I Built a Team of AI Agents That Manage Themselves — Here’s the Orchestrator Pattern Behind It

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A tested, running hierarchical multi-agent system that plans a research question into subtasks, runs specialist agents in parallel, catches its own weak answers, and retries them — with every log in this article captured from a real execution

Estimated reading time: 18–22 minutes

Table of Contents #

• Introduction
• Problem Statement
• Background
• Core Concepts
• Technology Deep Dive
• Architecture
• Mini Project: A Multi-Agent Research Orchestrator
• Implementation
• Code Walkthrough
• Testing
• Performance
• Limitations
• Best Practices
• Common Mistakes
• Production Considerations
• Future Improvements
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• Official References

All code in this article is organized as a single runnable project. Copy any block into the matching file path and it will run…