Naming your crewmates, and why it matters

Early on, our agents had job titles: Research Agent, Outreach Agent. Nobody said those out loud. Within a week, every pilot team had renamed them.

Names change how people work with software. “Ask Ada” is easier to say in a standup than “run the research workflow”, and it makes it obvious who did what when you read the record.

A name, a color, a cursor

Each crewmate gets a name, a color and its own cursor. When four of them work in the same inbox, you can follow each one at a glance, and the color carries through the record, the shift report and Slack.

You can rename any crewmate in settings. Most teams keep the defaults; a few name them after old ships.