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Shared goals and exclusive claims
Agents need one written goal and one place to see the work. Then each task needs exactly one owner at a time.
- One board per goal
- Claims with expiring leases
- Done criteria on every task
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Multi-agent coordination, in five problems.
Most multi-agent setups fail in the same handful of ways. Solve these five and your agents start to behave like a team.
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Communication that stays readable
Free-form chat between agents turns into loops and status spam. Someone has to take turns and fold the noise.
- Turn-taking
- Folded status lines
- Reports on the task, not in chat
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Escalation and trust
Stuck agents should ask peers before people. And no agent should obey another agent's text as if it were an order.
- Peer help, then owner
- Trust levels on every message
- Humans are the only source of orders
Questions
Why do multi-agent systems fail?
Research on multi-agent failures points at unclear specs, poor coordination between agents, and weak checking of results. Shared goals, exclusive claims and review steps address all three.
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