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Anthropic just released new agent guide: make every subagent earn its own context steal this 18-role blueprint for turning Opus 5.5 into an entire engineering team PLAN → TOOLS → RESULTS → REVISE one main loop keeps the goal, plan and evidence → procedures become skills → API actions... show more
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guide: reference kit:

That’s another step bros

shared context overhead is what people usually underestimate

this guide is what i was looking for this evening!

If there’s anyone you should listen to, it’s definitely Anthropic

anthropic is an incredibly cool company from what i can see

Alpha info bro , we must test it thx

Is mandating context for every subagent truly scalable, or does that overhead introduce complexity that negates the efficiency gains of using a large model?

The merge rule makes sense. Separate job titles don't always need separate agents.

A subagent that cannot justify its own context is just expensive noise

That’s huge, thanks for sharing

anyone scaling teams with agents should dig into this guide

very helpful guide

A role earns its own context when it reduces a specific failure mode: stale assumptions, weak verification, or tool sprawl. I’d compare the single-loop baseline and the split version on identical tasks, then inspect both the result quality and the cost of reconciling their state.

"merge roles that repeatedly share data" is the line most multi-agent setups need, half the subagents out there just pass the same context back and forth

This idea is quite interesting, I'll pull the code down and run it to see how the effect actually works.

the test I use before splitting off a subagent: does it run in parallel, need a clean context, or need tools that conflict with the main loop? if none of the 3, it stays a skill in the main agent. every handoff loses detail

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comparing each merge of roles on the same end-to-end tasks is what really shows what breaks

Having verifiable outputs changes the whole workflow.

curious which of the 18 roles survive after the merge test. my guess is verification stays separate and most of the rest fold into one loop

If teams start treating context boundaries as something to measure, agent architectures may get simpler over time. The roles that survive will be the ones that show a repeatable improvement on real tasks, not the ones that look good on a diagram.

wtf is this hahaah

If you want to grow, share one lesson per video, not just the video.

merge roles that keep sharing data, such a clean rule, saving the whole blueprint Beam

Thank it’s nice

thx for these links, friend

Eighteen roles, one main loop keeping the evidence straight. The org chart gets much more useful when progress survives a handoff.
