Why a throwaway subagent beats running commands in the main agent's context

SaleemUsama · x · 2026-09-16

Follow-up explaining the motivation: letting the main agent run debug commands would chew through its context window. Instead, spawn a subagent to do the work, let it die, and repeat as needed.

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