baton open-sourced: multi-coding-agent rotation scheduling
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cahian has open-sourced baton, a scheduling tool that rotates the same long-horizon coding goal among Codex, Antigravity and optionally Claude Code: each agent is stopped before hitting its limit, and when all are unavailable, it waits until the earliest reset time to continue. baton can run on Codex and Antigravity alone; Claude is an optional third party, billed by usage, and is only added to the queue after its API key is saved. According to the tool's documentation, a single agent's round ends when it spends $50 or reaches 5 hours, whichever comes first; after a cumulative $150 is spent on the same goal, that agent exits that goal, and the monthly cap is higher than the above amounts. Superpowers is mandatory, with no setting to turn it off; on Linux you need to skip install-service and keep baton serve running in the terminal.
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- Hacker News AIBaton – Keep long coding goals moving across AI coding agents
Baton is a tool that keeps a single long coding goal running for days by rotating it between coding agents, ending each agent's turn at 5 hours or USD 50 and excluding Claude from a goal after USD 150 spent. It works with Codex and Antigravity alone, with Claude as an optional pay-per-use third agent that joins only once an API key is saved, and it finishes a goal only when a verification command exits 0. Each goal cycles through plan, build and review phases, with context passed between agents via the repository, commits and a handoff file, and Superpowers is required for every round.
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