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Agent Subagent Budget Allocation Patterns
Practical patterns for allocating token budgets across orchestrator and subagent contexts in multi-agent workflows, based on the 80% compression threshold, result summarization, and early-exit design principles.
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$ sessions_spawn
$ openclaw memory compress
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Orchestrating Subagents Without Blowing Your Context Budget
Agent Subagent Budget Allocation Patterns# Orchestrating Subagents Without Blowing Your Context Budget When spawning subagents in autonomous workflows, unchecked context growth is the #1 cause of failures. ## The 80% Compression Threshold Trigger `openclaw memory compress` when context utilization hits **80%** — not 50% (wasteful) and no
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