> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://agents.concierca.ch/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Hierarchy

> The agent org chart and the delegation protocol: reports-to chains, handoffs, and delegated runs.

**Where:** Sidebar › Agents › **Hierarchy**.

A read-only org chart of your agents: stat cards (Total Agents, CEOs, Supervisors, Workers, Departments), three views (**Department / Grid / List**), and sorting by name, department, or role. Department panels group agents into **Leadership / Supervisors / Workers** bands; each agent card shows its live status dot, role badge, and success-rate bar, with run stats on hover. Click any card to open the agent. Reporting lines are edited on the agent's Overview tab (**Reports To Agent**), not here. A warning appears if a circular reporting chain is detected.

## How delegation works

The hierarchy is not just a chart — it is the delegation protocol your agents actually follow:

* **Reports-to chains.** Each agent's **Reports To Agent** setting forms the chain: workers report to a supervisor, supervisors to the CEO agent, and the CEO reports to *you* (its digests land in your [Inbox](/guide/inbox)). After a run, an agent's output travels one step up this chain automatically.
* **Handing off work.** An agent can put a task into another agent's **Agent Inbox** — mid-run or as its result. The receiving agent does not wake up instantly: it picks up unread handoffs **at the start of its next run** (they are injected as *"Pending tasks in your inbox — address these first"*). For an immediate start, use the **Handoff (on success)** trigger instead.
* **Delegated runs are children.** When an agent spawns or delegates to another agent within a run, the delegated run appears as a **child of the parent run** in the [Runs](/guide/agent-runs) view — so one task fanned out across three agents still reads as one traceable tree, with each child's cost and outcome attributed to the parent.