CEO Agent
An informal name for the top-level agent in a multi-agent AI system, which splits a goal into subtasks and hands them to other agents.
"CEO agent" is an informal name for the top-level coordinating agent in a multi-agent AI system, the role more often called a supervisor, orchestrator or manager agent. In this hierarchical pattern, one agent receives the overall goal, splits it into subtasks, hands each subtask to a worker agent suited to it, and combines what the workers return into a result. Some research projects that simulate a software company give their agents job titles such as CEO, CTO and programmer.
It is one of several ways to arrange multiple agents. A single coordinator is easy to follow and to audit, but it can become a bottleneck, and a mistake in its plan reaches every agent below it. Common alternatives are peer-to-peer designs, where agents hand work directly to one another, and fixed workflows, where the sequence of steps is written in advance rather than chosen by an agent.
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