User supplied the real vector source at Hermes/Icons/file.svg. Dropped the
background rectangle, kept the sky-blue foreground + dark inner detail
cutouts, squared the viewBox around the content bbox with a small margin.
Result: ~6.6 KB SVG, pixel-perfect at every size — no more 60x downscale
blur.
- bundled-addons/hermes/assets/mark.svg: tight-cropped vector
(viewBox centres the icon in a square so 1:1 slots don't crop).
- bundled-addons/hermes/assets/mark-64.svg: same, pre-normalised to a
0..64 viewBox for legacy consumers that assume that range.
- bundled-addons/hermes/addon.json: version 0.2.4; manifest icon is now
the SVG as a data:image/svg+xml;base64 URI (8.8 KB vs the previous
16 KB PNG data URI).
- bundled-addons/hermes/panel.html: both img tags point at mark.svg at
24 and 72 px.
- home.html / home-brand/hermes-mark.svg: Hermes.X tile uses the vector.
- site/hermes/{favicon,branding/mark}.svg: both now the user's artwork.
- site-hermes-x/assets/{favicon,mark}.svg: same.
- All /hermes site HTML img tags swapped from mark.webp to mark.svg.
Installed bundle + user-data cache hot-patched to 0.2.4 so this takes
effect on the running Theseus without a reinstall.
The 1461x720 webp downscales badly to 24 px (sidebar strip) and 72 px (signin
header) — browser is doing a ~60x reduction and the thin wing lines turn to
mush. Pre-crop around the icon's content bbox, make it square with a small
breathing margin, resize to 128 px and 256 px, drop transparency on the dark
backdrop. Addon manifest icon is the 128 PNG as a data URI (16 KB vs the
26 KB uncropped webp), and the panel pulls mark-128.png / mark-256.png at
the two sizes it needs. Also home.html's Hermes.X tile now points at the
cropped PNG so the home card isn't blurry.
Version bumped to 0.2.3 so seedBundledAddons picks it up on a release
bundle swap. The installed bundle + user-data cache were hot-patched
too so the fix is visible immediately in the running app.
User-authored artwork wins. mark.webp is the main icon; two sibling variants
(mark-wings-both.webp, mark-variant.webp) ship alongside for brand uses.
- bundled-addons/hermes/addon.json: version 0.2.2, icon/panels[0].icon are
now data:image/webp;base64,... from the main mark.
- bundled-addons/hermes/assets/mark.webp: served by the host via the panel
page's relative path (seedBundledAddons' fs.cpSync recursive carries it).
- bundled-addons/hermes/panel.html: both top-bar and signin inline SVGs
become <img src="assets/mark.webp"> at 24 and 72 px.
- site/hermes/index.html: hero SVG → <img> at 120 px.
- site/hermes/branding/{index.html,mark.webp,mark-wings-both.webp,mark-variant.webp}:
branding kit now carries the three webp files; the inline hero SVG uses
the main one.
- site-hermes-x/{index,branding,messenger}/index.html: same SVG → <img>
swap with the appropriate assets/ relative path.
- site-hermes-x/assets/mark{,-wings-both,-variant}.webp: sibling of the
existing favicon.svg and mark SVGs (kept for backward refs that still
point at them).
Legacy mark.svg + mark-stroke.svg + favicon.svg stay in place for any
external references; nothing in-repo points at them for the primary icon
slots anymore. favicons still point at the SVG files — safe to leave;
flipping those to webp is a one-liner if you want it.
The seedBundledAddons() version check is strict less-than: a cached v0.2.0
in %APPDATA%\Theseus\extensions\hermes\ wouldn't be overwritten by a bundle
also at v0.2.0, even if the files inside changed. Bumping to 0.2.1 forces
a reseed on the next restart so all of today's panel + API work (three-form
parser, Settings panel, kind:0 profiles, phone discovery) ships without a
manual cache wipe.
Hermes handles are not tied to the .bch TLD — the user's names live on .x
today and the planned Hermes TLDs are .erm/.tel — so the hermes.x site,
the silentmode.st Hermes page and the add-on's description and panel now
say "on-chain registered name" and use alice.x / bob.x as examples.
Add-on wording ships on its own OTA; no version bump here.
The sidebar panel used to be a launcher that opened the standalone Messages
window; now it IS the messenger — signin screen with "Open with Theseus ID"
(derives the Nostr key from the unlocked vault seed) or "Open an existing
account" (12/24-word mnemonic fallback), then a contacts + thread view with
a narrow-width single-column fallback. The ⧉ button still pops the standalone
window out, so the Ctrl+Shift+E flow keeps working.
- main.js: expose a global._hermesAPI with status/canUseVault/init/inbox/
send/markThreadRead/contacts* so the addon can proxy panel calls without
granting it ipcRenderer or crossing the HERMES_ONLY sender gate.
hermesEmit also fans out on an in-process __hermes_bus so the panel gets
live inbox/status pushes decoupled from hermesWin's lifetime.
