Building Multi-Agent Systems
2026-08-01 · 7 min read
Design patterns for coordinating specialised agents: supervisor, pipeline, debate, and approval-gated publishing.
Four dependable patterns
- Supervisor — one router delegates to specialists
- Pipeline — deterministic hand-off from node to node
- Debate — parallel proposals scored by a judge node
- Approval-gated — human checkpoint before publishing
Shared state is the contract
Design the state object first. Nodes that agree on a typed state are composable; nodes that pass free-form text are not.