How One Team Coordinates Up to 50 Coding Agents With a Few Markdown Files
ProfessionalNeat4403 · reddit · 2026-10-30
A Reddit user shares how their team runs up to 50 parallel coding agents on one project without heavy orchestration frameworks, with an Obsidian Canvas screenshot showing 25 agents and 125 markdown files.
What they learned: running one agent longer degraded quality as context grew; parallel agents made coordination the real problem.
The system: a handful of markdown files — a project plan, one task spec per agent, a progress log, and an escalation file. An orchestrator agent reads them and keeps work moving; humans only handle exceptions. Their largest overnight run used 61 task specs and ended with a single branch to review.
Weak spot: shared test environments, where parallel agents block each other. Full writeup on their Substack.
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