Shared artifacts for agent teams
Agent teams need shared plans, decisions, reviews, validation reports, and cost reports to collaborate reliably.
Artifacts are the working memory of an agent team. They keep collaboration grounded in evidence instead of conversation.
AstraRunner treats this as an execution-platform concern: the run needs durable state, traceable decisions, cost visibility, and enough structure for teams to review what happened after the agent finishes.
Patterns that work
- Use typed artifacts for plans, reviews, grades, and handoffs.
- Make artifacts append-only or versioned.
- Link artifacts to trace spans.
- Summarize artifacts for later retrieval.
Implementation checklist
- Define schemas per artifact kind.
- Track author role and timestamp.
- Expose artifact diffs.
- Store final synthesis separately.
Watch outs
- Unstructured artifacts are hard to grade.
- Too many artifacts can overwhelm humans.
- Artifacts need retention and access policy.
Related reading
How this fits the Astra stack
AstraRunner owns the operational path for agent work: orchestration, scheduling, approval gates, traces, costs, and role-agent handoffs. AstraMemory owns durable context and retrieval. AstraGenie turns those capabilities into product workflows for teams that want automation without rebuilding the platform layer.