What is a subagent?
A subagent is a helper an agent hands a job to, which works separately and reports back one answer.
~/ai-glossary
$ glossary
2 of 7 in #what-it-runs
The point is separation. A subagent can read 40 files and return 3 sentences, and only those 3 sentences come back into your session.
Without it, all 40 files would sit in your context for the rest of the day.
Was this page helpful?