Efficient Frontier

Use the expensive frontier model where its marginal judgment matters. Push repeatable, bounded, or token-heavy work to cheaper/faster subagents.

Workflow

1. Identify the frontier-only decisions: architecture, prioritization, ambiguity resolution, risk, synthesis, and final review.
2. Identify delegable work: research scans, repository inventory, search, docs extraction, browser/testing passes, log reduction, test failure clustering, narrow coding, and mechanical edits.
3. Spawn parallel subagents for independent slices with clear ownership, bounded scope, verification gates, and expected evidence.
4. Require compact returns: findings, changed files, commands run, residual risk, stop conditions hit, and anything the frontier model must decide.
5. Integrate and review centrally before presenting the result.

Handoff Packets