What are Teams?

Groups of agents that collaborate to solve complex tasks.

A Team is a collection of agents (or sub-teams) that work together. The team leader delegates tasks to members based on their roles.

from agno.team import Team
from agno.agent import Agent

team = Team(members=[
    Agent(name="English Agent", role="You answer questions in English"),
    Agent(name="Chinese Agent", role="You answer questions in Chinese"),
    Team(
        name="Germanic Team",
        role="You coordinate the team members to answer questions in German and Dutch",
        members=[
            Agent(name="German Agent", role="You answer questions in German"),
            Agent(name="Dutch Agent", role="You answer questions in Dutch"),
        ],
    ),
])

Why Teams?

Single agents hit limits fast. Context windows fill up, decision-making gets muddy, debugging becomes impossible.

Teams distribute work across specialized agents:

Benefit	Description
Specialization	Each agent masters one domain instead of being mediocre at everything
Parallel processing	Multiple agents work simultaneously on independent subtasks
Maintainability	When something breaks, you know exactly which agent to fix
Scalability	Add capabilities by adding agents, not rewriting everything

The tradeoff: coordination overhead. Agents need to communicate and share state. Get this wrong and you’ve built a more expensive failure mode.

When to Use Teams

Use a team when:

• A task requires multiple specialized agents with different tools or expertise
• A single agent’s context window gets exceeded
• You want each agent focused on a narrow scope

Use a single agent when:

• The task fits one domain of expertise
• Minimizing token costs matters
• You’re not sure yet (start simple, add agents when you hit limits)

Team Patterns

Pattern	Configuration	Use case
Supervisor	Default	Task decomposition, quality control, synthesis
Router	respond_directly=True, determine_input_for_members=False	Route to specialists without synthesis
Broadcast	delegate_to_all_members=True	Parallel research, multiple perspectives

See Delegation for details.

Guides

Build Teams

Define members, roles, and structure.

Run Teams

Execute teams and handle responses.

Debug Teams

Inspect and troubleshoot team behavior.

Resources

• Examples
• Reference