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Module 7 · 5 lessons · 56 min
Your AI Department: Subagents and Teams
7Your AI Department: Subagents and TeamsModule 7 · OverviewYour AI Department: Subagents and Teams
Module 7
Your AI Department
Subagents and teams that check each other's work
Bruno Ashford
The problem
You would never ask one employee to prospect, write, do the books and proofread in the same meeting. Stop asking your AI to.
Bruno Ashford
7.1 One agent per role
What a subagent is
A specialist with its own instructions, context and tools.
Starts with a clean context
Reads its own job description
Uses only the tools you allow
Returns a summary, keeps the noise
The three-question test
Does this task deserve a specialist?
1Repeats weekly?Recurring work earns a role
2Different mindset?Writing versus checking
3Lots of noise?Research and data crunching
7.2 The file
Anatomy of a subagent
Field
What it does
name
Unique id, lowercase with hyphens
description
When Claude should hand work to it
tools
Allowed tools, comma separated
model
sonnet, opus, haiku or inherit
body
The job description in plain English
Project agents: .claude/agents/. Personal agents: ~/.claude/agents/.
7.2 Least privilege
Only the tools the role needs
Leave tools out and the agent inherits everything.
Analyst: read, search, write reports
Researcher: read, web search, web fetch
Reviewer: read and search only
Nobody gets send by default
7.3 The reviewer
Writing and checking are different jobs. Give them to different agents.
Bruno Ashford
The loop
Write, review, fix, review
1WriteSpecialist drafts
2ReviewRead-only checklist
3FixEvery issue addressed
4Review againFixes create new mistakes
7.4 Parallel work
Independent views in minutes
Same question, several specialists, no groupthink.
Same inputs for every agent
Same output format
Read the disagreements first
Save it for decisions that matter
Accounting practice task map (illustrative case)
23 recurring tasks, sorted
6human only
14agent drafts, human approves
3agent alone
7.5 Org chart
Every agent has a human owner
Agent
Job
Owner
Approval
sdr-researcher
Lead research
Sales lead
None, internal
copywriter
Outreach drafts
Marketing
Human sends
data-analyst
Weekly numbers
Owner
None, internal
reviewer
Checks client work
Operations
Blockers stop it
Project
Your first AI team
Three to five specialists, one real workflow.
Fill the org chart worksheet
Create agents with /agents
Restrict every tools line
Reviewer is always the last step
Recap
A department is not more AI. It is clear roles, clean context, limited tools and a human who owns every result.
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Stop asking one assistant to do everything and build a small team of specialists that check each other's work.
