Workflows
Take a developer task from its first question to a checked result: manually, with automation, or across providers.
Start with a clear handoff. Automate a stage once its inputs, outputs, and checks are understood. Larger workflows keep consequential decisions with a person who can inspect the evidence.
- Taskgoal and checks
- Artifactssources and proposed changes
- Toolsnative methods or a pipeline
- Humaninspect and decide
Download the local reference package · Three offline recipes and optional CLI execution with a reviewed profile.
Methods and pipelines
- Make artifacts and human decisions explicit Shared methods
Bind approval to the exact evidence and change being reviewed, and stop stale decisions from authorizing later work.
- Recover a pipeline without losing its boundaries Shared methods
Handle failed output, denied decisions, cancellation, retries, and limited budgets while preserving the run's evidence.
- Turn a working handoff into a developer pipeline Shared methods
Automate a known stage, keep its evidence, and retain human decisions at the points where they matter.
- Plan, implement, and review across providers Requires: Claude Code + Codex + Gemini CLI
Coordinate a bounded change with a reviewed plan, isolated candidate artifacts, independent reviews, and an explicit acceptance decision.
- Turn research into a checked code change Requires: Gemini API + Claude Code + Codex + OpenAI API
Carry selected source evidence through planning, implementation, and review while keeping uncertainty and human decisions visible.
- Review a change with another provider Requires: Claude Code + Gemini CLI
Give independent reviewers the same fixed evidence, validate their findings, and let a human decide the result.
- Run API and coding-agent stages in one reviewed pipeline Requires: Gemini API + Claude Code + Codex + OpenAI API
Configure direct model calls alongside CLI jobs, inspect their request limits, and stop uncertain work before another dispatch.
- Run CLI stages between human decisions Requires: Claude Code + Codex + Gemini CLI
Configure Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI, review their execution profile, and let the local coordinator launch and supervise eligible stages.
Claude: existing methods and cost examples
- Workflow: debugging a failure Claude + Claude Code + Anthropic API
Narrowing costs four times what diagnosing costs. Put the cheap model on the search and the expensive one on the thirty seconds that decide the answer.
- Workflow: a refactor across several files Claude + Claude Code + Anthropic API
The plan is 1% of the tokens and decides the other 99%. Everything else is mechanical, and mechanical work does not need the expensive model.
- Workflow: researching and synthesising Claude + Claude Code + Anthropic API
Reading thirty sources costs eight times what thinking about them costs. This is the workflow where model choice saves the most.
- Workflow: reviewing a change Claude + Claude Code + Anthropic API
Three steps, three different models. Reading is not judging, and paying Opus rates to read a diff is the commonest waste in this workflow.