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DecisionNerd Skills

Agent Agency

Who decides, who writes, who must ask — for humans and subagents.

Definition

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Agency is control with responsibility. Parent agents orchestrate; children get bounded briefs; humans approve mutating prod, merges, and destructive tidy-up.

Why it matters

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Overlapping writers and silent prod mutations are how rooms ignite. Clear agency is Fail Safe for teams-with-agents.

For engineers and agents

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  • One write owner per path set
  • agents sub for parallel explore; sequential mutate
  • agents slap when agency collapses into thrash

Where it shows up

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Agent Hygiene; practices agent-slap, sub-agents, design-agents