Ran out of Grok credits mid-week: a lesson on not locking your agent harness to one vendor
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-10-17
The author shares a first-hand lesson: heavy use of Grok Bot as the outer loop of his agent burned through his weekly credits, revealing that "if you don't know your harness, you don't own anything." Though all projects and lessons were saved via NousResearch's Hermes Agent, over-relying on a single model subscription made switching painful. He now plans to build bots on Hermes-Agent, running the outer loop (swappable models) and inner loop within one harness — a caution against vendor-locking your agent architecture.
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