#4 · live subagent steering
my Hermes Agent spawns worker agents with delegate_task: each one gets its own fresh context and terminal, works independently, and reports back when done.
since the Pantheon release the parent agent can also manage them while they run:
(1) list: see every running child, its goal, status and how long it has been working
(2) steer: queue a course correction into a running child without killing it, something like "focus on pricing instead". it lands at the child's next step and the in-flight work survives
(3) stop: end a child early, the partial result still comes back
two more upgrades in the same wave: you can hand a child a JSON schema its final answer has to match, and the defaults are now 250 tool-calling turns per child, up to 10 children running at once.
https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/delegation