# The Kitchen Brigade

AI Kitchen · Episode 2/8 · 21 min

> One chef isn't enough. Lan stops cooking and starts managing: tasks, plans, a brigade of AI agents with roles, pipelines and a router.

- URL: https://academy.stoicsoft.com/en/courses/ai-kitchen/lessons/ep-2-the-kitchen-brigade
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dIZWQQfB4
- Tiếng Việt: https://academy.stoicsoft.com/vi/courses/bep-ai/lessons/tap-2-doi-bep

Orders flood in after opening day. Lan wants a loyalty app and a Tết menu at the same time, and falls asleep typing to one chef at 1 a.m. Tú teaches her to turn one big wish into small tickets, ask for a plan before cooking, run chefs side by side, give them roles, put them on a conveyor belt, let the app pick the right chef, and taste on a real phone.

22 new words, from Task to Overhead. Honest note: a team costs more quota. Small fixes need one chef, not five.

## What you will learn

- Turn one big idea into small tasks with clear "done means…" criteria
- Ask an AI agent for a plan before it builds, and approve it
- Run several AI agents side by side and send one message to all of them
- Give agents roles: a lead, builders and a reviewer (agent orchestration)
- Pipelines (plan → build → review) and a router that picks the right agent
- Test on real phone sizes, and know when one agent is cheaper than a whole team

## Chapters

- 0:00 Opening: One chef isn't enough
- 1:02 Chapter 1: The ticket board
- 4:17 Chapter 2: Two kitchens, one call
- 6:23 Chapter 3: A brigade with roles
- 8:53 Chapter 4: The conveyor belt
- 11:08 Chapter 5: Who cooks what
- 13:16 Chapter 6: Tasting on a phone
- 15:23 Chapter 7: When you don't need the whole team
- 17:51 Chapter 8: Launching the loyalty card

## Vocabulary (22)

- **Task** — one work ticket
- **Board** — the rail of work tickets
- **Spec** — the standard recipe
- **Acceptance criteria** — what done means
- **Parallel** — several chefs working at once
- **Agent team** — a team of AI chefs
- **Send to many** — one message to the whole team
- **Orchestration** — coordinating the whole team
- **Subagent** — a line cook taking orders
- **Reviewer** — the taster who checks the dish
- **Role** — each member's job
- **Pipeline** — a conveyor belt of stations
- **Stage** — one station on the belt
- **Approval** — the owner signs off first
- **Router** — the job board
- **Fallback** — the backup chef
- **Default** — ready-made rules
- **Responsive** — fits every screen size
- **Emulator** — a pretend phone for testing
- **Device** — a real piece of hardware
- **Token** — the unit AI is billed in
- **Overhead** — the cost of coordinating

## Try it now

1. Split your big idea into 5 small tickets, each with a line saying what “done” means.
   - Prompt for the AI: `Split this idea into small tasks, each with clear acceptance criteria: [your idea]`
2. Open two agents in one project, give each a different task, then send them one shared message with Send to many.
3. Draw a 3-role team in the Builder: a lead agent, a worker agent, and a reviewer agent.
4. Create a 3-stage pipeline: plan → build → review, with approval on the plan stage.
5. Open the Router, pick the defaults, then add a rule: design work → your favorite agent.
6. Open the Mobile screen, view your page at phone size, and ask an agent to fix whatever breaks.
7. Before your next job, ask: small, medium or big? Then pick the number of chefs to match.

## Transcript

https://academy.stoicsoft.com/md/en/courses/ai-kitchen/lessons/ep-2-the-kitchen-brigade?transcript=1

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