- bundled-addons/hermes/index.js: proxies each allow-listed method onto
global._hermesAPI, forwards bus events to api.emit for the panel.
- panel.html: signin + app screens, mobile-style single column under 540px.
- Mark updated to the spread-wings variant: envelope sized up (34×22),
three tapered trails extending outside the viewBox so the wings don't
bunch at the back of the envelope at any size. Applied to the addon
icon (manifest base64), the panel header, both /hermes sites, and
site-hermes-x's favicon + mark SVGs.
Earlier iterations left the nested site/hermes/* on the superseded winged-
helmet design and the Theseus addon on acid-green despite the branding
tokens moving to sky-mid. This brings every surface to the same mark + colour:
- TheseusNavigator/bundled-addons/hermes/addon.json: both icon fields
(toolbar + panel declared) swap from acid-green helmet to sky-mid
(#38BDF8) tapered-trails envelope. Picks up on next addon re-copy.
- TheseusNavigator/bundled-addons/hermes/panel.html: inline SVG swapped
from helmet dome paths to the tilted-envelope + 3 tapered trails. Uses
currentColor so the panel's own colour token drives it.
- site/hermes/branding/mark.svg + mark-stroke.svg: standard (3 trails) +
simplified 16-20px (1 trail) variants match site-hermes-x/assets/.
- site/hermes/branding/index.html: six inline mark cells (hero + 5 size
cells) swapped in bulk.
- site/hermes/index.html: hero mark SVG swapped.
Grep confirms all seven surfaces now carry 'rotate(-22 32 32)' — the
tapered-trails signature. Nothing left on the old helmet.
New site-hermes-x/ — standalone .x site (own nav, own assets, own OG tags),
sibling to site-theseus-x and site-sirius-x. Internal nav stays on hermes.x:
Overview, Messenger (preview + UI mockup), Branding (brand kit). The only
cross-link is 'Get Theseus' pointing at theseus.x where appropriate.
Mark redesigned: tilted winged envelope with three tapered speed-trails on
the back-left (top longest, bottom shortest). Default colour sky #38BDF8 —
swappable via --sky in site-hermes-x/assets/shared.css. Alternate orange
palette documented but not applied by default. Mark propagated to:
- site-hermes-x/assets/mark.svg + mark-stroke.svg (16-20px variant)
- site/hermes/{index.html, branding/{index.html, mark.svg, mark-stroke.svg}}
- TheseusNavigator/bundled-addons/hermes/{addon.json, panel.html}
Theseus addon moves out of the top-right extensions dock and into the
left-strip sidebar: panels[].side = 'left' + registerSidebarPanel({side:'left'}).
Appears alongside Mail/Pithos/Telegram, excluded from rightPanels() so the
extensions dock no longer lists it. Verified via sidebarState() CDP query —
hermes:main is no longer in the right-panels list.
site/hermes/ (the nested silentmode.st/hermes page) also updated to the new
mark for consistency; both the sovereign hermes.x and the silentmode-nested
page now show the same winged envelope.
Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+M -> Ctrl+Shift+E. Chrome owns Ctrl+Shift+M as
'switch profile' and E matches the Greek spelling (Ermis).
Sidebar discoverability: new bundled add-on at bundled-addons/hermes/
registers a left-strip icon + launcher panel. The panel is a thin chrome
(mark + 'Open Messages' + shortcut hint) that forwards clicks through
api.onMessage -> ipcMain.emit('hermes-open-request') -> openHermesWindow.
All real messaging code stays in main.js — add-on is purely for discovery.
Address book: opt-in vCard (.vcf) import. Dialog in the Add Contact modal
lets the user pick a file; main.js parses BEGIN:VCARD blocks for X-BNS-NAME
/ X-NOSTR-NPUB / X-NOSTR-PUBKEY plus .bch names and npubs mentioned in
NOTE fields. Candidates are previewed per-contact with checkboxes; nothing
is added until the user confirms. Non-matching vCards are returned too (so
the user can still add manually) rather than silently dropped. Nothing is
uploaded; parsing is local.
site/hermes: status badge flipped from 'designed - not yet built' to
'MVP - desktop'. New 'What ships today' grid covers threaded chat, send by
name, address book, local history (all live) and mobile + Tor (next /
planned). Hero carries the new Ctrl+Shift+E shortcut and a link to
/hermes/branding.
site/hermes/branding: new page. Mark SVG (winged envelope, two variants
for 16-20px and 24-160px display sizes), palette (reuses Silent Mode
tokens + an amber accent that's distinctly warm-yellow, not Hermes-orange
— so it never collides with Hermès the fashion house), name explanation
(English Hermes / Greek Ermis), voice notes, do/don't table, MPL-2.0
attribution.
Hermes/MOBILE-RECOMMENDATION.md: analysis of three mobile paths (inside
Ariadne / standalone / hybrid). Recommendation is Option 1: ship as a
screen inside Ariadne. Reuses the wallet seed, aligns with the design
doc's 'one seed many purposes' architecture, lowest total cost.
