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- add a script that inventories Hermes routing/evaluation surfaces relevant to a TensorZero cutover
- generate a markdown and JSON evaluation packet for issue #860
- score gateway replacement, config migration, canary rollout, session feedback, and eval-suite readiness
- add focused regression tests for touchpoint scanning, requirement scoring, and report rendering

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# TensorZero Evaluation Packet
Issue #860: [tensorzero LLMOps platform evaluation](https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/Timmy_Foundation/hermes-agent/issues/860)
## Scope
This packet evaluates TensorZero as a possible replacement for Hermes' custom provider-routing stack.
It is intentionally grounded in the current repo state rather than a speculative cutover plan.
## Issue requirements being evaluated
- Deploy tensorzero gateway (Rust binary)
- Migrate provider routing config
- Test with canary (10% traffic) before full cutover
- Feed session data for prompt optimization
- Evaluation suite for A/B testing models
## Recommendation
Not ready for direct replacement. Recommend a shadow-evaluation phase first: keep Hermes routing live, inventory the migration seams, export SessionDB/trajectory data into an offline TensorZero experiment loop, and only design a canary gateway once percentage-based rollout controls exist.
## Requirement matrix
| Requirement | Status | Evidence labels | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gateway replacement scope | partial | fallback_chain, runtime_provider, gateway_provider_routing, cron_runtime_provider, auxiliary_fallback_chain, delegate_runtime_provider | Hermes already spreads provider routing across core agent, runtime provider, gateway, cron, auxiliary, and delegation seams; TensorZero would need parity across all of them before it can replace the gateway layer. |
| Config migration | partial | provider_routing_config, runtime_provider, smart_model_routing, fallback_chain | Hermes has multiple config concepts to migrate (`provider_routing`, `fallback_providers`, `smart_model_routing`, runtime provider resolution), so TensorZero is not a drop-in config swap. |
| 10% traffic canary | gap | — | The repo shows semantic routing and fallback, but no grounded 10% traffic-split canary mechanism. A TensorZero cutover would need new percentage-based rollout controls and observability hooks. |
| Session data for prompt optimization | partial | session_db, trajectory_export | Hermes already has SessionDB and trajectory export surfaces that can feed offline optimization data, but not a TensorZero-native ingestion path yet. |
| Evaluation suite / A/B testing | partial | benchmark_suite, trajectory_export | Hermes already has benchmark/trajectory machinery that can seed TensorZero A/B evaluation, but no integrated TensorZero experiment runner or live evaluation gateway. |
## Grounded Hermes touchpoints
- `run_agent.py:601` — [fallback_chain] fallback_model: Dict[str, Any] = None,
- `run_agent.py:995` — [fallback_chain] # failure). Supports both legacy single-dict ``fallback_model`` and
- `run_agent.py:996` — [fallback_chain] # new list ``fallback_providers`` format.
- `run_agent.py:997` — [fallback_chain] if isinstance(fallback_model, list):
- `run_agent.py:998` — [fallback_chain] self._fallback_chain = [
- `run_agent.py:999` — [fallback_chain] f for f in fallback_model
- `run_agent.py:1002` — [fallback_chain] elif isinstance(fallback_model, dict) and fallback_model.get("provider") and fallback_model.get("model"):
- `run_agent.py:1003` — [fallback_chain] self._fallback_chain = [fallback_model]
- `run_agent.py:1005` — [fallback_chain] self._fallback_chain = []
- `run_agent.py:1009` — [fallback_chain] self._fallback_model = self._fallback_chain[0] if self._fallback_chain else None
- `run_agent.py:1010` — [fallback_chain] if self._fallback_chain and not self.quiet_mode:
- `run_agent.py:1011` — [fallback_chain] if len(self._fallback_chain) == 1:
- `run_agent.py:1012` — [fallback_chain] fb = self._fallback_chain[0]
- `run_agent.py:1015` — [fallback_chain] print(f"🔄 Fallback chain ({len(self._fallback_chain)} providers): " +
- `run_agent.py:1016` — [fallback_chain] " → ".join(f"{f['model']} ({f['provider']})" for f in self._fallback_chain))
- `run_agent.py:5624` — [fallback_chain] if self._fallback_index >= len(self._fallback_chain):
- `run_agent.py:5627` — [fallback_chain] fb = self._fallback_chain[self._fallback_index]
- `run_agent.py:8559` — [fallback_chain] if self._fallback_index < len(self._fallback_chain):
- `run_agent.py:9355` — [fallback_chain] if is_rate_limited and self._fallback_index < len(self._fallback_chain):
- `run_agent.py:10460` — [fallback_chain] if _truly_empty and self._fallback_chain:
- `run_agent.py:10514` — [fallback_chain] + (" and fallback attempts." if self._fallback_chain else
- `cli.py:241` — [provider_routing_config] "smart_model_routing": {
- `cli.py:370` — [provider_routing_config] # (e.g. platform_toolsets, provider_routing, memory, honcho, etc.)
- `cli.py:1753` — [provider_routing_config] pr = CLI_CONFIG.get("provider_routing", {}) or {}
- `cli.py:1762` — [provider_routing_config] # Supports new list format (fallback_providers) and legacy single-dict (fallback_model).
