A0 is unique—it maintains persistent memory regardless of which LLM you cycle through. For the past two months I've worked across four A0 instances, averaging 10 hours daily. I had an epiphany I've since confirmed through testing. THE PROBLEM I primarily run Opus 4.5. When tokens run out, I switch to budget models (Sonnet, GLM, Kimi). The results were consistently awful—but not in the ways I expected. THE DISEASE: CONFIDENT CONFABULATION My A0 instances have learned, through months of interaction, to be autonomous and creative. Opus earns this trust. But when I swap in a lesser model, A0 still tries to behave like it's capable—because the memories say it should be. The model doesn't know I just dropped its IQ by 20 points. Recent example: a budget model invented an entirely fictional set of IP addresses for my server fleet, then "fixed" my Telegram scripts to match. When asked where those IPs came from? No idea. DON'T POISON IT Here's why this is worse than just "dumb model does dumb thing": When a budget model hallucinates confidently, that hallucination gets written to memory. Now your good model retrieves that garbage as if it's fact. Memory contamination. You've also trained yourself to prompt tersely because Opus "just gets it." Those same prompts given to a lesser model fail in bizarre ways. WHY OTHERS HAVE BETTER LUCK WITH BUDGET MODELS People who report success with cheap models probably: Run simpler, more deterministic tasks Prompt more explicitly (less autonomy) Haven't accumulated months of complex memory patterns Don't notice subtle errors until they compound THE FIX I'm now running isolated A0 instances by model tier. The budget instance develops memories appropriate to its actual capabilities. My primary Opus instances stay clean—even if they sit idle. Quantity of agent time isn't the goal. Quality is. Anyone else noticed similar patterns?

Hi all… I kinda stumbled across Agent Zero, by accident. Glad I did. I'm the founder behind the Pearson Consulting Group Ltd, I'm someone who has spent the last 40 years + (I know i'm getting long in the tooth) :-) in the tech space. Here at PCG we build agentic automations for companies turning over between 1 & 20 million in ARR, and who are actively running PPC campaigns. We make heavy use of n8n and integrate with client infrastructor. Not (yet) seen how to connect Agent Zero with n8n, but, hey, i've only been here for ~ 48 hours! Happy to connect with other n8n users who have already connected Agent Zero to their n8n workflows

Hi everyone, Just a quick heads-up for today's call. Unfortunately, both Jan and I won't be able to lead the session today. But the call goes on anyway! The call link is active for a Community Call. Feel free to join, meet other Agent Zero users, share and discuss your current projects. Thanks to all the new users and builders joining the platform. Link to join: https://www.skool.com/live/DlyvNKHbyWw We'll be back to host properly next week. Enjoy the networking!

I asked A0 to install n8n within it's system and allow me to view it. It installs and you can view n8n via a secord port and browser tab or window (had to enable 2 ports via docker desktop, agent guided me through "make sure you backup first"). Uploaded the n8n documentation to it, gave it access to the perplexity, deepwiki, and Ref mcp servers. Now I'm able to run n8n inside A0. I have only provided pre-built workflows at the moment. I had A0 create an n8n agent, and workflows folder that it saves each workflow along with its purpose to it and reads from. I just drop the .json into the chat. It pulls up the workflows in the n8n instance and runs them, it even debugged one workflow for me spot on. Going to test and see how it does building workflows from scratch. Best part is that I am currently using the free xiaomi flash model via openrouter and so far it works flawlessly. I imagine that using claude opus or sonnet would make it even more powerful. Just something to test out if anyone uses n8n regularly. Now you can do it all via A0. So far so good.

I'm getting this error when trying to use this restore: Restore error: Unexpected token 'T', "Traceback "... is not valid JSON. I've backed up everyday and I'm trying to restore into a clean A0 install. I've tried using other models to ask for help with a variety of suggestions, none of which worked. Help.