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agentsThey is a term used in discussions of autonomous software agents to describe a collective of interacting subagents that act as a single, coordinated unit. Unlike a single monolithic agent, agentsThey consists of multiple specialized agents that share goals, pool resources, and negotiate decisions through a distributed governance mechanism. The name emphasizes the plural, non-hierarchical nature of the system and the use of the pronoun they to reflect collective identity.

In typical implementations, a central coordination layer assigns tasks to subagents, while subagents handle perception, planning, action, and monitoring according to their domains. Communication relies on message passing, negotiation protocols, and consensus or voting strategies to resolve conflicts and commit to actions. Outputs are attributed to the collective rather than to individual subagents, facilitating auditability and accountability at the group level.

Benefits of agentsThey include improved fault tolerance through redundancy, scalability via parallel work, and flexible responsibility allocation. The plural structure can support better handling of ambiguous or conflicting objectives and enable more transparent decision trails for human oversight.

Challenges include coordinating multiple autonomous components, ensuring consistent objectives, managing latency, and addressing accountability and safety concerns. Interpretability can be harder, and linking outcomes to a collective entity rather than a single agent complicates auditing and regulatory compliance.

Potential applications include complex, distributed tasks such as large-scale planning, collaborative simulations, customer-support team bots, and enterprise automation. agentsThey remain a topic of ongoing research with no standard formalization.