A Controlled Study of Agent Teams: How Design Choices Shape Performance and Cost
nouhadziri · x · 2026-10-14
Methodology overview: the authors built a minimal multi-agent harness (à la mini-SWE-agent) and ran controlled experiments to understand how agent teams behave and coordinate, and how different design choices affect performance and cost. This frames the rest of the thread's findings.
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