Agent-factory: Build Persistent AI Sub-Agent Teams with Claude Code

Agent-factory is a Claude Code plugin that creates persistent sub-agent teams for development projects. It addresses the problem of losing context between Claude sessions and provides multiple specialized perspectives on your work.

How it works

You run /create-agents and it interviews you about your work: what you work on, what takes too long, and what perspectives you're missing. Based on your answers, it proposes a team of 2-5 agents, each with:

A personality with communication style, quirks, and opinions
A specific job (code review, tech debt tracking, daily priorities, strategy)
Persistent memory that accumulates across sessions
Scoped knowledge (each agent only sees docs relevant to their role)
A dispatch doc explaining how to invoke them

The agents are dispatched through Claude Code's existing Agent tool. They're prompt-based identities with file-based memory, requiring no external services, API keys, or Docker.

Example team setup

The creator's actual setup for a small SaaS company includes five agents:

CORTEX – Operations brain that tracks project status across repos, maintains unified to-do lists, and dispatches other agents. Refers to projects by "health" (green/yellow/red) and calls stale projects "cold cases."
DIAL-UP – Personal assistant that checks energy level first, then checks email, reads project status, and builds daily priority lists. Quick wins are "pings," deep work is "downloads."
SIGNAL – Strategist who evaluates what to build, ship, or kill. Calls busywork "static" and drops "ship it or kill it" decisions.
GAUGE – Tech debt tracker who audits repos for outdated deps, failing CI, abandoned branches, and infrastructure drift. Calls abandoned repos "junkers" and clean repos "mint condition."
MEGAPHONE – Hype man who celebrates wins, writes specific praise, and keeps a "greatest hits" list.

Technical implementation

Agent-factory scaffolds this directory structure:

agents/
├── team.json # Team manifest
├── cortex/
│   ├── prompt.md # The agent's brain
│   ├── dispatch.md # How to invoke
│   ├── contract.md # What it reads, what it produces
│   ├── references/ # Scoped project docs
│   └── memory/ # Persistent across sessions
├── dial-up/
│   └── [same structure]
└── shared/ # Where agents write output

It also updates your CLAUDE.md so the main Claude thread knows what agents exist and how to dispatch them.

Available commands

/create-agents – Full interview and scaffolding flow
/add-agent – Add a new team member to an existing team
/upgrade-agent – Add MCP server access, cron scheduling, or promote an agent to work across all projects
/hire-agent – Grab an agent from another repo

The persistent memory system means agents remember project details, preferences, and patterns across sessions. GAUGE remembers which repos had debt last week, DIAL-UP remembers that you do better with short tasks on Mondays, and SIGNAL remembers strategic decisions already made.

📖 Read the full source: r/ClaudeAI