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Subagent

Agents and tools

A helper the main agent launches for a separate piece of work, such as a code search or a review. It has its own clean context and returns only the result to the main conversation.

main agentcode searchreviewtestsits own clean contexta part of the workonly the result● model, people, systems, data  ● agent and harnessThe main agent hands out parts of the work and gets back only the result

Source: Claude Code subagents docs

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