Multi-Agent LLM Design Tradeoffs
Splitting one agent into several buys context isolation, parallelism, and separate permissions, and costs tokens, handoff loss, and new failure paths. Measure it against a single-agent baseline.
Splitting one agent into several buys context isolation, parallelism, and separate permissions, and costs tokens, handoff loss, and new failure paths. Measure it against a single-agent baseline.
A final reply can be right while the world is wrong. Score agent runs by the effect ledger, constrain the trajectory, test faults and attacks, audit reviewers, and gate releases.
Approval is a protocol, not a click. Define what the reviewer sees, who may approve, what invalidates an approval, what silence means, and what the audit records.
A crash or a lost response in the middle of a multi-step agent run leaves effects you cannot see. Journal steps, derive stable keys, treat unknown outcomes explicitly, and design compensation.
An agent loop makes many individually valid calls. What keeps the sequence under control is explicit task state, a validated plan, budgets that end every run, and a trace that explains it afterward.
A model only proposes a tool call. The runtime decides whether it is well-formed, permitted for this user, valid in the current state, and safe to run without a person.