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Jul 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How Subagents and Task Tools Enable Isolated Workflows in Harness

This lesson explains how Harness uses Subagents—isolated execution units created via the Task tool—to offload heavy, multi‑step operations into separate context windows, custom prompts, and limited toolsets, and how to configure built‑in and custom Subagents with the Claude Code SDK.