Multi-agent AI organisation
A production multi-agent system running research, code review, content, bots, and monitoring on local infrastructure. As of September 2026 it runs on Hermes: Reidar is the gateway agent, with five bounded bot profiles under it. The Agno version in the March note is where it started.
- Problem
- One model asked to be researcher, coder, reviewer, and manager at once. On complex work the quality falls off a cliff.
- Constraint
- Local models on one desktop GPU (RTX 5090, 32 GB VRAM). Only the orchestrator uses a cloud API.
- What I did
- March 2026 design, since moved to Hermes: an org chart. Each agent gets a defined role, a model suited to that role, and a clear reporting line. Code goes through a 4-step pipeline with a separate QA agent. Read note →
- Result
- Research that used to take 30 minutes takes 50 seconds. A separate model with no context of the original intent catches failure modes the author model misses.