“Tips for Multiagent Work with Claude Opus 5.5” by Nissa Seru

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 [...] --- First published: October 16th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5uyo9fsd2wbuzXZE4/tips-for-multiagent-work-with-claude-opus-5-5 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.