# Hermes Teammates: Hermes Agent plugin

> Give your agent a team: named subagents with their own instructions, tools and model, which it assigns work to, checks on and steers mid-task.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/hermes-teammates  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-teammates  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-20

Give your agent a team: named subagents with their own instructions, tools and model, which it assigns work to, checks on and steers mid-task. The operator defines the roster; the agent follows up with a digest of earlier results and can work a Kanban teammates lane with a review handoff. Launches subagents only through the public ctx.subagent_lifecycle API. Stock Hermes; no patched core.

## Good to know before installing

Adds six tools (teammates_roster, teammate_assign, teammate_check, teammate_wait, teammate_message, teammate_stop) and a /teammates command; the model picks only a teammate name, and the operator's config decides what it means. Teammates run as in-process Hermes subagents using credentials selected by Hermes from the parent, delegation settings or an operator-configured teammate route where supported. Toolsets narrow the parent's tools at toolset granularity only (the file toolset includes write_file and patch); Hermes can add inherited MCP toolsets back unless delegation.inherit_mcp_toolsets is false. A teammate with invalid settings refuses to launch. A delegated child cannot start teammates. Steering uses the lifecycle steer where Hermes provides it, otherwise delegate_task's steer action with the turn-bound parent. Under plugins.isolation: host every tool except the roster refuses. Optionally the roster is read from an operator-named YAML file (roster_file, relative to the profile home or absolute, so several profiles can share one); the plugin never writes it. It keeps a per-profile SQLite run ledger in its plugin-data folder (goals, statuses, clipped summaries, role hashes an

From the plugin's catalog listing.

## How to install

1. Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.

```bash
hermes plugins install hermes-teammates
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable hermes-teammates
```

3. Restart Hermes so it loads the plugin.

Some plugins also need a sign-in or settings: see the official page. Memory plugins ask whether to become your memory provider instead. Steps follow the official plugins guide: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/plugins

## Facts

- Category: Automation & multi-agent
- Maintained by: 100yenadmin (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Adds tools: `teammates_roster`, `teammate_assign`, `teammate_check`, `teammate_wait`, `teammate_message`, `teammate_stop`
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.21.4`
- Version: 1.1.0
- In the catalog since: 2026-10-06, updated 2026-10-20

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-teammates)
- [Source code](https://github.com/100yenadmin/hermes-teammates#readme)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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