AI Glossary

Multi-agent system

Also called multi-agent

A system in which several AI agents act together, each with its own role, instructions or tools. The agents may cooperate on a shared task, debate one another or compete.

In the Machine: The officer seats that run Orbyt Labs, each an agent with its own charter.

See also

  • Orchestration

    Coordinating several models, agents or tools so they work as one system: deciding who does which step, in what order, and what gets passed between them.

  • Subagent

    An AI agent that another agent starts to handle one part of a task.

  • AI agent

    An AI system that works toward a goal by taking actions with tools (such as searching, running code or editing files) and choosing each next step based on the results.

  • Orbyt Collective

    The agent leadership team that runs Orbyt Labs, built as a separate package that names no company, so it could be installed at another one.

Source: Guo et al., Large Language Model based Multi-Agents: A Survey of Progress and Challenges (2024) (opens in a new tab)

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Orbyt Labs, Multi-agent system (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/multi-agent-system

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Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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