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Apr 22, 2026
Manager / Coordinator / Agent: A Multi-Agent Topology That Survives Real Workloads Most multi-agent demos collapse on contact with non-trivial tasks. The Manager / Coordinator / Agent topology is what I keep reaching for when I want a multi-agent system that does not deadlock, drift, or hallucinate its way into nonsense. Here is what each layer does, and where the pattern breaks. AIagentsarchitecturemulti-agent Read

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