#multi-agent
Every post tagged "multi-agent".
28 posts · showing 21–28
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Delegating to a Human as If They Were an Agent
Same interface, same contract, same result shape — a person is a worker with hours of latency and much better context. Which makes suspendable runs the prerequisite, not a nice-to-have.
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Testing Multi-Agent Systems Without Losing Your Mind
Add a second agent and end-to-end assertions stop telling you anything useful. Contracts at every seam, stubs for the supervisor's unhappy paths, and integration tests that assert on graph shape and cost.
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Deadlock, Livelock, and the Agent That Waits Forever
A deadlocked thread pool gives you a stack trace. Deadlocked agents produce fluent, plausible activity that looks like work — and bill you for it until someone notices.
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When the Worker Needs to Ask the Supervisor a Question
A blocked worker with no channel back will guess, and the guess is invisible in what it returns. Making "needs input" a result type costs nothing — and the questions it logs are a to-do list for your delegation template.
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Specialist Agents or Specialist Prompts? The Cheaper Half of Multi-Agent
A separate agent buys separate context, separate permissions, and separate lifecycles. It does not buy expertise — that's what prompts are for, and they cost nothing and lose nothing at the boundary.
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Debate or Vote? Getting Real Value From Multiple Model Opinions
Voting harvests independent error; debate harvests challenge. Pick wrong and you multiply your token bill for agreement you'd have had from a single call — and the disagreement, the part worth paying for, gets logged away.
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Chain, Blackboard, or Broadcast? Three Ways Agents Share State
Chains lose the evidence, blackboards fight over it, broadcasts drown in it. Pick by which failure your task can absorb — and log provenance from day one or debugging becomes guesswork.
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The Supervisor That Became a Bottleneck: When Not to Add a Second Agent
Splitting a task across agents adds a boundary, and every boundary quietly drops context. Here's the test for whether your second agent is buying isolation or just paying double for a worse answer.