From Text to Multimodal: A 7-Step Architecture Guide for AI Agents
MaryamMiradi · x · 2026-07-31
The author shares a roadmap for designing multimodal AI agents tailored for production environments. While most agents remain text-only, real-world applications require the ability to understand screenshots, dashboards, and medical images.
The core architecture includes key steps:
- Modality Router: Instead of blindly sending all inputs to one model, it detects input types (text, image, chart, etc.) and routes them to the optimal processing path.
- Perception Encoder: Handles perception before reasoning, converting text to tokens, images to patches, audio to signals, and video into frames.
- Subsequent Steps: Covers grounding, reasoning, verification, and escalation mechanisms to ensure reliable agent outputs.
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