Is adding all agents in the repository to .claude going to increase token consumption if these agents are not used in the session?

[Dearest]

Should we only add the subagents we need or all subagents?

[RensTillmann]

Only add those you need because it avoids claude accidently invoking a subagent when you dont wanted to do so.

But you can play around with this. You will notice fast enough if it will invoke an agent wrongly. You do not have to worry because you can always cancel the invocation bye pressing Esc key. Changing the promt to tell it not to invoke that agent on a one time basis.

But if you notice an agent being invoked often you can run /agents and select the agent and simple Delete it.

[wshobson]

Hi @Dearest,

This discussion has been superseded by the v1.2.0 marketplace refactor. The marketplace now uses an isolated plugin architecture where you install only the plugins you need:

/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents
/plugin install python-development  # Only installs Python-related agents

Each plugin loads only its own agents into context, eliminating the token consumption concern. You no longer manually add agents to .claude - the plugin system handles this automatically based on which plugins you install.

See the updated README for current installation instructions.