STATUS.md: a shared file for multi-agent work
When I work on a bigger task – a new feature, a Terraform change, a small PoC – I usually run it across multiple agents at once. Claude Code in one window for the code, a Cowork session in another for planning and content, sometimes Desktop Claude in a third. The split works well until I switch between them and have to type some flavour of “where are we?” so the agent can guess. Each one has its own TODO list. None of them can see the others’. And so I end up as the human message bus, with the context windows filling up with status updates instead of actual work. ...