Run work coding and support tasks through agents
A consultant uses Claude, Codex, and a custom containerized harness to handle client software work and a personal assistant project.
- What they did
- Dave Sanders does back-office software development for clients and leans on Claude and Codex for day-to-day coding. He is building Workforce, his own agent system, which wraps general-purpose and coding agents in containers for added containment. He also uses Workforce to develop Workforce itself and to operate Clara, the personal assistant he is creating. Most of the model traffic is routed through OpenRouter.
- How it went
- His agents are coding for 8 to 10 hours each day, and he keeps using them on side projects after work. He remains within the $200 Claude subscription for now, but he expects that limit to get tighter as he adds more agents. He also pays $100 for Codex.
- Tips
- If you plan to stack multiple agents, watch the monthly caps first, since usage can grow quickly. A containerized harness can help separate experiments from the rest of your setup.
Try it yourself with Claude
You are my coding agent for [repo path]. Review the code, outline the smallest safe plan for [task], then implement it on a fresh branch. Run the relevant tests and tell me what passed, what failed, and anything you want me to review. Stop and ask before any action that would pay money, send something out, delete data, or submit changes, and show me the diff before you proceed.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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