Agent Communication Protocols - Interactive Visualization

Multi-agent systems rely on structured communication protocols to coordinate work. The three primary patterns are hub-and-spoke (all messages routed through an orchestrator), peer-to-peer (agents communicate directly), and broadcast (one agent sends to all simultaneously). Each pattern has different latency, reliability, and debuggability tradeoffs. Understanding message types - task, result, feedback, error - and their delivery status is essential for building robust agentic pipelines.

• Hub-and-spoke centralizes control through an orchestrator, simplifying monitoring but creating a bottleneck
• Peer-to-peer enables faster direct communication but makes message tracing harder
• Broadcast efficiently distributes updates to all agents but cannot target individual recipients
• Message status tracking (pending / delivered / failed) is critical for fault-tolerant multi-agent coordination

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