What Does 'Parallel Agents' Mean?

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FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Agent CultureCLUSTER: orchestration

Running multiple AI agents at the same time on independent parts of a task or on separate tasks entirely, trading coordination complexity for a reduction in total wall-clock time.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Ran parallel agents on the frontend and backend at once, cut the whole thing in half time-wise."

LORE & ORIGIN

Emerged as tooling made spawning more than one agent instance trivial, shifting agent usage from a strictly sequential model to one where concurrency became a normal default choice.

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Related To:Subagent Worktree Agent

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