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Cross-framework enhancement overlay for choosing a multi-agent topology BEFORE writing any agent. A binary-question rubric — is single-agent + tools enough? do

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Cross-framework enhancement overlay for choosing a multi-agent topology BEFORE writing any agent. A binary-question rubric — is single-agent + tools enough? do agents need to know about each other? does the output need one voice? — maps the answer to single-agent / supervisor / swarm / sequential / hierarchical. Activates when a coder agent is tempted to "split the work into roles" or reaches for a multi-agent framework. Encodes the *selection rubric* that the per-framework skills assume but never surface. Search keywords: when to use multi-agent, single vs multi agent, do I need multiple agents, supervisor vs swarm, multi-agent vs single agent, agent team design.

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Multi-Agent Topology Selection · SOP (ENHANCE overlay)

Overlay posture: this skill decides whether and which topology. It does not teach the API — descend to [[crewai]] or [[agentsop-langgraph]] for that. Every load-bearing claim carries an inline source tag resolving in references/R1-source-evidence.md.

1. 何时激活 (When to Activate)

Activate when any of the following fire:

The task description contains "team of agents", "researcher + writer + reviewer", "manager agent", "agents that hand off", "split this into roles", or "multi-agent".
A coder agent is about to instantiate ≥2 agents (CrewAI Agent(...) × N, LangGraph supervisor/swarm, OpenAI Swarm handoffs) and has not yet justified why a single agent with tools is insufficient.
Someone is choosing between CrewAI Process.sequential vs Process.hierarchical, or LangGraph supervisor vs swarm vs hierarchical-teams, and wants the rubric, not the syntax.
A multi-agent system is over budget on tokens/latency and the question is "can we collapse agents back into one?".

Do not activate for: a single LLM call, a one-shot RAG query, or a fixed tool-call pipeline with no role separation. Those are the single-agent baseline this skill defends.

Mental check: "An agent needs agency, otherwise it's just another script." — João Moura, CrewAI founder [[crewai · §1.3]]. If you can write the control flow in if/else, you do not need multiple agents — you need one agent (or a graph) with explicit edges.

2. 核心心智模型 (Core Mental Model)

Most "multi-agent" problems are single-agent + tools. Add agents only when context isolation or parallel expertise genuinely demands it.

"Single-agent is right for approximately 80% of cases; the trap is reaching for multi-agent because it sounds more capable." [[crewai · DC-1]]

Two — and only two — forces justify a second agent:

Context isolation. One agent's working context would pollute another's (a critic that must not see its own draft's rationalisations; a tool-heavy sub-task whose 40 intermediate tool calls should not bloat the main thread). Splitting gives each agent a clean, bounded prompt.
Parallel expertise. Two genuinely different skills run concurrently or in strict sequence (research → write → review), where a single prompt provably cannot hold both jobs without quality collapse [[crewai · DC-1]].

If neither force is present, a single agent with the union of tools wins — fewer hops, fewer tokens, no handoff failures. This is the baseline the rubric must beat, not the default to escape.

The selection rubric (three binary questions)

Q0  Is single-agent + tools enough?
      (no context-isolation need, no parallel-expertise need)
        YES → single-agent + tools. STOP. Do not add agents.
        NO  → ↓

Q1  Do the agents need to KNOW ABOUT EACH OTHER (peer handoff)?
        NO  → one funnels through a coordinator → SUPERVISOR
              (or static order → SEQUENTIAL, if order is fixed)
        YES → ↓

Q2  Must the OUTPUT speak with ONE VOICE / single audit funnel?
        YES → SUPERVISOR (single user-facing persona, one funnel)
        NO  → SWARM (dynamic peer handoff, last-active agent remembered)

Scaling override: ≥6 specialists that group into teams → HIERARCHICAL
(supervisor-of-supervisors). Use only for grouping, not for routing.

The two questions that actually separate the patterns: (a) can sub-agents know each other, (b) is one user-facing voice mandated. Everything else is tuning [[langgraph · Case 2]].

