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Decision protocol for the map-reduce / dynamic fan-out pattern in LM pipelines — "given list L, run f(item) for each item in parallel, then combine". Activates when the coder agent is about to process N items with N LM calls (per-doc summarize, per-query retrieve, per-candidate rank, parallel tool fan-out). Encodes the *when*, *how many at once*, *what to do when one fails*, and *how to reduce* — not the API of any single framework. Cross-framework: LangGraph `Send`, CrewAI parallel tasks / Flow, `asyncio.gather`, `ThreadPoolExecutor`, LlamaIndex batch retrieval.

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Map-Reduce / Dynamic Fan-Out · SOP

Pattern: results = reduce(combine, parallel_map(f, L)) where f is one or more LM calls. The only reason to fan out is that latency or throughput matters more than the cost of doing it. The only reason to fan in is that the consumer wants one answer, not N.

Source posture: claims grounded in primary docs and 2026 production write-ups, cited inline with short tags resolved in the citation index.

1. 何时激活 (Activation Rules)

Activate this skill when any of these is true:

The task description contains "for each X, do Y" where Y involves an LM call, a retriever hit, or any I/O-bound step costing >100ms.
The coder is about to write a for item in items: result = llm(item) loop and the items are independent (no item depends on the previous result).
The codebase already has asyncio.gather(...), ThreadPoolExecutor(...), Send(...), Process.hierarchical parallel branches, or crew.kickoff_for_each(...) and the question is how to use them safely.
The user mentions any of: "summarize N docs", "rank top-K candidates", "vote across M models", "ensemble", "parallel agents", "multi-query retrieval", "scatter-gather", "fan out".
A LangGraph graph is throwing InvalidUpdateError on a key two parallel branches write to (see OP-3 cross-link in skill O5 state-reducer).
A LangGraph Send-based fan-out is hitting GRAPH_RECURSION_LIMIT or rate-limit 429s because all N workers fired at once [aipractitioner/scaling].

Do not activate when:

N is statically 1 or 2 (just write the calls inline; setup cost ≥ win).
Items depend on each other (sequential reasoning, chain-of-thought across docs) — fan-out destroys the dependency.
The downstream code only needs the first successful answer — use asyncio.wait(..., return_when=FIRST_COMPLETED), not gather.
The "fan-out" is into a single batched API call (e.g., embedding 100 strings in one OpenAI request). That's a batched single call, not map-reduce. Use it; it's cheaper.

2. 核心心智模型 (Core Mental Model)

Fan out for latency, fan in for coherence.

The whole protocol is two questions: what runs concurrently? and how do the answers merge? Everything else — Send, gather, Semaphore, reducers — is mechanics.

Three load-bearing concepts:

The unit of fan-out is the item, not the call. f(item) may itself be a multi-step LM workflow (retrieve → rerank → synthesize) — that is fine. What you parallelise is the per-item function. Don't confuse "parallel LM calls" with "parallel workflow instances". The latter is what Send and gather(f(x) for x in L) actually do [deepwiki/mapreduce].
Concurrency is bounded, never infinite. Every external dependency (OpenAI/Anthropic API, your vector DB, your KV cache) has at least one of: RPM limit, TPM limit, connection-pool limit, GPU KV-cache budget. asyncio.gather(*[call(x) for x in 100_items]) will not call 100 things — it will fire 100, the API will 429 most, and you'll spend the next 20 minutes in retry-storm hell [newline/asyncio-llm] [tianpan/structured-concurrency]. The first thing you choose, before any code, is N_concurrent.
The reducer determines the shape of the answer. concatenate keeps all evidence (large output, no judgment); summarize collapses (information loss, smaller output); vote / majority picks one (lossy but decisive); rank-top-K selects the best few. Pick the reducer before you write the map — because the map's expected_output shape is dictated by the reduce.

The Pregel-lineage version of the same point: a fan-out / fan-in is one superstep. Either it all succeeds and the reduce node runs, or one branch fails and (in LangGraph) the whole superstep is discarded [aipractitioner/scaling]. Your code must decide before fan-out which semantics you want: atomic-or-nothing, or best-effort-with-holes.

3. SOP 工作流 (Standard Operating Protocol)

Walk this top-down. Each step has a decision gate.

