What are sub-agents, and how does an orchestrator delegate to them effectively?
Sub-agents are how you scale a complex agent task without one huge, noisy context. The signal is context isolation and clean delegation: a focused subtask in, a compact result out. Here is the answer.
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Sub-agents are how you scale a complex agent task without one huge, noisy context. The signal is context isolation and clean delegation: a focused subtask in, a compact result out. Here is the answer.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
