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The job: you can delegate without polluting the main agent's context

Put this idea into your own words: "You can delegate without polluting the main agent's context."

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The job: you can delegate without polluting the main agent's context. Start with this check: Each subagent has a bounded deliverable. Keep it small enough to check the result yourself instead of taking the summary on trust.

Delegate bounded research lanes

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  1. One parent thread, two bounded surveys. Each subagent gets findings only, so neither competes for the files the parent may edit.
  2. Both delegation cards complete inside the parent timeline. The parent reads the reports, makes one synthesis, and keeps final review in the main context.
Delegate two bounded findings-only lanes and merge both reports back in the parent thread.

Practice next: Split one research-heavy task into independent lanes and keep overlapping edits in the parent.

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