Navigating Claude Code: Subagents Done Right
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Subagents in Claude Code let the main agent spawn isolated Claude instances that do expensive work — file traversal, codebase analysis, large diffs — in their own context windows, returning only a summary. This keeps verbose intermediate work out of your main session. The article covers built-in subagents, how to write custom ones with YAML frontmatter, model selection, tool restrictions, and patterns like parallel research and chaining.
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