Tip: Run High-Token MCPs in a Sub Agent

Vibe coding / augmented engineering tip of the week pt. 6: Run playwright MCP and other high token usage MCPs or tasks in a sub agent in claude code so it doesn't eat your main context window nearly as fast.

Huge thanks to Anthony Panozzo for tipping me off to this one - I think the playwright MCP is really useful for testing changes and verifying things, but it burns through tokens at a crazy clip.

I'm also finding it useful when you're running a test suite that spits out a lot of logs or task output, etc. to have it run that in a subagent and pull out the key findings, then take the correct next action for your current goal.

Way fewer compactions.

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