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frugal-subagents

On 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.

3 on GitHubby Ivan Kotelkinv1.0.0MITupdated 2 months ago
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Plugin frugal-subagents from marketplace ikotelkin-skills in ikotelkin/claude-skills. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 6 days ago.

This plugin runs code on your machine — its hooks fire automatically on events like tool use. The exact commands are listed below; read them before installing.

What it installs

Skills (1)

  • frugal-subagents

    On Claude Fable 5.1 or Opus, subagents inherit the session's expensive model and can spawn more of themselves, so one research fan-out can burn the usage limit in minutes; this plugin's PreToolUse hook runs every subagent on a cheap model unless one is named explicitly, blocks nested spawns and caps

Subagents (2)

  • extractor

    Cheapest worker for mechanical text work over files already on disk — extracting fields, deduplicating, tabulating, normalising formats, splitting or merging notes. Use after research has been collected, or whenever the task is "turn these files into that shape". Not for judgment calls.

  • web-scout

    Cheap web-research worker. Use for scanning the web, checking many pages or listings, comparing sources, collecting facts into files — anything whose cost is search/fetch volume rather than judgment. Returns a short digest; the full findings go to files the caller names.

Hooks (1)

  • PreToolUse

    node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/guard.js"

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