A developer is using a multi-agent system to analyze a massive legacy codebase. The coordinator agent is…

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A developer is using a multi-agent system to analyze a massive legacy codebase. The coordinator agent is running out of context window space because the search tool returns verbose file contents and exploration noise. What is the best pattern to mitigate this context degradation?

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B. Delegate the verbose file-by-file exploration to a subagent, which then returns only a synthesized summary of its findings back to the coordinator's context.

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A. Share the full coordinator conversation history with all subagents to ensure maximum context propagation.

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C. Force the coordinator agent to use the Bash tool to run grep manually instead of reading files.

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D. Switch from dynamic adaptive decomposition to static prompt chaining to force a linear review path.

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