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Goal decomposition

Goal decomposition is the process of breaking a broad objective into smaller, concrete subgoals or tasks that an agent or group of agents can complete one at a time and combine into a result.

Goal decomposition sits in the Agents & tools part of the Agentik {OS} glossary, which defines the words used to build and run AI agent systems.

Also called task decomposition, subgoal decomposition.