Fix: update compression model to syslog-auto across contract and audit (Rule 7)

- Updated hermes-config-template.prose.md: all references to strix-moe for
  compression changed to syslog-auto to match operational decision on 2026-07-23
  (prevents sustained Strix Halo thermal load via weighted pool).
- Updated audit-hermes-config.py Rule 7 to expect syslog-auto instead of
  strix-moe, ensuring Abiba's next run validates against the correct baseline.

audit-hermes-config.py

@@ -77,15 +77,15 @@ def audit(path):
 
     # --- Rule 7: Auxiliary Model Consistency ---
     check(
-        comp.get("model") == "strix-moe",
+        comp.get("model") == "syslog-auto",
         "Rule 7",
-        f"compression.model must be strix-moe (got {comp.get('model')!r}) — only valid compression model",
+        f"compression.model must be syslog-auto (got {comp.get('model')!r}) — auto-routing to prevent Strix Halo overload",
     )
     aux_comp = aux.get("compression", {})
     check(
-        aux_comp.get("model") == "strix-moe",
+        aux_comp.get("model") == "syslog-auto",
         "Rule 7",
-        f"auxiliary.compression.model must be strix-moe (got {aux_comp.get('model')!r}) — must match compression.model",
+        f"auxiliary.compression.model must be syslog-auto (got {aux_comp.get('model')!r}) — must match compression.model",
     )
 
     # --- Rule 8: GPU Workload Distribution ---

hermes-config-template.prose.md

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ mcp_servers:
 # ─── Compression ───
 compression:
   enabled: true
-  model: strix-moe               # ⚠️ Must match auxiliary.compression.model. Stable alias (gpu-fleet § Stable Role-Based Aliases). NOT ornith-1.0-35b (LiteLLM does not serve that name).
+  model: syslog-auto               # ⚠️ Must match auxiliary.compression.model. Stable alias (gpu-fleet § Stable Role-Based Aliases). NOT ornith-1.0-35b (LiteLLM does not serve that name).
   provider: harness
   max_context_window: 131072      # MUST match actual GPU capacity. All 3 GPUs are 128K (Jul 17).
   threshold: 0.65                 # Fires at ~170K for 262K window, ~85K for 128K
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ auxiliary:
     timeout: 30
   compression:
     provider: harness
-    model: strix-moe              # MUST match compression.model above. Stable alias for Strix Halo.
+    model: syslog-auto              # MUST match compression.model above. Stable alias for Strix Halo (weighted pool).
     base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1   # Rule 5: /v1 NOT /litellm/v1
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
     timeout: 300                 # gpu-fleet: 300s for large-history summarization (was 60)
@@ -252,6 +252,11 @@ The following MUST be identical across ALL profiles:
 - Compression uses `strix-moe` (stable alias for Strix Halo — 64GB, 128K ctx, compression-optimized)
 - **`strix-moe` is the only valid compression model name** — LiteLLM does NOT serve `ornith-1.0-35b`
   (it serves `strix-moe`, `qwen3.6-35B-udq4`, `gpu-dense`, `gpu-light`, `syslog-auto`, `gemma-4-12b`, `qwen3.6-27B-code`). Old configs with `ornith-1.0-35b` cause 403/model-not-found on compression calls.
+- **OPERATIONAL DECISION (2026-07-23): Use `syslog-auto` for compression across all agents.**
+  The `syslog-auto` alias routes to the Strix Halo, but uses the weighted pool instead of pinning
+  to `strix-moe` directly. This prevents sustained Strix Halo thermal load because the pool can
+  fall back to other GPUs if Strix gets hot. Both `compression.model` and `auxiliary.compression.model`
+  MUST be `syslog-auto`.
 - All auxiliary services MUST use identical routing:
   - `base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1`  (Rule 5: `/v1`, NOT `/litellm/v1`)
   - `api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY`
@@ -265,11 +270,11 @@ The following MUST be identical across ALL profiles:
 ### Rule 8: GPU Workload Distribution (UPDATED 2026-07-16)
 - **RTX 3090 (24GB, 128K ctx, qwen3.6-27B-code)**: Heavy reasoning, code gen, long conversations
 - **RTX 5070 (12GB, 128K ctx, gemma-4-12b)**: Vision, web search, quick tasks, web_extract (IQ4_NL+MTP, ~65% VRAM at 128K)
-- **Strix Halo (64GB, 128K ctx, strix-moe)**: Context compression, summarization, long docs
+- **Strix Halo (64GB, 128K ctx, syslog-auto)**: Context compression, summarization, long docs
 - Agent profiles MUST route auxiliary tasks to the correct GPU:
   - `auxiliary.vision.model: gemma-4-12b` (RTX 5070)
   - `auxiliary.web_extract.model: gemma-4-12b` (RTX 5070)
-  - `auxiliary.compression.model: strix-moe` (Strix Halo)
+  - `auxiliary.compression.model: syslog-auto` (Strix Halo)
 - Default model (`model.default`) and custom_provider remain `syslog-auto` for auto-routing
 - For 128K context window: `threshold: 0.65` (fires at ~85K tokens)
 - Do NOT use `threshold: 0.25` — this fires at 65K, causing premature context loss