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Your Claude Code subagents run at your session's effort level by default

Your Claude Code subagents run at your session's effort level by default At xhigh, a subagent that's only finding a…

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Your Claude Code subagents run at your session's effort level by default At xhigh, a subagent that's only finding a file thinks at xhigh too Claude Code 2.1.316 added a setting to drop them to low. On a code lookup in @honojs's repo with Claude Sonnet 5.5, low wrote 2.5-4K output tokens against 6.5-25K at xhigh, but both found the same answer An agent in .claude/agents that reviews or plans keeps its own level with effort: high in its frontmatter You can add this to your shell profile: export CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_EFFORT=low

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