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Spawning a bunch of agents seems to happen randomly. I almost never want this.

• kadoban 3mo ago
  I think there's some setting to restrict the number of them, or maybe turn them off. Doesn't happen for me ~ever and it's not my $$ (work) so I haven't really looked at it much.
• alansaber 3mo ago
  Such is the nature of tool use
• mcv 3mo ago
  In my CLAUDE.md I put: > CRITICAL: Do NOT spawn sub-agents for any reason. Perform all work in the main session. If a task is too large, ask me to break it down manually. > This is a big task, and can easily get too large. However, sub-agents make the situation worse, and eat through our token budget way too fast. Do not use them. > Take on manageable tasks. Don't try to do everything at once. When you start on a big task, break it down into smaller tasks, and make sure you finish each task before starting on the next one. Or actually Claude put it there for me. Maybe it's a bit much, but it seems to work.
  • nomel 3mo ago
    If there's some "find the file" task, using full context for that isn't ideal.