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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 giant, 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 giant, 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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