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Design an agent that handles 10 different workflows. How do you avoid a monolithic system?

Hard / Curveball

Multi-AgentArchitectureProductionScaling

Commonly asked at Microsoft · Amazon · Sierra

How to Answer

"Workflow-per-agent pattern:

  • (1)Router agent — a thin classifier that receives the user request, identifies the workflow type, and dispatches to the appropriate specialist agent.
  • (2)Specialist agents — each workflow has its own agent with its own system prompt, tools, and eval criteria. Deployed as separate services.
  • (3)Shared infrastructure — all agents share the same MCP servers, vector store, and observability pipeline.
  • (4)Configuration-driven — agent behavior defined in YAML/JSON configs, not code. New workflows added by writing a config + prompt, not deploying new code. This avoids the monolith while keeping infrastructure costs shared."

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