A team of role-play agents running a side project
Fourteen persona agents in a bash loop with Claude Code plan, build and ship artifacts, with a critic agent running pre-mortems on ideas.
- Agent or tool
- Claude Code
- Topic
- Business & Startups
- Reported on
- Hacker News
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Small teams wear many hats. Agents that pick up research, admin and operations let a founder spend more time on the work only they can do. It is one of 7 sightings filed under Business & Startups on Agent Sightings (number 5 by interest), and one of 164 involving Claude Code.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Claude Code or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Act as a critic. Before we commit to this plan, run a pre-mortem: list the five most likely reasons it fails, how we'd notice early, and whether we should proceed.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281538. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.