Hermes Agent Architecture
A Reference Pattern for Durable State, Bounded Agents, and Failure Recovery
By
Tenten AI Research
Systems Architecture
Published
Updated
Read time
4 min
Abstract
A multi-step agent workflow needs an explicit plan for interrupted workers, partial tool effects, approvals and unfinished work. This paper presents a reference architecture under the existing Hermes label: separate orchestration, bounded task execution and permission-enforcing tools, with state that can be inspected and recovered.
Temporal’s task documentation distinguishes replay of recorded Activity results from executing new attempts. Its Activity documentation explains retries and recommends idempotency to avoid duplicate side effects. Durable history helps recovery; it does not guarantee that an external operation occurs exactly once or that a task completes after every failure.
Summarize this page with AI
Full Content
Read the full whitepaper
Provide your details to access the guide.
Submitted details are handled under our privacy policy to provide the requested content and respond to your enquiry.
Need help accessing this whitepaper? Contact Tenten
Start with one workflow.
Agree on the next step.
Leave your contact details and question type. We will follow up by email to understand the work and discuss scope.