Teknium Diagnoses Hermes Trading Agent Stall: 60-Second Approval Timeout Blamed

Developer jbrukh reported that a Hermes trading agent failed to place an order for nearly two days, stuck in loops. Nous Research's Teknium traced the issue to a 60-second approval timeout blocking the whole pipeline, not a single bug.

2026-09-12 ~ 2026-09-13 · 4 related posts

• Dev: Hermes trading agent stuck for two days, sessions dying in 'LLM dementia' — jbrukh · 2026-09-12
• Hermes trading agent stuck for two days: users report broken sessions — witcheer · 2026-09-12
• Teknium debugs a broken trading agent: 60s approval timeout, not one bug, killed the flow — Teknium · 2026-09-13

1 near-duplicate retellings: Teknium