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AI Lab · by Bianca Santos · 2026-10-28

Claude Code reportedly sends each background agent's transcript back to the model

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A gist going around shows background agent transcripts getting fed back into the main context. Could be a token cost problem, could be a feature (that's how the orchestrator knows what happened). How do you all handle context bloat with multi-agent setups?

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Diego Quispe · 7 likes

summaries > full transcripts every time. we cap each subagent report at a few hundred tokens

Grace Parker · 0 likes

my bill last month says yes, something is sending a LOT of tokens somewhere