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@@ -234,10 +234,21 @@ straylight/dixie). `~/.hermes/config.yaml` gained an `mcp_servers.robot` block (
 `http://10.55.0.2:8765/mcp`, `Authorization: Bearer ${ROBOT_MCP_TOKEN}`) and `~/.hermes/.env` gained
 `ROBOT_MCP_TOKEN`; backups are `config.yaml.bak-20261005T002659-robot-mcp` and
 `.env.bak-20261005T002659-robot-mcp`. `hermes mcp list` shows it enabled and **`hermes mcp test
-robot` passes: connected in 789 ms, 1 tool (`look`)**, which is the HANDOFF acceptance check. Not done
-yet: a real agent turn that calls `look()` (it would send a camera image to the hosted model, so it
-needs the owner's say-so), which is also what settles whether Hermes hands MCP images to the model.
-A fresh `HERMES_HOME` hangs on first-run setup, so test against the real one.
+robot` passes: connected in 789 ms, 1 tool (`look`)**, which is the HANDOFF acceptance check. A fresh
+`HERMES_HOME` hangs on first-run setup, so test against the real one.
+
+**A real agent turn works, entirely on local models (2026-10-05):** `hermes chat -q "Call the look tool
+once ... what you see" --oneshot -Q --provider custom:llama-router -m ornith-1.5-35b-a3b --max-turns 4`
+(straylight's router; no hosted provider, so the image stayed on the LAN). Hermes called
+`mcp__robot__look` (0.07 s), the model described the live photo correctly (blurry close-up of a board
+with blue LEDs, a red label, camouflage fabric), and the robot's face went `looking` -> `idle`.
+**Hermes does not hand MCP image content to the main model.** It saves the JPEG to
+`~/.hermes/cache/images/img_<hash>.jpg` on talos (157,147 bytes, the same as the robot sent) and
+returns a 72-character reference; the model then calls Hermes's `vision_analyze`, which ran on the local
+vision model (`qwen3-vl-8b-abliterated` on straylight) in 29 s. That is HANDOFF package 6's fallback and
+Hermes does it itself, so `look()` needs no change. Two consequences: each look() leaves a photo of the
+room in talos's Hermes image cache (Hermes's retention, not the robot's), and a look-and-describe turn
+takes ~70 s on the local models, mostly the vision call.
 
 ## Face recognition (opt-in)