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Iterative Retrieval Pattern

by affaan-m/everything-claude-code

Pattern for progressively refining context retrieval to solve the subagent context problem

Skill content

Iterative Retrieval Pattern

Solves the "context problem" in multi-agent workflows where subagents don't know what context they need until they start working.

When to Activate

- Spawning subagents that need codebase context they cannot predict upfront

- Building multi-agent workflows where context is progressively refined

- Encountering "context too large" or "missing context" failures in agent tasks

- Designing RAG-like retrieval pipelines for code exploration

- Optimizing token usage in agent orchestration

The Problem

Subagents are spawned with limited context. They don't know:

- Which files contain relevant code

- What patterns exist in the codebase

- What terminology the project uses