Concept · Building with AI

Subagent

Also called: subagents, child agent, helper agent

A second agent that the main agent starts to handle one piece of a job in its own separate session. The helper does the reading and searching and sends back a short report, so the main agent's context stays uncluttered.

For example: The main agent sends a subagent to search 200 files for every place prices are calculated and gets back a list of five files.

Connects to 10

• AI agent Concept
• Session Concept
• Context window Concept
• Handoff Concept
• Secondary source Concept
• Tool use Concept
• Agent swarm Concept
• Agent loop Concept
• Startup ecosystem Concept
• Automated review Concept

Sources

• https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents