Stop Your Agents From Stepping on Each Other — Architecture Patterns That Scale From Day One

The problem: Multi-agent systems fail in predictable ways — agents that conflict, duplicate work, lose context handoffs, or race to act on the same trigger. The failure modes are obvious in hindsight and brutal in production.

The solution: Four architecture frameworks that address these failure modes directly, drawn from production multi-agent system design.

What you get (4 SKILL.md frameworks):

• Multi-Agent Coordination Patterns — the protocols that keep agents from colliding
• Five Multi-Agent Architectures — when to use each pattern (hub-and-spoke, stigmergic, hierarchical, peer-to-peer, hybrid)
• Stigmergic vs Centralised Routing — the routing decision framework that matches your system's complexity
• On-Device vs Cloud Agents — the latency, cost, and privacy tradeoff matrix

Who it's for: OpenClaw operators building systems with 2+ agents who want a coordination framework before they encounter the failure modes.

Time to value: Read in one session. Apply to your architecture the same afternoon.