Building an AI Agent with Subagents and Skills

Every time you ask AI for help, it agrees. Fast, confident, and it never tells you your plan has holes. That's the problem Arete is built to fix.Jesus built a brainstorm agent on Claude Code skills that guides you through five phases -- Ground, Explore, Decide, Stress, Ship -- before you commit to anything. The output is an architectural decision record and an implementation plan you actually own.In this episode he demos it live, shows how parallel subagents work without polluting your main context, and answers the honest questions: tokens burned, vendor lock-in, debugging subagents, and whether this works with a team.Resources:- Install Arete: https://github.com/jesgarram/arete- Demo code: https://github.com/datamindedbe/demo-technology-exploration---Creators & Guests Jonny Daenen - Host Jesús García Ramírez - Guest Click here to watch a video of this episode. Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_da7qdfL80rA7byzC_CmyrfJWjcCTnb(00:00) - Intro & meeting Arete (01:38) - The 5-step brainstorm workflow (04:05) - Meta: This video was made with an AI skill (06:02) - The demo: ground, explore, decide, stress, ship (14:56) - Example results: ADR and Plan (17:23) - Subagents and context engineering (21:12) - Demo: the Researcher Agent (22:48) - Practical concerns: vendor, files, big projects (25:30) - How many tokens does it burn? (26:51) - Control, agents vs skills, multi-human (29:44) - How to install Arete (30:44) - Wrap-up ---Data & AI: Technology Explorations is a biweekly show from Dataminded. Each episode a Dataminded engineer demos a tool or technique worth knowing about -- working code, honest takes, no hype.Music by Aleksandr Karabanov from Pixabay