Add one when a job splits.
Add an agent when one job has become two. Give each new one a single job, a short limits list and a line in the daily report.
Two agents is a crew
You do not need a big team. Two agents with clear jobs already work as a crew. See starting your first crew. Add more only when the work asks for it.
A job that has become two jobs
Look at what one agent does in a run. If the description needs the word "and" to join two different kinds of work, that may be two jobs. Drafting and checking are a common pair. So are gathering and summarizing.
Give the new agent one job
Split the work, then name each job in one plain line. The old agent keeps the part it did best. The new one gets the other part and nothing else.
Set its limits before its first run
Write the new agent's three lists before it starts: what it may read, what it may change, and what it never touches. See agent permissions.
Add it to the daily report
Give the new agent its own line in the daily report, so you can see what it moved, what waits on you and what is stuck.
Check the handoff between the two
Work now passes from one agent to the next. Decide what the first one leaves, and where, so the second can pick it up cold. See agent handoff.
Check it: a made up split
- Before: one agent drafts posts and checks them.
- After: one agent drafts. A second agent checks.
- The drafter leaves each draft in a shared folder. The checker reads from there.
One job each. Limits written. Handoff named.
