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Vrinda Damani
Vrinda Damani

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🛡️ Building a Multi-Agent System? Here’s the 5-step framework that keeps your workflow from crashing 👇

When you move from 1 agent to 10+, intelligence isn’t the issue - coordination is.

Failures usually come from dependencies, race conditions, or one weak link taking down the chain. Below is the practical implementation framework for building resilient AI workflows:

  1. Anticipate Failure
    Assume agents will break - APIs timeout, rate limits hit, outputs go sideways. Build with this reality in mind.

  2. Isolate Failures (Circuit Breakers)
    Contain failures at the source. When Agent A fails, Agents B should continue operating with fallback data or alternative execution paths.

  3. Graceful Degradation
    Fallbacks > crashes. Design workflows that can deliver value even when components fail, especially critical in production environments.

  4. Dependency-Aware Execution
    Run agents in logical order, respecting who depends on whom. This prevents deadlocks, bottlenecks, and race conditions.

  5. Continuous Monitoring & Evaluation
    Don’t just ask “did it run?” - ask “was the output good, was it fast, was it reliable?”

This is where Future AGI fits: real-time, cost-efficient evaluation that gives you visibility into quality and trustworthiness at scale.

📊 Your Production-Ready Stack:
// Orchestration: LangGraph AI
// LLMs: GPT-4 + Claude
// Evaluation: Future AGI(https://app.futureagi.com/)
// Memory: Pinecone

Want to see in action?

Here is the Github example of building a 10-Agent Research Workflow: https://github.com/future-agi/cookbooks/tree/main/Multi_Agent_Research

From query planning → research → cleaning → fact extraction → bias & sentiment analysis → fact checking → argument generation → report writing → proofreading, every step is monitored with Future AGI Evals, which automatically check for factual accuracy, completeness, and relevance surfacing quality issues with quantifiable metrics.

👉 Curious how you’d adapt this framework for your own multi-agent workflows? Drop your thoughts below.

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