refactor: use official Hermes Agent image as base, not debian:stable-slim

Starting from debian:stable-slim required re-installing everything
(Hermes source, Node.js, Playwright, etc.) which was redundant
and fragile. The official nousresearch/hermes-agent image already
has all that.

Now the Dockerfile:
- FROM nousresearch/hermes-agent:latest (has tts_tool.py, Playwright, etc.)
- Install Piper + voice model on top
- Patch tts_tool.py at build time (Edge fallback -> Piper)
- Runtime fallback in fix-permissions.sh for volume resilience

Cleaner, smaller Dockerfile, and the build-time patch can find
tts_tool.py because it's in the base image's venv.

ai/Dockerfile

@@ -1,47 +1,30 @@
 # 1. On récupère la version la plus récente d'UV
 FROM ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest AS uv_source
 
-# 2. Image de base stable
+# 2. Image officielle Hermes Agent de NousResearch
-FROM debian:stable-slim
+# Contient déjà: Python, Node.js, npm, Playwright/Chromium, venv, tts_tool.py, etc.
+FROM nousresearch/hermes-agent:latest
 
-# Disable Python stdout buffering to ensure logs are printed immediately
+# ---------- System dependencies ----------
-ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
+# Piper a besoin de libportaudio2, et HuggingFace a besoin de ca-certificates
-
+USER root
-# Install system dependencies in one layer, clear APT cache
-# tini reaps orphaned zombie processes (MCP stdio subprocesses, git, bun, etc.)
 RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-        build-essential python3 ripgrep ffmpeg gcc python3-dev libffi-dev procps git openssh-client docker-cli tini \
-        curl poppler-utils imagemagick \
-        texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-xetex texlive-science \
-        qemu-user-static binfmt-support qemu-user-binfmt \
-        emacs-nox \
         libportaudio2 \
         ca-certificates && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-# Création de l'utilisateur 'hermes' directement avec les bons accès
+# ---------- UV (hyperfast pip alternative) ----------
-RUN useradd -u 10000 -m -d /opt/data hermes
-
-# Copie d'uv (dernière version)
 COPY --chmod=0755 --from=uv_source /uv /usr/local/bin/
 
 WORKDIR /opt/hermes
 
-# On donne la propriété du dossier de travail à l'utilisateur hermes
-RUN chown hermes:hermes /opt/hermes
-
 # ---------- Hermes venv ----------
-# Passer immédiatement sous l'utilisateur hermes pour tout le reste du build
 USER hermes
 
-# ---------- Source code ----------
-# On copie tout le projet d'un coup sans assumer la présence de fichiers de lock spécifiques
-COPY --chown=hermes:hermes . .
-
 # ---------- Python virtualenv avec Piper TTS ----------
 RUN uv venv && \
-    uv pip install --no-cache-dir hermes-agent piper-tts sounddevice numpy faster-whisper
+    uv pip install --no-cache-dir piper-tts sounddevice numpy
 
 # ---------- Télécharger la voix Piper Ryan (high quality) ----------
 RUN mkdir -p /opt/hermes/.venv/share/piper/voices && \
@@ -53,71 +36,19 @@ urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, base + '/en_US-ryan-high.onnx')
 urllib.request.urlretrieve(url + '.json', base + '/en_US-ryan-high.onnx.json')
 PYEOF
 
-# ---------- Patch tts_tool.py: replace Edge TTS fallback with Piper ----------
+# ---------- Patch tts_tool.py: remplacer Edge TTS par Piper ----------
-# Edge TTS calls out to Microsoft servers — we never want that.
+# Edge TTS appelle les serveurs Microsoft — on ne veut jamais ça.
-# Piper runs locally on CPU, no cloud, no data leaving the machine.
+# Piper roule localement sur CPU, aucun cloud, aucune donnée qui sort.
-# hermes-agent is installed from pip so tools/tts_tool.py exists in the venv.
 COPY patch_tts_tool.py /tmp/patch_tts_tool.py
 RUN /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/python3 /tmp/patch_tts_tool.py && rm /tmp/patch_tts_tool.py
 
