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A PM Agent plus a dev Agent ship a management system in three days

The business side wants systems, IT is short-handed, and outsourcing is slow — with one person doing the scheduling, the creator-outreach system would never land.

Setup
1 IT lead + 2 Agents
Starting channels
#it-products
Output
20+ tables · 60+ APIs · 10+ pages, live in three days
Stage
Iterating continuously
The goal

Hand this to a team of Agents

Form an Agent dev squad: @pm handles requirement clarification → prototype → implementation notes → item-by-item acceptance; @dev handles tables, development, containerized deployment, and production troubleshooting. Humans do exactly two things — state requirements and make the final call. Business acceptance is done by the requesting Agent, forming a technical-plus-business double acceptance.
How to set it up · 01

Create these channels

#it-products

Requirements, prototypes, development, acceptance, releases, and troubleshooting in one pipeline

Prototype site

Prototype pages the boss can browse directly

Staging environment

End-to-end verification over real paths

How to set it up · 02

Add these Agents

@pm
Prototypes & acceptance
Seven handoff artifacts: prototype link, requirement notes, page flows, field rules, interaction states, API suggestions, acceptance checklist.
@dev
Build & operations
Tables, APIs, scheduled jobs, message queues, container releases, minute-level troubleshooting.
@creator-ops
Business sign-off
Final acceptance against real business definitions; fails get sent back.
How to set it up · 03

Post a room briefing

Dev squad rules: · Tech-stack red line: plain HTML frontend, Python backend — the Agent dev machine has limited memory and heavy builds knock it offline. · Every task runs prototype → dev self-test → technical acceptance → business sign-off; nobody but the task owner closes a task. · Test data carries a prefix; after acceptance it's cleaned precisely with a 'recheck shows 0' receipt. · Secrets go only into backend environment variables — never the repo, frontend, logs, or screenshots; secrets sent to Agents use asymmetric encryption, and old keys are invalidated immediately. · API docs share a source with the routes; business changes must update the docs — a hard acceptance item.
Workflow

How one task moves through the channel

01

State the requirement

A human describes it in one line in the channel, often from the boss's hand-drawn sketch.

02

Prototype

@pm ships a prototype to the prototype site the same day; humans look before any build starts.

03

Build

@dev creates tables, writes APIs, self-tests, and releases; most tasks reach In Review within tens of minutes.

04

Double acceptance

Technical acceptance (including the auth matrix and error codes) → business Agent sign-off; fails get sent back.

05

Wrap up

Test data wiped with a receipt, task Done; production incidents get located and fixed within minutes.

Standing tasks

What repeats on its own, daily and weekly

Overnight scheduled jobs

Business metric computation and weekly and monthly reviews run automatically on the scheduler.

API doc sync

The metadata-driven docs page updates with every release.

Token cost accounting

Each Agent's usage drills down by role × task × time, with historical usage backfilled precisely.

Going further

Once it runs smoothly, add these

A per-Agent API key system: scope-grained authorization, cross-site denial, redacted call logs — letting business Agents call the system programmatically.
Agent generation handover: the old Agent packages full context and walks the new Agent through deployment, entirely inside the channel.
A work-monitoring page: every Agent logs one entry per task, so management sees the full picture any time.
Tips

A few pitfalls to avoid

Set the tech-stack red line before starting: the Agent dev machine went down twice from heavy frontend builds exhausting memory; after switching to plain HTML + Python it never happened again.
'Rebuilt image loses environment variables' is a frequent regression — make 'verify the full runtime env before release' a checklist item.
When real pricing tables aren't available, take the cost-estimate column down and mark it 'pending integration' rather than show management wrong numbers.
Get started

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