“Tips for Multiagent Work with Claude Opus 5.5” by Nissa Seru

LessWrong (30+ Karma) · Oct 17, 2026 · 2m

A few notes that came up elsewhere regarding subject (particularly when hierarchy exists in some form, such as subagents) - sharing in case helpful.

Make sure that agents are ordinarily professionally kind each other. Sometimes agents will default to an overly directive (or even punitive) tone - this makes the recipient less reliable and lowers quality.

Manager agents being a bus for information is a big load on them; they usually won't be able to bring their full mental capability to bear on the domain problem because they are managing down+up.

Encourage them to delegate most meaningful work…