Glossary term
Glossary term
Architecture
Agent that routes work to specialists and coordinates outputs.
CrewAI's crew manager acts as supervisor, reading task outputs from researcher and writer agents, deciding whether quality thresholds are met, and re-assigning tasks if output fails a rubric check.
Google's Gemini multi-agent research demo uses a supervisor that decomposes a complex scientific question into sub-queries, routes them to domain-specialist agents, and synthesises their answers into a final response.
An enterprise IT helpdesk supervisor agent classifies incoming tickets as network, security, or software issues, then routes to the appropriate specialist agent and monitors resolution SLA compliance.