Step 1 · Confirm items are independent

Gate: can f(item_i) run without seeing f(item_j) for any j ≠ i?

If no, stop. You have a sequential or recursive problem masquerading as map-reduce. Use a chain, or model the dependency explicitly (DAG, beam search, etc.). Fan-out will silently drop the cross-talk.

Step 2 · Estimate cost honestly

Before any code, multiply:

cost = N · cost_per_item   (in $, tokens, AND seconds_wall)
peak_rps = N_concurrent / mean_latency_per_item

Three numbers must fit inside three budgets:

cost_$ ≤ task budget
peak_rps ≤ min(API RPM/60, vector-DB QPS, GPU concurrency)
peak_tps ≤ API TPM / 60 — TPM is the silent killer: 50 parallel calls each with a 4k-token prompt instantly exceeds most providers' TPM even if RPM is fine [newline/asyncio-llm].

If any budget is tight, fan-out is the wrong tool. Options: batch calls into single API request (embeddings, reranking), reduce N (pre-filter items), or accept sequential.

Step 3 · Pick N_concurrent (the most important number in the file)

Default rubric:

Constraint	Pick
API-bound (OpenAI/Anthropic)	`min(10, RPM/60 · target_latency_s)` — keep at most one "request-second" of headroom
Self-hosted vLLM/SGLang	Start at `num_kv_blocks / mean_prompt_blocks`; for most setups 8–32
Vector DB retrieval	Provider QPS limit / 2 (leave headroom for other paths)
Mixed (LM + tool calls)	Constrain by the slowest dependency
No instrumentation yet	Start at 5. Always. Then measure.

N_concurrent is enforced with asyncio.Semaphore(N) for asyncio, ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=N) for sync, max_concurrency config in LangGraph, max_rpm in CrewAI. Never rely on the framework's defaults.

Step 4 · Decide the failure policy before writing the fan-out

Four canonical policies — pick one explicitly:

Policy	When to use	How
Abort-all	One missing item invalidates the answer (legal review, regulated workflows)	`asyncio.gather(, return_exceptions=False)` — first exception cancels siblings. In LangGraph this is the default* superstep semantic `[aipractitioner/scaling]`.
Best-effort	Concatenate / summarize use cases — partial is OK	`asyncio.gather(*, return_exceptions=True)` then filter; or per-task `try/except` returning a sentinel
Retry-then-skip	API flakiness is the main failure	Wrap `f` with tenacity / backoff: 3 attempts × exponential, then sentinel
Quorum	Vote / ensemble — need at least K of N	`asyncio.as_completed`, collect K, cancel the rest

Anti-pattern: making this decision implicitly. The single most common production bug in this pattern is "I assumed gather would skip failures" or "I assumed one failed branch wouldn't kill the rest" — both are wrong defaults [aipractitioner/scaling] [newline/asyncio-llm].

Step 5 · Pick the reducer

Reducer	Shape change	Cost	When to use
`concatenate`	`[A, B, C]` → `"A\nB\nC"`	None	Downstream LM can handle big context; you want full evidence
`summarize` (LM call)	`[A, B, C]` → `"abc"`	+1 LM call	Output must fit in a final prompt; lossy by design
`vote / majority`	`[A, B, A]` → `A`	None	Self-consistency / ensemble agreement
`rank-top-K`	`[(a,0.9), (b,0.4), (c,0.7)]` → `[a, c]`	None	Multi-query retrieval, reranking
`merge-dedupe`	overlapping lists → set	Cheap	Multi-query retrieval, multi-source enrichment
`tree-reduce`	binary `combine(x, y)` recursively	log₂(N) LM calls	When pairwise merging is meaningful (summary-of-summaries)

Choose by asking: what does the next node consume? The reducer is just "adapt the fan-out shape to the consumer's input shape."

Step 6 · Set per-call timeout and total wall-clock budget

Two independent timeouts:

Per-call: asyncio.wait_for(call, timeout=30) — protects against one stuck call holding a semaphore slot forever (the canonical "100 items, 99 done in 5s, the whole job blocked 5 min on item 73"). Default 30s.
Total wall: asyncio.wait_for(gather(...), timeout=N · mean + 3σ) — protects against pathological N. Default 2× the optimistic wall estimate.

