Your Sub-Agents Are a Distributed System. Treat Them Like One. - Girish Konda, Microsoft
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Why it matters
Maps subagentA separate agent spawned by another to do one scoped piece of work in its own context, returning only the result.Full definition → failure modes (partial work reported as success, retries repeating side effects) to known distributed-systems fixes, giving engineers a concrete hand-off model for agents touching real systems.
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subagent — A separate agent spawned by another to do one scoped piece of work in its own context, returning only the result.
MCP — The Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.