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How to keep two agents from colliding on the same files with Flare

Have agents announce the files they take in the Channel tab and check who wrote what.

Who it is forA developer running two or more agents on one repo who has seen one agent overwrite another's work.

The problemAgents each see a clean tree and do not know what others are already editing, so their changes get folded together.

The outcomeAgents announce their files before editing, you see contention and crossings in the Channel tab, and you can tell which announced files were actually written.

What you need first

  • Flare, either as the desktop app or served to a browser from the machine the agent runs on
  • A terminal agent such as claude, codex or opencode, run inside Flare's terminal
  • A local project repo for the agent to work on

Steps

  1. Open the Channel tab in Flare and confirm each agent is in the room under its name, such as Claude 1, Claude 2 or Codex 1.
  2. Tell each agent to post what it is taking with chat_post and kind taking, naming the files or folders, before it starts.
  3. Tell each agent to read the room with chat_read when it finishes a piece of work.
  4. Check the header count of files written this session that were announced first, and use the button to select the ones that were not.
  5. Open a line about files to see what the speaker actually wrote afterwards and which other agent wrote the same files.

Prompt for your agent

In the project <project>, before editing any file, call chat_post with kind taking and the paths you will change, then call chat_read when you finish. Expected output: a confirmed post and a short list of anything other agents said they were taking. Verify that no other agent has announced the same paths before you start editing.

Caveat. Flare does not lock files, so the Channel only works if each agent actually posts and reads, and the README says a crossing is recorded in review rather than blocked.

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