Drive Claude Code through long tasks it would otherwise drop
Claude Code is great at starting long tasks — bad at finishing. It self-approves, patches symptoms, fakes TDD, stops at "code written." Stagent drives Claude Code through any state machine you define (e.g. plan → verify → review → ship). Different agents per stage - it can't self-approve or bail halfway. Describe your own workflow in plain English with /stagent:create, or fork one from the cookbook: stagent.worldstatelabs.com/cookbook Plus: live viewer, cross-machine resume.
Hey PH — I'm Jie, maker of stagent.
I've spent months trying to drive Claude Code through long
tasks. The model isn't the problem — the loop is. One long
session lets the agent grade its own homework.
Tell it "look at the codebase first" — discipline lasts three
turns, then it's coding from memory.
Tell it "find the root cause" — you get try/except: pass.
Tell it "TDD" — it writes the implementation and leaves the
test as a TODO.
Tell it "audit the repo" — it skims a few random files, lists "race conditions! null checks!", edits two of them, stops.
I built stagent. It runs any workflow you can describe as
a state machine — your stages, your transitions, your gates. Different agents in different stages - it can't self-approve or bail halfway.
Describe what you want in plain English and /stagent:create
scaffolds the whole workflow for you. Or browse the cookbook for inspiration — 14 long-task patterns we kept hitting ourselves: https://stagent.worldstatelabs.c...
Plus: live browser viewer, cross-machine resume.
What's the long task Claude Code keeps half-finishing for you?
About Stagent on Product Hunt
“Drive Claude Code through long tasks it would otherwise drop”
Stagent launched on Product Hunt on May 14th, 2026 and earned 64 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #67 on the daily leaderboard. Claude Code is great at starting long tasks — bad at finishing. It self-approves, patches symptoms, fakes TDD, stops at "code written." Stagent drives Claude Code through any state machine you define (e.g. plan → verify → review → ship). Different agents per stage - it can't self-approve or bail halfway. Describe your own workflow in plain English with /stagent:create, or fork one from the cookbook: stagent.worldstatelabs.com/cookbook Plus: live viewer, cross-machine resume.
On the analytics side, Stagent competes within Productivity, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.3M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Stagent performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Stagent?
Stagent was hunted by Jie. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Stagent including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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