Noisegate v0.1.1

Noisegate v0.1.1

Noisegate v0.1.1 is a release-hardening and distribution release. It makes Noisegate easier to install as a real Hermes plugin/CLI, tightens release automation, and keeps the core compaction safety model intact: deterministic, fail-open, and exact-output-safe.

Highlights

• Adds noisegate install-hermes for installing and enabling Noisegate in the same Python environment that runs Hermes.
• Establishes PyPI-first distribution through noisegate-hermes, with an npm installer wrapper as a convenience path.
• Hardens CI, release automation, contributor checks, workflow validation, action pinning, and package publishing.
• Fixes tiny-budget compaction behavior and concurrent artifact-write edge cases without turning Noisegate into a raw-output archive.

How to update

For an existing Hermes Agent installation, run:

uvx --from noisegate-hermes noisegate install-hermes

To preview the exact commands first:

uvx --from noisegate-hermes noisegate install-hermes --dry-run

npm users can use the wrapper instead:

npx -p noisegate-hermes noisegate install-hermes

The installer finds the hermes executable on PATH, resolves the Python environment that runs Hermes, installs noisegate-hermes there, enables the noisegate plugin, and runs noisegate doctor.

If Hermes is running as a long-lived gateway/service, restart or reload that Hermes process through your normal maintenance flow after installing so the plugin/config change is picked up. Avoid interrupting in-flight agent work.

Included pull requests

Range: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

Release / Packaging

• #3 Add distribution installer foundations — @Tosko4
• #4 Align npm wrapper with noisegate-hermes package — @Tosko4
• #5 Prepare Noisegate 0.1.1 release — @Tosko4

Security / Safety

• #1 Harden compaction and release automation — @Tosko4

Internal / CI

• #2 Improve integration diagnostics and workflow checks — @Tosko4

New contributors

No new external contributors in this release range. The merged PRs in v0.1.1 were authored by @Tosko4.

Added

• noisegate doctor now reports invalid Noisegate environment values instead of silently falling back.
• CI now validates GitHub Actions workflow syntax and uses explicit job timeouts.
• noisegate install-hermes installs and enables Noisegate inside the same Python environment as Hermes, with a dry-run mode for safe operator review.
• PyPI trusted-publishing workflow foundation for noisegate-hermes.
• npm installer-wrapper package foundation for delegating to the Python package without postinstall scripts.
• npm trusted-publishing/provenance workflow foundation for the installer wrapper.

Changed

• Contributor checks now ignore merge commits, normalize GitHub noreply author emails, resolve the git executable before release contributor checks, and wrap git log failures with clearer troubleshooting messages.
• README now presents PyPI as the canonical distribution path and documents the npm wrapper as installer-only.
• Release metadata is aligned across Python package metadata, plugin metadata, lockfile, and npm wrapper metadata.

Security

• GitHub Actions dependencies are pinned to reviewed commit SHAs to reduce mutable-tag supply-chain risk.
• npm wrapper uses no postinstall script.
• Exact-output protections and fail-open compaction behavior remain intact.

Fixed

• Fail open for unusably tiny compaction budgets instead of emitting marker-only output that can obscure the original command result.
• Handle concurrent same-content artifact writes without false collision errors.

Published artifacts

• GitHub Release assets: wheel, sdist, and release-notes.md.
• PyPI: noisegate-hermes==0.1.1.
• npm: noisegate-hermes@0.1.1.

Post-tag publishing follow-up

#6 fixed future npm trusted-publishing retries on main by moving npm publish jobs to Node 24 and making PyPI publish retry-safe with skip-existing. It is not part of the v0.1.1 source tag, but it protects future release reruns.