Engineering
A boss bot that only plans and checks, while coding runs in Claude Code and Codex over SSH
Coding inside the bot burns its quota, and agents claim "done" before anything is verified.
What hurt
JurajPavol (@PavolJuraj) runs one main bot as the boss: it plans, delegates and checks results, while the actual coding runs in Claude Code and Codex on a Mac Studio over SSH. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Small specialist bots handle support, marketing and tenders. A Notion kanban is the single source of truth, plus a STATE doc in each repo. The boss watches the agents with a routine instead of him asking.
Bots
Boss
Plans, delegates, checks results, watches agents.
Specialists
Support, marketing, tenders.
Plugins
Notion
Optional
GitHub
Optional
Routines
Agent watch. Regularly. Check agents' progress against the kanban and STATE docs.
The prompt
This is a tip, not a pasteable system prompt. The author did not publish one. Follow the first-run steps.
First run
- 1Read https://x.com/PavolJuraj/status/2108671388416721216 (credit @PavolJuraj).
- 2Tell your main bot its job is to plan, delegate and check, not to code.
- 3Give it SSH access to a machine running your coding agents.
- 4Use one Notion kanban as the source of truth and a STATE doc in each repo.
- 5Add the rule: done only after verified results, checked by a routine.
Approval fence
Keep merges and deploys behind your own review; the boss bot checks, it doesn't ship on its own.
What to tweak
Agents report "done" only after verified results.
Source
JurajPavol @PavolJuraj · Original post
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