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Friday, January 23, 2026

People are questioning whether Claude Code's subagent calls, like planning and compaction, count towards prompt limits in the same way as file reading.

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@renatocronRenato CRON

Does the call subagents counts? Eg, when claude code do planing, compaction, etc, only read file is still same prompt? When it gets the content, doesn't get a new request?

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