nothumanallowed 15.1.66 → 15.1.67

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nothumanallowed",
-  "version": "15.1.66",
+  "version": "15.1.67",
   "description": "NotHumanAllowed — 38 AI agents, 80 tools, Studio (visual agentic workflows). Email, calendar, browser automation, screen capture, canvas, cron/heartbeat, Alexandria E2E messaging, GitHub, Notion, Slack, voice chat, free AI (Liara), 28 languages. Zero-dependency CLI.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

package/src/commands/ops.mjs

@@ -97,8 +97,18 @@ export async function cmdOps(args) {
       const telegramConfigured = !!config.responder?.telegram?.token;
       const discordConfigured = !!config.responder?.discord?.token;
       console.log(`\n  ${BOLD}Message Responder${NC}\n`);
-      console.log(`  Telegram:         ${responder.telegram ? G + 'active' + NC : telegramConfigured ? Y + 'configured (daemon restart needed)' + NC : D + 'not configured' + NC}`);
-      console.log(`  Discord:          ${responder.discord ? G + 'active' + NC : discordConfigured ? Y + 'configured (daemon restart needed)' + NC : D + 'not configured' + NC}`);
+      // Surface the exact reason the responder didn't activate (missing
+      // LLM key on a paid provider, missing token, etc.) instead of the
+      // generic "daemon restart needed" — which is misleading because the
+      // daemon IS running, the responder just refused to spin up.
+      const reason = responder.reason || '';
+      let inactiveHintTel = 'configured but inactive (try: nha ops stop && nha ops start)';
+      if (reason.startsWith('missing_key:')) {
+        const p = reason.slice('missing_key:'.length);
+        inactiveHintTel = `configured but LLM key missing for provider "${p}" — fix with:  nha config set provider nha  (free Liara)  OR  nha config set ${p}-key YOUR_KEY`;
+      }
+      console.log(`  Telegram:         ${responder.telegram ? G + 'active' + NC : telegramConfigured ? Y + inactiveHintTel + NC : D + 'not configured' + NC}`);
+      console.log(`  Discord:          ${responder.discord ? G + 'active' + NC : discordConfigured ? Y + inactiveHintTel + NC : D + 'not configured' + NC}`);
       console.log(`  Auto-route:       ${config.responder?.autoRoute !== false ? G + 'keyword routing' + NC : D + 'CONDUCTOR only' + NC}`);
 
       console.log('');

package/src/constants.mjs

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
 const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
 const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
 
-export const VERSION = '15.1.66';
+export const VERSION = '15.1.67';
 export const BASE_URL = 'https://nothumanallowed.com/cli';
 export const API_BASE = 'https://nothumanallowed.com/api/v1';
 

package/src/services/message-responder.mjs

@@ -2749,12 +2749,19 @@ export function startResponder(config, log, wsBroadcast) {
   const hasAnyToken = config.responder?.telegram?.token || config.responder?.discord?.token;
   if (!hasAnyToken) {
     log('[Responder] No tokens configured — skipping');
-    return { telegram: false, discord: false };
-  }
-
-  if (!config.llm?.apiKey) {
-    log('[Responder] No LLM API key — cannot respond to messages');
-    return { telegram: false, discord: false };
+    return { telegram: false, discord: false, reason: 'no_token' };
+  }
+
+  // Liara (provider 'nha') is the default free tier — it does NOT require an
+  // API key. Only refuse to start if the user explicitly picked a paid
+  // provider (anthropic, openai, gemini, ...) and forgot to set the key.
+  // Previously we rejected ALL providers including Liara, leaving the user
+  // stuck on "configured (daemon restart needed)" with no actionable hint.
+  const provider = (config.llm?.provider || 'nha').toLowerCase();
+  const PAID_PROVIDERS = new Set(['anthropic', 'openai', 'gemini', 'deepseek', 'grok', 'mistral', 'cohere']);
+  if (PAID_PROVIDERS.has(provider) && !config.llm?.apiKey) {
+    log(`[Responder] Provider "${provider}" requires an API key — cannot respond. Run: nha config set provider nha   (to switch to free Liara)   OR   nha config set ${provider}-key YOUR_KEY`);
+    return { telegram: false, discord: false, reason: `missing_key:${provider}` };
   }
 
   const result = { telegram: false, discord: false };