How-To Series · 8: Provider Plumbing

Mixture of Agents

Route a hard problem through multiple frontier models in one turn with Mixture of Agents.

After this videoYou can now route hard problems through multiple models in one turn.

MoA is a virtual model provider. Each named preset appears as a selectable model under the moa provider. Reference models run first (no tool schemas, cheap). The aggregator writes the response and makes tool calls. Use /model <preset> --provider moa in the CLI or TUI. The Dashboard and Desktop app show a Mixture of Agents provider row with your preset names. /moa is a one-shot shortcut: it runs one prompt through the default preset, then restores your previous model. Configure presets with hermes moa configure. The default preset uses gpt-5.5 as a reference and claude-opus-4.8 as the aggregator. On HermesBench, a two-model MoA preset scores 0.8202, beating opus-4.8 alone (0.7607) by ~6 points.

About these resources. Every command comes from the Mixture of Agents doc.

New words here · Plain English

one sentence each · full glossary
Mixture of AgentsSending the same question to multiple AI models and combining their answers for a better result.
Frontier modelThe most capable AI models available. Using several together can outperform any single one.

Sources · What this video distills

1 docs page · every command below traces to one of them
Primary · MoA as a virtual provider, preset selection, agent loop flow, configuration, benchmarks
Mixture of Agents
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Commands shown · Copy and paste

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Select a presetfrom source ↗
/model default --provider moa
Select a named presetfrom source ↗
/model review --provider moa
One-shot shortcutfrom source ↗
/moa design a migration plan for this test cluster
Configure presetsfrom source ↗
hermes moa configure
Create a named presetfrom source ↗
hermes moa configure review
List presetsfrom source ↗
hermes moa list

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