Multi-Agent Orchestration: A Main Agent Idle 73% of the Time Should Go
In multi-agent orchestration, the main agent sits idle waiting for subagent handoff summaries: 73% of the time on one Terminal-Bench 4.0 task. This note compares Anthropic's single loop with Stanford DeLM's shared log plus task queue, and covers how to choose, how to change, and five common mistakes.



