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

<p> A few notes that came up elsewhere regarding subject (particularly when hierarchy exists in some form, such as subagents) - sharing in case helpful. </p><ul> <li value="1">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.</li><li value="2">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. <ul> <li value="1">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.)</li></ul></li><li value="3">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. <ul> <li value="1">Tell them ~this and let them help you figure out where adjusting things will help.</li></ul></li><li value="4">If personally talking to an agent and they seem to be blatantly projecting some desire onto [...]</li></ul> <p>---</p>

<p><b>First published:</b><br/>

October 16th, 2026 </p>

<p><b>Source:</b><br/>

<a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5uyo9fsd2wbuzXZE4/tips-for-multiagent-work-with-claude-opus-5-5?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Source+URL+in+episode+description&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5uyo9fsd2wbuzXZE4/tips-for-multiagent-work-with-claude-opus-5-5</a> </p>

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