Subagent: Let Your Model Delegate the Busywork

Subagent is a tool designed to delegate routine, mechanical tasks such as summarization, data extraction, and text reformatting from a primary, more sophisticated model to a smaller, cheaper, and faster worker model. This approach allows the main model, referred to as the frontier model, to focus on tasks requiring higher-level reasoning without incurring significant costs associated with simpler tasks. By integrating subagent into a codebase, developers can identify opportunities for cost-saving through delegation, where tasks that produce predictable outputs and do not require full conversational context are handled by the worker model. The subagent operates independently, with no memory between tasks, ensuring each task is an isolated unit of work, and is particularly useful in complex workflows where it can handle 5-8 of the 20 tool calls typically involved. Additionally, the subagent complements tools like the advisor, which escalates complex decisions to stronger models, by providing a balanced approach to managing both routine and complex tasks efficiently.

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