Hermes Agent's new async subagents take aim at the blocking-agent problem
Teknium says the delegate tool can now fan out work without freezing the chat, a practical change for long-running agent workflows.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Asynchronous subagents turn Hermes delegation from a blocking trick into a usable workflow primitive, putting pressure on open-agent runtimes to manage parallel work, not just call tools.
Teknium (@Teknium), the Nous Research cofounder and head of post-training behind the Hermes model line, said Monday that Hermes Agent now supports asynchronous subagents, moving one of the open-source agent's core orchestration tools out of the wait-until-it-finishes pattern that has constrained multi-agent work.…
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