Agentic AI·Medium
Design a Multi-Agent Orchestration System
Asked at Microsoft, LangChain, CrewAI
Design a multi-agent orchestration system where specialized AI agents collaborate to complete complex tasks. For example, a software development task might involve a Product Manager agent gathering requirements, an Architect agent designing the solution, a Developer agent writing code, and a Reviewer agent checking the work — all coordinated by an Orchestrator agent.
Scale Requirements
- Support 5-20 specialized agents per task
- Tasks can involve 50-200 inter-agent messages
- System must handle 100 concurrent tasks
- Agent interactions may be sequential, parallel, or conditional based on intermediate results
- Individual agents may fail (timeout, hallucination, tool error) — the system must recover gracefully
Design Requirements
- Design the agent role definition and task decomposition model.
- Design the inter-agent communication protocol.
- Choose between centralized orchestration and decentralized coordination — justify your choice.
- Design the error handling and fault tolerance strategy.
- Describe how you would provide observability into multi-agent workflows.
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