Most multi-agent systems collapse in production because every agent tries to be everything.
I run 53 AI agents on GitHub Copilot β finances, meals, health, content, NICU care. 6 months autonomous. Zero chaos.
4 patterns survived:
- Domain Agents (permanent, memory-rich)
- Task Agents (stateless, ephemeral)
- Orchestrators (pure delegation)
- Team Agents (goal-scoped lifecycle)
The key insight: fresh agent per cron job. No session reuse. Same pattern MegaFlow (arXiv), HearthNet, and O'Reilly's "Agentic Mesh" converge on independently.
Full breakdown β patterns, cron architecture, orchestrator discovery:
htek.dev/articles/53-agents-β¦
Newsletter deep dive with real configs:
htek.dev/newsletter/006-53-aβ¦
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