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What protocols govern how agents hand off work, and what makes multi-agent coordination break?

Multi-agent systems coordinate through handoffs and shared state. The signal is knowing the orchestration topologies, what a clean handoff protocol carries, and why naive multi-agent often loses to one good agent.

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Multi-agent systems coordinate through handoffs and shared state. The signal is knowing the orchestration topologies, what a clean handoff protocol carries, and why naive multi-agent often loses to one good agent.

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