# How Maggie Appleton actually uses coding agents

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**If you take one thing:** `maggie-design`, her design taste, as a skill. she says design, not build time, is always her bottleneck, so she wrote her own design philosophy down for the agent.

- **Agent:** Claude Code (web) ([source, 2026-01-23](https://maggieappleton.com/gastown))
- **Agent:** Codex ([source, 2026-09-27](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/maggieappleton.com-V3/pull/304))
- **Agent:** OpenCode ([source, 2026-01-23](https://maggieappleton.com/gastown))
- **Model:** Claude Opus 5 ([source, 2026-09-02](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/elves/commit/1c7a3906b1c8cd1b71827441628adff3129e2c12))
- **Model:** Claude Sonnet 4.6 ([source, 2026-04-25](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/maggieappleton.com-V3/blob/ca41b010e1910fb753529f0ec4f9be2e4089b576/.github/workflows/planner.md#L13-L15))
- **Review:** Watches the diffs, checks code in an IDE ([source, 2026-01-23](https://maggieappleton.com/gastown))
- **Harness:** Superpowers: spec, plan, subagent-driven development ([source, 2026-08-30](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/elves/blob/8573ed05224e298270d35c08c20b09f25853c67a/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-30-annotation-thread-reply-composer.md#L3))
- **Rules file:** AGENTS.md (60 lines) in her garden repo ([source, 2026-09-26](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/maggieappleton.com-V3/blob/d20e3ce31227f700ed52bc0810b1d072f4c80d1e/AGENTS.md#L25))
- **Skills:** 12-principles-of-animation, baseline-ui, brainstorming, design-lab, design-with-taste, feature-kickoff, find-skills, fixing-accessibility, fixing-motion-performance, frontend-design, grill-me, interaction-design, interface-craft, maggie-design, pr-hygiene ([source, 2026-09-26](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/maggieappleton.com-V3/tree/ca41b010e1910fb753529f0ec4f9be2e4089b576/.claude/skills))
- **MCP servers:** elves ([source, 2026-07-01](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/elves/blob/49d153817304e6b22a6e72167f809440133444f4/.mcp.json#L3))

## In their words

> I currently juggle a handful of consecutive Claude Code and OpenCode agents, but pay close attention to the diffs and regularly check code in an IDE.

> Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/maggie/writing-assist' into codex/writing-assist-reverse-outline

> I currently juggle a handful of consecutive Claude Code and OpenCode agents, but pay close attention to the diffs and regularly check code in an IDE.

> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

> model: claude-sonnet-4-6


Archetype (our label): Purist. Newest source: 2026-09-27.
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