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Getting Up to Speed on Multi-Agent Systems, Part 6: Verification Patterns
Surveys verification architectures across multi-agent systems research, arguing that modality shift — checking work in a different representation than it was produced in — is the key variable that separates weak self-verification from strong structural gates.
May 03, 2026 · tech · Christopher Meiklejohn
Topics
- multi-agent-systems
- ai-agents
- continuous-integration
- ai-assisted-coding
- llm-reliability
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