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Guides deciding when and how to split a task across multiple cooperating LLM agents (supervisor/worker, pipeline, or debate patterns) instead of one agent with many tools. Use when a user asks to "design a multi-agent system," "should this be one agent or several," "orchestrate s
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Guides deciding when and how to split a task across multiple cooperating LLM agents (supervisor/worker, pipeline, or debate patterns) instead of one agent with many tools. Use when a user asks to "design a multi-agent system," "should this be one agent or several," "orchestrate sub-agents," fix agents that duplicate work or talk past each other, or is deciding how a supervisor agent should delegate to and validate specialist agents.
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Multi-Agent Orchestration
Purpose
Splitting a task across multiple agents can reduce per-agent context load, allow specialization (a narrower system prompt and tool set per role), and enable parallelism — but it also multiplies the surface area for coordination failures: duplicated work, agents that silently disagree, lost context at hand-off boundaries, and cost/latency from redundant model calls. Multi-agent orchestration is not automatically better than a single well-designed agent; it is a specific tool for specific shapes of problem. This skill covers the common orchestration topologies (supervisor/worker, pipeline, debate/parallel-with-aggregation), when each is justified over a single agent, and how to keep hand-offs between agents reliable.
When to use
- A single agent's context or tool set has grown large enough that it shows role confusion or degraded performance on any one sub-task (a concrete threshold to check, established in agent-architecture-design, before reaching for multi-agent as a fix).
- A task naturally decomposes into independent workstreams that can run in parallel (e.g. researching three unrelated topics before synthesizing).
- A task benefits from specialist framing — a code-review sub-agent with a narrow reviewer persona genuinely produces better reviews than one generalist agent asked to "also review code" among ten other jobs.
- You need a distinct verification/critic role separate from the agent that produced the output, to catch errors the producing agent is blind to.
- Debugging duplicated work, contradictory outputs, or lost context between cooperating agents in an existing multi-agent system.
Prerequisites & environment
- A working single-agent implementation first — multi-agent orchestration should be an evolution from a scoped single agent, not a starting design, since most of its coordination problems only become visible once you've seen where a single agent actually strains.
- An orchestration mechanism: a supervisor process/agent that dispatches to sub-agents and collects results, whether hand-rolled or via a framework/runtime.
- A shared understanding across the team of what state, if any, is common vs. private to each sub-agent (see step 3 below) — undocumented shared state is the most common source of multi-agent bugs.
- Cost/latency budget awareness: N agents each making LLM calls costs roughly N× a single agent's calls for the same step, before accounting for coordination overhead (see llm-cost-and-latency-optimization).
Step-by-step guidance
-
Justify the split with a concrete symptom, not intuition. Before introducing a second agent, write down what specifically breaks with one agent: context window pressure, measurable role confusion in evaluation results (see agent-evaluation-and-guardrails), or a genuine need for parallel independent work. "It felt cleaner to split it" is not sufficient justification given the added coordination cost.
-
Choose a topology that matches the task's dependency structure:
- Supervisor/worker: one supervisor agent plans and delegates discrete sub-tasks to worker agents (each with a narrow prompt and tool set), then integrates results. Best when sub-tasks are specialized but the overall task needs central coordination.
- Pipeline: agents run in a fixed sequence, each consuming the
prior stage's output (e.g.
researcher -> writer -> fact_checker). Best when the task has a natural linear dependency chain. - Parallel + aggregation (fan-out/fan-in): independent agents work on genuinely independent sub-parts simultaneously, then a final step merges results. Best for independent workstreams (e.g. summarizing three unrelated documents) where order doesn't matter.
- Critic/debate: a second agent explicitly reviews or challenges the first agent's output before it's finalized. Best when catching a specific class of error (factual, safety, style) matters more than speed.
