# multi-agent

Fable 5 as the commander, Opus as the deep thinker, Sonnet as the grunt worker, Codex as the parallel-universe senior engineer — a multi-model orchestration setup inside Claude Code that reserves the most expensive brain for the most critical decisions.

Cognition's Walden Yan returns after Don't Build Multi-Agents with three patterns that actually ship: Devin Review's clean-context loop, cross-frontier smart friends, and manager Devin. The common rule: writes stay single-threaded.

Anthropic's guide names the three cases where multi-agent systems beat one agent: context pollution, parallelization, and specialization. Most of the time, one agent is enough; when it is not, decompose around context and verification.

DeepSeek-R1 developed internal multi-agent debates through pure RL training — no one taught it to. Google researchers call this the 'Society of Thought.' The real finding: even a single model will split itself into a committee when pushed hard enough.

After running nine Claude Code agents in parallel, we hit an article counter race and a git lock conflict. ECC's iterative retrieval pattern points at the same multi-agent problem: shared context needs isolated state, atomic pre-allocation, and sequential deploy.

Most AI scientist systems act like brilliant interns with amnesia. EvoScientist adds three specialized agents and two persistent memories so the system can learn from failed directions, reuse good strategies, and improve over time.

gu-log had 336 AI-translated posts. We thought they were 'fine' — until we built a multi-agent scoring system and discovered 74% needed rewriting. This is the story of how we designed the eval, ran it overnight, and what we learned.

OpenClaw's ACP lets you spawn Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini from Discord/Telegram chat. Now with Telegram topic binding, persistent bindings that survive restarts, ACP Provenance for audit trails, and more. (Updated 2026-03-09)

Claude Code now supports Agent Teams: a lead session coordinates multiple teammate sessions with shared task lists, direct messaging, and parallel work. It's like running a company staffed entirely by AI — you just sit back and watch the quarterly report.

Karpathy spent a weekend running 4 Claude + 4 Codex agents as an ML research team on GPUs. The result: agents are S-tier at implementation but F-tier at experiment design. His key insight — 'You are now programming an organization' — might define agentic engineering in 2026.

Upgrading OpenClaw keeps breaking your agent fleet? This developer's solution: spin up a separate Gateway as a 'family doctor' that does nothing but fix the main Gateway's agents. Been running it through multiple upgrades — rock solid.

GitHub's Agent HQ now offers multi-agent support (Claude, Codex, Copilot) for Copilot Pro+ & Enterprise users. Run multiple AIs simultaneously in GitHub/VS Code to tackle problems from different angles. Outputs become Draft PRs. A paradigm shift for code review.

SemiAnalysis: Kimi K2.5's agent swarm uses an RL-trained 'orchestrator' (not prompt magic). Claude Agent Teams were slower, pricier, & scored lower. Multi-agent is shifting from 'prompt engineering' to 'distributed scheduling.'

Anthropic's 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report highlights multi-agent adoption, the Papercut Revolution for tech debt, self-healing code, and Claude Code hitting $1B ARR. TELUS and Rakuten case studies show developers shifting from code writer to system orchestrator.

New research warns: LLM + multi-agent = new form of information warfare. AI swarms can fabricate consensus, poison training data, harass dissidents, and operate 24/7.