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Budget Tokens Strategically in Multi-Agent Runs
Chris Harper
1 min read
May 30, 2026
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With dynamic workflows consuming substantially more tokens, a practical rule of thumb from developers: use a smaller/cheaper model for indexing and low-risk classification phases, reserve the strongest model only for final verification steps. Check /model before launching expensive workflows, and scope to a single service or directory before expanding to the full codebase.
Sources: Claude Code Docs · agentpedia.codes guide