Module VI — Multi-Agent Orchestration

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Control topologies

Sequential
Parallel
Hierarchical
Competitive
Conditional
Event-driven

Handoff engineering

• structured output
• state transfer
• artifact passing
• task ownership
• scope boundaries
• provenance

Anti-patterns

• agent-count maximalism
• recursive delegation
• duplicated work
• context explosion
• supervisor bottleneck
• uncontrolled test-time compute