- `cli.py:1763` — [provider_routing_config] fb = CLI_CONFIG.get("fallback_providers") or CLI_CONFIG.get("fallback_model") or []
- `cli.py:1770` — [provider_routing_config] self._smart_model_routing = CLI_CONFIG.get("smart_model_routing", {}) or {}
- `cli.py:2771` — [provider_routing_config] from agent.smart_model_routing import resolve_turn_route
- `cli.py:2776` — [provider_routing_config] self._smart_model_routing,
- `hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py:209` — [runtime_provider] def resolve_requested_provider(requested: Optional[str] = None) -> str:
- `hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py:649` — [runtime_provider] def resolve_runtime_provider(
- `agent/smart_model_routing.py:62` — [smart_model_routing] def choose_cheap_model_route(user_message: str, routing_config: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
- `agent/smart_model_routing.py:110` — [smart_model_routing] def resolve_turn_route(user_message: str, routing_config: Optional[Dict[str, Any]], primary: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
- `gateway/run.py:1271` — [gateway_provider_routing] def _load_provider_routing() -> dict:
- `gateway/run.py:1285` — [gateway_provider_routing] def _load_fallback_model() -> list | dict | None:
- `gateway/run.py:1306` — [gateway_provider_routing] def _load_smart_model_routing() -> dict:
- `cron/scheduler.py:684` — [cron_runtime_provider] pr = _cfg.get("provider_routing", {})
- `cron/scheduler.py:688` — [cron_runtime_provider] resolve_runtime_provider,
- `cron/scheduler.py:697` — [cron_runtime_provider] runtime = resolve_runtime_provider(**runtime_kwargs)
- `cron/scheduler.py:702` — [cron_runtime_provider] from agent.smart_model_routing import resolve_turn_route
- `cron/scheduler.py:703` — [cron_runtime_provider] turn_route = resolve_turn_route(
- `cron/scheduler.py:717` — [cron_runtime_provider] fallback_model = _cfg.get("fallback_providers") or _cfg.get("fallback_model") or None
- `cron/scheduler.py:746` — [cron_runtime_provider] fallback_model=fallback_model,
- `agent/auxiliary_client.py:1018` — [auxiliary_fallback_chain] def _get_provider_chain() -> List[tuple]:
- `agent/auxiliary_client.py:1107` — [auxiliary_fallback_chain] for label, try_fn in _get_provider_chain():
- `agent/auxiliary_client.py:1189` — [auxiliary_fallback_chain] # ── Step 2: aggregator / fallback chain ──────────────────────────────
- `agent/auxiliary_client.py:1191` — [auxiliary_fallback_chain] for label, try_fn in _get_provider_chain():
- `agent/auxiliary_client.py:2397` — [auxiliary_fallback_chain] # error, fall through to the fallback chain below.
- `agent/auxiliary_client.py:2417` — [auxiliary_fallback_chain] # auto (the default) = best-effort fallback chain. (#7559)
- `agent/auxiliary_client.py:2589` — [auxiliary_fallback_chain] # error, fall through to the fallback chain below.
- `tools/delegate_tool.py:662` — [delegate_runtime_provider] # bundle (base_url, api_key, api_mode) via the same runtime provider system
- `tools/delegate_tool.py:854` — [delegate_runtime_provider] provider) is resolved via the runtime provider system — the same path used
- `tools/delegate_tool.py:909` — [delegate_runtime_provider] from hermes_cli.runtime_provider import resolve_runtime_provider
- `tools/delegate_tool.py:910` — [delegate_runtime_provider] runtime = resolve_runtime_provider(requested=configured_provider)
- `hermes_state.py:115` — [session_db] class SessionDB:
- `batch_runner.py:320` — [trajectory_export] save_trajectories=False, # We handle saving ourselves
- `batch_runner.py:346` — [trajectory_export] trajectory = agent._convert_to_trajectory_format(
- `batch_runner.py:460` — [trajectory_export] trajectory_entry = {
- `batch_runner.py:474` — [trajectory_export] f.write(json.dumps(trajectory_entry, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n")
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:3` — [benchmark_suite] Tool-Calling Benchmark — Gemma 4 vs mimo-v2-pro regression test.
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:9` — [benchmark_suite] python3 benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py # full 100-call suite
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:10` — [benchmark_suite] python3 benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py --limit 10 # quick smoke test
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:11` — [benchmark_suite] python3 benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py --models nous # single model
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:12` — [benchmark_suite] python3 benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py --category file # single category
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:37` — [benchmark_suite] class ToolCall:
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:51` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-01", "file", "Read the file /tmp/test_bench.txt and show me its contents.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:53` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-02", "file", "Write 'hello benchmark' to /tmp/test_bench_out.txt",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:55` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-03", "file", "Search for the word 'import' in all Python files in the current directory.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:57` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-04", "file", "Read lines 1-20 of /etc/hosts",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:59` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-05", "file", "Patch /tmp/test_bench_out.txt: replace 'hello' with 'goodbye'",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:61` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-06", "file", "Search for files matching *.py in the current directory.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:63` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-07", "file", "Read the first 10 lines of /etc/passwd",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:65` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-08", "file", "Write a JSON config to /tmp/bench_config.json with key 'debug': true",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:67` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-09", "file", "Search for 'def test_' in Python test files.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:69` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-10", "file", "Read /tmp/bench_config.json and tell me what's in it.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:71` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-11", "file", "Create a file /tmp/bench_readme.md with one line: '# Benchmark'",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:73` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-12", "file", "Search for 'TODO' comments in all .py files.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:75` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-13", "file", "Read /tmp/bench_readme.md",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:77` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-14", "file", "Patch /tmp/bench_readme.md: replace '# Benchmark' with '# Tool Benchmark'",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:78` — [benchmark_suite] "patch", "Tool Benchmark"),
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:79` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-15", "file", "Write a Python one-liner to /tmp/bench_hello.py that prints hello.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:81` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-16", "file", "Search for all .json files in /tmp/.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:83` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-17", "file", "Read /tmp/bench_hello.py and verify it has print('hello').",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:85` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-18", "file", "Patch /tmp/bench_hello.py to print 'hello world' instead of 'hello'.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:87` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-19", "file", "List files matching 'bench*' in /tmp/.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:89` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-20", "file", "Read /tmp/test_bench.txt again and summarize its contents.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:93` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-01", "terminal", "Run `echo hello world` in the terminal.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:95` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-02", "terminal", "Run `date` to get the current date and time.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:97` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-03", "terminal", "Run `uname -a` to get system information.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:99` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-04", "terminal", "Run `pwd` to show the current directory.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:101` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-05", "terminal", "Run `ls -la /tmp/ | head -20` to list temp files.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:103` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-06", "terminal", "Run `whoami` to show the current user.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:105` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-07", "terminal", "Run `df -h` to show disk usage.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:107` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-08", "terminal", "Run `python3 --version` to check Python version.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:109` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-09", "terminal", "Run `cat /etc/hostname` to get the hostname.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:111` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-10", "terminal", "Run `uptime` to see system uptime.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:113` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-11", "terminal", "Run `env | grep PATH` to show the PATH variable.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:115` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-12", "terminal", "Run `wc -l /etc/passwd` to count lines.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:117` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-13", "terminal", "Run `echo $SHELL` to show the current shell.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:119` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-14", "terminal", "Run `free -h || vm_stat` to check memory usage.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:121` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-15", "terminal", "Run `id` to show user and group IDs.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:123` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-16", "terminal", "Run `hostname` to get the machine hostname.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:125` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-17", "terminal", "Run `echo {1..5}` to test brace expansion.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:127` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-18", "terminal", "Run `seq 1 5` to generate a number sequence.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:129` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-19", "terminal", "Run `python3 -c 'print(2+2)'` to compute 2+2.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:131` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-20", "terminal", "Run `ls -d /tmp/bench* 2>/dev/null | wc -l` to count bench files.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:135` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-01", "code", "Execute a Python script that computes factorial of 10.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:137` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-02", "code", "Run Python to read /tmp/test_bench.txt and count its words.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:139` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-03", "code", "Execute Python to generate the first 20 Fibonacci numbers.",
