/design-n8n-agent-workflow

Coordinate independently operated external agents through durable handoffs. Use when work crosses hosts, sessions, accounts, services, queues, boards, pull requests, or human-owned task systems and cannot rely on an in-run subagent result.

Assign worktree, branch, thread, artifact, write, validation, integration, and cleanup ownership before parallel repository work. Use when launching or resuming a worker that will inspect or modify repository state outside the coordinator's single worktree.

Design framework-neutral agent and automation workflows before implementation. Use when choosing between Codex app automations, codex exec, Codex subagents, OpenAI Agents SDK services, LangGraph graphs, Hermes-specific workflows, full-auto execution, auto-with-escalation, or no

Design evaluation workflows for agent, skill, prompt, and automation behavior before implementation. Use when choosing eval cases, graders, thresholds, regression runs, full-auto gates, or escalation points for Codex skills, repo-local agents, OpenAI Agents SDK services,

Coordinate bounded work across in-run subagents or worker tasks. Use before spawning, resuming, steering, cancelling, or closing workers when the coordinator needs a structured launch envelope, required report-back, escalation, and synthesis contract.

Choose and design one-shot, recurring, event-triggered, monitored, CI, background, queue, or board-based agent work. Use when agent work must run later, repeat, survive the current thread, or deliver results through an explicit route.