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Let me check a few things in parallel — skill loading, system logs, and hermes-specific logs.

Here's what I found from the logs. Let me check one more thing — the latency profile.

Now I have the full picture. Here's what the logs say: --- **skill_view is working fine** — just demonstrated it loading the systematic-debugging skill without any issue. That's not the problem. **What I found in the last 10 minutes of logs:** **1. Auxiliary API timeouts on ollama-cloud (the latency you're seeing)** At 18:07 and 18:09, the `session_search` auxiliary call timed out against your main provider (deepseek-v4-flash on ollama-cloud): ``` auxiliary session_search: connection error on auto (Request timed out.), trying fallback ``` It **falls back** to `nous` (google/gemini-3-flash-preview) and works, but the fallback adds a few seconds of delay. This is why you feel the skids — it's not skill loading, it's the auxiliary model timed out on ollama-cloud and waiting for the fallback to kick in. **2. openclaw-gateway crash-loop (unrelated noise)** This service is restarting every 5 seconds, counter at 927,154+ — it's a dead systemd service referencing `/usr/lib/node_modules/openclaw/dist/index.js` that no longer exists on disk. This isn't Hermes, just noise in journalctl. We can clean it up if you want. **3. Hermes Agent health is fine** - Gateway running on port 8642 - Plugin discovery: 7 found, 4 enabled - Model: deepseek-v4-flash - Session storage active - No errors in the agent log during this current session --- The root cause of what you're feeling: **the auxiliary API calls (session_search, title_generation) are timing out on ollama-cloud** roughly every 2 minutes, then falling back to nous. Each timeout adds ~30s delay before the fallback kicks in. Would you like me to: - Set a faster timeout or change the fallback provider to skip the wait? - Or stop that noisy openclaw-gateway service?