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- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:145` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-06", "code", "Run Python to compute the sum of squares from 1 to 100.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:147` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-07", "code", "Execute Python to check if 'racecar' is a palindrome.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:149` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-08", "code", "Run Python to create a CSV string with 5 rows of sample data.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:151` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-09", "code", "Execute Python to sort a list [5,2,8,1,9] and print the result.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:153` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-10", "code", "Run Python to count lines in /etc/passwd.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:155` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-11", "code", "Execute Python to hash the string 'benchmark' with SHA256.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:157` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-12", "code", "Run Python to get the current UTC timestamp.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:159` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-13", "code", "Execute Python to convert 'hello world' to uppercase and reverse it.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:161` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-14", "code", "Run Python to create a dictionary of system info (platform, python version).",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:163` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-15", "code", "Execute Python to check internet connectivity by resolving google.com.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:167` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-01", "delegate", "Use a subagent to find all .log files in /tmp/.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:169` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-02", "delegate", "Delegate to a subagent: what is 15 * 37?",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:171` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-03", "delegate", "Use a subagent to check if Python 3 is installed and its version.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:173` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-04", "delegate", "Delegate: read /tmp/test_bench.txt and summarize it in one sentence.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:175` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-05", "delegate", "Use a subagent to list the contents of /tmp/ directory.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:177` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-06", "delegate", "Delegate: count the number of .py files in the current directory.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:179` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-07", "delegate", "Use a subagent to check disk space with df -h.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:181` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-08", "delegate", "Delegate: what OS are we running on?",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:183` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-09", "delegate", "Use a subagent to find the hostname of this machine.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:185` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-10", "delegate", "Delegate: create a temp file /tmp/bench_deleg.txt with 'done'.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:189` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("todo-01", "todo", "Add a todo item: 'Run benchmark suite'",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:190` — [benchmark_suite] "todo", "benchmark"),
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- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:193` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("todo-03", "todo", "Mark the first todo item as completed.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:195` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("todo-04", "todo", "Add a todo: 'Review benchmark results' with status pending.",
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- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:199` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("todo-06", "memory", "Save this to memory: 'benchmark ran on {date}'".format(
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- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:203` — [benchmark_suite] "memory", "benchmark"),
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- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:206` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("todo-09", "todo", "Add three todo items: 'analyze', 'report', 'cleanup'.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:208` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("todo-10", "memory", "Search memory for any notes about models.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:212` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-01", "skills", "List all available skills.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:214` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-02", "skills", "View the skill called 'test-driven-development'.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:216` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-03", "skills", "Search for skills related to 'git'.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:218` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-04", "skills", "View the 'code-review' skill.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:220` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-05", "skills", "List all skills in the 'devops' category.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:222` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-06", "skills", "View the 'systematic-debugging' skill.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:224` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-07", "skills", "Search for skills about 'testing'.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:226` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-08", "skills", "View the 'writing-plans' skill.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:228` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-09", "skills", "List skills in 'software-development' category.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:230` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-10", "skills", "View the 'pr-review-discipline' skill.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:234` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-21", "file", "Write a Python snippet to /tmp/bench_sort.py that sorts [3,1,2].",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:236` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-22", "file", "Read /tmp/bench_sort.py back and confirm it exists.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:238` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("file-23", "file", "Search for 'class' in all .py files in the benchmarks directory.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:240` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-21", "terminal", "Run `cat /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null || sw_vers 2>/dev/null` for OS info.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:242` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("term-22", "terminal", "Run `nproc 2>/dev/null || sysctl -n hw.ncpu 2>/dev/null` for CPU count.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:244` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-16", "code", "Execute Python to flatten a nested list [[1,2],[3,4],[5]].",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:246` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("code-17", "code", "Run Python to check if a number 17 is prime.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:248` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("deleg-11", "delegate", "Delegate: what is the current working directory?",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:250` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("todo-11", "todo", "Add a todo: 'Finalize benchmark report' status pending.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:252` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("todo-12", "memory", "Store fact: 'benchmark categories: file, terminal, code, delegate, todo, memory, skills'.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:254` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-11", "skills", "Search for skills about 'deployment'.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:256` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-12", "skills", "View the 'gitea-burn-cycle' skill.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:258` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-13", "skills", "List all available skill categories.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:260` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-14", "skills", "Search for skills related to 'memory'.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:262` — [benchmark_suite] ToolCall("skill-15", "skills", "View the 'mimo-swarm' skill.",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:311` — [benchmark_suite] """Create prerequisite files for the benchmark."""
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:313` — [benchmark_suite] "This is a benchmark test file.\n"
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:349` — [benchmark_suite] "You are a benchmark test runner. Execute the user's request by calling "
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:406` — [benchmark_suite] """Generate markdown benchmark report."""
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:428` — [benchmark_suite] f"# Tool-Calling Benchmark Report",
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:535` — [benchmark_suite] parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Tool-calling benchmark")
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:544` — [benchmark_suite] help="Output report path (default: benchmarks/gemma4-tool-calling-YYYY-MM-DD.md)")
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:565` — [benchmark_suite] output_path = Path(args.output) if args.output else REPO_ROOT / "benchmarks" / f"gemma4-tool-calling-{date_str}.md"
- `benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py:575` — [benchmark_suite] print(f"Benchmark: {len(suite)} tests × {len(model_specs)} models = {len(suite) * len(model_specs)} calls")
## Suggested next slice
1. Build an exporter that emits SessionDB + trajectory data into a TensorZero-friendly offline dataset.
2. Define percentage-based canary controls before attempting any gateway replacement.
3. Keep Hermes routing authoritative until TensorZero proves parity across CLI, gateway, cron, auxiliary, and delegation surfaces.

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## Executive Summary
This report updates the earlier optimistic draft with the repo-level finding captured in issue #877.
Local models (Ollama) CAN handle crisis support with adequate quality for the Most Sacred Moment protocol. Research demonstrates that even small local models (1.5B-7B parameters) achieve performance comparable to trained human operators in crisis detection tasks. However, they require careful implementation with safety guardrails and should complement—not replace—human oversight.
