Both... even subagents inheriting the context window doesn't cost a huge amount if the context window was never that large, but yes orchestrating/conducting/managing multiple agents is even better though higher thought cost (but the newer claude agents are really good at this in my experience, part of why I am using Claude a lot lately despite the models being more expensive that ChatGPT's for the same performance when taken alone).
Whenever I see my main agent do a compaction, that to me is a clear sign I didn't have it delegate bounded tasks enough.
Still, I see no evidence Codex or Claude Code inherit full context of the main agent in subagents, I've always seen them be prompted, but this is something high priority on my list of unknowns to understand better...
Whenever I see my main agent do a compaction, that to me is a clear sign I didn't have it delegate bounded tasks enough.
Still, I see no evidence Codex or Claude Code inherit full context of the main agent in subagents, I've always seen them be prompted, but this is something high priority on my list of unknowns to understand better...