https://magnus919.com/tags/multi-agent-systems/Recent content in Multi-Agent Systems on Notes from the Rabbit HoleHugoen© [Magnus Hedemark](https://github.com/magnus919)Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-hermes-kanban-a-complete-guide-to-multi-agent-task-orchestration/Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://magnus919.com/2026/05/the-hermes-kanban-a-complete-guide-to-multi-agent-task-orchestration/<h1 id="the-hermes-kanban-a-complete-guide-to-multi-agent-task-orchestration">The Hermes Kanban: A Complete Guide to Multi-Agent Task Orchestration</h1> <div class="info-box"> <div class="info-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"> <circle cx="12" cy="12" r="10"></circle> <line x1="12" y1="16" x2="12" y2="12"></line> <line x1="12" y1="8" x2="12.01" y2="8"></line> </svg> </div> <div class="info-content"> <strong>Ahead of the release:</strong> This guide covers the kanban system as it will be once PRs <a href="https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/27572">#27572</a> (orchestrator-driven auto-decomposition) and <a href="https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/27813">#27813</a> (artifact delivery) are merged. Both have been reviewed and approved by the Hermes maintainers. If you&rsquo;re reading this before they land, your kanban board has the specify tool but not the decompose tool, and <code>kanban_complete</code> doesn&rsquo;t yet accept the <code>artifacts</code> parameter — everything else applies today. </div> </div> <p>If you&rsquo;ve used Hermes Agent for more than a weekend, you&rsquo;ve probably discovered <code>delegate_task</code>. It&rsquo;s the obvious tool when you need a subagent to handle a subtask: fork work to a child, wait for it to return, collect the result. It looks like a function call. It works like a function call. And for one-shot reasoning subtasks, it&rsquo;s the right tool.</p>