A developer's software factory: one agent skill orchestrates subagents end-to-end

jnbrymn · reddit · 2026-10-17

A developer shares his software-factory setup ahead of a Penny University group discussion: he avoids vendor lock-in using the pi harness across $20/mo OpenAI and Anthropic accounts plus open-source models; his factory is a modular agent skill guiding task selection, brainstorming, and to-do generation, with subagents creating worktrees, implementing, QA-ing, and merging. Each repo keeps its own skill copy for local tweaks, and a meta-skill periodically merges and redeploys improvements across repos. A detailed first-hand engineering writeup.

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