Question 83
A coordinator agent delegates to specialized subagents — web search, document analysis, synthesis, report generation — to research topics and produce comprehensive, properly cited reports.
Read the full scenario lessonYou are building a multi-agent research system using the Claude Agent SDK. A coordinator agent delegates to specialized subagents: one searches the web, one analyzes documents, one synthesizes findings, and one generates reports. The system researches topics and produces comprehensive, cited reports.
In production, you observe that simple fact-checking queries (e.g., “What year was the Paris Climate Agreement signed?”) traverse all four subagents sequentially, consuming 40+ seconds and significant tokens per query. Complex comparative research benefits from the full pipeline. Your query distribution is diverse and evolving as users discover new applications. What’s the most effective approach to optimize for varying query complexity?