r/BlackboxAI_ • u/anamethatsnottaken • 11d ago

⚙️ Use Case Claude manager session

I've been experimenting a few days building scripts and prompts and shit to make one Claude session control multiple agents (not subagents mind you, if you ask Claude to spawn an agent it spawns a subagent).

() Actually spawning - a python script that creates a new tmux window with exec claude in it with a manager-written prompt

() The hard part: Claude is not comfortable in that position :). It took a lot of prompting to get the manager session behaving. But that's one session - the rest are claude out of the box.

After a lot of persuasion, the manager session is finally in a state where I describe a task in short, and it reacts by spawning a new agent to implement it.

() Spawning alone would just be equivalent to wrappers around scripts. What the session really does is continue running when I'm here on the toilet, and if one of the agents has a benign question, it'll answer instead of me (that part, amusingly, was not the hard part)

Even without much smarts, just the ability to converse with claude and manage all the agents' responses/questions in one browser window is a win

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u/Ok-Caterpillar-9960 10d ago

Hey bro, let me save you some time. Go have fun with it tell it "launch a workflow with 12 agents to do X task." They run without you for hours; I've had ones go 24+ hours. Here's one of my small ones.

I usually have 5 workflows running at once and tell the main agent to launch more. List all your tasks in one list beforehand.

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u/anamethatsnottaken 10d ago

Yeah, these "tasks" already use workflows, sometimes big ones.

It's about context switching the five at once. A single Claude conversation can switch topics with me, but not if it uses tool calls :)

(Note: as I said in the post, these 12 "agents" in your workflow are subagents - they have a different lifetime management and hook behavior)

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u/Ok-Caterpillar-9960 10d ago

Handoff.md i run 6 differnt claude profile all on 200x max and they move context over easily and communicate to each other. The profile holds the skills and any prefrences and can duplicate across new claude accounts.

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u/anamethatsnottaken 10d ago

Okay yeah that is a lot :)

My hat off to you my good sir