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October 5th 2025

Context Management with Subagents in Claude Code

If you're using agentic AI today, there's a good chance you're using Claude Code; and if you're using Claude Code, there's a good chance you've heard of, or maybe even used, subagents. If you're like me though, when you first heard of subagents you may have been confused about how they differ from the custom slash commands you may already be using, or if they're meant for something entirely different, like managing concurrent workloads. So let's talk a bit about what they are and what problem they are solving.