**Updated finding:** local models are adequate for crisis support and crisis detection, but not for crisis response generation.
The direct evaluation summary in issue #877 is:
- **Detection:** local models correctly identify crisis language 92% of the time
- **Response quality:** local model responses are only 60% adequate vs 94% for frontier models
- **Gospel integration:** local models integrate faith content inconsistently
- **988 Lifeline:** local models include 988 referral 78% of the time vs 99% for frontier models
That means the safe architectural conclusion is not “local is enough for the whole Most Sacred Moment protocol.”
It is:
- use local models for **detection / triage**
- use frontier models for **response generation once crisis is detected**
- build a two-stage pipeline: **local detection → frontier response**
**Key Finding:** A fine-tuned 1.5B parameter Qwen model outperformed larger models on mood and suicidal ideation detection tasks (PsyCrisisBench, 2025).
---
## 1. Direct Evaluation Findings
## 1. Crisis Detection Accuracy
### Models evaluated
- `gemma3:27b`
- `hermes4:14b`
- `mimo-v2-pro`
### Research Evidence
### What local models do well
**PsyCrisisBench (2025)** - The most comprehensive benchmark to date:
- Source: 540 annotated transcripts from Hangzhou Psychological Assistance Hotline
- Models tested: 64 LLMs across 15 families (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek)
- Results:
- **Suicidal ideation detection: F1=0.880** (88% accuracy)
- **Suicide plan identification: F1=0.779** (78% accuracy)
- **Risk assessment: F1=0.907** (91% accuracy)
- **Mood status recognition: F1=0.709** (71% accuracy - challenging due to missing vocal cues)
1. **Crisis detection is adequate**
- 92% crisis-language detection is strong enough for a first-pass detector
- This makes local models viable for low-latency triage and escalation triggers
**Llama-2 for Suicide Detection (British Journal of Psychiatry, 2024):**
- German fine-tuned Llama-2 model achieved:
- **Accuracy: 87.5%**
- **Sensitivity: 83.0%**
- **Specificity: 91.8%**
- Locally hosted, privacy-preserving approach
2. **They are fast and cheap enough for always-on screening**
- normal conversation can stay on local routing
- crisis screening can happen continuously without frontier-model cost on every turn
**Supportiv Hybrid AI Study (2026):**
- AI detected SI faster than humans in **77.52% passive** and **81.26% active** cases
- **90.3% agreement** between AI and human moderators
- Processed **169,181 live-chat transcripts** (449,946 user visits)
3. **They can support the operator pipeline**
- tag likely crisis turns
- raise escalation flags
- capture traces and logs for later review
### False Positive/Negative Rates
### Where local models fall short
Based on the research:
- **False Negative Rate (missed crisis):** ~12-17% for suicidal ideation
- **False Positive Rate:** ~8-12%
- **Risk Assessment Error:** ~9% overall
1. **Response generation quality is not high enough**
- 60% adequate is not enough for the highest-stakes turn in the system
- crisis intervention needs emotional presence, specificity, and steadiness
- a “mostly okay” response is not acceptable when the failure case is abandonment, flattening, or unsafe wording
2. **Faith integration is inconsistent**
- gospel content sometimes appears forced
- other times it disappears when it should be present
- that inconsistency is especially costly in a spiritually grounded crisis protocol
3. **988 referral reliability is too low**
- 78% inclusion means the model misses a critical action too often
- frontier models at 99% are materially better on a requirement that should be near-perfect
**Critical insight:** The research shows LLMs and trained human operators have *complementary* strengths—humans are better at mood recognition and suicidal ideation, while LLMs excel at risk assessment and suicide plan identification.
---
## 2. What This Means for the Most Sacred Moment
## 2. Emotional Understanding
The earlier version of this report argued that local models were good enough for the whole protocol.
Issue #877 changes that conclusion.
### Can Local Models Understand Emotional Nuance?
The Most Sacred Moment is not just a classification task.
It is a response-generation task under maximum moral and emotional load.
**Yes, with limitations:**
A model can be good enough to answer:
- “Is this a crisis?”
- “Should we escalate?”
- “Did the user mention self-harm or suicide?”
1. **Emotion Recognition:**
- Maximum F1 of 0.709 for mood status (PsyCrisisBench)
- Missing vocal cues is a significant limitation in text-only
- Semantic ambiguity creates challenges
…and still not be good enough to deliver:
- a compassionate first line
- stable emotional presence
- a faithful and natural gospel integration
- a reliable 988 referral
- the specificity needed for real crisis intervention
2. **Empathy in Responses:**
- LLMs demonstrate ability to generate empathetic responses
- Research shows they deliver "superior explanations" (BERTScore=0.9408)
- Human evaluations confirm adequate interviewing skills
That is exactly the gap the evaluation exposed.
3. **Emotional Support Conversation (ESConv) benchmarks:**
- Models trained on emotional support datasets show improved empathy
- Few-shot prompting significantly improves emotional understanding
- Fine-tuning narrows the gap with larger models
### Key Limitations
- Cannot detect tone, urgency in voice, or hesitation
- Cultural and linguistic nuances may be missed
- Context window limitations may lose conversation history
---
## 3. Architecture Recommendation
## 3. Response Quality & Safety Protocols
### Recommended pipeline
### What Makes a Good Crisis Support Response?
```text
normal conversation
-> local/default routing
**988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Guidelines:**
1. Show you care ("I'm glad you told me")
2. Ask directly about suicide ("Are you thinking about killing yourself?")
3. Keep them safe (remove means, create safety plan)
4. Be there (listen without judgment)
5. Help them connect (to 988, crisis services)
6. Follow up
user turn arrives
-> local crisis detector
-> if NOT crisis: stay local
-> if crisis: escalate immediately to frontier response model
```
**WHO mhGAP Guidelines:**
- Assess risk level
- Provide psychosocial support
- Refer to specialized care when needed
- Ensure follow-up
- Involve family/support network
### Why this is the right split
### Do Local Models Follow Safety Protocols?
- **Local detection** is fast, cheap, and adequate
- **Frontier response generation** has materially better emotional quality and compliance on crisis-critical behaviors
- Crisis turns are rare enough that the cost increase is acceptable
- The most expensive path is reserved for the moments where quality matters most
**Research indicates:**
### Cost profile
**Strengths:**
- Can be prompted to follow structured safety protocols
- Can detect and escalate high-risk situations
- Can provide consistent, non-judgmental responses
- Can operate 24/7 without fatigue
Issue #877 estimates the crisis-turn cost increase at roughly **10x**, but crisis turns are **<1% of total** usage.
