Multi-agent workflows as DAGs: fork a cached base prompt instead of re-reading files 200 times

Liu_eroteme · x · 2026-09-29

Watching 200 agents re-read the same repo config, formatting and lint rules is painful, and prompt caching doesn't help since each agent starts from its own prompt. The author argues multi-agent workflows should be modeled as DAGs: the orchestrator explores repo configuration once, caches the baseline prompt, then forks before assigning individual tasks so all agents share the cached prefix.

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