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We also encouraged the agents more to request new context. This would create a new prompt to continue what they were doing before, but with new context about the canvas, todo list, and fairies, too.

In earlier builds, fairies had different personalities and talents. The orchestrator fairy would assign tasks based on the most appropriate worker fairy available, preferring to use a more creative fairy for some tasks and more operationally inclined fairies for other tasks.

We ended up using a 'fairy management system', where one fairy would draft the plan, create the todos, assign the todos to other agents, and then coordinate their output with followup todos.

For example, if three fairies began working on a wireframe with todos for a header, body and footer, they would often place these in completely arbitrary places relative to the others.

There were many issues with this. What if two agents start working on the same task? Even if agents work on different tasks, how do they work together towards an overall goal? And in doing this, how do they coordinate between different parts of the overall goal?

Our first attempt at orchestrating multiple fairies was to create a shared todo list for all of the agents and give it as context alongside screenshots and structured data about the canvas.

How do you coordinate when agent spend most of their time 'underwater' and only briefly and intermittently ‘return to the surface’ for context?

In a multi-agent system, things can change a lot while an agent is working. Another agent might be editing the canvas. Humans might be moving things around.

For example, on tldraw, one person can draw something while speaking to their collaborator and looking at what they are drawing. An agent can only see the state of the canvas or communicate with other agents before and after it has finished drawing.

Agents only receive new context when they're prompted. While they stream back their response, they can't get new context. So unlike humans who actively observe, communicate, and learn while working collaboratively, agents are essentially working blind. No real-time feedback.