Sub-Agents & Parallel Execution

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A coordinator agent needs to research three unrelated topics simultaneously. Which approach best leverages sub-agents?

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What is the primary benefit of giving each sub-agent a fresh, empty context rather than sharing the coordinator's conversation history?

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In the coordinator/worker pattern, what is the coordinator's primary responsibility?

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Which condition makes it safe to dispatch multiple sub-agents in parallel rather than sequentially?

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A pipeline needs to: (1) scrape raw data, (2) clean the data, (3) analyse the cleaned data. How should sub-agents be structured?

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When dispatching a sub-agent to read and summarise a document, the coordinator should:

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Two sub-agents are both tasked with appending entries to the same log file. What is the likely outcome?

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A sub-agent is given a focused, narrow task. Compared to one large agent handling everything, this approach primarily improves:

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A team is surprised to find their multi-agent pipeline costs significantly more than a single-agent solution for the same task. What is the most likely reason?

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A sub-agent returns an incomplete result. What should a well-designed coordinator do?

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What is the specific purpose of a spec-reviewer sub-agent in a software implementation pipeline?

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A code-quality reviewer sub-agent is reviewing a pull request. Which finding is within its scope?

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Why is it recommended to use two separate sub-agents — one for spec review and one for code quality — rather than combining them?

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How does a sub-agent differ from a parallel tool call within a single agent turn?

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A coordinator has already dispatched a sub-agent to research competitor pricing. After receiving the result, the coordinator starts doing its own additional research on the same topic. What problem does this illustrate?

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You want a sub-agent to translate a document. The sub-agent has never seen the document before. What must the coordinator include in the dispatch message?

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Which scenario is LEAST suitable for using sub-agents?

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A coordinator instructs a sub-agent: 'summarise the customer feedback we discussed earlier.' Why will this likely fail?

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A coordinator needs to process 10 customer orders, and each order can be processed independently. What is the best architecture?

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In a multi-agent system, what does 'context isolation' mean?

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