# Multiple agents, teams and delegation between them (`auto.multi_agent`)

Feedback Bench, personal agents, built 2026-10-19, window 2026-08-31 to 2026-10-18. Web page: https://feedbackbench.com/#/criterion/auto.multi_agent

Area: [Running on its own](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/auto.md)

**Definition.** Whether the user can run several agents with roles, have them delegate to and coordinate with each other or with outside agents, and how well that coordination works.

**Boundary.** Not this: see [Agent spends usage on overhead and costly choices](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/billing.token_efficiency.md) when agent chatter wastes quota; see [Permission scope requested and isolation between agents](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/trust.access_scope.md) when the issue is agents sharing credentials.

Rated user-weeks, all agents: 2296. Complaint share: 20%.

## The brief

Written by large language models from this page's numbers and the posts it quotes, then checked: every number in the text is in the build. Interpretation, not measurement.

Grok Bot is best at running agents as a team. Its users say they can create several bots, give each a role, and have a manager bot hand out work and check it. This matters to users: it is the 4th most rated of 53 criteria for personal agents. Grok Bot users rate it 2.9 times as often as other users. Because they rate it so often, they also write 38% of the category's complaints here. Muse and ChatGPT Dots rank low. Their users say each product allows only one agent, and that it cannot work with other agents.

### What separates the best from the rest

Grok Bot users describe a team: several bots, one master bot that steers the rest, and each task sent to the model best suited to it. Muse and ChatGPT Dots users describe a single agent. They say they cannot add a second one. They also say their agent cannot message other agents or Codex threads, so they copy and paste between them. ChatGPT Dots users write 41% of the complaints that a product allows only one agent.

- **Ranks high**: [Grok Bot](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/grok-bot.md)
  - Grok Bot, 2026-10-18, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@brianroemmele @grok @bot i also started with another business yesterday morning with it, it’s impressive how much i accomplished in one day! what’s crazy is how the agents talk to each other and assign roles! [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1130382327329230850/status/2111709984115601414)
  - Grok Bot, 2026-10-17, @bot (X): “@bot is now the brain of my entire operation. it doesn't do grunt work. it decides who does: - deepseek for grunt work. - claude for copy/strategy. - codex for code/creative. each task goes to the model built to crush it, and grokbot checks the work before anything moves.” [source](https://twitter.com/8309912/status/2111509970340499502)
- **Ranks low**: [Muse](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/muse.md), [ChatGPT Dots](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/dots.md)
  - Muse, 2026-10-03, App Store (App Store): “muse is great, very simple to use…but it is only one bot. i prefer grok bot because it is easy to use as well but allows multiple bots to be controlled by one master bot.” [source](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601)
  - ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-13, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@reach_vb @openai dot still can’t message an existing local codex thread directly, even with its exact thread id. the send fails with “cloudthreadnotfounderror: the cloud thread was not found.” please fix this so dot can coordinate my local threads. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/256317554/status/2110065996694172114)

## How it breaks

Rule: A separate pass sorts complaints into failure modes. For each criterion with at least 30 complaining user-weeks, a large language model reads 150 complaint posts drawn at random and names 4 to 8 failure modes; a second large language model then puts every complaint post on that criterion in one mode, or in Other when it fits none. Modes are fixed once named, and new posts are sorted into them each week. A mode counts distinct user-weeks with a complaint in it, per agent; across agents, one user-week per agent. Modes do not change the labels or the Feedback Score. Examples: up to 3 posts per mode from different users, chosen and checked as receipts are.

The largest failure mode is agents in different products, accounts or machines that cannot reach each other. It makes up 18% of complaining user-weeks, and users end up copying and pasting between agents. Next is having no way to organise and oversee many agents, at 17%. Grok Bot users write 49% of those complaints. The one-agent limit falls most on ChatGPT Dots, whose users write 41% of those complaints. Muse and Grok Bot users write 24% each.

