fix(hermes): scroll dashboard conversation history in the TUI

services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml

@@ -834,6 +834,10 @@ spec:
             - {name: AGENT_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_PATH, value: /opt/hermes/.playwright/chromium_headless_shell-1228/chrome-linux/headless_shell}
             - {name: AGENT_BROWSER_ARGS, value: "--no-sandbox,--disable-dev-shm-usage"}
             - {name: HERMES_DASHBOARD, value: "1"}
+            # Keep dashboard PTYs in the alternate screen so Hermes owns visible
+            # history and stale primary-buffer scrollback cannot surface.
+            - {name: HERMES_TUI_INLINE, value: "0"}
+            - {name: HERMES_TUI_DISABLE_MOUSE, value: "0"}
             - {name: HERMES_DASHBOARD_HOST, value: 127.0.0.1}
             - {name: HERMES_DASHBOARD_PORT, value: "9119"}
             - {name: HERMES_DASHBOARD_FILES_ROOT, value: /opt/data/workspace}

testing/tests/test_hermes_chat_quality.py

@@ -165,6 +165,20 @@ def test_sandbox_shares_only_the_tenant_workspace_without_credentials():
         )
 
 
+def test_dashboard_pty_uses_alternate_screen_and_mouse_tracking():
+    agent = _documents(HERMES / "agent-deployment.yaml")[0]
+    main = next(
+        container
+        for container in agent["spec"]["template"]["spec"]["containers"]
+        if container["name"] == "hermes"
+    )
+    env = {item["name"]: str(item.get("value", "")) for item in main["env"]}
+
+    assert env["HERMES_DASHBOARD"] == "1"
+    assert env["HERMES_TUI_INLINE"] == "0"
+    assert env["HERMES_TUI_DISABLE_MOUSE"] == "0"
+
+
 def test_gateway_image_honors_ui_model_and_caps_reasoning():
     dockerfile = (ROOT / "dockerfiles" / "Dockerfile.hermes-agent").read_text()
     base_arg = next(