3. SOP 工作流 (Selection Protocol)

Walk top-down. Each gate can send you back down the ladder — collapsing agents is as valid an answer as adding them.

Step 1 · Defend the single-agent baseline first

Ask Q0. Enumerate the would-be roles. For each, ask: would merging it into one agent's prompt + toolset actually degrade output? If you cannot point to a concrete failure mode (style drift, missed checklist, context bloat, parallel latency), the honest answer is single-agent + tools. Exit here ~80% of the time [[crewai · DC-1]].

Step 2 · If splitting, decide static vs dynamic routing

Order is fixed and known at design time (research always precedes write precedes review) → SEQUENTIAL. Cheapest, most debuggable, 1× token baseline [[crewai · §2.3]]. In CrewAI this is Process.sequential; in LangGraph it is static edges A→B→C.
Routing must be decided at runtime (which specialist handles this query) → you need a coordinator or peer handoff → continue to Step 3.

Step 3 · Coordinator (supervisor) vs peers (swarm)

Ask Q1 then Q2.

Agents that do not know each other and funnel through one router → SUPERVISOR. Sub-agents are effectively tools the supervisor calls; the supervisor "translates" their output back to the user — which is exactly why it costs the most tokens [[langgraph · Step 4]].
Agents that do know each other and no single voice is mandated → SWARM. Dynamic handoff, last-active agent stays active across turns, no translation step → fewer tokens, slightly higher accuracy on the τ-bench retest [[langgraph · §SOP Step 4]].

Step 4 · Apply the supervisor-default caveat (read this twice)

LangChain's own benchmark found swarm "slightly outperformed supervisor across all scenarios" and supervisor "consistently uses more tokens than swarm" — yet they still ship supervisor as the recommended default [[langgraph · Step 4]]. Why the nuance matters:

Supervisor is the safest with third-party / untrusted agents (single funnel, single audit log, single place to enforce policy) [[langgraph · Step 4]].
Swarm is a bad fit for third-party agents — peers handing off to peers means no central control point [[langgraph · Step 4]].
So: do not copy "default = supervisor" blindly. If your agents are internal and trusted, swarm is often the better pick the default hides. Pick on the two questions, not on the framework's default.

Step 5 · Verify the chosen topology can terminate

Any topology with runtime handoff (swarm, hierarchical, CrewAI delegation) can loop. Bound it before shipping — cross-link [[agentsop-bounded-loop]]. Concretely: default allow_delegation=False on workers, set per-agent max_iter, wrap an outer timeout, and bake an explicit exit counter into state rather than trusting the LLM to stop [[crewai · DC-5]] [[agentsop-bounded-loop]].

Step 6 · Reconsider before scaling agents up

≥6 specialists → group into HIERARCHICAL teams purely for navigability, not to get free routing (see Anti-patterns). At >5 agents CrewAI starts hitting coordination failure [[crewai · §6.1]]; that is a signal to group or collapse, not to add more.

4. 操作模型 (Operation Models)

Format: Trigger → Action → Output → Evidence.

OP-1 · Defend the single-agent baseline

Trigger: a task is being described as "a team of agents".
Action: list the proposed roles; for each, name the concrete failure that merging into one agent would cause (style drift / missed checklist / context bloat / required parallelism). No nameable failure ⇒ single agent.
Output: single-agent + tools, OR a justified list of must-split roles.
Evidence: [[crewai · DC-1]] "single-agent right for ~80% of cases".

OP-2 · Single-vs-multi gate

Trigger: baseline defended and at least one role has a real split-justifying failure mode.
Action: confirm the force is context isolation or parallel expertise — not "it sounds more capable". If only the latter, stay single.
Output: a yes/no on multi-agent with the force named in one sentence.
Evidence: [[crewai · §2.2]], [[crewai · DC-1]].

