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The main session focuses exclusively on coordination while teammates do the implementation. How it works:
  1. Enable delegate mode so the lead can only coordinate
  2. The lead creates tasks, monitors progress, and redirects approaches that aren’t working
  3. Teammates implement, report back, and the lead synthesizes
Best for: complex multi-component features where someone needs to maintain the big picture.
Without delegate mode, the lead frequently implements tasks itself instead of delegating. This is the most common Agent Teams failure mode.
Sweet spot: 3-5 teammates. Fewer underutilizes parallelism; more creates coordination overhead that exceeds the throughput gain.

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Examples in the wild

ExampleWhat it shows
dmux-workflowstmux pane manager: agents in separate panes (schema, API, UI), merge back to main. Pattern 5 is a 3-agent parallel code review pipeline.
gsd:execute-phaseOrchestrator at ~10-15% context, executors in parallel. Tracks waves via STATE.md, never writes code itself.