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Workflow & Orchestration

Designing agent workflows, routing, DAGs, event handling, orchestration layers, and human-in-the-loop control.

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A side-by-side comparison showing a sequential research-analysis-writing-review pipeline and parallel market-data-risk agents feeding an aggregator.

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Sequential vs Parallel Agent Execution

Compare sequential, parallel, and hybrid agent execution by dependencies, latency, cost, state transfer, synchronization, aggregation, and failure handling.

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A user request enters an agent router that can select a research agent, coding agent, data agent, or general agent.

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Agent Routing Patterns: How Agents Choose the Next Worker

Learn seven agent-routing patterns, from deterministic rules and classifiers to semantic, capability-aware, hierarchical, and fallback routing.

Three side-by-side architectures showing an orchestrator controlling workflow tasks, a supervisor managing worker agents, and a router choosing among destinations.

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Orchestrator vs Supervisor vs Router in Multi-Agent Systems

Compare orchestrators, supervisor agents, and routers by purpose, decision ownership, state responsibility, delegation, routing, and workflow control.

An orchestrated agent workflow where input enters an orchestrator that coordinates retrieval and analysis agents, a tool or API step, human approval, aggregation, and output.

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Agent Workflows and Orchestration Explained

Learn how agent workflows and orchestration coordinate steps, dependencies, branches, parallel work, retries, checkpoints, tools, agents, and humans.

A delegation architecture where a primary agent assigns bounded research, data, and writing tasks to specialist sub-agents before validating and combining their results.

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Agent Handoffs, Delegation, and Sub-Agents

Learn how delegation, handoffs, and sub-agents divide work while preserving task ownership, context, state, permissions, and reliable result contracts.