🔧 My Agent Orchestrator Burned 1-2M Opus Tokens Per Task. Here's the Postmortem.

I built an orchestration skill for Claude Code that delegated everything to subagents. It worked. It also cost somewhere on the order of 1-2 million Opus tokens per task - including tasks whose final diff was a handful of lines.

Nothing was broken. Every individual decision was defensible. Three modest multipliers stacked, and then the whole...