In this article, you'll learn the differences between tools and subagents, when to use each, and how to avoid unnecessary complexity when building AI agents.
In this article, you will learn how to decide whether a given piece of agent functionality should be built as a tool or as a subagent, and how to avoid overengineering your agent architecture in the process.
Topics we will cover include:
What tools and subagents are, and the key differences between them.
When a tool is the better choice, and when a subagent is worth the added complexity.
How to apply a simple three-question decision framework, and what adding subagents actually costs.
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