Multi-Agent Orchestration Frameworks Converge on Similar Design Patterns

## A Shared Vocabulary Emerges Across otherwise different frameworks, the same few coordination shapes keep reappearing: a supervisor agent delegating to specialized workers, a linear pipeline where each agent's output feeds the next, and peer agents negotiating directly over a shared task. ## Why Convergence Is Happening These patterns map closely onto how human teams already divide labor, and each solves a distinct failure mode -- supervisor-worker for accountability, pipelines for predictable throughput, peer negotiation for tasks with no natural hierarchy. ## What It Means for Builders As the patterns standardize, switching between frameworks is getting easier, since the underlying coordination logic tends to map cleanly from one implementation to another rather than requiring a full redesign.