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T3.6

Multi-agent systems: when justified

Decide whether multi-agent earns its cost.

About 3 h 2 min: 1 h 17 min reading + 1 h 45 min practice · 8 lessons

Scope: Topology and isolation
Prerequisites: Robust agents: retries, fallbacks and guards

Lessons

8 lessons

1
When Multi-Agent Is Justified
8 min
2
Multi-Agent Coordination Patterns
11 min
3
Shared State, Routing, and Termination
7 min
4
Handoffs and Permission Scope
8 min
5
Failure Isolation and Evaluation
8 min
6
From Supervisor to Deep Agent
11 min
7
Anatomy of a Deployed Multi-Agent Platform
11 min
8
Practise Multi-Agent Interview Questions
13 min

Practise and Check

Deliverable: Argue single vs multi for 2 cases
Assessment: Checkpoint
Interview probe: Why not one agent?
Common mistakes: Multi-agent by default

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