I use multiple in the first round, but since they are doing RL on the model as the next step and I am doing rewrites of everything other than the model, I generally just standardize it back to pi-agent because that is the easiest to integrate/customize.

For example, one of the things Claude Code does well is subagent creation, whereas on pi, with the pi-subagents plugin, I was wasting tons of tokens on default profiles that are useless and each run the bots finding out that these are useless. So I tuned that by deleting all the standard agent profiles, removing all the docs and tools that were no longer relevant, and just made a clear instruction with a singular path to success in creating a subagent.

It's a lot cheaper to tune the skill file and plugins than it is to finetune a model. Trying to not boil oceans, haha.