alt Hacker NewsSpeaking of asynchronous agents, what do people use? Claude Code for web is extremely limited, because you have no custom tools. Claude Code in GitHub Actions is vastly more useful, due to the custom environment, but ackward to use interactively. Are there any good alternatives?
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I use Claude Code for web with an environment allowing full internet access, which means it can install extra tools as and when it needs them. I don't run into limits with it very often.
I'm running Claude Code in a tmux on a VPS, and I'm working on setting up a meta-agent who can talk to me over text messages
Pretty sure next year's wrapup will have "Year of the sub-agent"
I just use a couple of custom MCP tools with the standard claude desktop app:
https://chrisfrew.in/blog/two-of-my-favorite-mcp-tools-i-use...
IMO this is the best balance of getting agentic work done while having immediate access to anything else you may need with your development process.
What exactly do you mean by custom tools here? Just cli tools accessible to the agent?