Q60 of 60 — CCA Practice Exam

Multi-Agent Research System

Your multi-agent research system uses Claude Code subagents to handle specialized research tasks: literature review, data analysis, and synthesis. Each subagent was originally configured with a single shared root CLAUDE.md that has grown to 340 lines over several months. Team leads report that subagents are increasingly ignoring their role-specific instructions — the data analysis subagent applies literature review citation formats, and the synthesis subagent occasionally skips required source-linking steps. Logs confirm the instructions are present in the CLAUDE.md and are loaded at session start. What configuration change most directly addresses the instruction-adherence failures?

A. Increase the verbosity of each role-specific instruction block in the root CLAUDE.md, adding explicit examples and edge cases to make the intent unambiguous.

B. Trim the root CLAUDE.md to shared cross-agent rules only, and move role-specific instructions into path-scoped .claude/rules/ files under each subagent's working directory.

C. Replace the single root CLAUDE.md with a set of @path imports — one per subagent role — so that each subagent's instructions are organized in a separate file loaded at launch.

D. Configure each subagent to use auto memory so that role-specific behaviors are reinforced through session learnings rather than CLAUDE.md instructions.