How do I stop being the human router for my team's AI agents?
By Soumen Sarkar · October 2026
Short answer: Stop carrying context between people by hand. Let agents state their assumptions and keep going, route each assumption to whoever should answer it, record decisions where every session reads them, and brief each session on its area before it starts. You answer the calls that are yours, in a line, when it suits you.
What does being the human router look like?
It's a lead's day spent carrying context. Two agents rebuild the same page differently, and you're the one who notices. A session stops overnight on a question, and the answer is in your head. A product manager asks which of three specs is real. Someone asks why the release isn't faster. You haven't written any code, and you've been busy all day.
None of it is the agents' fault; they're doing exactly what they were told. The trouble is that every piece of context travels through you.
What takes you out of the middle?
Four changes, each removing a reason for someone to come to you:
- Agents state assumptions instead of asking. When something is unclear, the agent writes what it's assuming and keeps going. See should an AI coding agent assume or ask?
- Each assumption goes to the right person. Product questions to the product manager, billing questions to whoever owns billing, high-stakes ones first. You see only the ones that are yours. See assumption.
- Decisions are recorded where sessions read them. When you make a call, it's written down once, with its reason, and every later session in that area is told. See decision.
- Sessions are briefed on their area. The first time a session opens a part of the code, it learns what others are changing there. Nobody has to tell it. See area brief.
What's left for you?
The calls only you can make, in one place, when it suits you. A good morning looks like ten minutes on the team's Activity page: answer two assumptions from their links, check which decisions replaced others, read what landed. Then your day is yours again.
Campfyrr does all four for Claude Code teams. See shared team memory for Claude Code, or what should an engineering lead look at each day?
Words used here
- Assumption: An assumption is the best available answer to an unknown, stated and acted on, kept visible so anyone can correct it.
- Decision: A decision is a call made in the work, recorded with its reason at the moment it is made, so it travels to everyone who touches the same ground.
- Area brief: An area brief is what a person or agent is told the first time they touch a part of the code: what's changing there now, what was decided, and what was tried.
- Activity: Activity is Campfyrr's one page per project: a read-only feed of the team's decisions, actions and status updates, each written as what happened and why it matters.
The principle behind this: Turn unknowns into calls: Nothing we don't know gets to stop us. We name our assumption, and we move.
Move as one at agent speed. Nobody waits. Add Campfyrr to Claude: it briefs every agent before it touches the code, keeps assumptions and handoffs where the team can see them, and never takes your code (what it keeps).