diff --git a/services/hermes/switchyard-configmap.yaml b/services/hermes/switchyard-configmap.yaml
index b953dfcb1..ad438875c 100644
--- a/services/hermes/switchyard-configmap.yaml
+++ b/services/hermes/switchyard-configmap.yaml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ data:
     max_retries = 0
 
     [targets.classifier]
-    id = "qwen2.5:3b-instruct-q4_0"
+    id = "qwen2.5:14b-instruct-q4_0"
     llm_client = "classifier"
 
     [targets.local_qwen_low]
diff --git a/services/hermes/switchyard-deployment.yaml b/services/hermes/switchyard-deployment.yaml
index 71bf2c117..0d23c8097 100644
--- a/services/hermes/switchyard-deployment.yaml
+++ b/services/hermes/switchyard-deployment.yaml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ spec:
       labels:
         app: hermes-switchyard
       annotations:
-        ai.bstein.dev/config-rev: "20260811-switchyard-authority-v7"
+        ai.bstein.dev/config-rev: "20260811-switchyard-authority-v8"
         prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
         prometheus.io/port: "9005"
         prometheus.io/path: /metrics
diff --git a/testing/tests/test_hermes_chat_quality.py b/testing/tests/test_hermes_chat_quality.py
index 9fcee3d6d..780cc68b1 100644
--- a/testing/tests/test_hermes_chat_quality.py
+++ b/testing/tests/test_hermes_chat_quality.py
@@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ def test_local_flux_runtime_and_gpu_handoff_are_flux_managed():
     switchyard = _documents(HERMES / "switchyard-configmap.yaml")[0]["data"][
         "routes.toml"
     ]
+    assert 'id = "qwen2.5:14b-instruct-q4_0"' in switchyard
+    assert "qwen2.5:3b-instruct-q4_0" not in switchyard
     assert "route/local/qwen2.5-14b/medium" in switchyard
     model_gate = _documents(HERMES / "model-gate-configmap.yaml")[0]["data"][
         "model_gate.py"
@@ -774,7 +776,7 @@ def test_local_flux_runtime_and_gpu_handoff_are_flux_managed():
 
 
 def test_titan20_serializes_classifier_and_local_chat_model_residency():
-    """The two Qwen weights must not overcommit Xavier unified memory."""
+    """Classifier and local chat share one serialized resident Qwen weight."""
     deployment = _documents(
         Path(__file__).parents[2] / "services/ai-llm/deployment.yaml"
     )[0]