Multi-Agent Orchestration

Overview

Sequential execution of parallelizable work is wasted time. But naive parallelization creates merge conflicts, duplicated effort, and incoherent results.

Core principle: Decompose into independent bounded tasks, execute in parallel with isolated contexts, verify before merging. The orchestrator thinks; the workers execute; the judge validates.

Violating task boundaries is violating the entire pattern.

The Iron Law

EACH AGENT GETS ONE BOUNDED TASK WITH CLEAR ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

If you cannot write a two-sentence task description with a concrete "done when" condition, the task is not ready for delegation.

When to Use