29SetupWizardReducerTestcases; andgit diff --checkpassed. A localhost gateway health probe returned HTTP 200, establishing reachability only. The debug APK reports packagecloud.molberg.hermesmobile, version0.1.0-beta.1(10001), SHA-25645e4ab4783a74eb766070b0f670a2631a9ebdc044468bbe03087788f8106f150. No ADB device/emulator or/dev/kvmwas available; no device installation, real authentication, release, or end-to-end gateway verification is claimed. - Later Task 5 current-sandbox rerun on 2026-07-24: the exact
docs/ANDROID_BETA_BUILD.mdGradle command was blocked before project execution withCould not determine a usable wildcard IP, and the recorded offline/no-daemon variant was blocked while opening Gradle's daemon TCP socket withjava.net.SocketException: Operation not permitted. Direct JUnit execution of the existing source-current compiledSetupWizardReducerTestclasses passed all 29 tests. The existing source-current XML reports remain 106 tests with 0 failures/errors, and the existing ignored APK was unchanged by both Gradle attempts;aaptand SHA-256 inspection reconfirmed the package/version/hash above. ADB 37.0.0 was available only by explicit path and could not start its daemon because smart-socket/netlink sockets are prohibited;/dev/kvmand/dev/bus/usbwere absent. This adds fresh focused reducer execution only: no fresh Gradle compilation/test task, APK assembly, device installation, credential flow, release, or end-to-end verification is claimed. - Task 5 delivery verification on 2026-07-25:
/root/.openclaw/workspace/scripts/hermes-mobile-preflight.shpassed; fromapps/mobile/android,GRADLE_USER_HOME=/root/hermes-mobile/.gradle-user ./gradlew --offline --no-daemon -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs= -Dorg.gradle.daemon=false -Pkotlin.compiler.execution.strategy=in-process :app:testDebugUnitTest :app:assembleDebugpassed (43 tasks, 1 executed);git diff --checkpassed. Current Gradle XML reports record 107 tests with 0 failures/errors/skips. The ignored debug APK reports packagecloud.molberg.hermesmobile, version0.1.0-beta.1(10001), size 17,710,960 bytes, and SHA-256714e8e9cdd3f2eed93b285f233b1f4573d5d13fc2078bb717631f9b38f8428d4. ADB reports no attached devices; no emulator/AVD or/dev/kvmis available. No device installation, release, or gateway end-to-end verification is claimed.
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R2a — Establish beta source packaging and install documentation — 2026-07-24, commit
3b883bd(build: establish Android beta packaging); guide corrected 2026-07-25.- Set Android package metadata to semantic
versionName0.1.0-beta.1with monotonicversionCode10001, enabled generated metadata coverage, and named the debug APKhermes-mobile-v0.1.0-beta.1-debug.apk. - Added a direct-gateway-only build, metadata inspection, clean-install, launch, configuration, evidence, and known-limitations guide; corrected it to document mandatory clean-install Setup Wizard entry, all three auth modes, successful-test completion gating, and post-setup Settings editing. Changed the npm Android build command to run the native Gradle project without Capacitor synchronization.
- Source verification on 2026-07-24: required recovery preflight passed;
:app:testDebugUnitTest :app:assembleDebugpassed with the cached offline Gradle setup (43 tasks, 5 executed); andgit diff --checkpassed. No APK was published, uploaded, or installed, so the remaining R2 device task and all final release criteria remain unclaimed.
- Set Android package metadata to semantic
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B5 — Tool, artifact, and output experience — 2026-07-24, commit
feat: add gated tool output experience.- Added capability-gated decoding and reduction for the existing
tool.started,tool.progress,tool.completed, andtool.faileddirect gateway SSE events, with compact lifecycle/status cards for referenced and stream-only tools. - Added full-output copy plus deterministic collapsed/expanded display windows capped at 5/80 lines and 24,000 expanded characters, avoiding same-direction nested scrolling while retaining the complete output in state.
- Persisted expanded tool IDs in durable chat state so rotation/process resume restores presentation state; artifact share/save remains unavailable because the direct gateway advertises no verified artifact handoff URI/download capability.