-
Define the hand-off contract between agents explicitly, as a structured schema, not free-form prose passed between prompts:
{ "from_agent": "researcher", "to_agent": "writer", "task_id": "task-8842", "findings": [ { "claim": "...", "source": "doc-42", "confidence": "high" } ], "open_questions": ["..."] }Free-form hand-offs ("here's what I found: ...") are the single biggest source of lost or misinterpreted context between agents.
-
Give each sub-agent the narrowest system prompt and tool set that its role needs — this is the actual payoff of splitting; a worker agent with a 10-line role-specific prompt and 3 tools will outperform the same role embedded as one section of a 40-tool generalist's prompt.
-
Make the supervisor responsible for validating hand-offs, not just routing them — check that a worker's output matches the expected schema and addresses the delegated sub-task before passing it downstream or integrating it, rather than assuming compliance.
def supervisor_step(task): plan = supervisor_llm.plan(task) results = {} for subtask in plan.subtasks: worker = select_worker(subtask.role) output = worker.run(subtask) if not validate_schema(output, subtask.expected_schema): output = worker.run(subtask, retry_hint="prior output was malformed: ...") results[subtask.id] = output return supervisor_llm.integrate(task, results) -
Bound total cost and depth explicitly at the orchestration level — cap how many sub-agents a supervisor can spawn per task and how many levels of delegation are allowed (avoid a supervisor's worker itself spawning further workers unbounded), independent of any single agent's own loop cap (see agent-architecture-design).
-
Decide where shared state lives — a common data store both agents read/write, or strictly message-passing hand-offs with no shared mutable state. Message-passing is easier to reason about and debug; shared mutable state introduces race conditions in parallel topologies and should be avoided unless there's a specific need for it.
-
Instrument the full multi-agent trace, not just each agent's individual log — you need to see the sequence of hand-offs, not just each agent's isolated behavior, to debug coordination failures.
Best practices
- Start every multi-agent design as a diagram of hand-offs and their schemas before writing any prompt — if you can't draw the data flow, the orchestration isn't well-defined yet.
- Prefer a small, fixed number of well-defined roles over a dynamic pool of ad hoc agents spawned per task — fixed roles are testable and evaluable in isolation.
- Give the supervisor (or an explicit critic agent) the job of catching errors the producing agent can't see in itself — self-review by the same agent/prompt catches far fewer errors than an independent check.
- Keep per-agent context scoped to what that agent's role needs; do not pass the full original task transcript to every worker "just in case."
- Evaluate the multi-agent system end-to-end, not only per-agent — a system where every individual agent passes its own eval can still fail at the integration points (see agent-evaluation-and-guardrails).
- Re-check the single-agent alternative periodically as models improve — a split justified by a smaller/older model's context limits may no longer be necessary.
Common pitfalls
-
Symptom: Two agents each independently do overlapping work (e.g. both fetch and summarize the same document) because task boundaries were left implicit. Fix: Make the supervisor's delegation explicit and mutually exclusive per sub-task in the plan; validate at integration time that no two workers were assigned overlapping scope.
-
Symptom: A worker agent's output subtly contradicts another worker's output (e.g. different numbers for the same metric), and the supervisor merges both into a final answer without noticing. Fix: Add an explicit consistency-check step (rule-based or a dedicated critic agent) before integration, rather than assuming the supervisor's integration prompt alone will catch contradictions.
-
Symptom: Context that mattered in an early agent's reasoning (a caveat, an assumption) is lost by the time a later agent in a pipeline produces the final output, because hand-offs passed only the "answer," not the reasoning behind it. Fix: Structure hand-offs to include relevant caveats/assumptions/ confidence explicitly as schema fields, not just the bottom-line result.
-
Symptom: Cost and latency balloon because a supervisor spawns sub-agents that themselves spawn further sub-agents for sub-sub-tasks, with no depth limit. Fix: Cap delegation depth and total sub-agent count per task at the orchestration layer; require justification (in code, not just prompt instruction) for any recursive delegation.
