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Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

#31

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Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

#34
post #32

Everyone is wrapping Claude Code in Tmux and claiming they are a magician. I am not so good at marketing but I've done this here https://github.com/mohsen1/claude-code-orchestrator Mine also rotate between Claude or Z.ai accounts as they ran out of credits

I think you've misunderstood what this is.

Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The feature is shipped in the latest builds of claude code, but it's turned off by a feature flag check that phones home to the backend to see if the user's account is meant to have it on. You can just patch out the function in the minified cli.js that does this backend check and you gain access to the feature.

Do you know what patch to apply? The Github link from the OP seems to have a lot of other things included.

https://github.com/numman-ali/cc-mirror/commit/0408f60bd7c75...

Way too much code for such a small patch

Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

#36
post #32

Everyone is wrapping Claude Code in Tmux and claiming they are a magician. I am not so good at marketing but I've done this here https://github.com/mohsen1/claude-code-orchestrator Mine also rotate between Claude or Z.ai accounts as they ran out of credits

I think you've misunderstood what this is.

Sorry, you're right. went through the code and understood now. I'm going to try the patch. Claude Code doing team work natively would be amazing!

Honestly if people in AI coding write less hype-driven content and just write what they mean I would really appreciate it.

Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

#38
post #11

Answering the question how to sell more tokens per customer while maintaining ~~mediocre~~ breakthrough results.

Delegation patterns like swarm lead to less token usage because: 1. Subagents doing work have a fresh context (ie. focused and not working on the top of a larger monolithic context) 2. Subagents enjoying a more compact context leads to better reasoning, more effective problem solving, less tokens burned.

Merge cost kills this. Does the harness enforce file/ownership boundaries per worker, and run tests before folding changes back into the lead context?

Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

#39
post #32

Everyone is wrapping Claude Code in Tmux and claiming they are a magician. I am not so good at marketing but I've done this here https://github.com/mohsen1/claude-code-orchestrator Mine also rotate between Claude or Z.ai accounts as they ran out of credits

Well good sir, I _am_ a tmux magician.

Re: Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

#40
post #13

I'm already burning through enough tokens and producing more code than can be maintained - with just one claude worker. Feel like I need to move into the other direction, more personal hands-on "management".

If there's any kind of management some of it could use small local models - e.g. to see when it looks like its stuck.
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