HHermes Explained

Workflow

Agent Team Delegation

A coordinator workflow that breaks a complex task into specialist research, coding, writing, and verification lanes.

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Agent Team Delegation

What it is

A coordinator workflow that breaks a complex task into specialist research, coding, writing, and verification lanes.

Operating shape

  • Difficulty: advanced
  • Cadence: on demand
  • Category: delegation

Core concepts

  • Agent Team Delegation
  • Subagents
  • Tool Executor
  • Sessions
  • Standard Operating Procedures

Source evidence

  • vendor/hermes-agent/toolsets.py#<file> — Structural Source Map fallback for toolsets.py. A core source file in the Tool Registry and Toolsets structure within Tools, Toolsets, and MCP.
  • Ten Hermes Workflows That Turn a Chatbot into a 24/7 Assistant
  • How to Use Hermes Better Than Most People: Architecture, Project Isolation, and Scalable Workflows

Implementation pattern

Start with a narrow input, define the allowed actions, choose the delivery surface, run the workflow manually once, then add schedule or event triggers only after the result is easy to verify.

Core concepts

Runtime

Tool Executor

The execution layer that runs model-requested tools sequentially or concurrently when safe.

Skills

Standard Operating Procedures

Repeatable procedures encoded as skills or workflow notes.

Interfaces

Sessions

Separate conversation/work containers that keep projects and contexts independent.

Interfaces

Subagents

Specialist agents coordinated by a main session for bounded research, coding, writing, or verification tasks.

Workflow Patterns

Agent Team Delegation

A workflow pattern where a coordinator breaks work into specialist agent tasks.

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Ten Hermes Workflows That Turn a Chatbot into a 24/7 AssistantHow to Use Hermes Better Than Most People: Architecture, Project Isolation, and Scalable Workflows