Multi-Agent Collaboration Architecture: Six Patterns, Five Pitfalls

On October 23, 2026, an article titled 'Multi-Agent Collaboration Architecture Selection: Six Patterns and Five Pitfalls' appeared on Juejin. It frames multi-agent collaboration around three core questions: where information lives, who decides the next step, and how work gets decomposed. Around those questions, the piece walks through six collaborative architectures, five components that any real deployment needs to have in place, the implementation paths and tooling choices involved, and five of the most common failure modes that teams hit when they try to put this into practice. The author positions the write-up as something that can directly inform architecture decisions on the ground. Because only this single report is available so far, no independent corroboration or divergent accounts from other sources can be verified at this stage, and there is no material evidence of any subsequent developments beyond this one article.