OP-3 · Static-order gate (→ sequential)

Trigger: multi-agent confirmed; the order of work is fixed at design time.
Action: choose SEQUENTIAL — list agents in execution order; pass dependencies explicitly (CrewAI context=[...]), do not rely on implicit transfer.
Output: an ordered task list; CrewAI Process.sequential or LangGraph static edges.
Evidence: [[crewai · §2.3]] (sequential = 1× tokens, low debug cost).

OP-4 · Peer-awareness gate (Q1 → supervisor vs swarm branch)

Trigger: routing must be decided at runtime.
Action: ask "do sub-agents know about each other?" — NO ⇒ supervisor branch; YES ⇒ continue to OP-5.
Output: chosen branch.
Evidence: [[langgraph · Step 4]] decision tree.

OP-5 · Single-voice gate (Q2 → supervisor vs swarm)

Trigger: peers know each other (Q1=YES).
Action: ask "must output be one voice / single audit funnel?" — YES ⇒ SUPERVISOR; NO ⇒ SWARM.
Output: SUPERVISOR or SWARM.
Evidence: [[langgraph · Case 2]] (compliance ⇒ supervisor; UX continuity ⇒ swarm).

OP-6 · Apply the supervisor-default caveat

Trigger: supervisor was selected, OR you are about to accept a framework default.
Action: check trust. Third-party/untrusted agents ⇒ supervisor is correct. Internal/trusted ⇒ re-test whether swarm's lower token cost wins; if so, switch.
Output: a topology chosen on trust + the two questions, not on the default.
Evidence: [[langgraph · Step 4]] — swarm beats supervisor on bench, yet supervisor remains the shipped default for third-party safety.

OP-7 · Tune-before-switch

Trigger: chosen topology is over token/latency budget.
Action: before changing paradigm, apply the published fixes to the current one. For supervisor: remove handoff messages, add a forwarding-messages tool, optimise tool naming — LangChain measured "nearly 50% increase in performance" [[langgraph · Step 4]]. Switch paradigm only if still over budget.
Output: a tuned topology or a justified migration.
Evidence: [[langgraph · Case 2]].

OP-8 · Bound the topology

Trigger: any runtime-handoff topology before ship.
Action: allow_delegation=False on workers, per-agent max_iter, outer timeout, explicit state-based exit counter.
Output: a topology that provably terminates.
Evidence: [[crewai · DC-5]] (delegation ping-pong), [[agentsop-bounded-loop]].

5. 困境决策案例 (Dilemma Cases)

Case 1 · "Swarm beats supervisor on the benchmark — why ship supervisor?"

困境: LangChain's own multi-agent benchmark shows swarm "slightly outperformed supervisor across all scenarios" and supervisor "consistently uses more tokens" (the telephone-game translation overhead). Yet LangChain's recommended default is still supervisor [[langgraph · Step 4]]. A coder agent copying the default would leave accuracy and tokens on the table.
约束:
- Want the benchmark's efficiency (swarm).
- But may integrate third-party / untrusted agents later.
- Need a single auditable funnel for tool calls (compliance).
决策步骤:
1. Read the default's reason, not the default. Supervisor wins on safety with third-party agents and single audit funnel — not on accuracy

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name: agentsop-agent-topology-selection
version: 0.1.0
description: >-
  Cross-framework enhancement overlay for choosing a multi-agent topology BEFORE writing any
  agent. A binary-question rubric — is single-agent + tools enough? do agents need to know
  about each other? does the output need one voice? — maps the answer to single-agent /
  supervisor / swarm / sequential / hierarchical. Activates when a coder agent is tempted to
  "split the work into roles" or reaches for a multi-agent framework. Encodes the *selection
  rubric* that the per-framework skills assume but never surface. Search keywords: when to
  use multi-agent, single vs multi agent, do I need multiple agents, supervisor vs swarm,
  multi-agent vs single agent, agent team design.
overlay: true
cross_links: [crewai, langgraph, bounded-loop]

