Most multi-agent demos are impressive for five minutes and useless for five hours. After months of building Task Hounds — an open-source, local multi-agent development workspace — here are the design decisions that actually mattered.
The setup
Task Hounds runs three agents in a loop around one project:
A Manager that understands context, maintains the plan, and assigns exactly one concrete task per cycle
A Worker that implements the task and files a structured report: files changed, test results, known issues
