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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.

by KronisLV15 minutes ago|

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My problem with regular sub-agents is that after around 2-4 hours the main agent stops working on a task and asks for user input no matter how I tell it to continue autonomously until the ~5-15 stage plan is done, when when it has a clear plan that's made with the plan mode and instructions to continue autonomously.

It's happened multiple times where I give it a task before going to sleep and when I come back it's stuck halfway through on some stupid summary, where my only response needed is basically "Yeah, continue." even though I use Opus. Using workflows for the higher level planning helped with that and those annoying pauses no longer happen, perhaps due to the main conversation being much shorter and apparently not enough for the weights to nudge towards user confirmation.