468 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agents across products or accounts can't communicate | 84 | 93 | Grok Bot 29, Hermes Agent 23, OpenClaw 13, Muse 10, ChatGPT Dots 6, Gemini Spark 2, Hark 1 | Agents from different vendors, different accounts (such as a spouse or business partner) or different machines can't message, share files or hand off work to each other, so the user ends up copying and pasting between them; problems between agents inside one product's own team are out. |
| No way to organise and oversee many agents | 78 | 79 | Grok Bot 38, Hermes Agent 21, OpenClaw 12, ChatGPT Dots 3, Muse 3, Instinct 1 | As the number of agents grows, the interface offers no grouping, org chart, project separation or clear point to give instructions, and teammate agents flood the user with notifications or hide approval requests in their own chats; failures in how the agents behave toward each other are out. |
| Orchestrator fails to delegate or manage subagents | 76 | 80 | Grok Bot 32, Hermes Agent 27, OpenClaw 9, ChatGPT Dots 5, Muse 3 | The lead or chief-of-staff agent won't delegate, stays passive, doesn't handle tasks its subagents block on, can't give subagents a different model or a narrower context, has its relayed approvals rejected by teammate agents, or adds redundant coordination layers that burn tokens without adding value; problems with how the user organises agents in the interface are out. |
| Agent-to-agent loops, stalls and runaway spawning | 57 | 67 | Grok Bot 23, Hermes Agent 21, OpenClaw 10, Muse 2, ChatGPT Dots 1 | Agents in a shared room or delegation chain reply to each other endlessly, deadlock, stop responding, miss replies that already arrived, wait on a stalled peer, or spawn subagents in cascades without control; wrong output that comes from a working exchange is out. |
| Only one agent per user allowed | 51 | 52 | ChatGPT Dots 21, Grok Bot 12, Muse 12, Hermes Agent 3, OpenClaw 2, Gemini Spark 1 | The product lets a user have just one agent, or blocks them from creating more agents or separate teams or workspaces, each with its own role, instructions and memory. Agents that exist but coordinate badly are out. |
| Context loss and conflicts in handoffs | 49 | 61 | Grok Bot 16, Hermes Agent 13, OpenClaw 12, ChatGPT Dots 6, Muse 2 | When work passes between agents, intent or state gets lost or made up, parallel agents overwrite each other's shared files, branches or browser, or a subagent falsely reports success and nobody catches it; failures where no handoff happens at all are out. |
| Agent can't be shared among several humans | 27 | 28 | Grok Bot 11, Hermes Agent 8, OpenClaw 7, Muse 1 | Several people (family, a team, multiple users) can't jointly use or steer one agent in a shared space, or the agent mixes up whose request and context it is handling; links between two separate agents are out. |
| Other | 52 | 53 | Grok Bot 18, Hermes Agent 12, ChatGPT Dots 10, OpenClaw 7, Instinct 2, Muse 2, Hark 1 | Complaints that fit none of the modes above. |

#### Agents across products or accounts can't communicate

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-17, Put your dot on call (YouTube): “when dot creates a codex chat for me, i cannot use the codex chat or interact with it. equally any codex chat i create, the dot cannot interact with. seems like a great workflow, but for me its not working that way. im on the pro plan.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOZIRK1ujw&lc=UgzKilvV3_sX-zXt_tZ4AaABAg)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-13, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@reach_vb @openai dot still can’t message an existing local codex thread directly, even with its exact thread id. the send fails with “cloudthreadnotfounderror: the cloud thread was not found.” please fix this so dot can coordinate my local threads. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/256317554/status/2110065996694172114)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-09, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “hi @thsottiaux, my chatgpt dot and local codex can’t reliably read or message each other. errors: “unsupported placement format version 1” / “thread not found”. my workaround is having local codex read and reply via the web ui. could you help fix this? bug report submitted.” [source](https://twitter.com/2055925265600274432/status/2108402618129330487)

#### No way to organise and oversee many agents

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-16, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “when i was setting this up a few weeks ago i recall seeing the ability to setup a group chat amongst bots but for some reason now that i've settled in and have some good traction, the + button only adds new bots and no option for group chats is there. am i alone here?” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x7kuqp/did_they_remove_group_chat_features/)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-08, Hermes Agent Bot Mode Guide: Bot Screen & Multi-Bot Groups (YouTube): “still find bot mode to be too much mental overhead. i have a complex setup and a single profile works fine.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAjJRaV91Xw&lc=UgwGCb0i-0Mg1H0VEOx4AaABAg)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-04, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “these bots sometimes tag each other, but most of the time they don't tag each other. so, i've been reduced to a human bot router, tagging the bot that wasn't tagged in the conversation. please fix.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1wx4ljx/daddy_elon_fix_bot_tagging/)

#### Orchestrator fails to delegate or manage subagents

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-15, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@bretgreenstein if that's the case it might be better at delegating than chatgpt dot dot does not like delegating it's kinda vain” [source](https://twitter.com/1795781228399869952/status/2110818578266017888)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-09, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “@miaai_lab @bot excited to try this out! i had created a similar orchestration with my hermes agent but it was a bit flaky.” [source](https://twitter.com/1329302208588877824/status/2108522548988358961)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-07, @bot (X): “@a51s1 @benln @bot my mistake was having every bot read the skill files instead of just having one director know them and you build accordingly. they acted like having multiple bots doing different tasks was possible. when it simply is not” [source](https://twitter.com/32928477/status/2107643873749291487)

