Reading a crowd of agents
Conflict surfacing
Conflict surfacing is flagging incompatible results between agents at the point they occur, pausing only the affected branch, and offering alternative repairs with their predicted cost.
Control sits with both parties
When to use it
Any system where agents work on interdependent parts of one outcome.
What it prevents
A whole run stalling because one branch conflicts, and the opposite failure of a conflict being resolved silently by whichever agent finished last.
Two agents disagreeone branch paused
Agent AContract ends 31 March. Read from the signed PDF.
Agent BContract ends 30 June. Read from the CRM record.
Still runningFour other branches, untouched by this
Who ships it
- OrchVis: a verifier and a conflict resolver turn difference reports into proposed repairs. Named as one of six open design challenges for multi-agent systems
Sources
Related patterns: Goal hierarchy · Mission control