I'm kind of in the same boat and it's been pestering me for months. Every agent is simply a less capable Claude Code.

If it had a lossless, massive context window (100m-1b tokens), then it will squash everything. Give it bash + r/w and it can in theory /goal anything.

I think there's something to be gained in a production environment be siloing agents for reproducebility/auditability, but I suspect that will go away in the future.

There's that video of a silly demo someone made of an OS that was just nested copilot instances that generated the HTML of each window, which allowed you to do whatever you could imagine. It was seen as silly because it was, but that seems truly transformative.

This one is open source, and potentially better, since it responds to (file system) events instead of polling.

i think the point is less about what agent you should or should not do and more about what is the natural harness for an agent to succeed in. And agents are often autonomously doing things right now, why would you want claude code doing such stuff for you?