Open-Source Jermes Plugin Routes Yes/No Decisions to a Smaller Model, Cutting Costs 39%
grandorganics · x · 2026-09-29
The author's Hermes agent (Nous Research) was paying frontier-model prices for yes/no decisions, so he built Jermes, an open-source Hermes Agent plugin that routes those decisions to Jev by Typesafe. Live A/B testing showed 39% lower costs with identical answers. Repo is public.
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