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Skills2026-06-24 · source-backed

Keep concurrent subagents to 3-5 unless the task genuinely fans out.

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Past five, you spend more time reconciling summaries than you save fanning out. High parallelism (tens or hundreds) only pays off for work that actually decomposes, like an 80-combo benchmark sweep. Treat it as a special case you justify, not a default you reach for (source).

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