Multi-agent
What is Worker Agent?
A worker agent performs one specialist job and returns an artifact.
Workers should not own the global stop policy.
Why it matters
A worker agent performs one specialist job and returns a typed artifact. It does not own the global workflow — that is the supervisor's or orchestrator's job.
Good workers have narrow, well-defined responsibilities. They should fail explicitly rather than producing partial results silently.
Key takeaways
- 1Workers perform one job and return one artifact type.
- 2They should fail explicitly, not silently produce partial results.
- 3Workers do not own the global stop policy.
Common mistakes
- ✕Giving workers too broad a scope, overlapping with other workers.
- ✕Workers silently ignoring errors instead of reporting them to the supervisor.
Related terms
Concept neighborhood
Terms linked from Worker Agent in the glossary graph.
- Worker Agent
- Supervisor Agent
- Handoff