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In brief
Splitting work across several model roles can clarify a task. It can also create a committee that nobody can debug.
Original CloudExchangers explainer. It describes established public practice and labels the desk’s judgment as analysis. It is not a report of a newly announced event.
Roles are a design, not a personality
A multi-agent setup gives different instructions, and sometimes different tools, to more than one model call. A planner breaks a task into steps. A researcher is allowed to read. A critic looks for unsupported claims. An orchestrator decides which role runs next. None of these roles is a colleague. Each is a prompt plus a permission set.