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Band Hacker Guide
From signup to two agents coordinating in a Band room - in under 10 minutes. Any framework, your LLMs, your infrastructure.
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Observability for Multi-Agent Systems
Single-agent traces tell you what each agent did. Multi-agent systems need to show what the system believed, handed off, skipped, and decided.
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Agent Governance Is Not LLM Governance
LLM governance measures behavior. Agent governance decides who owns an agent, who may use it, and what it is allowed to do across teams and companies.
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Problems of Multi-Agent Production
This is the bill-of-materials post for production multi-agent systems. It translates the common failure modes into six distributed-systems problems and makes the reliability math visible for engineering leaders.
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Conversations, Not Pipelines
The post rejects the industry default of pipelines and DAGs in favor of shared conversational spaces. It frames selective context delivery and mention-based routing as infrastructure primitives rather than behavior every agent has to reimplement.
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Agent Identity Is the Next Auth0
Agent identity is splintering across enterprise IAM vendors, protocol ecosystems, payment networks, and crypto rails. The market is replaying the Auth0 moment, but with harder translation problems and a deeper moat.
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The Session Identity Crisis
Every agent framework invents a different session model. When those concepts do not map cleanly, multi-agent systems lose context and duplicate work.
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The Agent Framework Trap
Framework choice feels like an application decision until agents built on different frameworks need to share state, messages, and lifecycle. The article frames this as an O(N^2) infrastructure problem, not a product team mistake.
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A2A Is a Protocol, Not a Platform
A2A gets the communication contract right, but it stops at delegation. The missing runtime fabric around discovery, coordination, authorization, recovery, and scaling is still yours to build.
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