What problem does it solve?
Hermes kanban workers frequently encounter avoidable errors like stale workspace conflicts, phantom task claims, context leaks across tenants, and failed cross-agent handoffs that waste compute and break multi-agent task pipelines.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Validated workspace handling: Clear rules for working in scratch, shared persistent directory, and git worktree environments to prevent state conflicts between runs.
- Standardized task handoffs: Pre-built kanban_complete metadata patterns for coding, research, and review tasks that let downstream workers parse results without re-reading full prose.
- Edge case guardrails: Guidance for retry scenarios, block reason formatting, heartbeat best practices, and tenant isolation to prevent context leaks and failed runs.
Use case: A security worker reviewing a pull request can use the structured handoff format to pass critical findings to remediation workers, and avoid claiming task IDs they did not create to prevent workflow errors.
Quick Start
Invoke the kanban-worker skill when dispatched as a Hermes kanban worker to follow validated best practices for task completion, handoffs, and error handling.