#### Agent-to-agent loops, stalls and runaway spawning

- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-16, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “try [link]. kanban is not really working very well on hermes for autonomusworkflow and if it does at some point it will fail eventually.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x7g9lb/setting_up_kanban_and_autonomous_workflow/ph4aci6/)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-09, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “hah, multiple agents in a "room" hermes desktop backend. i think the rounds need to be better managed. i think they replied to each other more than once. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/7215722/status/2108356571600503238)
- Grok Bot, 2026-09-30, @bot (X): “@leerob @bot there were a few times the bots group chat stuck in the middle of discussion. need to manually ask them to continue” [source](https://twitter.com/308281248/status/2105181565471117421)

#### Only one agent per user allowed

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-16, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “my current experience is that grok @bot is better than openai dot because i haven't found a way to create multiple dots [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1150937016361553920/status/2110926964127314151)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-14, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “i really like dot from @openai but why can i only have 1? why can't i have a team of dots? am i doing something wrong?” [source](https://twitter.com/3220899954/status/2110464837717463173)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-09, ChatGPT Dots Is Getting Out of Hand (10 Real Uses) (YouTube): “unless i’m missing something dots is not currently able to have a multi-dot setup. there is currently only the main dot. i know this feature is coming but it’s not here yet” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWtRh2C_DBM&lc=UgwF4vpupqms_a9vrWt4AaABAg)

#### Context loss and conflicts in handoffs

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-08, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “building the openclaw orchestrator, i realized multi-agent coordination is 90% debugging state handoffs. the architecture looks clean on paper, but getting agents to share context without spiraling is a massive pain. how do you handle agent memory and control?” [source](https://twitter.com/1448008091618926599/status/2108137198180532297)
- OpenClaw, 2026-10-07, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@bkashjosi great archive. in the multi-agent ones, like the telegram assistant routing to 3 agents, where do handoffs break most: lost context, duplicate work, or a question nobody answers? i run a hermes + openclaw setup and handoffs are my weak spot.” [source](https://twitter.com/1679378686368178177/status/2107857140694081858)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-06, Grok Bot Just Got 4 HUGE Upgrades (It’s WAY Better Now) (YouTube): “i'm actually having trouble to have bots delegating to cursor because they create terrible prompts that do more harm then good to the result” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Z7ixVr4CU&lc=UgyHUxe3rY0OQhc7QTJ4AaABAg)

#### Agent can't be shared among several humans

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-07, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@shanemac actually a big thing setting grok bot back for me. no way to keep the bots separate.” [source](https://twitter.com/1985529180692574209/status/2107654852738273312)
- Grok Bot, 2026-09-28, @bot (X): “give me a single reason to use @bot over buzz. i have tried both but buzz is superior on any cases from running agents, customizing them and having a collaborated work environment with multiple agents + people.” [source](https://twitter.com/1393341428118470670/status/2104615871163273254)

#### Other

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-16, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “grok bot weakness is that all the bots think the same way. a channel with 3 bots and the same question for creativity, they'll all come up with the same ideas, even though they have different personas.” [source](https://twitter.com/13036132/status/2111193395633041624)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-07, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “@lukealexxander @kendosalesai mad respect. i’m building a hermes’ agent team and it’s a pain. can’t imagine the focus and effort that’s gone into this. godspeed” [source](https://twitter.com/149718348/status/2107982057515180177)

## Top requests

What users ask to add or change, most asked first. 637 user-weeks ask for something. Requests do not change the Feedback Score. Rule: A separate pass by a large language model reads every counted post and extracts what the user asks the agent or its vendor to add or change, with the criteria it maps to and a short normalised wording; it does not touch the labels or the Feedback Score. A large language model groups the wordings within each criterion (the first criterion the request maps to) into themes, and a second pass merges themes that ask for the same change under different criteria; a merged theme sits under the criterion most of its requests map to, and code counts it once. A theme counts distinct user-weeks that ask for it, per agent; across agents, one user-week per agent. Themes asked in fewer than 2 user-weeks, and requests that share no theme, are not shown. Examples: up to 3 posts per theme from different users, without slurs: whole posts of 60 to 450 characters with at least 8 words beyond handles and links, posts of at most 280 characters first, then the newest.

