Practicum for Volume 2, Chapter 3, "A team with agents"

Treat an agent on a team as a role with clear boundaries, verification, and a human owner. The agent is not a "magic employee." This page gives you a contract template and a shared context for the team.

What to do in 30 to 40 minutes

1. Complete an Agent Contract for one specific agent: 10 fields on 1 page.
2. If you lead a team, assemble the team-brain starter kit: shared context in 14 days.
3. Before adding outside skills to the system, review how to check and trust them.

Who this is for

• Specialist: describe your agent so it does not take actions outside its job.
• Manager: establish contracts, a shared team brain, and clear ownership.

Related materials

• Decide what belongs to the agent and what belongs to a person with the Human Review Matrix, Chapter 2.
• See what agents already do across professions in the live agents-now catalog.
• Follow the full route in the Volume 2 workbook.

Version: 2026-06.