In LangGraph, recursion_limit is not a timeout — set both, plus node-level RetryPolicy [lc-docs/errors]. In CrewAI, max_rpm rate- limits but does not timeout — wrap kickoff() in asyncio.wait_for.

Step 7 · Reduce, then verify the reduction is sane

After the reducer runs, do one cheap LLM-free check:

concatenate → assert len(merged) is within expected bounds; raise if one branch returned a 50KB blob.
vote → log the vote distribution; if it's near-uniform, the items weren't actually deciding the same question — go back to Step 1.
rank-top-K → assert scores are not all identical (failure mode of a broken reranker).

These cheap checks catch the "fan-out succeeded but the answer is garbage" bug class that no exception will surface.

4. 操作模型 (Operation Models)

Format: Trigger → Action → Output → Evidence.

OP-1 · `asyncio.gather` with bounded concurrency (Python baseline)

Trigger: Pure Python, no graph framework, async LM client (Anthropic / OpenAI), N items, you want a list back.

Action:

sem = asyncio.Semaphore(N_CONCURRENT)
async def bounded(item):
    async with sem:
        return await asyncio.wait_for(f(item), timeout=PER_CALL_S)
results = await asyncio.gather(
    *[bounded(i) for i in items],
    return_exceptions=True,        # explicit best-effort
)
ok = [r for r in results if not isinstance(r, Exception)]

Output: A list (or list-with-holes) ready to reduce. Semaphore is the rate limiter; return_exceptions=True is the failure policy; wait_for is the per-call timeout.
Evidence: [newline/asyncio-llm], [soumendrak/semaphore], [superfastpython/gather].

OP-2 · `asyncio.as_completed` for quorum / first-K

Trigger: You only need K-of-N successful results (vote with early-exit, "first 3 of 10 retrieve hits").

Action:

tasks = [asyncio.create_task(f(i)) for i in items]
done = []
for fut in asyncio.as_completed(tasks):
    try: done.append(await fut)
    except Exception: pass
    if len(done) >= K:
        for t in tasks: t.cancel()
        break

Output: First K successful results; remaining cancelled to save cost.
Evidence: [instructor/learn-async].

OP-3 · LangGraph `Send` for dynamic fan-out

Trigger: Inside a LangGraph state graph, the number of parallel branches is decided at runtime from state.
Action:
```
from langgraph.types import Send
def route_fanout(state):
    return [Send("worker", {"item": x}) for x in state["items"]]
graph.add_conditional_edges("planner", route_fanout, ["worker"])
```
The worker writes to a list-typed state key with a reducer (see OP-4). Cap concurrency at .compile() time via compile(...).with_config({"max_concurrency": N}) or graph.invoke(..., {"max_concurrency": N}).
Output: True per-invocation map-reduce. Each Send is its own trace segmen

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name: agentsop-map-reduce-fanout
version: 0.1.0
description: |
  Decision protocol for the map-reduce / dynamic fan-out pattern in LM
  pipelines — "given list L, run f(item) for each item in parallel, then
  combine". Activates when the coder agent is about to process N items with N
  LM calls (per-doc summarize, per-query retrieve, per-candidate rank,
  parallel tool fan-out). Encodes the *when*, *how many at once*, *what to
  do when one fails*, and *how to reduce* — not the API of any single
  framework. Cross-framework: LangGraph `Send`, CrewAI parallel tasks /
  Flow, `asyncio.gather`, `ThreadPoolExecutor`, LlamaIndex batch retrieval.

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name: agentsop-map-reduce-fanout
version: 0.1.0
description: |
  Decision protocol for the map-reduce / dynamic fan-out pattern in LM
  pipelines — "given list L, run f(item) for each item in parallel, then
  combine". Activates when the coder agent is about to process N items with N
  LM calls (per-doc summarize, per-query retrieve, per-candidate rank,
  parallel tool fan-out). Encodes the *when*, *how many at once*, *what to
  do when one fails*, and *how to reduce* — not the API of any single
  framework. Cross-framework: LangGraph `Send`, CrewAI parallel tasks /
  Flow, `asyncio.gather`, `ThreadPoolExecutor`, LlamaIndex batch retrieval.
---

# Map-Reduce / Dynamic Fan-Out · SOP

> Pattern: `results = reduce(combine, parallel_map(f, L))` where `f` is one
> or more LM calls. The *only* reason to fan out is that latency or
> throughput matters more than the cost of doing it. The *only* reason to
> fan in is that the consumer wants one answer, not N.

