AshBot — Status

Personal assistant agent for Ashley (Phoenix Salon + Spa — Veripath's active client), delivered over iMessage via Photon. Hermes profile ashbot. Last worked: 2026-09-12.

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 17968, platform `photon: connected`, Hermes 0.21.1

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.

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.
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"]`
Hermes skill	`omniroute-routing-failover` (jimmy profile)

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