Agent-to-Agent Delegation in the AI-powered Theia IDE / Theia AI

Automating workflows with AI just took a leap forward. Theia AI and the AI-powered Theia IDE now supports agent-to-agent delegation, enabling one AI agent to delegate specific tasks - like reporting bugs - to another agent. This opens the door to multi-agent workflows where each AI agent can focus on a dedicated responsibility.

🎥 See it in action:

Delegating QA: From Testing to Bug Reporting

In the demonstration, we create a bug reporter agent in just a few clicks and connect it to the app tester agent.

The workflow is simple but powerful:

• The app tester agent runs automated tests on a sample web application.
• When it finds a defect, it delegates the bug reporting task to the bug reporter agent.
• The bug reporter agent creates GitHub issues—complete with details, reproduction steps, and severity—directly in the repository.

By chaining agents together, repetitive QA tasks like bug logging are fully automated.

How It Works in Theia AI

This delegation capability builds on Theia AI’s open architecture:

• Custom Agents - Easily define new AI agents with custom prompts and roles.
• MCP Integration - The GitHub MCP service provides secure, token-based access for creating issues.
• Agent-to-Agent Calls - The new delegation function allows an agent to invoke another agent, passing along the necessary context.

The result is a multi-agent workflow that mirrors collaborative human teams—one agent tests, another documents and reports issues.

Why This Matters

Agent-to-agent delegation unlocks a new level of automation, specialization, and scalability:

• Testing, documentation, code reviews, or deployment steps can be split across dedicated agents.
• Human engineers can review AI-reported bugs or directly focus on fixes.
• Complex workflows can be constructed without writing custom integration code - everything runs inside the AI-powered Theia IDE or any custom tool based on Theia AI.

Try It Yourself

🛠️ Download the AI-powered Theia IDE to experiment with agent-to-agent delegation.

📺 Watch the demo above to see the process step-by-step.

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The agent-to-agent delegation feature is part of Theia AI, a framework for building AI-native tools and IDEs. At EclipseSource, we help teams bring AI into their development workflows-from coding to testing, from IDEs to engineering tools. Whether you’re building a custom testing agent, adapting Theia IDE to your stack, or exploring AI-native workflows-we’re here to help.

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