From the RelayLink team
Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
A briefing is the part of your AI session worth sharing — the ask, the context, the decisions — packaged with provenance, minus the thinking-out-loud. Here's why that distinction matters.
The crew opened a wall, found something, and wants an answer while you're at work. Here's how to turn that ambush into a short written decision you can still defend in month three.
Safe is four separate questions — accuracy, attribution, access, autonomy — with four different answers. The mitigation for each, including the one no product solves.
Your assistant reached a conclusion and now a professional has to check it. How to ask so you get their judgment instead of a rubber stamp on your own framing.
The understanding you built across a long AI session is not a document you can hand over. It is accumulated state — corrections, abandoned directions, and inferences nobody typed — indexed to you.
A ninety-second LGTM and a reopened question you settled in week one are the same failure. Four things to state in the request, and where they already have names.
The honest answer is no. cancel_draft discards a package before it is confirmed, and that is the whole recall story — once a briefing is delivered, a correction on the same thread is the remedy.
The scope message usually gets written defensively at the end of a long day — apology first, number buried. Lead with the change and its cost, split the history from the decision, and give a bounded choice.
On its own, an assistant produces text — text is not delivered mail. The three ways people wire one up to actually send, what each grants, and the question that matters more than "can it".
The reply 'whatever you think is best' is not trust — it is a decision nobody owns, and on a freelance engagement the default owner is you. How to hand a client a choice they can actually make.
A contact pair is the requirement for standing correspondence between two RelayLink accounts — and it is now something either side can ask for, though not from an assistant. Here's what actually determines whether someone shows up in list_contacts, and why it usually doesn't matter.