Equation 3 · Part 1 · Why Claude Code Delegates to Subagents, and What That Actually Buys You
Symbol k
What this part means
k is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
k is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
The parent conversation’s occupied share of its own window, , stays small and bounded even as the total work performed across k delegated subagents grows without bound. That inequality is the real content behind the phrase “context savings” — the saving is measured in the one window that has to keep attending to everything else in the task, not in total tokens billed.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [4] Effective context engineering for AI agents ↗
- [7] Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts ↗
- [2] Explore the context window ↗
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