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witcheer's Wingtips #56: switching models from anywhere

Republished in his own words, with credit.

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#56 · switching models from anywhere

· Models, providers & cost · CLI / Desktop / Gateway

Hermes Wingtips #56: switching models from anywhere

hermes model opens an interactive picker, so it refuses to run through a pipe, a script, or another agent's terminal tool.

the fix is that you never needed the picker. in any chat, on any platform:

/model grok-4 --provider x-ai --global

--global persists it to config.yaml and switches the running session in the same move.

--once is the sibling: it switches for a single turn and restores the previous model afterward, even on an error.

SourcesHermes docs: Configuring Models

All tips are written by witcheer and collected here with credit. Card images stay on his X posts.

witcheer says each tip ran on a real Hermes box before it shipped. Hermes changes fast, so check your version and the linked doc.