Coordination Patterns

To manage the output from all workers To own the goal and delegate tasks to workers To execute specialized tasks To gather and synthesize results

Workers can become too independent The orchestrator fails to gather results Errors can compound from one stage to the next The total time is always minimized

All agents must operate in a sequential order Tasks are split across independent workers to be performed concurrently The orchestrator decides when the goal is met Each worker is dependent on the output of the previous worker

To minimize the computational cost of each agent To avoid adding unnecessary complexity that can lead to failures To ensure all agents work in a synchronous manner To maximize the potential for errors in the system