9 pointsby mserrano2585 hours ago6 comments
  • arthurdls5 hours ago
    How do you prevent the orchestrator itself from becoming the new black box? If I’m trusting it to decide which worker decisions need my attention, isn’t a mistake in that judgment potentially worse than a worker making a bad decision?
    • mserrano2584 hours ago
      Yeah, a mistake in that judgment can have a wider impact than a single worker mistake, and adding an orchestrator doesn’t eliminate that risk. I’d like to think that it’s still better than a human trying to parse through like a dozen sessions’ worth of noise, but it’s far form perfect. What helps us is visibility and explicit goal tracking. Each worker is still a normal Claude or Codex session that I can attach to directly. There are per-goal checklists that the orchestrator monitors, so there’s something concrete to check progress against beyond “the AI orchestrator says it’s going well so here’s hoping.”

      Our main goal is to keep the observability and control of a bunch of individual Claude sessions, while making the volume manageable. I primarily talk to the orchestrator, but I can still inspect or redirect the underlying work. It’s true that being able to inspect the workers only helps if you actually check. That said, our experience so far has made us more comfortable letting the agent run itself at this point.

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  • rbstar4 hours ago
    What does “fully local” mean here? What leaves the machine, and does any of it pass through your servers?
    • mserrano2583 hours ago
      Fully local in that nothing goes to our servers besides optional sign-in, and otherwise inference goes to whichever model provider you’ve configured. The agents access your files and the internet through the same tools they normally use in Claude Code, Codex, etc.
  • geniusgeek5 hours ago
    The orchestrator layer is still not nailed in AI, routing for you guys to crush it!
  • geniusgeek4 hours ago
    Does it split up the work, or do I still assign each agent its tasks?
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  • Kevincr250224 hours ago
    Does each agent get its own worktree? and who handles getting all their changes back onto one branch?
    • mserrano2583 hours ago
      Yep, we use worktrees. Their changes come back through whatever process you already use for agent sessions, likely PRs and CI. The orchestrator just coordinates the work and keeps track of what’s landed.