Orchestrator-Workers
Also called subagents, multi-agent orchestration, supervisor pattern.
Orchestrator-workers is a pattern in which a central model dynamically breaks a task into subtasks, delegates them to worker model calls or subagents, and synthesizes their results.
Description
Unlike parallelization, the subtasks are not fixed in advance but decided by the orchestrator for each input, which suits tasks such as multi-file code changes or broad research.
Sources
- Anthropic (2024). Building effective agents.
Cite this entry
Protologue. (2026). Orchestrator-Workers. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0068). https://protologue.com/t/orchestrator-workers/
BibTeX
@misc{protologue_orchestrator_workers,
title = {Orchestrator-Workers},
author = {{Protologue}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques, v1.0.0},
note = {Entry PTL-0068},
url = {https://protologue.com/t/orchestrator-workers/}
}