▲ 2 r/hermesagent
Hermes ignores local Ollama on Windows and locks onto Claude Opus
Hey everyone,
I just installed Hermes Agent natively on Windows 11 using PowerShell (no WSL2). My goal is to run it completely offline using a local model. I already have Ollama up and running with gemma:4b on my laptop's RTX 4060, and it works great on its own.
However, whenever I boot up Hermes, it completely ignores my local settings. As you can see in my screenshot, the terminal screen opens up but displays claude-opus-4.6 at the bottom left which I had not downloaded .
When I try to type a message, it just throws this error and gets stuck:
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If I try to run hermes model to manually change the settings through the terminal menu, the PowerShell window freezes up completely.
My Questions:
- Has anyone successfully forced a native Windows setup of Hermes to talk to a local Ollama server?
- What should my configuration file look like to completely stop Hermes from defaulting back to Claude Opus?
Any help would be awesome. Thanks!
u/AdOne7444 — 4 days ago