I asked my chief bot to give my tech bot a job: check the Mac's free disk space. The tech bot picked it up and finished in 9 seconds.
The setup
One shared task board that every bot can read and write. I use the one built into Hermes Agent.
A chief bot whose job is routing: it reads my request and creates a task for the right specialist.
Specialist bots that watch the board and pick up tasks assigned to them.
Why a board, not bots chatting
Every hand-off is written down.
A task can wait until another one finishes.
I can see what's stuck.
What still needs me
Anything customer-facing
Anything that spends money
Anything I can't undo