Disable Plan Skill and Agent Delegation | Generated by AI

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The plan mode is a skill, but the slowness you’re seeing is from delegation (subagent spawning for reviews). Two things to disable:

  1. Disable the plan skill so the agent doesn’t write plans:
hermes skills config

Or remove it:

rm -rf ~/.hermes/skills/software-development/plan/
  1. Disable delegation to stop subagent spawning (this is the real bottleneck):
hermes config set delegation.max_concurrent_children 0

Or disable the delegation toolset entirely:

hermes tools disable delegation

After either change, /reset to start a fresh session.

The delegation spawning (review → spec check → code quality review, each as a separate subagent) is what’s burning time and tokens. Disabling the delegation toolset forces the agent to do everything inline — faster, fewer API calls.


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