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A thread is a durable conversation with its own messages, working state, and execution context. Your main thread carries the conversation you see. When a request needs focused work, Aomi can create a child thread for that work and return its result to the parent. This is not operating-system multi-threading. Aomi threads are persistent agent workspaces. They can be restored after an interruption and continued with the same context. The boundary also keeps unrelated work from being mixed into one conversation history.

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Parent and child threads

The parent gives the child a complete work order. It can select an App, activate the relevant skills, and provide an initial chain context. The child then works in its own transcript. When it finishes, the parent receives the child’s final message and a system-produced summary of any staged transactions. The parent can continue the same child by its agent_id. A continuation keeps the child’s original App, skills, chain context, and lineage. This prevents a follow-up from silently changing the identity or capability of an existing child.

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A child narrows authority

A child receives enough account and wallet context to perform its assigned work. It does not receive every capability of the parent.
  • It can read data, call its App’s tools, build transactions, and simulate them.
  • It cannot sign or submit a transaction. The parent must review the staged result and call commit_staged.
  • It cannot create another foreground child or schedule asynchronous work.
  • It cannot request, revoke, or expand wallet authorization.
  • If the parent is read-only, the child remains read-only.
These rules apply to both EVM and SVM work. A child may prepare either kind of transaction, but the signature boundary remains in the parent thread and the selected wallet policy.
A child can propose a transaction, but it cannot turn that proposal into an onchain side effect. The parent receives only staged work that has reached a terminal simulation result.

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Threading does not imply parallel execution

Each thread processes one active turn at a time. This makes the transcript and working state deterministic within that thread. Foreground task calls are also serial. The parent waits for one child to finish before it evaluates the result or starts the next delegated action. You can create separate children for independent work, but their results return to the parent in the order the parent runs them. Use a child thread when you need a separate specialist, a different App, or a clean work context with a result returned to the current conversation. Use an asynchronous task when the work should start without making the current conversation wait.

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Choosing the right boundary

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Further reading

Asynchronous tasks

Learn how detached, scheduled, and condition-triggered work creates fresh threads when it is ready to run.

Permission model

See how the parent thread and wallet policy control the signature boundary.
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Last modified on August 10, 2026