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5. Orchestrating many agents

Supervisor / worker pattern

The org-chart shape of most orchestration: one supervisor agent decomposes the goal, assigns pieces to worker agents, reviews what comes back, and re-assigns what isn't good enough.

Why it matters: it's a management structure you already understand, running in software. When it misbehaves, diagnose it like a team: was the brief bad, the worker wrong for the task, or the review missing?