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Design reliable AI-agent and multi-agent systems. Use when deciding whether a workflow needs one agent, tools, specialist agents, manager control, handoffs, durable execution, human approval, model routing, retries, or an operating boundary for an AI workflow.
Design reliable AI-agent and multi-agent systems. Use when deciding whether a workflow needs one agent, tools, specialist agents, manager control, handoffs, durable execution, human approval, model routing, retries, or an operating boundary for an AI workflow.
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Choose the lightest design that satisfies the outcome:
Do not use an agent swarm as a substitute for an owned workflow.
Before implementation, record:
Parallelize only independent work whose outputs can be reconciled without conflicting writes.
Produce an execution diagram, role/tool matrix, state and approval map, operating limits, and an evaluation plan. Route persistent-context design to $agent-memory-provenance; route quality and release testing to $agent-evaluation-operations; define explicit integration contracts for external events.
name: agent-orchestration-architecture description: Design reliable AI-agent and multi-agent systems. Use when deciding whether a workflow needs one agent, tools, specialist agents, manager control, handoffs, durable execution, human approval, model routing, retries, or an operating boundary for an AI workflow.
--- name: agent-orchestration-architecture description: Design reliable AI-agent and multi-agent systems. Use when deciding whether a workflow needs one agent, tools, specialist agents, manager control, handoffs, durable execution, human approval, model routing, retries, or an operating boundary for an AI workflow. --- # Agent Orchestration Architecture ## Design in escalating complexity Choose the lightest design that satisfies the outcome: 1. Deterministic program or promptless automation. 2. One agent with bounded tools and structured output. 3. One manager agent that calls specialists as bounded tools. 4. Handoffs only when a specialist should own the rest of the interaction. 5. Durable workflow runtime only when work survives interruptions, waits, or external callbacks. Do not use an agent swarm as a substitute for an owned workflow. ## Define the operating contract Before implementation, record: - outcome, success evidence, and named final-output owner; - inputs, output schema, permitted tools, and forbidden actions; - model and reasoning choice by decision difficulty, not task size; - state owner, memory lifetime, tenant boundary, and source of truth; - approval checkpoints, budgets, timeouts, stop conditions, and escalation; - retry, idempotency, compensation, and human-handoff behavior. Parallelize only independent work whose outputs can be reconciled without conflicting writes. ## Make control explicit - Use a manager when one agent must enforce shared policy, combine specialist work, or own the user-facing answer. - Use a handoff when the specialist needs a focused interaction and clear transfer of responsibility. - Pass structured task packets, not vague conversation history. Minimize context to the specialist's need. - Keep external writes, money, sending, publishing, and irreversible operations behind explicit approval gates. - Design every loop with a maximum attempt count and a useful terminal state. ## Required outputs Produce an execution diagram, role/tool matrix, state and approval map, operating limits, and an evaluation plan. Route persistent-context design to `$agent-memory-provenance`; route quality and release testing to `$agent-evaluation-operations`; define explicit integration contracts for external events.
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