How to Check a Cheap Claude Code Subagent's Research Before You Believe It
I handed two Claude Code subagents a research job. Both ran on Haiku to keep the cost down, and both came back with tidy tables, exact quotes and source URLs. Then I opened the sources, and a fair amount of what they’d told me was wrong. This post is what I found, and the small script I now use before acting on anything a cheap subagent tells me. What I asked them I had a Claude Code session working through SEO and AdSense compliance on this blog, and I spun two background subagents off it with the model set to Haiku: ...