Pattern
Claude Agent SDK — subagents
Provide a primitive where a main Claude agent can spawn specialized subagents — sub-instances of Claude with focused prompts and constrained tool sets — to handle delegated sub-tasks, with the subagent's context isolated from the main agent's and its output returned as a structured result.
Classification — Sub-instance spawning pattern for hierarchical agent delegation.
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