How Claude Skills Can Be Orchestrated as Sub-Agents to Handle Complex Coding Tasks

Developers building coding agents often struggle when tasks exceed a single context window, causing the agent to lose focus and produce unreliable results. A proposed architecture splits the work into two layers: an orchestrator agent that plans and interprets, and multiple worker sub-agents that each handle one focused task. Each worker skill runs in an isolated context, processes raw data independently, and returns only a brief summary to the orchestrator, keeping the main context clean. Worker skills are defined as folders with structured configuration files that specify their tools, scope, and output format. This separation allows the orchestrator to run complex, multi-step investigations without being overwhelmed by accumulated raw data.