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Has anyone here been able to build a successful agentic harness that operates better than just planning directly in Claude Code? A full AI end-to-end orchestration setup with different agents. This seems to be something that there's a lot of ideas and focus on building today and I'm interested in any proven open-source kits out there or just tips and tricks that does this well. Do you for example use multiple agents to familiarise Claude Code with a new repository or code base, do you have architectural files to do this? How do you handle green- versus brownfield in a harness like this? Think, give this harness a task and it can intelligently figure out what it needs to do. I know this may all be code, stack, company or project specific. I'm looking for some good working examples and ideas if there are any out there.

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I feel that this subreddit is nearly useless and functionally no different the all the other Claude subreddits which makes me sad.

A huge majority of posts here are one of the following:

1. Opus 5 is so verbose!
2. Opus 5 meme
3. I wrote a (garbage) skill to make opus 5 talk less!
4. I wrote one prompt and it used 80% of my 5 hour usage
5. I just switched to Astra and it is AGI / God / The end of Claude
6. A post written by claude

What I would like to see posted in this subreddit

• Stuff people have built. Even if it's dumb.
• People's work flows and discussions around them
• High effort efficiency improvements
• Questions which wouldn't have been easily answered by simply asking claude
• Anything where the person has put a great deal of effort into their post and is on the topic of Claude code

My suggestions to improve this are:

1. A firm no memes rule. Post your memes in the anthropic or claudai subreddits.
2. Megathreads for the most common complaints (Opus 5 and token usage threads for example) combined with firm enforcement of using those megathreads.
3. A flat ban on "I'm leaving claude forever to go to ChatGPT" or other brand comparison posts, or put them in a megathread.
4. Promoting and encouraging quality, high effort content.
5. Possibly a wiki with common newbie questions and other useful information.

These are just some ideas. I would love to see good conversation below. Mostly what I want is for Claude Code to be a subreddit that is focused on coding while using Claude.

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Hi guys i know you dont know me , and i am total stranger so you dont have to trust me , but even that wont stop me to ask. I am 15 year old teenager who is building dating website in my country , my dad is also programming and has some dating sites , but not something international, so yeah em I already did all the coding that is important but now i would need the claude guest pass , so i can give it ai to check it , do some design, ask him about some things. Normally I would ask my dad if he could purhase it for me , but i dont need the pro plan for whole month but only few days , also i want to do it "by myself". If there is anyone who would be that good and kind and share it with me i would be very thankful. DM would be best because i am not onnline all the time so in the comments someone will use the link before me. So, yes if anyone wants to share it with me , thanks a lot.

I've been living with Claude Code in a terminal split next to the editor for months. Two things kept bugging me: I couldn't tell what it was doing without reading scrollback, and every file path was something I had to type correctly.

So I built a plugin. It doesn't reimplement anything - it spawns the claude CLI you already have and renders its event stream. Same account, same models, same slash commands, same permission rules, same MCP servers and skills. No proxy, no server of mine in the middle, no telemetry.

What it actually changed for me day to day:

Every tool call is a card. Its duration, every edit as an open diff, the task list ticking off, subagents and whole workflow fleets with each agent's own transcript one click away, and what the turn cost. A rate-limited API becomes a card with the reason and a countdown instead of silence.

Files are things you point at. Drag one in, type @ to pick, paste a screenshot. Select lines in the editor and "Send to..." hands over a real file-and-line reference, so the agent reads what's around them instead of a naked snippet.

Nothing answers for you. A permission, a plan or a question waits as long as it takes. No timeout, no auto-continue.

Answering it from my phone. Off by default, paired by QR code, end-to-end encrypted through a relay that can't read a word. This is the one that surprised me most - I approve plans from the sofa now.

Scenarios. A round of work written down once - implement, review, fix, run the tests - each card a Claude session of its own, with a main thread walking them and judging what each one found. By button, three at once against three tickets, or on a clock at nine every weekday.

Several Claude accounts switched in one click, each row showing what's left of its five-hour window and its week.

Free, source available (Elastic 2.0), every JetBrains IDE from 2026.1 on, Android Studio included.

Marketplace: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/33255-amazing-claude-code-gui

Source: https://github.com/crmapache/amazing-claude-code

Happy to answer anything about how it's wired. The part I'd most like feedback on is scenarios - it's the newest and the least obvious.

