Spawn Agents

Overview

Delegate independent work to subagents with isolated context. By precisely crafting the agent's prompt, you ensure it stays focused and succeeds. Subagents inherit nothing from your session — you construct exactly what they need. This preserves your own context for coordination.

Core principle: One agent per independent problem. Parallel only when truly independent. Over-dispatching is more common than under-dispatching.

The Decision: Dispatch or Not?

Dispatch when ALL of these hold:

• 2+ problems exist that are genuinely independent
• Each can be understood without context from the others
• Agents won't edit the same files or rely on the same in-flight changes
• You'd otherwise lose tokens to context bloat investigating sequentially yourself