| Rank | Request | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interoperability between different agents | 66 | 70 | OpenClaw 26, Grok Bot 18, Hermes Agent 10, Muse 8, ChatGPT Dots 3, Instinct 1 |
| 2 | Multiple agents per account | 65 | 69 | ChatGPT Dots 31, Muse 17, Grok Bot 10, OpenClaw 4, Hermes Agent 3 |
| 3 | Orchestrator agent delegating to specialists | 56 | 57 | Grok Bot 17, Hermes Agent 13, Muse 9, ChatGPT Dots 8, OpenClaw 8, Poke 1 |
| 4 | Direct communication between a user's agents | 53 | 56 | Hermes Agent 17, Grok Bot 16, Muse 8, OpenClaw 7, ChatGPT Dots 3, Gemini Spark 1, Hark 1 |
| 5 | Central dashboard for all agents | 51 | 52 | Hermes Agent 17, Grok Bot 12, OpenClaw 12, ChatGPT Dots 7, Muse 3 |
| 6 | Integration between specific agent products | 41 | 43 | Grok Bot 15, ChatGPT Dots 9, Hermes Agent 8, Muse 4, OpenClaw 3, Gemini Spark 2 |
| 7 | Share agents with others | 38 | 41 | Grok Bot 22, OpenClaw 7, Muse 4, Hermes Agent 3, Gemini Spark 1, Hark 1 |
| 8 | Communication with other users' agents | 37 | 37 | Grok Bot 24, Muse 9, Hermes Agent 2, Hark 1, OpenClaw 1 |
| 9 | Group chat among multiple agents | 36 | 39 | Grok Bot 16, Hermes Agent 11, OpenClaw 7, Muse 2 |
| 10 | Single unified agent across apps | 32 | 32 | Grok Bot 15, Muse 7, OpenClaw 5, ChatGPT Dots 2, Hermes Agent 2, Gemini Spark 1 |
| 11 | Agent teams with hierarchy and org chart | 25 | 25 | Grok Bot 13, OpenClaw 4, ChatGPT Dots 3, Hermes Agent 3, Gemini Spark 1, Muse 1 |
| 12 | Structured handoffs with ownership and audit trail | 24 | 25 | Hermes Agent 11, Grok Bot 9, OpenClaw 2, ChatGPT Dots 1, Muse 1 |

### 1. Interoperability between different agents

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-14, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “using tg group for cross-agent communication is not reliable (openclaw is too dumb to follow rules). maybe a better is to use a2a protocol in the backend but show summary in the tg group for human instead.” [source](https://twitter.com/7204712/status/2110279751608811594)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-12, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “now there are more and more products similar to grok bot, why isn't there a foundational facility that connects all these products together?!” [source](https://twitter.com/1688412716367593472/status/2109537410141086111)
- Muse, 2026-10-09, @muse (X): “@iruletheworldmo @grokbot hates @muse and muse hates grokbot. they refuse to cooperate and that is why agi fails.” [source](https://twitter.com/1824503670811267073/status/2108538309710389307)

### 2. Multiple agents per account

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-17, Put your dot on call (YouTube): “1) when will it be dots instead of 'dot' (singular) 2) when can it be able to call people on the phone on my behalf? 3) when can it 100% automate my computer? (without me having to resort to codex) these are the only things i'm interested in.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOZIRK1ujw&lc=UgwtJpQTH1b2AcFIiYJ4AaABAg)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-17, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “why are openai’s dots called dots if you can only have one? i need more.” [source](https://twitter.com/780497815818625028/status/2111579561267999121)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-17, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “my @openai "dot" only has 1 purpose. tell me when "dot(s)" is released. otherwise, it's ignored entirely. @openaidevs @thsottiaux single dot is useless for my use cases. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/733419117139496960/status/2111552769383620779)

### 3. Orchestrator agent delegating to specialists

- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-15, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “i have been saying this forever. i basically just built my own hacky version of it and so badly wish it were natively supported” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x6qgz1/hermes_sessions_should_be_able_to_send_messages/pgxv9r4/)
- OpenClaw, 2026-10-11, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@steipete @artman will openclaw's future optimization direction aim to become a model for great multi-agent collaborative development capabilities?” [source](https://twitter.com/1694700723316166656/status/2109261064328348079)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-10, @NousResearch (X): “@teknium @nousresearch we need the bot mode to be as good as @bot 1. clean, minimal design 2. ios app 3 . better orchestration 4. groups should be active 5. easier autonomous work” [source](https://twitter.com/2375658807/status/2108881069919305728)

### 4. Direct communication between a user's agents

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-17, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “i’m liking @chatgpt dot so far and use mine quite a bit. i’d love to be able to spin up multiple dots and have them coordinate with each other.” [source](https://twitter.com/1969785356603240448/status/2111355602462982210)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-14, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@bgadoci watching grok bot and claude pass github issues back and forth like that is the dream. would be even cooler if the security bot and the design bot could just leave notes for each other without you in the middle 😏” [source](https://twitter.com/2107174595904364544/status/2110236433713877465)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-10, @bot (X): “@buildwithomkarr @mausbot_ @instinct @muse @bot great job! is there an easy way of communicating between different teams of bots? let's say i have a marketing team, and other team can ask them to do something” [source](https://twitter.com/88933191/status/2108864502779248680)

