the important part of Hermes v0.21 is not that agents can talk to each other chat is the interface the architecture underneath is what turns separate bots into a durable team: identity > each bot has its own role, model, memory, skills, and credentials addressability > agents can message a specific peer across profiles and gateways continuity > handoffs land in canonical chats and scheduled jobs remember previous runs intervention > running subagents can be inspected, redirected, or stopped contracts > delegated work can require schema-validated output accounting > each delegation reports its own cost governance instruction files require approval before an agent can rewrite them without these primitives, “multi-agent” is several prompts coordinating through shared amnesia with them, the unit of work stops being a chat it becomes an inspectable organization that can remember, delegate, correct course, and continue tomorrow the Pantheon release below ↓