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Building a Local Research Desk: Multi-Agent Orchestration

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Lee_Stott
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Feb 12, 2026

with Microsoft Agent Framework and Foundry Local

Introduction Multi-agent systems represent the next evolution of AI applications. Instead of a single model handling everything, specialised agents collaborate—each with defined responsibilities, p...
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Feb 12, 2026

Great walkthrough with the hybrid sequential + concurrent fan-out pattern.  It'd be interesting to have the critic loop back to the Retriever when it flags gaps and iterate on that before sending to the writer

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    Feb 12, 2026

    Hi, thanks for the feedback love this idea! I have made the changes.. please check out the update in the repo.