Getting Up to Speed on Multi-Agent Systems, Part 6: Verification Patterns

Every agent system has to answer the same question eventually: how does it know it did the right thing? Wave-1 papers mostly don’t. Wave-2 papers get serious about it. Wave-3 papers measure what happens when they don’t. And the most interesting verification pattern in the field right now is one that isn’t in any paper at all. It’s in a commercial product. Getting Up to Speed on MAS Part 1. The LandscapePart 2. The VocabularyPart 3. Wave 1: Can Agents Coordinate At All?Part 4. Wave 2: Why It BreaksPart 5. Debate, State, and CoordinationPart 6. Verification Patterns (you are here) Part 7. Benchmarks and What They Miss (publishes April 30) Part 8. Open Questions (publishes May 1) Three Architectures Every verification pattern in the field fits into one of three categories. The difference is who checks the work and how. Three Verification Architectures Self-Verify Same agent checks its own work Fast, no coordination overhead Blind to its own mistakes Separate Verifier Different agent or…