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The ephemeral patterns
Five ways standing agents spin up short-lived capacity. Every one is created for a task and dissolved when it ships; none appears on the org chart above until it exists.
| Pattern | What it is | When it is the right shape |
|---|---|---|
| Sub-agents | A standing agent delegates one bounded task to a short-lived helper it owns. The helper does the job, reports back, and dissolves. | Continuous small delegations inside one agent's workflow: a lookup, a draft, a verification. |
| Multi-agent team | A set of specialized agents with distinct roles stood up together around one goal, coordinating with each other, disbanded on delivery. | Complex work that needs different skills plus internal challenge before anything ships. |
| Swarm | Many small identical workers released at once onto a divisible problem. Results aggregate; the swarm collapses. | Breadth: scanning, searching, enumerating, covering a large surface fast. |
| Parallel agents | The same job sharded across several copies running simultaneously, each finishing on its own clock, results merged at the end. | Throughput on independent shards of identical work. |
| Pipeline relay | Stages in sequence: each stage agent spawns as the previous one hands off its output, like a relay baton. | Work with strict ordered stages where each step transforms the last step's output. |