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---
name: agentsop-agent-topology-selection
version: 0.1.0
description: >-
  Cross-framework enhancement overlay for choosing a multi-agent topology BEFORE writing any
  agent. A binary-question rubric — is single-agent + tools enough? do agents need to know
  about each other? does the output need one voice? — maps the answer to single-agent /
  supervisor / swarm / sequential / hierarchical. Activates when a coder agent is tempted to
  "split the work into roles" or reaches for a multi-agent framework. Encodes the *selection
  rubric* that the per-framework skills assume but never surface. Search keywords: when to
  use multi-agent, single vs multi agent, do I need multiple agents, supervisor vs swarm,
  multi-agent vs single agent, agent team design.
overlay: true
cross_links: [crewai, langgraph, bounded-loop]
---

# Multi-Agent Topology Selection · SOP (ENHANCE overlay)

> Overlay posture: this skill decides *whether and which* topology. It does not
> teach the API — descend to `[[crewai]]` or `[[agentsop-langgraph]]` for that. Every
> load-bearing claim carries an inline source tag resolving in
> `references/R1-source-evidence.md`.

---

## 1. 何时激活 (When to Activate)

Activate when **any** of the following fire:

- The task description contains "team of agents", "researcher + writer + reviewer",
  "manager agent", "agents that hand off", "split this into roles", or "multi-agent".
- A coder agent is about to instantiate ≥2 agents (CrewAI `Agent(...)` × N,
  LangGraph supervisor/swarm, OpenAI Swarm handoffs) and has **not yet** justified
  why a single agent with tools is insufficient.
- Someone is choosing between CrewAI `Process.sequential` vs `Process.hierarchical`,
  or LangGraph supervisor vs swarm vs hierarchical-teams, and wants the *rubric*,
  not the syntax.
- A multi-agent system is over budget on tokens/latency and the question is "can we
  collapse agents back into one?".

Do **not** activate for: a single LLM call, a one-shot RAG query, or a fixed
tool-call pipeline with no role separation. Those are the single-agent baseline
this skill defends.

> Mental check: *"An agent needs agency, otherwise it's just another script."*
> — João Moura, CrewAI founder `[[crewai · §1.3]]`. If you can write the control
> flow in `if/else`, you do not need multiple agents — you need one agent (or a
> graph) with explicit edges.

---

## 2. 核心心智模型 (Core Mental Model)

**Most "multi-agent" problems are single-agent + tools.** Add agents only when
*context isolation* or *parallel expertise* genuinely demands it.

> "Single-agent is right for approximately 80% of cases; the trap is reaching for
> multi-agent because it sounds more capable." `[[crewai · DC-1]]`

Two — and only two — forces justify a second agent:

1. **Context isolation.** One agent's working context would pollute another's
   (a critic that must not see its own draft's rationalisations; a tool-heavy
   sub-task whose 40 intermediate tool calls should not bloat the main thread).
   Splitting gives each agent a clean, bounded prompt.
2. **Parallel expertise.** Two *genuinely different* skills run concurrently or in
   strict sequence (research → write → review), where a single prompt provably
   cannot hold both jobs without quality collapse `[[crewai · DC-1]]`.

If neither force is present, **a single agent with the union of tools wins** —
fewer hops, fewer tokens, no handoff failures. This is the baseline the rubric
must beat, not the default to escape.

### The selection rubric (three binary questions)

```
Q0  Is single-agent + tools enough?
      (no context-isolation need, no parallel-expertise need)
        YES → single-agent + tools. STOP. Do not add agents.
        NO  → ↓

Q1  Do the agents need to KNOW ABOUT EACH OTHER (peer handoff)?
        NO  → one funnels through a coordinator → SUPERVISOR
              (or static order → SEQUENTIAL, if order is fixed)
        YES → ↓

Q2  Must the OUTPUT speak with ONE VOICE / single audit funnel?
        YES → SUPERVISOR (single user-facing persona, one funnel)
        NO  → SWARM (dynamic peer handoff, last-active agent remembered)

Scaling override: ≥6 specialists that group into teams → HIERARCHICAL
(supervisor-of-supervisors). Use only for grouping, not for routing.
```

The two questions that actually separate the patterns: **(a) can sub-agents know
each other, (b) is one user-facing voice mandated.** Everything else is tuning
`[[langgraph · Case 2]]`.

