24 Simultaneous Claude Code agents on local hardware

The previous documented record for simultaneous Claude Code agents is 16, set by Anthropic's own engineering team building a C compiler.

Tonight I ran 24. What made this possible: I built a Tokio-native LLM orchestration pipeline in Rust that routes inference through a local Mistral 7B model running on an RTX 4070. The agents coordinate through governance docs (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md) that define module ownership and test ratios, they don't communicate directly, they communicate through the codebase.

The recursive part: the orchestrator was built using the same multi-agent workflow it enables. The MCP server that lets Claude call the pipeline natively.

Technical details:

683 tests, 0 failures 1.53:1 test-to-production ratio enforced by pre-commit hooks

9-stage deduplication pipeline with circuit breakers

Sub-millisecond pipeline overhead (inference dominates at 3.6s on Mistral 7B)

Repo: github.com/Mattbusel/tokio-prompt-orchestrator