Agent orchestration patterns
Using a pinned AI session to coordinate and dispatch work to subagents across separate worktrees. Every AI Coding Weekly story on agent orchestration patterns, newest first. 10 stories since October 2026.
- Malte Ubl ran 24 DeepSeek sub agents under Opus 5.5 for $9
A frontier model doing the orchestration, cheap open weights doing what he says is 99 percent of the work.
- Theo drives 8 T3 Code threads across machines from one MCP server
The feature is behind a labs toggle on the nightly build, and Theo says it is still very early.
- Theo's tool eval cuts T3 Code context 79%
A week of eval building and $1,500 in tokens to fix tool schemas nobody was measuring.
- Mario Zechner's agent workflow is two sentences long
The reply was a joke about prompt scaffolding, not a benchmark, but it landed in a week full of elaborate agent machinery.
- Anthropic tells companies to delete subagents
One agent with skills beat the multi-agent setup, and the advice now is to fold subagents back into the main loop.
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- dax has opencode post progress to a Slack thread
One instruction turns the agent's status into something the team can check instead of something one person relays.
- Theo's council skill makes three models argue before a merge
Cross-model review as a merge gate, with no numbers yet on what it catches or what it costs.
- Theo says AI code critics cannot write good code
Two posts, no codebase and no test behind either of them.
- Steinberger moved OpenClaw to Solid 2 in about 600 PRs
A framework migration run mostly on autopilot, with check-ins every other day and a handful of button-shaped regressions left behind.
- dax runs one pinned session that farms work out to subagents
The orchestrator does no work itself, and dax asks it what it needs from him to find out what is ready for review.
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