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delegation

Delegates independent work to worker agents through the Task tool, choosing between the explore scout and the ml, biology, physics, chemistry and data specialists, writing a self-contained brief for a worker that cannot see the conversation, setting boundaries on files and compute, using two independent annotators with adjudication when labels are judged against an expert reference, and reading the handoff back critically. Use before dispatching a worker or interpreting its result, and when deciding whether a task should be delegated at all. Never delegate the literature retrieval loop or a step of an experiment loop already underway.

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# Delegation

A worker is a second agent that starts with an empty transcript. It can do independent
work in parallel and bring back a decision-ready handoff; it cannot read your mind, your
conversation, or the user's intent. Delegation pays when the task has a clean boundary
and a brief can carry everything the worker needs. Otherwise it costs latency, tokens
and coherence, and the work is better done here.

## When to delegate

Delegate when all of these hold:

- The work is independent of the step you are on: surveying an unfamiliar codebase,
  running and reporting an isolated experiment, drafting a section from finished results,