Blog · Productivity · 2026-08-30

Give Your Agent Team a Chief of Staff and a Roster

Audit existing bots for overlap, establish one delegation path, and add specialists only when a recurring gap is proven.

Premise

Before creating another specialist, inspect the bots already working. A chief of staff can reduce overlap and become the single place where work enters.

Setup

  1. Create a coordinator with roster visibility.
  2. Provide current priorities and relevant public profiles.
  3. Run an inventory before granting delegation rights.

Boundaries

  • No bot creation, deletion, or mission change without approval.
  • Separate observed activity from assumptions.
  • Limit new-role proposals to recurring gaps.

Review my priorities and work context, then recommend which roles to retain, combine, narrow, or pause. Design one intake path through you and a daily digest of completed work, blockers, decisions, and links.

Suggest no more than three specialists, only where repeated work has no owner. Give each a one-sentence charter and explain why an existing bot cannot absorb it.

Do not create, remove, rename, or redirect any bot until I approve the plan.

Prompt

Inventory every bot you can access: stated mission, recent useful output, schedule, dependencies, and overlap. If access is incomplete, ask for the missing roster.