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Agentic Architecture~14 min
Orchestrator-Worker and Subagents: Context Isolation
Design multi-agent systems the Anthropic way: an orchestrator that decomposes and synthesizes, subagents with isolated context windows, and the token-cost tradeoff that comes with them.
What you will be able to do
- ✓State the orchestrator's job: dynamically decompose, delegate to workers, and synthesize results
- ✓Explain why separate context windows let subagents explore deeply without polluting each other
- ✓Describe what a subagent should return (a condensed summary, not its raw transcript)
- ✓Weigh the main tradeoff: multi-agent systems consume substantially more tokens
3 concepts·7 hands-on exercises·3-question check