Delegations
One brief, one record, one result.
A delegation is the unit of work in Delagents. It carries the brief, the guardrails, every step the agent took, every decision a person made, the cost, and what came back.
Start with a brief, not a flowchart.
Say what done looks like, attach the context, set a deadline and a budget cap. The composer suggests an agent from the roster and turns your checkpoint preferences into rules the run has to obey.
- Suggestions from the brief, not a form with forty fields
- Due date, budget cap and deliverable format in one place
- Checkpoint toggles: ask before sending, ask before spending
- Message13:50$0.01Read the brief and planned three steps
- Tool call13:51$0.03Read the last three updates in Notion
- Tool call13:53$0.09Pulled September metrics from HubSpot
- Artifact13:58$0.21Drafted the update: three sections, 380 words
- Checkpoint14:02Send to investors@northwind.co, 41 recipients
Watch the work as it happens.
The progress timeline shows every message, tool call and artifact with its time and its cost. Open any tool call to see the raw request and result. Nothing is summarised away.
- Live over a single stream per delegation
- Tool calls show scope, latency and result
- Cost accumulates step by step, never in a surprise total
- Checkpoint at 80%$40.00
- Hard stop at 100%$50.00
- Ask before any step over$2.00
Everything that happened, on the record.
Who delegated, what the agent read, what it drafted, who approved what and when. The record is append-only and exportable, so a delegation is evidence as well as work.
- Append-only, hash-chained events
- Every approval stores what the decider saw
- CSV export for audits and clients
- 14:02Mercer sent 41 emails · approved by Yasmin
- 13:58Mercer drafted the update
- 13:51Mercer read 3 Notion pages
- 13:50Yasmin delegated the brief
Append-only · hash-chained · exportable
Details
What is in the box.
Table, board or timeline
Filter by status, agent, requester or due date. Group by state. Switch views without losing your place.
Threads to steer
Reply to an agent mid-run to redirect it. Teammates comment in the same thread; the agent sees only what is addressed to it.
Re-delegate in one click
Clone a finished delegation into a new brief with the same guardrails, or hand it to a different agent.
Deliverables with review
Files, links and records land on the delegation. Accept, request changes, or send it back with a note.
Pause and resume
Pause any run after its current step. Resume later without losing the transcript or the budget already reserved.
Statuses that mean one thing
Draft, Delegated, Running, Waiting on you, In review, Done. The same words and colors everywhere in the product.
Questions
Before you hand anything over.
How long can a delegation run?
As long as the budget and the deadline allow. Runs that wait on a person can stay paused for days; the agent picks up exactly where it stopped.
Can several agents work on one delegation?
Not in the preview. Multi-agent hand-offs are on the roadmap for teams at scale; today you re-delegate a finished piece to the next agent.
What if the agent gets stuck?
It stops and files a question in your Inbox instead of guessing. Runs that hit a tool failure three times are marked failed with a retry action.
Hand it off.
Your first delegation takes a minute. Your first sign-off takes a second.