Agent type

Multi-Agent

Networks of specialist agents coordinated by a supervisor or orchestrator, enabling role-based task delegation, cross-agent handoffs, and shared memory for complex workflows.

Capabilities

  • Specialized agent roles with defined scopes
  • Cross-agent handoffs and message passing
  • Task arbitration and conflict resolution
  • Shared memory and context pools
  • Supervisor-based orchestration patterns

Limitations

  • Operational complexity increases with agent count
  • Higher infrastructure and observability costs

Best for

Best for

Multi-Agent System

Single-agent systems break down for complex tasks that require specialist knowledge across multiple domains. One agent cannot be expert at research, coding, analysis, and communication simultaneously, leading to shallow results on multi-step workflows.

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Code Review Agent

Engineering teams spend 20-30% of their review cycle on repetitive style, security, and performance checks that could be automated. At scale, manual reviews become a bottleneck that slows deployment velocity.

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Research Assistant

Researchers spend 3-5 hours filtering through sources, cross-referencing claims, and organizing conclusions for a single research question. Manual synthesis is error-prone, sources get lost, and findings are hard to reproduce.

Open Guide

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Redis

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Weaviate

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Architecture layers

OrchestrationLLMMemoryMonitoring

Related use cases

Related use cases

Multi-Agent System

Single-agent systems break down for complex tasks that require specialist knowledge across multiple domains. One agent cannot be expert at research, coding, analysis, and communication simultaneously, leading to shallow results on multi-step workflows.

Open Guide

Research Assistant

Researchers spend 3-5 hours filtering through sources, cross-referencing claims, and organizing conclusions for a single research question. Manual synthesis is error-prone, sources get lost, and findings are hard to reproduce.

Open Guide

Code Review Agent

Engineering teams spend 20-30% of their review cycle on repetitive style, security, and performance checks that could be automated. At scale, manual reviews become a bottleneck that slows deployment velocity.

Open Guide