[athrowaway3z]

Every time i see some new orchestrator framework worth more than a few hundred loc i cringe so hard. Reddit is flooded with them on the daily and HN has them on the front page occasionally.

My current setup is this;

- `tmux-bash` / `tmux-coding-agent`

- `tmux-send` / `tmux-capture`

- `semaphore_wait`

The other tools all create lockfiles and semaphore_wait is a small inotify wrapper.

They're all you need for 3 levels of orchestration. My recent discovery was that its best to have 1 dedicated supervisor that just semaphore_wait's on the 'main' agent spawning subagents. Basically a smart Ralph-wiggum.

https://github.com/offline-ant/pi-tmux if anybody is intrested.

[joshuamoyers]

you cringe while simultaneously posting a github link with your “current setup” - do you see the irony?

[devonkelley]

The tmux + lockfile approach is underrated. We went through a whole phase of building proper orchestration infra and ended up ripping most of it out. The overhead of coordinating agents through a framework is often worse than just letting them talk through the filesystem. The dirty secret of multi-agent systems is that the coordination layer is usually where the bugs live, not the agents themselves.