-
Symptom: The team reaches for a multi-agent design for a task a single well-scoped agent could have handled, and the result is slower, more expensive, and no more accurate. Fix: Re-evaluate against a single-agent baseline with the same eval suite before committing to the multi-agent architecture — the split should be justified by a measured gap, not adopted by default because it seems more sophisticated.
Worked example
Task: produce a weekly engineering status digest that summarizes merged PRs, open incidents, and upcoming deploys from three unrelated internal systems.
Topology: parallel + aggregation, since the three data sources are independent and don't need to inform each other's summarization.
fan-out:
pr_summarizer_agent (tools: list_merged_prs, get_pr_details)
incident_agent (tools: list_open_incidents)
deploy_calendar_agent (tools: get_upcoming_deploys)
each returns:
{ "section": "...", "bullets": [ {"text": "...", "source_id": "..."} ] }
fan-in:
aggregator_agent receives all three structured outputs (not free text),
validates each against the shared schema, orders sections, and produces
the final Markdown digest with source citations preserved from each
sub-agent's output.
Each sub-agent gets a narrow prompt and only the 1–2 tools its section needs — the PR summarizer never sees incident tools or vice versa — and the whole run is capped at exactly 3 parallel sub-agents with no further delegation allowed, keeping cost bounded and predictable per digest run. The aggregator is evaluated separately (does it preserve every source citation, does it handle a sub-agent returning an empty section gracefully) from each sub-agent's own eval suite.
Cross-references
- agent-architecture-design
- agent-tool-use-patterns
- [agent-evaluation-and-guard
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name: multi-agent-orchestration description: > Guides deciding when and how to split a task across multiple cooperating LLM agents (supervisor/worker, pipeline, or debate patterns) instead of one agent with many tools. Use when a user asks to "design a multi-agent system," "should this be one agent or several," "orchestrate sub-agents," fix agents that duplicate work or talk past each other, or is deciding how a supervisor agent should delegate to and validate specialist agents. license: Apache-2.0 compatibility: "Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI" metadata: domain: ai-agent maturity: stable
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---
name: multi-agent-orchestration
description: >
Guides deciding when and how to split a task across multiple cooperating
LLM agents (supervisor/worker, pipeline, or debate patterns) instead of one
agent with many tools. Use when a user asks to "design a multi-agent
system," "should this be one agent or several," "orchestrate sub-agents,"
fix agents that duplicate work or talk past each other, or is deciding how
a supervisor agent should delegate to and validate specialist agents.
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: "Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI"
metadata:
domain: ai-agent
maturity: stable
---
# Multi-Agent Orchestration
## Purpose
Splitting a task across multiple agents can reduce per-agent context load,
allow specialization (a narrower system prompt and tool set per role), and
enable parallelism — but it also multiplies the surface area for
coordination failures: duplicated work, agents that silently disagree,
lost context at hand-off boundaries, and cost/latency from redundant model
calls. Multi-agent orchestration is not automatically better than a single
well-designed agent; it is a specific tool for specific shapes of problem.
This skill covers the common orchestration topologies (supervisor/worker,
pipeline, debate/parallel-with-aggregation), when each is justified over a
single agent, and how to keep hand-offs between agents reliable.
## When to use
- A single agent's context or tool set has grown large enough that it
shows role confusion or degraded performance on any one sub-task (a
concrete threshold to check, established in
[agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md), before
reaching for multi-agent as a fix).
- A task naturally decomposes into independent workstreams that can run in
parallel (e.g. researching three unrelated topics before synthesizing).
- A task benefits from specialist framing — a code-review sub-agent with a
narrow reviewer persona genuinely produces better reviews than one
generalist agent asked to "also review code" among ten other jobs.
- You need a distinct verification/critic role separate from the agent that
produced the output, to catch errors the producing agent is blind to.
- Debugging duplicated work, contradictory outputs, or lost context between
cooperating agents in an existing multi-agent system.
## Prerequisites & environment
- A working single-agent implementation first — multi-agent orchestration
should be an evolution from a scoped single agent, not a starting design,
since most of its coordination problems only become visible once you've
seen where a single agent actually strains.
