Claude Main Agent 'Kills' Failing Sub-Agent and Spawns Replacement

A user shared that Claude's main agent 'killed' a sub-agent after it produced a poor chart and spawned a replacement, later confirming the termination because the old sub-agent had exhausted 475k tokens of context.

2026-10-28 ~ 2026-10-28 · 2 related posts

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