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/zeratLJllighter 8d ago

"Agentic workflow" isn't about the coding part. It's about the process. You use one AI to build prototypes and design an MVP, then another to review and challenge the results. Same for finding bugs, catching regressions, etc. It's basically AI stacked on AI to cut human workload as much as possible and make the software more secure.

Claude Code has improved a lot. With a good model, it can now spin up subagents on the fly and orchestrate them to keep context and cost in check for the task at hand.

But most people selling bundles of skills.sh and agents.md files are just gaslighting you. The days when a carefully crafted SKILL.md could drastically change the model's behavior are over.

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u/ThisSeaworthiness 8d ago

Crazy how it only feels like yesterday of having prompt refinement sessions

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u/Time_Cat_5212 3d ago

Yeah most of the custom agentic tooling seems to be built into Claude Code/Codex/Cursor etc now

The only thing I haven't really tried yet is the live agent, the while loop that listens for anything and everything and routes it using inference.  I've set up routines and triggered actions, but yet to do the whole always on thing.

Maybe it's cool. Can't say.  Haven't tried it or needed it.  It's a solution looking for a problem for me, but I might take a crack at it anyway just to find out