I built Claude sub-agents that keep my context clean
github.com
github.com
I've been thinking about the actual use-case for sub agents and how they could solve problems I run into doing day-to-day dev. I have 6 use cases but built three of them so far and have some good results testing so far.
When Claude searches my codebase or analyzes a big git diff, my context window fills up with thousands of tokens of crap that the master instance almost never needs. After a couple of these operations, I'm basically starting over because there's no room left for actual work.
I built specialized sub-agents that run in their own contexts and return condensed summaries instead of dumping everything into my main conversation.
house-research: Searches codebases/docs and returns condensed findings with file:line references instead of dumping full file contents into your context. house-git: Analyzes diffs and commits, returns impact summaries grouped by severity instead of raw git output.
house-bash: Runs commands and parses output for key info (pass/fail counts, relevant errors) instead of flooding your context with full logs.
Three I haven't done yet: house-mcp (mcp), house-vision(screenshots), house-data(data queries)
Results: 90-95% token reduction on heavy operations. My master instance stays focused on implementation instead of getting clogged with search results and logs.
What operations eat your context that I should build agents for?
One time install with CC: Clone https://github.com/houseworthe/house-agents. Detect my OS and copy the .claude directory to my current project. Verify all three agent files exist in .claude/agents/ directory. List available sub-agents to confirm they load. Test house-research by finding TODO comments.
Subagents using MCP would solve quite a lot of the context preparation required for a successful session. I'm using GLM-4.6 vision/web search MCP in claude code to relative success as the subagents can access these via API (not true MCP behaviour but close enough)