-# ---------- Patch atomic writes to preserve file permissions ----------
-# Fixes https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/14181
-# tempfile.mkstemp() creates files as 0600; os.replace() preserves that mode,
-# so group-readable files silently collapse to owner-private 0600.
-# This affects: skills, sessions, memories, and any file written atomically.
-RUN /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/python3 /dev/stdin << 'PYEOF'
-import os
-
-patches = [
-    ("/opt/hermes/tools/skill_manager_tool.py", [
-        ("# Restore existing file mode if present", True),  # already patched
-    ]),
-    ("/opt/hermes/tools/skills_sync.py", [
-        ("# Restore existing file mode if present", True),  # already patched
-    ]),
-]
-
-for fpath, checks in patches:
-    if not os.path.exists(fpath):
-        print(f"SKIP {fpath} (not found)")
-        continue
-    with open(fpath) as f:
-        code = f.read()
-    all_ok = all(marker in code for marker, _ in checks)
-    if all_ok:
-        print(f"OK {fpath} (already patched)")
-        continue
-    print(f"PATCH {fpath}")
-    # _atomic_write_text in skill_manager_tool.py
-    code = code.replace(
-        "        os.replace(temp_path, file_path)",
-        "        if file_path.exists():\n"
-        "            existing_mode = file_path.stat().st_mode\n"
-        "            os.chmod(temp_path, existing_mode)\n"
-        "        os.replace(temp_path, file_path)",
-    )
-    # _write_manifest in skills_sync.py
-    code = code.replace(
-        "            os.replace(tmp_path, MANIFEST_FILE)",
-        "            if MANIFEST_FILE.exists():\n"
-        "                existing_mode = MANIFEST_FILE.stat().st_mode\n"
-        "                os.chmod(tmp_path, existing_mode)\n"
-        "            os.replace(tmp_path, MANIFEST_FILE)",
-    )
-    with open(fpath, 'w') as f:
-        f.write(code)
-    print(f"DONE {fpath}")
-PYEOF
-
 # ---------- Runtime ----------
 ENV HERMES_HOME=/opt/data
 ENV PATH="/opt/data/.local/bin:${PATH}"
 
 VOLUME [ "/opt/data" ]
 
-# Copie du script de réparation des permissions (lancement au démarrage)
+# Script de réparation des permissions + patch TTS au démarrage
 COPY --chmod=0755 fix-permissions.sh /opt/hermes/fix-permissions.sh
 
-# Le conteneur tourne de manière ultra-sécurisée sous l'utilisateur hermes dès le départ
-# fix-permissions.sh chown les répertoires critiques avant de chaîner vers entrypoint.sh
 ENTRYPOINT [ "/usr/bin/tini", "-g", "--", "/opt/hermes/fix-permissions.sh" ]

ai/fix-permissions.sh

@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Startup permission fix for the Hermes data volume.
+# Startup permission fix + TTS patch.
 # Runs as root before the entrypoint drops to the hermes user.
-# Fixes files that were created by root (host agent, cron jobs, etc.)
-# becoming inaccessible to the hermes runtime user.
 set -e
 
 HERMES_HOME="${HERMES_HOME:-/opt/data}"
 
-# Fix ownership on critical writable directories so hermes user can access them
+# Fix ownership on critical writable directories
 chown -R hermes:hermes \
   "$HERMES_HOME/sessions" \
   "$HERMES_HOME/checkpoints" \
@@ -22,20 +20,19 @@ chown -R hermes:hermes \
   "$HERMES_HOME/cache" \
   2>/dev/null || true
 
-# Also fix the data volume root if it's wrong
+# Fix data volume root ownership
 if [ "$(stat -c %u "$HERMES_HOME" 2>/dev/null)" != "$(id -u hermes)" ]; then
   chown hermes:hermes "$HERMES_HOME" 2>/dev/null || true
 fi
 
 # ---------- Patch tts_tool.py: replace Edge TTS with Piper ----------
-# Runs at startup so the patch is applied even if the Python package is
+# Fallback runtime patch in case the volume's site-packages differ from the image.
-# updated (e.g. via pip upgrade on the volume).  Idempotent -- if the
+# Idempotent: if already patched, the script does nothing.
-# patch is already applied the script does nothing.
 PATCH_SCRIPT="/opt/hermes/patch_tts_tool.py"
 if [ -f "$PATCH_SCRIPT" ]; then
   echo "Applying TTS patch (Piper only, no Edge fallback)..."
   /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/python3 "$PATCH_SCRIPT" 2>&1 || true
 fi
 
-# Now chain to the real entrypoint
+# Chain to the official Hermes entrypoint
 exec /opt/hermes/docker/entrypoint.sh "$@"