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Agents — core

Multi-agent systems

Also called: agents talking to agents, orchestrator and workers

DEFINITION

Setups where several agents (often specialised) collaborate on a task — one planning and delegating, others executing — coordinating through messages rather than a single agent doing everything.

WHY IT MATTERS

Splitting work across focused agents can handle bigger tasks, but it multiplies the failure and security surface: errors compound between agents, and an injected instruction in one can propagate through the others.

COMMONLY CONFUSED WITH

Automatically being more capable. More agents add coordination cost and new failure modes; they help only when the task genuinely benefits from division of labour.