Set up a chief-of-staff agent that delegates to specialist agents

Juggling several single-purpose AI agents means you become the router: copying context between them and remembering which one does what.

One coordinator agent is your single point of contact. You give it a goal; it splits the work, hands pieces to named specialist agents (research, writing, design), collects their results and brings you one combined answer with the decisions that still need you.

1. Start with the coordinator only: tell it its job is to receive tasks and delegate, not to do everything itself
2. Add specialists one at a time, each with one clear role and a short name you will remember
3. Write down for the coordinator which specialist owns which kind of task
4. Put the coordinator and specialists in one shared thread or workspace so they can hand work to each other
5. Give it a real multi-step task and read the agent-to-agent handoffs to check the routing
6. Tell it which steps always need your approval before work continues

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You approve the final output and any step you flagged (publishing, spending, sending).

Handoffs can drift from your intent or loop; keep roles narrow, read the handoff log at first, and never let the coordinator approve spending or external messages on your behalf.

Fewer context switches for you; judge it by how often the combined result is usable without you re-routing work.