Fire-and-forget context handoff. Send a task, summary, or rich context block to any agent without waiting. The recipient picks it up at their own pace.

Compose agents into pipelines: one produces, another refines, a third reviews — each running at full speed.

Spawn worker agents on-demand. A queue holds tasks; aegis starts fresh agent instances to process them, up to your parallelism ceiling. Callbacks fire on completion.

Chain queues together to build deep processing pipelines without writing a scheduler.

A shared markdown blackboard. Multiple agents read and write the same live document — building knowledge together, section by section.

Use canvases for research briefs, design docs, and collaborative drafting across agents with different expertise.

A live PTY-backed shell that agents co-author. One agent runs commands; another watches output and reacts — all in the same persistent shell session.

OSC 133 shell integration tracks command boundaries, exit codes, and output blocks with precision.

Broadcast to agent committees. Send one prompt to many agents simultaneously. Collect all responses, or fire and move on.

Use groups for adversarial review, parallel ideation, expert panels, or redundant verification.

Deterministic Python orchestration with cron scheduling. Define multi-step pipelines in plain Python — loops, branches, retries, parallelism — with full type safety.

Workflows compose all six primitives into repeatable, production-grade automations that run while you sleep.