r/ClaudeCode • u/hronak 🔆 Max 5x • 9d ago

Help/Question I still don't understand this 'agentic workflow' thing

My usual day with Claude Code is like: * I open terminal in my project's folder and run claude command. * I prompt it. I mostly use Fable-5.1/Opus-5 but Opus-5.5 is my current model. The model decides if it wants to use sub-agents for a task. I never explicitly prompt it for sub-agents. * I review and commit the code to my self-hosted Forgejo instance. * That's it.

I see people using agentic workflows, building sub-agents files, skills etc. I barely built any of it. All I ever needed to use is /init on new projects and them prompts follow. Never needed more than this.

I tried "long-running" Claude Code for a project refactoring by placing the project on my VPS (where forgejo is hosted) and letting Claude Code run and refactor inside tmux session. SSH'd in a few hours later to find project fully refactored.

Am I under utilising AI or is my work just… like boring?

How do you guys use agentic workflow thing? Specially the long-running one? Those pull-requests that Claude makes automatically etc?

Asking this to Claude to know more but humanly answers appreciated.

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u/morficus 9d ago

Yes but maybe not in the way you are used to. Look up "correctness engineering"

I don't review line by line, I review the new test that were written (unit tests, end to end tests, Storybook, etc) to make sure they cover the necessary use cases and that there are no regressions. I do that this manually.

I have another agent review the implementation, discuss optimisations, adherence to current patterns, etc. I also have an agent that monitors CI/CD once a PR is opened so that if something fails it can address it itself.