What Is Subagent?
5.2BRAINROT SCORESubagent A secondary AI agent spawned by a primary agent to handle a specific subtask, running independently before reporting its result back, rather than the primary agent doing everything itself in one long sequence.
Origin:Standard multi-agent architecture term that became everyday vocabulary once coding-agent tools started shipping built-in support for spawning and managing them directly in normal workflows.
First Seen:2025
Peak Era:2026 (AI Coding)
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Spawning a Subagent That Comes Back With Exactly the Right Answer) / -1 Aura (A Subagent That Goes Off and Does Something Completely Unrelated)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"Kicked off three subagents to research in parallel while I kept working on the main task."
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