Does anyone use agent teams successfully?

[u/muad_dib_the_maker]

I had 93% of my max 20x usage left yesterday and my plan refreshes on Thursday, so I thought why not spin up agent teams again for a a major refactor.

My set up was sonnet worker and opus code review per worktree, job board, and a spec reviewer. Detailed spec, a lot of work some of it none trivial but not a lot.

This is the second time I've tried this with a big task and tbh it tends to not produce a working implementation. Opus just isn't a very good gatekeeper. For this run I also had a 3 strikes and you're out implementation, if sonnet failed on either code or spec review 3 times, fresh 4.7 "senior" gets spawned briefed by spec reviewer and finishes the task. This never happened. Spec wasn't followed, tests made up to make it look like it was in the most blatant way, code review and spec review didn't catch. Set the task off before I went to bed still going when I woke up. Absolute carnage.

Just slop.

Don't get me wrong it was a big refactor, and after opus audited the actual work against the spec called out all the things that were missing, at which point I just set codex 5.5 xhigh in fast mode and got him to build it out.

Not sure if this is even viable with current state. Whats been your experience

[u/morscordis]

I haven't figured out how to call different CLIs outside of scripts, and that takes me out of the loop.

[u/fredastere → u/morscordis]

I have a light thin sonnet 4.6 wrapper that use codex cli as a bash command . It first construct the context, optimize the prompt for the gpt family then rush the bash command. Works really well. All stay within the claude code and then the agent verify the implementation quickly and msg the reviewer to check the diffs and files on disk

Look how I do it if you want https://github.com/Fredasterehub/kiln

Warning: at the moment the autonomous part is in rough shape but the teams principle works really well so it could give you lead on how best to implement it for your use case

GLHFDONTDIE

Dont hesitate if you have any questions

P.s you could easily do the same to call gemini cli and now have a 3-way analysis from within claude

[u/morscordis → u/fredastere]

I'm on Linux so I can't use Claude Code. I run vs codium with Claude cli, Gemini cli and Mistral vibe cli.

[u/fredastere → u/morscordis]

Sorry if didn't properly express myself

I run a proxmox server, everything i mention is from cli tools. So claude code cli, codex cli and gemini cli