Building an AI Agent with Subagents and Skills

Video episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KExht8wZ2NgEvery time you ask your AI for help, it agrees. It generates ideas fast, sounds confident, and never tells you your plan has holes. That's the problem.Arete is a brainstorm agent built on Claude Code skills that does the opposite. It guides you through five phases — Ground, Explore, Decide, Stress, Ship — to challenge your thinking before you commit to a solution. The result: architectural decision records and implementation plans you actually own.In this episode, Jesus demos Arete live in Claude Code, brainstorming improvements to a real skill. You'll also see how he used Arete + a Remotion skill to generate a showcase video — with zero video editing knowledge. Then: how it spawns parallel research subagents, how the Stress phase pokes holes in your design, what a real ADR output looks like, and a packed Q&A covering tokens, vendor lock-in, debugging subagents, file organization, and how to install it in Claude Code (and other tools).Install Arete: https://github.com/jesgarram/arete