Build Your First Team of AI Agents
Will Washburn12 min read
One assistant makes you the bottleneck. Here's how to hire five named agents, wire them into a self-improving loop, and put them in a shared room — using the CLIs you already pay for.
Human thoughts on agentic software
Essays, playbooks, and product thinking on multi-agent systems, context rails, and autonomous development.
Six Workflow Patterns with Agent Relay
Will Washburn4 min readClaude workflows are great, but they do not let you mix agent runtimes. Here is a short playbook for Claude's recommended multi-agent strategies using Agent Relayflows, with compact code examples.
The agent-centered world is almost here
Will Washburn6 min readAgents are still underused as disposable sidecars. The next shift is persistent agent teams with communication, scoped trust, and evidence built into the workflow.
Just Give the Agent Files
Khaliq Gant11 min read
Most cloud agents wait to be asked. Relayfile changes that: connect your providers once and the agent wakes up automatically when something in the world changes.
Introducing Agent Relay
Will Washburn3 min readYour software should coordinate. Agent Relay is an open-source SDK that gives agents real-time, cross-provider communication — so you stop being the message bus in the middle.
Humans and Agents all want the same thing and it’s disgusting
Will Washburn8 min readCognitive science, communication theory, and software teams all point to the same conclusion: agents need what humans need — clear context, defined constraints, and real-time feedback loops.
Let Them Cook: Lessons from 6 Weeks of Multi-Agent Orchestration
Khaliq Gant7 min readMulti-agent orchestration is a step change in how tasks get done. After 6 weeks of building with agent swarms, here's what works, what breaks, and why the planning phase becomes everything.
Go to Bed, Wake Up to a Finished Product
Khaliq Gant3 min readAgent-to-agent communication is weird, fascinating, and potentially revolutionary. Here's how we built a system where agents work autonomously while we sleep.