{"version":"2.1.292","anchor":"subagent-background-model-override","canonical_anchor":"subagent-background-model-override","heading":"Subagents can be started on a chosen model","tier":"internal","area":"Subagents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292\/e\/subagent-background-model-override","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292","markdown":"### Subagents can be started on a chosen model\n\nStarting a subagent can now take a model, which the subagent runs on and which is added to its permission rules\n\n**Unclear.** What causes a subagent to be started with its own model is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nA subagent is a helper agent Claude starts to handle part of a task. The code that starts subagents now accepts a model. The subagent then runs on that model, and an extra permission layer for that model is added to its permissions.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis keeps a subagent tied to the model it was given.\n\n- Area: Subagents\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}