Coordinator agent that hands off to coding agents
A conversational agent runs todos, cron jobs, research and Obsidian notes, delegating repo work to IDE and CLI coding agents.
- Agent or tool
- Hermes
- Topic
- Software Development
- Reported on
- Blog
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Coding agents are moving from autocomplete to doing whole tasks: reading a codebase, making a plan and changing many files. This case is a concrete example of where that works in practice. It is one of 106 sightings filed under Software Development on Agent Sightings (number 41 by interest), and one of 1 involving Hermes.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Hermes or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Research the latest changelogs for the tools in my stack, summarize what changed this week, and add the summary to today's note.
Tip: Work on a fresh branch, ask for a plan before edits, and review the diff and test results before merging.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Blog: https://vishsubramanian.me/my-agentic-development-workflow-as-of-july-2026/. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.