Overview
This architecture changes how the system should be designed. The important question is not only, "Which model is smartest?" It is also, "What environment will let the model perform useful work reliably?" A coding-oriented harness may be strong at software work but may not be designed to know a person, a business, customers, preferences, and recurring operations. Hermes is configured around the broader role of an AI employee or chief of staff.
The harness also creates continuity. A model response is temporary. A harness can retain a skill, remember a preference, accept work from a phone, run a scheduled briefing, update a project board, and hand a design task to one model while assigning implementation to another.