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Background Agents

Work happens while you sleep. You review PRs, not code.

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Orchestrating tasks → engineering coordination systems

🎯 WHAT CHANGES BY THE END

You'll be able to run multiple parallel agents with a dispatcher, manage cost and stale-context risks, and spend your time reviewing diffs instead of writing code.

🙋 THIS IS YOU IF

  • ✓Multiple background agents running in parallel on your actual codebase, not toy tasks
  • ✓An orchestrator dispatches work and tracks status. You don't manage that manually
  • ✓You've split models by role: one implements, one reviews, one researches. They don't share context
  • ✓CI runs docs bots, security reviewers, or dependency updaters without a human trigger

💡 WHAT WE'LL UNTANGLE

  • Everything still routes through a central orchestrator. Agents don't coordinate with each other directly
  • Stale context is a recurring problem you solve case-by-case rather than systematically
  • Cost at scale gets expensive fast: five parallel Opus runs can clear hundreds of dollars in a day
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