[TL;DR made by claude at the bottom] Hi everyone! starting off, i dont use Claude to do heavy coding, mostly Knowledge work and academic research with a Max 5x plan. I never had too much problems with usage after getting max plan, but over the last couple of weeks my weekly usage has been blowing up as I’m using Fable to do heavier academic research (fetching several papers, converting to md, extracting statistics / results, connecting to my research etc) combined with work. Im using Fable for higher impact tasks and audits, but mostly to plan and then switch models to sonnet / opus to execute (it always pops up a message saying that the context was cached at the other model and switching would increase usage but i never saw a spike) Last night i tried a different approach. I planned a multi phase plan with clear /compact checkpoints. Fable was the orchestrator in the main session and would deploy a opus/sonnet subagent for each phase. Every agent would produce an artifact as the phase output. Then Fable would review, update the plan execution ledger and then stop for a /compact checkpoint. After it would proceed to the following phase with another subagent. I can’t really tell if its expending more tokens or not, so i wanted to know conceptually Is this a valid approach to manage context/tokens better? or does it actually spend more? If so, what are your suggestions to manage context/tokens but keeping output quality the same or even better? Simple Fable /advisor with opus/sonnet executing is a better option? [TL;DR] Max 5x user doing mostly academic/knowledge work. My weekly usage has jumped since using Fable for heavier research. I’m testing a workflow where Fable acts as the main orchestrator, delegates each phase to Opus/Sonnet subagents, saves each phase as an artifact, reviews it, updates a ledger, then /compacts before the next phase. Conceptually, does this actually reduce context/token usage, or do subagents + orchestrator make it more expensive? What workflows do you recommend for keeping usage under control without sacrificing research quality? Fable /advisor and sonnet/opus executing would be better? submitted by /u/Crak3n
Originally posted by u/Crak3n on r/ClaudeCode
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