> Source posture: claims grounded in primary docs and 2026 production
> write-ups, cited inline with short tags resolved in the citation index.

---

## 1. 何时激活 (Activation Rules)

Activate this skill when **any** of these is true:

- The task description contains "for each X, do Y" where Y involves an LM
  call, a retriever hit, or any I/O-bound step costing >100ms.
- The coder is about to write a `for item in items: result = llm(item)` loop
  and the items are independent (no item depends on the previous result).
- The codebase already has `asyncio.gather(...)`, `ThreadPoolExecutor(...)`,
  `Send(...)`, `Process.hierarchical` parallel branches, or
  `crew.kickoff_for_each(...)` and the question is *how* to use them safely.
- The user mentions any of: "summarize N docs", "rank top-K candidates",
  "vote across M models", "ensemble", "parallel agents", "multi-query
  retrieval", "scatter-gather", "fan out".
- A LangGraph graph is throwing `InvalidUpdateError` on a key two parallel
  branches write to (see OP-3 cross-link in skill `O5 state-reducer`).
- A LangGraph `Send`-based fan-out is hitting `GRAPH_RECURSION_LIMIT` or
  rate-limit 429s because all N workers fired at once
  `[aipractitioner/scaling]`.

Do **not** activate when:

- N is statically 1 or 2 (just write the calls inline; setup cost ≥ win).
- Items depend on each other (sequential reasoning, chain-of-thought
  across docs) — fan-out destroys the dependency.
- The downstream code only needs the *first* successful answer — use
  `asyncio.wait(..., return_when=FIRST_COMPLETED)`, not gather.
- The "fan-out" is into a single batched API call (e.g., embedding 100
  strings in one OpenAI request). That's a batched single call, not
  map-reduce. Use it; it's cheaper.

---

## 2. 核心心智模型 (Core Mental Model)

**Fan out for latency, fan in for coherence.**

The whole protocol is two questions: *what runs concurrently?* and *how do
the answers merge?* Everything else — `Send`, `gather`, `Semaphore`,
reducers — is mechanics.

Three load-bearing concepts:

1. **The unit of fan-out is the item, not the call.** `f(item)` may itself
   be a multi-step LM workflow (retrieve → rerank → synthesize) — that is
   fine. What you parallelise is the *per-item function*. Don't confuse
   "parallel LM calls" with "parallel workflow instances". The latter is
   what `Send` and `gather(f(x) for x in L)` actually do
   `[deepwiki/mapreduce]`.

2. **Concurrency is bounded, never infinite.** Every external dependency
   (OpenAI/Anthropic API, your vector DB, your KV cache) has at least one
   of: RPM limit, TPM limit, connection-pool limit, GPU KV-cache budget.
   `asyncio.gather(*[call(x) for x in 100_items])` will *not* call 100
   things — it will fire 100, the API will 429 most, and you'll spend the
   next 20 minutes in retry-storm hell `[newline/asyncio-llm]`
   `[tianpan/structured-concurrency]`. The first thing you choose, before
   any code, is **N_concurrent**.

3. **The reducer determines the shape of the answer.** `concatenate` keeps
   all evidence (large output, no judgment); `summarize` collapses
   (information loss, smaller output); `vote / majority` picks one (lossy
   but decisive); `rank-top-K` selects the best few. Pick the reducer
   *before* you write the map — because the map's `expected_output` shape
   is dictated by the reduce.

The Pregel-lineage version of the same point: **a fan-out / fan-in is one
superstep**. Either it all succeeds and the reduce node runs, or one branch
fails and (in LangGraph) the whole superstep is discarded
`[aipractitioner/scaling]`. Your code must decide *before* fan-out which
semantics you want: atomic-or-nothing, or best-effort-with-holes.

---

## 3. SOP 工作流 (Standard Operating Protocol)

Walk this top-down. Each step has a decision gate.

### Step 1 · Confirm items are independent

Gate: can `f(item_i)` run without seeing `f(item_j)` for any `j ≠ i`?

If **no**, stop. You have a sequential or recursive problem masquerading
as map-reduce. Use a chain, or model the dependency explicitly (DAG,
beam search, etc.). Fan-out will silently drop the cross-talk.

