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Advisor entry added to Managed Agents multiagent rosters

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Multiagent rosters can include one advisor entry so the main thread consults a stronger model mid-turn.

advisor
What

Rosters accept a new {"type": "advisor", "model": ...} entry, at most one per roster, letting the main thread consult a more capable model partway through a turn.

Details
  • Consultations run as a platform-spawned thread under a reserved name and do not count against the 25-concurrent-thread limit.
  • Advice arrives as an agent.thread_message_received event, either plaintext or [{"type": "redacted"}] depending on the advisor model.
  • Fable 5 is documented as temporarily unavailable in the advisor role.
Evidence

anthropic.advisor

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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