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by FiloVenturini 119 days ago
Have you considered adding any kind of agent coordination layer, e.g. letting one “orchestrator” agent spawn and direct sub-agents on specific subtasks, rather than having the developer manually assign each task? Or is the explicit human-in-the-loop assignment a deliberate design choice to keep control and avoid runaway costs?
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We've considered it! The way we're seeing it, this is something that the CLIs themselves are getting good at natively, such as Claude Code. We generally consider ourselves to be at a higher abstraction / task level, where the individual CLIs are responsible themselves for breaking down and distributing a larger task across subagents.
> CLIs themselves are getting good at [agent coordination] natively

But that's not provider-agnostic, which you mentioned earlier as one selling point of Emdash. :-)

Not-so-unrealistic use case, IMO: What if I want my orchestrator model to be, for example, ran locally due to some form of privacy concerns?