I have been testing sub agents recently in multiple harnesses and in herdr and came to the same conclusion. There is so much back and forth and not only burning tokens but having to wait much longer to ship things that are bloated and complicated.

pvncher@pvncher10h ago

I hate to say it, but if you’re running more than 2 sub agents at time, you’re almost certainly burning tokens for 0 quality gain. Agents don’t trust each other enough to avoid double-checking everyone’s homework.