Hermes Agent Adds Asynchronous Subagents, So Delegated Work No Longer Blocks the Parent Chat

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Abstraction: Hermes Agent's async_delegation toolset enables non-blocking parallel subagents

Key points:

Previously, delegate_task was synchronous — parent chat blocked until all children completed; new async_delegation toolset returns a task_id immediately
Six async lifecycle tools: delegate_task_async, check_task, steer_task, collect_task, cancel_task, list_tasks
Subagents run as in-process threads with fresh isolated conversations; only the final summary returns to the parent, keeping parent context small
Subagents inherit API keys and credential pool (enabling key rotation on rate limits); can be routed to cheaper models via config.yaml
Synchronous concurrency capped at delegation.max_concurrent_children (default 3); async path allows steer/cancel mid-run
Enable with hermes update; single-session only (cross-turn persistence tracked in ACP issue #4949)

Connections: Nous Research · Hermes Agent · AI Agents · Agentic Coding