Shape your agent team

Think of an agent like a person on your team. It has a persistent role, a set of responsibilities, access to the tools it needs, and a relationship with you that grows over time.

You do not want to give one agent a hundred unrelated things to do. Not because it cannot handle them, but because the work becomes harder for both of you to manage. An agent needs a clear sense of what it owns, what information it can use, and when it should bring you in.

Start with the outcome you want

Think about what you want Otto to help you accomplish: run your business, automate part of your job, manage a trading strategy, keep a project moving, or organize your life. Then break that goal into a small number of roles that make sense.

You do not need a new agent for every task. But just as a designer and a media buyer are different people on a team, they are often better as different agents. They have different responsibilities, use different apps, and take different actions.

If several responsibilities use the same apps, context, and kinds of action, they can probably sit under one agent.

Give each agent a real role

When you create an agent, use its Identity settings to give it a name, personality, and clear responsibilities. Explain what it is responsible for, what it should care about, and what it should bring back to you for approval.

When an agent first starts up, have a conversation about its role as you would with a new teammate. Tell it what success looks like, share the relevant context, and start working together. From there, build out ongoing work and automations as the role becomes clear.

Let agents work together

Your agents can communicate and share files on the Otto device. If several agents need a shared project directory, ask one agent to set it up and let the others know where to find it. This lets a team of agents contribute to the same work without you having to move every file or message by hand.

A practical way to grow

Start with Otto, give it a real responsibility, and watch how the work develops. Add a second agent when a role has genuinely become separate. Then give that agent its own identity, access, and ongoing work.

The world is wide open: Otto is a full computer with autonomous agents working around the clock. Build the team that makes sense for the work you want to get done.

Next

Use the detailed guides when you are ready to configure an agent, give it context, or build an agent team on one Otto.