Pattern
Agents-as-tools
Let an orchestrator agent delegate a sub-task to a specialist agent through an ordinary tool call, receive the specialist's answer as the tool result, and keep ownership of the conversation, instead of transferring control to the specialist.
Classification Coordination pattern: an orchestrator calls specialist agents as tools and keeps control of the conversation.
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