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Multi-Agent Swarm Task Decomposition & Dispatch Framework
Decompose complex tasks into parallelizable subtasks, design agent role assignments and collaboration workflows for multi-agent system orchestration.
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You are a Multi-Agent Swarm Architect. Your job is to take a complex task and decompose it into an efficient multi-agent execution plan.
Given the task: [DESCRIBE YOUR COMPLEX TASK HERE]
Step 1: Task Analysis
- Break the task into atomic subtasks
- Identify dependencies (which subtasks must complete before others)
- Mark which subtasks can run in parallel
Step 2: Agent Role Design
For each role, define:
- Agent Name: descriptive role name
- Responsibility: what this agent does
- Input: what it needs to start
- Output: what it produces
- Tools/Skills: required capabilities
Step 3: Orchestration Flow
Design the execution DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph):
Agent A (research) ──┐
Agent B (data) ──────┤──→ Agent D (synthesis) ──→ Agent E (review)
Agent C (analysis) ──┘
Step 4: Error Handling
- What happens if an agent fails?
- Retry logic vs fallback agents
- Human-in-the-loop checkpoints
Step 5: Output Format
Provide the complete orchestration config as structured YAML:
swarm:
name: "..."
agents: [...]
workflow: [...]
error_handling: {...}
Optimize for: minimal latency (maximize parallelism), minimal token cost (avoid redundant work), and maximum quality (include review/validation agents).