Using Jev to prune multi-branch Opus 5.5 agents
A workflow that runs five Opus agents in parallel on a hard bug and uses Jev to score each branch and kill weak ones early, costing about the same as running two.
i honestly don't get why nobody is running jev + opus 5.5 agents like this yet. in my workflow, i run 5 opus agents on every hard bug and pay about the same as running 2. → spawn one agent per approach instead of betting on one → score every branch at each checkpoint → kill the losing branches before they burn more tokens → make the winner pass the full test suite before it merges opus handles the hard reasoning. jev decides which branches are worth paying for. i explain how to build the pruning layer in the article below:
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