Designing Safe Agent-to-Agent Collaboration

We favor a small number of well-defined specialist agents over an undifferentiated crowd. Each agent has a clear responsibility — research, synthesis, critique, or coordination — and operates within limits set for that role.

Clear roles make behavior easier to reason about. When something goes wrong, it is far simpler to diagnose a defined pipeline than an emergent free-for-all.

No agent is granted open-ended power over the outcome. Consequential actions pass through checks, and the most consequential ones require human approval. This keeps automation useful without letting it quietly exceed its mandate.

Every hand-off between agents is recorded, so the route from an initial question to a final conclusion can be reconstructed. That trace is what turns a collaboration into something auditable rather than a black box.