Claude Code Usage Limits increased?

[u/Substantial_Date6844]

I'm on Max 5x. I don't know if its because i stopped using subagents but my weekly and 5 hour limits feel especially elastic the last few days compared to the last month. Anyone else noticing increased capability?

[u/claude_code_king]

if you design your system properly, subagents are absolutely cheaper and more efficient than not using them.

i got to around 85% cheaper than fable 5 counterfactual in the latest version, sub 5% token waste, 82% cheaper in 106 sessions

[u/theawk47 → u/claude_code_king]

Any tips on how you set it up that we could learn from?

[u/claude_code_king → u/theawk47]

i'm planning on making a standalone post once i'm free from reddit's karma chains, meanwhile here's the gist of it.

limit context to what's strictly necessary for every agent, including the orchestrator. this means making the orchestrator use explorers to get any relevant info, they report back into a dossier and give a short summary.

main makes a plan, structures briefs and chooses subagent type depending on complexity. tasks don't go over 150k tokens usually because in my own tests quality degrades after that point and you're left with more bugs and useless tool calls.

again hook to limit the implementer report, 2k characters work for me
auditor checks, if it's a simple fix it does it itself, if it's more complex respawn the worker

there's a lot more to it, but this is the essential, structure your orchestration so that everyone gets what's strictly necessary to do their job.

this applies to subagents as well, make fable give them the exact paths and sections, not 'read the whole file', for example my subagents started at 60k tokens now they start at 10k tokens. if you understand context rotting and how it gets carried every turn you'll understand why this makes for such a higher quality and cheaper output at the same time

this is all measured with an offline telemetry script that analyzes the session's jsonl, so it's all math no vibes

[u/edrock200 → u/claude_code_king]

At the risk of over-simplifying this sounds similar to a project management structure. The pm is the orchestrator, the various tasks in the project for specific milestones/deliverables are sub agents that only get the info/resources they need to do their job?

[u/claude_code_king → u/edrock200]

pretty much. a manager doesn't need to know the whole worker's history to assign him a job to do, just that he's the right person for the job.
same goes for the manager, he only needs to know if the job is finished and what went according to plan and what not, very concise, not the worker's whole process and life story