Concepts

This page defines the core terms used across Agent Teams.

Team

A team is a group of agents configured for a project. A team usually has a lead and one or more teammates with specialized roles.

The lead coordinates work. It should break goals into tasks, assign teammates, track blockers, and ask for review when needed.

A task is the durable unit of work. It has status, description, comments, logs, attachments, and reviewable changes.

Solo mode runs a one-member team. It is useful for quick work, lower token usage, and validating a prompt before expanding to a full team.

Agents can message within and across teams. Use this when separate teams own related work and need to coordinate.

Autonomy controls how much agents can do before asking. Higher autonomy is faster; lower autonomy is safer for sensitive code paths.

A runtime is the local execution path that connects Agent Teams to a model/provider workflow, such as Claude, Codex, or OpenCode.