The Coordination Tax and the Heterogeneity Dividend: Break-Even Conditions for Multi-Agent LLM Pipelines
Multi-agent LLM pipelines built on interoperability protocols such as the Open Floor Protocol (OFP) or A2A are usually justified on capability grounds, with their runtime cost treated as an overhead of unknown size. Comparing such a pipeline with one model call is underspecified, because a pipeline can give each role a...