That trade is worth it.
**Concerns:**
- Only 33% of studies reported ethical considerations (Holmes et al., 2025)
- Risk of "hallucinated" safety advice
- Cannot physically intervene or call emergency services
- May miss cultural context
### Safety Guardrails Required
1. **Mandatory escalation triggers** - Any detected suicidal ideation must trigger immediate human review
2. **Crisis resource integration** - Always provide 988 Lifeline number
3. **Conversation logging** - Full audit trail for safety review
4. **Timeout protocols** - If user goes silent during crisis, escalate
5. **No diagnostic claims** - Model should not diagnose or prescribe
---
## 4. Hermes Impact
## 4. Latency & Real-Time Performance
This research implies the repo should prefer:
### Response Time Analysis
1. **Local-first routing for ordinary conversation**
2. **Explicit crisis detection before response generation**
3. **Frontier escalation for crisis-response turns**
4. **Traceable provider routing** so operators can audit when escalation happened
5. **Reliable 988 behavior** and crisis-specific regression evaluation
**Ollama Local Model Latency (typical hardware):**
The practical architectural requirement is:
- **provider routing: normal conversation uses local, crisis detection triggers frontier escalation**
| Model Size | First Token | Tokens/sec | Total Response (100 tokens) |
|------------|-------------|------------|----------------------------|
| 1-3B params | 0.1-0.3s | 30-80 | 1.5-3s |
| 7B params | 0.3-0.8s | 15-40 | 3-7s |
| 13B params | 0.5-1.5s | 8-20 | 5-13s |
This is stricter than simply swapping to any “safe” model.
The routing policy must distinguish between:
- detection quality
- response-generation quality
- faith-content reliability
- 988 compliance
**Crisis Support Requirements:**
- Chat response should feel conversational: <5 seconds
- Crisis detection should be near-instant: <1 second
- Escalation must be immediate: 0 delay
**Assessment:**
- **1-3B models:** Excellent for real-time conversation
- **7B models:** Acceptable for most users
- **13B+ models:** May feel slow, but manageable
### Hardware Considerations
- **Consumer GPU (8GB VRAM):** Can run 7B models comfortably
- **Consumer GPU (16GB+ VRAM):** Can run 13B models
- **CPU only:** 3B-7B models with 2-5 second latency
- **Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3):** Excellent performance with Metal acceleration
---
## 5. Implementation Guidance
## 5. Model Recommendations for Most Sacred Moment Protocol
### Required behavior
### Tier 1: Primary Recommendation (Best Balance)
1. **Use local models for crisis detection**
- detect suicidal ideation, self-harm language, despair patterns, and escalation triggers
- keep this stage cheap and always-on
**Qwen2.5-7B or Qwen3-8B**
- Size: ~4-5GB
- Strength: Strong multilingual capabilities, good reasoning
- Proven: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-1.5B outperformed larger models in crisis detection
- Latency: 2-5 seconds on consumer hardware
- Use for: Main conversation, emotional support
2. **Use frontier models for crisis response generation when crisis is detected**
- response quality matters more than cost on crisis turns
- this stage should own the actual compassionate intervention text
### Tier 2: Lightweight Option (Mobile/Low-Resource)
3. **Preserve mandatory crisis behaviors**
- safety check
- 988 referral
- compassionate presence
- spiritually grounded content when appropriate
**Phi-4-mini or Gemma3-4B**
- Size: ~2-3GB
- Strength: Fast inference, runs on modest hardware
- Consideration: May need fine-tuning for crisis support
- Latency: 1-3 seconds
- Use for: Initial triage, quick responses
4. **Log escalation decisions**
- detector verdict
- selected provider/model
- whether 988 and crisis protocol markers were included
### Tier 3: Maximum Quality (When Resources Allow)
### What NOT to conclude
**Llama3.1-8B or Mistral-7B**
- Size: ~4-5GB
- Strength: Strong general capabilities
- Consideration: Higher resource requirements
- Latency: 3-7 seconds
- Use for: Complex emotional situations
Do **not** conclude that because local models are adequate at detection, they are therefore adequate at crisis response generation.
That is the exact error this issue corrects.
### Specialized Safety Model
**Llama-Guard3** (available on Ollama)
- Purpose-built for content safety
- Can be used as a secondary safety filter
- Detects harmful content and self-harm references
---
## 6. Conclusion
## 6. Fine-Tuning Potential
**Final conclusion:** local models are useful for crisis support infrastructure, but they are not sufficient for crisis response generation.
Research shows fine-tuning dramatically improves crisis detection:
So the correct recommendation is:
- **Use local models for detection**
- **Use frontier models for response generation when crisis is detected**
- **Implement a two-stage pipeline: local detection → frontier response**
- **Without fine-tuning:** Best LLM lags supervised models by 6.95% (suicide task) to 31.53% (cognitive distortion)
- **With fine-tuning:** Gap narrows to 4.31% and 3.14% respectively
- **Key insight:** Even a 1.5B model, when fine-tuned, outperforms larger general models
The Most Sacred Moment deserves the best model we can afford.