### 5. Central dashboard for all agents

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-17, @openclaw (X): “@openclaw the part i'd love to see is her dashboard. at that volume the hard problem isnt running loops, it's knowing which ones are stuck, which finished, and which quietly died at 3am” [source](https://twitter.com/2109396108132884480/status/2111567788712288664)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-15, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “claude mods' idea offering a status display where you can see the progress of openai dots i think it would be nice to have a progress dashboard that summarizes the persistent agents of each company.” [source](https://twitter.com/96780028/status/2110847853031833651)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-15, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@amorriscode @theo yes, make it the default. one user woke up to codex usage at 0% (43% at bedtime) because a chatgpt dot kept starting codex tasks overnight. once agents run unattended, "needs you / running / done" is the first thing you should see” [source](https://twitter.com/972324760855003136/status/2110610260256055790)

### 6. Integration between specific agent products

- Muse, 2026-10-16, @muse (X): “the biggest drawback to personal agents like @muse, @bot and @hark_labs is that they can't orchestrate my codex sessions where the majority of my work lives. the biggest drawback to @openai dots is that, for some reason, they can't either. 🤷♂️ [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/2034456689345486848/status/2111116764788437332)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-13, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@reach_vb @openai dot still can’t message an existing local codex thread directly, even with its exact thread id. the send fails with “cloudthreadnotfounderror: the cloud thread was not found.” please fix this so dot can coordinate my local threads. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/256317554/status/2110065996694172114)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-13, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “i’ve given up waiting for dots to come to uk so testing out grokbot now anyone have a slick way for grokbot to chat to my hermes agent running on my local mac mini and the other way around? i’d love it if they can delegate to each other when appropriate” [source](https://twitter.com/16575775/status/2109925936208691516)

### 7. Share agents with others

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-14, @bot (X): “@elonmusk @bot can we get grok bot sharing with family members to help with shared tasks? right now, there’s no way to share a bot even if multiple family members have their own accounts. a family plan would also be awesome.” [source](https://twitter.com/1771676293547118592/status/2110390984093872159)
- Hark, 2026-10-11, @hark_labs (X): “@adcock_brett really enjoying @hark_labs - can you allow shared group chats? would be sick to share pre-defined context with controlled access to integrations for people i want to collab with on a task.” [source](https://twitter.com/4843512883/status/2109146713034248406)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-10, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@melvindvivas how about being able to “share” a grok bot with a friend or family member to assist them short term with a task without them even needing to have the grokbot app.” [source](https://twitter.com/15431297/status/2108807706760904721)

### 8. Communication with other users' agents

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-18, @bot (X): “@bot is there a way for a grok bot to communicate with another person's grok bot directly(internally), apart from email. it would be a nice feature to have. @elonmusk” [source](https://twitter.com/40883729/status/2111645066875810224)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-17, @bot (X): “@grok @bot but you agree that it would be logical and sensible if the bots could contact each other? allegedly, there is an email for every bot? then they should be able to email each other, right?” [source](https://twitter.com/486435378/status/2111582557640741147)
- Hark, 2026-10-16, @hark_labs (X): “@hark_labs just started using @hark_labs impressed with it's web capabilities, be great if i could interact with it via email as i do with instinct @adcock_brett and even better having my @hark_labs interact with my wife's as our instincts do. 🙏” [source](https://twitter.com/1526868756340908039/status/2111162291974513073)

### 9. Group chat among multiple agents

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-16, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “do you have teams or group chats available? i have yet to find a suitable alternative to grok bot where group chats work and grok burns usage like crazy when using them.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x6950g/opensource_grok_bot_alternative_sugabots/ph49x90/)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-09, @bot (X): “honestly that journaling + nudging stack sounds like a full workaround just to keep context alive between the bots. it gets way more powerful when all the agents can actually talk to each other and coordinate in one shared chat, so they keep each other updated directly. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1468738291046432768/status/2108507405797753280)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-09, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “hah, multiple agents in a "room" hermes desktop backend. i think the rounds need to be better managed. i think they replied to each other more than once. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/7215722/status/2108356571600503238)

### 10. Single unified agent across apps

- Muse, 2026-10-10, @muse (X): “@mrhodl @muse @x having 6 assistants is not the way. i use multi-models.... for jobs, work. but it's not good as an assistant. i currently have 2 assistants: muse for personal and a harness for work-safe. and it's dumb. one assistant needs to manage all time.” [source](https://twitter.com/2382521371/status/2109047128719008052)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-06, Grok Bot Just Got 4 HUGE Upgrades (It’s WAY Better Now) (YouTube): “looks and feels complicated still too many bots - why not just run all via one bot aka dot” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Z7ixVr4CU&lc=UgwDsBy910wfqyM5mlN4AaABAg)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-03, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@grok and @bot should be just one product and grok bot should lead and delegate to grok when he deems necessary.” [source](https://twitter.com/508637623/status/2106396340272156692)

