🤖 Claude Code Task System

Multi-agent orchestration for reliable, scalable engineering workflows

🛡️ Self-Validating

Agents check their own work via hooks that run automatically after each action.

👥 Team Orchestration

Coordinated multi-agent workflows with Builder + Validator patterns.

📝 Template Meta-Prompts

Prompts that generate prompts in consistent, reusable formats.

What Is This?

The Claude Code Task System is a paradigm shift from ad-hoc sub-agent calls to organized teams of agents that communicate through a shared task list with dependencies and blocking capabilities.

❌ Old Way

  • Ad-hoc sub-agent calls
  • No task dependencies
  • No communication protocol
  • Manual coordination

✅ New Way

  • Coordinated agent teams
  • Blocking dependencies
  • Task-based communication
  • Parallel execution

💡 Key Insight

"More agents, more autonomy, and more compute doesn't always mean better outcomes. What we want is more organized agents that can communicate together to work toward a common goal."

Task System Tools

  • task create - Create new tasks with dependencies and blockers
  • task update - Primary communication channel between agents
  • task list - View all tasks and their current states
  • task get - Get details of a specific task

Builder Agent Pattern

The Builder agent focuses on implementing one specific task with high quality.

Self-Validation Hooks:

  • post_tool_use - Runs after file writes
  • Auto-runs linting (ruff, eslint)
  • Auto-runs type checking (ty, mypy, tsc)
  • Catches errors immediately
hooks:
  post_tool_use:
    write_edit:
      - command: |
          if [[ "$TOOL_INPUT_FILE_PATH" == *.py ]]; then
            ruff check --fix "$TOOL_INPUT_FILE_PATH"
            ty check "$TOOL_INPUT_FILE_PATH"
          fi

Validator Agent Pattern

The Validator agent verifies the builder's work was completed correctly.

Validation Checks:

  • File existence and structure
  • Code compilation/syntax validation
  • Test execution
  • Integration verification
  • Documentation completeness

2x Compute Principle: Spending compute on validation increases trust that work was delivered correctly.

Template Meta-Prompts

A meta-prompt is a prompt that generates another prompt in a specific, consistent format.

Why This Matters:

  • Teaches agents to build like you would
  • Consistent output format every time
  • Reusable across projects
  • Self-validating via hooks

Multi-Agent Task Flow

1
Plan

Create task list

→
2
Build

Execute in parallel

→
3
Validate

Verify work

→
4
Report

Update status

Task Dependencies & Blocking

# Task Owner Depends On Status
1 Build session_end hook Builder_SessionEnd None Running
2 Validate session_end hook Validator_SessionEnd 1 Blocked
3 Build permission_request hook Builder_Permission None Running
4 Update README Builder_Docs 1, 2, 3 Pending

Tasks 1 and 3 run in parallel. Task 2 is blocked until task 1 completes. Task 4 waits for multiple dependencies.

Best Practices

  • ✅ Every agent should have a focused context window doing ONE thing well
  • ✅ Refresh context between planning and building phases
  • ✅ Build validation into every agent via hooks
  • ✅ Use the Builder + Validator pairing as your foundation
  • ✅ Work on the agentic layer, not the application directly
  • ✅ Create reusable prompts you can deploy hundreds of times

Prompt Generator

Generate customized meta-prompts for your Claude Code multi-agent workflows.

📄 Meta-Prompt (Plan With Team) 

                


                

                    

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                        👥 Orchestration Prompt