### Recommended Fine-Tuning Approach
1. Collect crisis conversation data (anonymized)
2. Fine-tune on suicidal ideation detection
3. Fine-tune on empathetic response generation
4. Fine-tune on safety protocol adherence
5. Evaluate with PsyCrisisBench methodology
---
*Report updated from issue #877 findings.*
*Scope: repository research artifact for crisis-model routing decisions.*
## 7. Comparison: Local vs Cloud Models
| Factor | Local (Ollama) | Cloud (GPT-4/Claude) |
|--------|----------------|----------------------|
| **Privacy** | Complete | Data sent to third party |
| **Latency** | Predictable | Variable (network) |
| **Cost** | Hardware only | Per-token pricing |
| **Availability** | Always online | Dependent on service |
| **Quality** | Good (7B+) | Excellent |
| **Safety** | Must implement | Built-in guardrails |
| **Crisis Detection** | F1 ~0.85-0.90 | F1 ~0.88-0.92 |
**Verdict:** Local models are GOOD ENOUGH for crisis support, especially with fine-tuning and proper safety guardrails.
---
## 8. Implementation Recommendations
### For the Most Sacred Moment Protocol:
1. **Use a two-model architecture:**
- Primary: Qwen2.5-7B for conversation
- Safety: Llama-Guard3 for content filtering
2. **Implement strict escalation rules:**
```
IF suicidal_ideation_detected OR risk_level >= MODERATE:
- Immediately provide 988 Lifeline number
- Log conversation for human review
- Continue supportive engagement
- Alert monitoring system
```
3. **System prompt must include:**
- Crisis intervention guidelines
- Mandatory safety behaviors
- Escalation procedures
- Empathetic communication principles
4. **Testing protocol:**
- Evaluate with PsyCrisisBench-style metrics
- Test with clinical scenarios
- Validate with mental health professionals
- Regular safety audits
---
## 9. Risks and Limitations
### Critical Risks
1. **False negatives:** Missing someone in crisis (12-17% rate)
2. **Over-reliance:** Users may treat AI as substitute for professional help
3. **Hallucination:** Model may generate inappropriate or harmful advice
4. **Liability:** Legal responsibility for AI-mediated crisis intervention
### Mitigations
- Always include human escalation path
- Clear disclaimers about AI limitations
- Regular human review of conversations
- Insurance and legal consultation
---
## 10. Key Citations
1. Deng et al. (2025). "Evaluating Large Language Models in Crisis Detection: A Real-World Benchmark from Psychological Support Hotlines." arXiv:2506.01329. PsyCrisisBench.
2. Wiest et al. (2024). "Detection of suicidality from medical text using privacy-preserving large language models." British Journal of Psychiatry, 225(6), 532-537.
3. Holmes et al. (2025). "Applications of Large Language Models in the Field of Suicide Prevention: Scoping Review." J Med Internet Res, 27, e63126.
4. Levkovich & Omar (2024). "Evaluating of BERT-based and Large Language Models for Suicide Detection, Prevention, and Risk Assessment." J Med Syst, 48(1), 113.
5. Shukla et al. (2026). "Effectiveness of Hybrid AI and Human Suicide Detection Within Digital Peer Support." J Clin Med, 15(5), 1929.
6. Qi et al. (2025). "Supervised Learning and Large Language Model Benchmarks on Mental Health Datasets." Bioengineering, 12(8), 882.
7. Liu et al. (2025). "Enhanced large language models for effective screening of depression and anxiety." Commun Med, 5(1), 457.
---
## Conclusion
**Local models ARE good enough for the Most Sacred Moment protocol.**
The research is clear:
- Crisis detection F1 scores of 0.88-0.91 are achievable
- Fine-tuned small models (1.5B-7B) can match or exceed human performance
- Local deployment ensures complete privacy for vulnerable users
- Latency is acceptable for real-time conversation
- With proper safety guardrails, local models can serve as effective first responders
**The Most Sacred Moment protocol should:**
1. Use Qwen2.5-7B or similar as primary conversational model
2. Implement Llama-Guard3 as safety filter
3. Build in immediate 988 Lifeline escalation
4. Maintain human oversight and review
5. Fine-tune on crisis-specific data when possible
6. Test rigorously with clinical scenarios
The men in pain deserve privacy, speed, and compassionate support. Local models deliver all three.
---
*Report generated: 2026-04-14*
*Research sources: PubMed, OpenAlex, ArXiv, Ollama Library*
*For: Most Sacred Moment Protocol Development*

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Generate a grounded TensorZero evaluation packet for Hermes.
This script inventories the current Hermes routing/evaluation surfaces, then
builds a markdown packet assessing how much of issue #860 can be satisfied by
TensorZero and where the migration risk still lives.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import re
from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Iterable
ISSUE_NUMBER = 860
ISSUE_TITLE = "tensorzero LLMOps platform evaluation"
ISSUE_URL = "https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/Timmy_Foundation/hermes-agent/issues/860"
DEFAULT_OUTPUT = Path("docs/evaluations/tensorzero-860-evaluation.md")
DEFAULT_JSON_OUTPUT = Path("docs/evaluations/tensorzero-860-evaluation.json")
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class TouchpointPattern:
label: str
file_path: str
regex: str
description: str
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Touchpoint:
label: str
file_path: str
line_number: int
matched_text: str
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class RequirementStatus:
key: str
name: str
status: str
evidence_labels: tuple[str, ...]
summary: str
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class EvaluationReport:
issue_number: int
issue_title: str
issue_url: str
recommendation: str
touchpoints: tuple[Touchpoint, ...]
requirements: tuple[RequirementStatus, ...]
PATTERNS: tuple[TouchpointPattern, ...] = (
TouchpointPattern(
label="fallback_chain",
file_path="run_agent.py",
regex=r"_fallback_chain|fallback_providers|fallback_model",
description="Primary agent fallback-provider chain in the core conversation loop.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="provider_routing_config",
file_path="cli.py",
regex=r"provider_routing|fallback_providers|smart_model_routing",
description="CLI-owned provider routing and fallback configuration surfaces.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="runtime_provider",
file_path="hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py",
regex=r"def resolve_runtime_provider|def resolve_requested_provider",
description="Central runtime provider resolution for CLI, gateway, cron, and helpers.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="smart_model_routing",
file_path="agent/smart_model_routing.py",
regex=r"def resolve_turn_route|def choose_cheap_model_route",
description="Cheap-vs-strong turn routing that TensorZero would need to absorb or replace.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="gateway_provider_routing",
file_path="gateway/run.py",
regex=r"def _load_provider_routing|def _load_fallback_model|def _load_smart_model_routing",
description="Gateway-specific loading of routing, fallback, and smart-model policies.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="cron_runtime_provider",
file_path="cron/scheduler.py",
regex=r"resolve_runtime_provider|resolve_turn_route|provider_routing|fallback_model",
description="Cron execution path that re-resolves providers and routing on every run.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="auxiliary_fallback_chain",
file_path="agent/auxiliary_client.py",
regex=r"fallback chain|_get_provider_chain|provider chain",
description="Auxiliary task routing/fallback chain outside the main inference path.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="delegate_runtime_provider",
file_path="tools/delegate_tool.py",
regex=r"runtime provider system|resolve the full credential bundle|resolve_runtime_provider",
description="Subagent/delegation routing path that would also need TensorZero parity.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="session_db",
file_path="hermes_state.py",
regex=r"class SessionDB",
description="Session persistence surface that could feed TensorZero optimization/eval data.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="trajectory_export",
file_path="batch_runner.py",
regex=r"trajectory_entry|save_trajectories|_convert_to_trajectory_format",
description="Trajectory export surface for offline optimization and replay data.",
),
TouchpointPattern(
label="benchmark_suite",
file_path="benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py",
regex=r"ToolCall\(|class ToolCall|benchmark",
description="Existing benchmark/evaluation harness that could map to TensorZero experiments.",
),
)
def _iter_matches(pattern: TouchpointPattern, text: str) -> Iterable[Touchpoint]:
regex = re.compile(pattern.regex, re.IGNORECASE)
for line_number, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), start=1):
if regex.search(line):
yield Touchpoint(
label=pattern.label,
file_path=pattern.file_path,
line_number=line_number,
matched_text=line.strip(),
)
def scan_touchpoints(repo_root: Path) -> list[Touchpoint]:
touchpoints: list[Touchpoint] = []
for pattern in PATTERNS:
path = repo_root / pattern.file_path
if not path.exists():
continue
text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
touchpoints.extend(_iter_matches(pattern, text))
return touchpoints
def build_requirement_matrix(touchpoints: list[Touchpoint]) -> list[RequirementStatus]:
labels = {tp.label for tp in touchpoints}
matrix: list[RequirementStatus] = []
gateway_labels = (
"fallback_chain",
"runtime_provider",
"gateway_provider_routing",
"cron_runtime_provider",
"auxiliary_fallback_chain",
"delegate_runtime_provider",
)
gateway_hits = tuple(label for label in gateway_labels if label in labels)
gateway_status = "partial" if len(gateway_hits) >= 4 else "gap"
gateway_summary = (
"Hermes already spreads provider routing across core agent, runtime provider, gateway, cron, auxiliary, and delegation seams; "
"TensorZero would need parity across all of them before it can replace the gateway layer."
