We considered wrapping Claude Code when we started building Mendral (this agent in the article). We ended up building our own agent, it's lot more work because we followed all the right patterns as the models evolved (sub-agents, proper token caching, redo basic tools like read,write,edit,bash, etc...). But it paid off over time when you build an agent that is focused on a specific task (not a general coding agent).

The main driver for writing our own agent was to leave it out of the sandbox (the agent loop runs on our backend, we call the sandbox only when needed). We wrote another post about that (it's the latest post on the blog).

However, I am curious how would you implement the triager pattern by only using Claude Code as harness.