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A specialized worker / persona that an agent runtime can dispatch alongside
its primary loop. Canonical term follows Anthropic Claude Code ("subagent",
one word; docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents). The same
NodeKind covers two provenance variants — vendor-shipped built-ins (Claude
Code's general-purpose / Explore / Plan; OpenAI built-in handoff patterns)
and user-installable custom definitions (Claude Code `.claude/agents/<name>.md`,
parallel to a Skill's SKILL.md). Distinguished via the `provenance`
attribute. The dispatch *mechanism* a runtime uses to invoke a subagent is
recorded on `AgentRuntimeImpl.subagentDispatchMechanism` (task-tool /
handoff / sub_agents-array / agent-as-tool / none); the *definition format*
a platform loads custom subagents from is recorded on
`AgentPlatformImpl.subagentDefinitionFormat`.
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