Field notes and technical insights from the frontier of production AI systems.
Single agent first; escalate only on evidence. A decision procedure for topology, specialist boundaries, tool classification, and cross-cutting concerns.
Every agent has an orchestration layer deciding what happens next. The five questions it must answer, and when one agent stops being enough.
Running the decomposition framework on ecommerce support, and landing on one agent. When the answer flips to multi-agent, and where the framework strained.