SUBAGENTS

DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM are cheap enough to run as sidecar subagents for drafts and exploration. The catch is that cheap work you cannot inspect is just expensive noise. A shared canvas makes the output reviewable.

Claude Code is turning into an orchestration layer for agent teams. Here is how subagents, MCP, hooks, and long context fit together in 2026.

Spawn isolated workers with independent context windows.

Researcher, auditor, reviewer, and other ready-made subagent types.

Route specific MCP servers only to specific subagents.

Continue a subagent's work across sessions.

Fire when subagents spawn and finish.

Spawn subagents to handle complex hook logic.