Agentic AI
Subagent
Agentic AI· Advanced
Definition
A specialized AI agent that operates under the direction of a parent or orchestrator agent, executing specific subtasks within a larger workflow. Subagents can be domain-specific (e.g., a data retrieval agent, a drafting agent) and may themselves spawn further subagents.
Maxx Stacks Context
Maxx Stacks context: Maxx Stacks deploys multi-tier agent hierarchies — an orchestrator coordinates specialized subagents for research, drafting, validation, and delivery.
Enterprise Context
Used in enterprise deployments to parallelize complex processes and enforce domain separation between agent roles.
Tags
#multi-agent#orchestration#hierarchy
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