AI engineering glossary · Agents tools MCP
What is supervisor agent?
Supervisor agent: An agent that manages others by deciding which specialist agent should act next, checking their results and deciding when the work is done. It provides a single point of control, but can become a bottleneck.
Supervisor agent: an example
A supervisor routes 'why did my payment fail?' to the billing agent and 'reset my password' to the account agent.
Related terms
More Agents tools MCP terms
- Task success rate
- Thought-action-observation
- Tool argument validation
- Tool error handling
- Tool overload
- Tool registry
- Tool retrieval
- Tool selection
Where you learn it
Supervisor agent is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.