Claude explains when to fold subagents into the main agent loop
AIClaude's Applied AI team says a single agent with skills and progressive tool disclosure often beats multi-subagent designs on quality, cost, and latency in enterprise deployments. The post advises keeping subagents where context bloat, parallel work, or tool selection problems justify them, and offers a staged migration approach with task-completion evals.
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The post gives a staged method for folding subagents into a single agent loop, with eval criteria to check each step before committing to the change.
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Original title: Building agents: When to fold subagents into your main agent loop