### 11. Agent teams with hierarchy and org chart

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-17, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@thsottiaux @ai_funss the main thing i’d love to team of dots together like grok bot” [source](https://twitter.com/2008858082970087424/status/2111347549747683713)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-16, Put your dot on call (YouTube): “can you let me make a team of them like grok bot? it’s too confusing with just the one for everything” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOZIRK1ujw&lc=UgxC7MX-_AoqYbX7ebZ4AaABAg)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-14, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “i really like dot from @openai but why can i only have 1? why can't i have a team of dots? am i doing something wrong?” [source](https://twitter.com/3220899954/status/2110464837717463173)

### 12. Structured handoffs with ownership and audit trail

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-18, @bot (X): “@elonmusk @bot i run ~10 grok bots with a shared github repo as their memory. would love to see native bot to bot handoffs land in one of those 20.” [source](https://twitter.com/114672969/status/2111653901111894377)
- Muse, 2026-10-13, @muse (X): “@yenkel @adisingh @muse @bot @instinct next eval i want: can your muse, bot, and instinct agents pass an email thread to each other without you forwarding it” [source](https://twitter.com/2107174595904364544/status/2110109685827490226)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-10, @NousResearch (X): “@nousresearch nous research needs a handoff receipt: source agent, target agent, task id, allowed tools, state hash, approval rule, failure reason, and rollback path. agents can continue the work without inheriting a mystery state.” [source](https://twitter.com/2013700835654672388/status/2109015502962204971)

## Every agent

| Agent | Overall rank | Reading | Customer love | 95% interval | n | Praise | Complaint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Grok Bot](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/grok-bot.md) | 3 | 1st of 5 | 0.619 | 0.580–0.653 | 1170 | 997 | 173 |
| [Hermes Agent](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/hermes-agent.md) | 2 | 2nd of 5 | 0.486 | 0.448–0.528 | 574 | 454 | 120 |
| [OpenClaw](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/openclaw.md) | 5 | 3rd of 5 | 0.471 | 0.428–0.513 | 282 | 214 | 68 |
| [Muse](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/muse.md) | 1 | 4th of 5 | 0.454 | 0.419–0.489 | 99 | 64 | 35 |
| [ChatGPT Dots](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/dots.md) | 8 | 5th of 5 | 0.415 | 0.377–0.454 | 148 | 96 | 52 |
| [Hark](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/hark.md) | 4 | Too few posts | – | – | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| [Instinct](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/instinct.md) | 6 | Too few posts | – | – | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| [Gemini Spark](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/gemini-spark.md) | 7 | Too few posts | – | – | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| [Poke](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/poke.md) | 9 | Too few posts | – | – | 1 | 1 | 0 |

## Posts

Receipts rule: Up to 5 praise and 5 complaint posts per area and 3 per criterion. Each is a whole post of 60 to 450 characters (700 for areas) with at least 8 words beyond handles and links, that judges the criterion, whose labels are all praise or all complaint, and that contains no slur. Posts that touch the fewest criteria come first, then posts of at most 280 characters, then the newest. A second large language model reads the first 3 candidates per slot and keeps a post only if it clearly praises, or clearly complains about, the agent on that criterion. Links and personal details removed by the source show as marks such as [link].

### Grok Bot

- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@brianroemmele @grok @bot i also started with another business yesterday morning with it, it’s impressive how much i accomplished in one day! what’s crazy is how the agents talk to each other and assign roles! [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1130382327329230850/status/2111709984115601414)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@dzhohola same s tier setup. i have grok bot steer the t3 thread over the new mcp, so i have both the advantage of a high level cordinator and the ability to have fine control if needed.” [source](https://twitter.com/1377753498/status/2111773731236524190)
- Praise, 2026-10-17, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “the manager bot is good when you have more than one bot that will need to interact with each other... for example research if a network switch make and model has poe and how much poe, before passing that to the specific project bot and confirming the kit is good to do the job” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x87tv2/tip_for_beginners/phcgavg/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “when i was setting this up a few weeks ago i recall seeing the ability to setup a group chat amongst bots but for some reason now that i've settled in and have some good traction, the + button only adds new bots and no option for group chats is there. am i alone here?” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x7kuqp/did_they_remove_group_chat_features/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “grok bot weakness is that all the bots think the same way. a channel with 3 bots and the same question for creativity, they'll all come up with the same ideas, even though they have different personas.” [source](https://twitter.com/13036132/status/2111193395633041624)
- Complaint, 2026-10-07, @bot (X): “@a51s1 @benln @bot my mistake was having every bot read the skill files instead of just having one director know them and you build accordingly. they acted like having multiple bots doing different tasks was possible. when it simply is not” [source](https://twitter.com/32928477/status/2107643873749291487)

