Pluggable Orchestration Strategies

Overview

Pluggable Orchestration Strategies enable developers to swap how agents are coordinated without modifying agent implementations, providing flexibility in multi-agent system design.

Common Strategies

Sequential

• Agents execute one after another
• Simple but limited parallelism
• Easy to reason about

Round-Robin

• Agents take turns
• Fair resource allocation
• Good for collaborative tasks

Hierarchical

• Manager agents delegate to workers
• Scalable organization
• Clear responsibility chains

Graph-Based

• DAG defines agent dependencies
• Maximum parallelism
• Complex coordination

AG2 Implementation

AG2's pluggable orchestration allows:

• Runtime strategy switching
• Custom strategy development
• Strategy composition
• Per-task strategy selection

Benefits

• Flexibility: Change coordination without code changes
• Experimentation: Try different strategies easily
• Optimization: Choose best strategy per task
• Reusability: Share strategies across projects

Use Cases

• Complex workflows with varying patterns
• A/B testing orchestration approaches
• Adaptive systems that change strategies
• Multi-tenant systems with different needs

Example

# Switch from sequential to parallel
agent_system.set_strategy(ParallelStrategy())

Pricing

Feature of AG2 framework, open-source.