Multi-Agent Coordination Patterns Explained
Learn seven practical multi-agent coordination patterns and how they manage roles, ownership, state, handoffs, aggregation, conflicts, and stopping.
Learn seven practical multi-agent coordination patterns and how they manage roles, ownership, state, handoffs, aggregation, conflicts, and stopping.
Compare centralized, decentralized, and hybrid multi-agent architectures across control, state, coordination, scale, observability, governance, and resilience.
Learn seven agent-routing patterns, from deterministic rules and classifiers to semantic, capability-aware, hierarchical, and fallback routing.
Compare orchestrators, supervisor agents, and routers by purpose, decision ownership, state responsibility, delegation, routing, and workflow control.
Learn how agent workflows and orchestration coordinate steps, dependencies, branches, parallel work, retries, checkpoints, tools, agents, and humans.
Learn how delegation, handoffs, and sub-agents divide work while preserving task ownership, context, state, permissions, and reliable result contracts.
Learn how single-agent and multi-agent systems differ, what extra coordination costs, and how to choose the simplest architecture that works.