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AI Agent Workflow Orchestration: Task Decomposition, Role Definition, and Handoff Design
When multiple AI Agents work together, the usual failure is not that any agent is too dumb, but that work was never split right, roles were never defined clearly, and handoffs were never designed. Drawing on Berkeley's MAST failure study and practices from Anthropic, MetaGPT, and the OpenAI Agents SDK, this article proposes a workflow orchestration methodology: slice the goal into acceptance-ready work units, define roles and boundaries around single responsibility, and turn every handoff point into a delivery contract with acceptance criteria.