Agentic Orchestration

Understand when a single tool-calling loop is enough and when you need multiple agents.

Build a minimal orchestrator that hands one task off to a single subagent.

Implement an orchestrator that dispatches work to Claude Agent SDK subagents and merges their results.

Spin up parallel subagents to research independent subtasks and report back to a coordinator.

Handle tool failures and stalled subagents with retries, fallbacks, and circuit breakers.

A checklist for scoring an agent's task success rate, cost, and failure modes before launch.

A checklist for designing reliable, cost-bounded multi-agent architectures.