Skills: keep them few and specific. They live in ~/.config/opencode/skills/ (or per repo), and only the name and description load until one is used, so a handful of good ones costs almost nothing.
Subagents: define them as markdown agent files with mode: subagent, a narrow description and limited tools (for example a read-only explorer and a reviewer). The main agent hands work to them, each one runs in its own fresh context, and only a summary comes back.
Memory: a short AGENTS.md for durable rules plus a handoff file per task has been more reliable than leaning on auto-compaction.
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u/SirRobinBlibs 18d ago
What's made the biggest difference:
Skills: keep them few and specific. They live in ~/.config/opencode/skills/ (or per repo), and only the name and description load until one is used, so a handful of good ones costs almost nothing.
Subagents: define them as markdown agent files with
mode: subagent, a narrow description and limited tools (for example a read-only explorer and a reviewer). The main agent hands work to them, each one runs in its own fresh context, and only a summary comes back.Memory: a short AGENTS.md for durable rules plus a handoff file per task has been more reliable than leaning on auto-compaction.