## Summary
- Narrows `is_session_expired_error` in `src/core/jsonrpc.rs` so `DomainEvent::SessionExpired` only fires for **confirmed OpenHuman session expiry**, not for downstream provider 401s.
- Adds `is_downstream_provider_auth_error` helper for diagnostic logging only (no session side-effects).
- Adds `'provider_auth'` error kind to `CoreRpcErrorKind` in `coreRpcClient.ts`; tightens `classifyRpcError` with the same HTTP-method-prefix logic.
- Fixes Discord card-click logout (issue #2285) as a direct consequence.
## Root Cause
`is_session_expired_error` used a loose `"401 + unauthorized"` string match. Discord bot-token failures arrive as `"Discord API error: Discord list guilds failed (401): Unauthorized"` — which contains both "401" and "unauthorized" — causing the full user session to be cleared on every Discord card interaction.
## Fix
OpenHuman backend errors (from `authed_json` in `src/api/rest.rs`) always use the format `"{HTTP_METHOD} /path failed (401 Unauthorized): {body}"`. Provider errors start with the provider name. The fix keeps the `"401 + unauthorized"` branch only when the message starts with an HTTP method verb, which matches backend paths while excluding Discord, OpenAI, Anthropic, Composio, etc.
## Test plan
- [x] `src/core/jsonrpc_tests.rs` — 10 `is_session_expired_error` tests covering: HTTP-method-prefix matches, Discord exclusion, BYO-key exclusion, Composio exclusion, explicit markers still match
- [x] `app/src/services/__tests__/coreRpcClient.test.ts` — 3 new `test.each` rows: Discord/OpenAI/Anthropic 401 → `provider_auth`; existing `GET /teams failed (401 Unauthorized)` → `auth_expired` preserved
- [x] `cargo test -p openhuman is_session_expired` — 10/10 pass
- [x] `pnpm test:coverage` — full Vitest suite pass
- [x] `pnpm compile` + `cargo check` — clean
- [x] `pnpm format:check` — clean
## Submission Checklist
- [x] Tests added or updated (happy path + at least one failure / edge case)
- [x] Diff coverage ≥ 80% — all new/changed lines in `jsonrpc.rs` and `coreRpcClient.ts` covered by unit tests
- [x] No new external network dependencies introduced
- [x] N/A: Coverage matrix — no new production feature rows
- [x] N/A: Manual smoke checklist — no release surfaces touched
## Related
Closes #2286
Related: #2285 (Discord card-click logout — fixed as a consequence of this change)
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## AI Authored PR Metadata (required for Codex/Linear PRs)
### Linear Issue
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### Commit & Branch
- Branch: `fix/session-expired-cascade-2286`
- Commit SHA: a0da2423
### Validation Run
- [x] `pnpm --filter openhuman-app compile`
- [x] `pnpm --filter openhuman-app format:check`
- [x] `pnpm --filter openhuman-app lint`
- [x] `cargo check --manifest-path Cargo.toml`
- [x] `pnpm test:coverage` (Vitest full suite)
- [x] `cargo test -p openhuman is_session_expired` (10/10 pass)
### Validation Blocked
- `command:` N/A
- `error:` N/A
- `impact:` N/A
### Behavior Changes
- Intended behavior change: provider-auth 401s (Discord, OpenAI BYO-key, Composio direct-mode) no longer clear the user session
- User-visible effect: clicking the Discord channel card no longer logs the user out; BYO-key misconfiguration no longer forces re-auth
### Parity Contract
- Legacy behavior preserved: OpenHuman backend 401s (`GET /teams failed (401 Unauthorized)`) still trigger session expiry
- Guard/fallback/dispatch parity checks: `api_error` in `inference/provider/ops.rs` still publishes SessionExpired directly for backend auth failures (independent of this fix)
### Duplicate / Superseded PR Handling
- Duplicate PR(s): none
- Canonical PR: this PR
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved error classification to distinguish user session expiry from external provider authentication failures, reducing mistaken session terminations and improving recovery and logging behavior.
* **Tests**
* Expanded and tightened test coverage to ensure confirmed session-expiry signals are detected while external API 401/unauthorized responses do not trigger session-expiry handling.
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Co-authored-by: Steven Enamakel <enamakel@tinyhumans.ai>
OpenHuman
OpenHuman is your Personal AI super intelligence. Private, Simple and extremely powerful.
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Early Beta: Under active development. Expect rough edges.
To install or get started, either download from the website over at tinyhumans.ai/openhuman or run
# Download DMG, EXEs over at https://tinyhumans.ai/openhuman or run in from your terminal
# For macOS or Linux x64
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
# For Windows
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex
What is OpenHuman?
OpenHuman is an open-source agentic assistant designed to integrate with you in your daily life. Each bullet links to the deeper writeup in the docs.
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Simple, UI-first & Human A clean desktop experience and short onboarding paths take you from install to a working agent in a few clicks — no config-first setup, no terminal required. The agent has a face: a desktop mascot that speaks, reacts to its surroundings, joins your Google Meets as a real participant, remembers you across weeks, and keeps thinking in the background even when you've stopped typing.
