Agents

Coordinator Agent

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Quick Definition

An agent responsible for assigning tasks, managing workflow, and aggregating results from other agents.

Coordinator agents (also called orchestrator or manager agents) provide centralized control in multi-agent systems.

Responsibilities

  • Task decomposition
  • Agent selection/routing
  • Progress monitoring
  • Result aggregation
  • Error handling

Risks

  • Single point of failure
  • Bottleneck at scale
  • Coordinator errors cascade
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