The strongest argument for sub-agents is not concurrency but that each one gets a clean window for its own sub-problem, so the lead agent's context is never polluted by the forty tool results a sub-task needed.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

A topic of the Building AI Agents course. Planned for 2 hours at Hard difficulty.

Multi-Agent Orchestration Patterns

A lead agent decomposes the task and dispatches sub-agents, each with its own context and a narrow brief, then synthesises their returns. The pattern buys parallelism and context isolation, and pays for it in coordination tokens and in briefs that were not specific enough.

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