alt Hacker NewsFor anyone using Claude Code, ask it to do all the work in workflows (it has a tool for that), they released that feature together with Opus 4.8 and it also seems a bit better at doing long tasks as well. The main conversation just orchestrates the work at that point.
You can also just ask it to do work in a subagent. It will write a plan and launch the subagent to do the actual code, keeping it out of the main context.
In addition, you can co-author a plan for a biggish chunk of work, divided into stages, have it launch a subagent for phase 1 and check its work, then ESC-ESC to go back to just after you wrote the plan and have it do phase 2. Repeat until done. This keeps the overall goal in the main context for the review, but clears out previous reviews. Kind of like a workflow but with more control.