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Skills as Sub-Agents: Orchestrating Complex work with Claude Skills
Published on July 31, 2026By DEV Community
If you've built anything with a coding agent, you've hit the wall: the task is too big for one prompt. You ask it to "find out what's causing this bug," and it starts strong — then drowns. Half its context is the raw output of files it dumped, it's lost the thread of which theory it was testing, and the answer it finally gives is confidently wrong. The problem isn't the model. It's that you asked one agent, with one context window, to do everything — gather evidence, hold it all in its head, and
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