bearing-minionslisted

# Minions — fan out to gather, keep the thinking You can already spawn subagents. What you do not do is notice **when you should** — so you grind through forty files serially, or worse, sample five and generalise. This skill is that judgment. **Minions gather. You conclude.** They do **minimal or zero reasoning**. ## 1. Should you fan out at all? All four must hold: | | | |---|---| | **Bounded** | Each unit has a definite end. "Find every caller of `X`" ends. "Improve the architecture" does not. | | **Verifiable** | You can check the answer against the repo — a path, a line, a command's output. If you cannot check it, you are trusting testimony. | | **Independent** | Unit N does not need unit N−1's answer. Sequential work becomes a queue of agents waiting on each other, which is slower than doing it yourself. | | **Wide** | **3 or more units.** Below that, spawning and reporting cost more than doing it yourself. At three they already run concurrently, so the round-trip is paid once rather than three times. | **Do NOT fan out when:** - **The judgment is the work.** *Deciding* whether a fee should be net or gross is yours. *Finding* every place the fee is computed is a minion's. - **The answer must survive verbatim.** Anything that only survives as a summary is corrupted by the round-trip. Have the minion return raw text, or read it yourself. - **The unit needs context the minion was not in.** It will answer confidently and wrongly. - **Two units.** That is not a fan