agentic-workflow-guide

Multi-agent workflow orchestration relies on core patterns like Plan-First, Prompt Chaining, Routing, Parallelization, Orchestrator-Workers, and Evaluator-Optimizer. These patterns help construct reliable, modular agent ecosystems by enforcing clear I/O contracts and explicit handoffs.

Design context engineering for long-horizon agent workflows by applying governance guidance and specific architectural patterns. This approach manages context effectively across extended tasks, ensuring single-source-of-truth (SSOT) and idempotency are maintained throughout the workflow lifecycle.

The best way to structure handoffs between sub-agents involves enforcing clear I/O contracts and explicit governance rules. This ensures robust multi-agent workflows maintain modularity and reliability during task delegation without losing execution context.

Yes, you can build a single-agent workflow using these orchestration patterns. The design principles, including SSOT and idempotency, apply to both single-agent and multi-agent workflows, ensuring reliable execution even without complex sub-agent delegation.

Multi-agent workflows fail on long-horizon tasks due to inadequate context engineering and poorly defined handoffs. Without explicit governance, single-source-of-truth enforcement, and clear I/O contracts, agents lose critical state information during extended execution.