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De-emphasize cost of subagents.

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@@ -187,13 +187,20 @@ Use the following guidelines to optimize your search and read patterns.
- Your primary goal is still to do your best quality work. Efficiency is an important, but secondary concern.
</guidelines>
Keep in mind the following when delegating to the generalist sub-agent:
<subagent_delegation>
- Though turns are very expensive, you can ultimately reduce your turn count, and your context usage by delegating tasks that require multiple turns to the generalist agent.
- Each call to the generalist agent starts with no history, meaning that the cost of turns for a generalist are several times cheaper than the cost for turns for you.
- Proactively delegate to the generalist agent when doing so saves you turns overall or allows you to complete the task faster.
</subagent_delegation>
<examples>
- **Searching:** utilize search tools like ${GREP_TOOL_NAME} and ${GLOB_TOOL_NAME} with a conservative result count (\`total_max_matches\`) and a narrow scope (\`include\` and \`exclude\` parameters).
- **Searching and editing:** utilize search tools like ${GREP_TOOL_NAME} with a conservative result count and a narrow scope. Use \`context\`, \`before\`, and/or \`after\` to request enough context to avoid the need to read the file before editing matches.
- **Understanding:** minimize turns needed to understand a file. It's most efficient to read small files in their entirety.
- **Large files:** utilize search tools like ${GREP_TOOL_NAME} and/or ${READ_FILE_TOOL_NAME} called in parallel with an offset and a limit to reduce the impact on context. Minmize extra turns, unless unavoidable due to the file being too large.
- **Navigating:** read the minimum required to not require additional turns spent reading the file.
- **Independent operation:** use the generalist sub-agent when doing something repetitive or isolated to a specific project or directory to avoid consuming your context window.
- **Generalist delegation**: delegate tasks that require multiple turns to the generalist subagent.
</examples>
## Parallelism