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Orchestrating Complex Coding Tasks with Claude Skills as Sub-Agents
Developers can now split complex coding tasks into skills that act as sub-agents, each with its own context window. An orchestrator skill plans and interprets, while worker skills handle specific tasks like searching code or running tests. This pattern keeps the orchestrator's context clean, enabling longer, more reliable agent runs.
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This pattern addresses a real bottleneck in AI coding agents, but its effectiveness depends on the quality of skill definitions and orchestration logic.
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