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The best agent orchestration pattern I've seen: a planner agent that decomposes tasks, wor

@swyx top-voice · 120,000 followers
3 — Know this
  • The best agent orchestration pattern I've seen: a planner agent that decomposes tasks, worker agents that execute in parallel, and a critic agent that audits outputs before merge.
  • Keep the critic separate from the workers.
  • This is the workflow that scales.
2 — Why it matters
  • Adjacent signal — worth a scan. rel 0.4
  • Source authority: top-voice — AI engineer. Writing about the rise of the AI engineer. Latent Space podcast.
1 — Do this now · In the next 10 min: extract the core principle and apply it to one live task.

Architecture

flowchart LR
  A["agent"] --> B["AI & Agents"]
  B --> C["Mechanism"]
  C --> D["Do: In the next 10 min: extract the core principle a"]

Execution module

# run this workflow in your pipeline
01 · Hook

The best agent orchestration pattern I've seen: a planner agent that d

Adjacent signal — worth a scan.

02 · Core

The mechanism

Keep the critic separate from the workers.

03 · Edge

Why it's leverage

From @swyx (top-voice). This is the workflow that scales.

04 · Your turn

Do this now

In the next 10 min: extract the core principle and apply it to one live task.

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XLoopOut · Applied Knowledge Platform · 2026-07-09