Workflows

Advisor pattern: cap how often the expensive model gets called, and catch drift

Run a cheap executor with a rarely-consulted expensive advisor, but enforce a hard cap on advisor calls per task and a drift-check before the executor can keep going, so the benchmark's 63% discount doesn't quietly erode into nothing.

Wire GLM-5.2 into Hermes: valid route, 64k-context check, no key in config

Validate a Hermes Agent config that runs GLM-5.2 through a real provider route (direct Z.AI or OpenRouter), clears Hermes's 64k minimum context, and keeps the API key out of config.yaml, before you start a session.

Route through a gateway with a tested open-weights fallback

Keep model access from being a single point of failure: route through an OpenAI-compatible gateway and pin a fallback that is open-weights and has actually been tested, so a pulled or deprecated model is a two-minute config change, not a lost week.

Run GLM-5.2 for the bulk, escalate the hard turns to Opus 4.8

Wire a cost-routing config that sends most work to cheap hosted GLM-5.2 and only the hardest turns to Opus 4.8, instead of paying Opus prices for everything.

Teach OpenCode Go your weekly chore once, then run it in minutes

Capture a repeating chore as a reusable OpenCode command backed by the Go plan's models, so a two-hour weekly task becomes a five-minute run.

OrcaRouter: only fan out when it is worth it

Gate the expensive fan-out behind a difficulty condition so easy chat stays cheap and only hard requests pay for a panel.

OrcaRouter for coding: judge by passing tests, not by vibes

Fan a hard coding task out to a panel and keep the candidate whose patch actually passes your tests, using the tests_pass arbiter.

Rebuild Fable 5's deep-research fan-out on your own keys (OrcaRouter)

Fan a research prompt out to a panel of models you choose, then fuse or judge the answers with an arbiter, in a routing DSL you version and control.

Serve MiniMax M3 yourself for agentic coding (vLLM)

Stand up MiniMax M3 on an 8x H200 node as an OpenAI-compatible endpoint and point any coding agent at it, validated serve flags + endpoint config.

Turn a Hand-Drawn UI into Working Code with tldraw

Sketch a screen on an infinite canvas and have a vision model return a live, working version of it.

Obsidian Vault as the Core of Your Agent Harness

Use an Obsidian vault as the shared memory and control surface for your agents.

Hermes + NotebookLM "Second Brain"

Pair Hermes with NotebookLM to build a self-researching, self-teaching knowledge system.

Replaces Perplexity Pro

Persistent Memory for Codex using Obsidian

Give Codex durable, searchable long-term memory backed by an Obsidian vault.