Help with setting up multiple agents in discord with 1 operator

[deep stag]

Having some issues running 1 main agent + 2 permanent agents (not subagents)

Running into a coordination gap with a multi-agent setup:

Main agent successfully delegates tasks to other agents, but fails to relay their responses back. Tasks get executed, but there’s no automatic feedback loop, no updates, no follow-ups, no surfaced results unless manually prompted.

Tried @mentions and DMs, but no reliable trigger for response handling. Looking for a way to enforce proper response routing so the main agent always reports back when the tasks get completed.

All of this is in discord btw - each agent has their own BOT + dedicated channel

[tepid granite]

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[nocturne bluff]

Common issue. Ive tried multiple approaches and all have pros and cons.

You can setup an inbox folder for each agent and they can communicate with each other by adding.md files to the folder. Agents can check their inbox during heartbeats or via cron.

Not pretty but works reliably.

Other ways like having multiple agents in a channel can cause ping pong loops, if you gate it with mention only the agents can forget to use it, etc

[deep stag]

Dang! Was hoping there was a much better way to do this.

I just setup a 5s polling script and it worked OKAY, but extremely messy.

Hoping someone else has a solution they got figured out.

also is this only a discord problem or is this a dashboard problem aswell?

I'll use any platform that will solve this for me.

I've tried the dashboard and couldnt figure that out either.