Building Agent Teams

14 January 2026•4 min read

As your O-mega workforce grows, organization becomes important. Rather than managing a flat list of independent agents, you can create structured teams with clear reporting relationships. Agents can have parent-child relationships, enabling hierarchies that mirror how real organizations work.

This team structure isn't just organizational—it reflects actual working relationships. A marketing manager agent might oversee social media and content writing agents. A research lead might coordinate multiple specialist analysts. These relationships provide clarity about who does what and how work flows through your virtual workforce.

Agent Hierarchy

O-mega supports tree-structured hierarchies where any agent can have a parent and multiple children. This enables multi-level organizations with as much depth as your workflows require.

A typical hierarchy might look like:

CEO Agent (root)
├── Marketing Manager
│   ├── Social Media Agent
│   └── Content Writer
├── Sales Manager
│   ├── Lead Generator
│   └── Outreach Agent
└── Research Lead
    └── Data Analyst

Each branch represents a functional area with its own manager and specialists. The structure makes it immediately clear who is responsible for what and how different agents relate to each other.

Setting Up Parent-Child Relationships

Creating hierarchical relationships is straightforward. When configuring an agent, you simply specify which agent it reports to.

To establish a reporting relationship:

Open the agent you want to place in the hierarchy
Navigate to the agent's settings
Find the "Reports To" or parent selection option
Choose another agent as the parent
Save your changes

Once saved, the agent appears as a child of the selected parent in the org chart. You can reorganize at any time by changing the parent assignment.

Root Agents

Agents without a parent are root-level agents. They sit at the top of your organizational structure with no one above them. You can have multiple root agents for different departments, functions, or initiatives.

Root agents are ideal for:

Department heads who oversee teams
Independent specialists who don't fit into a hierarchy
Experimental agents you're testing before placing in the organization
Personal assistants that work directly for you rather than through a chain

There's no requirement that all agents be connected in a single tree. Multiple independent hierarchies can coexist, reflecting the reality that different parts of your workflow might be entirely separate.

Benefits of Hierarchies

Organizing agents into teams provides both conceptual and practical advantages as your workforce grows.

Organizational clarity. When you have dozens of agents, hierarchy makes it possible to understand at a glance how they relate to each other. Instead of a flat list of names, you see a structure that conveys meaning.

Delegation patterns. Parent agents can coordinate work across their children. A marketing manager can distribute tasks to specialists, review their outputs, and synthesize results—just like a human manager would.

Access scoping. Hierarchical structure can inform decisions about what information and resources different agents should have access to. Agents deeper in a hierarchy might have more focused access, while managers have broader visibility.

Best Practices

Building effective agent teams requires thinking about structure intentionally rather than just adding agents as needed.

Recommendations for team structure:

Mirror your real organization - Create agent hierarchies that match how your actual team operates or how you conceptualize the work
Give children specialized roles - Child agents should have focused, specific responsibilities that contribute to their parent's broader mission
Use managers for coordination - Parent agents work well when they have oversight responsibilities, coordinating across their children rather than doing all the work themselves

Future Capabilities

The current hierarchy system lays groundwork for increasingly sophisticated multi-agent collaboration. As the platform evolves, agent relationships will enable more powerful coordination.

Planned capabilities include:

Automatic task delegation from parent agents to appropriate children
Cross-agent collaboration where agents work together on shared goals
Team-level reporting and analytics that aggregate across hierarchies

Building your hierarchy now means you'll be positioned to take advantage of these capabilities as they become available.