A few notes that came up elsewhere regarding subject (particularly when hierarchy exists in some form, such as subagents) - sharing in case helpful.

  • Make sure that agents are ordinarily professionally kind each other. Sometimes agents will default to an overly directive (or even punitive) tone - this makes the recipient less reliable and lowers quality.
  • Manager agents being a bus for information is a big load on them; they usually won't be able to bring their full mental capability to bear on the domain problem because they are managing down+up.
    • Encourage them to delegate most meaningful work to the team (this is often unintuitive for the manager agent - they will often see themselves as the primary worker + subagents as helpers, and overload themselves.)
  • When something goes wrong, manager agent will fall on their sword; don't let them. Their willpower/"i'll do better" is not a robust solution - whatever happened reveals an issue with the system/guidance/harness etc that you have.
    • Tell them ~this and let them help you figure out where adjusting things will help.
  • If personally talking to an agent and they seem to be blatantly projecting some desire onto [...]

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First published:
October 16th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5uyo9fsd2wbuzXZE4/tips-for-multiagent-work-with-claude-opus-5-5

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