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Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by andrewljohnson »

chaicodes wrote: post #18

Hey guys, thanks for putting it here, I am Chaitanya I built Munder Difflin, I am here to answer all your questions(except nylonstrung). For people who haven't tried it: Munder Difflin is a local multi-agent harness that wraps around your existing claude code and codex subscriptions(we literally support almost all harnesses/coding agents). Simulations are deterministic, they do not consume tokens, infact most of the…

“send cold emails with enriched context”

What’s the difference between cold and spam?

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by joshstrange »

joshstrange wrote: post #63

Ok, I've been running it for a couple hours and below are my thoughts. Please note that I do find it fascinating even if most of what I'm about to say is complaining about the parts I like less. - Pipelines, not agents. Roles, not agents. I really don't like the idea of defined agents with their own prompt. I want to define roles and spin up N agents with that role. Furthermore I want pipelines "Plan -> Review Plan -…

Some more observations

- It seems like letting Michael spin up things is the prefered pathway instead of defining a bunch of agents.

- The Ask Me really needs some love. The "X/N" display doesn't make sense to me, I started on "5/5" and as I answered the questions it went to "4/5" -> .... "1/5", I'm not sure if the questions were asked in the wrong order or what. Additionally, it really needs some UI improvement for things like when there are options (and recommendations) it should show as multiple-choice (ALWAYS with a way to add an additional note, this annoys me about Claude Code today).

- Why tell the agent you spin up it's not interactive? I really think instead you should hook the AskUserQuestion and proxy that up to Michael and/or the Human directly. I _want_ to see and answer all the questions. Maybe a first pass with an LLM to see if we already have the answer?

- I still feel lost in what's happening and have to dig into agents too often to understand what has been farmed out to them. A LLM-generated summary of their task showing under their name would be nice. The Tasks board is nice but I think it and the "Ask Me" should be global tabs instead of nested under "Michael"

- Triggers seem cool, I don't have a use for them yet but I think this Claw + Agent Harness path is the correct one.

- I keep needing to unstick agents, like Michael, for things asked in the terminal that didn't get put into "Ask Me" or alert me in any way

Semi-related, I'd love some kind of SDK/library to abstract the "control XZY Agent" while being able to expose the raw agent to make writing agent harnesses like this easier. I've been playing with a little agent loop but I often wish I could have it spin up/manage a Claude Code instance and control it (I know it's possible but it's finicky).

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by sgarlatm »

chaicodes wrote: post #18

Hey guys, thanks for putting it here, I am Chaitanya I built Munder Difflin, I am here to answer all your questions(except nylonstrung). For people who haven't tried it: Munder Difflin is a local multi-agent harness that wraps around your existing claude code and codex subscriptions(we literally support almost all harnesses/coding agents). Simulations are deterministic, they do not consume tokens, infact most of the…

Cool project! I’m still trying to figure out if this sort of thing is the future, or something that the big AI labs will subsume into their products on their own soon. Or something that won’t be necessary in a few months when LLMs get smarter.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by StilesCrisis »

mcmcmc wrote: post #68
qup wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legally, I agree. Morally, I think it's totally wild to care if some totally unrelated real world thing gets named after a twenty+ year old cultural icon of a TV show as an homage. They're attempting to profit off their business. The office thing is a theme.

I can’t imagine having so little empathy that you can’t put yourself in the shoes of the creator of the IP. They didn’t even bother to tweak the characters. It’s not “inspired by” or riffing on a theme, it’s a straight ripoff being used to market some AI product. Do you think anyone who created The Office would want to be associated with AI, something that’s threatening to drive them out of a job? What pisses me off…

Honestly, making Ricky Gervais upset might be the most redeeming thing in this product.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by Espressosaurus »

ethbr1 wrote: post #40
doginasuit wrote: post #29

I've thought about something like this. When there is a lot of stuff happening at once, it's a mistake to try and communicate it all with text. Agents use tools, reference databases, reference the web, interact with other agents, and spend time processing the information. When you have several agents operating at the same time, communicating what they are doing using some kind of spatial map is a really smart idea. T…

It is nice to see folks experimenting widely with unique visual representations of agent orchestration, as a consequence of the bottom-up / individual-led development that's driving the industry (inasmuch as it exists yet). There are folks young enough now that they've never known anything other than "the desktop" (or CLI) as a computing metaphor. But there's no fundamental reason a metaphor has to be anything specif…

LLMs remade Clippy. This sounds like using Microsoft Bob to manage them.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by mey »

andrewljohnson wrote: post #71
chaicodes wrote: post #18

Hey guys, thanks for putting it here, I am Chaitanya I built Munder Difflin, I am here to answer all your questions(except nylonstrung). For people who haven't tried it: Munder Difflin is a local multi-agent harness that wraps around your existing claude code and codex subscriptions(we literally support almost all harnesses/coding agents). Simulations are deterministic, they do not consume tokens, infact most of the…

“send cold emails with enriched context” What’s the difference between cold and spam?

I have no desire to get either so functionally nothing.
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