[neilbb]

I believe this is the most pragmatic approach for real production-ready multi-agent software engineering. Most frameworks are either theoretical or over-engineered—they try to automate humans away instead of augmenting them.

The key difference: on-demand human-in-the-loop. Agents never block waiting for you. They pick up work, execute, commit, and exit. You make decisions asynchronously when ready.

This eliminates the biggest bottleneck in agent systems—the human becoming a serial dependency.

Proof isn't in benchmarks or simulation. It's 706 commits shipped in 5 days using standard tools (Taskwarrior, Zellij, Claude Code). System got rate-limited, not me.

[ungreased0675]

Did you create anything useful though?

[neilbb]

Yes. I've built hook scripts, Claude Code skills, and OpenClaw agents to make this work.

https://ttal.guion.io gets updated daily with guides. Still incomplete, but shows the actual patterns.

If you want to dive deeper or integrate this into your workflow: [e-mail]