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Sub agents are about providing less context. Not more.

Sub agents are about providing targeted, specific information to the agents task, instead of having context around a billion other irrelevant topics.

The Database agent does not care at all about the instructions for your Agent Creator Agent. That is called negative context, or poison context, or whatever you want to call it.

So it's about targeted, specific, narrow instructions for a set of tasks.



That’s a great explanation.




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