The supervisor routing pattern is clean. One thing worth adding — when agents hand off mid-task, the context window carryover gets expensive fast. Have you tried truncating the shared state to just the last tool-call result instead of the full conversation?
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Ken has a long history around computers starting with early Commodore PETs and VIC-20s. He is a MongoDB Certified Developer and lives in Oregon with his wife and three children. You can find him mo...
After thinking about this more (sorry it was late last night), you’re hitting on the 'hidden tax' of multi-agent systems: Context Bloat.
You’re absolutely right that the supervisor pattern, in its purest form, can become a token hog. To clarify, the 'Forensic Team' series was designed as a Proof of Concept (PoC) to demonstrate the routing logic and MCP integration, rather than a production-ready system for high-volume, thousand-turn investigations.
If I were scaling this for a high-volume environment, I’d move away from 'Full History Carryover' and use a 'State-Based Handoff' instead. Here’s how I’d tackle it:
The 'Briefing' Pattern: Instead of passing the full thread, the Supervisor generates a 3-sentence summary of the 'Current Mission' and 'Findings to Date' to accompany the last tool result.
MCP-Managed State: I’d use a dedicated MCP server to act as a 'Long-Term Memory' (like a vector DB or simple key-value store). Agents pull only the specific artifacts they need by ID, rather than carrying the whole payload in the prompt. More articles coming on this topic, actually.
Recursive Truncation: Automatically stripping out intermediate thought processes (the 'inner monologue') before handing the baton to the next agent, leaving only the 'Public' tool outputs.
The goal is to move from a 'Shared Conversation' to a 'Shared Blackboard.'
Thanks for pointing out a critical optimization for anyone moving past the PoC stage!"
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The supervisor routing pattern is clean. One thing worth adding — when agents hand off mid-task, the context window carryover gets expensive fast. Have you tried truncating the shared state to just the last tool-call result instead of the full conversation?
Great point, @klement_gunndu I'll play around with that approach.
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After thinking about this more (sorry it was late last night), you’re hitting on the 'hidden tax' of multi-agent systems: Context Bloat.
You’re absolutely right that the supervisor pattern, in its purest form, can become a token hog. To clarify, the 'Forensic Team' series was designed as a Proof of Concept (PoC) to demonstrate the routing logic and MCP integration, rather than a production-ready system for high-volume, thousand-turn investigations.
If I were scaling this for a high-volume environment, I’d move away from 'Full History Carryover' and use a 'State-Based Handoff' instead. Here’s how I’d tackle it:
The goal is to move from a 'Shared Conversation' to a 'Shared Blackboard.'
Thanks for pointing out a critical optimization for anyone moving past the PoC stage!"