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Multi-Agent Architectures Overview

Build sophisticated multi-agent systems with Swarms' advanced orchestration patterns. From hierarchical teams to collaborative councils, these examples demonstrate how to coordinate multiple AI agents for complex tasks.

What You'll Learn

Topic Description
Hierarchical Swarms Director agents coordinating worker agents
Collaborative Systems Agents working together through debate and consensus
Workflow Patterns Sequential, concurrent, and graph-based execution
Routing Systems Intelligent task routing to specialized agents
Group Interactions Multi-agent conversations and discussions

Architecture Examples

Hierarchical & Orchestration

Example Description Link
HierarchicalSwarm Multi-level agent organization with director and workers View Example
Hybrid Hierarchical-Cluster Swarm Combined hierarchical and cluster patterns View Example
AutoSwarmBuilder Quickstart Automatically generates specialized agent teams from task descriptions View Example
AutoSwarmBuilder Tutorial Complete guide to automatic multi-agent team generation View Tutorial
SwarmRouter Intelligent routing of tasks to appropriate swarms View Example
MultiAgentRouter Route tasks to specialized individual agents View Example

Collaborative & Consensus

Example Description Link
MajorityVoting Quickstart Multiple agents vote, consensus agent synthesizes best answer View Example
MajorityVoting Tutorial Comprehensive guide to consensus building with voting View Tutorial
CouncilAsAJudge Quickstart Multi-dimensional evaluation with specialized judge agents View Example
CouncilAsAJudge Tutorial Detailed guide to multi-dimensional quality assessment View Tutorial
LLM Council Quickstart Collaborative decision-making with peer review and synthesis View Example
LLM Council Examples Domain-specific council implementations View Examples
DebateWithJudge Quickstart Two agents debate with judge providing synthesis View Example
Mixture of Agents Heterogeneous agents for diverse task handling View Example

Workflow Patterns

Example Description Link
GraphWorkflow with Rustworkx High-performance graph-based workflows (5-10x faster) View Example
Multi-Agentic Patterns with GraphWorkflow Advanced graph workflow patterns View Example
SequentialWorkflow Linear agent pipelines View Example
ConcurrentWorkflow Parallel agent execution View Example

Group Communication

Example Description Link
Group Chat Multi-agent group conversations View Example
Interactive GroupChat Real-time interactive agent discussions View Example
RoundRobinSwarm Quickstart AutoGen-style randomized collaborative discussions View Example
RoundRobinSwarm Tutorial Detailed guide to round-robin agent collaboration View Tutorial
SocialAlgorithms Quickstart Custom communication patterns and algorithms View Example
SocialAlgorithms Tutorial Build your own multi-agent coordination patterns View Tutorial

Specialized Patterns

Example Description Link
Agents as Tools Use agents as callable tools for other agents View Example
Aggregate Responses Combine outputs from multiple agents View Example
Unique Swarms Experimental and specialized swarm patterns View Example
BatchedGridWorkflow (Simple) Grid-based batch processing View Example
BatchedGridWorkflow (Advanced) Advanced grid-based batch processing View Example