Sub-agents vs agent teams Sub-agents are like contractors. You give t...

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[00:00:00]If you don't know the difference between subagents and agent teams in Claude, pay attention. Subagents are like contractors. You give them a specific job and they work in their own context window until they finish the task.

[00:00:09]They're great for work that can be done independently and their biggest advantage is they give you parallelism or let you complete multiple things at once without cluttering up the context window of your main orchestrator agent.

[00:00:19]Use these if you have multiple independent tasks that you want to complete at the same time. Using an agent team is like hiring people to work on your team. They're long-running, they can work with each other directly, and they can build a shared context over time. Normally, you'd have a lead agent, a couple working agents, and some sort of shared task state. These agents can share updates with each other and respond to what the other agents are doing in real time. Here's the simplest way to think about it. If the work is isolated, use subagents. If the work requires collaboration, use agent team.

[00:00:44]If you want to learn more about designing multi-agent systems, check out this free lecture on Maven.