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Subagent

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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.

EXPLAINER

Nariman Codes · original source ↗

EXPLAINER

Akshay Pachaar · original source ↗

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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Kicked off three subagents to research in parallel while I kept working on the main task."

LORE & 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.

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