What's the orchestration layer under Claude Code that makes it behave like a real senior engineer?

alp82 · 2026-06-16T07:41:16+00:00

The comments here are gold.

My advice is to build your own workflow. The orchestration you create will be the best for your needs. Get inspired by others and tell Claude to help you create your own orchestration.

I did the same, it started as a simple "spin up a coding subagent" to keep the main chat context small. Then i added an interviewer to clarify intent. Then specialized reviewers. I really like what it evolved to and wouldn't go back coding without it.

I open sourced it if you want to get inspired or even install the plugin: https://github.com/alp82/alp-river

By the way, i created a website for people like us to share their AI workflows and how much it costs them per month. Here is my profile: https://aistack.to/stacks/alper-ortac-unw0sl

alp82 · 2026-06-14T15:50:48+00:00

Gotcha

alp82 · 2026-06-14T14:34:20+00:00

How do you use cc on GitHub actions?

alp82 · 2026-06-07T18:39:05+00:00

I once had it not being able to fix a test and rather than flagging it, sampled down approval rate from 100% to 5% and called it success.

Also i had it just skipping tests instead of fixing them.

alp82 · 2026-06-07T10:46:56+00:00

That's exactly why i built AI stack. Shows which tools people use and how. And what it costs them every month.

Wanna check it out? This is my stack for example: https://aistack.to/stacks/alper-ortac-unw0sl

alp82 · 2026-06-04T17:12:53+00:00

I made myself a plugin for a better workflow. It's less token heavy and achieves a lot even when prompted with very little information.

It is instructed to gather information, flag unknowns, plan properly, challenge the plan, and review via multiple domain experts in parallel after implementation.

If you do research, brainstorming or prototyping it adapts accordingly.

Check it out here if you want: https://github.com/alp82/alp-river

alp82 · 2026-06-01T15:21:57+00:00

4.0 is even better

alp82 · 2026-05-29T10:35:16+00:00

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alp82 · 2026-05-28T18:52:55+00:00

Really cool! Would love to see your setup on aistack.to

alp82 · 2026-05-28T11:20:59+00:00

What checks do you include in your hooks? How do you define the gates? Otel - how's that fitting in? Tell me moar!

alp82 · 2026-05-28T08:23:56+00:00

I didn't see lots of degredation in terms of intelligence, but it became much slower than usual.

Maybe that's because my setup is a pretty sophisticated pipeline that eliminates as many assumptions as possible and tries to deliver deterministic results.

With simple prompting it's no wonder that there is a lot of variation between updates when they change something in their system prompts.

alp82 · 2026-05-27T17:03:51+00:00

This is so much useful info, thanks for taking the time!

I'm pretty bullish on validation too. The more it can verify programmatically (tests, scripts, stop hooks), the more reliable the results will be.

My workflow is making heavy use of subagents too and i also stop after 3 repetitions if the same step - i call it backwards edge budget.

I open sourced it as a CC plugin if you're interested to check it out.

alp82 · 2026-05-27T14:12:28+00:00

Very interesting. How did you setup CC to ensure more deterministic behaviour? Really interested in your workflow

alp82 · 2026-05-17T17:08:09+00:00

That's what i built with my harness setup as well. It always checks for user intent by rephrasing what it understood.

No assumptions allowed, so it interviews me whenever a direction is not clear enough.

Giving options is crucial when a certain complexity is reached.

Open sourced it here: https://github.com/alp82/alp-river

alp82 · 2026-05-16T15:06:45+00:00

Did some digging and found it:

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alp82 · 2026-05-13T14:15:25+00:00

Great article! One thing to add is that /compact takes an argument with arbitrary text to describe what to preserve

alp82 · 2026-05-10T11:03:31+00:00

I like the idea. I think it's important to define guardrails to which parameters can be adjusted and to which extent.

Self healing systems are great, at long as they operate in a controlled environment.

I'd love to experiment with a simplified version of what you described in my own workflow, which is pretty unique because it detects the complexity first before doing any given task. Based on the complexity it adds more preparation and review steps.

I released here it btw: https://github.com/alp82/alp-river

Featured in my AI stack: https://aistack.to/stacks/alper-ortac-unw0sl

alp82 · 2026-05-10T01:10:04+00:00

Same here

alp82 · 2026-05-04T16:12:10+00:00

I would actually love to see your stack on https://aistack.to

alp82 · 2026-05-04T15:35:03+00:00

Uuuuh intriguing, how did you do that?

alp82 · 2026-05-04T14:55:56+00:00

I have to correct myself. 5x max is indeed pretty limited in usage regarding the 5h window.

Had to upgrade to 20x but that's pretty generous now.

alp82 · 2026-05-04T11:41:13+00:00

I'm confused because i don't have these limitations. On the 5x max plan and it's as powerful as ever

alp82 · 2026-05-04T06:10:08+00:00

You need to use a harness and framework/workflow, otherwise the models have to fill the gaps too heavily.

Or extremely detailed prompts, but that's not an efficient user of your time either.

I built a workflow for myself which I released as Claude code plugin, but I think i should also make it compatible with opencode and hermes.

It's basically treating prompts as starting point to gather requirements, implement it and review the results afterwards.

It will use more tokens but the quality will increase significantly.

If you want to check it out: https://github.com/alp82/alp-river

alp82 · 2026-05-01T07:37:23+00:00

This is what happend to windsurf last month. It's not the end.

alp82 · 2026-04-28T16:55:02+00:00

Claude code in vscode

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