Hey everyone, I’ve been working on strategies to spawn subagents more efficiently. Here is one of my use cases. I usually create an implementation plan and ask the main agent to spawn customized subagents to work through the detailed releases in that plan. Each release is executed in rounds. Each…

The failure mode I keep seeing with explicit subagents is not just context loss, it is missing lifecycle proof. Once a child is spawned, the parent needs a small receipt for requested role, resolved model or tools, task boundary, spend or time budget, and why the child stopped. Otherwise teams eithe…

I agree, this is a pain point that needs to be managed on top of Codex because subagents can currently get lost. We recently had a topic about this where it was not even clear whether we were looking at a bug or something else entirely: [image] Sub Agent Limit Bug - codex p…

Task-Topology–Aware Agent Orchestration I made a little paper about how to 1. burn token more efficiently and 2. keep track of what is done and what not even when agents fail… you can even stop and start a new session and just tell the new turn to check where t…

Or in short - treat the agents as what they are: stupid little junior devs who master leet code stuff without experience rafa3 I had bad experiences with those tests… at some point the agents started running matrix tests for modules and permission on every task which resulted in massive loss of spe…

I’d separate exploratory subagents from release-boundary subagents. During exploration, I agree not every child needs a full matrix run; that can turn orchestration into ceremony. But before anything touches a shared branch, production surface, or customer-visible state, the orchestrator should req…

How are you managing the use of explicitly spawned subagents?

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How are you managing the use of explicitly spawned subagents?

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