Multi-Agent Orchestration
Coordinating several agents or steps: routing, delegation, parallel execution and merging results. Worth reaching for only once a single agent has demonstrably hit its limit.
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Microsoft Research's take on multi-agent systems, where progress emerges from a structured conversation between specialised agents. Strong for exploration and research-flavoured problems. Two things to check before adopting: the API was substantially reworked between major versions, and GitHub reports the repository licence as CC-BY-4.0 — a content licence, not an OSI-approved software one. Confirm the terms with the maintainers before commercial use.
Models a task as a crew of agents with named roles and goals that hand work to each other. The metaphor makes a multi-agent design readable at a glance, which is why it demos so well. Whether several role-playing agents beat one well-prompted agent on your task is worth measuring before committing — the answer is often no.
Models an agent as an explicit graph of nodes and edges rather than a loop you cannot inspect. Durable checkpoints let a run pause for human approval and resume later, which is what makes it viable for workflows that touch production systems. The trade-off is verbosity: simple tool-calling agents need noticeably more setup here than elsewhere.