Delegation & Parallel Work
Hermes can spawn isolated child agents to work on tasks in parallel. Each subagent gets its own conversation, terminal session, and toolset. Only the final summ
Hermes can spawn isolated child agents to work on tasks in parallel. Each subagent gets its own conversation, terminal session, and toolset. Only the final summary comes back — intermediate tool calls never enter your context window. For the full feature reference, see Subagent Delegation. …
What this page covers
- When to Delegate
- Pattern: Parallel Research
- Pattern: Code Review
- Pattern: Compare Alternatives
- Pattern: Multi-File Refactoring
- Pattern: Gather Then Analyze
- Toolset Selection
- Constraints
- Tuning Concurrency and Depth
- Tips
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