Getting Up to Speed on Multi-Agent Systems, Part 8: Open Questions

I started this series because I’d been reading multi-agent papers for weeks and wanted a map I wished I’d had on day one. This is the last post. I want to close it by laying out what the field still hasn’t figured out, what I think is worth stealing from adjacent fields, and what I’d read if I had to start over. 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 PatternsPart 7. Benchmarks and What They MissPart 8. Open Questions (you are here) Stealable Ideas Some ideas are not yet general patterns in the field, but they’re battle-tested in individual papers, and any new multi-agent system should probably adopt them. These are the things I’d take from one paper and apply in a different context. Things Any New Multi-Agent System Should Adopt Artifacts Structured documents between stages (MetaGPT) Clarification Agents can ask before…