37.2 Single-agent vs multi-agent designs

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The God Model (Single Agent)

One giant prompt. "You are a coder, tester, and deployer." - **Pros:** Simple to build. Context is shared perfectly. - **Cons:** It gets confused. It forgets rules. It's hard to debug.

The Specialist Team (Multi-Agent)

Multiple prompts, handoffs between them. - **Researcher Agent:** Finds info. Outputs a summary. - **Writer Agent:** Takes summary, writes draft. - **Editor Agent:** Takes draft, fixes typos.

This mimics a human org chart. It is more robust because each "worker" has a clean, focused context window.

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