### Step 2 · Estimate cost honestly

Before any code, multiply:

```
cost = N · cost_per_item   (in $, tokens, AND seconds_wall)
peak_rps = N_concurrent / mean_latency_per_item
```

Three numbers must fit inside three budgets:
- `cost_$` ≤ task budget
- `peak_rps` ≤ min(API RPM/60, vector-DB QPS, GPU concurrency)
- `peak_tps` ≤ API TPM / 60 — TPM is the silent killer: 50 parallel calls
  each with a 4k-token prompt instantly exceeds most providers' TPM even
  if RPM is fine `[newline/asyncio-llm]`.

If any budget is tight, **fan-out is the wrong tool**. Options: batch
calls into single API request (embeddings, reranking), reduce N (pre-filter
items), or accept sequential.

### Step 3 · Pick N_concurrent (the most important number in the file)

Default rubric:

| Constraint | Pick |
|---|---|
| API-bound (OpenAI/Anthropic) | `min(10, RPM/60 · target_latency_s)` — keep at most one "request-second" of headroom |
| Self-hosted vLLM/SGLang | Start at `num_kv_blocks / mean_prompt_blocks`; for most setups 8–32 |
| Vector DB retrieval | Provider QPS limit / 2 (leave headroom for other paths) |
| Mixed (LM + tool calls) | Constrain by the slowest dependency |
| No instrumentation yet | **Start at 5**. Always. Then measure. |

`N_concurrent` is enforced with `asyncio.Semaphore(N)` for asyncio,
`ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=N)` for sync, `max_concurrency` config in
LangGraph, `max_rpm` in CrewAI. Never rely on the framework's defaults.

### Step 4 · Decide the failure policy *before* writing the fan-out

Four canonical policies — pick one explicitly:

| Policy | When to use | How |
|---|---|---|
| **Abort-all** | One missing item invalidates the answer (legal review, regulated workflows) | `asyncio.gather(*, return_exceptions=False)` — first exception cancels siblings. In LangGraph this is the *default* superstep semantic `[aipractitioner/scaling]`. |
| **Best-effort** | Concatenate / summarize use cases — partial is OK | `asyncio.gather(*, return_exceptions=True)` then filter; or per-task `try/except` returning a sentinel |
| **Retry-then-skip** | API flakiness is the main failure | Wrap `f` with tenacity / backoff: 3 attempts × exponential, then sentinel |
| **Quorum** | Vote / ensemble — need at least K of N | `asyncio.as_completed`, collect K, cancel the rest |

Anti-pattern: making this decision implicitly. The single most common
production bug in this pattern is "I assumed `gather` would skip failures"
or "I assumed one failed branch wouldn't kill the rest" — both are wrong
defaults `[aipractitioner/scaling]` `[newline/asyncio-llm]`.

### Step 5 · Pick the reducer

| Reducer | Shape change | Cost | When to use |
|---|---|---|---|
| `concatenate` | `[A, B, C]` → `"A\nB\nC"` | None | Downstream LM can handle big context; you want full evidence |
| `summarize` (LM call) | `[A, B, C]` → `"abc"` | +1 LM call | Output must fit in a final prompt; lossy by design |
| `vote / majority` | `[A, B, A]` → `A` | None | Self-consistency / ensemble agreement |
| `rank-top-K` | `[(a,0.9), (b,0.4), (c,0.7)]` → `[a, c]` | None | Multi-query retrieval, reranking |
| `merge-dedupe` | overlapping lists → set | Cheap | Multi-query retrieval, multi-source enrichment |
| `tree-reduce` | binary `combine(x, y)` recursively | log₂(N) LM calls | When pairwise merging is meaningful (summary-of-summaries) |

Choose by asking: *what does the next node consume?* The reducer is just
"adapt the fan-out shape to the consumer's input shape."

### Step 6 · Set per-call timeout *and* total wall-clock budget

Two independent timeouts:

- **Per-call**: `asyncio.wait_for(call, timeout=30)` — protects against
  one stuck call holding a semaphore slot forever (the canonical "100 items,
  99 done in 5s, the whole job blocked 5 min on item 73"). Default 30s.
- **Total wall**: `asyncio.wait_for(gather(...), timeout=N · mean + 3σ)`
  — protects against pathological N. Default 2× the optimistic wall
  estimate.

