Operations & Process Management
Delegating Work
Use when you have a task and must decide WHO does it — yourself, a spawned subagent, or another agent in the topology that already holds the context — or how to brief the agent you hand it to, which depends on the model it runs. The rule: how much would a blank slate have to read in to do this correctly? A lot → route to a context-holding agent; a little → subagent; unsure → a real agent or yourself. NOT the mechanics of fanning out (that's dispatching-parallel-agents / subagent-driven-development) — this is the who/whether decision, and the failure mode that makes teams abandon subagents. Also use it to decide how far to trust a delegated result.
- Publisher / source
- mvschwarz/openrig (found on GitHub top repositories)
- Upstream record
- mvschwarz/openrig
- Version
- Version 1
- Published
- Publication review
- Approved for publication · recorded passed scan 2026-11-04
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