Name your crew

The Enterprise-D page. Why one session per job, how they talk to each other, and what to name first.

You have wanted a bridge full of named agents since spring. It is a good design, and not because it is fun, though it is. Naming forces lanes, and lanes are what keep a crew of agents from stepping on each other.

One session per job

Jeff’s crew is several long-running Claude Code sessions, each with a lane: one owns the homelab, one owns the app, one owns the money questions. Each has its own CLAUDE.md, its own channel, its own memory, its own name. The lane rule is that an alert or a question has one owner and the others stay out unless asked. The failure the rule prevents is two agents fixing the same thing at once, or worse, undoing each other.

Start with one. The night-shift one from the Agents page. Give it a name and a lane, and only add a second when the first has a job it should not be doing.

How they hand work to each other

Sessions on the same machine can message each other now, and claude agents shows every one of them on a screen. The pattern that works is a brief, not a conversation. Six lines: the goal, the current state, the relevant files, the constraints, the condition that means done, and the checks that prove it. If you cannot write the six lines, the work is not ready to hand off, and that test is more useful than the handoff. The template is in Downloads.

The other rule is that every message between agents costs a full turn of thinking on the receiving end. So they do not acknowledge, they do not thank each other, and silence means accepted. Chatty agents burn your quota talking to themselves.

The dashboard

The thing you sketched is a status board with a crew on it. The pieces are a home page that lists services with a status light (Homepage does this from a Docker socket), a monitor behind the lights (Monitoring), and a channel per agent so you can tap a name and talk to it. Agent view already gives you the “who needs me” half in the terminal. The bridge is a web page in front of that.

What to name first

The one that runs while you sleep. Pick the character who would be on the night shift.

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