Allow up to five Sonnet agents at once and keep the larger model to two, in playbook 07
The operator, 2026-10-15: the smaller model is as good as free against the weekly allowance, so the limit that matters is how many agents the lead can settle and follow (three to five); subagents on the larger model stay at two at most and as rare as possible. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -94,12 +94,16 @@ reviews and delivers at the end. The agents never push.
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- what it must not touch, and what is landing beside it.
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An agent that finds the code differs from its issue stops and reports; it does not design around it.
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- **Spend the operator's allowance on judgement.** Every agent the mesh runs draws on one weekly
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allowance shared by every session. A fixing agent runs on the smaller model (Sonnet); the lead, the
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independent reviews and the decision records run on the larger one, where judgement is the work.
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- **At most two issues are being fixed at once.** When one lands, the next ready issue starts at
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once; an issue is ready when every issue its `depends-on` links name has landed on the feature
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branch and the lead has settled its open questions. (Five at once, with restarts, spent a week's
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allowance in a night.)
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allowance shared by every session, and the larger model (Opus) spends it many times faster than the
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smaller one (Sonnet). Fixing agents and read-only diagnosis agents run on Sonnet. The larger model is
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for the lead's own judgement, the independent review of each repository before the push, and
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decision records, and as few of its subagents as possible.
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- **Up to five Sonnet agents at once, at most two subagents on the larger model** (the lead not counted).
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What sets the limit is how many agents the lead can settle and follow, and their token cost, not the
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number of issues: an issue may take one agent or several, one after another. When one lands, the next ready
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issue starts at once; an issue is ready when every issue its `depends-on` links name has landed on the
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feature branch and the lead has settled its open questions. (Five agents on the larger model at once,
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with restarts, spent a week's allowance in a night.)
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- **An issue partly done goes back to `open`** with a note naming the commits that landed and what
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is left, linked `depends-on` to what it waits for. An issue is never left in `fixing` while
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nobody works on it. A finished issue's agent is gone, so the lead takes it over in `fixing` (its
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