42 results for “rate limit”
- Is there a usage or rate limit, and can I tune how Hermes retries?FAQ · Models, providers & costHermes itself has no usage cap; limits come from your model provider or plan. `/usage` shows token use and, when the provider reports it, remaining quota, and `hermes usage`…
- What happens when my model provider goes down or rate-limits me?FAQ · Models, providers & costHermes has layers of resilience. A credential pool, meaning several keys for the same provider, is tried first. Then a fallback chain switches to a different provider and model…
- Hermes Agent rate limits and provider errorsTroubleshooting · Models, providers & costHow to read 429s, quota errors, auth failures and stream errors from your model provider, and how retries, credential pools and fallback providers can keep Hermes working.
- How much can Hermes remember? Is there a limit?FAQ · Memory & contextYes, built-in memory is deliberately small. MEMORY.md is capped at 2,200 characters (about 800 tokens) and USER.md at 1,375 characters (about 500 tokens). The limits are…
- Fallback providers: keep working when your main model failsTool & integration · Models, providers & costDefine a chain of backup model providers that Hermes switches to on rate limits, outages or auth errors.
- Credential poolGlossarySeveral API keys for the same provider that Hermes rotates between when one hits a rate limit or quota.
- Hermes Agent for research that keeps its sourcesGuide · Research & knowledge workSeparate discovery, factual extraction and editorial judgment so a useful summary remains traceable.
- Hermes Agent MCP tool missing or failingTroubleshooting · Skills, plugins & MCPSeparate discovery, connection, authentication and operation failures using one known read-only request.
- Hermes Agent scheduled job didn't runTroubleshooting · Automation & schedulingSeparate a stopped scheduler, an unwritable store and a failed job before recreating the schedule.
- Hermes Agent stuck in a tool loopTroubleshooting · Automation & schedulingHow to stop a Hermes turn that keeps calling tools or seems frozen, and the documented limits and settings that prevent it happening again.
- How Hermes Agent memory works (and where it stops)Guide · Memory & contextA plain-English tour of Hermes's two built-in memory files, the frozen snapshot they load into, their hard size limits, and when an external memory provider or session search is the better tool.
- How to choose a model for Hermes AgentGuide · Models, providers & costSeparate model selection, provider access and tool configuration, then compare them using a representative task.
- How to set up Hermes Agent on iMessage with PhotonGuide · Messaging & the gatewayConnect iMessage through Photon's hosted service without a Mac relay. Set access controls and understand shared-line and incoming-attachment limits.
- GitHub: inspect repositories before automating changesTool & integration · Development & operationsBuild repository research and review workflows through documented GitHub CLI or separately configured MCP routes.
- Is Hermes Agent free, and how do I get the free models?FAQ · Getting startedYes. The software itself is free and open source under the MIT license. What you pay for is the AI model behind it: usage fees from whichever provider you connect, such as…
- Build a useful GitHub issue reviewWorkflow · Development & operationsTurn a bounded set of repository issues into a source-linked review with suggested next steps.
- Collect content ideas without losing the evidenceWorkflow · Content & creativeMonitor a focused topic and create a ranked queue of source-backed ideas with distinct editorial angles.
- Wake up to a useful research briefingWorkflow · Research & knowledge workTurn a defined set of sources into a short, dated briefing with evidence and a clear delivery check.
- A software consultancy builds a private Slack assistant that answers questions about the companyCase study · Business operationsEchobind wrote up a Hermes Slack bot that runs on a small private server and answers questions about the company from a condensed summary and a folder of scraped knowledge pages. The write-up is useful mainly for the configuration problems it records, including one where a default setting quietly overrode the Slack tool restrictions.
- Hermes Agent forgets things mid-conversationTroubleshooting · Memory & contextWhy a long Hermes session can lose earlier details after context compression, and how to keep the important parts in view.