Use cheap models as subagents inside Claude Code

Goal: Use spare quotas on cheaper models without leaving Claude Code.
Setup: agents used in source: Claude, Codex; tools/MCPs stated: cameo, herdr.
Steps:
1. Note that many cheap models expose Anthropic-compatible endpoints.
2. Wrap each one so Claude Code can launch it as a subagent (the author’s cameo, built by Opus in one shot from a short prompt).
3. Keep your main session on Claude; delegate grunt work to the cheaper subagents.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: Maple — https://dev.to/maple/using-third-party-models-as-subagents-alongside-claude-in-claude-code-4i38 (summarised from source; the source has no explicit step list)

Steps are our summary of the source (it has no explicit step list). Includes a “Based on” credit line.