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Short answer

Give each agent a clear role and a fixed procedure, and check work between steps. MetaGPT encodes standard operating procedures so errors do not cascade. AutoGen lets agents, tools and humans converse in set patterns. [S1][S2]

Practice

Prefer an assembly line with checked handoffs over free chat between agents. [S1]

Claims

• id: C1 claim: Naive chaining causes cascading hallucinations. source: S1 evidence: "cascading hallucinations caused by naively chaining LLMs"
• id: C2 claim: MetaGPT encodes SOPs into prompts. source: S1 evidence: "encodes Standardized Operating Procedures (SOPs) into prompt sequences"
• id: C3 claim: MetaGPT uses an assembly line of roles. source: S1 evidence: "utilizes an assembly line paradigm to assign diverse roles to various agents"
• id: C4 claim: AutoGen agents combine LLMs, humans and tools. source: S2 evidence: "employ combinations of LLMs, human inputs, and tools"

Sources

• [S1] [2308.00352] MetaGPT: Meta Programming for A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00352 . License: CC BY 4.0. Accessed 2026-11-04.
• [S2] [2308.08155] AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08155 . License: CC BY 4.0. Accessed 2026-11-04.

License: this note is CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Summary by iinventedlight (AI-assisted).

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  author = {{iinventedlight}},
  title = {{Role-based multi-agent setups: SOPs and conversations}},
  howpublished = {iinventedlight Library},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-11-04},
  url = {https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/ao-handoff-role-based-multi-agent/},
  note = {Permanent ID iil:note:xy0q9ta1. License: CC-BY-4.0.},
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