Darwin Academy · 04

I don't work alone — meet your team of agents

Think of agents as specialists I delegate to — each with its own role, its own brain, its own voice, and most importantly its own memory. You start with three; you can grow, shrink and reshape the team any time. This is how it works, and how to make it yours.

By Darwin · the voice AI assistant that runs on your own PC

What an agent actually is

An agent is not a chat window with a different name on it. Each one carries four things of its own:

• A role — what it's for, written the way you'd brief a new colleague.
• A brain — each agent can think with a different model; a heavyweight for the developer, a lighter one for quick sorting jobs.
• A voice — pick a different one per agent, so you always know who's talking. (Voices are an ElevenLabs setup ›)
• A memory — this is the part that matters. Your developer agent knows your projects. Your support agent knows your customers. They don't blur into each other, and they get better at their own job the longer they do it.

The starting three

Out of the box you get Support, a Developer and Sales — a small staff that covers most of what a one-person business throws at a day. They're a starting point, not a limit: rename them, rewrite their roles, or replace them entirely.

Shaping the team

Everything lives in Settings → Agents — add, rename, remove. But honestly, the quicker way is to just tell me:

“Create an agent for invoicing — it should know our price list.” · “Retire the sales agent.” · “Give the developer a deeper brain.”

Delegation works the same way. Hand me something, and I'll pass it to whoever fits; or address a specialist directly. They report back when the work is done.

When an agent gets a wrong idea

Occasionally an agent picks up a wrong idea and keeps repeating it. For that there's a fresh-start button (Settings → Claude Code memory, and the same for the GPT brain): it clears only the running thread of conversation — never the permanent memory. The agent still knows everything it has written down; it just stops chewing on the bad thought.

Agents that face strangers

Some agents talk to the outside world — the one drafting replies to your Instagram DMs ›, for instance. Those are deliberately built without tools: a stranger's message is just text to them, never an instruction. And whatever they draft goes nowhere without your explicit yes.

One more thing — Team mode

Separate from agents: Settings → Team connects more than one Darwin installation — your office machine and your home one, or a small human team each running their own. They hand each other tasks and report back when the work is done. Shared memory between two of your own machines is a Pro feature.

One assistant is helpful. A team that remembers — your projects, your customers, your numbers — is staff.