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?
the failure mode that kills claude code on long tasks is silent context drift. confidence stays high while references to what we agreed 20 messages ago start disappearing. does stagent detect that, or lean on explicit checkpointing? curious if you found a signal that fires before the model thinks it's still on track. congrats on the launch and good luck :)
I like the idea of separating responsibilities across different agents instead of relying on a single agent for the entire workflow . One thing I’m curious about — if the agents share similar context and reasoning patterns, how do you prevent them from effectively behaving like the same agent in different stages?
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.
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