The perfect agent system

I tried to build the perfect agent system. Alfred was my main butler. I would talk only to him through Telegram, and he would delegate work to specialist agents like \`coder\_agent\`, \`email\_agent\`, \`notion\_agent\`, and others. Each agent would own its domain, stay focused, and handle the work it was best suited for. On paper, it was beautiful. And when it worked, it felt magical. But in practice, it kept breaking. Again and again, I found myself fixing gaps, patching workflows, and repairing the system instead of getting useful work done. Later, I added H-agent after seeing several people mention how well it complemented OpenClaw. And once again, when it worked, it felt great. I used H-agent to evaluate the OpenClaw agents, so I could get a more neutral view of how the system was actually behaving under Alfred’s control. At this point, I am on my fifth fresh build. The Alfred system has been built up, torn down, and rebuilt three times. So do not anchor yourself too hard to your first setup. Your first runs are mostly there to teach you what you actually need. In the end, you will probably land on something much simpler than what you started with. I did. After all of that, I am now left with a single agent. Keep it small. For most people start with a single OpenClaw/H-agent. It is simpler, more predictable, and much easier to troubleshoot and fix when something breaks. Do not overcomplicate it. Deiligste tasks to run as separate sessions with crons. That way, the agent stays free to keep talking with you, while scheduled work runs separately. And most importantly, you avoid building a token-hungry monster that spends more time managing itself than actually getting work done