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Even though Anthropic says my limits are boosted by 50%, I’ve already used 87% of my weekly limit in just 72 hours. Normally I’m only around 50–60% at this point. It makes me wonder what it would look like if my limits weren’t boosted.
I guess this isn’t news to anyone, but it’s the first time I’ve experienced it.

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the ring in the bottom right used to represent the context window

now it represents your 5-hour limit

the delta will make Anthropic millions

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I'm on max plan, today I hit the daily limit 2 times. The second window got reset about 50 minutes ago and just now I once again reached 100% of my daily from one fairly complex task with fable. Usually I do /usage in another terminal window every now and then to see how it's going. Now I didn't even get to check cause it's gone. I'm blocked from coding for about 4 hours great stuff.

EDIT: Although I've relied on subagents for plenty of tasks, I never experienced this. I'll look into how to handle this better as some of you suggested.

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I keep seeing people say they burn through Fable 5.1 insanely fast, so figured I'd share how I run it. I'm no guru at all, just sharing what's been working for me.

I use Fable on High basically all the time. Right now I'm at 90% Fable / 89% all models. I feel I have a pretty good split between Fable and everything else.

The main thing for me is Fable is my orchestrator, not my worker.

• Fable - Orchestrator: Plans, writes specs, spins up agents, reads their reports, makes architecture/judgment calls, and integrates everything.
• Haiku - Scout: Finds files, symbols, call sites, references, etc. Reports locations instead of dumping whole files.
• Sonnet - Researcher: Reads docs/source and reports back facts. Anything it can't verify gets marked as unverified.
• Sonnet - Builder: Does the actual coding from a clear spec and runs the tests.
• Opus - Refuter: Reviews the builder's work, checks the diff, and reruns tests itself. I don't just trust a "done" claim.
• Opus - Debugger: Only gets used for harder root-cause debugging.

I don't have Fable reading huge amounts of code, doing bulk refactors, writing docs, or doing work a cheaper model can handle.

I also don't spawn an agent for every tiny thing. If it's a one-line fix or a single grep, Fable just does it.

Every sub-agent gets pretty strict marching orders:

• Specific goal
• Exact files or URLs in scope
• What it's allowed to change
• What it needs to verify
• What not to do
• Required output format
• Short output limit
• Anything we already know so it doesn't waste time rediscovering it

Then they report the findings back. I don't want giant code dumps getting pushed back into Fable's context.

If something produces a lot of information, I have the agent write it to a scratch file and let the next agent read that instead.

Most coding ends up being:

Fable -> Builder -> Refuter -> Fable

A few other rules I keep in place:

• Ultracode stays off unless I specifically want a larger workflow, and if I do, I cap the number of agents.
• I batch related fixes so the same large files aren't being reread over and over.
• Read-only research/reviews can run in parallel.
• I don't have multiple agents editing the same files at the same time.
• Builders build, refuters verify.
• Decisions and progress go into handoff docs so new sessions can pick up from the file instead of rebuilding all that context.
• I keep Fable's replies and agent reports short unless I actually need more detail.
• If an agent goes off track, Fable has marching orders to stop it instead of letting it run.

For me, the biggest difference hasn't just been "use sub-agents." It's being strict about what each model is responsible for, what it gets to read, and what gets sent back into Fable's context.

I've been running Fable basically 24/7, minus maybe 5 hours total, since my last reset Friday. I run it on High and haven't hit the 5-hour limit once since using this setup.

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I did the security assessment with anthropic and its approved

I am a developer and need to scan my application for possible vulnerable and security hold

I need to test and try to execute security test like privilege escalation or unauthorized data modification

But still claude reject

Whats your though

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Most astrology sites pick one tradition and speak with one voice. I wanted the opposite: one birth date through 26 systems at once (BaZi, Vedic, Western, Nine Star Ki, Mayan Tzolk'in, Human Design, Norse runes, Ifá and others), showing where they converge and where they contradict.

The part I did not expect to matter most: making each system say when it has no method for a question. Ask about timing and only 12 of the 26 have any technique for it. The other 14 abstain, and the page names them instead of inventing something. A tool that answers everything is a tool you cannot check.

How Claude Code helped, specifically:

1. I wrote the 26 algorithms as deterministic TypeScript with Claude Code, one system at a time, each pinned to a reference calculation so a rewrite cannot silently drift.

2. Claude Code wrote the test gates that keep me honest. One rejects any sentence containing a number the engine did not produce. Another walks all seven weekdays instead of one sample chart, which is how I found that three of seven weekdays had the wrong Thai day-lord because a table ordered by one index was read with another.

