Delegation Model Routing

Setup

Configured in ~/.hermes/config.yaml:

delegation:
  child_timeout_seconds: 600
  max_concurrent_children: 3
  max_iterations: 50
  max_spawn_depth: 1
  orchestrator_enabled: true
  subagent_auto_approve: false
  model: openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.7
  provider: admin-ai
  fallback:
    model: deepseek-chat
    provider: admin-ai

Routing architecture

Layer	Model	Provider
My conversation	`deepseek-chat` (fast, cheap)	admin-ai
Subagents (delegation)	`Claude Opus 4.7` (smarter background work)	admin-ai
Fallback	`deepseek-chat`	admin-ai

Verified behavior

Subagent model routing works — subagents dispatched with delegate_task() correctly run on Claude Opus 4.7
The fallback to deepseek-chat fires if the primary model is unavailable
The main conversation thread never drops or degrades — delegation runs in independent background processes
deepseek-v4-pro also works as a delegation model but Claude Opus was preferred for smarter background reasoning

Standing instruction: delegate by default

User established (Jul 5, 2026) that independent tasks should be automatically delegated to subagents rather than serialized in the main thread. This includes:

Research tasks (product research, pricing, API documentation)
Data extraction and processing (parsing emails, extracting PDFs, formatting data)
Parallel workstreams (multiple independent investigations)
Any task that can run independently without blocking the conversation

This is recorded in memory as a standing practice. The user should not have to request delegation — it's the default for any task that can be parallelized.

Testing

# Verify models available
curl -s https://admin-ai.itpropartner.com/v1/models \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $(grep 'api_key:' ~/.hermes/config.yaml | head -1 | awk '{print $2}')" \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json; [print(m['id']) for m in json.load(sys.stdin)['data'] if 'claude-opus' in m['id'].lower()]"

# Test a subagent dispatch (runs in background, result returns as async message)
delegate_task(goal="Respond with what model you're running on.", context="Delegation routing test")

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