Agents & Orchestration
Sub-Agents Vs Agent Teams Guide
Understand when to use subagents versus full agent teams and how each one behaves.
Published March 2026
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Most people use sub-agents and agent teams interchangeably. They are not the same, and choosing wrong costs you time, money, and clean context. Sub-agents are contractors: one focused task, isolated context, returns a result, no shared state. Agent teams are employees: long-running, sharing context, coordinating in real time with a lead directing the work.
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