Give multi-agent teams a time budget: parallel work cut 30 minutes to ~15
minchoi · x · 2026-10-28
Tip #7: Anthropic found agents work faster when they know elapsed time. Tell your multi-agent system how much time it has spent against its estimated budget — this encourages parallel work over sequential steps, cutting a sample task from 30 to 15 minutes.
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