Claude Code Skill Delegates Sub-agents to Cheaper Models, Cutting Usage 28%
NoScene7932 · reddit · 2026-10-17
A Reddit user shares a tested setup for stretching Claude Code subscriptions: keep Opus as orchestrator and use a custom skill that picks the model for each sub-agent before spawning it, judging by verifiability, required judgment, and the cost of a wrong answer. In a 15-run A/B test, Opus assigned inventory/config tasks to Haiku, bug fixes to Sonnet, and kept only tricky edge-case work for itself — yielding 28% lower usage/API-equivalent cost including the orchestrator overhead. The skill is free to try, no Edge account required.
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