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Multi-Agent Orchestration

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Coordination patterns for specialized agents collaborating through message passing, shared memory, task decomposition, and conflict resolution protocols.

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Meta
Meta (principles / narrative / research)
Prompt
Prompt (templates / few-shot / system instructions)
Orchestration
Orchestration (chaining / routing / looping)*
Integration
Integration (tools / RAG / external APIs)
Guardrails
Guardrails (output validation / safety checks)
Memory
Memory (context / state / persistence)
Eval
Eval (testing / metrics / iteration)
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