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Oct 28, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic: Over-Splitting Sub-Agents Adds Latency — Four Consolidation Patterns

Anthropic finds that splitting AI agents by business function often increases latency due to handoff overhead; they recommend consolidating sub-agents into a main loop using four patterns — merge, fold, as-tool, keep — with Skills for business rules, tools for actions, and task-level evaluation to catch regressions.