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 |
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| Hybrid Hierarchical-Cluster Swarm |
Combined hierarchical and cluster patterns |
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| SwarmRouter |
Intelligent routing of tasks to appropriate swarms |
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| MultiAgentRouter |
Route tasks to specialized individual agents |
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Collaborative & Consensus
| Example |
Description |
Link |
| LLM Council Quickstart |
Collaborative decision-making with peer review and synthesis |
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| LLM Council Examples |
Domain-specific council implementations |
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| DebateWithJudge Quickstart |
Two agents debate with judge providing synthesis |
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| Mixture of Agents |
Heterogeneous agents for diverse task handling |
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Workflow Patterns
| Example |
Description |
Link |
| GraphWorkflow with Rustworkx |
High-performance graph-based workflows (5-10x faster) |
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| Multi-Agentic Patterns with GraphWorkflow |
Advanced graph workflow patterns |
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| SequentialWorkflow |
Linear agent pipelines |
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| ConcurrentWorkflow |
Parallel agent execution |
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Group Communication
| Example |
Description |
Link |
| Group Chat |
Multi-agent group conversations |
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| Interactive GroupChat |
Real-time interactive agent discussions |
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Specialized Patterns
| Example |
Description |
Link |
| Agents as Tools |
Use agents as callable tools for other agents |
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| Aggregate Responses |
Combine outputs from multiple agents |
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| Unique Swarms |
Experimental and specialized swarm patterns |
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| BatchedGridWorkflow (Simple) |
Grid-based batch processing |
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| BatchedGridWorkflow (Advanced) |
Advanced grid-based batch processing |
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