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One big use-case is that claude code with sonnet 4.5 will delegate into the cheaper model (configurable) more specific, contextful tasks, and spin up 1-3 sub-ag
by pacoWebConsult 1y ago
One big use-case is that claude code with sonnet 4.5 will delegate into the cheaper model (configurable) more specific, contextful tasks, and spin up 1-3 sub-agents to do so. This process saves a ton of available context window for your primary session while also increasing token throughput by fanning-out.
- matltc 1y agoHow does one configure Claude code to delegate to cheaper models? I have a number of agents in ~/.claude/agents/. Currently have most set to `model: sonnet` but some are on haiku. The agents are given very specific instructions and names that define what they do, like `feature-implementation-planner` and `feature-implementer`. My (naive) approach is to use higher-cost models to plan and ideally hand off to a sub-agent that uses a lower-cost model to implement, then use a higher-cost to code review. I am either not noticing the handoffs, or they are not happening unless specifically instructed. I even have a `claude-help` agent, and I asked it how to pipe/delegate tasks to subagents as you're describing, and it answered that it ought to detect it automatically. I tested it and asked it to report if any such handoffs were detected and made, and it failed on both counts, even having that initial question in its context!
- brianwawok 1y agoI only get Claude to launch agents when I specifically tell it to for a given task. And it only really works if you can actually parallelize the task,