How we built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase
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How Metabase built ten domain-expert subagents — markdown files of roughly 2,000-3,000 tokens each — to stop Claude Code paying a context tax across its 500K-line Clojure backend.
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--- id: 6381 title: "How we built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase" source_domain: metabase.com source_url: "https://www.metabase.com/blog/ten-custom-subagents" published_at: "2026-04-27T00:00:00Z" tags: ["claude-code", "metabase", "ai-coding", "clojure", "subagents", "context-management"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/6381" lang: en --- # How we built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase ## Summary How Metabase built ten domain-expert subagents — markdown files of roughly 2,000-3,000 tokens each — to stop Claude Code paying a context tax across its 500K-line Clojure backend. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** metabase.com - **Published:** 2026-04-27T00:00:00Z - **Original:** https://www.metabase.com/blog/ten-custom-subagents - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6381