Agent Task Router

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Lets your agent delegate work to specialist agents by writing task briefs and collecting their results.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Agent Task Router skill

About this skill

Use when an orchestrator needs to route work to specialist Hermes agents through a task bus, create task briefs, check outboxes, or summarize delegated results.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by shannhk/hermes-agent-control-room in skills/agent-task-router/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use this skill from an orchestrator agent.

The orchestrator routes work to specialists through /srv/agent-bus or another configured task bus.

Routing Flow

  1. Parse the user's request.
  2. Decide whether to answer directly or delegate.
  3. Pick the correct specialist from the registry.
  4. Write a clear task file to the specialist inbox.
  5. Include context, constraints, expected output, and approval gates.
  6. Track the task ID.
  7. Read the specialist result from outbox.
  8. Synthesize the final answer.
  9. Archive completed task files.

Task Quality Bar

A delegated task must include:

  • clear objective
  • relevant context
  • paths or links
  • constraints
  • what not to do
  • expected output
  • approval requirements

Routing Examples

SEO audit -> hermes-seo
Code bug -> hermes-dev
Campaign planning -> hermes-cmo
VPS health -> hermes-ops

Signals

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Item type
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Key
agent-task-router
Source
github.com/shannhk/hermes-agent-control-room