In deep agent workflows, each sub‐agent automatically performs an LLM
step to summarize its tool calls before returning to its parent. This
leads to:
1. Excessive latency: every nested agent invokes the LLM, compounding
delays.
2. Loss of raw tool data: summaries may strip out details the top‐level
agent needs.
We discovered that `Agent.as_tool(...)` already accepts an
(undocumented) `custom_output_extractor` parameter. By providing a
callback, a parent agent can override what the sub‐agent returns e.g.
hand back raw tool outputs or a custom slice so that only the final
agent does summarization.
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This PR adds a “Custom output extraction” section to the Markdown docs
under “Agents as tools,” with a minimal code example.
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