Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
The decision, in one paragraph A multi-agent system has a shape, and the shape is a decision about control flow: who decomposes the task, who executes the pieces, and who has the authority to move the task somewhere else. There are five shapes that recur constantly in the practitioner literature — fan-out, pipeline, debate, supervisor and swarm — and choosing between them is almost entirely determined by three properties of the task, not of your framework. Is the decomposition known before you start? Are the subtasks independent of each other? Is the routing predictable? If the decomposition is known and the pieces are independent, fan them out. If the decomposition is known and each piece needs the one before it, chain them into a pipeline. If the decomposition has to be worked out at…
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