Building an Agentic Team for an Open Source Project with Claude Code

A core engineer on MemMachine — the one who owned the Semantic Memory subsystem — left the project. The codebase didn&rsquo;t grow any less complex overnight, but the human attention available to maintain it did. That&rsquo;s a familiar shape of problem in any open source project, and it&rsquo;s the exact shape where a well-designed Claude Code agent team earns its keep. This post documents what I…