Comment by skippyboxedhero
25 days ago
I can tell you based on your description that you did not do this. Subagents are completely different and cannot be used in this way.
No, it isn't how Claude Code works because Claude Code is designed to work with limited task queues, this is not what this feature is. Again, I would suggest you trying to actually build something like this. Why do you think Anthropic are doing this? They just don't understand anything about their product?
No, it doesn't work within that context. Again: sharing context between subagents, single instance running for months...I am not even sure why someone would think this could work. The constraints that I set are the ones that you require to build this...because I have done this. You are talking about having some CLAUDE.md files like you have invented the wheel, lol. HN is great.
> I can tell you based on your description that you did not do this. Subagents are completely different and cannot be used in this way.
And yet I have used them exactly in the way I described. That you assume they can't just demonstrate that you haven't tried very hard.
> No, it isn't how Claude Code works because Claude Code is designed to work with limited task queues, this is not what this feature is.
Claude allows your setup to execute arbitrary code that gets injected into context. The entire point is that you don't need to rely on built in capabilities of Claude Code to do any of this.
> No, it doesn't work within that context. Again: sharing context between subagents, single instance running for months...I am not even sure why someone would think this could work.
I know what I described works because I am doing it. You can achieve what I described in a variety of ways: Using skills to tell the agents how to access a shared communications channel. Using MCP servers. Just using CLAUDE.md and describe how to use files as a shared communications channel.
This is only difficult if you lack imagination.
> You are talking about having some CLAUDE.md files like you have invented the wheel, lol. HN is great.
No, the exact opposite: I'm saying that this isn't hard, that it isn't anything revolutionary or even special. It's pretty basic usage of the existing facilities. There's no invention there.
You're the one trying to imply this is more revolutionary than it is.