Multi-Agent Patterns

Use this skill to select and apply multi-agent collaboration patterns: supervisor, pipeline, router, critic-executor, debate, hierarchical delegation, peer mesh, swarm, and related coordination workflows.

Keep this file as the operating contract. Load references only for detailed catalogs, implementation sketches, handoff templates, failure modes, and worked examples.

When To Use

• Designing a new agent architecture.
• Adding agents to an existing system.
• Coordinating multiple agents across parallel, sequential, review, or escalation work.
• Choosing communication, delegation, conflict-resolution, memory, lifecycle, or health-monitoring rules.
• Auditing a multi-agent workflow for deadlocks, authority gaps, hidden state, or poor observability.

When Not To Use

• Single-agent work with no coordination problem.
• Claude Code subagent authoring; use the relevant subagent-development guidance.
• MCP server development; use mcp-builder.