Agent Team

ELI5 — The Vibe Check

An agent team is 2–16 AI agents collaborating via shared task lists — like a sprint team that never sleeps, eats, or complains. One agent plans, one writes code, one runs tests, one reviews. They pass work down the chain without a single Slack message. The dream of async collaboration, realized. Still possible for them to produce coordinated nonsense, though.

Real Talk

Agent teams (also called multi-agent networks) consist of specialized AI agents that divide a complex task. An orchestrator agent delegates subtasks to worker agents via tool calls, message passing, or shared state. Frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, and Claude's multi-agent API enable this. Each agent can have its own system prompt, tools, and context window. The main failure mode is agents confidently producing incompatible outputs.

When You'll Hear This

"We built an agent team for the data pipeline — one scrapes, one cleans, one writes to BigQuery." / "The agent team finished the feature but the PR has 40 files changed."