Can someone recommend a Hermes alternative that is less token hungry? Pi did not work well for my use case.

I keep my max context really small for personal assistant agents; they don't need it. Especially since compaction keeps anything important around anyway. I use 60k with Pi.

I found hermes to be really lightweight, though I am on a relatively older version and built a custom plugin to lazily load mcps (that's probably in hermes proper by now). Compared to kilo it seems to consume far fewer tokens.