--- title: Introducing Workflows and Sub-Agents in IBM Bob v2 description: IBM Bob v2 introduces two major features for agentic software development: workflows and sub-agents. Workflows blend deterministic scripting with AI reasoning,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-workflows-and-sub-agents-in-ibm-bob-v2-nqvewm2ge twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing Workflows and Sub-Agents in IBM Bob v2 | daily.dev og:description: IBM Bob v2 introduces two major features for agentic software development: workflows and sub-agents. Workflows blend deterministic scripting with AI reasoning,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-workflows-and-sub-agents-in-ibm-bob-v2-nqvewm2ge og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NQVewM2Ge.png og:image:alt: Introducing Workflows and Sub-Agents in IBM Bob v2 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing Workflows and Sub-Agents in IBM Bob v2 **[Niklas Heidloff](https://daily.dev/sources/heidloff)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary IBM Bob v2 introduces two major features for agentic software development: workflows and sub-agents. Workflows blend deterministic scripting with AI reasoning, ensuring predictability, efficiency, and debuggability by reserving AI calls only for tasks requiring genuine reasoning. Sub-agents are independent agent instances with isolated context windows that can run in parallel, reducing execution time and keeping context clean. A practical Java Unit Testing Workflow example demonstrates eight sequential steps where deterministic operations handle filesystem scanning and test execution, while AI-driven steps handle strategy generation and code generation via parallel sub-agents. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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