What the Agent Does While Idle: Asynchronous Background Review After a Conversation

The article explains Hermes' Background Review mechanism that triggers asynchronous self‑improvement after a dialogue ends, detailing trigger conditions, a forked sub‑agent architecture, prompt selection, cost‑saving cache inheritance, a four‑step skill‑update priority, result reporting, and common pitfalls.

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What the Agent Does While Idle: Asynchronous Background Review After a Conversation

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May 24, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Execution → Observation → Reflection → Improvement: How Hermes Closes the Skill Loop

The article dissects Hermes' background review mechanism, showing how a silent daemon thread performs post‑conversation reflection, writes valuable insights to a skill or memory store, shares prompt designs, fork‑agent isolation, priority update rules, and common pitfalls for building continuously learning LLM agents.

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Execution → Observation → Reflection → Improvement: How Hermes Closes the Skill Loop