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Working with a team of AI agents

An orchestrator, a reviewer and a critic. How I split work between AI agents, and why the standards end up written down as skills.

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Much of the dtwin ecosystem was built with AI agents doing a large share of the typing. What made that work was not one clever prompt. It was a division of roles, and the habit of writing my standards down so every agent follows them.

Roles

role does does not
orchestrator (main session) plans, decomposes, makes the hard calls, writes risky code read 40 files to find one line
deep reasoner root-cause hunts across many files and logs, returns conclusions with evidence edit anything
fast worker mechanical, fully specified edits, runs builds and tests make design decisions
critic tries to break a plan or a diff, reports only issues that change behaviour style nitpicks

Independent work goes out in parallel. Anything subtle comes back to the orchestrator before it is written.

Skills: standards that do not drift

Every time I correct an agent twice for the same thing, the correction becomes a skill: a short document the agent loads before that kind of task. Examples from my AI page:

Guard rails

The speed comes from parallel work. The quality comes from the critic and from standards written as skills.