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May 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

AgentTool Deep Dive: Sub‑Agent Generation and Recursive Safeguards

This article dissects Claude Code's AgentTool, explaining how it spawns full‑featured sub‑agents, routes execution through three distinct paths, shares Anthropic Prompt Cache via Fork, and protects against infinite recursion with a dual‑layer safeguard while isolating worktrees for safe parallel file operations.