Sub-Agent Delegation with Context Isolation

About this workflow

Delegate bounded work to sub-agents that run in fresh context and return only distilled results - the pattern behind scalable long tasks.

What happens when you run it

1. 1
   Isolation only works if the interface between agents is narrow and typed.

   Runs flow-sub-agent-delegation-context-isolation-1-specify-the-delegation-contract on Claude Sonnet 4.6
2. 2
   A sub-agent is your existing loop with a different context and leash.

   Runs flow-sub-agent-delegation-context-isolation-2-implement-the-isolated-sub-loop on Claude Sonnet 4.6
3. 3
   The payoff: exploration happens elsewhere, conclusions come home.

   Runs flow-sub-agent-delegation-context-isolation-3-wire-dispatch-into-the-parent-and- on Claude Sonnet 4.6
4. 4
   Trust the pattern only after you have watched it fail safely.

   Runs flow-sub-agent-delegation-context-isolation-4-test-isolation-budgets-and-failure on Claude Sonnet 4.6

Best for

• •Recurring tasks you currently copy-paste between tools.
• •When a single prompt isn't enough — you need a chain where output(n) feeds prompt(n+1).
• •Fork and adapt if your inputs differ materially from the author's use case.

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