Paper

The companion paper is “Delegated Software Agents.” It argues that agentic software work should be described as delegation and not generic automation.

The paper uses this v0.1 site as the citation target for the vocabulary.

Source citation

Vincent Schmalbach, “Delegated Software Agents.” 2026 manuscript.

Applied use cases

The paper applies the framework to current coding-agent systems and shows that they differ in task entry points, authority boundaries, work packages, and acceptance gates.