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Multi-agent Systems

Several agents with different jobs working together, usually with one coordinating the others.

A requester brings a damaged lamp to a workshop. A software operator works at a cobalt context tray while an owner and a reviewer oversee the boundary.

Outline operator: software metaphor · ⏸ Review boundary

Read the concept diagram

See it drawn: Follow one request through a governed AI system Hub and spoke

In one line

Several agents with different jobs working together, usually with one coordinating the others.

Picture it

A project lead who splits the work among specialists and assembles the result.

Under the hood

A coordinator decomposes a goal, routes subtasks to specialists with their own tools and isolated context, and aggregates the results. The main failure is decomposing too narrowly: give goals, not task lists.

Builds on

AI Agents

Leads to

none

On a guided path

Path 4: What makes it an agent, stop 9 of 9.

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