Architecture & Patterns: Multi-Agent Orchestration¶

Production Patterns¶

Architecture View¶

graph LR
  A[Supervisor task] --> B[Specialist request contract]
  B --> C[Specialist response contract]
  C --> D[Conflict policy]
  D --> E[Final merged result]

Common Failure Modes¶

Overlapping responsibilities across specialists.
Free-form response payloads without schema.
Silent conflict merges with no rationale.

Interview Q&A¶

Q: Interview Q: What should happen if two specialists disagree with nearly equal confidence?

Use a predefined narrow-gap rule to escalate for review or run a tie-break subroutine. Avoid arbitrary selection in high-impact paths.

Q: Interview Q: Why version role contracts?

Contract versions prevent runtime breakage when payload fields evolve. They allow phased migrations across orchestrated components.