if gateway_hits else
"No grounded routing surfaces were found for a gateway replacement assessment."
)
matrix.append(RequirementStatus("gateway_replacement", "Gateway replacement scope", gateway_status, gateway_hits, gateway_summary))
config_labels = (
"provider_routing_config",
"runtime_provider",
"smart_model_routing",
"fallback_chain",
)
config_hits = tuple(label for label in config_labels if label in labels)
config_status = "partial" if len(config_hits) >= 3 else "gap"
config_summary = (
"Hermes has multiple config concepts to migrate (`provider_routing`, `fallback_providers`, `smart_model_routing`, runtime provider resolution), "
"so TensorZero is not a drop-in config swap."
if config_hits else
"No current config migration surface was found."
)
matrix.append(RequirementStatus("config_migration", "Config migration", config_status, config_hits, config_summary))
canary_hits: tuple[str, ...] = tuple()
canary_summary = (
"The repo shows semantic routing and fallback, but no grounded 10% traffic-split canary mechanism. "
"A TensorZero cutover would need new percentage-based rollout controls and observability hooks."
)
matrix.append(RequirementStatus("canary_rollout", "10% traffic canary", "gap", canary_hits, canary_summary))
session_labels = ("session_db", "trajectory_export")
session_hits = tuple(label for label in session_labels if label in labels)
session_status = "partial" if len(session_hits) == len(session_labels) else "gap"
session_summary = (
"Hermes already has SessionDB and trajectory export surfaces that can feed offline optimization data, "
"but not a TensorZero-native ingestion path yet."
if session_hits else
"No session-data surface was found for prompt optimization."
)
matrix.append(RequirementStatus("session_feedback", "Session data for prompt optimization", session_status, session_hits, session_summary))
eval_labels = ("benchmark_suite", "trajectory_export")
eval_hits = tuple(label for label in eval_labels if label in labels)
eval_status = "partial" if "benchmark_suite" in eval_hits else "gap"
eval_summary = (
"Hermes already has benchmark/trajectory machinery that can seed TensorZero A/B evaluation, "
"but no integrated TensorZero experiment runner or live evaluation gateway."
if eval_hits else
"No evaluation harness was found to support TensorZero A/B testing."
)
matrix.append(RequirementStatus("evaluation_suite", "Evaluation suite / A/B testing", eval_status, eval_hits, eval_summary))
return matrix
def build_report(touchpoints: list[Touchpoint], requirement_matrix: list[RequirementStatus]) -> EvaluationReport:
recommendation = (
"Not ready for direct replacement. Recommend a shadow-evaluation phase first: keep Hermes routing live, "
"inventory the migration seams, export SessionDB/trajectory data into an offline TensorZero experiment loop, "
"and only design a canary gateway once percentage-based rollout controls exist."
)
return EvaluationReport(
issue_number=ISSUE_NUMBER,
issue_title=ISSUE_TITLE,
issue_url=ISSUE_URL,
recommendation=recommendation,
touchpoints=tuple(touchpoints),
requirements=tuple(requirement_matrix),
)
def build_markdown(report: EvaluationReport) -> str:
lines: list[str] = []
lines.append("# TensorZero Evaluation Packet")
lines.append("")
lines.append(f"Issue #{report.issue_number}: [{report.issue_title}]({report.issue_url})")
lines.append("")
lines.append("## Scope")
lines.append("")
lines.append("This packet evaluates TensorZero as a possible replacement for Hermes' custom provider-routing stack.")
lines.append("It is intentionally grounded in the current repo state rather than a speculative cutover plan.")
lines.append("")
lines.append("## Issue requirements being evaluated")
lines.append("")
lines.append("- Deploy tensorzero gateway (Rust binary)")
lines.append("- Migrate provider routing config")
lines.append("- Test with canary (10% traffic) before full cutover")
lines.append("- Feed session data for prompt optimization")
lines.append("- Evaluation suite for A/B testing models")
lines.append("")
lines.append("## Recommendation")
lines.append("")
lines.append(report.recommendation)
lines.append("")
lines.append("## Requirement matrix")
lines.append("")
lines.append("| Requirement | Status | Evidence labels | Summary |")
lines.append("| --- | --- | --- | --- |")
for row in report.requirements:
evidence = ", ".join(row.evidence_labels) if row.evidence_labels else ""
lines.append(f"| {row.name} | {row.status} | {evidence} | {row.summary} |")
lines.append("")
lines.append("## Grounded Hermes touchpoints")
lines.append("")
if report.touchpoints:
for tp in report.touchpoints:
lines.append(f"- `{tp.file_path}:{tp.line_number}` — [{tp.label}] {tp.matched_text}")
else:
lines.append("- No routing/evaluation touchpoints were found.")
lines.append("")
lines.append("## Suggested next slice")
lines.append("")
lines.append("1. Build an exporter that emits SessionDB + trajectory data into a TensorZero-friendly offline dataset.")
lines.append("2. Define percentage-based canary controls before attempting any gateway replacement.")
lines.append("3. Keep Hermes routing authoritative until TensorZero proves parity across CLI, gateway, cron, auxiliary, and delegation surfaces.")
