delegation-decision-and-sizingDecide whether a task goes to zero, one or several subagents and how many - classify it as wide read-only, write-coupled or sequential, keep small or sequential work in one agent and say why, size a fan-out by breadth with a stated token multiple, pick the mechanism (turn-by-turn helpers, a script,
eval-comparison-hygieneKeep a with-versus-without measurement honest when the change is a skill, prompt or agent and the graders are models - hold subject model, judge, grader text, prompt and environment constant across both arms run in the same batch, invalidate old baselines after any grader or prompt edit, keep refere
fan-out-script-designDesign a script that drives dozens or more agents - phases of discover, per-item pipeline, independent verification and one reduce step, barriers only where a stage needs every result, a deterministic script with no clock or randomness and per-item prompts independent of siblings so a resume reruns
parallel-write-partitioning-and-mergePlan several agents that write to the same repository or store - list every path and shared record, give each to exactly one agent, isolate writers in separate copies while naming what isolation does not cover (ports, databases, caches, the shared index), have workers write per-agent pending files,
subagent-brief-and-handbackWrite the prompt for a subagent so it can succeed alone - one-sentence objective and done-state, the context it cannot see, the exact write set it owns and what it must not touch, a value contract for every output field, a stop rule with a budget, forbidden shortcuts with an explicit blocked exit, a
subagent-claim-verificationUse when the user pastes a subagent's or worker's report claiming results (all tests pass, 5 of 5 cases at 1.00, fixed, only touched one file) together with its output, and asks you to draft the announcement, say whether it is safe to accept, merge or ship, or verify it first. Do not take the report