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Claude Code Keeps Launching Subagents. Here’s What They Are and How to Use Them on Purpose

October 8, 2026 by Ben Thirlby
Robot shining a flashlight into a ~/.claude/agents drawer packed with tiny robots, by a note: 28 helpers, zero interviews.

Claude Code starts helpers called subagents on its own. Here is what they are, how to see which model they run on, how to ask for one on purpose, and how to set up a cheap one on Haiku 5.5.

Categories AI Tutorials, Guides, New Features Tags AI agents, Claude, Claude Code, Haiku 5.5, subagents Leave a comment

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