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gck1 | 6 days ago

That sounds interesting. I do hate how there's no observability into subagents and you just get a summary.

How do they report back to the orchestrator? Tmux?

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vincentvandeth|5 days ago

Yes, tmux. The setup is a 2x2 grid:

T0 (orchestrator) | T1 (Track A) T2 (Track B) | T3 (Track C)

When a worker finishes, it writes a structured report to a shared unified_reports/ directory. A file watcher (receipt processor) detects it, parses the report into a structured NDJSON receipt (status, files changed, open items, git ref), and delivers it to T0's pane.

T0 then reviews the receipt, runs a quality advisory (automated pass/warn/hold verdict), and decides: close open items, complete the PR, or redispatch. Everything is filesystem-based — no API, no database, no shared memory between agents. Each terminal has its own context window, its own Claude Code (or Codex/Gemini) session, and the only communication channel is structured files on disk.

The receipt ledger is append-only NDJSON, so you can always trace: which agent did what, when, on which dispatch, with which git commit.

I open-sourced the setup recently if you want to dig into the details.