.NET Rocks! Building Software using Squad with Brady Gaster
Mar 19, 2026
Brady Gaster, an engineer and product lead who built Squad to create AI development teams. He talks about spinning up specialist agents to keep context small. He covers coordination, memory and token efficiency. He describes using squads for real apps, repo automation, and evolving tooling like a CLI and SDK.
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Specialist Agents Keep Context Small
- Squad composes specialist agents to keep context small and focused.
- Brady used agents to crawl GitHub, blogs and Reddit, producing hundreds of product-specific markdown instruction files in minutes.
Prototype Grew From A Treadmill Idea
- Brady prototyped multi-agent outputs and was surprised when a coordinator picked relevant products and returned an aggregated answer.
- His quick experiment turned into dozens of markdown files and convinced him to build Squad.
Decompose Tasks Into Narrow Agent Roles
- Avoid letting a single agent handle everything; instead assign narrow roles to reduce hallucination and token use.
- Brady recommends specialist agents with single responsibilities and hot/cold memory to limit context growth.