AIXDAabout 2 hours ago
Claude Code subagents: three hidden costs
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Claude Code subagents run in separate context windows, keeping the main session clean but hiding their reasoning. They cannot see the main chat history, so tasks depending on earlier context can fail. Multi-agent workflows use four to seven times more tokens than single-agent sessions, burning usage limits faster.
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