Orchestration Model
Centralized Manager:
understand task → break down into subtasks → select agents → track progress → merge results
Each specialized agent is modeled as a tool: call, pass parameters, get result – a unified abstraction provides extensibility and heterogeneity.
Manager is a single point of failure and bottleneck: Plan-and-Act shows that a weak planner limits the entire system, therefore the strongest model and best prompt go to the manager.
Manager’s context is constrained: it holds an index of files and summaries, not the content.
Forms: sequential coordination and parallel via message bus.
Related: Interaction Topologies, Proposer-Reviewer, Failure Modes of Multi-Agent Systems