Reduce subagent overhead in docs/claude delegation rules - #44
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Prior thresholds (delegate past ~3 files, fresh-context validation for nearly every change) were tuned for a large/high-risk-change assumption and were burning the token budget on routine tasks in this small, single-maintainer repo. Raise the delegation threshold, make direct work the default, and reserve fresh-context validation for genuinely high-risk changes and edits to protected docs/claude/* files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
ORCHESTRATION.mdfrom ~3 files/400 lines to ~8 files/1500 lines, and flip the default from "when in doubt, delegate" to "when in doubt, do it directly"JUDGMENT.md's docs/memory checklist no longer requires fresh-context read-back for every memory/README edit — only for edits to protecteddocs/claude/*rule filesMAINTENANCE.mdconsolidation passes only spawn a review agent for large, repo-wide rewritesLESSONS.mdentry explaining whyWhy
The prior rules were tuned for a large/high-risk-change assumption and were causing routine feature work to spawn many subagents and background processes, exhausting the token budget for a fresh session.
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