Worked on enhancing the robustness of agent communication in the NousResearch/hermes-agent repository by addressing protocol integrity issues in distributed JSON-RPC systems. Focused on ensuring stdout remained protocol-clean by redirecting incidental output to stderr and gating the startup of quiet-mode spinners, thereby preventing corruption of the JSON-RPC stream. Extended these safeguards to child agents, maintaining consistent protocol handling across the agent hierarchy. Utilized Python and applied system design principles to improve the reliability and stability of inter-agent messaging. The work centered on a targeted bug fix, emphasizing stability and correctness rather than new feature development during the reported period.