QuestionQ45

Agents and Workflows

A team has deployed a multi-agent system where a primary agent breaks down user requests and assigns subtasks to three specialized subagents: one for data retrieval, one for analysis, and one for report generation. In production, the team finds that subagents make redundant tool calls, sometimes exceed token budgets, and occasionally produce contradictory outputs—all of which the primary agent forwards without detecting. What is the most appropriate way to resolve these failures?

Explanation

A primary orchestration layer should govern specialized agents through enforceable per-agent resource limits, structured output validation, and explicit contracts for information passed between stages. These controls prevent unnecessary tool use and token overruns, reject malformed or incompatible outputs before propagation, and make responsibilities and expected data formats clear enough to reduce contradictions.

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