inter-agent-communication
Inter-Agent Communication
Inter-Agent Communication defines the language and transport layer for agents to talk to each other. In a distributed system, Agent A (Booking) might run on a different server than Agent B (Payment). They need a standard way to find each other (Discovery), send requests (Messaging), and understand the data format (Protocol).
When to Use
- Microservices Architecture: Breaking a monolithic agent into smaller, deployable services.
- Ecosystem Integration: Allowing your agent to talk to agents built by other teams or companies.
- Asynchronous Tasks: "Fire and forget" tasks where Agent A sends a job to Agent B and checks back later.
- Load Balancing: Distributing tasks across a pool of identical agents.
Use Cases
- Agent Marketplace: An agent searches a registry to find a "Translation Agent" and hires it for a task.
- Supply Chain: A "Retail Agent" sends a restock order to a "Warehouse Agent", which confirms availability.
- Delegation: A "Personal Assistant Agent" delegates a math problem to a specialized "Wolfram Alpha Agent".
Implementation Pattern
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multi-agent-collaboration
A structural pattern where multiple specialized agents communicate and coordinate to solve a problem that is too complex for a single agent. Use when user asks to "build a multi-agent system", "agents working together", "agent collaboration", or mentions team of agents, distributed agents, or swarm.
23reflection
A recursive pattern where an agent evaluates and critiques its own output to iteratively improve quality and catch errors. Use when user asks to "add self-reflection", "agent introspection", "self-critique", or mentions self-evaluation, meta-cognition, or quality self-assessment.
18human-in-the-loop
A hybrid pattern where the system pauses execution to request human approval, input, or disambiguation before proceeding with critical actions. Use when user asks to "add human approval", "require human review", "human-in-the-loop", or mentions approval workflows, human oversight, or escalation.
17planning
A high-level cognitive pattern where an agent formulates a structured sequence of actions (a plan) before executing any of them, ensuring goal-directed behavior. Use when user asks to "add planning to my agent", "task planning", "agent planning", or mentions plan generation, plan execution, or step-by-step planning.
14parallelization
A concurrency pattern where multiple agent tasks are executed at the same time to speed up processing or gather diverse perspectives. Use when user asks to "run agents in parallel", "parallelize tasks", "concurrent execution", or mentions parallel processing, fan-out, or batch execution.
13routing
A control flow pattern where a central component classifies an input request and directs it to the most appropriate specialized agent or tool. Use when user asks to "route between agents", "agent routing", "task dispatch", or mentions classifier routing, intent detection, or agent selection.
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