agent-orchestration-patterns

Retry logic with exponential backoff prevents cascading failures during multi-agent delegation. By scheduling hooks and avoiding anti-patterns, the orchestrator loop maintains stable runs and handles transient errors in sub-agent communication.

Inter-agent communication via bridge/MCP connects the orchestrator with sub-agents like Claude through cowork-mcp. It structures multi-agent fan-out coordination, ensuring reliable message passing and task delegation across the agent system.

Polling-based orchestrator loops retrieve input timely and provide resilient error handling. They continuously check for new tasks, allowing the multi-agent system to recover from failures and maintain robust workflow execution.

Retry with exponential backoff is needed when sub-agent delegation fails transiently. It schedules retry attempts with increasing delays, avoiding anti-patterns that could destabilize the orchestrator loop during multi-agent fan-out.

Multi-agent fan-out loses coordination without a central orchestrator because there is no structured polling or delegation strategy. A central loop manages sub-agent tasks, retry logic, and bridge/MCP integration for reliable execution.