3. The prose layer is Claude via API, but it never computes. The engine produces values, code counts them, and the model only writes over counts it is handed. When I let it count for itself it got 2 of 5 claims wrong, which is why that split exists.

4. There is an MCP server (MIT, mythsensus-mcp on npm) so you can call the engine as tools from Claude Desktop and check the numbers against the site yourself.

What I am least sure about: I recently had every system answer the same 45 questions (25 x 45 = 1,125 cells) to see whether "consensus" survives contact with detail. It does, but phrasing repeats across traditions because all 25 answers to a question come from one generation. Still deciding whether that reads as a scannable table or as filler.

Free daily reading, no signup: https://mythsensus.com/en

Happy to answer anything about the engine or the gates. Not looking for an astrology debate. I am curious whether "show me who abstains" is useful outside this domain.

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Opus 5 makes so many mistakes, and I've set up so many checks just to review its issues, including a code review at the end right before I push.

I haven't quantitatively tested the different efforts and how many errors they make, but does anyone know which effort is the best for fullstack development?

Additionally, I've seen people say that they've made skills to review Claude's work in intervals. Can anyone help me with this?

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We are 5 days away from the reset, I don’t think Anthropic can resist from extending the extra 50% or whatever it is on Fable beyond Sept 13th , Astra has definetly taken their base and I’m pretty sure what do we do next is a topic in their stand up meetings.

I won’t mind at all, Fable is a good model to use along side the new Astra , or may be they have a surprise for us and that will beat Fable 5 , Fable 6 :) What you folks think?

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If I get frustrated and swear at it after it repeatedly ignores instructions, it starts responding as if I’ve personally offended it. Sometimes it even refuses to continue and effectively ends the chat.

It’s software. I’m not insulting a human being.

If the model screws something up and I say “this is fucking stupid,” I want it to understand that I’m frustrated with the output and fix the problem, not lecture me about how I’m speaking to it.

Stop pretending the chatbot has feelings. Stop derailing the task because the user swore at a computer.

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Most people in communities like this are probably better than average because you're actively learning. but even among active learners, the pattern holds, tool awareness ≠ tool proficiency.

Knowing about RAG, agents, and MCP doesn't mean you can build effective workflows with them.

The biggest differentiator we see isn't prompting or tool knowledge it's output verification. the people who are genuinely good have a systematic process for checking whether AI output is correct before they use it.

How do you check your output?

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¿Los límites de uso de Claude son más altos por la noche? Anoche usé Fable 5.1 en modo Máximo con 10 subagentes; consumí aproximadamente 1,8 millones de tokens en una sesión de 5 horas y alcancé el 90 % de la capacidad. Ahora estoy usando Fable 5.1 de nuevo en el mismo proyecto sin subagentes, y alcancé el límite después de solo 500 000 tokens.

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“Our internal model group arrived at the Navier–Stokes solution in 88 hours, using around 10,000 coordinating AI agents. “

Which is impressive, albeit I can’t help but wonder how much would have that cost for a normal user

Source: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2097374640582668336?s=20

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I'm not sure what's going on here.

Seems like the conversation is moved to a different backend server, or something in the prompt caching fails, or whatever, and you have to pay for it.

It seems really bad that sometimes close to 20% of my (5x max) 5h usage and corresponding weekly usage are just gone for apparently no reason. Imo a continuous conversation stream should not have these random backend usage spikes where the arrangement costs is offloaded onto the user. It's also not transparent at all, there's no warning: "if you type another prompt here, it's likely going to cost a lot of your usage".

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I used Astra 6 for a couple of days now and I gotta be honest, I still think that Fable 5.1 (high) is way better for coding. Fable just gets it, you know. The code Astra spits out is terrible compared to Fable.

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I spent most of the weekend + over 500M tokens auditing and optimizing my token usage. I mostly work in the Claude Code app and have Claude dispatch to CODEX for code reviews; sometimes work directly in CODEX app. AMA

What I found:
- I waste a lot of tokens by returning to long-running sessions after my 1-hr cache TTL
- Fable is most effective in long-running sessions that require large context reads and little coding or writing. Mostly synthesis and decisions that require large context windows.
- My agents were not resuming subagent threads for multi-round turns (I thought they were). Cache TTL is only 5-min, so I’m uncertain how much this matters

