A workforce is the practical unit above individual agents: several workers, one coordination model, and enough shared context to make progress without constant manual steering.
Typical workforce building blocks
- Spawn specialized agents with stable names and roles
- Use channels for shared visibility and DMs for handoffs
- Run workflows when the job has clear multi-step structure
- Add file sharing, auth, and scheduling when the team needs them
A reasonable progression
- Start with one or two spawned agents and simple messages.
- Add channels so humans and agents can observe the same status stream.
- Move repeatable work into workflows.
- Add shared files, auth, and scheduling as the team becomes more autonomous.