- Verification: the recovery preflight passed before this run; cached Kotlin 2.0.21 compilation passed for all Android Kotlin/Compose main and unit-test sources; direct JUnit passed 57 tests including large-output bounds, capability gating, lifecycle merging, and rotation/resume restoration;
git diff --checkpassed. A direct Gradle:app:testDebugUnitTest :app:assembleDebugretry was blocked before project execution because the sandbox prohibits Gradle's TCP control socket (java.net.SocketException: Operation not permitted).
- Added capability-gated decoding and reduction for the existing
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B4c — Wire gateway SSE into durable chat sends — 2026-07-24, commit
feat: wire durable gateway SSE sends.- Added a direct-gateway send coordinator that captures the selected session, draft, route lease, and capability-built SSE request before asynchronous execution; it never reselects a route or switches an active stream.
- Publishes only the currently reserved request's intermediate and terminal reducer states; terminal completion, gateway failure, and transport failure clear only the matching durable reservation while retaining the selected session and draft.
- Verification:
/root/.openclaw/workspace/scripts/hermes-mobile-preflight.shpassed (Android:app:assembleDebug, 35 tasks, 4 executed); direct cached Kotlin/JUnit verification passed 52 tests including deterministic B4c success, gateway failure, transport failure, and stale request-ID tests;git diff --checkpassed.
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B4b — Execute session SSE through the Android repository — 2026-07-24, commit
feat: execute gateway session SSE.- Added a thin OkHttp repository that executes the capability-built session stream request and parses SSE frames into the existing decoder and lease-bound reducer.
- Kept the route generation, request URL, session ID, endpoint, and event gate immutable for the full call; transport/protocol failure invalidates and fails only that original lease.
- Kept gateway
errorevents separate from transport failure and excluded reconnect, cancellation, tool/artifact handling, and UI integration. - Verification: focused cached Kotlin compilation and direct JUnit execution passed 15 reducer, stream-contract, and fake HTTP/SSE repository tests; Android Gradle build attempt and final checks are recorded in
CHANGELOG.md.
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B4a — Capability-gated direct streaming foundation — 2026-07-24, commit
feat: add gateway streaming foundation.- Added capability-derived session SSE request construction using the advertised
POSTmethod and{session_id}path only. - Bound each stream to an immutable route generation and session ID, decoded documented core lifecycle/delta/final events, and gated structured tool events on
tool_progress_events. - Made final assistant responses authoritative over accumulated deltas and ignored events from a different session lease.
- Verification: focused cached Kotlin compilation plus direct JUnit execution passed 12 reducer/stream contract tests; full checks recorded in
CHANGELOG.md.
- Added capability-derived session SSE request construction using the advertised
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B2 — Direct gateway connection, authentication, and local-first routing UX — 2026-07-24, commit
e5cc27e(feat: add local-first gateway routing).- Added one logical profile with optional Local HTTPS, required Remote HTTPS, Android-keystore-protected bearer/no-auth configuration, and active Local/Remote diagnostics.
- Added bounded redirect-disabled
GET /healthprobes followed by bearer-authenticatedGET /v1/models, deterministic Local preference/Remote fallback, and immutable request leases. - Added foreground, explicit reconnect, connectivity-change, and request-failure re-evaluation hooks; removed Android calls to undocumented legacy companion
/api/*routes without changingapps/companion. - Recorded the upstream stable gateway identity-binding need in
docs/BLOCKERS.md. - Verification: direct Kotlin/JUnit execution of
ConnectionStateTestandGatewayHttpProbeTestpassed 12 tests;GRADLE_USER_HOME=/root/hermes-mobile/.gradle-user ./gradlew --no-daemon -Pkotlin.compiler.execution.strategy=in-process :app:compileDebugUnitTestKotlin :app:assembleDebugpassed fromapps/mobile/androidwith temporary restored sandbox-only Gradle socket shims (37 tasks, 6 executed);git diff --checkpassed. - Unhappy paths verified deterministically: missing/cleartext/credential-bearing/path-bearing/duplicate URLs, missing bearer token, incompatible or offline Local fallback, Remote offline, unauthorized compatibility response, stored legacy HTTP rejection, and failed-route lease invalidation. Device UI walkthrough was attempted but ADB could not start because this sandbox prohibits local control sockets.
