hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Feature]: Support real-time bidirectional communication between subagent and main agent

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Problem or Use Case

Currently, when using delegate_task to spawn subagents, the main agent must wait for the subagent to fully complete before receiving any results or status updates. This creates a black-box situation where:

- If a subagent goes down the wrong path, the main agent cannot intervene until it is too late
- No real-time progress visibility — success or failure is only known at the end
- Retries happen blindly — the main agent cannot provide corrective guidance between attempts

Proposed Solution

  • Expose a callback/invoke endpoint on the main agent side that subagents can call during execution
    • Or introduce a shared message bus / event queue that both main and subagent can read/write during the subagent run
    • The subagent toolset would include a report_status or send_message capability that delivers to the main agent in real-time

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  • I'd like to implement this myself and submit a PR

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