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Subagents vs Skills vs Agent Teams: A Field Guide to Claude Code's Multi-Agent Arsenal

Subagents vs Skills vs Agent Teams: A Field Guide to Claude Code's Multi-Agent Arsenal

by Dylan Bai 1587 words, ~8 min read

Claude Code ships three ways to split work across multiple AI brains — Subagents, Skills, and Agent Teams. Each solves a different problem, burns a different number of tokens, and will confuse you if you mix them up. Here's how to pick the right one.

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