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What if the main coding-agent session was intentionally dumb?

Instead of making the main session the “brain”, what if it did almost nothing except call a subagent? The subagent checks the project: What’s already done? What’s broken? What’s next? What should I work on? Then it does the work, updates the project state, and finishes. The main session doesn’t need to understand the project. It doesn’t need to maintain a huge context. It doesn’t even need to…

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