Every time an agent delegates a task, it creates a second actor with its own context, its own tools, and its own capacity to do the wrong thing. How much of the system that second actor can see, touch, and break is its blast radius, and the mistake most people make is treating that radius as a side effect of the task…

The defining mistake in multi-agent design is building an orchestrator that does work. It feels natural: the orchestrator is the smartest, most context-rich component in the system, so why not let it handle the hard parts itself and delegate only the scraps? Because the moment the coordinating agent starts executing, it stops being able to coordinate well. Its context fills with the…