Problems / Multi-agent and harness, medium

The planner model is the bottleneck

A planner model plans each step for worker agents, but its deployment allows only 20 streams.

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Your goals

Success ≥ 95% of tasks, p99 ≤ 90 s.

The traffic

4 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 Planner model, Worker model.An agent loops: think, call a tool, read the result, repeat until done.400 slots · 6 steps
Planner modelLLM endpointAgent orchestrator calls it.Latency has two parts: time to the first token, then a steady stream of tokens per second.20 streams
Worker modelLLM endpointAgent orchestrator calls it.Latency has two parts: time to the first token, then a steady stream of tokens per second.1000 streams

Hints

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

Hint 1

Two models: one plans, one acts.

Hint 2

Which one is out of streams?

One way to solve it

Raise the planner’s streams.

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