A multi-agent system is one in which several Agent instances collaborate, negotiate, or divide labor to accomplish a shared goal — a decades-old AI research topic, now a practical engineering pattern in the LLM era. The usual setup has an Orchestrator decompose work, dispatch it to specialist Subagent roles in parallel, and merge the results. Frameworks like AutoGen and CrewAI ship opinionated templates for this pattern, while Anthropic's research-agent posts highlight that coordination overhead is an underrated cost. The right use case is when a single prompt won't fit the work and the context must be partitioned.
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Multi-agent System
A system in which multiple AI agents collaborate, negotiate, or divide labor to accomplish a goal.
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