Hermes Agent Setup Guide: Fixing Startup Errors and Switching Between Multiple LLM Providers What This Guide Covers If you’re running Hermes Agent with Chinese LLM providers like Kimi, GLM, or ZAI and hitting a wall of errors on startup, this guide is for you. What follows is a complete, real-world debugging walkthrough — from an ImportError on launch to HTTP 404 on the fallback model — with every fix explained and every command tested. By the end, you’ll understand how Hermes manages provider protocols, how to configure multiple models with automatic failover, and a few security defaults you should change …
Achieving Reliable Tool Calling with Kimi K2 on vLLM: A Comprehensive Debugging Guide If you’ve been working with large language models, you know how exciting agentic workflows can be. The ability for models to call tools reliably opens up possibilities for complex applications, from automated research to advanced coding assistants. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 series stands out in this area, with impressive tool calling performance. Naturally, many developers want to run it on high-performance open-source inference engines like vLLM. When I first tried deploying Kimi K2 on vLLM and running the official K2-Vendor-Verifier benchmark, the results were disappointing. The tool …