Promptles
Multi-Step

Delegate to a Subagent

Spawn a subagent for research-heavy subtasks; brief it on scope, limits, and report shape.

When a task has a heavy research or exploration phase, hand it to a subagent instead of doing it in the main thread. The subagent runs its searches, files its findings, and returns a concise report — your main context stays clean for the decisions only you can make. Say what you want the subagent to do, what it shouldn't do, and how to report back.

Where you'll practice this

2 Promptles scenarios teach this principle directly. Each one drops you into a real engineering ticket and asks you to write the prompt you'd send to Claude Code.

  • Delegate to a Subagent

    You're about to plan a migration off an old `legacyAuth` middleware, but first you need to know every place it's used across the codebase. Doing the search in the main thread would fill your context with ripgrep output you don't actually need. This is a textbook job for a…

  • Chain Diagnose, Then Fix

    Sentry just paged the team: a small but steady stream of 500s on `POST /api/orgs/:slug/invitations` since the 09:14 deploy. The deploy bumped the `clerk` SDK from 4.x to 5.x. You don't yet know whether the bug is in the SDK upgrade, in your wrapper around it, or in a downstream…

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