I built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase
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April 29, 2026
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Author here. TL;DR: 10 domain-expert subagents, one per major backend area. Happy to talk about why we shaped them this way, what's worked, what hasn't (e.g. routing on overlapping domains is tricky).