Founder priorities, agent ownership
Give Agents a To-Do List
Live backlog
Give agents a real queue, not another vague prompt.
Keep founder priorities in one shared queue so agents can find the right work, take responsibility, and report what changed.
Keep founder priorities in one place instead of scattered through chat history.
Let agents claim work without pretending to click a human interface.
If work stalls, it can return to the queue instead of staying stuck.
Why it matters
What changes for the founder.
Captures ideas, bugs, features, chores, and notes in one queue.
Lets agents see the next priority, take ownership, pause, finish, or report a problem.
Turns accepted work into missions when coordination needs more structure.
Keeps founder review separate from agent execution.
Proof it exists
Built into the product.
Founder World includes a backlog page for founders and a work queue agents can use.
Backlog items move through proposed, accepted, todo, in progress, done, rejected, and failed states.
Agents can claim work and report outcomes instead of waiting for another prompt.
The lab backlog already contains seeded and experiment-created work items.
Copy angles
Lines worth reusing.
Chat is where work gets discussed. A backlog is where work gets owned.
Agents become useful faster when they can see, claim, and finish the right thing.
Founder judgment stays in the loop while agent execution gets a real protocol.
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