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Learning: Multi-Agent Orchestration

How to Use This Page

  • Keep role boundaries explicit.
  • Use strict message contracts.
  • Observe conflict and merge behavior closely.

Lesson 1: Fundamentals

Learn how specialized agents collaborate through clear role contracts.

What You Learn

  • How to define one responsibility per agent
  • Why shared schema contracts reduce integration failures
  • How explicit handoffs improve debuggability

Walkthrough

  1. Define coordinator and specialist roles.
  2. Create input/output contracts for each role.
  3. Execute one end-to-end request with role traces.

Try It Yourself

  • Swap two role responsibilities and observe confusion patterns.
  • Break one contract field and verify robust error handling.
  • Add role rationale fields to outputs.

Lesson 2: Intermediate Patterns

Learn deterministic conflict resolution and confidence-aware merging.

What You Learn

  • How to merge specialist outputs predictably
  • Why tie-break rules should be deterministic
  • How confidence fields guide conflict handling

Walkthrough

  1. Collect outputs from two specialists.
  2. Apply merge policy with tie-break rules.
  3. Produce merged result with decision rationale.

Try It Yourself

  • Create a disagreement scenario and test tie-break behavior.
  • Compare confidence-weighted merge vs fixed-priority merge.
  • Track conflict rate over 20 runs.

Lesson 3: Production Patterns

Learn escalation, contract versioning, and orchestration observability.

What You Learn

  • How and when to escalate unresolved conflicts
  • Why contract versioning prevents breaking changes
  • Which role-level metrics reveal orchestration bottlenecks

Walkthrough

  1. Add escalation triggers for low-confidence conflicts.
  2. Version message contracts with compatibility checks.
  3. Capture role latency and handoff failure metrics.

Try It Yourself

  • Simulate one incompatible contract update and recover gracefully.
  • Add SLA thresholds for each role.
  • Draft one escalation policy for production use.

Code Examples

  • Starter script: docs/starter/stage06_multi_agent.py
  • Stage architecture notes: docs/roadmap/stage-06-role-contracts-and-messaging/architecture.md