subagent-delegation

Use subagent delegation to assign narrow, bounded tasks to subagents while passing only the minimal necessary context. This prevents duplicated effort, conflicting edits, and context bloat, ensuring focused implementation and centralized architectural control.

The best way to pass context for parallel investigation is context minimization: provide subagents with only the essential files and information required for their specific sub-task. This prevents subagent overlap, confusion, and context bloat during runtime triage.

Maintain central architectural control by keeping final architectural judgment and integration within the main agent thread. Delegate focused implementation, test generation, or code review to subagents, then synthesize their outputs centrally to avoid conflicting edits.

Yes, you can use subagent delegation for parallel test generation and code review. Assign test generation for a module to one subagent and code review to another, providing only relevant files, while the main agent oversees the overall architecture.

Delegating tasks to multiple AI agents causes context bloat and duplicated effort when subagents receive unnecessary or overlapping context. Subagent delegation solves this by passing only the minimal necessary context for each bounded sub-task, preventing overlap and confusion.