Tips for Multiagent Work with Claude Opus 5.5

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 you that you did not express,