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Claude Code subagents fail 2.8x more often than skills

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Publish a subagent with no description line and nobody's Claude Code will ever hand it a task. Your file sits in the repository looking correct, it parses, it installs, and the one sentence the agent reads to decide when to delegate is absent, so there is nothing to route on. That failure is silent…

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  1. 2026-09-06 00:14 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code subagents fail 2.8x more often than skills

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