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CONCEPT

subagents

Specialized secondary agents that a primary agent spawns to handle a bounded sub-task — searching, reviewing, or transforming — each with its own context and tools. Delegating to subagents keeps the parent agent's context focused and lets independent pieces of work run in parallel.

Origin

A pattern from agent frameworks in which a primary agent delegates bounded work to helpers it spawns.

definition
Delegated agents with their own separate context window
usage
Parallel Claude instances challenging each other for code review

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