Agents
Sub Agents
Specialized agents spawned by a main agent to handle specific subtasks.
Also written as sub-agent, subagent, subagents
- Messages
- 97
- Members using it
- 37
- First seen
- Nov 24, 2025
What it means
Child agents created by a primary orchestrator agent to divide complex work into focused responsibilities. Each sub agent typically handles one domain—like file management, API calls, or research—reporting results back to the parent. The pattern prevents context overload and allows parallel execution.
How it's used here
Members discuss how many sub agents they run, how different models handle spawning and managing them, and whether their workflows need many specialized agents or can get by with a single general-purpose one.
Seen in the wild
“im very lame, i dont have any sub agents lol, i use it with mem0 and it just handles everything i need - im a simple guy without many needs”
“It’s great. Just start with one. You don’t need as many as you would with open claw because it’s good at cleaning and managing sub agents.”
“Well, technically, GPT 5.5 is better than Opus. But still has a bad taste and not that good with sub agents. I bet 5.6 would still have bad taste”
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