Multi-Agent System
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Practical example
A multi-agent system coordinates multiple AI agents working together. Example: one agent researches, another writes, a third reviews. The operational challenge: agents can conflict (two agents booking the same resource), loop (agent A asks B who asks A), or amplify each other's mistakes.
Workflow example
Multi-agent deployment: (1) assign clear roles with non-overlapping authorities (researcher, writer, editor — each with different tools), (2) implement a coordinator agent that resolves conflicts and breaks loops, (3) set max_message_passes between agents (e.g., 20) to prevent infinite conversations, (4) log all inter-agent communication for debugging, (5) start with 2 agents and scale up — debugging a 10-agent system is exponentially harder than 2 × 5 agent pairs.