Agents & Coordination

Multi-agent systems: model tiers for cost control, context window management, tmux-based process visibility, and coordination via pi-mesh.

Model Tiers. Decoupling agents from model names.

Context Windows. The constraint that shapes everything.

Tmux as Process Model. Visible agents, not hidden processes.

Coordination. Pi-mesh, file-based messaging, reservations.

File-Based Messaging. No server, just files on disk.

Collaboration Systems. When coordination fails at 85% and what to do about it.

The Foreman Problem. The orchestrator costs more than the workers. That's not obviously wrong.

Parallel Batch Review. Running 6 haiku agents across 81 pages at once.