Summary

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Managing a complex orchestrator becomes easier when you can distribute responsibilities across specialized child agents. In this module, you built the skills to create, configure, and manage child agents in Copilot Studio — turning a difficult-to-maintain agent into a structured, domain-aware system.

What you learned

• Child agents are agents managed within a parent orchestrator, each focused on a specific domain with its own instructions, tools, and knowledge. They're the right architectural choice when one team owns the entire solution and there's no need to publish any component independently.
• You create child agents by defining clear names, descriptions, and instructions that help the orchestrator understand each agent's purpose and when to delegate to it.
• You configure inputs and outputs to pass structured data between parent and child agents, and you control the parent's response when a child agent finishes using the after-running settings.
• You verify routing accuracy using the test panel and manage the full child agent lifecycle — enabling, disabling, redirecting to, and deleting agents as your requirements change.

Learn more

• Add a child agent
• Add agents to your agent (overview)
• Multi-agent orchestrator and subagent patterns
• How Microsoft rebuilt its web assistant using child agents and multi-agent orchestration