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Orchestration & subagents

Coordinating multiple AI agents — a lead agent splits work, hands pieces to subagents, and merges the results.

Big tasks overflow one context window. Orchestration breaks them up: a coordinator plans, spins up subagents for research or parallel coding tasks, each with a clean context, then assembles their results. Coding tools like Claude Code and Codex support subagents; research modes use the same idea to read many sources at once.

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Related terms

Agentic AI (AI agents)

AI that doesn't just answer — it plans, takes actions with tools, checks results and keeps going until the job is done.

Context window

How much text a model can 'see' at once — your conversation, files and instructions, all measured in tokens.

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