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EB-7

Multi-Agent Coordination

When one agent is not enough, how do several agents divide work, share context, and produce a coherent result?

Theme: Orchestration →

Topics

5 topics — scope and references for each.

Core patterns — subagents, skills, handoffs, routers
The four foundational coordination patterns. **Subagents** are called as tools by a supervisor that keeps overall context. **Skills** package reusable behavi…
Supervisor / orchestrator-worker
The most widely deployed production pattern: a central orchestrator decomposes a request into subtasks, delegates to specialised workers, monitors progress,…
Swarm / decentralized
The decentralised alternative: agents coordinate through handoffs with no central orchestrator, each carrying its own routing logic. Students learn the trade…
Tradeoffs — centralized / decentralized / hierarchical
A decision framework across fault tolerance, predictability, and scale. Centralised designs give control but a single point of failure; decentralised designs…
Cost per pattern & the one-level-deep constraint
The economics and hard limits of coordination. Each pattern has a different cost structure — debate multiplies model calls, supervisor cost scales with subta…

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