Agentic Design

Patterns
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Concurrent Orchestration(CO)

Multiple agents work simultaneously on the same task to provide diverse perspectives and parallel processing power

Complexity: mediumMulti-Agent

🎯 30-Second Overview

Pattern: Multiple agents execute the same task concurrently to provide diverse perspectives and ensemble reasoning

Why: Harnesses collective intelligence, reduces bias through diversity, increases accuracy via consensus, and accelerates decision-making

Key Insight: Parallel execution + diverse expertise + consensus mechanisms = superior decision quality and speed

⚡ Quick Implementation

1Design Agents:Create diverse agents with complementary expertise
2Setup Parallel Exec:Configure concurrent processing with shared inputs
3Implement Consensus:Add voting/aggregation mechanisms for result synthesis
4Add Coordination:Implement orchestrator for resource management
5Monitor & Optimize:Track performance metrics and optimize throughput
Example: FinancialAgent ∥ MarketAgent ∥ RiskAgent ∥ TechAgent → Consensus → Decision

📋 Do's & Don'ts

✅Design agents with truly diverse perspectives and expertise
✅Use confidence-weighted voting for better consensus quality
✅Implement timeout mechanisms to prevent blocking operations
✅Cache results to avoid redundant processing across agents
✅Monitor consensus quality and agent contribution metrics
✅Use structured output formats for consistent aggregation
❌Create agents with overlapping roles and identical perspectives
❌Use simple majority voting without considering expertise levels
❌Allow infinite processing time without deadlock protection
❌Ignore resource contention and memory pressure issues
❌Accept first consensus without quality validation

🚦 When to Use

Use When

  • • Need diverse perspectives on complex decisions
  • • Brainstorming and creative idea generation
  • • Risk assessment requiring multiple viewpoints
  • • Ensemble reasoning for higher accuracy
  • • Parallel processing can reduce overall latency
  • • Consensus building in high-stakes scenarios

Avoid When

  • • Simple tasks with clear optimal solutions
  • • Real-time systems requiring immediate responses
  • • Limited computational resources available
  • • Tasks requiring strict sequential dependencies
  • • When agent coordination overhead exceeds benefits

📊 Key Metrics

Consensus Quality
Agreement level and confidence scores
Response Diversity
Variance in agent perspectives and solutions
Processing Efficiency
Parallel speedup vs sequential execution
Decision Accuracy
Ensemble performance vs individual agents
Resource Utilization
CPU/memory usage during concurrent execution
Coordination Overhead
Time spent in synchronization and aggregation

💡 Top Use Cases

Investment Decision Analysis: Financial + Market + Risk + Technology agents parallel analysis with weighted consensus
Medical Diagnosis: Clinical + Radiological + Laboratory + Specialist agents concurrent evaluation with confidence voting
Creative Content Generation: Writer + Editor + Designer + Strategist agents simultaneous brainstorming with diverse outputs
Cybersecurity Assessment: Network + Application + Compliance + Threat agents parallel security analysis with risk aggregation
Strategic Planning: Operations + Finance + Legal + Technology agents concurrent SWOT analysis with consensus building

References & Further Reading

Deepen your understanding with these curated resources

Academic Papers (2022-2025)

Multi-Agent Collaboration Mechanisms: A Survey of LLMs (Tran et al., 2025)

Multi-Agent Collaboration via Evolving Orchestration (Dang et al., 2025)

An Electoral Approach to Diversify LLM-based Multi-Agent Collective Decision-Making (2024)

Navigating Complexity: Orchestrated Problem Solving with Multi-Agent LLMs (Rasal & Hauer, 2024)

Consensus and Voting Research

ReConcile: Round-Table Conference Improves Reasoning via Consensus (2024)

LLM Voting: Human Choices and AI Collective Decision Making (2024)

A Survey on LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems: Workflow, Infrastructure, and Challenges (2024)

LLM Multi-Agent Systems: Challenges and Open Problems (2024)

Implementation Frameworks

Microsoft Semantic Kernel - Concurrent Agent Orchestration

AutoGen - Multi-Agent Conversation Framework

LangGraph - Multi-Agent State Machine Orchestration

CrewAI - Role-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration

Parallel Processing & Architecture

Parallelized Planning-Acting for Efficient LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems (2025)

Apache Kafka - Distributed Event Processing

Ray Framework - Distributed Python Applications

Celery - Distributed Task Queue

Industry Case Studies

Anthropic Multi-Agent Research System Engineering Blog (2024)

AWS Multi-Agent Orchestration with Amazon Bedrock (2024)

Google DeepMind Multi-Agent Systems Research (2024)

OpenAI Multi-Agent Coordination Research (2024)

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