CEO Agent
A CEO agent is the top-level orchestrator agent that decomposes a goal, delegates to specialists, tracks progress, and synthesizes the final result.
In plain English
A CEO agent is the agent that other agents report to. It receives the owner's goal, breaks it into a plan, and routes each step to whichever specialist is best equipped to do it. When specialists return results, it synthesizes them, decides whether more work is needed, and eventually presents a finished outcome to the human.
The role matters because language models are better at one job at a time than at juggling everything at once. A CEO agent runs with a lean prompt focused on planning, delegation, and synthesis. It holds only enough detail to route work; the messy execution context stays inside each specialist's subsession. That separation is how multi-agent systems keep quality high as tasks get longer.
Why it matters for Black Box
Black Box's CEO agent runs on the Claude Agent SDK and operates with a 150K-token working context before its summarizer compresses history. It coordinates the 18 specialists and is the only agent that talks to the owner. Everything the product does traces back to a CEO-agent turn.
Examples
- Receives "launch the coaching page," plans six subtasks, and delegates three to the Coding specialist and three to the Content specialist.
- Waits for Evaluator sign-off before marking a deliverable done.
- Summarizes a 40-turn session into a one-paragraph result for the Action Feed.