Run your first agent team
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Run an implementer, a reviewer and a test session in one Code Overlord workspace.
Before you start
Open a workspace containing your repository. Install and sign in to the coding agents you want to use. Claude Code and Codex are examples; you can repeat this with other supported agents. Their normal subscription limits apply.
Launch the team
- Open Command (Action mode) and click Summon.
- Choose Local, then pick a base agent under Grunts. Confirm the repository directory when prompted.
- Give this agent a bounded implementation task: the behaviour to change, files it owns and the checks to run.
- Open Summon again and launch your reviewer. Give it read-only review instructions until the implementation is ready.
- Launch Bash Terminal for your test command, or use a saved workspace task under Quests.
- Use the sidebar to choose an agent group and the tabs to select an individual session. Launching another instance does not replace the first.
Example instructions
For the implementer:
Fix the empty-state layout on the settings page. Own the settings component and its tests. Explain the change and run the relevant checks. Leave the changes ready for review.
For the reviewer:
Review the settings-page changes once the implementation is ready. Read the diff and tests. Report concrete bugs with file references; keep this pass read-only.
When multiple agents write into one checkout, assign distinct ownership. For competing implementations, follow Isolate parallel tasks.
Work across repositories
Create or open a .code-workspace file whose folders list contains the related repositories. Launch an agent in the appropriate folder and identify every repository relevant to the task. Use a parent working directory only when it is appropriate for the intended scope; opening several repositories does not automatically tell an agent what it should change.
Check the result
You should have separate sessions with their own output. Ask each to identify its working directory before edits, then ask the agent to show git status --short and the diff in that terminal. Verify that the changed files belong to the intended repository.