AgentHub - Multi-Agent DAG Orchestration
AgentHub provides patterns and tools for orchestrating multiple AI agents as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Instead of one agent doing everything sequentially, AgentHub lets you decompose complex tasks into sub-tasks, assign each to a specialized agent, define dependencies between them, and merge their outputs into a coherent result.
The core insight: complex tasks decompose better than they scale. A 10-step sequential task run by one agent hits context limits and quality degradation. Five parallel agents with clear scopes and a merge step produce better results faster.
Core Capabilities
- DAG workflow design — model tasks as nodes with explicit input/output contracts and dependency edges.
- Parallel execution — topological sort, parallel groups, and
max_parallelscheduling for real speedup. - Agent lifecycle — spawn, monitor (board), and track states from PENDING through COMPLETED/FAILED.
- Quality gates — evaluate outputs against thresholds and rank competing results.
- Output merging — synthesize, rank-select, or chain terminal outputs into a coherent deliverable.
When to Use
- A task needs multiple specialized agents with distinct scopes.
- You want to parallelize AI work that would otherwise run sequentially.
- A single agent hits context limits or quality degradation on a long task.
- You need quality gates and merge strategies across agent outputs.
Clarify First
Before designing the workflow, confirm these inputs. If any is unknown or vague, ASK — do not assume:
- Task decomposition — how the work splits into agent sub-tasks and their dependencies (defines the DAG nodes and edges in Init)
- Parallelism budget — how many agents may run concurrently (sets
max_parallelscheduling) - Merge strategy — synthesize, rank-select, or chain (determines how the Merge stage combines outputs)
Stop rule: ask only the 2-3 that most change the output. If the user says "just draft it," proceed and list your assumptions at the top of the artifact.
Sub-Skills
This skill uses compound sub-skill architecture. Each sub-skill in skills/ handles a stage of the orchestration lifecycle:
| Sub-Skill | File | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Init | skills/init.md | Initialize a multi-agent workflow definition |
| Run | skills/run.md | Execute a defined workflow end-to-end |
| Spawn | skills/spawn.md | Spawn individual agents within a workflow |
| Board | skills/board.md | Dashboard showing agent status and progress |
| Eval | skills/eval.md | Evaluate agent outputs for quality and consistency |
| Merge | skills/merge.md | Merge outputs from multiple agents into final result |
| Status | skills/status.md | Show workflow execution status and health |
Lifecycle: Init defines the workflow DAG, Run orchestrates execution, Spawn creates individual agents, Board provides real-time visibility, Eval checks output quality, Merge combines results, and Status reports overall health (Init → Run → Spawn (parallel) → Eval → Merge, with Board/Status reading state throughout).
Tools
| Tool | Purpose | Command |
|---|---|---|
dag_analyzer.py | Validate DAG definitions (cycles, unreachable nodes, critical path) | python scripts/dag_analyzer.py --workflow workflow.json --validate --critical-path |
session_manager.py | Manage orchestration sessions and state | python scripts/session_manager.py create --json |
board_manager.py | Manage agent task boards with status tracking | python scripts/board_manager.py --session session.json --view board |
result_ranker.py | Rank and merge outputs from multiple agents | python scripts/result_ranker.py --session session.json --rank --merge synthesize |
References
Load the reference that matches the task — keep this file lean and pull detail on demand:
- references/orchestration-core.md — workflow DAG concepts, the full workflow-definition JSON format, agent states, execution strategy, the define/execute/evaluate workflows, and the common DAG patterns (fan-out/fan-in, pipeline, reducer, validator chain). Read when designing or running a workflow.
- references/multi-agent-patterns.md — the deep pattern catalog (fan-out/fan-in, pipeline, reducer, validator chain, map-reduce, diamond dependency), agent design principles, quality-gate patterns, failure handling, scaling table, and metrics targets. Read when choosing a pattern or designing quality gates and failure handling.
- references/operations-and-quality.md — best practices, common pitfalls, troubleshooting table, and success criteria. Read when debugging a workflow or validating it against the quality bar.
Scope and Limitations
This skill covers:
- Multi-agent workflow design with DAG dependency graphs
- Agent spawning, monitoring, and lifecycle management
- Output quality evaluation and ranking
- Result merging strategies for coherent final deliverables
This skill does NOT cover:
- Individual agent design or prompt engineering (see
agent-designer) - Agent memory and self-improvement (see
self-improving-agent) - Infrastructure for running agents (compute, scheduling, deployment)
- Real-time streaming communication between agents
Integration Points
| Skill | Integration | Data Flow |
|---|---|---|
agent-designer | Defines individual agent capabilities that become DAG nodes | Agent specs flow in; execution results flow back for agent tuning |
self-improving-agent | Each agent can use self-improvement patterns to get better | Session feedback from orchestration feeds into agent learning loops |
prompt-engineer-toolkit | Agent task prompts benefit from prompt engineering | Optimized prompts improve individual agent quality within the DAG |
context-engine | Manages what context each agent sees | Context retrieval provides relevant inputs to each spawned agent |
observability-designer | Monitors workflow execution and agent health | Agent state transitions and timing metrics feed into dashboards |
