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How to set up an agent team for free?

A Hugging Face forum user asked how to set up an agent team without a Claude subscription, and a responder explained that API-based or local models can be used with a coordinator prompt, worker prompts, and a shared state file to achieve similar functionality.

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How to set up an agent team for free?
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LKtts 1 Hey everyone, I’m just getting started with agent teams. From what I’ve researched, people usually use Claude, but I don’t have a subscription. I wanted to know if there’s any other way I can use agent teams, like using APIs and similar tools.

For example, if I run an open claude via APIs, can I still get this agent team functionality? You can do this without a Claude subscription if you use API-based or local models. The simplest version is: one coordinator prompt, two or three worker prompts, and a shared state file/database that all agents read/write. The model matters less at first than the coordination loop: task assignment, result summary, conflict handling, and stopping conditions.

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