Senior engineer shares Claude Code orchestrator setup managing 16 agents, 370+ tickets done
croovies · reddit · 2026-09-11
A senior engineer shares an updated orchestrator setup built on Claude Code: an orchestrator agent wakes on a 90-minute loop, reads its own "mission note," and manages up to 16 independent Claude sessions (each running its own subagents). Its agent "Lloyd," role-playing an engineering manager, has filed 800+ tickets and completed 370+ in a local SQLite tickets table.
Key points:
- Architecture: agent-to-agent messaging (built into Claude Code), loop-based pings, and a local SQLite database as the internal tickets table
- Mission note structure: Who (ground the agent in a professional identity), What (a fixed every-pulse checklist — run bug-report playbooks, associate new bugs with recently closed PRs, staff forgotten follow-ups, update docs, scan oslogs for errors/crashes/watchdog fires and dispatch read-only investigation agents for genuine issues while ignoring transient noise), How (incrementally add "laws" to shape working style whenever the agent misbehaves)
- Workflow follows compound engineering: brainstorm → plan → work → review, plus a /scape-codex-review pass; non-trivial features require plan review
- The payoff: shift from driving every PR yourself to reviewing outcomes and rejecting bad code, like a real manager
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