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F0 — Audit and safely land existing work — 2026-07-24, commit
da79d48(feat: land native mobile foundation).- Reviewed existing Android and companion edits; preserved the native Android chat/workspace/settings work and companion chat hardening.
- Confirmed generated build outputs are ignored and added ignores for
.gradle-user/and.dev/. - Reconciled
docs/ROADMAP.mdto the actual native Android beta state and remaining validation gaps. - Verification:
git diff --checkpassed;npm run typecheck --workspace @hermes-mobile/companionpassed;npm run lint --workspace @hermes-mobile/companionpassed;npm run build --workspace @hermes-mobile/companionpassed;npm run typecheckpassed;npm run lintpassed;npm run buildpassed. - Android debug build attempted with
GRADLE_USER_HOME=/root/hermes-mobile/.gradle-user ./gradlew :app:assembleDebugfromapps/mobile/android; blocked before compilation because network socket creation is not permitted while downloading Gradle 8.11.1.
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F1 — Compose design system extraction — 2026-07-24, commit
9ed0969(feat: extract compose design system).- Extracted color, semantic status, spacing, typography, shape, elevation, and motion tokens.
- Added light and dark Hermes Compose themes backed by Material 3 color schemes.
- Split shared Compose cards, rows, controls, notices, message bubbles, list scaffolds, and code surfaces out of
MainActivity.kt. - Added Compose previews for small phone, normal phone, tablet width, light theme, and dark theme component coverage.
- Verification:
git diff --checkpassed;GRADLE_USER_HOME=/root/hermes-mobile/.gradle-user ./gradlew :app:assembleDebugfromapps/mobile/androidpassed.
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F2 — Polished fake-data chat proving ground — 2026-07-24, commit
f65d4ac(feat: add fake chat proving ground).- Added a local fake chat inbox with session rail/list, context controls, keyboard-safe composer, and send/cancel/retry interactions.
- Added typed user, assistant, system, error, and streaming message models; selectable markdown-friendly text, horizontally scrollable copyable code, and expandable tool results.
- Added seeded empty, loading, reconnecting, and error states plus reducer tests for send, cancel, retry, and tool expansion.
- Verification:
git diff --checkpassed;GRADLE_USER_HOME=/root/hermes-mobile/.gradle-user ./gradlew :app:testDebugUnitTest :app:assembleDebugfromapps/mobile/androidpassed.
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B1 — Transport/domain contracts — 2026-07-24, commit
feat: add transport domain contracts.- Added transport DTOs and domain repository contracts for server profiles, authentication, sessions, messages, stream events, tool results, and artifacts.
- Added DTO-to-domain/UI mappers, stream reducer behavior, and a fake Hermes repository for previews and unit tests.
- Kept the companion path as an optional adapter capability without changing upstream Hermes semantics.
- Verification: parent preflight immediately before B1 completion passed: script PASS; Android
:app:assembleDebugBUILD SUCCESSFUL, 35 tasks total and 6 executed. Parent also verifiedgit diff --checkpassed.
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B2a — Direct gateway planning and compatibility contract — 2026-07-24, commit
docs: pivot mobile contract to direct gateway.- Added
docs/DIRECT_GATEWAY_ARCHITECTURE.mdwith documented upstream endpoints separated from unverified assumptions. - Reprioritized the beta path around direct gateway auth, sessions, streaming, and later companion removal.
- Updated Android transport/domain/fake capability contracts and connection copy so new code no longer assumes a companion server.
- Verification:
git diff --checkpassed; Android:app:testDebugUnitTest :app:assembleDebugpassed fromapps/mobile/android.
- Added
Work-loop checklist
Before coding:
- Read
PROJECT_PLAN.md,CHANGELOG.md,docs/ROADMAP.md, git status, and the prior commit. - Choose the single highest-value unchecked item or a narrowly scoped sub-item.
- Inspect existing implementation before rewriting it.
Before committing:
- Run relevant checks; record exact pass/fail scope in the changelog.
- Update this plan: check the completed item, move it into Completed, and leave the next executable item unchecked.
- Add a concise
CHANGELOG.mdentry under Unreleased. - Commit using Conventional Commits and push
origin/main. - Do not claim a release without an uploaded, verified versioned APK.