{"slug": "your-agents-are-in-the-field-give-them-their-orders", "title": "Your agents are in the field. Give them their orders.", "summary": "The Agency, an open-source command-and-control platform for AI agents, launched to provide a single source of truth for rules, skills, and standards across agent deployments. The platform uses a headquarters-server model with a local daemon (Handler) that syncs Briefs to project directories, supporting agents like Claude and Codex. It aims to solve consistency and control issues in agent development by centralizing instructions, skills, and coding standards.", "body_md": "Command and control for AI agents\n\n# Your agents are in the field.\n\nGive them their orders.\n\nCommand and control for your AI agents. One source of truth for the rules, skills, and standards every agent follows.\n\n## The problem\n\nAgent development is easy — right up until you want control.\n\nYour agents are off on missions in the field, casually carrying out orders however they see fit. One repository gets a careful set of rules; the next one gets whatever the agent felt like doing that afternoon. A teammate tweaks a skill on their laptop and now their agent and yours disagree about how your code should be written.\n\nYou need them organized. You need them running the mission the way you want it run:\n\n- Rules everyone actually follows\n- Skills your agents can reach for\n- Coding standards that stick\n- A project layout that stays put\n- The frameworks and libraries you chose\n- The same answer on every machine\n\nYou need The Agency.\n\n## How it works\n\nBriefs are authored once at headquarters and delivered down the chain — all the way to the directory where an Agent starts its Mission.\n\n- 01\n### The Agency\n\nHeadquarters. It stores and manages every Brief your Organization publishes, tracks versions as they change, and hands them out to Handlers in the field.\n\n- 02\n### Handler\n\nA quiet daemon on each developer’s machine. It receives Briefs from The Agency on a schedule, keeps its own copy, and drops the latest one at every Location it finds.\n\n- 03\n### Locations\n\nYour project directories. Mark one as a Location and any Agent that starts a Mission there — today or six months from now — finds its Brief already waiting.\n\n## What’s in a Brief\n\nA Brief is everything an Agent needs to carry out its Mission the way you want it carried out. One Brief, one source of truth, delivered identically to every Agent.\n\n- Instructions\n- The context every Agent should start with, before it writes a single line.\n- Skills\n- Reusable capabilities your Agents can reach for, with the scripts and references they need.\n- Rules\n- Coding standards, review expectations, and the lines your Agents do not cross.\n- Directives\n- Standing orders from your Organization — how work gets done, not just what gets built.\n- Commands\n- The shortcuts your team already uses, available in every repository from day one.\n- Assets\n- Templates, snippets, images — the supporting material a Mission depends on.\n\n## Control, without the babysitting\n\n### One set of rules, everywhere\n\nThe same standards reach every agent and every repository. No more “which copy of the rules is the real one?”\n\n### Works with the agents you use\n\nClaude, Codex, and others. Author once and The Agency lays the Brief out the way each agent expects to find it.\n\n### Files stay fresh\n\nIf an Agent mangles or deletes part of a Brief, the Handler puts it back on the next sync. Nobody has to notice.\n\n### Scoped delivery\n\nMission Types decide what lands where. A Library project never has to read your Web rules.\n\n### Managed centrally\n\nYour Organization authors the Briefs and controls distribution. Group developers into Teams and change who gets what.\n\n### Zero-effort onboarding\n\nA Location carries a small, source-controlled marker. Clone the repo and the next developer’s Agents are already briefed.\n\n## Put a Handler in the field\n\nTo install the Handler daemon, run this command in your terminal:\n\n`curl -fsSL https://theagencyhq.dev/handler/install | bash`\n\nThen follow the [getting started guide](/getting-started/) to author your first Brief.\n\n## The Agency is open source.\n\nRead the code, follow along, or come help build it.\n\n[View on GitHub](https://github.com/the-agency-hq)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agents-are-in-the-field-give-them-their-orders", "canonical_source": "https://theagencyhq.dev/", "published_at": "2026-09-02 15:06:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-02 15:23:46.883833+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["The Agency", "Claude", "Codex", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agents-are-in-the-field-give-them-their-orders", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agents-are-in-the-field-give-them-their-orders.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agents-are-in-the-field-give-them-their-orders.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agents-are-in-the-field-give-them-their-orders.jsonld"}}