- An orchestration mechanism: a supervisor process/agent that dispatches to
sub-agents and collects results, whether hand-rolled or via a
framework/runtime.
- A shared understanding across the team of what state, if any, is common
vs. private to each sub-agent (see step 3 below) — undocumented shared
state is the most common source of multi-agent bugs.
- Cost/latency budget awareness: N agents each making LLM calls costs
roughly N× a single agent's calls for the same step, before accounting
for coordination overhead (see
[llm-cost-and-latency-optimization](../llm-cost-and-latency-optimization/SKILL.md)).
## Step-by-step guidance
1. **Justify the split with a concrete symptom, not intuition.** Before
introducing a second agent, write down what specifically breaks with
one agent: context window pressure, measurable role confusion in
evaluation results (see
[agent-evaluation-and-guardrails](../agent-evaluation-and-guardrails/SKILL.md)),
or a genuine need for parallel independent work. "It felt cleaner to
split it" is not sufficient justification given the added coordination
cost.
2. **Choose a topology that matches the task's dependency structure:**
- **Supervisor/worker**: one supervisor agent plans and delegates
discrete sub-tasks to worker agents (each with a narrow prompt and
tool set), then integrates results. Best when sub-tasks are
specialized but the overall task needs central coordination.
- **Pipeline**: agents run in a fixed sequence, each consuming the
prior stage's output (e.g. `researcher -> writer -> fact_checker`).
Best when the task has a natural linear dependency chain.
- **Parallel + aggregation (fan-out/fan-in)**: independent agents work
on genuinely independent sub-parts simultaneously, then a final step
merges results. Best for independent workstreams (e.g. summarizing
three unrelated documents) where order doesn't matter.
- **Critic/debate**: a second agent explicitly reviews or challenges the
first agent's output before it's finalized. Best when catching a
specific class of error (factual, safety, style) matters more than
speed.
3. **Define the hand-off contract between agents explicitly**, as a
structured schema, not free-form prose passed between prompts:
```json
{
"from_agent": "researcher",
"to_agent": "writer",
"task_id": "task-8842",
"findings": [
{ "claim": "...", "source": "doc-42", "confidence": "high" }
],
"open_questions": ["..."]
}
```
Free-form hand-offs ("here's what I found: ...") are the single biggest
source of lost or misinterpreted context between agents.
4. **Give each sub-agent the narrowest system prompt and tool set that its
role needs** — this is the actual payoff of splitting; a worker agent
with a 10-line role-specific prompt and 3 tools will outperform the same
role embedded as one section of a 40-tool generalist's prompt.
5. **Make the supervisor responsible for validating hand-offs**, not just
routing them — check that a worker's output matches the expected schema
and addresses the delegated sub-task before passing it downstream or
integrating it, rather than assuming compliance.
```python
def supervisor_step(task):
plan = supervisor_llm.plan(task)
results = {}
for subtask in plan.subtasks:
worker = select_worker(subtask.role)
output = worker.run(subtask)
if not validate_schema(output, subtask.expected_schema):
output = worker.run(subtask, retry_hint="prior output was malformed: ...")
results[subtask.id] = output
return supervisor_llm.integrate(task, results)
```
6. **Bound total cost and depth explicitly** at the orchestration level —
cap how many sub-agents a supervisor can spawn per task and how many
levels of delegation are allowed (avoid a supervisor's worker itself
spawning further workers unbounded), independent of any single agent's
own loop cap (see
[agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md)).
7. **Decide where shared state lives** — a common data store both agents
read/write, or strictly message-passing hand-offs with no shared
mutable state. Message-passing is easier to reason about and debug;
shared mutable state introduces race conditions in parallel topologies
and should be avoided unless there's a specific need for it.
8. **Instrument the full multi-agent trace**, not just each agent's
individual log — you need to see the sequence of hand-offs, not just
each agent's isolated behavior, to debug coordination failures.
