orchestration
Running more than one agent at a time, and keeping track of what they are all doing.
The best AI agent orchestration tools for coding in 2026
A comparison of the tools that run multiple AI coding agents at once: Conductor, Vibe Kanban, Claude Squad, crystl, Cursor cloud agents, Sculptor, and doing it by hand with tmux and git worktrees.
Agent communication protocols: A2A, ACP, and MCP
A reference on the agent communication protocols people actually mean: A2A for agent to agent, MCP for agent to tool, and the two different things called ACP. What each one is, who governs it, and where the confusion comes from.
Running an agent team in tmux
A pane per role, send-keys to dispatch, a shared file as the channel, and a polling loop for idle. The real wiring for a tmux agent team, and the four guarantees it doesn't have.
How do you get AI agents to talk to each other?
You have two coding agents open and neither can see the other. The four real options for agent to agent communication, worst to best: a shared file, a git branch, tmux send-keys, and a coordination layer. What each one guarantees and what it doesn't.
Claude Code Subagents: Best Practices
Scope a subagent to one question, state the return shape, and never delegate work you'd want to watch. Concrete examples of subagent tasks that work and ones that waste your tokens.
How Many Agents Can You Actually Run at Once?
The ceiling on parallel agents isn't your machine. It's tokens, rate limits, and mostly your own review capacity. What actually binds first, why more agents past a point ships less code, and how to pick a number.
How to manage multiple projects when every project has an agent in it
Managing several projects used to be about your own time. When each project has a coding agent working in it, the constraint moves to your attention. Six rules that hold up: per-project context, written state, contained blast radius, batched review.
Agent orchestration, when what you actually have is too many tabs open
Agent orchestration is a term from agent-building frameworks: the code that decides which agent runs when, inside a program you write. If you searched it because you have nine terminal tabs and don't know which one needs you, that's a different problem with a different fix.
Can You Run Multiple Instances of Claude Code?
Yes. Claude Code has no cap on concurrent instances. What two sessions share, what they don't, why the same working directory is the thing that breaks, and where the real limit sits.
Skills vs Subagents in Claude Code
A skill loads instructions into the conversation you're already having. A subagent runs in a context you can't see and hands back a summary. The real difference, the file formats, and when each one is wrong.
The tmux setup people build for parallel agents, and what it can't do
Claude Code ships a --worktree --tmux flag that covers one agent. Everyone running several converges on the same hand-built setup instead, and here are the four moments it stops working.
Introducing roundtable agent orchestration
Most multi-agent orchestration hides the agents inside one controller's head. Roundtable orchestration, the model behind crystl quest, puts independent agents in a shared chat you can actually watch.
The Agentic Coding Workflow Nobody Talks About: Managing the Agents Themselves
The bottleneck in agentic coding isn't AI capability. It's managing multitask workflows where multiple AI agents are working simultaneously.
Organizing 10+ Claude Code Projects Without Drowning in Terminal Windows
How to multitask with Claude Code across many projects without losing track of sessions. The gems and shards mental model for terminal organization.
How to Monitor Multiple Claude Code Agents Without Losing Your Mind
Monitoring parallel Claude Code agents: how to tell which one is blocked on an approval, which finished, and which went off the rails, without clicking through every tab. What tmux surfaces, what it can't, and what agent observability actually needs.
The Tab-Hunting Problem: Finding Which Claude Code Session Needs Your Attention
Running 5+ Claude Code sessions? Why you can't find the one waiting for approval, and how to fix it.