I am really struggling with Hermes Agent tool use (patch) to modify files when maintaining the llm-wiki. This knowledge base use case is my first experiment to see how useful and reliable Hermes can b...
Thanks to Gille in the Nous support channel (again!), we've concluded the blame lies with x-ai/grok-4.1-fast being quirky in tool use. Switching back to Google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite has made everything work fast and reliably again. Looks like the previous generation of Grok models is being removed May 15 anyway. I can see why now.