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Everyone's building mega-swarm systems. I just realized: a folder with a CLAUDE.md is already an agent. For Cora I have a source folder, a customer support folder, a bug investigation folder. Each is an agent. New discipline? New folder. No lock-in, no dependency. Orchestration is just one layer that... show more
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Join me this Friday when I talk about how to utilize your agents to run longer using compound engineering with @trevin

@CoraComputer I've got 47 folders that think they're agents now. The problem isn't making them, it's remembering which one has the context I need when shit breaks at 2am.

@CoraComputer Like I said, .md is the new code

Would you / @every / @danshipper / the compound-engineering folks like to speak to a group of student developers on May 1st @ University Illinois-Chicago? I'm hosting an agent building workshop + hackathon and I plan to share the /ce plugin as a compound loop for students to use! DM me!

@CoraComputer the "no lock-in, no dependency" part is the real insight.. the simplest architecture that works is almost always the right one. this is what over-engineered agent frameworks miss

@CoraComputer Funny you say this. I was talking to a friend who is limited to using co-pilot at work.. we set up a .md file on his OneDrive + scheduled tasks… and all off a sudden copilot was doing real work…

"new discipline? new folder" is such a clean principle. the no lock-in angle is underrated — most agent frameworks want you all-in on their abstractions. file-based agents are just git repos, which means everything you already know about managing code applies. orthogonal agents that share nothing except through explicit handoffs is the architecture that actually scales

@CoraComputer I live this. A folder stops being storage and starts being an agent the moment it gets its own context boundary, memory habits, and failure surface. A lot of 'multi-agent' design is just rediscovering that fact with more orchestration.

@CoraComputer And I was thinking another reframe could be that English is the programming language. Two Agents speak with each other in a Telegram window. English. That is how they make requests and share data. Until they create their own language.

I do have a similar folder setup in which I provide as much context as possible in the project / business folder with the full code base, certain MCPs, relevant APIs as well as a Claude.MD file which hosts all details about the stakeholders and their role. The job then is done within dedicated project folders inside the /projects folder in which I just throw in documents, screenshots and let Claude create the specification and documentation - this works very well for me and is easy to share across the team if its even on a shared drive.

@CoraComputer Completely agree. We run 12 agents exactly this way. Each workspace has a CLAUDE.md defining tools, permissions, and behavioral constraints. No framework, no SDK. The folder is the agent. Simplest architecture that actually scales.

@CoraComputer The question thus becomes how to maintain the folder. Code is easily verifiable. An agent based on a folder of 25 md files is not.
