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no-op turn
A turn where a parent agent produces no new work because it is only waiting on background subagents to finish, yet still consumes a turn of the conversation.
also written as no-op turns · no-op while waiting
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fan-outThe pattern where one delegated task spawns multiple concurrent subagents, and each of those can spawn more of its own. Depth is usually capped, but breadth often is not, so total agents alive can multiply far past what anyone intended.view termtask toolThe mechanism an agent uses to spawn a subagent to handle a piece of work, the same primitive that lets subagents recursively spawn further subagents.view term
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