Architecture
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Coordinating multiple specialist agents for complex tasks that require parallelisation.
Recommended agents
AnthropicOpenAIAnthropic
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic's flagship at the time of this entry: extended thinking on, 1M-token context, the most patient of the frontier models.
OpenAI Swarm
OpenAI's educational multi-agent framework. Minimal, opinionated, not production-hardened.
Anthropic SDK / Managed Agents
Building blocks for custom agents — tool use, prompt caching, batch API, extended thinking, memory.
Budget pick
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Free (open protocol)
Key considerations
- ›Failure isolation
- ›State consistency
- ›Planner agent selection