Claude Code subagent patterns: how to break big tasks into bounded scopes
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Claude Code Subagent Patterns: How to Break Big Tasks into Bounded Scopes If you've ever given Claude Code a massive task - "refactor the entire auth system" - and watched it spiral into confusion after 20 minutes, you've hit the core problem: unbounded scope kills context. The solution is subagent patterns: structured ways to decompose work into bounded, parallelizable units. Why Big Tasks Fail in Claude Code Claude Code has a finite context window.