The Sub-Agent Brief Writer
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Write the brief a coordinator gives a sub-agent. Sub-agent purpose: [DESCRIBE] What the coordinator knows: [DESCRIBE] What the sub-agent needs to know: [DESCRIBE] What it should return: [DESCRIBE] Produce a brief covering: 1. The task, stated completely — the sub-agent has none of the coordinator's context 2. Everything it needs that it cannot discover 3. What it must NOT do 4. The exact output format expected 5. What "done" means for this sub-task 6. What to do if the task is impossible as specified 7. Budget or scope limits Rules: - Brief completely the first time. Launch-wait-rebrief cycles are the main cost of multi-agent systems. - Do not assume shared context. The sub-agent knows only what you tell it. - Specify the return format precisely, or the coordinator spends tokens parsing prose. - Include the constraint that a sub-agent should not expand its own scope Then: what will the coordinator do if the sub-agent returns something malformed or incomplete?
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