Running multiple skills at once causes malfunctions in Hermes Agent
A user reported that Hermes Agent breaks when you run several skills at the same time. Running them one at a time works fine, but parallel execution causes errors. Until a fix is released, the safest workaround is to run skills sequentially.
A post in the r/hermesagent subreddit flagged a bug where Hermes Agent malfunctions if you trigger multiple skills simultaneously. A 'skill' is an individual capability the agent can perform — things like web search, reading a file, or calling an external tool.
The problem appears to be with parallel execution: when two or more skills run at the same time, they interfere with each other and the agent behaves incorrectly. For now, the practical fix is simple — run one skill at a time and wait for it to finish before starting the next. Keep an eye out for an official patch that addresses this.
Key points
- Running multiple skills at the same time can cause the agent to malfunction
- Running skills one at a time (sequentially) avoids the issue
- Avoid task setups that trigger parallel skill execution until a fix is released
- Watch for an official update or patch from the Hermes Agent team
Quick term guide
- Hermes Agent
- It appears to be a tool or community for building and managing AI agents.
- Hermes
- A service for letting an AI agent use web tools and complete tasks.
- skills
- Extra built-in instructions that help the AI handle a specific kind of task.
- parallel execution
- Running multiple tasks at the same time instead of one after another.
- parallel
- Doing multiple things simultaneously instead of one after another
- workaround
- An alternative way to get something done when the normal way doesn't work.
- subreddit
- A topic-specific community inside Reddit where people post and discuss related content.
- trigger
- A signal or condition that starts a task.