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Post by CyberShadow »

wpasc wrote: post #5

I see some tools like this that keep popping up (don't mean that in a bad way! it's clearly exciting and the README itself compares itself to similar tools). however, for coordination strategies like this, aren't you always having to use token-based pricing via some API Key? that's the largest think that holds me personally back from getting into something like these frameworks. With a claude code max plan, all my de…

If you invoke Claude Code with --input-format stream-json --output-format stream-json, you can use it headlessly. I built a personal UI / orchestration framework around it. Most features are available, but not exactly all (e.g. there is no way to undo via this protocol, but you can still do it manually by terminating / editing the session file / resuming). Other agentic software has similar features (Codex uses JSON-RPC, Copilot CLI has ACP which is also based on JSON-RPC).

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Post by kstenerud »

mnorris wrote: post #9
wpasc wrote: post #5

I see some tools like this that keep popping up (don't mean that in a bad way! it's clearly exciting and the README itself compares itself to similar tools). however, for coordination strategies like this, aren't you always having to use token-based pricing via some API Key? that's the largest think that holds me personally back from getting into something like these frameworks. With a claude code max plan, all my de…

disclaimer: I work on a different project in the space but got excited by your comment DeepSteve (deepsteve.com) has a similar premise: it spawns Claude Code processes and attaches terminals to them in a browser UI, so you can automate coordination in ways a regular terminal can’t: Spawning new agents from GitHub issues, coordinating tasks via inter-agent chat, modifying its own UI, terminals that fork themselves. Re…

I was intrigued and had a look at deepsteve.com, but I couldn't figure the website out. I'm guessing it won't give you any information about it until you install it?

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Post by mnorris »

kstenerud wrote: post #12
mnorris wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

disclaimer: I work on a different project in the space but got excited by your comment DeepSteve (deepsteve.com) has a similar premise: it spawns Claude Code processes and attaches terminals to them in a browser UI, so you can automate coordination in ways a regular terminal can’t: Spawning new agents from GitHub issues, coordinating tasks via inter-agent chat, modifying its own UI, terminals that fork themselves. Re…

I was intrigued and had a look at deepsteve.com, but I couldn't figure the website out. I'm guessing it won't give you any information about it until you install it?

Thanks for the feedback.

Deepsteve is a node server that runs on your machine, so the website is designed to look like DeepSteve's UI. You really just access it at localhost:3000 in your browser, not via deepsteve.com

But now I can see how that would be confusing.

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Post by scotty79 »

wpasc wrote: post #5

I see some tools like this that keep popping up (don't mean that in a bad way! it's clearly exciting and the README itself compares itself to similar tools). however, for coordination strategies like this, aren't you always having to use token-based pricing via some API Key? that's the largest think that holds me personally back from getting into something like these frameworks. With a claude code max plan, all my de…

You could use something like GLM 5 which is very capable. You get APIKEY and you don't have to pay for tokens if you stay within generous limits. And if you exceed them it's many times cheaper than frontier models.

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Post by cronus1141 »

wpasc wrote: post #5

I see some tools like this that keep popping up (don't mean that in a bad way! it's clearly exciting and the README itself compares itself to similar tools). however, for coordination strategies like this, aren't you always having to use token-based pricing via some API Key? that's the largest think that holds me personally back from getting into something like these frameworks. With a claude code max plan, all my de…

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