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Multi-agent orchestration: patterns for complex workflows

When one agent isn't enough. Hierarchical, parallel, and peer-to-peer agent architectures.

How a team of agents shares one job

Task

A big job comes in.

Supervisor

Splits the job into parts.

Workers

Specialists each take a part.

Review

A reviewer agent checks the work.

Result

  • Merge the parts
  • One finished answer

Step by step

  1. Task

    A big job comes in.

  2. Supervisor

    One agent splits it into parts.

  3. Workers

    Specialists work at the same time.

  4. Merge

    The supervisor joins the results.

  5. Review

    A reviewer checks the work.

Several small specialists often beat one agent doing everything.