Glossary term
Glossary term
Agentic Systems
A specialized, narrowly focused model invoked by a manager agent to handle a specific subset of a larger problem. Sub-agents typically have a narrower action space than agents.
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A consulting firm uses sub-agents for research, drafting, and editing within its content-production agentic workflow.
A finance automation team uses sub-agents for invoice extraction, payment posting, and exception handling within its accounts-payable workflow.
A devops team uses sub-agents for triage, runbook lookup, and on-call paging within its incident-response workflow.
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