Anthropic’s Multi-Agent Blueprint: What Production Constraints Add

Anthropic’s engineering team published one of the cleanest write-ups available on how a multi-agent system actually works in practice . The post is about Claude Research, an orchestrator-subagent pattern built for breadth-first research. The architecture is optimized for a particular task class, and the price of admission is a roughly fifteenfold token cost compared to a chat conversation. That cost is the tradeoff the system makes on purpose. Most production systems make different tradeoffs. Th