I haven’t used multi-agent set up yet but it’s intriguing.

Are you using Claude Code? How do you run the agents and make them speak?

Let me clarify actually, I run separate terminals and the agents are separated. I think claude code cli is the best. But at home I pay per token. I have a google account and I pay for chatgpt. So I often use codex and gemini cli in tandem. I'll copy + paste stuff between them sometimes or I'll have one review the changes or just the code in general and then feed the other with the outputs. I'll break out claude code for specific tasks or when I feel like gemini/chatgpt aren't quite doing the job right (which has gotten rarer the past few months).

I messed around with separate "agents" in the same context window for a while. I even went as far as playing with strands agents. Having multiple agents was a crapshoot.

Sometimes they'd work great, but sometimes they start working on the same files at the same time, argue with each other, etc. I'd always get multiple agents working, at least how I assumed they should work, by telling the llm explicitly what agents to create and what work to pass off to what agents. And it did a pretty poor job of that. I tried having orchestration agents, but at a certain point the orchestration agent would just takeover and do everything. So I'm not big on having multiple agents (in theory it sounds great, especially since they are supposed to each have their own context window). When I attempted doing this kind of stuff with strands agents it honestly felt like I was trying to recreate claude, so I just stick with plain cli llm tools for now.