How do agents communicate and coordinate in a multi-agent system?
Multi-agent systems succeed or fail on how agents share information and hand off work. The signal is naming the three communication patterns and the coordination failures that sink the naive version. Here is the answer.
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Multi-agent systems succeed or fail on how agents share information and hand off work. The signal is naming the three communication patterns and the coordination failures that sink the naive version. Here is the answer.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