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118+ third-party integrations with auto-fetch: plug into Gmail, Notion, GitHub, Slack, Stripe, Calendar, Drive, Linear, Jira and the rest of your stack with one-click OAuth. Every connection is exposed to the agent as a typed tool, and every twenty minutes the core walks each active connection and pulls fresh data into the memory tree. No prompts, no polling loops you have to write, so the agent already has tomorrow's context this morning.
Managed integrations are backend-proxied through OpenHuman's Composio connector layer. If you want to run Composio directly instead of using the managed backend path, configure direct mode with your own Composio API key; real-time trigger webhooks then need to be hosted and wired by you.
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Memory Tree + Obsidian Wiki: a local-first knowledge base built from your data and your activity. Everything you connect is canonicalized into ≤3k-token Markdown chunks, scored, and folded into hierarchical summary trees stored in SQLite on your machine. The same chunks land as
.mdfiles in an Obsidian-compatible vault you can open, browse and edit, inspired by Karpathy's obsidian-wiki workflow. -
Batteries included: web search, a web-fetch scraper, a full coder toolset (filesystem, git, lint, test, grep), and native voice (STT in, ElevenLabs TTS out, mascot lip-sync, live Google Meet agent) are wired in by default. Model routing sends each task to the right LLM (reasoning, fast, or vision) under one subscription. No "install a plugin to read files" friction. Optional local AI via Ollama for on-device workloads.
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Smart token compression (TokenJuice): every tool call, scrape result, email body, and search payload is run through a token compression layer before it touches any LLM Model. HTML is converted to Markdown, long URLs are shortened, and verbose tool output is deduped and summarized via a configurable rule overlay etc... CJK, emoji, and other multi-byte text are preserved grapheme-by-grapheme — never stripped. You get the same information but at a fraction of the tokens. Reducing cost & latency by up to 80%.
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Messaging channels and privacy & security: inbound/outbound across the channels you already use, with workflow data that stays on device, encrypted locally, treated as yours.
Contributing from source
New contributor? Start with CONTRIBUTING.md for the fork/PR workflow and local validation commands, or use the copy-paste AI-agent prompt in CONTRIBUTING-BEGINNERS.md. The short path is:
- Install Git, Node.js 24+, pnpm 10.10.0, Rust 1.93.0 (
rustfmt+clippy), CMake, Ninja, ripgrep, and the platform desktop build prerequisites. - Fork and clone the repo, then run
git submodule update --init --recursivebeforepnpm installso the vendored Tauri/CEF sources are present. - Use
pnpm devfor web-only UI work,pnpm --filter openhuman-app dev:appfor the desktop shell, and focused checks such aspnpm typecheck,pnpm format:check, andcargo check -p openhuman --libbefore opening a PR.
Deeper docs: Architecture · Getting Set Up · Cloud Deploy.
Context in minutes, not weeks
OpenHuman is the first agent harness that gets to know you in minutes. Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Knowledgebase. Most agents start cold. Hermes learns by watching you work; OpenClaw waits for plugins to ferry context in. Either way, you spend days or weeks before the agent knows enough about your stack to be genuinely useful.
OpenHuman summarizes and compresses all your documents, emails & chats; and creates a memory graph that lets your agent remember everything about you.
OpenHuman skips the wait. Connect your accounts, let auto-fetch pull data locally on a 20-minute loop, and then have Memory Trees compress everything into Markdown files stored intelligently in a Karpathy-style Obsidian wiki.
In just one sync pass, the agent has full (compressed) context of your inbox, your calendar, your repos, your docs, your messages. No training period. No "give it a few weeks.". It becomes you, controlled by you.
Already self-host agentmemory across other coding agents? OpenHuman ships an optional Memory backend that proxies to it — set memory.backend = "agentmemory" in config.toml and the same durable store powers OpenHuman alongside Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode. See the agentmemory backend page for setup.
OpenHuman vs Other Agent Harnesses
High-level comparison (products evolve, so verify against each vendor). OpenHuman is built to minimize vendor sprawl, keep workflow knowledge on-device, and give the agent a persistent memory of your data, not only chat.
| Claude Cowork | OpenClaw | Hermes Agent | OpenHuman | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open-source | 🚫 Proprietary | ✅ MIT | ✅ MIT | ✅ GNU |
| Simple to start | ✅ Desktop + CLI | ⚠️ Terminal-first | ⚠️ Terminal-first | ✅ Clean UI, minutes |
| Cost | ⚠️ Sub + add-ons | ⚠️ BYO models | ⚠️ BYO models | ✅ One sub + TokenJuice |
| Memory | ✅ Chat-scoped | ⚠️ Plugin-reliant | ✅ Self-learning | 🚀 Memory Tree + Obsidian vault, optional agentmemory backend |
| Integrations | ⚠️ Few connectors | ⚠️ BYO | ⚠️ BYO | 🚀 118+ via OAuth |
| Auto-fetch | 🚫 None | 🚫 None | 🚫 None | ✅ 20-min sync into memory |
| API sprawl | 🚫 Extra keys | 🚫 BYOK | 🚫 Multi-vendor | ✅ One account |
| Model routing | 🚫 Single model | ⚠️ Manual | ⚠️ Manual | ✅ Built-in |
| Native tools | ✅ Code-only | ✅ Code-only | ✅ Code-only | ✅ Code + search + scraper + voice |
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