Task Delegation
Category: Agents“task del-uh-GAY-shun”
Handing a specific piece of work to the agent — or to another agent — best suited to finish it.
Lesson #6: The Agentic Era: Agents That Do the Work →A foreman assigning the right trade to the right task.
One assistant books travel while another handles your calendar conflicts.
The estimating agent passes takeoff numbers to the purchasing agent to place the order.
A research agent gathers competitor pricing and hands it to a writing agent for the report.
Specialists beat one do-everything agent on both quality and cost.
Task delegation gives each job to the best-suited agent.
Split one of your recurring projects into two roles and write each role's one-line job.
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