#multi-agent
Every post tagged "multi-agent".
28 posts · showing 11–20
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What Crosses the Handoff: Transcript, Summary, or Contract?
A triage agent spends eleven tool calls finding the bug, then hands off. Passing the transcript ships its dead ends; passing a summary strips the uncertainty. What a typed handoff contract gets right — and the one field teams always forget.
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The Supervisor That Should Have Been a For-Loop
Every night the same plan, a model call per dispatch, and about once a week it checked eleven services instead of twelve. A for-loop cannot skip an item; an agent orchestrating one eventually will.
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Injection That Crosses a Handoff
The fetcher had no write tools and the analyst never saw a web page. The separation held perfectly — and routed the payload around itself, through the one field that carries prose.
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When a Worker Returns Garbage: Validating at the Handoff
Thirty-nine extracts were fine. The fortieth had every field present, correctly typed, and null — and the supervisor aggregated it, because well-formed looked like correct.
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The Second-System Effect in Agent Deployments
The first agent works because it was scoped well. The second aims at exactly the cases the first one escalated — which is the residual that resisted automation for structural reasons.
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The Handoff That Breaks Every Autonomous SDLC Pipeline
Chain agents across the lifecycle and the first handoff fails hardest — because it's the only one whose input isn't a written artifact, and every downstream check verifies against its output rather than the intent.
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Upgrading One Agent in a System of Six
A contained improvement to one classifier made the supervisor above it drop half its escalations. No error, no failing test — because each agent's own tests passed against its own version.
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Should Agents Talk in Prose or in Schemas?
Prose carries the nuance your schema didn't anticipate — and dissolves it across three hops, turning "probably rounding" into an established fact. Structured with a bounded escape hatch, and a rule for when to promote.
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How Many Agents Is Too Many?
Every addition is locally justified, and then the system costs more and answers worse than a simpler one would. Four measurable signals you've overshot — and the merge experiment that settles it.
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Shared Tool Access: When Two Agents Touch the Same Resource
An agent holds a stale read for seconds, not microseconds — long enough that last-write-wins silently deletes another agent's work while both report success. Partition, append, or version.