Subagents: Parallel Processing Power

Append "use subagents" to any request where you want Claude to throw more compute at the problem. Offload individual tasks to subagents to keep your main agent's context window clean and focused. — Claude Code team tips

Activation

When user says "use subagents" or /subagents [task]:

When to Use Subagents

Good Candidates for Subagents

• Exploration tasks: "Find all usages of X across the codebase"
• Parallel analysis: "Check each module for security issues"
• Independent implementation: "Implement these 5 API endpoints"
• Research: "Understand how the auth system works"
• Verification: "Test this change against all edge cases"