sub-agent
An agent spawned by another agent to handle a piece of work in its own fresh context, reporting back just the answer. Keeps a long task from filling the main context window with search results.
Where it comes up
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“Um this is a an open-source repo called Pet Clinic. Maybe you've seen it before. It's it's a legacy Spring code base. And we're going to use the front end to rewrite and automate user acceptance tests. We've also uh I've kicked off a fully…”
Cursor 201
“So, in terms of code base exploration, um if you're using a one of the thinking models, you know, like this, typically they'll they'll spin up a they'll spin up a sub agent um using potentially like a one of the one of the cheaper to use mo…”
Cloud Agents
“agent swarms. So you can launch a bunch of different sub-agents that run in parallel to do the task and report back to the orchestrator. And then finally we built a lot of extensibility in mind. So you can actually build a bunch of custom s…”
Cursor Agent SDK
“encourage you to to choose whichever is going to be easiest for you. Awesome. Um from Kamal here for long-running agents, can we cache the context to reuse tokens using sub-agents? Yes. Uh so, the the uh the SDK does support uh sub-agents.…”
Cursor CLI
“actually shift into agent mode to execute, uh, a plan that maybe I've I've built. I also want to have the same type of model optionality that Cursor is famous for, so that I can shift back and forth between different models, and then use al…”
Cursor x Slack
“And so, just to kind of show you the architecture of what this looks like before we go through a demo. Um again, these are fully autonomous. And when we say agent manager, there's usually a fully autonomous agent that is running. It's alway…”
Cursor for Knowledge Work
“You can um try different models. And then, you have different skills. So, I used the create skill skill um to create the skill that I used, but um I have a bunch of different ones. You can also view them in your settings under skills, rule…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“With cursor, part of building that shared knowledge context where you have all of your skills, rules, and sub-agents successfully configured, and you're also able to manage your your agents in one place in cursor, you can accomplish like pr…”
PRD to PR
“or Matt, before I swap back to the the slide deck here? Nope. Okay. So, cool. Yeah, just a couple last-minute slides. Um So, there's a couple things here, just kind of cursor as a whole. So, you saw kind of like how fast we were able to out…”
Cursor 101
“And so, you just go up here and where it says ask AI, click that, and you can ask questions in natural language. Super nice way to navigate uh a documentation. So, you can say um you know, tell me about sub-agents or MCPs. You know, just na…”
Cursor 201
“Cursor. Um, so some of the topics that we're going to cover are skills and sub-agents, cloud agents and automations, computer use, and potentially bug bot if we have some time for it at the end. Um, encourage you to ask questions as I go. I…”
Cursor Automations
“sub-agents. Uh, something like that is very exciting to us as well. That's awesome. Um, and then I think Joseph said 10 minutes for cloud agents to finish. Have How I guess do we think about shipping rate given that maybe cloud agents take…”
Cursor for Mobile Developers
“>> Uh so this is how can we container with applications? Um not sure exactly what what that uh what that means, but if you can maybe clarify um what do you mean by uh containers? And then uh Caleb, the description for the summit said it was…”
Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era
“sub-agents that will run in parallel. And then once they're finished, they'll provide those artifacts back to the main agent. And then you'll kind of have that parent agent review all that work and decide whether or not you want to move for…”