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Multiagent AI

As explained in The AI Pocket Book

An AI setup in which multiple model instances cooperate, critique, or verify one another’s outputs.

Multiagent AI uses multiple LLM instances to check, critique, or refine one another’s outputs. Here it appears as a mitigation strategy for hallucination, especially in software tasks. One model can generate code while another tests it, then feedback loops back to the coder for revision. section 2.13

A simple workflow looks like this:

  • The coder LLM generates an answer or code. section 2.13
  • The tester LLM evaluates it and points out problems. section 2.13
  • The coder revises the output using that feedback, and the cycle repeats. section 2.13

The appeal is straightforward: a second model can catch mistakes the first model misses. The catch is equally straightforward: the checker can fail too, or invent bad tests, so the setup is helpful but not magic. section 2.13

How The AI Pocket Book covers it

How deep it goes
Explains a coder-tester loop and names the feedback cycle, but stops short of system design details.
Examples
Uses a coder LLM, a tester LLM, and an iterative code-refinement example.
What it assumes
Assumes only basic familiarity with LLM outputs and validation; it explains the multiagent role split from zero.
What you can do after
Apply it by setting up one model to generate and another to critique, then iterating on the feedback.
How it connects
Connects to hallucinations, software development tasks, and prompt-based verification.

This explainer was generated by Manning's knowledge graph from the text of The AI Pocket Book. The section links point to the parts of the book it draws on.