hermes-agent-spawning

Use one-shot mode with the terminal tool: run hermes chat -q followed by your task in quotes, with background set to true. The command returns a session_id you can monitor with the process tool while the agent works independently.

delegate_task spawns lightweight subagents sharing the parent process with a subset of tools and no session persistence. Spawning a hermes process launches a fully independent CLI with full tool access, its own SQLite session logging, and support for hours-long autonomous runs.

Run hermes --continue to resume the most recent CLI session, or hermes --resume followed by the session ID shown on exit. The full conversation history, including messages and tool calls, is restored from SQLite.

prompt_toolkit in raw mode expects a carriage return (\r) for Enter, but the submit action sends a line feed (\n), so text appears but never submits. The workaround is to run hermes inside tmux and use tmux send-keys with Enter, which sends the correct \r.

Yes, spawn multiple background one-shot instances with separate hermes chat -q commands, each handling an unrelated task. Use the process tool's list action to track all running instances and check their output files when they complete.