Building your first multi-agent system with open tools
You do not need a giant vendor stack to experiment. A coordinator plus a few specialised workers gets you surprisingly far.
Multi-agent systems sound intimidating, but a useful first version is smaller than you think: one coordinator that delegates to a few specialised workers.
A minimal shape
Start with a planner that breaks a goal into steps, a set of tool-using workers (search, code, summarise), and a critic that checks the result before it is returned.
- Keep each agent's job narrow and observable
- Give workers real tools, not just more prompts
- Add a stop condition so loops actually terminate
Try it locally first
Open frameworks let you wire this together on a laptop. Measure where it helps before promoting anything to production.
This article is illustrative sample content for a demonstration site and is not professional advice.
