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⚠️ API call failed (attempt 1/3): UnicodeEncodeError
🔌 Provider: zai Model: glm-5.1
🌐 Endpoint: https://api.z.ai/api/paas/v4
📝 Error: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
⏳ Retrying in 2.1544168638775263s (attempt 1/3)...
⚠️ API call failed (attempt 2/3): UnicodeEncodeError
🔌 Provider: zai Model: glm-5.1
🌐 Endpoint: https://api.z.ai/api/paas/v4
📝 Error: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
⏳ Retrying in 5.917575904951397s (attempt 2/3)...
⚠️ API call failed (attempt 3/3): UnicodeEncodeError
🔌 Provider: zai Model: glm-5.1
🌐 Endpoint: https://api.z.ai/api/paas/v4
📝 Error: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
⚠️ Max retries (3) exhausted — trying fallback...
❌ API failed after 3 retries — 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
💀 Final error: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
─ ⚕ Hermes ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

API call failed after 3 retries: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)

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⚕ glm-5.1 │ 0/200K │ [░░░░░░░░░░] 0% │ 4m
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Resume this session with:
hermes --resume 20260409_182144_6ffc9e

Session: 20260409_182144_6ffc9e
Duration: 4m 27s
Messages: 1 (1 user, 0 tool calls)
(base) dipperzhu@penguin:$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
(base) dipperzhu@penguin:$ hermes

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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Hermes Agent v0.8.0 (2026.4.8) · upstream 1789c26 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Available Tools │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ browser: browser_back, browser_click, ... │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣇⠸⣿⣿⠇⣸⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ clarify: clarify │
│ ⠀⢀⣠⣴⣶⠿⠋⣩⡿⣿⡿⠻⣿⡇⢠⡄⢸⣿⠟⢿⣿⢿⣍⠙⠿⣶⣦⣄⡀⠀ code_execution: execute_code │
│ ⠀⠀⠉⠉⠁⠶⠟⠋⠀⠉⠀⢀⣈⣁⡈⢁⣈⣁⡀⠀⠉⠀⠙⠻⠶⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀ cronjob: cronjob │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⡿⠛⢁⡈⠛⢿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ delegation: delegate_task │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⣿⣦⣤⣈⠁⢠⣴⣿⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ file: patch, read_file, search_files, write_file │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠻⢿⣿⣦⡉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ homeassistant: ha_call_service, ha_get_state, ... │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢷⣦⣈⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ image_gen: image_generate │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣴⠦⠈⠙⠿⣦⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (and 11 more toolsets...) │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣤⡈⠁⢤⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠷⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Available Skills │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠑⢶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ autonomous-ai-agents: claude-code, codex, hermes-agent, opencode │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠁⢰⡆⠈⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ creative: ascii-art, ascii-video, excalidraw, manim-video... │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠳⠈⣡⠞⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ data-science: jupyter-live-kernel │
│ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ devops: webhook-subscriptions │
│ email: himalaya │
│ glm-5.1 · Nous Research gaming: minecraft-modpack-server, pokemon-player │
│ /home/dipperzhu general: dogfood │
│ Session: 20260409_182906_dafc01 github: codebase-inspection, github-auth, github-code-r... │
│ leisure: find-nearby │
│ mcp: mcporter, native-mcp │
│ media: gif-search, heartmula, songsee, youtube-content │
│ mlops: audiocraft-audio-generation, axolotl, clip, dsp... │
│ note-taking: obsidian │
│ productivity: google-workspace, linear, nano-pdf, notion, ocr... │
│ red-teaming: godmode │
│ research: arxiv, blogwatcher, llm-wiki, polymarket, resea... │
│ smart-home: openhue │
│ social-media: xitter │
│ software-development: plan, requesting-code-review, subagent-driven-d... │
│ │
│ 28 tools · 73 skills · /help for commands │
│ ⚠ 39 commits behind — run hermes update to update │
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Initializing agent...
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⚠️ API call failed (attempt 1/3): UnicodeEncodeError
🔌 Provider: zai Model: glm-5.1
🌐 Endpoint: https://api.z.ai/api/paas/v4
📝 Error: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
⏳ Retrying in 2.3273248691197193s (attempt 1/3)...
⚠️ API call failed (attempt 2/3): UnicodeEncodeError
🔌 Provider: zai Model: glm-5.1
🌐 Endpoint: https://api.z.ai/api/paas/v4
📝 Error: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
⏳ Retrying in 5.25883129440488s (attempt 2/3)...
⚠️ API call failed (attempt 3/3): UnicodeEncodeError
🔌 Provider: zai Model: glm-5.1
🌐 Endpoint: https://api.z.ai/api/paas/v4
📝 Error: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
⚠️ Max retries (3) exhausted — trying fallback...
❌ API failed after 3 retries — 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
💀 Final error: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
─ ⚕ Hermes ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

API call failed after 3 retries: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)

───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
⚕ glm-5.1 │ 0/200K │ [░░░░░░░░░░] 0% │ 3m
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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Expected Behavior

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Actual Behavior

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Affected Component

CLI (interactive chat)

Messaging Platform (if gateway-related)

N/A (CLI only)

Operating System

chromebook 8G128G

Python Version

Python 版本: 3.12.9 | packaged by Anaconda, Inc. | (main, Feb 6 2025, 18:56:27) [GCC 11.2.0] 可执行文件: /home/dipperzhu/miniconda3/bin/python

Hermes Version

Hermes Agent v0.8.0 (2026.4.8) · upstream 1789c26

Relevant Logs / Traceback

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Root Cause Analysis (optional)

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Proposed Fix (optional)

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Are you willing to submit a PR for this?

• I'd like to fix this myself and submit a PR