Problems / Multi-agent and harness, hard

Research agents share few browsers

A deep-research system fans out to 5 subagents that each browse the web; the browser pool has 16 browsers.

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Your goals

Success ≥ 95% of tasks, p99 ≤ 90 s.

The traffic

2 requests a second for 45 seconds: 100% task (writes).

The system

What each component does in this design, and what calls it. The simulator mimics each one from these settings.

ComponentIts job hereSettings
Load balancerLoad balancerTraffic enters here.Calls Agent API.Layer 4 balancers route by IP and port; layer 7 balancers read HTTP and can route by path or header.–
Agent APIApp serviceLoad balancer forwards to it.Calls Agent orchestrator.Little's law: throughput ≈ concurrency ÷ latency. 200 slots at 50 ms serve about 4,000 req/s.3 replicas × 500 slots · timeout 180 s
Agent orchestratorAgent orchestratorAgent API calls it.Calls Subagent pool.An agent loops: think, call a tool, read the result, repeat until done.400 slots · 1 steps
Subagent poolSubagent poolAgent orchestrator calls it.Calls Browser tool.Multi-agent research systems fan a task out to parallel subagents and use many times more tokens than a single agent.400 slots · 5 steps
Browser toolBrowser toolSubagent pool calls it.Browser tools let agents read and act on web pages, which is slow and brittle.16 slots

Hints

Try it first. Open one hint at a time if you get stuck.

Hint 1

Browsing is slow: seconds per page.

Hint 2

Multiply by the fan-out and the number of turns to get the real call rate on shared models and tools.

One way to solve it

Add browser capacity (or reduce fan-out).

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