Agentic Coding
Top tech stories today across software, hardware, AI, and product launches. Senior engineer audience — skip rumour churn and pre-announcement leaks. Lead with shipping-now stories and what changed for builders.
← See today's latestMulti-agent orchestration hits its stride with herdr
Shape-Build-Review-Ship Loop
A year of agentic coding condensed into one workflow pattern.
Damian Galarza published his updated stack after 12 months running Claude Code, Codex, and Pi together through herdr—a terminal multiplexer built specifically for agent coordination [Source: Galarza]. His four-stage loop—shape, build, review, ship—puts the leverage where you'd expect: shaping work upfront with skills like grill-with-docs ensures shared understanding before code gets written, while verification-first building lets him run parallel agents safely. He uses specialist review agents checking architecture, testing, security, and docs before anything ships.
The pattern maps cleanly onto the workflows you've already been building.
Context Stacking Strategy
Your AGENTS.md file is just one layer of the context puzzle.
Galarza's setup shows how to stack context sources beyond the usual project-level instructions: Linear MCP pipes in tickets, Sentry CLI surfaces production errors, Fireflies adds meeting recordings, and Notion or Obsidian feeds team and personal knowledge [Source: Galarza]. He stores global agent instructions across all three tools—Claude Code at ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, Codex at ~/.codex/AGENTS.md, Pi at ~/.pi/agent/AGENTS.md—keeping each tool's context scoped to its strengths.
Worth auditing what context your agents are actually seeing each session.
Tool-Specific Routing
Each agent tool earns its place by doing one thing well.
The workflow splits tools by task type rather than using one for everything: Claude Code handles frontend and design work where its visual reasoning shines, Codex runs the Sol model for efficient performance on straightforward tasks, and Pi orchestrates local models when you need more control [Source: Galarza]. The herdr multiplexer lets you coordinate all three without context-switching between terminals. He emphasizes verification over planning in the build phase—poteto-mode keeps parallel agents honest.
If you're still using one tool for everything, this routing split is your next experiment.
Agentic Coding Workflow: Claude Code, Codex, Pi - Damian Galarza13 hours ago ... Each agent looks in a different place: Codex: ~/.codex/AGENTS.md; Claude Code: ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md; Pi: ...damiangalarza.com