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Part Two: The Agentic Workflow

Build production software at unprecedented speed with AI agent swarms orchestrating every phase of development.

The Complete Development Lifecycle

A full development lifecycle encompassing ideation, planning, task breakdown, implementation, review, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. The workflows are highly iterative, with agents communicating via an "email-like" system, managing tasks through a dependency-aware graph, and forming a self-reinforcing ecosystem where agents improve each other's outputs.

Best-of-all-worlds planning
Beads task graph (DAG)
Multi-agent swarm
Agent Mail coordination
SLB safety protocols
Continuous iteration

Investment: VPS ($40-56/mo, month-to-month) + Claude Max ($200/mo × 1-5) + ChatGPT Pro ($200/mo × 1-5) + Gemini Advanced ($20/mo). Scale your swarm as you see ROI; start with 1 subscription of each and grow!

Ecosystem

The Self-Reinforcing Flywheel

Each tool enhances the others. Agents spawn → coordinate → prioritize → check safety → scan bugs → remember → search → back to agents.

NTMSpawns agents
MailCoordinates
BeadsPrioritizes
SLBSafety
UBSBug scan
CMRemembers
CASSSearches
CAAMAuth switch
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Ideation Phase

This phase starts with a human-generated idea and quickly escalates to agent-assisted refinement. The goal is to produce a comprehensive, self-contained plan document before any code is written. As Jeffrey Emanuel says: "It's a lot easier and faster to operate in 'plan space' before we start implementing."

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Start with Your Primary AI

Open ChatGPT 5.2 Pro and describe your project in detail. Be thorough about what you want to build, user experience, and technical requirements. Ask it to create a comprehensive implementation plan.

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Get Competing Plans

Give the same prompt to Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 with Deep Think. Each model produces different insights: GPT-5.2 excels at system design, Claude Opus 4.5 at code quality, Gemini 3 at creative features.

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Synthesize the Best of All Worlds

Paste all competing plans back into your primary AI with this magic prompt:

prompt
I asked 3 competing LLMs to do the exact same thing and they came up with pretty different plans which you can read below. I want you to REALLY carefully analyze their plans with an open mind and be intellectually honest about what they did that's better than your plan. Then I want you to come up with the best possible revisions to your plan (you should simply update your existing document for your original plan with the revisions) that artfully and skillfully blends the "best of all worlds" to create a true, ultimate, superior hybrid version of the plan that best achieves our stated goals and will work the best in real-world practice to solve the problems we are facing and our overarching goals while ensuring the extreme success of the enterprise as best as possible; you should provide me with a complete series of git-diff style changes to your original plan to turn it into the new, enhanced, much longer and detailed plan that integrates the best of all the plans with every good idea included (you don't need to mention which ideas came from which models in the final revised enhanced plan):

Pro tip: Do multiple passes. "I had it carefully go over everything an additional two passes and it found some small oversights in each pass."

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Generate Brilliant Ideas

For maximum creativity, use this prompt to generate innovative features:

prompt
OK so now I want you to come up with your top 10 most brilliant ideas for adding extremely powerful and cool functionality that will make this system far more compelling, useful, intuitive, versatile, powerful, robust, reliable, etc for the users. Use ultrathink. But be pragmatic and don't think of features that will be extremely hard to implement or which aren't necessarily worth the additional complexity burden they would introduce. But I don't want you to just think of 10 ideas: I want you to seriously think hard and come up with one HUNDRED ideas and then only tell me your 10 VERY BEST and most brilliant, clever, and radically innovative and powerful ideas.

Repeat this 3+ times to generate even more ideas. The best ones compound.

Summary: The Complete Workflow

  1. 1Plan with 3 AI models: ChatGPT 5.2 Pro, Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 → synthesize best ideas
  2. 2Generate feature ideas: Use the "100 ideas, show me 10" technique
  3. 3Create beads: Transform plan into granular, self-documenting tasks
  4. 4Review beads: Iterate in "plan space" before implementing
  5. 5Launch agent swarm: Multiple agents working in parallel via Agent Mail
  6. 6Review & test: Fresh reviews, peer reviews, UBS bug scanning, full tests
  7. 7Ship: Deploy to Vercel, iterate daily with autopilot prompts!

You now have everything you need to build at 10x speed.