Hermes · Subagent Delegation

One agent spawns many. Each gets a fresh brain and a narrow job.

delegate_task spawns child agents, each with isolated context, its own terminal, and a restricted toolset; only the final summary returns, so the parent context stays clean. The agent delegates automatically when a task is big enough. The one rule: subagents know nothing, the parent must pass everything in goal + context. Hand it a tasks array to run up to 3 in parallel (results in input order). Watch them with /agents in the TUI (live tree, cost rollups, pause/kill). It is synchronous and not durable, use cron or a background command for long-running work. Leaf children are blocked from memory, send_message, delegate, and code_execution.