Has anyone experimented with using frontier models (online) for the main task (mostly planning/coordinating), but with sub-agents on local models doing the execution?
I am mostly interested in this sort of setup for coding tasks, and ideally would want to continue to use Cursor as my front end (though its not an absolute requirement).
It's possible to do it semi-manually by asking a high-end model to create a detailed plan, and then have a different model execute the steps, but it's a bit klunky. I was wondering if it's possible to (at least semi) automate this orchestration (possibly with Cursor sub-agents)
Typically (on a moderately sizable codebase - say 75K lines or so) I would want to use a solid frontier model (e.g. - Opus or GPT 5.x, or at least Composer 2) for the overall orchestration but have it delegate to local a model (say Qwen 3.6 35B) for focused pieces of implementation or testing