Hire, pause and wake agents

Hiring

A chief hires a specialist when a task needs one — a copywriter, a researcher, a coding specialist. You can also hire deliberately when you know you will need a role repeatedly.

Hiring is an approval, because a new agent is a new thing that spends money.

Pausing and waking

Pause an agent to stop it picking up work without removing it — right when a function is producing output you do not want yet.

Wake an agent to make it check for work now rather than on its normal schedule.

Steps

1. Open Team.
2. Hire under the relevant chief, giving the role a clear remit.
3. Pause anything that should be idle for now.
4. Use wake when you want a check immediately.

You're done when the roster matches the work you actually want running.

Gotchas

• A paused agent's work does not redistribute. The function goes unstaffed until you resume it.
• More agents is not more throughput. Concurrency is capped by your plan.