{"version":"2.1.296","anchor":"agent-tool-guidance-text-tweaked","canonical_anchor":"agent-tool-guidance-text-tweaked","heading":"One word changed in the guidance Claude gets about briefing subagents","tier":"internal","area":"Subagents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296\/e\/agent-tool-guidance-text-tweaked","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296","markdown":"### One word changed in the guidance Claude gets about briefing subagents\n\nClaude's guidance on briefing subagents now calls a good brief its first lever on cost, rather than its one lever\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code gives Claude written guidance on how to use subagents, helpers it can start to work on part of a task. The advice on briefing them now ends with \"it is your first lever on every cost above\" instead of \"it is your one lever on every cost above\".\n\n**Why**\n\nThis is a small wording change. It no longer presents the brief as the only way to control those costs, only as the first one.\n\n- Area: Subagents\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 0\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}