nc://delegation

Named model routes for subagents: the agent picks a fast, a deep or a local you defined, and only the names and the one-line descriptions you wrote reach it. A Nodecode rewrite of NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins by NousResearch.

Get it

Tell the agent "add the delegation cell", or run nodecode add nc://delegation.

Set it up

No key of its own: a route names a provider and a model you already have configured, so the subagent runs on credentials that are already there. Write the routes in the delegation section of ~/.nodecode/config.jsonc (/settings, or the file; config.example.jsonc has the shape):

"delegation": {
  "backend": "model_map",
  "default_route": "fast",
  "routes": [
    { "name": "fast", "description": "Cheap and quick: lookups, summaries, simple edits.",
      "provider": "openrouter", "model": "google/gemini-3-flash-preview" },
    { "name": "deep", "description": "Slow and careful: hard debugging and design work.",
      "provider": "anthropic", "model": "claude-opus-5", "reasoning_effort": "high" }
  ]
}

A malformed route — no name, no description, no model, a name that is not letters, digits, ., _ or - — is skipped rather than guessed at, and a standing notice says which and why; a repeated name keeps the first. The section is read when the cell starts, so (restart-cells "nodecode-delegation") is what a rewritten route list needs.

Use it

Ask for a task to go to a route. The agent calls delegate with the task and the route's name:

delegate(task: "Find every caller of parse_header and say which ones pass a null buffer.",
         route: "fast")

• The task runs in a fresh subagent session whose model selection is the route's: its own transcript, the same folder, listed on /sessions under the session that asked. It never sees the parent's conversation — the task's words are all of it — so write them whole.

• The answer is the subagent's last words, then the route it ran on and its session id:

  Three callers: src/parse.lisp:88, :141 and src/http.lisp:32 -- the second and third pass a null buffer.
  [route fast: openrouter · google/gemini-3-flash-preview · session delegate-3KQ7]

• A task with no route runs on default_route when one is set, else on the parent's own model.

• Only route names and descriptions are in the tool's schema — the provider, the model id and the endpoint are never tool parameters, so the agent cannot invent a route, and a name outside the list is refused before anything runs.

/delegation prints the mode, each route's name and line, and what it actually runs on, with the other mode as a picker row. /delegation model_map (or models) and /delegation default save the mode, and say that a restart puts the new tool list on; the switch is live for the mode's gate at once, which is what refuses a route of the mode you left instead of running it on the wrong model.

What is not here

• Profile routes — running a subagent as another Hermes profile. A Hermes profile is a config inside one process; a Nodecode profile is a separate home with its own organism, so a subagent cannot become one in this image.
• Daybreak (daybreak: true), per-route service_tier, fallback_providers, api_key, api_mode and base_url. A Nodecode provider section carries the endpoint and the key, and the reasoning effort is the one per-route setting this cell passes on.

License

MIT. The original plugin is Copyright (c) 2026 Nous Research: see LICENSE and NOTICE.