Equation 1 · Part 3 · Why Claude Code Delegates to Subagents, and What That Actually Buys You
Symbol i
What this part means
i appears in the bound of this sum. The bound states where the repeated operation starts, ends, or which values it includes.
Its job in the formula
i appears in the bound of this sum. The bound states where the repeated operation starts, ends, or which values it includes.
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The passage around this formula
This is the specific problem a subagent is built to solve, and Claude Code’s own documentation gives a concrete, numeric illustration of the effect rather than an abstract claim about it. In a worked session example, a subagent delegated to research a piece of session-timeout handling reads three files totalling 6,100 tokens of raw source, entirely inside its own isolated window — “None of this touches your main context,” the documentation notes of the reads — and returns a single 420-token summary to the parent conversation, which the documentation flags directly: “That’s the context savings” [ 2 ] . The parent’s window absorbs an addition roughly a fourteenth the size of what was actually…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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