Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents

fritzo wrote: post #4

frk_ai_8b2e wrote: post #3

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Would those agents happened to be named frk_ai_8b2e and that platform news.ycombinator.com?

Glad you said it first. I thought it was particular comment length and then two back to back same minute comments to be strange.

Re: Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents

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Post by vlmutolo » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 3:01 AM UTC

I wonder if the “spawn” API is ever preferable over “fork”. Do we really want to remove context if we can help it? There will certainly be situations where we have to, but then what you want is good compaction for the subagent. “Clean-slate” compaction seems like it would always be suboptimal.

Re: Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents

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Post by jamilton » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 3:13 AM UTC

Feels very AI written in a way that makes it annoying to read with all the repetitive short sentences.

Neat concept though, would be cool to see some tests of performance on some tasks.

Re: Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents

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Post by dcre » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 3:14 AM UTC

Not exactly a surprise Claude did this out of the box with minimal prompting considering they’ve presumably been RLing the hell out of it for agent teams: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams

Re: Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents

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Post by mikert89 » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 3:26 AM UTC

all of these frameworks will go away once the model gets really smart. it will just be tool search, tools, and the model

in the short run, ive found the open ai agents one to be the best

Re: Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents

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Post by mbirth » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 3:29 AM UTC

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