In LangGraph, `recursion_limit` is *not* a timeout — set both, plus
node-level `RetryPolicy` `[lc-docs/errors]`. In CrewAI, `max_rpm` rate-
limits but does not timeout — wrap `kickoff()` in `asyncio.wait_for`.

### Step 7 · Reduce, then verify the reduction is sane

After the reducer runs, do one cheap LLM-free check:

- `concatenate` → assert `len(merged)` is within expected bounds; raise if
  one branch returned a 50KB blob.
- `vote` → log the vote distribution; if it's near-uniform, the items
  weren't actually deciding the same question — go back to Step 1.
- `rank-top-K` → assert scores are not all identical (failure mode of a
  broken reranker).

These cheap checks catch the "fan-out succeeded but the answer is garbage"
bug class that no exception will surface.

---

## 4. 操作模型 (Operation Models)

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

### OP-1 · `asyncio.gather` with bounded concurrency (Python baseline)
- **Trigger**: Pure Python, no graph framework, async LM client (Anthropic
  / OpenAI), N items, you want a list back.
- **Action**:
  ```python
  sem = asyncio.Semaphore(N_CONCURRENT)
  async def bounded(item):
      async with sem:
          return await asyncio.wait_for(f(item), timeout=PER_CALL_S)
  results = await asyncio.gather(
      *[bounded(i) for i in items],
      return_exceptions=True,        # explicit best-effort
  )
  ok = [r for r in results if not isinstance(r, Exception)]
  ```
- **Output**: A list (or list-with-holes) ready to reduce. Semaphore is
  the rate limiter; `return_exceptions=True` is the failure policy;
  `wait_for` is the per-call timeout.
- **Evidence**: `[newline/asyncio-llm]`, `[soumendrak/semaphore]`,
  `[superfastpython/gather]`.

### OP-2 · `asyncio.as_completed` for quorum / first-K
- **Trigger**: You only need K-of-N successful results (vote with
  early-exit, "first 3 of 10 retrieve hits").
- **Action**:
  ```python
  tasks = [asyncio.create_task(f(i)) for i in items]
  done = []
  for fut in asyncio.as_completed(tasks):
      try: done.append(await fut)
      except Exception: pass
      if len(done) >= K:
          for t in tasks: t.cancel()
          break
  ```
- **Output**: First K successful results; remaining cancelled to save cost.
- **Evidence**: `[instructor/learn-async]`.

### OP-3 · LangGraph `Send` for dynamic fan-out
- **Trigger**: Inside a LangGraph state graph, the number of parallel
  branches is decided at runtime from state.
- **Action**:
  ```python
  from langgraph.types import Send
  def route_fanout(state):
      return [Send("worker", {"item": x}) for x in state["items"]]
  graph.add_conditional_edges("planner", route_fanout, ["worker"])
  ```
  The worker writes to a list-typed state key with a reducer
  (see OP-4). Cap concurrency at `.compile()` time via
  `compile(...).with_config({"max_concurrency": N})` or
  `graph.invoke(..., {"max_concurrency": N})`.
- **Output**: True per-invocation map-reduce. Each `Send` is its own trace
  segmen

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Source repository: agentsope/SkillAlchemy
License: MIT
Version: 0.1.0
Last GitHub push: Nov 8, 2026
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Overview

Map-Reduce / Dynamic Fan-Out · SOP

1. 何时激活 (Activation Rules)

2. 核心心智模型 (Core Mental Model)

3. SOP 工作流 (Standard Operating Protocol)

Step 1 · Confirm items are independent

Step 2 · Estimate cost honestly

Step 3 · Pick N_concurrent (the most important number in the file)

Step 4 · Decide the failure policy before writing the fan-out

Step 5 · Pick the reducer

Step 6 · Set per-call timeout and total wall-clock budget

Step 7 · Reduce, then verify the reduction is sane

4. 操作模型 (Operation Models)

OP-1 · asyncio.gather with bounded concurrency (Python baseline)

OP-2 · asyncio.as_completed for quorum / first-K

OP-3 · LangGraph Send for dynamic fan-out

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OP-1 · `asyncio.gather` with bounded concurrency (Python baseline)

OP-2 · `asyncio.as_completed` for quorum / first-K

OP-3 · LangGraph `Send` for dynamic fan-out