Agent Teams
The org chart applied to agents.
In one sentence
Formalizing multi-agent setups as teams with defined roles, communication protocols, and a coordinator. It is the org chart applied to agents.
Before
Loose agents cooperating
What it does
Roles, protocol, and coordinator
After
Team with defined accountability
Example
The correspondence team: an extractor, a drafter, a checker, and a coordinator who assigns work and decides when to escalate. Each one has a written role, defined input and output, and criteria for when to pass things along. It works like any org chart, except the positions are filled by agents.
In practice
- Write each agent’s role in one sentence. If it needs two, the role is unclear.
- Define who escalates to whom and what happens when no one knows how to resolve it.
- One coordinator only. Distributed coordination among agents leads to deadlock.
How to make it tangible
A document with each agent’s roles, inputs, outputs, and escalation criteria, serving as the org chart for the operation.
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