When should Codex use multiple agents? A benchmark, not a slogan

Описание и применение

Кодекс использует несколько агентов только при четко определенных условиях, где независимые задачи с зафиксированными интерфейсами оправдывают дополнительные токены и координацию.

Задача

Determining when to employ multiple agents in Codex workflows to balance coordination costs against potential benefits.

Результат

The benchmark demonstrated feasibility of multi-agent orchestration but did not prove superiority in speed or cost; it highlighted specific conditions where orchestration can be beneficial, such as independent modules with frozen interfaces or specialist evidence gathering.

Рабочий процесс

• Define task with frozen contract and independent write surfaces
• Assess if task has at least two genuine ownership surfaces
• Ensure exclusive paths and frozen interfaces
• Set controller to retain integration and final review
• Limit delegation to at most two workers
• Each worker returns concise evidence and changed files
• Controller integrates, evaluates, and writes receipt
• Measure acceptance, coverage, cost, elapsed time, coordination, integration, and human effort

Доказательства

More agents do not automatically produce better engineering. They usually add total tokens, duplicated context, handoff delay, and integration risk.

Источник

Use one agent when the change is small, the interface is unsettled, or several steps must edit the same central files.

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The orchestrated candidate returned live browser evidence covering creation, filtering, state transitions, validation feedback, console errors, and a mobile viewport.

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