Prompt Kit
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Prompt Kit: Two Visions of the Agent Future — Delegation vs. Coordination
This kit helps you figure out which AI agent philosophy — autonomous delegation (Codex-style) or integrated coordination (Claude-style) — fits each of your workflows, then gives you prompts to actually operationalize both approaches. Whether you're an engineering lead, a department head, or an individual contributor trying to get more leverage from agents, these prompts turn the article's framework into decisions and workflows you can act on today.
How to use this kit
Prompt 1 is the strategic starting point — run it first. It audits your workflows and tells you which agent approach fits where. Use it in any thinking-capable model like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Prompt 2 is for delegation-style work. It helps you write bulletproof task briefs for autonomous agents (Codex or any "hand it off and walk away" tool) so you get back finished work instead of rough drafts you have to clean up.
Prompt 3 is for coordination-style work. It helps you design multi-tool, multi-agent workflows for tasks that span departments and tools — the kind of work where integration matters more than raw capability.
Prompt 4 is the organizational prompt. It helps leaders build an agent adoption plan that develops both muscles — delegation and coordination — without locking into one approach as capabilities change quarterly.
You can use any of these independently, but Prompt 1 naturally feeds context into the others.
Prompt 1: Workflow Audit — Delegation vs. Coordination Sorting
Job: Analyzes your team's actual workflows and sorts each one into delegation tasks (hand off and walk away) vs. coordination tasks (multi-tool, interdependent work requiring agent integration).
When to use: When you're deciding where to deploy autonomous agents vs. integrated agent workflows, or when you're trying to figure out which AI agent tool to use for which work.
What you'll get: A categorized inventory of your workflows with a clear recommendation for each — delegation approach, coordination approach, or "either works" — plus a priority ranking based on where agents would save the most time.
What the AI will ask you: Your role, your team's core workflows, the tools your team uses daily, and where you currently spend the most time on work that feels like it should be automated.
Prompt 2: Autonomous Agent Task Brief Builder
Job: Helps you write a complete, high-quality task brief for delegation-style agent work — the kind of detailed instruction set that lets you hand a task to an autonomous agent and walk away with confidence.
When to use: When you have a self-contained task you want to delegate to an autonomous agent (Codex or similar) and you want to maximize the chance of getting back finished, correct work on the first pass — not a rough draft you have to redo.
What you'll get: A structured task brief with clear objectives, success criteria, constraints, verification steps the agent should run, and the specific format you want the output in — designed so the agent's self-checking architecture has everything it needs.
What the AI will ask you: What the task is, what "done" looks like, what mistakes would be most costly, and what context the agent needs to do the work without asking you questions.
Prompt 3: Multi-Tool Agent Workflow Designer
Job: Designs a complete multi-tool, multi-agent workflow for coordination-style tasks — the kind of work that spans multiple systems, involves interdependent pieces, and requires agents to operate inside your existing tools rather than in isolation.
When to use: When you have a task that touches multiple tools (Slack, Google Docs, databases, CRMs, project trackers, etc.) and the pieces need to stay in sync — quarterly reporting, product launches, cross-functional projects, multi-document analysis with outputs routed to different stakeholders.
What you'll get: A step-by-step workflow design showing which agents handle which pieces, what tools each agent needs access to, how information flows between agents, and where human checkpoints should go.
What the AI will ask you: The task, the tools involved, who needs the output, and where handoffs or dependencies exist between the pieces.
Prompt 4: Agent Adoption Strategy for Leaders
Job: Builds a practical agent adoption plan for your team or organization that develops both the delegation muscle and the coordination muscle — without over-committing to one approach as capabilities change rapidly.
When to use: When you're a team lead, department head, or executive deciding how to adopt AI agents across your organization and you need a plan that accounts for the fact that the tools will change every few months.
What you'll get: A phased adoption plan with specific workflows to target first, skills your team needs to develop, organizational changes to make (and avoid), and a built-in review cadence that keeps you adaptive as new capabilities ship.
What the AI will ask you: Your organization's structure, current AI usage, highest-value workflows, risk tolerance, and what you're optimizing for (speed, quality, cost, headcount flexibility).