Delegation
Delegation assigns a task or responsibility to another worker. In an agent system, a coordinating agent can give a specialist a bounded job and use the returned result.
[Hugging Face]In practice · hypothetical example
A manager asks a worker to calculate totals while keeping responsibility for the final report.
[Hugging Face]A little deeper
Useful delegation specifies what the worker should do and what it should return. It does not require transferring control of the entire conversation. [Hugging Face]
A common mix-up
Delegating one task hands over the whole conversation.
A coordinator can retain control while another worker handles a subtask. [Hugging Face]
A worker calculates totals and returns them to a manager. What happened?
Sources & editorial notes
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- Multi-Agent Systems ↗ (opens in new tab)Hugging Face · Publication date unknown
Relevant section: Manager agent for task delegation
Last editorial review: 2026-09-13 by project-owner.
First observed in this corpus: Unknown.
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Revision 2 · Created 2026-09-13 · Updated 2026-09-13
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