## Best practices
- Start every multi-agent design as a diagram of hand-offs and their
schemas before writing any prompt — if you can't draw the data flow, the
orchestration isn't well-defined yet.
- Prefer a small, fixed number of well-defined roles over a dynamic pool of
ad hoc agents spawned per task — fixed roles are testable and evaluable
in isolation.
- Give the supervisor (or an explicit critic agent) the job of catching
errors the producing agent can't see in itself — self-review by the same
agent/prompt catches far fewer errors than an independent check.
- Keep per-agent context scoped to what that agent's role needs; do not
pass the full original task transcript to every worker "just in case."
- Evaluate the multi-agent system end-to-end, not only per-agent — a
system where every individual agent passes its own eval can still fail
at the integration points (see
[agent-evaluation-and-guardrails](../agent-evaluation-and-guardrails/SKILL.md)).
- Re-check the single-agent alternative periodically as models improve —
a split justified by a smaller/older model's context limits may no
longer be necessary.
## Common pitfalls
- **Symptom:** Two agents each independently do overlapping work (e.g. both
fetch and summarize the same document) because task boundaries were left
implicit.
**Fix:** Make the supervisor's delegation explicit and mutually
exclusive per sub-task in the plan; validate at integration time that
no two workers were assigned overlapping scope.
- **Symptom:** A worker agent's output subtly contradicts another worker's
output (e.g. different numbers for the same metric), and the supervisor
merges both into a final answer without noticing.
**Fix:** Add an explicit consistency-check step (rule-based or a
dedicated critic agent) before integration, rather than assuming the
supervisor's integration prompt alone will catch contradictions.
- **Symptom:** Context that mattered in an early agent's reasoning (a
caveat, an assumption) is lost by the time a later agent in a pipeline
produces the final output, because hand-offs passed only the "answer,"
not the reasoning behind it.
**Fix:** Structure hand-offs to include relevant caveats/assumptions/
confidence explicitly as schema fields, not just the bottom-line result.
- **Symptom:** Cost and latency balloon because a supervisor spawns
sub-agents that themselves spawn further sub-agents for sub-sub-tasks,
with no depth limit.
**Fix:** Cap delegation depth and total sub-agent count per task at the
orchestration layer; require justification (in code, not just prompt
instruction) for any recursive delegation.
- **Symptom:** The team reaches for a multi-agent design for a task a
single well-scoped agent could have handled, and the result is slower,
more expensive, and no more accurate.
**Fix:** Re-evaluate against a single-agent baseline with the same eval
suite before committing to the multi-agent architecture — the split
should be justified by a measured gap, not adopted by default because it
seems more sophisticated.
## Worked example
**Task:** produce a weekly engineering status digest that summarizes
merged PRs, open incidents, and upcoming deploys from three unrelated
internal systems.
Topology: parallel + aggregation, since the three data sources are
independent and don't need to inform each other's summarization.
```
fan-out:
pr_summarizer_agent (tools: list_merged_prs, get_pr_details)
incident_agent (tools: list_open_incidents)
deploy_calendar_agent (tools: get_upcoming_deploys)
each returns:
{ "section": "...", "bullets": [ {"text": "...", "source_id": "..."} ] }
fan-in:
aggregator_agent receives all three structured outputs (not free text),
validates each against the shared schema, orders sections, and produces
the final Markdown digest with source citations preserved from each
sub-agent's output.
```
Each sub-agent gets a narrow prompt and only the 1–2 tools its section
needs — the PR summarizer never sees incident tools or vice versa — and
the whole run is capped at exactly 3 parallel sub-agents with no further
delegation allowed, keeping cost bounded and predictable per digest run.
The aggregator is evaluated separately (does it preserve every source
citation, does it handle a sub-agent returning an empty section gracefully)
from each sub-agent's own eval suite.
## Cross-references
- [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md)
- [agent-tool-use-patterns](../agent-tool-use-patterns/SKILL.md)
- [agent-evaluation-and-guardUse with my agent
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