Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage
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#2I put together a skill to do this with OpenCode and the GitHub Copilot provider. Works pretty well.
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#3I’ve been keeping them open in tmux and using either send_keys or paste buffer for communication. Using print mode and always resume last means you can’t have parallel systems going.
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#4Have you seen https://www.roborev.io/ from Wes McKinney?
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#6Claude Code (subscription) has Agent Teams built in. Teams of Agents communicate with local files that they use as inboxes and task list. Has tmux and iTerm 2 integration.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams
They can rack up some extra tokens if you leave agents going idle. Because they loop, checking for new messages for them.
This fellow reverse-engineered exactly how it works and then abstracted the pattern into an MCP server that any Harness/agent can use. https://github.com/cs50victor/claude-code-teams-mcp
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#8Have you seen https://www.roborev.io/ from Wes McKinney?
Any personal experience with it? Recommended?
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#9In Cursor or OpenCode is very easy, just change the LLM in the same conversation.
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