Sub-Agent Orchestration: Cost-Aware Delegation With Work Attribution
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Not every task needs Opus. I built a 5-agent orchestration system that matches task complexity to model tier, tracks what each agent produces, and merges results with quality gates.
Claude Code’s Agent Teams let agents talk to each other. That’s useful for collaborative exploration. But when I need predictable, cost-controlled parallel execution, I need something different.
wipnote’s orchestration dispatches the right agent for each task at the right cost: Haiku for typo fixes, Sonnet for features, Opus for architecture decisions. Every sub-agent must register its work item before writing code. The execute skill reads dependency graphs from approved plans and dispatches all unblocked tasks simultaneously, each in its own git worktree.
850+ features completed using this system, building wipnote with wipnote.