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Sub-Agent Orchestration: Cost-Aware Delegation With Work Attribution

Claude Code recently shipped Agent Teams, an experimental feature where fully independent Claude Code instances communicate with each other via mailboxes and shared task lists. Teammates can challenge each other's findings, collaborate on problems, and coordinate through a team lead.

HtmlGraph's orchestration system solves a different problem. It's not about agents talking to each other; it's about dispatching the right agent for each task at the right cost, tracking what each one produces, and merging the results with quality gates.

Introducing HtmlGraph: Local-First Observability for AI-Assisted Development

My background is data analysis, not software engineering. At Sunnova and SunStrong, I wrote Python scripts and built ETL pipelines because the work required it, not because I set out to be a developer. But I've never been able to leave tools alone. If something doesn't work the way I think it should, I want to change it.

AI coding tools made that possible in a way it wasn't before. With Claude Code and Codex, a data analyst can build real developer tooling, not just scripts. HtmlGraph is the result of that: a local-first observability and coordination platform for AI-assisted development, built by someone who needed it for his own workflow.

It stores everything as HTML files in your repo (work items, plans, session records), all human-readable, git-diffable, and version-controlled. No Docker, no external databases, no proprietary formats. Just a single Go binary and your git repo.

I had an employment gap due to work authorization issues that gave me several months to go deep on this. What started as curiosity turned into a real project.