My task is pretty simple: an orchestrator runs 10 subagents (opus46) each subagent analyse a part of data and produces few lines summary for the orchestrator (opus 4.7) orchestrator writes results to the file (to avoid concurrency on writes) But in cost i see
claude-opus-4-6: 419 input, 23.3k output, 763.5k cache read, 251.1k cache write ($2.54) claude-opus-4-7: 1.6k input, 10.2k output, 1.6m cache read, 73.6k cache write ($1.50) claude-haiku-4-5: 448 input, 16 output, 0 cache read, 0 cache write ($0.0005) ```
the orchestrator spends more than subagents. and claude says it is because of verbosity of subagents. All their decision making makes it to the orchestrator. And i wasn't able to suppress it. I just want a few lines answer to reach the orchestrator. It does not need to know why.
No subagent instructions in the very beginning of the md file made the trick.
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