Max out your Claude subscription: Opus orchestrates, cheap models execute tickets
EXM7777 · x · 2026-09-26
A practical tip for stretching your Claude subscription: run subagents in parallel with smart tiering:
- One main chat on Opus 5.5 xhigh acts as the orchestrator
- Plan the session as tickets using Matt Pocock's skills
- Each subagent gets one ticket plus the smallest context it needs
- Complex tickets go to Opus 5.5 medium; everything else to a really cheap model
Crucially, the executing model doesn't have to be Claude — Claude Code can call another harness as a headless worker. The author uses pi․dev with Deepseek V4.1 flash, or Codex with GPT-6 Luna Fast.
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