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