autolab-hermes-delegation

Safe multi-agent delegation in Autolab Hermes workflows is a control method where a parent session delegates tasks to child agents like planner or researcher while enforcing role defaults, memory isolation, and single-pass summaries to prevent uncontrolled actions.

To delegate tasks safely to multiple agents, pass the full role contract in every delegate_task call, ensuring each agent operates within a defined toolset and isolated memory to prevent unintended or repeated delegation actions.

Hermes delegation supports multiple roles including planner, reviewer, researcher, reporter, memory-keeper, and experiment-worker, allowing a single parent controller to reuse the delegation contract across various specialized agents within one repo.

To stop a parent Hermes session from repeatedly delegating to child agents, enforce non-clarification interactions and single-pass summaries within the delegate_task contract, which prevents circular task hand-offs.

Hermes delegation is designed for multi-agent control within a single repository context, allowing a parent session to manage role defaults and governance rules for all child agents operating in that environment.

Single-pass summaries in multi-agent workflows prevent repeated delegation but require each child agent to return complete results in one pass, meaning complex tasks must be fully scoped within the initial delegate_task contract before execution.