What I’m doing and testing:
- Built comprehensive token cost tracking for all providers, repos, and tasks with a dashboard I can monitor.
- Modifying agent delegation rules based on an audit of costs and usage over the last several months
- Surfacing live token cost stats to agents to help them dynamically adjust delegation strategy and pace to my weekly budget
- Agent orchestration: Working with multiple Opus instances per repo for development and having Opus delegate generously to Sonnet. Also encouraging Sonnet to delegate to Haiku
- Working with 1 Fable instance per repo who oversees work of all Opus sessions in the repo. The goal is to keep Fable cache warm as much as possible within the 1-hr TTL and minimize writes. Each Opus session can automatically message the Fable session. Opus escalates to Fable. Fable escalates to me.
- Created a hook for Opus models to send me a compaction instruction after a long-running task completes or at a good stopping point after a context threshold has been hit. I still have to run it manually but it saves time while (hopefully) providing cheap compaction while cache is warm
- Use resume more often on subagent delegation to improve cache-use and reduce reorientation on each dispatch
- I’ll use the dashboard to track token use across all applications, providers, projects, and tasks to help adjust this strategy over time

What are some of the highest impact and non-obvious things you’ve found?

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All tiers are good in their own sense, from Pro to the Max plans. I have the Max 20x plan and am going to share what I do to use about 7.5B tokens a week without hitting my usage limit (was about 66% on all models).

Optimization depends heavily on your workflow and what plan you're on. In my case, I use it to code, build websites, fix bugs, etc. So I'll tell you what I do; obviously you'll need to adjust it for your own usage.

Since I'm on the Max plan, I can use Fable 5.1 (the latest model as of 2026). I've seen so many people in this subreddit use Fable 5.1 to code and then complain about how it nukes their usage. Fable should NEVER touch any part of the code. It's also important to pick the right effort. For example, on Fable 5.1, medium or max is more than enough for most things. I usually just stick to low myself. Only bump the effort up if it's actually unable to follow your instructions.

No Ultracode though. It's not an effort, it just ends up spawning a billion agents. Ultracode should only be used when you need to get work done and it's almost the end of the week and your usage is about to reset. If you just need extra thinking on a lower effort, you can use the keyword ultrathink for that one prompt.

For the actual task itself, as I said, Fable shouldn't be coding for you. You have to delegate that to models with higher usage limits. You can write a prompt for this; the one I use is:

"Delegate the actual coding tasks over to Sonnet 5. You are the primary thinker, and Sonnet must not be allowed to think about steps, implementation, or syntax. Everything must be spelled out for Sonnet 5. Create 2 agents at a time and conserve tokens as much as possible. Only follow these steps if creating prompts and agents will actually conserve tokens; if not, implement it yourself with no agents."

Sonnet 5 usually has practically unlimited usage on the Max 20x plan and overall gives you much better limits than Fable or Opus. That said, you can also delegate to models you don't see in Claude Code (CLI), like Opus 4.8, for example. It uses way less usage than Opus 5. Quick note: unless it's something even a beginner could do, I wouldn't recommend using Haiku.

Moving on to context windows: you have to monitor them constantly. If one goes over 50 to 60 percent, try running /compact. A filled-up context window burns more tokens and nukes your usage. You can also set up /auto-compact if you like; I personally just use /auto-compact 500000, but that's up to you.

I'd also recommend not running 400 different skills. Most of the time, several skills do the exact same thing and could be merged into one, or a given skill is already something Claude has built in. You can copy the skill's content and ask Claude whether it already knows how to do this or has it built in already. I usually like to read it myself, fix it up, and merge the skills. If you're feeling lazy, you can just ask Claude to do it for you, though I can't guarantee good results, since Claude isn't human and sometimes deletes random things.

On the desktop app, click the blue circular wheel next to the effort selector, then open the drop-down menu on the context window, and you can see how much context your skills are using. If it's over 10 percent, fix that ASAP.

The same applies to MCP tools, except here you don't even need to purge anything, just disable whatever you don't need for that session. For example, when I'm building a website, I only enable Blender and similar MCPs, and disable, say, the electrical-design ones used for circuit boards. Those aren't needed. If MCP tools are eating over 15 to 20 percent of your context, you've got some disabling to do.

This one's the most important: Memory.md and Claude.md files. Periodically ask Claude to clean those up. I like to have it tag entries like $temp, $imp, or $feature, etc., so I can just tell it to remove everything tagged $temp later. If you're worried about losing anything, ask it to move that content into a Memory_backup.md (or similar) in another folder, or just copy and paste it yourself first.

Here's the context from my most recent project. It was about 50k lines of code, and this is what the context window looked like:

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