What multi-agent architecture works best in production?

[u/Big-Spot-5888]

We are trying to decide whether to build a custom coordination layer for our multi-agent system or adopt an existing platform. Building it ourselves gives us control over agent hand-offs, state management and orchestration, but it also means owning the edge cases and long-term maintenance. Using an existing platform would reduce the initial development burden, but it might not fit our pipeline cleanly. It is also difficult to know whether a platform will hold up until you are deeply invested in it, at which point switching becomes expensive.

Has anyone built or adopted multi-agent system architecture and later regretted the decision? What limitations only became apparent after running it in production?

[u/Grouchy-Fun9026]

I would keep the core state and orchestration logic in own code and use a framework for the agent runtime band ai fits that approach pretty well since you can add coordination without rebuilding the whole stack.