Supervisor / Orchestrator-Worker — Anthropic Research pattern
Lead (Opus 4)
plan · delegate · synthesize
never reads raw sources
Worker 1 (Sonnet 4)
fresh 200k context
sub-question: "origins"
returns: narrow summary
Worker 2 (Sonnet 4)
fresh 200k context
sub-question: "state of art"
returns: narrow summary
Worker 3 (Sonnet 4)
fresh 200k context
sub-question: "open problems"
returns: narrow summary
synthesis
lead reads worker summaries only
why it wins
fresh context per worker · parallel wall-clock · narrow worker prompts
+90.2% over single-agent Opus 4 (Anthropic internal research evals) · 80% of BrowseComp variance explained by tokens alone