# AshBot — Status

> Personal assistant agent for **Ashley** (Phoenix Salon + Spa — Veripath's active client),
> delivered over **iMessage via Photon**. Hermes profile `ashbot`.
> Last worked: 2026-09-15.

## Identity

| | |
|---|---|
| Profile | `ashbot` — `~/AppData/Local/hermes/profiles/ashbot` |
| Purpose | Ashley's personal assistant (scheduling, business admin, marketplace scouting) |
| Channel | Photon → iMessage. **Own Photon project**, separate from the coach line |
| Reachable by | Ashley (home channel + allowed user); Tony tests from his own line |
| Sidecar | Photon sidecar on `127.0.0.1:8790` |
| Gateway | PID 10384, platform `photon: connected`, Hermes 0.21.2 |

## Model stack (changed 2026-09-12)

| | |
|---|---|
| Provider | `omniroute` → `http://127.0.0.1:20128/v1` |
| Primary | `auto/best-free` (OmniRoute free-tier auto-combo — live roulette) |
| Fallback | `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash` → `freetoken-gemma26b/Gemma-4-26B-A4B-NVFP4` (local, free) |

Before 2026-09-12 this profile had **no failover at all** — `hermes -p ashbot fallback list`
returned "No fallback providers configured"; the `model.fallback:` key in her config is not
the failover chain. See [[01_Wiki/omniroute-routing-failover]] for the failure mode.

## Incident log

### 2026-09-12 — turn died mid Marketplace scan (fixed)

- 10:07–10:17 PT. Ashley/Tony asked for a live Facebook Marketplace flip scan.
- Browser work (`browser_exec`) ran; the connection hiccuped mid-scan; then the model API
  collapsed — **9 empty streams in a row** (`http 200, bytes 0`) at 10:14:53–10:15:11.
- Cause: the `auto/best-free` combo's OpenRouter primary dropped out, and the chain fell into
  broken targets — `opencode/minimax-m3-free` (401, model unsupported) and
  `auggie/claude-sonnet-4.6` (200 with an empty body, ~1.0 s). A 200 never trips OmniRoute's
  breaker, so the combo never reached a working target and Hermes killed the turn.
- User-visible: 276 s of silence → a 141-char stub → an 18,045-char dump truncated to **8,000
  chars mid-sentence** by the Photon adapter. Session `20260912_100658_6c1e9828`; last message
  persisted 10:12:49 — the turn never completed.
- Fixed: `fallback_providers` added to her `config.yaml` (backup:
  `config.yaml.bak.20260912_133720`) **and** `blockedProviders = ["auggie","opencode"]` set in
  OmniRoute (`~/.omniroute/storage.sqlite`). Catalog went 476 → 453 models.

### 2026-09-15 — fleet-wide gateway outage after Hermes 0.21.2 auto-update (fixed)

- 07:27–07:31 PT. The 0.21.2 auto-update requested graceful restarts of every profile's
  gateway (ashbot 07:31:27, leonard 07:31:35, jimmy 07:31:45); the post-restart relaunch
  never fired, so all gateways stayed down. The machine had rebooted ~07:27 — login items
  started gateways, the update then stopped them, nothing restarted them.
- Ashbot additionally lost its whole model provider: the OmniRoute server itself was dead
  (no process, nothing on :20128 — it has no service/login item and does not survive a
  reboot). Restarted via `omniroute serve --no-open --daemon` (NOT `node
  dist/server-ws.mjs`, which serves only Dashboard/WS and never the 20128 API).
- Root-caused the combo's per-turn lag: `theoldllm` targets 403'd on every request and
  OpenRouter connection was `credits_exhausted`, so `auto/best-free` burned ~6-20 s/turn
  on dead hops before landing on the local freetoken Gemma engine (which answers every
  turn today). Combo verdict logs `499 "all targets exhausted"` even when the last
  successful step's body was delivered.
- Fixed: `blockedProviders` += `theoldllm` (catalog 453 → 427 models); `fallback_providers`
  chain verified still registered (`hermes -p ashbot fallback list`). Turn latency back to
  ~10 s. Live check-ins continue to route `omniroute` → local Gemma-4-26B.

## Active automation

- **Cron job `e4df5902e96f` — "Tony daily check-in"**, `0 9 * * *`, provider pinned
  (`--provider omniroute`). Created and test-run 2026-09-12; delivery verified.
- Contact/scheduling jobs discussed with Ashley — the 9/12 test confirmed a scheduled
  check-in actually fires and delivers.

## Open items

- **iMessage outbound cap: 8,000 chars.** The Photon adapter truncates long replies
  mid-sentence (`truncating outbound from 18045 to 8000 chars`). Her scan reports routinely
  exceed it — cap her output or chunk it.
- **Primary is still the free roulette.** A failure now costs the retry window (~1 min
  typical, up to ~4.5 min) before the fallback takes over, instead of killing the turn.
- **OpenRouter connection is `credits_exhausted`** (2026-09-15). Every `auto/*` combo hop
  that tries OpenRouter dies instantly and the chain leans on the local Gemma engine; this
  is also why the coach profile 402s. Decision needed: top up, or accept local-first.
  Combo still tries ~3-4 fast-failing no-auth targets per turn (duckduckgo-web 418,
  chipotle 502, mimocode 499) before the local hop — sub-second each, cosmetic.
- **Browser mid-scan hiccup** — `browser_exec` dropped during the marketplace scan; the retry
  path is untested since the model fix.

## Files

| Path | Change |
|---|---|
| `profiles/ashbot/config.yaml` | `+ fallback_providers` (2026-09-12); backup alongside |
| `~/.omniroute/storage.sqlite` | `settings.blockedProviders` = `["auggie","opencode","theoldllm"]` (2026-09-15) |
| Hermes skill | `omniroute-routing-failover` (jimmy profile) |

See also: [[04_projects/phoenix-salon/status]] · [[04_projects/veripath/status]] ·
[[01_Wiki/omniroute-routing-failover]]