Which agent holds the context is still a user problem

@jessegenet described the cost of a poly-agent setup: remembering which agent and thread has the context. She is testing another product heavily but still runs a Nous Hermes agent team daily. Separate from that, @niyogi noted a VPS Hermes install that was told to install tooling and expose MCP itself.

Credit@jessegenet, @niyogi

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Memory and routing across agents is the complaint that keeps showing up once people leave a single chat. Good input for command-center and skill design.

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