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Subagents with minimal startup context

“Two 26-agent workflows in one session cost about 3.2M tokens for one usable result, almost all of it spawn context.”

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Start subagents with minimal inherited startup context. Default subagents inherit the parent's system prompt, all MCP connector schemas, skills listing, CLAUDE.md and hook output, inflating first-request tokens.

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Versions
2.1.280
Platforms
Windows

Part of: Cut per-request context overhead3 requests

  1. Exclude unused tool schemas8 people
  2. Chain tool steps without round trips4 people

Original reports2, newest first

  1. Default subagents spawn with ~60k tokens of inherited context; workflow subagents receive the user's latest chat line as their governing instruction#97076
  2. Minimize the smallest subagent: per-agent opt-outs for every startup context block#96405

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