Teknium: inheriting context in subagents can 2-4x your agent cost
Teknium · x · 2026-11-07
Teknium (NousResearch) notes that if subagents are not started from a nearly fresh context, costs balloon 2-4x. The exchange grew out of a community question about whether this pattern should be applied to the Hermes agent.
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