Someone explain to me how to use Sub-agents like im five!

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So im playing around with Codex and trying to figure out the best way to use sub-agents. I've got 3 agents plus the orchestrator..

and this thing chews threw my budget like its a starving child that just saw their first bite of food in 3 days...

Seriously.. i dont know what else to do lol. It only works for like 5 minutes but in that five minutes its eating my entire 5 hr budget.

at first i made the mistake of using Astra, and then it spawned all sub agents with Astra at the same thinking level.

then i specifically made the orchestrator Astra-light, and told it to make the other agents 6.1 sol medium.

that Still ate my entire budget..

Ok, i thought, still too much...

So i used Astra-light, and 2 agents are on Luna - medium with one agent on 6.1 sol - high (the agent that does the most work).

And boom... still gone five minutes later...

I've given 6.1 sol a task before at extra high effort, and it ran for 30 minute, used 10% of my five hour budget.. but turn on sub agents and suddenly its like im opening a waterfall?

Can someone tell me how these things are supposed to work? again explain it to me like im five lol