What should we research today?

A central coordinator analyzes your request, plans a workflow, and delegates to specialists one at a time — researcher, writer, then editor — synthesizing their results into a final answer. Best for content tasks with a clear linear pipeline.

Architecture

Orchestrated architecture

v1 orchestrated

Coordinator

Researcher

Writer

Editor

delegated one at a time · results synthesized by the coordinator

How it works

1A coordinator analyzes the request and plans an ordered workflow.
2It delegates to one specialist at a time (researcher → writer → editor), passing context forward.
3Each specialist does its work and returns to the coordinator.
4The coordinator synthesizes the results into a final answer.

When to use

Linear content pipelines where the steps and their order are clear up front.

Trade-off

A single coordinator is a bottleneck and a single point of failure; no parallelism.

Agents

CoordinatorPlans the workflow and delegates to specialists

ResearcherGathers facts, sources, and information

WriterDrafts and structures the content

EditorPolishes clarity, grammar, and tone

Note

The workhorse pattern. A strong coordinator + cheap specialists is reliable and easy to debug — but the coordinator is a bottleneck, so keep its turns short and its delegation explicit.

References

Anthropic — Building effective agents (Orchestrator-workers)OpenAI — A practical guide to building agents