Sub Agents

This lets you spin up specialized Claude instances with their own prompts, tool access, and model selection. You define agents as markdown files in .claude/agents with YAML frontmatter specifying what they can do. The interactive /agents menu is the easiest way to start, though you can also write the configs by hand. Worth using when you want a code reviewer that only reads files, a debugger with full edit access, or a fast search agent running on Haiku. The ability to restrict tools per agent is the real win here. You can chain agents together or resume them later by ID, and project-level agents override your global ones.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add parcadei/continuous-claude-v3 --skill sub-agents --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Sub-Agents Reference

Create specialized AI agents with isolated contexts for specific tasks.

When to Use

"How do I create a sub-agent?"
"Configure agent tools"
"What built-in agents exist?"
"Agent model selection"
"Agent chaining patterns"

Quick Start

Interactive (Recommended)

/agents

Opens menu to create, edit, and manage agents.

Manual Creation

mkdir -p .claude/agents
cat > .claude/agents/reviewer.md << 'EOF'
---
name: reviewer
description: Code review specialist. Use proactively after code changes.
tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash
model: sonnet
---

You are a senior code reviewer focusing on quality and security.

## Review Checklist
- Code clarity and naming
- Error handling
- Security vulnerabilities
- Test coverage
EOF

CLI-Based

claude --agents '{
  "reviewer": {
    "description": "Code reviewer",
    "prompt": "Review for quality and security",
    "tools": ["Read", "Bash"],
    "model": "sonnet"
  }
}'