Subagents Are for Context Control, Not Delegation Theater
Use Claude Code subagents to isolate high-volume side work and keep the main session focused on the decision-making path.
The reframe: subagents buy you a cleaner working memory. When a coding task goes off the rails, it is often because the main thread becomes a storage bin for information it no longer needs. Search results, log excerpts, and speculative branches keep accumulating until the important question gets buried. Subagents fix this by moving noisy work into a separate context that can be summarized back. Good subagent jobs are high-volume and low-retention Repository exploration, log triage, dependency scanning, policy lookup, and broad documentation review are classic examples. The main thread rarely needs to remember the entire trail. It needs the…
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