Glossary · term
Subagent Context Isolation
A context engineering pattern in which each sub-agent operates in its own context window and receives only the resources needed for its task (and optionally a different model or dedicated tools), while the main session acts as an orchestrator collecting the results. Sub-agents can be parallelized, which makes them the foundation of swarm-style experiments.
LLMOps2025Wave 3 · 2025–26Maturity: 3/5
Maturity rationale
Bockeler/Thoughtworks martinfowler 2026
References
Author: Thoughtworks