Hermes Agent Masterclass: 8. Subagents & Delegation

Module 8 of the Hermes Agent Masterclass: instead of one agent grinding through everything in series, spawn a tree of sub-agents that work in parallel — on cheaper models — and hand back just the answer. Sign up for my FREE weekly newsletter, where I spill my unfiltered thoughts on the latest AI news, cool research, and projects I'm building: https://www.onchainaigarage.com/ 🐦 Follow Tonbi on X for real-time AI x blockchain updates! https://x.com/tonbistudio If Cron is one agent stretched across time, this module is the other axis: many agents running at once. I cover why delegation matters (it fixes context poisoning and serial slowness by giving each child a clean isolated context and running them in parallel), the delegate_task tool and the "subagents know nothing" rule that trips everyone up, and how to scope each child's tools tightly. The big practical win is cheap children, strong parent — routing the token-heavy grunt work to a cheaper model while the parent keeps a strong one for orchestration and synthesis, which I measure live in a solo-vs-sub-agents cost comparison. I also dig into control (delegation depth, orchestrator roles, and the new background=true flag for async) and, importantly, when NOT to delegate. It all builds to a three-level research tree — fanning out to 3 orchestrators and 9 workers, then synthesizing it all back into one report. Resources: 🔗 Hermes Agent: https://github.com/NousResearch/herme... Timestamps: 0:00 - Module 8: sub-agents and delegation 2:21 - Why delegate: context poisoning + serial slowness 3:42 - The delegate_task tool + a live demo 9:07 - "Sub-agents know nothing" + scoping tools 11:12 - Cheap children, strong parent (cost saving) 13:30 - Parallelization: batch mode + concurrency 15:02 - Demo: solo vs sub-agents (cost comparison) 20:47 - Control: depth, orchestrators, sync vs async 25:44 - The 3-level research tree, live What would you fan out across a fleet of sub-agents? Let me know in the comments. Module 9 is on profiles and the Kanban board — many isolated Hermes instances collaborating on durable work. Subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss it! 🦐✨ #HermesAgent #SubAgents #MultiAgent #AIAgents #AgenticWorkflows #Delegation #AITools #Automation #Masterclass