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SUBAGENTS: WHEN AND HOW TO USE THEM

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Subagents are specialist agents that your main AI agent can spawn to handle focused tasks in their own clean context, keeping your main conversation readable instead of cluttered with noise. The two useful patterns are chaining them sequentially (like scout files → implement → verify) or running them in parallel for exploration.