Subagents: Delegating to Specialists

A subagent is a focused worker the main agent can hand a job to. It runs in its own context window with its own instructions, does the task, and reports back a summary. The big win is that all the noisy intermediate work stays out of your main session.

Why isolate the work

Say you need a wide search across the codebase. Doing it inline floods your main window with file dumps you will never look at again. A search subagent reads all of that in its own context and hands back only the conclusion. Your main thread stays clean and sharp.

Good candidates for a subagent

• Broad searches where you only need the answer, not the files.
• Repetitive, well-defined jobs like writing tests for a module.
• Reviews, where a fresh perspective helps.
• Anything you would run in parallel with other work.