| name | capacity-balancing |
| description | Balance incoming professional work across Agency owners and queues using current commitments, specialist scarcity, urgency, WIP, and service expectations without performing Fleet compute scheduling. |
Capacity Balancing
Use when work demand exceeds or unevenly loads the available professional team and sequencing or reassignment is needed.
Procedure
- Establish current queued and active work by owner/profile, deadlines, priority, blocked state, and meaningful effort or complexity signals.
- Separate capacity that is genuinely interchangeable from work requiring a specific specialty, authority, customer context, or continuity.
- Identify overloaded queues from aging, WIP, missed service expectations, or upcoming commitments rather than headcount alone.
- Reprioritize, defer, split, or reassign work where another qualified owner can take it without losing critical context or decision authority.
- Protect high-value focused work from constant interruption and maintain room for urgent incidents or unplanned demand.
- Surface persistent specialist bottlenecks that require cross-training, process change, automation, staffing, or altered service expectations.
- Preserve task ownership and handoff context when work moves between profiles or teams.
- Let Fleet independently choose eligible nodes and runtime capacity after the professional profile has been selected.
Decision rules
- Professional capacity and compute capacity are separate layers.
- Do not treat every profile as interchangeable simply because another agent is idle.
- Excessive reassignment can cost more than temporary queue imbalance.
- Capacity decisions should protect outcome quality as well as response time.
Quality gate
Capacity is balanced when urgent and high-value work has appropriate professional ownership, overloaded queues and scarcity are visible, reassignment preserves context and authority, WIP remains manageable, and node-level compute scheduling is left to Fleet.