---

## 3. SOP 工作流 (Selection Protocol)

Walk top-down. Each gate can send you *back down* the ladder — collapsing agents
is as valid an answer as adding them.

### Step 1 · Defend the single-agent baseline first
Ask Q0. Enumerate the would-be roles. For each, ask: *would merging it into one
agent's prompt + toolset actually degrade output?* If you cannot point to a
concrete failure mode (style drift, missed checklist, context bloat, parallel
latency), the honest answer is single-agent + tools. Exit here ~80% of the time
`[[crewai · DC-1]]`.

### Step 2 · If splitting, decide static vs dynamic routing
- **Order is fixed and known at design time** (research always precedes write
  precedes review) → **SEQUENTIAL**. Cheapest, most debuggable, 1× token baseline
  `[[crewai · §2.3]]`. In CrewAI this is `Process.sequential`; in LangGraph it is
  static edges A→B→C.
- **Routing must be decided at runtime** (which specialist handles *this* query) →
  you need a coordinator or peer handoff → continue to Step 3.

### Step 3 · Coordinator (supervisor) vs peers (swarm)
Ask Q1 then Q2.
- Agents that do **not** know each other and funnel through one router →
  **SUPERVISOR**. Sub-agents are effectively tools the supervisor calls; the
  supervisor "translates" their output back to the user — which is *exactly* why
  it costs the most tokens `[[langgraph · Step 4]]`.
- Agents that **do** know each other and **no** single voice is mandated →
  **SWARM**. Dynamic handoff, last-active agent stays active across turns, no
  translation step → fewer tokens, slightly higher accuracy on the τ-bench retest
  `[[langgraph · §SOP Step 4]]`.

### Step 4 · Apply the supervisor-default caveat (read this twice)
LangChain's *own* benchmark found swarm "slightly outperformed supervisor across
all scenarios" and supervisor "consistently uses more tokens than swarm" — yet
they **still ship supervisor as the recommended default** `[[langgraph · Step 4]]`.
Why the nuance matters:
- Supervisor is the **safest with third-party / untrusted agents** (single funnel,
  single audit log, single place to enforce policy) `[[langgraph · Step 4]]`.
- Swarm is a **bad fit for third-party agents** — peers handing off to peers means
  no central control point `[[langgraph · Step 4]]`.
- So: **do not copy "default = supervisor" blindly.** If your agents are internal
  and trusted, swarm is often the better pick the default hides. Pick on the two
  questions, not on the framework's default.

### Step 5 · Verify the chosen topology can terminate
Any topology with runtime handoff (swarm, hierarchical, CrewAI delegation) can
loop. Bound it before shipping — cross-link `[[agentsop-bounded-loop]]`. Concretely:
default `allow_delegation=False` on workers, set per-agent `max_iter`, wrap an
outer timeout, and bake an explicit exit counter into state rather than trusting
the LLM to stop `[[crewai · DC-5]]` `[[agentsop-bounded-loop]]`.

### Step 6 · Reconsider before scaling agents up
≥6 specialists → group into **HIERARCHICAL teams** purely for *navigability*, not
to get free routing (see Anti-patterns). At >5 agents CrewAI starts hitting
coordination failure `[[crewai · §6.1]]`; that is a signal to group or collapse,
not to add more.

---

## 4. 操作模型 (Operation Models)

Format: **Trigger → Action → Output → Evidence**.

### OP-1 · Defend the single-agent baseline
- **Trigger**: a task is being described as "a team of agents".
- **Action**: list the proposed roles; for each, name the concrete failure that
  merging into one agent would cause (style drift / missed checklist / context
  bloat / required parallelism). No nameable failure ⇒ single agent.
- **Output**: single-agent + tools, OR a justified list of must-split roles.
- **Evidence**: `[[crewai · DC-1]]` "single-agent right for ~80% of cases".

