Why does my Hermes agent ignore instructions even though it has API access and web search?

I’m building a Hermes agent that analyzes marketplace listings. The setup is fairly straightforward: it receives a marketplace link as input, has access to the marketplace API to fetch listing details, and can also use web search. The intended flow is to extract all relevant product information from the link, find comparable listings on the market, and then perform a structured comparison including price, condition, and key specifications. The final output should be a simple score from 0 to 10, where 0 means a bad deal and 10 means a very good deal.

In practice, the agent often doesn’t behave as expected. Sometimes it stops after acknowledging the task, sometimes it asks for confirmation instead of continuing, and other times it ignores the available tools entirely. Even when it does proceed, the output is usually incomplete and lacks proper market comparison.

I’m trying to understand what typically causes this kind of behavior. Is it usually a prompting issue, a tool routing or agent architecture problem, missing constraints in the output format, or something specific to how Hermes handles execution? Any practical debugging advice would help.

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u/Private_Tank — 1 day ago

Hilfe beim Schokofleck entfernen

Hallo zusammen, ich habe leider von einem Kind extrem viel Schokoladenflecken auf mein Hemd bekommen.

Nach mehreren Waschen, einweichen, einmassieren von Spülmittel und Gallseife habe ich nun den Dr. Beckmann Fleckenentferner für Schokolade versucht und auch dieser ist gescheitert. Die dunklen Flecken sind recht schnell rausgegangen aber die Fettflecken bleiben hartnäckig.

Als Nächstes versuche ich noch den Sonett Bleichkonplex und Fleckenentferner.

Hat noch jemand einen Tipp für mich? Wäre super dankbar

Das Hemd besteht aus 87% Polyamid und 13%. Laut Etikett darf nur bis 30 grad gewaschen werden.

u/Private_Tank — 4 days ago

New / Interested in Daytrading

Hi guys,

i just started out researching information about daytrading. I got myself TradingView, created a Papertrade account and limited it to 100$ since I dont want to train using unreasonably high values of money.

I have a few questions:

  1. Is it even worth trading with a few bucks?

  2. What is the best place to start?

  3. Is there a must see video, where I can learn the fundamentals?

Until now I tried trading SOLANA, but everytime I place an Order I immediately am in the red for some reason and the chart need to climb A LOT for me to get in the green slightly. Is this normal?

Also ive seen a lot of traders using the long/short graph to place orders but then I can only place limt orders. Is the limit order the way to go? I though market orders make the most sense, since you place the order at the time you make a decision.

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u/Private_Tank — 17 days ago

So what are the odds of her missing a turn? 50, 75, 100?

Funny enough she took a turn with 2 protected fears and 2 unprotected fears, missed the turn and only lost 1 unprotected fear

u/Private_Tank — 20 days ago

HTTP Streams Recommendations

Is there a good reliable http addon? WebStreamr was nice for a while but I feel like its completely not reliable. And when you find something you get the Player Playback error

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u/Private_Tank — 1 month ago

How would you approach building a used heavy machinery price scoring system with limited structured data?

I’m working on a project where I want to build an application that evaluates listings of used heavy machinery (e.g., excavators, loaders) and assigns a score indicating whether the asking price is good or bad and ranking it on a scale.

The challenge is that my dataset is relatively small and somewhat mixed. Im currently scraping my dataset as good as possible from different marketplaces and extract the different information into a postgre database. Fields include things like year, operating hours, condition, and price, but not always consistently filled.

My initial idea was to train a machine learning model to predict “fair price” and compare it to the asking price. However, given the limited and noisy data, I’m unsure if this is the right approach.

If anyone has experience with pricing models on sparse/heterogeneous datasets, I’d appreciate input on architecture or general approach. I know its an ambitious project but I would be really happy if I could get it roughly working for the start.

If you need any more information I would love to have chat with you

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u/Private_Tank — 2 months ago