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Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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conception wrote: post #23
pjm331 wrote: post #20

I've made a few attempts at manually doing this w/ mcp and took a brief look at "claude swarm" https://github.com/parruda/claude-swarm - but in the short time I spent on it I wasn't having much success - admittedly I probably went a little too far into the "build an entire org chart of agents" territory the main problem I have is that the agents just aren't used For example, I set up a code reviewer agent today and t…

Roo code does this really well with their orchestration mode, there’s probably a way to have a claude.md to do this as well. The only issue with roo is it’s “single threaded” but you do get the specific loaded context and rules for a specific task which is really nice.

I find roo code much inferior to claude code tbh. It's night and day for my use cases

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Post by flixing »

stillsut wrote: post #45
lvl155 wrote: post #37

Here my main problem with sub-agents WITHIN Claude Code. They don’t allow you to use other models. Let’s be honest it’s 99% Sonnet.

Great point, I've found Sonnet really can't be beat on many tasks, but increasingly finding Gemini-Pro and o3 handle the tough bugs and refactors best. That's why I've been using agro to launch agents from each of the main LLM vendors and checking their results when I'm stuck: https://github.com/sutt/agro/blob/master/docs/index.md

Opus is the opposite. Incredibly smart and better than everything else

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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Post by jbentley1 »

This is great. I hope that they expose the configuration through the SDK, but right now it works with Crystal (https://github.com/stravu/crystal) if you configure them in the CLI.

I'm working on a proper config screen for them that just modifies the agent files directly, and a future release will also give special formatting for agent output.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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Post by furyofantares »

lvl155 wrote: post #57
furyofantares wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't used them yet but it says they can use MCPs. The only MCP server I use is zen-mcp-server for routing stuff to o3 and gemini.

But that’s added layer and slow, no? Wouldn’t something like Opencode be a better option? You can pick anything out of major providers.

I haven't tried opencode, but I am very happy with claude code overall, and most of what I do is with opus. When I'm using zen to route to o3/gemini it's usually for a more difficult task that I don't mind taking longer anyway - I'm usually telling it to get solutions from both o3 and gemini pro and then to use o3 to evaluate which is better. I don't think the added layer of claude choosing to use the tools is really adding much here, claude picking tools is a lot faster than o3 writing code.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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Post by necatiozmen »

We've prepared a comprehensive collection of production-ready Claude Code subagents: https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents

It contains 100+ specialized agents covering the most requested development tasks - frontend, backend, DevOps, AI/ML, code review, debugging, and more. All subagents follow best practices and are maintained by the open-source framework community. Just copy to .claude/agents/ in your project to start using them.

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