http://akjamie.github.io/tags/multi-agent/ Recent content in Multi-Agent on Jamie's Blog Hugo en-us Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://akjamie.github.io/post/2026-06-23-multi-agent-architecture-token-breakdown/ Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://akjamie.github.io/post/2026-06-23-multi-agent-architecture-token-breakdown/ <h1 id="multi-agent-architectures-the-diagrams-the-numbers-are-hiding">Multi-Agent Architectures: The Diagrams the Numbers Are Hiding</h1> <p>LangChain&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.langchain.com/blog/choosing-the-right-multi-agent-architecture">Choosing the Right Multi-Agent Architecture</a> lays out four patterns — <strong>Subagents</strong>, <strong>Skills</strong>, <strong>Handoffs</strong>, and <strong>Router</strong> — and benchmarks them across three scenarios with tables of model-call counts and token totals. It&rsquo;s a genuinely useful framework. But there&rsquo;s a gap: in every one of the three benchmark scenarios, only <em>one</em> pattern gets a sequence diagram (almost always Subagents). The other three patterns get a number in a table and nothing to show how that number was produced.</p>