Q11 of 60 — CCA Practice Exam

Claude Code for Continuous Integration

Your CI pipeline uses a multi-agent Claude Code setup where a parent orchestrator spawns subagents to run parallel test analysis across 12 service modules. After scaling from 6 to 12 services last sprint, you begin seeing "Prompt is too long" errors in the subagents' first turns — before any analysis has been completed. Examining the parent session configuration, you see it has 9 MCP servers registered, of which only 2 are relevant to the test analysis workflow. What change most directly eliminates the subagents' context window errors?

A. Increase the subagents' token budget by setting a higher max_tokens limit so they have more room to process the inherited tool definitions alongside the analysis tasks.

B. Run /compact on the parent session before spawning subagents so that the summarized conversation history passed to each subagent is shorter.

C. Disable the 7 unused MCP servers in the parent session with /mcp disable <name> before spawning subagents, so their tool definitions are not inherited by each subagent.

D. Move the orchestrator's CLAUDE.md instructions into path-scoped rules so that subagents load only the instructions relevant to their assigned service module.