Multi-Agent Architectures Overview - swarms

Build sophisticated multi-agent systems with Swarms’ advanced orchestration patterns. From hierarchical teams to collaborative councils, these examples demonstrate how to coordinate multiple AI agents for complex tasks.

What You’ll Learn

Topic	Description
Hierarchical Swarms	Director agents coordinating worker agents
Collaborative Systems	Agents working together through debate and consensus
Workflow Patterns	Sequential, concurrent, and graph-based execution
Routing Systems	Intelligent task routing to specialized agents
Group Interactions	Multi-agent conversations and discussions

Architecture Examples

Hierarchical & Orchestration

Example	Description	Link
HierarchicalSwarm	Multi-level agent organization with director and workers	View Example
Hybrid Hierarchical-Cluster Swarm	Combined hierarchical and cluster patterns	View Example
AutoSwarmBuilder Quickstart	Automatically generates specialized agent teams from task descriptions	View Example
AutoSwarmBuilder Tutorial	Complete guide to automatic multi-agent team generation	View Tutorial
SwarmRouter	Intelligent routing of tasks to appropriate swarms	View Example
MultiAgentRouter	Route tasks to specialized individual agents	View Example

Collaborative & Consensus

Example	Description	Link
MajorityVoting Quickstart	Multiple agents vote, consensus agent synthesizes best answer	View Example
MajorityVoting Tutorial	Comprehensive guide to consensus building with voting	View Tutorial
CouncilAsAJudge Quickstart	Multi-dimensional evaluation with specialized judge agents	View Example
CouncilAsAJudge Tutorial	Detailed guide to multi-dimensional quality assessment	View Tutorial
LLM Council Quickstart	Collaborative decision-making with peer review and synthesis	View Example
LLM Council Examples	Domain-specific council implementations	View Examples
DebateWithJudge Quickstart	Two agents debate with judge providing synthesis	View Example
Mixture of Agents	Heterogeneous agents for diverse task handling	View Example

Workflow Patterns

Example	Description	Link
GraphWorkflow with Rustworkx	High-performance graph-based workflows (5-10x faster)	View Example
Multi-Agentic Patterns with GraphWorkflow	Advanced graph workflow patterns	View Example
SequentialWorkflow	Linear agent pipelines	View Example
ConcurrentWorkflow	Parallel agent execution	View Example

Group Communication

Example	Description	Link
Group Chat	Multi-agent group conversations	View Example
Interactive GroupChat	Real-time interactive agent discussions	View Example
RoundRobinSwarm Quickstart	AutoGen-style randomized collaborative discussions	View Example
RoundRobinSwarm Tutorial	Detailed guide to round-robin agent collaboration	View Tutorial
SocialAlgorithms Quickstart	Custom communication patterns and algorithms	View Example
SocialAlgorithms Tutorial	Build your own multi-agent coordination patterns	View Tutorial

Specialized Patterns

Example	Description	Link
Agents as Tools	Use agents as callable tools for other agents	View Example
Aggregate Responses	Combine outputs from multiple agents	View Example
Unique Swarms	Experimental and specialized swarm patterns	View Example
BatchedGridWorkflow (Simple)	Grid-based batch processing	View Example
BatchedGridWorkflow (Advanced)	Advanced grid-based batch processing	View Example

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