Engineer questions multi-agent coding setups: Copilot agent mode plus skills may suffice
Old_Tennis_7062 · reddit · 2026-09-18
A software engineer questions colleagues' multi-agent coding architectures (orchestrator/implementer/reviewer/tester), arguing they're over-engineered.
- His take: LLMs just need context; with agent skills whose metadata specifies when to invoke them, GitHub Copilot's standard agent mode with the right skills is self-sufficient
- The tools' own authors already designed the workflow from prompt to result
- Sparks a representative debate in agent engineering: custom multi-agent pipelines vs. leveraging official agent + skills mechanisms
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