### OP-2 · Single-vs-multi gate
- **Trigger**: baseline defended and at least one role has a real split-justifying
  failure mode.
- **Action**: confirm the force is *context isolation* or *parallel expertise* —
  not "it sounds more capable". If only the latter, stay single.
- **Output**: a yes/no on multi-agent with the force named in one sentence.
- **Evidence**: `[[crewai · §2.2]]`, `[[crewai · DC-1]]`.

### OP-3 · Static-order gate (→ sequential)
- **Trigger**: multi-agent confirmed; the order of work is fixed at design time.
- **Action**: choose SEQUENTIAL — list agents in execution order; pass dependencies
  explicitly (CrewAI `context=[...]`), do not rely on implicit transfer.
- **Output**: an ordered task list; CrewAI `Process.sequential` or LangGraph static
  edges.
- **Evidence**: `[[crewai · §2.3]]` (sequential = 1× tokens, low debug cost).

### OP-4 · Peer-awareness gate (Q1 → supervisor vs swarm branch)
- **Trigger**: routing must be decided at runtime.
- **Action**: ask "do sub-agents know about each other?" — NO ⇒ supervisor branch;
  YES ⇒ continue to OP-5.
- **Output**: chosen branch.
- **Evidence**: `[[langgraph · Step 4]]` decision tree.

### OP-5 · Single-voice gate (Q2 → supervisor vs swarm)
- **Trigger**: peers know each other (Q1=YES).
- **Action**: ask "must output be one voice / single audit funnel?" — YES ⇒
  SUPERVISOR; NO ⇒ SWARM.
- **Output**: SUPERVISOR or SWARM.
- **Evidence**: `[[langgraph · Case 2]]` (compliance ⇒ supervisor; UX continuity ⇒ swarm).

### OP-6 · Apply the supervisor-default caveat
- **Trigger**: supervisor was selected, OR you are about to accept a framework
  default.
- **Action**: check trust. Third-party/untrusted agents ⇒ supervisor is correct.
  Internal/trusted ⇒ re-test whether swarm's lower token cost wins; if so, switch.
- **Output**: a topology chosen on trust + the two questions, not on the default.
- **Evidence**: `[[langgraph · Step 4]]` — swarm beats supervisor on bench, yet
  supervisor remains the shipped default *for third-party safety*.

### OP-7 · Tune-before-switch
- **Trigger**: chosen topology is over token/latency budget.
- **Action**: before changing paradigm, apply the published fixes to the *current*
  one. For supervisor: remove handoff messages, add a forwarding-messages tool,
  optimise tool naming — LangChain measured "nearly 50% increase in performance"
  `[[langgraph · Step 4]]`. Switch paradigm only if still over budget.
- **Output**: a tuned topology or a justified migration.
- **Evidence**: `[[langgraph · Case 2]]`.

### OP-8 · Bound the topology
- **Trigger**: any runtime-handoff topology before ship.
- **Action**: `allow_delegation=False` on workers, per-agent `max_iter`, outer
  timeout, explicit state-based exit counter.
- **Output**: a topology that provably terminates.
- **Evidence**: `[[crewai · DC-5]]` (delegation ping-pong), `[[agentsop-bounded-loop]]`.

---

## 5. 困境决策案例 (Dilemma Cases)

### Case 1 · "Swarm beats supervisor on the benchmark — why ship supervisor?"
- **困境**: LangChain's own multi-agent benchmark shows swarm "slightly
  outperformed supervisor across all scenarios" and supervisor "consistently uses
  more tokens" (the telephone-game translation overhead). Yet LangChain's
  *recommended default* is still supervisor `[[langgraph · Step 4]]`. A coder
  agent copying the default would leave accuracy and tokens on the table.
- **约束**:
  - Want the benchmark's efficiency (swarm).
  - But may integrate third-party / untrusted agents later.
  - Need a single auditable funnel for tool calls (compliance).
- **决策步骤**:
  1. Read the default's *reason*, not the default. Supervisor wins on **safety with
     third-party agents** and **single audit funnel** — not on accuracy

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