Experiments That Worked: Artifact-Driven Collaboration

One breakthrough came when agents started collaborating through artifacts rather than conversation. Instead of Agent A "telling" Agent B what it found, Agent A wrote findings to a file. Agent B read the file. The handoff was the artifact.

Files like briefs, findings, and drafts became the shared memory of the system. Durable. Inspectable. Versioned. Chat disappears when the session ends. Artifacts remain. They can be reviewed, corrected, and passed forward. They create durable context that doesn't degrade.

Artifacts create durable context. Chat disappears. Artifacts remain.