Hermes Wingtips #27: /background

posted 2026-07-22. original: https://x.com/witcheer/status/2079951218101891530

Hermes Wingtips #27: /background

you do not have to wait while your agent grinds through a long task.

/background <prompt> spawns a completely separate agent session that runs in parallel: your chat stays fully interactive, and the result comes back as a panel in your terminal when it finishes.

(1) as an example: /background analyse the logs in /var/log and summarise today's errors.

you can run several at once, and the status bar shows how many are in flight.

(2) one thing to know: the background agent starts clean, with no knowledge of your conversation.

it only gets the prompt you give it, so write it self-contained. it inherits your model, provider and toolsets, so no setup needed.