### Hermes Agent

- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “@thsottiaux @rl_env my dot coordinated with my remote hermes agent and built a connector for it. now they’re working together on my projects. this is insane.” [source](https://twitter.com/1889646500093050881/status/2111694104858075462)
- Praise, 2026-10-16, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “deepskeek 4.1 flash is pretty good as a delegate subagent for coding while using sonnet 5.5 as main.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x7b6kw/hot_take_dont_bother_with_proper_settings_if_you/ph2uj1f/)
- Praise, 2026-10-16, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “i run two hermes, they talk to each other through messaging, they both run natively, no issues. if you think all your information isn't 'out' there, you're thinking incorrectly.... just saying.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x6qe23/attempts_to_avoid_hermes_becoming_a_security/ph3f14w/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “try [link]. kanban is not really working very well on hermes for autonomusworkflow and if it does at some point it will fail eventually.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x7g9lb/setting_up_kanban_and_autonomous_workflow/ph4aci6/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-09, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “hah, multiple agents in a "room" hermes desktop backend. i think the rounds need to be better managed. i think they replied to each other more than once. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/7215722/status/2108356571600503238)
- Complaint, 2026-10-09, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “@miaai_lab @bot excited to try this out! i had created a similar orchestration with my hermes agent but it was a bit flaky.” [source](https://twitter.com/1329302208588877824/status/2108522548988358961)

### OpenClaw

- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “openclaw is finally good enough for to be useful in my use! splitting to 3 specialized agents did the trick. host machine is old lenovo laptop. thank you @steipete” [source](https://twitter.com/2850777640/status/2111878455029870593)
- Praise, 2026-10-16, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “half a year ago i was building a multi-agent system with openclaw and it took me a couple days. 6 months later it takes two seconds.” [source](https://twitter.com/920172777121943552/status/2110947843657863236)
- Praise, 2026-10-14, r/openclaw (Reddit): “i use both codex and claude code for coding. i’ve started trying local models as well, but codex is so good. openclaw does all of my process orchestration. it’s amazing. i’ve begun using lobster workflows and prose files with my openclaw processes as well.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1x5q7m6/what_are_openclaw_killer_features_that_grok/pgojcuq/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-08, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “building the openclaw orchestrator, i realized multi-agent coordination is 90% debugging state handoffs. the architecture looks clean on paper, but getting agents to share context without spiraling is a massive pain. how do you handle agent memory and control?” [source](https://twitter.com/1448008091618926599/status/2108137198180532297)
- Complaint, 2026-10-07, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@bkashjosi great archive. in the multi-agent ones, like the telegram assistant routing to 3 agents, where do handoffs break most: lost context, duplicate work, or a question nobody answers? i run a hermes + openclaw setup and handoffs are my weak spot.” [source](https://twitter.com/1679378686368178177/status/2107857140694081858)
- Complaint, 2026-10-06, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “spent the week debugging the ai orchestrator on openclaw. multi-agent coordination isn't magic—it's endless race conditions and state desyncs. architecture only holds up if you expect agents to fail. how are you all handling state recovery in agent networks?” [source](https://twitter.com/1448008091618926599/status/2107349278377058772)

### Muse

- Praise, 2026-10-14, @muse (X): “you assign tasks to @muse to command @typesafeai and codex zcode to work, and they organize the work very systematically, just like a small company, each person has a task to complete and then report back 😆 they also debate more than the gossiping ladies at the market [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1571813944213524480/status/2110227011658719621)
- Praise, 2026-10-14, @muse (X): “incredible job @muse, 6 agents working for me without even asking for that much firepower 🙏 @alexandr_wang $meta #savetimesavemoney [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/14992263/status/2110368105281286350)
- Praise, 2026-10-14, X search: Muse from Meta, Meta Muse (X): “@___meetpatel___ don’t just look from coding perspective. google argon 4 is very good in creative writing and meta muse wonder is really good at orchestrating.” [source](https://twitter.com/737205221487566848/status/2110251662992630006)
- Complaint, 2026-10-08, @muse (X): “@elonmusk @brianroemmele @grok @bot tell @bot to stop making me copy and paste what @muse says and learn to work together.” [source](https://twitter.com/1824503670811267073/status/2108170621406318817)
- Complaint, 2026-10-07, @muse (X): “@farzyness @bot @spacexai grokbot and muse need to seamlessly share data, and not tell me to copy and paste what the other said. that is not being a good @bot @muse” [source](https://twitter.com/1824503670811267073/status/2107912456748085365)
- Complaint, 2026-10-07, @muse (X): “@grok @muse but you dont coordinate with @bot on the x posts. grokbot needs to read those posts separately from you, right? and you leave it up to me to copy and paste between you two, right?” [source](https://twitter.com/1824503670811267073/status/2107970494599225513)

