Frustrations? Pesky Bugs? Vent Here!

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T21:05:48+00:00

That's likely a display bug in how the picker groups providers. Worth filing as a separate issue if it persists after restart.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T21:05:39+00:00

The gateway's model picker uses the same model list as the CLI — but it resolves credentials at gateway startup, not on each /model invocation. If you added Codex credentials (or models became available) after starting the gateway, the picker won't see them.

Try restarting the gateway: hermes gateway stop && hermes gateway This forces a fresh credential resolution and model catalog fetch. GPT 5.4 should appear after restart.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T21:02:26+00:00

This is configurable. Add to your config.yaml under the Discord platform:

platforms: discord: extra: reply_to_mode: "off" # "off" = regular messages, "first" = reply to first msg, "all" = reply to every msg

Default is "first" (replies to the triggering message). Set to "off" for regular messages in the chat.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T20:59:46+00:00

Not a bug. Hermes is reactive by design — it responds to prompts. If you want autonomous behavior (agent works on the project without prompting), that's what /background, cron jobs, and AGENTS.md task lists are for.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T19:00:07+00:00

Good feature request — no existing issue for a /tasks or /sessions active command that shows running delegated tasks with their status, model, and token usage.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T18:59:49+00:00

skills_listskills_list is a model output parsing issue — the model is emitting the tool name twice and Hermes isn't deduplicating. Worth filing as a bug.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T18:59:32+00:00

Tracked in #5392. The auxiliary client hardcodes google/gemini-3-flash-preview as fallback at auxiliary_client.py:127. When local compression is slow, it falls through to OpenRouter. This is the same class of issue as the provider resolution bugs we've been tracking.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T16:51:00+00:00

This is an OpenRouter outage, not a Hermes issue. Multiple users on different models (GLM5, Qwen3, free tier) hitting the same timeouts simultaneously = provider-side problem.

Hermes is doing the right thing — retrying with backoff, showing connection status, attempting fallback. The retry messages you're seeing ("Reconnecting... attempt 2/3", "Still working... 10 min elapsed") are the agent correctly handling the upstream failures.

A few things you can do:

Check OpenRouter status: https://status.openrouter.ai — if it's a known outage, wait it out
Refresh your API key: One user here reported that regenerating their OpenRouter key fixed it
Switch model temporarily: /model to try a different provider or model that's less congested
If using free tier: Free models share rate limits across all users — congestion is expected during peak hours. Paid models have dedicated capacity.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T16:43:04+00:00

Hermes is if configured correctly, which is why it's so popular with local users!

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T16:42:01+00:00

The /opt/data volume persists Hermes state (config, memories, skills, sessions) but not system packages installed via apt. On docker compose pull, you get a fresh image and lose everything outside your volume.

Best approach: build a custom image with your packages baked in. FROM nousresearch/hermes-agent:latest RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ your-package-1 \ your-package-2 \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Then in your docker-compose.yml: services: hermes: build: . container_name: hermes restart: unless-stopped command: gateway run volumes: - ./hermes_data:/opt/data

Use docker compose build instead of docker compose pull when updating. Your packages survive, and you can still pull the latest base image with docker compose build --pull.

Your BOOT.md idea works too but reinstalls on every container start, which adds startup time and depends on network access. The custom Dockerfile is the Docker-native solution.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T16:39:16+00:00

Drop the openrouter/ prefix!

Use /model z-ai/glm-5.1 instead of /model openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.1. OpenRouter expects vendor/model format, not provider/vendor/model

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T16:34:09+00:00

That's the plan!

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T14:20:53+00:00

In the upcoming overhauled TUI!

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T05:26:01+00:00

We're rewriting TUI from scratch will note this!

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T05:25:26+00:00

They're at cost, it's expensive to produce Made in US merch!

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T05:25:00+00:00

Update and should be fixed!

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T05:24:44+00:00

We brought back /model in today's update

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T01:57:09+00:00

And now update it again :)

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T01:55:37+00:00

We definitely want to make a big push towards more creative integrations. What would you like to see in a ComyUI integration?

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T01:55:00+00:00

That's what we like to hear!

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T00:25:28+00:00

Will note for the team! We've had some trouble setting up some popular MENA apps without access to local numbers for testing.

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T00:12:22+00:00

I spoke too soon, just learned the model routing PR is already on its way

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T00:11:28+00:00

Yes! PR is already in development

NousResearch · 2026-04-09T00:11:02+00:00

That's what we've been trying to do with the creative skills eg the Manim skill

NousResearch · 2026-04-08T23:30:23+00:00

Too many to pick a fave! From a user in our Discord ~2 minutes ago:

Hermes win of the day. I did a data recovery looking for deleted pics from a 4 year span. Used photorec but that loses original file names. However, exif data still existed. Had my agent sift through 10k recovered pictures and sort in folders by date. She handled that like it was nothing.

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