jargon

Applied AI·Agents

you hand the sub-task to a child with a fresh context and get back only its conclusion, keeping the parent's window small.

Subagent

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A child agent spawned for a bounded subtask with its own fresh context, returning only its conclusion to the parent. The main tool for keeping any single context small, and the standard pattern for parallelising research-style work.

Commonly confused with