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> #1: Add a subagent for git that knows your style, so you don't poison direct claude context and spend less tokens/time fighting it.

I've not heard of this for, what does this mean practically? Some kind of invocation in claude? Opening another claude window?

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Oh you're about to unlock a whole new level of token burning. There is an /agents command that lets you define agents for specific tasks or areas. Each of them has their own context and their own rules.

Then claude can delegate the work to them when appropriate, or you can tell it directly to use the subagent, i.e. a subagent for your frontend, backend, specific microservice, database, etc etc.

Quite depends on your workflow which ones you create/need, but they are a really nice quality of life change.

Agents are basically separate "threads" with their own context window.

So the main claude can tell the test-runner agent "Run tests using `task test` and return the results"

Then the test-runner agent runs the tests, "wasters" its context by reading 500 lines of test results, sees that it's ok. Returns "tests ok" to the main context.

This way the main context is spared from the useless chatter and can go on for longer.

You ask claude to use an agent, and it’ll spawn a sub agent that takes a bunch of actions in a new context, then lets the original agent only know a summary of the results.

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