frugal-subagents
claudeOn Claude Fable 5.1 (or Opus), Claude's helpers (subagents) inherit your expensive model and can start helpers of their own — one web research pass can burn a session's usage limit in minutes, and an instruction to be frugal doesn't survive context compaction. frugal-subagents builds the limits in: helpers run on a cheaper model (Sonnet by default) unless Claude asks for a stronger one, helpers can't start helpers, at most 12 per session — enforced by a PreToolUse hook — plus two ready-made cheap helpers for web research and extraction that save findings to files and return short summaries.
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