A workflow I find useful is to have multiple CLI agents running in different Tmux panes and have one consult/delegate to another using my Tmux-CLI [1] tool + skill. Advantage of this is that the agents’ work is fully visible and I can intervene as needed.
Why make it a vscode extension if the point of these 3 tools is a cli interface? Meaning most of the people I know use these tools without VSCode. Is VSC required?
> Meaning most of the people I know use these tools without VSCode.
I guess it depends?
You can usually count on Claude Code or Codex or Gemini CLI to support the model features the best, but sometimes having a consistent UI across all of them is also nice - be it another CLI tool like OpenCode (that was a bit buggy for me when it came to copying text), or maybe Cline/RooCode/KiloCode inside of VSC, so you don't also have to install a custom editor like Cursor but can use your pre-existing VSC setup.
Okay, that was a bit of a run on sentence, but it's nice to be able to work on some context and then to switch between different models inline: "Hey Sonnet, please look at the work of the previous model up until this point and validate its findings about the cause of this bug."
I'd also love it if I could hook up some of those models (especially what Cerebras Code offers) with autocomplete so I wouldn't need Copilot either, but most of the plugins that try to do that are pretty buggy or broken (e.g. Continue.dev). KiloCode also added autocomplete, but it doesn't seem to work with BYOK.
> Is multi-agent collaboration actually useful or am I just solving my own niche problem?
I often write with Claude, and at work we have Gemini code reviews on GitHub; definitely these two catch different things. I'd be excited to have them working together in parallel in a nice interface.
If our ops team gives this a thumbs-up security wise I'll be excited to try it out when back at work.
This is very useful! I frequently copy the response of one model and ask another to review it and I have seen really good results with that approach.
Can you also include Cursor CLI for the brainstorming? This would allow someone to unlock brainstorming with just one CLI since it allows to use multiple models.
https://github.com/just-every/code "Every Code - push frontier AI to it limits. A fork of the Codex CLI with validation, automation, browser integration, multi-agents, theming, and much more. Orchestrate agents from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or any provider." Apache 2.0 ; Community fork;
My similar workflow within Claude Code when it gets stuck is to have it consult Gemini. Works either through Gemini CLI or the API. Surprisingly powerful pattern because I've just found that Gemini is still ahead of Opus in architectural reasoning and figuring out difficult bugs. https://github.com/raine/consult-llm-mcp
Interesting indeed but would it behave the same as Claude code or will it have its own behavior, I think the system prompt is one of the key things that differentiate every agent
Will give it a look indeed, I think one of the challenges with the MCP approach is that the context need to be passed and that would add to the overhead of the main agent. Is that right?
[1] https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools?tab=readme-o...
I guess it depends?
You can usually count on Claude Code or Codex or Gemini CLI to support the model features the best, but sometimes having a consistent UI across all of them is also nice - be it another CLI tool like OpenCode (that was a bit buggy for me when it came to copying text), or maybe Cline/RooCode/KiloCode inside of VSC, so you don't also have to install a custom editor like Cursor but can use your pre-existing VSC setup.
Okay, that was a bit of a run on sentence, but it's nice to be able to work on some context and then to switch between different models inline: "Hey Sonnet, please look at the work of the previous model up until this point and validate its findings about the cause of this bug."
I'd also love it if I could hook up some of those models (especially what Cerebras Code offers) with autocomplete so I wouldn't need Copilot either, but most of the plugins that try to do that are pretty buggy or broken (e.g. Continue.dev). KiloCode also added autocomplete, but it doesn't seem to work with BYOK.
Will definitely try to add those features in a future release as well
I think once I add cursor and cline then will also try to make it work with any number of agents
I often write with Claude, and at work we have Gemini code reviews on GitHub; definitely these two catch different things. I'd be excited to have them working together in parallel in a nice interface.
If our ops team gives this a thumbs-up security wise I'll be excited to try it out when back at work.
Can you also include Cursor CLI for the brainstorming? This would allow someone to unlock brainstorming with just one CLI since it allows to use multiple models.
If it's solving even your own niche problem, it is actually useful though right? Kind of a "yes or yes" question.
Update:
I've already found a solution based on a comment, and modified it a bit.
Inside claude code i've made a new agent that uses the MCP gemini through https://github.com/raine/consult-llm-mcp. this seems to work!
Claude code:
Now let me launch the Gemini MCP specialist to build the backend monitoring server:
gemini-mcp-specialist(Build monitoring backend server) ⎿ Running PreToolUse hook…
@gemini could you review the code and then provide a summary to @claude?
@claude can you write the classes based on an architectural review by @codex
What do you think? Does that make sense ?
https://github.com/BeehiveInnovations/pal-mcp-server
This turned me off as well. Especially with no published pricing and a link to a site that is not about this product.
At minimum, publish pricing.