I was using Claude Code Sub-agent wrong... Here's what I le

I was using Claude Code Sub-agent wrong...

Here's what I learnt after 20+ hrs trial & errors

Made my agents way more effective

👇 Thread below

First -

Why did Anthropic build sub-agents initially?

It's all about context engineer & context optimisations

It works best when focusing on planning & researching and send back with a summary plan to conversation thread

However, 

Context sharing between sub-agents is non-exist

That's why if you have sub-agent do actual work, then this context is not visible to all other agents

This cause problems...

Meanwhile,

@ManusAI_HQ has this blog on how they use file storage as the ultimate context system

It inspired me to design a context sharing setup to get main agent & sub agents to share context between each other

.claude/
└ tasks/ (Updated by all agents)
└ session_context_01.md
└ session_context_02.md
└ ...
└ docs/ (Store result of each sub agent)
└ 
└ 
└ 
└ ...

This allow effective handover & ability to maintain context

This is how I built:
- @shadcn -ui-expert agent
- vercel-@aisdk -5-expert agent

Using principles above

Result?

It can one-shot building a fully functional chatGPT replica using latest @aisdk v5 (introduced a few weeks ago)

If you interested in learning more

We have a claude code template in @aibuilderclub_ with best hooks/agents/commands that actually useful

We do weekly build together sessions

Jason Zhou