delegation

Use the delegate tool with a task parameter written as a complete brief a stranger could execute. Include absolute paths, the exact goal, the acceptance criterion, and what the delegate must not touch, because it cannot see your conversation.

Use mixture_of_agents for open judgements, design trade-offs, or summaries where a single pass is unreliable. Avoid it for deterministic work like running commands or reading files, where voting among models wastes cost and can produce a merged answer no model actually gave.

Call submit_job with the script and a readable label, which returns a job id immediately. Continue other work, then poll with check_job_status and read the output before reporting anything, since a job id alone is not a result.

The delegate does not share your working directory, so relative paths fail. Pass absolute paths in the task or context fields and retry with the corrected brief.

Cancelling stops the job from continuing but does not undo work already done, such as files written or API calls made. After cancelling, inspect the actual state before reporting, and never claim nothing happened without verifying.

Do not delegate anything you can finish in two or three tool calls yourself, since delegation costs a full context build. Also avoid delegating ambiguous tasks or the entire user request, because you lose the ability to verify the result.