Hephaestus

v0.4.5 Breaking

This release includes 2 breaking changes for platform teams planning a safe upgrade.

Published 1mo AI Agents & Assistants

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Topics

a2a agent agent-framework agent-os-desktop agent-skills agentic-ai

+13 more

agentic-workflow agentos agents agents-team agentshub ai-agents autonomous-agents llm llm-agents llm-tools mcp multi-agent-systems ochestration

Affected surfaces

auth rbac

Summary

AI summary

Removed routing-time safety/privacy gates for keywords like payment and delete.

Full changelog

Hephaestus Network now treats routing and Hub bundle lookup as selection-only operations. Removed routing-time safety/privacy gates for words such as payment, delete, publish, send, submit, refund, memory, and private data so harmless agent calls do not get blocked before the host runtime can handle execution permissions.

Highlights:

Removed keyword risk/privacy blocking from the deterministic router and Hub-only path.
Hub lookup no longer requires a Hephaestus cloud_call grant; approve_hub remains as a backwards-compatible no-op.
Route and pipeline decisions no longer emit approval_request gates.
Explicit Hub invocation with a slug can prepare a BYOM runtime bundle even when search returns propose_new.
Updated Codex, Claude, Gemini, Antigravity, Cursor, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes adapter instructions to rely on host runtime safety for actual tool execution.

Verification:

24 focused network/MCP tests passed.
scripts/verify-package.sh passed.
scripts/verify-one-touch-install.sh passed.
Installed runtime MCP smoke passed with status=prepared, output_status=bundle_ready, local_route_used=false, paid_slug_present=false, has_approval_request=false.

Breaking Changes

Removed routing-time safety/privacy gates for the words payment, delete, publish, send, submit, refund, memory, and private data from the deterministic router and Hub-only path.
Hub lookup no longer requires a Hephaestus cloud_call grant; approve_hub remains as a backwards‑compatible no‑op.

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About Hephaestus

Open Agent OS for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor with a meta-agent builder, A2A Hub routing, local ontology, and memory/security gates. Apache-2.0.

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