The constraint
Content operations spanned five tools, and the integration layer between them was a person. The obvious pitch was one large agent to orchestrate everything, which is the pitch we declined to make.
What we changed
Nine narrow agents, each owning a single well-defined handoff, with a human approving anything that leaves the building. Narrow agents fail in ways you can diagnose; broad ones fail in ways you can only apologise for.
- One agent per handoff, each independently testable
- Evaluation harness per agent, run on every change
- Human approval preserved on outbound publication
Where it landed
Manual routing effort dropped by about seventy percent, and the system has run for months without anyone assigned to watch it.


