I’ve been mostly holding off on learning any of the tools that do this because it seemed so obvious that it’ll be built natively. Will definitely give this a go at some point!
Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
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Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
#92I absolutely cannot trust Claude code to independently work on large tasks. Maybe other people work on software that's not significantly complex, but for me to maintain code quality I need to guide more of the design process. Teams of agents just sounds like adding a lot more review and refactoring that can just be avoided by going slower and thinking carefully about the problem.
You write a generic architecture document on how you want your code base to be organized, when to use pattern x vs pattern y, examples of what that looks like in your code base, and you encode this as a skill.
Then, in your prompt you tell it the task you want, then you say, supervise the implementation with a sub agent that follows the architecture skill. Evaluate any proposed changes.
There are people who maximize this, and this is how you get things like teams. You make agents for planning, design, qa, product, engineering, review, release management, etc. and you get them to operate and coordinate to produce an outcome.
That's what this is supposed to be, encoded as a feature instead of a best practice.
Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
#93I absolutely cannot trust Claude code to independently work on large tasks. Maybe other people work on software that's not significantly complex, but for me to maintain code quality I need to guide more of the design process. Teams of agents just sounds like adding a lot more review and refactoring that can just be avoided by going slower and thinking carefully about the problem.
I agree, but I've found that making an "adversarial" model within claude helps with the quality a lot. One agent makes the change, the other picks holes in it, and cycle. In the end, I'm left with less to review. This sounds more like an automation of that idea than just N-times the work.
Do you do this manually? Or some abstraction above that? skills, some light orchestration, etc?
Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
#94I absolutely cannot trust Claude code to independently work on large tasks. Maybe other people work on software that's not significantly complex, but for me to maintain code quality I need to guide more of the design process. Teams of agents just sounds like adding a lot more review and refactoring that can just be avoided by going slower and thinking carefully about the problem.
You write a generic architecture document on how you want your code base to be organized, when to use pattern x vs pattern y, examples of what that looks like in your code base, and you encode this as a skill. Then, in your prompt you tell it the task you want, then you say, supervise the implementation with a sub agent that follows the architecture skill. Evaluate any proposed changes. There are people who maximize…
Aren't you just moving the problem a little bit further? If you can't trust it will implement carefully specified features, why would you believe it would properly review those?
Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
#95I absolutely cannot trust Claude code to independently work on large tasks. Maybe other people work on software that's not significantly complex, but for me to maintain code quality I need to guide more of the design process. Teams of agents just sounds like adding a lot more review and refactoring that can just be avoided by going slower and thinking carefully about the problem.
You write a generic architecture document on how you want your code base to be organized, when to use pattern x vs pattern y, examples of what that looks like in your code base, and you encode this as a skill. Then, in your prompt you tell it the task you want, then you say, supervise the implementation with a sub agent that follows the architecture skill. Evaluate any proposed changes. There are people who maximize…
How does this not use up tokens incredibly fast though? I have a Pro subscription and bang up against the limits pretty regularly.
Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
#96I wonder if my $20/mo subscription will last 10 minutes.
Ah ok, same. I keep wondering about how this would ever accomplish anything.
Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, but I've found that making an "adversarial" model within claude helps with the quality a lot. One agent makes the change, the other picks holes in it, and cycle. In the end, I'm left with less to review. This sounds more like an automation of that idea than just N-times the work.
Do you do this manually? Or some abstraction above that? skills, some light orchestration, etc?
I just tell it to do so, but you could even add that as a requirement to CLAUDE.md
Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
#98To the folks comparing this to GasTown: keep in mind that Steve Yegge explicitely pitched agent orchestrators to among others Anthropic months ago: > I went to senior folks at companies like Temporal and Anthropic, telling them they should build an agent orchestrator, that Claude Code is just a building block, and it’s going to be all about AI workflows and “Kubernetes for agents”. I went up onstage at multiple event…
It's not like he was the only one who came up with this idea. I built something like that without knowing about GasTown or Beeds. It's just an obvious next step
Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
You write a generic architecture document on how you want your code base to be organized, when to use pattern x vs pattern y, examples of what that looks like in your code base, and you encode this as a skill. Then, in your prompt you tell it the task you want, then you say, supervise the implementation with a sub agent that follows the architecture skill. Evaluate any proposed changes. There are people who maximize…
How does this not use up tokens incredibly fast though? I have a Pro subscription and bang up against the limits pretty regularly.
It _does_ use up tokens incredibly fast, which is probably why Anthropic is developing this feature. This is mostly for corporations using the API, not individuals on a plan.
Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
#100I wonder if my $20/mo subscription will last 10 minutes.
At this point, if you're paying out of pocket you should use Kimi or GLM for it to make sense