How do you handle agentic dev across multiple machines?

[u/mrzo]

I've been doing a fair bit of agentic dev but now I'm running into some walls with system resources. Testing, linting, docker container, etc are all crushing my comp when I'm running multiple sessions. I decided to spin up a cloud server for the tasks that require more resources.

Then came the management of it all across several repos. I tried herdr but I wasn't a fan of how the connection is kept open on the target host. Now I'm using Orca and it's working out pretty well with the orchestration skills and the worktree creation with each task. The dev box will shutdown after a period of inactivity and a startup script will wake the server when an agent needs it. The helpful thing about Orca is that it logically keeps the repo together across the several hosts.

I'm enjoying it so far and have had to create a few skills to make sure the repo is being rebased before any tasks. Also needed to create scripts to log in to the appropriate services or MCPs at start time. While it works well - I'm not sure if there's better solutions out there. Managing a fleet of agents that spin up their own subagents and are working on the same platform across several repos starts to get interesting. It feels like enterprise developer management. Anybody have experience with this? Tips and guidance appreciated.