Subagents as browser tabs: the mental model for isolated Claude Code context
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-10-25
A widely shared mental model for subagents: a subagent is an isolated Claude instance with its own context window that takes a task, does the work, and returns only the result — think of subagents as the browser tabs of a Claude Code session, a place to chase a tangent without losing the main thread.
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