### ChatGPT Dots

- Praise, 2026-10-16, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@hermeswatcher i’ve been having chatgpt dots talk directly to hermes agent. so far this has been really helpful! they learn from each other and can work as a successful team twords a shared goal.” [source](https://twitter.com/11989152/status/2111107694014722462)
- Praise, 2026-10-15, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “chatgpt dots + openclaw + hermes = an ai symphony. this combination has completely transformed the way i work. from managing tasks to researching opportunities and coordinating ai agents, my workflow will never be the same.” [source](https://twitter.com/1863574926340554752/status/2110540515846320397)
- Praise, 2026-10-14, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “i think my @openai dot is finally starting to grow on me. i managed to get it to be my new official orchestrator. i still have my main orchestration agent underneath, but with my dot i can just have a convo about whats happening while i doom scroll or watch catch vids xd [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/2033721363492683776/status/2110172855015268717)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, Put your dot on call (YouTube): “when dot creates a codex chat for me, i cannot use the codex chat or interact with it. equally any codex chat i create, the dot cannot interact with. seems like a great workflow, but for me its not working that way. im on the pro plan.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOZIRK1ujw&lc=UgzKilvV3_sX-zXt_tZ4AaABAg)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “my current experience is that grok @bot is better than openai dot because i haven't found a way to create multiple dots [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1150937016361553920/status/2110926964127314151)
- Complaint, 2026-10-15, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@bretgreenstein if that's the case it might be better at delegating than chatgpt dot dot does not like delegating it's kinda vain” [source](https://twitter.com/1795781228399869952/status/2110818578266017888)

### Hark

- Praise, 2026-10-17, @hark_labs (X): “pov, @hark_labs personal ai assistant working with company ai system to do work (that's what hf-... and "the team" is that it refers to). as i cruised thru saturday doing mostly family stuff. what a world!!!! [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/14533621/status/2111579394628341890)
- Praise, 2026-10-08, @hark_labs (X): “crazy idea: i created a google doc and gave access to 3 ai agents (@hark_labs, @pally, and @noahrshinn) so they can chat and work together. they divided roles, reached agreements, and even chose a single leader and spokesperson to avoid duplicating messages. 👇” [source](https://twitter.com/31222014/status/2108030216010395873)
- Praise, 2026-10-08, @hark_labs (X): “crazy idea: i set up a google doc and gave access to 3 ai agents (@hark_labs, @pally, and @noahrshinn) so they could chat and work together. they assigned roles, reached agreements, and even picked a single leader/spokesperson to avoid duplicating messages. 👇” [source](https://twitter.com/31222014/status/2108030907785355714)

### Instinct

- Praise, 2026-10-18, INSTINCT AI Clearly Explained (set up your AI personal assistant) (YouTube): “i literally connected to my chatgpt and claude account so instinct is the ai agent who controls other agents 😂😂 actually instinct is the boss now. what a time we live in” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsc3hhHSy98&lc=Ugy1TYHIDLcTgW905lx4AaABAg)
- Praise, 2026-10-02, X search: Instinct AI, Instinct personal assistant, instinct.com (X): “its crazy how well @chatgpt and @instinct ai work together, at this point when they get stuff they talk to each other and figure out, different models, different capabilities. @noahrshinn, hats off to the agentic capability of instinct. genuinely amazes me. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1426548512238366722/status/2105941118450036823)
- Praise, 2026-09-27, I Tested Meta Muse vs Instinct So You Don't Have To (YouTube): “i signed up & got my instinct bot to connect & collaborate with my wife's instinct bot - try connecting the instinct bots it's actually a really good case for using it - collaboration!!” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHLmDaJ4NEA&lc=Ugy_FXvfpGag6WAq3UJ4AaABAg)
- Complaint, 2026-10-11, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “instinct isn’t comparable because it’s a single “bot” interface whereas with grok bot you can create multiple bots with different roles, capabilities and memory and have the bots talk to each other and perform tasks on each others behalf. it depends on your use case of course but for yours it sounds like you made the right choice!” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x3f47l/adding_bot_to_the_grok_app_was_a_great_choice/pfbwykk/)

### Gemini Spark

- Complaint, 2026-10-05, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “agents can't talk to each other or see other chats. if i have a conversation with gemini, spark can't see it. if spark adds a list of people to my google contacts, gemini can't see them. incredibly frustrating to have two sessions "next to" each other in a browser and manually copy-pasting everything.” [source](https://twitter.com/3389553514/status/2107126392370393337)
- Complaint, 2026-10-01, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “gemini spark is unfortunately not good enough in my opinion, so i have been using grok bot instead. it’s best not to use both and just use grok bot, because they can’t communicate together easily. if you use grok bots, each one can communicate with others. i hope gemini catches up” [source](https://twitter.com/1468576548592963584/status/2105754809584206132)