SUBAGENTS · MEMORY · Claude Code OS

A subagent is a parallel Claude with its own scope. It does the search (grep, read, web fetch) and comes back with a short report. Your main context does not get clogged with tool results.

Typical cases: exploring a big folder, reading a huge PR, doing code review as an independent second opinion.

Brief it like a colleague who just walked into the room. No assumptions.

In practice

// Via SDK / API:
Agent({
  subagent_type: "Explore",
  description: "Find auth callers",
  prompt: "Find every file importing useAuth or getAuthUser. List path:line. Under 100 words."
})

// In the CLI: > use the Explore agent to map who calls useAuth

Related practices

BACKGROUND TASKS · Long task, push it to the background.
EXACT FILES · Point at the file, do not describe it.

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