Working with your agent
Start with the result you want and the context that could change the approach. Your agent can help shape a broad idea, continue an existing business or handle a bounded repair. You do not need to know the names of Egbe’s capabilities before asking for help.
Give the work a direction
Section titled “Give the work a direction”Useful context includes the intended customer, current product, desired outcome, relevant evidence and material constraints. Share your diagnosis as a view to examine. For example, “people leave after signing up” is an observation; “we need more features” is one possible explanation.
Help me understand why new customers do not return to their saved reports. Use the current product and available evidence. Recommend a focused next step, explain what would support it, and show what you can produce. Preserve the current offer and existing customer work.
Expect a concise working understanding, the consequential evidence gap and a recommendation. Your agent should reuse the materials you already have and ask about missing information when it could change the choice.
Make decisions at useful moments
Section titled “Make decisions at useful moments”Meaningful intermediate results make a decision easier: an offer with its terms, complete proposed messages, a working preview or an explained implementation plan. Your agent should show the recommendation, its reason and material uncertainty together.
You can retain a decision, delegate one choice or establish broader delegation with clear limits. For example:
Choose the implementation approach. Keep the accepted product behavior and budget. Bring changes to our public promise or customer commitments back to me.
Recorded approvals remain useful within their scope. Your agent should carry them forward as work continues. New spending, outreach, publication, access and recurring work need the applicable authorization; a recommendation or general delegation does not establish that permission by itself.
Divide responsibilities clearly
Section titled “Divide responsibilities clearly”The agent can own research, preparation, implementation, verification and authorized operations. You may own customer conversations, decisions requiring your judgment or access that only you can provide. Agree the needed result and a useful follow-up point for those dependencies.
Independent authorized work can continue while a decision is pending. A good handoff says what was verified, what remains, who needs to act and what the agent will do next. It also distinguishes technical completion from any customer effect that still needs observation.
Keep feedback connected to the work
Section titled “Keep feedback connected to the work”Correct the goal, explain what a proposal misses or give a concrete quality example. Your agent should update the relevant plan or requirements so another session can continue from the same understanding.
For ongoing responsibility, use the Business Loop. For a specific product change, use the engineering loop. Continuity explains how decisions and evidence survive the handoff.