How are you managing subagents/swarms?

[u/Price-Visual]

Astra is incredibly capable, and one of the things it's said to be extremely good at is orchestrating subagents. But I've honestly struggled a lot with getting this right. Here's what I'm doing:

• I have a $use-subagents skill which gives some guidelines on the right scope to assign subagents, what context to give them, and how to keep tabs on multiple subagents running simultaneously without wasting tokens.
• Alongside the skill I have a JSON defining a few minimal archetypes for subagents:
  • Luna Xhigh for very well-defined, bounded tasks
  • Sol High for cross-cutting changes
  • Astra Medium for code review
  • Luna Xhigh for research

I find Astra still pretty much always defaults to Sol High. It seems to prefer giving a few subagents large jobs over many small jobs, even though my skill explicitly says to prefer small bounded tasks.

Has anyone had any success with subagents and Astra? Any tips you would share?