multi-agent systems – Cogni ● Flow

The Shared Environment: The Quiet Architecture Shift Behind Multi-Agent Pipelines

When agents stopped being solo acts For most of 2024 and into 2025, the standard pattern for an AI coding agent was one model, one session, one task. Run it…

Giuseppe Basile October 27, 2026

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The Flywheel That Keeps Remaking the Agent Harness

A couple of years ago, the interesting question in agent tooling was whether a dedicated harness could squeeze meaningfully better coding results from the same model. The answer, at the…

Giuseppe Basile October 22, 2026

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When One Agent Is Not Enough: The Case for Multi-Agent Architectures

For most of the past two years, the default mental model for AI agents looked like this: one agent, one task, one context window. That worked fine for short, well-scoped…

Giuseppe Basile October 19, 2026

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Why AI Agents Still Cannot Talk to Each Other

For a while, the prevailing assumption was that multi-agent AI was mainly an orchestration problem — wire the right prompts together, pick a good framework, and the agents would cooperate.…

Giuseppe Basile October 8, 2026

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What Makes an Agent Swarm Actually Work

For most of the past two years, multi-agent work meant one orchestrator handing tasks to sub-agents — a delegation pattern, not a swarm. Something changed recently with the OpenAI Astra…

Giuseppe Basile September 7, 2026

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When AI Stops Advising and Starts Delivering

The shift in how knowledge workers relate to AI assistants has been gradual but unmistakable. For years, the dominant pattern was retrieval and advice: ask a question, get a summary,…

Giuseppe Basile August 18, 2026

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Beyond Context Engineering: The Scaffolding AI Agents Actually Need

The scaffolding matters as much as the model. That has become clear as teams move from simple prompt chains to multi-step autonomous agents. Around 2023, the conversation focused on prompt…

Giuseppe Basile August 12, 2026

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The CCA Exam as a Field Guide: Six Anti-Patterns Every Agentic Engineer Should Know

For most of the past few years, building an AI agent meant wiring a model to a few tools and hoping the prompt held. The architecture was simple because the…

Giuseppe Basile August 12, 2026

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The Jagged Frontier Was a Measurement Error — Draft: The Surgeon-in-the-Dark Read

Shaping the flow of ideas at the frontier of cognitive systems. --- Cursor's coding assistant — a tool built to help programmers write software — recently solved Problem 6 of…

Giuseppe Basile July 29, 2026

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The Copy-Paste Problem: How a Structured Task Record Changes Multi-Agent Handoffs

For a long time, the way most of us worked with multiple AI tools was embarrassingly manual. Run a task in one tool, copy the output into a message, paste…

Giuseppe Basile May 4, 2026