Two independent message queues for interacting with a running agent:

📬 Follow-up queue (Alt+Enter)

Queue messages to send after the current response completes, without interrupting.

• Alt+Up recalls queued follow-ups back into the input buffer (LIFO)
• Status bar shows 📬 N count

🎯 Steering queue (Enter in queue mode)

Queue mid-run steering messages that are dispatched at the earliest opportunity.

• Steering always takes priority over follow-up
• Follow-up only dispatched when steering queue is empty
• Status bar shows 🎯 N count

Configuration

display:
  busy_input_mode: queue          # Enter queues steering instead of interrupting
  steering_dispatch: one_by_one   # or all_at_once — combine into one turn
  followup_dispatch: one_by_one   # or all_at_once

Queue persistence

Both queues are saved to disk between turns and survive crashes. On resume (hermes -c or /resume), pending items are restored.