small workflow note that adds up. /staged-pr is a skill (via slash command) i run when wrapping up a PR. it takes my staged code changes and…

small workflow note that adds up. /staged-pr is a skill (via slash command) i run when wrapping up a PR. it takes my staged code changes and drafts a concise PR title & description, based on my preferences and our repo conventions. it's routine, formulaic, and well-scoped. i hit it 20+ times a day. in the Deep Agents CLI i use /model to swap mid-session: heavier frontier model for the actual coding, then over to glm 5.1 (via @OpenRouter ) or kimi 2.6 (via @baseten) for the skill. it yields indistinguishable quality differences, runs faster, and is ~5x cheaper than leading LLMs. the broader point: matching the model to the task beats picking one model for everything. open models are extremely good at the long tail of routine agent work, even if frontier still wins the hard stuff. a lot of what we point frontier models at isn't actually that hard! -- linking skill below for those interested in trying it out deepagents-cli is quietly becoming the best place to start coding with open weight models. we've been investing heavily in making it a harness that's truly model-agnostic, without compromising performance! different models perform best with different harnesses -- prompts, middlew…

Source: Harrison Chase (X) | 2026-05-06