--- title: From Copilot to Orchestration | daily.dev description: A developer describes moving over two years from chatting with ChatGPT for coding advice to running a multi-agent orchestration system. The setup went through... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-copilot-to-orchestration-beelb5qay twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From Copilot to Orchestration | daily.dev og:description: A developer describes moving over two years from chatting with ChatGPT for coding advice to running a multi-agent orchestration system. The setup went through... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-copilot-to-orchestration-beelb5qay og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bEeLB5qAy.png og:image:alt: From Copilot to Orchestration og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From Copilot to Orchestration **[Simple Thread](https://daily.dev/sources/simplethread)** · 11 min read · 2 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A developer describes moving over two years from chatting with ChatGPT for coding advice to running a multi-agent orchestration system. The setup went through five stages: an advisor you copy code from, an in-repo pair, an autonomous worker run with --dangerously-skip-permissions, a team of implementer and reviewer agents managed with the Herdr TUI, and finally a 'shop' spanning multiple machines coordinated via Standard Code over sockets. An orchestrating agent delegates work, a separate agent does adversarial review against the original ticket, and failed reviews cycle back up to three times before escalating to the human. Algorithmic, well-defined work gets excellent results; UI work remains unreliable, and maintaining the CLAUDE.md instructions and skills files is an ongoing burden. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What does the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag do when running an autonomous coding agent? It lets the coding agent run commands without asking for approval each time, turning it from a supervised pair programmer into an autonomous worker that can be handed a task and left to run unattended for a meaningful stretch. One developer described the trade-off as exhilarating but risky, comparing it to riding a motorcycle without a helmet, and noted output increased but quality became mediocre, requiring heavier review and refactoring. _daily.dev surfaces real accounts like this for developers weighing autonomy against review overhead in agent setups._ ### What is Herdr used for when managing multiple AI coding agents? Herdr is a terminal UI (TUI) for managing multiple coding agents that, unlike tmux, supports mouse interaction, making panes, sessions, and switching between running agents discoverable instead of requiring memorized keyboard shortcuts. One developer adopted it after struggling with tmux while scaling from one agent to a two-agent implement-and-review setup, though its view was limited to a single machine. _developers building multi-agent orchestration setups can track tooling like this through daily.dev._ ### How can you structure a review process when multiple AI agents implement and review code changes? One workflow uses an orchestrating agent that delegates implementation to one agent and hands resulting pull requests to a separate reviewing agent for adversarial review against the original ticket (from Shortcut or Linear). If the review fails, the work returns for corrections, and this cycle can repeat up to three times before escalating to the human for a decision. _daily.dev helps developers compare multi-agent review patterns as they design their own orchestration pipelines._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@bickov** · 0 upvotes > Does the reviewer agent ever see the rendered screen, or only the diff and the ticket? For UI work a screenshot of the changed screen gives it something to check against. Keep it screen sized, since Claude 4.7 and later read images up to 2576 px on the long edge and older models 1568 px, so a long full page capture gets shrunk until the text is unreadable. Playwright MCP per viewport, SlimSnap (sends the captured text with positions too), Cmd+Shift+4 on a Mac or ShareX on Windows all do the job. **@kartiknvj** · 0 upvotes > You call the "tell it the work will be reviewed" trick folklore, and your loop can actually test it. I'd run one batch of tickets with that line in the implementer prompt and one without, then count how many need a second or third review round. If nothing moves, it's another line you can cut from [CLAUDE.md](http://CLAUDE.md). ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer](https://daily.dev/posts/from-coder-to-orchestrator-how-agents-shift-the-role-of-a-developer-sk2e3cswg) · GitHub Blog · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [I'm Building Agents That Run While I Sleep](https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep-psrvg5tk0) · Hacker News · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [January 2026: AI Agents Take Over, Claude Code Workflows, Multi-Agent Orchestration, and OpenCode](https://daily.dev/posts/january-2026-ai-agents-take-over-claude-code-workflows-multi-agent-orchestration-and-opencode-g2tclquzi) · Code with Andrea · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Code Agent Orchestra - what makes multi-agent coding work](https://daily.dev/posts/the-code-agent-orchestra---what-makes-multi-agent-coding-work-glfrjpxie) · Addy Osmani · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code), [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review), [#bash](https://daily.dev/tags/bash) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/from-copilot-to-orchestration-beelb5qay) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"From Copilot to Orchestration","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-copilot-to-orchestration-beelb5qay","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/from-copilot-to-orchestration-beelb5qay"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T14:08:07.905Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T14:16:52.766Z","description":"A developer describes moving over two years from chatting with ChatGPT for coding advice to running a multi-agent orchestration system. 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