# Using Six Scoped Subagents to Manage Context Windows

DevFeed: [Using Six Scoped Subagents to Manage Context Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/from-1-bloated-context-window-to-6-scoped-subagents-18306.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.decodingai.com/p/subagents-are-context-engineering>)

Author: Paul Iusztin

Published: 2026-09-01T05:00:29Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Decoding ML](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/decoding-ml.md>)

Topics: [context window](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context-window.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/long-context.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Claude](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude.md>), [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/codex.md>), [LangChain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/langchain.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/codex.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [coding-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding-agents.md>), [context-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-engineering.md>), [context-window](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-window.md>), [langchain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/langchain.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how splitting research work among six parallel subagents can reduce context-window noise and limit the state returned to an orchestrator agent. It also covers designing subagent protocols, maintaining an agent registry, and running parallel agent workflows.

## Source excerpt

The harness determines what your orchestrator agent never sees, not the model.