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orphaned agent
A spawned subagent whose parent task record is gone, so it keeps running and consuming resources while showing as untrackable and unable to be stopped.
also written as orphaned grandchild · orphaned subagent
Related terms
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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