{"slug": "how-to-set-up-an-agent-team-for-free", "title": "How to set up an agent team for free?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "[LKtts](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/LKtts)\n1\nHey 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.\n\nFor example, if I run an open claude via APIs, can I still get this agent team functionality?\n\nYou 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.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-set-up-an-agent-team-for-free", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-set-up-an-agent-team-for-free/178881#post_4", "published_at": "2026-08-20 13:41:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 13:45:12.747405+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hugging Face", "Claude"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-set-up-an-agent-team-for-free", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-set-up-an-agent-team-for-free.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-set-up-an-agent-team-for-free.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-to-set-up-an-agent-team-for-free.jsonld"}}