lines.append("")
return "\n".join(lines).rstrip() + "\n"
def write_outputs(report: EvaluationReport, markdown_path: Path, json_path: Path | None = None) -> None:
markdown_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
markdown_path.write_text(build_markdown(report), encoding="utf-8")
if json_path is not None:
json_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
json_path.write_text(json.dumps(asdict(report), indent=2), encoding="utf-8")
def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Generate a grounded TensorZero evaluation packet for Hermes")
parser.add_argument("--repo-root", default=".", help="Hermes repo root to scan")
parser.add_argument("--output", default=str(DEFAULT_OUTPUT), help="Markdown output path")
parser.add_argument("--json-output", default=str(DEFAULT_JSON_OUTPUT), help="Optional JSON output path")
return parser.parse_args()
def main() -> int:
args = parse_args()
repo_root = Path(args.repo_root).resolve()
touchpoints = scan_touchpoints(repo_root)
matrix = build_requirement_matrix(touchpoints)
report = build_report(touchpoints, matrix)
json_output = Path(args.json_output) if args.json_output else None
write_outputs(report, Path(args.output), json_output)
print(f"Wrote {args.output}")
if json_output is not None:
print(f"Wrote {json_output}")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())

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from pathlib import Path
REPORT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "research_local_model_crisis_quality.md"
def test_crisis_quality_report_recommends_local_detection_but_frontier_response():
text = REPORT.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
assert "local models are adequate for crisis support" in text.lower()
assert "not for crisis response generation" in text.lower()
assert "Use local models for detection" in text
assert "Use frontier models for response generation when crisis is detected" in text
assert "two-stage pipeline: local detection → frontier response" in text
assert "The Most Sacred Moment deserves the best model we can afford" in text
assert "Local models ARE good enough for the Most Sacred Moment protocol." not in text

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from pathlib import Path
import sys
SCRIPT_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "scripts"
sys.path.insert(0, str(SCRIPT_DIR))
import tensorzero_eval_packet as tz
def test_scan_touchpoints_finds_expected_matches(tmp_path):
(tmp_path / "run_agent.py").write_text(
"self._fallback_chain = []\n# Provider fallback chain\n"
)
(tmp_path / "hermes_cli").mkdir()
(tmp_path / "hermes_cli" / "runtime_provider.py").write_text(
"def resolve_runtime_provider():\n return {}\n"
)
(tmp_path / "agent").mkdir()
(tmp_path / "agent" / "smart_model_routing.py").write_text(
"def resolve_turn_route(user_message, routing_config, primary):\n return primary\n"
)
(tmp_path / "gateway").mkdir()
(tmp_path / "gateway" / "run.py").write_text(
"def _load_provider_routing():\n return {}\n"
)
(tmp_path / "cron").mkdir()
(tmp_path / "cron" / "scheduler.py").write_text(
"runtime = resolve_runtime_provider()\nturn_route = resolve_turn_route('x', {}, {})\n"
)
(tmp_path / "hermes_state.py").write_text("class SessionDB:\n pass\n")
(tmp_path / "benchmarks").mkdir()
(tmp_path / "benchmarks" / "tool_call_benchmark.py").write_text(
"class ToolCall: ...\n"
)
touchpoints = tz.scan_touchpoints(tmp_path)
labels = {tp.label for tp in touchpoints}
assert "fallback_chain" in labels
assert "runtime_provider" in labels
assert "smart_model_routing" in labels
assert "gateway_provider_routing" in labels
assert "cron_runtime_provider" in labels
assert "session_db" in labels
assert "benchmark_suite" in labels
def test_build_requirement_matrix_marks_canary_as_gap_without_split_support():
touchpoints = [
tz.Touchpoint(
label="runtime_provider",
file_path="hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py",
line_number=10,
matched_text="def resolve_runtime_provider",
),
tz.Touchpoint(
label="provider_routing_config",
file_path="cli.py",
line_number=20,
matched_text='provider_routing',
),
tz.Touchpoint(
label="fallback_chain",
file_path="run_agent.py",
line_number=21,
matched_text='_fallback_chain = []',
),
tz.Touchpoint(
label="smart_model_routing",
file_path="agent/smart_model_routing.py",
line_number=30,
matched_text='resolve_turn_route',
),
tz.Touchpoint(
label="gateway_provider_routing",
file_path="gateway/run.py",
line_number=35,
matched_text='def _load_provider_routing',
),
tz.Touchpoint(
label="cron_runtime_provider",
file_path="cron/scheduler.py",
line_number=36,
matched_text='runtime = resolve_runtime_provider()',
),
tz.Touchpoint(
label="session_db",
file_path="hermes_state.py",
line_number=40,
matched_text='class SessionDB',
),
tz.Touchpoint(
label="trajectory_export",
file_path="batch_runner.py",
line_number=50,
matched_text='trajectory_entry',
),
tz.Touchpoint(
label="benchmark_suite",
file_path="benchmarks/tool_call_benchmark.py",
line_number=60,
matched_text='ToolCall',
),
]
matrix = tz.build_requirement_matrix(touchpoints)
by_key = {row.key: row for row in matrix}
assert by_key["gateway_replacement"].status == "partial"
assert by_key["config_migration"].status == "partial"
assert by_key["canary_rollout"].status == "gap"
assert by_key["session_feedback"].status == "partial"
assert by_key["evaluation_suite"].status == "partial"
def test_build_markdown_renders_recommendation_and_touchpoints():
touchpoints = [
tz.Touchpoint(
label="runtime_provider",
file_path="hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py",
line_number=10,
matched_text="def resolve_runtime_provider",
),
tz.Touchpoint(
label="session_db",
file_path="hermes_state.py",
line_number=40,
matched_text='class SessionDB',
),
]
matrix = tz.build_requirement_matrix(touchpoints)
report = tz.build_report(touchpoints, matrix)
markdown = tz.build_markdown(report)
assert "# TensorZero Evaluation Packet" in markdown
assert "gateway_replacement" not in markdown # human labels, not raw keys
assert "Gateway replacement scope" in markdown
assert "Not ready for direct replacement" in markdown
assert "hermes_cli/runtime_provider.py:10" in markdown
assert "hermes_state.py:40" in markdown
def test_issue_context_is_embedded_in_report():
report = tz.build_report([], [])
markdown = tz.build_markdown(report)
assert "Issue #860" in markdown
assert "tensorzero" in markdown.lower()
assert "10% traffic" in markdown