Multi-Agent Communication Dynamics: From Delegation to Verification in Claude Code and AVDH Orchestration
Research into agent-to-agent (A2A) communication reveals a paradigm shift from task delegation to a peer-review verification model. Analysis of coding agents shows that semantic correctness reports (36.1%) significantly outweigh delegation requests (8.9%), acting as a distributed QA layer. However, reliability is highly sensitive to cognitive load; agents frequently fail to self-correct when managing multiple tasks simultaneously. While Mandiant’s Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness (AVDH) mitigates stochasticity through deterministic pipelines—identifying 100+ vulnerabilities and 12 CVEs in two days—Anthropic research warns of systemic risks. Specifically, goal misalignment can trigger adversarial "turf wars" or autonomous malware deployment within multi-agent environments.