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Apr 27, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Sub-Agent vs Agent Team: Designing Multi-Agent Architectures Around Context Boundaries

The article explains how to choose between Sub‑Agent and Agent Team structures for multi‑agent systems by evaluating whether sub‑tasks share context, need isolation, compression, parallelism, or continuous collaboration, and provides practical guidelines, pitfalls, and a decision framework to avoid over‑engineering.