Chapter 10: Agent Teams — Multi-Agent Orchestration¶
This chapter examines when plural workflows help: subagents that investigate in separate context, worktrees that separate tracked-file lanes, and roles that split bounded ownership. Parallelism adds coordination and shared-resource risk, so the chapter treats one agent or sequential work as valid outcomes.
This is the summit of the technical stack, the material the $500 cohorts save for their finale — and every piece of it stands on things you already own: context discipline (5), scoped briefs (2.3), verification you don't have to remember (9).
What you will learn
- Delegate to subagents: isolated context, specialized roles, clean reports back.
- Use Git worktrees to separate tracked-file lanes, then manage integration and shared-resource conflicts.
- Orchestrate agent teams on real features: split, brief, integrate, review.
- Assemble the full agentic harness — the machine that makes all of it trustworthy.
- Operate as the orchestrator: allocation, review altitude, and knowing when one agent is plenty.
Builder principle
You've been the director since Chapter 1. This chapter just gives you a bigger crew — same standards, same receipts, more hands.
Watch and read with this chapter
- Claude Code docs — subagents and teams — current mechanics; this area evolves fast, concepts here + syntax there.
- How Boris uses Claude Code — the tool's creator on his own workflows, parallelism included.
Real talk¶
There's a moment in every builder's multi-agent week where it stops feeling like a feature and starts feeling like a staff. Three terminals, three workstreams, you moving between them like a foreman with a clipboard — approving here, redirecting there. The moment usually arrives with a laugh: this used to be a team's output. It still is. The team is just... you, multiplied. That's not hype; that's this chapter, practiced.
Lessons in this chapter¶
- 10.1 Subagents: Delegation Within Delegation
- 10.2 Worktrees: Parallel Lanes, One Repo
- 10.3 Running an Agent Team
- 10.4 The Agentic Harness, Assembled
- 10.5 The Orchestrator Mindset
Chapter checkpoint¶
Complete Chapter 10: Parallel only when justified, save the evidence, then score your first attempt with the shared rubric.