> Finally it occurred to me to put context where it was needed - directly in the test files.
Probably CLAUDE.md is a better place?
> Too much context
Claude’s Sub-agents[1] seems to be a promising way of getting around this, though I haven’t had time to play with the feature too much. Eg when you need to take a context-busting action like debugging dependencies, instead spin up a new agent to read the output and summarize. Then your top-level context doesn’t get polluted.
[1]: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents
I wrote three sub agents this week, one to run unit tests, another to run playwright and a third to write playwright. These are pretty basic boundaries that aren't hard to share context between agent and the orchestrating main agent. It seemed to help a lot. I also have complex ways to run tests (docker, data seeding, auth) and previously it was getting lost. Only compacted a couple times. Was a big improvement.
I’m in the middle of some refactoring/bug fixing/optimization but it’s constantly running into issues, making half baked changes, not able to fix regressions etc. Still trying to figure out how to make do a better job. Might have to break it into smaller chunks or something. Been pretty frustrating couple of weeks.
If anyone has pointers, I’m all ears!!