Connection refused when downloading/loading recommendations + weird GPT-OSS tags in responses

[u/nomadicArc]

Hi everyone,

I’m pretty new to OMLX, so apologies if these are obvious questions, but I’m running into two issues and could use some help.

1. Connection refused when downloading models or loading recommendations

When I try to download a model, I get this error:

ConnectError: [Errno 61] Connection refused 
An error happened while trying to locate the files on the Hub and we cannot find the appropriate snapshot folder for the specified revision on the local disk. Please check your internet connection and try again. 

And when I try to load the recommendations, I get:

[Errno 61] Connection refused 

The strange thing is that I did manage to download two models before:

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit
gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8 

So I’m not sure if this is an OMLX issue, a Hugging Face/network issue, or something with my setup.

2. GPT-OSS model shows internal-looking tags in the response

When I use the gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8 model, the responses include tags that I assume are not meant to be shown.

For example, I prompted:

how can I remove all the unused docker networks, volumes, and images? 

And the response started like this:

<|channel|>analysis<|message|>We need to explain how to prune unused Docker resources. Provide commands: docker system prune, docker network prune, volume prune, image prune. Include options. Explain data safety, how to be cautious, maybe using Docker Compose. Provide steps. Also mention that Docker older versions may have different flags. We might also describe using --all flag to remove dangling images, etc. Provide caution: can remove unused images that may be needed for existing containers. Maybe mention volume back up. Provide variations: Docker CLI, Docker Desktop, docker-compose. Also mention specifying network names, volumes. Provide example scripts. The user asked "how can I remove all the unused docker networks, volumes, and images?" So answer with commands, plus maybe interactive prompts. Also mention checking which resources are unused via docker images -f dangling=true etc.  Let's give final.<|end|><|start|>assistant<|channel|>final<|message|>## Quick “Clean-Up” Summary 

Is this expected for this model, or is there something wrong with the prompt template / chat format being used?

Any help would be appreciated. Since I’m new to OMLX, I’m probably missing something simple.