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feat(delegation): bump default child_timeout_seconds to 600s #14809

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions hermes_cli/config.py
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Expand Up @@ -739,6 +739,10 @@ def _ensure_hermes_home_managed(home: Path):
"inherit_mcp_toolsets": True,
"max_iterations": 50, # per-subagent iteration cap (each subagent gets its own budget,
# independent of the parent's max_iterations)
"child_timeout_seconds": 600, # wall-clock timeout for each child agent (floor 30s,
# no ceiling). High-reasoning models on large tasks
# (e.g. gpt-5.5 xhigh, opus-4.6) need generous budgets;
# raise if children time out before producing output.
"reasoning_effort": "", # reasoning effort for subagents: "xhigh", "high", "medium",
# "low", "minimal", "none" (empty = inherit parent's level)
"max_concurrent_children": 3, # max parallel children per batch; floor of 1 enforced, no ceiling
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions tools/delegate_tool.py
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Expand Up @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ def _get_child_timeout() -> float:
"""Read delegation.child_timeout_seconds from config.

Returns the number of seconds a single child agent is allowed to run
before being considered stuck. Default: 300 s (5 minutes).
before being considered stuck. Default: 600 s (10 minutes).
"""
cfg = _load_config()
val = cfg.get("child_timeout_seconds")
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DEFAULT_MAX_ITERATIONS = 50
DEFAULT_CHILD_TIMEOUT = 300 # seconds before a child agent is considered stuck
DEFAULT_CHILD_TIMEOUT = 600 # seconds before a child agent is considered stuck
_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL = 30 # seconds between parent activity heartbeats during delegation
_HEARTBEAT_STALE_CYCLES = (
5 # mark child stale after this many heartbeats with no iteration progress
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