Lessons from building a multi-agent Android app: role drift, token waste, debate-style orchestration
Adept_Direction2591 · reddit · 2026-10-20
A developer shares pitfalls from building a BYOK multi-agent Android app (Expo/React Native, Node/Express, Supabase). Key lessons: models forget their roles, so instructions are re-injected every request and enforced server-side; caching, context trimming, and free-tier rate-limit handling cut user token costs; search and page-reading are split into separate steps so agents return real links; multi-agent groups use a debate + hidden backend orchestrator pattern with no boss UI; plus a lead-finding/follow-up agent type. Open questions: whether the orchestrator can be swayed by a persuasive agent, jailbreak resistance of backend-enforced rules, and search quality on niche queries.
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