The 'Auxiliary Tasks (CONSISTENCY RULE)' header claimed ALL auxiliary
services must use an identical model (gpu-vision) and that syslog-auto
must never be used for auxiliary tasks. Both are false for compression,
which the script (and Rule 7/8) require to be syslog-auto. An agent
following the template produced a config the audit then failed.
- Split auxiliary into two classes: light (vision, web_extract/browsing)
-> gpu-vision (RTX 5070); context-heavy (compression) -> syslog-auto,
citing the existing 2026-07-23 OPERATIONAL DECISION in Rule 7.
- Remove the absolute 'Do NOT use syslog-auto for auxiliary tasks' line.
- State gpu-dense + strix-moe are the reasoning hosts; do not pin aux to them.
- Note the change in the frontmatter UPDATED log.
audit-hermes-config.py unchanged (it is the enforcement contract); prose
now matches it line-for-line on vision/web_extract/compression.
Verified: prose-lint.sh PASS, secret-scan.sh clean, 14/14 tests in
tests/test_audit_hermes_config_alias.py pass, audit PASSES on the
template's stated policy.
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