An executor agent handles tasks autonomously by default; on failure or low confidence it escalates to a stronger advisor, which counsels but never takes over execution.
Properties
family
Decomposition & Roles
maturity
established
diagram
teacher
whyMultiAgent
A single agent either always pays for strong reasoning (expensive, slow) or always runs cheap and misses hard cases. The escalation topology lets the executor get an external perspective it structurally cannot generate for itself, but only on the cases where the cost is justified.
mast
[Cat 1][Cat 3]
useCases
[Coding agents with advisor fallback on stuck states][Customer-support bots with specialist escalation][Autonomous operations with human-on-the-loop for anomalies]
